SportsDayDFW's "Ballzy" podcast host Barry Horn recently discussed all things Dallas Cowboys with SportsDay's David Moore and special contributor Bob Sturm. Here are some of the highlights.

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The Cowboys' strategy for letting DBs go in free agency

Barry Horn: Who is going to play in the secondary this year?

David Moore: Well you're going to have Byron Jones starting at one of the spots. You'll have Anthony Brown at one of the corners. Right now you have Orlando Scandrick. Given from what you saw from him last year coming off a major injury, the level of performance you saw and his age; right now he's kind of a fixture back there but I have some concerns about good he's going to be going forward.

This is a good draft as far as the secondary is concerned. I think that plays into the Cowboys' strategy here. But I also believe the Cowboys are now going to say, 'Look we didn't produce that many turnovers on the back end. We want to get younger. We want to get faster. This is the draft to do it. This was our conscious decision to go forward this way.'

I'm not sure I buy it to the extent where you want to lose four guys -- four of your top six players in your secondary -- because that goes against everything Stephen Jones says he wants to do in free agency which is ... you just cover up spots to the standpoint where you can have true, pure draft where you don't have to draft out of the position of need. You have several positions of need in the secondary right now in my mind.

Is it Jeff Heath time? And is Dallas too confident in Anthony Brown?

Dallas Cowboys cornerback Anthony Brown (30) tackles Washington Redskins wide receiver Pierre Garcon (88) during the first quarter of their game on Thursday, November 24, 2016 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News) (Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)

Barry Horn: Let me ask you this question: what about the one guy David didn't mention? Jeff Heath, who seems to be everybody's favorite guy who never plays and everybody wants him to play more. Your thoughts?

Bob Sturm: Jeff Heath is a pretty good story and I do think it's time to see if he can play that center field. I've got no problem running him out there partly because we're not talking about replacing Darren Woodson here.

We're talking about the free safety spot for the Cowboys that's kind of been either average or well below average for really 10 years. I don't think they've ever had exceptional center field play and I think Jeff Heath has at least shown flashes. And it doesn't hurt that his best game was the playoff game against Green Bay where seemingly every other part of the secondary was obliterated.

Jeff Heath has seemed to be able to not fall for Aaron Rodgers' sight lines and be able to get over there. [He] might've had two interceptions if it wasn't for a penalty underneath. So I don't have a big problem with Jeff Heath just kind of inheriting that role.

My problem, of course, is all of the snaps [that left with the departures of Brandon Carr, Morris Claiborne, Barry Church and J.J. Wilcox]. I mean, 2,700 snaps is a huge number. Just to give you an example of what that number is that's roughly the number of snaps the entire rookie class took last year. And if you think about it Ezekiel Elliott and Dak Prescott played pretty much every snap of every game. Anthony Brown and Maliek Collins played a ton and all of that added up to 2,700. That almost sounds low to me.

... I also think we've gotten a little carried away on Anthony Brown's quality. I realize that that's what we do with rookies who we expect nothing from and get something. Now we think he's ready to have Revis Island. I think he was generally covering guys well down in the rotation for the opposition. So now to suggest in a division that has added Terrelle Pryor, Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery that Brown will just go out there and imitate Brandon Carr or even Mo Claiborne when he was healthy feels like a stretch to me as well.

I don't think for a second they expected they were going to lose all four. I don't think they were interested in keeping J.J. Wilcox at anything more than like $1 million a year. He did way better than that.

The other three [Carr, Claiborne and Church] I think they were all hoping might come in at their price. And none of them did. Church got huge money. Brandon Carr got huge money even though it's a deceiving contract total. And then Mo Claiborne, I think they got him for one [year] and $3 million last year? I think they probably assumed they could do that again. And when the Jets threw $5 million out there he jumped on it. ... I think that one bothered [the Cowboys]. They were thinking they could keep him at a bargain price and maybe he could have a breakout [year] like Nick Perry had last year up in Green Bay.

Is Nolan Carroll an upgrade or downgrade at CB?

David Moore: After they got Nolan Carroll I think clearly they made another run at Claiborne. But given as many games as he's missed they didn't want to make that jump up from $3-3.5 million to $5 million.

They brought Carroll in last year and chose not to sign him because he was coming off the ankle injury. I think he's a little more physical than Carr. I think he plays a little better tackler and has more of an edge but I don't think he's a better corner than Brandon Carr. Now you're stepping down ... and I agree with you on Anthony Brown. There's a big difference in matching up with the second and third receivers on teams and suddenly saying, 'We saw enough last year. You're our lead guy.' I'm not sure he's that lead guy. We'll see how all of this plays out.

It's imperative now that they take a corner in the first or second round. You could argue in the first and second round.

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