WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Panthers Preview Begins 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:03.760 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.680 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:15.000 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:19.360 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:25.520 Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:30.920 Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, September fifth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.160 episode number thirty four. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.160 live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:38.680 we appreciate you guys, you join us. We got a 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.040 great show lined up for you guys today. And just 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.680 before we went on the air, there seems to be 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.320 a little bit of news. It's breaking out there in 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.360 the world of Earl Thomas. Dave, why don't you catch 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.160 us up on what you're hearing now from Twitter? Yeah, 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.640 like six months worth of the news cycle just happened 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:59.080 in about twenty five minutes. It sounds like, um, I mean, 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.800 according to social media, Earl Thomas is reporting to the 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:06.160 Seattle Seahawks under protest. It sounds like if you follow 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.680 them on it. But Brian brought us had this thing 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.080 nailed from the jump. I mean you I think Derek 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.720 you said that too, to be fair, but you're asking 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.520 a lot of a guy to pass up nine hundred 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.800 thousand dollars a week in game checks, and it doesn't 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.520 sound like that's something Earl wants to do. I haven't 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.000 had time to verify any of this for myself, so 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.000 take it with a grain of salt. But the word 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.280 on social media coming from you know, guys like Adam 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:35.200 Schefter and Ian Rappaport, and again, you know, to go 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.280 back to that point, these are these are the guys 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.640 who talk a lot to agents, So it's it's interesting 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.800 where they get that information from and how quickly they 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:47.039 get it. But it sounds like the Cowboys made a 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.920 concerted effort to get that deal done, like a lot 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.920 of people speculated they might based on their reports. Yeah 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.840 uh off, you know, up in their offer potentially to 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.720 a second round pick, and the Seahawks said, nope, we 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.680 like girl, we think he's great. He's kind of a 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.200 key part of our defense, and we trust that he's 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.519 going to report. And this is ridiculous, that's what happened. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:12.400 Why if you're Seattle, I mean, you would take that 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.320 I would. I would take that deal, especially you have 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.720 a guy that does not want to be there really 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.280 because and you're not willing to give him what he 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.799 wants money wise, and next year you're not going to 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.239 have him, so why not go for a second round pick. Well, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.360 Dave made a great point before we went on the air. 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.720 I mean, if you think about it from a stampont 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.760 of the contemptative that compensatory picks, they may be thinking 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.720 about it as Hey, if he leaves next year, which 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.240 we probably they probably feel like he's probably going to leave. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:43.920 The only way they keep him from leaving gets is 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.880 if they franchise him. But if they let him leave 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.440 and he goes and signed somewhere else, it's probably a 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.799 pretty sizeable chance they're going to get a third round 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.720 compensatory pick. So difference between a second and third plus 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.919 you get him this year, maybe that's worth it to them. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:00.960 I'm a big believe kind of what you're saying from 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.440 the standpoint of disgruntled players. I don't like having disgruntled 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.079 players in my locker room, especially when I got a 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.560 lot of young, impressionable guys around. I think it creates 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.720 bad culture. But that's just my opinion. But then again, 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.160 if Earl's a stand up guy, you trust that he 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:19.040 won't poison your your locker room. I and further reck, 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.720 I'm not I hear where y'all are saying. I'm not 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.320 willing to say, like Earl Thomas, there's no chance he'll 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.720 resign in Seattle, Like I mean, they can sit down 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:31.120 like adults and have a contract negotiation once the season 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:32.800 is over. And if you think if they're not willing 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.680 to pay him now, they're gonna be willing to pay 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.800 him with one more year on what did you say? 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.320 He posts it on Instagram disrespect. It's real and it's 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.680 threal and it hasn't been forgotten. But you can you 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.240 can price saying going to go down, So time and 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.560 money can heal wounds. I'm just saying money can. But 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.560 that's my point. But you're talking, you're talking about it. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.680 You'll be having a completely different conversation after this season 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.440 because he'll have to play games and put on put 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.520 out tape if he dips, and Seattle's like, look, see, 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.800 this is what we were talking about. He might swallow 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.240 his pride depends on his market point. You can't say 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.320 right now that he won't play for the Seahawks next year. 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.520 You just can't. That's all I'm saying. I would bet, 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.240 I would bet he's not going to be in Seattle 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.800 next year. Pointing to go back to the original point, 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.040 they are now going to get sixteen games out of him. 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:19.720 This is a team that has lost a lot of 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.640 talent over the last two years, and leadership Earl Thomas 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.279 gives you an elite player on the back end to 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.320 pair with Bobby Wagner and probably in their eyes, keeps 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:33.760 their chances of having a playoff run afloat. I mean, 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:38.360 you got Russell Wilson, Doug Baldwin, Bobby Wagner, Earl Thomas, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.000 and not a whole lot else So and yeah, if 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.760 he signed somewhere else, you'll get a comp pick out 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:49.960 of it. So I get it. Yeah, maybe now saying 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:51.880 talking a lot about this over the Yeah, I mean 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.200 they don't want Dallas a second round pick? How about that? 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.480 How about they Well they'll take Raiders second round pick, 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.760 They'll take AFC second round pick. Why do they want 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.840 to give the cowboy? He's the player that's gonna probably 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.000 help him beat him in three weeks and you know 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.279 that the team that you're gonna be, you know, fighting 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.240 against in the NFC. Maybe they don't want Dallas' second 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:11.960 round pick, they don't want to take put him in 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.360 the NFC and have to face him right now. I mean, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.320 I bet you if an AFC team jumped up and 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.440 did that, then they might they might reconsider it. You know, 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.039 that game is sitting there in three weeks. I mean, 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.440 he's gonna he's gonna, you know, help them, help the 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.080 Cowboys beat him if they played him. Maybe that second 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.640 round offer sits there until the Monday after that game, 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.480 and then they're willing to do it. I don't know. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.760 I just I just think we're forgetting the part that 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:40.240 maybe they don't want Dallas's offer, especially if the guy 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.359 ran off to Jason Garrett like that, I'd be like 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.720 that sting last team, I'm gonna trade him too. I mean, 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.360 there's no way of knowing that. I get a good point. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:53.400 But the biggest thing in all that that was being 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.680 reported and all this is off reports, is the fact 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:57.960 that you that you said that Seattle is willing to 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.960 wipe out all those fines or not for missing all 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.080 of the preseason. All that to me is big because 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.840 that's some kind of agreement of like, you know you're 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.640 gonna be here here, we'll do this. You come in 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.120 here and play. All's forgiven for now, I think, I mean, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.039 I feel like that's pretty standard in situations like this 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.360 is like, hey, obviously this is kind of a messed 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.440 up situation and we're not all super thrilled thrilled with 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.440 each other, but let's for you know, you come in 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.760 and get to work, and we'll forgive these fines and 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.480 we don't have to just completely despise each other for 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.880 the next twenty weeks. You know. Great. I think Earl 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:35.840 will be a lot happier about being in that building, 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.760 knowing that he didn't lose five million dollars this offseason. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.719 It'd be great in Seattle after the Cowboys in Seattle 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.359 Seahawks play. If he comes right back over to the 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.440 locker room and say, man, come get me. I say, 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.000 come get me. How does that play for a second time? 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.159 Glieberg gives out the charter and it just says like 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:57.440 Thomas and parents, He's like, return, who's sitting in twenty 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:02.359 nine A. There's no way too there's no way to 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.280 know for sure, So I don't you know, I don't 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.520 want to go off half cocked, but if the reports 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.880 are true that you know, within the last couple of 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:14.000 days they up their offer, just do it forever ago? 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.880 Why did it? Why did it suddenly matter now? You know, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:22.239 because you got to the season and you're them having 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.440 the upper hand, and then the cow is being kind 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.200 of stubborn and be like, Okay, I'm not gonna go 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.320 down to what you have. If this is if this 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.720 is the way it really played out, it's it sounds 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.640 very stubborn and arrogant on the Cowboys part. In my opinion, 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:36.840 is just just do what you need to do to 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.200 get the player that you want, that apparently wants to 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.680 be here. Make it happen, make your team better. Uh. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.560 And I even said this, I feel I don't know 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.360 that they would have agreed to a trade without a 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.480 new deal. I'd give up a two for Earl without 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.840 a deal, and if he leaves next year in free agency, 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.280 then you get the comp pick. So you get a 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.920 second round pick for an all pro caliber player for 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.360 one year, and then even if he gets away in 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.800 free agency, you're going to get a decent draft pick 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.840 in return. I'll do that all day like, let's stop acting. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.440 And we talked about this yesterday. Let's draft picks are 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:14.560 the most valuable thing in the world, as this abstract idea, 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.440 and then as soon as you make them, they're not 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.880 that valuable because half of them don't pan out. Like 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.800 how many second round picks have just been total flops? 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.360 And here's Jaz Green was a third round pick. You 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.280 couldn't wait to get him out of here. What I 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.440 don't understand and this was this morning. I'm thinking about 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.400 this of like why the Cowboys wouldn't do a second 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.480 round pick, and then eventually I guess they have or 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.640 that they made the offer, But like this, that round 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.160 has been around that They've taken chances on people all 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.480 the time. Bruce Carter, broken leg, bring them up. You know, oh, 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.840 Jalen Smith may never play against second round Brandy Gregory's 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.439 fallen because he can't pass it as a second round. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.040 So they're taking risks all the time when it's an 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.080 abstract concept of like that could be that could be 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.679 the next Sean Lee, though you know Sean leaves another one, 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.440 but it'll probably be. It'll probably be the next Gavin Escobar. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.480 Like that's the law of averages and that's not that's 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.400 not me taking a shot at the Cowboys. That is 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.880 the nature of the draft, like every I mean, for 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.880 every hit, you're gonna have him, seems like especially in 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.680 the second round, because that's where teams with the philosophy 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.200 like the Cowboys, that's where they will take a little 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.960 bit of risk on upside of a guy knowing that 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.680 he has specific warts that could backfire on you. Like 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.600 that's their strategy in the second round always has. They're 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.480 looking for a first round talent that has a reason 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.360 why he's in the second Why is this big offensive 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.080 tackle from Michigan State falling well because he's deaf in 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.400 his in his left ear right, M. Well, let's put 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.280 him or in his ride or whatever. Lets put him 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:36.960 at left tackle and he'll be really good. And he 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.439 is and flows out. Adams was good, same thing. I mean, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.839 Andre Gerard, Antonio, Bryant. They all are first round guys 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.360 that slipped. Jason Witten was actually a guy that slipped, 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:47.880 and he slipped all the way to the third But 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.560 it happens all the time. You're taking risk for that, 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.319 you know, just don't take the risk and take the 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:53.880 risk on a six time problem. But I do want 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.800 to go back and address something you said, Dave about 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.800 the about the pick and in them maybe if the 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.320 reports are accurate that they ate this offer, up their offer. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.880 I want to be very careful because we don't know. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.440 I mean, this could have been something where they up 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.040 there off for a while back and it's just coming 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.840 out now. Because here's the thing to remember it does 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.719 it seems like a real It seems like more than 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.959 just a coincidence that this is all getting reported as 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:25.400 kind of cowboys up their offer, Seattle declined, and today 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.960 is a day that Earl says, all right, I'm showing 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.640 up right. That all seems like a justicer. That doesn't 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.120 seem like just a coincidence to me. It seems like 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.880 maybe this has been conversations that have been going on 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:38.840 all along. I don't know. I can't verify that. We 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.840 can obviously ask some questions, but the point is it 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:43.560 seems like this may have been going on for a 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.200 while and maybe everything came to a head today and 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.400 it was a final absolutely not and Earl said, I'm 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.640 not getting traded, and so I might as well show 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.840 up and make my money for this year. Knowing that noted, guys, 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:58.920 you didn't give me what I wanted. So when the 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.160 season's done, I'm will be a free agent. I can 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.320 go do whatever I wanted. Yea, I will say, And 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:07.880 I mean Ian Rappaport is certainly not an infallible source. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.480 I mean, he's he's not, but he said that the 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.080 Cowboys up their offer to a second round pick in 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.480 recent days, and again going back to that, so much 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.200 of what comes out of those national outlets is coming 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:23.040 from league office and agents and things like that, it 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.559 sounds plausible to me that the Cowboys made their push, 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:30.520 the Seahawks turned it down. Obviously, one or both teams 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.439 would probably be in communication with Earl's people about what 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:37.400 was going on. Earl found out they made, they made 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.520 the final push that they were willing to and couldn't 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.120 get it done, and then screw it. I'm gonna go play, 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.400 not missing eight hundred thousand dollars for this. And he 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.160 never was, I mean, he never was going to do it. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.080 I don't think. I mean, there's only a handful of 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.600 players in like twenty years that have ever really done that. 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.800 It's it's hard, but again, all this stuff is based 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.400 upon reports. You're right, and it's hard to know exactly 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.720 what happened. The only thing that we know at this 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.880 point for sure is that Earl Thomas's reporting the Seattle 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.480 and presumably is going to play for the Seattle Seawks 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.360 this year, and so the Cowboys have to think about 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.520 it from this standpoint. They really want his services next 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.000 year in free agency. Have your money, right, I've said 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.680 all along, I think he was gonna come here. It 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:20.760 doesn't look at as good right now. It's still not done, 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:25.520 but he's gonna get He's gonna get traded. I promise 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.840 you he'll get traded. For years. You said, right, He's 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:34.280 gonna get traded by somebody. Call. He gives a secret 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.960 call over here to Dallas and say, hey, just so 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.679 you guys know, I'm still at high level, but I'm 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.400 gonna be us this game, just them. I'm gonna play 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:55.160 on purpose. Call that tampering of secret. Terence Williams just 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.679 blows by him in the game, like what's going on here? 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.079 It was on purpose. I don't think you want that 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.160 guy though. 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Conditions, exclusions, who 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:19.280 warrant the limitations apply? So you love for details. Back 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.160 to the Break. Welcome back. At the second segment of 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.880 The Break, live from the SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star, 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.600 we're talking Cowboys and football. Today we get to talk 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.960 about another opponent. Cowboys are playing the Carolina Panthers this 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.600 Sunday in Carolina will be Game one. We can just 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:39.560 say something real quick. So you weren't so confident with 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.680 Xavier Woods and Gabe phrase here and the guys that 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.680 you had, That's all I had to say. He just 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.040 had to get that out. Oh my Oh, I mean, 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.280 I'd say, I'm glad we're all on the same page. Yes, 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.120 I appreciate the petty I do I do? Did anybody? 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.240 Did anybody on this panel believe that they were okay 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.640 with that? If they can get all top talking about you, 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:04.160 that's also the point too, right They may convince themselves 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.280 that they're okay with that, but they never going to 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.640 convince themselves they're okay with that if they can get 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.280 ear Old Thomas, because Earl Thomas is a whole different 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.520 level of player. Right, They're still in there right now, 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.080 like we're all right, all right, until they get into 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.120 a game and realize that they're not all right. But 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.040 that's what happens every year. Every team has areas that 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.040 they know in their heart is a problem, and it's 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.760 until it actually shows up on the field that they're 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.560 willing to admit to themselves this is a problem. Yeah, 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.640 but especially publicly not Every team knows in their heart 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.640 that they have a problem, but doesn't do stuff to 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.720 address it, right, which I mean, okay, Basically you want 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.520 to use an analogy like you were going for a 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.600 home run or you're going to strike out, Like why 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.640 not try like how about a single? How about you 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.440 line out, you know, hustle out a infield single or 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:55.840 try I mean for the millionth time, ty Trey Boston 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:57.800 and Kenny Vacaro were out there to be had at 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.480 a discount for forever. But maybe they didn't like those 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.200 players something I mean, well again, no, I know they 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.040 didn't fit the scheme. They're not there, They're not that good. Well, 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.560 they're better than nobody, which is what They're better than Gempie, 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:14.359 Cavan Frasier and not playing Xavier Woods, I think, And 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.639 and a guy who's been here for three days and 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.080 a rookie, I would have just go get Georgia Loca 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.119 when he became was a to meet. That was a 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.440 great opportunity to get a guy for a one year deal. 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.800 And he's just here, he's he's veteran presence. You put 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.240 him back there and to see what happens. Options, options 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.639 just kept falling in your lap, and I mean, hey, 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.600 maybe it'll work out. I maybe it will, Ambert. I hope. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.879 So we will be happy to eat crow together if 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.720 it does well. I will say this though, this weekend. 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.800 I don't think safety will kill you this weekend. I 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.840 think that playing the team like this, that is a 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.000 team that is predicated on the run, that does it 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.320 very well, and that passes as they need to is 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.080 a week Did you feel a little less exposed with 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.960 what you have at say, Dave, I'm sorry, Nichol. Now 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.560 let's let's talk about the scattering report. But this whole 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.000 they the running back is a you know, he catches 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.040 the ball and he absolutely does, and he's gonna be 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.200 doing it in a spot where the safety needs to 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:16.080 be paying attention at him. So I'm I think this 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.480 could be a little bit. I mean, he catches a 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.640 lot of balls. All right, let's get the scattering report day. Well, 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.359 I learned a couple things doing this one, which I 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.919 don't remember how I did this last year for the Giants. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.440 Maybe it's just easier when you play a division opponent, 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.400 But like trying to piece together what a team's gonna 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.960 look like based on what they do in the preseason nightmare, 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.520 it's better to look at last year on top of that. Yeah, 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.639 but the piece has changed so much. I get it. 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.480 But it's to me that's still a better indication than 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:43.959 what you're gonna get the preseason. I don't know, man, 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.520 Like you're gonna go watch tape of the Cowboys Seattle 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:48.080 game and try to tell me that that's what the 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.920 I mean, seriously, that's what the Cowboys office is gonna 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.600 look like, Daz Witton Rod. Let's be honest, though, the 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.600 Cowboys are way more turnover of front line players than 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.800 most teams in this offseason. Umither that's that's not what 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.440 I did. I watched the preseason. Which the other thing 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.720 is I love NFL game Pass. I can't recommend it 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.520 enough to anybody get But they don't offer coach's film 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:14.760 of the preseason. Yeah, and they don't maybe well for 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.320 me because for you don't try to tell me that 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.199 you know what's going on on a football field if 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.840 you're not watching that basically, because it's like watching another sport, 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:26.320 like you can't see anything. It's I felt very hamstrung. 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:31.080 So anyway, Um, for me, the main thing right now 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:32.639 is let's get it right out of the way. Is 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.080 like they're banged up, like I don't. Their left tackle 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.040 situation is a mess. Their right tackle situation might be 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:45.080