WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Line Dancing? 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:05.480 Following here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:15.760 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys let go. Are you 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.919 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.279 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:28.280 It's time for The Break on the Dallas Cowboys dot 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:34.360 Com with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us, and bar Garcia 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:49.400 and Derek Eagleton. Hey, guys, welcome back to another episode 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:54.200 of The Break, presented by Miller Lite, the Only Beer 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.240 of the Dallas Cowboys. UM. A lot of things happened 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:02.440 this week. We got the owner's meeting, a lot of news. 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.720 You got Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones, Mike McCarthy talking to 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.560 the media. There's a lot of different topics that will 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.240 try to hit today, but I wanted to start off 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.520 with I think one of the things that fans have 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.720 criticized the most when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:23.000 last year, Dak Prescott and the interceptions, and I wanted 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.480 to kind of ask you guys your opinions and some 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.560 of the things that McCarthy said as far as how 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:33.200 they're working through this, how they're working with the coaching changes, 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.680 the different roles here and what they're trying to do. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.319 And Nick, you were out there, what did they say 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.119 as far as like fixing this problem? How did they 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:47.840 get Dak to be I guess keep being aggressive boor, 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.440 but protecting the ball, well, not throwing a Protecting the 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.240 ball is obviously the key. And basically what it starts 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:56.400 is and it's going to start up front, and we'll 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.680 talk about the offensive line, but that's what they keep 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.120 saying is that they've got to get him upright for 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.200 twenty games. Twenty games is the goal for for Mike 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:09.200 McCarthy on on playing uh Dak Prescott. So that's where 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.239 I believe he thinks it starts, is getting getting pass protection. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.840 Pass protection. We can talk about Terrence Steele and Tyre 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.200 and Smith and Tyler Smith and all that. They're gonna 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.680 make sure they got five guys that could pass protect 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.320 because as much as they like to say they're going 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.079 to run the ball, it's still pass protection. It's still 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.800 Mike McCarthy in a West Coast offense as what he 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.959 referred to it several times. So, um, I'll let Brian 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.360 speak a little bit more about what they're gonna do 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.399 with the turnovers part. I mean that's something that they're 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.639 drawing to address. But I think it does start with 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.239 the offensive line. Yeah, they t they we learned that 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.960 that you know, just uh maybe several weeks ago, that 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:53.960 that Dak Mike McCarthy and and and Tolzine's Goot Tolzine 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.360 the coach sat down and they went through every single 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.560 interception he had this year and then in last year 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.320 and try to pinpoint the reasons why, what were they 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.120 What were the factors that led for the interceptions were? 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.399 What were the decisions that were made here? What were 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.480 you seeing? I think that's the thing when you're um, 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.639 you know, when you're trying to figure things out. We 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.480 always talk about the autopsy. You know, you're trying to 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.360 get you see clues, You're trying to figure out, Okay, 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.160 what was the cause of death here? And you know, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.279 if you want to in football terms, death is turnovers. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.640 You know, it kills your opportunity to win games and statistically, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.720 you know that's something that's always part of that from 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.840 your scout's eye. Is there something I know this? I 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:40.960 can't ask you ahead of time to like watching it 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.040 go back and watch, but uh, from the season, what 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.400 you remember is there something in general that you notice 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.320 that was Dak's main problem. I don't think he sees 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:54.000 to feel particularly well at times. And there's times when 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.000 you see him with when he moves to his left. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.760 I feel like when on the move, he sees things 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.920 a little bit better than when he's stationary in the pocket, 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.080 you know. And I think that's where if you look 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:09.520 at the throws and some of these interceptions were not 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.720 his fault. I mean, when you start to talk about balls, 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.640 you know, clanging off receivers or getting tipped or things 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.120 like that, that's not on necessarily on Dak Prescott. But 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.880 if you're all of a sudden throwing a ball down 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.520 the middle of the field and you read the coverage wrong, 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:30.360 or you don't see a safety sitting there, or a 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:34.200 linebacker on a deep drop sitting there, then that's an issue. 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.919 The really the elite quarterbacks in the league, I believe, 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.279 have that ability to see the whole entire field and 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:46.240 anticipate where guys are going to be. You know, they 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.159 talk to Aaron Rodgers about this all the time. You know, 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:53.080 Aaron Rodgers would rather have a stationary you know, with 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.200 his with his team now with the Packers, the way. 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.320 Well soon maybe it's not gonna be his team anymore. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.880 But all the movement movement is supposed to show you 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.480 what it's going to happen. Aaron Rodgers is more of 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.919 a stationary guy. He goes, I want to see just 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.839 where everybody's going to be when the ball snapped. I 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.960 don't want people moving around. I just want to see 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.919 stationary stuff and that way. You can read that way. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.720 And I think with Dak, they're even going into now 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.760 eight years, there are things that he is deficient at, 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:24.680 and I think reading the field at the absolute time. 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.520 There's times where Dak is early in his career, would 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.160 turn his back to the defense and then have to 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.480 come back and then you're not sure. He wasn't sure 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.480 where everybody was, And I think that's the biggest He's 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.719 got the arm strength, the arm talent to get the 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.880 ball to where it needs to be. It's just when 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.880 people get into throwing lanes that gives him the biggest problem. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:50.400 You know, last week, Dak along with they were having 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.240 a charity event in Dallas and he talked to the 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.000 media and one of the things he mentioned and they 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.839 made the headline. We put out an article on it is. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.919 The time is now, basically, and I thought it was 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:07.440 interesting to see you hear about the team trying to 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.480 cater to Dak, build a team around Dak, and then 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.120 you see people come and go and then now, I 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:19.120 guess the biggest awakening moment was Zeke's departure, knowing that 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.920 he was drafted with him and knowing what the two 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.560 built in their time with the Dallas Cowboys. Nick, when 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:31.799 you hear something, it changed like this, all these moving parts, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.320 all these moving pieces, and again we'll get into the 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:40.320 old line pretty soon. But what do you think, what else? 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.760 What else can the Cowboys do to get to that 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.840 level now that basically you only have Dak Prescott. Well, 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.160 they can give better receivers. I mean that's the thing 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:55.719 that they quit trying to think that you know, you're 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.119 gonna find like everybody's gonna be a Miles Austin, because 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.200 even Miles Austin that needed four years. And so you know, 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.560 they they this is twice that they've done it in 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.040 the last five years where they've gone into a season 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.120 thinking whether off it their receivers were good enough and 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.200 they weren't. I mean, Noah Brown should should be a 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.520 fifth receiver. And and if he's but if he if 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.680 you're making him the second or third Yeah, he has 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.680 a couple of moments here and there, but that's not 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.040 what he is. And and Dak needs better than that. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.320 DAC needs better than than Jalen Tilber that didn't play 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.200 much last year, and so it needs better than than 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.120 Michael Gallup every other game maybe having a few plays 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:35.200 here and there. So they they've got to commit more 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.080 to the receiver position. And that's that's the balance here. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.280 That's the toughest part is that you're gonna pay a 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.120 guy this much money and then he still needs help 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:47.520 around him. That's that's the most quarterbacks do I mean, 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.760 think about it. I mean, Kirk Cousins gets paid a 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.760 lot of more. He needs may needs star receivers around him, 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.240 and and and that's that's just the fact. That's the 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.000 way it is. There's only a couple of guys in 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.960 the league that can elevate all these other guys. Most 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:01.720 the guys need help. And I think that's what the 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.920 Cowboys did by getting Cooks. Do you think it's uh, 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.200 you still think they're going to make the same mistakes 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.560 because what Amber was talking about earlier that we're going 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.680 to get into the offensive line, that they feel like 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.280 that that's really the issue with Dak right now, or 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.960 the thing that's holding Dak back. I think I think 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.720 that because you make a good point about the receivers. Yeah, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.440 absolutely right. I don't know if they share your opinion. No, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.160 I mean, and they don't share my opinion about it either. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.680 But you know, the thing about it is, they switched 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.480 the offensive line coach. They took the assistant offensive line 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.800 coach and made him a running backs coach. You know, 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.240 they're they're looking at potentially drafting a guard. We're not 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.240 going to we're gonna get into the whole thing about 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.280 Tyrn Smith and all that moving around up front. To me, 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.960 it's like they haven't said anything about, oh man, we 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.400 have got to go out and get better receivers. It 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.640 is the focus of this thing has been right on 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.040 the offensive line, you know. And that's where I can 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.079 say I agree with you about the better talent around him. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.199 The point that they're even talking about potentially drafting a 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.640 tight endy six. When they had Dalton Schultz, they just 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.920 let him walk, and you know, they say, well, we 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.280 really like hindershot and Ferguson and all that, but the 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.720 fact that you get you're starting to hear whispers that 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.800 they would consider drafting a tight end at twenty six. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.600 You know, it's not about the bit of receivers. It's 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.560 really about the offensive lines, about the tight ends. And 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.680 you know, they committed a franchise tag to a running back, 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:27.239 you know, so you know it's everything but wide receivers. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.480 And I and I don't and again I don't disagree 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:33.600 with you on the talent that needs to be over there. Yeah, 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.840 but you know they and they did that, They addressed it. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.800 They got Cooks. They got a guy that has been 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.600 at five different places now and he's he's had success 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.520 at all in all of them. And so I think 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.400 that that that was a scheme friendly type of player, 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.959 and that that he has bounced around a little bit 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.680 and shined regardless who the quarterback is throwing them the ball. 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:55.760 So I think that that's a good thing. That'll be 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.400 a good fit and not at t Y Hilton come in, 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.080 you know, like after Thanksgiving, Like this is a guy 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.559 that could be here at training camp. So I like, 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.240 I like that move. I think Gallop is going to 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.600 be better for a whole year and he'll he'll have 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:11.920 some more repetition. What bothers me a little bit is 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.280 that right now, I don't feel that there is enough 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.320 competition like I would like to get into when we 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.080 get to training camp. Well, these are the group of guys, 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.520 and who who's gonna be the guy? I mean, you 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.199 know you guys Ceee Lamb and you got Gallop, and 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.760 you got Tolber that's supposed to come back in and 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.320 see if he does anything this year, and the addition 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.800 of Cooks. But is there something you know, when you 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.560 get out there, you feel like, oh, there's all this talent. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.160 Let's see how they compete out there for at least 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:46.960 the third with somebody will though. I think somebody between Tolbert, Semi, Fihoko, 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.200 Kvante Turpin, somebody will make that jump. And it probably 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.440 comes down to who's working with Dac the most of 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.320 this offseason, but I think I think somebody will make that. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.320 We've seen it with Cedric Wilson, We've seen it with 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.720 Noah Brown. We've seen them guys make a jump. But 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.360 they need to make that jump into the third or 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.240 fourth spot, not the spot. Yeah, all right, Well let's 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.520 let's go ahead and talk about the old line and 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.760 what we heard coming out of the owner's meeting basically 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:19.000 saying that they're thinking or they're looking at you know, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.440 they're looking at all options, but one of the options 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:27.200 is working Terrence Steele at guard and see how that 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.360 works out and if it is a good fit to 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.600 put him there. What are your thoughts on this? That 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:37.000 is a that is the complete opposite of a Jerry 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.880 Jones theory that he has about offensive line play. It's 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.319 a complete opposite Jerry Jones. The one thing that I know, 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.040 working fourteen years with him on the scouting side and 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.680 then now with you know and being around when with 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.880 Dallas Cowboys dot Com, is that he believed And I 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:55.640 don't know where he got this. It could have been 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.280 from Bill Parcels. It could have been from John Madden 0:11:58.280 --> 0:11:59.920 in the day. It could have been from al day, 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.240 It could have been for somebody. Jerry Jones fundamentally believes 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.599 in the front of the pocket. He believes in the 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.520 depth of the pocket is set by the center and 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.040 the two guards. The width of the pocket is by 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.960 the offensive tackles. They keep people wide, you keep the 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.800 front of the pocket solid. You step up. That's why 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.600 he's made investments. That's why they had Ron Leary here, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.440 That's why they drafted Zack Martin. That's why they drafted 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.640 Travis Frederick. They've always tried to have powerful players in 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.960 the front of the line. The one thing that we 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.680 can say about Terrence Steele and listen, I've been the 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.400 most critical guy of Terrence Steele as a player. Terrence 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.720 Steele is an, in my opinion, an elite run blocker. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.560 When you start to talk about athletic ability and how 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.640 he works with Zach Martin, I would say he's an 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.360 average to below average pass blocker. And a lot of 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.000 it has to do with his strength, the power, the base. 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.680 We've seen him. We've seen what it's like to have 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:57.480 a power deficient left guard in Connor Williams. We've seen 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.960 what that does for you. You know, you could be 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.120 all you could be the best athlete in the world 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.079 over there at guard, but if you play with a 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.360 lack of power. Now every quarterback in the league is affected. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.560 They can handle the stuff that comes off the edges. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.200 It's the stuff in their face that they can't handle. 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.000 To me, if you told me, and I've seen some 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.280 clips of Terrence Still looks really good moving around, you know, 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.400 Duke Maryweather and those guys they've got, they've got him 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.240 moving around pretty well, looks good, you know, Britt Brown, 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:28.120 those guys. Everybody, to the kid's credit working art. But 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.120 to me, if you don't have a bigger guy, and 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.800 that's and that's the reason why this draft I think 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.720 is important. There's a couple of those bodies, those three 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.680 hundred and twenty five pound guys that are athletic, that 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.000 can plug in and play at that at that left 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:46.040 guard spot. But this is this is fundamentally against everything 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.040 that Jerry Jones believes when you start talking about the 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.120 front of the pocket. And to be fair, Jerry Jones 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.480 did not say Terrence Still would be a guard. He 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.000 said he's a tackle. He did not say he's a guard. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.040 He said that right now he sees him at a 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:04.280 swing tackle with Tyrn and Tyler and then we'll see 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.240 how it all shakes out. Mike McCarthy said, they're working 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.760 out a guard a little bit. Stephen said, we'll see 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.720 about the top five, top five players out there, you 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:17.000 know all that. Personally, I think that the contract they 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:21.400 gave Tyrann Smith was more playtime incentive and and if 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.600 you're going to do that, then you've got to give 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.240 him the opportunity to get it. Now, I think everybody 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.520 believes that it probably won't play seventeen games. He hasn't 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.840 in six years. And even McCarthy says something very interesting. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.720 He said, we haven't had the same combination since I've 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.000 been here, the same starting five week to week. That 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.000 just doesn't happen. Doesn't happen at all. He goes, I'm 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.520 tired of basically trying to get there. I'm now going 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.360 to train ourselves on how to deal with it. So 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.800 they've basically given up on this fingers cross hope that 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.360 we can have five continuity guys every week. Now they're 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.960 just cross training everyone to play guard, tackle, center and 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.200 you know, wing tackle fullback mc govern style and just say, hey, 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.720 that's because this is a reality. Well in history shows 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.440 that's a good idea, right. Well. Yeah, to Nick's point, 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.240 into Mike's point as well, is that they've won twenty 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:16.000 five games being able to miss mixmatch guys. We have 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.400 Stephen Jones on on Fridays on one oh five three 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.080 the Fan. I've asked him the question because he always 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:25.400 heard from him continuity, continuity, continuity, continuity. I said, how 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.520 are you adapting to not having continuity? And he says, 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.560 I really haven't. But that's what we are. That's the 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.560 kind that's what we are right now as a team. 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.400 And I think you have to in this day and age, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.960 you have to be able to mixmatch your guys and 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.000 be able to win games. You can't sit there. This 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.680 isn't nineteen seventy three with the same five guys played 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.840 together for eight ten years. It just doesn't happen anymore. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.360 Whether it's free agency, whether it's injury, you just don't 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.360 have that. You don't have that luxury. And you know, 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.120 I applaud them for being able to say, Okay, we 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.960 can move guys around. The one that bothers me when 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.080 you start talking moving guys around is I think that 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:11.480 Tyler Smith is your left tackle. So moving him to 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.200 guard and moving him back and forth, that to me 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.200 doesn't seem like he's the one guy that I would 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.960 keep at left tackle and say, Okay, this is my 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.760 future going forward. You know, I'll cross train everybody else 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.280 to play positions, but you know, him maybe steal the 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.120 same way. My question, is it? Sorry, I disagree with that, 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.120 just because I think he's gonna have a ten year 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.120 career and I'm not worried about the first couple of years, 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.520 just trying to get through this year. If if that 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.760 is the five best, I mean, I get it, he's 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.160 gonna play left tackle. That's a spot. But if if 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.320 if I can't figure out my left guard and I've 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.080 got him there and I've got a pretty good back 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.480 up and I know he can play it, then I 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.600 would I would consider it, but but not forever. You know, 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.160 I think if Tyran was five years younger and then 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.680 you've got three really good tackles, you got to figure 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.480 that out. But because it's like Tyler Tyrant is just 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.479 kind of hanging on, I mean, I'd rather play them 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.440 at left tackle, but and draft at left guard. That's 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.399 what I want to do, right But if, if not, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.600 if your five best guys is it includes Tyler Smith 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.480 playing left guard, I would be okay with it, knowing 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.000 that it's not forever. Yeah. The thing the thing that 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.240 I do know, and I think we all know, and 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.480 I think Cowboy fans know this too. You give them 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.800 the opportunity to draft an offensive lineman late in a draft. 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.320 It works out for them late in the first round, 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.600 late in the first round, like the first round. It's 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.080 a plug and play. I mean, it is an automatic 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.120 plug and play for them, and it works out. It's 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.160 one of the things that you know, you say, well, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:45.040 tell me about how the Cowboys draft. Get them picking 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.320 twenty five to twenty eight and let them draft an 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.280 offensive lineman. That's sure of a thing that they have 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.200 right now. So to me, they'll have that opportunity. They'll 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.040 have that opportunity to say, you know what, we're gonna 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.040 we're gonna help Dak Prescott because they've they've made it, 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:05.680 they've made it a point to say offensive line first. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.800 They haven't you know, they haven't said, Hey Nick, we're 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.920 gonna draft your wide receiver at twenty six. Hey Brian, 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.280 we're gonna draft your running back at twenty six. They 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.000 haven't said that. They're talking about what they need to 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.280 do to keep Dak Prescott on the field for twenty games. 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.040 Love it, that's what they're talking about. Let's go ahead 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.800 and take our first break. When we come back, we'll 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.560 keep the conversation going. 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