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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: Good morning, guys, Today is Friday, and Derek just joined us.
Speaker 1: Just in time. Yeah, right on time, Derek Nice. Well,
Speaker 1: the NFL has officially started the NFL season, and last
Speaker 1: night we got to watch the Eagles against the Falcons.
Speaker 1: So how are you guys doing after watching the first game?
Speaker 1: I was better before I watched it, Honestly, why your life?
Speaker 1: Because any parts? Because it sucked. There were twenty five flags.
Speaker 1: Well that's yeah, that's so. I find a score eighteen twelve,
Speaker 1: Eagles win and the offenses look bad. Twenty five flags.
Speaker 1: NFL MVP Matt Ryan couldn't hit the broadside of a
Speaker 1: barn by his standards at least. Um. I just thought
Speaker 1: it really sucked. Nick doesn't think Matt Ryan's that good anyway,
Speaker 1: So I mean he's he's pretty good. I mean he
Speaker 1: is pretty good. I don't think he was the MVP
Speaker 1: of the league. I don't think he should have been
Speaker 1: MVP of the league that year. But he's pretty good
Speaker 1: until he gets down to the red zone against the
Speaker 1: Eagles with the game on the line or the season
Speaker 1: on the line, and he doesn't. He doesn't have They
Speaker 1: don't have an answer for that. But I mean, Eagles
Speaker 1: have a really good defense. They showed again, and I
Speaker 1: think the Falcons had a pretty good defense as well.
Speaker 1: So that defensive front, you know, defensive defense. Defensive football
Speaker 1: does not bother me at all. I want. I grew
Speaker 1: up watching the SEC. But twenty five flags barf. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not good. That's yeah, that's the NFL. That's what they do.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's they got all these rule changes and
Speaker 1: they're gonna show them too. This whole I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: as though it's a layer, like we got this new
Speaker 1: these new rules. We got to show your rule. But
Speaker 1: you can't put your body weight on a quarterback. So yeah,
Speaker 1: if you do that penalty. Well. One of the things
Speaker 1: that really upset me the most is this whole catch
Speaker 1: non catch thing. It is still really really bothering me,
Speaker 1: especially the one that happened last night. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: you guys all agree that was a catch, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: Julio has cost me six point? What? What are you
Speaker 1: making a face? No? I mean I know when you're
Speaker 1: talking about, so it goes back. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: bring this whole thing. I mean again, there are key
Speaker 1: moments to games where obviously a catch can make the
Speaker 1: game count as far as winning or losing. And the
Speaker 1: fact that it's so up in the air, and I
Speaker 1: mean this catch was still reviewed and it was still
Speaker 1: called off and non catch. That's what bothers me the
Speaker 1: most about it. It's one thing I don't expect referees
Speaker 1: to be so good to wear as quick as the
Speaker 1: game is, that they're going to always get the call
Speaker 1: right in real time. What I do expect, though, is
Speaker 1: if we're all sitting at home watching an angle that
Speaker 1: clearly shows he had possession and control of the ball
Speaker 1: before his shoulder goes out of bounds, and we see this,
Speaker 1: how can you explain to me that the referee couldn't
Speaker 1: see the same thing. And that's the part that's so
Speaker 1: frustrating for fans is we now have technology that will
Speaker 1: show us on television exactly what the referee should be
Speaker 1: able to see and when he comes to a different
Speaker 1: conclusion than the rest of the world, it's like, how
Speaker 1: can you not see that? You know, it's amazing. The
Speaker 1: biggest problem to me, it's in both college and pro
Speaker 1: is because they still weigh heavily on what they think
Speaker 1: they saw initially and then and then one thousand percent.
Speaker 1: You've got to make sure that that's it's not the same.
Speaker 1: I think you need to get you under the hood
Speaker 1: or whatever they do now and just clear out what
Speaker 1: it was called, look at it and make the call,
Speaker 1: because because the actual call on the field is actually
Speaker 1: being determined by what they do, because they can have
Speaker 1: a catch all upstairs, let's just call it a turnover,
Speaker 1: because then that will automatically be reviewed and then we
Speaker 1: can figure it out. And I actually think the best
Speaker 1: way to do that is to have an arbitrary person
Speaker 1: that is a basically a referee that sits in a
Speaker 1: booth behind a camera and when he looks at it,
Speaker 1: he's not looking at it from standpoint what was the call?
Speaker 1: He didn't care. He's looking at and saying, I'm watching
Speaker 1: this objectively for the first time, here's my assessment, and
Speaker 1: here's how it should go right, And so if you
Speaker 1: have to go to the booth, this arbitrary person now
Speaker 1: makes that decision, rather than the person who is who's
Speaker 1: already made the call having to reverse themselves. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: hopefully the Cowboys will have a better weekend and better
Speaker 1: referees there at the game. So before we move on
Speaker 1: and get into the game, I wanted to go over
Speaker 1: a quick roster move that happened today. Parker. He was
Speaker 1: placed on ir the guard that I injured his knee yesterday,
Speaker 1: right Wednesday or anger? No, par's park Parker. And I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys are angered by the fact that they
Speaker 1: actually traded for a guy who's not playing. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: so I can't feel good. Yes, now what now they
Speaker 1: got a Kadima at words, they signed him back on
Speaker 1: the roster. So as far as that, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just kinda to add depth there. And he's probably gonna play, right,
Speaker 1: He was practicing like a guy who was probably gonna play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been here all through training. Cast if
Speaker 1: he plays or he gets in the game, does anything.
Speaker 1: I mean this is he knows that he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be long for this team because they didn't even want
Speaker 1: him on the practice squad m But it came down
Speaker 1: to Friday and they're like, okay, who can we put
Speaker 1: in that we knows in shape, knows, the team knows
Speaker 1: the plays ball out. Yeah, I mean here's your chance. Play. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe you can change their minds in the real games.
Speaker 1: Your chance. Okay, So let's quickly go over the inactives
Speaker 1: that we're expecting to be this weekend. Obviously Travis, then
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods, Dagtone Jones. That's three. That's three that have
Speaker 1: to sit like they yes, they have to sit. Now,
Speaker 1: who would be the rest on that list? I think
Speaker 1: they'll have a third quarterback? I mean Mike White, Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of the quarterbacks probably Mike White. Mike White, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the tight ends. Maybe you think
Speaker 1: it came down to the very end of practice that
Speaker 1: we saw, I mean the open part. I was looking
Speaker 1: at the special team stuff. I didn't see anything that
Speaker 1: they're neither one of them are playing. Schultz Rico is
Speaker 1: playing on a lot of special team stuff that we saw,
Speaker 1: so you couldn't tell they're not. To the very end,
Speaker 1: did they do a little bit of first team or
Speaker 1: a little bit like pat and go type stuff? Really
Speaker 1: with Dak and Schultz was out there and Rico was
Speaker 1: kind of behind everything. That's the only thing that I
Speaker 1: could see that would like, why would Schultz be running
Speaker 1: stuff with Dak if Rico's not? Yeah, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know what they're gonna do with that. I gleaned
Speaker 1: toward thinking Rico's gonna play or be active at least
Speaker 1: I can't. I mean, I don't know how much he's
Speaker 1: gonna play, but maybe they both are well, but I
Speaker 1: after Mike White, I would throw Chris Covington in. I
Speaker 1: think he probably sits, and then, um, who am I forgetting? Well,
Speaker 1: you don't really have a secondary guy you can know?
Speaker 1: Could there be one of the defensive linemen that possibly
Speaker 1: offensive tackle? Maybe? I mean they got right now, eight
Speaker 1: or nine? Eight? If you got eight there, they're all
Speaker 1: got to play, right, I mean, the one guy that
Speaker 1: that could sit out would be Armstrong. If you had to,
Speaker 1: you could go with seven. But I know, typically first
Speaker 1: game of the year, I think, and it's gonna be warm,
Speaker 1: you like that rotation of eight. I don't think you
Speaker 1: sit anybody there. I'm trying to think of what position
Speaker 1: they can go like they can actually do without a guy.
Speaker 1: You can sit Um, you can sit Adam Redmond your
Speaker 1: backup center because Zach Martin can play center. You have
Speaker 1: kadeem who can back up at card if you need to.
Speaker 1: So you got what you got? Seven linemen. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's normal. That's in the NFL. Seven lineman dressed
Speaker 1: for a game. That gives you six guys, you still
Speaker 1: need one. And that's and I think if I had
Speaker 1: to guess you sit a tight end, I don't know who. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would I would say Schultz because I think they're
Speaker 1: they're gonna want to see Rico. But that's just a guess.
Speaker 1: If I got to choose, I think I can get
Speaker 1: more out of Rico than I can get out of Schultz.
Speaker 1: If you were absolutely bound and determined to play all
Speaker 1: four tight ends, you could maybe sit Deontay Thompson. Of
Speaker 1: all their receivers, I think he's the one that I mean,
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis can return kicks, and Deonte is probably the
Speaker 1: least versatile of all of them, because I mean he's
Speaker 1: just straight speed to every one of those other guys
Speaker 1: other than Terrence. Can they also play a slot. Terrence
Speaker 1: can play in the slots. Don't do it a lot.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's what I'm saying is you've gotten to
Speaker 1: look at pretty much all those receivers inside and out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've played everywhere. See like most of those others I've
Speaker 1: seen this camp, I've seen in inside and out, Deonte
Speaker 1: is the one that he typically stays on the outside
Speaker 1: because that's I mean, that's what he's here for, is
Speaker 1: to take the top off the defense. So so you've
Speaker 1: got two backup corners and in uh Jordan Lewis and
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown. Yeah, two backup safeties and her him and
Speaker 1: try Robinson, So you really can't do anything with second seconds.
Speaker 1: Got to be the already moved Covington. That's six. Now
Speaker 1: you're down to six linebackers with Marshall Lillard all of them.
Speaker 1: I really don't Yeah, I don't think you have a
Speaker 1: ton of options other than you have take another tight
Speaker 1: end tight end or or the sixth. Well, who helps
Speaker 1: you more the most on special teams? Rico or Schultz.
Speaker 1: I don't think either won When I told when I
Speaker 1: talked to him a few days ago, I mean he
Speaker 1: said that basically one of his biggest roles would be
Speaker 1: helping out on special teams. They were both working on
Speaker 1: punt team today. I mean like they can both do it.
Speaker 1: They're just I don't trust either one of them that much.
Speaker 1: But you saw them on punt team. They were both
Speaker 1: working on special teams. Yeah, with the jerseys on, with
Speaker 1: one one on and one off. Yeah. Well, what I
Speaker 1: saw was and that's what you look for, is who's
Speaker 1: doing the actual scout team and who's actually doing the
Speaker 1: real punt team. In from what I saw, I couldn't
Speaker 1: see either one of them doing the stuff. Maybe I
Speaker 1: missed a little bit of the first part of it, though.
Speaker 1: I just get the feel from what I saw today
Speaker 1: they're leaning towards Schultz. But if you listen to some
Speaker 1: of the stuff Jerry said, and he's just kind of
Speaker 1: hinted about it, and it sounds like it could be
Speaker 1: more rico. But let's assume for a second they carry
Speaker 1: for who can be that last guy he just said,
Speaker 1: Deancey Thompson or one receiver or some receiver. Deontay's only
Speaker 1: one other than Terrence. Yeah, that was gonna say, unless
Speaker 1: you want Terrence to be inactive, which wouldn't shock me. Again,
Speaker 1: I said, I don't think. I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think it was a coincidence that we didn't see him
Speaker 1: running with the first team a lot. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a coincidence that he's the guy that probably gives
Speaker 1: you the least amount of everything versatility for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's got the most experience. Would be fairly surprised
Speaker 1: if the only guy who's been here for any length
Speaker 1: of time is a single. He had a pretty good
Speaker 1: training camp, limited for how they Okay, yes, for for
Speaker 1: obviously he was injured and stuff. But when he did
Speaker 1: come back and the times that he was out there,
Speaker 1: he made it. You know, he took advantage of that time.
Speaker 1: And but but that's I guess that's the part that
Speaker 1: still was just kind of baffling to me. Did I
Speaker 1: agree with you? I think when he was out there,
Speaker 1: I saw him make a couple of catches. But the
Speaker 1: issue was he never was enough for him to consistently
Speaker 1: be working with the first team, even even after he
Speaker 1: got back and was healthy, and he just it seemed
Speaker 1: like they were using him a lot more with the
Speaker 1: second team than the first team. I feel like we
Speaker 1: have differing opinions on this, Like no, I just nobody
Speaker 1: in this receiver corps was like a staple with the
Speaker 1: first team, except for maybe Cole Beasley when he's healthy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like Alan Hearn spent a lot of time with the
Speaker 1: second team. Michael Gallup was all over. Michael Gallup was
Speaker 1: going with the threes twos. And did you remember seeing
Speaker 1: Williams a lot with the first team though, I guess
Speaker 1: that's the point. I didn't see him a lot with
Speaker 1: the first team. I know everybody was kind of working
Speaker 1: with I don't remember seeing him exclusively with the second
Speaker 1: team to the point where it made an impression on me,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, I literally I don't
Speaker 1: think they know what to expect from this receiver. Corps
Speaker 1: and Dak, Like, we talked to Dak about it yesterday
Speaker 1: and he basically was like, well, we'll see whoever's in
Speaker 1: there at the moment. Huh. Like that works, that's the
Speaker 1: fun of it. We're gonna We're gonna get some answers
Speaker 1: finally on Sunday. Hopefully they're good answers. Let's take it
Speaker 1: could be Dorance Armstrong. If you think about Tyrone Crawford
Speaker 1: being a tackle and an end, you could you could
Speaker 1: still only have now seven guys and I think you
Speaker 1: know a warm climate and the way they like to
Speaker 1: use their defensive lyon I think they want to be
Speaker 1: able to rotate those guys around. That's just rotate. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: never mind put him, yeah, let him play, Okay and kick,
Speaker 1: but okay, let's take our first break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into who will make the most impact
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Speaker 1: the break, All right, we're back. We try to figure
Speaker 1: out the enactors, but I guess we'll just have to
Speaker 1: wait and see until the game. Yet that's not true.
Speaker 1: We we're gonna like somebody we mentioned is gonna be
Speaker 1: inactive like we got it. Oh yeah, we'll get one
Speaker 1: for sure, but also wouldn't be shot if it's somebody
Speaker 1: else we didn't mention. They've surprised me before within it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we'll see, okay, especially this first game, second game,
Speaker 1: when you're trying they're trying to figure out, you know,
Speaker 1: what they're doing. So so it is expected to rain,
Speaker 1: and we saw how the rain affected last night's game,
Speaker 1: which was a night Mary. Hopefully that doesn't happen this
Speaker 1: weekend for our game. But as far as the rain goes,
Speaker 1: I know we discussed yesterday how maybe this was the
Speaker 1: one game where it would be best for Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: to throw passes down the field and kind of take
Speaker 1: advantage over the passing game rather than the running game
Speaker 1: a little bit because of the defense in over there.
Speaker 1: So how how much will this change this whole passing
Speaker 1: game when he comes out to rain and and Dad
Speaker 1: kind of commented talked about it yesterday a little bit,
Speaker 1: and that he has played in raining before. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: played in a freaking monsoon in DC last year that
Speaker 1: was gross, which, um, I don't know. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett loves to say you focus on yourself and
Speaker 1: don't let the outside elements dictate what you do. They were,
Speaker 1: which that's not one hundred percent true, because they were
Speaker 1: soaking the balls in water today at practice just to
Speaker 1: get a feel for what working with a wet football
Speaker 1: is like. But it's it's a fifty percent chance, Like
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not going to change up my stuff
Speaker 1: just because it might rain. I mean, if it does start,
Speaker 1: that's and that's what they did in Washington last year
Speaker 1: is like it just was relentless all through the second half,
Speaker 1: and they changed what they were doing they stopped asking
Speaker 1: Dak to be throwing these long balls down the field,
Speaker 1: and I think I think Zeke set a career high
Speaker 1: for carries in that game because they were just trying
Speaker 1: to get through it. Which if that's the case, then
Speaker 1: you've got a great running game you can lean on.
Speaker 1: But I'm not changing my game plan on Friday because
Speaker 1: I'm worried about what might happen on Sunday. And it's
Speaker 1: also a rare occurrence when you get to a game
Speaker 1: and it's just a consistent hard downpour the entire game.
Speaker 1: Right It's you know, if it's fifty percent chance you
Speaker 1: might get some rain at some point during the game,
Speaker 1: it might let up, it might be heavy. The one
Speaker 1: thing I've noticed about the NFL football, these guys are
Speaker 1: so skilled. A little bit of rain, I don't think
Speaker 1: affects the passing game, to be honest with you, a
Speaker 1: whole lot. I think when you start having those downpours, yeah,
Speaker 1: that could be very difficult to be able to work in.
Speaker 1: But it's rare that you have a game where you
Speaker 1: have a consistent hard downpour the entire game, So I
Speaker 1: think it'll be fine. I agree with Dave. You go in,
Speaker 1: you just do what you're gonna do, and if you
Speaker 1: have to adjust in game, you adjust in game. But
Speaker 1: I think for the most part, you just go in
Speaker 1: with your plan. I think the word adjust adjust, right.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest issue is going to be the
Speaker 1: kicking game and just and punning and the kicking and
Speaker 1: with you know, your new place kicker. And I think
Speaker 1: was that the first game that the new kicker, Mike Nugend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was kicking in that game too, and I think
Speaker 1: he he made most of him. He might have missed one.
Speaker 1: I think he went either went three out of four
Speaker 1: or four out of five first start there, but that
Speaker 1: probably goes down to red zone and not being able
Speaker 1: to really throw the ball in there. And and so
Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to that with kicking. So good luck.
Speaker 1: I mean, he already got pressure that you have to
Speaker 1: make every kick for the next two years, but now
Speaker 1: you got your first game is gonna be in the rain.
Speaker 1: He'll be fine. This is not setting up to be
Speaker 1: favorable for this young man. Just the whole way everything
Speaker 1: went down worries me. I don't want buy it, you know,
Speaker 1: because he's well, he's not fortunate in this regard. But
Speaker 1: in a weird way. He's fortunate in the sense that
Speaker 1: guess what if Dan Bailey sucked, Like he would get
Speaker 1: cut to like if he if he struggled and missed
Speaker 1: kicks early on, Like you're your margin for error is
Speaker 1: so him when you're a kicker in the NFL, Like
Speaker 1: this is a pressure packed job. Like if he's missing
Speaker 1: kicks and he didn't replace Dan Bailey, he's gonna get cut.
Speaker 1: The Bucks cut Roberto Oguyo, who they traded up for
Speaker 1: to get in the second round after like but he's
Speaker 1: but what I'm but point being like they sunk a
Speaker 1: lot of resources into him and he wasn't doing the job,
Speaker 1: and they're like, you're out. Sorry, he's horrible though he
Speaker 1: was like really really bad. If nothing like camp, you
Speaker 1: do not have job security as an NFL kicker, even
Speaker 1: if you're like one of the best ever. If Justin
Speaker 1: if Justin Tucker has only hit four out of ten
Speaker 1: in October, he might get a leash because how good
Speaker 1: he's been. But like it ain't gonna be that long.
Speaker 1: Think about Blair Walsh out in Minnesota fix nays Ago,
Speaker 1: like he was a really really one of the best
Speaker 1: in the league and then he had a year where
Speaker 1: he fell apart and guess what, the next year he
Speaker 1: was gone. That's what we always say, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we were all shocked by Dan getting cut,
Speaker 1: but i we've had conversations before or about typically when
Speaker 1: kickers lose it, they lose it, and you can go
Speaker 1: from being a pro bowler to unemployed not a long
Speaker 1: amount of time. And the fact that they and the
Speaker 1: reason why they did it, I mean I've kind of
Speaker 1: been still been asking about it is that they feel
Speaker 1: like they're kicker will struggle and they're gonna have a
Speaker 1: short leash, so might as well just cut Dan now
Speaker 1: instead of let him go in week one. He's on
Speaker 1: the team that three million dollars is guaranteed he struggles
Speaker 1: in week two or three and he's cut. I mean,
Speaker 1: they could cut this guy, could miss two kicks on Sunday,
Speaker 1: get cut. They signed Dan Bailey and then they save
Speaker 1: here in two and a half. So you're saying it
Speaker 1: still comes back to the fact that they didn't think
Speaker 1: they were getting a better kicker in Dan Bailey than
Speaker 1: what they're getting in Not really, and they feel like
Speaker 1: if they if he's gonna struggle then and you cut him,
Speaker 1: you're on the hook for three million. So I know
Speaker 1: that we talk about that with other players. I don't
Speaker 1: remember it being mentioned a lot with Dan. It makes
Speaker 1: a little bit more sense there. My only rebuttal to
Speaker 1: that is give him more opportunities in the preseason to
Speaker 1: help your own confidence and his confidence a little bit.
Speaker 1: Then you could have figured that out a little bit more,
Speaker 1: because right now they're just thinking he's gonna struggle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that that thinking, though, is based upon things they've
Speaker 1: probably seen. It's based upon what yeah, body language, maybe
Speaker 1: based upon that those couple of days there in practice
Speaker 1: where he just kind of fell off the wagon for
Speaker 1: a couple of days and then he got back on.
Speaker 1: But that probably went a long way with him too,
Speaker 1: saying hey, he might be great for the first three
Speaker 1: weeks and then he hits one of these kids again,
Speaker 1: and then we got two games where he's not playing,
Speaker 1: And you could say that's only a couple of days
Speaker 1: of practice and he was good. But it sounds like,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, we weren't really paying that much attention.
Speaker 1: It sounds like Maha did not even have those days. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he was pretty solid. Yeah, we didn't chart
Speaker 1: Maha the way we charted Dan, but he was at
Speaker 1: but next year, but he did not. He did not
Speaker 1: miss off and if at all, definitely, I mean I
Speaker 1: know that. And that's again for the millionth time, Like
Speaker 1: everybody that covers this team was very impressed by what
Speaker 1: Brett Maher did. We just didn't think it would lead
Speaker 1: to him getting a job. I thought it would lead
Speaker 1: him getting a job, just not just not here yet.
Speaker 1: I thought he was definitely gonna be on a team
Speaker 1: that's not come this week. But obviously he's on the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: all right? Oh sorry, just the nature of the position,
Speaker 1: like you loved or hated, no matter who you are,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter who that he's following Dan Bailey. Well, I
Speaker 1: wanted to move on to I wanted to get y'all's
Speaker 1: gut feeling later, y'all, y'alls got feeling later, But for
Speaker 1: right now. Who will make the most impact, the biggest
Speaker 1: impact in this specific game this weekend as far as
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, doesn't matter. Offense, defense, defense, offense, whatever you want.
Speaker 1: I mean, can we take the obvious off the table?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, I mean, Zeke's gonna make a
Speaker 1: big impact. Yeah, I'm gonna say Zeke GE's fine, No
Speaker 1: you can't. I'll go with Tavon Austin that I said
Speaker 1: that earlier and we did another round table. I guess,
Speaker 1: and I think I think Tavon Austin is going to
Speaker 1: be this really important what they do with him, not
Speaker 1: only for this game, but to set the tone for
Speaker 1: the for future games for the rest of this season. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, if they're gonna use him in a dynamic way,
Speaker 1: he's got to do something with the ball the first
Speaker 1: time he gets one of those jet sweeps and reverses,
Speaker 1: and you know, if he can get ten fifteen yards
Speaker 1: and just show that that's a that's a play that
Speaker 1: teams have to watch out for. It's only gonna help
Speaker 1: Zeke when they fake it. I think they're gonna fake
Speaker 1: the ball to Tavon more than they give it to him.
Speaker 1: But but still, you've got to be able to do
Speaker 1: something with him. He's this player I've been asking for
Speaker 1: for years. Let's do something with him. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: So I'll be looking at Tavon, I will say Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: because I think this is gonna be a week where
Speaker 1: we're gonna really test out what we think we've seen
Speaker 1: so far. He's got a running back. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: got a quarterback that's a mobile quarterback. He's got a
Speaker 1: running back that likes to run passes out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: He's got a tight end that's really good that he's
Speaker 1: gonna probably have to carry sometimes. All three of those
Speaker 1: things mixed together means this linebacker is gonna have to
Speaker 1: be really good if the Cowboys gonna ask success. We're
Speaker 1: gonna find out right now whether Jalen Smith can really
Speaker 1: play or not. And how good time, how long he's
Speaker 1: always long? He got there right, and so he's gonna
Speaker 1: he's gonna get tested this week in a lot of
Speaker 1: different ways. So that's the guy. I think if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have success, it will be because Jayala has a
Speaker 1: really good game. I hate myself for saying this because
Speaker 1: it's the opposite of what I like to do, but
Speaker 1: I'm pushing all my chips in on the table. Randy Gregory, Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have enough. That's how many I think.
Speaker 1: This is a banged up Carolina line. Khalil's out. You
Speaker 1: got Taylor Moten playing left tackle, DeMarcus Lawrence has earned
Speaker 1: the respect of being the guy that you scheme for.
Speaker 1: They're gonna chip him, They're gonna put people on his side.
Speaker 1: That's awesome because Randy Gregory should have a favorable one
Speaker 1: on one type of situation where he can drastically impact
Speaker 1: this game. And again, I mean, it's preseason, it's training camp.
Speaker 1: I get it, but the guy looked impressive and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna choose to believe that he can carry that into
Speaker 1: a game. And I'm excited to see if he can,
Speaker 1: because if he plays the way he did for the
Speaker 1: last month, the Panthers are gonna have nightmares about him
Speaker 1: for weeks. Do you hear what DeMarcus Lawrence said when
Speaker 1: they asked him at the injury issues that Panthers have it,
Speaker 1: he just said, not my problem. He actually said, he said,
Speaker 1: we're not going to cry for him. We'll pray for him,
Speaker 1: but we're not We're not we're for him. He has
Speaker 1: and you know what, what I like about what we're seeing.
Speaker 1: And he talked a little bit also about his contract
Speaker 1: and how what Levian Bell is doing and as the franchise.
Speaker 1: He said that there's different ways to go about it. Um,
Speaker 1: it didn't sound like you know, he thinks it'll ever
Speaker 1: get that part with them. But but in the meantime,
Speaker 1: he's showing some leadership skills that I think the Cowboys team,
Speaker 1: you know, team and organization needs to kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: keep an eye on. I mean, you know, he wants
Speaker 1: to kind of get these guys united. And then the nineties,
Speaker 1: the hot Boys, you know, he's calling them. But I
Speaker 1: think I think we're really seeing that he's not worried
Speaker 1: about while I'm on a one year deal, I'm out
Speaker 1: to do. I'm playing for me. I mean, he is
Speaker 1: like all of them, but I think he's playing from
Speaker 1: a team aspect, and I think if he has a
Speaker 1: good year, I think the Cowboys would be foolish to
Speaker 1: try to get any kind of, you know issue with him.
Speaker 1: He said, he signed the deal early. I'll sign it,
Speaker 1: I'll play for seventeen million. I ain't worried about it.
Speaker 1: I like his approach to this whole thing. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: and we talked about that the other day, Like I
Speaker 1: tend to side with players in those situations, Like I understand,
Speaker 1: you know, there aren't a lot of guarantees in this job.
Speaker 1: I would not have blamed DeMarcus if he had made
Speaker 1: an issue of it the way des did. And I
Speaker 1: didn't blame Dez for doing that, but it was just
Speaker 1: kind of refreshing the way he approached it. And this
Speaker 1: is the way. There was no drama about it. He
Speaker 1: was like, I'll sign it and I'll play. I'll get
Speaker 1: my money later. But I mean it was you know,
Speaker 1: he got hurt a little bit. He's done it some,
Speaker 1: he's been suspended at some then he has a blow
Speaker 1: up year. I mean, like it's hard for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: just to say we're gonna put all our money in
Speaker 1: on and do it a little bit again. Assuming assuming
Speaker 1: he's remotely productive this year. And I don't even mean
Speaker 1: matching or bettering what he did last year, but I
Speaker 1: would be kind of surprised if they don't try to
Speaker 1: get something done with him. I bet with less sacks.
Speaker 1: You know, I just think he could be better because
Speaker 1: then Gregory on the other side, these two guys are
Speaker 1: playing together. I mean, and another thing to watch out
Speaker 1: for is just I want to see what happens to
Speaker 1: the tackle spot, because naturally it'll force camto the pocket.
Speaker 1: These guys that got to hold their own. It's a
Speaker 1: big day, a big moment for Antoine Woods and Ross
Speaker 1: and Crawford. If he's in there and MALIEK. Collins has
Speaker 1: been banged up, I mean this all eyes on the
Speaker 1: tackle position. Yeah. I'm mentued to see how much they
Speaker 1: use Malik because I really think if they d said
Speaker 1: Rod said, fifteen to twenty snaps, that's not a whole lot. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean he just got back. I know. No, I
Speaker 1: wasn't saying it's wrong. I'm saying that's just not a lot.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of an impact. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: has a defensive tackle for fifteen twenty snaps. Maybe he does.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Crawford has got to play tackle them right, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. He is a tackle. This changes
Speaker 1: this position. He's playing tackle. He's That's why when you
Speaker 1: said maybe you could go without a defensive end, I
Speaker 1: was thinking, there's really no way to do that because
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to be having him back
Speaker 1: and forth. I think he's a tackle. Yeah, especially if
Speaker 1: consoling again fifteen Yeah, I think the only way he
Speaker 1: plays defensive end at this point is either in special
Speaker 1: packages or if it gets to a situation where they
Speaker 1: lose attack an end and they need him back at
Speaker 1: end and they can bring somebody up at tackle. Who
Speaker 1: would you go with? Who's your guy? Jay, Jay, Tay, Von, Randy,
Speaker 1: Randy And I'll tell you mine when we come back
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Speaker 1: to the break, all right, we are back. We went
Speaker 1: over the guys who all of us think will have
Speaker 1: the biggest impact in this weekend's game. I was gonna
Speaker 1: go with Connor Williams, which I'm hoping he doesn't have
Speaker 1: like a fallback, you know, and doesn't want to welcome
Speaker 1: to the NFL moment's type of thing. But I'm hoping
Speaker 1: he will be able to handle his job and not
Speaker 1: give any problems to Dak Prescott and let him especially
Speaker 1: if it does rain and all that. I think that
Speaker 1: that is the time or a weather condition where the
Speaker 1: quarterback should have a little