WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Have You Noticed? 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.480 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:19.639 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.400 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.720 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:32.080 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:39.400 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:44.040 It is Monday, July twenty six, two twenty one, Season sixteen, 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.280 episode number three. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:51.080 We're live from Oxnard, California. It is day five training 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.520 Camp twoy twenty one, presented by American Airlines. Got David 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.400 Nick here with me. We got a lot of topics 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.640 we want to hit today. We'll get to a new segment. Actually, 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.200 in the final portion of our show, I call it 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.200 I get around. Well, let's see how much these guys 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.200 get around here in the In the final segment, we 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.160 got some player names. They're gonna throw to them and 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.920 see how much they can tell us about that. Well, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.319 you do like that? Well, I mean probably one of 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.760 our new players. Maybe never mind, we'll see. We'll see 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.920 what names we gotta throw out for you guys. But 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.760 before we get started, Nick you said before the show 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.440 you had you had a little announcement you wanted to 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.000 miss one. You know, one of our listeners, a long 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:31.320 time listeners, My dad, Tim Meetman's his birthday. Awesome, happy birthday, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.760 Happy birthday to him, a whole life. It always happens 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:39.640 when I'm out of camp, so every people, I hope 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:45.600 he's listening, and uh, happy Bob Lily, Okay, all right, 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.240 he's getting up there. That hold on, let me see 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:51.040 if there's another player nobly Yeah, no, probably, you don't 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.240 have to think too hard about it. Very nice. Well, 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.520 happy birthday, miss you Eatman. Thank you for listening to 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.400 all these years. Doctor sorry doctor, Yeah, for listening for 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.560 all these years. Is because those might be our some 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.160 of our biggest and longest fans, Your dad, your mom, 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.560 my mom. Like, it's just like they've been listening for 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.320 a long long time and they and supporting us back 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.600 when we were like had two listeners or three listeners, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.440 the three of them pretty much. So they never think 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.400 we have a bad show. No, absolutely, I love that 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.720 show today. Yeah absolutely, Yeah. I talk to my parents. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.760 They don't listen. They're not in now they know you're 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.359 on the show. Yeah, actually they might not. I don't. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.799 I don't tell them my parents a whole lot that 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.440 might be on you. Ye, you're right, it might be 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.000 on me. All right, So let's jump in. We got 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.720 a lot we want to hit today. Cowboys are now 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.799 three practices in. They got ten more to go while 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.920 they're out here in Oxnard. Let's start the show, as 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.280 I like to do on training camp days, with one 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:45.480 observation from the previous practices. It can be a player 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.240 that you notice, It can be a moment that you notice. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.720 It could also be an interview that you were part of. 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.120 But give me one observation. Let's start with you. Dave. Well, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:53.760 let's just get it out of the way. I mean, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.560 it was Dalton Schultz day yesterday. My god, he was 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.800 the start of the show. For sure. He's Dax's security blanket. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.040 It's worth noting Blake Jarwin's not doing a ton, he's 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.519 still working his way back from ACL He's on a 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.120 rep count, so he wasn't part of the team portion 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.440 of practice. But Dalton Schultz was, and he he caught everything. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.240 He just well, he actually had a drop. He had 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.680 one drop, but I mean he must have had five big, 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.280 big catches in the in the two minute in the 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.200 third and fourth down work. He also had like a 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.880 like a one hander type of deal in the seven 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.840 on sevens that was really impressive. So just really really 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.400 good day from him and makes you, Yeah, it's encouraging. 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.120 I want to interject with a quick question of both 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.000 you guys, because if memories searched me correctly, I think 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.240 both of you were big believers that Blake Jarwin adds 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.720 something that you don't necessarily get from him. And I 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:46.640 don't know that I agree with that because I look 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.160 at days like yesterday, and I look at how he 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.480 performed last year. I don't know that he can't do 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.080 a lot of those things as well. Maybe he's not 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.160 as fast or as athletic as Jarwin, but for some reason, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.640 the guy gets open and he makes catches. Do you 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.000 guys still believe that Darwin is appreciably better in certain 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.360 areas of his game than what you can get from 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.480 Dalton Shawl. Yeah? I think so. And you got to 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.360 remember this is training camp is I mean, practice is 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.840 always this way this something's good, something's bad. So let's 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.839 not let's not forget that the one of the biggest 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.800 concerning parts of this team, which is the defense and 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.840 the secondary. So just because you're lighting up the secondary 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:24.880 doesn't mean well. But he did it last year in 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.120 season when he had sixty two sixty he did a 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:28.919 lot of it was was closer to the line of 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.960 scrimmage and so not as much of the yesterday was 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.080 encouraging to see him down the field. He needs to 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.400 do it more in games. But he told me after practice, 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.000 like I asked about it, of course, like you guys said, 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.040 he was like, well, I dropped the pass. That was 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.440 the focus, which is good. But he was also like, 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.560 we want to make it really hard on Kellen Moore 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.279 to go eleven and twelve personnel because we know he 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.560 said eleven personnel is outstanding. We got one of the 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.760 best eleven personnels. We want to make it tough on him. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.320 Me and Blake to say we need to call some 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.559 twelve personnels, which is basically saying him on the field 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.400 over than over, gallop over CD, so hard one one 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.240 of them is challenging. Yeah, and they they got to 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.000 be able to run block. If they're gonna do that, 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.320 that's what makes it, that's what makes it intriguing. Um, 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.840 I didn't I didn't come this far driving the jar 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.279 when bandwagon to hop off because Daltons I didn't expect 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.280 you had a good day. I mean, which I like 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.320 Dalton Schultz. It's a good day, a wonderful a wonderful year, 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.280 and a good day. Like they got two good tight ends. 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.640 I people pee. I always say that, like people look 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.400 for stress where there shouldn't be any. They're like, what 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.240 are we gonna do? I'm like, you have two good 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.520 tight ends? Who cares? Like? Why? Why is this a problem? 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.440 All right, let's move on, Nickel. Was your observation from yesterday, charltz, 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.680 But let me come up with something else. No, the uh, 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.320 good luck figuring out the receiver spot the end of it. 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.080 I mean, that's the games are gonna matter the most. 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.360 It's funny we watch all these practices where we're gonna 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.800 see a lot and we're gonna have our idea, and 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:51.760 all it takes is like one guy say that. I 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.320 think I say this point every year. But like you know, 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.080 I can't think of one of the receivers that isn't 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.360 making a lot of plays right now, but that guy 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:04.680 comes out and has four catches. I mean, yeah, so 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:12.800 the Malik Turner and um Cyrus Mitchell, Well, I don't 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:18.920 love Noah Yeah, Brandon Smith, the Iowa kid. But what's 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.880 funny is, and I'm not picking on the guy, but 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.760 I would say of the young guys, your Texas guy 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.840 Brennan Eagles has probably I haven't noticed him, and just 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.160 but the no but like the way this goes is 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.080 he's going to be the one that catches four balls 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.000 for four yards. Yeah, when they get to Canton, he's 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.640 going to be the one that has a great night. Right. 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.680 But is this all kind of a moot point? Just 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.719 because I feel very certain in the fact that, barring injury, 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.480 the first five spots are taken. I don't wonder about that. 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.120 I think the first four four. I think because because 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.400 of what Cedric Wilson offers on special teams, I think 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.440 the first four. Do you think Noah Brown is at risk? 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.880 So two million dollars, I like, I've been on the 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.000 Noah Brown train forever. I've I defended him when everybody 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:05.760 wanted to cut him back when he was just the 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.520 guy that they strangely decided to throw two in the 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.760 red zone during games. So I love having you guys together. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.320 You barely agree. But to Nick's point, he's on a 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.000 two million dollar contract, and Stephen Jones won't. He loves 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.360 talking about how cash strapped they are and how they 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.040 He basically throughout the spring was like, we would love 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.120 to fire some of these expensive guys. I mean, he 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.520 basically said that. So I think Noel Brown is one 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.520 of the four best receivers on this team. But if 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.800 one of these young guys, if they prove that they 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.120 can do it at a fraction of the cost, that's 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.360 part of team building. One thing I know is I've 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.440 seen Noah Brown catch a significant number of balls out here, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.600 particularly from four, and that suggests to me that that 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.560 I would I would think that he's gonna have at 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.960 least some say we in who these receivers are that 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.320 are going to be catching piece And that I love. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.800 That's a team building is so much fun because you like, 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.840 the front office is like, Cyrus Mitchell can do this 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.040 for six hundred thousand dollars, why are we paying Noah 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.360 Brown two million? And then the head coach and the 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.760 quarterback are like, because we have years of rapport with 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:09.400 this guy and he does this and he does that, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:10.920 what the hell are you talking about? And he's not 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:12.680 a bad player. It's not a situation where he's a 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.520 bad player and Noah is off to an outstanding start. 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.760 I'm not trying to dog him at all. It's just 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.080 these are the realities of putting the roster together. You 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.920 think there's a chance they might consider six here, I 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.680 think that's our mail bag today. I give it away. Then, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.680 well read it on Dallas cout was that come? I 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.480 think six is almost a foregone conclusion in my film, 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.679 especially when you when you factor in, I mean that 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:38.080 fifth round pick usually has every chance to make the team. 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.880 They're not gonna just give up on a fifth round 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.360 pick unless he's just hero. You didn't even mention him. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.199 He's been good. It's been pretty good. H and so 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.160 that's something to to watch. And so yeah, he's That's 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.800 why I think six is on the table here. Well, 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:56.439 you hit the nail and hit earlier when you see 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.240 it that ultimately it's going to come down who plays 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.240 special teams. Well that's how you get that fifth and 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.880 that's fifth and six spots will be all about special teams. 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:05.599 So we'll see how that all pans out once we 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.439 get to the preseason games. Let's move on. Give me 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.240 a status update on Malik Hooker, the free agent that 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.760 the Cowboys have been rumored to be very interested in 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:18.839 signing at some point. So he, as far as I'm aware, 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.400 he's quarantined, like he's still testing. He's not done. I 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.559 think he can get out of that tomorrow. It's probably 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.599 about right. I think this is the fourth day. So 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.480 and so, you know, I felt stupid yesterday. I asked 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.520 Mike McCarthy, like, how does he look? What do you 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.559 all think? And he was like, we haven't seen him yet. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.000 He's still in the protocol So that's that's just that. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.439 Come on, how does he look? Whenever you decided to 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.839 bring him in? Like, you guys know something? You know 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.000 that was give me something. That's what I was kind 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:48.599 of trying to get at, is like, you know, you 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.280 saw him in April or March. You clearly liked him 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.160 enough to bring him back. You must have an idea 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.160 that he's doing better. Which so they worked somebody out 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.040 yesterday and I thought it might be Malie Cooker, but 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.679 clearly not because of the protocols. It was this new guy, 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:07.840 Chirroon Brown, who they signed while we were at practice yesterday. Chiron, Chiron, 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.960 what's that it's a Chiron machine. It's a oh yeah, yeah, 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.360 Christ knows, I'm talking about the most specialized thing in 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.400 the world. Like you got it. There was only six feet. 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.400 I've had way more conversations about the Chiron than I 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.880 choose to. But go ahead, move on. Um So, but 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.560 you know, he said, there's definitely interest. They clearly see 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.280 something they like. I would expect he's going to join 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.319 the team here when he does clear protocols, So keep 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.079 an eye on that as this week goes along. That 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.240 means that means I gotta cut someone if yeah, if 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.959 they sign him, they do. Um. Which, so you know, 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.480 William and I thought we saw the guy yesterday. Really well, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.439 we we some somebody's walking through the park alone was 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.560 a big bag. Anytime you see a big bag walking 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.640 with a big bag, Yeah, we've seen it. I mean 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.040 we've seen all way up at the top, first two years, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:52.599 first few years we were at us and are the 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.320 starting quarterback cut got cut in the middle of camp, 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.200 starting quarterback. We saw banks walking through here, we saw 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.559 a Quincy Carter, Chris Beams laying and the bush is 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:06.599 getting the odds of the video for Yeah. Um, so 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.640 we saw a guy last night long dreads. It's like, 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.839 I'm a big bag, Like and uh, it wasn't Um. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.840 It was Jalen Smith. He's probably going, he was going. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.800 It was probably going out for him. Yeah, yeahs a bag. 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:22.960 It was big bag. But you know it happens people 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.079 because people pack a couple of bags. They don't have 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.200 the little bags and all that. He's do have one 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.599 or two bags and so but for a second we 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.880 were like, I didn't know it was him. I didn't. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.760 Of course Williams sitting over here. William knows every person 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.400 on the team. You know what he looks like. You know, 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.400 he can go buy their shoes and all their by 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.240 their braids all that. But it was day off. But 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.240 I'm just saying, they got to cut somebody. It's not 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.440 going to be a starting linebacker. So I got Brown, 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.920 no doubt. Brown, I assume is filling in for the 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.319 fact that they cut Richard Robinson right before UM, right 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.000 before training camp. He signed a two year deal, but 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.400 I found out none of the money's guaranteed, So I 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.120 think that's just a that's interesting for a two year deal. Well, 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.840 I think my educated guess is maybe you know, if 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.679 this guy sticks, that way, they don't have to deal 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.839 with him being a restricted free agent or anything like that. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.040 But they are like, there's no obligation to keep him whatsoever, 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:15.760 Like it's a two year deal. But trying to think 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:17.959 whatever the years ago as a guy that they signed 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.360 like that just out of the blue and it was 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.960 a two year deal and it was like what I want, 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.360 I want to say it was Antoine Woods. They're like, 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.160 not only did they get him, but they got him, 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.440 you know, for that sounds familiar, kind of lock him 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.520 up for a little bit. So I think it's it's 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.800 just a negotiating thing if if he turns out to 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.400 be good, but so he can replace for Shard and 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.360 then you know, the Jets have so many corners over there, 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.120 they couldn't keep all of them. Yeah, I don't, I 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.120 don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.880 understand that. Sometimes you got like that, like hes not 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.080 good enough to make the Bengals or the Jets or whatever, 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.400 but you just need a body to get through camp 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.080 Man real quick. Jerry Jones did also give it up 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.880 date yesterday on a couple of the veteran guys that 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.720 have not yet practice. They've been on the populist Marcus 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.920 Lawrence and Mary Cooper. What are we hearing about when 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.760 we can expect to maybe see them either on a 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.960 practice field or on a game field, which is coming 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.640 up here, So that's kind of vague. Yeah, mid August, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:18.680 mid August Metroplex, Dallas, Dallas, Fort Worth, Frisco, Texas Ford Center. Yeah, 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.240 that's when, because he said after he said after the air, 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:26.600 no California tank, no Ohio tank, no Arizona. Thank good. 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.240 You know, honestly, I'm very I'm questioning whether we'll see 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.080 a lot of these, even the ones that are practicing 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:36.720 right now, we'll see them in a bad tank, right, Like, well, 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.240 we'll see when we get a look closer to the 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.000 regular season when it comes to games. You know what 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.640 I needed. We can have an empty tank here for 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:44.240 a while, you know, we don't have to fill this 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.400 one all the way in. Yeah, we went on in 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.400 I'm not ever gonna be mad about Pro bowlers not 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.079 playing in the preseason ever. Yeah, I'm kind of coming 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.800 around on your way of thinking as well. On that 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.319 is that when was sure was yeah, you don't you 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.400 know practice remember that, Remember when Dak got hurt and 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.560 like just it took you thirty minutes to even realize 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.520 what was going on, because just because it sucked so much, 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.679 having that happened when the game doesn't even matter, it's 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.280 even worse. Yeah, it's just the worst feeling in the world. 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.040 So no, thanks, All right, we're going to We're gonna 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.640 take our first break when we come back. I want 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.720 to jump into a conversation Jerry and Mike McCarthy, both 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.040 in press conferences over the last few days, have talked 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:28.680 about how they can get back to a better, better 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.960 performance than what they had last season, and really even 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.240 historically as they've performed over the last several years, some 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.080 people say last twenty six years. But I want to 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.560 talk a little bit about that. There's some questions I 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.040 have for you guys with regards to some of the 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.600 players that are on this team and how optimism they 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.920 provide you as to the fact that the Cowboys can 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.040 get back to that level of success. We'll talk about 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:50.600 that when we come right back. 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Welcome back to 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.920 the second segment of the Breaklife, Oxnard, California, and we're 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.200 talking Cowboys football for forty five minutes here on the set, 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.480 got Dave and Nick with me, and let's talk a 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.520 little bit about the the success of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.000 There were a lot of questions during the opening press conference, 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.160 have been some since then to Jerry and Mike McCarthy 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.840 about how this team gets back to just being good 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.240 because last year they weren't, or even getting back to 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:40.960 the point where they were in the nineties where they 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.760 actually were a Super Bowl contending team. So I have 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:45.720 a list of questions here. I'm gonna ask you guys 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.560 about some of the facets of this team and what 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.240 they mean to maybe the overall success. Let's start with 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.400 the first one, which is more important to them being 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.800 better this year than last year. The return of Dak 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.399 or the return of time and Smith and Lyle Collins 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.280 and you gotta give me one. You can't just say both. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.199 You gotta give me one. Which way do you go? Dave, 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.480 Dak and and you and you're not wrong, but like 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.879 you've been big on that train that the tackles are 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.120 so important than they are. But like a quarterback, always quarterback, 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:18.560 it's tack Yeah, i'd say quarterback there. I mean, if 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.280 you're gonna, if you're gonna combine the tackles, I mean, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:25.359 that's that's big there. I mean it's two tackles. But 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.200 because you didn't have either one of them last, you'd 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.600 rather play seventeen games with Dak Prescott and your backup 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:35.399 tackles and Zey and and Terrence h. Eric Gilbert, whoever 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.760 you want to put out it right? Yeah, ipect I 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:39.800 was even I was gonna give you Andy Dalton, but 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.280 just just to be nice, but you don't have them anymore. 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:47.320 So seventeen games of Dak with mediocre tackles or seventeen 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.879 games of Garrett Gilbert with good ones. I would rather 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.520 play Andy Dalton than the two starting tackles. Yea, yeah, 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:57.440 I was as you were saying, no, I no, no, 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:59.959 I would give me, yes, give me Dak. I mean 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.960 we saw we saw Dak without the tackles in Seattle 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.800 and they scored thirty one points and we're winging it 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.520 all over the yard like d's the result. They Okay, 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:11.920 they lost. It's a hard league, but I'm saying, though, 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.240 it's I don't know if I know Dak is great, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.359 and I believe that Dak is really a great quarterback. 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.000 We've had that conversation. You compare him to the rest 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:19.440 of the league. I think he is a top five 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.600 quarterback in this league. The problem still remains, if you 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.560 cannot protect your quarterback, then yes, he could still put 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:27.439 up some big numbers, but at the end of the day, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.359 I don't know if it's enough to be able to 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.240 win in the NFL consistently. And I'm sorry, Derek, but 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:33.960 have you ever gone out to dinner with me and 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.479