WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Safe to Assume? 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.480 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:19.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Lets go. Are you 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.400 ready for 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. 0:00:27.920 --> 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. 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.440 It is Saturday, July twenty fourth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.240 episode number two. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.800 We're live from Mockingtonnard, California. It is day three of 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.200 training camp two thousand twenty one that is presented by 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.840 American Airlines, and I'm here with Dave and Nick. We're 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.440 talking Cowboys football, you guys for the next forty five minutes. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.480 Today will be the Cowboys' third practice that'll start at 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:13.319 eleven am Pacific time. I'm sorry, second practice. But you know, 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:17.600 it was interesting because yesterday Mike McCarthy talked about kind 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.640 of his rationale there and he said it's the first 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.600 time he's ever given a day of rest after only 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.479 one practice. But after kind of seeing how the team 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.080 was kind of responding to it, he said he'll probably 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.400 stick with that going forward. What'd you guess see, is 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.479 he gonna have a choice? I mean, is that his choice? 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:38.360 I think how he how he arranges it, I think 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.399 is his choice. Yeah, I don't think they'd tell. By 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.319 Kellen Moore talking and him talking that, you know they're 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.080 they're being careful with their words because they know this 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.600 is an NFLPA type thing. But I mean they don't 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.240 love it, uh that, you know, it's just stop start, 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.840 stop start. It's gonna be like that Olive Camp as well. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.480 But um, but you gotta be smart on you know 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.400 what the off day is. It's not a proud but 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.400 it's not necessarily off date. They're still doing something. I 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.280 did think Mike and I agree with that. But I 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.800 thought Mike made an interesting point that I don't know 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.120 that I'd ever considered. But like, there's a lot of 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:15.079 anxiety that goes into this. Maybe not for your stars 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.800 and the guys that have done this a million times, 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.280 but a lot of the guys on the roster don't 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.000 fit that description. You're fighting for a job, fighting for 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.519 a roster spot. A lot of them never been in 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.239 the NFL before, totally get that. So maybe it's maybe 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:28.800 it's a good thing to you know, you get your 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.359 practice under you, you catch your breath and say, all right, 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.880 I'm here situated in my hotel room. I've been on 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.400 the field, I got this, I know where the meeting 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.160 rooms are, and now we can go. Having said that, 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.480 it is going to be kind of herky jerky because 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.320 I think we do we do two in a row 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.680 this weekend, and then they're off again. It's so it's 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.120 it is not what it used to be. But that's well, 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:52.359 probably a good thing. For what's the difference between the 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:57.280 NBA and Major League Baseball and the NFL regular season games. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.960 I mean it's the fact that there's a bunch of them, 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.239 you know, and the NFL is like there's only a few, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.240 and a couple can change your whole season. I think 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.360 the same can be said with practice. There's only a 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.839 few of these practice. There's thirteen practices. You get four 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.639 preseason games, so the seventeen eighteen times you're gonna get 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.520 a chance to go out there and put something on tape. 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.320 I mean that means everything. This isn't just a throwaway practice. 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.280 Every rep, every play is a big deal, especially like 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.880 Dave's talking about those younger guys, Yeah, and building them 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.160 up a little bit to get them prepared for a 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.600 long season. There actually is a method to this if 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.560 you look at how they arrange these schedules in these 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.720 off days. You have one practice, then you have an 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:34.640 off day, then you have two practices, then you have 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.680 an off day, then you have three practices, then you 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.080 have an off day. It's almost as though they're kind 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.520 of building them into the repetitive motion of getting their 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.440 bodies back ready to be able to compete at a 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.520 high level on a day to day basis. And that's 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:47.880 not a bad thing, Dave, You and I were talking 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.280 before the show started about running. It's the same thing. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.040 When you're building your body up. The worst thing you 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:54.800 can do is just jump right in and go all 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.160 in for you know, seven days in a row. You 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.280 kind of want to build yourself back into it to 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.640 get yourself ready. And that's my slow ass jogging down 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.480 the street, not playing NFL football any way, either way, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.920 the concept if I can ruin my body doing that, 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.200 then I yeah, then they need to be as careful 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:12.920 as possible, right, all right, So they did have the 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.200 first year of practice, uh, and I wanted to to 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.360 give some some opportunity for you guys to give some 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.600 impressions from what you saw. If there was a particular 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:25.920 player or moment that stood out to you good or bad. Well, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:30.080 I thought, Um, there was a couple of drills, especially 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.960 the seven on seven. I thought that the cornerbacks were 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.480 very active with their hands. I felt like a lot 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.640 of the balls were getting ripped out, poked out, knocked away, 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.400 some even intercepted in bounds or out of bounds. But um, 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.320 as Trayvon and Dak and and that and by the way, 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.360 that's gonna be a good one. I mean, I think 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.440 it has a chance to really be a guy that 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.520 that could he could be a star in the making 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.120 because he's just so competitive. He got to remember he's 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.720 been chasing his older brother's whole life, you know, which 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.640 which everyone in the league is trying to do two 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.400 and so that's you know, I think helped him here. 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.919 But I thought it was a nay Sean Wright, Anthony Brown. Um, 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.200 there's maybe a couple other corners. I thought Jordan Lewis 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:12.560 had a nice place. It was just all like in 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.400 a seven or eight play spam. It was every play 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.960 was like defensive back ripping the ball out making a 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.279 nice play. So, um, that was one and one. I 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:25.040 thought the defense was better than the offense in some 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.119 of those drills there. Do you hear what dan Quinn? 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.359 Did you catch what he said about Treyvon Diggs yesterday? 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.880 I really enjoyed it. He said. He was like when 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.160 he catches the ball, you don't hear it? Yeah, he's natural, 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.760 Like he's not fighting it, he's not making a big 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.599 production out of its just and I just thought back 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.520 a receiver. Yeah, I thought that was fun. Um all, 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.560 dan Quinn's not going to get him the mic enough 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.880 for real. Love his press conference, for real, love his 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.920 press conferences. Learned something interesting. I love his press Connerce. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.679 You never see anyone just naturally throw in cuss words. 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.960 My son is working on that, but but I kind 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.800 of but yeah, but I mean, he just naturally throws 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.800 at these cuss words. It's yeah, it's it's it's awesome. Yeah, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.320 it's good. He's really good. Um. It's easy to focus 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:12.640 on him because of who he is. But I'm having 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.479 a hard time not getting excited about Micah Parsons. And 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.880 I say that as I'm gonna keep saying it. I 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.000 would have picked for Sean Slater. I was not one 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.440 hundred percent on board with the pick. So I'm not 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.880 the Micah Parsons fan club leader here trying to tell 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.960 y'all to be excited about this guy. But it's hard 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.960 not to watch him and get excited. Man like they're doing. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:35.919 They're doing a lot of stuff with him. Mike McCarthy 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.359 said yesterday they probably did too much with him because 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.200 they're probably excited too. He's lining up in a lot 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.560 of different places. Um, you know, there was a video 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.360 on Twitter, y apps and it's not it's unpadded. Gotta 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.080 remember that. I get it. But he zipped right around 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.599 Lyle Collins on a rep on a rep in in 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:57.120 like the individual, just fundamental stuff. His closing speed is 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.599 so impressive again, you know, not even tackling people, but 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.719 just his angles and the quickness with which he gets 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.200 to the ball. I cannot wait to see him and 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.000 actually play football because he's not doing that yet, Like 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.920 he hasn't worn a pad yet. I can't wait to 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.040 see what it looks like when he does well. And 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:17.520 I think that naturally he's only gonna push the guys 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.200 around him. And I think Keyan O'Neill is doing it too. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.840 That guy is he had a big play. If if 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:29.840 Layton vander esh in Jalen Smith don't step up their 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.800 games just because of it, then then they're not suited 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.160 for this team and probably even this league. And I 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.200 think that they will. They have this is contract hears 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.119 for both of them. Say what you wanted about Jaylen Smith. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:41.800 I think we all know it's contract here for him, 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.360 Keyan O'Neill as well. Michael Parson is the only one 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.320 that's got a little bit of you know, he's gonna 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.480 be here for a while obviously, but still he's a 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.440 rookie and he's jumping at the bit. So I think 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.680 all of those guys pushing each other, jib coxle jump 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.760 into the mix here. I mean, this has a chance 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:00.440 to really be a great unit, and I'm hoping Jalen 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.640 Smith and Layton vandersch kind of rise to the occasion. 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:05.840 I think that they will. One guy I'll throw out 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.320 there that I noticed, and I wasn't even looking for him, 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.280 but noticed him quite a few times, was Randy Gregory. 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.840 I was actually looking at the offensive tackles because I 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:15.560 really wanted to see how they look coming back again, 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.320 not in past, just wanted to see how they're moving. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.000 I was looking at Lyle Collins, Sum, was looking at 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.480 Tyren Smith Sum, and ironically, on some of those plays 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.560 I was watching them, Randy Gregory swiped right around them. 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.320 And I go back to you dan Quinn's press conversation, 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.080 and he talked about his rare ability to bend and 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.400 it makes it tougher for those bigger tackles to be 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.080 able to get a hand on him because he can 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.000 get around that edge and bend in a way to 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.000 where it makes it very tough for them to get 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.199 to him. And even the day before, we've been hearing 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.280 all these reports about you know, Randy even had the 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.360 statement about how he felt like last year he kind 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.800 of got looked over a little bit. Dan Quinn doesn't 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.880 seem like that's gonna happen. Seems like he's all in 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.400 on figuring out how much and how to effectively use 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.040 Randy Gregor, and it's excited about using him this year. Yeah, 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:00.840 we got a chance to tell to Randy he was 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.520 going to to the front to get some pizza. You know, 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.160 he's not the only person that sometimes decides to get 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.960 his own food and not not the food here provided, 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:13.760 but how dare you? But he was talking about Dan Quinn. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.800 Randy was and he was said, that's my guy, you know, 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:18.600 and it's like we've been here for a little bit. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.000 He's up, but that's my guy, he said, because he said, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.120 he is the perfect coach for what you want. He 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.199 gives you praise, he will get right in your face. 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.240 I don't think he said face, but he said, you know, 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.160 he'll he'll tell you, you know, when you have to 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.679 because that's exactly what you want. Because players want that. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.880 They want that as long as it's if it's justified. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.440 You could see it. He's like, they want they want that, 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.720 and you know, he said, he has a perfect compliment 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.400 mix of that of being able to, you know, be 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.240 your guy, be on it, you know, your side. But 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.120 at the same time, like look at this, this was 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:56.520 you know horse figured out. Dan would have just said it. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.719 He said it three or four times. Yeah, I don't 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.800 even said it is such a nice way, right, he 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.880 just says in a way where you're like, oh, that's okay, 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.560 it's not really a bad word. The way you say 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.120 this rolls off all right. I didn't want to talk 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.400 a little bit about some news. Yesterday we started hearing 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.880 reports that Malie Cookers possibly being flirted with as a 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:20.240 possibility to come in here safety. Um talking about what 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.160 we know at this point, maybe we know nothing, but 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.280 what we know at this point and if if he 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.240 is coming in, what is how can he help on 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.959 this team? Well, we knew there was interest. I mean, 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:31.560 this isn't the first time they've talked to him. They 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.560 brought him in March at the same time they brought 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:38.240 in Demante Casey and they they signed Casey, and from 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.080 the sounds of it, they wanted to see a little 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.400 bit more from Hooker and his rehab. Maybe he wasn't 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.200 as far along, so they're bringing him in. It's not 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.600 a done deal, but it sounds like as long as 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.400 the medical checks out, it will be. Um. I'm in 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:53.960 favor of it. I don't have a problem with it. 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.400 It's we talked about this yesterday. The timing is just 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.680 kind of weird to me, Like I I guess maybe 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.280 maybe if they just weren't sold on his achilles and 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.520 they just they wanted to see it progress a little 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.840 bit more, maybe that makes sense. But you know, they 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.280 had a long time to sign him, and we like, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.360 we haven't been at camp long enough for them to 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.600 know they've had one practice. Like, I doubt they just 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.840 decided like, oh these guys suck. We gotta get somebody else, 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.440 you know. So it's just interesting in that regard that 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.280 you know, they could have done this two weeks ago 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.680 before they flew out here. But again, I'm not questioning 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.240 it because I think it's a good idea. It's just 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.360 weird timing to me. Well, yeah, and you know he's 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.080 got to pass five tests, you know, So that's another 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.199 part of why. You know, maybe they could have done 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.200 this a little bit earlier, because that means he's gonna 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.000 miss some time. So if they're gonna do it, they're 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.320 better do it and start that clock. And I'm not 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.240 sure that they haven't already. I'm not sure if it's 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.000 five tests after you sign or just five tests since 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.440 you get here, five in a row. I don't I 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.480 don't know. I don't know the whole deal with that. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.600 I do know this, The fans like what they see 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.280 and have seen out of Donna and Wilson. Uh. He 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.679 makes plays. He's made play since he pretty since he 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.240 got here. Yeah. Yeah, Um, they like him more than 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.800 the coaches due is my opinion. I'm not saying the 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.840 coaches don't like him, yeah, but they are not sold 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.720 with him. I think. I think there's coverage issues there 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.079 in the back end. I don't want to compare him 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.280 to Roy Williams, but I think it can be that 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.720 sometimes when you see big hits, you see big plays 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.760 from the safety position. And another thing, Dan Quinn he 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.760 really did a nice job of talking about because even 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.120 how important that position is with communication and all that, 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.120 not knocking Donovan Wilson, I just don't think the Cowboys 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.199 are as comfortable with him making plays on the back 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.560 end as as some of the I think I think 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:46.760 the average fan has Donovan's name written in sharpie and 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.760 the coaching staff is like, yeah, pencil maybe, yeah, maybe, 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.760 But it isn'test because Donovan Wilson to me is he's 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.959 the box guy. I mean, he's for strong safety. He's 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.240 the thumper. He's not a coverage guy. That's not his game. 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.120 Hook Hooker's of pretty safety. Hooker's coverage all the way, 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.080 that's his thing. He was a ball hawk in college. 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.320 That's what got him drafted so high. And Casey too, 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.280 like Casey doesn't have the frame to play in the box, can't. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:12.960 I'm not I think I said this in the spring. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.680 I'm not exaggerating. Demante Casey is not that much taller 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:21.000 than me, Like he's not big by NFL standards. Um, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.880 So that's it's interesting because I you know, I don't 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.280 think Malie Hooker is competition for Donovan Wilson because I 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.400 just think their roles are a lot different. So if 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:33.200 he does signum, that's it's just interesting because I think 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.800 you've probably got a competition between Casey and Hooker to 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.000 see who's gonna be that free guy. And that's the 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.640 part that also can like I'm wondering about because again, 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.440 this is a this is a team that we expects 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.480 going to play a lot of Cover three, a lot 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.400 of single safety high. The expectation is that they're gonna 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.800 legitimately have a guy that stays back and I gut 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.840 us up closer to the box. And my thought was, 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.080 Demonte Casey is their guy, Like they brought him in 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.880 for purpose, and since he's gotten here, he's certainly from 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.360 our expectations. I think we've all talked about how he's 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.680 exceeded that. Just the fact that he's actually on the 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.680 field and to come back from that injury that quickly 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.760 and be out there playing. The expectation is okay. They're 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.160 getting what they kind of wanted, so to bring in 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.640 another guy makes you makes you question just a little bit, right, Although, well, 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.680 like I said, I think the timing's weird. You know, 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.720 they could have done this anytime between March and before 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.640 they got out here. But I don't want to talk 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.600 out of both sides of my mouth because, like I said, 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:28.960 I think this is a good thing, because this is 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.200 a debate that we have with the fans every summer 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.920 where they're like, why don't you go get Hooker And 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.040 we're like, well they have Casey and it's like, is 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.960 demonte CAZy good? And like you're just like, we solved 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.440 our problems, We're good to go. No, and Malie Cooker 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:45.880 shouldn't break the bank to the point where you can't 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.640 get both, so throw them both out there and see 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.200 what you got. So I think I think the timing 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.880 is weird, but I very much appreciate that the Cowboys 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.480 were like, yeah, why not just go get a former 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.240 first round pick and see if he's better than what 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:00.680 we got. I think it's it's a great idea. I 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.760 think the safety position is one where they are completely 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.320 throwing stuff at the wall and looking at what sticks. 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.600 At this point they should which that's all they can 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.160 do with this. If you're not going to draft one, 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:14.600 you might as well do what you can sneakinning. Is 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.920 it is it is. It's Will McClay one, O one, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.560 you know, first round pick who can be had on 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.640 the chief, who maybe you can help him revitalize his career. 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.680 We'll see what happens. All right, we're gonna if he signs. 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.200 I guess we don't even that's gonna happen. We're gonna 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.360 take our first break. When we come back, we're gonna 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.440 talk about the coordinators. They all spoke to the media yesterday, 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.400 Kellen Moore, Dan Quinn, and John Fossil. There was some 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.280 interesting things that each of them said that we'll go through. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:40.560 We'll talk about that when we come back. This is 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.800 Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 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Yesterday, Kellen Moore, 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.480 Dan Quinn, and John Fossil took their turns with the 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:19.840 media to discuss varying various topics. So we're gonna go 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:21.600 through here a few things I heard from each of 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.600 them that I wanted to get your your thoughts on. 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.399 Kelln Moore talked about Dak. He was asked the question 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:31.639 about Dak rushing after the injury, and his response was, 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.399 it would be foolish of us to take that away 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.320 from him. You guys agree with that or disagree? Or 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.600 do you think that maybe they should at least consider 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.480 the possibility of altering how they use him, maybe less 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.719 called runs, or do you think, yeah, you stick with 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.159 what it is. It's football. The chance of injury is 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.280 always there. You gotta keep doing what you do. What 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:52.000 you just said, Yeah, it's football, and it is a 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.879 crucial element of Dak's game. He's never gonna be Lamar 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.560 Jackson running for eight hundred eleven hundred yards a year, 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.280 but he needs that, and I you know, I think 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.840 the status I mean, he's he's among if not the 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.080 league leader in like red zone touchdowns as a quarterback. 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:09.040 I mean, he just brings an element that opens things up. 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.240 Not to mention his ability to scramble and make plays 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.080 on the move. I mean half or more of the 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.400 best plays of his career, or when something broke down 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.679 and he scrambled and made something happen. He I mean, 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.800 he's just got a knack for it. Not to mention 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.320 he I mean what this is, He's played five years 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.199 of pro ball. He was a three year starter at 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.680 Mississippi State, carrying that offense on his back, carrying the 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.960 ball five hundred times a year for them, and never 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:36.440 got seriously hurt. So no, I wouldn't change anything about 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:40.159