WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Kicking Off Week 1 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:04.960 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:16.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.080 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World head hours at 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:31.800 the Star in Price Joe. Here are Nicky Spagnola, Brian Bruns, 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:37.479 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. Welcome to the two thousand 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:43.160 and eighteen National Football League season. It is finally here. 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.120 Labor Day weekend is over with, and it's week number 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.720 one in the NFL. We are two days away from 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.320 the first game of this NFL season and welcome to 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.680 Talking Cowboys. Do we ever have a lot to get 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.120 to over the course of the next hour. Here kicking 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:02.000 off our Cowboys programming here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com, 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.880 Bill Jones with Brian brought Us and Rob Phillips. Mickey 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.360 Spagnola is out today and uh yeah, you're ready for 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:12.560 some football this week? Yeah? I feel like that. You know, 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.640 once the college game started kicking off and I was like, okay, 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.679 then you know the NFL season usually is right behind that, 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.440 So yeah, I am ready. I think that when you 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.959 look at training camps, when you look at how we 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.440 got through that you look through the roster, the makeup 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.200 of the roster, the waiver wire, all that stuff that 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.680 you've had to do here the last that's really kind 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.199 of where it's when I sat down and said, Okay, 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.480 I gotta start watching film the Carolina Panthers today. That's 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.840 when it hits, right. It's Panthers week. So yeah, I 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:47.680 get to watch Luke Keiklee and Cam Newton and Dj Moore, 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.360 some of these guys I like to watch play football. 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.520 It's time for your matchups on the website. It's been 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.640 a while. Yeah, it's been a while. It's been a while. Yeah, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.800 look forward to look forward to kind of talking about it, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.040 and you know, looking forward to getting the season starting. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.160 And that's that's the exciting thing. I think opening days 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.960 are always great, whether you know baseball, football, whatever it is. 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:10.840 I'm a horse racing horse. Sure, I'll tell you. It's funny. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.080 I tell a real quick horses. Sure. I had a 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.760 buddy at del Mar yesterday. And maybe I'm not supposed 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:21.440 to say this because it's gambling. Horse racing is okay, right, yeah, okay, okay. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.360 I can't bet on games. I can't bet on like 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.720 our game. Buddy minds at del Mar and he he's 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:32.800 he's screenshotting pictures of the form, the racing form. And 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:37.960 I'm picking horses while I'm watching Bennett's practice, and I 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.320 one like I one like thirty five bucks on two races. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.600 All right, they heard the head of fire or something there. Well, 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.800 they had they had it something, you know, they had somebody. 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.600 They had the gun go off. That's what it was. Yeah, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.959 it was gunfire, gun fire, gun fire. But yeah, yeah, 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.160 del Mar, del Mar's beautiful track. Yeah, I've been so yeah. 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.200 I used to make it back in the eighty when 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.040 the Cowboys were in thousand Oaks, went down to the 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:07.480 Chargers camp in Lajoya, uh and we made it over 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.640 to Delmar a couple of times a couple of years, 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.280 and it fits perfectly. Of course, I know we got 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.440 a football park. But I'm sorry, I just I was 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.639 just sitting I saw horse racing with you all day long. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.040 I was sitting there watching. I was watching Bennett practice 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:20.920 a little bit late in the day and and I'm like, 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.520 but he's like, I'm at Delmar. I'm like, text me 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.280 the race or sing. So I'd like three races. I 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:32.679 sat there and made money just watching it. Been it win? No, Well, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.640 so I wouldn't do it during a game, but yeah, 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.560 I love I love hors. He wasn't doing it for Bennett. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.360 It was yeah, yea for Bennett's college fund. R Bene 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.120 did better better, I better win more than that. And 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.440 um and before we dive into the NFL, you mentioned 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.000 college football. I'm here on September fourth, ready to make 0:03:55.080 --> 0:04:00.360 a prediction in the final four in college FOOTBA ball. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:07.480 It's Oklahoma, LSU, Texas, A and M and we'll throw 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:12.320 in Alabama on that one man. Missouri's got a quarterback 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.000 this year. We're gonna probably talk about it if they 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.799 win this week. I have no idea. I thot they played, 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.880 but I wouldn't that be something they got a first 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.839 round quarterback. Though, Missouri has got a first round quarterback, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.080 so I'm sure we'll talk about their guy a lot 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.800 during the So anyway, that's my take takeaway. Thank you 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.200 from the first weekend of college football. Appreciate in fact 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.760 that's Lane Kiffin. By the way, he did say it 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.320 was the best team he ever said. He'd be shocked 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.840 if there's a better team in college football. Team, congrats 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.160 to you. Yeah, Now we got Chip Kelly and UCLA 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.800 this week. All right, they let the Cowboys the other day. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.800 The Cowboys have Ron Rivera and the Carolina Pan they 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.680 do this week. All right, let's uh, let's get into 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.280 this roster shakedown a little bit. I know, we had 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.640 a show yesterday, not to exclusively a talking Cowboys show 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.520 yesterday leading up to Jason Garrett's press conference. Check out 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.039 what Garrett said at the at the press conference yesterday, Brian, 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.560 you had a chance to assume maybe Rob too, and 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.800 they walk off with the head coach so quickly. Just 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:15.040 what's your takeaway now with the Dan Bailey Brett Maher 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.839 kicking situation. You know, I feel like though that all 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:22.000 the things, and I thought Garrett would be really vague 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.960 in the way that he presented it to in front 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.279 of the cameras. But I don't think he was vague. 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.840 I think he I think he told you that there 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.640 were several factors involved the fact that they felt like 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:38.600 that he had kicked better than Bailey, and Bailey got 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.440 limited opportunities, but they had practice and they felt like that, hey, 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.280 you know, this is an opportunity and the chances that 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.479 we gave him that he clearly showed up. And so 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.799 I think that's a possibility, I mean, not a possible. 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.000 I think that's a reason. I think the fact that 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:58.360 the coaching staff maybe lost a little confidence in Dan Billy. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:05:59.920 I mean, that was what I was thinking going in 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.000 and asking Garrett that question. He's saying, Hey, you know, 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:04.960 that's part of it. You know, you want to feel 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.360 good about you know, what's going on with your with 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:08.960 your kickers or anyone of those players. You know, you 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.320 want to have confidence in your players. And then also 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.560 the money factor I think came in as well, so 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.719 you know, all those things. Um, you know, Garrett could 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.479 have came out there and he you know, he was 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.880 very complimentary of Dan Billy, and he knew what Dan 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.120 Billy meant to this organization. He knew what he meant 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.960 to him, you know. But he's part of the decision 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.160 making process, Jason Garrett. And and and this is one of 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.080 those things where maybe we'll find out one day that 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.159 some of these moves, the Dez Bryant move, the Dan 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.400 Bailey move, maybe one day we'll find out that, you know, 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.720 maybe Jason Garrett was leaning towards, Hey, I want to 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.120 keep Dez Bryant. I wanted to keep Dan Bailey, you know, 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:46.360 And I don't think that's going to be like a 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.680 you know, maybe it's an afterthought. But you know, sometimes 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.960 I say the coaches have the head coach. Everyone I've 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:53.640 ever been around here had a big stick in that 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:57.600 personnel department. And you know, whether that's Dave Campo or 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.880 you know, Chan Gailey. I saw a chan Gailey turnal 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.120 way Randy Moss, you know, I watched him do it. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.120 And so I know I'm going long winded here, but 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.080 you know this is this looked like a very difficult 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.320 decision for Garrett, and I'm wondering if he was totally 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.240 on board with it. But maybe they always look for 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.200 a they always look for a consensus here, and that 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.920 might be the way they win. But so many decisions 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.440 just aren't cutting dry decisions. No, all right, yeah we're 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.240 doing this for sure, they're right, yeah, right, And they 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:32.680 admit that they could be wrong on it, but it 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.480 could cost it could cost the head coach's job because 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.920 all we if you ever looked at Jason Garrett's record 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.080 and looked at the games he plays, and he doesn't either, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.679 he doesn't blow people out. He's in a lot of tight, 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.000 tough games where he's having to make a decision whether 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.600 it kick a field goal. There's a lot of close games, 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.160 and they're gonna probably play in a lot of close 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.560 games this year. If they're going to run the football, 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.240 if the if the primary way of moving the ball 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.760 and scoring is going to be running the football, they're 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.040 going to be in a lot of tight games because 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.120 this is really it's a passing league. And we'll see 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.760 if they can pass. We know they can run, we'll 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.360 see if they can pass. I might I might write 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.600 about what you just said. That's a great point because 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:15.040 and it goes back to coaches ten usually lean towards 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.040 what they know and what they're comfort always, always, and 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.720 this is a guy. Yeah, when you got inside thirty 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:27.040 yards thirty five yard line, Bailey more than not was money. Now, 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.960 he wasn't down the stretch. And I do think the 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:35.440 organization they admit it's it's a risk what they're doing here. However, 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.040 I think the rationale that they ultimately the decision they 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.640 came to was we're gonna look at this objectively. Brett Maher, 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.360 I don't know if any of us tracked his kicks 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.280 throughout camp. We started watching him. That's a mistake on 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.000 my part. And probably the whole media. Yeah, he kicked. Well, 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.520 I think we all learned a lesson that maybe there 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.720 is a competition and not not necessarily some jobs that 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.240 appear to be safe, maybe they aren't safe, right, And 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.959 I think they felt overall the numbers bore out mar 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.200 One the competition. Now you have to factor in history 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.840 as well. But like Brian said, there was concern there. 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.840 Now Maher could go out and miss a couple kicks 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.000 Sunday and they can second guess. But what if Bailey 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.480 missed on Sunday and they were worried about his confidence 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.040 to begin with, Then you second guess yourself that way 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.320 and say we didn't trust our objective evaluation that this 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.600 guy was better than our veteran. So they ultimately kind 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.440 of took the jersey off and said, Okay, this guy 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.400 was better. And then the other part of that is 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.120 Brett Markers just made a fifty seven yard field goal 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.080 in the last preseason game, and as we said on 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.480 the TV broadcast, you probably said something similar on the 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.199 radio broadcast, Brian, Well, other NFL teams just to that. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.559 Brad Sham and I went into a dissertation on why 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.520 he will probably get another chance to kick for somebody else, 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:55.160 Brad goes. Does he deserve an opportunity? I'm thinking, well, yeah, 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:56.640 you look at what he was able to kind of 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.400 do in camp. You've seen what he was done with 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.040 some of the games. He he'd have the blemish he 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.040 had a miss in the forty nine Ers game that 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.960 would have maybe put the Cowboys a little bit better 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:10.400 position to trying. It was exactly it was, But you 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.800 know that's those are the things you're thinking about. I mean, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.240 they put him out there with confidence, and to be 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.280 honest with you, I'm surprised Garrett put him out there 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.360 with with for a fifty seven yard shot to be 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.000 you know, to be honest, and depending on what they're 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.640 thinking was going into that. We were thinking, Yeah, we 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.040 were thinking emergency list guy. We were thinking workout guy. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.320 We were thinking everything a personnel man thinks of, but 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.240 making a football team. You know what I was thinking 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.480 this morning, though, I was thinking, okay, I was trying 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.440 to remember play out this scenario leading up to that 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.040 fifty seven yard or I was thinking the opposite of that. 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:47.480 Maybe they were put trying to put him in position. 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.080 I don't remember what the play call was on third down. 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:51.839 But maybe they wanted Hiven go out there, let's see 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.600 if you can make a fifty five yard or yeah. 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.040 But even then it's like, Okay, great, he made a 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.600 great kick. Maybe he's trade made over the weekend because 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.800 we good about Dan Bailey. We don't need to see 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.360 Dan Bailey kick. And ultimately it's like they wanted to 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.439 see what this guy could do one more time before 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.400 they bite the bullet. But also, okay, maybe they're leaning 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:14.120 towards keeping Dan Bailey all right, and what are the 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.760 chances Maher gets picked up by somebody else? If Bailey 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.440 missed a field goal in Carolina, we would always fall 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:25.560 back on Mahr sud on the practice squad and he 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.520 makes the fifty seven yard or and they're thinking, you 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.560 know what, he's probably gonna get picked up by somebody. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:34.160 We gotta make a decision me personally, and I get 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:35.840 you know what they're at. And it might have been 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.480 the decision that they couldn't afford to have Dan Bailey 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.640 on the roster for three million dollars and then cut him. 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.000 You know what I'm saying. I mean that that Okay, 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.080 now he's due. He's doing all his money after week 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.040 one right, So you know, maybe that's a situation that 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.400 they had to they had to look at it. It's like, okay, yeah, 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:58.560 nice to think about Maha on the practice squad, But 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.320 what if Dan Bailey and week week two missus field goals. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.600 Now now you've got now you got him on the books, 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.079 you know, because he is a vested veteran and you're 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.559 you're responsible for his entire contract, and you know, then 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.400 then it's a little bit more of a of a 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.880 challenge to to cut him right there. So that's a 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.640 good point. I just feel like I felt like all 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.240 I did not feel like that Dan Bailey's job was 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:29.319 in jeopardy until until those two days where we saw 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.319 him struggle. When it went back to back days. I'm 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.720 not maybe it's a bad way of saying it his 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.200 job in jeopardy. I felt like that, Okay, now maybe 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.280 we have to watch instead of going over there in 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.080 bs and with somebody, you know during practice. Yeah, being 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.040 practice time, we got to watch talking to the fans 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.240 or whatever, I do, you know, visit with people. I 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.400 feel like, now we've got to watch kicks. I remember 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.559 Mickey and I with Mickey and I went and it's 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.880 so funny. At the same time, we walked underneath the 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.679 goal post and just stopped and looked up you know 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.400 where I and I'm looked at him like you're here 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.920 watching this kicker. Huh. He's like yeah, and I was 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.000 in the same thing. I mean, you had to watch 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.160 and see what was going on. After a few days, 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.000 it kind of it kind of wore off. You moved on, Yeah, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.120 you moved on. And I think maybe that's just shows 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.520 you how great Dan Billy was at his job that 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.880 after two days he just moved on. Well, in most 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.200 past years, I don't know if we really charted him 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.480 at camp. Now I did this year every time, especially 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.880 after those two kicks. But I think he missed one 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.240 kick after that two day stretch where he struggled, so 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.160 it looked like he had righted himself. I thought he 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.360 was striking the ball pretty well. But I wasn't paying 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.920 close enough attention to this other guy who apparently really 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.240 won their confidence over and the other guy Brett Maher. 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.439 And that is how you pronounce it. According to the media, 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:47.559 guy did is Mahr They her okay, and he has 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:51.600 experienced in the Canadian Football League. And the other thing 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.480 is he can also if something happened to Chris Jones, 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.920 he can also punt, and of course he can kick 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.840 off too. So anyway, he's your guy going to Carolina 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.120 this week. Now. As far as other moves that have 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:07.520 been made since we last convened and since the fifty 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.680 three man roster was set, I liked. I thought it 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.920 was a very shrewd move what they did. As far 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.120 as the wide receivers are concerned, Yes, with Noah Brown, 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:21.200 who had putting him on injured reserve after he was 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.160 on the fifty three, now they can bring him back. 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:28.240 After eight weeks they made they they had the market 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.360 figured out on Deontay Thompson where they were able to 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.000 bring him back and sign him. So now they had 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.560 those wide receivers and really they could tell what the 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.640 market was because of the interest that Deontay Thompson had 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.400 in the presea in the off season because he did 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.960 not sign for a huge amount of money, kind of 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.880 had a sort of a semi breakout year last year, 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.080 and so teams are usually overloaded at wide receivers, so 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.680 he was still available and now you got both those guys. Yeah, 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.000 I think it's you know, the thing they didn't want 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.680 to lose Brown, right, that was clear, you know that 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:03.680 was And it gives you a guy now for the 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.240 second half of the season, they give you exactly right, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:07.960 It gives you a guy. They'll work with him, he'll 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.120 get in shape and by you know, we'll see what 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.040 happens in week eight. I mean, it's still a receiving 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.440 crew that there's a lot of questions about right now, 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.400 and hey, week eight might be too late, it might not, 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.280 but they you always have guys to get banged up 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.840 during the season, and you know they've they've got that 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.280 to kind of fall back on in case they need to. Yeah, 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.560 I think ultimately receiver, they kept the five that we 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.960 thought in camp were probably the most proven. Slash had 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.520 the most potential with Michael Gallup as the third round pick, 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.240 and I know Brian was banging his fist on the table. No. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.840 Six wide receivers, No. Seven wide receivers. Ultimately, they go 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.120 light at running back and it allows you to get 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.880 Rico Gathers on the fifty three and they just weren't 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.640 going to give up the investment they'd made trying to 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.120 develop him, and he showed enough to make it for now. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:59.040 Rico Gathers was a better player than Dalton Schultz. He 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.200 was a better player there during and but you know, 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:03.920 they're not going to give up on Dalton Schultz. And 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.000 they shouldn't give up on Dalton Schultz. They should find 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.000 a way to say, Okay, we need to get him stronger, 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.600 we need to get him more reps. But Dalton Schultz 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.880 did not play as well as he had played at Stanford, 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.040 and that that in itself, to me, was very disappointing. 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.000 But Rico Gathers, I'm gonna say that he did deserve 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.160 an opportunity to be on this football team. He put 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.640 himself in consideration. He went from a player that nobody 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.680 really wanted to deal with very much, you know, last year, 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.960 I mean it seemed like that the coaching staff had 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.480 their questions about him. And what happens you get new coaches, 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.000 you know, new coaches rolled in and that might have 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.400 been the best thing that ever happened to Rico Gathers. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:45.240 That opinions of former coaches go with their new teams 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.800 and you have a fresh slate and a fresh opportunity 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.960 to come in and try and make the football team. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.240 And he did. He was he was clearly you look 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.920 at the plays he made. You look at now. Jason 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.640 Garrett was very complimentary of his blocking. And I say 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.560 this in a way that I understand where Jason Garrett's 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.760 going here. Rico gathers at two hundred and eighty pounds 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.159 when he gets in your way, when he's on a 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.800 defensive end or a linebacker, is a hard guy. He 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.080 can make mistakes. He can make mistakes as a blocker. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.120 He can't make mental mistakes, but he can make mistakes 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.600 in technique because and one of the reasons, one of 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.359 the examples that Garrett gave was Martellis Bennett, Right, Martellis 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.080 Bennett was not a great technique blocker, but when he 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.080 got that two hundred and eighty pound body moving, he 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.360 was difficult. Once he was on you, he was difficult 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.359 to get rid of. So you said, it's a matter 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.880 of making sure you're in the right spot. That's true. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.400 That's the nuance of the BA. And that's a guy 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.520 that hasn't played a ton of foot And it will be. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.160 And they're they're gonna dress. They're gonna dress three tight 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.200 ends this week. And I wonder if the third time 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.399 is interesting that one, or if the third tight end 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.960 is going to be Rico Gathers instead of Dalton Schultz. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.320 That's where this is gonna The other two are gonna 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.639 dress and that would be Swain and Jarwin. I wonder 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.560 if the third tight end is going to be Rico Gathers, 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.639 and I'm going to say this, I think there's a 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.760 really good possibility it will be. And it may go 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.520 week to week on that. And yes, and so if 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.879 Rico depending on matchups or on development of Rico, if 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.160 it depending on the game plan and stuff like that, 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.800 if they if somebody's got a heavy sam lineback or 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.399 they play with, or somebody's got a heavy defensive end, 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.760 or they want to create opportunity there to get on 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.320 the edge. But Rico Gathers. The only thing keeping Rico Gathers, 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.040 and I'm just talking about the on the field stuff. 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.239 I'm not talking about the off the field stuff. The 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.160 only thing keeping him from being the player that they 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.320 want him to be is his ability to understand what 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.720 he's got, his responsibility, his job. And there's been some 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:49.239 signs where hot read or being where he needs to 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:51.960 be on a certain call, or you see him playing 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.359 second level. He's getting better at that. So If he 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.000 can continue on that path, up Rico Gathers will be 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.000 on your forty six every week. He's just too talent 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.160 of a player. The problem is, though, he doesn't always 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.680 know what he's doing, and that keeps him from being 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:07.680 a guy you won on the forty six. 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