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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, September seventeenth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode
Speaker 1: number forty five. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are live Nest WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start,
Speaker 1: we got a gumbo show. It's a normal Tuesday. We
Speaker 1: got a lot of stuff to talk about. There's all
Speaker 1: kinds of news around this team, a lot of news
Speaker 1: around the NFL. We'll get into some of that as well.
Speaker 1: Got Nick got Dave. Got our very special guest Danny
Speaker 1: back with us on Tuesdays as normal. She's still special.
Speaker 1: This is like the third You'll be special guests all season,
Speaker 1: every Tuesday. I will call her a special guest, not
Speaker 1: just a guest. Tell me sorry, that was harsh. I
Speaker 1: like having you our special Danny. Don't worry about Dave.
Speaker 1: He's our local curmudgeon. So we don't really say that, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is the way it is. Yeah, like we like
Speaker 1: having you here. You're not new anymore. Yeah, special guest
Speaker 1: makes it sound like like we can special, like we
Speaker 1: can't argue with you. Yeah, Nick, Oh no, she's okay
Speaker 1: with the arguing. She's good. She'll handle her own, all right.
Speaker 1: So let's jump right in. I first got to talk
Speaker 1: about Michael Gallup. We find out yesterday Torminiscus out two
Speaker 1: to four weeks. Um, what are we thinking as far
Speaker 1: as like when is the surgery going to happen to
Speaker 1: do we know any of those kinds of details? And
Speaker 1: as far as the two to four weeks, are you
Speaker 1: thinking it's closer to two or closer to four, because
Speaker 1: that makes a big difference when you think about the
Speaker 1: fact the Packers are coming up there and allotted half
Speaker 1: of that. I don't think he's playing against the Packers.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Like I hate when the bye week
Speaker 1: gets in there, because then you started thinking about, you know,
Speaker 1: like I don't think it'll it'll go that far. But
Speaker 1: what four weeks? Four games is Miami, New Orleans, Green
Speaker 1: Bay Jets, New York. Yeah, and then it's a Philly
Speaker 1: and then Philly and that's a bye I just you
Speaker 1: know how it gets when he gets down there, like yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, he could play. But if he says this,
Speaker 1: gad that he gets a bye week and then he's
Speaker 1: good to go. I'm really glad. I'm really glad. I
Speaker 1: couched what I said yesterday. I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a big deal, but let's see what Jason says,
Speaker 1: which if you're gonna be hurt, I guess. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is good news in the long run. I mean,
Speaker 1: if if you're if you need surgery and you're only
Speaker 1: supposed to miss a month, that's that's not terrible. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tear in his meniscus. This is
Speaker 1: one of those deals where I'm like, football players are
Speaker 1: crazy and we're crazy for sitting here being like maybe
Speaker 1: it'll only be two two weeks, like the dude towards meniscus.
Speaker 1: That would probably ruin our year. However, I mean, Jerry
Speaker 1: said this morning on the radio that literally there have
Speaker 1: been players that have had this surgery and have been
Speaker 1: back in a week. So it just depends on how
Speaker 1: the surgery goes and all the things around it. Never
Speaker 1: never bet against NFL players toughness, and then the medical component,
Speaker 1: like this is top of the line, you know, like Bett,
Speaker 1: you can get medical care, like it's possible. But when
Speaker 1: I hear tear and your meniscus, I leaned toward the
Speaker 1: longer prognosis, especially you know if they're if they stack
Speaker 1: up some wins and they're not in dire need and
Speaker 1: they're like, well, the bioweek's coming up, let's not be
Speaker 1: stupid about this. I just I think it'll be a
Speaker 1: little bit before we see Mike just a bummer leading
Speaker 1: the team and receptions and yards. And it was so
Speaker 1: exciting because we finally saw this chemistry with Dak Prescotts.
Speaker 1: I mean, they have been talking about all offseason. They've
Speaker 1: been so consistent, caught all seven targets in the first game,
Speaker 1: and so I'm not worried that when he comes back
Speaker 1: they suddenly won't have chemistry. But it's obviously much easier
Speaker 1: to continue that week and week and build on it.
Speaker 1: So they'll just be interesting whenever he does come back,
Speaker 1: if they're able to just get right back into the
Speaker 1: swing of things, or if it's going to be more
Speaker 1: like last year and take time to get comfortable again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that it's hard to say if
Speaker 1: Gallup is just making these leaps and bound, you know,
Speaker 1: in progress, or is it this offense and this offensive
Speaker 1: line and he's playing on the opposite of Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: and you know, can Devin Smith come in and do
Speaker 1: exactly what he's doing. I don't know that. What I've
Speaker 1: been impressed with Gallup is over the middle catches some
Speaker 1: of the hard hits. We saw another one in the
Speaker 1: Washington game. I know, vertically, you know, they'll be okay
Speaker 1: if Smith has to play more whoever, whatever they end
Speaker 1: up doing, if Cobb, you know, slides out and does
Speaker 1: some more of that. But I just wonder if it's
Speaker 1: just Gallop, you know, making that that progress, or can
Speaker 1: the next guy come in here and do well. I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about him. I think they'll be fine overall.
Speaker 1: But like I don't want to take that credit away
Speaker 1: from Michael Gallup. I've seen how good he's been, I've
Speaker 1: seen how hard he worked, and I think there will
Speaker 1: be a drop off at least a little one like
Speaker 1: he was playing really, really really run. I'm not calling
Speaker 1: this team the Patriots or the Packers. That can just
Speaker 1: slide in these receivers with a great quarterback and you don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I just it's a small sample
Speaker 1: size still, and if another guy comes in, because I'm
Speaker 1: Aari's still the guy. And then if the complimentary guy
Speaker 1: is as good, I mean, we'll see. I think Devin
Speaker 1: Smith can be as productive. Yeah, here's here's one way
Speaker 1: I would look at this that's a little different than that.
Speaker 1: Is what I've seen through these first two games suggest
Speaker 1: to me that maybe your quarterback is good enough that
Speaker 1: he's able to use whatever receivers out there as long
Speaker 1: as those receivers are open and get are able to
Speaker 1: get open. How many guys has he hit at this point,
Speaker 1: I mean pretty much everybody on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball has had a catch. It's had a catch
Speaker 1: from from Dak Prescott. It makes me think that as
Speaker 1: long as Devin Smith, which I personally believe based on
Speaker 1: the things I've seen in training camp and throughout the preseason,
Speaker 1: I personally believe that Devin Smith can provide a receiving options.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons why I thought they should keep
Speaker 1: him on the team is because he was so much
Speaker 1: better than any of the developmental guys. He was actually
Speaker 1: at a level where you said, you know, maybe there's
Speaker 1: some teams around the NFL where he actually maybe a
Speaker 1: starting caliber wide receiver. Who knows point is, He's certainly
Speaker 1: presented as though he were a guy that could contribute
Speaker 1: in that kind of way. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: you need right now, is you just need a receiver
Speaker 1: that contributes because your quarterback is showing this ability to
Speaker 1: be able to get to the open guy, and if
Speaker 1: he can get open, I think the offense can still
Speaker 1: function in the same way. Yeah. Sorry, I think I
Speaker 1: think a lot of this is to Prescott. He's hit
Speaker 1: most of his receivers, I mean every game, and everyone
Speaker 1: has different speed and abilities, and Michael Gallup's going to
Speaker 1: run arount way different than Amari Cooper, and Prescott is
Speaker 1: still showing incredible accuracy with the two of them, and
Speaker 1: so I think that'll be really helpful. With Devin Smith
Speaker 1: and if they continue to use Cedric Wilson, I think
Speaker 1: that'll be a big part of why they would stay
Speaker 1: consistent if they do and press set after the game.
Speaker 1: That Smith, especially with everything he's come back from his
Speaker 1: injuries and inspiration, but his speed and he can just
Speaker 1: do everything on the field. He has a lot of
Speaker 1: trust in Smith. They look really smart for the way
Speaker 1: they played this. I mean, this is why, this is
Speaker 1: why you argue about the fifth and sixth receiver, which ironically,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people thought they shouldn't have
Speaker 1: cut Cedric Wilson. Well, and he's on the team and
Speaker 1: will have a role to play for the foreseeable future too.
Speaker 1: So it worked out beautifully. And I, like I said,
Speaker 1: I think, I just I think the world of the
Speaker 1: work that Gallup has done this year. I think I
Speaker 1: don't think we won't notice that he's gone, but I
Speaker 1: think Devin Smith is up to the challenge. I don't
Speaker 1: think it'll be a huge deal. Yeah, and it'll everything
Speaker 1: you're you know, I'm working on a story right now,
Speaker 1: just like storylines of the other team, and it's just
Speaker 1: such a train wreck down there for the for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that it'll, you know, at some point,
Speaker 1: it's going to get better for them, because I don't
Speaker 1: think it is it worse. I mean in the draft
Speaker 1: of all these times, some point, I mean maybe after
Speaker 1: the yeah, they got five first round picks of the
Speaker 1: next days got to replace all the guys they let go,
Speaker 1: Like that's they're they're working at at a situation where
Speaker 1: they get rid of a lot of talent to hopefully
Speaker 1: possibly bring in more. It's it's weird. I think, what
Speaker 1: this is a game where Devin Smith and Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: will play a lot for different reasons. I mean, Cooper
Speaker 1: will get in there and play something. I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will happen a lead, and those guys will still
Speaker 1: just be like the college game where like halfway through
Speaker 1: the game, third quarter you kind of pull all your starters.
Speaker 1: They asked me on one of five three earlier today
Speaker 1: if I thought Dak would play the first the whole
Speaker 1: first half, and I would geez no. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, guys, this isn't This isn't Alabama against
Speaker 1: like Charleston College, Like it's still the NFL. I know
Speaker 1: the Dolphins suck, but yeah, Dak is gonna play until halftime.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I would imagine. Can you even imagine? I
Speaker 1: guess like literally second quarter, Nick's finished with a story
Speaker 1: and it's like we're done. We're just sitting up. You're
Speaker 1: eating from your lips to God's ears. Because we could
Speaker 1: go home at like five o'clock on Sunday. Don't forget
Speaker 1: these five players. Well, the Cowboys won the coin toss,
Speaker 1: that's one. They got the ball and then jeez, this
Speaker 1: wo'ld be fun. Now you know what we say and
Speaker 1: all this and and you know, and then it's a
Speaker 1: close game, right, there's no no See that's the thing
Speaker 1: I was got to say. We say all this, but
Speaker 1: I think we're saying it because they just can't compete.
Speaker 1: So my point of all that was is I don't
Speaker 1: know if they'd be throwing the ball around. We'll see
Speaker 1: what Cooper wants to do. Next question, Well, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: for I was just gonna say that was gonna be
Speaker 1: the next question that you look at this and does
Speaker 1: this at all with Gallup? Does this it all change
Speaker 1: how this team has approached offense these first two games,
Speaker 1: because I think they've been a team that that's really
Speaker 1: focused more on the pass and the run has come
Speaker 1: as the secondary option to the past. Do you think
Speaker 1: that now they flip that and they go into more
Speaker 1: of a hey, let's run the ball more so because
Speaker 1: we don't have Michael Gallants. This team is so good
Speaker 1: right now because of the depth I mean ants wide
Speaker 1: Woods hurt, We're gonna talk about that, Okay, Well, Tristan Hill,
Speaker 1: the second round pick, is going to be able to
Speaker 1: play if he's hurt, you know, and I understand that
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods, that would be a big drop off if
Speaker 1: if he doesn't play because of the safety's there aren't
Speaker 1: the same. But I mean, you know, like you said,
Speaker 1: on offense, gallops out. So now they're bringing Devin Smith,
Speaker 1: who isn't as polished as a route runner and he
Speaker 1: hasn't played as much. He's a little bit more raw,
Speaker 1: but he can run. He's faster, He's one of the
Speaker 1: fastest guys on the team. So that's just a different element.
Speaker 1: Maybe that even helps him even more as a more
Speaker 1: of a deep threat. I think it'll it'll just be
Speaker 1: what do these guys do? What are their skill sets?
Speaker 1: And for Devin Smith, why am I putting him in
Speaker 1: the starting lineup? Is he the guy? I mean? Well,
Speaker 1: I was actually gonna say the other thing too, which
Speaker 1: is why what I think will help is they're so versatile.
Speaker 1: Like to go back to what we were talking about
Speaker 1: yesterday and like, well, Dez is your ex and Terence
Speaker 1: is your wife and holes in the slot, like Cob
Speaker 1: can play outside, Cooper can play inside, fact get a
Speaker 1: lot during camp. They've all done it all, like they
Speaker 1: can all go wherever they want. I don't think Devin
Speaker 1: Smith is going to be moving inside and out so much.
Speaker 1: But you can put him on one side and do
Speaker 1: whatever you want with the other two. But I ordering
Speaker 1: pick up on my fantasy team they had if he
Speaker 1: had Gallop Devin, I had him in both my leagues.
Speaker 1: I'm picking up Devin just as a policy. I would
Speaker 1: because because I do well. But the thing is, like
Speaker 1: with Devin s what what you wonder is, are they
Speaker 1: going to basically slide him into Gallop's roll and keep
Speaker 1: every everybodybody else's roles the same? And if so, yeah,
Speaker 1: Devin might be a kind of guy that could get
Speaker 1: you four catches. He might get a few more yards
Speaker 1: because he's more of a deep through. I think he's
Speaker 1: even better deep dread than Gallop. Look so look at
Speaker 1: last night. I mean, people are sitting there with seven
Speaker 1: points or so with Odell Beckham and then he gets
Speaker 1: one catch over the middle better than everyone else. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell the number twenty was doing
Speaker 1: for the Jets, but that's okay um ye. I don't
Speaker 1: think he was gonna catch him anyways. But my point
Speaker 1: is when you have a game breaker like that that
Speaker 1: you know, Bowman, he's that type of guy. Even in
Speaker 1: the third or fourth quarter of the game, he can
Speaker 1: still catch the ball he almost broke you know, wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been a long play, but he almost broke the
Speaker 1: tackle and scored a touchdown in the fourth quarter. Would
Speaker 1: have been you know, two touchdown game for him. I
Speaker 1: would guess he will start, assuming they opened the game
Speaker 1: in eleven personnel. I don't know what they played predominantly, right,
Speaker 1: I don't know who else it would be. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think you said it well. It could be Tavon.
Speaker 1: I guess if Tavan, but still I wouldn't want that.
Speaker 1: I'd prefer to have Devin out there. I would. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think you said it best. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can put Devin Smith out there and Cobb can
Speaker 1: still have that same role because if Tavan is not
Speaker 1: in there and Cobb's the guy doing a lot of
Speaker 1: swing stuff and all that. I think this might be
Speaker 1: the game that Tony Poller does a little bit more
Speaker 1: than what we've seen. Maybe he can do some of
Speaker 1: the end of round things and he's probably gonna run
Speaker 1: the ball some two in the second half. Right right,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take our first break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we gotta talk about rager Woods. That's another big injury
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. Something that was not expected, I don't think,
Speaker 1: at least not on my part as of yesterday, but
Speaker 1: something that's become a big issue for the Cowboys. We'll
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Speaker 1: It is the second segment of The Great Clive from
Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage Studios. The Star. We're talking about injuries,
Speaker 1: bug is hit and Cowboys are now experiencing some of
Speaker 1: that adversity that so many teams around the league are experiencing.
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods is the next guy that we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about. Find out that he has a high ankle sprain,
Speaker 1: expected to be out four to six weeks and that's serious. Um,
Speaker 1: it depends on where you're getting your information. Will give
Speaker 1: me the best information you have? Well, the one report
Speaker 1: from outside the building is four to six weeks, which
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Xavier Xaviorwoods. Sorry, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that's wrong because high ankle sprains are always tricky, but
Speaker 1: the Cowboys appear optimistic that it might not be. And
Speaker 1: I'm not even just talking about doctor Jerry like Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones is notoriously optimistic about this, but like the word
Speaker 1: coming from that side of the building is they're like, well,
Speaker 1: let's see, Like we really feel like it's more of
Speaker 1: a week to week thing. We're not convinced it's definitely
Speaker 1: a month. I already feel better. Yeah, so wait and
Speaker 1: see on that. Like I said, I'm I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to tell you he'll be back in time to play
Speaker 1: the Saints. Like, ankle sprains are always tricky, you know,
Speaker 1: an ankle sprain kept Randy Gregory on the sideline for
Speaker 1: two months, so something to watch, but not necessarily a
Speaker 1: four to six week injury. And I think the point
Speaker 1: we were making before about how where these guys are
Speaker 1: going to play and how much they play if the
Speaker 1: game is in hand against the Dolphins, I mean goes
Speaker 1: back to Xavier Woods. Believe he was hurt the second
Speaker 1: to last play of the game. So I mean not
Speaker 1: that he should have been pulled out, you know, because
Speaker 1: the second to last play of the game, I think
Speaker 1: they were thrown into the end zone, right, I mean
Speaker 1: they such a defensive play. Yeah yeah, yeah, so I
Speaker 1: mean it just it sucks when that happens. But you know,
Speaker 1: you have to play through the game. But going back
Speaker 1: to what we had said earlier, it might affect Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get these guys out of here, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. We got the Saints coming in, whatever if
Speaker 1: if if it goes down to that. But I just
Speaker 1: I see nothing that the Dolphins are doing that you
Speaker 1: would make you think that this could be a game. Okay,
Speaker 1: I would have said the Saints are marching in. Just
Speaker 1: for the record, the Cowboys are technically marching if they
Speaker 1: would have worked, I know, but I'm technical about that.
Speaker 1: They're not really marching in. And they're not you know,
Speaker 1: they're not really thumbs up right now, they're not their quarterback.
Speaker 1: What why are we feeling sorry for everyone? We're like,
Speaker 1: oh the breeze. Yeah, I just don't work. I don't
Speaker 1: like to make jokes about hurt people. It's just personal policy. Person,
Speaker 1: it's a personal policy. You're quality person. But here's my question.
Speaker 1: How the Cowboys adjust to Xavier Woods being out? And
Speaker 1: I don't know, it may affect your answer based upon
Speaker 1: how long he's out. Obviously, if he only misses this week,
Speaker 1: then you probably feel like it's not really a hard adjustment.
Speaker 1: But let's assume for the sake of this conversation that
Speaker 1: this is a let's say it's a month. How do
Speaker 1: you guys think the Cowboys need to adjust in order
Speaker 1: to make sure that they're prepared to be able to
Speaker 1: handle some pretty good passing attacks Without Xavier Woods, Well,
Speaker 1: you get, you know, good depth on the and guys
Speaker 1: that it's very similar to Devin Smith, a guy that
Speaker 1: was a second or this guy was a third round pick.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Darien Thompson. Thompson and you know, he's
Speaker 1: been heard he's had a high ankle's brain and he
Speaker 1: comes back and he'll probably go right and I think
Speaker 1: he'll start. But I still think Donovan Wilson when he
Speaker 1: comes back, which could be this week, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: able to provide some stuff too. So it's just kind
Speaker 1: of working out. Even though it doesn't work out for injuries,
Speaker 1: they do have good depth at this spot, at these
Speaker 1: spots where they can fill in. I want to see
Speaker 1: how that goes. Just Darry, I mean Darien Thompson, I
Speaker 1: would assume, like the easy fixes, they'll just plug him
Speaker 1: in at safety. He's a third round pick by the Giants.
Speaker 1: They love him, they trust him. We'll see how that
Speaker 1: translates on the field. And I can hear people saying
Speaker 1: people have already been saying to me, like, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about, Like Thompson didn't do anything, and Wilson
Speaker 1: was out here making all these picks in training camp.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, the coaching staff trust this guy.
Speaker 1: He's a veteran who has started a full season in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and I don't think they want to throw
Speaker 1: a rookie out there to do that right away. I mean,
Speaker 1: even Xavier Woods barely played safety his rookie year. Now,
Speaker 1: if it doesn't go so well, how quickly does that change?
Speaker 1: You know, Brandon Whedon was the man until he lost
Speaker 1: two games in a row, and he wasn't the man anymore.
Speaker 1: So whether or not you get production out of him
Speaker 1: will probably determine that. Something I didn't even think about.
Speaker 1: I think you might have been tagged or someone was
Speaker 1: talking to Brian on Twitter about the idea of well
Speaker 1: do you move Byron? Yeah? Me and Brian, well, me
Speaker 1: and Brian spitballed that in the office this morning. And
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to anybody that suggested that. I doubt
Speaker 1: they want to move Byron away. From the position where
Speaker 1: he was an All Pro. But that's how I feel
Speaker 1: it was. I had never thought I wasn't one of
Speaker 1: my thoughts for that. Let's play Devil's advocate and say,
Speaker 1: like Thompson just gets absolutely torched. Maybe not against the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: but but okay, if that app if he doesn't play
Speaker 1: well against the Dolphins, that's certainly troubling. If you're going
Speaker 1: on the road to play the Saints and then playing
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and you know, maybe if Wilson doesn't handle
Speaker 1: himself well, or if they just don't feel like he's
Speaker 1: ready based on what they see in practice, maybe you
Speaker 1: do throw Byron. But I honestly think if that came
Speaker 1: to pass, I think they would throw Cavon out there
Speaker 1: before they would move Byron. I know that's not ideal,
Speaker 1: but I think, knowing this team and how they deal
Speaker 1: with veterans, like, I think they would get a rotation
Speaker 1: of those guys and have them kind of out there
Speaker 1: in different sets, and and before they would move Byron,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think there would be any
Speaker 1: I should say there should. There would be very few
Speaker 1: scenarios in which I think the Cowboys would consider moving
Speaker 1: Byron from cornerback to safety. Well, I think that one.
Speaker 1: I think the Cavon going out there is below that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't think he can do that.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's nice to say, well, they've done
Speaker 1: it before, and they did it last year. He was
Speaker 1: playing last year at ye get all the running past them.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just don't understand all that. I think
Speaker 1: you've got to you gotta get your best guys out there,
Speaker 1: and at cornerback they seem they could be pretty deep there. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just because Anthony Brown and Jordan Lewis are
Speaker 1: doing a nice job, I think the drop off there
Speaker 1: wouldn't be as significant. Um, So we're talking about what
Speaker 1: should happen or what we think they will do. That's
Speaker 1: my point. Like, I agree with you guys that I
Speaker 1: don't want to see cave On playing safety. However, seeing
Speaker 1: how this team has handled Cavon at safety in the
Speaker 1: past makes me think that they would probably opt to
Speaker 1: do that before they would opt to take their cornerback
Speaker 1: that they may consider to be their best cornerback and
Speaker 1: move into safety. What do I sorry, what do I
Speaker 1: always joke about? Like I love when the team does
Speaker 1: this and They do it pretty frequently. Is like something
Speaker 1: is a terrible idea until it's their idea, And so
Speaker 1: right now they're like, of course we're not going to
Speaker 1: move Byron. Like we've got Darien Thompson, We've got Donovan Wilson.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of faith in these guys. Next
Speaker 1: man up. But what if next man up is a disaster?
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden it's like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: Byron's played some safety like that could be really smart
Speaker 1: and does number one receiver. Yeah, we're gonna Cooper. Of
Speaker 1: course we are. It's a bad idea. It's a bad
Speaker 1: idea until it's their idea. Like that's how it always goes.
Speaker 1: So and I'm like, I have no idea. I would
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet on it. But this is a perfect Honestly,
Speaker 1: they couldn't draw it up any better than this. You
Speaker 1: get a chance to play them against the worst team
Speaker 1: in the league. If they struggled, that's not good, and
Speaker 1: you have a better idea of what you need to
Speaker 1: do going forward when this game's over. But if I mean,
Speaker 1: if if it looks really bad against Miami, I would say, Byron,
Speaker 1: we hate to do this to you, but you've done
Speaker 1: this before him to a contract year. Yeah, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see that hurting his stock. How not.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was we saw him at safety. He
Speaker 1: was not a great safety. He was a really really
Speaker 1: good cornerback, and he would it would be like three
Speaker 1: games at absolute max and they're like, oh, no, your
Speaker 1: your tape at safety he's not very good. He's like cool,
Speaker 1: throw on the tape of me playing corner. I'm play
Speaker 1: but whatever they asked me to do. Yeah, like, I'm
Speaker 1: a great team player, I'll play. I don't know if
Speaker 1: being his representative will feel the same way, but yeah,
Speaker 1: well you know, here's here you keep saying about the
Speaker 1: Dolphins part if like, well, if they don't they don't
Speaker 1: play well there, then we know they can't play well.
Speaker 1: I worry about the other way around. I worry about
Speaker 1: the Darien Thompson getting an interception. Donald and Wilson in
Speaker 1: your life he's good too. And then Aaron Rodgers like yeah,
Speaker 1: that's nice, or even Bridgewater. I mean, let's kind of
Speaker 1: like that gift that that thank put on social media
Speaker 1: last night watching the Jets game, so you laugh, that's
Speaker 1: pretty funny. People said after the Cowboys after they went
Speaker 1: over the Giants. Well it was the Giants, and you
Speaker 1: know you have to see who they're playing. Yeah if yeah,
Speaker 1: one of these guys gets a pick six on Josh Rosen,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it carries a ton of weight
Speaker 1: against what might be coming in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I think I think Teddy Bridgewater will get I think
Speaker 1: with Sean Payton and Bridgewater that they will buy that.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know about this week. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they'll be fun. They'll better going to be good because
Speaker 1: they're not gonna face Aaron Donald and on them. They'll
Speaker 1: they'll be good to go. And then of course you
Speaker 1: know Sunday night game with at the Dome. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to look ahead. I'm just saying when
Speaker 1: they'll really be matched. I think Bridgewater they're not gonna
Speaker 1: be the same as Breeze, but he's fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's also to cover all of these angles they are
Speaker 1: or did work out Josh Jones today, it's a former.
Speaker 1: I believe he's a second round pick of the Packers.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know what happened up there, but his
Speaker 1: packer's career did not go well, um, I thought he
Speaker 1: was a really good prospect. I remember liking him coming
Speaker 1: out of NC State. It's been a couple of years
Speaker 1: at this point. I remember thinking he was a good player,
Speaker 1: and I was surprised at how poorly his time up
Speaker 1: there went. So did you look at that whole list
Speaker 1: of the guys that they were working at us very long?
Speaker 1: I don't even remember most of it. I'm is that
Speaker 1: Keith Davis's son one I saw, but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if that was the same one because he was at Arizona.
Speaker 1: He went to the Cardinals for as a rookie free age.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he made the team and they
Speaker 1: were They worked out DeMarcus Lodge and Quincy at a
Speaker 1: at a boy Ao and don't make me pronounce it,
Speaker 1: but they worked out two receivers, which keep I mean,
Speaker 1: we said it yesterday, keep an eye on Tavon. I mean,
Speaker 1: if he can't play this week, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of options here with Robert Quinn coming back, knowing that
Speaker 1: they need a spot. I mean, you ask just any
Speaker 1: fan will say, oh, Taco. But then Jerry Jones said today,
Speaker 1: I mean, that doesn't seem like that's what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: They want to keep him at least for now, so
Speaker 1: you know, who else would it be. We've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of different names out there that are about eight
Speaker 1: to eight. I mean, let's let's look at it. Could
Speaker 1: could it be? Oh, if Tavon's back, then Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: could go down. But with Gallop out, I doubt that'll happen.
Speaker 1: They've got seventeen guards to need them all. But at
Speaker 1: some point they're going to have to do some with
Speaker 1: one of those guys. I think they keep, I know,
Speaker 1: but at some point you look at all these other positions,
Speaker 1: you start getting injuries, and they're not injuries where you
Speaker 1: can put guys on high r They're just gonna hold
Speaker 1: a spot for a while, and you got to have
Speaker 1: other replacements. It gets the point where you have to
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this though, what I was reading, if
Speaker 1: if they cut Adam Redman, they might be playing them
Speaker 1: against them on Sunday. I mean, the Dolphins, their guard
Speaker 1: situation is so bad that he might go in there
Speaker 1: and start. Honestly, like, and there's a lot of teams
Speaker 1: like that you said earlier, like the Cowboys are getting
Speaker 1: bit by just like a lot of teams are not
Speaker 1: exactly you know, with from a quarterback standpoint and all that,
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of injuries happening, and it
Speaker 1: happens like this every year. If you watch the NFL
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks a season. It's my personal belief
Speaker 1: this happens because players don't play as much in the preseason,
Speaker 1: certainly not live action like it is now, and so
Speaker 1: the first few weeks, I think guys just get hurt
Speaker 1: because it's just it's it's a different thing for their bodies.
Speaker 1: You start seeing these injuries, and it seems to me
Speaker 1: that it kind of settles out at about week four
Speaker 1: or five and you kind of get into a little
Speaker 1: bit more of a rhythm. There're still guys are gonna
Speaker 1: go out, don't get me wrong, but right now, just
Speaker 1: think about the number of seemingly big injuries that we're here.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because of the position, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it just seems like an inordinate amount earlier in the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, if I mean I think football is
Speaker 1: sloppier in September just because the preseason is limited, I don't.
Speaker 1: I just think it's a violent game, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: they say it's like being in a car wreck sixty times. Well,
Speaker 1: people are gonna get hurt doing that. The Sunday Night game,
Speaker 1: talk about a violent game. Yeah, that was a so
Speaker 1: I mean it was crazy. I said it on Twitter earlier,
Speaker 1: Like if you told me the Cowboys had three starters
Speaker 1: get hurt in the same game, They're looking at about
Speaker 1: as good as scenario as possible. I mean, it sucks
Speaker 1: for Xavier and Gallup, but these aren't gigantic losses. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about trading or acquiring somebody to be
Speaker 1: able to continue to play the season, like is happening
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh right now. We're talking a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump back in Taco Chalk. We've talked
Speaker 1: about a little bit about him. He tweeted, I think
Speaker 1: it was last night yesterday at some point, free me.
Speaker 1: Is this guy becoming a problem for the Cowboys? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And that was someone had tweeted about Stephen Jones talking
Speaker 1: on one of five, threw the fan talking about how
Speaker 1: he liked Joe Jackson's position flex that that was the tweet.
Speaker 1: That was a tweet, and Taco Quote tweeted it and
Speaker 1: said free me and later deleted. At debut, you wrote
Speaker 1: a story on which, well, honestly, free me is the
Speaker 1: one that gets the headlines, because literally I put it
Speaker 1: in the headline of the story. But like the deleted tweet,
Speaker 1: that really was more interesting was the follow up up.
Speaker 1: You know, it was he's a Cowboys reporter, a friend
Speaker 1: of ours, Mark Lane was talking, you know, he was
Speaker 1: tweeting what Stephen was saying, and Taco said, free me.
Speaker 1: Mark came back and was like, Taco, just so you
Speaker 1: have the full context, here's the full quote about what
Speaker 1: Steven said about Joe Jackson. And he quote tweeted that
Speaker 1: and was like, well, I call bs because that's not
Speaker 1: what he told me in my reps or whatever. So
Speaker 1: take that and shove it basically, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know verbatim. You can go find the screen grabs on Twitter.
Speaker 1: He was like, that's that's not what I heard, and
Speaker 1: then he deleted it and said, the last thing I
Speaker 1: want to do is take this to social media. But
Speaker 1: sounds like the first thing that he wants to do.
Speaker 1: You know, when he was when it was told that
Speaker 1: he was going to be inactive, he went straight to
Speaker 1: social media, and you know, he's putting the business out
Speaker 1: there like that, and he's making it all really about him,
Speaker 1: which it's what social media really is. But it's just
Speaker 1: play better. I mean, that's really what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: I mean, like be better, like on the field, like
Speaker 1: if I mean they could use a better pass rush.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think that there's there's got to
Speaker 1: be a reason why he's not better than Dorn's armstrong
Speaker 1: Joe Jackson or all that. But the thing may be
Speaker 1: also that he doesn't think he's not better than those guys.
Speaker 1: And for a player in that situation, the only recourse
Speaker 1: they have in those kind of situations is make themselves
Speaker 1: as much of a sore on the team that the
Speaker 1: teams like, man, just get just get him out of here, right,
Speaker 1: because that's the only recourse you have. And so about
Speaker 1: these guys, remember, yes, I do, I do, I don't.
Speaker 1: What did it say? Oh I wish I knew. I
Speaker 1: don't wish I knew exactly what it said. Okay, sorry, true, Um,
Speaker 1: it's the guys that eat. You know. It was like
Speaker 1: it was like again, I'm not calling taco this word,
Speaker 1: but I think what the sign was. Winners, you know,
Speaker 1: do everything they can to get better and all that,
Speaker 1: and losers sit around and on the side and bitch
Speaker 1: about the things that they're not getting and and you know,
Speaker 1: basically the point is is that you have two directions.
Speaker 1: You can say I'm gonna try to get better better
Speaker 1: or you can say, well what was me? I'm not
Speaker 1: getting in they don't care about me, they don't like me,
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. And just like you know, you know,
Speaker 1: you know the guy that's like, I would have been
Speaker 1: all pro, but I got hurt or I didn't coaches
Speaker 1: didn't start me or whatever. You know, there's guys that
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, I live, I know that. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying saying I'm not gonna call Taco loser like that.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it sounds like he is feeling really
Speaker 1: sorry for himself right now. I was laughing, kind of
Speaker 1: chuckling when you were talking about that a few minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Derek was just like, I'm thinking Antonio Brown and just
Speaker 1: social media and the videos and everything going on. But
Speaker 1: it's interesting because a week ago we were thinking, we
Speaker 1: were talking about, okay, what might be good if Taco
Speaker 1: got a fresh start somewhere else, and then yesterday we
Speaker 1: learned Garrett's presser that Tyron Crawford was still having some
Speaker 1: flare ups and his hips and I were thinking, do
Speaker 1: we keep Taco through all this? Like maybe maybe now's
Speaker 1: not the time to trade him or let him go. Well,
Speaker 1: the problem with that is he doesn't have the position
Speaker 1: flex right, because that's what Tyron Crawford is, what his
Speaker 1: greatest asset is he can go inside or outside. That's
Speaker 1: not Taco. So you're hoping you get Quinn back and
Speaker 1: maybe now a guy like Hide or become your guy
Speaker 1: that can slide in and out because and so it's
Speaker 1: still leaves Tackle on the outside looking in. I just
Speaker 1: I don't think that there is a scenario in my mind,
Speaker 1: at least, I don't see a scenario where Taco gets
Speaker 1: back into the good graces of this team, because it
Speaker 1: doesn't he's not playing to be able to show that
Speaker 1: he's good enough to do it right. So whatever they've
Speaker 1: seen suggests that they've seen enough to say, well, he's
Speaker 1: just not good as good as the rest of these guys.
Speaker 1: And so unless you have a significant number of injuries
Speaker 1: that makes him them have to use him. I don't
Speaker 1: know how he gets back into the start. I don't
Speaker 1: know how he gets back into the active game day roster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny. I mean, it's just who he is that
Speaker 1: even makes this a story. Like if this was Jail
Speaker 1: and Jelks, she'd be like, I'm sorry, your seventh round pick,
Speaker 1: and you can only do this and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: be active. Sorry. But he's a first round pick, which
Speaker 1: creates the scrutiny and the displeasure on his part. It's
Speaker 1: probably embarrassing for him, probably frustrating, and it creates this
Speaker 1: news cycle. So like the Cowboys probably would love to
Speaker 1: just I mean, like if he's in active sixteen weeks,
Speaker 1: like yeah, it's it's not a good look for them.
Speaker 1: But they're like, well, he's good enough to be here,
Speaker 1: and like we don't want to get rid of him,
Speaker 1: Like he's serviceable, just not that serviceable. But how long
Speaker 1: does this go on and be a distraction and a
Speaker 1: news story? At what point does it not become worth
Speaker 1: it to them? And I don't know, I mean clearly
Speaker 1: not yet. It hasn't happened yet. But does it happen? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like I it's it's just kind of
Speaker 1: an awkward situation, Like what's going to happen to fix that?
Speaker 1: Like he's gonna he's gonna have to get playing time, right,
Speaker 1: Like he's not just suddenly gonna be like you know,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm cool with this, which but will
Speaker 1: he play well enough to get playing time? And it
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it or here's the other thing to consider.
Speaker 1: They could you know, the injuries could could could continue
Speaker 1: to mount to the point where they have to do
Speaker 1: something we would talking about a little earlier. We start
Speaker 1: getting these injuries that are like a few week type
Speaker 1: injuries where you might need to bolster a position by
Speaker 1: bringing somebody on the roster, but you're not taking anybody
Speaker 1: off by putting them on ir that it forces you
Speaker 1: to make some tough decisions. If they don't think he's
Speaker 1: in their long term plans, this may force their hand
Speaker 1: to have to do that unless unless those injuries you're
Speaker 1: talking about are on the defensive Unless on the defensive
Speaker 1: line correct or a specifically defensive end. Yeah, uh, where
Speaker 1: he actually could give you some support. You know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how he reacts, but I hope
Speaker 1: it's not a situation. Let's say they do have an
Speaker 1: injury like like Danny said about you know, Tyrone Crawford,
Speaker 1: and say he's set and needs to some arrest and
Speaker 1: is it going to be like, oh, oh you need
Speaker 1: me now? Uh? You know that kind of stuff, because
Speaker 1: is if he comes in and get sacked, then I'm
Speaker 1: good with that and have whatever motivates you. Right. You
Speaker 1: know you asked the first question you asked, is this
Speaker 1: a problem? And I don't think Taco's big enough to
Speaker 1: make to stop what's going on over there in this momentum. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that. But you know, at
Speaker 1: some point, is he good enough to be like quit
Speaker 1: talking like that, quit quit putting your business at our
Speaker 1: business out there every second of the time. So we
Speaker 1: have to you know, Steven and Jerry have to keep
Speaker 1: Jason have to keep asking about it or answering about
Speaker 1: it because, by the way, if he wants to get
Speaker 1: out of here, and let's assume for a second, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys want to trade him, which I don't know they do.
Speaker 1: Maybe they do, but if they did want to trade him,
Speaker 1: he's killing his own value, right. It doesn't help him
Speaker 1: to get out of here if they're trying to trade
Speaker 1: him and he's out there, like, let me go, Let
Speaker 1: me go, because the other teams, like you were saying
Speaker 1: earlier this week, but other teams know you're gonna eventually
Speaker 1: let a guy go there, like why should we trade
Speaker 1: for him? Just wait till you have to let him go?
Speaker 1: But is it? Couldn't you argue the league is different now,
Speaker 1: Levian Bell just said, I mean, I know different players
Speaker 1: and positions and teams and contracts and all of that.
Speaker 1: But if him saying free me, let me go, like
Speaker 1: plenty of other players have done that recently in Yeah,
Speaker 1: but those guys are bad asses. Yeah, I was about
Speaker 1: to say, those guys have a lot more a lot
Speaker 1: more credibility and certainly a lot more value as football
Speaker 1: players than Taco's got. I mean, you put up with
Speaker 1: Athonio Brown because of what he does, and Levion Bell,
Speaker 1: he put up with that. You know, the Cowboys for
Speaker 1: years put up with put up with Michael Urfin. It
Speaker 1: was one of the best players they ever had, but
Speaker 1: he was a problem for a long time off the field.
Speaker 1: But he was a problem for cornerbacks too. So that's
Speaker 1: I have a hard time believe in there as a
Speaker 1: market for Taco right now with everything that's gone on,
Speaker 1: Like they couldn't get something done during roster cuts or
Speaker 1: during the draft. Now this, I mean, he's not good
Speaker 1: enough that he's playing, and he's also stirring up drama
Speaker 1: with his current employer, Like I don't know why another
Speaker 1: team would want it. Kind of weird because the last
Speaker 1: time we saw him on the field was the first
Speaker 1: half against the Texans, and he was amazing. Two sacks,
Speaker 1: two rumbles, recovered a fumble, I had a third sack
Speaker 1: that was called back for a penalty, someone lined up
Speaker 1: off sides or something. I mean like he was all
Speaker 1: it was a monster and didn't to think that he
Speaker 1: hasn't played another snap. But that's honestly what makes me
Speaker 1: think that this is bigger than just his play on
Speaker 1: the feel like there's something else that's going on between
Speaker 1: him and this coaching scene's clearly in the doghouse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like there's something going to carry obvious. Anybody else
Speaker 1: I would have had that kind of game, they would
Speaker 1: have been like, oh, yeah, he's here and we're gonna
Speaker 1: give him every opportunity to do that in a regular
Speaker 1: season game. They didn't. They made him inactive. So there's
Speaker 1: something more to this story than just what he did
Speaker 1: or what he's doing on the field, right. I just
Speaker 1: I can only see like two outcomes, which is like
Speaker 1: one they wind up parting ways with him, or two
Speaker 1: injuries or something get forced him onto the field and
Speaker 1: he proves that he's got a role to play, Like
Speaker 1: let's say Tyrone has to sit and he plays and
Speaker 1: plays well like otherwise, I just this limbo feels so weird,
Speaker 1: like and it makes me feel uncomfortable, clearly, like I'm
Speaker 1: stuttering over it. Yeah, I just I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're like, Where does it go from here? Well, just
Speaker 1: just go back to what we've said throughout this whole
Speaker 1: show about different positions. I mean, something happens at receiver.
Speaker 1: They really love what Devin Smith can do is step in.
Speaker 1: Something happens a defensive tackle. Man, there's Tristan Hill, you know,
Speaker 1: there's safety. We'll see if Darian Thompson, I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit more of a drop off
Speaker 1: than than you know with the way Xavier's playing. But
Speaker 1: you know they want that with tackle. They want to
Speaker 1: have a defensive end that that they can plug right in.
Speaker 1: But if he's gonna continue to act that way, I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't know if you can. Who's an
Speaker 1: I know Jelks is on them, might be I know
Speaker 1: Jelkes is on ir. But who what was another end
Speaker 1: that they had here? They had a bunch of I'm
Speaker 1: shotting listening to guy's name, Ricky Walker. Yeah it was
Speaker 1: Ricky Walker. That was another guy. Who's the other guy tackle?
Speaker 1: He's on the practice car right now? Right wise? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, Why Wise plays tackled. I mean he did
Speaker 1: a little bit. They had him at Let's position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's just use Wise as an example, like they they
Speaker 1: would love to have that type of guy who like,
Speaker 1: you're gonna wear a baseball hat every weekend until we
Speaker 1: need you, but we like you. The problem is is
Speaker 1: just it's this guy's a headache, like the typically if
Speaker 1: you're not good enough to play, you're not gonna be
Speaker 1: a headache, Like you're just gonna stay on the side.
Speaker 1: Life's gonna wave a towel and get the crowd into it,
Speaker 1: like that's just your role, right. But if if he
Speaker 1: makes it so that this is just a story that
Speaker 1: kind of follows a team for the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: then at what point doesn't stop being worth it? And
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, like I said, we clearly
Speaker 1: haven't reached that point yet, but maybe we will. Is
Speaker 1: the only resolution at this point that he either gets
Speaker 1: cut or it's densigned as much trade value. Either he
Speaker 1: gets cut or at some point they have to play him, right,
Speaker 1: I don't know what else would have Like is he
Speaker 1: just we're just gonna do this all year, where like
Speaker 1: everybody's like this is going really great, and this one
Speaker 1: guy's kind of miserable, but we're just gonna deal with it.
Speaker 1: And they've kind of gotten rid of all those kinds
Speaker 1: of guys on this team. They don't really have a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that are upset right now. Even even
Speaker 1: the guys that are that are looking for contracts, they
Speaker 1: don't seem to be upset and pressing the issue. Once
Speaker 1: they got Zeke signed, it seemed like everything kind of
Speaker 1: just settled into tackles. The only guy that's not happy, Well,
Speaker 1: the egos might be in play here and not just
Speaker 1: bos the cowboy. Think about what that does when as
Speaker 1: soon as you trade or cut him. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: already got the bus label anyways. But you it's officially
Speaker 1: stamped as a terrible draft pick as soon as you
Speaker 1: do that, you know, and they don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: They don't want to show that they were you know,
Speaker 1: we were dead wrong by letting a guy go in
Speaker 1: his third year as a first round pick. Was the
Speaker 1: last time they had like first round pick? And I'm
Speaker 1: telling it's it's been because even you know, people love
Speaker 1: to throw Mo Clayborn at me because he went to LSU.
Speaker 1: But Mo was a regular starter when he was healthy. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think you can even compare most issues injuries. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was injuries. And even as his last year here,
Speaker 1: I actually thought he was playing pretty. He was freaking good. Um,
Speaker 1: you actually just opened I mean I should have considered this.
Speaker 1: There's always the possibility, and this is probably the reality.
Speaker 1: Jerry and Stephen Jones are like our running back was
Speaker 1: just in Cabo and we've had to deal with like
Speaker 1: suspensions and drama and all this stuff. Like we don't
Speaker 1: give a day, am if our sixth end is a
Speaker 1: little easy problem. Now this is a very easy problem
Speaker 1: for us to deal with. Like, don't underestimate the cowboys
Speaker 1: ability to deal with distraction for lack of a better word,
Speaker 1: And like they're probably sitting upstairs, like if this is
Speaker 1: the biggest distraction we're dealing with, we are great. Right,
Speaker 1: they might not give a damn that he's unhappened, Especially
Speaker 1: at this franchise of movie, we know there can be
Speaker 1: a lot of big distractions that are happening. So that's
Speaker 1: that's a relatively light one. Yeah, all right, we appreciate you, guys.
Speaker 1: John us We were back tomorrow eleven forty five, same
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