WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Bigger Void to Fill? 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:08.560 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:20.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let go. Are you 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.640 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:28.760 Absolutely ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:34.159 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:40.479 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.400 It is Monday, September thirteenth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.559 episode number nineteen. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.080 Life in the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, Nick, 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:56.520 give me a nineteen Uh, Keishan Keishawn Johnson, Keishaw Johnson 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.720 now doing radio for a ESPN. I could have probably 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:06.560 done other than that. Huh. There's a few. Yeah, I mean, 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:10.560 I mean, but a Marii Cooper, the current guy. Yeah, 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.920 Jet like bring it back. Yeah, I need I need 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:15.840 a guy from back in the day, not a not 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:17.840 a current guy. All right, let's we had a lot 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.480 to jump into today. We are, uh, coming off the 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.520 Cowboys off, calling off the NFL's Week one of the 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.640 season yesterday was full slate of games. It's actually nice 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.039 to sit back and actually watch football all day on 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:33.160 a Sunday because the Cowboys game was over. But we'll 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.120 start getting you guys ready this week for a week 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.039 number two. But today we're gonna kind of do a 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.360 little bit more of unpacking what happened last week with 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.680 the Cowboys. Um, I wanted to start first talking about 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.320 some some news items. Lyle Collins, we find out at 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.480 the end of last week has now been suspended for 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.880 five games, or at least that is what's being reported, 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:58.400 for violating the substance abuse policy. Um, what's your Dallas 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:04.080 do it right? Tackle? Well, sorry, you kind of glossed over. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.720 There's a lot going on with the Lyle Collins things 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.480 more than just that. Now if he does miss five games, 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:14.080 and he's gonna miss something that I want Dave, because 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.280 I mean it's this is this has got about twelve 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.520 layers took. There's a lot happening here and so by 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.359 the time I would imagine by the end of the day, 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.200 there'll be some different things shaken out here. There's just 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:29.880 a lot of dots to connect. Um, there's an appeal 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.080 process here. Did the NFL jump the gun? Did they 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.919 announce something that they should have? Is he even should 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.240 he be suspended at all. I'm telling you that there's 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.720 a lot happening here. Nick's trying to be nice. I 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:46.040 think the Cowboys are pissed, and and I don't. I mean, 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.760 I don't. I don't have information for you that can 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.480 get to the bottom of it. It's obviously a very 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.200 murky situation. But this whole thing is weird, and you 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:58.040 can the team's pissed. I'm sure Lyle is pissed. Um 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.480 And I, yeah, I don't. I don't know the first 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:04.000 about that, like whether or not the NFL jumped the gun, 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.080 whether or not Lyle Collins needs to be suspended for 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.680 five games, And yeah, I mean, I don't. Do you 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.000 have you heard something new since Friday? Because I have no, not, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.120 not really. But there's just like with anything in life, 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:21.359 COVID is also factoring into this too, because just just 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.320 with COVID that there's something about a COVID protocol that 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:29.200 he could have been on that that changes. Again, we're 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.520 supposed to know the information, and I apologize that we 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.720 really don't. I don't know as much as I should. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.400 I'll tell you this, there are a lot of moving 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:41.320 parts in this. Um. Let's just say that he is 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.839 suspended because he got a game to play. NFL moves 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.840 on and he probably won't play. But I just know 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.200 that this is probably not as much as the Zeke 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.080 thing was back in twenty seventeen, where we're on off, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.880 on off, but it's got that kind of murkiness to it. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.640 I've asked a couple of people, and I've kind of 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.360 got that stiff farm like, don't even don't even go 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.800 there yet. There's just so much do we are supposed 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.760 to know these things? But this is a situation where 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.080 I don't feel bad about not knowing, Like it's all 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.280 it gets weird with with these like league team conflicts, 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.920 you know. I mean, remember how much legal reading we 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.480 had to do to even try to decipher the Zeke stuff. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.160 And nobody on either side wants to help you in 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.800 this because it's a legal issue and all sorts of 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.719 you know, weird stuff going on that they would probably 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.039 rather people aren't snooping into. So this is a situation 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.960 where it's hard to get answers, but I am curious 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:38.880 to see where it goes. Yeah, and so I guess 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.919 what I'm going back to. The first what I'm taking 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.840 from this is five games May may not happen. At 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.440 this point, there's still just a lot up in the air, 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.360 and I don't want to be in a final resolution 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.160 to whatever the issues are on both. But I don't 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.680 want to give people like It's kind of like Zach 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.120 with COVID, Like, well, Jerry said he might play yeah, 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.240 Like I don't want to give people false hope, like well, 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.000 David Nicks that it's gonna be less than five games, Like, 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.359 I don't know that. And I know, if I know anything, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.159 the League is very stubborn and firm about like not 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.160 going back when they're wrong, right, No, even they will 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.599 go down with their ship in the in an effort 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.000 to not look wrong. They do it all the time. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.760 So you know, maybe they completely screwed Lyle Collins over. 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.960 I don't know, Maybe Lyle screwed this up. I don't 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.479 really know, but I have a hard time believing the 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.800 league is they're gonna do everything in their power to 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.279 not backtrack on this. If I had to guess, yeah, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.080 And I think the reason why all that's important is 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.560 that goes back to your question, because if it's just 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.839 a straight five games in the story, five games, then 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.960 then you make a different decision if it's maybe not, 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.279 if it's maybe one, if it could be two, it 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.920 could be back and forth. Now I think you have 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.680 to Okay, well paint both those scials. Let's assume for 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.400 a second five it's five games, as it's been reported. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.080 What happens? What do you do it? Right tackle? And 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.120 let me be let me be clear. I'm asking you, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.480 what do you nick and day? What would you do 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.560 at right tack? I hate that answer because what I 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.200 do it doesn't matter. No, it matters for the sake 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.440 of a radio show and we're talking, we're supposed to 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.159 give opinions. Tell me what you would do in the 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.240 instance that this was a five game. If it was me, 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.719 I would have gone to Zach Martin on Friday and said, 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.080 I'm sorry, man, I know you don't want to do 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.320 this and it sucks like it's a bummer. We're one 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.320 game into the season and we're already dealing with this. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.840 But if we're gonna not have LC for five weeks, 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.320 i'd like you to I'd like you to start practicing 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.000 it right tackle. Have we thought about maybe making him 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:33.719 a manager? That was actually a good way to do it, 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:35.680 Like come on seeing and sit down like it, I 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.080 really need to. I'm just as unhappy about this, right. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:39.960 I know, I know that you're not gonna like this, 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.480 but this is what we gotta do for the team. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.000 Let's go together. We can get this done. That's what 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.440 I would do. Yeah, I don't think the Cowboys will, 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:54.120 at least not yet. I would start Terence Steal at 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.520 right tackle and I would have Zach Martin at right guard. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.200 So I think that's what I would do. Why, um, 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.960 And I think I'm looking at this matchup more than 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.000 any of the matchups. Okay, I'm looking at this one. Um. 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.920 I think he's probably better than Tiansecki from what I've seen. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:13.960 I don't I don't know. I could be wrong there. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.920 I just haven't seen Insecki do a lot. He just 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.679 seems kind of too big and lumbering and just doesn't 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.040 seem like a wrong I would. I would. If we're 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.800 not moving things around, I'd rather play Steal than yatsek Um. 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.600 I'd like Steele with with Zack Martin. Um. I think 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.640 he's got quick feet, quicker feet. I think he's gonna 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.840 go out. He's gonna go against Bosa. I mean, obviously 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.080 that would be a tough one, But I just, you know, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.640 I think that's what I would do because I want 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.320 my all Pro guard to be an All Pro and 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.559 I want him at guard. If he's at right tackle, 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:48.760 I don't know if he's an All Pro. I think 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.640 he's good. You don't think when he played last year 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.560 at that position, he played at that kind of level. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:54.760 I'm not ready to say that. I don't even know 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.080 about that level. He didn't play really well. I mean, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.200 I remember the Seattle game he winning there, he played well. Um, 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.960 if this is just what I know what not watching 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:05.920 a lot of the tape and film and all that, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.080 they have to decide, they have to they look at 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.200 it and go steal or insecty whatever they decide, and 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.800 then Zach Martin inside and also Zack Martin inside with 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.600 Tyler Beiannest. Don't forget that aspect of it too. Zach 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.560 next to Tyler. It also could help because he needs 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.400 some help too. Um, they have to decide what's better 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.360 between that or McGovern staying where he has give him 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.320 another good start there, and then sliding Zach Martin. Now, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.920 I mean they Joe Philbin's a really good offensive line coach, 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.480 and the they'll they'll weigh all those pros and cons. 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.720 I think it's close enough that we can debate about it. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.360 I think we all agreed that McGovern had a good 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.680 week last week. So how does this factor into the 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.160 whole concept of getting your best five on the field, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.160 Because I think most would probably agree McGovern is a 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.800 better guard than Steele is a tackle. Okay, that's I 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.600 think that's the genesis of the argument. That's why people 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.400 are talking about this is. Yeah, if if McGovern can 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.679 go out there against Tampa's front and play as well 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.320 as he did, then it stands the reason that he 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.079 can hold his own in there as an every down starter. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.240 And he did it for eight games last year, and 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:14.240 for the most part, looked pretty good. And people are, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:16.560 for better or for worse, people are scarred by what 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.680 they saw from the right tackle spot last year. And 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:20.360 I mean that's a big part of it as well 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:25.120 as just like I've seen this, oh, but I mean 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.200 the whole like a lot of the stress from the 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.680 tackles stems from that Atlanta game, which was four years 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.679 ago at this no doubt, So I get it. You know, 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:41.160 I really like Connor McGovern. I think he's gonna be good, 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.880 But I'm not willing to say that he played well 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.640 last week. I think they protected the heck out of 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.120 those offensive linemen in the middle because they didn't do 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.600 anything with them. They went into the game plan saying, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.400 we're not even going to try. We're not trying. We're 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.560 gonna go sideline to sideline. We're gonna play this way 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.200 and if it gets down to the red zone, we'll 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.520 take our chances in. And they really didn't win down there. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.120 They had to throw it in so they to me, 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.520 they were a very one dimensional offense. And if that's 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:09.960 the way the offense is gonna be, that's what it's 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.160 gonna be. But I think if you put Zach in there, 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.559 that you're gonna have a better chance to be a 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.280 little a little less one dimensional. That's why now I'm 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.200 not saying that McGovern versus the Chargers won't be you know, 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:23.640 maybe they can run the ball a little bit more, 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.240 but they're going to have to figure out ways to 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.880 do that. Yeah, I mean, I do think that the 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.400 the when you look at just how good Tampa is 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.640 against the run, Yeah, I think that factors in, right, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.880 That's the big reason. Yeah, that's the big reason. That's 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.920 way more reason, I think than mc govern being in there. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.760 I think they probably realize we're up against that kind 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.080 of defense. And by the way, the strength of that 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.800 defense is right up the middle. Why would we try 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:49.000 to run against that brick wall with a lesser set 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.960 of players than just throwing the ball. But but all 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.120 that being said, um, what do you guys think that 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.280 the Cowboys will do? Because we talk about what you 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.200 would do, what do you think the Cowboys will do 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.680 in this instance? So again we're assuming it's five games. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.079 I think they're gonna roll with these swing tackles. I 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.280 don't know who. I don't know if they know who, 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.719 because I mean, if you think about the preseason, they 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.439 alternated Steel and Inseci all through it. They both played 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.360 both sides of the line, they both got different opportunities, 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.400 they both played deep into pretty much every preseason game. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.560 So you probably roll with the combination that you feel 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.560 best about by Thursday, if I had to guess, But 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:26.760 between those two guys, that's what I think they'll do. 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:31.600 Mike McCarthy has been pretty straightforward about and really not 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.120 wanting to do drastic things unless it absolutely has to happen. 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.920 You know, it's interesting about the Gallop situation as well, 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.520 you know, Gallop out maybe three to five weeks something 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.160 like that. We'll get to that second. Yeah. But but but 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.360 but I think if factors in here, because if you 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.760 do play steel or Inseci, what do you think's also 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.920 going to happen? Tight end tight end chip and then 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.920 get Zeke in there with that pass pro again, So 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.880 that might change a little bit of having three receivers 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.160 as much out there anyways. I mean, the Gallup might 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.760 not have played as much as they wanted him to anyways, 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.000 just because you might have to go a little with 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:11.480 two tight ends or keep tight ends in. So I mean, obviously, 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.000 Cedric Wilson's gonna play, and he's gonna play a lot. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.880 Noah Brown, don't forget. Noah Brown's gonna get back and play, 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.719 and I think he will help this team a lot. 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.080 I've I've sort of changed my thought a little bit, 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:22.880 and I know I'm jumping ahead on your rundown, but 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.880 I just I think these things kind of matter because 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.280 it's a domino effect. We got to help the right tackle, 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:29.880 We're gonna have to or if we don't help the 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.520 right tackle, we have to help inside blocking in there. 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.360 And then and then how does that affect with receivers 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.920 we have, and of course they're one big receiver down. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.280 I want to I want to throw this out there too, 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.320 And I think it's an underrated You're talking about things 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.000 being connected. This is an underrated aspect of the whole 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.240 thing as well. And I just said that I would 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.880 probably want to move Zach to tackle. But one argument 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.839 for why you probably don't, or if you don't want 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.839 to do that, an argument in your favor, I think, 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:00.600 is the quarterback. Honestly, Dak Prescott is good enough at 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.880 this point in his career that I trust him to 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.840 make things work. I trust him to get the ball 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.000 out quickly. I trust him to make the protection, you know, 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.720 call the protections to help out whoever needs it the most. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.560 He knows where the ball needs to go. He's also athletic, 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.040 he can extend plays. I know their record wasn't good, 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.680 but the line was a shambles for the first five 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.840 weeks of the season last year, and they played functional football, 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:24.640 you know. I mean it got down to the last 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.600 throw of the game against Seattle in Week three and 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.920 that was when Zach was playing guard and they had 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:31.400 to do all heard tackle I mean, they had to 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.520 do all this crazy stuff. I think Tyrant Tyrant was 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.079 in and out of the lineup. Like Week two against 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:37.760 the Falcons, I don't believe they had either one of 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.640 them right, And they only had Tyrant against the Browns. 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.680 And again, I get it. They didn't win all these games, 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.320 but they were moving the ball, they were scoring points 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.120 like the offense was doing things. And so I think 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.400 that is something to consider, is that a quarterback of 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.800 Dak's caliber, it doesn't all need to be perfect the 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.960 way it did when he was a rookie or in 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.760 twenty seventeen or even probably twenty eighteen. I think I 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.640 trust him so much more to make it work with 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.240 less than I did even two years. I've I've heard 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.560 Romo say this, if there was a wink a week 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.120 link on the offensive line, make it be the right tackle, 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.360 because I can see that. I can figure it out. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:15.920 I could see him come in and I could you know, 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.319 of course he could see the left tackles coming to him. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.400 I don't know, but he could do that. But I mean, 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.040 and and I think I think Dak is even better 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.160 than that and better than than Romo when it comes 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.920 to eluding that kind of stuff stronger. So I mean, 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.160 I also, I think I'm going to reiterate that about 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.160 him in the right guard. I think he helps, and 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.160 I think he'll help be Odish on this side. I 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:37.880 think he'll help the right tackle. So I think I 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.880 would probably keep it and then go with my best 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.600 guy on the right tackle. And I just think from 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:47.200 an athletic standpoint athleticism, I think it's steel. But you know, 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.320 let's also remember that the Cowboys might have thought this 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.080 was coming, you know, because suspensions. Don't they sneak up 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.080 on fans. They shouldn't sneak up on the Cowboys. Maybe 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.840 this one did. But you know, they do have three 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.160 backup tackles on the roster, one of them being Josh Ball. 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.880 But they have three, and that's that's kind of heavy. Yeah, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.120 I might have been a reason for this. I talked 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:14.240 to somebody Friday. I was like eventful afternoon. Han. They 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.960 were like, well, you know these we have advanced notice 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.760 of these things. 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Sounds like he's gonna be out for multiple weeks? 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.040 Do we know exactly how long? Whereas it just kind 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:31.800 of right now he's going to be out multiple weeks, 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.600 definitely won't be playing this game. And the early prognosis 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:39.880 was three to five. But ye, maybe they were kg 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.280 about the Lyle thing, like nobody wanted to talk about 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.400 anything like that on Friday, Like Mike McCarthy didn't really 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.320 give us much of an updated timeline on that. Yeah, 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.639 but that, I mean, it was three to five is 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.240 what I've heard, and I haven't heard anything different yet, 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.840 So yeah, I mean, you obviously you can't go off 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.199 what players tell you. I've been burned by that in 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.760 the past, and you can't go off of basically what 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.959 they're looking like. Mike looked fine leaving, like we were 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:09.919 down in the tunnel waiting for a post game and 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.720 they're all filing back into the locker room, and he 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:14.639 didn't look like he was limping. He seemed like he 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:16.800 was in good spirits, which you're right, because I saw 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:18.720 that and I was like, Okay, he's fine. And then 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.439 Friday morning it was like three to five weeks, right, 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.880 So I have a hard time thinking, like five week injury. 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.920 I just you know now what it feel like when 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:29.600 you woke up will be the difference, right, right, And 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.080 it was kind of initially like an ankle sprain, but 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.280 then it's now it's a calf sprain. And you know 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.440 that's or calf's strain what I'm saying, But I mean 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.640 that that's that's a different injury. So we'll see how 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:46.600 they happen. It is. Nick knows all about cass. Like 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.679 Dick and Ling, we talked about it. It's almost an 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:50.600 outside joke now it's been talked about it. I hurt 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.080 my calf, it still hurts two years later. Let's not 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.400 compare me to any NFL athlete because I'm not an 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.120 athlete and they are. But it does factor in your 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:03.240 evaluation of injury. I'll tell you the difference. Though. Michael 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.280 Gallup's not going to be a dumb ass and run 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:07.400 on it three days later. He's not going to do that. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:12.000 He's NFL guys a different breed. Burt Brown is going 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:16.040 to make your ass on the training table that right 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:17.679 there is the reason why he won't. All right, So 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:19.560 tell me how do cowboys adjust to this? What do 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:21.720 they need to do in his absence? And you started 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.520 talking about this little league. But what do you need 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:25.800 to do here? Well, I think you know, Cedric Wilson 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:27.880 has been ready for it. I mean he's got more 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.720 reps with Dack than probably anybody. He's a he's a 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.560 he's a member of the back yard, you know club. 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:37.120 So he goes out there and um does that, and 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:38.800 I think he's I think he's got a good rapport 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:40.280 with him. We saw it in a couple of games 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.600 last year or too, so I think Noah Brown will help. Also, 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.679 I've kind of done a one eighty on my thoughts 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:50.200 on Noah Brown. He's impressed me to the point where 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.399 because I think he's playing like a big bodied receiver. 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:55.200 They tried to do it tight end stuff with him. 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.560 Now he's a big body receiver. He plays that way. 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.880 He made some contested catches. I would. I agree with you. 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.120 I love the Dack yard is a thing. By the way. 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:06.800 I love that. It's a feast. What an outstand. I 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:08.960 didn't come up with that. Somebody did it. That was amazing. 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:12.240 That's that's a really good thing yard football. I agree 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:14.399 with you, Noah is playing more like a big bodied receiver. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.800 But I saw um, you know, they were talking about 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.879 Jarwin's miss block on the option play on the goal line, 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:23.119 and Zeke's mom on Twitter was like, I know, I 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:25.879 know a guy who could probably make that block. And 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:27.760 I was like, I see what she did there? Did 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:30.120 she spell it that way? Yeah? I know a guy 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:32.360 n o a h a guy that could pull that off. 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:38.680 And I was like, good, I like that, don absolutely yeah, 0:21:38.720 --> 0:21:42.199 yeah yeah yeah yeah. But I mean we that's some 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:46.080 clever writing. I know a guy. Wow, that's that's that's 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:48.920 something you would say, thank you, that's high praise. You 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.400 would do that, you would do that. But um, she's 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:53.320 a good follow. She's a really good finn. I don't 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:55.600 want to downplay. It sucks if Mike's going to be out. 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.679 He's a very good player and that sucks. But this 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:00.320 is a situation where I'm like, well, this is why 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.920 you kept these guys. This is why you weren't trying 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:06.479 to shed salary and keep Simi Fehoko, Like, yeah, Cedric 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:09.560 Wilson probably has caught more balls from Dak Prescott than 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:11.840 anybody on this team. If I had to guess, Noah's 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:15.240 been here forever. They know the offense. Cedric's got some 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.640 inside outside flexibility the big thing for me, Like, if 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:20.880 I'm thinking about it, I'm like, Okay, Cedric's probably first 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.600 man up. Do you want him in the slot more 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.720 with CD outside or do you want CD outside you know? 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:28.560 Or do you want to move Cedric outside and keep 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:30.359 Ceding in the slot. Probably do a little bit of both. 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:32.919 But I'm just I'm not I'm not worried about that 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:35.000 at all. Like that is an injury that you should 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:37.320 be able to absorb. That's why you kept two veteran 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:42.960 arguably quote unquote overpriced receivers on the roster. Again, did 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:46.200 Dak Prescott's at a level where he's still got CD 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:49.040 in Amari? So just fill that in with what you 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:50.639 got and I think they should be fine. So let 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:53.399 me go. I was just going back to that that 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:56.439 thought about Noah Brown out there on that play. Noah 0:22:56.440 --> 0:22:59.440 Brown is a much better person to have out there 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:03.160 because because he's a receiver, I mean not yes, he's 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:05.760 changes how the defense is gonna mess right now because 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:08.359 you could be right on him. They could be pressed 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:10.119 on Jarwin and then get buy him for the block. 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:12.160 But if you, if you try that, Deck could change 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:14.359 it and say wait a second, he thinks this corner, 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:16.159 thinks is gonna be a run. I got Noah, I 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:18.639 can no one could beat this guy. So yes, I 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:20.320 think no one could do a much better job. I 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:22.320 think we all could. I mean, somebody can get a 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:23.560 hand on the guy, you know what I mean. And 0:23:23.640 --> 0:23:25.720 this isn't the first time we've seen Jarwin miss in 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:28.520 the open fil that's not his thing. Blocking is These 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:30.720 tight ends aren't the greatest blockers. Yeah, we know that, 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.960 and but I think we were always kind of worried 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:37.480 about the defensive end approach, like they're not going to 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:39.919 be very good if they get overpowered. But we're seeing 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:44.760 them struggle more with corners and safeties knifing their way 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:48.200 in space. So um, that's why I think Noah Brown 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:50.199 would have been better there. This isn't it's not a 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:52.520 crazy stat line, but Cedric caught all three of his 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:55.000 targets for twenty four yards the other night. He blew 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:58.720 up against Seattle when they needed him. I'm I wish 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:01.720 Michael Gallup was healthy, but I am not sweating this 0:24:01.880 --> 0:24:04.199 the way that I'm sweating not having Lyle Collins. The 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:06.160 one thing I would I would ask if you ask 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:09.080 about that, I agree with you that I think both 0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:12.800 those backup receivers can step in and fill inadequately. The 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:15.960 one role I'm still wondering who's gonna take is the 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:18.960 guy that's gonna stretch the field. Michael Gallup seems to 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:21.160 be the guy that stretches the field for this offense. 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:23.399 He's the guy that tends to get back deep and 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:26.960 get those those big balls. I'm not sure if there's 0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:29.080 another person we've seen him are do it some I 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:31.800 don't think that's really CD's game. So who's going to 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:34.240 really stretch to feel here? I'll bet you ten dollars. 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:35.960 CD could do it if you gave him the chance. 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:38.280 He just hasn't needed to now. I mean he can. 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:40.120 He can go I mean we saw him all through 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:42.640 training camp. He can go up and snatch the ball yea. 0:24:42.720 --> 0:24:45.359 Like he's great at it. It just hasn't been something 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:48.280 that they've asked him to do. Amar's not He's not 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:50.119 the type to like box out, you know, but he 0:24:50.160 --> 0:24:53.360 gets open with his route running like no. I mean, 0:24:53.640 --> 0:24:56.080 both of those guys can do that, Like Michael Gallup 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.520 is good at that, but it's he and it sounds 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:01.760 like I'm talking trash, like I don't think he possesses 0:25:01.760 --> 0:25:04.399 this elite skill set that nobody else on this roster 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:06.880 can do. He just he just plays the role. By that, Yeah, 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:09.399 he plays the role. But I think either one of 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:12.480 those other two can do that if I fast two. Yeah, 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:15.920 I think Amari's has been one of the better deep 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:18.200 threats on the team. I mean, he really can stretch 0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:20.679 the field. We saw it in that catch against Atlanta 0:25:20.760 --> 0:25:23.119 last year. We saw it against Washington on Thanksgiving. I mean, 0:25:23.160 --> 0:25:25.439 he can get by the defense. It doesn't look like it. 0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:29.560 You know, he's moving there. That's it. Never Amari's those 0:25:29.680 --> 0:25:32.520 long balls to him, it never looks as crazy because 0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:35.280 Mike usually goes up and kind of does his Dez thing, 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:37.200 and CD's kind of got some of that to him 0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:39.920 as well. Amar's just a step and a half behind. 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:42.600 I mean, Amari reminds me a lot of and I 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:44.639 know he's played eighteen years and he's Hall of Famer 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:46.240 and all that, but he reminds me a lot of 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:49.560 Larry Fitzgerald and the fact that his route running is 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:52.880 so good and and maybe not the fastest, but but 0:25:53.280 --> 0:25:55.359 he gets it done, and he's getting it done for 0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:58.200 a long time now. He's maybe not as durable, and 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:01.560 if he plays that long, that'll be amazing. But I 0:26:01.600 --> 0:26:04.640 mean it's just it's never really flashy until you look 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:08.600 at the stats and you're like, wow, that's pretty amazing. Yeah. 0:26:08.800 --> 0:26:11.000 I mean I thought, you know, I said before about 0:26:11.040 --> 0:26:13.200 that that that fumble that Dak had and he lost 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:14.800 the fumble and he picked it up and threw it tomar. 0:26:15.160 --> 0:26:17.520 But I you know, Amari was where he needed to 0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:19.879 be too. I mean, Amari down at the goal line 0:26:20.560 --> 0:26:22.760 is a really really good route runner. We saw it 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:25.040 his first game. Was it his first game against the 0:26:25.080 --> 0:26:27.520 Titans when he came in, We saw that touchdown. I mean, 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:30.119 we just he is. He can be really good. So 0:26:30.160 --> 0:26:31.600 if they're not going to run the ball, if they 0:26:31.600 --> 0:26:33.520 can't run the ball, at least you got a guy 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:36.560 down there that can win those quick in bone booth 0:26:36.600 --> 0:26:39.160 type plays. Ye. All right, we're gonna take our final 0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:41.200 break when we come back, We're gonna talk a little 0:26:41.240 --> 0:26:44.320 bit about this team's identity. We've been watching Dak Prescott 0:26:44.480 --> 0:26:47.040 do some pretty amazing things going back to last year, 0:26:47.080 --> 0:26:49.480 and the question for these guys is has the identity 0:26:49.480 --> 0:26:51.639 of this team changed? Are they now a passing team? 0:26:51.680 --> 0:26:54.360 Firmly and no longer a team that relies on the run. 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:55.639 We'll talk about that when we come right back. This 0:26:55.640 --> 0:26:58.720 is Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio. Hi, I'm Click Tullison 0:26:58.720 --> 0:27:00.760 with you not at agg in Turf before you can 0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:03.200 park yourself in front of the game, Park yourself in 0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:06.120 a John Dear and power through your chores. 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I would assume 0:29:28.400 --> 0:29:31.000 you guys thought was a run first team that they 0:29:31.000 --> 0:29:33.840 were built around the offensive line and the running back. 0:29:34.400 --> 0:29:37.120 I think over the last year, going back to the 0:29:37.160 --> 0:29:39.400 game's last season that Dak played before he was hurt, 0:29:39.440 --> 0:29:41.800 and then what we saw in Week one against Tampa Bay, 0:29:41.960 --> 0:29:44.080 to me, it has become a parent that this is 0:29:44.120 --> 0:29:47.240 a team that is a passing team. The past sets 0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:49.720 up the run. They rely on the past far more 0:29:49.760 --> 0:29:51.720 than they rely on the run. Do you guys agree 0:29:51.720 --> 0:29:54.240 with that sentiment? I think I made that switch in 0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:58.080 twenty nineteen. Honestly, I mean that's when I really and 0:29:58.400 --> 0:30:00.840 maybe you know down the back half of twenty eighteen, 0:30:01.520 --> 0:30:06.200 that's I mean, when Amari Cooper got here, a switch flipped, 0:30:06.280 --> 0:30:08.680 and I think Amari was a big part in jump 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:12.360 starting that because Dak absolutely needed a receiver of that caliber. 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:16.800 But over time he has grown and evolved, and that's 0:30:16.880 --> 0:30:19.040 going back to my point about the offensive line, Like 0:30:19.200 --> 0:30:22.720 he is now a quarterback that has that type of 0:30:22.760 --> 0:30:25.280 command over the offense that it would be silly to 0:30:25.360 --> 0:30:27.280 not have the offense run through him. Yeah, I mean 0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:29.840 a lot of it has been personnel. That that's you mean, 0:30:29.920 --> 0:30:33.200 look at the receivers that were here when when Dak 0:30:33.640 --> 0:30:36.360 when you thought that statement, when Zeke was running the 0:30:36.360 --> 0:30:37.959 way he was running, the line was blocking. I mean, 0:30:38.000 --> 0:30:41.520 the receivers weren't. That wasn't the best position group on 0:30:41.560 --> 0:30:43.840 the team. But it's over time. You know, they hit 0:30:43.880 --> 0:30:45.720 on a third round pick with Gallup. I mean, he's 0:30:45.720 --> 0:30:47.560 been a really good third round pick, and then, like 0:30:47.600 --> 0:30:50.160 you said, they traded for Amari and then they just said, 0:30:50.320 --> 0:30:53.400 we cannot pass on Cede Lamb even though doesn't make 0:30:53.480 --> 0:30:56.360 the most sense, it does if we can, you know, 0:30:56.400 --> 0:30:59.120 if they can work together, and so then that's helped 0:30:59.200 --> 0:31:01.680 Dak grow and an offensive line hasn't been the same 0:31:01.720 --> 0:31:05.680 though too. Offensive line isn't as good as they've been. 0:31:05.720 --> 0:31:07.640 They haven't been as dominant in the run game. So 0:31:07.800 --> 0:31:10.720 I think there's just been a shift. Well there's been 0:31:10.720 --> 0:31:12.960 a shift in the sport of football too. And like, 0:31:13.120 --> 0:31:16.920 and I love analytics, I'm not good enough at math 0:31:17.040 --> 0:31:19.800 to really understand them the way that I would prefer. 0:31:19.920 --> 0:31:21.760 You know, like there's some people that are just like, well, 0:31:22.200 --> 0:31:25.800 this point three eight EPA means this. I'm like, I 0:31:25.840 --> 0:31:28.239 want to understand this better. But you can look at 0:31:28.280 --> 0:31:30.840 all of these charts and realize, like this is a 0:31:30.880 --> 0:31:36.240 passing leak, and the difference in pat like your success 0:31:36.320 --> 0:31:39.000 rate passing and what throwing the ball can do for you. 0:31:39.720 --> 0:31:43.120 It's it's it's there's no denying it. And even teams 0:31:43.160 --> 0:31:46.960 like Tennessee, for example, who have this amazing running back 0:31:47.000 --> 0:31:50.560 and everybody's afraid of Derrick Henry, they make their bread 0:31:50.560 --> 0:31:53.280 off of play action. Like people are so afraid of 0:31:53.320 --> 0:31:55.920 Derrick Henry, they use that to their advantage. Ryan Tannehill 0:31:55.960 --> 0:31:58.800 has had a career renaissance since he got there because 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:01.520 he throws off of the threat he throws off the 0:32:01.560 --> 0:32:04.680 threat of the run. So even teams like that, you 0:32:04.720 --> 0:32:07.120 need to be throwing the ball to really be tapping 0:32:07.160 --> 0:32:09.840 into your offense as well as you should. And I 0:32:09.880 --> 0:32:13.640 commend the Cowboys for realizing that. I commend Kellen Moore. 0:32:14.200 --> 0:32:16.440 Is that a winning strategy for this team? Though? Because 0:32:16.440 --> 0:32:18.640 if you go back to last year, they were three 0:32:18.720 --> 0:32:21.440 or four losses in those first four games that Dak 0:32:21.520 --> 0:32:24.040 started and played throughout the game. They lost the first 0:32:24.040 --> 0:32:27.000 game to this season, and the only game that they 0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:29.720 won in the last last year and this year with 0:32:29.840 --> 0:32:33.400 Dak doing this was against Atlanta where they had to 0:32:33.400 --> 0:32:36.320 come back from this what we thought was an insurmountable 0:32:36.960 --> 0:32:38.800 lead that they'd given up and win by a point. 0:32:39.120 --> 0:32:41.400 So is this a winning strategy for Dallas? Now? I 0:32:41.440 --> 0:32:43.080 know this can be a winning strategy around the league. 0:32:43.120 --> 0:32:45.720 We've seen other teams do it. My question is really 0:32:45.880 --> 0:32:49.720 is Dak good enough and is the rest of the 0:32:49.760 --> 0:32:51.800 team around him the other things that have to work 0:32:51.840 --> 0:32:54.000 the way that they have to work for this strategy 0:32:54.040 --> 0:32:56.360 to be successful. Debt for Dallas, I'll throw in the 0:32:56.440 --> 0:32:59.680 caveat that. I mean, in the NFL, you need to 0:32:59.720 --> 0:33:01.840 be able to run the football in certain times and 0:33:01.880 --> 0:33:05.600 it would certainly be nice. Hopefully against lesser competition than 0:33:05.640 --> 0:33:08.720 Tampa Bay, you can have some second half leads that 0:33:08.800 --> 0:33:12.240 allow you to use Ezekiel Elliott. Not that you need to, 0:33:12.440 --> 0:33:15.360 but yeah, I mean that is that's very beneficial. Like 0:33:15.360 --> 0:33:17.640 there's all there's an argument on social media all the 0:33:17.640 --> 0:33:20.040 time where it's like, well, when Zeke runs twenty five times, 0:33:20.120 --> 0:33:22.560 they win this amount of time. Why why do they 0:33:22.600 --> 0:33:24.680 win so often when Zeke touches the ball twenty five 0:33:24.720 --> 0:33:26.320 times Because they have a lead and you get to 0:33:26.440 --> 0:33:29.440 lean on the opposition. That is a valuable thing and 0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:31.440 I don't want them to get away from it completely. 0:33:32.000 --> 0:33:34.680 But time and time again, we you know, teams show 0:33:34.720 --> 0:33:38.640 that you can absolutely win being that skewed toward the pass. 0:33:38.960 --> 0:33:42.600 I know it's not fair to compare anybody to Patrick Mahomes, 0:33:42.640 --> 0:33:46.080 but they do it all the time. And for that matter, 0:33:46.120 --> 0:33:48.760 the reason the Cowboys had such a crappy record, in 0:33:48.800 --> 0:33:52.160 my opinion last year, it was turnover differential more than anything. 0:33:52.200 --> 0:33:54.120 I mean, they were in those holes because they were 0:33:54.160 --> 0:33:55.960 turning the ball over two and three times in the 0:33:56.000 --> 0:33:58.840 first quarter every week. Outside of Pat Mahomes. You brought 0:33:58.880 --> 0:34:01.320 up an interesting point. Outside of a Mahomes. Obviously, he's 0:34:01.360 --> 0:34:03.520 the best quarterback in the league. I think Dak is 0:34:03.600 --> 0:34:06.000 up there and probably top five quarterbacks in the league. 0:34:06.280 --> 0:34:09.400 But putting that aside, what else does Kansas City have 0:34:09.880 --> 0:34:15.080 that Maybe Dallas doesn't have track speed, a tight end 0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:19.480 that's a big receiver. I mean they have mismatched problems. 0:34:19.560 --> 0:34:22.080 What they have they have? I mean they have Tyreek Hill, 0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:24.920 who can just go and then they how do you 0:34:25.000 --> 0:34:27.239 how do you try to I mean that one two 0:34:27.280 --> 0:34:29.759 punch is so dynamic because if you're gonna try to 0:34:29.800 --> 0:34:32.560 cover Travis Kelsey, you have to you have to get 0:34:32.560 --> 0:34:35.160 some kind of safety or corner help. Well, then what 0:34:35.239 --> 0:34:37.319 are you doing over here with Tyreek Hill? I mean, like, 0:34:37.600 --> 0:34:41.439 and that's that's just an amazing one two combination. Those 0:34:41.440 --> 0:34:44.200 guys are just amazing and and and then you got 0:34:44.239 --> 0:34:46.640 you got a great quarterback there. Does Dallas do a 0:34:46.680 --> 0:34:49.360 similar thing from a matchup standpoint, Not necessarily from the 0:34:49.400 --> 0:34:51.759 standpoint of two guys that are that dynamic, but from 0:34:51.760 --> 0:34:54.879 a standpoint they have so many different parts that are 0:34:55.160 --> 0:34:58.080 hard matchups that maybe they create that same sort of 0:34:58.120 --> 0:35:00.520 matchup problem for the team. Have some matchup problems but 0:35:00.560 --> 0:35:03.640 because they have it more in numbers yet, right, But 0:35:03.640 --> 0:35:06.520 but nothing that's just you know, I've said this before. 0:35:06.960 --> 0:35:10.120 They don't have anybody that's that's in that top five 0:35:10.400 --> 0:35:14.200 of their position other than guard, and now we're maybe 0:35:14.239 --> 0:35:15.880 moving him to dackle, which I don't think he'd be 0:35:15.920 --> 0:35:18.279 a top five tackle. I don't think. I don't want to. 0:35:18.400 --> 0:35:20.600 I don't want to doubt him. I don't want to 0:35:20.600 --> 0:35:22.839 bet again. I don't want to bet against them. But 0:35:22.960 --> 0:35:26.000 I mean, thirty two teams decided that he was a guard, 0:35:26.120 --> 0:35:27.759 so I mean, I think he can play it, but 0:35:27.840 --> 0:35:29.919 I think there's a reason they could be special at guard, 0:35:29.920 --> 0:35:33.160 and he has been. I just don't so. But Kansas 0:35:33.200 --> 0:35:35.800 City has a top five receiver, they've got the number 0:35:35.800 --> 0:35:39.880 one quarterback, the number one tied in, so they got it. 0:35:40.640 --> 0:35:43.160 They got some special things going on that The Cowboys 0:35:43.160 --> 0:35:46.200 have some good pieces, but they don't have elite pieces. 0:35:47.120 --> 0:35:50.000 Dak's getting there though. At quarterback, he just he just is. 0:35:50.040 --> 0:35:52.319 But they've got to they've got to show that. You know, 0:35:52.440 --> 0:35:54.720 the defense is going to have to help him as well. 0:35:54.800 --> 0:35:57.440 I think at the well, it sucks that Michael Gallup 0:35:57.480 --> 0:35:59.360 has now hurt for a few weeks. But the some 0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:01.799 the sum of all the parts, I think. I mean, 0:36:01.840 --> 0:36:04.600 Travis Kelsey's the best tight end in the league. Tyree Hill, 0:36:04.719 --> 0:36:08.360 I mean, did you see did you see him yesterday? 0:36:08.560 --> 0:36:10.839 He does it every week. Yeah, But I think if 0:36:10.880 --> 0:36:13.960 everybody sum of all the parts is on Dallas, I'll 0:36:13.960 --> 0:36:16.160 put it up there against Kansas City all day. They Yeah, 0:36:16.200 --> 0:36:18.839 they don't have something as freaky special as Tyreek Hill, 0:36:19.000 --> 0:36:21.840 but I mean they got three guys that are going 0:36:21.880 --> 0:36:25.360 to get open against almost anybody. And that's you're asking 0:36:25.400 --> 0:36:26.800 me this and that. I think that's why I was 0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:33.800 so excited on Friday is they played unbalanced football quote 0:36:33.880 --> 0:36:37.280 unquote in the traditional way. I would still argue again, 0:36:37.360 --> 0:36:40.040 you can create hidden rushing yards, like a third of 0:36:40.120 --> 0:36:43.280 Dack's pass attempts were basically rushes when you think about 0:36:43.280 --> 0:36:46.680 screens and stuff like that. But they were as unbalanced 0:36:46.719 --> 0:36:49.120 as we've seen them in forever, and they came right 0:36:49.200 --> 0:36:51.680 down to the wire against one of the best defenses 0:36:51.680 --> 0:36:55.400 in the NFL. That and that is incredibly impressive to 0:36:55.440 --> 0:36:59.239 me that by the third quarter Tampa Bay had to 0:36:59.239 --> 0:37:02.000 know exactly what was coming and they still couldn't stop 0:37:02.080 --> 0:37:04.600 him reliably. Obviously, Dallas lost the game. We get that, 0:37:04.920 --> 0:37:07.400 but they were almost fifty percent on third downs. They 0:37:07.440 --> 0:37:10.239 scored twenty nine points the red zone. Not good enough. 0:37:10.320 --> 0:37:12.520 That's got to be better. But that is such an 0:37:12.600 --> 0:37:15.799 encouraging thing to see against such a stout defense, in 0:37:15.800 --> 0:37:18.080 my opinion. But let me let me play devil's advocate here, 0:37:18.120 --> 0:37:21.520 because when you look at a team where they got 0:37:21.560 --> 0:37:24.200 four takeaways, they won the turnover a battle by plus three. 0:37:24.760 --> 0:37:27.680 They also one time of possession by huge amount. I 0:37:27.719 --> 0:37:29.920 think it was thirty four twenty seven to twenty five 0:37:30.080 --> 0:37:33.120 thirty three. Typically, when you see a game with those 0:37:33.120 --> 0:37:35.680 two stats like that, you should win. You should win, 0:37:35.719 --> 0:37:37.839 You should so are you? I know we all came 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:40.080 out of that game on Friday Field and like, okay, man, 0:37:40.120 --> 0:37:42.680 they really played some good football against the Super Bowl champs. 0:37:43.040 --> 0:37:44.839 But when you look at those kind of numbers, it 0:37:44.880 --> 0:37:48.040 makes you say they really should have won that game 0:37:48.120 --> 0:37:50.520 going away. You would think when you see those numbers 0:37:50.520 --> 0:37:52.279 like that, are you at all concerned about the fact 0:37:52.320 --> 0:37:54.440 that they may have put out their very best game 0:37:54.520 --> 0:37:57.520 and that wasn't enough. That's the Cleveland Browns how they 0:37:57.520 --> 0:38:01.120 feel today. But I mean the Cleveland yeah talking about 0:38:01.400 --> 0:38:03.560 are probably one of the best three teams in the NFL. 0:38:03.840 --> 0:38:06.279 And then the brown You know, you could tell if 0:38:06.320 --> 0:38:09.280 you watch that Chiefs Browns game, that was the Browns 0:38:09.320 --> 0:38:11.359 were like, we are here to make a statement. This 0:38:11.440 --> 0:38:13.200 is the team we know we've got to beat. From 0:38:13.239 --> 0:38:14.799 the very beginning, they were like, I mean, they got 0:38:14.840 --> 0:38:16.759 went for two on the first possession, they were throwing 0:38:16.840 --> 0:38:20.280 haymaker after haymaker. They lost it. Yeah, and it sucks. 0:38:20.360 --> 0:38:22.239 It's I mean, this is a tough league. Yeah. And 0:38:22.680 --> 0:38:24.799 those two teams, those are the top two teams. They 0:38:24.840 --> 0:38:27.160 played in the super Bowl. And so you know, for 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:28.880 us to sit here in Week two and say, okay, 0:38:28.880 --> 0:38:30.920 well doesn't look like the Cowboys are better than the 0:38:30.920 --> 0:38:33.239 super Bowl champs right now? Well, okay, we didn't need 0:38:33.280 --> 0:38:34.960 a game to see that. We didn't think that was 0:38:35.000 --> 0:38:37.840 the case. You know, but you know, you have to 0:38:37.840 --> 0:38:40.520 bounce back. You have to bounce back and show it here. 0:38:40.520 --> 0:38:43.120 I've said it numerous years and I'll say it again. 0:38:43.160 --> 0:38:45.360 That's why week two is so important. You've got to 0:38:45.440 --> 0:38:47.319 go out there. You've got to establish yourself. You can't 0:38:47.360 --> 0:38:49.000 be in that OZ and two hole. And if you 0:38:49.000 --> 0:38:50.960 look at what they're doing on social media. The Chargers, 0:38:51.000 --> 0:38:52.319 you don't want to get you don't want to take 0:38:52.320 --> 0:38:55.560 an l to them and what they've got working in 0:38:55.640 --> 0:38:57.920 over there, because if they're gonna do that to Washington, 0:38:58.120 --> 0:39:00.439 just think what they'll do to the Cowboys. They their 0:39:00.560 --> 0:39:04.080 social team was probably brainstorming for our game in June. 0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:07.319 M guessing they got some options. That's you're so right 0:39:07.480 --> 0:39:10.080 even know what I'm talking about what they did, Okay, 0:39:10.120 --> 0:39:11.799 but I'm seeing some of those stuff they I mean, 0:39:11.840 --> 0:39:13.759 they know, yeah, as you said that, I was like, 0:39:13.800 --> 0:39:15.680 I'm gonna go look at it, but I can pretty 0:39:15.760 --> 0:39:18.600 much guess that they did something pretty oh yeah, yeah, 0:39:18.719 --> 0:39:21.880 and it was the Washington It's funny because in the 0:39:21.960 --> 0:39:25.600 big picture, well, I mean, they can afford to start 0:39:25.600 --> 0:39:27.640 O in two. Honestly, in my opinion, when you look 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:31.320 at you know, after that, you go Eagles, Panthers, Giants, 0:39:31.360 --> 0:39:35.160 Patriots like those are all flawed teams. You do obviously, 0:39:35.239 --> 0:39:37.000 you need to win as many games as you can, 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:39.680 but they could climb out of O and two in 0:39:39.719 --> 0:39:43.000 my opinion. But it's just it's just it's about consistency, 0:39:43.120 --> 0:39:46.520 and that has been probably the most maddening thing about 0:39:46.560 --> 0:39:49.040 this team for the entire time that I've covered it 0:39:49.120 --> 0:39:52.960 is they're schizophrenic. You never know what you're gonna get, 0:39:53.040 --> 0:39:56.719 and it would be it would be so cowboys for 0:39:56.760 --> 0:39:59.400 them to go out there against you know, and the 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:01.319 Chargers are good team. Don't get me like this is 0:40:01.400 --> 0:40:03.880 this is they are a very good team. This is 0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:05.960 not a gimmey game. That's not what I'm saying. But 0:40:06.680 --> 0:40:09.640 we feel great about how they played against Tampa. It 0:40:09.640 --> 0:40:11.880 would be very cowboys for them to play like crap. 0:40:12.160 --> 0:40:14.280 I don't just mean lose, I mean play like crap 0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:16.960 against LA And I hope that doesn't happen, but you 0:40:17.000 --> 0:40:18.920 can't say it would surprise you. You You look at the 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:21.719 defense and I talked about the four takeaways. They also 0:40:21.800 --> 0:40:24.120 stopped the run, which is another thing that you put 0:40:24.200 --> 0:40:27.520 in their category as far as something that that seems 0:40:27.560 --> 0:40:31.040 to be an improvement. The passing game, though they the 0:40:31.120 --> 0:40:34.360 defense had some some issues. Obviously, again you're talking about 0:40:34.719 --> 0:40:38.520 one of the top three maybe passing offenses in the NFL. 0:40:39.200 --> 0:40:41.200 That all being said, how concerned are you with what 0:40:41.239 --> 0:40:44.759 they gave up in the passing game against the Tampa 0:40:44.800 --> 0:40:49.239 Bay Buccaneers. I mean concerning because we knew that the secondary, 0:40:49.320 --> 0:40:52.600 especially the cornerback position is not one of the strengths 0:40:53.040 --> 0:40:56.600 um Tampa Bay obviously with a great receiving corps and 0:40:56.719 --> 0:41:00.800 the best quarterback to play. So yeah, I mean it was. 0:41:00.880 --> 0:41:04.200 It was not a favorable matchup. They once they won 0:41:04.280 --> 0:41:06.919 their sheriff times, but I mean they were beaten like 0:41:06.920 --> 0:41:09.160 like they expected. I mean, like we expected that to be. 0:41:09.200 --> 0:41:10.759 I mean, I don't want to sit there and say 0:41:10.760 --> 0:41:13.759 Anthony Brown needs to be bench I mean number one 0:41:13.840 --> 0:41:16.480 for who I mean. And then well, that is the question. 0:41:16.560 --> 0:41:18.040 Like there are a lot of fans out there, and 0:41:18.360 --> 0:41:20.120 again I'm not saying that this is the right answer, 0:41:20.160 --> 0:41:21.759 but there are fans out there. They are like, you 0:41:21.840 --> 0:41:24.120 invested in a second round and a third round pick. 0:41:24.360 --> 0:41:26.920 The second round is not healthy. I got that. But Kelvin, 0:41:27.000 --> 0:41:30.040 Joseph Nashean Wright, those are guys you invested second and 0:41:30.120 --> 0:41:33.560 third round picks in. Should you be at least putting 0:41:33.600 --> 0:41:35.840 them out there and letting them start to learn? Is 0:41:35.880 --> 0:41:38.160 that better than what you got right now from Anthony Brown? 0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:41.360 Absolutely not. It isn't. It isn't better. I mean, Trayvon 0:41:41.480 --> 0:41:44.200 digs it, I get it. He had to learn on 0:41:44.239 --> 0:41:46.680 the flight. He was the best by the way, Yeah, 0:41:46.719 --> 0:41:49.919 he was the best option. I don't think Nishan Wright 0:41:50.080 --> 0:41:53.240 is ready for that. Anthony Brown is a solid player. 0:41:53.840 --> 0:41:57.000 He just he is. He's a solid corner that he's virtual, 0:41:57.080 --> 0:41:59.800 he can kind of go inside outside. No one's thinking 0:41:59.840 --> 0:42:02.120 he's gonna, you know, wondering when he's going in the 0:42:02.200 --> 0:42:04.319 Ring of honor. No one's wondering about that. He's not 0:42:04.360 --> 0:42:06.239 going to be a Pro Bowl player. That's not what 0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:10.800 he is. He's he's a solid guy. And to assume 0:42:10.840 --> 0:42:12.640 that there's just so many guys that are better on 0:42:12.680 --> 0:42:14.879 the street or better on this team is just not here. 0:42:15.400 --> 0:42:20.160 Maybe Joseph when he gets healthy, your best was healthy, 0:42:20.239 --> 0:42:23.040 he wouldn't be playing over Anthony Brown. He hasn't shown that. 0:42:23.160 --> 0:42:26.919 And that's I agree with everything you just said about Ab. 0:42:28.120 --> 0:42:31.120 The brutal reality is he's also you know, he's probably 0:42:31.160 --> 0:42:33.920 gonna get circled by the opposing offense and game plan meetings. 0:42:33.920 --> 0:42:36.040 They're like, this is a matchup that we feel good about. 0:42:36.080 --> 0:42:39.440 It is what it is. I mean, yeah, would be 0:42:39.440 --> 0:42:45.120 circled twice. That's we did this in the preseason. Everybody 0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:47.480 was clamoring for Kelvin and he went and he had 0:42:47.560 --> 0:42:50.720 like an awful first series against Arizona and he got 0:42:50.760 --> 0:42:52.640 he got a he got flagged and then he got 0:42:52.680 --> 0:42:55.839 bombed on like the next play. Nashan Right, I'm so 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:59.120 impressed with what he's done. I don't I don't see 0:42:59.120 --> 0:43:02.839 that going well, especially a long strider like him going 0:43:02.880 --> 0:43:06.360 against somebody like Antonio Brown. Come on, yeah, stop stop 0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:09.959 and it is what it is. I just I feel 0:43:10.000 --> 0:43:12.439 like I said it all through the spring, as soon 0:43:12.520 --> 0:43:14.759 as Horn and Certan went off the board. This is 0:43:14.800 --> 0:43:17.759 the reality that you were signing up for, is we're 0:43:17.760 --> 0:43:20.440 going to be in a holding pattern and our best, 0:43:20.440 --> 0:43:24.040 our best hope is that Kelvin Joseph, much like Treyvon 0:43:24.120 --> 0:43:27.640 Diggs last year, sort of starts putting it together as 0:43:27.640 --> 0:43:29.920 the season goes and maybe in the latter half of 0:43:29.920 --> 0:43:31.920 the year he can be a viable option. But to 0:43:32.000 --> 0:43:34.480 think that he ordn Sean Wright is going to come 0:43:34.480 --> 0:43:36.160 in and be better than somebody that's been in the 0:43:36.200 --> 0:43:39.200 league for five years right away, it's delusional. I'm sorry, 0:43:39.280 --> 0:43:40.719 but you have. The point is you got to give 0:43:40.760 --> 0:43:42.719 them time to get there. They may be long term 0:43:42.760 --> 0:43:45.560 better prospects, they're not there yet. I will say that. 0:43:45.640 --> 0:43:48.080 And on the flip side. I think something to feel 0:43:48.080 --> 0:43:53.080 good about. Treyvon Diggs played really really well. I and I, 0:43:53.200 --> 0:43:56.680 you know, hopefully really I need game Pass to have 0:43:56.760 --> 0:43:59.040 all twenty two up this week. They say somebody reported, 0:43:59.400 --> 0:44:01.759 let me report yesterday. You say that, Yeah, I don't 0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:03.839 know how much he traveled with Mike Evans. I don't 0:44:03.840 --> 0:44:05.360 know if it was every snap, but he was on 0:44:05.480 --> 0:44:07.400 him a lot. And Mike Mike Evans did not have 0:44:07.440 --> 0:44:10.200 the jack, which you can say, well, yeah, why you're 0:44:10.200 --> 0:44:12.440 gonna throw up Mike Evans if Antonio Brown's always open, 0:44:12.680 --> 0:44:16.120 but not every team they play is gonna have three studs. 0:44:16.920 --> 0:44:19.800 You know, you get into some matchups with more normal 0:44:19.840 --> 0:44:22.640 receiving corps. Maybe it's not as gross as it looked 0:44:22.640 --> 0:44:24.880 on third starters have one really good one they do 0:44:25.160 --> 0:44:28.919 and he Mike Williams no Ena all okay, I thought 0:44:28.920 --> 0:44:31.520 you were being serious. I was like, well, Keenan Allen 0:44:31.920 --> 0:44:34.400 Williams I think led him yesterday. Did he not leave? 0:44:34.440 --> 0:44:36.480 Mike Williams is there, He's their first round pick. I 0:44:36.600 --> 0:44:40.400 think receiving he's good too. Yeah, yeah, I need college 0:44:40.440 --> 0:44:42.480 I need a college name for those guys like that. 0:44:42.719 --> 0:44:46.239 Mike Williams. I feel like Mike Williams in the league, 0:44:45.520 --> 0:44:49.840 and I would have said, I do think the Chargers 0:44:49.880 --> 0:44:53.160 have the Chargers have two really And but the reason 0:44:53.200 --> 0:44:56.040 I kind of balked is because I do think Keenan 0:44:56.080 --> 0:44:59.560 Allen is probably the most criminally underrated player in the league. 0:44:59.600 --> 0:45:03.640 Like no buddy, nobody knows about Yeah. So also when 0:45:03.680 --> 0:45:06.279 you play in with the Chargers, like sometimes it's hard 0:45:06.320 --> 0:45:08.520 to get that kind of profile. I'll tell you what, 0:45:08.600 --> 0:45:11.359 if it's Monday, if I can go the whole week 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:15.120 with calling them just LA and Chargers like, it'll be 0:45:15.160 --> 0:45:17.200 a win. And on me too, because I've heard it 0:45:17.280 --> 0:45:20.040 last week. I've heard I've heard San Diego twice on 0:45:20.080 --> 0:45:23.000 our other shows. It's just I think I said it 0:45:23.080 --> 0:45:25.680 last week. I think I sit all right. We'll appreciate 0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:27.200 you guys joining us. We will be back tomorrow. We'll 0:45:27.200 --> 0:45:29.000 give you guys a big picture look around the NFL. 0:45:29.080 --> 0:45:31.280 See what's going on in the NFC East. That's pretty 0:45:31.320 --> 0:45:33.959 interesting coming off week one. We'll do all that tomorrow. 0:45:34.040 --> 0:45:36.160 Until then. For Nick Eatman, Dave helm and I'm Derek Eagleton. 0:45:36.200 --> 0:45:38.919 This has been the Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:45:38.920 --> 0:45:45.400 Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys 0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:48.080 dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.