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Speaker 5: It is Friday, July twenty eighth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 5: episode number twelve. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break,
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Speaker 9: Talking about all these shows, but we're living on Star
Speaker 9: Telling it is our second show out here, got my
Speaker 9: crew Brian, Patrick Amber and today we've got a lot
Speaker 9: of things we're going to talk about.
Speaker 7: We are going to get to some standout moments.
Speaker 5: We are gonna'll tell you guys a little bit of
Speaker 5: what we've seen through these first couple of practices. Uh
Speaker 5: and Monday Pads will come on next time we go
Speaker 5: on the air. Pads will have been on for a practice.
Speaker 5: And so the one thing I want to do today,
Speaker 5: and we'll probably spend the bulk of our time today doing,
Speaker 5: is laying the storylines out for fans. I think there
Speaker 5: are a number of storylines that entering this camp and
Speaker 5: entering uh training camp through the preseason, these are gonna
Speaker 5: be the start storylines I think will be the predominant
Speaker 5: storylines for the Cowboys, And I'll throw them out to
Speaker 5: you guys and let you guys just pontificate on those
Speaker 5: different storylines.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 7: But let's start first.
Speaker 5: Let's get some updates on some injuries. We've got a
Speaker 5: few guys that have some injury issues. Let's start with
Speaker 5: Donovan Wilson. What we know, Patrick.
Speaker 10: Donovan Wilson, he left to practice on Day one, ladies
Speaker 10: and gentlemen, with what is reported to be a calf injury,
Speaker 10: potentially a calf strain. The good news is it looks
Speaker 10: like the Cowboys dodge the worst case scenario, So it's
Speaker 10: not a month's long gets a week's long injury, per
Speaker 10: Mike McCarthy on yesterday. So Donovan Wilson will likely miss
Speaker 10: the entirety of camp and the preseason. But not that
Speaker 10: big of a deal because I didn't anticipate Donovan would
Speaker 10: get much of any work in the preseason anyway, and
Speaker 10: he's a veteran at this point.
Speaker 2: He knows how to jump in and play.
Speaker 10: But expectation at this point is that he'll be available
Speaker 10: Week one when the Cowboys visit the New York Giants.
Speaker 10: Second injury, unfortunately, also in the safety unit, Israel mcwambo
Speaker 10: left with injury on the same day, day one of practice,
Speaker 10: but mccuamoo, I'm told, actually pulled himself as a precautionary
Speaker 10: for precautionary reasons. He returned to the sideline, but he
Speaker 10: was in street closed. But similar timeline between mccuambo and Wilson.
Speaker 10: Mccuambo expected to be weeks long as well, so expect
Speaker 10: both of them on the field as it stands, to
Speaker 10: play against the New York Giants. But in the meantime,
Speaker 10: they will not be at practice on the field, I
Speaker 10: should say, they will be leading from the sidelines, and
Speaker 10: that's going to give these young guys like Mike Keith Bell,
Speaker 10: jan Ye Thommas, Tyler Coyle a chance to step up
Speaker 10: and really try to prove themselves.
Speaker 7: Which those other line. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Safeties, do you guys see as as being the biggest
Speaker 5: benefactors of this situation just from a standpoint of now
Speaker 5: getting some more looks, more opportunity.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yesterday Thomas had to play in the middle of
Speaker 11: the field where he was.
Speaker 6: Able to knock the ball down and stuff like that.
Speaker 11: So yeah, like Patrick's talking about, though, these you got
Speaker 11: some veteran safeties that are out and you mentioned all
Speaker 11: the young guys, but I really, you know, you talk
Speaker 11: about him, you talk about with Bell, you know, guys
Speaker 11: like that.
Speaker 6: Playing safety in the National Football.
Speaker 11: League to me is all about recognition, and through recognition
Speaker 11: is reps, you know, and those guys don't get a
Speaker 11: whole lot of you know, Tyler Coyle.
Speaker 6: The same way. You know, give these guys the.
Speaker 11: Opportunity to get some prac just working against some of
Speaker 11: the quality receivers and tight ends they have in camp,
Speaker 11: and you know, you start to see the field a
Speaker 11: little bit better. You gotta you know, you got a
Speaker 11: quarterback that's capable of picking you apart if you don't
Speaker 11: make your right reads and stuff. So any kind of
Speaker 11: extra reps. Again, it's because of injury. That's the shame.
Speaker 11: The part that you kind of feel bad about. But
Speaker 11: for young guys to get reps, like I say, Thomas Bell,
Speaker 11: those guys quarrel, that helps them in the long run
Speaker 11: going forward.
Speaker 7: Let's let's also give me update on Luke's gooon maker.
Speaker 7: What do we know about him?
Speaker 11: Yeah, this one can and I don't know if I
Speaker 11: could add anything like that. I was talking to some
Speaker 11: people about Luke and this is an injury, a pre
Speaker 11: existing injury that comes from Michigan is where we're talking
Speaker 11: about here. And so you know, when you're dealing with feet,
Speaker 11: you know, that's something that this kind of you know,
Speaker 11: there's the high ankles and then there's certain other injuries
Speaker 11: to feed and stuff that people just kind of you
Speaker 11: got to give this single rest. You got to get
Speaker 11: let it, you know. And it's unfortunate because to me,
Speaker 11: I know, through the draft show and the coverage that
Speaker 11: we were doing, he was picked in the second round.
Speaker 11: I was super ex cited about the pick because I've
Speaker 11: seen this guy Michigan run the football, you know, I've
Speaker 11: seen Blake Corn from Michigan just hammer it down people's
Speaker 11: throats in the Big Ten. Well, they're running behind scoon
Speaker 11: Maker and stuff and I'm thinking, Okay, big body guy translates,
Speaker 11: that's a guy that probably needs to be working, you know,
Speaker 11: next to Tyron Smith needs to be working, next to
Speaker 11: Terrence Steele needs to be working and kind of.
Speaker 6: Developing his craft a little bit.
Speaker 11: So the fact that they're trying to figure out a
Speaker 11: timeline for this, they really don't have a specific specific
Speaker 11: When we was Patrick you got one, I was told
Speaker 11: they're trying to work through that possibility of when they
Speaker 11: can get him back on the field, but they're going
Speaker 11: to take their time with this one.
Speaker 10: Absolutely correct, and specifically, what Luke Schoolmaker is dealing with
Speaker 10: is plantar fesciitis, and as Brian so eloquently stated, that
Speaker 10: does take time.
Speaker 2: It is painful.
Speaker 10: You don't want to try to push that because it
Speaker 10: can work against you very quickly and then it'll extend
Speaker 10: the length of your absence. So what I did like
Speaker 10: to see from school what it did like as far
Speaker 10: as what I saw Schoolmaker yesterday, is he's already out
Speaker 10: there doing mental reps. Yeah, you could see him in
Speaker 10: the team drills. He was off in the end zone
Speaker 10: and he was mimicking and doing phantom drills trying to
Speaker 10: keep up with the mental reps and the assignments that
Speaker 10: so that when he is healthy and he gets in there,
Speaker 10: he'll be able to pick right up. But in his absence,
Speaker 10: obviously we know Jake Ferguson, for my money, he was
Speaker 10: coming in as te one and he was going to
Speaker 10: go against Schoolmaker for that role. But right now it's
Speaker 10: Jake Ferguson who looks like he's put on some good weight.
Speaker 10: Put on some good weight. He's ready to go. Peyton
Speaker 10: Hendershot needs to take advantage of these opportunities as well.
Speaker 10: But more so than those two guys are the ones
Speaker 10: that we didn't necessarily talk too much about coming into
Speaker 10: training camp, Seth Green, Sean McEwen, Princeton, Fance. Some of
Speaker 10: these younger guys really now have an opportunity in Schoolmaker's
Speaker 10: current absence. Day two, I ended up my eyeballs went
Speaker 10: to him a few times because.
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, look at that kid, Hey look at
Speaker 2: that kid again.
Speaker 10: John Stevens, he what he did yesterday in practice is
Speaker 10: a perfect example of what we're talking about here. Young
Speaker 10: guys need to step up and take this opportunity and
Speaker 10: make sure that they get a name for themselves before
Speaker 10: schoonmaker gets back on the field.
Speaker 7: All right, here's we gonna do. We're gonna move on
Speaker 7: to well.
Speaker 12: Hold on, I think you should mention someone else. Trevon Diggs.
Speaker 12: He's been out on the sideline. He hasn't really been
Speaker 12: practicing yet. I don't think we know, or have you
Speaker 12: guys heard yet, any of the specifics. I know there's
Speaker 12: been a lot of questions as to why he hasn't
Speaker 12: been out there just yet.
Speaker 2: So it's being described as a toe injury.
Speaker 10: And I know that when you're talking about two positions
Speaker 10: in particular, cornerback and wide receiver, you hear toe, you
Speaker 10: get scared, okay, But what it's being described to me
Speaker 10: as is a sore toe. And then when you look
Speaker 10: at Trevon yesterday the interception by Nashan right versus Jaylen Toby,
Speaker 10: now exactly he ran full speed down the sideline. So
Speaker 10: Mike McCarthy said yesterday in the press conference that Trevon
Speaker 10: Diggs is quote unquote fine, and then in practice I
Speaker 10: see him spritting down the sidelines. I'm inclined to believe
Speaker 10: that he is indeed fine. The Cowboys are just being
Speaker 10: cautious with that, which makes sense with your ninety seven
Speaker 10: dollar cornerback.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you've got a part that's already sore, my
Speaker 5: thought is, let that simmer down a round bit, especially
Speaker 5: this early early in camp. Give it a little time.
Speaker 5: We'll see where it goes.
Speaker 11: Yeah, the play that right made, I'd run down there too,
Speaker 11: maybe put my PAGs on while I'm at A really
Speaker 11: nice job by him playing in position Tolbert had him
Speaker 11: beat and the balls so slightly underthrown but rally to
Speaker 11: get to that point.
Speaker 6: Good job by Right. A lot of.
Speaker 11: Pressure on him, you know, people were kind of talking
Speaker 11: about him and Kelvin Joseph. Nice to see him have
Speaker 11: some early success.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you mentioned Kelvin Joseph. Did you notice anything.
Speaker 6: There didn't know a thing about Kevin Joseph. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: didn't notice anything different.
Speaker 11: There doesn't make up break Ye, this is there's a
Speaker 11: lot of guys on this field.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of guys.
Speaker 11: As this camp goes on, the thing that you will
Speaker 11: learn is, and I always thought this, I'm like, man,
Speaker 11: these you know, we're gonna have to let these players go.
Speaker 11: When I was in player personnel, we're gonna have to
Speaker 11: let these players go. Bill Parcells told me one time.
Speaker 11: He said, Brian, these players get themselves cut. They get
Speaker 11: themselves cut. Either play or they don't play. You know,
Speaker 11: don't ever feel bad. I'm like, well, you know, he
Speaker 11: goes No. These players they're gonna either play for you
Speaker 11: or they're not gonna play for you. So the field
Speaker 11: will tell you a lot as we watch these practices.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you this, as much as we wanted him
Speaker 5: to step up as a cornerback and become one of
Speaker 5: the guys, he may actually just end up finding his
Speaker 5: role as a special teams guy yea, because he's shown
Speaker 5: some flashes there where he could become a special team's ace.
Speaker 5: It's not what you want from your second round pick,
Speaker 5: but there's a need for something.
Speaker 11: I felt like though that maybe they were playing at
Speaker 11: safety a little bit, and then I was going, man, okay,
Speaker 11: I see what's going on. And because you talk about
Speaker 11: covering kicks, but then there were a couple of times
Speaker 11: where you had the penalties you know, fair catch, interference
Speaker 11: and all that, and you're like, oh, where's the awareness there,
Speaker 11: you know, and stuff like that. So you have to
Speaker 11: have that ability to see the field at safety. We
Speaker 11: talked about it earlier in the segment that you know,
Speaker 11: you have to see the field, you have to be
Speaker 11: able to react. The part about him being tough and
Speaker 11: tackling that's not the question. But you know, it's very
Speaker 11: much like it's like a woozy A. To me remember
Speaker 11: with a Woozia, it was always like he's in a
Speaker 11: position and he just couldn't finish the play. Yeah, and
Speaker 11: then you're like, please just finish one of these plays,
Speaker 11: like Kelvin Joseph might be one of those guys too.
Speaker 6: That's kind of a please finish the play guy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, here's gonna do.
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Speaker 5: We'll get into some of our standout moments or players
Speaker 5: will let you guys go around the table and tell
Speaker 5: us a little bit about what you've seen at practice,
Speaker 5: what's really stood out to you, and do when we
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Speaker 5: Let's get some standout players and moments from the first
Speaker 5: couple of days of unpadded practices. Let's start with you Amber.
Speaker 5: What stood out to you?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 12: To me, a lot of the wide receivers have been
Speaker 12: making pretty nice plays. I mean, you talk about Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 12: he's been standing out Cooks, He's been doing a really
Speaker 12: nice job. But one player that I've kept my eyes
Speaker 12: on is Jalen Tolbert. How even though he's had a
Speaker 12: couple of plays where you're like, oh no, that was
Speaker 12: not that great, he's had moments where you can see
Speaker 12: the growth that he's shown just from last year and
Speaker 12: to this point right now, you can see that he's
Speaker 12: taking a step up. And as far as his confidence,
Speaker 12: there are moments that his movements to me now look
Speaker 12: like they have a purpose. He's moving with purpose, and
Speaker 12: he's out there he looks a lot more confident and
Speaker 12: you can tell that, I guess the time that he's
Speaker 12: spent with Dak in his backyard with everybody else, just
Speaker 12: creating and building that relationship, that chemistry. It's starting to
Speaker 12: really show out here in camp. I thought we were
Speaker 12: about to get hit with that balls. It was close.
Speaker 12: But anyways, Wide receivers have done a really nice job.
Speaker 12: But just wanted to point out Jaalen Tolbert and just
Speaker 12: tell fans that there's hope. There's hope there and he's
Speaker 12: starting to show, uh, some of that growth and development
Speaker 12: right now.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 10: And Jalen Tobert is actually was one of the practice
Speaker 10: points that I put on the dot com yesterday as
Speaker 10: far as one of the key guys that stood out
Speaker 10: to me yesterday. Even for example, in that matchup against
Speaker 10: Nashwan Right, even though Right won that battle, Jalen Tobert
Speaker 10: was right there high pointing it with Right. He was
Speaker 10: physical and then he went right back to Dark Prescott
Speaker 10: and said come back to me and guess what. Two
Speaker 10: plays later, across the middle dark Presscott rewards him for
Speaker 10: that confidence. So, but I'm gonna go defense on this one.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna go with Jabrill Cox. Jabril Cox looks he's
Speaker 10: he's carrying over. Yeah, he's carrying over what we he
Speaker 10: saw from him in mini camp. His confidence level another
Speaker 10: former mid round pick. Jabrill Cox's confidence level is reminded
Speaker 10: me of what I'm seeing from Jalen Jalen Tobert's confidence
Speaker 10: levels through the roof right now. And now Jabril Cox
Speaker 10: is as well, and he's playing like that. There was
Speaker 10: one play in particular, route comes across the middle. The
Speaker 10: red of the play was fantastic, the reaction was even better,
Speaker 10: and on top of that not toping.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry Cox played through the whistle.
Speaker 10: I thought at one point they were gonna have to
Speaker 10: break that tackle up. And then kind of jokingly afterwards,
Speaker 10: I asked he Brill, I said, were you gonna take
Speaker 10: the receiver with you home?
Speaker 2: And he was like, I would have if I had to.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of energy I liked.
Speaker 10: This is a pivotal season for Jabrill Cox as well,
Speaker 10: and especially in that LB.
Speaker 2: Three battle whe the Cowboys try to saw it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's the June guy.
Speaker 11: You throw on the bubble, kind of like where's Cox
Speaker 11: gonna how is he gonna play this year?
Speaker 6: But especially the.
Speaker 11: Depth they need to figure out the depth at linebacker.
Speaker 11: That's a good view right there. I was up by
Speaker 11: Ambar and Derek watching practice and I'm going to point
Speaker 11: out kept my aunt, Terrence Steele yesterday. What one particular play,
Speaker 11: Terrett Steel is your right tackle. They're gonna run outside
Speaker 11: play going all the way to the left, and they're
Speaker 11: gonna try and carry it to the boundary and up
Speaker 11: the sidelines. Terret Steel a his right tackle spot. He
Speaker 11: comes all the way through and the next thing I know,
Speaker 11: he's out there blocking on the safety out in space.
Speaker 11: So here's the play.
Speaker 6: Going completely away from him.
Speaker 11: You worry about his agility, mobility, how he plays in space.
Speaker 11: He got engaged with the safety up the field and
Speaker 11: then you watch the ball cut behind him there. So
Speaker 11: it's good to watch him. The pass sets looked good
Speaker 11: from him as well. You know, it was very clear
Speaker 11: to me when he wasn't in the lineup. Adoga had
Speaker 11: some struggles yesterday playing a little bit of tackle feet
Speaker 11: not as good as it needed to be, but it
Speaker 11: was good to see Terren Steele, engaged up the field, mobility, agility,
Speaker 11: all those things that we love about his game.
Speaker 7: All Right, So here's what I do.
Speaker 5: I want to pivot now to the storylines that we
Speaker 5: will be telling talking about throughout this training camp, and
Speaker 5: I want to start with the storyline. I think that's
Speaker 5: probably the biggest one for the Cowboys right now, Zach Martin.
Speaker 5: My question for you guys is how much of an
Speaker 5: issue do you think Zach Zach Martin's unhappiness with his
Speaker 5: contract will be for the Cowboys this preseason heading into
Speaker 5: the season.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 12: I mean we've talked about it. We talked about it
Speaker 12: on the first show. You know, when the Cowboys want something,
Speaker 12: they're gonna get it done. And I think it's not
Speaker 12: gonna go into the season with you not having Sach Martin.
Speaker 12: He's gonna be there. I think they'll find a solution.
Speaker 12: If anything, I look at this on the brighter side,
Speaker 12: the opportunities that this is giving other guys on the
Speaker 12: O line. We know the issues as far as injuries
Speaker 12: that we've seen the O line struggle and how often
Speaker 12: we see them shifting from position. Even though Sag has
Speaker 12: been that one constant guy that doesn't move and stays there.
Speaker 12: It still gives other guys the opportunity to just take
Speaker 12: those reps here and be able to bond and build
Speaker 12: that chemistry on the old line as well. But I don't, honestly,
Speaker 12: I'm just waiting for it to get done. We heard
Speaker 12: Dak Prescott on the podium say, just to pay the man,
Speaker 12: pay him. He deserves it, so honestly, right, I just
Speaker 12: don't think it's going to be an issue at.
Speaker 2: All, and I agree, I don't.
Speaker 10: I don't think it's going to be an issue regardless
Speaker 10: of the amount of time it takes for this resolution
Speaker 10: to land. But I get the impression that this resolution
Speaker 10: is coming fairly soon, especially when you hear Tyler Smith
Speaker 10: yesterday after second day of practice say that Zach Martin
Speaker 10: sent a text message to each of the offensive linemen
Speaker 10: and he said, quote unquote, I'll be there soon.
Speaker 2: So I think it's already in the works.
Speaker 10: And I am one hundred percent confident that of any
Speaker 10: player getting a deal done, it will be on Zach Martin,
Speaker 10: because that's the guy that you pay. And that's why
Speaker 10: Dak Prescott was so definitive and concise in that comment.
Speaker 10: Just pay the man, because if you're Dak Prescott, you're
Speaker 10: already looking at an offensive line that's trying to sort
Speaker 10: itself out, even with Zach Martin right there being your
Speaker 10: security blanket at right guard. If you remove him, that's
Speaker 10: a that's a scary site for Dak Prescott. So that's
Speaker 10: why Dak said what he said. But you know, brother
Speaker 10: Zach Martin is out a week, two weeks the entirety
Speaker 10: of camp as far as his preparation. We see video
Speaker 10: coming out on Twitter right now. He's working without a
Speaker 10: good friend, Duke Minyweather. He's staying in shape. He's going
Speaker 10: to hit the ground running whenever he gets here. But
Speaker 10: in the meantime, great point by Mbar. Much like Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 10: although injury that's injury based and Israel mcconwell injury based,
Speaker 10: it's an opportunity for these younger guys, Matt Farniac for example,
Speaker 10: to step up and show what they can do on
Speaker 10: the interior of the offensive level.
Speaker 11: Farniac was a reason why it actually was a better
Speaker 11: practice at that spot because everybody else it took a
Speaker 11: swing at that right guard spot.
Speaker 6: It was a nightmare. It really really was. He the
Speaker 6: man they had Josh Paul had problems over there.
Speaker 11: You know, it's TJ. Bass had problems over there. I'm
Speaker 11: sure when Dak was standing on the podium yesterday he said,
Speaker 11: pay them man, knowing.
Speaker 6: How practice just went over on that right side. They
Speaker 6: they really struggled over there. And you know, but the.
Speaker 11: Cowboys, yeah, you put you put DeMarcus Lawrence inside is
Speaker 11: a three technique and rushing the nickel, there's gonna be problems.
Speaker 11: But it just was not anywhere where it needed to
Speaker 11: be yesterday again, Farniac to me, was the best option there,
Speaker 11: you know.
Speaker 6: And and it.
Speaker 11: Was good, you know, Tyler Smith and Tyron Smith on
Speaker 11: that left side, things were fine over there. That right
Speaker 11: side was a mess other than stealing Farniac when and
Speaker 11: that's the thing that scares me a little bit of about,
Speaker 11: you know, not having Zach Martin over there.
Speaker 6: So yes, pay the man for sure as well.
Speaker 2: Sometimes your absence will help negotiate your contract for you.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know one thing I out throw out there,
Speaker 5: and I hear what you guys are saying. From the
Speaker 5: standpoint you don't worry so much about Zach. You know,
Speaker 5: he could come in, he'll be fine.
Speaker 6: I worry after what I saw yesterday.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and what I what I worry about as well
Speaker 7: is continuity.
Speaker 5: Like I'm trying to build continuity on this offensive line
Speaker 5: with a bit I mean you, I don't know if
Speaker 5: I call it a brand new offense, but certainly newer
Speaker 5: elements being added to the offense. I really want my
Speaker 5: offensive line to start develop that chemistry together as a unit.
Speaker 5: And to me, that's where I think not having exact
Speaker 5: their matters and so for every day he misses, yeah,
Speaker 5: somebody else is going to get those reps, but that's
Speaker 5: also one less rep or however many less reps that
Speaker 5: Terrence still is gonna get with the guy he's gonna
Speaker 5: be playing with on Sundays, right, And that's where I
Speaker 5: think it's It's one of those things where you would
Speaker 5: hope that at some point this gets resolved one way
Speaker 5: or the other and he gets out here because you
Speaker 5: do want to start building well.
Speaker 12: And I guess also when you speak out of it
Speaker 12: that way, you can point out the voice, the voice
Speaker 12: lacking in that room as far as leadership and experience.
Speaker 12: We know h Yren Smith, he's not I mean we've
Speaker 12: talked to him or barely barely. You barely get to
Speaker 12: hear his voice. Oh my god, almost got killed here.
Speaker 2: We're at camp ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 11: That would be a miss that training camp battle for kickers,
Speaker 11: that would be a miss for that camera. We were
Speaker 11: almost made funny home videos there almost to keep it.
Speaker 2: I'm awake now anyway, Tyron Smith.
Speaker 12: One of the things that h Tyler Smith pointed out
Speaker 12: yesterday is that he is having now in his second year,
Speaker 12: having to kind of step up and speak up and
Speaker 12: just take a little more of that leadership role in
Speaker 12: the meantime. So that's good for young guys to develop
Speaker 12: that way, but also it's it would be nice to
Speaker 12: have sex experience and voice guiding these guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's all of that's true.
Speaker 10: And you know, every coin has two sides, and Derek,
Speaker 10: you make an excellent point. You want continuity to be
Speaker 10: established early on so that you can build on it.
Speaker 10: The good news when it comes to that is with
Speaker 10: Terrence Steele coming back and looking like you know, Prime
Speaker 10: Terrence Steele and Tyler Badish is right there. When Zach
Speaker 10: does return, you instantly have that pre established chemistry between Beadish,
Speaker 10: Martin and still it's already there. But then if you're
Speaker 10: the coaching staff, you have to find out what you
Speaker 10: have in these younger guys Farni y'ac and in the
Speaker 10: Doga when you operate him on the interior. You gotta
Speaker 10: find out sooner or later what you have there or
Speaker 10: what you don't have there in the event that you
Speaker 10: might need to go out into veteran free agency and
Speaker 10: bring somebody in so that you have a better situation
Speaker 10: behind Zach Martin going forward. So it's it's unfortunate you
Speaker 10: because you want Zach on the field, but being that
Speaker 10: he's not on the field, you got to take advantage
Speaker 10: of that.
Speaker 12: Alright, This conversation.
Speaker 2: And the trenches ladies and gentlemen like.
Speaker 6: Com does.
Speaker 7: Put you in the take one for the thing. Right,
Speaker 7: Let's go on to the next storyline, and this is obvious.
Speaker 10: So do we have concussion protocols as media folks, because if.
Speaker 2: It causes the.
Speaker 6: Situation, than I am Zach Mark.
Speaker 2: That's a fact.
Speaker 5: This storyline is probably the biggest storyline for the Cowboys
Speaker 5: coming out of last season that they will have to
Speaker 5: answer going into the upcoming season. How will Dallas solve
Speaker 5: its interceptions from twenty twenty two.
Speaker 11: I'll tell you the there's the one thing that you
Speaker 11: kind of can hang your hat on if you look
Speaker 11: at the history of Mike McCarthy, and yeah, he's he
Speaker 11: had a Hall of Fame quarterback in Aaron Rodgers who
Speaker 11: doesn't throw interceptions, but his offenses tend.
Speaker 6: To lend to not allowing that to happen.
Speaker 11: When he's been the primary play caller, you have seen
Speaker 11: where the interceptions the touchdowns are high, interceptions are low.
Speaker 11: If you're a fan of that, if that's the how
Speaker 11: you believe in things, and I want to say that
Speaker 11: about Mike as a play caller. You know, maybe there's
Speaker 11: some things that you know, I've got in trouble on
Speaker 11: on my radio station. People have kind of taken this
Speaker 11: the wrong way about Dak. Dak is super aggressive when
Speaker 11: it comes to throwing the football, you know, and so
Speaker 11: you know, when you start to talk about how much
Speaker 11: trust does he really have, I mean, he has.
Speaker 6: Maybe too much trust.
Speaker 11: You know, maybe some guys were letting him down, you
Speaker 11: know when it came to well, Simi Fijoco let him
Speaker 11: down just the other day, you know. And there's quite
Speaker 11: a few of those Dak interceptions where somebody let him down.
Speaker 11: So if you just you know, again the trust, there's
Speaker 11: guys that are going to have to make some plays
Speaker 11: for him. But you know, nobody ever talks about, uh,
Speaker 11: you know, the quarterback at the Rams when they won
Speaker 11: the Super.
Speaker 6: Bowl and he basically led the league in interceptions.
Speaker 11: You know, once your once your if you you find
Speaker 11: a way to win games and win playoff games and
Speaker 11: win the Super Bowl, some of those things go away.
Speaker 11: But I want to believe because of Mike McCarthy's history
Speaker 11: as he really does a good job of limiting the number.
Speaker 11: And maybe it's just the way he calls the game.
Speaker 11: Maybe it's the way you know. And we'll see Brian
Speaker 11: with him and Brian Schottenheimer if they can. But Dak's
Speaker 11: aggressiveness is one of those things that I.
Speaker 6: Think you're going to have to live with. That's what
Speaker 6: he wants to do.
Speaker 5: And I will throw this into Brian when you say
Speaker 5: that about his aggressiveness to people letting him down, his
Speaker 5: receivers maybe letting him down. That really goes back and
Speaker 5: speaks to what I think was the biggest challenge was
Speaker 5: I think and then again, I'm not trying to necessarily
Speaker 5: point out any particular player. But I think the level
Speaker 5: of his talent, of the talent of the receivers and
Speaker 5: what they were providing last season was down from what
Speaker 5: it had been the year before. And I think you
Speaker 5: solve a lot of the problems of the interceptions by
Speaker 5: upping the quality when you go out and get a
Speaker 5: Brandon Cooks, when you get Michael Gallup back to hopefully
Speaker 5: what we think Michael Gallup is like those things alone.
Speaker 5: Take your second and third receivers and improve them over
Speaker 5: what you had last year, and that will give you
Speaker 5: targets that, by the way, if you are being aggressive
Speaker 5: and you want to trust them by giving them a
Speaker 5: shot to make a play, you know either they're gonna
Speaker 5: make the play or nobody's gonna make the.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the thing about it though.
Speaker 11: But but you go back and you watch in the
Speaker 11: Green Bay game and he throws an interception down almost
Speaker 11: in the red zone where Schultz and Lamb he Dak
Speaker 11: was thinking somebody was going to break inside. Yeah, two
Speaker 11: guys basically the same area, and one of them was
Speaker 11: supposed to go inside, and Dak's reading that, Okay, I'm
Speaker 11: gonna throw you inside where you need to be and
Speaker 11: there's the trust. Yeah, there's the trust factor. And to
Speaker 11: your point, I totally agree with you because you know
Speaker 11: Noah Brown throwing to him and also the balls in
Speaker 11: the air, and Michael Gallup wasn't at his absolute best,
Speaker 11: you know, I mean the things happening there, Simmi Fajoco
Speaker 11: out here and immediately it's like, oh damn it, Dak's throwing.
Speaker 6: Another interception where the ball hit Semi.
Speaker 11: Fojoko between the eight and the one, you know, and
Speaker 11: he's got to make that play. He did underthrow the
Speaker 11: ball yesterday, but what is he doing. He's taking a
Speaker 11: shot on a nine route and it was really a
Speaker 11: good play.
Speaker 5: And by the way, those kind of balls, yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: not as upset about.
Speaker 7: That's a point in my mind. Do it all the time,
Speaker 7: but take that chance.
Speaker 6: You got to figure that out practice.
Speaker 11: If you want to do that, if you want to
Speaker 11: figure out, if you want to challenge that, let's go
Speaker 11: for it. But like I said, there's I'm banking on that.
Speaker 11: Mike McCarthy's way he calls plays could limit the way
Speaker 11: that Dak Prescott could be put into some harm's way
Speaker 11: of throwing some interceptions.
Speaker 10: And I've always been and I agree, and I've always
Speaker 10: been on the heel of you don't want to mute,
Speaker 10: for lack of a better way to put it, you
Speaker 10: don't want to mute Dak Prescott's aggressiveness. You want to
Speaker 10: trim it so that you can eliminate as many riverboat
Speaker 10: throws as possible. But you got to understand that some
Speaker 10: of those riverboat throws are gonna win you games, right right,
Speaker 10: that's how you well, you have to have that kind
Speaker 10: of quarterback.
Speaker 2: But here's the big thing for me.
Speaker 10: For those that are harping Ondak's fifteen interceptions last season,
Speaker 10: you go back and you look at the film into
Speaker 10: my account, and I logged each one of them. It
Speaker 10: was thirty three thirty four percent were accountable to the receivers.
Speaker 10: So if you take that out of the math, then
Speaker 10: that means he threw ten interceptions. Now granted that was
Speaker 10: in a shorter time frame, only twelve games, but interceptions
Speaker 10: mirrors what he typically does on an annual basis. So
Speaker 10: you still say, Okay, twelve games, ten picks. Gotta peel
Speaker 10: that back. I believe he will because history shows that
Speaker 10: he can when he has a three headed monster. First
Speaker 10: full year of Mary Cooper being here Dak Prescott, that's
Speaker 10: when he almost took the record from Tony Romo FO
Speaker 10: nine hundred and two yards, thirty touchdowns to only eleven picks.
Speaker 10: He was injured in twenty twenty. We know about the
Speaker 10: broken ankle twenty twenty one, another Mari Cooper year, almost
Speaker 10: forty five hundred yards, thirty seven touchdowns, ten interceptions. Now
Speaker 10: you bring in Brandon Cooks logic, Dick takes, and history
Speaker 10: tells us that in this formula, Dak Prescott will thrive,
Speaker 10: the interceptions will decrease, the production will increase, and then
Speaker 10: you have McCarthy.
Speaker 2: Into it as a play caller, and now who we are.
Speaker 11: Well, but then again, we're gonna get to week eight,
Speaker 11: Patrick and Amber's gonna go this offense makes no big plays.
Speaker 6: If this thing turns into dank and.
Speaker 11: Dunk, dank and dunk, dancon dunk and then ambar and
Speaker 11: week eight, it's gonna go. Where are the big plays?
Speaker 11: Where are the chunk plays? Where the twenty yard plays?
Speaker 11: This offense it's you know, and hope they get off
Speaker 11: the field. They don't score any points.
Speaker 6: You know, that's the problem.
Speaker 11: If you you talk about muting Dak and they don't
Speaker 11: make big plays and they don't get points, you know,
Speaker 11: because that's one of the thing.
Speaker 6: They're one of the teams of the.
Speaker 11: League in big plays, you know them, the Dolphins for
Speaker 11: I mean they they they're one of the teams that
Speaker 11: make big plays in this scene. And the minute this
Speaker 11: turns into just a dink and dunk offense, fans are
Speaker 11: gonna be losing their damn minds about that.
Speaker 12: You know what. Surprisingly, I myself don't feel concerned for
Speaker 12: the interceptions this year. I feel like now with the
Speaker 12: off season, because last year, what was that thing that
Speaker 12: we always heard after a game Brian press conference, ye
Speaker 12: dark saying my.
Speaker 6: Babe, I've got to improve.
Speaker 12: Week after week we would see kind of the same performance.
Speaker 12: But I think now with this break and working together
Speaker 12: and all that, I do know for a fact that
Speaker 12: I feel a lot better about the wide receiver group
Speaker 12: currently then and I did last year at the same time.
Speaker 12: So I think that they're starting training camp on the
Speaker 12: right foot with the right kind of guys that you want,
Speaker 12: so wide receivers, I feel a lot better.
Speaker 7: Dak.
Speaker 12: I think he's gonna figure it out. And I'm with you, guys,
Speaker 12: I don't want him to take a step back and
Speaker 12: become more conservative. I think he should keep going. And
Speaker 12: it's all about getting on the same page, being on
Speaker 12: the same page, that chemistry that we keep mentioning, just knowing, Okay,
Speaker 12: I know exactly where that guy's gonna be, and you
Speaker 12: know exactly that I'm going to you, And just that
Speaker 12: comes with time. But obviously you feel like you're running
Speaker 12: out of time here. When is the time coming? But
Speaker 12: I do think that they're on the right track, and
Speaker 12: I think that would be an area that I believe
Speaker 12: that they will definitely have improved by the start.
Speaker 6: Of the season.
Speaker 2: Chemistry and trust.
Speaker 10: To Edbar's point, chemistry and trust, and it looks like
Speaker 10: he has an instant in building chemistry with Brandon Cooks,
Speaker 10: already has it with Ceedee Lamb. They had some timing
Speaker 10: issues last year the resulted in some of those interceptions,
Speaker 10: Lamb not crossing face, he going behind the safety. But
Speaker 10: we've also seen Dak make throws like, for example, he
Speaker 10: doesn't make the throw the game winning can throw in
Speaker 10: New York to Cole Beasley if he doesn't trust that receiver.
Speaker 10: There was a particular play against the Cleveland Browns when
Speaker 10: Cooper was here. Mark Cooper was here in Dallas. It
Speaker 10: was a key hole throw. He doesn't make that throw
Speaker 10: if he doesn't trust the receiver. So this is Dak
Speaker 10: trying to see who he can and cannot trust, and
Speaker 10: now it's the time to do it in training camp.
Speaker 5: In fact of the matter, in this kind of offense,
Speaker 5: what we think we're gonna see from this offense, that's
Speaker 5: what this offense is predicated on.
Speaker 7: It's those timing bas throws.
Speaker 5: It's those quick get the ball out and the receiver
Speaker 5: has to be i mean, with pinpoint accuracy in the
Speaker 5: spot where he needs to be because the ball is
Speaker 5: gonna beat there, right, Yeah, so you got to trust him.
Speaker 6: A great example yesterday, I have them running.
Speaker 11: They're running a lot of bunch formation three to one
Speaker 11: side and then scatter and then also they got these
Speaker 11: pick routes too, where they're driving guys inside and then
Speaker 11: running CD behind that, you know, and he's sitting down
Speaker 11: in his zone and Dak's throwing the ball. That's exactly
Speaker 11: to your point, though, Receivers need to be where they
Speaker 11: are are supposed to be, and you also need to
Speaker 11: find a way to finish though if you're receiver. Don't
Speaker 11: let the ball clang off you and go in the
Speaker 11: air and then somebody makes an interception. And now we're
Speaker 11: talking about the quarterback and a high number of interceptions
Speaker 11: at a game or a practice.
Speaker 10: And it's also true that Deck needs to also make
Speaker 10: sure that he's making a smart decision. Example, you look
Speaker 10: at the playoff game against the forty nine ers. You
Speaker 10: dodge a bullet once against Fred Warner. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 10: go there again. So those are the types of things
Speaker 10: that are accountable to Dek Prescott, and he knows it,
Speaker 10: and that's what he's working to clean up mentally.
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Speaker 7: Welcome back. It is the final segment of.
Speaker 6: The break Trains California.
Speaker 5: We are avoiding kicks and we are we're taking you
Speaker 5: guys through the storylines of training camp.
Speaker 7: Let's move on to our next topic.
Speaker 6: This one.
Speaker 5: I have that I literally had that one at the
Speaker 5: bottom of the list, but you know, it seems like
Speaker 5: a great time to go.
Speaker 7: Ahead and have that conversation.
Speaker 2: Call the audible ahead, what do you got there?
Speaker 6: But I know you got it lined up how you want.
Speaker 7: Let me let me let me ask you that though.
Speaker 5: How concerned are you guys with with what's going on
Speaker 5: with the game situation?
Speaker 7: I guess at this point.
Speaker 5: Our producer Chris, he's on record, he's a little, a
Speaker 5: little worried, just a little concern for his life.
Speaker 11: I think, go ahead, Patrick, because you mean I thought
Speaker 11: you made a good point. We were just talking at
Speaker 11: the break.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: For me coming into camp, this was still the most
Speaker 10: glaring position that needed to be addressed.
Speaker 2: And I said it at several points.
Speaker 10: I understand you bring it, you bring Backtris in thiss Guyano,
Speaker 10: and then you go and get Brandon Aubrey from the
Speaker 10: USFL And the question was posed to me on one
Speaker 10: to five point three of him the fan on yesterday morning.
Speaker 10: Uh do I feel like one of these guys is
Speaker 10: the answer? As Jerry Jones said, one of them can be.
Speaker 10: I don't have the body of work that gives me
Speaker 10: that level of confidence. I can't justifiably sit here and
Speaker 10: say yes, I believe that, and there therefore I do
Speaker 10: have some concern at the position.
Speaker 2: And as these footballs.
Speaker 10: Sail over our heads with the goal post over there,
Speaker 10: it just let it reinforces that. Now I understand these guys.
Speaker 10: They have to get there. Yeah, there's some win and
Speaker 10: they got to get their their leg beneath them, you know,
Speaker 10: so to speak. But that being said again, neither of
Speaker 10: these guys have the body of work that gives me
Speaker 10: the confidence. And then what we're kind of halfway seeing
Speaker 10: they're struggling to start training camp.
Speaker 2: Hopefully they pick things up.
Speaker 10: But when you have some veteran free agents out there,
Speaker 10: like a Mason Crosby, for example, who has familiarity with
Speaker 10: Mike McCarthy obviously from their days with the Packers, Viscay
Speaker 10: I ain't know and I'll be they're really going to
Speaker 10: have to get the going and they can't wait until
Speaker 10: later in camp to get it going to happen, has
Speaker 10: to happen now or we're going to be looking at
Speaker 10: a situation like last year where a veteran was brought
Speaker 10: in and ended up winning the job.
Speaker 11: Yeah. I think everything that Patrick said is absolutely correct,
Speaker 11: and you know it's it's it's almost like they're I'd
Speaker 11: be interested to see if they do some actual kicks
Speaker 11: in practice in front of all the.
Speaker 7: Media, which they haven't.
Speaker 2: Really they haven't.
Speaker 11: And I think Mike McCarthy, we don't see a lot
Speaker 11: of one on one. Yeah, we don't see a lot
Speaker 11: of one on ones and things like that. It's almost
Speaker 11: like you're not we really don't want people to write
Speaker 11: or talk about, Okay, they were six of ten from
Speaker 11: and then you're you know, we're charting all the distances
Speaker 11: and stuff like that. I just I don't think they
Speaker 11: want to put that out there that way. We've learned
Speaker 11: this about Pier being an ox star though. This is
Speaker 11: kind of a difficult place to kick. Even though it's
Speaker 11: sunny and bright and nice, they have trees all over
Speaker 11: this place and the wind comes over these trees and stuff.
Speaker 11: It does do tricks with the ball. So we've seen
Speaker 11: some kickers. Look, really, last year they were kicking into
Speaker 11: a pre stiff breeze. It was like they were four
Speaker 11: of nine, there were you know, three of you know what.
Speaker 11: It was just it was kind of it wasn't kind
Speaker 11: of it wasn't pretty at all. And so I'm saying,
Speaker 11: I think they're trying to kind of figure this thing
Speaker 11: out right now, and maybe even maybe not in front
Speaker 11: of the media. Maybe it's going to be after practice,
Speaker 11: before practice, those kinds of things.
Speaker 12: You know, every time I've ever asked about kickers in
Speaker 12: general since the Dan Bailey era, I've always been told
Speaker 12: the same thing as far as like how easy quote
Speaker 12: unquote it is to bring a kicker just because the
Speaker 12: nature of the position, you don't it's easier to kind
Speaker 12: of give them a trial and then bring them in
Speaker 12: and just plug them right in and all that. But
Speaker 12: I've seen year after year when you talk about the
Speaker 12: problems that they've had kicking the ball, doesn't seem like
Speaker 12: it ever really works out that way. With a few exceptions. Yeah,
Speaker 12: but even every time we head into training camp, I
Speaker 12: feel like they're there they're always way towards the very
Speaker 12: last minute to go into panic mode when it comes
Speaker 12: down to the kicker position. So I'm just I just
Speaker 12: hope that they can take no I mean, obviously they're
Speaker 12: watching everything, but that they can take action a lot
Speaker 12: sooner than what happened last year.
Speaker 5: As an example, let me ask you this question though,
Speaker 5: because I hear what you're saying, I wonder sometimes if
Speaker 5: the kicker position is one that is very different than
Speaker 5: other positions in the NFL. Like if you got a
Speaker 5: linebacker problem, you know you can go into the draft
Speaker 5: that year and there will be linebackers available to solve
Speaker 5: your linebacker problem.
Speaker 7: Right, you just got to pick the right one. You know.
Speaker 5: You don't have that every year when it comes to kickers,
Speaker 5: Like there is kind of this certain number of kickers
Speaker 5: that are out there, and that number doesn't seem to
Speaker 5: be changing very very much, and so you're really taking
Speaker 5: a shot on guys that are unproven to try to
Speaker 5: figure out if maybe you could kind of find one.
Speaker 5: But it's not as simple as finding other positions to
Speaker 5: be able to get ahead of it, as you say.
Speaker 2: Right, unless you draft one, right Because to your point, well,
Speaker 2: I was gonna say.
Speaker 6: That's exactly we drafted a third round guy that didn't work.
Speaker 10: There's there's not going to be any guarantee on any
Speaker 10: position that you know, if any play. But I get
Speaker 10: what you're saying, and you're absolutely correct. Here's what I'm
Speaker 10: going with it, though, uh, because of the greatness of
Speaker 10: Dan Bailey, and Dan Bailey was an undrafted I am
Speaker 10: of the belief that that gives the front office confidence
Speaker 10: and saying, well, we did it once, we can do
Speaker 10: it again, which is generally true if I show you
Speaker 10: something once then But we're now so far removed to Ambars,
Speaker 10: but we're so far removed from Dan Bailey that maybe
Speaker 10: we should think a little bit differently as far as
Speaker 10: approaching the position.
Speaker 11: Is what I'm saying, Well, this is where Derek and
Speaker 11: I grew up together here in Dallas Cowboys about the
Speaker 11: same time, and they used to have a kicking coach
Speaker 11: you named Steve Hoffman.
Speaker 6: It's Steve Hoffman.
Speaker 11: Whoever the official sponsor for the Dallas Cowboys is for
Speaker 11: building projects and stuff like that. I don't know which company,
Speaker 11: so I don't want to say, But whoever is that
Speaker 11: Hoffman could go to that particular depot place or wherever
Speaker 11: and find ten dudes and he would find a Pro
Speaker 11: Bowl guy out of that. Never when I was working
Speaker 11: with the scoun department here did I ever have to
Speaker 11: evaluate a kicker because we had Steve Hoffman.
Speaker 6: Steve Hoffman knew he would.
Speaker 7: Find high school teachers. Tim Ceter right, sim was the
Speaker 7: one that was a coach.
Speaker 6: He had them all.
Speaker 11: He would just go down to the local store and
Speaker 11: say pro Bowl kicker, and he would find them. And
Speaker 11: that and that's where I mean. I want the days
Speaker 11: of Steve Hoffman. And I know he's coaching special teams
Speaker 11: somewhere right now. I want that day back where I
Speaker 11: don't have to worry about this anymore, because what's gonna
Speaker 11: happen is this head coach is okay with kicking field goals.
Speaker 11: It's gonna be tight, tough games he's gonna play, he's
Speaker 11: gonna be if he's calling the offense like he's talking
Speaker 11: about it. There's gonna come down to some kicking situations.
Speaker 11: We've seen it before. So to Ambar's point, please please,
Speaker 11: please please make it a priority.
Speaker 10: Right now, I'll to that point and I will kind
Speaker 10: of pick dovetail off of it. I would like to
Speaker 10: plead to the play caller, the offensive play.
Speaker 2: Caller, and Michael McCarthy and just hey, listen, listen to me, coach.
Speaker 10: The more effect of this offense can be on third down,
Speaker 10: the less you have to worry about how effective your
Speaker 10: kicker might or might not be.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'll take you one step further. How efficient
Speaker 5: you can be on first and second down. Will then
Speaker 5: dicate fish can be on third down, which make sure
Speaker 5: you keep that kicker on the sideline.
Speaker 12: So just be perfect.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be perfect.
Speaker 10: We're not asking you're not asking better than thirty five
Speaker 10: percent on third down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean winning first down to me, I think
Speaker 5: winning first down to me, whether you're on offense or defense,
Speaker 5: that's really where To me, offense and defense matters like
Speaker 5: first down. If you can win on first down, it
Speaker 5: dictates everything else until you get to a punt or
Speaker 5: you get to another first down, you know, And so
Speaker 5: I think that's a critical down for the Cowboys. All Right,
Speaker 5: we appreciate you guys joining us. We're going to be
Speaker 5: back on Tuesday. Yeah, we'll be back on Tuesday, and
Speaker 5: we'll get to some of the defense. I we didn't
Speaker 5: get to a lot of the defensive storylines. We'll get
Speaker 5: some of those on Tuesday. We will also have at
Speaker 5: that point a practice that we have gone through where
Speaker 5: the Cowboys will have on paths they come on on Monday,
Speaker 5: so we'll get to see a little bit more, particularly
Speaker 5: on the offensive and defensive line, where guys start kind
Speaker 5: of running into each other a little bit more. That
Speaker 5: should be fun. Till then for Brian brought us Patrick Walker, Ambergarcia.
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