WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Giants On The Horizon 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:09.280 This is Talking Cowboys, streaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:18.560 Com and the official Dallas Cowboys Do Play No. Your 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:24.800 hosts Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, Taylor Stern and Rob Phillips. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:29.520 Hello everyone, and welcome to today's edition of Talking Cowboys. 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.440 We are here in the SWBC Mortgage Studio with only 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.839 a few days left Cowboys season opener against the Giants 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.640 at AT and T Stadium. So today we have a 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.200 great show for you guys, whether you're watching or listening. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.280 We're gonna get down to this game and break it down. 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:51.040 But how's everyone doing today? Fantastic. We got football tonight 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.120 and then not the best, it's the best and all. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.520 Like you said a couple of days till Cowboys Giants, 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.360 you're gonna go out and watch it. No, watch on 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.160 the couch, Mick. I'll be in the press box soon enough. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.240 All right. Yeah, are you telling us you're not you're 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.880 not gonna make homemade pizza? Yeah? Absolutely, the couch. Yeah, 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.400 I'm not a traditional thing. Somebody asked me if do 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.319 you go out and you know, go to the bars 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.800 and watch it? I go, No, I watch it, sit 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.399 back and order some Papa John's that's right. There, you 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.000 go a great time, and put is an exception for 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.760 me because I'm gonna be flipping back and forth between 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.360 the game and DCC making the team be. Oh, okay, 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.920 we have my teammates will actually be on the show tonight. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.920 Mickey Spagnola Brian brought us making their appearance on DCC 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.440 making the team. Mickey's a veteran at this, but this 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:46.280 was new, this was media training. Yeah, and Brian and 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.920 I were the professors. Wow, you know what I think 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.280 is gonna be interesting? So we sat over here, Yeah, 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.560 and the young lady sat over there. So we asked 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.640 the very difficult questions that we always do. I'll tell 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.000 you what was interesting. I think Mickey, just real quick, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:01.480 I don't want to go into this a whole lot, 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.560 but hey, you're famous, I need to hear more. No, 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.840 did do you think they're gonna they're gonna what part 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.280 do you think they're gonna use the one where we 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.480 were talking with Kelly and them afterwards or the actual interview, 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.160 because we were pretty well, I'm gonna we tend to 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.680 be pretty critical. I'm gonna think they used the parts 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:21.519 with the ones that made the team. Sure, right, hopefully, 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.440 because I mean it was all the rookies, Yes it was. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.600 They all had a couple of selected veterans. There are 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.360 a couple of selected veterans. Yeah, there be bloopers at all. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.040 Do we know that? No? Think and I were first takers. 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.600 Did you wear makeup at all? No? Okay? All natural? 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.399 The gals? Did they look like they're very pretty? All right? Well, 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.560 hopefully check it out to me. Let's say that side 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.000 of the table during the interview absolutely a lot better 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:46.959 than that side of the table does. Or I'll bet 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.359 it absolutely. I'll bet it did. And they didn't both 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.560 come with the same shirt side either, matching here. All right, guys. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.480 The Cowboys had their first practice for the New York 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.680 Giants yesterday and on the Cowboys side of things, it 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.959 was actually a knock on wood, pretty healthy day for them, 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.440 you know, really, with the only limited guy being Jordan Lewis, 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.880 and Garrett said today he expects him to do a 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.080 little more, but I'm sorry fans don't get excited to 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.919 see him this Sunday. Yeah right, Brian, Yeah, I think so, Tay. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:22.560 And you know, if you the only unhealthy person, I 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.720 guess this would be if you want to say Anthony 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.560 Hitching of course from fringe, but yeah, it was nice 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.960 to have Jordan Lewis back on the field yesterday. And 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.079 you know, we don't get a chance to watch him 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.960 completely practice. My guess is that he was probably doing 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.000 some stuff with a scout team, you know, and because 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.800 he's just working back in and what we've learned about 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.600 this team is they won't put these guys on the 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.480 field if they're they have to be completely healthy, which 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.440 we think he is and then be he's going to 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.400 need more practices before he even thinks about playing at 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.960 least a woozy A and Woods have practiced enough in 0:03:56.120 --> 0:04:01.080 training camp and played in the blue white practice that 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.200 we had the other night to give you that ability 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:05.920 to say, Okay, were we think they're ready to go 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:07.840 play in this football game. I mean, he's got to 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.280 be a couple of weeks away, right, I'm gonna say 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.400 he's closer to I'm gonna say this week, and then 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.120 let's see where he's at next week. So one padded 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.240 practice and he's ready to go. Well, I'm thinking that 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:22.159 the whole week. Yeah, they got about playing in pad. Yeah, 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.039 but you know, if you think about him and his 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.800 scout teamwork, and that's where I'm taking that angle right 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.919 there with him. The scout teamwork he's getting. He's getting 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.600 eight snaps a seven on seven, he's getting eight snaps 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.919 of team period, he's getting eight snaps of blitz period, 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:42.599 he's getting sixteen snaps of play action period. So you 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.719 know he's easily I think he's practicing thirty forty plays. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.960 So if you put that together with three four days 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:54.160 of work, then you know we'll see. I think it's 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.160 it's way encouraging. It helps to have been Wickery here, 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:02.400 Nickery Year, that's right. Apologize for butchering his name. He's there, 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.960 as Brian said, he's you know, he's a bridge for 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.480 these next couple weeks at least. Yes, still Lewis gets back. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.640 A couple other good positive items there, tay Keith Smith 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.520 who was injured. They're starting fullback late in training camp, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.160 full participant, and I don't see Ryan Switzer on this 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.480 injury report at all. So is that a sign he's 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.960 good to go Sunday? You would think so. I think fans, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.280 you know, I saw a good tweet from somebody yesterday 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.520 and we were talking about the breakout players from your 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.080 poll and they said Ryan Switzer is my guy. So wow, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.000 maybe we'll see it in the first game, but he's 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.040 got fifteen more after that to show him something that's right, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:38.839 show him something in the return game, and maybe a 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.599 few snaps on offense. But I think it was good 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.680 to see, you know, Tyrone Crawford back in practice, and 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.320 that's as it lists them as full. By the way, 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.799 it's not like he was limited after missing a month. 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.720 And the other guy that they were kind of regulating 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.400 was James Hannah and he was listed as full too, 0:05:55.760 --> 0:06:00.760 So that puts that tight end crew really together. But 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.080 more importantly though, you talked about Crawford, Yeah, that's you 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.320 know there there. Now. I don't know if Crawford is 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.320 going to start, but if he's part of the rotation, 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.719 you know, we've seen how they've played this. They've sweep 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.640 seen with with Lawrence and then Benson Mayawat went while 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.880 Crawford was out. Might be the way they go and 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:22.440 then you know, rotate Crawford in as need is the conditioning, 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.479 I know we always talk about that, you know, the 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.880 first game. You know, I think both sides are going 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.520 to have to figure out this conditioning. You know, because 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.800 you're not really at least these starters haven't played in 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:36.000 extensive work in preseason games, but they have practice, so 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:37.800 that's what you gotta. We spoke to him in the 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.559 locker room a couple days ago. He said he wasn't 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.279 worried so much about conditioning. It was more rustiness getting 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.760 his pad level low, getting his technique back, because he 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.760 it's been like thirty days since he's practiced. So but 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.479 I would think both would account for it because a 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.640 lower body injury. There's no way he's been running like 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.119 he normally does. Newly minted captain as well, that's right. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.840 This will be his first season as a Dallas Cowboys 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.279 team captain. Not that that will make too much of 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.680 a difference before besides the coin toss. But I think 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.320 it's still calls it right when he's on the road. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.160 When you're on the road, Jason, you're still the caller, right. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.320 So you got a few new captains, by the way, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.920 you never have me. Who's the other one, Well, it 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.200 would be Orlando Scanner, that's the one. And Dak Prescott. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:24.520 Dak Prescott, where's your thirty two jersey? I could warn 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.920 it today. I have to give that back. Oh that's 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:28.840 too bad. I need to ask this question to the 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.840 guys that've been here the longest, because I don't know 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.880 this to be true. Has there ever been a second 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.800 year guy? Good job? Yeah as a captain? Come on, Mickey, 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.280 go through that rolodex brain. You have no idea. I 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.440 feel like Frederick was one. Maybe Frederick, but he last 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.840 year was his first year. I okay, it's about second 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.080 year in the league, right, Yeah, I'm talking about you know, 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:55.160 obviously no rookies, but a second year guy definitely makes 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.280 a difference because he is the quarterback, so the leadership 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.480 aspect there. But Wincy Carter, I'm trying to think of 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.600 those days. Yeah, Romo was in his fourth fifth year, 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.040 would have messed up the coin toss? No, but how 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.840 about Aikman? Then he would think Aikman maybe ninety would 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.560 have been his second year. Somebody tweet that to us 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.480 because that's an interesting way up. They don't really list that, dude. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.440 We'll look into that one. That's a great question. I 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.720 just wander around the league. If that's the case, I 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:26.679 know it's happened like someone like Jamis Winston exactly, Ben Roethlisberger. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.480 I mean after his I mean, yeah, you get to 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.000 think of quarterbacks that that their first year amen had 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.880 a good presence. Is Carson Wentz a captain this year? Yeah? 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.720 There you go. Maybe we've got somebody from Philadelphia listening 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.160 to our show. We do. Apparently it's appointed weekly for 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.720 the Eagles. Oh they change them. That's differing on the 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.880 game or who's active. I don't think Peterson doing that. 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.920 There a couple of teams like that. I wonder if so, 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.720 does the captain's really do anything other than walk out 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.480 for the coin toss? Why are you? Why are you? 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.240 Why are you? Minim? I'm just asking, No, no, I'm asking. 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.920 Do I think if you they have captain's meetings or something? 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:01.839 You know what I think? I think they're looked at 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.880 in if you have a player's only meeting, you know 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.840 when they if things go bad, right, or maybe things 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.800 are going good. Maybe you know, as a young player, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.920 to me, a young player, I would lean on my 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.520 captain if there's a guy that maybe I'm having an issue, 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.960 maybe I don't quite understand why coach isn't playing me, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.240 or maybe I'm trying to figure out waynut. Why am 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.559 I on the practice squad? You know, maybe you go 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.520 up to a captain and say, listen, you know you've 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.720 got experience. What do I need to learn here? Well, 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.480 I think Orlando Scandrick being named at captain goes into 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.839 exactly your narrative. You've said that he's had this offseason 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.400 as far as Hey, I realize my time is limited 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.240 here in the NFL. I'm going to help out some 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:39.840 of these guys. I'm going to be more of a 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.880 leader than I have been in past years. And him 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.160 being elected that shows that you're right in your point. Yeah, 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.560 I think that that to me, the captain is the 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.560 guy that if a young player wants to pull a 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.800 guy aside or ask a question without going to a coach. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.640 I think that's where the captain's kind of play in. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.160 Maybe a captain notices a young guy struggling, maybe see 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.400 you guys sitting in his locker, and you walk over 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.520 to him and say something such a point of pride. Also, 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.080 who's the point man on offense? Who calls the plays? 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.880 Dak Right, calls him out at the line of scrimmage. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.800 Who's who's the point man on defense? Sean Lee? So 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:18.000 it's important, it's natural. Yeah, But I think Dan Bailey's 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.160 kind of the veteran guy that group. Do they get 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.280 a sea on their chest? Yep, like hockey, hockey and 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.720 and and it makes it's actually gold and so every 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.000 star you have gets filled in. So Wittens is hey 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.199 around his back? Was Odell Beckham junior captain last year? 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.520 Good question? Not sure, Kent? No, Apparently it's Eli Manning, 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:42.040 Jonathan Cassius and a linebacker zachd Aussie that's the snapper 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.440 of the Giants. Yeah. Three. Do they have captains in 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.679 the NBA? I'm not sure. I don't think they do. 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.400 Kareem's nickname was definitely the NHL. In the NHL, it's 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.559 a lot more. They don't have it in Major League Baseball? 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.199 Do they? I don't think so. I mean, I've never 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:01.760 seen it. Quick like now, Odell Beckham junior not a captain, 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:06.000 but he did not practice yesterday. Cowboys fans on their 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.079 hands patiently waiting, sure or what's gonna happen? Is they're 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:14.360 gonna play? Status? I don't. I have my doubts. Is 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.880 he gonna play if he doesn't practice today? I'm strong 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.160 doubts they're gonna play. I'm gonna say no, am I 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.280 the only ones gonna say yes, say yes. I think 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.559 they will, ye, they will prop him up and send 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.800 him out there. I could see that. But I think 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.200 Rob's a good point though. If Rob you know the 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.720 fact that yesterday everybody was quick to show video of him, 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.800 you know, running around in pre drills and stuff like that, 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:42.560 and oh, he looks like he's moving well. And then 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.720 you get to practice report and he's like a D 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.120 and P. Right, So if he dnps today, he ain't playing. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.120 You get to Friday and it's, like you said, it's 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:51.959 a kind of a clean up day here. It's a 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.520 lighter practice anyway. So he's I have my doubts. I'm 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.720 my doubts there. I mean, you know what. To me, 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:03.200 I just kind of feel like that he's an unusual cat, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.120 you know. And I'm not going to say he's not tough, 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.199 but I you know, I think he's one of those 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.199 guys that worries about himself more than he worries about 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.280 the team. You think they do a little something something 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.760 on Sunday and send him out there something something. What 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.360 does that mean? No, just give him a little something 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.959 to get him out there to play. You're saying to 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.439 take a shot and only do it once, so you 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.920 do it the day of the game. Yeah, I don't. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:28.559 I don't know. I mean if I don't know if 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.520 he'll take a shot. If that's what you're saying, something 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.679 something I think he realizes, you know. I was hearing 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.800 some people that, oh, he'll just sit this game out, 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.400 but this is week one division game sening. Oh no, 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.560 you guys, I don't disagree that we ever get a 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.160 degree on his sprained ankle. Well, it wasn't a wasn't 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.800 a high speed. He basically passed out with pain in 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:51.920 the locker room, you know, and then he arose from pain, right, Lazarus. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.720 But to me, if he yeah, if he does, Lazarus, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.120 if he doesn't, if he doesn't practice today, you know, 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.720 we'll see. I would be worried about it. Are you 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.600 thinking something long term? Here? Might be? Might be something 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.840 they're worried about. You try to go out trying to 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:08.840 win the war. You're trying to win the battle to 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.000 win the war. I don't like comparing Odell to dez Bryant, 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:13.880 and a lot of fans do it, and it's very 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.160 easy to do so because they both play with such 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:20.480 passion they're key members of their team's offenses, but he does. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.000 In this instance, the way that he's handling his injury 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.320 reminds me similar of how Dez has handled injuries in 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.000 the past, like hey, don't count me out, you know, 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.840 and then just sure you can be right because the 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.760 player does not decide if they can play or not. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.440 I want that. No, that's absolutely true. That's player never 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.880 makes that decision. It really comes down to the medical staff. 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.880 And so these players want to play. Sure it is 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.200 a long season. He's their guy, and if it's a 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.840 thing with an ankle where it could be a lingering deal, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.319 then maybe they feel like he needs another weak arrest. 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.360 We'll find out. I thought about his knee when he 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:53.240 first happened. Bad look real bad? Is Jack Rabbit? Play 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.480 it Facebook us? Who Jack Rabbit is? Mackey? That was 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:01.160 kind of an interesting thing at Jen's press converts. That 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.760 just ruined your morning. You were sitting next to the 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.040 guy too. It was just so flippid. Tell everyone listening 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.800 the story that you're talking about. Jason Garrett got asked 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:11.920 by I guess he was from the New York Post, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.000 think the New York Post, and he wanted to find 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:19.160 out if Jenorris Jenkins how Dez was gonna deal with 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.440 Jenorris Jenkins covering him, and he goes, so, how's Dad's 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.120 gonna do with Jack Rabbit? Who are you? And that's 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:31.560 basically what Jason said, Jack Rabbit. Now as if everyone 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.600 knows that nickname, I'll tell you what I think the guy. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.320 It's a bit. I think the guy we want to 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:39.440 bet you got. The post said, listen, you ask a 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.720 Jack Rabbit question. I mean you got lunch for Norris Jenkins, 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.960 great player. That's not a Megatron nickname where everybody kind 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:48.920 of knows it, you know, that's kind of a Dave 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.520 Hellman said that next week on the Converence Call, he'll 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.600 ask Advanced Joseph if he's gonna how he's planning for 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.320 DJ duffel bag. Yeah. Let's see if Dave actually follows 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.480 through with his word and does that, because I'm sure 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:06.040 the advance Joseph will be like, no, yeah, we don't 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.440 have musicians on the field. That might have been Jason's 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.120 greatest answer ever. Well, he looked at him, I looked 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.360 at when the question was asked. I looked at Garrett 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.680 and he kind of like, kind of like gave it 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.520 that kind of that what are you asking there? I 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.880 think it was Seriously, we'll see, Hey, we're talking about 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.960 Odell Beckham Junior and his injury and where the degree 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.440 is and somebody who scared the Giants early on in 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.480 training camp with Sterling Shepherd the wide receivers in his 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.640 second year, he was a contributor for them. Last year. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.880 He actually had his first touchdown in Week one against 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.960 the Cowboys. How is Scandrick, newly minted captain Orlando Scandrick 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:49.080 going to play against Sterling Shepherd this weekend? Got that Mickey, Well, 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.560 do they put him in the slaughter or they put 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.080 O'Dell Beckham in this? That they put Shepherd? They put 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.680 Shepherd in this normally. Normally that's where he does most 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.840 Where did Beckham kill him last year? Wasn't it out 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:01.320 us slot? It was out of the slot on the 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.960 one play. Yet when he got he got lost or 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.640 the Cowboys got lost. They drafted Shepherd to kind of 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.880 be there. Beasley a guy work in the middle of 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.040 the field, slot type guy, more quicker than fast, you know, 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.920 and in Orlando has done a nice job. He's the 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.680 two games that he played last year against the Cowboys. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.000 He was only targeted four times in each game, which 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.000 with the lowest numbers he's had. So that gives you 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.080 a little bit of a little hope that you know, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:31.040 it's Scandrick. Scandrick's healthy. I think that's the most important thing. Yeah, exactly. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.280 And you know he'll have a chip on his shoulder, 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.240 There's no doubt. We always say that about him. He'll 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:36.840 have a chip on his shoulder. He always wants to 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.000 try and prove people wrong. You know, this is a 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.520 year he's really gonna push now for to try and 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.440 make a Pro Bowl. He's what ten seasons in ye. Yeah, 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.600 so you know he's got it. He's he even said it. 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.120 You know, he's got to figure out, you know, how 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.640 to do this, and I think he has. And so 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.800 the health is there, you know, the opportunity to cover 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.160 a guy like Shepherd, and especially if you know, if 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.720 if Odell doesn't play, then it's to come down to 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.800 Shepherd and it's gonna come down to Marshall plus the 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.880 tight end Ingram. You know, those are the three you're 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:07.919 gonna have to worry about if there's no Beckham in 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.639 this game. So yeah, it'll be a good matchup yeah, 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.560 and and and can Orlando keep him in check? That's 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.320 gonna be that's gonna be a key to this game. Well, 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.400 who's their next wide receiver, their next wide receiver out 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:24.880 of which side? Just whoever? Roger Lewis would start. Probably 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.320 it would be Marshall, No, Marshall would play, and Shepherd 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.400 and then Roger Lewis would yea, they have three, yeah exactly, 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:37.000 so start three. Yeah, Tavarus King is also on their roster. Yeah, 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.320 so yeah, it would be Roger Lewis would be the guy. 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:43.560 He's number eighteen, So yeah, it's to me, it's it's 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.520 gonna be key. Yeah. If he doesn't play, you know, 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.040 if you're a Cowboy fan, you should be grateful for that. 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.040 You know, Dwayne Harris, they wouldn't put him in there 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:54.480 starting wide receiver. I don't think so. Special teams man. Yeah, Hey, 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.640 the Cowboys are very excited because Jason Witten did sign 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.560 an extension in the offseason. He's entering his fifty season 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.520 in the NFL. But you can't forget that. Eli Manning 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.240 is also entering his fourteenth year in the NFL. Never 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.000 missed a game for the Giants. Amazing, How is he 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.800 going to fare in this opening game fourteenth year. You 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.760 know what. To me, we talk about their skill position guys, 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.520 and they have great ones. They had a Brandon Marshall, 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.639 Evan Ingraham, We've talked about him a little bit, the 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.399 rookie tight end, But to me, it starts up front 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.679 for them and can they protect him and can they 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.840 run the football because one thing they didn't do in 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.200 the offseason was really upgrade or change their offensive line. 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.240 They've got two young tackles, Eric Flowers and Bobby Hart, 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.600 and when you read about them up north, I mean 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.480 that's the talk is how can this offensive line protect 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:41.920 Eli and how can they run the ball? They were 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.840 twenty ninth in rushing last year, so can Paul Perkins 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.640 put Eli in good situations down in distance? Yeah, they're 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.000 one of the worst teams in the league when it 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.280 comes to running for four yards to carry. That's kind 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.159 of your benchmark. They were darn near. I think they 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.640 were twenty seventh or twenty six in the league when 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:58.920 it came to running the ball for four plus yards, 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:00.720 where the Cowboys were one of the best. You know, 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:02.720 with Zeke and the way he's able to do it, 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.960 it's a problem for the Giants. They don't have much 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.320 balance there and it affects him on other downs too, 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.879 when they get in trouble on second down. They're one 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:12.320 of the worst teams in the league when it comes 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.240 to converting second downs to first downs, and then and 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.920 then it subsequently it puts him in bad shape and 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.600 third downs, which is another a little bit more of 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.680 a problem for them. So yeah, they, like Rob says, 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.040 they haven't done anything with their offensive line. You know, 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.720 with Manning, it's not about the sacks we talked about. 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.000 He was the third least sacked quarterback in the league 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.240 last year. Pressure that's where pressure. The pressure is the 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.760 what it causes him the problem when you blitz him, 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:41.440 rush him. He's a seventy five percent rated passer that way, 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.359 so you got to find ways to get to him, 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.320 force him to make throws. When you blitz him, he 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.840 tends to have even more problems. So, you know, we 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.360 have to keep an eye on how is the Cowboys 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.760 rush going to be able to affect him if at all, 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.920 don't focus on the sacks, focus on the pressure. Hey, 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.719 they would have finished thirtieth last year in rushing if 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.199