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Speaker 1: October twenty sixth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number
Speaker 1: forty seven. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break,
Speaker 1: Live from Yes WBC Mortgage Studios at the Stars Big
Speaker 1: Picture TUSI. A lot of topics we're gonna hit today.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about some injuries. Catch you guys up there.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about this NFC. There are five teams
Speaker 1: in the NFC who are all right there at the top.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about how they stack up and which
Speaker 1: ones might be the toughest matchups for the Cowboys. And
Speaker 1: then when get some fan questions a little later in
Speaker 1: the show, we want to hear from you guys. You
Speaker 1: can call us eight eight eight eight five five two
Speaker 1: two ninety seven. Already have a lot of quarters questions
Speaker 1: I got from Twitter yesterday from you guys. We'll get
Speaker 1: into some of those. If you want to send me
Speaker 1: some more, you can hit me some more on Twitter,
Speaker 1: or you can call us again at that number eight
Speaker 1: eight eight eight five five two two ninety seven. We'll
Speaker 1: get to that in the second and third segments. Nick,
Speaker 1: it's your time forty seven. I saw you smile of
Speaker 1: one of my favorite names of all time. Okay, Dexter
Speaker 1: clink Scale. I thought you were gonna say Osaka Polite,
Speaker 1: just because that's a great name. No, he's like, not
Speaker 1: the number. I'm saying the name. Go ahead, Dexter clink Scale.
Speaker 1: It sounds like something from Madden Mode and franchise, like
Speaker 1: you know, generate a player. Well, actually clever last night.
Speaker 1: I actually everyone now and again, I just like to
Speaker 1: look at some old YouTube videos whatever. Something came out
Speaker 1: from like nineteen eighty two and he made an interception
Speaker 1: for a touchdown and I'm like, oh, Scale, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was not big in nineteen eighty two. Yeah, but what
Speaker 1: about Lawrence Vickers? Sure him? No, I do remember the name.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't remember. I thought you were here for
Speaker 1: that game. No, that was the that was high. It's
Speaker 1: a ninety game. Oh no, that's all that something else
Speaker 1: the year before him, before me and getting forty seven's
Speaker 1: on your radar. No, I'm like, I'm I'm drawing just
Speaker 1: like I'm out. This is this is a really bad stretch.
Speaker 1: I'm sting like forty two is probably the last. Not
Speaker 1: what well, not what number did God? People are gonna
Speaker 1: hate me? What God didn't wear? What number did Moose wear?
Speaker 1: Forty eight? Okay, we'll get him. I was gonna say
Speaker 1: Moose obviously it was in the forties, and then like
Speaker 1: Barry Church and but nobody wants to wear a number
Speaker 1: in the forties, and Terrence Newman as well, but drafted
Speaker 1: and back in the nineties they draft third round. They
Speaker 1: drafted get him Clayton Holmes that they thought was going
Speaker 1: to be the name. He didn't work out so well,
Speaker 1: end up on the Desperados. No, No, he didn't make
Speaker 1: the rest. Nah, he had some It's funny like I
Speaker 1: get an arguments with people all the time. I'm like,
Speaker 1: the player makes the number. Any number will look cool
Speaker 1: if the player is good. I firmly believe that. I
Speaker 1: actually believe that too. But at the same I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to make thirty six look good. If Tony Pollard was
Speaker 1: still wearing thirty six, it would look bad ass because
Speaker 1: he's a good player. Earl Campbell, Yeah, thirty six look
Speaker 1: pretty good. Earl Campbell made thirty four look awesome, do it?
Speaker 1: Earl Campbell made thirty four look awesome. Like, well, back
Speaker 1: in the day, thirty four was a great four number number.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just saying thirty two. Yeah, the player
Speaker 1: can make the number. But at the same time, like
Speaker 1: forty forty six, forty seven, forty a, forty nine, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we'll lead it up tomorrow. Well, forty seven is dexter
Speaker 1: clean scale. Forty eight we're gonna step it up. Just
Speaker 1: we'll just be like moose and we'll go because there
Speaker 1: really know a lot of options there, and we got
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff talk about. Okay, so here we go.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Let's let's catch up on
Speaker 1: some injuries. We got three names I want to throw
Speaker 1: to you guys. You guys, tell me where they are
Speaker 1: and what you expect for this weekend. Dak Prescott, what
Speaker 1: are you hearing about Dak Prescott and where he is
Speaker 1: in his recovery? Let me start because I I probably
Speaker 1: need to change a little bit of my opinion has
Speaker 1: changed somewhat from you since yesterday. I think he's yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna play a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: I do think he'll play. I don't. Again, I do
Speaker 1: not think he will be normal. Is not gonna be normal, Dak,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think he'll be running any like.
Speaker 1: Is there anybody that's normal at this point? I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think he's got it's gotta be wide open for
Speaker 1: him to run. I don't. I just don't think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be looking to run. I don't. I bet you
Speaker 1: that sneaks. Let me ask you this, Does that affect
Speaker 1: his mobility in the pocket because he does move around
Speaker 1: and look to throw. Are you saying you don't expect
Speaker 1: him to do a lot of that. No, he'll have
Speaker 1: to do that if he's gonna play it. But I
Speaker 1: just I just feel like, and I think he is
Speaker 1: going to play. I think it's more encouraging than what
Speaker 1: I thought. But I'm saying I'm just gonna say it.
Speaker 1: He's got to be careful with it because it can
Speaker 1: it can just come up and grab you at any time,
Speaker 1: and so that's that's the one thing that's kind of alarming. Well,
Speaker 1: I really think and I was thinking about this on
Speaker 1: my drive up here, because we do we do these
Speaker 1: hits with one oh five three in the morning, and
Speaker 1: they ask us, what's that good hit this morning? Thanks,
Speaker 1: they ask us, but they ask us a ton of
Speaker 1: questions about player availability. And I mean, I get that,
Speaker 1: and we have a sense, but I really do. I
Speaker 1: think people forget that this is an evolving conversation, like
Speaker 1: I do. I think Dak's gonna play I think again,
Speaker 1: you read context clues. He stepped out. He stepped out
Speaker 1: of the facility yesterday during media availability in front of
Speaker 1: the whole Cowboys beat probably thirty reporters and the team nutritionists.
Speaker 1: Scott they had a private bet where Scott would Scott
Speaker 1: agreed to run win sprints and do a bunch of
Speaker 1: work like calistenics and stuff in exchange for Dak going
Speaker 1: to his kids little league game and breaking them down.
Speaker 1: And I mean, that's that's fun. Like if you know
Speaker 1: the quarterback of the Cowboys well enough that you can
Speaker 1: kind of bribe him to break down your kids little
Speaker 1: league game, Like how cool is that? But talk about
Speaker 1: that in a second too. That speaks a lot towards that,
Speaker 1: But he's not doing that if he's not feeling pretty good,
Speaker 1: he's just not. He came out in slides with no
Speaker 1: boot on, and Clarence Hill and some of the other
Speaker 1: reporters are kind of heckling him from a distance, like
Speaker 1: why don't you come over here and talk to us,
Speaker 1: and he's like, why would why would I give that away? Today?
Speaker 1: He's not doing that. If he's not feeling pretty good
Speaker 1: about where he's at, he's just not. And then you
Speaker 1: talk to other people in the organization, you have conversations,
Speaker 1: maybe you see some things like that. I do think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play, but they haven't practiced yet, and so
Speaker 1: if he goes through a full practice regiment today and
Speaker 1: halfway through practice it's bothering him. The conversation changes. So
Speaker 1: you have an inkling on Tuesday, but that can totally
Speaker 1: change based on the workload. And I do think there's
Speaker 1: a threshold that he needs to clear by probably Friday,
Speaker 1: and we'll know more then. So maybe that sounds like
Speaker 1: a cop out, but he's got to go through two
Speaker 1: days of practice without having it bother him, and I
Speaker 1: think that's important. To remember, well, they had a light
Speaker 1: practice yesterday close to the media, and from what it
Speaker 1: sounds like he was able to do a little bit
Speaker 1: enough where Jerry Jones was encouraged to buy it. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's Monday, and if if you know, they
Speaker 1: could have easily just kept him out and not on
Speaker 1: his feet and all that. So if he is doing
Speaker 1: some things throwing the ball around, that that's a that's
Speaker 1: a good sign. Um. I don't think he'll do a
Speaker 1: lot of running right now. I mean, because you have
Speaker 1: a full week, you know, you have six more hours
Speaker 1: than you normally would because it's a Sunday night game
Speaker 1: as well. So I think all things, the signs are
Speaker 1: encouraging that he's going to be able to do something here.
Speaker 1: I still think I'll be surprised if he's if he's
Speaker 1: at full mode, if we're not, like I don't even
Speaker 1: know he's hurt. I think you'll see a little bit
Speaker 1: of that. But that's okay. If he's ninety percent eight percent,
Speaker 1: that's better than I think it's better than what you
Speaker 1: have with Cooper Rush, just because of the dynamics of
Speaker 1: the entire offense and what and how it's just working.
Speaker 1: So well, I said today. I mean, if he's if
Speaker 1: he's at a percent, that's good enough for me, because
Speaker 1: nobody's at one hundred percent anyway. So if you assume
Speaker 1: you're regularly at somewhere between ninety and one hundred eighty,
Speaker 1: I can live with eighty. Yeah, it was interesting both
Speaker 1: of you guys. I think hit the nail on the
Speaker 1: head when you see when you kind of qualified it.
Speaker 1: I heard Jerry Jones this morning on Sean and RJ
Speaker 1: on one or five dot three. He was saying something similar.
Speaker 1: He said, you know, he said, I think about some
Speaker 1: of the these injuries that I've heard, and I think
Speaker 1: he was mentioning Zach, but he was saying, you know,
Speaker 1: what he'd heard was there are mornings you wake up
Speaker 1: and you feel great and it feels like you can
Speaker 1: do everything you normally do. And then the next day
Speaker 1: you might wake up and it feels like you got
Speaker 1: hit by truck. Like it's just it's not a it's
Speaker 1: not one of those injuries that seems like it's just
Speaker 1: always Yeah, I feel good today, That means I'm gonna
Speaker 1: feel even better tomorrow. And I see you over there
Speaker 1: looking like that. But I think that's kind of your
Speaker 1: experience as well. It's just it's one of those things.
Speaker 1: It's just like hello, I'm still here. Hi. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: don't forget about me. It's like wamam, Well yeah I
Speaker 1: was coming. Yeah. So I think that all signs are
Speaker 1: certainly positive in it, and it looks like it looks
Speaker 1: like they're progressing in the right way. Uh. It certainly
Speaker 1: sounds like he's actually moving around, which is a positive sign.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that progresses throughout the week. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: go back to Dak real quick because I have a
Speaker 1: feeling how that whole thing went was um and and
Speaker 1: the nutritionist, Scott he Um probably asked, you know, he
Speaker 1: probably said, hey, my son, you're his you know, favorite
Speaker 1: player or whatever, and then have a game and can
Speaker 1: you come to the game and break him down in
Speaker 1: the huddle and all that, And Dak probably said, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I could do that, but what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: You know, He's like you need to do? You know,
Speaker 1: probably do these wren sprints or whatever and all that,
Speaker 1: which I hope the sun realizes what Dad's out there
Speaker 1: doing running around. But Dad was like cheering him on,
Speaker 1: like goes out there and he's yelling, He's like, let's
Speaker 1: go in his clappings like very facetiously oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But I just I just love that that he's able
Speaker 1: to you know, that he does things like that. And
Speaker 1: you know, I still can't get over the tie and
Speaker 1: sech golf tournament thing. You know, like when Tian Secky
Speaker 1: got here and I think he had a golf tournament.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows this guy and he's here and he's a
Speaker 1: new player and Deck shows up. He's he's the ultimate teammate.
Speaker 1: And not just to players, but to the football staff
Speaker 1: and that community and that that group and the other
Speaker 1: thing I'll point out about that And this is not
Speaker 1: I'm not taking a shot at anyone else, um, but
Speaker 1: we have seen over the years, uh specifically with the
Speaker 1: quarterback take it. As time goes and they become more
Speaker 1: entrenched as the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, they
Speaker 1: change and that a lot of that I think happens
Speaker 1: because you've got so many people pulling at you, you
Speaker 1: got so many people asking things of you. You have
Speaker 1: to adapt to that and and kind of take control
Speaker 1: of yourself in order to make sure you're not just
Speaker 1: completely stretched. Then Dak has done that he has certainly
Speaker 1: like tightened the boundaries of what he's willing to do
Speaker 1: and not doing those kinds of things. But Dak as
Speaker 1: as as far as what he has represented to certainly
Speaker 1: what I've seen has not changed, Like he's been the
Speaker 1: same dude. He's been that dude from the moment he
Speaker 1: arrived all the way to the current moment. And that's
Speaker 1: the part I appreciate it about him the most, is
Speaker 1: that he just seems to be the same dude, which
Speaker 1: I love authentic people. He's just an authentic person. I
Speaker 1: just want to throw out there to which I thought
Speaker 1: about this because I had to figure out a way
Speaker 1: to put that in a tweet yesterday, which it's a
Speaker 1: lot when you're dealing with a character limit. But he's tech.
Speaker 1: The director of sports Performance, Scott centered And and I'll
Speaker 1: throw a shout out to his assistant as well, the
Speaker 1: assistant dietitian Claire Gilbert, who actually went to LSU. I
Speaker 1: just think it's interesting, like there's an army of people
Speaker 1: that make this thing go and Scott and Claire are
Speaker 1: a big part of it. I always laugh like they
Speaker 1: they are running around throughout the game, like helping get
Speaker 1: stuff for the players on the sideline getting the postgame
Speaker 1: meal ready. Like there's whole people that like don't even
Speaker 1: see the operation to this thing is crazy. You don't like,
Speaker 1: you don't see the game because you're making sure sixty
Speaker 1: people have a burrito or whatever the meal is that
Speaker 1: night that they can grab on their way to the bus.
Speaker 1: And it's cool that it pays off for them in
Speaker 1: ways because lord knows, I mean the equipment guys, the video, Like,
Speaker 1: the hours that you put in working for a football
Speaker 1: team is insane. So shout out, shout out to them
Speaker 1: for being the faceless people who make all this go.
Speaker 1: Let me go back to what you were saying. You
Speaker 1: weren't saying it. I'll say it, Tony Romo to me,
Speaker 1: I'll say it. I'll say it, Tony Romo. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he changed his life changed. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: he was the backup quarterback that was sitting there just
Speaker 1: talking to people in the locker room, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, yeah yeah right, he was playing. He
Speaker 1: was playing our flag football team, you know, played well
Speaker 1: to the playoffs and then um wow, that's what happened.
Speaker 1: It's what it's what happened. Number nine. I love Tony.
Speaker 1: I I would caddy for him if he needed me too,
Speaker 1: which I did. No, I love Tony, But I'm saying
Speaker 1: his life changed, So how how do you react to that?
Speaker 1: How do you handle it? It's not like all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he just changed everything. Now he's getting asked
Speaker 1: to judge Miss America contests, So his life changed and
Speaker 1: he kind of he had to adapt with it and
Speaker 1: did it. You know, that's what happens. Do you leave
Speaker 1: put people behind you? You remember when you used to
Speaker 1: do this. That's just the way it was. I just
Speaker 1: applaud Dak for being able to sounds like being able
Speaker 1: to handle it in a different way. And so I'm
Speaker 1: not That's why I'm not I'm not trying to crucify
Speaker 1: Tony Fresh. I'm not judging anyone. Yeah, I mean, his
Speaker 1: life changed in a big way. Dak's life has changed too,
Speaker 1: but he's he's kind of figured it out a little bit.
Speaker 1: And you gotta remember too, DA's work a year. He's
Speaker 1: like three weeks what three months into it. He's the man,
Speaker 1: and by the way, when he was in college, he
Speaker 1: was the man, so being a man was not something
Speaker 1: new for him. Now he was a man in college.
Speaker 1: He's awesome and and there's a lot of people that say, well,
Speaker 1: he's not like this. Yeah, Dak and Tony are totally different,
Speaker 1: and people compare him all the time. But I just
Speaker 1: it's more about what Dak is, I don't think, than
Speaker 1: what Tony is not. And I'm not trying to It's
Speaker 1: really about what Dak has done here. Yea, all right,
Speaker 1: let's let's get a couple of other injury updates. We
Speaker 1: got a couple of guys there, all right, you were
Speaker 1: trying to go down a list and we just went in, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's fine. I knew you were going to take a
Speaker 1: long time on deck, which we should. There are the
Speaker 1: two other guys, though, we have to talk about Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup Tristan Hill. Where are they in their returns? Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup is supposed to practice tomorrow, um, and Tristan Hill
Speaker 1: is as well. And we'll throw in Francis Bernard he's
Speaker 1: obviously yeah, he's I completely forget about his name. He
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not on the same level Michael. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: but Gallup is starter. Tristan was a big piece of
Speaker 1: the rotation, which you're right though, Bernard kind of shores
Speaker 1: up your your linebacker numbers that we've been worried about.
Speaker 1: So all three of those guys supposed to practice doesn't
Speaker 1: mean they're on the roster again. It's a could Gallop
Speaker 1: play Sunday theoretically, Yeah, but maybe he's not ready. I
Speaker 1: think it just depends on how he looks. I should
Speaker 1: know this is Semi Fihoko on the roster, Yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think now, I mean second guessing myself. I should know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know the roster is not what it
Speaker 1: used to be. Ok We used to do like inactive
Speaker 1: on Friday's. Like I wouldn't want to try to go
Speaker 1: down there. There's one hundred different lists to put these ya, SEMy,
Speaker 1: Simmy's still on the team. He's been inactive recently because
Speaker 1: Malik Turner came back. One of those two guys is
Speaker 1: probably not going to be on the roster if I
Speaker 1: can't imagine at this point, I just I can't imagine
Speaker 1: that they risk losing Semi. And I know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we overanalyze that, you probably can, but they've
Speaker 1: carried him this long. Yeah, it certainly seems like his
Speaker 1: development is a piece of this whole thing. Knowing that Cedric, Noah,
Speaker 1: and Gallop are all slated for free agency, I just
Speaker 1: I would be kind of surprised at this point, but maybe,
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do in
Speaker 1: the course of the season. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: one other guy, and I want to put a pin
Speaker 1: in Michael Gallop for a second, because I think what
Speaker 1: I'm about to talk about with Lyle Collins, I think
Speaker 1: could possibly be a similar conversation for Michael Gallop. He's
Speaker 1: obviously Lyle Collins is obviously back on the active roster
Speaker 1: now after his five week suspension, and there have been
Speaker 1: comments from Jerry and Stephen this week that suggests that
Speaker 1: there's a possibility at least that he doesn't start, mainly
Speaker 1: from the idea of, hey, why rush it. If he
Speaker 1: looks a little rusty, if he needs to work back in,
Speaker 1: we don't have to rush him back into the lineup.
Speaker 1: The first question is do you think he starts this week?
Speaker 1: And then I want to talk about it from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of both he and Gallop. Is this the right
Speaker 1: approach when you got a guy it's already in there.
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson's playing well, Terrence still play is playing well.
Speaker 1: Do you take the right approach with this of letting
Speaker 1: those guys kind of ease back in. Maybe Gallup isn't
Speaker 1: even active this week. They don't have to necessarily make
Speaker 1: him active right now, and you just kind of let
Speaker 1: those guys ease back in rather than rushing him back
Speaker 1: in because the guys who replaced them are playing well.
Speaker 1: Can I just say, I really I know you're trying
Speaker 1: to kind of marry the two together, but I really
Speaker 1: think these are completely different situations. All which one do
Speaker 1: you want to take? Day you I'll do what you
Speaker 1: don't do the receiver. I'll talk about the receiver position. Though.
Speaker 1: They can figure out how to get Gallop in there,
Speaker 1: just like they getting set looks like they were getting
Speaker 1: Cedric in there, like that Norah Brown kind of fits
Speaker 1: into it. You can figure out a ways to kind
Speaker 1: of do that in some way, give him some snats
Speaker 1: that snaps to, you know, ease back into this. So
Speaker 1: that's why I kind of feel like it's a completely
Speaker 1: different situation of making the move, you know, because either
Speaker 1: one of them not I mean, because these receivers won't
Speaker 1: be the starter or be the third guy. So the
Speaker 1: third and fourth guy is not that. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it's not big a deal because it's a
Speaker 1: huge deal for mismatches and stuff like that, but I
Speaker 1: think there's ways to get him and Millie Turner was
Speaker 1: getting in, so I think you can get Gallop in
Speaker 1: there in his own kind of way and getting ease
Speaker 1: him back into it. I don't think it's a different
Speaker 1: with the right tackle, I agree, but I do think
Speaker 1: it kind of plays into what we said about Dak
Speaker 1: is that's what this week is four And I actually
Speaker 1: it's funny because I think I think the Jones has
Speaker 1: played that the right way. But by not just saying like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Lyle will be right back in there, then that does
Speaker 1: the other thing where it creates a quote unquote controversy
Speaker 1: about like, well maybe maybe Terrence Steel is going to
Speaker 1: keep his job. And I think it's really more along
Speaker 1: the lines of this guy's played one game since twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen and then he took five weeks off and you
Speaker 1: just want to see where he is. Every report, every
Speaker 1: indication that I've heard is that Lyle, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: been allowed back in the building since like week three,
Speaker 1: so I think his conditioning is good. I think he's
Speaker 1: ready to hit the ground running, but you know, you
Speaker 1: don't need him to if he's not ready, And so
Speaker 1: they're just like, we can keep our options open. We
Speaker 1: can practice Terrence, we can practice Lyle. If he just
Speaker 1: looks like a boss and he's ready to go right away,
Speaker 1: he could play Sunday. If he's not, that's no problem either.
Speaker 1: And I actually this wasn't related to Lyle at all.
Speaker 1: It was about it was when Tyrone was hurt. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy kind of he didn't laugh at me, but I
Speaker 1: could tell he didn't think it was a great question,
Speaker 1: which wasn't the first time or last, No, not at all.
Speaker 1: That's okay, Yeah, that's the point sort of you try
Speaker 1: to ask good questions. They're not all gonna be great.
Speaker 1: But he I asked about like Inseci playing left tackle
Speaker 1: because Tyrone was limited or whatever, and he made the
Speaker 1: point again he didn't laugh, but he was like, this
Speaker 1: is kind of obvious that they practice all of those
Speaker 1: guys anyway, And if you remember training camp, they move
Speaker 1: them up and down as well, like even when everybody's healthy,
Speaker 1: they were given guys looks. So I think Lyle will
Speaker 1: practice with the first team this week. I bet no.
Speaker 1: I know Terrence Steele probably will as well, and so
Speaker 1: you don't have to make that decision on Wednesday. There's
Speaker 1: another element to this that I think is always a thing.
Speaker 1: It's always a thing with the Cowboys. And when it
Speaker 1: comes to talking to the media, Jerry and Stephen talk
Speaker 1: a lot for owners and general managers and you know,
Speaker 1: well whatever that were weekly shows multi multiple times they're
Speaker 1: they're on each of them are on the radio at
Speaker 1: least twice a week. They talked more in a given
Speaker 1: week than most owners do in a in a year, really,
Speaker 1: because the average NFL owner talks at the owners meetings
Speaker 1: and maybe the combine and and like once at training camp,
Speaker 1: and that's all you ever hear from him. And and
Speaker 1: I would say, and this for this, they're the GM
Speaker 1: you know, talk to either way. They talk a lot.
Speaker 1: And there's been I'm not saying it's happened so much
Speaker 1: this year. Maybe there was one time I can't remember
Speaker 1: what it was where Mike said something and Jerry kind
Speaker 1: of said something different. I forgot. Do you remember what
Speaker 1: it was? It was? Yeah, because it's something it was
Speaker 1: about it was an injury. It was injury related, like
Speaker 1: Mike was, you know, trying to do the coach thing
Speaker 1: and keep it close to the chest, and Jerry like
Speaker 1: the next day it was like, well, yeah, he's so start.
Speaker 1: So I don't remember who it was. I don't remember either,
Speaker 1: but I mean, it happens. It's always kind of happening.
Speaker 1: It's happened, it happened for you for years. And so
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is is would when they say, well,
Speaker 1: well we'll see about that, we'll see, let's let's let
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy address that. It's not necessarily like I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to answer this. It's more like, sorry, you're right, Mike,
Speaker 1: you address these. And now we're dealing with a coach
Speaker 1: that doesn't want to tell you anything. He doesn't want
Speaker 1: to tell you what he had for lunch today because
Speaker 1: he just feels like somebody might change it, might might
Speaker 1: like take that into something, you know. So that's that's
Speaker 1: where the rub is. It's not just about trying to
Speaker 1: be really coy about it. It's like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: the head coach is supposed to announce this, he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to announce it because he doesn't have to. So
Speaker 1: that's where I think some of this is. I do
Speaker 1: think if elc proves that he's healthy and conditioned and
Speaker 1: ready to go, that he'll be in the starting lineup.
Speaker 1: That's just my guess, but I guess you know, we'll see.
Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna take our first break. When we
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Speaker 1: There are five teams sitting at the top of this
Speaker 1: division and they all are looking really, really good. Right now,
Speaker 1: You've got Arizona, who is seven and oz and then
Speaker 1: you got all the next four teams who all have
Speaker 1: one lost, Green Bay, Tampa Bay, Los Angeles Rams, and
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. What do you think Dallas falls in
Speaker 1: this mix of these five teams sitting atop the division,
Speaker 1: I mean the conference. I'm gonna take your question and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna turn it so that I don't really have
Speaker 1: to answer. Yeah, I just said I I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Arizona looks scary. The second place team
Speaker 1: in their division might be the most complete team in
Speaker 1: the league for my money, just with what Matthew Stafford's
Speaker 1: doing for the Rams and what they have on defense, Packers, Bucks,
Speaker 1: you get it. But I said this Sunday Night more
Speaker 1: so than the higher key of how those teams fall.
Speaker 1: Nobody's in a better spot than the Cowboys, just in
Speaker 1: terms of their outlook. Like I'm not talking about how
Speaker 1: good they are or their record. They play in the
Speaker 1: East they have. I mean, look at Arizona's seven and
Speaker 1: oh and they've got a team breathing down their neck
Speaker 1: the Bucks have. The Saints are gonna be pesky. They
Speaker 1: play this week, by the way, Green Bay, maybe they're
Speaker 1: in a similar spot. My point just being is like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can realistically start thinking about locking up the
Speaker 1: division now and we can worry about the buy and
Speaker 1: all that type of stuff when it happens. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you only got to win like four more games to
Speaker 1: assure yourself of a home playoff game. I mean maybe
Speaker 1: that's an exaggeration, but maybe not. I mean, if these
Speaker 1: teams keep losing, like, that's what I'm saying, and so
Speaker 1: all I'm all I say by that is like I
Speaker 1: don't know where they fall in the in the standings,
Speaker 1: but they have the easiest path of anybody in the
Speaker 1: NFC to playing a home playoff game, and that's exciting.
Speaker 1: I think. I think it's very important to get out
Speaker 1: of that fourth spot. Yeah, I mean, you need to
Speaker 1: be better than fourth of those of the division winners.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna win the division. Obviously you got to
Speaker 1: do that, and they look like they're gonna have a
Speaker 1: great chance to do that. But you can't be fourth
Speaker 1: because because there's five teams right now, they're showing that
Speaker 1: they're good and and if it's like you said, it
Speaker 1: could be the Rams or it could be the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: One of those two could be the fifth place team
Speaker 1: and come in and play the Cowboys right off the bat.
Speaker 1: You know, it's supposed to be a wild card game,
Speaker 1: and that thing would be a four or five games
Speaker 1: gonna be. Yeah, it's like the difference between maybe playing
Speaker 1: that team or playing maybe the the Vikings or or
Speaker 1: whoever else ye saying, and that will be a tough game.
Speaker 1: I mean that's not obviously it will be playoffs. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying no. But there's a there's a
Speaker 1: big difference between second, third, and fourth, and obviously a
Speaker 1: big difference for one to get to buy, but two,
Speaker 1: three and four, you don't want to be that fourth spot.
Speaker 1: The best the best wild card team and it's early,
Speaker 1: but the best wild card team is looking like it
Speaker 1: could be a ten eleven, maybe twelve win team. So
Speaker 1: that's a really good point. I didn't. I wasn't going
Speaker 1: to rule out the forty nine ers either, but I
Speaker 1: mean they had a tough loss. It's tough like back
Speaker 1: back there. Those teams, I mean, conditions in that game
Speaker 1: were pretty I'd rather too, so I'd rather solve like
Speaker 1: the quadratic formula then try to figure out the Saints.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they are. God, that was I
Speaker 1: think I'm starting to know what they are. Like, well,
Speaker 1: Sean Payton coach, keep expecting. And I told you this yesterday,
Speaker 1: I think Dave, when we were all standing up there talking,
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't I don't ever want to
Speaker 1: count out a Sean Payton coach team. But the more
Speaker 1: I watched them play last night, I know they won,
Speaker 1: But the more I watched them play last night, the
Speaker 1: more I was like, this team doesn't scare me at
Speaker 1: all at all. Okay, number one, No, I don't think
Speaker 1: they should scare you. But if you're gonna give the
Speaker 1: Niners credit for playing in a monsoon that, I mean,
Speaker 1: that was gross last night. What they were playing with
Speaker 1: Sunday night, I mean game Sunday night. Like literally, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I've seen a game that had such
Speaker 1: a heavy downpour the entire game. I'm just entire game,
Speaker 1: I agree. I mean they played in a bomb cycle
Speaker 1: and that bad worse. Yeah, it was a con setting
Speaker 1: sidelines in twenty fifteen for Baylor TCU. It was an
Speaker 1: absolute pneumoniable. It was unbelievable. I'm just saying this over
Speaker 1: and see. I don't think the Saints and Seahawks got
Speaker 1: more than fifteen minutes of clear skies, like it was
Speaker 1: raining all night, more than what I mean, we're quickling here.
Speaker 1: The Saints don't scary. Who does well out of this list?
Speaker 1: I think Arizona is a scary team. And I know
Speaker 1: it's gonna sound crazy to people out there listening, who
Speaker 1: are Cowboys fans who have lived through Aaron Rodgers. I'm
Speaker 1: not as afraid of the Green Bay this year. I
Speaker 1: think Green Bay's pretty good and they're great because they're
Speaker 1: a coach. I mean, I'm sorry because of their quarterback
Speaker 1: gonna play, but but that's not a team that I
Speaker 1: look at it. I say, Dallas, the audacity, worried about
Speaker 1: the audacity to say that you're not worried about Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: the absolute audacity market down They're going to play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm okay, know they are. You know McCarthy's gonna
Speaker 1: face Aaron Rodgers. You know Jalen Smith, if he's still
Speaker 1: on the team, is gonna play for the You're gonna
Speaker 1: play against the Cowboy, and I'll throw you one other.
Speaker 1: I'm also not really that worried about the possibility. By
Speaker 1: the way, all these seems are good. So don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong. All of them are gonna be tough back.
Speaker 1: But but you look at Tampa Bay. I would like
Speaker 1: to see Dallas get another shot at them. I don't
Speaker 1: think Dallas would be intimidated by them. And you mentioned
Speaker 1: it yesterday, you get Zack Martin. I think that's a
Speaker 1: different game. I think they run the ball a little
Speaker 1: bit more. That gives them a little more balance, and
Speaker 1: we see where they fall out again. I look at
Speaker 1: this list and Arizona is the team I look at
Speaker 1: and say, of this list, if I had to choose
Speaker 1: which team I don't want to play, Arizona is a
Speaker 1: team I think the rams of the team I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to play. Yeah, if you're Arizona did to them,
Speaker 1: I know, I mean, I'm I'm I'm with it. I mean,
Speaker 1: Arizona is gonna be tough. But if I had to
Speaker 1: just choose a place that the Cowboys would go on
Speaker 1: a playoff, definitely Arizona because it's it's it will be
Speaker 1: a ton of fans because as great as the season
Speaker 1: as they're having, you still gotta go buy the playoff tickets.
Speaker 1: You still got to you got to purchase them, and
Speaker 1: so Cowboy fans could get in there too. Hey, I'll
Speaker 1: take much chance with Kylin Murray in his first playoff game.
Speaker 1: That's saying great, But that's the part that scares me.
Speaker 1: You look at all these other quarterbacks and the dimension
Speaker 1: that he adds to the game makes him such a
Speaker 1: tough matchup. Don't get and I'm not I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to say he's better than Aaron Rodgers. That's not what
Speaker 1: I'm saying at all. What I'm saying is it's just
Speaker 1: a different kind of dimension. You have to do things
Speaker 1: differently when you're facing that team because of what that
Speaker 1: quarterback can do with his legs. And in addition to that,
Speaker 1: he's got weapons. Everywhere. You talk about the Cowboys being loaded,
Speaker 1: they got a ton of weapons out there in Arizona,
Speaker 1: and then they just added Zach Ertz who had a
Speaker 1: big play for him last weekend. I just look at
Speaker 1: that offense and I'm like, that offense probably reminds me
Speaker 1: as much of the Cowboys offense as any of the
Speaker 1: offenses that you look at, just with their ability to
Speaker 1: kind of do a lot of different things. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I get we're just riffing and having fun and I'm
Speaker 1: a big ere, but I did, like, I just I
Speaker 1: hate these conversations because going back to your point about
Speaker 1: the Saints, Yeah, they don't scare me right now either.
Speaker 1: It's not even Halloween. Michael Thomas is going to factor
Speaker 1: into their plans at some point. Well I didn't even
Speaker 1: do that on purpose, but they're gonna get Michael Thomas back.
Speaker 1: People are gonna get hurt. I think I brought this up.
Speaker 1: If I didn't bring it up on this, she's got
Speaker 1: a lot of defensive player back. This last I just
Speaker 1: brought it comes up. I mean, the Bucks were just
Speaker 1: a middling team until about Thanksgiving last year. I think
Speaker 1: about this. I brought this up when we were talking
Speaker 1: about it yesterday. For my birthday in twenty eleven, my
Speaker 1: parents got me tickets to see the Saints on Monday
Speaker 1: Night football against the New York Giants. The Giants didn't
Speaker 1: even look like they belonged on the same field with
Speaker 1: the Saints. It was disgusting. Like the Cowboy game in
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, that's what it looked like. They ran them
Speaker 1: out of the building forty twenty four. Six weeks later,
Speaker 1: the Giants won the Super Bowl. And that's just that's
Speaker 1: the type of stuff that I think about when we're
Speaker 1: having these conversations. I know it's fun and I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I mean, I don't think the Cowboys should
Speaker 1: be intimidated by anybody in the NFC. I also know
Speaker 1: there's a lot more twists and turns to this whole
Speaker 1: thing for before we even have to worry about who
Speaker 1: they're gonna plays. Is fluid. As my man Jock Taylor
Speaker 1: always says, I think as of right now, and when
Speaker 1: I ask these questions, I'm asking as of right now
Speaker 1: what we're seeing. Who scares you? Yeah, I mean, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers should always scare you, Cowboys fan. I just want
Speaker 1: to say that again. Yeah, I mean, and this is
Speaker 1: this goes back to the where you know, are the
Speaker 1: Cowboys a real complete team? Because my first thought is,
Speaker 1: would you rather go to Arizona. Would you rather go
Speaker 1: to Green Bay? You know? And I look at it like,
Speaker 1: I'd rather go to Arizona from a standpoint of a
Speaker 1: lot of things. So you're you're facing an experienced quarterback
Speaker 1: in the playoff, You're facing you're gonna have a good
Speaker 1: weather a situation there to to function your offense. But
Speaker 1: then I start thinking, is that a good thing? Because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can play in any any kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you say, let's say you go to
Speaker 1: Green Bay and it's one of these, you know, Blizzard
Speaker 1: type of games, I think I would rather have the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense though, I mean, yeah, that's not going to
Speaker 1: be what he normally is, but they're built to play
Speaker 1: any kind of style. And so McCarthy said that recently.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what he was talking about, but he
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, we're a Dome team, which is technically true.
Speaker 1: But I don't think of them that way, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I don't think of them as having this offense
Speaker 1: that can't travel, because we've seen them lean on the
Speaker 1: run already a lot this year. So I think if
Speaker 1: they got in it, and really, what are we talking
Speaker 1: about here? Just just Green Bay? I mean of all
Speaker 1: these teams who would be a bad weather game literally
Speaker 1: just screen. I mean, Tampa could rain of it now,
Speaker 1: but it'll be to be seventy degrees. It'll be sixty
Speaker 1: five degrees. It will rain in Tampa. Yeah. That's of
Speaker 1: the teams that look likely to be in the playoff
Speaker 1: picture in the NFC, Green Bay is the only one
Speaker 1: where you would think there would be bad weather and
Speaker 1: less and less an NFC's team makes it as a wildcard,
Speaker 1: which looks really unlikely right now, because even you know
Speaker 1: the Vikings play indoors, they're h I mean Seattle and
Speaker 1: San Francisco, I guess, but again they don't. They're not
Speaker 1: looking too promising my own games, No, at least not
Speaker 1: off the yet, which again and same thing Washington. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just keeping an eye there because, like Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: is due back at some point right and there, you
Speaker 1: would imagine their defense can get it together at some
Speaker 1: point as well. It seemed like I didn't watch the
Speaker 1: whole game against Green Bay, but it seemed like they
Speaker 1: played them tougher than they've played some other games. I mean,
Speaker 1: holding them to twenty four points on the road. It
Speaker 1: was in Lambeau. My point being is just like they
Speaker 1: shot themselves in the foot offensively, is what they did.
Speaker 1: Washington just has the potential, I think, to where we
Speaker 1: could look up in a month and be like, oh damn,
Speaker 1: they're like they're they're five and six, like or you know,
Speaker 1: they're five and seven, like they're still they're still alive.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't surprise me or the Giants. No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I do not buy them. I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't I've been saying it. I mean I I
Speaker 1: don't believe in Daniel Jones. I know I don't believe
Speaker 1: in the Giants at all. Um, can I just say,
Speaker 1: whoever are Joe and Flower Mound would be the guy
Speaker 1: that's that's mad right now? Gary and Grapevine, Gary and Grapevine.
Speaker 1: We know that they play the Vikings this week, and
Speaker 1: we know that the Vikings are good, and we know
Speaker 1: that they we'll get to that tomorrow Tuesday, and we're
Speaker 1: going to get tomorrow. All the guys over there they're
Speaker 1: already talking. Okay, we're we know they're good. It's going
Speaker 1: to be it. They will. They will dominate our conversation
Speaker 1: for the rest of the week. Starting to think I mean,
Speaker 1: just from our perspective, which this is kind of rare too.
Speaker 1: The Vikings were off as well, so we don't even
Speaker 1: have a Vikings game to analyze. So from last week,
Speaker 1: it's Tuesday, the team's off. We got Yeah, we'll be
Speaker 1: neck deep in Vikings. I said this yesterday. If the
Speaker 1: if this game, if this game isn't in doubt with
Speaker 1: five minutes left to play, I'll be surprised. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a tough place to play. I think they're better
Speaker 1: than their record indicates that they are. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: this is this might be I don't want to say
Speaker 1: a wake up call, but you know, the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: just kind of been on this fun role. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think this game is gonna be fun. They
Speaker 1: might win, but I don't think like you're gonna be
Speaker 1: stressed when it gets down to crunch time. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: the good thing about it is is they have I mean,
Speaker 1: the bad part about it is they have an offense
Speaker 1: with the great receivers and they have Kirk Cousins. The
Speaker 1: good thing is is they have Kirk Cousins. Because I
Speaker 1: don't I'm not. I mean, he's playing well, but I
Speaker 1: mean I'm taking he'll he'll give it up for you,
Speaker 1: although he hasn't doing it this Sho has not been
Speaker 1: giving it up this season. Maybe this is the game
Speaker 1: he begins. Maybe he hasn't faced right. Yeah, but but
Speaker 1: he only had I think he has two interceptions. He's
Speaker 1: not he doesn't. He doesn't have to throw interceptions. He
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not necessarily interception. He struggles in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter sometimes, I've seen it. We've seen enough games
Speaker 1: we did. Last year. He dominated that game last year.
Speaker 1: I mean they were up and down the field with
Speaker 1: those cornerbacks that shouldn't even be in the league and
Speaker 1: they're not in the league anymore. But then in the
Speaker 1: at the end after the Cowboys, Shoult scored a touchdown
Speaker 1: to take the lead, Like here we go. They got
Speaker 1: plenty of time and it was like three or four
Speaker 1: now yeah, and we got to pull it up. I mean,
Speaker 1: his his record in primetime games is it's not good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he doesn't really not. It might be a big fact
Speaker 1: there for for Clarity's sake. Again, I love the way
Speaker 1: this all changes. Like Week one, they losing overtime to
Speaker 1: Cincinnati and you're like, oh, that they probably should have
Speaker 1: won that. Well, Cincinnati's on top of the North right now.
Speaker 1: And then they probably gave Arizona their closest game of
Speaker 1: the year and they lost on the last play. They lost.
Speaker 1: They played a terrible game against Cleveland, which again is
Speaker 1: I know, their records not great, but that's a talented team.
Speaker 1: That that's three plan I mean, which I mean they're
Speaker 1: Their wins aren't great either though, Like they barely beat Detroit,
Speaker 1: they barely beat Carolina. That's the way I was thinking
Speaker 1: about Kansas City until they lost like that, like like
Speaker 1: because I was thinking, look who Kansas City is lost to?
Speaker 1: But then but then they they lost, I mean bad
Speaker 1: to the type the way they lost last week is
Speaker 1: more telling than that they lost. Yeah, I would have
Speaker 1: been I would have thought, did I just see what
Speaker 1: was that? I don't know, I saw somebody in a
Speaker 1: cost I don't know. I don't really even want to know.
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Speaker 1: get to some questions from some fans, and so I
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Speaker 1: before we end this show. This one came from Devin
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Speaker 1: Cowboys look to trade for that would push us over
Speaker 1: the top? Trade deadline I think is next week November
Speaker 1: second Tuesday, next week. Um, And so that being said,
Speaker 1: where do you think the Cowboys should look if they
Speaker 1: were like, hey, we just got one position. If we
Speaker 1: addressed this position, it can push us over the top,
Speaker 1: and we think will be perfectly suited to be a
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Speaker 1: what pushed us over the top, and that's and so
Speaker 1: we do this all the time. But you've talked about
Speaker 1: this before, David, unfairness, you've talked about the Giant I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: was the running back that year that they picked up.
Speaker 1: What I love about the Eagles is like they're aggressive,
Speaker 1: but they don't they don't quote unquote go all in
Speaker 1: like what like they do calculated stuff. Like what I
Speaker 1: love that they did the year that they won that
Speaker 1: Super Bowl was they traded like mid draft picks for
Speaker 1: Timmy Jernegan, who at the time was a really disrupt
Speaker 1: to defensive tackle. That's the type of stuff I wo,
Speaker 1: which this could be that kind of stuff, like you're
Speaker 1: not going out and getting a guess, a level player, right,
Speaker 1: which when you say when you say push us over
Speaker 1: the top, that's what I think and're arguing semantics, it's
Speaker 1: not an Amari Cooper type of true. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to do that, right Yeah, but I guess that's what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's like, I'm not out here looking for
Speaker 1: big but who could you? Who could you? Maybe what position?
Speaker 1: I'm not who, but what position could you possibly be
Speaker 1: looking at you think could have an immediate impact and
Speaker 1: make you a team that you're like, Man, if that
Speaker 1: hole is short up, I think this team is well
Speaker 1: on its ways. Like six positions like that, Okay, I
Speaker 1: mean every position that you that you don't and this
Speaker 1: is a good football team. But not every position is
Speaker 1: gonna have a guy in the Pro Bowl obviously, so
Speaker 1: any of those, any of those guys like a center,
Speaker 1: a guard. The only problem about those two is that
Speaker 1: you're talking about continuity, and it might not be the
Speaker 1: easiest thing to just plug a guy in and say
Speaker 1: he's way better. I don't know about that, but you could.
Speaker 1: You could practice him, get him read, and by December
Speaker 1: he could be way better. Right in a perfect Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean center comes to mind. What we're not going
Speaker 1: to say names, but if you're if you follow the league,
Speaker 1: there are some veteran centers on some bad teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if that was capable of happening, I would
Speaker 1: do it. But again, are the Cowboys in a place
Speaker 1: where they think they so drastically need that that they're
Speaker 1: going to give up valuable assets for it. And the
Speaker 1: better the player, the better the asset, Right, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I would have done I guess since he
Speaker 1: already got trade. I think I would have done the
Speaker 1: Gilmore thing. I would have done that, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: I probably would have done the assuming they did their
Speaker 1: homework on him. I would have done the Henderson thing
Speaker 1: that Caroline is just they got every cornerback that was available. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I would have done that. But those situations are hard
Speaker 1: to find because like the team that has him has
Speaker 1: to be willing to trade him, the price has to
Speaker 1: be okay, and you have to be able to fit
Speaker 1: it under your cap, and so the better the player.
Speaker 1: That's what makes that more difficult, because can you take
Speaker 1: on eight million for Stefan Gilmore? Probably maybe if you
Speaker 1: really want to, But do they want to center? If
Speaker 1: there was another cornerback that was available, I would be interested.
Speaker 1: I don't think there is. When I'm out defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you think right now. But Tristan
Speaker 1: Hills up coming back now, well, Gallamor will be back soon. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't feel some sort of drastic need there. You know,
Speaker 1: we've seen the Cowboys do it. They did it with
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper. But they did that and they said it
Speaker 1: a thousand times. Why they did it. It was because
Speaker 1: he's twenty four years old, and they said, this is
Speaker 1: going to be a future guy. This isn't just to
Speaker 1: help us now, which it certainly did help him now,
Speaker 1: but it still is. So it still is this It
Speaker 1: would be one of those type of things. I still
Speaker 1: think that's the case here, even though this team's five
Speaker 1: and win and maybe need a guy to over the top,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I still think you got to
Speaker 1: look at a player like, hey, we're gonna get this guy.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's on the last year of his deal, because
Speaker 1: usually that's how you trade guys, it's the last year
Speaker 1: or two on their contract to make it easy for
Speaker 1: them to trade. But I still think it's a guy like, hey,
Speaker 1: he's still twenty six, he's twenty seven, he's going into
Speaker 1: a second contract. He's a guy will probably want to resign,
Speaker 1: So it would have to be a good situation that way.
Speaker 1: I really loved. And this is the framing that we're
Speaker 1: getting from Jerry Jones, which I love, is you're getting
Speaker 1: a lot of talent back over the second half of
Speaker 1: the season that you didn't have in the first a
Speaker 1: thousand yard receiver in Michael Gallup a fifty games starting
Speaker 1: right tackle, and Lyle Collins promising young defensive two promising
Speaker 1: young defensive tackles Gallimore and more so than Hill. But
Speaker 1: that's still two guys that were drafted highly and then
Speaker 1: further down the line and all Pro defensive end and
Speaker 1: another defensive end too, and George Arms or arms ND
Speaker 1: as well, And so it's probably better than Basham, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. Well, look at the how much they
Speaker 1: were playing in before you got hurt. Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: when you and there's gonna be other injuries that offset that,
Speaker 1: and I get that, But that's that's a lot of
Speaker 1: talent that's coming back to your roster. And like almost
Speaker 1: none of those literally none of those guys that I
Speaker 1: just named hand in getting you to five and one,
Speaker 1: Like Gallup and Lawrence played in week one, they didn't
Speaker 1: have these amazing games. Lyle played week one as well,
Speaker 1: but like, um, Gallimore hasn't played at all, Hill hasn't
Speaker 1: played at all. Yeah. Um, that's that's a lot of
Speaker 1: talent that's gonna be available to you in the next
Speaker 1: month or so. You've got Kelvin Joseph, the second round
Speaker 1: pick that everybody's clamoring to see he I think he
Speaker 1: might play in this game. He's gonna be He's gonna
Speaker 1: practice for the second week this week, so they I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing they've got to do is figure
Speaker 1: out how to get them on the roster. I mean,
Speaker 1: you you've got guys that you've got to figure out.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you the toughest guy to get on
Speaker 1: the roster and maybe is Josh Ball. We didn't even
Speaker 1: mention that, but here's here's an offensive tackles coming back.
Speaker 1: He's a rookie fourth round pick. He's gonna be on
Speaker 1: the team. He's gonna be here. So you gotta can
Speaker 1: you just leave a guy on ir like, do you
Speaker 1: have to bring him back even if he's healthy. You
Speaker 1: don't have to write there still is an eye off
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season, right, Yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: think the way of your twenty one day and if
Speaker 1: they don't if they're not ready, and the way it
Speaker 1: works right for the rest of the season. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: so you activate a guy's three week practice window and
Speaker 1: if you don't move him to the roster after that window,
Speaker 1: then he reverts to I R for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. But if you don't even activate his practice window.
Speaker 1: I think he can just sit there as so, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would so I would assume he could. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you want a young guy like Josh Ball practicing
Speaker 1: and getting better. But I'm just saying, you know, but
Speaker 1: rather than risk lose him, maybe well they're not, They're
Speaker 1: not going to lose him. There would do it. It
Speaker 1: would just figure it out. But I mean, yeah, you can.
Speaker 1: You can do that until they the league probably you
Speaker 1: start abusing it, you know what I mean like that,
Speaker 1: because that's it's already been hurt. So who's to say
Speaker 1: that's not right? Yeah, yeah, maybe they have to do
Speaker 1: a physical or something like that. But but yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's another player that's coming back to the team that
Speaker 1: I don't think he's an option to play though. I
Speaker 1: don't think that they would try to play. He's so
Speaker 1: far down the depth. I don't know how you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I'm and he he is the forgotten man. But
Speaker 1: with Lyle back on the team, they have four or
Speaker 1: experienced players at this point, really experienced players. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know how, so, yeah, I wonder if he might
Speaker 1: just be camping out on IR for a little while. Yeah,
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