WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: NFC's Best Team? 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:04.840 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:15.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Boys. Let's go. Are 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.080 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:23.200 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:27.120 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:32.800 Cowboys dot Com wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:38.120 bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is. It is Tuesday, 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.280 October twenty sixth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.760 forty seven. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break, 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.920 Live from Yes WBC Mortgage Studios at the Stars Big 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:50.960 Picture TUSI. A lot of topics we're gonna hit today. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.120 We're gonna talk about some injuries. Catch you guys up there. 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.920 We're gonna talk about this NFC. There are five teams 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:57.720 in the NFC who are all right there at the top. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.200 We're gonna talk about how they stack up and which 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.880 ones might be the toughest matchups for the Cowboys. And 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:04.800 then when get some fan questions a little later in 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:06.920 the show, we want to hear from you guys. You 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.120 can call us eight eight eight eight five five two 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.880 two ninety seven. Already have a lot of quarters questions 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.400 I got from Twitter yesterday from you guys. We'll get 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:16.720 into some of those. If you want to send me 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.160 some more, you can hit me some more on Twitter, 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.200 or you can call us again at that number eight 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.880 eight eight eight five five two two ninety seven. We'll 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.920 get to that in the second and third segments. Nick, 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.320 it's your time forty seven. I saw you smile of 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.360 one of my favorite names of all time. Okay, Dexter 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.640 clink Scale. I thought you were gonna say Osaka Polite, 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.920 just because that's a great name. No, he's like, not 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.520 the number. I'm saying the name. Go ahead, Dexter clink Scale. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.880 It sounds like something from Madden Mode and franchise, like 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:49.960 you know, generate a player. Well, actually clever last night. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.800 I actually everyone now and again, I just like to 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.040 look at some old YouTube videos whatever. Something came out 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.080 from like nineteen eighty two and he made an interception 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.920 for a touchdown and I'm like, oh, Scale, Yeah, it 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.360 was not big in nineteen eighty two. Yeah, but what 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.400 about Lawrence Vickers? Sure him? No, I do remember the name. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.200 Oh I don't remember. I thought you were here for 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:18.520 that game. No, that was the that was high. It's 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.160 a ninety game. Oh no, that's all that something else 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.320 the year before him, before me and getting forty seven's 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.360 on your radar. No, I'm like, I'm I'm drawing just 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.840 like I'm out. This is this is a really bad stretch. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.440 I'm sting like forty two is probably the last. Not 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.160 what well, not what number did God? People are gonna 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.000 hate me? What God didn't wear? What number did Moose wear? 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.600 Forty eight? Okay, we'll get him. I was gonna say 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.040 Moose obviously it was in the forties, and then like 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.680 Barry Church and but nobody wants to wear a number 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.239 in the forties, and Terrence Newman as well, but drafted 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.360 and back in the nineties they draft third round. They 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.280 drafted get him Clayton Holmes that they thought was going 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.160 to be the name. He didn't work out so well, 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.400 end up on the Desperados. No, No, he didn't make 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.480 the rest. Nah, he had some It's funny like I 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:04.960 get an arguments with people all the time. I'm like, 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:07.920 the player makes the number. Any number will look cool 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.840 if the player is good. I firmly believe that. I 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.360 actually believe that too. But at the same I'm sorry 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.079 to make thirty six look good. If Tony Pollard was 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.120 still wearing thirty six, it would look bad ass because 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:22.680 he's a good player. Earl Campbell, Yeah, thirty six look 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.520 pretty good. Earl Campbell made thirty four look awesome, do it? 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.040 Earl Campbell made thirty four look awesome. Like, well, back 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.600 in the day, thirty four was a great four number number. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.160 I'm just I'm just saying thirty two. Yeah, the player 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.360 can make the number. But at the same time, like 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:42.080 forty forty six, forty seven, forty a, forty nine, like, hey, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.440 we'll lead it up tomorrow. Well, forty seven is dexter 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.000 clean scale. Forty eight we're gonna step it up. Just 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.040 we'll just be like moose and we'll go because there 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:51.720 really know a lot of options there, and we got 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.480 a lot of stuff talk about. Okay, so here we go. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.360 All right, here we go. Let's let's catch up on 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:56.840 some injuries. We got three names I want to throw 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.400 to you guys. You guys, tell me where they are 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.960 and what you expect for this weekend. Dak Prescott, what 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.920 are you hearing about Dak Prescott and where he is 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.920 in his recovery? Let me start because I I probably 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.839 need to change a little bit of my opinion has 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.160 changed somewhat from you since yesterday. I think he's yeah, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:16.680 I think he's gonna play a little bit. I mean, 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.920 I do think he'll play. I don't. Again, I do 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.880 not think he will be normal. Is not gonna be normal, Dak, 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.680 I don't. I don't think he'll be running any like. 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.120 Is there anybody that's normal at this point? I don't think. 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.560 I think he's got it's gotta be wide open for 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.400 him to run. I don't. I just don't think he's 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.760 gonna be looking to run. I don't. I bet you 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.480 that sneaks. Let me ask you this, Does that affect 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.960 his mobility in the pocket because he does move around 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.159 and look to throw. Are you saying you don't expect 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.800 him to do a lot of that. No, he'll have 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.200 to do that if he's gonna play it. But I 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:49.960 just I just feel like, and I think he is 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.080 going to play. I think it's more encouraging than what 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.320 I thought. But I'm saying I'm just gonna say it. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.800 He's got to be careful with it because it can 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.200 it can just come up and grab you at any time, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.760 and so that's that's the one thing that's kind of alarming. Well, 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.039 I really think and I was thinking about this on 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.240 my drive up here, because we do we do these 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.240 hits with one oh five three in the morning, and 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.600 they ask us, what's that good hit this morning? Thanks, 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.120 they ask us, but they ask us a ton of 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.240 questions about player availability. And I mean, I get that, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.240 and we have a sense, but I really do. I 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.719 think people forget that this is an evolving conversation, like 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.159 I do. I think Dak's gonna play I think again, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:30.440 you read context clues. He stepped out. He stepped out 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.560 of the facility yesterday during media availability in front of 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:38.800 the whole Cowboys beat probably thirty reporters and the team nutritionists. 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.800 Scott they had a private bet where Scott would Scott 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.080 agreed to run win sprints and do a bunch of 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.960 work like calistenics and stuff in exchange for Dak going 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.440 to his kids little league game and breaking them down. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.600 And I mean, that's that's fun. Like if you know 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.320 the quarterback of the Cowboys well enough that you can 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.520 kind of bribe him to break down your kids little 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.159 league game, Like how cool is that? But talk about 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.640 that in a second too. That speaks a lot towards that, 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:09.839 But he's not doing that if he's not feeling pretty good, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.400 he's just not. He came out in slides with no 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.280 boot on, and Clarence Hill and some of the other 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.479 reporters are kind of heckling him from a distance, like 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.000 why don't you come over here and talk to us, 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.920 and he's like, why would why would I give that away? Today? 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.560 He's not doing that. If he's not feeling pretty good 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.279 about where he's at, he's just not. And then you 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.600 talk to other people in the organization, you have conversations, 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.280 maybe you see some things like that. I do think 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.800 he's gonna play, but they haven't practiced yet, and so 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.440 if he goes through a full practice regiment today and 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.120 halfway through practice it's bothering him. The conversation changes. So 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.520 you have an inkling on Tuesday, but that can totally 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.919 change based on the workload. And I do think there's 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.960 a threshold that he needs to clear by probably Friday, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.520 and we'll know more then. So maybe that sounds like 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.320 a cop out, but he's got to go through two 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.120 days of practice without having it bother him, and I 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.000 think that's important. To remember, well, they had a light 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.680 practice yesterday close to the media, and from what it 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.800 sounds like he was able to do a little bit 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.000 enough where Jerry Jones was encouraged to buy it. And 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.960 you know, it's Monday, and if if you know, they 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.240 could have easily just kept him out and not on 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:18.680 his feet and all that. So if he is doing 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.280 some things throwing the ball around, that that's a that's 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.640 a good sign. Um. I don't think he'll do a 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.720 lot of running right now. I mean, because you have 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:30.440 a full week, you know, you have six more hours 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.480 than you normally would because it's a Sunday night game 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.520 as well. So I think all things, the signs are 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.560 encouraging that he's going to be able to do something here. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.760 I still think I'll be surprised if he's if he's 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.400 at full mode, if we're not, like I don't even 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.320 know he's hurt. I think you'll see a little bit 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.520 of that. But that's okay. If he's ninety percent eight percent, 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.120 that's better than I think it's better than what you 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.760 have with Cooper Rush, just because of the dynamics of 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.400 the entire offense and what and how it's just working. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.520 So well, I said today. I mean, if he's if 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.360 he's at a percent, that's good enough for me, because 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.200 nobody's at one hundred percent anyway. So if you assume 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.280 you're regularly at somewhere between ninety and one hundred eighty, 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.600 I can live with eighty. Yeah, it was interesting both 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.040 of you guys. I think hit the nail on the 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.120 head when you see when you kind of qualified it. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.480 I heard Jerry Jones this morning on Sean and RJ 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.160 on one or five dot three. He was saying something similar. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.440 He said, you know, he said, I think about some 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.120 of the these injuries that I've heard, and I think 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.320 he was mentioning Zach, but he was saying, you know, 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.520 what he'd heard was there are mornings you wake up 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.319 and you feel great and it feels like you can 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.079 do everything you normally do. And then the next day 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.559 you might wake up and it feels like you got 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.240 hit by truck. Like it's just it's not a it's 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.240 not one of those injuries that seems like it's just 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.880 always Yeah, I feel good today, That means I'm gonna 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.400 feel even better tomorrow. And I see you over there 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.160 looking like that. But I think that's kind of your 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.440 experience as well. It's just it's one of those things. 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:58.000 It's just like hello, I'm still here. Hi. Oh yeah, 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.199 don't forget about me. It's like wamam, Well yeah I 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.960 was coming. Yeah. So I think that all signs are 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.480 certainly positive in it, and it looks like it looks 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.439 like they're progressing in the right way. Uh. It certainly 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.079 sounds like he's actually moving around, which is a positive sign. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.600 We'll see how that progresses throughout the week. Yeah, we'll 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.560 go back to Dak real quick because I have a 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.240 feeling how that whole thing went was um and and 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.480 the nutritionist, Scott he Um probably asked, you know, he 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.800 probably said, hey, my son, you're his you know, favorite 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.439 player or whatever, and then have a game and can 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.760 you come to the game and break him down in 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.760 the huddle and all that, And Dak probably said, all right, yeah, 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.920 I could do that, but what are you gonna do? 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.000 You know, He's like you need to do? You know, 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.160 probably do these wren sprints or whatever and all that, 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.440 which I hope the sun realizes what Dad's out there 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.680 doing running around. But Dad was like cheering him on, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.280 like goes out there and he's yelling, He's like, let's 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:00.640 go in his clappings like very facetiously oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.760 But I just I just love that that he's able 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.560 to you know, that he does things like that. And 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.160 you know, I still can't get over the tie and 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.679 sech golf tournament thing. You know, like when Tian Secky 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.839 got here and I think he had a golf tournament. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.000 Nobody knows this guy and he's here and he's a 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:23.720 new player and Deck shows up. He's he's the ultimate teammate. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.160 And not just to players, but to the football staff 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.480 and that community and that that group and the other 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.400 thing I'll point out about that And this is not 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.559 I'm not taking a shot at anyone else, um, but 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.640 we have seen over the years, uh specifically with the 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.000 quarterback take it. As time goes and they become more 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.880 entrenched as the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, they 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.800 change and that a lot of that I think happens 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.000 because you've got so many people pulling at you, you 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.640 got so many people asking things of you. You have 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.240 to adapt to that and and kind of take control 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.600 of yourself in order to make sure you're not just 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.640 completely stretched. Then Dak has done that he has certainly 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.080 like tightened the boundaries of what he's willing to do 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.640 and not doing those kinds of things. But Dak as 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.720 as as far as what he has represented to certainly 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.680 what I've seen has not changed, Like he's been the 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.960 same dude. He's been that dude from the moment he 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.800 arrived all the way to the current moment. And that's 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.319 the part I appreciate it about him the most, is 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.840 that he just seems to be the same dude, which 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.920 I love authentic people. He's just an authentic person. I 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.200 just want to throw out there to which I thought 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.360 about this because I had to figure out a way 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.560 to put that in a tweet yesterday, which it's a 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:39.080 lot when you're dealing with a character limit. But he's tech. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.240 The director of sports Performance, Scott centered And and I'll 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.080 throw a shout out to his assistant as well, the 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.440 assistant dietitian Claire Gilbert, who actually went to LSU. I 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.120 just think it's interesting, like there's an army of people 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.320 that make this thing go and Scott and Claire are 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.480 a big part of it. I always laugh like they 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.800 they are running around throughout the game, like helping get 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.720 stuff for the players on the sideline getting the postgame 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.640 meal ready. Like there's whole people that like don't even 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.120 see the operation to this thing is crazy. You don't like, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.120 you don't see the game because you're making sure sixty 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.720 people have a burrito or whatever the meal is that 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:17.679 night that they can grab on their way to the bus. 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.160 And it's cool that it pays off for them in 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.840 ways because lord knows, I mean the equipment guys, the video, Like, 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.240 the hours that you put in working for a football 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.600 team is insane. So shout out, shout out to them 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.520 for being the faceless people who make all this go. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.959 Let me go back to what you were saying. You 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.839 weren't saying it. I'll say it, Tony Romo to me, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.520 I'll say it. I'll say it, Tony Romo. I don't 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:50.640 know if he changed his life changed. I mean, I mean, 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.280 he was the backup quarterback that was sitting there just 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.000 talking to people in the locker room, and then all 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.280 of a sudden, yeah yeah right, he was playing. He 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.960 was playing our flag football team, you know, played well 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.880 to the playoffs and then um wow, that's what happened. 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:09.439 It's what it's what happened. Number nine. I love Tony. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.760 I I would caddy for him if he needed me too, 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.120 which I did. No, I love Tony, But I'm saying 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.520 his life changed, So how how do you react to that? 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.360 How do you handle it? It's not like all of 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.040 a sudden he just changed everything. Now he's getting asked 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.440 to judge Miss America contests, So his life changed and 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.600 he kind of he had to adapt with it and 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.679 did it. You know, that's what happens. Do you leave 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.959 put people behind you? You remember when you used to 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.240 do this. That's just the way it was. I just 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:40.480 applaud Dak for being able to sounds like being able 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:44.000 to handle it in a different way. And so I'm 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:45.800 not That's why I'm not I'm not trying to crucify 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.400 Tony Fresh. I'm not judging anyone. Yeah, I mean, his 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.520 life changed in a big way. Dak's life has changed too, 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.440 but he's he's kind of figured it out a little bit. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.800 And you gotta remember too, DA's work a year. He's 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.920 like three weeks what three months into it. He's the man, 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.160 and by the way, when he was in college, he 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.319 was the man, so being a man was not something 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.520 new for him. Now he was a man in college. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.720 He's awesome and and there's a lot of people that say, well, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.560 he's not like this. Yeah, Dak and Tony are totally different, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:14.920 and people compare him all the time. But I just 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.440 it's more about what Dak is, I don't think, than 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.880 what Tony is not. And I'm not trying to It's 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.520 really about what Dak has done here. Yea, all right, 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.600 let's let's get a couple of other injury updates. We 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.320 got a couple of guys there, all right, you were 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.800 trying to go down a list and we just went in, no, no, no, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.000 that's fine. I knew you were going to take a 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:32.880 long time on deck, which we should. There are the 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.760 two other guys, though, we have to talk about Michael 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.720 Gallup Tristan Hill. Where are they in their returns? Michael 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.480 Gallup is supposed to practice tomorrow, um, and Tristan Hill 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.080 is as well. And we'll throw in Francis Bernard he's 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.120 obviously yeah, he's I completely forget about his name. He 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.160 I mean, he's not on the same level Michael. Oh yeah, 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.760 but Gallup is starter. Tristan was a big piece of 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.160 the rotation, which you're right though, Bernard kind of shores 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.920 up your your linebacker numbers that we've been worried about. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.000 So all three of those guys supposed to practice doesn't 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.040 mean they're on the roster again. It's a could Gallop 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.760 play Sunday theoretically, Yeah, but maybe he's not ready. I 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.680 think it just depends on how he looks. I should 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.200 know this is Semi Fihoko on the roster, Yes, Okay, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.320 I think now, I mean second guessing myself. I should know. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.680 I mean, I know the roster is not what it 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.320 used to be. Ok We used to do like inactive 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.840 on Friday's. Like I wouldn't want to try to go 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.320 down there. There's one hundred different lists to put these ya, SEMy, 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.040 Simmy's still on the team. He's been inactive recently because 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.840 Malik Turner came back. One of those two guys is 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.560 probably not going to be on the roster if I 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.440 can't imagine at this point, I just I can't imagine 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.600 that they risk losing Semi. And I know, I mean, 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.160 I know we overanalyze that, you probably can, but they've 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.200 carried him this long. Yeah, it certainly seems like his 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:53.920 development is a piece of this whole thing. Knowing that Cedric, Noah, 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.920 and Gallop are all slated for free agency, I just 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.120 I would be kind of surprised at this point, but maybe, 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.280 I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do in 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.040 the course of the season. I want to talk about 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.040 one other guy, and I want to put a pin 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.800 in Michael Gallop for a second, because I think what 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.000 I'm about to talk about with Lyle Collins, I think 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:14.320 could possibly be a similar conversation for Michael Gallop. He's 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.080 obviously Lyle Collins is obviously back on the active roster 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.400 now after his five week suspension, and there have been 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.440 comments from Jerry and Stephen this week that suggests that 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.920 there's a possibility at least that he doesn't start, mainly 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.000 from the idea of, hey, why rush it. If he 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.200 looks a little rusty, if he needs to work back in, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.520 we don't have to rush him back into the lineup. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.960 The first question is do you think he starts this week? 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.520 And then I want to talk about it from the 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.600 standpoint of both he and Gallop. Is this the right 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.760 approach when you got a guy it's already in there. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.800 Cedric Wilson's playing well, Terrence still play is playing well. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.320 Do you take the right approach with this of letting 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.400 those guys kind of ease back in. Maybe Gallup isn't 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.440 even active this week. They don't have to necessarily make 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.760 him active right now, and you just kind of let 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.080 those guys ease back in rather than rushing him back 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.080 in because the guys who replaced them are playing well. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.640 Can I just say, I really I know you're trying 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.000 to kind of marry the two together, but I really 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.560 think these are completely different situations. All which one do 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.040 you want to take? Day you I'll do what you 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.320 don't do the receiver. I'll talk about the receiver position. Though. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.120 They can figure out how to get Gallop in there, 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.399 just like they getting set looks like they were getting 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.359 Cedric in there, like that Norah Brown kind of fits 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.200 into it. You can figure out a ways to kind 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.919 of do that in some way, give him some snats 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.640 that snaps to, you know, ease back into this. So 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.040 that's why I kind of feel like it's a completely 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.600 different situation of making the move, you know, because either 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:40.920 one of them not I mean, because these receivers won't 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.400 be the starter or be the third guy. So the 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.840 third and fourth guy is not that. I mean, I'm 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.600 not saying it's not big a deal because it's a 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.480 huge deal for mismatches and stuff like that, but I 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.560 think there's ways to get him and Millie Turner was 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.879 getting in, so I think you can get Gallop in 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.120 there in his own kind of way and getting ease 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:58.720 him back into it. I don't think it's a different 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.640 with the right tackle, I agree, but I do think 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.000 it kind of plays into what we said about Dak 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.400 is that's what this week is four And I actually 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.520 it's funny because I think I think the Jones has 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:14.520 played that the right way. But by not just saying like, yeah, 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.640 Lyle will be right back in there, then that does 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.800 the other thing where it creates a quote unquote controversy 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.200 about like, well maybe maybe Terrence Steel is going to 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:24.960 keep his job. And I think it's really more along 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.679 the lines of this guy's played one game since twenty 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.080 nineteen and then he took five weeks off and you 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.080 just want to see where he is. Every report, every 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.640 indication that I've heard is that Lyle, I mean, he's 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:38.880 been allowed back in the building since like week three, 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.120 so I think his conditioning is good. I think he's 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.720 ready to hit the ground running, but you know, you 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:46.639 don't need him to if he's not ready, And so 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.800 they're just like, we can keep our options open. We 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.479 can practice Terrence, we can practice Lyle. If he just 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.720 looks like a boss and he's ready to go right away, 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.960 he could play Sunday. If he's not, that's no problem either. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.800 And I actually this wasn't related to Lyle at all. 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.080 It was about it was when Tyrone was hurt. Mike 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.000 McCarthy kind of he didn't laugh at me, but I 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.240 could tell he didn't think it was a great question, 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.600 which wasn't the first time or last, No, not at all. 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.960