WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: O-Line Comfort? 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:06.720 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:18.920 and the Dallas Cowboys football clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.640 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.960 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:32.320 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:38.639 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, Am Bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:44.159 It is Tuesday, September eighth, two thousan twenty, season sixteen, 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:48.360 episode number eighteen. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.760 I am live back here in the s WBC Mortgage 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.120 studios at the Star. My co host joining me, Nick Eatman, 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.279 he is here at the Star as well. We've got 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.640 Dave Hellman at his home, Amber Garcia at her home, 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.440 and we're bringing all this to you, guys, bringing all 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.880 this together. It is our first day of daily shows. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.720 We'll be on every day at eleven thirty am on 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.000 Dallas Cowboys dot Com and all Dallas Cowboys platforms. And 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.039 I'm so happy to be back at his football season. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:19.720 How's everybody doing today? Doing great? Derek? Throughout the Nick, 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:21.200 why don't you ever say anything what I say? How 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:22.720 are you doing? Is it just like you're just in 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:30.080 a mood today or everything good. I guess I am 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.360 in a mood today, but I don't know. I'm just 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.240 waiting on everybody. Sometimes I do, I do say good, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:39.880 doing great, wonderful, I'm awesome, Derek, thank you. You guys 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.759 got it. I'm trying to figure out, go ahead, who's 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.760 out I see somebody on the field. I don't know 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:47.440 if I'm supposed to say that, but I do see 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.200 someone out here working out, and I'm trying to figure 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.080 out who that is. So you're spying right now, you know, 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.720 on this Tuesday day off. Yeah, I'm not really supposed 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.720 to do. See this is we're getting. Fans are getting 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.440 an opportunity right now to see how Nick gets this information, 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.800 to be the guy that just prognosticates all the stuff 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.000 that's gonna happen. Like last week he threw a little nugget, 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.560 a couple nuggets on us that we all kind of 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.880 just glossed over. And then of course when the rosters 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.280 came out, it was like, wow, Nick, did you know something. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.760 He's like, no, no, I didn't know anything, So but 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:20.000 let's talk about that. I didn't know. What I saw 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.360 was just like Dave Saul just like annber and Darren. 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.960 You guys saw Darren Thompson was starting over Haha, Clinton Dix, 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.480 So if he if he's not starting and he's already 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:34.000 been cut before by two other teams, including Washington who 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.440 didn't want him. So you know, that didn't seem good 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.200 to me. Sean Lee hadn't practiced since two thousand and seven, 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.400 it seems like, so, I mean, that didn't seem good either. 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:45.680 So I don't know, I'm just putting it together. I 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.640 didn't really know that. I didn't know that they were 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.800 going to go. I had no idea Hyle was going. 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:54.079 He's just one of them that just watching anybody well 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.520 just one of the many reasons why fans tune in 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:58.679 here to the Break, because you'll get those kind of 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.600 little nuggets that will make you think about things, and 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.440 then you'll see him come true and you'll be like, wow, 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.640 I heard that on the break. First, let's start with 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.520 the fifty three man roster. There were a lot of surprises. Well, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.080 I shouldn't say there were a lot of surprises. There 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.760 were some surprises. I guess I'll start first with you 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.880 guys and just go around and talk about each one 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.520 of you. Talk about kind of as you saw the roster, 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.320 what was your first thought if there was a surprise, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.480 if it was something that just kind of corroborated what 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.160 you already thinking. I just want to get an initial 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.680 thought from you as you saw the fifty three man roster. 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.839 We'll start first with you, Dave. I think the most 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.600 surprising thing was just the way that they managed this 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.320 linebacker situation. I mean, Nick had an inkling that maybe 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.600 Sean Lee might not be on the roster to start with. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.080 He turned out to be correct. But then you think about, 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.880 you know, the team cut Joe Thomas and Justin March 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.040 over the weekend too, Like there was a point where 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.680 they only had like two healthy linebackers on the team. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.440 They brought Joe and Justin back, so it's not a 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.640 big deal. But some of the stuff they did to 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.880 just fit under the fifty three man limit I thought 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.760 was really interesting. And then you know, when you see 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.240 Terry and Steele make the team at offensive tackle, you know, 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.560 five offensive tackles is a lot. You kind of had 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.040 a feeling Lile might not be long for the roster either, 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:12.840 So those are those are probably the two bambroons. I 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.200 don't really have much to add to that. Honestly, as 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:19.600 the roster stands right now, there's nothing that really surprises 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.479 me aside from what they did with the linebackers. But 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.520 now knowing or seeing how it ended up, it makes 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.599 sense the way they decided to do things there. The 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.480 only biggest surprise to me was the whole Alcolins thing. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.400 We kept hearing my McCarthy talking about him and just 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.520 saying that it wasn't anything long term, and it might 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.880 not be. I mean, I think they they have what 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:46.640 three weeks until they're available to come back, So I'm 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.240 just curious to see how it really affects the old 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.440 line here once they start playing an actual game, because 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.360 in practice you can't really evaluate those kinds of things. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.400 I mean, they make plays and then you see Dank 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.800 Prescott getting pressure, but then he said, okay, they can't 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.560 really sack him or anything in practice. So I just 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.440 I'm very curious to see how Bolane just fully comes 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.920 together once they get to the real knick. With any 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:18.000 surprises for you on this roster, yeah, I mean this 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.240 is just another example of you know, without being a 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.760 training camp, getting to talk to coaches, getting to talk 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.800 to scouts, you know, just those conversations you normally have. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.440 Somebody would have probably told us, hey, Francis Bernard isn't 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.440 doing as good as you think he is, because what 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.599 we see was a guy that was kind of making plays, interceptions, 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.200 plays behind the line of scrimmage. What we don't see 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.080 and I don't know if this is true, but you know, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.240 he might run to the right, get blocked and there's 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.200 a twenty five yard running up the middle. We don't 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.880 know some of the things and how he's grasping it. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.720 I thought he was making plays and to the point 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.120 where you would want to keep him. But guess what. 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.800 Once again a guy gets cut, he doesn't, he doesn't 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.719 get claimed by another team. He's back on the practice squad. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.520 I lost a dollar bet with some body in the 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.120 media about that, which I had to Venmo, So you know, 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.159 I thought he would be gone. But hey, it is 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.440 what it is. That's a really and you're absolutely right. Nick. 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.960 Is Like if we were all out in Oxnard, you know, 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.159 eating dinner next to coaches and scouts, somebody would have 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.520 been like, pump the brakes. Pump, Yeah, well you know 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.119 what I mean. On the other side, Yeah, pump the brakes. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.440 On Francis Bernard, while at the same time, it's the 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.280 classic case where, like you know, you you run into 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.400 a coach or a scout and they're like, what do 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.440 you mean. C. J. Goodwin's not on the team? Of 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.279 course he's on the team, like we've known that since 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.159 day one, which you know, classic case of a guy 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.480 that everybody wants to overlook who makes his way back 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.520 to the roster. So it's a bummer that you don't 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.200 get to have those conversations with guys in this And 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:46.960 I think the other thing to consider here is that 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.520 it was bitch very difficult based upon how we were 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.960 able to watch practice without preseason games what the coaches 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.400 would think about these guys from a special team standpoint, 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.440 And I think that's one of the things where you 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.240 start looking at some of the guys that are not 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.240 the starter caliber players, but some of the guys that 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.559 a little bit farther down the depth chart special teams 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.880 I'm sure has a lot to play plays in a 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.920 lot there, and so it's it's some of those guys 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.320 that may have made it or didn't make it, you 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.200 wonder if some of that is about the fact of 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.520 what they saw from them in practice and in drills 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.120 around special teams and what they think they can provide 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.600 for them from a special team's perspective. Let's go ahead 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.480 and and move on to the I want to dig 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.760 in a little bit more on these injuries. These guys 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.520 that are now on IR Sean Leelyle Collins, Vintel Bryant 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.200 go through and tell me what the injuries are. And 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.200 obviously they have the three weeks that they will be 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.200 on IR that after which they could come back, But 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.840 just talk about their injuries from the standpoint of long term. 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.040 Is it only a three week type period or are 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.640 we talking about longer for some of these guys. Dave, 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.360 give me a giving an update of what you know 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:54.000 on that. What I really know is that a big 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.240 difference between Mike McCarthy and Jason Garrett is that it's 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.600 hard to say for sure. And I mean that's not 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.640 That's not to say Jason Garrett was the most forthcoming 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:06.280 person in the world, but Mike McCarthy really really doesn't 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.920 like to even tell you what might be bothering a guy. 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.560 I think from Stephen Jones and Jerry Jones, it sounds 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.160 like it's a hip injury for Lyle and actually Mike 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.800 McCarthy was asked on Monday night whether this is a 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.080 conditioning thing. I think there's there's a rumor going around 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.160 Twitter that Lyle's on injured reserve because he's out of shape. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.200 I don't think I buy that. I don't think you 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.480 put a guy on injured reserve because he's out of shape. 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.440 So it sounds like it's a hip. You know, the 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.800 fact that he was able to do some things in 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.400 practice gives me optimism that you know, in a month, 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.320 three weeks to a month, he can come back. But 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.120 I guess we'll see same thing with like, I mean, Nick, 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.480 tell me if I'm missing something, Like I don't one 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.400 hundred percent know what Sean Lee is dealing with. Ventell 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.520 Bryant was his knee. Ventell Bryant hurt his knee in 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.200 practice last weekend, so we know that, but I couldn't 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.200 tell you what it is with Sean No, because you know, 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.480 this is not anything unusual then from what they've done, 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.400 kind of a workload management thing at training camp. And 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.040 so when he wasn't practicing, he didn't think that was 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.240 that big a deal because we've seen that at training 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.640 camp a lot. But then you get to the point 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.840 where now that it's like he's just not, you know, 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.600 not ready to go in the games. I mean, that's 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.680 something that that was surprising to me because I went 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.400 back and looked he actually played sixteen games last year 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.520 on the schedules, the first time he's done that in 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:32.640 his whole career. So the management workload worked for them 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.400 last year, so I kind of thought that was going 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.880 to happen. But when Stephen Jones said, you know, you 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.400 can put a whistle around his neck and a coaching 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.960 cap and he would be just fine, that kind of 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.000 made me think that that's kind of a role that 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.199 they're there, they have for him. So I'm still a 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.439 little bit confused with what's going on with shaw Lee. 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.680 Do you guys think that cam Irving is an adequate 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.920 replacement for Lyle, even on a temporary basis, I'll start 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:04.000 with you Amber. I mean, if they couldn't find any 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.360 better option out there from the guys that were caught 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:11.080 from other teams, I just I trust that they did 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:15.319 their job evaluating player the best that they possibly could 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:20.640 given the circumstances. I don't I don't feel fully comfortable 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.079 or confident about the whole decision here. But who else 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.880 was better to fill in the role while Lyle is out? 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:33.480 I don't, honestly, I don't know. He's a guy that's okay, 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.320 okay for now, and we'll see how it goes during 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:40.439 the game. But is it someone that excites me? Not really. 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.520 So I'll ask you this Amber, on a scale of 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:46.600 one to ten, with ten being the most concerned, one 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.679 being the least concerned, how concerned are you about this 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.199 offensive line with now coming out of last year? You've 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.320 got two offensive line positions that are that you had 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.679 starters last year that are not back. You've got the 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.760 center position where Travis Cats retired, and now you got 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.000 you're gonna start the season with your right tackle gone. 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:05.920 How concerned are you On a scale of one to ten, 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:14.240 I would say seven seven around there, because see with 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.280 Travis Frederick and Joe Looney did an amazing job. I 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.440 think he did a great job two years ago and 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.680 he was able to take on that role and do good. 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.439 But even when Travis was able to come back, we 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:31.000 saw the difference that Travis made inside the old line. 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.640 So you take that element away once again. Even though 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:39.160 this should mean that Joe has gained more experience in 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.720 these two years that went by, But at the same 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.960 time we know how how in sync the old line 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.200 needs to be in order to perform better. So I 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:55.240 am concerned. I would say seven, but we just I honestly, honestly, 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.760 I don't know what to fully expect. Once they say 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.839 I mean your level of con cern one to ten 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:05.440 offensive line, I probably put it at like a four. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.920 I mean, it's definitely definitely concerning. You would prefer Lyle 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.160 to be there to answer your question. No, I don't 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:16.000 feel great about cam Irving, which it's not anything you know. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.320 I didn't notice anything bad about what he was doing 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.840 at camp. Obviously he had an injury too that kept 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.679 him out for a while. It seems like he's been 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.800 fine since he got back. The big thing that I'm 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.640 watching is Brandon Knight. He heard his ankle last week 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.480 in practice right at the tail end of camp. I 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.360 think he's gonna be okay, but it's I think it's 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.199 something we need to be watching when they start practicing tomorrow. 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.480 And I don't know who the starter would be. But 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.880 the thing that makes me feel good is that if 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.520 cam Irving ain't up to snuff, Brandon Knight is a 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.120 decent four. I mean, for your fourth tackle to be 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.559 able to fall back on that, I feel pretty good 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.560 about it. I think I've been saying since the spring, like, 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.280 I'm really not worried about Joe Looney. He was already 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.480 good enough to I mean, they got to the playoffs 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:00.440 with him as the starter. And the big thing for 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.800 me with that is, I think there's a big difference 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.000 between year three of Dak Prescott and year five of 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.320 Dak Prescott in terms of not just commanding the offense, 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.439 but navigating the pocket and getting rid of the ball. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.720 You know, I think Dak got sacked fifty six times 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.800 in twenty eighteen or something crazy like that, forty six times. 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:19.840 He dropped that number all the way down to twenty 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.640 three last year, and you just can't convince me that 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.200 that was all on Travis Frederick coming back. So the 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.720 right tackle spot, concerning the center spot, not so much 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:39.319 for me. Seven eight maybe left left left tackle. Um, 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.280 I think he's healthy. He hasn't practiced, doesn't you know. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:44.800 He's one of the best in the league, if not 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.360 the best, but you know, there's always a little bit 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.040 of concern with his health. He hasn't done a whole lot. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.240 How sharp is he? If anybody can do it without practicing, 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.760 it would be tiring. Connor Williams at left guard. You know, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.320 I think he's gonna be fine. You know, he's he's 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.520 starting to it better, but there's still you know, it 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.439 hasn't really turned that corner just yet. Joe Looney, that's 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.160 a that's a downgrade from Travis Frederick. But like Joe, 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.480 like Dave said, I mean, not a huge concern. Zack 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.920 Martin and Zack Martin and then Cam Irving hasn't practiced 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:14.800 a whole lot either, and that's a big drop off. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.320 And my concern is who they're playing this week with 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.040 Aaron Donald and the Rams on the other side, that's 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.760 the concern. If it was another team, it wouldn't be 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.960 as high. But going up again, you know, playing week 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.200 to week and not knowing what we have from the 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.760 Cowboys and knowing pretty much what the Rams are gonna 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.960 at least have an Aaron Donald, I would say seven 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:35.840 to eight, all right, we're gonna go and take our 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:37.320 first break and we come back. We got a couple 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.400 of other transactions that we got to talk about. Well, Derek, 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.960 you if I had to give it, I would probably 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.160 be with you Nick around that seven. And that's not 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:47.960 so much. I don't even know if I call it. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.400 I'm not worried about it, but I am concerned. It's 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.240 going to be something that I watched very heavily in 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.600 this first game actually these first few weeks, because and 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.600 I do have a lot more concern I think than 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.760 maybe you guys do on cam Irving. I as as 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.800 I the few times I got to see him practice, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.120 I just wasn't that impressed with him. And I think 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.560 lyall Collins is a really good right tackle, So I 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.440 think you're taking a the delta between those two guys 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.520 in my opinion, again, just based upon what I saw 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.160 in those few practices, suggests to me that there's a 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.920 big difference between those two players. And uh, and so 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.160 I'm interested to see. Now. I do think that you 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.720 look at this offense. This offense has a lot of playmakers, 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.960 So getting the ball out quick and getting it into 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.960 the handle the hands of the playmakers and letting them 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.680 make plays, I think that's an advantage they have. So 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.800 you may not see it show up as much on film, 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.040 but I am a little bit concerned about that right 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.600 tackle position, and especially with him being out for a 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.720 number of weeks. Here, we're going to take our first break. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:43.360 When we come back, we're gonna talk about a couple 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.840 of other transacts. It's Brandon Carr being one of them, 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.480 Randy Gregory being the other. When we come right back. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.640 This is Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio. We're back at 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.000 the Tasty Treat. That's sweeping airwaves and taste buds. It's 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.480 new Doctor Pepper and Creep Soda. Let's take a listen 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:03.520 Doctor Pepper cream sodas he a new Combonut's music to 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:16.680 my Ears? 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American Airlines, you are why 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:56.720 we fly back to the break Welcome back to the 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.919 second segment of The Break Life from the SWBC Mortgage 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.280 Studios at the start, we appreciate you guys to take 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.800 us some time today to talk some Cowboys football with us. 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.480 Here on the break, we are talking about the transactions 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.879 that happened over the weekend Cowboys make their final cuts 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.800 to get down to fifty three players. We talked about 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.840 some of the areas where they had some interesting moves. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.320 One of those interesting moves that we didn't talk about 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.359 was Brandon Carr, a guy the Cowboys fans should be 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.240 very familiar with. Cowboys signed him. He was a player 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.240 on the team years ago, has been in Baltimore for 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.159 the last several years, been playing pretty well. There was 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.439 a free agent and the Cowboys went and signed him 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.760 and placed him on their practice squad, which seems a 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.119 little strange. And so the first thing I want to 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.440 do before we get into the actual move, I'd love 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.719 for you Nick to break down for fans the rules 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:49.080 around I know you're laughing, the rules around the practice 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.280 squad for this season because they are a little bit 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.640 different to allow teams to have a little more flexibility 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.480 with regards to COVID. So tell us kind of what 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.000 that looks like, what practice squad looks like this year? 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.679 All right, I'll do my best. Dave, jump in if 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:06.440 I if I if you've heard differently from what I understand. 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:11.320 Sixteen person practice squad. Now, I think it's six spots 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:16.600 that can be any experience at all. It doesn't matter 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:18.480 what kind of you know, how long you played in 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.280 the league. There's six of those veteran type spots that 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.200 you could have. Not that the Cowboys have used them all, 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:31.399 but but you could. And they have the ability to 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.880 call up two players. This is where I'm a little sketchy. Dave. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.080 You might want to help me two players to the 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.600 roster during the week to make it a fifty five 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.520 man roster, but then you have to then you have 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.760 to put them back down at the end of the week, 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:48.359 and you can only do that a couple of times 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.080 for each player throughout the year. So Breda Carr can 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:52.919 be on the roster, he can actually be in the 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.040 game and play this week just because he's on the 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.800 practice squad. That's the best that I know, Dave, Amber 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.040 You guys might have heard different. Well, I mean, that's 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.600 that's basically the gist of it. But I think something 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.120 that's really important to note, as far as I understand it, 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.880 the fifty five thing. That's a that's a weekend thing. 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.840 So like on Saturday, you can decide to bring two 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.480 guys to your game day roster, and that does I mean, 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:21.159 you still have to make seven inactives, so you just 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.560 have more guys to choose from to do that with. 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.360 The other big thing is because of COVID, there's no 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.960 there's like no processing time. You know, typically you gotta 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:32.399 do this. You got to move a guy from the 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:36.080 practice squad to the roster on Friday or Saturday to 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.119 get him on the roster in time for game day. 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.399 That's not a thing anymore. You can do. You can 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.960 move a guy to the roster up to ninety minutes 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.560 before kick and I think that's designed to help combat 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.880 the possibility of a COVID outbreak. So you know, God 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.439 forbid if four or five guys come down with COVID 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.919 on Friday or even Sunday, you can use the practice 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:59.160 squad to supplement that. The other thing, and this doesn't 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.359 really have anything to do with Brandon Carr, but teams 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.520 are allowed to designate up to four players per week 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:09.840 who are immune to being poached, like they are off limits. 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:12.320 It's kind of like big brother, like you give somebody 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:14.760 like the team has the power of veto. You can 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:17.879 just say no way, you can't touch these four guys, 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:20.359 and you can do that every single week. So right, 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:24.000 that makes me, That makes me so proud that Dave 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.560 is referring to Big Brother. You guys got to know, Like, 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:28.760 I've been a Big Brother fan since it started. I 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.200 got Dave hip to it, what two years ago? Maybe 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:34.280 a year? Maybe you can training camp last year? No, like, yeah, 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:36.800 and now he's all in, he's he's referring to it 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:41.240 on the break. This is great, but it's a lot. 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:43.960 It's a lot to like. I don't blame anybody for 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.679 being confused. Oh. One more of the dozen things is 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:52.760 the Cowboys have a special exception for Isaac adlcohone. I 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:57.120 hope I said that right, Amber, Um, he's he's he's 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.000 just on the practice squad. He can be there as 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:02.640 a seventeenth guys part of the International Pathways program. They 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:04.600 don't have to worry about somebody poaching him. They don't 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:06.520 have to worry about him counting toward the roster limits. 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:11.679 So that's nice. So but then you can only this 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:13.240 part is still little confusing. I don't know if you 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:15.720 already mentioned it, but you can only promote a player 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.960 twice before they have to go through the whole waiver 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:22.320 or clear waiver process. You can only take a guy. 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:24.560 So if you want to expand your game day roster 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.159 to fifty five, you can only do that with a 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.159 player twice before he has to go given a better system, 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:35.120 So I believe so, but we probably need to double 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:38.080 check that. It's it's pretty convoluted. As as us started 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.160 looking through it, I was like, okay, I got tired 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:42.760 here now, But I mean, yeah, it's it's pretty convoluted. 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:44.639 But a lot of these rules are just really meant 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:47.920 more than anything else to give teams options with regards 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:50.240 to COVID, Like if you get an outbreak, you now 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:52.040 have a few more options to be able to get 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:56.359 a basically field a team on a sudden And what 0:22:56.440 --> 0:22:58.320 I wonder about that is how many you're going to 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:00.600 travel to the game now? I mean, because before you 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:03.560 would never take a practice squad player to the game, 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:07.200 but now you might, and so it might you might 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:09.879 just take one per position. You know, if you have 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:12.080 a couple of wide receivers on the practice squad, maybe 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:14.080 you take one of those or one of your backs, 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:17.560 or you know, you know, one of your cornerbacks. And 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:21.040 so that's that's what I kind of wonder. What's especially, 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:23.080 you know, on these road games, you have a noon 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:25.720 kickoff start. I don't I don't know what the testing 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:30.240 is going to be like on Saturday Sunday. I'm not sure. 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:33.240 I've heard three or four different things of if they're 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:36.520 going to test on Sunday morning or Saturday night. I'm 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:40.160 not sure. If you think about it, though, Nick, I mean, 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:43.280 we all travel with the team during regular years. Think 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:46.040 about how many people that typically travel with the team 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:49.399 won't be doing it this year, whether it's members of 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:53.959 our staff, whether it's sponsorship people, whether it's uh, you know, 0:23:54.080 --> 0:23:56.879 employees for TV stations that often travel with the team. Like, 0:23:57.160 --> 0:23:59.119 there should be a lot more space on that plane, 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:02.160 if it were, I would bring I'd bring all sixteen 0:24:02.200 --> 0:24:05.119 of them. Why not? I mean, you don't have the room. Well, 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:07.760 and here's another thing that I mean it might be 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:10.639 better for talk about off there, but what's the plane 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:13.440 look like? I mean, what does the protocol now on 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:16.240 a plane? I mean do you have two rows between people? 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:18.520 One row? I mean it's hard to social distance on 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:20.760 a on an airplane, and so I kind of wonder, 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:25.600 you know, maybe maybe the Hawaii football together. You're like 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:30.080 un locking in each other's face already, So what sitting 0:24:30.280 --> 0:24:32.879 next to each other? What's the big deal after that? 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:37.840 You know that's true. I mean, we'll see, We'll see 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:41.240 how that goes. But let's talk about Brandon card and cout. 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:44.919 Oh yeah, Brandon Carr. I forgot, did you guess uthing? Nick? 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:48.440 You know? Yeah, Well, I was gonna kind of segue 0:24:48.480 --> 0:24:51.280 into the whole the Brandon car thing because about does 0:24:51.320 --> 0:24:53.800 this matter? Does a call up for a veteran the 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:56.480 same for a call I don't know if if it 0:24:56.520 --> 0:24:58.760 really goes into place for a veteran, But let's remember 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:02.080 this you said, and Carr played pretty well at safety 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:05.160 in the last couple of years. He was not he 0:25:05.240 --> 0:25:08.440 was not signed by any team all summer, all until 0:25:08.600 --> 0:25:11.480 just now. Same for Joe Davian Clowney. You can you 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:13.480 can make that case. I get it, so, but I 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:17.840 just I wonder, how you know how great he really 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:20.359 has been. I'm not saying great or good. He's just 0:25:20.520 --> 0:25:23.879 he's been a solid player. I think Brandon carr Is 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:27.800 value is goes greater than just how he plays on 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:30.080 the field. I think he's a really good leader, good 0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:36.040 locker room guy. To me, he's the opposite of another 0:25:36.040 --> 0:25:38.639 player for Baltimore. I think that they were trying to 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:42.280 bring in now that guy Orld Thomas is an outstanding player, 0:25:42.320 --> 0:25:44.760 seven time Pro Bowler. Brandon Carr not as great of 0:25:44.840 --> 0:25:47.640 a player. But I think what the Cowboys need right 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:52.440 now versatility, leadership, experience. I think Brandon Carr could help 0:25:52.480 --> 0:25:54.920 and those when you think about it, are you really 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:58.280 needing Sorry, I was gonna say, are you really looking 0:25:58.440 --> 0:26:01.960 or needing leader ship right now? Rather than someone that 0:26:02.040 --> 0:26:05.400 can actually go in and play and make plays given 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:10.119 the circumstances, you know what, That's leadership in its own way. 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:12.919 This guy. I think this is an amazing stat and 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:16.359 I saw this on Twitter m that there are only 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:18.080 two players in the history of the NFL that have 0:26:18.160 --> 0:26:21.320 started every game of their first twelve years of their career, 0:26:21.359 --> 0:26:24.040 one of them being Peyton Manning, the other being Brandon car. 0:26:24.359 --> 0:26:26.920 Peyton mann was expected to go in and play and start. 0:26:26.920 --> 0:26:29.679 Brandon car fifth round pick Grand Valley State, to go 0:26:29.720 --> 0:26:32.159 in and start every single game. That's probably gonna end 0:26:32.160 --> 0:26:34.600 this week, he's not gonna start. I wouldn't think that 0:26:34.720 --> 0:26:37.359 this week, but but I think it's what I'm saying 0:26:37.359 --> 0:26:39.440 about leadership. It's not just pulling the guy to the 0:26:39.480 --> 0:26:42.879 side and say do better. It's it's preparing, getting your body, 0:26:42.920 --> 0:26:45.639 getting your mind ready to play, go in, learning the system, 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:48.960 learning different roles. That to me is a form of 0:26:49.080 --> 0:26:51.639 leadership that other players can look to it. Yeah, and 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:55.880 I think the thing go ahead, No, no, it's gonna say. 0:26:55.920 --> 0:26:57.639 I think that The interesting part there is that you 0:26:57.760 --> 0:27:00.600 got a guy who is dependable first, and as Nick 0:27:00.640 --> 0:27:03.000 was saying, he started all those games over those years 0:27:03.040 --> 0:27:05.440 in a year like this when you got COVID and 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:08.320 that's your big concern, and you're putting him in the 0:27:08.359 --> 0:27:11.760 role that they're putting in, which is, Hey, we literally 0:27:11.840 --> 0:27:13.920 might get to a Sunday morning and a guy that's 0:27:13.920 --> 0:27:15.399 been on our practice squad is going to need to 0:27:15.400 --> 0:27:17.919 come up and play. Would you rather have him do 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:20.520 that or would you rather have some guy that hasn't 0:27:20.520 --> 0:27:22.639 played for the last twelve years or hasn't had the 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:25.120 number of starts that he's had for the last twelve years. 0:27:25.119 --> 0:27:26.399 And by the way, he can do it at two 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:28.520 different positions. He can come in and play at cornerback, 0:27:28.560 --> 0:27:29.919 he can come in and play at safety, he can 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:32.119 come in and give you relief at both. So I 0:27:32.160 --> 0:27:34.760 think Brandon Carr is the perfect kind of player. I'm 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:36.880 actually shocked that he was still out on the street, 0:27:36.920 --> 0:27:39.399 and what it makes me think is maybe this was 0:27:39.440 --> 0:27:41.320 also part of his doing. He lives here in the 0:27:41.400 --> 0:27:43.480 Dallas area, so this may be a situation where he 0:27:43.520 --> 0:27:45.560 may have had some other teams that expressed some interest 0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:48.000 and he may have said, look, I kind of don't 0:27:48.000 --> 0:27:50.600 want to necessarily go up to Cleveland. And I'm not 0:27:50.640 --> 0:27:52.600 saying Cleveland was one of them, but he may be like, 0:27:52.680 --> 0:27:54.800 I live in Dallas, this is an easy fit for me. 0:27:54.840 --> 0:27:57.520 My family's already here. We just will be in Dallas 0:27:57.560 --> 0:27:59.879 at our home, and I'll be on the practice squad. 0:28:00.000 --> 0:28:01.480 I'll play when I need to play, and I can 0:28:01.560 --> 0:28:04.040 jump in. We all know he's been playing for twelve years, 0:28:04.040 --> 0:28:06.800 like we all know he is on the back end 0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:09.040 of his career. But in a season like this, I 0:28:09.080 --> 0:28:13.720 think his dependability and his versatility are the absolute best 0:28:13.800 --> 0:28:15.679 factors you can have for a guy like him that 0:28:15.680 --> 0:28:17.600 you would bring in to play in that role. David 0:28:17.680 --> 0:28:21.280 Jeff some you were gonna say. I mean, I think 0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:23.359 you basically hit on all the pertinent points. I just 0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:25.639 and I can't speak for the coaching staff, but I 0:28:25.680 --> 0:28:28.520 don't I don't want to give people the impression I 0:28:28.920 --> 0:28:31.240 don't think Brandon Carr is here to step in and 0:28:31.760 --> 0:28:34.560 be a starter at any position in the near future. 0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:37.240 I think, you know, it sounds like Xavier Woods is 0:28:37.240 --> 0:28:38.840 going to be ready to go for Sunday. That's what 0:28:38.920 --> 0:28:41.600 Jerry Jones said this morning. I think they're going to 0:28:41.680 --> 0:28:44.760 give darry and Thompson a shot to be the other guy, 0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:47.840 at least for the time being. And I hate to 0:28:47.840 --> 0:28:50.280 bring this up because it wasn't good, but it reminds 0:28:50.320 --> 0:28:51.880 me a lot of when they went into the season 0:28:51.920 --> 0:28:55.840 in seventeen or eighteen excuse me, without a true lead 0:28:55.880 --> 0:28:58.760 receiver and it didn't work and they fixed it. And 0:28:58.800 --> 0:29:00.920 that's kind of my thought is if this is an 0:29:01.000 --> 0:29:04.600 unmitigated disaster after three or four weeks, then maybe they revisit. 0:29:04.680 --> 0:29:07.240 But for the time being, I think dari and Thompson's 0:29:07.280 --> 0:29:10.120 the guy. Brandon Carr can provide valuable depth at a 0:29:10.200 --> 0:29:13.000 number of positions. I think you're absolutely right Derek. He 0:29:13.040 --> 0:29:16.280 lives like two exits up the interstate away from the facility. 0:29:16.560 --> 0:29:19.440 He's around the Star all the time in the offseason anyway. 0:29:19.600 --> 0:29:22.160 He obviously still knows a number of guys on the roster. 0:29:22.520 --> 0:29:24.680 I just think this was a good fit. And another 0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:27.160 thing that I don't think you can underestimate is they 0:29:27.200 --> 0:29:31.120 got two rookie cornerbacks who are in need of mentorship 0:29:31.160 --> 0:29:33.640 and leadership. And who better to do that than Brandon Carr. 0:29:33.720 --> 0:29:35.560 So I don't know if he's going to be a 0:29:35.560 --> 0:29:38.360 regular part of the lineup, but I think it's very 0:29:38.480 --> 0:29:40.440 very good that he's around. Yeah, I think you hit 0:29:40.440 --> 0:29:42.520 on an interesting thing there, Dave. If the wills fall 0:29:42.560 --> 0:29:44.720 off the sting from the standpoint of the safety position, 0:29:45.120 --> 0:29:47.640 then if Earl's still sitting there, then maybe that becomes 0:29:47.680 --> 0:29:50.120 an issue. Right that may become an option for the Cowboys. 0:29:50.200 --> 0:29:52.240 And right now, Leui Cowboys look at it and say, 0:29:52.280 --> 0:29:54.360 we like the young guys we got. We like where 0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:57.000 Xavier Woods and Darian Thompson are in their career. They're 0:29:57.040 --> 0:29:59.120 the kind of guys they're not really you don't call them, 0:29:59.360 --> 0:30:02.640 you know, inexperienced guys. They have some experience. We think 0:30:02.680 --> 0:30:04.239 they're at the point where they're gonna now take that 0:30:04.320 --> 0:30:06.040 next step, so we'll see what happens. And if it 0:30:06.080 --> 0:30:08.760 doesn't work, then you got that little pocket in your back. 0:30:08.880 --> 0:30:10.320 You got that little card in your back pocket that 0:30:10.320 --> 0:30:14.480 you can maybe pull out. Think about think about this. Sorry, Nick, 0:30:14.520 --> 0:30:16.120 I don't mean to cut you off, but just think 0:30:16.120 --> 0:30:18.760 about this for a second. They open, Yeah, I don't 0:30:18.800 --> 0:30:21.440 I don't think Jared Goff is amazing, but they opened 0:30:21.480 --> 0:30:23.640 with the Rams, which was like the best offense in 0:30:23.640 --> 0:30:26.280 the league two years ago. Then they got Matt Ryan 0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:29.960 and Julio, then they got Russ and then they got 0:30:30.040 --> 0:30:32.360 Odell and Jarvis Landry and all this stuff up on 0:30:33.200 --> 0:30:37.600 their secondary is going to be tested, and if it sucks, 0:30:38.000 --> 0:30:41.200 they're gonna have to revisit that conversation. So for all 0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:43.360 of you Earl Truthers, I don't think you need to, 0:30:43.480 --> 0:30:45.240 you know, put a pin in that and just see 0:30:45.280 --> 0:30:48.440 where we are in a month. Well, remember this about 0:30:48.520 --> 0:30:51.680 about Earl Thomas and any veteran like that. Most of 0:30:51.680 --> 0:30:54.200 the time this doesn't really factor in. But in a 0:30:54.320 --> 0:30:57.800 situation like this where nobody's really doubting if Earl Thomas 0:30:57.840 --> 0:30:59.960 can play, they're doubting whether or not he can get 0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:02.000 along with this team in the locker room, and he's 0:31:02.040 --> 0:31:04.720 going to be a distraction. Is he gonna does he does? 0:31:04.760 --> 0:31:07.560 He love football to the point where he's gonna make it, 0:31:07.720 --> 0:31:10.640 you know, this top priority and all that. If he's not, 0:31:10.960 --> 0:31:12.840 then they're gonna you know, people say that all the time. 0:31:12.920 --> 0:31:15.200 If it doesn't work, get rid of him. It's hard 0:31:15.240 --> 0:31:16.600 to do that in week one. You know, if he's 0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:18.600 on the roster in week one, the way the rules are, 0:31:18.680 --> 0:31:21.680 if he's on the roster on this day right now, 0:31:21.960 --> 0:31:25.800 then his roster, his FOT is guaranteed next week. Though 0:31:26.040 --> 0:31:28.400 week two. If he's on the roster, he's here four 0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:30.920 or five weeks, it doesn't work out, you don't owe 0:31:30.960 --> 0:31:33.880 him all of those things that you might. So that 0:31:34.320 --> 0:31:38.200 might actually play a factor into this, specifically with Earl Thomas, 0:31:38.240 --> 0:31:40.800 because teams aren't sure whether or not it's gonna work 0:31:40.800 --> 0:31:42.400 out or not. We're gonna chake our final break when 0:31:42.440 --> 0:31:44.440 we come back. We're gonna talk a little about Randy Gregory, 0:31:44.440 --> 0:31:47.400 a guy that has been on this team I guess 0:31:47.440 --> 0:31:50.280 as a as a player that was on the commissioner's 0:31:50.520 --> 0:31:53.760 exemption list, but now he has been restored to the 0:31:53.800 --> 0:31:58.120 team and can start practicing at some point the next month. 0:31:58.160 --> 0:31:59.400 I think it is. We'll talk a little bit more 0:31:59.440 --> 0:32:02.120 about that, gets some idea of what the parameters are 0:32:02.400 --> 0:32:04.560 of his reinstatement when we come back. This is Dallas 0:32:04.560 --> 0:32:09.120 Cowboys dot Com Radio since eighteen sixty five. 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I'm so happy to be back 0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:18.160 in the building on a regular base. I'll be here 0:34:18.200 --> 0:34:20.680 every day. Cowboys Break will be on at eleven thirty 0:34:20.680 --> 0:34:23.640 am Central Time every single weekday. So make sure you 0:34:23.719 --> 0:34:26.000 join us here so we can talk a little Cowboys 0:34:26.080 --> 0:34:28.600 football with you. Guys. We enjoy having you and spending 0:34:28.600 --> 0:34:31.600 a little time with you each day. We've talked about 0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:36.160 the roster, and one addition to the roster that was 0:34:36.520 --> 0:34:39.680 interesting and I think a good thing for the Cowboys 0:34:39.800 --> 0:34:44.879 is the reinstatement or conditional reinstatement of Randy Gregory. Dave, 0:34:44.920 --> 0:34:46.719 why don't you tell me a little bit about what 0:34:46.760 --> 0:34:49.279 this means as far as when he can return to 0:34:49.320 --> 0:34:52.040 the team and maybe when he can start practicing and 0:34:52.080 --> 0:34:56.480 maybe when fans can expect to see him on the field. Well, 0:34:56.600 --> 0:34:59.560 he's with the team now. I actually I thought it 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:02.640 was surprising. I mean, he was Nick, correct me if 0:35:02.680 --> 0:35:05.680 I'm wrong. He was at the facility yesterday, was he not? Yeah, yeah, 0:35:05.719 --> 0:35:09.400 I saw him yesterday and we can talk about that 0:35:09.600 --> 0:35:12.840 here in a second. But Dave, go ahead with well, yeah, 0:35:12.840 --> 0:35:16.160 well I found it surprising, Like Mike McCarthy and Mike 0:35:16.200 --> 0:35:17.839 Nolan said they haven't really had a chance to talk 0:35:17.840 --> 0:35:19.600 to him, which I thought it was interesting because he 0:35:19.640 --> 0:35:22.240 was in the building yesterday. But anyway, so he's allowed 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:24.880 back with the team. They have a roster exhimption, he 0:35:24.960 --> 0:35:28.120 doesn't count toward the fifty three. The NFL is putting 0:35:28.160 --> 0:35:32.799 him through a mandatory acclamation period, which part of me like, 0:35:32.920 --> 0:35:35.440 I'm like, well, this just seems like a further suspension, 0:35:35.480 --> 0:35:37.960 which is bs. But at the same time, all of 0:35:37.960 --> 0:35:40.960 these other players, you know, they reported in late July 0:35:41.200 --> 0:35:43.600 and didn't you know, they had a month basically, and 0:35:43.719 --> 0:35:45.880 Randy's been away from football even longer than they have, 0:35:46.040 --> 0:35:49.640 so it makes sense. So he can start practicing on 0:35:49.680 --> 0:35:52.160 October fifth, which is the day after the Week four 0:35:52.239 --> 0:35:56.000 game against Cleveland, and he can play on October twenty 0:35:56.000 --> 0:35:58.919 fifth against Washington, So I think that's the seventh game 0:35:58.960 --> 0:36:01.720 of the season, so they won't have him for six weeks, 0:36:01.800 --> 0:36:04.640 but given how little football he's played over the last 0:36:04.680 --> 0:36:08.239 two years, he's probably gonna need that time. Anyway. Yeah, 0:36:08.520 --> 0:36:12.080 to clarify, he wasn't in the building when I saw him, 0:36:12.080 --> 0:36:14.520 and I'm not sure that that. I mean, he was 0:36:14.560 --> 0:36:19.279 just outside the building. And so again he still could 0:36:19.280 --> 0:36:21.840 have talked to people. Um then I'm not I'm not 0:36:21.880 --> 0:36:23.400 sure if he did or did it or whatever. I 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:28.240 saw him very briefly, you know, reminded me it doesn't 0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:30.760 happen to me a whole lot that the guy stands 0:36:30.840 --> 0:36:33.879 up and he just realized how tall he is. He is. 0:36:34.000 --> 0:36:37.359 He is the perfect guy for a three or four 0:36:37.520 --> 0:36:40.279 defense like this. If he's ready to play, he would be. 0:36:40.880 --> 0:36:43.600 He's a great fit for this scheme because he's not 0:36:44.080 --> 0:36:46.200 not that big. He's a little you know, he's slender, 0:36:46.239 --> 0:36:48.520 but he's but he's he could bend, he can move, 0:36:48.560 --> 0:36:50.719 he can do those things. You know that this would 0:36:50.760 --> 0:36:53.080 be a good scheme for for him. But scheme and 0:36:53.120 --> 0:36:55.239 all that stuff is kind of down the road. Get 0:36:55.280 --> 0:36:57.520 him back in here, get him, you know, testing again, 0:36:57.640 --> 0:37:00.000 get him play and practicing all that kind of stuff. 0:37:01.160 --> 0:37:03.360 You know, I think he's excited about playing football. He 0:37:03.640 --> 0:37:06.239 showed more excitement than I've ever seen out of him 0:37:06.320 --> 0:37:09.080 just to be back and close. So hopefully this is 0:37:09.080 --> 0:37:11.160 a good It was interesting, Nick, you told me about 0:37:10.920 --> 0:37:13.799 your gridable encounter with him, and it was it was 0:37:13.840 --> 0:37:16.759 interesting because virtually didn't recognize him but it seemed like 0:37:17.000 --> 0:37:18.440 from the way you were talking about it, he was 0:37:18.560 --> 0:37:22.320 very excited to be back with the Cowboys and excited 0:37:22.360 --> 0:37:24.480 to be able to start kind of getting back in 0:37:24.520 --> 0:37:28.800 there and getting some work done, which I guess I 0:37:28.800 --> 0:37:31.360 should be fair, Nick, that's a really good point. It Actually, 0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:33.399 now that I think about it, it makes a lot 0:37:33.480 --> 0:37:36.000 more sense that Mike McCarthy and Mike Nolan didn't talk 0:37:36.040 --> 0:37:38.000 to him because he's got to go through all the 0:37:38.040 --> 0:37:41.080 COVID protocols. He probably was only there to get tested 0:37:41.400 --> 0:37:43.800 and then he probably left again, if I had to guess, 0:37:43.840 --> 0:37:46.560 So he's not able to really, you know, he's not 0:37:46.640 --> 0:37:48.680 able to fully be part of it until he goes 0:37:48.680 --> 0:37:51.600 through those protocols when I'm guessing that started. Yes, So, Amber, 0:37:51.840 --> 0:37:54.480 what are your expectations for Randy Gregor at this point 0:37:54.480 --> 0:37:56.880 based upon the fact that he's been out of the 0:37:56.920 --> 0:37:58.879 league for as long as he has, the fact that 0:37:58.920 --> 0:38:01.680 if you factor in what he was before he left, 0:38:02.320 --> 0:38:04.239 where do you kind of grade him at this point? 0:38:04.360 --> 0:38:05.880 What do you expect from him at this point? What 0:38:05.920 --> 0:38:08.480 do you expect from him at this point? I think 0:38:08.520 --> 0:38:11.799 it's the same expectations we had a few years ago 0:38:11.880 --> 0:38:14.040 when when he was back, and then we were trying 0:38:14.040 --> 0:38:16.600 to figure out how he was going to do once 0:38:16.640 --> 0:38:18.919 he got to the field. And to me, he's one 0:38:18.920 --> 0:38:22.400 of those guys that when people talk about rare talent, 0:38:22.520 --> 0:38:25.640 he has that rare talent that I don't know how 0:38:25.680 --> 0:38:27.759 you say it in English in Nate, that you're just 0:38:27.840 --> 0:38:29.920 kind of born with it. He's one of those guys 0:38:29.960 --> 0:38:32.399 that I see that he's able to just go out 0:38:32.400 --> 0:38:35.919 there and perform at a high level. Obviously he needs 0:38:35.960 --> 0:38:38.320 to go through that whole period, but one of this, 0:38:38.440 --> 0:38:41.239 for example, you talk about Alden Smith, that was a 0:38:41.320 --> 0:38:44.040 guy that me, I didn't I didn't have much hope. 0:38:44.040 --> 0:38:46.520 I'm like, okay, yeah, cool, Let's see how he does 0:38:46.600 --> 0:38:50.120 when he gets in here. And he completely impressed me 0:38:50.320 --> 0:38:52.640 the time that he was during this training camp, what 0:38:52.719 --> 0:38:54.879 he was able to do, how he looked out there, 0:38:54.920 --> 0:38:56.759 how he fit in with the rest of the group. 0:38:57.040 --> 0:39:02.160 So I think that Randy would would just his positivity 0:39:02.320 --> 0:39:04.680 right now, and even the thing that he wrote on Twitter, 0:39:05.000 --> 0:39:07.719 the way he was speaking, and that whole outlook of 0:39:07.760 --> 0:39:10.680 being just kind of on the right path, that's gonna 0:39:10.719 --> 0:39:13.920 help him a lot, not just on the off field things, 0:39:14.000 --> 0:39:17.040 but also on the field, it's gonna hopefully be able 0:39:17.080 --> 0:39:21.400 to translate. So I think he'll he'll do well. I 0:39:21.560 --> 0:39:27.440 just I hope that he's able to get opportunities and 0:39:28.040 --> 0:39:30.520 just mixed in there. The good thing is that I 0:39:30.560 --> 0:39:34.280 think that the Cowboys have a group, a good group 0:39:34.280 --> 0:39:37.880 of guys that they can rotate and just get everyone 0:39:37.960 --> 0:39:40.200 in there to kind of bring their own It's interesting 0:39:40.200 --> 0:39:43.680 that you mentioned that you mentioned Alden Smith because he 0:39:43.719 --> 0:39:45.759 actually has been out of football longer than Randy Gregor 0:39:45.840 --> 0:39:48.400 was out of football, and quite frankly, I think the 0:39:48.640 --> 0:39:50.640 flip side to that is he was and I'm not 0:39:50.840 --> 0:39:53.000 I'm not saying anything that I don't think most people 0:39:53.040 --> 0:39:55.480 agree with. He was a better player when he left 0:39:55.480 --> 0:39:57.440 the game of football than Randy Gregor has been in 0:39:57.440 --> 0:39:59.759 his career. So yeah, there's there's kind of good and 0:39:59.800 --> 0:40:02.000 bad on both sides of that coin of Yeah, you 0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:03.960 could see a guy returned it hasn't played football in 0:40:04.000 --> 0:40:05.520 a while, and all of a sudden he's showing these 0:40:05.560 --> 0:40:08.280 things that you don't necessarily expect to see from somebody 0:40:08.280 --> 0:40:10.480 has been out of football. But Alta Smith was a 0:40:10.560 --> 0:40:13.439 really phenomenal player when he left. When he was kicked 0:40:13.440 --> 0:40:15.640 out of the league. He was a really, really great player, 0:40:15.640 --> 0:40:17.759 and we're seeing some of the shades of that right now. 0:40:17.800 --> 0:40:20.239 Coming back, Dave, tell us what you think as far 0:40:20.280 --> 0:40:25.439 as your expectations for Randy Gregor at this point. I mean, 0:40:26.560 --> 0:40:29.400 I don't want to say expectation. I hope that he's 0:40:29.440 --> 0:40:33.880 you know, healthy and happy and has conquered these demons 0:40:33.920 --> 0:40:35.879 of his for the last time. And I mean, I mean, 0:40:35.880 --> 0:40:37.920 I know that's a that's a daily battle, but I 0:40:37.960 --> 0:40:40.880 hope it he can do it and deal with that 0:40:41.000 --> 0:40:43.520 while he has a productive NFL career. I mean, as 0:40:43.560 --> 0:40:47.760 far as football, you know, Alden Smith and Everson Griffin 0:40:47.880 --> 0:40:50.759 kind of takes the pressure off of Randy Gregory to 0:40:50.800 --> 0:40:53.840 contribute anything right away. I mean, you got two guys 0:40:53.840 --> 0:40:57.200 who can handle those positions. So I mean, if he 0:40:57.239 --> 0:40:59.520 can mix in and get snaps. He had six sacks 0:40:59.520 --> 0:41:01.600 when he was back here in eighteen. I mean, he 0:41:01.640 --> 0:41:03.800 showed that he could do it even after time away. 0:41:03.880 --> 0:41:06.080 So if he wants to chip in and do that, 0:41:06.080 --> 0:41:08.799 that would be great. But I don't I don't want 0:41:08.800 --> 0:41:12.320 to say I have super big expectations beyond just being 0:41:12.400 --> 0:41:16.200 a happy and productive member. What are your expectations your 0:41:16.200 --> 0:41:19.720 expectations well, I don't know if this was has been said, 0:41:19.760 --> 0:41:22.560 but you know, expectations is that he will come in 0:41:22.600 --> 0:41:25.640 and and you know, he can provide some depth there. 0:41:25.920 --> 0:41:28.520 You got to remember, we keep saying things like, well, 0:41:28.600 --> 0:41:31.600 let's see if he can continue to you know, stay 0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:34.600 on course and all that. The NFL rules are different 0:41:34.680 --> 0:41:37.279 now than they were before when he was playing there, 0:41:37.520 --> 0:41:40.080 you know, and so I hate to say it, but 0:41:40.160 --> 0:41:43.400 some of the setbacks that he had and those obstacles, 0:41:43.520 --> 0:41:46.160 I'm not sure are the same right now. So you 0:41:46.280 --> 0:41:50.040 hope that that he's clear and back and healthy and 0:41:50.040 --> 0:41:54.520 ready to go. But I know, I'm kind of danced 0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:57.200 around the subject. But the rules are different than they 0:41:57.200 --> 0:42:00.640 were before, so maybe it will be easier for him 0:42:00.680 --> 0:42:03.520 and other players that have dealt with those issues to 0:42:03.600 --> 0:42:05.920 stay in the league and get the help that they 0:42:05.960 --> 0:42:08.720 need and actually you know, be on the field everything. 0:42:08.719 --> 0:42:10.880 I think the one thing, one thing I think we 0:42:10.920 --> 0:42:12.960 all agree on is that we're happy to see Randy back. 0:42:13.000 --> 0:42:16.360 We're happy to see him get this next opportunity and hopefully, hopefully, 0:42:16.400 --> 0:42:18.480 as Dave said, he's in a position where he could 0:42:18.480 --> 0:42:21.040 take full advantage of them and pass some of those 0:42:21.080 --> 0:42:22.800 demons or at least some of those demons that would 0:42:22.840 --> 0:42:25.040 preclude him from being in the league in order for 0:42:25.080 --> 0:42:31.000 him to move forward his career. Nick, They're sitting on 0:42:31.040 --> 0:42:33.439 their couch and they're like, Oh, this guy, he doesn't carry, 0:42:33.480 --> 0:42:37.399 doesn't love football, whatever, how he's making dumb decisions. Yeah, 0:42:37.400 --> 0:42:40.279 he's made some dumb decisions. If you talk to him 0:42:40.320 --> 0:42:44.560 for two minutes, you would be blown away with his demeanor, 0:42:44.600 --> 0:42:50.359 his character, his intelligence, just everything about him is not 0:42:50.480 --> 0:42:53.520 a guy that is making bad decisions. I mean, so 0:42:54.000 --> 0:42:56.600 he's easy to root for. And I think I speak 0:42:56.600 --> 0:42:58.960 for everybody when when they they've talked to him. He's 0:42:58.960 --> 0:43:01.000 a guy that you want to root for. You hope 0:43:01.080 --> 0:43:03.080 maybe you know this is this is the time, and 0:43:03.080 --> 0:43:05.480 you hope. And there's a reason Jerry Jones has not 0:43:05.600 --> 0:43:08.040 turned his back on him. He continues to do that 0:43:08.239 --> 0:43:12.120 what Jerry is but but he sees something here because 0:43:12.239 --> 0:43:14.439 Randy's is the type of guy that you you just 0:43:14.560 --> 0:43:17.960 want to root for. Which, oh, sorry, Dared, but I 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:20.440 mean no, that was that was so well said Nick. 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:22.560 And the other thing, you know, we say this all 0:43:22.560 --> 0:43:24.160 the time. We said it. We said it a few 0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:26.600 years ago when Zeke was going through his off field 0:43:26.600 --> 0:43:29.360 problems is obvious. Like line one is always going to 0:43:29.400 --> 0:43:31.520 be how good at football you are? Like, if Randy 0:43:31.560 --> 0:43:35.680 Gregory didn't have rare talent, this saga probably wouldn't have 0:43:35.800 --> 0:43:38.600 drawn out as long as it did. But I always 0:43:38.640 --> 0:43:41.560 tell people, like, listen to the people that are and 0:43:41.640 --> 0:43:44.040 it doesn't have to just be us. Obviously we're unique 0:43:44.040 --> 0:43:46.960 because we're in the building. But listen to literally everybody 0:43:47.000 --> 0:43:50.239 around the Cowboys. Find me a person who has dealt 0:43:50.280 --> 0:43:53.239 with Randy Gregory who doesn't have glowing things to say 0:43:53.280 --> 0:43:55.120 about him, who isn't rooting for him, And I think 0:43:55.160 --> 0:43:59.080 I think that's important absolutely because if if you know, 0:43:59.080 --> 0:44:00.640 if if we thought he would as a jerk or 0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:03.600 a lost cause or a bad person, I don't think 0:44:03.600 --> 0:44:06.800 you would see such uniform support for him from across 0:44:07.120 --> 0:44:09.160 you know, the media and the people that work for 0:44:09.160 --> 0:44:10.920 the team. That's an interesting point because I was going 0:44:11.000 --> 0:44:12.319 to say the same thing. I think you look at 0:44:12.360 --> 0:44:15.520 all the media guys that cover him. I've heard literally 0:44:15.600 --> 0:44:18.160 none of them say that they're not rooting for him, 0:44:18.200 --> 0:44:20.160 and also talk about it from the standpoint that this 0:44:20.239 --> 0:44:22.920 is not just a guy who just makes bad decisions 0:44:22.920 --> 0:44:24.759 off the field. This is a guy that has some 0:44:24.800 --> 0:44:27.560 significant issues that he's having to deal with, and so 0:44:27.600 --> 0:44:30.200 I think from that standpoint, there is a really different perspective. 0:44:30.239 --> 0:44:32.520 I think sometimes from the standpoint to people that cover 0:44:32.600 --> 0:44:34.640 him and know him versus the people who are kind 0:44:34.640 --> 0:44:37.000 of just out in the regular part of society that 0:44:37.080 --> 0:44:39.560 maybe just onlookers that have a different opinion of him. 0:44:39.600 --> 0:44:41.319 We appreciate you guys, join us. We're going to be back. 0:44:41.400 --> 0:44:45.239 Nick Jeff's other quick I just want to say, he's 0:44:45.239 --> 0:44:48.080 a really good football player. He needs to get better 0:44:48.080 --> 0:44:50.319 in his decision making on the field as well. If 0:44:50.440 --> 0:44:52.600 there is one thing about him, he had a lot 0:44:52.600 --> 0:44:56.520 of penalties, untimely things like that. So discipline was an 0:44:56.520 --> 0:44:59.000 issue for him on and off the field. Let's see 0:44:59.000 --> 0:45:01.640 if he's if he's corrected that in both are all right. 0:45:01.640 --> 0:45:03.479 We appreciate you guys, join us. We're gonna be back tomorrow. 0:45:03.840 --> 0:45:06.120 I did let everybody know on Twitter today. Starting tomorrow, 0:45:06.120 --> 0:45:07.880 we're going to have a special segment we're gonna do 0:45:07.920 --> 0:45:10.640 every Wednesday and Thursday where we have We'll be joined 0:45:10.640 --> 0:45:13.520 by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. He is a former 0:45:13.520 --> 0:45:15.480 player and a former scout he'll come on and give 0:45:15.520 --> 0:45:18.800 us some insights on our upcoming opponents. So tomorrow he 0:45:18.840 --> 0:45:23.919 will talk about the Rams offense. He'll take over Dave. Yeah, 0:45:24.000 --> 0:45:26.160 we're giving Dave a break because they've got too much 0:45:26.160 --> 0:45:28.840 on his plate. So Nick told me. Nick told me, 0:45:28.880 --> 0:45:30.560 I better get some stuff off a day's place so 0:45:30.600 --> 0:45:32.680 he can write. That's what he's hired to do. So well, 0:45:32.760 --> 0:45:35.640 that's what we're doing, and we're gonna get We're gonna 0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:38.319 get Bucky in here to talk about the Rams offense tomorrow. 0:45:38.360 --> 0:45:40.960 We'll talk about the Rams defense on Thursday. Make sure 0:45:40.960 --> 0:45:42.959 you join us. We appreciate you guys joining us today 0:45:42.960 --> 0:45:45.920 for Nick Eatman, Dave Hillman, Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleton. 0:45:45.960 --> 0:45:48.799 This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:45:48.800 --> 0:45:55.920 Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys 0:45:55.960 --> 0:45:58.600 dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.