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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, September eighth, two thousan twenty, season sixteen,
Speaker 1: episode number eighteen. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
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Speaker 1: I'm so happy to be back at his football season.
Speaker 1: How's everybody doing today? Doing great? Derek? Throughout the Nick,
Speaker 1: why don't you ever say anything what I say? How
Speaker 1: are you doing? Is it just like you're just in
Speaker 1: a mood today or everything good. I guess I am
Speaker 1: in a mood today, but I don't know. I'm just
Speaker 1: waiting on everybody. Sometimes I do, I do say good,
Speaker 1: doing great, wonderful, I'm awesome, Derek, thank you. You guys
Speaker 1: got it. I'm trying to figure out, go ahead, who's
Speaker 1: out I see somebody on the field. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm supposed to say that, but I do see
Speaker 1: someone out here working out, and I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out who that is. So you're spying right now, you know,
Speaker 1: on this Tuesday day off. Yeah, I'm not really supposed
Speaker 1: to do. See this is we're getting. Fans are getting
Speaker 1: an opportunity right now to see how Nick gets this information,
Speaker 1: to be the guy that just prognosticates all the stuff
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. Like last week he threw a little nugget,
Speaker 1: a couple nuggets on us that we all kind of
Speaker 1: just glossed over. And then of course when the rosters
Speaker 1: came out, it was like, wow, Nick, did you know something.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, no, I didn't know anything, So but
Speaker 1: let's talk about that. I didn't know. What I saw
Speaker 1: was just like Dave Saul just like annber and Darren.
Speaker 1: You guys saw Darren Thompson was starting over Haha, Clinton Dix,
Speaker 1: So if he if he's not starting and he's already
Speaker 1: been cut before by two other teams, including Washington who
Speaker 1: didn't want him. So you know, that didn't seem good
Speaker 1: to me. Sean Lee hadn't practiced since two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: it seems like, so, I mean, that didn't seem good either.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I'm just putting it together. I
Speaker 1: didn't really know that. I didn't know that they were
Speaker 1: going to go. I had no idea Hyle was going.
Speaker 1: He's just one of them that just watching anybody well
Speaker 1: just one of the many reasons why fans tune in
Speaker 1: here to the Break, because you'll get those kind of
Speaker 1: little nuggets that will make you think about things, and
Speaker 1: then you'll see him come true and you'll be like, wow,
Speaker 1: I heard that on the break. First, let's start with
Speaker 1: the fifty three man roster. There were a lot of surprises. Well,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say there were a lot of surprises. There
Speaker 1: were some surprises. I guess I'll start first with you
Speaker 1: guys and just go around and talk about each one
Speaker 1: of you. Talk about kind of as you saw the roster,
Speaker 1: what was your first thought if there was a surprise,
Speaker 1: if it was something that just kind of corroborated what
Speaker 1: you already thinking. I just want to get an initial
Speaker 1: thought from you as you saw the fifty three man roster.
Speaker 1: We'll start first with you, Dave. I think the most
Speaker 1: surprising thing was just the way that they managed this
Speaker 1: linebacker situation. I mean, Nick had an inkling that maybe
Speaker 1: Sean Lee might not be on the roster to start with.
Speaker 1: He turned out to be correct. But then you think about,
Speaker 1: you know, the team cut Joe Thomas and Justin March
Speaker 1: over the weekend too, Like there was a point where
Speaker 1: they only had like two healthy linebackers on the team.
Speaker 1: They brought Joe and Justin back, so it's not a
Speaker 1: big deal. But some of the stuff they did to
Speaker 1: just fit under the fifty three man limit I thought
Speaker 1: was really interesting. And then you know, when you see
Speaker 1: Terry and Steele make the team at offensive tackle, you know,
Speaker 1: five offensive tackles is a lot. You kind of had
Speaker 1: a feeling Lile might not be long for the roster either,
Speaker 1: So those are those are probably the two bambroons. I
Speaker 1: don't really have much to add to that. Honestly, as
Speaker 1: the roster stands right now, there's nothing that really surprises
Speaker 1: me aside from what they did with the linebackers. But
Speaker 1: now knowing or seeing how it ended up, it makes
Speaker 1: sense the way they decided to do things there. The
Speaker 1: only biggest surprise to me was the whole Alcolins thing.
Speaker 1: We kept hearing my McCarthy talking about him and just
Speaker 1: saying that it wasn't anything long term, and it might
Speaker 1: not be. I mean, I think they they have what
Speaker 1: three weeks until they're available to come back, So I'm
Speaker 1: just curious to see how it really affects the old
Speaker 1: line here once they start playing an actual game, because
Speaker 1: in practice you can't really evaluate those kinds of things.
Speaker 1: I mean, they make plays and then you see Dank
Speaker 1: Prescott getting pressure, but then he said, okay, they can't
Speaker 1: really sack him or anything in practice. So I just
Speaker 1: I'm very curious to see how Bolane just fully comes
Speaker 1: together once they get to the real knick. With any
Speaker 1: surprises for you on this roster, yeah, I mean this
Speaker 1: is just another example of you know, without being a
Speaker 1: training camp, getting to talk to coaches, getting to talk
Speaker 1: to scouts, you know, just those conversations you normally have.
Speaker 1: Somebody would have probably told us, hey, Francis Bernard isn't
Speaker 1: doing as good as you think he is, because what
Speaker 1: we see was a guy that was kind of making plays, interceptions,
Speaker 1: plays behind the line of scrimmage. What we don't see
Speaker 1: and I don't know if this is true, but you know,
Speaker 1: he might run to the right, get blocked and there's
Speaker 1: a twenty five yard running up the middle. We don't
Speaker 1: know some of the things and how he's grasping it.
Speaker 1: I thought he was making plays and to the point
Speaker 1: where you would want to keep him. But guess what.
Speaker 1: Once again a guy gets cut, he doesn't, he doesn't
Speaker 1: get claimed by another team. He's back on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: I lost a dollar bet with some body in the
Speaker 1: media about that, which I had to Venmo, So you know,
Speaker 1: I thought he would be gone. But hey, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. That's a really and you're absolutely right. Nick.
Speaker 1: Is Like if we were all out in Oxnard, you know,
Speaker 1: eating dinner next to coaches and scouts, somebody would have
Speaker 1: been like, pump the brakes. Pump, Yeah, well you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. On the other side, Yeah, pump the brakes.
Speaker 1: On Francis Bernard, while at the same time, it's the
Speaker 1: classic case where, like you know, you you run into
Speaker 1: a coach or a scout and they're like, what do
Speaker 1: you mean. C. J. Goodwin's not on the team? Of
Speaker 1: course he's on the team, like we've known that since
Speaker 1: day one, which you know, classic case of a guy
Speaker 1: that everybody wants to overlook who makes his way back
Speaker 1: to the roster. So it's a bummer that you don't
Speaker 1: get to have those conversations with guys in this And
Speaker 1: I think the other thing to consider here is that
Speaker 1: it was bitch very difficult based upon how we were
Speaker 1: able to watch practice without preseason games what the coaches
Speaker 1: would think about these guys from a special team standpoint,
Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the things where you
Speaker 1: start looking at some of the guys that are not
Speaker 1: the starter caliber players, but some of the guys that
Speaker 1: a little bit farther down the depth chart special teams
Speaker 1: I'm sure has a lot to play plays in a
Speaker 1: lot there, and so it's it's some of those guys
Speaker 1: that may have made it or didn't make it, you
Speaker 1: wonder if some of that is about the fact of
Speaker 1: what they saw from them in practice and in drills
Speaker 1: around special teams and what they think they can provide
Speaker 1: for them from a special team's perspective. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and and move on to the I want to dig
Speaker 1: in a little bit more on these injuries. These guys
Speaker 1: that are now on IR Sean Leelyle Collins, Vintel Bryant
Speaker 1: go through and tell me what the injuries are. And
Speaker 1: obviously they have the three weeks that they will be
Speaker 1: on IR that after which they could come back, But
Speaker 1: just talk about their injuries from the standpoint of long term.
Speaker 1: Is it only a three week type period or are
Speaker 1: we talking about longer for some of these guys. Dave,
Speaker 1: give me a giving an update of what you know
Speaker 1: on that. What I really know is that a big
Speaker 1: difference between Mike McCarthy and Jason Garrett is that it's
Speaker 1: hard to say for sure. And I mean that's not
Speaker 1: That's not to say Jason Garrett was the most forthcoming
Speaker 1: person in the world, but Mike McCarthy really really doesn't
Speaker 1: like to even tell you what might be bothering a guy.
Speaker 1: I think from Stephen Jones and Jerry Jones, it sounds
Speaker 1: like it's a hip injury for Lyle and actually Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy was asked on Monday night whether this is a
Speaker 1: conditioning thing. I think there's there's a rumor going around
Speaker 1: Twitter that Lyle's on injured reserve because he's out of shape.
Speaker 1: I don't think I buy that. I don't think you
Speaker 1: put a guy on injured reserve because he's out of shape.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like it's a hip. You know, the
Speaker 1: fact that he was able to do some things in
Speaker 1: practice gives me optimism that you know, in a month,
Speaker 1: three weeks to a month, he can come back. But
Speaker 1: I guess we'll see same thing with like, I mean, Nick,
Speaker 1: tell me if I'm missing something, Like I don't one
Speaker 1: hundred percent know what Sean Lee is dealing with. Ventell
Speaker 1: Bryant was his knee. Ventell Bryant hurt his knee in
Speaker 1: practice last weekend, so we know that, but I couldn't
Speaker 1: tell you what it is with Sean No, because you know,
Speaker 1: this is not anything unusual then from what they've done,
Speaker 1: kind of a workload management thing at training camp. And
Speaker 1: so when he wasn't practicing, he didn't think that was
Speaker 1: that big a deal because we've seen that at training
Speaker 1: camp a lot. But then you get to the point
Speaker 1: where now that it's like he's just not, you know,
Speaker 1: not ready to go in the games. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: something that that was surprising to me because I went
Speaker 1: back and looked he actually played sixteen games last year
Speaker 1: on the schedules, the first time he's done that in
Speaker 1: his whole career. So the management workload worked for them
Speaker 1: last year, so I kind of thought that was going
Speaker 1: to happen. But when Stephen Jones said, you know, you
Speaker 1: can put a whistle around his neck and a coaching
Speaker 1: cap and he would be just fine, that kind of
Speaker 1: made me think that that's kind of a role that
Speaker 1: they're there, they have for him. So I'm still a
Speaker 1: little bit confused with what's going on with shaw Lee.
Speaker 1: Do you guys think that cam Irving is an adequate
Speaker 1: replacement for Lyle, even on a temporary basis, I'll start
Speaker 1: with you Amber. I mean, if they couldn't find any
Speaker 1: better option out there from the guys that were caught
Speaker 1: from other teams, I just I trust that they did
Speaker 1: their job evaluating player the best that they possibly could
Speaker 1: given the circumstances. I don't I don't feel fully comfortable
Speaker 1: or confident about the whole decision here. But who else
Speaker 1: was better to fill in the role while Lyle is out?
Speaker 1: I don't, honestly, I don't know. He's a guy that's okay,
Speaker 1: okay for now, and we'll see how it goes during
Speaker 1: the game. But is it someone that excites me? Not really.
Speaker 1: So I'll ask you this Amber, on a scale of
Speaker 1: one to ten, with ten being the most concerned, one
Speaker 1: being the least concerned, how concerned are you about this
Speaker 1: offensive line with now coming out of last year? You've
Speaker 1: got two offensive line positions that are that you had
Speaker 1: starters last year that are not back. You've got the
Speaker 1: center position where Travis Cats retired, and now you got
Speaker 1: you're gonna start the season with your right tackle gone.
Speaker 1: How concerned are you On a scale of one to ten,
Speaker 1: I would say seven seven around there, because see with
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick and Joe Looney did an amazing job. I
Speaker 1: think he did a great job two years ago and
Speaker 1: he was able to take on that role and do good.
Speaker 1: But even when Travis was able to come back, we
Speaker 1: saw the difference that Travis made inside the old line.
Speaker 1: So you take that element away once again. Even though
Speaker 1: this should mean that Joe has gained more experience in
Speaker 1: these two years that went by, But at the same
Speaker 1: time we know how how in sync the old line
Speaker 1: needs to be in order to perform better. So I
Speaker 1: am concerned. I would say seven, but we just I honestly, honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to fully expect. Once they say
Speaker 1: I mean your level of con cern one to ten
Speaker 1: offensive line, I probably put it at like a four.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's definitely definitely concerning. You would prefer Lyle
Speaker 1: to be there to answer your question. No, I don't
Speaker 1: feel great about cam Irving, which it's not anything you know.
Speaker 1: I didn't notice anything bad about what he was doing
Speaker 1: at camp. Obviously he had an injury too that kept
Speaker 1: him out for a while. It seems like he's been
Speaker 1: fine since he got back. The big thing that I'm
Speaker 1: watching is Brandon Knight. He heard his ankle last week
Speaker 1: in practice right at the tail end of camp. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be okay, but it's I think it's
Speaker 1: something we need to be watching when they start practicing tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And I don't know who the starter would be. But
Speaker 1: the thing that makes me feel good is that if
Speaker 1: cam Irving ain't up to snuff, Brandon Knight is a
Speaker 1: decent four. I mean, for your fourth tackle to be
Speaker 1: able to fall back on that, I feel pretty good
Speaker 1: about it. I think I've been saying since the spring, like,
Speaker 1: I'm really not worried about Joe Looney. He was already
Speaker 1: good enough to I mean, they got to the playoffs
Speaker 1: with him as the starter. And the big thing for
Speaker 1: me with that is, I think there's a big difference
Speaker 1: between year three of Dak Prescott and year five of
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott in terms of not just commanding the offense,
Speaker 1: but navigating the pocket and getting rid of the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, I think Dak got sacked fifty six times
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen or something crazy like that, forty six times.
Speaker 1: He dropped that number all the way down to twenty
Speaker 1: three last year, and you just can't convince me that
Speaker 1: that was all on Travis Frederick coming back. So the
Speaker 1: right tackle spot, concerning the center spot, not so much
Speaker 1: for me. Seven eight maybe left left left tackle. Um,
Speaker 1: I think he's healthy. He hasn't practiced, doesn't you know.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best in the league, if not
Speaker 1: the best, but you know, there's always a little bit
Speaker 1: of concern with his health. He hasn't done a whole lot.
Speaker 1: How sharp is he? If anybody can do it without practicing,
Speaker 1: it would be tiring. Connor Williams at left guard. You know,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be fine. You know, he's he's
Speaker 1: starting to it better, but there's still you know, it
Speaker 1: hasn't really turned that corner just yet. Joe Looney, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a downgrade from Travis Frederick. But like Joe,
Speaker 1: like Dave said, I mean, not a huge concern. Zack
Speaker 1: Martin and Zack Martin and then Cam Irving hasn't practiced
Speaker 1: a whole lot either, and that's a big drop off.
Speaker 1: And my concern is who they're playing this week with
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald and the Rams on the other side, that's
Speaker 1: the concern. If it was another team, it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: as high. But going up again, you know, playing week
Speaker 1: to week and not knowing what we have from the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and knowing pretty much what the Rams are gonna
Speaker 1: at least have an Aaron Donald, I would say seven
Speaker 1: to eight, all right, we're gonna go and take our
Speaker 1: first break and we come back. We got a couple
Speaker 1: of other transactions that we got to talk about. Well, Derek,
Speaker 1: you if I had to give it, I would probably
Speaker 1: be with you Nick around that seven. And that's not
Speaker 1: so much. I don't even know if I call it.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about it, but I am concerned. It's
Speaker 1: going to be something that I watched very heavily in
Speaker 1: this first game actually these first few weeks, because and
Speaker 1: I do have a lot more concern I think than
Speaker 1: maybe you guys do on cam Irving. I as as
Speaker 1: I the few times I got to see him practice,
Speaker 1: I just wasn't that impressed with him. And I think
Speaker 1: lyall Collins is a really good right tackle, So I
Speaker 1: think you're taking a the delta between those two guys
Speaker 1: in my opinion, again, just based upon what I saw
Speaker 1: in those few practices, suggests to me that there's a
Speaker 1: big difference between those two players. And uh, and so
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see. Now. I do think that you
Speaker 1: look at this offense. This offense has a lot of playmakers,
Speaker 1: So getting the ball out quick and getting it into
Speaker 1: the handle the hands of the playmakers and letting them
Speaker 1: make plays, I think that's an advantage they have. So
Speaker 1: you may not see it show up as much on film,
Speaker 1: but I am a little bit concerned about that right
Speaker 1: tackle position, and especially with him being out for a
Speaker 1: number of weeks. Here, we're going to take our first break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna talk about a couple
Speaker 1: of other transacts. It's Brandon Carr being one of them,
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory being the other. When we come right back.
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Speaker 1: second segment of The Break Life from the SWBC Mortgage
Speaker 1: Studios at the start, we appreciate you guys to take
Speaker 1: us some time today to talk some Cowboys football with us.
Speaker 1: Here on the break, we are talking about the transactions
Speaker 1: that happened over the weekend Cowboys make their final cuts
Speaker 1: to get down to fifty three players. We talked about
Speaker 1: some of the areas where they had some interesting moves.
Speaker 1: One of those interesting moves that we didn't talk about
Speaker 1: was Brandon Carr, a guy the Cowboys fans should be
Speaker 1: very familiar with. Cowboys signed him. He was a player
Speaker 1: on the team years ago, has been in Baltimore for
Speaker 1: the last several years, been playing pretty well. There was
Speaker 1: a free agent and the Cowboys went and signed him
Speaker 1: and placed him on their practice squad, which seems a
Speaker 1: little strange. And so the first thing I want to
Speaker 1: do before we get into the actual move, I'd love
Speaker 1: for you Nick to break down for fans the rules
Speaker 1: around I know you're laughing, the rules around the practice
Speaker 1: squad for this season because they are a little bit
Speaker 1: different to allow teams to have a little more flexibility
Speaker 1: with regards to COVID. So tell us kind of what
Speaker 1: that looks like, what practice squad looks like this year?
Speaker 1: All right, I'll do my best. Dave, jump in if
Speaker 1: I if I if you've heard differently from what I understand.
Speaker 1: Sixteen person practice squad. Now, I think it's six spots
Speaker 1: that can be any experience at all. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what kind of you know, how long you played in
Speaker 1: the league. There's six of those veteran type spots that
Speaker 1: you could have. Not that the Cowboys have used them all,
Speaker 1: but but you could. And they have the ability to
Speaker 1: call up two players. This is where I'm a little sketchy. Dave.
Speaker 1: You might want to help me two players to the
Speaker 1: roster during the week to make it a fifty five
Speaker 1: man roster, but then you have to then you have
Speaker 1: to put them back down at the end of the week,
Speaker 1: and you can only do that a couple of times
Speaker 1: for each player throughout the year. So Breda Carr can
Speaker 1: be on the roster, he can actually be in the
Speaker 1: game and play this week just because he's on the
Speaker 1: practice squad. That's the best that I know, Dave, Amber
Speaker 1: You guys might have heard different. Well, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's basically the gist of it. But I think something
Speaker 1: that's really important to note, as far as I understand it,
Speaker 1: the fifty five thing. That's a that's a weekend thing.
Speaker 1: So like on Saturday, you can decide to bring two
Speaker 1: guys to your game day roster, and that does I mean,
Speaker 1: you still have to make seven inactives, so you just
Speaker 1: have more guys to choose from to do that with.
Speaker 1: The other big thing is because of COVID, there's no
Speaker 1: there's like no processing time. You know, typically you gotta
Speaker 1: do this. You got to move a guy from the
Speaker 1: practice squad to the roster on Friday or Saturday to
Speaker 1: get him on the roster in time for game day.
Speaker 1: That's not a thing anymore. You can do. You can
Speaker 1: move a guy to the roster up to ninety minutes
Speaker 1: before kick and I think that's designed to help combat
Speaker 1: the possibility of a COVID outbreak. So you know, God
Speaker 1: forbid if four or five guys come down with COVID
Speaker 1: on Friday or even Sunday, you can use the practice
Speaker 1: squad to supplement that. The other thing, and this doesn't
Speaker 1: really have anything to do with Brandon Carr, but teams
Speaker 1: are allowed to designate up to four players per week
Speaker 1: who are immune to being poached, like they are off limits.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like big brother, like you give somebody
Speaker 1: like the team has the power of veto. You can
Speaker 1: just say no way, you can't touch these four guys,
Speaker 1: and you can do that every single week. So right,
Speaker 1: that makes me, That makes me so proud that Dave
Speaker 1: is referring to Big Brother. You guys got to know, Like,
Speaker 1: I've been a Big Brother fan since it started. I
Speaker 1: got Dave hip to it, what two years ago? Maybe
Speaker 1: a year? Maybe you can training camp last year? No, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: and now he's all in, he's he's referring to it
Speaker 1: on the break. This is great, but it's a lot.
Speaker 1: It's a lot to like. I don't blame anybody for
Speaker 1: being confused. Oh. One more of the dozen things is
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have a special exception for Isaac adlcohone. I
Speaker 1: hope I said that right, Amber, Um, he's he's he's
Speaker 1: just on the practice squad. He can be there as
Speaker 1: a seventeenth guys part of the International Pathways program. They
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about somebody poaching him. They don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about him counting toward the roster limits.
Speaker 1: So that's nice. So but then you can only this
Speaker 1: part is still little confusing. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: already mentioned it, but you can only promote a player
Speaker 1: twice before they have to go through the whole waiver
Speaker 1: or clear waiver process. You can only take a guy.
Speaker 1: So if you want to expand your game day roster
Speaker 1: to fifty five, you can only do that with a
Speaker 1: player twice before he has to go given a better system,
Speaker 1: So I believe so, but we probably need to double
Speaker 1: check that. It's it's pretty convoluted. As as us started
Speaker 1: looking through it, I was like, okay, I got tired
Speaker 1: here now, But I mean, yeah, it's it's pretty convoluted.
Speaker 1: But a lot of these rules are just really meant
Speaker 1: more than anything else to give teams options with regards
Speaker 1: to COVID, Like if you get an outbreak, you now
Speaker 1: have a few more options to be able to get
Speaker 1: a basically field a team on a sudden And what
Speaker 1: I wonder about that is how many you're going to
Speaker 1: travel to the game now? I mean, because before you
Speaker 1: would never take a practice squad player to the game,
Speaker 1: but now you might, and so it might you might
Speaker 1: just take one per position. You know, if you have
Speaker 1: a couple of wide receivers on the practice squad, maybe
Speaker 1: you take one of those or one of your backs,
Speaker 1: or you know, you know, one of your cornerbacks. And
Speaker 1: so that's that's what I kind of wonder. What's especially,
Speaker 1: you know, on these road games, you have a noon
Speaker 1: kickoff start. I don't I don't know what the testing
Speaker 1: is going to be like on Saturday Sunday. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I've heard three or four different things of if they're
Speaker 1: going to test on Sunday morning or Saturday night. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. If you think about it, though, Nick, I mean,
Speaker 1: we all travel with the team during regular years. Think
Speaker 1: about how many people that typically travel with the team
Speaker 1: won't be doing it this year, whether it's members of
Speaker 1: our staff, whether it's sponsorship people, whether it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: employees for TV stations that often travel with the team. Like,
Speaker 1: there should be a lot more space on that plane,
Speaker 1: if it were, I would bring I'd bring all sixteen
Speaker 1: of them. Why not? I mean, you don't have the room. Well,
Speaker 1: and here's another thing that I mean it might be
Speaker 1: better for talk about off there, but what's the plane
Speaker 1: look like? I mean, what does the protocol now on
Speaker 1: a plane? I mean do you have two rows between people?
Speaker 1: One row? I mean it's hard to social distance on
Speaker 1: a on an airplane, and so I kind of wonder,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe the Hawaii football together. You're like
Speaker 1: un locking in each other's face already, So what sitting
Speaker 1: next to each other? What's the big deal after that?
Speaker 1: You know that's true. I mean, we'll see, We'll see
Speaker 1: how that goes. But let's talk about Brandon card and cout.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Brandon Carr. I forgot, did you guess uthing? Nick?
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah, Well, I was gonna kind of segue
Speaker 1: into the whole the Brandon car thing because about does
Speaker 1: this matter? Does a call up for a veteran the
Speaker 1: same for a call I don't know if if it
Speaker 1: really goes into place for a veteran, But let's remember
Speaker 1: this you said, and Carr played pretty well at safety
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years. He was not he
Speaker 1: was not signed by any team all summer, all until
Speaker 1: just now. Same for Joe Davian Clowney. You can you
Speaker 1: can make that case. I get it, so, but I
Speaker 1: just I wonder, how you know how great he really
Speaker 1: has been. I'm not saying great or good. He's just
Speaker 1: he's been a solid player. I think Brandon carr Is
Speaker 1: value is goes greater than just how he plays on
Speaker 1: the field. I think he's a really good leader, good
Speaker 1: locker room guy. To me, he's the opposite of another
Speaker 1: player for Baltimore. I think that they were trying to
Speaker 1: bring in now that guy Orld Thomas is an outstanding player,
Speaker 1: seven time Pro Bowler. Brandon Carr not as great of
Speaker 1: a player. But I think what the Cowboys need right
Speaker 1: now versatility, leadership, experience. I think Brandon Carr could help
Speaker 1: and those when you think about it, are you really
Speaker 1: needing Sorry, I was gonna say, are you really looking
Speaker 1: or needing leader ship right now? Rather than someone that
Speaker 1: can actually go in and play and make plays given
Speaker 1: the circumstances, you know what, That's leadership in its own way.
Speaker 1: This guy. I think this is an amazing stat and
Speaker 1: I saw this on Twitter m that there are only
Speaker 1: two players in the history of the NFL that have
Speaker 1: started every game of their first twelve years of their career,
Speaker 1: one of them being Peyton Manning, the other being Brandon car.
Speaker 1: Peyton mann was expected to go in and play and start.
Speaker 1: Brandon car fifth round pick Grand Valley State, to go
Speaker 1: in and start every single game. That's probably gonna end
Speaker 1: this week, he's not gonna start. I wouldn't think that
Speaker 1: this week, but but I think it's what I'm saying
Speaker 1: about leadership. It's not just pulling the guy to the
Speaker 1: side and say do better. It's it's preparing, getting your body,
Speaker 1: getting your mind ready to play, go in, learning the system,
Speaker 1: learning different roles. That to me is a form of
Speaker 1: leadership that other players can look to it. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think the thing go ahead, No, no, it's gonna say.
Speaker 1: I think that The interesting part there is that you
Speaker 1: got a guy who is dependable first, and as Nick
Speaker 1: was saying, he started all those games over those years
Speaker 1: in a year like this when you got COVID and
Speaker 1: that's your big concern, and you're putting him in the
Speaker 1: role that they're putting in, which is, Hey, we literally
Speaker 1: might get to a Sunday morning and a guy that's
Speaker 1: been on our practice squad is going to need to
Speaker 1: come up and play. Would you rather have him do
Speaker 1: that or would you rather have some guy that hasn't
Speaker 1: played for the last twelve years or hasn't had the
Speaker 1: number of starts that he's had for the last twelve years.
Speaker 1: And by the way, he can do it at two
Speaker 1: different positions. He can come in and play at cornerback,
Speaker 1: he can come in and play at safety, he can
Speaker 1: come in and give you relief at both. So I
Speaker 1: think Brandon Carr is the perfect kind of player. I'm
Speaker 1: actually shocked that he was still out on the street,
Speaker 1: and what it makes me think is maybe this was
Speaker 1: also part of his doing. He lives here in the
Speaker 1: Dallas area, so this may be a situation where he
Speaker 1: may have had some other teams that expressed some interest
Speaker 1: and he may have said, look, I kind of don't
Speaker 1: want to necessarily go up to Cleveland. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying Cleveland was one of them, but he may be like,
Speaker 1: I live in Dallas, this is an easy fit for me.
Speaker 1: My family's already here. We just will be in Dallas
Speaker 1: at our home, and I'll be on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: I'll play when I need to play, and I can
Speaker 1: jump in. We all know he's been playing for twelve years,
Speaker 1: like we all know he is on the back end
Speaker 1: of his career. But in a season like this, I
Speaker 1: think his dependability and his versatility are the absolute best
Speaker 1: factors you can have for a guy like him that
Speaker 1: you would bring in to play in that role. David
Speaker 1: Jeff some you were gonna say. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you basically hit on all the pertinent points. I just
Speaker 1: and I can't speak for the coaching staff, but I
Speaker 1: don't I don't want to give people the impression I
Speaker 1: don't think Brandon Carr is here to step in and
Speaker 1: be a starter at any position in the near future.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it sounds like Xavier Woods is
Speaker 1: going to be ready to go for Sunday. That's what
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones said this morning. I think they're going to
Speaker 1: give darry and Thompson a shot to be the other guy,
Speaker 1: at least for the time being. And I hate to
Speaker 1: bring this up because it wasn't good, but it reminds
Speaker 1: me a lot of when they went into the season
Speaker 1: in seventeen or eighteen excuse me, without a true lead
Speaker 1: receiver and it didn't work and they fixed it. And
Speaker 1: that's kind of my thought is if this is an
Speaker 1: unmitigated disaster after three or four weeks, then maybe they revisit.
Speaker 1: But for the time being, I think dari and Thompson's
Speaker 1: the guy. Brandon Carr can provide valuable depth at a
Speaker 1: number of positions. I think you're absolutely right Derek. He
Speaker 1: lives like two exits up the interstate away from the facility.
Speaker 1: He's around the Star all the time in the offseason anyway.
Speaker 1: He obviously still knows a number of guys on the roster.
Speaker 1: I just think this was a good fit. And another
Speaker 1: thing that I don't think you can underestimate is they
Speaker 1: got two rookie cornerbacks who are in need of mentorship
Speaker 1: and leadership. And who better to do that than Brandon Carr.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if he's going to be a
Speaker 1: regular part of the lineup, but I think it's very
Speaker 1: very good that he's around. Yeah, I think you hit
Speaker 1: on an interesting thing there, Dave. If the wills fall
Speaker 1: off the sting from the standpoint of the safety position,
Speaker 1: then if Earl's still sitting there, then maybe that becomes
Speaker 1: an issue. Right that may become an option for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And right now, Leui Cowboys look at it and say,
Speaker 1: we like the young guys we got. We like where
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods and Darian Thompson are in their career. They're
Speaker 1: the kind of guys they're not really you don't call them,
Speaker 1: you know, inexperienced guys. They have some experience. We think
Speaker 1: they're at the point where they're gonna now take that
Speaker 1: next step, so we'll see what happens. And if it
Speaker 1: doesn't work, then you got that little pocket in your back.
Speaker 1: You got that little card in your back pocket that
Speaker 1: you can maybe pull out. Think about think about this. Sorry, Nick,
Speaker 1: I don't mean to cut you off, but just think
Speaker 1: about this for a second. They open, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think Jared Goff is amazing, but they opened
Speaker 1: with the Rams, which was like the best offense in
Speaker 1: the league two years ago. Then they got Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: and Julio, then they got Russ and then they got
Speaker 1: Odell and Jarvis Landry and all this stuff up on
Speaker 1: their secondary is going to be tested, and if it sucks,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to revisit that conversation. So for all
Speaker 1: of you Earl Truthers, I don't think you need to,
Speaker 1: you know, put a pin in that and just see
Speaker 1: where we are in a month. Well, remember this about
Speaker 1: about Earl Thomas and any veteran like that. Most of
Speaker 1: the time this doesn't really factor in. But in a
Speaker 1: situation like this where nobody's really doubting if Earl Thomas
Speaker 1: can play, they're doubting whether or not he can get
Speaker 1: along with this team in the locker room, and he's
Speaker 1: going to be a distraction. Is he gonna does he does?
Speaker 1: He love football to the point where he's gonna make it,
Speaker 1: you know, this top priority and all that. If he's not,
Speaker 1: then they're gonna you know, people say that all the time.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't work, get rid of him. It's hard
Speaker 1: to do that in week one. You know, if he's
Speaker 1: on the roster in week one, the way the rules are,
Speaker 1: if he's on the roster on this day right now,
Speaker 1: then his roster, his FOT is guaranteed next week. Though
Speaker 1: week two. If he's on the roster, he's here four
Speaker 1: or five weeks, it doesn't work out, you don't owe
Speaker 1: him all of those things that you might. So that
Speaker 1: might actually play a factor into this, specifically with Earl Thomas,
Speaker 1: because teams aren't sure whether or not it's gonna work
Speaker 1: out or not. We're gonna chake our final break when
Speaker 1: we come back. We're gonna talk a little about Randy Gregory,
Speaker 1: a guy that has been on this team I guess
Speaker 1: as a as a player that was on the commissioner's
Speaker 1: exemption list, but now he has been restored to the
Speaker 1: team and can start practicing at some point the next month.
Speaker 1: I think it is. We'll talk a little bit more
Speaker 1: about that, gets some idea of what the parameters are
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Speaker 1: football with you. Guys. We enjoy having you and spending
Speaker 1: a little time with you each day. We've talked about
Speaker 1: the roster, and one addition to the roster that was
Speaker 1: interesting and I think a good thing for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: is the reinstatement or conditional reinstatement of Randy Gregory. Dave,
Speaker 1: why don't you tell me a little bit about what
Speaker 1: this means as far as when he can return to
Speaker 1: the team and maybe when he can start practicing and
Speaker 1: maybe when fans can expect to see him on the field. Well,
Speaker 1: he's with the team now. I actually I thought it
Speaker 1: was surprising. I mean, he was Nick, correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. He was at the facility yesterday, was he not? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw him yesterday and we can talk about that
Speaker 1: here in a second. But Dave, go ahead with well, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I found it surprising, Like Mike McCarthy and Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan said they haven't really had a chance to talk
Speaker 1: to him, which I thought it was interesting because he
Speaker 1: was in the building yesterday. But anyway, so he's allowed
Speaker 1: back with the team. They have a roster exhimption, he
Speaker 1: doesn't count toward the fifty three. The NFL is putting
Speaker 1: him through a mandatory acclamation period, which part of me like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, this just seems like a further suspension,
Speaker 1: which is bs. But at the same time, all of
Speaker 1: these other players, you know, they reported in late July
Speaker 1: and didn't you know, they had a month basically, and
Speaker 1: Randy's been away from football even longer than they have,
Speaker 1: so it makes sense. So he can start practicing on
Speaker 1: October fifth, which is the day after the Week four
Speaker 1: game against Cleveland, and he can play on October twenty
Speaker 1: fifth against Washington, So I think that's the seventh game
Speaker 1: of the season, so they won't have him for six weeks,
Speaker 1: but given how little football he's played over the last
Speaker 1: two years, he's probably gonna need that time. Anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to clarify, he wasn't in the building when I saw him,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure that that. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: just outside the building. And so again he still could
Speaker 1: have talked to people. Um then I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if he did or did it or whatever. I
Speaker 1: saw him very briefly, you know, reminded me it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen to me a whole lot that the guy stands
Speaker 1: up and he just realized how tall he is. He is.
Speaker 1: He is the perfect guy for a three or four
Speaker 1: defense like this. If he's ready to play, he would be.
Speaker 1: He's a great fit for this scheme because he's not
Speaker 1: not that big. He's a little you know, he's slender,
Speaker 1: but he's but he's he could bend, he can move,
Speaker 1: he can do those things. You know that this would
Speaker 1: be a good scheme for for him. But scheme and
Speaker 1: all that stuff is kind of down the road. Get
Speaker 1: him back in here, get him, you know, testing again,
Speaker 1: get him play and practicing all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, I think he's excited about playing football. He
Speaker 1: showed more excitement than I've ever seen out of him
Speaker 1: just to be back and close. So hopefully this is
Speaker 1: a good It was interesting, Nick, you told me about
Speaker 1: your gridable encounter with him, and it was it was
Speaker 1: interesting because virtually didn't recognize him but it seemed like
Speaker 1: from the way you were talking about it, he was
Speaker 1: very excited to be back with the Cowboys and excited
Speaker 1: to be able to start kind of getting back in
Speaker 1: there and getting some work done, which I guess I
Speaker 1: should be fair, Nick, that's a really good point. It Actually,
Speaker 1: now that I think about it, it makes a lot
Speaker 1: more sense that Mike McCarthy and Mike Nolan didn't talk
Speaker 1: to him because he's got to go through all the
Speaker 1: COVID protocols. He probably was only there to get tested
Speaker 1: and then he probably left again, if I had to guess,
Speaker 1: So he's not able to really, you know, he's not
Speaker 1: able to fully be part of it until he goes
Speaker 1: through those protocols when I'm guessing that started. Yes, So, Amber,
Speaker 1: what are your expectations for Randy Gregor at this point
Speaker 1: based upon the fact that he's been out of the
Speaker 1: league for as long as he has, the fact that
Speaker 1: if you factor in what he was before he left,
Speaker 1: where do you kind of grade him at this point?
Speaker 1: What do you expect from him at this point? What
Speaker 1: do you expect from him at this point? I think
Speaker 1: it's the same expectations we had a few years ago
Speaker 1: when when he was back, and then we were trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how he was going to do once
Speaker 1: he got to the field. And to me, he's one
Speaker 1: of those guys that when people talk about rare talent,
Speaker 1: he has that rare talent that I don't know how
Speaker 1: you say it in English in Nate, that you're just
Speaker 1: kind of born with it. He's one of those guys
Speaker 1: that I see that he's able to just go out
Speaker 1: there and perform at a high level. Obviously he needs
Speaker 1: to go through that whole period, but one of this,
Speaker 1: for example, you talk about Alden Smith, that was a
Speaker 1: guy that me, I didn't I didn't have much hope.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, yeah, cool, Let's see how he does
Speaker 1: when he gets in here. And he completely impressed me
Speaker 1: the time that he was during this training camp, what
Speaker 1: he was able to do, how he looked out there,
Speaker 1: how he fit in with the rest of the group.
Speaker 1: So I think that Randy would would just his positivity
Speaker 1: right now, and even the thing that he wrote on Twitter,
Speaker 1: the way he was speaking, and that whole outlook of
Speaker 1: being just kind of on the right path, that's gonna
Speaker 1: help him a lot, not just on the off field things,
Speaker 1: but also on the field, it's gonna hopefully be able
Speaker 1: to translate. So I think he'll he'll do well. I
Speaker 1: just I hope that he's able to get opportunities and
Speaker 1: just mixed in there. The good thing is that I
Speaker 1: think that the Cowboys have a group, a good group
Speaker 1: of guys that they can rotate and just get everyone
Speaker 1: in there to kind of bring their own It's interesting
Speaker 1: that you mentioned that you mentioned Alden Smith because he
Speaker 1: actually has been out of football longer than Randy Gregor
Speaker 1: was out of football, and quite frankly, I think the
Speaker 1: flip side to that is he was and I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything that I don't think most people
Speaker 1: agree with. He was a better player when he left
Speaker 1: the game of football than Randy Gregor has been in
Speaker 1: his career. So yeah, there's there's kind of good and
Speaker 1: bad on both sides of that coin of Yeah, you
Speaker 1: could see a guy returned it hasn't played football in
Speaker 1: a while, and all of a sudden he's showing these
Speaker 1: things that you don't necessarily expect to see from somebody
Speaker 1: has been out of football. But Alta Smith was a
Speaker 1: really phenomenal player when he left. When he was kicked
Speaker 1: out of the league. He was a really, really great player,
Speaker 1: and we're seeing some of the shades of that right now.
Speaker 1: Coming back, Dave, tell us what you think as far
Speaker 1: as your expectations for Randy Gregor at this point. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say expectation. I hope that he's
Speaker 1: you know, healthy and happy and has conquered these demons
Speaker 1: of his for the last time. And I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know that's a that's a daily battle, but I
Speaker 1: hope it he can do it and deal with that
Speaker 1: while he has a productive NFL career. I mean, as
Speaker 1: far as football, you know, Alden Smith and Everson Griffin
Speaker 1: kind of takes the pressure off of Randy Gregory to
Speaker 1: contribute anything right away. I mean, you got two guys
Speaker 1: who can handle those positions. So I mean, if he
Speaker 1: can mix in and get snaps. He had six sacks
Speaker 1: when he was back here in eighteen. I mean, he
Speaker 1: showed that he could do it even after time away.
Speaker 1: So if he wants to chip in and do that,
Speaker 1: that would be great. But I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to say I have super big expectations beyond just being
Speaker 1: a happy and productive member. What are your expectations your
Speaker 1: expectations well, I don't know if this was has been said,
Speaker 1: but you know, expectations is that he will come in
Speaker 1: and and you know, he can provide some depth there.
Speaker 1: You got to remember, we keep saying things like, well,
Speaker 1: let's see if he can continue to you know, stay
Speaker 1: on course and all that. The NFL rules are different
Speaker 1: now than they were before when he was playing there,
Speaker 1: you know, and so I hate to say it, but
Speaker 1: some of the setbacks that he had and those obstacles,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure are the same right now. So you
Speaker 1: hope that that he's clear and back and healthy and
Speaker 1: ready to go. But I know, I'm kind of danced
Speaker 1: around the subject. But the rules are different than they
Speaker 1: were before, so maybe it will be easier for him
Speaker 1: and other players that have dealt with those issues to
Speaker 1: stay in the league and get the help that they
Speaker 1: need and actually you know, be on the field everything.
Speaker 1: I think the one thing, one thing I think we
Speaker 1: all agree on is that we're happy to see Randy back.
Speaker 1: We're happy to see him get this next opportunity and hopefully, hopefully,
Speaker 1: as Dave said, he's in a position where he could
Speaker 1: take full advantage of them and pass some of those
Speaker 1: demons or at least some of those demons that would
Speaker 1: preclude him from being in the league in order for
Speaker 1: him to move forward his career. Nick, They're sitting on
Speaker 1: their couch and they're like, Oh, this guy, he doesn't carry,
Speaker 1: doesn't love football, whatever, how he's making dumb decisions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's made some dumb decisions. If you talk to him
Speaker 1: for two minutes, you would be blown away with his demeanor,
Speaker 1: his character, his intelligence, just everything about him is not
Speaker 1: a guy that is making bad decisions. I mean, so
Speaker 1: he's easy to root for. And I think I speak
Speaker 1: for everybody when when they they've talked to him. He's
Speaker 1: a guy that you want to root for. You hope
Speaker 1: maybe you know this is this is the time, and
Speaker 1: you hope. And there's a reason Jerry Jones has not
Speaker 1: turned his back on him. He continues to do that
Speaker 1: what Jerry is but but he sees something here because
Speaker 1: Randy's is the type of guy that you you just
Speaker 1: want to root for. Which, oh, sorry, Dared, but I
Speaker 1: mean no, that was that was so well said Nick.
Speaker 1: And the other thing, you know, we say this all
Speaker 1: the time. We said it. We said it a few
Speaker 1: years ago when Zeke was going through his off field
Speaker 1: problems is obvious. Like line one is always going to
Speaker 1: be how good at football you are? Like, if Randy
Speaker 1: Gregory didn't have rare talent, this saga probably wouldn't have
Speaker 1: drawn out as long as it did. But I always
Speaker 1: tell people, like, listen to the people that are and
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to just be us. Obviously we're unique
Speaker 1: because we're in the building. But listen to literally everybody
Speaker 1: around the Cowboys. Find me a person who has dealt
Speaker 1: with Randy Gregory who doesn't have glowing things to say
Speaker 1: about him, who isn't rooting for him, And I think
Speaker 1: I think that's important absolutely because if if you know,
Speaker 1: if if we thought he would as a jerk or
Speaker 1: a lost cause or a bad person, I don't think
Speaker 1: you would see such uniform support for him from across
Speaker 1: you know, the media and the people that work for
Speaker 1: the team. That's an interesting point because I was going
Speaker 1: to say the same thing. I think you look at
Speaker 1: all the media guys that cover him. I've heard literally
Speaker 1: none of them say that they're not rooting for him,
Speaker 1: and also talk about it from the standpoint that this
Speaker 1: is not just a guy who just makes bad decisions
Speaker 1: off the field. This is a guy that has some
Speaker 1: significant issues that he's having to deal with, and so
Speaker 1: I think from that standpoint, there is a really different perspective.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes from the standpoint to people that cover
Speaker 1: him and know him versus the people who are kind
Speaker 1: of just out in the regular part of society that
Speaker 1: maybe just onlookers that have a different opinion of him.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys, join us. We're going to be back.
Speaker 1: Nick Jeff's other quick I just want to say, he's
Speaker 1: a really good football player. He needs to get better
Speaker 1: in his decision making on the field as well. If
Speaker 1: there is one thing about him, he had a lot
Speaker 1: of penalties, untimely things like that. So discipline was an
Speaker 1: issue for him on and off the field. Let's see
Speaker 1: if he's if he's corrected that in both are all right.
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Speaker 1: I did let everybody know on Twitter today. Starting tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. He is a former
Speaker 1: player and a former scout he'll come on and give
Speaker 1: us some insights on our upcoming opponents. So tomorrow he
Speaker 1: will talk about the Rams offense. He'll take over Dave. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're giving Dave a break because they've got too much
Speaker 1: on his plate. So Nick told me. Nick told me,
Speaker 1: I better get some stuff off a day's place so
Speaker 1: he can write. That's what he's hired to do. So well,
Speaker 1: that's what we're doing, and we're gonna get We're gonna
Speaker 1: get Bucky in here to talk about the Rams offense tomorrow.
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