WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Defending The Broncos 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:04.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.200 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:15.520 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.880 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:26.160 ware with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:31.200 Derek Eagleton. What's up, guys. I don't really know what 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:35.159 episode we're on. I do know it's September thirteenth. Do 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.200 you know where Derek is? I don't really know where 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.560 Derek is, but I know he's somewhere. That's got to 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.600 be really really important because he hates the misshow especially 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:47.240 game week. Not more important than his show, his baby. Yeah, 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.040 but that's why. Wherever he is, that's really really important. 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:51.880 But he's not gonna be with us today for sure. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.840 Last yesterday he said he might sneak in today, He's 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.200 not gonna make it. So it's just gonna be the 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.800 three of us and Kent the four of us. Yeah, 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:05.000 well that's okay, we don't need It'll be okay, Amber Garcia? 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.400 Are we doing and we're the three best friends? I 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.840 knew that was gonna happen I had a feeling. Have 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.680 you played that? Have you played that one before? Of 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.080 course I just knew they was gonna play that one, 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.319 but really we rarely have three people, so I really 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:19.920 have a time that I can do it. I love it. 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:25.679 Amber How are you doing good? Dave good? I'm like, 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.360 you're like about to take a test or something over 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:32.200 there with studying out manudn't studying the Bronx. No, your opposition? 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.880 I got it? Love it? All right, let's tuck a 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.039 little bit about um, just what kind of what's been 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.600 going on to It's kind of weird because there's not 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.160 a ton and like last week it was who's your 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:46.920 running back going to be? I mean, who you know? 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.200 How long is he gonna be playing? Is he gonna 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.400 be here? Is you gonna miss six games? And your 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.400 backup quarterback and all this stuff? And now it's kind 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.440 of like, all right, please don't suggest to me that 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.400 you're like board my bored. I'm just saying it's it's nice. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.120 I gonna say I like it this. It's not bored. 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.160 I like it. I like it. No, I like it 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.480 as well. When I'm writing down what we're going to 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.359 talk about, and I've got Anthony Brown on my on 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.520 my list here. I mean that's that's a good thing. Yeah, 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.560 it is finally some peace and quiet. Let a beast 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.360 and quiet. Now we're going the other way here because 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.480 before before we know it is going to be. Yeah, today, 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.000 I'm just gonna happen to all right. It always usually 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.320 starts with injuries. So let's just kind of run down 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:35.800 real quick. Orlando Scandrick, Terrence Williams, Chittabay Woozier. That's pretty 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.880 much the three that came out of the game. Yes, 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.640 are we expecting I know we'll see today a practice. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.600 We always always say this, and we got about an 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.160 hour ago. But Jordan Lewis, but he's Jordan Lewis, He's 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.360 been there. What are we expecting of those four guys? 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.600 And they kind of are tied together since three of 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.120 them are cornerbacks? What would you if you had to 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.000 guess right now? Would you say Scandrick maybe the only 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.000 one to miss for sure? No Scandrick at all? Who 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:06.560 am I? Who is the Terrence? Terrence? I feel complete 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.120 confidence he'll play, but I bet he'll be limited or 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.520 sit today because it's Wednesday and Cheeto, I'll throw a 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.919 limited on him, like, I just, you know, I don't 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.480 know see what he can do. That sucked. I really 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.040 I went back and watch the game, and I mean 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.200 it was just such a nothing pass and yeah, they 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.440 weren't doing anything and the Giants really weren't even gonna score. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.600 And then he gets hurt, like I get and I 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.280 don't know. It's it's bad to speculate on injuries until 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.880 you have concrete information. But I don't have a vibe 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.440 like he's gonna miss playing time. May if he if 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.960 he doesn't do anything in practice today, maybe it'll just 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.800 again it's Wednesday, you know, cautionary, We'll talk a little 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:45.880 bit more about the cornerback position. We're going to kind 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.080 of go through each position here in a little bit 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.600 before at the end of this segment, but talk about 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.839 the cornerback position. Anthony Brown. And there wasn't a whole 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.080 lot going on in the locker room yesterday, which is 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.520 there never is Tuesday. That's kind of the way it is. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.680 Anthony Brown did say something kind of interesting. He was 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.560 talking about turnovers. He has the only turnover for the 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.080 Cowboys this year. But he was talking about the fact 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.960 that that Rod Marinelli basically challenged the whole defense and 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:18.000 said the goal this year for turnovers is forty. Yeah, 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.000 you just told me that before zero. I was not 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.279 there when he said that, because I was I was 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.160 doing TV stuff. A little high, that's absurd, or a 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:31.279 little behind. That's where they are right now. They're they're 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.080 at one. That's absurd. They didn't have forty and twenty 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.760 fourteen when they were actually getting all kinds of takeaways. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:38.880 I think they had thirty four. Well, this isn't like 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.919 our HR system where you know, you just throw some 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.400 goals out there to try to get the mean you 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.279 want to get some goals so you can lofty goals. Yeah, 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:50.000 I mean if this team forces forty takeaways, then that 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.200 they were probably a super Bowl caliber team. I mean, 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.840 if you mix this offense with that type of ability 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.760 to get the ball, that's a super Bowl recipe. You know. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.160 The about the one turnover that that they had, Um, 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.560 that was a t that was an encouraging play. I 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:11.000 mean that we haven't seen that that kind of you know, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.599 that kind of play on the ball from a defensive 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.840 back in a long time. Yeah, he jumped and Rick 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:20.280 doesn't make those plays. That's more often, you know, I 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.560 can't play cornerback in the NFL. I'm not trying to 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.039 knock you for picking off a pass, but more often 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:29.320 than not, when this secondary has gotten turnovers, it's just 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.880 been because you know, Aaron Rodgers didn't see Barry Church 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.360 and threw it right to him, or Eli literally threw 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.039 it right to Brandon Carr or um, what's the other 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.120 big one that I'm forgetting? I mean, remember Orlando Scandrick. 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.440 I think maybe his last pick was against the Bears 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.040 in twenty fourteen, and Jay Cutler didn't see him sitting 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.719 in the flat like you don't see him making plays 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.839 on balls. Orlando McClain against the Dolphins, where it's just 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:56.240 yeah yeah, um, or well Mo. Last year he had 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.599 that pick of Blaine Gabbard. I think it was again 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.080 he was burned. It was. It was a badly thrown ball. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.000 I mean, he made the play on it, but you not. 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.719 You don't see Dallas cornerbacks jump routes and read people's 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.040 eyes and cut in front. And Anthony Brown did that 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.160 on Sunday night though, So it was a it was 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.600 an impressive and an encouraging He almost lost it too, Yeah, 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.760 almost got away from a I amost really sure donned 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.440 that they didn't review that play right, honestly. All right. 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.160 Another thing that came from the locker room, which is interesting. 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.680 You're starting to see t shirts and memes and all 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.400 that stuff about Cole Beasley and the catch. Cole was 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.600 asked about it, you know, in typical Coal fashion. He 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.800 was kind of downplated. He hadn't really you know, He's 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.120 gotten a lot of people saying, hey, great catch, and 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.119 he says, oh, thank you. He said, I have mixed 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.320 feelings about this play because if I really would have 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.280 done my job right and it would have never happened. Yeah, 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.480 you know, if I would have get turned around made 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.760 the catch clean, you know. He and that's a perfectionist 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.120 right there. He doesn't look at it like, oh, I 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.120 made this awesome catch. He shouldn't have had to tip 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.760 at two times to himself. Yeah, he said that on Sunday. 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.800 He said, uh, like Witten was the hot read and 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:04.800 it like he was like, it was so obvious that 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.240 that's where the vall should go. Basically that that I 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.040 figured it was going to him, and then I had 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.600 turned around late and saw it coming to me, and 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.240 if I'd look back half a second earlier, it would 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.440 have just been an easy catch and instead, you know, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.600 all that, all those theatrics. It's funny. All the fans, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.560 fans are going nuts, media is going nuts. The players 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:29.080 sort of the receivers, that's what they do. Like they 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.640 see that in practice all the time, you know. I mean, 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.360 Bryce Butler talked about it, and it's like not not 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.840 to like downplay it. It's just that they have seen 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.280 these type of things. I mean, Odell Beckham, I guarantee 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:44.600 that catchy made against the Cowboys two years ago, three 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.360 years ago, three seas seasons as I guarantee that, like 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.880 they've seen this type of stuff all the time. You know, 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:55.120 it's just unfortunately it's kind of become second agent. Now 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.120 it happened in a game. It's a little different. I 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.280 will say, I'm not trying to take anything away from 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:05.720 Coal whatsoever. But I had a guy email me and say, well, why, 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.400 First he said, why isn't this Coal catch being blown 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.160 out of proportion the way that Odell Beckham's catch was. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.440 First of all, I think it is getting a hefty 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.440 amount of publicity it is or whatever that it was 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.600 number one on Sports Center. Second of all, and he 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.920 said it's a better catch than Odell's catch. That's what 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.560 this guy told me today, and it's not. I'm sorry, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.720 I don't care what you say. A touchdown too. DALs 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.920 was for a touchdown from fifty yards away and he 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.079 caught it with the pads of his fingertips fifty yards away. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.880 That's that's that is the key. I mean that ball 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:41.080 is coming from I mean it's coming down too, so 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.400 I mean the hand strength that it took to catch 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.480 it like that, And yeah, that was a better That 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.360 was a better catch in my opinion, and this one 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.360 was it was. This was a fantastic catch. And I 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.000 don't think you can undersell how important, how important it was. 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.240 I think Jason Garrett said that Monday too, was that 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.760 it was third and six and obviously the Giants didn't 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.720 wind up scoring, but we didn't know that at the time, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.600 and it kept the ball moving. And you know, I mean, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.240 if they had had to punt right there, New York 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.400 probably gets pretty good fuel position with a chance to 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.360 make it sixteen to ten, I think with six or 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.560 seven minute or no like eight or nine minutes left. 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.920 So I actually put that on my five plays. Don't 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.280 forget about five plays, which usually it doesn't have a 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.920 Sports Center top ten, top number one play on there. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.440 But it wasn't about the catch from Beasley. It was 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.680 about what you just said, what it did to extend 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.560 that drive, because I did look at it. With nine 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.480 minutes to go, they got the ball at their own ten. 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.520 They probably would have had the ball at eleven minutes 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.000 to go around their own thirty thirty five forty. It's 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.120 a pretty big different difference there when they're trying to 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.600 come in there. So, but it's not a better catch 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.520 than no Deels. Sorry I don't think it is either, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.800 but it's a it's a different type of catch too 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.760 because he had his feet and bounds and you know, 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.720 to stay on the sideline and do all that. It 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.920 just just secured it though. I mean, it wasn't like 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.600 it's very easy to be bobbling that ball like there 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.600 when it's bouncing around your full up box. Yeah, so 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.440 he did a nice job with that. Okay, let's move 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.320 on a little bit to um some of the you know, 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.960 yesterday we were talking about We've been talking two days 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.719 about the backup running back, talking about Darren McFadden all that. Yep, 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.360 So I talked I got a chance to talk to 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.640 a couple of people yesterday and I was like, let 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.160 mean some inside sources, let me just see what's what's 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:26.080 really happening here the word here, and it's really nothing 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.080 new than what kind of we had talked about. There's 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:32.760 people that believe that that that offered. Morris outplayed McFadden 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.280 in the preseason, so it was it was like he 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.600 kind of had earned it. But I think the notion 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:42.439 that McFadden is a better blocker, while he might be 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.280 in his career, that was the issue right there. There 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.760 were times in practice, there was a time in a 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.880 game where he absolutely missed the read, just just didn't 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.720 get didn't get the great guy, and so his blocking 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.240 was something that they were concerned about, um at the 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.760 last preseason game he played, and then some some into 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.439 practice as well. So this thing about Morris isn't a 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:09.200 good block erb mcfatten is much better. That either has 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.520 changed or it was temporarily changed. They know that he's 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.280 got more juice and he's a quicker, faster player, all that, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.760 but it was the blocking that they kind of got concerted. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.120 But it's almost like sounded like a little punishment. Can 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.800 I stir the pot a little bit. Bring it. The 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.960 margin of error? Is that slim for your backup running back? 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:31.160 But it's clearly not that slim for your backup quarterback. Oh, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.600 it's clearly not. I mean, yeah, I mean we got 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:38.120 a month worth of tape on that, but hey, whatever 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:42.920 that's there. Well, well it's two veterans. Yeah, I mean 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.080 it is two veterans. I mean that's like I guess 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:49.040 it's saying, wow, Amber, Amber making that point, doesn't well, 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:50.840 I mean, that's the one thing they keep talking about. 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.640 It's like a veteran versus a rookie, and they rather 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.400 be safe with the veterans. And you're talking about Morris 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.960 and yeah Badden, who well, no you're not. You're talking 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.880 you're talking about quarterback. But when you're talking about, yeah, 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.160 two running backs who've both been playing in the NFL 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:07.920 for the better part of a decade or more in 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.720 McFadden's case, I mean, I guess it really is only 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.280 a matter of a couple of goofs and that it's 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.720 kind of weird when you think about that. Alfred Morris 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.120 is only like four years away from yeah, like a 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.400 almost a seventeen hundred yards season. It was sixteen hundred 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.280 and twenty twelve, thirteen hundred and twenty thirteen and like 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.960 eleven hundred, like he steadily went down every year. Yeah, 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.640 he's gone down every year. But but that first year 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.679 is more than what Zeke did, right, I believe so, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.760 like by a by him by a hair yea like 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.880 sixteen thirty eight and rookie rushing record, I believe. I 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.560 don't know if it's not it's not the rookie rookie 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:46.360 rookie rushing rights. Yeah, let's just so based on what 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:50.080 we saw against the Giants, do you think the Cowboys 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.720 are going to keep that the way it was with 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.120 Morris as the second guy? My first thought would be, 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:01.880 it's you should change it. But if that is an issue, 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.360 if they really feel like the blocking is an issue, 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.680 it's only the blitz and the rush is only gonna 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.760 get a little bit worse this week, So you would 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.760 change it. What about you? If no, I wouldn't change it. 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.920 If well, and I think you just said you wouldn't either, 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.000 I mean I think I would. I think what they're 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.800 trying to do is get his attention. I think that's 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.040 what they're trying to the Number four overall pick from 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.599 it nine years ago or whatever. He's not used to 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.959 being inactive. I think they got his attention. I would 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:28.240 play him this week, but if that is a concern, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.800 if blocking is a concern, and I would leave it 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.480 the way it is against this team, because, yeah, it's 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.560 gonna it's not gonna be fun out there. Although you 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:39.680 could argue McFadden's quick and he's got some receiver abilities, 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.679 so maybe he gives you like an outlet, you know, 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.240 for some passing yards and stuff like that. But anybody 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.559 that's gonna help me block is who I want playing 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.760 against this team. I think that a lot of it 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.200 too is And I know the fans are not gonna 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:57.080 like this, but I think it's it's true. They just 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.640 love this guy, Alfred Morris. They love it. But Alfred 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.800 Morris brings to the team. Now. He might be limited 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:10.240 in some ways, but from work, ethic, attitude, just being 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:14.000 a professional football player, this guy is as good as 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.000 it gets. He really is. I mean, he does the 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.720 everything the right way. And I know that people don't 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.560 want to hear that kind of stuff, but it does 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.920 matter when you're talking about, Hey, this guy's done everything 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.560 we've asked him to do. He deserves the right to play. 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.440 You know, we're talking about a few snaps here and there, 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.160 let's go with it. And I think that that does 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.520 factor in. I think at the end of the day, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.000 and I don't I don't think there's gonna be a 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:40.840 set plan for this, Like you kind of get the 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.120 idea that Kellen Moore is going to be the backup 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:47.040 unless something crazy happens. But I really wouldn't be surprised 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.640 if they mix and match this and you know, one 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:51.800 guy's up because he had the better week, or one 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.560 guy's down because it's a better matchup for the other guy. 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.920 And I So either way, I think you're gonna look 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.080 and say, well, Morris this week, maybe he could have 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.080 done more against this team. McFadden sat, I wonder what 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.160 he would have done. I mean, it's always it's going 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.920 to be a tough decision because they're they're interchangeable at 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.320 the end of the day. In my mind, yeah, and 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.400 I don't think they're that much different, Like they played differently, 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.320 but the results are not very different, and the sample 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.680 size isn't large enough for me to really get worked 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:23.440 up about it either, because I don't think either one 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.040 of them is ever going to have more than six 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.520 or seven carries in a game. Well, the good news 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.680 is is that a few weeks ago, even a few 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.320 days ago, we thought we would really be talking about 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.400 Morris and McFadden for this Broncos game, And now we're 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.160 talking about who's going to get the three to four 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.520 carries and not you know how many reps stuft they 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.760 would take, because I guarantee if Zeke was not playing, 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.280 it would be this would be a huge deal. Yeah, 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.280 it would be. But I think they would both play 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.120 a lot. I mean, I don't think it would be 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.680 one guy takes the amount that Zeke gets in the 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.800 other way. I think it would be almost the sixty 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.480 forty type split, which it probably should be. So all right, 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.560 let's let's flip over to the linebacker position. I feel 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.400 like yesterday we did talk or the last two days 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.720 we've talked about Jalen Smith some. But I don't know 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.680 if you can still talk about him enough. You know, 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.000 when you just look at at the game that he played, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.920 and and like you said yesterday, Ember, it's we're getting 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.600 to that point where we're not talking about the injuries 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.920 as much. We're talking about because because he doesn't talk 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.200 about the injury, we're talking about just what kind of 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.960 dynamic player that he can be. So let's talk a 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:32.080 little bit more about him. What, Dave, what do you 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.480 see kind of from him like moving forward as far 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.040 as just what kind of what kind of player on 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.920 this defense that he can be? I mean, we expecting 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.160 the middle linebacker for years to come. You think that's 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.880 his best position? Do you think you know he's more 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.800 of an outside guy. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.000 raise the bar too high too quickly because he just 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.280 played his first game. But Jerry Jones had a really 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.600 interesting quote yesterday on the radio about how they see 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.400 him becoming a three down line backer just like Sean Lee, 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.120 really handling that role where he never has to come 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.040 off the field. He's athletic enough to do everything you 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.080 need a linebacker to do. Because and you know, as 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.680 great as he was, you saw that in the game 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.679 on Sunday, he would I mean he was sprinting on 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.840 and off. They didn't want him obviously. He came out 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.880 for dime stuff. He came out a little bit for 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.480 like Deacon and Nickel stuff and had justin Durant come 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:24.040 on for two plays. So you know, I don't think 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.440 he's quite at that point where he's not coming off 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.680 the field ever, obviously, And I don't think that's gonna 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.960 be the case this year. If I had to guess, 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.800 I think, you know, and like, I can't say enough 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.920 about how impressed I am with how he played, but 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.959 I think you're still gonna be smart with it. You're 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.919 still gonna watch him. They only had to play fifty 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.000 three snaps on defense the other night, and he played 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.680 thirty six. But there's gonna be a day where they're 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:49.040 playing probably sixties seventies snap, you know, a much higher 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.160 snap count, and I don't think you want to expose 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.880 him to that too quickly. Sorry, And you've got Anthony 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.360 Hitchins coming back back one point here. I mean they 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.040 said eights. It might be a little bit sooner than that. 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:04.960 Someone told me the other day he jumped off the 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.280 bus to get to the game, Like he basically just 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.919 two feet jumped off the bus. That seems like that 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:15.200 seems ill advised, but yeah, good sign, a good sign, 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.880 but maybe ill advised. Yeah, hopefully there wasn't a setback there, 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:23.200 you know. Talking more about Jalen it's almost like when 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.120 you listen to him and he's he's an impressive guy 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:30.520 to just listen to, it's like he basically willed himself 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.800 back to this point like where he is right now, 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:38.280 like absolutely no negative energy, no thoughts of I'm not 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.160 ever gonna make it. It was just not if, but 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.399 when I will be back and I'm ready, and like 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.640 nothing would ever get in his way. It's just it's 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.439 an amazing journey. The fact of like he was not 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.160 going to take no for an answer to get back 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:53.960 on the field, and that helps a lot. And one 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.359 of the things that I was really impressed about the 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.439 game against the Giants is we've heard the Cowboys kind 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.240 of say how they're going to rotate him and Duran 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.840 and just think of them as one player. Just the 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.920 amount of time playing time that they gave Jalen out 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.760 there says a law, especially with how careful they've been 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.840 with him throughout this whole journey. Yeah, no, go ahead. 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.640 Oh I just saw you having a face that you're 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.520 about I'm I'm getting ready, but go ahead. No, No, 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.440 I'm just overall, I'm just really excited and super impressed 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.280 with the outcome so far. And I think. I mean, 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.359 he's done a great job, and honestly, when I see 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:36.480 him from practice, the relationship he has with Shaun Lee, 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.600 I just think of him as a young version of 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.359 Shaun Lee went on the field and I said that 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.480 before the season started, he blew me away with the 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:48.520 progress that he made to the point where probably in 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.840 June or July, I still wasn't sure what he would be. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.560