WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: The QB3 Guarantee 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.360 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:07.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.119 Cowboys. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:17.560 This He's Talking Cowboys straining live from the Dallas Cowboys 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:18.720 World Course. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.160 At the Star in Frisco. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:31.280 Dot Tinsondown and now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Patrick Walker, 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:38.400 Nick Harris and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.040 Well, welcome into another edition of Talking Cowboys featuring myself, 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:47.320 Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, and Patrick Nosey Walker. I'm Hailey 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.879 Sutton in for Kyle Yeomans one final time as he 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.280 wraps up his honeymoon celebration. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.960 Nobo, we got a boogie celebration, sing around the last 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.320 Man from Seattle, and I never even had the money 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.160 to go to the Last so I'll try. 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:02.800 What kind of money is this boy make around here? 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.039 I know I need picks, Kyle, I know you're listening. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.840 I need picks. I need videos because I've not yet 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.080 had the pleasure to go to Alaska, but I know 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:12.800 for a fact that it's one of the most beautiful 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.240 places on earth, So congratulations on that. But I need 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.720 I need to live vicariously through him like I did 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.040 you through you in Mexico with the whales and yeah, 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:22.679 you guys have. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:23.679 Nice vacation. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:25.600 Mexico. 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.160 I drive to the Star from my vacation. Vacation, I 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:30.720 getting nick. 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:35.200 You know, yea, yeah exactly, just come back. No trip. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:36.640 Weren't you just in Seattle? 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:37.640 Like for. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.000 I wish, I wish I got to go somewhere. I 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.160 don't get to go anywhere. You see my summer, I 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.000 try to look forward. This would be the only week 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.920 that my family and I can actually travel anywhere, Like. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.640 This is the only one week that we have because 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:52.960 of the track. My kids are in. 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.600 Track, so one of the best sports. Yeah, every just 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:57.760 considered your whole summer. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.680 Yeah, but it's so oh my god. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.360 Yeah, I used to hate running summer track. It was 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.000 like the bane of my existence. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:08.040 But anyways, we move on. What did I run? What 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:08.720 do you think I ran? 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.280 No, I'm not going to guess. It's like guessing somebody's Yeah, 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:12.880 you don't guess what a vincedbody. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.040 I was a sprinter, So I ran the one, the two, 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.400 the eight hundred. That's not a sprint, I know, but 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.040 that's what I was going to say. It wasn't my choice. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:23.320 My coach made me run the eight hundred. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.760 She said, she ran the one, so yeah, I. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:26.240 Ran the one. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:28.240 The two eight hundred is a sprint for some people, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:29.440 which I don't know what. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.040 Their loans are because I played soccer, and so it 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:32.639 was a good. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:34.880 Yeah. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.120 And then actually I was a very good long jumper 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:40.680 triple jumper, so yeah, I actually real quick. 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:40.960 Flex. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:42.480 I learned how to triple jump the day of my 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.400 first ever track meet in the eighth grade, and I 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:52.600 never lost flat this morning, guys, a. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.760 Little bit of a flex I like it. I like 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:55.240 it a lot. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:59.280 All right, let's get into some cowboys conversations today. A 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.160 lot of news how happening around the league. But the 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.120 biggest that we actually discussed yesterday at lunch Patrick is 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.080 the new quarterback rule that has been enlisted for the 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.480 NFL in this upcoming season. I'm going to let you 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.639 dive into the details of it, but real quick, just 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.840 here's the skinny on what that looks like. So essentially, 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:19.560 the NFL is allowing rosters to add a third quarterback 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.560 onto their game day roster as long. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.040 As that player is on the fifty three. 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.079 And the best part about it is it doesn't affect 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.160 your inactives. It doesn't affect your roster cap in terms 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.400 of a fifty three man roster of forty five man 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.080 game day roster. There are some caveats to it that 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:39.040 third quarterback cannot play in a game until the first 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.240 and second string quarterbacks have gone out, but obviously a 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.760 lot of flexibility in terms of what teams can do 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:45.720 with that role. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.320 Specifically the Cowboys who have three quarterbacks on their roster 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:48.760 this year. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.640 Patrick kind of just dive into what that looks like 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.240 for this team and what it's going to kind of 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:53.480 look like. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:53.960 For the NFL. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.080 Well, first of all, that sound you hear is Will 0:03:56.120 --> 0:04:01.600 Grier smiling hear to hear, because this rule basically guarantees that, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.440 you know, assuming he remains the third quarterback on the team, 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.560 it basically guarantees he gets to suit up every single week. Now, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.400 as you said, Haley, he doesn't get to play unless 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.640 both QB one Dak Prescott and Cooper Rosh QB two 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.880 are injured in that particular game, and then he gets 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.440 to go in. But once they're medically cleared, which is 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.200 another caveat, once they're medically cleared, if they're medically cleared 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.680 to return to that game, he has to come back 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:26.200 out of the game. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:27.680 So that's kind of the dance there. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:29.839 But the beauty of it is for the Cowboys is 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.279 they will never be in a situation like we saw 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.239 the forty nine ers in in the NFC Championship against 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.440 the Philadelphia Eagles when Christian McCaffrey was taken warm up 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.400 reps possibly about to go in at QB. 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:41.800 So that's what that rule is. 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.240 We can kind of dub it the Christian McCaffrey room, right, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.840 But you gotta love it because it also means that 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.560 the Cowboys neither you know, know, any of the other 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.240 thirty one teams have to burn a roster spot. It's 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:56.640 more or less a roster exemption specific for QB three 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.520 on a week to week basis. So like you said, Haley, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.040 number one is they have to make the active fifty 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.919 three man roster and final cutdowns. You cannot stash the 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.560 QB on the practice squad because anyone that's elevated in 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.280 any given week is not eligible to be designated as 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.279 your emergency QB, and they have to make that designation 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.080 the same time they make the inactives known, which is 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.320 ninety minutes, no later than ninety minutes probably to kickoff. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.760 So those are the key things. But for Will Greer, 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.240 who is still going to compete with Cooper Rush. I 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:31.680 know Cooper Rush's resigning strongly implies that he's going to 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:33.280 be the QB two. But we're not going to sit 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:34.440 here and say there's not going to be. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:35.000 A battle there. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.440 Will Greer arguably took the lead in that battle last 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.800 summer before he suffered the growing injury. I look forward 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.960 to that battle happening again in training camp in July. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.640 But I mean, it's a fantastic rule all around. Can't 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:52.120 say the same about the other rule that was approved yesterday. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.440 And I was tossing the Carris for that one. Yeah, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.880 but I guess you get a win, but you got 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.000 to take a loss as well if you're an NFL fan, 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.840 And so the loss is the Thursday night flexs rule. 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.880 I'll let Harris dive in that one. Yeah, absolutely so. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.839 At the owner's meetings yesterday, the NFL also approved Thursday 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:12.599 night football flex scheduling, which basically allows the NFL twenty 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.320 eight days before so you have to have a twenty 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.360 eight day notice four weeks to move a Thursday night 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.000 football game to Sunday and then move a Sunday afternoon 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:24.640 game to Thursday night. There's a lot of different stipulations 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.200 that they would have to meet. It can only be 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.200 in week thirteen through seventeen because there's not a Thursday 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.960 night football game in week eighteen. A team can't be 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.520 on the road two times on a Thursday night game, 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.920 and they still can only have two Thursday night games. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.320 So it's a slim chance that anything even happens with 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.120 the flex Thursday night football scheduling. But let's say you 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.679 are a Jets fan and y'all are playing in Denver 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.440 in week seventeen, and you have just always wanted to 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.000 go to Mile High on a Thursday night and you 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.160 find out twenty eight days before that it's going to 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:55.080 be Sunday afternoon. 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:56.840 You got to change all of. 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.960 Your scheduling, you got to move your flights around, movie 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.400 tickets around. And that's why eight voters voted against it. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.720 The Cowboys did vote for it. Twenty four to eight 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.760 was the final count, and twenty four is the minimum 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.480 allowed to pass a rule, and it passed barely. But 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.680 it's there's some fans that are very upset about it. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.680 Giants owner is very upset about it. It looks like 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.920 Isaiah stand back to my right is upset about it 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.200 here leg well as well. 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:22.960 It's unfortunate for the fame, say with you to me, 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:24.600 and to be honest with you, that that aspect really 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.920 doesn't bother me that much. The whole Thursday night flex thing, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.280 it doesn't affect Dallas, right, Dallas already has two Thursday 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:30.040 night game scheduled. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.720 Correct, So we got obviously is one of those things. 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:37.440 Well they do. It's not Thursday night Thursday, okay, gotcha? 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.040 Okay, So yeah, I mean it is whatever to me 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.560 as a player, you don't like Thursday night games. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:43.760 Let's just call it how it is. 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.480 You hate Thursday night games because your body literally just 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.520 recovered the day before from the previous week. So after 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.280 the player's perspective, it absolutely sucks. But let's be honest, 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.120 this league is not forward facing in terms of taking 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:55.760 care of the players. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.480 This is about the money in the pockets of the owner. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.000 So knowing that that's the fact, you shrugg your shoulder 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.840 and you say, okay, there's just another thing that helps 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.960 them put more money in their pocket. The third quarterback thing. 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:09.120 I'm looking forward to that and how coaches and organizations 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.560 work around that rule. Because now all of a sudden, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.720 it's like, oh my knee hurts. Okay, come on in 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.080 here for this next quarter real quick. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.560 I feel like you're hinting at some Bill BELICHICKI is. 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:23.080 I'm just saying, there's always a workaround. Okay, there's always 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.520 a work around. So I am looking more forward to 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.600 that third quarterback and how organization is determined. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:29.280 To go forward with that. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.360 You know how it's going to go. So my gosh, 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.440 I sprained my big topic. Let me go get it 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.800 scanned real quick, right, And so it starts. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.280 Open, the backup quarterback starts oerver five and then suddenly 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:39.720 historic starts to miracle. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:41.720 I don't feel, well. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:44.760 That's what I'm interested in. But the whole, the whole 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:46.559 flex thing, it is what it is. I mean, it's 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:47.520 I'm not surprised. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:48.679 It doesn't surprise me. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.960 Here's the thing about the Thursday night game, so that 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.000 we found and I don't know if this was just 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.599 by chance last season because it was new, it was 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.880 Amazon Prime, it was a new group of people trying 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:58.560 to get it together. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.440 So I think the production as a. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.280 Whole will be better this year now that they've got 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.000 it under, they've got a season under their belt, they've 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.439 been developing. So that was a big issue with Thursday 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.880 Night Football last year. And then the second issue with 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.440 Thursday Night Football is I'm going to say seventy seven 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.360 percent of the matchups that we saw on Thursday Night. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.240 Football last year were awful. 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.760 And the one that comes to mind it was the 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.680 Broncos and the was it the Rams that went to 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.800 like double overtime and it was like six to three. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:27.880 That was the one. It was in Denver, it was 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.120 and it was just visible football. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.400 It was horrible from top to bottom. And I feel 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.120 like every every single week it just kind of. 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:35.600 Went to that. 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.079 So I don't know if that was just like a 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.880 scheduling issue. Hopefully they'll get that worked out. But to 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.080 your point, Isaiah, the Cowboys aren't really affected in that 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.480 way because they're not going to flex their Thanksgiving game 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.000 and then they're not going to flex the following Thursday 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.600 Night game that next week. So good to know for 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.040 other teams going forward. I don't think it affects this team. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.200 What I do want to circle back to, though, is 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.640 the third quarterback roster spot because something that I was 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.559 kind of into yesterday. I didn't know a ton about 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.240 Will Greer. I came and he had already kind of 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.480 been established, and so I didn't really get an opportunity 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.080 to get to know him or know anything about him, 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:10.640 And so I kind of want to default. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:11.160 To you guys here. 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.240 This is a guy who has been in the league 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.480 for a couple of years now. You mentioned Cooper Rush 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.160 just signed the two year extension, so he's likely the 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:22.240 backup quarterback. But Will greed to me is interesting because 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.120 his college tape and how he played it as a 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.120 collegiate athlete is so much different from his NFL experience. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.040 He doesn't have a ton and when he did, the 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:30.480 reps necessarily weren't there. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.320 But I wonder how happy he. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.160 Is in the place that he is right now, sitting 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.400 at that third quarterback spot. Is he competitive? Does he 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.800 want that backup quarterback role. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:41.800 There's a lot of. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.720 Things to dive into when it comes to Will Greer, 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.040 So I kind of just want to open this up 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.680 to you guys in terms of value. When you look 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.680 at Will Grear as a quarterback on this roster, where 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.160 do we see his value? You mentioned seeing him compete 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.120 for Cooper Rush at training camp. Is that something that 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.520 we're expected to see again? I mean, like realistically, how 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.280 realistic is it for the Cowboys. 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.920 Central that's to hear the former quarterbacks. I think I 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.560 think the window closed for him unfortunately. I think last year, 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.560 last camp was his opportunity, and unfortunately when he got hurt, 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.160 that window dwindled. 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:13.800 That killed his reps. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:15.719 Right, It really came down to the third preseason game 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.000 that he had an opportunity, and that was a quick 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.920 He didn't have the greatest of showings in that sort 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.240 and that short stint, so that was that was I 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.680 want to say it's predetermined, but it was determined relatively 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.839 quickly in that third game that okay, you're now our 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.960 third string. Cooper Rush had the opportunities, he took advantage 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.400 of the opportunities, and now he took care of business, 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.760 went called upon last year as well during the regular season. 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.360 So because of that clap, bravo, and now all of 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.240 a sudden he gets a contract extension. He is now 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:42.840 solidified as your backup quarterback. 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.960 Unfortunately for will Will Greer, he has some things he 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.600 still needs to work on. Last year was his shot. Okay, 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.120 this preseason he will have another opportunity. But you were 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.199 trying out not only for your third string of your 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.760 current team, but you're trying out for if you were 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.240 to get cut, which I don't foresee that happening now, 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.319 but if you were to get cut for whatever reason, 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.560 you're trying out for the rest of the NFL and 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:07.280 hopefully try to earn a backup role. He to me, 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.040 is a very good competitor. He also, to me, has 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:12.800 a lot of work to do as a quarterback. He's 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.240 a gun slinger. I personally don't like his release point. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.160 I don't like his decision making some of the things 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.839 that I saw during camp last year. It just doesn't 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.080 seem like he values the possession of the ball as 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.200 much as you would like for somebody in that particular 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.800 quarterback role. But I don't know what has happened since then. 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.480 I'm looking forward to seeing his development here in this camp. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.920 I'll say this when it comes to world career, first 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.600 and foremost, as you stated, he needs more development and 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.120 that's obvious, which is why he's quarterback three on an 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:43.040 NFL team. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:43.400 Now. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.240 I will also say this, he's good enough to play 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.200 at this level, which is why he's quarterback on an 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.040 NFL team. So for him, it's just about trying to 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.040 pry open that window, because the window was wide open 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.720 for him last offseason. I sat there in summer camp, 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:00.600 summer camp and training camp during the. 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:01.520 Summer, this. 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:04.520 One time at band camp. 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.920 So I sat there in training camp in July and Oxnard, 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.200 and I saw that most of the big plays that 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.240 were being made, whether it was you know, the one 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.360 hand to catch from TJ Vasher, whether it was big 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.920 plays being made by Simmi Fojoko. If you after those plays, 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.760 if you looked to see who was under center, more 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:22.400 often than not, it was Will Greer. 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:23.440 It wasn't Cooper Rush. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.880 As far as running with the second team, so Will 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.960 Griar took a massive Kentucky Derby style lead over Cooper Rush. 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.080 But then the injury and the time timing is everything. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.719 It can work against you or can blow up in 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.120 your face. The timing of his injury was such that 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.480 the Cowboys didn't have time to get more game reps 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.640 in from him post injury before Dak Prescott went down 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.480 with injury, so they had to sit back and make 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.600 a decision, split decision. It came down to Cooper Rush 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.559 and then Cooper Rush took it. You know, he did 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.760 four and one, he earned the spot, but I was 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:53.160 go ahead. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.680 Yeah, his opportunity was that Denver practices and the fact 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:57.520 that he couldn't practice. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.160 I remember we were calling that practice. The fact that 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.520 he could not practice day. It was a wrap that day. 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.400 It was also very hot that day. Where there's a 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.400 different milter. But I will say he has an opportunity 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.480 still to I will disagree in that It's okay, it's shut, 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.439 but it's not painted shut. Let me put it that way. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.719 The window can still be open. Because even with a 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.560 two year deal on Cooper Rush, if you look at 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.720 it contractually, the Cowboys are not going to move on 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.200 from Cooper Rush this year, but they have an out 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.000 next year. So Will Greer can come into training camp 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.840 and regain his stride he had last year. At least 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.160 he puts in the Cowboys head. Combined with the new 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.560 rule that basically gives them carte blanche to carry him 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.800 without sacrificing a roster spot, he can. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:37.320 Put in their head. 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.800 Well, maybe twenty twenty four is the year of Will 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.440 Gear being QB two because at that point, if you 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.240 want to make that move, you can do so move 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.440 on from Cooper Rush and not take a dead money hit. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:48.760 So that's in the conversation as well. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.720 Yeah, and at the quarterback position, momentum and timing is 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.080 half the battle, especially when you're in the depth of 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.120 a quarterback roster and you know, trying to earn some snaps. 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.760 Especially in will Greer's case here, momentum and timing didn't 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.120 quite work in his favor last year. You know, he 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.320 would have had an opportunity to be a backup quarterback 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.080 or you know, potentially get some snaps whenever Dak went down, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.960 but you know he wasn't able to be there for that. 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.280 So can't he regain that momentum timing? Absolutely, It's it's 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.080 it's always a possibility. Like you said, the door is 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.560 not painted shut. But you know, we're we're getting the 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:17.960 we're getting the Sherwin Williams out. 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.760 I just wonder though, you know, and it's hard because 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.440 we haven't had a chance to talk to these guys 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.760 in so long, but I just wonder what his mentality 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.600 is going into this, because you know, the joke, for 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:31.800 lack of better term, is that being a backup quarterback 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.920 is the best spot on an NFL roster because you 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.840 get paid and you don't have to do as much 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:36.920 work unless your name is called. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.480 And so I just wonder from that aspect when it 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:40.880 comes to. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.960 Will Greer, you know what his mentality as I know 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:48.120 you mentioned he's a competitor, but like how competitive is 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:48.600 he really? 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:50.800 Is he really being? And I think OTAs this week 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:51.840 gives us a good opportunity. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:56.720 I think he's he's a huge competitor, and his fires 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.800 were stoked as he had to sit on the sideline 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.880 and nurse that injury. And you hate knowing that you 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.280 have the lead to take this particular position from an 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.920 incumbent and then the injury kind of derails it. So 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.920 he's had to sit for the most of the season 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.720 on the inactives and trying to figure things out. He's 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.240 been kind of champing at the bit to get this opportunity, 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.880 and this new rule allows the Cowboys to carry him 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.080 without sacrificing the spot. So he has to look at 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.280 it as just that an opportunity. It might be your 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.440 final one with this organization, but that should add that 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.880 much more fire to his motivation to say, hey, it's 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.560 it's quite literally now, Will never his mindset going into 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.360 OTA's and then obviously following the break going into training 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.320 camp has to be to disrupt the order of the 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:46.000 back of the ORDA. You understand, as a player, my 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:50.000 opportunity's probably gone. You understand that that's not to say 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:51.760 that the door's closed. Okay, but it's a little bit 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.400 of a debo crack in the window. Okay, So it's 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.840 a little bit of crack get your pickernails under their Okay, 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:00.560 but you understand, Okay, contractually they're committed to this guy. 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:02.320 I missed my window last year. Okay. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.439