WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: OTA Observations 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.280 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:16.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.520 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:24.640 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah? And so 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:28.480 much for that. It's time for the Break on Dallas 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:34.639 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:40.800 Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday May twenty sixth, 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.640 twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number ten. Welcome to 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:46.720 the latest edition All the Break. We're live from the 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:51.000 s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star. Cowboys have activity 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.360 in the building yesterday. They have their OTAs. I don't 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.400 know it was. It wasn't the beginning. The first practice 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:58.880 was the day before yesterday. But this is the first 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.920 week of OTAs. They have this week, next week, and 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.320 I think two more weeks after that. I think they 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.800 finish up mid June with their OTAs. They'll have a 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.440 little time for break before we head off to California, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.600 to Oxnard, California for the trading camp sessions that will 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.560 start up in late July. These guys are gonna tell 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.680 you about everything that happened yesterday in the OTA practices. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.440 I just was here just to kind of set this 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.399 thing up and say hello to all the listeners out there. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:33.360 So it's the OTAs go more like OTAs right, because 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:38.920 it's timely, time to talk about some football. Yeah, let's go, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.679 let's do it. Uh, you know what, you really want 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.080 to know what I really think now that I just 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.240 said that happy thing, my like, if you're just asking 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.840 me for my gut impression from watching an OTA, I 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.800 was like, m this is maybe why I would have 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:54.960 done a little more work in the offseason because and 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.440 it's it's may I get it. We're not panicking. But 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.880 tyrants have had back tightness. So he didn't practice yesterday, 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.240 and Matt will let's go the fifth round rookie was 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.760 his primary replacement on the left side. And you know, 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.760 Michael Gallup's still hurt, and Jalen Tolbert's dealing with a 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.320 hammy and something happened to James Washington's foot and so 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.320 somebody has disclosed with it. No, no, but he's wearing 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.680 a boot. He's wearing a big old boot. So and 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.040 not like a cowboy boot, like an orthopedic boot. And 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.880 those who know James Washington or know of him. That's 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.320 a that's an interesting thing because cowboy boot is a 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.400 part of his but so thing and again, like I 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.520 get it, the season is a long long way away, 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.080 but I was like, this is what you could be 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.760 dealing with if something happens in the season. Noah Brown, 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.480 Cede Lamb and Semi Phohoko as your starting receivers, which 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.680 they were, and Matt will let's go playing left tackle. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.280 That's what I don't understand. Okay, Like James Washington comes 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.239 out in a boot. Okay, he's got something and it's 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.800 not that serious. But yet when when asked to talk 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.720 about it, no, no, absolutely not, we're not I want 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:01.720 to talk Yeah, no one wants to talk about it 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.079 what it is and you know it's not that serious, 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.799 but we're not talking about it. But yet voluntarily we 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.359 say that Tyran Smith has back tightness. And that's why 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.040 I mean, that's just like, I mean, that creates a 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:15.560 five alarm fire, Like if you don't want to talk 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.720 about injuries, then don't talk about but then especially don't 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.840 talk about the one that everyone just pencils in, Like 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.040 that's we're just saying, like, well, who's gonna play left tackle? 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.880 Win Tyran Smith gets banged up or whatever, and then 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.080 we're just feeding into it. So like I didn't really 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:33.799 understand that, Yeah, like why does why is the one 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:35.960 injuries like a state secret and it's a guy that 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.920 just got here that yeah, and then the other guy 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:40.680 and you can see evidence of it, like you know 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.240 there's something yeah right, yeah, yeah, they could have just 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.080 they could have just said Tyron Smith personal day, Yeah, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.040 he needed a personal day, but instead of not coming Yeah, okay, 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:53.280 the numb but do voluntary meant it was voluntary? That's 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.120 I even like I asked the question to Mike McCarthy. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.000 I was like, I get that it's voluntary, but you know, 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.360 Tyrone was the only player that wasn't on the field today, 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.920 So what's up with that? Yeah? And he was like no, no, no, 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:07.760 he was there. Yeah, he could all the way up 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.280 until the point and they had back tightness. It's just 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.760 like and that. Yeah, fans and media alike are like, mm, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.480 but yeah, I've heard that song before. Then again, though, 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.880 let's let's also throw the other side of it, is, 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:24.359 is that if anything to a star, any player, but 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.960 especially a star player, if there's anything that is any 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.400 kind of discomfort, they're out, of course, and that's not 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.760 even gonna mess with it. Like I said, I'm not 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.719 I'm not panicked in the big picture right now. I 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:38.560 get it, this is the time of year to be 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.360 smart about those types of things. But I was like, 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.159 we're getting to look at the worst case scenario right 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.200 off the bat here to start this thing out, because 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:47.960 that would be bad. Yeah, if that was what they 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.520 had to trot out in a regular season game. Quite frankly, 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.080 those two positions, the wide receiver position and the left 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.360 tackle position are positioned where we already know it's then 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.520 we already know these are potential problems because where they 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.200 sit right now, none of us feels feels great about 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.360 the depth right So so yeah, you see right off 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.599 the bat what that could look like, and I don't know. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:13.440 It makes me very nervous. Yeah, absolutely. Um, what else 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.280 I actually want to ask you a quick question on 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.200 Jalen Tilburt. You said James Washington was out, Jalen Tobot 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.280 was also out, So you got Noah Brown, you got 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.520 Semi Fioco out there basically running with Ceedee Lamb as 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.680 the wide receivers um. First of all, what do we 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.400 know anything about Jalen Tilburt and what that's got a hammy? 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:34.280 It's not expected serious. Um. They they think he could 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.680 practice next week. I believe. I mean, you know, we're 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.120 not supposed to disclose too much about what we see 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.360 around here. But he's working out like he's he can 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.080 run it. It ain't you know, his hamstring didn't come 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.359 off or anything, which which again, as a as a rookie, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.480 you always get a little bit like whoa, hey, you're 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.039 a rookie. You should be able to kind of go 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.159 through this. But it sounds like it's not anything now. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.160 But well that's the fun thing. It's not like I mean, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.800 he's he was outside running around earlier this morning. Um. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.080 But the other thing too is it's like, well, we 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.760 need you to start right like you know, let's not 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.360 we're not gonna push you even though you are a rookie, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.880 Like make sure that feels okay. I can't remember. I'm 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.960 sure it's happened, but I just can't remember a third 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:20.400 round pick that has been that has so much you know, 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.520 like on his on his plate about expectations are so 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.200 high for the third round pick. We need you, we 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.400 need you, need you to do stuff. Um, that's good 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.640 for him, but it'd be better if he was out there, 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.080 you know, in the in the off season, in the 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.160 off season program and the OTAs. But like Dave said, 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.080 he'll he'll be fine. But you know, this is a 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.840 chance for these other guys that I mean, think about it. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.719 Cedric Wilson just signed a you know what, seven million 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.279 a year deal with the Dolphins. Cedric Wilson was in 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.680 the same boat as as we viewed him, as as 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.520 we're viewing Fajoko, Noah Brown, point, all these other guys. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.080 At some point we're like, so, you don't even counting 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.120 Cedric Wilson in there. And then it got to the 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.599 point when Gallup got hurt, he was like that that's 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.480 how good he was. He could step right in. I'm 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.680 not saying these other guys are as good, but we 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.160 didn't have Cedric Wilson on our radar for a while too, 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.840 So maybe maybe these guys can use this advantage. And 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.320 this is the time of year where it can be 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:20.040 a benefit. I mean, assuming Tyron Smith is okay, I 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.160 think it's a great thing. That yeah, I mean, fingers crossed, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.640 and I like, you can't you can't just assume that 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.840 I get it, you gotta and like, normally i'd be like, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.880 whatever it's may but like Tyrone's history speaks for itself. 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.520 You anytime he has to miss time, you should be concerned. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.320 Back neck, you certainly concerned. But sorry, Just what I 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.680 was gonna say real quick is assuming that it's not 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.200 a huge issue, that's great for Matt. Well, let's go 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.840 to get a lot of reps. Like they they need 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.800 both of those guys. Well, let's go and Josh Ball 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.440 to be practicing an tell me there. I thought, maybe 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.960 I looked at this wrong. Maybe I'm getting my six seven, 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.239 six eight tackles mixed up. I thought that was Ball 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.920 that started at left tackle. Go did a lot of it. 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.880 I mean, Ball got some looks they and team I 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.120 think Ball was out there somewhere, so they're both they're 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.160 both getting some chances. But Ball. They said they were 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.560 gonna work Ball primarily on the right side, and I 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.640 swear I saw him on the right more often than 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.440 I did on the left. I thought the first time 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.240 that they opened things up, I thought it was left. 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.000 But I gotta, I don't even know who's who's who. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.720 Like this is almost like a Dez Bryant Noah Brown 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.960 thing where I'm gonna have to figure out whose shoes 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.480 or what and because they're kind of I gotta looked 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:36.040 very similar. Yeah, yeah, I know. Uh well, it's funny like, well, 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.360 let's go got pulled for a pre snap penalty yesterday 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:43.560 and McCarthy even said, like, yeah, Matt, Matt did that 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.560 or whatever, so like he played on the left side 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.560 a good amount with the starters, even if Ball did 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:52.360 did so as well. Yeah, and then Waken. I mean, 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.360 I don't know if it's on your sheet there, but 0:08:54.640 --> 0:09:00.240 if we're talking offensive linemen, I mean, Tyler Smith, did 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.000 I start with the first team? And I don't know 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.160 the reason for that. That's probably not what I would 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.880 have done. But you know that doesn't shock me, does 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.400 it shock you? I mean, I look at I look 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.280 at this team, and I don't know if it's across 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.000 every NFL team because this is the only team I've covered. Yeah, 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.760 but this team, I know traditionally, no matter who the 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.600 coach is, for whatever reason, they just they want rookies 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.440 to understand you're a rookie. So they often even though 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:28.360 we all know by the time the season gets here, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.319 they're gonna be playing. Yeah, they just have a pension 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.959 for saying, well, start the especially in minicamp, have you 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.720 have your vet out there and make the rookie earn it. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.400 You know, that just feels like what they do around here. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.439 I don't completely disagree, but I thought I thought it 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.360 was a little interesting. Connor McGovern took every single first 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.760 team round. I mean they probably had there were probably 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.040 thirty team reps over the course of the day, and 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.640 Tyler Smith didn't get a single one, which and that's fine, 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.719 it's may I'm gonna keep an eye on it though, Like, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.960 if that, if that stays the same, if he hasn't 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.200 worked with the first team by the time the offseason 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.960 program is over, that's weird to me. Yeah, and not 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.600 only that, but also you know, McCarthy keeps saying he's 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.840 a left side player. So if he's not gonna start 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.160 over McGovern and Tyron Smith isn't there and he's not 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.440 gonna play, he's not gonna play over, well let's go. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.360 So that doesn't then you start getting elect I mean, 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:23.960 what's going on? Why don't you play him at left 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.760 tackle and then play him at left guard on the 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.680 second team. But that's what you're gonna do like well. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.080 But we also said, and I'll speak for myself, last 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.480 week we talked about that and I said, I hope 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.400 they don't push him out to tackle this year. If 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.120 he's gonna play guard, give him the reps at guard, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.800 let him get familiar with guard. And if if he's 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.360 a long term guy that you think maybe a tackle, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.719 deal with that next year. But as a rookie, you're 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.600 gonna need him to play, even him play guard. I mean, 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.800 Tyron's dealing with back tightness on day two, Like what 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.360 if I could tell you right now that he was 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.680 gonna miss five games? You don't want Tyler Smith playing 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.960 any tackle? It just I don't know, because I don't 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.079 I don't know what. I don't know what. Well, let's go, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.480 let's go. If if well let's go, is a is 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.480 a pretty good tackle as a rookie, like and I'm 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:11.120 speaking relative terms of rookie, then hey, maybe I'd prefer, well, 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.199 let's go, because I think he might be a guy 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.440 that's gonna play this year. Because I think Tyler Smith 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.400 is gonna be my guard. So I think if I'm 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:19.760 gonna have if I'm gonna be without one, I'm just 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.319 gonna put him at tackle, and he's gonna be the 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.800 guy that might come in and play for Sorry, go 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.560 ahead and imagine this. The defensive coordinators and the pass 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.200 rushers that are just like, all right, we got well, 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.400 let's go and Tyron Tyler Smith on this left side. 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.120 These two rookies guard and tackle. This is where we're 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.240 gonna rush. We're gonna do this over here, and everybody 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.240 load up on them. By the way, that's center there too. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.200 You can catch. You can work with all three of 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:46.800 those guys. Le'll see what we can do. We're gonna 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.000 challenge him. Most of the grizzled vet of the group 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.440 we're gonna challenge him with. With lots of respect to 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.720 Matt Well, let's go. I'm not trying to trash the guy, 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.960 but like, I don't know, Tyler Smith played tackle in 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.800 college at the f BS level and was good enough 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.040 to get drafted in the first round, even if not 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.960 everybody agreed that he should have gone there. Well, let's go. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.640 Was a fifth round pick that played at North Dakota, 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:16.320 Like Tyler Smith should be the better option at left tackle, yeah, 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.040 right now, But then the question becomes is he that 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:23.400 much better for you to take McGovern at guard. But 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.480 see Brian, our good dear friend Brian brought us asked 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.440 me this question yesterday on one oh five three. I 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.280 thought we like we talked about all this and he 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.720 was basically like, at what point do you start worrying 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.319 about cross training? And I was like, honestly, it sounds 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.600 silly because again I don't want to overreact to Tyrne 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.160 missing an OTA, but like, my opinions probably different today 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.600 than it was on Tuesday, where I'm like, if this 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.520 is already something you got to be worried about maybe, 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.040 And I think the answer that I came up with 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.439 I was like, so you practice four days in a 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.520 row at training camp before you get a day off. 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.040 That's typically how the workload works. I would work him 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.920 like three days at guard and one day at tackle. Like, 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:05.880 I just think it would be smart to get him 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:07.960 some work there at the very least. Doesn't mean you 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:09.800 have to play him there, but I think he should 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:13.480 start getting used to it. Yeah, I would personally, first, 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.440 I would see in the first couple of weeks at 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.360 camp what I think, and they may know coming out 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.959 of OTAs and mini camps, what I think of a 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.439 Lesko what I think of Josh Ball If I think 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.320 one or both of those two options are, again, relatively 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.520 speaking for their level of experience, are pretty good options 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.199 at tackle. And I don't I keep him at guard 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.640 and I keep working him at guard because my thought 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.640 is that that's going going to be my starting guard 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.960 this year, and I don't want to necessarily make it 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:41.720 harder on him. I want him to really be focused 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:46.400 on guard. You know what omnipotent is, I'm nipotent. I'm nipotent. Yeah, 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:52.079 all knowing, But he pronounced that omnipotent? Who did Tyler Smith? Please? 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.640 Don't that's what he's how he pronounced omnipotent. He's twenty one. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.240 People do that? I mean, yeah, well, people in New Orleans. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:04.640 There's a heated debate between whether it's debated pronounced Burgundy 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:09.280 or Burgundy, and it's like I have never heard well, 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.960 I mean, New Orleans is full of weird pronunciations. But 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.880 I mean, yeah, people, yeah, people do stuff like that. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.040 I'd say omnipotent, though, I think that's the right way. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.440 We got the best of New Orleans, didn't we? We 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.960 got the best of Louisiana, didn't we? Between you and 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.200 Roland we got the best, and bron we got the best. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.640 That state, well, Eid came from Texas, Brian was technically 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.600 Roan's from Plain. I'm actually from Louisiana, so raw I 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:37.240 was born there. Yeah, we don't do many people. We don't. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.560 We don't claim three one eighth though, no offense slang 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:44.960 or laning ass trieve it's East Textrie or Southern Arkansas 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:49.000 or whatever. Yeah, you definitely don't claim that. Um My 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:53.400 point to all that was is that he that was 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.440 his answer when we did we did get to know 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.600 the rookies. It's a pretty fun piece that Brit Johnson 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.640 did the other day. It was it was and that 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.280 was his answer to that, was that all knowing, all 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.360 power thought would be his superpower and all that. He 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.240 had a lot of answers like that. Smart guys what 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:09.880 I'm trying to say, he's more. He's a smart guy. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:11.600 He can figure that out, he can do that. He 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.000 can go play tackle, he can play guard. And I 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.680 like that seventy at the position you were going to 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.560 play fingers crossed. But but you know this is a 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.040 position you've played before, and you know truth be told, 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.880 maybe well hindsight, I would say maybe, you know, they 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.000 should have or could have done that with Connor Williams, 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.080 but it never really was that big a deal and 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.480 we never really thought Connors should be playing tackle. They 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.560 the team never really said that, Like we talked a 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.800 lot about it, just because that's where he played and 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.400 was good at Texas, but like, yeah, like when they 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.240 drafted him, they weren't at his post draft press conference 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.120 saying like, well, you know, he could be a tackle. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.280 They were like, yeah, he's hard left guard. Yeah, they 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.680 never said that. Um, I wonder if the dog I 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.240 don't know. I wonder if the Dolphins view him as 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.840 a guy that could be different, you know, different play 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.960 different roles. They just gave a boatload of money to 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.920 a left tackle, So I don't know if he's gonna 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.160 be people in this building that thought he should probably 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.640 play center. Um, if you know, maybe not practice it 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.480 in like the week before a preseason game. Maybe actually 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.480 do it. Yeah, maybe he's just do it all off season. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:21.680 So weird, Uh, I was I thought I thought that 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.880 also had an interesting he was talking about Jalen Tilbert, 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.760 not Tyler Smith. But I think the same logic applies 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.520 where he's like keep it simple for the time being, 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.680 Like I don't I don't need you to do everything 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.400 right away, Like, let's start with this and we'll build out. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.000 And once I feel like you're comfortable with what we're 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:42.280 talking about at one thing, then we can worry about 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.120 the rest of it. And I think that's probably a 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.800 good approach for any rookie. Ye all right, we're gonna 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.480 take our first break. When we come back, let's talk 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.360 about some standout players. And don't you guys give me 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.280 a few guys that you notice during practices. Again, they 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.240 maybe names it, some of our listeners may not have 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.240 ever heard of. 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But just from the standpoint of what 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:45.639 you saw that might have popped out to you, what 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.880 were some some players that stood out well? I mean, 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.439 I thought the most popworthy play of the day was 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.400 Marquise Bell, the Florida A and M safety that we've 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.600 talked about. They gave him a lot of money to 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:01.280 sign here an undrafted free agency. It's it's very obvious 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.879 how much they like him. Mike McCarthy said yesterday that, um, 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:06.600 you know, they think he has the same type of 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:08.480 skill set as a j Ron Curse, like a guy 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.040