WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Expecting Trades? 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.720 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:18.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. Are you ready 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:22.320 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:26.680 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:32.040 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:38.360 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.720 It is Tuesday, November second, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.920 episode number fifty two. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.559 The Break Life from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.840 the Star. Nick, this has become like this thing has 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:56.800 taken on a whole life of its own. I swear 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.760 this weekend I probably ran into two or three people 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.120 in the hotel alone that asked me what numbers show 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.560 are we on? Uh So, I think fans are kind 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.959 of digging this thing. I love how it took seventeen 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:08.800 years for you to figure out a gimmick to get 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.880 anyone but you to care about this, and now we're 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.480 there and people care, and Nick cared so much. You 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.880 didn't do it yesterday, Well you gave us one at 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.759 the end Alsherman Singleton, which is awesome. People on their toes, 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.800 make them wait, make them way through the whole show. 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.240 You got fifty two? Yeah, you know. Usually it's like 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.000 there's a there's a right answer, and then there's my answer. Yeah. 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.759 I think it's the same. I think Dexter Cole there, 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.760 Dexter Cokeley. He was a good player, man. I think 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:40.280 Connor's the only fifty two I've ever covered. Oh my guy, 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.400 actually I forgot. I'm sorry. Justin. I loved Justin Durant. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.680 He he's big into music. I think he DJ's and 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.560 is just as a side hobby. The one player I 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.200 know that actually took time to go down on his 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.920 own and and go and just to ten south by Southwest, 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.440 which is a big conference out in Austin. It's like 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.640 tech and geek kind of stuff I used to like 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:04.240 on especially like Wow. Way back in the ancient days, 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.800 they used to even do available. They did player availability 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.880 on Mondays right after the game, which was like the 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:13.000 biggest waste of time, especially if they lost. Oh, you're 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.119 not gonna find anybody in there, and even if they're 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:16.880 in there, they're not gonna want to talk. But me 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.240 and Durant used to I would ask him for music 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.680 recommendations on Mondays just be like, what are you listening 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.560 to right now? And it was always good. You know 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.600 what I wish he would have done, But when Aaron 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.560 Rodgers was rolling out on that third and sixteen in 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.200 the in the playoff game, I wish he kind of 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.920 would have, you know, just beat him to the punch 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.760 instead of just kind of waited to see if he 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.280 was going to run, because you got to bring up 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.200 all stuff. Yeah, saying that's what I remembered here, fond 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.400 memories bringing that out. You know what, Dexter quickly did 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.120 a full circle his uh not his rookie year, but 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.960 his like third year. He made big plays in the 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.600 games where people were watching like Thanksgiving, wasn't that Miami Dolphins. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.920 Miami Dolphins, we go picksport two picks, one for a touchdown, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.400 ends up going to the Pro Bowl. So when you 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.560 do it on the big stage, guys like Mica Parsons 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:09.280 having his best game on big stage like that, you 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.320 know it could help Al Singleton or excuse me, Al 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:17.760 Johnson is my Johnson Johnson center right center, Wisconsin. Yeah, 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.360 and just so his like relatives don't email me. I mean, 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.000 Davi Dwards was a really good linebacker back in the oil. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.679 He really was sounds like you've gotten having emails in 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.200 the past from that family, you know. Um, But going 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:31.720 back to what I was saying about that with Pro 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.600 Bowl and stuff, like this team could have ten Pro Bowlers, Yeah, 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.120 like they had zero last year. That way quite the reversal. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.600 You know, it's funny. Actually literally I'm not even playing 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.280 the game, but to have ten, that's amazing. See, it's 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.320 a day or tomorrow that I got a conference call 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.160 with the NFL talking about Pro Bowl like they're starting 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.640 it up, so voting should be starting here soon. I 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.160 don't care if it sounds cocky or whatever. Like it's 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.120 the Dallas Cowboys. They're the most visible team in the league. 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.520 If they're good, they're gonna have Oh yeah, they're they're 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.680 probably gonna have more than they deserve, if we're being honest. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.040 Every time it's happened like that, every time they had 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:06.480 a really good team. They have a ton of people 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.440 at the pro bile. But but I count nine that 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.920 are probably deserving right now, And that's that's kind of 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:19.360 looking dak zeke Um Dalton Schultz. I can just look 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:23.960 at the question comes who else yeah, who Zach Tiring. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.040 That's we'll talk about that. If you're an offensive lineman 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.240 once you've been to like two, it's just a snowball. Yeah. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:34.919 And then um, I think Gregory yeah, Micah, yep, maybe Diggs. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:42.880 Diggs is already I thought I had a good nine. Oh. 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.000 Receivers are tough because there's so many receivers that are 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:51.520 getting catches and all that. Those those rams receivers like 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.080 just they're gonna sit there with almost one of them 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:56.920 is getting there. I think I think one of them 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:02.240 ends up there. Almost all just said both of his names. Yeah, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.520 sorry sorry, Yeah, Cooper Cooper, Yeah, I think Amari Cooper, 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.360 Amari Cooper deserves deserves it. Yeah, he's yeah, So that 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.080 gives you nine, gives you Yeah, and then Amari's on. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.160 We'll see what a safety does something you do say 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.040 Dak right, yeah, you know for his as good as 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.480 he's been across his entire career, Like Amari Cooper has 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:26.200 never been a touchdown guy. Like his career highs eight 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.960 in twenty nineteen, He's not like he's never had more 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.520 than that. He's he's pretty reliable for like five six. 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.920 He's already on five five Yeah, he's gonna be there. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:36.640 He's gonna be in the Pro Bowl. As long as 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.000 that's nine, that's a that's a healthy number right there. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.520 I mean that that means you guys probably send somebody 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.320 to cover Pro Bowl this year. So maybe I don't 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:47.640 say that we're not gonna play in the game. You 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:55.000 and Amber touching that twice? Now, um, you know, maybe 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.520 the defense, another defensive guy I could get into the mix. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.680 I don't. I just want I just want to be 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.600 able to I would laugh Layton, mate, No, not not 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.599 with Mike good. You say, Laton, he's playing pretty good. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.960 Then yesterday you say play very well? Yes, that wouldn't 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.599 you thought, Josie, I thought he played well. Okay, I don't. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.599 I don't think he's been bad. I'm not. I don't 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.600 think he's think he's been pro played like a pro bowler. 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.320 And Randy may may not make it to his numbers. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:24.320 Aren't aren't looking at I'm looking at five sacks at 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.560 the less than halfway point, and certainly if you look 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.680 at pressures and stuff like that right up there. And 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:30.880 I would say it like this once again, if you're 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.520 talking about fan voting, fans are gonna be like, man, 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.960 he's bawling, you know, so I don't I think gets in. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:38.880 I need we need, we need to have a shot there. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:40.960 I need Tony to get into the end zone a 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.200 couple more times. I would laugh my ass off if 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.880 the backup running back made a Pro Bowl case, wouldn't it. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.760 I don't think it's gonna happen, but it would be funny, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.160 all right. I did want to talk about some injuries. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.839 It's usually wait and talk about injuries on Wednesday, but 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.640 there's so many right now, and I want to talk 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.120 about um kind of where they are, and I want 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.000 to talk about like what how the Cowboys are gonna 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.840 manage these these different injuries. Let's start first with obviously 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.799 the injury that lingered from last week, Dak and his calf. 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.440 What did Mike McCarthy have to say yesterday about where 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:13.720 Dak is at this point? He said that Wednesday's gonna 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.200 be a little different practice, so he may he may 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.920 be limited some Wednesday. They're hoping by Thursday he'll be 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.960 full go. And and then Jerry said this morning on 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.760 the radio that he wouldn't can't really What did he 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.440 say exactly? He expects him to play? He says he 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.800 can't see a scenario. Maybe he said, like every expectation 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.640 that he'll go on Thursday, and they're very optimistic. Now 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:37.880 he's Here's where I need you guys to give me 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:42.480 your expert opinion on covering this team. Two weeks ago 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.160 at the bye, there was also that kind of talk 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.280 where all, I can't see a reason why he wouldn't 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:48.880 be all good by the time we get back from 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.440 the bye. Thank god we got the buy. We have 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.520 that week to rest. He should be good. After that, 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.000 even Dak was kind of like, yeah, we're good, we're 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.560 good here. Do you think it's some of that or 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.120 do you think it legitimately is that he's going to 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.880 be back this week. I don't I don't really remember 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.640 it that way. Honestly, I don't remember it being like 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.880 we're good. They were very dismissive, like before the bottle 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.720 Da Dak was a lot of that, and I don't 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.200 trust him at all. He's I mean, like the way 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.200 he could he had to he had to hop into 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.200 the locker room in New England on Zeke's shoulder, and 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.720 then he kind of stumped his way out to the 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.440 podium and was like I needed to give you all 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.480 something to talk about him, just like you're just you're 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.480 just being dak, You're just putting a confident face on 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.960 whatever's bothering you. Like those That's not the same to 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.040 me as what the organization might be saying. Yeah, but 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.400 I feel like this this is different. I mean this week, 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:47.280 UM just just really by what he's able to do. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.800 I'd be like, just what he's they're putting him out there, 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:56.280 and as far as like working out and jogging a 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.319 little bit, I just feel like if he was that 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.040 far away, they probably wouldn't even mess with it. Right now, 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.640 I don't. I don't think he was that close to playing. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.440 I think, you know, with Xavier Wood saying, you know, man, 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.199 we thought he was going to play. Mike McCarthy won 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.640 the week. I mean, I mean, we'd say all this 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.920 stuff about managing the game and stuff, which I thought 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.280 he did a pretty good job in managing that game 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.600 in a couple of ways. But they managed the week. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:28.360 The whole Cowboys manage that and it worked, you know 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.839 pretty well. You know, It's interesting. I've always thought this too, 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.280 and people, a lot of people outside the organization talk 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:37.480 about how having an owner that's as visible and talks 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.480 as much as Jerry does can be a detriment. I 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.360 actually think in a lot of instances it creates so 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:47.560 much confusion on what really is happening outside of the building, 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.960 Like the media is like, well, Jerry saying this, and 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.079 the coach is saying this, and the player is saying this. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.600 I actually think it creates clouds of man who knows 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.360 what's going on? And the only people that really know 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.560 are the people that's on the football side of this building. 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.520 I don't know if that was always true, though, Like 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.680 I do feel like there was always this tone of like, 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.480 and Jerry did it earlier this year. I think it 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.280 was about I think it was about Terrence Steele starting 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.280 maybe or something, but like he kind of he gave Yeah, 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.319 he gave away. He gave it away on Tuesday, everybody 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.040 was all upset about it. But I just during the 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:24.200 Garrett era it felt like Gary Jerry kind of gave 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.719 it away a lot more often, whereas like Jerry came 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.839 out on Friday and was like, we're feeling great about Dak, 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:34.080 We're feeling super optimistic, and everybody was like okay, But 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.560 like that didn't really change the narrative. You know what 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.760 I mean, And it is You're right, Like, I talk 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.880 to people who don't live in this and I'm not 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:43.800 talking about like Cowboy fans or anything like. You know, 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.040 I've got writer friends and stuff like that. People, you know, 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.040 I've got friends to cover the Vikings and other teams. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.240 And they're like, well, I saw where Jerry said this, 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.240 and I'm like, yeah, but there's like eighteen other layers 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.559 to this that I don't blame you for not noticing. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.480 But that ain't that's not the whole story. It can 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.040 get really convoluted. What you're asking is are they trying 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.040 this again? Are we going down this road again? Yeah? 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.040 All we're gonna try to do the Broncos to thinking 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.679 that I will tell you tell you this, And I 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.040 don't know if you guys heard Jerry this morning on 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.320 the way he talked about this and they asked him like, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.640 is there something to being able to hide what you're 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.080 gonna do? And Jerry said absolutely. He was like, that's 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.400 probably he said, it's probably one of the most important 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.520 things you can do, just because as as we've all 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.439 heard kind of being around this, every guy in that 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.320 locker room is watching tape on whoever he's going against, 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.679 his matchup, his guy he has to be aware of. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.600 And so if you can keep that hidden from him 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.160 all week, then he's having to do one or two things. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.680 Either he's having to make a guess and he focuses 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.199 on one person that might be right, might not. Or 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.080 he's having to split his time, which means he can't 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.280 devote all his time to one guy and preparing to 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.320 go against one guy. Yeah, that's I mean, that's gamesmanship 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.040 one on one, right, which I mean I I kind 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.400 of chuckle it. Xavier Woods like, really like, you're prepared 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.440 all week for Dac And then Scooper Rush threw Scooper 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.680 Rush guy threw me for a loop that Cooper Rush 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.040 who had never played until Sunday. Yeah, um, as though 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.079 you had film to watch on him anyway. And also yeah, 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.800 and and Xavier Woods like had the game of his life. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.640 By the way, I just was shaking my head the 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.280 whole time. I'm just like, well, it's not happening for you. 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.800 I really thought, well, if he's getting interceptions and making 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:25.000 plays for his team, then it's not gonna be a year. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.080 You're night now, you know, he didn't he didn't have 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.200 the best game though, too, Like he had you look 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:31.880 at the stat line, that's good, but I mean he 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.000 was doing was really good Chase in there. Yeah, but 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.240 I mean he had some plays in the secondary too, 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.520 where he's that's kind of well, that's what I'm saying 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.480 for his game. Yeah, that was a really good game. Yeah, 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.000 he's not gonna be like he's not Smith. I mean 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.640 he didn't have that great of a game. I mean 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.800 I let him in tackles, but yeah, he gets a 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.560 nice submission whole night. Yeah, I mean that's good. I 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:58.120 mean he's the UFC champion there. I didn't honestly, I 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.920 didn't even see that until That's what I said later 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.000 when when that mail back question came up. Then I 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.640 went and started looking for it. I didn't see it 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.240 to zeke moms put Zeke's mom put it out on Twitter. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:11.240 It's the ultimate irony is that fans know way more 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.840 about what's going on than anybody that's in the building, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.079 include like definitely in US and even the coaches to 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.800 those nuanced things that they show on TV. Because absolutely 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.720 Collinsworth is like, now look at the way Harrison Smith 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.000 has his Adam's Apple and a chokehold here and he's 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.240 like he's circling it on the tallestrator, like I'm not 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.520 seeing that. You can't see that. I'm surprised CD just 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.120 went straight for the tap out, like like, I mean, 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.360 you can get off me, bro. I bet that's and 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.319 I said, I mean, I know people are up in 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.040 arms about that. I bet, I bet he gets he 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.360 gets an envelope from the league this CD will get 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.600 a fine for tapping out earlier. You can't tap out 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.360 in the first five seconds of a chokehold. To answer 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.120 to go way back to your initial question, I really like, 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.040 I know it's boring, but like, I don't think you 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.480 can answer the DA question until like Thursday, probably, I think, 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.880 I mean, I think, I do think they feel very optimistic. 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:01.560 I do think he's got a good chance to play. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.160 But player feedback and the way you respond to that 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.600 stuff is part of that. Do you think they should 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.720 consider holding him out if he's not one hundred percent? 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.439 Obviously you're playing a team that's not great, You're playing 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.840 a team that's in the AFC, so the loss, if 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.679 you got a loss, wouldn't hurt you dramatically. And what 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.560 you saw this last week may give you a little 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.000 more confidence that you can actually win a game without 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.080 having Dak Prescott in the lineup. And let's throw in 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.840 one other caveat we don't know about Thomas Smith. We're 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.760 gonna talk about him next. Let's assume that he might 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:32.360 have to miss the game. Now you're a little bit 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.040 more compromised on the offensive line as well. All that 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:36.760 being said, would you consider holding him out if he's 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.320 one hundred percent. I'm not getting cute and holding him 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.640 out for all of the reasons that you just said. Okay, 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:45.760 if he meets the threshot and I don't know what 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.080 their threshold is, I don't know if it's a percentage 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:49.800 or like can you do this, that and the other. 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.960 If he meets that, he plays. It's the NFL. You 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.200 want your starter in there. If he meets the threshold 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.240 where Britt Brown and everybody down the line is like, yes, 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.880 he's fine, then he should play. If he doesn't, then 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.000 he shouldn't. I know that's boring, but I'm not weighing 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.160 it differently because the Broncos are in the AFC. You 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.520 want your starter to play if everybody feels confident that 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.640 he can do so. Safely he should play. Could be 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.440 honest here. Sure, keep bothering me when you keep saying 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.480 that about the Broncos loss, like like losing to an 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:23.840 AFC team doesn't matter. No, I didn't say it doesn't matter. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.240 It doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt you in the same 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:27.720 way as if you lost to an NFCA team, and 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.440 certainly if you lost an NFC East team. That's the 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.560 way it's designed, that's the way I mean, that's true, 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.640 not necessarily, I mean, it's got to work out perfectly 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.280 like that. I mean, it's got to work out in 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.080 the tiebreak. But if we're sitting but I mean if 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.520 they're thirteen and four and they finished thirteen and four 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.280 and Green Bay's fourteen and three, and they're like they 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:45.760 got the number one seed and they got the two 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.200 seed because you lost the Yeah, but says it's less 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.360 It is less than if you lost to an NFC team, 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:51.960 and that is less than if you lost an NFC 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.240 East team. I get what you're saying. Yes, the overall 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:58.040 record matters, absolutely right. This happened as recently as twenty fourteen, 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.200 Like they went twelve and four and and didn't get 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.280 a bye because of who they lost to in the 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.520 regular seas. And I guarantee you this year, you look 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.239 at those top five teams, tiebreakers will matter. They absolutely 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.600 will matter. I can't imagine. Yeah this is this won't 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.040 matter if you don't tie with them. But but yeah, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.720 but none of these teams are gonna go None of 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.240 these teams are gonna go without a loss the rest 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.680 of the season. There's gonna be some wins and losses. 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.160 But all I'm saying is what I'm saying is it's 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:24.920 less of a challenge. It's less of a challenge to 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:26.840 lose that game than it is to lose even next 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.320 week when you play Atlanta because they're in the NFC. Yeah, 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:34.600 that's all I'm saying. Got it still bothers me? Well, 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.880 I'll bet you five dollars right now, two of the 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.160 division winners are going to have the same record. Like 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.240 I don't know who it'll be, but like the like 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:44.760 you know, the three and four seat will have the 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.360 same record, or the two and three seat will have 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.040 the same record. That seems very likely to me, or 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.560 or the wild cards, which Cowboys seem to not be 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.480 part of that race. But I don't know. You never know. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.440 You know, it's even more interesting. I started looking at 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.200 these teams, those top five teams, and I thought it 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.320 was going to be an interesting staff that Dallas only 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.560 has three more games. If it's ten games left, Guess 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.119 how many of those teams have winning records ten games? 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:11.040 Guessing three because I see, okay, three and I thought, wow, wow, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.720 Cowboys must have an advantage. Started looking at some of 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.280 the other teams. Green Bay has two, Arizona has two. 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.960 Like this is a top heavy division right now, I 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.840 mean a conference, I should say, And basically all those 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.120 teams only have a couple of games against each other. 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.000 All the rest of their games against teams that are 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.520 not they have a feeling like the Arizona game at 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.600 the end of the season. How's this feeling? It's gonna 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:38.159 mean like nothing, I really do, Like like why, I 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.119 don't know. Well, I mean, the NFL is looking at 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.959 that game already thinks that you just put that up 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:45.680 at night. You know that's gonna be a night game. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:49.240 But but well, I mean it'll matter, but it'll be 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.560 one of those things like Okay, this is just a preview. 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.400 You know they're probably gonna play again. I mean, there 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.480 could be some some seating, you know, issues there for 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.240 three to two or one to two and all that. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.240 If if it goes down to like the number one, see, 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.359 of course that will be the biggest game ever. But 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.840 but I just feel like it's gonna be the thing. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:06.840 All right, Yeah, this is the end of the year, 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.720 Like you could win this one, but who's gonna win 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.320 the one and next month? You know what I mean, 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.560 because I get it. But I think that's the best 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:16.440 part about this whole seventh team in each conference in 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.200 the playoffs is that now with only one team getting 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.640 a buy, those teams are really going to be jockeying 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:23.040 for position at the end of the league. At the 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:24.520 end of the season. I'm talking about those teams at 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.920 the top. I think either Dallas or Arizona or both 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.520 will be playing in that game to help secure their 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.840 their ability to get the top seat. That game's gonna 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:35.840 matter a ton to one or both of those teams. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.520 Going back to the point about NFC games mattering a 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.640 little bit more than ANFC games, I just I could 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.879 see that being a situation where loser of this game's 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.760 playing the badass team in fifth place and the winners 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.679 getting the not so good team in seventh place or whatever. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:57.600 You know, Yeah, yeah it matters not Minnesota. Maybe could 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.520 get talking about in that six seven the different Seattle. 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.680 I think when they get rust back, depend on where 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:05.920 they are, they might be able to make a little oneattle. Yeah. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.560 I hate to you don't want to just assume too 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.000 much this early, but the fifth seed is going to 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.840 be whoever doesn't win the NFC West and they're going 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.720 to have eleven wins, yeah or more. So you don't 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:19.520 want to be the fourth seed. Yeah, you don't want 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:20.919 to be the fourth seeds. All right, let's take our 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:22.720 first break. When we come back, we'd have a couple 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:24.399