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Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar
Speaker 1: Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, May eighteenth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, Seasons eighteen, Episode number nine. Welcome to latest
Speaker 1: edition All of the Break. We are live from the
Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage Studios at the start at my crew, Nick,
Speaker 1: Amber and Dave with me. We only have a few
Speaker 1: more shows here before we get a little bit of
Speaker 1: a break before training camp. But we're already talking about
Speaker 1: training camp, so you guys get ready. There'll be lots
Speaker 1: of lots of story lines to follow throughout our time
Speaker 1: I knocks Art. This year, we'll be back to normal.
Speaker 1: I think Amber might be with us a little bit. Obviously.
Speaker 1: Dave and Nick we're going to be. There's no other
Speaker 1: place that there they could be. But I got a
Speaker 1: lot to do. Love hearing that from my boss. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like nobody's told me anything. So that's great. I know
Speaker 1: we're getting past We're getting past COVID for the most part. Yeah. Still, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's still like obviously this is happening. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: well obviously unless unless something changes with regard to COVID.
Speaker 1: Looks like we might be back onto some normal things.
Speaker 1: I know, I had a conversation about us having our
Speaker 1: normal spot at training camp. We don't have to be
Speaker 1: secluded in some trailer like we were last year, and
Speaker 1: so that's a that's a step in the right direction.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. It's just kind of funny to me, just
Speaker 1: because yesterday I had this conversation with you in a
Speaker 1: meeting about a training camp. You're like, well, I don't
Speaker 1: know anything. We don't know yet, it's too early. And
Speaker 1: then he come on the air and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: it looks like it's going to be back to normal.
Speaker 1: It's like like we're talking about training they're having thing
Speaker 1: to do with the number of people that are going
Speaker 1: just has everything to do with we're gonna be there,
Speaker 1: we will be there. Cool. Well, either way, we've started
Speaker 1: seeing that here already. You know, we got access back
Speaker 1: to normal. You got open locker room, you go in there,
Speaker 1: that hasn't happened in what three years? Years? Yes, it
Speaker 1: feels like, yeah, that was cool. I mean I was
Speaker 1: in locker room the other day this weekend, and I
Speaker 1: was kind of surprised that, you know, the guy would
Speaker 1: stand at his locker and there would be a lot
Speaker 1: of people around it and there's nobody had on masks,
Speaker 1: knowing that you know, well not not most people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most people do not never sound but for the most part. Now, yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of which, let's talk a little bit about the
Speaker 1: rookie minicamp. There were quite a few media people out
Speaker 1: here covering the Cowboys this weekend. Let's start first with
Speaker 1: just some general observations, because I know, sometimes when you
Speaker 1: see guys on draft day or when you've watched the
Speaker 1: film on them, you kind of have an opinion of them,
Speaker 1: and then you see them in person and you get
Speaker 1: a different opinion, whether that be just in their physical
Speaker 1: appearance or whether that be you know, seeing them run
Speaker 1: around a little bit. Let's start first, Let's go around
Speaker 1: the table. Just give me one general observation of a
Speaker 1: guy you noticed that something stood out to you about him.
Speaker 1: Let's start with you, Nick, Well, I'm probably not a
Speaker 1: good person to start with here, because I don't it's
Speaker 1: so hard to evaluate this. We know this. So when
Speaker 1: we were able to, we were writing something on the
Speaker 1: side about picked two guys. I picked two guys and
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with him on the field. One
Speaker 1: of them doesn't even practice, Damon Clark. But I really
Speaker 1: love what I saw from him as far as being
Speaker 1: engaged and not like he's not practicing, but he isn't
Speaker 1: doing as much as you possibly could do. He's standing
Speaker 1: behind there, he's looking and he's looking what the linebackers do.
Speaker 1: He's still taking the same steps he's trying to he's
Speaker 1: like inching to get back at there. For when it
Speaker 1: sounds like Britt Brown, there's obviously the director of rehabit
Speaker 1: and on the medical side, he likes himself. I mean
Speaker 1: he likes him. He's like this kid, you know, and
Speaker 1: that's kind of hard to do for him, you know.
Speaker 1: But he's coming, he's ready to go. And I think
Speaker 1: whenever he does get get get back, I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be like he's taking these mental reps. It's good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I noticed just in for
Speaker 1: the most part in general, just their physique, physique, you know,
Speaker 1: the the body type that some of these guys they
Speaker 1: showed up here like with some good amount of muscles,
Speaker 1: and we see the difference between rookies and like year
Speaker 1: to the kind of like the changes that their body
Speaker 1: go through. But like you talk about Tyler Smith, like
Speaker 1: he like he's a big guy and like his arm
Speaker 1: is huge and long, and it's like it's impressive like
Speaker 1: to me, because I feel like not every year with
Speaker 1: every rookies that come in that they look that way,
Speaker 1: that it just looks like they have more built to them.
Speaker 1: A guy that I really liked a lot. I didn't
Speaker 1: get to see him much on the field, but off
Speaker 1: the field is the receiver, he told her. He he
Speaker 1: I am a fan. He's such a cool dude. He's
Speaker 1: very very nice. I loved him. I'm rooting for him
Speaker 1: all already. As soon as you get someone with such
Speaker 1: a good personality and just a good vibe, you instantly
Speaker 1: become a fan. So I'm looking forward to what he
Speaker 1: can do and then real quick another guy I did
Speaker 1: not get to meet him in person, but Nick did
Speaker 1: us a favors for for some almost cowboys. He got
Speaker 1: an interview, UM got him to speak, but currently he
Speaker 1: is the only kicker on the team, and that's Umbai
Speaker 1: Jonathan gart I Bay okay, Jonathan gay No. But he's
Speaker 1: a Mexican descent, so obviously we're gonna be putting a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff out the summost part, but just just
Speaker 1: really cool to see. I haven't seen him kicking and stuff,
Speaker 1: and that surprises me that he's currently the only kicker
Speaker 1: on the team. And the fact that they cut how
Speaker 1: do you say his last name, nick, I'm scared to
Speaker 1: say the last name, Nagar. Yes, they cut him, so
Speaker 1: that was kind of I don't know, it just caught
Speaker 1: me off guard. I didn't expect that to happen. I'm
Speaker 1: sure why exactly that happened. Say his name for me again,
Speaker 1: Gubb got by Gotti bay okay, but you can say
Speaker 1: it in English too, garbay I preferred like it was No,
Speaker 1: that's not it. It was a clerical move to fit
Speaker 1: somebody else on the roster, like they in all likelihood
Speaker 1: will bring Nagara back or somebody else, like they're they're
Speaker 1: not just going to handle the kicker job to Jonathan
Speaker 1: um so, but he has a shot to absolutely. I
Speaker 1: mean I would call him a favorite right now, but
Speaker 1: like there will be another kicker at camp, even if
Speaker 1: he's not here right now. Um, I agree with what
Speaker 1: you said at the top A G I was, I
Speaker 1: feel dumb for how impressed I was by Tyler Smith
Speaker 1: because like he played left tackle at a high level
Speaker 1: in major college football, Like you have to be an
Speaker 1: athlete to do that. But I was pretty impressed by
Speaker 1: his athleticism, Like he hasn't played guards since he was
Speaker 1: in high school. He didn't really play tackle at all,
Speaker 1: Like he spent all of rookie camp at a new
Speaker 1: position and yeah he and again like I hope people understand,
Speaker 1: like this isn't even like a training camp practice, like
Speaker 1: the rosters limited, You've only got like ten offensive linemen
Speaker 1: like you in a lot of spots. You don't even
Speaker 1: have enough players to have a real practice. Like good
Speaker 1: luck evaluating the quarterbacks and receivers at those practices, because
Speaker 1: it was it was tough to watch, like two quarterbacks
Speaker 1: who weren't even signed, like they were tryout guys windy conditions.
Speaker 1: Just I learned nothing about actual football, But watching Tyler Smith,
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, this guy's a lot more graceful
Speaker 1: of an athlete than I gave him credit for. Because
Speaker 1: you hear like six five three twenty five and you're like,
Speaker 1: he's kind of a big, sloppy guy. Not really like
Speaker 1: he carries his weight really well for a guy that size,
Speaker 1: like he he looks about as fit as you could
Speaker 1: expect the guy that size to look with maybe the
Speaker 1: exception of Tyrn Smith, who's an alien. And I just
Speaker 1: I thought he moved around really well. I thought he
Speaker 1: looked natural. I thought, yeah, I was. I was impressed
Speaker 1: by just the little that I saw from him, you know,
Speaker 1: think to put it all in perspective. I heard this today.
Speaker 1: This was a conversation that happened between scouts at the practice,
Speaker 1: literally at practice a practice the other day. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: this this conversation happened, and so real quick, I'll just
Speaker 1: ask you, Dave, how do you think the quarterbacks looked? Bad? Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: so so real bad? So I was gonna. I was sorry.
Speaker 1: I was standing next to dry But anyways, they had,
Speaker 1: you know those little things that they put up with
Speaker 1: the holes where they throw the balls. Everything was amiss.
Speaker 1: I not once did see the ball going through the hole.
Speaker 1: But sorry to that does mess up the point actually,
Speaker 1: but but the point was in this particular conversation. I
Speaker 1: think it was Tolbert or I don't know, one of
Speaker 1: the one of the receivers, but they're they're watching him
Speaker 1: and he's on the outside. You know, he's split out wide.
Speaker 1: He runs ten yards hard cut to the outside, boom,
Speaker 1: goes to the sideline, and everyone's like, man, that was
Speaker 1: that was nice? Well he looks looks smooth in his
Speaker 1: cut on that ball comes thrown right behind, way behind him,
Speaker 1: and you know, terrible throw. Probably day. Everybody's like this
Speaker 1: guy sucks or whatever, and so these scouts are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was That was a good cut there
Speaker 1: by the receiver. Bad throw. And then other scout that
Speaker 1: kind of knows the plays a little bit was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you ran in the wrong route. You read in the
Speaker 1: wrong route. It's supposed to be a stop. It's supposed
Speaker 1: to be a ten yards stopped turn around. The ball
Speaker 1: probably would have been there, would have been nice, and
Speaker 1: we might have been like, hey, that's nice throw. Whatever.
Speaker 1: But like the point to all that is is you
Speaker 1: don't know what they're doing out there. They might look
Speaker 1: like they're going they're going the right way, but they're not.
Speaker 1: So it's hard to evaluate anybody because of the rookies.
Speaker 1: Not only are going up against other rookies, but they
Speaker 1: don't know anything. None of them know anything. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks did look bad, but yeah, but no, but like
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of everything. Yeah, like these guys
Speaker 1: have never practiced together. I'm sure not all the receivers
Speaker 1: knew what they were doing. Like literally, I was mainly
Speaker 1: I spent most of the two days looking at Tyler
Speaker 1: Smith and Matt will Let's go, because they were playing
Speaker 1: left guard and left tackle, and I was like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: at the very least I can s get an idea
Speaker 1: for how these guys move and how they communicate with
Speaker 1: each other, because everything else is just a free for
Speaker 1: all of bad throws, bad routes. The wind was really
Speaker 1: bad on Friday, to the point that it was like
Speaker 1: carrying balls out of bounds that were Yeah, it just
Speaker 1: everything about it was and everybody, you know, everybody gets
Speaker 1: all excited, and I get it because it's the first
Speaker 1: time we've been able to watch something resembling practice. But
Speaker 1: it's not that you know, so you mentioned will LESCo.
Speaker 1: Tell me what you guys saw from from him? I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously both he and Tyler Smith were work in there
Speaker 1: at guard and tackle, what do you see there saw
Speaker 1: nothing on the other side of him. I mean he
Speaker 1: blocks everything, like as far as like just he's six eight,
Speaker 1: he's he's absolutely massive. So there's no like there will
Speaker 1: all be any of this, Like who is that wilesco
Speaker 1: Of course it's here because he's the one that like
Speaker 1: urban like you just noticed him among the crowd of giants.
Speaker 1: He's the giant and the giants. Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think so he's got that and you knew that
Speaker 1: just by looking at the paper and looking at the size.
Speaker 1: But like I think, you know, from a feat standpoint,
Speaker 1: I mean, he seems like he moves pretty pretty well
Speaker 1: for a guy that's carrying that much size. Yeah. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that one didn't surprise me because
Speaker 1: we saw all the stuff about his athletic testing and
Speaker 1: how he's one of the most athletic tackles to test
Speaker 1: in the last thirty years. But he looks like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like he moves really well. Again, when I hear six
Speaker 1: eight offensive tackle, I'm like, okay, Like if you remember
Speaker 1: our good buddy Dan Skipper love Dan, but like this
Speaker 1: big dude, or you're like Oh he's huge, and you're like,
Speaker 1: you got the size, but it's it's tough for you
Speaker 1: to kick out there and get get in the way
Speaker 1: of some of these guys. But I thought, I thought, well,
Speaker 1: let's go moved really gracefully for a guy who's six eight.
Speaker 1: Not to again not to say like he was perfect.
Speaker 1: I think Sam Williams beat him a few times. I thought.
Speaker 1: Another big takeaway I had was like Mike McCarthy was
Speaker 1: he said himself, He was like, yeah, Sam Williams like
Speaker 1: he got cleaning in the backfield like two or three times.
Speaker 1: It's just a weird thing to hear a coach say,
Speaker 1: because that's the type of stuff we say, you know, like,
Speaker 1: oh he he won that rep. He beat him on
Speaker 1: that rep. Like coaches don't usually get into that publicly,
Speaker 1: but McCarthy, especially at this day, Yeah you're talking about
Speaker 1: McCarthy was like, yeah, he got cleaning in the backfield
Speaker 1: like two or three times on Friday. Yeah. This this
Speaker 1: this draft class is going to be defined by two things.
Speaker 1: Ken Tyler Smith, you know, like be a great starter somewhere,
Speaker 1: whether it be the guard or tackle. You know, if
Speaker 1: he's going to be that. And Ken Sam Williams. Just
Speaker 1: just stay on the field and don't don't get in trouble,
Speaker 1: don't you know, just just mature a little bit. And
Speaker 1: I think he knows that and everyone knows that because
Speaker 1: I think athletically he's got it. You could just tell
Speaker 1: by some of the drills, by some of those things.
Speaker 1: He's got it. And he always had. He had it
Speaker 1: at Old Miss. It was just some of the other
Speaker 1: things that dropped him to the second round. But if
Speaker 1: he can, they can figure that out for him. So
Speaker 1: I guess we're calling him Sam. Now we're not calling him.
Speaker 1: He's gone himself Sam, which is yeah, okay, so back
Speaker 1: to Sam. I'm all over no no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: hi No, that is a him thing. Okay. He said
Speaker 1: call me D And then I think he was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's weird that a bunch of strangers I've never met,
Speaker 1: or calling me by a name that my that's reserved
Speaker 1: for like my people, which I totally get. Like, you know,
Speaker 1: if somebody like if if you call me like by
Speaker 1: a cute nickname and I don't know you like that,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh yeah, right, tiny tiny gym or that
Speaker 1: that became the people's name for you. I was gonna
Speaker 1: tiny gym. I didn't really have a choice. But like,
Speaker 1: you know, if you call me like Davy and you're
Speaker 1: not my mom or my girlfriend, like, don't call me Davy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh so yeah, I feel right. Yeah, it's like me
Speaker 1: calling Nick Nikki like that just doesn't work. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: hate that, but uh so, yeah, I think I call
Speaker 1: you that what I want to. I think Sam was
Speaker 1: like someone else in our group named Nikki called this confusion. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's is that the reason why we're gonna get away
Speaker 1: from them? So yeah, he said, you can call me Sam.
Speaker 1: We've we've we've talked about him, We've talked about Tobered
Speaker 1: a little bit. One guy we haven't talked about that.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get some initial impressions on was tight
Speaker 1: end Jake Ferguson. What'd you guys see there anything interesting
Speaker 1: on the field off the field. I just think he
Speaker 1: needs to start coming up on him today. Yeah, Rob
Speaker 1: And basically you know him being number forty eight and
Speaker 1: Daryl Johnston was a was a great blocker, you know,
Speaker 1: a fullback, and that's what that's one of the things
Speaker 1: that they want to see if this guy can do
Speaker 1: that's why they drafted him, and I think, I gotta
Speaker 1: go read the story. But apparently it's been it's been
Speaker 1: pressed upon him that number forty eight means you better block,
Speaker 1: and I think, well, somebody was like, okay, don't mess
Speaker 1: it up. Don't mess up the number. I don't remember
Speaker 1: what it was. If I was Jake Ferguson, I'd be like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not going to be forty eight when the
Speaker 1: rosters cut down anyway, Like I'll wear it until September first.
Speaker 1: But who in their right mind wants to be forty
Speaker 1: eight if they're not a fullback, Like I'm moving into
Speaker 1: eighty the minute it becomes available or whatever. Anyway. Two,
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I just uh, he's coming
Speaker 1: from Wisconsin. I think he's definitely he has the know
Speaker 1: how in the willingness to do it. That's not what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But honestly, my main impression, like a lot
Speaker 1: of tight ends coming out of college, I'm like, you
Speaker 1: need some protein shakes and some time in the weight room, buddy.
Speaker 1: I just it is what it is. He's like two
Speaker 1: forty five to forty eight something like that. It's just
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm not questioning his ability, but like
Speaker 1: that's something with rookies, especially at those types of positions,
Speaker 1: where it's like you will look he will look like
Speaker 1: a different player this time next year. I'm sure. I mean,
Speaker 1: what tight end has ever come in his first year
Speaker 1: and it's been like this guy's stud It's really it's
Speaker 1: really tough to do, especially the Cowboys haven't drafted a
Speaker 1: first round tight end since I don't know David la Fleur.
Speaker 1: I mean, and he even you know he did, he
Speaker 1: wasn't that that great. Obviously got hurt, but like Witten
Speaker 1: took some time. Schultz, I mean we said it on
Speaker 1: this show. We didn't think he would be on the team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were all like Jarwin needed a lot of development.
Speaker 1: If you're good enough to come in and ball as
Speaker 1: a tight end immediately, you're usually a top twenty pick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure there's an outlier somewhere, but we've
Speaker 1: talked about it before. Even Travis Kelson needed a year
Speaker 1: where he really didn't do anything for the Chiefs as
Speaker 1: a rookie, which is even more remarkable how good Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts was this year, which is just how good he is. TJ.
Speaker 1: Hockinson Kyle Pitts, Like those guys go high, and Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts wasn't drafted for his blocking ability. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: You're you're asking more of a guy when you're looking
Speaker 1: for that person to be able to help block in
Speaker 1: the game, Like you need those muscles and strength, Like
Speaker 1: you can't be just trying to run escape catch a ball.
Speaker 1: Like now you're looking for someone ask the power to
Speaker 1: push guys around and hold them down. So that's gonna
Speaker 1: be I don't. I mean, we'll see if that happens
Speaker 1: this year, but it's gonna be a challenge. I still
Speaker 1: think Sprinkle is gonna have, you know, a chance to
Speaker 1: stick around because Buddy's really doing what he does just
Speaker 1: I mean, and it's not great. I mean, he's they're
Speaker 1: trying to get better than from that, but you still
Speaker 1: need a true blocking tight end. Yeah, I'm sprinkling throw
Speaker 1: Sean mcun in there too, because he's a similar player
Speaker 1: to Ferguson, but he's this will be his third NFL season.
Speaker 1: You just you have an advantage of a knowing what
Speaker 1: you're doing and being he has spent that time in
Speaker 1: the program. So yeah, I'll be curious because like the
Speaker 1: ideal scenario is that Ferguson is good enough to grab
Speaker 1: the backup job right away. But that's a lot easier
Speaker 1: said than done. And if Tyler Smith is the guard,
Speaker 1: which sounds like you will be. And I know this
Speaker 1: isn't a great plan, but like winn in doubt, I mean,
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern can still provide some jumbo packages for them.
Speaker 1: They can still do that. I actually liked when they
Speaker 1: did that last Yeah, I thought he's pretty good in
Speaker 1: that kind of role. I like it too. I just
Speaker 1: think that it obviously, I mean, there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of versatility out of it because it's not like you know,
Speaker 1: like this tight end's gonna go out for a pass
Speaker 1: or you know. So that's but you should be able
Speaker 1: to just line up and run the ball and say
Speaker 1: stop us. That's that's what you that's what you hope
Speaker 1: you can get back to. You tell me, you tell me,
Speaker 1: you give me a stronger guard, and I put McGovern
Speaker 1: and let's say I line them up in the backfield
Speaker 1: as they were doing a lot last year in those
Speaker 1: in those goal line type packages, short yards type packages.
Speaker 1: I feel really good about that. I'll run behind that.
Speaker 1: Give me, give me you should be able to pick
Speaker 1: up third and one in that kind of scenario, I
Speaker 1: would I would like to think so, man, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: would think so, right. Teen million dollars running back running
Speaker 1: behind a three hundred pound and fullback and three hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty pound guard, you would think you right. And
Speaker 1: if you can't, we got some bigger problems here. Real quick,
Speaker 1: before we go to break, I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about undrafted free agents. I read the other day someone
Speaker 1: was saying that this might be one of the better
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent classes the Cowboys have had in a while.
Speaker 1: Give me just one guy, one guy that you guys
Speaker 1: think may have stood out, or that at least you're
Speaker 1: keeping your eye on as an undrafted free agent type player.
Speaker 1: If you don't go first, you could be. But let
Speaker 1: you go first. No, go first? No, I got a few,
Speaker 1: got it. I'm a dork. That's curious. I'm curious who
Speaker 1: said that. Honestly, I haven't really heard that. I don't
Speaker 1: know who was. I can't remember where I read it.
Speaker 1: I read it somewhere, it was an article somewhere. I mean, well,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously it's a it goes into the will
Speaker 1: see category. But every time I looked up, yes, the
Speaker 1: other day watching stuff and stuff that I just caught
Speaker 1: my eye. It was forty one that that was the
Speaker 1: guy Marquis Bell, and that's the guy the Cowboys gave
Speaker 1: the most money too, Safety Safety, Florida, A and M.
Speaker 1: And you know, I am again. It was it was
Speaker 1: just you know, just T shirts and shorts out there.
Speaker 1: But I thought he did all right. He's long and
Speaker 1: they gave him. They gave him a two hundred thousand
Speaker 1: dollars contract. And I don't I think his guarant has
Speaker 1: an undrafted Wow, we got ten and I know it's
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen years ago, but right, I mean that's impressive.
Speaker 1: I don't that's not all guaranteed like the guarant but
Speaker 1: the guarantee was still still substantial. Like I'll bet you
Speaker 1: twenty bucks right now he's on the practice squad if
Speaker 1: he doesn't make the fifty three, like cutting him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I cut into getting I don't know, he's not playing
Speaker 1: that game again. Dave. Dave says it. Dave's right, says
Speaker 1: it all time. Everybody's got one of those. We no,
Speaker 1: we always say there's no way you get him in
Speaker 1: the practice squad. And not only does he does he
Speaker 1: get cut and not claim But then the Cowboys don't
Speaker 1: even keep him. I don't think they've ever lost a
Speaker 1: guy that we were stressed about them losing time that
Speaker 1: I know, Danny Amon Doola, like I know, it's happened,
Speaker 1: but in my time, years ago too, in my time,
Speaker 1: I don't remember it happening. Dola made back to the
Speaker 1: practice squad. He oh, he signed elsewhere later right all
Speaker 1: year and then the Eagles thought that when they made
Speaker 1: the playoffs and the Cowboys didn't, that they could sign
Speaker 1: him and put him on the playoffs. That didn't really
Speaker 1: work that way, but either way, he never came back
Speaker 1: to the cow Yeah. I think safety Bell was the one.
Speaker 1: I remember. He actually played the first game against Houston
Speaker 1: with us. Do you remember the opener? Remember talking another
Speaker 1: safety name Bell, Jason Bell? Jason was he was a
Speaker 1: special teams guy. Did he go? He ended up playing
Speaker 1: for Houston, right, yeah, a first game and he had
Speaker 1: like a big special teams and he actually played against
Speaker 1: his first game just killed us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember,
Speaker 1: that's all. I think Bell is the right answer. Um,
Speaker 1: I get gheta By shouldn't even count because he's a
Speaker 1: kicker like he I mean, of course he's going to
Speaker 1: have it, because I mean, I know it's my job.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately, all my attention did go to the kicker,
Speaker 1: and just because of his background, So the kickers. The
Speaker 1: kickers probably the right answer, because he's the only guy
Speaker 1: on this list that has a chance to start at
Speaker 1: his position. But um, these centers, Yeah, the centers are
Speaker 1: really interesting. Again, like the Cowboys just refused to believe
Speaker 1: that that they need another one for whatever reason. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Farniac's working at it, that's what we keep hearing.
Speaker 1: But I mean, Alec Lendstrom was widely seen. I saw
Speaker 1: grades varying on him from fourth to sixth round. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a guy that a lot of people expected to
Speaker 1: get drafted coming out of what's Boston College. And then
Speaker 1: I don't know as as much about James MP from BYU.
Speaker 1: He's also a center. But like, probably the best two
Speaker 1: centers that didn't get drafted are both here right now,
Speaker 1: So if one of them has a good camp, that
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. And then I was impressed,
Speaker 1: isn't the right word, But like I just noticed a
Speaker 1: couple of the corners, Isaac Taylor Stewart out of Southern
Speaker 1: cow and Quandre Mosley out of Kentucky. They're just they're
Speaker 1: dan Quinn DB's. Like they've got thirty three thirty four
Speaker 1: inch arms something like that, and like you could just
Speaker 1: see them. They were poking at balls that a shorter
Speaker 1: guy wouldn't have been able to get to. And I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that you look like dbs that dan
Speaker 1: Quinn would want to keep around and develop. And so
Speaker 1: maybe that means practice squad. But those are two guys
Speaker 1: that I noticed. Maybe I'm dyslexic. But also forty one
Speaker 1: and number fourteen UM stood out a lot from Indiana
Speaker 1: receiver Hi Fry Focal. He seemed to catch a lot
Speaker 1: of passes UM in the Saturday practice. So again, yeah, receivers.
Speaker 1: Receivers are good names to know because they're only James
Speaker 1: not gonna have a ton of them at training camp
Speaker 1: with this current makeup of the roster. Yeah, who else
Speaker 1: stood out? He's not a rookie? Is that t J.
Speaker 1: Vasher from Texas Tech last year? He was on the
Speaker 1: injured reserve all last year. He's like six six, and
Speaker 1: I mean he's just he's that big. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: he was that he's enormous. He's huge, and he probably
Speaker 1: weighs less than me despite being a foot taller than me,
Speaker 1: which he can working on, Like he could probably dunk
Speaker 1: on a twelve foot goal. He could probably would. He
Speaker 1: could probably dunk on a twelve foot goal. He could
Speaker 1: probably go clean your shot clock for you if you
Speaker 1: if you needed that. I mean he can jump that.
Speaker 1: That's the skill set the place for some places dy
Speaker 1: like that right well. And I mean if you haven't
Speaker 1: seen the highlight catch that he made against Old miss
Speaker 1: in I don't know what year, that was probably nineteen eighteen.
Speaker 1: I mean, ridiculous catch was the number he actually he
Speaker 1: said the other day he lost in the SP for
Speaker 1: that best play of the year to the Miami Patriots
Speaker 1: game where they were throwing the ball back and the
Speaker 1: hail Mary lateral play. Yeah, and they beat Gonk at
Speaker 1: the end zone. That one the SP for best play
Speaker 1: like runner up. He was nominated t J Basher one
Speaker 1: handed catch. All I'm saying is is that he does
Speaker 1: bring a skill set they don't haven't received, or somebody
Speaker 1: that can just go up and elevatet size. They don't
Speaker 1: size that kind of size he's but he's got to
Speaker 1: learn how to how to play. He's be around. He
Speaker 1: hasn't practiced too. I mean when you're on ir all,
Speaker 1: you're you don't practice. So he has been been here,
Speaker 1: he just hasn't. He's another guy that's like he's always
Speaker 1: in the building. He's always here. Um Like I said that,
Speaker 1: I mean I would be scared for him if he
Speaker 1: got hit over the middle by an NFL safety like
Speaker 1: he I mean he is rail thin. So but yeah,
Speaker 1: he's He's very intriguing to watch just because it's a
Speaker 1: rare skill set. Yeah, and he jumped over a tackle.
Speaker 1: Dum me remember that? Yes, he did jump. Yeah. Oh
Speaker 1: just wait till training. Can we have something We don't
Speaker 1: have something? Oh, we have something that works for that.
Speaker 1: So anytime you're watching Mickey Spagnola on the on the mic,
Speaker 1: just be ready because he might just come and jump
Speaker 1: over him. Oh yeah, is that what we're doing we're
Speaker 1: talking about? It was funny, is that, Like Shannon, We
Speaker 1: were talking about it, and Shannon was like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: got to get Mickey to do that. You know, like
Speaker 1: he's gonna do that to Mickey. It's like he could
Speaker 1: do that to you, we could do that to me.
Speaker 1: They run this by legal and HR and everybody else.
Speaker 1: I haven't run it by anybody yet, but let's have
Speaker 1: that discussion on all think he's gonna touch anybody, Just
Speaker 1: think he's just gonna he's just gonna hurdle people. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take our first break. When we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk a little schedule release. There was some interesting
Speaker 1: things in this schedule. I'm interested to hear these guys
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Speaker 1: got a little ce. No, we haven't done that in
Speaker 1: a while. Andrew's got some questions lined up for us.
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Speaker 1: little talk on the schedule. Release Cowboys find out I
Speaker 1: guess the timing of when they're playing everyone, They knew
Speaker 1: all their opponents, but we did get the schedule from
Speaker 1: the NFL was released that job on the video, Oh man,
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Speaker 1: It was really well done and I love the fact
Speaker 1: that it kept true to stephen A and also kept
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Speaker 1: fun video. If you haven't seen it, you can go
Speaker 1: check it out on any of our channels. But it
Speaker 1: was fun video. It really one of the most creative
Speaker 1: things that we've done. And I thought it was I
Speaker 1: thought it was out standing. And whether you know, he's
Speaker 1: nails on the chalkboard for a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 1: just listening to him and whatever, But you know, I
Speaker 1: have a little bit more respect for him for what
Speaker 1: you know, able to do it, and you know, and
Speaker 1: kind of poke fun at the whole situation, because you know,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, it's definitely a bit. It reminds
Speaker 1: me of something out of WrestleMania, for sure, but I
Speaker 1: mean he's stuck to it. It was good. One of
Speaker 1: the things I like about in sports in general is
Speaker 1: when people can take a step back and have a
Speaker 1: little fun with it, because I think we all have
Speaker 1: a tendency sometimes to get a little too serious about sports,
Speaker 1: but it is still sports. It still is entertainment. So
Speaker 1: I kind of like when people can take a step
Speaker 1: back have a little fun, even if they poke a
Speaker 1: little fun at themselves. And I think that's a fun
Speaker 1: thing that flip in the middle of the thing to
Speaker 1: go from like pretty good Dallas to New York. I
Speaker 1: mean that was pretty good, pretty good, all right, Um,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the schedule least. I want to
Speaker 1: go around the table and I want you guys used
Speaker 1: to give me two things. One best thing about the schedule,
Speaker 1: two worst thing about the schedule. Let's start with you, Dave.
Speaker 1: The best thing about the best thing about the schedule.
Speaker 1: Worst thing about schedule? Ah geez. I'm well, I'll start.
Speaker 1: I'll start with, sorry, I didn't do that on purpose.
Speaker 1: What is the best thing about the schedule? I'll start like,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to make it sound like the NFL
Speaker 1: screwed the Cowboys, because I think this is a manageable schedule.
Speaker 1: But it's so much easier to look for the things
Speaker 1: that look hard than the things that look manageable. Yeah, Nick,
Speaker 1: I mean go ahead, if you got something. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the best thing about the schedule. Now, we'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see what it's like to get there. Um. But
Speaker 1: you know, if you're not dying by Thanksgiving, then I
Speaker 1: think it's time to roll. I mean, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: Giants at home, Colts at home, Houston at home, at Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: Philly at home. I mean, you gotta win those five games.
Speaker 1: Yeah you could. I mean you probably won't go five
Speaker 1: and no, that's not the way the NFL's works, but
Speaker 1: you should. You should be able to go four and one,
Speaker 1: five and oh regardless if what what things look like there,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a really they should be favored in
Speaker 1: every game from Thanksgiving on. I mean, as you can't
Speaker 1: predict the future at Tennessee. But yeah, Indian Tennessee, you're
Speaker 1: probably the two with it. You might not be favored,
Speaker 1: but you know, Tennessee. We sorry, I'm I cut you
Speaker 1: off twice. I'm sorry, but um, I mean for all
Speaker 1: the talking we do about the Cowboys taking a step back,
Speaker 1: Like the Titans are a lesser team than they were
Speaker 1: last year. They have lost, they've lost a decent amount
Speaker 1: of production, and Ryan Tannehill probably his worst season since
Speaker 1: he got there last year. So I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced that that's a better team. You can't
Speaker 1: count on Iman's saying with Cowboys anybody. But you can't
Speaker 1: just say, oh, well they have Derrick Henry, well will
Speaker 1: they on December twenty ninth, because I mean that's what
Speaker 1: he does, is he runs the ball and runs the
Speaker 1: ball hard, and you just can't count on. You just
Speaker 1: don't know for sure that you'll have it. And I
Speaker 1: guess that's that's probably why it's a wonderful point. Like
Speaker 1: on paper here in May, they should be favored in
Speaker 1: their last seven games, but like it's hard to even
Speaker 1: formulate an opinion about Nomber in December NFL games. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times have we joked like, man in the spring,
Speaker 1: this looked like a sexy matchup, and instead we're watching
Speaker 1: Matt Castle go against whoever. The other teams trotting out
Speaker 1: because their guy's hurt. So it's hard. But yeah, that's
Speaker 1: I mean, the back end of the schedule looks very forgiving,
Speaker 1: Like once you get done with that back to back
Speaker 1: road trip to Green Bay in Minnesota, everything else after
Speaker 1: that looks super manageable. It is interesting that they are
Speaker 1: giving them two different short weeks. Instead of doing the
Speaker 1: back to back thursdays they're playing, they're going Thursday or
Speaker 1: Sunday to Thursday and then Saturday to Thursday. So two
Speaker 1: different short weeks in the same month. Like that sounds
Speaker 1: nerve wracking to me. Mike McCarthy, he sort of seemed
Speaker 1: like he liked it. I don't maybe because they get
Speaker 1: the Saturday games so they have a little extra time.
Speaker 1: I don't know. For me, the big thing is, like
Speaker 1: you know, people love to people love to talk about
Speaker 1: like das record against playoff teams, and they're actually is
Speaker 1: good when they play the good team as well. We
Speaker 1: don't have to wait very long to find out because
Speaker 1: I mean it's a good bet, especially that early in
Speaker 1: the season. Good bet Tampa, Cincinnati in La are all
Speaker 1: gonna have you know, they will be at full strength.
Speaker 1: And that's three of the last four Super Bowl teams
Speaker 1: that you have to play in the first six weeks
Speaker 1: of the season. So pretty good, pretty good measuring stick
Speaker 1: opportunity there right at the very beginning. Ye Amber, best thing.
Speaker 1: Worst thing about schedule, I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: best thing. I would say the most exciting thing for
Speaker 1: me is exactly seeing how it starts out the season.
Speaker 1: Those two teams to start back to bad. You're starting
Speaker 1: with the bang, and like it's gonna say a lot
Speaker 1: I say this, but we know how different it looks
Speaker 1: like teams look from the beginning of the season to
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. So it's tough, but
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be a big challenge. And I think
Speaker 1: that if they just run right through them, Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: and Inincinnati, it's gonna be what well they run through them.
Speaker 1: I mean we'll be talking about a parade. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what happens. Literal, that's down. Get ready about the
Speaker 1: opposing team, Oh, run through the cap. Hold on, I
Speaker 1: got my I got a lot of we'll be starting off, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's my that's my concern because I don't know
Speaker 1: how prepared they're gonna be for the beginning of the
Speaker 1: season to start off against teams with that kind of
Speaker 1: level and with so many questions that we currently have
Speaker 1: so many young talents that the Cowboys are just completely
Speaker 1: betting on. I mean, do you talk about all the
Speaker 1: rookies and second year guys. That's gonna be hard to
Speaker 1: start the season that way and not really allow them
Speaker 1: to get more than just those preseason games, to be
Speaker 1: playing an NFL level game with all the veteran guys together.
Speaker 1: So it's just gonna be big challenge and the good
Speaker 1: thing or like, I don't underestimate anybody. The only thing
Speaker 1: that I'm like, oh, okay, that's kind of a break
Speaker 1: are the Giants. That's the only team that every year
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna, like, you know, be nice to have
Speaker 1: if Blake Jarwin was here again, you know, he always
Speaker 1: balls out in those kind of games again against the Giants.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I am not saying anything else
Speaker 1: about nobody manageable teams or not or whatever. I've seen
Speaker 1: it happen. I buy into it. The Cowboys might win
Speaker 1: a game and then they face off somebody else towards
Speaker 1: the end of the season, that they're at a high
Speaker 1: level and that we see the reality of where the
Speaker 1: Cowboys really are at that time. So I'm not falling
Speaker 1: for it this year. I'm just gonna let it happen,
Speaker 1: see how it starts out, and see what each team
Speaker 1: can bring, because we've seen it, I think enough times
Speaker 1: now where the Cowboys can be the worst enemies, like
Speaker 1: they themselves, make the mistakes and just go out and
Speaker 1: perform at a level that they should against the team
Speaker 1: that they should be. So we'll see. I hear a
Speaker 1: lot of people saying the opponents can be manageable this season,
Speaker 1: and Dave just kind of went through all of them.
Speaker 1: But there's no telling. It's a it's a wonderful point.
Speaker 1: I mean, all you can do. I mean I can
Speaker 1: look at this schedule and I can talk myself into
Speaker 1: The only teams that I can't really talk myself into
Speaker 1: having a decent year are Chicago and Houston. I just
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see a path to either of
Speaker 1: those teams being very good. Everybody else you never know, man,
Speaker 1: I've I've brought this up on Detroit's got the makings
Speaker 1: of a pretty decent roster. Jacksonville they've done a ton
Speaker 1: to help Trevor Lawrence. New York. I wouldn't bet on
Speaker 1: New York being good, but maybe Daniel Jones finally puts
Speaker 1: it together again. I wouldn't bet on that, but crazier
Speaker 1: things have happened. That's I mean, I've made this point
Speaker 1: a million times since the schedule came out of Like
Speaker 1: if nobody, not even me, mister Lsu would have been
Speaker 1: like Bengals, that's a tough one. That's the super Bowl
Speaker 1: runner up. Yeah, Like this time last year you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: the Bengals are sort of getting right, but like that's
Speaker 1: a game you should win. And now a year later
Speaker 1: you're like, man, basically, what we how we look at
Speaker 1: Jacksonville at this point like they got some talent, but
Speaker 1: maybe they haven't really been a problem for anybody. They
Speaker 1: picked fifth in the draft last year. So yeah, I mean, Amber,
Speaker 1: you're totally right. Totally, You're totally right, But that both
Speaker 1: there's two sides to that, you know, and and and
Speaker 1: you could make an argument that Tampa and Cincinnati, and
Speaker 1: you know, at Green Bay. I think if Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: is there and everything that goes into that, that's obviously
Speaker 1: going to be a challenge. But you know, I love
Speaker 1: it when people say, like, well, they'll probably start out
Speaker 1: oh and two. I'm like, I mean, I don't see
Speaker 1: that at all. They could, but I think there'll be
Speaker 1: a better chance that they start out two and oh
Speaker 1: than they start out oh too. Really, why better chance?
Speaker 1: Just listen to the statement there's a better chance that
Speaker 1: they start doing oh than oh and two? Why well,
Speaker 1: I mean Vegas will tell you that because they'll be
Speaker 1: favored in probably both games. They won't be Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll be favored in those games. You
Speaker 1: don't think they'll be favored at home. They'll be favorite
Speaker 1: at home against Cincinnati. Maybe I don't think they'll be
Speaker 1: favorite at home against Tampa Bay. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they know. And here's nothing Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: I mean, the wheels were falling off at the end
Speaker 1: of the year last year, and then he and then
Speaker 1: he retires and then he comes back, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: that they'll be fine, But like they have their problem,
Speaker 1: they have their issues too. I mean they got shut
Speaker 1: out and I nothing at home to the Saints, Like
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. The end of the year,
Speaker 1: they were struggling a little bit. They were beat to
Speaker 1: hell too. I mean they lost a lot of players,
Speaker 1: like heading down that stretch just saying yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and that's that's fine. I just I think be favored
Speaker 1: in both those games. And Cincinnati did lose seven games
Speaker 1: last year. So I mean they got, they got hot,
Speaker 1: they got they won these their defenses better than people
Speaker 1: think their kicker. I mean, they made they won these
Speaker 1: close games. You got to give them credit for that.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't think that it's automatic that
Speaker 1: they're world beaters. Now. Well, you know how I look
Speaker 1: at it, or like how I feel with it is
Speaker 1: last year, and I remember you're making the point like
Speaker 1: you feel that they would have won the game against
Speaker 1: Tampa had they had Sack Martin in the game, they
Speaker 1: would have had a better chance to finish off. And
Speaker 1: they were very, very competitive, and that's how they started
Speaker 1: out the season. Now it's more than a matter than
Speaker 1: just missing missing a veteran guy like sak Martin. It's
Speaker 1: like you got so many different pieces in the in
Speaker 1: the roster in the offense, even on defense, Like it
Speaker 1: just looks different now and you just don't have any
Speaker 1: clue of how it's all gonna come together as one.
Speaker 1: Is the passing game gonna be working out with the
Speaker 1: receivers that you've got, is the running game even gonna
Speaker 1: get going with the old line that you're creating now.
Speaker 1: So it went for me, it went from last year
Speaker 1: maybe having a Mason piece to get you there to
Speaker 1: beat a team like Tampa, to now having so many
Speaker 1: unknowns to where yes, they could possibly go out there
Speaker 1: impress all of us, But I don't. I just I
Speaker 1: can't see them being favorites. I think they will be.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they'll be the favorite in that game,
Speaker 1: maybe if by one or two. But I mean because
Speaker 1: just probably also have something to do with what happens
Speaker 1: in week one, right for both those teams. Whatever happens
Speaker 1: a week one, I'll probably effect what that line is
Speaker 1: in week two. I just don't see him being I
Speaker 1: don't I mean, I don't see him losing two home
Speaker 1: games in a row like that, especially both of them,
Speaker 1: well one of them at night. Yeah, I just I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's it would be it's it's the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: They'll start one and one. Yeah, figure out a way
Speaker 1: to get one. Yeah. DraftKings actually has the odds out
Speaker 1: if you guys want them. What are the odds for
Speaker 1: those two games? Right? So, right now Tampa is favorite
Speaker 1: by two and a half, and then the Cincinnati game
Speaker 1: is actually a pick them. Okay, sounds about right. That
Speaker 1: sounds about right. Yeah, that sounds about right. And then
Speaker 1: whatever happened week happens week one will affect that line
Speaker 1: for week two. I would think so, I certainly think,
Speaker 1: oh and two, it's possible. I would be Yeah, they'll
Speaker 1: just they'll be one and one like they always are.
Speaker 1: I mean that's why, you know, when you look at this,
Speaker 1: there's there's about two or three games that are like
Speaker 1: really really big swing games. You know at the Giants
Speaker 1: is a big one because if they are probably going
Speaker 1: to be one and one, you gotta go up there
Speaker 1: and you gotta take care of business there. I see
Speaker 1: that Minnesota game on November twentieth, you know, after Green
Speaker 1: Bay you're about to go three straight home games and
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and all that, Like that's a really big game,
Speaker 1: you know, just to kind of see where you stand
Speaker 1: there so Minnesota Giants. I mean, there's others, but those
Speaker 1: are the ones that I could see where this whole
Speaker 1: thing could kind of swing based off of them. Maybe
Speaker 1: at Philly. That's the other thing. I mean, their track
Speaker 1: record against the division with Dak speaks for itself. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll take that. I think you I still think, well,
Speaker 1: that kind of goes with what I'm gonna say. I
Speaker 1: still think they're probably the favorites to win the division,
Speaker 1: but man, that gap looks a lot closer than it did. Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, no, I don't think the world of Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: but the Eagles have put a heck of a good
Speaker 1: roster around him. Giants, I still don't. I don't believe
Speaker 1: in Daniel Jones, so I don't think they're very good,
Speaker 1: but they clearly have upgraded the talent on their team.
Speaker 1: I don't trust Carson Wentz either, but like he had
Speaker 1: it other than the meltdown in Jacksonville, he had a
Speaker 1: pretty nice season for the Colts. Like he's capable. He's
Speaker 1: capable of. I think he threre like twenty six touchdowns
Speaker 1: and seven picks, Like he was fine. And if there's
Speaker 1: a good team around him, like Washington should be good
Speaker 1: enough to try to make some noise. Like again, I
Speaker 1: still like Dallas's chances, but like they're not be shocked
Speaker 1: if they swept the division like they did last year
Speaker 1: they went six and oh right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I just I don't. I don't expect that this year.
Speaker 1: I think it's more like three or four of this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah in the division. Yeah, I agree. All right, let's
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Speaker 1: to check that out, all right, Amber, Let's get get
Speaker 1: a little c No, all right, let's see how many
Speaker 1: questions we can get through. Sam Williams is a starter
Speaker 1: at defensive end Week one against Tampa Bay No, no, no,
Speaker 1: all right, that's easy, Okay. Nothing about him. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's necessarily about him. It's just he's a rookie. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is about him. He's he's a rookie and not
Speaker 1: ready to be a starter. About him, well, what I
Speaker 1: mean by that is doesn't mean he's not going to
Speaker 1: be a good player. Sure, it just means right now,
Speaker 1: he's a rookie and they got for a week one,
Speaker 1: they got guys they trust more to put out there,
Speaker 1: all right, based on the new editions like Williams Clark Ridgeway,
Speaker 1: will our defense do better against the run? M I think?
Speaker 1: I think so. I mean, like you would hope to
Speaker 1: have some improvement there. I mean, who did they lose
Speaker 1: Randy greg Green, Kean O'Neill, Urban, Urban, Who who they
Speaker 1: lost halfway through the sea? A whole lot. Anyways, I
Speaker 1: don't think you were looking at guys that were stopping
Speaker 1: the run match anywhere, So I don't I see, just
Speaker 1: improved and they should be improved that Neville Galimore didn't
Speaker 1: play most of the season. He's a big body in
Speaker 1: there that I think, you know, I think if he's
Speaker 1: back and oh, Digiza, I mean he will be back.
Speaker 1: I'm saying if he plays a lot with I think
Speaker 1: they have a chance to be better. I would imagine
Speaker 1: to be better more than the worse were they Like,
Speaker 1: were they atrocious? I'm sorry for not remembering this off
Speaker 1: the top might have some games where they were like man,
Speaker 1: what they're just Yeah, No, they definitely had I mean
Speaker 1: the San Francisco overall, but I think there were games
Speaker 1: where you just kind of like, man, this digger they were.
Speaker 1: They were middle of the pack on the season, and
Speaker 1: they got picked on a few times. I'll say, see
Speaker 1: just better. Just yeah. I think that was mainly the
Speaker 1: area of improvement. I would say that we were kind
Speaker 1: of discussing when you look at the defense, When you
Speaker 1: looked at the defense overall last year and everything, that
Speaker 1: they got better at the run games like stopping the
Speaker 1: run was the main area where they kind of did
Speaker 1: show their weakness. Yeah, but I mean they were atrocious
Speaker 1: in twenty though. I mean they were thirty first. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess the reason I'm being like reluctant is I
Speaker 1: don't see like a huge jump, But I don't think
Speaker 1: they'll be worse. I mean, if you have Neville healthy,
Speaker 1: Osa taking another step, adding some veteran guys having to
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence healthy for more of the year. People can
Speaker 1: roll their eyes at his ability and run defense all
Speaker 1: they want, but it's real. Um, yeah, I think they'll
Speaker 1: be better, all right, Micah Parsons. Will he have a
Speaker 1: sophomore slump year? No? I will hate will be a slump?
Speaker 1: I hate the phrasing yeah, because the bar is so high, Like,
Speaker 1: will it be a slump? If he has eighty tackles
Speaker 1: and eight sacks with an interception like that sounds pretty
Speaker 1: great year to me. I mean, I'd be shocked if
Speaker 1: he beats his rookie sack total just because that's a
Speaker 1: freaking that's a high barb Um. No, he's not gonna
Speaker 1: slump in the sense that we're I'll be shocked if
Speaker 1: we're sitting here in December, like, man, where's that? Where's
Speaker 1: the Mica from twenty one? Like where what happened to
Speaker 1: this guy? Like he will be a good player. He
Speaker 1: might not statistically match what he did last year, but
Speaker 1: oh well, he's going to go into every game this
Speaker 1: year unlike every game last year with teams saying number
Speaker 1: one person we got to deal with is Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1: So he's got to adjust to that, which means his
Speaker 1: numbers probably won't be the same as as well last
Speaker 1: year because he's going to be the target, which is why,
Speaker 1: and that alone is why wouldn't you say, you know,
Speaker 1: people think he should rush all the time or where
Speaker 1: he should be coming from. You know, I think it
Speaker 1: gives more value to be able to play linebacker and
Speaker 1: rush from different spots because you can say that all
Speaker 1: you want to, but that's exactly what you want your
Speaker 1: quarterback to do it every single snap is to find him,
Speaker 1: look for him and try to figure out man. Maybe
Speaker 1: we adjust things, and now that means that instead of
Speaker 1: doing you know, we do what we do. No, you're not,
Speaker 1: you're doing what number eleven is wanting you to do.
Speaker 1: Or you can push him into bad situations by making
Speaker 1: them adjust to you and where you are. And so
Speaker 1: they have to choose. They have to say, either we're
Speaker 1: going to do this that puts us out of disadvantage
Speaker 1: to be able to stop Mica, or we're gonna just
Speaker 1: let MIKEA do his thing. And that's where you know,
Speaker 1: you can really put teams in bad situations. You know,
Speaker 1: I think I think there's a there's a chance that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he could have even a better year, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's going to be hard with the numbers, but
Speaker 1: he can he can have. Yeah. I wonder if I
Speaker 1: bet the Cowboys would gladly take fewer sacks from Micah
Speaker 1: if it means that Dante Fowler is getting a one
Speaker 1: on one with a lesser player as often as possible,
Speaker 1: you know, Like that's how you up the numbers for
Speaker 1: everybody else. And yeah, like that's what makes him so
Speaker 1: valuable and that's why when they drafted him, I was like,
Speaker 1: if he's more than just an off ball linebacker, I
Speaker 1: like to pick a lot more than I do right now.
Speaker 1: And that's if if if you're playing a Rashaan Slater
Speaker 1: or like some tackle that can take anybody away, then
Speaker 1: you just move them, like you don't have to beat
Speaker 1: your head against the wall. With a player like Micah Parsons.
Speaker 1: You move him to maximize his impact. So I would
Speaker 1: be very impressed if he statistically tops what he did
Speaker 1: last year. But he's going to be the focal point
Speaker 1: and the reason why the defense is successful. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: without being said, definitely not a slump year. No, Like
Speaker 1: he's not he's gonna have a great year. I would
Speaker 1: be surprised if he doesn't. Um, Well, the Cowboys be
Speaker 1: using Paulder more this season. Show me, yeah, No, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say no, show me, did I see it? I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna buy it. Done. I'm done. Maybe if they
Speaker 1: do this or that and the other, like maybe you
Speaker 1: can get twn touches in the game. No, just do it.
Speaker 1: I don't care. Can he can he be the punt returner?
Speaker 1: I talked about that. I think we answered in the
Speaker 1: mail bag the other day, Like is he like I
Speaker 1: know there are different skills between a kick returner and
Speaker 1: punt returner. Does he have that that thing that punt
Speaker 1: returners have. I don't know, He's never done it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm trying to say. Do you think he
Speaker 1: has that kind of he's got juice when the ball
Speaker 1: is in his hands. I know that. I just I
Speaker 1: would tell him to like spend the summer with the
Speaker 1: jugs machine because like we know they don't we CD's
Speaker 1: not going to do it as much. I'm sure he
Speaker 1: will still return some punts, but like he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be their primary guy because that was a way to
Speaker 1: get him touches when he was the third receivers, like, well,
Speaker 1: this is six extra touches a game for a guy
Speaker 1: that might struggle. Otherwise, that's not gonna be an issue anymore.
Speaker 1: He's number one, so he doesn't need to be doing
Speaker 1: all that and quick, who's the next guy in line
Speaker 1: behind him? They like. McCarthy even said that during rookie camp.
Speaker 1: He was like, all options are on the table, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't love the sound of that,
Speaker 1: Like I don't love the thought that you don't really
Speaker 1: have a guy you feel good about. That's I don't
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, the thing about punt returns to
Speaker 1: me is like you just don't know until you get
Speaker 1: them back there if they can do it, because it
Speaker 1: is I mean, you gotta be fearless and a bit
Speaker 1: crazy to be a punt returner because the guys are
Speaker 1: coming at you a lot faster, they're on top of
Speaker 1: you a lot quicker. You gotta make a split second
Speaker 1: decision sometimes on whether you're gonna fair catch it or
Speaker 1: whether you're gonna take off with it. There's a lot
Speaker 1: that goes in there, and when you're kicking, you got
Speaker 1: a little more time to kind of feel what's going on,
Speaker 1: and worst case scenario, you let it go through the
Speaker 1: end zone, right, And so it's just I think it's
Speaker 1: a little it's it's a lot different mentally for the
Speaker 1: guy that's going to be returning a punt. Worst case
Speaker 1: scenario because you not as you not getting over there
Speaker 1: in time at the eighteen yard line to get it,
Speaker 1: so you just let it go and then it rolls
Speaker 1: to the two. That's the worst I mean, that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tony has displayed some questionable judgment at times as the
Speaker 1: kick return. If he's got that, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not saying he would be like an all pro,
Speaker 1: but he's got juice and he's got the ability to
Speaker 1: make people miss. And if he can do it, that's
Speaker 1: a way to get him four or six more touches
Speaker 1: a game that they refuse to give him as a
Speaker 1: running back. I'm just trying a problem solve here. If
Speaker 1: they don't want to listen to me, that's fine. Hey,
Speaker 1: do you think there's any shot whatsoever that Cede Lamb
Speaker 1: is returning puns this ship? I wouldn't do it. I
Speaker 1: got asked this the other day. I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1: Not because of him being the starter. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's that great at it, Like I mean, when has
Speaker 1: he just been like so dynamic It's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: CD back there, like, don't kick it to him. I
Speaker 1: mean like if I'm Miami Dolphins, I mean Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: is doing it. I mean, yeah, he's your number one receiver,
Speaker 1: but he's doing it. Or you know, Deshaun Jackson did it.
Speaker 1: Those guys they're awesome and they can play their position.
Speaker 1: But I just don't think CD is worth the risk
Speaker 1: because I don't I haven't seen him just be that dynamic.
Speaker 1: He's okay, but he's not like watch out, you know,
Speaker 1: don't go to the bathroom because they're about to punt
Speaker 1: the CD. Do you think about like Chekelon Diggs, No, no,
Speaker 1: you don't want to see it, or no, you don't
Speaker 1: think he'd be good at it. I think he'd be
Speaker 1: great at it. I don't want to see it. I
Speaker 1: don't want the like that. I mean, and I've I'm
Speaker 1: in favor of receivers doing it. If they're good at it,
Speaker 1: you typically have other receivers that can fill in if
Speaker 1: you're if you get hurt, like a a lockdown franchise
Speaker 1: cornerback and it's hard to come by. I just don't
Speaker 1: love the idea of like risking that um don't say it, well, no,
Speaker 1: I want to you. I know Deon did it. I know,
Speaker 1: I know it's been thirty years since Dion was in
Speaker 1: his crime. Like, it's a different, different other cornerback. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of another cornerback in the league that's
Speaker 1: done it. There's there's a lot of guys that that
Speaker 1: do it like that, Like from a cornerbacks then point
Speaker 1: cd average ten yards per tempt. He also he only
Speaker 1: had three more returns than Cedric last year. My answer
Speaker 1: is that I bet he'll do it, but it won't
Speaker 1: be a day of weekly occurrence. That's just my guess.
Speaker 1: But I don't know who it's gonna be. I mean,
Speaker 1: who's your sure handed guy that's like, okay, put him
Speaker 1: back there. This is not the balls at midfield. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna be reporting if he can Tilbur do it.
Speaker 1: Has cop Tilber Dunner in college what McCarthy McCarthy asked,
Speaker 1: this might not have been his fault, just I mean,
Speaker 1: they don't have a punt returner. McCarthy made every skill
Speaker 1: player field a field kicks and punts during rookie camp.
Speaker 1: He's basically like, let's just see how all these guys
Speaker 1: look trapped and catching the balls. Tilbert's rep got caught
Speaker 1: up in the wind and it just landed like eight
Speaker 1: yards to the to the right of him, like he
Speaker 1: just he mistracted or lost where it was in the sun.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, but yeah, they had hit
Speaker 1: the ground like it wasn't even close to him. And
Speaker 1: I was like, did you did you lose it? Like
Speaker 1: you didn't even really look like you knew where it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe he's better at it. But it was just
Speaker 1: funny that because everybody's gonna watch when the third round
Speaker 1: pick receiver, Like nobody cares about the tight end that's
Speaker 1: doing everything on the team when Tilber. When Tilbert came
Speaker 1: up for his rep, it was like, all right, let's
Speaker 1: see what you go. Okay, all right, who's up next? Yeah? Um,
Speaker 1: maybe though maybe he could all Right, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: I think we have time for one more. I'll let
Speaker 1: you guys choose and send my easy question or a
Speaker 1: spicy one. Spicy Okay, this is the last season we
Speaker 1: have with Mike McCarthy, den Quinn and kill him more.
Speaker 1: That's oh all three. Oh. All I have to say
Speaker 1: is no, no, I mean, see, there's an easy way
Speaker 1: out of it. You know, you could say, you know,
Speaker 1: there's no there's no no way, no way all three
Speaker 1: of them are coaching here in twenty twenty three. There's
Speaker 1: no way because if it if it goes well to
Speaker 1: the point where Mike McCarthy stays, and that means those
Speaker 1: other two have done their job and they're going to
Speaker 1: probably go get head coaching jobs because they were on
Speaker 1: the doorstep of doing it last year. If it doesn't
Speaker 1: go real well at all, then it could be o
Speaker 1: for three. But I mean there's a better chance of
Speaker 1: over three than a three three for three, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: I yes, there's way better chance that none of them
Speaker 1: are here next year than all of them, I think,
Speaker 1: because yeah, if I mean maybe and maybe not so
Speaker 1: much Kellen Moore, I don't know, but like it's the
Speaker 1: it's the upset of the decade that dan Quinn stayed right,
Speaker 1: like Jerry had to dig into the pocketbook and some
Speaker 1: other awkward things happened along the way, and I just
Speaker 1: if the defense is good again this year, especially with
Speaker 1: another you know, you got another high profile draft pick
Speaker 1: and Sam Williams to work with, like, there's no way
Speaker 1: they can keep him out. I think if this team
Speaker 1: does exactly what they did last year, that I think
Speaker 1: Jerry willman mix it up. I think Jerry will make
Speaker 1: some changes if I do exactly what they did last year,
Speaker 1: which means if they get to the playoffs and they
Speaker 1: lose a round one, I think, so you get beyond that.
Speaker 1: Now it's the scenario you guys were talking about. Then
Speaker 1: it's a situation where those other two guys become more
Speaker 1: of a commodity on the open market to be able
Speaker 1: to go and be head coach. How bad does he
Speaker 1: need to get for you too? For something I had
Speaker 1: to happen mid season type of change. Let me let
Speaker 1: me show you something right here. November thirteenth, Nick knows
Speaker 1: this well. Middle of the season, you go to Green Bay.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, you gotta you gotta rough first
Speaker 1: part of the first part of the season. I tell you,
Speaker 1: I tell you the one to look at there is
Speaker 1: October twenty third. It's it's home against Detroit. Because if
Speaker 1: the first six games have not gone well, those six
Speaker 1: games are going to be tough. I mean two, the
Speaker 1: two easy ones are both division games in the middle.
Speaker 1: So um, let's say it's two and four. Let's say
Speaker 1: it's worse than that. Yeah, and then you lose to Detroit. Okay,
Speaker 1: well then now you got problem. So so so then what
Speaker 1: would happen is de being on what? Really? I would
Speaker 1: say maybe it's Chicago because you're about to go into
Speaker 1: a bye two. Like Jerry makes the statement on the
Speaker 1: fan twice that does us, Well, what's going on after
Speaker 1: the Detroit and then we head into the Bears game
Speaker 1: and there's all this speculation and then that goes bad. Ye,
Speaker 1: then that's where you get. Then everybody's bye week and
Speaker 1: then the website like that's that's exactly what happened. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what happened. Don't say that. Don't mess up my
Speaker 1: bye week exactly what? Wait? How is Wade the only
Speaker 1: mid season firing of the Jerry era? Could he wait
Speaker 1: to the Yes, that's to answer all the head coach.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. No, no, no, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: head coach, not Paul. Yeah, that was it. The bottom,
Speaker 1: the bottom would have to truly drop out, like you
Speaker 1: would have to legit legitimately be out of the playoff
Speaker 1: race by Halloween. I think for that to happen. But
Speaker 1: you know, that's one of the things that I don't
Speaker 1: like about the schedule. And I was, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: when I asked that first question about what you like
Speaker 1: and what you don't like about the schedule, one of
Speaker 1: the things that I immediately noticed was not only how
Speaker 1: tough it is the beginning of the season, but that
Speaker 1: actually lines up when Dallas will be We know they
Speaker 1: will be shorthanded, we know they won't have their probably
Speaker 1: second receiver for at least those first couple of games,
Speaker 1: and so when you start talking about Nick, when you
Speaker 1: were talking about they'll probably be favorite in those two games,
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I don't know. Like I was hoping
Speaker 1: that they would actually backload the schedule. Give me some
Speaker 1: easy games at the beginning of the season when I'm
Speaker 1: a little shorthanded, and then let me work into getting
Speaker 1: those guys ready, and by the end of the season,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm ready to face Tampa Bay Cincinnati in the rams.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm a little bit concerned about. This was
Speaker 1: a year that you were hoping for a Giant's opener. Yes,
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. Yeah. I mean it's funny because that's what
Speaker 1: I go back to, is like I don't think the
Speaker 1: team is better on paper. I've said it a million times,
Speaker 1: Like I don't think they're better than they were last year,
Speaker 1: and I think the expectation is somehow even higher, Like
Speaker 1: I don't think yeah, like one and done ain't gonna
Speaker 1: make anybody happy, including the owner. But they're not better
Speaker 1: than they were last year or so buckle up like that.
Speaker 1: Just it's gonna be an interesting season with When you
Speaker 1: consider that, it's like, well, we kind of gave you
Speaker 1: less to work with, but we want you to do
Speaker 1: more with it. Have fun. It's a weird spot to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it comes down to that question about Micah Parsons and
Speaker 1: the sophomore slump. If he if he had a sophomore
Speaker 1: someth that's that's terrible. If he's about what he was,
Speaker 1: then you know, then we'll see what happens. But if
Speaker 1: he takes a next step, if he if he's if
Speaker 1: he's better, which he could be, because this guy, he
Speaker 1: says he loves football, he studies it all the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, he wants to get better. He's really hungry
Speaker 1: at it. I think he's becoming more of a leader.
Speaker 1: If he takes a next step in that direction and
Speaker 1: he's way better than what he was, then I mean
Speaker 1: you have a chance. I mean you're gonna be in
Speaker 1: every game. And speaking of being better, that's actually where
Speaker 1: I expect him to grow this year. I expect him
Speaker 1: to come in the here what I want. I should
Speaker 1: say what I wanted him to come in here and
Speaker 1: make this entire defense better because of his attitude. We've
Speaker 1: seen how throughout the history of the NFL there are
Speaker 1: certain players that have an ability because of not only
Speaker 1: their play, but also how they hold other people accountable,
Speaker 1: to make the entire defense better around them. I think
Speaker 1: he's one of those kind of players that if he
Speaker 1: can be that that type of voice, where he can
Speaker 1: be that alpha that's like holding people accountable and making
Speaker 1: sure everybody's playing up to a certain standard, playing up
Speaker 1: to his standard. I think that's where you can see
Speaker 1: this defense now make a big jump. Because we all
Speaker 1: know it's hard. Dave. Think you just tweeted this earlier
Speaker 1: today about how hard it is to replicate a good
Speaker 1: defensive season. That's not an easy thing to do to
Speaker 1: sustain that, but I do think if they have any
Speaker 1: hope of doing that, it's going to come from Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons making everybody better. Well. Jerry also thinks that they're
Speaker 1: gonna get Micah like production from this draft class too,
Speaker 1: So okay, maybe we'll be sitting here talking about the news.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody was expecting what came from from
Speaker 1: Mica to come from Mica. Not to say he wouldn't
Speaker 1: be a good player, but I don't think anybody expected
Speaker 1: what they got. So let's let's see, you know, let's
Speaker 1: see where that goes. Like they've said, buckle up, buckle
Speaker 1: up for this ride, because it's gonna be bumpy. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun as usual, like when you're in the
Speaker 1: roller coaster and the guy comes by and pushes the
Speaker 1: bar down and you're like, it's been a little loose.
Speaker 1: Can you can you come tightest thing for me? I
Speaker 1: don't know if how I feel about that. This thing
Speaker 1: does a loop the loop, right, Like, can you come
Speaker 1: secure this a little tighter for me and still move
Speaker 1: it a little? That's how I feel right now. All right,
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, join us. We'll be back next week.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more until then for Nick Eaton, Dave Helmt,
Speaker 1: amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eaelton. This has been The Break
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