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Speaker 1: number thirty five. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump right in. And there's so much
Speaker 1: It seemed like there's always some news breaking around here.
Speaker 1: But we start hearing this morning of a new deal.
Speaker 1: Not one of the people that we had been talking
Speaker 1: about previously who was getting a deal, Lyle Collins actually
Speaker 1: signs an extension. He was due to be an unrestricted
Speaker 1: free agent at the end of this season heading into
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Do you guys know the terms of the
Speaker 1: deal as far as what he actually was paid as
Speaker 1: a as a right tackle for the Dallas Cowboys. Five
Speaker 1: years and fifty million dollars of new money. The whole thing,
Speaker 1: when you include the last year of his current deal,
Speaker 1: comes around to like fifty nine million dollars. Thirty five
Speaker 1: and guarantees ish. I always like to say ish because
Speaker 1: you know they hide stuff in there, and the full
Speaker 1: guarantee and the injury guarantee are different in YadA YadA,
Speaker 1: but it's roughly thirty five. Does the fact that they
Speaker 1: did this deal with those other three big deals still
Speaker 1: sitting out there. Do you think that at all signals
Speaker 1: that there's plenty of room to sign everyone, or do
Speaker 1: you take the other approach that there's only a certain
Speaker 1: pie and that pie shrinking with the addition of the
Speaker 1: Jalen deal and the and the Lyle deal, that now
Speaker 1: that pie is shrinking and it's less money out there
Speaker 1: for those I don't agree with that at all, because
Speaker 1: that means that would be that would be bad business
Speaker 1: to do that. Yeah, they know where their priorities are.
Speaker 1: I think whether it is is they're telling the other
Speaker 1: guys that the pie is shrinking and next year, who
Speaker 1: knows what it'll be, because they didn't have to make
Speaker 1: these deals right now, Lyle or Jalen. So I think
Speaker 1: it's like this is why it's pretty much going to
Speaker 1: be for the other three guys. And so I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a really I don't think it's a signal
Speaker 1: so much to them. It might be that they might
Speaker 1: be trying to signal that, but I think everybody who
Speaker 1: knows doesn't believe that at all. You'd have to be
Speaker 1: a sucker to believe it. Because the Lyle deal actually
Speaker 1: freed up six million dollars in cap space. And there's
Speaker 1: also the little part about how the cap jumps ten
Speaker 1: percent every March, so if anything, the pie got bigger.
Speaker 1: Now it's great to say, well, we're giving out all
Speaker 1: this money. And I do think they didn't sign Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins to send a message, but it should send a message.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, we're more than happy to sign you
Speaker 1: if you're willing to play ball with us. And that's
Speaker 1: what Jalen Smith and Lyle Collins have done. Unfortunately, that's
Speaker 1: not gonna work for everybody. And you know, kudos to
Speaker 1: Jalen and Lyle. They've figured out what they prioritized and
Speaker 1: it worked out. And there is enough money to go
Speaker 1: around if everybody's willing to sign for well below market value.
Speaker 1: But that's not everybody. Not everybody's going to do that.
Speaker 1: As we're seeing with the other three. That's you have
Speaker 1: to have team friendly deal. So if you're gonna have
Speaker 1: guys that are going to break the bank, and I
Speaker 1: will say this about today, I know you're probably getting there,
Speaker 1: but this is you know, lyall, that's this is the salad.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe the entres come yeah, oh yeah, oh
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to that definitely, are gonna get to them.
Speaker 1: Might take a little bit, you know, but relatively to
Speaker 1: your like steak and the salad. But it's coming with
Speaker 1: these two deals. With this new deal, four or five
Speaker 1: offensive linemen that start for the Dallas Cowboys are now
Speaker 1: locked up for the next five years until twenty twenty four. Williams,
Speaker 1: who is the fifth guy, He's locked up until twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. Do you think they will all be still
Speaker 1: be around and healthy and dominant to see those five
Speaker 1: years out from now, you hope? So. I don't think
Speaker 1: offensive lines get much stronger than the ones that we
Speaker 1: have locked in. It's just a matter of I mean,
Speaker 1: you never know, like something like Travis Frederick, but in
Speaker 1: terms of like physically you just don't know. Like I mean,
Speaker 1: Tyren Smidman, Zach Martin have already had a little back
Speaker 1: issues so far. Such a demanding position, right, That's kind
Speaker 1: of what I was getting to when you think about
Speaker 1: just these are not this isn't like you're working on
Speaker 1: rookie deals. These are guys that are on their second
Speaker 1: deals and you're five years out from having to really
Speaker 1: even talk about contracts on an offensive line that most
Speaker 1: people considered to be one of the most backed offensive
Speaker 1: lines in the NFL. Does that give you a little
Speaker 1: bit of pause that maybe they don't get to the
Speaker 1: end of those deals. That's that's kind of the point
Speaker 1: of the question. I mean, does how many guys really
Speaker 1: get to the end of their long deal? It just
Speaker 1: doesn't happen very often and is the most recent example
Speaker 1: that comes to mind, Like, how many games did they
Speaker 1: get out of him after that deal? Like eighteens? Two years? Right,
Speaker 1: two years, one of which was severely limited by injury,
Speaker 1: or two and a half. Yeah, but it was a
Speaker 1: five year deal. So no, I wouldn't go that far.
Speaker 1: But me personally, and I haven't had a chance to
Speaker 1: talk to anybody. This is just my gut reaction. I
Speaker 1: think they were just like, well, why wouldn't we do
Speaker 1: this like they did. I don't think they planned this, honestly.
Speaker 1: I think they you know, they drafted Connor McGovern. They're like,
Speaker 1: we could move Williams, we can You think they were
Speaker 1: actually thinking, most likely he was going to walk away, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it couldn't afford and like I said, you know,
Speaker 1: we've been saying that all year. We're like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna be too expensive, and I don't we
Speaker 1: were wrong. I don't think that makes us dumb though,
Speaker 1: Like that's just logical to think a talented player is
Speaker 1: going to seek the most money possible because that's what
Speaker 1: most of them do, rightfully. So this is their moment
Speaker 1: to give a contract, this second contract, especially for a
Speaker 1: guy like Lyaelle. Actually this would be his third contract
Speaker 1: because they already did one, which is rare for a guy,
Speaker 1: you know, at his age, but his whole situation was
Speaker 1: rare coming into the league. So the question was, is
Speaker 1: you know, market value for him is still going to
Speaker 1: be higher than Tyrn Smith, And I think it's right now,
Speaker 1: it's about it even. Yeah, So I think the guarantees.
Speaker 1: I think I saw a graphic earlier to day that
Speaker 1: sit the and guaranteed money. He is third among he's
Speaker 1: either among right tackles or among tackles overall. I wasn't
Speaker 1: sure on that, but it wasn't like this was a
Speaker 1: deal where he made no money. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He's gotten. He made. The Cowboys now have four offensive
Speaker 1: linemen who are making significant money, which most people probably
Speaker 1: would have thought they weren't going to be able to do.
Speaker 1: You weren't going to be able to fit that much talent.
Speaker 1: But in the salary cap, again, when you're talking about
Speaker 1: a quarterback, running back, receiver, all these other positions where
Speaker 1: you're paying big money as well, and he is now
Speaker 1: making top five money, let's not act like he's just
Speaker 1: not making any money. But again, with the rising cap
Speaker 1: and the way the open market works, like he probably
Speaker 1: could have gotten fifteen million dollars a year on the
Speaker 1: open market to play what and whatever they want, maybe
Speaker 1: left tackle. That's that's That's what happens a lot of
Speaker 1: times on the offensive line is you get this player
Speaker 1: and you're gonna pay him a lot of money, but
Speaker 1: you have to justify where you want to play him.
Speaker 1: And so I think he might have had to play
Speaker 1: go somewhere and play left tackle, which I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he couldn't do that, but the way his body is,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was built to play guard. I mean
Speaker 1: he could still play guard. Now, he could play right tackle.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's if his body is at
Speaker 1: the point to play left tackle, but that happens sometimes,
Speaker 1: and it does. But I get with the way the
Speaker 1: salaries are and I don't have this in front of me,
Speaker 1: but I guarantee you he could have gotten more than
Speaker 1: ten a million a year to play right as play right.
Speaker 1: I think so. And in today's NFL we've talked about
Speaker 1: this before, too. Right tackle is becoming just as important
Speaker 1: as left because most of the best, most dominant pass
Speaker 1: rushers these days are playing on the left side. But
Speaker 1: what did we say, like, and not to two to
Speaker 1: our own horn too much, but like two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: right after the jail En deal, we were like, you know,
Speaker 1: if a player has that mental makeup to take this
Speaker 1: type of deal, it might be Lyle Collins. Like, he's
Speaker 1: a low key guy. He likes to fish, he likes
Speaker 1: being close to home in Louisiana. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: short flight, not far away at all. That you know,
Speaker 1: it's what he's comfortable with, and it doesn't surprise me
Speaker 1: all that of all the guys in that locker room,
Speaker 1: he was cool being like, yeah, I'll take that. And
Speaker 1: if there's another guy that would probably be okay with
Speaker 1: someone playing the same position to him that's not as good,
Speaker 1: that's making just as much money, it would be Tyrn Smith. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you may not have the issue that we talked
Speaker 1: about early and we talked about less week that that
Speaker 1: maybe if Lyle got another deal, then does that affect
Speaker 1: you know, Tyrn wanting to go back to the Well,
Speaker 1: I personally would be a little bit shocked if he would,
Speaker 1: just because of what I think I know of him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, But and to go back to what I
Speaker 1: was saying is like, I don't think that they like
Speaker 1: this wasn't in their plans that you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: they drafted McGovern, they've got Connor, and now you know,
Speaker 1: people are already talking about it on Twitter like whoa,
Speaker 1: this doesn't make sense, Like now, what are they gonna
Speaker 1: do with Connor McGovern and well, what figure it out?
Speaker 1: Who cares? You're like, wait, you want to resign to
Speaker 1: play with us for that much? Let's go whatever. We'll
Speaker 1: worry about the rest of that later. As Bill Parcels
Speaker 1: used to say, you were in the talent acquisition business,
Speaker 1: which means you're never in the best situation where you
Speaker 1: got talent, so keep getting more talent. And as Danny said,
Speaker 1: you never know about the situations that pop up when
Speaker 1: you know, like the Travis thing. So if you've got
Speaker 1: oh my god, we got seven great linemen like okay,
Speaker 1: sound good to those problems. How much do you think
Speaker 1: this effects or does it affect a guy like Byron Jones?
Speaker 1: Because I kind of put Byron and Lyle in the
Speaker 1: same category of guys that I thought there wouldn't at
Speaker 1: some point there would be enough to sign everybody, and
Speaker 1: so I thought those would be the two guys that
Speaker 1: might be in a position where what they could command
Speaker 1: on the free agent market was going to be significantly
Speaker 1: higher than what the Cowboys would offer, which means they
Speaker 1: probably end up gone. Do you think this changes that
Speaker 1: at all? Seeing that they're they're open to the idea
Speaker 1: of kind of getting these guys and basically signing everybody.
Speaker 1: Do you think that does that change your opinion about
Speaker 1: Byron Jones? I could see him, I think doing something
Speaker 1: more like Lyle, or maybe you don't take as much
Speaker 1: money as you could elsewhere because you want to stay here.
Speaker 1: I have to say, I keep kind of forgetting that
Speaker 1: we have to sign him. I feel like that was
Speaker 1: one of the off season I was like, Oh, that'll
Speaker 1: be one of the ones. They'll get done rather quickly.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, but that's a good point. I
Speaker 1: mean Byron, like, I don't think it changes anything as
Speaker 1: far as where the Cowboys will want to sign him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just well with anybody you'd like to get a deal,
Speaker 1: you know. But I his is tricky because he's He's
Speaker 1: not the first. He reminds me of a Miles Austin
Speaker 1: or even Tony Romo, to the point where when it
Speaker 1: became time to sign him, he had only really done
Speaker 1: it for one year. You can make the case for
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence too, one really good year. So was this normal?
Speaker 1: Is this the way it's going to be? Or I'd
Speaker 1: like to see it again. So it's kind of a
Speaker 1: tricky thing with Byron. I think you kind of play
Speaker 1: it out this year and then and then let it
Speaker 1: go to I've been under that impression too, like, let's
Speaker 1: see if you can do it again. We'll figure that out.
Speaker 1: If it costs us, it costs us. You can always
Speaker 1: franchise tag him. Although I never, in my wildest dreams
Speaker 1: would have guessed that both Dak and Amari are unsigned
Speaker 1: five days before the season, I just didn't think that
Speaker 1: was going to happen. Do you think we get to
Speaker 1: the game and they're still unsigned? Yeah? Actually, I just
Speaker 1: I did a radio interview right before we came on
Speaker 1: here where they asked me that. I was like, I
Speaker 1: shouldn't be surprised on any by anything based on the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. But yeah, like I just I feel
Speaker 1: like you would have heard more movement on that if
Speaker 1: it's all coming from an NFL report that I heard
Speaker 1: about this morning where someone on National sid that there
Speaker 1: is taught that that Dack's going to take a deal
Speaker 1: from the Cowboys sometime this week before they get to
Speaker 1: the game to basically mitigate his risk of getting hurt
Speaker 1: in an actual game before he has a new deal.
Speaker 1: If he was going to do that, why didn't he
Speaker 1: do it? On not I I'm just saying that's where
Speaker 1: a lot of these questions are coming from. I think
Speaker 1: is that kind of report? I mean, but the way
Speaker 1: the Cowboys work, I mean think about it like back
Speaker 1: way back for some of us when we were in school.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you have three tests, one of them
Speaker 1: is next week, one of them is next Friday, one
Speaker 1: of them is tomorrow. I mean, you're going to work
Speaker 1: on the one for tomorrow, right, You're gonna start studying.
Speaker 1: Well that's why, that's why what it is, this is
Speaker 1: the deadline that there's only one deadline. But that's ultimately
Speaker 1: why I think what Zeke did actually made sense. If
Speaker 1: he misses games, it didn't, it then lacks making sense
Speaker 1: to me. But it actually makes sense because it allowed
Speaker 1: him to jump line because he would have been that
Speaker 1: guy that's not fat for next week. Well yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: but even if he is fat, he's still got the deal.
Speaker 1: So no, I'm just saying a point. It's true. It
Speaker 1: works for him. Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's going to work well for him. I think it
Speaker 1: looks like he's gonna be here without missing any games.
Speaker 1: I guess we don't know that for sure yet, and
Speaker 1: that helps him jump the line. But you can't argue
Speaker 1: anything other than that it worked beautifully for him. If
Speaker 1: that's how I mean, well done, sir. That's not Yeah,
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Speaker 1: It's hard to beat Oxnard in Hawaii, but maybe that's
Speaker 1: what Cowbo does. Yeah, yeah, all right, let's take our
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Speaker 1: ezekiel La. We're gonna talk about where that contract situation
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Speaker 1: him to play on Sunday. That's the big question. We'll
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Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott. This weekend, we started hearing reports that things
Speaker 1: were heating up a bit. There was more dialogue that
Speaker 1: was happening between the two sides, probably more dialogue than
Speaker 1: we heard in the last month. And then we started
Speaker 1: hearing that kind of slowed down a bit, then pick
Speaker 1: back up again over the last twenty four hours. There
Speaker 1: was even report this morning that supposedly Zeke is going
Speaker 1: to be flying back to Dallas in hopes that maybe
Speaker 1: a deal gets done here in the near future. Are
Speaker 1: you guys getting any indication as to what possibly is
Speaker 1: holding this thing, what the what the hang up is?
Speaker 1: If you were making progress and then it kind of
Speaker 1: kind of comes to a little bit of a slower pace.
Speaker 1: Have you heard any thing about what maybe the hold
Speaker 1: up could be or do you have an opinion about
Speaker 1: what the hold up could be? The details and the
Speaker 1: contract language, just you know, the guarantee, the average annual salary,
Speaker 1: the nuts and bolts of it, I mean, the indication,
Speaker 1: and you know, I guess it was Sunday, which you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm so happy it worked out that way. I
Speaker 1: was in the car all day Sunday. I was just like,
Speaker 1: I know, I know that this is all going to
Speaker 1: go down while I'm driving a car and can't do
Speaker 1: anything about it. And it held off, But that's because,
Speaker 1: you know, it sounded like they were making progress, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you're kind of fine tuning it,
Speaker 1: and one side is like, hang on a second, right,
Speaker 1: that didn't work? Yeah, uh are you sure about that?
Speaker 1: And then seven o'clock Sunday night, it sounded like it
Speaker 1: had kind of fallen apart. And then I think both
Speaker 1: sides were kind of like, oh, wait, the game is Sunday,
Speaker 1: Like we don't we don't have time. Yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 1: might have been the plan all along. It might just
Speaker 1: be I'm going to show up on Wednesday before the
Speaker 1: game and play. Let's get a deal done. So we've
Speaker 1: heard a lot of things, you know, we've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of different things about what isn't happening, And you know,
Speaker 1: someone asked me on Twitter that like, sometimes I hear
Speaker 1: it's it's close, and then I hear it's not close,
Speaker 1: and then I hear it's close, down I hear it's
Speaker 1: not close. Which one is it? I'm like, all of it.
Speaker 1: I think it has been close and not close. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: I mean you mentioned Wednesday and you mentioned Sunday. Do
Speaker 1: you think at this point, what do you think is
Speaker 1: the actual deadline by which Zeke can actually play this
Speaker 1: Sunday practice tomorrow? I really think so. I mean, if yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm about he signs tonight or tomorrow, he's often on
Speaker 1: another field doing some conditioning things, get back into it
Speaker 1: on Thursday and walk through Friday. He's playing. But even still,
Speaker 1: I mean, at that point, is he still playing as
Speaker 1: much as he has every other years? Collard more Still,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. I think I think Alfred Morris
Speaker 1: is active. I think I mean, I think Morris um
Speaker 1: you might have all of your running backs active for
Speaker 1: this particular game, you might be a little close. And
Speaker 1: as Seun actually been moved to the more Chun for
Speaker 1: special teams though he's got to be off the roster though. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it could. It's probably be one of those backs.
Speaker 1: It might be Alfred Morris, that's it. Could. I mean,
Speaker 1: you need Jordan Chun to play special teams and you're
Speaker 1: banged up at linebacker, so I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: as clear cut as well. When you say need, I
Speaker 1: mean they moved him up this week. So if the
Speaker 1: my assumption from that was if Zeke would have been here,
Speaker 1: they would not have moved him up. True, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if they necessarily need him on special teams.
Speaker 1: This might be maybe a nice to have though. Well,
Speaker 1: but you also didn't know what was going to happen
Speaker 1: with Zeke, and I think that he's going to help
Speaker 1: you a lot more than Alfred Morris will because he's
Speaker 1: going to play special teams because they're down on linebackers.
Speaker 1: As Garrett even said, yeah, that's Garrett. Actually there's a
Speaker 1: people in that press conference that thought he was saying
Speaker 1: that he's going to move to linebacker and that's gonna
Speaker 1: help us with linebackers down, so he's gonna help us there.
Speaker 1: And really what he was saying was he'll help us
Speaker 1: on special saying what's happening here? You're reading something that's
Speaker 1: I was trying to because Jerry Jones had a quote
Speaker 1: about Zeke being ready to play this morning and I
Speaker 1: was pulling up my email to read it. They asked
Speaker 1: him on the fan, you know, what would you anticipate
Speaker 1: his workload being if he signs this week? He said,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get that far ahead of it,
Speaker 1: but just knowing him, I knowed him to be in
Speaker 1: great shape for any type of workload, which and then
Speaker 1: Jerry made the joke he should be fresh because he
Speaker 1: didn't have a preseason so, which, but I don't buy it. Like,
Speaker 1: even if you're Zeke, it feels reckless to me to
Speaker 1: think like he needs Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, forty days of
Speaker 1: no football. You haven't had your eyes on him, he'd
Speaker 1: you know, the medical staff hasn't seen him. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's in good shape, but it's just different
Speaker 1: as opposed to being in the building for the last month.
Speaker 1: And if he can't get if what you're saying is right,
Speaker 1: and like he conditions Wednesday and practices Thursday and Friday. Fine,
Speaker 1: but like you're setting yourself up for something like an
Speaker 1: injury if you're just he shows up Friday and you
Speaker 1: throw him in the game on Sunday. Me, this has
Speaker 1: hamstring written all over those soft tissue issues. If he
Speaker 1: even if he shows up, if he's at the practice
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, I still think like ten to fifteen touches
Speaker 1: to me, is a good amount of work for him
Speaker 1: in this first game. To say he's only had three practices,
Speaker 1: one of which is going to be a walkthrough um
Speaker 1: to get himself ready to play when he hasn't been
Speaker 1: doing football for forty days. So me, personally, I just
Speaker 1: would prefer to say, hey, let's ease him back in. Because,
Speaker 1: by the way, if you believe, which maybe you don't,
Speaker 1: and maybe rightfully so, if you believe what they've been
Speaker 1: saying that we can go into this game without Zeke
Speaker 1: and will be okay, then it's a bonus, right, And
Speaker 1: then it's a bonus that you get him for ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen snaps. Right. I don't believe that. I get that.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm saying I'm saying it would him
Speaker 1: I get that. I'm saying, though their words have been yeah,
Speaker 1: we feel will be okay, want him to hear it.
Speaker 1: But my point is, My point is if you can,
Speaker 1: if you can have ten to fifteen snaps from him
Speaker 1: and you feel like you can get a pretty decent workload,
Speaker 1: Let's say ten to fifteen snaps from Pollard and then
Speaker 1: whoever is at third running back, you give him five,
Speaker 1: five to seven. I think you can. You can make
Speaker 1: basically make this work, and I actually think it would
Speaker 1: be good because you get to see Pollard in a
Speaker 1: few more situations while you're easing Zeke back in. That's
Speaker 1: the beauty of making that pick. If you really believe
Speaker 1: he has something, then use him a little bit more
Speaker 1: here while you're easing Zeke back in. There's there's another
Speaker 1: factor into this thing too, fantasy football. Sorry no, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a big factor. But there's a freak factor involved.
Speaker 1: Did you ever see Randy Moss stretch? He didn't. He
Speaker 1: didn't stretch every the whole team was the weirdest thing.
Speaker 1: The whole team would be in their line before the
Speaker 1: game and he would just be running through like one
Speaker 1: of the coaches, high five and people. He never stretched.
Speaker 1: He was a freak. Zeke is kind of like that
Speaker 1: David Irving, sadly as it is these guys, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that you're on a different level. Deon Sanders was
Speaker 1: a freak. He could go from baseball and over here
Speaker 1: he is, He's sort of there. I'm not saying be reckless,
Speaker 1: because I agree with everything you're saying, but I think
Speaker 1: there's a factor there that guys like him that are
Speaker 1: special can probably get away with things that other players can.
Speaker 1: But since you have like one of those memories that's
Speaker 1: like a trap, go back and tell me how he
Speaker 1: performed in the first couple of games last year. Year before,
Speaker 1: it seemed to me, again just looking from the outside in,
Speaker 1: it seemed to me like he was a guy that
Speaker 1: didn't get a hot start. And I always suspected it
Speaker 1: was because he didn't really do much in the preseason,
Speaker 1: and so going into the season that was kind of
Speaker 1: his preseason. However, he was practicing, he just wasn't playing
Speaker 1: in the preseason. So how much does that affect him
Speaker 1: not even practicing during the preseason. Does he also get
Speaker 1: that slow start, and he might he might get that.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's first two years I don't think he
Speaker 1: was that great. I think is I think last year
Speaker 1: he was pretty good. Those first two games. I thought
Speaker 1: I thought he was a little bit under what he
Speaker 1: normally is last year. Last year he had sixty nine
Speaker 1: yards in a touchdown in the opener seventy eight yards
Speaker 1: in a touchdown in the second game, which is a
Speaker 1: little less than what he would typically although he did.
Speaker 1: I mean, he averaged four points six yards per carry
Speaker 1: in both games. Ye Week two on the road, he
Speaker 1: has not been very good, if I remember correctly, Washington
Speaker 1: and then you got the Seattle and when he came
Speaker 1: back from the suspension, he wasn't good from that. That's
Speaker 1: kind of relates to this in a way where you're
Speaker 1: gone from the team. Not wrong. Yeah, but you know what,
Speaker 1: and having said everything I just said about being smart,
Speaker 1: like I'm I'm here for a good time, not a
Speaker 1: long time. And it's way more fun if he shows
Speaker 1: up Wednesday and gets twenty five carries for one thirty
Speaker 1: on Sunday. So yeah, but I don't want to risk
Speaker 1: the chances that you think it goes down with him
Speaker 1: here for a long time. They do, they do, You're right,
Speaker 1: I never risk the Injine. But man, like you know,
Speaker 1: I always think like Nick is the story guy and
Speaker 1: he's always got like you know, Witt and lace Rates
Speaker 1: is spleen on blah blah blah, and everybody thinks he's
Speaker 1: out or like DeMarcus Ware, they carried him and the
Speaker 1: next week he's back in the game winning. I can
Speaker 1: just imagine like six years from now being like yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, Zeke showed up on Wednesday after forty
Speaker 1: days away, and you know they were talking about Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard getting carries and then Zeke goes for one forty
Speaker 1: in the first the Cowboys in training camp to Coabo
Speaker 1: Ammitt Smith. That's cool. Emmitt Smith. His rookie year he
Speaker 1: was holding Now everyone talks about the ninety three hold out.
Speaker 1: He was holding out his rookie year all the way
Speaker 1: until like the Wednesday or Thursday before the before you know,
Speaker 1: the season started at the kickoff luncheon and they introduced
Speaker 1: him there and he played the first game one carried
Speaker 1: two yards. So could the difference be though we're talking
Speaker 1: about coming back the mentality aspect about this point when
Speaker 1: he was coming back from the suspension or you know
Speaker 1: that year back and forth he doesn't have that right.
Speaker 1: I mean, now, if anything's going to be great, like
Speaker 1: I got what I want, I'm here a long term,
Speaker 1: like let's get to work. Would that be different for
Speaker 1: the start of the season. I just think it's more
Speaker 1: about game speed and game reps and getting back into
Speaker 1: the flow of it more so than anything. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've never questioned Zeke's attitude. He's he's a dog for
Speaker 1: lack of a better word, and awesome. Honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: question I don't question his ability to be Oh, Denver
Speaker 1: game attitude wasn't great there, there's a good interception, I
Speaker 1: don't need tackle. You know what. He came back the
Speaker 1: next game and I think he was hurtling people and
Speaker 1: the Bears or whatever. And maybe that wasn't Maybe I
Speaker 1: got my seasons mixed up there, but I think you do.
Speaker 1: But I mean he came back and he played pretty well.
Speaker 1: Then it's actually really fitting. Like we talked to Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins yesterday, not having any clue that he was about
Speaker 1: to be the newest side member of the team. He did.
Speaker 1: He probably by his answers, you could tell by his
Speaker 1: answers he knew. He was Like he's like Zeke's not
Speaker 1: a teammate, he's family. He had I don't know the
Speaker 1: exact quote, but he had this great quote about how
Speaker 1: like nobody's nobody's got to look in his eye like
Speaker 1: Zeke does on game day, like we need him. Just
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, all right, cool, But that's the thing
Speaker 1: I don't I don't doubt that Zeke will be in
Speaker 1: good shape and ready to play. My thing is always
Speaker 1: just when you missed training camp. There's a reason why
Speaker 1: they do training camp. And you can talk about preseason
Speaker 1: games not getting guys hurt, but just going through the
Speaker 1: grind of training camp. I think it has a way
Speaker 1: of hardening the body. If getting the body ready for
Speaker 1: the banging net will that will happen during a regular season.
Speaker 1: And that's not a sorry banging as far as them
Speaker 1: being tackled to the ground anything like that, But it
Speaker 1: is just it is just the ability for their bodies
Speaker 1: to get you, Dave. It is the ability for their
Speaker 1: bodies to get used to the pounding like it is
Speaker 1: a regular everyday occurrence in training camp, and you go
Speaker 1: through the pains and the aches of I'm having to
Speaker 1: get up every morning and be sore from the day
Speaker 1: before and still have to go out there and do
Speaker 1: it all over again. And I think that has a
Speaker 1: way of preparing you for a season when you miss it.
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of players in the NFL that
Speaker 1: miss training camp and what happened soft tissue injuries early
Speaker 1: in the season because their bodies aren't ready for the pounding.
Speaker 1: And we know he's been working out in Kabba, but
Speaker 1: we don't know what he's been doing. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: from you can't practice football. From the looks of various
Speaker 1: Instagram feeds, it looks like footwork drills and you know,
Speaker 1: all that type of stuff that that's nice, but it's
Speaker 1: not football, right, and so ease him in. No, I'm
Speaker 1: time to get acclimated. It would be really fun if
Speaker 1: he had like a game for the ages, but I
Speaker 1: think it would be smart to let Pollard and maybe
Speaker 1: even Alfred Morris have a healthy workload even if he's there.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go and take our final break. We'll
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Speaker 1: cut to the final fifty three. We'll talk about that.
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Speaker 1: package Today Back to the Break Welcome back, final segment
Speaker 1: of The Break live in the SWBC Mortgage Studios at
Speaker 1: the Star, Let's talk about the final fifty three roster
Speaker 1: this weekend. The Cowboys made their cuts. They got down
Speaker 1: to fifty three, as every team in the NFL did.
Speaker 1: I want to start this conversation by asking the question,
Speaker 1: what was the biggest surprise coming out of the final
Speaker 1: fifty three? Dave, the biggest. If I had to pick
Speaker 1: a biggest surprise, probably that Cedric Wilson didn't make it,
Speaker 1: or Donovan A. Lumba too, But I mean I don't
Speaker 1: think it too Okay, Sorry, I mean I don't think
Speaker 1: either one is a shocker. I guess is my pointer? Right?
Speaker 1: Most surprise you aretha, go ahead? Brandon Knight making the team.
Speaker 1: I mean we didn't he didn't play that much. We
Speaker 1: didn't even have him as one of our bubble guys.
Speaker 1: The fact that he's still here, yeah, that's kind of surprising.
Speaker 1: This just goes to show that this is how good
Speaker 1: of a football team this is. If Cedric Wilson not
Speaker 1: making in or Alumba and Brandon Knight making it, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's there's nothing Major. There's no Dan Baileys
Speaker 1: this year. Cedric Wilson was mine. I mean, he's still
Speaker 1: practice squad, But I though I guess they were going
Speaker 1: to go six. Donovan Alumba, I don't think really surprised
Speaker 1: me as much. Just with I mean Donovan Wilson, it
Speaker 1: got really good DBS. It's true Cedrick Wilson was mine,
Speaker 1: I will say. And to that point, Danny, which I
Speaker 1: think you're right, but I'm not. I'm not directing this
Speaker 1: at fans. I'm not trying to talk down on anybody.
Speaker 1: It's something we should all keep in mind. People don't
Speaker 1: get claimed that often in the NFL, Like for the
Speaker 1: most part, every team in the league has guys like this,
Speaker 1: like a moderately fast receiver who can go inside and
Speaker 1: outside and return and punts like Cedric Wilson. I think
Speaker 1: he's better than Lance Lenore. But is it like this
Speaker 1: just huge difference between the type of player that they
Speaker 1: are right now when their careers. Daniel Wise is the
Speaker 1: same way. You know, like the number of people that
Speaker 1: were just beside themselves with rage that Daniel Wise was
Speaker 1: subject to waiver claims and here he is. He's right
Speaker 1: back there on the practice squad. They just not that
Speaker 1: many players get claimed, and it's you know, I'm going
Speaker 1: to keep this in mind next year because next July
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be sitting there with the roster in front
Speaker 1: of me, like, how they how are they gonna do this?
Speaker 1: And they're gonna do it. It's gonna be fine. Ye.
Speaker 1: One thing that that stood out to me the Cowboys
Speaker 1: decided to keep six defensive ends. What do you guys
Speaker 1: think about that? From the standpoint of obviously, you don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about Robert Quinn right now. He's he's suspended,
Speaker 1: but when he comes back. I know we talked about
Speaker 1: you know, these things kind of have a way of
Speaker 1: working themselves out. But do you think it gets to
Speaker 1: a point even if another position you have an injury
Speaker 1: at where you can put him on there seems like
Speaker 1: that's still a huge number of defensive ends that you
Speaker 1: would carry. How do you think that all plays out
Speaker 1: as you as you through the season, as particularly as
Speaker 1: you get to the third game of the season. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see you're sixth six, Okay, so five on the
Speaker 1: roster right now? Yeah, I mean I do believe that
Speaker 1: though something's gonna work itself out. I mean two games,
Speaker 1: you're gonna find something out about one of those five
Speaker 1: defensive ends, whether whether or not one of them's hurt
Speaker 1: or one of them's not very good. Let me correct that.
Speaker 1: Actually they're six on the roster right now, six on
Speaker 1: the roster and then him. So they got Tank, Tyrone
Speaker 1: and Hyder, Hyder, Taco and Joe Jackson. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: it's a lot of defensive ends. Hyder and Tyrone can
Speaker 1: can swing that. I mean, you know, also play tackles,
Speaker 1: so that true, it's helpful. I think what was hard
Speaker 1: was we were all kind of questioning Taco's future. But
Speaker 1: I think his contract and all that kind of played
Speaker 1: more into it than just his play. But I think
Speaker 1: they probably won't use Hyder at end as often. I
Speaker 1: think they would do the Crawford instead. You think you'll
Speaker 1: be an inside. I like, I like Hyder on the
Speaker 1: outside and Crawford inside. I think Hyder is gonna get
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be second on the team in
Speaker 1: sacks this year, Damn I do. That's I mean, ahead
Speaker 1: of Quinn because I assume Tank's going to be your first,
Speaker 1: right Oh tacle okay. Led the preseason, he said preseasons
Speaker 1: don't mean anything. That's what he said. He did say
Speaker 1: that I can't say anything anything. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: come for the guy's roster spot because he had a
Speaker 1: good preseason. But I just to your point, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know that you can take yourself off of
Speaker 1: Taco Watch yet, because again to give where are you
Speaker 1: freeing up that roster spot as soon? I mean, and
Speaker 1: you know, it does typically work out where somebody gets hurt,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody like strains something or pulls something or whatever.
Speaker 1: But if it doesn't, I mean, it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: have to be a major enough injury to where you're
Speaker 1: willing to prick them on ir that's the issue. And
Speaker 1: you know what do you have to keep Quinn? What
Speaker 1: has he done in the before his injury that it
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, I gotta have it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm just saying he's eight million in the year.
Speaker 1: I guess she don't have to. But like I would think,
Speaker 1: if he's available, he's at least your third best defensive end,
Speaker 1: if not your second one. Like I really hate that
Speaker 1: you even brought that he was trying he was trying
Speaker 1: to come for Tyrone a couple of weeks ago. So
Speaker 1: he's just trying to stir it up. No, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to stir up. I'm just trying to I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to get hit in the Dan Bailey face again.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I'm We need to be paying
Speaker 1: attention to these things. No, that's I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: fair question. I just I just don't I don't see
Speaker 1: why you sign a guy you're dreaming about, sign a
Speaker 1: guy and then he gets hurt. Remember when you I
Speaker 1: did dream about. You don't sign a guy like Quinn
Speaker 1: for him to be all world in training camp. You
Speaker 1: signed him to be a good player when you get
Speaker 1: to the regular season. So I don't think that there's
Speaker 1: a scenario where you're like, oh, yeah, we don't need him.
Speaker 1: We thought we needed him in the offseason, but now
Speaker 1: we think we're good. Okay. If I really cared to
Speaker 1: argue that much on both sides, that would just take
Speaker 1: the other side and say they didn't know that they
Speaker 1: had what they had and carry hider. They didn't know that.
Speaker 1: What do you haven't carry hut? I mean, like you
Speaker 1: you saw his training camp. Now he had a good Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm just still don't know what you're gonna get
Speaker 1: when you get to the sixteen games in the regulat, right,
Speaker 1: you don't know what you're gonna get with anybody. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I think that they would be okay.
Speaker 1: I mean, are you worried are these two l's here
Speaker 1: because they don't have Quinn? No, not at all. You
Speaker 1: can also think they can get by if they needed
Speaker 1: it and they have all these problems. I mean, of course,
Speaker 1: then that's also a lot of money you can you
Speaker 1: can knock off of this year as well. So I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, let's don't throw. If we're gonna throw all
Speaker 1: the scenarios on the table, I think that's to be considered.
Speaker 1: You can mix and match this thing too. I mean,
Speaker 1: if Zeke comes back, you probably drop a running back.
Speaker 1: They don't need ten defensive backs, especially when when darry
Speaker 1: and Thompson and Donovan Wilson get healthy. Right, that's something
Speaker 1: to watch um. And then they're heavy at offensive line too.
Speaker 1: I mean Adam Redmond. I'm glad Adam Redmond is on
Speaker 1: the team, and Brandon Knight too for that matter, but
Speaker 1: do they both need to be here over a pro
Speaker 1: Bowl pass rusher. I don't know that was actually gonna
Speaker 1: be the second question. I was going to go to
Speaker 1: a safety. Cavon Frasier makes it along with Donovan Wilson
Speaker 1: and Darry and tom Do you think that's maybe just
Speaker 1: because of the injuries and then we might see, as
Speaker 1: you need to get Robert Quinn onto the roster, that
Speaker 1: maybe Cavon becomes a guy that's expendable. That's true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Doesn't have to be defensive end
Speaker 1: that gets cut here. I mean, you got to figure
Speaker 1: out who's going to be active every game, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be Donovan, Wilson and Thompson are the
Speaker 1: only and Luke Gifford. Those are the only three guys
Speaker 1: that didn't practice yesterday. So they have three healthy safeties
Speaker 1: right now. So injuries helped a lot of players. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you're right, and I'll say it for the
Speaker 1: million times. Like I love Cavon Frasier. It makes me
Speaker 1: feel gross like talking about his job like that, but
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's something to watch when these
Speaker 1: other safeties get healthy. You know, they're heavy at offensive
Speaker 1: line right now, and they're heavy at safety, and they're
Speaker 1: heavy at defensive end or you know, it goes a
Speaker 1: long way when you don't have to carry three quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and you don't have to carry four tight ends, you know,
Speaker 1: just because you were trying to see what Rico can
Speaker 1: do and trying to see if Mike White is worthy
Speaker 1: worthy of a spot. There's nobody on this team right
Speaker 1: now where I don't understand why they're here, and that
Speaker 1: hasn't been always the case. So that's cool. Well, why
Speaker 1: is Brandon Knight here? Because he I think he he's
Speaker 1: got the flex to play. I think you could even
Speaker 1: say four positions. I think center is probably the only
Speaker 1: spot he couldn't play, not saying he'd be great at it.
Speaker 1: And I think, much like Gifford, I think they were
Speaker 1: impressed by what he showed in those two weeks before
Speaker 1: he got hurt that they were like, okay, well yeah,
Speaker 1: And I know I just said, people don't get claimed,
Speaker 1: but if you really feel strongly about a guy, why
Speaker 1: chance it? Yeah? I mean some people get claimed. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And they talked these these age I mean these scouts,
Speaker 1: you know, they talked to other teams and they kind
Speaker 1: of know who's getting interest. I mean, I guarantee a
Speaker 1: few people will will be asking these scouts, like when
Speaker 1: they're on the road, what's up with sixty nine? What's
Speaker 1: up with that Brandon Knight? You know, oh yeah, we'd
Speaker 1: like him. You know, you get four or five of
Speaker 1: those questions. You know. Maybe nobody was doing that with
Speaker 1: Daniel Wise. Yeah. I talked to Leon Lett and he
Speaker 1: thought there was no way that Leon or that Daniel
Speaker 1: Wise was not going to get claimed. But like Dave said,
Speaker 1: doesn't happen all the time. That's true. All right, We're
Speaker 1: gonna start tomorrow as we do every season. We're getting
Speaker 1: ready for the upcoming game. We haven't had real talk
Speaker 1: on the show about other teams. We'll start that tomorrow, Dave.
Speaker 1: We'll start back with his offense and a defensive breakdowns.
Speaker 1: I guess we'll start tomorrow with the Giants offense versus
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Giants defense versus the Cowboys offense and break
Speaker 1: that down. But I do want to do this on
Speaker 1: Tuesdays from now on. I want to ask you guys
Speaker 1: one simple question this week. I'm gonna have a little
Speaker 1: caveat to the question, but the question will be, what
Speaker 1: is the biggest question or concern that you have for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys at this moment, facing this game this week,
Speaker 1: the caveat is going to be outside of Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: All right, so let's start first with you, Dave. You
Speaker 1: give me yours, then Danny didnnick about the game, about
Speaker 1: the game, about the week, about the preparation for the game,
Speaker 1: everything leading to the game. What is the biggest question
Speaker 1: or concerned you have for the Cowboys right now? I
Speaker 1: guess just that you're arguably your second best offensive playmaker
Speaker 1: has been mia since August third. Amari Cooper hasn't practiced
Speaker 1: since August second. I believe Um and we give him
Speaker 1: and rightfully so, we give him so much credit for
Speaker 1: turning the offense around last year. He's a pro bowler.
Speaker 1: He does this, he does that. Has not practiced. I
Speaker 1: mean he practiced Monday, which was, you know, not a
Speaker 1: training camp practice. So I think he'll be fine. But
Speaker 1: it's something that I'm curious about because he didn't have
Speaker 1: a training camp. Really, Danny, I don't think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say as much a concern, but maybe curiosity in the
Speaker 1: red zone. If we know that with Kellum Moore they're
Speaker 1: going to run, you know it's most likely going to
Speaker 1: come from Zeke or Dak. Well, Zeke's not there. You
Speaker 1: really just have Dak and defenses are going to plan
Speaker 1: for that. So I think that'll be what I'm most
Speaker 1: curious to see is how much change can we see
Speaker 1: in the red zone this year where they really lacked
Speaker 1: last year. Let's go, Nick, when you go third, you
Speaker 1: get you know, the good ones taken away experience. I
Speaker 1: was thinking both of those, you know, they're they're gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna kick the Giant's ass unless they turned the
Speaker 1: ball over. They turn spicy. I'm just saying they're gonna
Speaker 1: care that they are. They're they're gonna they tackle that
Speaker 1: big old running back and don't go and don't do
Speaker 1: stupid things and turn the ball over. But that they
Speaker 1: should beat this team by seventeen points. So what's your
Speaker 1: biggest concern turning the ball over? There you go, Brian,
Speaker 1: That's that's what they need to do. When was the
Speaker 1: last time the Cowboys beat the Giants by seventeen points?
Speaker 1: I know, even especially even last I mean, they kicked
Speaker 1: their ass last year, but the but the Giants backdoor
Speaker 1: covered all day, so they beat them pretty bad in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen the first time, not the Odell game, but
Speaker 1: the one before that, but you're at New York. You're right,
Speaker 1: they play, Oh, you're right, you're right, You're right. They
Speaker 1: beat them pretty bad in seventeen. Okay, sorry, I don't
Speaker 1: see I don't even those games run together. You told
Speaker 1: me nineteen eighty seven. I can tell you exactly what
Speaker 1: happened about twenty seventeen. What was the rod Smith eighty five?
Speaker 1: That was a close game in the fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: then rod Smith just said watch this so speaking Bay
Speaker 1: with the New York Giants, and he's actually on IR
Speaker 1: though I'm not going to play. I'm bummed out about that.
Speaker 1: I was injury, you know, yeah, like it's like a
Speaker 1: packer absur so I was hoping to see him this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean too. Of course, he probably wouldn't gonna be
Speaker 1: in the game very much with sa Quan out there,
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, I don't I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of concerns. I think the injured guys
Speaker 1: are gonna gonna play and play well, and I'm with
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I'm not as willing to talk
Speaker 1: that plainly as you, but like they should win this
Speaker 1: game comfortably if they just don't completely crap the bed
Speaker 1: str I almost want with kicking. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: unless it's fifty yards out. But I just I don't
Speaker 1: know that I feel necessarily so confident, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: like the further the better from our heart. But I
Speaker 1: just but I don't think you ever will I mean
Speaker 1: you hope not. I don't think you're ever gonna be
Speaker 1: just like comfortable. Who's comfortable with their kicker like balt
Speaker 1: Ravens he misses not often. But I'm just saying, for
Speaker 1: the most part, I would say twenty five teams are
Speaker 1: kind of like you know, Yeah, they get a little
Speaker 1: nervous every time he walks on the right. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: We used to feel pretty confident, right, there was a
Speaker 1: time time and that's when you you start to realize
Speaker 1: how much of a blessing that is, because that's not
Speaker 1: the way most teams live, right, all right, let's like
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