WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Elite Status? 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:19.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Lets go. Are you 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:23.160 ready for a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:27.480 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.680 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:37.960 ware with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:43.040 Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, September twenty ninth, twenty twenty one, 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.320 season seventeen, episode number thirty. Welcome to the latest edition 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.479 of The Break, live from the s WBC Mortgage studios 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.200 at the Star. Lots of things we gotta get into today. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.760 We're gonna have Bucky Brooks joining us here soon to 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.840 talk a little bit about the Carolina office versus the 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.560 Dallas defense. But before we get to that, there are 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.680 a lot of topics that we need to talk about 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.560 specific to guys that have been out, whether whether it 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.960 be injury or COVID and gig some updates on where 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.200 they are. Let's start first with the fact that there 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.360 were no injuries in this game. That's always a bright 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.679 spot for any team in the NFL come out of 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.119 a game with no new injuries. But there were three 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.080 guys that we mentioned yesterday on our show. I think 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.560 we talked about him yesterday. But guys that have been 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.200 on IR, and I know we had talked about it 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.280 about the possibility that this would be the week when 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.080 they could be taken off of IR. This was the 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.920 earliest that they could be. Tell me what's the status. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.319 I guess at this point with Neville Gallimore, Kelvin, Joseph, 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.319 and Sean mccun all ways away. That was Mike McCarthy's 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.360 wording yesterday. All of those guys are still probably multiple 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.280 weeks with an s away from being ready, so they're eligible, 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.880 but maybe anywhere between. I would say anywhere between two 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.520 and four, depending on who you're talking about. The bye 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.200 weeks sitting there. So all three they they got three 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.720 games to go. I mean, I don't know how they're 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.640 gonna if they're gonna handle it this way that you know, 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.960 they won't say this, they won't admit it, they'll say 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.200 it's a case by case. But I'm sure that they've 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:06.680 got three games to go, and then they got to 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.720 buy a week. It makes more sense to just bring 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:10.400 a lot of those guys back. So you don't want 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.560 to start there. I probably won't start their window or 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.280 their twenty one day window, and where they can start 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.760 practicing again, I would say until like maybe next week 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.160 or the week after. That's interesting because I actually thought, 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.239 at the worst case scenario they at least start the 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.160 twenty one this week, but it sounds like they're not 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.600 even ready to really practice at this point. So yeah, 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.960 I mean it's and it's it's always a guest a man. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:34.079 But if you remember when especially Neville, and I think 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.560 he's besides, well, Calvin's probably the one people care the 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.160 most about which Calvin suffered his injury the latest in camp. 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.480 I mean he did that during the final preseason game 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.520 groin injury. Donovan Wilson probably gonna miss another game with 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.160 his groin injury, So you think about I mean that 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.880 is it's a substantial injury, especially for a guy that 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.480 runs as much as a dB, So I think that tracks. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.880 And then Neville, they said at the time, you're probably 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:04.240 talking about eight weeks. Now that was mid August what fourteenth, 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.399 probably that they played that game in Arizona, so it's 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.760 been about five or six So again you're talking two 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.200 or three more weeks before before that's probably realistic. Catching 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.240 up on a couple of guys that missed last week's game. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:21.559 Dorance Armstrong, Carlos Watkins. You already mentioned Donovan Wilson. Yes, Um, 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:26.000 good question. I would think Carlos Watkins maybe more of 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.519 a more of a shot. Um. But just because we're 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.639 talking like, I think it's a sprain knee. Um. He's 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.960 done some work out here, even on the side field 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.360 when they were practicing, and it looks like he's you know, 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.040 working okay with with the trainers. The injury is a 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.800 high ankle spraining on Doran. I was gonna like, nothing 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.640 about Dorrance's injury makes me think that it's a one 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.800 week thing, right, But then you're saying like it's a multiple. Yeah, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.600 he's got I'll say this. I remember when I when 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.040 I talked to Stephen Jones last week. I guess it 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.560 was before this game. He didn't he didn't want to 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.360 rule him out just yet. He didn't think they would 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.200 be there. So that being said, you know, it may 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.960 be something that that that you know, Dorans could kind 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.880 of get back into it. I mean, it's so weird 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.920 because it's like if you're just inactive, like just a 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.000 straight inactive, it seems like that doesn't happen anymore, because 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.280 it's like if if it's if it's more, if it's 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.200 even a hint at an IR for more like three weeks, 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.560 let's put your it gets you the roster spots. I 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:26.159 was about to say that, like, if doran's his injury 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.200 because an ankle sprain, you think, I mean, Sean McEwan 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.839 sprained his ankle and he's not coming back anytime soon. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.000 And again that's so an ankle sprain can be as 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.880 much as six weeks. So if it was severe, you'd 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.160 think they'd just put him on IR because of the rules. Um, 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.520 I still think i'd bet against him being ready for 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.080 this game, but maybe he can be back for the 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.360 Giants game. Yeah, So what I gotta think about it is, basically, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:48.920 you got a three week period. If it's an injury 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.080 one three weeks, you're better off putting them one R. 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.400 So I just assume it's a much lesser injury if 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.520 they're not put on IR these that's a safe assumption, 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.400 I think. Okay, let's talk about the COVID. He got 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.400 keanum Neil. They're both still out, they're still on still 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:07.120 on the COVID. Protocol. No changes, nobody's been added to it. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.760 We'll just have to wait and see. Um Neil went 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:15.080 on the COVID protocol. It was like Wednesday, Yeah, it was, 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.880 but he didn't test positive until later, right, right, Yeah, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.960 he hadn't tested positive I think until like maybe the 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.000 Friday or something. Yeah, he did. Yeah, you're right. There 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:23.880 was a period where he was just a close contact, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.520 so that might be what's prolonging that. So we'll just 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.880 have to keep an eye on it and other things. Yeah. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.520 Well that just because he's got different rules than other people, right, Yeah, 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:39.000 which is due. I say he did, so he does, um, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:44.480 all right, so keep an eye on it. It's it's yep, Okay, 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:49.320 it's only Wednesday. It's only Wednesday, so it feels it 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.320 feels later than I mean, I don't know what it 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.640 feels like anymore. I just want to get I can't 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:57.720 wait Sunday to Sunday. They don't play on a non 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.000 Sunday again until Thanksgiving, and I'm jacked about it. But 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.159 we got three weeks to go here that it should 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.120 be somewhat normal. Yeah, and then you got a bye week. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.760 Would your bye week? Okay? Fine? Still still normal? Yeah, 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.520 who's mad about that. No one's about saying, like the schedule, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.520 regular schedule, where we know what time we're gonna be 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.400 able to do things. I think the schedule is gonna 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:22.719 be relatively the same, hopefully until Thanksgiving. That's David Moore 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.320 started the press conference today by saying, it's like, if 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.880 you count preseason, y'all have played eight games and this 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:29.880 will only be the second one that's been played on 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.400 a Sunday, just like, oh my god, or maybe the third. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.080 The Jaguars game was a Sunday. 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An interception percentage 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.160 that was at two point nine percent back in twenty nineteen, 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.719 now at twenty one. I'm sorry, point nine percent in 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.320 twenty one. He is just playing much better than what 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.040 he was doing before with the Jets. What's the biggest 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.439 reason for his improvement this year relative to what he's 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:51.440 done pretty much drout his career. One is advocates. They 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.720 want to see him do well, and so the Panther 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.000 has made a concerted effort to make sure that they've 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:01.800 done everything to give him an opportunity seed. The opensive coordinator, 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:06.800 Joe Brady has taken things that work really well with 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.400 Sam and put those things into play, whether it's movement passes, 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:14.840 bootleg passes, some RPO game, some design quarterback runs, or 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:19.120 read options. They have taken things that maybe even had 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.760 a collegiate slant to it and given it to Sam 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.760 so he can flourish. He also is around a better team. 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.920 This is a team that has better weapons on the 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.600 outside than he had in New York. And so when 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:35.000 you have Robbie Anderson and DJ Moore that can catch passes, 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.240 you have Christian McCaffrey who's in the backfield command and attention. 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.320 He has not had to necessarily be the primary playmaker. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.600 He's just been able to play kind of point guard, 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.640 just passes to the open guy and allow those guys 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:51.959 do work. And he still is victimized by the bonehead decision, 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:56.160 but overall he's playing really good football because everything around 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.440 him is much better than it was at his previous location. Well, 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.160 he's gonna play point guard. Who's who's he going to 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.440 be passing the ball too? I mean, other than I 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.160 know Dj Moore. But with Christian McCaffrey out, who's the 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:11.319 guys he's gonna be leaning on this week? I mean 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.440 they look they're talented group and they're trying to figure 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.160 out a way to kind of make it work without 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.760 Christian McCaffrey. But Dj Moore has been fine. Robbie Anderson 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.560 has been a big time playmaker. The occasionally gets some 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.920 contributions from Ian Thomas and Tommy Trumble, but it's really 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.080 a collective and collaborative effort. A lot of what they've 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.520 been able to do is really take advantage of the 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:33.760 defense and the defense is over aggressive. You see him 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.240 come out the back door with the movement passes. Remember 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.040 he has two three hundred yard games. And so even 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.680 though I would say that maybe the Panthers haven't really 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.520 tested him or they haven't played anybody, I mean they 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.880 were pretty good team and they look good on offense, 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.080 and he's showed just playing well as a result. Okay, Bucky, 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.280 obviously I have to take an opportunity to plug the 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.760 twenty nineteen LSU football team, Like why would I not 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.960 do that? But I think it. I think it pertains 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.600 to this though, because Joe Brady was the offensive coordinator 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.240 for that team, and a super underrated part of that 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.480 offense was Clyde Edwards Hilaire being able to do a 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.360 little bit of everything. I mean he was. He was 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.360 great and pass pro, he could run the ball, and 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.560 he just dropped out of the backfield all the time 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.480 and presented an easy target if Joe Burrow didn't have anybody. 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.840 That obviously describes Christian McCaffrey very very well. He's got 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:28.920 sixteen catches through two games in a quarter. I guess 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.680 my question is is a versatile running back is important 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.040 to Joe Brady and the pros as it was in college. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.880 And can Cuba Hubbard do that as well or do 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.960 they kind of have to reinvent this thing. I don't 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.480 know if they have to reinvent it, but I mean 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.480 she will Holbbly get first crack at it, and so 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.920 they'll give him every opportunity to test the rocky. He'll 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.319 catch it, he'll run it. He's a big play player. 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.000 He played in the Big two have at Olfaoma State, 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.280 and so he has some ability. Matt Rul knows him. 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.840 Will haven't played against him, and he said, like those 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.599 memories kinda one of the reason why they made it 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.679 a point to get him. Ross Freeman is backing him up. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.040 Ross Freeman is a guy that played a dinner for 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.000 a few years but it never really popped for him. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.840 But he's a big time running back the Oregon. He 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:13.600 can catch the ball out of the backfield as well. 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.760 So I don't think they have to necessarily change their offense. 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.920 They just had to change the distribution. Where does the 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.520 ball go? So those twenty to twenty five touches that 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:24.960 used to go to Christian McCaffrey how do we divvy 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.600 up that pivot so that we can keep the team balanced, 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.840 but everybody's happy not getting too much too soon. DJ 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.760 Moore leads this team in receptions at twenty two and 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.640 had also leads him receiving yards two hundred and eighty five. 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.400 I assume he is their biggest weapon outside of McCaffrey, 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.560 and obviously will need to be that with McCaffrey out. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.480 If you're the Cowboys defensive coordinator, how do you go 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.400 about trying to defend Dj Moore knowing that he is 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:53.920 their biggest weapon? I mean, he is their biggest weapon, 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.000 and a lot of it depends on what do you 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.960 feel like about Robbie Anderson? Because Robbie Anderson is a 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:00.600 guy that can really take the time off and make 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.200 big things happen. So what do you want to concede? 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.920 Are you willing to concede some chain moving throws? And 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:07.920 do you want to completely take the big play element 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.440 out of the mix? I believe with Dj Moore, maybe 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.040 you mix in some double coverage in practice, But love man, 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.840 he's a good player, but he's not quite keenan Allen 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.280 level and some of the other guys that they faced, 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.680 so I think you kind of play it straight initially, 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.200 and then if it's one of those situations where he's 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.800 beginning to have his way, then you kind of interject 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.400 and you go back and play some of your normal stuff. 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.240 You know, the last two weeks the Cowboys have benefited. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.880 Of course they've had the injuries and stuff happening on 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.400 their own defensive end, but the last two weeks they've 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.280 benefited from a starting alignment on the opposing team being 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.320 out the Chargers and the Eagles. Where does the tackle 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.280 situation that look like for the Panthers and do you 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:51.920 think the Cowboys can they'll be an advantage for them? Again, Well, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.520 I mean Cameron Irvan is someone that you want to attack. Like, 0:15:54.680 --> 0:16:00.760 he's definitely vulnerable ahead left tackle, so see his struggles 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.280 and knowing about that, like that's where the game plan 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.760 has to start. Um, can you attack Sam Dna off 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.680 his backside? Can you make him uncomfortable? Uh mapparatus as 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.960 centers another one that you can go at a little bit. Um. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.960 This isn't like an A level offensive line, and so 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.640 there they are opportunities that are that are going to 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.320 present himself clear and so I think you can attack 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.680 him a few different a few different ways, but I'm 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.600 starting at the left alcohol I'm working from there, obviously. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.360 I gotta if it makes sense, I gotta ask you 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.040 about our draft guys, and I can't help. But notice 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.080 you mentioned him briefly, but Carolina started this week out 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:43.560 by trading Dan Arnold for a cornerback. Is that just 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.080 because they have that desperate of a need at corner 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:50.160 without jac Horne? Or is Tommy Trimble? I mean, do 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.160 you think that they have designs on how good he 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.000 could be? Because I got I saw a little bit 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.400 of the Houston game and he's a hell of an 0:16:56.440 --> 0:17:00.200 athletic player. Do you think maybe his role they have 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.880 in mind that he's capable of having a larger role. 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.880 I guess it's a couple of different things. I think 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:08.600 one day, do like Tommy Trumbo, they want to give 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.440 him an opportunity to get on the field and make 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:14.560 things happen. But there's a fascination in the building with C. J. Henderson, 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.239 and so they wanted to be able to pick him. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:19.919 Was the first round pick. They got him for nothing, like, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.400 it didn't really cost him anything. So they got another young, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.960 dynamic player, and if you look at the Panthers defense, 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:31.600 and we'll talk about them tomorrow, but this defense is young, fast, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.200 athletic and so they can grow together. And so one 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.560 thing and talking to mad Rule, they want to be 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.520 as fast as they can on deaths out of the ball. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.520 So then you add C. J. Henderson with JA C. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.880 Horn when he returns with Dante Jackson. I mean, now 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.760 you have a four by one track team in the 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.080 back end to go at the other fast guys they 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.880 have in Brian Burns and Jack Thompson and Jeremy Chen. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.080 So it's part of yeah, we had a need, but no, 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.720 we got a chance to upgrade our lineup, so let's 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.160 go upgraded. Yeah, it's amazing to me. And I don't 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.520 know if you if you can get more color to this, 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.000 but I just I can't even understand how in any 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:11.639 situation a young cornerback that was drafted that high gets 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.640 traded for a basically tight end a third round pick. 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:16.760 I mean that just seems very lopsided to me. What 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.600 am I missing on that? Well? I wish you're missing. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.200 There are some things that was going on with C. J. 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:27.760 Henderson down in Jacksonville where he had kind of honestly disappeared, 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:29.760 But he disappeared for maybe a few days of a 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:31.960 couple of weeks down there where he was trying to 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:33.879 work out and sort through some things. And so the 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.600 clock was always ticking on him down there in terms 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.600 of where he would fit. And whenever you get a 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.640 new regime and a new head coach and the head 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.000 coach didn't draft you, you were subject to be on 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:48.080 the first plane out of town if things aren't going well. 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.000 And so when the team starts out or in three 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:57.240 they have a draft pick, Campbell, the amount of lost 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.560 Bucky there for a second, Yeah, it's actually took that 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:02.640 bread and get better. So it was just a thing 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.520 where Herbert comes in. He's not necessarily his guy. They 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.640 have some outs that they drafted, so it's a chance 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.159 for them to get better, so they take advantage of 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.520 the opportunity. We're joined by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:13.399 I did have one more question from you, particularly to 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:17.320 the Dallas defense. Treyvon Trayvon Diggs has three interceptions in 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:22.000 three games, obviously playing really well for Dallas. How good 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.119 is he from a national standpoint if you look at 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.000 him relative to other cornerbacks around and good around the league. 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.040 How good do you think he is? And here's the 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.360 more important question, where does he still have room to grow? 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:39.720 Did we lose him? Oh? He speaks less. I mean, 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.560 that's how good he's been playing. You know what? You know, 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.760 here's the thing. He'll probably come back on in a second. 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.800 But I got an email from from Bucky. We've got 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.000 a five bucks as an article that he writes. Yeah, 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:57.400 and he actually wrote about Trayvon Diggs. Okay, so give 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.159 me what he said. He's an elite playmaker. He's I 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:02.320 don't know if the Cowboys coaching staff expector Diggs to 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:04.640 come in to be a premier cover corner in year two, 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.560 but the young playmaker deserves consideration as one of the 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:10.840 premier players at this position. Bam boom. I don't know 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.120 how you argue with it after rank so this point 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.320 in the season, I mean, he's back. But actually, hey, Bucky, 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:19.800 well go ahead. I was just saying, since we lost 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:21.880 you for a second, I read your portion of five 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.440 Bucks where you talked about the Trayvon Diggs being an 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.360 elite playmaker and he's got the swagger of an all problem. 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:32.720 I mean, look, man, it doesn't take long to figure 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:35.920 out that he has it dialed in. And I don't 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.040 know what the secret sauce is. I don't know if 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.560 it's Joe Wind and Dan Quinn pumping him full of confidence. 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:43.680