WEBVTT - Hangin' With The 'Boys: Kickoff Approaching 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:06.160 Before listening, ask a doctor if your heart is healthy 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.560 enough for Dallas Cowboys football. He's hanging with the boys. 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.960 Broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:20.040 in Frisco. Now your host Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, and 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:26.079 Shannon gross Man. Oh Man, do y'all smell it? Do 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.200 you smell it? Nate? Yes, I smell it. Man? Do 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.400 you smell it? Kurt? Sure, just say you smell it? Okay, Sure, 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:37.600 I smell. Football is back in the air, brother football. Whoa, 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:44.599 Let's go. Let's go, man, let's go. Man. You know 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:51.040 just what I'm thinking, Kurt, He's coming. It's coming coming 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.360 into the foe. But that's just what I think Kurt 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.800 is coming into the foe. Ask a doctor before listening. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:02.080 Ask a doctor, what is chuckles, Douglas. Get it together, man, 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.520 it's on loop and I didn't see it. Yeah, quit 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:09.720 fat fingering it. I know just what I think. Kurt 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.800 is in the foe. Just when I think he see you, 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.280 just when I think he's on board, he's on board 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.560 with the program. He drops the ball. Got to put 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:20.959 him back down to the back to spot the smell 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:22.880 is in the air. There's a lot of smells that 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.880 have generated from you. I don't know for sure. We're 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:30.800 talking about good comeback. Well, we've got a new lineup 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.800 this week. Yes, sir, we lost the player. We did, 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.520 we lost the teammate. Josh will no longer be joining us. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.160 He had a with us moving to the new time 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.280 to accommodate players with the open locker room. He was 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:48.080 not able to accommodate the schedule. So it's you're stuck 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.520 with me and Kurt and Nate. Yes, from here on out. Ye, 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.480 Josh will miss you, buddy. Hopefully we can get him 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.480 on every once in a while. I'm busy, Bud bart 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.560 and I can passion to somebody else if you want, 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.840 But it's us. You're stuck with us. So no player today, 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:08.720 no player tomorrow, as we have a Dallas Cowboy State 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.160 of the Union address that we have to go to tomorrow. Kurt, 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.560 at what time the State of the Union address is 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:20.280 twelve thirty to three? And pinning your schedule, I'm you're good, 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.040 all right, we'll be We'll be three thirty tomorrow and 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.920 then we'll be back at our regular schedule. Time to say, 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.880 uh is it triple X? Which one is it? This time. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.800 It's two Triple X, is right? What you talk about? 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.040 The Vin Diesel movies? Yeah, Van Deeson. Then it was 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.200 the Brother Oh I didn't. I didn't know which way 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.040 you were going with that. I thought you were having 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.600 flashbacks of our Tampa conversation man last week. No, it's 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.120 it's two of them, ice Cube and Van Diesel. Which 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.000 which state of the Union? Oh, I don't know. I'm 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.800 not I'm not down with those Triple X movies. Okay, 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.720 there's a couple of others I could probably chime in on, 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.520 but not those two. We don't want to go down 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.560 there now we can. We might later, so we'll try 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:09.160 to get a player on maybe Thursday, and see where 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.520 it goes from there. But football, football, football, And something 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:18.280 very interesting happened this weekend. We have a fifty three 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.240 man roster, Fellas, we've been talking about it for weeks 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:27.200 and weeks and weeks, and I have it here, made 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.040 me a copy. He made me a copy of and 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:34.160 Nate has a copy, and Kurt has a copy, and 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.480 I want to just go through this position by position. 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.400 I don't think there were any huge surprises. Probably the biggest, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.360 the biggest surprise happened about I don't know an hour 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.640 officially an hour ago. We'll get to that, and that's 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.320 at the quarterback position. But let's start and let's just 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.120 kind of go down the line. Here. We've got the 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:55.920 official list from our PR department, and let's just go 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.840 down how they have it listed. Okay, I'll tell you 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.600 the position. I'll us off the players, and then let's 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.560 discuss if any of this surprises us, if we would 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.800 have rather seen some other moves, or just your overall 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.400 feelings about this. Rosters that sound good, fellas, Yes, sir, Okay, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.760 how about you, Kurt? Yes, well, we're gonna need you 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.480 to We're gonna need some more a Kurt. We got 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.320 rid of Josh. We need some more a Kurt. Don't 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.400 even be like surly and no, no, we no. I 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.400 think Josh had his place and we're going in a 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.720 positive direction. Okay, just turn it up to eleven, Kurt, 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.760 just need more still our stats guy, but we need more, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:38.240 all right? Okay? Wide receiver, Yes, sir, we have Dez 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:44.120 Bryant on one side, Cole Beasley and Terence Williams your 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:51.120 other two, backed up by Bryce Butler, Ryan Switzer and 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.680 Noah Brown, and I know we had had Andy Jones 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.359 in that conversation. He didn't make it. Noah Brown, we 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.520 kind of had talked about what we thought maybe the 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.080 upside was there with Noah that Andy's kind of had 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.080 his chance and the lights may have been too big 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.839 for him. Does anything surprise you guys at the wide 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:14.360 receiver position? You know when when when the other day 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.000 we did a fifty three man and I you know, 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:23.160 I'm a firm believer and Brown won it straight up, 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.160 he beat Andy out. I mean, you know a lot 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.000 of people, well he was injured. Well, you know what, 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.680 guess what, that's nature, that's nature the beast. Uh congratulation 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:38.000 or Brown? You know, congratulation Andy. I hope, hope something 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.160 is out there for you. Brother. Were you as surprise 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:45.479 at all that Andy didn't get put on the practice squad? Nah? Nah? Nah? 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.080 Sure just didn't show enough. Yeah. Oh and see if 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.159 anybody picks him up. Yeah, the thing is what you 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:57.000 gotta do is and and it ain't like when I played, 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.120 you know, because I got a couple opportunities before I 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.240 landed on my feet. And I hope he does too. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.600 But you know, it's always somebody new coming It's always 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.120 somebody better than made light. You know, every year is 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.680 you know what you want? You know, when you walk 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.640 into a bakery, you know you have the day old 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.320 bread over to the side of half price and you 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.240 got the brand new fresh bread. Why did you steal 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.520 the brand new fresh bread? Sell more? Everybody wants to 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.280 news it's fresh, Yeah, says here. Andy Jones has been 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.760 claimed by the Texans. There you go. It's not a 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.400 bad move, man. It's nothing wrong with the old donuts though. 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.880 It's nothing you know, especially if you're sitting in a 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:36.080 police calling occurred man's coffee, you know what I'm saying. Well, 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.440 it's interesting they let Andy Jones go, didn't put him 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:40.840 on the practice squad, but they did put Lance Lenore, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.760 which I'm not real shocked by that because I felt 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.200 like they gave him a ton of opportunities and he 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.039 did okay with them. You know, he had that what 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:54.120 that muff punt or that fumble punt um on the road? 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.680 What game was that? Where were we at Corlisum? Yeah? Right, La. 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:03.200 But they kept putting him in in situations and maybe 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.159 they haven't seen enough of him. So he's there. Andy's 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:11.400 apparently in Texas. I was surprised that Leanor so pronounced him. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.120 He was the only one that fielded a punt for 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.680 the Cowboys in the preseason. I would think that'd be 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.880 a time they'd be trying out guys, but a guy 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.800 that they really wanted to try. Yeah, Switzer was there there. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.040 They already know he's the man or Beasily or Beaz 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.920 or whoever. So I guess yeah, but still I thought 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.600 they'd throw it Andy Jones, somebody out there, just see 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.200 what else you could do. Maybe they have maybe maybe 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.760 they have that set, and they're like, apparently, maybe there's 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.240 only one guy we don't want to eat the other 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:40.160 three getting hurt. Throw this guy all right. Wide receiver 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.280 brook was Noah Brown, though he's got to be one 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.880 of the on the bubble guys when those suspension guys 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:51.200 come back. Though, right, wouldn't he be candidate for maybe 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.840 getting bumped. If he does, he'll go straighty a practice squad. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.160 But I'll tell you what, if they throw him some 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.000 balls and he performed in the game, somebody else maybe 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:05.480 will get the chances. Yeah. Active at wide receiver, we'll 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:10.040 see man, you know, we know he's the last receiver 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.000 on the list. So, but they showed us him a 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.720 lot during the preseason. They showed got comfortable with him. 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.200 So what's the latest on Switzers? He I think you 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.560 can be ready. I think he's I think he's gonna 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.320 be ready. Yeah, I think that's what I've heard for 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:28.119 this week. You know what, Uh, we thought it would 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.200 you know, they give our information a little more freely 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.600 doing training camp because they figured it wasn't giving away 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:36.360 nothing special. We would probably see a few guys dressed out. 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.440 We're like, oh, I thought he was, you know, because 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.320 they gonna hold it close to the vest. Now it's 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.000 see it's season time, right, would you say anything? Would 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.640 you really tell anything? Now? You Friday, when they practice 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.000 what he practiced, they didn't have to get a better indication, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.640 you know. But yeah, the only person they have official 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:58.280 as officially as injured player is Anthony Hitchins. And I 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.800 would imagine when is the injury report come out? The 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.200 first one is usually on Wednesday, So I would imagine 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:10.160 tomorrow will Yeah if if he's what probable doubtful, he's 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:15.319 gotta be doubtful. Yeah, yeah, so I imagine that god injured. Right, 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.040 That's a great point nature it's it's it's go time. 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:22.280 It's not giving out information free sir, getting out of 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.760 the dig around. Man. Get a call from Britt Brown 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.560 going what are you doing? Uh? You know, boss man, 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:30.800 I gotta call it. You know this out boss man? 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:35.600 Uh beard? Look here what we need from you every night? 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:41.520 And then is you know, like broadest uh Mick, because 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:46.199 especially gets here here you go, we just get his information. 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.720 Then he's out of here. All we want to mix information. 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:50.160 He didn't come in and do a quick hit, you 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.120 quick hit right, get out, let us go talk about it. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.040 I'm serious getting about of here, you know, because you're 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.720 trying to glue itself to the sea. Hey, it's gonna 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.280 be on your side of the table. Apparently, no out 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.640 of here at the EJAC button. Yeah all right, yeah 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.560 every nine days, just just a little rioting now if 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.440 if the big dog Derek says okay, oh yeah, yeah, 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.440 we call it out. We'll let you make that call 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.760 whenever you want to. Derek doesn't run this show. We 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.480 run this show. This is a show for I don't 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.240 put it on my shoulder. This is I'll take up 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.640 the food chain. I'll take it. I'll take responsibilt me 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:25.560 or your rather, let you go to see I can 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.520 talk about Derek because he never listens to this show, 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:32.120 so he doesn't care what happens on this show. All right, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.800 wide receiver, let's go to let's go to a running back, Yes, sir, 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.520 And I'm and I think this might be when these 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.120 suspended guys come back. I think this might be where 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.720 you see one of these one of these guys get 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:47.760 get let loose. So running back, we've got twenty one 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:52.000 Ezekiel Elliott, no surprise there, Deren McFadden, No real surprise there, 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.079 Number twenty, number forty six Alfred Morris is listed as 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.880 the third running back, and number forty five Rod Smith 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.079 as the four worth running back, and then at fullback, 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:06.840 Keith Smith. So you have four guys listed at running 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.880 back and a fullback. Does that surprise you guys at all? Nah? 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:17.080 I mean, all of these guys play their way onto 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.920 this roster, but none more than Rod Smith. I mean, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:25.840 and I want Rod to get like four special team 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.840 tackles because everything he needs, Yeah, everything he does on 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.760 special teams makes it where it comes down to him, 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.160 to him and Noah Brown and whoever else we kept extra, 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:42.400 you know. So I want Rod Smith to bill a 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.599 part of his team every week. I want him to 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.880 be He may not be active every game, but I won't. 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.680 I wants He's better than a practice squad player. He's 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.040 way better than a p He's a guy that's deserving 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.560 on this team. He's out right here and told you 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.439 I want to make this team because I know I'm 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.200 good enough to make it. He's proven. Then if you 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.640 had to pick him or Morris, who would you take. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.040 It's a hard deal for me because I got a 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.800 personal mistake in mars Man and don't make me do that. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.200 I mean, yeah, General pad Nane, as hard as you 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:16.160 well the thing the thing about Morris is as well. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.120 And in this preseason he did the same thing he 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.360 did last year. He looked really good. But when he 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.680 came into spell Zeke in the regular season, there was 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.679 never he never had. He never looked quite as quick 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.880 and except for that first game with the Giants when 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.920 Zeke didn't look good and Morris did. But throughout the 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.360 length of the season, Morris didn't look nearly as good 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.200 as he had previously. And I don't know what's up 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.760 with that, because I based on what he had done 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.479 in the preseason, I thought he might be better than McFadden, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.600 but he evolsd on his performance. I don't know. He's 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.920 a volume guy, and uh, he's sharpen his skills. You 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:53.360 saw him when he was even in a game with 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:58.320 the backups. He's he did well. He he you'll see 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.880 he'll do well this year. I think he hit a 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:05.400 lull because and a lot of players said, no, I 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.959 just I'm ready when they call me. Not when you've 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.840 been a starter all your life. Yeah, And I try 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.680 to tell people, you know, as much as we want 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.760 to be the tough mentally physical player, that I'm ready 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.839 when they call me. That everybody the same. It's only 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.719 a few guys that can bring that thing right off 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.640 the bench, you know, at spot played and be ready 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.480 when they call him. I think you'll see a better 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.040 guy if something happened to Zeke, which I don't think 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.960 nothing should happen to Zeke. But if something happened to Zeke, 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.000 then all of a sudden, he becomes McFadden in this 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.680 role called McFadden becomes Zeke. So you'll see a better guy. 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.360 I promise you, sharper, But but now just don't made 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.320 me two between him and Rod If I'm going from 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.000 just a football same point, Rod Smith is a more 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.760 valuable player right now because he's he does more as 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.079 of today on special teams. Yes, do you think that 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.959 was there anything telling by them not playing Rod with 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.640 the with the twos and threes that that lasts or 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.600 that or the ones and twos and threes that last 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.640 preseason game that we saw him in. You know they 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.200 held him so late. I think it was late third 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:09.920 quarter or fourth quarter. Do you think they had their 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:11.920 mind made up and they were like, we're good on 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.960 this guy, or I think they just wanted to get 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.680 after a lot of carrots because they what they was 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.960 trying to do. And smart thing by Jason and Steven, 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:26.160 great way of thinking, where where we thinking, Hey, I'm 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:30.240 thinking Zeke shouldn't played at all, But they like until 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:35.200 they tell us that Zeke is out, we're gonna play 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.280 it like we played it before, like we played it 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.800 last year. We gotta get our guys who we think 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.920 that we're gonna be feel comfortable giving the ball to 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.760 as much as I want Rod Smith fan. Right now, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.280 you have a stable offensive line except for the left 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:52.960 guard that knows who they are. Now, you don't need 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.240 a running back who you really don't know who he is. 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.400 We know what he's shown us and what we think 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.200 he can capable of in but we know what McFadden 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.600 is and I promise you if you get Mars twenty 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.000 five Carris, he gonna he gonna come out of the 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.280 way more yards. And a lot of people think because 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.600 he's a volume carrier, his his his speed don't change 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:15.760 what you see in the first quarter, you're gonna see 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.480 in the fourth quarter. But he's not. He's not gonna 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:23.160 get that many carries now, he's not. Is he worth having? Yeah? 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:29.480 He isn't until until Zeke, until the establishes what Zeke 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.200 is gonna be and how he's gonna do it. Because 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.360 we'll get to that in a minute. There's some some 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.680 kind of new news that's coming down the pipeline that 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.280 they I think they're Kurt will let you chime in 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.760 a minute, where they're gonna have some kind of ruling 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.120 handed down about three o'clock, I believe, right after we 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.600 get off the air, So we'll jump into that. DEMI interruptionate, 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.880 go ahead, No, No, I'm through, man. I just think 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.840 you know it's two or three guys that I like 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.720 and I call him performance guys. You know, I didn't 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.520 start out liking nor Brown nor Brown one as well 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.640 onto this team, Rod Smith, I didn't know him a 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:05.560 lot of about him. I saw him last year and 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.920 then he looked quick footed. I see this year. This 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.200 guy is a different guy. He won his well onto 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.040 this team, and I just hope he can stay. Yeah. 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:18.320 All right, let's move to another skill position, and then 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.120 we'll get into Nate's favorite group, the offensive line. After 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:29.200 that tight end Jason Witton, James Hannah, Jeff Swaim, and 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.920 then Rico is going to be placed on the the 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:37.920 IR to start the season, which I don't think any 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.560 of that's a big surprise other than, you know, Rico, 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.160 than putting him on IR because of an injury late 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.680 in the preseason. But um, I think we all thought 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.080 they were going to keep at least three tight ends. 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.600 With Rico moving to IR, that just kind of makes 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.720 that a no brainer that you keep those guys and 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:56.640 slide him over. Any surprises there to you, guys? Nah, Nah, Kurt, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.000 what you feel about that? No? I think if those 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.440 guys stay healthy, that's that's a good tight end group. 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.119 Let's I put them up against most any group out there. Ye, 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.480 all teams. You know, one team in the league kept five. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.520 I can't think who it is. Tampa Bay kept five 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.119 tight ends. Let me let me tell you what. Let 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.960 me tell you what what two good tight ends can do? 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.760 Let alone three or four or five? You got two 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.239 good tight ends? I say, we got Jason Whitten. Are 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:30.400 you talking again? Yeah? Yeah, with both guys. We got 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:35.560 Hannah Sway as the h back, Jason Whitten and Handah 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:40.400 on the edges? Where your strength at? Tell me your strength? 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:43.840 We side you're gonna say, right side of lest side 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:48.000 of strength? Strength, right strength? What you're gonna do? They're 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.720 equal both sides. Now when you can't play, to play, 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.600 and we got two receives, two wide receivers that can catch. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.040 What three that can catch? But we got one that 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:02.119 can really catch? What did you do? Now? You gotta now? 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.920 You gotta now you as a defensive coordinity like old 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.359 boy h we still gotta bring eight up in the 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.560 box because they show enough showing the strength to run. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.720 But these guys can also run routes. Right, That's that's 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.000 what New England's made. A mad sir, you think we'll 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.600 see more of that than because they when they drafted Escobar, however, 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:24.480 that was the route they said they were gonna go, 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.760 We're gonna do this too tight end thing, and obviously 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.399 that didn't work out. You think we're gonna see more 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.320 of that then this show? Oh yeah, yeah, Sway is 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.680 way better. Hannah is way better. Hannah is that unsung 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.600 hero that nobody respects but but the coaching staff and 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.120 the players. I always thought he could be a better 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.440 receiver given the chance. Well you don't. Everybody don't have 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:47.920 Jason Witten. That's true, right, So uh oh man, I'm 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:53.320 telling you that's a good situation. That's that's a good situation. 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:59.120 And now and then, and see, mister Gathers Rico, if 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:05.160 you just ever give a effort of knowing your assignments. Now, 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.560 he's on injured reserve because of that concussion. Right, he's 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.439 on injured reserve because he's not ready yet. Yeah, you 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.520 can take it for whatever it's worth. Exactly, that's not ready. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.800 It was a conveniently time to concussion to stand the 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.119 longest concussion on the biggest cat I ever seen in 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.920 my life. All right, let's move let's move on to 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.800 Nate's favorite position, to talk about I think we talked 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.720 about this every single day in some form or fashion drink, 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.440 and I didn't bring it up everything. No, Nope, that 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:35.760 a lot of that was on me. A lot of 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:40.080 that was on me the offensive line. So at center, 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.680 No surprises there. We've got Travis Frederick back up. He's 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.000 got a new nickname today Man. That's man backed up. 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:52.680 You have a reality show backed up by he talks 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:58.600 live Mountain Man from Duck Dynasty if you've ever seen it. Yes, Um, 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:03.480 Travis Frederick backed up by Looney Tunes. Looney Tunes, Um 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:07.560 Tyrn Smith. That you're left tackle mechanic. There we go, 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:12.159 No surprise there, um, right tackle. You got Lyle backed 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:15.160 up by Byron Bell. Ain't got one for Lyle yet. 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:17.359 Now we need to get one when need get him 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:19.880 on the show and work. Yeah, I ain't got one 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.080 for Byron Bell. I'm not sure he'll ever get one 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.840 from me. Right guard. You got Zack Martin, Yes, sir, 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:27.760 we got a president. Baby. There you go if the 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:31.600 President also backed up by Byron Bell. And then the 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.119 most in one of the most intriguing positions, probably the 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:40.520 most intriguing position on the team, backed up by Stephen 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:45.000 Jones and and coach Garrett's comments this week, left guard 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:49.840 Chaz Green, backed up by Jonathan Cooper, is official on 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.680 the depth chart, but we don't even really know who 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.000 who's gonna start on Sunday and it's already Tuesday. How 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.280 do you guys feel about that? Isn't this one of 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.680 the most the positions that you need? And Nate, you 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:04.960 you talk to this because you played offensive line. Don't 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:09.120 you need some time to gel and know who's gonna 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:11.200 be on the other side of you? Or is that overblown? 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.560 They think they gave enough reps to Cooper and Chad 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:19.199 at the left guard. But excuse me, sir, what I 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:23.520 would do personally, you know, and I'm not the coach, 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.160 and so please don't be texting them over saying, Nate 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:32.399 Newton said, emailing, whatever you do, I will put Cooper 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.720 there and let it letting rock and roll there and 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:38.400 trying to Chads Green one hundred percent because if he's 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:41.560 not one hundred percent, I don't need him falling out 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:44.840 of the game. And now that puts a bill at 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:50.000 you know, swing everything right about now you can have 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:54.359 Chad Green as the backup swing tackling guard and have 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:59.080 Joe Looney. Now you got your seven guys that you 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:02.680 can have active as an old line, you know, versus 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:07.560 versus it. I don't want Cooper. They may think Cooper 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:10.520 is a backup guard and center then and then put Bail, 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:14.680 you know, and I don't like that backup situation more 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:16.800 than I do the other backup situation. Now, can Luney 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.320 play more than just center? Yeah, Luney can play guard. 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:22.240 He can play both the guards. Okay, it's Bill gonna 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:24.639 be the swing tackle. Then on the rights on the 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.679 left side. Uh yeah, you put Chad Green as the 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:31.760 side and left guard. Then he's both. He's he's he's 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:35.000