Speaker 1: Before listening, ask a doctor if your heart is healthy
Speaker 1: enough for Dallas Cowboys football. He's hanging with the boys.
Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star
Speaker 1: in Frisco. Now your host Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, and
Speaker 1: Shannon gross Man. Oh Man, do y'all smell it? Do
Speaker 1: you smell it? Nate? Yes, I smell it. Man? Do
Speaker 1: you smell it? Kurt? Sure, just say you smell it? Okay, Sure,
Speaker 1: I smell. Football is back in the air, brother football. Whoa,
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go, man, let's go. Man. You know
Speaker 1: just what I'm thinking, Kurt, He's coming. It's coming coming
Speaker 1: into the foe. But that's just what I think Kurt
Speaker 1: is coming into the foe. Ask a doctor before listening.
Speaker 1: Ask a doctor, what is chuckles, Douglas. Get it together, man,
Speaker 1: it's on loop and I didn't see it. Yeah, quit
Speaker 1: fat fingering it. I know just what I think. Kurt
Speaker 1: is in the foe. Just when I think he see you,
Speaker 1: just when I think he's on board, he's on board
Speaker 1: with the program. He drops the ball. Got to put
Speaker 1: him back down to the back to spot the smell
Speaker 1: is in the air. There's a lot of smells that
Speaker 1: have generated from you. I don't know for sure. We're
Speaker 1: talking about good comeback. Well, we've got a new lineup
Speaker 1: this week. Yes, sir, we lost the player. We did,
Speaker 1: we lost the teammate. Josh will no longer be joining us.
Speaker 1: He had a with us moving to the new time
Speaker 1: to accommodate players with the open locker room. He was
Speaker 1: not able to accommodate the schedule. So it's you're stuck
Speaker 1: with me and Kurt and Nate. Yes, from here on out. Ye,
Speaker 1: Josh will miss you, buddy. Hopefully we can get him
Speaker 1: on every once in a while. I'm busy, Bud bart
Speaker 1: and I can passion to somebody else if you want,
Speaker 1: But it's us. You're stuck with us. So no player today,
Speaker 1: no player tomorrow, as we have a Dallas Cowboy State
Speaker 1: of the Union address that we have to go to tomorrow. Kurt,
Speaker 1: at what time the State of the Union address is
Speaker 1: twelve thirty to three? And pinning your schedule, I'm you're good,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll be We'll be three thirty tomorrow and
Speaker 1: then we'll be back at our regular schedule. Time to say,
Speaker 1: uh is it triple X? Which one is it? This time.
Speaker 1: It's two Triple X, is right? What you talk about?
Speaker 1: The Vin Diesel movies? Yeah, Van Deeson. Then it was
Speaker 1: the Brother Oh I didn't. I didn't know which way
Speaker 1: you were going with that. I thought you were having
Speaker 1: flashbacks of our Tampa conversation man last week. No, it's
Speaker 1: it's two of them, ice Cube and Van Diesel. Which
Speaker 1: which state of the Union? Oh, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not down with those Triple X movies. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of others I could probably chime in on,
Speaker 1: but not those two. We don't want to go down
Speaker 1: there now we can. We might later, so we'll try
Speaker 1: to get a player on maybe Thursday, and see where
Speaker 1: it goes from there. But football, football, football, And something
Speaker 1: very interesting happened this weekend. We have a fifty three
Speaker 1: man roster, Fellas, we've been talking about it for weeks
Speaker 1: and weeks and weeks, and I have it here, made
Speaker 1: me a copy. He made me a copy of and
Speaker 1: Nate has a copy, and Kurt has a copy, and
Speaker 1: I want to just go through this position by position.
Speaker 1: I don't think there were any huge surprises. Probably the biggest,
Speaker 1: the biggest surprise happened about I don't know an hour
Speaker 1: officially an hour ago. We'll get to that, and that's
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. But let's start and let's just
Speaker 1: kind of go down the line. Here. We've got the
Speaker 1: official list from our PR department, and let's just go
Speaker 1: down how they have it listed. Okay, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: the position. I'll us off the players, and then let's
Speaker 1: discuss if any of this surprises us, if we would
Speaker 1: have rather seen some other moves, or just your overall
Speaker 1: feelings about this. Rosters that sound good, fellas, Yes, sir, Okay,
Speaker 1: how about you, Kurt? Yes, well, we're gonna need you
Speaker 1: to We're gonna need some more a Kurt. We got
Speaker 1: rid of Josh. We need some more a Kurt. Don't
Speaker 1: even be like surly and no, no, we no. I
Speaker 1: think Josh had his place and we're going in a
Speaker 1: positive direction. Okay, just turn it up to eleven, Kurt,
Speaker 1: just need more still our stats guy, but we need more,
Speaker 1: all right? Okay? Wide receiver, Yes, sir, we have Dez
Speaker 1: Bryant on one side, Cole Beasley and Terence Williams your
Speaker 1: other two, backed up by Bryce Butler, Ryan Switzer and
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, and I know we had had Andy Jones
Speaker 1: in that conversation. He didn't make it. Noah Brown, we
Speaker 1: kind of had talked about what we thought maybe the
Speaker 1: upside was there with Noah that Andy's kind of had
Speaker 1: his chance and the lights may have been too big
Speaker 1: for him. Does anything surprise you guys at the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position? You know when when when the other day
Speaker 1: we did a fifty three man and I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a firm believer and Brown won it straight up,
Speaker 1: he beat Andy out. I mean, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of people, well he was injured. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: guess what, that's nature, that's nature the beast. Uh congratulation
Speaker 1: or Brown? You know, congratulation Andy. I hope, hope something
Speaker 1: is out there for you. Brother. Were you as surprise
Speaker 1: at all that Andy didn't get put on the practice squad? Nah? Nah? Nah?
Speaker 1: Sure just didn't show enough. Yeah. Oh and see if
Speaker 1: anybody picks him up. Yeah, the thing is what you
Speaker 1: gotta do is and and it ain't like when I played,
Speaker 1: you know, because I got a couple opportunities before I
Speaker 1: landed on my feet. And I hope he does too.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's always somebody new coming It's always
Speaker 1: somebody better than made light. You know, every year is
Speaker 1: you know what you want? You know, when you walk
Speaker 1: into a bakery, you know you have the day old
Speaker 1: bread over to the side of half price and you
Speaker 1: got the brand new fresh bread. Why did you steal
Speaker 1: the brand new fresh bread? Sell more? Everybody wants to
Speaker 1: news it's fresh, Yeah, says here. Andy Jones has been
Speaker 1: claimed by the Texans. There you go. It's not a
Speaker 1: bad move, man. It's nothing wrong with the old donuts though.
Speaker 1: It's nothing you know, especially if you're sitting in a
Speaker 1: police calling occurred man's coffee, you know what I'm saying. Well,
Speaker 1: it's interesting they let Andy Jones go, didn't put him
Speaker 1: on the practice squad, but they did put Lance Lenore,
Speaker 1: which I'm not real shocked by that because I felt
Speaker 1: like they gave him a ton of opportunities and he
Speaker 1: did okay with them. You know, he had that what
Speaker 1: that muff punt or that fumble punt um on the road?
Speaker 1: What game was that? Where were we at Corlisum? Yeah? Right, La.
Speaker 1: But they kept putting him in in situations and maybe
Speaker 1: they haven't seen enough of him. So he's there. Andy's
Speaker 1: apparently in Texas. I was surprised that Leanor so pronounced him.
Speaker 1: He was the only one that fielded a punt for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in the preseason. I would think that'd be
Speaker 1: a time they'd be trying out guys, but a guy
Speaker 1: that they really wanted to try. Yeah, Switzer was there there.
Speaker 1: They already know he's the man or Beasily or Beaz
Speaker 1: or whoever. So I guess yeah, but still I thought
Speaker 1: they'd throw it Andy Jones, somebody out there, just see
Speaker 1: what else you could do. Maybe they have maybe maybe
Speaker 1: they have that set, and they're like, apparently, maybe there's
Speaker 1: only one guy we don't want to eat the other
Speaker 1: three getting hurt. Throw this guy all right. Wide receiver
Speaker 1: brook was Noah Brown, though he's got to be one
Speaker 1: of the on the bubble guys when those suspension guys
Speaker 1: come back. Though, right, wouldn't he be candidate for maybe
Speaker 1: getting bumped. If he does, he'll go straighty a practice squad.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, if they throw him some
Speaker 1: balls and he performed in the game, somebody else maybe
Speaker 1: will get the chances. Yeah. Active at wide receiver, we'll
Speaker 1: see man, you know, we know he's the last receiver
Speaker 1: on the list. So, but they showed us him a
Speaker 1: lot during the preseason. They showed got comfortable with him.
Speaker 1: So what's the latest on Switzers? He I think you
Speaker 1: can be ready. I think he's I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be ready. Yeah, I think that's what I've heard for
Speaker 1: this week. You know what, Uh, we thought it would
Speaker 1: you know, they give our information a little more freely
Speaker 1: doing training camp because they figured it wasn't giving away
Speaker 1: nothing special. We would probably see a few guys dressed out.
Speaker 1: We're like, oh, I thought he was, you know, because
Speaker 1: they gonna hold it close to the vest. Now it's
Speaker 1: see it's season time, right, would you say anything? Would
Speaker 1: you really tell anything? Now? You Friday, when they practice
Speaker 1: what he practiced, they didn't have to get a better indication,
Speaker 1: you know. But yeah, the only person they have official
Speaker 1: as officially as injured player is Anthony Hitchins. And I
Speaker 1: would imagine when is the injury report come out? The
Speaker 1: first one is usually on Wednesday, So I would imagine
Speaker 1: tomorrow will Yeah if if he's what probable doubtful, he's
Speaker 1: gotta be doubtful. Yeah, yeah, so I imagine that god injured. Right,
Speaker 1: That's a great point nature it's it's it's go time.
Speaker 1: It's not giving out information free sir, getting out of
Speaker 1: the dig around. Man. Get a call from Britt Brown
Speaker 1: going what are you doing? Uh? You know, boss man,
Speaker 1: I gotta call it. You know this out boss man?
Speaker 1: Uh beard? Look here what we need from you every night?
Speaker 1: And then is you know, like broadest uh Mick, because
Speaker 1: especially gets here here you go, we just get his information.
Speaker 1: Then he's out of here. All we want to mix information.
Speaker 1: He didn't come in and do a quick hit, you
Speaker 1: quick hit right, get out, let us go talk about it.
Speaker 1: I'm serious getting about of here, you know, because you're
Speaker 1: trying to glue itself to the sea. Hey, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be on your side of the table. Apparently, no out
Speaker 1: of here at the EJAC button. Yeah all right, yeah
Speaker 1: every nine days, just just a little rioting now if
Speaker 1: if the big dog Derek says okay, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we call it out. We'll let you make that call
Speaker 1: whenever you want to. Derek doesn't run this show. We
Speaker 1: run this show. This is a show for I don't
Speaker 1: put it on my shoulder. This is I'll take up
Speaker 1: the food chain. I'll take it. I'll take responsibilt me
Speaker 1: or your rather, let you go to see I can
Speaker 1: talk about Derek because he never listens to this show,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't care what happens on this show. All right,
Speaker 1: wide receiver, let's go to let's go to a running back, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: And I'm and I think this might be when these
Speaker 1: suspended guys come back. I think this might be where
Speaker 1: you see one of these one of these guys get
Speaker 1: get let loose. So running back, we've got twenty one
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, no surprise there, Deren McFadden, No real surprise there,
Speaker 1: Number twenty, number forty six Alfred Morris is listed as
Speaker 1: the third running back, and number forty five Rod Smith
Speaker 1: as the four worth running back, and then at fullback,
Speaker 1: Keith Smith. So you have four guys listed at running
Speaker 1: back and a fullback. Does that surprise you guys at all? Nah?
Speaker 1: I mean, all of these guys play their way onto
Speaker 1: this roster, but none more than Rod Smith. I mean,
Speaker 1: and I want Rod to get like four special team
Speaker 1: tackles because everything he needs, Yeah, everything he does on
Speaker 1: special teams makes it where it comes down to him,
Speaker 1: to him and Noah Brown and whoever else we kept extra,
Speaker 1: you know. So I want Rod Smith to bill a
Speaker 1: part of his team every week. I want him to
Speaker 1: be He may not be active every game, but I won't.
Speaker 1: I wants He's better than a practice squad player. He's
Speaker 1: way better than a p He's a guy that's deserving
Speaker 1: on this team. He's out right here and told you
Speaker 1: I want to make this team because I know I'm
Speaker 1: good enough to make it. He's proven. Then if you
Speaker 1: had to pick him or Morris, who would you take.
Speaker 1: It's a hard deal for me because I got a
Speaker 1: personal mistake in mars Man and don't make me do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, General pad Nane, as hard as you
Speaker 1: well the thing the thing about Morris is as well.
Speaker 1: And in this preseason he did the same thing he
Speaker 1: did last year. He looked really good. But when he
Speaker 1: came into spell Zeke in the regular season, there was
Speaker 1: never he never had. He never looked quite as quick
Speaker 1: and except for that first game with the Giants when
Speaker 1: Zeke didn't look good and Morris did. But throughout the
Speaker 1: length of the season, Morris didn't look nearly as good
Speaker 1: as he had previously. And I don't know what's up
Speaker 1: with that, because I based on what he had done
Speaker 1: in the preseason, I thought he might be better than McFadden,
Speaker 1: but he evolsd on his performance. I don't know. He's
Speaker 1: a volume guy, and uh, he's sharpen his skills. You
Speaker 1: saw him when he was even in a game with
Speaker 1: the backups. He's he did well. He he you'll see
Speaker 1: he'll do well this year. I think he hit a
Speaker 1: lull because and a lot of players said, no, I
Speaker 1: just I'm ready when they call me. Not when you've
Speaker 1: been a starter all your life. Yeah, And I try
Speaker 1: to tell people, you know, as much as we want
Speaker 1: to be the tough mentally physical player, that I'm ready
Speaker 1: when they call me. That everybody the same. It's only
Speaker 1: a few guys that can bring that thing right off
Speaker 1: the bench, you know, at spot played and be ready
Speaker 1: when they call him. I think you'll see a better
Speaker 1: guy if something happened to Zeke, which I don't think
Speaker 1: nothing should happen to Zeke. But if something happened to Zeke,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, he becomes McFadden in this
Speaker 1: role called McFadden becomes Zeke. So you'll see a better guy.
Speaker 1: I promise you, sharper, But but now just don't made
Speaker 1: me two between him and Rod If I'm going from
Speaker 1: just a football same point, Rod Smith is a more
Speaker 1: valuable player right now because he's he does more as
Speaker 1: of today on special teams. Yes, do you think that
Speaker 1: was there anything telling by them not playing Rod with
Speaker 1: the with the twos and threes that that lasts or
Speaker 1: that or the ones and twos and threes that last
Speaker 1: preseason game that we saw him in. You know they
Speaker 1: held him so late. I think it was late third
Speaker 1: quarter or fourth quarter. Do you think they had their
Speaker 1: mind made up and they were like, we're good on
Speaker 1: this guy, or I think they just wanted to get
Speaker 1: after a lot of carrots because they what they was
Speaker 1: trying to do. And smart thing by Jason and Steven,
Speaker 1: great way of thinking, where where we thinking, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking Zeke shouldn't played at all, But they like until
Speaker 1: they tell us that Zeke is out, we're gonna play
Speaker 1: it like we played it before, like we played it
Speaker 1: last year. We gotta get our guys who we think
Speaker 1: that we're gonna be feel comfortable giving the ball to
Speaker 1: as much as I want Rod Smith fan. Right now,
Speaker 1: you have a stable offensive line except for the left
Speaker 1: guard that knows who they are. Now, you don't need
Speaker 1: a running back who you really don't know who he is.
Speaker 1: We know what he's shown us and what we think
Speaker 1: he can capable of in but we know what McFadden
Speaker 1: is and I promise you if you get Mars twenty
Speaker 1: five Carris, he gonna he gonna come out of the
Speaker 1: way more yards. And a lot of people think because
Speaker 1: he's a volume carrier, his his his speed don't change
Speaker 1: what you see in the first quarter, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. But he's not. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: get that many carries now, he's not. Is he worth having? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He isn't until until Zeke, until the establishes what Zeke
Speaker 1: is gonna be and how he's gonna do it. Because
Speaker 1: we'll get to that in a minute. There's some some
Speaker 1: kind of new news that's coming down the pipeline that
Speaker 1: they I think they're Kurt will let you chime in
Speaker 1: a minute, where they're gonna have some kind of ruling
Speaker 1: handed down about three o'clock, I believe, right after we
Speaker 1: get off the air, So we'll jump into that. DEMI interruptionate,
Speaker 1: go ahead, No, No, I'm through, man. I just think
Speaker 1: you know it's two or three guys that I like
Speaker 1: and I call him performance guys. You know, I didn't
Speaker 1: start out liking nor Brown nor Brown one as well
Speaker 1: onto this team, Rod Smith, I didn't know him a
Speaker 1: lot of about him. I saw him last year and
Speaker 1: then he looked quick footed. I see this year. This
Speaker 1: guy is a different guy. He won his well onto
Speaker 1: this team, and I just hope he can stay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move to another skill position, and then
Speaker 1: we'll get into Nate's favorite group, the offensive line. After
Speaker 1: that tight end Jason Witton, James Hannah, Jeff Swaim, and
Speaker 1: then Rico is going to be placed on the the
Speaker 1: IR to start the season, which I don't think any
Speaker 1: of that's a big surprise other than, you know, Rico,
Speaker 1: than putting him on IR because of an injury late
Speaker 1: in the preseason. But um, I think we all thought
Speaker 1: they were going to keep at least three tight ends.
Speaker 1: With Rico moving to IR, that just kind of makes
Speaker 1: that a no brainer that you keep those guys and
Speaker 1: slide him over. Any surprises there to you, guys? Nah, Nah, Kurt,
Speaker 1: what you feel about that? No? I think if those
Speaker 1: guys stay healthy, that's that's a good tight end group.
Speaker 1: Let's I put them up against most any group out there. Ye,
Speaker 1: all teams. You know, one team in the league kept five.
Speaker 1: I can't think who it is. Tampa Bay kept five
Speaker 1: tight ends. Let me let me tell you what. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you what what two good tight ends can do?
Speaker 1: Let alone three or four or five? You got two
Speaker 1: good tight ends? I say, we got Jason Whitten. Are
Speaker 1: you talking again? Yeah? Yeah, with both guys. We got
Speaker 1: Hannah Sway as the h back, Jason Whitten and Handah
Speaker 1: on the edges? Where your strength at? Tell me your strength?
Speaker 1: We side you're gonna say, right side of lest side
Speaker 1: of strength? Strength, right strength? What you're gonna do? They're
Speaker 1: equal both sides. Now when you can't play, to play,
Speaker 1: and we got two receives, two wide receivers that can catch.
Speaker 1: What three that can catch? But we got one that
Speaker 1: can really catch? What did you do? Now? You gotta now?
Speaker 1: You gotta now you as a defensive coordinity like old
Speaker 1: boy h we still gotta bring eight up in the
Speaker 1: box because they show enough showing the strength to run.
Speaker 1: But these guys can also run routes. Right, That's that's
Speaker 1: what New England's made. A mad sir, you think we'll
Speaker 1: see more of that than because they when they drafted Escobar, however,
Speaker 1: that was the route they said they were gonna go,
Speaker 1: We're gonna do this too tight end thing, and obviously
Speaker 1: that didn't work out. You think we're gonna see more
Speaker 1: of that then this show? Oh yeah, yeah, Sway is
Speaker 1: way better. Hannah is way better. Hannah is that unsung
Speaker 1: hero that nobody respects but but the coaching staff and
Speaker 1: the players. I always thought he could be a better
Speaker 1: receiver given the chance. Well you don't. Everybody don't have
Speaker 1: Jason Witten. That's true, right, So uh oh man, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you that's a good situation. That's that's a good situation.
Speaker 1: And now and then, and see, mister Gathers Rico, if
Speaker 1: you just ever give a effort of knowing your assignments. Now,
Speaker 1: he's on injured reserve because of that concussion. Right, he's
Speaker 1: on injured reserve because he's not ready yet. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can take it for whatever it's worth. Exactly, that's not ready.
Speaker 1: It was a conveniently time to concussion to stand the
Speaker 1: longest concussion on the biggest cat I ever seen in
Speaker 1: my life. All right, let's move let's move on to
Speaker 1: Nate's favorite position, to talk about I think we talked
Speaker 1: about this every single day in some form or fashion drink,
Speaker 1: and I didn't bring it up everything. No, Nope, that
Speaker 1: a lot of that was on me. A lot of
Speaker 1: that was on me the offensive line. So at center,
Speaker 1: No surprises there. We've got Travis Frederick back up. He's
Speaker 1: got a new nickname today Man. That's man backed up.
Speaker 1: You have a reality show backed up by he talks
Speaker 1: live Mountain Man from Duck Dynasty if you've ever seen it. Yes, Um,
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick backed up by Looney Tunes. Looney Tunes, Um
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith. That you're left tackle mechanic. There we go,
Speaker 1: No surprise there, um, right tackle. You got Lyle backed
Speaker 1: up by Byron Bell. Ain't got one for Lyle yet.
Speaker 1: Now we need to get one when need get him
Speaker 1: on the show and work. Yeah, I ain't got one
Speaker 1: for Byron Bell. I'm not sure he'll ever get one
Speaker 1: from me. Right guard. You got Zack Martin, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: we got a president. Baby. There you go if the
Speaker 1: President also backed up by Byron Bell. And then the
Speaker 1: most in one of the most intriguing positions, probably the
Speaker 1: most intriguing position on the team, backed up by Stephen
Speaker 1: Jones and and coach Garrett's comments this week, left guard
Speaker 1: Chaz Green, backed up by Jonathan Cooper, is official on
Speaker 1: the depth chart, but we don't even really know who
Speaker 1: who's gonna start on Sunday and it's already Tuesday. How
Speaker 1: do you guys feel about that? Isn't this one of
Speaker 1: the most the positions that you need? And Nate, you
Speaker 1: you talk to this because you played offensive line. Don't
Speaker 1: you need some time to gel and know who's gonna
Speaker 1: be on the other side of you? Or is that overblown?
Speaker 1: They think they gave enough reps to Cooper and Chad
Speaker 1: at the left guard. But excuse me, sir, what I
Speaker 1: would do personally, you know, and I'm not the coach,
Speaker 1: and so please don't be texting them over saying, Nate
Speaker 1: Newton said, emailing, whatever you do, I will put Cooper
Speaker 1: there and let it letting rock and roll there and
Speaker 1: trying to Chads Green one hundred percent because if he's
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent, I don't need him falling out
Speaker 1: of the game. And now that puts a bill at
Speaker 1: you know, swing everything right about now you can have
Speaker 1: Chad Green as the backup swing tackling guard and have
Speaker 1: Joe Looney. Now you got your seven guys that you
Speaker 1: can have active as an old line, you know, versus
Speaker 1: versus it. I don't want Cooper. They may think Cooper
Speaker 1: is a backup guard and center then and then put Bail,
Speaker 1: you know, and I don't like that backup situation more
Speaker 1: than I do the other backup situation. Now, can Luney
Speaker 1: play more than just center? Yeah, Luney can play guard.
Speaker 1: He can play both the guards. Okay, it's Bill gonna
Speaker 1: be the swing tackle. Then on the rights on the
Speaker 1: left side. Uh yeah, you put Chad Green as the
Speaker 1: side and left guard. Then he's both. He's he's he's
Speaker 1: covering both tackles and possibly one of the guard spots.
Speaker 1: Surely they know who's starting now. They may not have
Speaker 1: told us, but they knew he's gonna be in the
Speaker 1: left guard. I mean, he's sure, he's been out there
Speaker 1: the first team. But what Nate said about his health
Speaker 1: has to maybe be the key factor. That's why I
Speaker 1: would think Cooper's got to be the guy right now,
Speaker 1: because I was hur again, I got, I got, I got.
Speaker 1: I won't come as as the Beard said, I want
Speaker 1: continuity and the Cooper gives them that right off the bat.
Speaker 1: No questions asked whether you drunk pure leaf green tea
Speaker 1: or you drunk orade or another. Yeah, all right, awesome.
Speaker 1: And the last were you surprised Bell seemed like he
Speaker 1: was a little bit on the bubble? There were surprised
Speaker 1: at all that him. No, they they want to be comfortable.
Speaker 1: They want to be comfortable. That means guys that have
Speaker 1: five years experience. He's done. He's done it before in
Speaker 1: game situations. You know, you don't want to just put
Speaker 1: a guy in there. They haven't had game situations. He's
Speaker 1: as bad as he may have looked in practice. They
Speaker 1: know in a game he has played and he's in
Speaker 1: better shape now than he's ever been in his career
Speaker 1: wight wise. So he's healthy. So that's what they're banking on,
Speaker 1: is that, Okay, we've seen him in a game that
Speaker 1: same with Alfred Mars over rods him. They know that
Speaker 1: what Alfter Mars is they've seen it twice a year
Speaker 1: for the last six seven years before they got him here.
Speaker 1: It's a trust factor. They'd rather have someone in there
Speaker 1: that that's done it before that they can trust, rather
Speaker 1: than someone that's got a huge upside, that's not you know,
Speaker 1: got the experience that just telling. Moore's the poster boy
Speaker 1: for that exactly. Well, on the practice squad that kept
Speaker 1: three guys that are listed as guards and no tackles,
Speaker 1: Kadeem Edwards, Dan Skipper and Nate Thinker. So are some
Speaker 1: of those guys gonna work at tackle or is there
Speaker 1: a reason why? I mean, I'm a little surprised that
Speaker 1: they don't have a tackle on their practice as all
Speaker 1: of them is made a team Jazz Green. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I hate to say this. I mean, well, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: struggled every year to get in quality offensive linement, which
Speaker 1: every team does. But this year here what it was thin,
Speaker 1: especially by everybody being able to keep ninety up until
Speaker 1: the last cut. It was very very thin. I know.
Speaker 1: I heard they were big on on Skipper as far
Speaker 1: as his work ethic and how smart he is, and
Speaker 1: he's got the attitude, his attitude. Yeah, I think Colombo
Speaker 1: loved him. Yeah, you know what, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: He is Colombo with hair, He's tall, he's probably too
Speaker 1: tall to be off limeman, but he's he's got it.
Speaker 1: He's got a mean streak in him. So we'll moving
Speaker 1: on to the final position on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. They kept Dak Prescott and Cooper Rush, they
Speaker 1: let Kellen Moore go, and then right before we went
Speaker 1: on the air, they resigned him. And he's listed as
Speaker 1: your number two quarterback on the depth chart. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think that was the plan all along, because they knew
Speaker 1: that Rush wouldn't make it through. Rush wouldn't make it through.
Speaker 1: And I don't know the whole rules of it all
Speaker 1: the NFL, but because he was a veteran, more couldn't
Speaker 1: be claimed or something like that, so he would have
Speaker 1: to I get to offer him a job. I guess
Speaker 1: he'd have to be like a free agent, and so
Speaker 1: they they obviously had a deal already in place. Then
Speaker 1: you were going to bring him back. This allowed them
Speaker 1: to get gathers to the I R and keep him
Speaker 1: and keep keep rushing. Why why you just said, because
Speaker 1: he's a veteran's they trust him, They feel comfortable with him.
Speaker 1: Some of them do well, which don't. Which of them don't,
Speaker 1: Kurt Well, I think there's others in the building that
Speaker 1: probably don't, but they're not making the call. Ye, But interesting,
Speaker 1: it is interesting. I think it's great they give Rush
Speaker 1: more time to develop. I mean, it hurts you a
Speaker 1: little bit because you know you might lose Noah Brown
Speaker 1: later on down the road because you're keeping Rush. But hey,
Speaker 1: good for them. They figured out. I mean, after losing
Speaker 1: guys over the years like More and Darius Jackson and people,
Speaker 1: they figured out a way to kind of game the
Speaker 1: system and keep both guys they wanted. Yeah, And don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong when I say why, Look, those guys
Speaker 1: are a lot smarter than me and know a lot
Speaker 1: more about football than I do. And obviously there's a
Speaker 1: reason why he's still here. And I don't know what
Speaker 1: goes on in those meetings. I don't know what goes
Speaker 1: on in practice. After the first twenty minutes that they
Speaker 1: let people out there, it just to me it seems like,
Speaker 1: you know, you've seen what he can do in a game.
Speaker 1: It was it was okay, it was probably better than
Speaker 1: the other two backups she had two years ago. But
Speaker 1: I almost wonder if there's a quarterback out on the
Speaker 1: street that that is proven, that has, like we said,
Speaker 1: has done it before, that gives you more, you know
Speaker 1: what you've gotten more and Kelling Moore that that gives
Speaker 1: you more. But obviously there. They've they've kept him around
Speaker 1: for a reason, and he's back for another year at
Speaker 1: least for now. So it's strangely quiet. He is so quiet,
Speaker 1: like it's it's like, I just his last name makes
Speaker 1: me think it should be more. But that's into that story.
Speaker 1: Moving on to I talked to uh Cooper Rush's father
Speaker 1: recently did a story on him, and needless to say,
Speaker 1: their families very excited, really in surprise. Where's he? Where's he?
Speaker 1: I know he went to what Central Michigan. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: from nearby Lansing, Michigan, and I grew up there, set
Speaker 1: all kinds of state records. Yeah, we need to get
Speaker 1: him on the show. Maybe there you go. That's who
Speaker 1: would be who will try to get on this week?
Speaker 1: That sounds like an interesting story. How big Central Michigan.
Speaker 1: It's d one, but it's one of those mid level
Speaker 1: conferences and makes northern Illinois and all of that, right,
Speaker 1: M Florida A and M Florida. Anyway, let's take let's
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Speaker 1: the ball and see if there were any surprises there.
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Speaker 1: so excited today. I'm excited because it's football, man. That's
Speaker 1: right on regular season. We've been here. You didn't grind
Speaker 1: it out at training camp for four weeks like me
Speaker 1: and Nate. You came in the last three days. Hey,
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Speaker 1: the Star. I can attest to that. Yeah, whatever, All right,
Speaker 1: let's jump back into this roster special teams. No surprises there,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones, Dan Bailey LP, and then they have listed
Speaker 1: at kick returner kickoff returner Ryan Switzer as well as
Speaker 1: punt returner. And then your second string kickoff returner is
Speaker 1: listed as Jordan Lewis and Cole Beasley is your punt returner.
Speaker 1: I Sware. Garrett said in his press conference yesterday that
Speaker 1: Rod Smith would be the second kick returner if Switcher
Speaker 1: can't go and be rod Well. I got I got
Speaker 1: a bad list from PR Then I hope that's true.
Speaker 1: Keep brought around to two defense Let's get into this
Speaker 1: because I know there may be some Uh we talked
Speaker 1: a lot about the defensive line, so let's save that
Speaker 1: for last. Let's get into free safety. Byron Jones is
Speaker 1: listed as your number one and Xavier Woods is listed
Speaker 1: as your number two, and then it's strong safety. They
Speaker 1: have Jeff Heath listed as your number one and Cavon
Speaker 1: Frazier as your number two. Surprise there, good with that?
Speaker 1: Was it any surprise at all? The Blanton didn't make
Speaker 1: the cut. It wasn't for me. Huh, you know, I
Speaker 1: will see him out there a lot. They gave him
Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities. A lot of guys. You know,
Speaker 1: when they give you a lot of opportunities, they trying
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, what we saw in college is translating
Speaker 1: here to the pros. Let's give him every opportunity. Because
Speaker 1: every time they had an injury or somebody wasn't practicing
Speaker 1: on a certain day, he was that guy. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't see a lot of plays in
Speaker 1: training camp. And did he play in the games. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he played. I was surprised just because going back to
Speaker 1: the trust and veteran, you know, he's been there before.
Speaker 1: He's got six years, five years seasons in the league.
Speaker 1: I thought they might keep around just for a little
Speaker 1: experience back there. But obviously he didn't cut it, and
Speaker 1: they Jamil Showers made it back to the practice squad
Speaker 1: again as yeah, say safety, So he's back for another
Speaker 1: him and they had him around for two or three
Speaker 1: quarter because he's switched from quarterback to safety. He's a
Speaker 1: very very athletic guy. They want they want that guy.
Speaker 1: They they they want that guy. They really do. They
Speaker 1: must really like his makeup or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that court. Yes, you know. With
Speaker 1: with Jeff Heath, they've got kind of a tradition that
Speaker 1: goes from Keith Davis to Burry Church Jeff Heath where
Speaker 1: they found just a guy and developed him into a
Speaker 1: guy that they're comfortable making a starter after after three
Speaker 1: or four years. Because three or four years ago, if
Speaker 1: you'd have said Jeff Heath was going to be a
Speaker 1: starting safety on this team, cowboy fans would have quit.
Speaker 1: They would Yeah, that's it. I'm not rooting for this
Speaker 1: team anymore. But he's a you know, and he worked
Speaker 1: his way up by being a special team's stud and
Speaker 1: learned the position and and got better at it every year.
Speaker 1: And now as you're starting free safety. Yeah, yeah, what
Speaker 1: do you have? Like nine starts his rookie season because
Speaker 1: he injuries and he just he wasn't very good. Oh,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey caught that pass up in Chicago right before halftime
Speaker 1: and it was basically Heath was there and he didn't
Speaker 1: time his jump worth anything. Uh, even though it was Sean,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey was pretty good. I think people he got off
Speaker 1: to a bad star. But you're right, he's over the years,
Speaker 1: he's grown and learned the position and made a name
Speaker 1: on special team. So hopefully he's ready for the starting role. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of interceptions last year. Now, I would have
Speaker 1: liked to have seen Sammy Seemster are hanging with the Boys'
Speaker 1: own Sammy Seemster and some capacity be around, but didn't
Speaker 1: make it onto the practice squad. So moving on to cornerback.
Speaker 1: So at cornerback we have Nolan Carroll, Anthony Brown, and
Speaker 1: Orlando Scandrick as your starters, which I don't think there's
Speaker 1: any surprises there, And then we have Boune. I don't
Speaker 1: even know how to pronounce. This guy's been a wickery
Speaker 1: hanging with hoops, what I thought that was something else.
Speaker 1: I thought it was my Shannon hosting drop and it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Oh thanks, thanks for your I'll find it Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: and she do as your backups. Any surprises there not really? Nah. No,
Speaker 1: I have a social media question to White. But he
Speaker 1: made it to the practice squad. Yeah, Marquez White um
Speaker 1: did make it through to the pack practice squad at
Speaker 1: Cornerback as our social media director. What was the significance
Speaker 1: of Scandric's tweet with the X. That's a great question.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. Orlando has very cryptic um social
Speaker 1: media posts. But you did see that. I did see
Speaker 1: that sat and I thought, Okay, that's means something. But
Speaker 1: I don't know what it means. Maybe X and out
Speaker 1: all the haters. I don't know. He had a hoodie
Speaker 1: on that he was kind of looking out from underneath it,
Speaker 1: so I'm not real sure. He he does a lot
Speaker 1: of very cryptic stuff, so there's no telling what we
Speaker 1: should get to the bottom of that. Yes, we'll let
Speaker 1: you ask him. I'm good. I don't mess with Orlando.
Speaker 1: Orlando's Orlando's a super smart guy. Is I just feel
Speaker 1: like he doesn't want to have anything to do with
Speaker 1: social media, So I just unless he does social that's right, right,
Speaker 1: that's right. Good point. Uh, let's move to linebacker position.
Speaker 1: We have your starters listed as Damien Wilson, Anthony Hitchens,
Speaker 1: which is injured, Sean Lee, backed up by Kyle wilberd
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith, Justin Durant. In a recent signy jay Ron
Speaker 1: Elliott from Green Bay, I believe, yeah, yes, yep, that
Speaker 1: was a guy that traded for someday yep. What do
Speaker 1: you think about that? I think they needed with Hitchens out,
Speaker 1: they needed that little bit of depth, and he's got
Speaker 1: what He's in his fourth year, he's got some experiences.
Speaker 1: He never w He wasn't a star by any means
Speaker 1: in Green Bay, but he gave him depth. I think
Speaker 1: he had forty something tackles and four sacks in his
Speaker 1: four years. So I don't know. You tell I mean, Nate,
Speaker 1: I mean he ran up three to four. It sounds
Speaker 1: like up in Green Bay. Now he's going to four three?
Speaker 1: Is that gonna well? He's just I think he's a
Speaker 1: stand up guy too. He can get off on the edge.
Speaker 1: So that's what I read. So I don't know a
Speaker 1: lot about him, So so I get a little information
Speaker 1: on him, and it's for seeing him with my eyes
Speaker 1: and what he could do, because if if everything works,
Speaker 1: he may not see the field. On one special teams
Speaker 1: Nate with with Hitchens, hurt Is, Jalen Smith. Gonna is
Speaker 1: he gonna start? I cannot answer that. I would not
Speaker 1: start him, you know, but I wouldn't, but you know
Speaker 1: I would give him some plan time. Would you move
Speaker 1: Durant starting with Sean Lee? Is that how you would
Speaker 1: do it? Or? But the thing is the guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna be justin Durant, It's got to be justin Durant,
Speaker 1: in the middle, in the middle. Yeah, you get the
Speaker 1: kids some snaps here now, But I don't know what
Speaker 1: they feel about him. Maybe if they feel the leg
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent and ready for sixty s apps
Speaker 1: or fifty snaps or forty whatever the number is. They said,
Speaker 1: well he ready for forty snaps. Uh, he just needs
Speaker 1: to build some endurance with us. So we got a plan.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what they're where they're thinking over there,
Speaker 1: But what I saw on film cartoon character let's keep
Speaker 1: baby tapping. Let me ask you this, Nate, do they
Speaker 1: have When you have a guy that's coming back from
Speaker 1: from injury like that and even though he's played, you know,
Speaker 1: he's practiced, he's played in preseason. Do the trainers put
Speaker 1: do they go to the coaches and say, I think
Speaker 1: he's ready to play X amount of snaps at game
Speaker 1: speed and and do you put like a pitch count
Speaker 1: on that guy and say, okay, when he gets to
Speaker 1: twenty five snaps, we've got to We've got to pull
Speaker 1: him back. Or do they just like let him go
Speaker 1: till he gets tired and then he tells them taps
Speaker 1: his helmet says I need out. How does that work? Now?
Speaker 1: You know it's happening for helmet and that's something that
Speaker 1: went wrong. Uh. He they get with the coaches and
Speaker 1: they discuss, you know, whether you think he's at what
Speaker 1: are you thinking? And everybody putting cabs the input, and
Speaker 1: then the head coaching trainer along with the general managers
Speaker 1: say hey, okay, let's trying to this snap count. If
Speaker 1: he looks weary before that, you know, because they'll be
Speaker 1: keeping an eye on him, not so much as the coaches,
Speaker 1: but as the trainers. I'll be kind of keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on him, you know, if they feel like, hey,
Speaker 1: we need to get this guy here. He's ineffective. You know,
Speaker 1: I watched him. He's getting bold over. He can't get
Speaker 1: to a play. Let's let's get him out of here.
Speaker 1: So Brittain, those guys were, but the coaches you see, like,
Speaker 1: hey man, he's a big old fullbacks just ran away
Speaker 1: from him. That is some dark humor right there. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the last position, the defensive line. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's really any huge surprises here, but
Speaker 1: we've got starting across the front, Tyrone Crawford, Malie Collins,
Speaker 1: Nate's guy, Stephen Paya, and then DeMarcus Lawrence. And we've
Speaker 1: got those guys backed up by Taco Charlton, Brian Price,
Speaker 1: which is another recent acquisition, Benson Mayowa, and Charles Tapper.
Speaker 1: Any anything jump out to you there? And Nate as
Speaker 1: far as who didn't, Nah, sure didn't. And I just
Speaker 1: want to see what they w Tapper fits in this deal.
Speaker 1: We're surprised neither of the guys they drafted not even
Speaker 1: kept on the practice squad. Lewis Neil didn't make no, well,
Speaker 1: he was a he was a undrafted free agent guy.
Speaker 1: But the two they drafted from Colorado and Ivy and
Speaker 1: Ivy and Ivy from Florida. Nah, man, you got it,
Speaker 1: Lewis Neil and Richard ashe are on your practice squad
Speaker 1: because they gotta these moves made with a critical because
Speaker 1: they do have to. Uh. In two weeks Dmitri Demntrey
Speaker 1: more or he'll be back, and then two weeks after that,
Speaker 1: David Irvan to be back. So they they I think
Speaker 1: they put the right guys on the practice squad, and
Speaker 1: I think they got the r They kept them guys
Speaker 1: that can make a difference in the game. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting when those two guys are back. Who's who's gone?
Speaker 1: I mean, I hate to see Tapper as a third
Speaker 1: string guy right now. He seemed like he had a
Speaker 1: good camp. But no, no, you don't think so. I
Speaker 1: thought you were impressed with him that they can't cut
Speaker 1: him right, saywhere I missed Ryan and put that ball
Speaker 1: on the street. They won't. I'll put him on the
Speaker 1: practice squad. Somebody gonna pull let the get cat up
Speaker 1: out of them and he gonna get more of these
Speaker 1: is some third string you know, I look at him.
Speaker 1: They got him at third string. Please, what do y'all
Speaker 1: expect out of a healthy DeMarcus Lawrence good things for
Speaker 1: me because he was beat up pretty badly last year.
Speaker 1: He was playing hurt. Yeah, if he I wanted to
Speaker 1: be able to let side Deepensivan, I think he could
Speaker 1: be a force over that. I saw him in the
Speaker 1: U in the lunch room before before the show, and
Speaker 1: he looks like he looks like he's at a good weight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I've seen him where he's looked kind of heavy,
Speaker 1: but he looked he looked really he looked like he's
Speaker 1: pretty solid. So I wonder what Tyron Crawford's gonna do. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: and they're saying he's gonna be ready for Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: supposed to be ready opening opening night here. But man,
Speaker 1: he's just every season he's played through injury, and you
Speaker 1: gotta give him credit. He's tough. Um, I just don't
Speaker 1: know if he's ever made the full impact that expect.
Speaker 1: It seemed like a couple of years ago he was
Speaker 1: gonna be the break guy guy. They thought he could
Speaker 1: be a pro bowler. And he's just the shoulder and
Speaker 1: the foot and ankle. Now, I mean, and even hurt
Speaker 1: and make an impact, Yeah, even hurt he's been the
Speaker 1: guy that almost gets there, like, yeah, every play it
Speaker 1: seems like he's he's still disruptive. Yeah, he should have
Speaker 1: had you know, two or three sacks, but he's missed
Speaker 1: it by you know, a foot or two. So Nate's laughing.
Speaker 1: What are you laughing at, Nate, because you couldn't. I mean,
Speaker 1: as much as we like this guy that he said
Speaker 1: it perfectly, he's been the perfect almost guy. Almost got there,
Speaker 1: great Russia. Speaking of almost, he just needed to finish.
Speaker 1: And speaking of almost getting there, Um, your guy Mark
Speaker 1: Zacha is signed to the practice squad, but he actually
Speaker 1: gets there right, No, No, he don't, man, he gets there.
Speaker 1: Yeah right Wow. I just wanted to ya. Wow. And
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin at tight end rounds out your your practice squad.
Speaker 1: So overall, really, I guess the two really glaring things
Speaker 1: from this roster. You know, this is kind of with
Speaker 1: a with the addition of a couple of guys that
Speaker 1: they picked up, really kind of what we thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna look like. Um, Kellen Moore, you know, not
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore being cut and then winding up being resigned
Speaker 1: and being your number two guy now and then not
Speaker 1: really knowing Um, who's gonna start at your left guard?
Speaker 1: Which you know they may or may not know, but
Speaker 1: they're not saying that they know. Are really the two
Speaker 1: things that that kind of caught me off guard a
Speaker 1: little bit. Anything there any positions you thought they wudn't
Speaker 1: light at? They need more? Nah, I mean Devin's line
Speaker 1: is what it is because there's just suspensions offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: If there's not a lot out there, you know, all
Speaker 1: in all, the team that could have very well been
Speaker 1: in the NFC Championship game last year is looking pretty
Speaker 1: good going into this season. Who's that? What team is that?
Speaker 1: The Cowboys? Yeah, I'm saying the only you know, only
Speaker 1: the only deal is only only true question mark. And
Speaker 1: it was a question mark the day that two corners left.
Speaker 1: It's still the same question mark. That's true. It's corners
Speaker 1: and safety. There's still the same deal. To me. The
Speaker 1: Deva's blind has gotten better. Yeah, with Pea it has
Speaker 1: gotten better just by one player. It has gotten better
Speaker 1: by two players at Charles Tapper if he don't get
Speaker 1: Nick Dubba banged up, those two players automatically make us better. Now.
Speaker 1: People say, Charleston, I don't know about Charles, and I
Speaker 1: haven't seen him playing a real live game, but I
Speaker 1: know just Tapper speed off the rock. He can be disruptive.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on Charles Tapper. That's been that's been
Speaker 1: Nate's guy. He can be disruptive, man. I mean that
Speaker 1: type of speed first week of camp, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that one. He also is one
Speaker 1: of his guys, Stephen Pie had worked his way onto
Speaker 1: this team in a starting position, so they had some
Speaker 1: good information. He knows what he's talking about, right. That's
Speaker 1: another that's that's a project left with three million dollars
Speaker 1: down the table. Why isn't the scouting department cutting you
Speaker 1: a check? No? No, no, I go a by my eyes.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I liked it Andy Jones, but Noah
Speaker 1: Brown flat out played him. You know, I like m
Speaker 1: Alfred Mars. But at this time, Rod Smith, I think
Speaker 1: it's a viable option. I mean when you I like
Speaker 1: to see what a guy does in the game type situation.
Speaker 1: That's how I make my judgments. Yeah, you know, like
Speaker 1: like charging, he's not there yet, but ever since the
Speaker 1: second game, you've seen a better player. Yep, you know
Speaker 1: it's just you know, like I said, I'm not one
Speaker 1: of them guys every Man washed the film. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Everybody get the information how they get the information, And
Speaker 1: that's one of my ways we get gathering information. So
Speaker 1: you you like the game on Sundays is it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's end result. You either you either do that with
Speaker 1: some consistency at a high level and that makes you
Speaker 1: anywhere from all pro to the best to a good
Speaker 1: good player? Are you inconsistent? I don't know what we're
Speaker 1: gonna get. That makes you a backup player? Well, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be that can't play? Yeah, what do you call that?
Speaker 1: See Cedric Thorton, you have a nickname for those guys
Speaker 1: practice squad. Oh can't play? He's come join me on
Speaker 1: the on the couch, met hurt CP can't play? All right,
Speaker 1: Well we're gonna take another quick break, pay some bills.
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Speaker 1: we're back live from the Star in Frisco. Kurt Daniels
Speaker 1: to my right, Nate Newton to my left, purely green
Speaker 1: tea right in front of me. How you guys feeling man? Football?
Speaker 1: Football's Alcoall's alcohols right, Kurt? Yes, you still with us? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm doing good? Okay, all right? Make sure I know
Speaker 1: Douglas is with us because he keeps hitting the wrong buttons.
Speaker 1: Back to do the whole show. Production value of the
Speaker 1: Fingers Today. Production value of the show is questionable at
Speaker 1: West's at best. Critiquing is open season all that I
Speaker 1: know I sucked. Go ahead and said you were questionable.
Speaker 1: I didn't say you sucked. It's okay, okay, thanks. We
Speaker 1: don't have a magazine to plug this week, do we care?
Speaker 1: No magazine, just the game day pus. It was Cowboys
Speaker 1: Star magazine but Dallas Cowboys Star magazine. But that still
Speaker 1: shows up on the cover when you do special Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: we still trade market like market like that. But no,
Speaker 1: no magazine, no magazine. Thanks for bringing that up. You're welcome. Hey,
Speaker 1: you're still employed and you're on this show, so that's
Speaker 1: a that's a big bonus. That's a big plus. Are
Speaker 1: you getting Josh's sixty bucks a week? No? Interesting? I
Speaker 1: noticed you asked for that I didn't get it either.
Speaker 1: Derek put the we we just lost the team member.
Speaker 1: I was in morning. Yeah, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I see that pops over, Like, wow, greed takes over again.
Speaker 1: Didn't waste time? What is it? An underlying, underlying thing
Speaker 1: going on here all the while? Yeah, I thought that
Speaker 1: was Kurt's budget. Anyway, if if that sixty bucks kind
Speaker 1: of made us way to Kurt, I think there's other factors,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, man, we lost Josh Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just why did Josh war building up a rapport? Why
Speaker 1: did this time come up? I'm like why, No, No,
Speaker 1: the beard had we had a we had a text chain.
Speaker 1: Derek texted us and was like, hey, Josh is off
Speaker 1: the show. He's not gonna be able to work with
Speaker 1: the schedule around open Locker Room and and Nate's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I hate that we're losing Josh. And I'm just like,
Speaker 1: can I have a sixty dollars an episode? Wow? Immediately,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, wow, no, civil Immediately there's a no
Speaker 1: that comes across. I'm like, ah, well, I drive vultures.
Speaker 1: I tried. So Kurt, There's been some developments over the
Speaker 1: weekend and the Labor Day holiday. A little update labor
Speaker 1: going on while we was wrestling. Labor is going on. Labor.
Speaker 1: A little update on the on the Zeke. Everybody listening
Speaker 1: to this show probably knows already, but and I don't
Speaker 1: want to get a whole lot into it because I
Speaker 1: don't really There's so much going on, and I'm got
Speaker 1: tired head talking about this and hearing about it since
Speaker 1: last week. But just for the people that haven't heard
Speaker 1: earlier today, let him know what's what's developing. Well, there
Speaker 1: could be some big developments this afternoon. Um this Henderson guy,
Speaker 1: who's the what guy? This guy got that guy's faith
Speaker 1: in his head. He disrespects him like that. This guy
Speaker 1: this clown. Sorry, mister Henderson. Only mister Henderson's still the verdict.
Speaker 1: But Nate, I'm pretty sure he doesn't listen to the
Speaker 1: show either. No, I don't listen to him either. That's
Speaker 1: why Derek doesn't share the numbers with you, because we
Speaker 1: only have like twenty two people that listen to this show.
Speaker 1: That's cool, man, It's twenty of them is my family.
Speaker 1: Mister Henderson is the guy who heard um Zeke's appeal,
Speaker 1: and he has said that he's going to have a
Speaker 1: ruling this afternoon, could be any time now. You originally
Speaker 1: said three pm, and we're getting close to that. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's nothing that's binding him to that, but
Speaker 1: that's what he set himself for a deadline three pm central. Um. See,
Speaker 1: that's the question is is they going off Zeke's well,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys three pm Central? Henderson I think technically said
Speaker 1: end of the day into the work there, but you
Speaker 1: can't do that because everything they does do is on
Speaker 1: a three o'clock when they shut down their headquarters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so now you want to you want to change the rules. Now,
Speaker 1: if we were out in California with wouldn't that be
Speaker 1: the end of our work day, which is two hours behind,
Speaker 1: two hours behind. See, I'm sure the New York's Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too, he's coach. So it's probably three or four
Speaker 1: we're looking at here. And then Zeke has his you know,
Speaker 1: they've already filed filed emotion that hearing is supposed to
Speaker 1: take place at five pm our time here today and
Speaker 1: that's too uh for a preliminary injunction against what the
Speaker 1: NFL is trying to do. So then the NFL has
Speaker 1: also filed a suit against that, so so they could technically,
Speaker 1: mister Henderson could come down with one verdict and within
Speaker 1: an hour or two later an injunction. An injunction could
Speaker 1: be filed and which puts a hold on that verdict. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then there's another assuming the assuming you think mister
Speaker 1: Henderson resents that situation, assuming the judge in the in
Speaker 1: uh Zeke's you know, hearing agrees with him, which everybody
Speaker 1: seems to think he will judge. Right, Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: Texas here, which is just north of Dallas. Just think
Speaker 1: Sherman just was on with TV. That's weird though, because
Speaker 1: they and I don't know who the judge is, but
Speaker 1: it's a Texas judge, so you think he might be friendly.
Speaker 1: But why they I wouldn't assume a Texas judge is
Speaker 1: a friend of mine in labor court. Well that's apparently
Speaker 1: this judge is Judge Amos Bazant I guess okay. The
Speaker 1: third he's a friend of ladies apparently leans that way,
Speaker 1: so they say, and they filed it here and not
Speaker 1: New York because they felt they'd get maybe a little
Speaker 1: home cooking on that front. But my question, you Kurt
Speaker 1: into you, dug, since you feel like you, you got
Speaker 1: you know, some legal knowledge. Get him, Nate, get him.
Speaker 1: Now that is legal. See now that the NFL let
Speaker 1: it become legal. And what I mean by that is
Speaker 1: by messing up your investigation, by doing it in the
Speaker 1: improper fashion, by not going by your process that you
Speaker 1: put in place, now you make it. You make it
Speaker 1: a bad situation. So now you you when the courts
Speaker 1: read that, like, okay, you hire a lady to lead
Speaker 1: your investigation, to give her analogy, to put it on
Speaker 1: paper of her investigation, and she's not good enough. It
Speaker 1: was good enough for Hardy, it was good enough for
Speaker 1: the other guys, but it's not good enough for Zekee.
Speaker 1: So why would you Well, and I've been shot before,
Speaker 1: why would you rule another way? As a judge? Well,
Speaker 1: that's the point of Elliot's cases, fundamental fairness. Yes, termin
Speaker 1: they're using that he wasn't given the proper due process
Speaker 1: I guess in the arbitration or whatever. Yeah, it's there
Speaker 1: are certain rights you cannot sign away, and that's what
Speaker 1: regardless of what the language of the CBA is. Well,
Speaker 1: see that's the sticking point. Some labor lawyers are saying,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a very tough time proving that because
Speaker 1: the CBA does kind of outline that they gave Goodell
Speaker 1: all the control pretty much. Yeah, so whatever he does,
Speaker 1: he hasn't like what Nate was saying last week is like,
Speaker 1: you gave him total control. You by signing that you
Speaker 1: allowed him to be able to do this without a
Speaker 1: kind of I'm sorry, but Zeke's lawyers will say he
Speaker 1: was in college at the time, he didn't have anything
Speaker 1: to do with uh that CBA when it was negotiated,
Speaker 1: and that's where it gets harried. But he joined the play,
Speaker 1: he did, But you don't. You don't don't try that one.
Speaker 1: I shu that one. Now you can lead out along,
Speaker 1: but you don't come to a new job. So I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't your verses. I want hear what y'all come home.
Speaker 1: I am saying that when I say there are certain
Speaker 1: rights you can't sign a way, I think that all
Speaker 1: kind of goes into that. If if when you're a
Speaker 1: college player, decisions are being made about your fundamental rights
Speaker 1: before you're even in the equation, that's part of what
Speaker 1: you might bring to a judge. The bottom, and I'll
Speaker 1: go a little step further, is regardless of whether they
Speaker 1: reduce it or well, how would they do it? Zeke
Speaker 1: still admitting he did something wrong. Your your way of
Speaker 1: life may change due to this fact. So yeah, I'm wishing.
Speaker 1: I'm wish you one of you know on one aspect
Speaker 1: of what you're saying, Um, General Patton, but I used
Speaker 1: to be MacArthur. Yeah, one of them, but he's on
Speaker 1: HBO right now, General Padden. Oh cool, Yeah, I'll take that.
Speaker 1: What are you saying, Kurt? I don't know. Okay, Well
Speaker 1: that's a good stop in. Kurt just gave up his life,
Speaker 1: got tired head trying to read all of this. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll be back tomorrow. Let's do three thirty tomorrow and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Later this week, let's get into
Speaker 1: let's let's start working on these now. I don't know
Speaker 1: what day we'll do it, but let's do what we
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys record is gonna be. We gotta do that, right, predictions, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do that, and let's let's predict where we think
Speaker 1: they're gonna end up in the UH, in the division
Speaker 1: and overall, let's have some fun with that. Later this
Speaker 1: week tomorrow. I don't know why we're gonna talk about,
Speaker 1: but I can talk about the New York New York's
Speaker 1: defense offense. Just pick one of them and let's let's
Speaker 1: get involved. Okay. You know, we don't know where they're
Speaker 1: going offensive and defensive this early, but you know they lost,
Speaker 1: uh what Hankerson wasn't Hankerson the big big snacks whichever
Speaker 1: one they call. Yeah, one of them went to the Colts.
Speaker 1: So they lost a lot of people not talking about that.
Speaker 1: They were They had a great effective run game because
Speaker 1: they had two big, massive guys up front, and I
Speaker 1: think they lost one of them. Yeah, So y'all want
Speaker 1: to go into the defense tomorrow and what we think
Speaker 1: of it? Uh, y'all want to go into the offense?
Speaker 1: I predict Nate's gonna need my printer. Yes, sir, we'll
Speaker 1: pick one of them. We'll pick one of them and
Speaker 1: we'll get into that tomorrow. We'll be a later date,
Speaker 1: three thirty. I'm gonna try to find a guy a
Speaker 1: where Tommy Johns would be more decisive. I'm decisive. Like
Speaker 1: I even put them out on the bed today and
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, do I wear these or my
Speaker 1: Tommy Johns. I'm we'll talk about him on the show. Today,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna wear the Tommy Johns. I'm so anti committal?
Speaker 1: Are you? Does Tommy Johns make you happy? Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why do you think? I was so ecstatic to be
Speaker 1: on the show today? It's football is in the air,
Speaker 1: and so Tommy Johns. Well for Kurt Daniels, Nate Newton,
Speaker 1: Douglas mc arthur Patton and Kent Garrison. That pushes all
Speaker 1: the buttons that make us go live. We appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys tuning in. I'm Shannon Gross. We'll be back tomorrow
Speaker 1: at three thirty. Bye. This has been a production of
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