WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Who's the Backup Quarterback? 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.640 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:17.520 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Players 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:22.800 Lounge broadcasting line from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:28.400 Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, and new He scrugs. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.360 All right here we are Players Lounge on a Monday, 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.520 the final preseason week for the Dallas Cowboys. You get 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.920 this preseason game done and then it is onto the 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.800 regular season. Players douge by about Hotels dot Com with 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.040 new Scrugs, all time Cowboys reporter, joined by Barry Church, 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:53.280 former Dallas Cowboys safety number four and two, and h Barry. 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.560 I don't know where McCray is, but McCray, Ziana Simon again, 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.920 is he funning? What? What? What's your boy got going 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.120 what's your old safety running man got going on? I mean, 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:04.800 I'll tell you what man he I'll tell you what. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.240 He's not on assignment and I'll tell you that right now, 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.920 he's out there jet setting somewhere. You know, they'd like 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.680 to make fun of me for doing a little bit 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.160 of traveling. But my man McCray, that's international McCray right now. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.200 So who knows where he's at he's on the beach 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.240 somewhere soaking in some rays. I'm kind of jealous, but 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.960 I'll tell you this newly, we are one week closer 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.720 to real, live action football, and I can't wait. So 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:29.360 I'm in a great space. I don't know about you, 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.840 but I'm in a great space right now. I know 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.280 McCray is because he's enjoying the raise somewhere. So let's 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.920 get it, popping, big dog. Okay, let's go right out 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.760 of the gate here, because I'm going after you. Okay, 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.319 I'm straight up, I'm going after you because you've been 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.200 all about Garrett Gilbert, the guy you like to call 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:50.720 Double G. Double G's last Double G's last stand is 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.240 this weekend. And I'm telling you right now, give me 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.480 Cooper Rush. Give me Cooper Rush to finish as the 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.480 backup quarterback, because I believe they aren't gonna keep you. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.960 You're gonna cut into Nucci all right after that pick three. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.480 I mean, I just I've been saying all along, I 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.800 hadn't been sold on Dnucci four minute. As far as 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.760 making this football team, I think they keep two quarterbacks. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.280 Obviously is Dak Prescott and one other guy who knows 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:11.880 the offense, and right now you got to give me 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.000 Cooper Rush. Okay, the statistics right here are all Cooper side. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.800 You look at this now, ten possessions, sixty six percent 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.360 completion percentage all right, a quarterback rating a one or 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.400 two point five, no interceptions, two touchdowns. He was ten 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.760 or twelve or ninety seven yards with two tds against Houston. Meanwhile, 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:32.160 your boy Double G has got three starts and seven possessions. 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.040 He's got a quarterback rating at seventy four point nine percent, 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:39.360 fifty six percent passing completions overall, no touchdowns, no i nts. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.000 He was three or five for thirty yards against the 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.400 Texans with a fumble. Come on, man, you know Cooper 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.560 Rush is looking better. Just admitute your boy, your boy 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.320 Double G got problems right now. I don't think you're 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:53.800 gonna make it. Here we go again with the with 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.360 the Double G slander. I mean, this is beyond me 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.600 right now. First let me let me point on. Let 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.200 me get up point on the Nucci right now, the Nucci. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.120 The Nucci's out the game, all right, the Ducci. That 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.400 might have been the worst display of quarterbacking you know, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.320 I might have ever seen in my career as a 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.000 as a player, and now in this media thing that 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.920 that was just downright horrendous. I'm not even sure his 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.240 Picksburgh connection with McCarthy can save him for the practice squad. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.400 So that's that's the Nucci right there. But when we 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.600 get the double G in this Cooper Rush quote unquote battle, 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.880 everybody seems to forget Cooper Rush has done. He's a 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.440 preseason darling. He did the same thing in twenty seventeen. 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.680 He played great in the preseason when he's going against 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.560 you know, twos or a sprinkle of ones here and there, 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.920 but not the whole starting lineup. And we're gonna we're 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.200 we're basing this off of this Houston game where Houston 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.880 got all types of shambles going around new coaching staff. 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.840 They they don't brought in about thirty new players overall. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.720 So I'm not taking Houston's defense. What Cooper Cooper Rush 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.200 was able to dissect out there, I'm not saying he's 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.640 gonna be able to do that during a regular season. Now, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.760 we do have a guy in Garrett Gilbert who's proven 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.200 that when he goes out there in regular season games, 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.160 he can make things a competition. I mean, we've seen 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.200 him go out there and dissect the pitch Furst Siller's defense, 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.240 But when has Cooper Rush ever done that? When has 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.400 Rush ever done that? I'm talking about when coaches are 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.520 making adjustments to what you're doing throughout the game. We've 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.600 yet to see this is vanilla defense that Cooper Rush 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.400 is going against. When teams see, okay, he loves it, 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.320 ceedee lamb on third down. Let me go ahead and 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.080 get these defensive adjustments to make Cooper Rush go through 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.680 his progressions. We've yet to see that. He's a preseason darling. 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.440 And so we're gonna say, we're gonna sit here and 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.440 say Cooper Rush is a bona fide backup because he 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.640 was able to go in one preseason game against a 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:52.120 Houston Texans defense that's in shambles, and we're gonna say 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.280 he's ready to be that backup. Are you are you? 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.960 Are you a hundred percent confident? You're one hundred percent 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.640 confident that Cooper Rush Dack went down. Cooper Rushing go 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.440 out there and write this ship, there's way give me 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.240 Cooper Rush. All I know is you Okay. I was 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.480 out there at training camp. We saw Dak go down 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.480 and you're giving Garrett good, but all the opportunity needs 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.240 to run with the ones. Here's a dress rehearsal on 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.040 Saturday against the Houston team that none of us expect 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.560 to be good. He did not look good. Here comes 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:24.000 Cooper Rushing here and he's moving to football. Cooper Rush 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:25.800 was dealing with some injuries a little bit in camp here, 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.920 but just overall I've seen here and I'm saying, Okay, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.360 that's the guy who made the team a couple of 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.880 years ago, who had some nice preseasons, and maybe he's 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.120 coming around here healthy. They were talking about on Talking Cowboys, 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.200 a previous podcast right here on Dallas Cowboys dot com. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.160 I'm just telling you right now, give me Cooper Rush. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.839 I bore a book. You know how I feel. Ultimately, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.360 the backup quarterback and Cowboys needs is not on this roster. Okay, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.440 neither of these three guys or the answer for me. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:58.120 But I do believe when cut down day comes, you're 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.840 only gonna keep two. You'll keep that Prescott, and then 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.400 you'll keep a quarterback who knows the system. Because if 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.160 you bring someone in, unless it's gonna be Brett Hunley 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.240 or somebody that Mike McCarthy's worked within the past. There's 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.640 going to be a quarterback who doesn't fully understand the offense. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.560 Having somebody that understands the offense is going to be key. 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.960 So this backup quarterback that they keep being Rush or Gilbert, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:19.640 it's going to be somebody that's gonna be around here 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.400 for a minute in my opinion. But I'm just telling you, 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.000 I think your boy double G is done. Okay, So 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:27.760 I wantell you with Cooper Rush. I want to see 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.080 Cooper Rush with the first team. You well, they ain't 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.920 gonna have a first team because McCarthy was saying he 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:37.880 started to get So if that's it, you go ahead, 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.279 give me Cooper Rush. If this is all we're gonna get, Okay, 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:45.039 they give me Cooper Rush right now? How about that? So, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.680 so you're telling me so the next week don't even matter. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.960 This Sunday, this Sunday matchup against Jacksonville doesn't even matter. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.560 It's already Cooper Rushes. Is that what you're saying, Louis, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.560 He'll throw them out there and he's gonna you know, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.520 they're both gonna have to deal with some backup players. 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.200 But I'm telling you right now, I saw enough from 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.440 Cooper Rush and tells me, yes, I'll go with Cooper 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:09.159 Rushi and this wild and barry you. He's already served 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.160 in this role before. Granted he didn't play, but he 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.320 at least no role and he knows how to do this. 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.600 He's never played in the regular season, Like, I need 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.120 to see what he can do when when these coaches 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.360 are putting adjustments on him and he has to go 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.040 through these progressions, He's running for his life out there. 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.360 I'm not saying Cooper Rush is a downright to He's 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.720 nowhere near as bad as the Nucci. I'm just saying 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.400 on talent alone, I think Gilbert has more upset that 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.440 when we get into the live bullets, when coaches are 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.200 making adjustments, when he has to scramble around go through 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.880 his progressions by time in the pocket, I'm not thinking 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.840 that Cooper Rush can do that. I mean, I think 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.960 he's a preseason darling and that's where he makes his 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.080 That's where he makes his bones at people are like, 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:58.480 oh man, you see Texas to first off, he was 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.040 never a preseason darling. He is just a guy. I mean, 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.440 it was ever a jag walking around Rush. Just you 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.480 want to see the Darling. You watch Hard Dog, you 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.680 think Ben d Nucci was really good. Okay, that's well, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.320 that's how hard That's just fun that thing. You're thinking, 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:15.960 this guy's like a decent quarterback and he's terrible. So uh, Cooper. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.280 Cooper's no Darling at all. But I'm just saying right now, 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.640 I believe in it, and I just think it's it's 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.640 gonna be all good. By the way, shout out to 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.440 the album Mater got my Pembroke baseball hat on here. 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:31.120 We were inspired by the Pirates of Pittsburgh as we 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.240 got our hat here. Coach Paul O'Neill appreciate that. My 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.120 man did Chrissy the ad over there. We get ready 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.880 for our first football game. We're facing the Winston Salem 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.920 State Rams and Stephen A. Smith's album Modern Football September four, 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:43.600 We're gonna lay it on him one more time here. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.400 So so we're in the wroke. Prior today, I thought 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.840 mister Salem was pretty good at football, or what I 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.520 was in the past. Hey man, you know they've come 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.760 down and they've taken us on before we're given We've 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:56.960 given them Nework before, so we've already beaten them before. 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.559 So it's been a good rivalry through the years. So, um, 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.959 you know to to North Carolina schools getting after it's 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.040 in the D two levels. So so I'm all about that, 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:09.360 all about that, all right? So you and I are 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.720 different here on the backup quarterback situation, but can't we 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.520 both agree the backup quarterback the Cowboys need is not 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:20.320 on the trust. Yeah, the need something that because if 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.840 that goes down, Like, I love my boy Gilbert, but 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.680 I just haven't seen enough after that Steller's game to 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:28.520 be like he's gonna take us the way. I mean, 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.120 he might win us a couple of games, but we'll 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.240 be in the same situation we were in last year 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.360 if that were to ever go down. Let me ask 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.360 you a question, though, Nui, let me ask you a 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.440 question though. I was watching that Chargers game last night 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.199 and the young boy Easton Easton Stick, I think his 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.720 name is the one that's backing up Herbert right now. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:52.000 If they release Chase Daniel, who is like battling for 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.080 that backup spot with Stick, do you see him as 0:09:55.080 --> 0:10:03.280 an option here for the Dallas Cowboys because they like 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.559 Stick out there, and he looked like he was playing 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.480 pretty well in that Chargers offense. So if they don't 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.800 keep chasing, I mean he's a career backup, that's what 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.240 he does. You think there's an option for the boys 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.880 south Lake Carrol's own Chase Daniel. By the way, we 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.480 might we might get a discount like Andy Dalton, you know, 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.640 coming back on the Texas. What do you want that one? 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.640 Parcels used to have a great line and when he 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.920 called guys jacks just a guy. So you asked about 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.920 a guy like Chase Daniels and parcelsmans and he's just 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:38.920 a jack? Well, Bill, what does that means? He's just 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:40.880 a guy? I can find it. I can find three 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.720 more guys like that. So if you're bringing Chase Daniel, 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.240 is he this much better than the guys you have here? 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:51.880 And he doesn't know the system? He does he with Kembell? 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.480 So that that that's that's the question. So I'm thinking, 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.960 if I'm going to bring in a quarterback, UM, I'd 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.880 like to think you're bringing in someone who's Okay, I'll 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.360 give you a guy. Let's go to Pittsburgh. That Josh Dobbs. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.080 We saw a little bit of Josh Hobbs the Hall 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.280 of Fame game. There's a guy that to me is 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.160 intrigued because I'm thinking about who's a backup quarterback that 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.840 you can put in this system and have them grow 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.760 over a couple of years. Some of our older Cowboy 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.240 fans can remember back in the day when Matt Moore 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.640 was trying to make this club and he had some 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.520 nice preseason games and they tried to cut him and 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.720 slide him through and he got gobbled up. And Matt 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.240 Moore went on to have a really nice NFL career. 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.599 And I think it almost positive he was on that 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.400 Kansas City team that won a Super Bowl with Mahoons 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.960 know he was on and so yeah, yeah, yeah, he 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.599 was a backup. I know he was on one of 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.720 those Kansas City teams and they went to the super Bowl, 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:51.079 but I think he was on the team that won 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.920 him But just that's what that's to me, that's what 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.760 your hope is if you can bring in a backup 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.320 and and groom the guy. And Josh Dobb as a 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.080 kid who I thought through the years has had that 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.319 kind of ability. They just got a lot of quarterbacks there. Obviously, 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.679 you got a starter in Ben Roethlisberger, who's going to 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.360 be the guy. You got Mason Rudolph back there. They 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.160 picked up Dwayne Haskins, a former first round pick in Washington. 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.240 So that leads a guy like Josh Dobbs. I mean, 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.280 they're not gonna keep four quarterbacks. Okay, Pittsburgh's not gonna 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:24.440 do it. You know, they may try to slide one 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.280 of the guys on the sixteen man practice squad. But 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:28.960 if I'm the Cowboys and I see a guy like 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.240 Dobbs out there, to me, that's where I would like 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.200 to go. If I'm if I'm a general manager who's 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.679 a young guy with some athletic ability whose game mirrors 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.920 Dak Prescott that I could eventually work with and get 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.439 him up to where I wanted him to be. They 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.080 tried to do that in Green Bay with a Brett 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.640 Huntley didn't really work out, and when Brett got his 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.960 chance out there, just he just couldn't handle it, and 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.599 Mike McCarthy brought him in and so they hated and 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.080 sign him. But that's to me, that's what I'm thinking of. 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.040 A guy that's going to be released and I say, Okay, 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.640 where's a possible upgrade. That's the kind a player that 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.160 I'm thinking of. That's that's just one quarterback. And look, 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.360 you know other people may have guys they life, but 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.679 I'm just thinking that's one that's just one player and 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.000 one team that I watched it, like, man, they got 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.160 four dudes. Oh those four guys ain't gonna make it. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:12.840 Is there a guy out here that I could bring in? 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.480 I'll tell you this, I damn sure rather have Josh 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.600 Jobs on my practice squad than Ben the nunci No, 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.120 without a doubt, what out left doubt? Man? You know 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.160 you don't believe. I ain't gonna keep piling on them, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.839 but you know I love the fact you does. He 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:30.640 I don't even know if Dobbs still has any practice 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:35.360 squad eligibility, but if he could, oh that is true 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.880 A ten plus it's a ten plus six squad, PAM 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:40.880 ten plus six. So yeah, so you can get him 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.160 on there. Yeah, I mean I could definitely see that because, 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.480 like you said, I mean, whoever wins this double g 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.800 or Cooper Rush, whoever wins this quote unquote quarterback battle 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.679 for the backup spot. I think that I tend to 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.600 agree with you on this one. I just don't think 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.920 they got what it takes to if anything catastrophic were 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.839 to happen and they had to step in and they 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.920 were our quarterback for the rest of the season. I 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.040 just feel like we would be in the same spot. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.920 And it's just interesting that we didn't address this position 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.320 in the off season when we had plenty of time 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.160 to snag up a Dwayne Haskins or or you know, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.800 or get get somebody else like that. That can be 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.240 a legit backup because now, man, we're heading into the 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.280 season and we're in a predicament, man, because let's just 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.680 say something, you know, God forbid, but something crazy happens 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.920 to that throwing shoulder of Dak Prescott and we gotta 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.280 throw a couple of these dudes in. We're in trouble. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.840 We're in trouble, man. So we'll see, man, we'll see. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.840 But I don't think this quarterback is on our roster 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:41.440 as we speak right now. Okay, But Mike McCarthy, the 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.640 head coach, and said it's not over. So a position 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.520 battle that many of us thought that was gonna go 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.640 Gilbert's way, it's now open. Cooper Russians entered into that 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.680 after the twenteen and fourteen loss the Cowboys suffered to 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:57.160 the Jacksonville Jaguars Newi Scruggs. It's Arry Church Players Lounge. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.320 This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. Now let me 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.600 go to another topic here that we talked about it 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.840 a little bit here and we saw it. We got 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.800 to see a little bit more because this was the 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.080 dress rehearsal game, all right, the final preseason game against Jacksonville. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.000 Mike mccarthur, the head coach, it's come out and told 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.400 you because it's going to be a game for the 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.480 younger guys, guys trying to make the team, guys on 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.400 the bubble, they're not going to run out the Dak 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.200 Prescotts and Zekiel Elliots and Tank Lawrences. These starters are 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.720 not playing in this game. So what we saw the 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:29.880 Cowboys come out against Houston and their linebackers nickel package. Okay, 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.920 so we just two linebackers out there, and that was 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.760 Micah Parsons, the rookie they drafted twelfth overall out of 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.760 Penn State, and Keyan O'Neil, the converted safety who's now 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.880 a linebacker who played for Dan Quinn on that Super 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.160 Bowl team. Those were the two guys that were out there, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.200 Not Jalen Smith, not Laton vander Esh They're getting ready 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:52.720 to face an incredible Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense to start 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.960 the season. A nickel package to start would be very 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.120 smart because they got a lot of weapons on that 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.440 football team that Tom Brady's got access to. And so 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.280 your thoughts on Parsons and Keyan O'Neill out there's the 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.560 nickel to start the game. Look, I'm not gonna lie 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.600 to you, knew you. I love it. I love the situation. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.160 We got that linebacker. I think we got great depth, 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:18.240 and I think these coaches got the right two guys 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.960 out there in this nickel package. Now, is Keyan O'Neill 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.760 gonna be your every down linebacker against the run? I'm 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.800 not so sure right now. He's he's you know, he's 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.360 progressing in the right way. Pro Football Focus has him 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.520 rated as one of the top linebackers in the National 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.480 Football League through the preseason. He's been able to play 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.600 the run a hell of a lot better than I 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.480 thought he would transitioning from safety to linebacker. But overall, 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.800 I think this is a this is a great thing 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.080 for the Dallas Cowboys. I mean, you've got two linebackers 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.960 who can play in space very well. And that is 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.240 what this league is going to So basically, your nickel linebackers, 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.320 they're going to be your starters. Because I mean at 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.200 least seventy percent of offenses in the National Football League, 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.800 that's their man offense. Eleven personnel, one tight end, one back, 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.840 three receivers. They love to spread people out. And what 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.440 happened last year to us, especially our linebacking corps, is 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.920 we got exposed. We got exposed against the interior as 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.000 far as past concepts and routes coming out of the backfield. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.960 We got exposed because our linebackers were not solid in 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.680 coverage and teams were picking us apart with that. And 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.359 Tom Brady is one of the masterminds of Dickon and 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.800 Duncan looking at matchups and express or exposing those matchups. 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.399 So when you got a Parsons and Keyan O'Neil, I 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.080 think the only thing that might weary you as a 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:36.960 as a as a defense is how are they going 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.440 to hold up against the run. We've seen Parsons, He's 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:41.240 able to do it without a doubt. He's throwing line 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.679 and all over the place. He's popping off your screen. 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.040 This guy is a bona fide star at linebacker. Can 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.680 Keyan O'Neil do that same thing. I'm not so sure, 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.040 but we'll find out. But coverage wise, I think we 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.320 are set at with those two at the nickel linebacker position. 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.720 One thing that's kind of bothering me though about that 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.120 is the rotation, because if you looked at it, those 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.960 were are two linebackers in nickel. And then when bass 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.480 came in, which is twelve or twenty one personnel, which 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.520 is a heavy run personnel for offenses, here comes in 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:13.240 vander esh and Jalen Smith and as the game progresses. 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:17.239 One's it's gonna be extremely hard to disguise that, you know, 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:18.920 or when they're coming in, they must think we're gonna 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.480 run a ball. That's gonna be hard to disguise that rotation. 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.280 And two, how are your linebackers gonna get acclimated to 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.080 the game. How are they gonna get in a rhythm? 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.200 How are they going to see how this offense is playing? 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.000 Calling they like to do this on third down, I'd 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:31.840 like to do this on first and second down. It's 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.720 gonna be hard for that because it's not the defensive line. 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.000 Defensive line, you gotta have a rotation. Those are big 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.280 guys banging every single play, but as linebackers, you kind 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.040 of gotta get used to the play. You gotta get 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.400 your rhythm gone, just like in the secondary, and it's 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.880 gonna be extremely hard if that's the rotation. I doubt 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.920 it will be. They have to have two set linebackers 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:51.520 I doubt will be coming in and out for Bass 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.359 and Nickel. But if they do go that route with 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.919 that rotation, it's gonna be extremely hard for these linebackers 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.720 to get a rhythm and be effective in every down 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:04.600 since during the during a regular season. So this sounds 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.679 like a trust factor with the defensive coordinator dan Quinn 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.800 that you know at disappoint time, I hear what you're saying, 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:14.439 and I'm just I'm just gonna come out and say, 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.200 this is where you gotta trust him. You gotta trust 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.440 that dan Quinn knows what he's doing, that he's got 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.840 a plan in a strategy, and that he'll be able 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.399 to implement it. But you know this, facing the Tampa 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:30.119 Bay Buccaneers, Chris Godwin, Mike Evans, Antonio Brown, Rob Gronkowski, 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:35.600 O J. Howard, those five targets plus the ability of 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.080 Giovanni Bernard to come out of the backfield, and I 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.320 want to make sure fans starting to think about this. Okay, 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.760 he was in Cincinnati for a number of years and 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.960 Giovanni Bernard is if you go back and think about 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.320 what Tom Brady enjoyed when he was in Tampa in 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.800 New England, poor into Tampa Bay, a guy like James White, 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:57.400 he's that kind of player, the fault kid Kevin Falk 0:19:57.600 --> 0:19:59.800 coming out of the backfield, who was on a championship team. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.160 That's what they're going to do with the Giovanni banar. 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:06.639 And I think that he's going to have a big 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.520 impact for Tampa Bay in that first game. I'm telling 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.679