WEBVTT - Mick Shots: OTA Review 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:04.960 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:09.760 Cowboys. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:16.799 This is nick shot streaming live on Dallascowboys dot Com 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:21.240 and the Official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:25.200 Everson Wolves, and Nicky Spagnola. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:31.880 And it's a Wednesday at eleven am inside the SWBC 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:36.960 podcast studio here at the Beautiful Star Infrasco. And that 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:38.160 can mean only one thing. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:38.760 What is that? 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:39.120 What? 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.559 Not sure what that means? But we are here on 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.159 a Wednesday instead of a Monday. 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:48.280 We're gonna wake this place up, all right, pretty quiet. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.040 Mickey's gonna wake this place up with the shirt he's 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:55.440 wearing there. Oh nice, right, the bright yellow sleeves. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:01.000 I remember that they discontinued that they did in nineteen eight. 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.959 I think this was about twenty sixteen. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.240 Yeah, that's right. It was at the Cowboys Golf Club 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:11.759 that you got that. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.759 That's right, right, absolutely, that's. 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.760 Official Cowboys gear that he is wearing there. I've got 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.440 one deep in my closet somewhere. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.520 Mine was deep too, and I dug. 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:23.200 Like, let's do something. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.520 Different, all right, and we're going to dig deep into 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.520 this Cowboys team here over the course of the next 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.760 forty five minutes to an hour, depending on when we 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.360 run out of gas as we close out them up. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.760 Of may we run out of gas real fast. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.840 I saw some football players on top of the building 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.520 across the way you did the practice field, having a 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:46.640 skull session. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.880 Right now, an unofficial walk through. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.640 Yes, on top of the building where they do the 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:56.600 little team though, right outside the offices over there. So 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.880 there are football players on the premises as this is 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.800 the second week of OTAs. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.960 But they're not officially practicing. That's okay, let me just 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:06.920 throw that out there. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.600 Yeah, yeah, that's anyone that's listening. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.239 No one wants to get fined. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:18.440 One hundred thousand dollars out of whose pocketbook? The head coach, 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.200 I know it. And the head coach. 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.360 Yeah, wife to the head coach. 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.359 He the owner, The owner has nothing. They got accused 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:33.000 of being too physical last year, back to back years. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:33.880 So it was a kay. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.040 So it was fifty then one hundred. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.640 That'll get you explain that to your wife. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.960 So McCarthy, right, you have to pay this. 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.880 So he he basically was, you know, when he was 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.959 talking about it on Thursday, he was talking about how 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.320 you know, we're being very careful. And somebody said that 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.120 i'd have anything to do with, you know, getting fine 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:58.360 last year, and uh and and everybody laughed, right, and 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:02.720 he goes, well, well, I'm glad you find humor in it. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.600 My wife and I don't think it's real funny. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.320 Man, that is crazy. Yeah, I thought they would go 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:09.919 to the owner. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:14.160 So they went uh one eighty to the other side 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.280 from physical to basically might as well we just started. 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.320 We're just talking to that, not even playing touch. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.120 We're going to talk it out. We'll just talk it. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:23.680 I mean when they walk it out and talk it. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.560 When they did passing drills and they were in eleven 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.720 on eleven, it was like, you go ahead and catch 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.040 the ball and we're not defending anything. 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.560 We'll see now the players probably, you know, to coach 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.240 McCarthy's defense got. 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.320 A little carried away, right camp. Yeah, And they got. 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.080 Out there and started competing a little bit, right, And 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.880 so someone's watching and they said, hey, that's too much. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.040 If you're telling them you're going to play football, they're 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:49.760 gonna compete. 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:51.760 Yeah, you got your boy out there. You know, we 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.120 hadn't seen each other in a while. Let's let's let's 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.520 we convene. That's interesting. 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:57.520 They backed off. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:03:59.960 I would mean it would be I would be passing 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.160 hat in the locker room. Okay, you were. You were 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.360 practicing too hard. I saw you too. 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:05.720 Yeah. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.320 They well, the team can benefit from not having. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.640 His should not get any injuries in. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:13.200 That, right. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.640 I mean, there's a Seawn Lee injury in twenty fourteen 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.560 ORed in the month of me. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.520 I remember that one. It was a it was a 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:27.080 run to to the right and he was going, you know, 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.920 to stop him, to turn him back inside. And uh, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.240 when I think it might have been. 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:35.240 Zach Martin. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:36.920 Zach Martin, he was a rookie. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.880 Yeah, I was fourteen, kind of blocked the way he 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.000 turned back inside to try to cut it off, right, 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.440 and uh. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.279 And didn't they have that video on? 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.640 Uh? It was it was during an opening, it was 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.520 open practice. The media was at Valley Ranch. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.120 And and basically what he did he tore an a 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:03.480 c L that was about halfway gone anyway. But anyway, 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.280 I remember it was a week or so later. I 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.159 was in the locker room and he comes walking in 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.640 on crutches. Right, he had just had his had his 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.240 had his surgery, and I looked at him and I 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.320 shook my head. I go, Sean, it was an ot A. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.080 What are you doing? He goes, well, I was just 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.520 trying to do the right thing on you know, that 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.560 was my responsibility to turn it back inside. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.040 And that was a testament to how Sean did need 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.080 to down. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:33.960 Yeah a little bits, that's him. 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.240 Yeah right, yeah, ia all that. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.839 So so anyway, yeah, it was powder puff o t 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.159 A out there. I guarantee you they. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.080 And they stayed away. They should they should actually give 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:46.159 them T shirts. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:54.320 Elen o t Yeah. Well, but to you know, and 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.080 and and Dak talked about it, and he said, well, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.400 you know, he said, uh something to the fact that 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.920 you know, while we can't go full speed, he goes, 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.039 I can go full speed in my mind, and you 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:10.800 just get mental reps to understand what we're trying where 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.640 he can anticipate, he said, And that's what everybody else 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:18.839 has got to do. So anyway, we'll have a lot 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:24.080 of impressions of that. By the way, today's what May 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:30.440 thirty first, Yes, so that means tomorrow June first is 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:35.880 the June first releases, remember Ezekiel Elliot, So on June second, 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.280 the Cowboys will recoup some salary cap money. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.440 Not just some, but ten point nine million dollars will be. 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:49.200 But they also so he was going to count sixteen 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:55.120 million in change against the cap. Now that five point 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.200 eight has to still be accounted for, so they'll clear 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.640 about ten ten million dollars. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.800 Has anyone had Zeke Elliott sighting? 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:16.240 I think maybe at the dak Stadium. I don't know. Yeah, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:17.480 but yeah, no. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.400 So he has been visited. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.680 Okay, so you want to jump into it right now? Yeah, 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.559 let's go. What do you think? 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.400 So did you see what Mike McCarthy said about. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:36.400 Yes, last Thursday is press conference Mike McCarthy talking about 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.800 as they looked back at uh short yardage and goal 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.360 line situations last year. What was the quote? 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.880 So here's the entire quote. He's somebody else replace Wait 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.480 till next segment, let's go. He said. Somebody asked him 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:55.200 about what, you know, how is going replacing Zeke? And 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.520 he said, well, I don't think you just go out 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:02.080 and replace Zeke. I don't view it that way. Kapanominics. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:06.080 That's real, and sometimes you have to make decisions. The 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.320 coaches were doing short yardage and goal line last night, 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.640 and you know he just jumps off the tape. It's 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.880 really not about replacing Zeke. It's about opportunities for other 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:17.920 young guys. 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.040 And they weren't looking at short yardage and goal line 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.280 plays from four years ago. Now we're looking at short 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.800 yardage and goal line plays from last year. 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:28.200 That's right. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:32.439 And so the head coach understands that there were twelve 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:37.000 rushing touchdowns. There were twelve of fourteen conversions on third 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.959 and one, and when they were at the one yard line, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:44.280 he was scoring seven touchdowns inside the five. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:50.480 So the whole situation changes come Friday as far as 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:51.600 Zeke's market. 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.360 Right and we'll see what ends up. Well, he could 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.080 have signed it. He could have, yeah, but he hasn't. 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:03.200 But he wasn't going to get the Cowboys' best offer 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:04.599 right until. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.120 Friday, and so they could. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.120 So that would be he could have offers on the 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.800 table from other teams right now, and he could be 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.480 telling those other teams that I'm waiting till June second. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:19.320 And who would those potential other teams be? What's been 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.360 what's been special rumors? 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.640 And then everybody else said, WHOA, no, we we hadn't 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:26.240 done anything. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:27.719 So was it? 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.240 Well, Tampa Bay's got Skip Pete is a running backs coach, 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.920 and they have no salary cap money available. But they 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:37.600 I don't know if they had a June first cut 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:37.880 or not. 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.640 They did resign Fournette, right, they. 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.560 Let right four nets out there and as well. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.280 Right, So wait, skip Pete, that's his name, right, So 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.840 what's he going to coach? I mean, what running backs 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:55.360 are there? You know who's there? He comes to a 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:56.440 team with no quarterback. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.559 Well, they got they got a quarterback. 0:09:58.880 --> 0:09:59.360 Quarter back. 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.559 Yeah, it's already slim Thickens. 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.800 Yeah, yeah, it really is. So you sent me down 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:04.360 to Tampa. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.280 Tampa Bay has in their running back room. A third 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:12.000 round pick from last year was Shot White. Chase Edmonds, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:16.120 who they signed in free agency. He was cap casualty 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:20.360 in Denver. Keishawn Vaughan, who is a third round pick 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:27.120 in twenty twenty, Patrick Laird, Ronnie Brown, not that Ronnie Brown. Yeah, 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.640 And Sean Tucker. Oh, Sean Tucker, who I really like 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.439 from Syracuse. However, he may not play this year because 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.000 he's or he may not play in his NFL career. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.120 He should have been could have been like a second 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.640 round draft pick, but he was detected with a medical condition. 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.120 At the combine. So what you're challenged, So he wasn't 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.960 even able to run to train for the for. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.360 The drafts, skip better coaches, asset. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.880 Coach what so there is room at the end in Tampa. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:11:02.080 Yeah, so we'll see is a whole if you just 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.400 want to concentrate it on what the head coach says, 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.880 you know, we understand thoroughly. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.440 My ears perked up when he said that. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:11.640 It's right there in college. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:18.199 It's it's not just talk that they value Zeke and 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.040 and look at what the Cowboys. I mean, we talked 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.679 about what Tampa Bay has in their running back room. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:25.360 What are the Cowboys have? 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:26.640 No right? 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.800 And you've got Tony Pollard. 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.760 And by the way, he was taking part in some 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.920 of the drills, so that was encouraging. And he looked 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.120 like he you know, they weren't going full speed, but 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.079 he was moving so it wasn't like he was out 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.280 there limping through things. Excellent, So that was encouraging. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.240 And you've got Ronald Jones who they signed in free agency, who, 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.840 by the way, in Kansas City last year played in 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.960 six games and got thirty eight offensive snaps in Kansas City. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:55.920 That makes you feel good. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.439 Deuce Vaughan, of course, the sixth round draft pick out 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:00.439 of Kansas. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:04.160 Date who is as small as advertised. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.720 Which is five to five one seventy nine pounds. 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.559 I think they got one over the five. 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.319 I think they got him at five six. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.880 Well, the combine had him at five feet five inches tall. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.840 Right, and my and this and this thing, this thing 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:28.760 the roster we got uh has number forty two at 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.600 five six seventy six. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.520 So maybe you got Milik Davis and Rico o'dowdell and 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:35.439 Hunter Lipke. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:40.120 Don't go to sleep on Malik Davis. They like him, 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.679 and he showed up last year. I think he had 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:43.800 like thirty eight carries. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.480 Do they like him on the goal line in short 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:46.320 yardage situation? 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:47.880 That's five? 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:49.120 He's two five? 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.560 And what is zeke? Zeke is to twenty five? 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.040 I know, yeah, I know that says nothing to me. Yeah, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:55.559 not at all. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.679 Well, I mean, just to be a complimentary, complimentary running back, 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:00.920 not to. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:05.199 Do well, that's one. But we know that Malik Davis 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.480 was a good is a good player. We saw that 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.280 last year when he got some time. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:10.600 And see that's what. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.079 We all remember from Okay is the block that he 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.680 missed but otherwise he had a decent season for someone 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.319 that's playing behind two very good running backs. 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.920 All right, I think the one of the big questions 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:27.400 here is how many offensive snaps do you want Tony 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:32.400 Pollard to have in a game. And we'll break it 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.080 down over a season, over a season, basically on offense, 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.240 you have in a seventeen game season, a little over 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:39.599 eleven hundred snaps. 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.680 Can I make a difference between snaps and touches, because 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.240 to me, it's it's touches. You know, that's when you 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:48.920 when we give him a lot of touches, then that's 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:49.600 when you can see. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.760 Him get fatigued. I don't know about the amount of plays. 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.839 I don't nobody's blocking, but I know when it comes 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.400 to the touches, the more touches that we get him, 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.160 the more he's fatigued and he's calling, he's tapping out. 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.920 And so if he was getting I was doing it 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.480 real quick. If I did it right, fifteen carries a 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:13.560 game over seventeen weeks, that looks like that comes to 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:18.320 about two hundred and fifty snaps in the season. Yes, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:20.040 that would be about right. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:26.000 Okay, Here here was the breakdown last year. Here was 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.760 the breakdown. Yeah, as far as snaps go, last year, right, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:35.400 what what do you think the percentage was of snaps 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.680 divided between Tony Pollard and Zeke Elliott last year? 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:47.720 I'm guessing it was thirty thirty eight percent to whatever. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.840 Thirty eight percent for Pollard, yes, and sixty two percent 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:57.040 for Zeke. Tony Pollard had five hundred sixty seven offensive 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.600 snaps last year and Zeke Elliott had five hundred fifty eight. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.160 So it was a fifty to fifty split last year. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.680 But the perception is that Zeke is on the field 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.200 a lot more than Pollard. Well, as it turns out, 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.040 Pollard was on the field as much as Zeke was 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:17.240 last year. So my point is, and so if even 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.440 if you want to push Paul, where do you want 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:20.280 to push Pollard? 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:20.440 Two? 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.840 As far as those snaps go, do you want anything 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:24.680 to go sixty to forty? 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:25.160 You keep it. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.920 I think you wanted fifty to fifty, just like you 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.080 had it. And you can give me more touches as 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.760 you go along here. Okay, I went back and looked 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.560 at the first game of the year last year and 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.040 last night against Tampa Bay, and you know you could 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.280 tell from the get go the very first snap of 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.280 the season, they're going to make a concerted effort to 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.240 have Pollard on the field as much as Zeke. So 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.000 on the first play of the game, both of them 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.280 are on the field and Pollard lined up wide and 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.560 then he went in motion back in the backfield. They 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.560 handed to Zeke. Then on the third play of the 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.240 they're back on the field at the same time time 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:04.400 and they run an end around with where it's like 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.960 a double reverse, giving it to CD and then he 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.000 kind of passes it over to Pollard and they lose 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:15.680 ten yards. And I was jayous, Yeah, right, And so 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.880 they were trying to figure out ways to get Pollard 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.640 on the field the same time. Well, you can figure 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.920 out ways to get Pollared the football and more than 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.360 you give it to whoever the other running back is. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.360 But I think you want him so that he is 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:33.040 strong throughout the season. Basically a fifty to fifty split 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.080 Pollard versus the other running backs. Now, who on this 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.800 depth chart do you want to take those fifty percent 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:41.600 of the snaps? 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.400 I would have to spread him out between two or 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.200 three guys, right, And I'll just go back to what 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:53.320 McCarthy said. Kapanomics that's real. If he wasn't making a 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.360 ten point nine million dollar base salary this year, he 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.240 would have been in that locker room right now. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.480 And we want we want intelligent touches. Bill, You don't 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.240 just want to just give anybody that touch. 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:07.280 Okay, it's all right. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.240 We're just gonna be counting percentages here. Okay, you got 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.920 yours in, all right, this time it might be thirty one, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.080 But then it's Malik Davis's turn, but it's thirty one. 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.560 You know, we try to move the chain, So you're 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.000 gonna you gotta be smart about the touches, right, you know, 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.479 you gotta be strategic on who's gonna have it at 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.760 the particular time. So touches is one thing, but sometimes 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.719 the flow of the game might predicate that thing. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.840 You want him in there banging away on third and 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.760 one and you get it now it's first down. Are 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.080 you handing them to the ball again? 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.480 You could have possibly the way a drive could turn out. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:46.040 You could have several very important thirty ones. And you 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.080 gotta be smart on who you want to give it to, right, 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:49.840 and how many times you want to give it to 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:51.879 him with this backfield. 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:56.439 And from powered I mean what's his deal? Basically his 0:17:56.520 --> 0:18:00.480 ability to bust the run right. NFL dot Com did 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.919 a deal on top ten explosive runners in the league 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.800 and it was a combination of some next gen stats 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:15.359 expected you know, yardage, and then they broke it down 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:20.760 to ten plus runs, ten yard plus runs, percentage, and 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:26.760 then fifteen plus mile per hour runs okay, and percentage. 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.919 Pollard ended up fifth. He had an overall score of 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:35.280 eighty seven. The number one guy was Justin Fields had 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.040 a ninety eight, but he had far fewer carries than 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.480 Pollard did. And they're different carries, right of course, because 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:47.160 a lot with the quarterback it's not designed to run apparently, 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.639 so that gives you an opportunity. But he had thirty 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:55.000 one ten plus yard runs, so sixteen percent of his 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.840 carries were at least ten yards. And when it came 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.120 to fifteen plus US miles an hour run, he had 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.399 forty three of those. So you don't want that to 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:09.000 go down because you've given them more carries. You still 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.000 want that explosiveness. 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.920 Those carries are most likely not on the goal line, 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.000 and they are most likely not short yard is placed 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.600 that pilot had. Okay, Those are usually first and ten 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:23.800 second long, and we learned how to. 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:24.560 Stretch the field. 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:26.080 You remember how we used to do it with doorset, 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.640 and we see with Pilot you stretch the field, create 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.560 the weakness, and you cut back inside. Yeah, you can 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.119 do that on second first and ten second long, thirty 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:35.639 one goal line. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:36.480 You can't do that. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.440 It's hard to create that kind of scenario to where 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:43.120 you can create softness for a Pilot or any one 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:48.359 of his size. That's tough to emulate with someone that's 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:49.560 not Zeke Elliott. 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.840 So two things happen right away when everybody sees June one, 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:55.560 and so the Cowperys are going to have ten more 0:19:55.640 --> 0:20:00.320 million dollars in cap space. Well, the first thought, well, 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:05.439 you got to go get DeAndre Hopkins, right. The second 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:12.000 thought is that, well, my thought is you can use 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.639 that money now. It's not like you can go and 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:21.600 just splurge. Now you've got available cap space to sign 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:27.960 guys to extensions. Trayvon Diggs maybe c d Land at 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:32.080 some point. And by the way, Trayvon Diggs was not 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.800 at the OTA. Now he's done that before, working out 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:42.040 with his brother and whatever. And I understand it's voluntary, right, Hambrick. 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:46.840 I still think of that every day standing there listening 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:52.520 him to say what do voluntary mean? But again, you 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:57.680 also have ten million dollars extra to say, hey z, 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.600 how about two and a half three million dollar base 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.560 to return with his incentives? 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:06.040 Right? 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:12.800 And you can you can do the incentives in a 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:16.840 way that they won't count against the cap because if 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:20.000 you give them incentives that he accomplished the year before, 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:22.879