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Speaker 1: Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. We are
Speaker 1: alive from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: We are fresh off the cowboys final preseason game where
Speaker 1: they lose to the Jacksonville Jaguars, and so now we
Speaker 1: can just start pointing ourselves toward the opening of the season.
Speaker 1: It is, uh, what week in three days before the
Speaker 1: Cowboys begin the season against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa,
Speaker 1: the reigning Super Bowl defending champions. And it'll be fun.
Speaker 1: It'll be fun. So what we're gonna do it on
Speaker 1: today's show is we're gonna spend most of the show
Speaker 1: trying to break this down as far as the fifty
Speaker 1: three man roster. Tomorrow, the Cowboys I think by four
Speaker 1: pm Eastern time, the Cowboys have to get their roster
Speaker 1: down to fifty three. But we're gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: do that for them today, and we will send our
Speaker 1: official list over to Will and his group and let
Speaker 1: them know what the break thinks they should do as
Speaker 1: far as their final good not William Blakins, Will McClay.
Speaker 1: We're gonna send it over. I'm just gonna say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, you did us a solid on the documentary,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna do you a solid on the fifty
Speaker 1: three and we're gonna call it even make this easy
Speaker 1: on you. Absolutely, Yeah, just take the rest of the
Speaker 1: day exactly. We've been watching, We've been watching practice. We
Speaker 1: got a good idea of what should happen with this team.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm sorry, I don't have a good idea. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think we've I've said this several times. I
Speaker 1: don't think we've learned one thing about this football team
Speaker 1: since we got the training camp, except except for the
Speaker 1: fact that Ceedee Lamb is a baller. What we haven't
Speaker 1: learned we haven't learned about Michael Parson that we know
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the best linebacker on this team. Okay,
Speaker 1: we haven't learned that. But what does that mean? Well,
Speaker 1: the best linebacker, that means he's gonna be the best
Speaker 1: linebacker on this team. Okay, I mean I'm saying that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Darren Hambrick was the best linebacker one year.
Speaker 1: I mean, what does that necessarily mean? I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: his arrow was pointed up. He looks every bit like
Speaker 1: the first round pick and all that. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of question mark. We do our twenty
Speaker 1: questions thing, and I don't know we've really answered a
Speaker 1: lot of them. But that's okay, that's what you know.
Speaker 1: I love. First of all, I love that you're the
Speaker 1: Debbie down. He's not usually the pessimist. Again, he's right though,
Speaker 1: He's right, and that's It's this is a wonderful chance
Speaker 1: to just reset it because everything we just saw, good
Speaker 1: and bad, means next to nothing. Now it really does.
Speaker 1: Like it's like you're all bubbling, you're ready to go.
Speaker 1: This last month and an we didn't waste anything. But
Speaker 1: you know we've done this before, where you know, we
Speaker 1: get back from training camp and Byron Jones is the
Speaker 1: next He's the next All Pro safety Byron Jones, the
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods like these are the things that I can't
Speaker 1: stop thinking about. Collins, Yep, that's no. I'm with Micah
Speaker 1: Parsons had an incredible train camp. That doesn't necessarily mean
Speaker 1: he's going to have an incredible season. It's it just
Speaker 1: and it's not trying to be a downer. I have
Speaker 1: a lot of opinions about what we saw over the
Speaker 1: last month, but now now it's, you know, put put
Speaker 1: it to work, put it to you, make it count.
Speaker 1: I mean, Randy Gregory looks like he's ready to take
Speaker 1: that next level. Dorrence Armstrong had a really good camp
Speaker 1: from what we saw, and so there are some things
Speaker 1: out there. I mean, Dalton Schultz when he when he's
Speaker 1: held you. But the thing about it was is because
Speaker 1: Dat got hurt when he did, and then Amari came
Speaker 1: back when he did, and it seemed like the tackles
Speaker 1: were kind of in and out, and Zach sometimes and not.
Speaker 1: We just never really saw the whole offense together. Zeke
Speaker 1: never got to carry. Has he fixed his fumbling problems?
Speaker 1: But who knows? Who knows until the first time Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay is trying to strip at it, you know, and
Speaker 1: so what the twentye time. Right, well, yeah, not just
Speaker 1: the first time. I meant, so, you know, is Da
Speaker 1: back from the ankle? I mean, is that he is
Speaker 1: he taking off yet? No, he's still got you know,
Speaker 1: the shoulders. So there's just I'm glad we're here. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, it's hard to really know what what are
Speaker 1: we looking at here? There's only there can only be
Speaker 1: like three teams in the league right now, where the
Speaker 1: podcasts that talk about said team aren't just excited and
Speaker 1: raring to go. You know, everybody saw some stuff that
Speaker 1: got them excited during training camp, except for like Houston
Speaker 1: Man Houston Detroit going back to at least they beat
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. That's all they got, they say in that, Well,
Speaker 1: that's all they got to say. I mean, if they
Speaker 1: want to be positive about anything, what the governor's up,
Speaker 1: they too call it that whatever something like that. If
Speaker 1: you even if you remember the score of a preseason
Speaker 1: game longer than twelve hours after it happened, I got
Speaker 1: nothing for you. But you get my point. And so
Speaker 1: it's not trying to be a downer. But now you
Speaker 1: know we're we're into the thick of it. But I
Speaker 1: think that's also the truth too. You can look at
Speaker 1: that from the opposite way that probably all thirty two
Speaker 1: teams right now have a similar list of questions about
Speaker 1: their team right now, because that you don't know coming
Speaker 1: off training camp, you don't necessarily know what's going to
Speaker 1: happen when you get into the season. That's the beauty
Speaker 1: of the NFL. The NFL is not a kind of
Speaker 1: league where you can really predict it. It is a season.
Speaker 1: It is a league where going into the season, they're
Speaker 1: probably only three or four teams that have no shot
Speaker 1: at all, and there are probably two or three that
Speaker 1: have the best shot, and everybody else on a given
Speaker 1: year could get hot and could do some great things
Speaker 1: and could be very cold and be picking first in
Speaker 1: the draft. Like that's the NFL. That's actually what I
Speaker 1: love about the NFL. You can't predict it. It's fun
Speaker 1: to watch it play out. And so here we go.
Speaker 1: Cowboys will have to play it all out, all right.
Speaker 1: So let's start first with some injuries. I want to
Speaker 1: start with Lyle Collins and his injury. Talk to me
Speaker 1: about what the injury is first of all, and and
Speaker 1: then talk to me about how concerned fans should be
Speaker 1: that he's dealing with this. At this point, Lyle Collins
Speaker 1: is dealing with some stingers. That's you know, that's related
Speaker 1: to neck and back injuries usually Mike McCarthy and this
Speaker 1: is so, this is these are almost two separate issues.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy says, it's not a long term thing, it's
Speaker 1: not something that he's worried about. He should be available
Speaker 1: to practice against Tampa. So should you be concerned that
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins is going to miss time right now? No?
Speaker 1: Should you be concerned that this is maybe an injury
Speaker 1: that he's gonna be dealing with. Yes, I mean that,
Speaker 1: I don't know a better way to say it. Like,
Speaker 1: stingers typically tend to come back. This is something guys
Speaker 1: typically our deal with, which it sucks that it's happening
Speaker 1: to another tackle, But this was this was Tyran's problem before,
Speaker 1: like you know, Lyle's. He doesn't really have a stinger history,
Speaker 1: at least not a long one. So, uh, yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: be lying if I said it didn't make me a
Speaker 1: little bit uneasy, just that this won't this probably won't
Speaker 1: be the only time we're talking about it. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean he's gonna miss a lot of time. But you
Speaker 1: never know well and also makes you a little bit
Speaker 1: uneasy because he didn't have the best training camp. You know,
Speaker 1: he did get back out there. They played him more
Speaker 1: than really any other of those starting lineman, but you know,
Speaker 1: he he didn't look like the same player we we
Speaker 1: saw when when you know, I guess twenty nineteen. I mean, um,
Speaker 1: if you could call it rust, I guess, I mean
Speaker 1: that's what you're hoping, that's what you call it. So
Speaker 1: to have this injury at this time, you were hoping
Speaker 1: things would kind of start ramping up more. But listen,
Speaker 1: he's about a stuff as they get. He really is.
Speaker 1: He showed that his whole career, and I think he's
Speaker 1: a He is a pro, and so if there's anybody
Speaker 1: then I'm just counting on that's it's gonna get it
Speaker 1: when those lights turn on. It's lie l. I just
Speaker 1: maybe that's me being optimistic there, but I think so
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I just I hope this is
Speaker 1: not a situation where it's like, well it's Wednesday, so
Speaker 1: Lyle's not practicing because of the stinger, and like we've
Speaker 1: seen that with guys before. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: project too much because we don't know, but I don't
Speaker 1: blame anybody that is just kind of uneasy, Like I
Speaker 1: haven't played a game yet and he's dealing with this,
Speaker 1: and there's yeah, there's no way to spend that as
Speaker 1: a completely non factor. And it doesn't help that the
Speaker 1: backup spot, the swing tackle spot, has got everybody even
Speaker 1: more concerned. And we're going to get to that when
Speaker 1: we start getting into the roster, because I think that's
Speaker 1: one of the positions that we really need to talk
Speaker 1: a lot about because of the health of Lyle but
Speaker 1: also the past health of Tyren Smith. Like there's a
Speaker 1: lot to discussing that. Talking to me about Calvin Joseph,
Speaker 1: he left the game yesterday after making a nice open
Speaker 1: field tackle. What's his injury and what's he standing. He's
Speaker 1: got a groin. He said last night that it's minor
Speaker 1: and he'll be back soon. That could mean anything. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, this happened last night. Mike Andcarthy hasn't talked.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything as of yet about the severity.
Speaker 1: I don't get the impression it's something that's gonna land
Speaker 1: him on IR. I don't think it it will, but
Speaker 1: it could, and like it they could do that. They could,
Speaker 1: they could put him there because it's because of roster management. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and plut like the i R is such a wildly
Speaker 1: Before Covid injured reserve was like you reserve that for
Speaker 1: season ending, it's over or maybe he's got a chance.
Speaker 1: Now it's just like, yeah, he needs two or three
Speaker 1: weeks to get right, Like it just doesn't mean what
Speaker 1: it did two years ago. So they could put him
Speaker 1: on IR and have him back by week four. And
Speaker 1: also that's their you know, projection projection of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's say he was just completely healthy. Is he active?
Speaker 1: He is he one of the forties six? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know that yet about him. He hasn't shown
Speaker 1: that he's this special teams guy that he so I'm
Speaker 1: I mean, I would think Maurice Kennedy might be a
Speaker 1: better game day active than him. Oh maybe it's in
Speaker 1: his best interest to go to IR then, so I
Speaker 1: don't have to hear angry fans whining about why the
Speaker 1: top fifty pick isn't dressing out possible. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard that that i R was in consideration.
Speaker 1: But when you consider that it's only a three or
Speaker 1: four week deal. That makes sense if it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's think about this, like he's probably going to miss
Speaker 1: the first let's say that they're saying this, he could
Speaker 1: miss the first game, maybe into the second game. I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure he's going to be active anyways, Let's
Speaker 1: let's do this. Let's hold again to do that, Let's
Speaker 1: hold him. That gives a chance to get at another player,
Speaker 1: and then you know, it always works out kind of
Speaker 1: It Just somebody gets hurt here always. It always like, ah,
Speaker 1: if there's one thing that I've learned, it just always
Speaker 1: it always does. Everybody's always like fretting about it, and
Speaker 1: then somebody gets hurt. Somebody gets ding dug at defensive
Speaker 1: tackle when the training camp started, but like they got
Speaker 1: seven guys, like who's gonna make it? And now you're
Speaker 1: kind of wonderingly do they need to pick up a
Speaker 1: tackle to you know, do they need to have get
Speaker 1: a veteran in here? Because so many things have sort
Speaker 1: of happened at that position. All right, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: this real quick before we get into the roster. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and take a quick early break and
Speaker 1: then when we come back, we're gonna talk about the roster.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with that quarterback position, because the backup
Speaker 1: quarterback is one of the positions that everybody's talking about
Speaker 1: right now. And I'll have the question for this get
Speaker 1: for this group as to whether the quarterback that will
Speaker 1: back up ask Dak Prescott is on the roster or
Speaker 1: should be on the roster currently. We'll talk about that
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Speaker 1: outside your door or at training campus. What I really
Speaker 1: want to happen. Don't get me started. All right, We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the fifty three man roster. Here's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna this is how we're gonna
Speaker 1: do the cuts. I'm gonna go through each position I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you guys who I think are definits like this,
Speaker 1: this person is definitely on the team. Um, and I'll
Speaker 1: make sure you guys don't have others that are in
Speaker 1: the maybe column that you think should be on the
Speaker 1: definite column. Once we do that, then we'll figure out
Speaker 1: what our number is, and then we'll back into the
Speaker 1: final few spots of who we think should make the team.
Speaker 1: I've got it. If you're going to write it down
Speaker 1: there now, you can write it down so real quick.
Speaker 1: Let's just get it out of the way. We know
Speaker 1: the three specialists. We know Greggs are Aline as the kicker,
Speaker 1: Brian Anger as a punter, and dude, that's ironic that
Speaker 1: you started not that's ironic. I mean, I don't know. Man,
Speaker 1: we'll get Let's be careful because that is true. Just
Speaker 1: keep your eye on what the rams. Just keep around
Speaker 1: the Rams, just keep your eye on what they may
Speaker 1: or may not decide to do with their specialists, because
Speaker 1: we've got every other former Ram over. That's I mean,
Speaker 1: if we can get if we can get the whole
Speaker 1: band back together, then when then why wouldn't we Okay,
Speaker 1: I know I'm the same way, and it actually borderline
Speaker 1: pissing me off that that situation because it's so it's
Speaker 1: so arrogant of like, let's just do all this. The
Speaker 1: Rams have let all of them go, the coach, the kicker,
Speaker 1: the snapper, and then who knows what happens with the punter,
Speaker 1: but they let them all go. Yeah, but now it's like, well,
Speaker 1: let's they all work together, and let's just put them
Speaker 1: all together. And I don't know, Anger has done everything
Speaker 1: he needs to do. He needs to be the punter,
Speaker 1: isn't there Just there's always a coach that It was
Speaker 1: Marinelli for years. Bisaccio was the same way, Like those
Speaker 1: are the three guys. There's gonna be a veteran punter
Speaker 1: on the team, and it's probably Brianing. We knows their line, zirline.
Speaker 1: We do know, and we we're pretty sure about Jake McQuaid.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure there no no that those are fine. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You guys probably gonna be those three.
Speaker 1: There's just there's just something to keep an eye on something.
Speaker 1: We know there's been three spots. They'll be taken for
Speaker 1: the specialists. Just say, wasted more time than you wanted
Speaker 1: for that exactly I thought I was gonna run right
Speaker 1: through that, all right, So let's talk about quarterback. We
Speaker 1: know obviously Dak Prescott. The question in becomes, who is
Speaker 1: the backup? You've got Garrett Gilbert, you got Cooper Rush.
Speaker 1: Who do you guys think should emerge as the backup
Speaker 1: quarterback for this team. I feel like I'm taking crazy
Speaker 1: pills because over one week, everybody just flipped to Cooper Rush,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, what's wrong with Garrett? Like, what
Speaker 1: did he what did he do that was so bad?
Speaker 1: I don't know. So not to say like I don't
Speaker 1: think he's amazing, I'm you know, so it's it's six
Speaker 1: and one half a dozen to the other. You probably
Speaker 1: don't feel great about it regardless of who they pick.
Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm gonna ride with double G because
Speaker 1: I don't think he really did anything wrong to lose it. Okay, Nick,
Speaker 1: it's just heads tales at this point that they're very similar. Um,
Speaker 1: we were talking a little bit off, you know, and
Speaker 1: like during the commercial, I I agree, you know, Gilbert's
Speaker 1: done it in a game, and he looked pretty good
Speaker 1: doing it. Based off the circumstance answer this, Coop Rush
Speaker 1: hasn't had that opportunity to do that. Cooper's been das
Speaker 1: back up before. I I mean, I might even ask
Speaker 1: the quarterback on this one privately, just what do you
Speaker 1: what do you think? What do you want? But I'll
Speaker 1: say this, if it's if, if if I have a
Speaker 1: third option, that's That's what I'm doing. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get it. I'm gonna go get a veteran.
Speaker 1: Would you guys get somebody better than these two? Would
Speaker 1: you consider giving up picks? Yes, to go out and
Speaker 1: get some late round Yeah, as long as it's stay three, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll do. I'll do what the Eagles did, and not
Speaker 1: only they doesn't even have to be that guy. I
Speaker 1: mean a guy like that. It could be a guy
Speaker 1: that started that's had moderate success. If he's available, I'm
Speaker 1: looking to do that. And that means I might have
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks for week one or you know, because he's
Speaker 1: not gonna learn the offense and all that, so I
Speaker 1: might have three quarterbacks for a week one. That's why
Speaker 1: when we talked about Kelvin Joseph things like that, you
Speaker 1: might have to manage the roster early on the season
Speaker 1: with an injury like that because I might need to
Speaker 1: carry three quarterbacks for a game, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe not for a game, but three on the row.
Speaker 1: St I wish they could have done the Minshew trade. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm awesome. And I thought I would have done it
Speaker 1: thinking that Minshew was in the last year of his deal,
Speaker 1: and then I looked it up and realized he's got
Speaker 1: two years left. So that's on a rookie deal. Sixth
Speaker 1: round pick for a experienced starting quarterback to be your backup.
Speaker 1: For got at something like, he's not He's not horrible guy,
Speaker 1: that's better than the guy to have. I mean, oh,
Speaker 1: you're talking about the Eagles. Oh yeah, I got you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I mean I like Hurts. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's better Hurts, but yeah, I don't. But I
Speaker 1: think he's I think he's up there, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: he's up there with some of the better backups in
Speaker 1: the league. It's a mood point. But I would be
Speaker 1: willing to part with the fifth, sixth, seventh round pick too,
Speaker 1: if if there was somebody out there that they could get.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, let's move on to the running back position.
Speaker 1: We know that Zeke Elliott, Tony Pollard will be here.
Speaker 1: Do you guys think they need a third running back
Speaker 1: purely from a numbers standpoint to do special teams stuff?
Speaker 1: Probably may? I mean you you don't have to. We
Speaker 1: talked about that on the last show. You absolutely don't
Speaker 1: have to to get down to fifty three. You probably
Speaker 1: want one, right, I mean, Rico did a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff on special teams. He was a kick returner, he
Speaker 1: did some blocking, and you just never know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen in a game. I want I want a
Speaker 1: third guy, and I wanted him to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more like Zeke, like a guy that could got
Speaker 1: some you know, not not another Tony Pollard, but a
Speaker 1: guy that can do something. And Rico Dowbell was sort
Speaker 1: of that guy. Give me, give me a guy that
Speaker 1: I can hand the ball off to, um, you know,
Speaker 1: ten twelve times if I needed to in a game
Speaker 1: like that. Let's assume for a second that you can
Speaker 1: get somebody like a Brendon Knox or Jaquan Hardy to
Speaker 1: your practice squad. There's no and there's no question of
Speaker 1: whether you can. I'm just I'm paying I mean, not
Speaker 1: to be a jerk, I'm right, no. But but then
Speaker 1: here was the part that was more interesting to me.
Speaker 1: Do you think that if you got somebody like that
Speaker 1: on your practice squad, can you use that if you
Speaker 1: want it? That third running back that's more of a
Speaker 1: special teams guy that maybe you can get a little
Speaker 1: bit out of, is a Nick Rawson at fullback? A
Speaker 1: better options more. I'm more comfortable with playing these two
Speaker 1: quarterbacks at quarterback if something happened to Dak than playing
Speaker 1: one of those running backs. I mean, they haven't done
Speaker 1: anything for me. I'm sorry, I'm either one of them.
Speaker 1: I was watching them more closely against Jacksonville because injury
Speaker 1: de Rico necessitated it. I thought Hardy had a nice
Speaker 1: cut on that one run. And they're not They're not running.
Speaker 1: They're running behind Isaac and they're running behind you know, FARNIOK.
Speaker 1: I get that, behind our star. I get and I
Speaker 1: understand that too, But they're also playing against the backups
Speaker 1: as well. I just I can't think of a reason
Speaker 1: why either one of them needs to make the fifty
Speaker 1: This fifty three, which it's a fluid thing, like we
Speaker 1: focus so much on the fifty three. We all know
Speaker 1: it's going to change ten million times this year. You
Speaker 1: just you don't need they can be among your initial cuts.
Speaker 1: One or probably both of them will clear waivers. What
Speaker 1: I don't like about the way they play is they
Speaker 1: haven't gotten used to this as the NFL. One of
Speaker 1: them is from Tiffin, when them from Marshall. They still
Speaker 1: make cuts like they can get around the corner like
Speaker 1: they did in Division three football and they did maybe
Speaker 1: even a Conference USA. They're not used to get your
Speaker 1: five or six yards. You're not gonna get twenty five
Speaker 1: around the corner. They haven't adjusted to that just yet.
Speaker 1: I don't think that they're they're ready. I'd give me
Speaker 1: a guy. There's gonna be guys on that waiver wire
Speaker 1: that played and run the ball before. If he's got
Speaker 1: any kind of special teams ability, I think that would
Speaker 1: be a better fit. They're sorry, they're just there has
Speaker 1: to be a running back that gets cut this week
Speaker 1: that you can put a claim in. And I assume
Speaker 1: I thought they'd give the ball to Ralston a little
Speaker 1: bit more. I really did. I thought they would see
Speaker 1: what he could do as a running back. I think
Speaker 1: he's doing nice things on his special teams as a
Speaker 1: linebacker and type. But he didn't. They didn't give him
Speaker 1: any options to do that. That kind of seems like
Speaker 1: we'll put you on the practice squad type now, so
Speaker 1: you guys don't think that they should have a fullback
Speaker 1: or we'll have a fullback on the final roster. Not
Speaker 1: right now, I would I'd be happy to putting Nick
Speaker 1: Austin on the practice squad and call him up as
Speaker 1: a need be. So right now we're gonna stick with
Speaker 1: two on the roster, I'd say two, okay until further notice.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to wide receiver. Uh, there
Speaker 1: are five guys that I think we all know will
Speaker 1: be on this team. Amari Cooper, Ceedee Lamb, Noah Brown,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson, and then Noah Brown. But I say Noah
Speaker 1: Brown twice. I'm sorry, did that's it? I was missing?
Speaker 1: Um Gallup, Michael Gallup. Um, those five on the team.
Speaker 1: Question is do you need a sixth? And if you do,
Speaker 1: who do you prefer between? I assume it would be
Speaker 1: between Malik Turner and Semi Fioca. We're all one hundred
Speaker 1: percent confident that Cedric can Noah make the team. I am,
Speaker 1: I think I am too. I just I just wanted
Speaker 1: to pose the question. I am, I am pretty confident
Speaker 1: there and exactly, yeah, Rush, I just to make to
Speaker 1: be to play Devil's advocate. Malik Turner seems like he
Speaker 1: can do all of the things Cedric Wilson can. Like that,
Speaker 1: just same skill set. That's all I'm saying. He's done.
Speaker 1: He's done a lot of special teams. He can return,
Speaker 1: you know, he's shown his ability as a receiver. All
Speaker 1: of that said, Cedric's been here for years. I think
Speaker 1: Bones really likes him. I know Dak really likes him,
Speaker 1: And I just think that's a situation where it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you could save eight hundred thousand dollars making this move,
Speaker 1: but why, what's why do you need that money so
Speaker 1: badly that you can't just keep Cedric around. I mean,
Speaker 1: we started the show with you guys telling me that
Speaker 1: what we saw in training camp right now means little
Speaker 1: because you now have to do it in the regular season.
Speaker 1: And so if I'm looking at that, yeah, Malik Turner
Speaker 1: looked good during training camp and during preseason games. Cedric
Speaker 1: has looked good in games in actual games. Just covering
Speaker 1: my bases, Yeah, I think Cedric should be on the team.
Speaker 1: But again, if you go back to the pre training camp, narrative.
Speaker 1: They're looking for ways to shed some salary and get
Speaker 1: a little bit cheaper. That's the way they could do it.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that they should. I don't think
Speaker 1: they should either, Nick. I think I was the one
Speaker 1: person that kind of said, hey, there's no I don't
Speaker 1: have to make this team with that salary do they
Speaker 1: have to make? But I really liked what I saw
Speaker 1: from Noah Brown a couple times in games. I thought
Speaker 1: he's playing like a big bodied receiver. They're not trying
Speaker 1: to make him as a tight end whatever. He's just
Speaker 1: a physical wide receiver and he's playing that way. He
Speaker 1: had some slants, he caught some passes where I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, he's showing what his role is going to be.
Speaker 1: Because because those guys come off the field, they've grown deep.
Speaker 1: You know, Gallup goes deep, Lamb goes deep. And now
Speaker 1: it's third and five and they're not on the field
Speaker 1: because they're they're gas nor Brown's got to go make
Speaker 1: a play, and I think he's shown the ability to
Speaker 1: do that as a receiver, not just special teams. You
Speaker 1: guys want to go five or six there, I say
Speaker 1: we go five. I say we hold and see how
Speaker 1: it goes. I think ment leak. Turner's sitting there at
Speaker 1: the sixth and you you're saying you would take him
Speaker 1: over Seemy Fioko if if you were choosing between the two.
Speaker 1: It's not my reputation about the draft. I don't if
Speaker 1: I cut a draft pick, it doesn't matter. They it
Speaker 1: matters to them, so they probably there'll be people that
Speaker 1: will be leaning that way. I think he could still
Speaker 1: go in the practice squad. To me, I wonder, I
Speaker 1: think you know if you're if you're being completely like
Speaker 1: Malik Turner has had the better camp, is what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say. If you're being completely fair and status
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, and you want to keep a sixth, it
Speaker 1: should be Malik Turner. But even we talked about this
Speaker 1: before Camp two. Even Ryan Russell, with all due respect
Speaker 1: to him, one of the worst fifth round picks in
Speaker 1: recent memory. He made it as a rookie and he
Speaker 1: was he was not good in his rookie camp. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Fayhoko makes it
Speaker 1: and it I think it would purely be protecting your draft. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because also you could you could play both sides of this.
Speaker 1: Malik Turner has been in the league two or three years.
Speaker 1: It is what it is, you know, it's probably and
Speaker 1: he's an undrafted free agent, like to quote our friend
Speaker 1: Brian broad Us, who doesn't have a sponsor, like who's
Speaker 1: who's his sponsor? Whereas Fayoko has got a lot of
Speaker 1: sponsor because they they pride their drafting reputation, and they should.
Speaker 1: They're pretty good at it, so upside, you know, and
Speaker 1: and all of none of this is to say Simmy
Speaker 1: is bad, Like he hasn't been bad. He's just he's
Speaker 1: been fine. Yeah, he's been fine. Um, So I really
Speaker 1: if they keep a six, I think it'll be him
Speaker 1: purely because he's the draft pick. But right now we'll
Speaker 1: stick with five, move to six in the event we
Speaker 1: get that kind of spot. Okay, let's talk about the
Speaker 1: tight ends. There are two that are Deafeness, Blake Jarwin,
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz. I think you probably can add the third end,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Sprinkle, just because you know that they're going to
Speaker 1: keep three tight ends, I would think. Um, and then
Speaker 1: the question becomes, what are they gonna do with Sean McKellen. Well,
Speaker 1: this is the fun thing is again we were hyper
Speaker 1: focused on the fifty three and it will only stay
Speaker 1: that way for twenty four hours. I think Sean mckun is,
Speaker 1: I mean, he has to make the roster to be
Speaker 1: put on injured reserve, so he's I'm writing his name
Speaker 1: and sharpie, Jeremy Sprinkle's a vested vet. I think he
Speaker 1: probably for a minute, I think he gets cut and
Speaker 1: and they you know, maybe they add a tight end
Speaker 1: after they move Sean McCuen to injured reserve. Yep, I
Speaker 1: could see that happening. I could see that being your
Speaker 1: your fourth guy, hey, Jeremy, that you're gonna put on
Speaker 1: the roster initially, and then he would be the replacement
Speaker 1: for mqun once qun is put on ir woo pig,
Speaker 1: take a day off, come back in on Wednesday. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so we'll stick with three at tight end.
Speaker 1: Any chance that any of those other guys, Lynn or
Speaker 1: you Banks are in the mix here practice squad, maybe
Speaker 1: well let's let's throw this out there about Sprinkle, like
Speaker 1: you're saying, hey, you know, sit there for a week.
Speaker 1: His agents gotta understand what's going on here, you know.
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying there'll be a huge market for him.
Speaker 1: Out there if he goes somewhere else, but you know
Speaker 1: what would be his incentive to come back Because this
Speaker 1: isn't like Joe Thomas was last year, where you're the backup.
Speaker 1: We just need you to do this. This is like
Speaker 1: you wouldn't make this team if McEwen was was healthy.
Speaker 1: So you know, if he had an opportunity, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be out forever forever. I'm not sold that
Speaker 1: it'll be Sprinkle that signs after me. Yeah it's hundred,
Speaker 1: but but it a third tight end. I mean your
Speaker 1: banks actually banks, he looked pretty good yesterday. I mean
Speaker 1: that maybe he's the guy that's definitely a ky. I
Speaker 1: just I can't I'm sorry, I can't take you one
Speaker 1: hundred percent seriously if you're wearing like forty nine as
Speaker 1: a tight end. And I know Jason Witten were it
Speaker 1: for a minute, they didn't take him seriously when ye
Speaker 1: good point, I just move him into move him into
Speaker 1: like eighty when the roster gets cut down, and now
Speaker 1: we're cooking with cass all right, we're gonna take our
Speaker 1: final break. When we come back, we're gonna jump to
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Lots of questions there. We'll figure all
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Speaker 1: don't get into the finals? Is that what we're going
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Speaker 1: you're more of a like what are they doing? What
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Speaker 1: He seemed like that kind of guy. Yeah, maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of that way. Maybe maybe so more of
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. It's like, I'm sure he had
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Speaker 1: it does change, it does change it defense, you're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about them, they're bad? All right, Let's let's jump
Speaker 1: back in real quick. We gotta get through the rest
Speaker 1: of this this thing because I gotta get this email
Speaker 1: over to Will. All right, so let's talk about the
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. We got five that obviously we know are
Speaker 1: on this team, Tyren Smith, Connor Williams, Tyler Beotist, Zach
Speaker 1: Mard Lyle Collins. We also know that they're gonna have
Speaker 1: at the very minimum eight and probably out of maximum ten.
Speaker 1: Question for you guys is who should fill in those
Speaker 1: those what names should be filled in? And how many
Speaker 1: do you think we should have? I think you can
Speaker 1: easily go with four, four more. I mean, Secy I
Speaker 1: think makes it. That was evident he didn't play. I
Speaker 1: think Terrence Steele will make it. I think, hey, real quick,
Speaker 1: real quick for the guys that didn't play. Could it
Speaker 1: also be the flip that you don't want a guy
Speaker 1: to get hurt in that final game if you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna cut them, It's it's very possible. But just
Speaker 1: reading t Live he leaves. When you hear Stephen Jones,
Speaker 1: you know, do a radio appearance and say, yeah, we
Speaker 1: like to sign a veteran swing tackle. Tiecki's that guy
Speaker 1: for us this year. You just it's just you get
Speaker 1: an expression that that that's gonna happen. All right, go ahead,
Speaker 1: and Nick, I'm sorry, I just I think it really
Speaker 1: comes down to the tenth guy. I mean, because Connor
Speaker 1: McGovern is gonna make it as well. I think the
Speaker 1: other who are the other two? Conseky, you say at McGovern,
Speaker 1: who are the other two? I think Steel Steele, Josh
Speaker 1: Ball has to ball in order to be put on
Speaker 1: injured reserve? Got it? Yeah? And then you know, I
Speaker 1: think it'll so Brandon Knight out Brendon Night or Farniyac
Speaker 1: to one of those guys, and I in in his
Speaker 1: defense because you know, we kind of we wrote him
Speaker 1: off last week. Basically, I thought Farniac played pretty well yesterday.
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's the last draft pick onto the team,
Speaker 1: and he was the last guy out there still playing,
Speaker 1: and I thought he did all right. So I just wonder,
Speaker 1: you know, you got he's got the He's got guard
Speaker 1: center flexibility if that's what you're looking for. Um, But
Speaker 1: Brandon Knight has tackle guard flexibility. So what do you
Speaker 1: think is more important? I don't know. I would probably
Speaker 1: I like having ran a nine on the team. I
Speaker 1: think I like him more than most people do. I
Speaker 1: think he's just got good position flex and I would
Speaker 1: keep him. I think, Sorry, I can be on the
Speaker 1: practice squad. So let's say right now we hit we're
Speaker 1: at nine, and that includes the five starters plus McGovern, Insecky, Steele,
Speaker 1: and Ball, and then we'll put on the maybe list
Speaker 1: night in Farniac and we'll come back to them once
Speaker 1: we get through. All right, So right now, if you
Speaker 1: look at the offense and the specialists, we're up to
Speaker 1: seven twelve fifteen. We're at twenty four players, all right,
Speaker 1: twenty four players between the offensive players and the specialists
Speaker 1: that we have that we would say are on the team.
Speaker 1: All right, perfectly, as we're trying to go, you want
Speaker 1: numbers on defense. Ye, all right, so we're at twenty four.
Speaker 1: All right, so let's start with the defense. Let's go
Speaker 1: defensive end. There are four Definance, Lawrence, Gregory, bash Him,
Speaker 1: and Armstrong. What do you do with Chauncey Gholston, Oh,
Speaker 1: stays on there. He's already on PUP. You don't tell
Speaker 1: people what that means. Uh, as opposed to injured reserve.
Speaker 1: PUP is short for physically unable to perform. Guys go
Speaker 1: on it at the start of camp and if they're
Speaker 1: still not ready, you know that you can take them
Speaker 1: off PUP anytime during camp, no ceremony needed. And they've
Speaker 1: done that with DeMarcus or Amari Cooper excuse me, no,
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence too. Yeah, they've done that with those guys. Um,
Speaker 1: when the season starts, if you're not ready to come off,
Speaker 1: it's a six week designation. So if Chauncey is on
Speaker 1: PUP to start the year, this applies to Tara Out
Speaker 1: Tristan Hill as well, then you're you're down for six
Speaker 1: Do you have to do anything? Roster? So so again,
Speaker 1: you got those four, do you think then Bradley and
Speaker 1: I are Rondale Carter make a point, Mammy, make a
Speaker 1: case that they should be on the roster. I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I just if you have it, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm I would probably put both of them on the
Speaker 1: practice squad. If you don't make them through, then it
Speaker 1: is what it is. Yeah, I mean, I just I
Speaker 1: haven't seen much. I mean, Bradley and I might have
Speaker 1: a little more upside for you. But and Bradley and I,
Speaker 1: they've both especially in the games, the game's more than practice.
Speaker 1: They've they've shown out um Rondale Carter as well. I
Speaker 1: think he's asked some pretty decent preseason games. It's just
Speaker 1: it's the classic case of you know, do you overvalue
Speaker 1: these guys because you spend a month watching them and
Speaker 1: talking about him, and and I slipped in the draft
Speaker 1: and he's you know, he's good value for where he
Speaker 1: was taking. Does that Does that matter at this point?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It reminds me of a guy named
Speaker 1: Victor Butler who was here. But I remember, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: past was a little better than them, I think. But
Speaker 1: take from Oregon State. Yeah, you know it's okay, you know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good at times, but not I think he
Speaker 1: signed with the Saints and free agency sounds a lifetime ago.
Speaker 1: When I was a Saints fan, you know, I was
Speaker 1: lamber linebackers go to the Saints may do. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the defensive tackle position. This one's interesting
Speaker 1: just because you have some players who are on the
Speaker 1: COVID list, you have some players are injured. You got
Speaker 1: a player that's on PUP, Carlos Watkins, Neville Gallimore, Tristan Hill.
Speaker 1: We know Osa Odigi Zua is going to be on
Speaker 1: this team. What do you do with all those other
Speaker 1: guys and how does that shake out for guys like Urban,
Speaker 1: Bohannah and Justin Hamilton. Neville has to make it to
Speaker 1: be put on. IR feel repetitive saying that, but so
Speaker 1: he's got to be there initially, Watkins, Mike McCarthy said
Speaker 1: last night, we're kind of ignoring the COVID thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because Mike McCarthy said he expects everybody back by Thursday,
Speaker 1: so which means they're probably gonna be on the roster
Speaker 1: within the day or exactly. So whatever finagling they're gonna
Speaker 1: do is not long term. So I think Watkins makes it.
Speaker 1: I think Brent Urban makes it. Osa obviously makes it,
Speaker 1: and Bohannah as well. So that's four, Well that's five
Speaker 1: and then four when Gallimore goes to injured reserve. And
Speaker 1: then I don't know, I feel like, oh, sorry not
Speaker 1: to cut you off. We're probably not talking enough about
Speaker 1: Justin Hamilton. Hamilton. I was about sat Phil like, Hamilton
Speaker 1: is probably going to make it based off of his
Speaker 1: body type and what Gallimore. Usually Gallimore will bring. I
Speaker 1: think Justin Hamilton will make you played a lot in
Speaker 1: that game yesterday, They'll played into the fourth quarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't have a lot of options, but I do
Speaker 1: think he's probably I think he could make it. So
Speaker 1: you guys are saying six, then a defensive tackle that
Speaker 1: will be all DIGGI, Zua Urban, Will, Hannah, Watkins, Gallimore,
Speaker 1: and then Hamilton's I just Hamilton because of Gallimore and
Speaker 1: also Hamilton is a fourth year of veteran. He didn't
Speaker 1: have to clear waivers. Ye, there's a cut bring back.
Speaker 1: Here we go. So the number we want to go
Speaker 1: with maybe is five, five, with the expectation that Gallimore
Speaker 1: and yeah, the number five is the number. And then
Speaker 1: did we did did we add a fifth defensive end
Speaker 1: or no? No, we stuck with the four Lawrence, Gregory
Speaker 1: Basham and Armstrong. I'm fine with nine, but when we
Speaker 1: get to the end of all this, maybe we can
Speaker 1: go back and add an end to their if we
Speaker 1: weren't good linebackers. I think five or definites. We don't
Speaker 1: need this, shouldn't need Smith Hu six, Luke Gifford as
Speaker 1: your special teams guy. I can't imagine anything else. Francis
Speaker 1: Bernard gone, yes, all right, he could theoretically go to pup,
Speaker 1: couldn't he He was never taken. He didn't I believe
Speaker 1: Wait practice the first day? Oh did he pray? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, never mind, all right, so cornerback. I got
Speaker 1: six on my list as definites. See if you agree
Speaker 1: with me, Anthony Brown, Jordan Lewis, Treyvon Digs, Kelvin, Joseph
Speaker 1: Nashan n Sean Wright, and CJ. Goodwin. And then I said,
Speaker 1: Maurice Kennedy, and I have an interesting question for you, guys.
Speaker 1: Maurice Kennedy, I think was really good in Ox and Art.
Speaker 1: I think he had some good early preseason games. Do
Speaker 1: you think he's telled off a little bit or is
Speaker 1: it just the nature of he just hasn't like he
Speaker 1: hasn't had those big splash plays, but he's been fine
Speaker 1: enough and he's gonna make this team regardless. Did he
Speaker 1: tail off or did Jordan Lewis come back from a
Speaker 1: hamstring and go back another starting lineup. I mean that's
Speaker 1: where a lot of that opportunity came from. I haven't
Speaker 1: noticed like a dip in his play. But that's training
Speaker 1: camps funny, because like when we're out in Oxnard, we're
Speaker 1: ten feet away, dialed in for everything, and then here
Speaker 1: we're way up in the press box and the schedule changes,
Speaker 1: and maybe we missed the first fifteen minutes because we
Speaker 1: were on the show, or a press conference ran long,
Speaker 1: or we got caught in an elevator with some fans,
Speaker 1: Like you're just you're not as just completely dialed into
Speaker 1: what's going on as you are in Oxnard. So that's
Speaker 1: a long way of saying I haven't noticed a dip
Speaker 1: in Kennedy's play. I just don't think he's getting as
Speaker 1: many reps. Do you think he's definite to make this team?
Speaker 1: I hesitate to say definite, but I would be surprised
Speaker 1: if he's not. Do you want to put him one
Speaker 1: year fifty three right now? Yeah, right, so we'll go
Speaker 1: with seven. But that shouldn't be a name. I don't
Speaker 1: think that should be a name that's just written in stone.
Speaker 1: Do you all agree with that? Yeah? If the numbers
Speaker 1: get tricky somewhere else, he might be a guy. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think I'm putting him on the fifty three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got to be. It's weird. You got to think
Speaker 1: about your forty six. If he's not on your forty
Speaker 1: six to play, then he doesn't need to be there. Okay,
Speaker 1: So but I think that's what they have to decide
Speaker 1: where we're playing him in the game. Is he a
Speaker 1: core special teams guy? To play him in the game.
Speaker 1: I thought he would be that kind of guy. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, So let's go to then the safety position.
Speaker 1: There are four definites that I think we all agree on, Wilson, Kazy, Hooker,
Speaker 1: and Curse. The question becomes, has mcquomo done enough to
Speaker 1: make the squad? Is Darian Thompson as a special team
Speaker 1: or guy that's gonna make the squad? And getting you
Speaker 1: to maybe six, let's put let's put six there. If
Speaker 1: I'm speaking for you, just to kind of move us along,
Speaker 1: let's put six I think mcquomo should make it. I
Speaker 1: think they love Darion Thompson to the point where he can.
Speaker 1: I feel like the way we've done with our numbers
Speaker 1: right now, with the five receivers and the two backs
Speaker 1: and the two quarters or do we say three quarterbacks?
Speaker 1: Either way, I think I think we could go to
Speaker 1: six safeties and just see where where do we stand?
Speaker 1: All right, so we're now at twenty eight defensive players,
Speaker 1: which gives us a total of fifty two. Okay, we
Speaker 1: got one more player that we could. We kept every
Speaker 1: safety in the world and still have a roster. I
Speaker 1: still got one more roster. That's why you go light
Speaker 1: on off. Then you could you hear your options? Nick,
Speaker 1: you say it earlier. Do you go out and get
Speaker 1: yourself a third quarterback? Maybe you spend it there? Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: you could look at wide receiver and you could pick
Speaker 1: up Malik Turner, as you guys did. That's the guy
Speaker 1: you like. Um, you could go with third run. Another
Speaker 1: third running back could be another option, another offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: If you wanted to pick up Brandon Knight or bat Farniac. Um,
Speaker 1: I think it would be uh for me. It would
Speaker 1: probably do the quarterback I'd probably I'd probably get a
Speaker 1: quarterback in here that can start start at the clock early,
Speaker 1: start learning the offense a little bit, and uh, but
Speaker 1: going with whoever they decide, if it's you know, if
Speaker 1: it's heads Gilbert, tails crush and whatever they you know,
Speaker 1: two out of three, I would go too. Out of three,
Speaker 1: what would you spend the final pick, Dave, I would
Speaker 1: either get I would either get Farniac or just another
Speaker 1: offensive lineman who has some flexibility. If there's a better
Speaker 1: option than Farniac available, that's fine, Or I like, there's
Speaker 1: gotta be somebody's gonna cut a running back that's pretty
Speaker 1: good right somewhere. And obviously the Cowboys don't need him
Speaker 1: to play running back, but you can upgrade your special
Speaker 1: teams and do a lot of fun stuff if you
Speaker 1: get the right guy. So that's what I would probably
Speaker 1: be looking at, Not a running back that's on this
Speaker 1: team right now, but somebody else's guy. Okay, real quick,
Speaker 1: before we end the show, I want to each you
Speaker 1: guys to tell me one guy that it would be
Speaker 1: a surprise to most fans, but you would not be
Speaker 1: surprised if they end up not on this fifty three
Speaker 1: man roster. I hate that question because then you're sitting
Speaker 1: next to him on the bus going to Tampa. That's
Speaker 1: what happens when you do that. I'm sorry. All right,
Speaker 1: let's bring in a new looking new We want to
Speaker 1: do the introductions first. Yeah. Well, I'm trying to like
Speaker 1: not answer that question. Oh come on, don't be able.
Speaker 1: Um okay this again. We just did it. The safety
Speaker 1: thing is weird. Nobody keeps six safety a weird and
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys are like clones of each other.
Speaker 1: Jron Curse and Israel Mukuamo do the same thing. Darian
Speaker 1: Thompson doesn't need to play safety, but he's a special
Speaker 1: team's bossy. But surely somebody can do the special team stuff, right, Like,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be so important that your position is ironclad
Speaker 1: specifically because of special teams. So, really, any of those
Speaker 1: last three safeties on the depth chart, Curse, Thompson, Mukuamu,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be surprising if one of them's not here.
Speaker 1: You don't, you don't need, and I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: want any of them to get cut. I like them all.
Speaker 1: I think Curse is a really underrated player. Israel has
Speaker 1: done everything a six round pick should have to do
Speaker 1: to make the team. But again, it just doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Something's got to give there, or you would think that's
Speaker 1: so that's my thought process. Yeah, I mean I agree
Speaker 1: with those defensive backs something something that definitely has to
Speaker 1: give and throw Kennedy in as well, because again, if
Speaker 1: he was Guy Kennedy, because it's just like he he
Speaker 1: played so great. But I don't know if you mean,
Speaker 1: do you he's just like Darian Thompson when it comes
Speaker 1: to the position they're going to play on kickoff return
Speaker 1: or kickoff coverage or whatever. This isn't a knock on CJ.
Speaker 1: Goodwin at all. He's very good at what he does.
Speaker 1: But it is funny he's the last corner on the team.
Speaker 1: You probably don't even consider him a corner. He's not.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna even when everybody was hurt last year,
Speaker 1: they were still not trying to have him on the
Speaker 1: field too much. But when he got hurt at camp,
Speaker 1: it just went in to like get ready for the
Speaker 1: season mode, you know, And that's that's normal to see
Speaker 1: from Dak. That's not normal. Seventh corner Barry some weight,
Speaker 1: you know, even though they call him bones, he does
Speaker 1: carry some weight, and he called him the ace of
Speaker 1: the staff. So in that happen. And by the way,
Speaker 1: let's also remember when it comes to special teams. Last year,
Speaker 1: he in my opinion, was by far the best special
Speaker 1: teams player you had. He wasn't involved in almost every
Speaker 1: play you made on special team. He absolutely deserves to
Speaker 1: be on the team and that that's the right way
Speaker 1: to handle it. It's just funny to see that. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the status that you typically reserve for star players,
Speaker 1: not your seventh cornerback. Well, real quick, before we end
Speaker 1: the show, we do need to welcome a new team
Speaker 1: member to our team. I don't know that she'll be
Speaker 1: on our show. I think we have another show planned
Speaker 1: for her, but miss Britt Johnson, welcome to the team.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for having me. I was you guys
Speaker 1: were arguing about that last roster pick, and I was like,
Speaker 1: it's me. I got that spot. It was left roster claim.
Speaker 1: Absolutely tell tell everybody a little bit about you, where
Speaker 1: you come from and what you're gonna be doing. I
Speaker 1: am Mcalie, grown from California. But you guys go to
Speaker 1: Oxnard very often and there's a huge Cowboys fan base there.
Speaker 1: I've been a Cowboys fan since birth. Basically my dad
Speaker 1: was a fan. My grandma's cousins with Bob Hayes, so
Speaker 1: it was it runs in the family. So I am
Speaker 1: super excited. This is my dream job. I'm so happy
Speaker 1: to be here, and I don't really feel like I'm
Speaker 1: going to be working ever, because I I debate Cowboys
Speaker 1: and in bars for free or in you know, games
Speaker 1: and stuff for free, and now I get to get
Speaker 1: paid to do that. That's Yeah. Once you take that
Speaker 1: step up to just getting paid to do what you
Speaker 1: typically do on the weekends, fantastic. Yeah. So you were
Speaker 1: back on the other side there listening to some of this.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you have some opinions on this roster?
Speaker 1: And I mean, I know you've kind of been watching
Speaker 1: from afar a little bit. I want to pitch on
Speaker 1: the spot, but like about just forget the roster, how
Speaker 1: about just the overall assessment of where you think this
Speaker 1: team is getting into the regular season. I guess I'm
Speaker 1: really glad that we had that Hall of Fame game,
Speaker 1: to have that fourth game, because I feel like we
Speaker 1: really needed it, because I do feel like there are
Speaker 1: a lot of pieces that aren't there yet, Like even
Speaker 1: even yesterday watching the quarterback situation flip again and we're
Speaker 1: like wondering, Okay, I thought we liked to coup rush,
Speaker 1: but maybe we like double g again, like you know,
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I'm really glad we had that fourth
Speaker 1: game to kind of help the coaches kind of figure
Speaker 1: this out, or the GM and stuff kind of figure
Speaker 1: all this stuff out. I don't. I think you guys
Speaker 1: had good assessments on stuff, but there's pieces that I
Speaker 1: don't even know. And in those lineback packers and stuff
Speaker 1: like who do you get rid of? Do you get
Speaker 1: rid of any of them? Um? The weird with all
Speaker 1: the safeties, Yes, that's another weird weird it's real weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's another thing. And then um, I think you kind
Speaker 1: of wrote about it. The fullback. Do we keep the fullback?
Speaker 1: Do we let him go? Like I think that's another
Speaker 1: big thing that I'm kind of up in the air about.
Speaker 1: It is because McCarthy's teams have always sort of had that,
Speaker 1: but he they don't really have that, that true full band.
Speaker 1: He also had a really good one. They're in green
Speaker 1: right then that might have been the reason why I
Speaker 1: had him, you know, if if he was with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys would have had a fullback, you know, because
Speaker 1: he was a really good player, kind of different than
Speaker 1: what most of the team does, most of the league
Speaker 1: does at that position. If Shewo was healthy, I think
Speaker 1: you'd be on this team too, But he's not. Alana Lua, Well,
Speaker 1: what got into just when you figured out they're gonna
Speaker 1: claim another guy and it'll be a hope, it'll be hopeless.
Speaker 1: It'll take you. The rest of them will be no. Well,
Speaker 1: welcome to the team, Britt. We're very, very very happy
Speaker 1: to have you on the team. And y'all check her out.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have her go and sit in
Speaker 1: with the players lounge. I think that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good fit for her initially. But you guys are gonna
Speaker 1: see her all over all of our stuff. You'll see
Speaker 1: her doing a lot of different things with us. So
Speaker 1: for Nick Gaming, for Dave Helmet, for brit Johnson, this
Speaker 1: is Derek Eagleton has been you've been live on the
Speaker 1: break from the SWBC Mortgage studio at the start. We'll
Speaker 1: be back on next I'm sorry, on Wednesday, and Wednesday
Speaker 1: we'll start getting ready for Cowboys versus Bucks on Wednesday.
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