WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Why No Trades? 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:03.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.799 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:15.120 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.480 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:25.599 Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.920 Derek Eagleton. Today October thirty, first, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.400 episode number sixty five. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:37.440 live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.519 we've got so much to talk about today. Happy Halloween 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.120 all you guys out there listening. But we're gonna go 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.600 ahead and jump right in. Um, I guess the news 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.920 begins with what the way it started? Last night? We 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:54.000 get word that there was a ruling in the Zeke 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.720 Elliot case he was not grant at the injunction and Dave, 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.200 I guess, let's let's turn you. You basically tell me 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.120 what you really want to do that I do spend 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.600 five minutes saying we weren't going to get her ruling yesterday. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.520 You've quickly become our legal expert on this ship. That's 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.559 my point. I'm not. I try to tell you all that, backup, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.319 back up, there are a bunch of guys that are 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.800 legal experts that botched, I shouldn't even say botched this, 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.640 that had a completely different opinion of what was going 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.160 to happen than what actually happened. So the fact of 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.240 the matter is, I don't think anybody other than the 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.479 judge knows in these instances how they're going to turn out. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.200 But tell us what that means, what would basically what 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.080 happened yesterday and what that means for Zeke going forward. Well, 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.280 Zeke and his crew had a two hour hearing with 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:43.280 Judge Catherine Failure Faila. I don't know yesterday. You know, 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:44.720 this is the one that we've been talking about for 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.640 two weeks. The hearing that came after the temporary restraining 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:52.000 order was granted before the San Francisco game. She went 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.640 back to her chambers and deliberated and wrote her out 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:59.880 and denied the preliminary injunction, pulled it and there's a 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:04.720 twenty four hour delay, meaning you know, so tonight Ezekiel 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:08.800 Elliott's suspension is in line to go into effect. He 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.480 is still consulting with his legal team. The NFLPA and 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.320 the Cowboys legal team to decide what to do. He 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.480 can appeal it, he can go after that in bank 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.400 hearing that we talked about a couple weeks ago. Don't 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.960 ask me what that means. I don't really know. We 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.600 were just talking about this before the show started. There 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.000 are ways that he can still fight this, but I 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.200 am dubious that there are ways he can fight this 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.840 and remain on the football field, like there are. He 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.920 can appeal this and and ask for another injunction, but 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.720 everything I've read describes it as like a nearly zero 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.160 percent chance. Because this is the same district that denied 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.839 Tom Brady that and forced him to take his four 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.880 game suspension. That's why the NFL wanted to file here. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.440 That's why everybody was talking about New York and the 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:03.600 second district. So, you know, barring something crazy, it sounds 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.320 like I said, he can fight this, however far hard 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.239 he wants to fight it, but he's gonna be doing 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.600 it while he's suspended. More than likely, that's what it 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.160 looks like right now. How much did you see from 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.840 the as far as the rationale, the ruling of the 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.640 judge here and why she ruled a way that she did, yeah, um, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.079 I did. I mean I read through it last night. 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.400 The big one of the big things that I came 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.080 away with first. I mean, you know, she said, you know, 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.760 Zeke and his team had ample opportunity to make their 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.280 case to the NFL arbitrator Harold Henderson, going way back 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:37.000 to August. She also said something that I disagree with. 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.040 I feel weird for quibbling with this, but but she 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.000 had something in her in her decision that basically said, 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.480 you know, Zeke's whole argument for this is that it 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.840 would cause irreparable harm, you know, for him not to 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.680 be on the football field. And she said, basically, I 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.680 don't buy that because, just like in any other labor dispute, 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.520 you know, monetary awards can be given out afterward and 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.560 that's sufficient or whatever. And I read that and I 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.680 was like, this is somebody who like doesn't follow football 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.800 or sports really is basically understand comes down to, because 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.840 that's that's six games that can go toward you know, 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.680 NFL Offensive Player of the Year or getting your team 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.679 to the playoffs or and that's not a monetary value 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.560 necessarily winning a championship that you don't put a money 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.359 on that, right winning a championship. That's six games that 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.840 he won't have to help him go toward Cowboys and 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.600 NFL rushing records and those types of things. Um, So 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.520 I just I don't buy that in the slightest. Like 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:38.240 I said, it feels I feel weird quibbling about it, 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.080 because at the end of the day, you take this back, 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:44.680 we're arguing about a very serious issue and whether you know, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.440 obviously this case isn't about whether or not he's guilty 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.880 of domestic violence, but it all stems back to domestic 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.479 violence allegations. So, like I said, it feels like a quibble. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.000 But I don't think she could be more wrong about 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.280 that in the sense that, yeah, you can award him 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.080 money for the lost games later and that's fine, but 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.960 he will never get this back in terms of I mean, 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.120 the average NFL running back career is not long, and 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.640 that's a healthy chunk of games behind a great offensive 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.600 line that he won't have. He's averaging one hundred and 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.400 twenty five yards per game right now, so you're talking 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:21.240 about several hundred rushing yards and touchdowns and chances to 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.760 you know, build his legacy that he will never get back. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.839 So I didn't agree with that at all. Well, I mean, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.560 that's absolutely wrong. I mean, it's unbelievable that anybody would 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.400 would say that and not understand the dynamics of this thing. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.039 When you get drafted fourth overall, you get drafted, you know, 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.720 there's a sense of security, there's some guarantees that you're 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.880 going to be here, and you know, if Zeke comes back, 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.159 and to my understanding, if he comes back and gets 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:55.080 at an injury and it's career threatening, I mean, he 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.240 has no guarantees anymore. All of those guarantees of a 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:02.200 first round pick are gone because they get voided when 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.839 you get suspended like this, and that's nothing that the 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.520 Jerry Jones can say, you know what, we're gonna go 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.240 ahead and do. It's not something that they can do. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:15.440 That's an NFL policy. So you take that in into consideration. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:20.760 The lack of endorsements that will probably be there probably 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.760 I mean, I mean that won't be there because of this. 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.359 There's a lot of money that that's lost in this situation, 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.400 not to mention all the legal fees that he's paying 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.440 for this. So I mean, I think he should keep 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.440 going as far as he can. But it doesn't sound 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.159 like there's there's a lot of options. Well, I think 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.480 this is going to continue. I mean, it's still going 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.760 to go into twenty eighteen. I would guess. I doubt 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.359 that this is just going to be the end of it. 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.680 In terms of Zeke's case against the NFL, we'll think 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.760 about it. All this was was just the injunction. The 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.120 injunction simply just hasn't gone to give him relief until 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.920 the case goes through court. Right so the case, this 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.279 doesn't stop the case from going through court. It's still 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.120 going to happen the league is I mean, he's still 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.640 gonna at some point be heard by I assume some 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.320 court in his case that the NFL was unfair and 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.280 how they handled this whole situation and so. But that's 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.600 not going to change him playing right now. I don't 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.960 think it doesn't. I don't think there's a lot he 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:16.640 can do to try to get back on the field 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.280 without serving this suspension. I've been wrong. I was wrong yesterday. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.400 So we'll see. But that's what it looks like right now. Yeah, sorry, 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.160 go ahead, No good. It's just you know, and Jerry 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.000 Jones talked about it on the fan this morning. It's 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.960 just it's it's a crappy situation. And like I said, 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.040 I mean, you know, we're so far past the point 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.000 of what actually happened between him and Tiffany Thompson in 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.760 July of twenty sixteen, and at this point it's just 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:47.640 a ridiculous mess that. Yeah, I mean, the NFL once again, 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.720 I don't think could have handled this much worse. You 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.600 mentioned Jerry, and you mentioned the NFL not handling things 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.920 much worse. Let me give you some of the quotes 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.960 from Jerry this morning. He was actually pretty fourth right, 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.960 and and we harkened back to earlier this year when 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.440 he was saying, I'm not going to say a whole 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.360 lot about the Zeke situation. I'll say that, and it 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.440 seems like this morning he doesn't have a whole honey 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.880 right now. He's like this morning was the moment when 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:12.520 he decided I'm tired of saving it. I'm going to 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.000 throw it out there. But here were some of the quotes. 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.520 He said, Elliot's decision, the Ellott decision absolutely was made 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.320 to appease the public. But that was a pretty big 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.600 statement to make. And then he said, speaking of Roger Goodell, 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.080 he said, I'm sure he'd like to have he'd like 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.920 to take back his stance on Rice and others because 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:32.679 of that that Zeke is an overcorrection. Again, very very 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.520 big statement. When you hear those things, What do you 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.439 think I mean from the standpoint of just kind of 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.200 how Jerry is not only not only talking about this 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:44.280 from the standpoint of what this means, like why this 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.920 is all happening, but also kind of pointing a little 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.120 bit at Goodell, pointing a lot at Goodell and saying 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.640 that this is really him trying to make up four 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.280 things that he is screwed up in the past. Another 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.719 one not to criticize you, I think another big one 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.160 you left out of there is he said, under this 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.920 same CBA that was agreed upon in twenty eleven, twenty ten, 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.680 whenever that was, Zeke would be playing two years ago, 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.200 two years ago, Zeke would be playing under the same CBA. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.720 But because of things that have happened that the NFL mishandled. 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.720 I really and like I said, you know, I don't 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.600 know for sure what didn't didn't happen that summer, but 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.280 I do know that this is a classic case of 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:25.400 a massive organization over correcting, you know, and like, I 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.760 feel bad because you wind up having to paint in 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:32.800 broad strokes. But I absolutely think that this is a 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.600 result of Roger Goodell and the NFL feeling embarrassed and 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.280 not wanting to further embarrass themselves over things that they've 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.920 mishandled in the past. That's absolutely what I think. I mean, frankly, 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.319 the way I look at I think people realized that 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.720 the way that whole situation with Ray Rice, the way 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:52.000 it played out, was it looked bad on the league. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.000 But I'm totally a believer in the fact that the 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.199 league that didn't have to go the route of saying, okay, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.560 because of that, we're going to now start doing our 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.160 own investigations and figure out how we can penalize guys, 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.199 whether the legal system does it or not. I think 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.760 there was still a middle ground of saying, look, we'll 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:09.600 go with whatever is happening in the courts. If the 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.720 courts find you guilty, you're obviously going to get a penalty. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.640 But if they don't and there's not enough evidence there 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.720 there's a middle ground. And if if something comes out 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.960 later that changes in let's say it's a tape video, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.680 then then yes, react to the tape. It's okay to 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.640 see the tape and be appalled by the tape and 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.560 say this was not evidence that we had before, because 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.000 if you remember back in that situation, it wasn't that 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.760 the tape came out, it was that there was in 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.199 There were indications that maybe the league knew about the 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.000 tape before it came out and didn't do anything. That's 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.400 a whole different situation. So I just think that it's 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.520 almost like they were waiting for a tape this time, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.000 almost were waiting for some kind of video that would 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.480 surface and say, well, this is kind of why we're 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.880 dragging our feet on this or whatever. I mean, they're 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:59.200 putting it, putting all of the thoughts together. But you know, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.600 I don't know, I don't know exactly what to make 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.320 of that what Jerry said. There's a lot more going 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.880 on in that dynamic with Jerry versus the League versus Goodell. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.360 There's been all these reports about Jerry's the one that's 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.920 kind of stopping this new contract for for Goodell. So 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.880 anytime there's a chance to kind of go at each other, 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.760 you're definitely seeing that this is going to be an 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.800 interesting how all of this plays out when I say 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.600 all this, I mean even the contract extinction for Goodell 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.520 they in another was four years. I think the CBA 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.520 is gonna expire something, and then you're in a situation 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.040 where you know the league will be negotiating again on 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.439 a CBA. So whoever sitting in Goodell's seat, whether it's 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.600 Goodell or someone else, that's important, right. So there's a 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.800 lot of dynamics to this Z case that extend well 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.080 beyond Z and and and for the NFLPA, they're probably 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.400 looking at this too, and it's probably giving them like, 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.680 even though this only affects a small group of guys, 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.560 you've now had two superstars in the league in two 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.360 consecutive years that have had to deal with core cases 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.520 with the NFL. Does it become a situation where although 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.199 it only affects a small number of them, that the 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.600 players start to say, we still have to address this 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.920 because it's not only it's not a situation necessarily of 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.480 just bad guys doing bad things. Sometimes it's guys being 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.160 falsely accused of things and the league is taking out 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.439 harsh punishment on them for things they don't feel like 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.480 they've done wrong. I don't know how this couldn't be 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.640 like one of your top priorities if if I was 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.920 a player, could Yeah, I mean because it could be you, right, 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.560 it's a tiny minority of guys. But all it takes 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.120 is the wrong set of circumstances, being in the wrong 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:37.280 place at the wrong time, getting involved with the wrong person, whatever, 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.120 and all of a sudden, this is you. And you know, 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.880 it's unfortunate for Zeke and the Cowboys that I mean, 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.520 it's too late for him. But I guess if there's 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.160 a if there's an upshot of this whole thing, like 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.280 there's there's just gotta be a better way to do this. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:54.040 And I mean, like, domestic violence is so heinous and 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.000 Jerry Jerry said that today. If you know, if you're 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.160 if you're guilty of domestic violence, you should not be playing. 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:04.360 But Ezekiel Elliott has not even been charged with anything 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.760 in the American court system, let alone proven guilty of it. Yeah, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.960 And the fact that a multi billion dollar organization can 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.600 sort of, you know, play judge, jury and executioner with 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.960 your life and your career, that would be terrifying to 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.200 me if I was an NFL player. You know, it's interesting. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.440 I was having a conversation this morning with Shannon Gross, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.360 who does the Hanging with the Boys show, and we 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.839 were kind of talking about this, and he had an idea, 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.600 and it was like, you know, if you really if 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.880 you're the NFL and you really want to do if 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.760 you really want to get into the business of doing 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.360 investigations and figuring out, you know, guilt or innocence and 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.240 then doling out punishment, why wouldn't you just have a 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.240 completely separate group, like a group that's not owned by 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.480 the league. This is a group that both the league 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.440 and NFLPA go fifty fifty and pay for, and it 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.600 is a group that is made up of legal professionals. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:57.040 These are people who have worked in law enforcement investigations 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.000 their entire career, and all they do is look at 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.679 issues that come up in the NFL with players. They 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.600 investigate them, they come up with a decision, and they 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.240 decide what the punishment should be. It takes it out 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.000 of the league's hands. The league doesn't have to worry 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.040 about it. But you have competent people who are looking 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.079 at that kind of stuff. And it's not one way 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.920 or the other. Both pay the salary, right, both NFLPA 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.920 and the league pay the salary of this group, and 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:22.840 then it keeps it to where it's it really should 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.600 be just based upon looking at the facts and making 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.360 a decision if the NFL is going to stay in 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.120 the business of investigations. Right, the cynical side of me 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.320 would suggest that the NFL doesn't want to give up 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.000 control of what happens in these situations. And that's I 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.840 think still goes by problem. Right, that's the problem of 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.360 Harold Henderson shouldn't be the appeal guy. It just says 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.440 it seems like, hey, we've decided to spend him two 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:49.840 games for an illegal hit. He's appealing it. Hey two games, 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.240 he's appealing it. You know, it opens the door. He 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.160 comes out like, yeah, I still I still think so 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.480 too gay? Yeah, sorry, your pills denied? I mean it, 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.720 yeah right, we heard. Oh I know, we don't agree. 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.480 I don't. Yeah, I don't trust that the NFL actually 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:09.800 wants that. But I mean, and the NFLPA, maybe they 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.800 should be stronger, I don't. I mean, they get they 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.080 get roasted all the time for being the weakest of 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.960 all of the you know, professional sports league player unions. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.080 So like I said, I'm I don't know. I don't 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.400 have the answers. But this system sucks. But yeah, and 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.880 the league should want that because right now, I think 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.920 the problem is the league spending way more time dealing 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.680 with things that aren't about football. Yeah, and I think 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.000 it's it's affecting their product. And I think fans are 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.280 seeing that too. I think fans are like, Man, I 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:36.680 just want to know that when I sit down and 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:38.640 watch my game, I'm gonna see my players that I 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:40.600 expect to see. I don't want to be up to 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.920 having to hear about court cases like it's not while 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.360 I tune in the football. I'm exhausted by this and 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.320 I'm technically getting paid to cover it and talk about it. 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.240 You know, I can't imagine if this was just like 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.200 my hobby and my escape from life, if I had 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.120 to hear about this crap every time I turned on 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.440 the break. So I empathize with all of y'all. I'm sorry, 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.520 but that's where we are. Yeah, the Cowboys lose a 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:06.440 running back for six games and the Eagles get one. 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.680 Nick you have to kill every I'm gonna get to that. Okay, Well, 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.680 let's go transition. All right, let's take it. Let's take 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.920 a break. We come back from our break. Before we 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.080 get to that, because we're gonna talk about the trade 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.360 deadline and what other teams are doing and maybe what 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.800 the Cowboys should be doing. I do want to talk 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.920 a little bit, go into some detail about what the 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.120 Cowboys have to do now without Ezekiel Leather for the 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.240 next six games. And I want to get these guys 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.720 opinions on whether they think the Cowboys can win. 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This is this 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:01.720 is a part of the season where at least for 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.000 the next three weeks Cowboys are gonna be playing three 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:11.960 teams that are, in my opinion, pretty much two of 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.960 the three are locks I think for the playoffs. One 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.480 of them was in the Super Bowl last year. So 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.439 it's gonna be a tough road for the Cowboys for 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:21.920 all six of these games. But I want to go 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:23.680 through and just get your opinions and how you think 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:25.679 the Cowboys can do. What you based on what you 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.159 know now of these teams, because things can change, but 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.359 based on what you know now of these teams, whether 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.720 you think thumbs up, you think the Cowboys win that game, 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.800 can win the game against whoever it is without Ezekiel 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.360 Levey or thumbs down, you don't think there's a great 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.359 chance for them to win. Let's start with Kansas City 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:45.600 this weekend. Cowboys can win without Zeke Well, I mean, 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.919 I'm not gonna mess up your game. I think the 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:51.960 Cowboys have a chance to win every game. I mean, 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:53.600 I really do. It doesn't I mean, we know this 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:55.840 everything you don't think I guess just if we want 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:57.720