WEBVTT - Hangin' with the Boys: Zeke Update? 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:20.279 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Blowing out of the backfield, 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:26.200 flooding down the sidelines. He's hanging with the Boys, broadcasting 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:30.600 live from Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:37.640 Now your host Nate Newton, Kurt Daniels, and Shannon Gross 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:46.879 Friday Football Tomorrow. Breaking news right now, break Taylor's going on. 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:51.320 Tay breaking the news, girl. Zeke breaks the news. You 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.800 guys heard yesterday that the reports coming out that Zeke 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:56.960 had been offered a contract, but it was going to 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:00.640 make him the second highest paid running back, not the first. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.920 So you heard that news, yes, Well, the twenty nineteen 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.200 version of response to that is Ezekiel Elliott retweeting this 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:11.440 tweet by Joe Thomas, the former Cleveland Brown lineman. He said, 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.000 throughout the course of NFL history, if you are the 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.240 best player at your position, or clearly one of the best, 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.200 when you resign a second contract with the team that 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.880 drafted you, you usually beat the highest paid contract at 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:31.200 your position by fifteen to twenty percent, which is very large. Now, yeah, 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.000 it's it's not twenty that's him. In other words, that's 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.240 him asking for fourteen million years he exactly, exactly because 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.280 right now, what the news out there was nothing has 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.000 been confirmed right right right, is that the contract that 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:48.600 has been offered to Zeke would be between Gurley and Lebon, right, 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.200 which would be what thirteen issues yes around there and 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:56.120 then so Gurley's getting thirteen something. So if he's retweeting 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.480 something that says you need fifteen to twenty percent, that's 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.440 he's asking for fourteen to fifteen million. Yeah. Yeah, Now 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:06.280 now real quick, I mean you know without stepping on 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.720 the toes of a brass that pays us, what are 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:11.840 you just your quick thoughts? Give it to him or 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:16.280 just wait till the end. I think you said it 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.920 best yesterday and you said that you've been around this 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.639 team for a long time and you're kind of getting 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.320 that like I don't care mentality anymore because it's just 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:29.320 becomes so frustrating. Yes, I think they're going to hold 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.720 out again. Well you think you think you think you 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.040 think Zekenam is ready to hold out. I think Zeke 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.800 is ready to hold out. It's my personal opinion today 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:42.840 on Friday, right, I also think that Jerry in the brass, Yeah, 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.360 like you said that his backbone is getting stiff. Yeah, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:51.639 they're getting a little like, yeah here you need Zeke. Yeah, 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.679 we saw what happens without Zeke. Right right. This is 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.320 a good team, but I don't think they're a great 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.520 team with Zeke. I think you're a great You have 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.799 a potential this year to be a great team. Wow, 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.640 But man, I don't know if i'd pay a running 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.600 back that kind of money. Oh, you curting me, you Curt. 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.200 Maybe here's the thing, you Kurt. You want to know 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:16.400 what my big my big issue is that Zeke has 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.000 not shown me. And I love Zeke, we all do, 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.040 go ahead, he has not shown me he is responsible 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.160 enough off the field if I give him a long 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.200 term one word and one word, and that is what 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:34.040 they have always asked players that they give eight or 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:39.000 more million dollars. Can I trust trust you? Yes? And 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.760 so far I haven't. I haven't seen a long enough 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.360 stretch of can incidents that haven't happened? Now? Have they 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:50.280 been Zeke's fault? Who knows? Right? But he it's they 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.040 continually come up. They have since he gets he's before 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.400 he signed here, they have He's missed games because of 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.920 alleged stuff there's still some alleged stuff that happened in 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.400 the off season. Can I trust you and now I'll 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.920 give you that kind of money? I have to one, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:10.280 you got to be clean and he that scares me. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.320 I think we need him, we need him on the field, 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:13.960 but it scares me to give a guy that kind 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.200 of money, and you know he's won a lot of 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.839 guaranteed money. I don't know if I man, Okay, Tricky, 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.640 I'll ask you to a question, Yes, man, rock and roll. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:27.119 This was right before I got here, the DeMarco Murray negotiations. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.799 Are you seeing any similarities now at this point? Obviously 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.560 it's different with a holdout and he was a free agent, 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.679 But in the sense that DeMarco knew what he wanted, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.080 the team knew what they wanted at running back, then 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.799 that next year you have kind of the rotating Joseph 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.960 Randall was the start. You know, they did see what 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.840 happened when they didn't go back to DeMarco. Well, I 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.960 did well, I think with DeMarco, And you tell me 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.359 what you think, Nate. I think with DeMarco he was 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.599 towards the end of his career as far as a 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:01.880 running back goes, and they had used the hell out 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.680 of him. I think he got four hundred carries or 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.440 something like three something like that that year. So I 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.840 think they knew going into that last year, like, we're 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.880 gonna use this guy up. See if we can get 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.240 him in a deal. If not, cut bait, let's go 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.600 somewhere else. Zeke still got several years left in him, 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.400 and I think it's a little different. And then the 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.960 key thing is it's one word, and I've been waiting. 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.839 It's only about trust. And I'm serious. I think I 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.719 think that's what it's all about. Because understand this as 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.800 much as us three and here love Zeke and wan't 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:37.400 Zeke here. So bad is you can't go to management 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.560 and say, man, get that man, it's fifteen million dollars. 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.800 And then next year something happened and he got it. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.680 He can't see the commissioner no more for nothing. It 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:51.320 ain't no more discussion. The commissioner probably told him, okay, Zeke, 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.560 even if you bump a guy walking by him and 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.680 he fall on the ground, you're gonna be suspended. Now 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.400 that fifteen million dollars turns out to be less six 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.440 games now, so it goes from fifteen to eighteen or 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.240 nineteen because you're not getting that performance out. And you 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.520 know what you just made me think of something? Was that? 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.919 What were Jerry's comments last week? I have how do 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.599 you get trust? Yeah, but how do you get trust 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.320 by talking to a person building a relationship? You do 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.200 what you earn. You earned trust. Jerry said, I have 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:32.279 earned the right to joke quisite That makes sense to war. Yeah, 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.800 that's what I'm tarned it. So he's basically saying I've 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.360 earned the right because of our personal relationship or what 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:43.120 with the ups and downs we have went through together. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.760 When he said it, I understood it totally. And one 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.480 thing that I know for a fact, and this is 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.599 I know that Stephen has to touch his dad. Dad. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.160 Let me do this dad, because he know Dad to 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:03.320 get frustrating. Man. Get that man is money. Yeah, get 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.680 that man is money now because we you know, and 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.120 if we hey, we'll make it up somewhere down the road. Yeah. 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.320 That costs us a draft pick car. It may cost 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.360 us not paying another guy because he'll he'll be like, 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.440 I don't want to miss the opportunity to have a 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.360 shot at the super Bowl. So but Stephen says, I'm 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:29.320 gonna be financially responsible because I want to extend past 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:34.920 two years of having great teams, good to great teams. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:39.000 This nine is nine and whatever ten and this leving 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.200 and this then the next year nine and whatever, eight 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.960 and eight. That is not success. And a lot of 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.400 times you lose that success number one, because you don't 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:52.120 draft well, because you overpay your stars. And now you 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.080 start to descend because as good as Zeke dak and 0:07:56.160 --> 0:08:01.240 Amari is no offensive line, no even his Lyne. Guess 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.080 what you did do with Atlanta did last night? You 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.880 just paid Matt Ryan a new contract and he could 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.880 not stay on his feet. He could not stay on 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.800 his feet. As great as this kid has always been, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.880 to me a good quarterback, Matt Ryan for that, He's 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.560 always been a good, good to great quarterback. But one 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.400 all the time I blame something on him was a 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:26.240 super Bowl. But he got there because he could throw 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.880 that rock, he could splain that rock. But every year 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:34.079 something happened, defense fall apart, stefens Rne and all of 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.320 a sudden, you ain't got no money. Yeah, how do 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.160 you pay these guys? So that's where Stephen is saying, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.040 I've got to be able. Now we as fans and 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.000 me as ex sprayer, like, man, now, get this man 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:50.000 his money. But I understand that without a balance, without 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:54.240 a Jalen Smith saying you know what, I'll take two 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:58.640 meal less. Yeah, you know, and you got to have 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.640 a couple of those guys because you're gonna pay some 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.400 guys that's gonna stand him strong, like hey man, I'm 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.239 a fourth round pick. Yeah yeah. And that new mentality 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.199 that all started with DeMarcus Ware because I felt used 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.520 to before the kind of the new change. That's when 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.680 they started stopped going, hey, let's let's quit overpaying these 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.439 guys because we're emotionally attacked. That was the first one 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.400 in my memory that was like stood still had a 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:28.920 pretty productive career and in but he was the first 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.280 guy that they actually let go that had been a cowboy, 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.120 that wanted to be a cowboy for life. And that's 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.080 when it started changing. And even even he wanted to 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.160 take a lesser contract, but not to the fact of 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.800 what they wanted him to take. And this is what 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:45.080 I tell people is, you know, and I'm glad you 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.280 brought this news. That's what I need. Hot hot news 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:51.880 that we can just name that was hot. Yeah, And so, 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:57.960 but you have to see the business fan understand what 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:02.640 I'm saying. The IRA oppressive. I love the Cowboys at 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:07.600 all costs. They don't have a middle ground. They either 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.080 with management are they with the players well? And I 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:11.599 think you're bringing up a lot of good points that 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.400 the front office has been pretty transparent of how they're 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.160 going to handle the way that these players are reacting 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.480 because the reactions. Now, you know, you did bring up 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.760 DeMarcus ware, but now we're in twenty nineteen where people 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.840 can voice their own expressions of things that they feel 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.640 are going on here with their contracts. You know, you 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.160 think about DeMarcus Lawrence and last year when he got 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.760 franchise tack, he had the perfect attitude about it. He's like, 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.960 look tag me now because I've seen what happens with 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.720 Kirk Cousins, and this is going to pay dividends for 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.160 me if I have another great year. You know, I 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.480 have the surgery on the line. I'm going to do 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.440 this the right way. I think DeMarcus played that very well. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.160 I think that Dak is playing this well. I think 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.199 that Amari Cooper is playing this well. I think that 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.400 Zeke is taking the opposite approach and that seems to 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.840 be hurting him from the outside looking in well, public perception. Absolutely, 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.480 he's damn he's he's damaging his his his credit with 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.480 Cowboys fans because they're first one it started. It was like, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.559 get Zeke in camp. Now you've seen a lot of 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.480 a lot of stuff out there on social media. It's 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.160 like trade him yet, what you can get for him 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.040 and move on? Let's see. This is where they're missing it. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.960 This is where they're missing it. And this is where 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.120 I tell people, as a player, you can see both sides. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.280 It's a business and you gotta do what's right for 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:35.040 your team. Team. Okay, but understand this right here, let's 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:42.040 use bail who they say reset the market. Okay for 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.000 a whole year. He said, I'm gonna do this, right, 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.720 I'm gonna sign this. I'm gonna sign this franchise tag 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.160 for the second time. Yeah, no, for the first time. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.640 Remember no, it was two. It was the first one 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:58.880 he signed, remember second second. You're right, you're right. Okay. Now, 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:06.400 you gotta understand if you become twenty five years old 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.360 as a running back, and this is history, if you 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:13.080 become twenty five years old as a running back, they 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:17.480 tag you, and then they tag you again at twenty six, 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.800 and then at twenty seven they say you fall off 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.920 a cliff. Do you want to go down that road? 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.520 So Zeke like, I'm twenty four, Yeah, I want to 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.960 have a new contract by twenty five. I'm not gonna 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.680 come in here next year. And then all of a sudden, 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.760 well Levion set the new market, but he also set 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.120 the franchise tag, so now you tag him if he 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.240 holds out next year. Now he's stuck, so he's got 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.200 to sign that tag. He played for three this year, 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.840 nine next years, so he's signed that tag maybe which 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.080 is twelve million. So now the cowboy is still winning 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.920 on this sand. They still winning. Then the next year 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:03.520 the zeke'send there like wow. So Dak is doing the 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.160 right thing by being in and being who he is 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:10.079 because he feels comfortable with what's transpired up to this point. 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.840 Amari don't care. He's making fourteen meal, so he either 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.040 get two or three more meal. He missed two or 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.320 three more mile, so he don't care. But Zeke is saying, 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.000 if I don't do this now, when do I do 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:27.720 it next year? Don't work? I get it, and I'm 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.160 here I'm not mad at him. I'm not ever mad 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.920 at a player for trying to make money because I 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.520 know how this league works. They don't want you. You're gone, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.160 you might be able to treat, you might be unemployed 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:37.920 to never make a dollar again. So you gotta get 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.640 it when you get it. It's different than the normal 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.400 working world. So I'm never gonna be mad at a 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:47.720 player for trying to make money because you know contracts, 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.600 you know they're not guaranteed. We cut you, you don't 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.920 make any more money. The guaranteed money part is so 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.560 I get it. So if you it's a business, and 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.439 everybody gets it, it's a business. Fan sometimes get wrapped 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.120 up in the emotion of it, and you know, but 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.960 that's why I think, Well, I'm just gonna say about 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.720 Levon Bell and the emotion of it. I mean, last year, 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.959 at the start, everyone's still drafting him in their fantasy leagues. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.280 They're yeah, they're in the emotion of it. And then 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.400 you see by the middle of the season you see 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.559 stories about the Steelers going through his locker and taking 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:21.000 out his Jordan's like, yeah, there's always that flip switch, 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:22.760 and you kind of talked about it, like now you're 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.600 seeing that on social media, and I think unfortunately for Zeke, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.400 even though he is probably doing the things for him. Yeah, 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.120 you know, I haven't spoken to him or his people, 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.760 but that's gonna switch. Yeah. Well, the thing about it 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:43.960 is the agent plays a lot. Now when Stevens say 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:48.000 they agree, the agent plays a lot because the agent, uh, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.240 they'd be ranked too with players like, oh, man, you 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.360 didn't get Zeke his money, you didn't get Dakis, Man, 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.640 what would I want to sign with you for? So yeah, 0:14:55.680 --> 0:15:00.040 so they pushing from a selfish mode too. But but 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.440 this is what I It's two sides of every deal. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.880 And when you you know, and I'm not asking people 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.000 to be rational fans, think how you think. You know, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.000 because you are the ones buying these tickets and keeping 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.040 all of us afloat, So think how you think. But 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.440 I understand how much Stephen Jones is thinking, and I 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.040 understand how Zeke is thinking because history is there. If 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.320 you want to just say, okay, why is this player 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.200 thinking this way? Well, every time you turn around, every 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:38.160 analytical number says running backs don't count. So that's what 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.400 people believe. The fantasy football is what people believe. Even 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.280 though the first person they draft is Todd Gurley or 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.400 Zekiel for the touchdowns, for the yards and all that. 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.680 They draft them, but they don't believe in them, you know, 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.840 unless they don't score a touchdown that week. And so 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.280 I get it all. I get it all. But the 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.480 thing that is more amazing than any thing is can 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.080 we sustain a drive in the playoffs. I think we 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.960 can win games, I'm ze, but can we get in 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:12.280 the playoffs and not get exposed? It's Tony Poller who 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:17.000 we think is you know, is he gonna fall short? 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.440 You know, because you can't you can't tell a fan 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.960 are a group of people that Okay, yeah we pumped 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.720 Tony Poler, but something happening and he wasn't as good 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.400 as we thought. Well, look, you've always said, and I've 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.760 heard you say this before the running backs you don't 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.280 really see them until the fourth week of the season. 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.720 You say that. That's right, So it's fair to still 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.560 give Tony Poler. You got to remember opportunity to see me. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.920 I don't judge a guy. Some guy's a fast starter, 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.480 Zeke's not, even though he's running efficient in his first 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.960 four games. I don't judge it because the reason I said, 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.400 give the whole, not only the running back, but the 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:59.600 whole offense. When have this offense been fully intact since 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.440 training camp started? When it has, I'm gonna tell you 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:05.719 when they was fully intact, they were zekeless. But they 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.440 were fully intact when they got on the plane. After 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.760 the first practice, guys started missing practice. So when have 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:17.959 they been twenty two strong? Not none? So it takes 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:23.880 a game of live bullets for everybody to be Yeah, 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.639 it takes a game, right, So now you got one game. Okay, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.320 this don't work. This does work. So we got Kellen 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.639 Moore working all of a sudden, Keller Moore by the 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.200 second game. Okay, yeah, we got this by the third game, like, yeah, 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.159 this really works. We know how to that's one of 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.720 a different formation. That's bunch over here. That's take two 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.200 three tight ends and put him in. You see what 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.720 I'm saying. Now he's getting live bullets. So by the 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.200 fourth game, you roll and you know who you are. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.440 You just hope by that fourth game you ain't two 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.119 and two or one in three or and four. I 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:02.200 bet Kellen Moore would like ze to stow his coordinating career. 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.000 Thank you, thank you. If I was him. I'd be 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.080 I'd be sitting out front with Miss Maryland every day 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:12.159 waiting on missus Jones, Like, Hey, y'all got me this 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.800 new gig. I appreciate it. That a new paycheck, But 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:19.600 don't I need this man on the team. Yeah, on 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:23.159 the field. Yeah, open at night? Thank you? How wild 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.080 would it be? This is just the fantasy world that 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.040 we can live in. Here we go, How wild would 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.640 it be? You know, this is a show that we're 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:36.600 recording at nine thirty am Central Time today, five o'clock 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.199 this afternoon, reports start coming out. Zeke Elliott signed his 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.960 new contract. Tomorrow. You walk into at and T Stadium, 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:49.080 he's there, he's there, head just twice as big because 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.280 you don't gonna put it in the head shot of Zeke. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:55.639 You know, Oh, Corey Miller are in game production. Yeah. 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:57.680 Have y'all seen the meme that's going around It says 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:02.119 Zeke spotted at what a burger? Wow, it's like twice 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.040 as big as Zeke, but he's got the same hair 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:05.960 in the same beard that it's not him. It's pretty 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:12.440 amazing that show, But like that really shocks me. I'm 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.320 gonna tell you, I'm gonna tell you that was good. 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:20.200 That was good breaking news. That was that's fire. Speaking 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.640 of bringing backs, you see that Rod Smith got into 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.120 the end zone yesterday. I didn't watch any of the game. 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.440 You watched the game. I'm watched parts of the game 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:32.600 and we talked about Daniel Jones. This kid, what did 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.679 you see? Are you This kid took a sack. I 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:39.840 mean they land blasted it. Shout out rod Smith, battle congratulation. 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:44.640 Yeah and yeah, touchdown. The ball popped her now right, 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.800 they recovered it and he in the next place. He's 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.440 just dropped back just to smooth man through a perfect fade. 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.399 It wasn't for a touchdown before him to get up 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.520 off his back and just dropped back Man with just 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.600 real smooth and just They say he's got poise in 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:03.360 the pocket and he's not scared, So I'm cliff mentality. 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.520 He's playing with the coach Duke that is who Eli 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.600 was coached by. Yes, and that same mentality they talked 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.800 about during the draft was that that's why the Giants 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.840 were so interested in him, because you look at someone 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.639 like Eli Manning. The man's never missed a game besides 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.919 the time that they got benched. We're all there for that, 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:27.600 but it's that pois. Yeah, and I'm telling you this kid, 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:36.720 this kid, it's doing well. And when you're playing New York, 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:41.120 it's only two stages. That's bigger than Dallas. That's New 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:45.480 York and that's California. And you can play in New 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:51.240 York under that fire. They're gonna they're gonna be crying 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.440 for that boy. Eli come out of the whole old 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.040 and two and old and three. They're gonna be crying 0:20:55.040 --> 0:21:00.320 for that boy. He's got about two games and the 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.680 thing way way above five hundred. By the time mid 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.160 season rolls around, they're probably gonna they gotta get it. 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:10.960 You know, I'm up. And then Washington didn't look bad, 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.439 case Ken didn't look bad. But that running back geist 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:18.560 is some pronouncing him and that kid, uh what's the 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:26.720 kid names? Jesus, I'm telling you. And you have the 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:30.160 first two games of the year. Yeah, Giants, you can 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:35.920 count out the red Skins. But if they defense come 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:39.440 come to play like I think it is, and they 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:43.520 have a running game, it don't matter whose quarterback. As 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.359 long as you don't throw interception, game's gonna be tight. 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:49.920 And if we play our brand of football, we're looking 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:53.560 at a three point difference in the fourth quarter, and 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:57.159 it's now who makes the biggest mistake. So we have 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:00.960 to beat the red Skins. We are to beat the Giant. 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.960 We cannot play with the folks. And here's the thing 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:08.880 you just brought this up. That's the style of Cowboys football. 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:11.560 You keep it close to the fourth quarter. Yeah, grind 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.879 it out. And are you willing to go into games 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:17.520 with that mentality with the rookie running back in the 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:19.879 fourth quarter to try to grind your games out? And 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:22.800 do you trust a rookie running back to not miss 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:30.600 a blocking assignment? And you know what? Healthy mo Nah? 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:33.879 And you know what, I normally could say the cream 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:37.240 on top, but I don't know if it's cream or 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:41.600 if it's sour cream. But your kicker, with the rookie 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:45.800 running back and your kicker, this guy's never been never 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:49.040 had the faith. It's hard to if you were out 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:51.560 of camp, it's hard to have the faith watching this year, 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:53.920 I mean maybe I hope he straightens it out. I'm 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:56.320 gonna tell you something, and and and and and and 0:22:56.440 --> 0:23:01.480 I'm stopping this. I ain't about He's a great guy, No, 0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:05.400 be a great football player. I'm tired of great guys. 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:08.399 Oh he's a great round. Car is a great guy. 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:11.920 But can you play football? Can you kick that ball? 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:14.680 When they say it seemed like they say fifty yards, 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:17.680 he's like, oh yeah, they say thirty five, he'd be like, 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:20.680 oh my god, I mean can't make this. He's turned 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:24.360 from cream cream real quick. You brought up Alfred Mark. 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:27.600 Do you think if Zeke's not here, who's your starting 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:30.359 running They split a lot more time between Tony Pollard 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:33.600