WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Who Do You Keep Now? 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.000 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:18.159 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:21.880 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:26.239 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:31.600 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:37.879 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.680 It is Monday, August twenty six, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.400 episode number thirty two. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:47.880 We are lacking st WBC Mortgage studios at the Star. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.400 Got Nick Amber and Dave with me. We're talking to 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.640 Cowboys football here with you guys for the next hour. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.360 A lot to get into. Cowboys get a big win. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.480 I guess if you can call a preseason game a 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.120 big win. But they do blow the pants off of 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.920 Houston Texans thirty four to nothing. We're gonna talk a 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.759 little bit about that, talk about some of the standout players. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:07.800 We're also going to go back through a list that 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.200 I threw out to you guys on Friday about some 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.160 of the some of the bubble guys, some of the 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.600 battles that were happening, and see if in any of 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.480 those there were guys. How they played this week weekend 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.920 if that affected any of those battles in your perspective. Uh. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.160 Let's start first, though, with a little bit of blanket coverage. 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.039 We haven't done this in a while. I have a 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.120 few statements for you. Still training camp, still training camp. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.119 I have a few statements for you guys, and I'll 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.400 let you guys fill in the blank. Let's start with 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:39.040 the first statement. Dallas has dallass looked pretty good during 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:43.720 the preseason, extremely polished versus Houston with teams limiting their starters. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:49.320 What I take from the Dallas performances is blank. Start 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:55.520 with you, Amber, um do whisper over there? We say 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.800 it again, just that last sentence part again. What I'd 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:04.280 say from the Dallas performance is okay, performance a performances. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.920 I'm sorry because I'm looking at this from the standpoint 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.960 of this game and the last game preseason. What I 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:16.960 take from their performances is um, I mean, I don't know, 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.520 I don't know. I'm excited. I like what I see, 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.320 that's for sure. I like what I see. I like 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.680 the different elements that they have, the different guys. Seeing 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.640 Tony Pollard, the things that he's been able to do 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:33.320 so far, but I'm hesitating to get super excited about it, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.400 you know, because you know what the Cowboys tend to 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:40.359 do to us with those feelings. So I'm just very 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:45.079 cautious with that. But I'm really excited and I feel 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:49.440 positive about Kellen Moore and what he's able He's been 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.480 able to accomplish so far. I feel that he hasn't 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.839 shown us everything, so that's good, and with what we've 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.360 seen so far, I expect the regular season to be 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.560 even more once he lets it all go and shows 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:11.000 us everything that he's got. I'm excited, Dave sweet sweet relief, okay, 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.000 and a variety of ways. But most importantly, you know, 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.280 we got through the meat of the preseason with no 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:19.800 significant injuries and starters played in all the games. Nobody 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.640 got hurt. I think, keep an eye on Taco Charlton's 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.359 ankle injury, but I don't. You know, we're not classifying 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.120 that as a season altering injuries. So they did that. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.600 On top of that, the offense and defense both looked 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.560 about as strong as you could expect them too. In 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.800 exhibition games. You know, Dak looked good eleven and fourteen 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.600 for one O nine and a touchdown led scoring drives 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.960 on three of his four possessions. The running backs that 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.240 played in place of Zeke looked good. The defense gave 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.440 up one touchdown and it came after a muff point 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.040 put him on a short field. You could call it dominant. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.240 I don't want to, because it's fake football. But they 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.560 looked really good, Like just in general, like all of 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.160 the concerns that you had about the preseason heading into it, 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.080 none of them turned out to be a big deal, 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.240 with injury being at the top of that list. So 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.400 I feel relieved. Nick. Yeah, I think that. You know, 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.520 Jason Garrett loves to say next man up. I haven't 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.840 always thought it was it's the best philosophy to use sometimes, 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.160 but I understand the premise of it, and I think 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.680 if you watch the preseason and realize where the key 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.480 players were out right behind them, those guys have done well. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.800 I think Michael Gallup has done a really nice job. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.000 He is a solid number two. I think Tony Pollard 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.400 did a nice job in Zeke's absence. I think Xavier's 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.600 to a Philo showed why he needs to be on 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.479 this team. And Zack Martin's absence, I think that the 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.640 defensive events, all of them Hyder and Dorian's Armstrong. All 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.400 these guys, Taco have done a nice job. With d 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.239 Law Crawford out so and Byron Jones, I think Cheeto 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.080 has done a nice job, and Anthony Brown and Lewis 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.239 and those so those guys have stepped up. Sean Lee's 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:55.880 been out for a while, and Joe Thomas has done 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.800 a good job. So you're seeing depth on this team, okay, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.880 statement reports There are reports that Byron Jones will be 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.120 possibly elevated off the pup as early as today with 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.599 limited practices before the first game and good cornerback play 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.679 from other cornerbacks on the team. I planned to play 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:17.760 him blank during the first game, Dave um hard to 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.599 answer that, because we haven't mean practicesn't until five or thirty, 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.400 so I haven't seen him do anything. I doubt, you know, 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.240 even if he's out there, if he's off pup, like, 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.760 he's not just going to mix into team right away. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:32.360 So I'll say sparingly if at all, because again that's 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.359 that's two practices this week and three next week, like 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.200 you're practicing for the Giants starting next week. So that 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.279 is a short curve for a guy who hasn't done 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.080 anything all offseason, at least not football, And then the 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:46.760 guys that have played in his place have been great, 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.520 and the Giants also have a terrible receiving course, so 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.400 everything just lined up. But you don't have to go 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.640 crazy trying to get him onto the field for that game. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.760 So if I play him at all, it is in 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.640 a very small package of place. Nick, what I wonder 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.680 about that? And I agree with everything he said. What 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.760 I wonder and we don't know this. What depending on 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.800 how the roster shakes out is can they afford to 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.800 do that? Can they afford to play him just a 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.640 small amount of plays? What does it mean for your 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.120 special teams? What do the other positions look like? Did 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.120 they keep five corners to CJ. Goodwin, maybe have to 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.760 play a lumba? Does he make the team Mike Jackson? 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.520 So a lot of question marks there. I think though, 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.760 if they don't have a lot of depth at corner 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.599 that he might have to play a little bit more. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.280 But you're not going to rush him back out, So 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.039 you might see a cornerback make this team for Week 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.800 one or two that might not be here once he's 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:40.440 fully healthy. Amber I'm trying to think how that really 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:44.320 affects the guys that they decide to keep. I'm assuming 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:49.040 they would keep six corners, right maybe probably especially that 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.839 we all are hoping for. I would think if they don't, though, 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.080 But with his progress, I mean, I just don't see 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.560 that necessarily affecting the corners that they decide to keep, 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.719 Especially with him coming back, I just think that it 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.360 gives them the relief of kind of easing him in, 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.760 not just for the Giants, I mean, even the first 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.159 three games, you still have some wiggle room where you 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.640 don't have to force him to come back, and you 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.440 feel confident enough with the guys that you have. So 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.840 I think there, he's at a really good spot right now. 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.880 I think CJ. Goodwin's interception was probably went a long 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.360 way because that shows that now you know, he could 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.280 play some corner. If you have to put him in 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.560 the game, he could play some corner. So maybe they 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.880 don't have to take Alumba or Mike Jackson on the team. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.760 I don't. I don't know where those guys fit right 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.240 now on the team. Maybe they do not both of them. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:43.080 Mike Jackson's drafted Alumba did really well. In practice, but 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.080 I think they'd be afraid to put both of them 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.400 on the field in a real game. All right, let's age. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.000 Let's expand out and hit an NFL topic here. During 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.560 the game versus the Houston Texans, we heard that Andrew 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.040 Luck was retiring two weeks before the season begins. In 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.400 my opinion, you're speaking for yourself. In my opinion, his 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:07.400 decision is blank, nick um surprising. But you know, I 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.240 don't know everything that was going on with him and 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:13.520 all the injuries, but I'll say this. You know I 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.280 can relate because you know he had that calf injury, 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.720 and that calf injury is tough. So you know he 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:24.000 retired from the NFL football. Okay, you know calf injuries 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.160 are really terrible. But there's a lot of injuries that 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.720 that he's gone through, and I guess just mentally it 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.840 warmed down. I don't know, it's surprising that that he 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.120 he's done, But do I think he's thrown his last pass? No, 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.000 Now they come back, they'll kind of go with I'll 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.760 come back. Just for reference, Nick was playing fantasy football 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:44.719 to the same season back. Oh, that would have been 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.000 really bad. Yeah, he heard his calf and I still 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.120 don't think it's ill that it still looks a little gnarly, 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.160 but hey, you know, it is what it is. It's 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.360 it's uh that is an underrated injury, and that's one. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.000 And he's a guy that's getting treatment and probably doing 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.800 the right offessional treatment And I probably got no treatment. 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:05.360 You got no money, no one anything completely worth boy, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.679 you should see the bills that I've got low it's 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.000 oh man, it's at least a grand just and we 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:19.560 have great insurance here too. Um, his decision is his decision. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.559 I think that at the end of the day, you 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.880 got to look out for what's good for yourself mentally, physically. 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.240 You none of us really know what is going on 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.319 in his personal life, so I think and I saw 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.760 you defend his case and you know, go on a 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:40.440 Twitter war with it was just kind of a explanation, no, 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.160 And it was good because fans, uh, they tend to 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.120 think that it's just about the game, and it's not. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.160 We're all humans. He's human and whatever his decision is 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.360 to do that, whether or not this was the right 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.480 timing to do so, we don't know what he's going through, 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.960 so you have to respect it and let him do 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:01.840 what he needs to do. Figure it out. I mean, 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.760 the timing sucks for them, really really bad, but it 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.439 is what it is. That's the big thing for me too, 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.480 is like a lot of people who think they, you know, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.760 they have this great argument about why luck as a 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.280 scumbag is like, well, the timing couldn't be worse. It's like, 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.920 it's not like this guy decided to retire in May 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.320 and waited until now, Like he's been rehabbing this injury. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.400 I don't follow the Colts as closely as I do 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.319 the Cowboys, but the way I understand it is it 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.880 went from a calf injury to an ankle injury, like 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.240 it got worse and spread to a different part of 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:33.840 his body. Yeah, Nick understands say, and after everything he's 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.600 been through with, like the broken ribs and the shoulder 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.600 that knocked him out for a year, and he's taken 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.240 a beating, I don't think he was sitting there and 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.440 was like, well, I'm gonna retire on August twenty fourth, 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.720 but I'm gonna wait. I'm gonna he would probably after 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.640 his fifteenth week of rehab in his fourth year in 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:53.520 a row of needing to rehab something He's just like, 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.600 I am exhausted and miserable and I just can't do 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.040 this anymore. And I'll say this, if this is a 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.360 factor in some of the fans, you know, angst about it, 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.400 and and I've said it every year. If you're dumb 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.839 enough to do a stupid fantasy football league that early, 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.640 that's on you. That's on you. Always wait till after that. 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.160 There's no reason to do it. Yeah, you get itchy 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.600 and you get excited by wanted to do it. Okay, Well, 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:21.360 somebody's out there drafted both him and Millar Miller, Lamar 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.560 Miller probably on their on their team, and that's just dumb. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:26.199 You got away. There's no point to do it in 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.959 preseason game. And I know people are busy. It's hard 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.320 to get twelve people on the same night. Sorry, you 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.640 just have to have to or you're gonna risk this 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.840 kind of stuff as part of it. The other thing 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.880 I was gonna say, Oh, and you know, as far 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.839 as getting screwed over because your quarterback retires, goes like 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.280 the Colts have are probably one of five teams that 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:48.480 has an experienced competence starting backup quarterback like Jacoby Brissette 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.280 is not Andrew Luck, but he's a pretty good player, 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.280 so all things considered, I just don't buy that, Like, yeah, 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.120 I mean, it's it's his decision, let and ultimately it's 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.000 up to the team to figure that part out. I mean, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.480 that's the nature of any business. You haven't employees, and 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:04.640 employees have responsibility to themselves and when they make a decision, 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.840 it's up to the organization to be prepared to be 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.160 able to handle that and to adjust to it. And 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.160 that's that's not just NFL players, that's every business in America. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.440 Because all you guys out there listening that have jobs, 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.079 if you decided tomorrow you found a better opportunity for 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.200 you and your family, you're gonna walk away and that 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.080 company is going to be left having to figure out 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.120 how to hold how to figure that out. Not to 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:25.960 put our laundry on the air, but we lost a 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.880 pretty important teammate the day before training The last three years, 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.800 we've lost a very import point member of our team 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.080 just before training camp. And it's a part of it, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.160 Like you can't tell that person no, you need to 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.120 stick around for the good of the team. They're worried 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.880 about themselves, and that's okay. Gotta do what's certainly okay, 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:44.480 all right, we're gonna take our first break. When we 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.079 come back, let's talk a little bit about this game. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.400 We're gonna talk about some standout players, and then we'll 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.520 talk about some of the bubble guys and how this 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.920 game may have affected their chances of being able to 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.360 make this team. Will do that when we come right back. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.800 This is Dallas Cowboys dot com. Radal Well. A player 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.160 could look good on paper, it's one of these out 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.280 on the field that you really find out what he's 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.319 made of. That's why the Cowboys rely on more than 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:09.080 just stats and scouting reports when building their team. When 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.839 picking a tractor, it's why you should rely on more 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.360 than just specs and features. 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Yeah, don't miss the 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.000 last day of training camp. Today is the second to 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.080 last day, which means tomorrow is the last last day 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.320 that works. I know. The Star and Frisco presented by 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.080 American Airlines. Tomorrow Tuesday, Back to Football events begin at 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.800 three thirty pm, followed by practice at five forty five pm. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.680 For more information, visit The Star and Frisco dot com. 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.440 Today's the second to last day and tomorrow's and also 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.360 throughout this other little tidbit this evening, if you happen 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.360 to be out at the practice, Uh, who's that? I 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.400 think it's in. Brian and Lindsay are gonna be out 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.200 on the plaza doing the show. It's gonna start, Dave, 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.520 you can go out for that. I that this is 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:44.800 the first time hearing kid. I wouldn't put it past 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.200 myself to do that today. Yeah, I'd be like Dave, 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.280 hurry out, um, but no, it's gonna start up about 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:50.760 seven o'clock. So if you happen to be out here, 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.440 drop by, say how to those guys. They'll be doing 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.040 that show live right there from the Star will also 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:57.680 be streaming that out so you'll be able to check 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.240 it out. For all you guys online that are not 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.440 in the local area. You just another little cool feature 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.000 if you happen to come out to the Star this evening. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.040 So let's jump back in talk about the game. Cowboys 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:12.360 win thirty four nothing over the Houston Texans. Let's start 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.760 first before we get to some of those bubble guys 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.400 that I want to go back and recap. I do 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.480 want to get some opinions from you guys on four 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:23.440 players that are top line starter guys and how they 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.840 performed in this game. Let's start first with Dak Prescott. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.000 He was two of five twenty two yards, had a 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.800 nice touchdown pass. What do you think of Dak this week? 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.000 And really tell me what you think of Dak? Kind 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.320 Of as a whole package of the three preseason games, 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.280 dedn't didn't get a lot of action in either of 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.480 them individually, but when you put them all together, what 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.840 do you think of his preseason? Well, then they moved 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.160 the ball and I think every every time, and they 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:47.480 did have a three and out, I guess in that 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.040 first drive against Houston. But for the most part I 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.960 thought he did it was efficient, and you know, you 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.840 got to remember that there's no Zeke, there's no Tyrn 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.560 Smith for some of those games, Sack Martin and all 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.360 of them, and you know in Amari Cooper, I don't 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.240 think played any of them as well. So he did 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.040 a nice job just kind of moving the ball and 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:11.440 doing with you know, the best with what he had. Yeah, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:16.480 I thought he looked fantastic, honestly, and you know that's coming. Sorry. Sorry, 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:18.960 it looked like both of y'all were kind of often 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.280 space like thinking about this. Maybe you went down a 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.840 trail and I was. I was one hundred percent here. 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:26.159 I was just waiting to see if she was going 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.600 to talk first. Um, thank you. I thought I thought 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.960 he looked fantastic, you know, and he had he had 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.080 some consistencies in California. I said that he's up and 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.359 down practice player, but he really he translates it to 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.000 the game so well, because yeah, I mean they went 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:43.720 three and out to start the Houston game. It looked 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.159 like him and Gallup miscommunicated on the first throw of 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.720 the night. You know, he threw what looked like maybe 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.960 was supposed to be a comeback and Gallup rand a post. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.160 But h one hundred and eighty eight yards of offense 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:58.199 on four possessions when Dak was in there eleven and fourteen. Yeah, 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.440 I mean he had four possessions two hundred yards. Basically, 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.720 they moved the ball three out of the four times touchdown, 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.439 field goal, two touchdowns in a field goal. Excuse me. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:09.960 They ran for five yards a carry while he was 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.040 the quarterback. He spread the ball around. He got it 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:14.679 to Pollard, he got it to Witt, and he got 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.479 it to Gallop. He got it to everybody in between. Like, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.440 I don't know what else you could want from him. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.920 Based on I think thirty plays, that's that was the 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.480 snap count for the preseason, and they looked pretty damn good. 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.679 Thank you, Amber. Tell me about Michael Gallop. He had 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.200 a touchdown catch in this game. It's been really good 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.240 in training camp too. I would say he's probably been 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.480 among the top five players throughout training camp. What do 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:39.399 you think of him? Not only in this game, but 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.639 I guess throughout the preseason. I think he makes his 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.399 game look effortless, and that's something that you want in 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.960 a receiver. You don't see him struggling. He's able to 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.480 open up that catch that he had right there. I 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.000 didn't think that was gonna be a catch and he 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.159 just it wasn't that you need to throw him the 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.720 ball right in his hint. He's a kind of receiver 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.520 that's able to grab the ball and get it. And 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.440 as far as Dak, I mean, I love the connection 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:09.000 that he's been having with all his players. He looks 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.679 like he has he has regained that confidence on the field. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.520 Whatever John Kidna has been doing with him, it's working 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.440 and he looks good. What's unfortunate is the first mistake 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.000 he did on the game. In the game, you start 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.239 hearing people, Oh and he's asking for forty million, you know. 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:30.879 So we'll see how much money he ends up getting 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.600 at the end of the day. But right now I 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.400 think that that I feel pretty good with the passing 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:41.440 game and the development that he's been having with the receivers. 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.160 Lets me want to talk about Malie Collins, he had 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:50.159 the big hit that ended Lamar Lamar season. What do 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:51.880 you think of him right now just as a as 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.000 a player and going into this year from everything you've 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.440 seen again a top five guy during training camp. But 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.720 we've never wondered about his talent. He's always had talent. 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.840 He's always flashed. Do you think there's something different about 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.080 this year. Yeah, he's borderline unblockable right now, and that's 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:09.480 that's what's different. He's been a really good player, but 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.880 right but he's just been so disruptive. I mean that 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.280 that was kind of nasty, the way he just kind 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:17.200 of got through and just you know, I only think 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.040 Lamar Miller even knew, didn't expect that there to be 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.280 a defensive tackle there to knock him off his feet 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.840 like that. So he's been that way all camp. I mean, 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:29.160