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Speaker 1: the Star in Frisco and now your hosts Isaiah stand Back,
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Speaker 1: It's been a long time coming, but it's game week
Speaker 1: here in Frisco, Texas as Dallas Cowboys football is just
Speaker 1: about six days away this Sunday night. And guys, we've
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Speaker 1: we hear Isaiah stand back and heck My Harrison in
Speaker 1: the intro, Rob Phillips along with us, I'm Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: we are It's week one, episode one of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty season as we get you ready every single week
Speaker 1: day this week leading up to the Dallas Cowboys and
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams. It's it's here, heck, but I
Speaker 1: can hear the excitement through the live view. Unfortunately, we
Speaker 1: are still virtual at the moment. We will be for
Speaker 1: quite some time, but we're just gonna still gonna bring
Speaker 1: you all the content, all the information that you can
Speaker 1: potentially need from a Cowboys podcast, and we're excited to
Speaker 1: do so. But heck, my, you're itching. I feel it
Speaker 1: bringing on. Where's the excitement. Let's let's pump up the
Speaker 1: fans a little bit here, man. It's it's starting to
Speaker 1: feel real, Kyle. It's starting to feel I mean, with
Speaker 1: all of those sports that we have going on, and
Speaker 1: also this being the week of kickoff Thursday, it starts
Speaker 1: and I'm just I'm just right there on the edge
Speaker 1: of like exploding right now because I want I want
Speaker 1: to see it. I want to see it so bad.
Speaker 1: It felt like we would never get to this point.
Speaker 1: It really did with everything that was going on with
Speaker 1: the pandemic, and it's like two weeks ago we got kickoff.
Speaker 1: In two weeks it just kind of snuck up on us,
Speaker 1: and I can't believe it. Man. Oh As a former player,
Speaker 1: you have that lead up and you start kind of
Speaker 1: feeling like it's Christmas. If you're on the roster at
Speaker 1: this point, you're starting to feel it. Every day that
Speaker 1: it inches closer and closer. Is it more excitement or
Speaker 1: more nervousness heading it into week one? Man? I got
Speaker 1: you know what tip In a typical year, it's just
Speaker 1: you know, you're just getting excited for that first real game, right.
Speaker 1: You've gotten through camp, you've gotten through the preseason. Now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you know that you have a
Speaker 1: job officially. But this year, I can't even imagine how
Speaker 1: anxious these guys are. These guys are more anxious in
Speaker 1: genuine and used to be. I know these guys. I
Speaker 1: know these guys are ready to run out there and
Speaker 1: hit somebody in their mouth. Only anticipate what they're thinking
Speaker 1: right now going into that first kickoff and Rob It's
Speaker 1: the same thing from an insiders perspective, just being around
Speaker 1: in the Star, it's starting to feel a little bit normal,
Speaker 1: I know. But at least over the last couple of
Speaker 1: days and now leading into the week, it's starting to
Speaker 1: feel like a football week again. Yeah, we've gotten used
Speaker 1: to the new environment up there for sure. And I
Speaker 1: just go back to what Isaiah said about the players
Speaker 1: and what they've got to be feeling like, straight it
Speaker 1: hit somebody, you know, just just get hit, blow somebody up.
Speaker 1: I think Dalton Schultz said it to us last week.
Speaker 1: He's just like, what's that? You know they've been talking
Speaker 1: about that, what's that first hit? Gonna feel like after
Speaker 1: literally not hitting anybody except these kind of stage drills
Speaker 1: that they've had, I haven't hit anybody in like nine months,
Speaker 1: ten months, So that's gotta be fun, right, I think.
Speaker 1: I think just getting back to that more than anything
Speaker 1: is gonna be is gonna be great. And you know,
Speaker 1: and we're in a situation where we don't really know
Speaker 1: much about the Rams, Rams, don't know much about the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: It's just everybody's flying blow. That's what makes it so fascinating,
Speaker 1: I think for Sunday Night, Yeah, I feel like it's
Speaker 1: really one of the more unpredictable years, not only in football,
Speaker 1: but really all across sports, because of the pandemic, because
Speaker 1: of the different situations that we're in. It's one of
Speaker 1: the most unpredictable years in sports history, if not the
Speaker 1: most unpredictable year. And it's hard to see. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a little bit of predictions later on.
Speaker 1: We've got an article from Peter King that we're gonna
Speaker 1: hit up toward the later parts of the show. That's
Speaker 1: a prediction, but still it's still kind of way up
Speaker 1: in the air. The expectations surely are high for Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy in year one. But it's still gonna be tough overall.
Speaker 1: And it's been a busy week for Mike McCarthy and
Speaker 1: that staff. The fifty three man roster deadline was on
Speaker 1: Saturday cuts signings. You prepare that sixteen man practice squad roster,
Speaker 1: you go out, you actually claim a wide receiver off
Speaker 1: of Waivers and Malik Turner. You bring in a former
Speaker 1: Cowboy and Brandon car and we'll talk about each of
Speaker 1: those coming up here in just a little bit. But Rob,
Speaker 1: first off, whenever it goes to this past weekend, one
Speaker 1: of the busier weeks for a NFL front office out
Speaker 1: of the entire calendar year, what were some of the
Speaker 1: moves that stuck out to you as they got to
Speaker 1: that fifty three man roster. Well, they had to do
Speaker 1: some tinkering in terms of letting a few veterans go
Speaker 1: and then bringing him back like literally within hours. You know,
Speaker 1: that's just part of the business. Now. When you've got
Speaker 1: players that need to go on IR, Sean Lee, Ventel
Speaker 1: Briant and of course Lyle Collins starting right tackle, they
Speaker 1: have to be on the roster for a day before
Speaker 1: they can go to IR. And you saw the Cowboys
Speaker 1: do this a couple of years ago with Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1: They cut Kellen Moore knowing they could resign him a
Speaker 1: day later to get the great Rico Gathers to the
Speaker 1: practice to ir for the season the grand So that's
Speaker 1: what they did with the great Rico Gathers. I love Rico.
Speaker 1: So justin March, Who am I missing Joe Thomas and
Speaker 1: c J. Goodwhen we're brought back a day later. As
Speaker 1: far as actual cuts, I think the Clinton Dick's cuts
Speaker 1: surprised me. I know, I know Isaiah felt like, you
Speaker 1: know that was a possibility. He's he's no Stradamis he
Speaker 1: picked that one. Yeah, you got it, you got it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I was I thought he might have bought himself
Speaker 1: a week or two with Xavier Woods status. But it
Speaker 1: sounds like, according to Jerry on the fan this morning,
Speaker 1: he's ready to go. If there's if there's a cut
Speaker 1: that surprised me, it might have been Francis Bernard, but
Speaker 1: the rookie linebacker, but he find found his way back
Speaker 1: to the practice squad, and you know, maybe we overvalued
Speaker 1: what he didn't practice. I'm not I'm not sure, but
Speaker 1: but I think with no tape on anybody around the league.
Speaker 1: They felt like it was a worthy risk to put
Speaker 1: him through waivers and get him in the practice squad.
Speaker 1: It definitely was a risk, but it stood out to me. Heckmo,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you you felt the same way.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's always tough to evaluate these undrafted free agents,
Speaker 1: especially in a year like this where we already said
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough for an undrafted free agent to
Speaker 1: make the roster. But Francis Bernard not being on that
Speaker 1: fifty three mans prized me not to say that it's
Speaker 1: still out of the question, but it was still something
Speaker 1: that stuck out to me. Hema, yeah, I mean, with
Speaker 1: a limited offseason, not being able to have a preseason
Speaker 1: at all, you didn't really get the opportunity to give
Speaker 1: guys a look. I believe that Francis Bernard, based off
Speaker 1: of Rob's reports and me cheating off of your notes
Speaker 1: Kyle from practice, that Francis Bernard had a hell of
Speaker 1: a two had a hell of a two of days.
Speaker 1: You know, every other every other day you're reporting that
Speaker 1: he's getting an interception in practice. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: he's an undrafted free agent for a reason. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that does go down to your practice squad and
Speaker 1: does have an opportunity to make an impact on your
Speaker 1: fifty three on your roster on game days. The way
Speaker 1: that COVID nineteen has adjusted some of the rules is
Speaker 1: really interesting, and I think the way that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are going about it it's pretty genius. So a guy
Speaker 1: like Francis Bernard will have an opportunity to get some
Speaker 1: in games, a real game action. Yeah, at the linebacker spot. Certainly,
Speaker 1: it'll be something to watch out for, especially with Luke
Speaker 1: Gifford kind of being tinkering on the side of being
Speaker 1: hurt and being available. But what had to kind of
Speaker 1: shift into one of the additions and we'll talk plenty
Speaker 1: about really this fifty three man roster coming up later
Speaker 1: on in the show, but one of the additions that
Speaker 1: stuck out is a former Cowboy coming back but in
Speaker 1: a different role, and that's Brandon car formally with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in the role of a corner. He comes in
Speaker 1: now as a safety, at least that's what we think
Speaker 1: he's going to play. He could play a little bit
Speaker 1: of both, and we know what Mike McCarthy has said
Speaker 1: previously about the secondary, saying that it is interchangeable. It
Speaker 1: is something that is a bit fluid. But Isaiah, what
Speaker 1: do you think about Brandon Carr? I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a guy that's been vaulted as a solid locker room guy.
Speaker 1: But what does he bring from a football standpoint? From
Speaker 1: a football standpoint, he I mean he has experienced, right,
Speaker 1: he's a vet. He's been around the league. He started
Speaker 1: for a very long time. But I think he came
Speaker 1: off with twelve starts last year or something like that.
Speaker 1: So I mean, this guy knows what he's doing. Um,
Speaker 1: he's been here in Dallas before. He's familiar. Um, you know.
Speaker 1: But more than anything, I think you were ready, you
Speaker 1: already mentioned it. You know, he brings that locker room
Speaker 1: by right, he brings that mentor in the locker room.
Speaker 1: He there's a lot of young guys obviously in that secondary.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of uncertainty in that secondary. I think
Speaker 1: he brings really just that consistency, um, that stability in
Speaker 1: the in that regard and somehow, some way, like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: with this COVID stuff, they got this dude on the
Speaker 1: practice squad. I don't understand how he didn't get them,
Speaker 1: by how he couldn't get picked up by somebody that
Speaker 1: That just lets you know, how how how impactful not
Speaker 1: having a preseason has been the fact that this guy
Speaker 1: is falling on somebody's practice squad. It is just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But the Cowboys are not complaining. When when Brandon Carr
Speaker 1: signed a fifty million dollars contract in Dallas eight years ago,
Speaker 1: I never would have guessed that he would have laid
Speaker 1: it on the practice squad in twenty twenty at the
Speaker 1: age of thirty, at the age of thirty four, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just that's just wild. With with the new rules, Hey, Kyle,
Speaker 1: we could have made some major clicks on the website
Speaker 1: over the weekend. And if we said Cowboys signed former
Speaker 1: Ravens veteran dB to the what kind of clicks would
Speaker 1: that have gotten? Yeah? Exactly. Somebody who's formerly from Texas
Speaker 1: or I guess it's lived in Texas. Pretty play right,
Speaker 1: yeah Baltimore? Yeah sure, I mean, well, we should have
Speaker 1: done that as a headliner. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: why we didn't. We'll have to talk to Nick and
Speaker 1: William about that one. But you guys gotta have foresight.
Speaker 1: You gotta have foresight of that guy, you know, but
Speaker 1: I think that was Brandon Car. Brandon Car is amazing
Speaker 1: when and what I love the most about Brandon Car
Speaker 1: not only from a veteran perspective, but what he has
Speaker 1: meant to the Dallas community. Not enough to say, you know,
Speaker 1: we're always talking about these guys athletic ability, and that's
Speaker 1: when we're here for. But Brandon Cars, that's a solid
Speaker 1: guy as far as personality wise, who he is and
Speaker 1: what he does. Cavon Frasier, guy that we lost to Miami,
Speaker 1: was really big here in Dallas in the community. And
Speaker 1: Brandon Car former Man of the Year. I believe he
Speaker 1: was up for the Walter Payton Award at point in
Speaker 1: his career. It's just an amazing person. I think as
Speaker 1: far as the mentorship and experience, that's gonna give the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys a solid backup if anything happens with Thompson
Speaker 1: and we need a guy Johnny on the fly, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Brandon Carr. And I think that's really what
Speaker 1: he was brought in for. Is there are a lot
Speaker 1: of young guys back there. I mean, you throw Thompson
Speaker 1: and Xavier Woods into that category of safeties who are
Speaker 1: a little bit on the younger side of their career
Speaker 1: and could use some veteran help. We thought maybe, haha,
Speaker 1: Clinton Dix was going to be that. He ultimately didn't
Speaker 1: turn out to be the guy this coaching staff wanted.
Speaker 1: But now you bring in a guy like Brandon Carr
Speaker 1: who could provide that and provide some flexibility in a
Speaker 1: secondary that's already pretty thin. But Rob kind of explained
Speaker 1: this to me, like, I'm five, I'm not a math guy,
Speaker 1: I'm not a contract guy. But what does this do
Speaker 1: for the cat Because from what I was looking at
Speaker 1: and from what I had heard, it seemed like Brandon
Speaker 1: car is not counting against the cap. Is that correct? Well,
Speaker 1: when you're on the practice squad, it's a different salary setup.
Speaker 1: It's it's a weekly salary and it's slotted. And I
Speaker 1: believe with these new rules, as a veteran on the
Speaker 1: practice squad, he's set to make a little bit more
Speaker 1: per week than the other guys, or the younger guys
Speaker 1: on the team. So I don't know the exact figure
Speaker 1: on that, but it's different obviously than if you get
Speaker 1: promoted to the active roster. And Isaiah knows this, the
Speaker 1: salary goes way up. I mean, the minimum salary for
Speaker 1: a VET on the active roster is way different, but
Speaker 1: he's set to make more, I believe. I'm gonna look
Speaker 1: this up in the break than because of his veteran status,
Speaker 1: and you get to keep Every team gets to keep
Speaker 1: six out of sixteen guys on the practice squad this year,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what their level of accrude seasons are throughout
Speaker 1: the league. So it's just it's just wild. And you know,
Speaker 1: he may very well find his way to the practice
Speaker 1: to the active roster sooner than we think. It may
Speaker 1: not be this week, but it could be pretty soon. Hey, Rob,
Speaker 1: let me ask you a question about that man, because
Speaker 1: I was a little confused about the new rules for
Speaker 1: a practice squad. A guy can be moved up, up
Speaker 1: and down, back and forth to the practice squad is unlimited,
Speaker 1: whereas in before there was you had limitations on the
Speaker 1: amount of times a guy could actually actually go from
Speaker 1: practice squad to active roster. Yeah, I don't, I don't
Speaker 1: remember if there were limitations, then I know you're right there.
Speaker 1: There are no limitations this time, but there are a
Speaker 1: maximum of two times that you can promote a player
Speaker 1: up and then before they would be subject to the
Speaker 1: waiver process, so you know, a couple different times and
Speaker 1: you can do that and then put them right back
Speaker 1: on the practice squad the following week, but after the
Speaker 1: second time, you got to put the player through waivers. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. It's you know, it's basically creating contingencies for
Speaker 1: teams in the wake of this COVID nineteen crisis. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's basically a fifty five man roster on game
Speaker 1: at the end of the week in a forty eight
Speaker 1: man game day roster. So in a way, it's like
Speaker 1: expanding the roster this year. It's you know, it's a
Speaker 1: lot deeper than that when you factor in those sixteen
Speaker 1: guys who are eligible to play that that week, right,
Speaker 1: I mean you literally have a I'm not gonna do
Speaker 1: my math right now, but you close to what seventy
Speaker 1: guys almost right, every week that you have the pool from,
Speaker 1: you got almost seventy guys that you can pull from
Speaker 1: every week if you have that flexibility to move guys
Speaker 1: up and down. So when it comes down to teams
Speaker 1: and matchups, you know, you really don't run into those
Speaker 1: those issues like you've had in the past. Where man,
Speaker 1: guess what, we really don't match up well against these
Speaker 1: guys in this a certain position. Now I can go
Speaker 1: down to my practice squad. Oh that's right, we have
Speaker 1: these guys here. Let's pull them up right, and now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you have the matchup that you need.
Speaker 1: So this is this is a crazy year. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of movement going on throughout this whole season,
Speaker 1: I would imagine. And it's also really a benefit for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in particular because they loved their rookie class
Speaker 1: so much, not just the seven draft picks, but a
Speaker 1: lot of their priority free agents. They didn't want to
Speaker 1: lose them. So there's more spots for them now. And
Speaker 1: it just reminded me, Heck, I think in the past,
Speaker 1: if you promoted a guy up, I think you had
Speaker 1: to keep him on the active roster for three weeks
Speaker 1: at least week. Okay, three or four weeks, Chris so, yeah,
Speaker 1: So now there's not a limit on that. It was
Speaker 1: four four. Yeah, So you know there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of shuffle. Like Isaiah said, well, I think some
Speaker 1: of that shuffle will come with Brandon car And and
Speaker 1: he I don't expect him to stay on the practice
Speaker 1: squad for long. I think that was some of the
Speaker 1: finagling and some of the ship and at least the
Speaker 1: look that the front office has given. But Isaiah, I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you this question. Is it possible? And
Speaker 1: one of the one of the commenters here on the
Speaker 1: periscope stream, Yes, I am watching the comments today, So
Speaker 1: if you have questions, shoot him our way. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing, Earl Thomas, I'm going that direction. This is
Speaker 1: a guy who was a teammate of Earl Thomas previously.
Speaker 1: Is there a chance that this edition, other than potentially
Speaker 1: give them some flexibility in the secondary, is there's a
Speaker 1: chance that Brandon Cars edition is maybe to get some
Speaker 1: insight on the Earl Thomas situation if that potentially comes
Speaker 1: up next week or so. Uh No, what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you is gonna happen, like like I mentioned, want
Speaker 1: to make sure that's cool. I'm glad, I'm glad you
Speaker 1: asked the question. You know, you know there's there's there's
Speaker 1: no bad questions out here, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But as I mentioned, what a week ago, two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: whatever it was, we will see Earl on the roster
Speaker 1: on Monday. That's just coming from me. That's just my
Speaker 1: ink link. Okay, all right, it's my little crystal ball um.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, you know, waiting for that that that
Speaker 1: first week to go by. But we'll see Earl on Monday,
Speaker 1: and you know I haven't haven't you know, be Car
Speaker 1: out there. It's just just an additional depth, right if
Speaker 1: you're going into a week with a with a veteran,
Speaker 1: you know, a veteran receiver corps and you need somebody
Speaker 1: out there that that's a lot more. Whether there's some
Speaker 1: of the younger cornerbacks that you have, you have that
Speaker 1: flexibility to bring Car up. But you know it'll be
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods and and Earl Thomas going into week two.
Speaker 1: There you go, wow, wow, So he had last week.
Speaker 1: He had the claw last week. So he's he's trying
Speaker 1: to ride the hot hand. And I admire seventy seven
Speaker 1: straight seventh hot hand in the nice game, man, I
Speaker 1: love it, and I don't. I don't know. I'm out
Speaker 1: at this point now where I gotta I gotta see it.
Speaker 1: I gotta see it, and maybe we do see it
Speaker 1: next week. But I just rob I'm asking this question.
Speaker 1: I'm asking this question right before you continue. Ye, with
Speaker 1: all pro current, all pro safety, be just sitting in
Speaker 1: free agency while rosters are getting set. If it wasn't
Speaker 1: the case that he's gonna be signed somewhere a week two, well,
Speaker 1: I agree with you that it's just it's just so odd, right,
Speaker 1: But if if he didn't have the issues coming out
Speaker 1: of Baltimore that we all heard about, then it really
Speaker 1: wouldn't make any sense. So maybe it's just that I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know. I to me, I don't have
Speaker 1: a great vibe on it, But Jerry doesn't rule it out.
Speaker 1: They continue not to rule it out. When he got
Speaker 1: asked about Earl today, I believe this morning on the fan,
Speaker 1: he just he kind of deflected the car and talked
Speaker 1: about what Brandon Carter could do for him. So Rob,
Speaker 1: this is the Dallas Cowboys. Correct every correct and and
Speaker 1: and that the man who runs the show is to
Speaker 1: mister Jerry Jones. Correct. Correct. He signed people with a
Speaker 1: lot worse backgrounds aside from oh, you know he was
Speaker 1: batting the locker room for one year. Earl has had
Speaker 1: no legal issues aside from this one or with his wife.
Speaker 1: He's had no drug problems, no pds, no nothing, no arrests,
Speaker 1: none of that stuff, And all of a sudden, we
Speaker 1: don't think that he's gonna be here because of a
Speaker 1: locker room issue. Look, guys, this, this, this, this conversation
Speaker 1: is starting to be a debut downer for me because
Speaker 1: it is. It is because we have our hopes so
Speaker 1: elevated that Earl Thompson's gonna come in. And you know
Speaker 1: that Jerry Jones, he has the guys that are gonna
Speaker 1: do their due diligence on you. They're gonna go through
Speaker 1: your trash, They're gonna find out who you are. So
Speaker 1: Jerry knows who Earl is. Everybody does. So whatever the
Speaker 1: whatever he did, whatever it was, whatever they're reporting. And
Speaker 1: I've heard so many things about what people think is
Speaker 1: up with Earl Thomas at this point, he's our potential
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, not his perennial Pro Bowl, potential Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame guy. And we're just sitting back and look, we're
Speaker 1: going into the season with Xavier Woods Darius Thompson. I
Speaker 1: believe that both of those guys have shown us in
Speaker 1: camp that they are more than willing and able to
Speaker 1: be safeties in the NFL our defensive line like Isaiah says,
Speaker 1: is McNasty right. So the McNasty boys, the McNasty hot
Speaker 1: boys up front are obviously going to be applying enough
Speaker 1: pressure for the safety position to not be as blaring
Speaker 1: as it was before or as far as indeficiency. So look,
Speaker 1: I want Earl Thomas too, but I want to trust
Speaker 1: the scouting department. I want to trust our coaches. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they they have gone through everything to make sure that
Speaker 1: we are ready because people's lives, I mean, everything is
Speaker 1: on the line right now come Sunday night. So whatever
Speaker 1: we got, man, I'm with it. That's what Let's go
Speaker 1: with it. Man. I love it. I love it. I
Speaker 1: love the passion. I love the really the confidence that
Speaker 1: you have in the front office because they are doing
Speaker 1: their due diligence. Even if they're saying they're not interested,
Speaker 1: you know, they're a little bit interested. They need some
Speaker 1: safety help, you know, that's really what they're being said
Speaker 1: or what is being said. But you can kind of
Speaker 1: look behind closed doors and think that's the case. I
Speaker 1: don't know anything more than you guys do in that regard.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's just common sense at least at
Speaker 1: this point or at least it should be. But I
Speaker 1: think really with Earl Thomas, it's there's a lot to come.
Speaker 1: And I agree with Isaiah. I think when week two
Speaker 1: comes around, I think he will be signed. It's just
Speaker 1: whether or not he's going to be a Allas Cowboy,
Speaker 1: that's the biggest question. But when we come back, we're
Speaker 1: just getting started. We've got a new segment on the way.
Speaker 1: It's fans on the fifty Grand going and picking up
Speaker 1: questions off of the periscope feed off of our Twitter accounts.
Speaker 1: So send us your questions. We've got a couple lined up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna answer those coming up next. In the first one,
Speaker 1: are the Cowboys already at a disadvantage heading into Sunday.
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Speaker 1: episode one of Talking Cowboys in the twenty twenty season.
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Speaker 1: Stand Back and Guys were starting a new segment this
Speaker 1: week Friday or Fans on the fifty every Tuesday at
Speaker 1: nine to fifty we'll be answering your questions on Twitter
Speaker 1: and on periscope. I've got the periscope feed up. If
Speaker 1: you haven't sent in a question, go ahead and do that.
Speaker 1: We'll try and get to it. We've got about ten
Speaker 1: minutes to do so. The first one comes from Milton,
Speaker 1: and I think this is a fantastic question, and Isaiah
Speaker 1: may be the best to answer this, but it's Milton
Speaker 1: said on Hard Knocks, it looked like the Rams and
Speaker 1: the Chargers were scrimmaging with hard tackling. Cowboys were very
Speaker 1: light on contact throughout training camp. Will this make a
Speaker 1: difference whenever it comes to game time? Isaiah? What say you?
Speaker 1: That's of a question, mister Milton, I'm gonna say it
Speaker 1: doesn't make a huge difference, just because even though guys
Speaker 1: were doing hard tackling quote unquote hard tackling, guys were
Speaker 1: still being a little bit hesitant in terms of how
Speaker 1: hard they're actually going after their own teammates. So even
Speaker 1: though they are having more contact than the Cowboys I've
Speaker 1: had to date, it's still not game speed. And I
Speaker 1: can tell you once once that balls kicked off on
Speaker 1: Sunday night, these boys are gonna be flying around game speed,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be hitting harder than they've hit in
Speaker 1: the last nine months or eight months. However long it's
Speaker 1: best and some of these guys have played. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: to piggyback on what you said, Isaiah, that's absolutely correct. Man.
Speaker 1: The game speed is gonna change. I mean it's gonna
Speaker 1: be an hour of that. So whatever you know, ten
Speaker 1: minute tackling drill they had going on, and nothing is
Speaker 1: going to replicate what they're gonna get on Sunday night. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan, defensive coordinator, talked about how you know they've
Speaker 1: staged some things they've done the tackling drills onto a
Speaker 1: map basically in practice with the Cowboys. It's not the
Speaker 1: same thing. But he pointed out, you know, look, these
Speaker 1: guys are professionals, and once they get back into it,
Speaker 1: you know, they know it's like riding a bike. They
Speaker 1: know how to tackle. You know, I did see Kyle
Speaker 1: where Michael Brockers Dave Hellman had learned us to this
Speaker 1: that Michael Brocker set the rams. The Rams are watching
Speaker 1: YouTube videos of our training camp reports to try to
Speaker 1: get something from So I'm flattered, but they're not going
Speaker 1: to get much from that because we don't. We didn't
Speaker 1: get a whole lot of ourselves. So I think both
Speaker 1: teams are flying. Both teams are flying blind. Oh, those
Speaker 1: guys are in for such a poor surprise whenever they
Speaker 1: have to listen to me and Rob talk about training
Speaker 1: camp and that's the game plan. Sorry, it's trying though.
Speaker 1: Next question, and Rob, I feel like you would probably
Speaker 1: have the best answer to this. But we'll see d
Speaker 1: land be fielding punts this season. I know John Fossil
Speaker 1: was asked the same question, but what do you think? Yeah,
Speaker 1: John Fossil said, tune in last night. He said, what
Speaker 1: do you say? It's better to get information than give it, right,
Speaker 1: They don't want to give anything away. I think I
Speaker 1: definitely think we'll see it at some point this season.
Speaker 1: That's just my feeling. I know. Stephen Jones was asked
Speaker 1: about it. I want to five through the fan, and
Speaker 1: he said, you know, he doesn't think it's like an
Speaker 1: injury risk to have one of your top return candidates
Speaker 1: do it, even though he might have a significant role
Speaker 1: in offense. You know, they kind of kept dead away
Speaker 1: from it years ago. But you know, Stephen didn't give
Speaker 1: the vibe that they're they're averse to doing it, and
Speaker 1: I want to see it, and I think he'd probably
Speaker 1: be their best option. I think it would be fantastic,
Speaker 1: either him or Tony Pollard back there. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know Cedric Wilson's been thrown into that conversation as well. Heck,
Speaker 1: but would you like to see cebe Lamb returning punts
Speaker 1: or is that a protected asset that you don't necessarily
Speaker 1: want to put in physical danger at that point? Heck? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see Celts, all right, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's there's no question. I want to see that young guy,
Speaker 1: those fresh legs, and I want to see him get
Speaker 1: into a routine and just throw them out there coals
Speaker 1: so and I think getting him in those special teams
Speaker 1: punt returns things like that, we get an opportunity to
Speaker 1: see this very special specimen just perform and do his thing.
Speaker 1: And I think we get to see that first in
Speaker 1: punt return. Thank goodness. I hope he who he does
Speaker 1: get a chance at least maybe wants to see what happens.
Speaker 1: He was so versatile during his time at Oklahoma and
Speaker 1: just whenever he gets the ball in his hands, and
Speaker 1: I think if you get an extra shot to do that,
Speaker 1: it could prove to be something huge. Now, Heck, I'm
Speaker 1: going to ask you another question. This one comes from
Speaker 1: tuber on the periscope chatt He says, can Jarwin or
Speaker 1: Pollard have a greater impact on Sunday than Cede Lamb
Speaker 1: and I would even combine the two Jarwin and Pollard,
Speaker 1: Could they both combine have a bigger impact than ced
Speaker 1: against the Ram Sunday. Well, that's definitely gonna be Blake.
Speaker 1: I mean, Blake is the guy that is got some
Speaker 1: big shoes to feel. But I think in this abbreviated
Speaker 1: preseason and these unscouted looks as coach Mike McCarthy was
Speaker 1: talking about, I believe that it's definitely going to be
Speaker 1: the tight end position that's going to give the Rams
Speaker 1: fits because of Jarwin's ability to fit in that scene
Speaker 1: and you know, give multiple looks in twelve or eleven personnel.
Speaker 1: But yes, Blake Jarwin is gonna be a guy that's
Speaker 1: definitely gonna have a big week one. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: anticipating isam. Yeah, he's gonna eat. Yeah, he's gonna eat.
Speaker 1: I don't know what his uh what his post catch
Speaker 1: a little celebration is gonna be he gotta figure out something.
Speaker 1: But that boy's gonna he'll be eat this week. I
Speaker 1: mean just just think about when we go eleven personnel, Right,
Speaker 1: You've got three guys that are gonna be covered by
Speaker 1: your two best corners and your third best secondary guy
Speaker 1: head in terms of CD Gallup and Cooper. Right, So
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna be gonna be gonna be covered up. Right.
Speaker 1: So now now you're putting your fourth best person on
Speaker 1: on on BJ. So he's he's he should he should
Speaker 1: have some great one on one matchups. Um, I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see if he's gonna take advantage of him. Rob.
Speaker 1: I go with Tony Pollard just based on last year,
Speaker 1: I think, and he and Zeke made history to one
Speaker 1: hundred yard backs in the same game first time in
Speaker 1: like twenty years. The Cowboys did that, so you know
Speaker 1: the Rams are be ready this time for Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: I think with Tony, it's gonna come down to a
Speaker 1: lot of times, how's the offense performing overall. If they've
Speaker 1: got to lead in the second half, we're gonna see
Speaker 1: a lot of Tony Pollard and Zike. So if it
Speaker 1: goes that way number twenty mighty too, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: I love it. I think both of those guys could
Speaker 1: have a fantastic impact. Maybe not in the same game
Speaker 1: and maybe at different times throughout the season, but I
Speaker 1: think the fact that you have both of those guys's
Speaker 1: options and whenever your backup running back is compared to
Speaker 1: your starting tight end and each of them are exciting,
Speaker 1: I think is something that you can attribute to the
Speaker 1: expectations for this offense and just how widely talented they are.
Speaker 1: Now moving on to another question, I'll ask I'll answer
Speaker 1: this one first here in just a moment with just
Speaker 1: one word, or actually two words, but the biggest area
Speaker 1: of concern for the Cowboys leading into the season sides
Speaker 1: the secondary. That comes from Geo Melita on Twitter, and
Speaker 1: my answer to that is the offensive line because they're
Speaker 1: banged up. Heck, but what do you say? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: an easy one. Uh man, It's like lovin Babe Ruth
Speaker 1: the Pumpkin. Yeah, offensive line is definitely be some questions.
Speaker 1: I mean, Travis Fredericks were retiring still one of the
Speaker 1: saddest days in Dallas history, and not knowing what cam
Speaker 1: Irvin who From what I've been reading on your notes,
Speaker 1: Kyle hadn't had the best camp up until this point.
Speaker 1: So I'm really reluctant to just go out on the
Speaker 1: limb and just say, look, that's we're feeling pretty good
Speaker 1: about our old line. I just think there are a
Speaker 1: lot of question marks there that we won't have answered
Speaker 1: until you know, Monday morning. Not so fast, my friend,
Speaker 1: I disagree with you. Wait, I'm gonna go ahead disagree
Speaker 1: with you, because even though we don't have, you know,
Speaker 1: the offensive line that we would like to have going
Speaker 1: into Week one right now, obviously with Collins being on
Speaker 1: on IRM, we can add help to the tackles, right
Speaker 1: we have extra tight ends, we have backs that can
Speaker 1: chip on d N so we can help. We can
Speaker 1: help out. So not worried about that. I am worried
Speaker 1: about our linebacker depth right now. We have you know
Speaker 1: we have We're able to get Thomas back, so that's awesome.
Speaker 1: But I'm worried about these guys. Man. If you have
Speaker 1: one injury, one injury at that position, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of question marks, people are gonna start freaking out, right.
Speaker 1: So that's the position that I think that we need
Speaker 1: to be more most concerned about it's the same thing
Speaker 1: going offensive line that you have one injury. It's this,
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. So your argument is not an argument, Champ.
Speaker 1: Come on, hey, all I'm saying is all I'm saying
Speaker 1: is we can help the offensive line. You can't help
Speaker 1: the linebackers. But I can't weld. I can't weld my
Speaker 1: tight end too cam irving and still run my offense. Now, hey,
Speaker 1: you think you think they picked up Blake Bell just
Speaker 1: because now they picked up Blake Bell because they needed
Speaker 1: some extra help. So if they need to go twelve
Speaker 1: personnel a lot more than they go eleven, you have
Speaker 1: the extra guy that can come in there and be
Speaker 1: in the wing in the wing position. Oh so you
Speaker 1: just go tip your hand to say that's what you're
Speaker 1: doing on that side with Blake Bell. Okay, you're dog,
Speaker 1: all right, you're dog right. Oh, they've done that before.
Speaker 1: They've done that before when Tyrant or Lyle's missed time.
Speaker 1: I think y'all are both right. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: wild yesterday to look up at one point and see
Speaker 1: or a couple days ago and say the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: two healthy linebackers on their active roster before they brought
Speaker 1: back Justin March and Joe Thomas. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: with Hack though and Kyle and say the old line
Speaker 1: just has a whole Tyrant Smith. They gotta have him
Speaker 1: for sixteen games. Don't know how much time Lyle Collins
Speaker 1: is gonna miss. This offense can only be dynamic and
Speaker 1: function if Dad can can be have those clean pockets.
Speaker 1: So we'll see how how it goes. Tyrant's good to
Speaker 1: go right now, and you hope that he's he's good
Speaker 1: to go the whole season. But I go, let's see,
Speaker 1: Rob Let's not kid ourselves to say that, oh my goddess,
Speaker 1: were if we're missing our entire starting officeive line, that
Speaker 1: we're in trouble. We still have a decent officeive line
Speaker 1: even without the dog on Pro bowlers being in there. Right,
Speaker 1: So these guys aren't. It's not It doesn't go from
Speaker 1: great to terrible. It goes from great to good, you know,
Speaker 1: So I mean that's why I say, But but if
Speaker 1: you lose a linebacker, yeah, oh my gosh, what happens
Speaker 1: when guys get through our front line. We've seen that.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not good. Happened last year, That's what happened.
Speaker 1: When Laton vander Esch went down, he seemed like he
Speaker 1: was the biggest key, missing cog of that defense. And
Speaker 1: I'll say that every single time because I think he
Speaker 1: was the biggest key that was missing of the twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen defense. And luckily he's back for twenty twenty. But
Speaker 1: I will say this. You said that even without the
Speaker 1: starters on the offensive line, Isaiah, that the offensive line
Speaker 1: is decent. Let me ask you this question. Is decent
Speaker 1: good enough to stand across and block Aaron Donald on Sunday?
Speaker 1: I don't think so Aaron Donald is. Aaron Donald's not
Speaker 1: gonna be But but Aaron Donald's not gonna be on
Speaker 1: the end that yeah, Aaron Donald's gonna be on the inside. Right,
Speaker 1: So I mean you're not. And again, you know, and
Speaker 1: I say this knowing because I've helped chip on like
Speaker 1: Dwight Freedy when I was playing in New England, Right,
Speaker 1: we had a problem at We thought we had a
Speaker 1: problem at left tackle and we needed to help Valomer.
Speaker 1: So I went in there, Chip freeee, Right, So I
Speaker 1: know that we can help as an offense, you can
Speaker 1: help office a lineman on the edges, right. But so
Speaker 1: I'm not too concerned with that. So there's officive lines
Speaker 1: like you think about like the Giants. The Giants didn't
Speaker 1: they didn't, they didn't do too great last year, but
Speaker 1: they still got the ball off. They still told her
Speaker 1: that thing right because they had talent in certain positions
Speaker 1: that that made up for their lack of talent on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. The Cowboys are, They're not the line
Speaker 1: that they've had them, and I think that's Dallas is spoiled.
Speaker 1: We've had an all pro offersive line for a very
Speaker 1: long time, so all of a sudden, when all of
Speaker 1: a sudden one person goes down, we're like, oh no,
Speaker 1: oh no, we don't have three All pros on the
Speaker 1: old line this year. But most teams are lucky if
Speaker 1: you have one. Right, so they are perfectly find the
Speaker 1: offensive line position. They're not where they want to be,
Speaker 1: but they are perfectly fine. As I would continue to say,
Speaker 1: we cannot afford the linebacker to go down because it's
Speaker 1: going to be exposed substantially. I love it. I think
Speaker 1: I think it's a great, great way to say, a
Speaker 1: great way to answer that question on both ends. I
Speaker 1: think the biggest question mark outside out of the secondary
Speaker 1: on the defense is the linebackers, and I would agree
Speaker 1: with you there. I think there's a there's an argument
Speaker 1: back and forth, but on the offensive side of the football,
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely the offensive line to me, and I
Speaker 1: think without Lyle Collins, it's not nearly as stout as
Speaker 1: it has been in the past. And we'll have to
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Speaker 1: final segment and guys real quickly. Peter King had an
Speaker 1: article with a great Peter King where he touted the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys as the number one roster in the NFC,
Speaker 1: which should translate to having some postseason run right to
Speaker 1: being in the NFC Championship Game, to maybe being in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl if you have the top row in
Speaker 1: the NFC. He says, they have the top roster in
Speaker 1: the NFC. He's picking him to win the NFC East,
Speaker 1: but he also picks him to fall short in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to get Shall's opinion on that and
Speaker 1: what exactly are those expectations? Is that kind of the
Speaker 1: nation wide look at this team, even with a new
Speaker 1: coaching staff, Heckma, that postseason success and you have to
Speaker 1: see it to believe it. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: people it's oh, let me just say this. It's easy
Speaker 1: to say the Cowboys are going to the best roster
Speaker 1: in the NFC, but it just seems disingenuine to say
Speaker 1: that we won't get to the ship doesn't matter, right,
Speaker 1: You're you're right there is that? Is that a compliment?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not a compliment. It's not a compliment, right,
Speaker 1: But I just feel as though when I look at
Speaker 1: this roster and the players that are on offense, that
Speaker 1: weren't a lot of changes. But we have players that
Speaker 1: have multiple thousand yard seasons in Cooper and Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: With what we have with Ceedee Lambing, what that's going
Speaker 1: to demand from defenses to pay attention to. It's easy
Speaker 1: to say that this offense is going to be on
Speaker 1: a roll. Defensively, I think that's where the rubber actually
Speaker 1: meets the road, because we're going to have to get
Speaker 1: production from that front seven. We're going to have to
Speaker 1: get those sacks, strip fumbles, and change the way that
Speaker 1: the tone and tempo of the game is played. Those
Speaker 1: are all those and obviously getting turnovers. Those are the
Speaker 1: things that are going to change the season. Are change
Speaker 1: the environment here in Dallas because we know that the
Speaker 1: offense is going to be is going to be banging,
Speaker 1: but the defense is what we actually need to turn up.
Speaker 1: Seeing one of the craziest parts about this article, Heckma,
Speaker 1: is that the fact that Peter King's worries weren't necessarily
Speaker 1: solely on the defensive side of the football. He was
Speaker 1: worried about the execution of Dak Prescott, and he was
Speaker 1: worried that the Boys should have gone defense with the
Speaker 1: first round pick and not picked Ceedee Lamb, which, of course,
Speaker 1: as everybody knows, I completely disagree with Ceede Lamb was
Speaker 1: the pick. That's common sense in that regard. But Rob,
Speaker 1: do you do you kind of see where he's coming
Speaker 1: from or is this just kind of out there from
Speaker 1: a Peter King's perspective? Oh? No, I mean I think
Speaker 1: you look at the Cowboys roster and say, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: one of the most talented, because I mean, how many
Speaker 1: guys on this team are potentially future Hall of famers,
Speaker 1: you know, if you just look at it from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: especially on the offensive side of the ball, they got
Speaker 1: a ton of talent. It always comes down to depth.
Speaker 1: Though Mike McCarthy keeps saying that over and over and
Speaker 1: over again that it took him seventy seven players to
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl ten years ago because they had
Speaker 1: like fifteen guys on ir during the course of the year.
Speaker 1: So how deep are you We just talked about that
Speaker 1: in the previous segment. Can they withstand certain injuries? That's
Speaker 1: going to be the question. And you know the other
Speaker 1: thing maybe he's thinking too, it's a new staff, it's
Speaker 1: new schemes, it's very little time to prepare and maybe
Speaker 1: year one it's gonna be hard to put that all together,
Speaker 1: even with the talent. And I think there is some
Speaker 1: merit to that. We've got to see it. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things we think about this team.
Speaker 1: But you know, defensively too, like Heckna said, a lot
Speaker 1: of talent, they want to be multiple. Can they get
Speaker 1: all the communication down when you're giving a lot of
Speaker 1: different looks and things of that nature, so that those
Speaker 1: are things you still got to be able to see
Speaker 1: on the field and see how it all unfolds. Yeah, Fellas,
Speaker 1: So to Peter King's point, Peter King much respect. I
Speaker 1: respect the crap out of that man, But on this point,
Speaker 1: it's gonna really our deciding factors. Okay, on each side
Speaker 1: of the ball is really gonna come down to this.
Speaker 1: On the offensive side of the ball is gonna come
Speaker 1: down to bouncing back with this new regime, this new
Speaker 1: Cowboys team, how we respond to situational football? Right? How
Speaker 1: do we handle ourselves? To his point, you know, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: all these guys being able to communicate, but coming out
Speaker 1: of a Jason Garrett environment now coming into a McCarthy environment,
Speaker 1: which to my understanding, these guys are a lot more
Speaker 1: intuitive and terms of situations, they're being walked through these
Speaker 1: situations and practices, two minute drills, all these kind of
Speaker 1: things are going on on a lot more consistent basis.
Speaker 1: Will they be more prepared to handle themselves accordingly to
Speaker 1: not lose themselves games going forward? So that's something that
Speaker 1: we have to wait to see. And then on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, what's the culture going to be? Right?
Speaker 1: What's the culture of this team on that side of
Speaker 1: the ball. Is it gonna be just very lethargic. Is
Speaker 1: it gonna be high energy? What's the rotation's gonna be
Speaker 1: like on a D line? I think if these guys
Speaker 1: have an amazing culture and a high energy defense, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be something that plays part and these guys gonna
Speaker 1: go because he's the leads to well together. Now, you
Speaker 1: gotta see coach Tom Sula. Man, it's all high energy
Speaker 1: with this guy. So then oh my god, that this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a low energy defense. So that's the
Speaker 1: way that this whole thing gets turned around. With that
Speaker 1: energy and just the rotation that we have at the
Speaker 1: D line, I think that changes everything. But let me,
Speaker 1: I'm getting all subject I'm talking about things we're talking
Speaker 1: about tomorrow. But you know, man, we just have all
Speaker 1: the opportunity. All the opportunity is there for us us
Speaker 1: to take strides and also go far in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But Rob, like you said, it took seventy seven guys
Speaker 1: for coach Mike McCarthy to win a Super Bowl, So
Speaker 1: we know, even though we have our fifty three set,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be way more guys that are going to
Speaker 1: be in action to make to push us over the
Speaker 1: hill so that we can get to Tampa. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think whenever you think about the energy and you
Speaker 1: think about the uptick that the defense could have, it's
Speaker 1: undoubtedly something that could push this team to the next level.
Speaker 1: But you got to see that execution, and we might
Speaker 1: have a chance to see that on Sunday against this
Speaker 1: Rams offense, which by the way we will be previewing
Speaker 1: tomorrow here on Talking Cowboys. Thursday, we'll take a look
Speaker 1: at the Rams defense, and then on Friday we'll really
Speaker 1: hit some of the key matchups and give you predictions,
Speaker 1: as we're on every single weekday of the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, nine thirty here on Talking Cowboys. Be sure
Speaker 1: to join us. But that's it for us today. For
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, for heck Ma Harrison, for Isaiah stand Back.
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