WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Finally, Game Week! 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:18.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's talking Cowboys 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.560 training live from the Dallas Cowboys World How hours at 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:32.720 the Star in Frisco and now your hosts Isaiah stand Back, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:40.400 heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's I like that. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.720 It's been a long time coming, but it's game week 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:48.800 here in Frisco, Texas as Dallas Cowboys football is just 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:53.280 about six days away this Sunday night. And guys, we've 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.480 got ourselves an updated intro. How about that? About time 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.720 we hear Isaiah stand back and heck My Harrison in 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.080 the intro, Rob Phillips along with us, I'm Kyle Yeoman's 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:08.319 we are It's week one, episode one of the twenty 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.720 twenty season as we get you ready every single week 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.520 day this week leading up to the Dallas Cowboys and 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.920 the Los Angeles Rams. It's it's here, heck, but I 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:23.280 can hear the excitement through the live view. Unfortunately, we 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.560 are still virtual at the moment. We will be for 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.800 quite some time, but we're just gonna still gonna bring 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.440 you all the content, all the information that you can 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.480 potentially need from a Cowboys podcast, and we're excited to 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.800 do so. But heck, my, you're itching. I feel it 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.480 bringing on. Where's the excitement. Let's let's pump up the 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.319 fans a little bit here, man. It's it's starting to 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.000 feel real, Kyle. It's starting to feel I mean, with 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.120 all of those sports that we have going on, and 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:53.040 also this being the week of kickoff Thursday, it starts 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.559 and I'm just I'm just right there on the edge 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.640 of like exploding right now because I want I want 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.840 to see it. I want to see it so bad. 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.000 It felt like we would never get to this point. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.320 It really did with everything that was going on with 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.760 the pandemic, and it's like two weeks ago we got kickoff. 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.240 In two weeks it just kind of snuck up on us, 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:22.080 and I can't believe it. Man. Oh As a former player, 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.919 you have that lead up and you start kind of 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.200 feeling like it's Christmas. If you're on the roster at 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.320 this point, you're starting to feel it. Every day that 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.440 it inches closer and closer. Is it more excitement or 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.960 more nervousness heading it into week one? Man? I got 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:38.960 you know what tip In a typical year, it's just 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.520 you know, you're just getting excited for that first real game, right. 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.800 You've gotten through camp, you've gotten through the preseason. Now 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.000 all of a sudden you know that you have a 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.560 job officially. But this year, I can't even imagine how 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.400 anxious these guys are. These guys are more anxious in 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:53.240 genuine and used to be. I know these guys. I 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:54.720 know these guys are ready to run out there and 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:59.560 hit somebody in their mouth. Only anticipate what they're thinking 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:04.160 right now going into that first kickoff and Rob It's 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.680 the same thing from an insiders perspective, just being around 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:09.720 in the Star, it's starting to feel a little bit normal, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.079 I know. But at least over the last couple of 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.480 days and now leading into the week, it's starting to 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.760 feel like a football week again. Yeah, we've gotten used 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:22.280 to the new environment up there for sure. And I 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.280 just go back to what Isaiah said about the players 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.320 and what they've got to be feeling like, straight it 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.640 hit somebody, you know, just just get hit, blow somebody up. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.639 I think Dalton Schultz said it to us last week. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.920 He's just like, what's that? You know they've been talking 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.360 about that, what's that first hit? Gonna feel like after 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.280 literally not hitting anybody except these kind of stage drills 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.520 that they've had, I haven't hit anybody in like nine months, 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.440 ten months, So that's gotta be fun, right, I think. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.800 I think just getting back to that more than anything 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.760 is gonna be is gonna be great. And you know, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.560 and we're in a situation where we don't really know 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.600 much about the Rams, Rams, don't know much about the Cowboys. 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.600 It's just everybody's flying blow. That's what makes it so fascinating, 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.440 I think for Sunday Night, Yeah, I feel like it's 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:09.200 really one of the more unpredictable years, not only in football, 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.040 but really all across sports, because of the pandemic, because 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.040 of the different situations that we're in. It's one of 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.880 the most unpredictable years in sports history, if not the 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.600 most unpredictable year. And it's hard to see. I mean, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.560 we're gonna talk a little bit of predictions later on. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.440 We've got an article from Peter King that we're gonna 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.880 hit up toward the later parts of the show. That's 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.280 a prediction, but still it's still kind of way up 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.839 in the air. The expectations surely are high for Mike 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.799 McCarthy in year one. But it's still gonna be tough overall. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.080 And it's been a busy week for Mike McCarthy and 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.960 that staff. The fifty three man roster deadline was on 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:48.679 Saturday cuts signings. You prepare that sixteen man practice squad roster, 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.240 you go out, you actually claim a wide receiver off 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.279 of Waivers and Malik Turner. You bring in a former 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.599 Cowboy and Brandon car and we'll talk about each of 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.480 those coming up here in just a little bit. But Rob, 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.480 first off, whenever it goes to this past weekend, one 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.360 of the busier weeks for a NFL front office out 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.640 of the entire calendar year, what were some of the 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.200 moves that stuck out to you as they got to 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.880 that fifty three man roster. Well, they had to do 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.880 some tinkering in terms of letting a few veterans go 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.760 and then bringing him back like literally within hours. You know, 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.400 that's just part of the business. Now. When you've got 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.320 players that need to go on IR, Sean Lee, Ventel 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:29.039 Briant and of course Lyle Collins starting right tackle, they 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.520 have to be on the roster for a day before 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.599 they can go to IR. And you saw the Cowboys 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.200 do this a couple of years ago with Kellen Moore. 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.240 They cut Kellen Moore knowing they could resign him a 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.520 day later to get the great Rico Gathers to the 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:44.599 practice to ir for the season the grand So that's 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:49.920 what they did with the great Rico Gathers. I love Rico. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:54.320 So justin March, Who am I missing Joe Thomas and 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.159 c J. Goodwhen we're brought back a day later. As 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.200 far as actual cuts, I think the Clinton Dick's cuts 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.280 surprised me. I know, I know Isaiah felt like, you 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.120 know that was a possibility. He's he's no Stradamis he 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.440 picked that one. Yeah, you got it, you got it. Yeah, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.440 But I was I thought he might have bought himself 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.400 a week or two with Xavier Woods status. But it 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.440 sounds like, according to Jerry on the fan this morning, 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.280 he's ready to go. If there's if there's a cut 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.400 that surprised me, it might have been Francis Bernard, but 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.240 the rookie linebacker, but he find found his way back 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:30.839 to the practice squad, and you know, maybe we overvalued 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.400 what he didn't practice. I'm not I'm not sure, but 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.000 but I think with no tape on anybody around the league. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.760 They felt like it was a worthy risk to put 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.400 him through waivers and get him in the practice squad. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.440 It definitely was a risk, but it stood out to me. Heckmo, 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.240 I don't know if you you felt the same way. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.320 I mean, it's always tough to evaluate these undrafted free agents, 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.839 especially in a year like this where we already said 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.039 it's gonna be tough for an undrafted free agent to 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.120 make the roster. But Francis Bernard not being on that 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.760 fifty three mans prized me not to say that it's 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.080 still out of the question, but it was still something 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.719 that stuck out to me. Hema, yeah, I mean, with 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:11.280 a limited offseason, not being able to have a preseason 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:15.440 at all, you didn't really get the opportunity to give 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.480 guys a look. I believe that Francis Bernard, based off 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:22.200 of Rob's reports and me cheating off of your notes 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.920 Kyle from practice, that Francis Bernard had a hell of 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:27.680 a two had a hell of a two of days. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.120 You know, every other every other day you're reporting that 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.760 he's getting an interception in practice. But at the same time, 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.440 he's an undrafted free agent for a reason. He's a 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.840 guy that does go down to your practice squad and 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:44.040 does have an opportunity to make an impact on your 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.840 fifty three on your roster on game days. The way 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.080 that COVID nineteen has adjusted some of the rules is 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.800 really interesting, and I think the way that the Cowboys 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.960 are going about it it's pretty genius. So a guy 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.880 like Francis Bernard will have an opportunity to get some 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:06.560 in games, a real game action. Yeah, at the linebacker spot. Certainly, 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.200 it'll be something to watch out for, especially with Luke 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.440 Gifford kind of being tinkering on the side of being 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.560 hurt and being available. But what had to kind of 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.040 shift into one of the additions and we'll talk plenty 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.920 about really this fifty three man roster coming up later 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:23.720 on in the show, but one of the additions that 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.920 stuck out is a former Cowboy coming back but in 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.120 a different role, and that's Brandon car formally with the 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.240 Cowboys in the role of a corner. He comes in 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.800 now as a safety, at least that's what we think 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.480 he's going to play. He could play a little bit 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:39.240 of both, and we know what Mike McCarthy has said 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.960 previously about the secondary, saying that it is interchangeable. It 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.000 is something that is a bit fluid. But Isaiah, what 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.439 do you think about Brandon Carr? I mean, this is 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.960 a guy that's been vaulted as a solid locker room guy. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.480 But what does he bring from a football standpoint? From 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.960 a football standpoint, he I mean he has experienced, right, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.560 he's a vet. He's been around the league. He started 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.160 for a very long time. But I think he came 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.080 off with twelve starts last year or something like that. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.280 So I mean, this guy knows what he's doing. Um, 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.120 he's been here in Dallas before. He's familiar. Um, you know. 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.439 But more than anything, I think you were ready, you 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.320 already mentioned it. You know, he brings that locker room 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.880 by right, he brings that mentor in the locker room. 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.240 He there's a lot of young guys obviously in that secondary. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.400 There's a lot of uncertainty in that secondary. I think 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.040 he brings really just that consistency, um, that stability in 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.560 the in that regard and somehow, some way, like you mentioned, 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:29.439 with this COVID stuff, they got this dude on the 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.600 practice squad. I don't understand how he didn't get them, 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.760 by how he couldn't get picked up by somebody that 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.559 That just lets you know, how how how impactful not 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.080 having a preseason has been the fact that this guy 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.559 is falling on somebody's practice squad. It is just ridiculous. 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.720 But the Cowboys are not complaining. When when Brandon Carr 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.760 signed a fifty million dollars contract in Dallas eight years ago, 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.880 I never would have guessed that he would have laid 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.080 it on the practice squad in twenty twenty at the 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.440 age of thirty, at the age of thirty four, I mean, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.800 that's just that's just wild. With with the new rules, Hey, Kyle, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.800 we could have made some major clicks on the website 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.480 over the weekend. And if we said Cowboys signed former 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.760 Ravens veteran dB to the what kind of clicks would 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:14.160 that have gotten? Yeah? Exactly. Somebody who's formerly from Texas 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.840 or I guess it's lived in Texas. Pretty play right, 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:22.520 yeah Baltimore? Yeah sure, I mean, well, we should have 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.320 done that as a headliner. I mean, I don't know 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:25.840 why we didn't. We'll have to talk to Nick and 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.320 William about that one. But you guys gotta have foresight. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.839 You gotta have foresight of that guy, you know, but 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.520 I think that was Brandon Car. Brandon Car is amazing 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.679 when and what I love the most about Brandon Car 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.440 not only from a veteran perspective, but what he has 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.199 meant to the Dallas community. Not enough to say, you know, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.480 we're always talking about these guys athletic ability, and that's 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.360 when we're here for. But Brandon Cars, that's a solid 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:51.520 guy as far as personality wise, who he is and 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.400 what he does. Cavon Frasier, guy that we lost to Miami, 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.360 was really big here in Dallas in the community. And 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.480 Brandon Car former Man of the Year. I believe he 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.480 was up for the Walter Payton Award at point in 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.520 his career. It's just an amazing person. I think as 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.920 far as the mentorship and experience, that's gonna give the 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:14.240 Dallas Cowboys a solid backup if anything happens with Thompson 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.520 and we need a guy Johnny on the fly, it's 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:21.040 gonna be Brandon Carr. And I think that's really what 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.360 he was brought in for. Is there are a lot 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.320 of young guys back there. I mean, you throw Thompson 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.280 and Xavier Woods into that category of safeties who are 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.160 a little bit on the younger side of their career 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.080 and could use some veteran help. We thought maybe, haha, 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.720 Clinton Dix was going to be that. He ultimately didn't 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.360 turn out to be the guy this coaching staff wanted. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.080 But now you bring in a guy like Brandon Carr 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.080 who could provide that and provide some flexibility in a 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.000 secondary that's already pretty thin. But Rob kind of explained 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.200 this to me, like, I'm five, I'm not a math guy, 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.839 I'm not a contract guy. But what does this do 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.160 for the cat Because from what I was looking at 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.240 and from what I had heard, it seemed like Brandon 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:04.040 car is not counting against the cap. Is that correct? Well, 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:08.040 when you're on the practice squad, it's a different salary setup. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.840 It's it's a weekly salary and it's slotted. And I 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.640 believe with these new rules, as a veteran on the 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.360 practice squad, he's set to make a little bit more 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.880 per week than the other guys, or the younger guys 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.960 on the team. So I don't know the exact figure 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.320 on that, but it's different obviously than if you get 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.720 promoted to the active roster. And Isaiah knows this, the 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.920 salary goes way up. I mean, the minimum salary for 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.200 a VET on the active roster is way different, but 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.160 he's set to make more, I believe. I'm gonna look 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:39.160 this up in the break than because of his veteran status, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.320 and you get to keep Every team gets to keep 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.400 six out of sixteen guys on the practice squad this year, 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.280 doesn't matter what their level of accrude seasons are throughout 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:51.000 the league. So it's just it's just wild. And you know, 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:52.920 he may very well find his way to the practice 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.880 to the active roster sooner than we think. It may 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.000 not be this week, but it could be pretty soon. Hey, Rob, 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.280 let me ask you a question about that man, because 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.680 I was a little confused about the new rules for 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.120 a practice squad. A guy can be moved up, up 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.479 and down, back and forth to the practice squad is unlimited, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.600 whereas in before there was you had limitations on the 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.240 amount of times a guy could actually actually go from 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.000 practice squad to active roster. Yeah, I don't, I don't 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.120 remember if there were limitations, then I know you're right there. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.319 There are no limitations this time, but there are a 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.680 maximum of two times that you can promote a player 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.200 up and then before they would be subject to the 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:37.000 waiver process, so you know, a couple different times and 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:38.959 you can do that and then put them right back 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.040 on the practice squad the following week, but after the 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.720 second time, you got to put the player through waivers. So, uh, 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.720 it's interesting. It's you know, it's basically creating contingencies for 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.320 teams in the wake of this COVID nineteen crisis. You know, 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.360 it's it's basically a fifty five man roster on game 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.199 at the end of the week in a forty eight 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.040 man game day roster. So in a way, it's like 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.080 expanding the roster this year. It's you know, it's a 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.240 lot deeper than that when you factor in those sixteen 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.880 guys who are eligible to play that that week, right, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.280 I mean you literally have a I'm not gonna do 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.440 my math right now, but you close to what seventy 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.560 guys almost right, every week that you have the pool from, 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.640 you got almost seventy guys that you can pull from 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.840 every week if you have that flexibility to move guys 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:23.920 up and down. So when it comes down to teams 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.840 and matchups, you know, you really don't run into those 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:28.640 those issues like you've had in the past. Where man, 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.480 guess what, we really don't match up well against these 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.320 guys in this a certain position. Now I can go 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.280 down to my practice squad. Oh that's right, we have 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.040 these guys here. Let's pull them up right, and now 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:37.560 all of a sudden you have the matchup that you need. 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.640 So this is this is a crazy year. You're gonna 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.840 see a lot of movement going on throughout this whole season, 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.880 I would imagine. And it's also really a benefit for 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.520 the Cowboys in particular because they loved their rookie class 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.360 so much, not just the seven draft picks, but a 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.400 lot of their priority free agents. They didn't want to 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.200 lose them. So there's more spots for them now. And 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.560 it just reminded me, Heck, I think in the past, 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.640 if you promoted a guy up, I think you had 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.760 to keep him on the active roster for three weeks 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.160 at least week. Okay, three or four weeks, Chris so, yeah, 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.360 So now there's not a limit on that. It was 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.000 four four. Yeah, So you know there's gonna be a 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.720 lot of shuffle. Like Isaiah said, well, I think some 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.360 of that shuffle will come with Brandon car And and 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.360 he I don't expect him to stay on the practice 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:24.960 squad for long. I think that was some of the 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:29.320 finagling and some of the ship and at least the 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.320 look that the front office has given. But Isaiah, I 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.360 wanted to ask you this question. Is it possible? And 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.480 one of the one of the commenters here on the 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.360 periscope stream, Yes, I am watching the comments today, So 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:45.480 if you have questions, shoot him our way. But here's 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:51.200 the thing, Earl Thomas, I'm going that direction. This is 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.520 a guy who was a teammate of Earl Thomas previously. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:59.760 Is there a chance that this edition, other than potentially 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.280 give them some flexibility in the secondary, is there's a 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.280 chance that Brandon Cars edition is maybe to get some 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:10.040 insight on the Earl Thomas situation if that potentially comes 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:15.200 up next week or so. Uh No, what I'm gonna 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.600 tell you is gonna happen, like like I mentioned, want 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.880 to make sure that's cool. I'm glad, I'm glad you 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.520 asked the question. You know, you know there's there's there's 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.240 no bad questions out here, you know what I'm saying. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.920 But as I mentioned, what a week ago, two weeks ago, 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.160 whatever it was, we will see Earl on the roster 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.440 on Monday. That's just coming from me. That's just my 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.800 ink link. Okay, all right, it's my little crystal ball um. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.640 As I mentioned, you know, waiting for that that that 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.800 first week to go by. But we'll see Earl on Monday, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:41.920 and you know I haven't haven't you know, be Car 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.520 out there. It's just just an additional depth, right if 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.720 you're going into a week with a with a veteran, 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.360 you know, a veteran receiver corps and you need somebody 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.640 out there that that's a lot more. Whether there's some 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.600 of the younger cornerbacks that you have, you have that 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.560 flexibility to bring Car up. But you know it'll be 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.520 Xavier Woods and and Earl Thomas going into week two. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:04.000 There you go, wow, wow, So he had last week. 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.440 He had the claw last week. So he's he's trying 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.760 to ride the hot hand. And I admire seventy seven 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:19.560 straight seventh hot hand in the nice game, man, I 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.720 love it, and I don't. I don't know. I'm out 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.480 at this point now where I gotta I gotta see it. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.479 I gotta see it, and maybe we do see it 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.960 next week. But I just rob I'm asking this question. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:34.200 I'm asking this question right before you continue. Ye, with 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:39.240 all pro current, all pro safety, be just sitting in 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.560 free agency while rosters are getting set. If it wasn't 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.760 the case that he's gonna be signed somewhere a week two, well, 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.360 I agree with you that it's just it's just so odd, right, 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:52.640 But if if he didn't have the issues coming out 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.680 of Baltimore that we all heard about, then it really 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.280 wouldn't make any sense. So maybe it's just that I 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.240 don't I don't know. I to me, I don't have 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.680 a great vibe on it, But Jerry doesn't rule it out. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.000 They continue not to rule it out. When he got 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.040 asked about Earl today, I believe this morning on the fan, 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.240 he just he kind of deflected the car and talked 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.920 about what Brandon Carter could do for him. So Rob, 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:17.360 this is the Dallas Cowboys. Correct every correct and and 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.680 and that the man who runs the show is to 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.560 mister Jerry Jones. Correct. Correct. He signed people with a 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:27.240 lot worse backgrounds aside from oh, you know he was 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.960 batting the locker room for one year. Earl has had 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.280 no legal issues aside from this one or with his wife. 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:38.920 He's had no drug problems, no pds, no nothing, no arrests, 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.639 none of that stuff, And all of a sudden, we 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.040 don't think that he's gonna be here because of a 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:48.639 locker room issue. Look, guys, this, this, this, this conversation 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.520 is starting to be a debut downer for me because 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.760 it is. It is because we have our hopes so 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.000 elevated that Earl Thompson's gonna come in. And you know 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.520 that Jerry Jones, he has the guys that are gonna 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.600 do their due diligence on you. They're gonna go through 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:06.560 your trash, They're gonna find out who you are. So 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.600 Jerry knows who Earl is. Everybody does. So whatever the 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.399 whatever he did, whatever it was, whatever they're reporting. And 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.040 I've heard so many things about what people think is 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.360 up with Earl Thomas at this point, he's our potential 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:25.480 Pro Bowl, not his perennial Pro Bowl, potential Hall of 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:29.800 Fame guy. And we're just sitting back and look, we're 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:33.600 going into the season with Xavier Woods Darius Thompson. I 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.080 believe that both of those guys have shown us in 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:40.359 camp that they are more than willing and able to 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:44.920 be safeties in the NFL our defensive line like Isaiah says, 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:49.760 is McNasty right. So the McNasty boys, the McNasty hot 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:54.120 boys up front are obviously going to be applying enough 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:58.880 pressure for the safety position to not be as blaring 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.160 as it was before or as far as indeficiency. So look, 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.440 I want Earl Thomas too, but I want to trust 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.040 the scouting department. I want to trust our coaches. Oh yeah, 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:10.359 they they have gone through everything to make sure that 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:14.480 we are ready because people's lives, I mean, everything is 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:18.639 on the line right now come Sunday night. So whatever 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.080 we got, man, I'm with it. That's what Let's go 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.639 with it. Man. I love it. I love it. I 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.439 love the passion. I love the really the confidence that 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.240 you have in the front office because they are doing 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.720 their due diligence. Even if they're saying they're not interested, 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.080 you know, they're a little bit interested. They need some 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:37.160 safety help, you know, that's really what they're being said 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:39.199 or what is being said. But you can kind of 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.840 look behind closed doors and think that's the case. I 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.240