WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Addressing the Obvious at Safety 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.560 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:07.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:12.360 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:16.239 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:22.160 time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:27.480 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.560 It is Monday, August twentieth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.920 number twenty eight. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.559 live from the s WBC Morgage Studios at the Star. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:41.159 We're back at the Star, away from Oxnard, California, and 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.440 already talk some Cowboys football. How's everybody field in this morning? 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.240 I feel I mean, I know that's bad timing because 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.839 I feel great. I'm good. I feel great. Yeah, it rested, 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.280 really bad timing. Okay, good, perfect? Amber good. Oh, it's 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.800 good to be home. Yes, it's very good to be ready. Nice. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.800 Nick tired. I don't know why. The first two days 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:01.960 it was just a normal time. But now I'm like 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.360 back on the West Coast time or something. I haven't 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.959 try to figure it all out. Yeah, yeah, we're good though, 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.040 Let's get it going here. Good, we got a lot 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.560 to talk about today. We got the game. Are you 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.000 doing Derek? Thank you Amber for asking. No one ever 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.880 ask me that, but thank you. I'm feeling great. Everything's great, 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:18.760 everything's great. All right, So we got a lot to 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:23.440 talk about. Cowboys lose, But do they really a game 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.400 where where you saw again, just like the game the 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.760 first week of the preseason, you saw a lot to 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.080 be very positive about when it comes to this team, 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.360 specifically if you want to look at the first team. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:35.720 So let's start there. Just give me the kind of 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.800 a quick your thought on the game overall this week 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.839 for the Cowboys versus the Bengals. Well, I mean these games, 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.720 are you win the first half? That's all you really 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.160 want to do. You just want to win the first 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.120 half and get out of the game healthy. And they 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.120 were able to do one out of two. We'll talk 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.600 about injuries in a little bit, but I mean, I 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.200 think you know they're up ten nothing at the half. 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.240 They were up I think fourteen seven last week. I 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.240 mean that that's what you want, That's what you want 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.520 out of these games. Are the starters better than your starters? 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.920 Look at that play? Right? There have been a lot 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.320 of people won't be able to do that there showing 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.920 Dak's touchdown to Terrence Williams on the TV's in here 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.839 right now, right now. So the point is, I wanted 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.200 to point out real quick, it's like how people keep 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.960 talking about Dak Prescott and he's an ability of maybe 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.359 not being like the perfect quarterback or whatever throwing passes. 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:30.040 But that's again why you like this guy, that he's 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.840 capable to make those moves and although he's not always 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.760 perfect with the passes, the fact that he can move around, 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.200 get out of the pocket and still have time to 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.959 make a good throw there and connect with Terrence. I mean, 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.960 you love, you need a quarterback that can do that, 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.720 and you got Dac that does that perfectly. Honest with you, 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.720 I know you, I know how you prepare, So I'm 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.760 not trying to cut your legs out from underneath you. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.200 But we've got a lot of topics, so go for 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.399 it with It's it's just a net win because we're 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.160 not talking about replacing Zach Martin right now. That's where 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.640 we're going next. I don't don't care about anything else, honest, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.480 and I'll be completely honest with you. It's my job 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.800 to cover this team. I'm supposed to watch the game. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.760 As soon as he got hurt. I checked out down 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.400 to about a ten percent attention span for most of 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.680 the rest of the game because I was writing a 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.280 story about the injury. I was scanning the sideline to 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.720 see if he was coming back out. I was trying 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.720 to listen to the radio broadcast to see if Christy 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.360 Scales had an update. I was imagining the conference call 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.240 on Sunday where Jason Garrett calls in with the results 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.760 of the MRI to tell us that Zach tores acl 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.720 you know, like what veterans are out there, all of 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:39.440 that stuff that we've done that before, and that's not 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.120 a fun cover. No, no, it's not fun and for 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.120 us to be you know, we're not leading off talking 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.400 about that. I don't give a crap about anything else 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.400 that happened in that game, because Zach Martin is either 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.480 your best or one of your two or three best 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.720 players on this team, and for about an hour and 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.839 a half on Saturday night, I thought he was done 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.400 for the year. So when that happened, I was doing 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.240 sideline and it happened literally right in front of me, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.440 and when I saw him go down, I'm like, damn, Zach, 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.560 he's a beast. That's why he's a beast. And then 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:11.480 I'm like, oh wait, crap, that actually because the hint 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.560 was so hard that I'm thinking, you know, this beast 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.840 guy that just can't take anything, and then he's just 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.360 laying on the ground like, oh oh boy, this does 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.960 not look good. It's very unusual for one of those 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.760 guys to have a situation like that. Travis has never 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.000 missed the snap. Zach has never missed a regular season snap. 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.240 It took eight injuries for Tyrn Smith to eventually have 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.000 to bow out of games last year, like it's unusual. 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.080 So to see him have to not only leave the game, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.320 but go into that evaluation tent I just did not 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.760 seem good. Okay, so let's go a little bit deeper 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.640 into that. Talk to me about the status of Zach 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.680 mar at this point. We all know that I think 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.479 everybody's heard at this point it's not season ending, But 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.440 tell us the status in and how long he's expected 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.720 to be out. An updated status from today is a 0:04:55.720 --> 0:05:01.479 little white sleeve on his knee, able to get a 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.839 chicken sandwich. I think from the line or wherever I 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.080 saw him, No, I didn't. I just saw it. But 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.120 walking around there was two other guys not able to 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.839 do that. They had some crutches. He's slight lamp. And 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.960 then I started doing math in my head, like, okay, 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.800 twentieth eleven more days plus nine, it's twenty days to go. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.640 He's fine, twenty days to go. He's good for the 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.599 first game. I do. I do think he's good for 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.599 the first game if I had to. I mean, that's 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.760 the word coming out of the organization too, is that 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.440 they're optimistic he'll be ready for week one. No dress 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.760 rehearsal for him. No, No, it's twenty something days away, 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.640 and it's a tough guy. I would imagine he'll be ready. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.799 Let's be honest here, based on a lot of different scenarios, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.159 and I'll just leave it at that. I don't think. 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:47.560 I don't think your dress rehearsal is going to look 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.159 the same as normally. I don't know if you play 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.200 as many guys as you have played in the past 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.400 for this particular Okay, so back up before we get 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.359 to that. I do want to talk though about what 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.960 happened once he left the game. Who goes in in 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.680 his place, and how comfortable do you feel with that, 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.280 knowing that once you get into the season you may 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.000 have a similar situation if he should go down. Remember 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.520 that Travis Frederick was also out with the shoulder injury, 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.920 and I don't think they're too concerned about that. So 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.920 because Joe Looney was playing center, Kadeem Edwards came in. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.880 If this was just a regular season game that Frederick starts, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.600 I'm pretty sure it would have been Looney that went 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.880 into guard. So that's kind of where they stand, and 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.280 we're all we're all talking, Okay, what happens if he's 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.000 out for a long time. Do you move Lyle back 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:31.960 to guard? Do you move Fleming to guard? Do you 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.400 put Looney there? You know a lot of different options, 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.000 and they really don't have to mess with that. I 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.680 think for this game, I think you play kade Edwards 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.640 to see if he makes your football team. I think 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.080 he's right there on the edge of the eighth lineman. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.719 I think he's the eighth lineman right now on the team. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.720 But is someone that's gonna get cut gonna be better 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.760 than Kadem Edwards? That's what's going to come down to 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.360 to me. Apps, Yeah, I completely agree. I think that's 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.440 one of the biggest things facing one of the biggest 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.680 unknowns is you know, how you round out that old 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.919 line depth chart. I know, I mean it looked pretty 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.520 awful after the main guys got out the other night, 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.880 which I feel like, you know, you look around on Twitter, 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.920 that's like a lot of doom and gloom, like that's 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.120 just preseason football. That's there's not a lot of good 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.960 offensive linemen in the NFL. And if you've got five 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.000 or six that you feel good about. I thought Joe 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:18.920 Looney played really well for a guy that had to 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.800 come in and play a boatload more than he's probably 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.640 used to because Travis Frederick didn't play. Now you know, 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.840 we know Zach and Travis are probably good for the 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.920 season opener. You got seven guys that you feel pretty 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.320 good about. I think Cam Fleming probably could have played 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.840 better on Saturday, but I didn't think he was terrible. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.040 I promise the Golden State Warriors are going to have 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.880 a bad bitch because they've got the best players in 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.720 the league. And that's what happens. What what what veteran's 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.560 gonna want to come to play the offensive line here. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.120 They're not drafting a whole lot of offensive linemen to 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.360 be backups, and the ones they are just aren't very good, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.320 which I mean, you know, I can hear the people 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.840 at home reminding us about the Chaz Green game. I do. 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:58.800 I mean Cam Fleming is a step up from that. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.040 He's he had a good training camp. Like I said, 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.000 he could have been better against the Bengals. I'm not 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.320 sounding any alarms about it right now. Like I think 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.360 you've got seven that you feel pretty good about when 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.720 you add in Fleming and Looney and then whether it's 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.120 Kadeem Edwards. I have a hard time believing it would 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.520 be Chaz Green, but maybe it's possible, or that would 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.960 be interesting, it would be or you look, you look 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:23.880 to the waiver wire, I think you know, that's a 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.520 spot where I think they're going to be looking for 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:27.920 a guy who can maybe be better than what they've got. Right, 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.800 if they keep Chaz Green, then they need to just 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.880 give back all those T shirts that say, like the 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.320 seventeen inch shirts of Everybody's the same and all that stuff, 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.120 we don't care where your draft status is, because they 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.679 obviously do. They obviously care about draft status. If they're 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.440 gonna keep Chaz Green, if for three years, I understand, 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.559 Dalton Schultz is a tight end who really hasn't done 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.400 anything and they want to keep him. I get that, 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.560 but not for him, not for Green who almost got 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.480 your quarterback killed last year. I just don't see he 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.480 hasn't done anything to show that much improvement. You would 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.559 just keep him just because you have him and you 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.120 don't want I don't either. I was I was really 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.280 just trying to cover my bases, like, I don't think 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.360 they'll keep him either. I think he's had enough time. 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.760 Kadeem or a guy, a player to be named later, 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.679 if I had a guess. All right, let's move on 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.040 um and this one, Nick, I heard you say. I 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:18.240 don't know if you were talking to me or I 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.360 just overheard you telling someone else. But after the game 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.800 you said, you know that's that was not the biggest injury. 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.840 Not necessarily concerned, because it was a concern at first, 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:29.520 but once you kind of figured out he was gonna 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.360 be okay, you were way more concerned about Xavier Woods. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.560 Let's talk about Xavier Woods and his injury. He gets 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.400 a hamstring injury and it has to leave the game. 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.760 He gets a hamstring injury doing what we've been waiting 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.559 for him health for him to do and he did 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.120 something similar in the San Francisco game as well. He's 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.520 I mean, we talk about Dak being a gamer, Xavier 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.959 Woods appears to be a gamer. It was an awesome player. 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:53.720 He did get trucked a little earlier in the game, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.120 but you want your safety. Someone too over the middle 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.880 too bed. It was Byron Jones. He did do that, 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.440 trying to say he's Eric Barry. I'm just he was 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.880 making a good play. Yes, no, I'm with you, I'm 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.000 with it God, and it got him hurt. He dropped 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.000 the ball though too. God. Well, he was making a play. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.679 Can I get serious? I do give him that, like 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.559 he came from. He made a lot of ground. He 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.920 get there a nice good play. He didn't, I mean, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.120 didn't make any great That's one of the things we've 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.440 talked about, or at least I have in the past, 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.760 as when you speak about him, is him being or 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.960 not being that kind of player like for example, Jeff Heath. 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.320 That just it's aggressive and just comes out of nowhere 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.720 and it's not afraid to make a tackle. And I 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.400 mean this time he took a chance and it just 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.360 wasn't good. He showed the range that you're looking for, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.000 and then that's that's good. Okay, in stinks. Well, it 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.160 doesn't matter because now he's done for his every season 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.400 problem two to four weeks, which means there's a good chance, 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.120 I think a sizeable chance that he's not going to 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.640 be there for week one. Now weeks. If guys, if 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.600 you guys are listening, remember last week we were going 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.120 through the roster and trying to make it down to 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.440 our fifty three and one of the things we talked 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.800 about was the lack of depth at the safety position. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.120 Now you're in a situation where you have to feel 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:11.319 this spot at least probably for one week, if not longer. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.920 And you've got some more issues going on there as well, 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.720 because you've got and I know this doesn't matter for 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.200 week one, but it matters for right now, is that 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.120 you're you're when your backups. Jamal Showers hurt his knee. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.640 He's on crutches right now. Did we hear exactly what 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.360 he's got? Is it a torn a cl I think 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.120 it's an a cl I mean it doesn't look good 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.839 at if you're on crutches, If you're on crushes, you're 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.440 probably not playing this week. Or next at the very least, 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:40.040 you're probably not playing against the Cardinals. And Huff hasn't 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.000 He's been hurt, that's growing injury hasn't done much. Forget 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.720 forget the part where they might not have their starting 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.440 free safety for week one. They don't have enough guys 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.760 to get through this week, although apparently they disagree because 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.760 I you know, I haven't heard anything about anybody coming 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.640 in here. It's just Monday. But they got practice in 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.719 three hours. I mean, you got you got Joe, you 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.640 got cave On Frasier, you got Tyree Robinson, and he's 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.800 being a little banged up too. Keith was playing with 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.000 an ankle injury too. Tyree Robinson and Cam Kelly are 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.000 about to get a hell of a look so at 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:21.600 trying to make some noise on this roster. So listen, 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.080 I think that I'm a firm believer of the law 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:29.160 of attraction, and explain what action the law of attraction. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.520 When you really believe something, and when you stake your 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.679 mind into it, you attracted, the world just works in 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:40.320 your favor. You believe that I truly believed, I'm a 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:47.199 walking testimony of that. Anyways, umat that you want to 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.960 believe in it. I think that the world is conspiring 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:58.199 to help someone in Seattle to get what he wants, 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:03.240 which is to be here, and the world is it's yeah, 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.640 it's conspiring to his benefits. I want to have, like, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.680 I just want to stop talking about the cowboys and 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.760 have like a forty five minute philosophical discussion about this. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:12.880 Let's do that after. We can't do that right and 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:19.400 the break is not time? Um, I mean, I what 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.080 what else can what else can you? What else can 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.800 we say? I mean, I mean, well, here's the question. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.640 This side of the table has been concerned about safety 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.320 since March. So what do you want me to say 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.120 that I haven't. I think there are two things that 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.400 can be discussed right now. One of them is a 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:36.640 new development in the way of Georgia Loca, who is 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.720 the safety and Cincinnati. I hope I'll pronouncing that right. Um, 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.520 he was a safety in Cincinnati, was their starting safety 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.760 since twenty thirteen. Uh, they just cut him for what 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.200 they call salary cap reasons. But typically when you cut 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.600 a guy, no matter what his salary is, for whatever 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.080 reason you're not happy with his play. Um. They they 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.440 selected by somebody in the second round. They're ready to 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:57.960 make that guy their start, presume, and so he's on 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.760 the street. Should the Cowboys go in a player like that, 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.480 that's a veteran that may not cost a ton of money, 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.280 especially where he is right now being cut at this 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.760 point to where you get yourself some relief and you 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.120 get yourself an extra body. And when Xavier Wood comes back, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.400 he doesn't slow down the progress of an Xavier Woods 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.120 right Wood, Is that the way to go? Or do 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.480 you think that this changes anything about what we've been 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.920 talking about for months, which is this whole thing kind 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:26.280 of sitting out there in Seattle with Earl Thomas. I mean, well, 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.040 you're the earl guy. Go ahead. Well, And I wrote 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:30.960 a column after the game and I said, you know what, 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.440 like you have to get a guy that can play now, 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.800 because you didn't even know if you had one. An 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.800 Xavier Woods. We think that he's pretty good, he's got 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.800 he's a good young prospect, and he didn't make a 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.040 ton of plays in training camp. But let's also remember 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.040 this about training camp. This team doesn't really throw the 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.440 ball down the field in practice. They don't really stretch 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.040 the field. They don't really hurt you and make you 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.600 worried about the safeties, don't really have to worry about 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.600 the deep ball. So he's not gonna get tested. He's 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.520 not going to make a lot of plays, so you 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.840 can't the fault him a lot for that. But you 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:03.640 still don't know exactly what you have. You need to 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.880 get a guy that you do know what you have. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.560 And the thing about this situation is is that there's 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:13.440 a player out there that is that you know is good. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.160 There's a player out there that wants to be here. 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:20.080 He fits under the salary cap for this year, and 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.360 there now is a glaring need. There's all of these 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:28.200 reasons of why four yes is usually mean hell yeah, 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:33.840 And I just made it up, so calculations. We're doing 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.200 a lot of stuff today this I'm not back to school, 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.680 and you know, and we heard Stephen Jones talk a 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.960 little bit on a couple occasions at training camp, and 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.320 I think Steven kind of goes back and forth with 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:45.600 his in his mind. He's like, you know, we don't 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.120 I really want to pay a thirty year old but 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.360 he's really good, you know, but you know, we don't 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.720 really like It's like Earl Thomas breaks the rules of 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.160 what they typically don't want to do, which is pay 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.720 these guys and give him a third contract. But when 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.480 you're six time pro bowler and you're in you're in 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:04.640 a position that this team really hasn't had a good player, 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.200 you know it kind of you can there's exceptions to 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.480 the rule. I think he's one of them that all 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:15.400 sounds really good. But I just keep going back to 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.640 the hear what you're saying, but yeah, well here's why, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.800 here's why I think you're wrong. It goes back to 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:25.120 leverage for me, which is the Cowboys now have none, um, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.040 the whatever impetus there was for Seattle to lower their 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.720 prices gone now at least in their mind, and oh 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.440 now you want it. Oh here's the other thing. If 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.480 I'm being brutally honest, these guys like to think, or 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.680 sometimes maybe they actually are, but they like to think 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.920 that they're the smartest people in the room. And they're 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.720 not going to like come to Seattle with their hat 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:49.240 in their hand like we're sorry, we'll pay whatever. They're negotiators, Yeah, 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:50.840 they know how to negotiate. They're not going to do that. 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.680 They're not just gonna be like you were right, we 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.040 were wrong, we'll pay you like that's I don't believe 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.600 that's going to happen. So I don't think this changes 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.600 much of anything except that they're like, crap, we gotta 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.040 we gotta get somebody, but probably not that um. And 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.959 that's why I mean Georgia Loca is like is like 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.879 manna from the heavens, because it's like, this isn't going 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:12.919 to ruin our cap. He's you know, it's not going 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:14.840 to slow down Xavier Woods like you're saying he's not 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.679 a progress stopper. It reminds me a lot of Will Allen, 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.400 who twenty thirteen they said he didn't even he didn't 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.920 even last long here, but that was because they had 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.359 a guy they felt good about in JJ Wilcox, which 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.040 I know JJ Wilcox never lit the world on fire, 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.800 but he was better than anything that's here right now 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:36.280 other than Heath. So that's what I'm thinking is try 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.560 to get him or or somebody like him, if there's 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.560 anybody left on the market. But I don't think it 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.000 changes a whole lot. In terms of Earl Thomas, I 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:44.760 kind of agree with, And I also think you can 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:49.440 sign him, and you know, it basically shows Seattle kind 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.879 of what you're talking. You know we're still We're still 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.520 where we are. Like if if you signed Georgia Loca 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:59.600 and Earl Thomas, situation still fell in your lap for 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:04.040 what they want, you still do it. I mean something. 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.879 I don't know exactly what he would he's going to 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:08.520 command when it's all said and done. I know that 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.320 the Raiders are interested in him too. I feel like 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.280 the Raiders have been interested in every free agent the 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.480 Cowboys have been interested today. But I don't know what 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.720 salary he's going to command, But it won't be enough 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.480 to stop you if you can get a world materializes. Yeah, 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:23.199 And to be honest with you, I think a one 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.000 year deal makes a ton of sense from a standwoy. 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:26.520 If you can get Georgia Local to sign here for 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.560 a one year deal. The beautiful part about that is 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.600 Earl Thomas is a free agent after this year. So 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.040 then when you tell Seattle's we've already figured ours out 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.080 for this year, we don't need your guy. And now 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:36.920 you take back what Dave was talking about. You take 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.520 back that that leverage, so now you don't have to 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:41.840 do a deal with Seattle, and Seattle knows you don't 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:43.280 have to do it. Again with them, and you can 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:44.840 wait till he becomes a free agent. When he becomes 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.119 a free agent, if you want him, go get him. 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.240 I think there's a perception that that Seattle and maybe 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.639 these people have watched the movie Draft Day, but I 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.520 think there's a perception that Seattle sitting at a two 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.480