WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Parsons vs Surtain 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:07.440 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:17.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.680 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:25.840 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.720 much for that. It's time for the Break on Dallas 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:35.800 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:42.159 Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, November fourth, twenty 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.760 twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number fifty four. Welcome to 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:47.640 the latest edition of The Break Life from the s 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.519 WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Nick Dave Amber alongside. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.760 We've got Bucky Brooks coming up here very soon. Talk 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.120 a little bit about the Denver defense versus the Cowboys offense. Nick, 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:03.720 give me a fifty four. Woh Man, h Randy White, 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.040 I mean, I mean he's the he's the best. Him 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:07.960 and Chuck Halley, I mean he got two in the 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.400 Ring of Honor. And then they've tried over the years 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.399 to make it a good number for other guys. It 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:16.800 just hasn't always worked out. So yeah, everybody, everybody freaks 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.560 out about given eighty eight to somebody, but they give 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:24.080 out fifty four. No, no, no, they try to give 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.440 it to good players, just nobody plays it up the 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.880 way that they tried with Bobby Carpenter. They tried with 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.080 Bruce Carter, they tried with Jalen Smith, you know, and 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.199 it just didn't work. Guys that you would think maybe 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.600 could take the mantle, but nobody just has. But for 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:42.720 the fun of the game, let's say Darren Hambrick, Darren Hambrick, 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:47.920 what do oh? Yes, God. The funniest thing was when 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.400 he was holding out sort of and wanted a new 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.040 contract and said, and he told everybody in the media, Hey, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.360 I want a twenty five square foot house as well. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.040 That's what he said, twenty five square foot house. So 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.040 the guys in the training room him made this little 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.920 cardboard house out of twenty five square feet and gave 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.040 it to him and all that. And yeah, Darren hambrigs special, 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:12.919 where's he now? I don't know. Actually, I really think 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.200 that would be a good documentary on he and his 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.800 brother two brothers played for the Cowboys. How about a 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:23.880 documentary on brothers that have played for the Cowboys. The 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:29.240 brothers are brothers, Jesus E r S brothers. Just checking 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.639 checking this, Yeah, let's do that. Then the scope on 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.359 the other one would be really, we got a lot. 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.960 That's a good story, right, Yeah, I think I think 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.040 there are seven pairs of brothers that have played for 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:45.880 the Cowboys. Seven many how many together? Maybe like five 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.679 or six? Um. I mean you got you got the 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.079 you got the Hambrigs, you got the Garretts, you got 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.799 Remi Adel And, you got Rod Smith, Jalen Smith, you 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.520 got Emery Smith for a little bit with him at 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.720 Smith just o it's a second. Um, I think I'm missing. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.640 That's somebody. I can't believe it's many. Martellis Bennett did 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.720 not play with Michael Bennett, but they both played. Yeah, yeah, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.560 and I still feel like there's one more so Damn, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.000 that's wild. That is that's crazy Hambricks. I love the 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:20.160 way this game. Most famous number fifty four Jersey and 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.799 in the history of NFL or Cowboys. No, that was 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.840 my Google search. I mean was Chuck Howley. I say, 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.760 somebody's pissed that we haven't mentioned Howley. Ye at this point, well, 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.160 I said to ring of other guys, ring, Yeah, fifty 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.960 four fifty four, both those guys you mention, Um, but 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.240 but you know, Randy White might be one of the 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.640 best NFL players ever at fifty four. I mean I can't. 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.080 I can't think of other guys that played at fifty 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.040 four off the top of my head. I mean, like, 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.000 if you think about for me anyway, let's go back 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.000 childhood like that. That was like Manster was everything that 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.600 was he endorsed. We didn't do it. I didn't do 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.840 fifty three yesterday, we did. You know, one of my 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.240 favorite players, he he wasn't as good as I guess 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.480 he's in the eighties, but he had the perfect name 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:07.360 for a linebacker. His name was Garth Jacks j a 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.200 X Garth Jacks. He played like in the eighties. Fifty 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:14.560 three sounds like Madden creative character or like yeah yeah, 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.880 like like he sounds like he should play next to 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.520 Layton Vander Riley. Stepnoski is probably the answer there. But 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.039 Garth Jacks was always he's kind of yeah, all right. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.640 I love the way this little game sends us down 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.880 the most random rabbit holes. For at the start, of course, 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.320 if our quarterbacks gonna play, yeah, now, of course, what 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.240 we're gonna do is we're gonna switch gears. We're gonna 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.160 have Bucky Brooks bring us back on track Buck, he's 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.360 joining us right now. We're gonna talk a little uh 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:45.520 Denver defense versus Cowboys offense. Bucky. Let's start first with 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.080 the fact that as I was looking through this this team, 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.480 UH names that I was very familiar with don't appear 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.920 to be there. Bradley Chubb, on Ir Von Miller, Miller 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.599 no longer there. So kind of walk me through real quick. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.279 Who are the players the playmakers this defense that Dallas 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.320 fans should be aware of as they enter this game. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.320 I mean, a lot of the best playmakers they're in 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.880 the secondary, Justin Simmons, passer ten. Those are the guys 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:14.600 that have been able to get it done. And so 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:16.560 Big Fan Joe's had to kind of change up in 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:20.760 style and go more coverage than pressure because the best 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.080 players that he has are in the back end as 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.320 opposed to the front end. And so what he would 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.679 trying to do is trick the quarterback, give him different looks, 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.880 change the disguises and the pre snap phase of it, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.200 and hope that they can bait the quarterback into making mistakes. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.760 But it's not the defense that we thought we would 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.840 see from the Broncos when you would have a Von 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.000 Miller and a Bradley Chub and the past rushers dictating 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.640 they don't have that kind of talent, so it's more 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.440 trickery and gimmicks and smoking mirrors to produce big plays 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:54.920 as opposed to their talent overwhelming you. Yeah the question, Yes, 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.919 I do, Bucky. With all due respect to the broncos 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:03.800 physical talent, I'm a lot more interested in the psychology 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.839 of this week for them. And I mean, you worked 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.720 on that side in the NFL and you were a 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.320 player as well. The Broncos are five hundred, they're technically 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.000 right in the middle of the at least the wild 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.120 card race, and they obviously traded away one of their 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.440 best ever players, and they also traded away a guy 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:25.080 they just drafted. And I'm just curious about the psychological 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.400 effect that that would have on a locker room and 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.200 should they be worried about that that that seems like 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:34.840 something that might piss some guys off. Well, one of 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.800 the things that happens is when your team underperformed. Because remember, 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.680 coming into the year, everyone felt like the Broncos were 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.760 a quarterback away from being able to compete. We thought 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.479 they had an all star defense, we thought they had 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.600 a ton of talent on offense, and all they need 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.200 to do is drop a quarterback like a Teddy Bridgewater 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.320 that could manage the game in a way they would go. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.680 It hasn't turned out like that. And so what happens 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.840 is you now have a coach who's on the hot seat. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.760 You now have a general manager, which Pat who didn't 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.920 hire the coach, who's trying to look at the team 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:07.039 and evaluate the team and also accumulate picks to reshape 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.400 the team and the vision that he has for them. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.160 And so everyone is on alert. And when you don't 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.360 win games to the level of expectation, people find their 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.000 way out the door. And so everyone's antenna's up because 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.160 everyone now is fighting for their job and on top 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.280 of trying to put themselves in a position to go 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:29.000 to the playoffs. Obviously, the Cowboys wanted Patrick certain and 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.960 they wanted JC Horn and it didn't work out, and 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.200 so now here comes Patrick Certain and you know, Michael 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.280 Parsons is playing how he's playing. Do you think that 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.520 it's one of those deals where the Cowboys are fortunate 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.240 it went the way it you know went, or do 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.000 you still look at it and go man digs and 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:51.400 this other guy would have been an outstanding tandem. I 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.840 think Michael Parsons is a better player, and I think 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.120 we'll look back in history and Michael Parsons will show 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.040 to be a better player. He's more impactful because as 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.120 much as we love warnerbacks, a guy who is at 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.480 the line of scrimmage, an edge player who can impact 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.400 the game not only with sacks and tackles for lass, 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.760 but also being a second level defender that can snuff 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.760 out tight ends in those things, he has more impact 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.120 than a corner Because as much as I love Pastor 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.360 ten and he's played great as a rookie, I don't 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:22.080 think he's delivered as many impact plays as Michael Parsons has. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.920 And in Dallas's defense, Michael Parsons is more impactful than 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.360 what Pastor ten would have been able to do with 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.239 or without Trayvon Diggs playing to the level that he's playing. 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:37.439 So yesterday I was watching some practice footage and looking 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:39.319 at some of the things that the old line was 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.679 doing in their drills and all that off to the side, 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.480 and I'm not saying this is really going to be 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:49.760 an indication of where his level is at. But Layle Collins, 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.160 what he was doing to me, he just seemed a 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:56.960 little bit slow in his movements compared to everybody else. Now, 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.439 who would be if he was the one going in 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:05.079 and play there at tackle this weekend. Who's the person 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.559 that would be lining up against him? And how does 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:12.439 that matchup really look like? I mean, he's fine this 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.280 week because this week he doesn't face a monster. Malik 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.080 Reid would be a guy that play on the side. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.880 Jonathan Cooper would be another guy depending on how they 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.319 bump and kicked their front around, maybe a Draymond Jones, 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:26.160 but really he won't face a five star talent on 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.800 the other side. I think it's to be expected that 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.320 Leil Collins would look a little slower than the other 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.959 guys because the guys are in mid season form. You 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.439 played seven eight games, you're now kind of rounding in 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.040 the form and who you are. He hasn't played in 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.040 five games and so it's been a while, so you 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.360 have to knock the rust off. And really the only 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.760 way you can knock the rust off is getting in 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.600 games and kind of figuring it out. And so he'll 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.280 be fine down the line, and I think he has 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.520 enough savvy to kind of get through it. But yeah, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.240 I wouldn't expect him to look like the other guys 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.439 because the other guys in mid season form. On that 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.719 same note, talking about that, the tackles talk to me 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.439 a little bit just from the standpoint of just football technique. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.439 How difficult does that transition from left tackle or right 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.959 tackle to left tackle? I think a lot of times 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:12.640 when fans think about it, they think of it as 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.439 if you're a tackle, you're a tackle, you just kind 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.079 of slide over. But what is that transition like for 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.199 a player? And if you were having to make the decision, 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.760 would you go with the option of putting Steel over 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.680 there or Collins over there, or would you just roll 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.319 with Inzeki because he's actually been doing it something this year, 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.760 You know, I would and mess with Terrn Steele because 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.080 he's playing so well that right tackle. It's a difficult 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:42.000 transition because it's a different stance, it's different footwork. You're 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.839 seeing the pass rusher out of a different eye, and 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.839 so it can take a bit of a time to 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.600 do it. And sometimes some corners can't go from right 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.400 corner to left corner because the footwork is different and 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.480 they've had ten thousand hours on one side and minimal 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.760 time on the other side, and so it's uncomfortable. I 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.880 think a lot of it depends on how Joe fib 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:05.120 And has worked the rotations throughout practice, which is mix 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.679 it up to make sure that the swing tackles and 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.120 guys get enough time. For Lel Collins, I think a 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.240 lot of it depends on Look, he's very talented, he's good. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.640 Is how good is he compared to who else you 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.000 would put their left tackle? Are you willing to live 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.679 with the struggles because you got a better player, or 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.640 is the other guy more refined in his technique that 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.439 he'll survive. I'm more apt to think, hey, put the 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.880 talented player there and let him figure it out. Cover 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.600 them up with the tide end some, but eventually Leil Collins, 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.520 as a pro and approach, should be able to figure 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.600 out how to play on that side. So everybody knows 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.439 Brandon Staley and Vic Fangio are tied together. Staley is 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.920 a disciple of his, so I would expect it's a 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.400 similar mold of defense. At least overall, we know the 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.040 Cowboys had a lot of success on the ground in 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.800 that Week two game the Broncos. They've been all right 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.120 against bad teams, but specifically against the Browns. I mean, 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:03.240 they've given up gaudy rushing totals and that was a 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.120 game when they didn't even have Nick Chubb. So I mean, 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.840 I mean that just screams to me as a favorable 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.599 matchup based on the talent and also the way that 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.199 they play. Are we are we right about that? What 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:17.360 do we think? Yeah, we're right about that, because here's 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.160 the new philosophy that's kind of taking hold in the 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.400 National Football League. Teams are playing more too deep coverages 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.720 to take the big play away. They're parking and safety 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.400 is in the parking lot, and they're saying, you can 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.719 have all the underneath stuff because when you get to 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.439 the twenties, it becomes a shorter field and you now 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.360 can't throw over the top of the defense, and that's 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.839 when we'll switch. That is something that Big Fangio and 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.319 Brandon Staley believe in. Also, when you can see rushing 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.520 yards and this is blasphemous for some of the old 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.800 defensive coordinators a round the league that used to say 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.199 stop the run, stop the run, stop the run. But 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.520 when teams run the ball, the odds of an explosive 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:56.320 play goes down dramasks dramatically because it's harder to create 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.920 those big plays on the ground. And so for the Cowboys, 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.679 hey man, I'll let Zeken Tony Pola run crazy, and 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.600 then we'll stiffen up and we'll say you can kick 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.960 field goals, not score touchdowns. The score will be within 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:10.920 range and we'll have a chance to win it at 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.280 the end. That's why those guys like Stanley and Fangio 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.079 are giving up more yards, because it's all about the 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.840 big plays and winning in the red zone as opposed 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.600 to dominating the yard of stats. All Right, that all 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.360 being said, Bucky, tell us what you think is gonna 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:29.160 happen Sunday Cowboys versus Broncos. Well, I mean I expecting 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.079 Cowboys to win. But I think this is still a 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.160 test of maturity. As we all are going in Crincy, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.960 the Cowboys being Super Bowl contenders, we have a tendency 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.920 to kind of dismiss the other teams, to say, oh, 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.200 Dallas got this or whatever. The only thing I will 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.559 worry about if there's a level of complacency that we 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:47.160 see in the first quarter where the Cowboys don't take 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.880 care of business early. If they can jump out and 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.839 make the Broncos chase points. It's in their favor. But 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.599 if they mess around and turn it over and have 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.360 people the ball flies over the head, then they go 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.920 in four four quarter game and the Broncos can knock 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.320 them off. I don't expect it to happen. 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I kind of want to see that. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.680 You want to see that. Yeah, you're a little man 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.080 with Santa. That'll be fun. He's gonna say something crazy. 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.600 I know he will. I'll let tain all right, let's 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:06.840 jump into it. Let's get some let's get some injury 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.840 updates there are there are quite a few guys that 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.840 we need to at least get an update on. Uh, Dave, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.159 you sat in on Mike McCarthy's press conference talking to 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.320 me about Dak? Where's Dak? What's he doing? Where are 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.880 we where? Back's gonna practice, Stack's gonna play. Let's go Okay, 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.480 there you go, moving on. Mike McCarthy made it that simple. 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.359 He was like, yeah, he's gonna practice, he gonna do 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.679 team today, and coaches hate giving stuff away. So everybody 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.840 in the media is like, so you think he might play? 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.840 What are we doing here? Yeah? No, They're like, so, 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.639 so what are we trying to say here? And Mike's 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:39.360 just like the plans for him to practice and play. 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:41.920 So I mean, as long as it looks fine today, 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.840 which I would assume it would, I think he's gonna play. 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.000 I think he's okay. Good. I'm not gonna let him 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.320 get another three hundred yard game and another win. I'm 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.560 just kidding. No, but but I am joking, but not really, 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.760 you know, Garretty, don't worry. Hold on, Garrett Gilbert was 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:02.720 had zero chin chance to unsee Dak Prescott at all. Yeah. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:04.680 Do you think he liked we saw in hard Knock. 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:06.560 Do you think he liked him taking any reps away 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:08.280 from him? Like like he didn't like it. He got 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.600 pissed off by it. So I'm just saying a game. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:12.960 He loves Cooper Ros. He wants to play well, he 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.080 wants to you know, he wants to get back there 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.040 for multiple reasons, but not else. He wants to compete. 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:19.920 He's a competitor. That's a quarter. That's what I'm saying. 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:24.080 So yeah, okay, yeah, all right, sebee lamb ankle ankle sprain. Um, 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.040 We'll see what he does. I mean, he was limited yesterday, 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:32.000 like he partook in practice. So again, what you do 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.400 at the beginning of the week. Not always because Dak 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.639 was limited all week last week and didn't play, but 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.440 typically if you're doing stuff at the beginning, it gives 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.960 me a good feeling just in general. So something to watch, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.760 but I'm not worried about that right now. Where's gallup 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.560 at this point, they are monitoring him. He is in 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.040 the second week of his window. He does not have 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.640 to be activated this week, but he could be there. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.359 So they have opened roster. That's a weird thing about COVID. 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.680 We're talking about that with Cowboys pr earlier this week. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.280 Like in the old days, the roster used to always 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.680 be at fifty three, and it was weird if it wasn't. 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:09.560 And now they're like, they'll go down to forty nine, 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.760 They'll go up to fifty two. They don't care because 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.280 you can elevate from the practice squad day of, you 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.920 can elevate from the injury list the day before. It 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.120 just doesn't matter the way that they used to. So, um, 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.639 I think they have two open roster spots right now 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:26.960 because they moved to Briel Cox to injured reserve and 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.560 they waved Bradley and I he's back, by the way, 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.760 he's on the practice we go. Um they added a 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:35.560 Sean mcwen uh. They so all right, So you're right, 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.080 they have one. They brought Sean McEwan back. I forgot that. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.159 So they have one roster spot. They could use it 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.119 on Gallop, they could use it on a d tackle. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.320 Just have to see, and they may not keep four 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:47.560 tight ends. Well, speaking of McEwen, you got Blake Jarlin 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.560 with a hip injury. What's what's going on with his stads? 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.080 I don't think we I don't know. We asked about Blake. 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:57.360 I don't remember what he said. I'm sorry, Oh, let's 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.880 kind of go together. Yeah, wait, you used to love Lake, 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.800 I know, right, Like Blake was my guy. And I'm 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:07.320 just like, whatever, eighty nine, who cares? No, I got Schultz, 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:09.200 He's gonna have it. He's gonna have a chance. I 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.359 gotta eat Crow on that. I all through the off season, 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.480 I was like, whatever, there's two tight ends. Who cares? 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:18.159 And I mean, Darwin does have a role, but Schultz 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.399 is clearly the guy. Nobody can deny that. So you 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.120 win some, you lose some. Absolutely, Um, we'll see, we'll see. 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:27.719 And and but having McEwen helps with that. So if 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:29.800 Jarwin can't go, you can still have three because you 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.000 have mcun sprinkling Schultz, So we'll see. I was just 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.879