WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Back From The Bye 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:04.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:11.039 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:15.360 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.720 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:25.880 wa with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:31.040 Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, October seventeenth, twenty seventeen, season thirteen, 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.480 episode number fifty five. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:38.120 live on the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. And 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.600 there's a lot for us to get into today. It's 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.040 been a little while since we've been on the air. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.480 We had a nice little bye week. There a couple 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.519 of days to just kind of kick back. Don't look 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:48.040 like that, Dave. You had a couple of days to 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.360 kind of kick back. And I was on the air 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.760 yesterday and Thursday. I think, yeah, but Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:56.800 you didn't have to do anything, all right. So I 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.360 was saying the little break saying, relatively speaking, yeah, you're 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.560 right all right? How you doing? Nick? Good? Good? Amber Good? 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.080 Nick has this lawyer face on because I don't have 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:07.959 a lawyer face, and I'm not about to talk. I'm 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.520 really not about to tell you anything. You're not. I 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:12.560 talked a little bit about what's going on. I try 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:14.959 to figure some stuff out, but I only had like 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.640 five minutes, so it's gonna take a lot more than that. Oh, 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:19.720 we got a whole hour, so you can you can 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.280 definitely just feel it on whatever you know. We'll get 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.440 into that in just a second. We'll also spend some 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.720 time to day talking about the NFC East. All the 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:28.920 teams in the NFC East except for the Cowboys, played 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.399 last weekend. All of them won. We'll see if what 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.360 you guys are thinking about this NFC East and uh, 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.880 and if maybe these giants who are who were winless 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.800 until last weekend can possibly get on a role here 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:42.600 and maybe beat some teams you want them to beat 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.040 here in the second half of the season. All right, 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.200 before we start, I mean, let's go ahead and get 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.080 into it and talk a little bit about this, this 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.680 situation with Ezekiel Elliott. Uh, there's a lot that's still 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.960 going on. As of last Friday, Nick, you guys jumped 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:57.560 on the air and did I thought a really good 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.240 show for you guys that didn't hear it talking about 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.000 the Zeke situation and the fact that now the NFL 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.400 is reinstated, they were allowed by the courts to reinstate 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:11.320 the suspension UM. And then as of yesterday, I think 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.520 there was some filings that happened with Zeke's team tell 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.200 us about I guess what's happening right now, What should 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.800 fans be looking looking at and what should they be 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.600 paying attention to with regards to axiculoity. Well, I think 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.560 today they are. They're meeting again today in New York. 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:32.079 They're trying to the NFLPA is trying to get another 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.600 I guess restraining order or stay for the suspension they're 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.080 trying to to, which I think would only last fourteen 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.839 days um. Because what they're trying to do is get 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.520 all of the twelve twelve circuit judges I guess together 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.880 for this and while they're doing that, they're hoping to 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.600 get a stay for this so so he will continue 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.760 to play would block the suspension again right until they 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.160 can get all those so they can get them all 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.640 together together to be able to hear it. Yeah, and 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.680 that which apparently takes forever to do that. So the 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:09.320 nfl PA is hoping to get you know, while this happens, 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.880 to get a stay so so as he can continue 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.240 to play. And that's that's what I think. It's going 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.120 to be ruled on today at one thirty, So maybe 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.280 this afternoon we'll find out if he's going to play 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.760 in this game. But I mean, there's so many more 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.160 layers to this, you know, and and we can get 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.240 into a little bit more about why he's doing that day. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.040 You might know more about what's happening this week or today, 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.079 or I know there's a ruling today that's going to 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:38.440 determine I mean, I was under the impression it might 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.480 determine his status period because if he doesn't get this, 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.440 there's not a whole lot else he can do, right, right, 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.400 if he goes against him, then he's kind of waiting 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.880 until they get those all those judges together and then 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.560 they would hear the case. Basically, the way I understand 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:57.040 it is that today is about getting the stay until 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.520 they can get together to actually hear the case and 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.640 then make a ruling. But the problem is if you 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:03.880 don't get to stay, then who knows how long that's 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.240 going to take. And all that time as of as 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.720 of yet, as a Friday, the NFL said he's suspended, 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.720 could theoretically serve his whole suspension while he's waiting. While 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.360 he's waiting, correct, Yeah, yeah, which Again, if his goal 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.160 at the end of the day is to clear his name, 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.000 then it's kind of irrelevant if he has to serve 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.920 the six game suspension and then the court case continues. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.320 He still wants to have the court case because he 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.400 wants to be able to clear his name. But you're right, 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.720 it could happen that the courts take so long if 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.279 he doesn't have a stay, the courts take so long 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.560 that he serves a suspension anyway, which would seem to 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.440 be a bit of a travesty, especially if he should 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.000 win the court case at some point. Yeah, which, and 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:43.080 by no means, and I am I an expert on this, 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.120 I feel like I'm more and more out of my 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.880 depth every time this thing takes a turn. But I'm 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.919 I'm not under the impression that he's got like a 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.960 favorable chance on this one. I mean, he's refiling in 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.640 the second District of New York, which has been friendly 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.520 to the NFL before the where the Brady case played out, 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:08.520 And it sounds like I go into this expecting him 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.120 to not get it and then not when or not 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.520 get a stay, not get the stay. I don't know 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.960 what happens with the course, I mean the case once 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.960 it's eventually you know, heard. But I'm expecting him to 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.320 not get this stay just and that's I mean, that's 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.560 just my intuition and my feeling about it. I don't mean, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.360 we'll see if I'm right or wrong. But um, I 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:34.000 think it was an upset or maybe not unforeseen but 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.520 a little unexpected, that that that injunction got thrown out 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.599 in New Orleans. I think that was the big thing 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.560 for Zeke's team, that that they wanted to have. I mean, 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.760 that clearly worked so well in his favor, and now 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.680 he's kind of behind the eight ball. Well, but if 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.280 if memories, I mean, if if I'm understanding this correctly, 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.039 the ruling that happened last week was not so much 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.560 about the merits of his case as much as it 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:59.279 was about the timing and where it was being adjudicated. Correct. Yes, none, 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.640 none of this is really about the merits of the case, right, 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.160 I mean, other than I do think at this point 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.880 now with the refiling, it does become more about the 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.800 merits of the case, because you are presumably in the 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.080 right court because you're doing it in New York in 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.440 the Fifth Circuit, right, so you're in the right court. 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.960 The timing is right because the appeal has already been 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.200 heard by the NFL, by the arbitrator, and you've gotten 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.480 a ruling, So the timing is right. So now it 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.600 does become about the merits of the case. And that's 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.800 why I kind of am the flip of you. I 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.039 think there's a lot of reason why you can think 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.279 that maybe the court will give him the stay in 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.240 the fact that in all that time, if he's missing games, 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.000 he can't get those games back. So there is a 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.880 clear situation here where there's irreparable harm that's done before 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.599 there's a ruling. I don't have a lot of faith 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.560 that in the long term this is going to play 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.560 out in his favor, because, like you said, this is 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.240 the same situation. There have been a lot of There 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.560 have been a few different situations, I should say, where 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.919 players have ended up taking their things the court and 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.599 rarely I don't think, if ever, they've won. Because of 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:03.720 the way the CBA is set up for the league 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.520 to have the kind of jurisdiction that they do, and 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.360 so Nick, so you're telling me, even if he gets this, 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.600 that only buys him two weeks. That's what That's what 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.560 I was told. Fourteen days would be how long the 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.960 restraining order would be temporary restraining order, and I my 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.080 assumption is that one or two things would happen at 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.720 that point. Either they get all these guys together to 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:27.560 be able to hear this case, or they would follow 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.960 another temporary restraining order to continue to continue until they 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.800 can get everybody to all the until they can have 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.080 it heard and obviously get a ruling. Right. Yeah, this 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.440 is like when you go down to walk down the 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.240 stairs to go eat. See how that art that's up 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.520 and down like that. That's what this is. Trying to 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.800 piece it together. Now that's the hell Mary, I got it. Yeah, 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:52.320 that's kind of what those of you guys who aren't 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.080 in this building and have never been in this building. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.240 There's a neat little art display that shows all the 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.920 different frames of thet No. It goes like three stories. Yeah, 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.200 it's huge, and it's actually pretty cool, but it shows 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:07.080 different frames, different photo frames of the hell Mary play. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.880 But anyway, you're right, now, this is it's gonna be tough. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.680 But let me kind of throw this part out there too, 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.440 that I know the fans they can't help but care 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.680 about what they care about, and they care about their 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.520 favorite team and their favorite players playing in the game 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.560 to help him win. I understand that. And so for 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.720 all the fans that say, just take it now, just 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.920 take take this suspension, let's just get it over with, 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.920 because it's gonna happen anyways. Let's sen we're not that 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.080 good this year or two and three will probably just 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.320 take it. Like there's so much more to it than that, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.880 Like he cannot quit. He cannot quit. Now, do you 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.120 realize when you're on the number four overall, pick all 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.959 the guaranteed moneies that that come with that. I mean, 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.000 when you are suspended for this for one game, even 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.199 if it's just this one game, all of his guaranteed 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.840 moneys out the window. So knock on wood. If he 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.520 had a really bad injury, one of those injuries that 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.720 you're like, oh my god, I mean, he's done. He 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.320 cannot He won't get any of that money because he 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:09.080 and it's not the team's decision, right, it's a it's 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.640 gonna be in the neighborhood about two million dollars that 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.199 he will lose just from that alone, just from the 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:21.080 just from playing or missing game checks and incentives and 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.320 all that stuff. Then you got to remember court costs, 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.400 Like he's taking all this on himself. This is in 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.320 the neighborhood of maybe a million when it's all said 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.480 and done. If you know, if Cam Newton's losing sponsors 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.840 for what happened, you know he's not getting any So 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.440 look at all of the all of what what could 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.040 be lost here and then the top of his comptation. 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.160 And the NFLPA doesn't want to quit this thing either, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.560 because this is more about this isn't They're not just 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.720 fighting for Zeke, they're fighting against Goodell. They're fighting against 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.160 and the next you know, labor deal of Like, no, 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.720 the commissioner doesn't have this much power as much as 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.400 he thinks he's. So there's so many different levels here 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.319 that that it's just it's not eive to say, just 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.920 drop the case. Let's get it on, because because it's 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.400 hurting your team and your fantasy team, it's a lot 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.640 more to it than that I don't understand something, and 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.800 maybe you guys can explain it. To me, But I 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:19.200 can't understand how a suspension can come into effect whilst 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.520 a case is still going on, since that's something, I mean, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.240 a suspension is something you can't take back, just like 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.559 let's put you in jail while we finish the investigation. 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.439 That's something you can't take back. So I don't understand 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.240 the whole procedure in this whole case. Well, whether you 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.560 believe it or not, the NFL is arguing the same 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.280 thing that Zeke is arguing, which is there is irreparable 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:44.559 harm by letting him play. So they're arguing while the league, 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.679 I mean, while the NFLPA is trying to get this 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:51.560 temporary restraining order under the thought that if Zeke is 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.000 forced not to play while the case is still being adjudicated, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.880 then there's a reparable harm him he can't get those 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.240 games back. Well, the league is saying the exact same thing, Well, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.040 there's a reparable harm to us. I'm not really sure 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.000 how they I'm not sure how they're making that argument. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.360 They're probably saying something to the effect of, hey, if 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.320 if if we let him play, then this sets up 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.680 a bad precedent and then players will take things to court. 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.880 When that's not a part of CBA. I don't know 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.080 what their argument is, and that's my assumption that would 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.560 be their argument, But they are making the argument there's 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.959 a reparable harm being done the league if Zeke continues 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.880 to play in the meantime while this thing's being judicated. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.040 So just depends on how the judges. Yeah, it just 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:33.960 depends on how the judges rule. On On top of that, 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.160 I think you're you're going a level deeper than you 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.320 need to, like, for the point of answering your question, 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.439 the investigations over. As far as the NFL's concerned, they 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.920 investigated it, they made a decision. They think he violated 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.960 their policy, so they suspended him. He is taking outside 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.679 means and going above and beyond to try to fight that. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.280 But as far as the NFL's concerned, they've already made 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.880 that decision, and I get that. I'm just even then, 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.640 you know, they made their decision, but the whole thing 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.520 is still going on. So if you're taking that to 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.120 another court, it's like, Okay, let's just keep it in 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.840 hold on hold and until we figure out. But exactly 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.199 what to do, And if I'm the NFL, and again 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.640 I'm not saying what they did was right or whatever. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.679 But I'm saying, we made our ruling and we want you. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.160 You're going to serve that suspension while this gets sorted out, 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.160 and whether or not whatever comes of this, we have 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.920 decided that you're suspended, right, And that's the league's perspective. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.920 I think Amber saying, I guess the way I took 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.000 it was the courts are now the ones that are 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.640 left to decide should this be on hold until we 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.120 finished making a ruling, or should it not be? And 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.079 that's I guess what they're gonna argue today and say, 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.760 We're gonna figure out see how they fall on this. 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.080 It's gonna be interesting either way. Let's talk about the 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.720 contingencies here for the Cowboys. Let's assume for a second 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.760 that Zeke does not get to stay and he is 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.640 forced to miss game, at least miss this weekend's game. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:54.559 What are the Cowboys going to do at the running 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.040 back position. We've seen Alfred Morris be the guy that's 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.920 been the number two. We've seen Darren McFadden in act. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.880 If there's a thought that maybe Darren mcatt McFadden, they're 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.600 doing that because they want to keep him fresh, to 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.520 make him now jump into that starting spot. If this 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.720 were to happen, what do you guys believe this thing's 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.280 gonna fall. As far as playing time for the running backs, Well, 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.800 whatever it is, it's gonna be a little bit more 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:20.400 of a split, you know, split carries than what we've seen. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.400 I mean, we've seen ninety five percent to Zekee and 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.040 you know, maybe five percent to Morris. I don't think 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.000 it'll be like that. It'll probably be in the sixty 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.679 forty range. I don't flavoring who. If had to guess, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.959 I would say Morris, I guess because they like him more. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.360 But I don't. I don't know. I mean I would 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.559 imagine that whatever it is, I mean they're gonna play, 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.240 I would probably go with Morris because I think McFadden 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.319 would be your better third down back if you want 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.720 to go that route. But yeah, I have a hard 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.880 time believing they're gonna vault a guy into the lion's 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.560 share of the carries after sitting on the bench for 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.640 a month and a half, although I will say practicing though, right, 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.959 No sure, But I mean, you know, just Alfred Morris 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.200 has been in the swing of the season, and he's 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.760 been getting carries during the games I had a big run, 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:04.600 I would have the longest run of the year. Yeah, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.360 I would imagine he if Yeah, I think Nick's right. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.000 Something you know, committee sixty sixty thirty five or five 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.640 percent left over for Rod Smith probably something you guys 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.720 are saying that if by chance, somebody that you know 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:20.200 owns Zeke Elliott in their fantasy league, that Morris might 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.880 be the guy you'd want to pick up to replace him. Honestly, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.800 I was gonna say I picked him up on Friday, 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.280 but I was scared, like really, yeah I did? What? 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.760 Like who? What kind of bums? Or I have a 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.240 horrible running back? No, but what kind of bums are 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.280 in your league that nobody thought to pick him up? 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.200 Like my all, but Darren mcfatten picked up in every 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.560 other league. Been texting me since September like, which of 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.480 these guys should I have him? Nobody knew that's the problem. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.520 I've had Morris on my bench since week one, for 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.840 whatever that's worth. But all right, I'm just saying so 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.280 for you. For you, when Darren mcfatten was sitting on 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.520 the bench when he was inactive, to you, that signaled 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.640 he Morris is the guy in the event that has 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.560 to sit. I think you know. And yeah, I'm gonna 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.440 have to go on a fantasy show later this week 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.400 where they're gonna ask me this question. I'm gonna say 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.720 there isn't a good answer. I'm sorry, there, it's not 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:11.720 There's no way any of these guys are gonna get 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.760 ninety five percent of the carries. I don't believe that. 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.560 And if Jason Garrett came up to me today and 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.560 said our decision to sit Darren McFadden for the last 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.280 six weeks has nothing to do with Zeke's situation, I 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.440 wouldn't believe him. No, he could tell me that, and 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.880 I just say, you're full of crap. I don't believe. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.240 But one of those guys is gonna have to be 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.440 an active though right, they weren't gonna have both but 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:35.320 Alfred Morris. But the conscientious decision to go with one 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:39.240 repeatedly week after week after favoring the other one all 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.880 through training camp. I just I don't buy it. And again, 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:43.960 you can tell me I'm wrong, and I'll just stick 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.120 to my opinion. What do you make again? You're saying 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:51.160 that that they sat McFadden. I think the the the 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.600 the what the continuous decision to sit him every week 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.360 and just constantly go with Morris. So you thought they 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.280 should have rotated between who was I think it was 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.840 close enough that the fact that it was always McFadden 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.600 all six weeks tells me that they're like, we'd rather 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.280 just have this guy definitely be ready if we unless, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.520 of course, they were trying to tell him he wasn't 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.200 as good as Morris, like if if Morris was better 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.800 to them in the preseason and in training camp, and 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.280 they wanted to make sure McFadden knew that nothing nothing. 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:21.720 The way to do that is to sit him down. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.600 Nothing they did during preseason or training camp insinuated that 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.920 they thought Morris was better. McFadden got them McFadden started. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.520 If Fadden started, McFadden got more work right often than 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.400 not at all. And if and if they felt and 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.000 if they felt like in that situation he wasn't taking 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.520 advantage of it and he wasn't showing them enough, then 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.600 Fadden was on their rest cycle. Like they were like, 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.000 we're gonna give him this day off because he's a veteran. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.800 He needs it, understood, But if all that time in 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.200 preseason you're offering they didn't feel like he was he 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.200 was playing better than Morris. You're offering a strong counter argument, 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.080 and Jason Garrett could offer the same thing, and I 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.600 would say, that's cool. I don't believe you, straight up, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.000 no matter what you say, I don't believe. I don't believe. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.720 And that's okay. Yeah, I mean, if I can be wrong, 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.239 if I want to be wrong, I just it just 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.160 makes too much sense with what's facing them right now, 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.760 where they're like, well, it's really good that we decided 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.679 to keep our most injury prone running back on the 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.320 shelf because now we got them. Yeah. I just and 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.800 and if they didn't do it on purpose, then it's 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.240 a very good unintended consequence. Put it that way. I 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.719 don't know if they ever really intended that Zeke are 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.040 really thought that Zeke was going to be out. I mean, 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.720 who knows. But but when you have this surplus of 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:30.639 running backs, it makes a hell of a lot of 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.439 sense to try to protect them as much as you 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.440 can when you don't know how much you can count 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:38.320 on your starter. Yep. So but if that's the mentality, 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.760 I mean, this is not even close to being the same. 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:46.440 But why not make Cooper Rush active instead? Because that's 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.439 the same kind of mentality because you're only ever one 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.159 play away from needing your backup quarterback and whatever. For 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.359 whatever reason, they trust Kellen Moore to do that more 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.920 than they trust Cooper Rush. But if Zeke had gotten 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:58.760 hurt in any of these games, you've still got two 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.560 capable guys behind him, So I don't think that's the 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.480 same thing. So it sounds like they feel pretty good 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.959 with the options they have right now. According to Stephen Jones, 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:12.480 I mean that, Yeah, it's it's not as exciting as 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.960 Ezekiel Elliott or if you had drafted a guy. But 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.080 you know, it hasn't made sense why they've had all 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.719 these running backs for the last six months, but now 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:22.520 it does. Yeah, we're gonna take our break when we 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.080 come back. I actually want you guys to answer that 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.000 question for me. 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