WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: What’s in Belichick’s Bag? 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.319 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:10.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:15.200 Cowboys. 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:20.520 This He's Talking Cowboys, springing live from the Dallas Cowboys 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:21.880 World head Hours at. 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:31.440 The Star in Frisco, dot Tisondow and now your hosts 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:39.600 Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda, and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.680 It's a Thursday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by a 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.040 Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:53.239 Texas and the SWBC studios, alongside Isaiah Standback, John Matchoda, 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:54.800 Nick Harris, Chris Beam in the back. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.040 I'm Kyle Yomans. Gentlemen. How are we doing today? 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:58.480 Doing pretty good? Okay, good playing? 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.360 Can't complain John, I was telling you guys before the 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:02.920 show stair, I got bit by some fire ants the 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:07.280 other day. Left my phone at home today. Oh yeah, 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:08.800 so I got to after this, I gotta go run 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.479 home and get it before the mcarthy Press camera too 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:12.000 far from here. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.520 So that's good, But I was, I don't even know how. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.120 I'm on my phone all the time. I don't know how. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:17.720 I just got out of my car and I realized 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:18.480 I didn't have it on me. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.000 This would be the one moment like crazy breaking news having. 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:22.480 Yeah, exactly exactly. 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.000 John's just gonna be like, can I borrow your laptop? 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.720 I got the laptop baked, then okay I need to 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:28.000 go to that. 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:28.200 I can. 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.880 Yeah, I'm going on sitting next to aunt Man. 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.720 Ant Man and who's the wasp? 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:38.760 Don't look at me? Don't look at me? 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:47.400 Oh Man, Good Thursday. I mean, it feels like it's 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.040 it's a turn of the page. We've we've turned the page. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.080 Usually we do that on Wednesday. But I think the 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.160 excitement is starting to come back for from Cowboys Nation 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.280 to to get ready and try and put that bad 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.320 taste out of your mouth from last week and and 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.280 do so against the Patriots this week. Cowboys were on 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.320 the practice field yesterday, we were in the locker room. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.080 Felt like Nick and John, both of you guys were 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:07.640 in there as well. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.400 I mean, it felt like there was a good vibe. 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:09.959 It really did. 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.760 It didn't feel like a vibe of okay, disappointment or anger. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:15.720 It felt like, all right, it's time to move on 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:16.960 and get looking forward. 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:18.960 Yeah, especially when you talk to the defense, you know, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.560 they've been very adamant about this being a one off 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.080 type of bad performance and you know that they're going 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.680 to rebound. This is not their standard. In fact, we 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.400 were talking to jay Ron Curse and somebody had asked 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:33.280 he really is and somebody had asked him. They were like, 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.519 do you feel like a lot of things that Arizona 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.960 had success with on Sundays is gonna be something that 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.920 New England tries to do again this upcoming Sunday? And 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.120 he was basically like, I hope they do, because we're 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.240 not going to play the same as we did last Sunday. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.720 So I hope that they try to play the same 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.000 things because we're gonna stop it. So it definitely looks 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.160 like this defense has put it behind them. Even talking 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.000 to Michael Parsons yesterday, very much the same feelings. I 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:57.359 asked him, how do you kind of put a bad 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.560 performance like that behind you and move forward? And he 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.320 gave a pretty good quote just about you know, being 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.120 able to take one game at a time and being 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.079 able to you know, rebound from this and put it 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.360 in the past. So I'm excited about this game because 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.240 both of these teams have something to prove going into 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.040 Week four. You know, we kind of talked about it 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.720 being as must win as it could be in Week 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.680 four yesterday, I think it's more so a prove it 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.320 game for these two teams. You know, New England's coming 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.720 in one and two have the possibility of falling to 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.360 one in three, and they talked about coming into the 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.480 season that you know there's still a playoff spot available 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.639 for them, that even with the Bills, Jets, and Dolphins 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.440 in this division, that they can they can compete in 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.360 this division and get a playoff spot. And then on 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.440 the other side, for the Cowboys, if they lose this game, 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.080 all of a sudden, we're looking at five hundred going 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:44.320 into San Francisco. So a really tough opportunity for Dallas 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.560 if they come out with a loss here. So it's 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.320 a prove it game for both of these programs. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:48.920 Yeah. 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:50.560 So if you said about the defense, that was my 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.400 biggest takeaway from the locker room, just because of the 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.480 fact that I feel like if covering this particular team 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.680 something goes wrong on the defense, I would say that 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.760 there's three key guys that I want to talk to, 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.280 and that would be to Marcus Lawrence, jay Ron Curse, 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:07.760 and Mike am I leaving anybody else. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:08.920 That's pretty accurate. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.000 They're usually the ones that are well one, they're in 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:16.280 a position that they make major impact on the field, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.640 so also what they're saying, they can also back it up. 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.800 You know, sometimes you cover teams at some of their 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:22.280 you know, some of the backups might be some of 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:23.800 the better talkers. That doesn't mean you can't get good 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.480 stuff from them, but I feel like those three are 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.440 kind of the voice of that defense. And I got 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.360 the same takeaways as Nick was saying. I think that 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:33.600 was the biggest overall thing from the locker room yesterday, 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.200 just because today will be probably a lot more red 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.520 zone talk and offense because we get CD and DAK. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.080 But thinking of press conference as in player availability and 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.839 all that stuff, if you get a chance, go watch 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.680 Bill Belichick, I guess today talk about the Cowboys. He 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.360 opens his press conference with just like we're gonna start 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.840 with Dallas and then just just so monotone the all 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.719 the way through names almost every single player on that starter, 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.159 and when it's done, it's five minutes. And so the 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.520 five minute mark is what it took before he took 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.560 his first question, which and a lot of the questions 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.240 he takes. His answers are very short, but it is 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.640 funny how he will do those long like the best 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.960 one by far if you just look up Bill Belichick 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.560 long snapper. Yeah, it was just someone asked him a 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.679 random question a few years back, and he just breaks 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.919 down all of the reasons why you know, they're specialist 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.440 on teams and and and all these all these different 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.279 special teams things that you can tell he genuinely enjoys 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.080 that part of the game where a lot of people, 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.120 especially where where the NFL is going now, where they're 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:29.240 taking a lot of that out of the game with 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.600 rules and things like that. But I don't know, that's 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.080 just funny. If you get a chance, go look that up. 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:34.680 I tweeted it out as a full quote, and a 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.320 lot of people were upset that I didn't break it 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.520 up in the paragraphs, but I couldn't. I maxed out 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.480 what was allowed in the tweet. So yeah, five minutes, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:42.400 five minute answer. On his breakdown on the couch. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:46.279 He talked about every single player. He mentioned Brandon Aubrey, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.440 how he missed his first kick. He mentioned Jordan like 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.719 he knew everything about everybody, he may as well be 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:51.160 on the beat. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.080 So I threw that out and lo and behold, I 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.200 did not. I tweeted it out because it's one of 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.880 those where like you click on the more and it 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.719 puts the whole quote out there, and I'm not even 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.400 thinking a lot of people are gonna read it. I'm 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.960 tweeting it out from just the look at how crazy 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.920 this is type thing, and lo and behold, you know 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.720 people are reading it. People to start firing back one 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.359 after another. You know, he didn't mention, you know, he 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.560 didn't mention. You know, he didn't mention dac dac d 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.760 act d act act. I'm just like, oh my lord, 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:19.960 I didn't even know. I didn't look at that closely 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.560 to you even look at something like that. But that's 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.360 there are some people out there and the magnifying glass 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.400 out and we're just dissecting that whole thing. What do 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:27.760 we got here? Who did he leave off? 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:28.000 You know? 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.440 So he does that like almost every week, Isaiah, right, 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.840 like he builds up the opponent in his press conferences publicly. 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:40.320 But there's there's yeah, there you go the but there's 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.560 also like an intimidation factor with it too. 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:43.880 I mean that's kind of what it is. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.000 You look at it and you see, okay, oh wow, 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.240 he said these nice things about the Cowboys. That's great, 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.040 and then everybody's like, oh gosh, he said these nice 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.960 things about the Cowboys like that, What is the mental 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.800 game the chess match that's going on with Bill Belichick 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:57.359 when he does that. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:02.080 Yeah, he doesn't care to do the first of all, right, second. 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.200 Of all, he doesn't feel as if he needs to 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.240 disclose any information that's going to put him at a 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:10.560 disadvantage whatsoever. That whatsoever. So he is the master of that, 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.080 and that goes across the board. That's the expectation when 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.800 you're in that locker room that you don't speak out 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.800 about what you're He makes Adam in our meetings when 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.360 I was out there, to not disclose anything, like you'd 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.840 be as black as possible. Yeah, black and white, just 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.240 as black as possible. Like, don't disclose anything, keep everything tight. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.080 It's not for them to know, Like what do they 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.640 need to know for. That's really his outlook on it. 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.720 He's not trying to he's not trying to be a jerk. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.400 He's just trying to protect his team, like that's his 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.240 number one goal. His number one priority is to make 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:44.680 sure that they're in the best position to win ball 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.960 games and disclosing information that he has internally to the 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.280 outside does not do that. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.400 One of the other things that he does that's pretty 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.280 outstanding on their on their website is he gets his 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.760 Isaiah on after games and breaks down one offensive play, 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.760 one defensive play, and when special teams play. And that 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.560 is really good, especially after in the previous years when 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.360 they've played the Cowboys. Like to your point, you can tell, 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.480 like in front of reporters that's probably not his thing 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.320 that he loves. But when he's doing the breaking down 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.120 the play stuff, he puts a lot of interesting things 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.880 out there. And just using one as an example, there 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.480 was it might have been against the Cowboys, but just 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.280 how he broke down how they punted the ball one 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.160 time because where the sun was ending at so he 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.600 knew that if you could put it somewhere here, Like 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:28.440 just the fact that he had out like, no, no, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:29.880 we punted it that way because you could tell in 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:31.440 the stadium the sun was starting to get over there, 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.320 and I was just like wow, Like just the breaking 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.040 down the things like that that I'm sure a lot 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.080 of coaches say, but just to hear him break it 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.440 down like that, and as Bill Belichick and you're expecting 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.120 him to be the guy that kind of like Greg Popovitch, 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:43.679 isn't gonna say much, but I'm tell you when he 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.800 gets in his element, like it's it's great stuff. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:46.560 Mad genius. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.199 Yeah, I magine genius. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.240 What's what are some of the other news and notes 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:50.960 to look forward to? 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.200 Yeah, I got a few things coming out of practice yesterday. 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.599 And again these are tweets via John Mashoda. That's a 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.760 great looking at the Cowboys who did not practice yesterday. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.280 All three offensive linemen were working with the rehab group. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.600 We only saw two of them during the media portion, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.200 but all three did participate with the rehab group. Tyler 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.040 Biottish still dealing with his hamstring, Zach Martin with his ankle, 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.280 and Tyron Smith with his knee. I feel like there's 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.920 kind of some growing confidence that at least one of 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.640 them come back on Sunday, and I would have to 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.720 assume that at least one of them come back on Sunday. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.760 And then Ceedee Lamb and DeMarcus Lawrence did not practice 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.199 for rest non injury related reasons, and then Truemedia Doga 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.400 was limited with his elbow that he's been battling since 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:31.240 the Jets game. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.959 If you had since you're thinking maybe one of those 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:35.680 guys comes back, if you had to put your finger 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:36.719 on it, which one do you think is? 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.680 I just don't feel like Zach Martin misses back to 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.800 back games. That feels very uncharacteristic. Unless it's a worse 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.000 injury than we expected, that would be my bet, just 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:47.280 because he's mister iron Man. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.240 Do you think there's a chance that you go without 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:50.960 Beaddish and without Tyron? 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:54.719 The thing is, if you go without Beyadis, you're in 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.200 an interesting position because you've already used all three of 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.280 brock Hoffman's elevations, which means you're gonna either have to 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.560 put Sean Harlowe in there, who the Cowboys picked up 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.120 right after training camp, right before the season from the 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:10.040 Giants practice squad, or Billy Price, who they picked up 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.439 literally yesterday. So it's going to be a very fresh face. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.680 And they're playing center, which we've we've come to learn 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.480 in this offense is becoming very important position to play. 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:25.080 I Beatis is probably the most important one going into 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.880 Sunday that needs to play. I think that's it's very 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.120 crucial for him to be lining up at Center on Sunday. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.960 What do you think about that and the possibilities up front? 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.360 It's not good. It's not a good week for that. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.360 It's just not a good week for that. These guys 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.160 the defensive line of solid, they they go balls to 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.920 the wall. It's not a good week to not have 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.400 any of those guys. You need all five. It doesn't 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.400 sound like you're going to have that. So game plan 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.560 is going to be very important. And not that it 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.240 wasn't already going to need to be important, but now 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:57.640 if you're not going to have all five of your 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.559 starters that you're intending to have, you got some stuff 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.280 to figure out because these guys are going to be 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:03.440 challenging for sure. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.040 I agree with Nick on the Zach Martin part of it, 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.120 yet I do think that he would be the most likely. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.599 At least we got to see Zach and Tyler on 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.760 the cords. We didn't even see Tyron Smith at all, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.600 so I thought that that was kind of an interesting 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.600 sign there. And then also Mike McCarthy was asked about 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.640 the potential of working Tyler Smith at some left tackle 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.880 because of possibly not having Tyron Smith, and he didn't 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.640 want to answer that, so that makes me think that, yeah, 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.520 maybe he will get some work over there Tyron Smith, 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.840 I mean Tyler Smith, sorry at left tackle, but still, yeah, 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.760 that middle of the offensive line, especially with what they 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.000 have at defensive tackle, that seems kind of scary for 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.880 this particular game and the mad scientist on the other 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:44.720 side of the ball coaching that's probably not great. 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:45.920 No, not at all. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.920 Are you surprised on the fact that Tyler Smith did 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.240 not bump out the tackle last week in the midst 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.280 of everything happening on the interior? Are you surprised by 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:55.960 that or is that something that you feel like is 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.240 a really an emphasis from this coaching staff you want 0:11:59.240 --> 0:11:59.960 to keep him at guard. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.319 I'm not surprised because of the context of the situation, 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.400 the fact that Tyron Smith went down just twenty four 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.520 hours before the game started. They didn't get him any 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.400 reps at left tackle. Probably, and y'all would have to 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.520 correct me if maybe something happened at training camp. I 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.960 can't recall Tyler Smith taking a rep at left tackle 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:22.679 since since last season, so you wouldn't want to throw 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.240 him in the fire like that in a game situation. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.600 So go ahead and Leudy Doga, who's been taking those 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.640 reps at left tackle and Oxnard and sometimes in practice 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.280 as well. Let him go ahead and throw in a 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.960 left tackle, Let Tyler Smith go at left guard and 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.080 then figure it out next week. Well now it's next week, 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:38.880 so maybe they're figuring it out. Yeah. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.520 I think maybe there were a few at OTA's or 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.880 mini camp before they like kind of made it like, hey, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:45.520 now we're going to go with this going into camp, 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.440 started training camp. Yeah, no physicality right I started training camp. 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:50.320 I don't think that he has. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.839 I do remember Tyler Smith taking some left tackle reps 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.920 at OTA's that does ring a bell. 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.400 But outside of since they got to ox Neard till now, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.800 I don't remember him. And from the portion that was 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.000 over pinentially does. I didn't see him over there either. 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.680 And they've preached versatility the staff since they've been here, 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.360 and Mike McCarthy specifically, so they're they're going to play 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.000 him at left tackle if they feel like they need to. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:11.720 It's not going to be like a, well, you know 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.440 he's doing better at left Carlo's just keep him there 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.120 while he's no. If they need it, they're gonna throw 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:15.560 him out. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.000 There for this particular matchup. What do you think they 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.040 would need him more at left guard, left tackle or 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:20.560 does it matter. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.920 I don't think it really matters. I think holistically, you 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.360 need a unit that's gonna work together. I don't I'm 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.240 not out a fan of throwing him out there, put 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.200 him on a yo yo. We need your tackle, we 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.480 need drack Guarden. They did that last year. He went 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.200 above and beyond the call of duty last year to 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.600 fill that void for them. They opted not to address 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.480 some things. So now kind of finding themselves in a 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:41.240 situation again. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.199 Yeah, I'm interested to see going into this week, one 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.720 who's healthy period and two where Tyler Smith ends up, 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.840 Because if if Tyron's healthy, then I mean, of course 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.520 you're gonna put him at left tackle. But if he's 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.199 out for an extended period of time or maybe longer 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:01.080 than we even anticipate from this standpoint, then maybe you 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.240 do end up having Tyler Smith bounce out to the 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.160 left tackle spot and kind of get right back on 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:08.960 that yo yo that he had last year, back and 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.200 forth between left tackle and left guard. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:12.240 Any other news and. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.760 Notes, Yeah, So obviously the big headline this week is 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:17.959 that Ezekiel Elliott is making his return to Dallas. He'll 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:19.840 play his first game, not only against the Cowboys, but 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.120 back in at and T Stadium. He was asked yesterday 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.360 on a conference call with the Cowboys beat Riders, was 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.240 there any contract talks with the Cowboys after your release? 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:29.680 You know what were those like? He said, there were 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.200 minimum contract talks after he was released. Here's the quote. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.240 Business is business. Anyone who gets released or gets cut, 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.280 it's going to be tough mentally, but life is life. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.040 It is what it is. It was on me to 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.120 get back on the horse. You can't let negatives weigh 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:43.880 you down. You got to take a negative and turn 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.000 it into a positive. And that's what I'm working to do. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.160 So I think we all kind of expected the fact 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.560 that maybe there were quote unquote minimum contract talks with 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.760 the Cowboys, but I'm sure it was a situation where 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.280 Jerry was like, look, man, if you want to return, 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.120 this is your number, and then Zeke kind of went 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:58.360 out and see it so if he could find a 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.240 bigger number, and he did so I found that interesting 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:02.120 from the call yesterday. 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.640 Yeah, Zeke always going to present some storylines when you 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.320 played against former players or former friends of yours. I 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.560 guess from time at different spots did it ever stick 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.160 in your head whenever you were going up against those guys. 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.200 No, it's like a family reunion. I mean, it's you 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.240 compete against these guys in training camp. You can you know, 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.640 whether you're competing against them on another team. It's all competition, 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:25.400 you know. You just you know, you go out there, 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.280 you give it your best, You have fun, you talk, smack, 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.360 and hope that nobody gets hurt. And that's really the situation, 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.480 regardless if they're on another team or not. That's just 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.200 the outcome. You know, you want to go out there, 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:35.800 have a good time. You want to hit him in 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.680 the mouth, talk mess to him. I got you, you know, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.640 put it on film, have a little have a little 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.600 uh what's the word. I'm looking for little bragging rights. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:46.840 And then after that, you know, you just hopefully everybody 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.200 just walks away healthy and you can go on switch jerseys, 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:50.880 do all the other stuff out of the game, and 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:51.800 I'll talk to you later. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:53.240 We'll link up in off season type of deal. 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:54.280 Who Getsi's jersey? 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.960 Hollard No, definitely, Dak, Yeah, I think yeah, that's got. 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.760 To be Actually, second would probably be Mica. I just 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:03.920 I'm looking forward to them going against each other because 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:05.280 there was just a lot of times a training camp 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:09.160 where that's I feel like, I feel like Micah's rookie year, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.520 he was playing more linebacker, and I felt like in 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.760 training camp that's where you really got to see his 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.880 speed during his rookie season, because you'd see how quickly 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:18.840 he'd close on Zeke on some runs. And of course, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.240 you know they're the training game. They're not tackling to 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.400 the ground or anything, but they've been in those situations 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.640 many at times and joking back and forth with each other. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.120 I remember on some of those practices that reporters were 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:29.680 allowed to be at, so I know that they've had 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.560 those behind the scenes. Then there's that whole you know, 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.040 Ohio State Penn State thing. So those two I want 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.720 to see the most because they they have somewhat similar 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.520 personalities too, where I really feel like they they know 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.240 how to they're superstars with the Cowboys, and they knew 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.080 how to like kind of they became faces franchise type 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.280 guys to like that, big personalities and things. So those 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.640