WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: The Kamara Issue 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:19.079 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.919 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:35.519 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brats, Rob Phillips, 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:40.760 and Bill Jones eighty six degrees and climbing here at 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:46.800 the Star in Frisco. It's another another outdoor Wednesday edition 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:51.080 of Talking Cowboys. As the team heads out on the 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:55.160 practice field as we speak in will this heat wave 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.320 ever end in the state of Texas? No? Okay, the 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.560 meteor all your report from Mickey Spagnola to get us 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.679 started here, and we've got Rob Phillips, We've got Brian 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.440 brought us and we always love Wednesday because it is 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.720 time to get ready for this game on Sunday night, 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.440 the New Orleans Saints. It's installation Day and that's what 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.319 we're gonna do here on Talking Cowboys. We just heard 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.560 Jason Garrett around the horn. Anything that it's on your 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.000 mind as you get started this morning. Mickey, you worried 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.840 about Crawford playing this week? Oh, he's not playing, Okay, 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.680 I don't think he's playing for a couple of weeks. Yeah, 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.920 that versides evidently it's and it's not the fixed hip, 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.480 it's the other hip that's been giving him some problems. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:44.479 So yeah, it's nice to see maybe limited back with 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.800 Austin being back, but they're going to have to figure 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.120 out again. I didn't mean to go to Austin, but 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.720 I'll talk about the ends. They're gonna have to figure 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.280 out again how they're gonna play that rotation. You know, 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.760 it's Quinn at least you get to feel good about 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.280 his situation. But now what's going to go behind Quinn? 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.840 You know, is it going to be Joe Jackson and 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.160 Armstronger those guys. But they've got to figure this out. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.240 It's a big game for these defensive linemen to have 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.920 to get after Teddy Bridgewater in this game. Well, and 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.440 for your interior guys too. That's why I asked about 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.760 you know, Anton Woods and sounding like he's gonna go today. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.040 That's why I asked about Covington and the press conference 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:18.919 because he was a little banged up in the game. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.400 Sounds like he's okay, but it could be more of 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.680 Covington and Tristan Hill in this game too. Trying to 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.000 deal with what Brian said yesterday, a big, a big 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.000 powerful Saints offensive line and try to get some push 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:34.320 there and with Crawford. Okay, So is it one of 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.160 those things where it's like when you've got one you've 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.839 got a bad knee, and you're favoring that one and 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.600 then your other one goes Haywire is the same way 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.520 with a hill. I think he has this condition. I 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.240 just think this is naturally, you know, something that has 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.680 developed in his life where he's had, you know, physically 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.920 is sometimes the way you're put together might be the 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.120 way that you know, that's the things you deal with 0:02:56.360 --> 0:03:01.360 arthritic knees, elbows, shoulders, whatever you have life, you sometimes curveballs. 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.560 We are not perfectly put together. And the word tear 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.720 on him I think has been really really you know, 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.320 pronounced throughout his career. And he's fought through a lot 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.799 of things in his like bad shoulders, bad knee, bad hips. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:15.760 You know, he seems to find a way to kind 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.040 of get there. But this one's clearly got him h 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.480 you know, taken taken back. That was always the injury 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.080 I was most worry about because I don't know that 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.560 it's fixable. He's in his eighth year, and yeah, you 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.920 get something, you get a condition like that, and you 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.680 can treat it, but I don't know that you can 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.000 fix it. The other injuries they have, they're kind of 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.760 fixable or you can rehab it and you know how, 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.040 you know, how do you rehab a hip? Yeah, you know, 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.480 we kind of need that sucker. We saw it. We 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.640 saw Byron Jones kind of deal with that. That did 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.920 fix whatever he had the surgery yer right, and then 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.560 you know with Crawford, so the fact that it's not 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.680 the one that he had fixed, it's the other one 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.560 that that tells me something maybe. And again I'm not 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.160 a doctor here, I'm not genetically something not balanced with 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:02.760 him there that he's going to have to deal with 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.280 the rest of his life. And they've been trying to 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.160 manage him since training camp. I mean, just try to 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.160 kind of move him along, rehab him, mick, and try 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:12.920 to get him ready to play. Obviously it was bothering 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.920 him that first week. You're right, I don't know if 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.440 there's a full timetable for him. I think Stephen Jones 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.680 said a week or two ago, you know, it could 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.440 be a little bit. So how long exactly in the meantime, they're, 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.880 like Brian mentioned, it's Dorance Armstrong. Carrie Hider's a guy 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.920 that played all over the line. Absolutely they have to Again, well, 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:34.680 I think you just look at it the way it 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.520 was with Crawford, I mean with Quinn missing. Yeah, you've 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.200 just traded off Quinn Crawford for Quinn and you're in 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.800 the same situation you were the first couple of games 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:49.960 when Quinn wasn't there, you had to rely on Armstrong, Jackson, Yeah, 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:54.120 you know, and those guys. So yeah, I mean, Armstrong 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.000 played a good bit in that game at right defensive end, 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.440 and maybe it comes down to you. You You get less 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:06.960 rest for DeMarcus Lawrence along with Quinn. Okay, I'm worried 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:10.640 about the nickel the nickel tackle. That's where I kind 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.440 of feel like that they can do some damage with 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.359 if Crawford was in there along with Collins, We've seen 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.040 that kind of be a really good little combination side 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.040 of two power players. All Right, I'm piecing things together. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:26.159 Here is an offshoot of that. Maybe why they're doing 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.640 what they're doing with Jaylen Smith now yes, yeah, no questions. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.039 So they're trying to attack the pocket with Jalen Smith 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.240 is what they're trying to do. But their numbers up 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.279 front and guys that can put pressure on the on 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.080 the quarterback from an end position. Jalen Smith is one 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.159 that looks like he possesses that ability. He helped on 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.760 the Colins sack they ran. They ran a twist stunt 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.760 inside and he was one of the one of the 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.360 posts and so was Lawrence both hard charge inside. It 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.240 wads everything up inside for the Dolphins and now here 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.599 comes Collins off the type you know, the tight path 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.000 and he's able to get in on the quarterback. Yeah, clearly. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.200 So I think, you know, there's been a speculation on Twitter, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.600 what you know, what's wrong with Jalen Smith. They look at, 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.760 you know, one or two plays, and they also look 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.920 at the snaps that Joe Thomas got and in natural 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.200 assumption is okay, what's what's going on? Why they don't 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.080 like what's they're saying. Maybe they're figuring out a different 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.160 way to use it to offset where they've got to 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.880 need up front on the defensive as well. I think 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:27.800 in training camp though, we saw them using the linebackers 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:34.000 in more pass rush rolls, blitzing Jalen Smith and blitzing him. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.960 Even in camp when they're not tackling guys, he's coming 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:42.720 in pretty violent. Yeah, So I think they saw where, okay, 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.920 we can go with a three man line and stand 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.280 him up and they don't know if he's coming or going. 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.640 Might feel it's a better fit for him to be 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.680 on the field all the time, rushing the pass or 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.039 than maybe playing in some pass carebag if you're a nickel. Yeah, 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.159 that's the thing. They've brought Joe Thomas on the field 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.840 and play nineteen snap nineteen. So they had a plan 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.320 and what they wanted to do. A matter of fact, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.479 we saw it like he was tired. No exactly. I 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.880 mean to me, if you want to, if you want to, 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.720 if you want it to meet. Just my evaluation just 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.440 watching the film, I felt like Jalen Smith had four 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.880 bad plays. That was it, and you know everybody's only 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.520 he doesn't look this, he doesn't you know. And then 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.680 again the play that he looked the absolute worst on 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.960 was the handback where it was the trick play where 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.120 all of a sudden he took an aggressive approach up 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.520 and then he had to spin in return and that 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.600 where you know, everybody goes, oh my God, he's back 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.200 to having dropped foot, you know, right, I mean, and 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.800 that was Seriously, that's that's where it's become. So four 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.360 bad plays out of like forty something snaps, A lot 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.960 of guys have dropped foot when they have that pitch back. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.400 Oh no, that that's what I'm saying. He was aggressively 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.440 trying to attack down. Healed him, and then he and 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.440 then he had to spend to go back. And by 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.200 that time, though, you know, Williams, the receiver had run 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:50.760 all the way across the field and they dumped the 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.880 ball behind him, and so yeah, it looks bad. You know, 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.120 there's a couple of plays too where I felt like 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.440 he didn't really get in position. He overran a play, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.560 he had the defensive holding pilling, but what do you 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.200 do on the next play he caused a fumble after 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.560 the defensive holding penalty. So you know, to say that, 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.360 you know that people, I think people are being very 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.480 critical of this group. And again I will take blame 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.880 for this. I will take blame for being for influencing 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.160 people to say, I feel like this linebacking cores is 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.160 one of the best in the league. I feel like 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.760 this this it's the strength of this defense, they're going 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.400 to find a way. You know, we we're just not 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.760 seeing the splash play is the ripping the ball out 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.240 of the guy's hands, you know, on the goal line. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.760 That's a splash play. But we'll haven't seen it down 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.280 after down after down. And if if that's where people 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.600 are expecting, and I think a lot of it has 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:39.800 to do with the fact that you got a new 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.280 contract extension. We all like to look at the player 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.880 and say, oh my god, we've paid to Marcus Lawrence. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.640 Now look he can't play. Oh look, we've paid Jane Smith. 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.880 He can't play now. You know when Dak Prescott gets paid, 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.319 Oh my god, he can't play now either. It's a 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.120 different there's but I will take if you want to 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.360 put that on me for for saying that this was 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.120 one of the best, as potentially be one of the 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.000 best linebacking groups in the league, and they're not playing 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.880 to that level, then in fine point the finger at 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.079 me for saying that and maybe raising your expectations. But yeah, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.480 can this group play better as a whole, Yeah they can, 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.680 but they feel like that they're not playing, that they're 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.840 not capable of playing better, you know, And pointing the 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.560 finger at at them for that, and I think that's 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.920 the wrong I think you're on something with the with 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.720 the splash plays because he and Layton together they don't 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.880 have any tackles for loss. They have they haven't blown 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.240 up plays necessarily. Yeah, but they've made plays. And like 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.840 I said yesterday, the run defense. I know, these offenses 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.160 they're playing right now so far have not been dominant offenses, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.800 but they've done a better job against the run. I'm 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.400 really interested to see how they handle Kamara in this game. 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.480 I mean, you can't ask for a better big offensive line. Yeah, 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.320 you have to get off some blocks and go. Yeah, 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.280 and Jason talked just now about tackling. That's that's line 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.280 one with this defense, and that's line one really for 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.640 this matchup on Sunday. Seeing a lot of a lot 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.920 of Joe Thomas's snaps when when when they were used 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.359 Jalen Smith as a pass rusher, they had more linebackers 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.880 on the field. Yeah, so Thomas was playing linebacker while 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:13.439 he was kind of technically a pass rusher and making 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.480 it a four man line instead of a three man line. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.160 If you want an evaluation of the linebackers as a whole. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.319 Joe Thomas should be playing ahead of Shawn Lee if 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.480 you want, if you want a real evaluation of that, 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.599 you know it because to me, the Shawn Lee, the 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.000 players you're getting from Shawn Lee are not impacting you 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.679 the way they need to be. Now again, that's just 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.160 me looking at looking at If you're gonna play bass, 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.000 go ahead and put Joe Thomas on the field if 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:38.160 that's what you want to do. If you feel like 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:39.880 you're gonna get a more physical player, if you're gonna 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.559 get a better tackler, what at all? But Sean Lee 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.199 is the one to me if you say, okay, where 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.840 is this guy? You know? At the level level is 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.439 he playing at right now? I don't think you're getting 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.319 out of Seawan Lee what you expected to get out 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.840 of Shaan Lee. And they, obviously the coaches thought that 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.439 because they played him for Smith and they played him 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.320 for Lee. You know Thomas, you know the player he 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.800 was in twenty past plays, ten runs, those are those 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.240 are the pet plays he defended in this game. So 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.000 obviously they feel like that in base it's better or 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.120 Nickel it's better, and that's what they're gonna do. How 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.360 much do you expect the Saints to be in Nickel 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:20.080 as a post base in this offense. I think they 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.120 want to, you know, I think they want to find 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.319 ways to get the Cowboys spread out if they can, 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.439 and then and run Kamara downhill. I think they. I 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.200 don't think Sean Payton. I don't think Sean Payton really 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.280 believes in Dallas has run defense. I don't think he 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.359 probably feels like my offensive line can get enough push 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.680 and can create problems. And you know, he's probably looking 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.840 at Dallas and saying, yeah, maybe they're tackling a little 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.680 bit better. But he saw that Giant's game. You know, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.000 he saw what a big physical back can do to 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.600 this team. Now that Cowboys did a better job against 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.280 a big physical back in Week two against Washington. Yeah, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.880 but you know, this offensive line is the best offensive 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.720 line that they get they've faced this point. It's just 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.760 it's just that that's what did. They've done a nice 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.720 job with that. But they're gonna lean on They're going 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.040 to lean on this running back and they're gonna lean 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.800 on Thomas for this game because they got to do 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.400 everything they can to help Bridgewater and keep him out 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.240 of harm's way. That's why I said yesterday, the nickel 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.040 back's going to be very important in this game because 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.960 he's gonna spread them out and get That's why I'm 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.400 asking That's why I'm asking the question. Is I'm just 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:28.120 looking at snapcounts from last week in Seattle for New Orleans. Yeah, 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.319 and they they've only got two tight ends on their roster, 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.280 and it would be Jed Jared Cook and Josh Hill. Ye, 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.440 Cook had forty four They had fifty eight total offensive snaps. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.040 Cook was on the field for forty four snaps and 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.920 Hill for thirty four snaps. Right, so they were more 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.160 in their two tight end formation than they were in 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.400 the nickels. They might have been worried about the Seattle's 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.840 pass rest and that and that, and also playing on 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.800 the road exactly in that environment, they wanted to keep 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:57.679 the quarterback. Right now, I'm wondering if they playing at home, 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.480 they can Bridgewater with a game under his belt now 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.920 two games total basically now. But but back at home, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.360 if maybe they'll take a different approach. I just don't 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.000 think they're going to ask more of Bridgewater. They're gonna 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:15.600 ask more of Kamara. Yeah, much more can you ask? Well? 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.960 He he had he touched the ball twenty five times. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:19.959 They may say you're gonna touch at thirty times. No. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.600 If if Dallas proves that they can't handle the run 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.120 and don't tackle well enough, you know, we could have 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.880 one of those games where you know, where we were 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.040 several years ago, it felt like they had fifty first 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.280 downs in the game. I mean short of short of 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:37.199 the guys, uh my example here pass catching skills. This 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.120 is like trying to track down Barry Sanders. This guy 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.520 is just all over the place, and he's bigger. He 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.839 lines up everywhere. He can run, like Garrett said, just now, 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.240 he can run inside. He's not that scatback type guy. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.679 But I but I do. I mean, of course he's 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.000 going to be heavily featured. But I just wonder, you know, 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.800 a couple starts in the game in the season now 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.760 with Bridgewater, do they get him a little bit more involved? 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.319 Is he a little bit more comfortable? I mean, I 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.320 think that's it. I think they have to do a 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.439 certain degree. You can't just lean on one guy. I'll 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.160 win a football game. I'll say this, Bridgewater can't win 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.480 a shootout against Dak Prescott. I don't think he can. Well, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.960 they didn't even try throwing the ball down the fields. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.440 And when I say down the field, I don't mean 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.200 like forty yard deep, yeah, I mean the intermediate passes 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.560 to keep defenses. Honest. There his passes, the majority of 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:31.760 them were dump off screens and little short outs. I 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.760 mean I think he averaged like five. I have to 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:36.360 look it up, anyone. Let me let me ask you 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.000 this though, guys, So after what you've seen Dallas having 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.440 to defend balls down the field, should you try to 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.640 throw the ball down? It's the easiest pass to throw 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.880 throw it deep because because two things are good, he 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.760 either catches it or interference or its interference. The bad 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.240 thing is it gets broken up. Yeah, so I'm taking 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.280 my chances with that. That's what I would do with 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.560 young and not a young but a backup quarterback like 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.120 that one. How do you think Garrett was was successful 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.400 on that Thanksgiving Day a game against the Packers. Absolutely, 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:11.480 just throw it deep. To Brill's advice, right, let lend 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.080 Elven go up and catch it, throw it high. Pretty simple. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:20.080 Were you about to guess on Bridgewater's yards perk per 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:24.520 attempt six point six point five one hundred and seventy 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.200 seven yards passing twenty seven attempts. He was nineteen out 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.000 of twenty seven. I was gonna say five. I had 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.760 half of it, and there's the wrong half. And there 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:34.040 were times he passed up dump off screens to Camara 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.320 that could have lowered that even more. Go back and 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.400 watch the game. So yeah, I mean it's but I 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:42.280 do I think there is something to getting him comfortable 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.080 to a point where as the season goes along without Breeze, 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.240 he's there's a little bit more on his plate, and 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:48.880 I think I think you could see that in this game. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:54.880 We'll see. Yeah, I'm thinking that Camara's yards after contact 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:59.640 might have increased, increased attempt because the ball wasn't traveling 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.640 a lot in the air. 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Don't miss your chance 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:29.119 to see the Cowboys live at at and T Stadium Sunday, 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.119 October sixth, one week from Sunday, as they take on 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.400 the Green Bay Packers. Get your tickets now at Dallas 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:39.640 Cowboys dot com. It's the Cowboys and the Saints on 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.600 Sunday Night this week, and then it's the Packers the 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.280 following week. It's a three twenty five kickoff for that one, 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:50.000 and tickets still available for Aaron Rodgers at AT and 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.280 T Stadium. Not many tickets available for the Superdome on 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:57.280 Sunday though, Oh really, that's not surprising. I read where 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.840 the Saints ticket office is sold out, so the only 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:03.720 tickets available now or on the secondary market, and they 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:08.440 are they there's some website. Did I write it down? 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:12.480 It's called like ticket tracker or something for the entire league. 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.639 And the average price of a ticket for the Saints 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:19.800 Cowboys right now is the second highest in the league. 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:25.400 I think the Bears. Do the Bears play, Yeah, it's 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.200 the highest right now, but the average is four thirteen. 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.480 And I guess that includes a secondary market. And they 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.520 said in the lower level tickets are going. There's some 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.320 maybe for one fifty all the way to twenty five 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.320 hundred dollars for this game. Be a big night in 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.320 the quarter on Saturday. Got two for you for twenty 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:49.480 five hundred. Where's what's your favorite city to go to? Um? 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:56.120 What's your favorite city to go to? And keep in 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.560 mind whether it's a Sunday night game or a Sunday 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:02.679 noon game. Well, I'll tell you what. I'll tell you 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.800 what it used to be San Francisco when we stayed 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.600 in San Francisco and the game was in San Francisco. Um, 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.640 I always enjoy the trip to Green Bay. Yeah, I do. 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.080 It's a it's a I like the historic places. It's 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:18.000 just like my auto racing life. I like whole old 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.679 historic tracks. So give me the old historic places to 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.399 go play football. Soldier Field before they put that thing 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:26.360 in the middle of it was a really good place 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.840 to college gun accounts since I grew up there. Green 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:30.960 Bay is great because you drive, you take the bus 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:37.760 through the neighborhoods. Here's an autoparts store. Yeah, most famous 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.160 arena stadium and Trude on the on the parch waving. 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.040 They don't have middle Fleet. But you know what for 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.239 a big city, Philadelphia is a lot of fun. It is. 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:50.359 You can hear the eggs hitting the bus. That I 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.040 mean just the night before the game is fun. And 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.040