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Speaker 6: It is Monday, August fifth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty,
Speaker 6: episode number thirteen. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break,
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Speaker 6: a brand new week here. Cowboys have an off day yesterday,
Speaker 6: so today they get back out here, they get rolling.
Speaker 6: We got a full week of practicing. Quite frankly, the
Speaker 6: best part about.
Speaker 2: It is this is the week.
Speaker 6: This is the week I love because from now on
Speaker 6: till February that will be football. That will be football
Speaker 6: every single weekend.
Speaker 3: So here we go.
Speaker 6: Cowboys getting ready for their first preseason game this coming Sunday,
Speaker 6: they'll play the Rams in Los Angeles. Today, though, we're
Speaker 6: gonna get into some camp observations, some things you guys
Speaker 6: have seen from the last couple days of practices. We'll
Speaker 6: also get to a couple of storylines we want to
Speaker 6: hit talk about some injured guys. Let's start first with
Speaker 6: some injury updates. We've got a few names of guys
Speaker 6: that have missed practice. I'm just interested just to hear
Speaker 6: a little bit from you guys on what you've heard
Speaker 6: about these guys and kind of where they are. Let's
Speaker 6: start first with Luke school Maker, who popped up with
Speaker 6: an injury last weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, injured is growing and that's it's unfortunately, just another
Speaker 3: injury in the early career of Luke schoon Maker. If
Speaker 3: you remember when you first got in the building last year,
Speaker 3: was dealing with a planner fasciitis issue from his time
Speaker 3: with the University of Michigan. Missed a little bit of
Speaker 3: time at camp as he rehabbed that and then got
Speaker 3: back on the field, and then this offseason it's been
Speaker 3: a hamstring, it's been a shoulder, it's been now a groin.
Speaker 3: So for Luke Schoonmaker to really find a role in
Speaker 3: that tight end room that really suits him. As a
Speaker 3: compliment to Jake Ferguson, He's just gonna have to be
Speaker 3: able to stay on the field. The best ability is availability,
Speaker 3: and unfortunately he's kind of fallen victims to that at times.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it, And you mentioned the unfortunate part of it.
Speaker 2: This is a deep tight end room. We've talked about
Speaker 2: that a bunch, and so the fact that he's standing
Speaker 2: over there by us does him no good. They have
Speaker 2: got some really difficult decisions to make on this, this
Speaker 2: tight end group. And you know, yeah, he's the second
Speaker 2: round pick, but there has to be in that personnel
Speaker 2: trailer when they had their meetings and they talk with
Speaker 2: Britt Brown and Jim Mauer about injuries, and it's Luke
Speaker 2: Schoonmaker's name on there, you know, Mike McCarthy's he's having
Speaker 2: some competitive practices out here to try and figure out
Speaker 2: his team. In the fact that Luke Schoonmaker is not
Speaker 2: part of this, I think it not only hurts him,
Speaker 2: but I think it hurts the team because they're trying
Speaker 2: to figure out about these tight ends and can these
Speaker 2: guys be better point of attack blockers in this running game.
Speaker 2: Missing that time is bad for everybody involved.
Speaker 7: Well, what's unfortunate is that the times that he is
Speaker 7: healthy and the times that he has been on the field,
Speaker 7: most often than not, he's doing something really good. Like
Speaker 7: I've seen him make plays at times where it's like, Okay,
Speaker 7: that was good. Obviously not perfect every single time, but
Speaker 7: he has those moments where you just wish he could
Speaker 7: have a long stretch where he is healthy so he
Speaker 7: can't reach his full potential. But he hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 7: And at this rate, I mean, he might be one
Speaker 7: of those type of players that he's constantly dealing with
Speaker 7: something which we know that's never a good thing.
Speaker 2: Was that a little bit and I'm thinking about was
Speaker 2: Dalton Schultz a little bit like that? I just remember
Speaker 2: when Dalton Schultz started his career, there always was kind
Speaker 2: of something that you know that we were kind of like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: Dalton Schultz could do this. If Dalton I mean, I
Speaker 2: hope he has the career of Dalton Schultz or that,
Speaker 2: but it took him maybe a year or two years,
Speaker 2: three years to kind of but they really they don't
Speaker 2: have time to but you know, to have it. But
Speaker 2: if if it's something where he's tight ends or you know,
Speaker 2: they've come in they haven't had really good health and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, boom, something clicks. Then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, it's like, oh, I see he's the
Speaker 2: availability part. Oh look and bar he's making more plays
Speaker 2: out here. So yeah, you're right, and I'm the I'm
Speaker 2: like the guy that's driving the Luke's schoon Maker band
Speaker 2: club wagon thing because coming out of Michigan, I thought
Speaker 2: he was a hell of a football player, you know,
Speaker 2: and they were. Michigan was physical running the football and
Speaker 2: Luke schoon Maker was a big part of that. We
Speaker 2: just unfortunately haven't seen that here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, talking about a rookie who was having a good
Speaker 6: camp that then found himself out of practice. Tyler geet
Speaker 6: and tell him what's going on with him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, dealing with an illness. He missed the weekend practices,
Speaker 3: so that was Friday and Saturday. Would have to maybe
Speaker 3: expect to get him back on the field today. But nevertheless,
Speaker 3: just dealing with an illness. It's allowed Chu Maydoga and
Speaker 3: Awesome Richards to pick up some reps now. Cheu Maydoga
Speaker 3: has also also been battling with an injury that's kind
Speaker 3: of kept him off and then back in.
Speaker 2: He looks like that seems to be a little bit
Speaker 2: of a problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks like a limited type issue. And if
Speaker 3: you remember at camp last year he dealt with an
Speaker 3: ankle issue that kind of kept him in and out
Speaker 3: of camp as well. So it's been really valuable reps
Speaker 3: for Awesome Richards, the second year, fifth round pick out
Speaker 3: of North Carolina, And from what I can tell, he's
Speaker 3: he's done well with those opportunities.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Derek, you're gonna ask us all camp's observations.
Speaker 2: Awesome Richards had an awesome day. Let's go the other day,
Speaker 2: and you know, and he was thrown into the situation
Speaker 2: of playing the left tackle spot. It also helps play
Speaker 2: next to Tyler Smith. Tyler Smith can make you, you know,
Speaker 2: make you look pretty good over there too. But I'll
Speaker 2: say this, Awesome Richards, it was one of these guys
Speaker 2: where you're kind of going into amp thinking about, Okay,
Speaker 2: swing tackles, who are going to be the guys that
Speaker 2: are the swing tackles, maybe playing some guard. Awesome Richards
Speaker 2: has done that, but at left tackle. In that in
Speaker 2: that practice, the blue white practice, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: There was some oppressive work with him, you know, and
Speaker 2: him and Kneelan going after each other, two guys. Kneelan's
Speaker 2: trying to not find his way. I think he's gone
Speaker 2: a good path and he was given Awesome Richards all
Speaker 2: he can handle. But Awesome Richards was giving it right
Speaker 2: back to him. So it was good work from those
Speaker 2: two guys.
Speaker 6: That's great, all right, Ryan Illinois? Where are we with him?
Speaker 2: Man? Practice squad? That's where we're out right now, you know.
Speaker 2: And and it's unfortunate.
Speaker 6: He's at a position that's pretty deep right now.
Speaker 2: He's at a position. And the thing about it is,
Speaker 2: you look at these cowboy wide receivers every day there's
Speaker 2: somebody that makes a play. It's not just one or
Speaker 2: two guys. It is they're finding, you know, with Durden
Speaker 2: and guys like that. You know that, you know, I
Speaker 2: was talking it was funny. I was talking with with
Speaker 2: Todd Archer this morning and he goes, what do you
Speaker 2: know about Burnett? I said, number six? Because yeah, guy's
Speaker 2: making place. So that that's the issue that you run
Speaker 2: into when you're a young guy and you're you're a
Speaker 2: rookie and you're as good looking of a physical as
Speaker 2: a player as he looks. You're wanting to see him
Speaker 2: out there catching balls from you know, from Rush and
Speaker 2: Lance and even Dak if he gets the opportunity. But
Speaker 2: standing over there by us kind of looks like a
Speaker 2: practice squad guy right now because you're not being a
Speaker 2: part of what's going on on this field right behind us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ryan Flinoy dealing with an e issue that's been
Speaker 3: keeping him out since before the pads even came on,
Speaker 3: so he hasn't had an opportunity to even put the
Speaker 3: pads on with the team yet. You'd have to hope
Speaker 3: that he's able to get back on the field this
Speaker 3: week in time for the preseason games because, yeah, Brian,
Speaker 3: you mentioned these receivers that are really starting to emerge
Speaker 3: here at camp. You also want to mention Tyring, Billy Johnson,
Speaker 3: and Chilen Cropper, and there's gonna be probably only one
Speaker 3: or two spots that those four or five guys will
Speaker 3: be fighting for when it comes to a roster spot.
Speaker 3: I think the one advantage, obviously the Flinoy would have
Speaker 3: is the fact that he's a six round pick who,
Speaker 3: depending on who you talk to, as far as NFL
Speaker 3: scouts go, he had some hype coming out, would he
Speaker 3: be able to survive a practice squad a practice squad waving?
Speaker 3: And so I think that's probably the one thing you
Speaker 3: would look at when it comes to Flinoy and maybe
Speaker 3: the advantage that he has. But I truly think there's
Speaker 3: not gonna be a sizeable gap between all of these receivers. Man,
Speaker 3: it's just getting louder as it gets closer.
Speaker 2: Hunt, welcome to training camp.
Speaker 3: I think the sizeable gap comes in the preseason. That's
Speaker 3: gonna be really when those reps really do count. The
Speaker 3: preseason work will be really important at that receiver position.
Speaker 3: One more name I have for you guys.
Speaker 6: When do you, guys expect Trayvon Diggs to get fully
Speaker 6: integrated into practice where he's being able to do everything.
Speaker 6: Is that's something that you expect during camp? What do
Speaker 6: you expect that really? Week one is really what you're targeting.
Speaker 7: For the wrestling match, Well, he didn't really find you
Speaker 7: just let Mike I do whatever. But after that, I
Speaker 7: mean you would hope anytime soon if you see him
Speaker 7: getting thrown on the floor, are impiked up by another
Speaker 7: man who.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 3: Body slammed.
Speaker 7: No, but I haven't heard any specific I don't know
Speaker 7: if you guys.
Speaker 3: Have probably has a better perspective of this, I think
Speaker 3: from my perspective, Yeah, I'm with you, Derek as far
Speaker 3: as getting him a nice ramp up period, nothing too competitive,
Speaker 3: maybe until they get back to Frisco, uh, and then
Speaker 3: work him back on the field in time for week one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're absolutely right about that. I talking to some
Speaker 2: people that would uh working in that situation. They they're like, listen, no,
Speaker 2: hurry here. They're getting really good work from their corners.
Speaker 2: By the way, that's one of the if you if
Speaker 2: you said, what are some of the things that you're
Speaker 2: really excited about training camp? It's what these defensive backs
Speaker 2: have been able to do and especially got like Carson
Speaker 2: and you know Scott. I mean, those guys are getting
Speaker 2: really good work. But right now I think it's more
Speaker 2: about uh, they just want to make sure that he's
Speaker 2: completely ready with the workouts and stuff like that. It
Speaker 2: looked like some of the videos he sit before camp, Dad,
Speaker 2: Oh he's back. He's back. And I started talking to
Speaker 2: people and it was like, we see those videos, but
Speaker 2: we're still a little bit ways to go. So I
Speaker 2: think they're gonna be very cautiously optimistic to get him
Speaker 2: on the field. I think the time when we get
Speaker 2: back to Frisco would be pretty much.
Speaker 3: Where you're at.
Speaker 6: And quite frankly, he's not gonna play during the preseason,
Speaker 6: So just ramp him up as you need to get
Speaker 6: him ready for a week one is the way I
Speaker 6: look at it. All Right, we're gonna take our first
Speaker 6: break when we come back. We're gonna get some practice
Speaker 6: and notes from you guys.
Speaker 3: Brian.
Speaker 6: I actually saw an interesting tweet you had yesterday. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna throw at you. I want you to explain a
Speaker 6: little bit on what you mean by it. I'm sure
Speaker 6: in your mind is probably millions of them going through
Speaker 6: your head because you tweeted it a few times yesterday
Speaker 6: or over the weekend.
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Speaker 6: It is second second Break live from Oxnard, California. And
Speaker 6: today let's talk a little bit about some let's get
Speaker 6: some practice updates.
Speaker 3: I want to start first.
Speaker 6: O'Brien, you had something interesting you said on Twitter that
Speaker 6: thought about practices.
Speaker 2: Here was what you tweeted.
Speaker 6: You said, Mick McCarthy setting up practice the way he
Speaker 6: has is making them more mentally tough.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 6: This was a marathon on Saturday. Tell me what you
Speaker 6: meant by that. Explain that a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, when there's been some times in past administrations.
Speaker 2: You know, I remember the Jason Garrett administration. There were
Speaker 2: practices where it seemed like it would go on and
Speaker 2: on and on and on, and you'd get the work
Speaker 2: and on and you could really get something out of
Speaker 2: the practice. You can see the mental the toughness the
Speaker 2: players having to fight through that practice he had on Saturday.
Speaker 2: It was about thirty minutes too long. Yeah it was long,
Speaker 2: you know what. But he tested his team. He tested
Speaker 2: his young guys there at the end, and I think
Speaker 2: overall just not this practice with Mike, but we've seen
Speaker 2: when they go individual, then they turn around, they immediately
Speaker 2: go into whether maybe it's a mojo moment on the
Speaker 2: goal line, we're running two point plays. It's competitive. You know.
Speaker 2: He's trying to do things nine on seven period where
Speaker 2: immediately get into the running game one on one, immediately
Speaker 2: get into that the period they had where they close out,
Speaker 2: walk out, you know, the goal line period, get the
Speaker 2: defense points first stop, give the offense of course touchdowns
Speaker 2: that they score. He's really trying to find ways to
Speaker 2: get his team more mentally tough and to fight through things.
Speaker 2: You know, people will tell you though, with Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 2: maybe the first several years was Okay, we're gonna kind
Speaker 2: of go ease in the pract and we're gonna do this,
Speaker 2: so we're gonna, you know, we're gonna take our time.
Speaker 2: Every and the players will tell you that Mike McCarthy's
Speaker 2: a great guy, but for he really cares about us,
Speaker 2: our bodies and how we're practicing and stuff. But I
Speaker 2: get a little bit more sense, and maybe it's because
Speaker 2: of the situation with everybody overall. It's like, Okay, I've
Speaker 2: tried it this way, maybe I need to think about
Speaker 2: it this way. And I'm not saying he's doing the
Speaker 2: Jimmy Johnson Austin, Oklahoma drills out here, but you are
Speaker 2: getting competitive practices where there's a lot more competition than
Speaker 2: what we've seen the last several years from him. I
Speaker 2: really really like what I'm what I'm seeing as far
Speaker 2: as the way he's setting up these practices.
Speaker 7: But also it's kind of ramping up, like he has
Speaker 7: to be like, hey, let me just throw you to
Speaker 7: the deep end of the waters. It's been like a
Speaker 7: slowly growing progress.
Speaker 2: Well, you're seeing like the reason why guys like Awesome Richardson,
Speaker 2: Thomas the Guard and others and or you could see
Speaker 2: these guys niel and you see them getting work and
Speaker 2: see them getting better. Is because in the receivers the time, whoever,
Speaker 2: guys are getting opportunities to compete. You know, Yes, we
Speaker 2: have the mock game, which if you want to take
Speaker 2: a nap is great. You know you could take an
Speaker 2: It's it's an easy way to recover. But you're you're
Speaker 2: able to talk about these guys and write about these
Speaker 2: guys in a way because you are having more competition
Speaker 2: at positions. It's like, Okay, if we're going to if
Speaker 2: we're gonna cut this team, let's know about this team.
Speaker 2: And I think they're doing a really good job of
Speaker 2: making these players work through longer practices but also practices
Speaker 2: that tax them physically more than what we've seen.
Speaker 3: In the past. Yeah, it's an emphasis on the youth too,
Speaker 3: whenever you factor all of that in, just because of
Speaker 3: the bodies that have been available, the bodies that are
Speaker 3: here at training camp in general, I think having those
Speaker 3: opportunities for the young guys on the team, especially going
Speaker 3: into the preseason, that's gonna be huge.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna go down the line.
Speaker 6: We want to get some practice observations. Give me a
Speaker 6: player group moment, something that stood out to you in
Speaker 6: practice over the last couple practices. Let's start with Unick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I must up in front of the line here,
Speaker 3: Kayln Carson. As far as the rookie class goes, I
Speaker 3: would have to say he's been the most impressive so far.
Speaker 3: You talk about physicality and the entire Yeah, and that's
Speaker 3: our rookie class. He's been the most impressive as far
Speaker 3: as you know, factoring in draft value and how he's
Speaker 3: come in and approached the opportunity that's in front of him.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're looking up again. It's before the preseason,
Speaker 3: so there's still some time for some things to shake out.
Speaker 3: But he's the c before in my book, behind the
Speaker 3: three starters. He's a guy that I think could play
Speaker 3: inside or outside. I think he's a guy that you
Speaker 3: probably want on the boundary a little bit more just
Speaker 3: because of his physicality, his ability to step up in
Speaker 3: the run game on the outside too. But man, I
Speaker 3: love his physicality. Sometimes a little bit too physical out here.
Speaker 3: There was there was a play I think it was
Speaker 3: on Friday where Dak Prescott was kind of scrambling out
Speaker 3: and just trying to get out of bounds, and Kaylen
Speaker 3: had kind of grabbed his shoulder pad a little bit
Speaker 3: and kind of torked him back a little bit, and
Speaker 3: Dak looked back at him like, hey, hands off the merchandise,
Speaker 3: like you know, keep your keep your keep your hands
Speaker 3: for yourself. And it was kind of a funny moment
Speaker 3: here on the sideline. But at Kaylin Carson's been great.
Speaker 3: Anytime that there's a ball in front of him, he's
Speaker 3: going to attack it. It doesn't matter who's in front
Speaker 3: of him. He's done a really good job so far.
Speaker 3: He's been the most impressive rookie in my eyes right now.
Speaker 6: If you had to compare Na Sean Wright to Kaylin Carson,
Speaker 6: where would you put the two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Kaylen moves a lot better. Kaylen is
Speaker 3: always in the right spot a little bit better. I
Speaker 3: think with Nashan, it's just a sense of, you know,
Speaker 3: there's sometimes a little bit too much separation in those
Speaker 3: short to intermediate routes, and unfortunately that's what you get
Speaker 3: whenever you do have a corner that has that kind
Speaker 3: of length in that kind of frame. I mean, he's
Speaker 3: a six foot four corner, which really works in certain
Speaker 3: instances and especially in zone coverage. If this was a
Speaker 3: zone coverage type defense, it was built to be this
Speaker 3: man type team, this physical type team, and I think
Speaker 3: sometimes it just doesn't work to Nashawn Wright's favor. But
Speaker 3: I have Carson above right. If I was stacking the
Speaker 3: depth chart right now on August.
Speaker 7: Fifth, ye, well, Mine, it's two starters, so everybody knows these.
Speaker 7: Brandon Cooks is one of them. I think it's worth
Speaker 7: mentioning him. He's had such a good camp from the
Speaker 7: moment he got here, same as last year. My only
Speaker 7: concern is, Okay, are they really gonna utilize him this
Speaker 7: year more than they did last year. The second guy
Speaker 7: that I think it's worth mentioning as well, and I've
Speaker 7: been wanting to talk about him is Micah Parsons. I mean,
Speaker 7: he started to ramp things up and just make his
Speaker 7: presence known on the field, and I wanted to mention this.
Speaker 7: I know some people are not buying it the whole act,
Speaker 7: but to me, I like when people. I like to
Speaker 7: give people the chance to show change and growth and
Speaker 7: off the field. I think he's starting to make that
Speaker 7: change where he's growing, He's being more vocal in a
Speaker 7: nice way. He's portraying and carrying himself as a better teammate,
Speaker 7: just more friendly around people. I've seen several interactions just
Speaker 7: off the field when they you know, family members, starts
Speaker 7: getting getting on the field. I've seen him have interactions
Speaker 7: with Stephen Jones where he's just extremely nice and just
Speaker 7: relatable in a way. And the way he talks on
Speaker 7: the podium as well. So again, I know attitude has
Speaker 7: been a topic that we talked a lot about during
Speaker 7: the off season with Micah Parsons, and I think whether
Speaker 7: or not it is fake to me, I find some
Speaker 7: of those interactions very genuine in my perspective. So right now,
Speaker 7: it's just a great sign for this moment of the
Speaker 7: year to head into the season with the Micah Parsons
Speaker 7: that is just portraying positive energy and also being a
Speaker 7: badass on the field.
Speaker 2: You know, you always ask these questions and I'm never
Speaker 2: gonna give you the answer you exactly want to hear.
Speaker 2: Give me Mike Zimmer for the coach. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: he's making it hell on these quarterbacks. Yeah, the way
Speaker 2: that these secondary the linebackers are disguising coverages, the way
Speaker 2: he's moving Parsons around the way that he's he's making
Speaker 2: it tough on these quarterbacks. The way the quarterbacks are
Speaker 2: having to respond. We haven't seen this nothing against dan Quinn.
Speaker 2: More static, more stationary. But you don't see the disguise
Speaker 2: with Mike. You see the disguise you see you see
Speaker 2: Blitzer's home free on rush lea foul against the Ones.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, Mike shows double a gap Leah
Speaker 2: foul's home bus maybe, but how did he get to
Speaker 2: the situation where he got lea foul free? By the
Speaker 2: way he showed, like he made the offensive line have
Speaker 2: to adjust to something else he was showing, and then
Speaker 2: he ran a guy home free. Now, my player, Hunter
Speaker 2: Lipkey has shown a lot in this camp to me
Speaker 2: so far. Talk to him if you want to talk
Speaker 2: about guys and we and we love to talk about
Speaker 2: the word consistency. You love that word. If you talk
Speaker 2: about a guy that's had to practice a good practice
Speaker 2: really every single day. To me, it's Hunter Lipkey. I
Speaker 2: watched him the other day. There was a scramble drill
Speaker 2: with Trey lance Ball comes kind of fluttering out there
Speaker 2: on a you know, Hunter Lipkey's twenty five yards down
Speaker 2: the field, low adjusting scooping catch off the ground. Next play,
Speaker 2: he's coming in motion blocking. Next day, next play they're
Speaker 2: throwing him the football. They've kind of figured some things
Speaker 2: out for Hunter Lipkey, and I think the way that
Speaker 2: they figured things out, if you want to start talking
Speaker 2: about the running back situation, you could you could kind
Speaker 2: of throw out that you could kind of just talk
Speaker 2: about I'm talking about Hunter Lipkey as far as the
Speaker 2: guy that's shown the most consistency out here and all
Speaker 2: the things they're asking him to do.
Speaker 3: And do you think kind of in the running back situation,
Speaker 3: you look at the dynamics of that room, Hunter Lippi's
Speaker 3: kind of on an island by himself. Yes, he's a
Speaker 3: lead blocker. He does what no other running back in
Speaker 3: that room can do, I mean, a true fullback role.
Speaker 3: And I think he's got a safe roster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, two minute running back in the game as a
Speaker 2: blocker and then there's a catcher. You know, those are
Speaker 2: the types of things that you absolutely they're going to
Speaker 2: find roles for him, much like it is like with Terpin.
Speaker 2: You know, let's put him in the backfield, let's throw
Speaker 2: him the ball, Let's hand him the ball. You know,
Speaker 2: those are the kinds of things that I really like.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if the starting running
Speaker 2: back is in this field right now practicing, but I
Speaker 2: do know they've got a weapon in a full back,
Speaker 2: h back, whatever tight end, whatever position. They might keep
Speaker 2: one less tight end knowing what they have with with
Speaker 2: Hunter Lipky and his ability to play as a wing
Speaker 2: or maybe even play a little in line for in
Speaker 2: line next to the tackle there.
Speaker 6: Which even gets more interesting when you start thinking about
Speaker 6: tight end being one of the deepest positions they've got
Speaker 6: on his team and now you got a guy that
Speaker 6: might alter that even and say, like that's where we
Speaker 6: start getting back to that original conversational schoolmaker, like, man,
Speaker 6: you gotta get out there. You got to got a
Speaker 6: way to get out there, because not being out there
Speaker 6: is a hard thing when you're talking about cutting this
Speaker 6: team down and knowing that you got a bunch of
Speaker 6: tight ends that you really love, and you got now
Speaker 6: a fullback.
Speaker 3: That you really love. Hunter.
Speaker 7: He got a chance to talk to the media, and great,
Speaker 7: he did a great job. He everything he said. But
Speaker 7: I just wanted to say this because you're not welcome
Speaker 7: to the show. And last week got to make some fun.
Speaker 2: Of you Nick.
Speaker 7: Talking to the media saying everything. You know, he has
Speaker 7: a serious face, very professional, and I wish you guys
Speaker 7: could have seen. I mean, we stopped a few photos,
Speaker 7: but Nick is just standing there. His face is just
Speaker 7: like it's like.
Speaker 2: You remember Proud Brian both playbourn You remember that, I
Speaker 2: remember Proud can't Yeah.
Speaker 7: Nick did his Proud Brian face, just washing those they
Speaker 7: don't know happen.
Speaker 2: But those don't know.
Speaker 6: Nick has been like one of the biggest Hunter lip
Speaker 6: keeper up, like you've been all over the Hunter lip
Speaker 6: from the fan club since he got here. And so
Speaker 6: for you right now, you're just like, yeah, give me more.
Speaker 7: On his face, like, oh yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2: If you hadn't know what I was thinking when Clayborne
Speaker 2: walked past me and had that interception that sealed the game, Yeah,
Speaker 2: in my mind, I go, it's about and time. That's
Speaker 2: what I was thinking. So it wasn't really Proud, it
Speaker 2: was I was looking like, bro, it's about time.
Speaker 6: All right, you remember gonna do we gonna take our
Speaker 6: final break when we come back. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 6: this receiver position you guys have alluded to it. I'm
Speaker 6: actually gonna ask you at some point in this next
Speaker 6: segment to rank all of these guys that are in
Speaker 6: that bunch of guys and go all the way from
Speaker 6: Tolbert all the way down to guys like Jalen Cropper
Speaker 6: and David Dartin. We'll talk about that when we come
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Speaker 6: In this final segment, I want to talk about the
Speaker 6: wide receiver position. I think it is a position that
Speaker 6: most would consider who have been out here practice to
Speaker 6: be probably the most the most competitive group from the
Speaker 6: standpoint of going deep into that roster of guys who
Speaker 6: were showing and as you said Brian earlier, making plays.
Speaker 6: Every single day you see different guys stepping up and
Speaker 6: making plays. Let's start first with two guys. I think
Speaker 6: that coming into camp we all were keeping an eye
Speaker 6: on from the standpoint of who's going to be your
Speaker 6: third wide receiver. I call it the battle of the Jalens.
Speaker 6: You got Jalen Tolbert, you got Jalen Brooks. Tell me
Speaker 6: how you think that's been playing out so far here
Speaker 6: through the first week and a half of practice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of funny we were talking about, you know,
Speaker 3: coming into camp, who could probably be that wide receiver three.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lot more opportunities on the table
Speaker 3: with Ceedee Lamb holding out and the Jalen's are the
Speaker 3: first two guys you look at, and I think we
Speaker 3: look up a week and a half, almost two weeks
Speaker 3: in the camp, you could say three A and three B.
Speaker 3: When it comes to those guys, I give the edge
Speaker 3: to Tolbert just because I think he's been a lot
Speaker 3: more consistent. You see the offseason work that he's put
Speaker 3: in with Dak Prescott translating onto the field. And not
Speaker 3: to say that Jalen Brooks hasn't been phenomenal too. He's
Speaker 3: got some of the strongest hands out here for any player.
Speaker 3: When you put the ball in his vicinity, nine times
Speaker 3: out of ten he's bringing it down. That's a pretty
Speaker 3: good clip. And he's been trusted by all three quarterbacks
Speaker 3: in different parts of two minute drills, mojo moments, goal
Speaker 3: line situations. So both of these guys have really stood out,
Speaker 3: but the edge goes to Tolbert for me, Yeah.
Speaker 7: I would say the same thing. I mean, they're very,
Speaker 7: very close, and I'm a huge fan of Brooks. I've
Speaker 7: always really liked him since last year. I think he
Speaker 7: showed moments as well during last year. But it is
Speaker 7: very close. Jail in Tolbert. I think he's also been
Speaker 7: getting a lot, like slightly more opportunities than Brooks, so
Speaker 7: that gives him an advantage as well. You talk about
Speaker 7: that off season work that he's done, it's very evident
Speaker 7: that he's been working and has a really good relationship
Speaker 7: with Dak Prescott, so I think it's starting to show
Speaker 7: more on the field. Great job by him for putting
Speaker 7: in the work. I know we killed him that first
Speaker 7: year and he wasn't really doing much, Like, oh man,
Speaker 7: is this one of those buzz type of picks. And
Speaker 7: he's starting to show a lot of things now. But
Speaker 7: here's my thing. When and I'm sure we're gonna go
Speaker 7: down the line of the other guys in the depth
Speaker 7: chart here, it's just like every year, I feel like
Speaker 7: training camp, it is a time where wide receivers do
Speaker 7: stand out. So how do you start kind of putting
Speaker 7: some different glasses on to try to filter out the
Speaker 7: things that you see now, but then you stop seeing later,
Speaker 7: So to me, I'm still trying to figure that part out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this receiving Corps as a whole has done a
Speaker 2: really good job of making the front office have to
Speaker 2: think about how many receivers are they gonna really carry
Speaker 2: and if it turns into we can't keep them all,
Speaker 2: then now you turn into surplus. And a lot of
Speaker 2: times in the league when you start to say, okay,
Speaker 2: we're short in this position, but we've got surplus at
Speaker 2: receiver maybe somebody's following us, maybe somebody's watching preseason games
Speaker 2: and they're saying, Okay, Dallas has got an extra receiver.
Speaker 2: That's probably it might be six or seven on their chart,
Speaker 2: but they could be a four or five on our chart.
Speaker 2: So that's where, all of a sudden, when you have
Speaker 2: those competitive periods, that all of a sudden it's like, well,
Speaker 2: Dallas might have a surplus in this position. You get
Speaker 2: Lamb back, and the next thing you know, everybody goes
Speaker 2: down a notch and you got to kind of figure
Speaker 2: that out. I'll say this about Tolbert, I wasn't sure
Speaker 2: he had the mental toughness to do this. I really didn't.
Speaker 2: I thought that Brooks. Brooks is a mentally tough guy. Tolbert,
Speaker 2: when you watch him practice, his uniform gets dirty out here.
Speaker 2: He's diving for balls, he's got dirt stains, grass stains.
Speaker 2: He's trying his best to be competitive. He's running a
Speaker 2: lot of routes, he's getting open, he's finishing plays. Those
Speaker 2: are all things that when we were looking at Tolbert
Speaker 2: and talking about what can he do, he's showing that
Speaker 2: to you right now. I was worried that he wasn't
Speaker 2: going to be as tough as Brooks when it came
Speaker 2: to the stomach to have to do this and do
Speaker 2: the dirty work and able to solidify that spot. But
Speaker 2: he's done a nice shop so far.
Speaker 6: When you look at these receivers. One of the things
Speaker 6: that I think pops out to me is, and I said,
Speaker 6: coming into camp, I really wanted the Cowboys to consider
Speaker 6: Cavante Turpin really filling in a lot more, maybe even
Speaker 6: being that wide receiver Thie three. I think one of
Speaker 6: the challenges there is he's really pretty much a slot guy.
Speaker 6: You're not gonna put him on the boundary very much.
Speaker 6: And I wonder you guys tell me, do you think
Speaker 6: that that's really the reason why he won't necessarily be
Speaker 6: the guy that gets that many reps from the standpoint
Speaker 6: of being the third type wide receiver because they really
Speaker 6: can't move them around n CD Lamb plays very well
Speaker 6: out of the slot. You can do the same thing
Speaker 6: with Cooks. It just isn't enough opportunity for him as
Speaker 6: in the slot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy that maybe he might be their best
Speaker 2: running back. You know, when you start to talk about
Speaker 2: tossing him the ball, handing him the ball there is
Speaker 2: some explosiveness out of the backfield with him. What's surprising
Speaker 2: about Turpin is how well he gets open and tight
Speaker 2: red zee and you're thinking, little guy get lost kind
Speaker 2: of a thing, but no, he knows how to work
Speaker 2: the end zone when the quarterback's in trouble. He knows
Speaker 2: how to move to find space. He's got that awareness.
Speaker 2: Do you play him on the outside in the field.
Speaker 2: Probably not, But you know there's times where he caught
Speaker 2: a slant the other day from Dak and I was
Speaker 2: like going, wow, okay on the outside. The shortest receiver
Speaker 2: you got running an inside slant route with tight coverage
Speaker 2: comes up with the play. So there's times where he
Speaker 2: does show that ability to play on the outside. But
Speaker 2: he'll surprise you with how well he plays in the
Speaker 2: red zone. I think that's impressive thing that he does
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I understand the point as far as maybe there
Speaker 3: is a duplication in the receiving core, as far as
Speaker 3: what he could do versus maybe what Ceedee Lamb could do.
Speaker 3: But if you isolate Cavante Turpin speed with the ball
Speaker 3: in his hands, things are gonna happen. And I think
Speaker 3: if they can find a way to consistently do that
Speaker 3: in this offense, then he's gonna find some success. I mean,
Speaker 3: we saw it points last year in a couple of games.
Speaker 3: The San Francisco game really stands out in the first half. Now,
Speaker 3: while that one drive did not mean a whole lot,
Speaker 3: that touchdown tribe that did happen in the first half,
Speaker 3: Cavante Turpin was huge on that drive. Then he ended
Speaker 3: up scoring on the wheel route. I believe it was
Speaker 3: on the right side, over the shoulder, tracked in the ball,
Speaker 3: and then you factor in what he could do out
Speaker 3: of the backfield. As long as you get the ball
Speaker 3: in Cavante Turpin's hands, I think things are gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Second year, going into Mike McCarthy's offense, it's allowing Turpin
Speaker 3: to really digest and let this entire offensive system soak in.
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna have more success than he had
Speaker 3: last year.
Speaker 7: And I love everything that he's been doing so far.
Speaker 7: And we know he's fast, We've known this, we know
Speaker 7: he has the speed.
Speaker 2: But to me, the.
Speaker 7: Difference this right now is that he has grown as
Speaker 7: far as like anticipation. He can anticipate things so much better.
Speaker 7: So mentally, what he's seen on the field, I've I've
Speaker 7: seen that be completely different than last year. Sometimes you
Speaker 7: would see him running and then he gets lost. It's like, okay,
Speaker 7: he does a little dance. Would remind me of what
Speaker 7: was his name, Whitehead Wicky Whitehead?
Speaker 3: Wow, I just remember the red dreads at some point.
Speaker 7: Anyways, a point I always remember him because he was
Speaker 7: he was fast, but he would always dance around and
Speaker 7: at the end of the day, you didn't gain much.
Speaker 7: He's just running on the same spoty kind of. Anyways,
Speaker 7: the point is with Cavante, he's he's what his vision
Speaker 7: has improved so much, and I think he can be
Speaker 7: a really, really good weapon that the Cowboys can truly
Speaker 7: start utilizing even more this season.
Speaker 6: All Right, So when we look at the depth of
Speaker 6: the wide receiver position, I think we all probably agree
Speaker 6: that you got obviously your top two guys in CD
Speaker 6: and Cooks, You've got Cavante Turpin who will be on
Speaker 6: this team, and then we all seem to love what
Speaker 6: we're seeing from Jalen Tobert and Jalen Brooks. The question is,
Speaker 6: if they're gonna go six.
Speaker 2: Who's that final spot.
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna give you four names I want you
Speaker 6: guys to rank these four guys based on what you've
Speaker 6: seen so far in camp Tyron, Billy Johnson, Deontay Burnett,
Speaker 6: who just got here but has been very, very very impressive,
Speaker 6: Jalen Cropper, and David Durden.
Speaker 3: I'll start there. I'll just based on what we've seen
Speaker 3: out here. I'll go Tyron, Billy Johnson, Jalen Cropper, Burnette,
Speaker 3: and then Durden for me, Billy Johnson, I mean that speed,
Speaker 3: the veteran experience. You're kind of seeing that translate now.
Speaker 3: We were able to talk to him the media after
Speaker 3: practice on Friday, and he said that this is the
Speaker 3: first time in his career he's been able to have
Speaker 3: the same offense two years in a row, and so
Speaker 3: you see that confidence kind of coming out here, and
Speaker 3: he's been able to really show that he's been trusted
Speaker 3: by Dak Cooper, Rush Trey Lance. He didn't have the
Speaker 3: best Blue and White practice on Saturday, but he's really
Speaker 3: been stacking days out here. But at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, like leg I've said, and like Ambar said earlier,
Speaker 3: there's always a receiver out here that comes out and
Speaker 3: shows out will it translates to the preseason field. That's
Speaker 3: gonna be the biggest thing. I think Jalen Cropper is
Speaker 3: coming for Tyron. Billy Johnson. I mean, he had two
Speaker 3: touchdowns and two minute drills on Saturday year in the
Speaker 3: Blue White practice. In my eyes, I think he had
Speaker 3: the best practice of any receiver at camp on Saturday.
Speaker 3: So he's coming right there. And I love what I've
Speaker 3: seen from Burnett and Dirten as well.
Speaker 7: I was gonna put Cropper ahead mainly because but here's
Speaker 7: the reason why. The reason to me is like, you're
Speaker 7: only as good as, in my eyes, as the last
Speaker 7: thing that you showed. So he's the most recent one
Speaker 7: that has been making place, and to me, that's that's
Speaker 7: what stays on your mind. You can easily forget what
Speaker 7: happened a week ago. So to me, that's why he's
Speaker 7: in the lead right now at the moment.
Speaker 3: Cropper.
Speaker 7: Then I would go Billy Johnson. He's shown a lot
Speaker 7: of good things that I like. I like his speed too,
Speaker 7: He's a quick guy on his feet. And then I
Speaker 7: would go with Burnett and then Dirt and those two guys,
Speaker 7: to me, though they're kind of right there, I don't
Speaker 7: it's whoever makes the last play, and that's who takes
Speaker 7: a spot for me. They're they're not that much different
Speaker 7: from what I've seen so far.
Speaker 2: It's not a plug Vanilla Shu guy, but I'll give
Speaker 2: a plug to Anilla'shue guy. Racy McMath has shown some
Speaker 2: he's got size, and I know he's not part of
Speaker 2: the four that we're talking about. I do feel like
Speaker 2: that Cropper is closer to Billy Johnson to that point
Speaker 2: where you know if you said, Okay, now the competition,
Speaker 2: and I mentioned about being in the personnel trailer, and
Speaker 2: then you look at the tags on the board and
Speaker 2: you're like, Okay, can we keep six receivers? Can we
Speaker 2: afford to do this? This thing might come down to
Speaker 2: special teams in the preseason, believe it or not. So
Speaker 2: that's where I kind of like focus sin. But I
Speaker 2: really do like what I've seen with Cropper and his
Speaker 2: ability to get open, secure the football and make some
Speaker 2: plays for you.
Speaker 6: The one thing I will point out, and I've already
Speaker 6: mentioned it a little bit, but I want to I
Speaker 6: can't stress it enough. One of the things I love
Speaker 6: that I've seen over the last couple of days from
Speaker 6: Deontay Burnett is the fact that he's a guy, that
Speaker 6: he's not a big guy, but what you keep seeing
Speaker 6: from over and over again, it's it's interesting. You see
Speaker 6: a play and you'll see a ball get thrown and
Speaker 6: you'll see the receiver covered and you're like, surely that's
Speaker 6: gonna be broken up, right, But somehow he comes up
Speaker 6: with the ball. It's like everything that gets to him
Speaker 6: sticks to him, and even in traffic. And again, he's
Speaker 6: not a big guy. He's a little guy guy, but
Speaker 6: he has the ability whenever the ball gets thrown his way,
Speaker 6: if it's within catching radius, he seems to catch it.
Speaker 6: He seems to come down with it.
Speaker 2: And I really like that.
Speaker 6: And I think if he would have been here and
Speaker 6: been doing all of that that he's done in the
Speaker 6: last couple of days since the beginning of camp, I
Speaker 6: do think we'd be talking about him a little bit more.
Speaker 6: And that's why I would say, keep an eye on
Speaker 6: this guy. If he keeps developing like that, and certainly
Speaker 6: if he gets into the preseason and does what he's
Speaker 6: been doing out here, I think that's going to be impressive.
Speaker 3: There's only been one guy in this receiver dut Chart,
Speaker 3: and I'd love for you all to guests here that
Speaker 3: I have not seen drop a pass while we've been
Speaker 3: here at training camp. Probably durd d I have seen one.
Speaker 3: I have seen one from Durden.
Speaker 2: It seems like every time they throw him the ball.
Speaker 3: He does have some strong hands. Yeah, I have to
Speaker 3: give it to him because I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people wrote him off after that injury and it was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: once he heals up, he'll be out of here. But
Speaker 3: they've even him another training camp opportunity. He's run with it.
Speaker 2: But no, that's that's not the game Cam Johnson.
Speaker 3: It's Cam Johnson. It's he has some strong hands. And
Speaker 3: it's unfortunate because he's this undrafted free agent, came out
Speaker 3: of a Big ten program that didn't have a lot
Speaker 3: of offensive production last year, so there's not a lot
Speaker 3: of buzz around his name. But man, he's got some
Speaker 3: strong hands. He's got a little bit of a route tree.
Speaker 3: It's not really downfield, it's more short to intermediate. But
Speaker 3: he's been really trusted in some situations with the second
Speaker 3: and thirteen. That's a guy to keep an eye on
Speaker 3: in the preseason.
Speaker 6: Do you think the Cowboys This is really might be
Speaker 6: a weird question, but I think the Cowboys are getting
Speaker 6: more out of CD not being here because all these
Speaker 6: guys are getting more opportunities, or would you get more
Speaker 6: if CD was here and being able to create that
Speaker 6: connection or not create continue that connection he has with that.
Speaker 2: I think as a group it with CD not here, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're getting it. But I think if CD was here,
Speaker 2: we'd still see it be a strong group. We'd probably
Speaker 2: be talking about this group like we talk about the linebackers. No,
Speaker 2: it's like, boy, it's a good room, you know. Man,
Speaker 2: These young guys are making place every day. Somebody that
Speaker 2: we mentioned in this in this segment we just did,
Speaker 2: somebody makes a play. It might be one play, it
Speaker 2: might be two plays, it might be but they they're
Speaker 2: showing up and the fall off has not been big.
Speaker 2: Sometimes there's fall off, but not with this group right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think uh, I mean, yeah, obviously you're gonna
Speaker 7: take advantage of those extra reps though you're gonna get
Speaker 7: without CD being here. But at the same time, I
Speaker 7: mean it glues the group. He he what do you
Speaker 7: say coming?
Speaker 2: People keep passing it?
Speaker 7: Do you guys? Oh my goodness, we keep We thought
Speaker 7: it was gonna happen this this past week and they
Speaker 7: still has not. But I think, if anything, him not
Speaker 7: being here hurts the group more, and I hope they
Speaker 7: can figure out very quickly because we and Derek, we
Speaker 7: were talking about it a little bit uh off off
Speaker 7: the show off, but we tend to see sometimes. To
Speaker 7: me what I've seen from situations like that, it tends
Speaker 7: to it's gonna take a few games. And you can
Speaker 7: see that at the beginning of the season. Can you
Speaker 7: afford to have a few games where it kind of
Speaker 7: takes him a while to get back on track Because
Speaker 7: one thing is practicing on the field in Dack's backyard
Speaker 7: and hanging out together. Another thing is a real football game,
Speaker 7: when the lights come on, when real football is happening,
Speaker 7: and when you're dealing with so many other variants happening.
Speaker 7: So anyways, to answer your question, I think it hurts
Speaker 7: more him not being here.
Speaker 3: I was talking about with my amazing roommate here at
Speaker 3: camp yesterday. It was like, so, if CD like shows
Speaker 3: up tomorrow, do you think he would be ready in
Speaker 3: time for the Rams practice on Thursday? And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: probably not. Like whenever he does get here, there's still
Speaker 3: gonna be a ramp up period, And so this staff
Speaker 3: is very intentional about whenever guys arrive and they've been
Speaker 3: away from the team for a little bit, get them
Speaker 3: back integrated, make it slow so that they're not rushing anything,
Speaker 3: both with the process and with their body. So yeah,
Speaker 3: even if if cdee Lamb did show up today or tomorrow,
Speaker 3: we're probably not seeing him in full, full pads and
Speaker 3: full go until probably next week's that's a that's a
Speaker 3: scenario that's not gonna happen anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry about that kind of an observation out real
Speaker 2: quick though. We talk about these guys coming off injuries,
Speaker 2: are you seeing John Stevens the same way as you
Speaker 2: saw him last year?
Speaker 3: It's it's fascinating because.
Speaker 2: I know I haven't. Yeah, he's still there's still positive
Speaker 2: plays about it, but I don't see the splash or
Speaker 2: the big plays that and maybe that coming off that
Speaker 2: knee injury. I mean, that's something we always worry about,
Speaker 2: you know, how long before these guys. You know, he's
Speaker 2: fighting for he's fighting for a spot. But man, he
Speaker 2: was so good this time last year. But I kind
Speaker 2: of feel like that I've seen him just not as
Speaker 2: much as I've seen some others.
Speaker 3: He's a different player this time because he has the
Speaker 3: eleven twelve pounds added. Yeah, he's learning how to marry
Speaker 3: that new size that he has with his ability. Also
Speaker 3: trying to understand like what where he fits as an
Speaker 3: inline guy in this offense. I think there's a lot
Speaker 3: of learning and understanding that he's soaked up in his
Speaker 3: brain over the course of last year, and now he's
Speaker 3: trying to apply it all at once on the field.
Speaker 3: I say, give him a couple of weeks just to
Speaker 3: kind of apply all that.
Speaker 2: I was just worried about that knee injury thing that
Speaker 2: we always like, oh yeah they're back, Yeah, everything's great,
Speaker 2: and then it's week six that all, oh wow, he
Speaker 2: looks like he's ready to play football.
Speaker 3: I will say he has suffered from the drops he's
Speaker 3: out here.
Speaker 2: That's he's had that you mentioned catches and drops. That's
Speaker 2: kind of what I was noticing too.
Speaker 6: All right, appreciate you guys. Jonas will be back on
Speaker 6: I'm sorry on Wednesday. We'll be back on Wednesday. On
Speaker 6: Wednesday after Nobu, we will be here.
Speaker 7: Can you host him? I'm it's not that serious, Derek.
Speaker 7: You can jump on the show and just ask are.
Speaker 6: You saying you're gonna host.
Speaker 7: This is what you do?
Speaker 2: You want to host. I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 2: I like to give opportunities.
Speaker 7: If you got drunk, you don't even get that, I
Speaker 7: really do.
Speaker 2: All right, But we'll be back Wednesday.
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