WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Ranking the Players 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.160 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:15.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys let go. Are 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.400 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:23.520 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.400 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:33.519 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:38.640 Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, October twenty fifth, 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.600 twenty twenty one, season seventeen, episode number forty six. Welcome 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.760 to the latest edition of The Break, live from the 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.320 s WBC Morriage Studios at the starcoming fresh off the 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.120 Cowboys Buy. They didn't play yesterday, but there was some 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:52.880 action in the NFL. We'll talk about that a little 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.600 bit more tomorrow. To day. We got some topics around 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.160 the Cowboys. Nick, before we get going, get me started 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:02.400 with a forty six Actually, oh man, actually, did y'all 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.920 do this when when we didn't? We didn't, But you 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.520 and I talked about this, and we couldn't go by 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.320 and not acknowledge the forty four best men a lot 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:12.760 to both of us, right, without a doubt. Robert Newhouse 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.080 is one of the my favorite players of all time, 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.000 not only when he played. I was just young kid 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.360 when he played. But after that, when he was here, 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.679 I know he was. He was a great mentor for 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.600 a lot of people, just an awesome person. He's no 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.560 longer with us, and it's very sad, but Robert Newhouse 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.440 is it was an outstanding person and player. Yeah, I 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.880 was telling you about some of my experiences with Robert. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.760 He was like coming into this organization, I was a 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.520 manager at a very young age and uh, and there 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.640 weren't a lot of people that looked like me at 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.080 that table of leaders here through at the Cowboys. He 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.040 was one of them. And I remember him pulling me 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.000 aside one time and telling me he's gave me some 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.400 really great advice about handling those types of situations. And 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.080 it still serves me well to day. Um So, I 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.400 just I'm forever grateful to the House and he was 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.080 a really really the great guy and miss having him 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.440 around here. You guys never got you never obviously got 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.800 a chance to meet him. Five. Yeah we gotta go 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.800 forty five and forty six. Yeah, you got a forty five. Well, 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.880 Darren Woodson wore it before he moved to twenty eight. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.200 It was forty five. I don't know if I remember 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.280 that rod Smith, Baby, come on, rod Smith, beast. I 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.440 like it. I was going with. I mean, Niki, so 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.400 did you said rod Smith? But Somebodason I thought Denver Broncos. Well, yeah, 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.240 that one, like one of the best receivers in the nineties. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.400 One had like one great game against the Giants, right 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.120 forty six. I think there's a guy named Joe Fishback. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.440 I just like the name Joe Fishback. Ember, you want 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.080 to tell us about Joe Fishback. I have no idea. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.519 I think what I'm learning here. What I know out 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.079 of these names is Ron Smith. I mean, the forties 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.919 are avoided like the plague by everybody. I mean, unless 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.600 you're a long snapper or a fullback. Nobody wants to 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.240 wear a number in the forties other than Alfred Moors 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.480 was also forty six. No there like it was a 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:01.799 fun player. Different cat still is I mean ye, well, yeah, 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.280 I mean he was when he was here, he was good. Different, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.239 he was different, but I mean yeah, in a cool way, 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:11.680 he was the best. He was. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds dumb, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.600 but like if a player, and not to say like 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.880 players are jerks, but you get used to that lifestyle. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.840 And the amount of people that are asking for things 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:24.120 from you, you don't care so much about that. Alfred 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.680 Morris would like he went through it. Every time he 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.120 talked to the me. He'd be like, when you say 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.160 your name was Dave, good to see you, and then 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.760 he would remember it later. Yeah, and that's not like 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.960 I said, like that doesn't make other guys jerks, but 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.760 like to have that many demands on your attention and 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:39.520 your time and still take the time to do that. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.160 He would go sit outside the weight room on Tuesdays 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.760 on the off day or maybe it was Mondays, but 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.520 like one of the days when they weren't practicing, you 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.440 could catch him outside the weight room, like reading a book. Now, 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.640 you just don't see that type of stuff. When you 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.320 pull up into the parking lot to go fly out 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.520 for the charter, you know, you you drive in there 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.200 with your car are and it's like you see all 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.440 these other guys and their stuff, and then you drive 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.720 next to Alfred Morris and you're like, is this I mean? 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.600 He would oh yeah, the Mazda. Yeah, he was famous 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.120 for having the same car from when he was a kid. Yeah, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.920 and like Mazda re outfitted it for him. And I 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.400 think every time he went to a new team, the 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.440 media would pick up that story and be like, oh 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.200 my god, he I think he's still I follow him 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.000 on Instagram. Still I think he still has I think 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.120 the funny thing about that mosta was he had a 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.920 Mercedes front license plate on it, like the logo for Mercedes. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.040 I would yeah, I think that's right. I would like 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.560 to think that. I mean, I think at some point 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.920 in his career he probably got another car, not saying 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.080 it was like a Lambeau or anything, but he's like, Okay, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.400 the Mazda treated me well, I can probably get another car. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.520 Good guy. I loved Alfred Morris. That was a good 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.480 You can do this on a Monday when there's no game. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:52.480 Yeah yeah. Another forty five is Richmond Flowers Senior, by 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.279 the way, in nineteen seventy one. Let's just go through 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.600 the whole, the whole roster and not talk about Dak's cats. 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.640 Not talk a good forty five minutes of numbers numerology 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.160 here on the pick. All right, let's let's do talk 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:09.000 about Deck's injury. Uh we this this injury came up 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.840 last week. Obviously, he was in the boot coming out 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.880 of the game against the Patriots. Um, what are we hearing? 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.840 What are you guys hearing? As far as his injury, Um, 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.000 how how? How how much of an injury is it? 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.200 How much of a concern is it? How much could 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.800 it possibly affect his ability to not only play but 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.920 play well over the next coming weeks. Why why is 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.080 Dave looking at me? You look like you have something 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.320 to say. No, I don't. I don't think anything. I 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.039 don't think anybody has anything to say. I really don't. 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.400 I don't. There's no report or anything. Tell me what it's. 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.599 What he's gonna do on Friday afternoon, Tell me what 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.160 he's gonna do Sunday afternoon. I mean that Sunday when 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.039 he's on he's there. I mean you can say everything, 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.200 you can rest and all that, but it is a 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:54.240 injury that is very, very difficult, and I think we'll 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.320 wait and see. I mean, yeah, all jokes aside, Oh 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.480 you funny. I'm sorry, man. I just every time I 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.920 hear about asked, I just think about you, because you're like, 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:07.039 before I have my injury, I didn't think cash. But now, yeah, 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.200 let's let's just leave this out of it, because I mean, 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.080 he is an athlete, and I'm down only that, but 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.200 he's got like, got people caring, the power of a 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:19.680 five billion dollar organization is bent on getting him ready 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.680 for that game. And Nick, they're just like, yeah, and 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.200 I was stupid and I wasn't, you know, jumping around 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.000 and still trying to do something that was dumb. But 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.080 the thing about it is is that you won't really 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.760 know what it is until we get later on and 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:33.920 he can rest all week, he's got to go and 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:35.680 run and do things. I said this on the radio 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.480 this morning and really kind of kind of deflated those 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.760 guys on the air because I said, I'll be I'll 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.400 be shocked if he's able to play the way he 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.119 normally is. I think he might play, but he won't 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.760 be the same. Really, I don't believe that. I don't 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.960 think that's a bad guess. I mean, you asked what 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:53.719 we're hearing. I've heard that he's out of the boot, 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.640 which I mean that's a positive sign, but that doesn't 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.160 necessarily mean anything. Again, like you can rest all week end, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.920 all week in the hot tub, doing all the treatments 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.040 to it, and you know, he hasn't had to backpedal 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.600 or plant and throw since the game. Um So I 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.640 think he's I think he's making progress, and I think 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.080 the optimism from last week was probably well founded, you know. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.040 I think it was Jerry that it was like the 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.320 buys a perfect time, and I think he can get 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.440 out there against Minnesota. We'll see. I think a lot 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.160 of costs for optimism, a lot of things training in 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:28.520 the right direction, but playing and existing are different things, 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.920 you know what I mean. So it's just something as 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.440 as always with these types of injuries, you just got 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.800 to watch the workload and see how it changes as 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.240 the week. If he's not like anywhere close, if he's 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.120 going to be struggling through it, I'd set him, really, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.600 I would. I would sit him. If there's any kind 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.800 of chance to reaggravate this and make it a longer thing. Well, 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.600 that's one of the interesting things you gotta think about 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.640 too here, is that sometimes you can play through an injury, 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.080 but what happens is your body kind of compensates for 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:02.080 what's ailing you and it puts extra strain on other things, 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.760 which you may not reaggravate that particular injury, but it 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.000 could create other things as you go forward, because you 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.840 start using your body in different ways. So that's the 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.240 part you get a little bit concerned about if he 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.080 rushes back with you, if any player rushes back from 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.520 any injury, that you could have other injuries that that 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.840 come from them. But Amber, I'll ask you this question, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.560 and Nick brought up a point of maybe sitting him 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.560 from what you've seen from this team. Wait wait, no, 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.000 no, no no, you gotta we gotta wait from me answer 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:38.000 the question. I ask the question. No, no, no, so 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.200 so thinking about what you want, thinking about what you've 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.480 seen from this team, and I'm talking offensively and defensively, 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.520 how they've been able to play. Obviously, they're five and 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.400 one and they're considered one of the top teams in 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.880 the NFL, definitely one of the top teams in the 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.040 NFC and the top team in their in their division. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.520 Do you think this team is capable of winning without 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:05.600 Dak Prescott, I'll say it Spanish, no, no, no. Honestly, again, 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.679 I don't think that they have enough at quarterback behind 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:14.360 Dak Prescott. And I was all up for Cooper Rush 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.520 back when he started and got here. I was like, yeah, 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.560 Cooper Rush. But then in the past few years, I 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.600 just he hasn't given me enough to feel comfortable. And 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.080 you know, last year they had Andy Dalton, and I 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.760 feel comfortable about Andy Dalton, and then the offense was 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.240 still kind of working and they could do some work 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.120 on there and play good on the field. But look 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.439 how they performed last year, and that was with Andy 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.800 Dalton behind the line. And I get it that this 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.280 team is on a role right now and everyone's playing 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.720 pretty well and all that, but I just I do 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:50.439 not feel comfortable enough to think that Cooper Rush can 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:54.679 get back there behind that line and make it happen. No, 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.760 I don't, I agree, I mean, I don't. You want 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.120 to sit him and you don't even think they're they 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.600 can win without him. I want to send him if 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.440 he's if, if he's not, if he's still kind of 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.080 going through some stuff. This isn't a bone that needs 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.280 that's going to heal, you know, eventually, and maybe you 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.720 can cast it up until it does. Hell, this is 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.640 this is a muscle strain. And I can speak for 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.840 that that that if you don't, you don't give it 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.040 the proper attention, you'll two years later you'll still feel it. 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.400 You still feel it. So I don't, No, I'm not 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.920 I'm not going to risk that, And yeah, I don't 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.640 think he can. I don't think Cooper rushing, not against Minnesota, 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.320 not against the Horn, not against Sunday Night football. No, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.719 I don't think that they'll go up there and win 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.720 that game without him in there. I'm not trying to 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.720 call y'all homers, but I'm relieved to I'm relieved that 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:42.000 I don't have to be the downer because I was. 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.880 I wasn't one hundred percent sure, because I think it's 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.240 the peak of hubrists to assume that Cooper Rush could 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.120 pull that off for you. No, No, I don't think that. No, 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.880 they have depth in so many other areas. That's the 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.200 one that you're like, He's thrown three NFL passes, And 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.199 I don't think you can fully rely just on the 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.800 running game either. Like I and I get it, Zeke 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.040 husband doing good. You got um, oh my god, my 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.440 Polar Pauler, Tony Polar, you got him who we know 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.480 he can do the job as well behind Zeke. But 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.120 even with those two running backs, I don't think they 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.920 can just rely on the purely on the run to 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.600 win a game. You got to throw out the caveat that. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.120 The NFL is weird. And anything can happen, Like, of 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:24.800 course there is a physical, theoretical chance that they could 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.800 win in that game without Dak. I certainly wouldn't put 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.640 money on it. I would know no way. So is 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.640 this about just how great Dak is or how little 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.120 you think of Cooper Rush? Well, I mean it was 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.760 fifty fifty for I think a lot of us wouldn't. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.240 At the end of training camp it was like Rush 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.760 or Garrett or Garret Gilbert, you know, kind of a 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.280 toss up. I don't know about you, but I think 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.280 at this point I'd rather have Garrett Gilbert in there 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:56.440 right now that thing, which that's bad foresight for me 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.040 because I think I was leaning towards Rush. But now 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.400 I'm thinking about what you said about three passes. I'd 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.720 rather the guy that's gone and played Pittsburgh when they 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.080 were eleven to oh and gave him a fighting chance. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.360 And that was if you remember like that, he had 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.280 a lot less weapons than what they have right now 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.280 due to injury. So that's why I look at it 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.240 and I'm like, well, if he could do that, no, 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:18.000 it's not the same guy, and I personally he lost. No, 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.920 I didn't play I get that, but I think the 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.280 way that they played with all the things that they had, 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.440 all the players they didn't have for that game, I 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.240 felt like it was enough of an effort that you 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.840 give those players back, particularly the tackles. You give him 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:32.679 some tackles, you give him some protection. That game may 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.560 have been a different game. Yeah, you agree with that. Again, 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.199 you're not wrong, and there is a chance, But I 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.160 think it's bold, bordering on hubrists to just be like, yeah, 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.280 he can come in and do the vikings and their 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.280 record doesn't show it. I'm Kirk Cousins is playing great, right, Like, 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.160 this is a tough game. If Dak is available, Like, 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.240 you know, we've been kind of on this role where 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.080 we think the Cowboys are gonna win by two or 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.520 three scores for the last month. This ain't gonna be that. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.320 I'll be shocked even if Dak is available. I'll be 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.960 shocked if this is anything but a tight game. Um, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.439 you know, it's hard to go into that building and 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.040 win and definitely do it decisively. So if there's fans, 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.000 that's what Yeah, I mean they won last week last year, 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.920 no fans. Minnesota is on that shortlist of like collegiate environments, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:19.959 you know, we always talk about the NFL is a 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:26.000 little bit different, but some stadiums get noisy. Why can't 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.720 I talk? Was it like? Was it like I don't remember, Yes, 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:30.480 and I know, but I don't remember when we were 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.240 When they were at their old stadium, it used to 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.080 be extremely loud. One time we've been there since they 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:39.120 opened a new place was Thursday night the Vikings had Bradford. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.120 They were decent and you can tell too, because it's 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:43.679 one of the few stadiums in the league that has 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.719 an open press box. Yeah. I couldn't hear myself it 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.640 was so loud. Yeah, yeah, the one Cowboys won on 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.720 like the last play of the game. I think the 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.280 Vikings didn't get the two point conversion. It was loud 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.080 all night. Again, it was open status. I know the 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.720 old stadium was open. Get ready it's gonna be Bradford. Yeah. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.199 Remember you you have that app on your phone, Derek 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:08.240 Gloves having this app not to recourse how loud each 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:16.839 stadium look looks cool. But yeah, I mean, I so no, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.880 I mean, I don't feel good about that, but this 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:20.920 is this is what you sign up for. The I mean, 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:25.560 and it's hard. It's hard to the Jones has said 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.160 that all through the off season is when you pay 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.240 the quarterback like this, it's hard to have somebody that 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.200 you feel good about. Last year created some really unique 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.560 scenarios like Andy Dalton was willing to sign for that, 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.760 Jamis Winston was willing to sign for that. Especially and 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.720 with COVID opening up and it not being quite as 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.640 crazy as it was, that's harder to pull off. Um. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.760 I would love if they had a former NFL MVP 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.680 who's unemployed on this team to help deal with this, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.160 but they don't, And for that matter, I don't know 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:57.880 if he would even be willing to sign here. But 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.880 it's just these are the things that you think about 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.440 when you ponder whether or not Dak is going to 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.640 be able to play. Do you guys give any benefit 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.760 of doubt that maybe they've developed Cooper Rush to a 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:11.280 point where he can give them a chance after looking 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.840 at what they did with Terrence Steele, Because I know 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.480 before Terrence Steele this year, I was convinced I'm not 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.960 trusting anything they say about young guys because they put 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.480 all these young guys out there, but they weren't performing, 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.360 and so I just didn't trust it. Now I'm starting 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.640 to think, well, maybe maybe they got that one right. 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.600 Maybe they developed him, maybe they knew what they were 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.960 talking about when they say we see potential in him, 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.000 do you give them any benefit of doubt that comes 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:36.920 from that that you can now move over to the 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.200 quarterback position. He plays the most important position on the team. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.840 And when they signed Andy Dalton they fired him. They 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.360 were like, now you gotta go, and that's I mean, 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.720 somebody does have to go when you sign somebody. But 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.600 if you think the world of this guy, and again 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.040 he plays a position where you might not ever get 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.440 him back if he shows anything, they were like, well, 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.560 that's fine, to go to New York. Do what you 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.440 gotta do. They brought him back when a ridiculous amount 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.360 of injuries forced their hand. They lost Dak, they lost Dalton, 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.800 and then this year, I mean still baffled by the 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.600 way that whole thing played out. It's it's not a 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:15.560 major storyline once the season starts, but like again, people 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.720 are like, well, you guys didn't see this coming. It's 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.720 like they didn't show us anything. Cooper Rush didn't get 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.640 a single first team rep all of training camp. They 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.280 handed it all to Garrett Gilbert, and then in the 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.680 final week of the preseason it became the Cooper Rush Show. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.080 So no, I mean, they can say that if they 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.800 want to, and maybe they're right, but nothing about their 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.960 process has shown that that's how they feel. But also 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.400 the fact that even after they had him back here, 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.920 they were still talking about the possibility. It didn't come 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.400 to fruition, but they were still talking about possibility of 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.520 bringing in a quarterback and experienced quarterback. So that makes 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.720 me think like they know so, because if you feel comfortable, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.640 confident enough, and a guy like Cooper Rush that you 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.440 can develop for this year, you wouldn't be still like 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.920 kind of shopping around and see what can come. And 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.119 it's a good thing. It's a great point. They worked 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.679 out Driscoll, they worked out Hundley, like they did not. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.359 They weren't acting like a team that felt great about 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.399 its step at quarterback. Yeah, any chance Greer is the 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.439 guy that they kind of can move up into that position. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.600 Have you heard anything about him since they signed it ative. 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.200 I actually asked Doug nus Meyer about him. They made 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:24.120 the assistance available on Tuesday during the bye week, just 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.760 I didn't really ask him, thinking that he might start 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.240 this game, just more like, what's that? What's it look 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:30.959 like when you have to bring a guy on like that? 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.200 And he just said, you know, you start small, start 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:36.480 with just the basics of what they would have to 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.880 do if they had to be active or had to play. 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.560 And he did say he thought Will Greer has picked 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.640 up a remarkable amount in the whatever it's been six 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:48.320 eight weeks since he's been here. I don't I would 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.360 be shocked if that meant that he was elevated over 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.120 Cooper Rush, but yeah, I guess he would be active. 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