WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Plan of Attack 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:19.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.720 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.040 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:31.400 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:37.519 Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.800 Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, October first, twenty twenty one, 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.280 Season seventeen, episode number thirty two. Welcome to the latest 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.600 edition of The Break. We are live from the s 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.440 WBC Mortgage studios at the Star Gut. Nick and Dave 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.960 here with me, and we're gonna get you guys ready 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.760 for Cowboys. The Cowboys game this Sunday against the Carolina 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.240 Panthers at AT and T Stadium. It is a noon 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.040 kick and uh, it's probably a little bit more of 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.040 an interesting matchup than maybe we thought when the season began, 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.760 because this team comes in three and oh. So we'll 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.080 get you guys ready to tell you what we think 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:11.520 is going to happen, tell you about some of the 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.600 storylines that you should follow this weekend. Before we get 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:15.760 to that, though, Nick, why do't you give me a 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:24.319 thirty two? Uh? Dennis Thurman. Dennis Thurman nineties, eighties, eighties, 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:28.679 eight eighties, Thurman Thieves. That that was the Uh there's 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:32.119 a posters, a famous poster called Thurman Thieves, and it 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.560 was like, I'll say famous, but I mean back in 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.720 the eighties, you know the back of those those posters 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.440 a lot of the kids had and it was like 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.080 him and Everson Walls and some of the other secondary 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.000 guys as Thurman's thieves. That was kind of a thing. 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:44.600 He was at the leader of that. Yeah, they got 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.600 a lot of interceptions back then. I mean there was. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.320 It wasn't a passing league back then. But man, I mean, 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.200 when Everson Walls gets eleven picks as a rookie, can 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.560 you imagine a rookie free agent coming in and getting 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.560 eleven picks? And that's wild? I mean, and then and 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.560 then you know, he led the league three times and 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.560 in a we've talked about Everson Walls a lot um 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.440 who would opposite him back then, Well, couldn't have been 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.919 Renfro at least not. Yeah. Well, like in the eighties 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.639 is like Ron Fellows played over there and he was 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.400 Ron Fellows in him and so but thirty two, Walt 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.960 Garrison I think also was thirty two. He's kind of 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.919 that's how Yeah, But you know, I thought I actually 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:24.639 thought about it. I was like, I don't even know 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.760 a current I mean the last few years A thirty 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:34.160 two you're kidding. I mean Scandridcord for like a decade. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.360 That's what them media came to mom. Yeah, I don't 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:43.960 know why I forgot um. Yeah, anyways, Corey Clements wearing 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:45.840 it right now, I believe, No, I really, I didn't 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.880 even I didn't even think about Scandrick or in thirty 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.079 I think just because I mean as Sti's wark for 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.600 a long time, especially because yeah, I mean, if you're 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.680 the franchise quarterback or like an All Pro player, then 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.840 you're gonna wear that number for a long time. But like, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.440 considering who he was, can't and I'm not throwing shade 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.840 at him, Like Scandrick was a fifth round pick who 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:07.520 was good but never like at the top of his profession, 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.400 and he still managed to stick around for nine years 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.000 or whatever. Those guys come around, like, especially when you're 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.760 at a like he was a slot guy and he 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.359 played pretty solid. He was a pretty solid slot guy. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.639 So you yeah, I've seen guys stick around that long 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.400 and you can play special teams. Just lots of things 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.640 that kept around. It's impressive when a guy manages to 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.280 hold on to a job with one team for that 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.680 long without like ever being in a Pro Bowl or 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.560 any of that type of stuff, or a good mood 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.800 or a good mood. You know he was. He was 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.120 at the hotel in LA before the Charger game. Yeah, 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.920 super nice. It was nice to see him. He was friendly. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:48.160 He had a much better at it. But yeah, but 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.160 you know, that's honestly the thing, Like you know, you 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.960 guys have seen it. Guys retire and their whole disposition changes. 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:55.440 Like when they're a player, they kind of look at 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.000 you kind of like side of as soon as they retire, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.600 it's like, what's up, man, Everything's cool, it's sleep like, 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.320 it all is okay. As big of a horse's ass 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.320 as he could be. Scandrick was one of those, I 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.640 would say it to his face. Scandrick was one of those. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.040 But if you could like give it back to him 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.000 or show him that you weren't like, weren't going to 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.599 get your feelings hurt or whatever, like, you could spar 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.200 with him. He appreciated that and he would kind of 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.320 respect it, if not be outright friendly about it. Yeah, 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.880 that's when I realized that he wanted me to say 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.480 something mean back to him. I think our relationship got 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.960 better so him and brought it health better. It's unhealthy relationship, 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.440 but that's what most of my close friendships are like. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.760 So maybe there's a lot of Dave Hellman. That's fair. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.080 I just said to him and brought us get better. No, 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.280 I don't think that ever happens. Well, we will leave 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:47.320 that one alone. We'll leave that one alone. Okay, all right, 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.160 so let's talk a little bit about Let's start first 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:53.240 with some injury updates. Carlos Watkins, Donovan Wilson, dawnce Armstrong, 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.960 Tie and Secky we presume are all out because they 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.360 have been uninjured. They have been injured and nothing has 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:03.039 changed with their Watkins Watkins was out doing rehab stuff 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.400 with Britt yesterday, which is like a good sign. Yeah, 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.080 it's a good sign, but it's not a sign that 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.800 he's probably ready for Sunday and talk to me about 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.400 the the COVID guys, we still no go on on 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.080 Neil and with an eye no change, all right, So 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.120 luckily they're probably not very unlikely they would play in 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.360 this game, all right. Not practicing, you know, I mean 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.320 that's that's another thing. I mean, they've had it, they're 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.840 dealing with it, and you're not practicing. You've got to, 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:27.919 you know. It's not like you just get off the 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:29.840 list and it's fine and they're not. I mean, it's 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.840 not like they're even past. For Neil at least, I 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:34.719 don't know if he's even past the point where he 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.120 could come back, even if he were not showing symptoms. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.960 All right, m Randy Gregory, where's Randy Gregs? Fine? He 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.159 had an he misspractice with Randy Gregory had I don't 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.400 need to do this today itis, which is like just 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.680 like he had a knee issue in training camp. Guys 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.200 get dinged up and they were like, you're you know, 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.359 you're good today. You don't need to do this today. Yeah. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:06:00.480 He actually walked by us at practice yesterday and Mickey said, quit, 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.680 oh god, Nicky. I think they have a they do. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.480 They have a funny relationship. I think, yeah, what did 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.719 you say? He said? Man? He goes, I'm old, man, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:15.040 I'm not twenty two anymore. Like I'm like, okay, what 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.080 twenty seven? A right, Yeah, when did twenty seven get old? Here? Yeah? 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.479 I mean, and you know, when you think about it, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.040 and this is not saying anything bad about where he is, 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.320 but like, however old he is, he hasn't had as 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.000 much wear and tear on his body like other players 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.040 from that age. He just hasn't played as many games. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.920 But um, but yeah, I think you're right, it didn't 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.640 seem like he was to Mike McCarthy said this morning 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.120 that he fully expects him to play and that you know, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.920 you gotta you gotta parse through the injury report. Some 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.400 guys are on there because there you aren't gonna play, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.120 and some guys are on there because teams are being 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.320 smart knowing that it's a seventeen game season. Randy's finding 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.320 You know, I saw I saw something the other day. 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.840 We talkably defensive ends. You know, who's gonna play that 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.040 if Lawrence is not playing and I's not playing, who's 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.479 going to rush the passer? And obviously Michael Parsons is 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.800 going to do some of that and other stuff. But um, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.080 I saw a play where Hurts ran on the sideline 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.560 and Jalen was was trying to level out and really 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.400 beat him to the spot. Not take an angle and 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:18.160 really get him and I think fifty nine Gholston, right, yeah, 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.640 he did. Y'all see this play where he comes flying 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.240 into the picture and I mean, I'm not calling Jalen 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.280 slow whatever it is. This guy had a burst that 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.720 I mean, he just shot right past him and really 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.560 was the guy to force him out of bounds. And 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.880 I was like, dang, I mean, like that was that 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.360 was some an impressive play there by Gholston. Yeah, he's 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.040 got some, He's got some agility to him there. He 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.520 had some. He had a couple of flash plays he 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.520 I mean, he had to. For where he's been and 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.120 how little he's played, it was impressive that he did 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:49.880 as much as he did in his first game. Yeah, 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:51.920 you know, honestly, that's That's one of the things that 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.160 I'm liking right now about this defense, and I think 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.080 is a big difference for them is a lot of 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.920 these young guys they can move like they have built 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.520 a fast defense, and I think that shows. I mean, 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.160 you even look at somebody like Osa like Olsa's making 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.200 these flash plays as well. He's getting into the backfield. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.840 I saw another play where he ran all the way today. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:13.440 He was in the line, like in the middle of 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.560 the trenches when the past was thrown and by the 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:21.240 time the play was completed downfield, he's downfield trying to 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.200 make the tackle. I mean, that's a defensive tackle. And 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.320 I just like the fact that these are young, fast, 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.320 agile guys that are flying around on this defense. They 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.640 have revamped the athleticism of this defense very quickly. And 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.960 it's not too dog that Jalen. But like watch those plays. 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.920 Watch when Jalen is between the hash marks and needs 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.520 to get to the numbers, it's it's not ideal. You can't. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.040 I mean, it doesn't. And then watch Parsons do that 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.000 type of stuff and you can see a stark contrast 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:52.880 in terms of how quickly they can get to where 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:54.840 they need to be. And the best part about it 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.079 is is that they've added a lot of speed, a 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.920 lot of you know, athleticism, but they've also added a 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.480 lot of size too. It's a different looking team. They 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.480 got bigger guys across the board, so you know, just 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.439 listening to what Bucky described the Panthers about how fast 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.439 they are, they also have seemingly some undersized guys. Cowboys 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:18.679 have have done it. Good athleticism but not really lacking 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.400 a lot of size. And I think he said in 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.360 that call, I think he said it was was it 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.440 twenty nineteen when the Panthers became the first team to 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.440 do it all defense draft? Yeah, And it kind of 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.800 reminded me Cowboys went last year. It wasn't all defense, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.240 but it was a vast majority, was significant, and they 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.000 revamped their defense in one offseason, and this defense is 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.760 playing a lot better. That's rules calling card. I think. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.480 I mean, I don't cover the Panthers, but I think 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:43.720 he got there and he was like, all right, I'm 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.760 gonna fix what I know how to fix and we'll 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.840 worry about the quarterback situation later. And it looks like 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.440 what's happening? Yeah, I think he's he's a coach that's 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.040 gonna you know, he's looking to see who's gonna win 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.960 a fist fight, you know, like that that type of guys, 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.360 those type of defensive players, toughness and and you know 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.760 that's that's a good place to start, you know, I know, 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.200 being in the in the Big twelve, what he did 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.680 at Baylor was pretty freaking remark he's a hell of 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:13.599 a coach man. He turned Baylor into a good football program, 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.480 turned Baylor around after everything that went wrong with them 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.040 losing all the talent that they lost, the scholarships and stuff, 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.480 and now he's in the NFL and seems to be 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.200 doing something. Someone think the Panthers are as good as 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.320 the record indicates, but they're I mean, they're good football. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.000 Last year said Baylor twice, I think Temple, what you did? 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.880 I say, yeah, he was being Temple and then Temple. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.160 I didn't say Temple, I'm sorry now that No, he 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.040 turned as that was really really impressive there, Temple. Yeah, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.960 I thought I thought I said Temple, I'm sorry. Yeah, 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.520 I would just say I mean, like the whole Baylor 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.079 then that I was really like, I was thinking, as 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:48.679 a big twelve guy, all right, we don't have to 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.400 worry about Baylor for a while. It's gonna take him 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.280 a while to get from under the scholarship stuff and 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.840 and by the way, and then quickly like they were like, 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.800 oh my god, Bay was actually pretty good all of 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:59.600 a sudden, and so yeah, he did a pretty good 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.800 job there. Temple was the team. I just I have 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.640 like childhood memories of like Temples Penn States opener, like 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.600 every year just there throw him to the Lions sixty 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.280 to three game, and then all of a sudden, you know, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:14.840 Temple's winning eight nine games every year. Yeah, all right, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.640 you're gonna I was thinking of this Cowboys running back 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.240 that played at Temple, Paul Palmer. You've heard of him, No, 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.839 I haven't. I should the way now, he was a 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.600 twenty six. I should have used him. The year that 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:29.680 the Cowboys beat the Redskins is a further only win 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.480 one in fifteen. Paul Palmer was the running back and 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.720 he like lit him up that day and the Cowboys 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.400 finally got to win beat the great I've like learned 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.520 a legitimate amount because the eighties are definitely my Cowboys 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.640 weak spot because like you know about the legendary seventies 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:50.080 teams and obviously the nineties, it was the eighties for 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.080 me at least, it's a cloud like Yeah, it was. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.920 It was a transition decade too. That means you're you're 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.480 still thinking you're good, but they're really not. They keep 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.760 losing guys and then just kind of plateau all the way. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.400 But I think when I started giving you these answers numbers, 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.040 I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna give you the nick answer, 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.720 and I'm gonna give you the right answer. Okay. That's 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.160 why I like that, because you know, because it's like 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.600 when you say twenty two you know whatever, like there's 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.840 a right answer. Well, there's a couple of right answers, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.480 but imm it, you know. Yeah, But but I'm also 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.520 gonna I'm gonna give you another just no, like this 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.400 is not a just a one year thing, so you 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.280 don't have to use them all this year. Yeah, we'll 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.080 have episode number thirty two next year as well. So yeah, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.719 I feel free to kind of. So I'll just tell 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.400 you next week you don't even have to go to 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.040 Monday because there's gonna be a crazy game. We'll talk 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.160 about Monday. I don't have time. I'll just here right now. 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.520 There's only one answer, Yeah, rookie season Cheeto, who's honestly 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:47.000 now now now my bad? All right now, it's like 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.040 our first break. When we come back from our break, 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.200 we're gonna talk about storylines. I got a few storylines 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:52.880 for these guys who are gonna figure out what they 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.040 think is going to happen in this game. A little later, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:56.719 hopefully we'll get to some questions. We already have a 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.319 couple of questions from Twitter. 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And 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.640 I know the Cowboys played Monday, so I get it. 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.160 That's an extra day where you're not resting, But Thursday 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.240 to Monday, like it's like the two extremes, right, Yeah, 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.080 But well, what I was gonna say is, Cowboys played 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.440 on Thursday to open the season, Chargers played on Sunday, 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.440 and they turned around and played the next Sunday. Chargers 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.280 are on a short week. I know Dallas this week 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.040 is shorter, but my point is that every team in 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.360 the league deals with this stuff. Um, at least the 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.200 Cowboys are at home when they have to do it. So, yeah, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:25.000 it's probably an advantage for Carolina, but welcome to the NFL. Yeah, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.920 I mean it's it's an advantage a little bit. And 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.040 just you know, also when you when you think about 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.600 what Carolina is probably gonna have to do to win 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:38.320 this game. You know, defensively, they're gonna have to probably 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:42.160 come up with some different things and and they got 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.720 a little extra time to do that. But that happens 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.120 around the league. It happens all the time, and I 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.040 there's so many things you have to factor in as 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.120 a schedule maker. I don't know if you can say 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.760 short week versus you know, um, you know, short week, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.560 long week. Did you say the Chargers did they play 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.720 Monday night? No, That's what I'm saying. The Chargers didn't 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:03.560 have as short of a week. I'm just saying the 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.560 Chargers played Sunday afternoon. Cowboys had the long weekend, right, 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:11.360 because you can't match up everybody's Thursday. There's no way 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.280 with with all of the moving parts and the fact 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.520 that they play four nights a week now or however 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.639 many nights. I just you're gonna you're gonna have these 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.000 weeks and people have a problem with it. Watch Less 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.240 Football on TV gave the league lesson centive to do 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.040 this stuff. But we know that's not going to happen, 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.600 So yeah, what do you want to do? I mean 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.840 they watch it like when it comes to like Thanksgiving 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.280 stuff like that. You know, the Cowboys I think will 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.520 always from now on have a road game as long 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.480 as four as long oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, just 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.359 just to make it some I mean before Thanksgiving. I 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.560 know that's been a lot of things teams have kind 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.200 of complained about because the Cowboys get a Yeah, that 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.320 offsets the fact that you're always playing a Thursday home game. Yeah, 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.520 and I bet you that. I have to look at 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.440 the last few years, but I bet you the team 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.280 that's traveling to the Cowboys will probably play a home 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.080 game the Sunday the Sunday before. It seems like a 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.119 good bed. But you know, you can't, you know, but 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.639 it is an advantage. Yeah, it's advantage. I mean, coaches 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:14.240 think covering their mouth before they call play is an advantage. 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.600 So yeah, they probably think this is a disadvantage. And 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.639 by the way, this is not the question was not 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.399 from the standpoint of a complaint as much as it 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.320 is what are you are you expecting to see something different? 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.600 Because again, when you're talking about it's one thing for 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.760 a team even to have played on Thursday and the 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:31.600 other team to have played on Sunday. You're talking about 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.480 the two extremes. You played on Thursday and then you 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.320 played the other one team played on Monday. That's a 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.080 significant amount of difference in in recovery, is what I'm saying. 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.160 And so do you guys expect to see that play 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.200 out on the fields? Not masking? No, that's I mean 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.320 teams Monday night football has been a thing forever. I mean, 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.520 teams know how to play on that schedule. Third, I 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.600 mean getting ready for Thursday. Yeah, that's I mean, that's 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.480 a different animal. But you still have six days and 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.320 again that's why you do stuff like not practice Randy 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:05.240 Gregory even though he could probably practice. And actually, you know, 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.119 there's a whole interesting wrinkle about it from a preparation 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.800 standpoint where McCarthy was talking to us this week about 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.639 how they had people on staff who on Saturday and 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.600 Sunday of last weekend, we're game planning for Carolina. They're 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.560 like the Hayes in the barn for Philly. Well, we'll 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.520 take care of that, but you guys, let's do some 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.840 advance work. And then Tuesday morning, the coordinators Kellen Moore 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.000 and those guys dan Quinn, they skipped the Philly game 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.040 like they got up. I'm sure they probably watched the 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:34.840 tape that night after the game, but they got up 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:38.760 Tuesday at oh dark thirty and we're onto Carolina. I mean, 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:40.639 it's just it's just the way you got to do 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.720 things in these situations. All right, let's move on to 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.520 the next topic. Carolina has a number one defense in 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.639