1
00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,480
Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

2
00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:19,200
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you

3
00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,360
Speaker 1: ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely?

4
00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,680
Speaker 1: Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that.

5
00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:33,040
Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

6
00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:39,360
Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.

7
00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,159
Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, May nineteenth, twenty twenty one, Season sixteen,

8
00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,080
Speaker 1: Episode number one ten. Welcome to the latest edition of

9
00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:49,120
Speaker 1: The Break. We are live from the s WBC Mortgage

10
00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,879
Speaker 1: studios at the Star. We are presented by Geico, and

11
00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:53,680
Speaker 1: we appreciate you guys taking us some time with us

12
00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,960
Speaker 1: today to talk a little Cowboys football. Here on the Break,

13
00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,080
Speaker 1: got Nick, Dave and Amber with me. We're gonna catch

14
00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,160
Speaker 1: you guys up on the rook minicamp which you guys

15
00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,920
Speaker 1: attended last week. We'll get some perspective from you on

16
00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,640
Speaker 1: some things you saw, some things that stood out to you.

17
00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,280
Speaker 1: We'll also talk a little bit about schedule release. So

18
00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,679
Speaker 1: we haven't had a chance to talk about yet. Cowboys

19
00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,200
Speaker 1: and the NFL released there's there are twenty twenty one

20
00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,560
Speaker 1: schedule last week, and so we'll catch up on your

21
00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,720
Speaker 1: thoughts on some of the best things and worst things

22
00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:22,880
Speaker 1: about the schedule. And then we got a little game

23
00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:24,679
Speaker 1: with c No, we haven't played that in a long time.

24
00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,920
Speaker 1: Amber's got some questions for us, and maybe even we

25
00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,520
Speaker 1: will get to some fan questions a day. Maybe maybe

26
00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,160
Speaker 1: we'll get some phone calls from some fans and hear

27
00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,200
Speaker 1: what you guys have to say. Here's some questions from you,

28
00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,800
Speaker 1: and see what these guys have to say. How's everybody

29
00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,760
Speaker 1: doing today? Great? Good, awesome, good good good. Let's jump

30
00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,319
Speaker 1: right in and let's start with the rookie minicamp. It

31
00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,600
Speaker 1: was last week. Obviously it's not a full contact type thing.

32
00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,840
Speaker 1: Guys are in shorts and T shirts and helmets. But

33
00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,120
Speaker 1: I'll start first by going around the table and just

34
00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,680
Speaker 1: getting some perspective of what may have stood out, one

35
00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,560
Speaker 1: thing that stood out to you as you watched those practices.

36
00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,880
Speaker 1: Let's start first with you, Dave m Maybe to start

37
00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,600
Speaker 1: with somebody else since they were actually here and they

38
00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,080
Speaker 1: forgot Yes, you were not here. You you didn't get it,

39
00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,040
Speaker 1: but I'm sure you've you've seen and heard something. Anyway,

40
00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,360
Speaker 1: let's start with yeah, I'll formulates I mean yeah, I

41
00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,040
Speaker 1: can formulate something, but maybe start with somebody that Let's

42
00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,480
Speaker 1: start with you. Well, I feel like I'm kind of

43
00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,560
Speaker 1: taking the obvious one here, but I mean it starts

44
00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,400
Speaker 1: with this draft class, starts with Micah Parsons, and I

45
00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,720
Speaker 1: think that, you know, it's it's one of those things where, um,

46
00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,720
Speaker 1: you know when Zach Martin coming when when it's Tyrn

47
00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,200
Speaker 1: Smith's coming back, because I mean, these guys can't block him.

48
00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,480
Speaker 1: I understand that pads aren't on yet and all that,

49
00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,720
Speaker 1: but he could do what he wanted to. Is he

50
00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,600
Speaker 1: was moving really well and he could get by the

51
00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,880
Speaker 1: guys that they had blocking there. So the composition will

52
00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,480
Speaker 1: be better. Um, you know, the pads come on, it's

53
00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,040
Speaker 1: more physical. It's harder for offensive linemen to really, you know,

54
00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,200
Speaker 1: get your hands on these guys and all that, because

55
00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, especially a first round pick, you had to

56
00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:56,839
Speaker 1: be careful with it. But I thought he look from

57
00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,320
Speaker 1: his movement, he looked really good. He looked like you

58
00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,120
Speaker 1: want him to look. In that first first day. What

59
00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,000
Speaker 1: stood out to me was Dan Quinn. He was the

60
00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,600
Speaker 1: fact to see him in there, and again this is

61
00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,480
Speaker 1: not a real practice or anything, but the fact that

62
00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,639
Speaker 1: you see him so hands on and being involved. Just

63
00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,440
Speaker 1: it reminded me of, um, oh my god, my brain

64
00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:27,120
Speaker 1: the coach I really like Rod Marinelli. No no, no, no, no,

65
00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,680
Speaker 1: why would you say him? I didn't like that one

66
00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:35,320
Speaker 1: that's not employed. Sorry, I didn't mean like but christ

67
00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,280
Speaker 1: Ra Shard, Sure, yeah, Shards with the Saints. Now, okay,

68
00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,240
Speaker 1: well one, I know he wasn't necessarily great here, but

69
00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,880
Speaker 1: one thing that I loved about him was how involved

70
00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:50,240
Speaker 1: he was within the players and the defense and just

71
00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,080
Speaker 1: being in there in the game. Now, then Quinn, he's

72
00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,960
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator, that's not necessarily his role, you know.

73
00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,840
Speaker 1: He the fact that he went in there when quintin Bahanna,

74
00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,520
Speaker 1: Sorry if I said his name wrong, but when now

75
00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,600
Speaker 1: banged up his shoulder, I believe left for a little bit,

76
00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,880
Speaker 1: and then dan Quinn goes in there at tackle and

77
00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,320
Speaker 1: just it's hands on it that that is super cool

78
00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,440
Speaker 1: for me. I love to see it. I love to

79
00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:19,119
Speaker 1: see a leader that can be involved and just get

80
00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,320
Speaker 1: in there with the players and just be a part

81
00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,160
Speaker 1: of it. And that's exciting to me. And I just

82
00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,719
Speaker 1: absolutely love anytime I see a coach, especially a coordinator,

83
00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,559
Speaker 1: just being that involved and making sure because that again,

84
00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:37,840
Speaker 1: it's so important for the chemistry too, with bunding with

85
00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,480
Speaker 1: the players and all that. I feel like players will

86
00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,800
Speaker 1: look up to him even more when someone does that.

87
00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,440
Speaker 1: So that stood out for me for sure. I just

88
00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:50,839
Speaker 1: absolutely loved it. So I was. I was at a

89
00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,240
Speaker 1: old and very dear friend's wedding. That's why I wasn't here.

90
00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,159
Speaker 1: And I really appreciate y'all giving me the work life

91
00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,599
Speaker 1: balance to do that, because I was like, he get here,

92
00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,560
Speaker 1: what is he? What are you talking about? No? I

93
00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,040
Speaker 1: cannot believe you, Miss Ruthie. You know what that's that's

94
00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,080
Speaker 1: it embarrassing. I always fast forward five years down the

95
00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,880
Speaker 1: road with your friends in New Orleans and they're like,

96
00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,839
Speaker 1: you didn't even come to the wedding. Why, Well, we

97
00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:17,960
Speaker 1: were watching Dan Quinn in the middle of this rookie

98
00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,479
Speaker 1: Mini Caamp and Michael Parton, which never holds up. I

99
00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,120
Speaker 1: actually I did. I did miss a dear friend's wedding

100
00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,719
Speaker 1: for the Seahawks Cowboys playoff game, and that that holds

101
00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:29,720
Speaker 1: water for me, makes a little bit. My friend Rob,

102
00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,680
Speaker 1: he busts on me all the time. He's like, glad

103
00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:34,520
Speaker 1: you loved me enough to come to my wedding. Over

104
00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:36,560
Speaker 1: a football game, and I'm like, yeah, that's the playoffs,

105
00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,960
Speaker 1: and like Dak had that run and like, I don't

106
00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:40,320
Speaker 1: you know, I love you, but I don't feel that

107
00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,719
Speaker 1: bad about that. But like to miss a wedding for

108
00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,880
Speaker 1: a rookie Mini Caamp, yeah, I'm life moments. You gotta

109
00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,360
Speaker 1: do some life. But regardless, regardless, you know, I just

110
00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,200
Speaker 1: had my eye on it from Afar and two things, um,

111
00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,440
Speaker 1: two things that really jumped out to me, which you know,

112
00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,600
Speaker 1: you definitely don't want to overreact, but the team sent

113
00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,520
Speaker 1: out the clip of Jabril Cox getting a pick in

114
00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,599
Speaker 1: some seven on seven, which it was a tipped ball,

115
00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,880
Speaker 1: and the quarterback that threw it is not going to

116
00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,279
Speaker 1: play on Sundays, so take all of that with a

117
00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,080
Speaker 1: grain of salt. But the guy, the guy is noted

118
00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,280
Speaker 1: for his coverage ability, so for him to step out

119
00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:17,480
Speaker 1: there and do it, it wasn't just a pick. It

120
00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,880
Speaker 1: was thirty yards down the field, It was a covery.

121
00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,280
Speaker 1: It was getting back there in coverage. I mean that

122
00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:25,400
Speaker 1: that was the impressive part I thought, And then the

123
00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:29,039
Speaker 1: other one I was I was embarrassed about how excited

124
00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,000
Speaker 1: I got about this because I you know, we argued

125
00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,159
Speaker 1: last week. I was like, don't put don't put these

126
00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,279
Speaker 1: expectations on these day three picks. That's dumb. But then

127
00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,760
Speaker 1: we actually posted the clip of Barry Church from the

128
00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:44,159
Speaker 1: player's lounge. Barry was like blown away by Israel Mukuamu.

129
00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,560
Speaker 1: I mean, he was just gushing about his movement skills,

130
00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,080
Speaker 1: his you know, how smooth he looks. He's got the hips.

131
00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,200
Speaker 1: And you know, Barry's not the he's not he's not

132
00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:54,960
Speaker 1: going to the Hall of Fame, but he played safety

133
00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,480
Speaker 1: in the NFL for nine years. Like I trusted a

134
00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,800
Speaker 1: bunch of money. Yeah, absolutely, Like I trust his opinion

135
00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:02,800
Speaker 1: a lot. So for him to like, if you haven't

136
00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:04,760
Speaker 1: seen it, go look on our channels for it. He

137
00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,080
Speaker 1: had so much good stuff to say about the kid,

138
00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,240
Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, again, I know he's

139
00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,520
Speaker 1: in shorts, but if Barry Church thinks he looks that great,

140
00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:14,040
Speaker 1: then I'm going to take his word for it that

141
00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:19,280
Speaker 1: I should be intrigued. Here's Bucky Brooks listed in mcquamu

142
00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,880
Speaker 1: as his top one of his top five favorite picks.

143
00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,000
Speaker 1: He really loved that that pick. I'll say this though, Um,

144
00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,280
Speaker 1: it's intriguing that a guy that's played it like Barry

145
00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,000
Speaker 1: Church has played it. He knows what he's looking for.

146
00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,920
Speaker 1: But I'll say this though, cornerbacks that convert to safety

147
00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,600
Speaker 1: are going to look good at safety in rookie minicamp

148
00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,520
Speaker 1: because they're not hitting anybody, and they're not you know,

149
00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:45,760
Speaker 1: they're just can you keep up with a tight end cornerback? Right?

150
00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,160
Speaker 1: But what's gonna make him make that transition is can

151
00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:51,360
Speaker 1: he make the calls as he instinctive? And will he

152
00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:53,320
Speaker 1: get in there and hit? And I think he will,

153
00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,000
Speaker 1: but I just think it's early because any corner is

154
00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,600
Speaker 1: gonna look what are we looking at him? Like? Oh, well,

155
00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,320
Speaker 1: they have video of him. That's what Chris does. Our

156
00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,680
Speaker 1: producers all over it. Now keep talking. He definitely looks

157
00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,520
Speaker 1: he looks the part for sure, and he talked about

158
00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:09,240
Speaker 1: his length. I got a chance to talk to him

159
00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:12,200
Speaker 1: the other day and he said, you know, you know,

160
00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,000
Speaker 1: he said, hey, Jerry, you got the best cornerback in

161
00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,880
Speaker 1: the draft. And then about an hour later, Dan Quinn

162
00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:19,880
Speaker 1: called from and said, yeah, about that, we're moving in

163
00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,040
Speaker 1: to safety, and so I said, does your confidence like

164
00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:23,560
Speaker 1: carry over? He's like, oh yeah, they're gonna get the

165
00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,520
Speaker 1: best safety in the draft. So you know, he's he's

166
00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,560
Speaker 1: a confident dude. And don't think teams didn't pick on him.

167
00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,000
Speaker 1: He played corner opposite J. C. Hornet South Carolina. He

168
00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,200
Speaker 1: they threw with him, and so he made some man

169
00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,080
Speaker 1: enough plays to obviously get drafted. He wears thirty eight,

170
00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,000
Speaker 1: so he's probably gonna be a baller. If I had

171
00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,040
Speaker 1: to guess, if there was one thing, if there was

172
00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,640
Speaker 1: one player that you would say you have a different

173
00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,880
Speaker 1: opinion of now than maybe you had before, good or

174
00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,480
Speaker 1: bad or you know, just something about them stood out

175
00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,880
Speaker 1: that you didn't really expect to notice during a minicamp,

176
00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:03,520
Speaker 1: what would he be? Nick Um? I again, I'm probably

177
00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:07,880
Speaker 1: stealing this one. Probably Nashan, right. I thought he did

178
00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:12,160
Speaker 1: a pretty good job, especially that second day, and he

179
00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,440
Speaker 1: was he was making a lot of plays. He looked

180
00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,800
Speaker 1: like a cornerback. It's supposed to me to look and

181
00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,600
Speaker 1: even though he's tall. I thought he did a nice job,

182
00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:21,760
Speaker 1: you know, break on the balls and stuff like that.

183
00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,160
Speaker 1: But as Dave said, you know, it's hard to tell

184
00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,720
Speaker 1: out there with the quarterbacks and the receivers and all that,

185
00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,320
Speaker 1: you know, but but he did a nice job. And

186
00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,080
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, not that I had mixed opinions

187
00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,800
Speaker 1: about him, but I just you know, we'll see what

188
00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,000
Speaker 1: he looked like. I thought I did a good job. Yeah.

189
00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,440
Speaker 1: Let me start off by saying that I came in here.

190
00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,559
Speaker 1: You know, it's been a while since we've seen football

191
00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,600
Speaker 1: and players being on the field, so you come in

192
00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,640
Speaker 1: here excited. Okay, We're finally gonna get to see some action.

193
00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,800
Speaker 1: And it's hard, at least for me, it was difficult

194
00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,880
Speaker 1: because I'm judging with another like level where I have

195
00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,520
Speaker 1: to okay, hold on a second, let me step back.

196
00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:02,160
Speaker 1: This is first day, second day, a rookie Minican, Like,

197
00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:04,559
Speaker 1: let me not be so judgmental, because there were a

198
00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,040
Speaker 1: lot of things that happened. I'm like, are you kidding me?

199
00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:10,040
Speaker 1: This is this is what I'm seeing on the field

200
00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,160
Speaker 1: right now, And you know, so it was really tough

201
00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,600
Speaker 1: for me to even judge. And you know, back to

202
00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,480
Speaker 1: what Nick was talking about Mika Parsons, Yes he looked good,

203
00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,199
Speaker 1: but then you go back and look at the offense

204
00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,800
Speaker 1: how awful they were. So it's just hard to get

205
00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,160
Speaker 1: a grasp to the whole thing. So I'm gonna lean

206
00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:32,160
Speaker 1: on one of their interviews with Kelvin Joseph I think

207
00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,600
Speaker 1: that my opinion has started to change a little bit.

208
00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,640
Speaker 1: And I know even before then, I didn't want to

209
00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:42,160
Speaker 1: be so judgy because I don't know him. There's a

210
00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:46,160
Speaker 1: lot of information that I don't know about. So listening

211
00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,240
Speaker 1: to him speak and the way that he was talking,

212
00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:51,720
Speaker 1: it just gave me ease and it made me feel

213
00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,559
Speaker 1: a little bit better about his commitment with the team

214
00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,840
Speaker 1: and what he's here to do aside from everything that

215
00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,000
Speaker 1: media and even though so we talked about it on

216
00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,160
Speaker 1: the show last week that we've been talking about you know,

217
00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:07,160
Speaker 1: it's a really one percent committed to football based on

218
00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:11,280
Speaker 1: his I gues hobby and all of that outside of

219
00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,400
Speaker 1: the field. So just the way that he spoke and

220
00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,520
Speaker 1: just kind of saying, you know, like there's no and

221
00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,800
Speaker 1: it's true. Everyone can have a hobby and you can

222
00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,120
Speaker 1: be one hundred percent committed to your job and all that.

223
00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,560
Speaker 1: But just hear hearing it out of his mouth and

224
00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:27,959
Speaker 1: not just that another one of his teammates just kind

225
00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,240
Speaker 1: of backing him up and all that. So it just

226
00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:34,560
Speaker 1: made me feel someone better and say, Okay, this guy,

227
00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,600
Speaker 1: it's here for business. I mean, if it's fur the

228
00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,440
Speaker 1: money and to get paid, we all here to get

229
00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:45,000
Speaker 1: paid too, So it just my opinion on him started

230
00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,800
Speaker 1: changing a little bit, which, by the way, is I

231
00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,280
Speaker 1: thought an interesting I saw you tweeted about this Dave

232
00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,560
Speaker 1: about him mentioning the fact that you know, yeah, the money,

233
00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:55,880
Speaker 1: the money is important. It's a driver. And there were

234
00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:57,840
Speaker 1: some fans that were kind of like, well, that makes

235
00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,200
Speaker 1: me a little bit weirded out because he's doing it

236
00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,560
Speaker 1: for the money. And my thought was like, I think

237
00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,679
Speaker 1: we all, to some respects do our jobs for the money. Now.

238
00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:08,920
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. You can love what you do,

239
00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:12,240
Speaker 1: but it still is a job. And part of why

240
00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:14,800
Speaker 1: you still do it is because you're able to make money,

241
00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,760
Speaker 1: you're able to take care of your family, and if

242
00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:18,640
Speaker 1: you're able to get to that level playing the NFL,

243
00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:20,880
Speaker 1: you're able to take care of maybe your grandkids and

244
00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:23,640
Speaker 1: great grandkids as a part of doing this job. So

245
00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,760
Speaker 1: that's a great motivator and there should be no there

246
00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,680
Speaker 1: should be nothing about that that should be considered bad.

247
00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,319
Speaker 1: I don't think I will speak for Nick. I think

248
00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,679
Speaker 1: I can worked with you for a while, like we

249
00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,680
Speaker 1: are living out our childhood dreams dream job like and

250
00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,640
Speaker 1: so many people would kill to do what we do.

251
00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,000
Speaker 1: If you told me tomorrow that I wasn't getting paid

252
00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,520
Speaker 1: for it, I would be pretty pissed off, Like, no, no,

253
00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:47,959
Speaker 1: that's not that's not part of the deal, and I

254
00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,080
Speaker 1: won't be there the day. Yeah, like that. We got

255
00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,959
Speaker 1: to come to some arrangement, like, no, I need money.

256
00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,520
Speaker 1: Money is important to me. It ain't a dream job

257
00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:59,320
Speaker 1: if you're not getting paid to do it. And these guys,

258
00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,840
Speaker 1: I mean, not very many people can do what Kelvin

259
00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,360
Speaker 1: Joseph does, so he's he's worth a lot of money

260
00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,520
Speaker 1: because of that, and the fans that have a problem

261
00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,640
Speaker 1: with it are the reason he's worth as much money

262
00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:12,720
Speaker 1: as he is. So I hate that attitude, and I'm

263
00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:14,480
Speaker 1: with you. Took the words right out of my mouth.

264
00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:16,520
Speaker 1: Ag I thought he was. He was really impressive the

265
00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,280
Speaker 1: way he handled that. And he was like, I know

266
00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,440
Speaker 1: the difference between my profession and my hobbies, And again

267
00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,839
Speaker 1: that's something everybody should relate to. We all have things

268
00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,920
Speaker 1: that we enjoy doing on our own time when it

269
00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,200
Speaker 1: doesn't affect our work, and there's nothing wrong with that.

270
00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,640
Speaker 1: But as long as you're committed to what you get

271
00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,480
Speaker 1: paid to do, you know what your job is. I

272
00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,079
Speaker 1: was going to say Monday to Friday. But I guess

273
00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:40,120
Speaker 1: it's really more sick whenever you're called upon. Yeah, that's

274
00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,360
Speaker 1: kind of my thing too. I think a couple of

275
00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,920
Speaker 1: people went after us on Twitter, at least me, you know,

276
00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,680
Speaker 1: because it's all about your as long as your focus

277
00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,880
Speaker 1: is here, and it really doesn't matter. It doesn't matter

278
00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,640
Speaker 1: what it is, if it's bowling or you know, playing

279
00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:58,560
Speaker 1: tennis or golf like Romo did, or rap. You know,

280
00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,840
Speaker 1: I mean, as I as I told William who's upstairs.

281
00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:05,360
Speaker 1: I told him, you know, I'm not against rap. I'm

282
00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,320
Speaker 1: not against rappers. You know which is I don't know

283
00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,280
Speaker 1: if you know that reference, but no, you don't know

284
00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,280
Speaker 1: that song. I know. Anyways, I love rap. By the way,

285
00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,400
Speaker 1: if it's three, I would gonna say Nick's sweet spot

286
00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,080
Speaker 1: is like ninety to ninety five. Yeah, problem, and then

287
00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,040
Speaker 1: then it kind of then it switches more. It's more

288
00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,400
Speaker 1: of an R and B thing. Yeah, I agree with you, guys.

289
00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,640
Speaker 1: I talked to him and I liked what he said.

290
00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,080
Speaker 1: Now he does have a focus though. One of his

291
00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,120
Speaker 1: focus is um getting out of twenty four. He doesn't

292
00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,520
Speaker 1: really want that number. So he was like, he comes

293
00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:36,200
Speaker 1: up to me and he was like who's in the

294
00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,360
Speaker 1: number one, number two. I'm like, well, you know the

295
00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,480
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl kickers and number two, so good luck with

296
00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:42,600
Speaker 1: that one. But you know who knows. I mean, I

297
00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,440
Speaker 1: don't want him in twenty four either, And which I'm

298
00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,680
Speaker 1: I'm I'm the one that like, I don't I don't

299
00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,360
Speaker 1: believe in superstition, but like they keep giving twenty four

300
00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,800
Speaker 1: to these young cornerbacks and it hasn't really worked out

301
00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:57,360
Speaker 1: for Clayborn. Cheetoh, those are the two big ones. Yeah,

302
00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,440
Speaker 1: the number did it, no problem? The number to do it,

303
00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,480
Speaker 1: Like it won't be his number that determines his success.

304
00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,760
Speaker 1: But I still just see it about any of them.

305
00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:10,640
Speaker 1: But I'm just like, oh, we're not done. Put that

306
00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,200
Speaker 1: on the right. I mean, that's the way I look

307
00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:13,760
Speaker 1: at it, is it? Especially if he didn't want it? Like,

308
00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:20,720
Speaker 1: is it true what I heard about number nine for

309
00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:25,040
Speaker 1: the Air? I don't know what I'm talking. I don't know.

310
00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,040
Speaker 1: I don't know where that stands right now. Yeah, I

311
00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,640
Speaker 1: don't know my source. It's kind of if I honestly

312
00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:34,560
Speaker 1: don't know whether it's great stores. So I'm just, uh,

313
00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:39,760
Speaker 1: I don't know making that we're not talking about numbers.

314
00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:42,120
Speaker 1: Those guys are going to change numbers. I know, I

315
00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,960
Speaker 1: know of two guys that are definitely gonna change their numbers.

316
00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,800
Speaker 1: Um hasn't really been announced, and for some of them

317
00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,760
Speaker 1: it's important for them to announce it. So UM And

318
00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:54,440
Speaker 1: I'm sure once once the roster gets pared down and

319
00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:57,520
Speaker 1: all that, because you got like multiple quarterbacks, you got

320
00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,640
Speaker 1: multiple punters, those numbers are going to start when opening

321
00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,520
Speaker 1: up and the guys will switch around, like, yeah, Parsons

322
00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,000
Speaker 1: is gonna wear eleven, but you know that, but yeah,

323
00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,280
Speaker 1: we know that, but like, yeah, you see changes every

324
00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,360
Speaker 1: year after training game. It's fine, this will probably be

325
00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,400
Speaker 1: another year we'll see that. Let's talk about Mike Michael Parsons.

326
00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,160
Speaker 1: Nick you led with him. We found out last week

327
00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:20,760
Speaker 1: in an interview that he did I think was it

328
00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,360
Speaker 1: exclusive with us, but I know we had it. But

329
00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,600
Speaker 1: he talked about the fact that that he is right

330
00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,840
Speaker 1: now starting off working at middle linebacker, which I think

331
00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,920
Speaker 1: for everybody was kind of like a home Okay, so

332
00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:34,840
Speaker 1: talk to me about where what do you think that

333
00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:38,200
Speaker 1: means as far as you know, how he fits into

334
00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,400
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. Knowing they've got two linebackers who

335
00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,840
Speaker 1: have at different times played middle linebacker. What does this

336
00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,240
Speaker 1: mean for that position group? If he's your guy that

337
00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,440
Speaker 1: starts the season at middle linebacker. Well, I thought it

338
00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,560
Speaker 1: was interesting. When they asked McCarthy about it, naturally, he

339
00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:53,400
Speaker 1: kind of shot it down like it wasn't that big

340
00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,160
Speaker 1: a deal. But one of the things that they wanted

341
00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,160
Speaker 1: him to do was to get in there and listen

342
00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,480
Speaker 1: and have the mic the headset in the in the

343
00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:03,240
Speaker 1: for the calls to so be able to make the call.

344
00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,400
Speaker 1: So that's one of the things. But he said, all

345
00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:07,959
Speaker 1: the linebackers have to do two positions. They all have

346
00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,960
Speaker 1: to learn two spots. So him starting out in the

347
00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,480
Speaker 1: rookie miniicamp at middle linebacker is not that big a deal.

348
00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,080
Speaker 1: But Parson said when asked about it, he said, yeah,

349
00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,280
Speaker 1: they want me to go sideline the sideline and the

350
00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:20,679
Speaker 1: best way for me to do that is to be

351
00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,960
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the action. So, um, yeah,

352
00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, what does it mean for where Layton's going

353
00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:28,560
Speaker 1: to play and all that? It's so hard to tell

354
00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:31,000
Speaker 1: because we don't really know how dan Quinn's going to

355
00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:33,879
Speaker 1: play this thing. He's he's got a lot of options.

356
00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,280
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna be on the field I think

357
00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,359
Speaker 1: if you can play, they'll be out there. They're gonna

358
00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,560
Speaker 1: do the exact same thing they did last year, which

359
00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,200
Speaker 1: is used the fact that nobody knows to try to

360
00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,680
Speaker 1: get an advantage, which did not work at all last year.

361
00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:51,200
Speaker 1: Hopefully it'll produce some better results this time around. But yeah,

362
00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,159
Speaker 1: and rookie miniicamp doesn't really mean anything to me because, like,

363
00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,240
Speaker 1: who else is out there with him? Jabril Cox, I

364
00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,840
Speaker 1: mean the Texas say, and m undrafted guy. I guess

365
00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,639
Speaker 1: you know, like it's not this isn't the real linebacker corps,

366
00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,280
Speaker 1: so but it is that. And that was the debate

367
00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,640
Speaker 1: about Parsons is like, is a pure off ball linebacker

368
00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,879
Speaker 1: who runs and hits worth a top ten pick or twelve.

369
00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,280
Speaker 1: I know that's where he was eventually drafted. Is there

370
00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,800
Speaker 1: going to be a pass rush element or um? You know,

371
00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,919
Speaker 1: I thought something really interesting. It wasn't a coach, but

372
00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:22,200
Speaker 1: you know, we all respect the hell out of Todd Archer.

373
00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,040
Speaker 1: He's been doing this for a long time. If he

374
00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:28,600
Speaker 1: says something, he's probably got good information about it. Yeah,

375
00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,399
Speaker 1: he said he said something along the lines of like

376
00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:33,320
Speaker 1: Mica can play, Mike and I think Layton will be

377
00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:35,520
Speaker 1: back at will when this thing all shakes out. He

378
00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,920
Speaker 1: didn't say what didn't say? What he didn't say made

379
00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,600
Speaker 1: my eyebrows perk way up, because if that's really what's happening,

380
00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,560
Speaker 1: then you're saying, what is the what is Jalen Smith's role?

381
00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:48,680
Speaker 1: Are You're going to have a thirteen million dollar role

382
00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,399
Speaker 1: playing linebacker and you talk about learning two positions? Is

383
00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,639
Speaker 1: Jalen gonna do Mike and Sam and be like you

384
00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:56,879
Speaker 1: you're Sam and bass and off the field and Nickel?

385
00:18:57,119 --> 00:18:59,120
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people would probably prefer that,

386
00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,439
Speaker 1: but is you know, there's politics that go into this,

387
00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,040
Speaker 1: whether it's money, whether it's the fact that Jalen is

388
00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:07,639
Speaker 1: one of the most visible players on the team, Like

389
00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,360
Speaker 1: how does that actually take shape? And we don't know.

390
00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:13,920
Speaker 1: What I did say about Michael was if you're drafting

391
00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,080
Speaker 1: him where you're drafting him, I think there needs to

392
00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,800
Speaker 1: be a component of rushing the passer, whether that's doing

393
00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,080
Speaker 1: some edgework or just blitzing a lot. I wonder if

394
00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:23,960
Speaker 1: maybe Jalen could do that as well, Like if you

395
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,480
Speaker 1: would rather just keep if you just want Michael to

396
00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:28,600
Speaker 1: play Mike one hundred percent of the time, that's fine,

397
00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,840
Speaker 1: But Jalen Smith maybe could be your LEO or something

398
00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:34,840
Speaker 1: like they And that's what makes that so interesting is

399
00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:36,960
Speaker 1: they got to find something to do with one of

400
00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,760
Speaker 1: those guys aside from just play traditional off ball linebacker. Yeah,

401
00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,399
Speaker 1: and I've thought about that before too. The issue becomes,

402
00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:45,119
Speaker 1: if you're going to do that, that means you're taking

403
00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:48,240
Speaker 1: either to Marcus Lawrence or you're taking Randy Gregory off

404
00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,040
Speaker 1: the field. In those situations, there going to be that

405
00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,080
Speaker 1: outside linebacker, right, not necessarily, and that's you know, it's

406
00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:56,720
Speaker 1: the most overhyped thing in the world. But people talk

407
00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:00,119
Speaker 1: about the LEO, which is I mean it is it

408
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,520
Speaker 1: is like a defensive end type of role. But again,

409
00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,200
Speaker 1: you know we saw last year they had five man fronts.

410
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,160
Speaker 1: That's really what that was, you know. So I think

411
00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,720
Speaker 1: it's possible to do a little bit of both maybe

412
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:12,840
Speaker 1: and it'll be interesting to see. I mean, but here's

413
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,400
Speaker 1: the deal. You're not losing, like it's not. The Cowboys

414
00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,199
Speaker 1: can actually help themselves by getting rid of Jalen Smith.

415
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,960
Speaker 1: The money. The money is the money at this point, right.

416
00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,720
Speaker 1: So it's one of situations where he's likely on the

417
00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,280
Speaker 1: team just because it doesn't make sense financially to not

418
00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:28,800
Speaker 1: have him on the team this year. So he's gonna

419
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,200
Speaker 1: be here. You should and I wouldn't think you would

420
00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,920
Speaker 1: let that affect your decisions on how you deploy him,

421
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,600
Speaker 1: because it's that becomes a non factor in my opinion. Yeah,

422
00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 1: it's already spent money at this point. Yeah, and it's

423
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,960
Speaker 1: it's basically they're turning it into it. Hopefully he's aware

424
00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,159
Speaker 1: or his agent is aware enough to realize this is

425
00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,159
Speaker 1: pretty much a contract year for him, even though it

426
00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,960
Speaker 1: technically isn't. Your writings on the wall about what they

427
00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,560
Speaker 1: can do. It's like you said, it's tough to move

428
00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,680
Speaker 1: him this year, it's not tough next year. It's saying

429
00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,040
Speaker 1: with Layton, they've made that into a contract year for him.

430
00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:00,760
Speaker 1: So I think we're gonna get the very best of

431
00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:03,919
Speaker 1: what these guys can do um this year. And and

432
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,480
Speaker 1: then the factor you didn't really say, I don't think

433
00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 1: I heard it was Keyan O'Neill. He's gonna factor into

434
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 1: all this, right, I mean factors into this. There's a

435
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,240
Speaker 1: lot of options here. I don't I don't know what

436
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,200
Speaker 1: to do with it. Like I was floored when Dan

437
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,520
Speaker 1: Quinn because he didn't want to tell us anything specific

438
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,800
Speaker 1: when we talked to him, but he very specifically was like,

439
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:27,879
Speaker 1: Keano's he's a linebacker. He's gonna play linebacker. I was like, where,

440
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:31,040
Speaker 1: I just assumed he was going to move back to safety,

441
00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,960
Speaker 1: which maybe he still could. I mean, coaches lie all

442
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 1: the time, but like for him to say that so

443
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,240
Speaker 1: bluntly was very surprising to me. Yeah, I think there's

444
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 1: so many, so many options of how they could play this, uh,

445
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 1: and and there's gonna It's interesting you say that this

446
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 1: is effectively This effectively is a contract year for Jalen,

447
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,160
Speaker 1: because it's tough to put a guy in a situation

448
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 1: where it's a contract year and you're going to limit

449
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 1: his play playing time, right, you don't really give him

450
00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 1: a lot of opportunity to earn the opportunity to continue

451
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,640
Speaker 1: with that deal, and that could be tough for him. Well,

452
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 1: you know, I say, screw politics. I hate politics. You

453
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 1: need to get whoever is doing the best out there.

454
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,640
Speaker 1: And you're I don't care how much money you're making,

455
00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: And I get it, because that's a very high expense

456
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 1: and you're wasting that money on someone that that is

457
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 1: not producing anything for you on the field. But I'm

458
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,920
Speaker 1: with the initial scenario that they've presented here where you

459
00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:33,439
Speaker 1: get I mean, maybe I'm speaking too soon because I

460
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 1: have barely seen anything from Parsons yet. But if he

461
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:42,200
Speaker 1: really is looking good once we get everyone in there

462
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,200
Speaker 1: and he's doing better, and we'll see him the preseason

463
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,399
Speaker 1: games as well, But if he gets to that point

464
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 1: where all of us are saying, you know what, this

465
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,679
Speaker 1: guy needs to be more on the field, I'm the

466
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 1: first one to sit someone down. And again, you never

467
00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 1: know when someone might get injured. You never know when

468
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:00,920
Speaker 1: late in vendors is going to have to come off

469
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 1: the field. There's always this rotation scenario that you can

470
00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 1: also do. So I think that everyone's gonna get plenty

471
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 1: of playing time, but at the end of the day,

472
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,639
Speaker 1: you need to keep the best player on the field,

473
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: regardless of who's a veteran, regardless of how much money

474
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,159
Speaker 1: you're making. I mean, you got to focus on winning

475
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 1: and having the basic basics are what we know of

476
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 1: Jalen is his best ability is his availability, and I

477
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 1: think that that might factor in this year like it's

478
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: factored in every other year of his career, Like he

479
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,360
Speaker 1: may be the guy that you know you start getting injuries.

480
00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: He doesn't seem to get hurt, so he might still

481
00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 1: get his opportunities even if he starts the season not

482
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 1: being the guy one of the two guys that are

483
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,160
Speaker 1: getting the most staffs of line always last on the play,

484
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 1: So how is he going to get in the back? Wow? Sorry,

485
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 1: I'm god, I hate, I hate to hate, but accurate

486
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: when you're when you're leading the team and even the

487
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: league and tackles and you're not always last. He leads

488
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,960
Speaker 1: the team in tackles, not always last. But I mean

489
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: he leaves a team in tackles. It wasn't you really

490
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,919
Speaker 1: want to have this debate? No, I'm just saying he

491
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: but we got a call for what it is. I mean,

492
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: is he worth the contract? He No, No, he's not.

493
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 1: He hasn't been worth the contract. And I think what

494
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: you guys said was was right. Like he he with

495
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 1: the money, he's on the team. That doesn't mean you

496
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: have to play it though, right, And so yeah, I agree,

497
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: best player plays at this point for this year. But see,

498
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,679
Speaker 1: I and I like a g I love her perspective

499
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: because like you're like the you're the moral compass of

500
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 1: the fan base, Like this is what should happen. We

501
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,160
Speaker 1: know that that's not always what happens. That's my point.

502
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: And you don't see a lot of thirteen million dollar

503
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:44,400
Speaker 1: players who are subbed in as sub package and role

504
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: playing guys. It's just not how it works. Well. You

505
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 1: also don't see a situation where a lot of times

506
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 1: where teams will go out and invest so much in

507
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 1: an offseason at a position where they got a thirteen

508
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 1: I will it's and it's the epitome of a sunk cost.

509
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 1: Like the money is spent, what's done is done. So

510
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 1: maybe it's maybe that factors less than the decision making

511
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: process and says they've thrown more resources at linebacker this

512
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 1: offseason than maybe any other position on the team. If

513
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,959
Speaker 1: that doesn't tell you a ton about what they think

514
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,439
Speaker 1: about the two linebackers they have. You know, you can

515
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: say what you want to say about and they can

516
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 1: say we love you, we love you, love you. But

517
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: they do a ton of resources at the linebacker position

518
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 1: this offseason. And it's funny to think the other spot,

519
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: probably the other big trouble spot that gives you a

520
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: lot of pause about the future is offensive tackle. And

521
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,880
Speaker 1: they again they showed you what they thought about that too.

522
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: They spent the bare minimum on a free agent swing tackle,

523
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 1: and they waited until day three to draft an offensive

524
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: when they had a really good when available to them

525
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,479
Speaker 1: in the first round, they opted for linebacker rather than tackle. Right,

526
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: not saying they're right, but it speaks volumes about how

527
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: they feel exactly. All right, We're gonna take our first

528
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: break when we come back. Let's talk a little bit

529
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: about the schedule. It's interesting schedule. Cowboys will kick off

530
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: the season against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Will ask each

531
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 1: to these guys what we think the best and the

532
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: worst things, in their opinions are about this year's schedule

533
00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,640
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. Will be right back. This is Dallas

534
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com Radio. Honey, Big News, Gary, Are you okay? Oh?

535
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 1: I'm not Gary anymore. I'm Jackie Flash. What see? I

536
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: want the latest smartphone, but the best deals are only

537
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: for new customers. So to get a new customer deal,

538
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: I change my name to it Jackie Flash. Okay, But

539
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: the best smartphone deals at AT and T are for everyone,

540
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 1: new and existing customers. That's huge. Then guess who's getting

541
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: a deal? Is it Jackie Flash? Jackie Flash? It's not

542
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: complicated at at and t our. Best smartphone deals are

543
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 1: for everyone. Restrictions apply. Visit att dot com for details. Hi,

544
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: I'm Clint Tillison with you United aggin Turf before you

545
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: can park yourself in front of the game, park yourself

546
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: in a John Dear and power through your chores. Our

547
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: land Run package is a ten twenty five R twenty

548
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: five horsepower tractor with a loader, rotary cutter and a

549
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 1: box blade for two twenty nine a month. And the

550
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: price you see is the price you'll pay. No surprises,

551
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: so don't miss another kickoff. Visit United Agginturf dot com.

552
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: Offer INDs February first, twenty twenty one. Restrictions aplenty See

553
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: dealer for details. Now let's get to work the Cowboys Way,

554
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: where sixteen Hall of Famers and five championships shows us

555
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: what success looks like. Where Turkey is always the second

556
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: best part of Thanksgiving Day, Where we are all defined

557
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: by one single thing, the Star, where we as fans

558
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: know it's our job to keep the tradition going. Bank

559
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: of America is proud to be the official bank of

560
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys and to support the quest of living

561
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: life the Cowboys Way. Copyright twenty twenty, Bank of America Corporation.

562
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: Since eighteen sixty five. Stetson Hats are American maid with

563
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: pride right here in Texas, and Stetson is proud to

564
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 1: be on the field with America's team. Want to show

565
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: your Texas and team pride too, You can by purchasing

566
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: your own Stetson. You can look just like how the

567
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: flag guys do on field at every home game. Stetson

568
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: hats the official crown of all self respecting Cowboys and

569
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,719
Speaker 1: your favorite football team. Get yours today at Shop Dallas

570
00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: Cowboys dot com or at Stetson dot com. Back to

571
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 1: the Break. Dallas Cowboys Football and Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Dance

572
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 1: Youth Camps are back this summer for athletes and dancers

573
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: of all skill levels. Two and three day camps are

574
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: available at at and T Stadium in The Star in Frisco.

575
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: Spots are limited. Register today at Dallas Cowboys dot com

576
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: Slash Academy. Welcome back to the second segment of the

577
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: Break Life from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star.

578
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 1: We're presented by Geico. Let's talk a little bit about

579
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: the schedule. Cowboys released a schedule last week to a

580
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: lot of fanfare, a lot of dancing and partying by

581
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: one Jerry Jones and Post Malone. If you haven't seen

582
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: the video, do yourself a favor and go check that out.

583
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: We've actually done really well. It's been very highly viewed

584
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: and reviewed piece of content. But the Cowboys released a

585
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: schedule lots of interesting little nuggets throughout. So I'll open

586
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: it up to you guys, and let's go around the table.

587
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: Tell me what you think first is the best thing

588
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys about this schedule. Let's start with you Amber.

589
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: That look well. I keep looking at the schedule and

590
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: its start to judge, don't you know. I always want

591
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: to say that the end looks the easiest, but then

592
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: it never It never is like that for the Cowboys.

593
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: It never happens to be. Again, we don't know what

594
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: this team is gonna turn out to be, but I'm

595
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: hoping that this year they can start out better than

596
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,719
Speaker 1: before and actually have an advantage towards the end of

597
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: the season with Washington the Giants, you know, the divisional

598
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: rivals here with the NFC's but hopefully those games are

599
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: not as crucial as they always are, which again, I'm

600
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: just talking on both sides here because they always end

601
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: up being But I'm just I don't know. I don't

602
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: know what any of these teams are gonna turn out

603
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: to be. But I'm hoping that that is the case.

604
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: And I'm hoping that we have the whole old line

605
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: healthy and available by that end, that last month of

606
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: the season, and that you're not having to really really

607
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: put everything on the line towards the end so that

608
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: you can have those guys back healthy by the playoffs

609
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: if we get there. Um, the best thing about the

610
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: best thing about this are we gonna we are gonna

611
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: talk about the worst. Yes, we are going to get

612
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: to the worst thing. Yeah, right now, focus on the

613
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: best of things. Start positive. And the best thing about

614
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: the schedule is really not at the order. It's just

615
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, your strength of schedule from

616
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: last year is not that strong. It's actually one of

617
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: the easiest. Which I saw that and that confused me

618
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: because I looked at the schedule and said, how could

619
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: if you're playing the Division I get that, but other

620
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: teams are playing the Division two and I mean you're

621
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: talking about you're talking about the You got both teams

622
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: that were in the super Bowl last year, you got

623
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 1: other really good things. Let's which the strength of schedule

624
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: thing in the NFL is the most overrated? Yes, statistic

625
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: like the different between worst and best, Like the easiest

626
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: strength of schedule is like forty eight percent win percentage

627
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: and the hardest is like fifty three. Like we're bickering

628
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: about five percentage. Like you know, it's it's just it

629
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: doesn't matter as much as people want it to. I'm

630
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: gonna say nothing. Really, I'm not trying to be really negative.

631
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: I just know when you go into a schedule, there's

632
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: things that you you look for, and there's things that

633
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: you try to avoid. There's about three things you try

634
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: to avoid if possible, and they've got them all. And

635
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: that that's so I don't I can't look at anything

636
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: and say this is a really good thing. And I'm

637
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: not really trying to be negative here, I just what

638
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: what what? What's an answer here? Which I will say,

639
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: I again, I hate people that are like the league

640
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: hates us because they did Like I hate that, Like

641
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: you gotta play seventeen games. Everybody does. We've known the

642
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,959
Speaker 1: opponents forever, and if you're in the NFC, you're going

643
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: to have more road than home. It is what it is.

644
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: Just play like. I hate that. I hate when people

645
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: get all bent out of shape about that. Having said that,

646
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: the schedule doesn't do them a ton of favors, but

647
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: one favor that they do have is it's a damned

648
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: division party all the way through the last like six

649
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. You play four of your six

650
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: starting December twelfth, going through the end of the year,

651
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: and you don't play anybody twice before then. So nobody's

652
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: got a tiebreaker over you. So even if they for

653
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: whatever reason, somebody gets hurt or they just don't have it,

654
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: they maybe they suck all the way through Thanksgiving, but

655
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: you got a real chance to make up for that

656
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: by playing everybody in the division down the home stretch

657
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: of the season. I mean, you play Washington twice, you get,

658
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: and then you play New York and Philly once each.

659
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: We all think that Philly and New York are the

660
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: lesser two teams, like Washington and Dallas are above, and

661
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: we agree with that, right, So you get the two

662
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: easier teams, and so you know, if you're if you're

663
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: just tread and water, when you get through Thanksgiving, you

664
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: got to I mean, if you just kick everybody in

665
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: the division's ass, it doesn't matter. And Dat's great against

666
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: the division, So as long as he's there, I feel

667
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: good about that. Now I'm starting to wonder if I'm

668
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: misreading this, but the one that I would point out

669
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: to me, just like immediately when I saw the schedule,

670
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: I was like, I love this for the Cowboys is

671
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: even if you say, okay, first game of season, they're

672
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 1: gonna lose going to Tampa to play the defending championship,

673
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: just give them that as a loss. Those next four games,

674
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: Cowboys got a chance to get off to a really

675
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: fast start. You're talking about going to the Chargers again.

676
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: That wasn't a good team last year. Philadelphia you just mentioned,

677
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: wasn't a good team last year. Carolina wasn't a good

678
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: team last year. New York Giants wasn't a good team

679
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: last year. So you got four teams lined up there

680
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: in weeks two. Throw New England in there too. They're

681
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: not They weren't bad, but they weren't good either. I'm

682
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,239
Speaker 1: saying no, yes, they weren't good last year. The only

683
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: reason I didn't put them in that same category is

684
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: because we all I think we all say the likelihood

685
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: that Belichick does that two years in a row probably

686
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: ain't great. He's probably going to be better this year

687
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: than he was last year, but maybe not. If you

688
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: want to go off just last year, you're absolutely right

689
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: New throw New England there with. So my point is

690
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: you start off the season in an opportunity to really

691
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: get off to a fast start. I know the first

692
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: game is going to be extremely challenging, but those next

693
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: several weeks you could run off some wins and stacks

694
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: some wins day if you're a good team. They play

695
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: the World Champs on September the ninth on the road.

696
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: They don't face another playoff team until November twenty first, exactly,

697
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: another Super Bowl team. Yeah, but it gets rough from

698
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: that point, Like that's when you start getting to the

699
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: treacherous party schedule. But you can make some you can

700
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: really make some headway against in the early part of

701
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: the schedule. There is not a lot of Now, get

702
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: we don't know what these teams are going to be

703
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: this year. We're basing all this on last year, and

704
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: that's the thing that they're looking at. Dallas, Samuel Dallas

705
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: wasn't good last year and these teams are probably going

706
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: to be better than what they were, some of them.

707
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Barkley is gonna make the Giants

708
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: a better team. I mean, I think McCaffrey will probably

709
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: make Carolina a better team. Absolutely. I think Herbert will

710
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: be just better along. Well, they'll get there. One of

711
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,800
Speaker 1: their best defensive players, like they lost, actually two or

712
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: three of their best defensive players. That's dangerous, I don't

713
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: I would you be judging the Cowboys same thing. Looking

714
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: from the outside, I would be I'd be like, hey,

715
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: I wouldn't call him a six and ten team. No

716
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: one there. Oh yeah, I think that. I think the

717
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: consensus on the Cowboys is that they're a very flawed

718
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: team with an offense that gives them a chance to

719
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: beat anybody. Yeah, if I mean, if it's if it's

720
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,439
Speaker 1: healthy the way it's supposed to and if they got

721
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: they got a respected, well respected coordinator. Now, uh, they

722
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,240
Speaker 1: got a plug and play defensive player in there too.

723
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: So you know, if you stop the bleeding on defense

724
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: and in the offense gets back, you know, I'm sure

725
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: that that's scary, you know, But I will say, and

726
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: but it's I think it's just PTSD from last year,

727
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: but this like this will this will go up and

728
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: smoke by before training camps over like somebody's gonna lose

729
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: a player that changes. I mean, McCaffrey went out like

730
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: week one of their season. Who knows how much better

731
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: Carolina is if he's there, and on and on and

732
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: on and on, and I'm just so yeah, like Philly, Carolina,

733
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: New York, New England, honestly all the way through Atlanta,

734
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 1: like all of those games look winnable. They beat Minnesota

735
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 1: without Dak last year. Denver doesn't have a quarterback right now. God,

736
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: I'd made this joke on our schedule release show. Can

737
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: you imagine if thin for trades for Rogers, I know,

738
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,320
Speaker 1: before the season changes that game, that game may not.

739
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if they can flex at that point

740
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: that they're going to be really kicking themselves. But again,

741
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: that goes back to my point. It's like on paper,

742
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, hell yeah, beat Minnesota without without Dak

743
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 1: last year, Denver doesn't have a quarterback. And when they

744
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: beat Atlanta last year too, and then you know, Rogers

745
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: gets traded to Denver on June fifteenth, and we're like,

746
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: well that's a loss. We know this, like you just

747
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: never know, right, And I guess you can only count

748
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: on you really you your factoring based upon what you

749
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: saw from them last year. And I do think although

750
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: there are a lot of teams that lost a lot

751
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: of players, when you lose your quarterback, to me, that's

752
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: a little bit different. Like losing your quarterback makes a

753
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: ton of difference in the NFL, and so I think

754
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I give them a little bit more difference

755
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: than maybe some of these teams that may have lost

756
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: a safety or defensive end or whatever the case might

757
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: have been. I will say this that remember twenty first

758
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: at Kansas City Chiefs four days before Thanksgiving is all

759
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: Philadelphia's fault. It is the Philadelphia Eagles fault that the

760
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: Cowboys have to do that, because if you remember a

761
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: few years ago, they made that rule change proposal. The

762
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: Eagles hate that the Cowboys Thursday game is basically built

763
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 1: in at home because like it's an unfair advantage, and

764
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: so they're saying, well, you get to always play a

765
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: Thursday game at home, you don't have to deal with

766
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: short week travel, and the league's not going to take

767
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: that away from the Cowboys, but it's unfair advantage if

768
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: you get to play at home on the Sunday before

769
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and you don't even have to deal with any

770
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: of that. And so I think I just feel like

771
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: the league is like, all right, let's throw these people

772
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 1: that are upset about this a bone and give Dallas

773
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: a really tough thing to deal with on the Sunday

774
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving. I think I think what they do with

775
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: these back to back Thursdays is also unsafe. I don't

776
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: think it's that's fair for the Cowboys because because it's

777
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: still seven days, right, yeah, but but it's seven days

778
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: after four like you have to face a team on

779
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 1: the road in Kansas City and that is going to

780
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,720
Speaker 1: be a gut wrenching type of game, and they all are.

781
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: And then four days later you gotta go play the

782
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: Raiders at home. You're at home for thanksgaming like they

783
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: always do, but your body hasn't even recovered from the

784
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: game before. You need a ten days at that point.

785
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: They don't give them that. They give them seven. That

786
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: I think that that is touff. I don't know what

787
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: their record is and that Thursday game, but I'm just

788
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 1: saying that's a that is a tough turnaround because you're

789
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 1: you know, just like with anything, if you do it

790
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 1: in four days, you need a break. Nobody else in

791
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: the league, I think has is doing that, except for

792
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: those teams that play on things. Those two teams that

793
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: have to play, you know, that Thursday. They I think

794
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: the first year I was here was the first year

795
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: they ever did this, and it was such a boon

796
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: for NFL Network that I just it's gonna be on

797
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: the schedule for it is, and I hate it. The

798
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: only way to get it, and that's the only reason

799
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: it exists is like, well, every every team play has

800
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,399
Speaker 1: to play a Thursday night on NFL Network. So that's

801
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: the only way I get them to do it. But

802
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: because otherwise you got two weeks when you'd have to

803
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 1: have a four day week, right, so you kind of

804
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: have to do it right then. It's really this is

805
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: pure selfishness. I hate, like, we will never have Thanksgiving

806
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: weekend off again for the rest of our lives as

807
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 1: long as this is built into the schedule, because instead

808
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: of like you play on Thanksgiving, you're like, all right,

809
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: well I missed Thanksgiving, but I've got this long weekend

810
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: and well you get it next right back. But it's

811
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: not Thanksgiving, right, And I mean that's you know, obviously

812
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: nobody cares about my first world problems, but it pisses

813
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,959
Speaker 1: me off. Yeah, all right, give me your your best,

814
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: Well we already the best. Give me your worst thing

815
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 1: about the schedule. Yeah, As I said before, I think

816
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 1: there's things you go into the schedule and you're you're

817
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: like looking to avoid, and I think that they hit

818
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: a lot of them on here. If you're gonna have

819
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: to start the season on the road, you wouldn't think

820
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: your Week two is going to have to be also

821
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: on the road and on the opposite coad. And if

822
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,439
Speaker 1: you are going to start the season on the road

823
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,760
Speaker 1: for two games, surely you get to end the season

824
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: it at home. No you don't. So I think how

825
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: they started and how they ended, and you know, you

826
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: don't like seeing a three three straight road games either.

827
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: So I'm probably taking everybody's answers, but I just think, yeah,

828
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: ending starting the season with two road games like that

829
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: and then ending the season with road that's probably not

830
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: any favors there, Not just being on the road, but

831
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: who is the opponent on the road, like That's That's

832
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: the one thing I look at is a lot of

833
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 1: these teams are on the road for the Cowboys are tough?

834
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: Are you gonna be tough? So that that and you know,

835
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: we know that sometimes a lot of people believing home

836
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: field advantage. I'm kind of effy on that, but um,

837
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, We've seen it happen many times where they

838
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: go to somebody else's stadium and they just don't perform well,

839
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 1: whether it's due to weather or whatever the reason. Maybe,

840
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: Um it's tough. It is tough. So that is what

841
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the opponents on the road. It's concerning

842
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard, which I don't want to contradict

843
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: myself because yeah, I mean, you know, Patrick Mahomes might

844
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 1: not play in that game, you know, like you can't,

845
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: you can't. I mean, you just you never know, you

846
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,800
Speaker 1: never ever know. But that stretch starting with the Chiefs

847
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: game just looks, really it just looks so brutal, and

848
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: it really doesn't even have anything to do with the

849
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: quality of the opponents. But to go at Kansas City

850
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,879
Speaker 1: short week Thanksgiving turnaround, and also even if Mahomes isn't

851
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: playing one of the three toughest road venues in the

852
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: NFL Arrowhead Stadium, then you turn around again, Drew Brees

853
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: is gone, maybe the Saints aren't any good, but a

854
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: night game in the Superdome again one of the like,

855
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: that's a huge environment. Then you turn around another road game,

856
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: division game. Then you turn around and another road game,

857
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 1: a division game. So like two highly important division games.

858
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,280
Speaker 1: You play four road games in five weeks, so basically

859
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: half of your road schedule in a twenty one day stretch.

860
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: And by the way, you know the Chief and at

861
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: the Saints are thrown in there as well. I just

862
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: think again, like, you know, maybe the Giants in Washington

863
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 1: won't even be that good. But to do all of that,

864
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 1: and so much of it on the road and a

865
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: short span of time, I mean, that's gonna be tough

866
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: on And Division is still division, whether they're good or bad.

867
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: Vision is still a division game. You think the Cowboys,

868
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: You think AT and T Stadium is maybe at fault

869
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: for this. I say that, I hate to say it

870
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: like that, but I don't know. There's a big probably

871
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 1: a big twelve championship game play. There's probably high school football,

872
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: I mean, but not that they haven't switched that before.

873
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: I don't think, yeah, I don't think Honestly, I don't

874
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: think so, because I don't know that those things necessarily

875
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 1: preclude you from being able to have an NFL game

876
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 1: on a Sunday. When I say high school, they don't

877
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: even change the field for the high school games, so

878
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know that that would be a

879
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: part of one day. I mean, that just seems that

880
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: just seems like we're really attacking them right there. I mean, like, oh,

881
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: I don't yeah, yeah, at home. When you're making the

882
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: Cowboys schedule, there are a lot of other things that

883
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: you're factoring think about the schedule makers, like what they're

884
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: more importantly thinking about is the television network, because everybody's

885
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how they're going to get the

886
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 1: Cowboys on. So that's a way bigger consideration. Nan. Do

887
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: they have three road games in a row in a row?

888
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: Here's here's where I think there's a disadvantage. And I

889
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 1: don't think the Cowboys are wanting to switch divisions and

890
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: nobody really wants that. But it's a I saw somewhere

891
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: where I think it's Philly or Washington that doesn't have

892
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: to get on a plane at they don't have to

893
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: get on a plane from for like the last six

894
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: weeks because they're playing in Washington and they play the

895
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: Giants and that all that stuff. But the Cowboys, I mean,

896
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: those are some really long trips to do that. So

897
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: that's not an advantage obviously for the Cowboys, you know,

898
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 1: to have their road trips in the division are a

899
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: lot different. I mean we see every every road trip

900
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys pretty much about in the same range.

901
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: Like you're going somewhere like there's not a lot of

902
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: teams that are that are local to the Cowboys, and

903
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: once you get outside of the Texans, and if you

904
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: want to include the Saints, like there's no teams that

905
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: are close to the Cowboys. So you gotta get on

906
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: a plane and travel at least an hour and a

907
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: half for every game. There's only five or six teams

908
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: that can pull that off, or you're like bussing to

909
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: a game bust the East Coast. Basically, it is interesting,

910
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: and I don't want this, like the rivalries are important,

911
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 1: but like you know, a division of Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Tennessee,

912
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: like you're logging way a fewer miles to travel those games.

913
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't want it as much fun no, of

914
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: course it's not there. And that goes back to my point,

915
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: which is like, shut up and deal with it. Like

916
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: it's proflay football, play football, like we're just yeah, I

917
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: can sit here and say like, oh man, that looks

918
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: really tough. At the end of the day, I'm like,

919
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: no one cares go play the games, right, all right,

920
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: We're gonna take our final bike. We'll come back, We'll

921
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: get a game of see a no going. Amber's got

922
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: some questions for us, will be that when we come

923
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: right back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio since

924
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty five. Stetson hats are American made with pride

925
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: right here in Texas, and Stetson is proud to be

926
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: on the field with America's team. Want to show your

927
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: Texas and team pride too, You can by purchasing your

928
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: own Stetson. You can look just like how the flag

929
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 1: guys do on field at every home game. Stetson the

930
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: official crown of all self respecting Cowboys and your favorite

931
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 1: football team. Get yours today at shop dot Dallas Cowboys

932
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: dot com or at Stetson dot com. Honey, big news, Gary,

933
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: Are you okay? Oh? I'm not Gary anymore? I'm Jackie Flash.

934
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:17,879
Speaker 1: What see? I want the latest smartphone, but the best

935
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: deals are only for new customers. So to get a

936
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: new customer deal, I change my name to Jackie Flash. Okay,

937
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,319
Speaker 1: but the best smartphone deals at AT and T are

938
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 1: for everyone, new and existing customers. That's huge. Then guess

939
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: who's getting the deal? Is it Jackie Flash, Jackie Flash?

940
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: It's not complicated at AT and t our best smartphone

941
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: deals are for everyone. Restrictions apply. Is it att dot

942
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 1: com for details? I want to use what the pros use.

943
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: How about the official men's skincare brand of the Dallas Cowboys,

944
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,760
Speaker 1: Jack Black. Right now you can get the Jack Black Starter,

945
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,800
Speaker 1: a curated collection of Cowboys locker room favorites, for just

946
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: ten bucks with free shipping. The starter includes four Jackflack

947
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: skincare favorites, plus a full sized and tense therapy lip bomb.

948
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 1: Go to get Jack Black dot com slash Cowboys and

949
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: use the code word team JB. That's get Jack Black

950
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: dot com slash Cowboys the Jack Black Starter, ten bucks,

951
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: free shipping. We're back in a tasty treat that's sweeping

952
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 1: airwaves and taste buds. It's new Doctor Pepper and cream Soda.

953
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: Let's take a listen, Doctor bad Cream Soda. Is he

954
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: a newcombone that's music to my ears? Okay, Doctor time

955
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: music to my ears and mouths? New Doctor Pepper and

956
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: cream Soda? Delash, just do bay Back to the Break.

957
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: The Star District is the perfect place for the whole

958
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: family to enjoy. You can support local Frisco businesses by

959
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: visiting us to dine, shop, and explore the Dallas Cowboys

960
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: themed campus. For information on all the Star has to offer,

961
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 1: visit the Star District dot com. Welcome back to the

962
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 1: final segment of the Break. We are alive from the

963
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 1: SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star presented by Geico. Amber

964
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: got a game for us, Let's go. Okay, A lot

965
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: of the questions are questions I received. Are us getting

966
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: way ahead of ourselves? But it's a game, so just

967
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: for fun. So we just got done talking about the schedule.

968
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: The final game between Cowboys versus Eagles will decide if

969
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: the Cowboys or another team wins the NFC East. Yes,

970
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: that Cowboys Eagles game will have something to do with

971
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: the Vision Change title championship. Yeah, I believe that. I

972
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: say no. I'm gonna say no. I actually think that

973
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: game on December twenty sixth will ultimately decide the division

974
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: against Washington Football Team. That's I wrote that. Like my

975
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: snap judgment was both of those games happening in December

976
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: will be what swings the division, and like maybe something

977
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: will still be up for grabs, like seating in that

978
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: WE eighteen game. But it really like when was the

979
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 1: last time that it was like a pure winners and

980
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: losers out? I know they did it a lot like

981
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,879
Speaker 1: a decade ago, but it hasn't really been that way

982
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: in a while, right am. I I'm not making that

983
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: up right. I just think these are your two best

984
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: teams in the division. I think they will be the

985
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: two button in Dallas. Dallas and Philly. Interesting, do you

986
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:25,720
Speaker 1: think they're better? You think Philly is better than Washington?

987
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: It's Washington. I think, well, we all know their defense

988
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 1: was really good last year. They've added some pieces to

989
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: that offense that I think it can fit nicely with

990
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: that defense. You know, I don't trust Ryan Fitzpatrick to

991
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: play seventeen good games, and they're screwed if he doesn't.

992
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: But he's better than what they had and and and

993
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: he's better than Maybe it's because we watched Dallas just

994
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: pick on Jalen Hurts, but like, I don't. I do

995
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: not think highly of Jalen Hurts, not right now at least,

996
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I just said I do think

997
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: that game's gonna mean something for for for somebody, you know.

998
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 1: I mean, it's only fifty percent of the division, So

999
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's fair to say that that

1000
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: that will happen. I think it didn't. Washington signed Curtis Samuel. Yes,

1001
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: Like you start thinking about the offensive pieces that they

1002
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: put in place. Again, they don't need their offense to

1003
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: be like great. They need an offense that doesn't lose

1004
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 1: the game for them because their defense is so good.

1005
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 1: And in a second year, I think they're gonna be

1006
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: even better. So I don't know, I just subscribe the

1007
00:49:25,239 --> 00:49:27,720
Speaker 1: Cowboys gonna be a tough, tough hunt. You just suscribe

1008
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in the opposite way. Yeah, they're the opposite

1009
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,760
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys, exactly opposite of the Cowboys. Yeah, Washington

1010
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: is a good quarterback away from being pretty scary, really

1011
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: really good. Yeah, I agree, which is the hardest thing

1012
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: to find in football, Like I know it will. The

1013
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: interesting thing is is a lot of those contracts are

1014
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: going to come up pretty soon, you know, for them,

1015
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: so they're gonna have Washington. Yeah, I'm not saying their

1016
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: window is closing at all because they sign them, But

1017
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: I'm just saying they drafted a lot of those guys.

1018
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: It's kind of like Carolina a few years ago. You

1019
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: get all these good defensive guys and then next thing,

1020
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: you know, they become free agency. Can you sustain it?

1021
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: And the tough part for Washington now is they have

1022
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: a really good defense that's going to keep them in

1023
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: a lot of games, which means that the likelihood that

1024
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 1: they would get high enough in a draft to be

1025
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:15,479
Speaker 1: able to draft a quarterback is relatively low. So trying

1026
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 1: to get a quarterback at this point, when you already

1027
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: built a defense that's this good, becomes very difficult. Now,

1028
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: you got to you gotta bet on the fact that

1029
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:25,399
Speaker 1: you can get a quarterback later in a draft. Um, yeah,

1030
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 1: they can get a quarterback later in the draft that

1031
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 1: will allow them to be that that can really raise

1032
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: their level play. That's a harder thing to do, no,

1033
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: thank you, yes, all right. Next Washing Michael Parsons starts

1034
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: Week one against Tampa Bay. I'm gonna say no, but

1035
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say no. But again we we we opine

1036
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 1: so much. Tell me why, Well, because you're only gonna

1037
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: have two on the field and you want like starting

1038
00:50:57,600 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: just means you have to be out there for the

1039
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: first snap. So why because he's a first round pick?

1040
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: First round picks, we know, first round. I don't care

1041
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: what you wanna say about whoever was here, but he's

1042
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 1: a first round pick, right like Layton vander esh didn't

1043
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 1: come on right away like he wasn't just like the

1044
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 1: guy from the gets a say about Layton, I mean

1045
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 1: like that, it's you expect I know, but you expect

1046
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 1: a linebacker, or you expect any player that you take

1047
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 1: in the top I don't know, fifteen picks in the

1048
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: first round, say you expect them to be immediate starters?

1049
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: Do you not? He strained, he did. I remember Layton

1050
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: did something at training camp where he meant, what about

1051
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 1: play right? I'm I'm telling you right now, I don't

1052
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 1: even feel bad about saying this. Like Michael Parsons will

1053
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: play forty snaps against the Bucks, he won't be out

1054
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 1: there for the first snap of the game. That's that's

1055
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: just it's just politics. Yes, politics usually happened when you

1056
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: have an existing coaching staff that these are their guys.

1057
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: They got no vested interest in those other two linebackers.

1058
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 1: They really don't. This is their guy the question, but

1059
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: it really does matter. And this isn't like this, you

1060
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 1: know what I mean. They're gonna play, They're gonna play

1061
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 1: it all right, then I'm sorry and then we can

1062
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 1: move on. But like, it's not that common unless you're

1063
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: Chase Young. It's not that common to just snap one

1064
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: of day one. You're just like, I'm the guy, this

1065
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: is me, Like lunch of tender. Absolutely, I will make

1066
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 1: a lunch bet on this, not a bit. We're just

1067
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: gonna take one of us, will take the other one

1068
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: to lunch. Think that's that's your second linebacker lunch. Uh,

1069
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: yeah that is. Yeah, We'll see how that one turns out.

1070
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: I'm feeling pretty good about my prospects of having barbecue

1071
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: for free. I don't wanna, I don't wanna like I'm

1072
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 1: I don't smit to the Pro Bowls what I said, Yeah, yeah,

1073
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: that is what you say. I don't hate Micah and

1074
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna play a lot of snaps this year.

1075
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,879
Speaker 1: But I just I bet he won't be the starter. Yeah.

1076
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: To clarify, I don't hate Mica. No, well we'll talk

1077
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: about that last week. The minute you doubt something, it's like, oh,

1078
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: he hates I just feel I just feel like that's

1079
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: how this goes most of the time, all right. See,

1080
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 1: I know the Cowboys will have four or four starters

1081
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: on the oh line for fourteen plus games, fourteen of

1082
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 1: the seventeen. If they do, they're in the playoffs. Preseason No,

1083
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: um uh no, No, that's a tough one. No, they won't.

1084
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: Based on history, they won't. Between See, if you'd have

1085
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: gone three, I would have been like, okay, you can

1086
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 1: kind of convince me that maybe they'll have three on

1087
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,359
Speaker 1: the field for fourteen games. Four fours a lot. Four

1088
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: means that they'll be in the playoffs if if all,

1089
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: if four of the five are there all season long,

1090
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: basically they might they might have already wrapped up the division.

1091
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 1: If they have all those offensive linemen on the field

1092
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: for fourteen get the first four, well, I mean, that's

1093
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: just gonna make it competitive against Washington. And when you

1094
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: remember Washington dominated them like that. If the if the

1095
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: guys were out there, Lyell and all them, you know,

1096
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 1: because I think you can go back to that Thanksgiving game,

1097
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: Martin was there, Flint Cam flaming, No Cam, Irving, irving,

1098
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: Sorry some cam, it's not here anymore. Cam. They did

1099
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:05,320
Speaker 1: a nice job. They moved the ball, you know, and

1100
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: now you thought they were going to be competitive. Then

1101
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: they both go out in that series and it went

1102
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 1: down from there. But yeah, yeah, I just think I

1103
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: think it's going to be way more competitive just to

1104
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: have them, you know, the strength versus strength there with

1105
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 1: that offensive line defensive line. I just think that's asking

1106
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 1: for a lot. With what we've seen from this group

1107
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:24,800
Speaker 1: over the last night. I can't beat on four okay

1108
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: so much. That's a lot, all right? Another one that stuff.

1109
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 1: The Cowboys will be a top ten defense with the

1110
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:36,320
Speaker 1: roster and the changes that they've made this offseason. No

1111
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: big old old booe thinking about it. You're thinking about it. Okay,

1112
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: you're going out there, Okay, Okay. Someone else said fifteen. Okay,

1113
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 1: take that, you all take fifteen, because once again, where

1114
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: were they the year before the year before last, they

1115
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: were I want to say eleven were nine. Well you

1116
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: know what they were last year they were thirty one.

1117
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 1: Now they were like twenty twenty four, twenty four yards,

1118
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 1: twenty seven or twenty eight and scores twenty four yards.

1119
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that. Now, That's what I was asking, Like,

1120
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:13,920
Speaker 1: what is then? So I mean defense, they use it

1121
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:16,359
Speaker 1: by the yards, us by yards, and you know, as

1122
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 1: bad as they were giving up points last year, and

1123
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,800
Speaker 1: they gave up more than any in the Cowboys history.

1124
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, they were like twenty fourth or something like that.

1125
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:30,479
Speaker 1: So they get to fifteen possible, I think it's very possible. Again,

1126
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:32,919
Speaker 1: I look at where they were two years ago. I'm

1127
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 1: a big believer now, I'm a big believer in the

1128
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,320
Speaker 1: fact that the problems they saw last year on defense

1129
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 1: had a ton to do with the coordinator um and

1130
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: I just look at what they were to because I

1131
00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: don't think the personnel changed drastically. I think there were

1132
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: one or two guys that you could say, well, yeah,

1133
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: they make a big difference, but I don't think it

1134
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 1: changed that drastically to have the drop that they did.

1135
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 1: I think the coordinator was the big issue. And so

1136
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: I expect them to get back up at least to

1137
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:56,879
Speaker 1: the top half of the league in yards that they allow.

1138
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: I'll settle for seventeenth with a positive turnover different If

1139
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: you get a positive turnover that manly, Yeah, that's huge.

1140
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 1: I have another one that is specifically asking about the

1141
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 1: rushing different defense, and I mean they're like you guys said,

1142
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: there are different metrics in different ways you can analyze

1143
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:19,840
Speaker 1: this all, But do you guys expect the rushing defense

1144
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 1: to improve significantly this year? Can it get worse? It

1145
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: actually cannot because they were thirty two. They can't get worse.

1146
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: It can't, so I actually they will be better. I

1147
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:33,399
Speaker 1: went back and listened to the show last week while

1148
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: I was in the gym this morning. I just got

1149
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: mad all over again about y'all fighting about which the

1150
00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: combination just the resources that they put into defensive tackle.

1151
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 1: Bohanna's part of it. Brent Urban, in my opinion, is

1152
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 1: also part of it. Two other draft picks, Colston and

1153
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:51,399
Speaker 1: no DIGGI zooo, who can help? And then the guys

1154
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: that were here. Maybe I'm just this, I don't know,

1155
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,680
Speaker 1: Maybe this is just favoritism. I feel like I felt

1156
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: really good about what Tristan Hill was doing, and he

1157
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 1: was only there for he got hurt. He didn't even

1158
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: get he didn't even get the flowers of people being

1159
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: sad that he got hurt because he got hurt the

1160
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:10,040
Speaker 1: same day as Dak. So if he's back and can

1161
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 1: continue the trajectory that it looked like he was on,

1162
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:15,840
Speaker 1: I think that's exciting. And then you add Mica to

1163
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: go along with what's already there at linebacker, Yes, they will,

1164
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 1: they will absolutely improve. Think about the improvement between Tristan

1165
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: Hill year one and year two. Okay, it was a

1166
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: pretty significant. He looked like a viable football player last

1167
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: year after not being able to get on the field.

1168
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 1: So whatever he improved, whatever the percentage of improvement, whatever

1169
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: that is. What if Neville Gallimore improves that much from

1170
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: year one to year time, if you're actually I was

1171
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 1: talking about this yesterday, like if you're just like sneaky,

1172
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: sneaky storylines that make you feel excited, like everybody's excited

1173
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: about Dak. We get that, But like Neville and Tristan together,

1174
00:57:57,280 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: if like that's exciting and intriguing to me, that, like,

1175
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: the defensive tackle position could be surprisingly good if those

1176
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: guys grow into who the front office thinks they can be. Well,

1177
00:58:09,200 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: that's how I feel about No DIGGI Zoo. I think

1178
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 1: is a guy they're really excited about too, you know.

1179
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: And and here's another thing about Bohannah. Uh, the guy

1180
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: I've always been trying to get, you know, a big, fat,

1181
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: sloppy guy that's not Bohanna. Now, Bohanna is three hundred

1182
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: and thirty pounds. He doesn't look like it though. I

1183
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:32,440
Speaker 1: mean he looks he's in good shape for his size

1184
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: and all that. He's got a lot of strength to him.

1185
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:39,720
Speaker 1: And the joke was, well, um Quinn said he's going

1186
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 1: to be right here on the ball, you know. Well,

1187
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: a couple of times at practice he actually wasn't. He

1188
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:46,919
Speaker 1: was in the three technique, so they kind of moved,

1189
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: which he kind of take that a little because you

1190
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 1: just don't know. They don't have a lot of people,

1191
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of guys. I just think he's

1192
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 1: a big, strong guy, but I think he's gonna have

1193
00:58:56,840 --> 00:59:00,040
Speaker 1: a little bit more movement than you think. When I

1194
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: was watching him and going back to you talking about

1195
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 1: the conversation from last week and the argument between you two, yeah,

1196
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 1: I could not remember what the argument was, but all

1197
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: I can see is while I was watching, I'm like,

1198
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 1: I'm on Derek side on this. As what I was

1199
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 1: looking at you know you all. You know the classic

1200
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: meme of like you think about the perfect rebuttal two

1201
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 1: hours later you know you never have it. Like good

1202
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 1: one techniques get drafted high all the time. Vita Vea

1203
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: it happened. Danny Shelton was another one. Not all the time.

1204
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: I mean it happened something. If a one technique is

1205
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: a stud, he's worth drafted round. That's what I was saying.

1206
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: But I will say there are certain positions, and you

1207
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: know you cover the draft way more than I do,

1208
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 1: there are certain positions where you have to be exceptionally

1209
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 1: great to get into that conversation. Do you get the

1210
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: tackle is one of those positions. You don't just especially

1211
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: one technique, You don't get into that conversation unless you're exceptional.

1212
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's exceptional. What I'm saying is he

1213
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 1: fits a terrible need for the Cowboys, and he's the

1214
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: only guy, by the way, that could fill that need.

1215
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: And that's why I think he's gonna get opportunities. I'm

1216
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 1: gonna ride. I'm riding with Brent Urban on this one.

1217
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 1: That's okay, we'll see see, we will see, all right.

1218
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:10,160
Speaker 1: One last one real quick, uh, no, no, that's it good.

1219
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 1: Let's go. That's it's all right. I appreciate you guys, Jannus.

1220
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: We'll be back on next Wednesday. We'll have more talk

1221
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 1: for you guys. Told them for Nick Eatman, Dave Helmet,

1222
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 1: Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eakleton. This has been The

1223
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has

1224
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 1: been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the

1225
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:36,560
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys Football Club.