WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Final Picks 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:06.640 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:18.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.520 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:26.840 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:31.200 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:39.760 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hello, guys, 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.840 welcome to another episode of The Break. We're gonna get 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.519 this show started right away because we don't have much time, 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.200 so let's just get right into it. Who was at practice? 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:55.240 Who wasn't? What are these guys looking like? Everybody but 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.320 Anthony Brown and Joe Looney was at practice today, which 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.520 I guess that sucks for Joe because I guess that 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.240 means his back injury is not great. But all of 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:09.800 those hurt Pro bowlers were practicing today. So that's Cooper, 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:14.360 Tyron Smith, Lyle Collins, Randall, cop Byron Jones all there. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:19.960 What does this mean that plan? Well, we hope you 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.240 hope they play. There's no way to speak unilaterally about that. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.800 We'll keep an eye on the injury report. I guarantee 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:31.360 you it'll say questionable for most of those guys. Out 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.920 of those starters. Who would be the one, like, who 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.360 would be the one that most likely would not be 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.680 able to go this weekend? I it seems it seems 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.399 like it goes back and forth. Like I've heard some 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.720 you know, some people are like, oh, Lyle is gonna play, 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.759 but Tyron can't. Tyrn's gonna play, but Lyle can't. Um. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.320 I'd say Cooper would be the one that I think 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.400 maybe not yeah, because and that's another one, because him 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.640 saying I feel good, Like yeah, I thought he said 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.280 that last week and it took three plays for him 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.360 not to feel good and not to play anymore. So 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.360 he that would be the one. It's a combination of 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.880 the quad. They ain't cold at foot. Yeah, I think 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.080 the majority of them will be out there. I mean, 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.800 take that for what it's worth. That I don't there's 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.560 no way to speak confidently about this forty eight hours 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:17.280 before they actually kick off the game. UM. Sorry, but 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.600 I think, oh, I can't really do an actives right, well, 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.320 I mean we can. You can try your best. I mean, 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.200 my gut, I think says I think Randall Cobb's gonna play. 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.120 I think one of the tackles will play. I think 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:33.600 Byron Jones will play. Um, I think Joe Looney won't play, 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:38.679 So that's one. Yeah. I mean Adam Redman is now. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.880 I mean he's your he would be active and probably 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.160 be your backup center, right Adam Redman. Yeah, I mean 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.360 if Joe can't go, that rhymes, if Joe can't go, 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.440 then I would say Redman's probably active. Yeah, and he's 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:56.080 the backup. Nobody else plays center, right true? Yeah, So okay, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.520 well Looney or Redman, there's one I would say. Okay, 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.040 I mean to try to do this. Yeah, it's it's 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.840 hard because you've got what about Dorin's armstrong, what's been 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.360 his He's got a he had a stinger. He was 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.760 out there today. I think he was out. I mean 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.120 he's been out there in a limited capacity all weeks, 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.960 so that's always a good sign. Um, I think the 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.639 new guy will be inactive. You know if if everybody 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.440 else is, um, Justin Hamilton's sorry, if if everybody else 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:22.799 is ready to go, I don't know if you need 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:27.679 him because you got Covington, Malik, Um, Triston Hill, and 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.320 I would like to think Triston Hill will be better 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.040 than Justin Hamilton. That's what. Yeah, able to play in 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.400 this game. Yeah, I would hope. That would be really bad. 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.720 If Hamilton, who's not on a team comes in and 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.320 he plays, Yeah, that would be bad. He's inactive, I 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.720 would go. I would hope. So, so Hamilton's out and 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:50.560 Looney's out, Anthony Brown is out. I think Luke Gifford 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.480 will probably be down for this game. Assuming one of, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.240 if not both of the receivers are up, then you're 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.400 probably sitting a receiver. Maybe I wouldn't sit too, though, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.600 I would try not to sit now, you guys, because 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.680 with those guys banged up, I mean at least one, Yeah, 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.040 I keeps Cedric Wilson up and maybe Devin Smith down. Yeah, 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.160 yes again, which you know that bid him last week. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.680 But again like somebody's gotta sit so and and that 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.200 was Cop and Cooper were hurting that. So if one 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:24.679 of them comes back, you would think, um, well, given 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:26.400 those does that get And then and then one of 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.240 the offensive tack if I had to guess, I think 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.880 one of the offensive tackles will sit. So that's an 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:35.119 inactive too, Yeah, that's right. Or Bran or Lyle Collins 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.280 or Tyrann Smith. I mean I can't I don't feel 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.200 confident that they're both gonna play. Yeah, this is a 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.560 tough week to figure out the inactus on a Friday. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:46.159 But given these guys, the ones that are injured, and 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.280 you having a good idea of okay, this guy might 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.359 might not play. What what would be the area of 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.680 biggest concern when it comes to the Cowboys and then 0:04:55.800 --> 0:05:00.960 playing this weekend? To me, it's the it's the you're 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.080 saying just across the board and across them. I would 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:07.440 say that can they get them blocked somehow, some way? 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.080 Can they get these guys block because you know the 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:10.839 Eagles are going to bring a lot of pressure. They 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.559 they're dynamic in the way that they rushed. They had 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.919 ten sacks on the Jets, you know, which everybody should 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.680 get ten sacks on the Jets, right, and the Cowboys 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.080 actually couldn't even get more than two, couldn't get any 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.039 steady pressure. So the Eagles are doing it right when 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.880 it comes to rushing, and I think that they got 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:29.920 to make sure they get that blocked with all the 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.000 banged up injuries that they have. I bet you'll see 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.280 a lot of blitzes this week because the blitz has 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:38.719 worked last week. I think I said this yesterday. If 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.880 I could only have Tyrn or Cooper for this game, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.640 I'd take Cooper because the Eagles did have ten sacks 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.839 against the Jets. They definitely have talent, but they've it's 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.040 a lot like the Cowboys. It's they've struggled to get home. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.320 I think they have fourteen on the season, and ten 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.320 of those came against the Jets. So I mean that 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.480 gives you an idea that they're not terrorizing people the 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.880 way they'd probably prefer. I don't think the offensive tackles 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.880 the reason why they've lost either of these games. Like 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.800 I've said that too, you know, like this isn't an 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.280 Atlanta situation where your tackles just cannot handle the opposing 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:12.920 pass rush. But I worry. You know, they're good against 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.679 the run, and we saw what it looked like without 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.520 Cooper last week. Like, I don't trust that they have 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.200 enough explosive playmakers to hurt the Eagles secondary. If Cooper 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:23.960 can't play in this game. You would like to think 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.960 Gallup can step up, but feel a lot better if 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.279 Cooper could go. So that's what I worry about, is 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.560 finding guys that can make plays downfield, because that's how 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.080 you're going to win this game. Yeah. Now, I want 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.320 to try to get through some of the questions that 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.040 fans have been sending in before we get into game 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.400 day predictions and all of that. So one of them 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:47.560 being is Jordan Lewis and his participation for this game. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.280 I know we kind of talked about him earlier this week. 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.360 I don't know if it was yesterday, but what are 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.160 your expectations with Bargron coming back in and being able 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.840 to play and all that. What do you see Jordan's 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:03.080 role being this week? Nickel Back? Uh, this is how 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.080 you remind me of what I really am. This is 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.360 how you remind me of being a playmaker. Why did 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.520 I say that that was stupid? I think he's gonna 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.960 be the starting Nickel with Anthony Brown sitting out, and 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.080 it's an opportunity for him to do something with it. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.480 They sing that song. Yeah, but you know, I mean 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.320 they all all those bands run together. To me, I 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.280 don't know. Oh well, I mean they do nickel Back 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.160 and cold Play and all that. I don't know. I 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.760 we don't have to turn this into a music procast, 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:33.560 but Arrowsmith and I'm taking it to another decade. I 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.920 don't sounds like it nickel Back, they were bad Canadian band. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.080 And it will also be Jordan Lewis's job against the Eagles. 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:45.120 Nelson Agilore deal with it. I'm I'm excited to see 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.920 him get an opportunity. Hopefully he keeps going the way that. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.520 I mean, you know, limited spots, but he's played well 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.200 for two years now and now he's gonna I mean, 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.000 he should play fifty sixty whatever snaps. I mean, he's 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.440 basically a starter this week. Yeah. I mean when you 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.400 think about all the guys that have been active at corner, 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.240 I mean, they basically have five corners if you count 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.720 Goodwin and so now with Brown out, and I don't 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.040 think they're gonna. I wouldn't anybody. I wouldn't be shocked 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.520 if Donovan Olumba finds his way on the fifty three 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:20.880 for this game. Will be cutting Luke Gifford. Uh, they 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:27.160 get Luke Gifford the whole tre Okay, he wasn't cut 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.720 one of those guards now, because you know he was 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.439 doing special teams work at practice. That's all I'm saying. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.240 And I think you know they think the world of C. J. Goodwin, 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.240 but do they want him to have to cover people 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.440 if it comes to that. I don't know. I don't 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.480 know this for sure. I'm just spitballing here. But with 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.360 Brown banged up and again, you know, God Heaven forbid, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.120 you get into a situation where Byron, you know, chases 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:51.959 a receiver down the field for the first time, and 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.120 it's like, I can't do this. Yeah, I just it 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.920 wouldn't surprise me. I don't know for sure, but I 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.720 think they might feel better having that in the back pocket. 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.959 Just something to watch tomorrow afternoon. Water. I'd tell you 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.920 who I would I would cut is, I'd cut the 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.000 defensive tackle, the new guy. Yeah he's been on the 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.480 street for six weeks. Yeah, but he hasn't and he's 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.720 he I don't believe he's subject to waivers at this point. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.560 And even if he is, whatever, Yeah, that's possible too. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.600 I mean, he'd he'd be my guy to just that's 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.679 that's fair. That sounds like the best option if you 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.319 got to cut it. Something something to watch. They haven't 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.000 done a lot of that this year because they haven't 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.360 need to. But desperate times call for desperate measures. You 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.000 might you might want that security blanket with two banged 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:38.840 up cornerbacks. Well, planing to the whole injury situation. Here's 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.320 another question, is the lack of play action motions in 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.840 different plays coming from the fact that they're lacking personnel 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:52.360 due to injuries, especially at white receiver and tackle position. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.280 I heard a lot of people say, you know the 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.480 stat that's going around as they've dropped, they've it's cut 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.600 in half. How much they're doing play action and stuff 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.640 like that the first three weeks as opposed to the second, 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.240 and people have responding like, well, of course they're falling 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.040 behind by multiple scores. I don't buy that at all, 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.040 because they're still running the ball. They ran it all 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.800 through the second half of that game, and the numbers 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.520 will show you, like, the run doesn't have to be 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.320 working for play action to work. Now, trusting your tackles 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.720 to protect your quarterback, that's important, It definitely is. But 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.319 I mean there's more than one way to skin a cat, right. 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.640 That's a saying like, you can do faster developing play action. 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.960 You can do play action that gets your quarterback moving 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.080 and thereby protects him from the pass rush, like Dak 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.160 throws so well on the move. I would love to 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.280 see some play action like that, like boot action something 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.200 that gets the pocket moving and gets Dak's feet moving. 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.200 There's more ways to do that than just fake the 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.520 hand off to the running back coming out of the backfield, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.360 drop back and sit and wait. Like, I mean, that's 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.760 cool when you have protection, but you don't have to 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.200 do it that way. So I don't necessarily buy that. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.440 I just think they haven't wanted to do it. Yeah, 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.120 I agree, And especially when you saw it working. That 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.079 is one of the elements that we, or at least 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.240 me I keep seeing, is they were doing things that 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.640 worked for the offense and then all of a sudden 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.680 this past few games, it's like they disappeared. And I 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.520 have read of it. I get it. Yeah, I mean, 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.080 the circumstances dictate what you can do to a point, 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.880 and falling into two and three score holes is never good. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:22.959 But like, doesn't it kind of seem like when that 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.360 like they're just like, well, we can't do that now. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.360 It's almost right. They're probably relieved, like, oh, thank god, 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.200 you don't have to do anything fun now because we're 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.160 behind them. 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Here's a 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.920 question that plays into what Nick was saying yesterday of 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:06.280 all Suafilo being a better guard than Connor Williams. In 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.520 a scenario where we don't see a tyrant coming back 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:15.080 or struggling still with injuries, do we see the Cowboys 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:20.920 actually moving Connor to tackle and then plugging in Xavier 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:26.160 Swatfilo as a guard. I think, you know, I mean, 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:28.920 I thought if that was going to happen, it would 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.760 have happened last week with Brandon Knight and Cam Fleming playing. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.600 I thought that meano, maybe with Cam not playing very 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.560 well well, right, but I thought I thought that might 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.160 be a situation. We're saying, let's let's put Connor out 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.080 there at tackle and then you know, you can still 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:46.000 maybe have your best five available. But they haven't done that, 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.480 so I don't know if Connor actually played well at 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.480 tackle when he was out there for like a week 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.280 or a few practices last week or two weeks ago, 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:57.320 so I don't think that's something they want to do 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:01.160 right now. And signing lie L to a long, long 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.360 term deal suggests that Connor is here to stay at guard, 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.760 and so they're going to keep him regardless of Cam's performance. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:13.200 If he was having to be out there replacing Tyron, 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.760 I would imagine Brandon Knight's a better tackle than Connor 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:21.120 Williams right now probably, And so if that happened, it's 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.800 it's Friday of game week and we haven't seen or 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.840 heard anything that suggests that they're shuffling it. So I 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.960 just assume they're not going to. Yeah, I don't think not, 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.360 I mean not right now. If if these guys Connor's 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.280 got his own issues and guard, like I mean, you know, 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.320 it's easy to look at it and go, well, he's 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.560 not as strong, but he's athletics, so he could play 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:44.160 tackle theory theoretically, yes, but not in like Dave said 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.240 in a short, you know, and like on the fly, 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.760 I don't think that's happening. That's why and I'm I 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.480 don't know if that would happen, but that's why you 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.960 see stuff like that happened during the bye week, because 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.640 it gives you more time to work at it from 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.840 a physical and a mental standpoint. Yeah, Now here's a 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.480 question of a guy that you have talked about, Dave 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.120 Jamis alawally in the way that they're utilizing him. Can 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.720 you please try to put some sense into why they're 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.280 now using him? And I can't because they I mean 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.320 they even did at the beginning of the season. You know, 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.800 he was running, he was running wheel routes. You know, 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.160 they tried, they took a shot to him against the Giants. 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.760 He seemed like he was out there a lot. I mean, 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.080 for a fullback, you know you're not going to get 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.040 one hundred percent of the snaps, but he was out there. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:31.200 And I don't I don't begrudge fans who think there's 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.680 some type of conspiracy theory. I don't believe it, but 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:35.720 I get why you feel that way, because, yeah, like 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.720 there are just elements of this thing that look different. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.080 They're not they're not using twenty one personnel, they're not 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.480 doing it with Jamay's and they're not doing with Tony pollard. Um. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.280 I don't have a good answer for you as to 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.480 why that is, but maybe because all the production they're 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:53.920 getting it tied in and then you don't need him sarcasm. Yeah, 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:55.920 I wasn't sure. I was like, is he messing with 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:57.840 me right now? Well, you know, I would be one 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.920 thing if like Schultz was making a lot of catch 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.720 but you're like, you need that part of your Like 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.000 he kind of plays like a like a tight end 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.320 sort of. I mean he could he could, you know, 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.600 make some some catches out there like that, And it 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.400 really does you know it Like I said it before 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.679 the break, like it kind of feels like, you know, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.920 when things don't go their way and they find themselves 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.280 in an adverse situation, it's like, let's get back to 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:25.480 what we know, Like, let's just do what's safe, which 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.720 has pound the rock with Zeke and you know, try 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.720 to take the occasional shot to Cooper or whichever receivers 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.320 out there. And you know, and people want to pin 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.080 that on Jason Garrett, and I mean you can if 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.199 you want to. He gets paid handsomely to put up 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:39.920 with stuff like that. Like I said, I don't know 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:41.439 if I buy it. I mean, Kelly Moore has got 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.920 a role in this thing, and you can't call him 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.520 the wonder boy when they're rolling after three weeks and 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.600 just blame it all on Garrett when when they're three 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.919 and three, but there's very little doubt in my like 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.719 this offense has there's they're still putting up yards. I mean, 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:57.640 there's still like top five in the league, but they 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.040 it just doesn't look as creative as it did in 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.400 the winning street. And it's so frustrating to me when 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.159 I hear, you know, fans saying, oh, well, clearly Jason 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.600 Garrett is stepping in and having to say, I'm like, 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.119 why would your ruin things when clearly Kennon Moore was 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.440 doing well in the first three weeks and then why 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.160 all of a sudden Jason want to step in and 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:21.600 starting stepping in? Because I actually was down there at 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.159 the very end of the game when they were scoring 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.560 that touchdown a two point conversion. I was actually right 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.000 behind them because they were moving down and yeah, we 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:36.560 were there together, and I actually saw Jason Garrett say hey, hey, hey, 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.679 like four times to Kellen Moore, who was like in 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.320 the middle of like calling play, and he was like 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.040 trying to get his attention and didn't and he had 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:44.960 to call the play. They don't have a lot of time. 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.760 I don't think he's actually stepping in. Not at that point. 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.879 I think he was trying to point out something, but 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.640 it was it wasn't getting across. So team looks bad. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.680 You need to scapegoat. Most Cowboys fans have been frustrated 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.680 by Bason Garrett, even in the good times, and that's 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:04.639 a natural result of him. Like I said, like, I 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.440 don't feel sorry for him. He's paid super duper well 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:10.879 to be that lightning rod. But I don't buy that 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.000 it's just magically Garrett's fault when things aren't going well 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:18.119 and Kellen Moore's genius when they are. Yeah, now here's 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.879 a guy that had a pretty decent preseason and people 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:25.200 are now asking about him and for him, want to 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:30.000 see him playing more. Donovan Wilson, yep, what's up with him? 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:35.600 Any expectations of us actually watching him getting some playing time? 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.359 Not really? And that you know what, I'll eat some 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.480 crow here. I mean, I still don't think Jeff Heath 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:41.879 is as bad as a lot of people want to 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:45.280 paint him to be. But my whole thing was okay, 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.960 but you know, they're not giving up ninety two yard 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.399 touchdowns and that's the risk you run with a rookie 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.440 who doesn't know what he's doing out there, Like that's 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.639 why you don't put a rookie in that situation. But 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.840 if the veteran starters are giving those up, then what 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.880 do you have to lose? Like that? Yeah, that's unacceptable 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.680 from the safety position, Like that's you're saving grace. Even 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.040 if you're not great, if you don't get turnovers and 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.280 don't make crazy plays, you're saving grace. Is well, he's 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.520 not just giving up chunk plays that put the defense 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:15.040 in a bind. Well, that happened last week and it can't. Um. 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.720 You know, I'm not calling for anybody to get benched yet, 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.000 but if it keeps up, then yeah, I'd be down 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:21.760 to try something else. Yeah, Like what do you have 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.600 to lose at that point? Exactly? Like like I said, 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.280 like that's the one thing. You're like, well, they don't 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:28.800 do this, this and this, but at least you're not 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:30.920 just zipping down the field on a ninety two yard 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.000 broken play. Well, it happened last night. I mean, Donovan 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.919 Wilson did all that stuff in the preseason games in 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.800