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Speaker 1: week Wednesday. It's sort of like a Wednesday. Cowboys will
Speaker 1: practice here in about an hour. That right, Mick, one
Speaker 1: hour and thirty. As soon as we finished, we got
Speaker 1: to walk outside or the inside one of the two. Well,
Speaker 1: it's supposed to were supposed to have one hundred percent
Speaker 1: chance of rain, and it sounded like when I was
Speaker 1: doing my deal with the fan, it's already raining downtown Dallas.
Speaker 1: I haven't got Bucky's forecast yet, so doesn't look like
Speaker 1: outdoor practice. I didn't see anything. Yeah, the water buckets,
Speaker 1: squeers tell you where they're going to do I did
Speaker 1: or anything. Yeah, I didn't say say any signs that
Speaker 1: they're going to work outside, all right. Rob Phillips hosting
Speaker 1: for Bill Jones Today Wednesday, List Jones Day. The way
Speaker 1: it rolls. He's got TV obligations. He is TV man,
Speaker 1: you're radio man, and so are you. Brian brought us,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola, Kent Garrison next door producing as always. Well,
Speaker 1: not a typical bye week Wednesday, not typical bye week.
Speaker 1: It's not quiet around here. No, they've got a new
Speaker 1: wide receiver that should be there here today, was here
Speaker 1: yesterday if you want to go on Dallas Cowboys dot com.
Speaker 1: Nick Eatman spoke with Amari Cooper for the first time
Speaker 1: since arriving in Dallas, and uh, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know what we'll what we'll be able to glean from
Speaker 1: practice this week. Yeah, shorter practices, lighter practice, assuming he's
Speaker 1: ready to go. I know he was in concussion protocol
Speaker 1: before where he was traded here or agreed to be
Speaker 1: traded here. Sure can't trade or hurt player two, by
Speaker 1: the way, that's true. So so he had to pass
Speaker 1: a physical and all that. He did that yesterday, so
Speaker 1: he's good to go. Yeah, the trade even have helmets
Speaker 1: on today. Um, that's a good question. We've seen that
Speaker 1: in the past where they have not, so yeah, that
Speaker 1: might be more of but it's been in the past
Speaker 1: two with him he's done a thing where he's a
Speaker 1: lot the backups. It's been a teaching teaching thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's let the young guys, letting the backup guys get opportunities,
Speaker 1: like the guys you know with like uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Cameron Fleming will get some get some snaps. I'm sure
Speaker 1: how about Sue a Philo will get some snaps. How
Speaker 1: about Adam Redman, you know the offense, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: get those backup guys a few more, few more reps.
Speaker 1: They they don't get as mini during the week, so
Speaker 1: it's good option. Maybe get some your practice squad guys
Speaker 1: a look or two, see if they see if they're
Speaker 1: paying attention to what you're trying to do. I know
Speaker 1: that's secondary to compare to what's going on in the season,
Speaker 1: but that's how coaches approach what we're going about to
Speaker 1: probably see for the next couple of days. Keep the
Speaker 1: as veteran players you know, off their feet, let them
Speaker 1: kind of catch their breath, heal up their bodies a
Speaker 1: little bit more, and then you know, get ready for
Speaker 1: the second half push. And as Rob you wrote about
Speaker 1: the injuries those guys, you know, just let him rest
Speaker 1: right and a healthy team so far. Yeah, a couple
Speaker 1: of guys banged up, Zack Martin, Jeff Swaim. Bryan said,
Speaker 1: those guys aren't going to practice. They got nice sprains
Speaker 1: from the game. So watching being an MCL is that
Speaker 1: what Jason said for both guys. Guys, yeah said hopefully
Speaker 1: not too long for Jeff Swaim. Zach was able to
Speaker 1: tape it up and play in the second half, So
Speaker 1: that's that's encouraging. Randy Gregory got a nice scope, by
Speaker 1: the way, yesterday, he must have had to lose something
Speaker 1: in there if he's gonna be back real soon. I remember,
Speaker 1: I remember h Jay Novochek had it during the bye week,
Speaker 1: and by time they played the next game in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: he was playing. It's like, seriously, yeah, It's like within
Speaker 1: two weeks he was back out there. They think he'll
Speaker 1: be ready for Tennessee. So I had a friend go
Speaker 1: through a scope like that and it was a kind
Speaker 1: of a meniscus deal and he was asking me about it.
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, I go. You know, Jay was out
Speaker 1: there in two weeks. I think three months later he
Speaker 1: finally got back on the tennis court. Yeah different, yeah, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: what else are they trying to get out of this
Speaker 1: bye week typically, I know, besides resting guys and maybe
Speaker 1: given some reps to some other guys on the roster
Speaker 1: with your regulars, your starters. Yeah, more of a self
Speaker 1: scouting situation, Yes, it is. It is self scouting. And
Speaker 1: the way the league now has it set up because
Speaker 1: of collective bargaining, is because you have to give them
Speaker 1: so many days off four straight four straight scouting include
Speaker 1: right Saturday and Sunday. Right. So with that being said,
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, you could have practiced
Speaker 1: them all the way up till Friday and then giving
Speaker 1: them you know, then say Saturday, and then you have
Speaker 1: to be at Sunday night. You remember what you remember
Speaker 1: would build the build it and let them know that
Speaker 1: Friday if they were going to have the no Thursday,
Speaker 1: they were going to have the weekend off. And then
Speaker 1: at the last minute he goes, yeah, but you got
Speaker 1: to be here on Monday exactly. So, yeah, the rules
Speaker 1: have changed a lot. You know, they're thinking about the
Speaker 1: players and what they're what they're doing, so you know,
Speaker 1: there's not really a lot you can get done. The
Speaker 1: focus this week needs to be on on getting a
Speaker 1: Marie Cooper ready. The best they can and and and
Speaker 1: I mean acclimated, and I mean with meetings, you know, Rob,
Speaker 1: you and I did a mailbag this morning and it
Speaker 1: was a really good question by our the gentleman or
Speaker 1: that wrote in. And he's asking, what can Sanjay Lyle do?
Speaker 1: You know? We know out I keep saying on Hurns,
Speaker 1: we know what a Maury Cooper can do as far
Speaker 1: as a route runner and his ability to catch and
Speaker 1: all that, But how can Sanjay Lyle help him? And
Speaker 1: you know, the classroom stuff will help, but he's got
Speaker 1: to be able to help him with when they do checks,
Speaker 1: you know. And and I'd be more of a game
Speaker 1: plan thing when you know, how do you how do
Speaker 1: you help a guy to get ready? You say, okay,
Speaker 1: when well, when the when the quarterback checks this, this
Speaker 1: is our route. And when he checks this, this is
Speaker 1: our adjustment. And this is when see I think Cooper
Speaker 1: will be fine as a player playing the game. It's
Speaker 1: when Dak Prescott decides he turns his body sideways and
Speaker 1: starts moving his hands or you know, putting his hands
Speaker 1: together or tapping them together, whatever he has to do
Speaker 1: to kind of tell the wide receivers. Okay, now you
Speaker 1: adjust your route from this to this, So they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to get him up to speed how quickly they
Speaker 1: make adjustments on the fly if in fact they see
Speaker 1: something that they mean, you don't want him out there
Speaker 1: running the wrong route and then Prescott throws him out
Speaker 1: and he's going on that vertical thing and then everybody says, oh,
Speaker 1: there it is chemistry problems. So it's problem you know,
Speaker 1: communication issues, you know, all those things like that. So
Speaker 1: you know, the most important thing for him is to
Speaker 1: try and learn when they make adjustments, and a lot
Speaker 1: of they'll have to do with game planning next week,
Speaker 1: but this week they can kind of say, Okay, these
Speaker 1: are kind of the built in things that we do
Speaker 1: when we see certain coverages. So pay attention when you're here, Uh,
Speaker 1: Dak going kill kill kill, yeah, And see if he's
Speaker 1: sitting there going yeah yeah, and he's and if he
Speaker 1: goes palms up on you, then that's a that's a
Speaker 1: terrible sign. That's a terrible sign because again, that could
Speaker 1: be something that Dak is going to take off a
Speaker 1: run and he's gonna try and throw a quick screen,
Speaker 1: or he's gonna throw a slant on the backside or
Speaker 1: something something different is going to happen, and that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the most important thing I have no I have
Speaker 1: no doubt that that Amara Cooper is going to come
Speaker 1: in here and be ready to learn and to run
Speaker 1: routes and to try and help this football team. Like
Speaker 1: he said, it's the communication things that he's going to
Speaker 1: need to learn here in the next two weeks that
Speaker 1: could either help him, you know, go further or you know,
Speaker 1: kind of keep where we're at right now with some
Speaker 1: of the things. I can't because I haven't seen a
Speaker 1: wide receiver where like a wristband with the plays on there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been a off or what they're doing is back
Speaker 1: go to high school games. I saw something. I saw
Speaker 1: something last night that I don't think I've ever seen
Speaker 1: in the world. It was in the World Series. The
Speaker 1: catcher Ketch as him had a deal on that wrist
Speaker 1: right and he's checking I guess he was checking and
Speaker 1: what pitches for what players or how they were going
Speaker 1: to pitch stealing maybe maybe maybe to avoid some signs stealing,
Speaker 1: but also too you know he was who had it on.
Speaker 1: Was at Boston or Los Angeles? I thought it was
Speaker 1: I thought it was the Dodgers. Yeah, catcher sometimes in
Speaker 1: the lineup might be on there. You know, he's got
Speaker 1: an idea of how to maybe pitch a pitcher or
Speaker 1: a pitch. I saw that. But but it's yeah, they're
Speaker 1: just gonna have to get this guy up to speed
Speaker 1: that way. I think that's really the most important thing.
Speaker 1: I think all the other physical things that he has
Speaker 1: to do, that'll just be fine. He'll learn, he'll you know,
Speaker 1: and and don't be surprised if him and Daks sit
Speaker 1: around the lecture. I mean, this guy's got to go
Speaker 1: sit in a hotel room for you know, the evening,
Speaker 1: the afternoon, whatever. Don't be surprised if you know, Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott's hanging out here, you know, with him after practice.
Speaker 1: So maybe a few park cars in the parking lot
Speaker 1: and the player a lot. You know, it might be
Speaker 1: Dax and you know, heck, they might go to dinner afterwards,
Speaker 1: talk a little more. I mean, it's this is important.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a really important This is one
Speaker 1: of those moves where it can can clearly make a
Speaker 1: difference to your football team. Because for seven weeks we've
Speaker 1: talked about the inability the offense to do things that
Speaker 1: they need to do. They've done well on the at
Speaker 1: home and and function better, but that's because they function
Speaker 1: with a running game. And you know, now they need
Speaker 1: to figure out, okay, if we don't function with the
Speaker 1: running game, how do we function with a passing game?
Speaker 1: And and a lot of this is going to be
Speaker 1: on Dak Prescott's ability to come up to speed, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, with the Maury Cooper. But also, you know,
Speaker 1: don't be surprised if some other guys get involved. You know,
Speaker 1: some other you know, some other guys are meeting with
Speaker 1: them to try and figure out some of the things
Speaker 1: that they need to do a little bit better. And
Speaker 1: a lot of this it's not about the physical work
Speaker 1: now about you know, timing and practicing more. It's about
Speaker 1: the mental to get that down so he can play
Speaker 1: fast and not be sitting there wondering, am I running
Speaker 1: the right route? Right in the middle of the route?
Speaker 1: Am I made the right adjustments? So just being in
Speaker 1: the playbook and being with Sanjay Law and Dak and
Speaker 1: because because a lot of people are going to sit
Speaker 1: here and go, I know it's going to happen. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: they only got two days of practice in and it's
Speaker 1: only one hour or how much. You know they're Bill
Speaker 1: set it on our show yesterday. Who did Bill right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And he's I mean they do have a couple two hour,
Speaker 1: one hour much today. Yeah, it's better. It's better than
Speaker 1: getting ready for a game, It really is, you think
Speaker 1: about it. At least at least they have some time
Speaker 1: now to to sit down and go through those things.
Speaker 1: When you're getting ready for a game plan, you don't
Speaker 1: have much time to sit there and coach guys up
Speaker 1: along the way. But it's there's been some amazing players
Speaker 1: through the years. I remember Sterling Moore coming in here
Speaker 1: with like really gotten claimed or signed two days before
Speaker 1: a game and going out there and playing nickel corner.
Speaker 1: You know. I mean, there's there's guys that this guy
Speaker 1: is just tremendously talented that that I have absolutely no
Speaker 1: worry about. But what I what I what I would
Speaker 1: have a little concern about is getting him up to speed.
Speaker 1: But this guy seems very bright, you know what. And
Speaker 1: he did out of problem and he seemed and obviously
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him yet, but just seeing at the
Speaker 1: interview that Nick did with him, he seems to be
Speaker 1: the non wide receiver. He seemed to be very humble.
Speaker 1: He said, you know, it seemed like he didn't come
Speaker 1: in here and start big time, or at least it
Speaker 1: didn't seem like No. I don't know. I guess we'll
Speaker 1: get a chance maybe today in the locker room. Um.
Speaker 1: I wish they would just set something up and we
Speaker 1: don't have to get thirty people around one guy and
Speaker 1: put them in a podium. Would be a good idea, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't. It doesn't even need to be a podium,
Speaker 1: just somewhere where people can like be normal and and
Speaker 1: everybody can hear instead of it so you're tired of
Speaker 1: having to box people out like your West unset. I've
Speaker 1: been getting boxed out, and I'm trying to make friends
Speaker 1: with the cameramen that have a mic in there, and
Speaker 1: they have their little earbobs and they can do without
Speaker 1: one of them. And sometimes my good buddies like Hose
Speaker 1: and Alex will give me one of their earbobs. I
Speaker 1: can listen, but bubs, nut bobs, earbuds, airbubs, earboads. We
Speaker 1: you know, let me see. Are you guys getting the
Speaker 1: feeling that are you guys getting a feeling a lot
Speaker 1: of pushback from fans. Yes, yeah, well they getting pushedback
Speaker 1: because of the selection or the player. I think probably
Speaker 1: giving up your first round pick. Yeah, you know. I
Speaker 1: mean I'll sit here and say I wish it was
Speaker 1: a second sure, But if that was the price of
Speaker 1: doing business, to try to do something to not only
Speaker 1: save this season but go forward or with something that
Speaker 1: you were gonna need eventually, right then yeah. You know.
Speaker 1: I went on a huge rant yesterday and trust me,
Speaker 1: I've my experience of being on the personnel side. Who
Speaker 1: would you do it with? No? I ran it here
Speaker 1: yet yesterday. I feel like I ran it yesterday about this.
Speaker 1: But you know, I I understand. I mean, fans, I
Speaker 1: get it. I know you don't want to give up.
Speaker 1: You know. Hey, it's gonna make me and Dane Burglar
Speaker 1: and David Hellman and those guys dig harder on the
Speaker 1: Draft show. I mean, it's gonna make us deaf to
Speaker 1: dig a lot harder. But that's what we do, and
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. But I'm also I'm also looking
Speaker 1: at as a situation though, where you could have sat
Speaker 1: there and done nothing, and then what are you didn't
Speaker 1: you know? I mean my approach has always been I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do everything I can to try and help my
Speaker 1: football team. Whatever I have to do to help my
Speaker 1: football team. I'm gonna trying to help my football team.
Speaker 1: You know, you should be you should be happy that
Speaker 1: they're at least trying to do something. You know, you
Speaker 1: look at the Giants and what they're done. You know
Speaker 1: what they're doing. You know they're they're trading away some
Speaker 1: of their best players. There's giving away you know, Eli Apple,
Speaker 1: and you know what I mean. You can say what
Speaker 1: you want about him. He was a first round he
Speaker 1: was a first round corner Gone Snacks, Snacks, I mean,
Speaker 1: one of the better defensive players. I mean, good for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. You don't have to face him anymore. But
Speaker 1: I just I look at it as you know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do whatever I have to do to make this
Speaker 1: team better right now. And if it means going out
Speaker 1: and giving a premium pick up to get a wide
Speaker 1: receiver or get somebody that can help my team, I'm
Speaker 1: all for that. I don't I don't see because, like
Speaker 1: I said yesterday, I've been with Jerry Jones when he
Speaker 1: doesn't have a first round pick, and it is the
Speaker 1: most agonizing thing in the world to watch, and it's
Speaker 1: the most agonizing thing in the world to be in
Speaker 1: the room with him when that's when that's going on.
Speaker 1: But he but he's but he's made the commitment to
Speaker 1: try and help his coach, his offense and his defense
Speaker 1: and his quarterback. You know, these are all things that
Speaker 1: I think that you know, as a fan, you should
Speaker 1: try it. You should appreciate that you don't always have
Speaker 1: to agree with every move that Jerry Jones makes, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean I surely don't. And he, you know, he
Speaker 1: you know, he's told me that he's like, hey, Brian,
Speaker 1: you kick my ass pretty good. But you're fair about it.
Speaker 1: You know, I think you have to be fair about it.
Speaker 1: But I applaud him for doing something that he, uh,
Speaker 1: philosophy wise, doesn't want to do. But he did it
Speaker 1: to try and help the team. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you want to chime in five two two ninety seven
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the trade, I think we might have
Speaker 1: taken a call or two yesterday. Yeah, I probably should
Speaker 1: open to me, there's two schools of thought that I'm
Speaker 1: getting hearing from fans media whoever. Number One, I think
Speaker 1: fans love hope, they love the draft They love the
Speaker 1: idea of having potentially a high first round pick. You
Speaker 1: don't know where this pick's gonna fall for now, and
Speaker 1: that's hope. You've seen Amari Cooper in the league for
Speaker 1: four years and you see a guy that's had a
Speaker 1: couple of good seasons and a couple of seasons that
Speaker 1: have fallen off a little bit. And I think that
Speaker 1: lends itself to the other side of it. I think
Speaker 1: some fans look at this like it's a band aid,
Speaker 1: you know, on a situation a team that is probably
Speaker 1: not going to contend for a championship, and that's that's
Speaker 1: the frustrating part. Maybe you go ahead and you hoard
Speaker 1: that pick, you keep it, and you try to build
Speaker 1: for next year. I'm with you, Brian. I think they
Speaker 1: send a strong message to the locker room that we're
Speaker 1: not we're not giving up on this thing. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we're not going to waste a championship calor performance out
Speaker 1: of our defense. So far. This is no question. This
Speaker 1: defense is playing like a Super Bowl defense. They're giving
Speaker 1: up seventeen set. It's a game right now. Well, and
Speaker 1: I guarantee you on that side of the building, they're saying, look,
Speaker 1: if we can just score a little bit more per game.
Speaker 1: If we can just sustain some drives, score some points,
Speaker 1: we might be able to shrink some wins together. Now
Speaker 1: we got to figure out how to do it on
Speaker 1: the road. Yeah, I think we're at everybody's at a
Speaker 1: point now where we've got to see it. Now, we
Speaker 1: have to see them play well on the road before
Speaker 1: we say, oh, yeah, they got this one. But but
Speaker 1: I think what Jason Garrett said yesterday shouldn't fall on
Speaker 1: deaf ears. He said this move was for now in
Speaker 1: the future. Yeah, they were gonna need a wide receiver. Right.
Speaker 1: That's some good point, right, And where you're going to
Speaker 1: spend your first round pick on a wide receiver, that
Speaker 1: the wide receiver would be there that you made, that
Speaker 1: you wanted, that you wanted, right, or you'd be high
Speaker 1: enough to get who you want. Yeah, and so this
Speaker 1: this is not just about this year. They were gonna
Speaker 1: need this next year and the next year after that. Now,
Speaker 1: we'll see if this works out. And you gambled a
Speaker 1: first round pick, but at least what you didn't gamble
Speaker 1: was a five year, fifty million dollars deal under the cap.
Speaker 1: How do you think Kansas City feels right now, Sammy Watkins, Yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty six catches and seven games, one touchdown. Feel great
Speaker 1: with their record? Yeah? But how much has he helped
Speaker 1: it's working out? Is it? Yeah? Do you feel good
Speaker 1: about spending what did they spend forty five or fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars on the guy? If you're you have their record,
Speaker 1: do you care at this point? I would imagine you
Speaker 1: would if you had. If I think it of games, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that. I think that when you talk about it, though,
Speaker 1: if you look at some of these wide receivers have
Speaker 1: been drafted, you know, I think that I think a
Speaker 1: bigger argument would be, do you think Mike Zimmer feels
Speaker 1: good about Treadwell? Do the does Cincinnati that the Brown
Speaker 1: family feel good about Ross? You know, it's hard to draft.
Speaker 1: I think Josh Josh Dots Josh Dodson was picked about
Speaker 1: the nineteenth pick, I believe for the with the Washington Redskins.
Speaker 1: Do you feel good about him? You know? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's there's draft picks. You you know, you feel
Speaker 1: like the receiver. I think this is one of those
Speaker 1: moves where you said, yeah, absolutely, you got a young
Speaker 1: guy here, you're gonna see what you got at the
Speaker 1: end of the year or the halfway through the year,
Speaker 1: you'renn see what you got here, and then you're gonna
Speaker 1: build on him for next year. You know, I think
Speaker 1: that to me, I would rather. I would rather as
Speaker 1: much as I love to draft, you know, I understand
Speaker 1: why they did this. I really do, because they if
Speaker 1: you watch, they're they're trying to help this offense now
Speaker 1: is what they can what they're trying to do. And
Speaker 1: I don't I don't have a problem with that. I
Speaker 1: really don't. And I say it again, as much as
Speaker 1: I love to draft, as much as I would love
Speaker 1: to have a first round pick, you know, I would
Speaker 1: also like the opportunity to try and finish this thing out,
Speaker 1: and I would like to try and win this division,
Speaker 1: and I'd like to try and get in the PLAYFFS.
Speaker 1: Because you're absolutely right, Rob, this defense is good enough
Speaker 1: to go win a game somewhere. They can they can
Speaker 1: go win a game if they can just get some
Speaker 1: help on the offense. You know, they get you know,
Speaker 1: we're asking for the line to protect better, We're asking
Speaker 1: for them the run better. We're asking them, you know.
Speaker 1: But the one thing that they really haven't been able
Speaker 1: to do consistently enough is throw the football. And if
Speaker 1: this guy gives you the opportunity to throw the football
Speaker 1: or help you throw the football to supplement some of
Speaker 1: the other guys you have currently on this roster, I
Speaker 1: think you have to make this move. I mean two
Speaker 1: of their road losses, two out of four, defense had
Speaker 1: them in position to win the game, did enough to
Speaker 1: win the game, and you just needed a player two against.
Speaker 1: You need to drive, You need to extend a drive
Speaker 1: or two to make a difference. Absolutely, And I know
Speaker 1: you know Detroit game at home could have gone either way.
Speaker 1: But you could look at this team and say they
Speaker 1: should be five and two right now. It's possible, you know,
Speaker 1: as as poorly as they've played offensively on the road,
Speaker 1: particularly right I think that's what they're looking at. I
Speaker 1: think the pulse of the fans is is that they
Speaker 1: don't think that a lack of a receiver is why
Speaker 1: we're three and four instead of five and three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they grabbed the low hanging fruit, right, So the head coach,
Speaker 1: do you think, sure, you are just I don't know,
Speaker 1: being able to protect the quarterback. See that that's that's
Speaker 1: where you know we've we've I'll throw me in there.
Speaker 1: This is where I've made a mistake with because you
Speaker 1: come out of camp thinking you can hang your hat
Speaker 1: on this offensive line. Oh, okay, I've got I've got
Speaker 1: an emerging Lyle Collins. Oh, I've got a healthy Tyrn Smith.
Speaker 1: You know, I've got Zack Martin. I've always count on
Speaker 1: Zack Martin and healthy exactly. Yeah, and and and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, though, our world is thrown upside
Speaker 1: down when you get a you know, get a Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins who technique wise, is not as good as he
Speaker 1: was last year. You get Tyren Smith who's had some
Speaker 1: technique issues as well. You get you know, a rookie
Speaker 1: that has has played I thought has played well at times.
Speaker 1: I mean there's one or two times a game where
Speaker 1: you know he gets beat, but that happens. And then
Speaker 1: you have a center that's really your backup guy, and
Speaker 1: he's done a great job. But it's not. It's not
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick. You know you you were thinking that this
Speaker 1: line was going to be something you could say. And
Speaker 1: that's why they I believe they made the decision to
Speaker 1: play by committee with receiver. Yes, they're thinking, okay, we'll
Speaker 1: run the ball, We'll spread the ball around and we'll
Speaker 1: be just fine because we will dominate the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: And they haven't dominated the line of scrimmage yet. And
Speaker 1: they had Dak and comfortable down in Jacksonville could win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And they had a prime example of what it was
Speaker 1: like with Ezekiel Elliott and that it was like without
Speaker 1: without exactly exactly, and that was the common denominator in
Speaker 1: what happened last year. And you went nine and seven,
Speaker 1: by the way, And now if if if you're not
Speaker 1: being productive with Zeke only every other week, which is
Speaker 1: what it's been, right, every other week, every other week,
Speaker 1: they can throw the ball. The next week they can't,
Speaker 1: the next week they can. And one week Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: still the quarterback of the fete, next week he's not.
Speaker 1: And the teeter totter goes back and forth. Now, they
Speaker 1: got to figure out why this happens on the road
Speaker 1: and why it happens at home. It's it's just that simple.
Speaker 1: And if people would spend a little bit more time
Speaker 1: kind of analyzing and instead of trying to get the
Speaker 1: head coach fired, every move they make is about the
Speaker 1: head coach. You know, I read this morning. Well, now
Speaker 1: the pressure is on because Jason Garrett's got this new
Speaker 1: toy and if this doesn't work, he can't save his job. Well,
Speaker 1: I think every defensives can say, yeah, if this guy
Speaker 1: is any good, then he's not going to beat me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you have to evaluate the team at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. I understand that. Let's not evaluate one move. Yeah,
Speaker 1: right now, I'm three and four. I am willing. I'm
Speaker 1: more willing to have coach talk on the offseason than
Speaker 1: any other time. I'm but this is where we're at
Speaker 1: now with the coaching staff. You got to you gotta
Speaker 1: give him an opportunity to see if they can make
Speaker 1: this work. And at the end of the day, if
Speaker 1: it doesn't work, then the general management will need to
Speaker 1: sit down and say, Okay, this is where we were
Speaker 1: deficient and if it's not good enough, it's not good enough,
Speaker 1: and then you need to make changes. But if you
Speaker 1: if you've helped him, if you've helped him with the
Speaker 1: player and he's able to succeed, were good for him,
Speaker 1: you know, good for him. But I'm I'm with Mickey
Speaker 1: on this though, I'm avoiding the low hanging fruit of
Speaker 1: just go out and fire everybody. But I am never
Speaker 1: afraid to talk like that in the offseason. If I
Speaker 1: feel like that, it's necessarily needs to be done. But
Speaker 1: I'm willing to give these guys this trade and these
Speaker 1: last you know, last nine games or so to see
Speaker 1: if they can turn this thing around. You know, the
Speaker 1: other thing I think needs to be analyzed is they
Speaker 1: play fifty five minutes on the road against Washington and
Speaker 1: scored ten points yea, and in five minutes they were
Speaker 1: six inches away from scoring ten points in five minutes.
Speaker 1: Now what changed? What happened because they had to protect
Speaker 1: it better. They had to move the ball down the
Speaker 1: field to score a touchdown in one of those last
Speaker 1: two drives, right, they had to move the ball down
Speaker 1: field to at least kick a field goal. And on
Speaker 1: top of that, the Deep Vents needed to get a
Speaker 1: three and out, which they got. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 1: it's like you forget all that stuff. I understand the result,
Speaker 1: I get it, But what they did there, Uh, I
Speaker 1: was surprised the game was over right, you guys left
Speaker 1: the press box. It was twenty to ten. We always
Speaker 1: so did everybody else. Okay, there was nobody. I have
Speaker 1: to take a TV segment. I understand, I understand that,
Speaker 1: but then you can't see what happened when you went
Speaker 1: down there. Yeah, well I got the ALL twenty two
Speaker 1: and I went back and did that. But you wrote
Speaker 1: before you got the ALL twenty. But I understand, I understand.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying people left, people left the stadium. Game
Speaker 1: was over, right. Is there a problem offensively? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: let's let's take a break, Sace. You keep wanting to
Speaker 1: extend this segment. Let's take a break. We got we
Speaker 1: got three minutes left in the show. We got two
Speaker 1: breaks left to do. Let's take one of them right now.
Speaker 1: Come back and answer Brian's question about the offense. Also,
Speaker 1: we'll take your calls eight five five to two ninety seven.
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Speaker 1: is a mood you make when you say this is
Speaker 1: not just get to the playoffs, but make some noise
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. So we're still in this division. I
Speaker 1: was a little torn. The pick is high. Now if
Speaker 1: the reports are true that you had the Eagles and
Speaker 1: the Redskins and other teams involved giving a second, well, okay,
Speaker 1: it's an epic fail if we don't make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know advanced, But what's a bigger epic failed
Speaker 1: if you you go the year and a half and
Speaker 1: you had to pay Da Press Scott one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars, because then you then it's then it's
Speaker 1: over with. Then then there's no more. Oops, my bad,
Speaker 1: my bad. The owner is saying, oops, my bad for
Speaker 1: thinking you can bring any one of five hundred wide
Speaker 1: receivers and tight ends in here, because we got Zeke right.
Speaker 1: But so it's not just on Amari Cooper. Are we
Speaker 1: getting Mark Cooper last two years of the two years
Speaker 1: of the previously, But it's on that too. It's who's
Speaker 1: gonna block on here? Yeah? I mean, because the Marie
Speaker 1: Cooper won't matter if your quarterbacks sitting on his ass.
Speaker 1: I wrote that yesterday. It's not you don't get the
Speaker 1: receiver of this caliber and say everything's great as well. No, no,
Speaker 1: but you got to get to the playoffs and maybe advanced.
Speaker 1: I applaud him for saying, oops, my bad, because he
Speaker 1: can't because you got to pay DAK one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars. You're stuck. It's over with. There's no
Speaker 1: more oops my bad. So and you gotta pay. And
Speaker 1: you're coming at the cross roads here. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to make a decision on DAK. Pay him or as
Speaker 1: a cooper just the rental player, or you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to back up the brings trucks on him. Then you
Speaker 1: got then you got the Marcus Lawrence and Byron Jones,
Speaker 1: bless his heart, nobody's talking about his play. I hate
Speaker 1: to see him lee because finally somebody in that coaches
Speaker 1: staff said, no more musical chance with this guy. He's
Speaker 1: the corner and when you left them alone, now you
Speaker 1: see what he can do. So I gotta let this
Speaker 1: thing play out. But yeah, this is we're still in
Speaker 1: this division. I applaud him for saying, us, my bad.
Speaker 1: Let me try to get to the playoffs and make
Speaker 1: some noise, Okay, So I'm gonna let you it's not
Speaker 1: And if we don't, then you gotta look at the draft.
Speaker 1: If we don't make the playoffs. It's not just about
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. If we don't make the playoffs, do
Speaker 1: we pass up on a top defensive player or whatever.
Speaker 1: So you just gotta let this same play and hope
Speaker 1: we get to the playoffs and can make some noise,
Speaker 1: because look, you gotta play. You gotta play at Luna,
Speaker 1: you gotta play the Saints, you gotta play these other teams.
Speaker 1: You still got two games with the Eagle. You gotta
Speaker 1: score some points in here. I applaud him for trying.
Speaker 1: I just hope it works out. Ye, thank you. That's
Speaker 1: a great point. You know, you look at the teams
Speaker 1: you're about to play, and you know you got it.
Speaker 1: You can't, yeah, be screwing around with fifteen sixteen seventeen
Speaker 1: points a game, no defensively if you can hold them
Speaker 1: in check. And we've seen some people hold, you know,
Speaker 1: we've seen people hold. Look what the Giants did the
Speaker 1: other night to to Atlanta. You know, Atlanta is you
Speaker 1: know a team that you worry about scoring a bunch
Speaker 1: of points. You know, the Saints can score some points,
Speaker 1: but both those teams are pretty deficient on defense. You know,
Speaker 1: you find a way to hold them in check. And
Speaker 1: now you get you know, twenty four, twenty eight points
Speaker 1: in the game. You got a chance to win a game. Now, hell,
Speaker 1: you might win a game with you know, with twenty
Speaker 1: points if you just kit to the twenty. You know,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, because the defense is holding teams
Speaker 1: under twenty pretty regularly. Yeah, under ten in some cases. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what you got over there, Mick. I was just looking
Speaker 1: at the scores sixteen, thirteen, twenty four, and I think
Speaker 1: one of those touchdowns or field goals was a turnover
Speaker 1: short field nineteen seven and twenty but only thirteen on
Speaker 1: the defense. Yeah, so if you know, other than the
Speaker 1: Seattle given up twenty four, they're in the teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this this thing is not gonna be bad. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be You need the defense in Christi Shard and those
Speaker 1: guys and Rod Marini to keep playing, well, keep playing.
Speaker 1: If I'm a defensive player, I see hope. Now, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna maybe we're gonna get a guy in here
Speaker 1: that can make some plays, They can keep some drives
Speaker 1: going to can score some points. You know, That's what
Speaker 1: this is. I the only experience I've ever had so
Speaker 1: and this and This happened a long time ago, so
Speaker 1: pardon me for this, but when we won the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in Green Bay and we didn't trade a first
Speaker 1: round pick, but we got Andre Riisen, we got Andre
Speaker 1: Riisen on our team for eight games, and Andre Riisen
Speaker 1: helped us win a super Bowl. We were eight no
Speaker 1: in games he played because he gave us some juice.
Speaker 1: He gave us something we didn't have. He gave us
Speaker 1: a big time player on the outside. But again, it's
Speaker 1: not given up a first round pick, but but it's
Speaker 1: adding somebody at mid season that has the capability and
Speaker 1: the playmaking ability to help you win games, just kind
Speaker 1: of shake things up to get the offindence gone. If
Speaker 1: you know, if I'm if I'm that locker room, I'm
Speaker 1: happy about this. I'm happy that that ownership in the
Speaker 1: front office didn't sit on their hands and not try anything.
Speaker 1: You know, if they would have sat there and done
Speaker 1: nothing and said, Okay, we're just gonna take the pick.
Speaker 1: You know, we're just gonna finish you know, six and
Speaker 1: ten and not worry about this, then then I would
Speaker 1: have felt worse. But you know, they're saying, hey, we
Speaker 1: have a chance. If we could just pull some things together.
Speaker 1: You know, defensively we've been great. Offensively, we've got to
Speaker 1: score more points. We've got to have more drive sustained.
Speaker 1: We've got to we've got to help our quarterback. We've
Speaker 1: got to help our running game. You know, this guy,
Speaker 1: I mean, he might be asking a lot for him
Speaker 1: to come in and save this offense, but it's really
Speaker 1: the best I can do right now. I'm trying, right
Speaker 1: And we might talk about this on the Draft Show
Speaker 1: tomorrow on thirty PM by the way, for those who
Speaker 1: want to tune into that for bye week special. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but about how much you value what you know about
Speaker 1: a player rather than what you are trying to project
Speaker 1: a player can be in the first round. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: value what they know Amari Cooper is now what they've seen,
Speaker 1: rather than what the guy next year potentially could be
Speaker 1: in the first round, whoever they pick. Yeah, that's there's
Speaker 1: no question about that. I mean I've watched already, you know,
Speaker 1: I just kind of dabbled in and happened to watch
Speaker 1: like three receivers watch of kids from Arizona State and
Speaker 1: the two kids from Ole Miss And they're supposed to
Speaker 1: be top receivers. I don't see that right now, I
Speaker 1: really don't. I mean, I'm looking at those guys and
Speaker 1: it's not And I did this before even even knew
Speaker 1: what a Maria Cooper was, even the trade was going
Speaker 1: to be. But you know, Dane and I sat down
Speaker 1: and said, hey, you want to watch the tape because
Speaker 1: I sat down with him and watched a few games
Speaker 1: and said, let's watch this guy from Arizona State. Let's
Speaker 1: watch this guy from these two guys ole miss And
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, okay, one guy can't run the Arizona State Guide,
Speaker 1: and look he can run very well. To me, he
Speaker 1: look like we're really a dynamic player out there. So
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there thinking, okay, if those are the top guys,
Speaker 1: if Dane's having me look at some of the top
Speaker 1: guys already, and I'm not overly shot in the rear.
Speaker 1: And again, this is not this is pre Amari Cooper.
Speaker 1: This is just getting ready for a draft show tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And I just I don't know, I don't if you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm trying to get ready now. But but I
Speaker 1: know people will argue, they'll say, well, broad us, what
Speaker 1: if they're not going to take somebody in the first
Speaker 1: what they weren't going to take a receiver in the
Speaker 1: first round. What they wanted to take another. Now, this
Speaker 1: is where this is where Nebbi yesterday made a point,
Speaker 1: and this is where Nebbi might be right. What if
Speaker 1: you evaluate this quarterback and you want to use a
Speaker 1: first round pick on a quarterback that right there, and
Speaker 1: that's a fair point that Nebbi makes. What if you
Speaker 1: evaluate these last few games, this last half of the season,
Speaker 1: and you say, we just can't win with Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: consistently enough. But I don't Dave said this on our
Speaker 1: emergency pod a couple of days ago. I don't think they.
Speaker 1: I think they're all in on Dak Prescot at least
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is everything. But I think Debbie brought up
Speaker 1: a really good it's it's it's a it's a fair point.
Speaker 1: It's a fair point. But but everything Jerry said, and
Speaker 1: I know that, you know when he's asked point blank
Speaker 1: on a radio segment, what's he wants to help Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott succeed? But they are everything I've seen. They are
Speaker 1: all in on trying to help him. And yes, they
Speaker 1: didn't go get they parted with Dez. They didn't go
Speaker 1: get an elite receiver in the off season, but they
Speaker 1: did spend a second round draft pick on a left
Speaker 1: guard who they thought would make remake the offensive line
Speaker 1: into another dominant force again, and that just hasn't worked
Speaker 1: out for a lot of different reasons so far. But
Speaker 1: they've tried to give him help, and I think they've
Speaker 1: recognized they haven't give him enough help. But I don't know, Mickey,
Speaker 1: if you feel the same way. But I think the
Speaker 1: front office at this point, for everything Jerry said, they're
Speaker 1: in on Dak Prescott as a starter for the future
Speaker 1: and they're not looking at quarterback right now. I just
Speaker 1: don't think everybody needs to get hung up on the
Speaker 1: fact that he's got to get paid after this season.
Speaker 1: You got another season yet a contract. Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: agree everybody just settled down about the money part of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can buy time and if you're not ready to
Speaker 1: do it, then you know, well you enfranchise him after
Speaker 1: that if you want. And there's the other side of
Speaker 1: it that you've brought up, Brian, that I don't think
Speaker 1: they'll want to do that. But if they're keeping their
Speaker 1: eyes open on evaluating him, this helps speed up the evaluation,
Speaker 1: gives him a chance if he if he can't have
Speaker 1: success with a guy that I believe, I believe and
Speaker 1: I believe they believe. By the way they gave up
Speaker 1: a first round pick, this guy is a top flight
Speaker 1: one receiver. You know, this is not off somebody's garbage heap.
Speaker 1: This guy is a legitimate football player, a legitimate receiver.
Speaker 1: They thought that they gave up the one. So if
Speaker 1: that cannot have success with a number one wide receiver,
Speaker 1: let's make the evaluation. But Micky's right, you got him
Speaker 1: for a whole other year. You know, this could be
Speaker 1: a situation where they look at they say, Okay, we
Speaker 1: got our wide receiver. You see you see some positive
Speaker 1: things from Amari Cooper. You're like, Okay, he's twenty four
Speaker 1: years old going forward, that's great. This is something we
Speaker 1: could say. Now we could pair him with Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: and see what else we can do. Okay, what do
Speaker 1: we need now, Well, let's go look at one of
Speaker 1: these tight ends. Let's you know, this is where the
Speaker 1: draft is gonna This is where the draft is gonna go.
Speaker 1: Last year, I mean they hey, we knew very early,
Speaker 1: at least I knew very early that they were looking
Speaker 1: at Layton Vanderesh. You know, I mean you look at
Speaker 1: all the things that were going on with Sean Lee.
Speaker 1: They were not going to let that hold them hostage anymore,
Speaker 1: and that told them not to be a great pick
Speaker 1: for now. So it's been a great absolutely. So you
Speaker 1: have to trust that this team has the understanding of
Speaker 1: like if they target a guy or two to go
Speaker 1: after that, that's a that's a good thing. Now maybe
Speaker 1: we'll find out that with him on the field, a
Speaker 1: Mauri Cooper, that'll help the offensive line. Maybe Dack's not
Speaker 1: holding the ball, Maybe somebody's getting open Quicker. Uh, maybe
Speaker 1: it's a receiver you trust a little bit more other
Speaker 1: than Cole Beasley to throw the ball to. Got to Quicker,
Speaker 1: got to. But but the protection has to be better.
Speaker 1: And that's why I said earlier. You know, Okay, they're
Speaker 1: they're putting up fifteen seventeen points a game. It's not enough.
Speaker 1: They're capable of more. We saw it against Jacksonville and
Speaker 1: there were opportunities late in that Houston game. They felt
Speaker 1: like they were close because they just missed on some
Speaker 1: chances that down the field that would have won the
Speaker 1: game probably and that was due in large parts of protection.
Speaker 1: So it's not just the receivers. But they took an
Speaker 1: objective view of it and said, we've got Garrett said
Speaker 1: it yesterday, firepower. This guy gives us firepower on the outside.
Speaker 1: I mean, he gives an acknowledgement. He gives him a
Speaker 1: guy that can get down the field along with Gallup
Speaker 1: and along with Cole Beasley. You know when you're having
Speaker 1: to wait for Alan Hearns to run routes. And again,
Speaker 1: this is not Alan Hearns's fault, it's just the way
Speaker 1: Alan Hearns is as a player. He doesn't have the speed.
Speaker 1: But you got a guy at Amari Cooper that could separate,
Speaker 1: go down the field and make plays, make contested plays.
Speaker 1: That's what you got to have for this office. Maybe
Speaker 1: now Dak Prescott doesn't have to hold the ball to
Speaker 1: wait for somebody to get open, right, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: now he could throw the ball and know that that
Speaker 1: guy is gonna go get it and go get open. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's take our final break. Come back, we've got another
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Speaker 1: All right, kent back to the phone lines for our
Speaker 1: last segment. Who we got next? Yeah, we got Greg
Speaker 1: in Ohio? Go ahead, Greg, Hey, guys making you're the
Speaker 1: man um Absolutely, I love I love this trade. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we shirt up this defense and basically, you know,
Speaker 1: what are we going to spend the first round draft
Speaker 1: pick on anyway? And we need really you know, but
Speaker 1: I would be really surprised if this team loses more
Speaker 1: than one game the rest of the six. Wow, not
Speaker 1: only since two thousand and sixteen. No, nobody see here
Speaker 1: does Bryant m They're gonna have They're gonna have to
Speaker 1: respect that shot. Okay, I'm gonna put nine in the box.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised of six ten average over one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yards a game. That's how confident. Thanks
Speaker 1: going well in Ohio, Greg, not this one? Well we
Speaker 1: got Michigan. Yeah, there you go. All right, there you go.
Speaker 1: That can make up for a lot of things that
Speaker 1: can make up for you. They haven't ever beat you, guys.
Speaker 1: I know that you know what I'm I'm now pretty
Speaker 1: proud of Missouri going into Purdue and winning on a
Speaker 1: last second field game. Yeah. Man, how about those boiler Makers?
Speaker 1: Boilers so eight and one down the stretch. Huh, I'm
Speaker 1: not asking for that. I'm asking for you know, what
Speaker 1: are nine games left? I'm asking to put together four
Speaker 1: or five I'm asking I'm asking for three or four
Speaker 1: wins in a row. Just give me something where I
Speaker 1: could build a little momentum, get me to those thanks
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some tough's ahead. You know that game
Speaker 1: against New Orleans is not going to be easy. But
Speaker 1: you don't know what's going to happen on that you know,
Speaker 1: after the week after Thanksgiving, you don't know what you know.
Speaker 1: You don't know what shape their team is going to
Speaker 1: be in or your team, but you know you have
Speaker 1: an opportunity again the games at home. We don't have
Speaker 1: to go down there to the Mercedes say he's Ben's
Speaker 1: doomed to go play football. They have shown promise on offense, protection, yeah, receiving, yeah,
Speaker 1: especially running, And that's one thing I don't I think
Speaker 1: Scotten lost a little bit now as much as they
Speaker 1: struggled offensively, every other week, they entered the Washington game
Speaker 1: with the second best running game in the NFL. Right,
Speaker 1: so they have some things they can hang their hats on.
Speaker 1: Now you've got a guy who can make some plays
Speaker 1: on the album. If this guy, if this guy shows
Speaker 1: what he has been able to show in the past,
Speaker 1: he will clearly help this football team. There's no there's
Speaker 1: no question in my mind that he will help this
Speaker 1: football team. He is different than anything they have and
Speaker 1: that and you know they the front office has told you, hey,
Speaker 1: we we mess up this receiver by committee. Bit, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go out and get a guy who can generally
Speaker 1: go and make plays. And so to me, I'm all
Speaker 1: for that. The price was steep, There's no question the
Speaker 1: price was steep. But also though you've got you're looking
Speaker 1: at this and saying, you know what, we're not going
Speaker 1: to waste like what you say, right, We're not going
Speaker 1: to waste a great opportunity for our defense. We're not
Speaker 1: going to waste an evaluation on the quarterback, and we're
Speaker 1: not going to waste an opportunity to try and help
Speaker 1: our running back too, and waste an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: a unique player in a unique situation. This doesn't usually
Speaker 1: happen where a guy's just available like this. I mean
Speaker 1: this is they view him as a Pro Bowl caliber
Speaker 1: wide receiver, like you said, for a year and a half.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a manageable contract situation. It's unique that
Speaker 1: John Gruden has decided to turn over his entire roster.
Speaker 1: That's that's what John wants to do. That doesn't always happen. Nope,
Speaker 1: that this is an opportunity that they felt like they
Speaker 1: had to jump at high price. We'll see if it
Speaker 1: pays off. You mentioned the running game. Yeah, they were second,
Speaker 1: they're now third after only gaining seventy four yards against
Speaker 1: the Redskins. And Zeke, after gaining only thirty four yards,
Speaker 1: is still the second leading rusher in the National Football
Speaker 1: League behind Todd Gurley, and he's only like sixty yards behind.
Speaker 1: So that tells you how good this running game has
Speaker 1: been compared to what the rest of the league is doing.
Speaker 1: Even though they had a bad game, they're still at
Speaker 1: the top. So I just want to point out it's
Speaker 1: not all bad, That's what I'm saying. So they are
Speaker 1: running the ball decently. That Dack's running the ball decently,
Speaker 1: And if you get somebody to take some pressure off
Speaker 1: the offensive line that they have to. They can't keep
Speaker 1: playing eight men in the box. They can't keep blitzing.
Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the problems. Teams have
Speaker 1: no problem blitzing this team. They aren't worried about it.
Speaker 1: And so when we're not going to get the ball
Speaker 1: out before they right before they get there, and and
Speaker 1: and then when they play single safety high, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: now you see Michael Gallup do a double move on
Speaker 1: the cornerback and burn his butt. Yeah. Uh, and then
Speaker 1: you give them some thoughts. So now with Cooper, that's
Speaker 1: what's got to happen. I don't even care if they
Speaker 1: complete the ball to him. Just show that you're willing
Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah, and they're gonna have to cover it, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's it's like it's like Jimmy Johnson would say
Speaker 1: with Alexander Wright, you know, he was fast, he didn't
Speaker 1: know how to play wide receiver and he didn't catch
Speaker 1: the ball right, but he said, you know what, as
Speaker 1: fast as he is, they have to worry about what
Speaker 1: if he does yea, and they got to cover them.
Speaker 1: So uh. I think this will help the running game
Speaker 1: and I'll help the offensive line if indeed he still
Speaker 1: has that speed. If it doesn't, then you did. Then
Speaker 1: there are other issues. Sure, and then and that's again,
Speaker 1: that's offseason talk. That's that's that's staff, that's players, that's
Speaker 1: everything about it. That's where then now you say, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what we tried to do. It didn't work,
Speaker 1: and we need to take a different approach. Okay, can't
Speaker 1: back to the phone lines. So who we got? We
Speaker 1: got Travis and san Antonio. What's up, Travis? How are
Speaker 1: we doing good? What's up? I just wanted to call
Speaker 1: and ask you guys. Watching the Redskins game, Um, I know,
Speaker 1: you know Dak was on his butt a lot, so
Speaker 1: it's hard to make a lot of plays. And I
Speaker 1: do applaud them for being aggressive and going out there
Speaker 1: and getting someone at least change it up. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a change that I would have done earlier, but it's
Speaker 1: at least a change, and it's you know, they're they're trying,
Speaker 1: like you guys said, Yeah, my question is I guess
Speaker 1: you know, watching that Redskins game, you guys just kind
Speaker 1: of talked about it. There was a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: and they were worried about getting the ball out before
Speaker 1: they got pressure on Dak. I think something that they
Speaker 1: miss with Witten. I remember back in the day. You know,
Speaker 1: if they were getting pressure like that, they're hot. There's
Speaker 1: always be a hot he'd be, you know, he he'd
Speaker 1: identify someone coming in and he'd step out. It'd be
Speaker 1: a three yard pass. And you know, if you get
Speaker 1: four or five yards against the blitz, that's great. Um.
Speaker 1: So I think they missed that. And then the other
Speaker 1: thing is Brian yesterday, you're talking about Derek carr Um.
Speaker 1: I've watched Derek car too, and I know that he
Speaker 1: hasn't been as good as he was the path, that's true.
Speaker 1: But I do worry about I do worry about the
Speaker 1: fact that you kind of said the same things about
Speaker 1: Dak not you know, a few weeks ago, about sometimes
Speaker 1: even when he sees somebody open, he's not letting it rit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I worry about that transitioning over to Cooper, whereas
Speaker 1: he's suing to get open whole bunch and he's not
Speaker 1: going to throw it even if he gets protection or
Speaker 1: um what's going to happen. So I just wanted you
Speaker 1: guys talk about that and maybe the hot stuff and
Speaker 1: have a good day, Thank you, Thanks Ravis. Usually it's
Speaker 1: w Witne is detached. Remember when he was detached from
Speaker 1: the line that you get the hot because you get
Speaker 1: his guy on the blitz and that's where he would
Speaker 1: turn five field, clap his hands and you know, look
Speaker 1: for the ball. You know. So yeah, that but they
Speaker 1: haven't been getting it hasn't been so much the slot
Speaker 1: blitz stuff. It's been the inside stuff that Mickey's been
Speaker 1: talking about. They've had a lot of problems with the
Speaker 1: twist stuff up front too. That's been something that's given
Speaker 1: him an issue. I think that the thing with you know,
Speaker 1: the evaluation with Dak and not pulling the trigger, I
Speaker 1: think that is fair. I think that's fair to say.
Speaker 1: And if we do get into these games and Amori
Speaker 1: Cooper is getting open and he's not getting the ball, well,
Speaker 1: then now it goes back to the evaluation of the quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know it, but it's it's it's something that is
Speaker 1: that you can work with and and and try and develop.
Speaker 1: Or is this like Troy Aitman would say, you know,
Speaker 1: armtown and anticipation is something you're born with, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's made some throws that I felt
Speaker 1: like the throw to Colby's And if you watch on
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot com, Kidd, did we put the film
Speaker 1: stuff that I did yesterday? Yes, we did. Okay, check
Speaker 1: that out because on the past I broke down to Beasley.
Speaker 1: He threw that ball for Beasley broke and I talked
Speaker 1: about that. So if you go on Dallas Cowboys dot
Speaker 1: com and watched the film room, you know from the
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors film room there, if you watch
Speaker 1: the play, he closed the ball clearly before Beasley gets
Speaker 1: out of his break. Which one the third down, that
Speaker 1: the one that was third and ten that he caught
Speaker 1: for eighteen yards. I believe it was okay. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had Preston Smith right in his face and he had
Speaker 1: no choice but to try and throw the ball to
Speaker 1: where he was. He anticipated Cole Beasley getting to that
Speaker 1: spot and threw the ball and it worked out great
Speaker 1: for him. So there's times where you've seen him throw
Speaker 1: and with anticipation, and then there's other times where he hasn't.
Speaker 1: And so that's where I think a lot of it
Speaker 1: had to do with the sack and the fumble was
Speaker 1: if they had somehow managed to pick up if they
Speaker 1: managed to pick up the curny or excuse me, Karagan's rush,
Speaker 1: if they picked up Karagan's rushin Dak is able to
Speaker 1: make that throw. But then he saw the white flat
Speaker 1: and it talked. It took his eyes down and then
Speaker 1: he had to move. But it is there's there's anticipation.
Speaker 1: Things he has troubles with. But he also again it's
Speaker 1: it's funny. You'll see him watch that play. He throws
Speaker 1: it with some anticipation to Beasley, don't you know, And
Speaker 1: I stop it for you and show you when the
Speaker 1: ball's out and where Beasley is in his route to
Speaker 1: make that to make that adjustment, saying the Carragan thing,
Speaker 1: tight end was blocked. Tight end blocked him. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then when he released, and so everybody else is engaged
Speaker 1: with their blocking guys, and he loops all the way
Speaker 1: from the far the cowboys far right, and he comes
Speaker 1: around all the way down the middle. Yeah, actually from
Speaker 1: the left, Mickey, he was left. He was a left
Speaker 1: outside and came inside and know he was to the
Speaker 1: cowboys right, his cowboys right. He's about to say, Washington
Speaker 1: left the Cowboys right. And he comes all the way
Speaker 1: and he goes around three offensive linemen who are engaged
Speaker 1: and comes down and it was like, here's the tunnel
Speaker 1: and here comes the locomotive. Where do I go? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know I heard all these people talking about,
Speaker 1: well they had so and so was wide open on
Speaker 1: the outside. Well yeah, well Karagan was wide open coming
Speaker 1: up the middle and he's standing in the end zone
Speaker 1: and that's when he realized, oh, I'm in the end zone.
Speaker 1: I gotta get out. He got and he tried to
Speaker 1: spin out, and unfortunately Karagan beat him to knock the
Speaker 1: ball out. Reminded me of that ninety two game all
Speaker 1: that they showed that on TV. I saw that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: same thing, same score, by the way, twenty to seventeen
Speaker 1: because of that same play. Just another odd entry in
Speaker 1: that Redskin rivals. Weird stuff happens, Yeah, absolutely, And then
Speaker 1: you hit the goalposts after the make believe call on
Speaker 1: these snap infraction, Yeah, snap in fraction. I think that
Speaker 1: was just a coaching move more than anything. Whether he
Speaker 1: infracted it or not, he made the referee believe he
Speaker 1: was doing it, and hey, my might as well mention this.
Speaker 1: It could pay off the end of the game, and
Speaker 1: it surely it did. When they jumped off and the
Speaker 1: coach Skins jumped and then Redskins coaches as coaching. So
Speaker 1: you're saying they jumped off sides on purpose. Yes, he
Speaker 1: probably go look, he alerted the referee. Hey, he's moving
Speaker 1: the ball. Go look at us, Go look at it
Speaker 1: because the guy that jumped off side, he jumped because
Speaker 1: his partner next to him flinched. Yeah, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: go look at it, but we gotta go to practice first.
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