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Speaker 1: you know how you know the bye week is over?
Speaker 1: Tell me Everson is here? Everson, Everson is back. The
Speaker 1: bye week has begun, Yes, it is over here, it
Speaker 1: is over. I didn't want to talk to me Pons
Speaker 1: on the Monday Tuesday after a bye week. That's right.
Speaker 1: So the bye week is officially over and then the
Speaker 1: players were off yesterday. They're back on the practice field today.
Speaker 1: I've got live hits on CBS eleven at four thirteen,
Speaker 1: four fifteen, five O eight, five thirteen, six, O eight
Speaker 1: six twenty because everybody wants to know about how Dak
Speaker 1: looks on the practice field, and I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how Dak looks on the practice field. Well, that's why Ami,
Speaker 1: there you go, and why you're here. And it's a
Speaker 1: matter of fact for the Cowboys, the bye week ended
Speaker 1: on Monday because they did practice. They did practice on Monday,
Speaker 1: but our newspeople apparently didn't understand that. And so that's
Speaker 1: why I'm getting a text that I've got hits six
Speaker 1: hits between four oh eight and six twenty. They should
Speaker 1: have had you here on Monday, hiding in the bushes
Speaker 1: so you could have seen practice, that's right. And we
Speaker 1: actually had an update on Dak Prescott last night at
Speaker 1: ten o'clock because we taped the Mike McCarthy show yesterday
Speaker 1: and so I gave one of those those TV teases
Speaker 1: coming up next head coach talks about where Dak is
Speaker 1: in his rehab. And when we came back, we heard
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy say absolutely nothing about Dak coming back. So
Speaker 1: he said a little bit more today, right, he said
Speaker 1: about the same thing to the same thing they said
Speaker 1: last night. So what do you say? Okay, so what
Speaker 1: do you know. Let's get started here. Uh and uh
Speaker 1: so Dak Prescott, but I don't know that Mike said
Speaker 1: anything definitive about it. Um, but he basically said, uh,
Speaker 1: he pointed out that he would do individual drills, fundamental drills,
Speaker 1: and then we'll assess, uh, just where he's at, which means, okay,
Speaker 1: how much can he do? Um and and and then
Speaker 1: he basically also pointed out that they have to get
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush ready just in case and give him some time.
Speaker 1: So here's what happened in practice. When the Cowboys first
Speaker 1: got out there, Basically, Dak and Michael Gallop were working
Speaker 1: on the cord, the resistance chords. They were doing kind
Speaker 1: of their rehab okay, so that was that was expected.
Speaker 1: Then Tyrone went over there and did his. Zeke went
Speaker 1: over there and did his, Michael Gallop was over there,
Speaker 1: and then when they broke into kind of individual drills
Speaker 1: fundamental drills, Dak stayed over there working with Britt Brown
Speaker 1: on all the different rehab exercises. It was almost like
Speaker 1: he was going through the same rehab resistant chord exercises
Speaker 1: as he was with his ankle. So I can tell
Speaker 1: you he could get on the chords and do the sidesteps,
Speaker 1: you know, moving to your right, then moving to your laugh.
Speaker 1: Then he did those high steps like you see the track.
Speaker 1: Guys Warm up before a hundred meter dash, and then
Speaker 1: he did them faster. Then he was doing lunges straight ahead,
Speaker 1: and then he started doing them at forty five degree angles,
Speaker 1: so kind of to the left, to the right, more
Speaker 1: quick side steps, backpedaling, and do you guys remember what
Speaker 1: the little deal was when he used to do the
Speaker 1: side step behind the karaoke that I wasn't sure I
Speaker 1: was ready most literally, no, no, I'm not athletic person
Speaker 1: for I was seven years old. I was when I said,
Speaker 1: when I said karaoke, you guys were going to say,
Speaker 1: oh he was singing. I say, yes, yes, you would have.
Speaker 1: That's why I didn't say karrie oke. I said, no,
Speaker 1: we're not going down that rabbit. So you want us
Speaker 1: to say the word. I wanted to make you say it.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. And then after they after he did
Speaker 1: if you do karaoke yourself, junior? Did they have ball
Speaker 1: in basketball? Did you ever do karaoke and basketball? It
Speaker 1: was part of the routine that was part of the
Speaker 1: basketball training Conditionoke in basketball? You do it in football,
Speaker 1: I'll say, we did it. Yeah, yeah, See that's why
Speaker 1: you didn't make it in basketball. You're dude. Karaoke that's
Speaker 1: why he had no footwork, right. Yeah, see, I wonder
Speaker 1: what's wrong with Bill? How many karaoke? Karaoke in football?
Speaker 1: Raly had all these three second calls in the lane,
Speaker 1: who does a crossover move? Get good? It was don't
Speaker 1: you slide your feet? It was basketball. Well, you sure
Speaker 1: don't do karaoke unless you're beat, unless you're beat going
Speaker 1: to the back kore. But it wasn't intentional. I gotta tell.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. You sure didn't do it in
Speaker 1: the game either. Yeah, es, okay, now let's be serious.
Speaker 1: So now, then when they kind of got into more
Speaker 1: of the position drills, uh Dak took snaps handed off
Speaker 1: to the running backs and then he threw. They did
Speaker 1: the snap from the equipment guy. Uh took shotgun snaps
Speaker 1: through ten yard out to twenty yard outs. They wanted
Speaker 1: the shotgun snaps to be accurate. They had the equipment
Speaker 1: exactly just hand them. We should not have the equipment
Speaker 1: right the snap, especially after where we've been going through
Speaker 1: in the game. And uh, and then and then he
Speaker 1: was throwing and then he was throwing nine routes, so
Speaker 1: he went through all. I'm sorry, bet was benest. They
Speaker 1: were doing the offensive line. No. No, he did the
Speaker 1: snaps when they practiced the snaps. This is the what
Speaker 1: they do all the time. And then and then the
Speaker 1: horns sounded and we had to leave, so that's when
Speaker 1: they would have start some team stuff. So the question
Speaker 1: is it was he going to get into any team.
Speaker 1: I guess we won't find that out till tomorrow. Mike
Speaker 1: didn't sound like he was, and they wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure they had Cooper ready to go just in case.
Speaker 1: So I think all things point towards Dak being ready
Speaker 1: to play. Everything I saw he wasn't favoring his right
Speaker 1: leg where the calf strain is h. He was throwing
Speaker 1: the ball just fine. Uh, he was jogging just fine.
Speaker 1: So what I was gonna say was everything that you
Speaker 1: pointed out sounded a bit strenuous. Yes, yes, maybe even
Speaker 1: as strenuous as it might be in the ball game,
Speaker 1: not necessarily when you had to resting, not scrambling, not
Speaker 1: rolling out, but as far as just being able to
Speaker 1: hand it off seven step drop, five step. That looks good,
Speaker 1: and everything looks good by the way. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you caught this in the press conference, but Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said, yeah, I've been through this with a quarterback
Speaker 1: that had a calf strain before in twenty fourteen, and
Speaker 1: I go, oh, yeah. It was going into the Cowboy
Speaker 1: playoff game in Green Bay when it was reported that
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers had a calf tear, right, And I went
Speaker 1: back and looked, and if I remembered correctly, he ended
Speaker 1: up throwing twenty four of thirty five for three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixteen yards in that game against the Cowboys that
Speaker 1: they won twenty six twenty one catch no catch game, right,
Speaker 1: And I remember saying afterwards, and I didn't think they
Speaker 1: had touched him. They did end up sacking him twice.
Speaker 1: I think they had two quarterback hits, but he played
Speaker 1: on one leg and the Cowboys couldn't contain him. So
Speaker 1: that was Mike McCarthy's previous, uh experience with a quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he reminds. I'm sure he didn't point out
Speaker 1: who they played. He just said it happened in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I I in regards to Dak Prescott, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, letting him know, hey, I've been through this before.
Speaker 1: It was with Aaron, let's go. And when he mentioned
Speaker 1: it in the press These are Aaron's stats. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go. That's all I had to say. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure Dak is like all right, and he very cleverly
Speaker 1: pointed out in the press conference, he said, going into
Speaker 1: the playoffs and we had to go up to Seattle
Speaker 1: and it's like, no, you had to play the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and uh, doctor C. D. Lamb has chimed in just
Speaker 1: moments ago. He right behind us. He is ninety percent
Speaker 1: sure we are going to see Dak out there on Sunda.
Speaker 1: There's the doctor Lamb. That's all we need to know
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, exactly right. Okay, So that's that update
Speaker 1: on on uh uh Dak Prescott. And so it sounds
Speaker 1: like you were so fixated on Dak Prescott and his
Speaker 1: rehab work that you didn't see anything else out on
Speaker 1: the plain. Oh I saw everything else. You want to ask, Okay,
Speaker 1: what would you like to know? I can tell you that, uh,
Speaker 1: Tristan Hill was dressed ready to practice, Dorin's Armstrong dressed
Speaker 1: ready to practice, Kelvin Joseph dressed ready to practice. Sean
Speaker 1: mckinn and Francis Bernard, both uh having come back from well,
Speaker 1: not come back, but started their three week period practicing
Speaker 1: on IR. They were out there. Uh, and they have
Speaker 1: placed like we mentioned yesterday, Brett Urban and Maurice Kennedy
Speaker 1: on I are concussion protocol and needing a spot for
Speaker 1: Kelvin Joseph what can I didn't even see him play
Speaker 1: enough together? Had he loved the game? Okay, he ended
Speaker 1: up in concussion protocol. And then Bret Bret Urban has
Speaker 1: a tricep, strained tear or whatever. Up. Sounds like it
Speaker 1: could take a while. That could, Yeah, at least four
Speaker 1: weeks because you got to spend four weeks on iBOT
Speaker 1: three weeks, three weeks. So, so these other guys were ready,
Speaker 1: had a helmet on, they were all ready to practice,
Speaker 1: including Lale Collins. Okay, coming back from now Here's where
Speaker 1: a little bit of the controversy started on that um
Speaker 1: because what Mike McCarthy said, controversy, I'm gonna where did
Speaker 1: I put it? He goes, Uh, he was talking about
Speaker 1: Collins from Monday's practice, right, and he said he looked good,
Speaker 1: move good on Monday. But obviously else has position flexibility.
Speaker 1: We're going to start the week with Terrence sat Parenthesy
Speaker 1: Steele at right tackle. So he didn't say he was
Speaker 1: starting the game at right tackle. He said, we're going
Speaker 1: to start the week that way, and then he went
Speaker 1: on to say, Elsie gives us some great competition in there,
Speaker 1: so we're going to try to work him in as
Speaker 1: much as possible this week, will work him at tackle
Speaker 1: and guard. Wow. And on the depth chart, the official
Speaker 1: depth chart for this week, Lelee Collins is listed as
Speaker 1: the backup left guard and the backup right tackle. So
Speaker 1: what did he play in college? Tackle? Left tackle? Yes?
Speaker 1: And then he started here at left guard, okay, and
Speaker 1: then they moved him to right tackle, and we like
Speaker 1: him better where I like him better at tackle. He
Speaker 1: liked team wise with what we have now with Steele
Speaker 1: doing well, right, if you if you could put loud
Speaker 1: Collins in at left guard, which he hasn't played since
Speaker 1: sixteen twenty sixteen, seventeen somewhere in there, um, what was
Speaker 1: his Larry was here in sixteen, so seventeen he would
Speaker 1: have played, fifteen he would have been at guard. And
Speaker 1: then I'll look at him. I'll find him. You've got
Speaker 1: your media guide there, but he had been moved to tackle.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if they're thinking, well, if Steel's
Speaker 1: good here, maybe Lale Collins moves back inside. But the
Speaker 1: other thing to consider here with Steele and when they
Speaker 1: went into their little line drills or whatever they were doing,
Speaker 1: Steele was lined up with the first team at right tackle.
Speaker 1: Collins was playing linebacker. Okay, do you know the dummy
Speaker 1: drills and uh and so, and then when he went
Speaker 1: in with the second team, he was at right tackle.
Speaker 1: I didn't see him at any guard type thing. But
Speaker 1: evidently that thought is in their mind if they're thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: if we're going to try to get our five best
Speaker 1: guys out there, however they do it. Uh and And
Speaker 1: I would imagine Philbin has something to say about this
Speaker 1: on or at least give him some advice of maybe
Speaker 1: we should try this. Yeah. I always thought that Collins
Speaker 1: wouldn't play this week, just because he only played one game.
Speaker 1: He missed part of training camp, he had some injury
Speaker 1: he was dealing with, and he didn't play all last year.
Speaker 1: So since the end of the twenty nineteen season, he's
Speaker 1: played one game Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay. And that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And now you're gonna tell me you're gonna pack this
Speaker 1: and so this will be seven weeks right without playing
Speaker 1: a game, and you're gonna tell me you're gonna practice
Speaker 1: once in pads after all that, and say, okay, big boy,
Speaker 1: go out there and start and at right tackle against
Speaker 1: Daniel Hunter, right exactly who has a sack every game
Speaker 1: in the last every years. Daniel Hunter might change their
Speaker 1: mind about Terrence Steele. By the way, get too carried
Speaker 1: away with this guy being put in the ring of honor. Already, Collins,
Speaker 1: he's played one game and I think in the last
Speaker 1: twenty two okay, is that right? Sixteen and six drafted
Speaker 1: Daniel Hunter, like I suggested. Twenty fifteen, Lyle Collins played
Speaker 1: guard right, Okay, that was his twenty sixteen was his
Speaker 1: injury plagued year. He only played three games in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen and he was still playing guard right. And then
Speaker 1: Larry came in for him at guard, and so he
Speaker 1: made the conversion to right tackle in twenty seventeen. Right,
Speaker 1: So there you go. And then he's played twenty seventeen, eighteen,
Speaker 1: and twenty nine. So it's a it's a universal thing
Speaker 1: that as Steel is having a great year and filling
Speaker 1: in nicely that we've been covering for him. Correct. I
Speaker 1: think so with the tight ends, no You're not the
Speaker 1: only one that said that. That has been pretty much
Speaker 1: and not all the time, no, no, but definitely in
Speaker 1: key situation. And then sometimes they played two tight ends
Speaker 1: to the left side, which would force the defense exactly
Speaker 1: swift over right. Either way, it's going to benefit him, yes,
Speaker 1: as as a as a player, it's going to benefit steal.
Speaker 1: So if you're going let's say you put in uh,
Speaker 1: you put him in at left guard. You said you
Speaker 1: put lyall columns in at left guard, right, because you're
Speaker 1: not going in for Zach right, No, he ain't. No,
Speaker 1: we're not even thinking about that. So how does that
Speaker 1: affect us offensively? Do you? Can you give both of
Speaker 1: them some type of assistance, meaning can you help steal
Speaker 1: that with to say, three tight ends of whatever you
Speaker 1: want to do as and will that hurt having Collins
Speaker 1: at left guard in some way? Will they put him
Speaker 1: at a disadvantage? I'll be a smart elk and say
Speaker 1: it'll be less holding calls very good Bill, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: the guy. Okay. Now see here's my other thought for
Speaker 1: this week. If if let's personal filets, if they want,
Speaker 1: if they want Collins active, he would need to be
Speaker 1: active as the backup tackle and maybe the backup guard also,
Speaker 1: so you give him two things to do, right and
Speaker 1: and you just use them in case of emergency at tackle,
Speaker 1: I would think um and that's a possibility. Also offensive
Speaker 1: lineman as when I was coming up, they were considered
Speaker 1: as a group the most intellectual. They are the ones
Speaker 1: that can make all the adjustments that you need to make.
Speaker 1: Uh there there. The unison that they have is the
Speaker 1: most important, probably on the team. Because you're talking about
Speaker 1: the center making these calls. Everybody's gotta be, you know,
Speaker 1: all in tune to what's going on. I want I
Speaker 1: just don't want this to take away that continuity that
Speaker 1: we have on our offensive line, right, you know, can
Speaker 1: you can you make that move with Collins here and
Speaker 1: keep still here? I played safety back in college, didn't
Speaker 1: play it again until I was with the Giants, and
Speaker 1: it still was was pretty simple to me. But this
Speaker 1: is just playing safety and you don't have to make
Speaker 1: any line. I don't have to make any call. I
Speaker 1: have to make an adjustments. A matter of fact, I
Speaker 1: made sure and ask I'll grow, let's keep this simple.
Speaker 1: I hadn't played and you know this is my first time,
Speaker 1: and say, let's keep this simple, So we kept it simple.
Speaker 1: Cover two, Cover three. I can do all of that.
Speaker 1: Is it that simple? Can you say it's that simple
Speaker 1: for Collins to do that on the offensive? No, because
Speaker 1: I think going back inside where there's more traffic, right,
Speaker 1: and and there's more uh thing variables when you're basically
Speaker 1: you brain cut off and I got a guy maybe
Speaker 1: blitz into the outside and inside you got those guys
Speaker 1: stunning and you got to pass off and and it's like, OK,
Speaker 1: I gotta hit this guy. They'll come back and hit.
Speaker 1: You have to think peripherally, right, Yeah, you have to peripheral. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you got a linebacker blitzing your gap. Also,
Speaker 1: by the way, yes, mister well, I was just looking
Speaker 1: at the Vikings defensive line and seeing what they got
Speaker 1: up front on their defensive line, what could cause some problems.
Speaker 1: And it's just like every other team in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they all let them. They'll do it. Try'll
Speaker 1: do it. Try. Although defensively they haven't ranked very high. Um,
Speaker 1: they have a lot of don't they have a lot
Speaker 1: of sex. They're better. They're better on offense when it
Speaker 1: comes to yards than they are on defense. Defensively, they
Speaker 1: are the sixteenth ranked defense in total yards, twenty sixth
Speaker 1: against the run and twelfth against the pass. And as sacks,
Speaker 1: they've got twenty one sacks. Yeah, and the Cowboys have nine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're pretty good. They are with the rush ever since
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Speaker 1: vikings seven twenty kickoffs Sunday Night football this week and
Speaker 1: then two straight home games against the Broncos and the Falcons,
Speaker 1: and then off to Kansas City. If you can get there,
Speaker 1: you can get where to Kansas City. Fortunately, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have a charter, they don't have to try to go
Speaker 1: totally and every one of the airlines in particular or
Speaker 1: the rest of us. Yes, okay, I'm sorry. I think
Speaker 1: everybody's going to Kansas City for Thanksgiving. Okay, okay, Oh
Speaker 1: you're you've been trying to book a flight. You know
Speaker 1: you can drive there, Yes, And you know what with
Speaker 1: the I don't want to call out the airlines. I
Speaker 1: don't know with the one. I'm not with the with
Speaker 1: the round trip tickets at this point, trying to get
Speaker 1: their Saturday and come back Monday at about a thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: the rest of the flights that are available, What is
Speaker 1: that I hit the wrong thing? Sure did stop, Chris,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I know your production is important. That was
Speaker 1: a Clarence Hill mistake. Yes it was. That's what was
Speaker 1: anyway around trip trying to get there Saturday and come
Speaker 1: back Monday, like it's already a thousand dollars and it's
Speaker 1: about eight hour drive, and then the rest of the
Speaker 1: flights if I want to take that drive. All the
Speaker 1: rest of the connections are connections, right, and you got
Speaker 1: to go to Chicago, or you got to go to
Speaker 1: Austin to get the or Denver to get to Kansas City.
Speaker 1: So yeah, driving is you know, it's almost the same
Speaker 1: as the connection flights. That's that's kind of the way
Speaker 1: I look at it. Is on like a game in Houston.
Speaker 1: There's been numerous preseason games the Cowboys have played in
Speaker 1: Houston instead of taking a flight down there and flight back.
Speaker 1: I am dry. If it's driving, if it's four and
Speaker 1: a half hours, I am driving right because it takes
Speaker 1: just my limit, my limit. I want to drive over that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's my five hours. Yeah. I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: get on that bus trip, aren't you. That's what I
Speaker 1: told him. I told Scott, I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: if it's going to be that expensive to get the
Speaker 1: radio crew there, the radio cruise because you got Spanish too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, cowboy bus, let's go. That sounds that sounds good.
Speaker 1: That really does four hundred and seventy nine miles to
Speaker 1: Kansas City, which is an eight hour, ten minute drive
Speaker 1: according to that on the bus. And I've got some
Speaker 1: alternative ways to get there. But I'm not saying I
Speaker 1: don't want everybody else jumping on those fights. That's right,
Speaker 1: nobody's listening. He flies private jet sometimes. You know, Matt
Speaker 1: goes with Jerry, goes with Jerry. I wonder who's who's
Speaker 1: calling that game? Is it a you know, you could
Speaker 1: also inquire about Clark Hunt or maybe Troyal. He's probably
Speaker 1: maybe Troy will take us, right, it's Fox got that game.
Speaker 1: You think it's kind of hard to know. It might
Speaker 1: be listing here, maybe listening. Well, either he'll be listening.
Speaker 1: It's either Fox, it's Fox three twenty five kick off
Speaker 1: Pat Maybe Troy would take it on his pipe. Kind
Speaker 1: of doubt that, all right, So, so any skip is
Speaker 1: getting dropped out, Skip riding at the thousand feet open
Speaker 1: it up with no parachute. He almost got dropped out
Speaker 1: coming back from Philadelphia ninety one chested up with him
Speaker 1: on the charter flight. By the way, Okay, you wanted
Speaker 1: to point out something else about the offensive line not
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, so thinking forward Connor McGovern beyond this week,
Speaker 1: I mean Connor Williams his contracts up. Yes, steals pretty cheap.
Speaker 1: They invested a lot of money in Lele Collins, so
Speaker 1: maybe in their mind they're going, well, if he moves
Speaker 1: back inside, and then we got Connor McGovern to maybe
Speaker 1: compete at center legitimately, not just taking the second snaps
Speaker 1: in practice, maybe you move and you can justify that
Speaker 1: we're paying our left guard so much money because we're
Speaker 1: not paying our right tackle that much money. It's right
Speaker 1: who's still on a brace contract rookie contract. If you
Speaker 1: look at the growth of that offensive line just the
Speaker 1: way you call it extremely intimidating. Yeah, I mean that kicking,
Speaker 1: but right now, could you imagine showing up the inside
Speaker 1: like that? Oh my goodness. And it's not just that
Speaker 1: Collins is big, he's mean, Yes, you know, he plays
Speaker 1: with attitude. And when you have that all up and
Speaker 1: down the line of score. You have him next to
Speaker 1: Tylan Smith many that's and as you've got Zach over here,
Speaker 1: you know, next to somebody's playing pretty dog on well
Speaker 1: with Steell, I mean, where's your weakness? And then the
Speaker 1: other one of I think some sort of contention is
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup. How ready would he be play? Yes, because
Speaker 1: this is around the time that you said everybody was
Speaker 1: coming back. But again I had another guy too, but
Speaker 1: he's in the same boat as Collins, right, he played
Speaker 1: in the opener, and now it will be seven weeks
Speaker 1: with one padded practice, are you you know, maybe it's
Speaker 1: different for the wide receiver there's not as much contact
Speaker 1: out there, but you want to make sure you're not
Speaker 1: making a week to week decision on him, like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: his calf not everybody's calf strain is the same, right,
Speaker 1: So we'll see where that one goes. But he seemed
Speaker 1: to be running pretty well out there in the drills
Speaker 1: we were watching, so so I know, I know, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I hadn't been here first couple of days, so I'm
Speaker 1: kind of catching up. So d Law, what's up with
Speaker 1: d Law? He's still it sounds like a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks away. A couple of weeks away, so maybe we're
Speaker 1: looking at Thanksgiving, after Thanksgiving somewhere that's more than a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Well, it's like a Marie. Yeah, actually
Speaker 1: I was. I meant to say maybe Kansas City, you know,
Speaker 1: somewhere in that. But then if you get to that point,
Speaker 1: then it's like, depending on how these next three games go,
Speaker 1: then you got Kansas City and the Raiders that are
Speaker 1: with two games in five days probably don't want him
Speaker 1: doing that because it takes time to recover from that
Speaker 1: first game. By then, you've got a six and a
Speaker 1: half game lead in the division. You know. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: with you, Bill, I'm with you, but we're not concerned
Speaker 1: about the division. We're concerned about Are you concerned about
Speaker 1: this game coming up? I think there is reason to
Speaker 1: be concerned. It is exactly. I have reason every game, right,
Speaker 1: because every game brings a different challenge. That's what I
Speaker 1: like about the different challenges that they bring. And as
Speaker 1: long as we keep im moving as we knocked down
Speaker 1: each challenge, because each time it's gonna be okay, here
Speaker 1: comes to role game. Here comes a role game. That's
Speaker 1: a division opponent, you know, it comes to rold games,
Speaker 1: conference opponent, you know, and now we gotta play another
Speaker 1: undefeated team or a team that's first in their division.
Speaker 1: You know. Now it's outside the conference. Inside it's always
Speaker 1: a challenge that you're gonna come up against. Not to
Speaker 1: mention interiorly as far as injuries, you know, as far
Speaker 1: as sometimes he might hit up. I always just bumping
Speaker 1: the road with every once in a while, that just
Speaker 1: happens with even good good teams. Go ask Oklahoma, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to play Kansas. That's a layup game. Maybe
Speaker 1: so nervous exactly exactly made me so. It always reminded
Speaker 1: me of what my dad used to tell me about baseball.
Speaker 1: And then some guy come up to bat and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that guy, he's hitting like one ninety.
Speaker 1: He can't hit. My dad goes, as he got a
Speaker 1: bat in this Yes he does. How many times has
Speaker 1: a World Series been determined by the great play of
Speaker 1: some X factor guy that doesnt had done jack all
Speaker 1: season long, all of a sudden he's a DH and
Speaker 1: he comes here heads it's great. How about last night,
Speaker 1: first batter in the game, Celayer hits a home run,
Speaker 1: first time in World Series. It's true, first World Series run.
Speaker 1: How could you not do that? That's like the fourteen
Speaker 1: to eleven? Right, Yes, that not happen. That's right, all right.
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Speaker 1: Mickey is Mickey? That's right? Okay, and uh, we're looking
Speaker 1: forward to Sunday night in Minneapolis. And remember last year
Speaker 1: the Cowboys went to Minnesota and played and won, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: what was that environment game? I wouldn't know because we
Speaker 1: weren't traveling, You weren't traveling, and just looking at it
Speaker 1: on television, it looked like no one else was traveling either,
Speaker 1: because it was a vacant stadium, right, So it's going
Speaker 1: to be a little different on Sunday Night in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: And by the way, this is a Vikings team that
Speaker 1: we've talked about their coming off a bye. Okay, what
Speaker 1: happened in their last game that they played. They played
Speaker 1: at the Carolina Panthers and they beat the broad game.
Speaker 1: They beat the Panthers, And how did they do it?
Speaker 1: It was in overtime and overtime when twenty seven yard
Speaker 1: touchdown passed from Kirk Cousins to kJ Osborne won the
Speaker 1: game for them, almost identical to what the Cowboys did
Speaker 1: on the road winning at New England. So the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are sitting here riding a five game winning streak. The
Speaker 1: Vikings have actually won two in a row and their
Speaker 1: last game was identical fashion to what the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: I think three hour of the last four or five. Now,
Speaker 1: well they're the ones that lost to Arizona bout missing.
Speaker 1: They lost by one point to Arizona. In fact, if
Speaker 1: you look at their three losses, they lost in the
Speaker 1: season opener at Cincinnati by three points, They lost the
Speaker 1: next week, second week of the season against Arizona one point,
Speaker 1: won the next game against Seattle, and then lost lost
Speaker 1: to Cleveland by seven. So three of their first four
Speaker 1: games they lost to three pretty good teams. Yeah, by
Speaker 1: a total of eleven points. And then they beat But
Speaker 1: now look at the Troit Lions, like, yeah, see, the
Speaker 1: wins aren't as impressive because we showed that Carolina just
Speaker 1: really wasn't the team that they thought they were. So
Speaker 1: what we're saying their wins aren't as impressive as they're losses,
Speaker 1: that's correct, which is very weird, and that's the kind
Speaker 1: of tea. See. Once again, that's another challenge that you
Speaker 1: have to be prepared for as a team. And the
Speaker 1: only thing I can say about this Dallas Cowboys team,
Speaker 1: and everybody knows it, they are just different this year.
Speaker 1: You might make those mistakes, but we overcome our mistakes
Speaker 1: and we don't make as many mistakes as as we
Speaker 1: have in the past, and as you look at our team,
Speaker 1: you see a lot of nitpicking. Well they're nitpicking with
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys because we are making mistakes and still winning.
Speaker 1: They want to call that luck. As far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: everything balances out in this NFL game. You've seen teams
Speaker 1: that have won games and with a lot of penalties.
Speaker 1: You've seen them lost games by themselves in the foot,
Speaker 1: and yet they are still where they are. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: exactly where we need to be. I think we're a
Speaker 1: special team, probably the most inclusive team I would call it.
Speaker 1: Everyone seems to enjoy each other. And that's not talking
Speaker 1: coom by y'all moments here. I'm talking about each player.
Speaker 1: Each group respects the other because they are all bringing
Speaker 1: something to the table. You know, if in the past
Speaker 1: you've got you know you can say, man, defense is
Speaker 1: sitting up. Man. These guys on offense they are killing me. Man.
Speaker 1: They put us through us. Every week. You know, every
Speaker 1: game is you can see a defensive play over there,
Speaker 1: come on offensive, you know, fussing at them. A group
Speaker 1: of guys, Come on, you ain't worth a crap. You
Speaker 1: don't have that This year because everyone is doing their job.
Speaker 1: Even when they make mistakes, they're coming back, they're making
Speaker 1: up for it, and we're overcoming it collectively, not as individuals.
Speaker 1: And we figured out yesterday that when you said everyone
Speaker 1: is doing their jobs, they've had ninths. They've had sixty
Speaker 1: guys doing their jobs. So far this year, they've played games. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that's without their player console going to the head
Speaker 1: coach saying we want to play everybody in the home opener, Mavericks.
Speaker 1: Is that what happened? Yes, they played fifteen guys last
Speaker 1: night and they and they said, the player console went
Speaker 1: to Jason Kidd and said, we would like to have
Speaker 1: everybody play in the home opener, And they played fifteen guys.
Speaker 1: They played guys. I didn't even know we're on the roster.
Speaker 1: By the way, Why don't ask me who they were
Speaker 1: because I still don't remember. That's kind of cool. I
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, that's a player. I like that. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mom is watching bro you see. I mean I got
Speaker 1: a mother too. Dak wants to see that's the contrast
Speaker 1: between Jason Kidd and Rick Carlo. Oh yes, yeah, yeah, huh.
Speaker 1: Let's see how it ends up, don't we? Want to win.
Speaker 1: Let's see if yeah, okay, so speaking about six players, yes,
Speaker 1: a Gallimore, what's going on? He's still rehabbing. What are
Speaker 1: we looking at? So I'm thinking he and uh Lawrence
Speaker 1: or kind of boats kind of in that same boat.
Speaker 1: Now I see Gallimore out running more than Lawrence. But
Speaker 1: then he heard his elbow. Of course he didn't break
Speaker 1: a bone in his foot. So, um see, because when
Speaker 1: you start talking about getting down to the nitty gridding,
Speaker 1: and you said how many games after Thanksgiving? Five? Five
Speaker 1: or six? Five? We got six? Now? Six? Now? So
Speaker 1: season end of January ninth. Yeah, so say he gets
Speaker 1: back for is it New Orleans is right after Thanksgiving? Yes,
Speaker 1: Thursday after thanks So maybe circle that game for for
Speaker 1: Lawrence and see even as these guys return. I can't
Speaker 1: see any type of, you know, bad feelings about it.
Speaker 1: I can't see type of negativity about that. I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone's going to be worried about playing time. You know,
Speaker 1: it just seems like everybody gets to eat, you know,
Speaker 1: not just offensively, but defensively. We have so much depth defensively,
Speaker 1: it is ridiculous. Truly, there are ten games after Thanksgiving. Sorry,
Speaker 1: but unless they get the first round. Somebody was out
Speaker 1: there because after seeing how much the playing flights cost
Speaker 1: to Kansas City, he's already got is to LA. So
Speaker 1: there's fifteen games unless they get the first round. By
Speaker 1: there's fifteen games left in the season right now. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: that's a whole new season. Yeah, all right, we talk
Speaker 1: about thresholds. He just put up, you know, the biggest
Speaker 1: hill ever, so that that is a college football national
Speaker 1: championship season. They still have yet to play. So I
Speaker 1: think that's what they have to play to put to
Speaker 1: win a college they national championship. They went that far,
Speaker 1: it would be like Lawrence comes back after Thanksgiving, and
Speaker 1: if they went that fire, it's almost like a season, right,
Speaker 1: And that that goes to my point, we're gonna need it.
Speaker 1: We're going to need it. Guys are gonna get tired
Speaker 1: and and and don't put it past them just saying, okay,
Speaker 1: we don't need to activate these guys. We don't need
Speaker 1: to get them practicing. Right. They get two injuries this
Speaker 1: week that made room for at the end of the
Speaker 1: week if they want to move guys up or not. Uh.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to Joseph and McEwan, they're three weeks,
Speaker 1: I'm told, are up next Tuesday. So do they have
Speaker 1: to either activate them this week to no by next Tuesday?
Speaker 1: Next Tuesday, yeah, because that's what we activated for the
Speaker 1: following for the following week, so they don't have to
Speaker 1: for this game, right. That was my indersting. That's what
Speaker 1: I was told, because I saw somebody say no, they
Speaker 1: got to do it by Saturday. But they were just
Speaker 1: counting weeks. I was told, the weeks don't count. Put
Speaker 1: them on. Yeah till you put him on. I okay,
Speaker 1: So so they've got two open spots. I just think
Speaker 1: it's amazing that the depth we have. I think the
Speaker 1: pace that we're using. You know, we're not burning anyone out,
Speaker 1: you know, and when these guys come back, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be fresh legs, and of course someone else is gonna
Speaker 1: get hurt. Things are going to be untimely. But I
Speaker 1: think we have the luxury of depth to deal with
Speaker 1: any type of injuries we had. You had a trade
Speaker 1: deadline coming up on Tuesday, and so you can add
Speaker 1: something there or what would you like to add. No,
Speaker 1: Bill's gonna tell you what you want. One he never had.
Speaker 1: He's like the cops they never asked a question without
Speaker 1: knowing the answer. That was a year and lost. That's right,
Speaker 1: that no, No, that was gonna yeah, I was gonna
Speaker 1: give him eight weeks. It was four weeks. It was
Speaker 1: one month. How would you feel about the Cowboys starting
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush in Minnesota on Sunday night? Shut up? Man,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Why talking about the trade dead?
Speaker 1: Why he wants a veteran I want I want a
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback in here. Back up. We've proven here over
Speaker 1: the last six weeks that this and with a three
Speaker 1: and a half game lead at this juncture in the season,
Speaker 1: I'm convinced this team is going to be playing in January.
Speaker 1: And if there's a red flag right here last year
Speaker 1: and then this last game, it tells me, Okay, if
Speaker 1: you lost that, man, can you do what? Can you
Speaker 1: accomplish all all this work that you put into it?
Speaker 1: Can you accomplish it with what you have in the
Speaker 1: building right now? Definitely much better equipped. I can say
Speaker 1: that if something like that happens to survive with no no,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Quick without but with experience, and
Speaker 1: this will be with the experienced quarterback that can point
Speaker 1: out that in nineteen ninety three, the Cowboys did exactly that.
Speaker 1: I love that guy, Bernie Kosar. Oh, Bernie, you're thinking Bernie.
Speaker 1: I was thinking the other one that they bin that
Speaker 1: was my guy man. But they made one guy. Well
Speaker 1: it was Berline or babe. That was easy call. And
Speaker 1: then you had Rodney Pete in here also, right, you know,
Speaker 1: but that Kosar was mid season, and then you brought
Speaker 1: in Wade Wilson at one point. Well, no, that was
Speaker 1: start the ninety five season and the Super Bowl season, right,
Speaker 1: And Wade Wilson's your backup quarter and who they never
Speaker 1: had to play, right, exactly. But you've got that luxury
Speaker 1: that you've got a guy who has experience winning in
Speaker 1: this league. And that's what this team does not have
Speaker 1: as a backup quarterback right now. So I'm sure you
Speaker 1: have somebody in mind. I threw out one the other day,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going down that road again. I'm going
Speaker 1: to go look through rosters, and you basically have to
Speaker 1: just have to look through rosters of teams that are
Speaker 1: five hundred or below. Right now. We can give you
Speaker 1: an example because we're not giving the Jets. No, the Jets.
Speaker 1: The Jets made a trade, okay for Flacco, Yes, right,
Speaker 1: but they had an injury and they brought in a
Speaker 1: veteran guy. So that's the kind of guy you're probably
Speaker 1: looking for that's had starts in the league. Because if
Speaker 1: you remember, it's almost the same thing. Jason Garrett was
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback in ninety three. Yeah, I just thought
Speaker 1: that's right, and he had never played, right, I just
Speaker 1: thought of another one, but I'll have to I'll tell
Speaker 1: you after we get off the air here, and I'll
Speaker 1: let you know whether it really happens or not next week.
Speaker 1: But uh secrets. Yeah, but you know what Kozar ended up. Yes,
Speaker 1: Jason started the next game and he played like a
Speaker 1: quarter and then Kozar came in and finished it, and
Speaker 1: they one He started the next week. I want to
Speaker 1: say the Cowboys got beat, but then he came in
Speaker 1: to finish off the NFC title game after Troy suffered
Speaker 1: his concussion. We've had much success with backup quarterbacks here.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about key successes. Like you said, just fill
Speaker 1: in the spot. But I just think it's a warning
Speaker 1: at a timely warning right now that okay, here, dak
Speaker 1: just has a calf. Well what if he did have
Speaker 1: to miss a couple of weeks. What if you get
Speaker 1: into a key stretch of this season and the playoffs whatever,
Speaker 1: where your quarterback is in, here's an opportunity to bring
Speaker 1: an experienced guy in and have him ready in January
Speaker 1: in case, you know, the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Your quarterback, you know, as long as it's not can't
Speaker 1: can't play. As long as it's not Brad Johnson, who's
Speaker 1: could complete a ten yard pass in two Well, here's
Speaker 1: here's what you know about bad quarterbacks. And this is
Speaker 1: no joke. They can get people hooked. They really can. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: while receivers will get hurt, you're running backs to get
Speaker 1: hurt because you guys don't have the timing together. You
Speaker 1: know the line. We're gonna be working a little bit harder.
Speaker 1: You know that. We become much more predictable, you know
Speaker 1: when you have a backup quarterback. So therefore their anticipation
Speaker 1: level offensive defensively for them would be even better. Things
Speaker 1: happened when you uh wind up the opposition. If you
Speaker 1: watch Monday night football, I did not you didn't miss much.
Speaker 1: I was out there. We punted it out yesterday. We
Speaker 1: punted it, punted it out pointed it out yesterday. They
Speaker 1: put it out at that that Sean Payton had to
Speaker 1: be sitting there going fifteen years with Drew Brees and
Speaker 1: now I got to put up with this. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll same thing. Yeah, he's got Russell Wilson next
Speaker 1: to him and he's going, now you got this guy,
Speaker 1: So now we have who who's our got Who's gonna
Speaker 1: be our guy? All right? Cooper Rush got to get
Speaker 1: him ready? Or might it be Will Greer real? You
Speaker 1: never know. Okay, there's a he's played a lot too high.
Speaker 1: There you go. What two games looked at? All right?
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