WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Revisiting The Redskins 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.160 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.360 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:10.080 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.440 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.760 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:25.079 wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.960 Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, November twenty eight, twenty seventeen, 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.600 Season thirteen, episode number eighty three. Welcome to another edition 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.440 of The Break. I am Derek Eagleton and I'm joined 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.640 by the normal cast. Here. We are talking Cowboys football 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.800 he guys for about an hour, and we are going 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.159 to get into a little deeper talk today about the 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.479 Washington Redskins. Cowboys face the Redskins Thursday night. It is 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.000 Thursday Night football this week for you guys paying attention 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.159 at home. So we'll talk about both their offense and 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.120 their defense. Dave's gonna give us a scouting report on 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.040 both today. We're gonna go to Amber and Nick and 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.880 they'll tell us what they think is most alarming or 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.600 interesting or just something that they're keeping an eye on 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.560 with regards to those two units. But first we got 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.560 to start by talking a little bit about some injuries, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.400 some injury updates, and some players that misspractice yesterday and 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.560 what we expect from them. This is like a Friday. 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.520 This is like a Friday for the team. This is 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.120 a Friday for the team. No, yes, yes, this is 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.080 a Friday. It's a Friday for the team. Can't keep it. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.280 We're coming on a show tomorrow. We're gonna have a 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.360 show tomorrow and then Friday Friday, all of you guys 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.720 are gonna be off. We're gonna send you guys away. 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:38.760 I won't be no talk for on Friday. Sorry, but 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:40.960 I'll take that on Thursday. So most gowboys on Friday 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.000 sho game. Well, you can't just do it before the game. 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.000 Why would you tape a show before the game if 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.160 it's gonna run on TV? Say Derek, say what you 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.000 want to say. Say it, Say what you want to say. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:53.520 I'm not gonna say what I want to say. It's 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.960 all right, you know what I want to say. I'll 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:57.720 be here for What a horrible song is that? There 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.320 is a son mayor say what you need to say. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.400 It's not a horrible Yes, it is pretty good. Any 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.840 song where you have say the same lyric forty seven 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.720 thousand times in a row. It's catchy, can't What do 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.600 you think? I don't even know the song, so I 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.799 like a simple song every now and then. I don't know. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.359 Do the fans know that we've fallen? I'm going is 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.720 a musician like the previous life, he actually traveled the 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:23.320 world singing and playing. I feel like at hit Yeah 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.400 top forty right, kit Yeah are a one since day one, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.480 like the real crazy not crazy, but like the real 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.880 passionate fans who like really keep up with everything they 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.440 know they know. Yeah, I don't think that's a widely 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.840 known thing though. Forever the Sickest Kids. That's the name 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.080 of the band, right, yep, pretty damn good. You're on 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.880 the Warped tour, toured the world, sold out arenas. One day, 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.760 we're gonna have story time with Kent and we're gonna 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.760 have him tell us his craziest story from the road. 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:50.920 He has to have that after dark. It has to 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.400 be a late night show. Hey, have you not heard 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:54.960 some of the stories that Nick tells. I think we 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.520 could probably get away with it and Amber's mouth on 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.440 this show. I mean, I think we could probably get 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.200 away with it. True. Yeah, oh cool, So we're off Friday. Okay, cool? 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.000 Moving on, all right, Yeah, it's gonna say Ken, we're 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.160 talking about a guy, you know, in a band, like 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.440 in a world tour. That's probably some good stuff, right, 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:13.000 depends on your definition of good. This is Kent's nightmare, 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.840 right it is. He's probably sitting over there one one. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.280 All right, let's get to injury talk. Um start first, 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.720 I guess there were four guys from the Cowboys who 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:27.240 did not practice yesterday, Lele Collins, Justin Durant, Anthony Hitchins, 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.440 Sean Lee. Uh tell me about which ones are most 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.880 concerning or which ones you think are just symptomatic of 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.840 just giving a guy a little time off. Well, Jerry 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.240 Jones said this morning on the radio, you know It's 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.840 weekly radio interview, that they hope that they'll have Sean 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.400 Lee back soon, but he doesn't. He doesn't know when 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.920 soon is and hope hopefully it's soon, but he doesn't 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.280 know what that means. So so probably that this week 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.400 come down doesn't sound like a guy who's ready to 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.680 play in forty eight hours. Tell you that, um, so, 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.720 I mean you think about it that it's you think 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.400 of it in terms of games, and you're like, well, 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.320 he only missed two games against when he was out 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.320 the first time. You forget there was a bye week 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.000 thrown in there as well, like a full week and 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.720 a weekend off, where so that's an added nine days 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.600 where you're not really in the weekly grind. So this 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:18.919 will be his third full absence since he injured the 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.640 hamstring in Atlanta. But that's only twelve days. So the 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.320 wonkiness of the schedule right now really kind of messes 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.560 with him. Like if this had happened at a different 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.280 time in the season, I think it would have been 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.400 better for him. But that's neither here nor there, so 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:34.360 it doesn't look like he's going to be there Thursday. 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.520 We all know what that tends to mean for the defense. 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.480 I don't have a good read on the Hitchins situation. 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.679 It's growing injury, it's it's well, yeah, it's it's related. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.800 I mean, he played through it, so there's every possibility 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.680 that he could get himself up for it. I don't 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.000 know the fact that it's not a short week, but 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.440 it's not the long week that you typically get after 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.159 a Thursday game, So I don't know. We'll see what 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.760 he does today, that could be really telling. Durant's a concussion, 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.520 and you know typically with that you're either like good 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.400 to go or you're gonna miss again. Like for instance, 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.680 Zach Martin had the same thing and he was back 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.080 at practice already. Right, it seems like a good bet 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.479 that he'll be available Thursday. But I don't know about 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.280 Duran The interesting with a concussion. It seems like, again, 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.239 none of these things are the same. But it seems 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.440 like when you get to what would be a Friday 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:26.080 or at least what will be a Thursday, and the 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.920 guy still has not practice with a concussion, that doesn't 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.640 seem like it's a It's great that it seems like 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.040 there's like that's kind of what I meant is not 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.080 good to go, But like you go through the protocol 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.160 and it's like okay, like you're fine, You're you're cognitively 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.359 you're good. It seems like you kind of missed a 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.520 bullet here. And Zach Martin was he was limited, but 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.040 he was out there doing stuff. Yes, because it's either 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:48.920 all or none. You're not just gonna be right. Yeah, 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.280 if they I mean, if you're not doing anything two 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.920 days into the practice week, that tells me like, all right, 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.440 calm down. You don't need to be out there doing 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.480 you know, over exerting yourself like that. You need some time. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.159 But also when you think about what needs to happen 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.800 with the roster and a linebacker, like if you're not 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.760 gonna have Durant, you're not gonna have Sean Lee and 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.400 Hitchens is banged up, you know, what are you? What 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.919 are you doing there? That's a really that's a good point. 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.560 And the fact that they haven't added a linebacker this 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.599 week maybe says that they they hope one of those 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.880 guys can play. Yeah, but I'm still thinking this could 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.720 be the most we've seen from like Justin marsh Lillard 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.040 so far this year. Well, the other thing to consider 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.640 here is you are playing a team that probably and 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.000 we'll get into this when we start talking about the 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:35.480 way you match up against this team, but this is 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.720 a team that throws the ball a ton, especially now 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.400 that their best running back is gone for the year. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.960 Ah But is that I mean, is that the case there? 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:45.640 I don't know, And that's what we're gonna get into 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.279 when we start talking about the Redskins breakdown. But their 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.800 best running back is gone. But now, like I think, 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.520 and it's only one game, but it looks like they 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.360 maybe adapted their style of play to fit what they 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.880 have because I know it a minute. Wait wait wait, 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.000 wait wait, you have an injury, you stick to the plan. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.039 You don't adapt to another game plan. You don't do 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:13.080 that because no one does that. Nonsense, Dave Sing, I know, Nick, well, 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.320 listen to you know what the hold on before we 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.280 get right into what the Redskins are doing? Are we 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.800 into that right now? I mean yeah, you just just 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.280 want to send too what happened yesterday when you when 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.480 listen to the coordinators both of them, Scott Scott Nahan 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.440 and Rod Marinelli said the same thing and that you know, 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.600 you do what you do. And I think the quote 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.600 from from Lenahan was, you know, we're the same team 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.440 that we were when we won three games in a 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.520 row of back just a few a month ago, which 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.600 is not true, but he said, you know, you just 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.280 want to do what you do and you just keep 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.640 doing it hard, hard, do it better, you know, you know, 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.000 just keep practicing and all these things. And it's like 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.840 that's to me, that's the problem here, that's the problem. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.400 You can't just keep doing what you do and say 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.400 we're the same team we were three weeks ago, because 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.360 you're not. Thing is it sounds good and it's certainly 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.440 if you can. Ever, if you can actually get to 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.400 that point, then yeah, now you've hit the holy grail 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.240 of how you handle injuries in the NFL. The problem is, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.920 it just doesn't make sense when you think about it. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:14.680 If you could do, if you could be the same 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.440 team you work when you were on that three game 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.520 win streak, then there's no way to do I let 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.000 me say like this, there's no way to do that 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.560 in today's construct of the NFL, where your depth is 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.200 going to be affected because you can't because of the 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.080 amount of money that's on the cap. You cannot have 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.199 players at every position and have depth at every position 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.760 to be able to absorb all those injuries. Can't. Alabama 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.920 can do that because they just pull up the next 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.720 five star recruit. But in the NFL, I don't know. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.679 That's what I wrote in my column. This isn't just 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.360 like Trent Green going down and Kurt Warner comes in 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.960 and you know, a made for Hollywood slash Canton story. 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.559 It doesn't happen like that all the time. It's very 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.360 rare that an injury goes, you know, happens, and then 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.720 guy just comes in and says, Romo, Deck Prescott, that's rare. 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.680 That's really rare, And people don't realize how rare it 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.920 is because of the way they're talking about Dak Prescott 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.200 this year, with the struggles that he's head and I 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.760 thought about that yesterday too, which that kind of tends 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.920 to get glossed over. But this team did, you know, 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.760 adapt really well to a major injury last year in 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.360 the form of Dak Prescott, And I'm sure that must 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.319 weigh heavily in their minds that, hey, this has worked 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.679 before like this. The whole reason people have high expectations 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.840 for us is because we handled this type of adversity 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.520 the right way before. So there's that line of thinking. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.400 I'm not saying I completely agree with it, but like, 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.520 I'm sure that line of thinking is there and I 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.040 follow it at least. Although the difference is, if you 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.559 want to go back to last year, they did adapt, 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.080 Like they didn't do the same thing with Dak Prescott 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.160 that they would have done with Tony Romo. But they didn't, 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.240 and so they did have to change things up. They ran, 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.440 they ran some zone reads last year that they were 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.319 not going to run with Tony Romo out there, so 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.959 they did adapt, they did change. Huh Tony Romo is 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.560 a readoption king how right? Yeah, maybe in year three 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.240 of his care But I'm just saying noo. I just 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.280 think they did adapt last year, and and again, I 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.680 just I think some of this as tends to be 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.400 the case in the NFL. I think some of this 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.040 is probably overblown a little bit by us. I'm talking 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.400 about the media, because there is kind of this all 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.000 or nothing. They probably did make some changes, they probably 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.840 did adapt some things, But you're right, Nick, just the 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.600 overall mindset of we're just gonna throw the next guy 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.560 in there and we're gonna keep doing what we're doing. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.920 That just doesn't when you hear it. When you I mean, 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.199 when you're waiting to hear Scott Linehan talk about this 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:38.120 whole situation, you expect to hear something hopeful and something 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.520 that okay, at least you know they're going the right way, 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.320 and it gives you some hope and some of the 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.680 changes they're doing. But one of the things he did 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.000 say yesterday was kind of like, all right, well, we 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.960 focus on the things we are doing well instead of 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.280 the things that we're doing wrong or bad. It's like, okay, well, 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.400 what are those things that you are doing well? Not many? 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.800 So how can you be folks? You're seeing on that 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:05.319 on the positive when the negative is overcoming the positive. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:10.160 And he said, third down third down conversions is something 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.600 we're doing well. Okay, but the problem is is you're 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.240 not doing anything on first and second down, so everything 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.040 is a third down. I mean like the Chargers didn't 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.160 have many third downs because they just kept moving it 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.960 up and down the field. First down, first down, first down, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.280 first down. Yeah. Yeah. So I thought that was odd 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.720 too that he said that because you're five and six 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.360 and you've lost three in a row, like there's obviously 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.280 more bad things happening than the good. I don't understand 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.640 that mindset of where we're gonna try to fix. We're 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.840 gonna just just keep doing I mean, what does that mean. 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:45.520 I think a lot of that And I tried to 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.400 articulate that yesterday too, though, is like if you admit it, 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.920 then it's a and then it's like this problem and 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.559 it's a problem. Yeah, and then you know they know 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.560 this stuff, they're not gonna say it to you. And 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.880 I'm not saying they're gonna go make like wholesale chain. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.640 They're not going to do that. But they're just like 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.560 they're they don't want to put it out there that 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.600 they agree with you about that stuff, because guess what, 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.160 then you got a big headline saying Lenahan Colin. Yeahs. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.520 At least you want to feel like you're on the 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.120 same page, that everyone is on the same page, although 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.079 you know they know obviously they know everything that's going on. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.240 But I will obvious say this though, Ambert, like all 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.160 of you guys, all three of you guys, spend time 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:24.560 in that locker room and you talk to you guys 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.800 off the record. That's where you hear the real right, 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.400 So that's where you get to find out, you know, 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.600 if if they if they don't believe things are going right, 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.440 they're gonna say it, they just won't say it in 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.440 front of the cameras. And so you know, I think 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.200 they I think I agree with Dave. They know, they 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.679 just don't want to put it out there publicly like that. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.000 But guarantee, in these meetings this week, they're probably talking 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.120 about those things that they don't do so well and 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:48.760 saying how do we improve this and what do we 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.640 need to do differently? And I mean that's a part 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.200 of being a coach, and that's I mean, we'll see 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.320 what it means for the offense. But like they're they're 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.960 benching dudes and shuffling dudes in the secondary, so like 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.080 they can say all they want about how to stay 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.640 the course, Like that's not true if they're benching people 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:07.400 and shuffling things. So I think they know and they 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.320 go about it their own way. They don't want to 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.440 admit it publicly or like put that out into the universe. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.040 So why not make a change it running back? Then? 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.520 Why didn't they do that? I don't know, because they 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.200 probably feel like right now, they don't. They probably feel 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.720 like the running back. They probably feel like the running 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.160 back position is one of the lesser of their concerns 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.920 and may feel like making a change there doesn't necessarily 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:33.000 give you an appreciably better result, you know, Like right now, 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.880 I don't think the Running game is horrible. I think 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.440 the Running Game has been okay. I think the Running 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.200 Game is the only thing that hasn't been horrible. But 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.040 and the difference is this is the irony of the 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.600 whole situation. The running game has to be great in 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.080 order for everything else to work. That's the problem. But 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.000 you don't have another guy to roll in here. That's 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.000 Ezekiel Elliott, right, So you're not going to improve that 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.040 to make it great until Zeke comes back. Right now. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:58.240 You just have to deal with what you have to 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.520 deal with. So getting an okay running game is what 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.640 you're gonna have. Can you fill in with all those 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.280 other things that you're saying. Zeke's in the running game 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.600 is great, and a great running game makes everything else 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.760 pretty good. But when he's not in, then it's just 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:11.920 an average running game, and an average running game makes 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.800 everything else bad. Yes, that's why that's it works. I 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.680 was at practice yesterday for what ten minutes and talking 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:21.680 talking to a guy that I don't really talk to 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.200 a whole lot about stuff going on in the field, 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.440 and he said to me, you know what this team needs. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:32.760 This team needs more speed at receiver. And I was like, yeah, yeah, 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.160 they do, Yeah, you know, it's fill point. I was 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.680 just like yesterday on the radio too. I was driving home. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.000 I was listening to this showing radio and there were 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.280 a bunch of media types from Dallas that were on 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.880 the air, and they went on for about twenty minutes 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.960 on this team needs some speed receiver. And I was 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.640 just like, Nick is just like sitting there, just like, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.200 come on, man, come on. I think I've been saying 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.280 that everybody at Alexander, right, yeah, everybody sees it. They 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.320 You guys don't even know who that is. No, I don't. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.760 I remember the name played at Auburn. It was like 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.800 nineteen Get him. He was drafted the same year as 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.600 Emmett m How long he playing the league? Not three years? 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.120 He was? Hey, he was on the reunion they had 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.200 the other day of the nineteen ninety two. Oh yeah, 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.680 I didn't recognize his face. Yeah, yeah he was. He 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.040 was the little guy out there. Eighty one played for 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.480 three years. Huh. Yeah he wasn't He wasn't that special. 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.840 But I mean he was a speed guy. You know. 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:29.840 He was a guy drafted in the second round because 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.880 he could run. He was a track guy. That's kind 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.680 of what they need to just need somebody like that. 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.160 But if they don't have that, and they're not gonna 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.000 have it for a while, they need to at least 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.040 use what they have, and I think use the field. 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.800 We said it yesterday spread the field a little bit. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.400 I will say this, I'm starting to disagree with you 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:48.920 just a little bit on that. I don't want just 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.200 to speed guy. I actually want them to get a 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.600 fast guy that actually can play receiver, like a oh 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:57.320 a good fast gut Okay, So yeah, I actually want 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.640 to I want to see him. I want to see them. 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:01.840 I want to see them go out and get a 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.160 stud wide receiver. That's fine. So you're saying the first round, no, yeah, 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.080 no way, you don't. Not in not in today's NFL. 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.880 I do third round, Jarvis Landry, third round, Juju Smith Schuster, 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.280 your third rounds A Jones like, you don't have to 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:19.640 go Antonio Brown, fifth or sixth round. Yeah, but that's 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.160 an anomaly, obviously, it's not. That's an anomaly. That's not 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.840 the best receivers in the game right now. The five 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.800 Julio guys who first round Abe Abe, So he's in 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.880 the Julio first round, Backham first round. Um. I thought 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.080 going into the year of that Mike Evans would be 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.400 in that group, but he the way that inconsistent. It 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.400 just hasn't happened. You don't put keenan Allen in there. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.680 Third round. Here we go, third round. Yeah, I mean, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.240 I just didn't know if you want to do made 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.120 meet my words. Made said that, like before the game, 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:49.760 you're like, this dude is about to happen the whole 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.920 world day. And I mean he was good. I stand again, 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.120 I stand by what I said, like like he's not 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.680 the worst of the one receiver that they place. He's 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:02.400 not as good as like Julio Jones. Yes, between those two. Right, 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.600 I'm trying to I can't even focus on who they 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.320 who's the best number ones that they've played? But he's 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.440 not who is the best number one they've played. He's 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.080 not in the top like three number ones that they've played. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.120 Probably if I had to think about it, we don't 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:17.600 have to go there. Yeah, I have to go back, 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.119 and he made me my words. I'm sorry. I know 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:21.960 keenan Allen's list. Did he have the best day of 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:23.960 a wide receiver the Cowboys a face this year? Yes? 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:29.320 By far? Yeah, Okay, it's Josh Gordon in there. Best 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:33.480 receivers Josh Gordon. We'll see he might come back and 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.359 have a two hundred yard day. He does that. Sometimes 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.080 you can find a stud receiver in the third round 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.120 that's all I'm trying to say. Okay, go find them. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:41.920 All I'm saying is I'm not I don't think I'm 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.440 just satisfied with saying, go and get a track guy. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.560 They may have deficiencies out there, go and get me 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.520 a guy that can actually play the position. Because I 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.440 think right now, one of the problems with the Cowboys 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.399 receivers that you hear all the time is they're not 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.000 great route runners. Well, throwing another guy out there in 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:56.560 the mix is not a great route runner. He's a 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.359 one trick pony that can just run a nine route. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.480 I don't know if that necessarily helps you in the Yeah, 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.600 And I think it all comes down to what happens 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.760 with Dez. I mean, because if you have Dez on 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.040 this team, then you could just need need a speed 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.760 guys going anywhere. Okay, well you just need a speed guy. 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:13.239 Then you just need a guy that can run, like 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.480 Dave saying third round whatever, But you want that guy 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.520 that can do everything. That's a difference maker, number one 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:22.040 receiver with speed. Yeah, those guys usually go higher than 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:23.920 what the Cowboys are gonna pick. Yeah, I think I'm 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.680 okay with that. Stefon Diggs and Adam Feeling are both 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.639 late round guys, are they? I don't even know if 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.560 Adam Feeling was drafted, Nah, he wasn't. Diggs was a 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.359 fifth round Heeland is one of those kind of guys 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.440 though that I think that you know, he just kind 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.960