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Speaker 1: Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, June fifth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen,

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Speaker 1: Episode number twelve. Welcome to another edition of The Break.

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Speaker 1: We're li from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the

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Speaker 1: Star and today we're gonna talk offense. This is one

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Speaker 1: of our final two shows before we take a little

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Speaker 1: break here before training camp, and so we're gonna do

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Speaker 1: a two part series year. The first part we'll be

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Speaker 1: on offense. Today we'll talk about some of the changes

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Speaker 1: that this team has made, where we see areas that

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Speaker 1: they may need still need to do a little bit more,

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Speaker 1: and just our overall thoughts on the offense based on

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Speaker 1: everything that's happened through draft and free agency on the offense.

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Speaker 1: And then next week we'll jump into defense and do

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Speaker 1: the exact same thing before we head out for a

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Speaker 1: little bit of rest. How's everybody doing a name, good, good, great, awesome,

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Speaker 1: let's jump into it. I was looking through the as

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Speaker 1: I was preparing for this show. I was looking through

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Speaker 1: the list of changes that have happened on the offensive

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Speaker 1: ever remembered a time now. My memory is really bad.

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Speaker 1: So that's why I'm gonna ask you guys this question.

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Speaker 1: I ever remember a time when they've made so few

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Speaker 1: real changes. I mean, when you look at the offense,

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Speaker 1: there are a couple pieces that they changed here and there,

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Speaker 1: but overall, it really, it really is gonna look a

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Speaker 1: lot like it looked last season. You guys agree with that.

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Speaker 1: On the field, yes, but you know, there's a new

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator and there's a new quarterback coach, so that's

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Speaker 1: the biggest changes there. Those are things that you don't

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Speaker 1: will tell how much will it'll actually show on the field.

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Speaker 1: But as far as personnel goes, you know, other than

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Speaker 1: that came back, that's about it. Though. Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying they didn't make any change. I'm just

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Speaker 1: saying just overall, No, it weren't a lot of changes.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm I don't know if I agree with

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Speaker 1: like we're only three years removed from Tony Romo, you know,

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Speaker 1: it takes a while when you're rebuilding a team, which

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Speaker 1: I don't think was expected by anyone. But that's just

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Speaker 1: Kellen to have. I think that's really well said, because

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Speaker 1: So there's a drop off and it was shown in

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Speaker 1: At the start, we're gonna be ending today at ten

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Speaker 1: So then it's that it's that dead period that we

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Speaker 1: ox end of July. All right, So let's talk about

487
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Speaker 1: We're talking about the offense, and I wanted to get

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Speaker 1: your opinions on the on the overall offense. So thinking

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Speaker 1: about everything we talked about, all the players, whether if

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Speaker 1: they've changed out not being a whole lot, um, is

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Speaker 1: there a position on the offense and if so, what

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Speaker 1: is it and why, um that you still have concern

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Speaker 1: about going into the twenty nineteen season center center. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because we saw last year that you know that Looney

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Speaker 1: can he can do a decent job or a good job,

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Speaker 1: but but you know, they struggle against some of the

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Speaker 1: overpowering defensive fronts and we'll see, And Frederick keeps saying,

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Speaker 1: I don't know until I get on the pads on

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Speaker 1: so we'll see. He's not going to commit to saying

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Speaker 1: I feel better or whatever. So who knows if they've

501
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Speaker 1: upgraded there. You just don't know if they have. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: One of the things about that syndrome, from what I understand,

503
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 1: is the strength is the part that goes. And so

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00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: you're right. Until he puts on pads and has antoine

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Speaker 1: woods in front of him and he's having to move

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Speaker 1: antoine woods against his will, that's when he's gonna find

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Speaker 1: out if he's strong enough to do it. And so

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Speaker 1: you know you are you are gambling. We'll not gambling

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Speaker 1: because you still have Joe Looney there, but but it

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Speaker 1: is still a guess until you get to that point

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Speaker 1: where you're having to see if he can really do

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Speaker 1: his job. Absolutely, And I mean, you know, Connor Williams

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Speaker 1: looks great, but it's it'd be interesting to see how

514
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Speaker 1: the left guard position shakes out. Um, Tyrant Smith, you

515
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 1: always wonder about his durability. Um, how's Lyle Collins gonna?

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Speaker 1: You know, it seemed like he bounced back after the

517
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Speaker 1: coaching change. You know at midpoint last season. How does

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Speaker 1: he kind of carry that momentum going forward? I mean,

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Speaker 1: just based on bodies, there's all the reason in the

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Speaker 1: world to feel like the offensive line should be better

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Speaker 1: this year, but gotta gotta see it. Yeah, it's offensive

522
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Speaker 1: line overall, as you're um and a tight end. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, Jason Witten is definitely going to the Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame, but he took a year off and I

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Speaker 1: think he would even admit that. You know, he wasn't

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Speaker 1: as good in twenty seventeen as he was in even

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Speaker 1: two thousan you know twelve, that was when he set

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Speaker 1: the record, right, So you know, he's thirty seven years

529
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Speaker 1: old and we still don't really know about Jarwin and

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Speaker 1: Schultz behind him, so and feel better about it with

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Speaker 1: him there. But I, like I said before, I don't

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think it's just this super strength

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Speaker 1: on the offense. Would you like to have seen them

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Speaker 1: go out and do more at the tight end position

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Speaker 1: this offseason? Whether that be in the draft, which questionable,

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Speaker 1: whether you get somebody that late as far as you

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Speaker 1: were picking, but even in free agency, do you think

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Speaker 1: they should have done more? No? I don't think so,

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Speaker 1: because yeah, whoever you draft in the second round, third round,

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Speaker 1: fourth round, they're gonna have question marks. And and this

541
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Speaker 1: is the the same with what you've got with Jarwin and Schultz.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, you've got guys that I think would

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Speaker 1: be comparable to anybody you would draft at that stage,

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Speaker 1: So why not let them develop and see? And then

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Speaker 1: you've got Witten, So I don't know what other guy

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Speaker 1: you could bring in here. I just think that these

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Speaker 1: guys need to grow and this is the time to

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Speaker 1: do it. And now if it's this more of the same,

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Speaker 1: then yeah, next year, you know. But but if Schultz

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Speaker 1: or Jarwin are going to do anything, let's let him

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Speaker 1: do it. It would have been an amazing year to

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Speaker 1: draft a tight end even at fifty eight. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you really wanted to, you could have like trade

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Speaker 1: it up for a Nerve Smith or you know, Jay

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Speaker 1: Sternberger would have been there for you. But as soon

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Speaker 1: as Witten decided to come back, you kind of just

557
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: put all that on hold. And that's fine with me.

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Speaker 1: I mean I kept saying, it's like, even, okay, you

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Speaker 1: draft Jay Sternberger, like will he have the play strength

560
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Speaker 1: and the wherewithal to really get snaps? In this offense

561
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Speaker 1: because Jason Witten is going to take some and then

562
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Speaker 1: you still got these two young guys that you want

563
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Speaker 1: to find out about. So where does a rookie fit

564
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: into that? So if the alternative is Jay Sternberger being

565
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Speaker 1: inactive or just wait until next year to address the problem,

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00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. But that is a position where

567
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,199
Speaker 1: they probably need to spend some resources. I don't think

568
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Speaker 1: it matters that they didn't do it this year, but

569
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Speaker 1: that day is coming. Are we writing off freeco? I

570
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: mean to make the thing well, I mean, here's the deal.

571
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: He's been this is going to be his fourth season

572
00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: I think to play football. Yeah, but I understand that,

573
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,160
Speaker 1: but that at some point you have to be able

574
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Speaker 1: to make a decision to say, Okay, it doesn't matter

575
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: that he's not played football at this point, we have

576
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: to make a decision is he going to be able

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00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: to play football at a high level? And if he's not,

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00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,239
Speaker 1: and if you think he's not, or do you think

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00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna require a lot more years. You

580
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: really don't have a lot more years, right, No, I

581
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: think that was it for him. As far as this

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00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: is the make or break, I'm not saying he won't

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Speaker 1: make the team. I'm just saying I don't think he

584
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: gets any more chances of like, let's just let's develop him.

585
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Speaker 1: This is it. I would never dream of writing him

586
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 1: off as a chance to make the team because he's

587
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: still here. Man, the depth chart doesn't really demand that.

588
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 1: You have to know, right, and I feel I mean,

589
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: I feel like we've said make or break for him

590
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Speaker 1: every year since his rookie year probably, so I'm not

591
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: writing him off to make the team. But if he's

592
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Speaker 1: going to make meaningful contributions again, I want to see

593
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Speaker 1: it before I just believe that it's going to happen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I want to see it in a real game

595
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Speaker 1: because I know he can box out you know, a

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Speaker 1: practice squad. Yeah, he can do that in the preseason.

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Speaker 1: That's not impressive anymore. So the question is it will

598
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Speaker 1: even be able to make the active roster. Now, you

599
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: got Jason there every week last week, I mean last

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Speaker 1: year he was active for what fifteen out of sixteen games.

601
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Speaker 1: That was also because Jeff Swain was hurt for a

602
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Speaker 1: good part of the year, So you know, I wonder,

603
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Speaker 1: I wonder now what that means with Jason being here

604
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Speaker 1: is he even if he's on this team, is he

605
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: even going to get an opportunity to really show you anything?

606
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 1: A lot of weird A lot of weird stuff there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're going to keep a fullback, so that's

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Speaker 1: a spot. You know, do they keep three quarterbacks? Do

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Speaker 1: they keep four tight ends? They've got an absurd amount

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Speaker 1: of depth on the offensive line. How many guys do

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Speaker 1: they feel like they want to keep there? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That's also the development of Schultz. It will be a

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Speaker 1: part of that too, in jar Rom because last year,

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Speaker 1: right at the end of training camp, he I mean,

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Speaker 1: Schultz wasn't better than Rico last year that training game. Now,

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Speaker 1: I think as the year went on, you saw he

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Speaker 1: improved a lot more and Rico kind of stayed right there. Sonny,

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Speaker 1: he passed it, which is why you're a fourth round pick.

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Speaker 1: And so as long as he keeps doing that, I

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Speaker 1: think it'll be hard for Rico to make it. But

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Speaker 1: if they get to the end of camp and it's

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Speaker 1: close again, I don't know what happened. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying they're gonna cut Shoulta, just meaning I think

624
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Speaker 1: they might keep a fourth tight end, giving him the

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Speaker 1: I don't see, like, why would you keep four? They

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Speaker 1: did last year. I get it last year, but I

627
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Speaker 1: don't think they've kept less than four. I just think

628
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Speaker 1: they wanted to keep him and they just don't want

629
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Speaker 1: him going to Yeah, but I mean, you gotta be

630
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Speaker 1: smart about it. You've got other positions that you probably

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00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: need a deeper, you know, depth there. But and then

632
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Speaker 1: another one would be going back to your original question.

633
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: I was going to mention the quarterback position, which hopefully

634
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: something that you won't need during the year. As far

635
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: as the backup quarterbacks, what I'm seeing in practice is

636
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 1: still doesn't excite me. You know, you see them completing

637
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: some passes, Mason some, but at the same time, there's

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Speaker 1: nothing that makes one of them stand out versus the other.

639
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Speaker 1: It's very similar in a way. You know, they each

640
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Speaker 1: have their own qualities, but nothing that really makes them

641
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Speaker 1: stand out. And that concerns me in that aspect, because

642
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: God forbid anything happens to Dad. But we know how

643
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: the NFL works and it's unpredictable. Any injuries can't happen

644
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: any given moment, and I don't really feel comfortable with

645
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: the backup position at this time. But let's talk about

646
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: alternatives there. Let's assume for a second that there's some

647
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: free agent out there that's a veteran that you think

648
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: maybe we can go get him and bring him in

649
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: once you get through a training camp, because you don't

650
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: feel very comfortable about those two. How comfortable do you

651
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: feel with the idea that even though it's going to

652
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: be a veteran, it will be a veteran that's coming

653
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: into a system that they don't know having to now

654
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: not get a lot of snaps, but be ready to

655
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: jump in at a moment's notice to relieve if Dad

656
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: should go down. Versus having these two guys that, regardless

657
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: of what you think their skill level is right now,

658
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: they do it at least know the offense. They've been

659
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: here for a while, and you feel maybe a little

660
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: more comfortable with the idea that they can step in

661
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: at a moment's notice and actually give you relief. That's

662
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: one of those like it's a great idea in theory,

663
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: but I mean, and I don't know this, we haven't

664
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: seen enough of them. But like I think back to

665
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, You're like, well, he's he's been here, He's

666
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: been here all through the offseason. He knows this, he

667
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: knows that, and then like the game starts and you're like,

668
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: this guy doesn't have it. He just doesn't, which you know,

669
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: only time is gonna tell. Like yeah, I mean like

670
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: basically my read on it, and not to write off

671
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: Mike White too early or Cooper Rush for that matter,

672
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: but like they're comfortable in the knowledge that they're probably

673
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: screwed if dec gets hurt, Like that's my that's my

674
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: read on it. You just think they know, well that

675
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: goes down. I mean, they're like, he's he's he's twenty,

676
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: he'll be twenty six when the season starts. He's never

677
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: like I don't think he's ever missed a snap, you know.

678
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: I know he got hurt in Washington, but he came back.

679
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: You know, he's never missed time. He's built like a tank.

680
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: He's young and healthy. I think they're just like, you know,

681
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: if something really horrendous happens to then that's just that's

682
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: just some really crappy luck. And we've got enough money

683
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: to pay out everywhere else that we can't afford to

684
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 1: have an eight million dollars a year backup, you know whatever,

685
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: ten million dollars year backup sitting on our roster. And

686
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, you know, I'm not saying that's necessarily

687
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: the right idea. That's just the strategy that they are

688
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: pursuing right now, because I don't you can't convince me

689
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: that they would feel comfortable starting either of those guys

690
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: for more than a game or two if they had to.

691
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say, though, is we don't

692
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: know when we're not there seeing practice, what those two

693
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: guys look like. Because even at that though, when we

694
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: go back to a few years ago when Dak, when

695
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,479
Speaker 1: they made the decision we're gonna go with Dak, and

696
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: I know most of us, and I'm talking about the media,

697
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: most of us are like, crazy, You're crazy. You're saying

698
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: we're just going to roll with Dak versus going out

699
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: and getting a veteran that's actually done it. And then

700
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: because and mainly that was because of what we saw

701
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: in practice. In practice, he wasn't a good player in practice,

702
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: but what we saw when the lights came on all

703
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: of a sudden, this guy turned into a really good quarterback.

704
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: And so he turned into a good quarterback. But he also,

705
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: you know, none of these guys that we see in practice,

706
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: preseason games or whatever. They ever really get to play

707
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: behind Zach Martin, Tyrn Smith, Travis Frederick. They don't. And

708
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: they don't really hand the ball off to Zeke. They're

709
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: handing the ball off to Strew Ben Melina or something

710
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, And so I just feel like,

711
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: you know, got great players make you look better. And

712
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying and Dad, you're right, he does turn

713
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: it on. He does. He does play better when the

714
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: lights are on, which is good. I don't know if

715
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: Mike White, Cooper Rush do that as well, And I'm

716
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: not saying they do. I'm just saying we got to

717
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: be a bit careful because you just don't know what

718
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: what would happen if they had an opportunity to get

719
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: in the look better. They'll look look better, right with

720
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: those lines, But they're also being said there's also better

721
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: players on the other side that are manually breaking up

722
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,239
Speaker 1: those passes they throw. And speaking of Dak, you know

723
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: how you mentioned, oh, he's not a great practice guy.

724
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: There's something about him this year. I don't know, it's

725
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: hard to tell, but it's hard to say that he

726
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 1: looks confident because he's always been a confident guy. But

727
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: there's something that when I go out there and watch him,

728
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: and yes, he misses some passes, but something about him

729
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: makes me feel like he feels a lot more comfortable

730
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: and just a lot more secure and more knowledge of

731
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: what he's doing. I don't know if you guys notice

732
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,919
Speaker 1: anything different, but that's just kind of the air I'm

733
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 1: sensing from him that it's different from previous years. There's

734
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: some kind of growth, and it makes me feel like

735
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 1: he's going to have a really good season to the

736
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: point where he goes out there, he's gonna be more clean,

737
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to do certain things where he's

738
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: contributing more on the offense. And it's early for me

739
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,399
Speaker 1: to say, well, maybe John kidnap because he just got here.

740
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: There's no way you could have made that change so quickly.

741
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: But something about him makes me really excited. All those

742
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: things might be the cause, and that sounds good. We

743
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: don't know that, but the effect is he's throwing the

744
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: ball much better. That's just clear. You could see that,

745
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,479
Speaker 1: and so all those things probably are true than they're

746
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: helping this at the end. The end result is he

747
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: looks like he's more confident because he's throwing the ball

748
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 1: down the field better that that's the one thing for me.

749
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: Seventeen to twenty five yards, those passes look better. I mean,

750
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 1: we've seen the deep ball. He'll connect every now and again,

751
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: and definitely you know, knows where to kind of you know,

752
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: dump it off and make some plays with his legs.

753
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,760
Speaker 1: But just throwing the ball, you know, intermediate, that looks

754
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: better to me. I agree, I completely agree. I always

755
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 1: try to guard against feeling too optimistic about something I

756
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: see an OTAs, but he looked last week. He looked great,

757
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: He looked crisp, He looks accurate, especially when you compare

758
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: him to every time we see him at practice for

759
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: a previous year, it's just like, Wow, what is he doing?

760
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: And then he yeah, the game comes on, lights come on,

761
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: and he does better. But when he comes to practice,

762
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: I think we've seen a big change their improvement that

763
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: it's noticeable. And honestly, this this should be if you

764
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: look at the progression of quarterbacks around the NFL, this

765
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: should be the year when you should expect to see

766
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: a jump in Dak Prescott. And what I mean by

767
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: that is, if he's going to be your quarterback of

768
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,959
Speaker 1: the future. They're gonna be some games a Dak's gonna

769
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,720
Speaker 1: win with his arm Like that just happens with quarterbacks.

770
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 1: You see it as as they get farther along. Sometimes

771
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: happens in third year, sometimes in the fourth year. But

772
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: you see that, you see that maturation into oh my god,

773
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: now they're winning because of this guy, not necessarily because

774
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: of everything else that's around him. And I think that

775
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: that's that's what he's gonna have to do in order

776
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: to really kind of prove that out. I think I

777
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: just laugh because you said this is the year you're

778
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: gonna see a big jump, like he's gonna see a

779
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,959
Speaker 1: big jump as well, and no doubt, paid, no doubt

780
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: his big book will be a lot, yeah, a lot heavy,

781
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 1: a big jumps. We're gonna take our final break when

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00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,200
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784
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,200
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Speaker 1: camp in late July. So what we're gonna do. Right now,

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00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: it's gonna play a little game of CE or No. Now,

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Speaker 1: these are all questions. Yeah, these are all questions that

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Speaker 1: a little summary. So start off with Rico Gathers. Does

832
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: he make the team? CE or no? See see, okay,

833
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: see I'm gonna go see Oh wow, that's as always

834
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: these are. This is what I think will happen, not

835
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: what I would do. David, do you want Rico Gathers

836
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 1: to make the team seven? Well, that's like I just,

837
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 1: you know, anything personal. I have nothing personal against Rico

838
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: Gathers to this point. I just I'm not sure the

839
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: purpose that he serves. Yeah, question is if you were

840
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: making the decision with would Rico make this team? Probably not,

841
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: and that would probably be no. Let's say if he

842
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: if he makes the team, you know, there's gonna be

843
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: a lot of praise. Just like Christopher Shark gets a

844
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: lot of praise, There's gonna be a lot more praise

845
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: on Doug nust Meyer. I mean he you know, he's

846
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: he's having to really do a lot of teaching with

847
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: these younger players, and if he can get him to

848
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: be a guy that can kind of understand, you know,

849
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: who to block and leverage and how to get him,

850
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: you know, pushed out. I mean, it'll be it'll be

851
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: a big win for him if the user can can

852
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 1: get him kind of to that level. The most interesting

853
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: part about all of this is that he looks the part.

854
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: You look at him, he's huge, he looks like he

855
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: would be strong. He has athleticism, right, and so you're

856
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: you keep That's the part that's hard to say he's

857
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,399
Speaker 1: gonna not be with the team is because you're just like, man,

858
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 1: at some point, doesn't this just have to click with

859
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: one of those things, whether it's blocking, whether it's catching,

860
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: one of those things. Yeah, I know, and they're they're

861
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 1: the NFL is literally Peppi's owner is always my example,

862
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: Like you look at him and you're like, that's a

863
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 1: defensive end for an NFL team. Scouting loves him. Scouting

864
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: absolutely in love with Rico. Yeah gathers. So I don't know,

865
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: you go, I don't know about the coaching, but that's

866
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: why they they're looking at the attributes, right, They're looking

867
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: at the attributes that this player has and they're like,

868
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: if you could just tap into that and get him

869
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 1: to do one of those things really well, which everything

870
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: only did it take Graham and Gates, but they at

871
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: least played football, I know, But I mean, how how

872
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: long when they were pretty good early? Right? I mean

873
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: Graham came to football pretty late too, and yeah, I

874
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 1: think I mean he blew up in like his second season. Yeah,

875
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 1: I just this is it, this is the time. I mean,

876
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: it's not gonna He's not gonna make the team, I

877
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: don't think, because he's like, well, we just want to

878
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,879
Speaker 1: see if the light will come on. Either the light

879
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,320
Speaker 1: comes on and he makes the team, or if he doesn't,

880
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 1: I think you move on. Maybe he's something I really

881
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: didn't think about until we were just talking about this.

882
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: He could be a beneficiary of Kellen Moore just as

883
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: much because let's maybe maybe you just wake up and

884
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: stop trying to make him a complete tight end. Jimmy

885
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 1: Graham's not a complete tight end. It never has been.

886
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: He is a red zone threat. So if Kellen Moore

887
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: maybe uses him that way, stops trying to turn him

888
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,479
Speaker 1: into Jason Witten and just recognize that he's a maybe

889
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: a one dimensional, but very talented player. Yep, maybe this

890
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: could be a bigger run getting the box out and

891
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: catch the ball. I promise you if he was a

892
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: on forty eight yard field goals and more, if he

893
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: was a one two jump guy, he'd block at least

894
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: three kicks a year. I mean, tell me how he

895
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 1: couldn't He can. He's huge, and he can jump. He

896
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: can rebound, lead the nation in rebounding one two jump.

897
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: Time it up right, He'll block some kicks if those

898
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: guys that can push in front, there's no way that

899
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: he can't block a few kicks. That right, there is

900
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: a turnover if you can block a field goal that's

901
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: fifty yards. Yeah, but that's it. I mean, maybe it

902
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 1: is Kellen roll for him. Kellen Moore is about to

903
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,720
Speaker 1: revitalize like nine careers. Scare ready? All right? You mentioned

904
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: Jason Witten with all the weapons that that has now

905
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: in having him back, does Witten surpassed the five hundred

906
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: yard mark this season? C or no? Five hundred? Uh yeah?

907
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: Say no, no? Yeah, to many other weapons? I think

908
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: so five hundred yards. He's gonna have like sixty five

909
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: catches for five hundred yards. I don't believe that's my guess,

910
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: that's that's what he was doing. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

911
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: I'm I wouldn't say I would say no, And I

912
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: would probably put him somewhere more like about forty catches

913
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: thirty eight and more like about yeah, maybe about three

914
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy yards somewhere in there, because I just

915
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: think there's so many weapons on the team. I think

916
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna be looking at gallop down the field quite

917
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: a bit. I think that Mark Cooper's is gonna get

918
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: his Randall Cobb. I think, you know, backside of the

919
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 1: backfield gonna catch. I mean, there's there's not it ain't

920
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 1: a lot of if this, if this, I haven't checked

921
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,760
Speaker 1: on the fact, and like his stats for all his years,

922
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,720
Speaker 1: but this guy says that beside he did five hundred

923
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: besides his rookie year every year. So Jason Witten is

924
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: gonna eat half of the dump offs that Zeke got.

925
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: You know Zeke at seventy seven balls last year. You think, yeah,

926
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: I do, that's that's what he'll do. And like I said,

927
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: like he'll hit five hundred, but it'll be on a

928
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: lot of catches like that means you also think that

929
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: he's going to be playing the number of snaps that

930
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: he played before left been saying that since then. That's

931
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: sign that's an upgrade to me, that getting some of

932
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: those catches with Zeke because it's good. Yes, every year,

933
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: Zeke's gonna go sixty yards seventy yards with one of

934
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: those screens, but but it's usually a design play. It's

935
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: not a dump off play, and a dump off to Witten,

936
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: I think it will still get you more yards. So

937
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: I think that's a better that's a better safety valve

938
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: to have. I think those dump off is gonna go

939
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: to Randall Cobb and maybe Tony Pollard more than they'll

940
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: go to Witten. He's gonna hit five hundred. We might

941
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: see him get the ball in of but well, it

942
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: can be tricky because Zeke we always talked about him

943
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: getting those little yards and it all adds up at

944
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: the end. I see Jason Witna being kind of the

945
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: same thing where it's not very many yards, it'll be,

946
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: you know, close. If Zeke catches the ball thirty yard

947
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: line and goes forward and he gets to the thirty

948
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: two thirty three after a hit, if Witton catches at

949
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: the thirty. It's at the thirty. Yeah, there's just not

950
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: a lot of dragon going on. Do we still have time?

951
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: Oh no, we don't have to be the end, all right.

952
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: So we're we're done, We're out of here. We will

953
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 1: be back next week. We'll get into the defense. There's

954
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: a lot of positions we gotta hit. There. Some different

955
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 1: changes at the Cowboys have made till then for Nick,

956
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: even Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I'm Derek, he goes from.

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