WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: 0-3 Preseason a Cause for Concern? 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:12.400 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:16.279 for a break. Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:22.239 time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:27.520 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:30.720 It is a Monday. It's Monday, two August twenty seventh, 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.760 two thousand eighteen, Season fourteen, episode number bettage two. Welcome 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.360 to the Break. I'm Derrek keep thirty two. Thank you. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:40.680 Why you didn't understand what I said? No, I ain't 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.680 hear it. I wanted to make sure I was on 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.800 the same page of what I keep up. I do 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:51.240 keep us Scandric episode, It is a scandridas grumpy. Oh well, 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.280 do you have to ask for that? I'm a Lumba, 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:58.680 Donovan Lumba. Welcome to the s WBC Mortgage Studios. We're 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.560 coming off a game Cowboys lose last night, twenty seven 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:06.080 to nothing. No, no, no, no, you're just gonna short 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:10.760 change Brett Marr like that. Oh sorry, right, No I did, 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.399 I did. I don't even remember those last three points 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.560 twenty seven to three. All right, so twenty seven to three, Yeah, 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.559 they didn't get picked out. Friends, Okay, maybe they didn't 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.160 get shut out, But we're gonna talk. We're gonna put 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.039 that all in perspective today because I've seen all kinds 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.679 of stuff on social media, which of course social media 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.399 always goes a little crazy with things. But we're gonna 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:30.960 put it in perspective today. We're gonna talk to you 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.440 guys about what we think that all means, if it 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.600 means anything with it being a preseason game and with 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:38.480 the guys that the Cowboys had out there, but I 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.800 do throughout the show, I want to hear from you, guys. 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:42.000 I want you to give us a call and let 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.520 us know what you think, what maybe you're concerned about 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.640 as as you watch that game last night, as we 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.960 have one more preseason game this week and then next 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.160 week it all turns to the regular season. I want 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:53.920 to know what fans are concerned about. What are the 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.200 things that that you coming off this preseason are are 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.600 wondering if the Cowboys are gonna be able to get 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:01.800 better at and be able to be able to compete 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.040 in those areas call us eight eight eight eight five 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.680 five two two nine seven, So you can chime into 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:11.160 the conversation. How's everybody doing today. We're good, I'm awesome, Yeah, good, perfect, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.839 All right, so let's let's get into Let's get into 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.359 the conversation on the game. I guess as a big 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.200 picture thing, I'd like you guys to tell me first 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:24.360 how dismissive or not you are of what happened last night. Obviously, 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.480 the starters on offense primarily didn't play. The veteran starters 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.320 for the most part didn't play. There were a couple 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.639 of defensive starters that didn't play. Although the first team 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.160 defense did get a chance to get out there, Cowboys 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:40.040 just look completely out of it from from the word go, and, 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.640 as we said, end up losing twenty seven two three. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.160 Tell me how dismissive you are or not of what 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.239 you saw last night and what it means for the future. 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.920 Nick Well, I thought, you know, let's let's look at 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.200 some of the positives. I mean, the defense. First team 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.840 defense did play and they played really well. They I 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.200 think they posted a shut out, you would say in 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.560 the first half. A couple of touchdowns were not on 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.680 the defense. I thought they've looked good all preseason, they 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.800 very fast. Uh, there's some very positive things to point 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.520 to for that defense. They were trying to play. They 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.960 had their starters out there, and they look really good. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.360 So that's the positive thing that came out. I'll let 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.280 someone else talk about maybe the flip side of it, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:25.280 the difference talk about the negative. Whoative the one negative? 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:30.400 There's plenty of negative. I mean, I get I get 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.919 upset a little bit of the people that just kind 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.600 of go off on Twitter and get so upset about 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.800 the Cowboys losing the game. And you gotta remember, these 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.440 are not your first team guys. So there's a big 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.320 difference there. And someone sent me a comment out like, oh, 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.440 are you saying they didn't make any effort. They weren't 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.680 putting an effort out there. It's not about effort. Obviously. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.000 There's a big difference between backup guys and the starters 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:00.000 now as far as death goes, and that has been 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.760 a concern right now. Who the backup guys are at 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.200 this point is very important, and clearly what we saw 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:11.320 yesterday last night was not very promising at all as 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:15.120 far as backup guys. I guess there's also a difference 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.800 when you combine several starters and then you have maybe 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.679 a one backup guy that we shouldn't be seeing something 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.920 as bad as we saw last night. But this does 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:32.760 raise a lot of questions. If I'm calling it a wash, 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.720 it's a complete and like, I don't view it particularly 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.480 good or bad one way or the other for either 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.320 side of the ball, honestly. And the reason why is 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.200 you can look at this across a variety of spectrums. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.359 Defense looked really, really good. I think we would all 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.440 agree that they did, and they have, to their credit, 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.680 Larry Fitzgerald and David Johnson didn't play in this game 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.279 the same way that Zack Martin and Travis Frederick didn't. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:01.640 The offense looked pretty awful pathetic. They were going against 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:05.400 Chandler Jones and Patrick Peterson. I mean, it's it's hard 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.800 to do a full evaluation with the way this is 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.960 all mismatched. I think the best way to look at 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:15.120 this is just to literally individually pick things out, Like 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:19.200 maybe the most encouraging thing from the whole game for 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.359 me is that I thought Joe Looney looked like he 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.960 played pretty well going against who he went against. Playing 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:29.200 with Lyle Collins and Connor Williams, obviously Zack and Tyron 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.040 weren't out there. I thought he played really well. I thought, obviously, again, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.839 you gotta keep the personnel in mind with the defense. 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.760 But that is an encouraging trend over the course of 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.680 three preseason games that you feel good about what they've done. 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.160 Other than that, again, just kind of a wash, and 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.919 that's you know, I'll even I'll own it. I didn't 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:51.840 want to see good players out there, and that's what 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:53.960 you get when you don't put good players out there. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.680 It was boring and ugly, but it's better than the alternative, 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.320 which is talking about somebody not being available right now 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.440 because they got hurt. So we know Dave how Dave 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.800 falls on that for YouTube. You think that was the 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.040 right decision, not letting some of the a lot of 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.560 those veterans play last night, because when you think about 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.839 it in the grand scheme of things, I think Dave 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:14.479 has made a point that you know, at the end 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.080 of the day, doesn't really matter you still these guys 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:18.360 are still going to be ready to play when the 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.599 season begins. But if you're one of the people that 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.160 believes you gotta play football to be ready to play football, 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.960 you're running back is not going to play a preseason snap. 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.279 Your middle line, I mean, you're your best linebacker's gonna 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.680 play what a few snaps had he gotten in the 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.840 second week of preseason. Your quarterback won't play for this 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.760 week or next week probably, So there's a ton of 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.880 guys that just won't get if you believe in that, 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.599 won't get that kind of seasoning heading into the season. Yeah, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.000 I mean, I think that this is the first time 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.640 that we've seen Zeke nine to get any carries at 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.160 all in the preseason. But it's not like he got 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.200 a ton. I mean, this is like down from like 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.800 six or seven to zero. And I think in that 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.320 Seattle game is rookie year, he had a few there 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.240 and he you know, he hasn't actually started out the 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:06.320 seasons that great. Um. Anyways, the first two games, I 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.440 think for the first of us two seasons, he hasn't 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:14.120 been that effective. The second game last year was one 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.320 of the worst games we've ever seen from him. So 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.120 I think there's different theories on exactly, you know, how 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.560 he gets ready to play. He's had an outstanding Zeke 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.320 He's had an outstanding training camp, and I think that 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.760 he'll he'll be fine, But I would have liked to 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.160 see a little bit. Sorry to answer your question so long, 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:33.120 but I think the domino effect of Zach then Travis 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.520 led to you know what, not tiring, so not Dak, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.240 so not Zeke, And it just makes sense that way 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.480 that that was the best decision. And I don't think 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.240 those guys, I mean, they're not going to really improved 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.400 in the spam of like a week and a half. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.360 So you know what you're getting with Zee, you know 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.560 what you're getting with Dak and all those guys there. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.720 So this time, I would say this is the right 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.080 time and the time that he's needed to see the 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.640 guys that we did get to see last night, and 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.280 crucial time for them. I was expecting to see a 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.720 little more that made you feel better, especially let's say 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:12.440 the backup quarterback position. That was pretty disappointing, but it's 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.240 I mean, I guess this is where we're at right now. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.360 But yes, to answer your question, I think it was 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.680 the best decision to keep them out. Speaking of the 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.720 backup quarterbacks, four of the eight turnovers last night came 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:28.080 from those two quarterbacks, Cooper Rush Mike White eight eight 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.520 eight turnovers eight eight turnovers. When was the last time 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.480 you saw a game with eight turnovers like preseason, regular season. 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.680 I don't care, like any any level of football, Like 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.880 that's that's stuff like where you're from, Like when you 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.440 watch a high school team where the center can't snap 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.840 the ball, Like yeah, anyway, And the worst part is 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.000 it was a minus eight in the you know ratio. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.760 You don't get any in return about that. You would 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.440 think if you have you would think that if you 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:56.040 have eight turnovers, you'll at least be like minus six, 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.760 you know, like maybe your defense gets you too. Did 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.960 you hear minus eight? I asked Jason, I asked Jason 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.480 the Garrett. Yeah, the Garrett. I asked him in the 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.960 press conference about these turnovers, and he just went down 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.600 the line and he was just like, well this one, this, 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.480 you know, this play was bad. Then this interception, he's 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.160 gotta do this. So there's two. What else? He's like, oh, 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.680 and then you know Rod Smith did, there's three, there's four. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.079 You know, he's getting all the way. He's like, how 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.080 many are we had? Seven? It was like, yeah, he 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:25.720 went through them all. This is like a little while. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.679 This is like yeah, I kind of well, here's the thing. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.520 A guy that We've been talking about Lance Lenore and 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.640 in his role here and if he does make the team, 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.600 we talked about it last week and when you see 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.800 these are the this is the time that he needs 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.160 to show up and prove that he can do that, 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.360 and especially especially in special teams. And again, that is 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.480 one of the things that he messed up last year 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.680 as far as when he was given a chance, we 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:55.160 saw that Again clearly there was not really an improvement there. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.199 So that was disappointing. And the tough part for him 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.160 is that that isn't even a job he probably was 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.760 going to win as a returner. Yet it could be 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.480 the thing that might get him keep him off this team, 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.360 which it is tragic because I think he's had a 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.320 really good preseason, really good training camp as a receiver 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.079 and that may have been undone a bit we'll only 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.120 see that, but it may have been undone. You know, 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.160 I hear your point about, well, he wasn't making these 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.200 plays a special teams. You know, of why he was 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.560 a guy candidate to make the team because of what 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.480 he was doing at receiver. However, you get the opportunity 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.840 when whenever it is and the lights come on and 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.840 we've said this for years now. These receivers aren't going 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:37.760 to make the team out how they catch, how they block, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.560 how they tackle, how they play on special teams. So 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.880 an opportunity to perform, and you know he did. He 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.160 did have one bad play. The other one, you know, 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:46.559 the other one's kind of a there was a real 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.559 bad play on Byron Jones. He's got to be a 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.640 little bit more aware of that. Yeah, So when you 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:54.199 look at those those four in those four turnovers that 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.840 came from the quarterbacks specifically, how concerned you more concerned 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.160 today than you were three days go about the backup 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:05.880 quarterback position. I have a hard time articulating how I 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.360 feel about that because I don't think Cooper Rush is 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.120 bad by any stretch. But I don't think at any 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.480 point in either of these two seasons have I been 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.840 convinced that he's like the answer at backup quarterback. Even 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:20.800 when he was killing it last year. I mean, he 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.959 played really well, but I would have had not much 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.880 more confidence in him to lead this team for a 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.360 prolonged period of time than Kellen Moore. You know, I mean, 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:32.959 maybe he's a little bit better than Kellen Moore, but 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.320 he's not you know, he's not going to go Kurt 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.120 Warner on you and like guide your team to the 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:41.720 super Bowl or anything like that. And so I'm kind 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.600 of I'm like, I don't think he's good enough, but 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.800 I don't think most backup quarterbacks are good enough, and honestly, 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.240 and then in the back of my head you think 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.200 about Nick Foles and what he did for the Eagles, 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.800 and I know that's the that's the ready made answer 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.760 anybody's gonna have for you. Is if I say a 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.680 backup quarterback doesn't really matter anyway, that's that's a great point. 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:03.800 It can we can, and I'm not. I'm just I'm 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:05.720 not sure that anybody on this roster is the guy 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.600 to be this team's backup. But I don't think the 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.240 Cowboys are going to go shopping for one. But the 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.240 interesting part there is, can't he get to the point 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.959 where he's good enough now be Nick Foles? No? Right, No, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.199 I don't think so. And the reason why I can 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.800 say that it is with those two throws that I saw. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.440 You cannot play in this league if you can't make 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.280 all of the throws like that. Now you can be 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.880 a good backup. Jason Garrett did it for years. Jason 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.760 Garrett could not make all the throws, I mean, and 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.280 he was a different game plan when Akeman came out. 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.120 That's just the way that it is. That's okay, there 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.160 are some quarterbacks that are that way. But you just 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.280 look at that out throw. Peterson was sitting all over it. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.520 Now a little bit different knowing that he's not gonna 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.160 get beat deep, they're not going to test them and 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.839 all that. But the one in the red zone, same thing. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.080 It was late, it was not it was it was 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.520 not on a rope. It needed to be there. But 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.240 isn't that more about or at least could that be 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.400 more about decision making? That number one, he was in 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.440 decisive can get it out as soon as he should have, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.559 and then it was probably a bad decision on the comeback. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.120 It's probably a bad decision to throw that ball in 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.360 the first place because of the tight coverage there, and 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.840 he was he basically was coming back like he the 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.360 defenders saw that there was an opportunity there. He's gonna 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.640 bite on that, And so to me, I think of 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:19.280 that more as bad decision making, not decisive enough to 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.040 get the ball out when it was when the player 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.160 was when the receiver was open, then I do that 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.320 he didn't have the arm string to make the throw well. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.360 And the question was, do you think that he's a 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.439 guy that could develop into that? And I don't really 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.640 think so because of because of the arm string. Now 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.640 you can get better at some of those other things 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.960 that the decision making and all that. These quarterbacks do 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.120 get better. But I think he either have those tools 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:40.840 or you don't. It doesn't mean he can't go and 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.959 win games for your two or three weeks. It doesn't 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:46.440 mean that because it got quarterbacks can do that. But 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.839 I just don't. I don't mean I don't think he's 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.679 one that's going to develop into a starter for some 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.040 other team one year. I don't think that. You said 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.360 right there that a cornerback is going to bite on 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.320 that play, and you're right. But the thing that concerns 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.480 me is like bite implies that it was a gamble, 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.920 Like Patrick Peterson diagnosed that place so well and was 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.400 so much better than Cooper Rush in that moment that 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.320 it was like SloMo, like it wasn't a gamble. He 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.080 was like, I'm taking this to the house and he 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:15.800 knew it. Yeah, if I gave that impression that was 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.480 not the impression. You're right, Patrick Peterson knew from the 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:22.360 beginning what was happening in ideally that is a gamble, 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.800 where like there was the cornerbacks got to make that choice. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.360 But that's how much better Patrick Peterson was in that 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.760 moment that that play was just on a platter for him. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.000 And much of what you want to see, right, much 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:33.640 of what we've seen from Cooper Rush though, has been 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.800 against backup. Yeah, he's never seen, so he's now starting 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.600 to see. He last night he got to see there's 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.760 a big difference between the backups and the start. You know, 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.000 this offense though, I'll say this, if Scott Lanahan is 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.560 going to continue to run this type of offense, there's 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.680 gonna be a lot more pick sixes because you have 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.680 to you have to show that this dink and dunk 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.880 stuff will work every now and again. But if you 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.440 don't have the threat of a deep ball, then you know, 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.920 there's no reason why Patrick Peterson should be one hundred 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.320 percent convinced that Tavon Austin is not going to run 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.640 by him, but he was because they're not gonna throw 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.640 it deep like that. They're not going to do that. Well, 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.960 they tried Michael Gallup and not and and Cooper rush 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.760 overthrew Beasley, which I love that play. No, it was 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.440 a good that was a good play design. But but 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.160 that to me, was that the play design at the 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.280 watch that again? Or did it kind of develop into that? 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.400 Did he kind of break off? I mean, was he 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.720 running deep or was it kind of a breakdown? I 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.080 was like a double move type of situation. But I 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.280 don't know. It's funny because we Jerry Jones talked about 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.520 it after the game, and he kind of talked out 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.040 of both sides of his mouth. He was like, I'm 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.960 not ready to say that we're gonna look for guys, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:41.720 but I'm not ready to say that I feel great 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.720 about these two either, which that's kind of how I 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.920 feel where. I'm like, if Dak Prescott for whatever reason, 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.880 were to be unavailable for a period of lengthy period 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.360 of time, like more than a game, I would be 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.840 pretty worried. But I don't know how realistic it is 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.360 to think that you're going to drastically upgrade this position. 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.840 I know buddy at home is yelling about teddy Bridge 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.760 Bridgewater right now too much. I was gonna say, what 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.320 are you giving up for that, which and again, if 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.760 Nick Voles hadn't just won the Super Bowl for the Eagles, 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.560 I would just be like, everybody's screwed at backup quarterback. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.160 I can't completely discount that, Like, you can be better 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.640 off at backup quarterback than this team is, clearly, but 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:21.840 I don't know what they're gonna do about it right now. 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.320 They could go get your him idol drew on a blank. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.320 Who's my idol? I don't even know if he's been 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.680 hellable or not. Jay Cutler, Oh god, no please, I 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.880 mean he is my idol, but he's a reality TV star. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.080 Now they don't need that. You know what I would 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:42.040 have liked to see and touchdown, Yes, that would be yeah, no, 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:46.640 but in the two first games. I mean, the preseason 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.640 to me is the perfect time to try out different 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.920 things and not worry about the outcome of the game 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.120 at all. Obviously, but I would have liked to see 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:59.880 them give some revs or like, maybe I don't know, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.240 few snaps to Cooper Rush and even Mike White behind 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.840 the whole first team offense and just kind of get 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.520 a taste of what your backup quarterback could look like 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:16.840 when and if that time comes, but with all the 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:21.080 right guys around him, because again, we know Dak Prescott 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.760 as a quarterback. Yes he's good, but he's not at 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:28.960 that greatness level. A lot of his good things about 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.080 him comes along from the online and what they are 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.600 able to do in the time they're able to buy him. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.120 So I would have loved to see that happening. Obviously, 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.760 what isn't going to happen last night's game, but the 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.040 first two games, when you're still kind of unsure of 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.119 these two backup guys, why not give them a try, 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.520 just a little bit, to get a quick little taste. 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.760 The tough part about that is, though, then you got 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.680 to make those decisions of are you going to take 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.280 Dak off the field while your first team is still 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.280 out there? And that means that that he's not getting 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.159 those opportunities to get himself ready for the season. H 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:02.840 And does that or does that mean you're going to 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:04.480 take him out the normal time you would, but you're 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.960 gonna keep those other guys tying Zach, you know, out 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.080 there longer to be able to give this guy a 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:11.760 look behind. That's the tough part. And I'm not saying 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.240 you're right or wrong. I'm just saying that's too serious. 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:16.680 But that is just that's what you got to think about. 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.439 That's what the coaches have to think about, is we 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.160 are exposing our guys a little bit longer, or we're 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.719 not giving Dak the time that maybe he might need 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.400 to get ready for the season. That's the hard part, 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.760 you know. And this could always be famous last words, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.080 but I mean, you're young at quarterback. Dak is six two, 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.880 two thirty and twenty four years old. This could be, 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.439 you know, knock on wood, but I'm I'm way more 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.600 worried about other aspects of this team than your depth 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:43.479 at quarterback. Because da Dak, well, I mean, don't do it, 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.840 don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. I 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:50.199 mean injuries happening football. But Dak has given me no 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.800 reason to be fearful for his health. Again, I can 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.320 hear people screaming at me. I'm sorry, but I just 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.280 don't understand that logic because college football players get hurt 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:00.440 all the time, so to high school kids. I wasn't 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:05.080 worried about Travis Frederick, but again, look what happened. It's 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.240 it's the same logic y'all always use with me when 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:08.680 I don't want to play for people in the preseason. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.720 They're like, injuries happen. Yeah, I mean obviously something terrible 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.600 could happen to anybody playing, but at some point you 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:16.199 just gotta do what you gotta do. Like, am I 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.800 gonna give up a third round pick for Teddy Bridgewater 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.200 because I'm afraid Dak's gonna get hurt? I don't really 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.280