Speaker 1: Are you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready
Speaker 1: for a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah? And
Speaker 1: so much for that. It's time for The Break on
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and
Speaker 1: bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, July thirtieth,
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode number sixteen. Welcome to another
Speaker 1: edition of The Break. We are live from Hawkstart, California,
Speaker 1: and we've got some really, really great conversation for you
Speaker 1: guys today. I hope you guys are ready. Got a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about with Ezekiel Elliott and Cowboys signing
Speaker 1: of a running back yesterday, and maybe that's there's a
Speaker 1: message in that, maybe there's not. We're gonna get into
Speaker 1: some camp observations from yesterday. Yesterday was the first day
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were in pads. Lots of things to notice.
Speaker 1: I'll take the opinions of these guys and what they
Speaker 1: saw and let you guys here a little bit about
Speaker 1: what happened in practice. And if we have a little
Speaker 1: bit of time, I want to dive a little bit
Speaker 1: into the tight end position and Jason Witten coming back
Speaker 1: this season. Guys like Blake Jarwin, who've now had a
Speaker 1: little bit experience and where they fit with Jason Witten
Speaker 1: now in the tight end room, like talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about that. I think there's some interesting conversations there.
Speaker 1: How's everybody feeling this morning? Lovely, really really good good.
Speaker 1: There is a practice that will be starting up here
Speaker 1: at ten forty five this morning out here in Oxnards,
Speaker 1: so we'll be ending the show a little bit early,
Speaker 1: but let's just jump right into it. Also, there's there's
Speaker 1: a guy sam blasting over there. There's nothing we can
Speaker 1: do about it. We're sorry. Hopefully he'll stop. I apologize.
Speaker 1: We all apologize on behalf of the sam blaster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if we get to just know, I know we're gonna
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna get comments about it. And it's
Speaker 1: not like we're doing it on purpose. We get too
Speaker 1: far into this camp and he's still doing that. I'm
Speaker 1: going to send you over there to have a conversation
Speaker 1: with him, the muscle because because I'm the muscle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the shortest guy is the more our guy we send
Speaker 1: to handle those kinds of things. He'll just speak to
Speaker 1: you in Spanish. Oh, I'm waiting for the time because
Speaker 1: Nick has that little giggle like, yeah, something I was
Speaker 1: about to say. I was about to say, you might
Speaker 1: want to take Amber, but she's gonna say that's fine. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. Let's do a little it is. Let's
Speaker 1: do a little blanket coverage here, start the show. I
Speaker 1: got a couple of sentences for you guys, a couple
Speaker 1: of statements that will be a blank that you guys
Speaker 1: will fill in. Let's start first with this statement. Zeke's
Speaker 1: decision to train in Cabo is blank, Dave, I don't
Speaker 1: even have a reaction to it. He's he is at
Speaker 1: a gym that his agent owns. He's been there before,
Speaker 1: he trained there during his suspension. Maybe it's a bad
Speaker 1: look because Cabo is a vacation destination. I'm because of
Speaker 1: what happened in Dallas many years ago. But go ahead.
Speaker 1: But when Ezekiel Elliott was eight, I mean, so what,
Speaker 1: I don't care. I know Ezekiel Elliott. You know he
Speaker 1: comes with his baggage. He's had some issues off the field,
Speaker 1: but in terms of like playing running back, he's a professional.
Speaker 1: Whether he's here next week or a month from now,
Speaker 1: he'll be ready. I don't care, Amber, I mean I
Speaker 1: think he he's matured. He's mature enough to where I
Speaker 1: wouldn't expect him to make a dumb decision, especially at
Speaker 1: the in the spot his end right now, you know,
Speaker 1: looking for a contract. I would not think he would
Speaker 1: make that mistake. Yes he has in the past. You
Speaker 1: can laugh about it. But if you're if right now,
Speaker 1: what you're trying to do is get your money and
Speaker 1: your deal, you wouldn't do something like that. And like
Speaker 1: Dave said, he's been there before and he trained over there.
Speaker 1: You know, players like training on the sand and somehow
Speaker 1: that does something for your feet or something. It helps
Speaker 1: your calves immensely. Good time calf workout. It's a good workout. Okay,
Speaker 1: well no, probably not your calf. Zeke's decision training Cobo
Speaker 1: Nick is um interesting, okay, um. You know, I just
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go there with you on on
Speaker 1: he's matured and he's not gonna have a bad look
Speaker 1: because he's already had bad looks. He had a bad
Speaker 1: look this offseason, and we argued on that, like does
Speaker 1: that really matter? But it still was a bad look.
Speaker 1: It was a bad look to to be in Vegas
Speaker 1: for you know, maybe seven or eight hours before you're
Speaker 1: going to have your own camp in Dallas, and then
Speaker 1: also to be you know, um, you know, stopped by
Speaker 1: the police is not good either. But I just think
Speaker 1: that it's just interesting to he's gonna go do that.
Speaker 1: But if training is a part of it, that's fine,
Speaker 1: you know, long as training is in that because because
Speaker 1: you're right, he's gonna come back, and when he comes back,
Speaker 1: he's got to be ready, and then we'll see if
Speaker 1: he's if it's doing more training or more partying. So
Speaker 1: with all that being said, my opinion, I'm speaking for
Speaker 1: each of you, my opinion on how long this holdout
Speaker 1: will last. Blank Amber, While I may after I've seen
Speaker 1: that he goes to Cabbo. The Cowboys signing Alfred Moore
Speaker 1: is clearly they're getting ready and preparing themselves in case
Speaker 1: this goes past the first week of the regular season.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't what it looks so far as of
Speaker 1: right now, to me, it doesn't seem like this is
Speaker 1: going to happen before the season starts. Nick Um, I
Speaker 1: think they are covering all bases here. I still think
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to get this thing done before the season,
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't be I wouldn't be surprised if he
Speaker 1: goes into September. I will be surprised if he misses
Speaker 1: the first game, but I will I don't think it'll
Speaker 1: I think it'll go that far. But we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the Morris thing. I don't. I think they're just kind
Speaker 1: of covering themselves. Yeah, my opinion hasn't changed. I hope
Speaker 1: they're smarter than to think they're covering themselves by signing
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris. I mean, if that's you know, they're like, well,
Speaker 1: he might miss games. We gotta get Alfred Morris. Good
Speaker 1: luck with that. No offense Alfred, I'm sorry, but not
Speaker 1: the way we all love. I love him to death,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's a great way to protect
Speaker 1: yourself against not having Ezekiel Elliott. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: my point is he does have leverage because they there
Speaker 1: isn't something they can do short of trading another first
Speaker 1: round pick. There's not a whole lot they can do
Speaker 1: to ensure themselves against not having him at this point
Speaker 1: in the year. So yeah, I think it's more base
Speaker 1: covering than getting ready for I'm sort of standoff. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe it does go into September, but I still don't
Speaker 1: think he misses games. Here's one makes me think otherwise.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys tend to be a little patient in a way.
Speaker 1: They tend to play their cards at their own time.
Speaker 1: To me, this happened pretty soon, especially after Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: talked about giving these new younger guys the opportunity of,
Speaker 1: you know, training out here and seeing them develop. It
Speaker 1: happened rather too quickly. I know Alfred had had visited
Speaker 1: another team and all that, but I don't know, It's
Speaker 1: just it doesn't seem we'll see what happened. One thing
Speaker 1: to note on that, and Dave you just tweeted about this.
Speaker 1: Right before we went on the air. Will McClay was
Speaker 1: one with one of the local radio stations and talked
Speaker 1: about some of the rationales to why they went out
Speaker 1: and got Alfred Moors. Talk a little bit about that
Speaker 1: because maybe that answered a little bit of what Amber
Speaker 1: is is alluding to there. Well, it's really fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll talk for fifteen minutes with our friends
Speaker 1: on one oh five through the fan and it's it
Speaker 1: started off, you know, talk about the Morris move. While
Speaker 1: we're creating competition, doesn't mean we don't like our young guys,
Speaker 1: we've barely even practiced, but this is a guy who
Speaker 1: knows how to do it. We're always about fostering competition,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully these young guys understand that they should
Speaker 1: understand that they're in the NFL. And they just kept
Speaker 1: asking him questions, and I think one of the guys
Speaker 1: was like sort of trying to hint about, like, well,
Speaker 1: is this a shot at Zeke Bubbaly or are you
Speaker 1: trying to put him on notice? And finally Will sounded
Speaker 1: kind of exasperate. He was like, most teams have six
Speaker 1: backs in camp right now, we don't. We needed to
Speaker 1: six back. Alfred is our six back, and there's no
Speaker 1: guarantees beyond that we know what he can do. We
Speaker 1: like him, but basically there's no guarantee he even makes
Speaker 1: the roster. And so we had an hour to kill
Speaker 1: before the show. So I went and looked, and he's right.
Speaker 1: There were only five teams that didn't. Now there's four
Speaker 1: because the Cowboys have six. Now most teams have seven
Speaker 1: or eight. So you know, it seems like there's not
Speaker 1: enough reps to go around, but they'll they'll find a
Speaker 1: way to make it work. And you know, you can
Speaker 1: argue that, say, well, why don't you just get a
Speaker 1: young guy. They've got plenty of those. They got plenty
Speaker 1: of players that have never taken a snap in the NFL. Um.
Speaker 1: In fact, of the four backs that I could think
Speaker 1: of right now, the two rookies, Jordan Chun and Darius Jackson,
Speaker 1: they have a combined uh six carries, all of them
Speaker 1: are Darius and all Darius, all in the last regular
Speaker 1: season game of last year, right, right, So not a
Speaker 1: lot to work with in terms of NFL experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and I know that Jerry you know, came
Speaker 1: out and said something on I guess it was Channel
Speaker 1: eleven and said, we don't you know, you don't need
Speaker 1: a running you don't need a rushing champion to win
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. I thought that was really interesting because
Speaker 1: he does what do you mean, He's never won a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl without the rushing champion. That was also a
Speaker 1: long long time ago, and a lot about the NFL seas, right, So,
Speaker 1: but before for you for Jerry Jones to say you
Speaker 1: don't need one, he's never won a Super Bowl without one, right,
Speaker 1: But I think I understand the point. It's happened four times,
Speaker 1: three of them are in Smith for him. So the
Speaker 1: way this team is structured and its structured kind of
Speaker 1: similar to that. So it's he's right, but it's just
Speaker 1: that he's never experienced it either. So the last three
Speaker 1: times this team has experienced playoff success, it had the
Speaker 1: rushing champion as well, whether that was Ezekiel Elliott or
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray. Yeah, so I think the thing is, can
Speaker 1: you can kind of look at this and say, well,
Speaker 1: they took that approach with wide receivers last year and
Speaker 1: it didn't work out. You need a number one, And
Speaker 1: if you want to start thinking about that with running back,
Speaker 1: you might find yourself in the exact same situation. Although
Speaker 1: today's NFL, he does have a legitimate point from standpoint.
Speaker 1: In today's NFL, there are a lot of really good
Speaker 1: teams that do very very good things without having the
Speaker 1: best running back in the league. Now that means you
Speaker 1: probably need to have one of the better quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the league or and or one of the best coaches
Speaker 1: in the league. And so do you have those things?
Speaker 1: That becomes the question if you don't have that kind
Speaker 1: of runner that really put you over the top offensively. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Will actually had a great answer to that too. He
Speaker 1: was like, he's like Jerry, Jerry said something that's true,
Speaker 1: Like you clearly don't need one because so many teams
Speaker 1: have done it without him, but you know, and then
Speaker 1: he followed that up by saying, like, we're interested in
Speaker 1: having the best players, like we want the top talent
Speaker 1: regardless of position, Like, of course we value Zeke all
Speaker 1: that good stuff. And that's I've I think I've said
Speaker 1: this already even since we started the show's back in
Speaker 1: Oxnar's like, you don't need a running back of Zeke's caliber,
Speaker 1: but this team, the way it's constructed, and especially at
Speaker 1: this point in the year, like like there aren't other avenues.
Speaker 1: You can't draft one free agencies long gone. It's it's
Speaker 1: past time to try to find a real contingency plan.
Speaker 1: You are tied to this guy if you want to
Speaker 1: have the type of season you you want to have
Speaker 1: in my opinion, So let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris and that's signing. One of the things I
Speaker 1: thought was kind of curious in this whole thing was
Speaker 1: his decision to come to the Cowboys. I think it's
Speaker 1: a good move for the Cowboys because you improve competition
Speaker 1: regards to what you think of the other backs here.
Speaker 1: You brought in a back that has experienced deck and
Speaker 1: challenge the guys that are here, teach them a little
Speaker 1: bit along the way. I think that's a good move
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. But if you look at it from
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris's point of view, he was going to have
Speaker 1: a triald Or he did have a tryout with the Saints,
Speaker 1: and then he made the decision to come here. My
Speaker 1: big question is do you think he can make this team.
Speaker 1: Let's assume Zeke comes back at whatever point Zeke comes back,
Speaker 1: can't even make this team when you think about the
Speaker 1: other guys that are here, he can. I think he
Speaker 1: can make this team. He's got to be better, appreciably
Speaker 1: better than Mike Webber and Darius Jackson. He's got to
Speaker 1: be way better than them because and then if Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard proves to be a better inside runner, then it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard for him. But if he's kind of
Speaker 1: a guy that can play on the outside and does
Speaker 1: different things, and if anything were to happen to Zeke,
Speaker 1: they don't really have a good backup, then that's where
Speaker 1: Morris will play into this. But if Webber shows some
Speaker 1: flashes and Jackson shows some flashes. It's gonna be kind
Speaker 1: of tough on him, but you know, better than two
Speaker 1: guys that have a buying six carries. It's possible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's thirty years old, but he's he's
Speaker 1: been to two Pro Bowls. He's done this before. He
Speaker 1: knows the scheme here, he knows everybody here. Actually I
Speaker 1: didn't know this. I read it on Twitter last night.
Speaker 1: His family stayed in Dallas when he went to San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Seems like everybody does something about Dallas. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's the No. I mean, it's a great place
Speaker 1: to live, don't get me wrong. Maybe no, stay in
Speaker 1: Texas because same thing happens in Houston. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of former athletes that live in the Houston area.
Speaker 1: The state income tax. It's home for him, at least
Speaker 1: for the time being. But yeah, I mean, I keep
Speaker 1: saying this. Pollard's the only one besides Zeke that they've
Speaker 1: invested anything in. You know, I thought, you know, Weber
Speaker 1: was drafted and that's exciting, but so is bo Scarborough.
Speaker 1: You know so, But the question is, you would think
Speaker 1: for younger guys, you get something on special teams, Zeke,
Speaker 1: I mean, Alfred Morris is not going to be a
Speaker 1: special team Yeah, but and Nick's right, he has to
Speaker 1: be appreciably better. But if if you are appreciably more
Speaker 1: confident that he will give you more juice than you'll
Speaker 1: find a way to make that work, whether you know
Speaker 1: linebackers or whatever. Maybe he's an inactive guy, you know
Speaker 1: during the season. He doesn't play a lot on game day,
Speaker 1: but if something were to happen, that's what he was
Speaker 1: last time here. Um, you know, and I think it's
Speaker 1: it's worth pointing out that before the draft, you know,
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones was had kind of made some comments about,
Speaker 1: you know, the direction of where they might go. It
Speaker 1: wasn't Republic, but he kind of had said, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna look at the draft, but Alfred Morris was
Speaker 1: on the radar back then. This isn't just a oh
Speaker 1: you're going to Cabbo watch this. Uh Morris. Morris has
Speaker 1: been a guy they've been looking at. But they drafted
Speaker 1: two running backs so they said, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go here. But he's been He's been on the radar
Speaker 1: for a long time. That is a really good point
Speaker 1: that I forgot about because they drafted two backs. But
Speaker 1: way back in April, Jerry was like, you know, free
Speaker 1: agency will be their force when the draft's over if
Speaker 1: we need it. And maybe Alfred Morris going on all
Speaker 1: these visits, maybe they felt like they couldn't wait around,
Speaker 1: and that's why they did it so quickly. It's right right,
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, if we want him on the roster,
Speaker 1: maybe we need to do something before this Saints or
Speaker 1: somebody else gets trigger happy. Maybe I still don't answer
Speaker 1: your question though, wife for Morris, we don't know that, yeah,
Speaker 1: and not that we would until we talk to him,
Speaker 1: but but I do think, I mean, there were some
Speaker 1: good points there. Obviously, his family already being in Dallas
Speaker 1: that makes a difference. Him feeling like he already knows
Speaker 1: the system makes a difference. At his age, my presumption
Speaker 1: would be thinking about this offensive line, he may be like, hey,
Speaker 1: there's if there's any place I feel like I can
Speaker 1: do damage, Uh, here, it's here. You look at his
Speaker 1: his average per carry two years ago when he was
Speaker 1: with Dallas, it was a full point higher a full
Speaker 1: yard higher than what it was in San Francisco last season.
Speaker 1: So there's a difference that's made by the offensive line
Speaker 1: and the offense that you're that you're running in, so
Speaker 1: all those things matter. I just think that it's kind
Speaker 1: of tough when you start figuring out how he makes
Speaker 1: this team. If Zeke is back, I have a hard
Speaker 1: time figuring out how he makes a team. And just
Speaker 1: well I don't just because I mean, like you know,
Speaker 1: Darius Jackson, Mike Weber, they're great guys, but not by
Speaker 1: any means. You know, he didn't invest anything in him.
Speaker 1: There a seventh round pick and a sixth round pick
Speaker 1: from four years ago. If if it's even closer, if
Speaker 1: Morris is even a little bit better, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a hard call at all. I'm gonna get pissed
Speaker 1: if he gets cut. Who Alfred Alfred? Yeah? I mean
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, well that sucks, because that sucks. He's
Speaker 1: such a nice guy. He comes in here and then
Speaker 1: let's say, okay, welcome to the NFL. Well, we still
Speaker 1: need to talk about what happens contract wise. If he's
Speaker 1: here in place week one, let's say, uh, Seek is
Speaker 1: not back yet, what happens with his contract? Seek comes
Speaker 1: like week two, he gets a big deal whatever, and
Speaker 1: then you decide to cut Alfred, you have to pay
Speaker 1: the whole year. And that's why, I mean, love Alfred
Speaker 1: to death, but that's why I'm guarded about him making
Speaker 1: the team, like he's gotta They gotta really know that
Speaker 1: he's worth it, because they guarantee a salary by putting
Speaker 1: him on the team, and we don't know exactly what
Speaker 1: the contract, right they could say we're going to guarantee
Speaker 1: three or four game checks. You know, there was a
Speaker 1: reason why he decided to sign here, right, we don't
Speaker 1: know all of them, but I mean it was probably
Speaker 1: more than just I'm gonna play here, and I guess
Speaker 1: that's what I was pointing to is at least for me,
Speaker 1: I think there maybe a little bit more than we
Speaker 1: know about why or what the Cowboys told him, And
Speaker 1: that's where it starts to beg the question what kind
Speaker 1: of picture did they paint of the whole Zeke situation
Speaker 1: for Alfred that made him feel like this was a
Speaker 1: good place for him to come and sign. Again, we
Speaker 1: don't know any of that, but it is a little
Speaker 1: curious why he made the decision. Dallas. I think there's
Speaker 1: some reasons why, but it's still a little bit curious.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take our first break and we come back.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about practice yesterday. It was the first
Speaker 1: padded practice for the Cowboys, and we want to find
Speaker 1: out from these guys what their observations were. We got
Speaker 1: a few observations that were pretty interesting, some interesting things
Speaker 1: to see out there yesterday. We'll be right back this
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Speaker 1: slash Football. Back to the Break, Welcome back. It's the
Speaker 1: second segment of the Break Blackmock Snark, California. It's day
Speaker 1: four of Cowboys training or practice number four of the
Speaker 1: Cowboys training camp. Do they they have a morning practice?
Speaker 1: The crowd's already assembling. We started to see people filter
Speaker 1: onto the field. That practice will start at ten forty
Speaker 1: five am Pacific time. We'll have lots of coverage and
Speaker 1: if you haven't been able to check it out from yesterday,
Speaker 1: we did start up our training Camp live segment, the
Speaker 1: videos that we do live during training camp practice. Dave
Speaker 1: Hellman was on it with Brian brought us good segment.
Speaker 1: Makes you check that out and makes you continue to
Speaker 1: check it out throughout training camp. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: into some observations. Nick. I'll start with you talk me
Speaker 1: through some of the things that you noticed yesterday as
Speaker 1: you're watching practice first day in pat You know, I
Speaker 1: thought it was really interesting to see what Robert Quinn
Speaker 1: was going to be able to bring to the pass rush.
Speaker 1: And and you know he's gonna have some better he's
Speaker 1: gonna have some easier challenges than that. But if there
Speaker 1: was any question about Tyrn Smith, I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be just fine. Um, Robert Quinn might be a really
Speaker 1: good pro, but right now he was hard to see
Speaker 1: it on that first day because he was like any
Speaker 1: other player trying to get as Tyrant Smith. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not happening. He couldn't stay on his feet. I honestly
Speaker 1: believe like there's two things for for Robert Quinn's good
Speaker 1: news is bad news. The bad news you got to
Speaker 1: see this guy every day during practice during training camp.
Speaker 1: The good news you're probably not going to see a
Speaker 1: guy better than him on Sundays throughout the entire season.
Speaker 1: So take it as a learning opportunity. But it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough. I'd here during training Yeah, I'll put it
Speaker 1: more on Tyring. And we've noticed this this all off season.
Speaker 1: He just looks as good as he's ever looked. I
Speaker 1: think physically, he just looks like he's all he's never
Speaker 1: not looked that good. But you could just tell he
Speaker 1: seems healthy, and he looks the part, and he looks
Speaker 1: like a badass. Yeah, and he played like one yesterday,
Speaker 1: he said, yesterday, this is as good as he's felt
Speaker 1: in a couple of years now. But thing that he's
Speaker 1: got on his yeah, he looks like a cyborg honestly,
Speaker 1: like he does. He doesn't look like a human being
Speaker 1: when he's all padded up like that. It's it's it's frightening,
Speaker 1: which is but he's like the least frightening guy like personally.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, that's gonna say. To be fair to
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn, every time he went back against him, he
Speaker 1: gotta timey a little bit better. I mean he was
Speaker 1: still on the ground, but he got better every time.
Speaker 1: You're right, the fourth time. The two the first two
Speaker 1: he just he well, he got up just like yeah,
Speaker 1: grass on his face. Third one got a little bit.
Speaker 1: The fourth one had he had to have moved Dak. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like Dak would have had to move up into the
Speaker 1: pocket or whatever because he was kind of so yeah,
Speaker 1: getting better. Yeah, And by the end of camp, my
Speaker 1: suspicion is that he's gonna be winning some like he
Speaker 1: won't win every time, but he's gonna win some because
Speaker 1: that's also nature of We've seen that with other guys
Speaker 1: when you have to that kind of match up. We
Speaker 1: saw it with DeMarcus wearing Tyron when Tyrone was a
Speaker 1: rookie and DeMarcus are just killing him. By the end
Speaker 1: of camp, Tyron's holding his own a little bit, right,
Speaker 1: So you get better as time goes on and you
Speaker 1: kind of get to know what they like to do
Speaker 1: and where what areas they're a little bit deficient in,
Speaker 1: and you try to explore Tyron said after practice, and
Speaker 1: he said, we will. We work together a lot after practice.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make each other better, So that that's a
Speaker 1: good part of it too. Resolutely, Dave throw a little
Speaker 1: credit to Connor Williams too, been you know, he's done
Speaker 1: amazing work in the offseason. He's one of the award
Speaker 1: winners for best Strength and Conditioning and sure as hell
Speaker 1: looks like it's translating out there. They called him up
Speaker 1: in front of the team for compete period. Daniel Ross
Speaker 1: just sat down on him just a just hack, power, strength,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. We said he didn't have last year early,
Speaker 1: but it looks like he's got it, so shout out
Speaker 1: to him. And then just watching what the offense kind
Speaker 1: of looked like. You know, Um, I saw a lot
Speaker 1: of jet sweeps yesterday, a lot of wide receiver action,
Speaker 1: a lot of motion in the backfield. Saw Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: split out wide and just move all over the formation,
Speaker 1: which you know we're at we're at ground level here,
Speaker 1: and these guys are enormous, so like, it's hard to
Speaker 1: really see what it looks like without having that bird's
Speaker 1: eye view, but I don't know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people moving around back there, and it's exciting. I like
Speaker 1: watching it. Well to those people, Dad to keep wondering
Speaker 1: how Taco looks and how Tristan Hill looks when you
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen this season, it's not good, no boy, no,
Speaker 1: no boy. No. Yeah, it's a little embarrassing out there,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna still embarrassing. That was for Taco. Tristin Hill.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's new, he's getting adjusted to everything that's going
Speaker 1: on here. He still lacks that strength that you would
Speaker 1: want him to have, so yes, there's room to grow,
Speaker 1: but when you move and start talking about Taco, a
Speaker 1: guy that is going into a third year here he
Speaker 1: does not look good. And him going up against le Collins.
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about Lyle. Yes, he's a great
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, but at the same time he makes errors.
Speaker 1: He's not the greatest old line out there, so he
Speaker 1: handle him easy with one arm. I take video of
Speaker 1: every single snap at practice, Like I don't have time
Speaker 1: to really look at at it. I mean I might
Speaker 1: watch it once to make sure it's good, but like
Speaker 1: I don't have time to study it, so I don't
Speaker 1: see everything. I went back and looked at a Rep
Speaker 1: Taco going against Lyell and he just got handled and
Speaker 1: like towards the end of his rush, he's like, nah,
Speaker 1: screw this, and it was like the most half hearted
Speaker 1: you know, the Taco spin move, but it was like
Speaker 1: twenty five percent speed. He just looked. He just looked. Honestly,
Speaker 1: you couldn't tell that he's supposed to be a veteran.
Speaker 1: You cannot tell him die. Far apart from what I love,
Speaker 1: Like you take this personally, you know, you're like, damn it, Taco,
Speaker 1: come on. But I actually noticed that a couple of
Speaker 1: times there were a couple of rushes he had in
Speaker 1: the one on ones where it seemed like by the
Speaker 1: end of it he was just so exasperated because he
Speaker 1: was just like, I have nothing to get, Like I
Speaker 1: can't beat this guy at this point, and so he's
Speaker 1: kind of it's almost like he just kind of gave up.
Speaker 1: You see some guys that are like those one hundred
Speaker 1: milk ball in our you know, full time motor type guys,
Speaker 1: and they don't stop until the whistle blows. That wasn't
Speaker 1: him on some of those one on one and the
Speaker 1: hoss rush drills, and so I don't know, he's he's
Speaker 1: got this will be a long camp. He's got some time.
Speaker 1: But when he's got a but he's got to jump in,
Speaker 1: he's got showing something he really does. Will has said
Speaker 1: this before, so it's not new news, but he said
Speaker 1: it again today where he's like, you know, Taco has
Speaker 1: to compete just like everybody else. He's got to compete
Speaker 1: for a roster spot. That's the whole point of this.
Speaker 1: And I think he will, but if he doesn't, the
Speaker 1: train will leave without him. Like we're you know this,
Speaker 1: this thing ain't that time, This thing ain't slowing down
Speaker 1: for anybody so that time. Yeah, and they drafted two
Speaker 1: defensive ends. I mean they drafted Jokes and uh Joe
Speaker 1: Jackson and got one of free agency and got one
Speaker 1: free agency who Hyder Hyder? Yeah? Everybody sleeps on right,
Speaker 1: but howbody sleeps on Carrie Hyder? You know? And I
Speaker 1: know he plays tackle? And I was just like, who
Speaker 1: you refer? Hider wears fifty one, which is like the
Speaker 1: least sexy d N number, even like Quinn wears fifty eight.
Speaker 1: That even kind of looks cool because the eight is
Speaker 1: like long, Yeah, that's true, Like fifty one. You're just like,
Speaker 1: is he alive? Shouldn't you be over there? The tackling sled,
Speaker 1: like what are you doing here? Yeah? But I think
Speaker 1: he could be. He's somebody to watch if he gets
Speaker 1: to that hot boy status he'll get in the ninth Ye,
Speaker 1: speaking of numbers, Alfred Morris is wearing twenty three. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess yeah, it just looks different.
Speaker 1: I mean, forty six is a big bulky number for him.
Speaker 1: I bet he looks slimmer. People are gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: he looks slimmer only because he's not that he was like,
Speaker 1: not that he's like fat or anything, but yeah, forty
Speaker 1: six makes you look big. Yeah he'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. I'd like to throw some a couple
Speaker 1: names out on offense that I wanted to get your
Speaker 1: opinions on. Reggie Davis yesterday was popped out at me.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that can run and he had a
Speaker 1: really phenomenal catch down the side. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys saw it running down field. Talk a little
Speaker 1: about Reggie Davis, what you saw it during first of
Speaker 1: all him coming to the team and what he brings
Speaker 1: to the team, but what you saw during OTA's mini
Speaker 1: camps and then what you're seeing out here from this
Speaker 1: was that the one against Jordan, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know who you remember who the cornerback was, although Jordan did.
Speaker 1: Jordan talked yesterday just about how much the insane amount
Speaker 1: of speed that's this receiver corps because Guidon and John
Speaker 1: Vay like that's why they're here. They run four to three.
Speaker 1: Devin Smith was was a freakid Ohio State before all
Speaker 1: the injuries. So there's a and Reggie Davis too. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of speed on this receiver. Corps and
Speaker 1: actually what stood out it was a great catch. It
Speaker 1: was a go route, he high pointed it, he needed
Speaker 1: one hand to hold on to it while he got tackled.
Speaker 1: But was more impressive than me was the one he made.
Speaker 1: H He ran a skinny post and it wasn't a
Speaker 1: spectacular catch. But the reason why it stood out was
Speaker 1: because it was with the first team, which I don't
Speaker 1: know if that was an in practice decision or well,
Speaker 1: but I was like, Okay, Reggie Davis is getting some
Speaker 1: run with the ones and he looked good doing it. Um,
Speaker 1: he's he does not look like. He does not have
Speaker 1: an NFL build. He's skinny, he's five probably five ten,
Speaker 1: five eleven maybe, but he can run. And to answer
Speaker 1: your question, what he did during OTAs that like once
Speaker 1: a day you're like, holy crap, well who caught the
Speaker 1: Oh Reggie Davis with the nice catch. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: something to watch. I've said this statement for fifteen years,
Speaker 1: but it's true, and it's really true this year. These
Speaker 1: guys are here because they can run and they can catch,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna turn some heads and talk get talked
Speaker 1: about because they what they they can catch. The guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna take that leap is the one that makes
Speaker 1: the best tackle, And that's that's always what happens with
Speaker 1: those receivers. The guy that comes out in that first
Speaker 1: game and goes down and blows somebody up at the
Speaker 1: punt return, it could be guiding and you're like, you
Speaker 1: know what, he could play special teams. That's what happened
Speaker 1: to Sam heard. That's what those guys can do. And
Speaker 1: they're gonna Now unless you're Reggie Davis that continues to
Speaker 1: make these plays with the first team, Now you jump
Speaker 1: into this category like I can help as a receiver.
Speaker 1: But if they're gonna try to figure out the best
Speaker 1: guys in this group down here, the special team's contributor
Speaker 1: is going to rise to the front. Pretty fun moment
Speaker 1: to speaking of just high end speed. John Vay Johnson
Speaker 1: had a long touchdown and like it wasn't even hard.
Speaker 1: That's how many yards behind Chris Wester he was. I
Speaker 1: mean it was he burned him and Chris Richard. After
Speaker 1: it was over, like he pointed at Westrey and pointed
Speaker 1: at the sideline. He was like, ah, like that's no sir. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to watch a reppertwo after that one.
Speaker 1: So these guys have some speed. That's that guys, It's
Speaker 1: gonna be an uphill battle for him. How does that
Speaker 1: affect a guy like Tavon Austin who his calling card
Speaker 1: to speed. But you look at the Avon had a
Speaker 1: long catch yesterday too. I know that. But my point
Speaker 1: is why you last year, the reason why I thought
Speaker 1: Tavon was important to this team is because he added
Speaker 1: an element of speed that maybe they didn't have from
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. You're talking about the fact that
Speaker 1: there's a ton of guys right now that are young
Speaker 1: that also have that kind of speed. Does how does
Speaker 1: that affect Tavon now not being the only guy with
Speaker 1: that kind of blazing blaze had a punt return as well,
Speaker 1: And I think if you continues to run the way
Speaker 1: he did on that one punt return, I mean there's
Speaker 1: there's different kinds of speed. We've seen guys that are
Speaker 1: clocked that could run a Randall Williams or somebody like that.
Speaker 1: But but Terry Glenn it had an aggressive speed speed
Speaker 1: on the field and and Tavon has that kind of speed.
Speaker 1: So all these other guys, Devin Smith and John Vay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that They've proven they can run well, but can they
Speaker 1: run well in the middle of crowd and do those
Speaker 1: kind of things that Tavon has proven to do in
Speaker 1: his career he needs to do on a consistent basis
Speaker 1: for this team though. Yeah, well really, to elaborate, I
Speaker 1: was talking about the motions and all that stuff. We
Speaker 1: saw Cedric Wilson, we saw John Vay, Tavon did some
Speaker 1: things like there are a lot of guys with speed
Speaker 1: and so, you know, even we joked yesterday like Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis had to do a lot of that stuff when
Speaker 1: Tavon got hurt last year, Like, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: the case, and hopefully calam Moore will be more willing
Speaker 1: to use guys like that. So it's you know, I
Speaker 1: think Tavon probably makes this team, but you can't say
Speaker 1: that with any certainty because I do think there are
Speaker 1: a few guys on this team that can kind of
Speaker 1: replicate what he does. It's just amazing to me, as
Speaker 1: we talk about all these different positions each day, just
Speaker 1: how much depth the Cowboys have this year that that
Speaker 1: just didn't seem to be there in this amount last year.
Speaker 1: And again this is all very early on. We will
Speaker 1: find out a lot more. We got to see that,
Speaker 1: like I've made that mistake before where I'm like, there's
Speaker 1: so many great guys out here when they're practicing against
Speaker 1: each other. You got to see that translate to preseason
Speaker 1: games too. But even just looking at and the reason
Speaker 1: why I said it like I said it is because
Speaker 1: you know, we've seen teams where you'll have these you
Speaker 1: may have one guy like a Amari Cooper and then
Speaker 1: all the rest of the guys are the guys like
Speaker 1: Guy eating in that you're trying to see something from
Speaker 1: Like you've got three guys you already know day one
Speaker 1: are playing and they're gonna play well, right, and then
Speaker 1: you get to these guys it's like Scott has a
Speaker 1: little talent, Scot has some speed. It's just we talked
Speaker 1: about the offensive line. It's the same thing. You already
Speaker 1: have your starters, but then you get beyond that and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh my god, these other guys can actually play.
Speaker 1: I just think right now, you look the depth overall,
Speaker 1: Cowboys are looking really really good from a depth standpoint,
Speaker 1: where I don't think they've always looked that way over
Speaker 1: the last several years, even when they've had pretty talented teams.
Speaker 1: Looks like our final break. When we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get into the tight end position a little bit.
Speaker 1: That might be an area that's a little different. Depths
Speaker 1: might be a little bit less at that position. We'll
Speaker 1: get these guys opinions. We'll talk about that when we
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Speaker 1: Today Back to the break Welcome back the final segment
Speaker 1: of the break Lick of Hot Star California. The players
Speaker 1: are starting to take the field out here for the
Speaker 1: morning practice. It is the only practice of the day.
Speaker 1: They'll have a walk through this afternoon and tomorrow will
Speaker 1: be a day off for them so they can kind
Speaker 1: of get their legs back under them after a couple
Speaker 1: of days and pass Sizzler day? Is that what it is?
Speaker 1: First off day off training camp? All right, you're welcome
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Speaker 1: appreciate that. All right, let's talk about the tight end position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't like it anyway. Really, Okay, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the tight end position. I guess let's start. I want
Speaker 1: to start by giving you, you guys, an opportunity just
Speaker 1: to give me kind of your general observations of the
Speaker 1: tight end position, because it is, as as I mentioned
Speaker 1: a little earlier, there are a lot of positions where
Speaker 1: you look at the depth and you're like, man, they
Speaker 1: got a lot of talent here. I think the tight
Speaker 1: end position is one of the positions where they're probably
Speaker 1: just as many questions as answers. So just give me
Speaker 1: your overall view of kind of where the cowboys sit
Speaker 1: here heading into training camp at the tight end position. Nicholas,
Speaker 1: start with you. They have a Hall of Fame tight
Speaker 1: end that they need to figure out if he's still
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer, and if he's not, then it
Speaker 1: is Blake Jarr woodn't better, is it Jason Witten the
Speaker 1: same guy that he used to be? And if not,
Speaker 1: how is he is? He's still better than jar went
Speaker 1: to get off the field at times. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: really what it comes down to, is that can they
Speaker 1: both play? Because before it was just one guy playing?
Speaker 1: Now is it to the point where they both need
Speaker 1: to kind of be out there? But everybody has something
Speaker 1: to prove? Everybody in that group. Charltz, can you can
Speaker 1: you be a factor? Rico? Can you do stuff? I mean,
Speaker 1: can you be a blocker? Now? Rico? Are you better
Speaker 1: than Witten? Whitten? Do you still have it? They all
Speaker 1: have questions. I think he still does. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he still has it. I feel that right now. And
Speaker 1: I was hesitant of him coming back. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: how is it gonna come down to? You know, he
Speaker 1: when he was here, to me, he seemed like his
Speaker 1: game was getting slower. He just seemed a little slower
Speaker 1: and not as fast. Not that he was ever super fast,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, Now what I've seen
Speaker 1: from him, to me, he looks better than what he
Speaker 1: looked like two years ago. Really, I feel like when
Speaker 1: he moves around again, we haven't seen a whole ton yet,
Speaker 1: but he moving around the field and running around catching
Speaker 1: the ball. I feel that his mobility, he just looks
Speaker 1: better than two years ago. He's got more pepp and
Speaker 1: his step, to be sure, And that makes sense when
Speaker 1: you think about it. I mean, he took a year
Speaker 1: off from getting in that stance sixty times a day
Speaker 1: and getting beat to hell every Sunday and all that
Speaker 1: stuffs and guys leaning on it. Yeah, and if I
Speaker 1: had to guess, he probably still took really good care
Speaker 1: of himself even when he was a broadcast. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's on Tom Brady's level, but
Speaker 1: he definitely you know, I think somebody did a behind
Speaker 1: the scenes thing on kind of his routine, like you know,
Speaker 1: hours of stretching and a massage every day. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's not just like hashtag blessed, Like you got to
Speaker 1: put hours in into it to still function that well
Speaker 1: at that age after this many years of taking that
Speaker 1: kind of beating, and I think a year off might
Speaker 1: have been good for his overall legs. It'll be interesting
Speaker 1: to see how that holds up. You know, I just
Speaker 1: look at it and I just you know, no offense
Speaker 1: to Wit. It's like a holding pattern. You know, Jason
Speaker 1: garrettson a contractor year, Jason Witten wanted to come back.
Speaker 1: I think they worked well for each other, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you can help me, I can help you. Let's go
Speaker 1: try to accomplish this thing together and we'll worry about
Speaker 1: the future of the position later. I didn't. I did
Speaker 1: not know Blake Jarwin had the athleticism to jump over
Speaker 1: an entire jugs machine that was on top of a
Speaker 1: golf cart by the way. They just kind of popped
Speaker 1: up for him because he was running full speed, caught
Speaker 1: a pass and then looked up and there's a jug machine.
Speaker 1: He's got to so negotiate that. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: unless it's like Jimmy Graham, who we all know used
Speaker 1: to play basketball, Like, you don't think of tight ends
Speaker 1: as being like super freak guys like that. But that
Speaker 1: was impressive. So I'm interested to see where Jarwin is.
Speaker 1: Maybe he really can push for playing time, like significant
Speaker 1: playing time. I'm not I'm not ready to say that yet,
Speaker 1: just because I know who Witten is and what he's about.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm still kind of waiting to see, do
Speaker 1: you guys think there's a chance that he could possibly.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll be the starter because I think
Speaker 1: that they value making the veteran, the guy that runs
Speaker 1: out of the tunnel as the starter. But do you
Speaker 1: think there's an opportunity for Blake Jarwin here being the
Speaker 1: more athletic of the two. And I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: speaking out of turn by saying that for him to
Speaker 1: be the primary tight end at some point throughout the season.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll ever be like the primary primary
Speaker 1: tight end. But even just in the four days we've
Speaker 1: been here, we know this team's not afraid to use
Speaker 1: twelve personnel. Hopefully they're afraid to use thirteen personnel, but
Speaker 1: maybe not why because it never works. It never works.
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll work now that they have another tight end
Speaker 1: who can do it. But like every time they do
Speaker 1: thirteen personnel, it's like, Okay, this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: run for like a yard every time, every single time. Anyway,
Speaker 1: every time they call twelve, it's always Blake Like. It
Speaker 1: certainly seems so far that there is a clear two,
Speaker 1: and then Schultz and Rico are significantly behind Whitten and Jarwin.
Speaker 1: So I think maybe he can get significant snaps in
Speaker 1: multiple tight end sets and stuff like that and have
Speaker 1: a real role. But I'd be surprised if he's ever
Speaker 1: the guy in every formation. What I think you might
Speaker 1: see is when they get down by the goal line,
Speaker 1: I think he might be a better option because of
Speaker 1: his athleticism. He might be a better option down there
Speaker 1: because Witt is a better blocker. I don't know that yet.
Speaker 1: I know he's been a pretty good blocker, but you know, Jarwin,
Speaker 1: that's an area that all young tight ends have to
Speaker 1: get better at it. So it might be a situation
Speaker 1: where Witten plays more and he has one touchdown and
Speaker 1: w and Jarwin has four for five because he's getting
Speaker 1: a little bit more opportunities down there. He's maybe more
Speaker 1: of a jump and ball type of guy than, you know,
Speaker 1: than Witten. What do you think that Schultz had to
Speaker 1: get better coming out of his rookie year? What do
Speaker 1: you think there was the area he had to get
Speaker 1: he had improven most in order to be a viable
Speaker 1: tight end for the team? Drink strength, Yeah, bulk and strength.
Speaker 1: Do you see any of that? I haven't seen enough.
Speaker 1: I mean one padded practice and I honestly don't remember
Speaker 1: even watching him yesterday, and I was talking more about
Speaker 1: just his physical appearance because I know for Connor, we
Speaker 1: saw him the first time we saw him coming out
Speaker 1: of the offseason program. We were like, oh wow, he's
Speaker 1: put on weight, he's bulked up. He looks the part.
Speaker 1: At this point, I'll get back to you. I'll you
Speaker 1: know that's on my brain. Now I'll take a look
Speaker 1: at him. Well. Aside from physical stuff, I think he
Speaker 1: still needs to get better his reaction and his instincts,
Speaker 1: just reacting a lot faster than what he does right now.
Speaker 1: And we'll see second year coming in. But last year
Speaker 1: I didn't feel that he had that quiet Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's okay. He was a rookie, but it takes time
Speaker 1: to learn how to react and how to move at
Speaker 1: a certain time. What do you guys, do you guys
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys will get anything out of the Rico
Speaker 1: experien experiment at this point, Well, based on where we are,
Speaker 1: on what you've seen at this point. First day of
Speaker 1: first day of pads, he dropped a slant that got intercepted. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's not a great start, you know, same thing as Taco.
Speaker 1: It's early, But no, I I'm surprised. It's still ongoing,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and I think I've said
Speaker 1: I think this is the year it ends for two years,
Speaker 1: but I do think this is the year that it ends.
Speaker 1: So let's assume for a second that that Rico does
Speaker 1: not make this team. Do you think that Cowboys, knowing
Speaker 1: how much they like to use twelve thirteen personnel, that
Speaker 1: they'll have to go to the well and maybe bring
Speaker 1: in a fourth tight end or do you think that
Speaker 1: that person's already on the team. It's a unique situation.
Speaker 1: I think what happens in this case is I think Winten, Jarwin,
Speaker 1: and Schultz make the team to start the year and
Speaker 1: Rico goes to spended list for one game. Oh, I
Speaker 1: forgot about that. But then in week two then they
Speaker 1: have a decision to make and knock on wood. But
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody gets banged up in week one, you know,
Speaker 1: like let's say a couple two or three weeks. You
Speaker 1: know that Rico's a guy, Well he comes right in,
Speaker 1: and then if not, if you decide, well we don't
Speaker 1: have space for him, let's cut him. You know, it's
Speaker 1: it's at that point in the season where maybe other
Speaker 1: teams aren't going to say, well, let's let's take a
Speaker 1: shot on this guy. You know, maybe they will, maybe
Speaker 1: they don't. Maybe he's back on the practice squad. If
Speaker 1: he's got eligibility for it, I'm not even sure. But
Speaker 1: if everyone's healthy, okay, yeah, are you wanting to keep
Speaker 1: four tight ends on the roster? It's all about him
Speaker 1: to me, it's all about Rico. Is Rico doing anything
Speaker 1: that makes you think I just not ready to let go?
Speaker 1: It's not a not a fourth tight end, it's a
Speaker 1: is it nine lineman? Is it six linebackers, it's whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, he's another quarterback you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And that's what's happened before. He's he'sn't been on this
Speaker 1: team because of other positions. But he's one practice he's
Speaker 1: not you know, to answer me to answer your question, well,
Speaker 1: he did too. But I do I want four tight ends?
Speaker 1: Not really, but I think they probably do. That's and
Speaker 1: I always frame my answers in regard to that, knowing
Speaker 1: how much they like their team personnel. If you were
Speaker 1: mentioned before, you don't necessarily, but they love it seem
Speaker 1: like to do mooring stuff, So that's part of it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, and you think if they if they're
Speaker 1: going to do that, they may one a half four
Speaker 1: tight ends. But if you know, Will McClay said it
Speaker 1: about Taco Charlton, the first round pick. He said, you know,
Speaker 1: the train will be leaving and you're you know, if
Speaker 1: you better be on it. If that's the case with
Speaker 1: Taco Charlton, that's got to be the case with Rico
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