WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: No Early Christmas 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:04.960 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:14.600 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.479 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:30.280 Star in Frisco, and now your hosts Iaiah stand Back, 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:37.479 Patrick Walker and Kyle Yeomans. It is a wonderful Wednesday 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.360 edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.320 from the Star in Frisco in the SWBC studios. It 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.639 is the final bye week episode of the podcast as 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.760 we head into a little bit of a break Thursday, Friday, 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.000 no podcast and then of course no game on Sunday, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:56.680 and then we'll be back here on Monday with the 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.400 normal crew Isaiah Standbackpatrick Nose, Walker and myself. But today 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.840 we've got the mix up crew one more time. Brian 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:04.920 brought us and Nate and Nton joining us here on 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.000 Talking Cowboys. Gentlemen, how are we doing? I'm doing great, 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:13.759 doing great, Really enjoyed yesterday. Mom gave a big thumbs 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.759 up after the show. She said, boy, that was really entertaining. 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.479 She said, you two were outstanding, and I was a 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.800 little subpart need to pick up my game. So I 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.640 don't know but I'll try and pick it up this week. No, 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.680 I'll tell you what it's. It's it's a lot of fun. 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.080 I think Derek Eagleton said it best yesterday when I 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.160 was listening a little bit of their podcast. He was 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:36.039 talking about sometimes you get in that bubble where everybody 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.240 tends to have the same opinion, and it's nice to 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.960 be to go out and get another opinion or hear 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:47.760 another view. And I love doing that. I love working 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.080 with you guys, whether it's the Draft show or back 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.000 in the day when we did pre and postgame shows together. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.240 But it's just nice to hear a different opinion on 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.040 something that you might have been a little dug in on. Yeah, 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.680 and you're like, you know, but they's right about that, 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.240 Kyle's right about that, you know it kind of it's 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.360 it's a good way. I think. I think the listeners 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.320 benefit from that. Oh. I got a lot of compliments 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.760 yesterday about the pairing of you two on the show, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.840 and they love Patrick and Isaiah two. And everybody brings 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.120 their own different opinion and different personality to the show. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.240 But that makes up it's fun, just funning this every year. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.040 And Nate, I mean, you're smiling over there. You must 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.160 have had a good day yesterday too. Well, I'm just 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.760 trying to figure out man, neither one of these us 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.960 you or who you are. I don't have drizz, you 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:37.600 don't have dress. He see Patrick because I'm you know, 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.680 you know, it's funny. It's funny you say that. It's 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.680 like it's like my mom was telling me this was funny. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.000 My mom is one of my biggest critics, and she 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:51.160 listens to everything, and she says, when you get people 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.839 together that have lived it, you know, when you get 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.200 people like me on the personnel side, and then Nate 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.600 is a former player, you know, you when you live things, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.680 you could kind of you know, I'm not always clear 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.840 about how I say it, but when you listen, this 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.560 is why I'm telling you this. Yeah, you know, And 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.919 I'm sure today we're gonna talk about the trade deadline. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.160 I got to live that. I think there was a 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.079 little disappointment on my end from that whole thing, but 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.480 I think the experience of the room is always unique, 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.800 you know, And I think that's what's cool about it. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.600 Six time Pro Bowl or in three times Super Bowl, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.320 change by two Super Bowls. Yeah, yeah, you got took 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.200 a champ, a couple from us there in Green Bay. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.280 We were never good enough to play with that grew 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.040 not to play with Nate, right, No, Nate just wore 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.920 old Gilbert Brown out. Yeah. Man, we have fun. It 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.640 was glory days, man, a lot of fun. It'll be back. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.600 They'll come back soon, man, no doubt about it. It 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.520 was funny the other day when when I said that 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.840 you guys were coming on the show because it's mentioned you. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.120 It's funny you mentioned the dreads. Both Patrick and Isaiah 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:56.760 were like, so, I guess you just kicked off the 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.880 guys with the dreads. You bring it in Brian and Nate, 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:00.440 and I was like, yeah, that's exactly what it is. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.160 So let's get after the trade deadline a little bit 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.720 because I think you said it your best a second ago, Brian. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.760 Then a little bit of disappointment on your end day. Yeah, 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.160 and a little bit of disappointment I think from Cowboys Nation. 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.640 There was no trade made at the deadline anyways. Of 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.680 course they go out and get Jonathan Hankins prior to 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.599 the trade deadline, but as far as yesterday goes, we 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:26.520 thought maybe a wide receiver, maybe another playmaker, another valued player. No, 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.880 move made. What are your thoughts. Well, if you're a 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.880 fan of the Miami Dolphins, you're probably pretty excited because 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.920 they went super aggressive on you yesterday. It was good 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.919 to see. I think with them moving the trade deadline back, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.719 I think it's kind of helped things. I think teams 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.039 get to the point the halfway point of the season 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.840 and they're like, we're two and six, we're not going anywhere, 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.000 or man, we need to make a big move. And 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.280 you know, if you believe the reports of Albert Breer 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.279 and others who covered this league so well, that the 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.640 Dallas Cowboys were in on the Brandon cooksting. Brandon Cooks, 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.000 we were starting to learn wasn't at practice, you know, 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:08.320 so you're thinking, well, maybe the the Texans were working 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:12.360 on something there. It sounds like to me, and reading 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.359 into what Brandon Cooks said afterwards that he felt like 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.680 that he was told that he was going to be traded. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.039 And so you know that's Nick Sirianni and those guys 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:26.000 down there at you know, next Sarrio, excuse me down 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.120 there in a in a Houston, you know, we're probably 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.359 trying to get this thing done. The word was Dallas 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.560 was in on it. They couldn't agree on the you know, 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.000 you get guaranteed money. You know, there's all these things 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.280 that kind of happened. And I know Cowboy fans are 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.359 going wherever they go, they're gonna tell us about guaranteed money. 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:44.880 They don't want to pay this, They don't want to 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.679 pay that. You know. I'd like to have seen him try. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:53.320 I think they tried. I just I mean, the the 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.240 the money aspect of it always is going to be 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.599 a hang up here because they've got other guys they 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.880 have to sign, you know, I understand rolling over cap 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.280 and stuff like that, and you know, and they let 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:09.160 over twenty million dollars receiver last last year, you know, 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.160 with Amari Cooper, and were they interested in adding an 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.440 eighteen million dollars receiver. Well, I don't think that was 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.720 you know, there was an initially, yeah, there was some 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.440 thought about that, but you know, until you really sit 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.960 down and visit with people afterwards and share a beer 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.159 with him or whatever, and say, hey, how did that 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.320 thing really roll down? And I'm sure that in the 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.560 coming days will hear this happened, this happened, this happened, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.680 and we'll have a little bit clearer picture but I 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.480 wish they would have been able to do something because 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.760 added Cooks I think could have helped. Yeah, it would 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.480 give you an explosive player on the outside. And you know, 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.240 maybe maybe this now is their explosive players get Turpin going. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.479 Maybe that's maybe that's the explosive player that they need 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.240 to get going. Cook's is arguably one of the most 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.480 underrated wide receivers in the entire league, but traded for 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.520 a lot of ones. Yeah, he's He's definitely benefited from 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.360 from bouncing around and still kept his his explore n 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.120 But Edward Or yesterday was the first one that I 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.480 had seen the tweet, and he said two sources directly 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.839 involved tell me that the Cowboys and the Texans discuss 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.080 the potential trade involving wide receiver Brandon Cooks until the 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.280 final minutes before the NFL trade deadline. Expired draft pick 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:20.600 compensation and the eighteen million dollars guaranteed salary for Cooks 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.360 in twenty twenty three could not be resolved in time. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.600 So they were close. They were trying, at least that's 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.280 the report. What would it have been A two, a three, 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.080 probably a probably a two, at least a two, maybe 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.000 a little bit more. See that might be where the 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.280 line was drawn in the team, I step over it. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.160 This is where they let go a second round pick yesterday, 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.920 didn't they. Yeah? Yeah, I was talking to people on 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.560 Twitter this morning about that. I'm like, well, maybe they 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:46.920 didn't want to give up to two. I'm glad they 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.000 didn't do it. And I'm thinking, you just let a 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.480 two go yesterday and you got a three day. Can't 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.600 catch a ball? Yeah. See see that's that's that's no, 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.560 that's that's that's right now. It's a very fair point, Nate, 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.600 coming in slinging fired day. I like it. This is 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.880 what you know. You know, I'm sitting over here, you know, 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:09.960 just not saying nothing, but saying a lot. But I 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:17.720 don't need anymore to see our receivers not play big 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:24.000 inconsistent because what you said was whatever to read the 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:28.360 money the pigs. We are staying pat And that's why 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.800 you heard me say yesterday, what is my biggest if 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:37.160 I can have Christmas today? Discipline, because that's that's your 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.960 present today, you hope, Yeah, because that's what you're saying. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:45.040 I didn't get these guys out there because we believe 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:50.360 that with Jack at the helm we have guys coming back, 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.000 guys getting better, and this is what we got, and 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.719 we're good enough to get into the second round of 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:01.480 the playoffs with not not in the first. We're good 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.680 enough to be in the second round competing for the 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:09.880 NFC Championship. That's what you're saying. So how tough is 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.800 it on this coaching staff Nate to bring that present 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.720 and put it at the doorstep of every player in 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.120 that locker room because they didn't make a move. Instead, 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.320 they actually decreased technically their talent because they let go 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.280 of Tristan Hill makes a roster spot. Sure, that's a 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.000 whole different conversation, But how tough is it for this 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:28.800 coaching staff to say, Okay, we didn't make a move. 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.520 Now go out and let's figure this thing out from 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.280 a wide receiver standpoint, because I think that's the position 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.360 most people are looking at. Jimmy would have stood up. 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.000 If Jimmy would have let it passed, Jimmy would have 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.960 stood up and told us, fellas I am telling you, 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.760 you are good enough to win at all. Yeah, that's 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.800 what you just said. Yeah, Because if I could have 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.800 found a player that could replace Nate at that left guard, 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:55.839 I would have gave up to one to two end 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.520 of three because that gives me the best chance to win. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:04.040 So he didn't do that. So we are saying we 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.280 are gonna win with you guys. So now he throwing 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.679 the pressure back on the players. Do you think that's 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.960 the case. Oh, he's absolutely right, And you know, I 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:19.320 think what's interesting is though that you did put the 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.160 pressure on the players because you didn't get the deal done. 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.240 But if Edward's report, and I don't think I think 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.480 ed does an excellent job. I think Albert Brewer. I 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.120 think there's people that cover this team to do excellent work. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.040 I don't think Edwards are stolen that out there with 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.959 all those details. To me, they tried, and to me, 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.200 now you maybe created a little doubt. You've said, Okay, 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.920 we tried, but now it's on you because we couldn't 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.280 get it done right, you know. And that's the thing 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.839 that I don't know how that's gonna play, you know, 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.280 I think, adding I think adding, I know from my 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.599 own experience. Again, here's the guy that lived it. We 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:02.400 got Andre Risen the Super Bowl year, and we really 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.240 didn't need Andre Riisen. We had Robert Brooks and Antonio Freeman, 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.760 and you know, we had Keith Jackson, we had legitimate players, uh, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.600 Dorsey Leab, we had guys. But we felt like if 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:18.240 we added Andre Riisen, that would put us over the top, 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.760 that would give us the ability to compete against Dallas 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.040 and San Francisco and people like that. And games did 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.720 Andre Riisen played for us? We were eight no wow, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.319 five five regular season games and then the three playoff games. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.840 So those you know, sometimes you say, if we could 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.760 just add that one more piece. But now this is 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.240 the battle cry, and Nate's right. The battle cry is 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.920 we didn't add anybody, and we're gonna get some guys back, 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:47.920 whether it's Tyrann Smith, James Washington, you know, uh, you know, 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.360 bash them. You know, that's that's the battle cry. Now 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.719 we're going to add pieces from within in order to 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.320 make this run. Do you feel like they're good enough 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.599 to make a run with the I do? And you 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.360 know I wanted him to add I wanted him to 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.640 add an impact player. And I think Cooks could have 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.480 been an impact player. I was. I was not trying 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.559 to limit myself to say, oh god, they got to 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.800 have a wide receiver. Now they determined they needed a 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.640 wide receiver. Now, I we haven't heard if any other 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.320 names that they were maybe, but that was the one 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.400 name that we did here. So they determined that, okay, 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.360 if we can maybe add this piece, this will be 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.600 I think that I think Jerry Jones has this right. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.600 I think he has it right after Sunday's game when 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.880 he looked at his own team and he looked at 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.880 the conference and he said, you know what, we're competing 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:44.079 against Philadelphia here right now. We're competing against the Vikings 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.079 right now. We're not competing against Tom Brad. Now, I 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.559 should include San Francisco in this, because I think San 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.280 Francisco's legitimate. But Jerry Jones is looking at It's like 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.480 Tom Brady's not in this thing right now. No, Aaron 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:00.120 Rodgers isn't in this thing right now. You know, those 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.400 are those of the roads you've had to travel the 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:07.160 last couple of years, and he probably feels like he's 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.199 got just as good a chance of getting to the 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.160 super Bowl, you know, and in battle in either Kansas 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.319 City or I mean, the AFC has it tough. You 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.280 have about Baltimore, Kansas City, Buffalo, one of those three 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.960 teams is going to probably emerge out of all that mess, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.480 and that's gonna be a tough team. But you know, 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.560 your your path to victory, your path to the super 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.160 Bowl likely will go through Philadelphia, you know, and you're 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:32.920 gonna have a chance to play them again end of 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.520 the year and potentially play them again if you can, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:37.280 you know, find a way to win a couple of 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.959 playoff games and a thing that you gotta you can't lose. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.920 This is the thing. We're down two to Philly, I'm 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.880 not correct? Yeah, well one and a half. Yeah technically yeah, yeah, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.600 well I'm gonna say down too, but down two yeah, sure, yeah, exactly. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.559 That's a good point. And at the end of the year, 0:13:55.800 --> 0:14:01.520 we gotta either they gotta lose two, so that game 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.760 can mean something. But if they stay that one and 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.559 a half all the way through, what does that game 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.360 mean in the end? Yeah, we gotta keep You get 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.400 what I'm saying, Yea, was that was a possible player, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:17.080 adding a player that you said could have gave us that. See, 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.720 because I know this in my heart, I've seen it. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.880 We've seen it. If if we were fortunate enough to 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.080 get a wide receiver with the impact that we needed, 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.840 Ceedee Lamb becomes alive again because he becomes our number 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.000 two guy, and he becomes alive again either that or 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.280 one or one, one A and one B because Ceede 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.440 Lamb could be just as talented as Brandon cooked talent 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.160 don't be used that talent don't get it. You gotta 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:47.080 have the production performance gets it. So yeah, I see, 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.600 I see him. I know what he can do as 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.560 a want whatever how you want to put it one, Ah, 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.600 I see what he can do. I think what I'm saying. Yeah, 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.320 you know what, it's it's funny time. I mean, is everything, Yes, 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.840 it is. And you're you're a year late on your 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.920 defense being the way it is. And I mean you're 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.640 late because last year you had all these guys, you 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.920 had all these wide receivers, yes, and you had an 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.200 offense that was going up and down. Now, they had 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.880 some struggles, you know, against some good teams, but they 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.960 were one of the top scoring offenses in the league, 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.440 one of the top offenses in the league. You know, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.760 And if you'd had this defense playing on that team, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.840 I wonder how that would have been. But yeah, you're 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:31.800 kind of a you know, you're a You're in a 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.800 situation right now where you know, you're your quarterbacks back, 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.560 and I think that's the number one thing that you know, 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:43.320 the last he's gotten better the last two weeks. And 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.840 that's kind of what I'm hanging my hat on right now, 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.040 that you you kind of you need to figure out 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.440 some more things with the running game, and but defensively, 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.400 you know, you'll you know, it's it's it's been nice 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.080 to add a player, but you are who you are 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.000 right now, and that's not bad. See. The thing that 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:05.520 I can't see cow and broadest is I'm talking different 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:10.880 than everybody because I don't see us as a super 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.240 Bowl contender, not yet. No, I don't. Yeah, I see 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.600 us as a guy that needs to get past the 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:20.800 first round. Yeah, and that's where we're stuck at. That's 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.000 that's well, if you were stuck at. Yeah, if you 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.320 don't win the division, you're likely going to play the 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.920 NFC South sure, which is going to be a nine 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:35.800 and eight Tampa team nine eight Atlanta I think your favorite. 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.280 I mean, if you catch Tampa right now, it's just 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.680 a matter of how you catch teams during your schedule. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.000 Right you catch Tampa now, you're probably putting them, probably 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.440 putting a beating on them. But anyway, Yeah, if you're 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.120 the fifth seed, you're likely going to go play the 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:55.000 NFC South whoever they're whoever, and I guarantee you'll be 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.280 favored over anybody that you have to go play on 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.360 the road against in the South. Now, let's see what 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.720 happens in too. And we all know this about the 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.440 divisional round, that's where the upsets happen. Sure, that's where 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.840 all of a sudden, number one seed gets knocked out. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.600 How did you know the Rams went from being the 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.639 Rams went from being a home playoff game, going on 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.560 the road and then getting the NFC championship game at home. 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.920 You know that's how that worked. So you gotta you know, 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:22.600 it'd be nice to find a way to win the 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.840 division so you maybe can get that home game, you know, 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.679 and then maybe get the championship back to you if 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:32.199 you can't. I think that's what's frustrating this whole conversation 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.840 about why they didn't make a move yesterday, because it 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.159 makes sense. You feel good about your guys, but at 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.560 the same time, you're, like Brian was saying, your competition 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.040 through the NFC playoffs right now, isn't Aaron Rodgers and 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:48.720 Tom Brady it's Marcus Mariota, it's Kirk Cousins, it's Jalen Hurts. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.720 I mean, it's wide open in the NFC. So I 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.600 think a lot of Cowboys fans out there are saying, 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.280 why not go for it? Why not go get the 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.280 Brandon Cooks and spend a little extra draft capital to 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.440 go get it done. And we don't know what the 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.200 offers were yet. That's the problem right now. Once we 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:06.960 go and see the offers, if it's like, oh, we 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.640 didn't want to give up a two, then maybe there's 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.520 a little frustration to me. To me, it's the compensation 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.320 of giving up the two is. I've always said this 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.040 about you kind of got to look at where the 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.040 two is. If you're a playoff team, if Brandon Cooks 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.840 gets you to where say you get Brandon Cooks and 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.879 he helps you get to where you're going to be, 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:30.440 and say you're picking twenty sixth or twenty seventh, that's like, 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.640 that's like a second round pick. Because we always talk 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.919 about this on the draft shows. Yeah, we always talk 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.960 about this on the draft show because every year there's 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.520 sixteen to twenty first round grades. Yep, you're giving up 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.399 a second round pick. For the opportunity for Brandon Cooks 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.040 to help you or anybody not just Brandon Cooks, anybody 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.960 that gave up a second round pick yesterday. You're giving 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.760 up that opportunity to maybe help your team win more games, 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.320 and then it becomes a later and later pick. The 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:00.400 compensation shouldn't be the problem. I can understand the money 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.200 being the problem. I can understand them not want to 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.399 take on eighteen million dollars in salary. I can understand that. 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.760 And Houston probably didn't want to eat a whole lot 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:10.720 of that anyways, because they're trying to rebuild and they're 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.480 trying to retool their whole ideal. Yeah, they're not a 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:17.160 good team. No, not at all. Now. It's funny because 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.520 we keep saying second round picks, just for context. They've 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.480 had some hit some some swing and misses. That's second 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.119 round picks. That's some good ones though, But that's some 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:26.680 good ones. But they've had some bad ones here. You 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.560 have most recently Sam Williams, then Kelvin Joseph and then 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.360 before that you had Treyvon Diggs and then Tristan Hill. 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.239 So swings and misses on some, you've had a home 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.320 run on one of those, and that's Trayvon Diggs. Sam Williams, 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:40.760 he looks like he's gonna be a good player. So 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:42.159 I think you feel pretty good about it that I 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.720 was surprised about Sam. You know, I was told he 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:46.280 was going to be okay for that game. I know, 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.560 we heard his knee in practice a little bit on Thursday, 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:50.280 and then I kind of got the word that now 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.919 everything was fine there, and then he was inactive on Sunday, 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.360 and I went that kind of got my attention. I'm like, oh, 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.720 that's something we find out a little something, a little 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:03.320 bit wor But Sam Williams looks fine and Kelvin Joseph 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.639 on special teams, you know, the other day in the 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:07.359 in the game that we were you know, we were 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:09.320 all watching, and you know, he gets put in the 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.720 game a couple of plays. First plays fine, second play 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.440 they give up the touchdown and stuff like that. You know, 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.840 I felt like he was in position, good route, good throw, 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.720 just you know, has had a problem not getting the 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.440 ball down. But he's been really really good. And I 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.520 know you don't draft second round guys to play special teams, 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.520 but at least he's going in the right direction of 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.080 learning what it is taking to be a pro. I 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.120 think that's the biggest thing we're gathering from that. It's seen. 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:41.400 It's notables having fun playing football after really a terrible offseason, 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:44.639 notable improvement. You can see that growing and Kelvin Joseph 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:46.959 over the last couple of months. Now, let's take our 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:48.520 first break when we come back. I want to give 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:52.359 some first half superlatives. 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