WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Gathers & Gregory Starting? 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:03.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:11.440 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.280 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:21.239 time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:26.560 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:33.080 WHOA what happened? There? Are we live? Oh? Okay, I 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.680 don't know. My headphone's just cut off. I don't know 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:41.000 where anyways, Hi, guys, welcome, I'm hosting today. That was weird? 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.400 What is going on? I was weird? All right, Okay, 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:49.240 I'm not crazy. Then, welcome guys. Derek is here. He's 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:54.639 gonna be joining us as a special guest today. And hey, 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:56.800 are you happy? Are you having a good day? Great? 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:00.680 Smile Dave? How about you? I'm fantastic, sick. Thank you. 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:03.640 It freaked me out too, For whatever that's worth. That 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.200 was every day, Like I think every day we can 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.720 start all the time, every show, I think both you guys, 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.920 like at the beginning of every show, we just want 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.520 to see you smile? Right, I smile all the time? 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.039 I do. We need to get there, we go, But 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.039 that's not all the time. I smile all the time. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.200 And Nick, I don't know, like he's got that frown 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.520 right now, Like this team's owing two in the preseason, 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.480 what's there to smile about? Okay unless you unless you 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.880 got red news about Earle? What are we even talking 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.160 about the regular season? And we get to like, oh 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:33.880 and three, zero and four, then I get it, we'll 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.160 all be in here frown. I was joking. But this 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.640 team's two and oh in the first time you go, 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.880 and it's small about it. All right, we're gonna jump 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:47.559 into some musy music stuff. First, we're gonna talk about 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.800 the things that happened yesterday a little bit, and then 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.440 I wanted to try to answer as many questions as 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.520 we can, as far as people sending those questions on 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.520 Twitter at Cowboys Break or you can call us at 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.840 um can't can count. I can tell us the number 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.280 words the number eight eight five five to two ninety seven. Again, 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.720 that's eight eight eight eight five five to two nine seven. Okay, Well, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.520 there you go. So you call us and I'm doing 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.639 this or trying to do this just because we keep 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.440 talking about the same thing over and over and that 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:25.639 is creepy that is creepy. It's weird. I'm not used 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:32.320 to that. That's the Garrets, that's the Garrett smile stopping, stopping. Okay, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.440 that makes me clown smile. You guys gonna ask me 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.360 some more questions. I hate that I don't want to answer. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:42.760 And yeah, yeah, okay, let's get the safety subject out 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.400 of the way and just jump right into it. They 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:50.240 ended up signing Jerome Johnson and gave him number twenty nine. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:58.600 So does that change any of the talks that we've 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.320 been having as far as, oh, well, maybe get Earl 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.200 Thomas here. Well, they ended up giving that number up 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.720 to this guy. It changes absolutely nothing. Yeah, Lily's number 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.959 is given to Doran's armstrong and he's not going to 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.560 keep it, so you know. And the thing is, if 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.080 you get Earl Thomas, not only is this guy giving 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.519 up his number, but his lock or everything else. He's 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:26.079 probably like that. No disrespect, no disrespect intended to JJ Wilcox, 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.680 but he's one of the nicest guys that I've covered 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.040 with this team. But I mean, if another team signed 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.040 JJ Wilcox, just that's what we're talking about here. It's like, well, 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.280 this this JJ Wilcox guy. Is he gonna keep you 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.400 from doing anything out? No, he's a journeyman, veteran guy 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.480 who you didn't pay a lot of money to whom 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.200 if I could see him making the fifty three, but 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.400 I wouldn't bank on it. If John Johnson gets cut 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.440 and ends up joining the break and sits over there, 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.920 we would still have zero interceptions as a group. Jeez, 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.560 I make me happy. Thanks right. I think he's just 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.640 a special team he was. He was Chris Richard's Cavan 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.480 Frasier in Seattle. That's what he was. He's a special 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.800 teams guy who's still in trouble. Come week one of 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.280 Xavier Woods isn't playing. Yeah, yeah, you could argue you're 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.320 in trouble if he is. All right, I want to 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.279 say it again, saying, well, it doesn't believe in the Cowboys. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.440 I didn't haven't seen him. He has started a game. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.040 I'm not sure the Cowboys had an event today. Is 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.120 Stephen Jones was out? I guess at and T Stadium 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:30.240 actually Texas Live, which I'm very excited. Okay, So for 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.120 BBR stuff, well, I think I don't know why they 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.080 did it there. They just did. But it's the new 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:40.680 indoor happening party spot that they built right between the 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.880 Rangers new Ballpark in at and T Stadium. How's that 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.000 gonna fit Cowboy games? They don't gonna fit Ranger games 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.640 when they start playing. Means I don't know, but I 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.720 assume it's going to give people a place to hang out, 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.760 place to go like a bar. I mean, is it 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.919 is go hang out? It's the new thing, you know. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.880 I know a lot of our listeners aren't in Dallas, 0:04:57.920 --> 0:04:59.760 but if you are, if you've ever been to Legacy 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.760 Hall down the road, have you, It's it's a new thing. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.839 I know. They have something like this in Philly. It's 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.000 something you see in situations like this, a lot where 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.800 it's at one building that encompasses about eighteen different things. 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.159 There's like would tell them about this, Yes, there's seven. 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.680 It's kind of like it's like all for food ball 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.400 specifically for like tailgating. There's like seven restaurants. There's a 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.760 few bars, there's two stages. There's an outdoor stage and 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.920 an indoor stage. Like it's basically just a one stop 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.080 shop for you're going to the game later, here's where 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.080 you can hang out and give us your money until then. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.000 I'm No, I'm one hundred percent like good business. LSU's 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.279 playing out there in two weeks, and I do not 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.400 want to hang out in a one hundred degree parking lot. 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.680 I would much rather be in there. So you got 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.080 options for foods. You can jump around get different kinds 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.080 of food. Sorry, I'm not trying to do a commercial 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.400 for Texas Live, but we do commercials for everything else. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.159 It's pretty badass, honestly. Like, if you're coming to a 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.600 game this year, whether you live in Dallas or anywhere else, 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.520 it's a cool little spot to go before the game 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.000 that's going to be open, but the stadium won't be 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.760 open for years I think tears. Well, I think twenty twenty, 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:07.359 so a year and a half. Whatever. Yeah, any Stephen, 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.719 I'm sure. I'm sure Stephen was brought to his attention 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.479 the whole question about safety again, I'm assuming, so any 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.479 different answer than what we've been here in so far. No, 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.880 he said, you know, we signed to he said, probably 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:28.080 don't expect to see Xavier Woods before this preseason's over. Maybe, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:29.840 you know, he's saying we have to allow for the 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.039 possibility that he's not ready for the season opener. But 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:36.400 that's our hope UM. And you know again, you know, 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.160 I feel like people expect us as reporters to just 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.799 hammer him with questions about Earl Thomas, but he can't. 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.200 Even if we did, he he can't. And you know 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.000 there's some off the record conversations that happen when those 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.159 types of things go down. But uh there he's he 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.919 can't talk about that. There's been no progress in that, UM, 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.640 but he did. You know, in those type of situations, 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.440 he does allow that. You know, you're always looking at 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.680 you're looking at ways to improve your team. I mean, 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.480 he says talent acquisition is three hundred and sixty five 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.200 days a year. I think he says that three hundred 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:09.360 and sixty five days a year. I really think, you know, 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.520 I think we've all we've covered the Earl Thomas thing 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.280 enough that, yeah, we know that it's out there. It's 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.520 certainly not impossible. But other than that, I don't know 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.920 what to tell you, but I think this team is 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:21.920 going to be looking for ways to address that between 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.000 now and roster cuts. I think, you know, that's a 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:25.960 prime spot where I think maybe you trade a six 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.040 or seventh round pick for a guy if you see 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.000 something you like or you sign. You know, if a 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.480 team parts ways with a veteran for money reasons or something, 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.200 maybe you pick him up. I do think they're going 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.960 to be looking at that. But for the time being, 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.200 this is it. It sounds like they're going to hold 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.520 tight with what they've done here and hope that Woods 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.840 can be back sooner rather than later. Yeah, and moving 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.520 on from that. Travis Frederick, he's a guy that has 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.480 been out of practice for a little bit and at 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.000 training camp went with disgusting asnar. He went to LA 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.720 to visit especialist. He's been having the stings is while 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:05.000 you guys calling stingers on his neck. Anyways, Joe Looney 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.160 has stepped in. He's done a great job. The Cowboys 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.200 brought in and you guys to kind of ease the 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.800 load on Looney. But in the meantime, Travis, we come 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.800 back here now we hear that he's still getting some 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:21.040 work done or like getting some work done analyzed. How 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.400 big the issue is and when he last time talked, 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.280 it sounded like it wasn't a big deal and it's 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.960 just like, oh, precautionary, I just need to rest. Does 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:34.000 these new reports of just doing different exams concern. You guys, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.320 I get more and more worried as the days go by. 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.319 You know, the first I was like, okay, whatever, he's 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.200 getting a second opinion. People do that all the time. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.600 But this is day three where people have kind of 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.280 been talking and asking about this, and the Cowboys don't 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.920 have any firm answers. Stephen said this morning, he said 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.040 he's still getting evaluated. I don't want to comment on 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.360 it until we've heard that. He did say he's hoping 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.640 that they get closure on this today. He said, maybe 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.320 by later today we'll have, you know, some information that 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.720 we can share. You know, people have asked Jason Garrett, 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.439 They've asked Stephen. I think they've asked asked Jerry too, 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.600 you know, a surgery something and just no comment. Obviously 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.719 it's a medical thing that's not surprising. But I mean 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:16.760 until kind of like Zach Martin, you know, they said 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.160 on Saturday night, we think he's gonna be okay. Well 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:23.040 that's great, but I'd like some concrete confirmation that that's true. 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.319 And that's kind of where I am with Frederick right now. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:29.520 I will say this though, I'm concerned about just anytime 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.439 something like this lingers where you don't really know. There's 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.079 still that possibility that it could be something worse than 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:39.000 it is, but I think when you consider the totality 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.679 of what you have at the backup position, I think 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.960 this is actually one of the positions on this team, 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:46.440 and they're on a whole lot of them, but I 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.240 think this is one of the positions on this team 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.640 where I feel pretty good about the backup. He's not 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.400 Travis Frederick, but I feel pretty good that if he's 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.360 surrounded by the guys they have on that line and 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.920 the rest of that line's intact, I feel pretty good 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.560 about what Joe Looney can do. The part worries you 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:05.000 is you've now taken your swing guard and your backup center, 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.560 and he's now a starter, which means if any one 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.559 of those three positions goes down, you're in trouble. And 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.360 that's the part that worries me way more than if 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.840 I gotta go with Looney for a bit without instead 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.960 of Travis Frederick, Well and Psych Martin. He's expected to 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:23.559 be back for the first home season. I can't even 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:28.120 say that word season opener, home season opener game. There 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.160 he goes season opener. He's expected to be back, so Nick, 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.720 how much that does that concern you? Now that if 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.040 you did have Travis Frederick Allen, let's say Zach is 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:43.840 not ready by that first week, now you got two starters. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.600 that's a loss. I think, you know for the game 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.439 if you if you go to Carolina and you don't 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.320 have Zach Martin or Travis Frederick, I think you just 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.959 start off and one for the season, um and got 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.040 some studs on that line up there. It would be 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.560 really a tough game because he does. You know, what 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.679 you count on for this team is to be able 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:01.520 to run the ball, be able to be you talk 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.440 about Dak friendly, that's not very friendly for your quarterback 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.839 because so you're gonna sit him that game, Like you 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.320 just be like, I don't even want to throw him out. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.000 I'm not sitting for that game. And I don't know 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:12.920 if he's gonna be sitting for this this next game 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.000 actually know which I know Dave would be excited to hear. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:20.480 But we said that's that's something else Stephen talked about 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:21.960 that we can get let's talk about that in a second. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.960 But I just think you know from a line for 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.839 the line calls, uh, you know that that's something that 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.480 goes unnoticed sometimes. I think Frederick does a great job. 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.400 I think Zack Martin would take that over if Frederick. UM, 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.319 not to say Looney can't do it, but if you 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.199 lose both those guys, that would be tough right there. 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.360 I don't I mean, because you're talking about signing people, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.600 that's gonna affect your roster because you have to sign 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.120 or keep more people just for that. Joe Looney has 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.240 looked really good. He's had a great preseason. I feel 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:53.080 great about him. Um, I would feel good if he 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.960 had to step in because Travis twisted his ankle or something. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.560 I can't. I can't go with you because and and 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.160 this purely speculation on my part. I want to make 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.320 that clear. But like you're talking about neurological stuff here 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.319 with the stingers like his this is if if he 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.880 misses time because of this, I don't think it's going 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.559 to be a couple of games. Well he like it. 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.599 Just that sounds like a big deal to me, Like 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.000 when you're talking about your neck and your spine and 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:22.280 you're I mean, I've had stingers and I'm just saying 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:23.760 it's that that's one of those things that it's just 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.600 rest and everybody's bodies different what I've been told, and 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.880 so it just's my point though, is it was it 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.640 was stingers on Wednesday of last week when we were 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.439 out in LA and now we're on day four of 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:39.160 Travis Watch. Like if if something more is coming out 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.840 of this, then I again speculation on my part. It 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.680 sounds more serious than stingers. It sounds like you're saying 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.400 you think that it could be more than it. It 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.040 certainly could. I guess what I'm saying is based on 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.319 what we know at this point, which is the way 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.319 they've diagnosed or at least described it is at its stingers. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.960 If it was purely what we know and nothing more, 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.680 and it wouldn't still be an issue, right, you wouldn't 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.240 keep getting second This is not surprising, not true though. 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.160 I don't think that's true because I think when it 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.480 comes to stingers, they're not as as black and white 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.319 as you think. It's not like I tore my knee 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.720 toward the a cl on my knee. Like when you 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.080 have stingers, there's a lot of different tests you go 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.640 through to kind of figure out the severity, to figure 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.640 out like is it a specific disc and how how 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.920 you know what's causing that that problem to go from 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.040 your neck all the way down your arm. Like it's 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.440 not as simple as just a simple evaluation. Here's the 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.600 black and white of it. I get what I just 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.920 I get what you're saying. But he saw somebody who's 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:34.480 supposedly like the best at this stuff in California. And 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.079 I again, y'all know me, like, I'm a half I'm 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.280 a glass half empty person all the way. So I'm 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.160 just I'm bracing myself for it to not be great 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.080 news man, that's me. Maybe this is a Witten moment. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.120 He didn't like what he told him, and so he's 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.199 looking for somebody else to tell them what he wants 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.480 to hear. Like we saw that with Jason Witten when 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.640 he had was that with the spleen. Yeah, when you 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.960 know the guy, the guy was like, yeah, you can't play, 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:58.760 and he's like, well, let's go talk to somebody else. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.480 And he found somebody that would tell him, yeah, you 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.719 can't play. So this is the opposite. Though he got 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.520 good to you saying, oh, all you need to do. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:10.120 And Steve Stephen Jones said this morning he's still feeling 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.880 the effects of that. He's still dealing with some symptoms, 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.720 which he hasn't practiced at this point in a week, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.880 which that seems troubling to me. So again, I don't 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.640 know anything purely speculation. I want to make sure that's clear. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.560 I'm trying to be responsible, but I feel like maybe 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.960 that's just my nature, but I am bracing for them 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.400 to tell us something that's not great. Definitely, longer this 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.960 thing goes on, the more we all probably think is 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.800 something extra is happening here, just because it keeps taking 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.000 longer and longer, right, which means they're trying to figure 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.080 things out, right, right, So right Again, if it was 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.560 just cut and dry, got a stinger, you need to 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.160 rest to be fine, we wouldn't We wouldn't have talked 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.800 about this past last week. This is not a surprise 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.680 at all. If you watch him block, there's several times 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.720 when he's doing one on one and he's getting beat, 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.840 he's getting pushed back, and then all the sudden he's 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.840 not anymore. He arches his back and he kind of 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.000 just digs in and gets his bass under him and 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.040 he just kind of contorts his whole back and it 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.080 just stops. This guy thinks he's you know, Richard ashe 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.760 or somebody whoever, you know, was just making a push 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.520 Antoine Woods and then just stops, and you know, and 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.880 he's been doing that for three or four years now, 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.200 and he just wondered about the lower back. But he 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.640 also was getting beat a lot more than he ever had, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.240 And I think it kind of makes sense now that 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.040 you know he wasn't one hundred percent healthy, because he 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.400 doesn't get beat like that, especially the guys that probably 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.320 won't be in the NFL, which yeah, I mean again, 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.800 we'll have to wait and see what they say when 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.920 they say it, hopefully it's by the end of today, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:46.320 but it's it's something to watch. And Joe Looney has 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.520 been great, but Travis Frederick is still, you know, one 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.240 of the five or six best players on this team 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.880 for sure, and that would not be great if it 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.320 is a serious injury. Zack Martin is still pending because 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.040 he's still under recovery. Doesn't sound as major as we 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.680 thought he would be, but he's still on a waiting 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.960 status now. As far as Cole Beasley, we've been talking 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.120 at him for a long time wondering why he hasn't 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.320 been on the field and is it more than just 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.840 an injury. Blah blah blah. Now he's back. Yesterday he 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.520 did some things out of practice. He's coming back from 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.840 a growing injury. I wanted to see based on what 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.840 you guys saw so far and yesterday practice it wasn't 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.800 all that because again they're not fully pattis nothing like 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.800 training camp anymore or backing Knox nartive, which is sad, 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.280 but but he did some things and just wanted to 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:39.000 get a quick evaluation of him and his comeback. I 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.840 might be in the minority on this. I know he's 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.040 never been to a Pro Bowl. I know he didn't 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:45.800 have a great year last year, But like I lump 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.720 Cole Beasley in that category where I'm just like, okay, 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.520 September ninth, you're going to go. You know, he looked 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.720 fine to me. I don't know. You don't need to 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.920 play in the preseason at all. Yeah, that's safe. Yes, 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.520 trick them all out. Yep, thank you, thank you for 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.200 doing that for me. Build the Dallas Cowboys dot com 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.119 website team for the preseason game rather than players, like 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.320 just keep the players in the locker room. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:13.040 all right, you know, throw Marchhie. Murnoch's not here. Anymore, 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.440 throw McAll McKay out there. I'll write a story about it. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.399 It'll be fine, all right, Okay, let's take our first break. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.000 When we come back, we're gonna get into Rico gathers 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.320 taking reps with the first team off Ricko. It can 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.680 be hard to find the right resource for learning about 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.000 important financial matters. 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Oh what's going on? 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:47.520 So they Oh, we do we have to do? We 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.600 have to do this. I'm just saying, so thoughts on 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:54.439 him getting some reps in the first team offense. And 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:58.520 again we're getting close to the date line of when 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.439 cuts need to be made. And Rico has been one 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.560 of those guys who he has been making plays. He 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.439