WEBVTT - Talkin Cowboys: Does Dallas Need More Playmakers? 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.760 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:17.160 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:21.000 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:32.239 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:38.440 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. It is a Thursday at 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:42.680 the Star in Frisco, Texas, and it's time for talking 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.480 Cowboys in what is being billed as Super Bowl Week 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.720 in the city of Houston, the state championship game on 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.680 Sunday night, the Cowboys and the Texans. I'm Bill Jones 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.320 with Brian brought us and Rob Phillips and a chair 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.960 as Ricky Spagno is not with us right now, but 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.280 he should be with us shortly. He'll come in Hurricane 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.240 Mickey will come rolling into it. He's gonna be thousand pounds. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.960 He'll have two sequoia trees under his arms for a 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:15.720 paper that he has, and he won't have the right paper. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.320 He'll be like, he'll be going on, I where's the paper. 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.600 Somebody to ask a question, and you know he'll get 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.440 that look like, yeah, there we go. I had that 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.360 written down somewhere. Yeah, somewhere to stop down the whole 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.760 show to find it, y'all just stop talking for us. Yeah, 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.560 you know, when Mickey goes silent, he's trying to refute 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.520 something you've said, you know, I mean, he just gets 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.200 over there and he gets that look. He puts his 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.440 glasses on and he starts thumbing through the paper and 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.000 you'll say, you know, the Texans aren't very good in 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.640 run defense. On the first down, you know, averaging they 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.080 give up only about three point four yards to carry. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.640 And then Mickey will start thumbing through and he'll go 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.720 and we don't hear from him, and then he'll go, 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.280 you know, the Texans zone play very good on running. Meanwhile, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:04.000 we're taking free calls. I'm like, all right, Mick, Yeah, 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.080 all right, glad to have you on board today. Okay, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.200 I was doing some TV yesterday and I thumbed through 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.760 yesterday's podcast on my commute end today. As a matter 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.960 of fact, there you go, and I heard y'all did 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:20.560 a great segment, killed one segment on Dez and what 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.200 we do around here. However, at the end of the 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.280 first segment, which I had kind of thumbed through because 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.000 I wanted I wanted I had heard that you had 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.119 talked about Dez and I wanted to hear that schure 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.240 k And at the end of the first segment, Rob 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.920 you said something about you love it when Mickey and 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.519 Brian butt heads or something like that where there's some 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.320 budding of heads, and yesterday's podcasts that I need to 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:50.119 know about fire yesterday. I like that Cowboys offense trying 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.959 to move the ball against the Sexans defense. Again, I 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.960 love Mickey. I respect People out there think I don't 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.480 like Mickey, and that's not true. Andy, Mickey and I 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.280 are basically from the same bottle of wine, like you Bill. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:05.520 We're all that same bottle, you know. And so you know, 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.680 it's we're trying to talk about, Okay, what's the best 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:14.000 plan of attack? How would you attack the Texans? You know, 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.440 are you worried about their pass rush? Well, wait a minute, 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.680 their past defense is one of the worst in the league. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.680 You know, how do you how do you attack? And 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.840 then you know, he's like, well, how does the Colts 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.680 throw for four hundred yards? And I'm going when are 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.400 the Cowboys ever thrown for four hundred yards? You know? 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.880 And so what is the I'm to the point of 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:38.440 where I try and look for reasons why can't can 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.440 you take advantage? You know, the Cowboys are built to 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.920 run the football. We all know that that. You don't 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.280 need a former scout to tell you that that's what 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.720 this team does. But you know, is that really the 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.160 best plan of attack? Can you can you protect enough 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.720 on first downs? Can you use max protection? Can you 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.680 keep you know, I say max, keep backs in, keep 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.120 tight ends, and can you find ways to let your 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.920 guys win one on one on the outside. And this 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.800 is the discussion, you know that I like to have 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.560 is do you have people that are capable on the 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.720 outside of consistently winning one on one? Yeah? I'd love 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.880 to say, hey, let's drop back, use the line, throw 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.400 the ball all over the park, but that might not 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.680 necessarily be the best way for this team to attack 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.640 the Texans. And what he pointed out, what Brian pointed 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.039 out was I pointed it out. If there is a 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:36.120 weak spot on this Houston defense, it's the secondary. There 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.400 might be opportunities to win battles one on one and 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.640 try to open things up for Zeke through the passing game, right, 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.800 And I agree with you on that. Mickey doesn't want 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:47.800 to hear that, and Mickey doesn't need to be here 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.760 for me to say this about him. You can point 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.760 out positives in the opponent's game. That doesn't mean that 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.960 you're trying to say, Hey, Cowboys can't win this, they 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.080 can't possibly win this game. That kind of sounds like 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:04.000 the yeah Derek Dooley does exchange on the Scottie report 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.600 of the Broncos on on what was the name of 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:12.400 the Yeah, pretty much? How would you like me to 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.120 phrase it? How would you like me to phrase this, Mickey? 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.200 How can we phrase this any better? I just you know, 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.920 I think that if this team, and like I said, 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:27.000 if the conversation is do they have do they have 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.599 enough weapons on the outside to affect you know? What 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.440 do we say last week going into the Lions game, Hey, 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.640 they have got to get back to running the football 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.520 they ran in against Seattle Bill. You even brought up 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.280 the point if they can build a lead, they'll keep 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.159 running it. And you know that's the best way for 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.640 this team to play football. So, you know, I look 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.359 at this and say, okay, but do they have those receivers? 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.880 Do they have you mean, you know, the trust to 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.839 the quarterback. I'd like to trust the quarterback. I really do. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.279 I think the quarterback can make some throws. He made 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.120 some great throws. Yeah, yeah, and you know people didn't 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.120 think he could make. Scouts are always taught that, you know, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.279 it's it's you're taught if you've seen it in Rob 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.240 likes to use this phrase occasionally. If me is you 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.279 see a guy do it one time, you could believe 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.919 he could do it again. That's Jerry's and that's and 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.360 that's yeah, that's something that we've always you know, when 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.640 I was working in the scouting department, and that goes 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.760 all the way back to the Hall of Fame general manager, 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.280 I worked within Green Bay with Ron Wolf. Ron Wolf 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:22.880 is like, wait a minute, We've seen this guy do this. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.360 We've seen him make throws, we've seen him run the football, 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.120 we've seen him play past defense. The question is how 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.240 how consistently can a player do that. They can do it, 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.039 but how often and how consistently? If you dial it up, Yeah, 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.200 that's that's the That's the biggest issue I think with 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:41.440 the is if where is the trust factor in the 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.080 wide receivers. I mean, I feel like they've done a 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.600 good job of getting open for the most part, but 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.400 are the consistently, the consistency that's going to take to 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.840 do this. So that's kind of where I'm out on there. 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.000 All right, go ahead, Hi Mickey, Hi Bill? You listening 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.480 to us talking there? But yeah, I was eating breakfast 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:01.960 or your ears. I'll just keep eating there. Yeah, Hey, 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.359 go is that is that a biscuit or is that? Okay, 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.160 it's a biscuit, right, it's a bagel, you know, a bagels. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.320 I was gonna stop at a convenience store and get 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:14.800 a biscuit or something or donut or something though late 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.560 in and can I stop the show down for a second. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.320 Have you ever eaten a hot dog from a gas 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.200 station on when the roller things? Have you ever done that? No, 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.920 you've eatn a lucky dog in New Orleans? Okay, there, 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.960 that's worse that you're lucky. You're lucky. You're alive to 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.760 talk a little little wagon bob. You'll do anything at 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.920 four in the morning if you just can't see or 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.200 you're hungry. But I'm proud to say I probably haven't 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.080 done that in thirty years. Yeah, but you live to 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:44.920 tell about it. I did. Yeah, But you never eating 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.280 a rotisserie hot I guess it's a rotisserie. It's a 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:51.200 rule I did. It's been I live to tell about it. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:52.920 I guess what about what about buy it? You know 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:57.880 they sell the chicken the wings like by I see 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.040 people going, you know, you're convenience store. It's not convenient. 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.720 You get behind these guys and it's like, yeah, I'll 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.680 have three of those and a lottery ticket. Those a 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:13.000 lottery ticket. Can we have a lottery line over here? 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.520 And I was hopeful someone would bring that up. I 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.880 would like to invent a lottery line for people that 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.720 like to play. And you know what, and if they 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.920 actually if they went, have them stopping down the show. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:26.040 I'm so sorry. If minute, if they wind jump, I 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.040 notice they buy the lottery stuff and they win, they 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.720 buy more, they buy more, they're late date, Hey I 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.760 won twenty bucks. Okay, give me twenty more. All right, 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.560 you don't. You can go back in the line if 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.600 you want to buy more, but scratch it off. By 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.360 that time, my drumstick ice cream is just completely melted. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.679 Or the guy that comes in and ice cream, you 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.000 know I'm talking about scream in the bottom. Yeah, the 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.040 guy that comes in, he can check it himself. What 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.679 did I win anything? And you're sitting there. Okay, I 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.480 gotta go. I'm supposed to be quick. The Red Cross 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:01.040 is dropping supplies outside. You've been so long there, which 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.440 leakes me go ahead. I got preempted by Jason Taylor. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.640 Oh okay, so they pushed me back. So what hall 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.400 of fame is he in? Yeah? I don't know what's 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.440 he ever do? He's acting like he's, you know, on 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.320 the radio broadcast Sunday night the National. Is that why 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.400 he was of importance this week? Yeah? More importance than 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.840 Mickey this week? Yeah? I don't understand. All right, here's 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.439 my question of to day. If you were a player 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:31.679 for the Cowboys, where would you live? You get that 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.920 poll question up on the website right now on the 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:38.120 Al Live. Yes, where would you live? Off season or regular? 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:42.320 Regular season? Single or married? Was I on the team 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.080 before they moved your single or married? Either way? Okay? 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.280 Was I on the team before they moved here or after? 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.120 You're on the team now, right, it's don't complicate this. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.000 Try to tell you might have a nice home there 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:59.600 and and sol or No, I'm saying Jay, you just 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:04.319 a you're just arriving, Okay, I'd be out here. Yeah, 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.800 that condo right by the practice field. I move it 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.080 in right That's where I every day. I stand up 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.079 and I say, I look at that, and I go, 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.600 how cool would it be to live over there and 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.960 be like single and work. We just walk across the street. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.360 There's no doubt. And I say that because of my 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:25.800 commute this morning struggle. You just need to get to it, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.920 you know. No, I had to relate it to the cowboys. 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:34.040 So there now, everybody's not jumping off the cliff anyway. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.680 I make one false move and it brings up your 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.640 biscuit there or whatever. You're you're right there. I wasn't 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.280 able to get my bagel this morning because I make 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:46.320 one false move off the highway and there's an accident 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.400 on the other side of the road where I would 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.080 be getting back on the highway. There's police cars. I 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.400 never ever get there, and I'm going, all right, it's 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.800 nine o'clock. I got I got thirty minute. I was 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.160 doing fine. I was gonna be here at nine fifteen. 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.040 Ye never get off, and I wound up having to. 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.640 I said, I'm not battling that traffic. There's no way 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.320 I'll make it. So I drived out. Hebron Parkway all 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.640 the way to the toll way. I've made it in time. 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:13.240 But anyway that you mentioned Jason Witten, I guess he 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.760 came at six o'clock in the morning every day, five 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.560 thirty six across first light to work. There's another prominent 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.160 former cowboy who lives out in the same area, and 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.800 I understand he would not be on time, maybe for 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.559 some practices or meetings or way too. And I can 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.120 understand why because it's one All it takes is one accident. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.040 So I'm living across the street. So let's just use 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.440 Dak Prescott as the example, because he lived about two 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.640 miles north of here when he first got here in 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:45.600 a condo and then he bought a house and it 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.760 was in the same area, so he could basically, like 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.280 DeMarcus Lawrence and Tyrone Crawford, ride their bikes here. Yeah, 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.360 if they wanted too. Is he lives like less than 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.360 a mile if here. You know what, that's a really 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.280 good thing there can really good. It is less driving 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.959 he has to do. He can play bumper cars everyone. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.079 And I'm sure if you're a twenty two year old, 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:10.400 it's very intriguing to go live down in Uptown. Whatever 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:15.360 but building legacy West the shops a legacy, it's it's 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.240 it's kind of a college like atmosphere. That's right. Maybe 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.040 there's a little older clientele. And if you remember that 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.440 when we had the real estate Talk Cowboy Radio, Hey, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.359 I'm just going where where the bus is turning. Man's 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.680 just just live somewhere where you don't have to pay 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.640 all the tolls, that's all. I got a good point. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.559 And I did hear the des talk yesterday, and I'm 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.760 in agreement with what y'all were saying. I'm not surprised 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.320 at all, and I don't know why anyone would at 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.600 all be surprised that he still wants to play for 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.160 the Cowboys. That's the only team he ever wanted to 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:51.280 play for, and it probably has affected if I don't know, 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.839 if he had a firm offer from the Ravens in 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.040 the off season, he probably was having this holding out 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.400 hope that something might happen where he can reland here. 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.800 I think he's made a great point throughout and I 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.360 think he's been very consistent about this. Does he really 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.640 want to play football? Does he really want to get 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.360 in shape? Does he really want to do everything he 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.520 has to do? To get on a team and play. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.320 I've talked to teams that have been interested him, and 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.440 I'm not gonna lie. I reached out to John Dorsey 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.560 at Cleveland. I said, hey, this is what I know 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.320 about Dez Bryant, just to try and help him. And so, 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.560 you know, John sent me back message, Hey, thank you 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.920 very much, appreciate your thoughts. So, yeah, does does does 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:27.840 Bryant really want to play football? I think there were 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.000 some teams initially interested in does Bryant playing football? And 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.600 I don't know if necessary that's the case, especially for 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.120 the salaries that are being offered out there. Well we're 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.520 past that, you know, we're with the quarter poll now. 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.120 So yeah, now you're at eight hundred thousand year. Yes, 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:45.440 you're basically veteran minimum. Take whatever Bryce Butler got right, 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:47.839 But then he has to look at it also, Okay, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.880 if he sits out a whole season, then what's his 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.840 If he really wants to play football next year's value? 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.560 Like then if you don't play at all this year? 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.720 This is what he does? And you know, does is? 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.280 It sounds like to me and talk at some folks 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.200 that are very close to Deaz and I have a 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.840 relationship with Dez. I've been able to tweet, text with 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.320 him and talk with him Insta about things. And you know, 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.720 he's got some things going off the field in a 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.480 positive light. A team, classmates he had at Oklahoma State 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.360 and stuff like that. Guy's business opportunities, not just own 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.760 a bar and lose all your money kind of thing. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.040 But he's got some legitimate things and he has to 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.560 figure out now if he doesn't play a year, does 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.440 he say, Okay, I'm gonna take my my finances and 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.400 back into a business opportunities and trying to you know, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.760 be like the rest of us, you know, and I 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.480 have a job and work every day and you know, 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.480 try and do the best we can and commute. I'm 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.360 sure when he got drafted in twenty ten, he had 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.600 no other thoughts in his mind playing football, playing football 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.720 for the Dallas Cowboys and only playing for the Dallas Cowboys. 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:49.600 And I'm not in his head. I haven't talked to him. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.600 I just would imagine it's it's tough the idea of 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:56.200 playing for anybody else besides this organization. And that's why 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.760 I kind of rolled my eyes when I saw everybody 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.359 freaking out on Twitter about Oh he wants to play here. Yeah, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:06.200 oh okay, I mean he didn't retire. He got cut 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:11.920 six months ago and he turns thirty on November fourth. Yeah, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.800 he's you know, it's let's let's be honest. Though there 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.000 was some slippage in the play. I still believe though, 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.800 when healthy, that he's better than I. And you know 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.480 that's aside from Cole Beasley. But you know, if you 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.600 look at the way this group is, this group, if 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.680 they if to get better at receiver, they're gonna have 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.440 to address it in the springtime. They can't. You know, 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.320 they've they've got to ride with what they've got right 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.640 now and hopefully they can make it work. You know, 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.520 they've got you know how many more games twelve more 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.840 games now to to to kind of you know, you 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.760 look at what's going on with the Eagles right now, 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.480 this division. Nobody's running away with this division right now. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:46.840 You just got to find a way to put some 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.800 wins together. You know, Houston looks like a team that 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:51.800 that as having their own problems. They're a little bit 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:53.920 like the Cowboys. They've got really good receivers, but they 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.040 got a really poor offensive line and they got a 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.120 bad secondary. So everybody in this league appears to have 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.560 a little bit of problem that they're having to deal 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.080 with right now. With the exception, well, I guess Kansas City. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:05.680 They scored so many points, but if you look at 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.240 their defense, it's ranked last in the league and most 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.280 most of all categories, with the exception of third down defenses. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.240 Rams are undefeated, but they've had some defense exactly. So 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.760 you just got to kind of figure out how best 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.360 fits your plan. Best fits your plan is not having 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.440 Dez Bryant playing with these receivers running the football, trying 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.560 to help Dak Prescott and hopefully your offense or some 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.520 of your defense can continue to get pass rush to 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.320 help your secondary. Okay, go ahead and making it was 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.880 just going to say, Michael Gallup should have more than 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.040 five catches. Yeah, it might be a little bit on 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:41.600 Michael Gallup though too. I'm not trying to put words 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.840 or minimize what you just said. I'm just saying he 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.640 should have more chances to have more catches. I understand 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.600 he struggled some. Yeah, but how do you expected from 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.160 a rookie? How do you yet, how do you get 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.000 him out of the struggle, and how do you find 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.440 more opportunities for him. Like we talk, I think we 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.400 are all in agreement. I've been banging on this drum 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.680 for weeks, like let's shorten this rotation. Let's let's let 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.600 Dak ride with a certain group with a certain snaps 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.200 per game. But like, Okay, who's sitting down? Who sitting 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.280 down to give gallop thirty forty snaps? If that's what 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.640 you want? Whoever? Whoever? I mean, then who because because 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.200 then now you're this is a new group, but that's 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.720 a veteran group that at least has some time on 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.600 task in the NFL. One head one has been set 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.840 down for whatever reason in the last week. And all right, 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:31.320 Terrence Williams is a DNP, not injury related yesterday in practice, 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.600 So what's going on with Terrence Williams? Would think, you know, 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.080 good question. Yeah, I think that. You know, Mickey has 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.280 been an investigator reporter a long time. He's covered this team. 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.399 He could probably you know, he could dig hard in 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.919 this and probably figure it out before Rob. I know 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.639 you done reporting stuff and Bill, but I think that 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.800 when you the head coach would and I can. I've 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:54.680 always been I've been very critical of the head coach, 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.280 but I think this is the times where he wants 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.240 to be honest with us about it and he can't 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.040 and we might be can get some kind of hippo 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.359 laws here or something like that that we that you 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.720 know that he can't go into great detail or what's wrong, 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.560 and because if it gets and what it says on 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:14.640 the injury report is did not participate, not injury related, 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.320 which is the same as what it said the last 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.560 injury report, which was on Friday. You've got to be 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.800 really careful of when you talk about people in this 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.720 day and age and what information you do provide, because again, 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.159 everybody understands the importance. Nobody wants to get sued or 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.959 anything like that. So there's a lot of sealed lips around. Yeah, 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.440 you ask people in this building, even back to last 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.760 week when he didn't practice, and like more than once 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.440 you kind of get a shoulder shrug like I can't 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:44.000 tell you or I don't know, Like no one's lying. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.399 but no one's being forthcoming. I don't think anybody wants 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.959 to be where it traces back to somebody said, Okay, 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.719 what's going on with Terrence Williams, And I think the 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.080 head coach was very honest, just again, I love to 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.200 walk off. I wish we'd ask him two questions in 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.160 the press conference and just have just do the rest 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:03.680 of the walk off. I think we learned so much 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.920 about the football team there at that time. But he 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.600 was very He was very you could tell in his face. 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.040 He says, Hey, I'd like to help you guys here, 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.120 but I can't help you guys. So that to me 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.600 is very because Jason has been this year and and 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:21.160 and years past, been very forthright with information when we've 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:25.280 asked him questions in that type of a setting. You know, 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:30.919 sometimes knowledge is better than a sound bite. Yeah, you 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.800 know what I mean. Yeah, Well, one thing to point 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.440 out about it though, this week he's he was here 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.919 in the morning yesterday, he was here on Tuesday. He 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.240 didn't practice, but like the Cowboys are in tune with 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:44.280 him and they're talking to him, and it's these are 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:48.560 excused absences. So yeah, there's no issues. There's no issues 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.119 there as far as issues, as far as any like. 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