WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Back At It 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.000 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:13.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:17.200 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:22.479 official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:29.000 and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are back inside the 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:34.040 SWBC podcast studio at Ford Center at the Star in 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.640 Frisco for another week of podcasting. This is Mick Shots, 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:43.919 Bill Jones with Mickey Spagnola. Everson Walls is away today 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:47.559 and tomorrow, I think, probably getting sized up for his 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:52.839 Hall of Fame bust. He's a Wall, he is a Walls, 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.600 Everson a Walls for the next couple of days. But 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.639 Mickey is here to bring us up to speed on 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.040 all all that is going on after a by weekend, 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.880 and Mickey, what I would say was the worst weekend 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:11.119 of football I have seen in quite a while. Number One, 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.280 are you starting with college or what? Number one? Because 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.520 the Cowboys weren't playing. Okay, it's always worse when the 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:22.080 Cowboys aren't playing. Number two. There were some bad there 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:26.440 were some mismatches. On Sunday, it was a Sunday full 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:32.440 of mismatches. As a matter of fact. You know, the 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.720 guys on the fan asked me on Friday, they said, oh, 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.920 just pick a game, and we want you to pick 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.360 a winner and a score. So I start looking at 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:45.800 the at the matchups and I'm going, god, there's nothing really, 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:50.120 you know, gripping, And I guess I passed over the 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.640 Tennessee Kansas City game, right. I was like, oh, you know, 0:01:53.800 --> 0:02:00.360 Tennessee a surprise, surprise, right, So I picked the Saints 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.720 going up against Seattle as the game of the week, right, 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:10.160 and that's tonight. Okay, yeah, yesterday, that's tonight. So that 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.400 was that was like that I thought was going to 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.840 be the best matchup of the weekend. And m boy, 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:22.000 when you look at what took place, there were twelve games. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.200 I think seven of the winners scored at least thirty points, 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.320 which is instructive that you'd better be scoring points in 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.200 this league if you want to win games. And the 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.280 other thing is you better have good quarterback play because 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.720 if you don't, you got no shot. And we got 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.720 quarterbacks falling left and right in the league. Now. Yeah, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:47.680 the last couple of weeks, which affects things. Baker Mayfield 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.240 last week. Yep, you know when he kept saying he 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.240 was going to play even though it was his left 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:57.400 shoulder with a torn labor Yeah, you can't play with that. No, No, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:02.239 that made surgery at some points. Been playing hurt for 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.120 a little bit. Yeah, and then Mahomes gets beat up 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.520 pretty good yesterday. But that was that was a tough 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.799 hid he took. Yeah, it was like a full body 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.040 blow to the head. Which, by the way, as you 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.880 look ahead on this Cowboys schedule in the month of November, 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:22.600 where Minnesota Sunday Night, Denver, Atlanta, and then Kansas City, 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.000 Kansas City doesn't quite look like the same team that 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.960 now expected when this season started. Well, I mean if 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.480 you look at if you look at the rest of 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.040 the schedule, then who knows what happens tonight with New 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.560 Orleans at Seattle. The Saints are three and two and 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:42.000 the Saints of the week after Thanksgiving, right, But the 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.840 rest of the teams they got to play, right now, 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:51.440 Arizona had as a winning record, and what are the Raiders? 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.560 And the Raiders are at five and two. Rich Besacchia 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.120 two oh as a head coach, right, and that's it, 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.280 that's it for point all. They needed to do is 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.440 get rid of Gruden and they kidney season around and 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.280 so yeah, that's what they have. You know, there's a 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:13.119 couple five hundred teams Minnesota right now, five hundred, but 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.599 you know, going into tonight, it was Saints three and 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.240 two and then the two teams that I just mentioned, 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.479 and that's it as winning records. And to think that 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.160 what we're seven weeks into the season and they've got 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.599 a three and a half game lead on every team 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.120 in the NFC East. So yeah, they got to kind 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.000 of look where they you know, like where they are, 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.880 but you got to keep playing, right, They don't give 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:43.760 you a trophy after week seven, That's right. And I 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:48.000 think you look at the NFC East, and especially with 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.839 Washington losing its quarterback early in the season, it's not 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.480 a surprise that the other teams in the NFC East 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.680 are where they are, No, not at all. You know, 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.560 I thought the Giants would be better, but they've got 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.400 They played the game yesterday without their three top receivers 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:08.080 and running back, right on the one position that they 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:12.960 shored up in the off season, getting getting first round 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.719 draft pick on a wide receiver, acquired a couple in 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.200 free agency, and they've been hurt by injuries at the 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.039 wide receiver position more than any position. So yeah, it's 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.720 just uh yeah, and like you mentioned, you know, Okay 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:31.520 Kirk Cousins, you know, good quarterback coming up with Minnesota, Um, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.440 but after that, you know, I guess um Ryan had 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:40.000 a little bit of a comeback this week, played well Denver. 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:45.560 They don't know who their quarterback is, well Bridgewater, yeah, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.800 I know, but yeah, and they ended up yanking him 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.120 the other day and bringing in Drew Locke, who they 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.120 should have started in the first place, because that's right. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:03.159 And now with Mahomes hurt, right, um? And New Orleans 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.560 would you know, who knows what you're gonna get week 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:09.560 to week with Jameis Winston. So now you got to 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.200 go to the Raiders. Okay, Derek Carr is playing well, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.680 didn't They got to go through the NFC East. None 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.320 of those quarterbacks at this point scare you. And you 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.880 got to get to Arizona, right Kyle second? Yeah, yeah, 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:27.039 so you and you hope that things are and that's 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.640 the second to last week of the regular season, and 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.719 you would hope the division is wrapped up by then 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.839 and you're playing for a first round seating, right. Yeah, 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.560 And that's what somebody brought up to me today. It 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.400 was like, as we get way ahead of ourselves, were 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.720 so far ahead of themselves, it's like, Okay, you can't. 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.640 You're gonna have four or five games. You've already clinched 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.320 the NFC East. And I said, okay, that's a little 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.400 bit ahead of your think. Think about where Carolina was 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.360 a month ago. Yeah, when they came here and I did, 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:03.799 I did a podcast or an interview with Carolina reporter. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.960 I was on for about twenty minutes with him to 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.760 a zoom with them, and they were just convinced that 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:14.400 Carolina was all of this and that the Cowboys they 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.880 had Carolina went in and come in here and beating 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.440 the Cowboys. And I was nice to them and only 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:24.680 picked the Cowboys by three in that game, but they 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.440 were they were thinking Carolina was going and what is 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.840 Carolina done? Since then? They've lost every again they've played 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:31.680 won a game, right, And I was just thinking of 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.200 that yesterday when I saw that score. I said, and 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.720 I know they're without McCaffrey and that hurt them, but still, 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.240 and they didn't have McCaffrey coming to Dallas, right, But 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.840 they were thinking they're gonna come in here and and 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.640 the Cowboys did have a fat chance of beating them. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.320 And I said them without MCA. I think I said 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.640 it last week, right, I said they were frauds. Well, 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.920 they're continue to be frauds. The three and oh was misleading. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:08:00.600 Which also now, when you look at this Cowboys team, 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.920 all right, you're one injury away from being in a 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:08.840 bad situation yourself. But what I really like about where 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.320 the Cowboys are right now and the way this team 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.600 was put together in the offseason, is they've got depth 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.800 around the horn on this team. And not only depth, 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.920 but they created even more depth with the injuries they 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.360 had to deal with, right, because some of these guys 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.160 are going to start coming back, and just you know, 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.040 I'm not sure when DeMarcus Lawrence is back. But had 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.600 he had been at Hey not been hurt, you wouldn't 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.800 have heard of Goldston and probably very little of Bashroom, 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.800 right Neville Gallimore gets hurt. Oh, Diggy Zoo would have 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.640 not started six games. Let me tell you something else 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.800 about creating depth. They've created more depth by the way 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.320 they're playing defense scheme wise, right, by using so many 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.680 different and not only using different people. But this they 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.439 have scheme versatile players on their roster now, so where 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.960 if you lose a one of those hybrid safeties, you've 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:13.040 got a Keyan O'Neill who's a linebacker or quote unquote 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.200 a linebacker but came into the league as a safety. Well, 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.000 Curse can do a lot of the same stuff that 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.600 Keyan O'Neill. Kick you. If Wilson can too, and if 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.440 Laylee Collins doesn't get suspended, we would have never known 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.840 Terrence Steele could could play right right, and you can 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.480 just go through, you know, same thing with Michael gallup. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.960 Michael gallops out, Cedric Wilson steps up and gets an 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.200 opportunity and and most people don't know much about Cedric 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.480 Wilson's because he's always been hurt, especially his first two 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.200 years here. Got a little bit of a chance last 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.000 year and now all of a sudden, you're going, oh, Mike, 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.080 can they resign him next year because he's headed towards 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:53.280 free agency. Also, so by by you know, no choice 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.480 of their own, they had to use some of these 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.000 guys and they found out, Yeah, DIGGI Zoa can play, 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:03.600 and Terrence Steel can play. And I think that's significant 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.720 going forward. And by the way, so the one injury 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.719 I'm sure you were worried about it was Dak Prescott. Yes, 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:14.960 what do we know? Well, we had interviews with four guys, 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.280 four players at noon, and towards the end of the 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:22.000 last one, uh, Dak Prescott sticks his head out the 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:27.800 door and starts yelling at um At Scott, the nutritionists, 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.400 who was doing some sort of workout out there on 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:34.360 his own, and all of a sudden somebody yelled at him. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.080 He goes, well, what do you got for us? Any 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.760 any He kind of stepped out the door, so he 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.400 didn't have a boot on, okay, but he didn't have 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.160 anything on his right foot, which meant he was getting 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:48.839 some sort of therapy right going through rehab and all 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.439 all that was audible that he could yell back at 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.000 us because it was way down the way. He goes, 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.480 if I come today meaning to do an interview today, 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.240 you would not have any thing to talk about the 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:05.120 rest of the week. It's like, oh, he's so cute. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.440 So that's that's my update on Dak. So what is 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.880 happening with the team today. It looks like from the 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.240 setup that we can see out the window here before 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.440 we enter field that they were going to do a 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.280 little something. It wasn't going to be. I think they 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.880 were probably coming in late, had a team meeting, and 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.160 the player availability was at noon noon. So now they've 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:32.920 done so they basically perhaps came in late, yeah, sort 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.160 of the morning off whatever, right, had probably late meeting, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.280 team meeting break, and then it looks like they would 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.360 probably have some sort of maybe a walkthrough or mock 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.679 game type thing that they call and do a little 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.880 something before they get to wins. They're having practice with helmets, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:55.520 and Chris Beam chimes in practice with helmets, so like 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.240 a mini camp practice. I guess you know what, well 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.400 what Mike McCarthy And I don't remember if McCarthy said 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.240 this in a press conference last week, because the only 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.679 how many press conferences you have last week? Just one, right, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.880 just one Monday. I talked to him on Tuesday, and 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.800 this was the self scouting day right today, they're using 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:20.319 today to have all that's right across the hall, across 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:25.080 the hall meetings where offense and defense go across the 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.400 hall and self scout. That was Zach Martin mentioned that 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.120 that they did that today. Yeah, so that was what 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.600 their morning was probably right now, it looks like they're 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.679 going to do a little something here since they've been 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:41.120 off for the entire since Monday, right, a week ago, Monday, right, Yeah, 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.840 they ran on Monday. Yeah, let's see. Yeah, that's right, Chris. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:49.560 So so yeah, back to kitting knocking the cobwebs out, 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.840 and it looks like they got through the week okay. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.560 And by the way, they'll they're here today, off tomorrow 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.120 and then it's a normal work week for the Vikings 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.880 game starting on win So we'll nor know more about 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.440 Dak's status come Wednesday when they have to report in. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:10.280 McCarthy's first press conference will be Wednesday morning. So yeah, 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.240 but we got that if I came out today, you 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.040 would not have anything to talk about. What are we 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.240 supposed to read into that that he would come out 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:23.520 and say, how I'm good to go? That's right, because 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:27.240 if he came out and said I think I don't know, 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:28.960 and we'd still be talking about it. I mean, that's 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.080 kind of what he said after the game, So we're 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.080 going to read into it that means he is good 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.160 to go. Yeah, And all signs are pointing to that, 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.200 and I think Jerry mentioned it on Friday when he 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:44.880 did his radio segment that he felt very optimistic about 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:49.520 Dak being ready to go. So so that's okay. So, 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.839 and that's the injury we know worried about. But as 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.080 far as we know, they got through the weekend unscathed, 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.320 other than Kaz which was a week ago now nearly 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.040 nearly a week go right last Tuesday morning. So we 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.920 haven't seen any bulletin's yet, right, any no police blodder things. Oh, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.400 we keep checking Twitter to making sure that there's no 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.840 police activity going on as far as Twitter goes. I 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.920 think the biggest thing coming back is everybody had the 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.960 COVID tests and they had to be negative before they 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.680 got into the building. Oh there's a good point, that's right, 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.880 and that's you have the way for on Wednesday COVID 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:29.000 testing when they come back, and by the way, around 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.880 the league. Matt Nagy, the Bears coach, apparently tested Possi 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.920 after this game, as if this weekend what did go 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:41.120 bad enough for him going to Tampa and getting drilled. 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.160 They're going to ruin that quarterback. It's going to run. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:49.400 Why you go ahead and play Andy Dalton And he's like, 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:55.360 I'm good, guys. Last year they're runing. I mean, we 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.600 need to remember what Mahomes did his rookie year, which 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.920 was not sat until the last game of the year 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.360 he got in. Yeah yeah, and how did that work 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.440 out for him? I mean think about Aaron Rodgers and 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:11.040 how he sat early in his career. Okay, I mean 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:15.000 it's very rare that guys can come into this league 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.200 like Dak Prescott did. Was just going to say, like Dak, 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.560 and and it was out of necessity that Dak played 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.880 and played so well his rookie year, I mean, how 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:25.960 many But and the other thing to consider about Dak 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.200 is what he had done at Mississippi State. I mean, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.680 he got a lot of reps in in college, and 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.040 he was an older player coming in a lot of 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.000 these kids they're being drafted at age twenty one, and 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.520 you know, Dak was two years older than that and 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.760 had turned around the Mississippi State program to the point 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:49.000 that they're building statues for him there. And um, I 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.360 don't know what they actually have, but they should getting 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:56.360 ready to. But uh, you know, like Trey Lance at 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.400 San Francisco. I mean, this guy, he didn't even one 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.360 game last year in North Dakota State after playing the 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.920 year before. So few snaps a sound like parcels right, 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.160 that it's and that was the plan with San Francisco. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:15.160 That's why they kept Garoppolo around and that they it's 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.720 a future pick. They give up a lot. But you 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.280 can't expect him to come in as a twenty one 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:25.520 year old and without with precious little college experience at 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.320 the FCS level and be able to play in this 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.320 league and I mean succeed in this one. You could 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.440 ruin these guys, right, And maybe the best thing that 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:38.240 happened to Joe Burrow last year was he hurt his 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.640 knee and he didn't have to go through the rest 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.080 of the season because now you've got a taste of it, 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.360 and then he's able to to watch. Yeah, right, and 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.640 now look at he's blossomed already. But the rest of 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.640 these guys that they force fed right there at the beginning, 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:56.960 they're they're still struggling. So yeah, And in the difference 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.000 on Burrow too, is he was in two elite programs 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.960 MS and he didn't didn't play at Ohio State, but 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.199 he was an older player coming in, didn't necessarily have 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:10.680 the reps, but he was more mature than he has 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.000 a twenty three or twenty four year old coming into 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.520 the league. And I just don't think people, you know, 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.760 understand that you come from college and you try to 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.000 play that first year, all of a sudden you got 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.200 to make adjustments at the line of scrimmage. The coach 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:28.360 is not sending in another play with five seconds to go, right, 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.240 you got to go under center. Sometimes they're not putting 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:36.160 signs up for the next play. 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They are back to work. The players are 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:32.040 after a week off and on the practice field as 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:35.119 we speak, with helmets on, ready to get back at it. 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:37.199 Can you see him behind the white cand I'm just 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:40.720 as subek. Chrispieve told us they have helmets on. Maybe 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:43.640 he saw the itinerary though I was. I was, I saw, 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:47.480 I saw the jugs gun machine all set up for 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:50.480 the guys to come and catch passes. So I assume 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.600 though they're gonna practice, they can do something. And by 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:56.560 the way, and eighties something. The mid eighty degree weather 0:21:56.680 --> 0:21:58.639 out there, I think, yeah, I think summer is going 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.679 to just continue on here. All right. So my question 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:07.359 before the break is, with the trade deadline fast approaching 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:12.080 next Tuesday, is there a position of need that the 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.760 Cowboys should explore at least to talk about with some 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:19.959 teams to try to shore up just in case they 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:25.280 have an injury at a certain position. So, knowing that 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:29.439 they have guys returning, right, it's almost like you're already 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:32.600 made a trade because you've got DeMarcus Lawrence. Okay, Now 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:34.840 let's let's do it by position group then, Okay, you're 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:38.280 gonna start on defense, the defensive line. You've got DeMarcus 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:41.680 Lawrence coming back, You've got Neville Gallimore coming back. We'll 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:48.320 see where Tristan Hill is. Lawrence Armstrong coming back and 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:51.840 maybe sooner than we think, right, Yeah, and I'm talking 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:53.880 long term here, Yeah, I mean, you got a three 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.400 and a half game lead in the division. And that's 0:22:56.440 --> 0:23:00.400 why I think they have the luxury of thinking along term, 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:04.320 because when you look at the landscape of this NFC East, 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:08.720 assuming that there's not a collapse coming for the Cowboys, 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:11.560 uh yeah, and you have to look at it that way, 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:16.920 and your next game is Sunday, the trade deadlines Tuesday. Um, yeah, 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:19.879 I think you've got designs on the postseason here, but 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:22.600 you want to make sure you take advantage of this 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:26.000 opportunity in case there's someone to pick up at a 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:28.960 reasonable price. And okay, so we took care of the 0:23:29.040 --> 0:23:34.560 defensive line there, right, Yeah, okay, how about linebacker. I 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:41.280 mean you got Parsons, Vanderish, Keanu Neil, you like Jabril Cox, 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:45.000 you like Luke Gifford. I mean yeah, I mean they 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:48.679 and they haven't played and they haven't played much right, 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:54.040 by the way, So I don't think it's a pressing need. 0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:57.359 But you also have to look at your roster, and 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:00.040 I mean it's hard enough in the fifty three and 0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:03.159 roster creating spots for the guys coming back. Well, you 0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:06.440