WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Big Questions Headed Into 2018 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:04.000 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:07.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.920 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.280 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:20.640 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:25.759 wa with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:30.360 Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, January third, twenty eighteen, Season thirteen, 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.440 episode number ninety eight. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.880 live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:38.960 We appreciate you guys taking some time with us today 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.199 to talk some Cowboys football. We're into our offseason schedule. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.879 In case you haven't noticed, there's one show per day. 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.159 Each of the different podcasts that we have will be 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.599 going once a week throughout the offseason, all the way 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.080 until we get to about June after the final mini camp, 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.440 and then we'll take about a month hiatus as we 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.160 do every year, and then we'll be back at training. 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.400 Are you doing It's gonna go quickly. Huh, what are 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.760 you doing? I'm telling people what to expect. What do 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.399 you mean? What am I doing? January third, Yes, Like, 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.400 let me just let me just breathe for a second. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.160 Fans want to know. These things got me doing the 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.880 draft show tomorrow. You got me going to training camp today? 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.920 Will all right? Cool? Yep? All right, So let's let's 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:16.399 get into it. We got a lot to talk about. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.880 We have not been on the air since the Cowboys 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.199 had their scintillating final game of the season. They win 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.160 six to zero, but it was a game where I 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.640 don't think it inspired a whole lot of confidence in 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.280 most fans that watched the game. But a win is 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.640 a win. Cowboys in with a nine and seven record, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.400 so they have a winning record, don't make the playoffs. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.200 And real quick, before we do what we're gonna do 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.120 plan to do today, I have some questions for you 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.399 guys for a season review. I just real quickly want 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.800 to get a quick some quick thoughts from you guys 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.720 with regards to that game and just kind of a 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.800 general thought of that game relative to the season in 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.200 them ending nine and seven. Let's start with you, Nick, 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:59.160 what's your your final thought on this twenty seventeen season. Well, 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.360 you know, I did so much yelling during the during 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.800 that game because he's so exciting. I lost very loud. 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.520 You almost got kicked out. Yeah, yeah, Um, I don't know. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.400 I mean I thought it was. It was an ugly 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.919 game for sure, Um, you know, the Eagles not even 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.680 playing their guys, the Cowboys kind of struggling through, but 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.000 you know, they they won the game, and I thought 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.480 it was important. I thought it was important for Jason 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.720 Garrett because it kept his job, because if you lose 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.760 to the Eagles, I don't think he keeps his job. Really, no, 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.119 not like that, not with that bad team they threw 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:34.440 out there. Eagles were playing their second slash third quarterback. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.880 They you know, they weren't that interested and they, you know, 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.000 kind of were puddling along there. If you lose to 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.640 the Eagles, I think, and go finish eight and eight. Again, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:46.760 I don't know. I don't know if he keeps it, 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.799 but so I think it's important for Jason Garrett and 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.280 call it meaningless if you want, I think it was 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.280 meaningful for him. Amber. No, it was definitely surprising to 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:58.800 see the Cowboys going up against that team, as Nick mentioned, 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.399 but with the Cowboys having a lot of their starters 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.360 and still that we're struggling. They didn't score anything up 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.720 until the last quarter. With Bryce Butler catching the touchdown. Um, 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.840 then Dan Bailey we talked about him, and you know, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.400 I'm sure we'll discuss that later. But just in general, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.720 the fact that they ended up with this record, it's 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.480 kind of upsetting because on one hand, you say, okay, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.880 well we had this record, but in reality, when you 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:32.079 analyze the whole season, it sucked in a lot of acts. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.880 My vocabulary is very limited. Straight for the vocabulary is 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:42.320 perfect for what the fans think. Well, you know, it's 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.480 just it's bad to see. Okay, yeah, now you have 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.520 this record to use it and justify everything else, like, Okay, 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.880 well we did this and that, but we're finishing up 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:56.040 with a winning record. Well, no, every there were so 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:00.320 many bad things to talk about throughout the season, and yeah, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.800 changes need to happen, but I don't know how we 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:08.520 all really know. Not many changes will happen, Okay, Dave, Yeah, 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.640 I disagree. Like the one thing that I've realized during 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.040 this past week since they won that game, the only 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.440 thing it matters about is for people like us, like 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:22.320 media types and I guess fans maybe to say, like, well, 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.160 the last time they head back to back winning records 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.520 was twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen. But then that's so 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.440 hollow because ten years from now, when you say that stat, 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.520 you're gonna stop and think like, well, yeah, okay, they 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.279 went nine and seven and twenty seventeen, Big whoop. It 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.760 was a crappy season, Like that's what people are gonna say. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.000 And I hope, I hope that whether or not Jason 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.960 Garrett has a job wasn't determined by that, like a meaningless, 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.279 crappy game in Philadelphia where you knew all week that 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.720 I wasn't going to decide anything. I get that it's 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.000 big for him to avoid another eight and eight season, 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.520 him personally, not the Cowboys, because I don't think that 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.520 really matters in the long run of things. And you know, 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.680 if you're deciding whether or not he should be the 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.640 coach of the Cowboys, I hope you're looking at the 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.680 bigger picture and how you played during Zeke's suspension, and 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.800 how you handled the injuries and the ups and the downs, 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.880 and how you handled the adversity. I hope everything that 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.120 happened when you were still in the playoff hunt mattered 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.440 more than whether or not you got a meaningless win 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.600 to get to nine and seven, and you know that's 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.440 why I firmly thought that they should be sitting guys themselves. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.240 I mean, it's a moral victory to get to nine 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:30.760 and seven, that's all it is. And it's more of 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.040 a moral victory for Jason Garrett than the team as 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.600 a whole. The players don't care. You know, I disagree 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.120 a little bit with that because I think, well, I'll 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.480 throw one other thing in there. It's not I agree 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.040 with you. Maybe the players don't care. I think Jason cares, 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.560 and I certainly think that the organization cares. And here's why. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.760 That's okay, here's why, because you start looking at it 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:53.040 and you get five years from now, and there are 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.760 these stats that people throw out that talk about the 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.760 overall health of the organization. Let's assume they go back 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.200 to their winning ways like they last year next year. 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.480 Then you're on a city a situation where the stat 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.960 is four of the last five years the Cowboys have 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.039 had a winning record. Right, Those are the kinds of 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.080 things that I think the organization thinks about. Sure that 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.640 that makes that game and that one extra win important 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.600 to them. Now, again, it's not a super Bowl, it's 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.680 not like it's that level of importance, but it still 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.000 is somewhat important to the organization, and it gets to 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.279 have a winning season. And I guess my argument to that, 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.280 you're right, and I guess that was my point when 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.760 I started talking, was a decade from now, it'll be 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.279 part of this statistic, like well, four of the last 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.000 five years. But when you stop and think about it, 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.239 like it's like, I'm borrow a line from my buddy 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.719 Clarence Hill. Stats lie like if you think back and 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:41.440 you're like, yeah, great, they went nine and seven, they 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.600 stopped like but but but the flip to that is, 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.200 let's assume again, and this is a huge assumption, so 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.200 don't take this as fact. Let's assume that the Cowboys 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.280 actually make a deep run next year and or a 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.960 deep run in the year after that. Now that stat 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.840 becomes even more important. Right. So those are the kind 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.480 of things I think the organizations like, we want to 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.240 give as many wins as we can because it all 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.960 bills to the narrative of what our organization is. There's 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.440 something to be said for you know, like Nick said 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.600 last week, you only get sixteen of these, you might 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.320 as well try to win all of the ones that 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:13.480 you can. But I think it's more hollow than not 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.160 hollow at the end of the day, until you win 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.680 a Super Bowl or at least get a downed champaign. Right, 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.240 if this is year two of an eight year run 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.960 of making the playoffs matter, the Seahawks just concluded, yeah, sure, 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.040 then it it still doesn't matter that much because if 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.640 they start doing that, nobody's gonna care about this season. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.800 They're gonna be like, well, great whatever, nine and seven. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:33.840 But then they went twelve and four and thirteen and three, 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.360 eight and blah blah blah. So it is what it is. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.280 We will see. I mean, I think all in all, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.520 I think we all agree. It was extremely disappointing. This 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.560 was this was maybe maybe the weirdest season I've ever 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.680 experienced here with the Cowboys. I've been Nick, you and 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.520 I both have had. This was our eighteen this or 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:54.240 your nineteenth eighteen nineteen. This is my eighteenth season, and yes, 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:58.720 pretty funny and by far, this was the weirdest season 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.240 I've ever experienced. It was so many things, Dave, you 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:02.920 said it when we were on the plane coming back. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:04.800 I think it was after the game you were saying, 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.080 you know, there's there's when you think back to all 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:08.360 the things that would happen if you try to go 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.600 back to training camp. There have been so many things 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.320 that this organization, that this league has experienced this year 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.080 that were out of the norm, and it just made 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.160 for just this really crazy season, and on top of that, 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.280 disappointing because the results were not what you expected them 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.320 to be. I tried to write it all out, and then, 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.160 you know, I liked to screenshot in my notes and 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:28.840 put them on Twitter. I tried to write it all 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.800 out in a note the other day and I failed. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.360 Like I looked at it and I was like, this 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.679 isn't remotely close to being every I mean, I had 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.840 a game cancel, had a game canceled by a hurricane 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:45.760 telephone had your player I'd forgotten about that, and that 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:47.800 was on the bottom end of the list. Oh yeah, 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:49.920 that's happened that we're crazy, right, Well, it was a 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.439 big deal for what happened. I'm not gonna say it 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.480 wouldn't have no I'm saying. I'm saying from the standpoint 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.280 of when you think about all the things that affected 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.040 on the field, that was a preseason game. So missing 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.920 a preseason game was relatively the last one preseason game 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.360 was canceled. Your incumbent punt returner was cut after a 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:10.000 dog kidnapping scandal. Um, Your your star running back was 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:15.400 suspended and had a lengthy battle with the NFL. Playing 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.319 this week, Playing this week, one of your linebackers allegedly 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.080 pulled a gun on some people. All of your outside 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.760 free agents that you hired, two of them got cut, 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:28.280 one of them retired. Um, but there was the national anthem. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.880 I mean we spent a whole thirty minute segment talking 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.240 about that. What else happened? That's and that's my point, 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.240 Like I've only listed four or five things, and I'm 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:38.959 just starting to draw a blank. And I know that 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.800 that's just like the tip of the iceberg. And by 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.800 the way, only one of those, I think, and that's 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.360 probably Zeke, actually was something that affected on the field 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.679 significant And while I didn't get into the tire and 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.280 injury to Sean. Yeah, if you want to talk about football, 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.920 you got all that swiffing on three free agents. Oh yeah, no, 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.480 that's fair, no doubt not mean that that did affect. Yeah, 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.040 but part of that's on the on themselves. I mean 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.920 the fact that they knew Demontre Moore was was going 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.839 to be suspended, Like, I don't know. That didn't sit 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.800 well with me. I mean, it's not like he was 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.199 that great in other other places. You've already got guys 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.200 that are that are suspended. I mean, you already knew 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.160 he was going to be have a two game suspension 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.720 and they didn't even say anything. I don't know, I 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.439 thought that was bad. Yeah about about a tight end 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.680 that that that caught the Yeah this world by by 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:33.080 nineteen week concussion. We forgot about the two touchdowns in 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.880 the preseason. This guy's about the star in the making 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:40.640 and getcussion and he's gone, Uh, your second best pass 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.160 rusher started the season suspended. He missed the first month 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.440 of the season, lost the nipple ring in the middle 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.800 of nipple ring. Uh. First missed the last month of 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:54.440 the season with another very lengthy concussion that was and 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.280 still ended the season. Second. I believe so off the 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.959 top of my head, I believe so pretty amazing. Jeff 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.360 Heath led the team and picks for a third consecutive year. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.959 That's pretty wild is that three consecutive years now he's 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.880 been tied for the lead at least at least tied, 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:12.079 if not outright leading Jeff Jeff Heath being called the 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.520 goat is like the biggest story. Never he's the goat? 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:22.920 Um yes, oh just dezz in big nineteen inch letters, 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.240 say it with me, Darren McFadden, Oh, I forgot all 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.760 your number two running backslash number one running back all 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.199 through camp who took one carry this entire season and retired. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.319 Never understood that, and nobody will ever understand that as 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.920 long as we're doing this. Rod Smith was better than 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:43.959 Jalen Smith. No. Hey, well, if you were at about 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.240 week six or seven, you probably had a pretty good 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.280 How about the Jayalen Smith roller coaster from like they 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.599 can't count on this guy to this guy's going to 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.480 be an All Pro in the preseason too, this guy's 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.680 not ready about week five to this guy's playing pretty 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.120 well too. We feel really good about where he's that 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.360 heading into year three. I mean, you went up and 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.439 down about six times, kind of like your voice just 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.960 went like I can talk about that, but if I 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:09.640 tried to do what you just did, that would be 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.400 really you could break that glass. Yeah, it's it's it's 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.040 just been such a crazy season and I think that 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.720 you know, on top of that, it being a disappointing season, 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.960 I think is what's so hard for fans because there's 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.840 been so much emotion that's been tied up in it, 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.080 and then not winning games on top of that, and 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.920 it being not what you expected because coming into this 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.600 year you really expect it there to be a much 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.040 better production on the on the field. What do you 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.439 other other than the Zeke saga? What do you think 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.199 fans were the most upset about heading into Week one? 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.239 And I'll I have the answer. I'll most upset, Yeah, 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.760 heading into week other than the Zeke saga week one, 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.000 I'll tell I have the answer. I'll tell you what 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:51.280 it is. Kellen Moore was still on this team. They 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.720 were most upset about it. Yes, absolutely, are the backup quarterback? Yes, 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.240 and not like you forget he was even on the 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.960 active roster at one point this year, but that happened. Yeah, 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.000 I wasn't playing, but was on the active roster. Cedric 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:07.040 Thornton's in the playoffs right now with what team Buffalo? 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.120 How are you? It's been a long year, That's what 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.360 I'm trying to say. It's been a long year. It's 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.320 gonna be interesting when you get into free agency, which 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:20.160 starts early March mid March. I don't have the exact date, 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.600 March fourteenth. Maybe that's great, let's go with that. No, 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.079 but when you get into it this year, they're gonna 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.560 they're gonna start taking some lumps from the media, and 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.600 they should because then they're gonna start looking at the 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.880 last two years of free agents and they've been pretty bad. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.520 And that's the thing. No, No, they've been really awful, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.680 actually any bad. I think they've gotten the benefit of 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.040 the doubt a lot the last couple of years because, 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.960 and let's be honest, like the scouting staff and the 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.320 administrative staff, like they've made some before that they were 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.839 making some pretty good decisions I thought with regards to personnel. Yeah, 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:56.920 whether it's free agency or not, they were just making 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.920 good personnel decisions. And so I think people gave them 0:13:59.920 --> 0:14:02.120 the benefit of the doubt that hey, this new formula 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.560 of not going and paying top dollar for free agents 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.400 and let's see where it goes. Let's give them the 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.920 benefit of doubt because they made other good, wise prudent decisions. Now, 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:12.840 I don't think they get that benefit of the doubt 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.920 because going and you get what you pay for, right, 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.520 and what they've paid for the last couple of years 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.360 has basically been what they got and which is not 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.960 a lot of production from the free agents. So this year, 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:22.400 I think you're right, there's gonna be a ton of 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.800 scrutiny on whatever decisions they make, and they're gonna have 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.400 to deal with that if that matters to them. And 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.120 and the guys that they lost, I mean, I mean, 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.280 the guys they lost in free agency were pretty you know, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.720 did a pretty good job. Brandon Card had a nice year. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.400 I think Barry Church had a nice year. Church had 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.040 a pretty damn oh though, for the money, and I 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:42.680 want to rewrite history for the money. I don't think 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.600 the Cowboys keep him like that. That I don't put 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.560 on the Cowboys. I looked at all, not keeping Barry Church. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.880 I looked at Mote Claiborne another day. I just just 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.760 hadn't heard anything about him, and he played fifteen games. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.320 He had one interception, But I mean I was kind 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.720 of surprised. I don't know, probably the top three, Yeah, 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.400 fifteen games. That was impressed by that for him because 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.160 he hadn't that's what he hasn't been able to do. Yeah, 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:11.280 just one interception. But he's never been a big interception guy. Anyways, 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.040 disappointment where he was drafted. I think that's such a 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.360 huge disappointment. I think he could go down as one 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.480 of the biggest bus in the draft bus in Cowboys history. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.640 And I know, really people want to say Bobby Carpenter 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.480 or whatever, but when you look at what you trade 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.800 it up to get him, and he hasn't been a 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.280 productive player. I mean, I hate saying it. You know, 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.280 I know he's an LSU guy and you can't argue 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.360 with facts, man, I know. And not only that, but 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.080 that's lie though you are. Stats can lie, but not 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.400 just disappointing here, Like if he goes on and the 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.320 rest of his career is the same, then it's it's 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.240 it says that he wasn't even a great player. It 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.280 wasn't it. He didn't play way great for the Cowboys. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.480 He wasn't a great player. And to take him that high. 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.280 I think that's the part that so I told you 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.800 what I thought they should have done year three. Moved 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:56.120 from defense receiver. Yeah, maybe you wouldn't be in a 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.360 position you are right now a receiver. I've seen him 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.400 return a few kicks. I mean, he is quick, he's fast, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.160 he's got, you know, some alusiveness. I mean, you got 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.240 to do something with them. I did not expect to 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.640 be breaking down Mo Clayborne today. All that. I never 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.560 welcome to jets break. I never know where this show 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:13.160 is going to go. All right, let's take our first break. 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:14.880 When we come back. 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It is a second 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.600 segment of Break Live from the s WBC Mortgage studios 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.520 at the Star. We're doing a season in review today. 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.600 We're talking about the twenty seventeen season and what happened 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.800 this season and how that could impact the twenty eighteen offseason. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.560 Let's start with the first question I have for you guys, 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:42.200 Which was a bigger impact on this disappointing season. Zeke's suspension, 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:50.120 Tyren Smith's injuries or Lee Shaun Lee's injuries? Leeks suspension. Wow, 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:56.719 because it started in the summer and it lasted all 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.479 the way till weeks sixteen of the season when he 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.639 came back and one way or another it was hanging 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:07.479 over his head. It affected him, It affected his demeanor. Um, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.000 I don't I mean, I think I think he looked 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.120 very tired in Week one against the Giants, he looked tired. 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.640 He did played well, but he looked tired. I just 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.879 thought that that situation stayed in the news, stayed as 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:24.520 a distraction for him, maybe not his teammates all the time, coaches, 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.119 do we have him? Do we not? He played against 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.200 the Chiefs on Sunday and needn't know until Friday morning 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.440 he was gonna play. I thought that was a distraction 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.679 all year, and then the six games without him was 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.200 a disaster. I mean it was well when it was 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.359 either three and three, but yeah, and just for reference, 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.200 just for four and two gets you in the playoffs 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.920