WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Going All In? 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.880 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:17.639 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.760 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:26.119 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:31.480 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:37.760 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.479 It is Tuesday, October twenty ninth, twenty nineteen, season fifteen, 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.280 episode number seventy one. Welcome to another edition Off the Break. 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.959 We are live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.960 the start. Following a bye week, Cowboys are getting ready 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.680 for their next division opponent, got the Giants coming up 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.279 this Sunday in New York. I'm sorry, this Monday in 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.720 New York. And before we get into all of that, 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.080 we'll talk about that tomorrow row in on Thursday. But 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:06.280 today we have to talk about signing Cowboys over the weekend. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.880 Actually it was last Thursday, I think Thursday, even at 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.480 about the time we were all settling into a nice 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.560 by weekend that the Cowboys made the decision to trade 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.640 for one Michael Bennett. They trade a seventh round pick 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.680 that could become conditionally a sixth round pick. I want 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.880 to get all of your opinions on what you thought 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.120 when you first saw that the Cowboys made this move. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.400 Let's start with you, Nick. Well, you don't want to 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.600 know what I first thought, but no, I really do 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.080 want to know what you first thought. Well, I was 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.960 disappointed that, you know, we didn't kind of get more 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:37.520 of a heads up on it. We felt like we 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.839 had an opportunity to do that. But my first thought 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:45.480 about the actual move that pertains to everyone else, just 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.920 another guy that you know. Well, Actually, my first thoughts 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:49.800 why do the Patriots don't want them? I mean, why 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.800 does Bill Belichick, the best coach of all time not 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.600 want them? So that's my first thought. Really, but I 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.760 feel like he'll help, you know, he'll help if they 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.160 can rotate him the right way. He's probably does what 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:05.080 Tyrone Crawford was doing his inside outside Flix guy, Dave, 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.520 what do you sorry? I was waiting for the illustrious host. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.320 You needed me to say your name? Sorry? My first 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:16.919 thought was, oh, bleep, bleep, bleep, putting the beer down. 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.040 You put the beer down. I guess those plans are 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.720 on hold. Bleep. Oh, Nick's calling me. I guess I 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.280 gotta write this story. Bleep bleep. I thought we were 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.240 on a bye week. Welcome to the world of Dallas 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.880 Cowboys dot Com pretty much. Yeah. Um, so we got 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.760 all that taken care of. And then once I got 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.600 over the initial shock of and I mean, you know, 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.760 we're not we play some things close to the chest sometimes, 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.200 like you know, we'll hear whispers that you know this 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.440 is in the works, don't say anything or you're fired. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.959 You know this might be coming down later today. This 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.400 was not one of those though, Like I mean, we 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.600 were completely blindsided by this, right, I hadn't heard anything 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.600 about it from anybody. I left work on Thursday thinking 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.800 that nothing interesting was going down down. Uh So kudos 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.440 to them for playing that one really close. Um. Anyway, 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.320 once I got over the shock of it, I think 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.040 it's a great deal. I don't really worry about that 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.040 with you know, why doesn't Belichick want him? Because the 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.639 Patriots scheme is so unlike what Bennett has experienced most 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:21.840 of his success success doing. You know, everybody's already tied 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.520 the parallel with Chris Rashard. Jason Garrett talked about how 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.000 that was a big, a big selling point for why 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.320 they were comfortable doing it. He can play in he 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.040 can play tackle and nickel and rush situations. I think 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.640 it's a great, great trade. This is the type of 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.840 trade I love to see because you're not mortgaging your 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.880 future and you're getting a guy that can really help 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.720 you right now. Um and you know he's he's a 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:47.440 he's a an outspoken guy. He's got a reputation and 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.120 a lot of people don't like him because of that. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.040 If it doesn't work out, it was a seventh round pick, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.760 Like I whatever, you can part ways with him for 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.960 no real loss at all. I think it's a lot 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.960 of upside with very little downside. I love it. Something 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.720 just doesn't feel right to me in a way. I'm like, 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.480 there must be something else. I don't know, because it 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.560 seems too good of a trade for it to happen. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.480 I just don't know. I can't pinpoint what it is, 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.720 but it just seems one of those situations where it's 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.719 too good to be true in a way. So I'm like, 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:23.720 there has to be something that's up or wrong here, 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.360 or maybe this guy is and all that that will 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.040 plug The Cowboys can plug him in into the field 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.120 in the line and him being effective for the Cowboys. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:35.800 I don't know. Well, I think I think the most 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.799 important thing is that he was out of well really, 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.599 I don't want to say out of position, but the Patriots. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.760 What the Patriots do is not necessarily what he does. 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.160 They are very they are not mostly in a four 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:52.000 three front. They're not mostly in a four down line front. Right, 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:56.040 and he's a defensive tackle slash defensive end, which means 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.599 that it makes it tough for him to get onto 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.599 the field. Now, depending on how good bad he is, 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.320 I probably I would venture to say he's not like 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.520 a world beater. I he's thirty three years old, so 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.880 there is a likelihood that he could be less of 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:10.839 a player than he was a year before that. What 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.440 I will say is twenty eighteen, this was a guy 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.200 who had nine sacks last year, and that same year, 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.839 DeMarcus Lawrence led the team the Cowboys with ten and 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.039 a half sacks. Next closest guy had six in Gregory. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.640 He's not here. So if you look at it from 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.599 that standpoint, just what he was a year ago, this 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.599 is a guy that was would have been the second 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.880 highest I would have had the second highest sack total 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.680 on this team. That to me, says, Okay, I'll take 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.159 a chance on the fact that he was just not 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:39.880 a guy that could fit into what the Patriots are 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.120 trying to do. And worst case scenario, he's not that good. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.680 You didn't lose anything. You gave up a seventh round 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.640 pick and maybe a six round How many times that 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:52.440 he bounced around this year? Well he went, he was 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.880 with the Eagles. Eagles traded him to New England in 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.640 the spring. Before that, he was, you know, he was 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.440 one of the mainstays on that Seattle defense. I would 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.320 be more concerned about why the Eagles let him go 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.680 than why the Patriots let him go, because the Eagles 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.040 do what the Cowboys do, and they decided, hey, you know, 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.240 we're ready to move on from him. So that to 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.279 me would be more of a concern than the Patriots. 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.200 But again, like I said, a guy that had nine 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.400 and a a half sacks a year ago, take that chance. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.599 Like they didn't give up much to take that chance. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.680 It's not like a salary. He's that high, So go forward. Well, 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.200 he's got some you know, he's got some baggage, I guess, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.039 and he's got some that might be an issue with 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:29.760 the Cowboys. Now, I don't know if this has all 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:31.760 been worked out. I was we were told that trade 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:35.960 came together quick. So you wonder if questions about his 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.520 stance on the anthem, his stance on Jason Witten, his 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.560 stand why he was suspended a game for the with 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.680 an altercation with the coach for the Patriots. So you know, 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.880 there are some issues here. And he's very, like Dave said, 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.479 very outspoken. He's an author of a book. You know 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.559 that's very outspoken. And you know it could it could 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.200 be an issue if you know the leaders in the 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:05.160 locker room and and you know don't handle it. But um, 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.760 it's not like he hasn't been an effective player where 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.280 he's been And do see exactly fit what the Cowboys 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.120 are going to be missing with Tyrone Crawford. If he 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.440 plays like he's played, it's an upgrade. And and he 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.800 does what Crawford does, but he's better at it in 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.200 my opinion, Yeah, he's better at it. That's in a 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.400 perfect world. Yeah, I call that an upgrade. And I 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.840 don't think I'm sorry, I don't think Michael Bennett has 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.280 had the as good a pass rushers around him as 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:34.000 he'll have here with Quinn and d law Um and 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.480 even Hyder. You know, I mean it's I mean nothing 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.480 against what what the Seahawks did back to him, because 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.640 obviously they want to Super Bowl with great defense. They 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:48.280 had about four really good rushers, right, Yeah, they didn't 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.440 have they didn't have a stud. They just had five 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.920 really good. They had Avril, they had Bennett, they had Um, 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.200 another dude whose name is escaping me. Clark didn't get 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.720 there till letter. But I mean they had at their peak, 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.480 they had about five that just kept coming, right, which 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.440 is kind of what you're recreating here, I think, which 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.240 you can't say that Bennett only cares about winning because 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.360 he forced his way off the best team in the league. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.520 But I think he cares about winning and competing and 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.160 having a role. He I've never met the guy, but 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:25.440 he seems like Alpha in the truest terms, you know. Yeah, Yeah, 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.040 craziest player we've ever had. I think you think A 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.920 b was the craziest player we've ever had. Don't call 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:37.880 Anthony Brown like that, meant Antonio brian And was crazy. Well, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:39.719 what does the guy just stands on the sideline and 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.600 all of a sudden just does a backflip just because 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.440 I mean, he's just standing there. I'm kind of, you know, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.920 up there, though Marty b is up there. I never 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.760 dealt with Marty B. But I'm kind of surprised to 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.800 hear that when you you know, I've heard some stories 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:55.080 about Ratliffe. I've heard some stories about Mary and Barber. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.240 What's crazier him? Crazy's not the right word. No, it's 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.440 not the right word. That's not the right interesting guys, interesting, yes, 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.840 and he accentric yeah, And you know when he was gone, 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.960 he said what he said about Jason Witten. And you know, 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.080 I think I think Bennett was in that interview with 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:14.199 Michael Bennett. It was an ESPN the magazine profile. There 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.920 was this whole thing about Jason Wayne Well. I mean 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.400 Mark Martellis said that he respected Jason Witten as a player, 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.880 but just didn't like him. And and I bet you 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.640 it was mutual, just because you know that they have 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:27.880 a different approach to the game. And I think you 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.680 could say martellis Bennett. Um. I don't know if he 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.319 loved football. I think he loved what football gave him, 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.640 because he always had interest in doing other things. I 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:37.680 don't know if he was as interested about football, was 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.520 just one thing. Yeah, that's the point. He may have 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.719 loved it, but it was just one thing. I think 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.160 that was also the point about about martellis that that 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.240 made people look at him a little different, is because 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.079 he did have a lot of different interests and they 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.120 weren't the typical interests that you see from a six 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.320 foot five black guy. Like the things that he did. 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.120 He was very interested in a lot of cerebral things, 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.680 and I think people are like that it seems weird, 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.640 like he's writing kids books and he loves technology, like 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.760 there are all these things that that said, maybe this 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.080 is a nerd, but he's in a football player's body. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.120 You remember when, so it just it seemed weird to 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.800 remember when he got I forgot exactly what it was, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.800 but he got us. He got fined by the Cowboys, 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.559 and he did an apology, you know, and he wrapped 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.480 his own apology. Yeah yeah, And I mean he's just 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.280 he was just wrapped it out. It was kind of 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.160 pretty good. I actually had a lot of respect from 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:28.800 why to be from the standpoint of us, I had 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.280 more respect for him after he finished playing, because I 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.720 did see the fullness of the person that he was 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.800 and all the different things he was interesting and I 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.439 think he's good at a lot of those things as well. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.480 I remember when I went to the Pro Bowl. I 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.000 think it was fourteen Cowboys were coaching it and I was, 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.520 you know, there to cover the Cowboys, and he had 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.440 made the Pro Bowl with the Giants, I believe, maybe 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.280 with the Bears. I can't remember. Maybe I think it 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.319 was the Bears, and he was talking to the Giants 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.199 people like, hey, how are you doing. Then he sees 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.240 me and he was like, damn, I've been on a 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.120 lot of teams man, you know, because he's like, I 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.439 know you too. So he had a good career. And 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.480 I know we're getting away from things a little bit 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.000 because there are different people. Yeah, yeah, I mean I 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.960 don't really I don't care that much about Martellis Bennett's 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.200 role in those whole thing. It's they're different guys. And 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.679 but again, I mean that is that is something to watch. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.000 Michael Bennett is Again he's an outspoken guy. You can 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.480 talk about the anthem stuff. I think not maybe you know, 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.640 I don't know if he's the author of any children's books, 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.480 but I think he's another guy that is, you know, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.920 he's a little bit more three d than you know, 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.240 he cares about stuff because the author of a little 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.120 more controversial book and that I mean, but again exact title, 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.920 but it's it's what makes white people uncomfortable or something. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.600 I didn't know that I heard you mentioned it before. 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.640 The author of the book. I mean, he has been 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.760 at the forefront of this national anthem and and you know, okay, 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:50.880 his brutality debate and all that type of stuff. Like 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.280 about a month ago, we were talking about the dynamic 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.760 with this group of guys in the locker room, how 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.640 everything's so well, all these guys get along. The only 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.200 one was talk on now his gun and then this 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.559 guy coming in with this baggage with him? Does that 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.920 all right? Hold on, I'm gonna pause you right there. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:11.360 We're gonna take our break. When we come back, I 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.640 want to talk about that. I want to talk about 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.760 how he affects this locker room and can this locker 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.160 room withstand a guy that's pretty outspoken, and we'll see 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.000 how that how that plays out, we' talk about them, 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.920 we'll come back. 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It's a pretty messy 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.400 day out there, but they're practicing outside. Michael Bennett was 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.760 a part of that. Before the break, we started talking 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.880 a little bit about how Michael Bennett will fit into 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.400 this locker room, and and Amber you laid out the question. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.080 I'll throw it out to the group. How do you 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.520 think he works in this locker room that seems to 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.480 be pretty cohesive on the same page, a lot of 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.520 seemingly similar type I would say similar type or at 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.920 least meshing type personalities, not really liar type guys that 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.200 kind of are very different in my opinion, What do 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.480 you guys think? I think it's it's the same conversation 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.160 we've had on this show a dozen times at this point, 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.120 is like at the end of the day, line one 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.360 is always are you good at football? And if Michael 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.640 Bennett can accomplish what they brought him in here to accomplish, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.320 which has helped them get sacked, I think the rest 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:22.960 of it will take care of itself. To be honest, 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.480 and like, he's not the only guy in that locker 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:32.200 room without spoken opinions or different interests besides football. He 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.720 probably voices them a little bit more often than what 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.840 we're used to seeing here with the Cowboys. I'm interested 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.960 to see how that manifests itself. But again, if he 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.960 if he is contributing and is part of a winning effort, 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:48.280 I think the rest of it's going to take care 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.080 of himselves. I mean, we haven't talked about it a 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.200 whole lot, but Robert Quinn had his own role in 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:57.360 the national anthem protests as well, and that has hardly 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.360 been mentioned since he got here, and it hasn't really 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.280 shown itself on the field to this point either. So again, 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.960 if if he's good at football and it's taking care 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.440 of that aspect of it, I think the rest of 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.680 it will sort itself out. And that's kind of what 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.280 I said at the top of the show too, is 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:17.320 if it is this gigantic problem and he's and he 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.240 just butts heads, then you didn't invest that much in 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.320 this anyway, and it's not something that's hard to get 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.400 away from, you know, if you really think about it. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.160 Though I said this before, and maybe I'll change, I'm 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:28.960 going to change what I just said a few minutes ago, 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.760 there really are a lot of different kinds of personalities 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.760 on this team. Because you think about a guy like 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:37.320 Amari Cooper, who is very seemingly sometimes kind of to 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.800 himself a very cerebral guy, loves to read. He's that 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.720 kind of guy, right, And then you got a guy 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.840 like Tank that's just like he'll say whatever comes to 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.600 his mind and whatever way it comes to his mind, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.760 and he'll do it on camera. He doesn't mind getting 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:50.120 out there and saying it the way he wants to 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.960 say it. And then you got a guy like Robert 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.040 Quinn who gets off the plane in his bathrobe and 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.520 you know, is heading to this car. Like there are 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.000 a lot of different types of personalities, very very different 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.960 types of personalities on this team. And maybe again, like 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.360 Dave says, maybe it's all about if you can get 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.879 them all to buy into this common theme of we 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.800 want to win, then it really doesn't matter, right. I 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.760 agree with that. And as he said, it's all about, 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.439 you know, how well you play football. You put up 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.119 with a lot of stuff if guys are you know, 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.520 playing football and not being a distraction as well, Because 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.119 when we saw guys like Terrell Owens, I mean, you know, 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.359 he was good at football, but he was it was 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.399 too much of a distraction, not that good, I guess, 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:33.160 and I like I said, I mean he was unhappy 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.359 in the on the best roster in the league, or 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.639 one of them at least. But again, I think the 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.080 old best defense the opportunity to actually play a role 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.760 in winning games is I assume what he's after. And unfortunately, 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.760 you know, because of this weird week, it's Tuesday afternoon 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.480 and we haven't had a chance to talk to him yet. 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.960 Hopefully that happens later today. But I don't know. I 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.480 tend to think and maybe these will be famous last words, 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.240 but I think it's much ado about nothing. I don't 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.600 remember anything about him being this colossal headache while he 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.280 was in Philadelphia, not during the season last year at 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:10.600 least then he which Seattle was a whole different animal, 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.600 that whole team. It's amazing that they juggled the amount 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.640 of personalities that they had in Seattle for as long 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.920 as they did, anyway, and it just tore itself apart 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:19.600 at some point. It was almost like you could just 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.119 see it. At some point, it just got to the 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.800 point where it just seemed like everything was just tearing 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.440 apart because maybe because all those personalities, at some point 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.159 it just wasn't going to work anymore. But at the 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.760 end of the day, I mean, he wants to play 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.080 a role in winning football games for a good team, 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.560 and if he's got that opportunity, then I think the 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.119 rest of it will take care of itself. Has he 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:42.040 ever had a shoulder injury? Are you referencing his non 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.280 existent shoulder pads? My god, I mean, like it's just 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:49.400 like punters have bigger shoulder pads than that. Yeah. I 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.399 wonder if it's ever been an issue. He's always done it, 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.760 you know. Yeah, it's got like the minimum hasn't seemed 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:56.879 like it's gotten in the way of him getting sixty 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.200 five and a half. It doesn't happen here because these 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.280 injuries with the Cowboys seem to be a trend. So 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.800 it's definitely, yeah, it's just the Cowboys. Yeah, in my eyes, 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.480 it's just a but I did have another bastion. But 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.760 I did have another question though on this. Do you 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.639 guys think that this move was about Now we already 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.479 talked a little bit about Tyrone Crawford, do you think 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:20.600 it's also somewhat of an indictment on a guy like 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.320 Tristan Hill, who they drafted in the second round, and 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.040 you would think that maybe they would be looking for 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.320 him to get an increased role when Crawford goes down, 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:32.879 especially at the defensive tackle position. Do you think that 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.800 this move was more about that or more about the 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.240 fact that, look, we're really replacing what Tyron Crawford did, 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.400 and Tristan Hill is still going to be just Triston Hill, 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:41.359 which means he's going to be an active So both. 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.359