WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Wrapping Up #CowboysCamp 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.240 He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:06.320 Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Are you ready for a break? Yes? 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:11.440 Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.480 and so much for that. It's time for the Break 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:20.560 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. We were with Nick Eatman, 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:26.279 David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton the August 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:30.560 twenty eighth, two eighteen, season fourteen, episode number thirty two. 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.960 Welcome to another edition of The Break. We arrived from 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.879 Forts Center at the Star Cowboys are practicing today here. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:42.000 It's the final practice of training camp twenty eighteen. UM, 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.120 and so we're gonna we're gonna take some time today 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.440 to break down training camp. Look up the big picture 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.680 of training camp. Um, and we've got I got my 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:50.840 normal cast here. We're gonna talk a little bit about 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.880 this team. How's everybody doing today? Great? This is like 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.360 this is like the best view right here. Yeah, it 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:57.960 is the best view. We're at the fifty yard line 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.480 of Forts Center and a team is warming up and 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.320 stretching right now. So we'll be talking to you a 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.160 lot about what's going on out here. But at the 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.120 same time, we want to talk about the big picture 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.720 of training camp. Heading into training camp, the writers for 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.920 Dallas Cowboys dot Com put together a series of articles 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.039 that they call twenty Questions, and it hit on twenty 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.240 of the most important questions I guess for the Cowboys 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.880 heading into training camp and into the season that the 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.680 Cowboys were going to have to answer good or bad 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:28.800 one way or the other. We're gonna find out and 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:30.480 I don't know if some of these questions can even 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.360 be answered until we get to December. However, we're gonna 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.200 try to day to see if we will learn anything 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:39.000 more during training camp that helps us answer these twenty questions. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:40.880 So let's get started. I'll start with the first question. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.760 Let's start with number twenty. The question was who has 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:49.560 higher expectations, Randy Gregory or David Irving. Which is interesting 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:51.840 because at the time when you pose this question now 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.040 before the suspension, Yeah, yeah, well no, we know about 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.720 the suspension at that point when they answer this, yes, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.560 they hear about they knew about the suspension at that time. However, 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.120 most people probably felt at that time like, let's just 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.120 wait and see what Randy Gregory is like. We have 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.800 not seen him on a football field in a long time. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.399 That's exactly where we are right now. Let's just wait 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.000 and see. So has anything changed for you as far 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.560 as those two in the expectations again knowing also we 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.160 didn't know that David Everyone wasn't going to be a 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.359 camp at all at that point. I'll tell you this. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.520 I mean, the change for me is that now I 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.919 do have somewhat of an expectation. Before as far as 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:32.000 Randy Gregory goes, I didn't really have any expectations. I'm like, Okay, 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.359 well let's just see how he goes and what happens. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.960 And clearly he came in here looking like a beast 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:41.200 and he's doing great so far. So now that gave 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:46.240 me some higher expectations. It's I forgot we answered that question. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.200 And it's insane how much can change in six weeks, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:54.520 Because I remember I wrote like anything Randy Gregory can 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.280 do is a bonus. Honestly, Like my expectations for him 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:02.399 are that low between not trusting his availability and honestly, 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:06.240 if we're being real, not trusting that we know that 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.000 he's actually that good of a player. Like it's people 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.480 act like he was like DeMarcus Ware when he left 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.920 this team. That's not true, like he had three sacks 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:18.440 in his rookie preseason. Injuries limited him for basically half 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.360 of his rookie year, and it took him the rest 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.480 of it to catch back up to speed. And then 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.239 he had a sack in a meaningless game in Week 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.079 seventeen of twenty sixteen when nobody important was even playing, 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.280 Like that's all we had seen from him. So for 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.440 him to show up and look as good as he has, like, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.080 I still can't wrap my round my head around how 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.320 crazy it is, how good he looks, how much progress 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.360 he's made to the point where, yeah, like it's hard 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.720 not to have crazy expectations that he could be a 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.920 really great player if he can get on the field. Okay, 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.360 I'll ask this, who's gonna play more games this year? 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:59.200 Randy Gregor David Irvy. Good freaking question and Randy running 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.360 out here right now. It's funny because we talked about 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.800 I mean, we talked about this yesterday and again for 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.040 the third day in a row. You know, Cowboys officials 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.560 are say they have no reason to suspect that Randy 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.160 Gregory has any trouble coming his way. But as Jerry 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.320 Jones pointed out this morning, like that's just probably going 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.320 to be a thing that they wake up thinking about 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.719 every day that Randy's here, whether I mean, you know, 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.000 whether whether there's trouble coming or whether there's not the 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.760 potential for it to be, there is always going to 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.960 be around. You know. I had talked to Stephen Jones 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.200 yesterday for just a little bit and exactly what you 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.200 had said earlier in the show yesterday a day that 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.840 they're always the last to know. You mean, we think 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.680 the Cowboys the front office is going to know, and yeah, 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.320 they might hear about something the day before the announcement, 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:53.000 but the NFL league office knows things that's that's happening 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:57.000 seemingly before the Cowboys do. So yeah, that everyone over 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.480 here is saying, you know, we know what we know, 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.200 but doesn't necessarily mean that there's nothing going on. But 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.480 that's exactly and again, even if nothing is going on, 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.320 that fear is just gonna be around Randy Gregory for 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.480 the foreseeable future. That's just something that you have to 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:18.200 be mindful of. And so I don't know, everything I'm 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.040 looking at suggests that day Randy Gregory is going to 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:22.560 be a big part of this season, and it would 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.719 be big for the Cowboys. If he is David Irving, 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.040 I haven't even thought about him in three or four weeks. Yeah, 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.520 who will be the backup quarterback for this season? You 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.159 guys At the time that the conversation was really about 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.719 Ken Mike White actually step up and surpass Cooper Rush. 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.640 But my question for you guys is is Cooper Rush 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.080 your backup? Is Mike White your backup? Or is this 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.119 someone else that will be your backup? At this point 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.520 based on what we've seen, Cooper Rush is your backup quarterback. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.760 I said it then, and it's true today, and it 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.440 would be true next week as well. Okay, Cooper Rush 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.680 is the backup quarterback. Cooper Rush is not next in 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:05.640 line to start though. That's that's that's the Okay. He 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.839 will be the backup quarterback on a game day, He'll 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.520 finish your game. If he has to start another game, 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.880 that won't be Cooper Rush. And then I don't think 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.000 I can get on board with that A lot like 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.120 twenty fifteen. You know, he gave Brandon Weeden his very 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.400 brief shot, and then you did a trade to bring 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.000 a guy in here. I don't think I don't think 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.159 this team would feel good about Cooper Rush needing to 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.279 start more than a game or two, right, Um, But again, 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.880 I don't think And that's you know. I was kind 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:32.640 of going back and forth with fans here this morning 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.360 because Jason Garrett said this morning within the last half 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.240 hour that he feels good about Cooper Rush as his backup, 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.360 which people predictably lost their minds because Cooper Rush looked 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.280 terrible on Sunday night. Yeah, but again, I mean, I'm 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.600 sorry if what's going to say though? No, well not 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.320 only what else is he gonna say? But again, what 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.479 else do you want? Like, I'm sorry if I sound 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.680 like the company man right now, but like, what do 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.480 you want? Do you want to go give up a 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.600 draft pick for Teddy Bridgewater? Why? This is a team 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.120 that expects Dak to be available for sixteen games and 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.520 I do too, And so I don't care. I really 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.679 don't unless you know, we'll deal with that when it happens. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.479 And if you need to go get Teddy Bridgewater in 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.560 October because Dak has something happened to him, knock on wood, 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.920 worry about that, then why do I care? Right now? 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.800 You know what I would have you said? What do 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.400 you want? What I think should have happened here. And 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.280 it's not like I was screaming for it too much 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.160 in the summer, so it's hard to come back now 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.000 and say it. But I do think that they need 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.040 a little bit more veteran experience in the room. Not 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:29.920 anyone that's going to challenge him or he has to 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.880 look over his shoulder every interception or every bad play, 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.120 but just somebody that can he can walk off of 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.320 the sidelines too. And you know, maybe it's a m 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.680 account type of player. And I know there's fourteen of them, 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.680 so one of those guys, but um, you know, just 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.200 somebody like that. But at this point, I don't know 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.240 if you can go get that guy for the record 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.880 for the fifth time, I agree with everything you just said, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.520 but they don't. They and he feels good about it, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.520 said this morning they like having a young room and 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.360 that's what they want. Again. I think Dak's gonna start 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.600 sixteen games year or so. I don't really care. It's 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.960 a moot point. Who is the bounce back candidate, the 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.480 biggest bounce back candidate on this team. You guys threw 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.920 out Dan Bailey, and I think it was you Dave 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:15.239 that also throughout Cole Beasley as as your guy, Um, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.960 who would you guys say, is the guy that you 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.080 think will have the biggest comeback season based upon what 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.320 they did last year relative to what you expect him 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:28.360 to do this year? If you can promise me, Randy God, 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.600 I mean, yeah, you can't be better than that. You 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:34.719 can promise me he's gonna play. I mean, and I'm 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.920 the guy that I hate to put those expectations on 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.640 the guy, but like, double digit sacks doesn't sound that 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.720 crazy based on what we've seen. So I mean, with 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.480 what you saw the other nine in him, if he 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.640 were able to play every game, like, how could he 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.480 not get to the quarterback once a game? I mean, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.040 I know that that doesn't happen, but well it does. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.080 Actually some guys that get more than that on an 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.480 average tank did it last year? Yeah, that's true, he 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.000 got he was right there. Um, you know some other 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.319 candidates for that. Dan Bailey was kind of what the 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.680 question was designed to be around, and that's what they're 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.000 hoping that he's the biggest comeback player. But you know, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:07.600 you ask a lot of guys. I'm looking at Tavon 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.200 Austin catch a little swing pass around for him. You know, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.760 he's looking to have a comeback season had some injuries. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.240 Terrence Williams would be one. Cole Beasley, uh would would 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.800 be another. Um you know, in their own weird way. 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.439 Tyrn Smith probably wants to have a bounce back year, 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.560 even though he made the Pro Bowl, uh, you know, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.320 but wants to play a little bit more than he 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:30.920 did or better than he did. I don't think that 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.320 for another team. I don't think Jazz makes this team 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.319 at all. But uh, we we're actually gonna shoot a 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.360 video today that's gonna be posted hopefully tomorrow where we're 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.959 gonna break down the roster and we had to kind 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.480 of go through it a little bit, and surprisingly we 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.640 didn't even We didn't even want to waste any time 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.960 on Chaz. And I think he's gonna get it. He's 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.760 gonna get a cut and we're not even gonna discuss it. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:56.320 He hasn't done anything. Byron, Yeah, I thought him. I 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.720 thought about that. I think it's it's a good answer. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.400 Although you know, when I think of bounce back, I mean, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.360 Byron wasn't great last year, but he started and was 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.520 productive for you. He wasn't great, I know, But when 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.360 I think of like Cole Beasley has to be disappointed 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.040 with the year that he had Damn Bailey again like 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.280 most accurate history. But I will say this Byron to 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.480 me is more like a career bounce back, because I 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.679 think he was all but washed up as a safety 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.160 from the standpoint when you start thinking about a second contract, 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.600 I don't know that that the Cowboys were really thinking, 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.360 Hey did we definitely got to do a second contract 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.480 with this guy. That doesn't mean somebody else doesn't pick 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.240 him up, but I don't think he was due for 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.760 big payday. However, if he plays this season as he's 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.680 played during training camp, then he will now create a 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.640 conversation for himself, either here or somewhere else for somebody 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.079 to sign him as a cornerback. I don't know if 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.880 this is fair for bounce back, but you know, Zekiel 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.640 Elliott is obviously entering this season with a chip on 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.000 his shoulder, and we will get to that one. Okay, 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:52.800 I don't know you did the twenty question. I know, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.880 I don't remember. I'm surprising you guys with all of 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.760 these aren't kind of yeah, they're all relevant right now? 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:00.960 Yeah they are, they are. So let's move on. We 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:03.000 talked a little about Dan Bailey, But the next question 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:07.280 is the special Will special teams see problems due to 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.120 all the defections you lost Rich Pasacchia, you lost key 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.320 players like Keith Smith and Kyle Wilbur on your special teams. 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.720 You now have Keith O'Quinn running that group. Do you 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.120 think that special teams? Has there been anything that you've 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.600 seen so far to suggest that special teams takes a hit. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.600 I'll answer that I don't think that you can ever 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.600 judge as special teams in the preseason. I always say 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.199 that when fans go crazy because a punt return comes 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.520 back for a touchdown, they're just trying to get by 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.559 right now. They're trying to figure out who goes where. 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.920 It's kind of chaotic for them. I think they're going 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.600 to be pretty good on special teams because they're very deep. 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.960 What position are the deepest that right now, it seems 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.439 like linebacker. When you're a deepest linebacker, you're gonna be 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.880 good on special teams. And like we've said before, they've 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.719 got a running back probably gonna make the team in 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.840 Boscarborough who's got a linebacker type of body. He'll play 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.720 some as well. I think they're gonna be okay there. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.240 I think they're gonna be better than ok I mean, 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.760 the three specialists have looked really good throughout camp. I mean, 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.600 Bailey had had his moment where everything looked bad, but 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.960 he's been rock solid ever since. And then yeah, I 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:12.480 think of guys like Damian Wilson, Cavan Frasier Vett, and Jamazola. 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.920 Wally is another one like those three guys. Keith O 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.200 Quinn's been here forever. I mean, it's not like he's 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.240 new to this thing. I think they're gonna be fine now. 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.600 Of all these questions, there are a few that stand 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.560 out as questions that we can really sink our teeth 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.439 into that I don't know that we have answers for yet, 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.040 but they're worth discussions. This is one of them at 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.280 number sixteen. How will the tight end position sort out? 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.679 You've got Jeff Swain, You've got Blake jaw When, you've 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.480 got Dalton Schultz, You've got Rico Gathers, And they all 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:46.880 have something about them that they all have certain people 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:48.760 that are pulling for them, I guess is a good 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.280 way to put it. And they have different unique things 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.240 about each one of them. Did you have something to say. Yeah, 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.840 for the record, and I think they put this list 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.000 together some of the writers. I remember saying to Rob, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.480 how is this number sixteen? Like? How is this like 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.439 number four? Yeah? I thought this would have been a 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.719 lot higher on the list, Uh, not knowing that that 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.400 we would get to this point in trading camp and 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.640 nobody would separate themselves at all. Yeah, but uh, but 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.920 I do this sounds funny coming at number sixteen, because 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.920 I can't imagine fifteen more questions more pressing than this. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.439 Um but um, I don't know where I was that there. 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.240 You were you risk the cos you honestly you weren't here. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:30.840 I don't remember where you were, but you weren't here. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:32.960 I don't know you were on. So has it sorted out? 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:34.600 Give me, give me count? Has It's fair for the 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.440 fan that's just kind of coming into this thing and 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:37.960 trying to figure out what's going on for the season. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.600 Who's gonna be your starter? Who do you expect to play? 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.840 What roles? How do you expect this thing to playoff? Okay, 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.880 clearly Swim is gonna be your starter. Absolutely, Jeff Swam 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.360 is your starting tight end. He's gonna be He's gonna 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.400 be the tight end on the field when it's eleven personnel, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.200 I would guess he's gonna be your first guy in 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.480 Blake Jarwin's your two. He'll be there when it's twelve. 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.480 Those are the only I mean, swam is the only 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.880 one that I remotely trust Block in all honesty, but 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:05.280 Jarwin would be after that. Dalton Schultz. I'm intrigued because 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.880 this front office doesn't cut fourth round draft picks. But 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.640 he's had his ups and downs. I don't I've been underwhelmed. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.440 I don't know that he's a guy that they're going 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.400 to trust to do those types of jobs when when 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:20.840 it's on the line. But honestly, that's all I feel 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.960 comfortable saying. Right, I don't know what to tell you 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.680 about Rico honestly, like and I said last week, like 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.680 I've said all I can say about it, Like they're 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.520 gonna make a decision this weekend what they're gonna do 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.840 with him. We'll see if he's on the team. If 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.680 he is, I would bet that he has a maddeningly 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:41.240 inconsistent role on this team. Like I can't imagine he'll 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.840 be active that often if he's here, or if he 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:45.760 is active. I can't imagine that he's going to have 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.760 this huge role. I think Jarwin and Swim are the 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.600 two that they're gonna lean on to be their guys. Yeah, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.320 I think you know, five receivers in four tight ends 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.080 is what it is looking like here. I just I 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.400 just well, I say that, is that what you want 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.880 or what you actually think they'll do? No, I actually 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.000 I changed my mind. I don't think they'll cut Deonte Thompson. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.000 I don't I don't either. I don't think they will. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.400 I think they'll cut Lance Lenore um by that. But 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.320 but ten, that's that's ten for that position right there, 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.960 or for those two do positions. And you know I've 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.240 said all along, I think jamaz Ola Waldi could help 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.920 them a little bit from an h back tight end 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.160 spot that maybe you didn't have to go along there. 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.920 But they don't want to cut fourth round picks. That 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.200 just that just shows that they made a mistake. They 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:31.720 don't want to do it. They're gonna have a hard 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.800 time cutting Tapper for some reason, so and they're gonna 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.280 have not that hard of a time cutting Chaz Green. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.480 But they don't like to cut draft pick, especially if 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.240 the rookies um, I don't think Dalton Schultz had done 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.480 anything to make me say we got to keep him. 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:48.800 But you know, he'll develop just like Rico will. You 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.800 know what I find disappointing is how much we heard 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.400 Stephen Jones and the Jones and all of them talk 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:01.640 about Lake Jarwayne. They spoke about him so highly right before, 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.240 you know, we started the whole training camp and as 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.240 of right now, I mean I came in thinking or 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.160 expecting to see something that maybe we just haven't seen 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:15.000 before or like notice on Blake jarwayn as far as 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.480 practice and stuff, and I don't know, I don't know 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.520 where it was coming from because I haven't seen anything 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.720 to give me that confidence to, like, you know what, 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:29.080 I'm betting all my money on Jarwin. I apologize in advance. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.920 I'm not trying to go down this rabbit hole, but 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.640 it reminds me a lot of safety. Like they love 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.320 Xavier Woods, they are optimistic and they hope that he's 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.200 gonna be this great player. There's no proof that I've 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.440 seen that that is true. Yet I hope like hell 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.800 it is, but there's no proof of that saying I mean, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.920 she's absolutely right, Like they raved about Jarwin oftentimes was 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:49.840 like the first name out of somebody's mouth when you 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.800 asked him about tight end before Jeff Swain. And I'm 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.400 not dogging the guy. I don't think he's been bad, 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.280 but he I mean, I'm not telling people to draft 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.920 him in fantasy football, you know, like, oh, I'm serious, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:03.960 Like he I haven't seen anything to suggest that he's 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:08.040 gonna have this just blow up year. He's fortunate because 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.840 Swain hasn't been that great. He's been solid, but it 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.640 hasn't been that great. And the other guys haven't really 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.639 done anything because if they had, Like he's he's a 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.520 guy you could cut. I mean what I mean, what 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.800 does Blake Jarwin you know, do now he'd be pretty 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.160 pissed because the Cowboys have cost him a Super Bowl 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.840 ring because the Eagles Eagles for trying to get him. 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:28.359 You don't know that he would have made it all 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:29.720 the way to the Super Bowl. I mean, he might 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.320 have gotten cut. No, but it was kind of later 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:32.960 in the year, right, and you have to it was 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.159 like November. You have to keep him for three weeks, 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:36.879 so he would have get your point, you know, he 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:38.520 probably would have made it. I think I think at 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.399 the end of the day. What's happening right now is 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.840 fans and everybody's gonna have to adapt to the idea 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.840 that the Cowboys are now. Like probably I would guess 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.440 twenty two twenty four teams in the NFL where they're 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.120 tight end is just a guy. He's not a guy 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.440 that's an intricate part of their offense. He's gonna catch 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.359 a couple passes who he'll be asked to block, who'll 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.400 have some different things that he'll be asked to do, 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.800 but they're not gonna have This is just not that 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.000 we've been used to sing that with Winton. You're just 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:05.760 not gonna see that none of these tight ends or 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.040 that caliber tight end where he's gonna be out there 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.080 every play and you're gonna he's gonna be an intricate 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:11.880 part of what you do offensively. I'll tell you this 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.720 is on Saturday or Sunday, a twenty eight year old 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.760 tight end who's not special but has been through some 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.560 wars is gonna be available. I would try to go 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.320 get that guy, like not any He's not gonna be special. 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:25.879 You're not gonna be excited when you hear that they 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.080 added him, but he has knows how to block and 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.320 do that type of stuff. I don't think they'll do 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.600 that because I think they like these guys, But that's 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.480 what I would do. Yeah, honestly, it would be a 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.800 guy like a like a James Hannah. Like if you 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:38.520 told me there was a guy like a James Hanna 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:42.080 out there, nothing special can block, and that's more important 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.359 than anybody can block. That's the kind of guy would 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.000 go get. He's not in the league anymore. But I 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.720 always think of Dante Rosario. They had him here, they 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.040 had five tight ends, and they traded him because they 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.680 had they were good. So all right, we're gonna go 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.040 ahead and take our first break. We'll come right back 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.040