WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Who’s Playing? 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:19.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.919 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:27.240 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.600 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:37.720 wa with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:42.760 Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, August twentieth, twenty twenty one, 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.680 Season seventeen, episode number eleven. Welcome to the latest edition 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.080 of The Break. Life in the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.920 the start, got Dave Hellman and Nick Eatman with me 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.120 for a rousing forty five minutes of Cowboys talk on 0:00:56.160 --> 0:01:00.640 a Friday heading into the third preseason game for the Cowboys. Uh, 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:06.160 the LFG excited. Yeah, that's not what he looked like. God, 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.720 it look like I'm not gonna say, but oh, it 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.560 didn't look it didn't look like something he should be 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.920 doing in here. It's a record for how quickly you 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.440 took things off the reels. I'm just excited. It's Friday. Yeah, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.160 it's a football weekend. I saw your I saw your post, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.520 and I kind of feel you. But it's like I 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.320 keep one to get excited and I'm like and then 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.800 I get brought back to the earth, like I'm like, oh, 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:28.800 but there aren't any real games this weekend. It's just 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.800 kind of preseason. But there's still some value I think 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.319 in these preseason games will be next week's preseason games 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.080 that you're like, I don't even want to watch this. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:37.840 I just want to get to the actual games. Yeah, 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.479 but there's some there's some twenty twenty element of it 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.480 as well, just kind of getting back, hopefully in some 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.199 normalcy that we didn't have last year. You know, that's 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.480 even like I didn't feel that way last year because 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.040 it was it sucked, it was lame, different, Like you 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.000 weren't going to games. You might not even be sure 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:56.800 on Friday if a game was going to happen on 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.680 Sunday or Saturday or whatever you were trying to watch. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.640 And Yeah, it's God. I love that feeling of waking 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.960 up on Friday and you're like, you know, the heavy 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.920 lifting for the week is done, and there's gonna be 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.079 football on all weekend. It's just you know, if you're 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.400 traveling to a game, it's even more exciting. It's just 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:18.639 the best I have never been that guy that says, oh, 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:24.200 this game, fourth game, third game, never because because we 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.520 always go to training camp and we see these guys 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.680 and we want to see, Okay, they're looking okay, let's 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.079 see what they do in the game where they don't 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.040 look that great. But maybe there'll be a gamer, you know. 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.720 And so there's always storylines there and even in the 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.120 third and fourth quarter. Yeah, these games may not make 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.040 the team, but it's it's fun to see that. It's 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.200 fun to see like that game. I thought the game 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.560 was over last last week. I was so loud down 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.959 the Arizona I didn't hear any false start or whatever. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.160 I thought. Bohanna and Kamara won the game. So I 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:53.799 was I got five guys I'm supposed to talk to 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:55.200 in the locker room, and I'm like, okay, well i 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.320 gotta switch because we gotta get Bohanna. I just won 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.440 the game. Wait, why are they kicking a field goal? 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:00.960 Like I'm down there. I'm like, I don't know what's 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.680 going on. But it's a game and there's storylines, and 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.720 that's why I always love it. Yeah, I'm never gonna 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.120 not watch football, Like that's part of my problem. I 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.040 think it's kind of a problem that I'm just like, 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.960 if I'm happening to flip around the television and football's on, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.320 I don't care who what the game is, I'm stopping 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.720 down and you know it's it's a problem for people 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.400 in my house. But if that's for me, that's a problem. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.440 I don't want to be I don't want to be fair. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:23.920 I don't want to help the problem. I don't want 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.120 to be first. And actually, next weekend, just to make 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.360 a quick announcement for everybody that will be high school 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.680 football next weekend, and if you're in Texas, you know 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.000 how big that is. We got actually a really special 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.680 game next weekend here at the Star. It's the very 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:39.600 first Jerry Jones Classic. It's gonna match up Denton Ryan 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.520 versus Long Review, I think it is. And from what 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.320 I understand, these are two top five teams in the 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.000 state that'll be matching up here at the Start next weekend. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.240 So that's gonna be fun. I love watching. Like I said, 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.640 if it's football on, I'm in And I think I 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.520 might even come out next weekend check that one out 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.720 in person, because it'll be it'll be a fun weekend too, 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.240 all right, So yeah, right, you two. I'll be there, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.560 you will be Nick loves high school football now he does. Yeah, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.680 well love he wrote a book about it, so I 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.600 would think he kind of mean it's it's pure. I mean, 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.800 it's it's just this is it. This is what these 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.359 guys have, like, this is their life and most for 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.760 a lot of them, they're never gonna play another game, 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.560 you know, and this is this is what it means. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.280 And so you know, it's funny like preseason games and 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.839 that game that you're just talking about is a non 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:33.000 district game. It doesn't matter to their playoff implications. Tell 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.520 that to everybody there that it doesn't matter, it will matter. Yeah, 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.480 they'll be thinking about it. You know, you probably remember 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.520 a game from your high school. You know. It's just 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.359 what it is. It's what it is, and I love it. 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:47.159 I love that that form. I love all forms of it. Football. Football. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.600 All right, let's get a quick update back. McCarthy had 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.919 his press conference a few minutes ago. Dave tell us 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.640 he he had an update on Dak. What do you 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.960 have to say about Dack? Uh, Yeah, just not anything concrete, 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.960 but just that you know, Dak is going to con 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.800 tenue this progression. It's not you know, Mike was basically like, 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.520 I'm not gonna you know, I'm not willing to commit 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.240 that he's gonna just be full go taken every rep 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.960 next week, but he anticipates that he'll take another notch 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.320 up in his participation next week. Hopefully that means doing 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.760 some competitive stuff, but I guess we'll see. And then 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.559 maybe the most interesting part is that he did say, 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.880 you know, somebody asked you think he'll be on a 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.000 pitch count during the season, like you only gonna throw 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.719 him so many times to keep him healthy and YadA, YadA, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.920 and Mike was like, no, I don't. I don't think 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.839 that'll be a thing, Like he'll be fine when the 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.640 season gets here, Which that's that's noteworthy to me. If 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.800 you think, you know, give it another two and a 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.039 half weeks and you don't think you have to limit 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.400 him at all. I mean, that's that's the goal, right 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.000 And I think until you get to that point, there's 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.280 always going to be some antiness. You know, I said 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.080 that earlier today, like anytime QB one's not just one 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.560 hundred percent available, there's always going to be some antiness. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.479 So especially at the beginning of the year because you know, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.120 there's such a long marathon that's going to have to 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:05.080 happen here to get to where you want to be, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.679 which is playing in January and maybe even February. So yeah, 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.920 when you already got problems right now, you're definitely a 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.919 little bit concerned, I would say. But that's yeah, So 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.400 that's a good sign. He's still trending in the right direction. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.000 All reports continue to be positive. All right, So let's 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.559 talk about Lyle Collins. That was another injury that happened 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.320 earlier this week. Has some discomfort in the neck and back. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.080 What are they saying about him? Every I mean, and 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.440 I get it. I understand why everybody would freak out 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.839 about that, because not only did you know Lyle was 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.080 out last year, not only did he miss the whole year, 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.080 but until he had surgery, they were like, he's fine, 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.839 he's fine, he's fine, he's gonna do something tomorrow. Oh, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.279 by the way, he's having hip surgery and he's gone. 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.360 So I understand why that freaks people out. But he 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.720 did stay at practice the other day, like he stayed 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.440 for the whole thing. He didn't get out of uniform, 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.800 he went through the walkthrough after practice was over and 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.839 I was like, Okay, surely this can't be that bad 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.480 if you're doing walk through and things like that. So 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.320 he's expected to do some stuff. He's expected to practice today, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.360 and Mike even said that he'll probably take some snaps 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.440 tomorrow when the Texans came. So he sounds fine to me. Nick, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.600 does the does the age of this offensive line bother you? 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.520 Because I think you know, when you hear about these 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.680 kind of things and you look at last year, I 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.480 think there is a natural inclination for some casual observers 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.200 fans to look this and be like, man, it's just 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.000 like every year it seems like this team is as 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.280 parcels you say, health hostage. Yeah, by the by the 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.720 health of the offensive line. Yeah. I mean I'm not 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.320 gonna just say the age bothers me, but what the 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:44.240 age represents is more wear and tear. More of these 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.600 things come up, and it's hard to kind of go 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.320 back into you It's hard to think there'll be a 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.880 time where it's like, man, Tyran went through the whole 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.240 year no issues at all. I mean, it's not a knee, 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.920 this is a neck, back, shoulder, elbow, you know, it's 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.240 it's things that just kind of keep lingering a little bit. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.200 So yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, you have to say 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:12.200 it's it's bothersome because they're not as good as they 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.720 were and this line isn't as good as as they were. Um, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.120 I think I think Travis Frederick was better than we 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.240 We think he was as far as and we thought 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.200 he was great, but I think he was even maybe 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.480 better than that, just because the glue, the glue of 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.880 being the you know, in the center of the line 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.120 making the calls. He was really good. Like you weren't 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.679 beating him a lot. You know, we didn't even think 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.960 about snaps really and now we're kind of looking at 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.640 it a lot more. He was just a solid I 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.760 don't even like saying solid because he was an all pro, 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.559 but I mean he was just the perfect centerpiece if 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.040 you will, to that line. And I think I think 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.520 it's gone gone downhill since then, and then with it 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.480 you tack on the injuries as well, and they're just 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.160 not as reliable as we've you know, seeing him in 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.360 the past. Yeah, all right, let's move onto one other transaction. 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:06.600 The Cowboys made Hunter Nice Wander was wave injured. It 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.360 raised my eyebrow obviously, if you think about it. Probably 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.640 shouldn't because he was a guy that was kind of 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.560 getting him through the preseason doing both kicking duties and 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.880 punt duties, and then he got hurt. So talk to 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.800 me about what this means and who they signed in 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.920 his place, and what it means a long term for 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.240 this team if anything. I don't really think it means 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.440 anything long term, if any. We talk about this a 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:34.240 lot of like our idea from the outside fans and media, 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.880 sometimes it is completely different than what they think. And 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.640 what I mean by that is all you know, Hunter 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.199 wasn't pretty good last year for a guy that came 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.559 in off the street, and everybody was like, Okay, maybe 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.120 you know, maybe he's he can compete to be the 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.400 long term answer. And so like all through the offseason 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:51.959 we were like, there's going to be a competition for 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.800 the punter job, clearly, not like clearly the John Fossil 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.000 from the get go was like, thank you for your 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.480 contribution and you will be shown the or at some 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.280 point like that is the body language going all the 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.920 way back to the spring of how they felt about that, 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.880 And that's fine, but I was trying to are you 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:13.040 gonna pronounce the guy's name. It's Liriumu Hira Lahore you 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:17.199 go lah okay, So the jay is silent as far 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:21.040 as I'm aware. Um, I'm not. I'm not saying I'm 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:22.800 definitely right, but I've looked it up and that's what 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.680 I came up with. Hi Laho. He's Canadian by way 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.959 of Kosovo. He's played in the Canadian Football League for 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.359 a pretty long time, so I mean he's not he's 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.079 not new to this. He knows how to kick um. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.559 But again, you know, this is a placeholder deal as 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.720 far as I can tell. Because Greg's airline has kicked 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.480 a few times. They are gonna go They're gonna put 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.200 him through another routine tomorrow night before the game, and 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.920 John Fossil said yesterday that their their hope slash plan 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.959 is for Greg to be active and kick against the 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:00.360 Jags in the final preseason game. So sounds like he'll 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.320 be fine. And if you're you know, we've seen the 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.560 way McCarthy does these games. You know where he does it. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.240 You know, he doesn't want to see a nice wonder 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.080 kick a thirty eight yard or he'll just go for 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.800 it all fourth and ten. He wants to see that. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:15.800 I think you need to flip the script when you 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.240 get to the Jacksonville game. Yep. Yeah. If I'm sitting 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.319 at the thirty two yard line for a forty nine 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.360 yard field goal and it's third and six, I think 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.600 I'm gonna see I'll just run the football because I 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.720 want to see him kick it. That's more important to me. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.080 Because we get to Tampa Bay, you know, into the 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.280 half into the game, there's gonna be kicks like that. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.280 I want to see him in pre game is fine. 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:34.920 He can still do it in pre game, but I 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:36.040 want you want to see it in the game. You 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.520 want to see his kickoffs, get the game operation down, 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.360 all that good stuff. And I do think he said 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.960 um because in Arizona he was just kicking like he 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.240 had a t But their plan for tomorrow night is 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.800 for them him to like work with Jake McQuaid and 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.679 whoever the holder is probably ain't assume so because he's 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.800 gonna be your punner, right, Oh, he's gonna be your punner, 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.120 which he and I think this maybe got lost, Like 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.760 he punted against Arizona, so anger's fine. I mean, he 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.040 he had one punch against the Cardinals, so I think 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:09.000 he's on track. He's just a nine year veteran guy 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.160 that they don't want to wear his sah. But he's 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.320 been the holder for Nice Wonder on these you know, 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.120 so he's a holder. But I do think, you know, 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.839 like I said, sometimes we get caught up in a 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.520 narrative that is just not there at all. And I mean, like, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.280 you know, a lot of people, including me, I thought 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:28.160 maybe nice Wander could compete for something, and they were like, no, no, 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:29.920 we're we like what we got and that's what we're 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.040 going to roll with. That. That bothers me, honestly, just 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.320 because I mean, this was the first time he's ever 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.520 been kicked. It was last year punted, and it was 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.240 a better average than Chris Jones ever had in his 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.240 entire career. Chris Jones was considered a good dislid punter. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.520 And uh, you know, so I think, okay, this, he's rookie. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.280 He got thrown in here and you know, I mean it, 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.840 and yes, last year was so weird, and then you 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.360 know think, okay, give him a whole camp, he'll be good. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.240 But he didn't have a camp. He was kicking, you 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.000 know what I mean. It's it's like it's like saying, hey, 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.040 you're a wide receiver, but we're going to have you 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.240 play tight end and now we're evaluating you as a 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.200 player because of what we see a tight end and 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.920 that's not Clarence Hill. Credit to him, he kind of 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.240 called that out in the press conference yesterday with John. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.840 He was like, you know, you said he was going 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.640 to have this opportunity to do all this, Like you 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.480 didn't really give him a chance to punt while he 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:25.440 was here, and bones said something it wasn't like the 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.800 best explanation. And I mean, like I said, they just 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.400 they knew what they wanted and what they were going 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.480 to do. I asked him in the one of the 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.000 press conferences in Oxner too, I asked her about that, like, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.440 is this a competition? He's like, Oh, it's definitely a competition. Oh, 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.280 it's not that so much. When well, the good thing 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.800 about it for him, though, is he's had some experience 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.160 here with the Cowboys both last year and during this 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.880 training camp. I have a suspicion he's gonna pop up 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.760 on somebody's roster because I think that's a valuable thing 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.400 to have somebody that can kick and punt and you 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.360 can use him in either role or maybe if you 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.000 got into a pinch in both roles, right, yeah, prece 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:05.000 and he's not gonna embarrass you and punters the punter. Okay, 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.199 he's not. I get it, but I'm saying he can 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.559 get out. It's better than rolling out when we was 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.400 a few years ago when the Cowboys got to talk 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.319 about Jeff He. I'm just saying, when you got to 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.560 roll out Jeff He to to kick a field goal, 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.920 you probably rather do it a nastal. You have an 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.760 actual kicker. And if if I ever do because you 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.240 love Jeff, oh yeah, that's part of why I love 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.920 He's like, yeah, I can kick player put pass kick. 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.480 You remember. The competitions might not, but I remember well, 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.600 And it doesn't matter whatever happens, if there's ever another 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.040 edition of If These Walls Could Talk, or any other 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.160 story time. I mean, Hunter Nice Wonder is going to 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.240 have a story for me, for me because of because 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.600 of that Eagles game when he had never played before, 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.920 and he's he's sitting there in the suite with me 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.720 and his last year when I'm think I had the 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.000 sweet to myself, you know, because I'm like, you need 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:53.720 to write a whole book about last year for you. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:55.640 I'm sure you got a lot of stories. I'm sure 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.680 they'll all be cleared, you know, like don't yeah, but 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.680 it's gonna get vetoed. He comes over and he's got 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.000 this this Jim Jim bag and he's like, hey, I'm 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.160 Hunter and a nice wander. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.120 the new guy. Yeah, but Chris Jones is still there. 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.000 And he's like, Chris has been dealing with the back. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.080 He's like, do you know if I'm playing today? And 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.960 I'm like, what he asked you? Yeah? He goes, do 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:18.720 you know if I'm playing? He thinks I just got 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.680 an official badge. I know what's going on. And I'm like, 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.800 I don't. Are you playing? Like in the game against 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.640 the Eagles, and like Danucci start, He's like, yeah, they 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.240 told me to come and take the early bus and 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:29.640 none of the other guys are here. I'm on the 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.680 practice squad, but they say they might sign me if 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.120 if if Chris he's gonna warm up, do you know 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.400 if I'm playing? I have my cleats right here. I 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.800 have my cleats in my bag. I'm like, either he goes, 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:41.640 either I'm playing or I'm sitting up here in one 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.840 of these suites. I'm like, god, this is so weird. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.200 I'm like, um, I don't know, but I Don'm not 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.400 the guy to ask if you're playing. I promise you 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:53.360 that let's figure that out. Let's go down here. He 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.680 went down, he found the right guy he was because 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:57.360 he was just like and then he comes back up 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.000 later and he goes like, I guess I'm not playing. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.920 I'm like, this is yeah, I guess not because there's 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.200 warm ups and you're not grab a hot dog, right, 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.600 hot dog? It's so and then I saw him on 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.320 the plane afterwards. He's like, yeah, I'm not playing. That 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.520 didn't play. This guy, I saw it. I saw that 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.520 you didn't play. And he's like, next, I'll probably think 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.040 I'm gonna play next week. I'm like this, this is like, 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.200 this is like the you know, at the gym at 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.280 the rec center. Like, I'm not playing. It might drive next. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.560 I'm like, no, you don't have next year albums. NFL game, God, 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.560 it was so weird last year. Last year was a 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.960 crazy year. Man. I would suspect that every team was 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.840 kind of flying by the seat of their pants when 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.120 it came to certain things, because it's just everything was 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.280 so weird. Yeah, it's so different what everybody had to 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.680 deal with last year with with all the COVID protocols 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.600 and that kind of And we get to Arizona last 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.200 week and we're sitting, you know, we usually have this 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.640 one big row and you where all of us are sitting, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.400 and then you and I are over here, and Rob 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:50.960 and Dave were over here back here, and it's like, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.360 you know, usually it would be like damn. And then 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.320 but it was like we're good. We're here, We're good, 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.320 nothing nothing but smiles and yeah, we'll deal. This is 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:04.040 all good, Like you guys good and like, yes, I 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:05.879 told a man, Rob sat down. I was like, this 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.480 is gonna bother neck. Just wait. Well, I mean, oh yeah, 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.359 well you know what he does. The first thing he does, 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:11.920 he goes and he looks and he says, so, who 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.560 else is sitting over here? They're not gonna be here, 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.960 They're not gonna maybe we can move them down. I 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.560 was like, I'm borderline clod. I was like, I'm good, 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.959 I'm a little bit claustrophobic when it get not not claustrophobic, 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.399 because give me some room right now a little bit, 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.000 you know, So that that's all that that is when everyone. 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:30.439 I was just happy that we were all there too, 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.800 and we're all gonna it was hopefully be there throughout 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.040 the season this year. Hopefully nothing crazy happened too. All right, 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:37.800 let's take our first break. 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