WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Week 8 Crazy Predictions 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:04.120 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:11.039 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:15.400 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.720 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:25.880 ware with Nick Eatman, David Hellman and bar Garcia and 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:30.440 Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, October twenty seventh, two thou seventeen, 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.920 Season thirteen, episode number sixty three, wells another edition of 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.040 The Break. I'm Derek Eagleton. We're joint. We're alive at 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.919 the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star and it's 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:41.640 a day when we're gonna get you guys ready for 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.440 the upcoming game. Cowboys will take on the Redskins this Sunday. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.080 It'll be a three twenty five kick and we're gonna 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.199 get you ready today. Make sure you guys know all 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:53.519 you need to know heading into that game, so you 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.639 know exactly what to be looking for. How's everybody doing 0:00:55.680 --> 0:01:02.120 this morning? Great? Awesome? It's too cold it's stick call 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:07.560 outside now, Miss grumpy pants. Yeah, I hate the cold. 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.119 I cannot stand it. I'm from my land. I want 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.600 to try like this. My bones hurt. I'm trying sweater 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.560 or your bones hurt. It's like fifty degrees. It's not 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:21.039 even that cold. It's freezing outside. Y biels, wait till tonight. 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.959 Fans got to be really cold and fantastic for here. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.560 This is like the best weather in the world is 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.720 fifty degrees. Just need a jacket. I'd rather sweat awesome. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:32.720 You're just laying out on this show. How do we 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.959 get to weather side? Well, I mean, yeah, I didn't 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:39.040 know where. It's just talking cowboys, but I didn't realize 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:44.280 its Seriously, we just heard one second in there of 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.360 from Mickey talking and I heard weather What do you 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.559 mean it's too cold? I just don't understand how anyone 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.080 says it's too cold when they were in a tank 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.800 top point not in here. I'm talking about a time 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.480 I do have a jacket that is still point like 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.600 he's got a point aers. No, my arms like to 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:11.120 be free, and my arm peets pitsts like to free. Okay, sorry, 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.919 the accent just comes out sometimes. All right, let's jump 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.040 into this thing. Um. Let's first talk about some news 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.480 that that broke yesterday. After we spent a little while 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.640 yesterday talking about Kellen Moore. Yeah, Cowboys a Saturday, you know, 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.880 as we got other things we need to be concerned about, 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.600 and so they do need to make a move. They 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.400 bring up Blake Jarwin from the practice squad. He's a 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.840 tight end um and as a part of that, they 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.320 released Kellen Moore. Talk to me about why all that 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.760 went down yesterday. Well, I think more than anything, the 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.200 Cowboys like Blake Jarwin. They do. And regardless of what 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.840 fans think or no or what the tight end that 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.040 they want them to put on the roster, Blake Jarwin's 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.600 a guy that they like. He's he's a big buddy 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.600 player who was getting some interest from from other teams. 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.480 And that's what happens when you when you you're about 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.000 to there to lose him, and they're like, well, we 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.360 don't want to and we have this roster spoably been 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.200 waiting on and and that's kind of what they decided 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.160 to do. So, Um, I don't know if Blake Darwin's 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.160 gonna play. I don't know if he'll be active. I 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:14.919 know he's going to Washington, he's not going to h 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.920 He's not gonna go duck hunting. I believe it's what 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.040 he was going to do this weekend. That that was 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.760 his plan. So he called his buddy up and said, hey, man, 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.600 I don't think I can go, And he's like why, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.079 He's like, because I got signed to the team as 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.040 a professional football And he said, uh yeah, if you 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.120 show up in Oklahoma, I'm going to kick your ass. 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.880 That's what friend told him. So yeah, he was a 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.680 good friend sided for him obviously, And but I don't 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.880 know what this means, you know, long term. I just 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.280 know that Kellen Moore was expendable and let him go. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.280 What kind of what kind of player is this, Dave? 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.640 Is Is this a bub blocking type tight end? Is 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.760 this a guy that catches balls? He's both like, what 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.000 what kind of player is he? I think he's he's 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.720 more of a pass catcher than like a tenacious blocker. 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.640 But I think he's good enough at I mean, he's 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.720 a he's an all around tight end. He played in college. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.880 He played in one of those wide open type offenses 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:09.160 though Oklahoma State. I mean, like this GUYAMA looking at 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.040 him more as a receiver than some type of maller blocker. 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.400 And I think Nick's right, this is really more about 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.800 we found this guy. We developed him all summer. We 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.400 think he's a good player, and we don't want to 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.080 lose him, and we especially don't want to lose him 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.200 to a division rival. This isn't I would be surprised 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.320 if he's active, but they don't. Didn't hear any team 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.280 that was interested, was it? What's that? I didn't hear 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:35.200 any team that was the widely accepted reporters that was Philly. Yeah, um, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.320 he was like a guy that would they would use there. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.080 But you know, I mean, and you like Rico. I 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.560 said this yesterday on Twitter. Rico was the talk of 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.080 training camp, justifiably so with the plays that he made 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:50.160 in the preseason. But I specifically remember because you know 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.120 when it gets down to cut day, like when you're 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.520 getting down to that final week. Actually, I think we 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.840 were at the telethon um Brad Sham and I had 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.320 a long conversation with Jason Witton about the roster and 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.480 just like what it's probably gonna look like, what there 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.960 might do. And Jason Witton, who's going to be a 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.200 Hall of Famer, was like eighty nine Blake Jarwin, who 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.320 he won't be here because somebody also get him, like 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.680 he's a really good player. He won't make it through 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.919 the practice squad. Somebody else will sign him. Really that 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.400 was back then, That was in August. Jason Witton was like, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.680 this guy's a damn good player, and I doubt we 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.200 can hold on to him. So take that for what 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.680 it's worth. Like the best, one of the best to 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.760 ever play tight end thinks he's a damn good player. 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.240 So let me so let me ask this and this 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.000 may be well ahead and tell me if this is 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.839 way too early to have this conversation. But when you 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:37.800 bring this guy up because you feel like you just 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.599 wanted to hold on to him, you got rico on ir. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.560 What is that saying about Hannah and swam I mean, 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.000 obviously they're here this year, they're gonna be here this year, 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.240 but going into next year, Yeah, it certainly doesn't look 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.040 like they are cemented as players that will be here. Right. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:57.960 It says don't buy a house, I mean department, I 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:03.040 mean swam in Hannah, I mean, both of them pretty 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.240 good at what they're doing. But and I think Hannah 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:09.120 is a restrict unrestricted free agent, right I think so? 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:10.720 I think he's got one year he signed a three 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.839 year did he not sign a three year extension in 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:16.720 twenty fifteen. Need that great book. I think he did 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.520 um to keep one in here for you. I need 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.440 to make one for myself. That used to make it 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:26.800 PR we got left out. UM. But I think that 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.640 he is UM. Basically, those guys are going to be 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.400 you know, I mean if they're not free agents next year. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.440 I mean James James Hann has signed through twenty eighteen, okay, uh, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.720 and Blade as a draft pick. Jeff Swam has one 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.800 year left on his deal too. It's what I mean. Honestly, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.440 I think this says more about Rico Gathers than Jeff's 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.360 real for now or for the future, both at least 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.280 for right now. I mean, he's not eligible to come 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.560 back to the roster till next week anyway, but he's 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.640 he's not practicing. He's been eligible to practice for two weeks. 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:01.719 And again, you know, I've said this a million times. 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.520 You don't want to speculate about a head injury because 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.919 that's dicey, and it's you know, it's not like a 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.560 hamstring or a broken bone, where it's like, well, everything 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.960 will be better after this amount of weeks. For all 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:16.200 I know, he's still dealing with that, But didn't we 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.520 think something was kind of weird there when this happened 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.320 to begin with. I mean when you go to when 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.560 you put a guy on IR for something like a concussion, 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.240 and then as of I mean, it would surprise me 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.080 if he has brought back to the roster next week. 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.720 Let's put it that way. And that's at this point 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.320 you're thinking, especially now that they brought in another tight 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.440 they brought up another tight end, there really is no 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.920 room for him to unless you're gonna get rid of somebody, 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.240 which Jarwin doesn't seem like they want to let him go. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:41.920 You're not gonna get rid of one of those other 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.960 two guys. So I will I will say this much 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.600 like you know, I think we expect Kellen Moore to 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.840 be back here, do we not as a practice player. 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:55.040 So there's nothing. There's nothing keeping Blake Jarwin on the 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.280 fifty three for any sort of length of time. I 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.200 was talking to somebody about this the other day. Not 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.920 a rule, what's that? It's not a rule. It's a 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.520 rule if you sign somebody from somebody else's practice squad 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.960 but your own team. They haven't done this recently, but 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.360 in twenty fourteen, Keith Smith bounced between the practice squad 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.120 and the fifty three about eight times. Yeah, but it 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.560 isn't the difference here that the reason they brought him up, 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.200 presumably is because another team wanted him. If you're going 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:18.720 to try to get him back to practice squad, you 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.600 cut him. He's going somewhere old, right, But I mean, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.760 and I don't know the mechanics of all this, but 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.320 I assume Philly wanted him because they're dealing with something. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.120 Maybe zach Ertz pulled his hammy or so. I don't know. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.520 But three weeks from now, will they still want him 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.199 as much as they do right now? I don't know, 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.959 But there's nothing other than their desire to keep him 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:39.960 keeping Jarwin on the roster, you know what I mean, Like, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:41.679 there's no rule that he has to be there. So 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.920 this isn't some type of set in stone decision. But 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.240 it is weird when you think about tight end and 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.560 you think about the fact that Rico is presumably, at 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.520 least according to the rules, he's close to coming back, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.679 but I don't see that happening in the immediate future. Okay, 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.880 all right, let's move down to some injury talk. Let's 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.880 talk first about Malie Collins, who showed up on the 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.880 injury report yesterday had not been on the injury report 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.439 earlier in the week with a foot injury, was limited 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.240 in practice. Do we know anything about his injury and 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.520 how serious it may be with regards to him playing 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.000 this weekend? Well, I was gonna say this yesterday before 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.320 I even knew about this injury. Is that? But now 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.440 the injury gets us talking about him because we haven't 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.400 been in a while, you know, when you think about it, 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.240 in the last three weeks, I mean I was kind 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.040 of like, has he played? I mean, I don't. He's 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.680 playing one technique I understand. I understand. It's a position 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.760 that doesn't get a lot of notoriety unless you're making 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.240 a lot of plays, and early on he kind of was. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.240 And then it's he's kind of fallen off of something. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.160 But you know, I think he'll be okay. I mean, 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.520 he's limited on a Thursday, added to it. Let's see 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.360 what happens here today. But it might just we've seen 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.040 this boy three or four times already this year. Of 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.680 these players added to the injury report on a Thursday, Um, 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.920 you know, and they've all played. I believe maybe not 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.360 Chaz Green. I don't think um Durant last week, but 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.400 yeah for them, I mean, well then you know then 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.320 I know Chaz didn't and I guess Durant, So it's 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.080 maybe it's been more fifty fifty. And uh, Barron Jones 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:20.160 was someone that got added tiring like the Frasier guys. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.319 So you know, I don't know what's happening in this 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.520 wins they practice, but it seems like it's pretty physical 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.720 they're getting after it. Yeah, a foot injury. That could 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.560 just be, you know, kind of just stepped the wrong way, 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.520 step on somebody's foot. You know. Our timing, our timing 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.640 sucks with this because he got hurt or we knew 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.320 he was hurt at four o'clock yesterday afternoon and we 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.439 haven't had a chance to talk to anybody since then. 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.400 So we'll see. Okay, you want to do the show, 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.800 it's like five pm or I'm here at five pm. 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.959 So actually that would get in the way of cover four. 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.280 So sorry, I can't do that getting the way of 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.880 cover four. And this is way off the sudd No, 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.839 it's not. Actually you should have mentioned it earlier. Go ahead, 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:59.400 whatever you're about now. I was gonna say, this is 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.360 way off to say, I just saw it on the 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.760 TV screen that J'asia hit last night. Yes, that was like, 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.320 I don't know if I've ever seen a more vicious it. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.000 And I don't even know if it was dirty, it 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:14.199 just so vicious it next guy Kiko, yeah, also, and 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.319 it was just I don't think I've seen a player 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.080 be that knocked out, like the way he looked like 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.280 in kind of was raising his hand and it was 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.880 kind of scary. You kind of have moments where like 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.680 you're forced to confront how horrifically violent football is, you 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.320 know what I mean. Like it's easy to kind of 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.760 forget about it when everybody's wearing a helmet and you're 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.720 watching on TV. But when you see Joe Flacco like 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.880 not know where he is at, and you're just and 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.120 you can see his face because the helmet came out, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.120 and you're like, oh, these guys really like play a 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.040 dangerous game. I mean, I've said this one hundred times 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.080 before it and I'll say it again. I guess they're 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.240 never gonna change the rule, but I hate it for 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.960 the defensive players. I really do. I feel like that 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.280 as a and these running quarterbacks, they gotta just piss 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.840 off defensive players because it's like they play as long 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.240 as they want to play, and then when they decide 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.800 the game the play is over to them, then they 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.720 can slide and you can't touch me. I hate that rule. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.000 I really, I think behind the line of scrimmage, protect 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.559 them any way you want to. You can't touch them, 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.200 you can't hit them, you can't do anything. But if 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.920 you come to this side of the tracks, you come 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.160 over here, you're trying to score in my end zone, 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.000 then there's no sliding and all that. If you want 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.120 to come over here. If you don't, then stay in 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.640 your precious pocket and throw passes. I hate that. And 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.720 you know what I actually and he runs, runs, runs, 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.559 and then it says I'm gonna slide, and like Kiko 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.479 Alonso is supposed to just hold up at the last second. 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:44.720 I mean, I actually personally believe that sliding makes the 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:48.120 game more dangerous. And here's why. Because if you see 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.120 a running back or a person that's running the ball, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.400 typically a receiver, usually when they're in a situation where 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.439 they're confronted by someone that's trying to tackle them, they 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.040 either lower their shoulder or in this case, of some 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:00.920 receivers when they go across the middle, they catch the 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.040 ball and you'll see him a defender's coming. They get down. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.440 They don't slide, they get down. Sliding you put yourself 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.880 in a more vulnerable position. You're giving yourself up. So 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.760 if a guy can't readjust at the last minute, you're 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.560 gonna take the kind of hit that you took last night, 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.199 as opposed to if that quarterback dies or goes down 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.760 or just protects himself from the tackle by lowering his shoulder. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:24.280 Either way, he's more defending himself than he is when 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.840 he gives himself up and the defender can't adjusting enough 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.040 time to stop himself from hitting him. I actually think 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.160 sliding is worse for the game than better for the 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:37.080 game personally fair, I mean, I just think you're we're 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.760 asking these players, and especially on the college level, and 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.160 it's happening in high school too. These guys get and 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.520 there's no replay in that. I mean, these guys get 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.280 ejected for plays, you know, and they're crunching down and 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:50.679 all of a sudden, the guy leans down and he 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.360 hits him in the head, and then it's targeting and 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.520 you look at it super slow mo, and you're like, wow, 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.440 he was targeting him in the head, when really was like, bo, 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.679 I mean, you can't so fast? Yeah, because if you 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.800 can watched that play in live motion, it's it's so 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.320 it happened so quickly. I agree with you. I don't 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.280 know that he had the ability the defender had the 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.960 ability to readjust after Flacco decides he's gonna slide. You know, 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.920 It's just happened so quickly. It's hard to really determine 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:19.520 that might have been one of these. I mean, two 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.400 weeks ago he had one of the best Thursday night games. Yeah, 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.440 this might have been the worst. Forty to nothing, just 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.080 more fights than I mean. I remember when I moved 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.840 here and the first time I watched football, I watched 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.920 it and I'm like, oh my god, Like, why do 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.120 people enjoy this game? What's the point? Why do you 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.840 even want to play this game? Get hit, fall on 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.000 the ground, get back up, get hit again, fall again 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.360 and over and over. Well, and now you're all. I 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.720 was shocked when I first saw that. I'm like, oh 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.320 my god, what is going on? But then yeah, now 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.280 here I am, and now you're fighting and getting into 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.400 the game. Run catch the ball, hit. That guy got 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.920 that blood lust like the rest of us. All right, 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:04.640 let's get back into this. We do need to talk 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:09.040 about inactives. I think there are obviously a few guys 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.960 that we know will be inactive. Got Dan Bailey, you got. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.600 I'm gonna put Teto on that list. I assume there's 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:18.640 no way he plays, uh, Darren McFadden. I assume Byron 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.560 Bill will probably be an active. He was an active 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.040 last week. Seems like they were okay running with seven 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.120 offensive linements, so I think he'll probably be an active. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.440 That gets you to four. Who else do you think 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.800 makes the inactive list? Obviously you got Kyle Wilbur who 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.360 has misspracticed this week with a knee injury. You got 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.960 Justin Durant, who they made inactive last week. You've got 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.320 Blake Jarwin, who they just brought up. It's likely he's 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.080 gonna probably be an act because they're not gonna have 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.200 what five tight ends active with him, I'm sorry, four 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.680 active tight ends. So let's put Blake on there, and 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.640 then that gets you to five. Who are the other 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.880 two that you think actually end up on the end. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.560 I think one of those linebackers is safe. Durant or Wilbur. Yeah, 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.400 we could say one of those two guys, well, yeah, 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.480 Durant or Wilbur, one of those two will be an 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.640 active Yeah, okay, so who's the other? I gotta get 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.960 to seventh seventh guy? We do? We have to Let's 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:10.880 let's say that we have to. Um. I mean, Noah 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.760 Brown is always a candidate, He's always up there. He 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.440 made a nice block though last week. That's true. I 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.200 mean he did and he got to play. You don't 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:22.280 have to sell me, um, It's just it just doesn't 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.560 get I mean, good sit Benson Maya well again, I 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:29.600 don't know, yeah, I mean was that we never really 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:33.520 talked about that? Was that? Why? Why sit Benson Mayo? 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.440 I mean, he is a rotation guy. I don't think 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.080 he's been horrible, do you, guys? I mean I think 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:42.680 we said this on Monday. I mean I'm asking is 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.800 it when a when a healthy veteran who's been playing, 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.720 who nobody's talked about as an inactive all week, is 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:55.040 inactive on Sunday? It strikes me as being about more 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.440 than football. And I don't I mean Demontre Moore was 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.720 also SAT and two days later he was cut. So again, 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.880 you say Mayo was about to get cut. No, I'm 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:08.639 saying I'm breaking news here. No saying that. I'm just 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.879 I'm saying it looks it looks suspicious to me. And 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.920 maybe that was disciplinary or something like that. I don't know, 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.760 but obviously it doesn't appear as though he's going to 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.560 be cut. But maybe it's related to that. I don't 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.400 know if it carries over into this week or not. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:27.480 So you're six biggest free agent signings over the last 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:31.320 two years down for me, none of them are playing 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.040 in this game. Most of them aren't even on the team. 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.399 You're three from this year. Mayo or really, I mean 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.040 Byron Bell was in there? Byron Bell? Yeah, not playing 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.119 well Byron Bell. He was picked up to be an 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.120 insurance policy. So you don't need your insurance policy. All 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:46.879 he said was free agents. Yeah, I get it. And 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.600 he's not active right, which again that that was probably 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.160 the role they expected for him. So Bell Piez retired, 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.440 Nolan Carroll's cut, Demontre Moore's cut, and then from last 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.920 year Cedric Thornton cut, Vince in Mayowa was inactive last week. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:07.160 We'll see about this week. Hmmm. I actually wrote build 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.840 through the draft I wrote my column about this yesterday 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.119 if anybody wants to read it, just saying what what 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.159 what was your what was your point? Like, what was 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.000 the point? What were you saying? In then he said, 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.040 Will McClay is not not doing his job. It's what 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:24.680 are you saying? My overall point was it is I 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.600 would never say that about my dear friend, Billy will McClay. 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.080 Billy Will Hilly will McClay. I don't know if you're 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:34.760 friends anymore. Um, after you said that, My main my 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.080 main point in the story was that it's a very 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.600 bad look. But the way the Cowboys have opted to 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:45.480 build their team one it me saying it doesn't matter. 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.480 That's not the right phrase, but it doesn't hurt them. 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.760 And that's the like when you bargain hunt like this, 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.120 this team is not worse off because these guys are 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.880 not playing, and that's their whole strategy to begin with, 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.160 as they do want to build through the draft, and 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:02.359 I get that it's frustrating, but they they haven't signed 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.000 a free agent to be like a cornerstone, depend on 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.640 this guy player in a while, and so, like I said, 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.639 it looks bad when they have to make these moves, 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.359 but that's why they do it this way in the 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.320 first places, so they have that flexibility. Uh, Jordan Lewis 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.240 is above and beyond an upgrade over what we saw 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:23.359 from Nolan Carroll Pia pia I. That strikes me as 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:24.920 being a little bit different. It's not like they cut 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.119 him because he couldn't play. He was pretty damn good 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.120 and he just happened to get hurt. But they but 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.000 but in all fairness, this was a recurring injury for him. 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.080 This was something that would that had been around. So wow, 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.040 that that one puts them in a little more of 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.760 a bind than the other ones in my opinion. And 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.200 then um oh, and then but but I'm sorry, but dude, 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:46.560 they cut Cedric Thornton here and he is he on 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.600