WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Recapping A Big Day In Frisco 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.680 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.600 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.919 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:24.280 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:29.600 Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and Derek Eagleton. It 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.600 is Tuesday, August twenty second, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, episode 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.040 number twenty seven. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.479 I am Derek eagleson Amber Garcia, Amber Garcia, thank you 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:43.480 for joining us, Amber Garcia. But we got a little 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.360 bit of a little bit of a I guess that 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.199 was just a little snaff foo here. We didn't know 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.600 if Amber was going to be joining us. So sorry, guys, 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.040 we're we just we just realized that Amber was gonna 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.760 be joining us. So that's good. Nick, Dave, welcome to 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.600 the show. Thank you guys for joining us. Hi, Hi Dave, 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.800 you're on yesterday. I was pretty crazy like you. You 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:04.560 kind of went on there. You represented for the show. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.080 It was good. I thought it was a good show. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.120 I thought it was good. You represent it well. Um, 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.000 I don't know if I agree with everything you said, 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.440 but you represent it well. You were your typical crotchety 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.040 old person self, So that was good. I was going 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.920 against a crotchety old person too. You were kind of 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.160 stooped to the level of my competition a little bit. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.640 Not that old. You're right, I know. I mean it's thirties. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:31.920 It's thirty six five. Don't get it wrong. Are you today? Nick? 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.959 I'm great. Good. I can't hear, but I'm great. That's okay. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.680 Figuring out over here you can see, so that's good. Yeah, 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.319 I could see the TV. It's really good. What did 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.720 Jerry say, stop watching the television? Well, I like being 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.840 over here because then I'm like, huh right at the 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:48.840 tell you think you're talking to me, but not may 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.080 Weather forty. I got it, all right, Let's jump right in. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:52.760 Let's talk a little bit about some of the happenings 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.640 out here. Yesterday we're back at the Star, cowboys are 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.240 are back in practicing here, and yesterday there were a 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.640 couple different that I wanted to just kind of make 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:05.440 mention of the Ring of Honor Walk ceremony yesterday morning. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.760 It maybe one of the coolest events I've been to 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.040 in a while. With the Cowboys because it was I 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:13.880 think it was the first time I've ever seen all 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.120 of the Ring of Honor members that are alive, except 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.119 for one, Larry Allen was not able to make it, 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.600 but all the rest of them they're in person at 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.240 this event. They're all there on stage and it's pretty 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.720 cool event. It definitely was. It was cool, and uh, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.480 I don't think that that stuff ever gets old. Um, 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.640 you know, Emmett was saying, you know that we don't 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.280 we don't these we don't get together enough. Uh. And 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.480 a lot of times, unfortunately, when when the former players 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.520 get together, it's not for the right reasons. You know, 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.079 it's for you know, a funeral or something like that. So, uh, 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.600 you know, it really was great to see that. I 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.960 don't know what Larry Allen had going on. Sure surely 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.120 would have been nice to have him there, but uh, 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.680 you know, for the to have seventeen of the twenty 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.480 one Ring of Honor members there, it was awesome. I 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.160 thought they did it well. It was a little crazy 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.440 and chaotic, but I don't know, hot and hot. I 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.359 don't know how it couldn't have been well, it couldn't 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.440 have been hot if you did it later. But but 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.440 but then again, think about that, we talked about it. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:07.360 I didn't do it later, but then there's restaurants going 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.680 around and you know, what's what's two too? What does 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.800 that mean? And it was important to do it the 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.320 way they did. Yeah, yeah, I thought it was awesome, 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:15.640 but I thought you're about to say something you had 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.320 that looked like you were pontificating. It was really cool, 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.359 and I'm I'm I'm finally at a point where, like 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.880 I know about all the Ring of Honor members and 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:25.640 like who they are and what they did. You know, 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.320 that's interesting. Somebody brought that up yesterday, like how many 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.839 and this is relevant for you and Amber because you're 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.160 younger people. How many people wreck how many young people 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.120 recognize all of the Ring of Honor members? Because I 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.240 heard that there were a couple of guys that were 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.320 in the lunch room yesterday, and particularly Manster was in 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.280 there and he's kind of sitting there and some of 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.320 the players didn't quite know who he was, and they're 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.400 kind of trying to figure it out, and then they 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.960 figure it out, it's like, oh wow, Okay, So it's 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:53.880 just I wonder how many of you guys recognize them 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.400 by face. When I got to the and I was 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.200 joking with you because the facade here that they put 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.680 up in the little they used the same drawings that 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.040 they had hanging in Valley yea of all the old guys. 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.400 And when I got to the Cowboys, I was twenty four, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.880 and I just had like a passing in knowledge of 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.080 who they were, of the Cowboys other than like the trip. 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.200 I was like, yeah, like Emmett Smith and Michael Irvin, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.440 and I remembered distinct like you know, they had him 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.279 all in a line, like all the Ring of Honor guys. 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.200 And I thought Drew Pearson was Michael Irvin. I was like, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.560 eighty eight, Okay, that's Michael Irvin, twenty two. That doesn't 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.680 look like em At Smith, who's twenty two. And I 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.040 relayed all this to Nick, and I thought he was 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.800 going to strangle me, because you know, Nick is the 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:38.000 historian well knows lifelong Cowboys fan, twenty year employees, just 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.120 like heyes, what are you talking about? An idiot? And 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:42.880 you're writing for us? What do you get exactly? I'm 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.120 just like, I don't know, man. I was born in 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.320 nineteen eighty eight, and I didn't follow the Cowboys until 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.120 I got here. He tried to embarrass me yesterday asking me, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.600 how many can you recognize out of that line. I'm like, seriously, 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.200 there's a few I could, but I obviously didn't grow 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.520 up here, so sleep a lot of That's not trying 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.600 to embarrass you. It's not at all. I would have 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:09.120 been dead, but it's okay. She said I can name them, 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.760 well who I can name them? And that was it 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.800 pretty much end of conversation. And I said, not all 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:20.000 of them, but I can definitely name at least. It's 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.440 just interesting that, you know, you see like at all 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.440 the people. Tony Door said, you know, he's kind of 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:28.839 middle of the pack. I guess for people that that 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.680 know him or you know, high profile or whatever, but 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.240 you know, growing up for me, I mean, Tony Dan, 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.120 that was my guy. I was in the backyard. I was. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.680 Tony Door said, yeah, I had the Roger Staubuck, like 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.839 the whole outfit, like the shoulder pads, the helmet, uffy, 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.120 Yeah exactly. I had got Christmas one year. Yeah, that 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.039 was my thing. I'm talking about that with John Machoda 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:55.279 yesterday here in the atrium. They like gave us media availability. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.719 You don't get you don't get two starstruck or like 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.360 impressed by people. One you've been doing this for long enough. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.279 But me and John were both like, well yeah, Like 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.120 I made it a point to go talk to Stabok 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.640 Like that's on another level from anything. And I was like, 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.760 this is awesome. That's the thing. When you're a child, 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.200 you're allowed to be that big of a fan. As 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.840 an adult, it's a little creepy if you're like, you know, 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.520 I idolize, which Dak Prescott right, I mean that just 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.880 doesn't feel right. Yeah, Well, when you're a kid, like 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.760 it's like wow, you know, they're they're bigger than life 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.920 even and like, I mean as big of a deal 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.719 as guys like Dak and Dez and Jason Witton are, 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.480 like Roger Staubach is, I mean, everybody who knows what 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.080 American football is from the eight like people younger than 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.520 me to like people who are in their seventies and eighties. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.680 I thought Jerry. I thought Jerry said it really well 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.960 yesterday when he was talking about them, and this was 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.320 in the the ceremony, and he said that, you know, 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:52.760 Roger Staubach has always been a supportive of the Cowboys, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:57.160 and while that sounds silly, you know, Roger Strauback's number 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.680 one guy was Tom Landry, and everyone around here feel 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.920 like it feels like Landry maybe wasn't you know, didn't 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.120 wasn't treated the right way. And Jerry's he admitted that. 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.400 But for Stallback, he has continued to be a Dallas 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.920 Cowboys supporter of all the quarterbacks here, of all the coaches, 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.200 and of course Jerry Jones and his family. So I 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.720 thought that I was really glad that Jerry acknowledged him 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:24.120 that way, because you know, he has been an ambassador 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.000 of the Cowboys. Yeah, whenever they're having these kinds of things, 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.680 it's very very rare you don't see Rogers Stallback at 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.480 something like that. And it's rare that someone so successful 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.000 in the field can go into the next phase of 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:37.360 his career and actually be more successful. And he has 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.720 done that, a very very successful businessman here in the 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.520 Dallas area. All right, let's move on. Let's talk a 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.160 little bit about practice. Cowboys open practice here at the 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.559 Star for the first time with fans in attendance, and 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.800 we saw something that I think raised some eyebrows because 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.360 there's a lot of talk coming out of that game 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.240 about Cooper Rush, a lot of talk about Kellen Moore, 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.720 and then we see during that practice Cooper Rush gets 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.560 some opportunities with the second team team. Kelly Morris is 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.720 take some snaps with the third team. Talk to me 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.400 about what that might or might not mean. Was it 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.760 just as simple as the coaches, because they'll always just say, hey, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.480 we're just trying to get different looks and that kind 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.280 of thing. But you can't help but say, well, you 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.320 weren't doing that a couple of weeks ago, right, So 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.320 what did you guys take from them? I took Cooper 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.880 Rush being working with the second team that maybe they'll 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.320 see how he does there. He's done well in every 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.680 other aspect that we've given him, Let's see if we 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.840 do it there. And I yeah, the head coach might 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.040 come out here in a little while and say it's different. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:32.640 But if that's the I mean, I don't see other 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:34.719 people people doing it. I mean I don't. I don't 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.000 see Dez with the second team. I mean I don't. 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.400 I don't see Jason Witten working with that. And so 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.480 I think it's I think it's it's something that needed 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.959 needed to be done. I mean, Dave, I mean I 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.640 don't know what what's your opinion is. I won't It's 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.800 it's too early for it to signify anything for me. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.839 I mean, I think he got five reps or something 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:56.800 like that, you know, And and Jason Garrett, if he 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.280 says anything other than like, well, we'd like to put 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.480 all our guys in competitive situation. We do all that 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.600 type of stuff all the time. We rotate left car like, 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.000 he's not going to come out and say the number 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.280 two job is up for grabs now, and Cooper Rush 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.720 has done enough to deserve a look like he's not. 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.719 That's not how he operates. So, uh, it's interesting. It's 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.160 noteworthy for sure, and if it continues, it's even more noteworthy. 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.400 But you know, one you know, one day, will they 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.199 do it again today? Will it? Will it affect the 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.920 reps on Saturday? That's what I'm curious about. And Jerry Jones, 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.439 actually he talked on one oh five three the Fan 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.800 here in Dallas this morning, and he gave Kellen Moore 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.160 a pretty decent little vote of confidence saying, you know, 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.320 he feels good about the quarterback spot. He likes what 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.320 Cooper Rush has done. But he and and you know, 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.760 Jerry Jones is way more likely to give you the 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.240 scoop than Jason Garrett is. So if he's not opening 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.600 up the job, then then I'm not really I'm still 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.640 not ready to really think about it. Rush. When you 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:57.160 look at what at what they've a question for you guys. Okay, okay, 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.800 let's forget what Kellen what the coach. Just think about 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.240 Kellen Moore and how they support him and everything. If 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.360 it was up to you, each and one of you 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.120 to choose between the two of them, would you be 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.920 willing to put a Cooper Rush as the backup quarterback 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:20.080 even though he is a rookie. Um, yeah, we're going here. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.840 We're actually to be honestly, that was actually the question. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.840 I was aust that's perfect, No, it's perfect. That's a 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.720 great question. You're giving me the freedom to Yes. You 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.360 guys are making the decision if you were the coach 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.079 and based upon what you see. Now, let me just 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.400 throw let me just throw this out real quick. In 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.400 the games that they've played so far in the preseason, 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.040 Kellen Moore has completed fifty four percent of his passes, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.400 He has one touchdown, one interception, and he has a 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:45.480 seventy five quarterback rating. Flip side of that, Rush has 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.480 a has completed sixty eight point four percent of his passes, 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.240 four touchdowns, zero interceptions, and has a one hundred twenty 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.760 five point two passer rating. Of course, he's playing against 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.720 thirteen players and he's with the third team as opposed 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.360 to to what Moore is doing. But all that being consider, 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.400 what would you guys fall again, I'm the general manager here. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.280 I make all the day. You make the decisions. Cooper 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.040 Rush is on my fifty three. I'd go hire somebody 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:14.040 else to be my backup quarterback. I would release Kellen 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.920 Moore and put him, try to put him on the 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.120 practice squad, and I think I could clear waivers because 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.720 Lenahan's with the Cowboys, so I don't think he's not 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.600 with anyone else, so he should clear waivers, and then 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.080 he comes back to the practice squad, and my game 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.920 day back up is Cooper Rush. If something happens to Dac, 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:36.839 I think that you know he'll be the guy he 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.360 comes in and finishes it off. And then if it's 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.360 if it's something you need for a few more weeks, whatever, 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.079 you can sign Kellen Moore back. He probably would would 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.000 jump Cooper Rush and start the game. But that's what 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:48.520 I would do. I just thought, I think who could 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.280 clear waivers and I think I think it would be him. Now, 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.400 I guess the question would be why not keep them both? 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.600 But you can go down the roster and you know 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.160 there's a way to keep them both for sure, But 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:01.760 I don't think I would. I don't think. I think 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.439 you can get him on the practicquad. He is eligible 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.120 for the practice quad. Still, are there any guys that 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.920 are out there that are free agent quarterbacks that you're thinking. 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:10.240 I don't. I don't even I don't want to get 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.160 to the Kaepernick because I don't think that would ever happen. 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.600 Seem that that is who I would go higher. I agree, 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.200 I don't think that would happen. No, I would never. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.320 It would never happen, right, no way. But that's what 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:20.760 I would do. I just look at it, like, what 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.840 would a distraction like he would be a distraction? Oh no, 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.199 not this team can't have distractions on the Cowboys. Yeah, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.199 nothing else going on. I mean, maybe it'd be a 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:33.280 good thing. Yeah, I mean, I he'd be He's got 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.239 to be the most humbled quarterback ever right now. Kaepernick. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:40.000 I would think he's got He's got the ability. He's 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:41.839 definitely got the ability. I don't think it's a question 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.960 of his ability in mine, But what is it? Then 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.400 he kneeled down. Yes, I think that everyone in the 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:51.360 league's doing it. Yeah, that's yeah, it's becoming, it's it's spreading. Yeah, 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.640 I mean, I don't know. I mean, obviously to me, 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.600 you know, it's come down to he's probably not that 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:03.240 good for what people perceived to be going to be 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:07.200 a huge distraction, but this team is dealt with distractions, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.679 and he seems way better than you know, the options 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:12.440 that they have now. I mean, what Kellen Moore did 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.000 the other day is awful. You've got to hold onto 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.679 the football. Yeah, he wasn't even hit hard like that. 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:19.880 That's that's the worst thing right there. The ball just 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.319 pops out like that. I mean, you small guy, got 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.600 small hands and can't hang on to the football barring. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.719 I mean, the first week that he was that he 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.679 would theoretically here would be a circus. But I have 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.360 very little doubt that he could be a quiet I mean, 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.040 very similar to Mark Sanchez last year. Just like a 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.960 quiet veteran dude who isn't going to be a big 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.160 story other than the first week he's here when all 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.520 that is first getting discussed, and he can absolutely do 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.960 what they ask back to do, Like, he can absolutely 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.360 do that same type of stuff, like a lot of motion, 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.680 a lot of you know, just easy passes, find the open. 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.720 I mean, he can run that offense. I think he 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.560 could probably running pretty well. Yeah. I don't think that 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.920 that will happen though, Yeah, I mean, I guess the 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.040 elephant in the room is that this team has been 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.240 and from the head coach an owner on down has 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.600 been pretty outspoken about the fact of how they feel 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.680 about the national anthem and how you can you look 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.360 at I'll challenge fans next time if you can see it. 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:20.840 If you're in the stadium, you definitely can see it. 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.520 But if you're on TV watching on TV, I'm not 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.120 sure if you can see it. But watch how the 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.400 Cowboys line up for the national anthem. It is unlike 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.120 most teams in the NFL. They literally line up. It 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.640 is not just stop wherever you are and acknowledge the 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.720 national anthem. They are in a single file line, towing 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.600 the line there on the sideline. They do even more 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.920 than most teams do for the national anthem, and that, 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.000 to me is why I think this team would probably 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.600 never go the route of having Colin Kaepernick on the 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.000 team because it doesn't fit what they are saying as 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.720 a team that they do. There's a story out there. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.120 I'm sorry, I just I don't know if I agree 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.280 with that. I really don't. And I don't think that 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.240 Jerry Jones or Jason Garrett would come out and say 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.480 that that. You know, I think everyone they want their 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.280 players to stand up for what they believe in. Um, yes, 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.040 he does ask him to do that. But I think 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.360 if we would have had a player here, that's that 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.040 I felt strongly the other way. I don't. I don't 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.360 think it would be any different. Yes, if you had 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.720 a player here, Let's say, for example, Dez Bryant went 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.320 that way and said, look, I'm gonna do this because 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.320 I feel they're not getting rid of this, Bryan, so 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:27.880 they're gonna have to deal with it. See, it's a 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.680 whole different thing saying we already have a thing that 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.720 we do as a team, and now we're gonna bring 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.320 in somebody who's going to be the backup. By the way, now, 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.440 this whole different thing. If he's bringing in as the starter, 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.480 but he's gonna be the backup, and we're bringing in 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.320 a guy that is different than what we're kind of 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:46.080 preaching to our team. If Leon McFadden decided that he 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.640 didn't want to do that, like they would wouldn't be 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.000 good for him. I wouldn't. I would not be surprised if, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.520 just for whatever reason, Leon McFadden wasn't on the fifty 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.400 three man roster. Well, he's not gonna be anyway, right, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.520 not right, there's well, and that's what I was gonna 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.720 bring up. There's a I mean, it's been circulating for 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.520 a year now. There's a story out there that you know, 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.600 Jerry threatened hell Fire and Brimstone to the whole team 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.680 if they messed with the national anthem. I mean, I've 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.840 seen it shared on Facebook a million billion times. As 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.680 far as I know, there's no proof that that ever happened, Like, 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:19.200 I've never heard anything about that being substantial ever. But 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.040 I do think it is very heavily implied here that 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.760 that is, that's something they value. They don't want you 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.600 messing with that. I mean, Jerry said it. He said 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.040 for whatever reason. Yeah, that's the way it seemed that 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.080 the way it seems. Jerry said this morning on the 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.360 face he said, I like the way the Cowboys do it. Yeah, 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.920 I mean if your owners saying that, there's an implication there, 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.280 you know what I mean? And and Jason Garrett spoke 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.760 really strongly about it too the other day. If a 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.840 star player decided to take a stand with that, I yeah, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:48.520 I don't mean you're not kicking a guy off the 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:52.320 team because of that, but a Leon McFadden, I mean, 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:53.960 it would be it would be interesting to see how 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:55.560 they would deal with it, because I do think there 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.320 is a heavy implication that they're not okay with that. Yeah, 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.120 Because to be honest with you, I don't know that 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.760 I would. I would have a hard time believing of 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.560 all those men in that locker room, there's not a 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.920 few at least that feel like what Colin Kaepernick was 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.320 doing was justified and feel like that someone needs to 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.520 stand up and say there's some problems here that we 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.720 need to draw attention to. And if that draws attention 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.479 to it, then something needs to be done. But I 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.439 think you're right. When you hear your owner talking about 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.280 things in a certain way, you hear your coach talking 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.359 about things in a certain way, and they're saying, and 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.360 that's publicly they're talking about it. You don't know what's 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.359 being said in the meeting rooms. It certainly dissuades you 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.560 from being the person that's going to step out there 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.480 and go counter to that. Right, But if it really 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.520 came down to it, I don't think right now we're 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.520 at the point where the Cowboys really need to go 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.760 that route. But if it really really came down to it, 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.800 would that truly be a deal breaker to bringing him here? 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:50.760 Not necessarily. And I'll put it to you like this, 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.520 If let's say, for example, that you're starting let's say 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.520 that Dak knock on wood again. If Dak goes down 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.200 and he's out for a significant amount of time, and 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.480 you're looking at the landscape of quarterbacks out there, and 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.399 let's say you've already gotten into the season and you 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.280 already got you know, you're already you know, let's say 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.800 you're four and one, like you're having a really good season, 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.679 and Dad goes down. I think that at that point 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.560 all bets are off. If he is the best quarterback 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.480 out there, it's it's worth it may be worth it 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.440 to deal with the added things that come with him 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.200 if he's your starter, then if he's a backup guy 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:26.480 and you're having to deal with this and he's not 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.320 even playing, it would have to be a situation where 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.360 he can save your season, like coming in like start game. 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.560 Like I wouldn't. I don't think they would do it 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.040 to just have him be like Mark Sanchez where he's 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.400 either inactive or you know, standing in a baseball hat 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.240 sixteen weeks. Right, And again these are all just our opinions. 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.720 We don't know exactly how the Cowboys are thinking about 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.560 this because they haven't gone on record or talked about 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.240