WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Safety First? 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.760 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:06.360 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:14.480 Cowboys, Let's go. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:16.079 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:16.640 Yes? 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:18.520 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:19.320 Absolutely? 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.280 Ready for a break? 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:23.640 Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.080 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:34.080 Were on with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:36.000 and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.640 It is Wednesday, March twenty seventh, twenty twenty four, season nineteen, 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.040 episode number one hundred and seventeen. Welcome to the latest 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.360 edition All the Break. We are lit from that WBC 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.559 Mortgage studios at the Star got Brian and Amber here. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.240 Patrick's out today. We'll hold it down. We've got lots 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.480 of different topics that have been floating around the Cowboys 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:56.520 universe that we'll get into today. We'll talk about some 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.400 rules changes around the NFL. We'll talk about the dak 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.720 con that contract and what we've kind of been hearing 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:04.760 in that way. I think there's some things I want 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:06.960 to clear up about that, but we'll have some conversations 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.840 on that, and then we'll talk about free agency after 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.480 the dust is settled. Now in that first wave of 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.080 free agency, uh kind of giving a big picture of 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.960 where the Cowboys are, where they're their their positions are 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.160 of need, and what they are really looking at now 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.960 as they head into latter parts of free agency and 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.920 the draft to really round out their their roster before 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.760 we get here to training camp in July. All right, 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.040 so let's start first. I want to I want to 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.880 start first with the NFL rules changes. I'm going to 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:34.520 go through some of these and I have some different 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.160 thoughts on it, but I want to get your your 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.360 ideas on kind of what you think. Let's start first 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:42.319 with that hip drop rule. Basically, it's a move, It's 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.759 a maneuver that they want to get out of the game. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.080 It obviously can lead to some pretty gruesome injuries. We've 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.080 seen that happen. The question for me, though, I have 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.480 for you guys, is is this a fair rule for 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.520 defensive players? Because as you're running, so if a runner 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.400 gets behind you, what else can you really do in 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.800 order to tackle them, especially if the guy is bigger 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.400 than you are. Let see it's a defensive back and 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.360 you're trying to tackle Derrick Henry. How fair is that 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.679 you now can't use your body weight to be able 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.120 to pull him back when he's a big guy and 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:11.400 has a full head of steam ahead of you. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:12.760 Yeah, it's difficult. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.640 It's never easy for a defender to have to approach 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.320 a ball carrier from behind and try and make because 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.679 everything now is it seems a bad situation, whether it's 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.680 horse collar and now the hip tackle. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:28.560 You know, but. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.480 I'm for it. I'm for it because I you know, 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.040 I understand it's a technique. There's some guys that are 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:43.119 really good defensively of wrapping it up, taking their weight 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:44.560 and throwing them in the back of the legs or 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.000 the back of a ball carrier. And we've seen it 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.600 on a couple of different levels. The Ravens lost their 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.359 tight end last year to one. We've seen the Cowboys 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.079 with Dak Prescott in his situation and how he got 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.960 tackled that one time in the Giants game. You know, 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.520 it's it's a dangerous maneuver. Is it fair for the 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:03.720 defenders nowadays? 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.399 No, it's not. You know, the defenders seem. 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.840 To be getting all the rule changes against him, whether 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:14.080 it's contact rules, hands the face, whatever rule that you 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.920 want to make against the defensive player. But to me, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.120 this is like the horse collar one. I feel like 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.160 it's it's the spirit of it is the right way. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.560 I don't have a great answer for you as far 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.400 as what do you do differently, because it is it's 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.720 a tough way. If you're behind a ball carrier, there's 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:36.760 really how else you're going to get a guy down. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.200 You maybe grab on, hold on and hope that everybody 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:45.000 else helps you. But man, we've seen some pretty significant 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.480 violent injuries. I mean, Dak Prescott got hit in the 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:52.360 pocket against the Lions, you know, in a same kind 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.400 of manner, and with you know, with with Hutchinson, Aiden 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.640 Hutchinson with a hip kind. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.160 Of tackle, and Dak was able to kind. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.760 Of get his legs up, feet up and you know, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.360 and not have to suffer that. And you can only 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.600 imagine him having to deal with that again. And you know, 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.400 cowboy fans all going, my gosh, here here we go again. 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.880 But there's no there's no right answer here. But I 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.800 am I'm all about that part of the game because 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.880 I think there is some violence to it that hopefully 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.359 can be avoided in the future. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.360 I've seen a lot of people online fans being really 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.599 upset and saying, no, might as well just play flag football. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.840 But when you look at the grand scheme of things. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.080 I mean, I think. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.839 It is for the better of just player health in general. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.560 And you know, it sucks when you lose a key player, 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.080 not just for that team, but just for the level 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.080 of the game that you're playing. You want to be 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.560 playing against good players because that makes it a lot 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.200 more excited. Now, it is going to be tough to 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.160 retrain that and apply these types of changes. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:57.320 We've seen it when. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:03.200 A defender is attacking the quarterback and you know, hitting 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.880 them or getting too close and those those yeah, some 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.960 of those are just insane, some of those calls. But 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:14.479 at the same time, it is hard to be mindful 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.760 of that when you're going through the motion and the movements. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.919 You know, when you're playing a game, you tend to 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.520 just react and go for it and you're not thinking 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.720 of where my hand placement. These things happen so fast 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.240 that I think it's just it's gonna take some time 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.240 to really get to a point where it's clean and 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.440 you don't get called or other injuries, further injuries don't happen. 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.800 I think it's just gonna take time for players you 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:43.320 got used to. 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.120 You know, the one the one tackle that bothers me, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.799 and the hip tackle bothers me. You know, I would hate, 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:52.400 like I said, I hate to I would hate to 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.160 lose players. I'd hate to be on the player personnel 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.560 side of the coaching side and lose a star player 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:02.080 because of that. You know, But it's a tackle. The 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.120 one that bothers me the most are receivers coming across, 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:06.880 tight ends coming across the middle of the field and 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.200 these defensive backs are going for their knees. That's the 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.279 one that you know that I really really cringe about. 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.680 If they if they would have said, oh, at the 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.600 owner's meeting, we're going to eliminate, we're going to penalize, 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:25.279 we're going to talk about defensive backs going at pass 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:26.240 catcher's knees. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.880 Now, you got me really really. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.720 Interested, because I think that's the one that that's that's 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.640 defenseless right there, you're catching the ball, you're coming across, 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.719 and now you've got a defensive back at maybe a 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.559 five to seven yard run and going at your knees 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.640 to try and get you on the ground. Yeah, that's 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.000 the one that that's the one that always gotten me. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.479 Yeah, I've heard offensive guys say hit me in the head. Yeah, 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.839 and this is this is a right and nor should 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:53.440 it be the way they do it. But I've heard 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.480 offensive guys say, man, I'd rather you protect my knees 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.159 to worry about my head, and I actually would. I 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.640 actually wonder in that instance if the right answer is 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.400 the cowt. I mean, the officiating committee should really look 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.839 at it. As there's a strike zone essentially, and the 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.400 strike zone is just above the knee and below the head, right, 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.600 and that's the area where you can hit a defensile's 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.600 receiver or you can hit a receiver when they're in 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.000 the air when they're trying to catch a ball. That's 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.920 the area that's the strike zone. Anything above or below 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:23.960 that gets you a penalty. I think that's probably a 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:25.880 smart way to do it, to protect those guy's knees, 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.120 because you're right, when you're not seeing that guy and 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.560 he hits your knees, you can't have some very. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.840 Soon have injuries, and you have some significant injuries there. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.200 And I like what you're talking about with the strike zone. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.280 But you know, you have receivers that have different height. 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:40.880 You know there's some tall guys or some short guys 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.520 depending on their wide receivers if they're tight ends that 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:44.280 strike zone. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:45.480 I guess it's it's. 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.440 Different for every player, but maybe that's something that should 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.280 be reviewable, you know, if you go it's you know, 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:55.040 we love college football and they have the targeting rules, 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.880 you know, and it stops the game for a few minutes, 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.400 but you know, you learn about Okay, yes he went 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.400 with a shoulder legal hit. No, he led with the head. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.680 He's fifteen yards an out, you know, and so I 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.800 anything like that to police the game, I'm okay with. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.040 Let's look at another rule change. They actually changed the 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.160 challenges to where now coaches are able to get a 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.600 third challenge if they get one of the first two correct, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.520 instead of before it was that you had to have 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.960 both correct in order to get a third one. I 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.120 think that rule is fine. I don't have a problem 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.720 with it. My bigger question is does college get it 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.840 right better than the NFL from the standpoint of having 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.559 somebody in the booth, Yes, literally can just review anything. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.960 I've been saying this for you absolutely, because it hasn't 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:39.199 slowed down the game right. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.400 And no, you know, we've had some college football games 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:43.959 have lasted four hours or so. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.400 We've had, you know, but is it just because of that, Like, no, 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:47.360 it's just. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.199 Because of all the stoppings after first downs, yeah right, 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.200 you know, and now they've kind of eliminated that, so 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.520 the games have gotten a little bit quicker. Television wants 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.000 a three hour game, and so you know, you have 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.000 to try and get him a fan. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:58.800 I'll take a four hour game. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.520 But exactly the thing, we just want to get it right, 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:01.920 you know. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.680 I do feel like though, the ability to buzz down, 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.040 you know, and to say, hey, listen, we need to 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.640 review that play. I do feel like that that is 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.600 the best because we've got coaches, honestly, that don't know 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.560 when to challenge, and maybe they challenge too much, you know, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.440 maybe they challenge at the wrong time. And if you 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.720 take it out of their hands that way, maybe, you know, 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.280 maybe you could you get it. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:27.440 Right more than not. You know. 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.679 But I'm i applaud what college football does with the 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.959 ability to buzz down and say, hey, listen, I need 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:34.800 to review this one. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:36.480 Just give me a minute to look at it, and 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.120 usually they get it right. Yeah. 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:42.240 That's what I've never understood when you have when you 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:47.960 watch college football, why not take the things that do 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.240 work or seem to be good from it and apply 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.719 it to the NFL. Like, that's the one thing I 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.000 still don't understand until this day, because I think college 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.880 football does do a lot of good things better than the. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:01.360 They do a lot of good things. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.400 And and and I'm sure Derek is about to get 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:07.360 into a rule that you're going to take from the XFL. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:08.079 We'll get there. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:09.760 Yeah, So that's sometimes it. 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.080 You know, the NFL for so many years is we've 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.920 done it this way, We're not. I mean the longer 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.160 you guys have worked in it long enough that when 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.960 the operations manual comes out about what's going on with 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.920 the league, it's they could take the date and just 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.320 erase it and put the new date on there and 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.440 send it and it's the same thing over and over 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.360 and over and over and over again. And you're like, Okay, 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:37.920 but yeah, that's they're they're they're they're slow to adjust 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.040 two things in the NFL. They just they don't want 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:42.240 to mess with it that much. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.400 My thing is getting a call right should never be 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.679 a matter of strategy right, And that's what it is. 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:47.040 Right now. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.520 Coaches are having to strategize on when should I or 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.720 when should I'm not that should never be a strategy 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:54.760 thing that should always be. We just want to get 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.880 it right because the calls need to be right right. 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.720 And that's where I think college gets it right. 0:10:58.840 --> 0:10:59.040 Now. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.040 Where the NFL, as you mentioned, has been willing to 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.400 move is in their kickoff, and they've been doing things 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.240 to take the kickoff out of the game, in my opinion, 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.480 for many years now because of the safety of players. 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.520 And I know when when I was coming up, and 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.360 Brian you probably went to this year. Coming up, playing 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.800 football special teams was a special thing. Like you get 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.360 on special teams. That was where you figured out just 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.200 how tough you really were because you were just going 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.680 to run full speed. It was a challenge. And the 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.240 NFL has taken that. They've been trying to take that 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:31.800 more and more out of the game because it is 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.720 very dangerous. I think they did something really good here 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.880 and trying to figure out, Okay, we still want to 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.440 keep the excitement, but we want to limit the the 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.760 the potential violence. And I think in this way with 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.920 the new rules around the kickoff, what it does is 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:50.440 essentially takes away that full speed collision that happens, and 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.839 it still gives the excitement of possible returns and I 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.000 think actually makes it better. What are you guys thoughts 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.199 on that and how much do you think this is 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.560 an advantage for the Cowboys based upon what they have 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.840 as far as players and their special teams. 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.440 Coach watched a few XFL games with this. So the 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:07.719 way it operates, if you've got a ball carrier or 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:12.360 a returner that can make someone miss. Initially you get 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.440 through that first wave, it's onto the kicker. You know, 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:19.679 you could you could have some seriously good returns just 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.400 by if you get everybody blocked up and you've got 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:26.960 a ball carrier that has vision, has some elusiveness, has 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.559 some quickness because it's tough. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.720 As they're coming down in a line. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.559 You know, it's you pop that one, and now where's 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:40.920 the where's the support? It's a kicker who's standing back 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.840 there kind of you know, waiting for you know, whatever happens. 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.600 I've seen some really good returns. You would think that 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.920 that wouldn't be good returns, but they're really were some 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.800 you know, and you know, but if you have to, 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.000 if you have a guy, now I could also see 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.439 with the ball going out to the thirty five yard line. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.960 If somebody's really bad at this kickoff stuff. Just keep 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.880 pumping the ball into the end zone, and you know, 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:06.080 and do it instead. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:06.760 Of get out kick it. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.800 Instead of all being the twenty five, it's on the 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.480 thirty five, you know. And we're not we're that bad 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.480 covering these things. And we're not going to let Turpin 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.880 bring back three kicks during a game on us, you know. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.240 So if the ball. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.840 Keeps getting past midfield, I'm telling my kicker kick it 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.480 out of the damn end zone here. I'm not gonna 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.760 We're not going to cover any more kicks. So there'll 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.040 be a strategy with this. You'll see who's really You'll 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.480 see who's really good at it, and then the teams 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.120 that are really bad will just go ahead and kick 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:37.760 the ball in the end zone every single time and 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:39.920 say we'll play defense from the thirty five. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:40.880 Yeah. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.080 I think it's a it's an exciting new change and 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.880 I'm really looking forward to it because over the years 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.080 since I started working here, every year it just seemed 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.079 to get more and more boring, like nothing exciting. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.199 Well, the Super Bowl was a good example of that. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.920 Every kickoff went into the end zone was a touchback. 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.440 I mean, nobody wants nobody watching watch. 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.320 That, but now it brings a different element where you 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:07.000 have a real chance and real opportunity to make a 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.200 game changing play and move. 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.160 So I'm looking forward to it. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.200 Yeah, when you think about it, essentially, what you're doing 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.760 is you're playing defense without linebackers or a secondary right. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.160 You only have one line of defense, and if you 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.240 can get past that one line of defense, you got 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.320 a chance. So that's where it's going to get really interesting. 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.080 And I love it for the Cowboys because I look 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.360 at a guy like Turpin and that's what Turpin does. 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.320 He has the speed and elusiveness and getting that one 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.960 guy right, and it's the waves that usually trip him up. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:35.960 It's not the first guy. He usually can get past 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.120 that first guy, it's the waves of guys that are 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.880 coming at him that eventually get to him. I want 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:42.360 to see how this works for him. And I love 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.200 the fact that the Cowboys have a special team's coach 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.520 who was extremely creative, because I think those who are 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.640 really creative, especially in this first year, they're going to 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.200 see the greatest success not only on the kickoff returns, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.280 also on the kickoffs. I think there's some strategy to 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.600 that as well, and I think he'll be thoughtful about that, 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.520 and I think we can see some really cool stuff 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.640 that may happen for the Cowboys on special teams this year. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.120 All right, Final one. I wanted to get to trade 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.440 deadline move back one week. I don't know that it 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.520 makes much of a difference one week, but Brian, you're 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.160 a personnel guy, you're a former personnel guy. How much 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.480 of does that one week help when it comes to 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.360 being able to have trades for one more week? 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:13.600 Yeah? 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.040 I think the NFL for so many years was worried 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:20.360 about teams getting to the trade deadline and not having 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.760 any hope and all of a sudden you fire sell 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.760 your team, you know, and now you know. I do 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.560 feel like though, that by moving it back a week, 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.960 that maybe you give everybody an opportunity to look. 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.360 At the quarterback situation too. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.200 I always kind of felt like there needed to be 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.880 a different trade deadline for quarterbacks because sometimes you get 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.080 to week nine, week ten and you're like, you know, 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.360 we got six more weeks to play and we're in 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.080 the hunt here, but we just lost our quarterback. You know, 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.880 if you gave me the flexibility of going out and 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:53.160 getting somebody, I would welcome that a lot. So, yeah, 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:58.240 anything to give you more time to look at your 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.040 roster and say, listen, we're not going anywhere. You know, 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.040 we're going to get some compensatory picks. We're gonna pick 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.280 pretty high. Maybe we can move on from a guy, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.840 you know, if the cap, if it makes sense for 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.120 your cap, then that's where I think that I think both. 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.080 Teams will benefit from that. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.600 The team that's receiving the player will benefit because of 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.600 the efforts that they're making to go get the guy, 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.320 and the team trading will say, Okay, we're not going anywhere. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:27.480 We just got a premium pick for a player, and 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.240 now we're going to use that for next year. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:30.400 I like it. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.920 Yeah, I actually kind of wish they would allow teams 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.640 to have that fire sell because I think that adds 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.440 excitement when you allow teams that are in the hunt 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.520 to kind of improve their team a little more time 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.120 to do that, and teams that are out of it 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.480 to say, hey, if we're out of it, and maybe 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.680 there's an opportunity for us to get better right now. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.280 Right from the standpoint of getting rid of some pieces, 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.280 but now going into the next offseason, we got a 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.240 little more capital to work with I actually think that's 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:54.760 a good thing and it's exciting for me. 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.400 It's funny you say that, because you know my other 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.240 job working on one oh five to three the fan 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:00.960 we have to talk about baseball. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.040 And last year they a situation. 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.720 Where the the Anaheim, the Angels Los Angeles, Angels. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.400 Of Anaheim, or whenever you want to call them out there. 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.159 They they did a fire sale and they put all 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:17.360 their they put all their guys on waivers Cleveland, by 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:21.119 a by a mechanism, Cleveland, the Guardians were able to 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:22.480 claim all the players. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:24.400 So they got all the guys. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.000 All of a sudden, they're getting pitching, they're getting you know, 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.480 they're getting all these things that they and nobody else 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.960 had the option to get these guys. So all of 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.040 a sudden, you're thinking, here we are in a in 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.560 Cleveland with the time, was in a in a pennant race, 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.160 was trying to win a division, and other teams are like, whoa, 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.240 We'll wait a minute. You just shifted the balance of 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:49.120 power towards you know. So sometimes the fire sale, I'm 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.080 with you on it. I'm also the please give me 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.360 the opportunity to like claim a guy or two. 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.720 Don't don't let no let everyone, don't let everybody, don't let. 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.520 My competitor get every single player. 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.080 No ways can build that, you can go mechanisms into. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:03.960 I think the salary cap in the NFL will be 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.119 the biggest detract from somebody being able to pick up 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.280 for someone to be able to dump their team and 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:09.960 somebody else to pick up the whole team. I think 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.159