WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: A Closer Look At LB 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.880 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:06.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:09.840 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:14.120 ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:19.520 It's time for the break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:27.040 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Today, 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:31.880 is she not Tuesday? Thursday? Thursday? Man, we're just lose 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.120 trave no idea. What Oh, we're still talking football. We're 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.879 still at training camp. It's episode nineteen, by the way, Oh, 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:44.760 thank you for season fourteen. Season fourteen, Episode nineteen. Okay, awesome, 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.239 I'm glad. I'm sure fans want to know that. They 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.839 absolutely do they All right, well, let's jump riding to 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:57.600 our topic and we're gonna focus today on linebacker doing 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:03.440 well if we here, I care, Nick, remember you don't care. 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.640 I'm doing great. Thanks for asking. Awesome. That's very rare. 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.360 But let's get to the name. Let's get to the name. Sam. Wow, 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.640 that's rare, but thank you. Okay, we're all doing good. Well, 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.959 we're all doing good in one of those moves. This 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.199 is gonna be fun. Are we whispering? Because they moved 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.360 this down closer to the to the field players, down 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.440 closer to the water. I feel like there's like someone 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.720 about the chip on the eighteenth, we're here, live at practice, 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:35.000 here in Augusta. Here comes bubb On. Okay, well, fairy. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:41.479 Today our main focus is welcome to training camp. Yeah, 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:48.120 we're live, and there's lend Drapers. Okay, topic linebackers. That's 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.960 our focus today. But before we get into that, we've 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.080 been talking all week about the safety position, and today 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.240 our old Thomas name has been trending on Twitter. It 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:01.120 has so basically he keeps holding out and saying, you know, 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.480 give me an extension or train me to a team 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.960 that wants me and wants to keep me for the 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:12.720 rest of my career. So definitely that whole thing has 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.240 not died down. And oh, I mean every time it 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.799 tries to die down, something happens and you like I 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.480 would blame Nick, but Earl did it himself. I'm telling you, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.680 I don't know. I don't know how y'all start your days, 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.240 But like my alarm goes off, I grabbed my phone 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.240 off the bedside table and I opened Twitter and I 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.280 just started reading. And that was the first thing I 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.919 saw and I immediately was like, Okay, this show will 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.080 be good today, show will be interesting today. You know. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.800 It's it's with the same confidence that I feel like 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.959 the sun is gonna come out tomorrow at here and 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.040 it's gonna be a sunny day. It's it's it's happening. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.560 It's gonna happen. Wow, it's gonna happen. He's gonna end 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.800 up with the Cowboys. I don't know when, I don't 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.800 know how, for how much, I don't know for how long. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.480 I just think he's going to be wearing number twenty 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.400 nine for the Dallas Cowboys at some pert. Yes, I 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.040 think that point's gonna be twenty nineteen. I don't think 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.400 that's happening this year. I really don't. Yeah, you can't 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.000 say that you were right if he signs next month, right, 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.000 you're right about between now and like October, you gotta 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.480 put an expiration data. Yeah real, Wait, what did you say, 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:19.480 like if he signs here in free agency? I thought 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.320 you said next month. I thought you said I was 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.400 telling you back a training camp in two thy eighteen. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.880 Yeah no, no, that doesn't count. I lose them. Yes 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:32.040 you do. I think you're saying between now and October fifteenth, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.000 whenever the trade deadline is, I don't know. I'm top 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.200 of I am one hundred percent confident he will be 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.920 playing in that game in week three Dallas again Seattle, 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.160 but I don't in some form or fashion, I'm not certain. 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:45.920 I'm not certain about that because I'm not certain he 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.640 shows up if he doesn't have the contract. I think 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.320 he might be one of those guys doing this so 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.520 they don't do that. We've seen some players do that. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.880 Name more than one. I can't There was only one 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.120 I can remember. It was even the first There was 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.000 Joey did it Joey? But there was also there was 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.360 a few years ago there was a I think it 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.000 was a defensive lineman that held out for like first 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.520 four or five weeks of the season. I can't remember. 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:13.080 It was just you're gonna put your money on the line. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.000 Didn't hold out like that. The gona be honest. I 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.720 don't think he's coming to the Cowboys this year. I 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.240 personally don't think that because I don't think if if 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.400 the Cowboys are willing to give up what Seattle saying 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.920 they would take in order to make the deal happen, 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.719 it would have already happened. This has been a prolonged 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.040 period of time, it has not happened. I don't think 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.440 he's one of is necessarily prone to move their position 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.680 because think about it from Seattle standpoint, why do they 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.440 have to? Seattle looks at it, and it's like, well, 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:40.960 whenever he shows up, you know, we're gonna we're only 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.880 gonna get him for one more year anyway, So whenever 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:44.600 he shows up, we'll get whatever he can give us 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.120 and then we move on to next year. Think what 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:47.920 needs to happen unless we can get a deal that 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.760 makes us One of what needs to happen in this 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:53.440 situation is the Seattle needs to allow the Cowboys to 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.000 talk to him and his agent. That's what needs to happen. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.000 Because if you ask people, and I have done this, 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:03.320 I've asked several well even yesterday, and I'm what's the 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.240 hold up? What's the biggest issue? And the issue is 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.400 they don't want to pay what Seattle wants for one year. 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.240 They're afraid they might get him for one year point Yeah, 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.159 So if they're gonna make this happen, if Seattle really 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.760 wants the two you know, or that's that's what Seattle wants. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.200 Then they're gonna have to let the Cowboys have those 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.720 discussions with his age. Gonna have to get permission so 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.440 they can talk to the agent and they say, how 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.520 close are we on the parameters of getting a long 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.000 term deal, because if we if he's gonna sign here, Oh, 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:32.640 I got a ranch here, I bought this house. I 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.160 want to stay in Dallas where I want to be. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.120 Trust me, I'll do this. Okay, they'll give the two 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.440 That's what I believe. So I think, I think that's 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.440 what's gonna have to happen, is that you can't do 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.800 that until you get permission because you got tampering. You 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.760 know what's funny there there's a precedent for this that 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.560 involves the Seahawks that's less than a year old, which 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:54.599 is Dwayne Brown. He held out for six weeks. He 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.040 missed the first six games of last season before the 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.120 Texans finally, I mean he reported and like two weeks 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.040 later they traded him to Seattle and he I believe 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.159 he just signed an extension with the Seahawks, which so 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.880 his deal didn't come until after he changed teams. But 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.440 he played it. He played hardball big time and what 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.280 stops Earl from doing the like there's there's no real 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.760 advantage for Earl showing up until he gets what he wants, 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.200 or just to keep putting pressure on them because he 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.240 knows that's not his long term. He seems stubborn enough, 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.840 proud enough, and has enough money to where I won't 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.840 be surprised if he's just like Seattle's making money off 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:35.279 the deal because he's getting fined. Yeah. Absolutely, But that's 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.320 my point. I think in this instance, I don't think 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.080 he cares. Obviously he doesn't care because he's not there, 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.360 And I think Seattle's like, unless we get the deal 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.760 we want, it doesn't hurt us. So I think this 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.039 is just that classic case where nobody has is compelled 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.480 to say I will give more than I would normally 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.520 give in order to get it done right, and that 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.840 includes the Cowboys. For whatever reason, the Cowboys aren't I 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.080 don't think, at this point willing to give more than 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.320 where they where they've been. If the Seahawks were like, 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.679 all right, you're not budging on the two, how about 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.240 this year's three and then a future draft pick and 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.400 not like a first or second, But if would you 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.040 do that, like we want we want your twenty nineteen 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:16.120 three and your twenty twenty three, right, something like that done. 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.960 I'm just do it. I would just would you do 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.320 next year's two straight up? Just next year's two? And yes, 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.720 it feels just my decision. Yes, yes, yeah, I think 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.160 it's worth it because I think you're going to get 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:28.960 a player that, for the next three or four years, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.880 will be, if not the best player in your defense, 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.440 one of the best players on your defense. And in 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.480 a secondary where I feel really good about the young cornerbacks, 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:42.320 you give them an experienced Pro Bowl caliber safety back there. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.520 I think it takes him from being a pretty good 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.440 unit to maybe being a great unit. So to me, 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.080 it's worth that spin. And I don't think he's even 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.240 close to being done. Like he's twenty nine years old. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.160 Safeties can play for a while. As a matter of fact, 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.560 great cornerbacks moved to safeties in the later safety and 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.320 the later part of their careers. He's fine to get 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.760 to continue playing. I would. I would do it, maybe 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.840 no doubt in my mind. What if Xavier Woods could 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.840 be your third safety coming in and out in certain packs. 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.560 Pretty good about that. His ability to play some slot 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.160 corner This has to happen. I'm sorry, I just don't know. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.400 I just don't see it happened. Does not see it 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.320 happening this year, because I really believe because all those 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.800 things I just said about about Earl Thomas, all those 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.440 same things can still happen next year when he's a 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.400 free agent. Right There's no reason why the Cowboys couldn't 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.120 get him next year when he's a free agent. So 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.040 it doesn't have to happen right now, and the Cowboys 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.200 can still get what they want in the future, you know, 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:36.520 just wasting a year of his prime. Well okay, I mean, yeah, you. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.080 I mean, if you're building the team for the future, 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.560 I mean I'm focused on this year. I don't know 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.559 about you, but I'm focused on this year. I might 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.440 focused on next year. So this is the year. And 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.920 if you have the ability or the chance to get 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.640 a great player to be on the team, have proven 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.000 one that you don't need to be developing or anything, 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:59.320 then bringing him on. I mean, but whatever, why do 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:03.160 I know? So let's just see what happens. This is 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.720 still the waiting game. Amber takes it personally like she's 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.960 just like they're not doing it because they want to 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.800 piss me off, like, that's basically who does she learned 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:18.480 that from? How do you not take it personal? You're here, 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.520 Brian brought us. He gets mad if you care you 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:29.199 take it personal? Well, no, no's not true. You feel 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.439 part of the family you have you're so involved here, 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.360 you're this is work. You do it every day, So 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.200 it's work. It's a business. Earl Thomas wrote a story 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:43.240 about it this morning. Can't get too involved, gotta this 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.080 goes back to what we said yesterday, though. You know, 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:50.559 they they made this move with Dez Bryant for multiple reasons, 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.240 but one of them was the money. A financial part, 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.880 and they admitted that. They said that, They said, this 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.280 is a business. They cut him for those reasons. They said, now, 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.240 locker room, yeah, that's probably part of it, but but 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:06.280 it was it was also financial. So if it's financial 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.200 and they wanted to save this money, then let's let's 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.800 spend it on something that could be available. What upsets 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.679 me is when there is something that you can't make 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.400 it happen, or someone, let's say a player that you 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.360 know has the ability or potential to do something and 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.960 it doesn't do it. That's when it's upsetting to me. 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.760 And that's why quotation mark, I take you personal. Okay, 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.800 and this is a scenario like that. You know they 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:33.760 can make this happen, okay, but what if what if 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.079 in two weeks whatever, we play a couple of games 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.640 here and all of a sudden, the Cowboys trade they 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.240 land Earl Thomas Seattle for a third round pick, and 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.679 then it was then it was a standoff. It was 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.960 a standoff of you know, who's gonna who's gonna blink first, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.120 and they ended up getting what they wanted and for 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.720 not you know, not giving up at three. So you 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.120 know it's not over yet. It's not over. I mean, 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.800 get upset or mad about it. In when the Ravens 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.600 come in and they throw a two and it's over. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.760 And then they take it and they say, wow, this 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.400 is good. We gotta two. He's not in the NFC anymore. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.120 He's over there. We don't have to play him. A 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.120 good point I think could very well happened. So the 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:15.880 Cowboys are going to have to have one of the 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.520 strongest you know bids there. Well here's but here's also 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:20.839 what has to happen as a part of that. And 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.280 you mentioned this earlier with the Cowboys if there's that 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.800 other team, they're going to be in a similar situation 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.840 if they can't get him to sign a long term deal. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.840 And this is where it goes back to Earl. Thomas 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.719 walked in the Cowboys, So so whatever other team might 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.760 be out there, they have to be okay with the 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.120 idea that we really might be rending him for one year. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.080 So whatever we're giving up is just for a year, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.319 and there's a good chance that he walks away from 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.640 us because maybe he wants to go play a day. 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.000 I think the team that makes the most sense to 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.760 throw a second round pick at him is the Cowboys 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.720 for two reasons. Number One, like you said, he walked 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.640 into their locker room. I don't know if he's done 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:59.280 that somewhere else. And number two, oh, I hope he's 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.520 making that a week clear character just walks into everybody's 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.400 locker room saying come get Yeah, you wouldn't like that. 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.080 Oh he did he did that. He did that in 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:12.200 Saint Louis whatever. St Louis, Yeah, years ago. No, Um, 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.400 they make it makes sense for that reason and also 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.160 the fact that the Cowboys really have have left a 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.680 void there. They've left it. They definitely have left an 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.719 experienced hole there at safety. Um, there's some players there, 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:28.000 but they're not experienced. UM, so it would make sense 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.240 for them to do that. Okay, before we go on break, 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.480 let's go ahead and take a quick call from Reuben 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:41.880 in Arlington. Reuben Hell, Hello, Hello, Hey, I wanted to 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:47.800 ask defense will this year and I'm just wondering because Mum, 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.480 I've seen the defense on the Cowboy app and they're 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.800 looking pretty good though, And you guys are awesome. Thank you, 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.120 thank you, thanks, thank you. I like to think so 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.400 well goes back, It goes back to the conversation we 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.800 just had in the previous ten minutes. They could look 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.360 really good if they made some moves. But as is, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.880 as you're asking the defense as is, I think that 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:15.400 they're gonna be solid. They cannot suffer any injuries, which 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.760 that's hard to say because injuries always happened. UM. But 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.079 I think that there's some key players there like Sean 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:25.680 Lee and and Cheeto and DeMarcus Lawrence, probably not in 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.640 that order, but those three guys right there that I mean, 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.079 they have to play at a high level and keep 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.680 them on the field. So yesterday we watched a very 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.280 interesting practice. What I was just saying, y'all, what do 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:44.199 y'all think about the defense? We've been talking? Oh? Great, 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.080 just play, just playing what I just wanted to ask 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.280 them a little different. I think they have a potential 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.840 to be really good. We'll see if that actually happened. Okay, 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:53.920 there was nothing else to be said than why you said. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:14:00.240 That's why I moved on. So you agree with that day? Yes, exactly. Okay, Yeah, 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.520 I'm about to be more pesimistic, Nick, Do I have 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.640 permission to move on? Wow? Thank you sir. Okay, we 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.199 watched the fun practice yesterday and it was very interesting. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.040 So I want to go around the table and just 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.000 hit on whatever stood out to you overall. So Derek, 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:20.840 you want to start it off? Hmm, let's see. Um, 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.160 the first thing I'll point well, the thing i'll point out, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:24.880 and this is probably gonna take one fro everybody else, 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:26.720 because I thought it was a highlight of practice yesterday, 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.160 but DeMarcus Lawrence in the one on one drills, um, 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.680 and I actually didn't see it live. I was actually 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.440 watching the linebackers and tight end and a couple other 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.400 offensive because a couple of other players in the seven 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.880 on seven. But during the one on one. De Marcus 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:46.000 Lawrence lined up against every offensive lineman on the first 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:53.000 team except um Martin, Frederick, No, no, he want against 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:59.280 Frederick except for Martin and and basically one against everybody. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.600 Well Frederick, he kind of does a draw. The first 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.040 time he beat him. The second time, Um, I think 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.120 Collins played him pretty well. M Collins kind of get him. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.560 But he the first time, and then the second time 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.640 he snatched him out of his shoes. As Nate said, 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.600 I mean it was it was pretty pretty interesting interesting 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.560 what he did. But he went around Tyron. That was 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.600 the most important thing. But as he did it, literally 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.160 he started with tyron. And if you notice how those 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.160 drills go, like you have, the tackles will go and 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.360 then they'll move in and they'll be a guard and 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.320 a guard and then they kind of go down the 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.760 line all the way. Well he would he started with tyron. Uh, 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:39.040 then they moved to a guard working against another offensive guard. 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.480 And then what they did was he jumped in to 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.480 to go against that guard, and then another person would 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.360 go and then he jumped in to go against the center, 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.200 and then he moved in and so he went all 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.160 the way down the line. Martin was the only person 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.200 he didn't go against. But I thought it was pretty 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.240 remarkable Number one, because it shows his versatility and how 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.600 he can move up and down the line. But the 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.320 fact that he actually won a fair number of those 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:03.200 with the reps that he was doing too. I mean, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.200 it just shows you this guy's locked in right now. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.560 He is He is playing as well as anybody out 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.120 here during training camp, and I'm very, very excited to 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:11.960 see what we can do this season. We all I 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.920 always say, you know, real football is not like Madden. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.560 You can't just like you know, you don't just magically 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.960 jump a few numbers in the stats during the off season, 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.040 and guys aren't just magically back up to speed when 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.640 they come back from injury. But it always is fascinating, 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.960 and I've seen it a few times in my career 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.760 here where like you can just see a guy making 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.200 a jump as a player. And DeMarcus wouldn't have done 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:36.960 that last year, and he certainly wouldn't have done in 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.560 the years before that, but he just he looks like 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:45.200 a different person. A few days ago, John Mashoda, my buddy, 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.680 got a video of it during individual drills. He was 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.880 working on fake spin moves like the one DeMarcus Ware 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.360 did to Joe Staley back in the back class day 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:57.320 like three years ago. But he just his and he 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.000 was talking about it too. His repertoire is like he's 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.920 I think he said he's got like more than fifteen 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.240 different moves. I didn't know there were that many moves. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.800 Like he's just he is making that leap, so to speak. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:08.840 And I don't I don't know if he's going to 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.280 have fifteen sacks this year, but he is just on 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.960 another level than the guy that we thought we knew 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.880 even just a year ago. Yeah, all right, let's take 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:22.439 our first break. What's that look? I don't know, because 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.439 I'm about to say something, and then we come back. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.000 Maybe we'll hear Nick's opinion or maybe not. I don't know. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.480 We'll see when we come back. 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Back to the break all right, 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.560 before the break, Derek gave us his highlight of practice, 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.560 and now Dave he's gonna give us his highlight, good 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.880 or bad whatever he was. I tweeted about this last 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.160 night and it might totally be a knee jerk reaction 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:53.879 on my part, but specifically from a blocking standpoint, I'm 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.639 not sold on these tight ends, and nothing I have 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.320 seen at practice has convinced me otherwise. I think, can 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.159 I can I interrupt real quickly? Yeah? Sure, So you 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.479 only talked for the last ten minutes. The reason why 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.000 I'm saying is, don't give away too much because that's 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.000 our topic tomorrow. We're gonna talk about these tight ends, 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.080 So don't give away too much. All right, Fine, I'll 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.720 just this. I'm not I'm not hating on Jeff swam. 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.520 I think the world of Jeff Swayin. In his first 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.199 padded practice as a pro, Dalton Schultz got dumped on 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:21.760 his ass by Damian Wilson in a manner that I 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.160 haven't seen many times before in a pro practice. And 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.920 he came from a little bit, he came from Stanford. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.320 And the line is that he's, you know, he's a 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.359 blocking tight end, which I mean, you know, I'm not 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.280 trying to bury the guy just yet, but I just 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:37.080 I saw it and I was like, I wonder if 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.679 they're gonna try to add a veteran tight end just 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.680 because it's true. I mean, he just had a baby. 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:45.280 I'm not trying to hate. I just life just had 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.160 a baby, more so than a lot of cool stuff 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.760 happened at practice yesterday. That when I saw that, I 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.720 was just like, oh my god, it was like a posterization. Yeah, 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:55.960 it was really a nice welcoming. It was cool to 0:19:55.960 --> 0:20:03.040 see Damian Wilson's first highlight with the Cowboys. Who's that name? 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:08.280 Another highlight that he's had? Really there are now. It 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.280 was not very competitive there. It's supposed to be a 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.399 compete drill, and it didn't help that the whole team 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:18.640 was watching there. Um. I mean a lot of people 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.240 talked about it. It It was it was a really really 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:23.600