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Speaker 7: Good morning, guys, welcome back to another episode of The
Speaker 7: Break Here a s WBC podcast studio. I always want
Speaker 7: to add, it's not it's WBC podcast studio. Derek is
Speaker 7: out today, but we're here with Patrick and Brian, and
Speaker 7: we found out some pretty sad news this morning. Gil
Speaker 7: Brandt passed away at ninety one years old.
Speaker 3: I had a nice run.
Speaker 8: He did. He did.
Speaker 7: He was a guy that was very, very well respected
Speaker 7: by many. And when I started this job back in
Speaker 7: the day now i'm talking like an old person. I
Speaker 7: remember seeing him a lot, and I was I would
Speaker 7: always wonder who is this guy? Like, who is he?
Speaker 7: Why is he everywhere? Why does everyone talk to Yeah?
Speaker 7: And as I kept being around, the more and more
Speaker 7: I learned about him, and I was so impressed with
Speaker 7: just his history and everything that he contributed to not
Speaker 7: only the Cowboys but the NFL. So I wanted to
Speaker 7: ask you, Brian, because you knew him personally very well,
Speaker 7: and just wanted to see if you could share some
Speaker 7: good memories of him.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, it's a it's a very sad day in the
Speaker 3: scouting world with the passing of Gil Brandt. And you
Speaker 3: look at the history of the Dallas Cowboys, and you
Speaker 3: can't write that history without Gil Brandt. You know him.
Speaker 3: You know Tex Shram As a general manager, Text was
Speaker 3: more involved with the business aspect, trying to do league manners,
Speaker 3: thinking about pushing the Cowboys in front of eyeballs, and
Speaker 3: Text was tremendous of that. But Gil was really, along
Speaker 3: with Tom Lanry, the nuts and bolts of the of
Speaker 3: the player evaluation. Gil had done a lot of things
Speaker 3: that pushed scouting to really.
Speaker 2: What it is today.
Speaker 3: The creations of the combine where we all go to
Speaker 3: Indianapolis every year and and and take part of that,
Speaker 3: and and Gil was a big h you know, a
Speaker 3: big contributor to that. A lot of the scouting terms
Speaker 3: that we have today, a lot of the scouting drills
Speaker 3: that we have today, the evaluations, the ability to go
Speaker 3: into schools, visit with this with the coaches and players
Speaker 3: and stuff at the other universities and stuff. And Gil
Speaker 3: Gil was just a fascinating man because he did things
Speaker 3: he It was funny that you think like maybe some
Speaker 3: common sense things and stuff, but Gil, no, he just
Speaker 3: took it to a whole other level. One of my
Speaker 3: favorite stories was when he won time timed a player
Speaker 3: in the forty yard dash in an airport terminal. He
Speaker 3: marked off forty yards in a terminal and got the kid,
Speaker 3: and the kid took off running and Gil was standing
Speaker 3: at the end of the of the terminal with the clock,
Speaker 3: got the time, wrote it down, and got on his
Speaker 3: plane and went to the next school. So Gil was
Speaker 3: always doing things. The innovation, you know, it was just
Speaker 3: like the Cowboys at that time. You know, in twenty
Speaker 3: consecutive winning seasons, you know, something that probably will not
Speaker 3: be matched. But just a tremendous man, a tremendous resource
Speaker 3: of information, stories, you know, anything that you want to
Speaker 3: know about scouting or the history of scouting. Gil Brandt
Speaker 3: was your guy because he was a big, big part
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 9: And when you talk about respect a bar and Brian,
Speaker 9: it's key that everyone understands that there are levels to respect,
Speaker 9: and when it comes to Gil Brandt, his respect transcended generations.
Speaker 9: I mean there are generations of football fans that continue
Speaker 9: to come along and not only benefit from what he
Speaker 9: contributed to the Cowboys and to the sport itself from
Speaker 9: a scouting aspect and everything of that nature, but also
Speaker 9: if you look at him as a human being, you
Speaker 9: would be hard pressed and good luck finding anyone with
Speaker 9: a bad thing to say about Gil Brandt. He was
Speaker 9: just aist, the sweetest thing, a magnificent person, and despite
Speaker 9: all of his achievements and accomplishments, all of his football
Speaker 9: knowledge which is just incomparable, he was always willing to
Speaker 9: have a conversation with you, how are you doing today?
Speaker 9: And he was genuinely concerned with people around him, and
Speaker 9: he was a people person on top of everything else
Speaker 9: that he did so magnificently in life. So the loss
Speaker 9: of Gil Brandt, it hits on several levels. Obviously, it's
Speaker 9: a tragic loss for the football world, tragic loss for
Speaker 9: the Cowboys organization, tragic loss for his family, but also
Speaker 9: the world as a whole just lost a big heart
Speaker 9: and a great human being.
Speaker 3: Risk will to get real tight in there and that
Speaker 3: it well said Patrick. Weill said, I'll tell you one
Speaker 3: of the great honors I've ever had was when Gil
Speaker 3: was inducted in the Hall of Fame. I was invited
Speaker 3: to be part of his group to get to go
Speaker 3: to see him get inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: And that was just such a huge honor for me
Speaker 3: to to like for him to come out and say
Speaker 3: I'd like for you to show up, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: my gosh, but you know, and here's like I say,
Speaker 3: here's Patrick, Patrick gave you a great scouting report if
Speaker 3: you want to say Gil Brandt and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's it is a sad day, but Gil
Speaker 3: he touched so many lives in such a positive way
Speaker 3: and again professionally and then you know, it's it is
Speaker 3: a tough day. But like I say, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of people out there the scouting community benefited from having
Speaker 3: Gil Brandt as part of it or being as he's
Speaker 3: known as the godfather of it. And so at ninety one,
Speaker 3: like I said, a heck of a run for a man.
Speaker 3: And you know, and again rest in peace.
Speaker 7: Yes, And this is always hard to talk about on
Speaker 7: the show. And talk about someone passing away. But what
Speaker 7: makes me happy is being present and being able to
Speaker 7: witness when he was inducted to the fame, when he
Speaker 7: made it to the Ring of Honor, and him being
Speaker 7: present in the moment, being able to still enjoy it
Speaker 7: because we see it all the time. It happens with
Speaker 7: people that they get inducted so late into their lives.
Speaker 8: That they're not not able to enjoy mentally.
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, exactly so, And those cases are very, very sad.
Speaker 7: But at least with Gil, he was able to enjoy
Speaker 7: those moments and be there and with a smile on
Speaker 7: his face.
Speaker 2: So always with a smile.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I went back and looked at his Twitter timeline just
Speaker 9: out of curiosity, and one of his last, one of
Speaker 9: his final two tweets dad jokes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh that's Gil.
Speaker 9: So at ninety one, he's tweeting. He's this shows you
Speaker 9: how forward thinking he was. This is ninety one year
Speaker 9: old on social media. But he's having fun tweeting dad jokes.
Speaker 9: So just heartbreaking, but Wilson ambar you in these times,
Speaker 9: it also helps to remember and live through the positive memories,
Speaker 9: all the smiles that he gave me.
Speaker 3: This is this is a this is the time you
Speaker 3: celebrate a guy. Yeah, you know it might be sad,
Speaker 3: but this this guy.
Speaker 7: Just before we started the show, you were showing some
Speaker 7: stories and Chris was in here.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of Gilts just.
Speaker 8: Make you laugh.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of them. You're face, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of them. There's some you probably can't tell, but they
Speaker 3: were you know, they were fun. Gil was he was fun.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's fair to say that.
Speaker 9: This Cowboys organization as it looks right now is not
Speaker 9: what it is without a guy like Gil Brats one
Speaker 9: third of that trial for it with Shram and guy,
Speaker 9: these are the founding fathers, not only of this organization
Speaker 9: but a football Yeah, pioneers, founding father's, innovators of visionaries.
Speaker 2: I mean, they are all of those things.
Speaker 9: And you know, shrim and Landry they can now welcome
Speaker 9: in no question.
Speaker 3: Yeah. My final thing on this, you know, the think
Speaker 3: Jerry Jones bought this team in nineteen eighty nine, and
Speaker 3: there's a lot of Cowboy fans that kind of think
Speaker 3: that's kind of where the Cowboys started. No, they were
Speaker 3: a really good team from nineteen sixty to nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 3: I mean they were a really good team. You look
Speaker 3: at divisional titles, championship games, super Bowls, things like that.
Speaker 3: I mean it this, this franchise has a great history
Speaker 3: because of guys like Tom Landry, Gil Brandt, tech Shram,
Speaker 3: those kind of guys.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, all right, Chris, Well, can we go ahead and
Speaker 7: take an early break. When we come back, we'll transition
Speaker 7: into all the moves that happened.
Speaker 9: Gil wants to talk about the foot He would roster
Speaker 9: building was good for him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, roster.
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Speaker 7: Okay, so before we get into roster cuts, I did
Speaker 7: want to talk about the trade that the Cowboys made
Speaker 7: with the Dolphins. Uh trade at a cornerback for another
Speaker 7: cornerback and let's see Noah Binogany did I nail that?
Speaker 2: How far it go?
Speaker 3: First?
Speaker 11: Go?
Speaker 3: There we go with a yeah, iggy for you that
Speaker 3: don't really want to try and go with that last name,
Speaker 3: but you did a great job.
Speaker 9: You could go with Noah if you want, because you know,
Speaker 9: Noah Brown is in Houston now, so yeah, go with Noah.
Speaker 2: He has only one Noah on.
Speaker 3: The road that let's stick with. That's what I did
Speaker 3: during the draft.
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, well let's talk about him.
Speaker 7: Tell me what you think of this guy and why
Speaker 7: the Cowboys made this trade. We were talking about Kelvin
Speaker 7: Joseph as one of those kind of bubble guys that
Speaker 7: you don't really know what they were planning on doing
Speaker 7: with him. Possibly he could make the practice squad for them,
Speaker 7: but then they end up training him for a guy
Speaker 7: that what I've seen or heard so far, seems pretty
Speaker 7: similar to a Kelvin Joseph.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm interested to hear Brian's thoughts on Iggy. If
Speaker 9: we're going to go with it.
Speaker 3: Now, you could go with the last name. You guys
Speaker 3: are better than me.
Speaker 9: I would say, as far as the trade is concerned.
Speaker 9: I mean, we sat here and we talked about how
Speaker 9: difficult the roster cuts were going to be. Uh, And
Speaker 9: when it came to cornerback room the previous episode, I
Speaker 9: had Jordan Lewis escaping the pup list and being activated,
Speaker 9: but then I also had Eric Scott on my roster
Speaker 9: and I couldn't figure out from there where Kelvin Joseph
Speaker 9: would fit in the cornerback room, so I had him
Speaker 9: off of my roster. I think that ultimately is where
Speaker 9: the Cowboys were headed. But they were able. Kudos to them.
Speaker 9: They were able to instead of waving him, they were
Speaker 9: able to get at least a player out of it.
Speaker 9: So it's a fresh start for Igbinoghany here in Dallas
Speaker 9: spoke with him in the locker room not an hour ago.
Speaker 9: Very intelligent, very insightful young man, and he said himself
Speaker 9: that he feels the struggles he had in Miami were
Speaker 9: needed to form him into the player and man that
Speaker 9: he hopes to be. He said, over the last week
Speaker 9: he had actually been praying for some type of change,
Speaker 9: not knowing what that change would be, and he was
Speaker 9: on his way to Dolphin's practice and his agent called
Speaker 9: and said, turn around, go home and pack you going
Speaker 9: to Dallas. So he's very excited. He said, quote unquote,
Speaker 9: I need it. I need this. I needed this fresh start.
Speaker 9: So looking forward to seeing that, and the same implies
Speaker 9: for Kelvin. Joseph didn't really have a path here for
Speaker 9: in the Cowboys organization. That that boat has sailed. That
Speaker 9: ship has sailed, and we'll see what he can do
Speaker 9: down with down there with the Dolphins. But as it stands,
Speaker 9: it seems like a clean swap. Although I will say
Speaker 9: that wild Kelvin has speed. Igbinoghany is literally a former
Speaker 9: trek guy, so there's.
Speaker 3: That scouting report.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I was talking to some of my guys around
Speaker 3: the league about him, because a lot of these guys
Speaker 3: watch tape full time, and I'm I'm a radio guy.
Speaker 3: Right now, it seems like but here I go. I
Speaker 3: asked one of my guys about Iggy and they said,
Speaker 3: I asked what kind of player? I said, this is
Speaker 3: a functional player. He's an athlete. The instinct sometimes hold
Speaker 3: this guy back a little bit. He says, good, dude,
Speaker 3: wired right, more of a fourth or fifth corner, but
Speaker 3: he can play on special teams. And so I think
Speaker 3: that we were talking about a clean trade and there
Speaker 3: were things about Kelvin Joseph that were actually improving. Now
Speaker 3: you will say some things about his awareness, you know,
Speaker 3: lining them up, lining up off sides, maybe some fair
Speaker 3: catch interference type stuff that he was dealing with, but
Speaker 3: I felt like that he was going in the right direction.
Speaker 3: They put Bland on the outside, they put him in
Speaker 3: the slot, and they tried to get him to work
Speaker 3: that way, and there were some positive things. So but
Speaker 3: you know, you know, sometimes in this business you say, well, hey,
Speaker 3: you know what you feel about player this way. Maybe
Speaker 3: not everybody feels the same way. So you move on
Speaker 3: and to go and make a switch for another corner,
Speaker 3: I feel like is the right thing to do. I
Speaker 3: will say this though, coming out of Auburn, and you know,
Speaker 3: Patrick mentioned a track athlete can really really run. And
Speaker 3: the thing about Emo is though the things that I
Speaker 3: kind of will worry about him was the when you
Speaker 3: look at his the ability to sometimes play the ball
Speaker 3: down the field, and that was something that you know
Speaker 3: that when you watched him in college. Now here is
Speaker 3: he's played in the NFL for a few years. We'll
Speaker 3: see if that can switch. But I know in college
Speaker 3: there was some time where man really good athlete, could
Speaker 3: really run, sticky kind of a guy. But was he
Speaker 3: going to always play the ball well in the air.
Speaker 3: We'll see if he can. That's kind of change for him.
Speaker 3: But the positivities though, from my guys, that seemed like
Speaker 3: about that fourth or fifth corner and that's kind of
Speaker 3: what Dallas is looking at right there.
Speaker 9: Very willing Tyckler. Yeah, so he's really going to take
Speaker 9: on to special teams. Bones is going to love him
Speaker 9: on the special teams front.
Speaker 3: Well, and you know Kelvin Joseph, to his credit, he
Speaker 3: got better on spec The reason why you would even
Speaker 3: think about keeping him around was because of the special
Speaker 3: team stuff.
Speaker 8: So it was improving, was improving, yeah.
Speaker 3: But not to maybe not to the liking. And but
Speaker 3: this is you know, I hate to hate to bring
Speaker 3: up something a negative aspect of this though, but you know,
Speaker 3: if you look at you know, Dan Quinn. As much
Speaker 3: credit as we give dan Quinn for the player evaluations
Speaker 3: and stuff, Dan really stuck his neck out for this guy.
Speaker 3: Him and Bohannah. He was at the workouts there in Lexington.
Speaker 3: Those are two players that are no longer on the team.
Speaker 3: It happens, you know, coaches come in. I mean, but
Speaker 3: you know, you know, hopefully you can rally from this
Speaker 3: by you know, trading one off for the other and
Speaker 3: not losing on the value of the pick.
Speaker 7: And hopefully this new fresh star just helps both of them.
Speaker 7: Him Calvin Joseph over there and he hopefully he stays
Speaker 7: out of trouble and all that. And then Noah over
Speaker 7: here bringing a new fresh star to him and his career.
Speaker 7: Now we on the last show, we were trying to
Speaker 7: guess and cut the roster. But now we have all
Speaker 7: the answers. Now we have the answers of the things
Speaker 7: that happened. So I wanted to ask you guys, biggest
Speaker 7: surprise for the cuts that the Cowboys made on Tuesdays
Speaker 7: on Tuesday and some of the movements that's not get
Speaker 7: into the practice squad just yet, but just cut wise
Speaker 7: out of the fifty three men roster, Brian, who was
Speaker 7: your biggest shock or surprise?
Speaker 3: I really thought that they were going to keep Sean McEwan.
Speaker 3: I thought they were going to roll with four tight ends,
Speaker 3: and it just showed you that maybe that Hunter Lipkey
Speaker 3: changed their minds their net last preseason game that you know,
Speaker 3: I kind of felt like, Okay, do they keep the
Speaker 3: four tight end? Do they keep Hunter Lipkey? Or they
Speaker 3: are they connected that way? They ended up keeping him,
Speaker 3: so yeah, I mean, and another one in Patrick, I
Speaker 3: hope I don't steal yours here. But my other one,
Speaker 3: just on the defensive side of the ball was Jabril Cox.
Speaker 3: I kind of felt like, though, with the linebacker situation
Speaker 3: being the way it was, that maybe they would try
Speaker 3: and keep him for another you know, another campaign, see
Speaker 3: if they could, you know, could get some more out
Speaker 3: of him that way. But those were the two guys
Speaker 3: that I kind of felt like to me that had
Speaker 3: possibilities of being being on the roster on the fifty three.
Speaker 9: And you hit the nail on the head as far
Speaker 9: as you did steal Jabrill from me. But I love
Speaker 9: you anyway, Yeah, appreciate it. I knew better than to
Speaker 9: mention that I shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 3: Great, guys, there you go.
Speaker 9: For me, My biggest surprise is Jabrill Cox, just for
Speaker 9: every reason Brian said and more. You lose to Marveian
Speaker 9: Overshown the two season ending injury, and yes you're going
Speaker 9: to utilize Marquise Bell from the safety aspect. That's far
Speaker 9: as helping with the linebacker corps. But Malik Jefferson, we're
Speaker 9: not going to talk about the practice squad, but he's
Speaker 9: on the practice squad, so you got some insurance step there.
Speaker 9: But as far as active roster, I had Devin Harper
Speaker 9: on my roster, but I had four linebackers and Jabrill
Speaker 9: Cox was one of those four because not only was
Speaker 9: he at least improving, but he's a veteran kind of
Speaker 9: a stable force there as opposed to not having that.
Speaker 9: So waving Jabril Cox and their hope was that he
Speaker 9: clear and he could be back on the practice squad.
Speaker 9: You know, didn't happen because he's going to the Washington Commanders,
Speaker 9: so he's there now. But so linebacker is disturbingly thin
Speaker 9: for me. Behind him one Clark and Layton Vanderish like
Speaker 9: what Harper brings. But I'd like to see another body
Speaker 9: on the active roster there. Maybe they're shopping for one.
Speaker 9: We'll see how that goes. Less surprising, but surprising. Nonetheless,
Speaker 9: it is that they did risk Isaiah Land to waivers.
Speaker 9: I want ladies and gentlemen to understand there are levels
Speaker 9: to being upset. So this is not an end of
Speaker 9: the world situation like, oh my god, this he's following.
Speaker 9: We let Isaiah Land go. Know, kudos to Isaiah Land
Speaker 9: for what he did in camp. I hope he goes
Speaker 9: up to Indianapolis and plays well. But that was at
Speaker 9: a position of the least amount of need for the
Speaker 9: Cowboys on the defensive line. So I would have kept him.
Speaker 9: But you're not going to necessarily miss him now that
Speaker 9: he's gone. But as far as linebackers it, I mean,
Speaker 9: that really is a red circle for me with Jabrell
Speaker 9: Cox one, yeah.
Speaker 8: I guess.
Speaker 7: I mean, we know roster moves can happen at any
Speaker 7: point of the day, week year, but what are your
Speaker 7: expectations when we can kind of put a boat and
Speaker 7: finalize like, Okay, this is really what they're starting.
Speaker 8: Twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: Was Monday on Monday, Monday, Yeah, I think Monday.
Speaker 2: I was going to say Saturday, but I'd say Monday.
Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, over the weekend, over the weekend, because
Speaker 9: you got to go into practice preparing for the Giants
Speaker 9: with a full week of a set roster as set
Speaker 9: as it's going to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they we talked about the what they potentially could
Speaker 3: happen at center. You know that, you know, we were
Speaker 3: with the backup center and stuff like that, so you know,
Speaker 3: we understand there's going to be some some movement there
Speaker 3: on the practice squad. You know, you're allowed to elevate
Speaker 3: two guys a game, and so they're going to take
Speaker 3: full advantage of that. But I would say that by
Speaker 3: the time we get to Monday morning, when they step
Speaker 3: out on this practice field, that's when you'll know that's
Speaker 3: that's your team now your team going into Week one.
Speaker 3: I still think there's some moving pieces going on here.
Speaker 3: I know they didn't claim anybody, but that you know,
Speaker 3: there's still waivers going on. There's still somebody could put
Speaker 3: somebody out there that they like. You know, now you're
Speaker 3: now you're trying to figure out on your roster who
Speaker 3: player fifty one, fifty two and fifty three are. You
Speaker 3: know that's you know, there's some guys that are kind
Speaker 3: of breathing a little bit of a sigh of relief
Speaker 3: out there. But if you feel like your player fifty one,
Speaker 3: fifty two or fifty three, you you shouldn't be breathing
Speaker 3: that sigh release relief because they very well could say, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're switching this guy out for this guy.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: So there there there are some guys that kind of
Speaker 3: took a deep breath, But in all actuality, you shouldn't
Speaker 3: take a deep breath. You get to that practice field
Speaker 3: either Saturday or Monday, like I would say.
Speaker 9: And that applies to the guys on the practice squad
Speaker 9: as well in the aspect of because if your player
Speaker 9: of fifty one, fifty two or fifty three and there's
Speaker 9: another player they want to bring in and you're the
Speaker 9: one that they sit down and have the conversation with,
Speaker 9: if it's a gentleman agreement that says hey, if it's
Speaker 9: a vested veteran in their release and say hey, we'll
Speaker 9: add you to the practice squad. If you just don't
Speaker 9: sign with anyone over the next twenty four hours, well
Speaker 9: guess what, they already have sixteen practice squad spots field,
Speaker 9: which means one of those practice squad guys would then
Speaker 9: be pushed off. So to Brian's point, practice squad guys
Speaker 9: need to make sure that they, you know, stay focused
Speaker 9: as well.
Speaker 7: Well, let's go ahead and talk about them, but real quick,
Speaker 7: before that, Patrick, you were right about Josh ball.
Speaker 2: Science there, you were right.
Speaker 7: They did put him on I ARE. But then later
Speaker 7: they made the move right in my way and they
Speaker 7: put those two on I ARE. But the difference is
Speaker 7: they are eligible to return after four weeks, right after
Speaker 7: four games, four games they can return. Now, moving on
Speaker 7: to the practice squad guys, are you guys pleased with
Speaker 7: this list of guys that they currently build up right now?
Speaker 9: Well, they kind of scared me with sending all of
Speaker 9: their backup centers to the street, but they doubled back
Speaker 9: and added several offensive linemen Earl Bostic, brock Hoffman, Alex Taylor.
Speaker 9: But then they went and got a guy like Sean
Speaker 9: Harlowe formerly of the Giants, So you know, I'm sure
Speaker 9: there's some intel that he can bring to the Week
Speaker 9: one matchup as well, much like Dennis Houston will probably
Speaker 9: take it to the Giants now that Dennis Houston is
Speaker 9: up there, But I mean offensive line the depth right
Speaker 9: now looks good. It's still interested to see how they
Speaker 9: handle that. As far as the active roster's concerned. Who
Speaker 9: gets elevated for week one versus Week two. You got
Speaker 9: Malik Davis there, which is who I was hoping was
Speaker 9: the running back that they brought in brought back for
Speaker 9: practice squad. That Jalen Cropper great camp. I think he
Speaker 9: just nearly missed making the cut because of a guy
Speaker 9: like Jalen Brooks and Hunter Lipkey made it difficult in
Speaker 9: the conversation. But yeah, Tyron Johnson, I mean Malik Jefferson Goodwin.
Speaker 9: That was a huge, huge one. I knew that was procedural,
Speaker 9: but I'm glad to be correct on that one because
Speaker 9: he is your special team's ace. But all in all,
Speaker 9: I like the practice squad and I don't see other
Speaker 9: than offensive line that they need to dip into that
Speaker 9: elevation wise week one. At other positions, I think they're
Speaker 9: pretty set except for the depth on the oil.
Speaker 7: Well for the guy that they did bring in from
Speaker 7: the outside. Brian, what do we know about Sean Harlowe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Harlow is I was asking my guys about him
Speaker 3: as well, and they basically talking about he is just
Speaker 3: a backup guy, but he's a multi positional player.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 3: So that's the thing about it. They need, yeah, which
Speaker 3: they absolutely need. So the fact that he could play
Speaker 3: all the positions they were, that's the biggest comment or
Speaker 3: the biggest compliment that I could get. I'm interested, always
Speaker 3: interested when they go out and me personally, if I
Speaker 3: was still in personnel, I understand, like when you put
Speaker 3: together your practice squad, there's players you let go and
Speaker 3: there's some you want back. I'm always I'm always would
Speaker 3: be that guy that would say, let's go get somebody
Speaker 3: else's guys and see, we know, we know, if there's
Speaker 3: sixteen names, can we go get three or four guys
Speaker 3: that were on somebody else's team during the summer. You know,
Speaker 3: sometimes we fall into that, well, it's our guy and
Speaker 3: we like him, and we like our guys, and we
Speaker 3: you know, we never, you know, we never want to
Speaker 3: do anything to not like our guys. But the fact
Speaker 3: that the Cowboys went out and and got guys, a
Speaker 3: couple of guys from other teams, and maybe it was
Speaker 3: out of necessity a little bit, but I think that
Speaker 3: you just kind of you get locked into your guys
Speaker 3: instead of trying to say, Okay, let's go and look
Speaker 3: at let's go get a guy from here. Let's go
Speaker 3: get a tackle or a defensive end or a linebacker.
Speaker 7: See going back to the whole scouting conversation. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 7: that's the part I hate about scouting, though, I'm going.
Speaker 8: To the opposite way.
Speaker 7: Sorry, Yeah, but it's just so hard because again, you
Speaker 7: talk about so many players. Of course they they have
Speaker 7: a whole staff that's dedicated to watch.
Speaker 8: That's your job and do that as a job.
Speaker 7: But when you talk about you have a full list
Speaker 7: after roster cuts, you have a full long list of guys,
Speaker 7: I'm like, how do you evaluate, like which player now
Speaker 7: can bring something different to you that you're saying, Hey,
Speaker 7: maybe he didn't work out over there, but with our coaching,
Speaker 7: maybe we can make him better.
Speaker 3: No, that's that's the whole idea. That's the great thing
Speaker 3: about the beauty of scouting is that you know your team, right.
Speaker 3: You have an idea. You've seen your guys practice all
Speaker 3: training camp, you've seen your guys play three games, so
Speaker 3: you have an idea. But what happens is you also
Speaker 3: take your scouts and you divide them up among all
Speaker 3: the other teams. So when when the scout's out in
Speaker 3: his area, his college area, and he say he's hitting
Speaker 3: North Carolina, North Carolina State, Clemson, well you also pop
Speaker 3: him into you pop him into Carolina and watch the
Speaker 3: Carolina play, you know, play the Washington Commanders, and you know,
Speaker 3: you sign these guys teams. So these scouts take a
Speaker 3: little pride in like going to trying to find guys.
Speaker 3: They're like, listen, this guy's better than our guy. You know,
Speaker 3: this guy's better than Bostic, or this guy's better than Hoffman,
Speaker 3: or this guy's better than That's the fun of it
Speaker 3: is going out and trying to find a guy. We
Speaker 3: used to have I used to organize the scouts in
Speaker 3: a way when I was in pro personnel and had
Speaker 3: them cover these teams and then we bring them back
Speaker 3: for the final cuts. And as we're going through the
Speaker 3: final cuts, we would say claim practice squad or don't
Speaker 3: worry about and you know, you would divide them up
Speaker 3: into categories. So that's how we got our emergency board
Speaker 3: that we were able to say okay, and then you
Speaker 3: see these guys they either get claimed or they get
Speaker 3: put on practice squads. Well you can go poach guys
Speaker 3: off practice squads. So that was something I always wanted
Speaker 3: to know. Okay, who's the best practice squad player. So
Speaker 3: because that the first opportunity that I had to go
Speaker 3: get somebody, I was gonna take it, you know. But
Speaker 3: it's it's it's part of the fun of putting together
Speaker 3: a team that you but I just feel, well, I
Speaker 3: just feel for me. I can't paint worth a damn.
Speaker 2: You do that very well and I can't. So you
Speaker 2: got to see.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. There's things that you know, you
Speaker 3: get passionate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's the beauty of.
Speaker 3: Building your roster that you stole somebody from, you know,
Speaker 3: in all you don't want to. I mean, as much
Speaker 3: as we love Semi Fojoko, him going to Pittsburgh and
Speaker 3: having success, and if he does that, then someone's gonna go,
Speaker 3: why do we give up on Semi? You know, I
Speaker 3: mean there's there's that, you know, there's always that Jabril Cox.
Speaker 3: What if Chabrill Cox makes a play in a Commander's
Speaker 3: Cowboys game one day and we're all gonna look at
Speaker 3: each other and go at Chabrill Cox well and then
Speaker 3: goa say, well, you know he got heard he couldn't
Speaker 3: do this can do. But see that's the beauty of
Speaker 3: trying to find players in order to help you win
Speaker 3: these games.
Speaker 9: And we talked about you know, uh Igbinoghany versus Kelvin Joseph.
Speaker 9: I mean sometimes a fresh start. I mean that trades, yeah,
Speaker 9: trade trades for trades. Yeah, that factors into it. So
Speaker 9: fresh starts, I mean you have the psychology of it.
Speaker 9: But then there's also, like you mentioned earlier, scheme fit,
Speaker 9: you know, coaching style versus how the player learns best.
Speaker 9: I mean, those things all going to play. But to
Speaker 9: Brian's point, the Cowboys did. In fact, they have fourteen
Speaker 9: out of the sixteen that are guys that were on
Speaker 9: the ninety man roster that on the practice squad. But
Speaker 9: look at who in the positions they went out and got.
Speaker 9: So Willington prevlin if I'm announcing pronouncing his last name correctly,
Speaker 9: interior defensive lineman. That got him from the Buccaneers. Okay, well,
Speaker 9: many thought that with Quentin Bohanna being released, they would
Speaker 9: bring back Quentin Bohanna. But they looked at Bohanna said,
Speaker 9: you know what, we're curious. See what this what this
Speaker 9: busgel can do same with Harlowe, Offensive Lineman. No Matt Farniac. Right,
Speaker 9: people thought Farniac would come back. Cowboys said, well, we
Speaker 9: know what we can get for Funiac. Let's see what
Speaker 9: we get from Harlow. So a good mix of keeping
Speaker 9: the ones that were won, the ninety man roster that
Speaker 9: you feel like can develop and contribute maybe as early
Speaker 9: as this year in some capacity, but also bringing in
Speaker 9: some outside guys and positions that they need.
Speaker 8: All right, let's take our final.
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Speaker 2: Let's take it like their guys too.
Speaker 7: When we come back, we're gonna keep dissecting this roster
Speaker 7: a little bit more.
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Speaker 3: ourselves their Patrick as she figures, had a good locker
Speaker 3: room story today.
Speaker 2: Patrick, Yeah, about Bogany. Yeah, we walk out.
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Speaker 2: Just interrupted the story, y'all, So there we are, go ahead, Yeah,
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Speaker 9: It was just a funny little story that we were
Speaker 9: talking about during the break. The pronunciation of IgG monogany.
Speaker 9: So we walk up to talk to the to the
Speaker 9: young man today and he's two lockers away from Osa
Speaker 9: uh Dicky zuwah and Osa stops the reporters left jokingly,
Speaker 9: and he's like, before anyone asks the first question, you
Speaker 9: have to pronounce his name correctly. And I looked at us.
Speaker 9: I said, is that because you know that struggle? And
Speaker 9: he laughed and he's like absolutely, So we're doing our
Speaker 9: best here egg Banogany.
Speaker 2: We're going to get everybody right.
Speaker 3: Did did David Moore? Does he get to ask the
Speaker 3: first questions? And scrums like he does when conferences.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily Okay, there a go.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so press conferences definitely, and it's hallway pressers are
Speaker 9: you know, fifty fifty.
Speaker 3: Fifty fifty locker room is give it every every man
Speaker 3: sitting there with your question to get in there.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I used to hold a boom pole back in
Speaker 7: the day.
Speaker 8: Again, back in the day.
Speaker 7: The thing that's a job right there. Your arms, that's
Speaker 7: a workout.
Speaker 3: That's like, hey, it's better than holding the mic straight
Speaker 3: with your arm when that they're just trying to hold
Speaker 3: a recorder with our mic in in there and your yeah,
Speaker 3: your shoulder can.
Speaker 2: Relate is on the.
Speaker 3: Buire. The boom pole is better, much better.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, Well let's get I want to do
Speaker 7: like a quick review of the quote unquote final roster
Speaker 7: for the Cowboys that they currently have as of today.
Speaker 7: We talked about some of the you know, uh needs
Speaker 7: that they steal don't have much depth. We talked about
Speaker 7: the old line, We talked about linebackers. But just want
Speaker 7: to further go into that conversation as far as what
Speaker 7: are some of the areas that you don't necessarily feel
Speaker 7: as strong looking at the final roster right now? As
Speaker 7: far as depth or talent, I go.
Speaker 2: Right back to linebackers.
Speaker 9: I really just am not comfortable with the depth behind
Speaker 9: Lve and Demoon Clark. Again, I love the flashes that
Speaker 9: Devin Harper showed in the preseason. I wanted to see
Speaker 9: more from Elik Jefferson and I think there's more there,
Speaker 9: but he was lost for most of the preseason with
Speaker 9: the foot injury.
Speaker 2: He is back going to practice squad.
Speaker 9: I see if he can earn a place as far
Speaker 9: as getting activated once or twice, if not permanently. But
Speaker 9: until you know, I get that type of solace from
Speaker 9: Elik Jefferson, and until Devin Harper is consistently impacting regular
Speaker 9: season games, I would love to see a veteran come
Speaker 9: in at that position. And the good thing is is
Speaker 9: they're not looking for a veteran starter a lah Anthony
Speaker 9: Barr last year, because you didn't have a definitive starter
Speaker 9: with DeMont Clark still recovering from his next surgery.
Speaker 2: So that's the good news.
Speaker 9: The good news is they're looking for a football mercenary
Speaker 9: at linebacker, but the pressures not on them to find
Speaker 9: a definitive starter. If you go out there and you
Speaker 9: find a veteran who can rotate at LB three probably
Speaker 9: won't give you a ton of special teams work. But
Speaker 9: give me another linebacker at LB three and I'll feel
Speaker 9: much better. And then offensive line death. I think that's
Speaker 9: going to be a question until we see these young
Speaker 9: guys have to step up. But at the same time,
Speaker 9: I hope we never have to see these young guys
Speaker 9: step up, not this season.
Speaker 3: I know all we got to see was stretching today
Speaker 3: at practice, But I learned something when somebody ran onto
Speaker 3: the field that TJ. Bass was with the centers and
Speaker 3: he was working with so he was going, he was
Speaker 3: going with inside the quarterbacks do quarterback center exchange, and
Speaker 3: he was with the other Hoffman and then also with
Speaker 3: be Oddish, so they he was coming on to the field.
Speaker 3: I guarantee you he was with the quarterbacks in there.
Speaker 3: So they're going to try it and see if TJ.
Speaker 3: Bass can develop maybe as a snapper, maybe as a
Speaker 3: backup as a backup center. So kind of keep an
Speaker 3: eye on that. I'm dannie, I don't. I hope they
Speaker 3: figured out what's going on at three technique or under
Speaker 3: tackle behind oh soo DIGGI sowah. They kept Nebell Galimore.
Speaker 3: I think that had a lot to do with Sharif Floyd.
Speaker 3: I think Sharif Floyd sponsored him in this one. I
Speaker 3: mean last year, you know, it seemed like that Nebell
Speaker 3: Galimore was like one foot in the parking lot, playing
Speaker 3: late into preseason games, kind of in the doghouse, made
Speaker 3: some changes with the defense, you know, and it you know,
Speaker 3: it looked like that he showed a little bit of promise,
Speaker 3: some flashes. Again, I worry about that. I didn't see
Speaker 3: the flashes as much as I did from Golston. I
Speaker 3: thought Golston was going to be a guy that was
Speaker 3: really really going to step up. Didn't have the type
Speaker 3: of seasoned I thought he was gonna have. So Osa
Speaker 3: played really well at the under tackle or the three technique.
Speaker 3: The others behind him, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: You're gonna need Nebelle Gallimore or Golston, one of those
Speaker 3: guys to kind of figure out that three technique behind him,
Speaker 3: because that guy's gonna play some I'm going you know,
Speaker 3: I'm okay with what they're gonna do with Mozzi Smith.
Speaker 3: I didn't want anybody in Mozzie Smith's way, you know,
Speaker 3: I did you could let go of all those nose tackles.
Speaker 3: As far as I concerned, just play Mozzie Smith. I
Speaker 3: don't want any coach or anybody's saying, well, he's an
Speaker 3: actor this week, because we're going with it, you know,
Speaker 3: I didn't want to hear that. Just play the guy.
Speaker 3: Just go ahead and play the guy. See how it
Speaker 3: works out. But that undertackle three technique backup might be
Speaker 3: something that we need to kind of monitor as this
Speaker 3: year goes along.
Speaker 7: All right, well, let's switch gears on this conversation. I
Speaker 7: did want to bring up the fact of the of
Speaker 7: Jarren curse changing numbers because that's something that fan for
Speaker 7: some reason love.
Speaker 2: The jersey numbers. Also because they're buying the jerseys.
Speaker 3: True that in the jersey color that they're wearing for
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 2: Oh that's key.
Speaker 8: People forget week one. What are they playing?
Speaker 2: Because hean't forbid.
Speaker 9: It's Navy supposedly cursed, and so was the red, white
Speaker 9: and blue stripe supposedly even yeah, that one, even though
Speaker 9: statistically speaking, well that one's cursed.
Speaker 3: I guess our studio already has to make a change here.
Speaker 3: If you've noticed, stop, if you if you look behind you,
Speaker 3: there there's a number twenty already.
Speaker 2: Well bring out, get him back in here, make some change.
Speaker 3: Check does that come out of beam?
Speaker 2: Get him back in here.
Speaker 8: That's a good eye, Bryan.
Speaker 2: That's a scouting scout right there.
Speaker 3: Derek, what's going on?
Speaker 7: How to sign off on this change? But twenty seven
Speaker 7: will now be wearing number one going forward. He did
Speaker 7: one number zero last year, but that did not happen,
Speaker 7: So now gonna go with number one. And he sees
Speaker 7: this as a fresh start for him.
Speaker 2: There's the phrase fresh start for a lot of people.
Speaker 9: I spoke with jay Ron in the locker room this
Speaker 9: morning and he basically said he went back to it
Speaker 9: because it was quote unquote back to his college days.
Speaker 9: He said, he made a lot of good plays in college,
Speaker 9: and basically I'm trying to recapture that energy before the
Speaker 9: season starts. So basically I looked him in the eye,
Speaker 9: I said, hey, it's Clemson curse back and he said, yes,
Speaker 9: back to it. So he's looking at it as more
Speaker 9: much more significant, even than the initial number changed to
Speaker 9: twenty seven, which had some meaning to him as well,
Speaker 9: but not like this. He's going into what he hopes
Speaker 9: is going to be a special year. He's trying to
Speaker 9: prove himself to himself and also to the organization because
Speaker 9: he's trying to get a third contract, just like when
Speaker 9: Lee Cooker just got.
Speaker 3: Speaking of numbers, number two was running around out there yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 3: George Lewis, Yeah, And there was a lot of thought about,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe that he was gonna and I know Patrick,
Speaker 3: we were talking about it. But it was good to
Speaker 3: see him on the field. He and Britt Brown did
Speaker 3: a nice job. We'll see if he can get ready
Speaker 3: for the Giants, but it was good to see him
Speaker 3: out there, not on cords or anything like that, but
Speaker 3: like practicing him up.
Speaker 7: Do you really think that's even impossibility because I've heard
Speaker 7: it being mentioned.
Speaker 3: Yeah once, Yeah, absolutely, it is absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2: I want to be clear.
Speaker 9: And I know they're you know, the fans and content
Speaker 9: creators out there, and there's a lot of speculation on
Speaker 9: if Jordan Lewis is ready, and there's the you know,
Speaker 9: the PTSD of Michael Gallup is kind of what they're
Speaker 9: leaning on. But Jordan Lewis, I've been in endless contact
Speaker 9: with him, talk with the trainers, talk with the coaching staff.
Speaker 9: Over the course of his rehabilitation, Jordan Lewis is one
Speaker 9: hundred percent healthy and to his own to his point
Speaker 9: when I spoke with him yesterday about a couple of
Speaker 9: days about go about it, he said that the biggest
Speaker 9: toughest time is behind him now. The biggest hurdle is
Speaker 9: just lining up and feeling football again. Yep, so feeling
Speaker 9: how it feels to compete and go against those wide receivers.
Speaker 9: That's the only thing that's missing now where that started
Speaker 9: this week, he's going to have the totality of next week.
Speaker 9: There's absolutely a possibility that he gets on the field
Speaker 9: against the Giants. Now, he won't be the starter for
Speaker 9: obvious reasons, the Bland. He's ready coming off a breakout season,
Speaker 9: Jordan needs to be ramped up. But the possibility of
Speaker 9: him taking a handful of reps against the Giants.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, He's not wrong.
Speaker 3: Talking about over there.
Speaker 8: I believe you, guys.
Speaker 7: No, it's been it's been a long journey for him,
Speaker 7: So I'm excited to see him back on the field.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we all love him.
Speaker 7: Love his energy, love his competitive competitive mess.
Speaker 3: You got it right.
Speaker 7: So before we end the show, just wanted to ask
Speaker 7: you what are you most excited about going into this
Speaker 7: first week of the season, or just starting the season,
Speaker 7: just a season in general, what you got, Brian?
Speaker 3: I always think that every journey's different, every campaign is different,
Speaker 3: and it's just the the there's that anxiousness that did
Speaker 3: you build this team the right way? Did you build
Speaker 3: this team to first win the division? You know, because
Speaker 3: if you win the division, it kind of takes care
Speaker 3: of yourself, You get a home playoff game, a lot
Speaker 3: of things go the positive way for you. So can
Speaker 3: you compete? Can you find a way? You know? I
Speaker 3: feel like that the Commanders got a little better. I
Speaker 3: feel like the Giants got a little better. The Eagles,
Speaker 3: you know, until you know the last year's champs, you know,
Speaker 3: but did you build a team that can compete with them?
Speaker 3: That's the thing I'm most anxious to see is how
Speaker 3: the other games are important, But going out and winning
Speaker 3: this division takes care of a lot of things for
Speaker 3: you going forward.
Speaker 9: I am most anxious and looking forward to this offense.
Speaker 9: I mean, we know what this Cowboys defense is. We
Speaker 9: fled out no and now they just need to go
Speaker 9: out there and continue to do what we know they
Speaker 9: can do offense. Coming into this offseason, so many questions
Speaker 9: marks before the Brandon Cooks trade. Is Gallop going to
Speaker 9: be able to bounce back? And even if he can,
Speaker 9: who's your definitive number three at that point? And then
Speaker 9: how versatile can this offense be? You move on from
Speaker 9: Kellen Moore, McCarthy takes the will at play caller, what
Speaker 9: does that look like? But then you start to see
Speaker 9: moves like they bring in John Parks, one of the
Speaker 9: analytics guys, and they make several analytics hires in that department,
Speaker 9: and then you start to see it in training camp,
Speaker 9: some of the play calls that are being made in
Speaker 9: training camp, and the versatility duce Vaughan. You keep Hunter
Speaker 9: Lipky because you want more versatility. Question marks were on
Speaker 9: if this offense can match serve with this defense. Now
Speaker 9: we can sit here looking at this roster and we
Speaker 9: can honestly say on paper they can match.
Speaker 2: Serve with this defense.
Speaker 9: Now the anxiousness comes, and the anxiety comes from will
Speaker 9: they And I'm ready to see it, And no better
Speaker 9: way to do it than against a divisional rival. So
Speaker 9: you can get a real leg up to start the
Speaker 9: season in that race for the NFC East crown because
Speaker 9: you're going to need it. Yeah, because the Giants are
Speaker 9: come into play. The Eagles we know are coming to play,
Speaker 9: and just don't rule out the Commanders as someone who
Speaker 9: will be difficult and make some way.
Speaker 3: They got skilled players and they got a good defense that.
Speaker 2: Their defensive line is monstrous.
Speaker 8: Well even last year, this whole.
Speaker 3: This whole division, if you deal with the defensive tackles
Speaker 3: just in this division are tough to deal with. So
Speaker 3: you got to be good inside that.
Speaker 9: Payne Allen combo Is, it's something else started off with
Speaker 9: one to know.
Speaker 3: You're ready to travel?
Speaker 2: No, but I'm ready for you. Ready, you're ready to
Speaker 2: travel for a win?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay.
Speaker 7: I'm not looking forward to those late night games though,
Speaker 7: and traveling that's exhausting, man, that's exhausting. But I am
Speaker 7: so freaking excited. I am so excited about this new season.
Speaker 7: I'm excited just like you guys. We've seen things that
Speaker 7: training camp that seem very promising for the offense, but
Speaker 7: now we have to see it in a real game
Speaker 7: with the started starters showing it. So we'll be back
Speaker 7: next week. We go into our regular schedule. Every single
Speaker 7: day we'll be here talking about the Cowboys. Our time
Speaker 7: is eleven am. Central Time, So we'll be here starting
Speaker 7: Monday as we get ready today to travel Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Monday.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, Mondays holiday, No not for us necessarily, so.
Speaker 2: We'll we won't be in the Memorial Day.
Speaker 7: We got the podcast, we get a break from the break,
Speaker 7: but okay, thank you, thank you. Anyways, we'll be back
Speaker 7: Tuesday then as we get ready to travel to the
Speaker 7: to face the Giants. First week Cowboys against the Giants.
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