WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: The Answer Show 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.480 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:21.639 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:25.360 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.680 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:34.040 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:40.159 Were with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, am Bar Garcia, and 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:49.760 Derek Eagleton's Rimsey, May thirteenth, twenty twenty, Season sixteen, episode 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.680 number nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break. We 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.320 are alive from the whole edition of the s WBC 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.400 Mortgage Studios. I got my crew here with me, Nick Eatman, 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.520 Dave Helman, Amber Garcia, and we got some Cowboys talk 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.520 for you guys. Hopefully everyone is doing well, and let's 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:10.399 jump right in. Last week, the NFL released the NFL schedule, 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:14.759 including the Cowboys schedule for the twenty twenty season. They 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.600 are progressing as though we are going to play a 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.679 full slate of games, and so I'll open it up 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:21.440 to you guys. Let's talk a little bit about what 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.160 you think of the schedule. What stood out to you 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.800 good or bad about this this season's schedule. Let's start 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:33.080 with you Nick, Well, I mean I think what stood 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.360 out is that it looked like a normal schedule. So 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:37.680 I'll say that first. I mean, I thought that was 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.680 encouraging to see. And I don't know if we need 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:42.479 to go into detail on that, but just it looked 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.640 like the schedules we've seen it in the past, other 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.080 than the Giants being not in the first week or 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.280 you know, first two weeks of the season. But I 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:54.400 just think, you know, it looks it looks like a 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.960 schedule that is favorable to them as far as you know, 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:59.760 you should be able to get off to a good start. 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.400 We've learned a long time ago that there's always going 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.560 to be two or three teams that are surprising one 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.800 way or the other. So what your schedule looks like 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.280 when me look at last year, what if you were 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.560 to say, the Cowboys would you know, destroy the Rams, 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.400 but then have you know, getting destroyed by the Bills 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.960 at home. So it never really looks like what you 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.320 think it is. But as we stand right now, it 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:27.360 looks favorable Amber. Honestly, nothing that stood out to me, 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.560 aside from the fact that we're not playing the Giants 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.680 the first game. But to me, you know, with my 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.160 time being here, I've learned that no team is ever 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.679 the same every year. And a team that you might think, oh, 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.240 they're gonna be easy to play this year, well that 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:43.959 might not be the case. You know, it might not 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.200 depend on what the opposing team is doing. It could 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.360 be the Cowboys hurting themselves. Although this year, you know, 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.560 we don't really know what to expect since we do 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.760 have an e coaching staff. But as far as the 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.480 schedule and tough teams are, like, oh, are they going 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.840 to start off easy, or like some teams that maybe 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.520 you don't necessarily need to win. You know, to me, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.960 you need to win every single game and you cannot 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.760 take an opponent for granted or things like, oh they're 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.760 gonna be easy to beat, that's not the case. You know, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:21.520 you need to always be prepared. Dave, I'm gonna repeat 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.359 what I wrote on the website last week when the 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.280 schedule came out, and I agree, obviously, I agree with 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.000 what they just said. I mean, there's gonna be a 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.600 team that is surprisingly good on the schedule, and there's 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:35.320 gonna be some surprisingly bad ones. But uh, you know, 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.000 without even worrying about what comes like two or three 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.320 months into the season, it's it's just hard not to 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.520 look at those first three games for a variety of reasons, 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.480 because again we know things change from year to year. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.480 But the Rams, Falcons and Seahawks have been in the 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.160 conversation among the NFC's better teams for you know, for 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.600 four or five years now. You know, the Falcons aren't 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.240 that far removed from being in the Super Bowl. Been 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.160 seven and nine in the last two years, which puts 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:06.120 them right in the mix of contending for the playoffs. 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.840 The Rams, obviously we're just in a Super Bowl, and 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.880 the Seahawks have made the playoffs like ten years in 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.480 a row, or eight of the last nine, whatever it is. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.760 You think back to last year, the Cowboys got in 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.040 a lot of trouble because they lost those NFC games, 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.760 and it became pretty obvious as early as like October 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.680 that they were going to have to win the division 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.520 to make the playoffs, like they just didn't have the 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.280 tiebreakers to be there as a wildcard or anything like that. 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.240 So those are three pretty big games against NFC teams 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.000 that you could find yourself in a lot of trouble 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.840 if you don't get out to a hot start. And 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.160 you know, if you look back at past schedules, you know, 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.159 they open with the Giants, and then there's a road 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.719 trip to Washington. You get division games, a chance to 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.640 get up on the division and against teams that aren't 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.160 very good and haven't been. And I don't think that's 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.240 the case this year. I think, you know, they can't 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:58.480 afford to start slowly this year. And the interesting part 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.600 about that, Dave, is that two of those games are 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.400 on the road. So you start your first two or 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.080 three games on the road. You go to to LA 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.200 to open their new stadium against the Rams, and then 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.039 in week three you're going at the Seattle Seahawks, which 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.560 is not is probably one of the harder places in 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.200 the whole NFL to play just because of crowd noise. 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.480 Obviously there are questions as to whether there will be 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.360 a crowd there, but certainly those are those are not 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.560 those are typically or at least that's typically not a 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.760 game that's an easy road win for teams. That's a 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.200 tough place to go and play. That all being said, 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.400 is there a particular part of the schedule and and 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.000 I know we're not talking about I'm not talking about 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.120 so much about the teams and how good they will 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.160 be versus not, but I'm talking more about just the 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.640 mechanics of the schedule home versus road cold weather. Is 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.640 there anything about the schedule that you look at and 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.560 you say, this could be a trouble area for the Cowboys. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.119 I mean, anytime you know you're going to play cold 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.520 weather games in December, I mean they've got three of them. 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.960 You know it's going to be cold in Cincinnati. Um, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.640 you know it's gonna be cold at Baltimore and then 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.800 and also against the Giants to end the season. So 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.080 you know, it doesn't matter what it looks like. Weather 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.680 can neutralize the situation. And if you can't throw the 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.400 ball like keep like you want. So who's to say 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.279 what the Bengals will be like at the end of 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.880 the season. Uh, you know this year or any of 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:26.200 those years. But but you know, if the weather is challenging, um, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.200 you know that that obviously could could be a problem there. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:37.040 Curious to see gonna say sorry, I was just gonna 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:41.520 say that, I'm curious to see how McCarthy handles practices 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.159 because with Jason Garrett, I mean there were times where 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.560 I would imagine you go into a road game where 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.200 the weather is going to be colder, or maybe rainy, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:54.640 they didn't necessarily practice outside all the time. So I'm 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.040 curious to see how McCarthy is gonna handle that, whether 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.880 to just kind of have the team practice is mostly 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.720 outside to kind of although the temperatures are not necessarily 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.200 the same at those places, but it's still something that 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:14.280 kind of prepares you for that weekend game. Dave Jeff something. Yeah, 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.760 I don't I don't want to get into the maths 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.240 of it, because it's really annoying. You know. It's it's 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.760 not an unfair thing that the Cowboys have to play 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.480 three games in twelve days. Because the vast majority of 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.400 the teams in the NFL play three games in twelve days. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.600 Instead of going Sunday Thursday Thursday, most teams go Sunday 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.200 Sunday Thursday. It's still accounts for three games and twelve 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.640 days again for the vast majority of the teams in 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:42.080 the league. Having said that, it does suck for the 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.880 Cowboys that they always have to do that stretch so 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:46.800 late in the year. You know, some teams get that 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.400 Thursday game out of the way in September and they 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.480 don't have to worry about a wonky schedule again for 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.120 the rest of the year. The Cowboys are always going 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.320 to have to do that brutal stretch in late November, 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.760 and I mean, and you chalk that up with a 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.400 light bye week, this is gonna be a tire team. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.440 So to think that they've got to play a very 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.760 talented Vikings team followed by Thanksgiving and then no the 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.960 reigning MVP right after that, I mean, that won't be easy. 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:17.200 It's not unfair, but it's gonna suck. Now. I think 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.640 that that late bye week helps though, because that bye 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.560 week happens two weeks before Thanksgiving a little actually a 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.080 little less than two weeks before Thanksgiving. How much does 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.080 he think that? Do you think that helps them? Right 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.040 before they go into that that tough stretch. Well, let's 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.040 see how beat up they are, because if they do 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.280 play five preseason games, then they go nine straight to 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.360 start the year. That's fourteen consecutive weeks of playing football, 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.719 and who knows what kind of offseason schedule of conditioning 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.640 schedule that you have. It's obviously not going to be 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.920 as much as that they've had in the past. So 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.680 that's a challenging, you know, that's a challenging stretch of 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.640 games right there, to go fourteen consecutive weeks of playing 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.600 without a break, and you've got some really tough teams 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.440 in there, and the Steelers. I don't care how good 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.760 the Steelers are or bad they are, they're gonna beat 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.520 you up. So it's gonna be that's gonna be tough 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.880 for this team. Yeah, it might work out that the 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.559 buy works in a perfect situation, but as it stands 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.280 right now, that looks like a long period of times 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:16.600 to be playing consecutive games. Yeah, I will say this. 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.600 I actually we talked a little bit, you guys talked 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.720 a little bit earlier about the cold weather games there 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.880 in December, and I actually think that if you look 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.920 at it, I actually think that might be an advantage 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.800 for the Cowboys this year because their coach obviously spent 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.920 a number of years coaching a team that played their 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.599 home games in cold situations, and so him preparing his 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.080 team to be able to handle weather should be a 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.640 good He should be prepared to be able to do that. Now, 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.720 of course, that's still an acclimating, an acclimation thing. They 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.400 have to acclimate to the weather when they get there, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.200 because that's not the kind of weather you typically have 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.520 in Dallas, Fort worth. But I do think if there's 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.600 a coach out there who's at that kind of experience 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.200 which McCarthy has, I think that should be a benefit 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.960 for the Cowboys. The next thing I'll ask you, guys is, 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.439 right now, Cowboys favored in eleven of their sixteen games. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.160 Give me an over under you guys, take the over 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.600 or the under on them winning eleven games this season. 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:13.120 Let's start with you, Dave. Oh geez, I would probably 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.800 take the under today. I'm really excited about the offseason 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:23.560 that they've had, But on paper, how much better do 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.800 they look than last year when they were eight and eight? 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.200 And I mean, you know, you know, the offense should 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.040 be a lot better. I expect Dac to play better, 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.040 I expect Cede Lamb to help all that good stuff, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:40.240 But eleven wins is a lot. I'd see them. I'd 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.600 see nine or ten as a more realistic scenario. So 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:49.240 I would probably go under on that amber. You know, 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.800 people have been asking me that same question, and I 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.240 honestly don't know how to feel. I don't know what 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.840 to expect because I keep going back and forth, you know, 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.280 And I remember I asked you guys a few months 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.000 ago about you know, how long does it take for 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.160 a team to acclimate to a whole new coaching staff. 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.640 And you guys basically said that it can go both ways. 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.520 You know, they can happenly basically, It can happen basically instantly, 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.640 or it can maybe take a while. And that's the 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.600 question here. I do think that having a new voice 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.280 might bring up the spirits around the locker room and 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.880 players like the defense trying to prove themselves and trying 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.760 to go back to being the hot boys and blah 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.960 blah blah. You know, I think that hopefully they can 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.080 go back to that and just have a different kind 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:44.920 of spirit and play with more more passion, sorry, more 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.920 passion because all we're on the offense side of the ball. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.400 You know, we saw great things from Kellen Moore. Clearly 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:57.080 it wasn't really enough, but I'm excited to see what 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.120 more can this offense do now with a new You 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.200 hate the coach, Nick, So if you if you asked 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.959 me right now, I would say, let's keep it out 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.280 of eleven. Let's not go over or under. Let's just 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.920 say eleven. All right, Nick, Um, I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.280 go under that. I mean, it's hard to say right 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.040 now that if we've seen this team better or not, 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.600 because we haven't seen him at all. So um, and 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.319 you know, Dave said it, and I was sat in 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:30.280 this conversation a few days ago about on paper. You 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.160 know how much I hate that term about on paper 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.560 because what what's the paper? I mean, who wrote it? 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.080 Who typed it? Is it the paper? Derek shuffling around 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.760 on his computer? I mean, what's the paper? What does 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.200 it say? And so I don't know, like I there, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.000 there you go. What does that tell you, Derek? I mean, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.480 I just I just think that, Um, you know, you 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.320 have to see it because because we were you know, 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.000 everyone wants to say this team's talented. We'll find out 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.160 if if they're talented. Well, we'll find out if Don 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.719 Taripo and Gerald McCoy our first round pick players. Are 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.959 they the players that struggled a little bit last year 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.439 in Carolina, We'll see. I mean, it's just hard to tell. 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.920 I'm gonna say under though, until until we proved differently, 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.400 this is an eight and eight team right now from 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.160 what we saw last year, and I can't imagine that 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.320 they're three games better. But I mean to just point 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.080 this out if they would have scored fifteen points, they 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.000 could have been three or four games better. That's how 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.839 close it was in their losses. And you can't say 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.679 it the other way. On their wins, they were blowing 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.640 out the teams. So that is somewhat of an encouraging sign. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.079 You can get a touchdown better and you have a 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.160 much better football team. At least that's what we saw 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:39.800 last year. Oh yeah, oh sorry, go ahead, Derek, No, 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.040 good day, good good day. I mean that that's why 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.600 we did this whole thing about well, you never know 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.680 who's gonna be good and who's gonna be bad, because 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:52.120 with the exception of like four teams who are clearly 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.320 a lot better than everyone else and four teams that 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.040 are clearly a lot worse, Like, it's just a twenty 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.439 four team jumble and a few touch thouns and a 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.720 few bounces of the ball's going to dictate the difference 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.360 between like ten and six and eight and eight. It 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.040 happens every year, so and I mean, like, I think 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.840 this team has the potential to win more than eleven 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:14.440 games for sure, Like they absolutely could. But you're asking 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.080 for a lot of breaks to go your way to 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.800 improve by you know, four or five games from last year. 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.960 It just seems it seems like a lot to ask. 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.880 But when you look at how close they were last 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.200 year though, like just talent wise and and the things 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.360 that they were doing, like the it's not that far 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.960 away from you win in an extra four games. Well, 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.520 I mean yeah, but I completely agree, Like you're you're 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.080 a handful of way of players away from winning two 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.920 more games and making the playoffs. That's still not eleven wins, 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:46.960 you know, I mean, even if a few things go 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:48.560 your way, like you got to assume you're going to 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.600 break even in a league with this much parody, I 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.600 think yeah, And I don't. I don't think they've actually 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.040 you know, if you look at cornerback, they lost Byron 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:59.960 Jones and all the guys that they put in their 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.160 I don't think that right now. I can't see that 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.280 they're going to be better at that position. I don't 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.520 think they're going to be better at center. I don't 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.080 think they're going to be better at the defensive end position. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:15.320 Losing Robert Quinn, Randall Cobb versus Ceedee Lamb, I mean, yeah, 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.560 Ceedee Lamb is probably going to be better at some 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.280 point in his career. I don't know about rate right 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.720 this second, So it's hard to say that they're you know, 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.880 they're going to be better in these in these positions, 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.240 to be three games better. I just don't think we 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.440 could say it right now. Yeah, I will say this, 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.640 I'm a believer that, and I will preface this by saying, 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.680 and you guys know this, I'm probably one of the 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.480 more optimistic people just in everything. I tend to see 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.680 the glass half full. So for me, it's not hard 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.000 to convince myself that they can get to eleven wins 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.600 or beyond this season. But I will say this, I've 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.200 seen where new coaches sometimes in a team that has 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.800 some talent, it'll give them a little bump because there 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.520 are wrinkles and different things that that coach brings in 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.800 that it may not sustain itself over a second, third, 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.840 fourth year, but for that first year you could sometimes 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.920 see a nice little jump there and how a team performs. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.840 So I'm actually expecting that with some of the changes 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:11.760 they've made, some of the new talent they've brought in, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:13.880 I expect that maybe they can get a little bit 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.720 more out of this team than otherwise because of a 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:18.960 new coaching staff, and maybe some of the new things 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.080 that they'll implement that uses the talent a little differently 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.120 than the previous regime that may give them it leads 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.200 a little bump for this year. 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We're 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.879 live from the virtual s WBC Borgas studios. It's in 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:56.920 our homes. But but we're talking Cowboys football. If you 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.720 guys appreciate you guys taking some time with us today 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:01.959 to be will talk a little bit with you. In 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:03.800 the third segment, we are going to take some questions. 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:05.280 So if you happen to ask some questions, you can 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.280 always tweet them and we'll try to get those questions. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.520 I know Amber has already accumulated some questions that will 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:12.520 take but here in the second segment, what I wanted 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.359 to do is I saw this actually on Twitter on 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.840 Twitter last week. It was an interesting little set of 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.000 questions that people could just kind of fill in. So 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.120 I figured we'd take it to the show and I'd 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.280 ask you guys some of these questions. I'm going to 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.440 throw out a basically a category, and I want each 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:32.800 of you guys to give me a player that you 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.840 think best suits this category. All right, So we're gonna 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.680 start with something really simple. Best player on the team. 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.880 Let's start with you Amber. I think it's Seek. To me, 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.800 it's been Seek for several years. What he does is amazing. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.320 They're kind of beating he's taking over these few years, 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.480 and the fact that he's still running and healthy, and 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.480 sometimes we've seen him have to carry the team, obviously 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.240 with the help of the old line, but but just 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:03.600 the the way his physical Like what the power that 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:05.919 he has in such a small body. You look at 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:08.760 him in personally and he looks tiny sometimes and then 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:10.760 you see him on the field, He's like, wow, he 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.840 has so much power in him. Um, I think to 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.600 me he would be the best player, all right. Nick 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.359 trying to be different and say like a Zach Martin, 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.520 but at the end of the day, it is Zeke. 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:25.960 I agree with her. I think Zeke is the best 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:27.480 player on the team for all of the reasons she 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.439 just said. So, Um, I just think he's He's the 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:34.440 engine that makes this team go. Yes, Tyrant and Zach 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:38.159 help and those that offensive line, but it's Zeke's is 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:43.200 the guy for me. There's only two guys on this 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:47.640 team who you could say right now have a very 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.280 very good shot to make the Hall of Fame. That's 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:54.800 Tyrant and Zach. Tyrn love him to death. Obviously, the 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.240 health problems have been a problem for him in the 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:00.679 last couple of years. Meanwhile, Zach Martin has just been 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.000 in all pro every moment that he's been in the NFL, 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.000