WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Who Benefits the Most? 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.560 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:19.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. Are you ready 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.160 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:27.480 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.800 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.960 with Nick Eatman, Brian brought us, and bar Garcia and 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:43.400 Derek Eagleton. It is twos the October eighteenth, twenty twenty two, 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.720 season eighteen, episode number fifty three. Welcome to the latest 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.440 edition of The Break. We are Life Net WBC more 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.400 Studios at the Star, and we are presented by a 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.200 miller like the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. It's Tuesday. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.760 We got a couple of big, quick picture questions we're 0:00:57.760 --> 0:00:59.720 gonna talk about today. Brian has a little game for 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.160 us that I just heard about here, I guess at 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.560 some point maybe in the second or third segment, and 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.120 and we'll try to get you guys ready and kind 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.319 of give you a good recap of that Philly game 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.640 and what it means kind of going forward as they 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.480 entered these next two weeks against opponents that you think 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.320 Cowboys have a good chance of being able to beat. 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.440 Let's start first with the topic. I think that everybody 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.959 cares most about is where is Dak and is he 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.320 going to be back this week? Nick, you were there 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:32.759 with me, we were at the game Sunday watching Dak 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.360 and him during his pregame workout. What do you think 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.520 you looked like? What what was your impression as you 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.400 watched him get that workout before the game. I mean, honestly, 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.280 the biggest thing for me was the snaps that he 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.759 was taking him under center. I mean that I thought 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.680 was big. Just the ball. It's gonna slam into your 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.160 thumb every time, you know, and you got to get 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:51.440 up there and you throw it. And then the throws 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.720 after that were good. I mean they were good throws. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.760 They were twenty yard, twenty five yard throws. I know Chris, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.280 our producer, was there getting some good video of it, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.160 and you know, he was there and it looked good, 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:08.840 and it definitely looked good. Seven days away from playing again, 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.160 so he's not playing. He wouldn't planning that night. As 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.600 long as there's no setbacks, you know, you would think 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.600 it would keep healing the right way. Do you think 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.720 the Cowboy fans were bummed that he didn't try and 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:23.680 give it a go against Philly. I mean after the 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.680 third interception, I mean probably, but I mean, yeah, I know, 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.840 I don't know about your timeline, but my timeline was, Okay, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.480 he's out there throwing the ball around. He's taken snaps. 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.519 That's the thing I noticed first, Nick, A good eye 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.320 on your part, you know, the ball slamming into his hand, 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.240 and you're going, okay, that part of it looks good, right, 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:44.960 you know. I mean there were people there, you know, 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.480 and I was answering like whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, there's 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.919 a plan here, there's a plan. There was a ramp up, 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.320 there was all this stuff, and there were people like, question, 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.560 if he's like, he's healthy enough here, why does he 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:57.480 not playing this game? I appreciate them not putting him 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.799 in uniform if he's not going to start, because we've 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.920 been down that road before, and I guarantee after that 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:07.120 first interception, it would have been like, well that you're 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.120 ready and everyone's looking and it's not happening, and it's 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.320 never gonna happen, and you're never gonna I wouldn't have 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:14.560 I'm glad they didn't do that. You know. I think 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:18.000 I think sometimes fans and maybe even media to some degree, 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.520 they fall into this fallacy of thinking that players are 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.040 like maddened pieces. Right. Sure, once they're once a player 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.400 is healthy and I'm putting up air quotes, once they're healthy, 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.160 they're immediately ready to go. And we've seen sometimes this 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.560 year with Michael Gallup, we saw it where a guy 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.200 may be cleared bedically, but there still is a point 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.600 of Okay, is he really ready to play football? And 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.640 I think that's the part that I'm more concerned about is, Yeah, 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.080 Dak made the thumb, may be fine. They may clear 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.640 him with the thumb. The issue still becomes have they 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.840 ramped up his shoulder and is throwing all the mechanics 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.040 that are part of throwing. Have they ramped those up 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:57.640 enough to where he can go out and play a 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.960 game where he may throw the ball thirty to forty times. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.280 Didn't practice without hurting himself, and he didn't practice like 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.200 if practice didn't matter, That's what Jason Garret would always say. 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.520 We were for practice. If it didn't matter, they wouldn't 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.720 do it. So he didn't practice all week and didn't 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.000 practice with the guys um with with you know, with 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.000 against the Eagles and with this receiving corps and all that. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.560 So I mean, yeah, you we're seeing if he can throw. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:23.360 See if you can throw it looks pretty good, throw 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.480 it out there on the field. But now work him up. Yeah, 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.240 what's funny. It's like, you know, we all we're all 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.320 on social media game day during the week and all that. Well, 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.440 every game day and even after the game, you see 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:39.000 at least everything that I see our fans saying, we 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.200 don't need Dak, keep back off, cut the guy, we 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.200 don't need him, blah blah. And then all of a sudden, 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.400 now we see the game, him throwing in, Cooper Rush 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.919 throwing in receptions and all that. Now everything on my 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.760 timeline is Dac needs to come back. We need Dak 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.880 get that back in there. Okay, thanks Cooper Rush. So 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.800 it's just funny how quickly things change in depending on 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.760 the outcome of the game and how he's playing. But 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.320 I think that right now everything indicates that he will 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.960 be playing this weekend. I don't see any other reason 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.200 that he would not be. So walk me through what 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:13.919 does he need to do this week? What do you 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.560 think he needs to do this week? Is it just 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.280 get through a week of practice. If you can do 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.880 that and then you're ready to go. Yeah. I mean 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.400 that sounds simple enough. I mean, like get ready. You know, 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.000 that's that's what the plan is all along, is get 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.839 a week full of throwing. He's he threw some. I 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.360 think it was a Wednesday and Thursday, probably some Friday, 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.280 and then you know, here he is Sunday, and now 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.919 start to get ready to practice and mentally get ready 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.440 for the game, get ready for the Lions defense and 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.400 what they've got going on, and who's gonna play where 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.880 and when Farniat comes in, you know, as an eligible blocker, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.760 where does he go in line up? I mean, it's 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.320 all part of it. As opposed. It's not just a 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.080 guy going out there Kenny throw to James Washington and 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.400 Dennis Houston. Yeah, that looked good. Now, ramp it up, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.200 ramp it up. And I think a big thing to 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:01.120 that is I guess he had in being clear medically. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.479 Just yeah, and that's something I know Mike McCarthy talked 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.279 about it yesterday. I would assume that happens maybe today 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.600 where he's just fully clear and given the green light 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.520 where he can now take all the snaps with the 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.440 first team and all that. So I think that's a 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.599 big difference. If he wasn't clear before, how is he 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.719 gonna go out there and go and be full go? 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.520 So he should be good Now. He's still wearing that 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.240 thing right the because I saw him he was throwing. Yeah, 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.359 I saw him at the game. He was wearing his 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.719 something around the thumb. So I wonder if he's gonna 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.920 take that off this week or if he's going to 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.000 be practicing and maybe even playing with flex seal. You 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:42.920 know you're seeing those commercials flex seal so he doesn't leak. Yeah, 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.840 gorilla gorilla tape, whatever you want to put on there. Yeah, 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:47.240 you know, I couldn't tell if it But what I 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:48.920 couldn't tell. I couldn't tell if it was a pat, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.719 if it was padding, or if it was like a 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.840 support support. It's more support, is what it really really is. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.520 It's and so yeah, I you know, he was throwing 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.839 with it on, so it might be something that he's 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.440 comfortable doing. I think you make a great point, though, Derek, 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.080 about the Okay, it's not so much about the thumb, 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.960 how about the back, how about the core, how about 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.400 the shoulder, how about the lower body? Everything that takes 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.760 to throw a ball. You know, the last thing you 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.480 need is Dak Prescott out there playing and then all 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.080 of a sudden, it's like his core strength's not very 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.000 good right now? His back, Why does he look like 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.440 he's you know, kind of flinching and doing stuff. You know, 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.560 that's the last thing you need is something else, you know, 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.320 to cause I mean, you know he might be yeah, 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.000 throw the ball, but there's so much other things that 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.600 go into throwing the stride, you know, how you rotate 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.160 all these things, and if you're not ready to go, 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.000 then don't throw it. And that's happened, and we saw it. 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.880 He was coming back from the ankle injury all year, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.400 coming back, getting ready for camp, getting ready for camp, 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.040 and then he gets the camp ankle's good. He tries 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.800 to make some hail Mary throw because he's not really 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.560 used to throwing all the time, and then he hurts 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:04.640 his his shoulder whatever that was, you know, so like 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.400 and so all that goes into play here, and he 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.480 hasn't been able to throw obviously because of the thumb. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.720 So I think he will. I mean, he looked good, 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.760 and he looked good throwing the ball that that looked 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.200 really good. And but you also wondered too, is you 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:22.200 know they patted him on the back afterwards like good job, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.120 and that was it. The Lions are probably gonna see, well, 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:26.720 you know what, if he's gonna run with the ball, 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.760 I'm just gonna I'm going for the ball and the 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.080 thumb whatever, I'm gonna hit all of that. Because if 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.240 your head coach is gonna bite your own knee, bite 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.800 your kneecap, if that, if he's gonna help you up 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.760 and bite your kneecap and punch you in the throat, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.679 he's gonna punch you. And he's gonna punch you in 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:45.280 the thumb. No, Dan Campbell made it clear that how 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.600 physical they're gonna play, and and so I would imagine 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.120 if a guy's got a bump thumb, they're gonna test it. 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.400 They'll bite it, bite it, kick it whatever. Let's say 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:58.120 he does play this weekend, are we and you know 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.800 this is something we've talked about it here on here 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.760 about the mental aspect of things. So you guys feel 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.079 that that's just gonna be a whole setback mentally because 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.800 we've seen him before when he comes back in just 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.560 kind of not being fully comfortable and confident and just 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.120 you see, I'm not calling him that he's afraid, but 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:21.760 you see the hesitation sometimes and trying to help me 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:26.559 with a good word. I'm not saying he's scared, cautiousioussioussa's yeah, 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.720 that's a good word. Is that different than who he 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.640 usually is? Because I see dak as the kind of 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.000 quarterback that it's one of the reasons why he has 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.480 never been a turnover machine is because I do think 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.400 he's very thoughtful, sometimes a little bit too much when 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.520 it comes to I don't know the whole, whole whole. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.920 You know, he's waiting because he wants to make sure 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.640 what he's seeing is what he's really seeing. So I 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.839 don't know if that's really different when he comes back 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.719 from an injury than just being who he is. I know, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.240 I've seen it. I've seem like a difference because you 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:02.640 can be cautious but confident and and comfortable as opposed 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:07.800 to being cautious but a little hesitating. I don't know 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.640 what that guy was that played against Tampa. Yeah, I 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.240 didn't know that guy. I was expecting. I was expecting 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.880 that all these things that had been happening to him, 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:21.680 the shoulder, the ankle, the calf. I kind of feel like, Okay, 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.720 just he's put all that behind him. Go be two 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:29.200 thousand and sixteen, two seventeen, Go be Dak. That was 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.040 through week eight of last season, you know, go be 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.520 that guy. And I I think there's something to that. Amber. 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.360 I think there's you know, maybe the organization in a 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.560 way also says, dude, if you don't have to run, 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.440 don't run, don't put yourself in harm's way. Do you 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.160 know where to me? And I've said this a bunch 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.280 to me. Dak Prescott, when he feels the game, when 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.520 he feels the hits, when he feels the physicality and 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.560 gets blood and mud and things on him, I think 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.440 he's a better player. Yeah. I think he because because 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.679 he's he used to be a guy that had body armor. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.520 You know, he was a big guy. You know, he 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.000 bang into people and stuff. And now he's like, he 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.080 loses weight, he looks good, the best shape of his life. 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.520 I'm thinking, no, no, I need the other guy that 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.560 was kind of a tank that was fortunately leave that guy. Yeah, 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.640 I go that's the guy that was kind of banging 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.080 into people and and stiff arm and guys at the 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.959 sidelines with his throwing hand, you know. I mean, just 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.880 that's the guy I was thinking. Because he's not going 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.320 to be an elite quarterback when it comes to touch 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.120 and accuracy and all those things. What makes him different 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:38.040 than the other guys is his toughness. And you take 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.960 that toughness away from him, or his ability to play 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.840 with a little recklessness. I think it makes him a 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.280 different quarterback. And I don't know if it's necessarily a 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.680 good thing with him. Yeah, the guy that won the 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.800 playoff game in twenty eighteen against Seattle. You know, it 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.440 was third down and dive in or twelve, and you 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.880 know the field goal makes it a six point game, 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.920 but a touchdown would put it away. And he just 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.640 barrels through a third and fourteenm flips over the top 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:09.079 and gets to the one that you need. That I 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.000 missed that guy because because and you don't see every 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.000 quarterback doing that. But I mean, let's let's call it 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.560 what it is. I mean, Dak isn't the best passer 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.760 in the league. We know that. That's not what if 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.200 he was, he wouldn't have been drafted in the fourth round. 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.400 That's not his game. But his game is all the 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.360 intangibles that he was talking about the tank, that kind 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.920 of that kind of player all into one is like 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.160 a winner, and that's I think that they missed that 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.640 right now. So not the guy that took that option 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.880 against Tampa and got a first down and then was 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.320 just looking to fall any any more than that from 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.200 from this team with this offense. Yeah, and I agree 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:45.480 with all that stuff. I just don't know if I 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.920 think it's a confidence issue. I think he's a very 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.680 confident player. I don't think sometimes going back to the 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.480 Tampa game, I just think sometimes he doesn't play well. 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:54.920 He didn't play well. That to me was not about confidence. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.840 He just didn't playboy, Yeah, exactly, and that happens like 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.400 he just didn't play well. And confidence with this left 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.120 tackle that's never played left tackle. Now maybe and now 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.080 you see him maybe. I thought what Jerry said on 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.400 the radio this morning one or five three fan, I mean, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.840 talked about Dak being ready, looks good and all that. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.560 But I thought what he said about this is a 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.480 better football team than it was in Week one. This 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.800 was a This is a team that's learned how to play. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.920 They had to, they learned how to play differently. They've 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.000 the defense has come together in a way we didn't expect. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.119 The offensive line is now better, a little bit more cohesive. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.840 I think he had there's more trust than a Noah Brown. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.000 Guys like that. You know that the receiving corps can 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.720 help can win. The way that Zeke's running the ball 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.440 pretty well, I think that there's just the kickers making 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.800 kicks that's not fifty nine yards and you know off grass. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.720 I think that there's just more confidence about this football team. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.040 And so my question now becomes what changes when Dak 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.800 is back or should it change? Like we've seen how 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.880 this offense is morphed. Has it morphed because it needed 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.200 to or is it morphed because it is the better 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.560 way to play football based upon what they have and 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.040 what they've created now as a football Real quick, before 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.200 we get into that, let me let me reward what 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.120 I was trying to point out, because I don't like 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.240 using the word confidence because he's a very confident guy. 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.600 And I don't like using the word like being scared, 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.880 because I don't think he like he's a competitor and 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.880 he will go out there and compete. What concerns me is, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:25.600 now here's another injury that has sidelined and sidelined him, Yeah, 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:29.040 on the bench basically, so he's watching. So it's just 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.320 like how many injuries have we gone through now? And 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.680 I'm not saying he's injury prone or anything, it's just 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.560 it's bad luck. Part of the game. It happens. But 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.760 the fact of how many instances now he has to 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.120 be he's had to watch the game from the side, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.600 And you know what that causes in you when you 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:52.760 are a competitor, an athlete, anyone who likes to compete. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.119 If you're seeing your team, whether it's winning or struggling, 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.320 you want to be out there. So it's just that 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.360 mentality of like, Okay, what kind of hesitation does that 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.440 create now in you wanting to protect yourself and not 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:09.200 allow yourself to get injured again to where now you're 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.520 back out of the field and the game. So it's 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:16.120 just like that mental aspect, can he be full go, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.360 can he run? Can he get out of the pocket? 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.920 Use his feed? The ability one of those things that 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:26.760 you just mentioned Brian, his aggressiveness, toughness, and just being 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.600 himself one hundred percent. So it's it's it's a tough 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.440 thing because it's not just physical now it's the mental 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.360 side of things. So it would be really interesting to 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.680 see how he really returns, because I know he's eager. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.360 He's been kind of saying it to the media every 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.600 time he walks by. You know, he's eager to go 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.920 out there and be full go. So anyways, going back 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:51.680 to your question, Sorry, no, I think that's fair, and 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.080 I agree with your point that I don't know that 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.480 it's that. I agree that I don't think it's a 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.480 confidence matter from his standpoint of just like his confidence 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.200 in himself. But I can agree where I do think 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.160 there are whether it's pressure from internal whether there are 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.640 coaches and front office people who are like, Dak, we 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.880 need you so kind of chill on all that or something, 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.200 you know, those kind of things, or even as you said, Nick, 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.760 maybe confidence in the people around him, like, am I 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.720 sure this guy's gonna get this block? Am I sure 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.040 this receiver is gonna get open? And what I'm seeing 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:21.880 is what I'm actually seeing, Like there can be some 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.080 of those kind of confidence issues. I agree with that. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.760 How about the confidence he's not going to get hurt again? 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.840 You know that confidence on his part of confidence that 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.120 his part, you know, his part, I mean you talk 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.760 about confidence, maybe the lack of like, man if I 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.000 run this ball, I might get hurt. Maybe I don't 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.000 need to run this ball. You know that. I think 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.880 there's something to that. He's had something. He went from 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:47.120 never getting hurt to like, I mean, no, three injuries. Yeah, 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.040 I mean to the point where you now do segments 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.880 you talk about is the injury prone? You do? You have? 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.600 You have segments and people say, well, is he unlucky? 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.320 Is the injury prone? Yes? No, all this and stuff 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:02.600 like that. But I your your confidence thing. I think 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.359 it's right. I mean, it's not confident I'm going to 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.200 go out there and play. Well. The confidence is if 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:09.680 I go out there and play the way I want 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.879 to play, am I gonna get her? You know? I 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:14.760 think that's the thing that I think that you know, 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.680 he has to and and and Nick's right that that 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.440 option run was okay, I could, I had a lane, 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.880 I took it, I got five yards and I went 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.679 down quickly, you know. I mean there's there's time to 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.959 be smart and then there's times to be like go 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.960 for it. And I don't know, I think the go 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.280 for it guy was a better player. 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