WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Changes Need For O-Line? 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.360 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.559 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.240 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.599 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.800 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:27.120 wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.320 Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, October twenty fifth, twenty eighteen, 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.880 season fourteen, episode number sixty seven. Welcome to another edition 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.360 of The Break, live from the s WBC Morgan Studios. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.599 At the start, we appreciate, we appreciate you guys, take 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.880 it some time with us today. It is our last 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:44.920 show of the week. We're gonna take a little time 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:52.080 tomorrow to regenerate and recuperate and rejuvenate and just have 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.760 a good weekend. And we're started today. High asked soon, 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.400 so it must be nice. Yeah, no, So we'll go, 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.960 we'll go. We'll we have about third minutes today because 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.280 Cowboys change up some of the scheduling that this is 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.679 not our fault, like we've been doing the forty five 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.640 minute thing and I know some people don't like that, 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.399 hate it. Sorry, but this is not our fault. Like 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.959 Cowboys changed up their schedule during the bye week, which 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.560 is completely contrary to the schedule we've been running on 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.200 all during the season. So I think we can do 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:21.840 I don't know what you want me to do about it. Yeah, 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.520 do it in the afternoon. But I want to go home. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.319 I want to go home, yes, the bye week. So 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.480 we're gonna jump right in. We got a few topics 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.360 I want to hit um. First thing I want to 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.360 hit um is the Amari Cooper arrival. He is now 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.600 in the building. He had his first practice yesterday. Let 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:39.920 me ask you a question. How long do you guys 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.720 expect it will take before he is ready to be 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.679 a starting contributor for this team. I mean he's gonna 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.160 be starting against the Titans on Monday, he will be yes. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:51.880 Hell yeah, you don't give up a first round pick. 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.680 And then especially if you have the bye week, like 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.600 if they were playing Sunday, maybe, but he'll have been 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.920 here for twelve days by the time our ten days 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:01.880 whatever it is, by the time they take the field. Like, 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.280 if he's not starting, something is up. I hope he's 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.760 not taking a five day, you know, bye week like 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.320 everyone else, because he's already Remember he's coming off a 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.680 bye week. Yeah, well, I did see yesterday that supposedly 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.440 he and Dak are planning to stay in town and 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.000 just kind of spending a little time together over the 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.400 bye which if true and accurate, then I think it's 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.960 probably a good thing. It's probably not a bad idea 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.080 for them to start getting on the same page because 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.880 now Dak has his number one guy and it's not 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.000 I mean, it's a guy that he's getting fresh, and 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.000 so it's kind of like, you know, he has an 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.079 opportunity to kind of mold him around what he does 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.200 and the vice versa, and the hope I think from 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.680 the Cowboys perspective is that they're both going to be 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.480 here for quite a while, So that's probably a smartening 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.079 to do. It's like a body catcher to me? Is 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.760 he cool? I just saw a couple of highlights he 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.560 was now. I mean, it's hard to tell for what 0:02:55.600 --> 0:03:00.239 we saw yesterday and today. I mean, there's it's not 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.400 a lot of practice practice, but I mean he's he's 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.560 got a you know, good size to him. I mean 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.160 he's not like a really really big guy, but he's 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.080 definitely not a small guy. And he's just you know, 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.800 he looks like a kind of looks like an average 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.040 sized receiver. Um, maybe a little bit bigger than that. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.520 But you know he's got he's supposed to do everything well, 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.639 which is why they draft you fourth overall. When your 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.560 receiver draft fourth overall. I mean, you run good routes, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.760 you've got good speed, you've got good body size, and 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.600 you've got good hands. And I know he's had some 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.560 drops lately, but I don't really I don't buy the 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.800 theory that like, I mean, it sounds good and it 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.040 can certainly be useful, but I just think it's one 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.640 of the most overhyped things in football. Like we're gonna 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.000 we're gonna get together on Saturday and run some routes, 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.880 like your routes on air. Is really gonna do that 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.440 much for you? Like, I don't necessarily buy it, But 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.720 by the time they play the Titans, Dak and Cooper 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.520 will have been able to practice five or six times. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.200 So it's enough. I don't know how great it's gonna look, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.640 but it's enough. So that's what I expect. Yeah, do 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.400 you expect? I know you said he's definitely you you 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.400 think he's definitely starting by Tennessee how how long do 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.080 you think it takes before he's actually really contributing? Would 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.920 you be shocked if you get to Tennessee, he starts 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:13.880 the game he only has one catch? Does that bother 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:15.720 you if you get to Tennessee and he only has 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:20.520 one catch? I think he'll really be a good contributor 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.440 for this offense next season. That's really what I believe. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.120 That's that's what I'm trying to get to. Is this 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:26.880 so this year thing or is this a well? I 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.920 think they're gonna try this year, and I think there'll 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.000 be certain routes that he can run and and you know, 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.360 whether he starts or not just depends on the personnel 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.120 package they put out there. But I mean, I think 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.920 he's going to be a contributor right away. But I 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.880 just think it'll take a while before he actually is, 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.120 you know, in this offense. And who knows if next 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:46.800 year's offense will be the same as this year. I 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.039 don't I don't know that. I don't know. I actually 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.839 I wrote about this. I wrote three thousand words for 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.240 my column this week, Like that's how much That's how 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.080 much stuff I just had for the average person out there. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.240 That threat that when you say that doesn't really make 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.159 a difference. To tell me a little bit, what put 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:08.000 some great mark on that. A story. A news story 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.520 is anywhere from three to eight hundred words, and column 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.000 is probably like eight hundreds. You went through thousand to 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:18.200 a thousand in my college yesterday. Yeah, so you did 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.760 three lot a book. I had a lot to say 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.760 about the trade. But anyway, the point is into some 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:29.080 days here like multiple two. Um. I think one thing 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.839 I want to keep in mind is like the Cowboys 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:36.039 are not asking Amari Cooper to be like Antonio Brown 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:37.599 in the sense that he's going to catch one hundred 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.640 and fifteen balls for sixteen hundred yards. Like that's not really, 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.560 that's not this offense. It's not I mean, this is 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.560 still a run first offense. It hasn't looked as good 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.600 because they haven't had a receiving threat. But literally, in 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.720 my column, the baseline that I'm looking at for any 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.240 number one receiver in this offense is pretty much what 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.520 Dez did in sixteen. And I know that sounds weird, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:59.880 but and I've said this a million times, like Dez 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.520 played well in that sixteen offense, and he gave them 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.560 the running room that they needed. And he made plays 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:09.080 down the field. He caught fifty balls for eight something 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.039 or no, he caught fifty balls for seven something and 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.920 eight touchdowns in thirteen games because he missed three and 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.919 I literally handicapped, and I was like, Okay, if you 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:22.000 play sixteen games, that's about sixty catches for about almost 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.960 a thousand a little bit less and eight to ten touchdowns. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.159 It's not elite numbers, but it's good enough. It's good 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.040 enough for what you want to do in this offense 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:31.479 to run the ball the way you need to run 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:35.039 it and to open things up for Beasley. That's only 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.600 four catches for sixty yards a game. That's not I mean, 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.800 I'm not asking a lot of you. So I don't 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.560 know if he's going to get that against Tennessee. I'd 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.280 be surprised, but I would like to believe that he 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.680 can start hitting those types of numbers after a little 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.560 while in this offense. I mean, what I would like 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.480 to see more than anything is is, you know, just 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.840 get the ball down the field or at least attempt 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:59.120 him down the field a little bit more, and you 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.000 don't even have to make that's just with that pass 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.040 interference penalties work. Just the same. It doesn't help anyone's 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.440 fantasy team or doesn't really help his numbers, but I 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.440 can promise you if you're going down the field and 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.600 getting you know, different kind of coverages and things like that, 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.000 and drawing penalties, that would be good. It'll be interesting 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.680 to see how teams treat him, you know, watching Mary 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.760 Cooper over there, you know, just like because it took 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.400 a while for dez Dez even last year got more 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:28.080 double coverages than anybody's getting. Nobody's really getting that here, 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.160 so they need that. They need that back again. That 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.680 would kind of help with it with the offense, but 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:35.840 they're gonna have to prove that he's worth doubling at 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:39.040 some point. You gotta prove that. And that's a good point. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.920 I felt if it were me, and it's not. But 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.240 if it were me and I were making the offensive 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.360 calls in the game against Tennessee, I would come out 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.280 in that game and I would I would just be 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.480 bombs away that game. The reason why is because I 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.440 need teams to think, right, I need teams to think 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.800 that I got this new weapon and I'm gonna be 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:02.000 I'm gonna be bullish about using him. And and he 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.360 has the ability to be able to be a game breaker, 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.200 like if you don't pay enough attention to him, he 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.000 will hit you for an eighty yard or and all 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.320 of a sudden, just like that, Cowboys got seven points. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.600 I need them to know that, because I think that's 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.600 part of the reason why the offense has been staggered 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.360 at times this year is because it. Part of the 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:23.800 reason is because again what they've said is we expect 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.360 that we're gonna have eight nine in the box all 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.200 the time, and we always run against that. Well, with 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.720 an offensive line that's not as good as what it's 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.920 been in the past, they can't run against eight and 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.280 nine in the box. They got to be able to 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.080 get that safety out of this. They got to be 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.439 able to force them to keep two guys back. And 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:41.080 I would basically more than a few times this game, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.840 I would have Gallop and I would have Cooper on 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.319 opposite sides of the field, both challenging both deep sides 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.400 of the field. So the safeties have to be back, 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.800 and I'm taking the shot if if if I catch 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.920 him in single high safety, I'm taking a shot at him. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.040 Because I'm forcing teams around. I'm doing it more for 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:57.880 all the other teams are gonna have to play than 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.720 just for Tennessee. You know what, let me say this too. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.000 And I don't know about if this is fair to 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.640 the offensive line or not, but you said, because of 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.440 the way the offensive line is playing, they can't beat 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.920 the eight and nine men in the box. Are we 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.199 sure it's not because of the eight and nine men 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.880 in the box the offensive line is playing this way. Well, 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:18.520 if you want to go back to what Zeke was 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.800 saying before the season began, he said, we always have 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.080 eight nine in the box, we still run against it, 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.800 and we're still going to be successful against. His expectation 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.080 at least was we've seen that before. I've been seeing 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.400 that since I got to the Cowboys. My offensive line 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.920 is good enough to where we could still make Hay 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.880 against that kind of front. And to be honest with you, 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.880 for the most part, they had like there have been 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.040 one or two defenses in these last couple of years 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.840 that could really stop the Cowboys offense when they wanted 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.840 to run the ball. The Denver game, the New York game. 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.959 New York had had done a pretty good job against 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.520 them in a couple of different occasions. You could say Philly, 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.560 but there weren't a lot of teams the other day. Yeah, 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.680 but this year we've seen a lot more. Yeah, but 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.559 that's my point Like before, he was right before that, 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.360 there are a lot of teams that wanted to stop 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.880 the run, they just couldn't. Yeah, this year, more and 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.200 more teams having success stopping the run. But you've got 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.080 all Pro and Hall of Fame players that are that 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.440 are gone, and you just can't on all levels too. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.679 I mean, you're an All Pro center, the best center 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.600 in the league, or arguably the best, is gone. You've 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.280 got an Hall of Fame tight end who wasn't playing 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.240 at that highest of levels. Still better than anything you got, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.800 still better, and he still understood coverages, he understood how 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.839 to get open, he understood, you know, just how to 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.760 get in the way and blocking. You know, Dez, say 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.439 what you want. He's still demanded more more attention than 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.240 anybody's doing now. So when you're taking all of these 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.679 hits like that, yeah, it is going to be a difference. 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.880 And I think Connor Williams is learning on the run 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.680 and that's affecting everything. Yep. Let's take a real quick 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:49.760 break when we come back. Um, I want to jump 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.160 into an idea I had for a few topics where 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:54.840 we'll talk about some change. I want to throw some 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.280 different things that the Cowboys could do here in the 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.880 in the off week that could possibly changed things up. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:02.520 And then I'm gonna let you guys tell me whether 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.240 you think they're good ideas bad ideas. And also are 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.800 these things that the Cowboys coaches you think would actually 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.800 do or if it's something they would never do. We'll 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:10.800 do that when we come right back. This is the 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.680 Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio. If you're like me and 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.559 you love I mean, if you have a thing, then 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.400 cutting the chord is scary. But then I found out 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.360 I could switch to DirecTV Now and still get the 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.920 live sports I love. 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We're giving these guys 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.840 a little bit of time to term Recouper eight and 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.000 get their minds right for this second half of the season. 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.920 So Rie and Marie Cooper eight, you know what I mean? 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.480 You get it? Yeah, Okay, good job, You're welcome. You're 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:40.240 welcome to that. No. I mean when you said recouper eight, 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.120 I thought that's gonna be a headline. Oh you guys 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:44.920 are already thinking like that. Oh I just that was 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.200 My first thought was wow, because every thing we've done 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.560 in the last four five days. I mean, if you 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.760 just look at all our headlines, just says Scooper. Cooper, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.880 you know, if if he goes out and he plays 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.200 a good game and the Cowboys win against Tennessee, the 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.480 heck of a title for your game. The Cowboys are 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.000 winning against Tennessee. Like, let's just let's dispel that. I mean, 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:07.840 I know, we got to talk about them next week. No, 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.560 they are. They're at home. They're at home. They're that's literally, 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.480 they're gonna win at home, and then they're gonna lose 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.320 to the Eagles, and then I don't think you can 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.840 take any team for any game for granted. I take 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:19.800 for granted, I was just trying to make a smart 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.280 ass game. Okay, good at three and our at home. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.240 They are gonna win that game, all right, They're gonna win. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.280 All right, We will see Tennessee. I mean, Tennessee is 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.480 one of those teams is so weird, Like there are 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.880 times they played this year where you were like, huh, 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.120 look pretty good. The other times they play this year, 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.560 you're like, yeah, but layoffs last year they don't get believable, 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.360 Like they don't get blown out, though they were in 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.000 a lot of game. They lost twenty one nothing at home. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.120 They got Ravens be slapped by that Ravens last week though, 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:48.640 who are they playing? Last? They lost by a point 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.520 to the Chargers in London. Charges, that's what it was, 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.240 and the Charges are good team. They gave the good 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:56.200 eleven sacks to the Ravens eleven. I know the Ravens 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.920 has been really good, their defense especially really words. We're 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:01.800 burning through topics for now, all right, So here's what's 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:03.880 gonna do. Here's gonna do. We've got um. I wanted 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.720 to throw out some different things that the Cowboys could 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.520 possibly change this week, and these are not things that 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.000 necessarily they would change. But what I guess the question 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:15.920 I'm gonna ask you guys on each of these is 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.920 number one, is it a good idea or bad idea 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.240 to make this change? And then number two is this 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.200 something that, based on your knowledge of this coaching staff, 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.520 that they would do or something they would absolutely not do? 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.240 All right, we gotta do it. First one change the 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.880 offensive play caller. Go from Linahan to Jason Garrett. Good idea, 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:43.040 bad idea, good idea, good idea. I mean that's wow. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.040 You may really make me take a hard stance here, 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:49.160 Like it's not a bad idea, but like, I don't, 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.280 I really don't think that that's like this magical cure all. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.080 To be totally honest with you, like, I don't think 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.200 the play calling is Like I know people hate Scott Nahan, 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.840 but I don't think it's just gonna magically be better 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.960 doing doing. There's no doing if it's not gonna be Basically, 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.040 I feel like there's not a different point. I really Yeah, 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:06.960 that's kind of how I feel. Like I'm not saying 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.560 it's a great Like I don't think Scotland Hahn's doing 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.480 this amazing job, but I don't think that's this huge 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.440 fix in my opinion. I mean, I probably isn't, but 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:22.080 I mean it's not nothing's changing right now. So I mean, 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:26.400 what's it gonna hurt his feelings? Yeah, I mean it would, yeah, 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.760 assume but not that Oh well, this is a results 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.880 oriented business. Yeah, it's I mean something different. I mean 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.760 we've been seeing the same stuff over and over. I 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.520 mean I don't know I would I would make a change, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.440 but yeah, I don't know if it would necessarily do anything. Yeah, 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.240 but I would have I would have made a change 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.040 this this week. I kind of agree with you from 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.200 the standpoint that Nick, I kind of agree with you 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.160 because I think you know what they always say about 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.360 the definition of insanity, keep doing the same thing over 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.760 and over and expecting a different result. If your offense 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.920 is not doing enough right, um, you gotta do something 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.760 to shake it up and whether and I kind of 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:02.560 agree with you Dave from standpoint, I don't know that 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.119 that's the answer. I don't know if there's gonna be 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.080 some magical change that would happen by that. But to me, 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:11.000 sometimes if you just have a different person calling plays 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.560 in a different sequence, it can ignite the offense and 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.080 give the offense a little bit of a spark because 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.080 it's just a little bit different. It's the same plays, 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.480 it's just a sequencing which you call them, right, It's 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.159 just how aggressive are you in this situation versus this 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.960 situation that can sometimes make the difference. I mean, think 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.399 of it if you're like a NASCAR team though, think 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:30.960 of it if you're at Lanahan and you're like, Okay, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.240 I'm the driver, I'm the driver here and we've been 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.480 dealing with this and this car's a little raggedy or whatever, 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.840 and they're like, all right, well guess what, we're gonna 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:39.920 change the driver this week, and we're changing a new car. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:41.640 So we're gonna give a new car, and then someone 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.120 else is gonna get the driver. Like, wait a second, 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.080 why can't I get the new car? You know, maybe 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:46.879 I'm gonna do better if you give me something, you know, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.080 some better tools. Yeah. The only problem with that is 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.320 he got a nice, nice car, pretty decent car in 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:56.520 Tavon Austin, and we hadn't seen us effective, right, Yeah, 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.880 it's a really good point. Yeah, I mean he didn't 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.240 got him the way that the other teams. They didn't 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.280 find a way to use him and incorporate him into 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.119 this offense to where it made a sizeable difference in 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.200 I mean, if Houston could do something with Kiki Kuti 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:14.639 or whatever, I mean, do something, yes Austin, Yes, I agree. No, 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.640 And that's that's a really good point. Is I mean, No, 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.760 there's there's clearly star power lacking on this offense, but 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.399 they are not without talent, and that Tavon Austin is 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:28.200 the big one that I don't understand. Uh, Lucky Whitehead 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.520 was more active in their offense than Tavon Austin was, 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.159 and he didn't always even get the ball, but he 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.199 was just a more active part of what was going on. 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.639 Uh baffling U. The Deontay Thompson thing. It's just like 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.000 you're not using him to do what he's supposed to do. 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.600 I mean, you're just you're you're not. I mean, you're 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.840 He needs to be running the deep rounity. He needs 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.200