WEBVTT - Girls Talk, 'Boys Talk: Make or Break? 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.400 The following is a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:06.160 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:09.000 Cowboys. 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:15.520 This is Girls Talk, Boys Talk, presented by Jigsaw Dating, 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:20.600 preferred dating partner of the Dallas Cowboys, and broadcasting live 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:25.439 from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. Now your 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:32.159 hosts Christy Scales, Aisha Morrison, Nicole Hutcheson, and Jess navarrees. 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.040 Well, good leap day morning, everybody. 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.680 Welcome to Girls Talk, Boys Talk presented by jigsa the 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.400 preferred dating partner of the Dallas Cowboys. We are live 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.720 here at the beautiful SWBC podcast studios here at the 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.800 Star in Frisco, joined here by Christy Scales, Aashan Morrison, 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:54.000 Jesse Jazz in the back. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:55.840 I'm your host for the day, Jess and ours Ar. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.040 Nicole is out at the NFL Combine, which we have 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:00.920 plenty to talk about when it comes. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.560 In terms to the combine. So before we get there, ladies, 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.480 how are you Another week has passed by? How are 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:07.319 you doing this weekday? 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.600 We only get to do this once every four years 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:11.400 for late Days, so we got to make it count. 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:11.720 We do. 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:13.280 We have to make it count. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.360 There's like some good deals and stuff that you can 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.960 get at certain places today, so take advantage of that. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:19.760 I was watching the Today. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.200 Show earlier to see what those deals were. So we'll 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:23.880 talk about it at the commercial. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.360 Break, and it's combine. It's combine, y'all. 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.720 Is we're gonna start seeing players actually do workouts and 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:30.280 stuff today. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.360 It's so excited. It just came up on TV and. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.039 Watching which of the workouts over the next you know, 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.039 through the weekend are you most looking forward to? 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:39.920 Number? 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:40.160 One? 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.560 I think one of the favorite workouts I have is 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.360 where they I forgot the name of it, but when 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.800 the corner's back pedal and they have to do insurrection 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:51.000 and they have. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:52.360 To flip their hips really quickly. 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.440 I'm fascinated by it because of something that someone that 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.640 has sustained a hip injury, the elasticity that you like 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.880 have to maintain the way you have to be able, 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.680 like it looks easy sometimes when you see it, but 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:07.880 to flip your hips as quickly as corners do and 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:09.560 DB's do is not normal. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.639 I see, that's so interesting. You pick that particular drill 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:14.480 not because. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:14.920 Of your injury. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.800 But I remember my first one of my first years 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.640 covering the Cowboys and was out at Valley Ranch and 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.880 Irving and it was one of the off season mini camps. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.520 Back then, you had multiple mini camps during the off season. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:31.040 But Albert Lewis is this great cornerback, multi time pro 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.160 bowler for the Kansas City Chiefs, and he was visiting 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:35.760 and so we were kind of standing in the end 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.280 zone watching these rookies out there. I think it was 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.800 obviously it had to be rookie camp, and he was 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.320 just observing and he was standing with the media and 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:45.919 he said. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.239 Watch this guy, watch the hips. Now watch this guy. 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:49.320 Now watch this guy. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.760 As they were just doing the fundamental drills, Attorney says, 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.360 this guy's got it and this guy doesn't. And it's 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.720 like and then once he told me what to look for, 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:03.239 it's like, oh my god, yes, it's like I never 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.680 thought of it that way before. And just like you're saying, Ayisha, 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.480 once you kind of know what to look for, and 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.880 now every time and now you hear the scouts with 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.960 their words and stuff. And anyway, that was I just 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.800 remember that as a precedent thing and just having this 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.080 pro bowler tell me this and it's like, oh my gosh, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:21.559 it like all came together. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.280 See and this is why Combine week is so important, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.519 because you get to see who has it, who doesn't, 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.080 who could be a good fit. We talked about this 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:33.320 last week, but now that it's here, it's here. So yesterday, 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.400 on Wednesday they saw defensive tackles, linebackers. Today they'll look 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.160 at defensive backs, tight ends. Tomorrow, on Friday they'll look 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:42.560 at quarterbacks and running backs. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.600 And then on Saturday it's a line time baby. 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.760 So Nick, Harris and Nicole are there on the ground 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.640 and so we're kind of seeing some live tweets and updates, 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.000 So if anything pops up, we'll mention it on here. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.680 But we're really going to go over what we saw 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.560 yesterday a little bit. The combine also time to talk 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.720 to head coaches, front office staff. In the Cowboys case, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.400 Mike McCarthy did not attend. Mike Zimmer did not attend. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.640 They're staying back here to kind of get things going 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.520 with Zimmer's new hire and all of that. However, we 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.200 did hear from Stephen Jones. Ladies, I want to start 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.440 with that and then we'll get into the rest of 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.960 the combine. Nisha has some notes for some of the gentlemen. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.000 That they talked to yesterday. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.479 But let's start with some Stephen Jones notes. Because I 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.800 listened to the full twenty five minute interview, there was 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.520 a lot to take out of it, So I figured 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.320 there was a lot of discussion for us to have, 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.760 which when we get into the slow period of time, 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.440 it's exciting that we have so much to talk about. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.279 All right, let's start with I think one of the 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:48.839 most pressing conversations right now, which is Dak Prescott's potential 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.440 contract extension or not. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:52.880 We don't know what the state of that is. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.800 Stephen was very adamant that he didn't want to make 0:04:55.880 --> 0:05:01.320 contact or make any kind of comment on the contract status. 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.360 He wanted to be respectful of any negotiations. And then 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.160 he was asked if they really want to extend Dak Prescott. 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.080 He said, oh, yes, absolutely. However, Michael Gelkin came out 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.840 with a fantastic article. I don't know if you all 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.520 have read it with the Dallas Morning News, and if 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.920 you haven't and you're listening, please go read it. Michael's 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:23.960 fantastic journalist, always does very great work. There was some 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.120 speculation in there that perhaps there's a multiverse, and this 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.000 is the multiverse. That they don't extend Dak, and he 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.599 could also be on a one year deal because guess 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.040 who else is all of the new hires as far 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:37.400 as coaches this year as well. 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.200 That's very unusual yet for someone like Zimmer to sign 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:41.960 a one year deal. 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.040 Right and Mike McCarthy on the final year of his contract, 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.000 So it seems like there's a lot of ones going 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.279 around here. Dak Prescott's not exempt from that being a 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.159 possibility either. So I wanted to open up that discussion 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.159 here for you ladies. How do you kind of see 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:01.160 this going? Where do you see this going? Obviously it's 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.039 a possibility, but we were talking about the cap room 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:08.760 that that kind of contract would take. I mean, if 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.159 you're the front office and you've seen kind of what 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.640 Dak has been doing the last eight years at this 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.640 point in his career, the lack of playoff success, is 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.200 that a possibility. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.000 For you to keep him on a one year deal? Essentially? 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:25.520 At this point, here's the thing. 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.040 Dak holds the cards, and Dak has bet on himself 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.840 before and it has paid off more than handsomely. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.360 So to assume that a multi. 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:41.920 Year extension is going to get done with a huge 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.479 bonus that they can pro ratee out. You know, for 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.000 most players, I would say that would happen, but in 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.560 my opinion, it's not a given with Dak. And the 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:56.360 other thing is, to me, the biggest thing in this 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:02.400 past week is the explosive increase in the salary cap. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.400 And so when each team has an additional thirty million 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.240 dollars to play with, and we'll talk about some of 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.400 those numbers a little later, it gives you more padding 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.080 for this year that you could take a bigger cap hit. 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.640 How do you feel about it? I can see your face. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.440 We're just it's just a weird place to be in. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:27.280 I you just don't hear that often that a quarterback 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.200 that was in the MVP conversation top ten, those type 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.560 of things would be on a one year deal. We 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.320 look across the NFL right now, and quarterback is important 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.480 out there in the street. It's not only quarterback back 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.040 up quarterback too. We're not gonna go there. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.760 So I just think it's dicey. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.520 This is yeah, dicey is a great word. Yeah, you're 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:52.400 playing with fire. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.680 Yeah, because this is a big year for some of 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.880 these even some of these coaches that are coming in. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.920 I to your point, it doesn't sound normal for. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:04.160 Something like this to happen. 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.920 Maybe we'll get more explanations and stuff like that, but 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:11.640 it's concerning a bit because his extension could possibly open 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.560 up we've talked about it could open up their finances. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:14.760 A little bit more. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.880 Despite the fact that they did raise the cap, it's 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.080 still free. Agency is somewhere they need to really attack. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:22.920 They do. They need to be aggressive this. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.560 Year, and so to me, I just I think it's 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.760 very taboo and I just don't like the way that 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.120 this feels, if I'm being honest, and because there's no. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:39.439 Your foundation is shaky right now, boss and players. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.120 I think players can feel that because it's not just 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.360 about It's not just about the quarterback and the coaches. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.800 The rest of the players are affected by this as well, 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.719 because not only are they going to learn different schemes, 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.280 have to adjust to different coaches, specifically on the defensive 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.880 side of the ball, to do all of that and 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:58.640 to maybe know and I get it to people say, 0:08:58.679 --> 0:08:59.160 it's the business. 0:08:59.200 --> 0:08:59.760 It's the business. 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.520 These are humans, right, This is like not this is 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.000 like your boss being like, hey, I'm gonna be here 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:04.600 for another year. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:06.319 I don't know after that. 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.839 But I'm gonna teach you how to do this job 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.160 how I would do it. 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:12.800 No guarantee that you can develop it. 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.440 Then you have to draft to players to suit the now. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.000 Of course, yes, coaches adapt to track the players have, 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.720 but still you're going for a certain proto type, right, so. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.400 I under I also wonder, I guess if draft capital 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.840 kind of comes in play in this, because this is 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.880 kind of what you saw with both the Gilmour and 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.920 Cooks trade last year. If that comes into play at 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.840 some point, not so much money when it comes to 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.160 really diving deep and going all income free agency. And 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.200 that's really why it's not a concern that one the 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.480 cap space is increased now and two it's not so 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:52.679 much of a cap casualty for Dak's contract, and especially 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.439 I guess as a way of having a repercussion for 0:09:58.520 --> 0:09:59.560 the embarrassing loss. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.360 I mean, it doesn't all fall on Dak. We talked 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:02.800 about it. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.400 I don't think it was all Dak Prescott's fault, especially 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.319 with the season he had to be able to get 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.120 the Cowboys in that position. Had he not played like that, 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:13.880 the Cowboys would not have been the number two seed 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:14.520 in the NFC. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:15.200 Period. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.960 But at the end of the day, it kind of 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:23.240 just seems like his success is being measured by playoffs 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.080 and playoff success, which has not been there. And when 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.040 there's such an embarrassing loss, somebody has to take the hit. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.520 And I think that's Mike McCarthy not getting an extension himself. 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.480 I think that's Dak Prescott potentially having just one more 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:37.319 year on his deal. 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.120 Somebody has to take the fall and. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.280 People not being sad that Dan Quinn is gone, which 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.920 is very unfair for Dan for what he did right 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.560 in his time here. He's a fall guy for the 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.040 defense which has been so good under him, but played 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:54.280 poorly and gave up. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.840 Too many explosive play. So here's the thing, all. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.400 You Dak haters, talk to him, Christy, tell him, would 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:00.840 you as. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.080 You asked for because I'm looking at the I'm looking 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:10.480 at some of these these quarterbacks even in this draft, honey, honey, 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.480 like having a good quarterback in this league right now, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.720 even if they even despite what happened in the playoffs, 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:17.640 and I'm gonna get there. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:20.880 Is valuable now. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.120 Like I just I don't I don't understand why so 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.240 many people think it's easy to quickly move on. 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.240 Yeah, because they have short memories. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:32.000 They don't remember the quarterback wilderness we were in after 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.520 Troy and they draft Quincy and then he flames out 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.400 and is let go, and you know, you've got the 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.800 Drew Hinson's and Chad Hutchinson's of the world. And trust me, 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:41.800 it was not a good time. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:42.240 Yeah. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.599 Also, lightning, I guess kind of can strike twice in 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.560 the same place. When it did with Tony Romo and Dak. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.199 Presley, the Cowboys lucked into those. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.200 Two were not supposed to be starting quarterbacks in the NFL. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.400 Exactly, You're not going to have that happen again. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.160 And if you do, I want to know what magic 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.559 this franchise has to find these quarterbacks. Jack Prescott in 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:11.959 the Tony Romo era fell into their lap of Thank 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.080 god they had a good quarterback that was ready to 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.160 take that starting position, because then what would have happened, Lord, 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.080 what would have happened? Who would have been the starting quarterback? 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.760 Oh, it was supposed to be killing. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.840 Yeah, we got his ankle broke, so it was right, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.360 but he got hurt and then Dak was not ever 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:33.080 supposed to get that opportunity behind Kellen and so my 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.439 thing is, yeah, be careful what you wish for it's 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.800 and everybody, let's get into this conversation because everybody kind 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.840 of goes back to Trey Lance being here now, having 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.480 a year under his belt to work and kind of 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:50.120 learn the language and the scheme, the playbook here in Dallas. 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.439 What did you guys see from Trey Because there was 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.680 a lot of speculation last year with the quick trade 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:58.920 and how quick Jerry was to kind of grab him 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:04.040 from San Francisco that that could be I guess the 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.839 quarterback in training at some point. And yes, we do 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.520 have to kind of discuss that Dak is getting older. 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.400 He's getting to that point in his career where maybe 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.600 it is time to start thinking ahead of the future. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.480 But that doesn't mean your immediate future. Both things can 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:19.040 be true. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.800 Where you have your franchise quarterback and you start thinking 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.160 ahead for who takes his spot when his time is 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.200 done here in the next however many years that he 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.800 has left, both things can both be true. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.160 But what did you guys see out of Trey Lance 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:35.360 this season? 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.080 Where we did get to see some of him at 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:41.680 practice or whispers around the building, whatever have you. I 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.800 just don't understand why people think. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:49.360 Immediately that he would be the answer considering what we 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.360 saw in practice, and that's no shame to him. Yeah. 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.480 No, I'll tell you what I saw of Trey Lance, 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.240 and that was only when he would come out in 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.240 pregame warmups with Scott Tolzen, the quarterback's coach, and then 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:05.000 some of the either practice squad or inactive wide receivers 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.120 and would throw to them and have a session early 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:08.920 in pregame. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.559 Okay, and then I know that he did. 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:16.680 A lot more scout team work than most third team 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.320 quarterbacks get. The way it works in the NFL is 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.360 the starter gets the vast, fast, vast, fast, vast vast 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.040 majority of snaps in practice. 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.280 A backup quarterback if he gets. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:33.120 Ten snaps in a week in his own team's offense, 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:37.560 that's a lot because the backup number two, backup runs 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:43.800 the scout team so Cooper Rush runs. In previous years, 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:47.320 like all of scout team work or the vast, vast, 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:51.840 vast majority, Trey Lance got quite a bit of scout 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.640 team work, not ahead of Cooper Rush, but along with 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.840 Cooper Rush, so he did get more work than most 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:03.800 third teamers in terms of practice. The team portion and 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:08.040 not just like after practice when the veterans have gone. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.120 Inside and I will say to you, asking around the 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.080 locker room, it still seemed that Cooper Rush was still 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:17.360 getting those second snaps and it was never Lance getting 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:18.720 those snaps ahead of Cooper. 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.640 Right, Yeah, for the backup stuff, it's Cooper. But in 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.400 terms of scout team, Trey got a bit. But yeah, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:29.280 he Trey Lance did not jump Cooper Rush past year 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.480 exactly with da If something happened with Dak, it was 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:32.200 going to be Cooper. 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:38.840 If you're betting on your success from like even from 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.120 some of the injuries he's dealt with and things like that. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.280 It's not my business. I mean, it is our business, 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:48.360 but it's not my business. 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:52.400 Like I don't know what is going on. You want 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.160 to help your quarterback like I do. 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.320 Think it's important to address the run game, yes. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:01.240 Because and not addressing the game like the lack of 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.320 run game efficiency has been was very evident this year. 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.480 Other teams know that, man, I'm sorry, Like you could 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.480 see it on film plenty of times that yeah, they're like, oh, 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.920 then they line it up in twenty one personnel. 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:17.600 We don't care. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.080 We know they can't run the ball successfully right now, 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:21.800 put a lot of pressure in your quarterback. 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.120 And that's what happened in the playoff game also too. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.840 Not only could you not stop the run, you couldn't 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:29.160 run so either. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.440 You were so far behind, yes, you had to pass. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.760 Absolutely, But even when that game wasn't super out of thing, 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.840 still they were down two scores, they had time. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:38.920 You could have. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.080 Ran the ball and found some. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.120 I don't know, some some physicality and some momentum with 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.080 the run game, and it just was never there. And 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.680 that's been a problem in quite a few of these games. 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:52.560 And even when I think back to San fran the 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.040 year before, it was like, listen, hear me out, I 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.280 understand Tony, Tony Poller got injured. 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.760 I shouldn't shut down your whole running game operation. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:00.480 Yep. 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.080 It's been a problem for a while, and it manifested 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.520 these playoff games as well. But we saw it midway 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.560 almost halfway through the season, and it was a problem 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:10.080 all season. 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.080 Help your quarterback out. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.480 If we're gonna evaluate him, we need to evaluate him 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.239 in totality, because hey, listen, even that big dog up 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.720 in Kse but Chaco breaking some of those big runs 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.240 and the Super Bowl helped him out. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:23.280 And kept that defense. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:27.639 Honest, yep, So listen, I'm not I'm off my soapbox, 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.919 but I'm I'm definitely at a point where I'm like, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.880 y'all keep playing with fire. It's gonna be real. It's 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:38.400 gonna be right, tumble weeds and cars, the cowardly dog 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.920 looking out here, it's gonna be sad every day. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.560 Well, before we go to our next break, I want 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.440 to get to some other points that that Stephen had, 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.119 because there was also some reports that came out speaking 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.200 of the run game that it's likely that both Tony 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.800 Pollard and Rico Daubele are about to hit the market 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:54.720 for free agency. 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:56.560 So regardless, it kind of just. 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.600 Seems like the running back room will look very very 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.639 different this offseason. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:02.920 So just want to say that. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.400 A couple of other keynotes that we heard from Stephen. 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.479 He was asked about Leyton vander Esch and kind of 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.320 that whole situation. He said he wants to let late 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.280 and speak on his decision going forward, and that decision 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.320 obviously being whether he continues to play in the NFL 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:23.680 or not. So we don't know officially anything on that, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.320 but I thought that was an interesting way for Stephen 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.359 to answer that question. He was asked about Demarve and 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.360 overshown in Trayvon Diggs their recovery process. He said, it's 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.160 probably more realistic. You see them participating in training camp 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.800 rather than OTAs he said, quote, they're coming along. 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:41.919 Great, that's positive news. How far that's positive news? 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:43.879 How far is Aco come? 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:44.720 It's amazing. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.119 Yeah, I remember being kid. 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:48.600 Yes, it was when I was a kid. 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:50.160 Yep, you heard Aco. 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:51.240 Immediately his career is over. 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:55.240 Yes, and it's it's just remarkable to see them even 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:56.480 to see like them walking on. 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.440 The sidelines and stuff as quickly as they were. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.000 I was like, we see them here sometime. I like, right, 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.240 I love, Yeah, what's going on here? 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.719 Like so sorry, I was just no, no, no, it's fantastic 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:07.679 that it is. 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.440 And you know, he talked about how early it happened, 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.760 both injuries happened to where they'll have the time to 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.840 come back realistically and participate in more team drills come 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.720 training camp, which is great to hear, considering you've seen 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:22.720 the kind of impact it can have on a player 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.000