WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Return of Bryan Broaddus 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:07.960 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:20.119 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.840 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.160 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:33.560 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:39.879 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.519 It is Friday, July thirtieth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.360 episode number five. It is a day nine of training camp. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.920 Here on the break. We've got Dave Hellman, We've got 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.320 Nick Eatman, and we got our buddy Brian broad est Man. 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.960 When I when you first mentioned on on Twitter that 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:01.000 you might be around and uh and and offered very 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.400 graciously to come and join us, I was really excited 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:04.840 because I haven't been able to be on air with 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.000 you for in a long time. And you're you're no 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.160 obviously no no stranger to our show. All these guys 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.920 we've done this for many many years, have so good 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.400 to have you man. Thank you. I appreciate that I've 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.119 been just a couple of tenths down from you guys, 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.720 but still admiring the work and all that you guys do. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.840 A heck of a job, and it's it was a 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.360 different avenue for me to go. But it's nice to 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.200 see you guys continuing to just push on the way 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.440 you do and lead the NFL the way you do. Yeah, 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.920 it's funny because you guys that don't know Brian, like 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.000 literally he got out here and by day what was it, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.520 like day two of practice, you're sending me practice knows, Like, 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:41.880 here's some things you can watch. I'm like, Brian does 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.720 not change. He always looking out for his teammates. Man, 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.440 always looking out for steammate. I appreciate that. I was 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.080 very sad that this is my last day, you know 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.240 with the station, and you're so used. You get into 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.520 that routine where you you know, you're like, okay, this 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.440 is you know, day four, day, five days, you know, 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.000 you're getting that routine. Lest they hear, yeah, last day 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:03.640 for me here. Yeah. The way he said that was, 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.680 is it my last day with the station? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.640 you're breaking news, but uh no, but last day, that 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.800 last day, last day with it, you know, and that 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.200 part of it's gonna be sad for me because again, 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:16.880 and this is where I'm gonna have to lean on 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.920 you guys, because you do such a great job of 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:20.720 covering the team. The way you do it's a it's 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.560 a standard that's like no other. But yeah, when you 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.920 when you you get in that rhythm of practice and 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.360 interviews and talking to people and hey, wait, something happened, 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.120 got to get this source over here, and you know 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.560 you're kind of you know, doing all that. That's that's 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.760 the great thing about Camp And just to kind of 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.120 now have to walk away from that with it not 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.040 being over, it's just like it's super sad for me 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.000 because it is it's been such a part of our 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:50.080 lives now. And uh but Brian's maybe one of like 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.600 four people who says that and actually means it too, 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.680 like most of him and like we all love what 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:56.480 we do. But by the time you've been here for 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.600 a week two weeks, you're like, yeah, go home sounds 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.040 kind of and Brian's like, absolutely not. What are these 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:07.440 defensive tackles doing? Well, yeah, yeah, that's the that's the thing. 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:09.760 I you know, but I know I'm dealing with some veterans. 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.000 Guys have been ahead of the whole time, the fifteen 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.520 years of Camp and Oxnard and stuff like that. I mean, 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.760 it's something that you just get so used to condition 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.680 to and and when they're out there practicing, you know, 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.240 I mean that's the part of I mean even even 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.800 standing in the trench out there, you know where we're 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.239 not on the field, but you still get all that 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.800 that You see the players, you hear the sounds, the coaching, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.840 I mean, saddle up going around the other end and 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.080 watching Dan Quinn coach them up a little bit one 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.720 on one with Randy Gregory and stuff. That's the kind 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.680 of stuff that helps you, you know, kind of have 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.160 a better understanding of how the season could probably play out. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.400 And you don't realize how much you really need that 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.320 until you have a year like last year when you 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.960 don't have it amen to that and you can really 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.280 feel the difference. Let's jump into the conversation. Over the 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.120 last couple of days, the news is really revolved around 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:00.360 Dak Prescott. Um he is, he's he left this I 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.720 guess that was on Wednesday. What's the status, what do 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.800 we know about his injury at this point, and when 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:10.320 can fans expect to maybe see him back. Well, Mike 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.480 McCarthy was shockingly willing to talk about when he might 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:19.080 come back. Yesterday, his shoulder sore. He's out of an 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.720 abundance of caution, he's not pushing it. He got an 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.640 MRI in the area Wednesday afternoon. Doesn't look like there's 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.400 any serious problems there. It's a muscle strain. But then, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.880 but you know, and like rightfully, so people are like, well, 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.440 that could mean a lot of things. He could be 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:35.920 out for a few weeks. He could you know, maybe 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:37.680 we've seen the last of him for training camp. And 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.039 then Carthy gets up there yesterday and he's like, yeah, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.360 he'll you know, he probably won't throw for a couple 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.400 of days. And we were even like, what's a couple 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.400 of days I mean? And he was like, well, where 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.080 I come from, a couple of means like two days 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.279 are you talking about. I was like, okay, Mike, Like 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.200 you're putting your name on it, that's fine. Like I 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.159 was kind of surprised that he did that, just because 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.159 coaches tend to want to not nail themselves down with 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.080 a specific time. For him, Jason Gear, Yeah, absolutely, ten 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.440 years of that. Yeah, right, you know, it was funny 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.520 I was talking to The question was posed about was 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.279 this something that had to do with maybe the injury 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.680 of the ankle and him having to change his mechanics. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.919 And I went into it with somebody about it. I'm like, 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.359 listen that he was like, no, man, he goes. We 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.800 threw all spring, we threw all summer. It was just 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.040 a ton of balls. I mean, he you know, he wanted, 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:25.880 he was chomping at the bit to get out there. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.400 He had you know that my guy was saying, Hey, 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.719 McCarthy was out there, Nuss Smier was out there, Kellen 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.919 was out there, his own personal guy. This sounds like 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.200 to me a guy that just and we all know 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.600 Dak Dak is not gonna want to sit back and 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.919 just um going to rehab and he'll be okay, No, 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.080 he is going to push it to the absolute hilt 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.400 and when he could go out there and throw balls, 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.320 whether it's in the Dak yard that he's got or 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.920 the or the or on the field, he's gonna he's 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.200 gonna do that. And I think what happened is that 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.719 he just really he to ramp up. He just he 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.760 went probably a little too far for himself. And now 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.719 they're they're kind of having to work their way back 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.680 through that good day. Oh. I mean yeah, which to 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.800 that point, a lot of people have suggested that it's mechanical, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.080 but all through the spring he was basically I mean, 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.159 he didn't do team, but he was throwing a boatload 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.320 of football. It was. Yeah, Like he gets out at 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.400 the house with with the receivers and backs like every day, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.240 God knows how many balls they're throwing. Like, I just 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.719 have a hard time believing like if there was a 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.920 mechanical issue, it would have cropped up before he got 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:34.880 the training. Yeah. I kind of feel like though that 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.919 if if it was something serious, they probably wouldn't allow 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.800 him to do the drills he's doing, because what if 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.960 he just hauls off and just forgets and throws and 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:45.880 start and throws something and then hurts it even worse. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.240 So the fact that he's out there doing a little 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.480 bit of those the movement drills and things like that, 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.000 I think that they have confidence that things will be okay. Yeah. 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.760 The natural question that comes after that, after you get 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.480 past is he gonna be okay? Is well, what are 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.760 the backup look like? Nick? What have you seen from 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.000 Garrett Gilbert and Ben Denucci here over these last couple 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.599 of days that either make you feel good or make 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.400 you feel not so good? Well, I'm checking that shoulder 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:18.640 for Dak is what serb over here? Right? Um, you know, 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.080 let's be fair to to We've seen quarterbacks out here 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:28.040 that haven't had great practices romo. Um, you know, you know, 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.560 we know what happened with him, Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott another. Yeah. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.160 The thing about Garrett Gilbert that everybody got excited about 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.720 a little bit was that, you know, he was functional 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.840 against Pittsburgh. He'd only been here a few weeks. He 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.880 was functional. He picked it up, he ran the ball well, 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:45.840 you know, he got him into Ben he was thrown 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.520 into the end zone to win the game against an 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.080 undefeated team. It didn't happen. So in a year and 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.400 a half, is he gonna be better? Um? And he 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.880 probably will. And let's see how what happens in games. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.400 He's gonna get a great job. I think it's a 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.080 silver lining. I mean, you know, Dak is gonna be 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.320 your guy. You don't know about the backup. And they're 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.840 gonna get more. They're gonna get real reps because they're 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.960 gonna get some first team reps and and see what 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:08.680 it's like to run the ball with you know, if 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.920 Zeke runs with them or whatever. So I to answer 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.960 your question, they haven't looked great. But I think that 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:16.880 let's see what happens when the lights come on and 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:18.840 they go out. Cooper and Rush never looked great. He 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.480 goes to Hawaii. He went out and he, you know, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.160 had a couple of good drives, and we're like, okay, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.640 he's the backup. So it's not gonna take much to say. 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.920 I think it'll be fine. Yeah, I thought. I thought, 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.040 to me, what was interesting about that whole thing is, 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.560 all of a sudden, it was a perfect situation for 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.920 Mike McCarthy and the staff. If you think about Dak. Okay, 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:39.840 here we are in the middle of a practice and 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.720 all of a sudden, like QB one goes down. You're 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.280 the guy, you know, all of a sudden, it's like, 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.959 whoa okay now. And I initially thought that maybe McCarthy was, 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.080 you know, he's talked about well, I've got to I've 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.000 got to manage these reps, these guys. I gotta make 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:55.800 sure the backups get some reps. I thought he was 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.600 playing a game where he was gonna give these guys 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.400 some work. But then it then Dak is running towards 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.160 the tent is David Hellman's reporting, and I'm like, oh, no, 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.439 this is not good. It's not just that's what's happening 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.719 the first time I saw it. So then now I'm 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.560 now I'm thinking, Okay, something's up. But you're you're kind 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.319 of like, well, man, what a good situation for Gilbert 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:18.920 and these guys to throw him in with the ones 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:20.920 and see, you know, I'm sure the heart rate was 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.839 going and all that, so you really can't judge him 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.080 on that. But then the second day, when you knew 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.079 that Dak was out, now you can evaluate and it's like, Okay, 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.120 are they are they getting anything? Are they are they 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.160 making throws? Are they making these checks? See, that's where 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.840 the real evaluation. Yeah, you can get an evaluation about 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.000 he got thrown into a terrible situation and how do 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.600 you respond. And then the next day it's like, well, 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.240 he had chance, he knew this one. And if they 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.400 if they fail in the chance where they knew, that's 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.800 where I think you have a little concern. Garrett Gilbert 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.480 has been getting thrown into tough situations since he was 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.960 like eighteen years old. When you think about it, uh, yeah, 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.800 no doubt. Yeah, was the Bank of America yes, yeah, 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.360 I think he thinks he threw three touches down. Well, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.640 yeah he was Yeah, he threw three touchdowns. You thought 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.680 he was bad. I mean I say he was great. 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.040 I did not see the ball going down the field. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.679 I didn't see. I didn't I didn't see, you know, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.800 immediately knew what he was talking about, which is scary. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.360 Which is scary. But America is a sponsor, and they 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.040 are great at what they do. But in a football reference, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.760 it's not the best, right, let's just put that boa. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:34.160 But I that was the moment where we just thought 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.560 we were just talking without about all the microphones everything. 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:39.920 You know what I kind of felt like though, to me, 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.280 I was, let's let's take some shots down the field. Let's, 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.679 you know, do some of that. I was thinking they 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.360 were not doing that. That's what I'm saying. It was. 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.800 But there was some problems with the offensive line. And 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.400 it wasn't And it wasn't like you know, with Steel 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.439 and Night, the guys you usually want to blame in 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.400 sicky those guys. It wasn't those guys. You know, Collins 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.680 had his issues. I just had his issues. I mean, 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.800 Connor Williams had his issue. I mean defensive line played 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.320 on the offensive side of the ball yesterday, and some 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.880 of those quarterbacks really didn't have much of a choice 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.240 and give the guys in the secondary, I think, I 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:16.400 think that's funny. Guys. The non padded practices, the offense 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.880 was there was two minute drill, red zone whatever, boom 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.400 boom boom down the field, no problem. We get into 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.199 pads and I think I think the defense has won 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.600 the last three days and pads and that to me 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.200 has been really probably very encouraging. Yeah, it's really encouraging 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.439 for them as well because they need that confidence. I 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.600 think trying to build confidence for his defense makes a difference. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.160 Talking about the two padded practices, I want to give 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.640 everybody an opportunity. We're gonna go down the row here 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:43.240 and I want each of you to give me at 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.360 least one observation from what you've seen in the first 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.400 two days of padded practice. The start with you, Dave. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.640 I mean, it's it's it's so easy to evaluate the 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.920 passing game and the skill players, and there's no way 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.880 of knowing how it's going to translate. But I've intercepted 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.280 eight passes in the last day. Eight that's a lot 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.400 that's a lot by any standard, but especially this team. 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.160 Nobody on this team gets picks or didn't, and now 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.079 they are like, I mean, you know, Maurice Kennedy, Demante CAZy, Uh, 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:17.079 Anthony Brown's had one or two Um Parsons, even Micah Parsons. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.920 So just it's one thing to be in position and 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.720 break on the ball, but to actually make the play 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.440 has been missing from this defense for so long. Like 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.079 just before you worked here, I'm oh, and I'm I'm 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.440 not trying to I'm not trying to pick on Xavier 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.400 Woods like he was from where he was drafted. That's 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.520 a success story, like he was a good player for 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.280 being a sixth round pick, But like I just think 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.600 of him being in position, getting his hands on the 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.800 ball and then it's clattering around and next thing you know, 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.600 it's on the ground and he's doing push ups. I'm like, yeah, 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.280 we'll just clapping make the catch. And they have been. 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.319 They've been making the catch out here. Nick Um, I'll 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.600 take the easy one. I mean, Brian's got I know 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.840 Brian can go like fifth level, So I'm gonna let 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:00.959 Brian get a tougher one. I'm gonna like the easy one. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.120 Seedee Lamb is the best player on the field by far. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.679 It's not even close. And he is and he is 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:11.480 as smooth as anybody can be in their second year, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.079 the first the second year jump he is. You can't 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.280 cover him on the inside outside, I mean he I 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.000 haven't seen him really going deep having done that. Maybe 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.920 that's something about the backups and all that, but but 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.520 I think every ball is his. He's coming down with it, 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:31.760 maybe inbounds, maybe albounds. He's making outstanding plays. I just 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.959 think that he is. He is the best receiver on 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:37.880 the team right now. I think he's having the best 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.560 camp for any player out here. Yeah, I'll tell you 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.840 what I would. I like what you're saying, though. I 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.880 think the best player I've seen has been Tyrant Smith myself. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.560 Just watching how you know he's man. People want to 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.560 hear that too, Yeah, exactly. And hopefully the health and 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.319 all that takes care of itself. I said it earlier. 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.880 I'm looking to see who is going to be the 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.880 backup defensive ends on this team. I was really worried 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.040 coming in about Dorance Armstrong. You know, bashing was a 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.679 guy in OTAs. But then you say OTAs, I mean 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.480 are we really getting? But Bashing was showing some quickness, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.440 some explosiveness. I was looking for the rotation of the 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:16.280 defensive tackles. I've seen some stuff from O DIGGI zuah 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.200 that is really kind of like, okay, you know this 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.120 is good. I like what I've seen Bohannah. The young 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.360 guys they're playing, I said this, they're playing on the 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.040 offensive side of the line of scrimmage. You know, that's 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.040 what last year if you look at what happened with 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.880 the Cowboys and the terrible run defense. You know, running 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.200 back contact was a yard and a half beyond the 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.280 line of scrimmage. What okay, you know that's got to stop. 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.200 And there's been some times. I know, the one run 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.640 they had coming off the goal line yesterday was Zeke 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.120 in a nice run. But for the most part, the quick, 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.800 elusive Zeke is trying to find spots, you know. I mean, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.120 and again it's against the first offensive line. So as 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.360 long as that front seven, you know, vander esh and 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.960 on our show, I get on smith a on you know, 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.960 I'm thinking, oh, you gotta get him off the field 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.520 and all that. The linebackers, I think the front seven, 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.120 I think has played very very well and you know, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.760 and that that to me has been encouraging. I'm interested 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.200 to see what happens with Hooker at safety though. Does 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.960 that give him the true free because Wilson will come 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.360 down and knock you sideways. He did it on the 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.240 on the field yesterday, so if they could kind of 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.240 figure that out. But I've been kind of impressed with 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.800 that front seven on defense. I mean, that was pretty fun. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.840 Like yesterday's practice wasn't that fun. It got you know, 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:31.720 Lamb had a nice catch toward the end, but they 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.520 were like a lot of runs, a lot of dinkin 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.520 and duncan because they were coming off the goal line 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:39.040 and doing all this four minute stuff. But first run 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.640 of the day, Zeke goes off right tackle and like nobody, 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.320 nobody touched him until he was twenty yards down field. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.520 And then the rest of the day he looked like 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.480 a gazelle trying to get away from a pack of lions. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.600 Like he's just just surrounded by guys. Every time he 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.960 touches the ball. Well, they talk about wanting to run 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.480 the ball. You better figure out what's going to happen 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.840 with shortlts and Jarwin and those guys. We've seen down 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.440 the field plays from those guys. And by the way, 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.800 Keian O'Neill, who's had was in the non padded practices, 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.480 was awful in coverage. Actually in the one on one 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.800 stuff did a much better job of knocking the ball 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.080 loose and stuff. So that was encouraging. But yeah, they 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.640 Mike McCarthy talks about surface and we've sumhaut surface blocking. 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.440 It's man on man at that point of attack, and 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.120 they they they've been losing some surface blocks in this. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.880 In some of these drills, you look at Keian O'Neill 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:29.800 and he walks by or see him just you know, 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.520 up close, and you're like, what, how was he ever 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:39.480 a safety? Yeah, like in the eighties, like you know, like, yeah, 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.920 I mean, I understand, when you get told you're gonna, 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.000 you know, be a linebacker, you probably build your body 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:45.840 up a little bit different, but not it can't be 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.760 that much that drastic of It's like he was ever 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.320 a safety, Like that's wow, I mean box safety, of course, 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.520 But I mean Barry Church was like the box safety. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.520 He didn't look like that. No, not at all. All right, 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.480 we're gonna take our first break when we come back. 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.680 In true Brian brought us fat, and he came with 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.240 a game. 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