WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Zeke Is Back! 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:07.400 This he is Talking Cowboys Screaming live on Dallas Cowboys 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:16.119 dot Com and the official Dallas Cowboys as play No 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:21.599 Your hosts Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, Taylor Stern and 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:27.080 Rob Phillips. Welcome everybody into the SWBC Mortgage Studio. We 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.480 got started a little early today because, as you can imagine, 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.480 it is a pretty crazy start to week Week sixteen. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.320 Can you believe it? Rob, We're here, We're ready. We 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.080 got a playoff push, we got Zeke week, we got 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:44.600 Zeke miss Seahawks coming in on Christmas Eve. Yeah, there's 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.360 just a lot going on, so you guys better be ready. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.640 Hundred miles an hour, one hundred miles a hour. So 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.880 Zeke in the picture? What's he doing way over there? 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:54.840 I know he's kind of hanging out waiting for somebody. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.040 He's in the house. He is in the house and 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.960 he met with Garrett and Coach Brown ye yesterday, expected 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.480 to meet with Jerry Jones today. If you could imagine, 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.080 what do you think is the first topic Jerry Jones 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.760 and Zeke will be discussing today. I was Cabbo, that 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.680 would be a great question. Did you go to the office, Yeah, 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.720 did you go the office. What do you mean it's 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.959 the greatest beach bar? And oh, oh, thank you Mickey. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:22.920 I didn't make he's a regular there. I was kind 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:26.080 of like at thee where squid Row was where I went. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.840 Squid Row is a popular one for the spring Breakers. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.760 Yea that it's me spring Breaker. So you've been personally, 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.319 I have so forty two. You sit out on tables 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.559 on the beach and you're supposed to have one margarita 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.160 at the most two. It's kind of like Pat O'Brien's 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.479 of Mexico. I went to distance and had that third one. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.480 There you go. They were right forty two days in Cabbo, Mexico, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.160 during his six week suspension. In forty two days. The 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:56.280 upcoming title of his documentary along is the documentary The Documentary. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:02:00.400 I'm assuming what I've heard from his Sizzle Real that 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.400 was released yesterday is that it's probably going to be 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.080 about an hour or so. But you know how these 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.600 things goes. Once they get to the editing and all that, 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.040 they may say, hey, we're going to do a four 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.040 part series or something like that. Where's it gonna er? 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.480 I'm not sure, but the Sizzle Role was released on 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.720 NFL Network, So that might be your best bet, but 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:20.799 it might be his own people. They might be doing 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.840 something through Netflix. Now with all the different streaming opportunities, 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.520 it's this like a reflective I'm sitting in my room 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:29.760 and I feel bad that I'm not helping my team 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.960 getting the playoffs and that kind of thing. Remember yesterday 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.120 or last week when we were discussing about how Eric 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.440 Dickerson came out and said, you know, his bet with him. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.560 Eric Dickerson will obviously appear in the documentary because you 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.640 guys all saw the photos on Sunday Night Football, Ezeki, Elliott, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:49.240 trim Finn, you know, thin fabulous haircut. Now he's ready 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.680 to go. I'm assuming there's going to be a lot 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.359 of interviews with probably his family. Apparently the only two 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:59.680 days he left throughout the entire suspension was two days 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.560 to go back to Saint Louis for Thanksgiving. Okay, why 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.000 would you leave Cavo at the first place? Make him 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.440 coming to you. Maybe they don't have good turkey down there, 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.399 but you know, I'm assuming it's going to be interviews 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:14.760 with his family, Eric Dickerson, probably some other former players 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.079 that he might have had go down there, a trainer, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.480 a nutrition So we're gonna watch him work out for 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.359 forty two days, is what. Yeah, I think you might 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.200 see a bunch of different things. It'd better be more 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.880 than thirty minutes, that's all. I gotta get his hair cut. 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:27.600 You know you're going to see him go to the 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.760 MAVs game last night with his mom. I guarantee you're 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.680 going to see him watching a few Cowboys looking for 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.760 to seeing him play football. Well you have Wednesday for that. Yeah, 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.119 Wednesday for that. And yeah, you know, as everyone's expecting. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.400 Jason Garrett was pretty on status for the way that 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.360 he answered the questions yesterday. Just said, let's just get 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.840 him back into it. Sure, get him back into practice 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.560 on Wednesday, like you said, and Jerry Jones said today 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.400 when asked about kind of his workload. Let's get him 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.680 into it, get him all the carries. Yeah, I don't 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.320 think you have any choice. Put him in there and 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.280 let's go, where's bud out? Wear him out too good? 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.000 I mean, right in two games. Got you've got to 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:05.960 figure this out. I mean you've got to figure out 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:07.880 a way to get in the playoffs and his best 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.160 way of doing it, and you know he ought to be. 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.000 He ought to be foaming at the mouth after watching 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.000 the Rams film this morning of Seattle. Seattle did a 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.120 poor job of tackling in that game last week. So 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.320 any running back that has a you know, has the 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.080 ability of Ezekiel it has the opportunity to have a 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:26.800 big day and they're gonna need a big day from him, 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.520 and you might want to throw him the ball because 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.479 they can't cover Todd Gurley once. Not at all, God 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.520 at all. Is there any adjustment though in terms of 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.520 football shape. I mean, he can work out play. I'm 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.080 I know you got to wear him mouth, but I'm 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.039 just saying, is there there's an adjustment beyond three days 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.760 of practice. He probably must be able to walk on 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.920 Monday and Tuesday of the next week. Yeah. I talked 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.000 to Gary Brown about that because I was curious about 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.880 that too. You know, it's like, Okay, if you're gone 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.040 for this long, like, how do you work out? He goes, 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.000 he knows how to do different things that he needs 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.800 to do, you know, different footwork type of things like that. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.520 And then he said, you know, to me, it's like 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:01.680 he kind of compared it to when these guys come 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:03.600 in from the draft you know, and they have to 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.919 go play some OTA's. Obviously they're getting ready for the 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.120 season and they have the full off season. But he said, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.320 you know, when they're working out, they're not working out 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.520 like the guys who are already veterans in this locker room. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.440 They're doing their weird combine workouts and different things like that. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.680 He said, he's already got an advantage over than that. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.920 I think he's talking about the pounding the every day 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.159 Well I say that, yeah, and I say that, and 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.000 really there's no way to simulate that until you get 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.400 the Sunday. Yeah, they're not exactly eat up on each 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.640 other during the week anyway. No, he doesn't taken the shots. Yeah, 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.480 the first time he tackles the ball, he doesn't fumble, Yeah, 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.840 because he hadn't done that m hunt. Yeah, Freemont who 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.360 had never had a fumble in his like peewee days, 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.320 high school days. Good first right, Yeah, good protecting the 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.440 ball there. So the Cowboys have already made a few 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.640 moves in anticipation for Zeke coming back. They released Trey 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.680 Williams from the active roster, released Aaron Green from the 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.119 practice squad, and Zeke has now moved from the reserve 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.680 suspended list to the reserve exempt list, but he's not 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.799 officially on the fifty three as yet, so yeah, they 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.160 have an open roster spot. Technically, I think this is 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:05.960 the same thing to happen when David Irving came back 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:10.000 from suspension. I think it's a week right to you know, 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.600 if technically, if you don't think he's ready to play, 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:14.520 you don't have to activate him for this weekend. But 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.520 I imagine he'll be all field and ready to go, 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:18.440 and then you'd be at fifty three. Do you get 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.320 that email either Friday or Saturday? Yeah, yeah, we can 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.359 all expect like when they have they adjust the guy's 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.240 not making the trip. Yeah, exactly. Everybody's figuring out looking 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:28.880 at the manifest, Oh so and so is not on 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:30.360 the plane this week, and then they have to come 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.720 out and say, well, he's not playing this week. So 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.720 even after a crazy end to the Sunday night football game, 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.440 all the players were pretty much asked about Zeke's return 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.359 looking ahead of the two games with the Cowboys playoffs 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.240 still pretty much alive. So Dak saying miss my best 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.600 friend Dez being very excited about him. Terrence Williams was 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:50.880 yelling in the locker room. The league ain't ready. The 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.760 league ain't ready. Right, What do you guys think, Mickey, 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.320 You know, I've heard you talk a lot about how 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.839 much energy he has brought into the lockerman and how 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.360 that team, the team was really missing his energy during 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.080 these six weeks. I think they'll be very glad to 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:08.119 see him. I think Jerry Jones pointed that out after 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.520 the game in the locker room, talking about the excitement 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.480 he will bring to the locker room. You know, you 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.640 can talk about him playing or whatever, but there's just 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.080 some juice that he brings in there. We see it 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.080 the way he runs around like a little kid, and 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.760 everybody just kind of giggles and laughs. And Joe Looney's 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.240 kind of taking up that mantle while he's been He's tried, right, 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.360 he's tried. But you got to do that because practicing 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.240 football is not fun. It's it's boring, and you got 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.920 to have somebody. That's what Michael Irvin brought to practice. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.880 You know, he juiced everybody up, and I think that's, 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.480 you know, something that not everybody can do it. And 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.080 you know what we were talking about him being in shape. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.720 I bet he worked out harder. I'm guessing now, if 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.120 all this stuff is accurate, then these guys who practice, 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.560 because when you practice, what do you get seven plays 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.120 and you sit for two or three and it's not 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.960 constant movement right when you're rehabbing with britt it's harder 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.200 than practice. It is, So I'm assuming if this trainer 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:11.200 did his job, what he did minus the contact was 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.160 harder than practice for six weeks, Scott Linahan should have 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.600 picked him up for work this morning. That's the happiest 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.880 person in the room. Yeah, exactly, the happiest person or Dack. No, 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.120 Scott Linahan is calling plays for him is easy. It's 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.160 easy to do. There's so many things you can do 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.400 more with with the Ezekiel Eliot running the football. Mickey's 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.320 talked about it. Teams play you different. You know, we can't. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.320 You can't put that safety down in the box. You 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.360 can't do this, can't do that. You know when you 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.440 play against Ezekiel Elliott, you know every time you stay 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.760 ahead of the chains, there's no negative plays with him. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.320 How many times did you get in situations during the 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:51.320 six game stretch where it was no game, no game early? Yeah, fourth, 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.080 fourth and a half yard Yeah, that's that they're running 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.880 empty and the dack's running it and Z yeah, exactly 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.720 down on the line. That's a no question. That's fourth 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.600 and one go. I mean you don't get to fourth 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.520 and one because he's banged it in on second down, 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.400 first goal at five. Yeah, yeah, he's in. He's in. 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.280 And that's and that your ability to call plays is 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.680 now different. You're back to that threat. You're back to 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.160 staying ahead of the change. You're back to second and fours. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.800 You're back to Okay, if you're gonna play me wide 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.800 like Lenahan's talking about or Garrett talked about, You're gonna 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.959 play me wide and take away the waggles and the boots. 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.480 I'm gonna run the ball inside on you. You know 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.520 you're back to Okay, Wait a minute, let's see. Hey, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.760 Lyle Collins, you've improved. But wait, look now, you just 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.320 kind of flash block here. Oh, Zeke's passed. Ye, there's 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.760 a six yard game and Dez was exactly right in 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:41.360 the locker room. Yeah, it's like, okay, you want to 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.880 double me? Yeah, okay, well just go he run the ball. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.280 Chances with Zeke up the middle, there's nobody happier than 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.559 Scott lind Ahan right now, trust me on that. Hey, 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.680 that's a great segue. And you know before the show 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.760 was talking to Rob. He had a pull earlier for 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.520 these forty two days where he asked the fans what 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.679 they believed would happen in the sixth game stretch without him. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.400 Of course, the Cowboys did go three and three, but 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.920 the results robbed. You got these for me, sixty eight 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:09.280 percent winning record, Yeah, twenty five percent split three three, 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.520 which ended up happening, Yeah, in seven percent, a losing record, 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.440 of course. The first three games not so hot, the 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.960 last three very hot. Yeah, they were optimistic. Fans were optimistic, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.560 and I don't think anybody expected them to pull themselves 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.559 back up and win three straight games after the way 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.400 they lost those first three. I think we said four 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.920 and two, Yeah, said four and two was good. Yeah, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.240 three and three you know, all right, you kept your 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.199 head above water, but four and two was the goal. 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.760 I thing. Yeah, And as it turns out that one 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.120 extra win would mean a lot, right now, Yeah, true, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.360 would absolutely And they played hard. You know those three 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:49.839 games they lost, it's those second halves fell apart for them. 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.080 But no offense what Yeah, And I think five hundred 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.120 yards passing way. Yeah, you got tired back after a 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.760 couple of games, you got sewn back. That all helped 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.680 as well. Yeah, and I get Zeke back and we'll 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.840 see on tying. What game do you think they missed 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:05.800 him the most. I'm gonna started off and think that 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.880 probably the Chargers game. They were awful. Second, in the secondary, 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.000 they were awful. They didn't they couldn't cover anybody that 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.680 that say, the Eagles or the I think that I'd 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.360 say Atlanta honestly. Yeah, yeah, because there Atlanta would have 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.520 would have just unconsciously blitched and rushed the quarterback the 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.480 way they did. There's threat they would have been less aggressive. Yeah, 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.920 that would have that would have taken some pressure off Chazgreen. 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.920 There's no doubt about that that that's the right to me. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.000 The Atlanta game, because you run a little bit of 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.400 a role. You know, you were scoring points and all 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.800 of a sudden then you had to disaster where you 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.559 couldn't get anything going offensively. I think you make Atlanta 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.120 play you differently. Was that it was it ten seven 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:51.719 and a half time Atlanta score right before? Yeah, it 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.360 you know, there were it was just a bad the 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:59.840 San diego again. The Chargers game, to me, that's when 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:01.880 the the changes you had to make on defense in 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.080 the secondary, that's when you just said, you know, we 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.160 can't continue to play this way. We can't allow this 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.520 to happen to all and have good day. Yeah, you 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.400 know we can. You cannot allow that to happen. So, yeah, 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.720 I think Atlanta was what the one game to me 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.120 where you would have said, huh okay, now try and 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.679 sat me eight times or how many over times they 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.319 got me that day. You know, I think that they 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:24.880 you know, Dallas would have tried to run the ball. 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.200 They would have held the ball maybe to help Dak. 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.439 You know, I think Rob's right, it would have helped 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:33.760 Chaz Green. This this runner helps the offensive line because 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.440 even when you miss your block, he's still to make it. 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.040 He'll make it a positive play, you know. I mean, 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.560 these guys don't miss blocks a bunch, but when they do, 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.160 he kind of makes up for it. Well, you're talking 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.640 about the offensive line, and of course, you know, we 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.960 are going to continue the Zeke talk all week along 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.400 as we get ready for his return on Sunday. But 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.760 injury update here Tyrn Smith his MRI of his knee 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.120 didn't look as bad, Jerry said, as it could have 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.120 been in there. Obviously he's questionable right now. They're going 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.160 to continue looking at that through this week. That that 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.280 could change a lot for this week. Of course, you know, 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.439 he should be very happy with Zeek's return because that 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.400 might make it easier on the offensive line. Like you're saying, Brian, yes, 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.320 but you never want Tyren Smith to be out of 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.280 the game. No, no, you don't. And they've seen with that. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.840 I mean they've they've managed without him before, but you 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.440 saw I think Mickey spoke to it yesterday Byron Bell 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:24.959 and at left tackle, they had to give him a 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.160 lot of help. Yeah, change the way you know, your 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.120 formations are and the way you scheme things up. So 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.720 I don't know, I mean they were honestly, probably fearful. Okay, 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.880 let's make sure we rule out an acl here, so 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.400 that's that's not an issue. But mobility wise, can he 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:40.920 could he be able to go this week? I mean, 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.920 aside from a bruise, he's probably got a spring to 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:48.600 mcl sure, and depending on the degree of it, you know, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.640 even if it's a mid mid spring, that's usually two 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.720 to four weeks. Yeah, and you can put a brace 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.839 on it. If it's I don't know the degrees that 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:03.200 is third degree, the least second degree, first degree, it's 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.240 third degree, you could put a brace on it. Maybe 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.920 get through. She's thinking about offensive tasks having to move 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.400 ladder a little bit. What did did did Jerry call 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.920 him week to week? Now? He said day by day? 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.400 He said, see, he said, we'll see about this week. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.040 How he how he does? He called it questionable. Okay, 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.920 I've kind of got the vibe it was really really 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.520 weak to week and how he can how the pain 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.120 tolerance there? Yeah, that's the question. That's what I got. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.120 And iron Man tiring. Look at what he's dealt with 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.360 this as Michael Irvin says, three seconds. Yeah, you just 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.960 give me three seconds. And to the standing in front 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.000 of somebody, the fact you're dealing with a team that 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.280 does have the players that they do have on the 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.800 other side of the ball with Seattle, I mean, I 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.000 don't know if you want Byron Bell dealing with Frank 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:47.000 Clark all day. I really, I really don't. And you 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.320 know that's that's that's the problem you have nowadays. You're 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.320 planning gets a team the last two weeks have looked 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:57.440 really bad, very prideful team. This is not going to 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.720 be one of those things where all of a suddense 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.880 like Seattle's gonna quit. They've lost two games in a row. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.120 I can't imagine them losing three hunder Pete Carroll. You 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:07.800 know they haven't. I don't believe they've had might not 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.040 want to check on that, Brian before you say anything, 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.080 but I just think it's a good bet. Yeah. This 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.080 is one of those things where you know, you look 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:19.160 at who's across and you try and neutralize whoever they have. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.200 You know, you think about, Okay, when when the Cowboys 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.760 played the Rams, think about Aaron Donald versus Zach Martin. Okay, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.360 that's that neutralized, right, Yeah, it's all about matchups now, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.520 you know. That's where and we said it earlier though 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:37.360 that Zeke helps their offensive line that you know it 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.560 helps to a point. You also have to be able. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.160 You're gonna have to throw the ball in this game, 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.360 and you can't let these defensive ends, you know, Bennett 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.720 and Clark take over this game. Yeah. So, as we've 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.800 kind of put the key word around Tyrn for this 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.760 week is questionable. Yeah week, the week really is what 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.360 it is Yeah, and you saw what they did with Belle. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.120 You know, you run a lot of two tight end. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.400 How many times did we see Noah Brown in motion 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.440 going to the left side? Well, anything going over ship it, 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.640 go out in a ship it whatever you have to do, yeah, whatever, 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.240 you have to run right at that spot. So those 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.640 guys got at least pay attention to the run. Now, yeah, 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.120 at this point on a Tuesday of game wake, you 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.520 think that their game plan is most likely Iron Bell. 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.920 Oh yeah, I don't think. Well they know, yeah, I 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.000 don't think that. I don't think that. I don't think 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.400 that Smith is going to practice this week. We've seen 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.440 it with I can't imagine him practicing tomorrow. Yeah, I 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.040 mean that to me? Is that to me is just 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.040 you know, if he plays, it's going to be We're 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.480 not gonna see it. It's gonna be Friday. It's gonna 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.200 be a Saturday walk through and then him go on 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.280 the field. They've done it with Collins, so I'm sure 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.160 that they'll do it with him that they have to. Well, 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.040 on the other hand, to bring you guys back up, 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.240 the Anthony Hitchens injury doesn't look as serious as people 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.000 may have thought. Of course, that was at the very 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.600 end of the game, and it looks to be the 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.720 knee will be okay. Now we say nie because we 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.880 haven't actually got confirmed exactly right, But Jerry Jones said 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.720 today he will play for Seattle, which you know, hey, 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.119 looking to see that. What's the stat? Now up to 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.640 Mickey with him, Hitchens and lead together as a five 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:13.119 ozho I think it's five oh yeah on the season 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.840 when both of them are in the defense. So hey, 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.159 if Hitchins can go that that makes me feel a 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.119 little bit better to face a Russell Wilson that might 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.640 be saying we are not losing a third straight game. 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.560 He say he was ready to go or looked like 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:30.240 he had the chance to play. I think he was optimistic. 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.160 He was optimistic. Yeah, but from what that I didn't 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.200 hear the Smith part. I hear the other one. Did 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.720 seem optimistic? Yeah, the exact quote I saw was that 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.520 he was he was, you know, just saying that Tyrn questionable. 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.400 But Anthony Hitchins doesn't look as bad as it seemed. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:49.680 Will play for Seattle. That's good. It looked bad, you know, oh, 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.480 I thought that you know, a good not a good 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:57.359 didn't sound hopeful for Scandrick either no, Andrick Irving and 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.680 one more didn't sound as optimistic because I would think 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.800 I think Irving's got a chance the concussion two weeks, 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.640 two games. Now, are you calling on knowledge or you're 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.119 just guessing the I'm guessing, are you I'm here in 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.639 the other way, Eddie doesn't. I'm thinking that I'm thinking 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.719 this one might be not play the rest of the season. Wow, 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.560 so you missed eight games in total from David Irving 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.240 if let's see I mean again, this is I'm just 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.840 I know it's it's day by day, guts. See how 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.040 he reacts and ye, this this is one of those 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:32.640 ones that I think there's been a previous concussion involved. 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:36.080 It is kind of what I'm gathering. So this is 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.800 will be two for the season, if I'm if I'm 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:43.639 getting my information right. Do you hear anything about Benson Mayowa? No, 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.639 I did not. No one's even asked about I know, 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.639 poor guy Wins He's he's yeah out. I saw it. 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.360 I mean when back injury, when Garrett asked him after 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:55.240 the game in the hallway and he kind of shook 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:59.400 his head. So yeah, so you're giving the thumbs out. Yeah, Oh, 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.440 Bryce but or was the other one, Bryce Butler plan 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.960 or fasciitis right there. He's been dealing with that for 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.680 a while. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:08.800 him either. They seemed to have a pretty good combination 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:11.280 going right now. I mean, I know, Bryce Butler, it 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.199 had been probably better to throw the ball down the 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.160 field instead of Cole Beasley the way they did nothing 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.240 against Cole, but need a guy to kind of stretch 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.440 out there and get that one close. He scandered back 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.760 this week. I mean, could you see him back? Well, now, 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.000 I'm just saying, does he want to come back. We've 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:29.920