WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Reacting to the Roster 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:03.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.880 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:14.800 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:20.720 time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:26.000 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.480 It is Tuesday, September fourth, twenty eighteen, Season fours, in 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.000 episode number thirty three. Welcome to a very very special 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:34.720 edition of The Break. We are living back on the air, 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.200 ready to talk some Cowboys football because the season is here. 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.760 It is week one of the NFL season. We have 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:42.720 not had a chance to talk since the roster cut, 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:44.360 so we'll spend quite a bit of time today talking 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.800 about the roster and how this team's made up. But 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:48.879 the great part is that the games are starting this 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.720 week and as of Wednesday and Thursday and Friday, we'll 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:55.400 be talking about Cowboys versus Panthers, which gets me excited. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:56.959 I don't know about you, guys, it gets me very 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.959 very excited. I'm ready to go. Somebody get feeling good today, 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.680 feel freaking great? Awesome college football this weekend. That was 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.560 a good weekend for some, not all, but some, and 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.000 it was just good to see football back on. Let's 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.800 start first, this fifty three man roster and this thing. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.560 I guess when I first when I first heard Nick, 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.000 you you were the one that texted me and said, yeah, 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.960 the roster's out without Dan Bailey, and it was I 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.119 was a bit shocked. I've learned in the NFL, though, 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:28.759 not to be completely shocked about pretty much anything. But 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:30.679 I do want to hear from you guys on what 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.080 your thoughts were. I saw your I saw your tweet 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.319 amber about Dan Bailey. I want to know your thoughts 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.640 about what you thought first when you saw that Dan 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.160 Bailey is no longer part of the Dallas Cowboys. Well, 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:42.760 we have talked a little bit. I mean, I know, 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.280 not in this group, but we did talk some yesterday 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.560 on a show, so some of some people might have 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.440 heard that. But I'll be real quick. I was really surprised. 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.440 As the day went on Saturday night, I kind of 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.080 was a little bit more bothered by what happened. I 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:56.880 wrote a column about it. I just didn't feel like 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.320 there was a true competition. Even the Garrett came back 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.440 yesterday and said, you know, they're always competing and all 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.120 that stuff. And he explained some reasons. I don't agree 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.440 with all of them. Actually, um, you know, they can 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:08.960 do whatever he wants. He went with it with the 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.560 other kicker. I just felt like Dan deserved a better 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.160 opportunity to win his job. He's the best that's ever 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.640 done it for the Cowboys. And if there's confidence issues, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.560 he had four preseason games because we know they weren't 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.920 trying to win those games. You should have been evaluating 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:25.840 him and to see if he could make it and 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.560 then move on. And then without just saying we don't 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.600 think he's going to be good enough to move on. Yeah, 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.280 I mean I echo most of that. I was floored, honestly. 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.520 I don't know. I haven't been here forever, but this 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.000 is my six year cover in the team, and I 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.640 don't know that I've ever been more surprised by something 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:46.519 that happened. And again and yeah, absolutely, And here's the thing. 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.960 Here's what I take issue with, is uh with De's Bryant, 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:52.800 Like we saw the writing on the wall for months 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.440 and months, even with Jason Witten, we sort of you 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.760 know that's right, you heard rumors that it could happen 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.200 you know, somebody report that he had tried out with 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.600 Joe tessitur like you all you hear this stuff. I 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.280 didn't hear anything about this until maybe fifteen minutes before 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.000 it actually happened, and it came right out of left field. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.959 And the thing that bothers me is exactly Dan Bailey 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.880 struggled down the end of last season. We all know 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.520 that we watched it happen the a what a cherry 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.720 on a crap Sunday that Philadelphia game was to see 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.400 him play so poorly in such a meaningless and awful game. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.560 Having seen all of that, you didn't get the first 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:36.040 idea that the Cowboys had concerns in the long term. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:37.960 You know, you didn't hear about it in the offseason. 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.920 It's not in the dozens and dozens of times that 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.240 the Joneses and Jason Garrett talked during the course of 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.560 an off season. It never came up. Dan Bailey struggled 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.400 for two practice days in Oxnard, and the media even 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.920 tried to bring it up, and point blank Jason Garrett 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.640 was dismissive of it. Like, we feel great about Dan Bailey. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.200 He's made a lot of kicks for us. We're not 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.840 worried about it, and then they pulled the rug out 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.760 from under him right at the start of the regular season. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.400 And to be fair, again, we said this on the 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.600 show we did yesterday. They know Dan better than I do. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.560 They are around him more, they see him more, they 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.920 have a better feel for whether or not they should 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.000 have confidence in him than I do. That's fair, but 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.640 I absolutely reserve the right to criticize them for it 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.360 until proven otherwise. Maybe this was the right call, and 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.440 I will give them credit for it if that comes 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.800 to pass. But I just don't like the way they 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.960 handled it. I never got the impression that Dan Bailey 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.880 was in a competition. I wonder if he ever thought that, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.080 and so it's just it just seems weird to me. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.640 And yeah, I didn't really love the way at all 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.120 played out. But we'll see. I mean, the great thing 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.080 about that is, especially with a position where the spotlight's 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.080 on you like that, we're gonna know real quick whether 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.440 or not they made the right calls. That's two people 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.800 that don't have a poster of Dan Bailey on their wall. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:59.520 Sociall see what happens with someone that I am. I 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.800 am really really upset and when I saw that. It 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:07.720 was absolutely surprising, especially when you see them giving him 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.920 only one chance. He only kicked the ball once, right 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:15.039 in the whole preseason. Yes it was only once? Yeah, yeah, 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.080 in games? In games, And a guy that has been 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.119 here so long, that has proven to be so good 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.920 for your team, how do you go about it this way? 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:25.880 And if you want to talk, And I'm not a 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:30.320 cap gap whatever expert, I'm not a money expert and 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.280 all that. But if you're like, Okay, that's gonna save 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.680 you about three million whatever, that's nothing. That's like change money. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.760 If you're a regular pedestrian, that's a lot of money. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.240 But when it comes to this, I'm like, okay, you 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.240 say you save money by cutting death. What you do 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.440 with that money? Nothing yet, you haven't done it. You 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.000 can carry that money over, So let's say, okay, that's 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.400 why I have to spend it now in order for 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.080 it to be valuable to them for a team that 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.760 already had sixteen million in cap space. I agree with her. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.200 Three million is nothing nothing. Get all that, I guess, 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.200 and I don't want to. I'm bringing Earl Thomas and 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:08.000 this is the big work behind it all. Then okay, 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.760 I'll maybe forgive this happening that they need my forgiveness. 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.159 But if that's a plan, then okay, we're good. But 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.560 as of right now, it just doesn't make any sense. Well, 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.560 I guess the way I look at that is, I 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.120 think next year, if let's assume for a second that 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.680 Tank has a really good year, they got to figure 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.400 out how they're gonna pay him. Right, Well, hold on 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.320 just a second, they gotta figure out how how they're 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.320 gonna pay him. They still have a quarterback that's playing 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.080 on his rookie contract. At some point they're gonna have 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.560 to pay him if he continues to progress as they 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.080 think he will. Right, and then let's remember Earl Thomas, 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.400 whether that happens now or not, Old Thomas will be 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.279 a free agent next year. So if they want to 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.479 go after him next year, they will have every opportunity 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:45.720 to do it, and they're gonna have to pay him. 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.760 Don't forget and ze. So all I'm saying is there 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.320 are things that are coming up that if the Cowboys 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.520 are thinking, hey, let's look at this from a long 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.400 term perspective, and let's assume for a second that they 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.240 look at this and say, this is money that we 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.039 may not have to use Now we can hold this 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.160 money over and we can have it available to us 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.520 next year. Then it does create a situation where three 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.320 million becomes valuable because you have all these different parts 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.280 that you have to sign. But that conversation only becomes 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.880 relevant if you have lost confidence that Dan Bailey is 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.680 the most accurate kicker. Absolutely absolutely, And that's where I 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.360 get back to, or I shouldn't ague back to. That's 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.280 where I think from what they've said, they felt like 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.000 because of the injuries, they felt like because of the 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.880 challenges that he had last year. I think they kind 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.480 of got to a point where they were like, well, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.360 we don't know that we trust him for the money, 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.400 and then we talk about this conversation all the time. Right, 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.880 if you're paying guy premium money and he's premium player, 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.280 then you feel great about it. You'll pay him all day, right, 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.520 But if you got to a point where you feel like, hey, 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.960 every time he runs out there, we're just as worried 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.160 as we would be with this young this other guy, 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.320 and it's gonna cost us three million less and go 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.160 with the other guy. To be fair, he's had injuries 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.640 two years in a row. His percentage has dipped I 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.320 think three years in a row, but again to nixt 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.080 point where let him let him compete. He got one 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.600 kick in the preseason and I just I won't understand 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.280 that for the life of me. Yeah, and again, how 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.160 does that help him on landing? And I don't think 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.280 he needs that much help to for another team to 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.280 grab him. I think he still has a lot in 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.720 him left. But with the guy that you had have 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.920 had for so long and that you would assume you 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.840 respect and everything because of everything that he has done 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.640 for you, how do you take the ability to showcase 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.320 your talent during the preseason as far as other team 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.680 If that's what you're planning on doing and cutting him, 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.079 why don't you let him show it and allow him 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.120 to see, you know, other teams see what he's still capable. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.000 Let me ask you this, and Nick and I would 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.000 have this conversation with walking In today. Could you really 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:54.200 could he really show it in the preseas? But wait, wait, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.520 I think that the way that that they probably would 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.400 look at that I would think is if we're worried 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.440 about injuries and we're worried about what he's done the 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:07.079 past couple of years, Like how We've seen him decline 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.160 and we've seen injuries. He might be great right now 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.000 in the preseason. He might go out and kick all 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.840 those field goals, but that doesn't necessarily make me feel 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.559 better if I'm worried about injuries and if I'm worried 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.600 about the future of where he's going based upon his 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.000 trajectory over the last couple of years. So yeah, I 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.360 could have given him that shot, but that doesn't necessarily 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.080 clear up Mike, Well, you know what I mean, how 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.480 much more important was the last game of the season 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.800 against the Eagles than a preseason game. I mean, they 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.240 both didn't seem to matter in the in the you know, 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.240 on the standings because they were out of it. But 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.600 yet talking to Garrett yesterday, it made it sound like 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:45.120 that last kick was pretty important that that Bailey missed. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.199 So if you're going to get valued by a game 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.320 that doesn't matter, there, I mean you should have valued. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.680 I think Brett Maher's kick of fifty seven yards I 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.280 think that got him on the team, and I agree, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.080 and I think if Bailey could have got that kick, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.200 I think it could could have helped him. And again, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.679 that's the one position that you can show you're telling 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.679 no matter why, no matter who who the other players 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.520 are on the field right now, just a one position 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.480 you can still show what you can do, no matter 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.400 if veteran guys are playing or not. But I also 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.719 believe that that's the one position where I'm just as 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.920 what he does in practice is just as important as 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:17.559 what he does in game lining up and kicking a 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.960 field goal and practice. The only difference is you don't 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.480 have the pressure. So seeing him kick and seeing him 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.360 kick over and over again in practice, that'll give you 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.719 the same kind of confidence. And there was that day 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:29.800 or two there where he was a little bit off 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.640 the rails. Okay, well liked when he throws the passes 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:38.199 in practice. Still again it's still a difference. But yeah, 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.360 but that's different a quarterback and a kicker. That's okay. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.240 Here's something that I think is kind of a really 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.880 underlying problem here that that I think other players need 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.640 to look at around the league, especially here. I've seen 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.720 it now happen a few times. You can be a 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.480 warrior and come come out and play if you're banged up. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.640 I mean, you want to come back and fight for 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.280 this team game, but you better be real careful with 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.600 how you play, because if you put bad tape on 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.840 yourself out there, your own team will evaluate that against you. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.520 I've seen it happen with DeMarcus where he played with 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:19.800 Hatchers ago because he saw DeMarcus where fight through all 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:21.320 this stuff, and then all of a sudden he gets 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.760 labeled as a guy that doesn't have it anymore, even 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:25.800 though he now he has a really shiny left hand 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.520 because of what he did in Denver. I mean, in 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.880 the same with Bailey, we're all forgetting. I mean, Odell 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.520 Beckham got paid. He only played in like four games 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.319 last year. I mean, why was he Because he's great? 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.040 But why I mean he only played in four games. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.000 He only played in four games. But he's great. He 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.920 wasn't great last year. What's the difference? Did he get hurt? 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:49.200 But he's great? Nick? I mean, but he Dan Bailey 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.480 was great. Dan Bailey was seven of seven last year 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.000 before he got hurt. Are we not forgetting that he 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.959 got hurt? Dan Bailey was never as great at what 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.640 he does as Odell Beckham is what he That is 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.920 an absolute false statement. That is a false statement. Okay, 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.400 he's not going to lead Sports Center with the top 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.320 ten with a field goal. I get it, being the 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.520 best wide receiver is more lucrative, but Dan Bailey was 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.920 literally the best to ever do it in his possession 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.040 in the NFL. Has was Dan Bailey the best last 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.959 year or the year before? Yeah? In the NFL at kicking, well, 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.400 he was the best kicker. Guy over here saying he 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.160 was seven to seven before he got hurt, so he 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.440 was doing pretty damn well. And he was the best 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.640 kicker in the NFL. Yes, last year in the NFL, 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.840 in the year before, in the history of the NFL, 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.600 he was the number one kicker before he got hurt. 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.280 Number two on the Tucker had held to number It 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.640 fell to number two because of because Tucker had a 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.880 good year, and and I get it, a lot of 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.360 those guys are right there that are all active players. 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:48.679 I mean, I get it. But I'm just saying, just 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.640 be just be careful when you come back and you 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.760 play it, because because bad tape is bad tape, and 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.080 it doesn't seem people don't seem to really. Uh, he 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:57.960 was kind of playing through an injury to their To 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.240 their credit, the Cowboys give to Marcus Lauren. It's a 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.840 ton of credit for gutting through injuries in twenty sixteen, 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:04.880 But that could be part of the reason why he 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.680 doesn't have a deal right now too, if he I mean, yeah, 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.559 and oh you believe, you best believe when it time 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.160 comes time to have negotiations on a contract, if you're 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.760 a guy that's been hurt, that's gonna come up because 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.079 that helps you drive the Probably think any fan cares 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.240 that Tyrone Crawford was battling through a rotator cuff injury. No, 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.319 they just like, he makes this amount of money and 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.760 he only got four sacks, Like what's the problem? Which 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.960 this goes back to my point in the long run 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.880 that I just would we would have heard something, somebody 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:35.040 would have said something between December and July. If this 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.120 was like again Dez Bryant was a long discussion and 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.880 the writing was the writing was in ten foot letters 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.440 all over the wall. You could not be surprised by that. Yeah, 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.440 Dan Bailey, this is my opinion. I don't have This 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.880 is I'm not backed up by any fact, but I 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.000 think they kind of just got to a point in 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.360 like mid August where they were like, we're gonna save 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:56.920 some money and we don't have to worry about this 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.680 guy's back. Let's just get yeah, just yank this, get 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.320 this were with and I think the fifty seven yarder 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.679 got him there. And I really do believe. I think 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.800 that's a crappy way to treat a guy who's been 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.439 I know it's a business, I know, I know, I 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.600 don't care. I still think it's crappy. Tell him ahead 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.080 of time that I mean, he needs to do well whatever, 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.920 like no, no, give him some chances in the preseas. 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.000 That's my point. That's my point. I think that, like 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.440 you said, they got to late mid late August and 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.040 they were like, h I don't know this, this guy 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.640 might be as good as Dan Bailey. And then the 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.040 fifty seven yarder happened, and I think that's when the 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.560 serious conversation started. I think it was a situation where like, man, 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.280 this guy can kick because I had heard, I had 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:38.960 heard that there were some people around here who are 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.880 already saying this guy is a really, really good kicker, 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.360 and we don't we don't like, we don't love the 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.800 idea that eventually he's that he's going to be kicked 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.720 off out of this place in favor of Dan Bailey, 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.200 because we feel like he's a good kicker. So I 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.760 just think that after that fifty seven yarder, I think 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.360 they that's when it really got into hyper gear, Like 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.280 more people are starting to stand on the table, like 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.320 why would we live this guy go when we already 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.520 have concerns to some degree about Dan. You know what, 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.280 I'm tired of this. I'm just gonna go talk to 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.280 Stephen right now. I want to figure out what's happening here. 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.640 Do it? Go ask him? Go do that. Actually, Nick 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.360 does have an interview with Stephen. Gents, we'll see what 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:14.920 he comes away from that with. We're gonna take our 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.880 first break when we come back. We do have a 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:18.560 lot of other topics that we want to hit. 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It's the 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.959 second segment of the Break Live for the SWBC Mortgage 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.960 studios at the Star and we're talking to Cowboys fifty 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.439 three man roster that talks about Dan Bailey, which is 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.320 a surprise cut of this training camp and may have 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.359 been may have been the surprise cut around the NFL. 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.200 I can't think of another cut around the NFL that 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.480 I was really shocked by like this one, So I 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.000 think it was one that that definitely caught a lot 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.320 of people's attention. Dan did get an opportunity to go 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.040 and trial for the New York Jets. We'll see if 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:12.760 he actually gets the job. He's not been signed to 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.720 this point, but there's no doubt in my mind that 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.120 before this season has done, Dan Bailey will be kicking 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.760 on somebody's roster. He's just done too much his league 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:22.560 not to get a second opportunity, and I think for 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.560 kickers that's how it just goes. He's going to get 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.160 an opportunity again and hopefully he'll be healthy and ready 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.160 to go and we'll be able to resume his career. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.959 Let's talk. We're about to move on. But you know, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.320 I really hate that we didn't get a chance to 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.760 talk to him, and we don't get a chance to talk, 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.240 not to say goodbye, but just to hear his side 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.560