WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Week 10 Crazy Predictions 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:04.040 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:07.240 and the Dallas Cowboys football clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.959 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.280 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:19.600 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:25.759 wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:31.240 Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, November tenth, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:34.960 episode number seventy three. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.040 I am Derek Eagleton, and we're live from the s 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:41.040 WBC Mortgage Studios at the start talking some Cowboys football, 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:45.320 getting ready for Cowboys versus Falcons. Let's jump right in 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.280 and get this thing rolling with some Zeke talk. I 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.519 guess is this probably the last time we're gonna have 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:56.280 Zeke Talk? No four weeks? No, well for four weeks. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.120 I mean it kind of no, because they'll file some 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.440 motion or something something that we'll have to talk about. 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.959 I don't know, no, no, no, Well, yeah, we had 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.880 a special edition of Talking Cowboys Break yesterday. Nick and 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:10.920 I were on it, so we had a chance to 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.520 talk a little bit about what was coming out with 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.679 the Zeke News. But since then, I think there's been 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:18.520 some more clarity that's come to I know, we talked 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.760 a little bit about what the results of the of 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:26.360 the denied motion for the injunction, but it sounds like 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.080 there's going to be an expedited process and that this 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.600 case will be heard a lot sooner than I think 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.840 any of us probably expected. Dy've catch us up on that. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:36.720 Do you know kind of the dates here that we're 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:41.319 talking about and what happens after that? December the first, 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:46.120 Although I was under the impression, isn't that just another repeal? 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.680 Like that's not the actual case? Still, is it? Or 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.160 is it not? I was nobody cares. I mean honestly, 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.120 like all that stuff, nobody cares. When's he gonna play? Right, Okay, 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.880 so tell me when's he gonna play? Not until December? 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.320 Well we don't. He's not gonna have a hearing in 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.040 court until December first, which and that's you're saying that's 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.760 not the case. I don't think so. But I was 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:10.920 on I was shooting a TV show when all this 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.280 stuff happened yesterday, So I'm still playing catchup. I feel 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.800 like a little bit. But he's got a hearing on 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.320 December first, they're gonna consider the merits of this again, 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.760 and it's theoretically possible that he could have the suspension overturned, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:25.800 but by that point there would only be two games 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.480 left on it. As far as I understand it, there's 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.640 nothing he can do between now and the first Like 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.320 he's going to miss four games at least. What happens 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:35.959 if he just shows up, puts on a uniform and 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.600 runs on the field, he in the NFL would probably 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.040 be drastically I mean, he and the Cowboys would probably 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.840 be drastically fined or maybe lose draft picks. I don't know, 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.720 but I don't think that. I don't think that would work. No, 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.960 I don't think that's a good idea. So he's and 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.839 then when he does have this hearing, everything I've heard 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.720 is that it's like a just an infinitesimal percent chance 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.280 that he wins anyway. So it's looking like he's going 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.600 to serve the six games, which you know, it is 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.639 what it is, which and I've been saying it all year, 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.040 I still believe it. You got to fight it as 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:14.960 hard as you possibly can. If you think you didn't 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.400 do anything wrong, this is your reputation and your name 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.640 and all that stuff, YadA YadA YadA. That said, now 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.679 that it has come down and you have lost, I mean, 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.440 the thought of continuing this and neither potentially missing playoff 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.720 games or stretching part of this suspension into twenty eighteen 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.040 doesn't make any sense to me at this point. It 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.840 doesn't really matter. It doesn't sound like because at the 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.080 at the very least, he is going to miss four games, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.360 which which is going to be at Atlanta then at 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.720 home against Philly and the Chargers and watched it. That's 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:50.800 going to happen. I get, and I guess. Basically, my 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.160 point is you already lost in the sense that if 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.680 you can keep from serving it at all, go for it. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.680 But you lost, you're going to serve the vast majority 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.520 of this suspension. Honestly, you might as well just let 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.120 it play out and not have it hangover yourself or 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.760 this team anymore than it already has. You lose. I mean, basically, 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.920 that's yeah. So I don't know if he's gonna do that. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.480 I'm just saying at this point, you couldn't keep it 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.560 from happening, so why drag this into being a thing 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.680 that goes on any longer than it has to. You know, Nick, 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:23.599 talk to me about the roster spot. What happens with 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.480 that roster spot at this point, now that he's officially suspended, 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.080 he will be suspended for four games at the very least. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.599 What happens with this roster spot right now? They're gonna 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.520 have to sign somebody doesn't have to be from the 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.320 practice squad, but it probably should be since it's somebody 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.480 that's been around. Also, something about that rule that with 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.360 regards to the practice if you go into a week 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.520 and this has been changed over the last year, I believe, 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.160 but if you go into a week and with fifty 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.440 two on the go into a game with fifty two 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.520 on your roster, and you've got, of course a full 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.760 practice squad, then if you do that, then then you 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.719 have to release not only three players from your practice squad, 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.919 but they have to be their longest tenured players on 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.800 your practice squad. So it basically just don't do that. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.080 It forces seems to say, if you're gonna have a 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.520 practice squad and you got a spot on your rosters 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:14.480 as you could save cat money that way all day 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.200 long and just say all right, well you're going to 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:20.080 be inactive anyway. So instead of bringing up a you know, 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:24.240 Marquez White or whoever, Kellen Moore, they have to leave 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.480 him off the team for three weeks, two weeks yeah, yeah, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.160 So so they're definitely gonna bring somebody up, and they 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.120 will definitely put somebody onto. Yeah, may would be this 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:37.840 defensive tackle that they brought up. Volano. Seems like it 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.080 makes sense. He could probably play knows for you if 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.200 you needed him too. But I would imagine though it's 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.200 probably going to be a guy inactive. I would think 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.360 if they brought us, if they brought up Volano, they 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.800 could make Lewis Neil in active because Volano is more 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.279 of a one technique. Yeah, it kind of depends. I 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.520 mean that's what they need. He's been here for all 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:58.719 of three days though, So Marks White, you need a dB. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.360 I mean I don't know. I'm just you know, if 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.680 it's you, don't you might not need anybody right now? 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:08.120 What about right? So the thing that's Brian Brown, I mean, 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.760 if you doesn't play, I would argue that you have 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.520 a receiver and no one. Yeah. The thing I think 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.440 of is Tyrn is dealing with injuries, and Chaz Green 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.440 has an injury history of his own. So I mean, 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.480 you could bring up Kadeem Edwards if you wanted to, 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.920 but it doesn't seem like there's a drastic need anywhere 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.440 to where you're like, yep, that's what they're gonna do, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.160 Like it's I don't know, it's six and one half 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.160 a dozen of the other. Well, we are certainly, by 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.040 the end of this show going to get some predictions 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.080 from you guys. I know we've talked about this throughout 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.240 the week in what your your comfort level was, but 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.080 for this particular game, by the end of this show 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.640 would definitely do our predictions and we'll see what you 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.360 guys think about your about whether your thoughts on whether 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.560 the Cowboys can win this weekend or will win this weekend. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.120 I should say changes now that Ezekiel Elott will not 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.240 be playing for sure this weekend and for the foreseeable future. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.280 All Right, so let's talk Let's move on. Le's talk 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.080 a little bit about injuries. Yesterday, there were two notable 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:07.000 names that did not practice, Dez Bryant Tyron Smith. What 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:08.760 do we know about those two at this pointing it 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.880 in their possibilities of being able to play this weekend? Well, 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.640 Dez talked in the locker room yesterday and basically said, 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.920 if it's up to him, he's gonna play. It's not 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.600 up to him though, so that's something worth keeping in mind. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.480 But he was out there warming up. He didn't do anything. 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.880 He did not do anything practice related. He left the 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.360 field after about six minutes. I think, um, but I 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.600 I just kind of I have this feeling like he's 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.880 gonna gear up and do his best to get through 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.520 this and probably play. I don't have a good read 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.200 on Tyron, but if I had to guess, I don't 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:44.120 think he's gonna play without Tyren Smith. Amber, are you 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:49.360 even more concerned without Zeke and now Tyron Smith? And 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.000 people have been attacking me like I'm I don't know. 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.880 How can you not be worried? People are attacking you 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.000 for thinking it's bad to not Tyrant and it makes 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.560 it makes absolute only no sense. I mean, how is 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.280 that dumb? How can you not be concerned with the 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.520 team losing those two guys at the same time? I 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:13.480 am one, and that changes my whole perspective of how 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.760 this game is gonna turn out. I know we're gonna 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.920 get into that later on, but I was feeling pretty 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.680 confident with the Cowboys beating the Falcons, But now I 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.119 don't really feel as confident. Ironically, you got four guys 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:27.720 I think on this team that you could make an 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.200 argument that are your most valuable players, and presumably you 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.200 know one's gonna be gone, Presumably two could be gone, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.920 and there's a possibility three. Well, if you want to 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.880 put Dez in that category, De's probably fifth in my opinion, 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:45.440 Who are you talking about, Sean Lee, Dak Prescott? If 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.360 you're talking about most valuable players. We talked about the 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.240 earlier this week, and I think we all agreed that 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.839 those were kind of your most valuable players, right, I 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.640 think you're talking d Prescot, hurt, you know what I'm saying. Overall, 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.199 looking at your team, you got Dak Prescott, you got 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.800 Sean Lee, Tyren Smith, and ezeicularly are probably the four 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.400 guys in no particular order, that you would say are 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.240 the most necessary players on this team. And right now 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.360 you know one for certain will be out this week. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.240 You think a second when Tyron Smith will be out, 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.120 and if you want to extend that out to the 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.400 fifth player, maybe Dez is your fifth player. Possibly he 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.640 would be out this game. It's a lot of very 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.400 important players that will be mad. I look at it 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.400 from just straight talent, you' just your most talented player 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:29.679 is out, I think, And then you know, Tyron Smith 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.240 is probably your next best and he's probably gonna be out. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.520 And then from it's just this talent standpoint, I think 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.480 des Bryant's right there and he could be out. So 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.920 I have a question for you guys. I got people 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:44.240 on Twitter some kind of trying to make the argument, Oh, well, 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.920 you have Chas Green and he's not a bad player. 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.439 The only issue he has is, you know, injury wise 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.440 and staying healthy. Are you guys feeling confident enough with 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.040 Chas Green in case Tyron does not play, Do you 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.359 guys feel that the whole line will be just okay, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.920 be fine with Chas Two different things. Yeah, it is. 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:06.839 I think it could be okay. Yeah, I think that 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.360 ain't gonna be very good. I don't think, I mean, 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.440 can't trust Chads Green. He hasn't shown any reason to 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.680 trust him for you know, as a player in the 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.360 last couple of years. So to replace Tyron Smith, that's 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.240 gonna be tough. And then you're gonna be trying to 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.079 grind out yards with Alfred Morris and Rod Smith and 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:28.880 McFadden for one game. For one game, I think I 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.600 think they can be fine. Chad. I mean, Chads played 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.600 two games last year and was pretty good. It won't 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.360 be tyrant, but I think they can be fine. It's 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.280 really if we're getting into a scenario where you're talking 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.240 about Chad's replacing Tyrn for a month, that's where I 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.920 get worried. Like if it's for three hours on Sunday, 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.520 I really, yeah, I think he can be fine. Here's 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.000 the only thing about four games though. If he was 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.800 doing that and he had a more experienced guard playing 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.400 beside him, then I would agree with you. I think 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.120 where you're starting to get into the area that concerns 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.520 me is you're now talking about Jonathan Cooper, who I 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.760 think has been fine, but he's been fine in the 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.160 context of Tyren Smith and Travis Frederick being on either 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.520 side of him. Yep, Now you're changing it up and 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.240 it's Chaz Green and Jonathan Cooper on the left side. 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.280 That worries me. That worries me a lot. One of 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.360 the like, this is one of those situations where like 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.560 it's like, you know, like and I don't know if 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.240 he's gonna be able to get on the field on Sunday, 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.160 But like Tyron Smith just kind of has to find 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.600 a way like that. I mean, hope, so you're well, 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.080 like you're just you're into the grind of the season. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:30.640 You see guys do that all the time. I mean, 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.040 like we talked to Marcus Lawrence put off season ending 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.640 surgery and wasn't as good as a player for two 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.080 years because of it, but he gutted through it and 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.160 did what he could. And like, I mean, if the 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.880 Cowboys are going to accomplish their goals, it sucks to 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.800 say because injuries are terrible. I can't imagine like trying 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.120 to do that job when I wasn't feeling one hundred, 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.240 Like my lower back hurts, and I'm a writer and 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.680 I'm in like this sucks. I can't imagine being a 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:57.080 football player, you know, but you gotta do crap like that. 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.840 And if he I mean, I don't he might have 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.000 to miss a game, but like Tyron Smith is just 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.319 gonna have to find a way to not let this 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.200 take him out for too long of a period of time. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.560 I mean, it's just amazing when you think about this 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:13.000 and then Jason Witten in fifteen years, Yeah, it's never 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.200 had anything. I mean he has had things like that, 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.880 but like, why doesn't he miss games? Like what what 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.079 does it when you're looking at Tyron Smith and Ordaz 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.920 and his knee and you're like, m shut him down. Now, 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.520 not gonna happen. But yet Jason Witten has never had 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.240 that moment. I don't believe it. It just makes it 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:34.120 just just weird of why why it's never happened with 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.760 Witten and it happens with other guys. And they need 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.000 Tyren Smith big time in this game, and I feel 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.240 like they're gonna look at and go now it's not good. 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:42.920 And not only that, but I think you have to 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.920 consider the fact. I mean you guys saw the game. 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.199 I assume he saw the game last night. With Richard Sherman, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.000 I've been battling Achilles problems all week and he was like, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.720 it's not right. Something right, And then what happens. Now 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.840 it's ruptured and he's gone for the season. Not to 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:56.640 say that this is the same injury with It's not 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:00.800 even close Achilles versus growing. But my point is sometimes 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.839 when when a player pushes it and when sometimes when 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.480 a player plays, even when he has an injury, and 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.000 even when he knows something's not right, there is always 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.200 the potential that it turns into something much bigger. Right, God, 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.520 that's not here, I know. I'm just talking about a 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.959 player that was banged up all week and then had 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.640 a season ending injury. With the same injury having to 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.840 deal with that. The trainers we've got Thursday night football 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.240 is such a clone. Well did you notice that when 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.160 he got hurt and once they got him up to 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.400 walk off the field, like the guy was, well, the 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.120 guy was. I assume it was their trainer or doctor 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.679 or someone. He kind of pushed the dude and it 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.520 made me wonder like his he was he upset that 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.360 you know, this guy has been talking to him all 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.640 week and he knew this was coming, and he still 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.600 played or whatever, but he was visibly upset and pushed 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.280 that guy out of the way, like get away from me, 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.559 you know. And it's I don't know, that's a tough 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.040 situation because I bet any amount of money he was 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.040 just as much like one. I'm sure it wasn't like 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.400 somebody was pushing him to play. These guys want to play, right, Yeah, 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.200 it's the player. It's never it's the train. But any 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:01.960 given Sunday where they just go out and say you're 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.040 gonna play, right, that doesn't happen. And it sounds like, 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.079 at least from what Dez was talking about, like he 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.840 knows I still I might want to play, but at 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.040 the end of the day, it's gonna be somebody else's costs, 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.760 whether medically I can or cannot keep repeating that over 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.760 right where he's like, it's not my decisions, sor right, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:23.240 it's not. These games aren't needed. They're just not Thursday 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.600 and night games. They think that they're needed, you know, 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.920 because they want to just dominate the market. But I 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.120 just it's not good. It's everything that they say about 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.320 health and trying to protect players and then to throw 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.360 them out there on a Thursday night. It's not Here's 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.840 the one thing I will say, though, I saw I 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.880 saw a graphic this morning that said that if they 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:46.840 take away the Thursday Night package, amount of money they 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.000 make on the Thursday Night Package every team will now 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.560 be The salary cap for every team will now go down. 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.800 I think it was seven point two or seven millions 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.880 somewhere in there, and on average, that means one hundred 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.440 and thirty something thousand dollars per player, that it goes down, 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.480 everybody willing to give up that money? That's the question. 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.680 Now the guys that are highly paid, maybe so, But 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:09.640 is everybody willing to accept the fact that now the 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.240 salary cap is gonna go down, which means that the 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.320 mouth that they're gonna be able to pay their players 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:17.040 now goes down by seven million per team. That's their 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.320 thing to figure out, right, Yeah, I mean, it doesn't 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:20.920 have to be that way. It's just the way that 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.000 it's just the way that it is. It's the way 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.240 that they because of the Sunday Night or the Thursday 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.120 night package that they've Okay, well, so nothing's gonna happen overnight. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.240 It's gonna happen in the new CBA. So just overcompensate 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.200 or whatever and fix it and where you're not gonna 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.600 lose as much money. But I mean, that's that's all about, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.040 like the revenue. Whatever the revenue is they're going to 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.000 get from finance and get more from CBS. And I 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.320 mean that I'm just saying, I mean, you can they 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.320 can figure that out. They don't have to play games 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.120 on Thursday. I don't know. All I'm saying is there 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.120 is a money component to this that I think everybody 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:54.800 has to be aware of because it affects the players 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.200 as well. And the players have to be aware of 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.040 that too. If they're pushing to say and they may 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.240 still say, hey, it's worth its us to not have 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.840 Thursday games and give up that revenue. I'm just saying 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.000 that's a part of the equation here is the amount 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.040 of money that they would be giving up. You know. Yeah, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.440 all right, let's move on, Let's get some let's real 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.840 quick before we get to our first break. Let's see 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.680 if we can figure out inactives. It seems pretty straightforward. 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.040 I'll throw out some names. You guys tell me if 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.520 we're on the right track here. Dan Bailey, the assumption 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.680 would be at either Tyrn Smith or Byron Bell will 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:29.960 be inactive. Ben Abanwickery that's three. Justin Durant that's four, 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:34.240 Blake Jarwin is five. And then you're looking at a 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.160 situation where, assuming that they're gonna have to bring somebody 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.480 up for execul Elliott Spot, my assumption would be whoever 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.280 that is probably is going to be an active at 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.480 least this week. That makes six. And then you're looking 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.000 at either say a Lewis Neil or possibly Noah Brown 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.560 as your seventh player. Who do you guys think rounds out? 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:55.240 That be Noah Brown? So you think you think Daz 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.360 is just a lock? No? I mean I guess I 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.160 should have said Noah Brown or as Bryant. Okay, if 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.359 Dez is playing, then you might feel like you need 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.639 that seep in him anyways, because I mean, I know 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.320 Terrence Williams hopped off the field, you know, last week too, 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.320 and he hasn't been on the injury report, but still 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.680 with him and Dez, I think I want no, Yeah, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.840 I think you can win all six receivers up for this. 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:21.800 So you think Lewis Neil then becomes your seventh guy? Um, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:27.399 that was pretty good. I would throw out Justin Justin 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:32.040 March Shillillard as a possibility and McFadden. You can't do that, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:33.800 do that? Would you go into this game with just 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:38.159 two running backs? I mean no, probably not, But I 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.280 mean doesn't sound like he's gonna play anyways. What about 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:45.240 your boy? What about your boobe? I think he's playing? 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:46.800 Do you think so? I think I think it's a 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.720 lock that he's going to be active this week personally, Okay, 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.920 whether he plays a lot on defense, I don't know that. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.120 I think they'll probably work him in on special teams. 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:58.240 I think he'll get some opportunities to play on defense. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.720 I think, look at it, probably he has a lot 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.399 to do with the other injuries this team's facing. But 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.800 I don't think it's a lock by any stretch. Well, 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.520 I'll say this, if he's not, do you think been 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.000 A been Wickery then is active? So it's really just 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.000 one spot anyway, Yeah, probably no, Yeah, I'd be surprised 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:17.159 if they sat two or dbs whatever you want to say. So, 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.160 but justin marsh Lillard is another guy that's I didn't 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.000 even think about him. Um and then yeah, probably Lewis 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.000 Neil if they need to just depend. It really depends 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.240 on what happens with Tyrann and Dez, I think, because 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.040 if if both of those guys sit, then that's two 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.879 of the seven that are accounted for by guys you 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.120 weren't expecting to have to sit. So because they don't 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.680 have Price obviously this week, so they've been going into 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:45.680 games with Price and MALIEK. Collins and David Irving as 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:50.960 you're three, so and Ash. Ash forgot about Ash, So 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.280 then you don't have Price. Then you you could go 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.560 three and just stick with Ash, or you could bring 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.359 make Neil Academs. Well I got made. We need to 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:05.000 make Lawrence Taku. Yeah, I think you need one of 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.520 those guys. Yeah, I mean, I mean I think Lewis 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:11.520 Neil is gonna be active. Yeah, so yeah, maybe not 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.919 the linebacker. You know, I think I think Atlanta. I 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.080 don't know. The Atlanta is tough to because of you know, 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:20.720 we talked about this running back by committee, but he 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.919 listened to Rod Marinelli yesterday. He was saying that, you know, 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:25.880 these guys are about as good as as it gets 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.200 when it comes to like a one two punch because 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.719 of what the Falcons do with Um Freeman and then 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:37.320 Tevin Coleman, so both tough to bring down. That being said, 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.400 I think you'd have to go. I think you're gonna 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.040