WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: What is the Future for the Offense? 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:04.400 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:12.240 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.040 for a break. Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:20.560 time for the break. On Dallas Cowboys dot Com were 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:28.520 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hey, guys, 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.600 welcome back to the Cowboys Break. We thought it was 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.920 gonna be a nice, little easy bye week where we 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.280 would get to rest, but that is not the case. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:42.320 We got some knees breaking down. I think although we 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.600 have heard the talk about Amari Cooper, we neither none 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.839 of us really thought that would actually happen, or did you. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.200 Hell no, no, I didn't think it would sure game 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.200 as a surprise, especially how it went down yesterday. While 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.440 the Cowboys were super surprised that happened. I'm very surprised 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.640 of the first round pick, you know, but I'm not. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.480 I wasn't. I mean, I guess one of those things. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:07.920 You'll see it when you know. I believe it when 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:09.840 you see it. But I kind of thought, maybe, you know, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.440 because I'm still a believer. Where they're smoke, there's fire 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.720 and there's a lot of smoke around Earl tom was 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:16.800 that never happened, but I just kind of thought there 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.480 was something, but not to this level, not to first 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.760 round pick. I've just got automated responses plugged into my 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.679 phone where I'm like, the Cowboys like their guys. No, 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.640 I don't think that's gonna happen. I mean, Cowboys are 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:33.200 linked to like five different players every trade cycle, and 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.240 this is I mean, you know, they did the Bryce 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.880 Butler and Matt Castle trades when they absolutely had to 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.040 to try to keep their season afloat. But this is 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.360 the first time they've done something like this in my 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.319 time covering the team, and they we like our guys, 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.360 so we love to build through the draft. So I'm 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.440 pretty shocked. I'm still shocked almost twenty four hours later. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.440 And Jerry Jones had said a few weeks ago that 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.240 he hasn't hit the panny button yet. And we know 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.400 how much talk there was around Earl Thomas and the 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.600 trade and how they battle there and towards the end, 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.760 how they actually did want to get Earl Thomas and 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:11.160 he didn't work out. Now, after this Washington loss, you 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.280 think that now that's stuck another type of nerve where 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.720 they are now kind of desperate and willing to actually 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.360 give up a first round pick. Yes and no, I 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.240 mean yes for this season to try to let's do something, 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.080 to try to you know, maybe pull off a couple 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.720 more wins here that you can perhaps win this division. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.560 But I think the fact that he's twenty four years 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.440 old and they feel like this is a guy that 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.799 would probably be better than anybody that they could pick 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.120 up next year and wherever they're going to draft, I 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.000 feel like there's more to it than just these last 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:51.080 nine games. I think that there's there's like future implications 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.240 as well. So I yes and no is my nswer 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.200 to that, if that makes sense. Yeah, I feel a 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.079 couple types of ways about that. I mean, yeah, I 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.639 think you could classify this as a desperation move because 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.399 they spent six months you know, you know, we don't 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.640 need a number one wide receiver. There's only five or 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.000 six of those guys in the whole league. We feel 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:13.680 good about what we did. You know, these guys are 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.799 gonna step up, They're gonna take the pressure off Zeake. 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:17.760 I mean, it was one of the biggest talking points 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.440 of the entire offseason and seven games in it obviously 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.880 hasn't happened. And they overpaid for Amara Cooper. They did, 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.320 and I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, but 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.360 it's just I think it's a statement of fact. On 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.400 the flip side of that, you know, at some point 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.240 the Cowboys can't win because if they weren't, if they 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.680 weren't doing anything, and they're just like, we're gonna get 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:43.000 this together. Alan Hearns is gonna, he's gonna he's coming 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.480 into form, and Michael Gallops keeps getting better. We'd be 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.280 killing them for being stubborn and not changing their line 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.160 of thinking. And you know, you're wasting a season where 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.160 the SEC East is down because you're too stubborn to 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.240 admit that you made a mistake. So they're admitting that 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.080 they made a mistake there. You know, I appreciate that. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:05.000 I appreciate that they they see what they did wrong 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.520 and they're trying to rectify it. I do think they 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.640 overpaid for Amary Cooper, but he's twenty four, he had 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.640 two really badass seasons. There's at least a reason to 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.640 hope that he can turn it around. So it's an overpay, 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.080 But I don't think it's just this drastically terrible mistake 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:23.760 that a lot of people want to paint it as. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.640 And I give him credit for recognizing the problem and 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.479 trying to fix it. Yeah, I mean I what I 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:34.120 can't forget is the fact that you know, this team 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.120 has done this a couple of times since I've been here, 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.279 to get a first round, to trade first round picks 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.960 for a receiver, and it's like, there's just more to 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.320 it than that. I mean, they brought in Roy Williams 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.039 and and he had Tony Romo and that didn't work out. 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.000 And people can say all they want to like, well 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.920 that was different because that was Roy Williams. But if 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.480 things continue to go for Amary Cooper the way that 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.800 they've been, then he will be Roy. He'll be the 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.279 same type of thing. I mean, it's it's spiraling downward 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.200 until it can get back up. I just have a 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.440 very hard time thinking we'll be sitting here in April 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.159 and go, you know, I'd rather have my first round pick. 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.080 I just feel like that's going to happen. I don't 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.600 know what he can do to be like, I'm so 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.840 good glad they didn't they did that. That's fine. They 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.040 can have the pick we got Cooper. I have a 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.919 hard time thinking that's going to happen, and so I 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.159 also have a hard time thinking that you couldn't have 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.679 done something different with the second round. Oh the Eagles 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.599 were asking for a second fine, I mean Cowboys second, 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.159 it's probably gonna be about the same. You can throw 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.280 in fourth, fifth, you can, you can sweeten the deal 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.359 without going into the first round. I think. But and 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.960 that's I see where you're going. And that's why you know, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.560 in the weeks leading up to this, I said, give 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.160 me DeVante Parker for a sixth or it's water way 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.400 under the bridge, but give me Josh Gordon for a fifth, 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.160 because you're giving yourself a chance to fix the problem 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.479 without committing these crazy resources to it. I mean, you know, 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.320 if if you trade DeVante Parker for a sixth, then 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.200 he's terrible. Who cares? If Josh Gordon gets suspended for 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.640 smoking weed? Who cares? Is a fifth round pick their 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:12.760 day three picks there, they're a diamond dozen't so committing 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.800 the first round pick to it, especially with how good 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.120 this team has been in the first round, it is 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.400 a little disheartening. I take a little bit of comfort 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.719 in the thought that you know, I'm already diving into this. 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:28.160 This receiver crop for twenty nineteen does not look super promising. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:32.239 So you know, at least you know Cooper's Cooper really 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.240 probably is better than a receiver that you're gonna get 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.599 in the first round. But that doesn't mean maybe there's 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.840 an offensive tackle you really love in the first round, 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.920 or a tight end or whatever that you know now 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.640 you don't have a chance to get that guy. You know. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.679 I just feel like first round picks are so valuable, 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.000 and a lot of teams feel that way that if 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.800 you would have called thirty one teams and then at 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.840 last two days, maybe they did, but I doubt it. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.520 Call thirty one teams and ask for their number one 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.800 receiver for a first round pick, and I have a 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.719 feeling you could have gotten someone maybe maybe better than him, 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.119 I mean first round pick. I mean, I just feel 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.520 like you think so, yeah, I do. I think Cooper's 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:14.480 a little uniquely positioned just because he's I know, you know, 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.520 the last year and a half have not been great, 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.080 but he's got a resume. He's got a resume, he's 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:23.160 a two time pro bowler, and his contract is in 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:24.800 a certain spot. I mean, you know, you think about 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.239 the truly elite receivers in this league, most of them 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.640 are playing on huge money deals, most of them. I mean, 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.920 you know, you're not getting Odell Beckham for just one 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.760 first round pick. I don't think you're not getting Antonio 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.360 Brown or Julio Jones. Like I think Cooper's a little 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.760 uniquely positioned to where the body of work and the 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.800 pick kind of coinside, which is why you know, I 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.520 thought you might be able to get him for a second. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.440 But yeah, well the deal is pretty much made. That 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.080 is what happened. They did give up their first round pick. Now, 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.760 with that being said, they're fixing to cut Bryce Boiler 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.280 and make it official pretty soon. So with the Mari 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.840 coming in, how does he integrate with the group of 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.640 wide receivers that the Cowboys are really have? Obviously Terrence 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.440 Williams out the door. Basically he's on our heart and 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.600 then you got tell you when Austin still hurt. But 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.440 based on what we've seen so far, how they've managed 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.200 the wide receivers and what they have done with them 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.520 right now, how do you see a guy like Mari 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.040 really working out and coming in and making a difference, 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.880 which and this this is the flips of Eric. Hey, Derek, 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.839 what's that up? You have a good meeting? Yeah cool, 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:42.880 cool to talk after? Oh boy? Oh as all in trouble. 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:46.640 Oh good, let's finish the show. Hey yeah, great. I 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:51.120 hope that's I hope that's a joke. Um, it's a joke. Okay, good, 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.880 thank you. Um. I've been thinking about that because I 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:56.599 just said it, and I still I believe it. The 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.959 Cowboys overpaid for Amari Cooper, But that happens when you're 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.240 trying to improve your team in the NFL from time 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.319 to time. You look at the flip side of that. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.120 He's immediately your best receiver, he's your ex he's going 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.440 to be here for twenty five more games, and hopefully 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.600 you would think the Cowboys are gonna have a good 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.960 shot to extend him beyond that. Like I'm if he's 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.199 supposed to replace your first round pick, I'm thinking of 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.360 him as a building block player. Michael Gal is my 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.880 why from here on out. Cole Beasley is my slot. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.240 No disrespect to Alan Huns or Deanta Thompson, But like, 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.880 why am I bothering with that? If I just gave 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.160 up a first round pick for Amari Cooper. Am I 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.400 crazy for thinking that? No? I mean, I think Alan 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.320 Hearns they tried to, you know, see if he could 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.880 be a guy that was you know what he was 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.000 a couple of years ago, and and that's Alan Hearns 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.160 is a reason why you could have you should have 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.560 some caution here with with Cooper because they saw what 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.280 he did a couple years ago and they said, you know, 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.600 maybe he could be that type of guy. They're hoping 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.800 that Cooper's the type of guy was you know a 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.199 couple of years ago as well. But they're different skills 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.200 skill um, they had different skill sets, so you can't 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:07.240 really compare these players. I just feel like that you're 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:11.360 You're right about that at least from Gallup and Cooper. Beasley. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.480 You got to get a new contract for him, right, 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.439 we'll see, but but you know Beasley will be better 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.600 if if if this guy can stretch the field. And 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.640 I said this yesterday on the show. He's got nineteen 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.160 touchdowns eleven him or thirty yards or more. And that's 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.760 that's pretty good when you think of Daz had nineteen 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.040 touchdowns of thirty or more in his eight year career. 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.480 So you know he's a guy that has stretching the field, 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.200 but I don't I think I agree with everything you 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.840 said right there, except for I don't discard Herns so readily. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.560 Well I'm not trying to cut him, no, I know, 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.160 but I guess what I'm saying in a year I 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.559 am I'm saying right now when you look at I mean, 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.840 I think this last game was that not the best 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:48.840 game he's had so far since he's been here. I 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.960 mean as five catches seventy four yards, that's significant, I 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:56.000 think in this offense. And so I still believe that, 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.440 I still believe there's still more to find out about 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.320 about what Alan Herns can be here and maybe if 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.760 given a particular role, which what we've seen I think 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.920 i've seen already from him is what he does well 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.240 is he can catch those slant routes. He can catch 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.240 those Carl routes. Like He's not a deep threat, but 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.120 he's a guy that you could put into a role 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.079 of moving the chains. He could be a big body 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.400 that you can use to move the chains. I think 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.400 what we're what we're at least when I'm starting to 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.319 see is I think if if you can get from 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.199 Cooper what you thought you were getting from Dez when 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.000 he was here, which is a true number one type 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.120 receiver that can make big plays. He is your explosive 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.840 play guy. He can make explosive plays for you. Now, 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:39.360 what that does is that allows a lot of these 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.760 other guys to settle into roles. Cole becomes a guy 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:43.720 that works to slot and works the middle of the field, 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.360 can move the chains. Hearns can be a big body 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.800 that can can can move the chains as well. I 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:50.880 think Gallup has shown he can get downfield and make 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.079 some plays downfield for you. I think you can start 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.520 to kind of find roles for these guys. That makes 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.040 a lot more sense than just kind of throwing him 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:58.400 out there and seeing I don't know, really know what 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.240 anybody does well and just kind doing whatever you know 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.280 if you want to use, if you want to use 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.679 Hearns the same way they used Bryce when he was 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.960 actually part of the offense, that's fine with me, but 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:09.800 maybe a little bit more. But yeah, you give up 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.040 to see I disagree, and Hearns did have his best game, 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.080 and I like Alan Hearns as a person and I 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.960 don't think he's been bad, but way more than I 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.560 remember his five catches for seventy four yards. I remember 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.600 he ran out of bounds on his big game and 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.280 like seemed like he could have got more yards and Murray, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:31.240 he dropped. He dropped a super clutch contested ball. I mean, like, 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.400 but let's remember background. Let's remember Amari Cooper also has 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.880 been having issue with catching the ball. I mean, that's 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.760 that's that's beside the point you have made your bed 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:42.480 with I get it. I'm just saying, though, before you 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.120 start relying on him to be whatever and discarding the 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.959 other guys, saying that he can't always catch the ball reliably, 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.079 I'm just saying that's something you got to consider. You're 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.600 you're that's my nightmare. Like if I mean, if that's 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.840 really how No, that's not that's not possible if you 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.040 gave up a first round pick, like what you're saying, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.920 it's not possible that you've been having issues catching. No, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.840 I'm saying, he like, start catching it then, because the 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.800 first round pick is gone now, ex receiver. I don't 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:10.960 think it's that's simple. It better if I think what 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.079 he's saying. I'm not trying to speak for you, but 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.679 the fact is is that this whole debate about well, 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.040 he's not thinking. Mark Cooper's here, we got jerseys, we're 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.280 about to sell with him. Mark Cooper's the guy. First 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.640 round pick is gone, so he's the guy. His his 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:28.359 warts and whatever, deal with it. But they're the decisions 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.280 to be made next. Dear for Alan Hearns, Kavon Austin, 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.240 Deontay Thompson, uh and Cole Beasley and on how this 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.000 thing kind of rounds out and all of those four guys, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.960 I would imagine one of them comes back, maybe two 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:42.920 in which two are they right? And that's my thing 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:44.800 is I don't think that. I don't think you're going 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.720 out to draft one. So you're looking at those you 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.960 just did, so you're not about to do it again 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:51.360 because you don't have But you don't have a first 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.240 round pick, so you're not about to get another one. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.720 So at this point, I'm thinking, with what you have, 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.440 Hearns might be the best of left of what you 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.560 have to round out to receiver group. I'm not saying 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.400 he'd be as good as Cole Beasley, but like you 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.680 can find a Cole Beasley type player in the draft 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.880 way after the first round. I mean, if you decide 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:08.319 if you decide you don't want to bring him back, 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:13.480 and I don't know, but I just Cooper. Obviously, Gallop's 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.600 arrow is up and you spent a pick on it, 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:17.600 like get him on the field. And we talked about 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.320 and maybe that Mickey and Brian were right Nick, maybe 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.160 you know, we were kind of down on him. He 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.480 showed what he can do. Get him on the field. 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.800 I'm done with this rotation thing and I feel like 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.480 they are too, which is and again Allup needs to 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.600 be playing more. No disrespect to Alan Hearns. If you 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.400 can find some space for you know, if you can 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.920 find some use for him, fine, But like I don't 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.120 want a Cooper or Gallop coming off the field, and 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.560 Beasley plays best in the slots. So those are the 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.160 three guys I want to see primarily, and I think 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.200 they've earned that right or the Cowboys have invested in them. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.960 This is not going to happen. But what I would 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:59.440 like to do would be bring up Na Brown, let 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.800 me see him. I feel that Deonta Thompson I've seen 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.400 enough and it's just really not working out. Although he 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.280 has the speed and all that is just it's not 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.160 working out right now as far as Alan hearns. He 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:15.480 has his good moments. But from the beginning to up 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.040 until this point, everything that I've seen, and I told 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.960 you this Nick during the game. One of the things 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.440 that I noticed he gets easily pushed around, like he 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.240 catches a ball and then he's pushed back, like three 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.920 more yards back. He's just like a little feather that 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.840 you can easily just pop push him back. And I 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.160 don't I don't like it. For what you're getting out 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.720 of it is just to me, not really working out. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.040 So give me Noah Brown, bring him up and let's 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.360 see what they can do. Are you making the assertion 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:51.760 that Cole is not similarly pushed around? No, No, I 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.160 don't know. I honestly don't know that there is a 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.520 receiver on this team that I consider to be or 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:03.400 not pushable around. Okay, yeah, obviously you're gonna get pushed Yeah, 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.120 but you you put up a fight there, you just 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.520 touch him. But I'm saying, I don't I don't know 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.320 that I got I don't know that there are receivers 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.600 on this team that you consider to be tough guys. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.200 And what I mean, I'm talking to the mold of 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.600 Steve Smith type guys that they're gonna bow up when 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.000 they get when somebody hits them, and they're probably gonna 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.160 break that tackle, just what Dez was. Dez made his 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.520 career off the guy comes to hit him, he bounces 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.320 off the guy and he's off running, right. I don't 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:27.800 know they got those kind of guys on this team. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.960 I'm not sure Mark Cooper is that kind of guy. Um, 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.200 So I don't I don't know that that you're gonna 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.000 get that kind of toughness from any of the guys 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.200 on this receiving corps. That's not what we've seen him. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.360 But at a different level though, I think all around. 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.960 They signed Alan Hearns to be you know, it's just 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.800 kind of to be the number one on this this group. 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.360 Um and now all of a sudden, you know he'll 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:54.600 probably be number four, right, Well they signed three uh 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:58.920 four four yeah, I mean yeah, when Cooper galloped Beasley 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.280 and him, and then they signed Alan Hearns to be 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.840 their bargain bin x. Like they said, this guy has 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.320 shown potential, we can bring it out of them. There 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.160 will be plays for him. With the way that they're 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.679 keying on the run didn't work out, that can be 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.160 an indictment of Dak or your offensive line, or hearns himself, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.719 or the play calling, probably all of the above. But 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.679 they watched it for seven weeks and they said, we 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.919 need a better receiver. That's my question too, Like what 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.439 happens if you give up this number one pick and 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.720 you find out that really it wasn't hearns, it wasn't. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:39.320 Maybe these other guys there, great teams. Let's take our 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.159 first break, and when we come back, things are going 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.120 to get it interesting. All right, let's go. 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