WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Time For Changes? 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.200 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:19.360 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:23.079 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:27.440 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:32.800 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:39.080 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.199 It is Wednesday, October sixteenth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.320 number sixty six. Welcome to another edition of The Break 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.239 Whilife Nest WBC Morgan Studios at the Star. And I 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.240 just realized, I gay, that's completely wrong date. It is 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:55.800 actually Thursday, October seventeen, and we're I wouldn't have noticed. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.080 Thank god you did not mess up the episode. But 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.560 here's the problem with that is there people that start 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.360 listening to shows and they're like, I can't was this 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.560 today or was it yesterday? And so they'll listen to 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:05.959 it and and if they hear Wednesday, you're like, well that 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.120 I just heard when they say wednesday. So you know, 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:09.960 I gotta get it right. You gotta get it right. 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.800 All right. Anyway, we got a lot to get into today. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.000 Nick has some some players. He wrote an article and 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:20.119 actually really interesting article about five players that he thinks 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:22.840 should be playing more, and we're gonna talk about that. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.040 Nick's gonna dive in for us. I'm gonna started. I 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.840 need to start bringing in my own little nuggets because 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.440 Dave does his report. You started bringing your little thing 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.760 about the other team and top stories. I'm gonna you 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.720 used to see no, but you just like don't like 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:41.960 you never tell me. I gotta see a note today. 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.120 I gotta see a no no no no, I'm sorry 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.880 a g I will bring some nuggets. Love it, I 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.600 love it all right, we're gonna get into that. It 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.120 will be and then Dave's also going to give us 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.200 his his breakdown in the Philadelphia defense. We'll talk about 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.160 that in the second of third segment as well. We 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.480 gotta start there with injuries. Catch us up on this 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.520 litany of injuries the Cowboys have. Is anybody back practicing 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:10.440 at this point? Ah? Yeah. It was encouraging, Okay, well 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.200 to a point. Well, okay, the two guys and I 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:20.280 think this is a package deal. I really do. Tyrant 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:24.200 Smith Lyle Collins both doing a little bit of individual work. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.280 Garrett made it sound like they weren't going to do 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.720 a lot. He said, the guys that get out there 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.520 will mix in maybe into individuals, So that's probably the 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.960 extent of it. But on Thursday, that looked like with 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.200 those two guys doing stuff that looked like they are 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.079 trying to play. That's I mean, that's what you don't 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.120 come back on Thursday after minutes in two weeks and 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.840 not expecting to play with a bye week sitting behind you, 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.200 and they're trying to play. I don't know if they 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.480 can or will. Of course they're trying to, but yeah, 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.280 I gotta I don't not so much Tyrant. I think 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.800 Tyrant's got a good chance to play Lyle. It's the 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.200 same injury that Captain Antoine woods out for three weeks. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.280 I know he's tough as they come, but I need 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.919 to see more before I'm well. We thought, I mean, 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.600 Tyron was Yah could have absolutely late last weekend, but 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.760 that didn't happen. So it's a really good sign those two. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.800 I mean, if they're getting into it on a Thursday 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:15.920 with another day to go, it's a really good sign. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.360 I'm not ready to pencil them into the lineup, but 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.800 it's a good sign. But the reason why I said 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.040 to a point is because Zack Martin and Joe Looney 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.960 sat out in practice today. So you get two back 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:32.839 and lose two new Ones's face. Travis Frederick is back 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.440 to it was a personal issue, not injury related. I'll 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:39.119 take that. So you had Tyron Lyle and Travis all 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.920 out there, but Zach sat down. Uh, you know, probably 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.200 a maintenance day for his back, if I had to guess. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.880 But they you know, you just can't. You can't completely win. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.360 Randall Cobb and a Marie Cooper were both absent. Byron 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.680 and Anthony Brown are both absent. I think that's it. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:58.360 It's it's not great if you're going to get some 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.600 guys back and it happens to be the two tackles. 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.400 I think you feel pretty decent about that. You would 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.240 like to have your receiver. In my opinion, I think 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.200 you'd like to have Amari Cooper back game if they 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.520 probably as much as any of those other positions. If 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.360 they can get the two tackles back or even just tying, 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.200 it would do wonders for my confidence that they can 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.800 win this game. Yeah, yea, So it's Thursday. We'll see 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.240 Friday will be important. Maybe they can do more well 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.760 we're gonna talk a lot more about this. No, just 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.839 you know, they I mean, they look like freaking warriors 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.080 out there, like, you know, we get to watch fifteen minutes. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.560 And so we come in and Tyring and Lyle are 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.160 working with Britt Brown, the rehab director with the big 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:40.120 Resistance chords, and Tyrant's ankle is about three times you know, 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:41.960 he's got so much tape on it, and he's got 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.680 his big knee brace on his elbow and Lyle's got 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.840 a gigantic knee brace on his knee, and they just, 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.960 I mean, they're just kind of like, well, let's let's 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.200 do this. Like they look like they're fighting through it. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.080 For sure, they need a buy a week they do, 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.640 they do well, and everybody does. They're gonna get one 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.560 next week. But the fact is they got to get 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.960 to a game that's very, very important. Maybe it's important 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.080 based on where they are in the season, maybe as 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.479 important as any game so far this year based on 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.480 the current situation. So we'll get back into that a 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.200 little bit later because we're going to talk about the 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.440 Philadelphia defense. But right now, Nick, I'd like you to 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.760 break down for us your your article on the five 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.520 players that you think need to be playing more. Yeah, 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:26.280 and my dad actually sent me a text message watches 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.440 the show and on the site and says, good job 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.240 of writing it that way and not saying these these 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.719 five players suck and need to be benched. But although 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.839 that's what we're about to provide here in this conversation, 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.640 you know, really it comes down to, here's my five guys. 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.719 I'll just list them all, and but only one of 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.480 them is a straight like, you need to replace another guy, 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.080 and that would be Xavisuphilo, who I believe should be 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.320 playing over Connor Williams. I've said that one hundred times. 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.640 We can talk about that now. Other four guys, I 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.800 think you can find ways to put them in the 0:05:54.839 --> 0:06:00.960 game more, Joe Thomas, Jordan Lewis, Tony Poller, and I've 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.919 blanked on the other guy. But Darion Thompson. There you go, 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:10.400 Darien Thompson, which would probably be require replacing. That feels 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.800 more like a benching. Yeah, and that's fine too, because 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:17.520 Davier Woods, um, I can't remember I can't remember a 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:19.280 play that he's made this yet, so you would bench 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.440 twenty five and not thirty eight. I don't care one 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.599 of the two I mean probably. I feel like a 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.120 lot of people are and well, you know what, a 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.039 lot of people would say, you know what, put donovand 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.200 Wilson in there too? Do you want to replace both? 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.640 That's fine, that's fine. But I think there's a way 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.440 to put Tony Pollard in there more. I think you 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.760 can get Joe Thomas in there more. And Jordan Lewis 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.000 probably will be playing anyways because of the injury situation. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.560 I actually asked Jason Garrett about Pollard today, and you 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.200 always you want to try to phrase it delicately, and 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.719 so I'm saying, I'm like, you know, what is it? 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.440 What are you looking for when you look for an 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.120 opportunity to get Tony Pollard involved? Like it do you? 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.560 Is it that you don't trust him to do different 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.880 things because he's a rookie? Is it the situations like 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:04.680 you don't want to lean on him while you're trailing 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.400 by three your you know, two or three possessions instead 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.080 of just being like why don't you play Tony Pollard, 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:13.000 which you know, Jason Garrett doesn't typically play ball with 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.040 that because he's like, well he's you know, first of all, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.040 we got Zeke and he's a black player. We like 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:18.960 Tony Pollard a lot. He can do this, this, and this. 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:20.360 We like to use him as a running back. We 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.960 like to use him as a receiver. And that's when 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:27.800 I say, Jason to quote to quote, my dad shouts out, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.880 Dick Hellman, Hi, Dad, don't pee on my head and 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.720 tell me it's raining. Don't do that, because it's not true. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.480 Tony Pollard has four catches this year, and three of 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.160 them came against Miami in the later stages of a blowout. 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.960 You don't use him as a receiver. You've actually you've 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.680 used him on eighteen percent of offensive snaps this year. 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.760 If you take away garbage time in three lopsided wins, 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.440 it's six percent. He's gotten less than ten snaps in 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.600 these three losses each. I think he played five against 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:58.640 Green Bay, two against New Orleans. You're not using him. 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.760 He's very versatile. Have no idea how versatile. Because they 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.320 don't use him. They use him to spell zeke, which 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:09.160 is so incredibly boring. I wrote, I actually wrote about 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.040 that for my column, not to steal your thunder naer, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.600 but yeah, so that strikes a chord with me because 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.520 I would like to see what all he can do, 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.240 and it's disingenuous for them to say that they're using 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.679 him because it's not. Well, maybe this weekend, for sure, 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.480 with the problems that you're having a wide receiver right now, 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.120 maybe they try to incorporate him. Right, you had problems 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.040 against the Jets though, I mean, yeah. The difference though 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:31.560 is you didn't go into that game thing. You were 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.280 going to lose Cooper early in the game, so they 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:35.880 may have not gone to that game thing and they 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.520 needed Yeah, but right now you're thinking you're gonna have 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.760 arguably your top two wide receivers out of the game. 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.240 You better find some other targets to be able to 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.280 put out there to give you something in your passing game. Right, Yeah, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.040 you would, you would think, I mean, but still five 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.079 weeks in, I would think you've got some plays and wrinkles, 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.360 something you can do with just to get him involved. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.280 You have not seen him do anything other than run 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.200 Zeke's plays while Zeke is out. That's all he's There's 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.160 not a polar package. It doesn't seem like now, so 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:06.960 I think they need to do that. They need to 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.000 try to work on that and get him involved. If 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.319 he's a gadget player, I mean, three and three seems 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.199 like a good time to put some pull some gadgets. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.559 They kept saying they had all these wrinkles and all 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.480 these things that they didn't need to use during those 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.199 first games and had it in the back of their pockets. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.320 Where where are they put it on the table? Still waiting? 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:30.200 Of those five guys Xavier Sulphilo, Thomas Lewis, Pollard Thompson, 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.200 which of them do you think provides the greatest impact 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.880 based upon maybe what they provide versus the guy that 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.200 would not be on the field when they were on 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.520 the field. I mean, for me, it would be the 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.640 guy that's going to be starting would be would be starting, 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.839 and that would be Suepilo, because I think he's better 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.640 than Connor and I think that what they're missing right 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:54.160 now some some short yarded situations down in the red zone. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.880 I think that he could help with that. So I would, 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.200 you know, I through politics to the side on worried 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.160 about any of that other stuff. I'd play the best guys, 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.280 and I would think the head coach in the situation 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.360 he's in would probably want to do that too. Maybe 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.320 they don't think that way, but hurting anyone's feelings in 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.240 the draft room about well, we drafted him in the 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.880 second round. Who cares Texans drafts to a feeling higher 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.040 than that? And they cut him and they shouldn't have probably, 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.120 So that's not to say he's going to turn out 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.080 into a great player or anything like that, you know, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.280 so feeling right now has more strength than Connor Williams 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.600 and more experience, and having him out there, given the 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.240 fact of the other guys that are struggling in the 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.360 old line due to injuries, I mean, that would help. 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:40.120 And also, where's the issue with Travis Frederick right now? 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.920 If you had to say, what is he not, you know, 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.640 the same as he was two years ago? I would 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.720 I would say strength. Seems like he's not as strong, 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.880 and that's natural when you're going through the injury and 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.880 the illness that he had, So getting as much strength 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.120 as you can somewhere, you know, it would be important 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.640 and that's why I would do it. Throw my hat 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.240 in the ring for Jordan Lewis, which is fun because 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.679 circumstances are probably going to necessitate that he play. Like 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.120 we can lobby for Sua Philo or Tony Pollard and 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.680 they don't have to listen to us, But I don't 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.040 think Anthony Brown and Byron Jones are both going to 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.520 play in this game. You might get one, I doubt 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.080 you'll get both. So Jordan Lewis is going to have 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:24.040 to play, and that's exciting for me because he flashes 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:25.880 stuff when he gets out there. You know, he picked 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.200 off Breeze last season. He's got one of their two 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:32.560 interceptions through six weeks, which that terrible stings to even 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.080 say out loud. Two picks in six weeks, So he's 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.199 got ball skills like that was part of his scouting 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:42.600 report coming out. Hopefully, you know, if he gets this opportunity, 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:46.559 which he should, hopefully it translates. Yeah, people were saying 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.160 that even before the interception. People, I mean, I think 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.000 you even said it, like, you know, he needs to 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.000 play more. Wasn't just that he got an interception. He all, 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:58.000 he has impressed every time he's really gotten a chance to. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.120 In my opinion, did you have one, which one do 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:02.960 you think has the biggest will have the biggest impact 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.719 if it were to happen, Well, honestly, I've would have 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.640 gone with Jordan. He's a guy that had an amazing 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:13.679 training camp. We talked about him so much, and it's 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.640 unfortunate when you see a guy do really, really good 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.400 and then it kind of disappears for various reasons. Some 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.199 of the guys we've talked about that how successful training camp, 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.760 it hasn't necessarily translated into the season. But this is 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.800 a guy that hasn't really had the chance to show 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.480 us he did everything he could during that time, and 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.040 now I think with giving him the ability to go 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.120 out there, he's a guy that can really, I believe, 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.640 really produce and impact the defense. Nick, nothing against your list, 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.480 but Dave and Amber, is there anybody that you think 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.559 should be on this list that's not on this list? 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.200 I mean, that's not bad to me because I even 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.880 asked him else in the locker room and he came 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.719 up with like four other guys. Yeah, I mean you're 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.839 out the player or no, it was yeah, okay, that's 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:09.880 a big difference. They throw out I mean players like him, him, him, 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.120 throw out either of the duo of Sean Lee and 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.240 Joe Thomas and we I mean we spent a segment 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.680 on that earlier in the week. Is you know, there's 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.520 nothing wrong with mixing those guys in more especially you know, 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.200 to Nick's point. You don't have to outright bench Jalen 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.280 Smith or Layton vander ash You can just rotate a 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.200 little bit more than you do, which they already do 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.480 with their lineman anyway. So and I qualified in the 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.280 in the article before they even got to any of 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.199 the names. I said, I understand that Blake Jarwin is 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.160 is a you know player. A lot of people were 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.000 thinking about here he is playing in the two tight 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:44.920 end sets. Maybe he could he could get a little 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.480 bit more passes his way. But I don't know if 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.080 he should just be playing more because I don't not 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.719 convinced he is just you know, head and shoulder is 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.680 a better blocker than Witt, and I don't think he 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.280 is a better blocker right now. So but he's gonna 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.120 he's gonna be out there and maybe he can get 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.800 a little bit more vertical. It's like, regardless, neither of them, 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:08.360 including Jason, are really doing much on thee now. They're 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:12.679 they're they're struggling there. I mean, I don't know about struggling, 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.400 but it's it's not why you would want it. If 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.839 you're thinking about it in like baseball terms, like wins 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:21.160 above replacement, you're just sort of like breaking even Yeah, 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.080 I mean if they're sitting with, like I don't know, 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.920 sixteen seventeen, twentieth pick in the draft, whatever it's going 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.680 to be, if there's a tight end that's like pretty good, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.120 I mean that this could be the year that they say, 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.080 all right, first round tight end. I could see that, 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.960 and I would say this, like even even if, even 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:38.760 if you don't think you're getting everything out of that 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.520 position that you want. And this is stealing a kind 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.760 of a line from Dave way down my priority list, 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.280 Like I'm looking at so many other things that are 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.560 problems for this team right now, particularly the offensive line 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.840 and particularly the defense. And I'll single out the linebackers, 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.440 I'll single out the safeties, I'll single out the pass rush. 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.280 Like this goes way down the list for me. If 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.160 you want to start talking about tight ends on this team, 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.840 not for me, because I don't think it's that far 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.040 down the list. Because when you think about mismatches, when 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.240 you have a tight end that can create a mismatch, 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.640 and like Witten used to be able to do, I mean, 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.000 wouldn't if they tried to put a safety on them, 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.320 that only helped out the other receivers and running backs 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.120 if they put a linebacker on them, obviously it helps 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.800 your running game. So I don't know if the tight 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.280 ends give you a mismatch now. Yeah, but I think 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.240 that when you think about the offense, though, I think 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.120 this offense has evidenced by the number of yards are 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.520 putting up and even some in a lot of cases, 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.760 a number of points that they've put up. I don't 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.840 think that that the offense as a whole has played 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:38.560 as poorly as a defense. And I think a lot 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.240 of the offense is problems if they shore it up 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.200 on the offensive line. You know again that third and one, 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.760 if your offensive lineman can just get a block and 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:51.080 not let a guy split, you know, split too offensive 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.040 lineman sneak your quarterbacks. Yeah, I mean there by my 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.600 point is there right now. I think there are ways 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.280 to fix the offense have nothing to do with the 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.240 tight end. I think that the offensive line is we're 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.480 most that originals, and I think the defense has way 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.800 more problems right now than anything you can put. Not 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.640 to derail the conversation, like real quick though, just skip ahead, 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.440 like what what are you trying to draft in the 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.360 first round for this team? No? Are you gonna kill 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.760 this segment next week always, Oh you want to save 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.400 that for the bye week? Okay, Yeah, that's got That's 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.440 I'm just trying to talk to my friends. Man. I 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.720 don't think about it in terms of no, and actually 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:26.480 that's not a bad that's not a bad question. And 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:28.840 I'll be interested to hear what you guys have actually about. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.560 We're gonna do a draft show next week to show 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.680 next week. I mean, tight end is high on the list. 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:39.360 Safety too, probably, cornerback, depending on a few variables. Cornerback 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.840 probably because you have to because you just don't know 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.320 what's gonna happen with these contracts coming up. Yeah. I 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.280 either way, though, I could see it's about time to 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.120 get a corner. If I was going to spend a 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.200 first round pick on an offensive player in next year's draft, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.800 would probably be tight end, though, I can and I 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.880 know I can hear people saying the old line, but 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.600 don't forget about Connor McGovern like you've got stuff you 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.040 can do, got other options, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.640 still I mean, I think you look at the defensive 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:08.040 side of the ball. I wonder now if they regret 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.960 not making the decision to go with safety there with 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.399 their first flash year in the second round. Well, I 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.840 do want to have a dialogue. I think there's some 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:22.359 conversations taking a pass rusher. You've got you drafted Taco 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.159 and he's gone. That didn't work. You drafted Um. I 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.479 mean you've got DeMarcus Lawrence will either way, you need 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.920 another guy. Robert quinn is you know, he's recording enough 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.960 stats that he's gonna get paid somewhere. Maybe it's here, 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.440 But I mean he's on a one year deal. So 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.280 I mean pass rusher I could leave. He's on his 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:46.280 last year and tackle too. I mean there's a lot 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.160 which a lot we worry about that later. 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