WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Will He Play? 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:08.319 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:18.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys let go. Are 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.560 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:26.680 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.560 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:36.640 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:43.720 Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, October twenty ninth, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.920 twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number fifty. Welcome to 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:49.960 the latest edition of The Break, live from the s 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.599 WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star Gut Nick in here 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.280 and Amber in here. Dave will be joining us momentarily. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.080 Right now, he's having a conversation with coach McCarthy, so 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.520 like he's going to the principles. Yeah, we'll see what 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.479 comes of that. We'll see if he actually sticks around 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.560 after that. But we'll get some downlow from him. Sorry, yeah, 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.840 go ahead. I haven't had a chance to be present 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.560 in one of those walk offs. How different is he 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.480 from Garrett? And like some of the things that he 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.160 would say off the type of stuff those guys are good. 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.479 I mean Garrett was good in the walk off. Yeah, 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.920 he just Garrett showed y'all a lot more in the 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.559 walk off than he showed the media or the general 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.120 public during the session. McCarthy does that too. Yeah, you 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.280 were there for the first He did a little dinner 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.480 lunch something with the media when they first when he 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.360 first got here, right, Yeah, and I know you came 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.839 to me and you were like it kind of cool. Yeah. Yeah, 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.319 he's just dude. Yeah, you know, but but you know 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.640 it's all calculated. He has to be when you're in 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.880 these press conferences and you get asked them like he 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:51.800 did today twenty seven different ways. Is that playing any answered? 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.000 He's pretty patient, though I've seen some coaches that get 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.800 impatient with that kind of stuff. It seems like he 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.280 kind of he'll throw a little dagger every once in 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:00.840 a while before the most part, he just kind of 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:02.640 keeps answering the question, even if he has to do 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.880 it multiple times. Right, yep, let's talk real quick, Nick, 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.560 can you give me a fifty it's episode number fifty, 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:14.520 milestone you got one? Mmm, let's just let's just go 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:19.000 with Sean Sean Sean Lee, Sean Lee. Yeah, I mean 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.359 there's some others. D D Lewis I think we're fifty 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:24.919 and we didn't get shan Lee on our show, but 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.799 he was on the show. That would have been nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.680 I saw that. I was like, you freaking kid him. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.040 That's like, literally the only player that has ever made 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:38.040 me nervous. Really, yeah, he made you nervous? Yes, why, 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.320 I don't know. I just I have so much respect 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.320 for him, like to another level. That is just like 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.200 it was always intimidating to talk to him. So I 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.080 don't know. He was the only one though, Fredy An 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.200 Spellman was the only one. He made Nick nervous, make 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.200 him a little nervous, So yeah, yeah, he was. He 0:02:55.280 --> 0:03:00.720 was kind of scary guy made players nervous, right, Well, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.760 there's some stories about the Lonzo spot. I know what 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.720 number did he wear? Ninety. We'll save that until episode 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:08.760 ninety because I'm there. I'll be a lot too good ones. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.280 You can tell. Yeah, about about the time that the 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.799 equipment guys came in and he was in pregame warm 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:18.880 ups and he had his jersey on backwards and they're 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:20.959 trying to I mean, it just sets Spellman right across 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:22.600 the chest and they're like, what's going on? They were like, 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.880 who's going to tell Yeah, they ain't gonna be me. Yeah, 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.560 he's gonna roll out there with going on his chest. Wow. Yeah, 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:32.160 all right. But Sean Lee, you know, the thing is 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.560 is that it's it's kind of sad. He could have 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.120 been one of the greatest players that the Cowboys have 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.240 ever had and he still was. It's just that, you know, 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.280 the injuries and he knows that. He's the first one 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.000 to say it. But I mean it sucks because he 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.560 had really did have some bad luck. He could have 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.400 been one of the greatest defensive players that they've had here. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.920 And you skipped over forty nine yesterday. Yeah, it's because 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.160 there's hardly anyone that's ever worn it ever. I mean 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.200 like when I was here, Yeah, they had a tight 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.640 end named J. J. J. Huggins. He was the first 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.000 player to ever wear it. Was he. So forty nine 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.000 is not a number of the right number. I mentioned 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.480 Lusaka's name the other day, what number, because for some 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.960 reason I thought I wanted to say he wore forty nine. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:18.720 I think we did him. We did him like thirty nine, 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.960 thirty nine he was in the thirties. Thirty nine, Yeah, okay, 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.719 forty ninety nine, all right, we got a lot of 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.200 storylines we're gonna do. We like to do this on Fridays. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.080 We try to take a big picture storyline approach to 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.840 what are the things that that we're talking about heading 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.599 into the games, the things that on Monday will be 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.200 talking about as either helping the Cowboys win or being 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.200 the reason why the Cowboys lose. UM. So, I wanted 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.600 to go through some of these storylines. And I think 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.200 there's no storyline obviously this week that's bigger than Dak 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.160 Prescott and whether he will be able to play. Um. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.159 So let's start first with that. Um. How did Dak respond? First, Nick, 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.360 what have you heard as far as how he's responded 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.239 to increased work that he got yesterday when he showed 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.680 up this morning, Well, I mean he he said he 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.480 was going to continue to push it. And that's that's 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.920 the one thing that we've seen here this week, is 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.000 that he's going to continue to do that. Um And 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.120 and I think that you know what he said yesterday 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:21.200 is that I felt better every day, um And, which 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.640 is that's a huge deal because I mean, when you 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.640 push it, you push it like that, you think you're 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.440 gonna have some setbacks. So it sounds like it's continued 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.720 to ramp up in the in the right way. But 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.400 I think they were starting to kind of hear, I 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:39.440 don't know if it's whispers or whatever, that there's a 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.880 there's a chance he's not going to play this game. Well, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.320 they were saying that today he showed up yore. Yeah, 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:49.560 so I mean he's so good. No, it doesn't sound good. 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.640 I mean it's gonna be I mean, but but he 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.039 he said, he said yesterday that he was doing you know, 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.159 everything was good. He was moving, you know, in the 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.839 right direction. But I mean, you're gonna be sore. But 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.560 it's just depends on how much they're going to bring 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.640 it back and how much they're going to say, like, 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.720 all right, today you're not You're you're not gonna do 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.720 as much. Friday's a little different day because they don't 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:13.359 practice as much. Right, So, I mean, obviously soreness, the 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.440 question is is he sore or is it like the 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.839 payser pain from that injury, which I think are two 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.799 completely sure things. If you've kind of been a little 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.080 inactive and just been rehabbing, and then you go out 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.080 for a workout and you try to push it, of 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.200 course your body's going to be a little bit sore 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.880 trying to get back acclimated. But that's the part that 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.600 I don't know that they necessarily clarified in their press 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.000 conference this morning. It being Friday, the game is two 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.760 days away, and it being Friday, and just by using 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.320 them and again, sore, you said, you know, you can 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:47.400 be sore, And there's a bunch of different levels to it. 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.320 But the fact that that word has even been mentioned 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.640 at all gives me a lot of concern and to 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.160 me personally at this point. And I hate to say 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.440 it because I don't want to see a backup in there. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.839 I don't want to see Cooper Russia or anybody else 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.480 in there. But at the same time, I feel like 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:10.360 i'd rather rest him because there are still lots of 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.680 other games to play. So I don't I don't know 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.560 how you guys are feeling about it at this point. Yeah, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.840 I mean, I've said it before. I would have rested him, 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.680 you know. I mean, it's just it's it's an It's 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.400 an injury that that I think can make it can 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.800 be worse if you if you don't get it knocked out. 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:35.160 And yeah, Michael Gallup's injury is different than you know, Dak, Okay, 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.680 I get it, but Michael Gallup missed what six six weeks, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.960 so you know we're talking about him Dak missing one 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.880 because he probably wasn't going to play you know, if 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.560 they didn't have the bye week, he probably wasn't gonna 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.080 play that one. But still, well, if we're talking about 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.520 it now, then definitely he wouldn't have played that one, right, Yeah, yeah, 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.840 he wasn't gonna play it. Now, now we're sitting at 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:59.240 two weeks and I think it's fifty fifty, which that 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.240 also is what I think worries me a little bit 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:07.600 about all this is you listen to Dak and everybody 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.080 else that was talking immediately following the New England game, 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.040 and it was like, ah, he's fine, Oh he's fine, 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.800 don't worry about this, he's fine, And go through the 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.440 bye week, and then we get to this week and 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.880 it's like, well, you know, maybe maybe we want to 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:22.800 check and make sure that this isn't gonna be something 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.840 that's longer term. So I start to think, if he 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.080 misses this game, I don't think it's necessary. I won't 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.440 assume it's just one game. I will look at it 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.080 and say, okay, well maybe this is if you have 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.240 to kind of wait and see how this goes. Waiting 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.000 and seeing how it goes could extend beyond just one game. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:41.920 It could be two games, it could be three games. Whatever. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.160 And that's why when everyone says, well, you know you 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.840 got a longer season to worry about, I'm like, well, 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:50.840 do we know that this is only gonna be one game? 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.600 If we know it's only gonna be one game, great, 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.840 if it's gonna be a longer period of time anyway, Like, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.280 that's when you start affecting the rest of your season, because, yeah, 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.200 you gotta lead right now in the NFC East, But 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.040 it doesn't take much to to let that dwindle. Right, Yeah, 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.840 you haven't faced the probably the best team in the 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.680 in the division in Washington, So I mean he still 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.880 got to play them twice. All it takes is losing 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.400 to them twice, and then that that changes the whole thing. 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.080 So now, But but the thing about it is, I 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.720 think he could probably miss this game and it would 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.880 probably just be one game. He could play this game, 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.760 though somewhat sore. You could miss, you could miss a 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.040 lot more afterwards. What gives you hope? What gives you 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.160 when you say you feel like it would only be 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:36.880 one game, what gives you reason to believe it would 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.360 just be one game? I think because we're sitting here 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:45.400 on Friday, and it's he's gonna be questionable probably to play. 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.200 So I think you give me another eight days, eight, 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.440 you know, ten, ten days from here, I feel like 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:53.840 you could probably play, you know what I mean? If 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.080 it's close here, I was thinking nothing but rest and 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.079 he should be fine barring a huge setback. But I 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.360 don't think he'll have a a setback there. They're not 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:06.960 gonna let that happen. Well, today, I was sitting in 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.720 bed earlier this morning and I just took a breath 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:15.120 and I pulled my neck and it's been hurting pretty 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.880 My point is what makes me wonder, though, because reoccurring 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.880 are like injuries like that, Like we've said before, you 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.920 can be fine and whatever, and then all of a sudden, 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.679 just a little pool just makes it worse again, and 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.280 then you're hurting now. So my point is it makes 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.760 me wonder, how long, like it's a period of time, 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.040 how much is enough for you toube absolutely be on 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.199 the clear, not worrying about it. But again, this is 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.240 the nature of football. This is what they go through, 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.880 this is what they do, and you can't just bubble 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.120 wrap anyone, so you gotta play at some point. But 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.320 it does give me pause and into thinking, Okay, this 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.160 is one of those things that it's not just the 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.520 bone healing type of stuff. It's just anything can happen. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.680 All right, First, let's go ahead and take our first break. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.280 When we come back, I want to ask you guys 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.200 a little bit more about Cooper Rush and whether you 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.960 think the Cowboys have a good shot of winning or 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.559 even a shot of winning with Cooper Rush at quarterback. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:12.880 We'll talk about that when we come right back. This 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.920 is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 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Just well, I mean, obviously I heard what 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.040 y'all were talking about when I came in, and funds 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:51.400 probably not the right word so I'll say this is 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.000 just a really unique circumstance where what do we talk 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:55.880 about all the time, where we're like, what does he 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.959 do on Wednesday? What does he do on Thursday? And 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.640 by Friday morning, you usually have a pretty good feel 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:05.120 one way or the other. I don't think they do. Um. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.760 I think this is going to go right up to 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:11.000 tomorrow and Nick behind the curtain. We should probably maybe 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.480 get some things ready one way or the other, because 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.360 I bet we'll be on some runways somewhere. We're gonna 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.760 write two stories and just have you ready. It might 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.040 not be a bad idea, I really, I think this 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.360 is a rare circumstance where they don't know what's going 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.880 to happen with Dak but and they won't know until 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.680 I do. I think they're gonna make a decision tomorrow 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:30.960 one way or the other. So you think by the 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.000 time we're gonna play, they're gonna have aen I mean, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.440 I'm not saying that they're gonna put out a press release, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.640 but inside the organization, I think they're gonna know if 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.600 he plays by tomorrow when they leave to go to Minnesota. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.640 I think so. So you're saying you don't think they'll 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:49.320 take him. No, No, I just think he can be there. Yeah, 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.280 that's what I'm saying, Like like, I don't think we'll 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.880 know anything tomorrow, Tomorrow, Saturday. I think it will be 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:55.800 oh no, no no. And I think the thing is, I 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.280 probably agree with you. They may not let us know, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.080 but I think they would, Davids saying he thinks they 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.920 will know that I make a decision, think they will know. 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.680 But you might be right, But I don't know decisions 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:12.760 like that, you know, MVP caliber quarterback playing or not playing. 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.239 I mean that that seems like something that'll get out. 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:20.680 That seems like something that will leak somewhere to someone, 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.920 whether it's us, whether it's Todd Archer with ESPN, whether 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.000 it's the Dallas Morning, whether it'll be pre game on 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.240 Sunday game. He's out there stretching his hit. I would 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.360 be shocked if we make it even to like when 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.600 we're getting dressed to go to the games, a night game. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.560 I think I maybe maybe you're right, Maybe it won't 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.240 come out tomorrow, But my favorite, my favorite game is 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.760 watch Schefter and Rappaport do their Sunday night news dumps 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.200 or Saturday night news dumps. If you're still awake at 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.000 like one am on Saturday night, just go take a 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.400 look at their Twitter pages because they've been saving up 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.960 nuggets all week and they just start bombarding the internet 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.840 with their news and yeah that late Saturday night early 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.080 Sunday morning. I just there's no way we get to 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.560 game anywhere near a game time without this being out there. Yeah. 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.040 My only thing that would be if they're gonna actually 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.880 put them on the field and just and he's like 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.920 truly a game time decision, Like he truly is a 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.680 get on the cords, see how how are you feeling today? Like, 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:26.080 because because yes, you know today tomorrow, none of that 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.120 really matters until how are you feeling? Then? So I 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.200 wonder if if it really will be a true game 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.240 time decision. But let me ask you, is it really 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.800 with this injury? Is it one of those things where 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.400 you're more concerned about the after effects than you are 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.040 about how you feel in the moment. Right, That's where 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.160 I'm wondering, Like, that's where to me, it probably isn't 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.040 a game time decision because you know, he could feel 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.360 great that night. It's more about, hey, do we think 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.840 it's healed? Enough to where he can't well, But what 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.720 have we been doing all week? Then? I think they're 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.200 trying to figure out I'm sorry, but Gala didn't do 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.160 that in week two, week three. I get it. But 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.880 the way they've talked about this is they're trying to 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.160 make sure that this is not something that he can 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.960 reinjure in a significant way to make him miss future weeks. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.200 And so my thought is it's not necessarily about how 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.960 he feels in the moment as much as other things 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.960 that they look at to diagnose. And again, the medical 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.520 trainers would know what those if that's true, than they 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:23.040 already do know. Ye, well, they'll know about tomorrow, right, Yeah, 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.480 I mean you got I mean they might. I don't 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.800 get the sense that they do. And you gotta like, 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.600 I'm still adapting to this, like Mike McCarthy runs his 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.080 week differently than Jason Garrett did. I think in the 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.959 Jason Garrett regime they would know because Thursdays the all 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.760 encompassing day, and Fridays this is like it's certainly not 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.880 a day off. I'm not trying to frame it that way, 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.920 but it's a region day, like this is the day 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.200 where you get off the field, and you get right, 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.119 they technically practice tomorrow. It's more of they kind of 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.399 ramp back up. Yeah, it's more of a walkthrough, but 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.200 like they get on the field and do football stuff 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.399 on Saturday before they leave, which Jason Garrett, Now, I 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.280 mean they did walk throughs, but it wasn't like that. 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:07.120 So Saturday is much more important for this regime than 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.440 it was for the last one, and so I think 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.520 they will leave it till tomorrow one way or the other. 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.000 So that all being said, let's assume for a second 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.320 that Dak Prescott cannot play. What's your level of confidence 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.560 that Cooper Rush in what will be his first start 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.199 in the NFL, He's only had three pass attempts and 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:29.200 only one pass completion for two yards. What's your belief 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.160 that he can actually lead this team to a win 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:35.760 in Minnesota on Sunday night? Well, were we picking games yet? 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:37.480 It's about the time. No, no no, no, no no, no no. 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.520 I'm just saying because because when we pick the games, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:41.840 I don't want to We're not gonna qualify. We're just 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:43.960 gonna say here's what I think is gonna happen as 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.119 far as win loss, which will have to encompass in 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.320 something in your mind who you think is going to 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.640 be the quarterback. So I'm just asking about what your 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:54.320 faith is in Cooper Rush in this situation. Yeah, That's 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.280 why it's kind of hard for me to go there, 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.119 because my answer was not going to be different regardless 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:04.879 of who the quarterback kid is. Um. But wow, yeah, 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:06.560 I'll just say it right now. Well you told you 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:08.320 told me, I already know what. It's a hell. I mean, 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.640 I picked a loss that they're gonna I think they're 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.040 gonna lose Sunday night, and that doesn't matter if Dak 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.680 plays or Cooper Rush plays. I was gonna pick a 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:19.400 loss here. So it might be what is happening? Why 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.520 are we What is going on with you and me 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.320 this year? I don't know. I just feel like I 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:26.720 just feel like, well you told me that too. Well, 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.560 I've had I have, I've had a feeling all week. 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:31.720 I will say, if you could tell me right now 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.120 that there's a one hundred percent chance that Dak will 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.800 play and look like Dak, I would pick a win. Yeah, 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.960 but it's way too big of an if right now. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:41.880 And then you factor in the part where he might 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.040 they're gonna have even if he plays, they're gonna have 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.360 to change the game plan, like they will call it 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.840 differently than if he was fully healthy. So without Coop, 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.400 So with Cooper Rush, you guys are saying, there's right, 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.000 you don't have any That's why I want to be 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:57.120 fair to him, because I was. I don't I don't 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.320 see them coming away with a win anyway, so I 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.239 certainly don't think so why is that though? I mean, 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:03.760 this is a team that you I mean, I know 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:07.040 that Minnesota presents some unique challenges, but they're three and three, 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.639 they're not unbeatable, and you got a Dallas team that 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.240 is playing extremely well. So what makes you why Why 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.639 were you so like sold in fact that this is 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:16.760