WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Inside The Taco Decision 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:10.720 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:22.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.959 Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:38.519 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Broughness, Rob Phillips, 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:43.600 and Bill Jones, and welcome into Talking Cowboys inside the 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.040 SWBC Mortgage studio from the Star in Frisco. I am 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.240 Rob Phillips. I'm joined as always by Mickey Spagnola. Brian 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.599 brought us across the table from me. Bill Jones will 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.120 be back tomorrow to wrap up the week as the 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.600 Cowboys finish up their prep for those Miami Dolphins Sunday 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.520 noon kickoff at AT and T Stadium. How are you, gents? 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:09.479 I'm good. How are you doing well? Doing well? If 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.800 you go back and listen to yesterday's show, there were 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.520 some hints, there were some possibilities that Taco Charlton would 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.360 not be on this roster at three pm on Wednesday, 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:22.920 and that turned out to be the case to get 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.640 Robert Quinn on the roster. And that's that's the top 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.199 storyline today. We can start there, but there's other things 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.360 we need to get into with this roster right now 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.280 and maybe talk about some key matchups with the Dolphins 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.800 as well. Over the next forty five minutes. We'll take 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.800 your calls as well. Five to two nine seven. Briant 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.800 is monitoring periscope. Sure well, thank you and good morning. Yea, 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:48.080 so news comes down, Taco is no longer on this roster. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.800 Anything else come up that you guys got on why 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.960 what the impact is for this team for this weekend 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.080 beyond as well? Well, I think if you follow the 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:05.640 logic that we were talking about yesterday, the fact that 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.839 he had a guaranteed base salary, the fact that they 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.919 had injuries on the defensive line and they needed all 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:19.960 hands on deck, and the fact that he was a 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:25.160 first round draft choice, the logic said, well, they're going 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:31.919 to keep them. But their level of dissatisfaction with him 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.680 was so high that it wiped out all the logic 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.040 we pointed out of why you should keep them, and 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.920 I think that spoke volumes about how he did not 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:48.360 fit on this team, did not fit in the locker room, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:52.120 and most of all, didn't fit in that defensive line 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.040 meeting room, to the point where they were like, okay, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.679 we're washing our hands of this. It's it's we've talked 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.520 about it long enough, we spend enough energy trying to 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.240 figure it out, make it work. It was time to 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.600 take out the eraser and move on. Yeah, well said, 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.320 I mean that's exactly. You know, everything that you feel 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.520 like would be logical, you know, the injury, the money situation, 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.440 all that just did not matter to them, you know. 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.200 And I know there was a couple of days ago 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:24.880 that I was like, ah, may I move on and 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.519 move on? And then I'm like, no, wait a minute, 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.520 need to think about this the logical way that what 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.120 Mickey was talking about, you know. And I even asked 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.359 Jason Garrett about that in the walk off, about the 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.920 situation with Taco, the injury and all that, and he says, no, 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.840 these are conversations you have. But we felt like this 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:44.520 was the best thing for our organization moving forward. So 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:50.640 coaches scouts everybody on board to move on and to 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.480 eat you know, four and a half million dollars worth 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.920 of money, and then turn around and say, Okay, he 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:57.880 needs a fresh start. We need a fresh start, and 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.720 we'll do with what we have. You know, Ry Hyder 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.600 and and and Dorian's armstrong and all those guys that 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.800 you know, Joe Jackson, you know, we're we feel good 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.800 about them, and we're just going to push forward. So, uh, 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.720 this says a lot about their decision. It says a 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.240 lot about what they thought about the player, and and 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.240 know it for them to move on the way they 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.760 have is it's a it's a it's a big move. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.960 It's a bold move because there's a lot of things 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:27.080 here that says you need to keep this guy to 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:28.960 try and make it work. And if you just look 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.440 at the eye test, you know there were things that 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.159 were some some positivity, you know when you watch some 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.160 practices and when you watch the games. But to them 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.280 that really didn't matter. Maybe it mattered to us, but 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.640 to them that didn't matter. And they're the ones ultimately 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.480 that have to play the games. They have to find 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.520 a way to win these games in order to keep 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.400 their positions and their jobs and stuff. So they're always 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:52.920 going to do what they feel like it's the best 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.520 in their mind, not what Brian brought us thinks, but 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.320 what's the best in their in their mind. And so 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.720 you know, I applaud them because I'm one of these 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.520 guys that believes that if you don't evaluate your team correctly, 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.280 you'll never be good. Your team will never be good 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.680 if you if you mis evaluate your team. Trust me, 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.720 I've been on teams where we mis evaluated our personnel 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.960 and stuck with guys way too long and it doesn't work. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.080 You get worse that way. And they felt like with 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.400 Tacco that they can move on and they would all 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.160 be better for it. And again that's on them, and 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.159 you know, hey, their decisions have been pretty spot on 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.680 about players. And you know, if you want to say 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.599 they keep burning through first round picks, that's not the 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.200 case at all. Disorganization. That's what made the move so 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.400 surprising because of how well they have drafted for several 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.040 years with Will McClay running that draft room. Of course, 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.200 Steven Jones and Jerry Jones involved in that as well. Mickels, 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.320 I think you had it in your mix shots yesterday. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.000 The last time this happened before a first round pick 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.080 with this team, this end of his deal. Yeah, yeah, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.280 this early. At least not get into your fourth year 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.800 and not because of injury. You have to go back 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.039 to Rod Hill in nineteen eighty two, he was a 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.839 first round draft choice. He played two years for the 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.479 Cowboys and they moved on, you know, And I think 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.400 this is one of those things where you've heard this before. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.120 You don't want to make two mistakes. The first mistake is, Okay, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.560 I drafted this guy. The second mistake is I'm going 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.520 to write it as far as I can write it. 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.919 People will do that organization, They won't cut, they won't 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.560 they won't admit the mistake. And then you make a 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.240 second mistake. And and I think, you know some of this. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.160 I just think it had to do with you have 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:39.040 a sulking player with a with it, paired with a 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:46.440 defensive coordinator, defensive line coach who's all about heart and efforts, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.560 being all in. Yeah, and the last thing and if 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.920 he can't get through to a guy who's sulking, and 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.599 you got this feeling he was sulking. And you know, 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.720 this wasn't a knee jerk reaction. Let's let's remember the 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.880 end of last year. He was inactive in four games 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:04.880 on the second half of the season on a team 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.640 that was playing well. So there had to be a 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.960 reason for that too. And it wasn't like they had 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:15.280 all this depth at you know, defensive end. So again, 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.960 this was a compilation of a lot of things going on, 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.960 and they just decided, okay, time to move on. And 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.360 as Jason said, and you know, I don't hate him. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.520 Give him a chance to go somewhere else and maybe 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.280 he can jumpstart his career. Yeah, Will McClay will wear 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.280 this one. You know, if you want to give Will 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.760 McClay credit for what they've done and stuff like that, 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.360 and Will McClay will wear this one. You know, most 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.800 really good personnel guys do. These are the ones that 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.360 hurt though. You know, when you felt like that, hey, 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.840 we went through this process. We felt like we did 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.480 the right thing. But now you go back and evaluate, Okay, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.280 what were we thinking about this particular player. What did 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.760 we see in this particular player. Did we feel like 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.360 that we could make him tougher? Was he not tough 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.040 when he came in? You know, all these things kind 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.440 of now play in your mind. Not to let it 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.920 happen again. But Will McClay will wear this one, and 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.640 you know what, he won't. He won't back down from it. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:13.280 And I respect organizations that will wear their mistakes. You 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.200 just can't make a lot of them because again, you'll 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:16.920 be doing something else for a living. They did it 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.480 with the wide receiver rotation mid season last year wasn't 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.520 We're not talking about draft picks, but just their personnel 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.880 that they went with for half of last year. They 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.000 just committee was not good. They decided the same working yeah, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:32.600 and they made a change. M Rod Marinelli. It's always 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.280 the first thing he always says, do you love football 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.800 when he's evaluating a player. I think Taco loves football. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.360 I do. I think he took the social media in 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.360 part because he wanted out. He wanted to play somewhere 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.440 he's getting He's gonna get his opportunity. Brian mentioned four 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.640 point five million dollars and dead money over the next 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.760 two years. Mick mentioned, I think it's one point three 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.720 eight million over two years in base salary that they've got. 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.760 You know, it's one point three it for this year 0:08:55.960 --> 0:09:00.360 this year if somebody doesn't claimed right, yes, and then 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:04.400 four hundred and eighty thousand more next year is guaranteed. 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.839 And then you know, the pro rated signing bone is 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.679 still counts. So you don't you don't get away from 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.280 that either. One more thing on Taco. Nick Eatman spoke 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.439 to Stephen Jones yesterday about the move. He said, quote, 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.640 sometimes the chemistry doesn't work with a player. With Rod, 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.520 he has certain standards that he looks for in a player. 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.880 I don't. I just don't think they ever saw eye 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.880 to eye in terms of what that standard should be. 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.160 So that's in line with what you guys are saying, 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.880 and this does fall in line with I think, Brian, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.360 you hinted at it for this week going forward, and 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.000 maybe you know for beyond this week. They've got some 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:41.040 injuries on the defensive line and it's looking like it's 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:42.960 not looking great for week three for a couple of 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:44.920 these guys as they get back to practice today. Yeah, 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.800 and one last thing on Taco. So it was kind 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:52.640 of pointed out to me that that pick came out 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.199 of thin air. And so when I went back and 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:59.319 looked at the draft order, and I was wondering because 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.920 they were in the market for a cornerback and the 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:07.440 pick before them was should Dave how do I say 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.120 it White or Davious White from LSU right with the Buffalo, 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.559 And I'm wondering that they have their heart set on that. 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.800 And then it was like, Okay, we got to do 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:21.120 a U turn here. And sometimes when you get stuck 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.200 on something that you think is coming and you don't 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:24.800 get it, then it's like, oh, what the hell do 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.080 we do? Same draft? Though, they got Cheeto and Lewis, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:29.959 and I'm right about that, but I'm thinking if you 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.120 would have, yeah, you wouldn't have taken Cheeto in the 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.280 second if you took White in the first. Right. I 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.439 think they were in a situation though, too, Mickey, where 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.439 they were looking at this and they thought that they 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.360 could grab Cheeto and they could grab and get both, 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.880 get both, and they said they forced the issue on 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.600 the defensive end. Right. If you remember, Tack McKinley went 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.200 to Atlanta a pick before them as well, and that 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.040 was a guy that they brought in on a thirty 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.000 visit and stuff like that. So they felt like, I 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.240 believe if my history is correct, and I've played a 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.480 couple of games without a helmet, so some times my 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.800 memory goes. But that was one of those deals where 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.280 they felt like that they could stretch the corner draft, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.480 but not stretch the defensive end draft. And you know 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.800 when they were picking, when they were picking two, it 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.560 likely was a second round player on their board. I 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.400 know he was drafted in the first round, but much 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.280 like with Travis Frederick. He was a second round player 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.160 on their board, so you know there were players ahead 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.480 of him, clearly, but they they they said, okay, it's 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:30.000 gonna come down to McKinley or Taco, and they lost 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.600 the one guy that said, okay, let's go ahead and 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.920 hit this defensive end here and then we could we 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.360 could rally and get the corners maybe later in the 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.120 draft because we felt like the position stretched a little 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.320 bit better. And if I remember correctly, and I haven't 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:48.360 been hit in the head without a helmet. Yeah, Randall 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:52.280 Gregory is in no man's land at that time, yes, right, yes, 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:56.319 being missed the whole twenty seventeen seasons, right, and then 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.679 got reinstated at the last moment in twenty eighteen, so 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.880 defensive end had beencome upon. It's so unfortunately for him 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.360 they're drafting twenty eighth. Yeah. Some of the biggest issues 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.840 you have is when you try and force the issue. 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:13.800 And we've we had those days happen in the early Yeah, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.840 we've had those days happened many a time in the 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.439 early two thousands. I know working with the Dave Campbell 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:22.360 administration that we we tried to force players and it's 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.120 not necessary it's not the best way to go. It's you. 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.640 You trust your board, you evaluate your board. I'll always 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.320 remember Kendrell Bell, who we had a linebacker the first 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.199 round on our board from Georgia. But you know, we 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:36.880 get in the second round. He's still on the board, 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.160 but we take Quincy Carter. You know, that was one 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.480 of those things where you had a first round guy 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.120 on your board, just go ahead and take him and 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.120 find a way to kind of go get your quarterback 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.680 if you have to. But that's totally water under the 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.760 bridge right now. Will McClay this group, you know, you 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.680 have to have faith in him that they'll go back. 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.360 They'll look at that, they'll evaluate what happened in that draft, 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.280 and then it will remind him and said, Okay, we 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.559 tried to do this before. Stephen Jones is X doing 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.240 this is making everybody in that room accountable for the 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.840 picks that are made. And so he'll ask the right questions. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.640 Will McClay will have answers for him, and you know, 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.080 hopefully they won't have the situation with what happened with 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.800 Taco and and go down that road again and they'll 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.960 continue to draft well like they have all right, So 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.080 what I was loosing to earlier. Is that? Yeah, we 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:21.960 went around it. He come out injury. He could have 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.960 helped them. Yeah, numbers wise because of Crawford in this 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.800 football game, sure, and Antoine Woods as well. What, Mick, 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.920 what's the status of some of these guys on defense? Yeah, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.719 I don't think I don't think Crawford's playing. No, he's not, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:38.880 and just kind of testing the temperature of Antoine Woods. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:40.679 I don't think he's going to make it back in 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:45.560 time either. So you're gonna see Tristan Hill. Yep, We're 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.760 going to find out what Christian Covington is. But the 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.800 worst part with the Crawford thing is you're losing two spots, right, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.760 You're losing your starting defensive end and you're losing your 0:13:56.040 --> 0:14:01.520 defensive tackle slide inside on nickel situations. So you're gonna 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.240 need two guys to replace one, and that's never good 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.319 when you're down to forty six three maybe three guys 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.000 to replace one. Yeah, just going back to Crawford, he 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.720 can do both. Yeah, tackle positions. I asked asked about Crawford, 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.120 and I said, is this a setback of what he 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.240 had what they worked on all training camp? And nanswer 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:24.040 was No, it's a different issue. It's nothing but overuse 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.560 of an issue with both his hips. He had it 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.680 last year about mid season. They calling it psitis is 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.400 what they're calling it. So he's dealing with a little 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.240 bit of that right now. So to Mickey's point, though, 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.960 at Rob's point, yeah, you're talking about Tristan Hill playing 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.040 the under tackle. That means maybe maliek Collins is going 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:41.720 to have to kick over and play a little one 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.040 because if they rushed the passer, they're not going to 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.440 have Christian Covington in there all the time. He might 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.280 get in there a little bit. So Quinn was taking 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.720 the majority of the reps with the first team yesterday 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.960 talking to some folks. So the fact that he had 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.080 an offseason, got some training camp in is a little 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.800 bit different of a sit situation than what what what 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.440 Crawford and what Lawrence had. So he's out there with 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.200 the ones and they're gonna have to find a way 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.400 to rotate that right defensive end over there to give 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.400 him the opportunity to not play the whole entire game. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.560 But they do have some players over like to say Armstrong, Hider, 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.560 guys like that, or but there we're gonna see Hyder 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.320 and and and those guys get a lot of work 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.120 inside as well as we go through this game. It 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.120 did sound like Robert Quinn had a good practice yesterday, 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:32.800 and Brian alluded to the fact I think he was 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.120 on the field for almost a couple of weeks in 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.640 camp before he did break the bone in his left 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.520 We were going to Hawaii, weren't. We were getting to 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.560 his the week before we left for the Hawaii trip, 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.880 but yeah, we got he broke his hand like on 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.000 a Wednesday Thursday practice our bone in the hand and 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.280 then we were all kind of and then all of 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.800 a sudden he started the suspension stuff started coming down 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.400 and have all that. Yeah, I don't think he played 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.200 in the opener though I think it was for the opener. Yeah, um, 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.600 but yeah, he's gone through all the offseason. He set 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.000 his hand feels all right. Yeah, he did have a 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.000 brace on it, I believe in practice yesterday and he's 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.480 hoping to not play with it. But it sounds like 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:08.920 he's in good shape and he's ready to go. He 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:13.600 was training I think nearby offside. Obviously, Michael Johnson performance 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.680 a good spot Olympian and he had his helmet and 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.120 but still it's not the same. He has not done 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:24.000 anything in a month on a football field, and I'm 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.120 told that they're going to kind of treat him the 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.920 way they treated Lawrence in that first game. And Lawrence 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.880 you thirty two snaps, I think you said yesterday, and 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.080 so that's half the game. Yea. So those other guys 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.600 that you know, Brian mentioned, which will take away from 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.440 how much they can possibly maybe possibly spell Lawrence right, 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.680 because you know, you don't want to go too many 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.400 snaps with Lawrence off the field and Quinn off the 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.240 field and you're out there with it, and they did 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.880 it in this last game, you know, Armstrong one side, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.760 Carrie Hyder or the other side. But I don't know 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.160 how many snaps you want to do that. Ye alright, 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.120 let's take our first. You got with something else, No, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.680 I just gonna if we could get back to it. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.280 This is gonna be an interesting game. 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Some 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:04.360 steps the big start talking lasagna and pasta too, some carbs, 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:06.680 that's right. Anything we're doing in life, you got to 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.000 sacrifice a little a little bit. Wait to go, Brian, 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:10.760 Thank you appreciate that. All right, Do you guys want 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.400 to grab some phone calls? Absolutely, let's start with Brian 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:18.040 and Jacksonville. You're up first today on Talking Cowboys. Hey, 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.840 good morning guys, Good morning morning. Hey, So it looked 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:23.399 like we call a little bit of a break with 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.040 some of these injuries popping up. The NFL Gouds have 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:29.320 kind of smiled on us. We've got Miami on the schedule. 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:33.240 This week and a faint team that's gonna play without 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:38.080 Drew Brees in the week after that. Of these injuries 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:43.359 with Antoine Woods and Xavier and Gallup and Crawford, it 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.640 sounds like, from what I keep hearing in all the coverage, 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:50.320 they're talking two, three, four weeks for all of them. 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.440 Can you guys give me an idea of are you 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.760 at all concerned that any of these are going to 0:20:55.920 --> 0:21:00.480 nag and stretch on beyond that? And are you cancerned 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.800 about the Green Bay game with the sudden pylon of 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:08.920 injuries that we've had. And I'll hang up and listen. 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:12.719 Thanks a lot, Thanks Brian Um Crawford, that's the one 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:15.960 I'm concerned About'm concerned about the Dolphins game. Oh I 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:19.080