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Speaker 6: It is Wednesday, May fifteenth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty,
Speaker 6: episode number seven. Welcome to the Late's edition of The Break,
Speaker 6: presented by LG. We are live from SWBC Mortgage Studios
Speaker 6: at the Star, and today we got a lot of
Speaker 6: things we're going to try to get into. Talk a
Speaker 6: little bit about the schedule release which is coming up
Speaker 6: later tonight. There is one game that has already been released,
Speaker 6: and we'll have a little bit of talk on. We'll
Speaker 6: talk some about the rookie minning camp and some of
Speaker 6: the things you guys saw last weekend when the rookie
Speaker 6: showed up for the first time here at the Star,
Speaker 6: and then we'll start our position analysis.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do a little bit. I'm gonna combine a.
Speaker 6: Little bit of my business school background and football and
Speaker 6: we're gonna do what's called a swat analysis on every
Speaker 6: position on the team. We're gonna start today with the quarterbacks,
Speaker 6: maybe get to the tight ends as well. We'll see
Speaker 6: what time looks like as we go throughout the show,
Speaker 6: but I'll explain that when we get to that segment.
Speaker 6: Let's start first with schedule release. It comes up tonight.
Speaker 6: We have some fun stuff planned for you fans tonight
Speaker 6: that will when we release the Cowboys schedule. But there
Speaker 6: always has been one game that has been released by
Speaker 6: the NFL. Week one Cowboys will travel to Cleveland, and
Speaker 6: I think, well, let me first just say I would
Speaker 6: love for all you guys to tell me what your
Speaker 6: thoughts are on the game, but I'm just gonna start
Speaker 6: it with two words, Miles Garrett, and I'll toss it
Speaker 6: out there and let y'all go.
Speaker 7: I think three words baptism by fire for Tyler Goyton.
Speaker 7: And of course this is as we have the conversation,
Speaker 7: Tyler Goton still has to earn the starting role at
Speaker 7: left tackles, so he's going to have to go through
Speaker 7: that crash course this summer that we talked about, and
Speaker 7: that also includes what he's doing across the street with
Speaker 7: our friend Duke mini Weather. So he's putting in the work.
Speaker 7: He started fairly early. We're in the airbnb only two
Speaker 7: days after the draft. After he got the draft call.
Speaker 7: He wanted to get to work and so he did.
Speaker 7: But there's no other way to paint it other than
Speaker 7: Miles Garrett is going to put him through the ringer,
Speaker 7: and he better be ready because he's going to have
Speaker 7: to learn real fast what it feels like to go
Speaker 7: against one of the best pass rushers in the NFL.
Speaker 7: Five time All Pro, five time Pro Bowler, raining the
Speaker 7: NFL Defensive Player of the Year. We're about to find
Speaker 7: out exactly what Tyler Goyton can do at the NFL level.
Speaker 3: Any thoughts on that one, ag Well, I mean it
Speaker 3: was interesting.
Speaker 8: So yesterday the coordinators and the coaches got a time
Speaker 8: to speak to the media, and it was interesting more
Speaker 8: so than just gutting the the the battles and the
Speaker 8: shuffling around the O line and the guys that are
Speaker 8: planning to try out kind of at center. And we thought,
Speaker 8: you know, we've talked about Tyler. Uh no, no, no,
Speaker 8: TJ Bass is what I was saying. TJ Basses and
Speaker 8: there's so many names with teams and but it's it's
Speaker 8: interesting because it's gonna be a really good competition just
Speaker 8: to see more so than just Tyler guy and what
Speaker 8: he's doing there. Yes, that's definitely gonna be a big challenge.
Speaker 8: But we know that the O line works as a
Speaker 8: whole and it's a whole effort, team effort there.
Speaker 9: But BB TJ.
Speaker 8: Bass kind of competing at the center position and seeing
Speaker 8: what that's gonna look like, Uh, it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 8: be a very big challenge. And that's one of the
Speaker 8: things I've been most concerned of because when you see
Speaker 8: these guys, these young players, they have the size, they
Speaker 8: look good like size wide do you have a lot
Speaker 8: of guys that looked the part, But now are they
Speaker 8: gonna be ready to take on that big challenge right
Speaker 8: off the bat?
Speaker 9: And and that's gonna be tough.
Speaker 8: And that's my biggest concern is the lack of experience
Speaker 8: and the mind of growth. You know, rookies do need
Speaker 8: some time to develop and kind of go in there.
Speaker 8: But like you said, how baptism by fire. I never
Speaker 8: heard that word before or that's saying, but it's definitely
Speaker 8: gonna be some type of baptism.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a it's never easy. I mean, this
Speaker 3: whole schedule's full of guys for a rookie guy's you know,
Speaker 3: we will see how they adapt. Some of them adapt
Speaker 3: very well. Someone played a very high level. Uh. You know,
Speaker 3: early season games you're kind of, you know a little
Speaker 3: bit at the mercy of your conditioning, you know. And
Speaker 3: we've seen games where you feel like guys are going
Speaker 3: to get you know, especially pass rushers, they're going to
Speaker 3: get started, and you know that they got to get
Speaker 3: a little rhythm. And you know, a guy like you know,
Speaker 3: Miles Garrett, he ain't gonna play a lot of preseason games,
Speaker 3: you know, and what's his conditioning going to be like
Speaker 3: opening day? Uh? You know, what is the condition going
Speaker 3: to be like for a lot of these players. So
Speaker 3: when you absolutely if this was say a week six,
Speaker 3: week seven matchup, I would feel a little bit more worried.
Speaker 3: But early season, you don't know. I mean there's things
Speaker 3: about the Browns. There's things scheme wise they can do
Speaker 3: to work around Miles Garrett. There are things to do.
Speaker 3: They can chip, they can space him, they could put
Speaker 3: you know, they can make him have to play wider. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know with all that we were talking about, so
Speaker 3: to me, he he doesn't know a lot about Tyler Geyiton,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean how much does he know about
Speaker 3: his pass rush of blocking ability? You know, there are
Speaker 3: things that got you know, he might be surprised with
Speaker 3: Giton's length. You know, he might be surprised with Guidon's height,
Speaker 3: and you know, and his athletic ability that you know,
Speaker 3: if you're going to play against Males Garrett, you better
Speaker 3: be ready to be a really good foot athlete because
Speaker 3: he's going to carry you. Why he's going to carry
Speaker 3: you inside, He's going to carry you a lot of
Speaker 3: places his kids. Yeah, it will be it'll be an
Speaker 3: eye opener for him. But there's ways. This is what
Speaker 3: these coaching staffs do. They spend all off season now
Speaker 3: now that they know the Cleveland Browns are Week one.
Speaker 3: Now you figure out ways to just look at every
Speaker 3: single game and how people play it against Miles Garrett
Speaker 3: and figure out what's the best way to neutralize him.
Speaker 3: You're not going to stop him every single time, but
Speaker 3: his unknown about about Guiden and Guidan's unknown about him
Speaker 3: might play due an advantage for the Cowboys and then
Speaker 3: also the conditioning of week one. We've seen players deal
Speaker 3: with cramps, not they don't have their win, not ready
Speaker 3: in real good football shape at that point in time.
Speaker 3: This might be an advantage playing a guy in Week one. Y.
Speaker 9: So how would you guys handle pre season? I mean,
Speaker 9: do you have your play.
Speaker 8: But you have your your center and left and left
Speaker 8: tackle play with the backups at the other positions, you
Speaker 8: just play.
Speaker 6: They play a lot in I think in the preseason
Speaker 6: games when the other starters come out, they stay in it.
Speaker 8: But I'm talking about the other veterans, like the starters
Speaker 8: or Si Martin your purposes.
Speaker 9: Just getting a line. I'm just asking.
Speaker 8: I know we're against like having the starters out there
Speaker 8: during the preseason, but based on the you know, getting
Speaker 8: everybody on, you're.
Speaker 7: Right as far as because we talked about about it
Speaker 7: last year when the Cowboys had injuries, and we talked
Speaker 7: about how many games does offensive line need to play
Speaker 7: together to have that chemistry? And I think it comes
Speaker 7: up to round four in my head. But you have
Speaker 7: to also weigh it against who we're talking about. So
Speaker 7: for example, we're talking about Zach Martin. Zach Martin number
Speaker 7: one doesn't need the preseason reps, and it's risk versus
Speaker 7: reward in that the risk that you have with him
Speaker 7: being out there possible injury versus the chemistry. Zach can
Speaker 7: get the chemistry quickly from week one, two, three, as
Speaker 7: long as it's a cohesive unit to start the season.
Speaker 7: So I'm not worried about Zach Martin getting the cohesiveness
Speaker 7: or Terrence Steele for example. But with the rookies, I
Speaker 7: see what you're saying there, because it.
Speaker 9: Was a big talk class.
Speaker 6: But you know, I will say this, if it were
Speaker 6: me making the decision, I might consider putting four of
Speaker 6: those five guys out there and playing them a little
Speaker 6: bit more in the preseason.
Speaker 3: Zach.
Speaker 6: I don't need Zach to touch the field everyseason. The
Speaker 6: other four, though, give me Bass out there with him,
Speaker 6: and I'll put that five out there, and I'll let
Speaker 6: him run through the first quarter, maybe the first quarter
Speaker 6: and a half, just to give give me a little
Speaker 6: bit of time to see them together and let them
Speaker 6: work together. Because I do think, especially on the left
Speaker 6: side of the line, Tyler is important to that because
Speaker 6: he's got a guy on the right and a left
Speaker 6: on the left that are new and so them having
Speaker 6: some time together I think might be very important. So
Speaker 6: I might consider doing a little bit more with my
Speaker 6: younger guys like Tyler Smith, and maybe even with Steele.
Speaker 2: I just wouldn't do it with Zack.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I'm fun doing with Tyler Smith because of
Speaker 7: the age factor.
Speaker 3: They need to play halves. I mean, the young guys
Speaker 3: need to think about playing a half of a game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they definitely. Yeah, and especially if we're trying to get
Speaker 3: an evaluation of Trey Lance. How much is Dak gonna
Speaker 3: play in these games? You know? And we're trying to
Speaker 3: figure out running back by committee. Yeah, we know the
Speaker 3: number fifteen can run the ball. We've seen, you know,
Speaker 3: Rico Daudell run the ball. But you know who else?
Speaker 3: You know who else you know who is going to be?
Speaker 3: I think you're only gonna carry. You need to get
Speaker 3: duz Von going. You need to figure out what douce
Speaker 3: Vawn is or it's going to be we're gonna get
Speaker 3: down to the final cut and we're gonna like, we're
Speaker 3: gonna have Ducevawn on the bubble and we're all gonna
Speaker 3: look at each other and go, we really didn't know
Speaker 3: what Ducevon is, you know, they've got to figure out.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of things and by if you're playing
Speaker 3: these young linemen Bbe Smith, you know, Guidon. If you're
Speaker 3: playing these young guys, then you get an opportunity not
Speaker 3: only to evaluate them, but you're evaluating your quarterback. You're
Speaker 3: how about the receivers out there too, You're trying to
Speaker 3: find a third guy right now. So there's a lot
Speaker 3: of things going.
Speaker 7: And kind of dove tailing off of that looking at
Speaker 7: the Browns matchup, Excited to see what Guyton does in
Speaker 7: this baptism by fire against Miles Garrett. But we talk
Speaker 7: about how the Cowboys offensive line needs to improve run blocking. Well,
Speaker 7: now we're going to look at Tyler Smith, Cooper BB,
Speaker 7: and of course Zach Martin going up against Dalvin Tomlinson
Speaker 7: for example, right going up against Shelby Harris. So they're
Speaker 7: going to have their hands full as well. You're talking
Speaker 7: about young guys trying to figure it out. Well, Cooper BB,
Speaker 7: he plays with this particular bullying demeanor. He wants to
Speaker 7: dirt guys. Well, you're going to get some veterans that
Speaker 7: don't often get dirty, right, So we want to see
Speaker 7: what the run game can be. But half of that
Speaker 7: equation is going to be how this front three performs
Speaker 7: against their defensive tackles, and they have some good ones
Speaker 7: in Cleveland. The good news is for the Cowboys is
Speaker 7: that the defensive coordinator that's here now, Mike Zimber, he
Speaker 7: knows Tomlinson will and he knows Zadarius Thomas well, for example,
Speaker 7: so he has some inside information that will helped this offense.
Speaker 6: Well, don't lose sight of the fact that just like
Speaker 6: the offense is going to have a challenge, the defense
Speaker 6: will also have a challenge going up against the likes
Speaker 6: of Deshaun and Nick Chubbs and of.
Speaker 2: Course Mary Cooper.
Speaker 6: That's the other storyline is it gets really interesting is
Speaker 6: that you go there and you have to face Mary
Speaker 6: Cooper and I'm sure he's he's already.
Speaker 9: Something to playing at home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure that.
Speaker 7: Will be a game that, all things considered, if it
Speaker 7: continues as it is or it's gave us a great
Speaker 7: update on trevon dig yesterday said he's on schedule. He
Speaker 7: didn't want to put timeline on it because that's for
Speaker 7: Britt Brown and his staff, but it sounds as if
Speaker 7: Trayvon is on track to be on the field week one.
Speaker 7: But which version of Trayvon are we going to see
Speaker 7: week one going against a guy like a Mary Cooper
Speaker 7: or will they put bland on Cooper and let Trayvon
Speaker 7: have a little bit of grace because he's coming back
Speaker 7: from town ac.
Speaker 3: I hate to say, history is not shown that these
Speaker 3: guys are coming back from injuries immediately jump in. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, we've seen all of a sudden Week six,
Speaker 3: Week seven, they start to look a little bit more
Speaker 3: like the player before they got hurt. Those are the
Speaker 3: things you always got to keep in mind.
Speaker 10: I've been landed on Cooper and give Trayvon some grace there. Yeah.
Speaker 6: To be honest with you, my guess is that they're
Speaker 6: going to move Cooper around a little bit so you
Speaker 6: may get him. Yeah, And I don't know that I'd
Speaker 6: start moving guys just to stay with Cooper. I think
Speaker 6: you kind of match up and you see where you go.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The good thing.
Speaker 6: About it for for some of those guys, at least
Speaker 6: they've practiced against Mary Cooper, right, they kind of they
Speaker 6: have some experience with him, so they kind of know
Speaker 6: what he likes to do. They have some tail signs
Speaker 6: on him, and by the way it goes both ways,
Speaker 6: he probably has some tail signs on them as well.
Speaker 6: But it'll be interesting matchups. And I think this matchup
Speaker 6: is a very interesting for the one for the Cowboys
Speaker 6: against an AFC team to begin the season for all
Speaker 6: of the reasons we just mentioned. It will be a fun,
Speaker 6: fun matchup.
Speaker 10: All right, We're gonna go ahead, and the quarterback mobile
Speaker 10: quarterback too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And honestly, Deshaun Watson is probably one of the
Speaker 6: biggest He's probably one of the biggest question marks in
Speaker 6: the entire NFL from the standpoint of will he or
Speaker 6: when he when will he resume his career in the
Speaker 6: way that it was before he was out of football.
Speaker 6: If Yeah, we don't know if, but if and when,
Speaker 6: like if he gets back to that and then you're
Speaker 6: combining with the running game with Chubb and with the
Speaker 6: Marii Cooper and with Miles Garrett on the defense side
Speaker 6: of the ball, they got some pieces, like, they got
Speaker 6: some pieces to be a very very dangerous team.
Speaker 3: So it'll be interesting.
Speaker 7: This linebackers is going to get tested too, So thank goodness,
Speaker 7: Eric Kendricks is in the building and we'll see overshown
Speaker 7: he might need some grace. We talked about Trayvon Diggs
Speaker 7: might need some grace. But you're going to get some
Speaker 7: mobile quarterback. He's going to try to, you know, burn
Speaker 7: those edges. Your linebacker is going to have to be
Speaker 7: disciplined and have the ability to know when to go
Speaker 7: chase and know when to drop back and no when
Speaker 7: to change gears.
Speaker 10: So linebacker is going to get tested on.
Speaker 3: I forgot they traded for Jerry Judy too from Denver.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the oh wow, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I forgot all about that. Yeah, well, David and Joku,
Speaker 3: the tight ends a really athletic guys, Jerry Judy and
Speaker 3: and then you know with Cooper, I mean they've got
Speaker 3: they've got capable guys on that.
Speaker 2: That's a good roster.
Speaker 6: So that's gonna be a very very big test for
Speaker 6: the Cowboys on the road to start Week one.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 8: But like Mike McCarthy likes to say that, he likes
Speaker 8: to find out early on what we got, you know,
Speaker 8: So that's gonna be well, here we.
Speaker 3: Go there early on.
Speaker 6: But by the way, that's the NFL, Like there are
Speaker 6: as you're kind of mentioned there, Brian, there are probably
Speaker 6: ten games on the schedule this year where you're like, oh,
Speaker 6: that's going to be a very, very tough matchup. Like,
Speaker 6: there are a lot of good teams in the NFL,
Speaker 6: especially right now. When you're looking at the rosters, you're like, man,
Speaker 6: they got a lot of weapons. We'll see how it
Speaker 6: all plays out once you get there.
Speaker 3: I know, I was terrified of a Week two game
Speaker 3: against the Jets until I saw what happened to Week one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, rights, it could change everything, Yeah, absolutely, But it's
Speaker 5: also different going against because even last year, Yeah, the
Speaker 5: Giants saw your a divisional rival for Week one, and
Speaker 5: there's familiarity there, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 7: But it's suffices to say, even if we were having
Speaker 7: this conversation before Week one last year and then comparing
Speaker 7: it against what we're saying with the Browns, this Browns
Speaker 7: matchup is a light years more difficulty. So the Giants,
Speaker 7: I mean, nobody expected to forty the old blowout at MetLife,
Speaker 7: But it's those are two different teams.
Speaker 2: Those are not the same team.
Speaker 10: Those are not the same team.
Speaker 7: So that that could be respectfully viewed as kind of
Speaker 7: a ramp up getting into the season.
Speaker 10: This is not that this is let's go.
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Speaker 6: Let's talk about the Rookie Mini Caamprookies showed up last
Speaker 6: week for the first time here at the Star. I
Speaker 6: want to go around the table each of you guys,
Speaker 6: give me one observation. It can be from when you
Speaker 6: first met guys to what you saw on the field,
Speaker 6: to any locker room interviews. One observation that really stood
Speaker 6: out to you about any player that is a rookie
Speaker 6: that showed up last weekend.
Speaker 2: Let's start with you, Brian.
Speaker 3: You know, Mike Zimber told us that he was working
Speaker 3: with Mozzie Smith on his stance, and I'm thinking, like stance.
Speaker 3: You know, football players know about stances. They're honestly working
Speaker 3: with guys on their stance. I was I was looking
Speaker 3: down at the other end of the field and when
Speaker 3: you when you look at the defensive tackles down there
Speaker 3: with Justin Rodgers and Denzel Dason and Marshawn Neelan and
Speaker 3: those guys, it's so funny how you draft somebody and
Speaker 3: when you bring them in you have to completely turn
Speaker 3: them around, you turn them into something. So it really
Speaker 3: was the the observations for me, I'm like ohing, gosh,
Speaker 3: they're they're they're working on steps, They're literally working on stance,
Speaker 3: and so to me, it's the basics of just trying
Speaker 3: to get these kids acclimated to what they're uh to
Speaker 3: what they're gonna do. You're gonna get a lot more
Speaker 3: of an evaluation when we get the veterans and they
Speaker 3: can work together. We'll see some team periods and things
Speaker 3: like that, which will give you a better idea. But
Speaker 3: it is really about the basics when you bring these
Speaker 3: guys in, and so you know the size physically, how
Speaker 3: these guys look. I was really super impressive. I could
Speaker 3: just real quick these safeties that they had Themanny Johnson
Speaker 3: and Julius Wood. Those are two really good looking safeties
Speaker 3: that they brought in, big guys, and so you know,
Speaker 3: it's good to see some size. It's good to see
Speaker 3: the idea of what they were having at some certain positions.
Speaker 3: But it all boils down to can you even line
Speaker 3: up and get in a stance? That might be the
Speaker 3: most important thing I learned from that camp that there's
Speaker 3: going to be some work of having to maybe convert
Speaker 3: some guys and take them into Okay, you might have
Speaker 3: done it this way in college, but we need you
Speaker 3: to do it this way for what we're doing.
Speaker 7: A couple of things, first and foremost more, Shawn Niland
Speaker 7: is physically impressive. You know that by looking at the film.
Speaker 7: But it's not until you are standing right in front
Speaker 7: of him, until you realize at that moment that this
Speaker 7: guy's a specimen. He has the size of the mask
Speaker 7: and he is absolutely chiseled. And I love his demeanor
Speaker 7: as well as kind of like this soft smile that
Speaker 7: you know it's that fafo and if you know the Academy,
Speaker 7: you know what I'm going for there.
Speaker 10: He wants to get on the field and really do
Speaker 10: some damage.
Speaker 7: And I think there's a reason why the Cowboys saw
Speaker 7: so much in him to use a second round pick
Speaker 7: on that guy. So that's one as Marshaw Kneeland is
Speaker 7: much more physically impressive in real life than film would indicate.
Speaker 7: Second for me is the battle at center, and Bar
Speaker 7: touched on this earlier because it's something that Mike Celari
Speaker 7: said yesterday in the Q and A.
Speaker 10: TJ.
Speaker 7: Bass is going to be competing at center alongside brock Hoffman,
Speaker 7: alongside Cooper BB. I had my eyes glued to Cooper
Speaker 7: BB seeing how comfortable he was in the context of granted,
Speaker 7: the veterans were not there. It's not a full offensive
Speaker 7: line in rookie Minnie camp that's down until effective yesterday,
Speaker 7: but he did look for what he was doing. He
Speaker 7: looked comfortable. He looked comfortable pointing out the pre snap
Speaker 7: identifiers and things like that. And that also goes to
Speaker 7: the fact that in speaking with BB, he said that
Speaker 7: he's been putting a lot of work into his transition
Speaker 7: to center off of the field, so to the point
Speaker 7: where he said he'll be at home, and we asked, well,
Speaker 7: you know who's catching your snap and he said, anyone
Speaker 7: who's willing, Like he's throwing snaps to his dad, to
Speaker 7: his mom, to his brother, like whoever is willing to
Speaker 7: get out there in the yard and catch his snaps.
Speaker 7: And it's starting to kind of show in how quickly
Speaker 7: he's being able to transition. So for me, it's Cooper
Speaker 7: Bebe's transition at center. But also the light bulb coming
Speaker 7: on saying, hey, this isn't simply Cooper BB versus brock Hoffman.
Speaker 10: They're throwing TJ.
Speaker 7: Bass in there as well, because Mike Slari said perfectly,
Speaker 7: they'd like to have maybe three available centers when they
Speaker 7: go into any given game.
Speaker 3: Mike Solari keeps reminding us about Hoffman. He is not
Speaker 3: gonna let us Steven Jones. He is not going to
Speaker 3: let us forget about Hoffman.
Speaker 10: Yah.
Speaker 2: It seems like they really like a lot of people
Speaker 2: in the front office like him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and that's you know, you draft BB and
Speaker 3: we've all got plug and Play in mind, and we've
Speaker 3: got BB as that guy. And you're right, he's going
Speaker 3: to have to work on snap step. You know, those
Speaker 3: are things that his life has always been. Hand on
Speaker 3: the ground, step go kind of thing. Now you have
Speaker 3: to snap make sure it's there and then you get
Speaker 3: to go. But yeah, everybody's got him just plug and play,
Speaker 3: and everybody in the organization is kind of like, I
Speaker 3: just give a chance. I think they keep reminding you.
Speaker 6: About Hoffing some of the conversations I've had from with
Speaker 6: people around here. I think the reason why there's that
Speaker 6: level of respect for him is because.
Speaker 2: The work is a worker man.
Speaker 6: He is where, he's always here, He's always it's still
Speaker 6: like yeah, and I think there's something that that's respected
Speaker 6: in this business when you find somebody that's just willing
Speaker 6: to put in the work.
Speaker 3: We remember Joe Philbin, you know, Joe Philben fell in
Speaker 3: love with Terrence still when I was throwing dirt all
Speaker 3: over him, you know, I was not giving Terrence still
Speaker 3: the opportunity, even the light of day, to be a
Speaker 3: starting right tackle in the National Football League. And you know,
Speaker 3: Joe Philbin kept her mind us first in last out
Speaker 3: weight room. Guy likes to likes to study film, asks
Speaker 3: a bunch of questions, very intensive. Coaches love those guys.
Speaker 3: They love those guys. They don't I mean, yeah, they
Speaker 3: have to coach them, but they love the self motivated guy.
Speaker 3: And I think that this is I think this is
Speaker 3: the if you talk about pet Cat for an offensive
Speaker 3: line coach with Mike Clari, I think that Hoffin's guy.
Speaker 3: And he is going to always remind you, you know,
Speaker 3: every time, well you know, you talk about Bibe, talked
Speaker 3: about Bibe to well, you know what, this Hoffman kid,
Speaker 3: we got a he's a tough kid, you know. He
Speaker 3: he he would go out of his way to mention Hoffman.
Speaker 3: We interviewed him on day three of the draft talking
Speaker 3: about Hoffman, What did you do out there in front
Speaker 3: of the media day he thought he brought up Hoffmin again,
Speaker 3: really didn't even talk about really a lot of other guys,
Speaker 3: Howfmin was a guy that he wanted to point out. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: that similar there's gonna be a battle there, there's going
Speaker 3: to be a battle.
Speaker 9: About a year ago.
Speaker 8: I mean it was kind of similar to TJ Bass.
Speaker 8: TJ Bass was the guy that everyone kept bringing up,
Speaker 8: even when you weren't talking about him necessarily, people teammates
Speaker 8: would bring him up and talk about how like impressive
Speaker 8: he's been and all of that and what he's shown.
Speaker 8: But another thing that was brought up that I think
Speaker 8: it's important was he reminded us of you can only
Speaker 8: dress x amount of play on game dates, So it
Speaker 8: is very important. Something that they're keeping in mind is
Speaker 8: just making sure they're kind of dividing repetitions at different
Speaker 8: spots to where they do have that versatility to where
Speaker 8: if anything was to happen, you do have guys that
Speaker 8: already have been practicing getting some reps there. So I
Speaker 8: think that's very very valuable too, not only see but
Speaker 8: also here that they're focusing on that. But something that
Speaker 8: was impressive to me and I always talk about wanting
Speaker 8: to talk to the players, getting a vibe and all
Speaker 8: of that, and something that stood out for me is
Speaker 8: like this time around and it always has been this way,
Speaker 8: except this year, it wasn't like.
Speaker 9: Oh look at that baby, Oh a little baby, and
Speaker 9: then I'm like, damn, I'm old.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 8: I started just like you when I got here, But
Speaker 8: I got in front of men that look like mature,
Speaker 8: grown men, not only in the way they looked physically
Speaker 8: as far as like height and shape and form and
Speaker 8: all of that, but also the way they presented themselves
Speaker 8: to work, and they looked very comfortable.
Speaker 2: Has changed the game.
Speaker 6: College kids come in that way savvy when it comes
Speaker 6: to the media than they did before.
Speaker 10: Is a perfect example Hit the how he addresses the media.
Speaker 9: So that was impressive to me.
Speaker 8: Just the confidence, the way they spoke, the confidence and
Speaker 8: and the maturity maturity that they seem to have right
Speaker 8: off the bat, that they look like once we see
Speaker 8: them with the veterans, that they'll fit in very well.
Speaker 3: The pandemic also gave everybody an extra year. You have
Speaker 3: some six year guys now college football.
Speaker 10: Shouts out to COVID.
Speaker 6: All right, here's another question I have for you guys
Speaker 6: about the weekend, and really this is about the draft
Speaker 6: class and undrafted free agents who the Cowboys have signed.
Speaker 2: Who do you think is more of a lock to
Speaker 2: be a starter in Week one?
Speaker 3: A lock? A lock? If you had to okay, depending
Speaker 3: on what happens at right defensive end. Does Marshawn Neelan
Speaker 3: do more than Sam Williams. That's the question you have
Speaker 3: to ask yourself right there?
Speaker 6: Are you assuming Micah would be pencil down as I'll
Speaker 6: start at linebacker?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think so. I mean maybe this offensive line group,
Speaker 3: maybe the left tackle probably would be a guy that
Speaker 3: you would say is a lock. But I was trying
Speaker 3: to go differently because I kind of feel like that
Speaker 3: those line positions that might be a lock. But if
Speaker 3: you're going I wouldn't be surprised. I'm gonna put a
Speaker 3: lot of pressure on this kid. This Kayln Carson's a
Speaker 3: hell of a football player, right of way. First, if
Speaker 3: he plays well enough outside during training camp, could that
Speaker 3: mean you kick Bland inside and Jordan Lewis is now
Speaker 3: odd man out? So I'm keeping a close close eye
Speaker 3: on Kaylen Carson because if he he had that kind
Speaker 3: of ability, He's got that kind of ability. I think
Speaker 3: there were so many corners in this draft and he
Speaker 3: got lost in a pretty deep group and he's just
Speaker 3: what like, his traits are just what Mike Zimber likes,
Speaker 3: and they had him playing the right corner in Uh,
Speaker 3: this just kind of starting out. We'll see where they
Speaker 3: if they move him around. But if he's good enough
Speaker 3: on the outside and he played as what we known
Speaker 3: as a field corner, which covers you know, the field
Speaker 3: corner takes a lot of a lot of space. So
Speaker 3: I just wonder, if he's good enough, does it make
Speaker 3: them feel like he could start in the nickel on
Speaker 3: the outside and then they move land. That's that's what
Speaker 3: I'm gonna. I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of monitor that
Speaker 3: as we go along.
Speaker 7: I think my closest luck and it's it's difficult to
Speaker 7: say because each of these rookies are up against competitions
Speaker 7: like Kayln Carter, Kayln Carson, he's up against Jordan Lewis
Speaker 7: in and the Deron Blands of the world. But in
Speaker 7: Cooper Beebe, he's up against brock Hoffman and t J.
Speaker 7: Basz and Tyler Geydon. When you look at who he's
Speaker 7: up against, he has the best opportunity to be the
Speaker 7: most likely starter for Week one of this entire rookie class.
Speaker 7: It's his athleticism, it's his physical stature and build, and
Speaker 7: it's also the fact that he's your first round pick,
Speaker 7: and then who is he challenging because now with him
Speaker 7: and the building, presumably Tyler Smith is going to stay
Speaker 7: at leftguard, So that means he's going up against Chumaydoga.
Speaker 7: I think he can beat out to Manydoga. This summer,
Speaker 7: He's going against Matt Well let's go. Well, let's go.
Speaker 7: Has to prove he can remain healthy. They're moving Josh
Speaker 7: Bauld inside. So when you look at the competition versus Guyton,
Speaker 7: and you look at Guidon's ceiling, even going into week one,
Speaker 7: year one, I think Guian is the most likely to
Speaker 7: be a lock. Not to say that he definitely is,
Speaker 7: but he has the best shot.
Speaker 3: You want to you want a dark horse, you want
Speaker 3: a real I know you're saying locks, you want a
Speaker 3: dark horse on this one. Justin Rogers starting over, Mazzie
Speaker 3: Smith one technique, I'd be a story in a lot
Speaker 3: of different ways. Yeah, you know, And talking to people
Speaker 3: about Mazzi, They're going to do the best he can
Speaker 3: to get him ready. They want him to be in
Speaker 3: the weight room, they want him to put on as
Speaker 3: much good weight as he can. They want to get
Speaker 3: his strength back. You know, right now, I believe is
Speaker 3: at three zero five, you know they're they're gonna they're
Speaker 3: rehabbing the hell out of him, trying to get him ready.
Speaker 3: But if you wanted a dark horse, maybe and it's
Speaker 3: I know you asked the question for a.
Speaker 2: While, that's fine, that's good.
Speaker 3: But somebody that, like Justin Rogers, shows enough that he's
Speaker 3: the starting one technique against the Cleveland Browns an opening day, ye,
Speaker 3: that would be something I would keep an eye on.
Speaker 9: That's exactly the guy that I was gonna mention.
Speaker 8: And it's odd because obviously being picked in the seventh round,
Speaker 8: typically you're not gonna pick that over who was your
Speaker 8: first round pick last year.
Speaker 9: So it's difficult. But at the same time, this guy
Speaker 9: does have the size. He has the size, he has.
Speaker 8: The weight, and he can be a guy that you
Speaker 8: plug in there and just settles that like move me,
Speaker 8: try to move me. And not only that, but he's
Speaker 8: also he's shown to be really good at helping blocking
Speaker 8: the run game run defense, and that's something that obviously
Speaker 8: the Cowboys have struggled with. So he's not necessarily someone
Speaker 8: that I feel confident, you know, with confidence to say, oh,
Speaker 8: he'll be a starter over Mossie. But definitely someone to
Speaker 8: keep an eye on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I keep thinking back to another Auburn defensive tackle
Speaker 6: that they brought at late round turned into a player
Speaker 6: and Jay Ratt left, and I'm like, if.
Speaker 2: Only they can, if only they can get another that was?
Speaker 3: That was that your draft two thousand and five, It
Speaker 3: was the last one. That was that draft with with
Speaker 3: with where.
Speaker 2: And in my opinion of the best drafting Cowboys history.
Speaker 10: That's it was.
Speaker 3: It was a good one. That was a good draft.
Speaker 3: And then you look at Chris Canty in that draft
Speaker 3: as well, So there was quite a few.
Speaker 2: Kevin Burnett in that draft. Second round.
Speaker 6: That it was, it was where it was spears it was.
Speaker 6: I think I think Kevin Burnett was the second round kick.
Speaker 6: I don't remember whose third round Canty was fourth, right
Speaker 6: and he.
Speaker 3: Was fourth, Yeah, but they had it was it was.
Speaker 3: It was a good Aran Barber was in that draft.
Speaker 2: He was the fifth pick in that draft, right, fifth
Speaker 2: round pick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a test to me, but I remember,
Speaker 3: that's a good draft. The thing about the thing, I
Speaker 3: think why Justin Rodgers has the chances because right now
Speaker 3: there's so much unknown about Mozzie Smith. Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: that's that to me, is you know if you said,
Speaker 3: well you know what's what's what's the thing, you probably
Speaker 3: know the least is gonna I don't know what's gonna
Speaker 3: happen with Mozzie Smith. I don't. And I'm saying that
Speaker 3: in I'm not saying in a negative way. I'm just
Speaker 3: don't know right now.
Speaker 6: With that, all right, we're gonna take our final break,
Speaker 6: we'll come back. We'll start our position series. Don't think
Speaker 6: we'll get to the tight end position day, but we'll
Speaker 6: do the quarterback position.
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Speaker 3: There was this thing that we would do, were your jacket?
Speaker 6: No, I want my jacket because it's the super Bowl
Speaker 6: of Media coming up today.
Speaker 3: I saw you on TV yesterday. Did they did a
Speaker 3: thing that was that was an ESPN thing about scheduled releases.
Speaker 3: Really it looked like, Okay, who did the did the
Speaker 3: Chargers do when they was animated? Yeah?
Speaker 2: They always they've done that for the last is.
Speaker 3: It is it studio influence?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 6: I think they but they've done it for a few years.
Speaker 6: They've done the little animated you know anime.
Speaker 3: They interviewed all your department.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was me and Drew and Drew heads our
Speaker 6: creative video team, Brittany Johnson who had our social media team.
Speaker 2: The three of us did the interview with Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that was a piece they did.
Speaker 6: Last year and they've kind of redone it a little
Speaker 6: bit with you some of the old footage this year.
Speaker 3: It looked like to me that the Chargers did have
Speaker 3: an interesting one when it was cartoon.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, it's anime they do.
Speaker 6: They do anime, and they've done it for a couple
Speaker 6: like at least two years, maybe three, but at least so.
Speaker 3: They need to change their bit, that's what you're saying.
Speaker 6: No, I'm saying they did a good by the way,
Speaker 6: it's really good. It's actually really good.
Speaker 10: So I don't know.
Speaker 6: Sometimes you find something and it works and you just
Speaker 6: kind of stick with it because it works, right, So
Speaker 6: I wouldn't be surprised if they did that again.
Speaker 2: I mean, people love anime.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I'm not an anime person. My daughter is huge and
Speaker 2: she loves Yeah.
Speaker 9: Them, was it them? Who was the team that attacked
Speaker 9: to everybody?
Speaker 2: They tell me that every year at that Chargers attaching.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm saying anime. I'm saying you can't go
Speaker 10: wrong with anime. Give pre anime.
Speaker 3: We could like pre clear pre Paul uh Tyson, we
Speaker 3: could have you versit. The guy at the Chargers.
Speaker 6: Boxing, Well, whenever we play the Chargers again, we may
Speaker 6: have something fun for them.
Speaker 2: We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 3: You've had enough of the Chargers, is that what you're saying?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 3: I respect what they do, I really with respect. The
Speaker 3: guy was here, you'd fist fight with him, right, I.
Speaker 2: Don't fight anymore. That's my younger days. I've leave I've
Speaker 2: left that behind.
Speaker 10: Last year anyway.
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, you don't have to say anything you said, right, right,
Speaker 6: All right, let's go. So let's talk about the position.
Speaker 6: Noalysis is where we do We're gonna do something. We're
Speaker 6: gonna do something called the swat analysis, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.
Speaker 2: I'll explain.
Speaker 6: I'll explain each one as we go through. Let's start though,
Speaker 6: with strenks. We're gonna start at the quarterback position. Tell me,
Speaker 6: I want each of you to tell me what you
Speaker 6: think the biggest strength of this quarterback group is.
Speaker 2: Let's start with you, Patrick.
Speaker 15: I Q.
Speaker 10: And ability to put up points.
Speaker 7: If we're talking about Dak Prescott, yes, he has his
Speaker 7: faults and we but we're talking about strengths right now.
Speaker 7: So he has full command of his NFL offense. Full
Speaker 7: command of the Cowboys offense. Didn't take him long and
Speaker 7: crazy when you think about it, because how many coordinators
Speaker 7: is this for him now as far as play callers
Speaker 7: goes right, So, yeah, and he just continues mostly to
Speaker 7: perform at a high level in the regular season at
Speaker 7: least still got to get over that postseason Hume. So
Speaker 7: for me, yeah, and then when you look at Cooper Rush,
Speaker 7: Cooper Rush is who I call you, cool hand Luke.
Speaker 10: He can come in.
Speaker 7: He's not going to win you the game, but he's
Speaker 7: not going to lose you the game either, right, question Mark,
Speaker 7: Still on tree Lance, the potential is certainly there as
Speaker 7: a former third overall pick. Strength being that he has
Speaker 7: the ability to move the ball, he can move his
Speaker 7: legs challenge opposing defenses in that way. But still a
Speaker 7: lot to be determined on trade lance. So I can't
Speaker 7: really put a lot on Tree Lance in the strength category,
Speaker 7: but I can on Cooper.
Speaker 3: In deck depth. That would be what I would say,
Speaker 3: Ye spirits and depth.
Speaker 9: I would say.
Speaker 8: I mean, as far as Dyke, I think he is
Speaker 8: at his prime. He's not too young where he's still
Speaker 8: having to learn a whole lot, but he's not old
Speaker 8: enough where he has a bunch of like little things
Speaker 8: are nagging his body health wise, knock on everything. Yes,
Speaker 8: but yes he's healthy and I think he is right
Speaker 8: at the prime of his career. He had his best
Speaker 8: year last year, and I think this is I'm not
Speaker 8: gonna say this is nothing, this.
Speaker 10: Is it is what.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's where he is at. I'm gonna shut my
Speaker 8: mouth with some of the things. But as far as
Speaker 8: Trey Lions, he the youth, I mean, he's a young
Speaker 8: guy that there's still a lot of unknowns because we
Speaker 8: just haven't seen it use yet, but it does give
Speaker 8: you hope. As far as the development of what you
Speaker 8: can possibly do with him as well.
Speaker 2: Biggest weakness of this group.
Speaker 3: Lack of playoff success.
Speaker 10: I was going to say winning the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Can't say you can't say big game success because they've
Speaker 3: won some big games, but they I think lack of
Speaker 3: playoffs success is what hangs over the scroup's head.
Speaker 7: Yeah, same winning the playoffs. And we talked about this,
Speaker 7: We said this before they lost to the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 7: We say, lose this game, then all of next season
Speaker 7: is going to have this huge asterisk as we're enjoying
Speaker 7: the wins that they have. Let's say they win against
Speaker 7: the Cleveland Browns. We'll sit here and we'll enjoy that,
Speaker 7: and we'll talk about that playfully with a bunch of optimism,
Speaker 7: and then we'll have to close out that show by
Speaker 7: saying not do it in January. So, now, Dak Prescott
Speaker 7: didn't necessarily lose you the game against the Packers. I
Speaker 7: think the defense mostly lost you the game against the Packers,
Speaker 7: to be fair, But Dak was slow getting going and
Speaker 7: he would have had to save his defense sooner than
Speaker 7: he was able to try to do so.
Speaker 10: So win in the playoffs. That's what everybody wants. It's
Speaker 10: got to happen.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's no other answer than that.
Speaker 8: I mean, we've seen a lot of the things that
Speaker 8: we've asked of Dak throughout his career, whether that was
Speaker 8: throwing more downfield, those long passes, those long shots he's
Speaker 8: done in red zone, done it. He's being a mobile quarterback.
Speaker 8: He's shown to do that before. So he's improved a
Speaker 8: lot of different areas, reducing the turnover, turnovers and throwing
Speaker 8: those interceptions. But the main thing, yeah, playoffs game, all right.
Speaker 6: So the next one is opportunity, And I'll explain what
Speaker 6: I mean by that. What I want to know is
Speaker 6: what is an unknown right now, a question mark right
Speaker 6: now that could become a big asset for this this group.
Speaker 3: Getting him signed. If you just want to talk about
Speaker 3: the quarterback, Yeah, I mean getting him signed, that's your
Speaker 3: asset right there. If they find a way to get
Speaker 3: it done, then you know that that buys you a
Speaker 3: couple more years hopefully you know, hopefully of MVP type
Speaker 3: level quarterbacking. But that's an unknown right now. Are you're
Speaker 3: gonna be able to get that done? The asset could
Speaker 3: be getting it done. The unknown is we don't know
Speaker 3: if it's gonna get done.
Speaker 10: I say, and I agree with Brian.
Speaker 7: The asset is getting it done because if you don't
Speaker 7: get it done, guess what, you also don't have Trey
Speaker 7: Lance under contract for a long period of time either.
Speaker 7: And you want Trey Lance to compete directly with Cooper
Speaker 7: Rush for QB too. He got all these question marks,
Speaker 7: but all of this is predicated upon Dak Prescott being
Speaker 7: here for the future. And if you don't get Dak
Speaker 7: Prescott signed and for whatever reason things they part ways
Speaker 7: next year, is Trey Lance ready because you're only going
Speaker 7: to be basing that that assessment next year off of
Speaker 7: this coming preseason and probably nothing more. That's that's that's
Speaker 7: a lot soet QB one signed.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And and I mean, there's that's gonna affect so
Speaker 8: many other things because what does that contract look like,
Speaker 8: what does the money look like? Is that going to
Speaker 8: hold you hostage and having the ability or capability of
Speaker 8: signing other players that can be weapons and actually help
Speaker 8: you know, it's it's a lot of unknown and even
Speaker 8: if let's say you don't get him signed and now
Speaker 8: you're going through a whole restructure type of white bout
Speaker 8: like a quarterback.
Speaker 3: Home it could affect you. It could affect you anyway,
Speaker 3: if in the way you're because he's gonna cost forty
Speaker 3: eight million dollars if you don't sign him on the
Speaker 3: on the on the dead side.
Speaker 7: For those the younger Cowboys fans who have not experienced
Speaker 7: QB purgatory with this team, trust me when I tell
Speaker 7: you you don't want any parts of that.
Speaker 10: You just don't want to be in there.
Speaker 2: Done that ain't fun.
Speaker 3: Looking at me, I don't blame you. You were with me,
Speaker 3: you remember it.
Speaker 2: It's not fun, man, it is it is.
Speaker 3: There's nothing there fun. If I would give anything to
Speaker 3: have the way that teams get rid of their quarterbacks today,
Speaker 3: twenty five years ago, if you would have let me
Speaker 3: have opportunities to have Aaron Rodgers and get people like that,
Speaker 3: or trade for or sign Kirk Cousins or something like that,
Speaker 3: I might be still working in scouting. You know, that's
Speaker 3: how hard it was twenty five years ago to find it,
Speaker 3: because if you had one, you weren't letting them go.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right, That's exactly right. A franchise got changed
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety nine, and the sixth round drafting a
Speaker 3: quarterback New England Patriots. That's how lucky you have to
Speaker 3: be sometimes, Yeah, and you might do that way here
Speaker 3: with it. It might be that lucky with the guy
Speaker 3: you drafted here several years ago.
Speaker 6: Let's talk about threats. What is the biggest obstacle to
Speaker 6: the success of this group.
Speaker 3: Health. I'm gonna say health with the starting quarterback, that's
Speaker 3: the thing. You just you know, he's been he made
Speaker 3: it through last year. Fine, but we've dealt with some times.
Speaker 3: Had on training camp we were all dealing with the
Speaker 3: what's the shoulder thing he's dealing with. Let's you know,
Speaker 3: there's the calf that you know, remember when his calf
Speaker 3: got hurt. He was on such a run in the
Speaker 3: New England game. You win that game in ot and
Speaker 3: then after that it wasn't the same quarterback. I think
Speaker 3: the only thing that slows this group down is health
Speaker 3: if if in fact, that's that's if you want to
Speaker 3: call it that.
Speaker 10: The calendar.
Speaker 7: I think the calendar is the biggest opposition for the
Speaker 7: Cowboys quarterback and Dak Prescott obviously he's the lead horse,
Speaker 7: so that's what we're talking about. But signing him, no,
Speaker 7: not necessarily just that that also as well, but his
Speaker 7: play during the regular season, more often than not, is phenomenal.
Speaker 7: Over the course of his career, He's had his down moments, obviously,
Speaker 7: but for the most part, he's He's elite. In the
Speaker 7: regular season calendar flips to January. Yeah, what happens, So
Speaker 7: for me, it's it. I don't know what that intangible is.
Speaker 7: And again he Dak Prescott did not lose the game
Speaker 7: for the Cowboys against the Packers. The defense did. You
Speaker 7: just need Dak Prescott to save the day, and he
Speaker 7: was unable to do that. But I think that this
Speaker 7: quarterback group needs to figure out how to hit that
Speaker 7: switch in January, or to at least keep that momentum
Speaker 7: going from an excellent regular season and stop running into
Speaker 7: that wall in January. There's like this wall waiting for
Speaker 7: them in January, and until they break through, we're going
Speaker 7: to keep having these these conversations.
Speaker 8: I would say the word comedee, that word when I
Speaker 8: hear when I hear it, it gives me bad flashbacks.
Speaker 3: And this is not you saying the personnel around him
Speaker 3: and this is.
Speaker 8: Not specifical good to quarterback, but talking about the running game,
Speaker 8: the running back. When I heard that word committee and
Speaker 8: we know how important. Again we get focused on quarterback,
Speaker 8: but it does affect you have to be able to
Speaker 8: establish the run.
Speaker 9: How are you going to do that?
Speaker 8: You have to help your quarterback establishing the running not
Speaker 8: just relighting the passing game. So as soon as I
Speaker 8: heard the word committee, I'm like, will say what say what.
Speaker 3: Committee? Mari Coop at first pick ome.
Speaker 10: Yep, yep.
Speaker 9: So something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 6: I don't like here, you know, And I'll take that
Speaker 6: even one step further. It's not just the running back
Speaker 6: to me, ste inexperience on the offensive line combined with
Speaker 6: this running back by committee not having a really established,
Speaker 6: top notch, every down type running back. You combine those
Speaker 6: two things, it's probably more on the shoulders of the
Speaker 6: quarterback than it's.
Speaker 2: Ever been in Dak Prescott's time here with the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Like he's always he since the moment he's got here,
Speaker 6: he's always had a lead back that he could rely on.
Speaker 6: He's for the most part, had a really good offensive line.
Speaker 6: This is going to be the first year where he
Speaker 6: could have a good offensive line. Maybe he couldn't, Like,
Speaker 6: we don't know, because there's some new parts to that.
Speaker 6: The running back back committee could work. Maybe it doesn't.
Speaker 6: I think there are more question marks right now with
Speaker 6: the surrounding cast of Dak Prescott Prescott than ever before
Speaker 6: in his career, and that's why it's gonna be more
Speaker 6: on his shoulders to see how much success this team get.
Speaker 3: I don't think they'll get out of training camp without
Speaker 3: an answer at running back. You mean another somebody that's
Speaker 3: not on the rock. No, No, they're going to know.
Speaker 3: They're not gonna let Committee go into week full gotcha.
Speaker 3: They're going to say, you know what, we our offensive
Speaker 3: lines approved, we're not getting to and through the line.
Speaker 3: We don't have the explosive players we need to do better.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have to ship a fifth round pick somewhere
Speaker 3: to get a guy. Yeah, you know, whether it's surplus
Speaker 3: at one of the other teams. I don't see them
Speaker 3: going into week one being Committee running back. I think
Speaker 3: they're going to find a way to establish either they're
Speaker 3: gonna either it's gonna work, they're gonna find their guys here,
Speaker 3: or they're gonna go get somebody. But I don't think
Speaker 3: it's gonna get the Week four, week five like we
Speaker 3: saw for a Marii Cooper. All Right, That is a wrap.
Speaker 6: We'll be back next week and we'll go through our
Speaker 6: position series again. We'll move on to the tight ends,
Speaker 6: maybe get to running backs. We might even get the receivers.
Speaker 6: We'll see until then for her, Patrick Walker, Brian Brodis,
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