WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Week 1 Crazy Predictions 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:07.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:10.799 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:14.520 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.840 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:23.200 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:29.360 Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:34.120 Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, September eighth, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.280 episode number thirty five. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.639 We're life in the SUBC Mortgage Studios. We're gonna get 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.160 you ready for this Sunday's opening game for the Cowboys. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.800 Cowboys take on the Giant Sunday Night Football, seven thirty 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.760 pm at AT and T Stadium, and we got all 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.080 the information for you guys on what exactly is going 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.520 to happen, what you should expect, and at the end 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.000 of the show, we'll give you some predictions, some crazy predictions, 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.600 and some predictions for the game. We did that did 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.560 not of our show with Taylor and Brian. We'll keep 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:06.040 doing that. Good. How's everybody doing this morning? I almost 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.360 mouthed off to you right there, and then I stopped 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.440 myself so I'm so glad you're starting to see you 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.840 and Zeke both some growth, some maturity. Like that's a 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.360 good thing. You know, that's a good thing. Let's keep 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.520 it going, all right. Let's uh really glad that you 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:24.319 said that, because I just tweeted out the periscope and 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.560 I said, we got some crazy predictions today, And as 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.880 I hit send, I said, I wonder if we're still 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.160 doing that. And then, you know, if if you were 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.119 to read the email that I sinned like the night 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:38.119 before you did, well, I don't know if you it 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.440 looks sounds good to me. Amber's probably the only one 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.400 that it takes time to read it. I did, I 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.880 did read it. You did? You just be saying consciously, 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:46.360 I kind of knew that it was in there. And 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.120 that's what we do on Friday. Yeah. Good, Okay, So 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.040 we'll get to that in the final segment, as we 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.840 normally do on Fridays here on the break, But for 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.800 right now, let's start talking. Sits here for the for 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.080 the talking, for the hanging with the boys whatever, who 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.480 sits here? I think that's Kurt for hanging with the boys. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:08.120 For talking. That would be Mickey. Yeah, why it's always 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.360 jacked up. I think it was a player. Actually, I 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.520 think it was a player layer was sitting there. They 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.320 do have a player on. Maybe the player was sitting there. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.400 I don't know who though. It's Jonathan Cooper. Oh, it's 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.320 Jonathan Cooper. Actually, we're gonna talk about Jonathan Cooper here 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.280 in just a second, not first. We might talk about 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.720 him second, but we probably won't talk first. All right, 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.880 Let's start first with some injury talk. Cowboys looking good 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.440 for this this weekend. Everybody on the team practice in 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.440 some form or fashion yesterday, except for Anthony Hitchins, who 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.560 we know it is going to be out for presumably 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.560 four or five weeks whatever it's gonna be. Um, but 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.120 it looks like from all accounts said, everybody that they 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.560 want to be available to them will be available to them, 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:51.399 barring possibly Jordan Lewis, who still isn't completely practicing. What 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.400 just keep going, please keep going? All right? So, UM, 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.160 I guess from that's the end point you feel good 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.920 about the Cowboys. But on the other side of it, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.919 we spent some time talking yesterday about Odell Beckham. He 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:07.200 did not practice again yesterday. You guys convinced yet? We 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.320 convinced yet? Yeah? I've totally changed my tune. I think 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.040 now he's definitely not gonna play. Definitely, I thought he was. No, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:21.519 he's still playing all the way until kickoff. Yeah, I 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.720 mean if if I'm wrong, if you're wrong, you owe 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:29.680 all of us lunch. That's what we said. Yet I 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:35.000 didn't know that. I'm good with it. I'm not. I'm 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.280 not sold at all that. I don't feel any differently. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:38.920 I think it's still a good bet that he plays, 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:44.720 but I'm I think he's not gonna be worth anything basically. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.400 I mean, you think he runs out there and he's 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.080 just kind of decoy guy. He's not gonna be DeMarcus 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.320 Ware against the Oh nine Saints. He's not gonna go 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.119 out there and just be a stud after not being 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.200 able to he can't move around well enough to practice. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.440 I don't buy that, and that's why I don't think 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.120 he plays. I don't think they put him out there 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.960 if all he's doing is just kind of hobbling around. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:07.040 I think they might because again, like when you when 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.520 you're talking about that caliber of player, and maybe they're wrong, 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.000 but like that's the way NFL teams think. It's like 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.920 having him out there and having him in uniform is something. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.440 But you know that. But I think when when teams 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.760 do that, I think it only takes a series for 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.440 the other team to say he can't do anything. So 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.360 we're not we're not going to be distracted by that, 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.200 like and so I don't I don't think it really matters. 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.240 I still lean toward Nick's line of thinking that like 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:36.200 when a guy of that caliber, and it's true he 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.240 has to be medically cleared and all that stuff, but 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.680 like those guys find a way to get into the game. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:45.400 And so it's like people see him at practice, have 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.359 seen videos of him kind of jog in and running around. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.120 I've seen it too, But I think the problem will 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.920 come when he needs to make those cuts. You know, 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:58.560 that's where the ankle issue comes. Yeah, I think we're 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:02.479 taking two different things. Like the argument is will he 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.880 play what he's gonna do? Like I'm I'm agreeing with 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.000 all of y'all about that, Like I if he's not, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:12.159 if he just started jogging on Wednesday, doesn't see or 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.560 that's what was being reported, who knows behind closed doors 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.080 if he's over there and making cuts and all that, 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:18.560 and he wants to come out with his cape and 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.560 was Superman and all that because he's very out in 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:25.400 a wheelchair like Paul Pierce and just stand up dramatically. Yeah, 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.480 you're kind of awesome. I don't know. Just to be clear, 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.760 I don't playing. It's not a man. I'm not saying 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:32.280 I don't think he's gonna play well. I'm saying I 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.560 don't think he's playing. The easy comparison here would be 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.640 Jason Witten, but that's too hard because he never misses 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.560 a game. So let's take it to another player and say, 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.880 if Sean Lee was facing this same issue and was 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:45.880 in the same exact situation, do you think he's not 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:49.400 finding a way out there? No, Sean Lee took two 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.840 million dollars on the table and that one meaningless game 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:53.880 in twenty fifteen and said, now I'm not gonna play 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:59.919 for two million dollars meaningless game two million dollars if anything. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.080 I mean, if he couldn't if he couldn't run well 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.160 and couldn't play up to his potential, I don't think 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.880 he plays. I think he would be like, get another 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.720 roll of tape, throw it on there. You know, would 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.279 you want to do that to one of your best players? 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:16.799 Right the start? Of the season Week one. I understand 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.400 they're going against the fact is, this is not O'Dell's decision. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:21.960 This is gonna be a decision that's made by their 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.240 medical staff and decision made by their coach. It's not 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.320 going to be an Odell decision. The word coming out 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.400 of New York is that it's a fifty fifty shot. 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.000 And again, yes he has to be cleared medically, assuming 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.839 he's cleared medically, but nobody feels good about what he'll 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.800 be able to do. Still think he'll be out there, 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.720 not saying he'll be affectively, he probably won't be. A 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.880 fact like if I had to guess he plays like 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.640 thirty percent of the snaps and finishes with like two 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.800 catches for twenty five yards or something like, he's just 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:52.480 happy JJ Wilcox isn't back there. Yeah, great points. Well, 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:54.960 either way, whether he plays or not, he won't. I 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.080 don't think he'll be a problem for the Cowboys. So 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.760 I'm way more concerned about Brandon Marshall. Sounds like that 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.360 just sounds like famous last words for whatever that's worth. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.800 Mike just like, he won't be a problem for the Cowboys. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.800 He's the best receiver and then come Monday, we're like, 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:14.920 oh my god, touchdown third fourth. Yeah. I don't know 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.480 that he won't look like he won't look like the 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.440 Odell that we've gotten used to seeing, but I kind 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.440 of leaned toward thinking he'll be out there. All right, Well, 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.520 we will see on Sunday. Let's get to some inactives 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.840 for the Cowboys. This will be This is always the 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.240 tough part when you have the early part of the season, 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.120 you're relatively healthy, and you're having to decide what, guys, 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.920 what seven guys that are on your sixty four sixty 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:40.360 three man roster aren't gonna actually I'm sorry, yeah, I'm 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.720 getting this right. No, on your fifty three man roster. Sorry, 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.840 the forty six that will actually play, the seven that 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.600 are not going to play. So I'm gonna run down 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:48.960 some names for you guys, and I want you to 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.680 tell me whether you think that they will be active 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:56.480 or inactive. All right, let's start with Jordan Lewis in inactive? Inactive? Good? Uh? 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:01.960 Jay Elliott, the linebacker they picked up active active, all right? Uh? 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:07.920 Noah Brown inactive? Uh yeah, inactive. I sat next to 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.040 Daga Stright at practice while he did this, so I'm 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.760 gonna probably agree, so I'm gonna let Dave just you can. 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.440 I don't really disagree with anything. I think you can 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:20.200 write six of these in stone. There's one, but go ahead, okay, Um, 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.880 this one is a choice Kellen Moore or Cooper Rush. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.560 One of them will be inactive? Which one Rush? I 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.480 think Cooper Rush will be inactive? Great will Yeah, he 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.600 will be, Okay, not should be? Is that what you're saying? Yes, 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:37.000 all right, Anthony Hitchins obviously inactive? Inactive? Ben ben Wickery 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.880 the cornerback that they pick ah active, you think active, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.559 I'm not sold. I don't. And that's kind of there's 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.040 like this, there's there's a handful of candidates for that. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:53.440 I think his I think whether or not he's active 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.640 depends entirely on Shitabay Woodsier and Cheeto has practiced two 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.600 of the three days this week. Fully, you're saying one 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.440 of the two of them, I wouldn't be surprised. I 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.000 would be if if Cheeto was inactive, I'd be surprised. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.640 I'm saying if the only way, not the only way. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.320 I could see Benwickery being inactive. If they think Cheetos really, 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:14.959 if he's good to go, and I think he is. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.560 I think he is a candidate to be inactive. I 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.080 think I think he'll he'll be active. And if he's 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.640 not active, I think that was a huge mistake. I mean, like, 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.880 why why get him? Then? I mean, why not get 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.000 the player who can play? If you're gonna go out 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.920 and get someone, I know, they didn't give up a lot, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:33.600 and they may not give up anything. I guess if 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.040 he doesn't it it's a longer thing. I mean, he 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.000 just got here. Maybe I don't think he's ready to 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:39.480 play this week. That doesn't mean he's not ready to 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.240 play by week two. Then, I like, right then, I 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.040 don't think he's the right guy then. I mean, I 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.120 think that's part of the factor when you when you're 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.000 signing a player, going to get a certain player, I 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:49.679 mean you get a player not only the guy that 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.319 can help you, but a guy that that is ready 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.000 to play. His readiness to come in and contribute for 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.360 you should be a factor in taking him over him, him, 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.240 him and him that at the beginning. Go ahead. This 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.160 is a great segue because I talked to Ben a 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.080 ben Wickery yesterday and I'm going to put a story 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.199 up about it. Later, I was just kind of talking 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.280 to him about the process of getting ready to play 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.760 in a new defense in six days, and he's, you know, 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.920 he's got then he's playing then, because David, not knowing 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.200 how busy the site's gonna be and how full it's 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:17.520 going to be, he's not going to put a story 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.240 up about a player who will be inactive. He's playing. Wow, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.720 thanks for that voting confidence. I hope I'm not finish 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:27.120 your story. Yeah, you know, it was really right. It 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.880 was really enlightening. Just uh, you know, people always talk 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.760 about how simple Rob Marinelli's scheme is and how helpful 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:34.960 that is, and he said, you know, this is not 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.560 These are not concepts I'm not familiar with. It's just 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.000 the terminology I've got to learn, have to learn my 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.480 base calls. I thought this was really interesting, which I 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.880 don't even know how you pick this up in five days. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:46.920 But he was like, the big thing you gotta do 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.480 is try to figure out what a coach wants to 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.960 call in a certain situation. So like what is Rod 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.360 like to call on third and eight, or you know, 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.559 what are his early down calls? And once you kind 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.000 of get a feel for that, then you can just 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.040 go out there and let it flow. But then at 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:02.760 the end, so I don't know. I probably talked to 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.240 him for five minutes and he said if I don't 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.240 remember the exact what, but he basically said, if they 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.120 need me, then I think I can go out there 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.280 and get through a game. And I was like, in 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.400 my head, I was like, well, they kind of need you, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.520 like are you are you not sure if you're gonna 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.800 be up or down? So I don't know. I think 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.760 that's interesting. I think I think he could be inactive, 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.040 but I would lean toward him being active. I think, 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.520 all right, you know, he's he's no Sterling more than 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.080 remember when they brought in Sterling Moore for the first time, 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.559 it seemed like they got him a few times. I'm 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.120 about to say he's been there a few times. They 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.240 signed him. They picked him up from the airport Friday night, 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:40.960 like at five or six o'clock. I had to go 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:42.960 get him from something. I guess he get cut by 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.800 New England or whatever. Claimed Friday night. They played the 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.800 Steelers on Sunday. Just you know, by Friday the players 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.959 are already gone and out, and he picked it up, 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.960 played played really well in the game. So I just 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.200 think that not all positions, but I think cornerback is 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:00.920 one where you can kind of get through it a 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.400 little bit, and sometimes you're pressed into doing that because 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:04.959 you have to. Yeah, I don't know if this is 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.560 a situation where where ben Wickeries if they have to 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.240 have him the presence, if if Cheeto's fully capable of playing, 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.520 and you've got your young safeties and everything. I don't 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.840 got thirty three that are going to be playing the most, 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:17.480 so that you have to have him. But I think 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.600 he's got a good shot to be out there. How 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:21.920 many do we have right now? Right now, We've got Lewis, 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:24.880 We've got Brown, We've got Rush, we've got Hitchens. That's four. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.280 Ben Wickery would be your fifth. Why don't we hold 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:32.480 him and hold him? All? Right? Charles Tapper, I lean 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.120 see that. And that's the other one too, Like that's 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.120 the tricky spot that I'm in where I wouldn't be 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.480 surprised if Tapper sits. But playing a whole game with 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.560 seven defensive lineman sounds kind of dicey. Okay, so let's 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:47.760 let's hold those both of those, okay. Um, I think 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:49.400 and you look at the history of what they do 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.079 with the running backs. One of these two guys I 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.360 would presume is going to be an active Darren McFadden 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.280 or Alfred Morse. You guys agree with that, You're so, 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:02.079 which do you think is an active Morris? I lean 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.199 toward Morris based on lean I lean toward Morris based 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.800 on prior experience, But it's it's all up to I mean, 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.520 what they want to, Yeah, what what they see in 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.520 this matchup, you know, Yeah, And I mean the fact 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.400 that Zeke's out here. I always say that Morris is 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.439 the guy that most closely resembles what Zeke does, which 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.840 so I would lean toward him sitting. But again, you 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:24.880 have both of those guys, you don't need them both. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.440 I wouldn't be surprised by either one. Yeah. I think 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.680 the Cowboys, obviously, it looks like over the years, over 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.360 the you know years, it's that he's been here. It 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:37.440 seems like they have this this affinity for McFadden. But 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.160 at the same time, I think if you look at 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.760 the preseason, I think Morris looked better than McFadden. To me, 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.240 I thought, so, I'm kind of leaning toward maybe, But 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.079 if I if I were choosing, I would say maybe 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.920 McFadden would be inactive, and I'd keep Morrison and let's 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:51.600 see what we could do with him on you know, 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.839 spell when he has to spell Zeke. Yeah. But but 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.640 the role that you would be playing, um, yeah, I 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.280 think McFadden would be better or for that role. I 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.760 mean as a starter. I think Morris might be better 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.640 for the starter, but I think McFadden would be better 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.520 for a backup role. I would probably keep McFadden as 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:12.520 this role and keep him here throughout whatever the suspension is, 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.199 keep him here. But you know, it wouldn't surprise me 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:20.480 from the Cowboys standpoint to say, why don't we not 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.960 play McFadden because we're gonna have to play McFadden after 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.640 this if we don't want to give Denver a look 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.120 on him or anything that we do with him. Point, 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.600 you know, if we have to, you know. So there's 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.800 a lot of things in play here. I consider it 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:35.680 six to one and half a dozen or the other 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.600 and whoever's up probably won't get that much work. And 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.000 and as hopefully as Scott Linehan said, we're gonna we're 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.080 gonna give him the ball a lot, you know, And 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:45.520 I don't think he did go as far to say 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.280 We're gonna run him into the ground because you know 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:51.040 he might be suspended for the next six weeks, seven weeks. Really, 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.920 I expected to be the Zeke Show and not the 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.120 running back Number two show. So all right, let me 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:01.560 give you one other name, Jonathan Cooper. Possibility he's inactive, 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.480 I think so. Yeah, it's the same. I mean, it's 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:08.400 the Ron Leary Lyle Collins conundrum. I mean, although I 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.480 will throw this out there that Jonathan Cooper has the 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.400 flexibility to play guard and center, which makes him valuable. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.480 But Joe Looney can do that too, right, Joe Looney 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.520 is also your jumbo guy goal line fourth. And I 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.840 think Joe Looney's a better player, I believe. I don't 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:24.440 know if I think that. I don't think so. I 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.240 don't know if I think that, But I think they 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.280 trust him to wire about Why would you say that, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.880 I mean, why would you think that? Because they have 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.480 tried everyone, but they've tried to back, they've tried to 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.960 take his job, and they've never given it to Jonathan 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.880 or Joe Looney. They've never said Looney started left guard 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.200 now versatile Derek's like I know, believe me. I've tried 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.240 to tell him. This is I mean, this is at 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.320 Montre Holland field. Cost the situation on a game day, 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.560 I'll go with the versatile guy who can play center. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.320 But if I have to start, if if Chas gets hurt, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.400 what's probably will happen. But I mean, if Chaz does 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.680 get hurt in the game and in Cooper has to 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.320 come play next week, I mean, it's not gonna be Looney. 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.280 It's gonna be Cooper because they feel like he's better. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.880 I get all that. I'm just saying, based on what 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.720 I saw during training camp in preseason, I think Joe 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.320 Looting was a better player, just my opinion. See Joe 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.120 Looney play with any starters though, Okay, all right, either way, 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:17.360 I think I think him yesterday. I've also seen Jonathan 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.040 Cooper play with starters and wasn't completely impressed. I think 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.880 Jonathan Cooper is probably the guy in sweats. He probably 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.480 it's getting inactive. It's and you know, it's the same thing. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.600 Ron Ron Leary is way too good of a player 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.240 to to be inactive on game days, but he was 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.440 because he didn't do enough to merit a roster spot 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.640 if he wasn't starting. Okay, so we've got six guys 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:42.360 that we all kind of agree on that they will 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:46.440 be an actor, Jordan Lewis, Noah Brown, Cooper, Rush, Anthony 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.920 hutchins Um, one of the running backs running back. Okay 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.960 with that, an older running back right, Jonathan Cooper. So 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.000 for the final one, we gotta yeah, we got decide 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.240 it is it Tapper or has it been Wickery? Who's 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.960 more likely to help help you in this game? I'll 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.919 be Tapper if you call the help. I mean on 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:06.840 how you feel about Tapper. I think about this. I 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.000 think Ben Wickery has a better chance of doing something 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.120 for you exactly. Yeah, think about corners start going down. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.160 Let's say you lose two corners, and it can happen, 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.520 because I remember the game against the Jets on the 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:21.440 nine to eleven game didn't but six years ago, twenty eleven, 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.480 I remember Barry Church played corner at some point and 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.280 again because everybody was getting hurt. And if you start 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.320 losing corners, there's not a lot of players who can 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.119 kind of help there. So you got one. You got 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.120 you got a safety that can drop down to corn 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.760 if you need well. Xavier Woods say Davier Woods as well. Right, 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.800 you got a couple, right, you do have a couple, um, 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.440 but you also have a couple for defensive end as well. 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.199 Like if you needed some pass for a shop, you 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:45.840 could go with Wilber, you could go with the new 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.160 guy Elliott, who that they could rush off the edge. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.160 I meant to bring that up. That's WoT. I would 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.840 lean towards keep it an extra corner. If that that's 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.680 the case, I lean. I think I played in a 0:17:55.720 --> 0:18:00.320 super Bowl and Tapper I played it at all a 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.720 single game. I think Ben Wickery will be up and yeah, 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.560 you've got guys that can help you sort through this 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.600 D line mess. And like I said the other day, 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:14.600 oh looked at Tapper's face and I could tell he's 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:16.760 not playing this weekend. I told you, guys, you know 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.400 you like ESPs not a real thing, you know, right, 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.320 Like you can't just read somebody's mind based on their face. 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:28.879 M Romo, Can you just admit this Nick place? I 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.080 knew what was going to happen to Romo. Nick has 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.480 been here for But you knew before that Seattle game. 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:37.680 You didn't said you were ready to see somebody at all. 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.880 First of all, before this place was built, do you remember, 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:47.000 we were all yes, all out I mean the first 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:48.359 thing they showed us this place, we had a hard 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.240 hats on and they took us to that group lunch 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.719 or sitting there eating pizza, and the guy was like, 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:54.840 I can't wait to see you guys here again. And 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.720 we've never went back there, of course. But um, she said, 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.760 I don't know about Tony Roman. I think he's gonna 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.720 get hurt. I think he's too fragile and every time 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.359 he gets hit you can't count on him. And we're 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.840 just like this first point she's ever really made, really 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:11.760 and this was that point where he's healthy. Brow he's 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.239 healthy right now. And now they're looking at me like, 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:16.680 who is this girl? First of all, you're not even 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.080 from here. Second, well you're a girl. Look at you. 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:22.200