WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Safety Measures 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.400 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:19.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:23.280 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:27.600 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:33.000 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:39.320 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.559 It is Thursday, August twenty six, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.920 episode number thirteen. Welcome to latest edition of The Breakwelock 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.000 Nest WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We got about 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.320 forty five minutes here to talk some Cowboys football with you, guys. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.520 Um and we've got some news and notes. We got 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.280 to hit a lot of things that are happening around 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.800 the team. Great news right now is that we are 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.880 officially two weeks out from the beginning of the NFL season, 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.520 which the Cowboys will open on Thursday Night Football against 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.600 the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Hopefully, hopefully we will all be 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.440 there and we'll be able to watch this game in person. 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.640 What do you look like that? As though it's not 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.640 hopefully like last year, you were the only one me 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.160 and Dave had to stay at home. So yeah, hopefully 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.959 we all I don't like here, and hopefully I'm talking 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:27.959 like that, we're going. I know we're going. We're gonna 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.679 be there. But but a lot's happening this weekends. High 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:32.840 school football is getting going here in Texas. I don't 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.560 know about the other states, but in Texas it's getting 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.679 going this weekend. Got college next weekend, and then Thursday 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.600 following that the NFL. We'll kick off. Let's start first 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:47.039 with the biggest news at the Star. Yesterday, Dak Prescott 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.960 returned to practice in a meaningful way. Tell me how 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:52.880 much did he do and what do you think of 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.279 what he did yesterday? Dak Prescott said, f you're seven 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.680 on seven. I want the whole thing. Let's go. I 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.560 mean that was that caught me by surprise, obviously, Like 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.960 Mike McCarthy was like, yeah, Dak's gonna do seven on seven, 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.560 and then he did team He's like, nah, I'm just 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.440 gonna jump right. If I got a pitch, put it 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.400 into this, I guess. So yeah, he's like, come on, 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.400 let me get some real work. Um, and he looked 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.840 pretty good in my opinion. Yeah, that's the best part 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.920 is that you know how he looked. And also, I 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.320 guess we don't really know this today is the most 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.040 important part of that. How you feel. How you feeling today, 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:26.960 you gotta go back and do it and do it again. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.560 Of course, you know, football is a seven week you know, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.200 I mean seven days you know between each games most 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.040 of the time, so you do have a chance to 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.840 most of the time you have a chance to you know, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.440 to to you know, get back. That's why pitchers only 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.880 in throw on a you know, once every four days, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.399 the starting pitcher. So um, you know, even if he's 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.120 feeling a little bit sore, I mean, that's not too alarming. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:49.840 I just wonder how he does feel, if there was 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.760 any setback. But he looked great yesterday. He looked really good. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.440 He was I mean, he was making he was making 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.680 the throws you gotta make to play football, and I 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.840 mean it looked like there was good velocity on him. 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.400 You know, he wasn't throwing hail Mary balls, but how 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.880 often do you really do that anyway, So he had 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.720 a couple of thirty yard throws and some nice completions. 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.800 I think he went eleven of twelve on the day. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.720 Pretty impressive. Yeah, I think that what I'm looking forward 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:17.919 to and I know it's two weeks away, but when 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.519 go to Tampa, I'm looking forward and it could be 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.200 a first quarter, could be second quarter, but there's gonna 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.120 be that moment, that third and six, third and seven 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.800 where the best play is when it opens up and 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.400 he's got to go, gotta go take off and you 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.600 get fourteen yards, twelve yards, whatever you slide, you die, 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.480 whatever you do that you get up and you like it. 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.880 That's because that is that Dac has to That's the 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.640 Dack that's gonna help his team win. It's just the 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.120 threat of being able to run, because then he can 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:51.800 throw and do all those things. He's got to do it. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.480 He's gonna have to make that first second time get up. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.640 You know, I'm still a running quarterback. I can still 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.800 do that. I think once that happens, I think that 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.600 I think they can take off. And that's what That's 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.840 what we were talking about last week, and Blake Jarwin 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.120 was asked about that as well, because you know, the 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.240 Houston game was his first preseason game and they kind 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.040 of you know, he caught his first pass over the 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.640 middle of his first contact since he tore his ACL 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.919 and he was like, yeah, it's just it's big to 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.279 take that hit and you know, go down to the 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.200 ground and flip around and all that stuff and get 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.240 up and you're like, oh, I still I still feel fine, 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.520 Still feel one hundred percent. I'm ready to play football. 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.760 And like, I don't think Dak's rusty, but I would 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.640 have liked for him to get that out of the 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.479 way in the preseason. But it's it's gonna be his 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.039 Days of Thunder moment. If you've ever seen that movie 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.520 where he gets in a big wreck and then he 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.480 he doesn't know if he's got the confidence, he comes 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.039 back and races again, he's got the smoke. He's got 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:45.960 to drive one where he thought he was on fire. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.200 That's ricky, Bobby. Yeah, okay, he's got to drive through it. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.320 And I know you can do it through it, and yeah, yeah, 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.720 it's not it's not the same. I haven't seen Days 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:57.600 of Thunder, but I get what you're since. The same 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.680 thing is rickey, Bobby. You got to get back on 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.480 the horse and you're choking. You know, you gotta go 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.280 back and you gotta eat again. You know, you gotta 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.400 know that you will tell that story a little bit later. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.240 Because the fans shit here. But we'll get to that. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.440 Maybe another show, good, another show, you know. Knowing Dak Prescott, 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.320 I actually think that that moment for him is gonna 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.680 be way more. It's gonna be way scarier for everybody 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.560 watching than it will be for him. Yeah. I think 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.800 for him it's just gonna be I'm playing football. I 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.440 think that's one of the things he's been talking about, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.800 like he is trying to divorce himself from the whole 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.880 idea of talking about it, thinking about the leg injury, 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.000 and for him, it's done, it's over, I'm moving forward. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.400 So I don't think that will be a consideration for him. Wow, 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.120 you just made me realize something. This maybe this was 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.719 all a genius play to get people that will stop 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.120 talking about his ankle thing too. I was like, that's 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.040 how you do it. You get another in the first 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.279 time that this is the first time we've talked about 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.120 his ankle in a month, I know. So yeah, maybe 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.840 I mean it's not because there's not Somebody asked us 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.120 that in the mailbag this week, is like could this 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.359 be gamesmanship on the part of the Cowboys? And I 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.480 was like, game like taking your quarter back out of 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.560 practice for a month is not Gamesman show that like 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:04.800 nobody would do that. I'll help us, doesn't help you, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.160 But we're not talking about his ankle anymore. So that's nice. 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:09.880 All right, Let's move on. Let's talk a little bit 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.479 about an ir move for the Cowboys and for a 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.039 lot of people. For you know, when you see this 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.520 on other teams, you'd think third string running back goes die? 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.880 Are you thing? Yes, not really a big deal And 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.240 I don't know that it's a big deal here, but 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.599 it certainly is noteworthy because Rico Dowdo is a guy 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.880 that I think has had a good camp and I 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.080 think he's a pretty good player for a third running 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:31.760 back and a special teams player. What do you guys 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.640 think about him now? Going I are exactly what you 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.240 just said. It sucks for him. He's he's got juice, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.320 like he just he looks good with the ball in 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.560 his hands. He's got burst. Um had made the team 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.680 as an undrafted rookie, which is always impressive. Was there 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:47.960 was no doubt he was gonna make it this year 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.479 as well, and so it just sucks for him. Yeah, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.000 I doubt his role would have been huge, probably special 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.200 teams and you know, maybe you don't have to, you 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.120 don't have to see him play running back. Yeah, but 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.400 he deserved to be on this team. He looked really good. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:05.320 It sucks for him, and now I just mainly wonder, like, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.400 do you even carry a third running back? Honestly, I 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.920 think that's a conversation worth having. Yeah, let's talk about that, 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.040 like because you would think about it, Like, like you said, 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.800 his role would not be playing running back very often 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.680 unless there were an injury in game. Most times, he's 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.600 just going to be a special teams guy. Do you 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.360 think you could go into a season with only two 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.880 running backs on the roster active roster. They've done it before. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.600 They definitely have during the time that I've been here 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.200 at least, and you can always sign and add guys 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.800 as the season goes along. But like the initial fifty three, 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.120 at least once has only had two running backs. I 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.760 think it might have been Jason Garrett's last season. I 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.360 mean the most, the two most impressive depth running backs 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.640 on this team are now both on IR because Shiwo 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.280 I thought had a great shot to make the team 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.840 as well. You know, I think Sunday is a big 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.640 day for Jaquan Hardy and Brendan Knox. Maybe they can 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.200 show you something. And I'll be honest, Nick, you if 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:03.520 you saw something, correct me, but I was so can. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.440 I was just like, yeah, it's it's Zeke, Tony and Dabtle, 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.480 like I don't really even care what else happens here 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.160 or so I really I haven't been taking a close 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.640 look at these other running backs now. I mean, the 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.560 third running back is like your fifth and sixth receiver, 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.720 really your sixth receiver, Like, if you're going to keep him, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.120 it's because other things that you can do, so you 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.200 don't just have to keep a third back. It was, 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.800 but in this case, Daddle could show you know it 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.960 could do some special teams plus you know, and I don't. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.800 I'm sure Tony Pollard would get the start if something 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.080 would happen to Zeke for a game. But he's the 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.559 guy that most compliments what Zeke does. And so if 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.800 Pollard is going to have this unique role that could 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.320 still happen. It's we've seen it before where guys are 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.960 the backup on the depth chart, but he might get 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.280 leap frog and Dattle could be like the guy that 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.199 does a lot of Zeke things and you keep Pollard 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.520 in the same boat. That's why I was like, if 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:55.920 Daddle has a place here, I don't think any other 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.120 back can do that though. I don't think Knox. I 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.600 don't think Jaquan Hardy. He can barely see, you know. 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.800 I mean, so we got to get him out there, 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.719 and then you know, it'll be interesting. This game will 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:09.840 be interesting too for a guy like Nick Rolston. I know, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.120 we'll talk about him later. You know, as a fullback guy, 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.480 he's carried the ball, you know, he told me the 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.080 other day. I've carried it in high school. I mean, 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:19.880 I think a lot of guys carried it in high school. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.480 That doesn't necessarily mean they're ready for the NFL, but 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.320 but I mean you can do a lot of different 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.959 things with it. So maybe he's got a shot to 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.000 get on this fifty three as a special teams guy 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:36.320 slash fullback slash emergency runner. Maybe I just I just 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.760 think of it in terms of, like you know, people 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.320 love to stress at this time of year about like, oh, 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.080 we can't we can't release him, or he'll get claimed. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.400 All of those guys will, you know, Hardy knocks. I'll 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.240 throw in Nick Ralston most of if not all those 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.680 guys will clear waivers. You put him on your practice squad, 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.920 and if you add him as you see fit, if 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.160 something happens to your other two, I wouldn't be rise 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.000 it all. If they just go with two, or if 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.120 they have a third, I could see it being a 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.800 guy that they claim because I'm just I'm not convinced 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.800 anybody left on this roster needs to be on it, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.600 at least at the start. All right, Uh, let's go 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.040 on to a final topic of news and notes that 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.400 we need to get toys. COVID list has grown a 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.480 bit more. Who's now on it and uh, and then 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.840 we'll talk a little bit about how that might affect them. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:28.679 Connor Williams and um uh Demante Casey. Wow, I'm kind 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.360 of blanked there for a second. Yeah, so it was 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.400 up to six. But Israel Mquamu is back. He's he 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:41.120 practiced yesterday. So that's and that's what happened to. Let 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.320 me just say, let me just say we verified that 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:47.640 this morning. It weren't wrong. You weren't wrong. No, I 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.600 was wrong. I was pronouncing it incorrectly. Now, I was 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.560 pronouncing it incorrectly because that's what I was given. But 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.560 I was still pronouncing incorrectly. You guys are right, it's 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.319 the pronunciation. The pronunciation sheet actually had the wrong. Yeah, 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.160 but it's it's it wasn't one. It was a little 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.400 awkward in the middle of the show yesterday, y'all were 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.280 talking about the same guy back and forth in two 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.240 different names. Right, I just wish and I was I 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.800 was dug in. I was not going to change the 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.760 behind the curtain job stuff here. Like, I mean, basically, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.360 four people just screaming at each other about what's written 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.400 on a pronunciation guide yesterday in the office. Yeah, that's 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.760 the fun of what we do. Sure, because nobody as 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.679 an argument. But okay, But but if you're his family 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.640 and they are right, they're probably well number one. They're 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.079 probably like you guys are both pronouncing it wrong either way. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.199 But true. But they but they're looking at like, Hey, 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.600 if he wasn't a good player, they wouldn't be talking 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:42.240 about it. You know. I think he didn't lua until 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.199 he really started playing well and had a good chance 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.760 to make the team. Oh kay, Daves, Like I knew 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.320 how well I I it's a pet peeve of mine. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.840 I think like it learned the name. It's it's the 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:53.960 guy's name, and you know, the least you can do 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:55.680 is learn how to say it, so should at least try. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.920 At least was what was the kicker's name? Lirium Hira Lahu. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.480 There you go. Yeah, and he was here for I mean, 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.160 it was a quick I was. That was one where 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:06.920 I was like, if he's gonna be here all year, man, 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.760 I gotta get some work. I haven't really got to work. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.760 You didn't even try. I tried, but I was like, 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:12.640 I'm gonna have to keep saying it over and over 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.360 and over again. You know, I don't know what does 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:18.120 that on the rundown about Zeroline? Um no, but but 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.520 I mean, just real quick about that Zeroline. You know, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.920 he's just by cutting him the other kickers. Zerline will 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:25.720 be here. He's gonna kick in this game. And he 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.160 kind of said yesterday that you know, if he can 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.600 get a few reps, whether it be field goals or 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.560 extra points, he certainly will take him because he just 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.079 wants to get kind of ramped up everything Right now 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.640 when you look at this team is kind of working 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.440 out the way they told us. Because I was really 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.800 leary about all this, all the guys that were not 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:44.640 playing at the beginning of training camp, and I just 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.000 was looking at last year like I bought it last 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.840 year when y'all told me that that that you know 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.880 that Lyle was gonna be okay and a time was fine, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.520 Like I bought all that last year and it didn't 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.080 pan out like that. So I was very leary this year. 0:12:58.200 --> 0:12:59.880 But it seems like it's all working the way they 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.840 mildly shocking how much that they have hit the benchmarks 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:06.040 with all of these guys, like everyone that was an 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.480 injury concern at the start of camp. It's gone exactly 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.240 according to the plans that they said, which yeah, I mean, 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.120 it feels like that never really had. Well that also 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.600 tells you how much of a concern it really was. 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.880 It probably wasn't much of a concern. And let's be honest, 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.040 there's probably something going on right now to a player 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.280 that we don't really know much about. Good point, and 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.520 it always is, by the way, at two there's always 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.720 always the case there's there's something that somebody's worried about 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.040 and that's probably not COVID related, just some some elbow 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.600 back something here that you're like, man, we'll see that. Yeah, 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.640 that works out, you know, just kind of keep patching 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.559 it together and working on it. Hopefully it gets better, 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:44.600 but it's not going to probably get better throughout the size. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.959 I didn't like Donovan Wilson leaving with a growing injury. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:51.320 I mean, that's not that's not typically. Oh he's back today. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.679 I mean, but he kind of chogged off the field, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.599 didn't he. Yeah, I mean yeah, he jogged off to 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.319 the field. To the point, because of all the other 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.800 safeties that are in the COVID protocol, there was some 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.199 thought that is that what happened here because he did 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.960 kind of get off the field sort of quickly. So 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.400 if it is a growing injury and he jogged off 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.600 the field, it may not be that bad. Maybe. Yeah. 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.720 I look at this safety position and I'm like, that's 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.959 that's a position where I think they got a little 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:18.400 depth right now. I don't know if I can even 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.320 say that a little bit right in past years, right, 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:26.880 I mean, oh, first in general to the seasons, yeah, 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.000 not at this current I'm saying, like going into the season, Yeah, 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.200 I actually look at that position, I'm like, surprisingly, I 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.480 feel okay about safety. Not great because I don't think 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.000 they have a great player on safety, but I think 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.040 they got a lot of players at are solid, right, Yeah, 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.240 and that's better than they've had in quite a while, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.120 I think. Yeah, And because of what's happening now, they 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:51.320 should be fine for you know, for the season. What 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.640 you don't want to happen is and it's going to happen. 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:57.360 Maybe the Cowboys. Other teams happened to Denver and their quarterbacks. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.680 I mean, well, you don't when the season starts and 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:00.960 you're in the middle of the week and then that 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.880 happens to this one position where you get wiped out. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.760 I could he could really affect everything. That's it's it's unsettling. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.920 I mean the nice thing. I mean, the team's ninety 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:13.440 three percent vaccinated. Israel was able to come back Wednesday 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.240 after being put on the list on Monday, So you know, 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.440 that's what you hope for in these situations. But like, 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.600 we don't know, you know, you don't fully know the 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.440 vaccination status of everybody other than the guys who have 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.760 offered it up, and we don't know the results of 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.240 these tests. So if you went on the list on 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.760 Saturday and you're not here by Thursday, my assumption is 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.080 that you've got symptoms, which is going to put you 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.520 out for more than a week. Um, it's about it 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.600 matter your body, right, Yeah, yeah, And I mean it's 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.200 not a big deal right now. The season is still 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.560 two weeks away, but it's it's unsettling to think about 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.200 it happening during the season. Do you think do you think, Okay, 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.320 it's ninety three percent based off of an eighty man 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.800 roster right now. I believe so. I mean, I think 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.000 they're technically number is like five or six. When they 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.360 cut to fifty three, do you think the number will 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.720 be higher or lower? I bet it's lower. If I 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:07.920 had to guess, I would guess it's it's gonna be wait, 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:12.320 the percentage, will think the percentage will go lower when 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.440 they come. I think if you at this point, if 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.960 you don't, if you're not vaccinated, I'm guessing you're a 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.920 person that probably feels very secure in your spot on 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.960 the roster. Yeah, I'm gonna say it's the way I 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.240 would think about it, because if I were a bubble guy, 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.280 I'd be like, tell me what you want me to do. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.320 Anything you tell me to do, I'm gonna do it 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.440 because I just want to be on a team, right Like, So, 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.160 I would guess and then these are all assumptions. I 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.840 would guess that it's probably guys that feel more comfortable 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:38.880 being able to stand up and say, like you know, 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.920 Saw called Beasley. He's been very outspoken. He knows that 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.440 that team is not just gonna cut him, and if 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.480 they do, some other team's gonna pick him up because 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.720 he's that good of a player. Right, So, I think 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.080 that's what ends up happening in some of these situations. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.440 You think it's it's just kind of weird. What do 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.880 you think about that he made that NFL's Top one 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.280 hundred list and like no other Cowboy offensive player other 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.840 than Zach Martin made it. You know what it is? 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.280 I mean that that list is about first of all, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.760 it's about last season. Yeah, so a lot of guys 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.479 that may not have had great seasons here they may 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.359 be better players, but you can't point to anybody on 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.840 the Cowboys last year. I hope really that had a 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:15.879 great year, like yeah, to be able to put them 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.560 into a category like that, they're better players, I think, 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.880 But I just think it's all based upon last year, 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.879 and the Bills had a phenomenal year, especially offensively, and 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.320 he was a part of that Cooper's probably got something 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.919 to say about that. Maybe that's fair, that's fair, but 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.920 that's I mean, I'm not gonna stand on the table 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.760 for anybody on this team after last year. But just 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.240 in general, that list sucks. We don't have to get 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.280 into agree. I agree. But to go back to what 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.399 you said about guys that feel good about themselves, you know, 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.639 probably making it. Of the two players that I've heard 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:50.160 of that are not vaccinated, yeah they are starting and 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.520 there they got a role on this team. I can 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.840 only think of two. I think there's I'm sure there's more, 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:56.840 but I just you know, well, if you do the map, 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.679 ninety three percent of eighty is like five guys or 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:03.840 maybe six, depending on how you rounded the decimals. So yeah, 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.440 it can't be too much more than right, I would think, 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:08.720 And you're right, it's got to be guys that I mean, 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.679 I I can't imagine a guy that's just that's a 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.920 bubble player like that that you know, if they are 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:16.879 like that's just asking to get I mean, that's giving 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.720 one more reason why it makes sense to just like 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:21.960 let them go, right, you know, all right, we're gonna 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.240 take our first break when we come back Finally, after 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.159 about two weeks, we're going to get around to a 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.240 game of I get around, I'm going to throw out 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.400 some names to these guys of players on this team 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.800 that we don't talk about very much and get their 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.840 opinions on where they are, how they're performing, and maybe 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:37.840