WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Jaylon's Role? 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.320 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:49.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:53.120 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:57.560 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:02.920 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:09.240 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.640 It is Wednesday. I'm sorry, it's Tuesday, August twenty four, 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.480 twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number twelve. Welcome to the 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.760 latest edition of The Break. We are alive from the 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.280 SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star. Got Nick and Dave 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.120 with me, and we're gonna talk some Cowboys football here 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.560 for the next forty five minutes or so. We got 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.039 to talk a little bit about the Cowboys versus the Texans. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.040 Will break down that game and some of the things 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.479 that these guys saw. Dave, I see you're very enthusiastic 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:40.120 about that. We will also hopefully get to some players 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.680 in our I get around segment. There's some players and 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.640 I keep pushing this off because we get into our conversation. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.560 Our conversation conversations take the whole show. But there's some 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.800 players that before this camp is over, we really need 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.040 to allow you guys to let people know who they are. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:54.520 So I want to run through some of these if 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.040 we can. Every day. You're paranoid that we won't have 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.320 enough to talk about. I know one day you push 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.640 the last secon. I underestimate how much we'd like to 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.160 hear ourselves talk. You know what, No, we know what happened. 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.480 I thought I thought that when Amber was out that 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:12.000 we would have less talking. We don't like you guys. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.480 I told it. I was like I said, before train 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.480 training camp start. I was like, me and Nick can 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.560 talk to a wall, like you don't have to worry 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.880 about that. She if she heard that, she would have 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.560 been like, all right, right, because she's like she says, 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.560 she never talks. Yeah, she talks enough, she gets her 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.200 air time. I think she talks enough. Anyway, You're right, 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.200 we can make this thing. Here's what I'm gonna do, though, 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:34.960 I do want to talk first about a little news 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.080 Cowboys find out yesterday and actually this all started on 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.800 game day on Saturday. But there are now five players, 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.000 well four players and a coach for the Cowboys who 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.920 have been placed in the NFL's COVID nineteen Safety Protocol. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.440 That would be dan Quinn the defensive coordinator, and then 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:54.280 Carlos Watkins, Ceedee Lamb, Malie Cooker and Israel muklmu Um. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.640 What does that mean for their availability at this point 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.280 now that they're in the protocol. I mean it's hard 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.840 to answer that definitively because we don't you know, vaccination 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.120 status is not disclosed. Technically, we know the teams at 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.600 ninety three percent, so it's a good guess most of 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.360 if not all of them are vaccinated, just playing the numbers, 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.960 and that makes it way easier, you know, dan quints 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:20.400 dan Quinn has to be um soum. So the protocol 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.120 if you're vaccinated is you need two negative tests within 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.079 a forty eight hour period, so negative tests twenty four hours, 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.240 negative tests twenty four hours, So if you're if you're 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.920 if you are COVID negative, you can be back in 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.920 two days. So and then if you which I guess 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.720 there's a possibility that there's a breakthrough case among these guys. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.640 Feel like that probably would have hit the news cycle, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.000 like somebody would be reporting that if that had happened, 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.080 But I guess we'll see. So if for some reason 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.520 you have symptoms, then it's forty eight hours from your 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.320 last known symptoms, so that could be probably. And then 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.680 is it forty eight hours after your last own symptom 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.160 and then you have to have passed it's so test 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.200 or how's that work? Your symptoms subside and then you 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.920 do the test twenty four hours, test twenty four hours. 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:09.800 So that seems statistically pretty unlikely, but I guess possible. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.000 So we'll see. But I mean, if these guys are vaccinated, 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.240 I think it's reasonable to think that they could be 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.080 back by the end of this work week. Like and 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.120 worst case scenario, let's assume it was a case where 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.560 they actually literally had contracted the virus. Yeah, you're still 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.840 talking maybe ten to twelve days, so and ideally you 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.040 would think they'd be back before the season. We are. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:30.600 I don't think we're in a space where any of 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.880 these guys are in jeopardy of missing season time, which 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.440 this whole thing of having a week between the end 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.880 of the you know, the last preseason game in the 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.400 first regular season game, that's fantastic. Yeah, what's interesting is 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.400 you know the fact that you know the cuts are today, 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.000 you know, forgot an eighty to eighty right to eighty 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.279 five to eighty got not five off. And I guess 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.520 when you move a guy to the COVID list, he's 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:58.120 technically off the roster, right, But you can't. I mean, 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.000 these aren't guys that are going to get cut anywhere, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.120 so I don't know how long they'll be coming back on. Yeah, 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.800 but you could feel like if if they're not available 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.560 until Friday, Yeah, you could wait until Friday to make 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.000 those moves if you wanted to. Yeah, for instance, let's say, 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.160 let's just say a guy like Mkuamu, and that's how 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.640 I think. I think that's how you say his name. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.320 I don't know you say Mukuamu or whatever, but I'm 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.599 just going I'm just going on PR gave me. I know. Anyways, 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.279 a guy like him who's on that list, you know, 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.800 he probably won't play this this next game. I mean 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.200 he could, but he just depends on how quickly he 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.640 can get back, so he probably doesn't. So that might 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.640 affect the cuts of Like, Okay, well, you know there's 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.760 a safety sitting there that we haven't really heard much 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:39.840 of all year, hasn't done a lot. Maybe he would 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:41.440 be a guy that was cut, but then he wouldn't 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:45.000 be if mcquamu's not playing this game. So it does 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.599 affect you know, that does affect the roster moves right now. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.240 That brings up an interesting point. Obviously, guys like Ceedee 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.080 Lamb and you could probably make the same case for 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.760 Carlos Watkins, they're probably well definitely in Cede Lamb's case. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.359 On this team, there is no question. And then missing 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.359 preseason games really doesn't matter which of the guys be 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.680 it Between the other two. Do you think misses the 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.000 most buy if they if they can't play this week 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.400 and or next week, between the Lee Cooker and Israel 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:15.559 Mukomo Mukuamo, for sure, I think um. I could be wrong. 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.039 I know they didn't give him a lot of money, 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.279 but I just think I think Hooker's here. You know, 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.120 they signed him a week into camp, but he's also 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.000 got to get himself ready to play. He's injured all 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.840 last year, right, he doesn't. He doesn't strike me as 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.720 the type that would be playing a ton of snaps 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.080 in this game anyway, And I know what you said 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.760 makes sense, but it's still you know, getting ready for 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.839 the season, and he's a veteran. Sorry, Yeah, no, I 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.080 was just gonna piggyback on that. I mean, what has 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:44.200 he's shown when since he's been back that that isn't positive. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.839 I mean, like he's you know, in practice, he's made 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.080 some plays in the game. I thought he kind of 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.840 came in there and was physical and now they played 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.679 something in the second half against maybe guys that are starters. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.560 But I mean, I think everything that he's done is 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.760 pointing the arrow up there. And I know how Jerry 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.200 and whole franchise loves to steal players. They want to 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.000 steal talent. If you're a first round pick and you 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.400 know you didn't work out here for whatever the reason, 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:13.400 they're gonna try to capitalize on that. So unless Josh Rosen, well, yeah, 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.960 you were right, but I guarantee you they looked at 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.920 it pretty you know, pretty closely. I'm sure they probably did, 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.520 So you have to. I mean, and and so, I 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.680 you know, here's a position of need. He's a guy 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.400 that that's out there available, available because he's hurt, and 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:31.480 he was hurt, and so I don't see why you 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.760 would cut him, which I mean they could. The money's negligible, 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.240 and you know they cut haha last year, like there's 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.880 nothing stopping them, but you sort of the longer you 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.880 do this, you can just kind of read situations like that. 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.400 And the way that they've ramped him up and just 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.680 been very cautious and deliberate about the whole thing, is like, yeah, 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.280 we're trying to have him ready for the regular season, 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.200 maybe not necessarily as a starter, but just somebody that 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.360 they can rely on for depth and somebody who's done 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:02.160 that before. Whereas mid to late sixth round pick, it's like, 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.120 get out there and get all the reps you can 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.360 and show us something, whereas with Hooker they're like, nah, 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.600 you hang out and just get yourself ready. Yeah. Just 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.080 to be clear, I wasn't even I wasn't thinking or 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.120 suggesting that that Hooker would be cut. I think he's 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.360 gonna be on this team. I was thinking more and 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.280 it goes back I was. I was listening to Brian 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:23.040 brought us on our sister station on the fan after 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:24.640 the game. He was kind of talking about the game 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.400 and one of the things he noticed, which I think 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.080 I noticed on a couple of plays. I think Brian 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:29.960 has an obviously has a much better eye for this 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:31.960 than I do, but it seemed like on a couple 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.200 of situations, Hooker was a little late, like it's it's 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.880 just like he's trying to get get his timing back, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.360 get his reaction back, his reaction time back, and and 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.480 so that's where I was saying, like, I think reps 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.240 for him right now matter getting him ready for the season. 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.040 Reps matter for everybody, you would except for Dack. No, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:50.959 they matter for him too, Like it would be it 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.320 would have been nice for him to get ten, I'm sure, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.040 But again, risk first reward. And is Mali Cooker not 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.360 playing against Jacksonville gonna jeopardize his roster spot? Not at all. 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.439 I don't think so. All Right, one other thing I 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.920 want to hit you guys with. I was hopeful, as 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.400 I'm sure you guys are and everybody there listening, that 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.959 this year was going to be different from the standpoint 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:13.800 of going into every week and all the way up 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.360 until game time just hoping and praying that your best 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.040 players don't have some kind of positive tests or whatever. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.040 But we saw this week. Obviously things can creep up 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.000 on you get to the game and literally you lose 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.120 your DC once you're at the stadium and preparing to 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.959 play a game. How equipped do you think the Cowboys 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.400 are to withstand situations like that going into the season 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:39.200 you're talking about? Sorry, well, which situations are you talking about? Any? 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.320 It could be any of those. Like I'm thinking about 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.520 it from the standpoint of what happens if you get 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.679 to game day and that's Mike McCarthy and he has 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.400 to go home because he's you know, he's been put 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.640 into the protocol. What happens if it's your offensive or 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.480 defensive coordinator. What happens if it's your quarterback? You know, 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.760 there's a lot of different scenarios. My question for you is, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.840 and this talks to This speaks to depth, This speaks 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.040 to um the kinds of coaches you have on your 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.520 coaching staff. Do you have coaches who have experience doing 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.640 other things that can step in in a pinch? Like 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.880 how how do you think this team could react to 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.920 those kinds of situations? How prepared are they? That's that 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.480 Those are a lot of different questions because you're basically 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.120 talking about the depth at all different levels. Let's just 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.520 speak to the coaching staff first, and I'll let him 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.120 talk about the players or whatever. But but from the 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.840 coaching staff, I mean, this thing is designed to have, 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.160 you have experience. That's what they they're banking on, is 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.440 they have experience on the staff. I believe they have 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.360 four coaches, four assistant coaches who have been a head 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.920 coach at some point. Um, I don't I don't want 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.160 to have to name them because I'm drawing a blank 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:46.240 on them. But I think there's four. Philmin Quinn, Um, Wow, yeah, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.800 I'm blanking John Fossil. Fossil was into him for a 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.880 little while. There's yeah, there's two. I think there's I 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.920 think there's actually one more as well. Um, but but yeah, 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.000 I mean, and so that kind of stuff happens now. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.720 Joe Witt was the guy that stepped in. He's been 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.120 with both McCarthy and Quinn. Understands this defense, understand what 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.040 Quinn's trying to do with the calls, So it was 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.319 an easy move for him to slide in there. And 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.360 mcadoo's the fourth one, and he's on the staff as well, 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.800 and you know, he's brought in and he should be 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.800 able to maybe help if something like that happens on 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:16.719 the offensive side. And thus Myers got a lot of 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.080 experience too. So I think that they're equipped that way. 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.440 But but I think what they need to be ready 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.120 for is have those conversations we always talk about and 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.720 it's first and goal in the eight. I want to 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.520 know if I've got four downs, get ahead of the game. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:33.839 Be like that. They need to be ahead of this thing. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.920 Go what happens if we just saw it in a 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.640 preseason game? What happens in a regular season game? Because 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.920 I could tell you this COVID doesn't care if it's 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.280 preseason or regular season, and the NFL yeah, and then 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.760 the NFL protocols don't care either, so it doesn't matter 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.040 what it is, which maybe that's beneficial that obviously you'd 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.640 prefer not, but you know, a little dry run that 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:57.000 how to handle this um could be good. And it 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:58.800 wasn't just the game either. I mean they went into 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.440 the virtual They did their virtual mode for the last 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.600 two days before they came back to work. So I 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.240 was gonna say, if they're not equipped for this, from 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.120 purely a logistical standpoint, shame on them, because you had 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.839 a whole year of getting real used to it. And 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.120 I yeah, so I think they're ready. Yes, I mean 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.560 depth sure, I mean you can handle it if Michael 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.000 Gallup goes down. But I mean you know, if Dak, 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.360 I mean, if Dak had to leave the game, you're screwed. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.000 I mean, I don't know that there's a whole lot 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.840 you can do about that other than hope for the best. 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.880 And that's why getting vaccinated it's important. Yeah, But I 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.079 mean as we as we all know though, even when 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.480 you're vaccinated, sure, if you come up with a positive 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.520 test on a game day, right, you still got to 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.559 sit for specific amount of time. Anything you can do 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.120 to make that number as low as possible. Right. And 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.240 and by the way, vaccinations help, supposedly, that's at least 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.920 what we're told is the vaccinations help with making sure 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.160 that maybe you don't get it in some situations where 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.200 you would have gotten it otherwise. So I think there's 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.640 all those things that are involved, and it just helps, right, 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.520 And yeah, I like, yeah, there's there's no fool proof, 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.840 there's no guarantee, and I know that bothers a lot 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.160 of people. But bring that number down as much as 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.200 you can. Ye, all right, we're gonna take our first 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:12.839 break when we come back. Let's talk a little how 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.520 Cowboys versus Texans. Cowboys lose that game twenty to fourteen, 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.120 but there were definitely some things you can take from 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:19.679 the game that we'll talk about when come right back. 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.760 This is Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio before there was 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.040 a draft. You get sized up at cowboy by three 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.760 simple factors. 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Let's 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.640 talk Cowboys versus Texans. Cowboys lose twenty fourteen at home 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.600 in their what I guess is for them is their 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.760 third preseason game for the league. Gets week two of 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.000 the preseason. Let's start first. I want each you guys 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:05.760 to give me an impression you came away from the 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.920 game with just one. It can be about a player, 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.280 it can be about the team, whatever you choose. A 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.800 start with you Dave, first team defense. It was they're 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.480 the only people that you know. I really feel like 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.440 you could fairly evaluate. I got, you know, Cooper Rush 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.720 coming in unexpectedly and playing well. But it was a 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.120 dress rehearsal for the defense and oh, by the way, 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.720 they didn't have the guy that calls their defense, Dan 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.840 Quinn started the game behind the eight ball, you know, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:35.080 quick change, turnover in the red zone and all of 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.160 that considered, I thought they played really well. I mean, 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:41.320 the Texans are terrible, but they didn't allow a third 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.200 down conversion while they were out there. Yeah, I mean 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.360 they gave up the touchdown, but again, that possession started 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:51.160 on like their sixteen yard line. Some questionable run defense 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.160 there at the very beginning, but they got it. They 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.680 got it buckled down. Parsons had a couple flash plays 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:01.560 OsO Diggy Zooa continues to look pretty impress and just 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:03.680 buy and large. I mean, they played an entire half 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.080 and looked pretty good doing so. And I think that's 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.080 the biggest sample size we have and it was encouraging, 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.560 I albeit against a pretty bad offense. Ye speaking about Parsons, 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.240 I think we all react at that one play when 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.320 he was he got by the last scrimmage and he's 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.679 chasing down a quarterback in the way. Just watching it 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.120 in person and the closing speed that he had, it's 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.720 not amazing. Doesn't do it justice to say, he got 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.439 behind the line of scrimmage because he blitzed and the 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.800 center picked him up, and he was like, Nope, you're 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:32.320 not going to block me. Get the hell out of 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.959 my way. You're a big guy, but I'm faster. And 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.520 Osa did it like a stunt that kind of helped 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.480 free him up. He took on. He came at the 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.280 center from the other side and pushed him back into 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.480 the into the guard, and so Osa had a big 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.000 hand in freeing Parsons up to hurry that play. And 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.040 so that's what I'm talking about when I say flash, 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.120 I mean they had a couple moments like that. Yeah, 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.720 somebody just hit the R two button on him back 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.600 in the old guild No, you know, PlayStation just he 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.800 just shot out of a can in it. YEA, all 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:06.159 right for me. And I'm not pushing the panic button. 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.880 I'm not. I don't my hands thot on it. But 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.800 I'm locating. I know, I want to know where it is. 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.480 So I just know where the panic button is. About 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.280 this offensive line, oh I'm not there yet. I'm with you, 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.240 but this offensive line hasn't looked great. They got a 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.320 chance to be there together and it didn't look great. 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.960 And you can say, yes, I think Dak will help everybody. 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.080 I think Zeke helps everyone. But I didn't think this 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.160 offensive line needed these all these guys to help them 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:37.920 look good. I thought it was kind of the other 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.960 way around. So they didn't look that great. The other night, 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.119 Lyell's not looking too hot on the right side. Tying 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.760 kind of is what it is. He's he's gonna be fine, 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.080 I think, Zach. I think they're gonna be fine. But 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.680 they didn't look good against the Texans, and it's just 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.360 something I want to look at again. I didn't. I mean, 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.639 I didn't think they looked that bad. I expect, like 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.200 once when Cooper got in there, it looked pretty good. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.800 I mean they went to seventy five yards in five plays. 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:07.080 Lyle did get beat. Garrett held onto that ball for 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.320 a long I put that on Garrett. He did, but 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.919 it the I'm just looking at the play itself and 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.280 the rep for Lyle. Yeah, that shocked me that he 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.320 was because he was like his techniqueals all everything about 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.280 it just looked bad. And I was like, That's not 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.959 what I was expecting from Lyle. If that were Steel 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.240 out there, I'd be like, Okay, Gil, what you gotta 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:30.800 get of the ball. You're kind of my hell, I'm 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.520 expecting more. You know, he looks rusty. He does. That's 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.400 and I think you could see it Summit training camp. 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:40.399 Now he he looks. I mean he's and he's lost 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.000 some some weight, which I don't he's lost a lot 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.240 of strength, but he's been the type of guy that's 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.400 kind of been able to sort of overpower people, and 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.920 he just doesn't he doesn't have that right now. Hopefully 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.359 he gets that back and he gets gets in a groove, 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.280 but I'm not I'm not gonna say that, you know, 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.520 it's it's time to worry just yet. But I think 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.080 you kind of have your eyes on them because you're 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.320 expecting so much from them. Yeah, Honestly, the reason why 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.560 I even noticed that play initially when that happened with 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.040