WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: More Hypothetical Trades 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:15.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he is Talking 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:20.080 Cowboys Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:31.320 the Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Bruns, 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:36.319 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. It just dawned on me. 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:42.959 This is our final preseason edition of Talking Cowboys. Hey 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.320 like that Tuesday morning here at the Star in PRIs 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:50.600 goe as we get you set for the final preseason 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.680 practice of twenty eighteen, which is free and open to 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.200 the public at Ford Center at the Star at eleven 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.000 am this morning, eleven fifteen is when they on the 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.839 on the schedule anyway that they say the practice will start, 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:06.760 but the doors will be open much prior to that. 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:08.679 If you're in the area, come out and watch the 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:13.280 Cowboys practice this morning, and uh, we get you ready 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:18.600 for Cowboys Texans and cut down day three o'clock on Saturday. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:23.120 In the NFL. The next time Talking Cowboys proper is together, 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:27.560 they'll have a fifty three man roster. Have We don't 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.679 set that schedule yet. Re I think Rob just unofficially 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.720 did that, did you officially not do a show on Friday. 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.120 It's what you're saying, Well, we may be doing joint show. Yeah, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.959 there was so Yeah, it's all combine. There some members 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.960 of Talking Cowboys, some members of the Break, and I 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.720 don't want to cut the roster down today. We kind 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.080 of started yesterday. You know. It's funny. I was on 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.240 with Nate and Shannon yesterday. You know, I kind of 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.880 filled in, helped out, you know, with the with their show, 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.160 and we got into some roster talk again, some of 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.960 the things that we were talking about. You and I 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.960 thought Nate was gonna hit me. I went, I went, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.200 Nate three tight ends or four tight ends. He looked 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.040 at me like, why are you bringing that, you know, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.120 and I'm like, whoa, it's roster dog and Nate, Nate 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.880 wants nothing to do with roster He really really didn't 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.760 wan anything. Do you want nothing to do with Nate 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.680 hitting you either? No? Hell no, Nate hit me once, 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:28.280 did he? This was in nineteen ninety three in London. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.639 The Cowboys played the Lions over in London and the 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.480 game was played and then we had to wait. I 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.000 was on the media, was on the charter coming back 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.919 and we had to wait for hours after the game 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.000 and had to go back to the hotel, but we 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.480 had all checked out of our rooms, and so there's 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.280 lobby hanging in the liars. We're all in the lobby 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.120 and waiting for the bus to take us to the 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:54.919 airport to fly out of there. And so we were 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.440 in the lobby, bar area or whatever, and uh, Nate 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.960 sees me at one point and about two hours into 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:06.720 this weight and just in a playful gesture, sure, he 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.360 takes his fist and puts it into my chest. And 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.919 I'm still smarting from that twenty five years later. I mean, 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.400 but it almost knocked the breath out of them. Yeah, 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.360 he'll slap you on the back, and it's like a 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:22.080 worker's comp type situation, you know. It's yeah, he doesn't 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.280 know his own Nate. Yeah, Nate had no idea that 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.920 now what effect he had. I saw give me a 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.440 little indication of what those hits might be like it, 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.160 you know, Yeah, he's got a little punch to him. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:35.280 But yeah, no, it's uh, it's it's always fascinating this 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.240 time of year when you're trying to figure out how 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.080 you're going to get this thing down. I mean, that's 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.520 the that's the you know, they have their ideas. You 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.880 have your ideas, and sometimes those ideas don't even mesh. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.160 But you know, it's it's what I think it's fun 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.800 to talk about too. So it's like Nate, Nate doesn't 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.800 want to talk about the backup quarterback. No quarterback now. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.760 And that cause telling Nate when we were watching the 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.320 game the other day, I always, when we watched games together, 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.400 always call out at the down and distance to him 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.240 and you know how much they gain and who gains 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:04.880 and all that. It got the second half of the 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.400 game the other night, and Nate looked at me and guess, 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.720 just stop stop. I don't care who. I don't care 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.840 who's carrying the ball. I don't care. You know. He 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.120 just said, just stop. So that's okay. I think everybody's 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.839 looking at their watch at that point. It was funny. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.839 I was looking at my watch wondering where the fourth 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.200 member of our team was at the outset of the 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.200 show today, and here is Mickey is here. He was 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.680 right next door. He was You couldn't hear me through 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.000 the wall. That's why there needs to be a window 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:34.680 in that wall and you can see what's going. But 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.760 other broadcasting commitment yes, absolutely, follow up the owner on 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:42.240 that one. I had to follow up the owner. Yes, absolutely, Yeah. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.600 I didn't hear the first part of the owner talking 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.080 about Randy Gregory, but I assume he continued to say, 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.800 it's day to day, day to day, right, I don't 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.159 think anybody other than day to day. I don't know 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.240 what you can say. Well, I think it was very 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:59.200 irresponsible of Jason locke Offour, you know, if I hate 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.599 when people throw stuff out like that, especially a national 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.960 writer who's not around here every day and you kind 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.240 of don't know the situation, but maybe somebody whispered to 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.200 you is something that you know that's not factual. Yeah, 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.280 and that I think that's irresponsible on his part. Well, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.240 but he got what he wanted because that bet that's 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.359 the first time his name has ever been mentioned on 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.640 Talking Cowboys. Well, he's usually wrong, and that's I'll mention 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:28.520 that as well. But you know, it's it's it's unfortunate. 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.479 You know, Randy Gregory has a lot of things he's 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.400 having to deal with and he doesn't need people putting 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.640 stuff out there that's not I don't believe it's factual. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.320 Excuse me, Rob, if the owner and a general manager 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.680 does not know the situation, or he doesn't or is 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.200 not aware of anything else about Randy Gregory, then Jason 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.880 Lockeforney to shut his damn mouth, you know, because Jerry 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.000 Jones is going to know what is going on every 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:58.080 step of the way with Randy Gregory, you know. And 0:05:58.160 --> 0:05:59.920 the fact that Jerry Jones has come out and said, 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.560 I'm not aware of anything you know that I have 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.120 you know, well, there are aspects to the program. They're 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:10.800 they're confidential that not even the Joneses are necessarily yeah, 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.719 or a reporter, Yeah, you know, right, but to that point, 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.120 you're right, they're not aware of anything. But yeah, what 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.159 Jerry and Stephen even said yesterday and the fan was 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.520 this is day to day and he's got to he's 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.040 he's that's his process, that's his situation. It's going to 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.560 be a fight for him every single day to stay 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.040 on the straight and narrow. Right now, as far as 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:31.960 they know, he's in good standing. I mean, it's it's 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:36.120 day to day. If you're all day to day because 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.720 of where he is in the program exactly, you've been 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.120 suspended a couple of times. As I said on the 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.080 year last night, he's got two and a half strikes 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.520 against him. He's fighting for his NFL life, right, there's 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:51.880 no slip ups. So here's the problem with the NFL's 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:57.280 drug policy. Rob used this one. It's supposed to be confidential. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.360 It's not, and it's not. And the reason it's not 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.560 is because it leaks out of the NFL office and 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:08.400 and they're the worst offenders of the whole bit. Right. Um. 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.200 Number two, you know, there is the possibility that maybe 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.400 something came up and it's on appeal and no one 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.480 knows how it's going to turn out, so it's day 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.520 to day. Uh. And then number three, if if you 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.680 got something, don't throw mash potatoes at the wall and 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.240 hope it sticks. Write the story, put your name on it, right, 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.520 Don't act like, oh I can throw it out on 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.240 Twitter and it doesn't matter, right, because it does matter. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.240 It does this case, it doesn't matter absolutely mat Right, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.480 he's got a website to write on, Yeah, so write 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.360 the story, right? Uh So yeah, okay, that's I'm off 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:49.080 my I mean, Twitter is a is an official forum. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:54.040 It's an extension of a writer's column or whatever. His 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.800 website is going to be the death of our society. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.520 But it is it is when when you puts it 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.160 it's as if you printed it in the newspaper. Twitter. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.160 It's from a journalistic standpoint exactly. That's the way it's evolved, absolutely. 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.840 I mean, you have to have substance behind things that 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.000 you tweet, if you're a credential member of the media, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.840 or you don't, well you're supposed to do. Yeah, I 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.480 just I find it unfortunate. I think you guys, everybody's right. 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.920 If you've got something, say it, rite it, put it 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.520 in black and white, don't don't don't. Just Hey, I'm 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.160 you know, kind of hearing, you know, kind of hear 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.120 you know. I mean, there's there's things, there's things that 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.880 we can talk about, and there's things we can't talk about. 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.480 We hear things we can't talk about every day every day. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.840 But the things that we know, more than half the time, 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.240 those things aren't true. Yeah, exactly though, So that's why 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.120 we don't talk about it. We're going to eliminate the 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.480 word journalism and it's going to be a communications major. Now. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:57.160 Well that's and it's sad, yeah, but that's But other 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.240 than that, how you guys doing You got your donuts? Yeah? 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.920 How about that? Duncan Donuts. Oh wow, I didn't even know. Yes, 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.680 Duncan Donuts. Yeah you want someone got some donuts. Yeah, 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:09.320 Duncan Donuts of DFW came through to day. Personal looks 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.800 like a g personalized donuts by the way, donuts. I 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.640 actually had a couple all the way. Yeah, there we go. 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.080 That's why I'm yes. But Duncan Donut's a big sponsor 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.319 with the team, and but they were nice enough to break. Yeah, 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.320 they would give us some donuts. They personalized, they personalized 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.599 the donuts. Yeah, have you seen that, Bill, Look, I 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.719 got a Brian brought us donut in there and ate 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.880 ate the LSU Tiger donut by the way, just to 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.080 see what it was like. There is one. Yeah, Brian 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.040 brought show it at put my hands on it. It's 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.680 your donut now, Bill, watch out for the orange stuff 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:47.160 though it's yes. But yes, thank you, thank you Duncan 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.880 Donuts DFW for doing that for us today. We appreciate it. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.680 I think I got cowboys that was supposed to be 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.640 a Missouri Tiger ended up being a green Tiger. I 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.439 don't know if I've ever seen a green I tell 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.600 you look pretty good, but was looking look good though 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.800 it was good at Stags fifty two. Yeah, all right, Um, 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.440 anything else that you heard from the owner this morning 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.560 that it's newsworthy. No, if you didn't hear, you said 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.600 you didn't hear the Gregory Park. We discussed that. Yeah, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:19.720 it's all this esoteric stuff. Evidently somebody's writing a boat 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.920 a boat a book and asked Jerry what would he 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:27.040 trade in his Hall of Fame for a Super Bowl trophy? 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.960 And I don't know that's started to wildfire. However, he 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.040 answered it. And to me, he wouldn't be in the 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.000 Hall of Fame if he didn't have a desire to 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:39.320 win super Bowls? Right, So why the question. It's not 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.480 like he's going cheap here and not trying. Let's move 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:46.040 on to the regular season. Yeah, how about it? So anyway, 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.640 that was the other topic here, the safety situation. We 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.319 kind of know this, but Xavier Woods he thinks he's 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.720 more likely for week two than week one, indicated that's 0:10:55.800 --> 0:11:00.280 Cavon Frasier's probably gonna be okay for week one. We'll see. Um, 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.240 that's the way Frasier put it. As Mickey says, players 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.880 are always going to tell you they're fine. Um, anytime 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:07.760 your shoulder pops out of place, that's going to get 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.959 my attention. But we'll see that's that's encouraging at least 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.720 that they've got a couple of veterans that should be 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.280 ready to go for a week one at that position, 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.360 which we documented very clearly yesterday is an issue. Does 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.760 that keep? Does that keep a Huff on the fifty three? 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.520 You think? I don't think so, you don't think. Do 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.800 you think they'll go with the younger guys? I don't know. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.360 I don't know what direction they will go in. I mean, 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.680 I'm we're going to figure that out today. We're doing 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.200 something for for the website with the fifty three man 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.080 roster and kind of go through it. I don't know 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.320 how you could put Huff on this team after the 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.319 way he played the other day. Really don't. And I now, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.439 does that mean that Robinson and those guys are better? 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.840 I think that maybe you start off initially you think 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:57.480 about Huff, but I sure wouldn't all know what what? 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.640 What year is? He four fourth year? So that would 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.480 mean salary is guaranteed if you have him on and 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:08.120 he turns yeah, I just I would be real. I 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.040 think there's gonna be a couple of spots here on 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.040 this roster that they're gonna have to be a little 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.640 creative with. I think Frederick Spot's going to be creative 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.240 because they have to keep him on for one day 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.480 if they want to keep him, if they want to 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.920 put him on IR And I think I think Daytone 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.160 Jones is the same way for them. I think Dayton 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.320 Jones is a guy that they want to keep on 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.720 the active roster for one day. And so now now 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.600 you can't now all those things that we were talking about. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.760 And I do believe they're leaning towards keeping just six receivers. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.760 I mean the seventh receiver. I know I lost my 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.760 mind yesterday on a couple of different shows, but I 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.360 think it's more like six receivers. And it's gonna come 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.320 down to again, like we've talked about a bunch and 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:58.200 it's Thompson or Lenore. But if it's the six guy, 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.679 I'm getting the feeling that that Thompson's the sixth guy 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.640 over Lenore. It's kind of what I'm getting that feeling 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.240 right now. So, uh, you know, we'll see. I haven't 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.240 got a good feeling on the tight ends yet though 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.760 that's another position. Here's a question about Frederick and I 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.679 haven't gotten this answer yet. Could you NFI him? No, No, 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.280 you can't put him on football injury. He's at once. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.400 He was asking to start once you pass like, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.400 the same thing they have, just trying to avoid that 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.280 deal where you gotta oh he's well, I know he's 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.480 gonna be on for one day. Okay, your roster is 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:37.120 gonna have him and likely Daytone Jones. I'm just thinking 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.000 if you if you could go ahead and reserve him. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:40.760 I know you can't do it for i R right now, 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.439 but that would keep you from having to cut a 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.080 guy that you'd maybe like to keep. This about Daytone Jones, Yeah, 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:52.200 he being an injured player, yes, okay, can you how 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.560 does it work as far as releasing an injured player, Well, 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:59.760 you could waive him injured. It's sign him a six. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.440 You can't sign him back once you waive him injured. Okay, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.160 then you have then there's have to put him on 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.920 i R if he clears waivers. Right, but if you 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.120 want to sign him, you have to cannot release an 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.520 injured player. You have to waive injury. You have to 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.280 wave injured. That's the designation it tells everybody in the 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.120 league that this guy's hurt. Right, you can't just try 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.120 and you know that they have rules about waiving injured players. Okay, 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.840 but the important thing is you can't then resign him. 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:28.040 You can't like, if he clears, you cannot resign him, 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:32.680 put him on injured reserve recall like you do with Frederick. Right, 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.680 you can't jump for ten weeks because it's unlikely. I 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.280 think it would be unlikely that a team would claim 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:47.160 Dayton Jones because he qualifies for the injured for the 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:51.200 veteran status, he's not a player. Yeah, See, being on 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.560 a roster the first week, you could gamble you can 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.000 claim him thinking that the injury is not more than 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.440 maybe maybe they're trying to put him through. I mean, 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.360 someone could have claimed Rico Gathers. But that's why they 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.200 have the rule that you cannot make him active after 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.640 you've waved injured him. Right. That's why you can't use 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.400 that as a way to stash a player, right, right, Right, 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.640 I said Rico Gathers. But yeah, they had to keep 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.000 It's the same thing that they did with Kellen Moore 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.880 and Rico last year. You had to keep Rico gathers 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.680 on for one day and then you turn around and 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.560 put him on injured reserve and then resigned killing Moore. Well, 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.040 that's a reason why it's good that they have now 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.760 two players that you can recall, right because in the 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.080 old days meeting two years ago, Dayton Jones would be 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.280 placed on I R and a season would be over. Yeah. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.000 And and to me, this is a thing too with 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:49.240 Dayton Jones as an eight week possibility is if you 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.640 do get Randy, if you excuse me, if you get 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.560 David Irving back, or if you don't get David Irving back, 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.280 at least you have somebody like that. It's a long season. 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.240 It's a long season there. And so are you are 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:06.040 you saying you'd rather keep Daytone Jones than jehad Ward? 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.400 Because I think it's one or the other, don't you? 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.160 I do, I do and I And it could very 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.280 well come down to that. But if you if you 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.800 put if you put uh, if you put Daytone Jones 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.280 on your active roster, you waive jahad Ward, he clears waivers, 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.720 you could resign him back. Right. So that's my gamble 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.280 right there. I'm gonna gamble that no one's gonna sign 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.280 Jihad Ward back if that's the case, unless there's another 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.680 Dallas cowboy team out there that saw him when he 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.600 was coming out and said, oh we had a high 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.480 grade Adam, let's claim him and take a chance. So there, 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.160 but there's gonna be what is jahad Ward's best fit? 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.480 What defensive scheme is his best fit? Well? I think 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.080 I think the best that he's played so far is they. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.280 I don't think he's a defensive end. I like what 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.320 they've done it at defensive tackle with him. I think 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.360 people will see him as a defensive tackle. I don't 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.240 think he has three yeah in a four. Three don't 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:05.000 see him as a five technique in a three. Bad. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.280 That was a bad It's a bad. So the reason 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.240 I asked that three four teams because Oakland gave up 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.080 on him. They wouldn't be unlikely, right, I don't think 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.679 it's I don't think it's a gamble that that that 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.080 part of it I don't think is a gamble. You know. 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:23.440 But well, we'll see this roster could very well have 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:27.320 three guys again. Okay, now you have two injured guys 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.080 you're gonna have to carry for a day. You're gonna 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:34.560 have probably three draft picks. You know that that you know, 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.640 if you look at you talk about Covington, you talk 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:42.200 about you talk about Covington, you talk about Schultz, and 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.040 then you talk about Scarbarbro. So those are three. So 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:49.080 that's five players out of your fifty three that you 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:53.479 might say, well, in normal circumstances, might be on the bubble. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.840 Three of those draft picks might be on the bubble 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.560 if you had if you had position, if you had 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:03.320 guys on the on the team that were you know, 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.320 very that were good, they were better. You feel good 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.440 about Scarborough? I don't no, I mean making the team. Oh, 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.359 I do in them, Yeah, because he's a draft pick. See, 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.400 this is where general managers that don't are not the owners. 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.840 This is where general managers that aren't the owners protect 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.920 their draft yeah, because they say, well, I can't keep 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:26.480 cutting guys that I drafted. It's a bad look, you know. Yeah, 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.160 the owners can be seen, Oh we had seven picks, 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.720 I cut three of my guys. Yeah, that's a bad 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.439 look coming to miss time illness. But I think he 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.480 can help you on special teams. It's gonna come down 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.840 to him or March Lillard. Well, then they're gonna keep Lillard. 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:42.760 Don't you think they keep March Lillard over him? Can't 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.119 they keep seven veteran guy? It very well could keep seven. 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.840 That's this some seven wide receivers. No, that's not gonna happen. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:55.840 I'm only keeping six offensive lineman. Remember Nicky, Nicky always 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:59.680 keeps fifty. I just you know, they they and visit 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.520 with some folks. They know the situation at offensive line. 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.320 They know they have to go get some guys. They 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.520 know that. But the problem is, I just mentioned it. 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:10.640 You gotta keep You're gonna have to keep some guy. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.240 This roster is gonna look really funny on Sunday, and 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.280 then they're gonna turn around on Monday and Tuesday and 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.320 hopefully get it right right, that's what you you know 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.840 with the claims. And I mean, so you think the 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:27.520 roster at three o'clock on Saturday, how many offensive linemen 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.080 will be on the fifty three man roster? I think eight? 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.239 You think eight? So you think but they better not 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:37.159 go buy a house, right? Yeah? Yeah? Kadeem Edwards and 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.800 then Cam Fleming. I talked to a team last night 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.920 about Cam Fleming, talked to the alb Minute, I talked 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.800 to the New England Patriots. Talk to the Patriots about Fleming, 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.240 I'm like, they have some history with him. They do, 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:51.520 and they said, you know what we had to do. 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:53.280 We had to help him, We had to, we had to. 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:56.320 We protected him. We put a tight end over there. Yeah, 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:58.440 put a tight end over there. You slide a guard 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.679 his way, protecting the forty year old quarterback. He's the 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:03.960 best quarterback in the history of the game, no doubt, 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.920 no doubt. That's interesting because I mean, look, his resume 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.880 is starter right tackle, Super Bowl? Yeah, New England Patriots. 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:12.840 Oh no, you could say that. You're thinking when you 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.000 when you initially went and got him, you're thinking, man, 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.159 this guy started in an AFC championship game, he started 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.720 a Super Bowl. Starry gets Philadelphiagles, wasn't terrible. But you 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.919 talk to the Patriots guys and they're like, you know, 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.040 how's how's Cam Fleming doing for you? And I described 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.239 him as the fifty fifty player, which I always have, 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.400 and they go, well, you know, we helped him a lot. 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.320 We had to help him. He's he's like you said, 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.679 he's sometimes he looks really good and other times, you know, 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:41.320 the technique seems to go away. And I said, well, 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.080 you had to get around that. They go, you help him, 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:46.359 you put a tight end over there, you slide a 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.960 guard over his way, but you help. Everybody in the 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:51.480 league felt the same way about him, and that's why 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.600 as a free agent he only got one million dollars guaranteed. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:59.080 And and you knew what New England thought because they 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.439 didn't try to bring him at right after losing and 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.520 they lost eight soldier too. But that just shows you 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:08.360 how precarious depth is at that position. It's almost like 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.119 you could have drafted a guy just to play develop. 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:13.600 Oh wait, that's Chaz Green three years ago. Right, Is 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:19.360 he better than Chad's Green? Maybe? See, that's all you're 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:21.960 that's all you're trying to do as a personnel department now, 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.920 and you're trying to try Yeah had last year? Yeah, 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:27.080 is he better than Byron Bell? Start for the Packers? 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:29.600 Byron Bell? After that? Sakie gave up the other day. 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.040 And I don't know, I don't know, but that's what 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:34.840