WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Defensive Improvements? 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:09.080 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:19.440 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys let go. Are 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.320 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:27.440 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:31.280 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:37.440 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:44.280 Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, October twenty of 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:48.160 twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number forty five. Welcome 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.040 to the latest edition of The Break. I got Isaiah Stanback, 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.960 I got Jesse Holly, I got Amber Garcia with me. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.760 It is day two of our mix up here, and 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.840 these guys, I think they learned a lot yesterday about 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:04.040 what it takes to make a really quality football podcast. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.440 They I mean, I got a lot of tweets saying 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.559 how much better you guys have gotten in one show. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.160 I think, by think by next week, we're gonna send 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.880 you back to your shows. And I expect some everybody's 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.120 I really do. That's called leadership. I'm just coaching you up. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.440 I'm just cluching you up. All right, we got we 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.600 got a lot to talk about today. We're gonna continue 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.680 our big picture look at this team. Yesterday we talked 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.320 a lot about the offense. Today we're gonna focus in 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:29.880 a little bit more on the defense, and we'll have 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.039 some some topics too on the overall team um as 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.440 well today. But today we gotta first start with some 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.440 news that came out yesterday, not the greatest news. And 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:39.880 the reason why I want to bring it up because 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.840 I'm one that, like a lot of times when it 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.279 starts getting into who got arrested in this kind of stuff, 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.720 I'm like, if it, if it affects the team and 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.240 what's happening on the field, then we'll talk about it. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.560 If not, I really don't care to talk about it. 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:53.720 But the reason why I want to talk about demonte 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.920 CAZy being arrested for a DWI, it's more from the 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.640 standpoint of you, two guys as former as fleets, both 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.559 played here at the Cowboys. My question for you, because 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.920 I think the general public, speaking for myself and probably 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:07.760 a lot of fans out there, you probably are like, man, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.160 like you know that to some degree, in the position 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.320 that you're in, you're probably a target to some degree, 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.440 like you're gonna be looked at it with you know, 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.519 with a lot of great things in your life comes 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.359 a lot of responsibility. So you accept that as being 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.800 a professional athlete, you got a responsibility to live up 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.480 to that. Do you guys talk about or did you 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.639 guys talk about that kind of stuff in the locker room, 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.680 especially heading into a bye week, did you talk about, like, man, 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.320 let's stay out of trouble. Let's make sure we're not 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.919 putting ourselves in situations where we can end up being 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.960 a headline for the wrong reason. Yeah, I think. I mean, 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:43.760 it was a real brief conversation. I don't know about 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.760 locker rooms that you've been in Jesse, but it was 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.120 a real brief conversation. It was more so, hey, hey, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.760 protect the team, be smart, and that was it. And 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.040 that was pretty much extended a conversation. That's all that 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.239 needed to be said because you knew that you needed 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.440 to take care of your business. Go enjoy the off 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.399 week or you know, really just a couple of days 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.160 off really during or bye week. It's not a full 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:02.960 week off, but I go enjoy your a couple of 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.000 days off, you know, have fun, but be smart, right, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.560 stay off your legs, don't don't kill your legs, and 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.040 don't make bad decisions. And that's really it. There's no 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:12.960 sit down and let's pow wow. Hey, now, what are 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.280 you about to do? What am I about to do? 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:19.400 Just protect the team? Be smart. I brought show and 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.240 Tell today. Okay for this very reason. You didn't. We 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.200 didn't plan this or we did anything like this. But 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.880 I can guarantee you the very last thing out of 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:33.400 Mike McCarthy's mouth at the end of the team meeting 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:39.080 whenever they broke was hey, guys, enjoy yourselves, take care 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.640 of one another, stay out of trouble. I know for 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.680 a fact. I know for a fact, and I have 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:53.480 a zero I have a below zero tolerance for DUIs 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.040 or dwis or whatever you want to call them. And 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.360 here's why this Cowboys football team, we are not. People 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:04.880 on Twitter drive me insane with the oh, well, you 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.040 know it's just a d WI. I mean, you know, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.320 did we forget We're not too far removed from a 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.200 good friend of mine, Josh Britt, in a duy situation 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.200 where someone was killed. And it's always just a DWI 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:24.000 until it's not. And the reason why I have a 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.960 blow zero tolerance for dwise, we live in the era 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.040 now where there's left, there's uber right that those are 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:37.200 easy fixes. You know Brian Wansley, You know Brian Wansley, 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:42.159 you know I know Brian Wansman. Amazing human being. His 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.000 phone is always on at any point in time of 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:49.000 the day to call him if you need something. Every 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:55.520 NFL team in the country has a ride service. Every 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:00.600 NFL team has it. You call them, they come and 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.000 pick you up. Because it used to be the thing. Well, 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:04.560 well I didn't want to leave him one hundred thousand 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.480 dolls a car somewhere. I get it, I understand it. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.799 They have it to where now they bring another driver 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.960 to bring your car home. Here is my my NFL 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.599 players cards, right, there's three of them. Okay, on the 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.760 back of everyone. This is my NFL player card. This 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.360 is my NFL player card. This is my NFL player card. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.240 On the back of each one of these cards. What 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:32.320 does that say though it's crossed out, it says DUI 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:37.120 crossed out On every single one of these players cards. 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.240 It says d UI crossed out. There's a number that 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:45.640 you can call on these cards that'll have someone come 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.840 pick you up for free. No questions, ask, no no, 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.960 no no distance, no matter what that will come and 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.320 pick you up and bring you home. The NFL Players 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:59.400 Association has it, Every NFL team has it. Every person 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.599 on the every NFL team has a Brian Wansley. Pick 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.600 up the damn phone, pick up the phone and make 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.719 the phone call. But too far, too often we have 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.320 these superhuman thoughts in our feelings that you know what, 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.560 I can make it, and you know what, nine times 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.240 out of ten sometimes you make it home. But what 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.839 happens that one time you don't make it? And now 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.240 someone's life, not only yours, but someone else's life can 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:27.160 be impacted. And that's where I have a below zero 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:31.720 tolerance for dwis because you have every not only do 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.200 you make a god awful amount of money you're gonna 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.839 do an old school yellow cab, but you have every 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.840 opportunity in the world to get home safely. When it 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:50.039 comes to this type of situation, I'm sorry. I have 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:56.640 zero tolerance for any body in general, but especially professional 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:01.000 athletes who get d wis. It is a necessary, it 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.599 is completely avoidable. In anyone who just says, oh, it's 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.800 just a d WI, it ain't that big of a deal. 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:11.960 Shut up, shut up, because until you have been impacted 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.960 by someone in your family or you being impacted by 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:21.120 a drunk driver. Shut up. And for professional athletes, it 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:25.200 is far too easy to get home safely or plan 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.280 ahead or plan ahead, and for you not to do 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.720 so is reckless. It is careless, it is selfish, It 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:37.960 is unacceptable. And I have zero, below zero tolerance for 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:41.480 anyone who gets you d d Wis and I had 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.960 to go search for these because I wanted people to 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:48.720 understand how easy it is make a phone call. You 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.040 ain't gotta leave your car nothing, ye, And I am, 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.680 by the way, I appreciate that and that that that's 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.920 a good word right there. But I think in addition 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.840 to that, I think the message here is whether you're 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.440 a professional athlete or not, this is a serious thing, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.600 absolutely like, this is a serious thing that not only, 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.920 as you said, not only can impact your life, it 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.360 can impact your family's life and other people that you 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.960 don't even know. And so I think the message that 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.240 has to come from this is everyone should look at 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.240 this as a cautionary tale. If you didn't, if you 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.560 didn't get the message back when that happened with Josh Brent, 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.480 then then you should, you know, you should just be 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.000 paying attention like this is something that affects a lot 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.120 of people. So the message here is, don't take the chance. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.040 Don't take the chance. Just go ahead if you feel 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:30.720 like you've had a drink or two, Like I know 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:32.480 for me and my wife, but we've gotten a point 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.920 now we're like, if we're gonna have a drink or two, 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.920 we're ubering. We're just ubering. It's not even a question. 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.440 We're just ubering. And it's not even it's not even 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.600 a thought, it's not even a second thought. It's just 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.600 what we do. Because and I will I will say this, 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.079 that's also about perspective and wisdom that you get sometimes 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.160 from age. The older we've gotten, the more we realize, 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.839 and this is a this isn't worth the chance because 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:56.640 by the way, you could probably have two drinks and 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.720 still be fine. For me, I'm just like, I'm not 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.319 gonna take the chance the chance, right, So I think 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.880 the message here for everybody is don't do that. If 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.160 you if you're gonna have drinks, just playing ahead, as 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.079 Isaiah says, and just and be prepared for that so 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.679 you can do the right thing. And just getting a 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.000 ride home, all right. So here's what we're gonna do. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:16.760 We're gonna move on. We're gonna talk a little bit 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.319 about this Cowboys team. Got some big picture questions, questions 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.599 we're gonna hit here. I want to start first with 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.959 the defensive side of the ball, and particularly I want 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.800 to start with Michael Parsons, who coming into the year. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.840 I think we all after weeks one, two three, we 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.600 were like, man, this dude is freaking amazing. And I 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.400 think over the last few weeks, not that he hasn't 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.920 been still playing at a high level, but some of 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.040 that talk has kind of come back. My question becomes 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.160 to you, guys, is where do you think he has 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:50.119 a greater impact at linebacker or defensive end? Linebacker, linebacker 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.880 all day long? The reason being, yes, people like to 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:54.800 see the flash, people like to see the first round 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.760 or get shown off right because he's a nice little 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.280 little little, nice little ornament that's all nice and brand 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.080 new and shiny. But the reality is when he's at 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.319 even though he's effective, he's effective anywhere you can put 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.520 the man at cornerback, he's gonna be effective. Even though 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.559 he's effective at the defensive in position. What happened to 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.680 a snap count? All right? He went with thirty eight snaps. 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.480 I think thirty five thirty eight snaps. I think for 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.960 those two games he was playing primarily defensive end, Right, 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.280 But what happened when he goes a linebacker sixty five snaps? Right, 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.480 So you're taking somebody's ability. Yeah, they can impact the 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:26.080 game maybe two maybe three out of those thirty five 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.720 snaps right when he's playing defensive end, But you're also 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.120 subjecting him to getting chipped. What happened in the last 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:32.800 time he played DN, he got his ribs hit. Right. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.240 He ain't been at that defense end position too much 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.360 since then, Right, So you're you're you're putting him up. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.080 You're putting him in a position where they know where 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.600 he's at, we can get to you. Right, you're playing Dan, 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.880 You're going against one of our heaviest, more's, most biggest 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.959 athletic guys on the team. And oh, by the way, 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:47.240 I can send a running back out to take a 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:48.920 shot on your ribs on the way out. Right, So 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.480 you're that's one thing that you do when you put 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.480 him at defensive end, when you put him at linebacker, 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.600 not only do you increase his snap counts by him 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.400 being on the field more, he can affect the game more. 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.880 He can also rush, he can drive back in coverage, 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.840 he could play guys man man of running backs out 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.760 of the backfield. So he can do a lot of things, 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.360 multiple facet from the middle of the field that he 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.960 can't do from the dfenc end position. And just even 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:09.280 if you just looked at it, just basically off a 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.559 snap counts, you want you're one of your most dominant 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.640 guys to be on the field as much as possible. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.040 I one hundred percent agree with everything that he has said. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.000 The only thing that I would add, aside from him 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.160 playing defensive end, I think that absolutely limits him and 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.360 what he can do on the field. Like everything he 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:31.400 just said, but also looking at position wise, that's an 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.640 area where last year when I would watch film and 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.079 you know Dayalen is no longer here and all that, 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.920 but that was an area that the Cowboys were struggling 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.480 at linebacker. And I know Layton Vanderah he has skills 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:47.120 and everything, but sometimes he misses and so he needs 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.360 to help. So the Cowboys do need a player with 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.359 his set of skills to be right there at linebacker 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:57.760 and do everything that he had. It just it's so 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.760 impressive to me honestly. And he's very freshing to see 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.559 a player like that come in right off the bat 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:08.280 and show even when training camp, I mean rookie minicamp 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.080 and all that was starting, I was still here and 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:14.679 watching all that, everything that he was showing. It's like, Okay, 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.439 where can I have a player position that he can 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.120 do the best that he can and use every single 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:26.160 talent that he has. So for sure, linebacker, defensive end, 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:27.720 like he said, you can mix it in and he 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.760 can still rush and be effective, but he doesn't need 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.120 to be stuck at a single position. Yeah, a linebacker, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:38.920 he becomes any racer for this football team. He's able 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:40.880 to do so many different things in the In the 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.040 way that this league is evolving, you have running backs 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.199 to a more versatile now. Right For every Derrick Henry 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:48.920 that you have to worry about in the league, you 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.600 have more of the Dalvin Cook type or the Gibson 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.880 types or the Kamara types that that this league has 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.240 evolved too. And Micah, he gives you the ability, like 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.040 Isaiah was saying, to play coverage. He gives you the 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:06.200 ability to uh play in between um uh you know, 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.040 behind the behind the tackles and guards at the linebacker 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:13.319 spot play tight end. So the versatility uh that he 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.079 has at linebacker, you don't have that at at defensive end. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.320 And this Cowboys team. And when you go back and 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.440 you watch the film earlier in the year when he 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.800 had most of his success, he was playing backup offensive lineman. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.040 He was playing against backup offensive lineman. So when he 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.679 was rushing, he was playing against the number two guys, 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.000 which when against the Chargers, they put him against the 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:39.880 number one and they said was like, yeah, hey them go. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.640 Because at the end of the day, your more experienced 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:48.080 offensive tackles have seen all of the moves he hasn't 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.200 developed and he had so all he has a speed 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:55.079 power And if for experience offen tackles says speeding power, please, 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.120 thank you. Come on, I'll take that all day. But 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.320 I don't have to deal with speed, power, spin, shift, 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.320 hands and all that out of stuff. And I think 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:05.400 a linebacker his versatility just shines more and it gives 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.960 you just a plethora of thing that you can do 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.720 with him there, and he becomes ultimately your racer in 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.360 the middle of the football field. All right, we're gonna 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.040 take our first break when we come back we're gonna 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:16.839 talk a little about free agent signings. I want to 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:20.560 talk to you about Demonte Casey, Jyron, curse Keyan O'Neill, 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.200 who's been the best free agent signing on the defensive 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.800 side of the ball for the Cowboys so far this season. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.120 We'll talk about that. We'll come right back. This is 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.360 Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 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There were three specific 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.320 defensive free agent signings that I wanted to talk about. 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:51.280 And by the way, you guys can throw in another 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.120 name if you think there's another name that should fit 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.680 on this list. But what I wanted to find out 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:57.600 is who do you think was the best free agent 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.800 signing on the defensive side of the ball? Kzy Um 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:06.840 Curse or Neil dan Quinn wasn't on the list. But 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.280 none of those guys are here. Dan Quinn's not here 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:12.879 right good like he is and by the way, he 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.320 makes them look probably better than they would look otherwise. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.320 You got those three guys combined for a million dollars. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.719 Like think about that. Like we have been clamoring and 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:27.960 begging and pleading for better safety play for the Cowboys 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.800 since Ken Hamlin. Ye back when I was here. We 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:36.280 were here two thousand and seven and eight shot um 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.000 and dan Quinn comes in and he finds three guys, 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.719 brings him in, fits him into the scheme that he wants, 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.280 and they're thriving. And when you look at it, you're saying, 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:50.040 we did all of this for a million dollars. Like that, 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.840 that is the equivalent of value when you could get 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.680 players to play at this productive level at that less 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.879 of a price. That is bargain shopping at its best. 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.920 That is thrift shopping. You going to the thrift store 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.960 and you found something of value that no one else 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.119 thought would be of value. And so yeah, and so 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.840 for me to add the name to the list to 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.600 it's dan Quinn, It's dan Quinn because we have been 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.159 looking for something of this type of caliber and not 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.520 only did we found one, we found three guys that 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.280 now we're looking at saying, you know, well, how do 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.160 we play them all? Look at this rotation we got. 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.720 We got these guys all playing at a at a 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:33.960 I'm not saying they're all playing at Pro Bowl level, 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.680 but we don't worry as much about the back end 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.520 of this football team as we had in the past, 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.399 And for me, the culprit behind that is dan Quinn 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.680 coming in, seeing the vision, seeing those guys believing to 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.520 get trusting it, bringing them in, giving them instruction and 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:52.159 it worked, it flourishing and burd isaiah'na, I'm gonna make 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:57.919 y'all get give me a players. But I'm that's the 0:18:58.000 --> 0:18:59.960 right answer to the right It probably the easiest answer. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.440 Don't think I'll give me a play. No, I'm going 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.240 I'm going with curse. I'm going with curse Um. Not 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.280 only because he's been on the field the most really 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.679 between him and Casey, but I feel like he's had 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.639 the greatest impact. I feel like the position that he 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.760 plays in the responsibility that he has to cover some 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.119 of the biggest, most athletic guys on the field, and 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.120 he's pretty much taking them out. We haven't had any 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.840 tight ends go ham on us this year at all. Um. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.000 That's primarily because of him. The reason why this big 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:28.520 nickel personnel has come about because of him, Um, and 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:30.560 I think the versatility that he gives us to be 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:32.240 able to not only cover in the box, but also 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.480 be able to cover from the top down has been 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.040 huge it's been huge. He's a large human being, right, 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:38.840 they don't make him like that. He's only handful of 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.920 dudes that are made that size. Right. You started hearing 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:45.119 they've owner Sean Taylor, you know, just recently you got 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.480 Cam Chancellor and you got you know, Curse. Yeah. I mean, 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:50.840 you guys are six four two twenty plus. You know, 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.040 there's not that many of them. So the athleticism that 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.840 he provides with the freaking physical attributes he has is amazing, 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:58.800 and it just provides a lot of options for dan 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.359 Quinn and his whole defense. Well, I mean, he's the 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.200 guy that has the most debts right now out of 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.200 the players. But and I know you want a player, 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.480 but I haven't been. I mean I've been watching the games, 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.800 but not in like full on details how I usually do. 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.680 So it's it's hard to answer. But going back to sorry, 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.680 they're going back to dan Quinn. The thing that's impressive 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.960 to me is that these guys, this free agent guy, 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:25.320 they weren't anyone that was that. I was like, oh 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:29.040 my god, wow, yes, the Cowboys got this guy to 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.960 play safety. It wasn't anything like that. It was like, Okay, 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.040 these guys have some experience. All right, well, bring him in, 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.240 can't hurt, but man, we still need to address that position. 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:40.639 Let's wait until the draft. Than it wasn't so it 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.720 wasn't like something that we were for sure comfortable with. 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:48.040 So to me, that's the impressive part having and we've 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:51.280