WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Carrying Momentum? 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:18.440 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:22.160 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:26.480 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:31.880 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:38.159 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:42.040 It is Tuesday, September tenth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.360 number forty. Welcome to another edition of The Break. We're 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.360 live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.479 Got Dave Nick, and we've got our very special Tuesday 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.120 guest Danny Serect with us today. We're gonna be talking 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:54.800 to some Cowboys football here with you guys for about 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.480 forty five minutes. It's a gumbo show, so, as you 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.360 guys remember from last year, we like to hit a 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.960 lot of topics on Tuesday. We'll jump around. There'll be 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:03.960 lots of different things we'll hit. We'll also take some 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.560 questions from you guys. You can also hit me on 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:09.959 Twitter at Derek Eagleton and I'll get your questions there 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.000 and we'll have a segment where we'll go through those 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.800 questions and again, hit a lot of different topics out 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:19.520 of where I feel in this morning, great, great, good, lovely, awesome, fantastic, 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.800 Danny victory Tuesday, right, that carries over from Monday? Why not? 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.119 I mean a victory like that that lasts longer than 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.280 just your standard twenty four hours. Right, so twenty four 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.280 hour rule only applies to coaches and players anyway, good point. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.120 You can write that all week if it's if you 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.199 want to. Yeah, absolutely, going all right, So let's first. 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.200 I want to talk first about injuries. There were a 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.800 couple of injury updates we had yesterday. Pretty remarkable that 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.440 Cowboys finish this game, that not only did they play 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.440 a great game, but they came out relatively clean. There 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.040 were two injuries though, of note. Tell us about those 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.600 two injuries and what we can expect this week with 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:56.680 regards to Randall Cobb and Jeff Heath. Jeff Heath, he's 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.400 dealing with a couple of different things. But he spoke 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.200 in the locker room yesterday. He you know, I believe 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.920 he called it regular football stuff. He's going to be 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.880 there Wednesday, he says that shouldn't be a problem. We 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.680 didn't talk to cop, but I'm gonna go out on 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.600 a limb and say, I think it's probably something similar. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.680 I mean, football is incredibly violent, especially at the pro level, 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.079 and every guy has something really painful happened to him 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:24.760 in every game. So Cobb's got a lower rib thing, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.480 is what Jason Garrett described it as. I don't think 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:32.000 it's severely limiting, but we'll see what he does tomorrow 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:36.760 at practice. Ye, any question, I mean in those offensive linemen, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.720 I mean I think that Zack Martin, that's something he's 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:40.919 just going to have to deal with. I mean, he 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.320 was able to go out of the game just because 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.079 that you know the score, But I think that it's 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:52.240 something Wednesday or Thursday. You're gonna see limit limited from 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.040 him every week, and you know he's just gonna have 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.600 to manage this thing. But he didn't play his best game, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:59.480 you know. I mean, he had a couple of penalties 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.120 when I used to see in that out of him, 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.400 but I think overall he played pretty well. What are 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.640 the what do we what do we know about guys 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.520 like Donovan Wilson, Deary and Thompson. If anything, just because 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.440 now you got Heath a little banged up, starts to 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.680 wonder a little bit with those other two safeties also 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.440 being they were out last week due to injury. What 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.600 do you hear about them? Thompson it was a high 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.960 ankle sprain. He's been out for a few weeks now. Um. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.720 I think he's been back with the trainers on the 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.480 on the side fields doing some running. I would doubt 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.519 that he's ready this week. And again I never knew 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.480 about Donovan Wilson. Was it high ankle sprain on him? Yes, 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.000 or it's an ankle sprain. I don't know if it 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:39.320 was high ankles, so I don't know if it's the 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.880 dreaded high Yeah, but I'm serious when you'd put that 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:48.119 high high, everybody gets rially nervous, right, Yeah. That it'll 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.160 be interesting to see if if if Heath is kind 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.360 of banged up, and if they can get Thompson back 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.000 in there. But it was Stephen Jones was the one 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.960 that said right around roster cuts that Wilson probably wouldn't 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.720 be available for the first few weeks. So, I mean 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.960 thinking at least two games, maybe three, but we'll see. Yeah. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.800 So I mean, does that raising level of concern for 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.720 you when you start thinking about the fact that last 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.320 week they entered with three safeties, and now you'd be 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.400 inter presumably be three. That one is a little banged up. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.840 I mean I was standing right there, Danny, you were too, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.240 And Jeff Heath I'm going to take him at his word, 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.480 and he didn't seem very concerned about it. And I mean, 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.840 everybody gets hurt one way or another in every game. 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:32.920 I also think the next two opponents maybe not so 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:37.360 worried about what Washington Miami's pass game to kind of 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.840 rush back right just writing them off. I love it, 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.960 let's go. I'm just saying, like I I would not 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.080 rush them back for the next two weeks if there's 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.320 no need to. You mean you're talking about Wilson and yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.000 yeah yeah. I mean three three safeties does seem a 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.000 little light, but they made it through this game. I 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.080 think Goodwin can play some safety if you needed to. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.880 It's probably I mean, he's not not ideal because he 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.280 hasn't practiced it, but the guy really can run. I mean, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.039 that's one thing about him that he's one of the 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.280 fastest players they've got on the team. We didn't talk 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:12.160 about that tackle. From our angle on the press box, 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:13.920 you could just see it coming a mile away. I mean, 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.640 he was just flying down there, and you know that 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.839 doesn't feel good for anyone. I mean, I can kind 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.320 of see why they try to get the kickoffs limited 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.479 and not because that's where this is nothing but like 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:29.120 a train wreck going on there. It's the most dangerous 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.800 play in the game. Probably that's fun why they're trying 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:37.520 to take it within the next well, I mean, I 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.760 guess it would have to be this CBA. Well maybe not. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:41.800 They're going to take that play out of out of 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.080 the NFL because it out of the Pro Bowl. I 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:48.839 don't know, but out of something where I forgot what 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.720 it was, but I was watching not too long ago, 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.440 or I think that was going on this year they 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.320 would do it. Oh the American Alliance of whatever, No 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.279 something I watched. Um wow, I didn't watch that. Okay, 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.960 no one else did either. Obviously that was no one 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.000 else did either. NFL games are gonna just start at 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.560 the twenty five, like within the next decade. Well, you 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.520 saw that this preseason when they had the game where 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.600 they had the field that was jacked up and they 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.200 were like, well, let's not do kickoff so we had 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.880 an eighty yard field, Let's just start there and go. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.400 So all right, let's let's watch another topic. I want 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.880 to talk about Dak Prescott. After after his amazing day 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.280 on Sunday, four and five yards, four touchdowns, no interception, 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:32.320 a perfect hundred and fifty eight point three quarterback rating, UM, 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.600 Jerry made the comment that his contract was imminent. That's 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.240 gotten a lot of press since then. It seems to me, 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:40.920 at least you guys can tell me from what Jerry 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.920 said this morning, it seems like he'd walked that back 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.120 a little bit from the standpoint that, Okay, when I 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.280 say imminent, it might not necessarily be imminent in Dak's mind. 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.600 Is what he said sounded like a dictionary when he 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.000 was asked about it, because it was like near close, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.479 you know, in other words, with everyone. He kind of 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.360 was backing it up just a little bit. But it 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.279 doesn't sound like that's like this happening today, although it 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.359 does seem like it's something that they want to happen 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.440 relatively quickly. How close are you getting the sense that 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.760 this deal is or is it any closer today than 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.880 it was last week? Sounds like what him and Stephen 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.280 Jones been saying the whole time of this can really 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.560 just happen really quickly, kind of not out of nowhere, 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.280 but it's not something that's drawn out necessarily for three 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.800 or four days. But things can just happen really quickly. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:25.360 And that's kind of the vibe I was getting when 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.360 he was saying it's imminent, like he probably wishes he 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.360 would have paid Dak before that game, so I think 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.920 it'll happen soon. And he did say that if he 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.120 would have had a bad game, it wouldn't have changed anything. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.120 I don't know if I buy it. Maybe that's maybe 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.280 that's just just kind of saying it now because he 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.400 was the other one, right, But I bet you you know, 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.000 he made his point. I mean, whatever the point they 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.480 were making, he made it in a strong way. So 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.840 I think it does affect it. And I don't think 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.200 I want to let another game go by where he 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.280 does it again. But that might be to Jerry's point. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.000 He's like, in my mind, it's on the cusp. I 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.480 don't that wasn't his Zach wording, but that's basically what 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.160 he said, and he's like, you know, I don't know 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.280 how Dak and his people feel, which now that makes 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.880 me think, like what if Dack's like, let's let's ride 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.000 this thing out and see if I really can put 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.000 some more zeros on that check. If I do this 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.280 a few more times, you know what I mean, whatever, 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.440 that would be amazing. What's kind of interesting because when 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.960 he was asked about Cooper he said something like, well, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.720 I know Cooper is getting a deal done. You know well, 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.280 and that's I mean, I didn't read too much into 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.000 that because I Stephen and Jerry have said from the 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.959 beginning they're both getting deals. Like people try to make 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.240 it this dramatic thing like, oh, then maybe they The 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.760 only way, the only way the Cooper thing the trade 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.840 ever made sense was if you sign him and the 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.000 Cowboys know that, and he went out and had a 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.559 like that's gonna happen. The only thing about Bill, he said, 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.120 is this a lot like the Dack thing. And he said, well, 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.480 I know that. The thing about Cooper, I know that 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.120 it's getting done. So he said that about Dak too, 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:59.360 though he said, like, um, you just said the game. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:00.880 He was like, it would matter if you played a 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:05.000 bad game. I think they asked them. They're like, you know, 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.880 are you are you still evaluating and he's like, with 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.080 the type of money that goes into this like we're 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.920 way past the point of evaluation, right, Like that's so, 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.960 I mean, I just feel very confident both are going 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.760 to get done. It would be awesome if it happened 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.440 in the next week or so, but I don't know. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.480 So here's the question I have for you, guys, as 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.080 of Saturday, what would you And I'm not talking about 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:28.920 the team. I'm saying if you were the GM, what 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.080 would you have been willing to pay Dak Is it 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.800 around that thirty two million, which is kind of where 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.720 you net out for guys like Wentz and Golf, or 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:41.160 was it more? And now on Tuesday following the game 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.600 that he had, has that price gone up at all? 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.360 Or you still write where you were before. Let's start 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.439 with you, Dave, I would be willing to pay him 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.680 slightly more than what Jared Goff got, just because the 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.280 resumes are comparable as of Saturday or as of today, No, 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.240 as of Saturday like that. I mean, that's the way 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.320 these things work. I've been saying that for six months. 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.200 Is like, regardless of you know, whether or not he's 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.440 elite or like definitively better, like the next guy just 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.439 gets a little bit more money. Like Goff got a 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.520 little bit more than Wins. I think most people would 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.559 agree Wins is better than golf to this point in 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:18.600 their careers. Winz isn't as healthy. But that's just kind 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:19.920 of how it is. Like the next guy gets a 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.000 little bit more. I would be willing to pay Dak 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.320 a little bit more than Jared Goff I would have 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.160 been on Saturday. I definitely am. Now, Hey, what people 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:32.880 that go to California teams or any any state with 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.920 an income tax. I mean, it's completely different because if 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:40.000 you think about, like in any industry, a writer. We 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.480 got writers that have left here that work in Los 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.160 Angeles probably making way more money than we are just 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.720 because of the cost of living. But in the NFL scope, 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.000 it's not the same. I mean, I guarantee they can 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.400 make exactly what Jared Goff is making, and Dak's going 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.719 to see way more of it golf will and then 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.480 cowboys are trying to put that figure that in factor 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.200 it in and the agents not having any part of it. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.160 But I mean, it is a thing. It's a thing 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.960 for Wentz and golf and it's not a thing for Dak. No. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:07.960 I agree, I agree a lot with you. Dave of 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.520 I would have paid him around the thirty thirty two before, 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.600 and there's so many DAC caters and I don't I 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.160 don't have a problem with paying him that. And the 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.199 Cowboys know that this is who they want their long 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:20.120 term quarterback to be. I think after his performance on Sunday, 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.480 you have even more confidence in him. And I think 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.000 it's helpful that now they have a lot more threats 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.600 as opposed to, you know, this point. Last year it 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:32.200 was wide receiver by committee. I think I think Prescott's 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.720 going to have a phenomenal year just with the people 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.960 around him. I'm telling you where quarterback exactly where the 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.319 hold up is. The hold up is that guaranteed money 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.160 because of golf and wins, and they got their money 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.240 way beforehand, and so it's ballooning that price up to 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.520 a hunt was one ten, one O five was the 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:56.199 was the guarantee one ten and guarantees I believe, But 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.199 twenty six of it was already from which previous contract 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.120 and that's the DA didn't have anything like that. So 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.600 it's really that's what the Cowboys. That's the big sticking 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.480 point right now is that guaranteed money. Yeah, but they're 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:10.200 I mean, and it's not Dak's responsibility to care about this, 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.120 but like the report is that he makes like fifty 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.280 million dollars in endorsements, and I guarantee you Jared Goff 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.320 doesn't make that much endorsement. And I think that's the 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.400 Cowboys whole thing from the beginning. And I think it's 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.440 a valid point for the Cowboys. I mean, like, you 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.079 didn't get that because of you, You got that because 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.920 of what? Because of us? Yep, and not only that. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.600 And somebody pointed this out to me the other day, 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.480 and it's so true. All they have to do is 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.240 just look around the landscape of the NFL. And what 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.640 I mean by that is the guys that are doing media, 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.360 the guys that are getting opportunities to do big, big 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:43.439 things in media, that's not because of anything more than 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.800 they were good players, not even sometimes great, good players 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.200 that happen to be playing for the Dallas Cowboys. So 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.600 their brand is much higher elevated, their name recognition is 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.960 much higher. You have a much better chance of getting 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.400 those opportunities. And so I think for some players who 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.199 want have ambitions of doing things beyond football once they're done, 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.079 this gives you just one. It gets you one step 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.400 closer to being able to get some of those kinds 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.960 of opportunities that other guys just won't get because they 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.599 don't have the name recognition that the Cowboys can afford it. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.480 J Smith with this extent, I mean, that's basically what 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.199 he was saying. Why he took the money he did, 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.440 was he understands the importance of this brand in long 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.000 term to make money after football. He understood that. It's 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:25.840 exactly right. All right, let's take our first break. We 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.559 come back. I want to talk about a couple of 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.240 guys that were inactive this last week that we didn't 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.360 get a chance to talk about yesterday, and what that 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.240 could mean for the future of those two players here 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:35.679 with the Dallas Cowboys. We'll talk about that when we 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.680 come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. Well, 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.319 a player could look good on paper, it's one he's 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.360 out on the field that you really find out what 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.520 he's made of. That's why the Cowboys rely on more 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.800 than just stats and scouting reports when building their team. 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.960 When picking a tractor, it's why you should rely on 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.640 more than just specs and features. 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It is the second segment of the Break 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.240 Life from this WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star and 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.200 I want to talk about a couple of guys this 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:50.000 last weekend that we're not active for the game and 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.840 what that could possibly mean. Tuckle, Charlton Tristan Hill both 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.400 missed the game. We're inactive. We started seeing some tweets. 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.760 I guess the morning of I think of Sunday morning 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.480 from Taco or actually it might have been Saturday when 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.720 he started counting tweeting and letting people know in cryptic 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.120 ways that he wasn't going to be playing. And the 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.160 question that I that kind of rang out to me, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.720 and I got this from someone on Twitter, is why 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.040 is it that a guy like Taco is inactive when 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.320 for fans who watched him during the preseason, at least 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.640 in preseason games, he seemed to be performing pretty well 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:26.960 as a defensive end, had some games where he had 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.320 some sacks, and there seems to be there seemed to 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.880 be an arrow pointing up at least from the standpoint, 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.760 how fan see him watching him in those preseason games. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:37.920 What have you guys heard behind the scenes as to 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.760 why maybe he is still a healthy scratch here the 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.240 first week of his third season. I mean, it's a 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.320 it's a good question because it's kind of head scratching. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.920 He's better than Joe Jackson to play now. You could 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.320 say that Joe Jackson's got position flex. I don't see 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.320 him play a lot of defensive tackles, so I don't 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.880 know about that. I've seen Tacco play inside. I think 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.800 if they're making a statement or or for just being honest, 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.080 I mean, maybe they're trying to trade him. Maybe they've 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.840 been working on something. Maybe they didn't want to Maybe 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.399 they didn't want to play him for that reason that 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.399 maybe he's not in their in their plans. Maybe they 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.080 didn't want to get hurt because they have to cut 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.080 somebody here in two weeks or in a week when 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.080 Quinn comes when Quinn comes back. So it's hard to imagine. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.000 And I don't know if he'll be cut or traded 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:23.960 or whatever, but like it's hard to imagine they have 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.800 these huge plans for him if he's a healthy scratch 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.040 in year three, week one, all that good stuff, and 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.960 it's it is what it is. Um, yeah, I mean, 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.680 you're right. I haven't seen Joe Jackson play a ton 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.520 of defensive tackle that they say he's got that flexibility. 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.920 I guess that's fair. But assuming they're not doing something 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:47.000 like stashing him so they can trade him, the coaches 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.439 are in charge of those evaluations. They watched him in 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.320 the preseason, probably considered okay, who did he do that against? 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.200 And are those players actually any good? And we have 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:01.359 DeMarcus Lawrence, Tyrone, Crawford, Dorn's Armstrong and Carrie Hyder who 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.480 we all think are better than him. I think, I mean, 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:06.520 It could be as simple as that, it's not a 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.679 great look for Taco. But it's not just about the 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.919 preseason games. You're right, because you're not playing starters. It's 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.399 also about practice and how you're doing throughout the week. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.760 I don't know. My gut feeling is I don't know 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:22.840 that he'll be here throughout the whole season. I think 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.000 maybe a trade. I agree, I just don't. I just 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.800 don't know. Like Dave said, you everyone's saying it. I mean, 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.280 how is he in your plans if that's the case. Now. 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.639 I also, I said this before the game, and this 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.240 is about both of them. You know, this is a 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.080 this is a really good football team. Like we know that. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.760 We knew that going into the game, and I think 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:44.879 it was it was evident by the fact that you 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:46.840 got a first round pick from a couple of years ago, 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.160 a second round pick this year. You know, you got health, 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.040 you got healthy scratches, a first and second round picks. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.040 It's tough to make the roster, it's tough to make 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.399 the forty six. You talked to Stephen Jones about that 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.480 in the pregame show. Just the depth Yea they have 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.240 on this. He said, it's the deepest team he could 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.960 remember in many, many years. Yeah, it's a very good point, 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.719 and it's totally true. It's it's still it's it's just 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:11.720 not so much Hill but Taco. I mean, it's a 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.920 bad look. He's the twenty eighth all pick. I mean, 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:15.800 it's a bad pick. I think I think you could 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:17.480 just say it was a bad pick. He's not been 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:19.680 good at this point. If you if you're a healthy 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.800 scratch at the start of year three, I mean, there's 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.280 not many ways to sugarcoat that. What game was it 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:27.639 San Francisco? When he was talking like that, I was 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.840 standing next to him, and I hated that. I hated 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.639 that whole mantra thing he was going. He was saying that, 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.960