WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Let's Talk Defense 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:04.720 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:12.520 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.400 for a break. Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:20.960 time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Wall 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:27.640 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.600 It is Tuesday, August twenty first, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.960 episode number twenty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.880 live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.639 Welcome and well appreciate you guys take us some time 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.120 with us today to talk a little Cowboys football. How's 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.680 everybody great? Well? Good, awesome, Thanks awesome. Sorry for those 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:48.960 that delay. We were supposed to start a little earlier. 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.960 We had some technical difficulties. Our man can't got everything 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.280 back rolling. So appreciate you guys hanging out and waiting around. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:57.520 And now we'll go ahead and get to it. Let's 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.720 talk first about a couple signings the Cowboy had yesterday. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:07.280 Cowboys get a safety. Anybody excited they signed Dominic Sanders? Cool? Cool? 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:11.120 How are you right? Don't don't do Dominic like that 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:15.480 we don't University of Georgia, Georgia. A lot of a 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.560 lot of interceptions at Georgia Georgia. Yeah, like sixteen in 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:24.200 four years at three every year at least. Yeah, I mean, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.200 but I don't actually know where he went after Philadelphia. 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.440 Philadelphia signed him, cut him quickly. I think he was 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.720 with a couple of teams. He bounced around a little bit. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.360 This is a camp body if there's ever been one, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.280 this is this is the guy to kind of feel 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.800 some you know, just practice basically, just just please go 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.280 out there and practice. So Tyree Robinson doesn't get every snap. Yep. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.480 They basically cut him right away, and then he hasn't 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.920 been with anyone I didn't think so. So, so are 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.720 they doing more because they still have an issue that 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.720 could possibly be here. If Xavier Woods they played, they 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.760 did more. Are they are doing more right now? Um? 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.560 They are. If the paperwork's not official. They are expected 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:08.320 to or are going to sign Jeron Johnson, who is 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.639 a classic veteran safety. He played with Chris Rochard in 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.840 Seattle for five years. He was like their third or 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.440 fourth safety there special teams. It kind of looking over 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.720 his resume, it sounds like he was their Cavon Frasier. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.880 Just to kind of give you an idea of what 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.760 he did. He played all sixteen games on their Super 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.639 Bowl teams. He spent the year with Washington, got hurt 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.959 in training camp last year and was out of football. 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.880 I think I read he was coaching high school when 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.600 they called him. So he I mean, he's a he's 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.320 a established veteran. Not a guy that I think you 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.000 should get excited about, but you think, but a guy 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.639 that's thought as he can give you a week he's 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.000 supposed to he's supposed to practice today, and yeah, I mean, 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.320 he'll at least help you get through these two preseason 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:57.040 games if nothing else. Do you feel comfortable if I 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.440 have to asked the question? At this point, you can't 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.880 keep asking the questions. You do have to ask the question, 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:04.720 because I think that's the thing that fans are sitting 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.120 out there listening right now, and they're like, all right, 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.560 I hear all that, But can this guy play week one? 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.960 If Xavier, if Xavier Woods isn't out let the thing 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.160 about it, yes, can he play? Can he play well 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.800 enough that the Cowboys don't get torched? He might be 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.280 better than Xavier Woods that's the thing about Xavier. You 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.880 don't even know what he's gonna do. I mean, he yeah, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.040 he's gonna be decent. But when the lights come on 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.120 and you were the starting safety, I'm not sure you know, 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.720 we don't know about him either. So that's you know, 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.200 I just go find me a guy that you know about, 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.600 I mean, and then you know that as long as 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.520 we're touching on well, I know who you're talking about it. 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.480 But as far as I know, Georgia Loca is still 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.600 out there. I've heard, you know, the cowboys are interested, 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.240 but not that interested, which like that just in other words, 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.320 if it's comes to us, if falls to us with 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.080 the right money, that's so cowboys like there. I mean, 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.720 I don't know. I fans ask me that and I 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.520 don't know how to answer. I'm like, I don't really 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.480 get it either. Yeah, I didn't get why they didn't 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.920 want Tyron Matthew. I didn't get why they didn't want 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.119 any of those other guys. It's not a scheme fit, 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.720 I understand. I don't buy it. What about it? Is 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.040 there any truth to the fact that he's similar to 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.320 Eric Reed? Oh, I don't I haven't looked that hard. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.080 Into it to be one hundred percent honest. Think that 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.120 might be a case with a loca there might, But 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:22.680 I think the other part too, twos you have to 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.000 think about is it seems to me, you guys, correct 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.680 me if I'm wrong, but seems to me that the theory, 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.680 or at least the strategy around here for the last 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.240 several years is they just don't want to spend big 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.160 money in free agency. They look at it as well, 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.839 they look whatever the results. All I'm saying is it 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.960 disappears that and that's not something that they they look 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.920 at strategically as a good thing. They feel like they 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.120 want to home grow their talent rather than going down 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.479 spending in free a I understand, and they've done a 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.640 fantastic job, like all of the important pieces of this 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.000 team are homegrown, and they've done a good job holding 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:57.920 onto him. But you got the money and it I'm sorry, 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.920 I don't know exactly what may it's more than I think, 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.440 but it just doesn't sound like a bank breaking deal 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.200 would have to be done to get this guy. And 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.680 Tyron Matthews better than him and he signed on for 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:14.839 one year seven million. I mean really, so in developing guys, 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.000 I mean, that's a long term process. It's not like 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:18.920 you're gonna get it done in one year. It takes 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.200 a few years to develop different guys at different position 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.760 and to build a full on team. It's also, to 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.039 quote a favorite phrase of football coaches everywhere, it's not 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.200 cutting time, like it's two weeks until the season. That's 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.280 you know, developing guys and not wanting to spend money 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.840 in free agencies for March now. It's like, we need 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.720 a guy who we trust isn't going to screw this up. However, 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.480 that's the part that we're not talking about. And I'd 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.120 love to get your thoughts. But maybe they saw on 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.840 film what Cincinnati saw absolutely and that he is a 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.440 player that was pretty good for a while and last 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.400 year fell off, and they're like, we may take him 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.040 for a cheap amount, but we're not investing anymore because 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.720 we don't think he's any better than Cavon Frazier one percent. Like, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.800 you're absolutely right, Maybe they saw us. Maybe that's true. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.560 Maybe it's actually true, like maybe he really isn't worth 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.800 the investment. But it's a rare situation. Like if we 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.080 were talking about a wide receiver, I would get it 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.719 or or maybe even you know, an offensive lineman for 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.960 the back end of the depth chart. But look at 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.919 this team's safeties right now. Jeff Jeff Heath is a 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.960 great great is maybe overstating. I think Jeff Heath is 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.320 a really solid starter. I like him a lot. After that, 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.120 what I mean, what you got you got? You have 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.960 no idea. I've been saying that all offseason Cavan Fraser 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.200 and Xavier Woods might be future Pro Bowlers. How do 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.120 you know that right now? And one of them can't 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.239 play right now? I mean basically, so if your wide 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.280 receivers can't make plays, then you punt. And if you're 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.160 running back can't you know, hit the hole, then then 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.279 your you know, your puntum. But if your left tackle 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.560 can't do his job, then the quarterback could get hurt. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.040 And if your safety doesn't do his job, it's a 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.359 sixty five yard touchdown. So it's one of those positions 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.719 where if if you don't get it short up, it 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.880 could be really bad for you. And so, um, you know, 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.840 I don't you just know they're gonna do something. It's 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.280 just kind of anti because it's like something's happening here. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.920 I mean, you can't be this it's just not going 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.240 to be this, even the Cavon Frasier. It's not gonna 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.840 be Cavon Frasier. You think you're one hundred percent confident 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.360 of that that I could I can envision a scenario 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.800 where they just try to get through Ron Johnson and 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:30.040 Frasier just to maybe just hope, get hopefully and just 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.080 hope that Woods can be ready as quickly as possible. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.720 It doesn't even sound like Byron Jones is an option 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.800 which and then he shouldn't be. Honestly, I think that 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:43.080 would be a short sighted, terrible decision. Well that he 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.640 has been sort of short sighted though, right, But but no, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.880 I think I would rather go there you were saying before, 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.480 where you're just gonna kind of piece me all that 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.280 thing for a week maybe two, and see what you 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.320 have to do, rather than taking a guy that wasn't 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.720 great at safety. I mean, he had issues at safety. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.080 You get him the corner and he's actually showing signs 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.600 of being a really good player at corner, and now say, hey, 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.280 we're gonna slide you back to the safety. Well, I 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.040 think that's a bad decision. Chris Richard yesterday, I mean 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.040 he repeated it over and over Byron is the corner. 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.040 And then I asked him, I'd dare to ask him 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.840 what about Cheeto since other people talk about it, and 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:18.800 he just looked at me straight in the eye and 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:24.200 it was like, Cheeto, he's a corner. There we go, Okay, yes, good, Yes. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.600 Then I asked him, I asked him, so how much 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:31.960 he is like your opinion? Like who makes the decision here? 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:36.440 Because you hear Steven Jones and the Jones and the question, 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.400 you know, asking or talking about, oh you have these 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:43.360 guys are flexible enough to play safety and corner. I'm like, okay, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.760 well you're saying that these two guys are for sure corners, 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.320 then who really makes the decision? He looked at me 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.960 straight in the eye again and was just like, well, 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.600 it's a team evaluation. We both got our input in 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.040 a very political answer, of course, But I'm like, okay, 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.360 it didn't sound political when he was saying for the 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.560 sixth time, Byron, He's like, it's a collaborative effort, but 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.479 I stood on the table when it comes to the secondary, 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.839 I'm making the calls. Basically, what yeah, I can't tell 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.120 you that because that's not the way we roll around here, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:20.560 but just know a corner, I would rather throw Derek 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.080 out there in the number twenty eight than moved by her. 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.800 And I'm just saying I would rather a bad idea. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.959 It's an awful idea, and I like it better than 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.160 trying to move byer nrcheto like why I'm with that, 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.760 I'm with you. Those two guys have been two of 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.480 your most consistent players throughout training camp. Why would you 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.360 take a position that you feel pretty good about and 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.000 you feel like it could be a strength. We don't 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.520 know what they're gonna do in the regular season, but 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.640 could be a strength and turn into something that's a 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.920 bit of a question and another point, And it doesn't 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.719 sound like it's gonna happen. So it's not that it's 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.800 not worth getting into. But that idea sounded great before 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.240 we started practicing because you had Anthony Brown and Jordan Lewis. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.559 Those guys haven't looked good enough to give me that 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.600 kind of offidence in them. I've been I've actually been 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.520 somewhat disappointed by Jordan Lewis. I have not seen him 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.720 make kind of plays I thought he would make, and 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.920 I've seen him in some moments where he's gotten beat 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.280 a few times too, when I thought he probably would 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.959 be better. So I'm not I'm not in a rush 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.240 to get him in the in the start over one 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.160 of those two guys. I'm in a starting position over 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.160 one of those two guys. I'm intrigued by Nick though, 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.480 because I mean, I hope he's right. I hope that 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.360 they're planning on doing something more substantial with this position. 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.920 But I'm not gonna be surprised if they're just like 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.600 Woods will be back for the Giants game and we're 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.480 just like, okay, all right, and they just go in 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:40.959 that game like hoping something. I don't know what I'm 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.920 gonna do, but I'm gonna be bad. But Amber is 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.280 not gonna be very happy. The one thing I will 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.440 say that the third person, I'm a little I'm a 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.840 little less concerned with that against Carolina than I would 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.120 be in Week two. If they if they feel like 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.200 they can go into that as long as you can tackle, well, 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.320 I think you can probably get against a team like Carolina. 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.160 I don't look at their passing game and say I'm 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:04.800 really really worried about what they can do in the 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.560 passing game. You get to New York, good luck with that, 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.160 if you don't have a safety to be able to cover, 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.040 to cover the back end. Just remember who's in Carolina now, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.520 d J Moore, the Goat. I hear you. It's gonna 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.880 be his first NFL game. I'm feeling okay, I'm getting 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:19.599 I'm not too worried. I think he's gonna be a 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.360 great player, just like Michael Gallup. But I just I'm 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.480 not worried about him right now, you know, until they 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.960 show it, till that quarterback shows it that he consistently 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:28.720 be a problem when it comes to the passing game. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.839 I'm not as worried about that as him running. He's 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.160 an NFL MVP. I wonder what and he was a 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.480 great runner that year, great runner. I just wonder what 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.080 the hold up is? Like I'm really like, what is 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:43.439 the sticking point? Like what what draft pick or whatever? 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.720 Is it? Like, what's the sticking point? It's you know, 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.400 it's there. You know that they you know they they're 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.320 probably talked on the phone this week, like it's there 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:55.040 about that. Honestly, honestly though, I mean think Nick, you've 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.559 been you know, I've never I think it's I honestly 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.280 think it's just you know, it's that's stubbornness, Like nobody 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.320 wants to blink. Everybody kind of knows this is what 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:03.920 we're willing to do. You know we're willing to do. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.160 I'm not I'm not relent, but that should have changed 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:11.160 when your safety that you were had your fingers crossed 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.240 for went down with a hamstring injury of two to 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.920 four weeks. And if it's anything like the rest of 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:21.080 the guys on this team four, that's absolutely the worst 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.680 time for it to change. If you're thinking about it 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.600 from the standpoint of a negotiation and being on the 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.400 positive end of a negotiation, that is the worst time 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.520 to panic because then you have no leverage. So you're 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.480 going with hat in hand saying I know we said 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.400 before that this is what we're willing to give up, 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.080 but we just lost our safety. And then like, you 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.560 have no leverage whatsoever, and I don't, I don't if 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.200 you if you had lost Xavier Woods for eight weeks, 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.480 if you had lost Xavier Woods for the season, then 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.800 maybe you're in dire straits saying, I think they may 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.200 look at it as it may be one week of 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:53.719 the regular season. We have to deal with that. That 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.920 should make us panic So if you're a Seattle and 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.200 you're sitting there and you were willing to take a 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.280 second round pick all along, and the Cowboys are like, no, 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.319 we're not doing it, and now they come back and say, 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.559 we'll do a second round pick. Now you're gonna change 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.280 You're gonna change your thought because of oh, we've got 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.199 more leverage. Maybe. Okay, Well then you just said and 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.800 just hang tight with them then, And I mean, if 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.839 you think that's a that's the issue, then he just 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.000 keeps holding out. And I guess they don't really care, 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.920 you know, because they know. I don't think the Cowboys 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:22.920 do either. I think the Cowboys look at it as 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.400 we don't have to make this move right now, because 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.439 if they did, they would have made this move months ago. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.800 Like I think they really look at this and say, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.400 we don't feel like we have to make a move 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.080 at our safety position right now, and we think we 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.960 got enough players where we can get through this season 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.679 and we think we can play well this season. That's 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.880 at least what they think, and that okay, if they didn't, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:46.360 they would have gotten him more. Think that way, then 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:51.640 they're wrong, okay in my opinion. Obviously, all right, let's 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.160 move on. They don't know. I mean, wait, you just 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.719 said they think they've got enough, that they've got the 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.679 right players here. They don't. They're hiring guys out of 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.600 like pe class and saying, please come safety for him. Well, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.600 the reason why they're happened to please come safety, that's good, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.040 But no, the reason why they're doing that because Xavier 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.080 Woods is out for two to four weeks. My point is, 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.959 and he might be kpe I might stand that, but 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.720 they are willing. They are willing so far their action show, 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:19.920 they are willing to give it a shot and see 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.480 if he can be what they drafted him to be. Right. 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.760 If not, they would have done something long time ago. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.720 There were how many day how many weeks did you 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.800 come in this show and say, there's about one hundred 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.120 safety sitting over there on the free agency pile if 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:32.680 they want to just go grab one of them, like 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.520 there were a number of Yeah, but you got a 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.200 new coach who in your mind you're thinking, Okay, this 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.000 guy can do magic here and develop certain guys and 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.480 turn him into something great. And yes he is a 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.960 great coach, and yes he's doing that with a few guys, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.560 but it doesn't always work. Out with every single guy. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.280 There are exceptions. Now as far as safety, there was 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.560 no depth there to begin with, and the guys that 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:58.280 were there not proven. So I mean, unless you talk 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:02.280 about other positions, let's say wide receiver, not the same story, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:06.880 but still a position that they decided to really bring 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.240 in a ton of death there, and then they don't 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.040 do the same with a very very key position. Here's 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.200 the thing. All of you guys are making valid points, 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.600 I get it. My point is they still don't think 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.800 that way, because if they did, they would have had 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.240 more safeties here. They didn't. I don't. I don't agree 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.560 with that point because in April, May and June it 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.160 was just a scab and it was barely bleeding, so 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.520 the band aid was on it. But now your arm 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.480 is falling off, so now you need to do more 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.600 than that. It's not just the same situation it was before. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.920 Now you better get this thing wrapped up because it's 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.560 about to fall off. Okay, And once again, you're making 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.120 a great point. They are, but I don't think there's 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.360 anything that we've seen from them that suggests they agree 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.680 with that. We set the record for long as Dave 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:56.240 is gone without talking enjoying the show, looking back and 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:00.680 forth like a point point lounging here, Eric looks like 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.600 a cornered animal, and I mean it's like, but that's 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.200 the point. I agree with a lot of their points, 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.680 but the team is not coming here with your points. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.640 Nobody wants to Texas Player. I've been you know, we've 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.440 talked to my office's ever been many since the first 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.640 time this all came up. It's been something I'd love 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.800 to see. But I don't think the cowboys, the people 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.960 that are making the decisions, I don't think they see 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.400 this in the way you guys see it, you know, 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.680 like my stance here, like my chips have been all 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.080 right there the whole time. And I'm sitting here on 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.960 like four to seven, so I'm just like hoping that man, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.640 or I'm actually sitting on like a two nine. I'm 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.320 sitting four sevens is like a really good hand, isn't it? No, 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.280 four seven I'm playing hold them? Oh sorry, okay, I 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.800 don't play poker, So I'm I was thinking of saything 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.120 like four seven, that's good. I'm actually sitting on a 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.520 two and a nine, That's what I'm sitting on, two 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.760 and a nine and hoping that there's other two's and nine. Yeah, 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.680 Earl Thomas is twenty nine. If you got that, Oh god, 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.280 I didn't even put that together. I just I don't 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.440 have any I have no reason whatsoever to think that 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.200 this is happening. This is pure speculation on my part. 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.080 I haven't heard any whispers. But I just love the 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.720 thought of like Chris Richard walking into the staff meeting 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.679 and just being like, what what do I gotta do? Like, 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.320 are y'all kidding me right now? Just pick up the 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:21.399 phone to quote Travis Scott, just go pick up the 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.520 phone and call him and get my guy here. He's 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.320 not even practicing right now. I just that's a fun 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.560 mental image for me. All Right, we're gonna take a break. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.320 He seems so intense too. They were like, hey, hey, 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.520 oh no, it would it would be like a lot 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:38.360 of tenser than that. And Jason's like, um, we got him. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:42.159 Who's that? Earl? We finally, well about time? And then 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.200 he like goes in there to his meeting and starts working. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.320 You know, I mean, he's so intense. IM just gonna 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.320 be a great head coach. I really don't I don't 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.000 know what to think. Well, I don't think it's gonna happen. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:53.640 I think it'll happen next year when he's a free agent. 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.840 That's what I think is gonna happen. That's personal belief. Sorry, 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.159 whoever does this after whoever sits here for hanging the 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.240 nasty thing, huh hanging with the boys, maid, I think 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.840 I don't know. No, No, Shannon's here and Nates over there. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.960 Kerr definitely. All right, let's take a first break. When 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:10.720 we come back, we're going to get to talking a 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.360 little bit about the defense. We didn't get a chance 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.520 to get to the defense yesterday because we spend so 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.040 much time on the offense. 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