WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Scouting The Chargers Offense 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:04.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:07.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:11.760 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.720 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:20.000 time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Wait 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:25.759 were with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:30.720 Derek Eagleton, Tuesday, November twenty first, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.160 Episode number seventy nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.240 live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.880 I really thought seventy nine was yesterday. No, it wasn't. 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.159 You want to go back and listen. This is the 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:48.239 Chaz Green episode. I thought I thought about Chaz Green yesterday? 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.160 You did said that. I don't think it was okay. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.440 I'm sorry for you guys scoring at home, I mean 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:56.440 with the notebook and stuff like that. Let us know, 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.760 But I really think this eighty You think I do well? 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:05.080 The seventy ninth or eightieth edition of the thirteent of 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.720 The Break. You're happy now, Nick, Not really, because now 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.720 the show is kind of derailed and it's my fault. 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.759 But let's get it back. Driver that happens regularly, so 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:15.480 you should be used to it by this. One of 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.200 those things. It's not derails. It's one of those things 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.319 where it just hits those little bumps and you're like, oh, 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.880 I better move over. You know what. We just we 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.160 just can't start this show the right way. No, we 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.960 could at nine thirty. What time it's nine thirty. I 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.400 think if I was doing it by myself as a 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:30.959 one person show, or maybe if it was just me 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.160 an Amber, I think we probably could. I think we 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:34.600 could get off to a good start and we could 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:40.840 have great conversation. Somehow, somehow, there's something to do here 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.119 on this short week because of you two start again, 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:49.200 Episode seventy nine. Oh I hate that voice. That's okay, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.400 I hate when you do that. All right, let's jump in. 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:53.400 Let's we got a lot to talk about. We're gonna 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.200 start with some talk on injuring one of the players, 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.320 wow uh, and some of the players that that may 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.640 or may not be able to play on Thursday. And 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.400 then we're gonna start our talk about the Chargers. Dave's 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.840 gonna give us a scoutter report, um Nick and Amber. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.520 Maybe they'll chime in, maybe they won't we'll see never no, 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.000 and then we'll we'll kind of dive into that. And 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:15.560 I do want to spend a little time at some 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.720 point today talking about where the Cowboys did. I know, 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.360 normally we take a big picture look, so I do 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.160 want to talk a little bit about where the Cowboys 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.880 are relative to the other teams in the NFC, what 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.200 their schedule looks like down the stretch. And I want 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.200 to ask the question to be honest with you. Maybe 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:30.959 this is a good time to do it. If I 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.440 ask you, guys the question right now, just your good 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.080 feel of whether you think the Cowboys can make the playoffs. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.880 What would you say? Let's start with you, Dave out 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.440 can can make it. I will make it. I'm sorry, 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.160 fill make the playoffs? Good feeling good? Feeling out out Amber, 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:50.440 what do you say? Um, I mean, there's always hope, 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:57.320 But I would say out Nick m I mean, certainly 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.320 it looks like they're I mean, they are out there, 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.519 and you look at the playoff picture. The only thing 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.680 that gives me hope is their schedule, right their schedule 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.160 coming down the stretch here, it looks like they definitely 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.760 have winnable games. I mean, they should win some of 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.160 these games. But um, well, let's just to win them all. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.680 That's problem, right, Let's just take the conversation we just 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.399 had off the air to the air. Then, I mean, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.520 there's all the reason in the world. And I pat 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.480 myself on the back. I said that last week you 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.680 lost this game. That's not ideal. You can still achieve 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.560 your goals. You basically, I think you have to win 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.000 the next three. You have to win the next three. 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.160 You probably have to win the next four. You gotta 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.840 win the next six. You don't now you can get 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:43.720 you can get in. I'm telling you ten and six 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.160 for the Cowboys is not gonna be good enough. We'll 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.880 see regardless. Okay, let's worry about that when we get there. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.680 I know you have to win these next three against 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.240 three teams that are all below five hundred by multiple games. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.240 You have to otherwise it's not even a conversation station 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.360 worth having. You probably need to beat the Raiders too, 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.200 and then obviously you need to beat to see how Yeah, 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.200 you probably do need to win them all. The problem 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.320 is no, the problem is just and I said, you know, 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.080 if they had if they had traded blows with Philly 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.680 and come up just short, I'd have an easier time 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.120 having this conversation. But they've looked like garbage for two 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.120 straight weeks. And I know, you know you'll you'll probably 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.520 get Tyrn Smith back in the lineup one of these days, 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.680 and Dan Bailey will be back. But the margin of 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.719 error is so slim. I mean, they lost games. They've 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.440 lost several games with Tyrann Smith in the lineup. Let's 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.080 not act and Zeke Elliott was there when Tyron Smith 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.480 was in the lineup two for that matter, So let's 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.640 not act like that's this cure all that's suddenly going 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.360 to turn them back into a powerhouse. That they lost. 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.200 They lost to the Eagles. They lost to the best 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.840 human football right now. They lost to them. So but 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.120 the point is is that here comes the Chargers at 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.120 four and six. You should win. I mean, there's no 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.440 doubt about. I don't care they're playing well, but you 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.760 should win the game on Thanksgiving. You should win. You definitely. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.279 Just I'm just do you think they're just hands down 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.680 a better team. I mean, they're one game at being better. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.560 I'm just saying, I mean, if you're gonna do anything, 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:10.400 but it needs to be now. So I'm just saying, 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.280 I guess you definitely could win. And if they don't win, 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.480 they'll play it'll be because they played poorly. But I'm 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.599 just saying they could win. It's not like they could 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.599 play this great game and all. If they play their 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.680 best game, they should win. That's what you're saying. Yes, 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.960 even their best game with what with their second stream 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.080 guys because of injuries. I'll still think if they play 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.720 their best game, they're same with the Redskins. Yeah, that's 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.560 the same thing with the Redskins coming up in a 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.240 week at the Giants. Same thing. Those two games are, 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.560 like they could easily lose, they could easily win because 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.080 of those division games, but there's no excuse of why 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.760 they shouldn't win those games. Yeah. I mean, here's the thing. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:45.680 When you look at this and I still I still 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.320 believe what I said last week. I believe losing that 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.720 game to Philadelphia put you in a situation where it's 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.520 it's not likely because what I think has to happen 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.480 at this point, I think the Cowboys have to win 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.680 out right now. You look at the NFC. You've got 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.960 the Falcons, you've got the PA, you've got the Rams, 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.480 and you've got the Saints, and you got the Vikings 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.760 and Eagles. Those are all the six playoff teams, right, 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.520 and then still above the Cowboys are the Lions, the Seahawks, 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.280 and the Packers. Now you can dismiss the Packers if 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:13.920 you like. The one thing I will say about the Packers' 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.480 schedule is they got a pretty light schedule. The rest 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:18.240 of the way. I think they got Cleveland and there somewhere. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.680 I think they got Cincinnati and there somewhere. Like they 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.680 play teams that even with them not being full strength, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.039 they can win some of those games. But he's but 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.520 here's the more important part. The Cowboys will beat the 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.120 Bucks in twenty fifty. The more important part is the 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.120 Detroit Lions, who are sitting above you, at one game 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.920 above you. They actually have a really easy schedule. They 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.400 only have one team left with a winning record of 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.040 their six that hurts, right, And then a lot of 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:45.880 the teams in NFC South, they're gonna play each other. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.120 What you need is you need one of those, maybe 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.880 two of those teams to completely fall off. What you 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.800 don't want is them to beat each other up and 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.320 you get a win here, win there, and they're dividing 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.640 the wins, but they all stay above you. All I'm 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.520 saying is, with all these teams that are sitting in 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.599 front of you with manageable schedules down the stretch, the 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.080 Cowboys really got to go undefeated in my opinion, because 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.800 right now they're not winning any tie breaks among these 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.880 teams when they when you look at their tie breaks, 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.080 get the tiebreaks and you lay it out like that. 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.320 I mean, Atlanta's Atlanta looks like they're putting together a 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.040 little role right Carolinas there. New Orleans is still looking great, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.320 which well, I think if you're a Cowboys fan, I 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.320 think you're rooting for the teams that are leading their 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.720 divisions to just win whin. I mean, you know you 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.600 want the Saints going fourteen and two and dropping, you know, 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.239 two losses on the Falcons and they played two games 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.040 like they still have two games. Play what I'm saying. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:35.480 And that's the thing. You don't want them to split 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.120 those games, right, You want one of them to take 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.280 control and beat the other one twice. You know, you're saying, 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.080 all those fans that were cheering for Seattle to lose 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:43.880 last night, they should have been cheering them for them 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.000 to win. Yes, you want it. You wanted them to win, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.720 pushing Atlanta down. In my I think that's I don't. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.480 I think that that game was a wash because somebody 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.400 in the wild card hunts getting a win either way. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.560 Wah oh wow, wow, that's I was like Bill wallsh 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.520 she died a long time ago. Yeah, okay, I got it. 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.400 I got it. But if you want to if you 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:05.840 want to look at it, if you want to look 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.320 at the optimistic part of this, I think the thing 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.000 to consider is of the next six games at the 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.920 Cowboys half, think about this. Four of those games, the 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.640 next four games, they don't play a game a team 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.360 with a winning record, and they have a better record 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.160 than all those teams. So you've got San Diego at 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.480 four and six, you got Washington at four and six, 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.880 you got New York the Giants at two and eight, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.400 and then you got Oakland at four and six. Then 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.720 you get Zeke back, right hopefully you got guys healthy 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.600 at that point, and you have to play the two 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.880 tough teams you have to play now. Mind you you'll 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.400 play Seattle. You'll get Zeke back, but you'll play Seattle, 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.520 and Seattle right now is without Cam Chancellor, who's out 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.559 for the season and Richard Sherman who's out for the season, 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.280 that's a big Those are big hits for them. Then 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.400 you play Philly to end the season. If Philly, as 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.400 we think, has wrapped up the division by the end, 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.959 they have nothing to play what, sorry, they'll have something 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.640 to play for. I would imagine if they have wrapped 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.040 up everything they can wrap up, they probably are not 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.640 going to play their their starters in the entire game, 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.959 right I just, I just don't think they're gonna have 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.800 everything wrapped up. What do you think they're not? What 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.800 do you think they'll still have to play for? They 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.400 still got to lose those two games. You gotta factor that. Well. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.640 I'm just they're they're two games in front of the 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.760 next best team in the in the league, right, So, 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.199 I mean, how many more wins they need to lock 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.120 up home field? Like two? Three or probably probably four more? 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.040 On I just or out of sense? Do they play 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.439 anybody and they play the Vikings? I don't think they do. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.920 Think are the Saints? They don't play the Vikings are 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.079 the Saint They don't play anything. They do play somebody 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.080 that's in that top six. I do remember seeing that, 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.040 But I'm just saying even if they're a game up 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.679 on someone, Let's say they're just one game up and 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.719 they don't have the tiebreaker, I mean, they're they might 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.720 have to play just so they could lock up the 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.920 baby seed. So it's not just a given just because 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.240 they're four games up in the division that they don't 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.400 have anything to play for them because they don't need to. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.840 They don't want to be going to the Superdome for 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.120 a playoff game, or you know, Minnesota. I guess it's 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.199 a tough place to play either way, though, I think 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.120 if you I guess the point I'm making is, if 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.839 you want to be optimistic about this, there's a reason. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.080 There's a reason to be optimistic. There's enough here that says, okay, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.960 if the Cowboys can get on a roll here, which, 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.960 like you said at the beginning, Dave, there's nothing that 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:16.920 you saw last week that suggests they can get on 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.880 this kind of role, right, but they do. It looks 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:21.960 like maybe they get some of these guys back this week. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.120 If they get some of them back, maybe that steadies 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.640 the ship a little bit. And playing teams that are 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.880 lesser than us, especially from the standpoint of their record, 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.760 during these next four weeks while you without Zeke, maybe 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.800 you could steady this thing and you can actually get 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.320 some wins and get on a roll, get your guy back, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.320 and here you go. You know, the nice thing is 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.520 it's a cliche and we roll our eyes at football players, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.480 but like, what other way is there to look at 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.360 it than just one game at a time. You know, 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.360 Anthony Hitchins last night in the locker room was like, 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.120 we gotta go one and oh before we can worry 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.559 about the rest of that. And it's a cliche for sure, 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.280 but you know why even why would I waste my 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.800 time amping myself up about whether they can go on 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:01.440 this run? Like they got to play a game in 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.439 two days, and if they lose it, then we can 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.080 really probably start talking about not yeah exactly, we can 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.959 worry about other stuff. So you know, play this one 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.439 game they look good and they win and Tyron Smith 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.960 comes back, and not if they look good, if they win, 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.920 you're right, if they win. If they win, if they 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.280 win and you Tyron Smith's back, he's feeling better, that's 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.600 another week for Sean Lee to work on his hamstring. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.600 Not gonna look good and lose, Huh, They're not gonna 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.640 look good. Yeah you don't. You don't look good and 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.720 lose to a four and sixth. Right, but but but 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.000 there's a way that you can look bad and still 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.000 get a win. And right now I'm not style pointing 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.360 anything to win but a win. I just my point 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.240 being we can worry about win in five in a 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.320 row if they can win this one. Like, let me 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.360 see what they look like on a short week with 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.160 all these injuries and all this stuff, and we'll revisit 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.080 that as we get ready for the Redskins. All right, 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.640 so let's talk about these injuries. Yesterday, the Cowboys have 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.120 a walk through. But during their walkthrough, it made the 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.040 injury report look great, like there was only one guy 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.200 that miss practice. Everybody else was at least limited. You 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.360 had Dan Bailey who was limited, maliek Collins, Anthony Hitchins 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.720 to Marcus Lawrence, Tyren Smith the only people that the 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:13.800 only person that was out with Sean Lee and then 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.920 you had full practice for Jeff Heath who missed last 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.960 week with a concussion and Jeff Swain. So although it 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.920 was just to walk through, is that significant that those 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.480 guys were at least limited, particularly guys like Anthony Hitchins 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.719 and Tyren Smith and Dan Bailey who those two have 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.000 been out and then Hitchins had gotten hurt in the game. 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.520 Well they what did they say on the email? It's 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:38.400 an approximation because it's a walk through, not a real practice. Yeah, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.959 it's significant, and you know, I don't I think by 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.040 now we're all honest with ourselves that you know we're 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.000 not always right. People listening to that know this. But 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.480 we were on here yesterday morning saying like, no way 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.440 Hitchins will be right. He looked horrible Sunday like he 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.480 did not look good. I mean, I think he's gonna 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.040 play or he's gonna try damn hard. He's they're not 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.199 ruling enough to do. Many football player are crazy. That's well. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.400 We saw him that that was that playoff game in 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.800 Green Bay where he was just like he was. It 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.240 looked like he was just it took everything yell in 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.160 him to get out there, but he got out there 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:14.200 to play. I mean, he said, the problem with his 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.480 with his groin is it's small. It's so small that 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.880 they all right, really the muscle. I was thinking, I 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.240 wasn't gonna go there, but go ahead, finish your It's 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.920 not it's barely a strain. That's basically it. Like, I mean, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.880 I'm not saying he's not in any pain, but it's 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:31.559 not and you're not dealing with the type of thing 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.280 that Tyrn and Dan Bailey are dealing with. So he's 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.240 gonna give it a go. Just a pain issues. What 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.560 you're saying, it sounds like, I mean, typically you don't 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.640 see guys go out there if there's risk of reaggravating it, 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.000 at least a significant risk. So it sounds like he's 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.800 gonna give it a go. Jerry Jones this morning ruled 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.520 out Sean Lee. That's not good, but he did say 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:55.480 that hitch, Bailey and um Tyron all have a chance 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.560 to play in this game. So are you at all 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.760 concerned or do you guys get concerned about the possibility 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.880 that a guy like Hitchens, because he is a tough guy, 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.920 will push himself to play but may not be as effective, 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.280 in which case it's probably better for him not to play. 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.720 Or do you think the coaches would shut that down. 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.319 I think you'll you'll see, you know, a couple of 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.560 plays here and there, and they'll see if he can't 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.040 if he's gonna hurt himself or hurt the team. You know, 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.560 they'll pull him out of there, and it's not I 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.960 don't think it's a situation where you're gonna be sitting 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.800 a linebacker or that should be playing, right. You know. 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.120 It's one thing, and I remember it happened into Bill 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.040 Parcels one time. This offensive tackle said he could go, 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.440 he could go go, and then pregame he said, I'm out. 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.440 My back hurts, and then you know, they didn't have 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.080 anybody else after that. So, yeah, that can hurt you, 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.200 But I don't think they're gonna be They're gonna say 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:46.960 you sure you can go, Hitch, and then we're gonna 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.800 sit March Lillard down and then you know, yeah, I 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.640 would play. I would bet everybody. Everybody's up, Lea's up 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.240 for this game from the linebacker standpoint, all right. M 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.480 One other thing I wanted to make get an update 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.680 on Bailey. It sounded like he actually did some warm 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.520 ups and before this last game, and how did that 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.240 go for him? Well, I talked to him a little 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.360 bit in a pregame and he said I mentioned it, 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.040 and he goes, you guys saw that. He's like, man, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.160 I forget people are still in the building. Like, you know, 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.720 like before the yeah, like everyone's up there watching, you know. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.360 He was like, oh, well, because it went pretty went 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.120 pretty good, and he's like, we'll see about this week. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:25.000 And I don't feel I mean, he said it went fine, 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:29.360 but I don't get the sense that if he needs 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.480 to be able to come back and also kick off, 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.320 I think kicking off is it would probably be harder 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.640 than just the field goals. And so it's gonna be 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.160 a situation where how does he kick off and how 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.560 does he feel doing that? Do we think that there's 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.760 a possibility he could be back and ready to kick 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.360 field goals and they keep nu Gin up as well 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.520 to kick off. I bet it's tough when you're inactive 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.760 to keep two kickers active. Yeah, that's true. I mean 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.080 it sounded good when I first thought the same thing, 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.080 and I was like, we're having a hard time just 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.720 getting to seven and this week might be even more tough. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.680 But if you get guys like Tyrn Smith back and 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.160 you get Hitchens playing, now you got now you're the 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:09.960 number of guys that have to be an active for 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.720 injuries decreases, So you got some tough decisions and make 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.720 Plus you want to protect yourself. If those guys can't 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.640 make it through the full game, right, I mean, Nugent 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:22.400 spend seven of nine field goals. I don't sit another 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.880 running back. It's fine, they did it last week. Just 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.840 sit Keith Smith or Rod Smith or no, you can't 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.080 say another one. Yeah, just go with Morris. But McFadden, 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.320 it's definitely gotta sit. Like no, he's got no goot, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:40.040 He's gotta sit. Definitely. It sucks. All right, let's ull 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:41.640 tell you what. Let's do this. Let's check our first break. 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.760 When we come back, Dave's gonna give us a scouting 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.000 report on the charger's offense. This is an interesting butch. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:48.440 We'll get into that. We come right back. This is 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.560 Dallas Cowboys dot com radio. 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