WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: They Got the Pieces 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.480 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:06.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:09.440 Cowboys. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:16.239 This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:21.720 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.079 Hecma Harrison, and Newie Scruggs. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.040 Yo, top of the Players Lounge. The final week of 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.280 the regular season, the final week the Cowboys is there? 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:42.760 They're done? After this week? Is they get ready to 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.519 face the Washington Common? Is Dallas week? Up there? 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:45.840 Dallas? 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:47.880 Are they gonna play? 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.440 Are they gonna play Daniels in the book because they clitched? 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:57.000 Heck Harrison is here, former Cowboys safety Barry Church, Newie Scrugs, 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.200 So yeah, man, woof, I'll find out what they're gonna do. 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.760 But what if the Cowboy's gonna do Jerry Jones on 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.200 his rail? Sure they would not commit about what what 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:10.800 happened with Trey Lance a quarterback. For me, that's frustrating. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.600 I don't know about you. That's frustrating to me because 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.560 there's nothing left to play for now. You've got one 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:22.160 game left and the bulk of what we've seen from 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:27.119 Trey Lance is the preseason. Yeah, that's true. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.000 When do we get to the point where we just 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.720 be real with ourselves and say that that was a mistake. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.319 I mean, whether it was a bargainingship for negotiations with 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.479 Dak or not, you traded a fourth form. They brought 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.959 him in, they got an opportunity to see what he had, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.160 and at the end of the conclusion of that was 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.640 this guy can't help us. Dak's been gone for a 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.560 very long time now, And if there was gonna be 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:55.080 a trey Lance opportunity, you would have thought, in between 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.160 Mike trying to save himself and everything else, if there 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.880 was anything there, you would. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.760 Have seen some trey Lance by now. I mean, am 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.880 I It just helped me, you know what I mean? 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:07.920 I don't. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.360 I don't want to be under the illusion that they're 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:12.480 saving him for something. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:19.000 Just disillusioned by the whole thing. I mean, I mean, 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:25.840 you think about it. Mingos had more opportunity, Mingo, that's facts, Mingo. 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.160 Mingo has been out there. Who he got playing? Who 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.839 had that in a losing season? I mean, you're seventy nine. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:38.000 Jeff Fisher will say that's seventy nine. You know on 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:42.440 that seventy nine got no chance, And and we don't know. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.560 This dude is still you know, it's like the unwrapped 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.800 Christmas get sitting there. We're gonna do something with it. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.639 I mean, I don't I don't understand in this day 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.440 and age of roster acquisition and trying to take peaks 0:02:55.440 --> 0:03:02.240 and looking at people to play the man. But Jerry 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.320 didn't want to say anything it, which is amazing. Didn't 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.280 want to get away a game play. That's wow to 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.000 me because you basically traded a fourth rounder, you know, 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.320 for a practice squad player. Because if we looking at 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:12.560 it and we keep it in a being like we 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.360 always do on this show, you know, the most reps 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.000 Trey Lance has been having is just being a scout team. 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:21.400 Quarterback throwing up preseason. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.560 And I'm with you on this newie. Like we we 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.800 saw what we got from Cooper Rush. We understand what 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.200 we got from Cooper Rush. Solid quarterback can be the 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.799 bus driver when he got a full you know, arsenal 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.680 people around him. He could be that good backup in 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.040 a pinch, right in an emergency. So we know what 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.080 we got from Cooper Rush. Why not just you got 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.400 nothing to lose, Just throw Rush out there, not Rush 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.360 Lance out there, and see what he can provide. You 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.480 may like what you see when he has, you know, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.200 an officive line and some guys out there, and he's 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.680 not playing with threes and fours like we saw in 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.560 the preseason. So to me, I'm with you, Newie, just 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.839 just throw the man. You have nothing zero zero to lose. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.840 Not gonna lose the locker room by putting him out there. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.640 This is the last game of the season, you know 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.320 what I'm saying. So just go out there and see 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.640 what he has and maybe, just maybe you get a 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.360 glimpse of Oh man, this dude can can do a 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.080 little something. Mike at the very least. Mike has talked 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.880 numerous times in his postgame press his press conference is 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.280 about he just needs to play. Yeah, I played a 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.080 lot of football, Okay, So if he hasn't played a 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.479 lot of football and you're on that seventy nine, boo, 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:31.479 not the job. Play him, get him getting some reps. Now. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.120 I don't want to sound blasphemous when I say this 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.719 or say that he's at this level at all, but 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.000 if it's one thing we've learned last year and even 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:47.120 something this year, Sometimes teams make mistakes and quarterbacks can 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:52.000 develop over time, Sam Donald, Baker Mayfield. I'm not saying 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.840 he's even gonna be that because Sam Donald was, you know, 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.320 he played with the Jets, and Baker Mayfield played when 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.960 he was in Cleveland. This young man hasn't played. I'm 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:05.040 just trying to understand, what are we doing? Yeah? Maybe 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.120 heck ma, that's the whole thing. What are we doing? 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.400 When you make a mistake, man, sometimes it's just better 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.280 to cut bait. And maybe it was a mistake. I mean, 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.640 just from a business perspective, I don't even look at 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.279 it as football. Look, I have to renegotiate a contract. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.120 So what do I do I bring in a guy's 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.919 that bargainship against this contract that I'm negotiating. It didn't 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:25.360 go the way that you thought it was going to 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.479 go because you ended up paying Dak. You change the 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.640 market at the quarterback position. You get him back here 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.920 and there's a battle between him and him and Cooper Rush, 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.960 and you see that Cooper Rush's leaps and bounds better 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.159 than him. You go through the season and just to 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.240 what you're saying, Barry, I think they've already had that. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:44.520 They've already given. 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.560 Him that opportunity out here they've already seen it, you know, 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.400 we've said it a practice and watched and seen the 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.560 reps that they've been giving him. They obviously don't feel 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.520 comfortable with going into a game with him at the 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.280 Helmets quarterback. And if they don't feel that, where and 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.239 if you made a mistake, okay, what I'm not okay 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.960 with is doubling down on a mistake, you know, training 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.240 another fourth round pick for a guy that that hadn't 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.440 come in and had any production for you. That's what 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.920 That's what my problem is, because you need that fourth 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.920 this year with all the with everything that there is. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.680 You saw, we all saw where this was going. This 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:24.200 was a tic. You saw this thing was going that 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.520 seventy nine bo Yeah, and you gave away for me. 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:28.760 You know you needed that form. 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.239 So why is he talking about due he needs to play? 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.719 What's to disconnect that? Because he's like, look, man, this 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.160 man just needs some reps. So obviously the head coach 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.640 is like, look I want to get him out there. Well, 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.279 the head coach is trying to win some games. That's true, okay, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.120 trying to win games. And if whether or not he 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.960 was coaching for Jerry coaching to go coach somewhere else 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:53.600 that that's fine. Now we're at the end. We know 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:59.480 he's over. 0:06:59.680 --> 0:06:59.880 Time. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:01.560 You got to go home. But you gotta get. 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.640 Seasons, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, believe it. So, 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.120 so put the boy out there a little. But it 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.480 was forty one and seven. Why wasn't he playing major 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:15.280 minutes something? Okay, you out here watching Tanner from the 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.800 other team. Tanner out here tagging people. Yet he was 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:25.640 twenty five, dotted him up three or four. Let's looking like, hey, Rod, 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.559 back in the day, he did look like previntage Romo. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:34.320 He did. He got people like me, accurate bat shoulders 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.640 and all, oh my god, like gosh making stop their 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:38.960 string should. 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:41.120 Yeah. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.800 So, so why isn't Trey playing. We're gonna watch Cooper 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:49.080 come out here and do that. Frustrated frustrating because there's 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.680 how much frustrating here and all this abou rico down. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.920 Man, I thought I was joking when y'all said that. 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.120 I said, back home, I mean, you know, capit. Do 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:01.760 we read the cowboy Twitter d in the name all 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.520 of the one thousand yards, the first cowboy and drafted 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:10.000 free agent to get that, God, thank you. Then you 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:10.600 go fumble. 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.960 Yeah, some cookies, man, And I don't. 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.480 Want to sound too disrespectful because I'm part of the 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.800 undrafted crew as well, and you know his accomplishments coming 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.200 from undrafted all that, because I get all that. But 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.240 when we look at the tape, the eye in the 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:30.520 sky doesn't lie. No, we've all seen it. And given 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.959 the opportunities that he's had, he's made the most of 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.079 his opportunities. But let's not fool ourselves here, man, we 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.760 goo dawdle it. With all due respect, is not a 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:44.240 special running back. He's not a game changer. He's not 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.960 a guy that when you go into those pregame meetings 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.679 and you know, Monday Tuesday looking at fielm He's not 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.560 a guy that the coaches are circling saying, hey man, 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.440 we got to know where number twenty three. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:55.320 Is at all times. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.959 He's just not that guy. He's a good maybe chaine 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.839 of pace or if your man guys needs a breather, 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.640 he can go in there and keep the ship afloat, 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.959 but he's not a difference maker when it comes to 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:10.480 the offensive side of the football. 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.080 And it's to me, I hate saying this because it's 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.800 one of one of your sayings and he's. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:21.679 A JAG's just a god at the running back position, 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.000 and he's had a heck of a year for where 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.240 he was where he was drafting orders. I get all that, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.520 but when you're looking at tape, you know, guys ain't 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:30.440 sitting there saying. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.000 Man, we don't stop reco it's a rap. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.760 Oh my goodness. He's just not what you need. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.160 Offensively, and you need more pop out of the backfield. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.800 So when y'all, you know, got that question to chat, 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:44.599 I'm like, oh, man, he's a free agents and you 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.440 know I'm Steven and coming. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.280 Let him go be free, Let's see what Let's see 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.320 what the market is for him. But barbaris, he's had 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.760 four games of one hundred yards and that's what you're 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.559 talking about. I think when you put your turn on 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.199 the tape and you look this, I mean, I know, 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.359 from the beginning of the season you can give excuses 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.199 for those rookies on the offensive line and maybe not 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.360 the balance that you wanted offensively, but he gave you. 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.480 I think in watching Rico, you're like, wait a minute, man. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.559 You know I'm watching other running backs and I know 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.719 the position. Well, you're just not that guy that I 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.400 think is intimidating as you were talking about to other 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.520 teams that hey, we got to scheme up for this 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.640 dude to come in this game because the Cowboys got 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.160 a running back back and bust for one hundred and 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:27.160 fifty hundred and seventy. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.920 Change the game, and that's what we were needing. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.679 I think when you let Tony Pollard go, it's been 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:37.160 this thought process over the running back room or in 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.839 general all over the NFL that you could plug and 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.240 play anybody, throw him in there, right, And I think 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.880 that philosophy came that that went bad fast, That did 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.640 not age well, right, because now you're seeing guys like Saquon. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.559 Now you're seeing guys like dere Herry, you're seeing Jacobs, 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.719 You're seeing all these teams that have short up their 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.760 running back room, and oh, by the way, they are 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:06.280 headed into the playoffs with you know what I'm saying, 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.040 you have something to lean on when you watch a 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.000 when you watch a Detroit. Last night, I'm watching Detroit 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.800 and I'm like, man, damn, they lost their other guy. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.680 But Gibbs, I got a guy, right, They got another 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.600 guy right behind him. And we're in a situation right now. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.120 I mean even if you think about the thousand yards 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.439 that he's gone for. Heck, if we lost him, think 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.040 about where the season would have gone. And I do 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.960 believe he was inactive for one game this season. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.880 Correct. I want to say so yeah, was brought up. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.200 I want to say absolutely, so. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:39.520 Yeah, yeah, they. 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:50.080 Cut his dreads, Dreds came back. So it's been one 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:51.120 of those kind of years, bro. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.719 So it's been one of those. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.000 Now I'm gonna throw this out now, I say this, 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.439 I'm gonna throw this out here. That's right, I'm just 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:07.240 gonna throw this out here in the fairness world, Okay, 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:13.640 fair fairness. Rico Dalal is tied for thirteenth and rushing 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:20.720 with Najie Harris Pittsburgh, former Pittsburgh Steeler, a former first 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.680 round pick for Steelers one thousand and seven yards. They 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:31.200 both have at twelve with one thousand and seventeen yards 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:37.160 is ten more yards Tony Pollard sound by right, both 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.559 have played fifteen games, and ahead of them all right 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.680 now is Bucky Irving one thousand and thirty three yards 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.920 and Bucky, of course is the guy that they could 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:54.240 have taken in the fourth round but they did not. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.680 Bucky Irving with seven touchdowns, Tony Pollard with five touchdowns, 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.960 Rico Dada with one touchdown, Naji Harris with five touchdowns. 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:07.040 And the numbers that Rico have are more than Joe Mixon, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:15.839 more than Jared Cook, more than Alvin Kamara. So just 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.319 just throwing more than Breese Hall of the Jets. So 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.959 just throwing it out there, more than Brian Robinson of 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.480 Washington who's only playing I would say thirteen games, Yes, 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.480 played thirteen, but I would still take every single one 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:32.559 of those backs, especially single one of those backs. I 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.880 would take over a young Rico Daddle. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.760 It's funny, man, you say Najia Harris because I'm watching 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.839 still a football. He's another one of those guys that's 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.440 just what what do you I mean? Come on, man, 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.719 bus yo, that's the whole go. 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.800 Yeah. Yeah. He just does a lot of dancing behind 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.000 the you know, it's. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.640 A lot of timid, a lot of d dancing back 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.040 then thirty. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.440 So that's like when I see that drives me crazy 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.280 when I watch a running back do that and and 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.200 Le'Veon Bell, God bless him wherever he is right now 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.720 getting knocked out some yeah. Right, But he was one 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.800 of those running backs that really used to frustrate me 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.000 the way like they call, Oh, he's such a patient 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.240 run I'm like, no, he's timmy tiptoeing. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.760 You know, he's being timmy. He's not in the hole. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.360 And you know, to finally see at this point in 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.720 the season that part of Rico's games, somebody got put 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:26.960 the bug in his ear and said, man, you gotta 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.440 stop doing that a running back coach. For you've been 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.560 pointing that out a lot, you know, and you've been 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:39.520 talking about that, and I think, look, regardless my grandmother's quote, 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:47.200 just can't make chickens out of chicken salad. No matter 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:51.200 how good of a coach you are, sometimes sometimes it 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:52.520 comes down to the talent that. 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:53.400 You have in the room. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:58.440 I don't think they've improved the position since Skip Pete 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.240 left there, And you go look at Tempa Bay and 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.080 what Tampa Bay has done since Skip Pete got there 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.920 in that running back room. Coaching matters that room overall. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:12.120 Jerry Jones missed on as the general manager. Bringing Ezekiel 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:16.240 Elliott back was a was a mistake. Even with the 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.680 rest of his camp. We westerned for the rest of 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.920 the year for the final push. No, no, that was bad. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.200 The Dalvin Cook thing that was bad, the Hunter Lipkey 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:29.800 thoughts I had that was bad. The whole room just underwhelming. 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.480 And knowing that, Derrick Henry was like, had me pick me, 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.760 pick me, and you said no, you gave up your fourth, 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.720 which could have been Bucky Irvy, who's got a bright 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:47.320 future in Tampa Bay. This was this room was a miss, 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:53.320 big time, big time miss. And as much as they 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.320 wanted to invest in Dak Prescott, you look at Dak 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.240 Prescott's best year, you look at Tony Romo's best year 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.880 happened when he had a run game, a good god 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.080 a run game and a good offensive line, and you 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.560 don't have that, and they gotta fix that, man, they 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.080 have to fix that. I'm not for taking Ashton Genty 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.200 in the first round from Boise State. I'm just not 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.920 good running back. But I don't think he's a Brahma bull. 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:19.920 When I think if you just will take somebody in 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:21.720 the first round, I need it. I need the Ezekiel 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.360 Elliott image. I need a bull, need Brahma bull. Three 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.960 down guy. Don't need nobody else with boom. It's him, 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.400 he him. That's not what what Ashton gent is not 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.760 not at his best in my opinion, And you talk people, 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.000 I talk, and then what what skip? Pet was so 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:37.840 ahead of the curve in this when you when you 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.080 talk about coaching, he when we used to sit down 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:41.800 and talk, you know, when I was playing, he used 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.960 to always tell me, you got your lead dog, but 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.800 you always gotta have that kind of mixture of backs. 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.720 And when you look at you know, teams this year 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:53.960 outside of you know Sequon, who even has a great 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.720 you know backup in Kenneth game. Well you look at 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.920 all these you know, big time rant teams. They always 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.440 got the one two comma. You know, Detroit got the 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.600 Sonic and Knuckles. 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:03.720 You know what I mean. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.800 Even in Derrick Henry Justice Hill is a good change 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.399 of pace out there. Tampa Bay were skipped pizza. Now, man, 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.480 they got trio of backs out there that can all 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.360 give you a thousand yards and that keeps. 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.159 That that run game fresh. So I mean, it's just 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.280 wild that he was, you know, let go here because 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:20.680 he was so ahead of the curve. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:22.600 And you think about every running back that was underneath 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.760 him always had kind of a career year, whether it 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.399 was out of the backfield, receiving, running the combo to 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.200 two man, he was such a hell of a coach 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:31.760 and he was so ahead of his curve, man that 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.600 the NFL is a copycat league. And at some point 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.960 when everybody started saying, well, you know, you don't need 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:38.920 a running back, and you're starting to see Kansas City 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.480 win with guys you know, maybe. 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.280 But what happens when you get to the playoffs. 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