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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number forty four. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the latest edition of The Break Life from SWBC
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Speaker 1: today going to focus on the Los Angeles Rams their
Speaker 1: offense versus the Cowboys defense. Who'll spend quite a bit
Speaker 1: of time there. Brian's got a game for us in
Speaker 1: the third segments around too, lots of fun. Maybe we
Speaker 1: get to it today. We thought we'd get it to
Speaker 1: it yesterday, but these guys talk too much, so we'd
Speaker 1: wanted to argue, so we didn't get to it. But uh,
Speaker 1: but let's start first. Let's get some catchups on on
Speaker 1: some injuries and some stuff that Mike McCarthy had to
Speaker 1: talk about let's let's start with Dak Prescott. What's he
Speaker 1: going to be doing this week? What's wrong? Nothing? I
Speaker 1: was gonna start with the moan Clark, but go you
Speaker 1: know what, I guess you should start with the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I probably need to, but I will say this, of
Speaker 1: all the names I got on this list, that's the
Speaker 1: one that has a star by it. Because the Moan Clark,
Speaker 1: I think we all have been waiting to see him
Speaker 1: get out there. So, but let's start with Dak. Give
Speaker 1: me an update on dec. What are we? What are
Speaker 1: we looking at there? All right, Adam, there's just some
Speaker 1: something flying around trying to kill it. I don't like
Speaker 1: things flying around me, smashing guys. Okay, silence, all right,
Speaker 1: give me an update on dec. Where are we? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really know. I'll be honest with them.
Speaker 1: Why don't you tell us? Don't know what the coach said? Yeah,
Speaker 1: y'all get in to see now. Now he's a boss,
Speaker 1: so he actually has to go to meetings. Now. You
Speaker 1: can't always just go to press conference with Dak. Again,
Speaker 1: it was always going to be that thing's not gonna
Speaker 1: get near me now it's dead. I think Ambar like
Speaker 1: wounded it to its flying in circles up. The thing
Speaker 1: with Dak was always going to be about the healing
Speaker 1: of the wound, the rotation in the joint or the thumb,
Speaker 1: and then the grip strength. And from what I've heard,
Speaker 1: they've had a little bit of swelling. Dak is always
Speaker 1: going to work hard at this. Britt Brown's gonna work
Speaker 1: hard at These guys are going to try and push
Speaker 1: and push and push. And I'm not saying it, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's the it's that's the reason. It's like they
Speaker 1: push so hard and then all of a sudden some
Speaker 1: swelling reappears and things like that, and then it turns
Speaker 1: into you can't grip the ball correctly. And that's where
Speaker 1: this thing's at right now. If they can get the
Speaker 1: grip strength to be where it needs to be for
Speaker 1: him to hold the ball and be able to throw it,
Speaker 1: then he'll be out there practicing. And but you know,
Speaker 1: the more that you watched last week, they were talking about, well,
Speaker 1: they're gonna shoot for the RAMS game, shoot for the
Speaker 1: Rams game, and I just was like watching him, you know,
Speaker 1: you never heard about him in practice. Today he threw this,
Speaker 1: and or he did this, or he did that. You
Speaker 1: never heard that. It was. It was just him kind
Speaker 1: of watching things, you know, helping, being in support, and
Speaker 1: so you're like thinking, well, and I asked after the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, I said, where are we out with
Speaker 1: the quarterback? And I got the definite, Hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: try and shoot this thing for Philadelphia. We're gonna try.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try and see if it works. So I know,
Speaker 1: on my station on one oh five three, the fan,
Speaker 1: I you know, I was like adamant about that. I
Speaker 1: was adamant about it on the postgame show. That didn't
Speaker 1: think he was gonna play. And so until he gets
Speaker 1: that grip strength, then once that happens, then we can
Speaker 1: start the clock on what game he could be back for.
Speaker 1: All right, he seemed to McCarthy seemed to be getting
Speaker 1: a little annoyed with all the questions being asked to
Speaker 1: him about like the specifics of what are the things
Speaker 1: specifically that Doc is doing as far as his rehab,
Speaker 1: and he just it was pretty funny, but anyways, he
Speaker 1: doesn't know all the details, doesn't want to get into it.
Speaker 1: He's basically at a good spot the doctor visit went well,
Speaker 1: the stitching and everything. The healing has been looking very good.
Speaker 1: Obviously stitch stitches are out already, but he just very clear.
Speaker 1: He's just he's good on his rehab and what he
Speaker 1: needs to be. Yeah, and I don't you know, he
Speaker 1: says he doesn't know all the details or whatever, like
Speaker 1: there's no way that's right there, Like there's no way
Speaker 1: as a head coach that. I mean, it's okay not
Speaker 1: to say the details to the media because he's very
Speaker 1: annoyed by you can tell every week he's like he's
Speaker 1: always throwing shots how every everybody's reporting different plays and stuff.
Speaker 1: He hates how it's covered. You know, he hates every
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning on the fan when Jerry gets there, doctor
Speaker 1: Jerry goes and says that kind of stuff. He's not
Speaker 1: used to that. But you're not a coordinator, you're a
Speaker 1: walk around coach. You know the details of your quarterbacks
Speaker 1: if you don't. Yeah, But I think I think the
Speaker 1: difference is And this is where the Todd was the
Speaker 1: one that asked the question. Todd Archer friend of the show,
Speaker 1: he was, he was actually the question he asked. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if McCarthy didn't take it right or
Speaker 1: if Todd was actually asking this, but the way it
Speaker 1: kind of came off was literally, what are the exercises
Speaker 1: and rehab regimen that he's doing to repair it? And
Speaker 1: McCarthy's kind of like, I don't really know all the
Speaker 1: different exercise Well, you know, that's what he was more
Speaker 1: getting to, I think, And that's what I think he
Speaker 1: was a little bit annoyed by. Was like, do you
Speaker 1: guys want me to tell you he's doing, you know,
Speaker 1: thumb wrestling and I don't know what you know? So
Speaker 1: I think that was more of what it was, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was what Todd was asking.
Speaker 1: I think that's the way he took it in my
Speaker 1: and he's not the only one. Belichick the other day
Speaker 1: did that thing with mac Jones and he said, like
Speaker 1: he said day to day like twelve times and said,
Speaker 1: what am I a doctor? I'm like, yeah, you probably
Speaker 1: well in this role as a professional NFL coach, yeah,
Speaker 1: you kind of have to be well. And then the
Speaker 1: question was asking to follow up though, well, okay, the
Speaker 1: people that are doctors, what are they telling you right?
Speaker 1: You know, and he's like, you know, it's stated, we'll
Speaker 1: see That's the thing about it too, is I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you both have shed light on
Speaker 1: it the right way and and I to me, it's
Speaker 1: I think Mike really has He's never had to do this,
Speaker 1: He's never had to deal and he's what you know,
Speaker 1: the season now, the fourth season here with the team,
Speaker 1: third third season with the team, trying to think now
Speaker 1: where we're yeah, you're three, okay, so you're three Okay.
Speaker 1: He's never in Green Bay. Trust me, I spent five
Speaker 1: years of my life up there. They don't have an owner,
Speaker 1: you know, they don't have somebody, they don't have a
Speaker 1: general manager. Ted Thompson was not coming out and Teddy
Speaker 1: would tell you far less than what Mike McCarthy would
Speaker 1: even tell the Green Bay media. So Mike is I
Speaker 1: think there's a level of frustration where Mike is like,
Speaker 1: I have to stand up here and answer these questions
Speaker 1: because what's happened, is it? You look at the timeline
Speaker 1: for DAK returning, it's kind of like the stock market.
Speaker 1: It's way up, it's way down, it's way up, it's
Speaker 1: way down, it's way up. No, it's flat now and
Speaker 1: now it's up again. Now it's I mean he's having
Speaker 1: that message. He's having to deal with the expectations of
Speaker 1: the general manager, you know, and what the general manager
Speaker 1: is selling the the hey, he's gonna be back. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be back, and Mike's never had to deal with that,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's when you work for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That's the voice you have to as a coach. You
Speaker 1: have to know that you're going to get questions because
Speaker 1: the general manager talks twice on our station and we
Speaker 1: we're glad to have him. And he talks immediately after
Speaker 1: a game, so you have three opportunities in a week
Speaker 1: to try and pin Jerry on what's going to happen here.
Speaker 1: And you know, so I think that's the thing that
Speaker 1: he might be getting really frustrated about. Yeah, you're right
Speaker 1: after a game when dad got hurt against the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Gary comes right out and talks and McCarthy hasn't even
Speaker 1: hit the hit the podium yet, and what he is
Speaker 1: saying is not the same, it's not it's not the
Speaker 1: same thing. He's not as the definitive about him being
Speaker 1: out for a while. And you know, all this started
Speaker 1: when they didn't put him on ir too, and they
Speaker 1: didn't put him on IR. It's like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: could the same with Gallup. They didn't put him on
Speaker 1: IR because he did come back in the fourth game.
Speaker 1: Point and now you know, but they didn't put Dak
Speaker 1: on IR. And there's different reasons for that. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't about just playing. It was about being around the team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: point right. Coaches know exactly what's going on with they know,
Speaker 1: but they definitely know. And I again, like I said,
Speaker 1: I don't know that he knows a detail like literally
Speaker 1: today he's gonna do this exercise and this exercise and
Speaker 1: this exercise. But he's certainly you're right, he knows the
Speaker 1: prognosis of his quarterback and what's going on with his quarterback.
Speaker 1: He may not always want to say that, and in
Speaker 1: some instances he may not have to if he were
Speaker 1: on another team. Sure, and this team, he's got to
Speaker 1: always be aware of what did the owners say, because
Speaker 1: that's an equally more powerful I should say not equally powerful,
Speaker 1: more powerful voice in your own building who talks regularly.
Speaker 1: You got to be aware of it. I wish I
Speaker 1: wish Mike would have come out today and said, well,
Speaker 1: he's gonna do the flaming procedure, right, and then they're
Speaker 1: gonna money, and then they're gonna go into Jones rehabilitation system,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna I mean, it had been funny
Speaker 1: if he had just listed all all these terms that
Speaker 1: everyone's exactly what he's got. He's got gamekeeper thumb, and
Speaker 1: now and they're dealing with it in a what you know,
Speaker 1: and everyone's in the press. That's gamekeeper thumb. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: actually a real gamekeeper thumb is a real injury. And
Speaker 1: by the way, real quick, it's it's a scouting term.
Speaker 1: It's a scouting injury because back in the day, people
Speaker 1: used to when they collect birds, though, and you and
Speaker 1: you reach down to get the bird, your thumb would
Speaker 1: jam into the ground and so it was like you
Speaker 1: would break your thumb or you would have an injury.
Speaker 1: So they called it gamekeeper game being birds and you're
Speaker 1: gathering birds and these people would slam their thumbs into
Speaker 1: the ground and suffer injury. Yeah, and we now use
Speaker 1: it as a scouting term. There is also one called
Speaker 1: xbox itis where and I think Derek has that Derek
Speaker 1: has in your thumb, like messed up. It's gone down
Speaker 1: quite a big because I don't play as much as
Speaker 1: I used to. But it used to be like a
Speaker 1: huge yeah, even a blister, it was just like it
Speaker 1: was a callous that came from the actual bone that
Speaker 1: was just kind of this big and I was that
Speaker 1: was I used to play a lot of tank. That's
Speaker 1: why I stopped playing the guitar. I was gonna, oh yeah, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is painful, and I quite Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's jump back in. Let's let's get an update.
Speaker 1: Actually talk about Deman Clark. Where are we with Damon Clark?
Speaker 1: He's back, Actually he's never never was never here, So
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's back because he's never he's
Speaker 1: been here. He's been here. Yeah, neck and back and um,
Speaker 1: he's you know fifth round pick that they that they
Speaker 1: drafted with hopes that he could you know, be further along.
Speaker 1: And I think that was one of the issues, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, when when he got hurt right after the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. The doctors and trainers have different opinions on
Speaker 1: these guys when they could come back. And so I
Speaker 1: think there's some teams that didn't want to draft the
Speaker 1: board off the board, and they got him in the
Speaker 1: fifth round. And I don't think anyone really thought it
Speaker 1: would be this early in the season that he would
Speaker 1: be starting to practice. Yeah, that's the thing about it,
Speaker 1: coming at it when you that's my alma mater. So
Speaker 1: I watched him play that. The Cowboys stole one here
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys. The Cowboys have a great history of
Speaker 1: taking guys that are injured and saying, Okay, we'll be
Speaker 1: patient because they do trust Jim Mayer, they do trust
Speaker 1: Britt Brown. This kid right here, you talk about a
Speaker 1: guy that, I mean the last two years LSU struggled
Speaker 1: to be five hundred after a national championship team. He
Speaker 1: never quit, he never wavered, He played hard. He's a
Speaker 1: big guy. You you watch stand next him physically as
Speaker 1: stand next to him, and you're going, man, this guy
Speaker 1: he's like that Micah Parsons kind of big body guys
Speaker 1: McLain kind of big yes, yes, yes, And you know
Speaker 1: bru Cox is a smaller more cover. This guy can cover,
Speaker 1: This guy can rush, this guy can tackle, this guy
Speaker 1: takes on runs. This guy if he doesn't, I'm just
Speaker 1: tell you if he if he's not well, real quick,
Speaker 1: if he's not injured or they the Cowboys were the
Speaker 1: ones that found the problem with his back neck area.
Speaker 1: They if he doesn't, he's a maybe a late one,
Speaker 1: early two draft pick. He's he was on a lot
Speaker 1: of boards. I never moved him off the board because
Speaker 1: I'm thinking somebody's gonna take I had him in the
Speaker 1: second round, I know, on my board, and when he
Speaker 1: was taken by the Cowboys, I'm like, here they go.
Speaker 1: They stole one. They did their homework on a guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he didn't mess around. That's what he doesn't do. You know.
Speaker 1: Jody Camillis used to say on my favorite coaches of
Speaker 1: all time used to call people some jf as, some
Speaker 1: Johnny f around. Yeah, just sitting over there. He didn't
Speaker 1: do that. This guy is business approach. He I mean,
Speaker 1: he's come in from day one, and I think that's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why he's already ready to play
Speaker 1: is because he or not ready to play. He's ready
Speaker 1: to practice. We'll see what happens he starts practicing. But
Speaker 1: like his commitment to rehab and getting better, it has
Speaker 1: been here from day one. He's not one that's You're
Speaker 1: not going to see a lot of our social media
Speaker 1: interviews and fun little what's your favorite color? I don't
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be him. He was here from the
Speaker 1: very first mini camp. You remember when we were standing
Speaker 1: there going through the drills as much as he could,
Speaker 1: I mean, taking the steps and all that. He has
Speaker 1: been mental reps from the day from day one, and like,
Speaker 1: he's here to play and if he can contribute at all,
Speaker 1: this could be, like you said, it could be a steal. Yeah. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's that gets to be really excited because you talk
Speaker 1: about the strength of this defense and I think that
Speaker 1: maybe they are just kind of one or two tweaks
Speaker 1: I don't even want to say players, but tweaks away
Speaker 1: from really kind of taking that step to where we're
Speaker 1: talking about a really, really extremely dominant defense. And he
Speaker 1: might be that piece, right, he might be that guy linebacker,
Speaker 1: which linebackers the position we talked about a little earlier
Speaker 1: this week that sometimes you get like you have a
Speaker 1: little bit better play there. This guy wants to be
Speaker 1: in every tackle. That's when you watched him play at
Speaker 1: Lshoe He I mean, he played under defense that was
Speaker 1: struggling and he but every single play you're like, that's him.
Speaker 1: That's him again. I remember last year and Dave was
Speaker 1: you know, we're talking about arkantas LSU game and I
Speaker 1: was like, he goes like, you guys are gonna win,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't. I don't know. He's like,
Speaker 1: we're not very good this year. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: who's number eighteen? Because I've seen him play and number
Speaker 1: eighteen is a famous number. Yeah, yeah, and he got
Speaker 1: the number, but like, you know, we don't have any players.
Speaker 1: It looks like that, and um, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: that's just how good he is. He just he just
Speaker 1: pops out and he's a linebacker. He's not just I
Speaker 1: mean looks like a defensive end though. Yeah he is
Speaker 1: he an off the ball guy? Or is he a
Speaker 1: play off the ball you could do? You could, you
Speaker 1: could play this guy anywhere. He's got that kind of
Speaker 1: I'm not over selling this because he's an LSU guy.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you when you watch him play, he rushes,
Speaker 1: he attacks, he spies. I mean, they're they're Nick's talking
Speaker 1: about it that. I'll tell you what. This guy sounds
Speaker 1: bigger though many I'm kind of like, no, no telling me,
Speaker 1: I got another telling you this guy. This guy legitimately,
Speaker 1: you know, when you start to talk about the best
Speaker 1: linebackers in the country. This was one of them. This
Speaker 1: guy was one of them, and people took him off
Speaker 1: the board because they were scared of his back and
Speaker 1: that situation. And you know, I'm like when the cowboys
Speaker 1: took him, I just remember sitting here in this in
Speaker 1: this exact spot and thinking, they stole another one. They
Speaker 1: stole a guy that people are just going to sleep
Speaker 1: on and because of an injury, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: good for them. I got him practice, But I promise you,
Speaker 1: and he gets the opportunity to play, you'll find out
Speaker 1: who that cat is, all right, real quick, we do
Speaker 1: need to get one more name, Jake McQuaid. We find
Speaker 1: out yesterday as an injury is gone for the time.
Speaker 1: How did you guys not give me a look as
Speaker 1: a workout on the steep snapping thing? Oh you should have.
Speaker 1: I actually thought that was funny. You were talking about
Speaker 1: her on one or five out three the fantas day
Speaker 1: and I was like, that actually have been a great bid.
Speaker 1: If we could have run, Brian, I would have. I
Speaker 1: would with a long gray man Yeah running out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm here, guys. I've weren't a GoPro like
Speaker 1: a chess go pro you know, and done the workouts
Speaker 1: like what Jeli Manning did. I would have done the
Speaker 1: same thing. Brian Anger said no to that. I know
Speaker 1: they appreciated how you guys fell your names. He heard
Speaker 1: about the story where you broke the holder's thumb finger finger.
Speaker 1: To this day, my buddy Todd Tomlinson, who's in UH
Speaker 1: is in South Carolina. He's got a hook. I go,
Speaker 1: if you're watching, he's got his little pinky as a hook.
Speaker 1: And I snapped a ball load to him in the
Speaker 1: Kentucky game and it smashed his finger against the kicking
Speaker 1: block out and he didn't want to get it fixed.
Speaker 1: He just kept So this day he's got a little
Speaker 1: bit of hook because of me with your name on. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's what. Yeah, I would have I would have
Speaker 1: warned the go pro gone out there kind of. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have, you know, I just go out there, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm ready. You know we're in the grays, gone out
Speaker 1: there trying to cover seem like chu so fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would have been. That would have been good. Um
Speaker 1: they got I know that there's two guys. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the names have been out yet, and I
Speaker 1: don't even have studied Overton I think is one of them.
Speaker 1: They have two guys are gonna put in the practice squad.
Speaker 1: Basically they're gonna call them up on a game day elevator.
Speaker 1: So they had to get Will Greer on the team.
Speaker 1: So mcqui will go to Ir Greer. Greer, you only
Speaker 1: get three call ups for the practice squad, so he's
Speaker 1: been this would be he's already had three. There's no
Speaker 1: more elevations on game day for him, so you know
Speaker 1: they're trying to get He'll be on the team for
Speaker 1: however long until Dak comes back, and then I guess
Speaker 1: they can move him back down. So at that point
Speaker 1: they got to cut him to be able to get
Speaker 1: him back to the practice squad. Correct, Yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's now a fifty one or fifty three Tucker Addington
Speaker 1: and Matt Overton or the two snappers that are now
Speaker 1: on your practice squad. Yeah, and you know, and we've
Speaker 1: seen you know, backup snappers. And I was asked on
Speaker 1: the on the radio this morning, there's gonna be a problem,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I was here in two thousand and
Speaker 1: one and and so I know that Congo was no,
Speaker 1: not him, It was we brought in Mike Solwald and
Speaker 1: Randy Chevrier. One guy was driving a truck and it
Speaker 1: was I couldn't remember chev He was about to he
Speaker 1: was about to take a big truckload to California. But
Speaker 1: like man, I mean, it was almost like the movie
Speaker 1: Major League when he was like, well, I got another
Speaker 1: guy on the line with White Walls, I mean, let
Speaker 1: me go manage the team. And it was like that.
Speaker 1: And the snaps, I mean, I mean he basically had
Speaker 1: a bad snap in a game against Atlanta and broke
Speaker 1: the kicker's foot because he tried to pick it up.
Speaker 1: And you know, so it was it was bad. It
Speaker 1: can it can it can go bad. Well, so they're
Speaker 1: playing the Falcons, I believe it's just like two thousand
Speaker 1: and one, and it was it Maybe wun't Chevy, it
Speaker 1: was Soul Walled had a terrible I mean, this is
Speaker 1: like to win the game or late in the game
Speaker 1: and there's like a fifty yard kick snap goes over
Speaker 1: his head. The kicker, who's like a also he was
Speaker 1: a teacher before the Cowboys called him to be a
Speaker 1: he goes, he goes to pick up the ball, he
Speaker 1: gets tackled, it breaks his foot. He's out, so that
Speaker 1: they replaced the snapper like that was your last nap.
Speaker 1: The kicker he had to get a new kicker. Shockingly,
Speaker 1: this was not a good football season for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: What are you again gonna be like, No, no, he's
Speaker 1: not wrong, he is not wrong. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think every day Saints, I go, this guy knows,
Speaker 1: this guy knows what's going on here today it was
Speaker 1: and it was that was your last snap? It was
Speaker 1: you know, and and the same thing happened in two
Speaker 1: thousand and five. I mean, I think the LP story
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite stories. It is time. I
Speaker 1: love it. And he just just because he was in
Speaker 1: California and we're there, I don't know, you might need
Speaker 1: him to come back. I'm about to say, like can
Speaker 1: we make like what are we doing? Let me just
Speaker 1: tell you that. Let's call him side. We got cookie
Speaker 1: and he'll yeah, yeah, he's eating a cookie. There's no
Speaker 1: doubt he's eating a cookie or pushing somebody and keep moving. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right through. But I can tell you what's the radio?
Speaker 1: This is, this is what this is what would happen? LP?
Speaker 1: LP drives into the parking lot. He's about to walk
Speaker 1: in and he's in the security guards there and he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, I'm here. I'm about to gonna fill in
Speaker 1: here for a few games. And Jason Witten standing at
Speaker 1: the door as a new security guard. He's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're not You're not doing that. No, thank you. Now,
Speaker 1: I got a big mural up here. You don't. Because
Speaker 1: Jason Witten has the Cowboys record for two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty five career games. H lp Letticer has two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty three. Yeah, you think Witten's gonna let lp
Speaker 1: come in here, snap the ball three or four times
Speaker 1: and break kids record? Now not happening. He's got a mural.
Speaker 1: He's gonna call Charlotte. He's like, Nah, this ain't happen him.
Speaker 1: He was one of my favorite guys. I'm kidding, I
Speaker 1: think to that. I think, but I'm thinking that Witten
Speaker 1: has that much power. I don't know if he does,
Speaker 1: but uh, because if so, he would have been a coach.
Speaker 1: But um, no, kidding, kidding, I'm just saying, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he didn't get released. I mean you know, he got
Speaker 1: he got cut, but um, you see him going up
Speaker 1: to Jerry's office. No, no, I think they're going you know,
Speaker 1: it's not like, yeah, I mean that they could have
Speaker 1: signed LP when they had him, you know, and he
Speaker 1: wanted to come back and play. So I don't think
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. They got the younger guys and and
Speaker 1: you know, most of the time around the league, college,
Speaker 1: high school, most snaps are pretty good. You would think
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna be pretty good. Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: just I just hope it doesn't throw off what we
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Speaker 1: a rhythm to it, and I'm a little bit concerned
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Speaker 1: McQuaid wasn't snapping, Well, he wasn't. Yeah, that was a
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Speaker 1: maybe some of the problems that you were having a
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Speaker 1: are busting on these these kickers right now, but just
Speaker 1: watched the snaps in practice and tell me what you think.
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Speaker 1: one Seattle, Indie Jacksonville. I mean he's done it Chargers.
Speaker 1: This guy's done it in games. Yeah, all right, it's
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Speaker 1: Ram's offense versus Dallas Defense. And I know I usually
Speaker 1: start with what do they do best? But I'm going
Speaker 1: to alter that this week and say, other than throwing
Speaker 1: to Cooper Cup, what do they do best offensively? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What you're gonna get this week is I feel like
Speaker 1: that with the protection problems and studying their games, studying
Speaker 1: their all twenty two, it was really more about the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers did a great job on the outside
Speaker 1: of covering, and I mean covering is they couldn't get
Speaker 1: the ball quick enough to Cup or they couldn't get
Speaker 1: the ball quick enough to Higbee. They try to get
Speaker 1: the ball to Row Robotson and it just hasn't worked
Speaker 1: out as well as they I think they've hoped. They
Speaker 1: struggle at the offensive tackle spot. They've been banged up inside.
Speaker 1: The thing that they I think that they do the
Speaker 1: best is they're going to try and control Dallas's rush
Speaker 1: with while we saw I went back and watch two
Speaker 1: games this pass game and I went back and watch
Speaker 1: the Arizona game just because of their defense as well.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see the wide receiver screens. You're gonna see
Speaker 1: the screens at the back. This quarterback is very comfortable.
Speaker 1: And when I talk about Matthew Stafford of throwing it
Speaker 1: from any arm angle, he will throw around rushers when
Speaker 1: they go up, he'll you know, he's got that little
Speaker 1: flick he'll throw over the top. He is a really,
Speaker 1: really good deliver of the ball. When it comes to
Speaker 1: the screen packages, I have a feeling they're gonna try
Speaker 1: and not only do they run the wide receiver screens,
Speaker 1: but they run the running back screens. Too, and they're
Speaker 1: not gonna let Dallas tee off on this on them
Speaker 1: with their defensive line, so it's would be ball down
Speaker 1: the field. You're absolutely right, it's Cooper Cup. You know.
Speaker 1: They're trying to get Robinson involved. They just can't. I mean,
Speaker 1: he just can't get They can't get him going. But
Speaker 1: him and Higbee are the guys that the main people
Speaker 1: you have to stop. They're gonna throw the ball to Henderson,
Speaker 1: They're gonna throw the ball to Acres if they can.
Speaker 1: And it's probably going to be to control your rush
Speaker 1: through some screens. They did in two games that I watched.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just okay, we need to do something to
Speaker 1: keep San Francisco office. They did it also against Arizona.
Speaker 1: So get ready for that to kind of control your rush.
Speaker 1: We know they are vulnerable at the offensive line. I
Speaker 1: think that's probably the areas the greatest vulnerability. My question
Speaker 1: for you is what part of that offensive line is
Speaker 1: most vulnerable that the Cowboys should be focused on trying
Speaker 1: to really exploit. Yeah, they have there's we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens with David Edwards, their guard they drafted, you know,
Speaker 1: in the fifth round in twenty nineteen, he's been banged up.
Speaker 1: They've been playing with a gain named Bobby Evans, who
Speaker 1: is a third round pick in two thousand and nineteen,
Speaker 1: and they just haven't been very stable there. The center
Speaker 1: Brian Allen's been nicked up as well. Note Boom is
Speaker 1: a kid that's interesting. I think a lot of it
Speaker 1: when he gets in trouble. He's the left tackle and
Speaker 1: he gets real tall. He you know, he doesn't play
Speaker 1: with very good knee bend, and so what happens is
Speaker 1: people take him back and or they'll beat him with
Speaker 1: quickness and he just hasn't been able to just because
Speaker 1: he's so tall, and he just can't without a base,
Speaker 1: he can't move or slide. So that's a that's a
Speaker 1: big problem for them in that regard. And then this
Speaker 1: Rob Haverstein's he's a veteran guy, but I mean he's
Speaker 1: kind of a he's kind of a maller brawler guy.
Speaker 1: He's not really a great athlete. I think Tank will
Speaker 1: have some good rushes against him, because Tanks really good
Speaker 1: of when a tackle throws hands. Tank is good on
Speaker 1: the slap and then get his get his left shoulder
Speaker 1: or his right shoulder underneath and then press that way.
Speaker 1: And Hammerstein is not that I don't think he's a
Speaker 1: great athlete, because I say he's a mall er brawler
Speaker 1: kind of guy. Their their running game is they're capable.
Speaker 1: They're capable of running the football. Cam Akers and Henderson
Speaker 1: they can run the football. They just haven't had a
Speaker 1: lot of space in the games that i've but there
Speaker 1: there are some times where in that Arizona game where
Speaker 1: they got the ball on the perimeter and that's the
Speaker 1: kind of the things that's now my new thing. Watch
Speaker 1: perimeter runs against teams that you play against, if they
Speaker 1: have guys that are capable, when they miss up perimeter runs,
Speaker 1: it's bunch formation and then they get kind of muddled
Speaker 1: and confused on who they're supposed to block their receivers.
Speaker 1: Struggle with that a little bit on the edge, but
Speaker 1: they're capable team of doing it. I was just I'm
Speaker 1: just feeling old. I remember note Boom being in high school,
Speaker 1: covering him in Plano Senior High here right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know he was a guy plan ol guy and then
Speaker 1: went to TCU. Yeah, playoff singer. Yes, Okay, he's uh,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's made a good career for himself.
Speaker 1: But you know, like you said, I mean that that
Speaker 1: is their issue. I mean, I'm I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: figure out, like, you know, how do the Rams win
Speaker 1: this game? Like like in their favorite to win. I know,
Speaker 1: how they defense? No, I think their running game is
Speaker 1: it has not gotten off. They got to good running backs.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you hadn't noticed, Cowboys are
Speaker 1: towards the bottom of the league when it comes to
Speaker 1: stopping the run. Somehow it hasn't reflected in points that
Speaker 1: they're giving up because at the top of the league
Speaker 1: in not allowing team to score. But they have not
Speaker 1: been successful stopping the run this season. When you look
Speaker 1: across the games they've played, and this game looks to
Speaker 1: me like that kind of game, I guess that's a
Speaker 1: were a question for you, Brian. But how to that
Speaker 1: point then, because I was looking at the running game,
Speaker 1: what it's looked like, I'm like, Okay, yes, they're good
Speaker 1: running backs, but it's not something that's taking off just yet.
Speaker 1: How has the opposing teams that they played they have
Speaker 1: a good defense. Yeah, when you know, that's what I
Speaker 1: was saying. I was watching with Arizona and then I
Speaker 1: was watching with with San Francisco has got really good
Speaker 1: safety play and they've got linebackers that can really really run.
Speaker 1: And now, okay, that's your that's your trick right there
Speaker 1: if you're the Cowboys. Is you know when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have looked bad defending the run, it's it's been a
Speaker 1: defensive end and then it's been a linebacker not getting
Speaker 1: up and it's not it's a corner playing wide. And
Speaker 1: it's also you know, you watch some of these teams play,
Speaker 1: like the forty years, their corners were coming up and
Speaker 1: making plays. They're they're they're you know, willing tacklers. I
Speaker 1: mean even watching the even watching guys you know like
Speaker 1: Ramsey play for them. When we get to their defense,
Speaker 1: Ramsey will force Ramsey will come up and make a tackle.
Speaker 1: You know, your corners tend to play and I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Brown too. I'm not just talking about you know
Speaker 1: they play wide. Yeah, why you know Brown and Digs,
Speaker 1: they tend to stretch and they get they get pushed
Speaker 1: and what happens that creates that seam or that space
Speaker 1: too if they get the corner. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's really it's been really really hard on the Cowboys
Speaker 1: because They're not just one guy gets blocked. You get
Speaker 1: an end gets blocked, you get a linebackers, it's a
Speaker 1: step light, and you get a corner that plays wide.
Speaker 1: You're gonna give up some stuff off the edge. And
Speaker 1: I think the opponents that did have faced the rams,
Speaker 1: they don't play that way. You don't see now, we'll
Speaker 1: see if if in fact that you know, there's times
Speaker 1: where with I think, with curse being in me personally,
Speaker 1: my adjustment for taking I put curse on the field
Speaker 1: and I take bar off the field is what I do,
Speaker 1: because I mean bar to me is he hasn't seen this.
Speaker 1: He I mean, they'll be motioned across or the jet motion,
Speaker 1: and then they'll be the handoff behind it, and you'll
Speaker 1: see him eyes on jet motion going this way. Balls
Speaker 1: come in the other way, and you're going no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, you've got to get over here. And
Speaker 1: then vander esh has been like he's having to kind
Speaker 1: of make up for the defensive end getting hooked, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden there's not a forced player
Speaker 1: behind him. And I don't know if it's all on
Speaker 1: Vandersh either, but they when they play bad against the run,
Speaker 1: it's usually it starts at the end and then the
Speaker 1: linebacker and then the corner. That's usually what happens with them.
Speaker 1: And I'll throw this out to Amber two. You talked
Speaker 1: about trying to get a comparative of kind of the
Speaker 1: Cowboys relative to the teams they played. Check out this
Speaker 1: for Washington. Washington last week put up one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty two yards on the ground against Dallas, And there's
Speaker 1: three previous games they didn't get more than eighty eight
Speaker 1: yards on the ground. They almost doubled or well almost
Speaker 1: a chunk run. Yeah, they almost doubled what they'd been
Speaker 1: doing previously. When it came to what they did last
Speaker 1: week versus the Cowboys, that's the first thing they loaded
Speaker 1: to me. And then when you look at the Cowboys numbers,
Speaker 1: they've given up one fifty two, one sixty seven, one
Speaker 1: forty two. Like you look at what they're giving up
Speaker 1: on the ground. Typically that's a recipe from disaster defense.
Speaker 1: For some reason, it has not been for them. But
Speaker 1: I mean it's still a small sample size. But are
Speaker 1: we sure these aren't hollow numbers because well, I mean
Speaker 1: they're not scoring. They're not scoring. Yeah, by the way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the scheme is don't give up anything big and also
Speaker 1: get after their ass. And so what happens is is
Speaker 1: the outside edges and some of the lanes to run
Speaker 1: the ball. But when they get inside the twenty, I mean,
Speaker 1: Barkley broke off a thirty five yard because he's a
Speaker 1: really good player and scored. When they get inside the twenty, though,
Speaker 1: things are shifting down there there. There's you know, they're
Speaker 1: squeezing them out and they're getting field goals and so
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, yes, those numbers are usually when
Speaker 1: you run like that, you're gonna have a success. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think dan Quinn, it's not. It's
Speaker 1: almost like that these are trend. Can the Cowboys play
Speaker 1: against the team that doesn't get penalties? That's the key? Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna play that style of football, which
Speaker 1: is we're gonna run the ball, we're going to take
Speaker 1: these long drives because we've seen teams do that all seasons.
Speaker 1: To the Cowboys, they'll have him on these long drives.
Speaker 1: The problem is most teams can't successfully not have the
Speaker 1: penalty that kills the drive because somebody, because somebody's athletic
Speaker 1: on the defensive line, it gets held right, So now
Speaker 1: instead of like the other day, you know, they had
Speaker 1: a had a thirteen yard run in the game and
Speaker 1: then it gets a holding call brings it back and
Speaker 1: then what happens sack punt? You know that. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing, you know, if teams are
Speaker 1: able to stay ahead of the chains against the Cowboys defense.
Speaker 1: And actually Cincinnati did it in the second half of
Speaker 1: the game. Remember on the nineteen play drive they went on,
Speaker 1: they only got one penalty along the way, Dallas had
Speaker 1: a penalty. Since they had no penalties, Das had twelve
Speaker 1: men on the field. And if I'm not mistaken, same
Speaker 1: thing happened in the watching game the one touchdown dropped
Speaker 1: the head, They drove the ball down the field and
Speaker 1: they had no mistakes. And if you can do that
Speaker 1: and play mistake free football, that might be a way
Speaker 1: to neutralize his defense. You find a way. If Dallas
Speaker 1: gets you in like long yarded situations, they kill you,
Speaker 1: right they if you play if your medium to them
Speaker 1: or stay ahead and don't get penalties, that tends to
Speaker 1: be a little bit more problematic for them. And here's
Speaker 1: the other thing. A note. Right now, opponents are averaging
Speaker 1: five yards per attempt on the ground against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: if you can sustain it, there's something there for him
Speaker 1: you can make. You can move the ball, but you
Speaker 1: just can't. You can't have penalties. And once they run
Speaker 1: into a team that can do that clean, they can
Speaker 1: play clean on offense. That's gonna be a problem for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys that they got to prevent. They got to
Speaker 1: prevent Matthew Stafford from being throwing interceptions and stuff. There
Speaker 1: were a couple in the San Francisco game in the
Speaker 1: red zone. He should have had one that was intercepted there.
Speaker 1: I mean, he will, he will give you the ball.
Speaker 1: But I have a feeling that they're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna try and run the ball on you in
Speaker 1: this game. And I think they're gonna run screens. I
Speaker 1: think whether it's screens to Cup or did these backs
Speaker 1: they're or Higbie, they're going to run screens to try
Speaker 1: and keep you from rushing. That's gonna be their form
Speaker 1: of a running game too. All right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: our final break. We'll come back. Brian's got a little
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Speaker 1: jump back in, Brian, you got a game for us?
Speaker 1: I do? I do you remind me that I was
Speaker 1: old at an old man moment there for a minute,
Speaker 1: Uh I do. Let me pull the game up. I
Speaker 1: have it here on my phone. Uh. Just feel free
Speaker 1: to talk among yourself while I do this. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go, love games we go. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes
Speaker 1: I forget what I'm doing on the radio. All right,
Speaker 1: all right, what I've done is the Cowboys have had
Speaker 1: to run through several guys that have been backups this
Speaker 1: year and backups and you know, usually you're kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, I don't know how this
Speaker 1: is going to work out. What I would like to
Speaker 1: know is give me a letter grade and give me
Speaker 1: a reason why you give your letter grade too, on
Speaker 1: these backups and how they've played. And it's funny because
Speaker 1: there seems to be so many more on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball as opposed to the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. But give me. I'm gonna say a
Speaker 1: player's name, give me a grade as I go around
Speaker 1: the room, and bar, I'll start with you first, and
Speaker 1: give me the grade and give me the reason why
Speaker 1: the grade. Okay, here we go. Tyler Smith, Tyler Smith,
Speaker 1: Alwa's played for you, I would say, you know what
Speaker 1: a a because one being a rookie too, the different
Speaker 1: changes that he had all throughout training camp without being
Speaker 1: like completely certain and where he was going to play.
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, now he has to play
Speaker 1: tackle and be your starter. The amount. Yes, he hasn't
Speaker 1: played every single snap like completely clean and stake free,
Speaker 1: but I think he's done such an amazing job so far,
Speaker 1: and he's kept it at minimal I think one of
Speaker 1: the issues for him going into the season, or questions
Speaker 1: I would say, was the penalties. Would he be able
Speaker 1: to stay penalty free? And I think up to his point, like,
Speaker 1: he hasn't necessarily been a problem in that aspect. So
Speaker 1: I would say, what did I give him a? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's missing the plus, but he got an A Derek
Speaker 1: I would I'm not gonna give him. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: put him on a curve. I think he's he's a
Speaker 1: good player. I would give him a B minus. Um,
Speaker 1: I think he's played well. I think there's still some
Speaker 1: areas for development. I think there's some plays that you
Speaker 1: noticed from him where you're like, oh, and you, oh,
Speaker 1: you may have gotten away with one there, like those
Speaker 1: kind of moments that pop up that maybe he didn't
Speaker 1: get caught, but you know, like that was not a
Speaker 1: that was not a good rep for him. I think
Speaker 1: there's still some development to work but for him to
Speaker 1: work on. But quite frankly, like he is. He is
Speaker 1: definitely the left tackle future. There's no question about that.
Speaker 1: And the fact you found that and you feel good
Speaker 1: about that, I think is what the story really is.
Speaker 1: But I give him a B minus. Yeah, I give
Speaker 1: him A B. I think he's been good. He's been
Speaker 1: really solid. There's some things like you see and then
Speaker 1: you know, but but there's but I think he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's growing and he's he's doing it. He's doing an
Speaker 1: early nice job. But I don't I don't agree with
Speaker 1: the curves as well. Grading on curve. I mean, if
Speaker 1: I was a teacher, he can't do that. You graded
Speaker 1: for what it is. So I think it's a B.
Speaker 1: But um, I expect to be sitting here later in
Speaker 1: the season and it would be an A. Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: and by next year I expect. Yeah, for the next
Speaker 1: five to seven years, he is consistently A A A yeah.
Speaker 1: I went, I went B plus on him myself. Okay, Nick,
Speaker 1: I'll come back, you'll swing it the other way. How
Speaker 1: about Noah Brown? Noah Brown, I'd give a B plus.
Speaker 1: I think he's been a good, solid receiver. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: and not off of expectations. I wasn't expected him to
Speaker 1: be like that. Um, he's he's he had a game
Speaker 1: where he was an A plus and won the game
Speaker 1: for them. Um. But he's he's been he's been really good.
Speaker 1: Not not the guy that would tell takeaway number one
Speaker 1: you know, corners that have to go and find him.
Speaker 1: But I think that for the role that he's playing,
Speaker 1: I think he's been really good. Yeah, I gave him
Speaker 1: a B plus as well. I was kind of like
Speaker 1: maybe a B but I think what you said there
Speaker 1: at the end, like just what he was able to
Speaker 1: do that the A plus game, yeah, is what gets
Speaker 1: him up to a B plus for me, because there
Speaker 1: was one game they don't win without him, yeah, Cincinnati, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't win that game without him. So I think
Speaker 1: from that respect, i'd give him a B plus. But
Speaker 1: he's been really good again, really good. Yeah, B plus
Speaker 1: as well if it was based off expectations, and probably
Speaker 1: gave him an A plus because I did not expect
Speaker 1: him to be anything that he's been so far. But
Speaker 1: another thing, he comes out and I saw someone on
Speaker 1: Twitter coming this, it's like you guys are basing your
Speaker 1: opinions or analysis on a guy that he didn't necessarily like.
Speaker 1: He's now getting those kinds of opportunities, therefore he can
Speaker 1: showcase what he can really do. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: fully true because we have seen him in other occations
Speaker 1: and he hasn't been that guy. But I think this year. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's he's doing what I did not expect him to do,
Speaker 1: and I thought the Cowboys were not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to survive this first few weeks at the wide receiver
Speaker 1: course while they were waiting for Michael Gallup in Washington
Speaker 1: to come back. I gave him an a myself because
Speaker 1: my expectations were every year we kind of see him
Speaker 1: have a great training camp. But he's he's backing it up.
Speaker 1: He had an opportunity last year. I mean he did
Speaker 1: have an opportunity. Cedric Wilson played better than him and
Speaker 1: that's why Cedric Wilson was able to get what he went. Okay,
Speaker 1: Ambar back to you, Donovan Wilson. Yeah, B plus B plus.
Speaker 1: I love the guy, you know what, Give him an a.
Speaker 1: I feel good today. Give him an a. I just
Speaker 1: love him. I love the way he plays. I love
Speaker 1: the passion that he has, the way that he's not
Speaker 1: afraid to make those tackles. He just needs to work
Speaker 1: on some of those things to kind of be more
Speaker 1: thoughtful on his moves. But as soon as he cleans
Speaker 1: that up, and I think he'll just come with a
Speaker 1: little bit more experience. But once he cleans that up,
Speaker 1: he will be an A plus player for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I want to give him an a plus because
Speaker 1: I look at how he's played. I look at the
Speaker 1: fact that he is a better curse like right now,
Speaker 1: right now, he is doing a lot of different things
Speaker 1: for them. He's making a lot of it plays that
Speaker 1: that I think they need from him right now. The
Speaker 1: only thing that's a knock at all is that I
Speaker 1: don't always think he's the smartest guy when it comes
Speaker 1: to some of the things he does. Yeah, I just,
Speaker 1: I just I don't think he's always really thinks about
Speaker 1: the game the way he needs to. That's the only
Speaker 1: knock I have him. But even in those situations this year,
Speaker 1: I don't know that he's killed him with that. And
Speaker 1: that's what makes me still say I kind of think
Speaker 1: I want to give him an A plus. He's been
Speaker 1: as good as anybody on this team through the first
Speaker 1: four weeks. Yeah, I give him an a minus. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think that you know, he's since he's been the starter,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're undefeated. The game that he didn't start
Speaker 1: against the Bucks, he got a pick off off Tom
Speaker 1: Brady there. I think that he's come in and done
Speaker 1: a great job and the fact that I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he is a even a poor man's Troy Palomala. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he reminds me of that safety because there are
Speaker 1: times where he's back there in a blitz and there's
Speaker 1: times where he's forty yards down the field. He guesses
Speaker 1: right a lot, which means he's he's instinctive and around
Speaker 1: the ball. If he can clean up some of those
Speaker 1: over reckless, over aggressive penalties, that that's really that maybe
Speaker 1: you will never get out of your system if you're
Speaker 1: going to play that way. Sometimes it just happens, and
Speaker 1: maybe that's a part of why he's able to do
Speaker 1: all the other things he's able. But but yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he's he's been good. This isn't based off expectations.
Speaker 1: Is based off a guy that's come in and the
Speaker 1: defense has gotten even better in three games. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: went a minus as well. There. I think you're right
Speaker 1: about I think everybody does a Really, you guys painted
Speaker 1: the picture what the player is. I'm saying, Okay, how
Speaker 1: about Nick, how about Jake ferguson Um. I would say, again,
Speaker 1: this is not an expectation thing. I would say probably
Speaker 1: a B minus. You know, he's been good. In the preseason.
Speaker 1: I thought he was really good. He caught everything they
Speaker 1: threw at him. Um, you know, I thought they held
Speaker 1: their own when when Schultz was out, and then they
Speaker 1: did a enough job. I mean he nothing has has
Speaker 1: gone backwards with some of these injuries, but nothing too
Speaker 1: flashy either. Um. I'm thinking about you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: thinking about me bringing home a B minus because there
Speaker 1: would have been a party. But I'm just saying for
Speaker 1: most people, a B minus would have been like, hey,
Speaker 1: good job, you could do better, you could do better,
Speaker 1: keep it up. But but you know B minus was
Speaker 1: that was pretty good. No, no, not my house. Well
Speaker 1: we're still here. I mean, there's a party from I
Speaker 1: would give him a B. And the reason I give
Speaker 1: him a bus because I think for the role that
Speaker 1: they've given him, I don't think they've really asked him
Speaker 1: a ton to be that guy down feel for them,
Speaker 1: But what they have asked him to do is block,
Speaker 1: and I think he's been really good. Okay, do this
Speaker 1: for me. I'm sorry. Then this put both the guys together,
Speaker 1: put him and him and him a shot together as
Speaker 1: one player, as one as one player, I'm stepping up
Speaker 1: into the A A minus range because I think the
Speaker 1: both of them together and this is gonna sound sell
Speaker 1: him in four games, I get it. But they certainly
Speaker 1: are making Yeah, they're really making me think like once
Speaker 1: this season is over, if this continues as it's going,
Speaker 1: I would be shocked if Dalton Schultz is back here
Speaker 1: next year. I think you can command a higher number
Speaker 1: on the free agent market than what the Cowboys would
Speaker 1: be willing to pay him. They have those two guys,
Speaker 1: see what happens when Dak comes back, because sometimes some
Speaker 1: guys rely on different parts of the game. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I remember there was times you gotta go back and
Speaker 1: look when Aikman left and Akman was hurt. Novicheck didn't
Speaker 1: have great games never but but but it was just
Speaker 1: more of that's what Dak would focus on. So Dak
Speaker 1: might get it back in you'll see Schultz's numbers. But
Speaker 1: that also is again that goes to my point. I
Speaker 1: think that's going to drive him out because I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna look at it like do we
Speaker 1: need to pay him top of the market money, because
Speaker 1: I do think they think that he plays like he
Speaker 1: should be paid among the top tight ends. But they
Speaker 1: would probably look at it and say, our two young guys,
Speaker 1: we think we can get the same thing out of
Speaker 1: them for a lot less money, even combined for a
Speaker 1: lot less money and what we can pay. And I
Speaker 1: think that drives him to free agent. Mark, how about you, ag?
Speaker 1: I would give a minus and just they've been doing
Speaker 1: everything that the Cowboys have asked them to do in
Speaker 1: a good way. And I remember during the draft, I
Speaker 1: was looking at a film and all that, and I'm like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know Fergus and I was like looking at his stuff,
Speaker 1: I'm like eh. But then now when he got here,
Speaker 1: he started making those catches, I'm like, okay, especially at
Speaker 1: your backup position, you need those guys, someone that can block. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I know we gotta go. But a minus good And
Speaker 1: the final one is Cooper Rush a plus plus plus
Speaker 1: plus plus, Yes, that's all. I gotta say. Stickers everywhere, stickers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a full paper full of stickers. As a minus, yeah,
Speaker 1: just because you know, but he's getting better. Every game
Speaker 1: is umbers are getting better. They're kind of leaning on
Speaker 1: him a little bit more. I don't think he helped them.
Speaker 1: I don't think he was the reason they won every game,
Speaker 1: but he's certainly not the reason that they've been losing
Speaker 1: it because they haven't. And so you got to give
Speaker 1: a quarterback credit for that. Yeah, I give him. I
Speaker 1: give him an AA minus. It's more about the fact
Speaker 1: that I don't think they're asking as much of him
Speaker 1: as what they put on Dak. But it does make
Speaker 1: me question, like, should they put that much on deck?
Speaker 1: Maybe they need and maybe you get a little bit
Speaker 1: more out of Dak by not asking of him when
Speaker 1: I think that, because I think Dak has asked that too.
Speaker 1: If you have some of the quotes, I think Dak
Speaker 1: has kind of mentioned that too, Like, it's not it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be this difficult. Let's make it simple, right, So,
Speaker 1: thank you guys for playing. All right, thank you for
Speaker 1: that game. That was interesting, that was fun. We'll get
Speaker 1: back to uh some more talk tomorrow. Actually tomorrow we're
Speaker 1: gonna jump over to the Los Angeles Rams. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams defense. That's the part that that could
Speaker 1: be a little bit tricky. Sure we can talk about
Speaker 1: their defense versus the Cowboys offense. Still then for Nick Eamon,
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