WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Biggest Challenge In 2018? 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.360 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.240 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:15.600 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:19.960 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:26.079 Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, a Bar Garcia, and 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.080 Derek Eagleton. It is Friday in your late twenty seven, 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:33.320 twenty eighteen, season fourteen, episode number fourteen. Welcome to the 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:37.360 newest edition of The Break Life from Oxnard, California. I'm 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.680 here with Nick Eatman and Amber Garcia and Dave Hellman, 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:42.839 and we're gonna talk some Cowboys football here with you 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.680 guys for the next hour and a lot to talk 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:49.440 about Cowboys. Get out there and start practicing. Yesterday, not 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.560 in pads yet, just a little bit of a shorts 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:53.519 and T shirt. They'll do that again today and then 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:55.880 tomorrow they'll crank it up a notch. They'll put on 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.360 the pads and that's when camp really gets rolling. How's 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.000 everybody doing this? More good? I think we're doing well. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.319 I thought I was hosting today, Derek, you were, and 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.480 then you didn't show up until five minutes before we 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:11.360 were going on side. Wow, twenty it was twenty. I'm sorry. Yeah, 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.240 so you'll be hosting. No, that'd be Monday and maybe 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.399 maybe Monday Tuesday. How about that? Well, I feel like 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.039 this is gonna be a perpetual kind of like, well 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.679 maybe tomorrow you know. No, she's gonna be she's gonna 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.440 be hot. This is gonna happen. This is gonna happen. 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.680 Maybe the first time you bail on us for some meeting. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.520 Oh yeah, yeah, that's gonna happen. For sure, it happened. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.759 That's gonna happen maybe next week every time. So there 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:37.600 we go. All right. So, um, what I wanted to 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.000 do today, there are a lot of different things I 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.679 want to get into. Um. The first thing I'm gonna 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.200 do and uh is I want to take some time 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.400 and we're gonna do this at every show during training camp. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:48.760 I want to take some time to allow each of 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.600 you guys to give me one observation, uh, something you 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:53.640 saw yesterday. It could be a player, it could be 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.200 a position group, it could be a particular play, just 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.320 something that you noticed yesterday that stood out to you. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.360 The whole idea is we want to give these fans 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.559 an opportunity to feel like they're out here at camp 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.120 and get as many different thoughts on what's happening out here. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.360 I'm as possible. So let's start with you. Nick, give 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.200 one observation from yesterday while they serve turkey legs. I 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.560 mean that that that's that you have to start. How 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.520 can you not start with turkey? I mean they're yelling 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.440 out water, gatorade, turkey legs. You come to training camp, 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:19.760 you can get a turkey leg. I don't know what 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.000 else you can they have to eat, but definitely, all 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.079 these all my years in America, I never tried a 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.400 turkey leg. Ever. You're missing. You know what you need 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.800 to do. You need to go. You need to go 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:33.760 to to the Texas Ribs, Like who cares? Okay, you 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.639 have to go to State Fair of Texas and get 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.600 your turkey leg there. That's the best turkey leg in 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:42.760 the state. All right. Honestly, let's switch. Let me switch 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.560 animals here. Honestly, mine is really not a t it's 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:49.760 a goat. Jeff Heath. Jeff Heath is going to be 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.519 really good this year. I don't know who's gonna play 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.720 next to him. Maybe Zavier would, maybe someone else Jeff 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.640 Heath though a couple of things, and I was watching 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.440 the defensive backs. I don't know if you guys saw this, 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.440 but I kept hearing this somebody yelling and I didn't 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.400 know exactly who it is, and it was Jeff and 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.320 which is shocking because like, you never really heard him 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.160 talk at all, and he doesn't really get to a 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.280 high level. But but you could just see, and maybe 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.680 it was just ten minutes or so, you could really 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.560 see a command in that and that defensive backfield and 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.760 we're talking about who's going to be the leader back there, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.160 vocal leader. I don't know if it was just a coincidence, 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.480 but I definitely saw some of that, and you could 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.399 see the way he's moving. He's kind of smooth, I'll 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.840 tell you, Jeff Heath. Not a lot of fans loved 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.840 him before. I think they're really gonna gonna change their 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.720 tune if they haven't already. Amber me. Something that I 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:45.400 liked from yesterday was Jalen Smith and seeing his progress 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:47.800 since last year. One of the things that I was 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.920 concerned about last year were his instincts, you know, the 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.840 way he takes off and it was kind of just 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:57.000 too rushed like not really knowing where he's going. He 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:01.120 just takes off. Now this year, why him, he takes 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.520 a little more time to think about it before taking off, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.560 and you can see how he's becoming more confident in 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.960 his movements. Instead of just taking off and figuring it out, 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.600 he just now, okay, let me take a second. Follow 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.640 this guy and then take off. How do you think 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.400 he's running? Because that's always like last year you could 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.760 see there was a person wasn't It wasn't yet the 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.400 fluid motion that first move okay in his movement and 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.160 also the whole lateral movement. I think he has been. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:32.120 It just keeps improving. Yeah, Dave, My number one impression 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.960 after a practice that wasn't really a practice is a 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.440 guy that didn't practice, which works. Randy Gregory, My guy 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.240 looks slim and trim. My guy looks ready to go. 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.039 I took a picture of him on my Twitter account, 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.200 Like he doesn't look like a guy that's been away 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.359 from football for eighteen months. Like it's very obvious just 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.560 looking at him. Jason Garrett said on Wednesday that he 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.279 weighs two forty two. He looks like it. He looks 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.800 like and you know, he's stiver, looked chunky. No, but 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.200 I think like there's a difference between I mean, like 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.000 if he hadn't been getting ready, I think it would 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.359 show and like you can, but then he looks good. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.680 He looks like he's ready to play football. Obviously there's 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.520 a big difference between conditioning and playing football. But when 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.640 they finally let him out there, I don't think it's 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.320 gonna take him that long to accleman. It looks like 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.280 he's been working really hard. It's like when David Irving 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.440 came back during the whole mini camp. Now he was 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:29.240 working up to the side to notice the eye is 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.360 not in condition, absolutely right. But and my thing on 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.400 Gregory is, and I think this has been kind of 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.039 a knock on him, is that he had a hard 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.120 time gaining weight. You know, they actually wanted him to 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.560 put on a few more pounds, to be not so lean, 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.600 to actually you know, to not just be a guy 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.520 that says, well he has to rush the pastor because 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.599 he's not gonna be able to stop the run, so 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:51.680 you know, to be an every down player. I think 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.120 he needed to put on more weight. So we'll see 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.800 what you know, But freaks are freaks. I mean they 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:03.520 can play. So yeah, well he came out yesterday m 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.320 speaking slim and trim. Actually, my observation is another guy 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.160 that looks pretty slim and trim to me anyway, Zeke Elliott. 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.720 He looks like he yeah he does. I mean Dave 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:16.400 and I Dave was walking with me and we saw 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.640 him walking and he's just kind of walking with a 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.880 shirt off, just kind of chilling. And it was like that, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.159 that ain't the same Zeke that. That was more like 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.520 the Zeke that came out of college that wore the middrifts. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.880 It was more of that than it was the Zeke 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.240 that last year. People were like, man, he looks like 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.920 does he seem like the type of person, the type 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.560 of body that just kind of his weight fluxus maybe 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.400 you know, like maybe so. And to be honest with you, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.640 I wasn't one of those people that really got caught 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.400 up on last year and people said he looked a 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.720 little bit out of shape. I'm workingcerned about how he 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.120 looks when he's running. And when he was out here 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.560 running yesterday and he was doing drills, he looked pretty nifty, 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.920 looked pretty light on his feet. So I thought, all 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.800 in all, I think he's looking really good here coming 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.200 into camp. Go find the Twitter fingers out there will 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.800 tell you that he still looks kind of chunky, and 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.760 there's no doubt about it. He's bigger than he was 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.600 when he was a rookie. He doesn't he doesn't look 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:08.840 out of shape. No, no, no no, no, no, no, no, 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.679 I'm agreeing with you. He like, yeah, he looks bigger 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.720 than he did when he was a rookie because he 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:18.120 has yoked himself up. Yes, honestly, Zeke, to me, looks 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.320 like a guy who knows he's gonna be facing nine 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.920 man fronts at least. But yeah, he looks like he's 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.040 ready to touch the ball five hundred times because need 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.960 be a lot of times. The perception of that, it 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.880 can just it's just your face. You know. He's got 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.520 a big hay, he's got a beard that's kind of 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.120 you know, and you look at that and you could say, well, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.600 you know, maybe he's a little bit bigger, But I 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.400 mean that's never stopped anyone from from getting you know, 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.240 you don't get tackled from behind because you got a 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:48.920 big face. I don't think No, he's built like an 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.120 NFL running back. Now, I think he's he looks like 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:52.760 to me, he looks like he's in great shape for 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.000 built like a linebacker. Like I mean, yeah, and I 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.920 mean it in a good way. I don't like he 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.040 looks like he's ready. He knows, he knows what's coming. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.160 Is what it looks like. All right, let's talk a 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.800 little bit, Dave. You mentioned Randy Gregory. I want to 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.760 talk a little bit about where he is right now. 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.840 Yesterday he's he's Marinell. He's over that. Oh, this is 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.160 me being nick right now. Sorry, he's like he's over 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.120 there in the hotel. He's probably having meetings or something, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:19.880 getting ready for walkthrough. Sorry, no, no, he just fell flat. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.400 Yeah I probably would do that. What was it? Where 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:31.760 are those animal crickets? Oh cricket? Yeah, I got it. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.840 I did not get it, all right. Um, But talking 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.360 about Randy Gregory Rod Marinelli yesterday, he says that there 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.240 are a lot of people around here everyone mites the 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.880 dust sometimes that are rooting for Randy. Um. As we 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.000 all know, obviously, there were teammates that spoke up on 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.840 his behalf to the league in order to get him back. Um. 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:50.880 And it seems like everybody's very happy to have him 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.240 back out here and everybody's really rooting for him, genuinely 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.080 rooting for him, genuinely rooting for him to be successful 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.440 this year. Talk to me about where he is right now, 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.600 what he's doing, and when we can expect to see 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.080 him on the field. Shit, there was so much rooting 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.800 for him that now I'm rooting for him, And now 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.559 that's a whole flip for me. But just hearing everyone 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.120 the way, like coach Mary Nelly speaking about him, Why 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.960 are you shaking your head? I'm not go oh, keep 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.200 going the way Mary Nelly was speaking about him, it 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.680 just makes you think, Okay, obviously they know him better 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.839 than we do. So the fact that he has Mary 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.280 Nelly backing him up that much has to tell you something. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:32.800 I don't have the slightest idea when he's gonna be 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:34.400 ready to go, honest. I mean, you know, you know, 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.600 Jason Garrett, he's gonna be day by day. I think 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.720 the fact that he's out here, you know, not just 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.199 like running and doing the conditioning stuff, but you know, 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.320 they had him going around the hula hoop, getting low 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.600 bend in the corner, something that they like pass rushers 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.520 to do. The fact he's already doing some of that. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:51.800 Like I said, like, he doesn't look like a guy 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.000 who's gonna need a ton of time to acclimate. Is 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.160 he doing any position drills at this point, because obviously 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:57.520 working in the team, that's gonna be a while. But 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.400 he's only working with the trainers he's with, you know, 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.960 during practice yesterday he was with the pass rushers. He 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.200 was kind of helping out, like holding the oven myths 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.880 for them to slap and stuff like that. Nothing nothing real, 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.840 which you know, like that that's gonna be on their schedule. 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.680 It could be a week. I would be I would 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.840 be surprised if it takes him too long, you know, 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.840 because he looks like he's done his part in terms 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.000 of getting in shape. And so I get it. You 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.600 want to be you want to be deliberate, to quote 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.640 Jason Garrett, not careful, which really just means careful. But 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.240 um so, I'm sure they're gonna be careful with him. 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.680 But like I said, he doesn't look like he's gonna 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:36.920 need a ton of time, So we'll see what they 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.280 decide to do. Are your expectations that you'll get much 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.440 out of Randy Gregory this year or is this a 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.160 long term. Look at this thing. I don't like I 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.160 said this on you know, like the day we got 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.319 here is like how somebody was like, what are your 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:53.240 realistic expectations for Randy Gregory? Like, if we're talking realistic, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.120 I don't know how you put it beyond like just 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.320 making the team and getting onto the field, you know. 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.760 I mean, yeah, he is definitely a freak, But how 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.600 are you gonna how are you gonna put ten sack 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.839 expectation on a guy who hasn't played in two years? 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.840 I call that realistic, you know, Like I think a 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.960 realistic expectation is that he's on the fifty three and 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.520 gets a jersey on game day. I mean we'll go 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.800 from there. He's got to be he can't just be 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.720 a one trick pony. He can't. And because there's not 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.319 a lot of third and fifteen situations, third and nine, 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.199 because you get into third and seven. He put him 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:26.880 on the field, and if he's a guy that just 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.680 wants to get sacks and get numbers that I'm gonna 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.480 run right at him. I'm gonna run the ball right 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.160 at him and see what happens, or let him come 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.280 up the field and then just run right past him 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.760 as great as Dwight Freeney and those and Mathis were 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.520 for the Colts for so many years. You could run 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.000 the ball on him because that's all they wanted to 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.280 do is get sacks, you know. So he can't just 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.840 be a guy that goes out there and looking for numbers. 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:50.640 He's gonna have to be a guy that that can 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.240 play and you know, and stop the run and do 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.400 all those kinds of things. So it'll be interesting to 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.720 see just how he develops here at camp. We're gonna 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.600 take phone calls throughout the show. You guys give us 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.600 a fall of us a call. The numbers ninety seven 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.880 two four nine seven forty four hundred. It again is 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:09.079 nine seven two four nine seven forty four hundred. We'll 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.520 take questions when you guys call us, and I want 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.920 to get into Actually we're gonna before we get or 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.760 we're going to head into a break. I'll set up 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.200 the next segment before we do, though, I want to 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.240 talk a little bit big picture. We're heading into the 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.560 second day of practices. It's the day before they're gonna 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.959 start with pads starting next week. We're gonna dive a 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.079 little more into position groups. But looking big picture at 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.000 this team. I want to talk a little bit about 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.439 what we think are the biggest strengths of this team, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.040 which I think I'm not positive, but I think most 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:38.640 of us will agree in what we think is the 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.200 biggest strength. However, then I want to talk a little 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:42.920 bit about what are the challenges. What are the things 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.080 that this team right now faces, things that this team 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.760 has challenges because you look across the NFL. I was 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.200 thinking about this this morning. You look across the NFL, 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.840 and really, even in just the NFC, there are a 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.959 ton of really really good teams. There are tons we think, yeah, 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.240 we think there and I should put it like this, 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:00.880 there are a lot of team on paper, have a 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.119 ton of talent. You look at a team like Atlanta, 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.560 it looks stacked right. And you look at teams like 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.320 Green Bay that always are going to be good because 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.120 they got Aaron Rodgers. 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But before we do, we do 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.000 have one phone call. Will jump on. This is Nick 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.960 and Indiana. Nick, what up? Say? Nicker Corlay and Home 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:02.000 with Jalen Smith and Anthony Spencer. Hey, what's up? What's 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:06.200 got good? I guess my question is about the opening 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.000 kickoff and Garrett's philosophy with his offensive find it. We 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.280 want the ball, we want to score. Last year, the 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.960 Cowboys got the ball fourteen times to start the game, 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:20.320 and they scored one offensive touchdown in fourteen tries. You 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.040 flip that and look at the opponent that got the 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.520 second half kickoff against us. They scored a touchdown six 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:31.160 times coming out of halftime. And my guess my argument 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.840 against it is just as a player when I played, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:35.880 I was amped up to start the game. The crowd 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.240 was amped up, the defense was amped up, everybody was 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.200 amped up. Coming out of halftime, the crowd still at 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:45.200 the concession stands. You know, you're not as amped up, 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.520 and you're kind of in the game slow, you know 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.480 what's going on. I just think as an offensive mind 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.840 to coach, I understand that he wants the ball, we 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.880 want to score. But when you get fourteen tries that 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.480 you only score one touchdown, do you think you need 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.520 to inspect an adapt against Jared offensive philosophy. And I'd 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.960 just like to get your guys's opinion on that. If 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.320 I'm crazy, then I'm crazy. But you're definitely not that 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.320 because kind of how I feel about it. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.480 you're you're you're kind of preaching to the choir on this. 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.080 Remember I'll let you guys talk about it. When you 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.760 talked about this every Monday, every Monday, which you're right, 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:16.879 and I'll you know. In twenty sixteen they did the 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:18.760 same thing and it worked and it was great and 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.960 I love being aggressive. It was awesome. Like read the 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.200 room though, which I think that's that no serious, like 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.720 that's true. That's the balance, though, was like, well, you 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.480 want to show your offense you believe in them, and 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.280 you be aggressive, but they never do it. So probably 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.640 around mid season, maybe you should switch it up, because 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:38.240 there were at least at least like four games where 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:42.240 that noticeably bit them in the butt, like noticeably in 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.160 the third quarter. Like it doesn't matter if you're up 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.119 by ten, if you're up by three, if it's tied, 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:52.080 if you're down by fourteen. In every scenario, you feel 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.520 more comfortable that you've got the football. You can either 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.080 pad this lead, you can take control, or you can 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.960 get back in the game quickly because you've got the ball. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.720 I just don't understand it all everything that Color said 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.000 it was right about the crowd and all that stuff. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.600 I mean, halftimes twelve minutes long, no one's back in 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.600 their seat, and you take the ball and you go 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:13.480 down to the score. It happens every time. I think 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:19.000 it's just stubborn and idiotic, honestly, to keep doing it 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.159 the way they did it, will I will say no sense, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.120 like I said in twenty sixteen, when there is a 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.720 boatload of data to prove that this works, you can 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.560 talk me into it. But yeah, read the room like 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.760 it wasn't working, and it baffled and frustrated me that 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.960 they just kept just hammering that wall for no reason 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:40.879 and it was dumb. The thing for me is, you 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.639 have a young quarterback. If you have an opportunity to 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.080 let that young quarterback see what the other team is 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.399 doing throughout the first half and then come out of 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.399