WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Continuity Matters 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.320 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:16.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club cos. Are you ready 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.880 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:24.200 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:29.560 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:34.280 Wall with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and bar Garcia 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:39.880 and Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, November second, twenty twenty two, 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.880 Season eighteen, episode number sixty four. Welcome to the latest 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.360 edition of The Break. We're live from the s WBC 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.680 Mortgage Studios at the Star, presenter by Milla like the 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.160 only Beer of the Dallas Cowboys. And for a second 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.360 day in a row, I've got a Esha Morrison, I've 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.160 got Buried Church joining me. I Hesa's from Girls Talk 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.600 Boys Talk Berries from Players Lounge and as we're doing 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:00.760 throughout all of our podcasts from Mixed It Up this week. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.400 And uh, I think we had a really good show yesterday. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.280 I told those folks on them on the Break that 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:06.920 you did that with me. I was like, y'all, might 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.080 y'all might want to check this out, like your seats 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.839 your seats are yes, you know, we got some people 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.520 over here doing some good stuff. So we're gonna finish 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.680 that today. We're gonna actually get into more of that 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:24.160 mid year review. We got some more questions for you guys. 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.760 Questions had me last night at home thinking I could 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:30.920 I could have I could, Yeah, I could have. I 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:35.160 sec It was the Quinn that one for me. It 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.080 hurt me, hurt me. The funny thing is, that's why 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.080 I don't send the rundown for stuff like this, is 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:41.520 because I want to get you. I want to get 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.800 your your opinion without you having to put it through 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.520 a filter. I want to get exactly what's on your 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.240 mind in the moment. And uh, and that's what I 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.880 got yesterday, Riddler vibes. So we got some of that, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:53.560 and then we also will get some questions. So if 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.080 you guys want to send some questions, you can hit 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.280 me on Twitter send some questions, and you can also 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:58.560 call us. We might get some of those in the 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.800 third segment. Eight eight eight eight five five two two 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:05.080 ninety seven is our number. Let's start first with Yesterday 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.600 was the day that the NFL I had this deadline 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.480 for trades. Uh, it went, came and went, and the Cowboys, 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.600 no how disappointed were you guys that the Cowboys didn't 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.200 make a move? I can't. I don't know. I guess 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.120 I was a little like disappointed just because of all 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.800 the conversation. But then like when I rationalized it, I 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.359 was like, all right, I mean because you gotta get 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:33.280 over it. I mean, like there's nothing a deadliness, a deadline, right, 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.360 So at this point, I'm like, all right, this is 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.760 what you got. Let's keep working like us. That's how 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.160 I work. Sorry, without I was slightly disappointed as well, 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.360 especially you know, after I heard all the you know, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.240 Brandon Cooke situation going on between the Cowboys and the 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.400 Texans and how it came down to the last minute. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.360 Not sure if that really how it went down, but 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.240 I was slightly disappointed because we talked about it yesterday. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.600 And you know, with these wide receivers, Okay, you got 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.720 CD Lamb, but if anything, you know, God forbid anything 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.239 ever were to happen to CD Lamb, I mean that 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.000 wide receiver corp. You're talking about, Noah Brown, you know, 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.760 a gallup coming off acl Turpin who hasn't really you 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.160 know ingratiated himself into this offense yet, so to me, 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.560 you know, Cooks would have been that perfect guy to 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.800 come in here and do things. But it went, and 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.880 it came, and it went and nothing happened. So I 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.000 guess they're satisfied with what they got on the outside, 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.720 and hopefully this team can take the most, uh, you know, 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.839 the most of it. Yeah. I think that's the key 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.000 right there, is if everything goes according to plan, if 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:32.320 everybody stays healthy, then you might be okay. That's that's 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.800 the part that worries me. You got a lot of ifs, 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.360 and then you might be okay. Um and and and 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.280 so you just at this point, you're just crossing your 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.720 fingers and hoping that these guys stay healthy. You're hoping 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.120 that they continue to build on that development that they've 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.120 or some of that that success that they saw last week. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.440 You hope that these tight ends stay healthy as well, 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.800 because they supplement that wide receiving corps um and that's 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.080 a good I think there. They are strength of this team. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.760 So you're you're hoping on a lot of things. Hope 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:00.960 it's not a strategy. Open on a lot of things 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.880 right now, and we'll see how it goes down the stretch. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.320 It's really interesting because when you start thinking about the NFC, 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.240 and we're gonna talk about this a little later. One 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:09.560 of the questions I have for you guys what you 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.400 think about the NFC. And people talk to say it's 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.800 wide open. I don't know that it's necessarily wide open, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:16.240 because you do have some teams right there at the 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.360 top that are pretty good. Trying to be Philadelphia is 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.200 going to be a challenge, Minnesota is going to be 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.760 a challenge. And I tend to believe one of those teams, 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.520 whether it's Green Bay, Tampa Bay, somebody we're not talking 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.279 about right now, it has one of those all world 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.920 quarterbacks is gonna get hot at some point the figure 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.800 it out, right, And does Green Bay get hot the 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:38.920 week you play them next week? Right? So there are 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.479 all those things you gotta factor into this. And I 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.599 just don't think the NFC is just as wide open 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.840 as everybody says it is. It may not be as 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.080 top heavy as as AFC, where you got those two 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.919 top teams there, but it's definitely has some challenges and 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.560 the Cowboys are gonna need some help to get there. 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.479 I think, without a doubt, like you said, it's not 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.040 as wide open as people would come to think about 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.080 it because there's some bad matchups for the Cowboys, and 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:01.680 I can think of three off the top of my head. 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.360 You're looking at Philly, who they've already gone against. They 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.400 can run the ball extremely well, and we all know 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.000 that's kind of the Achilles heel of this Dan and 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.360 Quinn defense is allowing the rush. I think they're what 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.640 twentieth or twenty first in the league against the run, 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.000 so they gotta fix that. So Philly to me, is 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.400 a bad matchup. Then you also look at what they're 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.800 doing in Minnesota. They got Delvin Cook out there. Kirk 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.440 Cousins is having one of his best seasons as a 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.280 professional so far, so to me, that's a bad matchup 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:26.880 as well. And they can play defense a little bit 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.840 over that they can't get after the exactly and a 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.839 team that's you know right now, they're in the middle. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.520 But I think they're gonna catch a little bit. It's 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:37.200 a San Francisco forty nine year they had last year, 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.680 and they got CMC out there. He's starting to do 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.920 his thing. They can run the football as well, and 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.479 they're a hard nosed defense. We've seen that gives the 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.920 Cowboys problems in the past, so it's not as wide 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.760 open as you would think. There's some teams that have 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.560 bad matchups for the Dallas Cowboys. Let's look forward to 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.479 see what they can do against them. Now, you definitely 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.480 name some of the teams that I've been looking at 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.159 and just kind of how when you start when you 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.360 look at Minnesota, forty nine ers know who they are, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.440 they have an identity. You look at Minnesota, they look 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.480 like they're starting to find their identity again because offensively, 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.200 I feel like they've been very up and down the 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.680 last couple of years. And then also too you start 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.520 talking about green Bay in those places. I mean, granted, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.040 I right now when you look at what's happening with 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.240 some of these teams that they also are in this 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.880 place where their wide receivers are young and they're trying 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.520 to develop their team. So you are looking to see 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.719 if they start figuring things out later in the season 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.720 as you know, these players develop. But when you start 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.159 talking about getting into December, it's about to start looking 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.400 crazy for a lot of teams, because when it gets cold, 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:37.839 a lot more guys get injured. Like your muscles feel different, 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.919 your body feel different, like when it starts getting cold, 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.880 and those like also when you start talking about the 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.080 Cowboys in the November, you know, they have that stretch 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.719 where it's like what like three games like twentelve days 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.680 or something like that. So health I think in this 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.640 time of the year is what's going to really start 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.440 making the difference with what we're going to see this 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.200 NFC shape out too, because everything's grave with a lot 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.159 of these teams right now. All nobody heard everybody fine, yeah, okay, 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:04.760 let's see in a couple of weeks of seeing a 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.640 couple of weeks with everything is starting to pan out 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.200 to look like yeah, and let's not forget about Seattle 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.960 as well. I forgot to throw them. It's up there. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.800 He's doing. Nobody expected it. That's why nobody's talking about it. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.720 But they are quietly. They got a good defense. Their 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.720 defense is good. Geno's playing good ball. Obviously, he's got 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.120 those two receivers out there. They also can run the 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:25.880 ball like this. There's a lot of things about that 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.240 team that should make you a little bit concerned. DA 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.320 Dallas Cowboys, let me ask you guys this question. Last week, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.840 the Cowboys make their move as far as a trade 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.640 is concerned. They get Jonathan Hankins and I think we 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.600 all agreed Jonathan Hankins was a nice additional for the team. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:41.680 Do you think we'd have a different opinion of what 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.200 they did at the deadline if they'd have made that 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.600 move yesterday as opposed to last week. No, people are 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.160 still because well I'm not talking about general fans, because 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.160 general fans they're never gonna be happy. We know that 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.480 they're not gonna be happy. We know that. You ask him, 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.320 I'm saying, I'm saying, you guys, would would you? And 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:56.880 both you guys said you were a little disappointed. I 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:58.960 also was a little disappointed yesterday they to make a move. 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.000 But would you have felt differently if Hankins would have 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:05.920 happened yesterday? I mean maybe, I guess. I mean, because 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.000 they're addressing they are actively addressing a need, like a 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:13.080 real obviously a real need. So it's like but I guess, 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.760 I mean, obviously everyone is looking for hoping for that 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.440 that splash player or or a player offensively, I think 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.119 most of the worry here is offense rather for most people, 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.760 So the addition to the defense would be like it 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.400 was great, Like I think it's fantastic, but I think obviously, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.480 like though I receive position is what people are worried 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.319 about right now. No doubt, I think I would have 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.120 felt a little bit better if it happened like now, 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.200 because it happened, you know, it happened, you know, last week, 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.280 and we're thinking, I know it's early, you know, just 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.439 being here, we're thinking, Okay, he's gonna come in here 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.440 and make an immediate impact for this rush defense. He 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.559 came in there, and Chicago still put up two hundred 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.840 forty yards on the ground. But yeah, but you know, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.400 and I saw this, I'll throw this out. Michael Gelkin 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.559 covers the Cowboys for Dallas Morning News. He put out 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.920 an interesting tweet and I thought it was really really 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.840 well done because what he said in the tweet was 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.120 basically he broke down the number of plays when Hankins 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.400 was on the field versus when not, and when Hankins 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.760 was on the field, they average three point five yards 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.720 per carry. And he had kind of this video montage 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.040 you put together the different plays that Hankins was out there. Yeah, 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.760 he wasn't was nothing coming through there, like he was 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.280 manning that middle of that defense. Teams that like we 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.760 talked about yesterday, like it's good for them to be 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.000 putting out like this better tape. I think it's going 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.880 to be important for people to see that if you don't, 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.240 if you don't double team him, I mean lights out, 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.760 because he's definitely he has the ability to get off 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.120 of off of blocks and definitely get in there and 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.880 make tackles. Yeah, and the question becomes how much can 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.839 he take right if he is, if he's getting if 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.400 the number of snaps that he got this last game 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.440 is indicative of what he's going to get down the stretch, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.560 and that still leaves you exposed quite a bit because, 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.240 as you said, they still put up two hundred and 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.360 forty yards. Right. If you think you can increase that 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.319 and he's actually going to be out there a lot more, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.880 now you can feel like, okay, it's a Cowboys. You 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.760 can feel like, Okay, we might solve this problem because 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.200 we know with time he'll get more snaps, and with 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.000 more snaps, we think our run defense will be a 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.719 lot better. Otherwise, teams will just say, when Hangins is 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.560 out there, we're not gonna run as much exactly, And 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.319 when he's on the sideline, hey load him up, let's go, 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.440 let's get on. And that's the thing, you know, can 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.520 he be you know, I'm not looking for him to 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.640 be a three down lineman because you know, every down, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:22.079 you know, the pass rush and all that stuff. I 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.320 understand that they're gonna be some rotation in there, but 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.720 can he be a first and second down run stopper 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.840 for the entirety of the game. That's what it's gonna 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.839 come down to. Conditioning wise. Is he gonna be able 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.240 to take that beating because being a big body in there, 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.080 he's there to basically make sure those offensive linemen don't 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.120 get to the second level and gobble up and running lads. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:39.800 So he's gonna be taking hits left and right from 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.559 double teams, all types of stuff trying to move him 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.600 out of the way. Can he take that punishment for 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.320 the entirety of the game and for the rest of 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.360 the season. I mean, the jewelry is still out on that. 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.680 But for him, like you said, three point five yards 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.319 of rush while he's in there, that's huge for this 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.760 rush defense overall. Well, I also think that takes some 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.280 pressure off of Bohannah, who's been playing you know a 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.080 lot more knows I guess, than what he would normally do. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.319 Not having a trip like a true nose in there 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.080 right now makes a difference. So I would wonder if 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.240 they're gonna be able to find some packages that work, 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.560 you know, with Bohanna there and maybe Nevill next to 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.440 him to kind of put some more size in there 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.720 if he's not out there middle right. It is absolutely 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.079 but like when you're talking about the run defense, that's 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.400 the biggest concern. But I do, like I said, like teams, 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.360 teams should see that running up the middle when he's 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.160 there is probably gonna not probably not gonna be your 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.400 best bab You might want to run it. Yeah, he 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.240 might just be the best two gap guy you got 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.320 on this team. The decision making. Yeah, and you just 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.160 saw you saw it on some of those plays. But 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.000 I mean he's on the right side, he's showing right 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.560 and then they go left and he immediately flashes left 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.560 and he's right there in the way right. It's and 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.480 and for a big guy, uh and in the number 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.000 of times he's taking double team, so he's doing everything 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.680 you want a traditional big guy in the middle, one 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.480 technique type guy to be able to do. He's doing it. 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.400 He showed that in that last games. Question is how 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.720 much can they use him? How often can he be 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.520 on the field, and when he's all off, how much 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.160 is the decline if he's off? And I love the 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.640 addition because you know he's a vetting he understands his role. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.280 You know a lot of guy's going there. I'm getting 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:08.960 after the password. I gotta get this sack, I get 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.079 these numbers up. So you're not really doing what you're 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.760 supposed to do as a unit. But this guy, he understands. 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:15.640 Like you said, he's sitting there holding that too gap. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:17.880 Let me shed this guy to the right, let me 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.280 shed this guy to the left. I'm not necessarily concerned 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.520 with getting too much upfield to get after the quarterback 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.280 because a lot of times that's what happens in the 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.800 run defense. You see guys, just all my ears are 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.559 pent back. Let me get after this pass Russer, and 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.400 that creates lanes for the running back to get through. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.560 If you got a guy like Hankinson there that understands 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.079 his responsibility, understands how to play as a unit, it 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.280 should prove huge dividends for this defensive line and his 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.000 defense overall. I think that's important too. Like I'm sorry 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.040 if at that point I think that's important too. When 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:43.720 you talk about the locker room. You got a lot 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.280 of young players on a defensive one right, and so 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.720 this is actually something that I heard Tank talking about 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.480 a one or five point three defense, just you know, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.319 mentioning let the gap, integrity and stuff like that, and 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.560 guys kind of chasing you know, in some of our words, 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.520 chasing sacks and just you know. So I think it's 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.880 important that he's coming in here and he's kind of set. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.040 He sets the tone, sets the precedence for Hey, this 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.559 is this is your responsibility, this is what you play. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.400 We talked about just bringing veterans and how Jason Peters, 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.079 you know, with the left tack with the left tackle 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.680 Tyler Smith. I think it's a similar situation with this 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.200 young DT room for him to come in here and 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.520 be like, play your assignment, like to show what playing 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.920 your assignment does and how consistently have what that does 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.040 for you and your team. And he's got the skins 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.360 on the wall. I've been here ten years tracking you 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.160 can do this, and you can play for a long 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.320 time in this league doing your job. You don't have 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:33.760 to have the sacks. You can do your job and 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.440 the play a long time. Yeah. And two gapping is 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.000 not an easy technique to just gather. I mean, honestly, 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:40.880 we saw in twenty twenty one and when guys were 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:44.480 two gapping it was late struggle, right, so it's like, hey, um, 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.160 for him to come in here and do that, well, 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.160 it's going to be important for this team. So yeah, 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:49.720 all right, one other thing I wanted to hit real 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.280 quick before we take our break. Cowboys did make a 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.400 move yesterday they released Tristan Hill. You got surprised at 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.160 all by that move, honestly, so listen, this is a 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.559 dope thing, says y'all know I'm new here, so like 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:05.120 on my YouTube in like March, I said, like, you know, 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.400 Triston Hills, I ain't this tank. I ain't because the 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.120 ferocity he plays with the motor, all that stuff points 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.160 to like what dan Quinn still like. And I think 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.880 that's why he continued to try to, you know, developing everything. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.480 But I was surprised. I was like, dang, I was. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.600 I was like, dang, it was. It was kind of random. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.640 But then I thought about it. It makes sense given 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.040 you know what's going on at the DT position. Obviously 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:27.800 you're trying to get more size in there, trying to 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.400 really stop the run. Tristan is more of a you know, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.600 pass rush guy, you know, get up for your guy, 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.080 really aggressive guy. So to when it made sense because 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.280 you get so much pass rush, like maybe you're not 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.200 really looking for a lot of pass rush from your 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.200 DTS right now, So the move made sense. It's still 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.480 with shocking to me in some degree. To some degree, Yeah, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.640 without a daughter, it definitely made sense. And you know, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.920 I wasn't too surprised by this because if you look 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:52.640 at it, even though you know Tristan Hill was having 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.000 a great start to his young career. If you look 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:56.440 at what he's done in three and a half years 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.600 with the Dallas Cowboys, I mean thirty three tackles and 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.800 a half a sack. You know, with that type of 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.080 production and as deep as this defensive line is, it's 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:05.520 going to be hard for him to get on the field. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.120 And with that being said, you know, hey, I mean 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:09.920 hopefully you know he finds you know, where he's going, 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.440 you know, after the Cowboys, but with that type of production, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:14.680 it's going to be hard to crack the lineup. Yeah, 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.920 and I don't think he ever really fulfilled what they 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.040 expected out of him being a second round pick. I 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.160 think there are expectations where that he would be way 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.240 more involved, way more productive, as you were talking about, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.120 than he's been. So again, when you're talking about a 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.960 room that's deep, when you're talking about a defensive line 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.440 that's deep, when you talk about defensive lineman, now that 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.720 might be coming back here soon in Terrell Basham Like, 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:38.760 there's a lot of things that you have to consider, 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.440 and I just think that it just was you know, hey, 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.680 this is just the way we have to go because 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.000 that's where we are with this player and different regime. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.480 I mean that matters, Like I mean, it matters like 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.840 when you start looking at you know, this locker room, 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.040 a lot of these guys are are guys that have 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.760 been drafted here, like in this last couple. So I 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.200 just feel like it's I think it mattered that he 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.560 came from a different regime and the way that dan 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.440 Quinn plays defense as way he's teaching. So maybe they just, 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.760 like I said, maybe they want to just beef up 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.720 in the middle and go about their business. Yeah, all right, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.880 we'll take our first break. When we come back, we'll 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.040 jump into our midyear review. We got more questions for 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.840 these guys. I will come back Dawascowboys dot com Radio. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.520 Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.480 cheetahs Savanna. Todd believed the big cat repellent he bought 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.440 online was reliable. 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