WEBVTT - Girls Talk, ‘Boys Talk: Room For Concern? 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:02.440 The following. 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:04.559 He is a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and the 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:06.240 Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:09.320 Cowboys. 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:15.600 This is Girls Talk Boys Talk, presented by Jigsaw of Dating, 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:20.680 preferred dating partner of the Dallas Cowboys, and broadcasting live 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.040 from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.000 Well, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome back to Girls Talk Boys Talk, 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.480 presented by Jigsaw, the preferred Dating partner of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.360 I'm Jessnavaras, joined alongside Aysian Morrison and Christie Scales here 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.760 on this Wednesday afternoon here at the Beautiful Star in Frisco. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.600 Some rain, a little bit of a drizzle, some clouds, 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.520 and it's actually feeling a little bit like fall over 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:47.200 here in Frisco. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.400 So dare I say? Dare I say? It? 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:53.600 Pumpkin season officially, So I hope everybody gets a celebratory 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:55.880 pumpkin spice latte because it feels a little more like 0:00:55.960 --> 0:01:00.720 fallout side. But as far as all things, els Cowboys. 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.520 Cowboys had a walk through practice today and we got 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.319 the injury report, so I wanted to start off with 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.520 that because I know there's some panic going on on 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.520 social media. So here we are to alleviate the panic 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.399 for you guys. Starting with wide receiver Brandon Cooks. He 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.440 did not participate today with the knee injury, Tyler Smith 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.120 hamstring injury, also did not participate. Donovan Wilson still dealing 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.560 with that cath injury, also not participating, and Tyron Smith 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.800 inkle was a full go again. It is important to 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:28.800 note that it was a walk through today once again, 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.200 just wanted to remind. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:30.399 You of that. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.800 And Christy, we just heard from Mike McCarthy in a 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.720 press conference today that talked a little bit about it. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.040 What was your biggest takeaways from what he said about 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.880 all of these guys as far as injuries and possible returns. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.959 That they're hopeful that Donovan Wilson may actually get some 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.840 in practice work tomorrow when they have a real practice 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.400 and not just a walkthrough or as McCarthy called it, 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.600 a jog through this afternoon, but as a walk through. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.920 So I think that's promising. But that he and Tyler 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.640 Smith today just on this. I'd work in resistance cords 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.080 with the training staff, but I saw that as a 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:08.519 positive that Donno maybe getting closer to getting. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.040 Back, and then also to a couple other things. 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.799 I took from the press conference was how well Micha 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.920 McCarthy spoke of Marque's bell and a Vidoga. And so 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.000 when you start looking at the injuries that we're talking about, 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.680 you say to yourself, Yeah, I think right now, given 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.600 that the way those two gentlemen played that you could 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.919 expect that maybe they're comfortable with them moving forward. If 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.000 these guys are not ready to go, if they're especially 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.120 with hamstrings, we've talked about it, they can be lingering. 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.560 So why rush it if you've seen good performance from 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:40.440 those guys already? 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.919 Yeah, And it sounds like Tyler Smith that it may 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.560 take a little more time because there was no promise 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.160 that he's taken full part tomorrow. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:48.440 He said he's a little behind. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.079 He said that Donno had kind of the lead, if 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:56.120 you will, and who's closer to getting back. And it's 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.760 just so interesting too because with Tyler Smith still being 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.000 a bit of a question mark, and then Chumidoga, we 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.400 don't do we know what happened to him in the game. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.640 Christie Reeve Adoga just got poked in the eye. He 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.480 missed a couple of plays. He went back in. But 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.920 then the next series is when they went with the 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.040 younger guys. That was in the fourth quarter when they 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.720 turned it over to the backup, so TJ. Bass went 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.600 back in and then you had that's when awesome. Richards 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.720 replaced Tyrone Smith at left tackle. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.520 Awesome, awesome, And what I wanted to mention about that, Ayusa, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.440 I'm going to defer to you for this one after 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.520 you went back and you've watched this game, I'm assuming 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:29.560 multiple times from. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.240 This point for your film study. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.080 What have you noticed from Chumaydoga and how he's playing 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.080 in this position, given if he has to play again 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.200 this weekend, what are some of the things that you know. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.360 Mike McCarthy mentioned he can get even better with a 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.000 full week of practice. What are some of those things 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.920 that you noticed that he can improve on? But also 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:46.000 some things he did well well? 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.600 Yeah, Well, one thing that worried me about Tuma at 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.880 left tackle from training camp, which is just the footwork 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.400 and when you get into a guard that minimizes some 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.680 of that. You're in a phone booth, it's smaller, it's 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:57.880 a smaller workspace. 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:59.960 But I thought he handled power really well. 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:02.760 There were some slippers at certain points in time, but 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.600 I thought he held his own pretty well. And also 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.800 too in the run game, he did some good things 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:07.960 get into the second level. 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:09.200 Also pin it and pull in. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.760 If you look at that big run by TP, the 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.280 twenty five yarder, he pulls around and he seals off 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.920 the gentleman's so he can make that cut. And so 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.560 I just saw some good things with his movement. And yeah, 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.960 like I said, encourage and play and I think it's 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.640 more than enough to get you through because that interior 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.600 that you just saw is one of the best you're 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:30.240 going to see. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.800 This interior also is one of the best you're going 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.919 to see. So he getting a lot of practice. But 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:37.400 he getting a lot of practice, you understand. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.040 I was gonna say, speaking of one of the best 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.839 war we're gonna see, I used his film study never disappoints. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.720 You'd love to see it. What else I wanted to mention? 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.920 Something else I want to mention rather is Brandon Cooks right? 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:49.599 And when you saw his name pop up on the 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.599 practice report, a little bit of panic kind of surges 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.440 through your body because it is so early in all 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.280 of that. Micha McCarthy talking about it a little bit 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.360 more in the press conference, he said it did. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:04:59.200 Happen during the game. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.480 Now, what was interesting is, again you have this constant 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.760 rotation of receivers in this room between veteran and younger 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.640 guys that can come in and kind of alleviate. And 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.920 we've talked about this before. It it extends a long 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.359 longevi to give everybody's season when you're able to do that. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.400 What I wanted to ask you guys both is there 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.440 was no indication really that Brandon Cooks was dealing with 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:21.640 anything from what we saw. 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.120 He came over to the sideline and he was talking 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.919 with the athletic trainers, but he never sat on the 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:31.599 bench and was intended to buy the athletic trainers or 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.000 the team physicians and never went into the blue tint. 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.720 I think that he went back in the game, but 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.000 remember this was like later in the second half, and 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.080 so honestly, a lot of the guys weren't going back 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.160 in because if you recall it, with a forty to 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.839 nothing lead, the end of that game looked like a 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.359 preseason game where it was the young guys out there 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.160 getting the reps as much as it. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.159 And this is why we love Christy because again on 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.680 the broadcast version, but you can't really see all those things, 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.520 and so I'm so glad you bring that up, Ayisha. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.840 What I wanted to ask you was, you know we 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.120 you pointed it out that Mark Lane tweeted this, and 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.080 Mark Lane I messaged him to get his title correct 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:13.360 on here. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:14.320 I don't want to mess it up. 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.720 Mark worked with the Texans Wire in USA today covering 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:20.920 the Texans. He had tweeted out that Brandon Cooks is 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.480 a guy that would take some better in days off 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.040 when he was with the Texans. Again, you're talking about 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.040 a guy that you you forget how seasoned he. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.280 Is when it comes to his time in the NFL. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.479 Right, and so let's take the temperature tomorrow after a 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.080 full practice. Yes, Brandon Cooks will still be on the 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.359 report tomorrow. If he's a d n P did not practice, 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.880 then then okay, let's let's let's start to work. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:44.640 Turn up the panicle. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.680 Yeah, uh huh, Well for for for a again, if 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.880 he's limited or you know, if it's a d n P, 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.240 I'll be worried. If it's limited, I'll feel much better 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:55.120 going into Sunday. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.120 Absolutely, And that's why I wanted to kick off this 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.400 first block talking about this because again, bottom line, no 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.640 need to panic just yet and again. 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.720 Brandon Cooks is a guy that all of these players. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.760 And coaches alike have praised NonStop of how he takes 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.200 care of his body exactly. So if anybody knows his 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.360 body well enough to understand when he should, you know, 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.520 kind of take a step back, or if something's sore, 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.560 kind of nagging him, it's Brandon Cooks. Brandon Cooks does 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.600 nothing but preach of how to take care of your 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.480 body to these young guys. There's a reason he's still 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.000 playing at the level he played ten years in. There's 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.520 a reason he's so fast ten years in. It's because 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.160 he takes care of his body NonStop. Something we've just 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.480 heard echoed over and over from really everybody. Cavante Turpin, 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.160 Michael Gallup, Jalen Tolbert, I mean, Jalen Brooks. All of 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.320 these guys will tell you NonStop, first thing you asked 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:41.280 them about Brandon Cooks. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:42.920 Oh man, he tells me how to take care of 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.400 my body, tells me how to eat right. I'm not 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:46.240 worried about it yet. 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:47.400 Well, it's selfishly. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.080 I want to see him go against Sauce Gardner, who 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.600 was off a defensive rookie of the year last year 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:59.440 the outstanding Jets cornerback, And it was Troy Aikman that 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.880 pointed out Monday Night Football that the Jets, the way 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.559 they usually play, they play sides. You know, they don't 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.000 take their top guy and necessarily have them follow the 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:12.800 top receiver around. So if the Jets continue to do that, 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.880 then that means we'll get to see Sauce Gardner go 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.480 against everybody, against Sad, against Brandon, against Gallops. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:19.840 So that's going to be fun to watch. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:21.560 And we're going to get into more of those key 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:26.240 matchups as this podcast continues on as we get later 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.080 into our show real quick, if you have any questions, 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.720 you can always text us at eight one seven two 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.080 nine zero three two ninety and what I mean always, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:35.880 I mean now until four to forty five. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.440 Central time when this podcast ends. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.040 Then we will not be available to answer questions. But 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.480 until then, text us your questions. 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I'm looking at their practice report right now 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.000 and there's no defensive player on there for today. For 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:10.040 what they reported, you have two O line guys and 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.000 then you have Reese Hall, who who you were just 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.800 gonna talk about, Christy. They're in the running back situation. 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:21.040 All limited so again, nothing really on the Jet side 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.200 of things to look at as far as injuries get. 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.520 But I'm not sure if they had an actual practice, 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:28.760 oh walk through, they had to walk. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.040 Through short week for them coming off a Monday night game. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.600 There you go. So let's get into it, because again, 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:35.800 the talk of this. 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:40.520 Jets team was obviously the situation with Aaron Rodgers going 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.720 down officially out for the rest of the season. However, 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.600 the other conversation was how they rallied to come back. 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.440 They really played until the end of that game to 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.200 win in overtime against the Bills as well. So let's 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:53.920 get into it on the defensive side of the ball, 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.600 because I think that's where a lot of conversation should 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:58.360 go towards. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:11:59.960 First, we'll switch side. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.920 It's because we know kind of what the Cowboys defense 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:04.720 can do and it is capable of. But let's start 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.240 with the Jets defense against the Cowboys offense. Aisha our 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:12.040 film study, gal is, what are some of the key 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.839 matchups Keith things, anything really that we can kick off 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:17.839 this conversation with that you notice right off the. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.240 Bat, Well, there's similarities. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.720 I think Mike McCarthy actually said it today in his 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.480 press conference he said, this defensive line depth is one 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.560 of the best we'll see, and that's one of the 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.800 things that that's one of the things that the Cowboys 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.640 have at their disposal, because you even saw in this 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.880 past game that they put their second string defensive line 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.960 out there and they were dominant. Also, so the Jets 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.840 also have that luxury. They have obviously they have Quentin Williams, 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:47.760 John Franklin Myers, Lord Quin Jefferson, will McDonald, who's a 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.520 guy that I was very high on come out of 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.200 the draft, and so they can give you give you 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.440 defensive fronts and ways. But one of the biggest things 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.320 I noticed was they're spacing as a defense, and I 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.640 think that it really dictates a lot of what they're 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.800 able to do. They line their defensive linemen will They 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.439 line their defensive ends out so wide, and that's because 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.080 they're trying to funnel you or basically force you to 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.960 run the ball inside because that is their strength, right, 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.480 So I think the Cowboys are going to have opportunities 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:20.000 to run at the edges to take advantage of their 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.840 spacing because they space, They kind of spread things out 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.120 so their playmakers can make plays and they play a 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:27.719 lot of zone too, which is. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:28.439 Something I noticed. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:32.720 They're they're not exotic like Wink where they're doing a lot. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.719 Of different fronts. They're trying to disguise them. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.000 Don't think that's they don't have to be. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:38.319 That's a great point by Christy. 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.600 Yes, they don't have to be this throwing all these 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.800 different things at you. One thing I will say is 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.920 that the Cowboys offensive line is going to have to 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:51.160 be ready to deal with the blitzing because when they blitz, 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.000 they are successful because they have the opportunity to rush 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.160 for and still get pressure. So I think there will 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.200 be opportunities there in the secondary. Dek is very good 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:03.040 against zone and we'll see how things fare. But those 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.600 are just some of the things I noticed right away 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.240 looking at them. And they also tackle very well too, 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.880 so you're gonna have to try to get Yack opportunities 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:11.559 out there as well. 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.640 Yeah, I love that, Christy. I want to defer to 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.200 you on this one. I used to just talking about 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.760 the Jets secondary. Jordan Whitehead is a guy that I 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.400 know you wanted to talk about specifically in this segment, 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.840 and you know the three interceptions that he had just 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:27.880 absolutely bullying Josh Allen during that Monday Night game. Let's 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.320 talk about that, because you have a little interesting nugget. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.160 As you do every time I come on this podcast. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.760 I'm just amazed how Christy's brain works. What is your 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.960 nugget for the day on Jordan Whitehead and what we. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:39.560 Should know about? 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.000 Yeah, well, I think a lot of folks heard are 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.480 read on social media, and then it was picked up 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.720 in national media about his three interceptions that he hit 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:52.800 the season long incentive, a bonus if he had three 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.120 interceptions this year. In his contract, there was a clause 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.480 where he would make two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.960 Didn't take him the season, he did it on Monday Night. Okay, 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.920 so two hundred and fifty thousand dollars extra congratulations toward 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.200 and that's awesome. But I wanted to talk about some 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:13.040 of the Cowboys who also have incentives in their contracts. So, 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:17.520 for example, Stefan Gilmour, who had an interception for the 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:23.440 Cowboys on in Monday Nights when was Stefan If he 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:29.080 makes first team All NFL, he gets a one million 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:33.280 dollar bonus that's in his contract. If he plays seventy 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:37.040 percent of defensive snaps two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.560 If he hits eighty percent of defensive snaps, that's another 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:42.680 two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So that'd be five 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.640 hundred thousand dollars. If he plays ninety percent of defensive snaps, 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.880 this is over the course of the whole season, five 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.960 hundred thousand dollars added to the two fifty. The two fifty, 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:57.200 so one million dollars. So, for example, Dak Prescott has one. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.280 If he plays fifty percent of offensive snaps and the 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.320 Cowboys get a Super Bowl win, he gets a million 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.880 dollar bonus. Malik Hooker with his new contract, if he 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:12.400 has five interceptions this season and the Cowboys make the playoffs, 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.920 he gets an extra five hundred thousand dollars. If he 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.640 plays in eighty five percent of defensive snaps and the 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.080 Cowboys make this makes the playoff, they make the playoffs 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.040 sets an extra half million dollars. 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.440 But there's one thing. There aren't too many players. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.920 This is this year we have a lot more incentive 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.480 Leyden contracts than we've had in previous years. That's because 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.800 when you're bringing in guys like Stefan Gilmour, when you're 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.680 re signing a veteran like Malik Hooker, or when you 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:47.880 have Tyrone Smith restructuring his contract. Tyrone took basically gave 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:54.440 back some money to in restructuring. But if he plays 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:58.800 fifty percent, sixty percent, seventy percent of snaps, he'll get 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.440 million dollars in incentives for playing time. But here's the 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:07.040 important thing to know about. There are two kinds of 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.919 bonuses likely to be earned and not likely to be earned. 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.439 If it's a likely to be earned incentive, like guys 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:19.800 have per game active bonuses, you assume that guys are 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.959 going to be able to play that money counts against 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.040 your salary cap this year, but these less likely are 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:31.280 not likely to be earned, like Malik getting five interceptions 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:36.200 that would count against next year's cap. Interesting, but it's 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.119 something that Jerry Jones. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.080 Would love to pay. He would love to. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.200 Pay Dak Prescott a million dollar bonus because it means 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.479 we've won the Super Bowl and Dak has played at 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.040 least fifty percent of snaps. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.840 So you know, it's very common to have per game 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:54.880 active deal. 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.440 So for example, Leyton vander Esh, his per game active 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:02.280 bonus is twenty nine the thousand dollars four hundred twenty nine, 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.399 four hundred and eleven dollars, So he was active on 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.720 in the first game. He got that, but that's accounted 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:13.200 for in the salary cap. But Jordan Lewis, who also 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.199 gets in his contract twenty nine, four hundred and eleven 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.959 dollars if he's active in a game, well, guess what. 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:24.240 He wasn't active in that game last Sunday, Week one 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.080 because of his injury, and so come in as he's 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.439 working back from the foot injury, so he doesn't get that. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:32.080 So insane. 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.359 Yeah, so you have you have to play. 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.280 So like for example, let me, let me pick a 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:39.840 player and then I'm going to have you guys play. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.320 I'm going to have you I'm going to have you play. 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:47.440 He's just fac I'm a little shook, like, no, why 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:48.280 are they money like that? 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:52.359 The complications, I guess not complications that is not a 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.080 great word for it, but the complexities that go into 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:55.959 these contracts. 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:57.600 That's a great point. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:59.720 Now let's let's let's use a veteran because we're talking 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:01.560 about guys who are in the league and you bring 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:05.080 them in in free agency and so these aren't necessarily 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:07.399 part of you know, part of a standard rookie contract. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:11.640 They're not Dante Fowler. Okay, Dante Fowler, who is part 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.120 of the defensive line rotation. 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.800 And if you, if you were Dante's. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:21.600 Of agent, Aisha, what would you look for in terms 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.760 of number of sacks? He has a certain number that 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.160 if he reaches it this year, he's going to get 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.600