✭ Cowboys vs Rams – FULL Recap: Standouts, Surprises Concerns & THE TRUTH

✭ Cowboys vs Rams – FULL Recap: Standouts, Surprises Concerns & THE TRUTH

Welcome in Cowboys Nation to episode 15 of the Sky into Eye Show and we have a pre-season recap for you guys. We got a whole lot to get into, so we’re going to try to cover as much as we can. I’m Skywalker still here with my lovely co-host as always, Aisha Morrison aka 2 I. What’s up? What’s up, man? Not much. We we we got a lot to get into. We I sound French right now, but we we got a lot to get into in this preseason recap. Um, a lot of fans are are Oh, so we got to kind of provide a levelheaded take here. But I get it. Football’s back. Some good, some bad. We got to cover it all to our Yeah, man. I I understand. Um, you know, this is your first time seeing your team. Yeah. In like any type of team form. I understand the excitement. I understand some of the angst, especially with the Cowboys nation. I feel like they’re so aware that, well, we’re so aware that it’s almost like a gift and a curse because you have so many people who will break it down for you. You know, the details. A lot of fans know the details, know the stuff. So, when you see so much wrong in a preseason game, it can stress you because you be like, “Doc, the penalties, the the the miss the missed tackles. I mean, everything feels really big.” Yes. everything feels really big to you because we have some very smart fans, you know, shout out to y’all. But also too, it’s just it’s the first time you see your team and y there’s expectations and when you see other other teams kind of having some exciting plays and winning preseason openers, a little bit of you starters playing starters playing, a little bit of you says, “Hey man, Dr. Se that be like that be like.” And let’s kind of get right into what you hinted at right there. So there was there was a lot of strange things that happened throughout the game, but I thought some of it started before it. You know, there there was some things that that gave that made me do the the wee bay face like, oh, I’m screaming. Oh, oh, so he’s not playing. It was a lot of humans. It was a lot going on. And and and coach Shotty elected to sit most of the starters. in fact, probably all the starters and a few of the rookies who or a rookie who I thought would play more and that’s Tyler Booker. So, just kind of your your overall thoughts when you saw the list of guys who did not play. Um, some of these dudes aren’t even legitimate, you know, fulltime starters throughout their career. Some of these guys I thought we would see like a Kaire Elum out there, Javvante Williams, but you know, and a Tyler Booker. What What was your thought initially when you saw that come down? Well, first of all, let me get to the list because I that’s why I’m trying I’m trying to get to the list of guys so I can pick and choose. I kind of understand like the Daks and the Lambs and stuff and pickings even though I would like to see some of the starters. I ain’t going to lie, because it’s a new offense to eye, but what about some of those auxiliary pieces that did not play? I mean, I was It sounds crazy. I was surprised that Hunter Lipkkey didn’t play with how essential he’s been and the things that they do offensively like the any motion that you see. I mean, you might see the wide receivers sometimes and again, they’ve shown us very little, but Hunter Lipkkey is so involved in almost every every passing play and every running play. And so to not see him out there with how important he is. And then obviously Booker being a rookie man, being a young guy that you know we expect and and also too we would like to see get more time because again even in the practices as I was saying before there were times he got stumped. You know I was hoping to see him. Um I I don’t know. I mean guess you you mentioned Elon with the secondary. This is what I’m going say about them. They really can’t risk it. They cannot risk it for no biscuit. No biscuit. No biscuit. I think that’s what they feel like. Let me Let me speak like that. I think that’s what they probably feel like is they can’t risk none of them going down. But if you afraid to play Elim, then you can’t play nobody that’s above him. If you’re afraid to play not you, but but if if the coaching staff is worried about to playing Elim and no offense to Elim. He’s having a fantastic off seasonason and things like that, but you get what I’m saying. This this isn’t Dak. This isn’t Lamb. This isn’t Pickings. This isn’t Jake Ferguson. Um, this is this is Kyum where if your room is healthy, he’s he’s likely, you know, your third, fourth quarter. No, I don’t know about fourth quarter, but it’s likely your third type guy. And and look, he’s new to this scheme, he’s new to this team. So, that still shocked me. Yeah. I mean, a guy like Sambourne, who obviously you brought in, but if he’s going to be mike, if he’s going to be your mic, it is important like that he gets this time. I think they wanted to see kind of how Murray and some of those guys handled things, but I don’t even think Murray didn’t even suit up. It, you know, didn’t suit up either. We We’ll get to the defensive notes. I don’t want to jump around as I just as I just said something, but but speaking of Sandborn, I will tell you what surprised me. Uh, it wasn’t Lee. It was it was it was uh Clark. So, that was interesting. We’ll get to that when we talk about the defense. But, you’re right. It was just a lot of players that I expected to go out there and play at least a couple series um that that did not. And you say another one. Who else? Sam Williams. Sam Williams coming off an ACL. Now that I wonder if that’s the injury thing. Maybe they’re trying to just slow roll him. Maybe they’re trying to temper him and that that would make sense. But I also like a lot of preseason also too for those guys that aren’t starters is conditioning. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, and I think they showed up in the game. We’ll talk about that. Yeah. But, no, I mean, some of the guys it just it just didn’t make sense to me. Would you want to see Cooper BB? Sorry. Sure. Yeah. I mean, he’s young. I mean, I get their starters, but so here’s the thing. Coach said this in the presser and this is what made me feel like he might play some of these guys next week. He said they had a I think he will. You know, he said we we this wasn’t just I keep saying we we like we’re in French again. God, he keeps saying, you know, we had a plan here. This wasn’t just some random thing. And I’m like, okay, coach, you know, I I I have to take you at face value right now. We’ll see next week. Um, if it comes out and half of these guys are playing, then whatever that plan was, I guess he wanted to see some of these other guys in the first preseason game, then okay, I’ll understand. But if we come out next week and this list is the same, I I I would just have to hit you with one of these. I don’t know what we’re doing here. No, I follow you, Twin, and I think that that’s the plan. And even so, like from some of the players interviews and stuff, some of them have mentioned preseason, like the starters. Some of them have mentioned playing in preseason. So, I do think you’re kind of on the right track of what the plan is. Maybe there was some specific guys that they just wanted to see, like you like you said, and it may not make sense to us, but if it makes sense to them, fine. Whatever. But well, that wasn’t the end of of some of the strange things happening. So to start this game, as we get on the field, two I first play pass, second play, pass, third play, pass, ch the very next possession, pass. I’m like, okay, what’s happening here? They come out and they throw the ball six straight times. And again, let’s let’s kind of backtrack again uh real quick and preface this thing. coach came out and said we’re going to be vanilla. Okay. And going into preseason, me personally, I’m not I’m not looking for schematics and game plans and wins, losses. I’m actually trying to evaluate the players individually because I understand likely 80 90% of these dudes won’t even play on game day and if not more are not starters. However, uh there are some things that if you don’t operate in a certain way, well, how the heck are we going to find out about certain players? and to come out and throw the ball six straight times. In my head, I said, “Well, is this their way to try to loosen up Joe Milton?” And I had to fight my own self and say, “Well, if that’s the case, you probably should come out and run the ball a little bit because he’s not a pure drop back quarterback to I.” So, when you saw that, you know, them come out with six straight passes, uh, to I chat, what was your thoughts? Well, I was rattled. Yeah. Getting rattled. I was rattled. I was a little upset. I was like, “What’s going on here?” Like, but I also too when you go back and watch the game and you see how open guys are. That’s the other side. That’s the other side. It’s like would we be mad if indeed those plays were successful if he was reading the field field well and stuff like I I don’t maybe they saw something that they thought that they could attack early in the passing game. Obviously, even in the practices, they found more success passing the ball than running. So maybe they decided to Funny because it was the opposite in this game. It was the opposite in this game. So maybe they wanted to work that like you were saying or whatever. But I was stumped too, dude. I was like, “Dog, like if you want to get these guys comfortable and you saw that when they started doing little like play action things or giving him like the um run option and stuff like that that he started to settle in. But I was thrown off to Twin and I was like, “What’s happening guys?” Yeah. And but you’re but you’re right though because look, six straight passes whether they’re completed or not is still a very strange way to approach it when you’re when you’re preaching physicality. You know, we need to work on the run, etc., etc. But let’s get to that point. Joe Milton, right, as we start to evaluate some of these players and we’re going to get to our offensive notes right now. Joe Milton, you know, he came into this game and if you watched my show last week, I I used the basketball analogy to I said, “Look, we we know Joe Milton can make the the fun plays. He can make the the slam dunk plays. You know what I’m saying? He can he can do the 360 and all that stuff. But Joe Milton Milton needs to go out there and hit the layups because those dunks and those 360 p no looks that’s only a handful of times throughout a game. And you were at camp and a lot of other people were down there and we would always see the highlight play, but what wasn’t being as focused on was Yeah, but there’s a some inconsistencies with accuracy. Yeah, but he was holding the ball too long here. Yeah, but so there was still developmental quarterback things. So me going into this game, I was very keen on, hey, I don’t need to see the big play. I need to see him hit the layup. I don’t need I I I need big fundamental. Okay, I I don’t need AI trying to I need big fundamental two-hand chest pass, right? Just a simple layup. And he struggled with that too. The accuracy was erratic. Uh he it’s funny because he didn’t look like he was jittery, right? He just was extremely inaccurate and was making poor decisions early in that game. It was a disappointing start to the game for Joe Milton. No, I agree, man. Um and that’s something I touched base with him on, you know, in at camp was when you have arm talent like that, how do you keep yourself disciplined to your mechanics? And you know, a lot of those balls were floating on him. That’s mechanics. That’s that’s that’s probably, you know, something going on in his drops and and how his feet are set and stuff like that. There’s a couple times you’ll see him, you know, not have a steady platform when he’s throwing the ball or he’s toesy and he’s drifting and stuff like that. So, that’s when the mechanics come in. And then you talk about the processing as well is, you know, is he seeing his reads, right? is he going through his reads? because there were times that he had outlets in the flat with mafa um even sometimes with uh Malik Davis and the tight ends and you know and he’s looking for and and you see this uh Sky and I will say this I think we you see this sometimes I feel like we saw this with Dak at times early in his career is like if there’s a third down sometimes guys want to take the big play and not just take moving the chains just being consistent and moving the chain. Why are you laughing? Well, because I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of Dak haters or whatever you want to call him, detractors, that will say, “Oh, that’s the opposite of Dak early in his career. People were he was he was ultra-conservative early in his career.” I think that’s that’s, you know, documented. Well, yeah. Well, I think he was there were times where, well, my my opinion of him is that there were times that he was undisiplined and not just taking what the defense gave him and trying to make the big play or trying to make, you know, the difference there. So, I felt like that happens sometimes with Joe Milton. Um, I don’t think it’s any mistake. I think we knew this is that there were things he needed to Can we give an example for that? Two eye the interception. The interception to Florenoi and that was one of those situations where dude, you don’t have to make the the big giant play. You had the dump off underneath. I don’t know what running back it was and to to get a couple yards or, you know, keep the rock. And, you know, he he just wasn’t making great decisions and he wasn’t, you know, very accurate with it. And it’s interesting because you what you’re talking about to me is arm arrogance and and knowing how to check it and you talked about dumping it off. There was a play to Jaylen Tolbert early in the game. He’s he’s covered. There was just no reason to to try to fire that in there. I think it was Scoom Maker was open underneath in the flat. That’s that’s the processing part. That’s singing it part. And that’s kind of just getting out your own head. And he did talk about how he had to calm down, you know, and get going. and he he he gives credit to the team for, you know, keeping him going there. And then once he settled down, we saw a pretty damn good drive later in that game where that’s the Joe Milton, the high of Joe Milton as opposed to the lows that we had seen previously. Yeah. I mean, I feel like on the interception, there were some issues with I mean, I know we’re going to get into like the tight ends, but I do think that Fairw Weather had a better day than Neville. Um, especially in the blocking department and stuff like that. So, I don’t know. I I think his clock is something he’s working on. When you talk about Milton, the internal clock, like knowing when because there was a couple times they had pressure and he didn’t feel it at all. Like he didn’t feel it at all. Like these guys are getting sacks and I I’m I bs you not like they’re like right here and he’s not even feeling you don’t even see him feel those guys on his heels. I’m surprised he didn’t fumble on the one sack. Sadique Charles just got I don’t know what that was and and could have been a sack fumble but they held on to it. But you’re right. Yeah. So, um, yeah, I I think I’m I guess I’m not like surprised by this cuz that’s why I went up to him, ask him about his mechanics. That’s why I asked him about this stuff cuz this is stuff that you see on film or you’ve seen before, you know, when the Cowboys brought him in that when I watched, I was like, still needs to work on his patience, still needs to work on his touch, still to still needs to not rely on the his ability to be able to scramble and be able to, you know, like I I had this in my notes. So, I think that this is a this is something that he’s going to have to grow from. Now, what I will say, some of this stuff is habits, and those are a lot harder to break. Yeah. You need adamant about breaking some of these bad habits. Yeah. Repetition, repetition, repetition. You know, I think it’s what’s the what’s the saying? It takes 21 days to break a habit. You have to do something 21 straight times or not do something 21 straight times. Um Yeah, it it’ll take. And he again he did start to settle in and and and he started to connect with Tan Holden and he started you know taking the layups and you know he’s a he’s a a fast ball pitcher. He is you know Randy Johnson on steroids and it’s fast ball all. So you are you’re absolutely right working on a touch and when he started to you know find the touch he was making some great play down the sideline of Trayan holding great touchdown pass to Raldo two-point conversion to Craropper. It was just finding that that that I guess rhythm to calm his ass down because early he was just firing this thing and it was just like man what what what’s what’s going on in your head here uh for Joe Milton. Can we talk about the protection because you you brought up you know there was a few times but in general Cowboys Nation I thought this you know going back and watching the film I thought this offensive line I mean can I give a round of applause? I I mean there was p even in in in in moments where he was missing, there were pockets of protection for him all day to sit there or or make a decision to scramble. I was very very impressed uh with this protection and and I’ll point out the guy that really stood out for me and and one of the guys that was on my watch list here, Nate Thomas. I thought I thought Nate, big Nate, he here’s what I had in my notes. I’ll just read it off here. Uh I said I said I liked how he played in this game. He was really confident and number six couldn’t do anything with him. He was aggressive in his kick stance. He he just played with uh some tenacity and he he looked a little seasoned uh from time to time. Now granted, you’re not playing against starters. I do wonder if he looked at that tape against Jared Verse and try to correct himself because you could kind of see him trying to stay upright, not get over, not get topheavy, not get too strong with his hands. And I I really just thought he had a really good game. He was documented for what one pressure. And one play that stands out to me wasn’t even a pass game. It was in a run game. I believe it was the the long run or long-ish run that Deuce had. It was I believe a sort of a delay. So they had to sell the pass. So he gets in his kick stance or he gets in his stance kickstep real quick. But number six or whoever it was tries to veer inside on him and he counters really well, turns him and Duce Vaughn’s able to get outside for a game. I I just thought for a guy that may have to play for you early, this was a good first step for Nate Thomas. Yeah, man. Um it’s so excit I’m so glad that you mentioned Nick Hampton number six uh for the Rams because that’s that was the matchup he had in practice that did gave him some trouble sometimes. Like again, his hands still can get outside sometimes and stuff like that, but you can tell that he picked up some of the things that he was doing wrong, like you were talking about, especially like extending in practice. Um, I think he only played what, 10 snaps. He didn’t play that many snaps, but I mean, that’s kind of what I’ve been seeing from him anyway. It’s like he doesn’t really ever look panicked. He’s just kind of slow, steady. I’m here. I might mess up sometimes. Oh well. Like that’s the vibe I get from him. He’s just like he’s never too high, he’s never too low. He’s just has that temperament to play the position and you need it because you’re not going to win every rep as a left tackle. But the responsibility is great and some guy sometimes guys can get an anxiety with the responsibility of being a left tackle and you see that in their development in their body language. But for him, like for if he keeps playing like this, it’s like, “Oh, this is dope. This is a guy that you can have around for a while if you need.” You know what I’m saying? Like, and let me say this, I’m actually impressed at his tackle snaps because I I kind of looked at him as as guard. I thought he could be, you know, a fantastic guard for you, even if it’s just a depth guy, not necessarily a starter, but but hell, who knows? Cuz he’s he looked, again, it’s just preseason week one, but he looked like a guy that took what happened in that, you know, joint practice, said, “Let me learn from this.” And he came out and had a really good start to his preseason. Um, anybody else you saw there? I know you mentioned TJ Bass I think on Twitter. He was he was outstanding in his snaps and I thought Austin Richards also looked pretty the O line man it just looked pretty good man. Oh yeah I think the first of all I think it’s worth mentioning that there is some um consistency there with um Hoffman and TJ Bass. They’ve been playing together for a little while now. Yeah. And I think that you got to see that in some of their combo and combo blocks and stuff like that is them working off each other and just understanding each other. Uh well, I thought some of like when you look at some of Mafa’s big runs, they’re behind uh TJ Bass and sometimes um I I I think I can describe it the best I can is that they’re using Who is a team that does that? Is it Philly? Philly that always has that trap with their tight ends? Philly. You know what I’m talking about. Yeah, Philly. Philly does that out. They usually do it out of a like a RPO type look with Jaylen Herz and there’s like a three-way go. You can have hand it off, Herz can pull it and throw it or Herz can pull it and run. Is that what you’re talking about? Well, the play that I saw is that they’re having them to where that defensive end most of the time is going to think that he needs to be he needs to be dealing with the guard that’s right there and it ends up being awesome or whoever slipping into like moving up climbing to the second level and awesome is cracking them basically like cracking them before they even like realize like they think their assignment is one thing but they it ends up being awesome. and he’s cracking. You’re talking about one of them trap plays that they run. Yes. It looks like does something like that with their tight ends and it kills you. It It was It It hurt Dallas. It doesn’t look exactly the same, but it it is similar. You know what I’m saying? I think I know what play you’re talking about cuz when I saw Awesome do it, I was like, “Oh, this is awkward to see cuz we we really didn’t do a whole lot of trapping uh last year in this manner.” So, I think I know what you’re talking about. Yeah. So, they’re using him. They were using Sadique Charles in that way as well to where they’re they’re they’re using that jumbo package as like a it helps in the run, but it also helps in the past as well. And I thought that he did that well. And then obviously Awesome’s uh he’s always mirrored well. I was just I’ve been worried about his feets. It’s them feets that’s been scaring me. Them feets, but I thought that his feet looked cleaner. I thought that he looked like he was in unison for the majority of the game. Um, yeah. I I think that he helped himself today. I think he helped himself, but then you have Nate come out and then have good a good 10 steps, too. I mean, I guess it’s a good thing to be going on. You’re going to need both of them. I feel like you’re going to need I guess it’s a good thing to be going on. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you we’re looking we’re looking for depth on the O line and the veterans are are not the veterans have gotten hurt, right? Uh I believe the Cincinnati guy Adeni Adeni, he’s out, right? Uh, and we all know about Robert Jones. So, if we’re going to be leaning on these young Bucks, you want to see positive steps, especially Austin Richards. I mean, this is year three we’re talking about. We’re not talking about a rookie year anymore. So, you want to see those positive steps and for Nate Thomas as well. Um, uh, I feel like there was another gentleman on the offensive line that stood out to me. Uh, also too, I think it’s worth mentioning that they had TJ Bass at center at one point in time. We haven’t really got to see him work center. I know that was something he could do. I’ve seen it. throughout his career, but this year maybe not. Yeah, we haven’t really seen it that much. So, I was surprised that they even tried that and um wanted to work that a little bit. Um, how did you feel about Leo Collins? Uh, weird because he looks light in the butt, but and he’s still falling all over the damn place, but hey, he hasn’t played in a while. You know, he hasn’t played in a while. So, uh, Leel talked about how he’s going to protect, you know, MJ’s daddy from, you know, all the pass rushers and whatnot. Leel, you might not even make this damn team, sir. But I appreciate you, you know, letting her know that. I’m tired of you. Well, yeah. All in all, though, I thought that the offensive line, um, there were a lot of clean pockets. I thought that there were some exchanges that were a little wonky. Obviously, you had the few uh alignment flags, lots of flags, lots of penalties, too many damn penalties, which which I wasn’t surprised by because I mentioned this at practice. I was like, yo, they clearly see that offenses, these these officials clearly see that offenses are really manipulating the game with these offensive linemen and these shifts and stuff and they trying to get a handle on that. It feels like, which sucks, but feels like that’s going to be something we’re going to be dealing with throughout the season. But no, I don’t know. I thought the offensive line worked well um when they needed to, especially in the run game, dog. Like I was about to say the the run game there was there’s no going into week two saying, “Ah man, we got to figure out how to get the run game going.” I thought it looked good. Uh and again, this was a vanilla offense. So we didn’t see a whole lot of the window dressing, a whole lot of the cool little plays. It was just flatout hat on hat. Let’s get downhill. Let’s turn these guys and let’s make some plays. And they ran for 148 yards, but I think each back had their moments in this game between Malik Davis, Duce Vaughn, Phil Mafa. I thought all those guys brought something there. Now, Duce didn’t play a whole lot. Two carries, what, 11 yards. Uh, Phil Mafa, it might look like, you know, 3.6 yards per carry, not a whole lot from that standpoint or whatever it was, but he ran hard. He was from, as Vach would say, the FFU, Fall Forward University. That that that kid is a truck, you know, and when he’s coming at you, it’s like a train coming at you. And and he was running some dudes over. And we talked about this too. I dating all the way back to to OTAAS. There was two players. I’m like, I don’t care about what people are saying at OTAAS because they’re pad players. Devonte Williams, Phil Mafa. You’re not going to know anything about them from a Cowboy standpoint until they put the pads on. And I thought he looked good. But Malik Davis looked the best of the bunch. He looked like he got something to prove out there. He looked good. Yeah, he he got that he just be taking off. He got that sense of urgency in how he runs. I mean, he hits the hole with certainty and he puts his foot in the ground. Um, I think we’ve seen him be able to do some things very Yeah, very shifty. And there were times that like I liked how he adjusted in like in the middle of some of his runs. Like there were times where uh I think lanes closed and he was able to navigate that. I thought jumping over his own guys. Yeah. I thought that his vision showed as a as a veteran obviously, but Mafa is a Mafa to me is the big story cuz Mafa to me is like, you know, like Malik Davis looked fine, but Mafa is the one to me that’s gonna make things weird. He looked good. Lee Davis average like nine yards a carry. I think it Davis was technically Malik Davis looked the best. But but Phil Mafa was fun to watch cuz he was he was just rolling dudes over. But and and he’s let’s be real if we’re going to and it’s it’s a question for later. I’ll save it. I’ll save it. I I I got I got we have a new segment by the way. I forgot to bring it up. New segment by the way. So stick around for that. But I’ll save it. Go ahead. But yeah. Yeah. No, I think Phil Maf is interesting um for what he uh did in pass pro even so. And obviously he did some receiving things as well. um like you like you mentioned is the way that he runs the ball, the way that he’s able to dip his shoulder and to fall forward and continue. He drags guys. It was a couple times dudes was touching him after he like Yeah. And so I think that and that’s been his calling card and stuff. The other guy that does that that also was brought in for his past pro is Javvante Williams and didn’t play. That that’s what kind of shocked me is is that he didn’t go out there and play. I think everybody in this running back room, if you’re healthy, needs to be competing. Point blank, period. I agree. Yeah, I agree. So, I don’t know. I I do think the coaches mentioned Phil Mafa. He mentioned Phil Mafa what last week and was like, “Hey, yeah, he’s starting to I’m starting to notice him more and they couldn’t fully tackle. So, I noticed him a little bit in practice and I was like, “Okay, I see I see what they’re talking about.” Um, but then also too, I really noticed him in pass. That that was the biggest thing. It’s like I was like, “Oh, he has some awareness and pass protection that some guys just don’t have right away.” So, I was like, “Okay, that stood out to me.” But putting them pads on, you see it. He be ready to rumble. He be ready to rumble. It’s funny with Phil because you you see what makes him different from the room. Now, obviously, Javvante’s not out there uh because he kind of would mirror him a little bit, right? In the sense that these guys are bigger dudes, but you also see the youthfulness in Phil Mafa. And I don’t mean this as a slight, but we’ve had some power backs in the past recently where you see that, okay, there’s been some wear and tear. There’s not that same wiggle. There’s not that same spridness to it behind the power. You’re getting power with Phil Mafa, but you also see, oh, okay, there’s a little bit of that short area burst. And if he gets any runway or open field, yeah, he might not have to run a 42, 43, 44, but we’ve seen guys that are big, still truckuck their way down the field for big plays and touchdowns. So, it’s going to come a point in time preseason where he’s going to get a nice runway. he going to bowl somebody over and he going to go off about 30 40 yards and we’re going to be like, “Okay, you know, th this guy and I think really this whole room, it needs to be legitimately open uh to make this team.” I’ll say this about Blue. I think Blue has a has a he has a role already. I’ve said that before. Everyone else, I think it it really needs to be an open competition starting with yesterday or uh sorry, uh Saturday. Yeah. So, ideally, what is your like one, two, not obviously you going to be it might be one, two, three, cuz you know Yeah, for me I would carry three. Um, man, this is right now if I had to guess based on what was going on. Devonte Williams and Jaden Blue I think are or one, two, I hate to say it, but when you get hurt you that that hurts Sanders like I wouldn’t carry two of the veterans. I’d carry one of the veterans and two of the young guys. Yep. It’s hard to to not say the two rookies and Javvante Williams right now. And let me explain why. With Javvante and Phil Mafo on the same team, you have a guy if something happens to Javvante Williams, you don’t lose an aspect of your offense, right? You still have that power aspect, bigger body, helping pass pro go line back with the Phil Mafa, but you also with blue, you keep that kind of jitteriness, that that explosiveness, that change of pace type uh back there. So, I think Javvante Williams, Blue, and Phil would be fun. One, two, three. Right now, I I don’t think that third one is locked up yet. I still think it’s up for grabs. That’s fair, you know. No, that’s fair. I mean, also too, we got to factor in the run game aspect that you’re going to get from CD sometimes, the run game aspect you’re going to get from Turpin. You know, what do they think is more valuable or that they need more of? Is that the explosiveness or is that a guy that can thump when you need to, you know, wear some people down? So, yeah, it’s it to me I I do think that Mafa has brought himself into the conversation more and it sometimes guys need pads. Let me do this. Let me do this. Let’s Let’s do our new segment on the offense. So hard be because I’m going to get a little I don’t want to call it messy, but our new segment, y’all, if you ever heard the term read and react, right? We hear that in football all the time. Ours is going to be called read and overreact. And the reason why I want to jump with this segment is because my and this is this is how it was going to go down. The read and overreact segment is something um if you’ve heard or seen something from the game, whether it’s good or bad, that you believe is is an overreaction from the fan base or from someone or or national media or something that you may have seen that in the spirit of the segment you’re going to overreact to just to have some fun. Okay. And as we’re talking about running backs, I say I know what mine is. I let you think about yours. I know what mine is. Too high. My read and overreact is this. Malik Davis, did and maybe I’m forming as a question. Did he do enough yesterday? I keep saying yesterday. Did he do enough Saturday to legitimately put his name in the running back room? Put his name in that hat for the running back room. Or is it ah he’s just a body preseason had a good game, what have you. I’m I’m gonna use my overreaction uh uh uh uh lever here and and say, “Hey, Malik Davis’s game. Put his name in the ring because this room ain’t solidified yet.” Throw him in there. That’s my overreaction. Thoughts? It’s a It’s a It’s a valid overreaction. Um I think I mean this is a new staff. Does that matter? Um, I don’t I don’t because there was some there was some different things with different staffs. Sure. I mean, for running backs, you either got it or you don’t. You know what I’m saying? Like he he looked He got a lot of juice in his last, he ain’t running all that much in his career. He looked like he had a little something on on Saturday and that made me say, oh, without Jaden Blue out there, without uh Miles Sanders out there, he looked like that guy that can give you some wiggle. And he was making guys miss at the line of scrimmage. He he was he again he w he he was making me say h why didn’t he get more of a shot last year you know what I mean and and again that’s the part of the overreaction aspect of it no I’m not saying this is our starter no I’m not saying he’s your RB2 but because of he signed on Friday had a fantastic game uh pass you know he was getting making himself present in the pass game too but Milton just wasn’t hitting him and obviously ran really well hey is is Maybe Malik’s like, “Look, this what am I supposed to be afraid of in this room?” Yeah. I mean, I I get his energy. I mean, he just got signed. They gotten them suiting up that day. Well, another thing, too, is like he’s not restricted to the He is restricted to the playbook, but the baby probably don’t even know the playbook yet. So, he got to go out there and play free. He go he got to go out there and just be like, “Hey, y’all want me to tote the rock? You open up the hole, I got it.” So I think there was also like a freess to his play because he is just now boots on ground. So yeah, it is it’s a conversation. I think that we there are several conversations to be had about this running back room and I think it needs to continuously like you said be a competition because I want the baddest heers on the floor. Period. Now Aisha Morrison read and overreact. You about to start. I can feel it. No, I want to know your again. It don’t have to be from you but something you may have seen. I got my roster sheet. Go on. Say it. Say we gonna get We gonna get Aisha in some mess one of these times. Good mess, not the bad mess. Just just just good football mess. Okay. Okay. Go go go on my little also. Cowboys Nation, y’all play along, too. Read and overreact to to something. He being messy, y’all. Good mess. Good mess. Have fun. Mess. Proceed. What? But what’s mine? That’s what I I’m I’m asking you. Oh, you asking me? Oh, it’s my turn. I’m asking you, girl. Bro, I thought Oh, okay. Oh, no. Two. I read and overreact. I got one. I got one. I got one. I got I got I got one. Read and overreact or or That’s just the name of the segment. Just just give me something you might have seen that was overreaction or if you want to overreact because in the spirit of the segment now people going to think I’m being dizzy. All right. All right. No, no, no. It was a little confusing. My bad. The way that the Cowboys intend to stop the run is not really effective. Wait, no. I didn’t mean to say it like that. Why you got to do the law and order sign? I was just saying. You know what’s crazy? I don’t even think that’s an overreaction. Barnacle. I don’t even know. So, talk about it. Let’s talk about it. Yeah, I get it. I get it. And I asked Osa about this at practice. I was like, it looks like y’all are trying to attack stopping the run from angles. Mhm. Mhm. Like y’all are trying to be faster than the other guys to the punch and that’s what you’re kind of relying on because you don’t got no big hungry person in the middle for real. And he was like, “Yeah, you know.” So that looks like what they’re doing where they’re slanting their fronts and they’re trying to some guys are taking on double teams, but baby, they are relying on them safeties. Yes. And them and them linebackers. Yes. like they life depend on it and that although I think when you get a MC crazy like overshown back with Maris then we’ll talk about him and stuff like that it could work but it is if it don’t work if if one of these guys don’t have the skill or the you know know their reach to recover is bad and there were a couple times where some of those big runs by Corum and stuff that’s what was happening is guys just didn’t fill their gap the right way. Obviously, like you said, the Rams just running their stuff. They don’t care if you can’t stop it. They they they they are who they are. So, for these guys that are on the back end, I understand why all that manipulation and stuff could be a lot for them, but the linebackers at times look like they had just gotten off a roller coaster. They I said this in my notes, man, the misdirection still trip them up. You know, you see maybe one person being hesitant. I feel like uh 18 Deone Clark, he looked like this was last year. So like I didn’t even know you were like it was disappointing. Yeah, it was very very shocking because he was having a really really good camp. Um you know and look not it’s weird because you did see some plays. You know again some of my notes here. I thought Maris Leafoul played fantastically aggressive. Um and and I’m not trying to throw water on a wet blanket or anything like this but here’s the thing with Mars is the same thing it’s been since last year. It’s always been he overrun. He O like Maris he’s OD and it’s like I love that cuz he plays with his hair on fire but then it’s like okay you got to slow down sometime my boy like your instincts is what you’re going to need in this scheme for sure and it hold on real quick it played it played well for him you saw that he came up he was blowing dudes up on blitzes he was blowing dudes up filling the lane but if you go back and you watch that touchdown run uh a couple plays before that Maria foul made a great disciplined play right he he scraped he kind of stayed on the edge and made Stson Bennett cut back inside. Boom. Tackle for loss. But couple plays later, might have been the next play. They run Blake Corm right up the middle. Your defensive line occupies his defenders. Maris Le just needs you to just shoot your gap and you get a stop. Well, Maris Le fouls thinking, “Okay, Stson Bennett might run.” So, he jumps. He already had help out there. There was no need because it was um 14 Maris Bell and he just just jumps out of his gap to try to defend the edge. and Cororum has unimpeded to the end zone for a touchdown. And it wasn’t just Leaf foul. Shamar James has some really good moments in this game where it’s like, oh, this dude is springy, right? Like he he plays downhill. He plays aggressive, but but then you see him saying, “Okay, he’s jumping into the to the wrong gap or he’s taking on this block with a little bit more finesse than maybe earlier in the game.” But these are young players. These these these guys have to develop. But you’re right, if hey, this this scheme is dependent on you to be there because you there’s no Vince will fork. This isn’t that type of two gappy type of scheme. They are asking these dudes to slam or or or or shoot the gaps. And if and sometimes I’ve seen some of these defensive tackles get a little wild with it where they just going head down and not really disengaging. So, a lot to clean up I think in that front seven even though there was some good plays, but a lot to clean up to. And I well in regard to mayors because that’s why I was like so I didn’t forget but um fantastic breakdown by you by the way but also yeah you’re welcome but uh but also with Maris I that control that you’re talking about I do think is going to come cuz he is reading. There’s only a few times like where you really see him like guessing and you like you was guessing right there. For the most part he’s seeing it. he just be there too early or he be like it’s or or he thinks he has the ability to recover in some of these places and it’s like dog like we saw do we see something similar with Dan Quinn schematically uh this feels similar yeah he wanted you to shoot the gap and get up field I think Dan Quinn was a lot more maniacal in his fronts like he showed he was more multiple so it was more difficult on on teams I think when he early in his career. I didn’t think teams realize, oh, I’ll just come out in 12, 13. You’re small. Yeah. And and so that’s what I worry about with the Cowboys is that people are going to just be like, we don’t care. And and come at and go like go at you. And the stress that it puts on your linebackers and your safeties. Not saying they’re not capable, but that I don’t like that. This is a linebacker scheme. This is a three-tech and linebacker scheme in the front seven. That’s that’s all it is. That’s what um Floose wants to wants to lean on. That’s why when you go look at, you know, his his time in Dallas earlier as a linebacker and coach and then in in Indianapolis, but look at his backers and the production they had and go look at DeForest Buckner and how how great he played. And if you don’t have, you know, a dog next to Osa, you know, down in down out, can make things difficult. Um, where you have to play extremely disciplined. And I don’t think it’s going to catch on right away with backups. You know what I mean? Most of those guys are backups. Now, I will say this, Perion Winfrey, you know, popped in this game. You know what I’m saying? He showed some he showed some ability. He was a little OD from time to time, but he showed some ability to take on the doubles and knife through and make some plays. Um Joe Toya, you know, early in the game you saw him. Oh, he’s excited. He’s hyped to be out there. But then as it start wearing down a little bit, big fella was huffing and puffing and blowing houses down and getting high and pushed off a little bit. He was doing a hop like a bunny. I seen him get hopped a little bit. I synced it. I s um and it kind of it kind of exposed a little bit of the depth, per se, the lack thereof on the interior as the game went on, but it was it was it was definitely an not an eye opening cuz we understood the running defense. They didn’t do anything drastic to address it. But also, we’re talking about second third team dudes, you know what I mean? Playing in the schema for the first time with Bullets Fine. Yeah. No, I I agree. I thought that with uh Perion Winfrey, there were times like you were mentioning earlier that there were times where guys would just kind of put their head down and get up field. I think Perion has some of those times where he’s just penetrating and you like, “Hey, peek around, brother.” Like, you know, just kind of look around, brother, see where you at, you know, see where see where the ball is at, you know. So, he had some times like that. The ball. It was weird. No. Yeah, there was times like that. And then also too, um, James Houston, who we saw pop off the line quite a few times and stuff like that. Um, I felt like the I felt like the defensive line was close. Like there was quite a few times is Araku, James Houston, Perion Winfrey were close to getting sacks. They probably just need a little bit longer. Um, Tommy Ake Bot had some nice plays. I felt like um, penetrating in the run and being able to disengage and also too just getting up field pass rush. I know we haven’t mentioned him a whole bunch. I mentioned him from practice, but he’s someone to keep an eye out on with his size and being able to get up field. Do you want to talk about Mazi at all? Sure. I mean, because we we’re probably going to need him unless they cut him. And uh yeah, it just it it didn’t it didn’t look terrible, but it didn’t look great either. It just was like Mazy’s out there. You know, there was some reps where he’s taking a double team and, you know, trying to let other players make the play, but there was times where Mazi’s getting turned or he’s just looked like he was just in a fight with the guard with no regard for the rest of the play. So, you know, it just was another kind of, oh, Mazy Smith is here, but but nothing encouraging to me. Say, ah, there’s that next step, you know, ah, we’re good in the defensive tackle room. It’s it’s the same Mazy to me. That was the weird stuff to me is like how not engaged he is to the play but to his assignment which is fine you know. Yeah. To the fight like to the rally to the ball to the you know to the funneling to the whatever. Like it it was really weird to see someone just like not even even even when like they’re into the play, right? Like he there’s no looking for the ball. There’s no It was just odd. So, that’s all I had to say. Um, yeah, I don’t think the interior defensive line dep made me feel any better. Any bitter. Uh, I think Perion Winfrey is a guy that you still can be looking to to develop and stuff. And he might, like you said, he might have a big role at this point. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I’m feeling like he he is going to be someone that they got to carry. They got to carry. And they might need to go get another human, too. But evident, but they might have to carry this human, you know, death, taxes, and the Cowboys needing another defensive tackle. Bro, I’m so tired of it. And and and I’m not saying what they want to do can’t work, especially with the idea of possibly you getting overshown back and then the depth that you have at safety. Then the depth you have at safety. And let me say this, let me say this. You know, not having Jack Samorner, I think was you saw it because I I I said this when Marie Foul was drafted. I think he he was probably going to be your future Mike because I thought it was going to be Marie Foul Demar overone of the future, right? So, I’m thinking those are your guys of the future. Then they get rid of Zimmer. They bring in um Fluence. Flu brings in his guy Jack Samborn. I go study Jack Sambour. I’m like that’s a middle linebacker, ladies and gentlemen. Like that is a that’s a seasoned linebacker. He’s a heady player. He’s an instinctual player. He controls the defense. He’s a veteran. That’s that’s your middle linebacker, I think, this year. Um, and then who’s the guy next to him? I think that’s should be a Maris Lee a foul. Murray hasn’t played. Maybe it’ll be Murray because he’s a veteran, but I feel like Maris has done enough to to really take that spot uh to date. So, I’m looking at how they’re playing and I’m seeing they put the green dot on Clark and I’m like, you can tell he’s that’s that’s not it, bro. That that’s just not for you. I think he was in his head. I think it just kind of reverted back. So, I would have loved to see, well, put it on Maris and let’s see him kind of control the the pace a little bit more uh in the defense. So, I think if they had Sanborn, I think these linebackers would have been a little bit more steady and consistent. Probably those third and fourth string backers, I I wasn’t super encouraged, you know, watching it was some Buddy Johnson reps. I’m like, “Yeah, he’s not going to make the team.” you know, Shamar James. I just think there’s a lot there to develop and and the athleticism, the the the downhill ability. There’s stuff there, but I think Sanour, Leaf Foul, Murray will bring a steadiness to the room that we might not be having this conversation. And you could say the same thing maybe if we’re having OSA and Solomon Thomas out there too. Honestly, I agree. Yeah. I mean, again, temper yourself because these are it is not likely that you see full-on backups for your team at any point in time. There will be some level of balance between young guys, veteran guys, all that stuff. Um, are we can I do another We doing another question? We doing another another You got a question for me? Let’s go. Uh, is Zion Childris really competing for that nickel spot? Because I told you before we talked about cuz we was really going I was really going into this game like Hey, he So, did you see the quote? Let me find this quote. I loved it. Yo, you did see that quote. Let me paraphrase. I’m mad I don’t have it. I wish. Let me Let me see. This this is this is bad poding right here, but give me give me a second. I think I got it. Oh, I love the quote. Pull it up. I’ll paraphrase it as you’re looking for it, but but he was told by one of the coaches or front office or somebody, “Hey, man, we really think you can come in here and be in the mix.” And Zion said, “Oh, you told that to the wrong mother- because I’m going to go in there and try to take it.” And he’s been playing that way, man. And I really loved him in the run game. Um I I thought I thought he was very physical there. I thought he was more twitchy. somebody I think it was broadest that said this and I’m like man it’s it’s he’s so right this scheme there was some of these corners which booth you know some of these other guys if you’re going to be a vision based defense you have to be able to break on the ball you have to be they’re going to try to get the ball out you’re playing softer coverage so you gota have the ability to to click and go right and I think he showed a lot of that and so I’m sorry I just got excited about him because I really like this game and man Look, why not? No. Seriously, no. Why not? Like, I don’t believe that. Even from the energy that I’ve seen from Don, he wants to on his interviews, he wants to play on the boundary, y’all. He just does. He just does. And that’s not our business. Like, if that’s what he wants to, that’s what he want to do. This nickel spot, dog, because they they literally, just like every other really good offense in the NFL now, they Shawn McVey was manipulating the slot and was killing Kan Hall at the start of this game and we Kimmon Hall fans. I wasn’t a good game for Kean Hall. Oh no. I’m a Kean Hall dude girl. But like at the same time this is you want what is what is better and and in order to deal with all that trash like you’re talking about Sky. Um I’m surprised because when you look at uh when you sorry um when you look at him Zion Childress in person he’s not a big guy. Like he’s he’s not a really big guy. He kind of has that big though. He has that smaller frame feel kind of like Jordan because when I when you see him because he’s always with Elijah Clark like they’re always like next to each other and stuff. When you see him you like dang now I’d imagine you’re talking about like like stockywise or weight wise. Yeah. No. Yeah. He’s thinner. He’s thinner and stuff like that. But like you said, I liked he actually cleaned up a lot of stuff. You know who else I like? Run game or at least at least a couple play Elijah Clark filled that damn alley, man. dog. In fact, when he got hurt yesterday, I got sad inside. He run that alley and it’s, you know, we get a couple UDFAs that make this team. Those those are two to keep your eye on right there. These guys are fighting like fighting. I hated seeing Clark go down. Obviously, I think Maris Bell had the concussion. It looked like he had like a stinger at first. So, that’s something to keep an eye out on as well. Um and um out of the receivers, I mean, Floyen would have had 100 yards yesterday if if if old boy hit. Not only just 100 yards, but um he he broke open in the end zone, too. Again, requires touch on that one. At the very least, to go back there, the very least, man, just just throw his thing up and let him give him his chance. I remember early we talking about Dak early in the career. One of Dak’s issues earlier in his career on the deep ball and which and the reason why I think he’s a much better deep ball thrower. Dak was overthrowing it. Dak Dak was just just putting everything into it and he was overthrowing it. I think maybe around Kitno or maybe a little bit before that. People kept always underthrown. No, what he’s doing is he’s giving this guy a chance. If you look at a lot of deep balls, every one every here and there it’s a 60 yard in stride. That’s very rare. a lot of deep a lot of depot accuracy is either putting it high and tight to the sideline or giving your guy a chance. And he actually talked about that where it was like, “Hey, I just want to give my guy a shot.” And that’s why you see a lot of these these uh acrobatic catches with, you know, the the the CD Lambs or at the time Gallup and and Mari Cooper. I think he has to learn that. It wouldn’t shock me if Dak gets in his ear and says, “Hey, look man, we know you can throw this thing 89 yards down the field, but give a shot.” You know, Florenoi in the back of the corner. Just throw it up, man. Let him fight for it. Yeah. Some of the some of those routes that Florenoi was running like the one over. Oh my gosh. That deep crosser where he was wide open. It’s just like and and when you watch the game, you see how much like Fenoi has really developed like some snap in his uh in his rout running. It’s sharp and it seems a lot cleaner. And I really wanted him here too. Oh yeah. I really wanted to see him get rewarded a little bit more. And this will bring me to my last question. We heard the coach heard the head coach mention Come on, baby. Mention him. He heard him mention Tan. I I think what’s happening with Tan is again the culmination of what he’s been doing consistently in practices with different quarterbacks and then also coming out and showing what he can do a little bit in preseason. Coach says that he’s going to be moving up the dep chart and jumping who? At first I thought he was a lock for six uh because of Brooks, you know, he’s dealing with Brooks and Florenoi, but Brooks was on at least in the in the scrimmage. Brooks was on the first team special teams as a gunner with or the punt return or punt coverage. And then I said, “Okay, I want to go into this game. It’s not really Tan Holden’s receiving skills that I’m looking for. I want to see where he at on special teams. I want to see if he can stand out special teams. And he was, I believe, the L1 um on special teams to start this game off. So, I think they’re trying to find a way to get him on this roster and allow him to do things on game day because if you’re wide receiver, what four, five, six, you got to play on on special teams. So, special teams. Yeah. If he’s jumping somebody, is it going to be the special teams guy or is this a situation where you think that he can jump all the way into game day game planny things, which would mean like wide receiver three type stuff? I don’t know if I’m ready to go there, but I can tell you this right now. Not at all. There is immense upside for that. maybe in the future, but but I don’t know if I was go as far and say, you know, wide receiver three, but I definitely think he’s above Brooks to me. That’s how I took it is is he above because here’s the thing is like Floyd has had good practices, too. He’s had consistent good practices. And if I’m a coach and I’m looking at this film and I’m seeing how wide open he is, you know, I I think Holden obviously had some some good catches and he’s been consistent, but I wanted to know your thoughts on the coach like cuz I’m like, who was he jumping? Is it Brooks or Fenoy? And if I’m Fenoy, I’m like, damn. Or Brooks. You want me to jump? I mean, Brooks had some good plays in that game. Right. Right. It’s like, you know, we’re we’re celebrating, you know, Tan Holden and the other guys, but but but Brooks was he made some good plays. It’s it’s it’s interesting because it’s a legitimate competition and and that’s a good thing. But I I’ll tell you this of of that grouping. I think you can live with saying, “Okay, we’ll we’ll see if we can get Brooks on the practice. We’ll see if we can get Floyd on the practice squad.” I I just think there’s a different demeanor. There’s a there’s a different play speed, uh, play physicality. There’s just there’s an it a little bit to Tan. And maybe it’s the mental aspect. Maybe it’s he’s hungry. He ain’t get that guaranteed. There is something different about him to where he can if say you keep a pickings. I think he can develop into your wide receiver three uh at some point. May again maybe that’s not this year because once we remove like the fandom aspect of it that there then becomes the playbook. There becomes the the relationship with the quarterback. There become when I say relationship I mean hey I need to trust you. The trust right the trust with the staff. Yeah. That’s different when you’re talking about game day three as opposed to game day five six. You know what I’m saying? That’s just reality of the situation. Um when you’re trying to win games to save people’s jobs and whatnot. So I I think he’s a lock to make the roster and I’m okay with that if that means we have to to risk Florenoi or or Brooks. I’m I’m fine with that. And that’s no knock on those gentlemen. It’s just I think Odin has a higher upside. I agree. I think we’re gonna I’m gonna keep an eye on that that 45, too, because he got a little bit more wiggle than what I thought he had. Fair. Fair weather. Yeah. Yeah, he he he can and he can get up. Keep an eye on him. He can get up. And then some of those blocks, man, he’s undersized. He’s only about 250 pounds, 6’3. Uh but some of those blocks on the interior, too, he ain’t he was he was turning guys, too. And I was like, oh, like this isn’t something I saw consistently in your college tape. I felt like you he wasn’t as physical at the point of attack and stuff like that. But I thought in some of the blocking that he was asked to do specifically on the interior and sometimes when they would bounce to the outside if he needed if they needed him to. I think that his blocking has upside as far as him growing into like a more sound blocker. And if he can do some receiving things and be a steady blocker, then he’s somebody I’m just going to keep my eye on as well. So, all right. Yeah, I think I think the tight end I feel like they’re going to grow with their big three, right? Breakfast Band Forest Goon and and and and Jake Ferguson. But that’s that’s a big tight end room, too. 6’5, 66, and 68 or what whatever brother little Ronald But. But but no, I I would love if we can get him on a practice squad and develop him in because, you know, is he more intriguing than Fant as a tight end? Yes. Fant to me is more Hback and Fant has been around for a while. So, I don’t know how they feel about him. I mean, you can carry both if you want on practice squad. That’s fair. That’s fair. That’s fair. You you could say Fant is my lip key replacement and Raldo will be my receiving replacement if somebody gets down. You know what I mean? Yeah. Good. Yeah. Good good uh good good eye though on Ravaldo. He had a great great snag in the red zone. I thought he made himself present and found the soft spots later in that game for for um Milton. And yeah, he looked good. He loo technically looked better than schoolmaker blocking too. But you know, you said it. You said it. I’m just Read and overreact. Read and overreact. Oh, one more. Read and overreact. Cut. Jaylen Tobbert. I’m just I’m just feeding it to the best. I’m feeding this. Shout out to our shout out to our homie uh Joe Hoy in his uh dope article he had about I think he did a projection for his 53man roster and he did leave in his notes Joe Joe Hoy of uh uh Dallas Morning News rather. Where did it leave? He said, “Should the Cowboys consider trading Jaylen Tobert if they need if they need a defensive tackle or a quarterback?” Because given what he did last year, Sky, he’s not someone that does not have value. Now, I’m just reading what said with the That’s what a lot of fans want to do, too. Now, I I shut this thing down when people was talking about trading him for a pick. I I mean, if I’m getting a third, fourth round pick, yeah, we can talk about it, but I don’t think you’re getting anything more than like a sixth or seventh round pick. He’s just worth more than that to me. So if if you’re talking about trading for a dude at defensive tackle Oh man, that’s not even a question. Is it? Yeah, because everyone needs every or or two something we talked about last year. I hate to say Oh, I’m about to throw up. I hate to say it, but you do have to me some TJ Bass. TJ Bass has some decent game film. Somebody needs an offensive lineman maybe. like is is do any of these offensive linemen that you have some of these young guys in a Hoffman and an um maybe not an awesome but a Hoffman TJ Bass who have had starting time and stuff. Do any one of those have any value? We’ll see. I don’t know. But that’s a conversation that’s being had right now because cornerback is le scary. I I I don’t know if I do it for a corner be because I can get a corner off the market right now. It’s probably better than a corner you’re going to trade for that come play for you. His name is Gilly. Uh, but you know what’s crazy though? I don’t know. I don’t know about Gilly. I don’t know. I don’t know. What does that mean? I’m saying that there’s uncertainty about his capability, his abilities right now. There’s uncertainty on like the speed and stuff like that. Oh, well that that was a where when he got to Dallas two years ago, he wasn’t a fast guy. But if you go look at his film in Minnesota, Gilly was good. Is he somebody that you think can do what you just said is read and react. Read and break with the speed that you need him to do. Oh, that’s that ain’t about speed. See, that ain’t about speed. That’s about being able to read. That’s Yeah, that’s about IQ. That’s different. Um there’s been plenty of quarterbacks that you wouldn’t consider the fastest of of the worlds that just know how and and and understands the game and they can click and go. Um, and Gilly can can do that, you know, if that’s what we’re talking about. But if we’re talking about running with receivers across the the field, running with deep, that’s then then that’s Gilly’s issue right now. But but back to what I was saying, I don’t know that I’ll do it for a corner. But if you can tell me I can get a dude that I’m not talking about just another dude, another guy, I’m sorry. I’m not talking about another Mazy, another Perion Winfrey, another Jay Toolia. I think Tober is worth more than that. But if you tell me I can get a bonafide starter for Jaylen Tober at defensive tackle, listen, I’m not even, this is not even a question. I’m picking the phone up. But if I’m getting just a another Perion Winfrey, I think he’s more valuable than that in the room. Even if it’s wide receiver four, wide receiver five, I I don’t even think that’s a question. He’s more v valuable than than defense tackle four. That that that doesn’t even make any sense. But yeah, if if somebody is willing to give me one of their starting DTs, up and cominging dudes that that can go in here, make a difference for you. Yeah, I I will entertain that all day tomorrow. Am I entertaining a six or seventh round pick? Am I entertaining another When I say Jay Toi, I mean, you know, a young guy that’s not proven. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like you want somebody proven, somebody sound, somebody that knows the position. I want a difference maker. Yeah, I understand. No, I I totally get it. And like I said, shout out to uh Joe Hoy of Dallas Morning News. He’s the one that brought it up and it’s now becoming a conversation. And I I do think the further that you get into, you know, these next preseason games and you might see some of these starters, it might give you a little bit more of an idea. But let me give you guys let me give the fans a little bit of credit. They brought that up before the game, too. So, shout out to Cowboys Nation. They they they were bringing up, you know, trying to, you know, trade him and whatnot before, too. So, it’s just becoming a conversation after the game because we saw, you know, Tayan Holden and Florenoi. You know who didn’t mention which I’m a little shocked? Jonathan Mingo. Quiet game. Now, obviously couple penalties and, you know, whatnot, but on him, but quiet game as well. Yeah, I know. I stopped Sky, bro. Like, stop. I wasn’t saying it as in like, oh, he’s had a bad game. I’m just saying it was a quiet game. I still believe in the in the Fab Five, the faction five. Like I think that’s who it’s going to be. But yeah, just was a quiet game. We’ll see what happens next. Back room not good enough for me. No, no, they need to get these guys. Yeah, I like what I saw from Muhamm. But nice interception by Izzy. That interception. Yeah. But but the but but the but but the rest the whole thing like the second the secondary is boy who who was number 30. Boy, he was getting baptized. Rochelle. Rochelle was getting Oh, he was getting roasted. Him had hard times. Look, I get you need bodies. But at this damn point, why? I be feeling bad. Like, it’s so bad sometimes. I feel bad for him. Like, when he’s frustrated, I be like, bad. I feel bad. I’m like, dog, like, help him. Well, ain’t no ain’t no feeling bad in football. Help him. Like, oh, I already know that. But I still have times where I’m just like I get secondhand embarrassment. That’s what it is. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I’m embarrassed too for his ass keep getting embarrassment. I’m like stressed. And Caitlin Carson being injured right now. Holy moly, dog. The opportunity he’s missing out on to like make a name for himself in this defense and show his value is I R him, man. To IR him. You’re You’re right, though. this this this the depth at the quarterback room is not great, but that’s why I’m picking up that phone, you know, to try to get one, you know, one of the veterans on the market. I would have loved to have, you know, Mike Hilton, but yeah, who who am I? You know, I think Asante Samuel is an option as well. Maybe maybe some injury issues with him. Yeah, I think something with the neck or something like that. But hey, that’s right up the Cowboys alley. I cannot believe they waited this long. Does it surprise you? Does it? It does. I don’t know why I’m that surprised. Let me go take a nap. I know. All right, Cowboys Nation. This has been episode 15, a jam-packed episode recapping the Cowboys Rams preseason game. We got week two of preseason. I want to say Baltimore Ravens if I get that. Yeah, Baltimore Ravens this week. Got also practice, still training camp, you know, still time for some of these guys to bounce back. But this is what preseason is about when we’re evaluating these players. This isn’t to just say this is the end all be all with some of them. Maybe unless it’s like a Andrew boot, but this is about these guys learning and responding and and bouncing back or building and stacking if they had a good game. So, we’ll keep you guys covered uh and locked in on if they indeed do that next week. All right, for 2 I am Skywalker Steel. This has been a sky and two eye show. Peace.

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