Cowboys Break: Hypothetical 53-Man Roster

The Break live from Oxnard, California. We will be heading back to Dallas later this week, so this is going to be the final show that we do from Oxnard. We'll start back up with our regular schedule programming on Monday back from at the Star. So it's been a good, good three and a half weeks, and so it's nice to end this on a good note today. How's everybody

feeling to day? Pretty good? Yeah, we're good. Great. I did an interview this morning, um and somebody said, man, it just feels like you guys just got out there. I'm like, no, it doesn't. It actually doesn't, not even a little thinking that, but now it really doesn't at all. No, Yesterday was a day off for the players, so they'll be back on the field today. They have a practice this afternoon. They have a practice tomorrow morning. I think

it's a ten thirty am practice. So if you're here in the area, in the LA area, and you still have not had a chance to get to practice, this is your great opportunity to be able to get out here. There's only two more practices left. Try to do that this afternoon or tomorrow morning because on Friday morning we are out. If you want to see real, real football, you should probably come today though, Like if I had the guest, tomorrow morning is gonna be I Phil walk

through it. It's gonna be light, real real football, real training camp, training camp, right, real practice. You know you said it was a player's day off yesterday, and if you follow any of these people on social media, you'll also realize there was a day off for the for the staff as well. Most beautiful photos. You still have a quite recovered. Yeah, it was. It was really a fun day. And I got to give a shout out

to Stephen who was our host yesterday. Uh he is a fan, huge fan of this team, UM and just was so gracious to be able to give our crew a day away and kind of give us a really really great experience yesterday on the beach there in Venice. It was. It was phenomenal. So shout out to Stephen. Can see how the other side lives now and again right yeah, I don't know if I'll ever get to that stage, but no, it was really it was really

nice for a day to pretend. Um, Okay, so we're gonna talk some Cowboys football and today we get to do what is probably one of my most favorite shows of the entire year. We're gonna take right now the ninety guys that they have out here on the field, and we're gonna pretend as though we are the GM the head coach, and we're gonna try to cut this thing down to fifty three. And uh, I'm sure Dave loves doing that as well. M It's fun because this

is just kind of the fun of what we do. Right. So, Um, what we're gonna do is what I I The way I line this out is I have a list of all the guys, um, and what I'll do is I'll go through each position. I will tell you guys the names of the people I think are locks to be

on this team. I want to hear if you guys agree, and if you do, then we'll go through the list of the other guys and tell me if there are any of those guys we should throw on to that list, and if not, then we'll hold those in the maybe category. We'll get our full number that we have that are locks, and then we'll back into the fifty three. That all makes sense, Ye, Just just a reminder to us that are sitting here is I'm sure there'll a bit walk through here in a little bit before you might be

cutting yelling out somebody. He's definitely cut, Like, hey, how's it going? So yeah, this maybe it's last these maybe it's last couple of practices, So let's speed to care about that. Why No, I'm just saying it's like, that's fine. We cut them, We cut them. Yeah, I mean they knew what they signed up for. Still is sad they didn't know. And I'm not trying to belittle And I mean there's three thousand people chasing their dream in the NFL right now, and half of them aren't going to

pull it off. And even crazier than that, ninety nine percent of them are fighting some type of adversity aside from trying to make the team too. So I'm not trying to disrespect that at all, but it's I mean, that's the gig. It's tough, tough league, all right. So here we go. We're gonna start with the cornerback position. Here are my locks ban Byron Jones, Cheetah Bay, Woozier, Jordan Lewis, Anthony Brown. You guys agree, definitely awesome. Here are the guys that I did not put on that list.

And you tell me if there are any of those that you think need to be on the lock list. Marks White, Savarius Award, Duke Thomas, Donovan Alumba or cam Kelly Lock No lock, no, no greed, Dick. I agree that nobody's a lock. I think those guys have to play their way onto the roster. Duke Thomas was going to do that last year and then he got hurt. You can't get hurt. Those guys just can't get hurt.

Right now. I think that that's a good battle. I would guess the player who performs the best, and in the three preseason games between Alumba and there various Ward would sneak onto that last spot in my opinion, would the Cowboys enter the season and Amber you can answer this, would you think the Cowboys would enter the season with just four cornerbacks? Do you think they need more? Well, I mean, based on what they've done at safety, I would say, oh, they're cool with just having less guys,

you know, like entering with four. I wouldn't see that necessarily as a problem. Now, those two guys that Nick mentioned is tricky right now because certain guys, they'll have a shiny moment at camp and then you think, oh, this guy is looking great, but then the next day it's like, Okay, he doesn't look good, and then the other guy goes up. Which is the nature of a guy that's that far out of the Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

So I'm just saying that right now, out of that group, there's no one that's really standing out much than the other. So if we had to say a number, like what would be the number of cornerbacks you think you need to carry for this team? I think you need to carry five, But I don't know why you wouldn't carry six. Between injuries and the fact that as of right now, there's a there's a non zero chance that either Byron or Cheeto might have to play safety at some point

this season. I think six is would be smart. It's really I mean, I hope safety's next on your list because it is a ten dB uh, it's usually around ten. It can be nine, um, but it's nine. If you've got those players that Dave's talking about that can do a little bit of both. So now your fifth guy is a you know, as a player and as Cam Kelly is he they've I think that the Cowboys have him listed as a safety. He's done a little bit of everything. He's moved back, he's gonna have to he's

gonna to step it up. He's behind the other ones there, but he's a type of player that if he did stand out in these preseason games, you could see going, all right, he's your fifth corner and your fifth safety. I will say heading into camp, I gave Duke Thomas and Markus White the edge to be the fifth and sixth corner is because they had a year under their belt. I haven't seen anything from either of them that I

just think they absolutely need to make this team. I give I give Duke a little bit more of a nod than Marquez. If I had to guess I think Duke Thomas and then one of these undrafted rookies probably Yeah, all right, so let's move to safety. There are three locks. In my opinion. You've got Xavier Woods, you got Jeff Heath, and you got Cavon Frasier. The other three are a little bit of an enigma because I don't know that any of them have stood up, stood stood out enough

to our flag. They have to make this team, but you would think you want more than three safeties on this team as well. They are Jamil Showers, Mark Queston Huff and Tyree Robinson. I assume we all agree on the locks. Do you think you need an additional one? And if so, is there one there that you think maybe should be the guy that that's the fourth. We're not that far removed from a year where they kept five safeties, so it's hard for me to imagine them

going with three. That said, I don't feel great about any of those options. Maybe my question Huff, but he's hurt. It looks like he's going to be out for at least a little bit of time, and I don't know. I know people have thrown around the idea of three safeties.

I don't like that idea either, But I wonder, and I'm not talking about Earl Thomas, but I wonder if if there's a safety that's going to make this team that's not here, right And I definitely think that they will get another safety in here, whether it's a trade or not. They have to. They really have to get some more experience here at that position. I mean, because Jeff Heath is not I mean, he's played in the league four or five years, but doesn't have a ton

of stars. Davier Woods doesn't really have hardly any. Kavon Frasier has been more of a special teams guy. I think it's very important to brand it. I just don't understand how, I mean from their standpoint, and we don't really know what they're thinking, what they're doing behind doors. But I don't know how you would feel comfortable going into this season with the guys that you have right now, and not only as far as experienced, but body wise.

What do you mean by that? Body wise? Okay, yeah, okay, got you. So I guess the other part to consider that, Dave, you already kind of mentioned this is those guys that can play both safety and corner, right, So if you look at it from that standpoint, maybe they could go long at cornerback, knowing that they're only going to have three quoted safeties, knowing that Byron Jones could flip over, knowing that your best two cornerbacks at camp Byron Jones

and Cheetahbill Woozy. Okay, I get you, but that's I understand what you're saying. But I do believe though that this team, if you look at this the history of this coaching staff, I do think that that that's not always the criteria. I think that if they feel like they need the body in a different place, I think they'll put the body in a different place. Yes, Byron would be the only option there to me, because he's done it in games. I don't think you should move

Cheeto over there if he hasn't practiced at all. So I hope that they're not really thinking that way. Punch me in the face if that's their primary game plan, just like, let's move these guys out of in a

really important position and haven't played. But it would only it would own being an instance where you had just a major catastrophe in a game, because that's the thing, Like, that's the point, they could probably go and get some of these guys off the you know, off the free agent while if they have a guy go down, you have to finish a game. Though, if you had to slide a guy back there to finish a game, and

that's what you do. If you're only carrying three safeties, you're setting yourself up for a catastrophe, like you're just I mean, case in point, cavan Frasier is he's battling anything right now, he's not completely healthy. That leaves you you basically have two safeties that you feel comfortable putting on the field right now. I mean, I think Cavon

is gonna be fine, but it's it's troubling. I just I every year they send a seventh round pick to somebody in exchange for a player and defensive tackle and safety or two spots that make a lot of sense. Though you did mention, and you've been mentioning this since the draft, really since free agency opened. I know that Earl Thomas's name keeps be getting bantered around, But there

were other safeties you said that were out there. Throw me some other names and maybe some guys are they all gone at this point, there's one guy that's not and he's not getting signed here. Yeah. Um, Kenny Vaccaro and Trey Boston both have jobs now that that ship sailed, So you got so really when it comes to those veteran guys, there aren't a lot of options there either. Yeah.

And I think that you're you're talking about what they did last year with the cornerback of ben A Ben Wickery, it's gonna be that type of guy right at the end of camp. They did it. Um. I mean they did it with the safety and fourteen C. J. Spiller. Um, So that's that type of player. Yeah, real quick, And this is going to divert us a little bit. But I thought it's worth bringing up because I have gotten a few tweets about it yesterday. No, No, I have

to bring it up, though I know I'm just answering. No. Yesterday, Orlando Scandrid gets cut from Washington Redskins, and I got a few tweets like, is there any chance the Cowboys bringing back? What do you guys think should they? I guess is an even better question. Why? Why? No? I'm I'm good, I think I feel which I'm good and we're good Orlando, Orlando Scandrid probably has some gas left in the tank, like you can do some somewhere. But you you flipped this thing over you you you made

that bed. Why go back to it like he's He's not gonna noticeably bolster this thing. Nothing's happened out here where you're like, we you know, we need him. You know, I don't think the Cowboys would look at it and go, what man, you know, Anthony Brown or or um Jordan Lewis hasn't done what we I think that they've been. So you guys feel good. You feel good. You feel better about Anthony Brown in the slot than you would maybe bringing in Orlando and just playing him in the slot.

Dez Bryant would fit in just as well as Scandrick. I mean, this isn't just about playing on the field. This is about where they think that that the development of younger players. And I don't think that they they saw that and Washington's only had him for a few months, and they looked at it like, we've got young guys we'd rather play. If he was, if he was the

best slot corner in the league, bring it on. But and I'm not saying he's terrible, but I don't think the difference is so noticeable that you bother with that you hinder your young players development. He's an older player, just I don't see why you need. Washington has an all pro type cornerback and some younger players there. There will be some teams out there, I think we'll see, but I think there'll be a team that has some

younger guys and maybe needs more of a veteran. If that's the case, then then you know he'll probably go somewhere, And I think Washington did it for that reason to keep him out there so he can. I heard he was visiting the Chiefs today, So yeah, I mean, like people, somebody's gonna want to sign him. I'm not He's not a bad player, but I just don't set the point here.

Didn't they trade? Yes, the Redskins needed a guy because they traded their cornerback to the Chiefs, And now the Chiefs want to bring him into But his salary keeps going down. He's getting close to the probably the leak minimum. Yeah. I think, honestly, I think whether his role is gonna end up being is he's going to be that guy that is a slot only guy. He's not going to play on the outside. He's not going to play a

full slate of of downs. He will be you know, he will be the guy that comes in for slot duty and that's where he's gonna have to focus and be. Honestly, I think that's probably where he's best at this point in his career, where he doesn't have to play every down. I would much rather just ride with this group. They're like they all came in at similar times. They're growing

up together. Scandrick is in a way different point of his career that it kind of it hinders not that narrative is a bad word, but like, this is a young team trying to prove itself and then you bring, you know, thirty one thirty two year old veteran who has been through the league Ringer and just yeah, you're good. I think at the end of the camp, and I guess this kind of goes back to the corner, but I think char Various Award is going to make the team. I don't think he's a guy that they will want

to cut. Yeah, and Alumba is going to be right there with him because of just the body type that they have. And we knew that going in. I mean credit Brian for saying, hey, this is what Chris Rochard likes. These two guys fit the mold. If they come out here and perform at a high level or a pretty good level for being you know, undrafted rookies, then they'll take a chance on him. I mean, and I like what I've seen an award. He competes your sixth cornerback.

Doesn't need to dress for a game, yea or so. But I mean, if this is his starting point out here and being right there with Tavon Austin and Tavon just making a great play over him, I like, I like the starting point for Ward. I just I if I had to pick, I think Ward makes this team too. And I just I feel very confident that one of these tall, long corners that fits Chard's archetype is going to make this team for him to mold and work with during the course of the year, even if he's

not playing a lot. I talked to him at one point after one of his good practices, Trevarius Ward, and I said, you know, players have Warren number forty as an undrafted player and made the team before. You know, Bill Bates, he's never heard of him. Um, no, Bill Bates, Danny McCrae. Okay, he's like, wow, you know, if I make the team, I'm moving I'm moving numbers. Anyways, I'm like, okay, I'll just still. I don't think, let's make the team.

I hope you're not saying that to everybody, you know, I hope you're not going up to the equipment guys. In't saying it. But but right now, that's his focus though, and that's not a bad thing. It focus is I'm gonna make the team. And yeah, so all right, let's take our first break when we come back. I mean maybe I don't know. I don't know if it's everyone. So, I mean, yeah, that's the goal. But but I don't know if that's necessarily I don't know how realistic it

is for other players or not. I mean, some people are thinking two or three steps down the road, he's making the team, and he's you know, he's changing numbers. Yeah, all right, let's take our first break when we come back. We're going to continue to go down this list. We'll get to linebackers, defensive end, defensive ends, and defensive tackles. In the next second. We'll be right back. This is

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live from Oxnard, California. Again our final show here from Oxnard. We'll be back in Dallas next week. At the start, we're going through and making cuts for the final fifty three man roster. We will be submitting these two the coaching staff and the GM later today so that they can evaluate our evaluations and factor those things in. So cool. Make sure you guys and say hey, will we're hey, you got an interview later with Jerry, right, so just

hand it to Jerry. Here you go, mister Jones. We're not gonna get it all the way right, but we're gonna be really close. I mean yeah. So anyway, all right, so here we go. Let's go to the linebacker position. We've got Sean Lee, Joe Thomas, Jalen Smith, Layton Vanderish. I threw Damian Wilson in there as well as locks. You guys agree with those five? Yes? All right? So what you got left is justin marsh Lillard Chris Covington. Do you need more than five? And if so, should

either one of those be on the locklist. That is something I've seen going around Twitter, like people are suggesting five linebackers, and I just think that's insane, like six as six as a must, and honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it's seven. That's me. I don't know that I consider either of them a lock but I think Justin marsh Lillard will make this team. Chris Covington's got some work to do, no through no fault of his own, just because he's been sick. I haven't seen that much

of him. Yeah, I actually disagree. I don't think March Lillard WILLI make the team, and I know that he's a rookie, but I think when you're from a body type standpoint, I'm counting both Scarborough in as a linebacker from the standpoint of do you need that type of player to run the special teams and to be on this spot in the special teams part, And so most times you can't just say your third running back goes right here on the edge as a punt protector. I

think he factors in for that reason. When you're talking about six and seven linebackers, it's special teams. So I think you can go a little lighter there. I we'll see if Covington can get into the mix. And I'm not one hundred percent sure. Damien Wilson, if you're talking about it into the camp trade something, what do you got? We got a little depth here. He's you know, he's a guy going into his last year of his deal.

I think that's fair. But when you know, again, like that type of stuff typically typically doesn't happen until Sunday, like when they put out the fifty three on Saturday. I think, group the ones we have, I mean, he would be the most proven one out of everyone else that's left. Wilson, Yeah, yeah, yeah, after you talk about Shawn Lee and Jalen Okay, talent wise, he would be the next one. None of those other linebackers have done

anything right who pinkins hero No? No, And I don't think most of those guys have an opportunity to make this team because there's so much there's so much ahead of them. I don't think they have much a shot. The best shot I think is to make the practice squad. Yeah. I remember having conversations in OTAs with people where I was like, you can you can put this linebacker chor together today, assuming everybody's healthy, and Covington and marsh Lillard

were definitely included in that. I think I think Nick's got a really good point that, you know, the abilities of some other players on this roster enable you to go light, but with the injury history you've had a linebacker in recent years, I don't know why you would do that if you've got talented guys here, Like I think six is a damn near guarantee, and I wouldn't be surprised by seven. I'll watch Marsha Lillard more too, and I mean maybe I need to kind of. I

think he's been on him. I think he's been great, and that's also the reason why I think, well, not that reason, but I also think Damon Damien Wilson makes his team because of the fact that this has been a position that they've had some injury concerns, and I think with his experience, I don't know that you're going

to go out and replace that in free age. He's also you know, right, we gave you at least we gave Kyle Wilver so much credit for his specialty and his ability, you know, and considering he didn't contribute that much to defense. I think Damian Wilson is kind of adapting that role as well. Like, I mean, he's going

to be an active, special teams experienced guy. Yeah, and if you did trade him to another team, you'd hold your breath because you know one thing you'd need at this position is depth and because of some injury history, minute you do that. That's yeah, that's exactly right. That's why you know people ask out, they're like, well, who would you trade, you know, if we can get like,

definitely don't want to trade a linebacker. I want to That's I want as many good bodies as I can have, right, So yeah, all right, let's move on to defensive end. You got de Marcus Lawrence, Tyrone Crawford, Uh, Taco Charlton, Randy Gregory. I put on the lists a lot um and then Dorance Armstrong. I think he's been really good out here as a rookie. Um. That gives you five guys that are locked up. Do you go five or do you go for at the defensive end position? I

think you you go with five. You go with as many as pressures as you have that can rush that are good. I mean, if you had six great ones, you'd go with six. I mean you need them, and those five are making the team for sure. Tapper's on the who well, who did you read as the Locks, Tank, Taco, Randy Tyrone, Tyrone. And then you've got guys that are kind of sitting right over here that you think about, like Cony Elie and Charles Tapper that that you know,

you feel like maybe there's something there. So this is gonna be a tough position to cut, I think to some degree when you look at other positions, how we talk about as far as guys that you need, I mean this one, you don't have any one that you say, man, I must kip this one for sure. You know. So again body wise, the amount of bodies that you carry at that position versus other positions, I think this is one where you could cut one down. Yeah. But I think the flip side to that is true as well.

There aren't guys you're like, oh, he's automatic cut right. So it's like when you start getting to guys like Cony Eily and Charles Tapper, they may really say, hey, we really want to see what Elie can do. Because think about it, this is guy has a lot of talent. He was a high draft pick. They may think, we really think we want to get him into the regular season because you think he'll provide something for This is

going back to the secondary conversation. This is a spot where you could take six ends, and because several of them can play tackle. Yeah, Tyrone Crawford looks like he's going to spend some time at tackle in some degree, and I wouldn't be. And I know Cony Eely can and Taco Charlton can too, even though we haven't seen it. So you can talk to me into taking six. But at five sounds about right. Yeah, so let's think about that. We've got the defensive tackle position here with the locks there,

jahad Ward, Antoine Woods, Brian Price, MALIEK Collins. Damn wow, Woods. I don't you guys not think I mean he's been running with the first team. I don't think a guy that's running with the first team. It's a wow. Congratulations to him to be at that level. I don't know if necessarily they're all locks. I think Malik is the only name you read that I would call a lot. Yeah, really, yes, a lot? Any of those Wait did you even say datone Jones? He's a lot? You're right, dat Jones is

a lock. Yeah, Dayton Jones and MALIEK. Collins I consider locks. I leaned toward thinking Jihad Lord is a lock, but not necessarily since Antoine Woods is running with the Ones a lot I'm playing. I'm keeping Woods. I am just from a standpoint of he a body tap. You don't have that type of player. Has he not been your best defensive tackle? Lot here too. He's the only player in three or four years that I've seen give Travis Frederick this much problem. I agree with what you're saying.

But Lewis Neil ran with the Ones in training camp last year too, Like they do stuff like that, you're short on bodies, you're not impressed by the veteran that you brought in to start in place of David Irving, etc. Etc. I think he's got a really good shot to make the team. I hesitate to call him a lot man. Tony Elie is on the outside looking in because my thought was that you would read off the tackles and

I will just say you can put that spot. But from a tackle standpoint, I like Price better, I like Woods better, I like uh deck On Jones better, and I definitely like Mileague better, and let's not forget in four games we think we think David Irving is going to come back in league. I mean, David hold on, I'm sorry to cut you off there, David Irving is you know, we can say how we want about I don't know if he's coming. David Irving needs that a crude season so he can be a free agent next year.

He needs to come back. He's gonna do everything he can. He wanted to come back. I think to camp a week ago. He really needs to be back. So it makes sense. Now will he be good? Will he be in shape? Who knows about what? You can defer that decision like you don't have to worry about that decision right now. That will be something that plays itself out. And I guarantee you. I want to guarantee you. But there's a good chance that by the time you get

to that decision there will be some interest. And how it makes people always want to sweat, like who you're gonna cut to get Irving on the roster. It always always works out. I was gonna bring up my league Collins, who is coming back from an injury, but this kind of injury is a reoccurring injury, so you never know when it might happen again, because it's not oh it just happened once. It has been multiple times. I've been yeah,

I'm I like your five ends. And then assuming they don't, you know, again, it's hard to predict trades and stuff. But Malik Dayton, Jones, Jihad Ward, oh Man, right Price in Woods, Yeah, I know, and then you go with that five and five like those two. Ten is is heavy like and they I know, whenever we do these types of things, people project as many as ten and eleven. I'm pretty sure in the Rod Marinelli era they've only gone as high as ten once or twice. Like it's

usually nine and one time it was even eight. No, you're good. I don't think Daytone, Jones and Brian Price makes the team. I think you got the I think you got that Angie had Ward. Of those three, I don't think they all make it. I think two of those three, I think two of those three. You're talking about the same type of money, same type of year, same type of tape that they've already shown. I want to see. We just wanted to. Really, Really, the only

lock you guys got really is Mollie Collins. What he's the only guy. He's the only guy sitting here on August fourteenth? Is it the fourteenth fifteenth that you can be like, yeah, he's gonna make the team. All right, So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put all I'm gonna defer all those others. We'll put Mollie Collins in the lock category, and then we'll come back and we'll have to fill in for the rest of those spots. Okay, all right, So let's move on to the offense, which

we gotta move pretty quickly here. All right, So we got we got quarterback. Actually Dak we know Dak Prescott, Cooper Rush are in Mike White. Is the decision do you go with three here or do you let him hopefully see if you can maybe get him to the practice squad? Here's we always say this, and it's true across the board. Quarterbacks just different. It's a different position. Mike White was a He was a quarterback with a

draftable grade. Brian brought Us had a third round grade on the guy, and the Cowboys got him in the fifth. There's no telling what every other team in the league thought about him. If you cut him. There's just a better probability that he gets picked up by somebody than any other position because you see him and you say, quarterbacks are lottery tickets. Let's put a claim in on this guy and see if we can do anything with him. I think, Um, I don't think that Cooper Rush isn't

necessarily a lot right now. I mean you can say, well, well, just think of it like this. We have three preseason games to play, and he's gonna play in all of them. If he throws an interception in every one of those games, we're gonna totally have a different opinion about him. Well, we could do that with a lot of people, right, Okay,

so that throws a pick in every game. You consider the source, though, Consider the source, and I'm not you them, which is that I know it worked itself out over time, but kell him had a bad preseason last year, and they valued his experience and what they thought about him and all that type of crap, and he was still QB two when the roster was released. It took until almost November for that to change. It's not like, you know,

it's not like Cooper Rush was bumped up overnight. They didn't cut Kellen until they went to Washington in October. I think he's a lot and they're not going to bring a veteran guy to be the backup. I think I agree with Cooper Rush. Is this team's backup quarterback unless his leg falls off in the preseason. But I think and that really and that may even be questionable,

Like if he did it only has one leg. As long as he has my arm, I think he might say, I'm not here to tell you like Mike White hasn't blown me away by any stretch of the imagination. But it's it sounds so shortsighted. Again, fifth round picks not a big deal if it's any other position, but it's a quarterback. And again, we talked about this before we went on the air. Jerry Jones spent the whole offseason saying, we're done with that veteran stuff. We want to develop

a young guy. And I'm not talking about Cooper Rush. He was talking about adding another quarterback. We want to develop somebody. How can you say that you honestly got a chance to develop Mike White over the course of one preseason. But my retort to that is, I think they are developing someone in Cooper Rush. Like Cooper Rush is a young quarterback that they're having to develop. Do you want to have two guys that you're having to develop?

He wasn't talking about Cooper Rush when he was saying I get that, but my point, my point still remains that if their goal is to try to develop a guy for the future, then to me, they were already doing that with Cooper Rush. They're developing a guy for the future. If you want to do that, If you want to see Mike White at all, that you don't play Dak in this game at all. You don't need

to see Dak in this game. You think you got this great offensive still got to get him ready for the season, though, well, then play him in the Cardinals game. Get If you want to see what Mike White can do, then play him in this game. That's what That's what Parcels did with Tony twelve years ago or eleven years ago. He played the whole game, but so couldn't believe it.

He's and he should the fourth game. I think the fourth game, you're probably gonna see Mike White play the entire know I want to see him, not I don't want to see at least the screen Kadeem Edwards and those those lines. I want to see him being able to you know, his mental clocks should not be a one. It should be like one, two, three ball, not like hike ball. I mean, you can't do that. Fourth preseason games should be the Dalton Sturm showcase in my opinion,

which I just and I'm I'm not. I can't say I'm one hundred percent right about this, but I don't understand why you drafted Mike White if you aren't committed to keeping on the team for at least one season. Um, So I think it's it's gonna be three quarterbacks. Let's move on, Let's go to running back Zeke Elliott rod Smith definitely in Jamaez Ali Wali will put throw him in as well. He's definitely gonna make the team as the fullback. Both Scarborough I put on the list as

a lock. I don't know what you guys feel about it, but I have a hard time thinking they go with only two running backs. And I think he's the best of the of the guys that are left. What do you guys think? I think you can sew that thing up, and I don't cut that guy. Yeah, you know, he's got enough potential to do some things. Remember he didn't.

I don't think he was drafted as high because the stats weren't a lot, weren't great, because he's playing it out Alma and in some injuries and stuff in Alabama. It's got Oh, the next guy we saw in the National Championship. You go to the backup quarterback in there, they're even better. So they don't wait for long on those in that position. But you look at him, there's a spot in the NFL for a guy that looks like that and can play like that. I think he

keeps him. Darius Jackson is my guy, so I don't want to just write him off. And I have him on the list of the guys that are next and have an opportunity, and I think we should talk about him when we get back to Okay, let's fill in now, we've got X number of spots left. I think he's a guy that should be considered right there. All right, Well, if you want to come back to it, that's fine, all right, good, So let's move on to wide receiver.

Alan Hearns, Cole Beasley, Michael Gallup, Tavon Austin, Terrence Williams. I think our locks. You guys agree, yes, yeah, one more time. I'm sorry. Beasley, Gallup, Beasley, Gallerparns, yes all Austin, Yeah, okay, yeah, so five. And we looked at this before the show on Terrence on you know, is he is? He a lock? And we just just did the looked at the numbers

it cost him. I think it was four million, four point two million to have him on the team right now on your salary cap, it would count another two and a half million to put to not have him on the team, you have to pay two point five million on your cap to trade him, cut him whatever. That makes absolutely no sense, which I would be. I agree with you completely. I'll play devil's advocate. If he was just asked if he was a bad person, Yeah,

that's it. Not one. It would be a situation where I don't want him to be on my my locker room. The money is not stopping you from doing that if everything else is working against it. But he's had a good camp. He's are the most experienced receiver here, certainly in this offense. Uh, he's a good blocker. He you know, fans don't want to hear this I don't care that they value him, and honestly they probably should. Yeah, uh so, I just now next year. Next year's a different story.

It would make some sense to to part ways if he hasn't improved greatly. There. All right, let's let's go ahead and move on to five receivers. Yes, I'm sorry, Yes, we do have some other guys that on the list or Noah, but you've seen more out of lance right now. Don't forget Deante Thompson. Yeah, yeah, a few guys you have to And I was actually gonna come back to us because that's when you have feeling those I think this is gonna be a position where you really have

to talk about when you start feeling in guys. You have Lenor, you have Brown, you have Thompson, and Katie Cannon's been getting some looks out here. I don't think he makes the team, but it's worth a conversation. Right circle back, Um, let's talk about tight end Jeff Swam, Blake Jarwin, Dalton Schultz. I think we're all in, uh, and then you have to have that discussion about Rico gaspeak up. Don't want to speak about this. I think Jeff Swaim's a lock, and I think Jarwin uh is

a lock as well. Um Dalton Schultz probably will will make the team. But right now, like you know, if you just took every if you just took everything away with like where they were drafted, he wouldn't. I think he would be probably last in the tight end. And he's right there with David Wells. I think Rico has done more things than than Schultz. But uh, that's it's the politics, it's part of it. You've invested in these guys and they don't. No one likes to look bad

and look wrong. And if you just cut a fourth round pick, that just show you're just admitting that you didn't do a good job with the draft in that particular pick. That's I mean, for that reason, Tapper in his third year might get a benefit of the doubt for the same thing. So I doubt they'll cut Schultz. But he has not done anything out here to say he deserves a spot other than what happened in late April in the draft. My thing, I don't necessarily think

you're wrong. I don't think Schultz has been bad. He just doesn't look like he's ready really from a physical standpoint, like he a lot like Taco last year, Like he just needs to be in a weight program for a year, and I think he'll be like he looks like he knows what he's doing, he's just not executing it, which

I feel like that's a regular rookie problem. But then again, to your point, politics sounds so icky, But I mean, this team hasn't cut a fourth round pick in my time here, and they certainly haven't done it during Will mcclay's tenure. I doubt they're going to start doing it now. Think the last guy was an LSU player who I think it was Skyler Green? Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I don't think he made the team fourth round. I would be I would be pretty surprised I thought he got cut.

I would be pretty surprised. This doesn't happen a lot. You gotta be really really bad, and it's not like it's not like, you know, the the guy that would push him out would be would be Rico because then then it's almost like we had you cut a fourth round pick, but we got a bonus player here and a guy we dropped in the sixth round that we've been working on. And I mean, I think if I had to do it right now. I think if I had to say one or the other Rico Raschult, I

would take Rico m really one or the other. You know my football team, and I don't. I'm not. That's what I'm trying to say. I don't. I'm okay with cutting a fourth round pick because I feel like this was it was like a throw in bonus player that now now that I've got and I agree with you on that because I think when you look at what Rico brings and I've this has been my thing all along. He does have that one thing that I don't think anybody else in that receiver group, in that tight end

group has, which is the ability. As much as you talk about is blocking and everything else, he has an ability to get out and be able to make catches in situations. We've seen him make catches down the field. We've seen him make contested catches, We've seen him make catches in red zone. Like we've seen him do this

in limited number of opportunities. I think it intrigues me at least enough to where I want to enter the season and have that one extra way that I think I can use him in the red zone that maybe I don't have with these other guys that gives me something else to be able to rely on. It just doesn't sound like something the Cowboys would do. Maybe not. I just think it's worth the I think it's worth

the spot. I think it's worth the roster spot. And the way I look at it is is Schultz needs to figure out how to be an NFL tight end, how to figure out like where to block and who you know, what routes the run, and he needs to be physically bigger and stronger. Rico needs to do one

of the two, you know. I mean now, Schultz is probably further along and playing football and all that kind of stuff, and may even have more more long term outside but never gonna get to that type of physical you know specimen that Rico is so um you know upside, I think it would be Rico if it's one of the one or the other. But you're right day they'll figure out a way for it, and that not to be happen. That play the other day that he made that the remarkable catch that wasn't even the best part

of that play in my opinion. He was going against vander esh and he got down Phil and had two or three steps on the guy. Like, that's the part to me that I think he's shown something that at least gets me a little bit excited about the future of where he could be. Again, this is a guy that still has not played a lot of football and he's already making those kinds of plays. I just think it's worth the spot. I think it's worth the roster spot. I don't disagree with you, but I think they might

maybe they do. He's not Jimmy Graham, and I'm not saying he's gonna be Rico got I mean he's gonna be He's not gonna be Antonio Gates from a production standpoint, but I think he is similar to Gates in that they're not going to ask him to do all this blocking stuff. Just kind of get open, use your body and you know. And Gates developed into a Hall of Fame tight end. Rico won't do that, probably, but I think he's it's that type of skill set for him,

all right. I don't like when I hear that whole thing, that excuse of like, oh, he this is a guy that hasn't been playing football since whatever grade it was, anything, Well, this is a this is a professional level. You're in an NFL. It's professional. This is where okay, you showcase your skills. This is not college or high school where you're trying out and oh, let me try out football and see if I make it. Like, we're past that level.

So right now, I just feel that, Okay, given the time that he's been given already, this should be at a point where you're like, okay, you know what, let's go ahead and do this right. But here's where it makes a difference. Where it makes a difference is in the fact that he's shown you enough flashes that says I want to keep this thing going. I want to keep developing him, because it does have to factor in from the standpoint of wherever he is in his develop element.

When you look at that and say, okay, he hasn't played football and he's developed this much in the amount of time we've had him, Where would he be in another year, Where would he be in another two years? Is that worth me saying I will give a roster spot to see where that if he continues to develop, and maybe in another year he has quantum leaps above where he is right now because of the development he's already had it. What does that show me? Right, So

that's where I think it factors in. You're right, it doesn't make a difference. At the end of the day, you still got to produce. Nobody cares that you didn't play football, But it does matter when you're trying to figure out where he's developed in a short period of time. And wow, how you can dizzy for iggy making programs. Right, All right, let's take our final break. When we come back, we're gonna cut this thing down. We got forty two guys.

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Break from Oxnard, California. We got about fifteen minutes left in the show and we're cutting the roster down to the fifty three man roster. We've got forty two guys that we have considered to be locks, and so we have a eleven spots left and let me read some of the names. Go ahead, and you put three special teams guys on there. Yes I did. We didn't talk about them, but yes I did already already at the

three guys to the forty three to talk about. Well, we're asking is that part of the forty they're already in the forty two. Yes, they've been counted in the forty two. Uh, and that would include our our specialists, our kicker, O punter in our long I mean, you guys might disagree on this, but of the eleven spots, I mean it's safe to say that if they find any of these players that get cut or traded for

another team, yes you could replace them. So I mean we could say, oh, he's not on this team right now, or that fifth guys not on this team. Yeah, that's probably, But I mean I think we should say, are of the players that are here, these are the guys that don't make it. Yeah, they can swap it out. We have any point. That's exactly why anybody not anybody. There are a lot of guys that are at this point

that could be swapped out for another guy. But we're gonna assume for now we're just talking about the guys that are the game. Lay a lot, I am playing a lot. I am playing along. I'm just saying, so we don't sit there and talk about well, I think they'll go get another safety for there's another tight end. Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, So I think where we should

start with that. There are two positions. I think we should start with defensive tackle in cornerback because we know they're going to have more numbers than the locks that we have in We're just we're good with the O line. We don't need to You didn't even mention. Honest, I'll do it for you real quick. We don't need to spend a lot of time. The injury to Marcus Martin made this thing really easy. You got your five, Cam Flemings,

you're six, Joe Looney's your seven. Uh, And then you're probably talking about Chaz Green and Kadeem Edwards battling it out to prove that they belong and maybe you add a veteran in place of one of those guys if you don't feel good about it. And the only question that you would throw out there is do you feel comfortable with the idea that you're basically going to be rolling with Joe Looney as your guy that can play all three of those inside positions, are you good with that?

On game day seven? You have seven game day guys yep. And the eighth guy to me would be Kadeem Edwards, right, he has been a better player than Chaz Green. Uh. Yeah, And I do not. I'm just saying, I mean, I gave I gave some to the thought of going with nine there when Marcus Martin was still healthy, but it just makes so much sense. Yeah, And you know, you fortify yourself with practice squad players if you have to.

Nobody nobody. And it's very similar to a linebacker where none of those young guys have really caught anyone's eye, like Oh Campos and Bryce Jones, I mean, good offensive lineman probably don't want to sign here, you don't. I mean, and when I'm talking about undrafted guys like and they've said that before, Like it's hard to convince offensive tackles and guards to come in here knowing that the deck's going to be stacked against them to earn a spot.

The one guy that might factor in here maybe his mama. Who's mama, Damien, Mama. I'm not I'm really not trying to be a jerk. I've not noticed him. One time I did. I did training, campplied. The other day we did one on one pass rushing drills and he was throwing people around. I thought he did pretty good. I think he's gone into your mind and brain just because he's always right after practice around with his girl, and he's always there, and then in your mind, he starts

getting in your head. Mama, mamakayama. All right, So let's let's go to I think the two positions where we feel like they'll have more than what we had in the lock, and let's narrow it down. Let's start with cornerback. We have Mark quiz White, Tavarius Award, Duke Thomas cam Kelly. Of those guys, I think we said we'd get to five or six, we only have four locks. Which of those guys do you think make the team? Sorry? Are we at forty six players now? Now we're at forty three.

We added one for the additional offensive linement. Okay, so we're now at forty three. So you've got ten players that weren't in the locks that are gonna make this team. Yes, that seems it seems like that that would be too many. But okay, well remember defensive tackle. We only got one right now, Okay, so cornerback cornerback. So you got Mark, Quiz White, various Award, Duke Thomas, and Cam Kelly. You can throw in of an Alumba if you want to, and talk about him as well. I think there's only

a spot for one of those guys. I take Ward, So you're gonna go with five, I would go with I would go with Ward as well. He has been the most aggressive one, and that's the kind of player you won on the defense, someone that is aggressive and is not scared to go for it. I want six. I'll take Duke and Ward. But that's just me. How are you gonna How are you playing this game? Derek? Uh? You be the tiebreaker. Honestly, I go with Dave on this. I think I think you take six corners because I

think you're gonna live a light at safety. Okay, um, And so I go with Ward as well, and I think Duke Thomas. I'm kind of torn a little bit on White and Thomas. I think one of the two of those guys, um, and I'm not really certain how they evaluate them. And I think both of them will Sunday evaluated. They evaluated, But what else can you do? And and Duke Thomas returns kickoffs, he's your primary kickoff return guy right now. So uh, mark Us White would

not be doing that at all? Um, So yeah, I would, I would think. So let's let's go with let's go with two more? Yeah? Yeah, oh, with two Given the fact that if you're looking at the roster and the safeties of we have right now, then yeah, you let's add in corner Okay, So are we gonna If we're gonna do that and we're gonna go with six cornerbacks, do you feel like we stick with just three safeties or do you think you need to add an additional

one from Jamal Showers McQueston huff or Tyree Robinson. We're adding a player. You wouldn't need a body Tyree Robinson until he's the guy that makes the team until Saturday or Sunday. Don't pop the champagne just yet. Don't go out and buy a house. Don't buy a house, all right, just get an apartment for now. All right, let's go on the linebackers. We had two guys that were left over that we were considering justin march Lillard and Chris Covington. Do you take any more than the five you have?

And if so, which one? Given me? Covington? But I know that for the purposes, I feel we're gonna disagree on some things. But I'll take march Lillard. I'm going seven linebackers, but I'll deal with six, and I'll take JML. All right, amber they're pretty similar as far as what I've seen so far. No one that really like stands out. But I would say Chris Covington just because I don't know, just a feeling. It's it's a Rico type thing for me.

I mean, he started off college playing quarterback. He's developed his body, he's developed, he getting into that that role of being a linebacker. He showed enough on tape the last couple of years to be an NFL worthy player to be drafted. So I think I think they are. That's the guy they liked too, Yeah, they liked him. I think both. Okay, keep them both, all right, So let's tell you what. Let's do this. Let's hold that, and let's say that right now they're at forty seven

or forty eight. Let's depend on whether they keep one or two and see if we get to a point, but we have to make a decision on that. We may have enough room to be able to put them both there right right, all right, So defensive end we have the five. Do you think Colney Eye or Charles Tapper get considered into this mix and you keep us six? H think they both go? I really like Honestly, I've been focusing on the edge dreshers so much, but we had this defensive tackle conversation and I liked what we

were saying. So I want to hold on to a couple of those guys. Good, So let's move to defensive tackle then, I do I do think they're gonna try to keep going eily because they're stubborn. They like a player they like three years ago in the draft. They still like them. Um me, they'll I think they'll figure out out a spot for him. Okay, um let's talk about go ahead. Okay, so let's go to defensive tackle. We have to add some defensive tackles on right now.

So you got your Hardward Antoine Woods, Brian Price, Dayton Jones. Um, we've kind of, I think from the standpoint and discussion, we've kind of uh put put aside guys like Richard ash Lewis Neil for by the time being, we agree with that. Yeah, okay, so of those four, how many and which ones do you keep? I think you keep three of the four, okay, and if so, Malik plus another three, so you're gonna keep four. Yeah. The three that I would pick from that group would be Woods,

um Ward and Jones. Yeah. Oh, I know it's tough. Brian Bryce has do you think if you don't keep Ward then you don't really have another guy who can play the three? Well? Like, that's what But the three is the part. I think the three is the part where you could slide one of these defensive ends down Cree technique. That's where you you feel pretty good about one of those guys going down to the three technique. Yeah,

if necessary. The one technique is the issue, and Brian Price to me is your he is a Him and Malik are the guys that play one technique can play it well. Antoine Woods could as well if the team. If War makes the team, I think he's the guy that cut in week five. If who I'm sorry, I got you. I think he's your David Irving cut. Maybe I think now like you guys have said, everything always works out, you everything. So how many do we think they're keeping? Nine? Ten? Five? And we got all right,

I think you're gonna do five ends? I don't. I think I agree with Nick on the Coney Eily thing. I just don't know how you do it. So I'm kind of waiting to see if I have a spot left. But yes, right now we got five ends, and then you presume take four defensive tackles. Let's not forget too that that you know, Cowboys signed Cony Eily. They they don't know if doren To Armstrong can be ready to play. I mean I don't think they've probably signed him before

the draft. Um. And then also, I mean, there's no way you could have ever assumed that Randy Gregory was gonna factor into anything. And if they were, they were, they would have been really dumb to say, well, we got him, so we won't do this or this or this. I mean, you don't. You don't play that game. So uh, this is a good problem to have. And and because now Gregory's back in the mix, he's gonna squeeze somebody out. And and then the play of Antoine Woods and Brian

Price and Dayton Jones is probably gonna squeeze out Cony Eily. Actually, for the time being, I'll say MALIEK. Collins, Dayton Jones, Jihad Ward and Antoine Woods. I kind of I don't really believe that Brian Price isn't gonna be on this team. I don't either, But but Woods, that's what you know. You have him there because you don't expect Antoine Woods to do what he did. But when he does, you take out the guy that's been in the league three

or four years for the young guy that's promising. Yeah, honestly, I don't think and this is just my opinion, I don't think gihad Ward really Dayton Jones either. I don't think either one of them have been better than Price. The Woods out here at training camp. Now. Of course, that doesn't matter as much all the time because they're also going up against different guys. You know, looked pretty

nice in the preseason game. He did. He did. But I guess from that standpoint, I look at it and I say, I think I think Malik obviously, and then I think Woods, Price, and I think I'll probably go with Jones for sure. I think I think Gihadward is the guy I will probably have out on that. Yeah, but I would not be surprised if they say, screw

the numbers, we're going to take all five. That wouldn't shock me, just because there's a position where they could kind of just again if you had they decided they wanted to go with end. It's not the worst thing in the world. A defense and on the defensive line. Yeah, all right, let's go on to a quarterback. Mike white In out in in, Yeah, I'll come in. I'll come on here and I'll eat all the crow you want if he doesn't make this team. But I don't understand

how you don't. I think you can't go along everywhere. And this is a position where it's a convenience position. It's not necessarily because you have to have him on this team. So I kind of believe they may opt to just go with two and hope that they can get him to the practice squad, which I don't think is is beyond the scope. Like I think they could probably get him to the practice squad. It's not beyond the scope. I just fourth round picks don't get cut

very often. I know he's a fifth, but he's a quarterback, don't I'd be surprised. Yeah, all right, let's go on a running back, Darius Jackson. Can you fit him in? No? No, nor Fortunately, wide receivers, you're gonna have to get one or two more Lanceloor, Noah Brown, Deontay Thompson. How many more do you get? And who are they? How many more spots do we have? Yep, you're right now, you're at for sure, you're at forty eight. I would love to I'm sorry, No, I'm sorry, you're at fifty two.

It's a big difference yet one receivers. I would love to keep seven receivers for a variety of reasons. But I had correct, that's fifty one. I'm sorry, I'm there. You go, well, we haven't hit the tight end position. And it also depends if you're if Mike We didn't really, I mean, if you guys are all greening, Mike White's in you actually fifty at fifty two, did we decide we were keeping four tight ends already? No, we had not decided that that's that's gonna be I think that's

gonna be it right there is? What what are you doing at tight end? Or you go you're comfortable with three. You're gonna carry Rico. You're gonna add a veteran tight end? What are you doing? And if so, I don't know how you keep seven receivers if you're keeping four tight ends unless you're willing think you gotta go six. I gotta go six exactly, and that that gets you at that point. Then you're at fifty three and you haven't talked about the Titans. So you're assuming at that point

Rico's out. Yeah, yeah, which I don't know that. I'm just I don't think you can. You can't have your cake and eat it like you gotta. Right. It's also why, which is also why I think quarterback is the position where you go short, find me a fifth quarterback next year? Yeah, I agree, you can go back and get another. See I'll take the counter argument and say, I'm not gonna let somebody else take a quarterback that I feel good about, just because this seventh receiver that I like, but who

won't dress. That's also the question do you still feel good about him? Right? I mean you you felt good on draft day, You've seen a whole camp, do you still feel I'm not worried about a fifth round about a quarterback because I mean, yeah, I think they took a flyer, they had a higher grade on him. But I mean, I'm not I wouldn't be worried about cutting a fifth round quarterback knowing that I have a starter who's twenty four. I have a backup twenty three. I'm

okay with that. That's my point, Like, you're still developing your starter in your backup, so I don't think it's a situation. You got to be thinking about the future. You're thinking about it. He's got three games to prove your wrong and he and he might. Why why'd you even draft him then? Just just to see if Cooper Rush was a flash in the pan and maybe this guy's going to be better and they still they still might developed into that way. It's early. I think you're

okay with a young quarterback. I think you're okay with two there. All right, we will be handing these over to the Cowboys brass and we'll see what they think about it. So we settled on six receivers. We settled on six receivers. You got to tell me who it would be Lance right now, But we got a lot of time left in the preseason. Noah Brown's still got time to make a case. You got you got the guy that's done the most out here in Lance. You got the guy that's the fastest in Thompson. You got

the guy that's the biggest with in Noah Brown. That's a good battle there. Thompson worked with Sean Jay Lal and Buffalo too. That counts for something. We will have more on this on Monday. We'll talk a little bit more about this and wrap up training camp on Monday. We'll do a lot of questions and give you guys a good synopsis of what has happened over these three weeks. We appreciate you taking time with us in this entire

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