Cowboys Break: Replacing Randy

The Break, Live from s WBC Morgat Studios. At the start, I'm I'm excited about doing the show, but man, it's like every time you think things are kind of pulling back together, you're getting your guys back, something just happens from an injury standpoint that just has you scratching your head. We hear this morning that Randy Gregory, who, by the way, as I was putting together the rundown for the show yesterday, I saw the injury report and I noticed Randy Gregory's

name on their limited. I'm like, Okay, it's probably just one of those things, just kind of taking it easy. Then, Mike McCarthy says today in his press conference stead. This is a multiple week injury. This is not a just a you know, vet day or kind of give a guy a little break to rest something that's been bothering him. My question for you guys, let's let's just get to the brass taxes thing. What does this what does this

injury look like as far as just timetable? What do we think as far as timetable and how the Cowboys at chust. The fact that Mike McCarthy didn't rule out injured reserve tells you all you need to know. But the fact that they don't know yet also means it's multiple week but that could be if they if they haven't already decided, that means you're at least within the possibility of it being a two or three week injury.

I always try to be conservative with injury diagnosis. Now, well, Gallum were being a perfect example of why these things take time. So but I mean, it sounds like they'll be without him for multiple games, maybe even as long as three to five. I mean, it's it's a calf injury. He did say, you know, no two are the same. He said it was a similar part of the calf to Dak that's what he's said. Miss what three weeks? Dak missed two weeks, two weeks in one game because

of the bye, he missed so few weeks. Yeah, I was thinking three weeks from the time he played to the time he played, but it would been Yeah, he missed two games, or would have if it were two buy, so it could be two. Michael Gallup had a calf injury and is just now coming back in mid November after Week one, so somewhere in between. That's interesting though, you know, you're talking about two games. It's usually Sunday

to Sunday. But as we sit here and he suffered it on a Wednesday, we're talking about having some Thursday games coming up. So yeah, I mean, I you hope it's more like that and less like Gallop, but that is And yeah, this is the stretch of time where we're about to get into that window where they're gonna play four games in twenty days or whatever the math is, you know. I mean, after this it goes to Kansas

City Thanksgiving and then another Thursday games. It's just been a tech it's just been tag team wrestling the whole time. It's just been like, all right, I'm back, all right, I mean, and we've talked about it then, overcoming so

many different challenges throughout the season. But to me, like, am I exaggerating to like by feeling that with this kind of news, I feel like, damn with screw on defense, That's how I feel with Randy, a player like Randy the way he's been playing on that defense, and right now, just imagine him out of the mix, and then while we wait for DeMarcus Lawrence and even with Dlock coming back,

I mean, at what pace is it gonna be? You know, because sometimes it does, say like a game or two for players even like him, to kind of get back into the groove of things. But right now, I feel like, damn, am I exaggerating? Well, Well, he's been the best player on defense. He's been better. I mean he I think he's been better consistently now than Digs and Parsons who

have been great at times. But I think for what that position gives you, I mean, he he has cleaned up a lot of messes and he's been a dynamic player. And so now I don't know about screwed. I mean, but because dan Quinn has had less talent and had good defenses. So we'll see what he can come up with. But um, yeah, I mean it's frustrating to have a player like that that's you know, goes down to another injury. Yeah, I don't think you're exaggerating. I also, it's just it's

it's football, it's the NFL. We're halfway through the season, and damn there there can't be more than a handful of teams that think that they've had good injury luck. Right now, like every seventy five percent of the teams in the league think they can't buy a break. It's it's the nature of the game. Well, I mean, it's one thing when your quarterback is rolling out in overtime and beats the Patriots, a team you hadn't beaten in thirty years, and you score a touchdown, and that's the

good news. The bend news is he suffered a caff injury. But we'll see if we got to buy we'll see. It sucks when it's out here at practice and that's they're doing out here. I have a memory at some point this year, I think it was at the end

of training camp. I was like, now you don't really have to hold your breath about practice anymore, because the season practices are different than camp practices, and you don't hear a whole hell of a lot about injuries happening during game weeks, and Randy's this has got to be at least the second guy who's Yeah, because CD rolled his ankle last week at practice, But that's also these kinds of cans. Yeah, so I knew it was more

than Yeah. Three guys have gotten hurt at practice, and two of them are significant, And I'm not trying to say that they're doing something wrong. I just it's it's a tough break that you're usually not used to having to deal with, and they can be just just like use type injuries, these are not like they necessarily were trying to, you know, make this incredible block or whatever. It's just overuse of After a certain amount of time,

sometimes you can freak things happen. I'm not throwing I'm not questioning the way Mike McCarthy runs his practices or the medical staff. I already see people, this is the third calf injury of the year. People we're doing out there? Do we need to look at the training staff? No, the training staff has done a hell of a job getting all of these guys back for you. By the way, it's just again it's football. Yeah, I mean I remember eight nine years ago it was it was a hamstring.

It was miles off and just a bunch of that was my first year. And then we couldn't We ran out of room to write about all the hamstrings on and then about I don't know, five years ago, six years ago. I know Dan Bailey was one of them. It was the back. You remember, it was a lot of tiring you had Bailey's it was happening Lyle had a back a lot. So it's just seems like they do kind of sometimes come in bunches, is in a

particular carry other body. But I don't think. I think you get in trouble when you start trying to make comparisons between injuries and oh, we got a lot of these, so it must mean something. No, it just means that a couple guys got the same injury. It's not not to mention. I mean the workload. I mean, you couldn't ask for three more different situation or receiver and end in a quarterback. I mean, it's not like they're out there doing the same drills or Mike McCarthy doesn't have

these guys doing caf raises in between reps. You know, it's be pretty interesting. No, I don't think it would. That might not be a good idea. Oh I liked his answer. You know about somebody asked them, does this mean Michael Parsons is going to rush the faster? And he's like, well, see it noon the game starts and don't be late. Well I can ask you got the answers, Yes, the answers, yes, you think he's now going to be

rushing the past. But I'm saying, like, do you think they like they did in the Charge again, like they're gonna line him up he's gonna be your defensive I wouldn't. I would I would not. Okay, have it out, let's go, who's gonna do it? What I'm thinking, what are you getting from your edge rushers if you don't have Nick

is thinking Drance? Okay, No, I'm Mica has more career sacks than Dorrance already, by the way, from where Dorance has been on the team since twenty eighteen, coming from where he Dorance has two career sacks playing end and Mica got one against the Chargers. That's fine. Like I'm not I'm not comparing Dorance Armstrong and Micah Parsons. What I'm what I'm saying is that I still feel like Mica has been a better player. When he is a linebacker and he's rushing from all over the place, I

don't think he's as good. Just right there, we have a guy like Randy Gary out though you don't have the luxury to use for you, who's playing on Neil Lane Van Rush? No? Thanks, okay, nothing, because when you did that against the Chargers, laugh if you want. But Jalen Smith played and he played pretty well in that game against the Chargers. He did a nice job in that game, and in you get him? Why do you have to do these things? I've heard worse things in

the world. I'm asking the question, I mean because I thought he was about when Ambrass. I thought it's a valid question, like, okay, if you move him, Like who's going to be your linebackers? I think that's a valid question. Keyan O'Neill and Layton Vandersch, Like what are we talking about here? I know I agree with Nick to a degree that Keyan O'Neill hasn't been this revelation. He's been fine,

He's got thirty tackles, he's started two games. I mean, Micah Parsons is dynamic in the role that we've seen the last few weeks. Bash him, okay, Just like you said that Kean O'Neill and Layton Vandersch would be fine, I also think bash him and Dorn's Armstrong would probably be fine as well. But I got I got this dynamic player that they don't know where he's coming from, which, as I say over and over and over again, it doesn't have to be either or. I don't want him

to do just one thing. He needs to give them something from the edge in this game. I just expect at this point his number of reps is going to go up, but he's going to probably do both. He plays sixty snaps, I would like to see at least fifteen of them come from the edge, just to give them something. And I'm fine with that. The week two against the Chargers, he only played like thirty snaps. He didn't play a lot, and they were they used him as a true like he was part of the edge rotation.

That's not necessarily what I'm asking for. Yeah, he needs they need some juice off the edge that I don't Terrell Basham and Dorin's Armstrong can do their jobs, and there's way more to playing defensive end than just rushing the passer. We know that, but they don't have any

juice around the corner without Micah doing that. With Randy and demark Slawrence just sitting out, how much of a challenge do you think this is when you come to this is a relatively a relatively easier schedule, But this part of the schedule, I think you're facing some teams that are probably as good as what you're gonna face

this season. When you've got not necessarily Atlanta, which you can say which you want about Atlanta, but then you get to Kansas City, who has a pretty good passing attack. We did this last week we started talking about Darren Waller and I'm not saying it's a superstition thing like we can't do that, but well, one thing at a time, man, I mean, we don't know the length of Randy's injury.

We do know it's multiple week we do so these teams do these But for the next three weeks, you've got Atlanta, then you've got Kansas City, then you've got Las Vegas. Let's sort through how to do this. Man. It's not a it's not a matter of like we need to focus and only talk about Atlanta. It's like, we there's so much we don't know. We don't know what his timetable is, we don't know what their game plan is against Atlanta. They could pick and choose this thing.

I mean, they're probably not going to add talent from outside the team. So I think what you do against Kansas City and Las Vegas will probably be informed by how successful your game plan is this week. If I had to guess, maybe Basham or were And or Armstrong play the game of their life and you're like, Okay, we don't need Mica so much. Maybe Matt Ryan has all freaking day on Sunday, and you're like, we gotta do something. We don't want to move Mica, but it

calls for it, you know. And that's all I mean. It's not like, of course we can talk about other games. It's just there's so much we don't know. Here on Thursday of game week, this is the second time again they had to throw their game plan out the window against LA and I don't know if they if they're going to do that this week, but it's at least possible. It's it's worth a thought. Yeah, yeah, this is a

like Nick said, this is your best defensive player. That's a pretty big deal when you lose your pretty your best defensive mand. I really wanted to see him rush the pastor against Mahomes too, I know, okay, also against Matt Ryan, but I mean I thought I thought that would have That was just a good matchup. I can't I couldn't wait to see. And I was hoping DL

would be back for that one too. But both of them, but you know, you got it's rare that you're gonna face back to back in VP quarterbacks, I mean former mvpsy because they're not Neither one of them are playing like MVP level right now. Um. I think one of them can figure it out though, but it might be that we'll be against the count. He's not there to make them uncomfortable. Don't you just see Tyreek Hill just

just I've been sayings into the end zone. I've been saying all year, like the chief the Chiefs are Michael Myers to me, like you got, I know, you got to bury them under concrete for me to believe they're five and four. They could suck for another month and still figure it out in time to make the playoffs, and then all bets are off. And what are the Falcons? Four and four? You know? Right now? The Falcons are the last wild the last wild card team right now,

they are a playoff team as we sit here today. Well, last time as four and four team came into the stadium didn't go so well. Yeah, who was that the Bronco? Oh god, I'm sorry. I thought you were pulling up something from years like a couple of years ago. Yeah, no, I stick to right here, right here in the press, Briner. That's the The NFL is wild like that, like Denver

in Atlanta has been circled for a long time. Is kind of like, okay, you get a break before this crazy stretch heading into December, and the Broncos aren't a wildcard team right now, but that that whole division is above five hundred, like mathematically, they are very much in the division race, let alone the wildcard race. And that and Atlanta is the seventh wildcard team right now. So this is why it's not fun. And I get called boring and a downer but like, why do we argue

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Welcome back. We're in the second segment of the Break Life from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star. We're joined right now by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. Bucky Less talks some Atlanta defense versus Cowboys offense. As I look through the statistical rankings of this team, this defense, it doesn't look like there's much to fear here. But at coming off a game like we had last week, I'm just like, Okay, well, maybe there's not much there, but maybe there is. And so I want to ask

you what what's the best thing they do? And what's the thing that you can get them on. What's their weakness. Well, I mean, statistically they haven't played well this season, but they played pretty well against the Saints for the most part. For about three quarters they had the Saints kind of nullified and locked up. That's the unit of plays. Sorry, they're still trying to figure out how to play in the scheme. Then Dean Piece and the guys are trying

to put together down there. But I think obviously when you have the kind of performance that the Cowboys had a week ago, everyone is going to look at what the Broncos did and they're gonna try and steal some ideas, and so I think the Cowboys can expect to see some of that man match coverage where they're passing off things and playing man demand, trying to take away some of the easy thrills and trying to confuse Dak with the way that they switch and kind of nutty up

the middle of the field. They can really generate pressure because they they just haven't been able to do it. I mean, I think Dantefalla may come back, but they don't have enough up front to really get after it. So because they can't get after you with pressure. They gotta put a lot more of their eggs in the coverage basket and see if they can kind of confuse the quarterback by switching up things to make a very very cloudy for him when he's trying to read Bucky.

When I think of Falcon's defense, I think of like Jesse Tuggle or something. I don't really know a lot of guys there on that defense, but I'm gonna kind of flip the script because we just found out the news on Randy Gregory on a defensive end being out for a few weeks for the Cowboys. What what would you do there a defensive end if you're Dallas for this game, I think you have I think you have to play more set packages. I think you have to

use Mica a little more off the edge. I think you have to kind of blend in some of your nickel dime packages so you can free Mica up to do those things. He's the most explosive player on the two deep roster off the edge that's available, so you have to use them in that role, and it's one where you lose some of his playmaking ability as a sideline. The sideline player, but in this game. You need the pressure because you can't let Matt Ryan sit back there

forty forty five times without the rest. He still is good enough to pick apart secondaries, and so I think

Mica has to have a bigger role coming off the edge. Buggy, you kind of talked about this at the jump, but I'm just curious from your experience in the league, like when somebody's when Denver obviously is who I'm referring to, when somebody's game plan works that well against an opponent, like when you're watching and game planning that, how much do you think the Falcons change what they want to

do or adopt that based on what they're seeing. I mean, I imagine you still have plenty of stuff in your own scheme that you want to stick with, but you can't ignore or how successful that is, I'm guessing no. So early in the game, you want to see if they've answered the question, if they've answered the question that pops up based on how the Broncos kind of slowed them down, and if they don't answer the question, they can't keep getting the steady diet of it. It's just

the nature of the league. When you show stuff on tape that you have a problem with. You're gonna keep seeing it until you show people that you've resulted. And so for the Cowboys offense, it's going to be dealing with the match coverage and the way guys passed off, which is really interesting because the pages are really the pioneers of that coverage and so they didn't have as much success. But I don't remember why it really confounded

the Cowboys when the Broncos did it. But yeah, you can see more of that, and it's actually a coverage that there's kind of People are talking about two deep coverage being the coverage days eure of the league, but it really hasn't been. It's been more match coverage because you look at how teams have slowed down some of

the other high powered offenses. It's a lot of this man match coverage where you're passing things all playing man to man versus verticals, there, playing zone versus crossing rounds. You already said this was this wouldn't necessarily be a huge threat for the Cowboys, But can you talk about can you talk more about the matchup with the old line and if they do line up the same way that they did against Denver. Yeah, I mean, look, I think the offensive line has to play well. I think

everybody has to play well. I think they just laid an egg last week. They certainly didn't bring the A game or the games that we've seen to in the sixth game WINNI streak. I think everybody, us included might have looked past the Denver Broncos and didn't give them enough respect. I think when you lose the game like you lose to the Broncos, I think that Lena fall can certainly get your attention, you pay more attention to the details and meeting. Everyone is on alert. I think

just by that nature, they'll play better. But then I think Terrence still should be more comfortable. Another week of practice at left tackle lel Collins to kind of settle in knock off all the rust, and I would expect the offense in line to have a better performance. Even though they need to be aware of Brady Jared on the inside. He still is a guy that can't be

disrupted at the point of attack. Did you see anything from Terrence Steele that made you say, hey, maybe the better option here is to switch he and Lyle and put him back on the right and then have Lyle play left. Well, I mean, so he's thinking it was a long term deal where you knew that Terrence Steal and Leo Collins were gonna have to be your starters. Then what maybe you do is you leave Terrence Steele

a right because that's where he was playing. Well, le Collins comes in the left, and you kind of stay that way for a while. But I think the Cowboys thinking is, eventually Timer Smith is going to come back, and when he comes back, he starts the left tackle. Leo Collins is our best option at right tackle. Let's get this lineup going, so let's make sure that lel is comfortable, and then when Ron Smith is eventually coming back, we can remove Tarrance Steel and everybody's into a normal spots.

I think Dad had a lot to do with the decisions that led to the lineup and the reshuffle. More so than hey, let's move Terrence Steel to the left because we just feel like he's gonna be a better left than Leo Collins. I think it is about trying to keep the continuity so when the starters all come back, everyone is into comfortable in natural spots. Every indication is that aj Terrell's having a really solid season in year two for them. What are his strengths and weaknesses? How

do they use him? How would you imagine they will use him? Especially with us. I mean, Michael Gallup's going to be available for this game, so the Cowboys should have all three of their main receivers for the first time in a while. Yeah. I mean, look, he's a good player. I mean he's the first round pick. He played pretty well at Clempson. I know everyone remembers the game at LSU where they kind of beat his back out in the championship game, but he was a really

good player leading up to that. He's pretty vocal in the way that he can play. He can press, he can play off, he can do a bunch of different things. I think in this game, I don't think you travel him because I don't know who you would pick to try and neutralize. I think he plays on his natural side of the field and he takes on whoever's there. The problem is now when the three are back Gallup Ceedee, Lamb and Cooper, Now you have a problem either way because two of those guys who we get one on

one matchups and kind of have their way. It's a tough matchup for Atlanta, and I think we kind of forget we haven't really seen this lineup in a long time. This is the one that everyone feared. When you have that eleven personnel with one tight end, these three bar receivers Zeke or Tony polland in the backfield. This is the explosive, high powered offense to everyone fears around the league. Well a lot of those guys, with the exception of

Gallup of course. How in last game we saw many balls being dropped, not catching the ball and all that. How good is this team as far as like takeaways and do they even get close to getting the ball often? Yeah, I mean like they can get around it. They're gonna play hard, they can run to the ball, that they can do those things. But I think a lot of the Cowboys issues are Look, it's one of those games where they have to focus on the dbos, like don't

beat ourselves, turnovers, penalties, they plays allowed. If they take care of that and play clean football, they'll win those games. This is a game where they're better than the other team. And the only way that the Falcons can kind of thrive, survive and thrive is if you give them life by turning it over, having penalties that are silly, giving extra yards,

letting the ball flower hit all that stuff. And so if the Cowboys just play a clean game, like the kind of game that they talked about repeatedly in training camp, where they just do the little things right, they'll win. But I think when you saw all of those things last week against the Brocos, first thing that stood out to me is this team isn't focused, This team isn't ready to play, and because they weren't ready to play, they walked out of the stadium with it him. All right,

So it's prediction time. What do you think it's gonna happen Sunday? I think we see a better effort from the Cowboys. I think the Cowboys take care of business, and I think it starts from the jump. I think this is a high alert game because they can't afford to fritter these games away. We can talk about the division potentially being wrapped up, but now it's about can

you get to that number one seed? Because this year's playoffs are so different where you only have one team, but the boy, it behooves the Cowboys to see if they can get into position to get the number one, so then it only takes two to get to the bowld as opposed to three, and that long, that long road of having to beat all these different teams in the potential matchup that you could face. All right, Bucky man,

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from s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Let's catch up a real quickly on a couple other injuries guys that have misspracticed this week. Let's talk about first a couple of guys that they held out yesterday, that they held out as a precaution I think Brian Anger and Jake McQuaid, what is this status and where surely precautionary. They're not even close contacts because that's a whole separate thing. They just they were like, well, the specialists spends all

their time together. Let's just be smart about this. It sounds like everything's okay. There's nobody new in the COVID protocol. They should both be at practice today. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if we've even discussed it. I mean, as it stands right now, Greg's airline still in the protocol. They signed. Oh yeah, they signed a new kicker, and we haven't talked about it. Was actually gonna get to him next, so great, goodn't you want to fill us in? Yeah?

They signed the practice to the practice squad lear him who practice? He got checked? Nice, there you go, hi allah who um. And and by putting him on the practice squad, they don't have to use a roster spot. They'll just use a it's a COVID elevation is what that will be. So they won't even he won't even be anybody else on the on the roster, so that they'll get the exception there um we'll see see what he does. I guess he beat out Brett Mahart in

the kicking competition. I mean, of course, know what I mean. Yeah, I mean, did they kick sixty yarders? Because if they did, mahar probably beat him, but they probably just kick the forty yards hire law who sounds like he's got a leg on him, because I don't know if as soon as he signed, all the NFL accounts start tweeting out the video of him practicing like he hit like a fifty eight yarder with the wind and a fifty five yard or into the wind. You know, I know it's

not the NFL. I get that, but this guy's attempted like two hundred and eighty field goals in the Canadian Football League. Let me throw us off, Yeah, let me gotta be tough for king there. Well because in the elements, although which word, nobody cares about the CFL, but the goalposts are at the front of the end zone A lot of levels care about. Yeah, yeah, we love u CFL.

I just mean in terms of what you're gonna do on Sunday, but like it's totally different, Like the goalposts are at the front of the end zone, but yeah, I agree with you. It's probably really tough, but the yard, but the yard is still still the same. Yeah, and here's the deal. I'll throw this out here. I looked up some of his numbers because obviously, if there's any position that you can say translates well from CFL to NFL would be kicker because it's still just kicking field

goals right over his he's been. He was in the CFL for six years. He was an All Star in the CFL as a kicker, so one of the better kickers in the CFL. Over the last four seasons. Though field goal percentage, he had a long of fifty six, he averaged sixty three yards on kids cost Nick, you and I were talking about that let's get put a pin and that we'll get back to that. But if you look at is what he made and missed. He was perfect zero to nineteen. He was he was ninety

eight percent twenty to twenty nine, So not bad. You wanted to probably be one hundred percent there, but not bad. He was ninety percent thirty to thirty nine. That's where it gets a little bit weird because you still want him to make those more regularly than ninety percent point and then forty to forty nineties eighty four percent fifty plus he's eighty eight percent, so fourteen to sixteen fifty plus, So that's pretty good. It sounds like he's Greg Zerline obviously,

and that's my point. Like I look at this and I'm like, I don't know if I see a huge difference between him and Greg Zerline, other than I do think Greg Greg Zerline has a pension for hitting those kicks that are that are meaningful lad in games. And we don't know that about Hira lah No, we don't. But fifty sixty seventy thousand people watch go to the stadium to watch the CFL. You know it's I mean, it's I just said, nobody cares. I was being tongue like.

It's very popular in Canada, so it should I would imagine this shouldn't be too big of a difference for him, considering their lines on the COVID list. I feel pretty good about it, honestly. Yep. Thing that I'm going to be looking at is, you know, kicking off. If they get to you know, if they get to kick off a lot, I'm averaging sixty three yards that will put it like right regular, like one time the last week. So because they didn't score any parnts, so they gotta

they gotta. I mean it makes me wonder despite of I mean, with you even saying how similar they are, and I mean they were competing to kind of competing earlier on um. But it makes me wonder how conservative or if at all, the Cowboys become as far as their game plan or not conservative. I would say, risk it more to take more chances to not necessarily have to kick. So do you guys think I mean they would put him, how much trust they would give this guy?

You know what I'm trying to say, Like he's going to get a chance to get out there. I mean, if it's in the thirty forty range, I think they're gonna I don't think they're gonna do it any differently. They might do it differently on a fifty yarder, but I mean a lot of it too, like we we forget. I mean, they're gonna get a good idea when he gets to the stadium and what he's kicking, what it looks like there, And you know, I just don't think

they'll change their approach that much. I don't either, And I actually I looked this up this morning. For all the talk about going for it and like whether or not it's a good idea, most of their attempts have not been from common sense fuel goal range. They did it against Denver, and they did one, and they did one from the New York twenty eight in the Giants game.

But really, other than that, it's either too far away to be a fuel goal, or they're right up on the goal line where anybody would want them to go for it anyway. So there haven't been a whole lot of circumstances where it's like, well, you could take this forty yard field goal or go for it. Like usually it's either or it's we don't want to try a fifty eight yard kick, or we're an inch away from a touchdown, let's just go get it. That's usually what happens.

So yeah, i'd be curious. I don't. I don't think it'll change their their process too much if I had to guess. Or maybe it will though, Like I mean, their lines kicked a lot of field goals between what thirty five and forty five ish, give or take. I mean, maybe you try that now because you're like, do we want to make this guy try a forty eight yard field goal in his first NFL game, or do we just want to put trust in Zeke Elliott. I hope

they don't do that. I don't want them. I think when you start doing that and you start changing things before you know what you got, like, give him an opportunity. I think you go into the game saying he's our kicker. He again, we looked at all the numbers. He's a guy that has a resume of being able to make kicks, So give him an opportunity to make kicks. If you get in the game and he's missing a lot, then alter your strategy, and if you have to do it,

multiple leaks and alter your strategy for future weeks. But I think for right now, I think you go in, you try to approach it as you would with a normal kicker. If you get into some of those long situations, maybe you don't try him at fifty five fifty six unless you have to. But I do think some of those closer in field goals, I think you just got to give him a chance and let him see. Let improve you prove to you that he can or can't do it, before you just assume that you don't want

to put him in the position. Talking about Cedric Wilson, he also missed practiced with a shoulder injury. McCarthy tag, you're it, You're out. Gallup, you're in. I mean, so he's out, McCarthy said today, they're being smart with him. So when the coach says that, I assume it's just a monitoring thing and he should be fine. But it definitely helps. Sorry, it definitely helps that get people keep asking me this, Like nobody believes me. Michael Gallup's going

to play. He doesn't have to be on the roster right now, he will be by the time the weekend rolls around. He's he's gonna play in this game. So if for some reason Cedric can't go, at least you have that in your back pocket. Good, okay, good, all right, real quick, I did I did want to talk a little bit more about the offense before we end the show.

I asked Bucky this question about Terrence Steele. Did you guys see anything in that game that made you think, hey, maybe they need to reevaluate what they're doing at the left and right tackle position, or do you think, hey, he might have some issues but I think in the long term, this is probably the right decision. You just keep letting him get comfortable at left tackle until Tyrant can come back. It was one of the two things. I mean, it was one of the things I agreed

with Bucky about. I didn't agree obviously with the Parsons on the edge, but I but, like we said the other day, like it just kind of hit me, like the light bulb came on, like, wait a second, this is all about Tyrn Smith, because if it's not, if they put Lyella on the left side and then Tyrn comes back, now they got another decision to make. This is about this is their swing tackle, and right now

their left tackle is out, but he's coming back. So I from that standpoint, if that's the case, then then yeah, And everyone keeps saying this is not long term injury. So so I'm fine with that. I mean, I heard, Dave, I heard what you said on the radio. This it about. I already forgot what we are. You're just talking about Terrence Steele and how everyone it's tough to go right to left and he's had another week of practice. Let's

see if he does it gets better at it. I mean, I said last week that I thought they should play LC on the left. But now that you've made a decision, I think you should probably stick with it, right because now you're you're just resetting the clock. Now it's now you're giving Lyle Collins three days to get ready and he hasn't played left tackle in almost a decade or no serious, I know, all of a sudden, seriously, Lyle Collins is like one of the most tenured players on

this team. I don't know how that happened. Seven So okay, okay, I guess almost. It's close. It's close. It's like close to being close regardless. Um, so, like, why why mess with it? Like you you started this, Terrence Steele can only get better. It's not what I would have done, but you've committed to it. So I think you're only hurting yourself if you try to restart it again and say, okay,

now go back over there. How maybe that'll hurt his confidence and then Elsie's got to do something he hasn't done in forever for the first time. I just you made a decision, you might as well stick with it. I get that logic, but it's just to me right now, I think it's delusional to hang on to this idea that Tyren Smith it's not a long term blah, it

might not be long term. He might come back, but then you just never never know how much longer he is gonna be on that field for so I just I hate the idea of the decision that they made of moving Terrence Steel to the other side. I think he has been doing a really good job. I get it that he's the swin tackle, but whatever, I mean, suck it up, like Lyle Collins, You're a veteran guy. You can figure it out. You get paid, everybody gets

pay it here or figure it out. I think that he should be replacing Terren Smith's spot and not have taken that chance. And I get your point, Dave, but you don't want to hear it though, no excuse this to me. I don't want to hear it. I think I'd like to think of it more as irrationale than an excuse. But I hear you in semantics probably probably plenty is I don't agree with the decision making. I don't like it. I don't trust that Tyren Smith will be back for a long period, just because you just

never know. So I'd rather just make a definite move right now. This is the game plan. If Tyren Smith does come back and Lill needs to sit out, I'm sorry, buddy, sit out for a little bit. It's okay, you might come back soon because you just can't trust Tyren Smith. Hill. I kind of agree with that because everything I've heard about this injury is basically it's only going to be either either time or surgery heals this like Goose, only two options, and so I don't know. They say it's

a short term injury, but I don't know. Who knows. If it's another week, if it's another five weeks, who knows. And so that's why I don't look at this so much as well. He just got to buy time for this week, like it could be longer than that. And that's why I'm like, is this the right decision now? I do kind of agree that. I personally think that Terence still with more time, can get better at the position. I believe that I've seen it happen on the right side.

I think it can probably happen on the left side as well. I don't know that it's that big of a difference. I just think it's an adjustment of being able to get more to the point where your body's just comfortable doing the things you have to do on the left side versus right. But that all being said, I think the Cowboys got to look at this as

more than just a short term injury. Unless they know something more than the reporting, they should to me, they should if surgery is an option, they should do it right now. That's well, I mean, it's we're past that point in my opinion. I was about before you said that.

I was about to say, if they think there's even a remote chance that this is a five week injury and they're still treating it like day to day normal, you know, he could by the way, I just threw out five as just a right, you know, but like it's there, And I'm not trying to speculate either, But it's their job to have a firm idea of the timetable. And if that's the case, why isn't he on ir

Why aren't you considering surgery? Like they should have made that call last week honestly, if they thought that that was something, I think it. But I think it happens like this with a lot of injuries sometimes where you're kind of waiting to see because your body can repair it. But then if after what happens after get weeks down the road and your body hasn't repaired, you probably all you know Hall of Famer. He's a quiet guy, but he's a commanding guy. He probably wants to be out there.

He probably knows what people say about his injury history. So you've got him fighting against you, like I can push through it. I can push through it. I'll be ready. I'll be ready. It's still their job to have a better handle on it than we do. I just I'm not. I don't really expect him to play this game. But if this is something that lingers onto where you don't know if he's going to be available, like into December, then I don't like the way that they're handling this.

But all right, appreciate you, guys, Jonas. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll have more talk. We'll get you guys ready for Cowboys versus Falcons. Willed breakdown all the things that can go right for the Cowboys and what they'll need to do in order to make those things go right in this game and hopefully get back on a winning track till then, for Nick Eatman, Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break live

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