Cowboys Break: The Answer Show

number nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break. We are alive from the whole edition of the s WBC Mortgage Studios. I got my crew here with me, Nick Eatman, Dave Helman, Amber Garcia, and we got some Cowboys talk for you guys. Hopefully everyone is doing well, and let's jump right in. Last week, the NFL released the NFL schedule, including the Cowboys schedule for the twenty twenty season. They are progressing as though we are going to play a full slate of games, and so I'll open it up

to you guys. Let's talk a little bit about what you think of the schedule. What stood out to you good or bad about this this season's schedule. Let's start with you Nick, Well, I mean I think what stood out is that it looked like a normal schedule. So I'll say that first. I mean, I thought that was encouraging to see. And I don't know if we need to go into detail on that, but just it looked like the schedules we've seen it in the past, other than the Giants being not in the first week or

you know, first two weeks of the season. But I just think, you know, it looks it looks like a schedule that is favorable to them as far as you know, you should be able to get off to a good start. We've learned a long time ago that there's always going to be two or three teams that are surprising one

way or the other. So what your schedule looks like when me look at last year, what if you were to say, the Cowboys would you know, destroy the Rams, but then have you know, getting destroyed by the Bills at home. So it never really looks like what you think it is. But as we stand right now, it looks favorable Amber. Honestly, nothing that stood out to me, aside from the fact that we're not playing the Giants

the first game. But to me, you know, with my time being here, I've learned that no team is ever the same every year. And a team that you might think, oh, they're gonna be easy to play this year, well that might not be the case. You know, it might not depend on what the opposing team is doing. It could be the Cowboys hurting themselves. Although this year, you know, we don't really know what to expect since we do

have an e coaching staff. But as far as the schedule and tough teams are, like, oh, are they going to start off easy, or like some teams that maybe you don't necessarily need to win. You know, to me, you need to win every single game and you cannot take an opponent for granted or things like, oh they're gonna be easy to beat, that's not the case. You know,

you need to always be prepared. Dave, I'm gonna repeat what I wrote on the website last week when the schedule came out, and I agree, obviously, I agree with what they just said. I mean, there's gonna be a team that is surprisingly good on the schedule, and there's

gonna be some surprisingly bad ones. But uh, you know, without even worrying about what comes like two or three months into the season, it's it's just hard not to look at those first three games for a variety of reasons, because again we know things change from year to year. But the Rams, Falcons and Seahawks have been in the conversation among the NFC's better teams for you know, for four or five years now. You know, the Falcons aren't

that far removed from being in the Super Bowl. Been seven and nine in the last two years, which puts them right in the mix of contending for the playoffs. The Rams, obviously we're just in a Super Bowl, and the Seahawks have made the playoffs like ten years in a row, or eight of the last nine, whatever it is.

You think back to last year, the Cowboys got in a lot of trouble because they lost those NFC games, and it became pretty obvious as early as like October that they were going to have to win the division to make the playoffs, like they just didn't have the tiebreakers to be there as a wildcard or anything like that. So those are three pretty big games against NFC teams that you could find yourself in a lot of trouble

if you don't get out to a hot start. And you know, if you look back at past schedules, you know, they open with the Giants, and then there's a road trip to Washington. You get division games, a chance to get up on the division and against teams that aren't very good and haven't been. And I don't think that's the case this year. I think, you know, they can't afford to start slowly this year. And the interesting part about that, Dave, is that two of those games are

on the road. So you start your first two or three games on the road. You go to to LA to open their new stadium against the Rams, and then in week three you're going at the Seattle Seahawks, which is not is probably one of the harder places in the whole NFL to play just because of crowd noise. Obviously there are questions as to whether there will be a crowd there, but certainly those are those are not those are typically or at least that's typically not a

game that's an easy road win for teams. That's a tough place to go and play. That all being said, is there a particular part of the schedule and and I know we're not talking about I'm not talking about so much about the teams and how good they will be versus not, but I'm talking more about just the mechanics of the schedule home versus road cold weather. Is there anything about the schedule that you look at and you say, this could be a trouble area for the Cowboys.

I mean, anytime you know you're going to play cold weather games in December, I mean they've got three of them. You know it's going to be cold in Cincinnati. Um, you know it's gonna be cold at Baltimore and then and also against the Giants to end the season. So you know, it doesn't matter what it looks like. Weather can neutralize the situation. And if you can't throw the ball like keep like you want. So who's to say what the Bengals will be like at the end of

the season. Uh, you know this year or any of those years. But but you know, if the weather is challenging, um, you know that that obviously could could be a problem there. Curious to see gonna say sorry, I was just gonna say that, I'm curious to see how McCarthy handles practices because with Jason Garrett, I mean there were times where I would imagine you go into a road game where the weather is going to be colder, or maybe rainy,

they didn't necessarily practice outside all the time. So I'm curious to see how McCarthy is gonna handle that, whether to just kind of have the team practice is mostly outside to kind of although the temperatures are not necessarily the same at those places, but it's still something that kind of prepares you for that weekend game. Dave Jeff something. Yeah, I don't I don't want to get into the maths

of it, because it's really annoying. You know. It's it's not an unfair thing that the Cowboys have to play three games in twelve days. Because the vast majority of the teams in the NFL play three games in twelve days. Instead of going Sunday Thursday Thursday, most teams go Sunday Sunday Thursday. It's still accounts for three games and twelve days again for the vast majority of the teams in the league. Having said that, it does suck for the Cowboys that they always have to do that stretch so

late in the year. You know, some teams get that Thursday game out of the way in September and they don't have to worry about a wonky schedule again for the rest of the year. The Cowboys are always going to have to do that brutal stretch in late November, and I mean, and you chalk that up with a light bye week, this is gonna be a tire team.

So to think that they've got to play a very talented Vikings team followed by Thanksgiving and then no the reigning MVP right after that, I mean, that won't be easy. It's not unfair, but it's gonna suck. Now. I think that that late bye week helps though, because that bye week happens two weeks before Thanksgiving a little actually a little less than two weeks before Thanksgiving. How much does he think that? Do you think that helps them? Right

before they go into that that tough stretch. Well, let's see how beat up they are, because if they do play five preseason games, then they go nine straight to start the year. That's fourteen consecutive weeks of playing football, and who knows what kind of offseason schedule of conditioning schedule that you have. It's obviously not going to be

as much as that they've had in the past. So that's a challenging, you know, that's a challenging stretch of games right there, to go fourteen consecutive weeks of playing without a break, and you've got some really tough teams in there, and the Steelers. I don't care how good the Steelers are or bad they are, they're gonna beat you up. So it's gonna be that's gonna be tough

for this team. Yeah, it might work out that the buy works in a perfect situation, but as it stands right now, that looks like a long period of times to be playing consecutive games. Yeah, I will say this.

I actually we talked a little bit, you guys talked a little bit earlier about the cold weather games there in December, and I actually think that if you look at it, I actually think that might be an advantage for the Cowboys this year because their coach obviously spent a number of years coaching a team that played their home games in cold situations, and so him preparing his team to be able to handle weather should be a good He should be prepared to be able to do that. Now,

of course, that's still an acclimating, an acclimation thing. They have to acclimate to the weather when they get there, because that's not the kind of weather you typically have in Dallas, Fort worth. But I do think if there's a coach out there who's at that kind of experience which McCarthy has, I think that should be a benefit for the Cowboys. The next thing I'll ask you, guys is, right now, Cowboys favored in eleven of their sixteen games.

Give me an over under you guys, take the over or the under on them winning eleven games this season. Let's start with you, Dave. Oh geez, I would probably take the under today. I'm really excited about the offseason that they've had, But on paper, how much better do they look than last year when they were eight and eight? And I mean, you know, you know, the offense should be a lot better. I expect Dac to play better, I expect Cede Lamb to help all that good stuff,

But eleven wins is a lot. I'd see them. I'd see nine or ten as a more realistic scenario. So I would probably go under on that amber. You know, people have been asking me that same question, and I honestly don't know how to feel. I don't know what to expect because I keep going back and forth, you know, And I remember I asked you guys a few months ago about you know, how long does it take for a team to acclimate to a whole new coaching staff. And you guys basically said that it can go both ways.

You know, they can happenly basically, It can happen basically instantly, or it can maybe take a while. And that's the question here. I do think that having a new voice might bring up the spirits around the locker room and players like the defense trying to prove themselves and trying to go back to being the hot boys and blah

blah blah. You know, I think that hopefully they can go back to that and just have a different kind of spirit and play with more more passion, sorry, more passion because all we're on the offense side of the ball. You know, we saw great things from Kellen Moore. Clearly it wasn't really enough, but I'm excited to see what more can this offense do now with a new You hate the coach, Nick, So if you if you asked me right now, I would say, let's keep it out

of eleven. Let's not go over or under. Let's just say eleven. All right, Nick, Um, I'm gonna I'm gonna go under that. I mean, it's hard to say right now that if we've seen this team better or not, because we haven't seen him at all. So um, and you know, Dave said it, and I was sat in this conversation a few days ago about on paper. You know how much I hate that term about on paper because what what's the paper? I mean, who wrote it? Who typed it? Is it the paper? Derek shuffling around

on his computer? I mean, what's the paper? What does it say? And so I don't know, like I there, there you go. What does that tell you, Derek? I mean, I just I just think that, Um, you know, you have to see it because because we were you know, everyone wants to say this team's talented. We'll find out if if they're talented. Well, we'll find out if Don Taripo and Gerald McCoy our first round pick players. Are they the players that struggled a little bit last year

in Carolina, We'll see. I mean, it's just hard to tell. I'm gonna say under though, until until we proved differently, this is an eight and eight team right now from what we saw last year, and I can't imagine that they're three games better. But I mean to just point this out if they would have scored fifteen points, they could have been three or four games better. That's how close it was in their losses. And you can't say it the other way. On their wins, they were blowing

out the teams. So that is somewhat of an encouraging sign. You can get a touchdown better and you have a much better football team. At least that's what we saw last year. Oh yeah, oh sorry, go ahead, Derek, No,

good day, good good day. I mean that that's why we did this whole thing about well, you never know who's gonna be good and who's gonna be bad, because with the exception of like four teams who are clearly a lot better than everyone else and four teams that are clearly a lot worse, Like, it's just a twenty four team jumble and a few touch thouns and a few bounces of the ball's going to dictate the difference

between like ten and six and eight and eight. It happens every year, so and I mean, like, I think this team has the potential to win more than eleven games for sure, Like they absolutely could. But you're asking for a lot of breaks to go your way to improve by you know, four or five games from last year. It just seems it seems like a lot to ask. But when you look at how close they were last year though, like just talent wise and and the things that they were doing, like the it's not that far

away from you win in an extra four games. Well, I mean yeah, but I completely agree, Like you're you're a handful of way of players away from winning two more games and making the playoffs. That's still not eleven wins, you know, I mean, even if a few things go your way, like you got to assume you're going to break even in a league with this much parody, I

think yeah, And I don't. I don't think they've actually you know, if you look at cornerback, they lost Byron Jones and all the guys that they put in their I don't think that right now. I can't see that they're going to be better at that position. I don't think they're going to be better at center. I don't think they're going to be better at the defensive end position. Losing Robert Quinn, Randall Cobb versus Ceedee Lamb, I mean, yeah, Ceedee Lamb is probably going to be better at some

point in his career. I don't know about rate right this second, So it's hard to say that they're you know, they're going to be better in these in these positions, to be three games better. I just don't think we could say it right now. Yeah, I will say this, I'm a believer that, and I will preface this by saying, and you guys know this, I'm probably one of the more optimistic people just in everything. I tend to see

the glass half full. So for me, it's not hard to convince myself that they can get to eleven wins or beyond this season. But I will say this, I've seen where new coaches sometimes in a team that has some talent, it'll give them a little bump because there are wrinkles and different things that that coach brings in that it may not sustain itself over a second, third, fourth year, but for that first year you could sometimes see a nice little jump there and how a team performs.

So I'm actually expecting that with some of the changes they've made, some of the new talent they've brought in, I expect that maybe they can get a little bit more out of this team than otherwise because of a new coaching staff, and maybe some of the new things that they'll implement that uses the talent a little differently than the previous regime that may give them it leads a little bump for this year. We'll see whether they could sustain that. Let's go and take our first break.

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live from the virtual s WBC Borgas studios. It's in our homes. But but we're talking Cowboys football. If you guys appreciate you guys taking some time with us today to be will talk a little bit with you. In the third segment, we are going to take some questions. So if you happen to ask some questions, you can always tweet them and we'll try to get those questions.

I know Amber has already accumulated some questions that will take but here in the second segment, what I wanted to do is I saw this actually on Twitter on Twitter last week. It was an interesting little set of questions that people could just kind of fill in. So I figured we'd take it to the show and I'd ask you guys some of these questions. I'm going to throw out a basically a category, and I want each of you guys to give me a player that you

think best suits this category. All right, So we're gonna start with something really simple. Best player on the team. Let's start with you Amber. I think it's Seek. To me, it's been Seek for several years. What he does is amazing. They're kind of beating he's taking over these few years, and the fact that he's still running and healthy, and sometimes we've seen him have to carry the team, obviously with the help of the old line, but but just the the way his physical Like what the power that

he has in such a small body. You look at him in personally and he looks tiny sometimes and then you see him on the field, He's like, wow, he has so much power in him. Um, I think to me he would be the best player, all right. Nick trying to be different and say like a Zach Martin, but at the end of the day, it is Zeke. I agree with her. I think Zeke is the best player on the team for all of the reasons she just said. So, Um, I just think he's He's the

engine that makes this team go. Yes, Tyrant and Zach help and those that offensive line, but it's Zeke's is the guy for me. There's only two guys on this team who you could say right now have a very very good shot to make the Hall of Fame. That's Tyrant and Zach. Tyrn love him to death. Obviously, the health problems have been a problem for him in the last couple of years. Meanwhile, Zach Martin has just been in all pro every moment that he's been in the NFL,

literally from the beginning. He's never not been all pro. He's I mean, Zeke and Tank and Tyron all are in the conversation, but I don't think anybody would argue, especially now that Marshall Yanda retired, Zack Martin is the best right guard in football. Um So I think Zach all right most overrated or underperforming relative to expectations. Let's

start with you, Nick Wow, Wow, relative to expectations. I would say, Man, I hate saying this, but it's got to be DeMarcus Lawrence, and I just I say that just because of the contract really, I mean, and what they paid for that they needed him to be more of a difference maker on defense last year. You know, I don't like to knock him. I think he helps this team in a lot of ways on and off the field. In the locker room, I think he brings up the guys around him. But he's got to be

better than what he was last year. He's got to be more disruptive and a guy that you look at and say, where is number ninety. We've got to get him blocked at all points. And I'm not saying they don't do that because Quinn had a great year. We'll see this year, you know what the other side looks like. But I just think from a contract standpoint, he's the guy. Maybe I'm missing somebody, Dave. I think it's got to

be Jail and Smith. Honestly. I mean I don't necessarily disagree completely with Nick, but I can turn on the All twenty two and show you the impact that DeMarcus Lawrence makes on the team outside of getting sacks. He's constantly double team. He's great against the run, he crashes in. He definitely was part of the reason why Robert Quinn got so many favorable looks to get as many sacks as he did. And then I can and and you know, I don't want to dog people either. Jalen had moments

of good play last year. But I can also turn on plenty of games where the opposing offense is targeting him to have success. I mean, go watch the Bears game over again. It was playing its day. And you know, fan bases and media of the teams are typically trying to campaign for the players that they follow to make the Pro Bowl. You know, uh, you know, Lyle Collins is a great example. A lot of people felt like

Lyle got shafted last year. Meanwhile, Jaylen Smith made the Pro Bowl and like the reaction from Cowboys fans and media was like, he did that happened? And you factor in the fact that he's I mean, he himself is also on a big contract. I just think there's there's a lot of room for improvement from where he was at last year. Amber. You know, I'm so glad, Dave that you said Jaylen, because that's the guy who I was thinking. And then I was feeling bad. I was

going through this battle in my head. I'm like, Okay, I kind of feel bad because you look at where he came from, like how far he's come along from the injury that he had, and to see him playing the way that he's playing now. But then at the same time, and it's something that it's hard for me to explain. I feel like he he tries too hard on the field. He it's just it's not as clean. I really don't know how to describe it, but it's just not as clean. He hesitates sometimes just because he's

trying too hard. And you want players obviously to try hard, but with him, it's like he needs to chill out, take it back and notch Let's refocus, let's reanalyze what you're doing. And I think that way he can improve his game and what he's doing on the field, because sometimes he's just like like kind of all over it but then doesn't get it done, you know. So I think I would say Jalen and he tries too hard off the field, and I think that that's a problem

as well. So, yeah, those are good, those are good points there about Jalen. But I also think in the offseason something that has happened where if we were to talk about this next year, I think we know who the you know the person's going to be. It's gonna be the target's gonna be on Dak Prescott. Now, because you don't really say that if you don't have a huge contract, but now he's gonna at least has a big price tag over thirty million, you know, for this year.

So now he's in the equation as well. And if he doesn't perform at a high level, I mean, he's going to be a target for this type of conversation as well. I think, honestly, I think you you could list him right now if you wanted to. And I'm the king of the dack defenders, but I mean, last season wasn't good enough for for the starting quarterback, and especially if you're asking for the type of money that he's asking for. I mean, he's gonna get paid regardless.

He's either going to play on the tag or get a deal that he likes, but for the amount of money that is being negotiated right now, last season was not good enough. Yeah, And I'm kind of shocked that you guys didn't mention a guy like Amari Cooper Cooper for the same reason, because Amari Cooper is a guy that Cowboys gave up first round pick four, they just paid a new contract, and they were way too many games last year when they needed him and he just

didn't show up for them. And so I think when you start talking about unmet expectations, I think Amar has to be in that conversation. Now, don't get me wrong, I think he is one of the best. I think you can also throw him in the category of guys that would get an honorable mention for best player on the team, because when he's on, he's on, and he

is a really, really good player. But there were just too many times where you needed him to step up and make a play for you last season where I just don't think he met the expectations that you had for a guy in that caliber. I am well aware that they struggled to score against the Saints, the Patriots, the Eagles. I think I'm forgetting somebody. I know that they had four or five games where they struggled to score twenty points. I still they didn't. The majority of

their problems from last season on the defense. You know in the Bills are one of those teams. I think that this when they played top ten teams, I think they were like one in six last year. They just they don't play well against good defenses. I think their number one offensive ranking is very hollow because when it was time to score, they couldn't and we talked about this before, so this goes on dec as well. And

they didn't ever come back in games. They never came back when they were down in the second half, and never came back to win a game. So they had some some issues on offense as well. I mean, both both sides of the ball. I think they were flashes of good play on both sides. Not a lot of flashes of good special teams play. And so when when it's just pretty good, pretty good, and bad that legion's

about eight and eight. All right, let's move on best Edition, Amber best Edition, And can be a draft pick or a free agent? Well, I mean I would have to go with see THEE. Lamb just because obviously the obvious talent that he's shown during his college career and the fact that the Cowboys were able to get him the way that they did. You know, it was just a

complete surprise. And when we were thinking about the wide receiver position, there were a lot of questions prior to the draft, and you didn't necessarily know what was going to happen there, how you were going to reinforce the position. And to me, I still have my doubts about Amari Cooper. You know, I don't. I don't really know if it was his plane. He's obviously a skilled player, but I really don't know how much his foot injury was affecting him.

I don't know how to feel about his foot injury, and just see the Lamb is a guy that's going to be able to come in and make an immediate impact, I think, so I would say him, all right, Dave, don't need to spend a lot of time on it. It's CD. Y' all know how I feel about him, and he's Yeah. I think he's It's the only addition that right now is like a definitive upgrade over the guy that played the position last year. Like you could say, ha ha, Clinton Dix. We'll see how good he actually is.

So yeah, I think Cede Lamb is Yeah. Final answer, don you think he's definitively better than cop at this point where he is coming into the NFL? As always, we have to wait and see. I mean, he might not be, but I think he will be. Let's put it that way. Okay, Nick, I'll say I agree with both Yell, but I'll say Griggs rline as well, because I do think that he is a big upgrade for what they had to start last year. You can say four Bath did a nice job, and he did. He

didn't miss any kicks. But four Bath is four Bath. The bottom will drop out for him. It just will. I mean, that's what his career is. He did a nice job of coming in, but and maybe Zerline will struggle as well. But one thing I do know is that your kickoffs are going to be much better. You're gonna be able to depend people back to start each drive. I think that was important and so and you know, just like Maher was a weapon with a strong leg,

I think Zerline will give you that as well. So I CD of course, And where he is better than Cop is a punt returner. He's a dynamic punt returner. He'll be a dynamic punt returner right now. So I think I think that helps you. I've said it before. This is very similar to ten years ago when Dez came in as the third receiver with Roy and Miles Austin. You have the same type of dynamic. He'll come in and he'll be a good receiver, he'll be a good punt returner, and eventually he will be the man. But

he doesn't have to do everything right now. So I think CDs is going to be a great addition. But don't forget Zerline, you know, I'll throw in jeral McCoy because I really believe this is the kind of signing that I've wanted the Cowboys to make for years. Go out and get that veteran guy who has a lengthy resume of production that isn't yet so over the hill to where he can't bring you some of that, And whether he will be what he was in the first

five years of his career or not, who knows. What I do know is he's still a productive player, and I think he's still at this point. In my opinion, I think he's substantially better than the previous guy that was there. I think he's better than Malie Collins, and so I think they upgraded the position. I think they got a guy that still has something left in the tank, a guy that has a lot of production, and I

want to see where that goes. These are the kinds of veteran signings that I think the Cowboys should have been making, not just the vets that are just you know, longtime journeyman, but a legit guy that has been one of the better defensive tackles in the league for the better part of his career. And I think that can pay big dividends for the Cowboys if you get him in the right situation and you know, like a CD

is great, it'll help Dak be better. And that guy you guys were saying is very overrated Jalen Smith, Dontaripo, and Gerald McCoy are as good as they they're as advertising and as good as they have been, then Jalen Smith will be better. Layton Vanderich will be better because of the trickle down effect of allowing them to go free up and play and make plays. So you might get two upgrades within one if Gerald McCoy is as good as as you say, Derek. All right, let's move

on to our next question. Next category, could surprise. Let's start with you, Dave, who could surprise? Oh gosh, okay, actually, well, these these tie in together. Um, So I'll say Tyler battish Um because I mean he's he's a Day three pick. You know you shouldn't expect too much, and you know he took the reason he fell obviously injuries, and he just wasn't his dynamic after his injuries. At Wisconsin, but the Cowboys says healthy and ready to go. This was

a Remington Award winner. I believe he won it on or this season or two seasons ago. But I mean, this is a highly talented and highly experienced guy, and it's conceivable that he can step in and surprise and push for playing time right away. I don't know that I expect it, but it's possible, all right. Nick blake Bell, I think he's gonna help this team. He's a true blocking tight end, but he's also dynamic enough to, you know, do some things with the ball in his hand. I

think he's going to be an upgrade at tight end. Now. Obviously Jarwin is going to be the starter. He should be an upgrade over Jason Witten. That's what the Cowboys are expecting, of course, but I think Blake Bell will be an upgrade over their backup tight end. And I'm interested to see how McCarthy's gonna use these tight ends. It'll be different than what we've seen with Garrett. I think that he will be a significant signing for this team.

Amber I don't if this is if it would be much of a surprise, because we did get to see a little spark from him last year during training camp, but I would go with Luke Giffer. I'm excited to see him healthy and see him just getting back at it and practicing that. I've said this before. He has the perfect linebacker mold. He fits right along with Sean Lee Jalen late In. Even so, he has a perfect mold. We've seen him have some spark, he has the ability.

It sucks that his season was kind of messed up because of the injury that he had. But going and getting healthy and getting back at it, I think he might surprise us. I will tell you this. When I put this one down on paper, I had a very clear image in my mind of who this player was, and for me, it's Alden Smith. He is the definition of this category of good surprise because he's a guy that hasn't played in forever. He's had a lot of stuff.

He's at the battle off the field. Most people feel like gets probably impossible for a guy that hasn't played in as long as he hasn't played to come back

and make an impact, But he does have skill. What we know is when he was playing in the NFL, he had a ton of skill and uh and so maybe just maybe he can be the exception to the rule here that if he still has that quick twitch and and and actually can get back and play the way that he was kindled even some of that, if you could put him in on some pass rushdowns, he could surprise some people and really give you a boost from a pass rush standpoint in an area where, in

my opinion, that's a that's a part of the team that I don't think they did as much to to make better this offseason, where I think there are a lot of other areas where they did get better. I don't think they necessarily did it pass rush, but I think he is a guy that definitely could surprise some people this season. Let's go on to the next category. Takes a leap? Who takes a leap? Let's start with Amber takes the leap? Oh, how do you know? Um, I don't know. I don't know what to say. I

would go with maybe Xavier Woods. Maybe maybe he can hopefully take a leap and say and um no, you know what, I'm gonna change it. I'm gonna go with Chittowa Chiba Woozy. I think that he can take a leap and and get back to some of those good moments that we did see from him. Um, he does have the talent. I don't know what it was from these previous years. Last year that his playing game, like his game was just going down and but but I've seen it, I've seen him have it. I just I

just think he needs to do I don't know. Maybe with the new coaching staff he can improve and get better, but him being on a contract year where this is his final year and on his contract, I think he can definitely take a leap, all right, Nick Jaylen Jolks, We've talked about him a lot, but I just think somebody, one of those defensive ends is gonna take a leap, And it could be him, it could be Joe Jackson, but I'm gonna go with Jalen Jolkes. I think he's

gonna He's got the frame for it. I think he's he's gonna have a different physique than he had a last year. I see him. For him, a leap would be making the team. I don't know if that's a huge impact player, but I think he makes the leap

and makes a jump to the roster this year. Dave rain Dakota Prescott I mean, obviously, I know he's already a good player, but for the amount of arguing, you know, there doesn't seem to be a lot of consensus about where to stack this guy in the hierarchy of NFL quarterbacks, and one way or another, I don't think that'll be a problem when this season's over, you know, if it happens the way it's supposed to happen, between having another year of Kellen Moore, adding an offensive minded coach and

Mike Carthy getting a top twenty pick added to your offense, and then factor it. You know, Dak thrives under pressure. We've called him a gamer forever. Well, he's either going to have a big contract to live up to or he's going to be playing on a tag for a big contract. Either way, the pressures on. So go prove it, and I think he will, and I think by the time he's done playing next season, a lot more people will agree that he's a top five six quarterback in

the NFL. You know, right now, Dave, They they came out with, you know, the odds of winning the MVP. I believe he was the third highest third, you know, best odds to win it at like eight to one or something like that, which is surprising to me. But you know, I mean that Vegas is thinking that that he's going to have a big year to be in the running for MVP. I think that's surprising to me.

I agree with you, but I think you got to remember the size of the Cowboys fan base skews a lot of that stuff because there's so many and you know, if he's got bad odds, then a boatload of Cowboys fans are going to vet on him, and you know, they stand to take Vegas for a lot of money. So I think the size of the Cowboys fan base skews a lot of those prop bets. But I do think it's interesting that they think that highly of him

before the season. Yeah, but you know that doesn't shock me because when you think about it again, we mentioned it the earlier part of the show, Cowboys are favored in eleven of their sixteen games. At this point, you add in the fact that this is an offense with the addition of Cede Lamb a lot of people think is going to be one of the better, if not

the best offense in the league. So if you got a quarterback who is leading the best or one of the best offenses in the league, and you got a team that can win eleven games, He's going to be right up there in the votes when it comes to League MVP, regardless of well not regardless of but if you do all those things, obviously the records going to be reflective of the fact that he's played that well.

So that doesn't really shock me. I think they're a lot lot of people right now, just with the addition of Ceedee Lamb, I think there are a lot of people out there right now. I feel like the Cowboys offense will be really really good next year and that's going to catapult them too more wins. And I also think there's a little bit of love for Mike McCartney that wasn't necessarily there for Jason Garrett. Let's going to

move on to the next one prove it year. Who has the biggest prove it year in twenty twenty, Well it will be that if he if he has to play on the franchise tag, which I don't believe would be a smart decision for him. That's why I think the Cowboys have a lot of leverage here, more leverage than he does. Um that he needs to go and and and you know, whatever the deal is, he needs to sign that because if he plays on a franchise tag this year and they don't make the playoffs, then

I don't think that's going to help him. Obviously, it's not going to help him moving forward. So he's got a definite prove it year. Um if if he's playing on a franchise tag, it doesn't even if he does, like Dave said, even if he has a new deal, he's still you know, he needn't need to prove it for you know, his for a contract point, but he needs to kind of prove it for you know his you know, any any the pundits out there that are

talking about him. So I don't know if that's the answer you're looking for, You're probably looking for something else. But Dak would be right now is the guy that would be on the prove it deal if he doesn't get a new deal. Dave, I don't. I don't completely agree. I mean, the danswer's gonna be Dak regardless just because of how much money's involved. But I mean, Kirk Cousins proved that you can play on the tag and not make the playoffs and still make Bank so and I

thought it was really interesting, but not here. Well no, no no, no no, no, not maybe not with the Cowboys. But you know, I out Kirk Cousins regrets the way that it went for him personally. Um, I thought it was interesting that he came out and said that he told Dak not to be afraid of the tag and I mean, looking at the way things have gone for Cousins, I totally understand his line of thought. Um. Anyway, I would say, Williams, you know, it's a year three. He was picked number

fifty two. He's been He's not a bad pick at all, not a bad player, but maybe hasn't lived up to the expectation of being drafted that highly. I mean we're sitting here talking about, you know, will he win the left guard job? What do you do with him? And that's not ideal for a guy taken as high as he was. So yeah, I think this is a big year for him to come out and grab that job

or or you know, the Cowboys. And if he doesn't, obviously, then you're probably talking about a different starter, Yamber Um, obviously from me would be daged. But just to give you someone different, I would say Tristan Hill. He's a guy that I mean, he's only had one year, but at the same time, I was expecting a lot more from him and not what we saw last year. So I think he needs to prove it. He needs to prove why the Cowboys drafted him at the place that

they drafted him. He needs to that he has talent to help the defensive line. And yeah, I would say him, you know, I throw out the answer that Amber gave for the previous question, which is to take a leap guy. I actually think it's Cheeto. I think what the Cowboys have done in the draft and free agency sets up a scenario where they don't necessarily have to keep Cheeto

around even this year if they don't want to. And so if you start talking about prove it, like he's in that situation right now, he could go from being a starter to being a guy that doesn't even make a team. And so I think, more than anybody else on this team, he definitely needs to prove it because this is this is kind of the moment when he either makes his career or he becomes that guy that kind of jumps around to the next team and just kind of flounders from there. So I think this is

a huge year for Cheeto. I actually like the fact that there have been sparks in his career where we saw things from him, traits from him that suggested he can play and he can play well. He just didn't have a good year last year, and so I want to see if he can actually prove it this year because it could be the difference between him getting a new deal with the Cowboys or what kind of new deal he gets with someone else, if he can play

well this year or not. Yeah, to me, the reason why I didn't mention him is because I think he has approved training camp and we'll see what kind of camp that's going to be. But because you're right, he may not make the team if he doesn't, you know, if they don't feel like he's a guy that can,

you know, kind of go forward. That they have a lot of cornerbacks right now, and I think that with the added competition and with Cheeto being such a competitive guy, um, I think it does push him to do even better. Because you looked at last year, I mean, what kind of competition did you really have at the cornerback position last year? I don't Yeah, but he got benched. I mean, like he got benched in the middle of the year. So well, yeah, that's my point. You're kind of you

don't really have anyone behind you kind of pressuring you. Like, oh it sounds it might sound dumb. It makes sense in my head, but I think that the sion of these other cornerbacks are going to put pressure on him to have him bring out more out of himself. You know, maybe and maybe and you know, like you said, Derek, if he doesn't have a you know, good year, or he gets moves to another team or whatever. I mean, his career path is very similar to the guy that

brought in, Daryl Worley. Uh, he was a you know, four year guy, and he was I think I think a third or fourth round pick and you know, and play okay and then and then moved to another team and so and now he's going to be like kind of a journeyman. So you know, this is kind of a make or break year, make or break training camp for a defining point of you know, he's kind of in a fork in the road. Which way is he is he gonna go? So yeah, this is definitely a

big offseason and year for cheetoh. I mean, you think about how teams are willing to pay cornerbacks, and and so if he can do something really special this year, then whether the Cowboys sign him or not kind kind of becomes irrelevant. It creates an opportunity for him as far as his money making potential in his career. So this is a huge year for him. This is really a proved year for him across the league, not necessarily just with the Cowboys. All Right, we're gonna take a

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if your event is canceled. Guaranteed Seat Geek, Let's go. Welcome back. Final segment of the Break. We are alive from the home edition of the SWBC Morris Studios and we've been going through a few categories talking about some different players on the team. We got one more category we want to hit. This category is player the Cowboys can least afford to lose. Let's start with you, Dave, least afford to lose. I mean, oh, oh, it's not

It's not Dak anymore because they got the red rifle. Yeah, Dalton, change and go ahead. Now, I was just gonna say, I'll throw this into like last year, you would have probably thrown Amar in that mix. Now you got another guy you feel I can maybe be a lead type receiver. I think it changed a little bit with regards to who we can throw in this category. But go ahead, Dave. Who's your answer? Um, I mean it would be easy to say Zeke, DeMarcus Lawrence comes to mind. I'll I mean,

I'll say Tyron Smith still. Um, I mean I'm talking like for a long stretch of time. I know, you know he usually misses two or three games a year, but I'm talking if they didn't have him at all, that's kind of scary, especially you know they'd let go of Cam Fleming. I don't think you want Cameron Irving stepping into the starting lineup for a prolonged period of time. So that would be a quick way to have the season go south as if tired and had to sit

for a prolonged stretch. All right, amber Um, I would say DeMarcus Lawrence just because he's the most proven guy on the defensive end spot right now. We still don't know what's going to happen with Alden Smith. We don't know what's gonna happen with Randy Gregory. So as far as talent and experience, I think that you losing DeMarcus Lawrence for whatever reason would would be a tough loss. Okay, Zeke, I mean that's easy for me, but I mean it's

still Zeke. I mean we had him as the best player now now Tony Pollard is Tony to me is a backup running act. That's why he was drafted. When he was drafted, I don't believe he would be in every down back. He can't come in against the Dolphins and rush for a hundred yards in the fourth quarter and everyone says, look at him. I know, I don't think he would be your lead back. And if he was, then who's behind him giving him arrest? So Zeke is the guy. He's the guy you can least afford to lose.

In my opinion, Yeah, for me, this question is all about the delta, like the delta between the guy you lose and the next guy. And I hear what you're saying, Nick. Obviously Zeke is on a whole different plane. But I do think Tony Pollard for a stretch of games, could be a guy that's a suitable replacement for Zeke. I

agree with Amber. I think DeMarcus Lawrence is the one where you look at the largest like there is a significant difference between DeMarcus Lawrence and the next guy, not even considering the next guy that could actually start jump in and play for him, right, And so for me, if you lose DeMarcus Lawrence, that's where you're gonna see the biggest difference in players. Tyren Smith probably is another one that kind fits in that same mole. But I think right now, on this defense, he is the best

player on your defense. The difference between him and the next closest guy defensive end is really really large. Losing him would mean a substantial loss for the defense, and I don't know if the defense because sustain that. All right, So we appreciate you guys playing along it. That's a fun game to play, Amber. We're gonna have you give us some questions from some fans here in the final segment?

What you got, Well, this one's gonna be kind of hard to answer because we don't really know what's gonna happen. But in your opinion, what do you guys think would be the contingency plan if a player gets COVID during the season? I mean, should should teams have a better flexibility to add more players or postpone a game? Or does in a crisis scenario, do you end up quarantine

in the whole team? Like, what do you think would would happen as the plan to kind of what would be the procedure to go along with that if a player does have together I'll speak for Dave on this when I say, Derek, no, you know, and I was gonna say, I will take this question because I've had some conversations with different people, and I'll tell you this, Like, I don't know that there's necessarily a plan in place

for all those different scenarios. What I do know is the NFL is very, very bullish on the idea that they're going to play and they want to play the twenty games, but they're also bullish on the idea that they're going to listen to advice that they get from the CDC, advice they get from local authorities in the cities where their teams play, and they're gonna make whatever decisions they have to make. And so I think they're

gonna have to be flexible. And by the way, that's probably the whole country right now, like every business owner out there is doing the exact same thing. They're making decisions, but they're also making decisions knowing they have to be flexible that just because you make a decision today, tomorrow something can't happen that makes you have to change course and do something different. You hear about the NBA, the MLB, everybody's doing the same thing on trying to figure this out.

So um So, I don't know that there's a plan in place. What I do know is they're going to be flexible. I do know that they're going to listen to the experts that they have, both on their staff and outside of their staff, and I think they'll make whatever decisions they have to make as a season goes on. You know, let me add this too. I said earlier about the schedule, how it looked like a normal schedule, that there wasn't anything kind of weird that contingency plans.

But there is a one aspect that I thought was interesting, and how everybody's Week two opponent is the same has the same bye Weekum have y'all seen that? And and yeah, every every Week two opponent, Cowboys and Falcons have the same bye week, which means, from what I think it means is if they were to move the season back, your Week one game could go to the end of the year, your Week two game could go to your bye week. So that there's a reason why everybody's Week

two schedule it is by um. And and you know, you saw where Tampa, who's hosting the Super Bowl, has said, you know we can we can push things back a month or two months, so you know if that were to happen. So yeah, there are some built in contingencies, but nothing glaring or anything like that. And somebody on Twitter said to me, hey, what if they missed the first four games of the season, they'll start with Week five, which is against the Giant York Giants. That is not

by coincidence. I hope it is. I hope it is a coincidence. All Right, So over the last few years, the Cowboys have showed that they like incorporating the fake jet sweep, or at least the thread of it on offense with Tavon Austin and Lucky Whitehead while they were here. Now that they're off the roster, who do you expect to take over that role? Jordan Lewis, Can you see the very unamused look on my face right now? Because they didn't do it. They didn't do it at all.

Last year. They had Tavon, they had Tony Pollard, they hated doing it. I don't understand why it is that the same look you had when Witton scored that touchdown right in front of us, and you had that really unamused I was making. It was more like that. I was just stressed out. I'm not stressed out by the thought of who's going to run the jet sweep. I just hope somebody tells them they should do it. Tony Pollard can do it, Ceedee Lamb can do it, um

Michael Gallop and Amari Cooper can do it. For that matter. That's the thing that it drove me absolutely nuts when they were like, oh no, Tavon's hurt, so we gotta get the gotta get Jordan Lewis on offense to do this, and we'll just telegraph it every single time, like you have to be fast to play wide receiver in the NFL. Anybody can do it. So hopefully yeah, they're a lot less annoying about it this year. That would be great. Yeah, well said agreed. All right, So we talked about DAC earlier.

Is it possible without the Cowboys just end up giving up? I did deadline and say if it, here's the deal, sign it exactly like that. I don't again, I think that the Cowboys can have I think they've got more leverage here because I think that. I mean, I think if if if Dad doesn't play at the highest of levels, I think that they'll they'll have a position where they can, you know, pay him what they want to pay him. I think I think Dak has more to lose in

this than the Cowboys. That's why. And I don't know if you guys agree with that, but so I think the Cowboys can can stand firm on this. I actually agree with that. I mentioned it last week when we were talking about Dalton. I think as as though you know, I know some people don't believe it has anything to do with Dak, and quite frankly, it may not have

anything to do with Dak. What I do believe is it does give them some assurances that they have another capable quarterback on the roster and if for whatever reason, Dak does not play well this season, which by the way, right now, maybe the Cowboys look at this and say, this gives us a reason, the whole firm, because we really would like to see another year out of him

before we commit to even more money. If we're going to go and meet his demands, right, and so if you're going to do that, I think this gives them some assurances that let's assume they go that route, and let's assume he plays on the tag, and let's assume he doesn't play as well as they expect him to play in this year, in this fifth year of his

NFL career, then they have number one. They have another quarterback on the roster that maybe they decide can be a better option if they decide to move on from Dak, or if they decide to hold firm on their offer and maybe tag him a second time. Who knows, But I just think this gives him a ton of different options and I don't think it really gave Dak more options. I think he still has the options he has, which

are very few with them in my opinion. Right now, I don't disagree, but I don't think the Cowboys have that much leverage. I mean, they don't have to pay him if they don't want to. But I think Dak

can just chill. And at this point, you know, I thought something might happen around the draft, and now that it hasn't if the Cowboys aren't up in their offer, and you know, we don't know all the mechanics of it, but if Dak's not happy with the offer on the table, he can just sit back and wait for something to happen.

And by that, I mean, you know, if Deshaun Watson signs an extension that blows what he was asking out of the water, then the ball game changes once again, just like it did last summer when Winston Goff sign and that, but only but only if he plays really well this year. Right. Well, But and that's what I was gonna say, is and I don't know anything. I don't have any inside information, but I'm starting to feel like Dak might play on the tack because he he

does not lack for confidence. I said, he's a gamer. He's always like he loves being doubted. I think it fuels his competitive fire. I think he thinks that it gives him an edge. So if the Cowboys don't say screw it and just meet what he's asking for, I can see him playing on the tag and being like, all right, fine, I'll go out there and show y'all that I'm worth thirty eight million. I believe in myself. So so what if he goes out and goes gets they go nine and seven and miss the playoffs again.

I mean, and he played on the tag, he went he played enough to get him out of the playoffs, just like he did last year. I mean he I mean did he play well last year? I mean his passing for all those yards will get you as the backup quarterback in New Orleans. That's what Jameis Winston did, So all these yards doesn't matter. He almost broke Romo's record in twenty twelve, which was also an eight and eight season, So I don't think he played that well.

Right now. He's had four years in his career, two in the playoffs, two out of the playoffs. If he doesn't play well and doesn't get him to the playoffs. I mean, if I'm the Cowboys, I'm thinking maybe I'll give him another year on the tag. But I mean

I'm not. I mean maybe at that point, after five years, maybe it would be time to move on if he if he's got to the playoffs two out of five years, every metric that you can look at, whether it's something as simple as passing yards or like expected points over average, or car yards and yards for error, attempt and completion, all that, all of them points to him being one

of the best ten but quarterbacks in the NFL. And everybody loves to say that wins are a team stat, not a quarterback stat, even though quarterbacks get credit for and blame for all of them. Do I think he I mean, he certainly wasn't amazing last year they were an eight and eight team. I do think he played like one of the ten best quarterbacks in the NFL. And that comes with a certain price tag that if he if he plays that's the problem. What's what. I'm sorry, David,

but you keep saying top ten. The Cowboys would love to pay him in the top ten, that's I think. But the problem here is that he has got top ten stats and he's wanting top one or two money. That's where I think that, you know, the fork in the road is here. The forty nine Ers put Garoppolo at the top of the Pachart after eight games, Like this isn't new. I mean, we just Kirk Cousins signed an eighty four million dollars deal which gave him the highest average per year in the NFL at the time

it was signed. And that was after two years where he played on the tag and couldn't get Washington the playoffs. That's I'm sorry, that's just the way it works. It's capitalism. If you don't like it, but you let yeah, But well you can just say, I mean, you don't have to do it just because the Cowboys are because other teams are doing it. I mean the Cowboys don't have

to do that. Absolutely don't have to do it. But I mean, it takes a lot of balls to walk away from a competent, good, above average, starting caliber NFL quarterback. It's it takes a lot. It takes a lot of those cajonas to walk away from one hundred and ten million dollars, which he is just left on the table as well. So I mean, it's just a game of It's just it's a game with chicken right now. I mean, who's gonna Who's gonna you know, blink first, really and

we'll see. But I think I think Dak would be very foolish to go into this season on the franchise tag. He's got that money sitting on the table. You know, I don't think anyone should feel sorry for him. That all he paid for two million dollars. He didn't have to play for two million last year. He had an offer on the tamper, he didn't want it. So I mean, I'm not I'm not trying to Hey, I love Dak. I love what he brings to the team. But I'm saying right now, it's right on the board four years.

If he gets to a fifth year and doesn't lead him to the playoffs, then I think we're gonna be looking at him in a different light. So see, I actually think both of these things can be true. I think right now both the Cowboys probably look at themselves and say, hey, we're all what we are. And if he wants to play on the on the franchise tag as opposed to taking what we take what we offer,

then we're okay with that. And I also agree with Dave that on the other side, Dak's probably looking at it and saying, I have enough confidence in myself that I think I'll play well. And if whatever reason Cowboys don't want to give me a better offer, at some point, they're either going to give me a better offer or somebody else will is probably how he looks at it.

And so I think both can be true right now, and again I don't, and that's the reason why, to go back to Amber's original point, I don't think necessarily I'm not very optimistic that a deal gets done before franchise tag is up. It doesn't seem like either side is willing to necessarily move beyond where they are. And I don't know if there's gonna be something that happens between now in July fifteenth that's gonna make them say

I'm sorry June fifteenth, that makes them say, yeah, we'll move. Now, we'll do something different now, jocker, take up, sorry, don't. I don't know that there's anything's gonna happen and that meantime it's gonna make them move. And so I think both are settled. I think that right now, just my personal opinion, I think he'll play this year on the franchise tag and then we'll see how this all plays out. It we'll be right back here next offseason having this

conversation all over again. Which can I make another point real quick? I know that we're running out of time and all that, but another question that I had to kind of play along those same lines. You know, we know that the economy is taking a hit with this whole COVID Night team, So looking at a future, you know, next year, if for some reason the fact that attendance game attendance takes a hit and then now you start seeing a drab up as far as income around the league,

does that change up these kinds of contracts? You know what you do in the future. You know, if he was to play under the franchise tag and then looking for another a bigger contract next year, how does that play a roll in to that whole thing? That is an awesome point, and I don't it's a very good point. I don't think we have a great answer to it because I've set that all along talking about Garoppolo and Cousins sign the deal, the capital jump, you'll look smart

in eighteen months. But with all this stuff with COVID, I don't think you can guarantee that anymore. I mean, I don't think it's you can realistically guess at what the cap will be in a year or two years based on how this might change things. So I will give the Cowboys credit for that is this might not be the time to say, ah, screw it, signed the check and we'll have more money later. That might not

be the case. I mean, I wish we had more information, but it's it's definitely something you got to keep in the back of your mind. Yeah, And just so people know, the salary cap is based upon revenues. It's a percentage that the players get out of revenues from the club. So it definitely could have an impact one way or the other. Who knows. And we again, we are in such an unprecedented time. I don't think anybody knows exactly what the outcome is going to be. And so yeah,

I think that should factor in. If I'm dak, I'm at least having some conversations with my representatives about that and how I think that's gonna play out relative to this offer. And what future offers might be. All right, We'll appreciate you guys joining us. It was a great show. We had a good time. We'll be back next week for Nick Even, Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I am Derek Elton. This has been The Break live on Dallas

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