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That would take it a whole other level. Yeah, just so much tea being served all over the league. Yeah, guys want now it's being served t that's like the millennial's way of like what is it? Rob explaining what is it? Te Lindsay uses it all the time. So it's tea. It's like rumor speculation. What is it? Just shade? Yeah, people, I'm gonna look it up. People come playing about stuff. It's like the little gift of a Kermit the frog sipping the tea and that's kind of sweetened or unsweetened.

It doesn't matter. It's impet absolutely is it hot tears it iced tea? It could be either either one teas tea. Okay, so like it's hot tea. Yeah, all right. So since Rob brought that up, what type of tea would you like to start with? Well, I mean you started a start taco yay, Well there you go. Do you have to die in or can you get him the tacos to go? You're gonna have some sweet tea with that taco? Sure? Sure?

Why not? Why not? Well? The h the owner and president general manager, was on a radio station locally earlier. Try he said, um, Jerry said, in no ways he dismissing Taco Charlton on this football team here, even though he's been inactive, even though Brian brought us has for a couple of games. Brian has said, you've said it. You know, if he's not active two weeks in a row. Sure, that's why I'm own front office anymore. Probably. Well, I mean,

but look at the roster right now. They I know you're getting Quinn back, Yeah, but you got a couple injuries up front. I know he's not really a guy. They say you can move inside um and play tackle. But we always talk about how great depth is until you don't have it anymore. So we'll see what happens. I don't I don't know. Just you just get the feeling. And I think I think Dave said this this morning on cover four. It's like all this social media stuff,

something's got to give at some point, right. I mean, he's making clear what I that he's at odds with the organization over the way he used or not. Now he's playing. He's he's playing the odds. Yeah, because guess what if he's with him or not. Here he knows he's guaranteed over these next two years one point eight million dollars, so it doesn't matter if he plays or he's cut. He's gonna make his money. So he's playing the odds. That's here. I get that. But but but

this team gets back to practice on Wednesday. How do you how does that play in the locker room? I know nothing back to work. I think that ship has already sailed for him already. This is where Mickey and I was walking late last night and I was listening to our show again, and I thought Mickey made a really good point yesterday. And we probably missed it when he said it, but no, and I and I was thinking about it, and he's not wrong about this, you know,

because he and I had this discussion late. I mean it was late in the show. Yeah, that was good stuff. Well, appreciate that, But Micky made a point about Crawford, and you don't know the health of Crawford. So to me, are you protecting yourself by just saying, Okay, let him complain, let him pout, let him do whatever he wants. But we're going to protect ourselves here if in fact that they don't have that, you know, if all of a sudden, what if they have to make him okay, they get

rid of Taco, then thenk Crawford can't go. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, they're they're banged up right now, they're just starting right And I'm sorry, Yeah, no, you're you're right. And it's to Mickey's point which he made yesterday, which I think is absolutely right. I'm star listening. I'm thinking, okay, just move on from him. Let's not be a distraction. Let's not. But it's logical thinking that. Okay, I don't care if you're complaining or what. Just okay, stay over there.

We'll practice you on. The scout team will hold on to you until we need you. You know. And to me, as as a former personnel guy, that makes sense because if you're not sure of the health of Tyrone Crawford, if all of a sudden the hip is flaring up again, and now it is and it is. Yeah, you know, if you're saying to yourself, like, well, what if we get rid of this guy and then something happens, we don't have a replacement for you know, at least Taco you would, you would put it now. I think that

you guys are all right about the room. I think the room has I think the room has moved on from him. You know, maybe maybe the coaching staff has moved on. Scouts could say, whoa wait a minute, we still got this guy. That's my other question. I mentioned the locker room, but how does it played with the staff. You know, Jason was asked about it yesterday and he you know, shocker, he's not on social media. That's not his thing. But like, how did do you think rod is?

I don't think Rogers, God damn what. I don't even think Christopher shard Is. I think Christopher Sharpe puts his head down and goes to work. Yeah, but how did what's the message from the coaching staff to Tacco after all this? I mean, it's just it's just a weird deal. It's you know, it's you know what it's. It's this is where the general manager has to step in and tell the head coach to tell the staff that listen, we're keeping this guy. We're gonna keep this guy because

we're probably gonna need him. It might not be week two or week three or week four, but maybe in week seven or week eight. We're gonna need this guy. And if we get rid of him now, then we don't have that to fall back on. You know, unless you're unless you're okay, you know, with bringing somebody off up off the practice squad, you know, unless you're unless you're interested in, you know, I'm thinking a guy like

Daniel Wise or somebody like that. Unless you're interested in and bringing one of those guys up to play defensive end and play you know, defensive tackle. But Micky was right yesterday, and I quickly, I quickly dismissed him for saying, move on, Mickey, damnit, move on, you know, and give him up your hot boys card. Well, but you know

that's what I'm saying. This could very well be the front office going out and saying and again, the owner, general manager, president could be saying, listen, Jason, I've seen what's going to happen here. I'm getting medical reports on this. You're hearing the same thing about these guys were banged up there. Just keep the guy. Finally, what did they do last year with with Jordan Lewis? They kept him ready, They kept him ready. They put him on offense to

run jet sweeps. When when when when Jordan Lewis was all of a sudden over there pouting because he wasn't playing because Chris Rochard didn't really like him, you know, But what did they do? They kept him? Hey, you know, Scott Linahan said, hey, I'll take him over here, bring him over here, runs jet sweet What next? You know, he's the player the game against the Saints because they

found a role for him. Yeah, this Taco need to be quiet, absolutely, but the front office needs to like to say, don't listen to him, don't listen to him, don't listen to him. We're gonna need him to play for us, and hopefully he will play for I don't disagree with that because we always talk about but we get questions for fans, like in camp. You know, we got so much depth here, could we trade this guy? And I'm always hesitant to do that because injuries happen.

Look at look at how look David Woods, Antoine Woods, Michael Gal all of a sudden, Now two games in you got some key guys that are hurt and might miss some time here. So you know, I'm with that. It's just the Taco thing is just it continues to get worse in terms of well, it's only worse if you pay attention to social media. I'm am I right, no, because I mean, he's he making a stink in the locker room? Is he making a stink with the assistant

coaches at social media? You? Oh, we don't know, we don't, but this is the day, day and age. Yeah, where we're at. Look, he's frustrated, though, Mick, Well, but let him. Be frustrate it, get out there and play. I'm frustrated. I mean Crawford. Crawford had eighteen snaps in that game. Eighteen that was less than he had the first game. Yeah, okay, and Quinn's not going to come in and play sixty snaps. And what if they figure out that, you know what,

Joe Jackson needs more time. You know, Joe Jackson is talking about flexibility. What if they determined that. You know, it's like, we like Joe Jackson, but you know, it would be nice if he could sit and kind of watch a little bit and learn. I understand, I understand where you're going here. I just wonder what point are you losing the player? The player is out there, because I'm with you guys, like I think he can help

this team. We watched him in preseason. I thought he had a pretty good camp, the best he's ever had, in my opinion, the best he's ever had. But where's he at with his I mean, based on social media, Mick, I know, it just doesn't seem like he's engaged with this football team right now, regardless of if they need him or not. Well. And and and you mentioned, I mean you mentioned Joe Jackson carry hider played thirty six

snaps fifty eight percent. He got one tackle, yeah it no sacks, Yeah, they've had two sacks in two games

and both you know, I mean had one. Let me ask this if if all of a sudden, and this is gonna sound crazy, if all of a sudden, Randy Gregory gets reinstated there next, do you feel maybe we maybe the staff changes a little bit there, different story, different story, different story, all of a sudden, It's like, wa, wait a minute, here's a guy that he's got he's got issues, we know this, but he loves to play football. We trust him, we like him, we start him, we

do all these things. Yeah, if all of a sudden, if that turns, do you feel different about the taco situation? Maybe not us, not us Rob, but maybe them feel differ and about the taco situation. I get it. Mickey was absolutely right. I give him credit. I was walking and I was just I was listening, and I said, you know what, he's right. He is right. Plus from the owner's standpoint, he's paid him money, right, yeah, is this ain't monopoly, But he's also seen the good practices

and he's also seen the good games. He's thinking if Tacco would went out there and bummed it up. You know, he hadn't played great, but he played better than he has. He can play. He can play for this deal. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that doesn't like if you have an old card, don't you milk it for as long as you can because you paid for it. It's four million dollars in dead money if you cut him. So what do you do if you're Jason Garrett or Rod Marr?

I mean, do you say, look, just just stay ready, just you know, I mean, what message you have to give to you know, I think, yeah, first met I'm not gonna say smooth it over, first messages. Stay off social media, just canon that may have that may have happened. That may have happened yesterday, after that, after the free me tweeting, then he deleted it. Oh yeah, let me tell you this though, But if he's on social media,

he's seen Jerry Jones's comments. Well that's what he was. Well, it was a Stephen Jones comment on the fan yesterday that he responded to someone tweeted it. But say today he's seen you're talking today's Jerry Jones. If I'm Jerry Jones, I walk up to him and I put my arm around him and say, listen, man, it hasn't been easy. I get it. You're frustrated, you're mad. Hang with me here, That's what I'm hanging you know, you know you got

to call him in and say pull him aside. Because if the coaches don't like him and his teammates don't like him, but the front office likes him and the owner likes him, that's all he needs. That's the only support he needs. He needs to go out there and practice. When they put him in situations there, the scout team or real team, he needs to be ready for those situations until further notice. Marathon of a season it is, and and and that's where I missed the point. I'm like,

if he's inactive again, move on. But but there's there's some there's some method to their madness. Because if again, if I keep hearing reports that Crawford is not one hundred percent ready to go all the time, I'd better protect myself. I better protect myself because Mickey just told me, hey, wait, my alternative is playing Doran's armstrong Carrie Hyder. Those guys or two. That's who was in in the second half, Washington. Yeah, there you go. Okay, So who are the true defensive

ends on this roster? The inventory of the true defensive ends to Marcus Lawrence, Robert Quinny, Hyder Hyder, but he can play inside and play inside. Joe Jackson can play inside. Exact Cocco is purely a defensive end. Yeah. So I mean you take stock of those guys who can just play defensive end, right, and there's basically four guys there, right, Okay, and then you got Randy Gregory. Perhaps he's clouds somewhere. I've just kept him out of no I know, but I'm saying, if he if he does come back in

now you're now you're you're dynamic changes. Yeah, in this marathon of a season. If that happened that mid season or whatever. And so I think sometimes in my own mind, I'm thinking, Okay, Robert Quinn comes back, Well they've got to make a roster move, and that is the timeline. If things have soured with Taco, Well, maybe the timeline is actually further down the road. I threw this out there for that that Quinn move, and you know, you

guys were talking about it. But Dalton Schultz, Yeah, I mean, sorry, what is the move that's going to happen this way? If it to me again, Dalton Schultz, if you look at the guys and Mickey likes to keep snap count totals, that's eight snaps in two games. You got older Wally that could play in preseason? What was older Wally doing? Mean those practices we saw him kind of playing as

a wing and age at fullback, all that stuff. If you if you don't want to sacrifice Taco, if you don't want to sacrifice redman, if you don't want to sacrifice night, if you don't want to sack. Now, this all could change if in fact, and Mickey, I'm gonna ask you this, because you're a concussion expert. If if we if they don't get him back Wednesday, if if if Tabon's not practicing Wednesday, then I don't think he plays. I mean, this is this whole. This is a mystery

to me. Now, this is concussion stright because you just made a move. But because of Austin, you put him on ir with a concussion, which is the ability to come back in eight weeks if if need be. But I to me, if you just don't want to lose one of those, if you don't want to cut Taco and you don't want to lose one of these offensive linemen, and you don't want to lose Cedric Wilson, then maybe you need to think about Dalton Schultz. If what is

Dalton shuts doing for your team? My initial reaction to that is, you can't have a just and understand Ola Wally can do some of the same tight end stuff, but you can't have just too tight end. If you're playing eleven personnel seventy percent of the time, why not. Yeah, but you did show that two tight end still works. And if you lose one, what do you do well? And then what do they think of I don't know how to pronounce his last name, the practice squad tight

end Cole Haku. Yeah, tell what do they think of him? On the practice He did so because because the thing that will happen with Dalton Schultz, if you waved Dalton Schultz, he's getting picked up immediately by somebody kicks. It just happened with a Stanford tight end yesterday. Cayden Smith, the rookie fifth round draft pick of San Francisco. He was waved I guess on Saturday, and the Giants claimed him yesterday.

Dalton Schultz is definitely getting packed. I'm okay if you say he's not active on game day, if you're not using him, but you need that guy on the roster, I would say yeah. And Jason Garrett tell us a few weeks ago about how hard it is to find tight ends that can just help you get through a game. You know that Marcus Lucas was he the guy they signed in preseason. I mean that he helped him out a lot, But that's it's a position to be becoming

harder and harder to find. So if you were to make a move like that, I don't know, you are risking eight place guys, I know, but you're risking your depth in case something does happen. I know Jason hasn't missing eight plays, yeah, but I know he plays specialty that there you got, there you go, there you go. I'm just I'm just you know you're gonna these are the discussions you're gonna have to have. You got Blake Jarline, who's didn't work, who's worked through a foot injury too.

On top of it, it doesn't sound like to me that they're moving on from Taco. It doesn't. No, they're not listening to Brian broad Us. They're not they're gonna move They're not gonna move on from Taco. But and rightfully so, if he, in fact it's going to protect them from potentially problems with Crawford's hip injury, then yeah, I'm I totally get it. I totally get it. Eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven is the number to call. And We've got much much more

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other draft picks exchange, both sides, fourth and fifth. Yeah, but the big thing is, here's a Steelers team that has started the season oh and two, they've lost their starting quarterback, a future Hall of Famer, to a season ending elbow injury, and they are dealing their first round draft pick for Mica Fitzpatrick. You know what, I tell you what it's that's Kevin Colbert, the general manager there

at in Pittsburgh. And Kevin is generally a pretty aggressive guy, and you know, maybe he's looking at his season right now and saying, you know what, I need some help defensively. You know they haven't. I haven't. I didn't. I can't say. I sat down and watched the whole Seattle game, and you know, obviously they opened their season against New England and that wasn't very good for them. So you know, it's it's one of those moves you make if you

feel like you have confidence in your quarterback. You know they obviously they do. Mason Rudolph. A lot of people feel good about him. I know Dez Bryant. Come about social media. You know, Dez Bryant was tweeting about him last night. He's like, hey, fans, you're about to see what Mason Rudolph could do. You know, he's been in the system now, you know, for a couple of years, but played behind Ben Roethlisberger, and you know, has the

arm talent, arm strength. I remember value waiting him as a player throwing the ball down the field, and I was pretty impressed with him throwing to Washington and those guys. They're at Oklahoma State. So we'll see. It's it could these general managers that make these moves. I don't think it's about saving jobs. I think it's about trying to save the season, much like the Cowboys tried to save their season last year when they were three and four,

to go out and get a wide receiver. That's a sorry bill, that's a proud franchise that's used to winning. Mike Tomlin wants to keep the message going to that we're keep playing, We're still in this thing, guys, We're not giving up. We're adding a good player. Cooper is a great example. And I tweeted to you night, Bill, I mean, Dak came in here and nobody thought he could do it. But he saved the season for this team before it even started in twenty sixteen as a rookie.

So I mean, you never know, You never know. And I tweeted back at you and who the Cowboys drafted the first round the following year. We just spent a second that's right on this Taco Tuesday. Yeah, and but so clearly the Steelers believe that they're going to salvage this season and they are not going to have a top ten pick in this draft. Yes, yeah, that's what they believe. It's what they believe. Well, better dig out, They better hope this guy fixes the defense. They've given

up sixty one points in two games. Yeah, but boy, two wicked games to start the season. I couldn't imagine having to deal with two elite type quarterbacks and Brady and then dealing with with Wilson. Yeah, it's just a tough way to tough way to handle things. But Seattle usually doesn't score many points. Now, they scored twenty eight. Yeah, you had twenty six. Yeah, sure found a way. I mean your quarterback went out a halftime, right, Yeah, Toney

still scored twenty six. Yeah. Talking talking stealers. Okay and okay, I'm trying to remember what we've talked about, what we haven't talked about. Okay, let's start Michael gallup. Yeah. I think Mickey, you're hearing things because you you have the same kind of guy as I talked to. Lateral meniscus tear. Yeah, they were supposed to do surgery today. They would have done it sooner. They were waiting. I guess he wanted or his agent wanted a second opinion. Yeah, so it

kind of helped things up. But I think the plan was to have surgery today and they would know better on the recovery time after they complete the surgery, to see just what it is the extent of it, right, because I've seen meniscus tears. Um, you know, two weeks and you're back. You know, you you miss one game and you get two weeks and then Jason Garrett said two to four weeks yesterday in his press conference. I mean,

if you remember Jay Novochek before one of those playoff years. Uh, he had he had, he missed the last game of the year. They had a buy and he was ready for the first playoff game. Now everybody's different. Yeah, you know, I had a friend at the time of the season is different too. Yeah, I had a friend that got you know, he's going for meniscus. I said, oh, heck, Noacheck was back in two weeks. We'll be playing tennis in three Well it was three months before he got back,

but he wasn't a professional athlete. Yeah, so they're hopeful it's on the short end. I think it should be on the short end. But yeah, him and Woods both which Woods, excuse me, the human log Woods. But now it sounded like to me though, in listening to the general manager talk today though, that you know, those were kind of injuries that they felt like that they could and and you know, could manage. And we'll see get through this week and then see what next week brings

with those guys. I don't think they particularly need to push Antoine Woods very quickly here, but you know, yeah for the Saints and all that Saints packers, yes, you need all hands on deck if you can get that one done. The same thing with Xavier Woods. I mean they're hesitant right now to put a timetable on it. I know the report this morning, I think from NFL was dot com was four to six. Yeah, but with high ankle sprains, you don't you don't really know. Um,

General Mancher said that to you. Mickey said about past guys with the high cokele spr Remember it's a different position. Patrick Crayton came back in a week and played on a high ankle sprain. So it just depends on how your body responds and how painful it is, or where it's located, too, because sometimes the higher up it is, the more yeah, difficult it can be to get back. All I know is I saw him in the walking boot yesterday when he was leaving, and he was walking

awfully well. And usually when you have that walking boot on, you really struggle, and it was almost like he was just he was walking along. Maybe he could play in it, well, maybe, okay. I Kyden Gates are producer, has given me a couple of different text messages about Bobby from Oklahoma, whether he is on the line or not. On the line, Bobby from Oklahoma, are you on the line? Yes, I am all right, got two questions, Um, if Austin is still on a concussion protocol by Wednesday, Uh, that's four and

gallops out. That's four wide receivers. So who would be a fifth or would you roll with Pollard playing some of that role? And then would is Donovan Wilson going to be back to step in for Woods with Woods being down? Yeah? Well he will from a I think a depth stamp. Yeah, he practiced us with him and tom I think Thompson will start and then would and then Wilson both in practice last week and we're like healthy scratches if you want to say that, becoming off

injury the way they were. So a fifth receiver, that's a what? Yeah, it's like you say, it's Cooper, Cobb, Smith Wilson. Uh, you know, could you go short for one game and ask Pollard to fill that role? Very well? Good on their practice squad that I've never heard about. Yeah, he's not on. Nobody picked him, nobody's picked him up. Who's in? Yeah, you traded out guiding for Bryant Vane and I saw he was on the roster last night. I don't know nothing about him. Could you do? You

know what? Where he played or Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah, he's with the Cincinnati Bengals. And you know, he's one of these guys that they really really like. You went to school at Temple and uh they like him. Actually talking to some special teams guys about him, he's a he's a really he's a tall kid, and so they liked his He's like six three, one hundred ninety eight pounds. They like the speed, they like his special team stuff.

He's actually some of the stuff he's done when they've run like punt scout, punt team or block team, he's come close to block and punch just with his ability

and stuff. So just kind of like a little bit of a thought of like, hey, maybe we got a guy that's tall, long and can play some special teams at receiver, which is is something that they like and that's why they're developing him on the practice squad instead of guiding right now, Okay, and then finally, do you think Ben Bright would get through waivers if they waived him to get plan on the roster? Who who which brought the offensive lineman? Bright? Oh? Night Brand, Night, Night

Brand Night. Yeah, Uh no, no, because I think that in this day and age, what happens is when you put young offensive lineman on the waivers, people say he's better than this guy. He might be better than our tenth guy or a ninth guy and stuff. So I think that one would be a difficult one because actually there's some film of him playing in games where people will go back and look at their Indiana report and say, well, they played tackle at Indiana. Wait Dallas playing him at guard.

He's got some flexibility to maybe do that, and we could see him play guard a little bit. So yeah, I think that one would be a very, very difficult I don't think they want to make that move. I just that's like Colombo pet cat, and I think he would be fighting some people if if that were to happen today. At safety, Darian Thompson was actually active last week, so yeah, that's and Donvid Wilson was healthy too last night, so that kind of tells you about the pecking order there.

Cavon Frasier is also active option guy there, although you're not going to put him at free safety. They like to say their safeties are interchangeable, but it's a little too interchangeable. And there are reports out there, Brian that Josh Jones is working out today. Former second round draft pick of the Packers, was released on August twenty fifth. Yea, he's a third year in the league. Yeah, you know, and Mickey, what were some of the So he's played

twenty nine games in two seasons, twelve starts. But this so they signed Amos yeah from the Bears. From the Bears, so he leap frogged him into the starting lineup and he had an unspecified injury during training camp. He also skipped OTA's and a mandatory mini camp, and I think whatever he was was bothering him. Uh. They decided that it was a bad fit for the organization, and the GM said it was a bad fit on the field

and off the field. So if he if he sacrificed himself on social media or what, but just the death of all of us, right, it will be I'm telling you, okay. And then then he got and he got he got waived, yeah, and he went unclaimed. Right, So second round, former second round pick, yeah, right for in just twenty seventeen, not that long ago. Supposedly the Cowboys were going to work him out. I saw different reports twenty seventeen draft. There's a lot of players from that draft that are in

the news. That kind of sounds like a guy that caught a fifty one yard touchdown last week. Devin Smith, former second round draft pick, the teams the team's not afraid to take a chance. Yeah, but he wasn't. He was in a problem, right, he was just an ACL or two saying they signed they signed Rolando McLean as go as a former first round guy and helped him

out for a couple of years. And before we go to break, here a shout out to the Cedar Hill Longhorns, who have a couple of wide receivers who apparently are working out here at the start of day. And I guess it's a shout out to old miss as well, DeMarcus Lodge and Quincy out of Boisjo. There you go, There you go. And I wanted to say, Quincy, I knew they still have eligibility at Cedar Hill or what well, they might have eligibility in the NFL right here at

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Very good? All right, our closer is Brian in Iowa. Next up, I'm Talking Cowboys. Hello Brian. Hey, guys, thank you for taking my call. Sure thing. Hey, First of all, I want to say I'll be making my first eight T and T st HI October six against the Packers, which I'm totally excited about. Um um. My question is about donthin Wilson. Is he projected like in the middle of season or next year? Plans to try to take Jeffy's spot to be because it seems like he's always

around the ball when he's on the field. Jeff Heath or Donovan Wilson. Well, I mean, is he like, is he planning I mean as cowboys like thinking he might be playing on pushing Jeff He's spot eventually when he developed. Yeah, I would think so this Jeff Heaths last year in his contract, right, Yes, So yeah, it could be a natural that they just say, okay, we'll move on from Jeff. They love Jeff Heath though, one of one of two guys who played one hundred percent of the snaps in

that game. Yeah, I love Jeff Heath so as much as everybody out there hates Jeff Heath, he does have value for you. And you know, and it's a shamy didn't come up with that interception. Boy drove on the ball, great, saw it all the way. I just didn't get to finish it the way he needed to. But yeah, I mean it might be just a naturally for them, you know, Jeff Heath. I mean to me, it seems like these guys that like to be here. Maybe he comes back

on a friendly deal and all. But yeah, they have a lot of high hopes for They have a lot of high hopes for Donovan Wilson. And we all saw that in preseason and camp. So they always talk about competition as well. So if Jeff eats here, they'll be competition. If Jeff he's not here, then Donovan Wilson will be competing with somebody else for that spot. And in our final minute, we buried the lead around the NFL today. Eli Manning is no longer the starting quarterback for the

New York Giants. It's the rookie Daniel Jones. I applaud the Giants for doing that, by the way, you know, trying you know, hey, don't lose the locker room. I mean it's obviously they've had two losses, you know, Dallas and Buffalo, and you know you need to find a way. If everybody saw in the preseason the way that Daniel Jones played, he gives you a little hope if you're the Giants fans, so and he gives the locker room home. So who knows. They got Tampa Bay this weekend. See

ifing turn it around for them. Did he come in into the Cowboys game? He did? He was did he getting he fumbled. He sort of a deer in headlights look about him. Yeah, but he hadn't prepared that week. So he'll have a full week to prepare for Tampa Bay. And we'll see how many teams out there need to trade for Eli Manning. There's a bunch that's a growing list every day, every day, right, would be a weird into his career. In fact, even in the last hour,

Cam Newton not at practice for the Carolina Panthers. Yeah, his brother didn't stay with the same team his old career. No, but he's right on the cusp of doing that. You know, if he wanted to hang it up after this year, absolutely, And we got time tomorrow to talk about that. And we'll talk about the Miami Dolphins tomorrow too, and we'll talk at you again tomorrow. You're on Talking Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. A Minute, a