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number if you'd like to join the conversation. Rob Phillips in for Bill Jones, Mickey Spagnola to my right. Brian brought us across the table from me. Welcome gents. How are you today? Doing well? Good? Doing well? Another day for the Cowboys practicing inside today on a Thursday. Keeps secrets? Is that what it is? State secrets? Yes? Absolutely, the whole world can't watch. Gonna watch Tristan Hill practice it left guard and then practice and turn around and play

three technique today. That's kind of where they are right now, right that is where they're with Cowboys and Eagles getting set Sunday night prime time. A lot of injuries on this football team. Brian, Yeah, and you know, I know, Mickey, did you have any chance to update any to talk to anybody that updated that stuff or anything like that? Did? All right? I knew you would know. So if we got time, I can go on alphabet here. You got

forty one minutes. We can go to the end of the first segment, which is usually fifteen minutes from now, if we have enough time to get through it. All right, So starting with the A's Nornce Armstrong taking rolla with his kind of neck injury, he should be good to go and practice today. He worked out in pads yesterday on his own to the side random bunch, so he looks like he's good to go. I think Anthony Brown is probably going to miss this game hamstring Randall Cobb.

It's looking good at this point. Don't know that he practices much today, but they're hoping by Friday and play on Sunday. LEL Collins surprisingly is doing better. I would say at this point he's questionable, but they need him to practice to see exactly what he can do. But he is getting better, right, He's better. Okay, that was something I was worried about last week, we didn't hear about the way. Yeah, well this week it's the other way around. There we go. He may be doing a

little bit better than Tyranum. The hope is they get one of those two guys back. So they're still that hope. I'm not saying it's gonna happen, yeah, but they're hopeful. Amari Cooper. I think what's going to happen there is they don't want what happened last week. That you keep a guy active and you put Devin Smith down and

then he just gives you three plays. Yep. So even if he says I can go, I think he's going to have to prove it so you don't come up short and on your wide receiver active rosters Well said, because because obviously they didn't this right with him. You know how quiet he is. He doesn't say much. Yeah uh, And so that that one they're going to keep an eye on. Obviously, Frederick was not injury related. Sound like he's back today Byron Jones questionable. So he's getting better

and he's improving more than Anthony Brown. So maybe you get one of those two guys back. Um, As I said Tyring, they want probably want to see him practice before he plays. And then this one if you noticed on Zach Martin they had him limited but it said back slash ankle yep, and the ankle is a problem. Just what they need, right Yeah, so um, when it rains, it's all a couple. It's like three positions here, that's all taking hits, right, Like you know your body parts

of diseases. These are like body parts in the disease hitting these different parts of the team. Now, Zach did that come out of the game. I don't know if it was bothering before and got asturbated during the game. Remember last year at the end of the year, he had a heavily wrapped ankle in a lot of those games at the end, So it might be something he's aggravated from. That's something he's always kind of had to deal with. So and you know, the Eagles aren't much

better by the way. Nope, they're not from a starting standpoint. They didn't have Nigel Brandham practicing yesterday, Fletcher Cox didn't practice, the Sean Jackson did not practice and has not practiced for weeks with that abdomen. Timmy Jernegan with a foot did not practice. Avonte Maddox who is their starting corner, Ye didn't hasn't played because of a concussion and looks like he probably out. Jason Peters out with a knee, Darren Sproles out with a quad and if you think

about it, Ronald Darby who's been out, there's other starting corner. Uh, was on a limited basis, so they're not sure about him. And while Jalen Mills practice, I haven't seen them take him off pup yet, so, uh, you know, and this is just six weeks for him, right right, So he's got he's got two more weeks on pop Yere So I don't know if he knows that because I saw quotes about how he was hope of the play on Sunday. Yeah, and it's like, well, I don't think so you have

to make a move there. Yeah, so we'll we'll see where that one goes. So, uh, you know, And we talked about yesterday. I think Brian talked about it. Broke it down, you know, they were starting Sydney Jones in Rosuel Douglas. Yeah, they got deep touchdowns again, Rusul Douglas. Yeah, they got toasted them. The slow conveyor belt in the training table there when you go to toast your bread. But that is slow, isn't it, Mickey, When you're waiting, they can't take you know, Mickey, I knew he would

be on top of that. The problem that that the Eagles had, and only with the cornerback spots because people have taken shots on them Minnesota just I mean it was even though that Minnesota faced pressure, Cousin still gets rid of the football and it's they they are not even close to covering these guys, so that that could

be a problem. I mean, if you could protect on the flip side of that for the Eagles, though, Peter's not play means that Andre Dillard, who was a first round pick for them, very talented tackle, will make that start. But you watch him play in games, he's not ready to start. And you know he's a first round player. You know here you're thinking about, oh, he's a first round he should be contributing, but you watch him play. He gives a on a ground. It's like he cannot

sit down on somebody. So can they take advantage of that? Last week we talked about, oh, multiple sacks from the Jets. They have problems. Can they take advantage of a situation with a tackle that's not in that game, being Jason Peters. Can they take advantage of Andre Dillard? You know, this team, as banged up as the Cowboys are, they just need their good players to start playing better, the players that they rely on. You know, they need they need more,

a little bit more from Robert Quinn. I know he's showing some stuff. They need some more from Lawrence. You know, they need more from Elite Collins. They need more from Michael Gallup. I went on that big rant. But this is how you're going to win this game. This is how you're going to find a way to win this game. Is banged up as you are, your good players are going to have to play better than they're good players

because you're really in the same boat. Boat teams are in the same boat injury wise, injury wise, poor starts to games. They're very similar record, obvious place. Yeah, yea, so last year, didn't they have trouble at tackle and they used ye ty Bye Tie was a guy yesterday?

Not use him instead of Dillard or well Dillard. Dillard was the guy that they brought in against Minnesota, and and and and kind of hearing a buzz coming out of Philadelphia is that that Peters is not going to play and that Dillard is going to get the start. That hurt That hurts Philly upfront for sure. Yeah, when you're watching back the Cowboys pass rush and when we talked about it, Sam Darnold got hit twice in that game, sacked once, um twice? Was he sacked twice both on

Robert Quinn rap and both hits by Quinn too? Boy? Yeah? Are both those edge rushers getting doubled a lot? Is? Are there some single opportunities there? Some single some single opportunities there? They just not winning? You know, I think with I watched Lawrence. Lawrence has always been so good at gaining ground, gaining a corner and then been able to kind of hand get rid of a blocker's hands,

dip and get inside. You know, he's he's one of those I haven't seen him with that combination of rush. It's you know the times where he's been close, he's been low and he got the penalty one time. What game was that was at the New Orleans game that he got the call for the roughing the passer for going low? Or was that the Green Bay game? I

think it was news. See that's when when when Lawrence is good, he's playing in balance and he's using technique, and it seems like to me he just when he's got these one on ones, he hasn't had the technique that we've seen from him the past, where it's an explosive first step, get rid of the blockers hands, get him off balance, and then capture the quarterback. Hasn't had that kind of consistency on the down after down that he needs from that, you know, but he hasn't really

had any help inside there. You know, MALIEK. Collins, who we were talking about, MALIEK. Collins, He's gonna come on, he's gonna do this a three technique that he just hasn't played well enough to help. And then Quinn has done the best he could. I think. I think if you asked, if you said, hey, Robert Quinn's gonna come in here and give you six sacks in four games, I think you would be just like, what sounds pretty good? Sounds pretty damn good to me. He's probably earning a

bonus with one more. I think, No, absolutely, so you know, if he you know, if you could get continue to get him to play the way he has. But they need also these linebackers to play better too. These are the good players I'm talking about, the Jalen Smiths, the Layton Vanders, just the Sean Lees, the Joe Thomas's. These are guys that are good players. They're gonna need more from them, and we've seen it in the past. We've

seen a Shawn Lee play against the Philadelphiagls. We've seen a Layton vanderss a swing pass out to the flat and on third down and he makes a tackle to knock him out of field goal range to make him have to punt in that game last year. They need those types of plays in this game. If they're gonna be down to Maury Cooper and Tyrn Smith and all that, they're gonna need some of these guys to step up and play bigger than they have these last three weeks.

You know, Rob, To answer your question, I don't know if this is indicative of what happened in the game against the Jets, but on that ninety two yard pass, they doubled Quinn and they kept the tight end to that side. They doubled Collins and they singled block Connor William I mean um Woods which you would imagine right first down, your nice tackles, probably not going to get

double team. And they singled DeMarcus Lawrence and he got run past the quarter he was getting there, and because there was nothing in the middle, Donald just stepped up. That's right, and he went right past good. That's good. So that's that's the way they thought they were going to block. And they and they kept five six guys in, right, they kept the tight end in, they max protect and as a matter of fact, the running back stayed in too. Yeah,

probably what you could see from the Cowboys too. You know, people are asking me to have to happen, right, Yeah, you got. You gotta acknowledge that you got. If if indeed it happens to back up tacks or even if say Leal Collins plays not playing at one hundred percent, he might need some help. So you're gonna have to do some of those things to help those guys out. When people keep asking about how many plays Jason Witten played or whatever, well, yeah, because they went too tight

end right quite a bit. Try to help. They're trying to help. I heard that this morning, you know that driving in one five three, that was kind of their narrative, Well Witton continues to take more reps. Well Witton continues to take more reps because they're trying to help these tackles if they can. You know, there's situations where they have they've been getting a lot of twelve personnel on first downs and that's going to be a lot of But to Micky's point, I think you have to. You know,

people say, well, where's Devin Smith been, where's that long pass? Well, that was three man rush. Keep everybody in, max protect, and that's how you get the ball off. And that's exactly what you're gonna probably see in this game. You're going to see them max protect and try and get that ball down the field. If the Eagles proved that they cannot consistently cover that, and then you just got

to catch the ball. You go catch. They can't go through a wide open Uh Michael Gallup's hands three times, as he said himself, No, you had three other drops too, if you if you look at it. So that's six drop passes in a game that can't happen. And people want to know, well, why are they off their slow start? Are they not prepared? We' well, okay, I'm sure they probably practice catching the ball last week, you know, just

catch it. So you can do all that stuff, but you got to be able to come through when it counts. You know, the run blocking and maybe it was a bad call on fourth and two. Uh, you know, come up with something different. But your your two tackles missed their blocks, yeah, so badly. And when you get brought down from the back side, you know that's bad. Yeah, so yeah, you got to execute. It's it's not about preparation. See, everybody's just looking for an excuse without looking at facts,

you know, and just look at the facts. Just watch it, see it. Don't don't just buy into stuff. Fine line with this offense, fine line with how they are when it comes to not having all their players, you know, and not using that as an excuse. But it's a very fine line because the difference between moving the change might be a Michael Gallup curl that's caught for thirteen yards that gets you inside the red zone and get you a fresh set of downs, or having to kick

a field goal. Fine line is to your wide receiver lining up incorrectly, running around and getting fifteen yards. Now you've now it's basically a twenty twenty yard loss, five yards for the penalty and fifteen yards for the for the play you didn't get. It's a very fine line. This team cannot afford holding penalties. They cannot afford to line up wrong. They can't afford drops. They cannot afford drops at all, because again that puts them in some

bad down to distance situations. Margin for error drops a lot. Absolutely. Zeke lamented the run he had in the first series. Get outside, get outside, he had Travis. It's he Zach Martin block and well inside, just pop that thing to the outside. He'll admitted he saw it wrong. He cut back in. You know, if you get out there and get in space, get going, you know you can do it. You see it before. Darn it. Why did you just

gain twelve yards? Yeah? How do you see the running game matchup for the Cowboys against this Philly front Because to you, guys, point, if they do have one or more backup tackles in the game, you're trying to do some things to help your down in distance. And this is always a game they fight for inches. It's in the running game. I'm gonna give you a mix shot. Sure. Last year, ye first game Zeke nineteen carries one hundred

and fifty one yards and a touchdown. There you go, six catches for thirty six that's twenty five touches for one hundred and eighty seven. Second game, Z twenty eight for one thirteen in overtime, twelve catches for seventy nine yards. That's forty touches for one hundred and ninety two. So you're gonna get criticized if you use Zeke in this game. Yeah, if if my math that's I'm never criticizing for using

Zeke I do. If my math is correct, that's sixty five touches in two games or three hundred and seventy nine yards. Yeah. And then having said that, Kirk Cousins through for three thirty three. Well, see the thing about it is too. This is where I think when and I think Mickey correct me if I'm wrong. They were full strength offensive line in both I think I think that everybody was playing it needed play where they could take advantage. And I went back and watched the game

last year. Mickey's right with all his numbers, But what they did, they did some creative things as far as old school creative, old school trap plays you get Fletcher Cox to come up the field, you trap him it with Sue Field. Next thing, you know, the things up inside. You know they got hats on hats, They got Martin inside on the linebacker. Now the ball's going straight ahead, you know, you got some space right there. They were able to They were able to pop some runs on them,

just for some like some quick hitting type play. The Eagles want to get up the field. They're very much like the Cowboys, and they want to get up. They want to attack gaps. You have to take advantage of them getting up to feel and then getting bodies on their second level guys. So you give Elliott the chance to have the success that Mickey was just talking about.

You know, if you look at Phillies run defense, I know everybody's saying their second against the run, and but yeah, there's they're also twenty ninth against the past one hundred and eighty yards given up. That's been how teams, how many sacks they have? Don't have that. I didn't ask something, No, actually I didn't. I didn't. I didn't mean to ask something that that. You know, but I can say if you could hold up, if you can hold up with your protests only you mean that sacks that the defense

same as the Cowboys. There you go. Do you feel like the Cowboys pass rush has been all that great? No, it needs to be better. It needs to be better. See that's to me, this is this is a pretty too evenly matched teams. It's it comes down to, in my opinion, those fine line plays we talk about, are you going to make receptions on third and six and keep moving the chains or you're gonna have to kick

a fifty yard field goal? Exactly, That's why. And to make Key's point where it's like, what's wrong with these slow starts? Who's to blame? Are they not prepared? You? Really this is boring. Okay, it's boring, but you have to go back and watch each drive and see a handful of plays that have contributed to stopping the drive, No question, that's looking at it from a logical standpoint. It's not as fun to just point the finger at the play caller or the quarterback coach or the head coach.

But that's that's really what's happened here. And some of these are very makeable plays that they just haven't made. Just the facts, ma'am. Yeah, pretty much check Webb, check Webb. Are you a dragnet? I don't think I know that quote. I don't know the name of that man. Yeah it is Bill Gate Was it Bill Gannon? In characters names Mickey Bill Gannon in uh, Sergeant and Friday, Sergeant Friday. There you go, Bill Gannon and Sergeant Friday. You can always count on you guys for a good to tend

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of lock into that each week. Mey too, mean too carried away with what's going on in this game the other day. Made chicken and dumplings last week for the crew up here instead of locked into play app. What's the plan? Uh, well, I guess it's not gonna have what's the plan this week? Yeah? I know, I think we're I think we're ordering out this week. Yeah, we're gonna order something from the start. That's good? Yeah, good? All right? What are you getting? The usual spread inside

the press box? Can't go wrong. Yeah, the mac and cheese carvings, carving station. It's the best, best in the league, right up there with the Jets. Right, it's not bad, but it's not a D and T. Yeah, no doubt about it. All right, one meek ball. Okay, there you go, just one Welcome back to the Cowboys inside the SWVC Morgan studio breaking down some Cowboys and Eagles. Let's grab a phone call first, one of the day, Tony from Denver.

You're up first, start us off. Hey guys, A longtime fan of you guys, Thank you, and I have a comment and a question. The comment I have is Connor Williams. It seems like every game I see number fifty two getting blown up, and you know, luckily or by fortune, we've seen Suicilo start because of his injury against such

a Cox and Agers. But my question is is it because of the pride of the organization of him being drafted a second round and they have to feel like they start the guy or is it something deeper than that. I know, um, Connor Williams is more athletic than Suicilou. And then my question is for uh, long time fan, um all the great quarterbacks to the Cowboys, Rogers, the Dodger, Danny White, Troy Aikman, and Tony Romo. Um, it seems like Danny White never gets the respect of having his

name mentioned with the other quarterbacks. Is there a reason why? And that's it, yank you, And that's a good point. And the obvious reason why is you never got the team to the super Bowl. That's it. You went to three consecutive NFC Title games and he doesn't get credit for that. And he doesn't get credit for a team that was changing. Yeah, a lot of those guys retired

after the seventy nine season. I think Raphael Wrights year. Yeah. Um, you had other guys retire after, you know, seventy nine, and you didn't uh you know, it wasn't quite the same team, uh, on the on the offensive line and on the defensive line. But yet he got him to those games. No one wanted to play if I remember correctly, and Brian was probably watching it, that eight NFC Title game that was cold in Philadelphia. No one did anything. The catch changed the whole narrative of the history of

two franchises. They were that close to going to the Super Bowl and him leading to the super Bowl. And then eighty two was just a weird season because it strikes season. They had a tournament and they went to the title game against the Redskins right right, got beat. So that's what happened to Danny White, guarantee you. And then the strikes got in the way of him. He

was kind of pro franchise. The players didn't like that, and the whole thing got screwed up in eighty four when Tom decided to start Hooga Boom, which he took that back halfway through the season when the offense wasn't working, and then they had the number one offense in the league and at the halfway point in eighty six, then he breaks his risk. Yeah, so that's what happened there. You know. I had a question for him on Connor Williams. How many times do you see him getting blown up?

Because if it happens once out of sixty five plays and twice, yeah, that's that's kind of I was also going that Sue of Philo was no bargain at the end of the season last year. Yeah. I think the more that Sue of Filo played, the worse he got, you know. And I think Connor Williams, if you remember he came back in he wasn't the problem in the playoff game actually against Aaron Donald. He wasn't terrible in that game. Zach Martin was banged up, beat up the ankle of the knee and all that, and he had

trouble with the Dominicans sue that game. It was a big problem inside. But we always talk about great these guys, you know, their day. I think they ran almost eighty plays, and you know, you have to grade him on that type of of you know, thinking they're going to have one or two bad plays. Yeah, he gave up a big hit, he missed a twist, but again, it's one play that happens to you in the game, and you know, I think that's you know, he's his Is there things

he doesn't do well? Absolutely, there's things he doesn't do well. I think he doesn't he's not as patient as he needs to be at times. I think he needs to take a page out Alla Collins book. Allle Collins has learned how to be patient and not get over extended

and not cause himself problems. But yeah, I think with Connor, if you said who's going to make more consistent use of sixty five plays, I think Connor Williams makes better use of sixty five plays than Xavier Sewell, Philo, does you know now maybe you know if someone can say, well, what about Joe Looney? Then Brian, what about Adam Redman? Brian, well what about you know, what about somebody else playing over there? Well, that's you know, that's something they haven't

gone into. They've they've they've they've looked at Connor Williams and they feel like that he gives them the best chance to have success on offense. And we've gotten questions too about best five and with these injuries, should they move Connor to tackle and fill in with some of those other guys you mentioned. I think it's one thing to have your best five when you're in camp and you're trying to set your lineup, and it's another thing to change out three different positions in the middle of

the season on a given week. And that's they're trying to keep it as as continued as they can. It was seventy it was seventy five plays last Okay, I knew, Yeah, that's a lot, right. Yeah. And here's another thing, and this got lost in the shuffle. They had three hundred ninety eight yards total offense. Sure, so it wasn't like they were bad. The whole game. Yeah, they did. Like Brian said, there was a play here, a play there,

you don't execute and then you're not scoring. Yeah, but they moved the football, you know, and this whole thing about not being prepared and then the second half you come out and you should have outscored them twenty to three. Yeah. So in ten minutes at halftime, did you suddenly get them prepared where you didn't for five days during the week. Yeah, don't buy into the perception. Look at the facts, go back and look at the game, look at the play

by play and see what happened. Yeah, they moved the football, it didn't score. The unfortunate thing is they had that great drive at the end of the start the half and then we get three points out of it. Yeah. That that that's killer to take that much time, Give your defense a blow, let them make their adjustments over there, give them a little bit more rest coming out of half, and keep your running back, keep you exactly, keep things going in and you know they just fine line. That's

what it is. It's just a it's a really fine line with this team. Where did that that that that ended at the the fourteen yard line, right, So you drive all the way downfield. And that's just like the other two games they lost. You got first and ten at the eleven in both of them, and you kicked the field goal. Yeah, just like Jason Witten said on the sideline and the micd up there. Oh gosh, what with some four letter words. Field goals aren't going to

win this football game today. Yeah, I'm gonna say this is calmly. It was great. Can you get back and watch this, Mickey Witton? Uh No, Smart comes and sideline sits down and he goes, I'm gonna say this as calmly as I can. And then he immediately dropped an f bottom on that Smart and it's like, no, Spart knew what was coming, you know, he just he took his pad. He was kind of like, you know, looking, okay, got I got. I think he believes in my philosophy,

more field goals. As you kicked the closer, you're out of loose. Absolutely got to score touchdown, especially with this kicker he's never misses. Yeah, that's the problem you run into here, all right. Chris from Indiana, you're up next on Talking Cowboys. I go fellas good Chris. Thanks, Um.

A couple of things I've noticed. Um, when you look at the first three games, the first three wins, and sure you go back and look at the last three, have you guys noticed on the play action the first three as soon as Dak does the play action, as soon as he sets that backfoot, the ball is gone. Now he sets the back foot, but he's balancing and he was looking, and he's looking, So that's kind of setting them up for if no one's open for that

pass for us to get to them. I just think offensively, they just need to not so much have Max protect all the time, but have quicker passes or quicker run plays. Get those guys out in space. Wide receiver screens, running back screens, tight end screens. Just get them out in space to let them do things instead of sitting back there waiting for a fifteen yard route to come open, or twenty yard route or even a ten yard route to come open. Just kind of speed the game up

that way. That way, you're not having Dack sit out there like a sitting duck to get hammered all the time. Okay, Chris, thanks for the call. I saw one screen in the game last week, but I thought in the second half, especially they were getting the ball out trying to beat

that blitz. I think Mickey's favorite people that cover the NFL, Pro Football Focus had it as Mick am right with you, by the way, on that one, the Pro Football Focus said that that his the ball getting out of his hand was the fastest that it had been that they tried.

And so, yeah, I think that to me, it's if if you're throwing the ball, there's a difference throwing the ball to Cedric Wilson and throwing the ball to Bryant and throwing the ball to table on Austin than it is throwing the ball to Cooper and a Cob and those guys. You know that that there, there's that you see bouncing because you're thinking, okay, get open, get open, get open, I know, and then now you're in a

little bit of a bind. But but if you but if you've trust that Pro Football Focus group or those those people that do those those stats, they will tell you that the ball was coming out of his hand quicker this game than any of the other games they've had, you know, and with with the Eagles being so aggressive offensively, yeah, maybe those screen passes are are a good idea in this game. See, it's a lot to do with the matchups. It's who you're playing. You know, it's not always okay,

we're gonna do this all the time. It's like, you know when you get Jarwin in the slot sometimes right, Well, what they're trying to do is get a matchup and they're saying, Okay, that linebacker can't run with him, right, you can take advantages. But some teams they would have a linebacker can run with him, or a safety like Jamal Adams can run with them. Yeah, So then it's like, well, there's no sense running that play. We got to do

something different. So matchups matter. No, No, He's absolutely right. And this is and you got to watch Philadelphia on there, and they'll find a way to get Miles Sanders out in space against your linebacker. Did it a couple of different times against Minnesota last week. And if they feel like you're playing a lot of man coverage, they will pick that. Philadelphia is one of the better pick teams in the league. They've got guys that understand how to

run inside and get in the way. So it would be interesting to see if these officials in fact make calls like we saw in the goal line against Cedric Wilson when all of a sudden, all Sean Jeffries is running inside and now you've got a back coming behind him, you know, so keep an eye on that kind of stuff.

But yeah, Mickey's right about these matchups. This is where again we keep talking about and you asked the question yesterday, where's Tony Pollard been, you know, with with with it banged up at receiver, Maybe this is an opportunity to say, Okay, let's see if we put Tony Pollard out there, how you're gonna cover him. You're gonna walk a linebacker out there. Okay, we'll take that. We'll take that, we'll take that. But you put a corner on him. Okay, that means you're

putting a safety somewhere else or a linebacker somewhere else. Yeah, well, okay, now we'll find out where you're you're you're moving that guy too, And that's that's that's what the chess matches and this is going to be in this football game is if you use Elliott and Pollard in the backfield the same time. And I'm not just talking about twice. I'm talking about if you do this eight, nine, ten times, see where Philadelphia is at, See where there are about

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There you go, all right? Quick update from practice from Dave Hellman not practicing right now, Randall Cobb, Amari Cooper, Byron Jones, Anthony Brown. Also we mentioned Zack Martin Mickey did earlier in the show. He sure did, He sure did. He's not out there, and Joe Looney's also not out there. However, Tyron Smith and Lyle Collins are at least doing some O line drills right now. Okay, so progress progress, because last week there wasn't progress. Week I was with Mickey,

I thought that Tyren Smith was further along. They must have had a setback along the way. Something must have happened because they tried to work him out. You got were at that game. Try to see him in pregame. He was limping. I heard from reading your reports and stuff like that. So, uh, you know, that's a good sign. I mean, I think now now Friday becomes the big watch day of all those guys that you listed, right, you know, Okay, what can Collins do? What can Smith do?

What can Cobb do? You know? I mean, hey, the more of those players you can get back. Of course, captain obvious here telling you that. But man, if you if you can get one offensive lineman back, that would be huge. You know, it probably would be Collins, but boy, that would be a big, big difference if you could could kind of kind of just get one more player back in there on that and on that line, you know.

And it's it's a shame, out of sight, out of mind because it's not on the injury report because he's on injury reserve. But no Tyrone Crawford either, and they got a compensate for that loss too, and he was struggling through it anyway, so I don't know much of an impact he was making, and he knew it. But again, um, you know, just the shame. But here we go with having to fill in there, and I would imagine Tristan

hills up. I can't imagine Justin Hamilton will know enough to be able to do something unless they just need a body. Well there. You know, if you look at if you're thinking about Crawford, you're thinking about him as a three tech, right and Hamilton's and Hamilton's a one. Yeah. I skying reports up on Dallas Cowboys dot com, so hopefully folks will go to that and kind of check

it out. The good and the bad. Felt like though, when you watch me Kansas City in preseason early in the thing, he looks sloppy and wasn't really in good shape and wasn't his active. By the time they got to the San Francisco game later in preseason, he was a much better player. And he's played with the Eagles, not that he's going to know anything. He was on a Super Bowl team there, but he's played some NFL games. He is a big body. He's a three hundred and

fifteen pound guy. Like I said, the agility was better towards the end of training camp. Now you worry about him being gone for seven weeks. You know, Jason Garrett said he did some good things out there, so it's going to take a little little time to probably get him acclimated again. With all these guys that we've mentioned that are banged up. They're all vets. I think ed Warder asked this in the in the press conference. Good question.

Do you need these guys to practice? I mean, can you rely on them to just be ready to go? If if like a tyrant doesn't practice a lot this week, but it warms up, okay Sunday. Long as long as you keep them active and you're gonna play them, and then they don't bail on you. That's that's exactly where I was going, because then you have you got to look at that forty six man game day roster. You cannot dress forty six guys and have only forty two of them playing. That that is that is a disaster.

So yeah, they've got to If if they you know, Britt Brown and those guys do a great job of knowing their team. And you know, Mary Cooper is a tough guy, and I'm sure that they I'm sure he convinced them that no, I can go, I can go. And then next thing you know, he's standing over there next to Mickey at the game. You know that's not good. So if they if these guys like Byron Jones and I mean, this game is going to come down too

it's gonna be a war. And I don't mean a war in a you know I mean, you know what I mean. And the football Think about last year the game, it was a six point game in overtime right there, and the first game was a seven point game. These games are always been tough, too, very evenly matched football teams, both teams badly needing a win, three and three first place on the line. We'll be back Friday to wrap things up with Bill. Thanks for listening, and we'll see

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