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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
- 0:05Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club cows this these Cowboys
- 0:13Speaker 1: storylines with Nick Eatman.
- 0:20Speaker 2: What has happened is Cowboys storyline And I'm Nick Eatman
- 0:24Speaker 2: and I'm here with nobody once again. I was on
- 0:28Speaker 2: a Cowboys break this morning. Was nice to be back
- 0:30Speaker 2: for a little bit, had some guys to talk to.
- 0:32Speaker 2: But nope, this is the show and it is the storyline.
- 0:36Speaker 2: And man, do we have a storyline. I'm supposed to
- 0:39Speaker 2: be able to talk all about the game two days
- 0:41Speaker 2: removed from our first game. That's what we were gonna
- 0:43Speaker 2: chat about until Zach Martin, the number one storyline of camp.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Looks like he will be back with the team right
- 0:53Speaker 2: now as we as we're here talking that they're finalizing
- 0:57Speaker 2: a deal, agreeing to mention that will pay him about
- 1:01Speaker 2: eight and a half million over the next two years guaranteed.
- 1:04Speaker 2: So he was, from from what I've gathered here, was
- 1:08Speaker 2: making about thirteen a year. Now he's up to about
- 1:10Speaker 2: eighteen a year for the next two years. So that
- 1:16Speaker 2: is putting him in in the in the talk of
- 1:19Speaker 2: obviously one of the highest paid guards in the league.
- 1:22Speaker 2: He's obviously, in my opinion, the best guard in the league.
- 1:25Speaker 2: But you know, contracts aren't always about just who's the
- 1:28Speaker 2: best right now.
- 1:28Speaker 3: It's always it's about projection.
- 1:31Speaker 2: And and potential and and and down the road. And
- 1:35Speaker 2: so that's when you're talking with a thirty three year
- 1:37Speaker 2: old guard. You gotta kinta figure all that kind of
- 1:39Speaker 2: stuff out. But you know, I think the game mattered.
- 1:43Speaker 2: I mean, offensive line wasn't good, it wasn't good in
- 1:47Speaker 2: the first half, and and yeah it was set backups
- 1:49Speaker 2: going up against the second team. I'm go first team
- 1:52Speaker 2: for the Jaguars, But that happens in the games. I mean,
- 1:55Speaker 2: some of these guys, if you get hurt, you got
- 1:57Speaker 2: to play in the game. And I think I think
- 1:58Speaker 2: that a factored in. I really do think that if
- 2:01Speaker 2: factored into this. And you know, Cowboys are gonna give Zach.
- 2:07Speaker 2: I think I think what he wants. I mean, we'll
- 2:09Speaker 2: see when he comes in here and if he talks
- 2:11Speaker 2: to the media in the next few days. But you know,
- 2:14Speaker 2: this is this is I think everyone feels much better
- 2:16Speaker 2: about this situation now and and you know, it's.
- 2:19Speaker 3: It's kind of what holdouts, that's.
- 2:21Speaker 2: What happens you know, you you you wait and see,
- 2:24Speaker 2: you know what, at the situation changes, and maybe he
- 2:26Speaker 2: wanted more than what the Cowboys did. Who knows what
- 2:29Speaker 2: the negotiations are. It's just all I know is that
- 2:31Speaker 2: it looks like Zach Martin will be in camp as
- 2:35Speaker 2: of Monday night. He'll he'll probably be out on the
- 2:38Speaker 2: field in some capacity on Tuesday. And you know that's
- 2:43Speaker 2: training camp can can officially get underway. As Nate Newton said,
- 2:46Speaker 2: I talked to Nate and he's, you know, big, big
- 2:48Speaker 2: offensive lineman, you know the guard talk. He was like, now,
- 2:51Speaker 2: training camp can can start. And so of course you
- 2:55Speaker 2: ask some of these other guys that have been grinded
- 2:57Speaker 2: for a while. I betued the training camp has been
- 2:59Speaker 2: going for a while. But uh that's the big news, man,
- 3:02Speaker 2: big news to get Zach Martin back here and and
- 3:06Speaker 2: and hopefully happy and and and excited about uh this
- 3:10Speaker 2: next season. I think he's he's the best, uh, you know,
- 3:13Speaker 2: offensive lineman I think in the league. I think he's
- 3:16Speaker 2: one of the two best offensive linemen in Cowboys history,
- 3:20Speaker 2: along with Larry Allen. I believe that that's where Zach
- 3:23Speaker 2: Martin is. I think he's a future Hall of Famer.
- 3:26Speaker 2: I'm not breaking news there, certainly Ring of honor type guy,
- 3:30Speaker 2: and you know it just it been more than anything,
- 3:33Speaker 2: a leader, leader on your team, leader in your locker room.
- 3:36Speaker 2: And and I don't think that that this situation will
- 3:40Speaker 2: affect his his legacy or anything like that. I think that,
- 3:45Speaker 2: you know, it's a business. It always has been. Some
- 3:47Speaker 2: of the greatest players in Cowboys history have been cut.
- 3:50Speaker 2: Uh you know, the Troy Aikman's and EMMITTT. Smith's and
- 3:53Speaker 2: Deon Sanders, those guys were cut. You know, So it's
- 3:56Speaker 2: a business at the end of the day. And Zach
- 3:57Speaker 2: Martin felt like he had to take care of his
- 3:59Speaker 2: big as well. So, uh, apply, I could always see
- 4:04Speaker 2: both sides of this, and and so I'm glad that
- 4:08Speaker 2: that looks like the two sides are resolved. So so
- 4:12Speaker 2: that that's the big storyline. Hard to top that that
- 4:15Speaker 2: they did have a game against Jacksonville. We can go
- 4:18Speaker 2: through some of the you know, the main things that
- 4:21Speaker 2: happened there.
- 4:22Speaker 3: I wrote a column about it.
- 4:23Speaker 2: I thought Deuce Vaughan was everything we thought he'd be
- 4:27Speaker 2: and and and more. You know, he's a he's a
- 4:30Speaker 2: running back. That that's that's going to get screen passes,
- 4:33Speaker 2: and he's gonna get the ball and right in between
- 4:35Speaker 2: the tackles, and he's gonna go over the middle and
- 4:37Speaker 2: make catches and jump up in the air.
- 4:39Speaker 3: And he did all that.
- 4:40Speaker 2: I mean, I he's it's gonna be interesting now to
- 4:43Speaker 2: see what the Cowboys do with him. I guess I
- 4:46Speaker 2: can take my badge off here here on the show.
- 4:49Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be a guy that you I
- 4:54Speaker 2: think they play him some against Seattle, but I would
- 4:56Speaker 2: play him early. I would I'd get him out there.
- 4:59Speaker 2: I want to see what he can do against the
- 5:00Speaker 2: best competition, with the best blockers. We saw what he
- 5:02Speaker 2: can do in the second half of a game. We'll
- 5:04Speaker 2: see what he can do in the first half. I
- 5:06Speaker 2: don't see him doing a whole lot more after that.
- 5:08Speaker 2: I think he's made the team.
- 5:10Speaker 3: He's just too dynamic of an offensive player not to
- 5:13Speaker 3: have somewhere on your football team. I think you know when.
- 5:17Speaker 2: It's one game, but you know, he he There's no
- 5:21Speaker 2: way he should have lasted as long as he did
- 5:23Speaker 2: in the draft because because you know, I say this
- 5:25Speaker 2: all the time, college football is not that different than
- 5:27Speaker 2: pro It really isn't. It's the same game. It's one
- 5:30Speaker 2: hundred yards, they fifty three yards wide. I mean, they
- 5:34Speaker 2: keep score the same. If you're an All American player
- 5:37Speaker 2: in college, there's probably a spot for.
- 5:39Speaker 3: You in the NFL.
- 5:41Speaker 2: And you know, we get caught up in measurables and
- 5:44Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. And again, I understand it's
- 5:46Speaker 2: one game. I'm not saying this guy is going to
- 5:49Speaker 2: be the next Emmitt Smith, Barry Sanders, even the next
- 5:53Speaker 2: Darren Sprolls. All I'm saying is is there's a spot
- 5:56Speaker 2: for playmakers on this team. You saw them lose to
- 5:59Speaker 2: the forty nine in the playoffs because they didn't have
- 6:01Speaker 2: any playmakers. And what it looks like is a guy
- 6:05Speaker 2: that made plays in college his whole life. He's made plays.
- 6:08Speaker 2: He plays his first game, made plays. He's guy's making
- 6:12Speaker 2: the team. That's all I'm gonna say about that.
- 6:14Speaker 3: All Right? Who else played well? Uh?
- 6:17Speaker 2: Jalen Tolbert really nice seeing what he did. I was
- 6:21Speaker 2: really impressed with his game. The offensive pass interference I
- 6:24Speaker 2: thought was bogus. I don't really care about the call.
- 6:27Speaker 2: It's a preseason doesn't matter. He went up and got
- 6:30Speaker 2: the football. You want him to show some dog in him.
- 6:32Speaker 3: Well he did.
- 6:32Speaker 2: He went and got the ball. You know, it doesn't matter.
- 6:36Speaker 2: They went and scored on that anyways, and he scored
- 6:38Speaker 2: the touchdown, so he got a touchdown out of it.
- 6:40Speaker 2: I thought he played really well in the game. Dennis
- 6:43Speaker 2: Houston did a nice job. It's kind of what he
- 6:44Speaker 2: does preseason training camp. Dennis Houston will do his thing.
- 6:48Speaker 2: So let's see if you know how that translates. I
- 6:50Speaker 2: thought Cavante Turpin took a step back, you know, not
- 6:54Speaker 2: only with the fumble on the on the kick on
- 6:56Speaker 2: the punverturn, but had some had some issues there, dropped
- 6:59Speaker 2: the ball. It sounds like there were some alignment issues
- 7:02Speaker 2: for him, so you know, when you're trying to clarify, okay,
- 7:06Speaker 2: who's the fourth receiver, fifth receiver, things like that. I
- 7:10Speaker 2: thought Tolber did a nice job of separating himself into
- 7:13Speaker 2: the pack there defense. I thought that, you know, the
- 7:19Speaker 2: depth really showed the defense just trotting out. I mean,
- 7:23Speaker 2: you can't keep everyone out of the game, so you
- 7:26Speaker 2: had good players out there playing on defense as backups,
- 7:29Speaker 2: and they they did a good job. I mean Sam
- 7:32Speaker 2: Williams and and Dante Fowler and Damone Clark, who's not
- 7:35Speaker 2: really a backup. I think he's a starter. And we're
- 7:37Speaker 2: gonna talk with Damone Clark actually later uh here on
- 7:40Speaker 2: the on our next break, We're gonna bring u Damon
- 7:42Speaker 2: up here and chat with him. So I'm excited to
- 7:45Speaker 2: talk to him. But you know, I just thought the
- 7:46Speaker 2: depth on defense really showed that. That's that's impressive to see.
- 7:50Speaker 2: And then on on special teams. You know, kickers is
- 7:55Speaker 2: a big deal here. Brandon Aubrey is getting the reps.
- 7:59Speaker 2: You know, a couple of kicks missed an extra point,
- 8:02Speaker 2: didn't look good with that. Kickoffs were good, strong out
- 8:07Speaker 2: of the back of the end zone. I'm not comfortable
- 8:10Speaker 2: with the kicker situation. I'm just not I'm not comfortable
- 8:12Speaker 2: with the guy that didn't do it in college at all.
- 8:14Speaker 2: He's a soccer player, he's done it a little bit
- 8:16Speaker 2: in the USFL. I'm just this is too good of
- 8:20Speaker 2: a football team. I think to take a chance on that.
- 8:24Speaker 2: It's fine to let this guy try and see, but
- 8:28Speaker 2: I think he's gonna have to be absolutely perfect. I
- 8:31Speaker 2: want to see him in Seattle, you know, good environment
- 8:34Speaker 2: there on the road. Maybe make a forty fifty yarder
- 8:38Speaker 2: field goal. I'd like to see that, but I think
- 8:43Speaker 2: at the end of the day, I mean, I would
- 8:44Speaker 2: lean towards the.
- 8:45Speaker 3: Veteran, I really do.
- 8:46Speaker 2: But but you got to give this guy all the
- 8:47Speaker 2: opportunities to see if he can impress you. But you know,
- 8:51Speaker 2: this is a good football team and you've got to
- 8:53Speaker 2: have some confidence in your kicker, and I don't know
- 8:57Speaker 2: if the Cowboys really have it right now, but again,
- 8:59Speaker 2: that's one pretty she's in game, and we'll see what
- 9:01Speaker 2: happens in the next next couple But overall, the best
- 9:05Speaker 2: thing that happened in the game was the fact that
- 9:07Speaker 2: they interviewed Mike McCarthy and he said, you know, injuries
- 9:10Speaker 2: are minor to Malik Jefferson, minor to nashn Wright junior
- 9:14Speaker 2: for Joko should be back. That's pretty you know, that's
- 9:17Speaker 2: a good thing on a preseason game. Number one, no
- 9:20Speaker 2: real injuries. You got the individuals that did well, and
- 9:23Speaker 2: you know that's that's that's that. So I thought that,
- 9:26Speaker 2: you know, overall, week one out of the shoot, pretty
- 9:28Speaker 2: good for the Cowboys. And obviously they get here Monday
- 9:32Speaker 2: and come to find out that they've now gonna have
- 9:35Speaker 2: Zach Martin in training camp and he'll be here for
- 9:38Speaker 2: the last week and should be ready to go obviously
- 9:41Speaker 2: when it matters the most against the giants.
- 9:43Speaker 3: All right, so that's pretty good story lines for you.
- 9:46Speaker 2: We are gonna take a break when we come back
- 9:47Speaker 2: to Monk Clark's gonna join us, and we're gonna answer
- 9:49Speaker 2: your questions later on in the show.
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- 11:52Speaker 2: The Cowboys storylines, Welcome back Cowboys storyline and as promised,
- 12:03Speaker 2: we've got Damon Clark, Cowboys second year linebacker with us
- 12:07Speaker 2: and one of the guys that a lot of people
- 12:09Speaker 2: are talking about. From the game on Saturday. You didn't
- 12:12Speaker 2: play a ton, but when you did, you were flying
- 12:14Speaker 2: around out there. How did it feel for you to
- 12:16Speaker 2: be out there and play again?
- 12:17Speaker 8: I mean in felt good been out there, just going
- 12:19Speaker 8: back thinking about my time last year, not being able
- 12:22Speaker 8: to have an off season, not being able to you know,
- 12:25Speaker 8: just participate with the guys and just getting thrown in
- 12:28Speaker 8: last year. I was excited, you know, go out there.
- 12:30Speaker 8: Just how fun playing the game I love to play.
- 12:32Speaker 2: So this was like this had to go back to
- 12:33Speaker 2: like high school scrimmage days because there's no preseason in college.
- 12:37Speaker 2: You didn't have a preseason last year. You never really
- 12:40Speaker 2: played games that don't really count. But I have a
- 12:43Speaker 2: feeling with your mentality, they all seem to kind of count.
- 12:46Speaker 8: I mean everything counts to me because obviously, like at
- 12:48Speaker 8: the end of the day, you want to put good
- 12:50Speaker 8: stuff on film and you are who you put on film,
- 12:52Speaker 8: So it meant something to me. You know it might
- 12:55Speaker 8: not men none tire record, but to me, it's another
- 12:57Speaker 8: game for me to go out there and play. I've
- 12:59Speaker 8: been playing for bos South years old, so I love.
- 13:01Speaker 8: I want to make it to the NFL. So every
- 13:03Speaker 8: chance I get to get on the field, preseason, regular season,
- 13:06Speaker 8: don't matter. I'm going to get my all.
- 13:08Speaker 3: What has been the big difference though, from last year
- 13:11Speaker 3: to this year, maybe from a conditioning standpoint, Do you
- 13:14Speaker 3: feel lighter, leaner, bigger, stronger. What's been a big difference.
- 13:18Speaker 8: I mean, I would say mentality, and I would say
- 13:22Speaker 8: just trusting myself. You know what I'm saying. That's the
- 13:25Speaker 8: only thing that's been different for me, you know, just
- 13:27Speaker 8: going out there and just trusting my keys, trusting that
- 13:29Speaker 8: the coach is gonna put us in the right position
- 13:31Speaker 8: to make the play.
- 13:32Speaker 2: I'm gonna take you back to last year. So and
- 13:34Speaker 2: when you got here, you were you were praised a
- 13:37Speaker 2: lot from your mentality of like, hey, I'm it doesn't
- 13:40Speaker 2: matter what people think, I'm gonna play. I'm gonna try
- 13:43Speaker 2: to play this year. Why do you think that was
- 13:45Speaker 2: different from maybe the Cowboys view of your injury. To
- 13:49Speaker 2: other people that thought maybe he wasn't gonna play it
- 13:51Speaker 2: all this year.
- 13:52Speaker 8: I mean, I just think people on the outside, you
- 13:54Speaker 8: know obviously you know, just the cowboys, so people gonna
- 13:59Speaker 8: you know, I always have something to say, so I
- 14:01Speaker 8: just yeah, it happens, you know. So my biggest thing
- 14:04Speaker 8: was just coming here controlling the things that I control.
- 14:06Speaker 8: You know, I had all the fate that I was
- 14:07Speaker 8: gonna play this year. You know, I have one fault,
- 14:10Speaker 8: and that's God. You know, I believe in God. God.
- 14:13Speaker 8: You know, he told me you're gonna play this year.
- 14:15Speaker 8: Be ready. You know what I'm saying. So I was
- 14:17Speaker 8: just like, bro, just stay ready, so you ain't have
- 14:19Speaker 8: to get ready.
- 14:20Speaker 2: It's like the second time we've heard for that line
- 14:22Speaker 2: here in this week.
- 14:25Speaker 3: Great great stuff.
- 14:26Speaker 2: Also, your fifth round class last year, I mean, Darn
- 14:30Speaker 2: Bland was one of the biggest, you know, surprises. You're
- 14:33Speaker 2: a pretty big surprise as well. Just like you said,
- 14:35Speaker 2: just to play. You feel like this class. What is
- 14:37Speaker 2: it about that year two jump?
- 14:39Speaker 3: You know what happens.
- 14:40Speaker 2: Year one you kind of get your feet wet, but
- 14:42Speaker 2: then year two you were able to make that leap.
- 14:45Speaker 2: Is there something is that more weight room? But what
- 14:46Speaker 2: do you think is the big difference there?
- 14:48Speaker 8: I mean to me, I think go back to the
- 14:50Speaker 8: mentality part, you know obviously, like the biggest thing for
- 14:53Speaker 8: me going from year one to year two is just
- 14:56Speaker 8: to take that jump, you know, be the best DeMont
- 14:58Speaker 8: Clark I can be, sa I can speak with DV two.
- 15:01Speaker 8: It's the same thing for all the second year guys.
- 15:03Speaker 8: You know, the biggest thing they want us to do
- 15:04Speaker 8: is take that second year of jump. You know, just
- 15:06Speaker 8: talking to a lot of the coaches, the second year
- 15:08Speaker 8: is when you can kind of fall off. You know.
- 15:11Speaker 8: Last year was a learning experience for us. Now it's
- 15:13Speaker 8: time to step up.
- 15:14Speaker 2: We got this is a this is a fans show too.
- 15:17Speaker 2: We get a lot of fans in engagement here. So
- 15:20Speaker 2: I've been able to tweet something out real quick. I
- 15:22Speaker 2: can get some some questions from the fans because they
- 15:24Speaker 2: seem to they know you pretty good here, like this
- 15:27Speaker 2: one from Mike Poland, which was your biggest highlight getting
- 15:30Speaker 2: the number eighteen jersey.
- 15:31Speaker 3: Or getting drafted. That's somebody that knows what they're talking
- 15:35Speaker 3: about it because they know the tradition at number If
- 15:39Speaker 3: you wear number eighteen, at LSU means you're you're a
- 15:42Speaker 3: baller both on and off the field.
- 15:44Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, I mean me personally, I would say I
- 15:47Speaker 8: would say getting drafted. You know. I mean, obviously the
- 15:50Speaker 8: number eighteen LSU, the history behind it, it means a lot.
- 15:53Speaker 8: But you know, I got eighteen just for being the
- 15:55Speaker 8: guy that I am, you know, the same guy that
- 15:57Speaker 8: I am today, you know. So I would say getting
- 15:59Speaker 8: drafted because there's a lot of guys who know play football.
- 16:01Speaker 8: I've been playing since I was five years old, and
- 16:03Speaker 8: we all dream of playing the NFL, and you were
- 16:06Speaker 8: all a part of that small percentage that get to
- 16:08Speaker 8: get a chance to play. So I would say getting drafted.
- 16:10Speaker 2: All right, this this question from Magneto, he wants to
- 16:13Speaker 2: get you in trouble. Basically, he says, ranked the Dallas
- 16:16Speaker 2: linebackers from fastest the slowest. You don't really have to
- 16:21Speaker 2: go all the way to the slowest. Maybe maybe the
- 16:23Speaker 2: top two or three. Who's the fastest linebackers on the team.
- 16:26Speaker 8: I mean, I'm fastest linebacker.
- 16:28Speaker 3: Okay, So then I guess it doesn't matter after that, No,
- 16:30Speaker 3: I don't you.
- 16:31Speaker 2: Saint Bolt never cared who finished second and third because
- 16:34Speaker 2: he was up there.
- 16:35Speaker 8: If you if you looked behind you, then you slowing down.
- 16:38Speaker 8: They're gonna catch you. Okay, I mean we honestly, to
- 16:40Speaker 8: be honest with you, we all can run, we all
- 16:42Speaker 8: being we all can run.
- 16:43Speaker 2: All right, So it starts with the moon Clark and
- 16:46Speaker 2: then it doesn't really matter after that, all right, So
- 16:48Speaker 2: Phil ZOPPI, what players on film do you watch try
- 16:52Speaker 2: to model your game after?
- 16:56Speaker 8: I would say Fred Warner. Fred Warrener is a guy.
- 17:00Speaker 8: Evan White, my fellow LSU brother and Darris Leonard, you
- 17:04Speaker 8: know those three guys. And I got Layton sitting right
- 17:06Speaker 8: onside me too, so even late, you know, just I
- 17:09Speaker 8: can't leave Lighton out.
- 17:10Speaker 3: But what does he help you with the most? What
- 17:12Speaker 3: does he helping you? Business man?
- 17:14Speaker 8: Lighton is a good guy, bro Like a lot of
- 17:16Speaker 8: people might not know that. You know, a lot of
- 17:17Speaker 8: people might only know Layton on the field, but off
- 17:20Speaker 8: the field, Layton is a good guy. He'll give you
- 17:22Speaker 8: a shirt off his back. You know, He's a guy
- 17:24Speaker 8: that even during my rehab process last year, he's to
- 17:27Speaker 8: come to see my rehab session with me. You know,
- 17:29Speaker 8: small stuff like that meant a lot to me. You know,
- 17:31Speaker 8: it was times when I was just standing on the side,
- 17:32Speaker 8: he always told me, but just be ready, stay ready.
- 17:35Speaker 8: And then you know the Bears game, I went on
- 17:39Speaker 8: the field and he was smiling. He was happy for
- 17:41Speaker 8: me to be out there. So I man lighton that
- 17:43Speaker 8: guy means a lot to me, Bro because he even
- 17:45Speaker 8: in the off season, just working out with him in
- 17:47Speaker 8: the off season, watching film with him, just picking his brain,
- 17:50Speaker 8: just making sure I'm seeing the same thing that he's seeing.
- 17:52Speaker 8: So Bro, he he's a huge role to me, you know,
- 17:55Speaker 8: having success.
- 17:57Speaker 3: He's the wolf hunter. What is your nickname? You have one?
- 18:01Speaker 8: You have something, to be honest with you, I don't
- 18:03Speaker 8: even have no I don't have one. I just fly
- 18:05Speaker 8: around and they play I guess I tell the fan,
- 18:08Speaker 8: get one for me.
- 18:08Speaker 2: Yeah, well, okay, we can. We can definitely get that
- 18:11Speaker 2: last one. They drafted Mazzie Smith obviously Jonathan Hankins up front.
- 18:16Speaker 2: What are big guys like that mean for linebackers that
- 18:19Speaker 2: like to run around?
- 18:20Speaker 8: I mean, you just named two of our big guys,
- 18:23Speaker 8: but you know, I would say all of our big guys,
- 18:24Speaker 8: you know, a big thing. Just having those guys up front,
- 18:27Speaker 8: that's free up chances for us to make plays. Take
- 18:29Speaker 8: a shot and make a play.
- 18:31Speaker 2: I did say last one, but I'm gonna steal one.
- 18:33Speaker 2: Tony Dorset Does that do anything for you? Have you
- 18:36Speaker 2: heard that name of anybody when you when you put
- 18:39Speaker 2: it on the thirty three, you know historically that's one
- 18:41Speaker 2: of the famous running backs.
- 18:42Speaker 8: Ye oh yeah. Like I met torn Dorset, talked to him.
- 18:45Speaker 8: Really cool guy. But I mean, honestly, when I first
- 18:48Speaker 8: started playing football with the South Baruse Jaguar, I was
- 18:52Speaker 8: number thirty three. Anyway I'm saying so like when I
- 18:55Speaker 8: found out thirty three was open, I thow back to
- 18:58Speaker 8: my roots me went thirty three, and then obviously knowing
- 19:01Speaker 8: that the great Tony Dorset war thirty three. So for me,
- 19:05Speaker 8: it was like going back to my childhood and it just
- 19:08Speaker 8: got to honor the number because sure, as Tony dor said,
- 19:11Speaker 8: was really good, right.
- 19:12Speaker 3: Yeah he was. He was definitely good. He was go
- 19:13Speaker 3: to the ball in his hands.
- 19:14Speaker 2: I would imagine when you get the ball in your
- 19:16Speaker 2: hands too, you're probably gonna you're gonna make some place.
- 19:18Speaker 8: Waiting on that opportunity. Well I am, I'm gone awesome.
- 19:22Speaker 3: All right, there is the new thirty three demo Clark.
- 19:25Speaker 3: We really appreciate you stopping by.
- 19:27Speaker 2: We're gonna be right back on Cowboys storyline to finish
- 19:29Speaker 2: the show and answer your questions.
- 19:30Speaker 8: Be right back, Appreciate you.
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- 21:41Speaker 2: Back for the final segment here Cowboys Storyline. I want
- 21:44Speaker 2: to thank Damon Clark for coming by really good stuff
- 21:47Speaker 2: out of him, love seeing his his career path so far.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Just just a just a great story for him. Just
- 21:56Speaker 2: to a player that thinks he's going to be a
- 21:59Speaker 2: second round pick, maybe maybe higher than that, and then
- 22:02Speaker 2: has an injury that they that they find out that
- 22:05Speaker 2: took him off the draft board for many teams, and
- 22:07Speaker 2: Cowboys were able to do some research keep him on
- 22:10Speaker 2: their board and got him in the games last year.
- 22:13Speaker 2: And so now you get into year two, and I mean,
- 22:15Speaker 2: he's he's way ahead of where we thought he'd be
- 22:18Speaker 2: and and and just looks like he's ready to go.
- 22:20Speaker 2: He's businesslike approach is amazing. So one of the guys
- 22:23Speaker 2: that I think is going to take this defense even
- 22:26Speaker 2: even more over the top. All right, let's get some
- 22:28Speaker 2: questions here. One of the questions was about Zach Martin.
- 22:33Speaker 2: Of course, that's the biggest news of the day. Zach
- 22:35Speaker 2: Martin has agreed to a new deal, will be at
- 22:37Speaker 2: practice on Tuesday. One of the questions from Jake Bnoist,
- 22:41Speaker 2: he says, what's the downside to paying and extending Zach
- 22:45Speaker 2: is it just the dead money in the future and
- 22:48Speaker 2: it seems like the time to win is now. That's
- 22:52Speaker 2: the That's the downside to any contract. I mean, the
- 22:55Speaker 2: any contract that you pay is a downside is that
- 22:58Speaker 2: they're not going to perform to that level. I mean,
- 23:00Speaker 2: that's simple as that. I mean, no different than Trayvon
- 23:03Speaker 2: Diggs ma Lee Cooker. I mean, now, obviously when you
- 23:06Speaker 2: pay older players, Yeah, you could say, well, he's got
- 23:10Speaker 2: what is it, eight million, eight and a half million
- 23:12Speaker 2: guaranteed over the next two years on top of what
- 23:15Speaker 2: he was already making. So and it looks like around
- 23:18Speaker 2: eighteen million per season for a thirty three year old.
- 23:24Speaker 2: But a thirty three year old that is not slowing down.
- 23:27Speaker 2: He's just he hasn't he hasn't shown that he's an
- 23:29Speaker 2: all pro player. He's been an all Pro player since
- 23:32Speaker 2: the moment he got here, and he's an all Pro
- 23:34Speaker 2: player now if you care about Madden ratings. Heck, Madden's
- 23:37Speaker 2: got him at a ninety nine right now. So this
- 23:40Speaker 2: isn't a contract for what he's done. It's a contract
- 23:43Speaker 2: of what they think he's going to do. And yes,
- 23:45Speaker 2: there was there was a little, you know, a battle
- 23:48Speaker 2: there going on. And I don't know if you'd call
- 23:52Speaker 2: a winner or loser. I think the winners are the
- 23:54Speaker 2: Cowboys as a team. Dak Prescott's the winner, you know,
- 23:58Speaker 2: the running backs. I mean, whoever Tyler biadis is a winner.
- 24:03Speaker 2: I mean, you got you got a guy lined up
- 24:05Speaker 2: next to you right guard, and whoever's gonna play a tackle,
- 24:07Speaker 2: whether it's steel or uh, you know, eventually it will
- 24:10Speaker 2: be that. That that's that's what you know, that's what
- 24:14Speaker 2: makes this thing work the most. So big time, big
- 24:17Speaker 2: time news for the Cowboys. And I think that, you know,
- 24:20Speaker 2: getting Zach done uh will only take them to another
- 24:23Speaker 2: level here. All right, more questions? How about what position
- 24:26Speaker 2: this is from Dennis Nelson? What player or position do
- 24:29Speaker 2: you see that could be used to trade for an
- 24:31Speaker 2: area of need before the final cuts? D line flipped
- 24:35Speaker 2: or O line Perhaps I don't. I don't see O
- 24:37Speaker 2: line depth, even with Zach Martin coming back. I don't
- 24:39Speaker 2: see O line depth for trade. Sorry, D line. Perhaps
- 24:47Speaker 2: there's too much going on on the D line. I
- 24:49Speaker 2: mean there's too many there's too many drafted players that
- 24:53Speaker 2: are at backups. I just know where where is it
- 24:56Speaker 2: gonna shake out? Quentin Bohanna is in the in the
- 24:59Speaker 2: back end to this, I mean Neville Gallimore is in
- 25:02Speaker 2: the back end. You know they drafted junior for Fijoko,
- 25:06Speaker 2: I mean Chauncey Golfton. I mean, and these are all
- 25:10Speaker 2: backup A linemen and tackles. So I could see d
- 25:14Speaker 2: line being being one there for sure, But other than that,
- 25:20Speaker 2: not a whole lot of other depth.
- 25:22Speaker 3: Maybe tight end.
- 25:24Speaker 2: I don't want to get into names, but perhaps tight
- 25:28Speaker 2: end if you wanted to go that route, But I
- 25:30Speaker 2: don't see that happening really. All right, how about Victor Perez?
- 25:34Speaker 2: What most impressed you on Saturday and what gave you
- 25:36Speaker 2: the most concerns?
- 25:39Speaker 1: Uh?
- 25:40Speaker 3: What impressed me the most? I thought?
- 25:42Speaker 2: I thought the receivers. I mean we talked about this earlier.
- 25:45Speaker 2: I thought the receivers didn't did a nice job. I
- 25:49Speaker 2: like the play calling and the offense. I like, I
- 25:51Speaker 2: like the structure of the offense. I like crossing routes
- 25:54Speaker 2: over the middle. I like guys running in open spaces.
- 25:58Speaker 2: So that was impressive. I thought the receiver did a
- 26:00Speaker 2: good job. What concerned the most.
- 26:05Speaker 3: Concerns?
- 26:07Speaker 2: Well, I mean, like I said, before the kicker. It's
- 26:09Speaker 2: a concern to me. You gotta make extra points. You
- 26:13Speaker 2: can't miss him like that. I know it was one,
- 26:16Speaker 2: but that's not the that's not the standard.
- 26:18Speaker 1: You know.
- 26:19Speaker 2: I thought Cavante turping, you know, fumbling the ball on
- 26:22Speaker 2: the plumb return. I mean, that's you know, it's like
- 26:27Speaker 2: you're supposed to be. All right, Let's see what you
- 26:28Speaker 2: do a receiver. You got this return thing locked up.
- 26:31Speaker 3: You're good there. Let's just see what you do a receiver.
- 26:34Speaker 2: And he fumbles right out of the map and and
- 26:37Speaker 2: then drop the pass it receiver as well. He did
- 26:40Speaker 2: come back have another catch. He's gonna play in Seattle.
- 26:42Speaker 2: He's gonna be I think he's gonna be fine. I
- 26:44Speaker 2: still think he's a dangerous kick returner.
- 26:46Speaker 3: I really do.
- 26:48Speaker 2: But we'll we'll see how how it kind of shakes
- 26:51Speaker 2: out with him and whether or not having Douce fun
- 26:56Speaker 2: here changes any of that, all right, Shane Lee says
- 27:02Speaker 2: in Kansas City, the reigning champs have mahomes play a series.
- 27:05Speaker 2: Why do the Cowboys rest their starters, especially with a
- 27:09Speaker 2: new system in place. Shouldn't get as many live reps
- 27:11Speaker 2: as possible? Shouldn't they get as many as possible. Yes,
- 27:17Speaker 2: sure you can.
- 27:18Speaker 3: You can do that. This team has been.
- 27:22Speaker 2: Prepared for the regular season. Let's go back and look
- 27:25Speaker 2: the last few years. They they are ready. I mean
- 27:28Speaker 2: that the first half of the season, I mean the
- 27:31Speaker 2: first month of the season, they've been three and one
- 27:34Speaker 2: most of the time, sometimes two and two, maybe four
- 27:38Speaker 2: to oher one time. Like, what they're doing is getting
- 27:42Speaker 2: their guys ready to go, and I don't think you
- 27:44Speaker 2: could make the argument that that they're not. And you
- 27:49Speaker 2: just want your starting quarterback to get hurt in the preseason,
- 27:52Speaker 2: or any player for that matter, to get hurt in
- 27:54Speaker 2: the preseason.
- 27:56Speaker 3: It's a risk versus reward.
- 27:58Speaker 2: I just think they have confidence in what the the
- 28:00Speaker 2: work that they're doing out here against each other, against
- 28:03Speaker 2: their their defense, that that that is getting them ready
- 28:06Speaker 2: to go. And so I don't I just I think
- 28:10Speaker 2: that that as great as you might feel, if they
- 28:13Speaker 2: go out and you're in Dak Place in Seattle and
- 28:15Speaker 2: goes four for five for sixty five yards and a touchdown,
- 28:20Speaker 2: you'd feel good about that, you'd feel really bad if
- 28:23Speaker 2: he hurt himself and didn't play.
- 28:24Speaker 3: I mean, so.
- 28:27Speaker 2: It's pros versus content. I just don't think that it
- 28:30Speaker 2: matches up, all right, Dustin low Miller, who's your tight
- 28:34Speaker 2: end three and four?
- 28:35Speaker 3: Right now? Could we see a shake up there?
- 28:40Speaker 2: Sorry, guys, trying to get as much water as I
- 28:42Speaker 2: can here, three or four tight ends? This is where
- 28:46Speaker 2: I would I would lean on like Patrick or Derek
- 28:49Speaker 2: say something here.
- 28:52Speaker 3: I think Ferguson a screwmaker there. And then you know
- 28:57Speaker 3: Hindershot McEwen.
- 29:01Speaker 2: People want to just push him to the side, but
- 29:04Speaker 2: the Cowboys really like him. They think he's a good player,
- 29:07Speaker 2: they think he's very versatile, he's good special teams. He's
- 29:10Speaker 2: also kind of a full back role, so he's a
- 29:13Speaker 2: guy that's gonna factor in. And then you got John Stevens,
- 29:16Speaker 2: who is like this year's Hindershot, and he had a
- 29:20Speaker 2: really nice, nice game and he's not going anywhere either.
- 29:25Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'm not gonna say I don't know
- 29:27Speaker 2: who three and four is right now, but could we see.
- 29:29Speaker 3: A shake up?
- 29:30Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna have to see a shakeup because it's
- 29:31Speaker 2: not gonna keep six tight ends or five. And yeah,
- 29:35Speaker 2: you're gonna see something there, all right. Brett Bender, in
- 29:38Speaker 2: your experience, how much does the preseason game really show
- 29:41Speaker 2: us for the regular season.
- 29:43Speaker 3: I guess I should have answered that in the other time.
- 29:45Speaker 3: We were talking just a few minutes ago about playing guys.
- 29:50Speaker 3: Not at all.
- 29:52Speaker 2: It doesn't help you at all, it really, I mean,
- 29:54Speaker 2: I'm just I've seen I can go back and look
- 29:56Speaker 2: at it. Go look at the teams two years ago,
- 29:59Speaker 2: really good team, twelve and five football team went oh
- 30:02Speaker 2: to four in the preseason. I've seen some to four
- 30:05Speaker 2: teams here that have gone in twenty eighteen, this was
- 30:09Speaker 2: a really good team and they were oh to four
- 30:11Speaker 2: in preseason. I've seen three and one teams. It didn't
- 30:14Speaker 2: do anything. The worst team in Cowboys history nineteen eighty nine,
- 30:17Speaker 2: they were one to fifteen.
- 30:19Speaker 3: It went three and one in the preseason.
- 30:21Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. It really doesn't these the what happens
- 30:29Speaker 2: in the game doesn't matter. I think individually though it can.
- 30:34Speaker 2: I think for a guy like a Dak Prescott, I
- 30:36Speaker 2: think it mattered in the preseason, you know, when he
- 30:39Speaker 2: was a rookie. So I'm not saying individually it don't
- 30:43Speaker 2: matter in the preseason, but I do think overall wins,
- 30:46Speaker 2: losses and how the team plays and all that.
- 30:49Speaker 3: No, not none at all.
- 30:51Speaker 2: All right, Daniel Barnett, who impressed you the most against
- 30:53Speaker 2: Jacksonville that you weren't expecting to impress you. That's a
- 30:57Speaker 2: good question because you can say who impressed you and
- 30:59Speaker 2: then you throw out some guys that we've been talking about.
- 31:04Speaker 2: But somebody that I wasn't expecting. How about Dennis Houston,
- 31:13Speaker 2: because you know that was last year's thing. You didn't
- 31:16Speaker 2: hear a lot about him, but he actually had a
- 31:19Speaker 2: pretty nice game as well, and and he's kind of
- 31:21Speaker 2: been under the radar this year. But Dennis Houston is
- 31:25Speaker 2: the guy I'll go with there. All right, Chuck Bradshaw,
- 31:31Speaker 2: how does this roster compare with the others you've seen
- 31:34Speaker 2: since covering the Cowboys? It's it's probably top five. I mean,
- 31:42Speaker 2: this is a good this is a really good football team,
- 31:44Speaker 2: and so.
- 31:46Speaker 3: It's it's early. It's got question marks.
- 31:48Speaker 2: The running back positions a little little shaky year with
- 31:53Speaker 2: the backup, and you don't even know if Tony Pollard
- 31:55Speaker 2: how he's gonna be as the starter. But I like
- 31:58Speaker 2: the receivers. I think they got a lot of depth
- 32:00Speaker 2: tight end now, and I think you got a lot
- 32:02Speaker 2: of depth on defense. I think the defense is gonna
- 32:04Speaker 2: be nasty good. But because you don't really know exactly
- 32:07Speaker 2: what's going on and running back up, running back kickers
- 32:11Speaker 2: a little shaky. I don't I can't say it's one
- 32:14Speaker 2: of the best, you know, or the best, but I
- 32:16Speaker 2: would say, you know, top five for sure. This is
- 32:18Speaker 2: this This is a very talented team, and I think
- 32:20Speaker 2: this is a really good team that can go far.
- 32:22Speaker 2: But you gotta have luck kind of go your way.
- 32:24Speaker 3: All right.
- 32:27Speaker 2: When we're drinking water, I think we're done here. It's
- 32:30Speaker 2: been a it's been a it's been a good show.
- 32:32Speaker 2: A lot happening here, from zag Martin to de Mont
- 32:35Speaker 2: Clark to your questions, we appreciate it. We're expecting some
- 32:38Speaker 2: big time guests here to finish out training camp, so
- 32:41Speaker 2: stay with us here, but we'll we'll until tomorrow. We're
- 32:44Speaker 2: gonna come back tomorrow.
- 32:46Speaker 3: We got it.
- 32:46Speaker 2: Maybe maybe one, maybe two guests tomorrow. You have to
- 32:49Speaker 2: stay tuned for that, all right. For Chris Beam, I'm
- 32:51Speaker 2: Nick Heatman. We'll see you next time. On Cowboys Storyline.
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