Diggs Get Surgery and Dallas Survives Without Him
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00:00 Okay, Trayvon Diggs got surgery on his ACL this week.
00:04 What have you seen out of the Cowboys secondary without Diggs? How would you
00:07 grade them so far? You know, your ability, this team's ability
00:11 to be missing the guy who in terms of being a
00:14 playmaking cornerback. I'm not saying he's the best
00:16 cornerback in football, but he's the best playmaking cornerback in football.
00:19 And yet they have the depth and talent to so far survive.
00:23 Gilmore makes a big play against the Chargers. Bland has been very good
00:27 on the boundary. Jordan Lewis in the slot,
00:31 maybe they need more of. I think Dan Quinn has done a really good job
00:34 considering. And the shuffling of chess pieces with
00:38 Marquis Bale. Hey, you're a safety and a linebacker.
00:41 Waniya Thomas, you're a safety and a linebacker. Micah Parsons, we know about
00:45 his versatility. What they've done with versatility and the hybrid.
00:50 I do think though that they don't, as we approach the
00:54 trade deadline, the Cowboys don't need another body at cornerback. They have
00:58 bodies. They got Izzy, they got Iggy, they got...
01:02 They need, if they could get another stud who
01:06 would be good enough to be a starting cornerback and have
01:09 Bland move back into the slot where he's even better, I think, than he is on the
01:14 boundary. And I think we can all agree he's better than Jordan Lewis.
01:17 That's a move. And that's why I'm told as much as the Cowboys might look at
01:20 running back, wide receiver, their phone calls that
01:23 they are making and getting are about defense. And I think it's
01:27 sensible to say they're exploring the ideas of cornerbacks who could start
01:31 and linebackers who could help.