Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones joined the K&C Masterpiece to discuss the team's upcoming game against the Atlanta Falcons, if he sees the Cowboys making a move ahead of this year's trade deadline, the Trevon Diggs situation and the All-Pro corner's injury, and more.
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00:20We bring to you Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager, Jerry Jones.
00:25Good morning, sir.
00:26Hey, good morning, guys.
00:27Kevin, Cory, Mike.
00:28Good morning.
00:30I think the thing that's pressing on a lot of people's mind, and I know we've asked you
00:33this before, I know they haven't practiced thus far, should we probably not hold out
00:37hope for Bland and Micah at least this Sunday?
00:42Well, I think the fact they're not practicing is always an indication that you've got a
00:48question.
00:51In both cases, they're still evaluate their rehab work that they're doing, but the fact
00:58that they're not on the practice field, this is walkthrough today, and so you'll rely more
01:05on the work, more on the rehab work and how they're doing there, but you still need to
01:12leave it open because we're a long way from Sunday, but we're getting closer.
01:19Jerry, how tough is it?
01:20Oh, sorry.
01:21Go ahead.
01:22Go ahead.
01:23No, please.
01:24How tough is it in today's game?
01:25I know that there's limited amount of practices because of the agreement you guys have made
01:3020 years ago, and maybe that's too long ago, but how much easier was it for maybe a Bill
01:36Parcells or somebody to do something different because you had more practice time with the
01:41players to allow them to get to know it through repetition, where it feels like in today's
01:47game maybe you don't get enough repetition to change things drastically during a season?
01:53Well, I think your point is one to think about.
01:59You don't have as much injury as you would have been having had you had more physical
02:07practices.
02:08You just don't have the injuries.
02:10How much of that compensates some of the execution?
02:16When you come out of training camp, you haven't had a lot of the work.
02:24You've got less injuries, but you haven't had a lot of the work you used to get.
02:29I'm going to back up.
02:30There was a time when they were playing six preseason games.
02:36There was a time when they thought, well, in the first couple of games a year, you'll
02:41play yourself into better football.
02:46Those early games were also not as, let's say, to perfection as you might think they
02:55could be in pro football.
02:58We're now playing into that because we don't have that preparation as much.
03:04We play into that.
03:05You have more mistakes, the younger the players are.
03:11We've got a combination of a little less preparation.
03:14You've got a combination of more mistakes, but you're dealing with more games.
03:22On balance, I agree with all of this.
03:25I think it produces the kind of teams and the kind of game and what the NFL's trying
03:30to do.
03:31It's not a bad thing.
03:32It's a good thing.
03:33From a coaching perspective now, it'll bite you, but just as injuries bite you.
03:41Any coach will say, boy, we're going to be physical and do that in practice.
03:50You can get bitten.
03:51I'll never forget Al Davis.
03:55To me, he's my poster child of this tension that goes between having a lot of reps in
04:03training camp or having a lot of reps in physical practices.
04:07When he would come up out to Austin when we were there at St. Ed's, he'd stop practice.
04:14He'd step in and stop practice and say, we're not going to leave it here in August.
04:18We're going to save it for February as far as the health of a player.
04:22All of it has its points.
04:25I like where we are.