Jerry Jones on the Falcons, trade deadline, Diggs injury & more

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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.

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