Players & things to watch in the Cowboys' final preseason game

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The Cowboys wrap up their preseason slate at home tomorrow against Jim Harbaugh and his Los Angeles Chargers. Shan & Bobby go over the reasons to watch the game, including the final roster spots up for grabs and what Trey Lance can show us in what will likely be his final extended action of the season.

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00:00For the first time since a devastating, embarrassing, whatever other descriptor you want to put

00:24on it, lost to the Green Bay Packers back in January, the Dallas Cowboys will take the

00:30field at AT&T Stadium tomorrow.

00:33And they'll do it against Jim Harbaugh.

00:37Maybe Jim Harbaugh can get in the ear of Mozzie Smith and Luke Schoonmaker a little bit and

00:42be like, hey, you're reflecting poorly on me, how about you guys fix this, because this

00:45is making us look pretty bad.

00:47They do get the Chargers tomorrow, and what we're not sure of still to this point is the

00:53availability of Tyler Guyton, which would be way up the list for me of guys that I want

00:58to see perform in this game and be ready in this game, because he's going to need this

01:03work more than just about anybody.

01:06As we've talked about already, he is to me, Mozzie Smith, the defensive version of Trey

01:10Lance right now.

01:11Like, I got to see it.

01:13I got to start seeing him perform.

01:14You need to see it from Mozzie, not Guyton.

01:16No, not Guyton, but Guyton and Mozzie are the two that I want to see the most.

01:19Guyton being the guy who his availability is in question, but outside of Guyton, Mozzie

01:24and Guyton are right there as the two guys that I want to see the most perform in this

01:27game.

01:28Guyton is unavailable at the moment as they still work through the knee sort of trying

01:32to figure out which way it's going.

01:33I think it's trending towards not playing because I don't think the Cowboys, as much

01:37as they would like to get him some live game reps, want to put anything in jeopardy in

01:41terms of his availability for week one, given the depth issues that they have.

01:46I think we're looking at there's going to be another trade before week one where they

01:52acquire some sort of an offensive lineman because they just they have way too many guards

01:58and not enough tackles.

02:00So does that look like a swap of a draft pick for a tackle?

02:04Does it look like you take some of these interior offensive linemen, which you have just a gluttony

02:09of?

02:10Do you take one of those and try to move it to somebody who's got better tackle depth

02:13but is looking for something on the interior?

02:16They could approach it a couple different ways.

02:17They could wait for cut down day.

02:19The problem that I think you're seeing right now is nobody.

02:23Nobody cuts NFL offensive lineman.

02:27You're not releasing an NFL offensive lineman at the end of the month.

02:30You are.

02:31What you're going to do is you will try to get rid of pitching.

02:33It's yeah.

02:34It is.

02:35It is considered the thinnest position in the NFL by most talent evaluators.

02:40They don't believe.

02:41I was talking to a scout one time who said that in the NFL, offensive line is the one

02:47position in the entire league where they have more spots available within the NFL than they

02:54do people talented enough to fill them like that.

02:57They feel like they have maybe 80% of what they need in terms of the actual available

03:03spots when you consider the depth that you have to have behind.

03:06Most teams struggle to go five deep.

03:08But if you go five deep, then after that, you're talking about even a smaller handful

03:12that are able to go seven or eight.

03:14And so the Cowboys have had some of that depth tested specifically a tackle.

03:18So Tyler Guyton, I'd be surprised right now if they did play or if he did play, but still

03:25something where if the knee soreness is not as big of a deal, if they want to really send

03:28that message, then they will go ahead and let him play.

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