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Speaker 1: It is Friday, October eleven, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode
Speaker 1: number sixty two. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at
Speaker 1: the Star. We're gonna get you guys ready for this
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Jets game. It kicks off at three thirty
Speaker 1: this Sunday in New York. I'm sorry in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: We sort we'll get you guys ready for this game. Um,
Speaker 1: how everybody feelings Friday morning? I feel fantastic, Derek Howard
Speaker 1: you go. I'm good. I'm feeling good. And are you good?
Speaker 1: I'm surviving. I'm good to have you back on the show. Nick,
Speaker 1: how you doing good? Good? Good? Good? Good? All right,
Speaker 1: let's jump in. We got to talk about injuries. Man.
Speaker 1: It seems like you get familiar with what's happening on
Speaker 1: the field. And actually, as of yesterday when we did
Speaker 1: the show, it felt like from the injury standpoint, things
Speaker 1: were looking kind of positive for the Cowboys, and then
Speaker 1: we find out about another player that ended up on
Speaker 1: the injury report yesterday. Talk to me about Randall Cobb
Speaker 1: and where he is not at practice. He actually he
Speaker 1: got out of stretch line or out of drills yesterday
Speaker 1: and had the trainers kind of stretching his back out,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, the hamstring stretches that you see
Speaker 1: athletes do, and then he left practice and showed up
Speaker 1: on the injury report. I guess he didn't come back.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a back. I didn't get to go
Speaker 1: to Jason garrets press conference today, so I don't know
Speaker 1: a ton other than that. But he wasn't at practice today, which,
Speaker 1: as we always say, is not usually a good sign.
Speaker 1: And the other thing too is neither one of the
Speaker 1: offensive tackles was there again today, which that's why we
Speaker 1: always say, is like, you know, carry it all the
Speaker 1: way through till Friday. Because I've felt confident all week
Speaker 1: that Tyron would play in this game. I still think
Speaker 1: he will, but if he does, we were hearing that
Speaker 1: he was going to practice today or do something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's I mean, that's why you wait till Friday.
Speaker 1: If I had to say, I still kind of feel
Speaker 1: like he's going to play, but it'll be without practice,
Speaker 1: which is never a good thing. Jason Garrett said that
Speaker 1: he expects one of the two tackles to play, Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones or Jason Garrett. Jerry, Yeah, Jerry said that. Jerry
Speaker 1: said that on the radio. He's like, well, we won't
Speaker 1: know till later today or maybe even as late as Saturday,
Speaker 1: but I expect one of the He's like, we'll have
Speaker 1: half of them back, is what he said. And I
Speaker 1: said on Twitter today, I think the smart bet is
Speaker 1: tyring just because he's further removed from his injury. You know,
Speaker 1: you just have conversations around here. I don't think there
Speaker 1: was ever a ton of realistic expectation that Lyle was
Speaker 1: going to play in this game. Has Lyle missed a
Speaker 1: game ever? Um? A good question is I think I
Speaker 1: think he. I think they sat him down at the
Speaker 1: end of seventeen because he had a back injury, like
Speaker 1: for that Eagles game. Maybe I think he's missed at
Speaker 1: least I think seventeen is the is the year he
Speaker 1: actually played every snap. Dam I feel like his injury
Speaker 1: has I'll look this up. You were talking. You know.
Speaker 1: The interesting thing too, is if both guys missed the game,
Speaker 1: and then you wonder, what do they have enough guys
Speaker 1: that are healthy to just be activated. But I do
Speaker 1: think that night and Camp Fleman would start. I guess
Speaker 1: uh Connor would be your backup rum swings and then
Speaker 1: and then Sepilo would would be a backup, and then
Speaker 1: Adam Redman would also probably be active if that happens. Well,
Speaker 1: he was on I R for most of sixteen with
Speaker 1: that toe injury. I forgot about that, but you're right
Speaker 1: he didn't mind sending games in seventeen. He has dealt
Speaker 1: with plenty of injuries over that time span. Though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's never good when you get to
Speaker 1: Friday and the guy that's been battling the injury isn't
Speaker 1: in practice. Like if if they can get out there
Speaker 1: and on Friday, you typically feel good about it. And
Speaker 1: the thing about Tyrant too is that usually you say, well,
Speaker 1: he's the kind of guy that could miss a week
Speaker 1: or miss practice and still play. But this is two
Speaker 1: weeks now of practice. This is too you know, this
Speaker 1: is a you know, since that saints the injury, so
Speaker 1: it wouldn't. I mean, I still think he could do it.
Speaker 1: He's in that very special category of guys who I
Speaker 1: think could do it. It's just going to be a
Speaker 1: wait and see. I mean, like I said, you know
Speaker 1: that the indication around here all week has been that
Speaker 1: they thought they could get him onto the field today,
Speaker 1: like Amber just said, So not a total curveball, because
Speaker 1: again he's he's only two weeks removed from that injury,
Speaker 1: but it is it is interesting, and so I think
Speaker 1: you got to prepare for a variety of options. It
Speaker 1: could be Tyrant and Cam Fleming. It could be Cam
Speaker 1: Fleming and Brandon Night. I don't I don't really buy
Speaker 1: that Lyell as a realistic consideration though. Talk to me
Speaker 1: about Laton Vanderesh where he is in his recovery. He's
Speaker 1: out there that practice vertigo, which I've never had it,
Speaker 1: but I know people that have say it's very disconcerting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean like nausea, like it, you know, make you
Speaker 1: throw up. Well, he was having issues with his ear,
Speaker 1: so you know that causes you to mess up your balance.
Speaker 1: You know, you I don't your equililibrium there we go
Speaker 1: equilibrium something like that. It messes up. So it sounds
Speaker 1: like something that it's not really a big deal, but
Speaker 1: when you look at the effects of it and you
Speaker 1: having to play football, run and catch somebody and tackle somebody,
Speaker 1: then it might have a big effect. Then, you know, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the same exactly as a dog,
Speaker 1: but you know, wolves actually probably hear things a little
Speaker 1: bit different than than dogs and stuff like that, so
Speaker 1: you might it might be a situation like that where
Speaker 1: he's hearing things that other people haven't heard. Wolf Hunter's right,
Speaker 1: it's possible he's a wolf hunter, not a wolf. I
Speaker 1: don't know how though. My first thing trying to draw
Speaker 1: wolves out when we heard that it was when we
Speaker 1: heard it was vertigo, I was like, maybe that's part
Speaker 1: of the reason why you kind of struggle on Sunday,
Speaker 1: did you. I mean, I mean, but we all probably
Speaker 1: thought that a little bit. He would probably heard that.
Speaker 1: But how hasn't he been struggled struggling prior to last
Speaker 1: I mean, he hasn't. He had been great, He hadn't
Speaker 1: been great, But I don't last week with a whole different.
Speaker 1: He wasn't playing as poorly as yeah, but still the
Speaker 1: margin is not that far off. Knowing what I know
Speaker 1: about Vertigo, I don't think I believe that you could
Speaker 1: competently even get out there if you were really suffering
Speaker 1: from it, though you know what I mean, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: think so. So I assume it's like everything else, they
Speaker 1: are varying degrees of it. So, um, you know it's
Speaker 1: been on how bad it is. It's funny because yesterday,
Speaker 1: you know, all we knew was that he had an
Speaker 1: illness and not you know, like, well, you can get
Speaker 1: IVS and they'll get you a Z pack and they'll
Speaker 1: get you right and flush your system out in time
Speaker 1: for the game. I don't know what you do to
Speaker 1: come bat vertigo, and I don't really know yeah how
Speaker 1: that works. But if he's at practice on Friday, I
Speaker 1: assume that means they feel good about his availability. One
Speaker 1: bit of good news for the Cowboys Antoine Woods practice
Speaker 1: fully yesterday. Hopefully that means that he'd be back in
Speaker 1: the lineup. That can help. I know you guys have
Speaker 1: talked a lot this week about the fact you think
Speaker 1: that will really help the run defense going up against
Speaker 1: what many believe is one of the better running backs
Speaker 1: in the league department, regardless of what you think of
Speaker 1: their entire team, he has skill and so getting him
Speaker 1: back obviously makes a difference. YEPI too. He caught an
Speaker 1: onside kick today too. That was fun. Yep. They practice, well,
Speaker 1: it's harsh, it's fun, not really practice. They would you
Speaker 1: call that practicing on side kicks? They just it's it's
Speaker 1: their fun Friday bid as they you know, Garrett picks
Speaker 1: two or three guys at random to come up and
Speaker 1: field and on side boys players either coaches, coches le say,
Speaker 1: has been done it? The linebackers, Ben Bloom, the linebackers
Speaker 1: coaches a pro, he's amazing at it. I think they've
Speaker 1: they don't think they did that today. They didn't. He
Speaker 1: didn't do it today maybe the way but Antin they've
Speaker 1: been playing and yeah, focus, but Antoine goes out there
Speaker 1: and gets it. But yeah, it's different guys, security guys, scouts.
Speaker 1: So but you guys get out there one day. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'll catch it. Even if he just sit. Hey Dave, Dave,
Speaker 1: would you just turn and run? I wouldn't turn and run.
Speaker 1: I think I would freeze freeze, Yeah, like a deer
Speaker 1: in the headlights, Like here we go, we're rubbing the
Speaker 1: eyebrows right now. We're just slack so past rubbing my eyebrows.
Speaker 1: I would have like an out of body experience. All right,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about it, actors um and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pin you guys down a little bit on
Speaker 1: these injuries because that's gonna obviously factor into this. But
Speaker 1: let's walk through this. Do you guys think And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw out the names of the guys that are
Speaker 1: injuring you let me know whether you think that they're
Speaker 1: gonna play or not. Randall Cobb no, no, all right?
Speaker 1: Uh Lyle Collins no, no all right? Uh Tyrn Smith yes?
Speaker 1: Or a half? What or a half? So he starts,
Speaker 1: yeah a little bit because he started that means he's
Speaker 1: got to be active. Amber. Uh. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: like it, but you know it's probably a little bit. Okay,
Speaker 1: It's funny. I talk to somebody in the locker room.
Speaker 1: We were another media guy who were just talking about it,
Speaker 1: and he goes like, nah, there's no way not against
Speaker 1: the Jets. And I was like, man, I said that
Speaker 1: about an hour ago on our show, and three people
Speaker 1: just were like, no, I can't say that they're three
Speaker 1: in two, But I still think that the Jets is
Speaker 1: part of it. If you feel like you can go
Speaker 1: win the game, you know you got an ego game
Speaker 1: coming up that's really, really, really important. I just get him,
Speaker 1: get him out there, score some points, pull him out.
Speaker 1: You're good. I sent you my I sent you my
Speaker 1: gut feeling right before I came down to do the show,
Speaker 1: and I wrote this, and I believe it out behind quarterback,
Speaker 1: Like what apps is most likely to completely derail a
Speaker 1: football team, I think it's this team, probably really any team.
Speaker 1: I think, like assuming that your tackle is good, I
Speaker 1: like not having good offensive tackles can also depends on
Speaker 1: how quarterback is, too, because I think there's some teams
Speaker 1: where the quarterback is so good that the losing the
Speaker 1: tackle may not be as as a drastic But you're right.
Speaker 1: On this team, yes, losing the left tackle is is
Speaker 1: a big deal. I think it's important that he plays
Speaker 1: if he can. Obvious, I mean, don't put him out
Speaker 1: there if he can't do it. But if he can play,
Speaker 1: I think it's important that he does so we've got
Speaker 1: out of those three, you guys think maybe one plays
Speaker 1: Tyrant Layton. Yes, yeah, So you down to really two
Speaker 1: guys that are that are out due to injury. Any
Speaker 1: of the limited guys concern you, Amari Cooper, Zach Mardin,
Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford, No, no, there, it'll be out there. So
Speaker 1: basically you're gonna fill in with the guys that are
Speaker 1: the typicals that will be missing games that have been
Speaker 1: inactive for week games we every every week. Adam Redmond,
Speaker 1: I think, is active? Really? Why do you have to though,
Speaker 1: because you've got a wide receiver now that's probably not
Speaker 1: going to be active and you're not going to replace
Speaker 1: him with a wide receiver. So if Amber said it, says,
Speaker 1: go out there, score some points, pull him out of
Speaker 1: the game, that sounds good, But you know, it isn't
Speaker 1: preseason where you have a lot of guys unless you
Speaker 1: put Adam Redmond active, because then now you're down to
Speaker 1: because you're saying both your tackles would be out in
Speaker 1: the second half of the game and then or whatever
Speaker 1: whatever happens, you're both year down to no tackles and
Speaker 1: then you got Connor Williams would have to come in
Speaker 1: and you know then Redmond so well, but you got
Speaker 1: don't you have two other two guards centers that you
Speaker 1: could play, right, Okay, if Cobb's inactive, who's active now?
Speaker 1: Because somebody gets to be active, So who probably Devin Smith.
Speaker 1: Devin Smith's always act who wasn't active? Well, then Devin
Speaker 1: Smith then because that's good for your feature. Devin Smith
Speaker 1: was active last week. I'm every week at practice, we
Speaker 1: come up with what you know, just try to guess
Speaker 1: what we think it is. Today we came the list.
Speaker 1: We came up with Cedric Wilson, Lyle Collins, Adam Redman,
Speaker 1: Joe Jackson, probably Tristan Hill again, Tyrone. If you get
Speaker 1: Antoine back, yeah, Antoine Woods is back, Luke Gifford and
Speaker 1: this one. I wonder about Donovan Wilson though, because it
Speaker 1: seems like he's doing a lot of special teams stuff.
Speaker 1: It makes sense, but it also and the thing that
Speaker 1: might happen is they would love to get Donovan Wilson up,
Speaker 1: But if Randall Copp can't play, then you probably don't
Speaker 1: want too in active wide receivers. So if Randall Copp plays,
Speaker 1: then maybe Donovan Wilson gets up. But if he doesn't play,
Speaker 1: then I would say he probably sits. Ye. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and take our break, and when we
Speaker 1: come back, I do want to talk a little bit
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Speaker 1: when I'm ask you guys each to give me one key,
Speaker 1: one key for the Cowboys to be able to get
Speaker 1: a win this week against the Jets. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: want to get some keys to the game from each
Speaker 1: of you. Let's go around the table. I want you
Speaker 1: to just give me one thing, one thing alone that
Speaker 1: you think is a key, the biggest key in your
Speaker 1: mind for the Cowboys to get and win. Nick will
Speaker 1: start with first downs. You gotta get some yards on
Speaker 1: first downs. Go down, run a one yard run with Zeke,
Speaker 1: get about four or five yards, be you know, get
Speaker 1: some big plays, but don't get behind the chains. You
Speaker 1: can win this game up front if you. I mean
Speaker 1: you can win this game on offense if you. This
Speaker 1: is the number one offense in the league going up
Speaker 1: against the worst offense in the league. So just act
Speaker 1: like it. Go out there, get some yards on first down,
Speaker 1: don't get behind the chains where you have to force it,
Speaker 1: and you should be able to score twenty eight thirty one,
Speaker 1: thirty five points. When you say don't get a one
Speaker 1: yard run from Zeke, are you saying you would opt
Speaker 1: to not go with the run. Are you just saying
Speaker 1: they got to be better at block them, got knock
Speaker 1: them off the ball. I mean have success on first down.
Speaker 1: If you have success on first down, I think you'd
Speaker 1: play downhill and you'll kick their ass. Okay, that's what
Speaker 1: I believe. Amber Um, I pretty much agree with that.
Speaker 1: That's exactly kind of what I was going to say.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and start off fast. Don't do what you've
Speaker 1: been doing, because even if you come back home with
Speaker 1: a win, let's say, scoring back to over thirty points
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I mean, yes, it matters you won a game,
Speaker 1: but when you're about to face the Eagles and upcoming teams,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the kind of problem I want to
Speaker 1: see them resolve this week. Saying first quarter, I'm saying
Speaker 1: first down, but yeah, first but if by you starting
Speaker 1: off and getting yards and so essentially, it's kind of
Speaker 1: what you were saying too. So just go ahead and
Speaker 1: start off fast, don't wait until after the second half
Speaker 1: of the game to start scoring points and moving the chains.
Speaker 1: That's my biggest thing now. And then seeing what burmaher was,
Speaker 1: what he does in this game, him not missing anything.
Speaker 1: I regret not being here when you guys talked about
Speaker 1: him on the show because I was listening and I'm
Speaker 1: like cussing, Well, no, you know, I was just upset.
Speaker 1: But it's like I'm upset, but I'm not upset anymore
Speaker 1: because they did that to themselves. So that's what you get.
Speaker 1: You know, when you don't bring a competition a training camp,
Speaker 1: that's what you get. I don't feel bad, even though
Speaker 1: it's upsetting, I don't feel bad anymore, or you know,
Speaker 1: even though that's a position that they say you can
Speaker 1: just bring in a guy and plug him. Writing, I
Speaker 1: don't care. You didn't bring competition. This is what you get,
Speaker 1: and I hope you learned from it. The lane sounds
Speaker 1: like somebody's disappointed. Mom, Like, I'm not mad. I'm disappointed, right, yes,
Speaker 1: which is even worse? Yeah, oh, always, yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: worried about them winning the line of scrimmage, specifically on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. The defense doesn't really
Speaker 1: worry me, you know, Antoine's back. I think the linebackers
Speaker 1: can't play much worse than they did against Green Bay,
Speaker 1: so they'll be better. The Jets offensive line is not
Speaker 1: very good. I can't imagine them just absolutely getting gashed
Speaker 1: the way they did last week by this team, So
Speaker 1: that doesn't bother me. What worries me is, but you know,
Speaker 1: the Dallas offensive line, you might not have either starting
Speaker 1: tackle even if ty And gets out there, he's not
Speaker 1: going to be one hundred percent. They don't. The Jets
Speaker 1: don't get sacks, but they do have talent up there.
Speaker 1: We talked about that, you've got a good nose tackle
Speaker 1: who can clog things up. Leonard Williams is there. I
Speaker 1: just worry about Dak not having time. I worry about
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams being in the box and mucking that up,
Speaker 1: and Zeke not being able to run the ball if
Speaker 1: they can win that consistently. Again, it's the run and
Speaker 1: the past. This game shouldn't be that stressful, but with
Speaker 1: the injuries, I worry that they won't be able to right.
Speaker 1: I would say, really, I think it's on defense this week.
Speaker 1: It's all about them clearing up the problems that they've
Speaker 1: had in the past few weeks with regards to them
Speaker 1: getting in the right fits, making sure that they aren't
Speaker 1: getting out of position, that they're right where they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be. Because I think that I think by and large,
Speaker 1: the talents there, I think the calls are right. I
Speaker 1: think just what we've seen really and really more of
Speaker 1: this last game. I don't like packaging those two together
Speaker 1: because I think in the new Orleans game, they actually
Speaker 1: played pretty well. The defense did, but I think in
Speaker 1: this last game we saw some cracks that we hadn't
Speaker 1: really seen. I hadn't really seen a lot this year
Speaker 1: where literally they're just not in the right place at
Speaker 1: the right time, and that's I think if they clean
Speaker 1: that up and they just play good sound football, I
Speaker 1: think they'll overwhelm this this Jet team, because I don't
Speaker 1: think that offense is a really good offense. I think
Speaker 1: there are ways for them to be able to shut
Speaker 1: them down. If they can shut them down, then they're
Speaker 1: able to overcome what's happening on offense from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of guys being out with injuries. Even if they get
Speaker 1: out to a soul start again, the defense will be
Speaker 1: what holds them in this game, and then you you
Speaker 1: kind of go from there. So I think, really this
Speaker 1: game is all about the defense and how well the
Speaker 1: defense plays and if they can get back on track
Speaker 1: to being what they were at saying in the New
Speaker 1: Orleans game, I think that would end up being against
Speaker 1: an offense like this. I think they hold this team
Speaker 1: to three or six points if they had that level
Speaker 1: of effort that they had against the Saints. So is
Speaker 1: it cool to win by like a touch sign and
Speaker 1: a field goal when the NFL one point, when by
Speaker 1: one point, I don't, and honestly, I'm I'm never the
Speaker 1: person that's going to be like style points matter and
Speaker 1: in professional football they matter in college football because you
Speaker 1: still have to deal with poll In professional football, it
Speaker 1: does not matter. A win is a win. Loss is
Speaker 1: a loss. It's no different than saying, well, they don't
Speaker 1: get credit because they played the Saints close. They lost.
Speaker 1: A loss is still a loss my opinion, and honestly,
Speaker 1: you know, it's debatable, but debatable it is here. It's
Speaker 1: funny for us, but not for the NFL. And how
Speaker 1: the NFL works, A wins, it wins a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but when you talk about a team, okay, like the Jets,
Speaker 1: and again you can't you can't judge a team necessarily
Speaker 1: because they haven't won a single game. Things can happen
Speaker 1: in the NFL and NFL we've seen it happening happen,
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's the way they play. Okay,
Speaker 1: we come back here and start analyzing this whole team
Speaker 1: for a whole week and start debating whether they're good
Speaker 1: enough or not good enough, and then yeah, it matters
Speaker 1: how you win this game. Yeah for us, But that's
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. We're not talking about the standing.
Speaker 1: So because what if we just said, all right, welcome
Speaker 1: to the show, like, well they one, how it happens
Speaker 1: they won, I mean, you don't, yes, but that what
Speaker 1: I guess the point. Maybe maybe I misunderstood the question.
Speaker 1: That doesn't matter in the grand scheme of how good
Speaker 1: this team is or how not good this team is.
Speaker 1: That matters just because it's a talking point. Right, We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it, and that's fine, and that's fine,
Speaker 1: and that's fine for us and fans and how we
Speaker 1: feel about it. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: when it comes down to whether they're a good team
Speaker 1: or bad team, all you're gonna look at is wins
Speaker 1: and losses, right, And wins and losses will affect how
Speaker 1: you get in the playoffs, where you're seated in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and then ultimately wins and losses determine who's going to
Speaker 1: be the champion. Right. But okay, I think, but what
Speaker 1: we're saying is is that you win this game thirty
Speaker 1: four to seven, you go up and you play the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think they're gonna be winning against
Speaker 1: the Eagles. You win this game twenty seven, twenty four
Speaker 1: and overtime, you're not expected to beat the Eagle. I
Speaker 1: mean like you're looking at it like how this team
Speaker 1: is playing and so yeah, it's still four and two,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, you're like, well, this is
Speaker 1: not a good football team at all. This is a
Speaker 1: bad four and two football team. You know what's funny, though,
Speaker 1: is the ultimate example of me grading on a curve
Speaker 1: like Miami game. Absolutely, they needed to win that game
Speaker 1: by twenty plus for me to feel like they were
Speaker 1: good with the situation, with these tackles, it changes my
Speaker 1: expectation for what this game might look like completely, and
Speaker 1: I go, you know, home game against the Dolphins, I'm like,
Speaker 1: they need to win by thirty. Road game against the
Speaker 1: Jets without maybe without hiring and Lyle Collins. I'm like,
Speaker 1: just just get through this thing, honestly, get through it
Speaker 1: and get people healthier, and I'll judge you guys getting hurt,
Speaker 1: and they will. I understand that, Like there's always going
Speaker 1: to be injuries, that's nothing new, but like maybe it's
Speaker 1: just PTSD from that twenty seventeen Atlanta game. But I'm
Speaker 1: just like, get get through this game however you can.
Speaker 1: I think they should still win pretty comfortably. But my
Speaker 1: expectations are totally different than the Miami game. I guess
Speaker 1: I just look at it like they're they're always in
Speaker 1: the NFL, even in college football, they're always going to
Speaker 1: be weeks win teams just for whatever reason can't quite
Speaker 1: get going. And when you have those kind of situations,
Speaker 1: to me, what shows a really good team is those
Speaker 1: teams that even when it's not working out for them,
Speaker 1: like they are just they're beating their heads against a
Speaker 1: brick wall, they still find a way to win. And
Speaker 1: that's why I'm I'm still a big believer. And if
Speaker 1: you get the win, honestly, it really doesn't matter at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. You found a way, even
Speaker 1: on a bad day, to get a win. It's the
Speaker 1: bad teams that on a bad day end up losing
Speaker 1: to a bad team, right. Yeah. I think what we're saying,
Speaker 1: or at least what I'm saying, is is that your
Speaker 1: expectations of this team and where they're gonna go can
Speaker 1: change on how they play the game. Yeah, that's so
Speaker 1: we're kind of agreeing. Yeah, we're talking. We're probably talking semantic.
Speaker 1: Okay at the end of the day, Yes, but how
Speaker 1: did you get that win? Does for us? Not well?
Speaker 1: Sam Donald? Sam Donald? Sam Donald does what Aaron Rodgers did.
Speaker 1: I think everybody's going to be concerned about. Okay, this
Speaker 1: guy just you know, carved him up a little bit
Speaker 1: his defense. But have we seen enough of Donald to
Speaker 1: know what he is right now? I mean that we have.
Speaker 1: I mean he's a second third year player. I mean
Speaker 1: that's the point. I mean, he hasn't played enough to
Speaker 1: be carving you up like that. He shouldn't, you know,
Speaker 1: for you, for you to be as good as this
Speaker 1: hot boys and all that stuff, and you know, and
Speaker 1: they're still saying but they're still doing stuff though. I
Speaker 1: mean they should, that should be suspended right now, but
Speaker 1: they're not. They're still doing boys for sure. And I'm
Speaker 1: just saying if if if Donald goes out there, and like,
Speaker 1: we're all going to be a little concerned by that,
Speaker 1: because it's like it's Aaron Rodgers. He's a magician too. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I already am just a little bit concerned about that
Speaker 1: offense because I just don't know what to expect from them.
Speaker 1: They have a running back that they haven't really been
Speaker 1: able to realize what he can be because he had
Speaker 1: they've had funk out there, Like they have not had
Speaker 1: a quarterback for these last few weeks, soa eight points
Speaker 1: when they had him and get it, say, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, And so for me, it makes me
Speaker 1: a little a little uneasy as to what they're gonna be.
Speaker 1: If like I'm I'll just give you my prediction, like
Speaker 1: I'm expecting kind of an ugly, sloppy like I think
Speaker 1: Dack will make some plays. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a grind it out type of running day. I think
Speaker 1: they'll pull away. I said twenty seven thirteen. I could
Speaker 1: see twenty seven ninees just kind of like a convincing win,
Speaker 1: but just kind of gross. But if I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: I agree with Nick that like that wouldn't bother me
Speaker 1: because I'm like, oh, you didn't have your tackles blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. But like if they win thirty
Speaker 1: eight to thirty five and it's just offenses zipping up
Speaker 1: and down the field, then I'm concerned because this offense
Speaker 1: just should not be able to do that to this defense.
Speaker 1: If they're as good as they're supposed to be, okay,
Speaker 1: And I don't think that'll all right, and I have
Speaker 1: twenty eight thirteen, so I haven't. Maybe y'all given this point,
Speaker 1: now I got Brett Maher going two for two, maybe
Speaker 1: let's go. Maybe it's that you guys would give him
Speaker 1: more credit to the defense than I am. Like right now,
Speaker 1: I don't know what this defense is. I don't know
Speaker 1: they're startingly that as good as they were last Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't know what they are. It's really more
Speaker 1: me saying I just don't think the Jets are worth
Speaker 1: a damn on offense. That's really all it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not I mean the defense. We'll see, we'll get a
Speaker 1: great look at what they are against Philly, But I
Speaker 1: just don't think the Jets should be able to do
Speaker 1: that to him. When you start talking about which side
Speaker 1: of the ball is playing better or whatever, I still
Speaker 1: go back to that Saints game and what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense was able to do, containing them to only what
Speaker 1: was it, twelve points? So I mean that's why my
Speaker 1: main concern is still the offense and what they're doing
Speaker 1: the fact that my expectations, at least for last week
Speaker 1: having Michael Gallop back, I thought, okay, well, maybe he
Speaker 1: was a missing piece that was needed to make the
Speaker 1: offense click again, and that didn't happen. And I understand
Speaker 1: Tyron wasn't a part of the old line and all that,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I am concerned about the receivers
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think that they should rely on more. Huh. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I was thinking. I was thinking
Speaker 1: of the score in my mind. No, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I think they should rely a little more on Zeke
Speaker 1: just because I don't feel that Michael Gallub is a
Speaker 1: hun just yet. And then played awesome last week. Where's
Speaker 1: this hundred yards? But it's still it didn't seem it
Speaker 1: didn't seem like I've been watching him from the past,
Speaker 1: you know, like it just to me, it wasn't what
Speaker 1: I'm used to seeing from him. Respectfully, I disagree pretty
Speaker 1: hard like I thought. I think the passing game is
Speaker 1: the strength of this team right now. I mean, if
Speaker 1: not for turnovers. Well, it got to the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: for them to start doing something, but I mean that's
Speaker 1: the at the end of the day, that's the problem.
Speaker 1: So real quick asking to answer this question, which one's
Speaker 1: been better. If you look at all five games, has
Speaker 1: often been better. The defense been better, offense, offense has
Speaker 1: been great. I think it's a no brain of the
Speaker 1: offense has offen times. You don't think so because we're
Speaker 1: we are using that comparing it when we talked about
Speaker 1: those three first games, and it's like, yeah, they did great,
Speaker 1: but look at who they were playing. Yeah, but this
Speaker 1: last game, the offense had a slow start, but the
Speaker 1: offense still ended up at some point they got on
Speaker 1: a role. And I know that. I know you can
Speaker 1: say that the defense, that the Packers defense may have
Speaker 1: loosened up a little bit. I don't think they loosened
Speaker 1: up enough to just like they were scoring, scoring, scoring,
Speaker 1: Like I just think the offense. Yeah, they played a
Speaker 1: bad first half, they came back around and that looked
Speaker 1: more like what we'd seen for most of the season defense.
Speaker 1: And we said this this week, the defense has not
Speaker 1: played a quarterback that has won a game this year,
Speaker 1: and they still haven't with it Sam Darnold. So I mean, well,
Speaker 1: beaten one, you mean because I haven't beaten Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what that's one again. Yeah, I mean quarterback that
Speaker 1: Packers secondary was third in the league and yards allowed
Speaker 1: going into that game, and they put up any bad
Speaker 1: and the way and not even that. In the first half.
Speaker 1: They were making mistakes, but they were moving the ball.
Speaker 1: There was no doubt they were moving the ball. I mean,
Speaker 1: we were saying in the press box they basically can
Speaker 1: take whatever they want with the MARII like they couldn't
Speaker 1: hold him from the beginning of the game, Like he
Speaker 1: was wide open. He was completely losing his guy almost
Speaker 1: every time you saw him downfield. So I don't think
Speaker 1: I think I think it's clear the offense has been better.
Speaker 1: I just think that, you know, I think I think
Speaker 1: the defense is not as good as it was last year.
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to question how good are they going
Speaker 1: to be. Are they going to grow into being closer
Speaker 1: to that or is it going to be closer to
Speaker 1: what which so far, To go back to my point,
Speaker 1: that's I'm like, get through this game, win it because
Speaker 1: you need it in the standings, blah blah blah. However,
Speaker 1: you win it out whatever, get some guys healthy, and
Speaker 1: then we get another chance to see what they're really
Speaker 1: about against what I mean I think is always was
Speaker 1: a very good Eagles team. Like people are trying to
Speaker 1: overreact to a couple early season struggles from them, Like
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going anywhere, so big big test
Speaker 1: a week from now. I just I just want, just
Speaker 1: want to get this game out of the way, all right,
Speaker 1: Assuming they win it, we will figure it. We don't
Speaker 1: want to come into work. If they don't do I
Speaker 1: have to be here on Monday. If they don't don't
Speaker 1: want to do it, that either. We'll be back on
Speaker 1: Monday to tell you guys what went right and what
Speaker 1: went wrong for the Cowboys is Sunday at three thirty
Speaker 1: they'll take on the New York Jets in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Till then for Nick Eatman, Dave Helmet, Amergarcia, I'm Derek Eagleton.
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