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Speaker 1: Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, September tenth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number thirty six, and oh have we got a

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Speaker 1: show for you today here Live on the Break, live

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Speaker 1: from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We are

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Speaker 1: going to talk about this Cowboys game versus the Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys lose sixteen to eight. Not what any of us expected,

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Speaker 1: far from what we expected. Probably, I think we all

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Speaker 1: probably expected that that offense would be a little bit

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Speaker 1: better than it was yesterday. And and so we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get into that. We're gonna talk about everything that happened

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Speaker 1: in the game and why the Cowboys end up losing it.

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Speaker 1: But first, before we get to to just the intricate

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Speaker 1: parts of the game, I want to start with the

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Speaker 1: big picture here. Dallas basically blank defensively, they blanked until

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. They didn't, I'm sorry, offensively, they weren't

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Speaker 1: able to score until the fourth quarter. The defense, pretty

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Speaker 1: much after giving up ten points in the first half,

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Speaker 1: then held this team pretty steady there for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the game. And really it was a lot of

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Speaker 1: the damage that the Panthers did offensively happened early in

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Speaker 1: the game, before they started to figure out what was

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Speaker 1: happening with Cam Newton. Overall, what did you think of

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Speaker 1: the just the poor play offensively and how the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: really are going to get any better at this point.

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised. I thought they would beat the Panthers by

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Speaker 1: thirteen points. I thought Zeke would look good. I thought

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Speaker 1: that this team would just magically get it together, and

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Speaker 1: they didn't. They looked like they had not played with

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Speaker 1: each other before, and a lot of them hadn't, you know,

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Speaker 1: haven't because there are new players. It was really ugly,

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Speaker 1: and I'm the first one to say I was absolutely

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Speaker 1: this is a this is a trend that that's been

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Speaker 1: And here, I mean, I was absolutely wrong. I'm not

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Speaker 1: going back to the last thing I said on our

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Speaker 1: I mean, I said, you know, I'm gonna choose to

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Speaker 1: that went for both sides of the ball, and on

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, they they It took them some time

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Speaker 1: You know, Cam ran for sixty yards. It's not great,

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Speaker 1: sixty points should win you most football out. Yeah, not

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Michael Gallup getting involved, Havon Austin

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Speaker 1: He said. Kawan Short and Don Taripoe had the potential

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Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott obviously a great running back. We didn't really

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about Dak Prescott and the protection.

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Speaker 1: Uh Dac was nineteen of twenty nine. That was sixty

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Speaker 1: That I think about the Shack Thompson blitz where Zeke

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Speaker 1: It's almost like they didn't want to really do it,

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Speaker 1: Back to the Break, Welcome back. It is the second

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Speaker 1: segment of The Break live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios.

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Speaker 1: As the Star, we're talking Cowboys versus Panthers. Cowboys loses

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Speaker 1: from sixteen eight. Close game, but not really that close

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Speaker 1: when you watched it, it seemed like it was a

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Speaker 1: game that the Cowboys got beat up pretty good, even

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Speaker 1: though the scores is that they had a shot. That's

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Speaker 1: if anybody's curious. That's what it's like being an LSUE

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Speaker 1: football fan. No, Like it's ten nothing and you're just like,

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Speaker 1: we're not winning this freaking let's not talk about football. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry,

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Speaker 1: it's not the greatest, all right, so let's talk about

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Ezekuel Elliott yesterday, he runs fifteen times

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Speaker 1: or sixty nine yards four point six average. He gets

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Speaker 1: four I'm sorry, three catches, four targets, seventeen yards five

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Speaker 1: point seven yards per catch, all in all against a

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Speaker 1: good defensive front. Not a horrible day. Probably not what

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Speaker 1: you want. And certainly if you're looking at this offense

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Speaker 1: and how it's going to have to perform in order

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Speaker 1: to win, probably not what you need from the running

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Speaker 1: game if you're going to be expected to win. So

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Speaker 1: my question for you, guys is what do you think

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys can or will need to do in order

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Speaker 1: to get themselves to a position where their offense can

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Speaker 1: still run when the Russian game is not what it

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Speaker 1: should be. Well, I thought you just said it wasn't

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Speaker 1: a horrible game. I mean, I thought Zeke actually played

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Speaker 1: a really good game. Um, I mean that's the four

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Speaker 1: point six yards to carry is pretty good. Fifteen attempts

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Speaker 1: is not what you want to give. What you think

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Speaker 1: is that one of the best backs in the league.

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Speaker 1: He needs ten more carries than that. At least you

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Speaker 1: do that. You're sitting at one hundred and fifteen yards

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Speaker 1: or so. And and you know, I thought he his

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Speaker 1: worst play was the was the block that he missed.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure he was standing on the right side

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Speaker 1: of the quarterback there, but I mean that they just

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Speaker 1: got him. But the run right after that, the very

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Speaker 1: next run, I mean I remember saying that is a

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Speaker 1: big boy run. That's like, all right, I messed this

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Speaker 1: thing up at second in eighteen or first and eighteen,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna just go and get everything I can.

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Speaker 1: He put his space right in it. He did a

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Speaker 1: nice job there. But I mean I thought he ran hard,

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Speaker 1: did everything he could. They need to give him more carries,

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Speaker 1: and they got to move the change to give him

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Speaker 1: more carries. See I And I mean I wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: upset if they'd given him more carries. But I said

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Speaker 1: this last night, I'm not even mad about the carry

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Speaker 1: count the run when there in the first half the game,

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Speaker 1: the score got away from him. You're in a two

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Speaker 1: score hole in the second half. That's what it looks

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Speaker 1: like when you're trailing by two scores for most of

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Speaker 1: the game. My thing is, dude ran fifteen times for

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Speaker 1: sixty nine yards, three catches for seventeen No, No, that's

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Speaker 1: them and bad. And that's what we've been saying, is

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Speaker 1: Ze going to be more involved in the passing game.

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Speaker 1: Early returns aren't great, and that really the theme for

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Speaker 1: this And to be fair, to be clear, it's one week.

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Speaker 1: It's the NFL, Like everybody obviously needs to calm down

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Speaker 1: a couple notches. But through one game, we have seen

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Speaker 1: nothing to give us confidence that this offense will be different,

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Speaker 1: not only just one game, because you got to take

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Speaker 1: this back to last year. Well, that's what I'm saying

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Speaker 1: is we changed the coaches, we brought in all these receivers,

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Speaker 1: we did this, we did that, we traded for Tavon.

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Speaker 1: There's no reason to believe that anything's different and and honestly,

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Speaker 1: more so than Tavon and anything else, Zeke's performance in

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Speaker 1: the passing game is what makes me think that. I

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Speaker 1: mean because what he got thrown a couple of screens.

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Speaker 1: There was an aborted waggle because the Panthers read it

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Speaker 1: like a book, and then there was a swing pass

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Speaker 1: where maybe other than the Blitz pick up, I thought

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Speaker 1: that was that was such a big play because Zeke

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Speaker 1: was one on one with either a linebacker or a

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Speaker 1: dB and the guy made the tackle for a one

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Speaker 1: yard game. If he makes that guy miss, it's probably

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Speaker 1: a crucial third down conversion. Maybe a different ball game.

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Speaker 1: But I had a lot of green grass absolutely there,

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Speaker 1: as if he's one of the best backs in the league,

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Speaker 1: that's the play he needs to make. Yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: thought he played really well. I need to see more,

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Speaker 1: and I put that on coaching, like can my guy go?

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Speaker 1: Can he hang in the middle of the field? Can

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Speaker 1: he run a Texas route? Can you do some thing

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Speaker 1: with him? Literally? I got home last night at one

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Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning and turned on you know sports

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Speaker 1: center James Connor first went crazy. Okay, first NFL start

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Speaker 1: replacing Levon Bell. You know what his receiving line was

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Speaker 1: fifty yards I think five catches, for sixty yards. That's

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Speaker 1: better than all but two of Zeke's receiving performances in

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Speaker 1: his career, and the two that were better were when

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Speaker 1: he broke super long screens for touchdowns. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: James Connor coming out of college was not considered a

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Speaker 1: pass catchy running back like in college, he did it

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Speaker 1: very little. Don't tell me that you can't do this

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Speaker 1: with an all pro. If a guy making his first

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Speaker 1: start can be that involved in the passing game, it's crap,

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Speaker 1: and it can it should be better, and that is

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Speaker 1: what upsets me the most. It's fine if you got

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Speaker 1: to get away from the run when you're down two scores,

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Speaker 1: do something else like that's I think people attributed to

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Speaker 1: Mike Tyson. I don't know if he actually said it,

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Speaker 1: but everybody's got a great plan until they get punched

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Speaker 1: in the mouth. The Cowboys have a great plan and

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Speaker 1: we've seen it work when they're the ones doing the punching.

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Speaker 1: When they get punched in the mouth, it just they

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Speaker 1: just fall apart. And that's the way it is. It's tough,

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Speaker 1: and you really, really, when you look at it, you

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Speaker 1: start thinking about the fact that you watch a lot

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Speaker 1: of teams around the NFL, especially teams that have that

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Speaker 1: go to kind of player, whether it's a running back,

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Speaker 1: whether it's receiver, they get into crunch time, they get

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Speaker 1: into times of the game when they're having a hard

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Speaker 1: time moving the ball, and they start feeding those guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like play after play after play, and the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys seemed, for whatever reason, right now, there's only one

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Speaker 1: of those guys on this team right now. That's Zeke.

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Speaker 1: So when you get into that situation, like you said,

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Speaker 1: whether it's in the running game or in the passing game,

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Speaker 1: get him the ball, figure out creative ways to get

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Speaker 1: him the ball in space, and let him do what

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Speaker 1: he does because he is your best player. If you're

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Speaker 1: gonna lose, at least lose on the back of your

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Speaker 1: best player, right Yeah, I mean, like he should touch

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Speaker 1: the ball upward of twenty two times per game, all

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Speaker 1: things considered. It doesn't always have to be carries. It's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's not ideal. Let's talk about the I was

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Speaker 1: gonna say, move to defense. Actually I was gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about the receivers. Okay, go ahead, Okay, did you you

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Speaker 1: want to say something? What was the main thing that

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Speaker 1: you guys noticed when that was the change, when the

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Speaker 1: ball was finally able to get moving, and that got

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Speaker 1: into the end side, they went to their two minute offense.

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Speaker 1: Basically they were in spread, and they were in eleven

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Speaker 1: personnel and they were basically just moving the ball. And

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Speaker 1: they've done that before. When they tend to find themselves

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Speaker 1: in games where they can't really get anything going, they'll

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Speaker 1: go into their two minute and usually that gives them

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Speaker 1: a little bit more no huddle. You know, it moves

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Speaker 1: a little fast, you got a little bigger, a little

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Speaker 1: better pace, and it tends to get him into a flow.

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Speaker 1: And that's when they got that one drive that drove

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Speaker 1: all down the field. I think it was a ten

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Speaker 1: play drive. They ended up with a touchdown. They were

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Speaker 1: exclusively in two minute and there was no third down

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Speaker 1: except for the one run that deck went eleven yards

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Speaker 1: or nine yards on the scramble. Right. But that he

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Speaker 1: was I mean, he was bad. Objectively, he did not

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Speaker 1: have a good game. I think we would all agree

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Speaker 1: on that. But and I Nick tweeted this during the game,

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Speaker 1: that was that was a gutsy drive on his part.

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Speaker 1: I'll give credit where it's dude, like that third down

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Speaker 1: conversion fighting those guys off to get the two point conversion.

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Speaker 1: Just I mean, there's there's reason to believe that this

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Speaker 1: thing can work. But you got it's got to show

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Speaker 1: up for more than three minutes of a sixty minute game.

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Speaker 1: You want so hard to like him because he does.

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Speaker 1: He says the right thing, he typically wears the right thing.

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Speaker 1: I kind of wonder about that one. But for the

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Speaker 1: most part, like he's you know, he you know, he's

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Speaker 1: playing like a like a warrior. He tries to play

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Speaker 1: the game like like you see Newton plant and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that. You just wonder what his capabilities are throwing

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Speaker 1: the ball. And it begs the question if teams have

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Speaker 1: started to figure him out. I mean, they look like

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Speaker 1: they did last year. What was one of your question,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna get to that good, very good now

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Speaker 1: I was gonna get to Okay. For example, last year,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the times that we come in in

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Speaker 1: the second quarter, in the second part of the game

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Speaker 1: and not second quarter, second half of the game, and

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Speaker 1: you would see them doing some things and moving the ball,

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Speaker 1: but by that time it's freaking too late, Like whatever

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Speaker 1: you do, it doesn't matter. And we saw it last

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Speaker 1: year too, where you can't rely on just your defense,

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Speaker 1: like your defense is gonna get tired. We saw it

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Speaker 1: in this game. They can be as good as they

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Speaker 1: could be, Like they could be great. I don't believe

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Speaker 1: the whole thing, Like, you know, defenses win games. They do,

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Speaker 1: but you need to freaking score points otherwise you're not

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Speaker 1: getting anywhere. So this whole thing was like, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: exciting to see the defense and the progress that we've

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Speaker 1: been seeing. But by the second half of the game

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Speaker 1: this time, fourth quarter, by that time, it's way too late.

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Speaker 1: You need to figure it out and start doing things.

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Speaker 1: You really know the things that that can't do. You

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Speaker 1: really know what your players can't do. So now figure

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Speaker 1: out how to make it work with what they can do.

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Speaker 1: And they've pointed out a lot of those things too.

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Speaker 1: Where okay, how do you how do you you delize

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Speaker 1: State in Austin this team better or not ever? Ever

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Speaker 1: take the ball to start the game ever again not not,

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Speaker 1: I mean one of your biggest thing. It was, well,

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Speaker 1: it's it's always been one of my biggest things. Now,

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Speaker 1: now yesterday wasn't their choice. I'm not saying it was.

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Speaker 1: But the strength of this team has changed, It's changed

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Speaker 1: it's changed right in front of him. You just said, Amber,

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Speaker 1: you said they know what Dak Cannon can't do. Do

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Speaker 1: they like? Do they really do? They really still wonder

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Speaker 1: that he can be the guy because they need to

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Speaker 1: figure that out. Their strength on this team is defense.

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Speaker 1: For this team, if they get in a situation where

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Speaker 1: they win the toss, they need to defer. They need

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Speaker 1: to go play defense. Why are you looking at me

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Speaker 1: like this? Would you like to make a lunch bet

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Speaker 1: that they don't Yeah, yeah, next time they win the toss,

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Speaker 1: whether it's Sunday. I'm kind of I'm kind of we oh.

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Speaker 1: I know because knowing this team, I agree with your point.

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Speaker 1: But knowing this team and kind of how they do

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Speaker 1: things at times, I would not be shot at all.

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Speaker 1: They say we're taking the ball, I'm waiting out for

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Speaker 1: you going to try to score. Okay, that's that's a

641
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: one change that needs to be made. I'm waiting for

642
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Speaker 1: you to ask if there needs to be another. I'm

643
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: like waiting for you. Okay, So let's get actually, let's

644
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: get into that, because I do think that's a worthy conversation.

645
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: There's a lot of talk right now about how creative

646
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: the offense is being called, and how they're using DAK

647
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: and how they're doing things in order to get Zeke involved.

648
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Speaker 1: And we talked about tavon Austin. Do you think at

649
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Speaker 1: this point that maybe there is a scenario where you

650
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: should consider going back to Jason Garrett calling the plays

651
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 1: versus having Scott Lenahan calling the plays. I think that's

652
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Speaker 1: something that has to happen here somebody. I think that

653
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: there needs to be some kind of change here, because,

654
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: like you said, it's one game. It's still early in

655
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: the year, but it's not too early for these trends

656
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: to be to be that. We've seen these trends, and

657
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: I've seen other teams do this where it's like, all right,

658
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: you kind of go into this year like all right,

659
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Speaker 1: let's make sure it's different, and when it's not, the

660
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: first sign that it's not, you have to do something different.

661
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: Hopefully they had some kind of recourse in place. I

662
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: think you're right, and I think they need to make

663
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: a change. I think Jason Garrett could could be the

664
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Speaker 1: play caller. Don't know what that means as far as

665
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Speaker 1: job status and all that stuff, but I do think

666
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: that you you need to switch something up here. And

667
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Speaker 1: I think. You know, he's been a pretty good play caller.

668
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Speaker 1: I don't care what you think about him as a

669
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Speaker 1: game manager, all this stuff. From a play caller standpoint,

670
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: he's done a good job over the course of his career.

671
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: Maybe also had Tony though, that was that was a

672
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Speaker 1: big difference. Yeah, yeah, I get it. I mean most

673
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Speaker 1: people will say Tony was the best play caller they've had.

674
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Speaker 1: I mean there may be something to that too. Well.

675
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Speaker 1: They never didn't. They always moved the ball in two minute.

676
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: He was the play caller always. Yes, well maybe, I

677
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: mean that moved the ball in two minute two I

678
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: mean i mean, you can't look the whole game. I'm sorry,

679
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Speaker 1: that's a I don't know. That's that's interesting. I mean,

680
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: they're certainly precedent for it. I was talking to somebody

681
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: about that this morning. The Bengals outright fired their offensive

682
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: coordinator after two games last year. I mean, they got

683
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: shut out twice in a row, or you know, close

684
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: to it, and they just bye bye. John Payton got

685
00:32:58,080 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: it stripped from him when he was in New York

686
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: like people, I mean, before he became the great Sean

687
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: Payton as a head coach, he was him with the Giants.

688
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: Point being, it can definitely happen. Other point being, it

689
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: flies in the face of everything we have established about

690
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett's tenure here, Like that's just not something that

691
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: they do. So that would be hold on, I just

692
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,479
Speaker 1: want to stop you right there. What what did we

693
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: figure out when we talked about Bill Callahan? Yeah earlier?

694
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Speaker 1: Was that when you right, am I am I crazy?

695
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Speaker 1: Or was that not like an off season that was

696
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 1: an off season thing they brought in Scott Linahan. After

697
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: they brought in Scott Linahan after the twenty thirteen season,

698
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: Scott Linahan was like the passing game coordinator and Bill

699
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: Callahan was the running game coordinator, which again, they don't

700
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: just get rid of people. That's not something that they do, Okay,

701
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Speaker 1: But something happened in the middle of the season where

702
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: I remember Callahan. I'm pretty sure that Garrett went to

703
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: calling plays like in the middle of the season. I'm

704
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: gonna have to look this up or figure out. You

705
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: might that sounds familiar. You might be right, jeried never

706
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: or fire a coach in the middle of the season

707
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: until the season with Wade right, hey, there's the first

708
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: time for everything, and that honestly and I'm the first

709
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Speaker 1: one to say, like, no, the status quo is always

710
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,280
Speaker 1: typically the way it goes. But like, like I literally

711
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: I pulled up the scoreboard from the league, Like three

712
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: teams didn't score ten points yesterday, and two of them,

713
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: Buffalo and in Arizona, are widely considered to be in

714
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Speaker 1: the running for the number one overall pick. If I mean,

715
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Speaker 1: it's embarrassing if it doesn't, I mean, hey, if it

716
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 1: doesn't change something, will I guarantee you? I mean, that's

717
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 1: not you don't lose anything by making any change. At

718
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: this point, what are you gonna lose? You don't have

719
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: anything else to lose. Like that, end point accurate statement.

720
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Speaker 1: That feels a little dramatic to go back to, offensively

721
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Speaker 1: what they've been doing from last year into this year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, are you saying you gotta be worse than that?

723
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: In that? In that I agree, But I'm basically I get.

724
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Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of the day, and I'm

725
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,479
Speaker 1: not here to sugarcoat it. That sucked. It was so

726
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: bad it hurt. I still it's still one game. It's

727
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: still just one you know. It was crazy right now

728
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: that Dave is talking us all off the lage, like

729
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,879
Speaker 1: that's that's that's when we know something is wrong here.

730
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't agree though I think you're one

731
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,919
Speaker 1: game into the season, but I don't think it's one game,

732
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 1: and I think that you know, you'll agree with me

733
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: here that this is a troubling pattern that's been happening. Absolutely.

734
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Speaker 1: You said it on the plane yesterday. You said it's

735
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 1: hard not to score ten points in the league. And

736
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 1: yet in the last what seven games? Five? Five? That's embarrassing.

737
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: Five times that they haven't managed to do it in

738
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 1: the last or ten I mean going back to what

739
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: was the first game of that side, going back to

740
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: Atlanta last year. Okay, this is like the fifth time

741
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: that they haven't scored more than ten points. It was

742
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: historically bad last year, right, didn't the Atlanta Chargers m

743
00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: Philly again? Again? And now yesterday said that's that's nine games,

744
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: and that's five times in nine games that you've you've

745
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: scored less than ten points. It's quite mean. You have

746
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: to try to be that bad in the NFL. Well,

747
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: I mean in a league, in a series two, in

748
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 1: a league where the nine or ten point underdog Bucks

749
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: went into the Superdome and put fifty on the Saints.

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Speaker 1: You can't score ten points, ye, And I'm not talking

751
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: about winning. It's hard to win on the road in

752
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: the NFL too, score ten points. My god. And by

753
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: the way, but I was just saying, I thought I

754
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 1: was gonna really have this cool stat. I started looking

755
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,040
Speaker 1: in the media guy to like figure out, when's the

756
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: last time they won with something less than ten? And

757
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: I got one game. I forgot they won that game.

758
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: You're six nothing like that because you spent you spent

759
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: eight months trying to purge that that wasn't a real game.

760
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: But like, yeah, it was like taking it. But by

761
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: the way, for those people out there who won a

762
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: point two, well they let Dez Bryant go. This also

763
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: goes back to when Dez Bryant was here. So I'm

764
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Speaker 1: not saying des Bryant was the problem last year. What

765
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: I am saying is he wasn't a part of the solution,

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Speaker 1: and not having him means you, I mean, they are

767
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: still having the exact same problems they were having when

768
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: he was point That's the biggest problem for me, though,

769
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,479
Speaker 1: is you see so many elements change, but you're still

770
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: getting the same freaking result. So that is what is

771
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,959
Speaker 1: more I know you're setting. I know you're serious because

772
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,959
Speaker 1: you've said freaking like five times. Yes, did I point

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Speaker 1: me in the direction of a person that thinks Dez

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Speaker 1: Bryant changes the outcome of that because I got a bridge.

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Speaker 1: I want to sell him honestly him. Well, he tweeted it,

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00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, did you hear Alan Hurn going

777
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: off in the locker room about it? No? No, No,

778
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, did I miss something? The difference here? Although,

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Speaker 1: let me ask you this question, do you think that?

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Speaker 1: And actually, this time for a sake of break, I'll

781
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Speaker 1: ask this question when we come back. I want to

782
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,720
Speaker 1: talk about No, we haven't. We haven't to give talking.

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Speaker 1: Do you think do you think, maybe though, that this

784
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 1: team needs more dog type mentalities, those kind of guys

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Speaker 1: that are so so so riled up about not winning

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Speaker 1: to the break Welcome back. This is the final segment

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Speaker 1: of The Break Black from the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At

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Speaker 1: the start, we're talking Cowboys versus Panthers, and I posed

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Speaker 1: the question right before the break, is this a situation

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Speaker 1: where you know we we've already I've already mentioned that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that Dez was a part of the

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Speaker 1: solution because last year they were having these same offensive problems.

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Speaker 1: I don't think necessarily that Jason Witten was a part

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Speaker 1: they were having the same situation. But I do wonder

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Speaker 1: if not having those kinds of guys. What I mean

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Speaker 1: are are way more emotional, because you could talk about

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Speaker 1: Dez throwing tantrums and all that, but Jason was just

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Speaker 1: as emotional. Like Jason took losses really hard, and you

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Speaker 1: could tell by the way he responded to people after

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Speaker 1: the game that he did. Excuse me, not having those

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Speaker 1: kind of guys, or at least those kind of guys

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Speaker 1: that we can perceive. Maybe they're there and they just

847
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: hold it back and they don't show us, But not

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Speaker 1: having those guys that we can perceive with that dog

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Speaker 1: type mentality does that hurt you? Does that is that

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Speaker 1: one of those things that maybe you need in order

851
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: to be successful in the NFL. And maybe the Cowboys

852
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 1: at least offensively may not have enough of those guys. Yes,

853
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: they do need more of that because when this this

854
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: thing has to matter, it has to hurt at some point.

855
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 1: Because if it does, if it really bothers them, uh losing,

856
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: then then you you'll fix it. On Monday. We talk

857
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: about this all the time. You'll you'll work harder on Tuesday.

858
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: You'll watch more film on Wednesday, and you'll practice better,

859
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: and Cristoper and and you'll you'll figure things out more

860
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: and it'll be it'll you'll things will matter more. Um

861
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: and that and that's just what. And I don't know

862
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: who that leader is. I really don't. They are offensive line.

863
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: You've got three guys that they're they're not vocal leaders

864
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: that we see that we see, um. But you have

865
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: to be a great player to be a leader. You know,

866
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: everyone always talks about NFL leaders, Well, who's the best

867
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: leader of all time? I'm like Ray Lewis, Michael Irvin,

868
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,439
Speaker 1: those are Hall of famers. Like you can't just be

869
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: a good player that messes up every now and again

870
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: and then you're a leader. And I don't know if

871
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: they have that guy. I don't think I buy this

872
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: just and I've said this before, but I look at

873
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: myself when I think about that, because if you look

874
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: at me from an outsider's perspective on almost any given day,

875
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: you would think that I don't really care that much

876
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: about my job. I think that's a fair criticism, and

877
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,720
Speaker 1: I also know that it's not true. I care deeply

878
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: about my job. I put a lot of work into

879
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: hopefully being good at it. But you don't have to

880
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,879
Speaker 1: hit people for a living. Oh no, and thank God

881
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: for that. But that's my point though. I think there's

882
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,359
Speaker 1: a part to that. Okay, let's hold on, let him finish,

883
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: because I think I want to sit here. What he's saying,

884
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't believe. And there is something to

885
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: be said for that. This is a violent, physical game.

886
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: There is emotion that goes into it. Case in point,

887
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: Zach Martin, he's probably the best player on this team.

888
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: He's not like that. I guarantee you he's a mean

889
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: soob on the line, and I guarantee you he gives

890
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: a crap what happens. I don't necessarily buy that you

891
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 1: need to have that wear your heart on your sleeve

892
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: mentality to be a leader, right can I can? I

893
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: clarify though, Can I clarify though, I'm not saying this

894
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 1: has to be somebody who is wears it on their

895
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: sleeve as much as it is like if he is

896
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 1: a mean so ob during the game. That's what I'm

897
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: talking about. And my question is, do you think they

898
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: have enough of those mean sobs during the game on

899
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. Here's that have that

900
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 1: kind of dog mentality? How about this screw the mentality?

901
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have enough good players? Yeah, Like,

902
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 1: I mean, that's fair. Unfortunately for me, I'm I'm struggling

903
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 1: to come up with the counter example, like a strong

904
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,240
Speaker 1: silent I mean, for so long that was Tyrann Smith.

905
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: Unfortunately did not play a good enough game for me

906
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 1: to feel comfortable using him. As you've seen left out

907
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 1: tackles in the NFL who are really really good that

908
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: aren't really really outspoken. I mean, it's been tying for

909
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: a decade. There's been a lot of those guys that

910
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 1: acrost the NFL. I just I don't believe that you

911
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: need to have that desmntality. I think you need to

912
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: be really good and care a lot. Hell, I'm gonna

913
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut you off on this part. And I'm

914
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: not trying to bring anything specific to the air that

915
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: we deal with. But you talked about your job and

916
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: what you do and people perceive you and all that

917
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: which isn't true and all that, and I believe that

918
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: you're one hundred percent right in that. But let's say

919
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: another writer or another we have four other stories over here,

920
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: and three of them the head they linked to the

921
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: wrong story. They messed up. Our headline wasn't here. We

922
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 1: had the wrong picture here. Your two stories were good

923
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: and they had no errors in it, and they were great,

924
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 1: but these other three things kind of messed up, and

925
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 1: overall the whole website when you looked at it, did

926
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 1: not look very good. And so you're like, yeah, I care,

927
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 1: I did a good job, But do you care enough

928
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: to say and I'm not specifically, I'm saying, do you

929
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: say that's got to be better? Like you have to

930
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: be better to say that to your teammates, to say

931
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: your teammate, it's like, because you did your job, your

932
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: stories were good, but these two weren't good. So Zach

933
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: Martin the only one can say, I've blocked my guy

934
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: all day long, but you didn't. And you didn't and

935
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: you gotta get open. That's what they need. They are

936
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: doing that, like, I'm sure they're not gonna do that

937
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: in front of us. That's true, all true, and that's

938
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: that's the point of what I was prefacing when I

939
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 1: asked the question. We don't know if they're doing that

940
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. What I'm saying, though, is do you

941
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: need to have that? And I think I believe that

942
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: you do need to have players that hold other players accountable,

943
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,760
Speaker 1: and that means calling guys out. If if you're a leader,

944
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: calling guys out who are not doing their jobs, so

945
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: that everybody knows that. Ultimately, you have to be accountable

946
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 1: to your teammate. I'll say this like, sorry, obviously not

947
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: the offense, but as far as let's say, for example,

948
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: Sean Lee, we all know how much he cares about

949
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: this game, and it's very obvious, but he's a very

950
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: quiet guy, at least you would think. So now where

951
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: that changed my mind? It's like when we get to

952
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: training camp and you get to see more of the

953
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:01,479
Speaker 1: real action happening there and you start paying attentions. Oh crap, dang,

954
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 1: he's pretty vocal, exactly exactly, So it's like you just

955
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 1: never really know how vocal these guys are when they're

956
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: you know, doing their own thing in private, versus why

957
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: we get to see from the outside. Absolutely I agree to.

958
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: I mean, there are guys like that on this team,

959
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: whether it's Sean, whether it's DeMarcus. Okay, hey, I'll take

960
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: any of those offensive linemen as far. And they're not

961
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: the yelling types, but they talk about it all the time,

962
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,879
Speaker 1: the standard that they set Zeke and Dak for that matter.

963
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: Dak's got to play better. But we can't sit here

964
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: for eighteen weeks in twenty sixteen and talk about what

965
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: an effortless and natural leader Dac is and then just

966
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: throw that out the window when he's not playing well.

967
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 1: I think it's there on both sides. It just again,

968
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: do they have enough good players? We don't know, And

969
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: again it's one week, but the early indications are not good.

970
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: Right now. It doesn't look like right now for whatever reason,

971
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: it's working. So whether they don't have enough good players,

972
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: whether they're not calling the right plays, whether they're not

973
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: putting their guys in the right positions, whether they're overmatched

974
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: because of guys that are out like there are a

975
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: lot of different things that it can be. What we

976
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: do know is it didn't work. Yes, you had good

977
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: players last year, it wasn't working. This year you switched

978
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: it up. It's still not working. And it goes I think,

979
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to you know whatever, but it

980
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: goes beyond that. I mean, at this point you've seen

981
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: different kinds of players, and it's upsetting when you see

982
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: to me, when you see like a great player like

983
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: Jason went and leave without nothing. Okay, but let me

984
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:42,800
Speaker 1: ask you this question. Do you think we're sent to

985
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: some degree undervaluing what Travis Frederick means to this offense

986
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: for them to give up six sacks yesterday and on

987
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: several of those situations it seemed like maybe they just

988
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: weren't in the right place at the right time, or

989
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: they just kind of something was a little off. I mean,

990
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: is are we seeing right now the result of not

991
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: necessarily his play, but having his ability to be able

992
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: to make the calls, to be able to get everybody

993
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 1: where they need to be and know what they're what's

994
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Do you think that maybe that's more of

995
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: a problem than we anticipated it would be. Yeah. Yeah, Well,

996
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: in a hard to know but I'm I'm giving his

997
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: first game without him. He he's never missed a game.

998
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: He missed a game. Have they given up that mini

999
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:24,280
Speaker 1: with that offensive line? They've never played with that offensive

1000
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: What I mean by that is when you've got, when

1001
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: you've had, when you've had Tyrant and Track, I mean

1002
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: Tyrant and Zach without well, you haven't had without Frederick.

1003
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: But with Frederick, let's say, with the three of them

1004
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 1: and whoever other two you want. With those three, have

1005
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 1: they ever given him six sacks? I doubt it, But yeah,

1006
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: because that last year you go to Atlanta, but they

1007
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: didn't have the three of them. I'm I'm not gonna

1008
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna buy it in this case. I just

1009
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: I can't because you you and I know nobody could

1010
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: have seen what happened in Travis coming. But you had

1011
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,800
Speaker 1: the offseason, you brought back Joe, You took all these steps.

1012
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: Joe has been in the starting lineup for three weeks

1013
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: at this point, and I haven't had a chance to

1014
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: go back and watch it. I don't remember. I don't

1015
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: think Joe was terrible. I mean, but he's also the thing.

1016
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: Elliott Zeke ran for four point six per carry, but

1017
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: the reason, the reason why you put that rookie out

1018
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: there at guard and you felt okay about it is

1019
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: because of the guys that were beside him. Joe may

1020
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: have been able to do his job. Is he good

1021
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: enough to be able to do his job and help

1022
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: out with the with Connor Williams, I saw him try.

1023
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: It doesn't necessary. It didn't always work out, but it's

1024
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 1: still not as it shouldn't be as bad to get

1025
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 1: you to the point where you can't move around, and

1026
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not a good enough excuse. And if

1027
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: if it had looked like Denver, like literally ten rushing yard,

1028
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: like you can't do freaking anything like that's the that

1029
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: was different. No, absolutely, I mean it looked a lot

1030
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: like Denver, but it was better. I mean the offense

1031
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: there were flashes of competency when there weren't flags and

1032
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: sacks and bad decisions, and I just think of play

1033
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: call was very predictable and not innovative in the slightest

1034
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: And on top of that, Dak wasn't good, he wasn't

1035
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: hidden people. I mean, the Jarwin throw just has burned

1036
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: into my brain, like I saw enough to think that

1037
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: it could have been different with better execution. I guess

1038
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: that's my point. Like if it had just been a

1039
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 1: nightmare from beginning to end, where you had no hope

1040
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: that they were ever going to do anything, then I

1041
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: might be talking more about Travis Frederick. But there was

1042
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: enough there to make me think they could have done

1043
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,479
Speaker 1: more if they'd played and coached better. But that's also

1044
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 1: the problem I think when and again I'm not I

1045
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:33,800
Speaker 1: don't want to get too far into this debate, but

1046
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: I believe that when you don't, when you make the

1047
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: decision that you're not going to play guys in the preseason,

1048
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna in some instances, as was the

1049
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 1: case with Shaun Lee, you're not even going to practice

1050
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: them during training camp. A lot of the time, I

1051
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: think that when you go into this game and guys

1052
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: are not at their best, then it begs the question,

1053
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: did you miss that opportunity? And here's wick and come

1054
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 1: back and bite you. If this is a nine and

1055
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: seventeen and they lost this game to Caroline, that's the

1056
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: kind of game that could matter when it comes time

1057
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: for tie breaks in the playoffs. Is looking more like

1058
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 1: a hey, you know, this is a draft pick game,

1059
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: Like you could be picking sixth overall. If you you know,

1060
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Speaker 1: if you didn't win this game and this is a

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00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: playoff seven nine seven, seen it right now. I just

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00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: I don't think they used enough of the field on offense.

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00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: I think that they they they're just too egotistical to

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00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 1: think that they're guys and this scheme works, that you

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00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: can just bring everyone down and Terrence Williams in the

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00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: box is better than Terrence Williams way over here, and

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Speaker 1: you have more space. Let's just clutter this whole thing up.

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Speaker 1: We're not going down, we're not going side. We're just

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00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: we're just sitting there and just thinking that our guys

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00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: and our scheme is better than yours. And it's not.

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Speaker 1: It's it's something that fans, to y'all's credit, you know,

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00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: I know we roll our eyes at y'all sometimes, and

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00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: I'm sorry for that, but fans have been saying it forever.

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00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: Is like the refrain from this coaching staff is like,

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Speaker 1: don't worry about them. We focus on ourselves. Maybe you

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00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:57,839
Speaker 1: should worry about them, and maybe you should scheme, maybe

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00:51:57,840 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: they are a problem, to beat them, and not just

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00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: scheme to do your own thing, because it ain't working

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00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 1: and hasn't been very well for most of the last

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00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: season and a half. And that's what you that's what

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Speaker 1: you worry about because you're gonna get blue shirt blue

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00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: shorts today at the press conference, he just sticks with

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00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: this plan and it's like beating, you know, your head

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Speaker 1: against the wall, like he just this is the plan.

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Speaker 1: This is the plan, this is how we do it,

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00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: and you know what, you need to shuffle the deck

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00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 1: every now and again. I know it's only one game

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00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: for this year, but I'm just saying you've got to

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00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 1: mix things up a little bit because I think they

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00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 1: went out there thinking that what they do it would

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Speaker 1: be better than the Panthers, and it really wasn't close.

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Speaker 1: Just to be petty to your point, I'm going to

1093
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: have a close eye on Rams Raiders tonight because they

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00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 1: Sean McVay didn't play any of his guys, and I

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00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: have a feeling they're gonna look not like that. Even

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00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 1: if they don't look awesome, I bet they scored more

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Speaker 1: than eight points. I'm gonna guess that's today now. Of course,

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Speaker 1: let's also think about it from this standpoint. The defense

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00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:00,439
Speaker 1: they're playing at night is very different in the defense

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00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: for Cowboys played yesterday. That's a very very different comparison.

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Speaker 1: But I get your point, and you're probably accurate. They're

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Speaker 1: probably gonna look really, really good. There is an argument

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Speaker 1: to be made, and I've always said, you run the

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00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: risk of rust if you don't play your guys. I'd

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00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 1: still rather have them available in a game that matters.

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00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 1: And but you're making the assumption that you're going to

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Speaker 1: lose them if you play them in the preseason. I mean,

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00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: it happens every year, but that doesn't mean happens to everybody.

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Speaker 1: We don't have to do this right now, the point

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Speaker 1: being that's my personal preference. I'd rather run the risk

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00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: of looking crappy in Week one than not have them

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Speaker 1: at all, if and on top of that looking crappy.

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Speaker 1: On top of that, it's the NFL. I refuse to like,

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00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: you can still play and play well and win without

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00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 1: optimal conditions, and that's I can't I get all that.

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00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: But a guy, but a guy like Sean Lee to

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00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 1: me is the prime example. Sure, because Sean Lee played

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00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 1: an uncharacteristically bad game but today, and I refuse to

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Speaker 1: believe that it's not, at least in part because he

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Speaker 1: didn't get the number of reps that he needed to

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Speaker 1: get in the preseason. Is actually he is a perfect

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00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: example because he looked rusty, He didn't look like himself.

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Speaker 1: He missed two or three tackles. Most of it happened

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Speaker 1: in the first half and by the second half he

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Speaker 1: I mean, they buckled down. The defense gave up, losing

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Speaker 1: you a game. And in today's NFL. In today's NFL,

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Speaker 1: you only have sixteen of them. Here's the only got sixteen.

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Speaker 1: The defense gave up eighty five yards after halftime. Even

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Speaker 1: if they were rusty from not playing in the preseason,

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Speaker 1: they got it together. They held theirs, but never did.

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Speaker 1: That's my point is that is what it looks like

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00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: when you're rusty, is like you're like, oh crap, all right,

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Speaker 1: we're not great. We got it, we adjust, We're good.

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Speaker 1: Sixteen points, two hundred ninety three yards. What happened to

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Speaker 1: the offense is not rust. That's just awful football. Like

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Speaker 1: there's a difference, you know what I mean? Eight points

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Speaker 1: two of eleven on third down, two hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: two total yards. Whatever. That ain't rust. That's just bad.

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Speaker 1: In my opinion. Maybe all I'm saying is I do

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Speaker 1: think that that the rust was a factory yesterday. And

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00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: I believe that in today's NFL, the games are so close,

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Speaker 1: the teams are so close, that every single game matters,

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00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:07,360
Speaker 1: especially games in your conference and games in your division,

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00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: because those games are going to be the games that

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Speaker 1: decide who makes the playoffs and who doesn't. And I

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00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: think if you get to the end of this season

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00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys were right there and it was one

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00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: game difference, you're going to look back at this game

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Speaker 1: and say, should they have been a little bit more

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00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 1: prepared going into that game by playing those guys a

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00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: little bit more and maybe possibly being it because this

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00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 1: was not a game that was out of reach. They

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00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,320
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to win it. If they would have

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00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: been a little more prepared, maybe they win it. And

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Speaker 1: I think it's just at least worth a conversation. No

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Speaker 1: way to know for sure, you're right. I wish I

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Speaker 1: could bet my paycheck that twenty extra, twenty five extra

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Speaker 1: snaps in the preseason is not the difference between what

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Speaker 1: we saw and what could have been. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to know. I don't believe that. All right,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you guys. You want us we'll be back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: We'll give you a big picture look at where they

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Speaker 1: sit at this point, what's happening around the division, around

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Speaker 1: the conference. We'll do that tomorrow for Nicki, even Dave Hellman, Ambergarcia.

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Speaker 1: I'm Derek Eelson. This has been The Break live on

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