WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Predicting #DALvsSEA 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:04.280 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.440 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:12.040 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:15.920 for a break. Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:21.880 time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:28.680 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hello, guys, 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.440 we are back today. We're gonna talk about game day 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.840 predictions and all that fun stuff. But before we get 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:41.440 into it, how about them Cleveland Brown Shout out Brown Wow, 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.040 shout out. I've never been so hyped for a game 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.440 and it didn't involve a team I care about. So 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:56.480 they've turned their first game Sincember. They beat the Jets, 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.160 and that was pretty exciting. I mean, I'm surprised they 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.240 are still Browns fans out there, but there were a 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:06.000 ton of themselves. Honestly, you're saying some hardcore fans in 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.319 Cleveland you would really hardcore. You would jump ship on 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.400 the Cowboys if it wins South like that, You're just like, 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:12.280 I'm not going to root for this. Well, it's different. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.160 The Cowboys do win games, but but what if they didn't. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.520 I mean, that's what that's what fans are for, Like, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.400 you can't leave your team like three years no wins. 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.080 I mean, miserable fans, bro because of LSU. You know 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:30.039 about that life. I don't even come at me, Garcia, 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.120 that's the most ignorant thing you've ever said. Wow, we 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.679 haven't missed a bowl game since like nineteen ninety nine. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.600 I'll admit it. I don't know anything about college football, 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:43.640 but I do know that what is it? SMU loses 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:47.280 games all the time they do, and LSU loses game 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:49.720 a lot of the time. I'm about to freak out. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.560 That's not even close to being the same thing. I'm 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.800 just enjoying. I'm back and forth. But anyway, it's the 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.440 Browns are celebrating today after did you watch the game 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.640 day whole thing? Yeah, the whole thing, And you said 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.120 you were watched most of it. I had a little time, 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:05.480 I couldn't watch it, but I watched most of it. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.160 So based on what you've seen in the past and 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:12.120 now this game changer with this new quarterback, what are 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.919 the expectations now that we need to talk a lot 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.560 about the Browns right now, but it changes. I was 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.760 actually kind of shocked that Baker played as well as 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.720 he did when he got in there. I mean, Dave, 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.680 you've been saying, and I give you all credit, you've 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.880 been saying forever. No. You said when they made the 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:29.640 draft pick, you were like, he's gonna be good for them, 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.160 And I remember us having that conversation. I was like, 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.120 I'm not buying it. I have to see it. I 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.480 wasn't expecting to be that good. I love Baker, but 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.560 anybody that says they expected him to go in in 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.080 the middle of a game, I don't care if it 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.079 is the New York Jets, like seventeen to twenty three 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:43.920 for two hundred and there were a couple throws there 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.240 that were like wow, leading them down, letting them back 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.400 from fourteen nothing to win. I mean even I wouldn't 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.320 have predicted he would be that good. And yeah, like 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.560 he I mean he was slinging the rock like it was. Yeah, 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:56.760 it was impressive. It definitely was impressive. And I think 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.440 we're impressive. Those those over there on Brown's break today, 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.320 they got a lot to talk about. They're pretty excited 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.840 right now, would expect which it's only one game. Hey, 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.000 for all the haters out there, like Dak has played 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.040 games like that, before. So don't you know he's not 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.040 He's not the second Coming because of that game. He's 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.640 gonna have his struggles. They're gonna quote unquote figure him 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.320 out too. That's what the NFL does. But no, like 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.040 I would be so pumped if I was a Browns 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:26.920 fantas see DeShawn Lesson. Yeah, well, congratulations to them, Jimmy Garoppolo, 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:31.760 Go Brownies, Go Browns. Okay, so let's jump into the inactives. 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.360 Who we think we'll be inactive this week. Cole Beasley 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:39.120 did pop up yesterday with a limited um. He was 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.480 limited in practice with an ankle injury, and I mean 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.960 I don't know the severity of it. He was taking 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:51.040 part in practice today actually, like I got, I have 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.200 so many things going on on a Friday morning. Not 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:54.920 to pat myself on the back, but I didn't even 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.760 make it to practice today. But he did take part 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.840 in the open portion of practice today. I know that 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.960 thinks to Twitter. So he's out there. I'm not super 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.320 worried about him, I don't think So, who are you 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.760 worried about it? You're worried about Millie Collins. Yeah, I 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.320 don't think Millie Collins is well, he hasn't practiced. Yeah, right, 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.680 he hasn't practiced. Um, so got him out. Then what 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:20.040 about Sean Lee? Sean he was limited yesterday. Sean says 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.720 he's playing. Jerry says he's playing. He moved from did 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.080 not practice to limited yesterday. Okay, can I ask you 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.120 a question? And you you've been You're obviously a beat writer, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.000 so you kind of are in the mix. So what's 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.320 the deal? Was it a what was the deal with 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.520 his hamstring? Is it? Is it a hamstring? Is it 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.599 a cramp? And it keeps kind of going back? Did 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.200 you hear did you hear what Sean said yesterday? Yeah? 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.080 I kind of read a little bit of it, so 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:47.719 described as hamstring tightness on Sunday, Right, Sean came back 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.080 and he was like, I really thought it was more 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:51.960 of a cramp and bait. I mean, I don't want 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.960 to put words in Sean Lee's mouth, but like, and 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.120 you could even see during the game he was like 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.280 arguing with the medical stat like he didn't want to 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.440 go in the tent and get looked at. So I 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.159 imagine a scenario where he's like it's fine, I'm fine, 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.280 I'm cramping and they're like whatever, you got hamstring issues, 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:07.960 but you know you need Yeah, we need to look 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.440 at you. And so I think that's just an agreement. 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.240 You agree to disagree about what's wrong. So he's still 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.839 he still believes and wholeheartedly believes there was a cramp. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:22.400 The quote of the week probably was, um, somebody asked 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.360 him that yesterday, were like, is it a cramp in 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.560 your hand? Like what's going on? And Sean was like, 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.680 it's a cramp in my hamstring, and like everybody's like, 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.039 that's not how that works, Like, you don't cramp in 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.600 your hamstring. As far as I'm aware, I just think 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.719 that's different. I think Sean is just trying to you know, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.360 I mean and rightfully so, like alarm bells go off 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.400 when you hear Sean Lee hamstring. So I think he's 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.840 just trying to do his part to allay that concern. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.839 He doesn't want people freaking out. All the way that 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.360 he allays that concern is he comes out and he plays. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.760 He's playing, rights saying so if he can play, then 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.479 you're like, okay, it was a cramp. Yeah. If he 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:58.600 can't play, then you're like, and he might be off 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.719 for six weeks. We'll see it's yeah, but he's I 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.000 expect him to play, all right, good, good, Well he 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.719 said he would play, but then Jerry, I don't know, 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:12.240 he still said that it was hit about him and 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:18.040 who else was it that he Gregory and and you know, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.279 teams don't want to give that away for game planning purposes, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.200 and also which I feel like Jerry has kind of 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.840 changed his tune about that in recent years. Like I think, 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.520 you know, Jerry at one point in time would just 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.640 be like, yeah, he's gonna play, but now I think 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.440 he kind of defers to his coaching staff like, well, 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.479 I'm not going to give up the goose on Friday 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.520 morning when you know, we're trying to take this thing 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.760 to Sunday. So he said Randy Gregory and Xavier Woods 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.080 are game time decisions, but he said he feels very 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.240 optimistic that they'll be available. Me reading between lines, I 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.440 think they'll both play and both of practice this week. 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:52.800 So you would hope, you would hope that you're progressing. 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.520 Would be disappointing if they didn't. Yeah, so this will 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.320 be a little bit of a different week because when 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.479 you start looking at inactives, yeah, you don't have the 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.400 same number umber of guys that are injured that make 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.400 your your inactive list a little. It kind of creates 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.800 it for you. Right So basically, I mean right now, 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.360 he's Millie Collins, Trevis Travis Frederick. I think those are 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.040 both very good bets. Mike White and every week is 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.760 gonna be y. So then you got four you got 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.320 to come up with that are healthy scratches. I think 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.680 if Sean Lee is gonna play, that means you probably 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.440 don't need Chris Covington. I don't think he got into 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.440 the game against the Giants the other night. I don't 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.239 think so he was active, but I don't think he played, 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.400 so okay, so i'd be Chris Covington. You got four, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:37.120 need three more. You pick an interior offensive lineman. Maybe 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.320 you know Xavier sue A Philo, he's been here for 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.280 a little while. Maybe he gets in or Adam Redmond, 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.560 whichever of those, one of the two, one of the two, um, 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.040 one of the two tight ends. Probably again, take your pick. 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.520 I hope Rico's up again to think he showed he 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.920 didn't really show anything, but just he had the opportunities 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.480 were there that I hope he gets another shot. I no, 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.440 go ahead, I was just gonna say, surely, and I 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.000 was moving on to the next position, and then you 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.400 have to sit a receiver. I don't know how you don't, 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.240 but no, that's that's an interesting question though, if right 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.920 now you were you were faced with that question, which 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:17.160 of those guys you think you put down? If everything 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.680 is okay with Terrence, which so I mean, it's it's 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.120 it's always so convoluted with the Cowboys. But you know 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.000 reports the surface last night that he was facing a suspension, 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.280 and I think you know, when you add a seventh 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.440 receiver that's familiar with the scheme in the middle of 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.079 the week, that is something in your mind immediately goes 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.320 to I don't think anybody would be smitching that yesterday. Yeah, 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:41.640 super surprised. But the Cowboys don't appear to agree with that. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.200 Jerry Jones said he didn't know. You know, He's like, 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.520 I don't know about the accuracy of that. It would 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.120 be bad if we didn't have Terrence, but we're counting 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.199 on having him, So I don't know what to make 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:52.800 of that. Yeah, And to be honest with you, it 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.960 doesn't have to be anything. No, I think it's just 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.280 again because of the nature of it, and this is 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.439 what we were talking about yesterday because of the nature 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.720 of how it all came about with Bryce. Then all 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.400 of a sudden they add a seventh receiver when they 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.360 didn't think they need it one at first, and otherwise 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.960 nothing has changed other than two games of play, where okay, 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.240 is it because you think you need more help at 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.600 wide receiver, or is because something's going to happen with 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.760 Terrence because you know at some point the league's gonna 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:19.280 have a ruling one way or the other one Terrence. 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.840 In a way, it's a lot like the Zeke situation 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.040 last year. It's just nowhere near as high profile, one 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.760 because it's nowhere near as serious of a situation, and 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.800 two because Terrence is nowhere near is important to your team. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.160 So but I'm you know, let's say that happens, and 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.360 I have no idea, but it might not happen this week. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.080 It could happen next week, and that could just be 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:41.719 them trying to get ahead of it. I don't know. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.240 That's what makes the most sense. Terrence has done so 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.200 little this season that you could sit him, or you know, 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.160 depending on how Bryce practiced this week, you could sit him, 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.360 like if he looked terrible. If he looked like a 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.360 guy who hasn't been practicing for a month, maybe you 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.200 sit him, or maybe he looked great and he gives 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:02.920 you something that you don't have, so you sit. I 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:04.360 think it would have to be one of those two. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.320 You don't think it would be a have a hard 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.200 time thinking it would be, have a hard time believing 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.160 it would be anybody else, Like it's it's not gonna 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.640 be Tavon, It's not gonna be Gallop, It's not gonna 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.200 be Coal unless Cole's hurt. Wait, right, he's practicing, so 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.920 I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. Um 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.040 Deonte Thompson's played more snaps than anybody, and those four 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.840 seemed pretty steady. Can't imagine it would be Alan Hearns. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.760 I know Alan Hearns hasn't had like this crazy stat line, 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.200 but none of them really. But they're not gonna sit 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.480 all I make him inactive. I wouldn't. I don't for 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.440 a guy that just got here this week. I would 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.959 think it's either Terrence or Bryce unless Cole can't go right, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.600 So that's yeah, So I'm gonna guess. I'm gonna guess. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:50.920 Mike White, Bryce, Adam Redmond, MALIEK. Collins, Travis Frederick, Chris Covington, 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.560 who'd I forget? Oh? And Dalton Schultz. Sorry, there you go. 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:57.520 I can ask you this. Um, Let's assume for a 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.360 second that the Cowboys had to play a week and 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:00.839 may mean maybe not this week, but had to play 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.240 a week without Cole Beasley. Do you think that they 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:08.439 would use um ideally? Would they use um Tavon in 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.480 that role as your slot guy or because Hearns can 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.280 play the slot, will he be the guy that primarily 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:14.640 would be in there? Who do you think would kind 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.840 of jump into that role if Cole weren't available. I 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.440 would hope it would be Tavon, just because he's got 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.840 that quickness. That's what makes Cole so valuable as a guy. 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:24.880 You know, it's not that he's fast to say he's quick. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.120 Tavon's both, but like is Alan, Hearn's really going to 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.640 create that instant separation with his quick feet, you know, 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.640 within five yards of the line of scrimmage. I don't know. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.719 I doubt it. Um. I would hope it's Tavon, And 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.680 Tavon has shown that he can do that again. You know, 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.120 he hasn't He hasn't needed to. I guess he's only 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.280 played eighteen snaps that's his season high. So but that's 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.480 what I would do. Well, he's the next man up 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.480 closest to doing that kind right, He's the closest skill 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:57.479 set to what Cole is. Yeah, so that's a fair assumption. Okay, 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.360 before we're going to break and this might be a 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.120 longer discussion, I wanted to touch on Chris Rashard and 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.040 we talked about it a little bit yesterday. He did 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:11.720 talk to Scott Linahan, you know, helping out game plan 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.120 this whole thing. So he's an important guy this week, 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.920 not only for the defense but also for the offense. 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.360 How big of an impact can we expect from him 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:27.400 and the offense being able to give those insight information 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.520 from the time that he was at Seattle. I asked 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:34.640 Jason Garrett about that yesterday and he shockingly downplayed it. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.920 He was like, oh, always, well, there's interpersonal relationships all 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:39.760 over the league and that's just a thing, blah blah blah. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.560 And then I asked Scott Linahan about it and he 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:46.079 was like, Chris has been great. He gave up every No, dude, 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.240 I would sometimes I hear things that I would I 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.000 would just pay so much money to be a fly 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.840 on the wall. So Lenahan, Lenahan's like, yeah, he came 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.280 in and we watched because Chris Richard was with Seattle 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.680 for every game that Lenahan has coached against the Seahawks. 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.880 So that's three games, the Classic in fourteen, the ugly 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.440 loss in fifteen, and then last year's Christmas Eve game. 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.720 He's like, he came in, we watched all three games, 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.520 and he went through the whole game with me and 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.640 told me, like, you know how the Seahawks like to 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.480 prep for us, and what they think they can do 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.959 against us, and tendencies and all this other stuff. And 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.800 I was like, man, the football dorc and me, I 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.480 would pay an extravagant amount of money to just get 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.320 to watch that. I think it would be so cool. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.360 And here's the deal. I'm not under the illusion that 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.400 this doesn't happen all across the league. Like, here's it. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.720 There are all those relationships, here's the difference. The difference is, 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.160 I don't trust it. Every coach is smart enough or 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.440 has a handle enough on what's happening with his old 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.480 team to really be able to break it. Down as 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.840 well as as at least I perceived Chris Rashard. Not 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.000 only that, but like, okay, cool, you coached linebackers in 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.360 Philly for a year and a half, Like big whoop. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.600 That's not the same Chris Roshard was. He wasn't the 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.080 architect of that defense. Dan Quinn was. But like Chris 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.040 Rashard was in charge of that defense for like four years, 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.040 and he was the coach of the Legion of Boom 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.240 for three years before that, Like, he knows everything about 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.800 how they want to play defense, and also he knows 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:08.160 everything about how they schemed for this offense for years. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.800 And I know the quarterback has changed blah blah blah, 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.880 but Lenahan's been calling it since since then, so he 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.040 probably has a lot of information about how the Seahawks 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.280 might prefer to play them exactly. And and I trust 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.640 based upon just the results of what I've seen from 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.200 this defense, which I attribute so much of what we're 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.320 seeing this year from this defense. I think this defense 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.400 was good last year. I think this defense has a 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.280 potential to be great this year. And according to the 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.000 things that I that I heard yesterday, it sounds like 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.560 much of that is attributed at least from a coaching 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.360 side of it, to Chris Richard, and not only is coaching, 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.240 but his ability to call make call play calls during 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.080 the game because they mean Lena, I mean, I'm sorry. 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.000 Marinelli basically said as much yesterday though he's the one 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:53.960 that's making these calls. The reason why they're blitzing so 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.600 much it is because he's making these calls. So he 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.360 has quickly made an impact on this d defense and 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.000 taking this defense to the point now to where I 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:06.400 heard a commented earlier today say that that fearsome front, 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.880 that fearsome Dallas front. When's the last time you heard that, right? 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.240 It sounds pretty nice. Yeah, but I'm saying that's but 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.480 that's that's what people are thinking right now around This 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.400 is a national guy. That's what people are thinking right 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.480 now about this defense. Scared. The last time anybody said 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.680 that about this defense was when Where and Spencer were 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.360 your ends and Ratliffe was going to Pro Bowls at 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:31.080 nose tackle. Yeah that was that was a Super Bowl 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.760 for DeMarcus Ago. 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No, I gotta. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.160 I gotta see it to believe it, to be honest 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.600 with you, like, even though it should have happened last week, 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.080 I gotta see it. You don't think this is it? Well, 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.040 we don't even know for sure if he's going to 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.480 be active. So oh, you're just is this the law 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.560 of attraction? You're just like Rico to the active roster. 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.119 I'm just expecting him to be I think that after 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.800 them seeing how close it was, and given the fact 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:58.800 that it was more Dak's fault not to make it 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.639 happen and get that touch I think that they saw that, 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.720 you know, okay, we do have the opportunity here, we 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.639 can make this happen. And from what I hear, I 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:11.760 mean they keep practicing this thing between them too, So 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.840 I'm expecting them to keep him active and give him 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:18.080 more chances for this to happen. I hope. So I'm 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.600 gonna go out on a limb and I'm gonna say 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.640 by the end of this year, Rico will have five touchdowns. Whoa, 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:28.080 we have five touch based on bet on what, just 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.359 based on the fact that I believe he just has 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.399 too much skill and ability for them not to figure 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.040 out how to use him in the red touchdown. Put 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.960 money on five touchdowns, one of those happening this weekend. 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:44.800 Anybody on this team besides Das have five touchdowns last year? 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.600 Did anybody on this team besides Das have five and 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:55.040 twenty six? Five? Yes, five five touchdowns. I'm telling you 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:59.080 five touchdowns. This year? We have fivedowns. Okay, I got 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:06.040 thirteen steak so ober here, Yeah, Okay, no, not serve it. 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:08.719 Just keep it in the back of your brain. So 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:10.679 if this doesn't happen, what are you gonna give us? 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.119 I don't know. I don't know. But what am I 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.840 supposed to give you? Make something funner? He's gonna take 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:18.879 it fun He's gonna take us all out to dinner. 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:20.480 Like I don't do that all way to him? No, 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.520 I know, but yeah, but I'm thinking like, Indy, Yeah, 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.800 that's that's my birthday? Did you say that was? Okay? 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:27.800 We'll go out to dinner and but we won't know 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.320 then if if if he actually won't, if he has, 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.120 then you'll be paying for my Saint Elmo? Well yeah, 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.000 is that is that? An Indie's the saying Elmo Steakhouse? 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.080 A right? Good? So so wait wait wait so if 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.720 he has three by then do you pay for my steak? No? No? 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:47.280 Why not? Like this can't be a one sided bet. 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:49.000 We'll figure it out. We'll figure it all right, all right? 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:53.919 So crazy predictions for this game? Do you feel that 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:57.920 will make somewhat of a crazy play and impact this 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:04.640 game in a positive way for the Cowboys? Uh? Somebody 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:08.600 the Cowboys are gonna get on the interception Ledger this week. 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:13.080 That's the protection for the Seahawks is too bad. Russell 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.359 Wilson's gonna get hit too many times for him to 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.200 play a completely clean game. I think he's thrown picks 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.720 in both of their games so far. Yeah, he threw 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.240 the pick that ended the Bears game, and he definitely 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:28.240 got picked in Denver as well. So uh yeah, the 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:30.080 Cowboys are gonna get a pick. If I had to 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:35.919 put money on it, I would say, obviously, Jeff you 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:38.960 somebody step up and dethrone him. Then, I mean the 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:40.760 guys led the team and picks three years in a 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:45.640 four years in a row, right since fifteen? No, that's 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:48.440 only three. Sorry, I can't count um either way. I 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:50.720 would guess Jeff Heath, but maybe Bayern r Cheeto. But 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.800 somebody's somebody's getting a pick and it'll be a big play. 0:21:54.960 --> 0:22:00.119 Can the Cowboys score more points in this game than 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:04.919 the Seahawks or I mean again, we talked to about 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:09.520 this um maybe yesterday, I don't know, but that Seattle. 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.800 I mean, yes, they've lost games, but they haven't really 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:17.000 had issues with scoring points. And based on the still 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:19.520 early but based on these two first games, I feel 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.479 more confident with the with Seattle being able to score 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:25.600 than the Cowboys so far, I don't. Here's the reason why, 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:28.800 Because I think the Cowboys defense is better than the 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:32.720 defenses that Seattle's face so far, and so I don't. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.800 I expect both offenses to struggle. I don't. And here's 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:38.040 the deal. When I say struggle, I think the Cowboys 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:40.200 offense will actually play better this week than they've played 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:41.919 the first two weeks, because I think Zeke will be 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.119 better um and I think because they'll be able to 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:46.840 get the running game going to some degree that will 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:50.000 help them and help their offense throughout the game. So 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:52.000 I actually expect this to be a week where Zeke 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:54.120 goes of one hundred yards. You look at his history. 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:57.040 First two weeks is usually when he's not that great. 0:22:57.359 --> 0:22:59.679 Gets to the third week, that's usually when Zeke comes on. 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:01.920 And I expect Zeke is gonna come on this week, 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:04.080 and I think he's gonna have a good week. I 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:06.000 still don't think the Cowboys are gonna score a ton 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:07.399 of points. I don't think they're gonna get into the 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:09.679 twenty seven range, but I wouldn't be surprised her up 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:12.320 at the twenty one range. Twenty four range maybe at 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:14.959 the most, but I think that's gonna be enough if 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:17.000 you look at it, because I just think that I 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:19.640 think that both these defenses are gonna be pretty good. 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:21.560 I mean, Dave broke it down for you to defense 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:24.280 just say. Seattle's defense isn't bad. They're just not at Colt. 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:26.760 They're just not where we are accustomed to seeing them, 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:28.720 Like they don't have the talent that they once had, 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:31.639 but they still Any defense has got difference makers at 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:33.320 all three levels, is gonna be a good defense, and 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:35.240 they do. They have difference makers at all three levels. 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:37.040 So it's gonna be tough for both teams to score. 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:39.080 I think I would guess it's gonna look a lot 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:42.440 like the last two games, which twenty fifteen Seattle one 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:45.479 thirteen to twelve and twenty seventeen Seattle one twenty one 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:48.200 to twelve, and one of Seattle's touchdowns was a pick six, 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:51.320 so their offense wasn't on fire by any stretch. I 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.600 think it's gonna be a lot like that. Like I 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:55.600 would be shocked if the winner of this game has 0:23:56.800 --> 0:23:58.800 twenty is about as hard at high as I'm willing 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:00.320 to go. But I really think the score will be 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:04.400 more like seventeen to fifty fourteen, you know, sixteen to thirteen, 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:06.600 something like that. I certainly could see that. I think 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:08.600 it's going to be. I just think the defenses are better. 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:11.280 Both the two defenses are better than the offense. Hopefully 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:13.199 the Cowboys can get in the end zone because they 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:16.240 have not in those last two games. Yea, all field goals, 0:24:16.680 --> 0:24:20.240 but that problem. But that defense, those defenses they face, 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:22.280 those two usual much better than the defense they're going 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:25.359 to face the Sunday. Absolutely, well, let's hope you're right, Derek. 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:29.959 Let's take a call from Tony in Denver. All right, 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:32.880 how's it going, guys? Hey, what's up? Hey? I enjoy 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:36.240 the show. And as fans do, we dare start to 0:24:36.359 --> 0:24:40.920 use the term doomsday defense again. And I think we've 0:24:40.920 --> 0:24:45.040 finished number eight and defense overall last year. And should 0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:48.359 we have vander esh play more in this game against 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:54.159 Russell Wilson then Damien Wilson, that's a that's an interesting thought. 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:58.000 Uh yeah, Damian Wilson. I know you missed that tackle 0:24:58.040 --> 0:25:01.439 in Carolina, but I think that game, again Eli was 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:04.840 maybe the best he's ever played. But um, I get 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:08.359 your point. I mean Layton vander Esch, Him and Jalen 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:11.359 Smith are your most athletic linebackers purely just from a 0:25:11.400 --> 0:25:14.399 talent standpoint. Um, I guarantee you they're going to get 0:25:14.440 --> 0:25:17.840 him on the field. I don't I don't know what 0:25:18.040 --> 0:25:21.320 if you spy him. I'm curious about that. You mentioned 0:25:21.359 --> 0:25:24.439 Chris Rohard, like, are they gonna just blitz Russell Wilson 0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:26.760 a ton knowing that if it doesn't work, they're screwed, 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:30.879 Because that sounds scary to me, whether he just beats 0:25:30.880 --> 0:25:33.679 the blitz with a throw or escapes from the blitz 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:35.399 and then you got nobody to account. Well, there are 0:25:35.480 --> 0:25:38.040 ways to to blitz in a way where you keep 0:25:38.080 --> 0:25:40.960 maintaining you're the gap in your you're laying integrity, and 0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:44.320 they're still not giving him escape routes. Right, that's the 0:25:44.320 --> 0:25:46.200 whole point. If you can do that without giving him 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:49.199 escape routes, that's what you want to do. It's risky, 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:51.360 but I think there are ways to do it where 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:53.919 you can you can have both. You can blitz and 0:25:54.000 --> 0:25:55.760 keep him from getting outside of the pocket. To answer 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:59.160 the question more directly, I think Damien has played well 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:01.480 enough that I would have expect he's your starting Sam 0:26:01.600 --> 0:26:04.040 still but I know that they want to get vander 0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:06.920 Esch snaps, and I bet you he will get fifteen 0:26:06.960 --> 0:26:11.640 to twenty. It's my guess. Definitely not a bad problem 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:14.600 to how No, it's so it's really good. Still can't 0:26:14.600 --> 0:26:17.399 believe that we're talking about this, like how do you 0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:20.280 get all these linebackers onto the field? Like I remember 0:26:20.400 --> 0:26:23.359 years where it was like, who's this guy they signed? 0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:26.159 Like last year I think it was, or maybe it 0:26:26.200 --> 0:26:28.560 was twenty sixteen, like they had to move Keith Smith 0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:31.400 back to the linebacker because they didn't have enough. They 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:33.919 were like, hey, you still remember how to do that? Right, Well, 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:36.600 we have nobody left, so can you get over there. Yeah, 0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:40.160 So that's pretty cool that they're just absolutely stacked at linebacker, 0:26:40.240 --> 0:26:42.240 right and everybody and all of them are playing well. 0:26:42.280 --> 0:26:43.719 That's the thing about it too. It's not just they 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:45.880 got bodies, like, they got guys that are playing really 0:26:45.920 --> 0:26:48.199 well and you're having to really like the fact that 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:50.040 they're not having to put the first round pick on 0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:52.639 the field. That's all. I mean, that's just I know, 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:57.040 such great like people. I get it, you get drafted nineteenth. Overall, 0:26:57.600 --> 0:26:59.440 people want to see you play. People expect you to 0:26:59.440 --> 0:27:02.199 make a different But that's not the worst thing in 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:04.880 the world. No, And most times, especially at that position too, 0:27:05.119 --> 0:27:07.880 you know, where it takes a little more time to 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:10.960 get going and figure out the game. But most teams 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:13.439 aren't patient enough for that. Most teams they get their 0:27:13.440 --> 0:27:15.320 first round pick and they want the first round to 0:27:15.320 --> 0:27:17.480 pick on the field well and the fact that they've 0:27:17.520 --> 0:27:20.560 got guys who were here that are playing well enough 0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:22.080 for them to feel like they don't have to force 0:27:22.160 --> 0:27:26.320 him on the field. Your first under pick usually unless 0:27:26.320 --> 0:27:28.920 you do something you know, bold like draft of Pat 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:31.800 Mahomes when you have Alex Smith, like, usually your first 0:27:31.840 --> 0:27:33.520 round pick is at a position where you don't have 0:27:33.560 --> 0:27:35.960 a lot of EI one. Yeah, but you know, Joe 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:38.040 Thomas even you know, I think people thought that was 0:27:38.080 --> 0:27:40.520 a good signing in the spring, but who's even exceeded 0:27:40.520 --> 0:27:45.280 those expectations. Jalen Smith is clearly just shooting right up 0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:47.120 like a rocket. I mean, yeah, but let's be real. 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:49.159 That first round pick for the Cowboys last year was 0:27:49.200 --> 0:27:52.280 an insurance pick, yes, because they didn't know if Jane 0:27:52.320 --> 0:27:54.040 would be back to being himself. They didn't know what 0:27:54.040 --> 0:27:56.520 was gonna happen with Sean and his injuries, and so 0:27:56.760 --> 0:27:58.879 that was an insurance pick and it paid off on 0:27:58.920 --> 0:28:01.040 him because now he really is insurance. I said it 0:28:01.119 --> 0:28:03.720 in August when people were killing the guy for not practicing, 0:28:03.760 --> 0:28:06.240 like you're gonna need him before the season's over, because 0:28:06.240 --> 0:28:08.879 somebody's gonna get hurt. Knock on wood, and you're gonna 0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:12.840 need him in the coming years because Shawn Lee's thirty two, 0:28:13.040 --> 0:28:16.000 right and has an injury history of a fifty five 0:28:16.080 --> 0:28:19.120 year old. Flights al really popping off. Yeah, and exactly 0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:22.520 like going into third week cramp, it's a cramp. Layton 0:28:22.560 --> 0:28:27.280 vanderessh is fine, Like he's gonna be fine. Um, I 0:28:27.359 --> 0:28:30.480 was gonna say something, Oh, Damien Wilson, you know, Surprisingly 0:28:30.560 --> 0:28:33.480 to me, I honestly did not expect him to be 0:28:33.640 --> 0:28:36.960 playing as good he has been so far coming into 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:38.920 this year. I don't know why. It's just he's been 0:28:39.080 --> 0:28:42.400 because he hadn't been very good his career. I don't 0:28:42.440 --> 0:28:44.560 want to say his career has been disappointing, because if 0:28:44.560 --> 0:28:46.680 you're still on the roster as a fourth round pick 0:28:46.720 --> 0:28:50.080 in your contract year, you've been pretty good. But I 0:28:50.120 --> 0:28:52.760 always think he gets compared to Anthony Hitchins so much 0:28:52.840 --> 0:28:56.680 because from the same conference, same you know round, same 0:28:56.720 --> 0:28:59.640 position obviously, and he hasn't been anywhere near as good 0:28:59.640 --> 0:29:04.600 as hitch right, And yeah, no, I I going into 0:29:04.680 --> 0:29:06.920 you know, when they drafted Vanderash and signed Thomas, I 0:29:07.000 --> 0:29:09.320 was like, oh, it's not a lot. Damien Wilson makes 0:29:09.360 --> 0:29:12.400 this team. So kudos to him that he's Yeah, I 0:29:12.440 --> 0:29:14.560 really thought he'd be gone by now, and he's you know, 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:17.840 people dogged Kyle wilburto, but Damian Wilson is one of 0:29:17.840 --> 0:29:20.960 your key special teamers too. It's a contract you're for him, yes, 0:29:21.120 --> 0:29:24.080 because fifteen sixteen say yeah, yes, So this is his 0:29:24.120 --> 0:29:26.760 opportunity to do like Hitchens and make some money. I 0:29:26.800 --> 0:29:28.960 don't think he's gonna do like Hitchens, right, but what 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:31.480 I'm saying that that's his opportunity, right, that's his opportunity 0:29:31.520 --> 0:29:34.320 for a second contract, which will be far bigger than 0:29:34.320 --> 0:29:36.360 the one he's on right now, even if it's not huge. 0:29:36.480 --> 0:29:39.240 So yeah, let's take our final break and when we 0:29:39.320 --> 0:29:41.760 come back, we'll give our final score for this game, 0:29:41.800 --> 0:29:45.200 and we'll keep taking more calls. 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Hey, everybody, Hey, you know, I guess to 0:33:16.000 --> 0:33:18.720 score a lot of points, you got to take chances. 0:33:18.880 --> 0:33:23.080 And I see Thako Mayfield last night, and the one 0:33:23.080 --> 0:33:25.320 thing I like about that kid is he just lets 0:33:25.320 --> 0:33:28.800 it go. He sees it and his brain tells his 0:33:29.000 --> 0:33:31.520 arm and the balls out and it's moving. And I 0:33:31.520 --> 0:33:34.560 don't see that with Dak. I see Dak he's like 0:33:34.600 --> 0:33:36.560 a little gunshot. And I don't know if that's started 0:33:36.680 --> 0:33:40.360 from Atlanta last year, but when he rose the quick slant, 0:33:40.440 --> 0:33:42.720 that's his best throw because there's no thinking. He gets 0:33:42.760 --> 0:33:45.920 it and he fires it. But anything that's down the field, 0:33:45.960 --> 0:33:49.440 he's so afraid to make a mistake that when he 0:33:49.560 --> 0:33:52.719 finally decides, you see him throat in a dirty rushes it. 0:33:53.040 --> 0:33:56.800 So my question to you guys is would you rather 0:33:56.880 --> 0:34:01.000 have Dak be like this, protect the ball but you're 0:34:01.040 --> 0:34:06.120 one holding penalty away from maybe punting because this team 0:34:06.160 --> 0:34:10.399 has a hard time overcoming first and twenty, or would 0:34:10.440 --> 0:34:13.600 you like to see him take more chances let the 0:34:13.640 --> 0:34:16.719 ball go. But he may throw some more interceptions, But 0:34:16.760 --> 0:34:19.360 you got a shot at making bigger plays. What do 0:34:19.400 --> 0:34:21.279 you guys think? Let me ask you this question. I 0:34:21.280 --> 0:34:24.560 want you to kind of walk through this yourself. What 0:34:24.680 --> 0:34:27.919 is what do the Cowboys do best? Run the ball, 0:34:28.080 --> 0:34:32.160 run the ball? Which of those passing strategies works best? 0:34:32.200 --> 0:34:38.840 If you're a good running team. Ah, that's tough because 0:34:41.160 --> 0:34:42.960 if this if you're if you were going to tell 0:34:42.960 --> 0:34:45.680 me that this team could methodically march down the field 0:34:45.719 --> 0:34:50.239 and not get a penalty, I say, just checking it down. 0:34:50.800 --> 0:34:53.880 But the problem is, I don't think the offensive line 0:34:54.200 --> 0:34:57.560 is as good as it was and we've seen so far, 0:34:57.680 --> 0:34:59.560 especially in the first game. Is you get this team 0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:03.239 just one holding penalty, one offside penalty and they backed 0:35:03.320 --> 0:35:06.520 up first of fifteen, They're going to have a hard 0:35:06.520 --> 0:35:11.480 time overcoming that. So if he I may personally, I 0:35:11.520 --> 0:35:14.160 think you have to stretch the field like they did 0:35:14.160 --> 0:35:16.560 against the Giant. I think he needs to take some shot. 0:35:16.960 --> 0:35:20.160 I don't mind him thrown an interception once in a while. 0:35:20.200 --> 0:35:22.799 You know, if he's going to throw me a forty 0:35:22.840 --> 0:35:25.600 yard pass down the middle of the field or something 0:35:25.640 --> 0:35:27.480 like that, I'll take it. I took it at Romo, 0:35:28.120 --> 0:35:30.520 and you know you knew Romo. How great is he 0:35:30.600 --> 0:35:32.160 was throwing a ball? He was going to throw them 0:35:32.160 --> 0:35:34.400 in a suctions all the great quarterbacks do because they 0:35:34.440 --> 0:35:37.520 take chances. I think in this league they're begging you 0:35:37.920 --> 0:35:41.120 to take chances with the rules and everything, and I 0:35:41.160 --> 0:35:43.960 just think you're asking the office and you're asking a 0:35:44.040 --> 0:35:47.759 defense to be so precise. Just trying to work these 0:35:47.760 --> 0:35:51.960 twelve play drives. I don't think he could win consistently. 0:35:52.360 --> 0:35:55.080 Were you okay with the idea that? Were you okay 0:35:55.120 --> 0:35:57.480 with this last game? From the standpoint the frequency of 0:35:57.520 --> 0:36:01.480 the downfill throws? They had three that were, to my opinion, 0:36:01.600 --> 0:36:04.399 kind of what I call downfield throws last week. They 0:36:04.440 --> 0:36:05.920 hit on one of them, So they connect on one 0:36:05.960 --> 0:36:08.799 on one of three, and when you're going down feel 0:36:08.840 --> 0:36:11.160 like that that's probably going to be the frequency. Maybe 0:36:11.160 --> 0:36:13.320 a little higher percentage, but that's probably gonna be the 0:36:13.360 --> 0:36:15.719 frequency with which you catch those. Were you okay with 0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:18.560 that frequency of doing it three, three or four times 0:36:18.560 --> 0:36:23.480 a game? Yes? I think you got to back them off. 0:36:24.120 --> 0:36:27.120 You know, there's there's no mystery. Every defense is saying, 0:36:27.560 --> 0:36:30.359 we got to stop Zeke I mean the safety Land 0:36:30.360 --> 0:36:32.920 of College came right out and said it's there's no mystery, 0:36:32.920 --> 0:36:35.120 and that back them off. And I think in the 0:36:35.160 --> 0:36:36.880 long run, you may not hit it. We didn't hit 0:36:36.920 --> 0:36:39.319 it like you said, we hit one. But if they 0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:41.279 back up a few steps, maybe that opens up a 0:36:41.320 --> 0:36:44.040 little more room to zeke. You know. I just think 0:36:44.040 --> 0:36:47.880 in this league, if you're gonna think and dunk, I 0:36:47.880 --> 0:36:50.160 don't think it can work. Okay, I said, it's just 0:36:50.200 --> 0:36:52.920 too much, too much overcoming, there's a penalty. I appreciate 0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:55.640 the call, and I actually I think kind of in 0:36:55.719 --> 0:36:57.640 listening to him talk about that and talk through it, 0:36:57.680 --> 0:36:59.600 I think the answer is really in what he was saying, 0:36:59.640 --> 0:37:01.200 which is as you got to do a little bit 0:37:01.200 --> 0:37:03.720 of both. You're not gonna go out and bombs away 0:37:03.719 --> 0:37:05.760 every play. You get three or four of those a game, 0:37:06.120 --> 0:37:07.640 and then the rest of the game you run the ball, 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:10.480 drop it off down low. I mean, there's there are 0:37:10.480 --> 0:37:13.279 different ways you want to attack a defense, and just 0:37:13.440 --> 0:37:15.399 going deep the whole game isn't the right answer because 0:37:15.400 --> 0:37:17.320 you're not gonna get enough percentage. You will be punting 0:37:17.320 --> 0:37:19.960 a lot, right because that's only a fifty fifty prospect 0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:22.680 in most instances, right, So you really want to have 0:37:22.719 --> 0:37:25.920 a balance of it. And I think, honestly, three or 0:37:25.920 --> 0:37:27.759 four times a game, to me, it's plenty to go 0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:30.080 downfield it especially if you connect on one of them 0:37:30.080 --> 0:37:32.400 and it's a touchdown. That's going to force a defense 0:37:32.400 --> 0:37:34.359 to really think twice about whether they're willing to give 0:37:34.520 --> 0:37:36.759 that one play out of out of the three, and 0:37:36.800 --> 0:37:38.440 that may keep them back a little bit or at 0:37:38.520 --> 0:37:40.600 least make them hesitate a little bit on a run 0:37:40.640 --> 0:37:42.240 and give Zeke a little bit more of a headstart 0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:44.960 before he gets to that second level. Yeah, I think 0:37:45.480 --> 0:37:48.200 I'm officially ready to say, like we make too much 0:37:48.200 --> 0:37:51.560 of a deal out of the down field passing. And 0:37:51.640 --> 0:37:54.080 when I said, I mean like thirty fourty yards down field, 0:37:54.120 --> 0:37:55.719 like you're gonna take a few of those a game. 0:37:56.560 --> 0:38:00.040 Maybe like Ben Roethlisberger hits them with more frequency and 0:38:00.280 --> 0:38:02.080 a lot of people, but like he's going to the 0:38:02.120 --> 0:38:04.680 Hall of Fame and he's got a receivers probably the 0:38:04.680 --> 0:38:07.120 Hall to back a defense off when you have a 0:38:07.200 --> 0:38:09.479 run game like this, I really think it's as easy 0:38:09.520 --> 0:38:15.040 as like consistently hitting receivers for first downs like eight, ten, twelve, 0:38:15.160 --> 0:38:18.759 fifteen yards down field, like I you know, I'm not. 0:38:18.760 --> 0:38:20.760 I don't have issue with the call because I honestly 0:38:20.760 --> 0:38:23.960 think Rob made a few really good points. But we 0:38:24.120 --> 0:38:27.520 did see this work in twenty sixteen, like it worked 0:38:27.840 --> 0:38:30.960 really well, like they put those drives together, and he's 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:33.839 absolutely right. The offensive line was better, the running game 0:38:33.880 --> 0:38:37.640 was better, Dak was better to this point, and I 0:38:37.680 --> 0:38:39.960 think the Cowboys are in the process of trying to 0:38:40.000 --> 0:38:42.239 figure out how they get back to that. I don't 0:38:42.239 --> 0:38:43.640 know if they can do it with this personnel. I 0:38:43.680 --> 0:38:46.080 don't know if the receivers are good enough to scare anybody. 0:38:46.400 --> 0:38:49.200 I don't know if Dak can make those plays. I 0:38:49.239 --> 0:38:51.759 don't know if the offensive line without Frederick and from 0:38:51.760 --> 0:38:53.680 what we've seen from them so far, can get to 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:57.319 that level. But that's what they're going to try to 0:38:57.320 --> 0:38:59.680 do because that's the way they've built this team, And honestly, 0:39:00.040 --> 0:39:02.480 with the way this team is built right now, I 0:39:02.520 --> 0:39:04.920 would rather just not turn the ball over and it 0:39:04.960 --> 0:39:07.880 probably won't be exciting, sorry about it, but that is 0:39:07.920 --> 0:39:10.440 the way they've built this team. You've got a good 0:39:10.480 --> 0:39:12.360 enough defense that it can keep you in and maybe 0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:14.640 even win some games if your quarterback doesn't turn the 0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:17.759 ball over. That's a pretty good formula for success. It 0:39:17.800 --> 0:39:21.200 won't be sexy. I'm sorry, but that's probably the best 0:39:21.200 --> 0:39:23.480 strategy for this team to win games. I'll take a 0:39:23.520 --> 0:39:25.840 game like last week for the rest of the season 0:39:25.880 --> 0:39:29.960 every single week if they're winning. Honestly, yea, And the 0:39:30.040 --> 0:39:32.120 last week wasn't a beautiful thing to watch. They had 0:39:32.120 --> 0:39:34.080 a couple of moments that were really beautiful to watch, 0:39:34.280 --> 0:39:36.080 but by and large, that was one of those games 0:39:36.120 --> 0:39:38.439 and it was kind of ugly and kind of like 0:39:38.800 --> 0:39:40.239 you felt like they were I mean, you knew they 0:39:40.280 --> 0:39:42.520 were winning, but you felt like it was kind of tenuous, 0:39:42.560 --> 0:39:44.040 and you really didn't know whether they were gonna be 0:39:44.080 --> 0:39:46.160 able to maintain it, especially once you got into the 0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:48.400 second and third quarter and then an offense really wasn't 0:39:48.600 --> 0:39:50.919 scoring at that point. But the fact of the matter 0:39:51.040 --> 0:39:53.560 is the way they played that game. They came out aggressive, 0:39:53.680 --> 0:39:56.440 they got to lead, the defense held, and then they 0:39:56.440 --> 0:39:58.000 got to the fourth quarter and they said, let's put 0:39:58.000 --> 0:39:59.640 this game away, and they put the game away. If 0:39:59.680 --> 0:40:01.239 you had that formula every week and you have the 0:40:01.239 --> 0:40:04.000 personnel to do it, that's a winning formula. We're seeing 0:40:04.000 --> 0:40:05.799 that formula go to the Super Bowl. If that's a 0:40:05.840 --> 0:40:09.399 winning formula, and if you're a college football fan Alabama, 0:40:09.440 --> 0:40:11.560 I mean exactly, It's hard to play that way in 0:40:11.560 --> 0:40:14.840 the NFL because Alabama has such a ridiculous talent advantage. 0:40:14.920 --> 0:40:18.640 But that's the formula and it can work. Yep, It's 0:40:18.760 --> 0:40:21.360 gonna be tough because but it can work. And like 0:40:21.400 --> 0:40:23.200 I said, that's that's the way this team is built 0:40:23.239 --> 0:40:24.799 right now and when you will run it. The good 0:40:24.800 --> 0:40:28.440 thing about that is there will only be one formula 0:40:28.480 --> 0:40:30.920 in my opinion, that would that would harm you if 0:40:30.920 --> 0:40:32.880 you're doing that, and you do if you do that well, 0:40:33.120 --> 0:40:37.280 and that is the super quarterback. If you're playing Aaron Rodgers, 0:40:37.320 --> 0:40:40.880 if you're playing Drew Brees, if you're playing Tom Brady. 0:40:41.120 --> 0:40:43.640 But they're only a handful of those, right those are 0:40:43.680 --> 0:40:45.080 gonna be the only teams that are really gonna if 0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:46.600 you can do that well, if you can play really 0:40:46.600 --> 0:40:49.040 really great defense, you can run the ball really well 0:40:49.120 --> 0:40:51.560 and you don't turn over the ball, only those great 0:40:51.600 --> 0:40:54.200 quarterbacks will really have a great shot at beating you. 0:40:54.520 --> 0:40:56.920 And I'll take my chances with that. That's a pretty 0:40:56.960 --> 0:40:59.239 good that's a pretty good setup to say, Hey, if 0:40:59.280 --> 0:41:00.959 that's the only people I can beat us. If those 0:41:01.000 --> 0:41:03.000 four or five can beat us and everybody else, we 0:41:03.040 --> 0:41:05.839 fact we can beat That's what's a that's what're taking. 0:41:05.880 --> 0:41:07.759 That's a shot we're taking, no doubt about it. And 0:41:07.800 --> 0:41:10.600 I really don't know how long it would take for 0:41:10.840 --> 0:41:13.000 Dad to get to that level as far as being 0:41:13.000 --> 0:41:17.239 able to make those long distance throws, especially giving the 0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:21.080 amount of opportunities that he gets in the game. I mean, 0:41:21.239 --> 0:41:25.239 you can't really see great progress when you don't get 0:41:25.280 --> 0:41:27.239 many chances. But didn't need progress from what he did. 0:41:27.280 --> 0:41:29.680 I think what he did last week was no, it 0:41:29.760 --> 0:41:32.759 is fine, It is fine, and moving it slowly like that, 0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:34.719 as long as you get it moving and get to 0:41:34.800 --> 0:41:37.239 the no. I'm saying what he did last week as 0:41:37.280 --> 0:41:39.239 far as the deep now, yes, it was fine because 0:41:39.360 --> 0:41:42.240 one of me connected four touchdown. The other two didn't connect, 0:41:42.239 --> 0:41:43.719 and that's going to be the percentage you do when 0:41:43.719 --> 0:41:47.000 you're going that far downfield. But the thing is, Okay, 0:41:47.080 --> 0:41:49.839 he's not consistent enough. And like you said, okay, yes, 0:41:49.880 --> 0:41:52.879 that's fine when you're making those few ones here and there. 0:41:53.000 --> 0:41:55.480 But at the same time, I think it can affect 0:41:55.520 --> 0:41:59.000 his confidence and start giving him that more of that 0:41:59.040 --> 0:42:02.640 hesitation that we've been seeing of like thinking, Okay, should 0:42:02.640 --> 0:42:04.759 I make this this throw or not. I think it 0:42:04.800 --> 0:42:09.000 affects him in his confidence and the way and how 0:42:09.080 --> 0:42:12.879 quickly he executes. I don't know. I think quarterbacks know that. 0:42:13.400 --> 0:42:15.640 They call it a fifty fifty ball for a reason. 0:42:15.760 --> 0:42:17.759 I think quarterbacks, no, you're not going to connect that 0:42:18.120 --> 0:42:20.440 a lot, Like that's not if that's your bread and butter, 0:42:20.760 --> 0:42:23.399 unless you're the Greatest Show on Turf where they were 0:42:23.400 --> 0:42:25.960 doing that every week multiple times in the game. Then 0:42:26.000 --> 0:42:28.640 that's just not the way the offense runs, I mean, 0:42:28.840 --> 0:42:30.919 and that certainly is not the way the offense runs here. 0:42:31.000 --> 0:42:33.040 That's not what they're even asking him to do. So 0:42:33.080 --> 0:42:35.080 I don't know that affects his confidence as much as 0:42:35.120 --> 0:42:37.480 it is just we're gonna take a shot here, and 0:42:37.960 --> 0:42:40.400 there is still value in the shot, Like even if 0:42:40.440 --> 0:42:43.040 you don't connect, the fact that you got somebody down 0:42:43.160 --> 0:42:45.960 feel and the fact that Dak threw the ball forces 0:42:45.960 --> 0:42:49.440 a defense to think they're gonna hesitate for justice. Staff second, 0:42:49.520 --> 0:42:51.680 thinking are they going deep here. We gotta make sure 0:42:51.680 --> 0:42:53.800 we'recovering that. We gotta make sure we got people in position. 0:42:54.120 --> 0:42:55.600 So that's all you have to worry about it, and 0:42:55.680 --> 0:42:57.480 for me, that's that's the value of it. I don't 0:42:57.480 --> 0:43:00.960 think that everything else is working. That's those the defense 0:43:01.080 --> 0:43:03.080 is working. As long as able to run the ball 0:43:03.200 --> 0:43:04.640 and as long as you turn it over. I think 0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:06.359 those are the three critical factors. And if you can 0:43:06.360 --> 0:43:08.520 do those things, I think the deep ball becomes just 0:43:08.600 --> 0:43:10.360 kind of that added thing just to force them to 0:43:10.360 --> 0:43:14.319 respect it. You know, I absolutely agree. Just when those 0:43:14.360 --> 0:43:17.439 other elements are working, then you got a great game going. 0:43:17.640 --> 0:43:20.880 But if one of those goes down, then everything else 0:43:21.040 --> 0:43:24.000 goes down. And we've seen that happen multiple times. So 0:43:24.800 --> 0:43:27.399 I don't know. I think Dad can be fine, but 0:43:28.840 --> 0:43:32.719 we'll see, we'll see how it's just a we'll see. 0:43:32.880 --> 0:43:35.920 He's yeah, absolutely, we haven't. I mean, I can't sit 0:43:35.960 --> 0:43:37.480 here and tell you that Dak is going to develop 0:43:37.520 --> 0:43:41.160 into an all pro quarterback. But this is this is 0:43:41.160 --> 0:43:42.600 the way this team is going to have to win 0:43:42.960 --> 0:43:46.840 right now, and that's that's what's important today on Friday, 0:43:47.520 --> 0:43:51.640 and not mess those Rico passes in the end zone 0:43:51.719 --> 0:43:54.840 he's getting down. We're picking this game or what are 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:57.400 we okay, final score for this game? Who wins? And 0:43:57.400 --> 0:44:00.759 what is the final score? All right, Um we go first, Yeah, 0:44:00.960 --> 0:44:04.319 all right. I think Cowboys win. I think they win 0:44:04.360 --> 0:44:08.399 twenty to sixteen in a close one. In another game, 0:44:08.440 --> 0:44:10.440 it's just like the Giants game. That's I think that's 0:44:10.440 --> 0:44:11.920 what we're gonna have to get used to seeing. I 0:44:11.920 --> 0:44:13.960 do think they put up a couple more points, and 0:44:14.000 --> 0:44:16.120 I think the offense looks a little more efficient throughout 0:44:16.120 --> 0:44:17.480 the game, because I think the running game is going 0:44:17.520 --> 0:44:19.719 to be much better this week than it has been 0:44:19.960 --> 0:44:22.840 the first two weeks, so it'll look a little better, 0:44:23.160 --> 0:44:24.960 but the result will still be pretty much the same. 0:44:24.960 --> 0:44:26.880 It's gonna be right there around twenty points. In my opinion, 0:44:26.880 --> 0:44:30.359 Cowboys will win. I said before a week one that 0:44:30.560 --> 0:44:32.400 I was going to choose to believe a lot of 0:44:32.400 --> 0:44:36.200 things about this team. The defense has it looks good. 0:44:36.239 --> 0:44:40.000 The offense not so much. Not enough time has passed 0:44:40.160 --> 0:44:42.760 from week one. There's not a large enough sample size 0:44:42.760 --> 0:44:45.359 of success for me to have a ton of faith 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:48.879 in this offense. Seattle's offense has problems of their own. 0:44:49.400 --> 0:44:51.359 At the end of the day, they have an all 0:44:51.400 --> 0:44:54.719 Pro quarterback. It hasn't been pretty for him, but he's 0:44:54.719 --> 0:44:57.120 still there. A lot of those guys are gone, but 0:44:57.160 --> 0:44:59.520 this is still a franchise with a great home field 0:44:59.520 --> 0:45:02.160 advantage that knows how to win games and is used 0:45:02.160 --> 0:45:05.839 to winning games. There's a lot of pride up there. Um. 0:45:05.920 --> 0:45:08.600 I don't think it's gonna be pretty at all for anybody, really, 0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:11.280 but I just think an Owen two Seattle team finds 0:45:11.280 --> 0:45:13.560 a way to keep it season alive. I'm thinking, like, 0:45:14.080 --> 0:45:15.600 I thought that was a must win when you were 0:45:15.600 --> 0:45:18.799 onto one to get it wasn't. It was a must 0:45:18.840 --> 0:45:20.680 win for Dallas, and this is a must win for 0:45:20.719 --> 0:45:24.000 Seattle and three and oh and two? Right, but oh, 0:45:24.120 --> 0:45:29.120 I meant not that are we doing this right now? 0:45:29.960 --> 0:45:32.200 I'm just getting clarity. I'm just getting clarity. They like 0:45:32.280 --> 0:45:34.279 they needed to win that game and they didn't, But 0:45:34.800 --> 0:45:37.480 now it's must If it's only twenty twenty percent of 0:45:37.480 --> 0:45:39.640 teams making it Owen two, it's even fewer at three 0:45:39.719 --> 0:45:45.000 out about it. Um, I think Seattle wins fourteen to thirteen, 0:45:45.160 --> 0:45:49.240 fourteen thirteen. All right, an game. It won't be fun. 0:45:49.400 --> 0:45:52.279 It will not be fun, but it'll be defensive, be 0:45:52.320 --> 0:45:56.279 a fun trip home, it'll be. It'll be. Yeah, it's 0:45:56.320 --> 0:45:59.000 gonna be it's gonna be a slugfest. I think it'll 0:45:59.200 --> 0:46:00.839 it'll find a way to be entertaining. But I think 0:46:00.840 --> 0:46:04.560 Seattle gets it done. All right, Um, I will I'm 0:46:04.600 --> 0:46:09.160 gonna pick Seattle as well. I will say under twenty 0:46:09.239 --> 0:46:11.520 that's the final score. I don't know what it would be, 0:46:11.600 --> 0:46:13.439 but I would just say it's gonna be a one 0:46:13.480 --> 0:46:17.399 point difference for this game. So wa difference? Yeah, one 0:46:17.440 --> 0:46:22.600 point doesn't matter, doesn't Now it's gonna be thirty eight 0:46:22.640 --> 0:46:25.560 thirty five. That would be fun. Yeah, for real, Dax 0:46:25.680 --> 0:46:29.359 is gonna be splinging it around. Hey, I don't mind 0:46:29.400 --> 0:46:32.040 that I bring it. Bring I'd be happy to eat 0:46:32.080 --> 0:46:34.640 some crow. That's what I want to do, all right. 0:46:34.640 --> 0:46:37.640 For Derek Eagleton, David Hillman, remember your seat. This has 0:46:37.640 --> 0:46:41.239 been the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This 0:46:41.280 --> 0:46:44.080 has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:46:44.200 --> 0:46:46.040 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.