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Speaker 1: time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with
Speaker 1: Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Monday, October twenty ninth, twenty eighteen, season fourteen,
Speaker 1: episode number sixty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 1: The Break, Live from the s WBC Bargats Mortgage Studios
Speaker 1: at the Star. They stopped yawning, man, seriously, what am
Speaker 1: I doing? I wasn't yawn and I was just kind
Speaker 1: of him Yeah, seriously, Nick, Dave, how are you guys doing.
Speaker 1: I'm awesome. We're good. Yeah, ready to roll into another
Speaker 1: week here. Coming off the bye, should have gotten plenty
Speaker 1: of rest. I feel rejuvenated, awesome. Honestly, I feel weird,
Speaker 1: Like you just you get in, you know, you get
Speaker 1: into the grind of the season and every day's sort
Speaker 1: of you know, you kind of get into the schedule.
Speaker 1: And it was nice having what we had, like four
Speaker 1: days off, but it kind of throws you off a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, it was weird. I couldn't relax this weekend.
Speaker 1: I kept telling my wife, like, I can't relax. I
Speaker 1: feel like I need to be doing something. It's hard
Speaker 1: to get out of that mode of just going, going,
Speaker 1: going going. I had an easy time doing it day like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was all good with me. I napped all day Friday,
Speaker 1: got a massage, Oh that's nice, partied on Saturday a
Speaker 1: little bit, and watch football yesterday. It was awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't like it when it's like this and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be this way all week where it's just like
Speaker 1: it's really a Wednesday and Garrett's gonna sit up there
Speaker 1: and say, well, today's a Monday, and you're like, no,
Speaker 1: it isn't. But it's gonna happen all the way until
Speaker 1: you get to the game. It's not gonna get normal
Speaker 1: again until Tuesday. What's gonna what's gonna be weird is Monday.
Speaker 1: You know, you watch a full day of games on
Speaker 1: Sunday and then Monday it's a Monday, like it's a weekday.
Speaker 1: You're used to working, but you're just gonna be waiting
Speaker 1: around for the game. Yeah. So yeah, but when's the
Speaker 1: last time we've had two weekends in a row where
Speaker 1: where we were able to watch football on a Sunday.
Speaker 1: It's gonna on a Saturday and a Sunday. Travel you
Speaker 1: don't have a game on Sunday. That's that's actually pretty nice,
Speaker 1: not complaining, but it's still it's definitely throws you for
Speaker 1: a loop. Well, today we're going to talk a little bit.
Speaker 1: I know there was a topic Friday that we started
Speaker 1: up and we didn't get a chance to finish. We
Speaker 1: were talking about change. I threw out a couple changes
Speaker 1: that you guys that could possibly take place or just
Speaker 1: changes that we're worth talking about, and there were four
Speaker 1: others that I have for you guys. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: a little bit more about that. But before we get
Speaker 1: to that, I just wanted to recap a little bit
Speaker 1: on the weekend. I assume you guys watched a little
Speaker 1: football this weekend, and I mean I saw somebody say
Speaker 1: on Twitter, it feels like a victory Monday. Not really,
Speaker 1: because all the things that the Cowboys probably wanted to
Speaker 1: happen this weekend, two in particular, did not happen. You
Speaker 1: saw two division teams that you probably wanted to take
Speaker 1: a loss, both get a win. Washington beats New York,
Speaker 1: which you probably could have expected. Yeah, on the road
Speaker 1: you thought maybe it was a chance, but obviously not.
Speaker 1: And then Philadelphia in London gets to win over Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: and Jacksonville continues to just look awful and it's it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Then at forty to seven wins, losing some luster, right,
Speaker 1: It's like one of those things where you thought at
Speaker 1: the time it was a really great win, but now
Speaker 1: you kind of wonder if it was just that's a
Speaker 1: bad team. And really, looking at all the teams the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have beaten, you know, there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: there's not a lot there to say that that you
Speaker 1: can gauge how good the Cowboys are because the teams
Speaker 1: that they've beaten aren't very good. That's that's the NFL
Speaker 1: for me, though with very rare exceptions. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you go up to Foxborough and beat the Pats, you
Speaker 1: should feel pretty good about that. If you beat this
Speaker 1: Rams team, if you beat the Packers while Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: is in there, okay, But for the most I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the NFL. Any. I mean, the Bills went on
Speaker 1: the road and beat the crap out of what we
Speaker 1: think as a decent Vikings team, which so you know,
Speaker 1: that looks like a statement win that the Saints put
Speaker 1: up last night. But is it? I mean, have the
Speaker 1: Vikings look like world beaters to this point and every
Speaker 1: one of they every one of the losses the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have had or against teams now that are good. I
Speaker 1: mean at the time, Houston was not looking very good
Speaker 1: and neither was the Seattle looking good. Carolina looks really good.
Speaker 1: Why they all turned it around after they played the Cowboys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: still kind of early it is, or it's it's the
Speaker 1: NFL and everybody but about four teams looks mediocre as hell,
Speaker 1: Like that's the Saints, Rams, Uh, Pats and Chiefs all
Speaker 1: look pretty awesome and everybody else. I'm just November is
Speaker 1: gonna tell it all because you got you got the
Speaker 1: Eagles twice I think technical December. Yeah, but that that
Speaker 1: whole stretch there, you have the Redskins coming back on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I mean, all that's going to really determine what, you know,
Speaker 1: what this team does. So, um, you know there'll be
Speaker 1: some swing games, has it? It feels like that at
Speaker 1: Atlanta game again about the same point in the season,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a time where, you know, if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are really going to do something like, they have
Speaker 1: to win that one right there, because Atlanta's getting hot
Speaker 1: now hot relatively speaking for their for for what this
Speaker 1: season has been for them. They've had a few wins
Speaker 1: here in a row, and so they're starting to get
Speaker 1: to a point where maybe they're finding their way. And
Speaker 1: this happens every year in the NFL season. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be a team that was around that five hundred mark
Speaker 1: um at week five, weeks six, weeks, week seven that
Speaker 1: gets on a role and will be a player in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's obvious it mains to be seeing who
Speaker 1: that's gonna be, but it was definitely the Cowboys. Mary
Speaker 1: Cooper's here offense is coming on. Let's go maybe get
Speaker 1: on the train. You know one thing that stood up
Speaker 1: to me this weekend as I started kind of I
Speaker 1: watched the rest of the game, I was wondering, if
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to that, we're gonna get to that
Speaker 1: fact you want to throw that out there. I mean
Speaker 1: I kind of almost didn't want to bring it up
Speaker 1: because I know on this show, our response to Johnson
Speaker 1: shouldn't have done that. Yeah, go ahead and tell them
Speaker 1: what you think. I think, Jimmy Johnson, because do your
Speaker 1: own thing, coach your own team. You mean, you don't
Speaker 1: need to be standing up there. You're not coaching. Yeah
Speaker 1: you did coach, but you're not coaching anymore. And the
Speaker 1: thing that I didn't like about his comment, it's comment
Speaker 1: about Jason Garrett being at the Dodger game on on
Speaker 1: the BUYE weekend. But but he was like, it doesn't
Speaker 1: He said something like it doesn't really matter to him.
Speaker 1: It just does not a good look. It's not a
Speaker 1: good perception, perception when reality is his Why or should
Speaker 1: he be worrying about perception? I mean if to me,
Speaker 1: it's like if you're an analyst, you're gonna say it,
Speaker 1: then say it, but don't throw it out there like
Speaker 1: a perception because at this point, does Jason Garrett really
Speaker 1: care about what the perception is? Did he care about
Speaker 1: what the perception? Let me ask you, this was he
Speaker 1: saying the perception with this with the general media and public.
Speaker 1: Are you saying the perception to his team? Well? If
Speaker 1: it or is there a different does that matter to
Speaker 1: you that if fish players are over here working out,
Speaker 1: or if fish coaches over here working out. That's fine.
Speaker 1: I think it was ghost town, so if it if
Speaker 1: it was, I'm betting it was a ghost right. I
Speaker 1: know it was a ghost right, So I'm just say,
Speaker 1: you're up here, but yeah, you know it was Actually
Speaker 1: did come up here on Sunday, I for my phone
Speaker 1: charger died. I had to come get my spare. But
Speaker 1: did you see it working out? I was here long enough,
Speaker 1: here long enough to see not a single car in
Speaker 1: the parking lot, you know, before I went back, not one?
Speaker 1: Not one? And nor should it be honest, it's the
Speaker 1: bye week, Yeah, which reason why you get a bye week.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with Jimmy Johnson saying it
Speaker 1: because to a degree, I think he's right. It is
Speaker 1: the perception. I mean, Jason Garrett could have gone to
Speaker 1: that game and sat in the back of a suite
Speaker 1: and no one would have been the wiser. But he
Speaker 1: wanted to sit next to Brad Paisley. He knew he
Speaker 1: was going to wind up on national TV, and to
Speaker 1: his credit, I don't think he cares, nor should he.
Speaker 1: But if you're the head coach of the most visible
Speaker 1: franchise in American sports and they're not doing that well,
Speaker 1: people are gonna have stuff to say about that. That's
Speaker 1: just the nature of the job that comes with the dinner,
Speaker 1: as he always likes to say. But he's never cared
Speaker 1: about that, nor do I think he should. He's paid
Speaker 1: handsomely and I don't have the slightest problem with it.
Speaker 1: It's the bye week, Like, everybody deserves a break from
Speaker 1: their job, no matter how much they're paid to do it.
Speaker 1: Like it's lunacy to think that he should be up
Speaker 1: here diagramming plays on a Friday night. I guarantee you
Speaker 1: he put in long hours before everybody took their break.
Speaker 1: Freaking everyone and their mother took a vacation. I mean,
Speaker 1: every player was out of town. San Jay Law went
Speaker 1: out to the Bay Area to visit his parents. He
Speaker 1: told us that on Thursday before they broke Like, that's
Speaker 1: what you do on the bye week. However, however bad
Speaker 1: you might think he is, that, however bad you might think,
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett is at his job, He's well within his
Speaker 1: right to do that during the team's weekend off. It's fine,
Speaker 1: but you sit front row at a World Series game,
Speaker 1: having the job he has, it's gonna draw attention. That's
Speaker 1: just the nature. Yeah, it's just one of the things
Speaker 1: that I've come to really despise about sports. I love sports,
Speaker 1: I love football, but I despise this one thing that
Speaker 1: there's this perception that in sports you have to be
Speaker 1: that sports test to be everything. And I don't think
Speaker 1: that's healthy, number one, But I don't think it's the
Speaker 1: right thing either. I'll give you an example. This last weekend,
Speaker 1: my nephew plays college football. One of his teammates, a
Speaker 1: starting wide receiver in New Mexico, missed the game because
Speaker 1: his sister was getting married, and people are actually talking
Speaker 1: about it on the air. The people on the air
Speaker 1: talking about and they were talking about how you know
Speaker 1: some people that were like, well, how could he miss
Speaker 1: a game for a wedding? And never never heard of
Speaker 1: that before, And it just kind of stuck out to
Speaker 1: me that that's part of what's wrong a little bit
Speaker 1: with how we viewed sports. Sports is entertainment, Sports is fun.
Speaker 1: Sports is not the end all be all. There are lives,
Speaker 1: and people's lives should trump that to some degree. And
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you you miss practicing games just for
Speaker 1: flip reasons, but in a situation like this where a
Speaker 1: man is off from work, like it is designed to
Speaker 1: get guys away from work, and he went to enjoy
Speaker 1: what for some people would be a once in a
Speaker 1: lifetime type experience. I'm not sure if he's been to
Speaker 1: a World Series before, but I would assume for most
Speaker 1: people that's a great experience to have, whether you're a
Speaker 1: coach or not. I think that it's kind of it's
Speaker 1: it's lunacy that people would have a problem with the
Speaker 1: fact that he took his off time to go and
Speaker 1: have an experience like that. Sports is not the end
Speaker 1: all be all, nor should it be, And if we
Speaker 1: know any thing, I mean, there's gonna be some kind
Speaker 1: of team message that comes out of it. You know.
Speaker 1: I thought about our football team sitting maybe a sitting
Speaker 1: right behind the on deck circle at Dodger Stadium, Game three,
Speaker 1: and I thought about us, thought about our team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can see that it's gonna come back. It's no
Speaker 1: good but work. That's the That's the age old debate, though,
Speaker 1: isn't it. I mean it's this, you know, why do
Speaker 1: people get mad at players for holding out for a
Speaker 1: better contract, Like, oh, you have this amazing opportunity, like
Speaker 1: you're the head coach of the Cowboys. But you make
Speaker 1: five million dollars a year to do this and people
Speaker 1: will kill for your job, so they expect that and
Speaker 1: keep in mind too, uh this, I mean, the whole
Speaker 1: reason this is as popular as it is is because
Speaker 1: it's an escape for the people that watch it, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people tie up, to be honest, too
Speaker 1: much of their self worth in how their football teams doing.
Speaker 1: So to see that as we do with our college program.
Speaker 1: Oh that, I mean everybody, we do it too. We're
Speaker 1: part of this. We wouldn't be this, We wouldn't be
Speaker 1: doing this job if we didn't feel that way. Right,
Speaker 1: But sometimes you just got to take a step back
Speaker 1: and be like, the Cowboys aren't three and four because
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett is taking in a baseball game, right, I
Speaker 1: want to buy to buy way I thought. I got
Speaker 1: a few tweets about it, some you know whatever fans
Speaker 1: had different opinions about it, But one of them was like,
Speaker 1: did you find it ironic at all that he was
Speaker 1: did he was sitting front row at a game that
Speaker 1: was pretty much tied, you know, for seventeen seventeen innings
Speaker 1: or whatever. That's my biggest beef. I don't have a
Speaker 1: by all means, Jason Garrett go to the game. I
Speaker 1: didn't like it, but i'd liked it. Yeah you did, um.
Speaker 1: I just I believe he left early, which like, shame
Speaker 1: on you like you, Oh yeah you made that's your
Speaker 1: big pet peeve about sports. Hell yeah, yeah, you made
Speaker 1: the effort to gil you flew across the country the
Speaker 1: longest and one of the most epic baseball games in history,
Speaker 1: and it had to I mean the home He's clearly
Speaker 1: rooting for the Dodgers. He's friends with Tommy Letzorda and
Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw. They win in a walk off after eighteen innings,
Speaker 1: like you'll never see that again. And I believe he
Speaker 1: left early, which like that already had his T shirt idea,
Speaker 1: like that's all one game he didn't agree to do.
Speaker 1: He was back. It's the bye week, man, you can
Speaker 1: only get into one game. It's Friday night. I guarantee
Speaker 1: you he probably flew private like he shame on you
Speaker 1: stay for the whole thing. Stay, always stay, especially like
Speaker 1: if you already sunk the time and resources you got us,
Speaker 1: maybe the wife was ready to go, and why it's
Speaker 1: ready to go then we're leading. Sorry for the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys dot com alumni Rowan Kavner, who was a Dodgers
Speaker 1: He works for the Dodgers as it does work for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. Just there, writer, writer. He texted me, which
Speaker 1: I you know I was. I was overserved? Well, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: on Friday night, Saturday night, I was overserved. But I
Speaker 1: was Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It's all the same, Rowan was.
Speaker 1: Rowan is one of my dearest friends. So I was
Speaker 1: in communication with him throughout the weekend and on I
Speaker 1: get yeah, it was Saturday night. You know they they
Speaker 1: won that one, but they were then they're losing to
Speaker 1: go down three one and obviously they lost the series
Speaker 1: last night. And he texts me, and he's a lifelong
Speaker 1: Rangers fan too, so he's like, this is the second
Speaker 1: time I've had to watch a team i'm invested in
Speaker 1: lose back to backworld series. And he's like, what did
Speaker 1: I do to deserve this? Like, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: that's just the crappy gotta hurts. The crappy hand you
Speaker 1: got delt that's gotta hurt, hurt so bad. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take our first break when we come back. I
Speaker 1: do want to talk a little bit about that Washington
Speaker 1: Redskins run defense. I want to throw out some were
Speaker 1: about this that's where I was going. Okay, but you
Speaker 1: look at some of the names of the running backs
Speaker 1: that they faced this year, and some of the totals
Speaker 1: that they've that they've held them too. I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty it's pretty interesting and something worth noting. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: Break live from the SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: It's a non victory Monday, coming off a byeway, but
Speaker 1: it's not a defeat money, but it's not a defeat month. Correct.
Speaker 1: The bye week is great. People who don't like the
Speaker 1: bye week don't know what they're talking about them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like your Longhorns didn't get it done on Saturday. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to rub salt in the wound. But
Speaker 1: I just got to sit back and chill like I
Speaker 1: didn't have to worry about all that. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a long weekend. Yeah, very long weekend. But let's talk
Speaker 1: about these Washington Redskins. Obviously, if the Cowboys after losing
Speaker 1: the game that they played to them already. If they're
Speaker 1: going to get back into the mix for the division,
Speaker 1: I think it's a I think it is an absolute
Speaker 1: must that they win on Thanksgiving when Washington comes to town.
Speaker 1: But if you look at how they're playing football and
Speaker 1: how they're winning, one of the things that's most important
Speaker 1: I think for the Redskins is that they are stopping
Speaker 1: the run at a very very very good pace. Like
Speaker 1: right now, they are second in the league and run
Speaker 1: defense only given up eighty point one yards per game
Speaker 1: on the ground. They have not checked this out. Only
Speaker 1: two teams NFL that have this stat They have not
Speaker 1: given up a single run over twenty plus yards, and
Speaker 1: there's only the only other team was I want to say,
Speaker 1: maybe I can't remember, that would make sense. It was
Speaker 1: one other team that hasn't done it as well that
Speaker 1: has no It's Minnesota, That's who it is. It's Minnesota.
Speaker 1: But they've not given up a single run. The longest
Speaker 1: run they've given up is eighteen yards, and have not
Speaker 1: given up a running a running to a running play
Speaker 1: over twenty yards. And obviously that's what the Cowboys do.
Speaker 1: What we've seen from the Cowboys this season When they've
Speaker 1: had success, they're able to run the ball. When they
Speaker 1: don't have success, they're not able to run the ball.
Speaker 1: Listening to some of these numbers, they faced David Johnson
Speaker 1: at thirty four yards, They faced mark Ingram fifty three,
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamar twenty four, Cam Newton forty three, Christian McCaffrey twenty,
Speaker 1: Zeke thirty three, Dac thirty three, Sequon Barkley thirty eight.
Speaker 1: So they're doing this across the board. This is not
Speaker 1: just one one time. They're doing this every week. They're
Speaker 1: holding teams that traditionally run the ball well, good runners,
Speaker 1: they're holding them to literally practically nothing on the ground game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the stats, the stat that went viral yesterday. Their
Speaker 1: last three games, Carolina Dallas and then New York McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: Zeke and Barkley combined for the less than a hundred
Speaker 1: yards combined, which, hey, you spend you spend first round
Speaker 1: picks I think number thirteen and number eighteen overall on
Speaker 1: these super free, athletic defensive tackles and you got two smart,
Speaker 1: sure handed linebackers behind them. That's what happens. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's playing out the way they wanted it to when
Speaker 1: they made those picks. So thinking about all that, what
Speaker 1: do you think the Cowboys have to do? Is the
Speaker 1: signing of Amari Cooper enough to maybe give them that
Speaker 1: other option because they're gonna, i think, when they play Washington,
Speaker 1: unless they figure out a way to penetrate that defensive
Speaker 1: front that nobody else has figured out yet, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to throw the ball in order to move the
Speaker 1: ball down the field. Yeah. So do you think that's
Speaker 1: enough bringing in Amari Cooper to be able to do that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think I think it is. I mean, they're not
Speaker 1: far from from you know, winning these games and what
Speaker 1: And that's the thing about Washington. As good as their
Speaker 1: defense is playing, their offense isn't really good that good
Speaker 1: where they're gonna pull away from people. This isn't like
Speaker 1: you know, the Saints that they're defense is playing pretty
Speaker 1: well and their offense is playing really well. So they're
Speaker 1: four the six and one or seven and one wherever
Speaker 1: they are right now. You know, same with the Rams.
Speaker 1: You know they're doing it on both ends of Washington
Speaker 1: really isn't so you know, they've their defense is dominating
Speaker 1: those games, but I believe they're all one score games
Speaker 1: and they were down to the end, and you know,
Speaker 1: you have a game manager and Alex Smith, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of what he is. Those guys aren't going to
Speaker 1: run away from you. So I think you know you're
Speaker 1: talking about you know, the Cowboys lost twenty to seventeen.
Speaker 1: They give up a defensive touchdown. They need to you know,
Speaker 1: I think Rob Phillips had a stat the other day,
Speaker 1: I mean a touchdown a game. You know, maybe can
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper give you a touchdown a game? A touchdown
Speaker 1: a game would change you know, it would change the
Speaker 1: course of your season so far right now. So I
Speaker 1: think that that's kind of where they are. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's asking for a lot from one guy. But I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they'll be okay. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: not that far off three and four, They're not that
Speaker 1: far off. I'm declining to put that much pressure on
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper. I just I need to see it, which
Speaker 1: I mean there's gonna be pressure on regardless they've gave
Speaker 1: up first round pick. I get that. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: I don't have expectations for him, but I need to
Speaker 1: see that to believe it as a baseline. Just starting out.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen him play yet. I just hope and
Speaker 1: think that he is enough of a threat that it
Speaker 1: will open things up for everybody else. I think defenses
Speaker 1: have to be more reluctant to put nine in the
Speaker 1: box and to focus as much as they have on
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, knowing that a guy like Amari Cooper is
Speaker 1: out there and he needs to make the plays to
Speaker 1: cement that. I guess, but I think he has that potential,
Speaker 1: and I really think that's going to be the difference.
Speaker 1: Is just that his presence, you would like to think
Speaker 1: will make things easier for everybody else. I actually don't
Speaker 1: think his presence will do that. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to convert like they're gonna have to do it,
Speaker 1: because I think teams are gonna say, yeah, we see,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna until you show us that you can
Speaker 1: consistently do it. We're gonna still take the option that
Speaker 1: we'll take Zeke out of the game, and if you
Speaker 1: beat us, you beat us. And I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are gonna have to beat a few teams throw the
Speaker 1: ball up and really going down filled with it in
Speaker 1: order to force teams to realize not only do they
Speaker 1: have the weapon, but that they're actually going to use
Speaker 1: it the right way because I don't think teams trust
Speaker 1: them to do it. You have to do that. I mean,
Speaker 1: Scott Lenahan, Jason Garrett, Dak Prescott, they have to do that.
Speaker 1: They have to throw You're you're right. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can get it blocked, take four steps, go back and
Speaker 1: throw the ball deep. You can't. I mean, nothing stops
Speaker 1: you from doing that. I mean you may not be
Speaker 1: the best look that you want, but you can definitely
Speaker 1: do it. You can do back shoulder things, you can
Speaker 1: do things towards the sideline where you hope that a
Speaker 1: first round pick like Amara Cooper can go up and
Speaker 1: make the play. They have to do that, and if
Speaker 1: they don't, then then it's on them. It's on Lenahan,
Speaker 1: it's on DAC because they have provided a weapon that
Speaker 1: can do that and that will help easily, that will
Speaker 1: help a line, that will help Zeke, that will help DAC.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the that's really the only way. So
Speaker 1: you're right about that. They have to do it, and
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what other way you can
Speaker 1: say it. I feel like we've talked about this a
Speaker 1: few times and I mean, I agree, yes, obviously you
Speaker 1: got to take shots down the field. But this goes
Speaker 1: back to a talking point from the Washington game, which
Speaker 1: is they burned him bad on the Michael Gallup double
Speaker 1: move for a touchdown, and the Redskins played off for
Speaker 1: the rest of the game. They're like, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: let you do that anymore because they burned him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which well, and so I don't think it's realistic. You know,
Speaker 1: Dack's just not gonna suddenly start playing like Matt Stafford
Speaker 1: and just chucking the ball like that's not what he does.
Speaker 1: But Amari Cooper, he damned well better if you trade
Speaker 1: a first round pick be able to just run the
Speaker 1: twelve yard comeback and not let the dB hook his
Speaker 1: arm and catch the ball. And if he's consistently doing that,
Speaker 1: then that's enough. On it really is, and people don't
Speaker 1: use and that's the point. They got to use him, yea.
Speaker 1: You know, they have to use him and force teams
Speaker 1: to realize that he is enough of a weapon that
Speaker 1: they can beat you like that. If he can consistently
Speaker 1: make catches eight to twenty yards down the field, it
Speaker 1: will be enough. I genuinely think that I agree you
Speaker 1: know what's weird is that you think, well, is one
Speaker 1: player enough? Well, the way this team plays, think of it,
Speaker 1: I mean the whole touchdown a game, that's a good
Speaker 1: way to look at it. But what about, you know,
Speaker 1: two or three first downs a game? Can this guy
Speaker 1: give you two or three first downs? Because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of times that this team is putting around the
Speaker 1: fifty yard line two or three first downs, and now
Speaker 1: that that's the year down at the thirty, you're kicking
Speaker 1: a field goal. We've seen two games already this year. Word,
Speaker 1: a field goal by the Cowboys would have been a
Speaker 1: difference maker. Even a field goal in Seattle would have
Speaker 1: been a difference maker when you're driving there at the end.
Speaker 1: So maybe the case for Carolina too. So you know,
Speaker 1: just a few first downs, that's how close this thing is.
Speaker 1: And it's and it's close the other way the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have lost, I mean have won a close game too.
Speaker 1: So um, I just I just feel like, yes, if
Speaker 1: you if you simplify things a little bit, I do
Speaker 1: believe that this this guy will help just enough. They
Speaker 1: don't need a lot to kind of win some games here.
Speaker 1: They're right there, their defense is really good, their offensive
Speaker 1: solid at home. They need they need to figure out
Speaker 1: how they need Yeah, that's another thing, but we don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about about that this week, two more weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they should win this game. I'm surprised the line wasn't
Speaker 1: a little bit more than that for four points. It
Speaker 1: just came out. I guess is it four points? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, whose favorite? Dallas by four. That's which I'm
Speaker 1: surprised it's not a little more too. That tells you
Speaker 1: something like Vegas does not respect Washington at all. Because
Speaker 1: they were one point underdogs against a sorry New York team.
Speaker 1: I know it was well they underdogs. I thought they were.
Speaker 1: They were favored by one okay either way even there
Speaker 1: either way either way. But still like I'm surprised by
Speaker 1: that because they've looked really good the last three or
Speaker 1: four weeks. I mean, I know they got shellacked by
Speaker 1: the Saints, but that was a month ago. But didn't
Speaker 1: you also kind of think this was a week end
Speaker 1: where if Giants are gonna get that, that that win.
Speaker 1: This part of seeing this would be the win they
Speaker 1: would get. Not really division teams. I just think division teams.
Speaker 1: It's always kind of a crap that it is. That's
Speaker 1: how sorry he is. That's how sorry the Giants have been.
Speaker 1: I mean se Quon Barkley or do you realize what
Speaker 1: he's doing. He's on pace for two thousand all purpose yards,
Speaker 1: like he's gonna run and through and catch for a
Speaker 1: thousand and it doesn't matter. Like that's how bad they
Speaker 1: are that they can't even make use of that. If
Speaker 1: I was the Giants, I would trade whatever it takes
Speaker 1: man man, not whatever it takes, but I would trade
Speaker 1: maybe a second round pick whatever to to Oakland for
Speaker 1: Derek Carr. You're the second or third person i've heard
Speaker 1: suggest that, and I yeah, I'm here for it. I mean,
Speaker 1: give up your up, young versions he's pretty young. You
Speaker 1: needs something, give up a shit and oh I just
Speaker 1: cursed on the are Sorry my bad, I got it's
Speaker 1: I told you I've been thrown for a loop. I've
Speaker 1: been thrown for a loop. Um what Oakland would then
Speaker 1: have four first round picks? Yeah, well, no, said a second,
Speaker 1: not the Giants first. I'm not throwing that. I'm not
Speaker 1: trading their first I mean if if, if, if a
Speaker 1: quarterback is what you need to help fix that thing.
Speaker 1: It's kind of the same logic. As the Cowboys in that.
Speaker 1: I mean, but that's is the guy you're gonna get
Speaker 1: in the draft better than Derek Carr when Derek Carr
Speaker 1: has any but would take that second round pick because
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a high second. And I can't believe
Speaker 1: that they would demand a first for Amari Cooper and
Speaker 1: then let their franchise quarterback go for a second round.
Speaker 1: And my thing is, if I'm going to give up
Speaker 1: that that pick, are there other back I mean, other
Speaker 1: quarterbacks out there that maybe I think are better options
Speaker 1: in the draft. Like no, I'm saying I'm saying that
Speaker 1: are in the Like I might opt for a guy
Speaker 1: like Teddy Bridgewater who you might have to give up
Speaker 1: less he's sitting on someone's bench. Maybe you can get
Speaker 1: that trade for a little less than a second round.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine why the Saints would trade him because
Speaker 1: he's the third quarter but like he's your insurance policy.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I think they love Taysom Hill.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna he only plays every Yeah, snap,
Speaker 1: I just think he's gonna end up being their quarterback.
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill is their gadget guy. I get everything. But
Speaker 1: that's just because They can't put him at quarterback right
Speaker 1: now because their quarterback is Drew Brees. If Drew Brees
Speaker 1: gets concussed against the Rams next week and can't play,
Speaker 1: Big Bridgewater, Yeah, absolutely, that's what he's their face. And
Speaker 1: you talked about not having games on Sunday. Um, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some good ones of what Sunday afternoon? This
Speaker 1: coming Sunday, yeah, or Sunday, right, don't the Saints Ramsay's
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Packers pages at night, right, that's a Sunday
Speaker 1: night game, right, that's good stuff. That'll be fun. All right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take our final break. We'll come back. We'll
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Speaker 1: in the final segment life in the SWBC Mortate Studios.
Speaker 1: At the start, it's Monday, following the bye week. We're
Speaker 1: get you guys ready for Cowboys versus Titans. That happens
Speaker 1: Monday Nights, Monday Night football next week. So we got
Speaker 1: a long week to get you ready. Dave's already started
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Speaker 1: I'll probably get you guys ready over the end of
Speaker 1: this week and then we'll just head right into that
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Speaker 1: all right, So let's go into some phone calls. We
Speaker 1: got a call from Ken in New Mexico. Ken, what up? Hey,
Speaker 1: it's good to talk to you guys. You know what,
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to the Cowboy Network since I talked
Speaker 1: to Frank Lusk and burnemun Quist way back in the sixties. WHOA,
Speaker 1: I wasn't even alive, Uncle Verne, And that means if
Speaker 1: I wasn't alive, nobody else and this crew was alive walks. No,
Speaker 1: but I was my friends. Hey passed some month in.
Speaker 1: Nate Newton form me real quick. He said the other
Speaker 1: day that Valdez is coming, and he said he was
Speaker 1: talking about that in from Louis Lamar, the writer, but
Speaker 1: it was from Elmore Leonard. Okay, I read like Nate. Okay.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I have is they need to
Speaker 1: run Chris Jones. I've watched the right side of the
Speaker 1: Washington Redskin defense. Every time Chris went into formation, the
Speaker 1: guy on the end came around and left the pass
Speaker 1: straight up the side for Chris Jones to run a
Speaker 1: lot of yards. If they ran in Houston, Cowboys win.
Speaker 1: If Chris ran once in Washington, Cowboys win that game.
Speaker 1: They've got to use Chris Jones's speed or they're wasting him.
Speaker 1: That's all I got. Thank you, my brothers, thank you. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's one of those things where you'll do
Speaker 1: it once a season, and I think that they will
Speaker 1: do it. You've seen it, and you're right, his beat
Speaker 1: is good enough to do that. They're just you just
Speaker 1: kind of find the right time and rights, you know, formation,
Speaker 1: and you know look that you're looking for. I mean,
Speaker 1: it'll happen, but I mean it's not something it happens
Speaker 1: every week. It's not like, oh, they need to Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't recommend it. So this is not the same
Speaker 1: for you as like uh, fleeflicker, Well you would flee flicker.
Speaker 1: You say it, I'll do that every week because the
Speaker 1: worst case scenario, that means the safety just stays back.
Speaker 1: And I'm okay with the safety standing back regularly. I
Speaker 1: don't think, um, I don't think you're gonna get the
Speaker 1: looks that you want. And I don't think he would
Speaker 1: benefit you to do it, to do it too much.
Speaker 1: I mean, actually he's a pretty good punter too, So
Speaker 1: I mean you don't want to. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: the thing. You don't want him taking a lot of
Speaker 1: any hit. Did you see your boy Michael Dixon from
Speaker 1: the You of t at Austin yesterday? Michael Dixon. H Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you see what he did yesterday? Yesterday? No,
Speaker 1: he won the game for the Seahawks. Well sort of,
Speaker 1: they were up by fourteen. Now I didn't see it.
Speaker 1: He faked like they got a good look punting out
Speaker 1: of his own end zone. The Seahawks wanted him to
Speaker 1: take a safety, and because they were up by fourteen,
Speaker 1: so you know, we'll kick. We're still up twelve, he
Speaker 1: saw a good look and just took off running out
Speaker 1: of his own end zone. If he doesn't get it,
Speaker 1: the Lions get the ball on like their own four
Speaker 1: with a chance to score, and he picked it up
Speaker 1: and iced the game. Wow, it's pretty amazing. Hey, and
Speaker 1: he freelanced it like he did not get he did
Speaker 1: not have the Greelancing doesn't always work out, as we
Speaker 1: saw last night, right with your boy in Green Bay,
Speaker 1: who decides after the coach tells him, don't take the
Speaker 1: ball out of the end zone, we're gonna let our
Speaker 1: million dollar man go out there and win the game
Speaker 1: for us. He decides on his own that he's gonna
Speaker 1: just run the ball out was at Montgomery. Yeah and uh,
Speaker 1: and then promptly fumbles and you should have seen the
Speaker 1: look on Aaron Rodgers. Really pretty much everybody on that
Speaker 1: teams like, we got Aaron freaking Roger at least saying
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers was gonna drive it down and win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yes I do. Now the question is, can did anybody
Speaker 1: anybody think he wasn't? That's the better question. I mean,
Speaker 1: of course he's gonna drop. He only needed a field goal.
Speaker 1: I could look this up, but I'm just gonna ask,
Speaker 1: did um I know Aikman did the game? Did Joe
Speaker 1: Buck do the game? Foot all? No? It was Tony
Speaker 1: Well he was so he was in la world. That's
Speaker 1: what I was wondering, because I didn't notice any difference.
Speaker 1: I was like, did it maybe he held? How would
Speaker 1: he do that? Like? Do you think that's possible for
Speaker 1: him to get from one to the other? Seems like
Speaker 1: the count Oh wait, oh no, no, I forgot they
Speaker 1: played No, because yeah, the Dodgers played at seven. No,
Speaker 1: he couldn't have done that. Yeah, I think so. For
Speaker 1: some it's too much of return. If the World Series
Speaker 1: had ended on Saturday night, I wouldn't be surprised, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I could see that. But the same same day, like
Speaker 1: back to back out it was Tom Burnaman point. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get another call. We got a call from Derek
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. Derek, what up? Hey, So that's how y'all
Speaker 1: doing a long time listen the first time call up.
Speaker 1: Appreciate Hey, I'm asking about l L team. We supposed
Speaker 1: to be like a power running team. I think we
Speaker 1: need to shake up l offensive line a little bit.
Speaker 1: Maybe put Colins in inside. Well, maybe even Smith Tyland Smith,
Speaker 1: because he's one of our most powerful guys and we
Speaker 1: need to inside push. Zeke has nowhere to go, and
Speaker 1: Dak is scared in the pocket. I mean he's jumping now. Well,
Speaker 1: what do you guys think? You know, We appreciate the call.
Speaker 1: I don't think Tyrn Smith is would ever be a guard.
Speaker 1: I think what makes Tyrn Smith so good is is,
Speaker 1: you know, just his athletic ability to play on the edge.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he would even be a strong,
Speaker 1: powerful guy up front. I don't know that. I mean
Speaker 1: he does everything really well, so maybe, but they're not
Speaker 1: doing it, so they're really not worth it talking about
Speaker 1: that now. I did ask Paul Alexander the other day
Speaker 1: that very question. I go, and this is what fans
Speaker 1: want to know. Why not move Connor Williams outside Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins inside. And his answer was, when you get halfway
Speaker 1: down the road, you're already halfway down the roads. You
Speaker 1: should keep driving, which I hate hate that answer. If
Speaker 1: you get halfway down the road, you're already halfway down
Speaker 1: the road. So why so that does that mean like
Speaker 1: you shouldn't worry about adjustments, just stick with what you've
Speaker 1: been doing, even if it's not working. Is that what
Speaker 1: he's trying to say. I think he's that doesn't make sense. Probably.
Speaker 1: I think he's probably saying more about Connor Williams. This
Speaker 1: is this is what they're they're working on making him
Speaker 1: a guard, and they've been trying here and he's got
Speaker 1: some you know, good moments here and there. Some moments
Speaker 1: he he struggles a little bit with power, which is
Speaker 1: why fan I could see why they say why not
Speaker 1: move him outside? But I think his thought is is
Speaker 1: that we're making him a guard and every time something happens,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't just pull it. And that does affect players
Speaker 1: when when when they keep having this position flex, they
Speaker 1: never really figure it out. I think that's what he's
Speaker 1: saying there. Um and I I mean and look, I
Speaker 1: don't think people are crazy for suggesting that. I get it,
Speaker 1: we've seen Lyle play well at guard. The offensive line
Speaker 1: is not playing up the snuff, But I really don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the right I don't think that's
Speaker 1: the right call because you're hindering the development of two
Speaker 1: different players. And let's not forget I know it hasn't
Speaker 1: been as good as you would prefer. They're still third
Speaker 1: in the league in rushing offense. Like, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's the problem. Obviously, they missed Travis Frederick. I'm tired
Speaker 1: of making that excuse, but they do. On top of that,
Speaker 1: the passing game is what's hindering the running game, Like
Speaker 1: they thought any part of that is that you're not
Speaker 1: being able to protect right right, Well, they thought they
Speaker 1: would have made more strides. They absolutely did, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: going back to the spring than like it's going to
Speaker 1: be rough in the early going and then it'll come on.
Speaker 1: It hasn't happened, and that's why they made a blockbuster
Speaker 1: trade to try to fix it. But I think I
Speaker 1: would rather try to find a way to fix the
Speaker 1: passing game and open things up than mix all that
Speaker 1: around and hinder Connor's development and my hell's you know,
Speaker 1: I know he's not playing well, but he's not going
Speaker 1: to switching him again. It's not going to do anything either,
Speaker 1: I don't think, And to be quite honest with you,
Speaker 1: I think that if you want to talk about everything,
Speaker 1: and I've been probably the biggest voice on this show
Speaker 1: at least talking about the offensive line and the problem there,
Speaker 1: we haven't talked enough about the offensive line coach. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Paul Alexander deserves a significant amount of whatever
Speaker 1: blame is going to go out because he is a
Speaker 1: new part there, and before that this was an all
Speaker 1: world offensive line. I understand Travis Frederick isn't there, but
Speaker 1: some guys who have in there are not playing to
Speaker 1: the level that we've been used to them seeing, and
Speaker 1: so the question should be asked. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: is he a part of the problem here or these
Speaker 1: players really regressing even though they're being coach properly. I
Speaker 1: think that's a fair question asking. I do wonder, I
Speaker 1: do wonder if if he's a part of this problem here.
Speaker 1: It really do especially troubling when you see that the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati offensive line is playing pretty well, the significantly better
Speaker 1: with Frank Pollock, which they did a straight swap. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was Lyle's biggest cheerleader all through the
Speaker 1: second half of last season. I thought he was playing
Speaker 1: great despite you know, what people wanted to say about him,
Speaker 1: and it hasn't translated. So two of your I mean,
Speaker 1: Tyrn and Lyle both have regressed a lot. I don't
Speaker 1: think Connor has been bad by any stretch, but he's
Speaker 1: had his struggles and Zach has gonna Zach. But it's
Speaker 1: it's it's been. It's been troubling to watch. And I
Speaker 1: think I said this on the last show last week,
Speaker 1: like if there had been a change during the bye week,
Speaker 1: I would have guessed it would have been that, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't, and so you know, we'll see if it
Speaker 1: gets any better in the second half. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you joining us. We're back tomorrow. We'll be
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