WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Just Getting Bye 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.080 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.840 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? Ready 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.759 for a break. Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:22.720 time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.960 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.760 It is Monday, October twenty ninth, twenty eighteen, season fourteen, 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:34.599 episode number sixty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.320 The Break, Live from the s WBC Bargats Mortgage Studios 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.199 at the Star. They stopped yawning, man, seriously, what am 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.279 I doing? I wasn't yawn and I was just kind 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:48.000 of him Yeah, seriously, Nick, Dave, how are you guys doing. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.360 I'm awesome. We're good. Yeah, ready to roll into another 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.840 week here. Coming off the bye, should have gotten plenty 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.720 of rest. I feel rejuvenated, awesome. Honestly, I feel weird, 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.560 Like you just you get in, you know, you get 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.080 into the grind of the season and every day's sort 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:05.679 of you know, you kind of get into the schedule. 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:07.759 And it was nice having what we had, like four 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:09.560 days off, but it kind of throws you off a 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.639 little bit. Yeah, it was weird. I couldn't relax this weekend. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:14.800 I kept telling my wife, like, I can't relax. I 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.880 feel like I need to be doing something. It's hard 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:18.920 to get out of that mode of just going, going, 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.720 going going. I had an easy time doing it day like, yeah, 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:24.959 it was all good with me. I napped all day Friday, 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.880 got a massage, Oh that's nice, partied on Saturday a 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:33.920 little bit, and watch football yesterday. It was awesome. Yeah. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:35.800 I don't like it when it's like this and it's 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:37.800 gonna be this way all week where it's just like 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.160 it's really a Wednesday and Garrett's gonna sit up there 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.680 and say, well, today's a Monday, and you're like, no, 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.559 it isn't. But it's gonna happen all the way until 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.440 you get to the game. It's not gonna get normal 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.600 again until Tuesday. What's gonna what's gonna be weird is Monday. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.120 You know, you watch a full day of games on 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.840 Sunday and then Monday it's a Monday, like it's a weekday. 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.000 You're used to working, but you're just gonna be waiting 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.280 around for the game. Yeah. So yeah, but when's the 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.720 last time we've had two weekends in a row where 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.760 where we were able to watch football on a Sunday. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.720 It's gonna on a Saturday and a Sunday. Travel you 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.440 don't have a game on Sunday. That's that's actually pretty nice, 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.320 not complaining, but it's still it's definitely throws you for 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.160 a loop. Well, today we're going to talk a little bit. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.160 I know there was a topic Friday that we started 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:22.840 up and we didn't get a chance to finish. We 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.040 were talking about change. I threw out a couple changes 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.920 that you guys that could possibly take place or just 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.839 changes that we're worth talking about, and there were four 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:32.480 others that I have for you guys. We're gonna talk 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.720 a little bit more about that. But before we get 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.280 to that, I just wanted to recap a little bit 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.600 on the weekend. I assume you guys watched a little 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.760 football this weekend, and I mean I saw somebody say 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.519 on Twitter, it feels like a victory Monday. Not really, 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.400 because all the things that the Cowboys probably wanted to 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.680 happen this weekend, two in particular, did not happen. You 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.000 saw two division teams that you probably wanted to take 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.320 a loss, both get a win. Washington beats New York, 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.600 which you probably could have expected. Yeah, on the road 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.640 you thought maybe it was a chance, but obviously not. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.360 And then Philadelphia in London gets to win over Jacksonville, 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.079 and Jacksonville continues to just look awful and it's it's amazing. 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.799 Then at forty to seven wins, losing some luster, right, 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:16.360 It's like one of those things where you thought at 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.119 the time it was a really great win, but now 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.760 you kind of wonder if it was just that's a 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:22.840 bad team. And really, looking at all the teams the 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.280 Cowboys have beaten, you know, there's not a lot of 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.480 there's not a lot there to say that that you 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.560 can gauge how good the Cowboys are because the teams 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.959 that they've beaten aren't very good. That's that's the NFL 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.640 for me, though with very rare exceptions. I mean, if 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.760 you go up to Foxborough and beat the Pats, you 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.440 should feel pretty good about that. If you beat this 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.160 Rams team, if you beat the Packers while Aaron Rodgers 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.400 is in there, okay, But for the most I mean, 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.760 it's the NFL. Any. I mean, the Bills went on 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.000 the road and beat the crap out of what we 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.920 think as a decent Vikings team, which so you know, 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:56.720 that looks like a statement win that the Saints put 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.200 up last night. But is it? I mean, have the 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.360 Vikings look like world beaters to this point and every 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.320 one of they every one of the losses the Cowboys 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.080 have had or against teams now that are good. I 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.360 mean at the time, Houston was not looking very good 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.600 and neither was the Seattle looking good. Carolina looks really good. 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.800 Why they all turned it around after they played the Cowboys. Yeah, 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.320 still kind of early it is, or it's it's the 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.279 NFL and everybody but about four teams looks mediocre as hell, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:26.320 Like that's the Saints, Rams, Uh, Pats and Chiefs all 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.400 look pretty awesome and everybody else. I'm just November is 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.039 gonna tell it all because you got you got the 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:37.240 Eagles twice I think technical December. Yeah, but that that 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.440 whole stretch there, you have the Redskins coming back on Thanksgiving. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.200 I mean, all that's going to really determine what, you know, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.200 what this team does. So, um, you know there'll be 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.880 some swing games, has it? It feels like that at 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.000 Atlanta game again about the same point in the season, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.960 it's gonna be a time where, you know, if the 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.040 Cowboys are really going to do something like, they have 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.520 to win that one right there, because Atlanta's getting hot 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.880 now hot relatively speaking for their for for what this 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.400 season has been for them. They've had a few wins 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.480 here in a row, and so they're starting to get 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.240 to a point where maybe they're finding their way. And 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.040 this happens every year in the NFL season. There's gonna 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.240 be a team that was around that five hundred mark 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.200 um at week five, weeks six, weeks, week seven that 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.279 gets on a role and will be a player in 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.560 the playoffs. It's obvious it mains to be seeing who 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.080 that's gonna be, but it was definitely the Cowboys. Mary 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:29.200 Cooper's here offense is coming on. Let's go maybe get 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:30.840 on the train. You know one thing that stood up 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:32.599 to me this weekend as I started kind of I 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.840 watched the rest of the game, I was wondering, if 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:37.960 we're gonna get to that, we're gonna get to that 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.719 fact you want to throw that out there. I mean 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:43.719 I kind of almost didn't want to bring it up 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.599 because I know on this show, our response to Johnson 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.200 shouldn't have done that. Yeah, go ahead and tell them 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.520 what you think. I think, Jimmy Johnson, because do your 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.800 own thing, coach your own team. You mean, you don't 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:56.960 need to be standing up there. You're not coaching. Yeah 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.520 you did coach, but you're not coaching anymore. And the 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.839 thing that I didn't like about his comment, it's comment 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.480 about Jason Garrett being at the Dodger game on on 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.719 the BUYE weekend. But but he was like, it doesn't 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.440 He said something like it doesn't really matter to him. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.039 It just does not a good look. It's not a 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.600 good perception, perception when reality is his Why or should 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.960 he be worrying about perception? I mean if to me, 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.599 it's like if you're an analyst, you're gonna say it, 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.320 then say it, but don't throw it out there like 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.680 a perception because at this point, does Jason Garrett really 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.240 care about what the perception is? Did he care about 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:29.800 what the perception? Let me ask you, this was he 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.159 saying the perception with this with the general media and public. 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.560 Are you saying the perception to his team? Well? If 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.680 it or is there a different does that matter to 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.840 you that if fish players are over here working out, 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.080 or if fish coaches over here working out. That's fine. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.880 I think it was ghost town, so if it if 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.000 it was, I'm betting it was a ghost right. I 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.080 know it was a ghost right, So I'm just say, 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:51.880 you're up here, but yeah, you know it was Actually 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.240 did come up here on Sunday, I for my phone 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.240 charger died. I had to come get my spare. But 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.520 did you see it working out? I was here long enough, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:01.919 here long enough to see not a single car in 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.520 the parking lot, you know, before I went back, not one? 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.560 Not one? And nor should it be honest, it's the 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.160 bye week, Yeah, which reason why you get a bye week. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.560 I don't have a problem with Jimmy Johnson saying it 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.040 because to a degree, I think he's right. It is 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.480 the perception. I mean, Jason Garrett could have gone to 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.600 that game and sat in the back of a suite 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.600 and no one would have been the wiser. But he 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.880 wanted to sit next to Brad Paisley. He knew he 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.280 was going to wind up on national TV, and to 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.400 his credit, I don't think he cares, nor should he. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:31.720 But if you're the head coach of the most visible 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.360 franchise in American sports and they're not doing that well, 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.680 people are gonna have stuff to say about that. That's 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.000 just the nature of the job that comes with the dinner, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.080 as he always likes to say. But he's never cared 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.080 about that, nor do I think he should. He's paid 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.880 handsomely and I don't have the slightest problem with it. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.360 It's the bye week, Like, everybody deserves a break from 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.360 their job, no matter how much they're paid to do it. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.520 Like it's lunacy to think that he should be up 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:59.240 here diagramming plays on a Friday night. I guarantee you 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.360 he put in long hours before everybody took their break. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.680 Freaking everyone and their mother took a vacation. I mean, 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.920 every player was out of town. San Jay Law went 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.080 out to the Bay Area to visit his parents. He 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.680 told us that on Thursday before they broke Like, that's 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.240 what you do on the bye week. However, however bad 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.600 you might think he is, that, however bad you might think, 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.280 Jason Garrett is at his job, He's well within his 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.000 right to do that during the team's weekend off. It's fine, 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.120 but you sit front row at a World Series game, 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.000 having the job he has, it's gonna draw attention. That's 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:33.600 just the nature. Yeah, it's just one of the things 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:38.440 that I've come to really despise about sports. I love sports, 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.680 I love football, but I despise this one thing that 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.480 there's this perception that in sports you have to be 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.719 that sports test to be everything. And I don't think 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.480 that's healthy, number one, But I don't think it's the 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.960 right thing either. I'll give you an example. This last weekend, 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.079 my nephew plays college football. One of his teammates, a 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.240 starting wide receiver in New Mexico, missed the game because 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.959 his sister was getting married, and people are actually talking 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.120 about it on the air. The people on the air 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:06.599 talking about and they were talking about how you know 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.280 some people that were like, well, how could he miss 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.240 a game for a wedding? And never never heard of 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.800 that before, And it just kind of stuck out to 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.000 me that that's part of what's wrong a little bit 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.880 with how we viewed sports. Sports is entertainment, Sports is fun. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.680 Sports is not the end all be all. There are lives, 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.520 and people's lives should trump that to some degree. And 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.720 that doesn't mean you you miss practicing games just for 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:31.840 flip reasons, but in a situation like this where a 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.920 man is off from work, like it is designed to 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.840 get guys away from work, and he went to enjoy 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:39.960 what for some people would be a once in a 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.320 lifetime type experience. I'm not sure if he's been to 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.559 a World Series before, but I would assume for most 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.800 people that's a great experience to have, whether you're a 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.559 coach or not. I think that it's kind of it's 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.040 it's lunacy that people would have a problem with the 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.280 fact that he took his off time to go and 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.800 have an experience like that. Sports is not the end 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.480 all be all, nor should it be, And if we 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.640 know any thing, I mean, there's gonna be some kind 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.440 of team message that comes out of it. You know. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.760 I thought about our football team sitting maybe a sitting 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.280 right behind the on deck circle at Dodger Stadium, Game three, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.520 and I thought about us, thought about our team. Yeah, 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.280 I can see that it's gonna come back. It's no 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:21.439 good but work. That's the That's the age old debate, though, 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.520 isn't it. I mean it's this, you know, why do 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.560 people get mad at players for holding out for a 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.120 better contract, Like, oh, you have this amazing opportunity, like 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.160 you're the head coach of the Cowboys. But you make 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.600 five million dollars a year to do this and people 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.480 will kill for your job, so they expect that and 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:39.120 keep in mind too, uh this, I mean, the whole 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.280 reason this is as popular as it is is because 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.240 it's an escape for the people that watch it, and 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.439 a lot of people tie up, to be honest, too 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.280 much of their self worth in how their football teams doing. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.319 So to see that as we do with our college program. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.280 Oh that, I mean everybody, we do it too. We're 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.840 part of this. We wouldn't be this, We wouldn't be 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:59.760 doing this job if we didn't feel that way. Right, 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.760 But sometimes you just got to take a step back 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.679 and be like, the Cowboys aren't three and four because 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.319 Jason Garrett is taking in a baseball game, right, I 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.320 want to buy to buy way I thought. I got 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.360 a few tweets about it, some you know whatever fans 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.480 had different opinions about it, But one of them was like, 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.760 did you find it ironic at all that he was 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.640 did he was sitting front row at a game that 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.760 was pretty much tied, you know, for seventeen seventeen innings 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:31.360 or whatever. That's my biggest beef. I don't have a 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.240 by all means, Jason Garrett go to the game. I 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.319 didn't like it, but i'd liked it. Yeah you did, um. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.760 I just I believe he left early, which like, shame 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.600 on you like you, Oh yeah you made that's your 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.880 big pet peeve about sports. Hell yeah, yeah, you made 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.640 the effort to gil you flew across the country the 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.160 longest and one of the most epic baseball games in history, 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.120 and it had to I mean the home He's clearly 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.440 rooting for the Dodgers. He's friends with Tommy Letzorda and 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.840 Clayton Kershaw. They win in a walk off after eighteen innings, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.560 like you'll never see that again. And I believe he 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.160 left early, which like that already had his T shirt idea, 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:11.440 like that's all one game he didn't agree to do. 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.840 He was back. It's the bye week, man, you can 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.119 only get into one game. It's Friday night. I guarantee 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.840 you he probably flew private like he shame on you 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.439 stay for the whole thing. Stay, always stay, especially like 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.280 if you already sunk the time and resources you got us, 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.319 maybe the wife was ready to go, and why it's 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.120 ready to go then we're leading. Sorry for the Dallas 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:37.760 Cowboys dot com alumni Rowan Kavner, who was a Dodgers 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.200 He works for the Dodgers as it does work for 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:44.600 the Dodgers. Just there, writer, writer. He texted me, which 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.439 I you know I was. I was overserved? Well, no, no, no, 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.120 on Friday night, Saturday night, I was overserved. But I 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.080 was Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It's all the same, Rowan was. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.120 Rowan is one of my dearest friends. So I was 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.400 in communication with him throughout the weekend and on I 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.640 get yeah, it was Saturday night. You know they they 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.560 won that one, but they were then they're losing to 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.520 go down three one and obviously they lost the series 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.400 last night. And he texts me, and he's a lifelong 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.640 Rangers fan too, so he's like, this is the second 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.800 time I've had to watch a team i'm invested in 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.200 lose back to backworld series. And he's like, what did 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.839 I do to deserve this? Like, I don't know, man, 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.000 that's just the crappy gotta hurts. The crappy hand you 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.600 got delt that's gotta hurt, hurt so bad. All right, 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.480 let's take our first break when we come back. I 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.160 do want to talk a little bit about that Washington 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:31.040 Redskins run defense. I want to throw out some were 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.520 about this that's where I was going. Okay, but you 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.760 look at some of the names of the running backs 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.920 that they faced this year, and some of the totals 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.559 that they've that they've held them too. I think it's 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.400 pretty it's pretty interesting and something worth noting. We'll talk 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:44.719 about with that when we come right back. 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The Cowboys did when they named 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.920 John Dear their official tractor experience one for yourself. Visit 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:45.240 my John deardealer dot com slash Football Back to the 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.760 Break Welcome back. It is the second segment of The 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.640 Break live from the SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.400 It's a non victory Monday, coming off a byeway, but 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.920 it's not a defeat money, but it's not a defeat month. Correct. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.120 The bye week is great. People who don't like the 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.320 bye week don't know what they're talking about them. Yeah, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.840 like your Longhorns didn't get it done on Saturday. I'm sorry. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:06.360 I'm not trying to rub salt in the wound. But 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.080 I just got to sit back and chill like I 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.080 didn't have to worry about all that. Yeah, it was 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.760 a long weekend. Yeah, very long weekend. But let's talk 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:18.360 about these Washington Redskins. Obviously, if the Cowboys after losing 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.040 the game that they played to them already. If they're 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.240 going to get back into the mix for the division, 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.320 I think it's a I think it is an absolute 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.440 must that they win on Thanksgiving when Washington comes to town. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.000 But if you look at how they're playing football and 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.160 how they're winning, one of the things that's most important 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.640 I think for the Redskins is that they are stopping 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:40.240 the run at a very very very good pace. Like 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.320 right now, they are second in the league and run 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.040 defense only given up eighty point one yards per game 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.960 on the ground. They have not checked this out. Only 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.120 two teams NFL that have this stat They have not 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.240 given up a single run over twenty plus yards, and 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.720 there's only the only other team was I want to say, 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.880 maybe I can't remember, that would make sense. It was 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:03.520 one other team that hasn't done it as well that 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.720 has no It's Minnesota, That's who it is. It's Minnesota. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:07.640 But they've not given up a single run. The longest 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:09.520 run they've given up is eighteen yards, and have not 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.960 given up a running a running to a running play 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.040 over twenty yards. And obviously that's what the Cowboys do. 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.200 What we've seen from the Cowboys this season When they've 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.359 had success, they're able to run the ball. When they 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.480 don't have success, they're not able to run the ball. 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.959 Listening to some of these numbers, they faced David Johnson 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.280 at thirty four yards, They faced mark Ingram fifty three, 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:36.800 Alvin Kamar twenty four, Cam Newton forty three, Christian McCaffrey twenty, 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:41.240 Zeke thirty three, Dac thirty three, Sequon Barkley thirty eight. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.239 So they're doing this across the board. This is not 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.240 just one one time. They're doing this every week. They're 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.920 holding teams that traditionally run the ball well, good runners, 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.680 they're holding them to literally practically nothing on the ground game. Yeah, 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.400 that's the stats, the stat that went viral yesterday. Their 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:02.000 last three games, Carolina Dallas and then New York McCaffrey, 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.200 Zeke and Barkley combined for the less than a hundred 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:09.080 yards combined, which, hey, you spend you spend first round 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:11.879 picks I think number thirteen and number eighteen overall on 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:16.320 these super free, athletic defensive tackles and you got two smart, 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.000 sure handed linebackers behind them. That's what happens. I mean, 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.320 it's playing out the way they wanted it to when 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.359 they made those picks. So thinking about all that, what 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.520 do you think the Cowboys have to do? Is the 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.520 signing of Amari Cooper enough to maybe give them that 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.560 other option because they're gonna, i think, when they play Washington, 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.400 unless they figure out a way to penetrate that defensive 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.080 front that nobody else has figured out yet, they're gonna 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:40.760 have to throw the ball in order to move the 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:42.920 ball down the field. Yeah. So do you think that's 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.480 enough bringing in Amari Cooper to be able to do that? Yeah? 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.480 I think I think it is. I mean, they're not 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.159 far from from you know, winning these games and what 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.600 And that's the thing about Washington. As good as their 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.880 defense is playing, their offense isn't really good that good 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.280