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Speaker 1: time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with

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Speaker 1: Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, December thirty, first two eighteen, Season fourteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number one oh five. Welcome to another edition of

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Speaker 1: The Break. We are live from s WBC Morgan Studios

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Speaker 1: at the Star. We're gonna talk about the Cowboys big

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Speaker 1: win yesterday, thirty six thirty five in a game that

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Speaker 1: most thought was meaningless but was entertaining nonetheless a fun

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Speaker 1: game to watch. Cowboys come out on top and accomplished

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Speaker 1: some of the things that I think they were trying

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Speaker 1: to accomplish going into that game. Whether you agree with

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Speaker 1: it or not, it seemed like they may have accomplished

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Speaker 1: some of those things and felt good about. How's everybody

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Speaker 1: doing day now? Everyone's doing great, doing great? Every No,

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty great, right. I'm happy with the end of

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Speaker 1: the season. I'm happy of the things we were able

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Speaker 1: to see yesterday definitely expected a really boring game and

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Speaker 1: just like it was getting there and the way it started,

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah, but things turned around and that was exciting.

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Speaker 1: That was exciting to see some of the things that

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Speaker 1: they did. Yeah yeah, I thought, you know, and one

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Speaker 1: of the things that I wrote about I was trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out how what to write about this, and

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Speaker 1: I just found some positive things that I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: you can go into the playoffs with. And again, nothing

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Speaker 1: really matters if you don't win. We all know that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't matter what the Chiefs have done,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what the Saints have done, Nobody it

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Speaker 1: doesn't really matter if you don't go win this game

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Speaker 1: coming up against Seattle. So we all know that. But

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Speaker 1: what are the some of the things that happened in there?

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Speaker 1: And I think that that there were some there's some

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Speaker 1: things you can have some confidence about going into and

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Speaker 1: I thought Dak just played amazing and this was really

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Speaker 1: big for him in my opinion, because the three best

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Speaker 1: if you say who are the three best guys, they

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Speaker 1: were all out And there's a reason why they were

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Speaker 1: out because they're probably because they're three best guys, and

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Speaker 1: he goes out there and continues to play and thrive

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Speaker 1: without him, found some new guys to throw the ball too.

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Speaker 1: I thought he played one of his best games of

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Speaker 1: his career, without a doubt, because he didn't have that

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Speaker 1: help that everyone always says he has. He was sixty

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Speaker 1: And I thought the most important thing and she didn't

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Speaker 1: even say the most important thing, but one of the

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Speaker 1: most interesting things was he was sacked four times, he

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Speaker 1: was hit ten times, there were no turnovers. That to

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Speaker 1: me is improvement because what we have seen from Dak

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Speaker 1: But he made great plays on his own. To him,

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Speaker 1: DAK because I don't think that's necessarily what it's telling us.

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Speaker 1: there isn't an amazing throw. That really isn't. And thank

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Speaker 1: you for rewinding that back that that was an amazing throw, because, um,

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Speaker 1: was a big part of it. But you're not going

429
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Speaker 1: to face back like him all the time, especially this week,

430
00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,120
Speaker 1: um that they run it differently, but I think that,

431
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,160
Speaker 1: you know, his his presence, his versatility really allows him

432
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Speaker 1: to do different things on the line. So it'll be

433
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Speaker 1: good to have him back. Let's talk about Blake Darlin. Yesterday,

434
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Speaker 1: he had a career day seven catches, one hundred nineteen

435
00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:42,520
Speaker 1: yards seventeen point oh average um and then the key part,

436
00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,920
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, two of those touchdowns being in the red

437
00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,840
Speaker 1: zone from thirteen yards out and from nineteen yards out.

438
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Speaker 1: Career day doesn't. It's true, but it doesn't feel like

439
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,160
Speaker 1: good justice. Yeah. Nick said that before the break when

440
00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,680
Speaker 1: I said, anytime you say someone had a really, really

441
00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,240
Speaker 1: really good day and that doesn't do it justice, then

442
00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,879
Speaker 1: there's something it's really special. I wrote this in my

443
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 1: article and I know this is far fetched kind of

444
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,240
Speaker 1: but the only person I can really compare this too

445
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,880
Speaker 1: is Miles Austin. This was a Miles Auston type of thing. Now,

446
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,800
Speaker 1: Miles was there for two or three years and you're

447
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,400
Speaker 1: kind of waiting for him to have that that momentum.

448
00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:17,680
Speaker 1: You've waited a little bit now a year and a

449
00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 1: half for Darwin, but it's it's that type of game.

450
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 1: It was like, oh my god. But I've always said

451
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,280
Speaker 1: this about Miles. The best thing that he ever did

452
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,280
Speaker 1: wasn't the necessarily the two fifty was the next game

453
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Speaker 1: against Atlanta. I went for one seventy one and a

454
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,840
Speaker 1: touchdown and it's like, Okay, this really might be something,

455
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,120
Speaker 1: and so we'll see if if he built, you's got

456
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,880
Speaker 1: to follow it up. I'm just saying, yeah, well, that's

457
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 1: kind of the key. Though. A lot of three touchdown games,

458
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,880
Speaker 1: even in Cowboys history, it is a pretty good one.

459
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:46,520
Speaker 1: But but that's what I was gonna say that. I mean, this,

460
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,040
Speaker 1: this is the key here is that? And I guess

461
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 1: it's a question for you guys. Do you think that

462
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Speaker 1: this is a sign of things to come for him

463
00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 1: and for this offense because we've been waiting for one

464
00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:58,880
Speaker 1: of the tight ends to step up and break out

465
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Speaker 1: and become the tight end for this team. He has

466
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 1: a day like that, and he does that in the

467
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 1: red zone, and and I don't think it's a coincidence

468
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,680
Speaker 1: that yesterday they go three or four in red zone

469
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 1: efficiency and that's been a struggle for them most of

470
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: the year, and all of a sudden, when the tight

471
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Speaker 1: end starts rolling, it all of a sudden gets a

472
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 1: lot better. Do you think that that's something that now

473
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,879
Speaker 1: maybe you are seeing that that can become an option

474
00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 1: for them in the red zone and just an option

475
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 1: for them overall and helps this offense move a lot

476
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 1: more efficiently. Yeah, just they are all different players. That

477
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Speaker 1: first touchdown, I mean, I think I think it was

478
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 1: the first one that did a nice job of standing

479
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:34,640
Speaker 1: in the pocket waiting and waiting for that to kind

480
00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,920
Speaker 1: of develop and then he was wide open the third touchdown.

481
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 1: It was starting to get funny, like okay, really like

482
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 1: he's just gonna weave through the but yeah. But you

483
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,680
Speaker 1: know what though, and the short answer your question, Derek

484
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:50,680
Speaker 1: is yes, and I'm not I'm not ready to say

485
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 1: he's gonna string that together every week because then he

486
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 1: would be zach Ertz. I mean, if he was doing

487
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: that every week, he would be a pro bowler. But

488
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 1: he finished the season with three hundred and seven yards.

489
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 1: He went into December with I want to say eighty

490
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,400
Speaker 1: and he had one hundred and eighty eight going into

491
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Speaker 1: that game. So he doubled his tally in one game,

492
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Speaker 1: and he tripled what he had done the first two

493
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 1: months of the season in the final month of the season.

494
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,400
Speaker 1: So he disappeared against he disappeared against Tampa. Okay, great,

495
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 1: but he still put up three really good games in

496
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: four outings. I mean, it's it's a trend. You're well.

497
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 1: And again he's been giving more chances after Schwaim got hurt,

498
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 1: and that's that's that's a big part of it is

499
00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: the opportunity. But he is making the most of it.

500
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: I mean, seven targets against Philly seven targets against Indy

501
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: three against Tampa eight yesterday, and he turned that into

502
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 1: eighteen catches. And that and that catch on the touchdown drive,

503
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,400
Speaker 1: that one was one of the key plays of the game,

504
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 1: key plays you know of of for him. And he

505
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,880
Speaker 1: had three touchdowns, but that catch right there really kind

506
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: of got them in position to start being more aggressive.

507
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 1: And it reminded me of the throw that that Dak

508
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: kind of missed him on, or he didn't really miss

509
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 1: him in Indianapolis. He was, he was open, he underthrew him,

510
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 1: he didn't make the catch, you got it knocked out

511
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 1: of his hands. It was a similar type play where

512
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 1: now you're streaking again, you go up and make the play.

513
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, that was just a few

514
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: plays before Beasley's touchdown. Not only that, but and I

515
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: wish I had time to like do real research on this,

516
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: and we got in at ten o'clock last night, But

517
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: how many of Dack's twenty two passing touchdowns came in

518
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 1: the went down the middle of the field, specifically down

519
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: the seam. It's straight up just has not been a

520
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 1: part of the field that defenses have had to worry about.

521
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: You got Zeke underneath you can have your linebackers, you know,

522
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 1: spy that and keep an eye on that. Cooper and

523
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 1: Gallop the vast and hearns as well, the couple that

524
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 1: he's got. The vast majority of that came outside the numbers,

525
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: Like teams haven't had to worry about that. And you can't. No,

526
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 1: you can't convince me now. I mean you will look

527
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 1: at that and you say, all right, we gotta you know,

528
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 1: safety's got a shade inside that that's vulnerable. That's something

529
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Speaker 1: Jarwin can do. It's absolutely crucial to put that on

530
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 1: tape for defenses to have to worry about. That's you know.

531
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: I we talked about the flea flicker and what it

532
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 1: would do to run it, and every time you run

533
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 1: the ball, you're like thinking about it. Same with with

534
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: a guy like Darwin has a game like that. It's like, wow,

535
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta we gotta worry about eighty nine now,

536
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: and that's all you need for Zeke, for Cooper and

537
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: my goal. I gotta long talk about Gallup too. Yeah sure,

538
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,199
Speaker 1: gall Well, I got along to do list today, but

539
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna try to find the time this week

540
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 1: to go back and chart it and see it, because

541
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more than two or three other ones

542
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 1: like they just they haven't taken advantage of that part

543
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: of the field very often this season. Down the middle

544
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 1: and one more point two is let it's I mean,

545
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: the red zone fact is great, but Jarwin was hurting

546
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 1: them all day, all over the field. The fourth quarter,

547
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 1: I think it was Jarwin's last catch. Again, it was

548
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 1: down the seam, over the linebacker, under the safety, middle

549
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 1: of the field. It's probably like a fifteen sixteen yard game,

550
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,119
Speaker 1: but it was awesome that. Yeah, that's the play I

551
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,200
Speaker 1: was just talking about. Yeah, that was a key play

552
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: in the game, and it was just one you're right

553
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: right in the middle. So Gallup, I definitely talk about

554
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: him real quick. If you just looked at Gallup, it

555
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 1: said three catches, fifty yards, no touchdowns. You know, pretty

556
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: pretty solid day. But I mean a couple of things

557
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: that don't really show up in that stat line right there,

558
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: and put one game winning two point conversion that doesn't

559
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: show there. Also, twenty three yard pass interference penalty was

560
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: getting by b w Webb. He shoved him out of bounds.

561
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,239
Speaker 1: I know people in the press bucks around us did

562
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: not agree with that call, like he stepped out of bounds.

563
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 1: It's like he absolutely got shoved out of bounds. That's

564
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: actually a penalty. Yeah, it's not a felony, but it

565
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: is a penalty, and that led to a touchdown. You know,

566
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Speaker 1: his presence. I'm going to write an article later this

567
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Speaker 1: week about some of the differences on both teams from

568
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 1: this game against Seattle, and I think not only Cooper,

569
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,919
Speaker 1: but Cooper and Gallup. It's a completely different wide receiving

570
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,640
Speaker 1: core of the Seattle has to face. And I don't

571
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,479
Speaker 1: believe they're going to have one of their better players

572
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 1: that they had in that game. True Earl Thomas. Oh yeah.

573
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: One other thought real quick, because we talked about it

574
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Speaker 1: specifically on Friday with Chuck, I was like, I hope

575
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 1: this is I hope this game gets a Moniker, like

576
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: you know, the Darius Jackson game. And I don't feel

577
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 1: bad for Blake Jarwin because he had an amazing day,

578
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 1: but I feel a little bad because he got got

579
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: it stolen. You got it stolen from him because fifteen

580
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: years from now, I'm way more likely to remember dak

581
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: to Beasley than the fact that he had three touchdowns.

582
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: I'll be like, oh, that was the game with that

583
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: amazing throw from Dak to Beasley. Oh, and then Blake

584
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: Jarwin had three touchdowns like he had it, he had

585
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: it stolen from it. It should have been the Blake

586
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 1: Jarwin game. It's funny about it. I thought about that,

587
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: the Blake Jarwin game. You know, are they calling it that? Um?

588
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,199
Speaker 1: You know in our recap article, Kurt Daniels wrote that

589
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: in there, and I'm thinking that sounds cool. But for

590
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: him and his sake in his career, you kind of

591
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: hope it's not. You know, you hope it's not the

592
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,920
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin game. I mean, sorry, the only reason it's

593
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: the Jason Garrett game against Green Bay and Thanksgiving because

594
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: he never did it. Really again, that's true, and you know,

595
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: typically if it's a if it's a Blake Jarwin, it

596
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: means you didn't do anything. Yes, like you don't want that.

597
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: Although I will say Blake Jarwin could play here for

598
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: another decade and go to five Pro Bowls and not

599
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 1: have three touchdowns And the last time it happened was

600
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three. So yeah, there's been a lot of

601
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: news to me that was just like find out, come back,

602
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: and find out what Blake Jarwin did that Jason Witten

603
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: has never done. It's like, okay, I just that's one

604
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: of those things where like, you know, when you're in

605
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,719
Speaker 1: the locker room, like the people asking about Billy Joe

606
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 1: Dupree or a certain age and demographic and the people

607
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 1: that aren't asking about it are more but I mean

608
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: more like me. Yeah, So you just want to make

609
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: sure that that this league, this turns into something like

610
00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: Miles Austin, he was a two time pro bowler turned

611
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: into something don't be Laron Robinson who caught eleven touchdowns

612
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: and a few years ago and never really played again.

613
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you know. And the thing about it is

614
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: is all these all these things sound good, he's got

615
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: to be able to sit there and block. If he's

616
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: not gonna be in every down blocker, then he's not

617
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: ever going to be like a starting tight end for you.

618
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: So that's that's what he needs to get better at

619
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: and keep doing. But the one thing I will say

620
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: about that is there a lot of really good tight

621
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: ends in this league. Aren't great blockers are getting the

622
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: way guys, And if you can do that well, then

623
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: you can still be a good every down tight end

624
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: in this league because they're on a lot that do

625
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: both well. Yeah, but in this scheme, well I get it,

626
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: but this current scheme, who knows, But there's not there's

627
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: also not a lot of guys on this roster as

628
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: tight ends who block well. Which, right, I'm going to

629
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: give you a free show idea. We don't need to

630
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: talk about it now. We can save it for the offseason.

631
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: But like this month plus, whatever happens in the playoffs,

632
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: is it enough to make you reevaluate what this team

633
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: needs to do at tight end in the off season,

634
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: We will see. I think that has a lot to

635
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: do with it. What happens in this next these next

636
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: this next game or games, hopefully we'll tell you. Yeah,

637
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: that will that will dictate a lot what you're gonna

638
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: do in the off season. I think let's take our

639
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: final break. When we come back, we want to talk

640
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: a little bit about cole Beasily in his day, and

641
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Speaker 1: Disembodied Kenn. We had a couple of big horse disembodied Ken. Yes, man,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's get back into it. Um, Let's talk

732
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: about this defense. Yesterday they gave up thirty five points.

733
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Speaker 1: It was the most they've given up all season. And uh,

734
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: and it was kind of shocking a little bit. What

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Speaker 1: it was kind of shocking a little bit just because

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Speaker 1: you know, Odell didn't play. You kind of thought, okay,

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Speaker 1: well they should be able to handle it. They really

738
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Speaker 1: weren't missing a lot of guys, like the offense was,

739
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Speaker 1: I mean, other than than Crawford pretty much had their

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Speaker 1: guys out there for the most part. They did in

741
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Speaker 1: the second half. They took deal out, but he was

742
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Speaker 1: playing into the second he was playing into the third

743
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: quarter they pulled him out. It was more like about

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00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 1: mid third quarter. I think was the last time I

745
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: remembered seeing when they post I don't think it's I

746
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,919
Speaker 1: don't think it's up there yet, which okay, I feel

747
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 1: two types of ways about this. But when they when

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Speaker 1: they post the all twenty two on game Pass, go

749
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Speaker 1: take a look at the you know, the fourth quarter

750
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: drives where the Giants are moving it at will and

751
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Speaker 1: tell me who's in there. Yeah, you're gonna see a

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Speaker 1: lot of Daniel Ross. You're gonna see a lot of

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Speaker 1: Koran Read, Joe Thomas, Damian Wilson. The Cowboys were clearly

754
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: rotating and not It was not their best eleven. It

755
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: was not They were not playing as though the playoffs

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Speaker 1: were on the line. They were giving guys rest, They

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Speaker 1: were giving young guys an opportunity. Having said that, I

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Speaker 1: said this on Twitter Yesterday's I can only evaluate what

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Speaker 1: you put out on the field for me to see.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, if that's what you're comfortable running out

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Speaker 1: during the game and they don't play well, then that's

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Speaker 1: fair game and my and you know, I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: not just gonna write off what happens because you're subbing

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Speaker 1: guys at the same time. They were doing that right.

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Speaker 1: And I do think if you just look at the

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Speaker 1: Giants drives, the first four how they how it ended. Interception, fumble, punt, punt,

767
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: and then touchdown, field goal, touchdown, touchdown, field goal downs.

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Speaker 1: That was all second half. That That is the most

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Speaker 1: amazing part to me is that the downs. I mean,

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Speaker 1: once they scored and then Antoine Woods got I don't

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Speaker 1: even know what he did, got the penalty, taunting, haunting.

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Speaker 1: They probably did he go thank you flash. I don't know.

773
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Speaker 1: I don't know what he did, but anyways, I didn't know.

774
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Speaker 1: He was apologizing to Jerry and Stephen in the locker

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Speaker 1: room after the game. Well, the Giants had the ball

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Speaker 1: in the field and Rosa's now someone told me this

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Speaker 1: that he had gotten hurt on the pre on the

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Speaker 1: last kickoff. He had hurt his calf, was right. They

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Speaker 1: weren't sure what kind of range he had, but they

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Speaker 1: still needed fifteen or twenty yards. They got zero yards. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's amazing that really, I mean, that does After I returned,

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Speaker 1: you were like, okay, they're good. Been stopped. I was like,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna kick this. They're that's the way the NFL works.

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Speaker 1: He figured they're at least gonna get into position to

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Speaker 1: where it's a possibility. You know, maybe he doesn't make it,

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Speaker 1: but they're at least gonna kick and to gain no yards.

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Speaker 1: That's that was surprising. Yeah. I got a little bit

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Speaker 1: of hell from some on one of my tweets yesterday,

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Speaker 1: just said, don't retire, and they got a lot of

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Speaker 1: crap for that. So I apologize. But at the end,

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Speaker 1: why you gotta fe I figured Cowboys fans would agree

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Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, I just want them. Yeah, But then

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Speaker 1: it got I think he got moved over to some

795
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Speaker 1: other people that weren't Cowboy fans. Oh, that'll happen. Whatever,

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Speaker 1: It's all good and uh, because he ended the game

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Speaker 1: kind of like that. I mean, you gotta get yards.

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Speaker 1: You've got to give your kicker a chance. You've got

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Speaker 1: to and the Cowboys, give them credit. They put a

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Speaker 1: little bit more pressure on that drive and he couldn't

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Speaker 1: handle it. So I speak, I want to go back

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Speaker 1: on game pass and see who was in for that drive,

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Speaker 1: because Woods was because Woods was like, yeah, you need

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Speaker 1: to do something. Well, DeMarcus Lawrence definitely wasn't. As I

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Speaker 1: know that he walked off the field in Cities. He

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Speaker 1: was wearing thims well he which cracked me up. He

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Speaker 1: said earlier this week he was like, He's like, hell no,

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Speaker 1: I'm not playing the whole game, which I appreciate his honesty.

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Speaker 1: So it's DeMarcus. I think Dak even made a joke

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Speaker 1: about it in his poke. He was like, me and

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Speaker 1: DeMarcus maybe have different philosophy. Were you in the I

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Speaker 1: wasn't there the question? You were in there? The question was?

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Speaker 1: DeMarcus said, he's surprised because you're the quarterback that this

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Speaker 1: is a question to Dak. You're the quarterback of the team.

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Speaker 1: DeMarcus said that you'll be able to just kind of

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Speaker 1: come out and say, hey, I'm out of this game.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't you do that? And he started laughing and

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Speaker 1: he was like, um, I think we have a little

819
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Speaker 1: not gonna be able to go and do that. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why DeMarcus thinks he can, but um, I

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Speaker 1: well I want Dak maybe could He could probably do

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Speaker 1: that I don't. I mean, I don't know him out

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Speaker 1: of the game. I don't know how the mechanics of

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Speaker 1: that work. I mean it's a little different though. I

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Speaker 1: mean you're talking about a guy that's in a position

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Speaker 1: where they already rotate, right, So it's so him just

828
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Speaker 1: being like, all right, tech, a couple of extra snaps.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't change, it doesn't change a lot. But the

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Speaker 1: quarterback says, I'm out, like not like a go get

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Speaker 1: some reps. And also it's like, I mean, that doesn't

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Speaker 1: happen a season that he's been criticized so much and

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Speaker 1: that people are still wanting to evaluate him and the

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Speaker 1: way he's playing. I'm sure it would. And he's a

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Speaker 1: smart guy, so he wouldn't be the one to go

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Speaker 1: up to like the coach and say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: throw Cooper rush which, but let's go down this rabbit hole.

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Speaker 1: Like he probably could, like if he was like probably

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Speaker 1: you know what, I think I've had a good day.

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Speaker 1: I got my reps. I just got crushed off the

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Speaker 1: blind side, like I'm good. And what are they gonna do?

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Speaker 1: Bench him for the Seahawks game, No, and so he

844
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Speaker 1: and they or may not let him come out of

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Speaker 1: the other thing coach coach could say, all right, but

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Speaker 1: we still want to get some more work, still go

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Speaker 1: back in, and he would go back in. What is it?

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Speaker 1: What he definitely could say, or you can be like

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Speaker 1: like my back hurts, I can't feel, I can't feel

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Speaker 1: my right arm. Is that bad? And then the point

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00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: the point is is it's like a right, go sit down.

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Speaker 1: That's what makes That's what makes dak Dad is it Monday?

854
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Speaker 1: Is sit down? If if he was bound and determined

855
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: to get out of that game, he probably could have

856
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: if I had to guess, but he didn't want to, right,

857
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: That's that and that's part of why the Cowboys are

858
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: so enamored with him, and for good reason in my opinion,

859
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Speaker 1: and that I'm not judging DeMarcus Lawrence at all, by

860
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: the way, like he's got bum shoulders, he's had ten

861
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: and a half sacks, like by all means, please sit

862
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: the second half. But it's there's there's two different philosophies

863
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: at work there. For sure. Here's what DeMarcus Lawrence has

864
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: said this year, he said, and that this week. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be playing in the fourth quarter of

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00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: that game. He wasn't. He also said, this is how

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Speaker 1: you beat the Saints. You jump on him early and

868
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 1: choked him out, and then then they're not gonna like

869
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: it when you hit him like that, and they're not

870
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: gonna be scoring fifty points on you. That's what happened.

871
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 1: He also said when asked at a at the hospital visits,

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Speaker 1: there was a Seattle fan there, a little girl, and said,

873
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: are you gonna try Did you try to change her

874
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 1: to a cowboy fan? And he said, nah, no, it's fine.

875
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: He goes like, we're gonna have to play them again.

876
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: So when we do, you know, hopefully she'll she'll be happy,

877
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: you know that we came to visit her and she'll

878
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: be pulling for us. And I was like, you gotta

879
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: play him again? He goes, yeah, We're gonna have to

880
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: see them again in the playoffs like this matter of fact,

881
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: like it's sitting on the schedule. Seattle, Well, here we go.

882
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: He's a smart man. He I love that guy. Yeah,

883
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 1: And I honestly, I just I look at this defense

884
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: and m I think yesterday. It didn't really tell me

885
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: anything that made me nervous about the playoffs. I think

886
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: what I saw yesterday was, as you said, for most

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00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: of the first half, they were doing a really great

888
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: job of holding him at Bay got two turnovers there

889
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: early in the game. UM. So I think the defense

890
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: did what I wanted to see from it. Um And

891
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: I think when she got into the second half, assuming

892
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: again I was I was a little bit worried because

893
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: when when Layton went down. But assuming everything is fine

894
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: there and it sounds like everything is, yeah, and it

895
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: sounds like they came out of the game pretty clean

896
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: on defense, and that to me means that they're ready

897
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: to get into playoffs. You know, Byron gave up a touchdown,

898
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: which is just the second of the year, second of

899
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: the year, and it's I mean it's a you know,

900
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: one handed Yeah, that's happened. Sometimes you got to tip

901
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: your cap. Although you know, you know, to play Devil's advocate.

902
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: You feel so great about what the offense did and

903
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: the note that they're going into the playoffs on like

904
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 1: it's fair to be troubled, you know, even if they

905
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: weren't playing everybody, Like the defense gave up thirty five

906
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 1: Byron you know, gave up a play that he hasn't

907
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 1: given up all year. But the way this defense has

908
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: played all year, I doubt they allow that to affect

909
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:43,720
Speaker 1: their confidence, especially you know they're sitting. They're like, yeah, whatever,

910
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: like our that was our third Marcus Lawrence, that's what

911
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: I'm de Marcus Lawrence. He's like, yeah, I was watching

912
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 1: that on the sideline. Yeah. And he kind of came

913
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: in in the second quarter at one point he'd been

914
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: out a little bit. He comes in, he gets a

915
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: sack fumble, you know, like okay. And that's also the thing.

916
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 1: The way they start and finishes game gives them confidence. Right.

917
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: They started off basically shutting them down, and the way

918
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: they finished, like you gotta sit. There was a situation

919
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,479
Speaker 1: where the Giants could have driven down and had great

920
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,320
Speaker 1: field position to drive down and get in position for

921
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: a field goal and they gave up zero yards. That

922
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Speaker 1: to me, the way they started the way they finished,

923
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: they go into it on the same kind of momentum

924
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: that the offense. If you if you're one of those

925
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: people that believes in momentum, then I think they can

926
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Speaker 1: drop from that game the same kind of momentum in

927
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Speaker 1: the way they started and finished. I just don't believe

928
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: in momentum because if if momentum really mattered, then you

929
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 1: don't You don't get be after five game winning Street.

930
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: You don't give me twenty three nothing against the Colts.

931
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Speaker 1: You know it's the momentum and then then you're able

932
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: to come back. So I know what you're saying, but

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Speaker 1: I look at it more from a confident standpoint. I

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Speaker 1: wish people would replace the word momentum with it, because

935
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Speaker 1: that's what they mean. That's like what, because like what

936
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: moment How does momentum even up there? You your stationary,

937
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: your team like you're a We're not talking about a

938
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,919
Speaker 1: snowball rolling down the hill, right. What you're talking about

939
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: is confidence talking about in a game. I think when

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00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: people talk about momentum, I think what happens is you

941
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Speaker 1: can also talk you can talk about confidence. You can

942
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Speaker 1: also talk of lack of confidence because when something happens

943
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: and then it starts to snowball, you can see the

944
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: other team then start kind of getting a little they'll

945
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 1: press a little bit more, they start making more mistakes.

946
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Speaker 1: That to me becomes lack of confidence. And that's how

947
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 1: I think that's how you can see where it's that

948
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: whole idea. It's the concept of momentum. But really you're right,

949
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: it's about confidence and lack of If you come into

950
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: this game off of that game and you go three

951
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: and out to start, it's like, it's okay, you know whatever.

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00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: You know, we were three or four in the red

953
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,919
Speaker 1: zone last last time. You know, we'll get it rolling,

954
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: as opposed to oh crap, here we go still and

955
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: then something goes wrong and yeah, now you're really on

956
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: a bad play. And I don't I don't believe a momentum,

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Speaker 1: but I do believe that confidence is very important to athletes.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, we appreciate you Jonnis. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. You guys have a very very happy New Year.

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Speaker 1: Be safe out there. We'll get back with you guys

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. We'll start breaking down Cowboys versus Seahawks. Till

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Speaker 1: then for Nick Eatman, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia on Derek Eagilson.

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Speaker 1: This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot

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