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Speaker 1: It is Monday, December thirty, first two eighteen, Season fourteen,
Speaker 1: episode number one oh five. Welcome to another edition of
Speaker 1: The Break. We are live from s WBC Morgan Studios
Speaker 1: at the Star. We're gonna talk about the Cowboys big
Speaker 1: win yesterday, thirty six thirty five in a game that
Speaker 1: most thought was meaningless but was entertaining nonetheless a fun
Speaker 1: game to watch. Cowboys come out on top and accomplished
Speaker 1: some of the things that I think they were trying
Speaker 1: to accomplish going into that game. Whether you agree with
Speaker 1: it or not, it seemed like they may have accomplished
Speaker 1: some of those things and felt good about. How's everybody
Speaker 1: doing day now? Everyone's doing great, doing great? Every No,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty great, right. I'm happy with the end of
Speaker 1: the season. I'm happy of the things we were able
Speaker 1: to see yesterday definitely expected a really boring game and
Speaker 1: just like it was getting there and the way it started,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, but things turned around and that was exciting.
Speaker 1: That was exciting to see some of the things that
Speaker 1: they did. Yeah yeah, I thought, you know, and one
Speaker 1: of the things that I wrote about I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how what to write about this, and
Speaker 1: I just found some positive things that I think, you know,
Speaker 1: you can go into the playoffs with. And again, nothing
Speaker 1: really matters if you don't win. We all know that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't matter what the Chiefs have done,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what the Saints have done, Nobody it
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter if you don't go win this game
Speaker 1: coming up against Seattle. So we all know that. But
Speaker 1: what are the some of the things that happened in there?
Speaker 1: And I think that that there were some there's some
Speaker 1: things you can have some confidence about going into and
Speaker 1: I thought Dak just played amazing and this was really
Speaker 1: big for him in my opinion, because the three best
Speaker 1: players on the team I think of on the offense,
Speaker 1: if you say who are the three best guys, they
Speaker 1: were all out And there's a reason why they were
Speaker 1: out because they're probably because they're three best guys, and
Speaker 1: he goes out there and continues to play and thrive
Speaker 1: without him, found some new guys to throw the ball too.
Speaker 1: I thought he played one of his best games of
Speaker 1: his career, without a doubt, because he didn't have that
Speaker 1: help that everyone always says he has. He was sixty
Speaker 1: one percent twenty seven or forty four, three hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty seven yards, four touchdowns, zero interceptions, zero fumbles, one
Speaker 1: hundred point one hundred and twenty point two quarterback rating.
Speaker 1: And I thought the most important thing and she didn't
Speaker 1: even say the most important thing, but one of the
Speaker 1: most interesting things was he was sacked four times, he
Speaker 1: was hit ten times, there were no turnovers. That to
Speaker 1: me is improvement because what we have seen from Dak
Speaker 1: is he's been hit a lot this year, but he
Speaker 1: hasn't always held on to the ball. And I think
Speaker 1: I'm even willing. I know some fans were like, hey,
Speaker 1: some of those sacks, if he held on the ball
Speaker 1: maybe a little too long. I'm okay with that, as
Speaker 1: long as he's not turning it over. Sometimes it's okay
Speaker 1: to take the sack and move on. You can't do
Speaker 1: it at certain times in the game, in certain situations,
Speaker 1: but sometimes taking the sack is not a horrible thing
Speaker 1: and you lived a fight another day. But all that considered,
Speaker 1: and considering the fact that you said, NICKI was without
Speaker 1: three of the top offensive players on the team, and
Speaker 1: most importantly, my opinion is Zeke. We've talked a lot
Speaker 1: on this show about the fact that this is a
Speaker 1: running team that's built around its identity, being built around
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliot running the ball. Do you think this is
Speaker 1: maybe shades or at least giving you a little bit
Speaker 1: of a glimpse at what this quarterback can be. I
Speaker 1: know we've talked a lot about, you know, the trajectory
Speaker 1: of a guy like Russell Wilson, who ironically they'll be
Speaker 1: playing this next weekend in the playoffs, and how you
Speaker 1: make a how a team makes a transition from being
Speaker 1: a running team and allowing their quarterback, their young quarterback,
Speaker 1: to develop into a team that then is relying on
Speaker 1: the quarterback's arm. I think maybe we're seeing a glimpse
Speaker 1: of that yesterday in what Dak was able to do.
Speaker 1: I think, so go back to his rookie year. What
Speaker 1: were the not just Zeke, but what were the things
Speaker 1: that really helped him? You had a tied end he
Speaker 1: could rely on. You also had easily making seventy five
Speaker 1: catches in the year, So we always said kind of
Speaker 1: the easier throws, the ones that were more underneath, not
Speaker 1: as challenging. He had those security blanket type throws. He
Speaker 1: had those yesterday as well. And Beasley before the touchdown catch,
Speaker 1: Beasley was really helping throughout the game, making some nice
Speaker 1: plays moving the chains. And then Jarwin it was just,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know who that was, but I mean,
Speaker 1: he was unbelievable. But that return, and when you have
Speaker 1: those guys, then it opens up Gallop, it opens up
Speaker 1: Marii Cooper, and I think that, you know, that's what
Speaker 1: he needs. He needs these guys, these type of guys.
Speaker 1: But he made great plays on his own. To him,
Speaker 1: he made some really great throws. Um probably the best
Speaker 1: play of his career, I mean the touchdown to Beasley
Speaker 1: because he could have run it. I think I still
Speaker 1: have not seen a regular highlight of that. Really, I
Speaker 1: haven't seen that highlight. I turner. I've finally found the
Speaker 1: news and got the end of that, and I have
Speaker 1: not seen the watch, sorry, the actual TV broadcast of
Speaker 1: the shot and of the throw you down on the
Speaker 1: got oh oh, yeah, can be it's gonna you know what.
Speaker 1: I found really interesting. And I saw a comment someone
Speaker 1: sent to me after the game saying, well, you know,
Speaker 1: the pressure wasn't on because this was a meaningless game,
Speaker 1: didn't matter, so it's different when you're in the game,
Speaker 1: which is an interesting comment to me because he led
Speaker 1: me to thinking, I'm like, you know what, maybe I
Speaker 1: wonder how different this was compared to other games as
Speaker 1: far as let's say, lenning him saying certain things to dad,
Speaker 1: how much freedom was given to him as far as
Speaker 1: the things he was doing on the field. I watched
Speaker 1: a lot of the replays on several plays, and he
Speaker 1: looked so poised and he wasn't hesitating. There was a
Speaker 1: lot less hesitation from him. He whenever he was in
Speaker 1: the pocket and didn't move, he found a guy, he
Speaker 1: was focused. And then when he did need to move
Speaker 1: and run and we've seen that how good he is
Speaker 1: sometimes when he's running and throwing the ball. And clearly
Speaker 1: it worked. So I'm really curious to see as far
Speaker 1: as the game plan and how much freedom was given.
Speaker 1: You know, another thing, and anyone that says, well, that
Speaker 1: was just the Giants. Remember the Cowboys made themselves worse
Speaker 1: than the Giants. I mean they did that. They brought
Speaker 1: themselves down to a level lower than that. And if
Speaker 1: you don't believe that, just remember Vegas doesn't lose money
Speaker 1: on purpose. They don't like to do that. There was
Speaker 1: a reason why they were a seven point underdogs. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys were seven point underdogs in the game. I thought
Speaker 1: that was a little too much, but I didn't you
Speaker 1: know they I guess they knew Zeke wasn't playing and
Speaker 1: all those are those linemen. But so you can say, well,
Speaker 1: I was just the Giants and they missed Ode. I
Speaker 1: said that. I said that at the first touchdown to
Speaker 1: Blake Jarman. I'm like, oh, this the Giants. And then
Speaker 1: they did it again, and then they did it again,
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, wow, it's different. And you know
Speaker 1: that the Giants they were competing, I mean they Helian.
Speaker 1: It's not good. But the team that beat the Bears
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. I know that Trubisky wasn't
Speaker 1: playing there, but that you know, they went the Bears
Speaker 1: had things to play for, played a tough game against
Speaker 1: the Colts yesterday, I mean last week, so they were
Speaker 1: on paper, a better, more talented team than what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys rolled out there. So that's why it to me
Speaker 1: was it was an impressive win, and I think it's
Speaker 1: more than anything. Gives them confidence to go into especially Dak.
Speaker 1: Gives them some confidence to say, you know what, you
Speaker 1: can be a really good player in this league. You
Speaker 1: were on this game, and then you get some weapons
Speaker 1: back and you know you can have a chance to
Speaker 1: the stakes will be raised a lot higher. But I
Speaker 1: thought it was a really good I don't know about momentum.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I liked that word, but I
Speaker 1: think more confidence builder. So let me ask you this question.
Speaker 1: I was. I was one of the people as the
Speaker 1: game was going on. I was like, get Dak out
Speaker 1: of this game. And we got to the third quarter,
Speaker 1: I was like, get him out because whatever you're gonna
Speaker 1: gain from him being in there is not worth the
Speaker 1: potential risk of him getting hurt. Now, especially after you
Speaker 1: saw Saphila and they saw get hit. Absolutely and but
Speaker 1: but then after the game, and I'm thinking about the
Speaker 1: things that that Jason and Dak and even Jerry were
Speaker 1: saying after the game about why they went this route,
Speaker 1: it started to kind of make a little sense to me.
Speaker 1: The way they were talking about it was like, this
Speaker 1: was an opportunity for us to kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: not only just kind of give this guys some give
Speaker 1: DAC an opportunity to do some other things. But when
Speaker 1: you think about it, the offense did some things yesterday
Speaker 1: that it hasn't done all season. They put the game
Speaker 1: on the back of their quarterback and say we're gonna
Speaker 1: throw the ball around the yard the whole game, and
Speaker 1: that's what they did. And to me, when you think
Speaker 1: of it from that standpoint, there was a lot gained
Speaker 1: by that because now you go into the playoffs with
Speaker 1: your receivers, your tight ends, and your quarterback knowing if
Speaker 1: they get into one of these games, well they got
Speaker 1: to go and score some points. They ought to feel
Speaker 1: a little more comfortable being able to do that. Now, again,
Speaker 1: it was just one game. And so I don't want
Speaker 1: to I don't want this does not need to be
Speaker 1: a you know, a referendum on the future success of
Speaker 1: DAK because I don't think that's necessarily what it's telling us.
Speaker 1: I do think though, it does have an ability to
Speaker 1: give all those players I just talked about a certain
Speaker 1: level of confidence that in the playoffs, if they get
Speaker 1: into a game like this, they can they should be
Speaker 1: able to go out and compete. I still missed it.
Speaker 1: We're watching if you're just listening to us audio wise,
Speaker 1: they're showing the videos of the play and and I
Speaker 1: just came in at the very last thing. This is
Speaker 1: exactly where I came on to the to the TV
Speaker 1: last night. I still haven't seen him the throw, and
Speaker 1: I'll see it later, but I wanted to see exactly
Speaker 1: how he set his feet and how he made that throw,
Speaker 1: because when I remember we were down on the field
Speaker 1: way on the other hand, here we go that right
Speaker 1: there isn't an amazing throw. That really isn't. And thank
Speaker 1: you for rewinding that back that that was an amazing throw, because, um,
Speaker 1: he didn't, like you said, he didn't get his feet.
Speaker 1: Rolling left and throwing right is really not considered a
Speaker 1: smart play. But I mean it's fourth and fifteen. He
Speaker 1: got to make a play. Um. I know Beasley caught
Speaker 1: one on his head against the Giants. That that's his
Speaker 1: best play I think ever for the Cowboys. Um. And
Speaker 1: just because that was an unbelievable catch, get his knee
Speaker 1: down and all that, UM, he made a great He's
Speaker 1: made some great catches before, that one was great. That
Speaker 1: was probably the best one, especially what it meant. But wow,
Speaker 1: first time I've seen that throw. That was one of
Speaker 1: the cool things to me after this game. Hi, hey Dave,
Speaker 1: I'm here, was that it wasn't about let's say Zeke
Speaker 1: running the whole offense and running the ball and him
Speaker 1: being like the successful guy or Amari Cooper catching all
Speaker 1: the balls. The confidence I think it was well spread
Speaker 1: out because you get confidence to your receivers. Cole basically
Speaker 1: one of them who has kind of faded out throughout
Speaker 1: the season and I don't know where he'll make those
Speaker 1: kinds of plays. Also, Michael Gallup with that catch in
Speaker 1: the end zone for the two point conversion. Also the offense,
Speaker 1: the old line, the old line just not counting with
Speaker 1: those two guys in there. I mean, it gives them confidence,
Speaker 1: and it gives that the confidence that you know what,
Speaker 1: I can't work with this old line. I can work
Speaker 1: with the backup guys and be okay and make it happen.
Speaker 1: So that was a cool thing that it wasn't like
Speaker 1: anybody like exploded or everyone got a little bit of
Speaker 1: shining time. Especially obviously the tight end. Yeah, hey, Dave,
Speaker 1: actually I was I just wanted to ask you about this.
Speaker 1: We were talking about the quarterback and and how how
Speaker 1: much they used him yesterday, lett him play to the
Speaker 1: end of the game. I did remember a tweet that
Speaker 1: you put out during the third or fourth quarter, something
Speaker 1: to the effect of, um, I don't think that there's
Speaker 1: anything that this quarterback is going to do or learn
Speaker 1: in the rest of this game that will make him
Speaker 1: appreciably better next week. I was on the same page. No,
Speaker 1: that's and I changed my tune by the end. I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see if you did is Yeah, no one under.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know that's You're not You're not always
Speaker 1: gonna be wrong. You're gonna have to eat some crow sometimes.
Speaker 1: And I mean, how many years in a row have
Speaker 1: we seen, you know, you just kind of play out
Speaker 1: the string in this six to nothing win or even
Speaker 1: you know that. I don't remember the score of the
Speaker 1: Eagles game in twenty sixteen off the top of my head,
Speaker 1: but it was ugly. It was like twenty seven to thirteen,
Speaker 1: I think, or something like that. You just you know what,
Speaker 1: I didn't see that coming, nobody it and it was
Speaker 1: meaningless in the grand scheme of things in terms of
Speaker 1: the standings, but like that that was a moment for me.
Speaker 1: It really, I mean, it's kind of ironic that one
Speaker 1: of Dak's moments is in a game that didn't ultimately
Speaker 1: affect anything, but I don't you can't take that away
Speaker 1: from this team. And and Jerry Jones said that after
Speaker 1: the game, he was like, I wouldn't trade anything for
Speaker 1: those last two quarters and to have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: go back and forth and battle back and come back
Speaker 1: and lead the team to a win. And the confidence
Speaker 1: boost in Dak to make those plays and to do
Speaker 1: those things, and in the team to see him do that,
Speaker 1: it's it's invaluable, and it's it's so quintessential football. And that,
Speaker 1: you know, they were talking about it on talk radio
Speaker 1: this morning too, is like it was a bold strategy.
Speaker 1: It was you could even you could call it reckless.
Speaker 1: You could because if Dak breaks his fibula taking a
Speaker 1: sack in that game and he can't play in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: then you look like an idiot. There's no way around it.
Speaker 1: And so you know, it's kind of like it's all
Speaker 1: hindsights so big in this game because you get so
Speaker 1: few opportunities. You only get to play these games once.
Speaker 1: You know, if Cooper scores on the reverse, then Scotland
Speaker 1: a hand's a genius and if it gets snuffed out,
Speaker 1: then it's the stupidest thing that's ever happened. And it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of similar with this. If it hadn't worked out,
Speaker 1: if Dak had gotten hurt or something, or somebody had
Speaker 1: been injured, you look terrible and you're having your job
Speaker 1: security questioned and your decision making and all that type
Speaker 1: of stuff. But it worked out better than anybody could
Speaker 1: have ever drawn it up. And for that, they look
Speaker 1: like geniuses. And I legitimately do believe that this is
Speaker 1: a better team because of what happened. And I never
Speaker 1: never would have guessed that even at halftime of that game.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll catch up with Dave. I know they just had
Speaker 1: the conference call for the coach, see if there was
Speaker 1: anything interesting it came out of that. And then we'll
Speaker 1: talk about Blake jar Win, the tight end. He had
Speaker 1: a really really great day yesterday. We'll talk about what
Speaker 1: that means to this team going into the playoffs will
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Speaker 1: Back to the Break Welcome back. It is the second
Speaker 1: segment of the Break Life from the s WBC Mortgage
Speaker 1: Studios at the Star talking Cowboys versus Giants. Cowboys get
Speaker 1: the big win and now they head on into the
Speaker 1: playoffs that we play in Seattle Seahawks this Saturday night.
Speaker 1: For those of you who have not heard, it will
Speaker 1: be a Saturday night game at AT and T Stadium.
Speaker 1: So Saturday we will be talking more about that. We'll
Speaker 1: be talking more about that when we get to Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Dave Will gives scouting report on Wednesday at the offense,
Speaker 1: and then Thursday will be the defense, and then Friday
Speaker 1: we'll start giving you guys some smart our opinions on
Speaker 1: what we think will happen this Saturday night Cowboys take
Speaker 1: on the Seattle SEAHA. So let's jump back in, Dave
Speaker 1: real quick. I wanted to hit you and just see
Speaker 1: was there anything that Coach Garrett said in his conference
Speaker 1: call today that you just came from that that we
Speaker 1: need to discuss, h need to well. They So the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna practice tomorrow. Everything gets bumped up a
Speaker 1: day by the Suddorrows, like a Wednesday. Tomorrow is a Wednesday,
Speaker 1: which means practice and the whole shebang. Everybody except David Irving,
Speaker 1: who's not going to play for this team. I think
Speaker 1: we said that last weeks. Forget about it. Stop let's
Speaker 1: forget about him, stop it. He's not going to practice.
Speaker 1: Everybody else will in some Tyrone Crawford as well, will
Speaker 1: at least be limited. According to Jason Love, that fifty
Speaker 1: two of your fifty three active guys are healthy enough
Speaker 1: to practice for a playoff game. That's pretty crazy. I
Speaker 1: wonder if there's any team in the league that's in
Speaker 1: the playoffs right now. Has that same scenario. I don't
Speaker 1: know off the top of my head, but I'd be
Speaker 1: shocked if it's the case, and if it wasn't for
Speaker 1: some weird circumstance that I don't know if we all,
Speaker 1: any of us really know all the details. For um,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of teams that probably would
Speaker 1: have cut ties with him or put them on ir
Speaker 1: David Irving. Yeah, I mean very easily could have had
Speaker 1: fifty three healthy guys here. Uh. Probably what it comes
Speaker 1: down to is because you have so many other guys
Speaker 1: that are healthy whoever you brought in to replace them,
Speaker 1: because they would be like, why don't you just put
Speaker 1: him on? I R whoever that is? It's not going
Speaker 1: to play. It would be inactive. It would be like
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle Ringo type. I don't even know. Somebody
Speaker 1: somebody made the Ringo with no ring I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think Ringo wound up back in Green Bay. He's
Speaker 1: been gone for Ringo. No, you're it's okay, ring I'm
Speaker 1: just you know, somebody made the point when I tweeted
Speaker 1: out that are you know the practice details that your
Speaker 1: head Okay yeah, no, sorry, No, it's a bad headache.
Speaker 1: No I'm good, I'm distracted. Somebody pointed out, totally lost
Speaker 1: my train of thought. Yeah, you could have had an
Speaker 1: extra offensive lineman on the roster yesterday, which might have
Speaker 1: come in handy since Xavier Suaphilo had to leave the game.
Speaker 1: And you're thin anyway with Zach and Tyrn sitting, And
Speaker 1: I don't have a great answer for you. There's just
Speaker 1: there's more at play with There's so much more at
Speaker 1: play with David Irving, and I you know, I know
Speaker 1: a little bit, but I don't know enough to feel
Speaker 1: comfortable speculating about it other than it's just a unique situation.
Speaker 1: I don't expect that he's going to play ever again
Speaker 1: for this team. But just yeah, I don't have a
Speaker 1: great answer for you as to why they're still carrying
Speaker 1: him other than no, not other than just period don't
Speaker 1: have fun. Well, but I guess when you look at
Speaker 1: it again, when you look at overall, in fact, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have fifty two other fifty three. They'll be ready
Speaker 1: and available for practice tomorrow. It's a big and David Irving.
Speaker 1: David Irving hasn't played since the bye week, so like
Speaker 1: it's not I mean, it's not like you gotta get
Speaker 1: used to playing without him, like you've they've known this
Speaker 1: now who they haven't played without his Tyrone Crawford until yesterday.
Speaker 1: And you know, the Giants has some nice plays in there.
Speaker 1: They're in for one forty three. You know, I'm never
Speaker 1: technically they've played that game without him, he point out
Speaker 1: in like the second yeah game and the second playoff,
Speaker 1: but they went into it, they went into it without it.
Speaker 1: You're right, right, you know, I just think he's a
Speaker 1: difference maker. I mean, without a doubt he's he played
Speaker 1: well and you know, I'm never gonna be one to
Speaker 1: say take away Barkley's sixty nine yard run because that
Speaker 1: was a big part of it. But you're not going
Speaker 1: to face back like him all the time, especially this week,
Speaker 1: um that they run it differently, but I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, his his presence, his versatility really allows him
Speaker 1: to do different things on the line. So it'll be
Speaker 1: good to have him back. Let's talk about Blake Darlin. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: he had a career day seven catches, one hundred nineteen
Speaker 1: yards seventeen point oh average um and then the key part,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, two of those touchdowns being in the red
Speaker 1: zone from thirteen yards out and from nineteen yards out.
Speaker 1: Career day doesn't. It's true, but it doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: good justice. Yeah. Nick said that before the break when
Speaker 1: I said, anytime you say someone had a really, really
Speaker 1: really good day and that doesn't do it justice, then
Speaker 1: there's something it's really special. I wrote this in my
Speaker 1: article and I know this is far fetched kind of
Speaker 1: but the only person I can really compare this too
Speaker 1: is Miles Austin. This was a Miles Auston type of thing. Now,
Speaker 1: Miles was there for two or three years and you're
Speaker 1: kind of waiting for him to have that that momentum.
Speaker 1: You've waited a little bit now a year and a
Speaker 1: half for Darwin, but it's it's that type of game.
Speaker 1: It was like, oh my god. But I've always said
Speaker 1: this about Miles. The best thing that he ever did
Speaker 1: wasn't the necessarily the two fifty was the next game
Speaker 1: against Atlanta. I went for one seventy one and a
Speaker 1: touchdown and it's like, Okay, this really might be something,
Speaker 1: and so we'll see if if he built, you's got
Speaker 1: to follow it up. I'm just saying, yeah, well, that's
Speaker 1: kind of the key. Though. A lot of three touchdown games,
Speaker 1: even in Cowboys history, it is a pretty good one.
Speaker 1: But but that's what I was gonna say that. I mean, this,
Speaker 1: this is the key here is that? And I guess
Speaker 1: it's a question for you guys. Do you think that
Speaker 1: this is a sign of things to come for him
Speaker 1: and for this offense because we've been waiting for one
Speaker 1: of the tight ends to step up and break out
Speaker 1: and become the tight end for this team. He has
Speaker 1: a day like that, and he does that in the
Speaker 1: red zone, and and I don't think it's a coincidence
Speaker 1: that yesterday they go three or four in red zone
Speaker 1: efficiency and that's been a struggle for them most of
Speaker 1: the year, and all of a sudden, when the tight
Speaker 1: end starts rolling, it all of a sudden gets a
Speaker 1: lot better. Do you think that that's something that now
Speaker 1: maybe you are seeing that that can become an option
Speaker 1: for them in the red zone and just an option
Speaker 1: for them overall and helps this offense move a lot
Speaker 1: more efficiently. Yeah, just they are all different players. That
Speaker 1: first touchdown, I mean, I think I think it was
Speaker 1: the first one that did a nice job of standing
Speaker 1: in the pocket waiting and waiting for that to kind
Speaker 1: of develop and then he was wide open the third touchdown.
Speaker 1: It was starting to get funny, like okay, really like
Speaker 1: he's just gonna weave through the but yeah. But you
Speaker 1: know what though, and the short answer your question, Derek
Speaker 1: is yes, and I'm not I'm not ready to say
Speaker 1: he's gonna string that together every week because then he
Speaker 1: would be zach Ertz. I mean, if he was doing
Speaker 1: that every week, he would be a pro bowler. But
Speaker 1: he finished the season with three hundred and seven yards.
Speaker 1: He went into December with I want to say eighty
Speaker 1: and he had one hundred and eighty eight going into
Speaker 1: that game. So he doubled his tally in one game,
Speaker 1: and he tripled what he had done the first two
Speaker 1: months of the season in the final month of the season.
Speaker 1: So he disappeared against he disappeared against Tampa. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: but he still put up three really good games in
Speaker 1: four outings. I mean, it's it's a trend. You're well.
Speaker 1: And again he's been giving more chances after Schwaim got hurt,
Speaker 1: and that's that's that's a big part of it is
Speaker 1: the opportunity. But he is making the most of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, seven targets against Philly seven targets against Indy
Speaker 1: three against Tampa eight yesterday, and he turned that into
Speaker 1: eighteen catches. And that and that catch on the touchdown drive,
Speaker 1: that one was one of the key plays of the game,
Speaker 1: key plays you know of of for him. And he
Speaker 1: had three touchdowns, but that catch right there really kind
Speaker 1: of got them in position to start being more aggressive.
Speaker 1: And it reminded me of the throw that that Dak
Speaker 1: kind of missed him on, or he didn't really miss
Speaker 1: him in Indianapolis. He was, he was open, he underthrew him,
Speaker 1: he didn't make the catch, you got it knocked out
Speaker 1: of his hands. It was a similar type play where
Speaker 1: now you're streaking again, you go up and make the play.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, that was just a few
Speaker 1: plays before Beasley's touchdown. Not only that, but and I
Speaker 1: wish I had time to like do real research on this,
Speaker 1: and we got in at ten o'clock last night, But
Speaker 1: how many of Dack's twenty two passing touchdowns came in
Speaker 1: the went down the middle of the field, specifically down
Speaker 1: the seam. It's straight up just has not been a
Speaker 1: part of the field that defenses have had to worry about.
Speaker 1: You got Zeke underneath you can have your linebackers, you know,
Speaker 1: spy that and keep an eye on that. Cooper and
Speaker 1: Gallop the vast and hearns as well, the couple that
Speaker 1: he's got. The vast majority of that came outside the numbers,
Speaker 1: Like teams haven't had to worry about that. And you can't. No,
Speaker 1: you can't convince me now. I mean you will look
Speaker 1: at that and you say, all right, we gotta you know,
Speaker 1: safety's got a shade inside that that's vulnerable. That's something
Speaker 1: Jarwin can do. It's absolutely crucial to put that on
Speaker 1: tape for defenses to have to worry about. That's you know.
Speaker 1: I we talked about the flea flicker and what it
Speaker 1: would do to run it, and every time you run
Speaker 1: the ball, you're like thinking about it. Same with with
Speaker 1: a guy like Darwin has a game like that. It's like, wow,
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta we gotta worry about eighty nine now,
Speaker 1: and that's all you need for Zeke, for Cooper and
Speaker 1: my goal. I gotta long talk about Gallup too. Yeah sure,
Speaker 1: gall Well, I got along to do list today, but
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna try to find the time this week
Speaker 1: to go back and chart it and see it, because
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more than two or three other ones
Speaker 1: like they just they haven't taken advantage of that part
Speaker 1: of the field very often this season. Down the middle
Speaker 1: and one more point two is let it's I mean,
Speaker 1: the red zone fact is great, but Jarwin was hurting
Speaker 1: them all day, all over the field. The fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: I think it was Jarwin's last catch. Again, it was
Speaker 1: down the seam, over the linebacker, under the safety, middle
Speaker 1: of the field. It's probably like a fifteen sixteen yard game,
Speaker 1: but it was awesome that. Yeah, that's the play I
Speaker 1: was just talking about. Yeah, that was a key play
Speaker 1: in the game, and it was just one you're right
Speaker 1: right in the middle. So Gallup, I definitely talk about
Speaker 1: him real quick. If you just looked at Gallup, it
Speaker 1: said three catches, fifty yards, no touchdowns. You know, pretty
Speaker 1: pretty solid day. But I mean a couple of things
Speaker 1: that don't really show up in that stat line right there,
Speaker 1: and put one game winning two point conversion that doesn't
Speaker 1: show there. Also, twenty three yard pass interference penalty was
Speaker 1: getting by b w Webb. He shoved him out of bounds.
Speaker 1: I know people in the press bucks around us did
Speaker 1: not agree with that call, like he stepped out of bounds.
Speaker 1: It's like he absolutely got shoved out of bounds. That's
Speaker 1: actually a penalty. Yeah, it's not a felony, but it
Speaker 1: is a penalty, and that led to a touchdown. You know,
Speaker 1: his presence. I'm going to write an article later this
Speaker 1: week about some of the differences on both teams from
Speaker 1: this game against Seattle, and I think not only Cooper,
Speaker 1: but Cooper and Gallup. It's a completely different wide receiving
Speaker 1: core of the Seattle has to face. And I don't
Speaker 1: believe they're going to have one of their better players
Speaker 1: that they had in that game. True Earl Thomas. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: One other thought real quick, because we talked about it
Speaker 1: specifically on Friday with Chuck, I was like, I hope
Speaker 1: this is I hope this game gets a Moniker, like
Speaker 1: you know, the Darius Jackson game. And I don't feel
Speaker 1: bad for Blake Jarwin because he had an amazing day,
Speaker 1: but I feel a little bad because he got got
Speaker 1: it stolen. You got it stolen from him because fifteen
Speaker 1: years from now, I'm way more likely to remember dak
Speaker 1: to Beasley than the fact that he had three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I'll be like, oh, that was the game with that
Speaker 1: amazing throw from Dak to Beasley. Oh, and then Blake
Speaker 1: Jarwin had three touchdowns like he had it, he had
Speaker 1: it stolen from it. It should have been the Blake
Speaker 1: Jarwin game. It's funny about it. I thought about that,
Speaker 1: the Blake Jarwin game. You know, are they calling it that? Um?
Speaker 1: You know in our recap article, Kurt Daniels wrote that
Speaker 1: in there, and I'm thinking that sounds cool. But for
Speaker 1: him and his sake in his career, you kind of
Speaker 1: hope it's not. You know, you hope it's not the
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin game. I mean, sorry, the only reason it's
Speaker 1: the Jason Garrett game against Green Bay and Thanksgiving because
Speaker 1: he never did it. Really again, that's true, and you know,
Speaker 1: typically if it's a if it's a Blake Jarwin, it
Speaker 1: means you didn't do anything. Yes, like you don't want that.
Speaker 1: Although I will say Blake Jarwin could play here for
Speaker 1: another decade and go to five Pro Bowls and not
Speaker 1: have three touchdowns And the last time it happened was
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three. So yeah, there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: news to me that was just like find out, come back,
Speaker 1: and find out what Blake Jarwin did that Jason Witten
Speaker 1: has never done. It's like, okay, I just that's one
Speaker 1: of those things where like, you know, when you're in
Speaker 1: the locker room, like the people asking about Billy Joe
Speaker 1: Dupree or a certain age and demographic and the people
Speaker 1: that aren't asking about it are more but I mean
Speaker 1: more like me. Yeah, So you just want to make
Speaker 1: sure that that this league, this turns into something like
Speaker 1: Miles Austin, he was a two time pro bowler turned
Speaker 1: into something don't be Laron Robinson who caught eleven touchdowns
Speaker 1: and a few years ago and never really played again.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know. And the thing about it is
Speaker 1: is all these all these things sound good, he's got
Speaker 1: to be able to sit there and block. If he's
Speaker 1: not gonna be in every down blocker, then he's not
Speaker 1: ever going to be like a starting tight end for you.
Speaker 1: So that's that's what he needs to get better at
Speaker 1: and keep doing. But the one thing I will say
Speaker 1: about that is there a lot of really good tight
Speaker 1: ends in this league. Aren't great blockers are getting the
Speaker 1: way guys, And if you can do that well, then
Speaker 1: you can still be a good every down tight end
Speaker 1: in this league because they're on a lot that do
Speaker 1: both well. Yeah, but in this scheme, well I get it,
Speaker 1: but this current scheme, who knows, But there's not there's
Speaker 1: also not a lot of guys on this roster as
Speaker 1: tight ends who block well. Which, right, I'm going to
Speaker 1: give you a free show idea. We don't need to
Speaker 1: talk about it now. We can save it for the offseason.
Speaker 1: But like this month plus, whatever happens in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: is it enough to make you reevaluate what this team
Speaker 1: needs to do at tight end in the off season,
Speaker 1: We will see. I think that has a lot to
Speaker 1: do with it. What happens in this next these next
Speaker 1: this next game or games, hopefully we'll tell you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that will that will dictate a lot what you're gonna
Speaker 1: do in the off season. I think let's take our
Speaker 1: final break. When we come back, we want to talk
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Speaker 1: we'll also get to this defense and how they perform.
Speaker 1: They give up thirty six points, the most they've given
Speaker 1: up all season. Question, thirty five points, I'm sorry, and
Speaker 1: and that's the most they've given up this season. And
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that and whether that makes you a
Speaker 1: little bit leary going into the postseason. We'll do when
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Speaker 1: all right, let's get back into it. Um, Let's talk
Speaker 1: about this defense. Yesterday they gave up thirty five points.
Speaker 1: It was the most they've given up all season. And uh,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of shocking a little bit. What
Speaker 1: it was kind of shocking a little bit just because
Speaker 1: you know, Odell didn't play. You kind of thought, okay,
Speaker 1: well they should be able to handle it. They really
Speaker 1: weren't missing a lot of guys, like the offense was,
Speaker 1: I mean, other than than Crawford pretty much had their
Speaker 1: guys out there for the most part. They did in
Speaker 1: the second half. They took deal out, but he was
Speaker 1: playing into the second he was playing into the third
Speaker 1: quarter they pulled him out. It was more like about
Speaker 1: mid third quarter. I think was the last time I
Speaker 1: remembered seeing when they post I don't think it's I
Speaker 1: don't think it's up there yet, which okay, I feel
Speaker 1: two types of ways about this. But when they when
Speaker 1: they post the all twenty two on game Pass, go
Speaker 1: take a look at the you know, the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: drives where the Giants are moving it at will and
Speaker 1: tell me who's in there. Yeah, you're gonna see a
Speaker 1: lot of Daniel Ross. You're gonna see a lot of
Speaker 1: Koran Read, Joe Thomas, Damian Wilson. The Cowboys were clearly
Speaker 1: rotating and not It was not their best eleven. It
Speaker 1: was not They were not playing as though the playoffs
Speaker 1: were on the line. They were giving guys rest, They
Speaker 1: were giving young guys an opportunity. Having said that, I
Speaker 1: said this on Twitter Yesterday's I can only evaluate what
Speaker 1: you put out on the field for me to see.
Speaker 1: So I mean, if that's what you're comfortable running out
Speaker 1: during the game and they don't play well, then that's
Speaker 1: fair game and my and you know, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not just gonna write off what happens because you're subbing
Speaker 1: guys at the same time. They were doing that right.
Speaker 1: And I do think if you just look at the
Speaker 1: Giants drives, the first four how they how it ended. Interception, fumble, punt, punt,
Speaker 1: and then touchdown, field goal, touchdown, touchdown, field goal downs.
Speaker 1: That was all second half. That That is the most
Speaker 1: amazing part to me is that the downs. I mean,
Speaker 1: once they scored and then Antoine Woods got I don't
Speaker 1: even know what he did, got the penalty, taunting, haunting.
Speaker 1: They probably did he go thank you flash. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he did, but anyways, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: He was apologizing to Jerry and Stephen in the locker
Speaker 1: room after the game. Well, the Giants had the ball
Speaker 1: in the field and Rosa's now someone told me this
Speaker 1: that he had gotten hurt on the pre on the
Speaker 1: last kickoff. He had hurt his calf, was right. They
Speaker 1: weren't sure what kind of range he had, but they
Speaker 1: still needed fifteen or twenty yards. They got zero yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's amazing that really, I mean, that does After I returned,
Speaker 1: you were like, okay, they're good. Been stopped. I was like,
Speaker 1: they're gonna kick this. They're that's the way the NFL works.
Speaker 1: He figured they're at least gonna get into position to
Speaker 1: where it's a possibility. You know, maybe he doesn't make it,
Speaker 1: but they're at least gonna kick and to gain no yards.
Speaker 1: That's that was surprising. Yeah. I got a little bit
Speaker 1: of hell from some on one of my tweets yesterday,
Speaker 1: probably one of my first ones about eli Um. I
Speaker 1: just said, don't retire, and they got a lot of
Speaker 1: crap for that. So I apologize. But at the end,
Speaker 1: why you gotta fe I figured Cowboys fans would agree
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, I just want them. Yeah, But then
Speaker 1: it got I think he got moved over to some
Speaker 1: other people that weren't Cowboy fans. Oh, that'll happen. Whatever,
Speaker 1: It's all good and uh, because he ended the game
Speaker 1: kind of like that. I mean, you gotta get yards.
Speaker 1: You've got to give your kicker a chance. You've got
Speaker 1: to and the Cowboys, give them credit. They put a
Speaker 1: little bit more pressure on that drive and he couldn't
Speaker 1: handle it. So I speak, I want to go back
Speaker 1: on game pass and see who was in for that drive,
Speaker 1: because Woods was because Woods was like, yeah, you need
Speaker 1: to do something. Well, DeMarcus Lawrence definitely wasn't. As I
Speaker 1: know that he walked off the field in Cities. He
Speaker 1: was wearing thims well he which cracked me up. He
Speaker 1: said earlier this week he was like, He's like, hell no,
Speaker 1: I'm not playing the whole game, which I appreciate his honesty.
Speaker 1: So it's DeMarcus. I think Dak even made a joke
Speaker 1: about it in his poke. He was like, me and
Speaker 1: DeMarcus maybe have different philosophy. Were you in the I
Speaker 1: wasn't there the question? You were in there? The question was?
Speaker 1: DeMarcus said, he's surprised because you're the quarterback that this
Speaker 1: is a question to Dak. You're the quarterback of the team.
Speaker 1: DeMarcus said that you'll be able to just kind of
Speaker 1: come out and say, hey, I'm out of this game.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you do that? And he started laughing and
Speaker 1: he was like, um, I think we have a little
Speaker 1: different opinion on how to handle that or something. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to go and do that. I
Speaker 1: don't know why DeMarcus thinks he can, but um, I
Speaker 1: well I want Dak maybe could He could probably do
Speaker 1: that I don't. I mean, I don't know him out
Speaker 1: of the game. I don't know how the mechanics of
Speaker 1: that work. I mean it's a little different though. I
Speaker 1: mean you're talking about a guy that's in a position
Speaker 1: where they already rotate, right, So it's so him just
Speaker 1: being like, all right, tech, a couple of extra snaps.
Speaker 1: It doesn't change, it doesn't change a lot. But the
Speaker 1: quarterback says, I'm out, like not like a go get
Speaker 1: some reps. And also it's like, I mean, that doesn't
Speaker 1: happen a season that he's been criticized so much and
Speaker 1: that people are still wanting to evaluate him and the
Speaker 1: way he's playing. I'm sure it would. And he's a
Speaker 1: smart guy, so he wouldn't be the one to go
Speaker 1: up to like the coach and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: throw Cooper rush which, but let's go down this rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: Like he probably could, like if he was like probably
Speaker 1: could have that conversation with his head coach and say, hey, coach,
Speaker 1: you know what, I think I've had a good day.
Speaker 1: I got my reps. I just got crushed off the
Speaker 1: blind side, like I'm good. And what are they gonna do?
Speaker 1: Bench him for the Seahawks game, No, and so he
Speaker 1: and they or may not let him come out of
Speaker 1: the game if he did that too. I mean that's
Speaker 1: the other thing coach coach could say, all right, but
Speaker 1: we still want to get some more work, still go
Speaker 1: back in, and he would go back in. What is it?
Speaker 1: What he definitely could say, or you can be like
Speaker 1: like my back hurts, I can't feel, I can't feel
Speaker 1: my right arm. Is that bad? And then the point
Speaker 1: the point is is it's like a right, go sit down.
Speaker 1: That's what makes That's what makes dak Dad is it Monday?
Speaker 1: Is sit down? If if he was bound and determined
Speaker 1: to get out of that game, he probably could have
Speaker 1: if I had to guess, but he didn't want to, right,
Speaker 1: That's that and that's part of why the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: so enamored with him, and for good reason in my opinion,
Speaker 1: and that I'm not judging DeMarcus Lawrence at all, by
Speaker 1: the way, like he's got bum shoulders, he's had ten
Speaker 1: and a half sacks, like by all means, please sit
Speaker 1: the second half. But it's there's there's two different philosophies
Speaker 1: at work there. For sure. Here's what DeMarcus Lawrence has
Speaker 1: said this year, he said, and that this week. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be playing in the fourth quarter of
Speaker 1: that game. He wasn't. He also said, this is how
Speaker 1: you beat the Saints. You jump on him early and
Speaker 1: choked him out, and then then they're not gonna like
Speaker 1: it when you hit him like that, and they're not
Speaker 1: gonna be scoring fifty points on you. That's what happened.
Speaker 1: He also said when asked at a at the hospital visits,
Speaker 1: there was a Seattle fan there, a little girl, and said,
Speaker 1: are you gonna try Did you try to change her
Speaker 1: to a cowboy fan? And he said, nah, no, it's fine.
Speaker 1: He goes like, we're gonna have to play them again.
Speaker 1: So when we do, you know, hopefully she'll she'll be happy,
Speaker 1: you know that we came to visit her and she'll
Speaker 1: be pulling for us. And I was like, you gotta
Speaker 1: play him again? He goes, yeah, We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: see them again in the playoffs like this matter of fact,
Speaker 1: like it's sitting on the schedule. Seattle, Well, here we go.
Speaker 1: He's a smart man. He I love that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I honestly, I just I look at this defense
Speaker 1: and m I think yesterday. It didn't really tell me
Speaker 1: anything that made me nervous about the playoffs. I think
Speaker 1: what I saw yesterday was, as you said, for most
Speaker 1: of the first half, they were doing a really great
Speaker 1: job of holding him at Bay got two turnovers there
Speaker 1: early in the game. UM. So I think the defense
Speaker 1: did what I wanted to see from it. Um And
Speaker 1: I think when she got into the second half, assuming
Speaker 1: again I was I was a little bit worried because
Speaker 1: when when Layton went down. But assuming everything is fine
Speaker 1: there and it sounds like everything is, yeah, and it
Speaker 1: sounds like they came out of the game pretty clean
Speaker 1: on defense, and that to me means that they're ready
Speaker 1: to get into playoffs. You know, Byron gave up a touchdown,
Speaker 1: which is just the second of the year, second of
Speaker 1: the year, and it's I mean it's a you know,
Speaker 1: one handed Yeah, that's happened. Sometimes you got to tip
Speaker 1: your cap. Although you know, you know, to play Devil's advocate.
Speaker 1: You feel so great about what the offense did and
Speaker 1: the note that they're going into the playoffs on like
Speaker 1: it's fair to be troubled, you know, even if they
Speaker 1: weren't playing everybody, Like the defense gave up thirty five
Speaker 1: Byron you know, gave up a play that he hasn't
Speaker 1: given up all year. But the way this defense has
Speaker 1: played all year, I doubt they allow that to affect
Speaker 1: their confidence, especially you know they're sitting. They're like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: like our that was our third Marcus Lawrence, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm de Marcus Lawrence. He's like, yeah, I was watching
Speaker 1: that on the sideline. Yeah. And he kind of came
Speaker 1: in in the second quarter at one point he'd been
Speaker 1: out a little bit. He comes in, he gets a
Speaker 1: sack fumble, you know, like okay. And that's also the thing.
Speaker 1: The way they start and finishes game gives them confidence. Right.
Speaker 1: They started off basically shutting them down, and the way
Speaker 1: they finished, like you gotta sit. There was a situation
Speaker 1: where the Giants could have driven down and had great
Speaker 1: field position to drive down and get in position for
Speaker 1: a field goal and they gave up zero yards. That
Speaker 1: to me, the way they started the way they finished,
Speaker 1: they go into it on the same kind of momentum
Speaker 1: that the offense. If you if you're one of those
Speaker 1: people that believes in momentum, then I think they can
Speaker 1: drop from that game the same kind of momentum in
Speaker 1: the way they started and finished. I just don't believe
Speaker 1: in momentum because if if momentum really mattered, then you
Speaker 1: don't You don't get be after five game winning Street.
Speaker 1: You don't give me twenty three nothing against the Colts.
Speaker 1: You know it's the momentum and then then you're able
Speaker 1: to come back. So I know what you're saying, but
Speaker 1: I look at it more from a confident standpoint. I
Speaker 1: wish people would replace the word momentum with it, because
Speaker 1: that's what they mean. That's like what, because like what
Speaker 1: moment How does momentum even up there? You your stationary,
Speaker 1: your team like you're a We're not talking about a
Speaker 1: snowball rolling down the hill, right. What you're talking about
Speaker 1: is confidence talking about in a game. I think when
Speaker 1: people talk about momentum, I think what happens is you
Speaker 1: can also talk you can talk about confidence. You can
Speaker 1: also talk of lack of confidence because when something happens
Speaker 1: and then it starts to snowball, you can see the
Speaker 1: other team then start kind of getting a little they'll
Speaker 1: press a little bit more, they start making more mistakes.
Speaker 1: That to me becomes lack of confidence. And that's how
Speaker 1: I think that's how you can see where it's that
Speaker 1: whole idea. It's the concept of momentum. But really you're right,
Speaker 1: it's about confidence and lack of If you come into
Speaker 1: this game off of that game and you go three
Speaker 1: and out to start, it's like, it's okay, you know whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, we were three or four in the red
Speaker 1: zone last last time. You know, we'll get it rolling,
Speaker 1: as opposed to oh crap, here we go still and
Speaker 1: then something goes wrong and yeah, now you're really on
Speaker 1: a bad play. And I don't I don't believe a momentum,
Speaker 1: but I do believe that confidence is very important to athletes.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, we appreciate you Jonnis. We'll be back
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. You guys have a very very happy New Year.
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