WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Momentum or Confidence? 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:03.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:11.640 a Break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? Ready 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.520 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:21.439 time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:26.720 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.560 It is Monday, December thirty, first two eighteen, Season fourteen, 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.120 episode number one oh five. Welcome to another edition of 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.440 The Break. We are live from s WBC Morgan Studios 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.720 at the Star. We're gonna talk about the Cowboys big 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:40.960 win yesterday, thirty six thirty five in a game that 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:44.920 most thought was meaningless but was entertaining nonetheless a fun 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.240 game to watch. Cowboys come out on top and accomplished 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:49.600 some of the things that I think they were trying 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.680 to accomplish going into that game. Whether you agree with 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.640 it or not, it seemed like they may have accomplished 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:56.400 some of those things and felt good about. How's everybody 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.400 doing day now? Everyone's doing great, doing great? Every No, 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.080 I'm pretty great, right. I'm happy with the end of 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.000 the season. I'm happy of the things we were able 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.800 to see yesterday definitely expected a really boring game and 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.119 just like it was getting there and the way it started, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.319 yeah yeah, but things turned around and that was exciting. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.240 That was exciting to see some of the things that 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.880 they did. Yeah yeah, I thought, you know, and one 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.400 of the things that I wrote about I was trying 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.000 to figure out how what to write about this, and 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.800 I just found some positive things that I think, you know, 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:29.520 you can go into the playoffs with. And again, nothing 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.440 really matters if you don't win. We all know that. 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.720 I mean, it doesn't matter what the Chiefs have done, 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.200 it doesn't matter what the Saints have done, Nobody it 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.200 doesn't really matter if you don't go win this game 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.160 coming up against Seattle. So we all know that. But 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.479 what are the some of the things that happened in there? 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.000 And I think that that there were some there's some 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.600 things you can have some confidence about going into and 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.680 I thought Dak just played amazing and this was really 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.320 big for him in my opinion, because the three best 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.240 players on the team I think of on the offense, 0:01:58.280 --> 0:01:59.760 if you say who are the three best guys, they 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.680 were all out And there's a reason why they were 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:03.840 out because they're probably because they're three best guys, and 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.559 he goes out there and continues to play and thrive 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.560 without him, found some new guys to throw the ball too. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.360 I thought he played one of his best games of 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.360 his career, without a doubt, because he didn't have that 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.160 help that everyone always says he has. He was sixty 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.560 one percent twenty seven or forty four, three hundred and 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:25.240 eighty seven yards, four touchdowns, zero interceptions, zero fumbles, one 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.720 hundred point one hundred and twenty point two quarterback rating. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.480 And I thought the most important thing and she didn't 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:31.720 even say the most important thing, but one of the 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.400 most interesting things was he was sacked four times, he 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.640 was hit ten times, there were no turnovers. That to 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.480 me is improvement because what we have seen from Dak 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.520 is he's been hit a lot this year, but he 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.440 hasn't always held on to the ball. And I think 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.079 I'm even willing. I know some fans were like, hey, 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:48.680 some of those sacks, if he held on the ball 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.720 maybe a little too long. I'm okay with that, as 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:52.840 long as he's not turning it over. Sometimes it's okay 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.720 to take the sack and move on. You can't do 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.839 it at certain times in the game, in certain situations, 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.200 but sometimes taking the sack is not a horrible thing 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.240 and you lived a fight another day. But all that considered, 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:04.320 and considering the fact that you said, NICKI was without 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.840 three of the top offensive players on the team, and 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.760 most importantly, my opinion is Zeke. We've talked a lot 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:11.120 on this show about the fact that this is a 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.040 running team that's built around its identity, being built around 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.840 Zeke Elliot running the ball. Do you think this is 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.200 maybe shades or at least giving you a little bit 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:23.080 of a glimpse at what this quarterback can be. I 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.399 know we've talked a lot about, you know, the trajectory 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.520 of a guy like Russell Wilson, who ironically they'll be 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.120 playing this next weekend in the playoffs, and how you 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.200 make a how a team makes a transition from being 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.480 a running team and allowing their quarterback, their young quarterback, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.760 to develop into a team that then is relying on 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.440 the quarterback's arm. I think maybe we're seeing a glimpse 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.200 of that yesterday in what Dak was able to do. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.000 I think, so go back to his rookie year. What 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.000 were the not just Zeke, but what were the things 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.200 that really helped him? You had a tied end he 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.440 could rely on. You also had easily making seventy five 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.720 catches in the year, So we always said kind of 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.680 the easier throws, the ones that were more underneath, not 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.400 as challenging. He had those security blanket type throws. He 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.240 had those yesterday as well. And Beasley before the touchdown catch, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.840 Beasley was really helping throughout the game, making some nice 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.040 plays moving the chains. And then Jarwin it was just, 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.360 you know, I don't know who that was, but I mean, 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.520 he was unbelievable. But that return, and when you have 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.800 those guys, then it opens up Gallop, it opens up 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.680 Marii Cooper, and I think that, you know, that's what 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.680 he needs. He needs these guys, these type of guys. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.000 But he made great plays on his own. To him, 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:35.800 he made some really great throws. Um probably the best 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.760 play of his career, I mean the touchdown to Beasley 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.680 because he could have run it. I think I still 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.599 have not seen a regular highlight of that. Really, I 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.039 haven't seen that highlight. I turner. I've finally found the 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.120 news and got the end of that, and I have 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:55.280 not seen the watch, sorry, the actual TV broadcast of 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.760 the shot and of the throw you down on the 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:02.320 got oh oh, yeah, can be it's gonna you know what. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.160 I found really interesting. And I saw a comment someone 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.960 sent to me after the game saying, well, you know, 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.600 the pressure wasn't on because this was a meaningless game, 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.880 didn't matter, so it's different when you're in the game, 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.039 which is an interesting comment to me because he led 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.640 me to thinking, I'm like, you know what, maybe I 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.479 wonder how different this was compared to other games as 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.560 far as let's say, lenning him saying certain things to dad, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.719 how much freedom was given to him as far as 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.279 the things he was doing on the field. I watched 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.880 a lot of the replays on several plays, and he 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:44.400 looked so poised and he wasn't hesitating. There was a 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.560 lot less hesitation from him. He whenever he was in 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.440 the pocket and didn't move, he found a guy, he 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.039 was focused. And then when he did need to move 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.320 and run and we've seen that how good he is 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.799 sometimes when he's running and throwing the ball. And clearly 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.000 it worked. So I'm really curious to see as far 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.400 as the game plan and how much freedom was given. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.680 You know, another thing, and anyone that says, well, that 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.040 was just the Giants. Remember the Cowboys made themselves worse 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.479 than the Giants. I mean they did that. They brought 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.760 themselves down to a level lower than that. And if 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.559 you don't believe that, just remember Vegas doesn't lose money 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.960 on purpose. They don't like to do that. There was 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.000 a reason why they were a seven point underdogs. The 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.040 Cowboys were seven point underdogs in the game. I thought 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.400 that was a little too much, but I didn't you 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.880 know they I guess they knew Zeke wasn't playing and 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.920 all those are those linemen. But so you can say, well, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.400 I was just the Giants and they missed Ode. I 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.599 said that. I said that at the first touchdown to 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.440 Blake Jarman. I'm like, oh, this the Giants. And then 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.279 they did it again, and then they did it again, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:50.120 and it's like, okay, wow, it's different. And you know 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.520 that the Giants they were competing, I mean they Helian. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.440 It's not good. But the team that beat the Bears 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.600 a couple of weeks ago. I know that Trubisky wasn't 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.200 playing there, but that you know, they went the Bears 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:00.840 had things to play for, played a tough game against 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.159 the Colts yesterday, I mean last week, so they were 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.640 on paper, a better, more talented team than what the 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.599 Cowboys rolled out there. So that's why it to me 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:10.160 was it was an impressive win, and I think it's 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.920 more than anything. Gives them confidence to go into especially Dak. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.200 Gives them some confidence to say, you know what, you 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.040 can be a really good player in this league. You 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.280 were on this game, and then you get some weapons 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.000 back and you know you can have a chance to 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:23.920 the stakes will be raised a lot higher. But I 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.600 thought it was a really good I don't know about momentum. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.160 I don't know if I liked that word, but I 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.680 think more confidence builder. So let me ask you this question. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.520 I was. I was one of the people as the 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.680 game was going on. I was like, get Dak out 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.480 of this game. And we got to the third quarter, 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.760 I was like, get him out because whatever you're gonna 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.400 gain from him being in there is not worth the 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.800 potential risk of him getting hurt. Now, especially after you 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:49.680 saw Saphila and they saw get hit. Absolutely and but 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.480 but then after the game, and I'm thinking about the 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.120 things that that Jason and Dak and even Jerry were 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.680 saying after the game about why they went this route, 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.160 it started to kind of make a little sense to me. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.480 The way they were talking about it was like, this 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.200 was an opportunity for us to kind of, you know, 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.960 not only just kind of give this guys some give 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.200 DAC an opportunity to do some other things. But when 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.200 you think about it, the offense did some things yesterday 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.960 that it hasn't done all season. They put the game 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.160 on the back of their quarterback and say we're gonna 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.480 throw the ball around the yard the whole game, and 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.720 that's what they did. And to me, when you think 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.040 of it from that standpoint, there was a lot gained 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.280 by that because now you go into the playoffs with 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:34.120 your receivers, your tight ends, and your quarterback knowing if 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:35.839 they get into one of these games, well they got 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.280 to go and score some points. They ought to feel 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.840 a little more comfortable being able to do that. Now, again, 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.319 it was just one game. And so I don't want 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:44.800 to I don't want this does not need to be 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.800 a you know, a referendum on the future success of 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.120 DAK because I don't think that's necessarily what it's telling us. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.720 I do think though, it does have an ability to 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.079 give all those players I just talked about a certain 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.040 level of confidence that in the playoffs, if they get 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.600 into a game like this, they can they should be 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.120 able to go out and compete. I still missed it. 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.960 We're watching if you're just listening to us audio wise, 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.040 they're showing the videos of the play and and I 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:10.600 just came in at the very last thing. This is 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.320 exactly where I came on to the to the TV 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:13.920 last night. I still haven't seen him the throw, and 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.600 I'll see it later, but I wanted to see exactly 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.480 how he set his feet and how he made that throw, 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.680 because when I remember we were down on the field 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:26.439 way on the other hand, here we go that right 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.679 there isn't an amazing throw. That really isn't. And thank 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:34.199 you for rewinding that back that that was an amazing throw, because, um, 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:35.920 he didn't, like you said, he didn't get his feet. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:40.040 Rolling left and throwing right is really not considered a 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.160 smart play. But I mean it's fourth and fifteen. He 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.240 got to make a play. Um. I know Beasley caught 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.400 one on his head against the Giants. That that's his 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.840 best play I think ever for the Cowboys. Um. And 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.199 just because that was an unbelievable catch, get his knee 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.719 down and all that, UM, he made a great He's 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.400 made some great catches before, that one was great. That 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.920 was probably the best one, especially what it meant. But wow, 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:04.960 first time I've seen that throw. That was one of 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.240 the cool things to me after this game. Hi, hey Dave, 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:13.240 I'm here, was that it wasn't about let's say Zeke 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.960 running the whole offense and running the ball and him 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.880 being like the successful guy or Amari Cooper catching all 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.280 the balls. The confidence I think it was well spread 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.280 out because you get confidence to your receivers. Cole basically 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.440 one of them who has kind of faded out throughout 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.040 the season and I don't know where he'll make those 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:36.320 kinds of plays. Also, Michael Gallup with that catch in 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.280 the end zone for the two point conversion. Also the offense, 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.760 the old line, the old line just not counting with 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.000 those two guys in there. I mean, it gives them confidence, 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.160 and it gives that the confidence that you know what, 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.200 I can't work with this old line. I can work 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.880 with the backup guys and be okay and make it happen. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.280 So that was a cool thing that it wasn't like 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.560 anybody like exploded or everyone got a little bit of 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:05.199 shining time. Especially obviously the tight end. Yeah, hey, Dave, 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.320 actually I was I just wanted to ask you about this. 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.600 We were talking about the quarterback and and how how 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.520 much they used him yesterday, lett him play to the 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:14.160 end of the game. I did remember a tweet that 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.000 you put out during the third or fourth quarter, something 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.680 to the effect of, um, I don't think that there's 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.600 anything that this quarterback is going to do or learn 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.160 in the rest of this game that will make him 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.400 appreciably better next week. I was on the same page. No, 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.400 that's and I changed my tune by the end. I'm 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.040 interested to see if you did is Yeah, no one under. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.880 I mean, you know that's You're not You're not always 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:38.840 gonna be wrong. You're gonna have to eat some crow sometimes. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.680 And I mean, how many years in a row have 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.280 we seen, you know, you just kind of play out 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.360 the string in this six to nothing win or even 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:49.960 you know that. I don't remember the score of the 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.120 Eagles game in twenty sixteen off the top of my head, 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.240 but it was ugly. It was like twenty seven to thirteen, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.439 I think, or something like that. You just you know what, 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.800 I didn't see that coming, nobody it and it was 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.920 meaningless in the grand scheme of things in terms of 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.720 the standings, but like that that was a moment for me. 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.640 It really, I mean, it's kind of ironic that one 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.200 of Dak's moments is in a game that didn't ultimately 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.960 affect anything, but I don't you can't take that away 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.040 from this team. And and Jerry Jones said that after 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:20.880 the game, he was like, I wouldn't trade anything for 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.760 those last two quarters and to have the opportunity to 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.040 go back and forth and battle back and come back 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.640 and lead the team to a win. And the confidence 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:32.640 boost in Dak to make those plays and to do 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.920 those things, and in the team to see him do that, 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:41.520 it's it's invaluable, and it's it's so quintessential football. And that, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.520 you know, they were talking about it on talk radio 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.960 this morning too, is like it was a bold strategy. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.360 It was you could even you could call it reckless. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.240 You could because if Dak breaks his fibula taking a 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.840 sack in that game and he can't play in the playoffs, 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.880 then you look like an idiot. There's no way around it. 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.760 And so you know, it's kind of like it's all 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.920 hindsights so big in this game because you get so 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.320 few opportunities. You only get to play these games once. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.040 You know, if Cooper scores on the reverse, then Scotland 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.280 a hand's a genius and if it gets snuffed out, 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.640 then it's the stupidest thing that's ever happened. And it's 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.400 it's kind of similar with this. If it hadn't worked out, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.800 if Dak had gotten hurt or something, or somebody had 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.480 been injured, you look terrible and you're having your job 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.240 security questioned and your decision making and all that type 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.560 of stuff. But it worked out better than anybody could 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.480 have ever drawn it up. And for that, they look 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.480 like geniuses. And I legitimately do believe that this is 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.040 a better team because of what happened. And I never 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.120 never would have guessed that even at halftime of that game. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.959 All right, we're gonna take a break. When we come back, 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.920 we'll catch up with Dave. I know they just had 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:45.599 the conference call for the coach, see if there was 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.000 anything interesting it came out of that. And then we'll 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.640 talk about Blake jar Win, the tight end. He had 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.040 a really really great day yesterday. We'll talk about what 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.920 that means to this team going into the playoffs will 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.720 when we come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.640 com Radio. If you're like me and you love I mean, 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.040 if you thing, than cutting the chord is scary. 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Cowboys get 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.040 the big win and now they head on into the 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.360 playoffs that we play in Seattle Seahawks this Saturday night. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:39.680 For those of you who have not heard, it will 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:41.880 be a Saturday night game at AT and T Stadium. 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.240 So Saturday we will be talking more about that. We'll 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.760 be talking more about that when we get to Wednesday. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.720 Dave Will gives scouting report on Wednesday at the offense, 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.120 and then Thursday will be the defense, and then Friday 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.640 we'll start giving you guys some smart our opinions on 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.800 what we think will happen this Saturday night Cowboys take 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.080 on the Seattle SEAHA. So let's jump back in, Dave 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.680 real quick. I wanted to hit you and just see 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.160 was there anything that Coach Garrett said in his conference 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.800 call today that you just came from that that we 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:13.879 need to discuss, h need to well. They So the 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.480 Cowboys are gonna practice tomorrow. Everything gets bumped up a 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.919 day by the Suddorrows, like a Wednesday. Tomorrow is a Wednesday, 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:23.719 which means practice and the whole shebang. Everybody except David Irving, 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.760 who's not going to play for this team. I think 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.600 we said that last weeks. Forget about it. Stop let's 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.000 forget about him, stop it. He's not going to practice. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:36.840 Everybody else will in some Tyrone Crawford as well, will 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.400 at least be limited. According to Jason Love, that fifty 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.280 two of your fifty three active guys are healthy enough 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.320 to practice for a playoff game. That's pretty crazy. I 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.000 wonder if there's any team in the league that's in 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:52.080 the playoffs right now. Has that same scenario. I don't 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:53.359 know off the top of my head, but I'd be 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.240 shocked if it's the case, and if it wasn't for 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.440 some weird circumstance that I don't know if we all, 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.960 any of us really know all the details. For um, 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:02.920 you know, there's a lot of teams that probably would 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:04.800 have cut ties with him or put them on ir 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.560 David Irving. Yeah, I mean very easily could have had 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.920 fifty three healthy guys here. Uh. Probably what it comes 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.200 down to is because you have so many other guys 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.400 that are healthy whoever you brought in to replace them, 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:17.600 because they would be like, why don't you just put 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.560 him on? I R whoever that is? It's not going 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.480 to play. It would be inactive. It would be like 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:25.120 a defensive tackle Ringo type. I don't even know. Somebody 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.000 somebody made the Ringo with no ring I don't know. 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.320 I think Ringo wound up back in Green Bay. He's 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.800 been gone for Ringo. No, you're it's okay, ring I'm 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.080 just you know, somebody made the point when I tweeted 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.440 out that are you know the practice details that your 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.120 head Okay yeah, no, sorry, No, it's a bad headache. 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:48.440 No I'm good, I'm distracted. Somebody pointed out, totally lost 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.119 my train of thought. Yeah, you could have had an 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.760 extra offensive lineman on the roster yesterday, which might have 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.440 come in handy since Xavier Suaphilo had to leave the game. 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.040 And you're thin anyway with Zach and Tyrn sitting, And 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:00.679 I don't have a great answer for you. There's just 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.919 there's more at play with There's so much more at 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.399 play with David Irving, and I you know, I know 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:10.119 a little bit, but I don't know enough to feel 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.919 comfortable speculating about it other than it's just a unique situation. 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.680 I don't expect that he's going to play ever again 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.720 for this team. But just yeah, I don't have a 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:23.760 great answer for you as to why they're still carrying 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:28.000 him other than no, not other than just period don't 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.280 have fun. Well, but I guess when you look at 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.240 it again, when you look at overall, in fact, the 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.520 Cowboys have fifty two other fifty three. They'll be ready 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.000 and available for practice tomorrow. It's a big and David Irving. 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.840 David Irving hasn't played since the bye week, so like 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.320 it's not I mean, it's not like you gotta get 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.960 used to playing without him, like you've they've known this 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:50.240 now who they haven't played without his Tyrone Crawford until yesterday. 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.239 And you know, the Giants has some nice plays in there. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.640 They're in for one forty three. You know, I'm never 0:19:55.720 --> 0:20:01.480 technically they've played that game without him, he point out 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:04.080 in like the second yeah game and the second playoff, 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.680 but they went into it, they went into it without it. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.240 You're right, right, you know, I just think he's a 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.720 difference maker. I mean, without a doubt he's he played 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.200 well and you know, I'm never gonna be one to 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.560 say take away Barkley's sixty nine yard run because that 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:20.359 was a big part of it. But you're not going 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.040 to face back like him all the time, especially this week, 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.120 um that they run it differently, but I think that, 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:30.160 you know, his his presence, his versatility really allows him 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.280 to do different things on the line. So it'll be 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.440 good to have him back. Let's talk about Blake Darlin. Yesterday, 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.520 he had a career day seven catches, one hundred nineteen 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.520 yards seventeen point oh average um and then the key part, 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:44.920 three touchdowns, two of those touchdowns being in the red 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.840 zone from thirteen yards out and from nineteen yards out. 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.840 Career day doesn't. It's true, but it doesn't feel like 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:53.160 good justice. Yeah. Nick said that before the break when 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.680 I said, anytime you say someone had a really, really 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.240 really good day and that doesn't do it justice, then 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:01.879 there's something it's really special. I wrote this in my 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.280 article and I know this is far fetched kind of 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.240 but the only person I can really compare this too 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:10.880 is Miles Austin. This was a Miles Auston type of thing. Now, 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:12.800 Miles was there for two or three years and you're 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.400 kind of waiting for him to have that that momentum. 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:17.680 You've waited a little bit now a year and a 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:21.320 half for Darwin, but it's it's that type of game. 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:24.000 It was like, oh my god. But I've always said 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:26.280 this about Miles. The best thing that he ever did 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.280 wasn't the necessarily the two fifty was the next game 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.719 against Atlanta. I went for one seventy one and a 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.840 touchdown and it's like, Okay, this really might be something, 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:37.120 and so we'll see if if he built, you's got 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.880 to follow it up. I'm just saying, yeah, well, that's 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:43.000 kind of the key. Though. A lot of three touchdown games, 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:44.880 even in Cowboys history, it is a pretty good one. 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:46.520 But but that's what I was gonna say that. I mean, this, 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.040 this is the key here is that? And I guess 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:51.680 it's a question for you guys. Do you think that 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:53.840 this is a sign of things to come for him 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:56.840 and for this offense because we've been waiting for one 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:58.880 of the tight ends to step up and break out 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:02.120 and become the tight end for this team. He has 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:04.720 a day like that, and he does that in the 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.080 red zone, and and I don't think it's a coincidence 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:09.680 that yesterday they go three or four in red zone 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:12.720 efficiency and that's been a struggle for them most of 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:14.520 the year, and all of a sudden, when the tight 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:16.439 end starts rolling, it all of a sudden gets a 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:18.800 lot better. Do you think that that's something that now 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:21.879 maybe you are seeing that that can become an option 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:23.879 for them in the red zone and just an option 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:26.080 for them overall and helps this offense move a lot 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:28.480 more efficiently. Yeah, just they are all different players. That 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:30.399 first touchdown, I mean, I think I think it was 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:32.840 the first one that did a nice job of standing 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:34.640 in the pocket waiting and waiting for that to kind 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:38.920 of develop and then he was wide open the third touchdown. 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:41.760 It was starting to get funny, like okay, really like 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:45.879 he's just gonna weave through the but yeah. But you 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.680 know what though, and the short answer your question, Derek 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:50.680 is yes, and I'm not I'm not ready to say 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:52.800 he's gonna string that together every week because then he 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:54.680 would be zach Ertz. I mean, if he was doing 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:56.840 that every week, he would be a pro bowler. But 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:00.000 he finished the season with three hundred and seven yards. 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:05.040 He went into December with I want to say eighty 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:07.400 and he had one hundred and eighty eight going into 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:10.119 that game. So he doubled his tally in one game, 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:13.120 and he tripled what he had done the first two 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:15.520 months of the season in the final month of the season. 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:19.400 So he disappeared against he disappeared against Tampa. Okay, great, 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:21.879 but he still put up three really good games in 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:24.800 four outings. I mean, it's it's a trend. You're well. 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:27.800 And again he's been giving more chances after Schwaim got hurt, 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:30.920 and that's that's that's a big part of it is 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:33.080 the opportunity. But he is making the most of it. 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:36.399 I mean, seven targets against Philly seven targets against Indy 0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:39.720 three against Tampa eight yesterday, and he turned that into 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:43.840 eighteen catches. And that and that catch on the touchdown drive, 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:46.400 that one was one of the key plays of the game, 0:23:46.480 --> 0:23:49.840 key plays you know of of for him. And he 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:52.880 had three touchdowns, but that catch right there really kind 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:55.560 of got them in position to start being more aggressive. 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:58.560 And it reminded me of the throw that that Dak 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:01.280 kind of missed him on, or he didn't really miss 0:24:01.320 --> 0:24:04.680 him in Indianapolis. He was, he was open, he underthrew him, 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:06.399 he didn't make the catch, you got it knocked out 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:08.680 of his hands. It was a similar type play where 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:11.119 now you're streaking again, you go up and make the play. 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:12.960 And I think, you know, that was just a few 0:24:13.000 --> 0:24:16.840 plays before Beasley's touchdown. Not only that, but and I 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.280 wish I had time to like do real research on this, 0:24:19.359 --> 0:24:21.320 and we got in at ten o'clock last night, But 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:26.080 how many of Dack's twenty two passing touchdowns came in 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:28.560 the went down the middle of the field, specifically down 0:24:28.640 --> 0:24:31.000 the seam. It's straight up just has not been a 0:24:31.000 --> 0:24:33.040 part of the field that defenses have had to worry about. 0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:36.320 You got Zeke underneath you can have your linebackers, you know, 0:24:36.400 --> 0:24:38.679 spy that and keep an eye on that. Cooper and 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:41.000 Gallop the vast and hearns as well, the couple that 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:43.359 he's got. The vast majority of that came outside the numbers, 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:46.840 Like teams haven't had to worry about that. And you can't. No, 0:24:47.080 --> 0:24:48.639 you can't convince me now. I mean you will look 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:50.159 at that and you say, all right, we gotta you know, 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:53.440 safety's got a shade inside that that's vulnerable. That's something 0:24:53.560 --> 0:24:57.320 Jarwin can do. It's absolutely crucial to put that on 0:24:57.400 --> 0:24:59.680 tape for defenses to have to worry about. That's you know. 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:01.760 I we talked about the flea flicker and what it 0:25:01.760 --> 0:25:04.040 would do to run it, and every time you run 0:25:04.119 --> 0:25:06.159 the ball, you're like thinking about it. Same with with 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:09.240 a guy like Darwin has a game like that. It's like, wow, 0:25:09.600 --> 0:25:11.880 I mean, you gotta we gotta worry about eighty nine now, 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:14.280 and that's all you need for Zeke, for Cooper and 0:25:15.000 --> 0:25:17.840 my goal. I gotta long talk about Gallup too. Yeah sure, 0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:20.199 gall Well, I got along to do list today, but 0:25:20.240 --> 0:25:23.160 I'm I'm gonna try to find the time this week 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:25.879 to go back and chart it and see it, because 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:28.720 I couldn't be more than two or three other ones 0:25:28.840 --> 0:25:31.320 like they just they haven't taken advantage of that part 0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:33.359 of the field very often this season. Down the middle 0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:36.360 and one more point two is let it's I mean, 0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:39.040 the red zone fact is great, but Jarwin was hurting 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:42.399 them all day, all over the field. The fourth quarter, 0:25:42.920 --> 0:25:45.320 I think it was Jarwin's last catch. Again, it was 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:48.680 down the seam, over the linebacker, under the safety, middle 0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:51.880 of the field. It's probably like a fifteen sixteen yard game, 0:25:51.920 --> 0:25:54.119 but it was awesome that. Yeah, that's the play I 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:57.200 was just talking about. Yeah, that was a key play 0:25:57.240 --> 0:25:59.280 in the game, and it was just one you're right 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:02.800 right in the middle. So Gallup, I definitely talk about 0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:04.600 him real quick. If you just looked at Gallup, it 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:08.119 said three catches, fifty yards, no touchdowns. You know, pretty 0:26:08.160 --> 0:26:09.960 pretty solid day. But I mean a couple of things 0:26:10.000 --> 0:26:12.480 that don't really show up in that stat line right there, 0:26:12.480 --> 0:26:15.240 and put one game winning two point conversion that doesn't 0:26:15.320 --> 0:26:18.720 show there. Also, twenty three yard pass interference penalty was 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:21.280 getting by b w Webb. He shoved him out of bounds. 0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:23.239 I know people in the press bucks around us did 0:26:23.280 --> 0:26:25.600 not agree with that call, like he stepped out of bounds. 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:28.120 It's like he absolutely got shoved out of bounds. That's 0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:30.639 actually a penalty. Yeah, it's not a felony, but it 0:26:30.720 --> 0:26:34.560 is a penalty, and that led to a touchdown. You know, 0:26:34.680 --> 0:26:37.000 his presence. I'm going to write an article later this 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:40.200 week about some of the differences on both teams from 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:43.160 this game against Seattle, and I think not only Cooper, 0:26:43.240 --> 0:26:46.919 but Cooper and Gallup. It's a completely different wide receiving 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:48.640 core of the Seattle has to face. And I don't 0:26:48.640 --> 0:26:50.479 believe they're going to have one of their better players 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:53.960 that they had in that game. True Earl Thomas. Oh yeah. 0:26:54.000 --> 0:26:56.800 One other thought real quick, because we talked about it 0:26:56.840 --> 0:27:00.640 specifically on Friday with Chuck, I was like, I hope 0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:03.040 this is I hope this game gets a Moniker, like 0:27:03.080 --> 0:27:05.720 you know, the Darius Jackson game. And I don't feel 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:07.640 bad for Blake Jarwin because he had an amazing day, 0:27:07.840 --> 0:27:10.360 but I feel a little bad because he got got 0:27:10.359 --> 0:27:13.200 it stolen. You got it stolen from him because fifteen 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:15.920 years from now, I'm way more likely to remember dak 0:27:15.960 --> 0:27:18.359 to Beasley than the fact that he had three touchdowns. 0:27:18.640 --> 0:27:20.520 I'll be like, oh, that was the game with that 0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:23.000 amazing throw from Dak to Beasley. Oh, and then Blake 0:27:23.080 --> 0:27:25.520 Jarwin had three touchdowns like he had it, he had 0:27:25.520 --> 0:27:27.320 it stolen from it. It should have been the Blake 0:27:27.400 --> 0:27:29.679 Jarwin game. It's funny about it. I thought about that, 0:27:29.720 --> 0:27:32.800 the Blake Jarwin game. You know, are they calling it that? Um? 0:27:33.119 --> 0:27:36.199 You know in our recap article, Kurt Daniels wrote that 0:27:36.400 --> 0:27:40.280 in there, and I'm thinking that sounds cool. But for 0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:42.399 him and his sake in his career, you kind of 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:44.520 hope it's not. You know, you hope it's not the 0:27:44.520 --> 0:27:46.920 Blake Jarwin game. I mean, sorry, the only reason it's 0:27:46.920 --> 0:27:49.480 the Jason Garrett game against Green Bay and Thanksgiving because 0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:51.879 he never did it. Really again, that's true, and you know, 0:27:52.359 --> 0:27:54.960 typically if it's a if it's a Blake Jarwin, it 0:27:55.000 --> 0:27:57.000 means you didn't do anything. Yes, like you don't want that. 0:27:57.000 --> 0:27:59.600 Although I will say Blake Jarwin could play here for 0:27:59.640 --> 0:28:02.040 another decade and go to five Pro Bowls and not 0:28:02.320 --> 0:28:04.879 have three touchdowns And the last time it happened was 0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:08.960 nineteen seventy three. So yeah, there's been a lot of 0:28:09.280 --> 0:28:12.320 news to me that was just like find out, come back, 0:28:12.320 --> 0:28:14.560 and find out what Blake Jarwin did that Jason Witten 0:28:14.680 --> 0:28:18.080 has never done. It's like, okay, I just that's one 0:28:18.080 --> 0:28:20.000 of those things where like, you know, when you're in 0:28:20.000 --> 0:28:23.719 the locker room, like the people asking about Billy Joe 0:28:23.760 --> 0:28:27.080 Dupree or a certain age and demographic and the people 0:28:27.119 --> 0:28:29.360 that aren't asking about it are more but I mean 0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:31.680 more like me. Yeah, So you just want to make 0:28:31.680 --> 0:28:34.119 sure that that this league, this turns into something like 0:28:34.119 --> 0:28:36.040 Miles Austin, he was a two time pro bowler turned 0:28:36.040 --> 0:28:38.880 into something don't be Laron Robinson who caught eleven touchdowns 0:28:39.000 --> 0:28:41.640 and a few years ago and never really played again. 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:44.600 I mean, you know. And the thing about it is 0:28:44.600 --> 0:28:47.280 is all these all these things sound good, he's got 0:28:47.280 --> 0:28:49.520 to be able to sit there and block. If he's 0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:52.120 not gonna be in every down blocker, then he's not 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:54.400 ever going to be like a starting tight end for you. 0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:56.280 So that's that's what he needs to get better at 0:28:56.320 --> 0:28:57.760 and keep doing. But the one thing I will say 0:28:57.760 --> 0:28:59.240 about that is there a lot of really good tight 0:28:59.320 --> 0:29:01.240 ends in this league. Aren't great blockers are getting the 0:29:01.320 --> 0:29:03.360 way guys, And if you can do that well, then 0:29:03.440 --> 0:29:05.320 you can still be a good every down tight end 0:29:05.320 --> 0:29:06.680 in this league because they're on a lot that do 0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:10.040 both well. Yeah, but in this scheme, well I get it, 0:29:10.160 --> 0:29:12.760 but this current scheme, who knows, But there's not there's 0:29:12.760 --> 0:29:15.000 also not a lot of guys on this roster as 0:29:15.040 --> 0:29:17.440 tight ends who block well. Which, right, I'm going to 0:29:17.520 --> 0:29:19.440 give you a free show idea. We don't need to 0:29:19.480 --> 0:29:21.720 talk about it now. We can save it for the offseason. 0:29:21.760 --> 0:29:25.480 But like this month plus, whatever happens in the playoffs, 0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:28.240 is it enough to make you reevaluate what this team 0:29:28.280 --> 0:29:29.880 needs to do at tight end in the off season, 0:29:29.960 --> 0:29:32.040 We will see. I think that has a lot to 0:29:32.040 --> 0:29:34.480 do with it. What happens in this next these next 0:29:34.480 --> 0:29:37.240 this next game or games, hopefully we'll tell you. Yeah, 0:29:37.280 --> 0:29:39.680 that will that will dictate a lot what you're gonna 0:29:39.680 --> 0:29:41.600 do in the off season. I think let's take our 0:29:41.600 --> 0:29:43.600 final break. 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At some point tomorrow we'll 0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:57.480 say you can't soar with the Eagles if you're out 0:33:57.480 --> 0:34:00.200 hooting with the Owls, because he's gonna look right at 0:34:00.280 --> 0:34:04.040 my hungover butt and say something like that. Yeah, I'll 0:34:04.080 --> 0:34:06.160 be in bed at about ten thirty and I think 0:34:06.560 --> 0:34:09.440 call it an evening. You you're gonna live on the 0:34:09.480 --> 0:34:13.040 East Coast and be like, yeah, watch it on. Yeah, 0:34:13.080 --> 0:34:14.440 you know, I've already watched it, like I have. There 0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:17.240 a couple I've already had. I just watched it online 0:34:17.239 --> 0:34:19.680 and be like, who does it now? Who's the dick Clark? Now, 0:34:19.920 --> 0:34:23.239 I couldn't tell you, no Arson, somebody Arson, couldn't tell 0:34:23.280 --> 0:34:25.719 you Arson, who, no whom? I thinking, though, you think 0:34:26.239 --> 0:34:29.480 there we go, right and Seacrest Right, Seacrest, thank you. 0:34:29.520 --> 0:34:34.279 Disembodied Kenn. We had a couple of big horse disembodied Ken. Yes, man, 0:34:34.360 --> 0:34:36.440 all right, let's get back into it. Um, Let's talk 0:34:36.440 --> 0:34:39.520 about this defense. Yesterday they gave up thirty five points. 0:34:39.520 --> 0:34:42.640 It was the most they've given up all season. And uh, 0:34:42.680 --> 0:34:45.440 and it was kind of shocking a little bit. What 0:34:45.960 --> 0:34:47.880 it was kind of shocking a little bit just because 0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:50.719 you know, Odell didn't play. You kind of thought, okay, 0:34:50.719 --> 0:34:52.319 well they should be able to handle it. They really 0:34:52.320 --> 0:34:55.120 weren't missing a lot of guys, like the offense was, 0:34:55.239 --> 0:34:57.680 I mean, other than than Crawford pretty much had their 0:34:57.719 --> 0:35:00.040 guys out there for the most part. They did in 0:35:00.040 --> 0:35:02.680 the second half. They took deal out, but he was 0:35:02.680 --> 0:35:04.719 playing into the second he was playing into the third 0:35:04.800 --> 0:35:07.400 quarter they pulled him out. It was more like about 0:35:07.480 --> 0:35:09.319 mid third quarter. I think was the last time I 0:35:09.320 --> 0:35:12.440 remembered seeing when they post I don't think it's I 0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:14.919 don't think it's up there yet, which okay, I feel 0:35:14.960 --> 0:35:17.839 two types of ways about this. But when they when 0:35:17.880 --> 0:35:21.160 they post the all twenty two on game Pass, go 0:35:21.440 --> 0:35:23.760 take a look at the you know, the fourth quarter 0:35:23.800 --> 0:35:25.839 drives where the Giants are moving it at will and 0:35:26.200 --> 0:35:28.360 tell me who's in there. Yeah, you're gonna see a 0:35:28.360 --> 0:35:30.799 lot of Daniel Ross. You're gonna see a lot of 0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:37.920 Koran Read, Joe Thomas, Damian Wilson. The Cowboys were clearly 0:35:38.160 --> 0:35:41.520 rotating and not It was not their best eleven. It 0:35:41.640 --> 0:35:44.520 was not They were not playing as though the playoffs 0:35:44.520 --> 0:35:46.319 were on the line. They were giving guys rest, They 0:35:46.320 --> 0:35:49.239 were giving young guys an opportunity. Having said that, I 0:35:49.320 --> 0:35:52.279 said this on Twitter Yesterday's I can only evaluate what 0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:54.080 you put out on the field for me to see. 0:35:54.200 --> 0:35:57.080 So I mean, if that's what you're comfortable running out 0:35:57.120 --> 0:35:59.040 during the game and they don't play well, then that's 0:35:59.080 --> 0:36:00.600 fair game and my and you know, I mean, I'm 0:36:00.600 --> 0:36:04.440 not just gonna write off what happens because you're subbing 0:36:04.480 --> 0:36:07.600 guys at the same time. They were doing that right. 0:36:07.760 --> 0:36:09.000 And I do think if you just look at the 0:36:09.280 --> 0:36:14.440 Giants drives, the first four how they how it ended. Interception, fumble, punt, punt, 0:36:14.480 --> 0:36:18.360 and then touchdown, field goal, touchdown, touchdown, field goal downs. 0:36:18.840 --> 0:36:20.839 That was all second half. That That is the most 0:36:20.880 --> 0:36:23.239 amazing part to me is that the downs. I mean, 0:36:24.400 --> 0:36:27.399 once they scored and then Antoine Woods got I don't 0:36:27.400 --> 0:36:29.880 even know what he did, got the penalty, taunting, haunting. 0:36:30.040 --> 0:36:33.080 They probably did he go thank you flash. I don't know. 0:36:33.120 --> 0:36:34.880 I don't know what he did, but anyways, I didn't know. 0:36:34.960 --> 0:36:37.200 He was apologizing to Jerry and Stephen in the locker 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:39.319 room after the game. Well, the Giants had the ball 0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:42.239 in the field and Rosa's now someone told me this 0:36:42.360 --> 0:36:44.480 that he had gotten hurt on the pre on the 0:36:44.560 --> 0:36:47.239 last kickoff. He had hurt his calf, was right. They 0:36:47.280 --> 0:36:50.359 weren't sure what kind of range he had, but they 0:36:50.400 --> 0:36:53.879 still needed fifteen or twenty yards. They got zero yards. Yeah, 0:36:53.920 --> 0:36:56.640 that's amazing that really, I mean, that does After I returned, 0:36:56.680 --> 0:36:58.799 you were like, okay, they're good. Been stopped. I was like, 0:36:58.960 --> 0:37:02.040 they're gonna kick this. They're that's the way the NFL works. 0:37:02.080 --> 0:37:04.400 He figured they're at least gonna get into position to 0:37:04.440 --> 0:37:07.759 where it's a possibility. You know, maybe he doesn't make it, 0:37:07.800 --> 0:37:10.640 but they're at least gonna kick and to gain no yards. 0:37:10.840 --> 0:37:14.960 That's that was surprising. Yeah. I got a little bit 0:37:15.040 --> 0:37:17.640 of hell from some on one of my tweets yesterday, 0:37:17.800 --> 0:37:21.600 probably one of my first ones about eli Um. I 0:37:21.719 --> 0:37:25.120 just said, don't retire, and they got a lot of 0:37:25.160 --> 0:37:28.359 crap for that. So I apologize. But at the end, 0:37:28.760 --> 0:37:31.560 why you gotta fe I figured Cowboys fans would agree 0:37:31.600 --> 0:37:34.239 with that. Yeah, I just want them. Yeah, But then 0:37:34.239 --> 0:37:35.640 it got I think he got moved over to some 0:37:35.719 --> 0:37:38.720 other people that weren't Cowboy fans. Oh, that'll happen. Whatever, 0:37:39.320 --> 0:37:42.520 It's all good and uh, because he ended the game 0:37:43.440 --> 0:37:45.800 kind of like that. I mean, you gotta get yards. 0:37:45.800 --> 0:37:48.080 You've got to give your kicker a chance. You've got 0:37:48.080 --> 0:37:50.000 to and the Cowboys, give them credit. They put a 0:37:50.000 --> 0:37:52.760 little bit more pressure on that drive and he couldn't 0:37:52.800 --> 0:37:55.000 handle it. So I speak, I want to go back 0:37:55.000 --> 0:37:57.719 on game pass and see who was in for that drive, 0:37:57.760 --> 0:38:01.440 because Woods was because Woods was like, yeah, you need 0:38:01.480 --> 0:38:04.920 to do something. Well, DeMarcus Lawrence definitely wasn't. As I 0:38:05.080 --> 0:38:09.239 know that he walked off the field in Cities. He 0:38:09.280 --> 0:38:12.480 was wearing thims well he which cracked me up. He 0:38:12.640 --> 0:38:15.160 said earlier this week he was like, He's like, hell no, 0:38:15.200 --> 0:38:17.200 I'm not playing the whole game, which I appreciate his honesty. 0:38:17.280 --> 0:38:20.439 So it's DeMarcus. I think Dak even made a joke 0:38:20.480 --> 0:38:23.520 about it in his poke. He was like, me and 0:38:23.560 --> 0:38:27.400 DeMarcus maybe have different philosophy. Were you in the I 0:38:27.480 --> 0:38:31.600 wasn't there the question? You were in there? The question was? 0:38:32.320 --> 0:38:35.719 DeMarcus said, he's surprised because you're the quarterback that this 0:38:35.760 --> 0:38:38.040 is a question to Dak. You're the quarterback of the team. 0:38:38.080 --> 0:38:39.920 DeMarcus said that you'll be able to just kind of 0:38:40.200 --> 0:38:42.080 come out and say, hey, I'm out of this game. 0:38:42.960 --> 0:38:45.120 Why didn't you do that? And he started laughing and 0:38:45.120 --> 0:38:47.040 he was like, um, I think we have a little 0:38:47.080 --> 0:38:50.120 different opinion on how to handle that or something. He's 0:38:50.120 --> 0:38:51.560 not gonna be able to go and do that. I 0:38:51.560 --> 0:38:55.279 don't know why DeMarcus thinks he can, but um, I 0:38:55.480 --> 0:38:59.920 well I want Dak maybe could He could probably do 0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:01.520 that I don't. I mean, I don't know him out 0:39:01.560 --> 0:39:03.960 of the game. I don't know how the mechanics of 0:39:04.040 --> 0:39:06.040 that work. I mean it's a little different though. I 0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:08.080 mean you're talking about a guy that's in a position 0:39:08.120 --> 0:39:11.440 where they already rotate, right, So it's so him just 0:39:11.520 --> 0:39:13.280 being like, all right, tech, a couple of extra snaps. 0:39:13.320 --> 0:39:15.360 It doesn't change, it doesn't change a lot. But the 0:39:15.440 --> 0:39:19.000 quarterback says, I'm out, like not like a go get 0:39:19.040 --> 0:39:21.000 some reps. And also it's like, I mean, that doesn't 0:39:21.000 --> 0:39:23.960 happen a season that he's been criticized so much and 0:39:24.000 --> 0:39:27.000 that people are still wanting to evaluate him and the 0:39:27.080 --> 0:39:29.520 way he's playing. I'm sure it would. And he's a 0:39:29.560 --> 0:39:32.040 smart guy, so he wouldn't be the one to go 0:39:32.120 --> 0:39:33.719 up to like the coach and say, you know what, 0:39:34.680 --> 0:39:38.200 throw Cooper rush which, but let's go down this rabbit hole. 0:39:38.520 --> 0:39:41.640 Like he probably could, like if he was like probably 0:39:41.640 --> 0:39:44.000 could have that conversation with his head coach and say, hey, coach, 0:39:44.080 --> 0:39:45.600 you know what, I think I've had a good day. 0:39:45.640 --> 0:39:48.040 I got my reps. I just got crushed off the 0:39:48.040 --> 0:39:50.960 blind side, like I'm good. And what are they gonna do? 0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:54.160 Bench him for the Seahawks game, No, and so he 0:39:54.239 --> 0:39:55.600 and they or may not let him come out of 0:39:55.640 --> 0:39:57.200 the game if he did that too. I mean that's 0:39:57.200 --> 0:39:58.960 the other thing coach coach could say, all right, but 0:39:59.000 --> 0:40:00.480 we still want to get some more work, still go 0:40:00.480 --> 0:40:02.560 back in, and he would go back in. What is it? 0:40:02.680 --> 0:40:04.960 What he definitely could say, or you can be like 0:40:04.960 --> 0:40:06.879 like my back hurts, I can't feel, I can't feel 0:40:06.960 --> 0:40:09.080 my right arm. Is that bad? And then the point 0:40:09.120 --> 0:40:10.960 the point is is it's like a right, go sit down. 0:40:11.520 --> 0:40:14.720 That's what makes That's what makes dak Dad is it Monday? 0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:17.560 Is sit down? If if he was bound and determined 0:40:17.600 --> 0:40:19.759 to get out of that game, he probably could have 0:40:20.040 --> 0:40:22.400 if I had to guess, but he didn't want to, right, 0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:25.440 That's that and that's part of why the Cowboys are 0:40:25.480 --> 0:40:28.160 so enamored with him, and for good reason in my opinion, 0:40:28.200 --> 0:40:31.400 and that I'm not judging DeMarcus Lawrence at all, by 0:40:31.440 --> 0:40:34.319 the way, like he's got bum shoulders, he's had ten 0:40:34.320 --> 0:40:36.960 and a half sacks, like by all means, please sit 0:40:37.040 --> 0:40:40.680 the second half. But it's there's there's two different philosophies 0:40:40.680 --> 0:40:43.000 at work there. For sure. Here's what DeMarcus Lawrence has 0:40:43.040 --> 0:40:46.600 said this year, he said, and that this week. You know, 0:40:46.640 --> 0:40:48.120 I'm not gonna be playing in the fourth quarter of 0:40:48.120 --> 0:40:50.520 that game. He wasn't. He also said, this is how 0:40:50.520 --> 0:40:52.680 you beat the Saints. You jump on him early and 0:40:52.800 --> 0:40:54.880 choked him out, and then then they're not gonna like 0:40:54.960 --> 0:40:56.120 it when you hit him like that, and they're not 0:40:56.160 --> 0:40:58.880 gonna be scoring fifty points on you. That's what happened. 0:40:59.080 --> 0:41:04.320 He also said when asked at a at the hospital visits, 0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:07.759 there was a Seattle fan there, a little girl, and said, 0:41:07.760 --> 0:41:09.759 are you gonna try Did you try to change her 0:41:09.840 --> 0:41:12.160 to a cowboy fan? And he said, nah, no, it's fine. 0:41:12.200 --> 0:41:14.040 He goes like, we're gonna have to play them again. 0:41:14.200 --> 0:41:16.920 So when we do, you know, hopefully she'll she'll be happy, 0:41:17.080 --> 0:41:18.520 you know that we came to visit her and she'll 0:41:18.560 --> 0:41:20.799 be pulling for us. And I was like, you gotta 0:41:20.800 --> 0:41:22.880 play him again? He goes, yeah, We're gonna have to 0:41:22.880 --> 0:41:25.560 see them again in the playoffs like this matter of fact, 0:41:25.640 --> 0:41:29.319 like it's sitting on the schedule. Seattle, Well, here we go. 0:41:29.440 --> 0:41:33.080 He's a smart man. He I love that guy. Yeah, 0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:35.280 And I honestly, I just I look at this defense 0:41:35.320 --> 0:41:38.480 and m I think yesterday. It didn't really tell me 0:41:38.520 --> 0:41:41.239 anything that made me nervous about the playoffs. I think 0:41:41.239 --> 0:41:43.520 what I saw yesterday was, as you said, for most 0:41:43.520 --> 0:41:45.640 of the first half, they were doing a really great 0:41:45.719 --> 0:41:48.440 job of holding him at Bay got two turnovers there 0:41:48.480 --> 0:41:50.640 early in the game. UM. So I think the defense 0:41:50.719 --> 0:41:53.000 did what I wanted to see from it. Um And 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:55.719 I think when she got into the second half, assuming 0:41:55.760 --> 0:41:58.040 again I was I was a little bit worried because 0:41:58.120 --> 0:42:00.960 when when Layton went down. But assuming everything is fine 0:42:01.000 --> 0:42:02.759 there and it sounds like everything is, yeah, and it 0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:04.480 sounds like they came out of the game pretty clean 0:42:04.560 --> 0:42:06.520 on defense, and that to me means that they're ready 0:42:06.560 --> 0:42:09.200 to get into playoffs. You know, Byron gave up a touchdown, 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:11.120 which is just the second of the year, second of 0:42:11.120 --> 0:42:12.960 the year, and it's I mean it's a you know, 0:42:13.080 --> 0:42:15.600 one handed Yeah, that's happened. Sometimes you got to tip 0:42:15.640 --> 0:42:18.640 your cap. Although you know, you know, to play Devil's advocate. 0:42:19.120 --> 0:42:22.279 You feel so great about what the offense did and 0:42:22.320 --> 0:42:24.440 the note that they're going into the playoffs on like 0:42:24.520 --> 0:42:26.839 it's fair to be troubled, you know, even if they 0:42:26.840 --> 0:42:29.520 weren't playing everybody, Like the defense gave up thirty five 0:42:30.000 --> 0:42:31.839 Byron you know, gave up a play that he hasn't 0:42:31.880 --> 0:42:36.359 given up all year. But the way this defense has 0:42:36.360 --> 0:42:39.440 played all year, I doubt they allow that to affect 0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:43.720 their confidence, especially you know they're sitting. They're like, yeah, whatever, 0:42:43.920 --> 0:42:46.480 like our that was our third Marcus Lawrence, that's what 0:42:46.520 --> 0:42:50.600 I'm de Marcus Lawrence. He's like, yeah, I was watching 0:42:50.640 --> 0:42:52.520 that on the sideline. Yeah. And he kind of came 0:42:52.560 --> 0:42:54.239 in in the second quarter at one point he'd been 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:55.719 out a little bit. He comes in, he gets a 0:42:55.719 --> 0:42:58.799 sack fumble, you know, like okay. And that's also the thing. 0:42:58.800 --> 0:43:01.359 The way they start and finishes game gives them confidence. Right. 0:43:01.360 --> 0:43:04.120 They started off basically shutting them down, and the way 0:43:04.120 --> 0:43:06.200 they finished, like you gotta sit. There was a situation 0:43:06.200 --> 0:43:08.479 where the Giants could have driven down and had great 0:43:08.520 --> 0:43:10.320 field position to drive down and get in position for 0:43:10.360 --> 0:43:12.920 a field goal and they gave up zero yards. That 0:43:13.120 --> 0:43:15.040 to me, the way they started the way they finished, 0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:17.640 they go into it on the same kind of momentum 0:43:17.800 --> 0:43:19.239 that the offense. If you if you're one of those 0:43:19.239 --> 0:43:21.200 people that believes in momentum, then I think they can 0:43:21.280 --> 0:43:23.120 drop from that game the same kind of momentum in 0:43:23.120 --> 0:43:25.000 the way they started and finished. I just don't believe 0:43:25.000 --> 0:43:28.799 in momentum because if if momentum really mattered, then you 0:43:28.800 --> 0:43:30.879 don't You don't get be after five game winning Street. 0:43:30.880 --> 0:43:32.960 You don't give me twenty three nothing against the Colts. 0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:35.319 You know it's the momentum and then then you're able 0:43:35.360 --> 0:43:38.160 to come back. So I know what you're saying, but 0:43:38.239 --> 0:43:41.239 I look at it more from a confident standpoint. I 0:43:41.280 --> 0:43:44.439 wish people would replace the word momentum with it, because 0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:47.080 that's what they mean. That's like what, because like what 0:43:48.200 --> 0:43:51.080 moment How does momentum even up there? You your stationary, 0:43:51.120 --> 0:43:53.319 your team like you're a We're not talking about a 0:43:53.360 --> 0:43:55.919 snowball rolling down the hill, right. What you're talking about 0:43:56.000 --> 0:43:58.680 is confidence talking about in a game. I think when 0:43:58.680 --> 0:44:01.480 people talk about momentum, I think what happens is you 0:44:01.480 --> 0:44:03.160 can also talk you can talk about confidence. You can 0:44:03.200 --> 0:44:06.000 also talk of lack of confidence because when something happens 0:44:06.000 --> 0:44:07.719 and then it starts to snowball, you can see the 0:44:07.719 --> 0:44:10.239 other team then start kind of getting a little they'll 0:44:10.280 --> 0:44:12.800 press a little bit more, they start making more mistakes. 0:44:13.000 --> 0:44:15.400 That to me becomes lack of confidence. And that's how 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:17.960 I think that's how you can see where it's that 0:44:18.000 --> 0:44:20.600 whole idea. It's the concept of momentum. But really you're right, 0:44:20.600 --> 0:44:23.120 it's about confidence and lack of If you come into 0:44:23.160 --> 0:44:25.239 this game off of that game and you go three 0:44:25.280 --> 0:44:27.560 and out to start, it's like, it's okay, you know whatever. 0:44:27.600 --> 0:44:29.040 You know, we were three or four in the red 0:44:29.080 --> 0:44:31.919 zone last last time. You know, we'll get it rolling, 0:44:32.000 --> 0:44:35.799 as opposed to oh crap, here we go still and 0:44:35.800 --> 0:44:37.799 then something goes wrong and yeah, now you're really on 0:44:37.840 --> 0:44:40.719 a bad play. And I don't I don't believe a momentum, 0:44:40.719 --> 0:44:44.160 but I do believe that confidence is very important to athletes. 0:44:44.200 --> 0:44:46.000 All right, guys, we appreciate you Jonnis. 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