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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cow Guys, let go.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready

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Speaker 1: for a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: so much for that. It's time for the Break on

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot Com wall with Nick Eatman, Brian brought

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Speaker 1: Us and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday,

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Speaker 1: December twelfth, twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number eighty eight.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the latest edition of The Break with Life

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Speaker 1: from s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, presented by

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Speaker 1: Miller Lake, the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys, and

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Speaker 1: today we talk about Cowboys versus Texans. Cowboys get the

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Speaker 1: win in the game that was probably shakier than people

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Speaker 1: expected at twenty seven three. What's the date again? December twelfth?

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Speaker 1: Did I get that wrong? It is December twelve. I

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Speaker 1: was gonna get to that. Can you let me finish

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Speaker 1: his birthday? No? Wait forgot mess you up? I mean

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Speaker 1: so so basically okay, appreciate Nick. We got a game

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Speaker 1: to tak a Cowboys game. Yeah. I had a whole intro.

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Speaker 1: I had a whole intro planned. I was driving into

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Speaker 1: work like thinking, Okay, how am I gonna say this?

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Speaker 1: And Nick just screws it up, started keeping no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you killed the moment. Happy birthday, Brian. Appiate you, guys.

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Speaker 1: I really do thank you though. That was that was

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Speaker 1: an interesting one yesterday. Yeah. Oh that's no Brian though, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: very good. Yeah we all happy birthday, but thank I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that. Uh yeah, you're right. Not one we thought

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Speaker 1: that that was going to be that way, but a

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Speaker 1: maybe to kind of mess you up a little bit

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Speaker 1: with some of the things that they did offensively. I

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Speaker 1: thought they had a pretty good plan. I think he

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Speaker 1: you look at that. I really think about that that

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Speaker 1: whole last series. And we'll get to that. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about that, but let's start first.

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Speaker 1: Let's go around the table. What was the big takeaway

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Speaker 1: from that game for you? Because I think there's right

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Speaker 1: now kind of two camps. There's one camp of people

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Speaker 1: who are like, Cowboys sucked there, no way they should

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Speaker 1: you guys follow Nick? I mean, I definitely think you

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Speaker 1: know the win is a win. I mean, like you

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Speaker 1: you know, like we say all the time, emotions matter,

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Speaker 1: and they mattered in this game, and and they Cowboys

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Speaker 1: When injuries pile up, you're going to the talent levels

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Speaker 1: you know, I thought the Cowboys gave Houston every chance

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Speaker 1: But I'm not that worried about it because beating the

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Speaker 1: Vikings didn't make you super Bowl champions. And winning this

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Speaker 1: think you're absolutely right about that, Ambar. But again, it's like,

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Speaker 1: because again, you're talking about a team and love you

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Speaker 1: But overall, I think the Cowboys just played a bad game.

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Speaker 1: They figured out how to win. You survive in advance,

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Speaker 1: a few passes that were dropped by the receiver or

431
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Speaker 1: tight end. There were several occasions where dacked through it.

432
00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,040
Speaker 1: I thought, pretty good, and then they just dropped it

433
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,280
Speaker 1: for no. I mean, should have a tough catch. Me

434
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,720
Speaker 1: they got hit, but they should hold on the ball,

435
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,639
Speaker 1: make it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it was nothing like like,

436
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,440
Speaker 1: if you're a professional NFL player playing this game, you

437
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,360
Speaker 1: should have caught that and held onto that ball. But

438
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,680
Speaker 1: here's the thing with Dack. For me, it's just it's

439
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,960
Speaker 1: complicated because there are so many good throws that he

440
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 1: makes some really good throws and you're like, that's why,

441
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 1: but then he goes back and makes mistakes or it's

442
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 1: not consistently great, But can you ask that for him

443
00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 1: to be consistently great? And that's where I think the

444
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,159
Speaker 1: argument comes into hid and I think the salary stuff

445
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,439
Speaker 1: that's out of question because it's not even he's not

446
00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:00,159
Speaker 1: even the most paid quarterback now anymore at all. So

447
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 1: he's about you know, that's just the business of it.

448
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,679
Speaker 1: But the problem here, and we talked about it that

449
00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:11,479
Speaker 1: Nate brought it when we did that show, was the interceptions.

450
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 1: That it's becoming a constant thing, like every game there's

451
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 1: an interception at least one. And now it goes into

452
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,920
Speaker 1: the argument, Okay, do you want him to be more

453
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 1: careful or do you want what's the word aggressive? Or

454
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: do you want him to keep being aggressive? And he

455
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 1: talked about it after the game in the press conference

456
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 1: and he's like, Okay, I don't want to take away

457
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 1: from my aggressiveness. Yes, I gotta be more smart with

458
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,640
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. I know that. But it's a tough

459
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,800
Speaker 1: balance there, and I think that at some point in

460
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:51,639
Speaker 1: my bite them in the but as I mean, I

461
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 1: do not want to take that away from him and

462
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,879
Speaker 1: just let him because again, some of he makes some

463
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,400
Speaker 1: really really good throws and the ones you pointed out

464
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,119
Speaker 1: Brian are pretty impressive. But how do you find the

465
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 1: right balance? Yeah, that's the thing about it. I don't

466
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 1: think his offensive line was there was very good yesterday.

467
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 1: I think that, and it wasn't just when they got

468
00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,200
Speaker 1: backed up. I thought they were not very good at tackle.

469
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,480
Speaker 1: I don't think Smith was particularly good at times. He

470
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,959
Speaker 1: got compressed quite a bit. I felt like that steal

471
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: up until the point when he got hurt, he was

472
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 1: having one of those games. He's always to me a

473
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,400
Speaker 1: better run blocker than than pass blocker. I think they

474
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,679
Speaker 1: got out of in the first half what they're really

475
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 1: good at, and that's having the balance and running the football.

476
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: Their disparity see was it the word dissparity exactly two here?

477
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,640
Speaker 1: Ambar and I are in the same side here where,

478
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,439
Speaker 1: But it was it was really heavy, heavy pass to

479
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 1: run in the first half, and they came out in

480
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,639
Speaker 1: the second half they got the ball where they run

481
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 1: at ten straight times and down to the goal line,

482
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 1: and you're kind of like thinking, Okay, they're getting back

483
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 1: to what they're going to try and do. They're going

484
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 1: to try to establish something. But I think that teams

485
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: have figured this out about day. Make him read the field,

486
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: make him have to see all that color, and make

487
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 1: him have to And you've got some guys out there,

488
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,040
Speaker 1: and Nick brought it up about the receiver and bar that.

489
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 1: You know, you've got to be able to run routes.

490
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,439
Speaker 1: You've got to find a way not to get knocked

491
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: off route. You know, you've got to find a way

492
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: to get open or to separate. And you know, he

493
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 1: made some bad throws. He's made some bad decisions. The

494
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 1: interceptions that he made to throw. I think he got

495
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 1: fooled on the first one. I think he got fooled

496
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: on the very first interception he had. I think that

497
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: was he probably thought he was going to get man

498
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 1: coverage when Schultz went inside. The nickel didn't go with Schultz.

499
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 1: He stayed where he was and he threw the ball

500
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: thinking that it was going to be you know, that

501
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,120
Speaker 1: that nickel was going to clear. You know, I think

502
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: that was about he got hit on the second one.

503
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 1: You know, that was ball got beat bad, got beat

504
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,880
Speaker 1: on the inside move, got beat on an outside move.

505
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: That was bad job by him, you know, And that's

506
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,640
Speaker 1: what it causes. But I think the team should figure

507
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: it out that make him have to read. Don't blitz him,

508
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,679
Speaker 1: because we saw what happens when you rushed him. He

509
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,399
Speaker 1: throws the ball fifty one yards down the field to

510
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: Noah Brown. You know, when you pressure him, he finds

511
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: ways to manipulate and make plays. It's when you make

512
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,640
Speaker 1: him have to look at that everybody's standing there. It's

513
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: that's when I think it's the hardest for him to

514
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 1: do right now. And I have a feeling you're going

515
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 1: to see teams do it more that they've kind of

516
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: figured that out about him, make him have to, make

517
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 1: him have to study and kind of try and confuse

518
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: him on where bodies are on certain parts of the field.

519
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 1: One thing I want to point out that I think

520
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 1: is fair when you talked about them having the disparity

521
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: between the past and run game in the first half,

522
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: a lot of that happened in that final drive. The

523
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: final drive when they were in there two minute trying

524
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: to score before the half, they had ten straight passes.

525
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 1: If you don't factor that in, they were had about

526
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: a fifty fifth. They were running like I think they

527
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: had run ten times and had passed eleven times, So

528
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 1: they're at a fifty fifty till that drive, and obviously

529
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: that drive threw it way out of whack because they

530
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 1: were just trying to drive down the field and get

531
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:06,919
Speaker 1: to the field goal. So I just think that has

532
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: to be factored in, Like, yes, they did still have

533
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: the disparity, but I do think that has to be

534
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: factored in that they were calling a pretty balanced game

535
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 1: up until that drive. There's something to think about. Let's

536
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: actually move on. I want to talk about the defense

537
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,159
Speaker 1: a little bit, because we got I really need to

538
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: in that final segment. We got to talk a lot

539
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:25,959
Speaker 1: about what happens from here because there are a lot

540
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,160
Speaker 1: of injuries that are that are part of this conversation

541
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: at this point. But let's start about the defense. The

542
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,719
Speaker 1: one way area I will give them some credit is

543
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: yesterday against Damian Pierce, who we all agreed that's that's

544
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: the guy you gotta worry about the most. They held

545
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 1: him a twenty two carries, seventy eight yards a three

546
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: point five average. He did get in the end zone once,

547
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,199
Speaker 1: but all in all, that's a day where you look

548
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 1: at and you say, they did a pretty good job

549
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: against the back that has you know, he's shown some

550
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: things in weeks where you would think he could be

551
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: a problem. That being said, there were other things that

552
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 1: they had problems with, particularly Jeff Driscoll and what he

553
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 1: presented in the RPO game and how they used him

554
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,160
Speaker 1: running the ball. He had seven carriages for thirty six

555
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: yards average five point one. How concerned do you, guys,

556
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: not necessarily even just about yesterday, but knowing that you

557
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,119
Speaker 1: got to deal with Philly still and you may have

558
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: to deal with other teams that run that style of offense.

559
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: Do you put this in the category of Dallas just

560
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 1: wasn't ready for it, or do you put this in

561
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 1: the category of this is still a problem running quarterbacks

562
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: with a good running back as well, that that seems

563
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:27,439
Speaker 1: to be an issue of fields and Montgomery, Hurts and Sanders.

564
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: Even in this case, you know those two runners, both

565
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: of them could run well, not as well as Driscoll,

566
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: but both of them with Piers, I just think the

567
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: combination of both doesn't doesn't fly well with this team.

568
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: And then then it lets a guy that you never

569
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: even heard of, you know, go make you know, have

570
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: a career day at receivers. So I do think that

571
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: the running quarterback element gives this team the biggest issues

572
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: and it allows other players to make more plays. Yeah,

573
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: I mean again, I'm looking at the Damian Pierce thing

574
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: so well, and he had that one run for twenty

575
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 1: four sort of reality, it's like twenty one cares for

576
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 1: fifty four yards, which is kind of like you're thinking

577
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: going into the game, you'd take that all day for there.

578
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: The running quarterback is an issue, and the problem is

579
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: this team is so aggressive in the way they play.

580
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 1: They fly to the ball and that's the deal. And

581
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: you have to have discipline, you have to have There

582
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: were a couple of times there where you know, you

583
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: look at guys like Layton vanders who had a hell

584
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: of a game that yesterday was a type of game

585
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: that Layton vander Esh thrives in. They're gonna try and

586
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: run the ball. There's not a lot of passing going.

587
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 1: They're gonna try, you know, they're gonna try and beat

588
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: up on you a little bit and do some stuff.

589
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: But they had guys in space. They had guys in space.

590
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: They had Wilson in space. One time they had Vanderish

591
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: in space. And one time, you know, it's one thing

592
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: to go and tackle tho you got to tackle those guys.

593
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: You got to keep teams from not wanting to hand

594
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: you know, make him keep handing the ball off. You know,

595
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: punish the quarterback whatever you have to do when he's

596
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 1: running with the football. You know, good hard tackling and

597
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: that way you keep these quarterbacks they want to they

598
00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,959
Speaker 1: don't want to get hit. They keep giving it all.

599
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: They give it off, they give it off. But yeah,

600
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: the running quarterback is an issue here because of how

601
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: aggressive the Cowboys play their front and how they're trained

602
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: to go get the football, and the discipline they play

603
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: with or the lack of it shows when the quarterback

604
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: pulls that ball and takes off running. I think now,

605
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: I mean I would really try to focus a lot

606
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: on the way you tackle the opponent team, the opposing

607
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: team in trying to get the ball out of their hands,

608
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: because I think that's an area where they can actually

609
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: if they get to the guy that they can try

610
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: to take advantage. Because we saw it even that one play,

611
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: you know where Trevon Diggs gets the ball back and

612
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,719
Speaker 1: then figures out. My point is here is if you

613
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: can fully fix the problem, I would emphasize when you

614
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: do get to the runner, whoever it is, whether that's

615
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: the quarterback or the running back tackle. Like I don't

616
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: know as worst techniques, how tackling where you can get

617
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: the ball and hit it and just try to get

618
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: it out as much as possible, just to recover the ball,

619
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: because I don't know what else you can do to

620
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: get better in general, just and stop it the run

621
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: at this point of the season. I mean what I mean,

622
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: you've been saying some of the things that you can

623
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: do there, but an advantage that they can do is

624
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: just try to get more the ball for the offense.

625
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: But other than that, I don't know what else you

626
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,719
Speaker 1: can do. The only thing about that is that you

627
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: could be so sometimes you just want to get the

628
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: guy to the ground, so when you are punching for

629
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: the ball, that's like five or six. That's why they

630
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: were trying to do it as Zeke on that first

631
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: good run where he went like twenty yards and after

632
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: about fifteen they were trying to get the ball and

633
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: it's like, well, somebody's gotta get him down. So it's

634
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: a great technique and some some players really do it well.

635
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: It's just that you've got it, you can't miss because

636
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: if you miss, I'm sure that peanut tilman. You know,

637
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: he had the peanut punch. I'm sure he's missed a

638
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: few as well too. So there's two two, you know,

639
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: two ways of thinking there. You also get the guy

640
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: to the ground. Yeah, we've seen we've seen what playing

641
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: really good read option football does to Michael Parsons in

642
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: that Philadelphia game. It frozen, you know, And that's the

643
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: last thing you need is your entire defense being frozen

644
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: by that, you know. And that's why I think the Cowboys,

645
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna be damned, They're gonna try and

646
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: get to the ball. They're gonna try and be aggressive.

647
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: If they give up the run to the quarterback, they're

648
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: you know, so be it. You know. I just I

649
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: think there's things the tackling aspects I think are well,

650
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: you know, I think those are good things to think about.

651
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: But if you get these guys in space, you got

652
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: to make sure. I mean, there were a couple of

653
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: times where Driscoll was just more athletic, more quick, more fresh,

654
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: whatever you want to say. They able to run away,

655
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: you know, from the finishers and watching some highlights, and

656
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: he was pretty good too. I'd like throwing wild running

657
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: while on the run and that touchdown pass he had

658
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: was a really good pass. Yeah, several throws where he's

659
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: just running, running, running and then throws and makes the

660
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: connection there. So, uh, that's definitely a challenge for the

661
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: Cowboys for sure. And I think that I don't want

662
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: to overstate this and we're talking about this, but at

663
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: the end of the day, the Cowboys did still hold

664
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Speaker 1: them to thirty seven carries for one hundred and fourteen

665
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: yards three point one average, and only allowed three points

666
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: in the second half. But that's true. Yeah, so you

667
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: can you don't want to be too critical like they

668
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: just sucked yesterday. I don't think that was the issue.

669
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Speaker 1: I think it was just we've seen this thing happen before.

670
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Speaker 1: And it's one of the things I talked about at

671
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: the beginning show that where you look at this game

672
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Speaker 1: and even if you want to give them the benefit

673
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: of the doubt they had a bad day, they still won.

674
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: There are some troubling things coming out of this game,

675
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: and that's one of them. Can I say a positive

676
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: thing that I saw yesterday? Dis played much better as

677
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: a defender when it came to having to deal with

678
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: the run. You know, there were one time the ball

679
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: spilled the outside. Pierce's trying to and he's like playing leverage.

680
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: He didn't didn't it didn't soften and all that. He

681
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: had a couple of tackles. I mean, the in the

682
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: final drive for the Texans, they threw a first down pass,

683
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: he drives, the guy, tackles. He was trying to keep

684
00:32:58,320 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: the guy in bounce. You could tell he's trying to

685
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: keep him in bounce. So you know the positivity of

686
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: him tackling better or playing with a more physical edge,

687
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: I think Bland playing with a more physical edge out there.

688
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: You know, there were some things in the secondary. I

689
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: think that when I always worry is when they don't

690
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: tackle and they don't play with any physicality. I thought

691
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: yesterday they did. So if teams are going to try

692
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: and run the ball to the perimeter, it's nice to

693
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: know that Diggs could step up and make plays if

694
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: he has to. Bland can step up and make plays.

695
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: Barrow was in a good position yesterday to make plays,

696
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: of course, like he did on the fourth down play.

697
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: So you know, those kinds of things are encouraging to me.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna take our final break, will come back.

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Speaker 1: it started getting pretty hectic yesterday because there are not

747
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Speaker 1: only guys you lost. There were other guys that left

748
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Speaker 1: the games that you just mentioned in the Break Gamber,

749
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Speaker 1: like Treyvon Diggs who came back that we all were

750
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 1: a bit worried there for a second. And if you

751
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: lose him, now all three of your starting cornerbacks going

752
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: into the season are gone. But he did come back

753
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 1: and play. There are three other troubling injuries though, that

754
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: we don't need to talk about. Jess heard he hurt

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00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: himself on the tackle the tight end when he came

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Speaker 1: up and yeah, he got he kind of when he

757
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Speaker 1: undercutting it kind of jacked him up a little bit.

758
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: So let's start with the injury. I think that is,

759
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: in my opinion, probably the biggest Terrence Steele right tackle.

760
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 1: What are we hearing about his situation and where he

761
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: is as far as a prognosis is concerned. I disagree

762
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: with you on the order of your injuries, but I

763
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: will say he's he's got a torn acl and he's

764
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 1: out for the season. And as bad as that is, um,

765
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: you know that, I still think that there's there could

766
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,240
Speaker 1: be a worse one. But that is really bad because

767
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: he's been playing so well and he's such a good

768
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: young player that they're trying to resign. And I'm not

769
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: saying that they won't now, but um, you know, that's

770
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: just it's bad because you know the continuity. You already

771
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: have issues on left side and now stuff with the

772
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: right side. But I just think that I just it's

773
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: a very rare situation to lose a really good player

774
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: like this and you might have a better backup. You might.

775
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: I mean, Jason Peters could be a better backup. He's

776
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: a bet, he's he's a he's a better pro. He's

777
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: never been. He hasn't played a lot of right tackle

778
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: but he's he could be a better player for you,

779
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: and he's certainly changed things. When he got in the

780
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: game and they had Josh Ball over there, which will

781
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: probably never play right tackle again this season, I wouldn't think.

782
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 1: I mean, I was gonna ask you, do you think

783
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna rotate ball in Peters. I'm just I'm can

784
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: I just make you throw up in a Nick is thinking, No,

785
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: he's he's way over in left field. Don't get him started.

786
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: He's his mind has not mean rotate ball and Peters

787
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: come on now, No, but I'm seeing it. But we've

788
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: seen but we've seen him, you know, we've seen him

789
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: like they you know, maybe they don't want Jason Peters

790
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: playing sixty five players. Yeah, I know, but I don't

791
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: know honestly. And I saw your tweet this morning, Brian. Well,

792
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: but they played twenty eight he did, he played, He

793
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: played twenty eight plays and the problem was the one

794
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: the back top plays he got beat inside and that

795
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 1: that threw him and then all of a sudden, now

796
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: you're over setting it inside and then you get been

797
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: on the edge. And it sometimes with these and we've

798
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: seen with guys like with Chads Green, like once you

799
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: have a bad one. It's just it's just snowballs and

800
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 1: you can't recover. And you know, to Jason Peters credit,

801
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 1: they were thinking about you know, I mean I was

802
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: talking to Jane Slater from the NFL network about this

803
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 1: after the game, Like Jason Peters went up to Joe

804
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: Philbin and Philbin's like they're kind of like talking about it,

805
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: and they go with ball and then it you know,

806
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: then at the end, it's like you're going in we've

807
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: talked about this, you go in there. So you know,

808
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: there's a previous regime that probably would have just ran

809
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: with ball and you know, and tried to explain it

810
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. But they didn't. They

811
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 1: made the switch. But the twenty eight plays, I you know,

812
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: I have great guys on all their plays. I don't

813
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: know the one or two plays, Yeah, I could have

814
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: killed you in the game. Absolutely, it could have, you know,

815
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: And that's the unfortunate thing, you know. I mean I

816
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: graded Michael Parsons and all the plays he played. He

817
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: didn't have a sack that make him a terrible player, no,

818
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: but you got to just grade those plays. And they

819
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 1: did the right thing by putting Peters in because I

820
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: think Ball's confidence was not very good at that point. Yeah.

821
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Speaker 1: I think the interesting thing here too is you also

822
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 1: have to factor in what we saw during training camp

823
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: in preseason, and I think that's why that even though

824
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: you say you got a factor in all the plays

825
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: from yesterday, I think fans were looking at it as, Yeah,

826
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: that might only been two plays yesterday, but we've seen

827
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: this before. We saw this during the preseason, we saw

828
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: this during camp like he's been shaky, and so yesterday

829
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: was just more confirmation that he's shaky. And then I

830
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys made the moves. I think that's where

831
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,280
Speaker 1: probably most fans are looking at this and saying Ball's

832
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: not the guy. He's not the guy, and then it

833
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: becomes a question of do you take one of the tackles? Nick,

834
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Speaker 1: You're not talking about this in the press box yesterday.

835
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,840
Speaker 1: It's hard to believe in a world where you have

836
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Speaker 1: a team that has Tyron Smith, Tyler Smith, and Jason

837
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: Peters on it that two of those guys would be

838
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: sitting on the bench in favor of Josh Ball, even

839
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: if they've never played right tackle. You at some point say, okay, guys,

840
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 1: one of y'all need to figure it out and play

841
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: right tack. Jason Peters has plays right tackle. He played

842
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: like eight snaps and then the fourth quarter the other day.

843
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: He's never yesterday, he's never practiced and you know, in

844
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: what seventeen years? Yeah, so I like my chances with

845
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 1: him getting better. Heard an interesting question this morning that

846
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: came up. Somebody said, would you can say it was

847
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 1: Brad Brad Syam, he's one or five out through the van.

848
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: He said, nobody's told me this, but it does make

849
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: me think. You go back to Tyron's rookie year he

850
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: played right tackle. He did is the answer to this question?

851
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 1: Keep Tyler where he is, put Tyron Smith on the

852
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:25,760
Speaker 1: right side. I've said this a hundred times. Jason Peters,

853
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: I still think he needs to be out there like

854
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: I would rather have Tyler Smith. I mean, I'm sorry

855
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith at left tackle, Jason Peters at right tackle,

856
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 1: and then just figure out the best left guard for

857
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and Philly and all that, not for the future,

858
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: not for all that stuff. Just who is the best

859
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: left guard? Figure it out, don't worry about feelings, will

860
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: deal with that later. But I mean that's I think

861
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: if Jason Peters can go out and just play like

862
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: that and it's never played it in seventeen years, then

863
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: then I'm okay with him, like all week learning the steps,

864
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: figuring it out, playing that a pretty good player in

865
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: Zach Martin. Yeah, I think that could be a really

866
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:05,720
Speaker 1: good right side of the line. I'm kind of feeling.

867
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I Nick makes a lot of great points,

868
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:09,959
Speaker 1: and there's a side of me that thought that, maybe

869
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: initially after Week one when there were struggles with with Steele,

870
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you put why when you put you know

871
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: Smith over there, that you know at right Tai Smith,

872
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith? Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, I'm sitting there thinking,

873
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: note Threw Tram like watching, Hey, if I'm gonna put

874
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: my best five out there, why would you not put

875
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith? I would consider playing Tyler Smith at right

876
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: tackle and using Peters as that swing guy if you know,

877
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: if you want to get, if you want to let

878
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 1: if you want to, let Peters continue. And the smart

879
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: thing the Cowboys have done this year is they've been

880
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 1: using Peters throughout the season. It wasn't like he had

881
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: to come in in Week fourteen and save the day

882
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: this one, like, oh the first time he's got to

883
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: play all year he's played. That's a smart movie. So

884
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: you know, by them, by them not just saying like

885
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna sit there and just content continuity, continuity. No,

886
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: by playing Peters, you caught him ready so he could

887
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: step into at least like imagine him like he hadn't

888
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: played all year, and all of a sudden, they're like,

889
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: I think you can go at right tackle and played

890
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 1: all year. Have you ever played right tackle two thousand

891
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,839
Speaker 1: and five? Oh, okay, you imagine that. Here we go, Yeah,

892
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: imagine that. See that's I mean, this is where when

893
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: rotation actually helps you, and by them playing him in

894
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 1: these games and kind of messing with the continuity has

895
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 1: actually been and to the point now where you have

896
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: options along the line. My option would be to play

897
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith at left tackle, put Smith at right tackle,

898
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: and use Peters as the swing. That's what I would do.

899
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: You know, this team has made a lot of questionable

900
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: decisions along the way that has made me kind of

901
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: raise an eyebrow and squen my eyes and be like,

902
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 1: I don't know if I agree with that, but it's

903
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,919
Speaker 1: proven to work. So I think I'm at a point

904
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: and just like you said, continua a reputation. You know

905
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: you got, you gotta working there the same thing over

906
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: and over. That's the old let's say Jason Garrett era

907
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: where we used to were you just stick with what

908
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: you got, and we saw it in that game they

909
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: took out ball. So my point is, I think I'm

910
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: at a point now where I actually now trust their

911
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 1: decisions and their judgment on what's gonna work best. So

912
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:34,800
Speaker 1: as opposed to before, I was kind of things didn't

913
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: really make that much sense. We saw it one way,

914
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: they saw it a different way. But over time, I

915
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 1: think that when you look at when um Mike McCarthy

916
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: got here, how things started, even all the questions that

917
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: we were wondering why still playing his second year, he

918
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: got better and better and better. So now looking all

919
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: the last three years, I think every decision, how you

920
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: see the final outcome, has worked out for them. So

921
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: I do trust whatever decisions that make. Maybe if I

922
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 1: questioned it at first, I think they're gonna make the

923
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: right one, and they've shown not. They've shown not to

924
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: be scared or afraid to make whatever switch that they

925
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: need to make, even mid game whenever they just they'll

926
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 1: do it. So we'll see interesting situation here. But I

927
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: did want to ask something real quick. Is it better

928
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: to move a veteran guy, because we've talked about the

929
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: difference of sides, you know, right versus left. Is it

930
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: better to move a guy that has already the experience

931
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: a veteran guy, or is it kind of easier to

932
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: take the younger guy, a guy like Tyler Smith that

933
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: you can that it's still moldible, like you're still molding,

934
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: you know. You look at it like how babies are.

935
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: They just absorb things very quickly and then they can

936
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: adjust versus an older person that's already used to it

937
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 1: and accustom to being on that side specific side. I'm

938
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: you're absolute, I move the younger guy. I mean, Tyran

939
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: Smith is a Hall of Fame left tackle. You know

940
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: now you could ask him to play right tackle. But

941
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think I'm doing everything in my

942
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,399
Speaker 1: pop in my power just to keep him and let

943
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: him since he's coming back, since he hasn't played all year,

944
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let him play the position that he naturally plays.

945
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bring him back and say, okay, man,

946
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,800
Speaker 1: I need you to play right tackle. I know you

947
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 1: haven't played all year. I think I'm gonna move. I

948
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,320
Speaker 1: think Tyler Smith to me would be better suit. It

949
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: would help him play next to Zach Martin too, you know,

950
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: and that way you could keep McGovern at guard. You

951
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: know they're they're okay with McGovern playing at guard, you know.

952
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm I'm more likely to move the young

953
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 1: guy and let the and let Peters, who I think

954
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: like you'd say, keep him. Is that is that as

955
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 1: the ason the hole. If something is save Tyler Smith struggles,

956
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:55,799
Speaker 1: then you put him in the lineup and go from there.

957
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: All right, we don't have much time. Actually we're already

958
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: over time, Nick, real quick. Just give me the other

959
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: injuries that we got that we need to keep an eye.

960
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: We'll talk about some of the details of them tomorrow.

961
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 1: But Hankins, justin Hankins, Uh, he's dealing with a peck injury.

962
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: We'll see how long I mean, he could be this,

963
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: it could be the season. We'll see how long he's

964
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:12,839
Speaker 1: going to be out. But that's big because they went

965
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:16,720
Speaker 1: and got him and they don't really happen. Yeah, backup

966
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: for him for Jake Ferguson with a concussion. So we'll see, uh,

967
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 1: you know how long it takes for him to come back.

968
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:27,760
Speaker 1: And then also um Dorn's Armstrong was in a walking

969
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: boot and he says he just tweaked his ankle. But

970
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think they just give walking boots

971
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,959
Speaker 1: out for everything. So it didn't look good. You forgot

972
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: to shoot him. Yeah, maybe left in the locker room

973
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 1: because where this boot where his boot home? Yeah, that's

974
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: where the boot home. You'll you'll freak care bringing back Tomorrowlay, Yeah,

975
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: don't worry about it happened on the very last play

976
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: of the game, the Hail Mary. He got kind of

977
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 1: pushed as the guy flushed to the outside and and

978
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: that was happened at back that way with a calf

979
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: injury too. Yep, it happens. All right, appreciate you guys, Johns.

980
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna get a little deeper

981
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 1: into some of these conversations. Maybe we have some clarity

982
00:47:58,000 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: on some of these injuries and what's going to happen,

983
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: and then we'll start talking about what the Cowboys need

984
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: to do to move forward from them till in for

985
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,240
Speaker 1: Nick Even Brian brought us Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleton.

986
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,879
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987
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:11,920
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