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Speaker 1: December twelfth, twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the latest edition of The Break with Life
Speaker 1: from s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, presented by
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Speaker 1: today we talk about Cowboys versus Texans. Cowboys get the
Speaker 1: win in the game that was probably shakier than people
Speaker 1: expected at twenty seven three. What's the date again? December twelfth?
Speaker 1: Did I get that wrong? It is December twelve. I
Speaker 1: was gonna get to that. Can you let me finish
Speaker 1: his birthday? No? Wait forgot mess you up? I mean
Speaker 1: so so basically okay, appreciate Nick. We got a game
Speaker 1: to tak a Cowboys game. Yeah. I had a whole intro.
Speaker 1: I had a whole intro planned. I was driving into
Speaker 1: work like thinking, Okay, how am I gonna say this?
Speaker 1: And Nick just screws it up, started keeping no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you killed the moment. Happy birthday, Brian. Appiate you, guys.
Speaker 1: I really do thank you though. That was that was
Speaker 1: an interesting one yesterday. Yeah. Oh that's no Brian though, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: very good. Yeah we all happy birthday, but thank I
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Uh yeah, you're right. Not one we thought
Speaker 1: that that was going to be that way, but a
Speaker 1: one and ten team that kind of came in with
Speaker 1: a little bit of an idea about, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe to kind of mess you up a little bit
Speaker 1: with some of the things that they did offensively. I
Speaker 1: thought they had a pretty good plan. I think he
Speaker 1: caught a little bit of a break on that fourth
Speaker 1: down series with the ankle injury to Pierce the third
Speaker 1: kind of kind of slowed them down a little bit,
Speaker 1: and so Rex burkheads in there running the ball on
Speaker 1: fourth down and stuff, and yeah, okay, but sometimes you
Speaker 1: need some breaks along the way, sometimes you do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you look at that. I really think about that that
Speaker 1: whole last series. And we'll get to that. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about that, but let's start first.
Speaker 1: Let's go around the table. What was the big takeaway
Speaker 1: from that game for you? Because I think there's right
Speaker 1: now kind of two camps. There's one camp of people
Speaker 1: who are like, Cowboys sucked there, no way they should
Speaker 1: have been in that game. They should have played like
Speaker 1: that yesterday yesterday. There's another camp that's like, a win
Speaker 1: is a win, never apologized for a win. Where do
Speaker 1: you guys follow Nick? I mean, I definitely think you
Speaker 1: know the win is a win. I mean, like you
Speaker 1: you can't, you can't apologize for the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, like we say all the time, emotions matter,
Speaker 1: and they mattered in this game, and and they Cowboys
Speaker 1: underestimated them. And you know, injuries are going to continue.
Speaker 1: When injuries pile up, you're going to the talent levels
Speaker 1: going to kind of start to even out a little bit. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought the Cowboys gave Houston every chance
Speaker 1: to stay in the game, and then when it was
Speaker 1: time to take it, they you know, the better team won.
Speaker 1: But I'm not that worried about it because beating the
Speaker 1: Vikings didn't make you super Bowl champions. And winning this
Speaker 1: game the way they did, it doesn't mean that they
Speaker 1: can't compete in the playoffs, so there's a balance there.
Speaker 1: I think you always expect the Cowboys to play this
Speaker 1: type of game, But for me, I thought it was
Speaker 1: going to happen last week against the Colts, not this
Speaker 1: week against the Texans. So it was still surprising to
Speaker 1: see the way they struggle, especially against a team like
Speaker 1: the Texans. And we talked about it. It just if
Speaker 1: I never imagine a scenario like what we watched yesterday,
Speaker 1: but surprisingly, something about it. It just I don't feel
Speaker 1: as bad as people are feeling right now and like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna do anything in the playoffs, You're can't
Speaker 1: be any you know, you're not contenders, Dak is not
Speaker 1: enough to win a playoff game, blah blah blah. Something
Speaker 1: about it makes me feel better right now. At this point,
Speaker 1: I feel better than I did last season where they
Speaker 1: were at. So it's it just keeps them on their toes.
Speaker 1: I mean, had they lost a game, that would have
Speaker 1: been a different story. But the fact that they went
Speaker 1: out and still won the game. Now, the biggest part
Speaker 1: of what happened yesterday to me were those injuries, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll get to them, but they suffer a
Speaker 1: lot of injuries that are concerning, and now it changes
Speaker 1: from a pretty healthy team that you had going on
Speaker 1: to Okay, now you got several key players hurt and
Speaker 1: we'll see kind of the capacity of what that looks
Speaker 1: like and all that as far as how about the
Speaker 1: injuries where But all in all, yes, a lot of mistakes,
Speaker 1: but I don't know, I cut it just keeps them humble.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, this kind of embarrassment in a way
Speaker 1: keeps them humble, and I think that they'll be better
Speaker 1: because of it. I had visions of the Denver game
Speaker 1: in my head last year when they're you know, the
Speaker 1: different coverages and stuff like that, and to cover two
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of sitting there thinking, Okay, what are
Speaker 1: they doing to dak right now to kind of confuse them.
Speaker 1: But I think on the interception to Noah Brown, I
Speaker 1: think he thought that they were going to play man
Speaker 1: coverage and they really they played zone. But they played
Speaker 1: so much Cover two on him yesterday. You know, they
Speaker 1: even ran what with the Tampa two we talk about,
Speaker 1: we're all familiar because of Rod Marinelli run the linebacker
Speaker 1: through the middle of the field try and you know,
Speaker 1: you turn that linebacker to face the strong side of
Speaker 1: the field and run it, and if you don't throw it,
Speaker 1: then you know, you kind of rally and do that.
Speaker 1: But you know, I felt like that it was one
Speaker 1: of those games where I'm thinking, man, they they're playing
Speaker 1: cover two, they're playing cover two, they're playing cover two.
Speaker 1: They're kind of they're messing with Dallas and they're messing
Speaker 1: with Dak. And then the final drive, the ninety eight
Speaker 1: yard drive, they played covered to every single snap and
Speaker 1: Dak picked him apart, and I'm thinking, oh, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: they figured something out here. You know, I think that
Speaker 1: you played a football team that didn't have anything to lose.
Speaker 1: We should have known something with Jeff Driscoll gets called
Speaker 1: up from the practice squad and then they you know,
Speaker 1: and then Alan doesn't get to dress, and so now
Speaker 1: you're thinking, like, Okay, what's Jeff Driscoll ever done against
Speaker 1: the WHOA wait a minute. That Detroit game, they ran
Speaker 1: the read options stuff, they ran him. They did so
Speaker 1: they had a really nice game plan. You know, pet
Speaker 1: Hamilton did a good job. I thought for the first half,
Speaker 1: second half, Dallas gave up three points it's all they
Speaker 1: gave up. You know, it took it took a goal
Speaker 1: line stand to really to win the football game, to
Speaker 1: give you an opportunity. But you couldn't have played that
Speaker 1: goal line stand any better than they played it. But
Speaker 1: I these games are tough, They're tough to win. I
Speaker 1: think you're absolutely right about that, Ambar. But again, it's like,
Speaker 1: I think teams are trying to figure out ways to
Speaker 1: make Dak make miss stakes, you know, and Houston's call
Speaker 1: to that was to play was to play clog and
Speaker 1: cover that two and drop and then make him have
Speaker 1: to read that field. And there were some route combinations
Speaker 1: in this game that weren't really very good, you know
Speaker 1: that were they weren't. There was some there was some
Speaker 1: guys that were running in the same areas and Dak
Speaker 1: was having to hesitate pull it down some. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think teams are doing everything in their power not
Speaker 1: to blitz him and not to play man coverage against him,
Speaker 1: because that's when he's when he thrives throwing the ball.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think loving them had a really
Speaker 1: good plan defensively until that very last drive, and they
Speaker 1: they didn't have a plan. Guy made two the best
Speaker 1: throws you'll ever see. The throw to the throw to
Speaker 1: Noah Brown was a rope right where it needed to be.
Speaker 1: The throw to Schultz on the next play was a
Speaker 1: great throw, So you know, yeah, you can kind of
Speaker 1: sputter along and have problems and then when it has
Speaker 1: to be on the line, go make plays. And that's
Speaker 1: what they did that final drive. Yeah, I probably for me,
Speaker 1: i'm as I'm not as wheels off as I think
Speaker 1: a lot of fans are today because for me, this
Speaker 1: is kind of what I expected to some degree that
Speaker 1: this is a possibility. And if you remember, we started
Speaker 1: last week by saying, guys, this Texans team, this game
Speaker 1: may be a little different than you think it's going
Speaker 1: to be. The Only thing that surprised me that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys didn't pull away at the end, that they were
Speaker 1: actually having to play for the win at the end
Speaker 1: of the game. But I expected that by halftime exactly
Speaker 1: what we saw was what we were going to see,
Speaker 1: because again, you're talking about a team and love you
Speaker 1: talked about it after they came into that game throwing
Speaker 1: every they had nothing to lose, and it was an
Speaker 1: in state rival. As far as the way they look
Speaker 1: at it, and for them, they know they're not going
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, they're not doing anything this year but
Speaker 1: trying to get the number one seed. And but to
Speaker 1: be able to say as a part of that they
Speaker 1: beat the in state rival. That was huge for them,
Speaker 1: and they threw everything at the Cowboys. And on the
Speaker 1: flip side of that, I don't think the Cowboys came
Speaker 1: ready to play in the same way they didn't take
Speaker 1: I don't think the level of intensity was the same
Speaker 1: between the Cowboys and the Texans. And when you have
Speaker 1: those kind of scenarios, that's what you get. You get
Speaker 1: teams that are really good playing teams that are really bad,
Speaker 1: and the intensity level makes it even And I think
Speaker 1: that's what we saw yesterday. And so again I'm not
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a bad like Cowboys. Look. Good
Speaker 1: teams have bad days. Good teams, probably even really good teams,
Speaker 1: figure out how to win in spite of it. Philadelphia
Speaker 1: did the same things, the same thing a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago when they had to struggle only score three points
Speaker 1: in the first three quarters against Indianapolis and figured out
Speaker 1: a way to win that game. That's what good teams
Speaker 1: to do. So I don't look at this as a
Speaker 1: horrible thing. I think there are some things that came
Speaker 1: out of this game that concerned me about the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: But overall, I think the Cowboys just played a bad game.
Speaker 1: They figured out how to win. You survive in advance,
Speaker 1: like you go to the next week and you figure
Speaker 1: out and hope you don't get back in the same
Speaker 1: STA say that they didn't take this game seriously whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I mean, you still go in and take a game
Speaker 1: serious and play how you need to play. But even
Speaker 1: the week leading to that game and the mood here,
Speaker 1: the energy is like, oh this, we got this. You know.
Speaker 1: They didn't have padded practice, They just had you know,
Speaker 1: walked throughs and things like that. So I think, and
Speaker 1: again I'm not in those meetings, but the preparation was
Speaker 1: different than how they've been preparing for all the games.
Speaker 1: And that's something that Mike McCarthy has talked about kind
Speaker 1: of like at this point of the season, you have
Speaker 1: to manage you know, it wasn't just about this week,
Speaker 1: it was that's the part of the season. At their ending,
Speaker 1: things are changing because you do have to manage and
Speaker 1: take care of their bodies and all that. Because of
Speaker 1: where we're at in the year, but still it's a
Speaker 1: switch from what they've been doing versus how this week
Speaker 1: just kind of the mood, the energy, the environment that
Speaker 1: it was around the building. I'm not speaking for them
Speaker 1: or whatever. I'm just like even us when we talked
Speaker 1: about the Texans. You did the analysis here, Brian, you
Speaker 1: you looked at their offense or defense and all that,
Speaker 1: but it was just kind of a very dismissive of
Speaker 1: in Vegas game seventeen points. I mean, I think everybody
Speaker 1: the country and again we talked about this last week too.
Speaker 1: This is the nature of the NFL. When everybody assumes
Speaker 1: one thing is going to happen, that's when you start
Speaker 1: being like, Okay, I'm a little nervous about this because
Speaker 1: that's the nature of the NFL. They're professionals too. That's
Speaker 1: what happened sometimes and you can't really put your finger
Speaker 1: on it. But this is not a unique to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: This happens across the league sometimes where things like this
Speaker 1: just happened. And again it's the sign of a good
Speaker 1: team that in those situations can still figure out how
Speaker 1: to win. And I'm gonna run down this kind of
Speaker 1: the end of the game and I'd love for you
Speaker 1: guys just to talk about what stood out to you most.
Speaker 1: But you think about how this game played out, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are in a situation where the offense and
Speaker 1: the defense both had to make the plays necessary to
Speaker 1: win this game. The defense, Houston gets the ball on
Speaker 1: the Dallas four after the interception. They had four tries
Speaker 1: within the four yard line to get into the end zone,
Speaker 1: and there was a great play to start off by
Speaker 1: LV and Sam Williams to get in one yard loss
Speaker 1: on a run. Carlos Watkins made what may have been
Speaker 1: the play of the game. I want to know what.
Speaker 1: You want to know what the play that set that
Speaker 1: whole thing up though? What Dalton Schultz made the tackle
Speaker 1: on the interception return. Yeah, I didn't think about it,
Speaker 1: but I mean because that thing could have been like, Okay,
Speaker 1: ball's tipped, everybody gives up, and now it's a walk
Speaker 1: in touchdown. And Dalton Schultz actually made a really good
Speaker 1: play to get over. And that's why you teach these guys.
Speaker 1: You you know, you hear the line coaches all the
Speaker 1: time at training camp, cover or cover when there's a
Speaker 1: ball tipped an interception, because you want to get guys
Speaker 1: over because that actually put the ball right there because
Speaker 1: they could have walked that thing in and now you're
Speaker 1: really dead yep. And then you got Carlos Watkins that
Speaker 1: makes the play. They thought it was a touchdown and
Speaker 1: college a touchdown I think initially didn't. His knee was
Speaker 1: down and he was down and so he's at the one.
Speaker 1: And then you got the big play by Tank, which
Speaker 1: again he just seems to make these kind of plasing
Speaker 1: situations for the negative two and then Gallimore and Barr
Speaker 1: make the tackle for one and that gets the turnover
Speaker 1: on downs. Then the offense that's when Dak took over.
Speaker 1: They go six or seven for seventy nine yards. Dak
Speaker 1: also had two rushes in that drive for fifteen yards.
Speaker 1: They went the drive was on eleven play drive ninety
Speaker 1: eight yards. Two thirty nine was the drive time and
Speaker 1: and then scored to take the lead and eventually win
Speaker 1: the game. And that, for me, was what I loved
Speaker 1: about what I saw yesterday is because it was at
Speaker 1: the time when you absolutely needed it, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: just one side of the ball. Both sides of the
Speaker 1: ball had to deliver in some very tough situations, stopping
Speaker 1: a team when they're at your four and then driving
Speaker 1: ninety eight yards for the touchdown. I love that. What
Speaker 1: do you guys sing? Yeah? I mean, and also the
Speaker 1: special teams because fifty three yard field goal earlier in
Speaker 1: the quarter. If you don't make that field goal, you know,
Speaker 1: you're you're only up. You're up by six and they're
Speaker 1: kicking a field goal and then they beat you by nine.
Speaker 1: I mean like that, So that that was huge too.
Speaker 1: But but I thought, yeah, like you said, I mean
Speaker 1: the defense, that was the huge, huge play there, that
Speaker 1: was stopping him at the one, and then you know,
Speaker 1: forcing love he spent to make a decision there on
Speaker 1: fourth down, and I don't blame him for going I
Speaker 1: don't either. I don't blame him, you know. And it
Speaker 1: was funny when I initially watched the play, I thought
Speaker 1: that the quarterback went the wrong way and it looked
Speaker 1: like they were trying to run like a reverse option
Speaker 1: is what they were. When you look at the way
Speaker 1: it was blocked because you know, Driscoll kind of opens
Speaker 1: to his left, Birkhead goes right. It's like maybe it
Speaker 1: pierces in there. You get the jab step and then
Speaker 1: the spin. Maybe a guy's not working, you catch a
Speaker 1: break again, maybe the guy who's the play is kind
Speaker 1: of designed for isn't intore running it. They call it anyway.
Speaker 1: And then Burkett just you know, he just takes off
Speaker 1: birkehead excuse me, just takes off running and now you
Speaker 1: your defense is set like they're like, oh, the ball's
Speaker 1: coming this way. Where it looked like they were trying
Speaker 1: to fool you on a option left, get you go
Speaker 1: that way and then come back to the right. So,
Speaker 1: you know, a really great job. And again that you
Speaker 1: Watkins played and those four plays, he was tremendous on
Speaker 1: those four plays. And you know Tank and you know,
Speaker 1: I mean Tank's ability to re that quickly when there's
Speaker 1: a down block and he knows down block. This guy's
Speaker 1: gonna downblock me and he shoots the gap I mean
Speaker 1: right behind, you know, to get the stop right there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's just just all around great job by
Speaker 1: the defense on that goal line stand. This was the
Speaker 1: first time, you know, usually you trust this defense to
Speaker 1: take care of business, and it's been that way kind
Speaker 1: of all season, I feel like, but it got to
Speaker 1: the point where around that time I didn't think the
Speaker 1: defense was gonna be able to make the stop. It's
Speaker 1: like certain things that they've been doing just kind of
Speaker 1: makes me nervous. But they took care of business as always.
Speaker 1: Tank was amazing and I'm glad he had the game
Speaker 1: that he did, and because he's a guy that hasn't
Speaker 1: been receiving as much credit as he should and as
Speaker 1: a guy that's kind of overlooked because other players kind
Speaker 1: of get the benefit of you know, and we talked
Speaker 1: about it. Him being on the field gives the guys
Speaker 1: the opportunity to, you know, build up stats and all that.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad he played the way that he did.
Speaker 1: I'm glad he was able to make his presence known
Speaker 1: at the time that he needed any key moments like that, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, when those plays have I was sure
Speaker 1: the Texans was gonna We're gonna take over in score.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you say that because you have so much
Speaker 1: faith in Dan Quinn. You know that you like take
Speaker 1: turn sometimes. That's what I'm saying. Though, to me, it
Speaker 1: was like it was a sudden change, and you're like,
Speaker 1: you know, all of a sudden the defense and you
Speaker 1: knew maybe a team in the past would have given
Speaker 1: it all up. I don't think. I think dan Quinn
Speaker 1: made some really good calls. I think the players play
Speaker 1: extremely hard for him on defense. I do they take
Speaker 1: a lot of pride in that. And I think yesterday
Speaker 1: that was one of those opportunities were they weren't going
Speaker 1: to let themselves down and they weren't going to let
Speaker 1: dan Quinn down. And you know the only chance they
Speaker 1: had to do it to win is to get a stop,
Speaker 1: and they got a stop. A guy made some great
Speaker 1: calls down there to kind of take care of that. Dude.
Speaker 1: Let's take our first break. Let's come back. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Dak Prescott in his day, kind of up and down.
Speaker 1: Some questions about him, questioned about him for the last
Speaker 1: couple weeks. We'll talk about that when we come back.
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Speaker 1: conversation on Dak Prescott. Yesterday. He was twenty four to
Speaker 1: thirty nine, sixty two percent completion rate, two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty four passing yards, one touchdown, two interceptions, seventy point nine.
Speaker 1: Quarterback rating up and down a lot of the day.
Speaker 1: I mean earlier in the game. This was not one
Speaker 1: of those games where I thought, in my opinion, they
Speaker 1: started slow. I mean, they scored two touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: first three possessions, but they had that loll there in
Speaker 1: the middle and uh and a lot of that was
Speaker 1: on Dak. What were your thoughts on how Dak played yesterday?
Speaker 1: Played all right, I mean to to win the game,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, came back to win the game.
Speaker 1: But but he was not as I said earlier, I mean,
Speaker 1: he was the third best quarterback on the field behind
Speaker 1: the two that they were rolling out in Houston. So
Speaker 1: that's all. That's never a good thing to be number
Speaker 1: three quarterback on the field. And I thought he was playing.
Speaker 1: I thought he was missing throws. I thought that the
Speaker 1: offensive line wasn't helping them, that they didn't look like
Speaker 1: they practiced all week, and so that's what it looked
Speaker 1: like me. But that's that was That was the thing.
Speaker 1: And you know, but it was you know what, it
Speaker 1: go win the game. I mean, your defense bailed you
Speaker 1: out or whatever it is, and you still have a
Speaker 1: chance to go win. And then they just carved him
Speaker 1: up like like they would and waiting for it all time,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole time. Yeah, well, you had quite
Speaker 1: a few passes that were dropped by the receiver or
Speaker 1: tight end. There were several occasions where dacked through it.
Speaker 1: I thought, pretty good, and then they just dropped it
Speaker 1: for no. I mean, should have a tough catch. Me
Speaker 1: they got hit, but they should hold on the ball,
Speaker 1: make it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it was nothing like like,
Speaker 1: if you're a professional NFL player playing this game, you
Speaker 1: should have caught that and held onto that ball. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing with Dack. For me, it's just it's
Speaker 1: complicated because there are so many good throws that he
Speaker 1: makes some really good throws and you're like, that's why,
Speaker 1: but then he goes back and makes mistakes or it's
Speaker 1: not consistently great, But can you ask that for him
Speaker 1: to be consistently great? And that's where I think the
Speaker 1: argument comes into hid and I think the salary stuff
Speaker 1: that's out of question because it's not even he's not
Speaker 1: even the most paid quarterback now anymore at all. So
Speaker 1: he's about you know, that's just the business of it.
Speaker 1: But the problem here, and we talked about it that
Speaker 1: Nate brought it when we did that show, was the interceptions.
Speaker 1: That it's becoming a constant thing, like every game there's
Speaker 1: an interception at least one. And now it goes into
Speaker 1: the argument, Okay, do you want him to be more
Speaker 1: careful or do you want what's the word aggressive? Or
Speaker 1: do you want him to keep being aggressive? And he
Speaker 1: talked about it after the game in the press conference
Speaker 1: and he's like, Okay, I don't want to take away
Speaker 1: from my aggressiveness. Yes, I gotta be more smart with
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. I know that. But it's a tough
Speaker 1: balance there, and I think that at some point in
Speaker 1: my bite them in the but as I mean, I
Speaker 1: do not want to take that away from him and
Speaker 1: just let him because again, some of he makes some
Speaker 1: really really good throws and the ones you pointed out
Speaker 1: Brian are pretty impressive. But how do you find the
Speaker 1: right balance? Yeah, that's the thing about it. I don't
Speaker 1: think his offensive line was there was very good yesterday.
Speaker 1: I think that, and it wasn't just when they got
Speaker 1: backed up. I thought they were not very good at tackle.
Speaker 1: I don't think Smith was particularly good at times. He
Speaker 1: got compressed quite a bit. I felt like that steal
Speaker 1: up until the point when he got hurt, he was
Speaker 1: having one of those games. He's always to me a
Speaker 1: better run blocker than than pass blocker. I think they
Speaker 1: got out of in the first half what they're really
Speaker 1: good at, and that's having the balance and running the football.
Speaker 1: Their disparity see was it the word dissparity exactly two here?
Speaker 1: Ambar and I are in the same side here where,
Speaker 1: But it was it was really heavy, heavy pass to
Speaker 1: run in the first half, and they came out in
Speaker 1: the second half they got the ball where they run
Speaker 1: at ten straight times and down to the goal line,
Speaker 1: and you're kind of like thinking, Okay, they're getting back
Speaker 1: to what they're going to try and do. They're going
Speaker 1: to try to establish something. But I think that teams
Speaker 1: have figured this out about day. Make him read the field,
Speaker 1: make him have to see all that color, and make
Speaker 1: him have to And you've got some guys out there,
Speaker 1: and Nick brought it up about the receiver and bar that.
Speaker 1: You know, you've got to be able to run routes.
Speaker 1: You've got to find a way not to get knocked
Speaker 1: off route. You know, you've got to find a way
Speaker 1: to get open or to separate. And you know, he
Speaker 1: made some bad throws. He's made some bad decisions. The
Speaker 1: interceptions that he made to throw. I think he got
Speaker 1: fooled on the first one. I think he got fooled
Speaker 1: on the very first interception he had. I think that
Speaker 1: was he probably thought he was going to get man
Speaker 1: coverage when Schultz went inside. The nickel didn't go with Schultz.
Speaker 1: He stayed where he was and he threw the ball
Speaker 1: thinking that it was going to be you know, that
Speaker 1: that nickel was going to clear. You know, I think
Speaker 1: that was about he got hit on the second one.
Speaker 1: You know, that was ball got beat bad, got beat
Speaker 1: on the inside move, got beat on an outside move.
Speaker 1: That was bad job by him, you know, And that's
Speaker 1: what it causes. But I think the team should figure
Speaker 1: it out that make him have to read. Don't blitz him,
Speaker 1: because we saw what happens when you rushed him. He
Speaker 1: throws the ball fifty one yards down the field to
Speaker 1: Noah Brown. You know, when you pressure him, he finds
Speaker 1: ways to manipulate and make plays. It's when you make
Speaker 1: him have to look at that everybody's standing there. It's
Speaker 1: that's when I think it's the hardest for him to
Speaker 1: do right now. And I have a feeling you're going
Speaker 1: to see teams do it more that they've kind of
Speaker 1: figured that out about him, make him have to, make
Speaker 1: him have to study and kind of try and confuse
Speaker 1: him on where bodies are on certain parts of the field.
Speaker 1: One thing I want to point out that I think
Speaker 1: is fair when you talked about them having the disparity
Speaker 1: between the past and run game in the first half,
Speaker 1: a lot of that happened in that final drive. The
Speaker 1: final drive when they were in there two minute trying
Speaker 1: to score before the half, they had ten straight passes.
Speaker 1: If you don't factor that in, they were had about
Speaker 1: a fifty fifth. They were running like I think they
Speaker 1: had run ten times and had passed eleven times, So
Speaker 1: they're at a fifty fifty till that drive, and obviously
Speaker 1: that drive threw it way out of whack because they
Speaker 1: were just trying to drive down the field and get
Speaker 1: to the field goal. So I just think that has
Speaker 1: to be factored in, Like, yes, they did still have
Speaker 1: the disparity, but I do think that has to be
Speaker 1: factored in that they were calling a pretty balanced game
Speaker 1: up until that drive. There's something to think about. Let's
Speaker 1: actually move on. I want to talk about the defense
Speaker 1: a little bit, because we got I really need to
Speaker 1: in that final segment. We got to talk a lot
Speaker 1: about what happens from here because there are a lot
Speaker 1: of injuries that are that are part of this conversation
Speaker 1: at this point. But let's start about the defense. The
Speaker 1: one way area I will give them some credit is
Speaker 1: yesterday against Damian Pierce, who we all agreed that's that's
Speaker 1: the guy you gotta worry about the most. They held
Speaker 1: him a twenty two carries, seventy eight yards a three
Speaker 1: point five average. He did get in the end zone once,
Speaker 1: but all in all, that's a day where you look
Speaker 1: at and you say, they did a pretty good job
Speaker 1: against the back that has you know, he's shown some
Speaker 1: things in weeks where you would think he could be
Speaker 1: a problem. That being said, there were other things that
Speaker 1: they had problems with, particularly Jeff Driscoll and what he
Speaker 1: presented in the RPO game and how they used him
Speaker 1: running the ball. He had seven carriages for thirty six
Speaker 1: yards average five point one. How concerned do you, guys,
Speaker 1: not necessarily even just about yesterday, but knowing that you
Speaker 1: got to deal with Philly still and you may have
Speaker 1: to deal with other teams that run that style of offense.
Speaker 1: Do you put this in the category of Dallas just
Speaker 1: wasn't ready for it, or do you put this in
Speaker 1: the category of this is still a problem running quarterbacks
Speaker 1: with a good running back as well, that that seems
Speaker 1: to be an issue of fields and Montgomery, Hurts and Sanders.
Speaker 1: Even in this case, you know those two runners, both
Speaker 1: of them could run well, not as well as Driscoll,
Speaker 1: but both of them with Piers, I just think the
Speaker 1: combination of both doesn't doesn't fly well with this team.
Speaker 1: And then then it lets a guy that you never
Speaker 1: even heard of, you know, go make you know, have
Speaker 1: a career day at receivers. So I do think that
Speaker 1: the running quarterback element gives this team the biggest issues
Speaker 1: and it allows other players to make more plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean again, I'm looking at the Damian Pierce thing
Speaker 1: so well, and he had that one run for twenty
Speaker 1: four sort of reality, it's like twenty one cares for
Speaker 1: fifty four yards, which is kind of like you're thinking
Speaker 1: going into the game, you'd take that all day for there.
Speaker 1: The running quarterback is an issue, and the problem is
Speaker 1: this team is so aggressive in the way they play.
Speaker 1: They fly to the ball and that's the deal. And
Speaker 1: you have to have discipline, you have to have There
Speaker 1: were a couple of times there where you know, you
Speaker 1: look at guys like Layton vanders who had a hell
Speaker 1: of a game that yesterday was a type of game
Speaker 1: that Layton vander Esh thrives in. They're gonna try and
Speaker 1: run the ball. There's not a lot of passing going.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try, you know, they're gonna try and beat
Speaker 1: up on you a little bit and do some stuff.
Speaker 1: But they had guys in space. They had guys in space.
Speaker 1: They had Wilson in space. One time they had Vanderish
Speaker 1: in space. And one time, you know, it's one thing
Speaker 1: to go and tackle tho you got to tackle those guys.
Speaker 1: You got to keep teams from not wanting to hand
Speaker 1: you know, make him keep handing the ball off. You know,
Speaker 1: punish the quarterback whatever you have to do when he's
Speaker 1: running with the football. You know, good hard tackling and
Speaker 1: that way you keep these quarterbacks they want to they
Speaker 1: don't want to get hit. They keep giving it all.
Speaker 1: They give it off, they give it off. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the running quarterback is an issue here because of how
Speaker 1: aggressive the Cowboys play their front and how they're trained
Speaker 1: to go get the football, and the discipline they play
Speaker 1: with or the lack of it shows when the quarterback
Speaker 1: pulls that ball and takes off running. I think now,
Speaker 1: I mean I would really try to focus a lot
Speaker 1: on the way you tackle the opponent team, the opposing
Speaker 1: team in trying to get the ball out of their hands,
Speaker 1: because I think that's an area where they can actually
Speaker 1: if they get to the guy that they can try
Speaker 1: to take advantage. Because we saw it even that one play,
Speaker 1: you know where Trevon Diggs gets the ball back and
Speaker 1: then figures out. My point is here is if you
Speaker 1: can fully fix the problem, I would emphasize when you
Speaker 1: do get to the runner, whoever it is, whether that's
Speaker 1: the quarterback or the running back tackle. Like I don't
Speaker 1: know as worst techniques, how tackling where you can get
Speaker 1: the ball and hit it and just try to get
Speaker 1: it out as much as possible, just to recover the ball,
Speaker 1: because I don't know what else you can do to
Speaker 1: get better in general, just and stop it the run
Speaker 1: at this point of the season. I mean what I mean,
Speaker 1: you've been saying some of the things that you can
Speaker 1: do there, but an advantage that they can do is
Speaker 1: just try to get more the ball for the offense.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I don't know what else you
Speaker 1: can do. The only thing about that is that you
Speaker 1: could be so sometimes you just want to get the
Speaker 1: guy to the ground, so when you are punching for
Speaker 1: the ball, that's like five or six. That's why they
Speaker 1: were trying to do it as Zeke on that first
Speaker 1: good run where he went like twenty yards and after
Speaker 1: about fifteen they were trying to get the ball and
Speaker 1: it's like, well, somebody's gotta get him down. So it's
Speaker 1: a great technique and some some players really do it well.
Speaker 1: It's just that you've got it, you can't miss because
Speaker 1: if you miss, I'm sure that peanut tilman. You know,
Speaker 1: he had the peanut punch. I'm sure he's missed a
Speaker 1: few as well too. So there's two two, you know,
Speaker 1: two ways of thinking there. You also get the guy
Speaker 1: to the ground. Yeah, we've seen we've seen what playing
Speaker 1: really good read option football does to Michael Parsons in
Speaker 1: that Philadelphia game. It frozen, you know, And that's the
Speaker 1: last thing you need is your entire defense being frozen
Speaker 1: by that, you know. And that's why I think the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna be damned, They're gonna try and
Speaker 1: get to the ball. They're gonna try and be aggressive.
Speaker 1: If they give up the run to the quarterback, they're
Speaker 1: you know, so be it. You know. I just I
Speaker 1: think there's things the tackling aspects I think are well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think those are good things to think about.
Speaker 1: But if you get these guys in space, you got
Speaker 1: to make sure. I mean, there were a couple of
Speaker 1: times where Driscoll was just more athletic, more quick, more fresh,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to say. They able to run away,
Speaker 1: you know, from the finishers and watching some highlights, and
Speaker 1: he was pretty good too. I'd like throwing wild running
Speaker 1: while on the run and that touchdown pass he had
Speaker 1: was a really good pass. Yeah, several throws where he's
Speaker 1: just running, running, running and then throws and makes the
Speaker 1: connection there. So, uh, that's definitely a challenge for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys for sure. And I think that I don't want
Speaker 1: to overstate this and we're talking about this, but at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, the Cowboys did still hold
Speaker 1: them to thirty seven carries for one hundred and fourteen
Speaker 1: yards three point one average, and only allowed three points
Speaker 1: in the second half. But that's true. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: can you don't want to be too critical like they
Speaker 1: just sucked yesterday. I don't think that was the issue.
Speaker 1: I think it was just we've seen this thing happen before.
Speaker 1: And it's one of the things I talked about at
Speaker 1: the beginning show that where you look at this game
Speaker 1: and even if you want to give them the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt they had a bad day, they still won.
Speaker 1: There are some troubling things coming out of this game,
Speaker 1: and that's one of them. Can I say a positive
Speaker 1: thing that I saw yesterday? Dis played much better as
Speaker 1: a defender when it came to having to deal with
Speaker 1: the run. You know, there were one time the ball
Speaker 1: spilled the outside. Pierce's trying to and he's like playing leverage.
Speaker 1: He didn't didn't it didn't soften and all that. He
Speaker 1: had a couple of tackles. I mean, the in the
Speaker 1: final drive for the Texans, they threw a first down pass,
Speaker 1: he drives, the guy, tackles. He was trying to keep
Speaker 1: the guy in bounce. You could tell he's trying to
Speaker 1: keep him in bounce. So you know the positivity of
Speaker 1: him tackling better or playing with a more physical edge,
Speaker 1: I think Bland playing with a more physical edge out there.
Speaker 1: You know, there were some things in the secondary. I
Speaker 1: think that when I always worry is when they don't
Speaker 1: tackle and they don't play with any physicality. I thought
Speaker 1: yesterday they did. So if teams are going to try
Speaker 1: and run the ball to the perimeter, it's nice to
Speaker 1: know that Diggs could step up and make plays if
Speaker 1: he has to. Bland can step up and make plays.
Speaker 1: Barrow was in a good position yesterday to make plays,
Speaker 1: of course, like he did on the fourth down play.
Speaker 1: So you know, those kinds of things are encouraging to me.
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Speaker 1: it started getting pretty hectic yesterday because there are not
Speaker 1: only guys you lost. There were other guys that left
Speaker 1: the games that you just mentioned in the Break Gamber,
Speaker 1: like Treyvon Diggs who came back that we all were
Speaker 1: a bit worried there for a second. And if you
Speaker 1: lose him, now all three of your starting cornerbacks going
Speaker 1: into the season are gone. But he did come back
Speaker 1: and play. There are three other troubling injuries though, that
Speaker 1: we don't need to talk about. Jess heard he hurt
Speaker 1: himself on the tackle the tight end when he came
Speaker 1: up and yeah, he got he kind of when he
Speaker 1: undercutting it kind of jacked him up a little bit.
Speaker 1: So let's start with the injury. I think that is,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, probably the biggest Terrence Steele right tackle.
Speaker 1: What are we hearing about his situation and where he
Speaker 1: is as far as a prognosis is concerned. I disagree
Speaker 1: with you on the order of your injuries, but I
Speaker 1: will say he's he's got a torn acl and he's
Speaker 1: out for the season. And as bad as that is, um,
Speaker 1: you know that, I still think that there's there could
Speaker 1: be a worse one. But that is really bad because
Speaker 1: he's been playing so well and he's such a good
Speaker 1: young player that they're trying to resign. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that they won't now, but um, you know, that's
Speaker 1: just it's bad because you know the continuity. You already
Speaker 1: have issues on left side and now stuff with the
Speaker 1: right side. But I just think that I just it's
Speaker 1: a very rare situation to lose a really good player
Speaker 1: like this and you might have a better backup. You might.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jason Peters could be a better backup. He's
Speaker 1: a bet, he's he's a he's a better pro. He's
Speaker 1: never been. He hasn't played a lot of right tackle
Speaker 1: but he's he could be a better player for you,
Speaker 1: and he's certainly changed things. When he got in the
Speaker 1: game and they had Josh Ball over there, which will
Speaker 1: probably never play right tackle again this season, I wouldn't think.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was gonna ask you, do you think
Speaker 1: they're gonna rotate ball in Peters. I'm just I'm can
Speaker 1: I just make you throw up in a Nick is thinking, No,
Speaker 1: he's he's way over in left field. Don't get him started.
Speaker 1: He's his mind has not mean rotate ball and Peters
Speaker 1: come on now, No, but I'm seeing it. But we've
Speaker 1: seen but we've seen him, you know, we've seen him
Speaker 1: like they you know, maybe they don't want Jason Peters
Speaker 1: playing sixty five players. Yeah, I know, but I don't
Speaker 1: know honestly. And I saw your tweet this morning, Brian. Well,
Speaker 1: but they played twenty eight he did, he played, He
Speaker 1: played twenty eight plays and the problem was the one
Speaker 1: the back top plays he got beat inside and that
Speaker 1: that threw him and then all of a sudden, now
Speaker 1: you're over setting it inside and then you get been
Speaker 1: on the edge. And it sometimes with these and we've
Speaker 1: seen with guys like with Chads Green, like once you
Speaker 1: have a bad one. It's just it's just snowballs and
Speaker 1: you can't recover. And you know, to Jason Peters credit,
Speaker 1: they were thinking about you know, I mean I was
Speaker 1: talking to Jane Slater from the NFL network about this
Speaker 1: after the game, Like Jason Peters went up to Joe
Speaker 1: Philbin and Philbin's like they're kind of like talking about it,
Speaker 1: and they go with ball and then it you know,
Speaker 1: then at the end, it's like you're going in we've
Speaker 1: talked about this, you go in there. So you know,
Speaker 1: there's a previous regime that probably would have just ran
Speaker 1: with ball and you know, and tried to explain it
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. But they didn't. They
Speaker 1: made the switch. But the twenty eight plays, I you know,
Speaker 1: I have great guys on all their plays. I don't
Speaker 1: know the one or two plays, Yeah, I could have
Speaker 1: killed you in the game. Absolutely, it could have, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's the unfortunate thing, you know. I mean I
Speaker 1: graded Michael Parsons and all the plays he played. He
Speaker 1: didn't have a sack that make him a terrible player, no,
Speaker 1: but you got to just grade those plays. And they
Speaker 1: did the right thing by putting Peters in because I
Speaker 1: think Ball's confidence was not very good at that point. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the interesting thing here too is you also
Speaker 1: have to factor in what we saw during training camp
Speaker 1: in preseason, and I think that's why that even though
Speaker 1: you say you got a factor in all the plays
Speaker 1: from yesterday, I think fans were looking at it as, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that might only been two plays yesterday, but we've seen
Speaker 1: this before. We saw this during the preseason, we saw
Speaker 1: this during camp like he's been shaky, and so yesterday
Speaker 1: was just more confirmation that he's shaky. And then I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys made the moves. I think that's where
Speaker 1: probably most fans are looking at this and saying Ball's
Speaker 1: not the guy. He's not the guy, and then it
Speaker 1: becomes a question of do you take one of the tackles? Nick,
Speaker 1: You're not talking about this in the press box yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's hard to believe in a world where you have
Speaker 1: a team that has Tyron Smith, Tyler Smith, and Jason
Speaker 1: Peters on it that two of those guys would be
Speaker 1: sitting on the bench in favor of Josh Ball, even
Speaker 1: if they've never played right tackle. You at some point say, okay, guys,
Speaker 1: one of y'all need to figure it out and play
Speaker 1: right tack. Jason Peters has plays right tackle. He played
Speaker 1: like eight snaps and then the fourth quarter the other day.
Speaker 1: He's never yesterday, he's never practiced and you know, in
Speaker 1: what seventeen years? Yeah, so I like my chances with
Speaker 1: him getting better. Heard an interesting question this morning that
Speaker 1: came up. Somebody said, would you can say it was
Speaker 1: Brad Brad Syam, he's one or five out through the van.
Speaker 1: He said, nobody's told me this, but it does make
Speaker 1: me think. You go back to Tyron's rookie year he
Speaker 1: played right tackle. He did is the answer to this question?
Speaker 1: Keep Tyler where he is, put Tyron Smith on the
Speaker 1: right side. I've said this a hundred times. Jason Peters,
Speaker 1: I still think he needs to be out there like
Speaker 1: I would rather have Tyler Smith. I mean, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith at left tackle, Jason Peters at right tackle,
Speaker 1: and then just figure out the best left guard for
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and Philly and all that, not for the future,
Speaker 1: not for all that stuff. Just who is the best
Speaker 1: left guard? Figure it out, don't worry about feelings, will
Speaker 1: deal with that later. But I mean that's I think
Speaker 1: if Jason Peters can go out and just play like
Speaker 1: that and it's never played it in seventeen years, then
Speaker 1: then I'm okay with him, like all week learning the steps,
Speaker 1: figuring it out, playing that a pretty good player in
Speaker 1: Zach Martin. Yeah, I think that could be a really
Speaker 1: good right side of the line. I'm kind of feeling.
Speaker 1: I mean, I Nick makes a lot of great points,
Speaker 1: and there's a side of me that thought that, maybe
Speaker 1: initially after Week one when there were struggles with with Steele,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you put why when you put you know
Speaker 1: Smith over there, that you know at right Tai Smith,
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith? Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, I'm sitting there thinking,
Speaker 1: note Threw Tram like watching, Hey, if I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: my best five out there, why would you not put
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith? I would consider playing Tyler Smith at right
Speaker 1: tackle and using Peters as that swing guy if you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to get, if you want to let
Speaker 1: if you want to, let Peters continue. And the smart
Speaker 1: thing the Cowboys have done this year is they've been
Speaker 1: using Peters throughout the season. It wasn't like he had
Speaker 1: to come in in Week fourteen and save the day
Speaker 1: this one, like, oh the first time he's got to
Speaker 1: play all year he's played. That's a smart movie. So
Speaker 1: you know, by them, by them not just saying like
Speaker 1: we're gonna sit there and just content continuity, continuity. No,
Speaker 1: by playing Peters, you caught him ready so he could
Speaker 1: step into at least like imagine him like he hadn't
Speaker 1: played all year, and all of a sudden, they're like,
Speaker 1: I think you can go at right tackle and played
Speaker 1: all year. Have you ever played right tackle two thousand
Speaker 1: and five? Oh, okay, you imagine that. Here we go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: imagine that. See that's I mean, this is where when
Speaker 1: rotation actually helps you, and by them playing him in
Speaker 1: these games and kind of messing with the continuity has
Speaker 1: actually been and to the point now where you have
Speaker 1: options along the line. My option would be to play
Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith at left tackle, put Smith at right tackle,
Speaker 1: and use Peters as the swing. That's what I would do.
Speaker 1: You know, this team has made a lot of questionable
Speaker 1: decisions along the way that has made me kind of
Speaker 1: raise an eyebrow and squen my eyes and be like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I agree with that, but it's
Speaker 1: proven to work. So I think I'm at a point
Speaker 1: and just like you said, continua a reputation. You know
Speaker 1: you got, you gotta working there the same thing over
Speaker 1: and over. That's the old let's say Jason Garrett era
Speaker 1: where we used to were you just stick with what
Speaker 1: you got, and we saw it in that game they
Speaker 1: took out ball. So my point is, I think I'm
Speaker 1: at a point now where I actually now trust their
Speaker 1: decisions and their judgment on what's gonna work best. So
Speaker 1: as opposed to before, I was kind of things didn't
Speaker 1: really make that much sense. We saw it one way,
Speaker 1: they saw it a different way. But over time, I
Speaker 1: think that when you look at when um Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: got here, how things started, even all the questions that
Speaker 1: we were wondering why still playing his second year, he
Speaker 1: got better and better and better. So now looking all
Speaker 1: the last three years, I think every decision, how you
Speaker 1: see the final outcome, has worked out for them. So
Speaker 1: I do trust whatever decisions that make. Maybe if I
Speaker 1: questioned it at first, I think they're gonna make the
Speaker 1: right one, and they've shown not. They've shown not to
Speaker 1: be scared or afraid to make whatever switch that they
Speaker 1: need to make, even mid game whenever they just they'll
Speaker 1: do it. So we'll see interesting situation here. But I
Speaker 1: did want to ask something real quick. Is it better
Speaker 1: to move a veteran guy, because we've talked about the
Speaker 1: difference of sides, you know, right versus left. Is it
Speaker 1: better to move a guy that has already the experience
Speaker 1: a veteran guy, or is it kind of easier to
Speaker 1: take the younger guy, a guy like Tyler Smith that
Speaker 1: you can that it's still moldible, like you're still molding,
Speaker 1: you know. You look at it like how babies are.
Speaker 1: They just absorb things very quickly and then they can
Speaker 1: adjust versus an older person that's already used to it
Speaker 1: and accustom to being on that side specific side. I'm
Speaker 1: you're absolute, I move the younger guy. I mean, Tyran
Speaker 1: Smith is a Hall of Fame left tackle. You know
Speaker 1: now you could ask him to play right tackle. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think I'm doing everything in my
Speaker 1: pop in my power just to keep him and let
Speaker 1: him since he's coming back, since he hasn't played all year,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let him play the position that he naturally plays.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bring him back and say, okay, man,
Speaker 1: I need you to play right tackle. I know you
Speaker 1: haven't played all year. I think I'm gonna move. I
Speaker 1: think Tyler Smith to me would be better suit. It
Speaker 1: would help him play next to Zach Martin too, you know,
Speaker 1: and that way you could keep McGovern at guard. You
Speaker 1: know they're they're okay with McGovern playing at guard, you know.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm I'm more likely to move the young
Speaker 1: guy and let the and let Peters, who I think
Speaker 1: like you'd say, keep him. Is that is that as
Speaker 1: the ason the hole. If something is save Tyler Smith struggles,
Speaker 1: then you put him in the lineup and go from there.
Speaker 1: All right, we don't have much time. Actually we're already
Speaker 1: over time, Nick, real quick. Just give me the other
Speaker 1: injuries that we got that we need to keep an eye.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about some of the details of them tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But Hankins, justin Hankins, Uh, he's dealing with a peck injury.
Speaker 1: We'll see how long I mean, he could be this,
Speaker 1: it could be the season. We'll see how long he's
Speaker 1: going to be out. But that's big because they went
Speaker 1: and got him and they don't really happen. Yeah, backup
Speaker 1: for him for Jake Ferguson with a concussion. So we'll see, uh,
Speaker 1: you know how long it takes for him to come back.
Speaker 1: And then also um Dorn's Armstrong was in a walking
Speaker 1: boot and he says he just tweaked his ankle. But
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think they just give walking boots
Speaker 1: out for everything. So it didn't look good. You forgot
Speaker 1: to shoot him. Yeah, maybe left in the locker room
Speaker 1: because where this boot where his boot home? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: where the boot home. You'll you'll freak care bringing back Tomorrowlay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it happened on the very last play
Speaker 1: of the game, the Hail Mary. He got kind of
Speaker 1: pushed as the guy flushed to the outside and and
Speaker 1: that was happened at back that way with a calf
Speaker 1: injury too. Yep, it happens. All right, appreciate you guys, Johns.
Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna get a little deeper
Speaker 1: into some of these conversations. Maybe we have some clarity
Speaker 1: on some of these injuries and what's going to happen,
Speaker 1: and then we'll start talking about what the Cowboys need
Speaker 1: to do to move forward from them till in for
Speaker 1: Nick Even Brian brought us Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleton.
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