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Speaker 1: Welcome back, guys, Cowboys are three. I note three, I not.
Speaker 1: We're celebrating here, you know, after a victory against the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: a game that we didn't necessarily expect to be flowing
Speaker 1: the way it did. Did it collect the show? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We were lying about to see our pants this morning.
Speaker 1: And at one point in the game. I guess you
Speaker 1: might say the same thing about the Cowboys. But they
Speaker 1: got it all together and anybody the Cowboys. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: had a meeting too. They were running late to the game.
Speaker 1: It took them a little bit too. We're just gonna
Speaker 1: hit play and then what's going on? But like I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, thirty seconds ago, neither one of these two,
Speaker 1: Derek or Amber seconds ago come flying in. As you
Speaker 1: hear the open going a little flustered, Amber takes over.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like Yeah, it's kind of like what
Speaker 1: happened in the quarter Cowboys were like, oh, well we're
Speaker 1: playing playing a football game. Here we go. Let's go
Speaker 1: Cowboys for you know it that they're gonna have a
Speaker 1: great show. Cowboys do get the big win yesterday, thirty
Speaker 1: one to six. Did the score, I don't know. The
Speaker 1: score maybe tells the story I think more than anything else,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a story of two halfs. The first
Speaker 1: half probably wasn't the Cowboys best football. And if you
Speaker 1: talk to the players after the game, they even talk
Speaker 1: about some moments where, um, I think maybe they made
Speaker 1: some decisions the quarterback in particular, made some decisions that
Speaker 1: maybe they would have made if they were playing let's
Speaker 1: say the Saints next week. But all that, all Cowboys
Speaker 1: do come out with a big win, and they moved
Speaker 1: to three and oz and looking really good in their division,
Speaker 1: where the Eagles lose yesterday, and so the next closest
Speaker 1: team is one and two. Let's start first with Dak. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Dak is the engine I think that makes this that
Speaker 1: has been making this thing go over the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. He was nineteen to thirty two, fifty nine
Speaker 1: percent completion percentage two hundred and forty six yards, two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: an interception, and also a rush touchdown. Talk to me
Speaker 1: just overall about what you thought of his performance, because
Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of different facets to that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, just like we've seen in the first two
Speaker 1: games that he didn't play as great early on. He's
Speaker 1: having a hard time i think, coming out of the
Speaker 1: gate in the first half and playing his best football.
Speaker 1: But for whatever the reason, at a halftime, the third quarter,
Speaker 1: he's really you can't say anything other than perfect, because
Speaker 1: that's what it's quarterback rating has been. In the third
Speaker 1: quarter this season, he's been outstanding, and you know, he
Speaker 1: kind of figures it out and he definitely did it
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins, and so it wasn't his best game,
Speaker 1: but it was a very good game, especially in the
Speaker 1: second half. Yeah, it's interesting. Like I guess my main
Speaker 1: impression of this is I can't kill him too much
Speaker 1: because they woke up and they I mean, this game
Speaker 1: was never really in doubt after halftime. But we gave
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett so much praise for the way he keeps
Speaker 1: these guys focused, and they didn't look focused when this
Speaker 1: game started. None of them did to your point, like, no,
Speaker 1: Dak has never played a perfect game in his life,
Speaker 1: and he's thrown plenty of interceptions, but he just it
Speaker 1: was an uncharacteristic performance on his part, which he even
Speaker 1: admitted to after the game, saying, like I was being greedy,
Speaker 1: I was looking for kill shots, just doing uncharacteristic things.
Speaker 1: Like I said on Twitter, I thought they were playing
Speaker 1: the game like a ten year old plays matten like
Speaker 1: they were just like they were like, these guys are
Speaker 1: not as good as us, and we're gonna try to
Speaker 1: win the game on every play, like every play should
Speaker 1: be a sixty yard touchdown. And that's how Dak approached it.
Speaker 1: In the beginning looked sloppy. You know, not to take
Speaker 1: any credit away from the Dolphins, but you compare the
Speaker 1: defense's first half to the second half, it certainly looked
Speaker 1: like they were trying a lot harder. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: they just looked flat, Like two hundred yards by the
Speaker 1: Dolphins at halftime sixty five I think after I mean,
Speaker 1: that's such a gigantic discrepancy that, like I said, whether
Speaker 1: you want to call it lack of focus, being flat,
Speaker 1: or maybe they just weren't expecting the Dolphins to try
Speaker 1: that hard. I don't know what the actual truth is,
Speaker 1: but that's what it looked like. And they snapped out
Speaker 1: of it real quick after halftime and played the way
Speaker 1: they were supposed to. You know, I know that one
Speaker 1: matters is at the end of the game what you
Speaker 1: do and when you come off with a win. But
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I am concerned Dak. We've seen it
Speaker 1: takes him. Like Dave said, it takes him a little
Speaker 1: bit to get going, and we've seen that in past
Speaker 1: games in previous years. These first two games of the
Speaker 1: season is taking him a little bit, but then he'll
Speaker 1: pick it up pretty quickly. Now I'm concerned once you
Speaker 1: move into other teams that are better, if you keep
Speaker 1: having slow starts, I mean, that can come and bite
Speaker 1: you in the butt. We've seen it last year at
Speaker 1: times where they've had a slow start. Then in the
Speaker 1: second half later he comes back in he's killing and
Speaker 1: moving the ball down the field and making plays, but
Speaker 1: under pressure and sometimes it might be a little too
Speaker 1: late for that for the light to come on. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is something to freak out about.
Speaker 1: You know, it's very exciting to have the team that
Speaker 1: the Colways have at the moment, but it is something
Speaker 1: to be concerned of one about once you start facing
Speaker 1: better teams. Yeah, the one thing I'll say about that,
Speaker 1: I actually think that I don't know if I don't
Speaker 1: know if I think he's just off to two really
Speaker 1: slow starts, because yesterday, I mean, they did score on
Speaker 1: their first two possessions, then it seemed like it kind
Speaker 1: of went a lent to a little bit of a
Speaker 1: lull for the rest of the first half, and then
Speaker 1: obviously the third quarter picks up again. So it wasn't
Speaker 1: like it was, in my opinion, wasn't like it was
Speaker 1: the first two games where they didn't score the first
Speaker 1: possession in one game. I think it was like the
Speaker 1: first three possession yet a pretty ugly start, right, But
Speaker 1: but so I don't think it was that necessarily. I
Speaker 1: just think overall, and I kind of agree with you, Dave,
Speaker 1: that it seemed like they were just a little bit flat.
Speaker 1: It just seemed like there wasn't there wasn't the sense
Speaker 1: of urgency. They were doing things that were uncharacteristic for them.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Cheeto had a pretty tough several
Speaker 1: plays in that game, especially early on that just didn't
Speaker 1: seem to be characteristic for him. I think what they
Speaker 1: did was is I mean, I think they were told
Speaker 1: all week, you know, let's don't let's come out strong,
Speaker 1: let's come out fast, and I think they did. I
Speaker 1: mean the defense did a nice drib early, the offense
Speaker 1: did a nice drop. They went down the field and
Speaker 1: scored twice. But I think then's like, oh, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is what everyone's talked about. This is gonna be terrible.
Speaker 1: And then they did hit that lull and they had
Speaker 1: to kind of wake up and say, you know, it
Speaker 1: wasn't for that fumble right for the half. You know,
Speaker 1: the Dolphin's probably gonna have a lead at the half.
Speaker 1: If DeVante Parker catches a very wide open I think
Speaker 1: it was a slant route. It was definitely going across
Speaker 1: the middle. I mean, he walks into the end zone
Speaker 1: if he catches that pass, and they're down thirteen to
Speaker 1: ten and a half for sure. But you can't beat
Speaker 1: him up too bad because the story I think of
Speaker 1: that game is at the running game was was really phenomenal,
Speaker 1: and you look across the board. The first time the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have had two hundred yard rushers since nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: eight and then in Zeke had one hundred twenty five
Speaker 1: yards on nineteen carries. Polette had thirteen carries for one
Speaker 1: hundred and three yards and also a touchdown. You know
Speaker 1: both started that game in ninety eight. The quarterback Chris,
Speaker 1: I know who's facing Garrett? Did he? Yep? Nice, nice
Speaker 1: little nugget, right. Yeah, Well, now you got me worried
Speaker 1: because I'm I think he started that game. I mean,
Speaker 1: did you know you're backing in the game. But now
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if he started. I think that was the
Speaker 1: year the Eightman had a broken collar bone early in
Speaker 1: the season and they went to Washington and beat them.
Speaker 1: In Warren and Emmett Smith both had one hundred yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard for me to get a firm grasp
Speaker 1: on how I feel about that game, because I mean,
Speaker 1: what I think I said thirty eight ten, you said
Speaker 1: thirty seven seven? Would you say, Derek thirty four sixty
Speaker 1: four six? And or would you say, I mean, all
Speaker 1: you're missing is the same. Basically we were all in
Speaker 1: the ballpark, Yeah, like we were. I mean, it played
Speaker 1: out pretty close to what we thought at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, and it's a sixty minute games. I mean,
Speaker 1: if they don't look great at halftime, there's a whole
Speaker 1: nother half to play at the same time. You know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't the effortless dominance that you probably would have
Speaker 1: preferred to see. Maybe it was naive to think it
Speaker 1: would have been, because it is still the NFL. But
Speaker 1: isn't this way they accomplished the end result? Right? And
Speaker 1: isn't this what we probably should have thought an NFL
Speaker 1: game would be like, even it gets a bad team.
Speaker 1: Because here's the deal, Nick, you talk about it all
Speaker 1: the time. You beat teams on Wednesday and Thursday, right,
Speaker 1: these kinds of teams, these kind of teams are also
Speaker 1: going to probably start off the game playing really really hard.
Speaker 1: They're gonna give you their best shot, they're gonna try,
Speaker 1: they're gonna pull everything out like that. That's why they
Speaker 1: go for the on side kick. They're trying everything, they're
Speaker 1: gonna throw everything at you. It's when they get to
Speaker 1: the second half and they realize, man, all that stuff
Speaker 1: that we did and none of it worked, and we're
Speaker 1: still down, and then you score on them in the
Speaker 1: first possession, and then it's like, well, here we go.
Speaker 1: And then that's when you start just taking it from them, right,
Speaker 1: and then it becomes that easier game as you go.
Speaker 1: But in the first half music you should expect these
Speaker 1: are all professionals. They're probably all going to come out
Speaker 1: giving you their very best, and it's not until a
Speaker 1: little later sometimes when these kind of games take that
Speaker 1: feel like that was the case for the Cowboys. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I think, Yes, the Cowboys came out and they were trying,
Speaker 1: but not hard enough. First it just wasn't working. I
Speaker 1: talk about the other team, I'm talking about the other okay,
Speaker 1: just in general. Then with the Cowboys, a lot of
Speaker 1: those things were on themselves, like they were the ones
Speaker 1: making those mistakes. Yes, there were certain plays where the
Speaker 1: Dolphins we're doing things that I'm like, oh, okay, I
Speaker 1: know y'all. Y'all were doing those kinds of things, all right,
Speaker 1: But if if we're gonna nitpick it and that I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, like they got to the end result
Speaker 1: like it played out. Take the totality of the game.
Speaker 1: It out pretty similar to what we thought. But two
Speaker 1: hundred and seven yards of offense in the first half. Like, again,
Speaker 1: you're nitpicking here, but that's my column was actually I
Speaker 1: guess centered on in this room. I usually write it
Speaker 1: for other fans, but I mean I kind of said,
Speaker 1: let's don't start judging ugly blowouts here. You know, they
Speaker 1: blew them out like they happened favorites. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: only happened when thirty five times happened twice this weekend.
Speaker 1: It's hard to do. And they covered no we're nitpicking,
Speaker 1: but like that first half performance by the defense is
Speaker 1: at least a little bit troubling in my opinion, Like
Speaker 1: just you take the you take it all in stride.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is an offense that I think was
Speaker 1: averaging one hundred and ninety two yards per game over
Speaker 1: the first two games, and they got that by halftime. Um,
Speaker 1: and they were giving us some big chunks of yards too.
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't like they would just dinking and
Speaker 1: dunking down the field like they had. They hit them
Speaker 1: for some big plays. I just can't call a couple
Speaker 1: of field goals troubling. I can't not yet, not a
Speaker 1: couple of field goals. We just said, like they should
Speaker 1: have scored a touchdown. They might have had a touchdown,
Speaker 1: depending on how you feel about that contested ball between
Speaker 1: Cheeto and m Preston Williams really thought that was a catch. Honestly,
Speaker 1: for the record, I think people that think that are
Speaker 1: that's a touchdown are crazy, Like if des Brian didn't
Speaker 1: catch it at lambeau Field, how is that a catch?
Speaker 1: And he might have had a rough first half. That's
Speaker 1: an amazing play by Cheeto Wougier that kind of got
Speaker 1: brushed aside because he struggled early on. He made a
Speaker 1: great play on that ball. Yeah, the question I asked
Speaker 1: in the press box is how long are we doing
Speaker 1: this before we I mean, would we have to give
Speaker 1: the ball to the ref? I mean, I just he
Speaker 1: caught caught it. There's two or three steps. I mean
Speaker 1: the rule is pretty simple. If you're going to the ground,
Speaker 1: you got a main maintained possession through the fall, right right?
Speaker 1: Isn't that the rule? Okay? But like how long I
Speaker 1: mean do you run and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you hit rowdy and the end zone and you fumble?
Speaker 1: Like what is he was catching the ball and going
Speaker 1: to the ground. The point if you're catching the ball
Speaker 1: and you're going to the ground, then you have to
Speaker 1: maintain possession. I would have said, but well, whatever I
Speaker 1: don't if the ball, the ball comes out of your
Speaker 1: hands before you know before what before? Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: it's it's tough. I don't think it was before you
Speaker 1: get home, Nick, But the ball comes out of hand
Speaker 1: before you get home. You lost the ball like I
Speaker 1: spiked it, I guess. And I'm gonna talk out of
Speaker 1: both sides of my mouth here because I know it's
Speaker 1: the NFL. I know everybody gets paid. But like, they
Speaker 1: effortlessly dominated them in the second half. They went oh
Speaker 1: of seven on third down. They had sixty five yards
Speaker 1: of offense. They sacked Rosen three times. Where was any
Speaker 1: of that in the first half. Like they didn't get
Speaker 1: home on the pass rush, they gave up chunk plays
Speaker 1: to the receivers. They weren't terrible against the run, but
Speaker 1: I mean the Dolphins they went three of eight on
Speaker 1: third down, so they were I mean a little less
Speaker 1: than fifty percent. That's pretty good for a bad team. Like,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a good performance, And I know you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't expect to just be effortlessly dominant for sixty
Speaker 1: minutes against damn near anybody. But I thought they could
Speaker 1: have played a lot better. I think they do. Think
Speaker 1: some of that happens though as a function of the game,
Speaker 1: when you start putting the other team in a position
Speaker 1: where they have to pass, yeah, then it creates a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunity for your defense to know, Okay, they're
Speaker 1: not going to be running the ball here, let's just
Speaker 1: go get them, and then you can get more of
Speaker 1: those sacks. You can cover a little bit better because
Speaker 1: you know they're passing. There is no doubt that there's
Speaker 1: a run or pass right because so I think that
Speaker 1: helps a little bit as a game keeps going on.
Speaker 1: And Cowboys did get a lot of their big plays defensively,
Speaker 1: they came a little later in the game when they
Speaker 1: had a bigger lead. Let me ask you this though,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what the answer would be, but
Speaker 1: like the actual game went like this. The Cowboys were
Speaker 1: up twenty one to nothing at the half, and then
Speaker 1: in the second half they scored a little bit, gave
Speaker 1: up some of them, ended up ten to six, and
Speaker 1: the second half they win thirty one six. Are we
Speaker 1: talking about a different game at all? I mean, like,
Speaker 1: are we as worried about that about what they did
Speaker 1: in the second half? Yeah? And that's I mean, I
Speaker 1: which is similar to the first being careful too. When
Speaker 1: we stay worried, I don't think any of us is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think any of us is like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this teams like I'm this team's not going anywhere. It
Speaker 1: is a relative thing. It's like if you're trying to
Speaker 1: find something that's that's that's even a bit troublesome about
Speaker 1: this team, then you'll nitpick a little bit and say, well,
Speaker 1: maybe the defense just isn't playing at the expectation level
Speaker 1: that we had for them, that they were going to
Speaker 1: be shutting people out. Right, they're fourth in the league
Speaker 1: and scoring defense. They're giving up two touchdowns like they're fine.
Speaker 1: And not only that, So fourteen point seven points per
Speaker 1: game would have won you a lot of games last
Speaker 1: year when you were only scoring twenty two. You're scoring
Speaker 1: thirty two right now, So they're fine. I mean it's early,
Speaker 1: they haven't played a good team yet. I'm not worried.
Speaker 1: But if we're you know, this is a whole hour
Speaker 1: long show dedicated to just the Cowboys Dolphins game. We
Speaker 1: gotta have something to talk about the season. Three straight
Speaker 1: thirty points. I don't even know what one two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven, I looked it up last night. Seven and
Speaker 1: then I don't remember who they beat Week four. They
Speaker 1: want they started five and zero grams and then the
Speaker 1: next game was the Bills and that was twenty four.
Speaker 1: That was at the Romo game. That was the high
Speaker 1: Romo's best, worst game of his career. Six turnover. You know,
Speaker 1: we got a question on that game. On that game, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Um, I asked you yesterday. I was like,
Speaker 1: what's the cutoff line to pull a quarterback? How many picks?
Speaker 1: Usually because I was thinking about the Arkansas game or
Speaker 1: the guy just through five? Um, but um, it's not
Speaker 1: a big deal. But yeah, when yeah, when you when
Speaker 1: do you cut that a? Three? Four? But that game,
Speaker 1: like Romo, I think three is where you have the conversation.
Speaker 1: But you might have the conversation to say, man, this guy,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna keep rolling with him because either we
Speaker 1: don't have a better option, yeah, or how many do
Speaker 1: you come out? In flag football? Before they took them out?
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I just thought it was let's take our
Speaker 1: first wasn't My problem had other problems, but that one
Speaker 1: really wasn't. Injury All right, let's take our first break.
Speaker 1: When we come back. I didn't want to ask you
Speaker 1: guys the question around the running game. They played a
Speaker 1: really good running game, but I don't want to ask
Speaker 1: you guys, is this a division of labor that you'd
Speaker 1: like to see as a season goes on? As it
Speaker 1: split sixty forty yesterday. We'll talk about that when come
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Speaker 1: to the break. Welcome back into the second segment of
Speaker 1: the Break Black in the s WBC Mortgage studios. At
Speaker 1: the start, we're talking about the Cowboys win over the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. Thirty one to says Cowboys moving three and oh,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the running game. As I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: Zeke and Pollard both had great days, both over one
Speaker 1: hundred yards. Yesterday. It looked like or and I didn't
Speaker 1: look like it was a split of about sixty forty.
Speaker 1: Zeke had about sixty percent of the carries, Pollard had
Speaker 1: about forty percent of the carries. They both had three
Speaker 1: passing targets. That being said, is that the kind of
Speaker 1: division you'd like to see this thing? Because it does
Speaker 1: seem a bit high for Pollard and a bit low
Speaker 1: for Zeke. This is the third game. You would think
Speaker 1: he's kind of in rhythm at this point and in
Speaker 1: shape enough to be carrying a heavier load. Do you
Speaker 1: think that this is an intentional thing where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are really kind of keep them closer to that division.
Speaker 1: I think it was an intentional thing where the game
Speaker 1: thirteen to two, first half thirteen to two, and I'm
Speaker 1: sorry to cut you off a bit, but that's what
Speaker 1: that's what you know. The second half was totally different,
Speaker 1: I mean, because it was all all going to be Pollard.
Speaker 1: But in the first half, when your game's still going,
Speaker 1: I mean, and I don't think that's as good as
Speaker 1: it should be. I think it should be a little
Speaker 1: bit closer than that. But I just think it was
Speaker 1: a nature of the game of why Pollard got it
Speaker 1: a little bit closer because Zeke wasn't split in time
Speaker 1: with him early early on. So I don't know, like
Speaker 1: ten to three something like that. I mean, what where's
Speaker 1: the six percent? Seems like they would be, you know,
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this. I know it was.
Speaker 1: It was because and I assume this is what I'm
Speaker 1: putting words in your mouth, so tell me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming what you're saying is that it was because
Speaker 1: of a blowout. That because of a blowout you put
Speaker 1: him in. Do you think if this was a game
Speaker 1: that was maybe a ten point game that they use
Speaker 1: Zeke to salt the game away or do they still
Speaker 1: use Pollard a little bit more there? That's an instance
Speaker 1: because he's fresher. Yes, I am saying that. I think, Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's a close game, I think they
Speaker 1: use Zeke. I mean, Zeke went in Washington ten point game.
Speaker 1: They need to ice that away. It was Zeke and
Speaker 1: not Pollard doing that. I mean, it's twenty four six
Speaker 1: at the end of the third and the Dolphins had
Speaker 1: not really given any indication that they were going to
Speaker 1: get off the mat. So I think that's part of it.
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, like I want Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: to have a sizeable role here, but I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think it would be some sort of fifty fifty
Speaker 1: thing and all honesty. They came out of the half
Speaker 1: and Pollard was on the field, and like I was,
Speaker 1: I was annoyed. I was like, what what do you do? Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually like seeing that. I don't have Zeke on
Speaker 1: your fantasy team, don't I actually actually but Pollard's on
Speaker 1: my bench. But that's beside the point. I've always said
Speaker 1: that I think that if you've got a guy that's
Speaker 1: capable like Pollard, I really wanted the Cowboys to have
Speaker 1: a running back that's a second option that you don't
Speaker 1: have to hold your breath and say what's going on
Speaker 1: every time he's on the field, because that does allow
Speaker 1: you to have a fresher Zeke, especially especially as you
Speaker 1: go down the stretcher and you get into December and January.
Speaker 1: If he's fresher in those months when the weather might
Speaker 1: be bad, you might need a game. There might be
Speaker 1: a game where you need him to go thirty you know,
Speaker 1: you might need to run him thirty times. I want
Speaker 1: to take the opportunity now earlier in the season to
Speaker 1: keep those snaps off of him so that I'm saving
Speaker 1: him he's fresher. Once I get down to post to
Speaker 1: December and postseason, I don't think it will be normal
Speaker 1: to see him crack double digit carries unless the game's
Speaker 1: out of hand. I mean, that's I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: That's just how I feel about it. But Pollard, you're
Speaker 1: talking about, Yeah, but this is cool to see. It's
Speaker 1: fantastic to put it on tape, show it to people.
Speaker 1: Let Pollard prove that. I mean, he's clear, like he's
Speaker 1: got juice, Like he looks dangerous when he hits the
Speaker 1: hole or when he turns the corner, because he gets
Speaker 1: there so fast. Like I like what he can bring.
Speaker 1: I think he needs to have a role, not necessarily
Speaker 1: getting for he does sixty percent of the carries. But
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much you can do with him.
Speaker 1: I think at the very least, I would try to
Speaker 1: get him his own series, like at least once per half,
Speaker 1: and then there's so much stuff you can do with
Speaker 1: him motioning him. I'm baffled as to why he hasn't
Speaker 1: been part of the fly sweep jet action stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Seems like it's tailor made for him, and it could be.
Speaker 1: Although they did do something interesting yesterday. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys noticed when they went to twenty personnel,
Speaker 1: which is two running back, zero tight ends, three wide receivers.
Speaker 1: He and Zeke Wild both line up in the backfield.
Speaker 1: He goes across the quarterback and then the quarterback throws
Speaker 1: the quick little pass out there to him in the
Speaker 1: flat and let's him make a play, which to me,
Speaker 1: I kind of thought that two for a second, like
Speaker 1: he was gonna get out there and then try to throw.
Speaker 1: But my point is what it does. It gets him out,
Speaker 1: It gets him in motion, it gets him already moving,
Speaker 1: and it gets him out in space where now he
Speaker 1: can get some blockers in front of him and try
Speaker 1: to make some moves, which I think it's very similar
Speaker 1: to what you're trying to accomplish with the jet sweep,
Speaker 1: So I think it's kind of a similar type thing, right,
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin, We'll see, you know, we'll see what the
Speaker 1: week holds for him. We haven't seen him since Week one,
Speaker 1: But like Tony Pollard, can do all that stuff and
Speaker 1: I'd like to see it. And again, much like Tavon,
Speaker 1: he's the type of guy that can impact a defense
Speaker 1: without ever touching the ball. So very excited about him.
Speaker 1: Definitely think he's got a role to play. But I
Speaker 1: just don't think you're gonna see him crack one hundred
Speaker 1: rushing yards very often in games that aren't blowouts. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just unless he's got a couple of really big yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, Like, he's just not
Speaker 1: going to get the carry count to get close to
Speaker 1: those numbers unless they're not worried about the outcome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm all good with that. I just again, I love
Speaker 1: the idea that they have a running back who's actually
Speaker 1: Kapello as a number two guy. Use him. Don't let
Speaker 1: him sit on the sideline. Use him, even if you
Speaker 1: got to put him and Zeke out there together. Use him.
Speaker 1: Get out because I'll tell you this the play I
Speaker 1: just describe to you. If they do that enough times,
Speaker 1: that's gonna open up things for Zeke running up the
Speaker 1: gut because they're gonna teams are gonna have to respect
Speaker 1: the fact that when Tony goes out there, he might
Speaker 1: get the ball, and if he gets the ball quickly,
Speaker 1: they gotta have a linebacker out there trying to stop him.
Speaker 1: So I think all that stuff plays in together. It's
Speaker 1: just one more weapon. Don't let him sit on the
Speaker 1: sideline and waste away. Absolutely no, I completely agree. He's
Speaker 1: too good to just wait for Zeke Tanita blow right. Um.
Speaker 1: So it's and you know, for all they've been hyping
Speaker 1: him since they picked him, and it was like you
Speaker 1: kind of roll your eyes at some of it, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: Kamara really, but he's living up to it. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's Kamara because Kamara put on a show yesterday,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I was sitting there watching it like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's next Sunday. Yeah. I talked to Jordan after the game.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, you can tweet it was
Speaker 1: the best Devon got show is the nose tackle for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins And he said, uh, he said, if that's
Speaker 1: the best O line in the league, then what am I?
Speaker 1: And Jordan Lewis quote tweeted him and said, oh and
Speaker 1: three the best. He's awesome. I love Dan's he and
Speaker 1: the thing about it is is that everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: they got him, and you go ask Georgian and be like,
Speaker 1: what they are? There are one thread they haven't won.
Speaker 1: He asked, what what you know? I mean he actually
Speaker 1: said he like. He tweeted later and was like I
Speaker 1: feel kind of bad. I didn't need to do him
Speaker 1: like that, but it was good. The people people respond
Speaker 1: They were like, you didn't feel bad enough to delete
Speaker 1: the tweet, Like I'm here. He is a gym, Yeah
Speaker 1: he is. I talked to him. I said, you know,
Speaker 1: this week there's gonna be a lot of Kamara Kamara
Speaker 1: stopper and stuff like that, and so he was just
Speaker 1: like okay, Like yeah, because most guys would be like, oh,
Speaker 1: don't be calling that. Don't be calling me that. Basement. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean he only played what ten snaps in that game?
Speaker 1: Seven it but it but Kamara didn't do anything and
Speaker 1: he made the one play that that probably yeah, almost
Speaker 1: in the game. It's gonna be I know we'll talk
Speaker 1: more Saints, but like this is this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough game. I mean, it doesn't matter who the
Speaker 1: quarterback is. I mean, you go to more, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough. Sean Payton is a hell of a coach
Speaker 1: and he's gonna he knows how to get guys ready
Speaker 1: to go. So they they had it. They had a
Speaker 1: great game plan against Seattle. We got to watch some
Speaker 1: of that game, and you know, you've got to tackle.
Speaker 1: You have to tackle, and they have been pretty good
Speaker 1: at tackling, you know, the Cowboys. I wouldn't say they've
Speaker 1: missed a lot of tackles this year. But and they
Speaker 1: faced Barkley, you know, I mean they that was not
Speaker 1: with the best game. But this will be interesting. Part
Speaker 1: of it is the expectation because one of them was
Speaker 1: all Pro and the other one is a near pro
Speaker 1: bowler and just signed a contract extension. But Jalen Smith
Speaker 1: and Layton Vanderesh like they haven't been bad, but they're
Speaker 1: gonna need to play better. They're gonna need to be
Speaker 1: expect like to beat the Saints of the world and
Speaker 1: stop guys like Alvin Kamara. They're gonna need to be
Speaker 1: you know, and they happen. Not to try to be
Speaker 1: like an apologist for them, but I do think because
Speaker 1: they're so good and so young, and they're both badasses,
Speaker 1: I think that they get kind of like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of times I feel like people say, wow, that
Speaker 1: wasn't a great play by them, but look who they're
Speaker 1: Look who they're losing battles too. I mean, like a
Speaker 1: receiver comes over the middle and puts a move on them,
Speaker 1: and then okay, Jalen doesn't you know, I'll cover that.
Speaker 1: I think that they handled the guys are supposed to
Speaker 1: a lot. But when we see him get beat, they
Speaker 1: get beat by receivers and stuff, I'm like, well, they're
Speaker 1: not moving them to safety. I mean, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a reason why these guys are getting beat kind of
Speaker 1: like Tony pod that time Tony Pollard ran right by
Speaker 1: Jalen and practice that whoa, yeah, whoa. I'm like, and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, well, if he didn't like my Jake's draft.
Speaker 1: My takeaway from that was never blaming Jayalen. It was
Speaker 1: dak how did you miss that throw R? That's because
Speaker 1: it's practice and it's not a game, I guess. So
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna take our final break. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take our final break. I did want to come back
Speaker 1: and talk about the defense. I want to dive a
Speaker 1: little deeper into that. There were a couple of players
Speaker 1: that were missing and some guys that replace them, and I
Speaker 1: I want to talk about how well those guys performed.
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Speaker 1: about the defense. Yesterday. They end up holding the Dolphins
Speaker 1: a two hundred and eighty three yards total yards of offense,
Speaker 1: only seventy two rushing yards, two hundred and eleven passing
Speaker 1: yards UM three or fifteen on third downs pretty impressive,
Speaker 1: and zero of three in the red zone again, very
Speaker 1: very impressive. UM. The one thing I think that that
Speaker 1: still does stand out is is no picks. They weren't
Speaker 1: able to get any interceptions. They were able to force
Speaker 1: a fumble, which is a good thing, UM, and we're
Speaker 1: able to recover that. What do you think of their
Speaker 1: performance overall? Though? As a defensive unit? What do you
Speaker 1: think of their performance? I think, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to rehash everything I said in the first segment.
Speaker 1: I mean they buckled down again like it's a sixty
Speaker 1: minute game. You get credit for the totality of it.
Speaker 1: I thought they played well in the grand scheme. But again,
Speaker 1: if you're looking for things to be concerned about, three
Speaker 1: takeaways on the year, which is near the bottom of
Speaker 1: the league. They're one of only five teams in the
Speaker 1: league that doesn't have an interception yet this season. The
Speaker 1: other four are all pretty bad teams Denver, Oakland, Arizona
Speaker 1: and Jacksonville don't have an interception this season either, So
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are the only one of the five with
Speaker 1: a winning record and only five sacks. Only five teams
Speaker 1: in the league have fewer than that. Maybe Robert, I mean,
Speaker 1: it certainly seemed like Robert Quinn gave him some jews.
Speaker 1: He looked, he looked good. I know it's the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: but his motor like he just was given them fits.
Speaker 1: He seemed like he was bending that corner every time
Speaker 1: they dropped back to pass, got his own sack, and
Speaker 1: then tank it get another sack. So that's encouraging, but
Speaker 1: through three weeks you'd like to like to see a
Speaker 1: little bit more. Yeah, that's one thing I expected in
Speaker 1: this game. Even if they weren't going to get the interceptions,
Speaker 1: I expected they were going to get a ton of sacks.
Speaker 1: I figured it would be now part of the function
Speaker 1: of that, or at least how I thought about it was.
Speaker 1: I thought they'd get a big lead early and they
Speaker 1: would force them into a lot of passing downs a
Speaker 1: lot earlier than they actually did, and so they would
Speaker 1: get to that point in the game where they're just
Speaker 1: coming and coming and coming, and that would happen earlier,
Speaker 1: it didn't. It happened really about mid to late third
Speaker 1: quarter when they start actually being able to kind of
Speaker 1: just go get them. But I was kind of shocked
Speaker 1: that they all ended up. We talked about it on Friday.
Speaker 1: We talked about maybe this will be the game where
Speaker 1: the defense just picks it up, gets hype, get all
Speaker 1: out of energy, you know, for this week leading up
Speaker 1: against the Giants. That's I mean, I was expecting them
Speaker 1: to come out of there a lot better. Where now
Speaker 1: I feel excited and ready for them to face the Saint.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that we keep talking about, Okay, they
Speaker 1: don't play bad. They're not playing bad. It's not horrible,
Speaker 1: but still it's not the defense we were talking about
Speaker 1: last year. That is, like, man, this defense is carrying
Speaker 1: the offense, basically playing for both sides, And right now,
Speaker 1: I'm just concerned what's going to happen if a game
Speaker 1: comes where the Cowboys offense is just not able to
Speaker 1: move the ball. Is the defense going to be able
Speaker 1: to help them out? Well? I mean last I mean
Speaker 1: this last teams. Yeah, against better teams. I mean I
Speaker 1: think the last year the defense carried them because and
Speaker 1: they were the best thing that the Cowboys had. I
Speaker 1: mean this so far through three games. No, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have probably one of the best offenses in
Speaker 1: the league. I don't know what the stats look like,
Speaker 1: but I don't have in front of me. But they're
Speaker 1: they're good. I mean, I mean, I mean, the Patriots
Speaker 1: are up there scoring you know a lot of points too.
Speaker 1: But and the Ravens and things like that. But Chiefs, Chiefs, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're decent. Um with my homes, no, but I just
Speaker 1: think that the offense now has picked it up. The
Speaker 1: offense is the best. You know, those games happen where
Speaker 1: all of sudden, like we saw it, what was even
Speaker 1: against the Rams, where the defense was just like off
Speaker 1: and that was the side of the ball that you
Speaker 1: expected to carry the game. You know. But let me
Speaker 1: ask you this, is it our perception or is this
Speaker 1: defense really not doing what they were doing last year?
Speaker 1: Because if you remember last year, like they'd give up yards,
Speaker 1: they were just holding teams to field goals instead of touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And if you look at what Dave throughout the stat
Speaker 1: a little earlier about the scoring right now, as far
Speaker 1: as scoring defenses are concerned, the fourth and the league,
Speaker 1: so they were also, I mean not to quipal with you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were top five or six in yards allowed last year.
Speaker 1: They're certain they're middle of the package. But because of
Speaker 1: the offense, because of the offense, it's affecting this And
Speaker 1: I've said it several times. You go, fine, by the
Speaker 1: end of the year, you look at these great offenses,
Speaker 1: their defenses won't be rated that high. Go through three
Speaker 1: quarters of the game, three quarters against the Giants, ten
Speaker 1: points against the Redskins, fourteen points, I believe maybe even
Speaker 1: set it was in the third quarter, and then and
Speaker 1: then Miami six. So some of these points are happening
Speaker 1: kind of late. I think they're doing they think they're
Speaker 1: doing five. And I get what you're saying, David, I
Speaker 1: just think that. I guess. The point I'm making, though,
Speaker 1: is I look at this defense, and to me, they're
Speaker 1: similar to what they were lasted they're just not getting
Speaker 1: they're not getting the pressure that I that I it's
Speaker 1: the it's the other things that lead to yards and
Speaker 1: points that I'm not seeing that I expected to see
Speaker 1: funding them. It's not necessarily I think that from a
Speaker 1: point standpoint, they're giving up a lot because they're really
Speaker 1: not And when you look at the teams they faced
Speaker 1: so far. That's where my problem comes from. Like if
Speaker 1: you if this was the defense performing like this against
Speaker 1: better teams, other teams, then I'm like, yeah, wow, they're
Speaker 1: playing great. But again, when you talk about who the
Speaker 1: opponent have been in these first three weeks, I definitely
Speaker 1: expected them to be better. Do better, get some turnovers,
Speaker 1: because what's going to happen when you play all these
Speaker 1: other teams? Okay, I think I think we know the
Speaker 1: Dolphins aren't gonna be very good, but it is early.
Speaker 1: It's early on like I always did. It's weird when
Speaker 1: people will say, well, you haven't beaten anybody with a
Speaker 1: winning record, or you haven't beat anybody that's won a game.
Speaker 1: Well through three games. I mean the Cowboys are the
Speaker 1: reason why they haven't done that, the reason why you
Speaker 1: haven't won a game yet because you only played three
Speaker 1: and one of them you got beat. Um. The Giants
Speaker 1: actually have won a game. So I mean, looking at
Speaker 1: the Patriots, I know they're three and oh I think
Speaker 1: all three of their opponents are owin three as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's still early. Now that they face the Bills
Speaker 1: this week, they have their first Yeah, that'll be a
Speaker 1: good one, and you know, the Cowboys obviously going to
Speaker 1: the to the Saints, and so it happens. But I mean,
Speaker 1: it is early in the year, and it's like, we
Speaker 1: don't really know what these teams are gonna be. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the Dolphins are gonna be, but
Speaker 1: I know they're gonna win a game. I mean, they
Speaker 1: do you. Yeah, they're gonna win a game. They're getting
Speaker 1: outscored at a better clip than either of the last
Speaker 1: two and sixteen teams. Just saying I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not convinced they will, honestly, because at some point you
Speaker 1: lose your will. I mean, you know, you hate to
Speaker 1: say that about professional football players, but after six or
Speaker 1: seven of those types of beatings, well, I don't know
Speaker 1: how much longer you can hang in like that, you know.
Speaker 1: I think that they'll if they can get any kind
Speaker 1: of running game. I think Rosen was was pretty good there.
Speaker 1: I thought he moved it pretty well. You know, Now
Speaker 1: that they have an elite rusher on the with Taco,
Speaker 1: I think that they'll be able to get some such
Speaker 1: got a sack. Got a sack ya first, und I'm
Speaker 1: not treating him like that. Either, but he's no better that. Hey,
Speaker 1: he comes off the plane on Thursday plays on Sunday.
Speaker 1: No it is. But yeah, but he's he's not a
Speaker 1: leap back. No, he's not a leap jokes. The first
Speaker 1: round pick that he's got, first round might be the
Speaker 1: best one they got. That's that's the thing, And that's
Speaker 1: they showed you how bad that they are by saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: well pick him up and he'll play him. And he
Speaker 1: played and he played pretty well. And either way, I mean,
Speaker 1: he'll help him. I think so he'll help him. I'll
Speaker 1: be the first to admit I thought they would play
Speaker 1: a cleaner game, you know, from beginning to end. I
Speaker 1: didn't think it would be so dicey in the first half.
Speaker 1: But like I really I don't care about style points
Speaker 1: in the NFL again, you know, like I'm sweating what
Speaker 1: happens in the second half against Northwestern State when LSU's
Speaker 1: supposed to win by sick Like that's different. This is
Speaker 1: still the NFL, even if you're the worst team in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And honestly, I think most of those arguments
Speaker 1: I think people are motivated by, like, you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta go to the water cooler and deal with your
Speaker 1: coworkers on Monday, and they're like, oh, the Dolphins are terrible.
Speaker 1: That doesn't even count, Like bs, it doesn't count. Well,
Speaker 1: it counts. It's a win, and you only need about
Speaker 1: ten of them to get to the playoffs. So you're
Speaker 1: a third of the way there. About it is. It's
Speaker 1: not like college football. People's opinions on style points actually
Speaker 1: do matter, because they do affect what rankings are, right, affect,
Speaker 1: you know. But the NFL they have a pretty nice
Speaker 1: system of like here's the record, the top six teams
Speaker 1: go and you play it out, and so we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a story tomorrow that says power rankings and the
Speaker 1: people will click on it because they want to know
Speaker 1: what people think. But it doesn't better doesn't matter. And
Speaker 1: I guarantee you, well, let's just play somebody. Let somebody
Speaker 1: that's three and oz is probably gonna not make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It actually happened. This is the biggest seventy four percent
Speaker 1: of time that those teams make the playoffs. So yeah,
Speaker 1: in sixteen, in twenty sixteen, there were four teams that
Speaker 1: started three and oh and didn't make the playoffs. That's four, right,
Speaker 1: isn't that crazy? Yeah, it is, so how many did
Speaker 1: how many were four? And oh that did? Oh? I
Speaker 1: don't even know what makes the playoffs? I mean not really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think the builds make the playoffs. We will,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't battle it right now because I don't
Speaker 1: think they win their divisions. So then you started looking
Speaker 1: across the AFC. Are they better than the other teams
Speaker 1: that are gonna be wild cards? But I actually don't
Speaker 1: think they will. Put a gun to my head. I'm
Speaker 1: not like, I'm not sold on the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: being a playoff team there three and oh and for
Speaker 1: I mean, for that matter, we don't one hundred percent
Speaker 1: know what the Cowboys are yet. But all you can
Speaker 1: do is win the games that are put in front
Speaker 1: of you, and that's what the Cowboys have done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys haven't been three now since two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: They did not make it that year. That really, it's
Speaker 1: such a bummer of a stat because like you hear
Speaker 1: that and you're like, first time since so eait, like
Speaker 1: that's really impressed Tony and then the last time they
Speaker 1: did record if you if you you know, but when
Speaker 1: when that when it's all done for me? And You're like,
Speaker 1: what was the craziest season. I'm gonna say two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight was. We'll be right up there, because it
Speaker 1: was because after the three and oz game against Green Bay,
Speaker 1: I wrote a column that said, this is the best
Speaker 1: team in football right now, the best football team, the
Speaker 1: best football team in the NFL. You didn't write that
Speaker 1: last night, did you? Thank you? I didn't um at all,
Speaker 1: but you know, it was just weird. It was just
Speaker 1: a weird year. And that was the It was very
Speaker 1: similar because they were coming off a really good season
Speaker 1: and they kind of it was like Jerry's were going
Speaker 1: for it. I'm gonna get pac Man, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: Tank Johnson, We're gonna keep TiO on this team. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go and we're gonna, you know, go over the top.
Speaker 1: Injuries happen. You know that thing about the NFL. Injuries
Speaker 1: are the biggest indicator. I yeah, injuries, and there was
Speaker 1: some other stuff. I was gonna say. I wasn't around,
Speaker 1: but even like I remember, I just have these vivid
Speaker 1: memories of like being in I guess I was in
Speaker 1: college at that point, and like Edward, Edward or was
Speaker 1: on Sports Center every day because there was so much
Speaker 1: drama around this team, Like he just had a permanent
Speaker 1: hit where they're like, well, who got arrested this week?
Speaker 1: Or like what are the cowboys dealing with right now?
Speaker 1: Who had who had guns in his car? Like I
Speaker 1: just remember being in college, like can we stop talking
Speaker 1: about this team for like five minutes? You know? But
Speaker 1: then I'll grew up and I'll work for them and
Speaker 1: I'll talk about him every day real quick though, But
Speaker 1: a very delightful sub story with this team right now,
Speaker 1: not to jinx him. I don't believe in that anyway.
Speaker 1: There's none of that. Yeah, none of that's happening right now.
Speaker 1: Taco was the t was the closest to drama they had.
Speaker 1: And he's in Miami and that's why, And and you
Speaker 1: go back to that season and maybe I've just created
Speaker 1: a column for myself on Wednesday, But you know the
Speaker 1: big difference is as TiO was on that team, and
Speaker 1: TiO wasn't going to allow for their not to be drama.
Speaker 1: There's just players that are that are that way. So
Speaker 1: when you're if you're out there and you're about to
Speaker 1: send that tweet or text or message and say, if
Speaker 1: the NFL clears Antonio Brown. You just say no, no,
Speaker 1: you don't need it. You don't need that on your team.
Speaker 1: This isn't a guy that's going to take you over
Speaker 1: the top of the Cowboys have done that before, and
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that doesn't help you. If Taco was
Speaker 1: a distraction, what would you know what I mean, So
Speaker 1: you don't need that. And I don't know if he'll
Speaker 1: ever play for anybody again. But there's I mean, so
Speaker 1: so much time left in the year for unforeseen problems
Speaker 1: to arise, but it is refreshingly football centric here in
Speaker 1: Dallas at the time. I mean, we'll have heard, well
Speaker 1: I guess we haven't heard anything about Crawford or is
Speaker 1: that completely forgotten. I haven't heard. But that's the thing
Speaker 1: about That's the thing about the commissioner is the commissioner
Speaker 1: could come out today and like, oh, he's got two
Speaker 1: to three games, like just there is no timetable. They
Speaker 1: do it at their own discretion. I mean, there is
Speaker 1: still the Randy Gregory thing that's kind of hanging out
Speaker 1: there that some fans are like, well, what's happening with him?
Speaker 1: But that's not really a distraction because he's not here.
Speaker 1: So I mean, there are storylines that are around the
Speaker 1: team right now, but there's nothing that is really taking
Speaker 1: this team's focus or could potentially take the sea. There
Speaker 1: is one that's potentially taking the focus, but it's not happening.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got a quarterback that's playing as well
Speaker 1: as anybody in the NFL right now, you're worried about
Speaker 1: anything getting paid like you know, a special team's ace.
Speaker 1: That's what he's getting paid like right now. I mean
Speaker 1: credit to Dak and Marii Cooper for really and they're
Speaker 1: falling out right now. But that may play like they're
Speaker 1: worth it. They're both may just be sitting here saying,
Speaker 1: all right, well that's gonna keep We're just gonna keep playing.
Speaker 1: We're gonna push that price, push that price, you know. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think that either one. It doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: at least either one of them is really pushing the
Speaker 1: issue when it comes to their contracts. So it doesn't
Speaker 1: become a distraction because they're not pushing it like that. Yep.
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