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Speaker 1: Were with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, September tenth, twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: Season seventeen, episode number eighteen. Welcome to the the latest edition
Speaker 1: of The Break, Real Life from the s WBC Mortgage Studios.
Speaker 1: At the start and we got to talk about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys first game of the season. They lose thirty one
Speaker 1: to twenty nine, but there are mixed opinions as to
Speaker 1: what that might mean. We're gonna get into all that
Speaker 1: throughout today's show. We're gonna tell you what when right
Speaker 1: and wrong for the Cowboys, where they played well and
Speaker 1: where they had some questionable moments that maybe could have
Speaker 1: led to a win. I want to start though, with
Speaker 1: the big prevailing question I think coming out of a
Speaker 1: game like this, and we alluded to it last week,
Speaker 1: when you play as well as the Cowboys did on
Speaker 1: the road against the defending champions even though you lost
Speaker 1: the game. Do you look at this as a moral
Speaker 1: victory or do you look at as just another loss? Dave?
Speaker 1: You know what's funny, Like they didn't even play that well, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not in the grand like, not in the grand scheme,
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking about special teams missques leaving four points
Speaker 1: on the field, like they had a lot of dumb stuff,
Speaker 1: Like they didn't play the cleanest game in the world.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean by that. But like I'm sorry
Speaker 1: people that just want to win all the time, like
Speaker 1: I am hype today, Derek, I am hype, and I
Speaker 1: can't tell you I thought that was my role. What
Speaker 1: are you doing? But see, the thing is is I'm
Speaker 1: not going to try to tell you what it means
Speaker 1: for eighteen weeks of the season. But this team can
Speaker 1: hang and that matters because they could not last year.
Speaker 1: I mean, like winning is the name of the game.
Speaker 1: They're oh and one. There's nothing they can do to
Speaker 1: change that. But you got a chance every time you
Speaker 1: take the field with a quarterback like Dak Prescott. That's
Speaker 1: really that's what it boils down to for me. And
Speaker 1: if you throw in a defense, they can get takeaways.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna get four every week, but if they
Speaker 1: can reliably do it against somebody as good as Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: and maybe the Bucks aren't. Maybe the Bucks will struggle
Speaker 1: this year, maybe they're you know, we don't know, but
Speaker 1: it's a pretty good bet that they'll be good. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's missed the playoffs how many times in his career?
Speaker 1: Like once? Seriously, how many times is Tom Brady miss
Speaker 1: the playoffs in his career? Like oh eight when he
Speaker 1: tores a c all week one, Like, didn't even count
Speaker 1: that one because Tom's h and O two right after
Speaker 1: his first of seven Super Bowls. Every other he's in
Speaker 1: the playoffs every other fricking year. So they'll probably they
Speaker 1: were an eleven win team that year, ten winting that
Speaker 1: year that they didn't get they'll probably be in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys went to their house and took it
Speaker 1: to the wire and know they didn't win, But I
Speaker 1: can't knitpick that too much after what we had to
Speaker 1: sit through last year. Man. And I think sometime in
Speaker 1: the third quarter when they or maybe it was no
Speaker 1: in the I'm sorry, in the fourth quarter, when they stripped,
Speaker 1: God went on the goal line and gave Dak a
Speaker 1: chance to go down and take the lead. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is all I can really ask for, is if
Speaker 1: they're in the game. They got this badass quarterback who
Speaker 1: can make every throw and it's it's fun and it's entertaining,
Speaker 1: and I like, if you can't find some joy in
Speaker 1: that of knowing that is long like, he gives you
Speaker 1: a chance every week and that's all you can ask for.
Speaker 1: If you can't find some joy in that, maybe reevaluate
Speaker 1: why you're even doing this. Nick moral victory or just
Speaker 1: another loss? Well, because it was just another loss, but
Speaker 1: uh well, I mean moral to me, moral victory is
Speaker 1: if if you're content and I don't want to get
Speaker 1: you too far. I know you and they had a
Speaker 1: whole debate off this last year, but I listened to
Speaker 1: some of their show. I mean that's I mean, if
Speaker 1: you if you have to play that role, you have
Speaker 1: to play the role. I mean, if that's how you
Speaker 1: believe that, I'm sorry. I feel sorry for those two guys,
Speaker 1: Jesse and Nate I'm talking about. I feel sorry if
Speaker 1: they really believe that now, if they're playing the role
Speaker 1: of like we got to be on the other side,
Speaker 1: because Shannon and Kurt, you know, because I was watching
Speaker 1: some of their show, Like, then that's the role they're
Speaker 1: gonna play. If fine play the role. But like, if
Speaker 1: you if you really believe that that gets doom and
Speaker 1: gloom because of that game, I mean, then then why
Speaker 1: are you doing this? Well, why are you being a fan?
Speaker 1: Why are you you know? I mean, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a long season. If the players were excited about it,
Speaker 1: then yeah, you could have a problem. It was a
Speaker 1: quiet plane ride. It was quiet buzz ride. They were
Speaker 1: upset because they know they had had a game. But
Speaker 1: like Dave said, if that's why you how you're gonna
Speaker 1: play like it's the same it's the same reason that
Speaker 1: we got into that argument about the Pittsburgh game back.
Speaker 1: Then if you're gonna play like that, bring it every week,
Speaker 1: because I promise you this, the Eagles, the Chargers, the Giants,
Speaker 1: the Panthers, they can't hang with that if you play
Speaker 1: like that all the time. Okay, we'll get into the
Speaker 1: Charger conversation next week. That's I'm I'm I think that's
Speaker 1: a team that that well, we'll get discussing. But but
Speaker 1: they can't hang with that. We'll talk about that. Now.
Speaker 1: They will not hang with it premature, can we. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'd like to see the Chargers play a game. They
Speaker 1: got a pretty good quarterback too, and a pretty good
Speaker 1: defense too. But anyway, let's talk about that next week. Well,
Speaker 1: and again, if the Cowboys don't go and play like that,
Speaker 1: then then they won't. But I'm just saying it's if
Speaker 1: they go out and play the way that you know,
Speaker 1: and and and they've said they didn't play that great
Speaker 1: they had they had chances to win. They're not better
Speaker 1: than the Bucks. The Cowboys are not better than the Bucks,
Speaker 1: but they could have won the game. All right. I
Speaker 1: want to take you guys to two moments in the game,
Speaker 1: and I want to get what were I want you
Speaker 1: to take go back and think what were your thoughts
Speaker 1: in those moments? The first being, uh, when Greg z
Speaker 1: air Line goes onto the field with I think guess
Speaker 1: it was a minute twenty four at that point, goes
Speaker 1: onto the field to have a field goal try in
Speaker 1: order to give the Cowboys the lead. What were you thinking?
Speaker 1: Backed me up on this? They like, we say, we
Speaker 1: say a lot of stuff, and maybe we embellish. We
Speaker 1: were sitting next to each other Nick had already gone
Speaker 1: down to do his postgame stuff. I was like, they're
Speaker 1: gonna lose. Like they got a time out on the board,
Speaker 1: there's a minute twenty four. Even if he makes this kick,
Speaker 1: Brady's going to do his thing. I mean that's I
Speaker 1: just I felt it in my bones Nick before or
Speaker 1: after the kick, Before the kick, because I think it's
Speaker 1: two different things I'm making. You didn't think he was
Speaker 1: making Yeah, not really, No, I didn't. I didn't think
Speaker 1: he was gonna make the kick. Um. I mean, we've
Speaker 1: we've seen one of the worst field goals of all
Speaker 1: time earlier in the game now, and I understand he
Speaker 1: came back and had something, he had a he had
Speaker 1: a wild night. But I didn't think he was gonna
Speaker 1: make it. But when he when he did make it,
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I mean I thought about Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers and the times that we've seen that before, We've
Speaker 1: seen him going down the field, and so yeah, it
Speaker 1: just seemed like an eternity, you know, and you get
Speaker 1: anythink back to all these other miss kicks. You know,
Speaker 1: I can make another field goal, make one of these
Speaker 1: other field goals, and then I know the game plays
Speaker 1: out differently. But if Tom Brady has to go score
Speaker 1: a touchdown, still still could have done it. No, no,
Speaker 1: but it's totally different. You can't just dink and dunk
Speaker 1: for eight here and four here and all that. When
Speaker 1: you gotta go get a touchdown. It's I mean, it's
Speaker 1: very hard to do. But for somebody of Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: caliber getting into field goal range with that much time,
Speaker 1: like it's it's almost easy, Like it's you gotta make
Speaker 1: it harder. I mean, yeah, they gotta. You gotta make
Speaker 1: him score six. I don't care what the defense is
Speaker 1: against him. No, a guy like that, you're given that
Speaker 1: much time, good luck with that. There isn't a defense
Speaker 1: against I mean there is, but I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys did it against Drew Brees and eighteen. If
Speaker 1: you remember the game, they won thirteen to ten, and
Speaker 1: it's it's doable, but it's really hard. It's why guys
Speaker 1: like Brady and Brees have forty five fifty career game
Speaker 1: winning drives. Yepp so so, did it change once he
Speaker 1: made the field goal? Nick, you mentioned that that kind
Speaker 1: of two different things. Did your opinion change at that
Speaker 1: point or did you then realize oh it twee twenty
Speaker 1: four and Brady's coming on the field. No, I'm standing
Speaker 1: next to one of our PR guys in the tunnel
Speaker 1: and I looked over at him. This is like before midfield,
Speaker 1: and I was like, do you think the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: gonna win? He goes, I do, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I just think he's gonna go and do this. You know,
Speaker 1: after Diggs almost got the pick, yeah, like, oh, I
Speaker 1: thought that was actually the moment. Yeah. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: because he's gonna come out here and get two picks
Speaker 1: off Tom Brady. But no, it just didn't happen. And
Speaker 1: you know that's why he's as good as he is,
Speaker 1: great as he is. Yeah, I'll tell you this. Like
Speaker 1: at the point when when he was about to go
Speaker 1: on the field, I had this conflict because in my
Speaker 1: in my head, I was like Tom Brady one twenty four.
Speaker 1: And I actually have a friend who was a Bucks
Speaker 1: fan who was texting me and I was I told her,
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, he's got one twenty four. I'm
Speaker 1: not feeling really good about this, so my heads tell
Speaker 1: me one thing. But then you know how your intuition
Speaker 1: starts to be like, man, the way they've played this game,
Speaker 1: it would kind of make sense at this point that
Speaker 1: they would make some kind of miraculous play and actually
Speaker 1: win this game. And then and then the moment came
Speaker 1: one play DeMarcus comes screaming around the end, barely missus
Speaker 1: tom Brady's arm to be able to possibly knock the
Speaker 1: ball out. By the way, earlier in the game we
Speaker 1: saw Duran's armstrong hit his arm. Ball didn't come out,
Speaker 1: so there's no guarantee ball comes out even if if
Speaker 1: a tank gets him. He throws the pass, and then
Speaker 1: you got Digs almost intercepting it, and I was like
Speaker 1: that that was the moment. That was the moment that
Speaker 1: to me I would have been like, Okay, yes, this
Speaker 1: team has maybe that ability to win these kinds of games.
Speaker 1: And the fact that they couldn't convert it it kind
Speaker 1: of also said to me that's where their growth area is.
Speaker 1: You got to finish these kinds of games. You played
Speaker 1: a good game to keep you in contention. Those are
Speaker 1: the moments that make the difference between a team that's
Speaker 1: a championship caliber team and a team that just maybe
Speaker 1: makes the playoffs. And then his out I go back
Speaker 1: and forth. I don't think I completely agree with you
Speaker 1: because they made a miraculous play to save the game.
Speaker 1: The strip on Godwin was incredible, but that wasn't finishing
Speaker 1: the game. No, you can still have to finish the game.
Speaker 1: How many times? How many times are you going to
Speaker 1: make that play against Tom Brady in that offense? If
Speaker 1: you're going to beat teams like that, when you're faced
Speaker 1: with those kinds of situations, going to be to figure
Speaker 1: out if you're going to beat teams like that, you
Speaker 1: convert your third downs on your drive and go score
Speaker 1: the touchdown and put the game on great or run
Speaker 1: the blockdown and kick the fuel goal with time running out.
Speaker 1: That's great, and I agree with you. My point is
Speaker 1: once you get beyond that point and you now have
Speaker 1: a two point you have one point lead with one
Speaker 1: twenty four left, if you're going to be a championship
Speaker 1: caliber team, you gotta find a way to make a stop.
Speaker 1: We do this. We do this every time the Cowboys
Speaker 1: play a god tier quarterback. Is it's like you gotta
Speaker 1: make the play aginst Aaron Rodgers or do you got
Speaker 1: to not put your defense in a position where they're
Speaker 1: forced to be the ones that have to make the
Speaker 1: all that's fine side toward the strength of your team,
Speaker 1: which is the offense. The offense left opportunities on the field. True,
Speaker 1: we're going into the weeds. And I guess and that's
Speaker 1: why Nick's laughs. I just laughing because I'm like, you're right,
Speaker 1: like to be a championship team, but how about we
Speaker 1: just how about let's work on getting winning record again.
Speaker 1: I mean, like last year was so bad and so
Speaker 1: um and as I wrote and my you know, my
Speaker 1: story is like this is one thing I could tell
Speaker 1: about this team is they're a pretty good football team.
Speaker 1: They are a pretty good team. Now. Really good teams
Speaker 1: will go and do those things you're talking about. So
Speaker 1: it's only been one game. We haven't seen it, but
Speaker 1: I can tell right now. I didn't know anything about
Speaker 1: camp and preseason, I know anything about the team, but
Speaker 1: I know right now that this is a pretty good
Speaker 1: football team that can get better. And it's going to
Speaker 1: get better because they got the best guard in football,
Speaker 1: one of which is coming back. That won't make you
Speaker 1: one to mention. Yep, I know we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore. I thought Kellen Moore should get some praise
Speaker 1: for how he played that game. All that game and
Speaker 1: just to be clear, I'm not this is not so
Speaker 1: much a knock on them as much as what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is that's their growth opportunity and Whycaeld Parson talked
Speaker 1: talked about it after the game. He said, you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about where we can be better,
Speaker 1: that's the kind of plays that we got to make
Speaker 1: in order to finish games like That's my point is, yes,
Speaker 1: they're not there yet, and that doesn't mean it's a
Speaker 1: bad things. It means that if you're looking at them
Speaker 1: and you're trying to be objective about how do we
Speaker 1: play yesterday and how do we take that next step
Speaker 1: to be that next level team. That's how you take
Speaker 1: that dex level, both of the offense and for the defense.
Speaker 1: Offense has to do some stuff, defense has to do
Speaker 1: some stuff different. I don't disagree. I just and you're right,
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right, you're right, But it's the missed
Speaker 1: opportunities for me or again, offense was they had such
Speaker 1: a great night against that defense, not having Zach the
Speaker 1: way the way Kellen called that game was masterful at times,
Speaker 1: but you know, you go one of four in the
Speaker 1: red zone that option played a Zeke her things man,
Speaker 1: such a great call. Jarwin can't get the block on
Speaker 1: the edge. Ze can't make a cornerback miss or truck him.
Speaker 1: You'd like to think Zeke could truck that guy, especially
Speaker 1: when I'm looking for him on the roster and he's
Speaker 1: on he was on the practice squad. Well, that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean what it usually means fair, But I get your point.
Speaker 1: If it Darian Thompson the same way, and I would
Speaker 1: think Leonard Fournett would truck him. Good point. But you know,
Speaker 1: we saw a reverse to Cooper in the preseason to
Speaker 1: Jarvin and he did the same thing. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: like out in space, saw that. I didn't think it wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, do we have a new starting tight end?
Speaker 1: Is that what's going on here? Den? Surprise me? Does
Speaker 1: it surprise you guys? I'm not ready to go there
Speaker 1: just yet. It's just because it's weak one. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Dalton Schultz is he got the he got
Speaker 1: the bulk of it. I still think there's gonna be
Speaker 1: plenty of opportunity for both. But it was a Schultz night.
Speaker 1: But I think we saw, I mean we saw. I
Speaker 1: mean we talked about this earlier in the preseason. This
Speaker 1: was a guy that last year put up sixty three
Speaker 1: sixty three catches. I mean like he had a lot
Speaker 1: of production for this offense last year. I didn't think
Speaker 1: it was just a foregone conclusion that Blake Jarwin just
Speaker 1: came back and assumed the starting position. I think Dalton
Speaker 1: Schultz earned the right to continue to be the starter.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be a different type of tidda. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, three catches for Jarman, but he also had
Speaker 1: to play down the field. That got a PI, you know,
Speaker 1: and so he's gonna be a little bit more downfield threat.
Speaker 1: But I think the way, especially with this offensive line
Speaker 1: the way it was last night, I think Dak's gonna
Speaker 1: get the ball out quick to guys like that, and
Speaker 1: I think Schultz is going to benefit a little bit
Speaker 1: more if it's just getting the ball out quick. All right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take our first break and we come back.
Speaker 1: We'll get more into this game. We got to talk
Speaker 1: about Dak Prescott and certainly about Kellen More and kind
Speaker 1: of game he called. We'll do it when we come
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Speaker 1: Welcome back into the second segment of The Break Life
Speaker 1: from s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we're talking
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys first game in the season. They lose
Speaker 1: thirty one to twenty nine. Still very a lot of
Speaker 1: positive things. I was not gonna I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: a positive thing that they lost, but a lot of
Speaker 1: positive things to be taken out of that game. Jim No,
Speaker 1: I just like I already said it. I mean, if
Speaker 1: nobody wants them to lose, but if you're furious about
Speaker 1: this result, just take a deep breath. I would just say,
Speaker 1: enjoy this because this is sport and entertainment. So take
Speaker 1: a moment just to relax and enjoy where we are. Like,
Speaker 1: that was fun. That was That was one of those games.
Speaker 1: That was one of those games where you're like, somebody
Speaker 1: has to lose and that's unfortunate. What was that. I
Speaker 1: think it may have been third maybe early fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: when you looked over at me and you said, no
Speaker 1: matter what happens. From here on out. I'm good, That's
Speaker 1: what I mean. And you know, it would be amazing
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys made a playoff run and and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. But like all you can ask for is
Speaker 1: that the games are fun and entertaining every week, because
Speaker 1: we've no firsthand what it's like when they're not, and worst,
Speaker 1: it's like Sundays like going to a funeral every week.
Speaker 1: Like nobody wants that right, and you're not gonna win
Speaker 1: them all, but at least they're fun. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about Dak Prescott. Yesterday. He goes forty to a fifty
Speaker 1: seventy two percent completion percentage, four hundred and three yards,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, only one interception, which I don't even think
Speaker 1: was this fault, but he got one interception, had a
Speaker 1: one hundred point one hundred and one point four rating.
Speaker 1: Tell me what was the favorite thing you saw from
Speaker 1: him yesterday in his return to the field after that injury.
Speaker 1: Nick so many to choose from, including the first play,
Speaker 1: but I thought the touchdown passed to Cooper when the
Speaker 1: snapple was low and he dropped it, picked it up
Speaker 1: and I mean without even panicking, no screen, you know,
Speaker 1: just just got his eye, his back on one where
Speaker 1: he needed to be. Is also a good trust in
Speaker 1: Tomar knowing where he is. And it reminded me of
Speaker 1: the game in twenty fifteen where the Cowboys were going
Speaker 1: to play the Giants on Week one. UM and it
Speaker 1: was like last play of the game, ten seconds to go,
Speaker 1: Romo's driving him down the field and fred Frederick kind
Speaker 1: of low snap, same thing. He just picked it up,
Speaker 1: calmly through it to Witten for a game winner. And
Speaker 1: at the end of Romo's career he was kind of
Speaker 1: doing plays like that, UM And I thought that was
Speaker 1: very similar for for for Dak, I mean, and just
Speaker 1: just a play like that. I thought that was just
Speaker 1: total under control despite a little chaotic scene. I could
Speaker 1: do a whole segment on what I loved about that, actually,
Speaker 1: the whole the whole thing, all right, I want, I
Speaker 1: won't do, but I mean, like he made so many
Speaker 1: amazing throws. The best throw of his night might have
Speaker 1: not it might have been one that didn't count. The
Speaker 1: throw that he made the CD on the It was
Speaker 1: the final field goal drive before Brady got the ball
Speaker 1: on Tyron Smith got called for holding, just dropped it
Speaker 1: in a bucket right in this in the gap in
Speaker 1: the zone to CD. Just his placement was incredible all night.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just it was everything that makes
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott great. He got rocked. I mean, they were
Speaker 1: pressure in the hell out of him. There was a
Speaker 1: play I think he threw it to a Mari. He
Speaker 1: got the pass off and completed it. The rush came in.
Speaker 1: They literally they body slammed him. I mean, and he
Speaker 1: was he was dealing with that all night. Didn't phase
Speaker 1: him one bit. The fumble play, you know, he had
Speaker 1: a quarterback keeper. I think somebody stepped on his hand
Speaker 1: and they had to glue the cut shut and he's
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, whatever, and they got it. He called
Speaker 1: it medic stuff. After the game, he was like, they
Speaker 1: did some medic stuff so I'd stop bleeding and I
Speaker 1: got back in the game. Um, Bays are crazy more
Speaker 1: than anything. And this is this is just me. I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to him about it, but his demeanor after
Speaker 1: the game was very impressive to me. Uh okay, I
Speaker 1: go back twenty nineteen, and in the early part of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, you lose games. You know, they were eight
Speaker 1: and eighteen in nineteen. They obviously got off to a
Speaker 1: rough star last year, and he looked frustrated after games
Speaker 1: and like didn't have answers to the questions and YadA YadA,
Speaker 1: and I you know, I know he doesn't didn't want
Speaker 1: to lose last night, but he just exuded this like cool,
Speaker 1: like he just was like, yeah, they got us, We'll
Speaker 1: be okay, we'll be back. Yeah, I mean, and that
Speaker 1: that's cool and that's gonna that's gonna make headlines. You know.
Speaker 1: Romo said that to people, to quarterbacks do that. It's
Speaker 1: it's cool. But just just his whole demeanor was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we lost this one, we're gonna win a lot. And
Speaker 1: you know he's he was like, the expectation is that
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're a good team that's gonna make a
Speaker 1: playoff push. I mean to say that after you fall
Speaker 1: to OZ and one, Uh, just the whole way he
Speaker 1: carried himself, like don't take this the wrong way. Like
Speaker 1: he didn't look angry, and not to say that he's
Speaker 1: not taking the loss hard, but he just was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like we're going we're coming back. We're gonna win some games.
Speaker 1: Like and I thought that that was really impressive, especially
Speaker 1: to come so close to such a big win and
Speaker 1: to just kind of be like, yeah, we'll be okay.
Speaker 1: I thought that was really impressive. Yeah, it's interesting. After
Speaker 1: the game, I think it was I want to say
Speaker 1: it was a MARII that said this, but one of
Speaker 1: the guys in the post game said, yeah, the only
Speaker 1: thing that we know of what coach Toolson locking. Only
Speaker 1: thing we know at this point is we won't go undefeated,
Speaker 1: like everything else is still on the table for us,
Speaker 1: and so I think that was that seemed to be
Speaker 1: the impression I got from most of those guys was
Speaker 1: like it was CAZy that said they're going to go
Speaker 1: for sixteen and one. Okay, good on him. Good on
Speaker 1: him for remembering that it's a seventeen game schedule, because
Speaker 1: I would have said fifteen, because when he said that,
Speaker 1: I was first. I would have so I said, so
Speaker 1: it's gonna be sixteen and one. He said, yes, sixteen
Speaker 1: and one. Hey, I like her confidence. I hope they
Speaker 1: can back it up and if we if it's if
Speaker 1: it's like what we saw last night, I think they'll
Speaker 1: do way more winning this year than they will do losing.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons why I thought they won obviously,
Speaker 1: Dak was one of them. The other is I think
Speaker 1: the guy calling those plays on offense was a huge
Speaker 1: reason nick I pointed out to you earlier in the game.
Speaker 1: I think it was the first touchdown, I think where
Speaker 1: they he kind of did a pump fake and then
Speaker 1: went down field to CD and And it was basically
Speaker 1: set up earlier in that drive Kellen Moore, because they
Speaker 1: spread out the receivers. They had basically at twelve person
Speaker 1: know that two tight ends in the game, which gives
Speaker 1: you the right kind of matchups, but they split everybody
Speaker 1: out wide, so each side, imagine this, you got a
Speaker 1: tight end and then staggered off of them, you got
Speaker 1: off the line of screen and you got a wide
Speaker 1: receiver on both sides. And earlier in that same drive,
Speaker 1: they had hit one of those wide receivers up tight
Speaker 1: on a screen and that drew the defense up and
Speaker 1: then on that play they pump fake and then your
Speaker 1: downfield here you go. It's it's a little bit of
Speaker 1: an injustice to just call it a pump fake too.
Speaker 1: It was an out and out like fake screen because
Speaker 1: you you faked the smoke screen, then CDs still got
Speaker 1: to get eighteen yards down field. I mean, you're putting
Speaker 1: a lot of trust in your offensive lineup. That is
Speaker 1: a slow developing play. It was really impressive. So tell
Speaker 1: me what was What did you notice about Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: and how he called that game yesterday. Well, I thought
Speaker 1: he did a great job of knowing that that we're
Speaker 1: not going to run the ball of the medal here,
Speaker 1: like this is their strength, this is our weakness of
Speaker 1: the offensive line, and it's just it's not gonna it's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. So let's go sideline the sideline, Let's
Speaker 1: make it wide. Let's do different plays. Um. And I
Speaker 1: said this I think earlier in the week about you know,
Speaker 1: some trick plays or throw them all out there, and
Speaker 1: they did. They kind of had some different things out there,
Speaker 1: a lot of different It looked like a college game,
Speaker 1: which is great. You know, Um, I don't use Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard the way Dave's been asking them to use Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard for a long time. And so you know, now
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, last play, I think,
Speaker 1: I like my quarterback out there. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that was. Yeah, I don't know what we watched that
Speaker 1: from the tunnel. I don't even know for sure what
Speaker 1: happened to be honest with you. Did I hear this right?
Speaker 1: Because no one can back me up on this. I
Speaker 1: haven't watched it. Did Mica Parsons snap the ball? Told
Speaker 1: me that I had? I didn't notice that. I gotta
Speaker 1: go back and I watched this. I don't know he did.
Speaker 1: I I was looking at I had a terrible view
Speaker 1: that wouldn't let me on the field. Right at the end,
Speaker 1: I was like looking and I'm like, why is dackling sideline?
Speaker 1: I've never seen a play like Parsons two in a game.
Speaker 1: I've always it's always a hell Mary. I've never seen
Speaker 1: a situation where it was going to be just run
Speaker 1: the ball, he can do it, throw it back and
Speaker 1: all that. It's kind of a hopeless situation anyway. No,
Speaker 1: I like the creativity to trying something different. I mean,
Speaker 1: likely you were going to get a hell Mary in
Speaker 1: that situation. Probably wasn't great. So and maybe it's not
Speaker 1: straying the quarterback's shoulder asking him to throw eighty yards either.
Speaker 1: I just wish that this whole time we were worrying
Speaker 1: about who the backup center was gonna be, it was
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons all along. Like I didn't realize he was
Speaker 1: the backup center. I know what you're saying. I get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had such a nerd crush about Kellen Moore's game
Speaker 1: plan last night. It was so cool and it, I mean,
Speaker 1: it reminded me of the first three games of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: You'll never convince me ever, I'll say it forever. Something
Speaker 1: happened in week four of twenty nineteen, like they somebody
Speaker 1: forced Kellen to put the fun playbook away and get
Speaker 1: the boring playbook out. Maybe it was Jason Garrett. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but this was the fun playbook ads so
Speaker 1: creative to get you know, utilize short passing to substitute
Speaker 1: the running game the way they had Pollard involved RPOs
Speaker 1: to screen game like just all sorts of stuff like that,
Speaker 1: where zeke is an option to keep it if the
Speaker 1: look is right, but you don't have to do it.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the fakes, you know, setting up the fake
Speaker 1: to CD. You know, I don't know if you want
Speaker 1: to do super duper gadget plays like that all the time.
Speaker 1: But even the the fake reverse that Tony Polygrand like,
Speaker 1: that's where you can literally change the whole play by
Speaker 1: just telling Tony, hey, stick the ball out when you
Speaker 1: run past coop and it gives a defense a completely
Speaker 1: different look. It was just it was fun. It was
Speaker 1: really fun. But at some point you've got to be
Speaker 1: able to run the football. And that's the problem with
Speaker 1: I mean, like, it was fun and cool and and
Speaker 1: I'm with you, but when they got down into the
Speaker 1: red zone, you can't just knock people off the ball.
Speaker 1: There's that's that's gonna be an issue with this. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about that because I personally believe that that was
Speaker 1: a function of the team you were playing. This was
Speaker 1: the number one rush defense in the league in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: and I and the times they did run like they
Speaker 1: were getting nothing out of it. And I think as
Speaker 1: opposed to some years that we've seen this team where
Speaker 1: they continue to kind of beat their head against the
Speaker 1: brick wall and have basically meaningless plays because they know
Speaker 1: they can't do something that they keep trying to do.
Speaker 1: They just opted to say, hey, we're just gonna back
Speaker 1: up and throw the ball. So what what are you
Speaker 1: doing that situation where you know the front, you can't
Speaker 1: beat this front, And from the standpoint of running the ball,
Speaker 1: what are you doing that situation? I do what the
Speaker 1: Bucks did I do what other teams do, what the
Speaker 1: Bears do. If Quentin Bohanna is gonna be active, then
Speaker 1: get his ass out there and let him be a
Speaker 1: lead blocker. Let him do something different. Get some beef
Speaker 1: up there. Your tight ends have no beef, like you
Speaker 1: want to let them be pass catchers and cool. And
Speaker 1: maybe they're all good fantasy players, but they're but they're
Speaker 1: not blockers. And so twelve percent problem. They should have
Speaker 1: handled back in the season like they don't. They got
Speaker 1: two guys that are pretty much the same, and so
Speaker 1: they're not SATs from a standpoint of getting some meat.
Speaker 1: They should have had a foot fullback that they wanted
Speaker 1: to be able to do that right something. I mean
Speaker 1: Tampa did does it. They put their star defensive tackle
Speaker 1: out there and do it just for a player or two,
Speaker 1: but they do it, and so you got to figure
Speaker 1: out different ways to run the ball. So yeah, Tampa,
Speaker 1: you know that they could say that trick play us
Speaker 1: all day. You won, but when you get down to it,
Speaker 1: you're really not going to score. I would just like
Speaker 1: to point out that, I mean Tampa did a better
Speaker 1: job in the red zone, but I mean the Bucks
Speaker 1: ran fourteen times for fifty two yards. It's not like
Speaker 1: they bulldozed the Cowboys. The run defense with the Cowboys
Speaker 1: was very good. Yesterday. I thought, it's right, it means
Speaker 1: different arguments, right, I mean, I'm just I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I just I guess I feel like I never felt
Speaker 1: like there was a time where the Bucks were like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna saddle up and pound it down your throat,
Speaker 1: like the Bucks were doing the same thing they threw
Speaker 1: Tom Brady through fifty times. Right, I've said this thousand times.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter who you're playing. When push comes
Speaker 1: to shove, they don't. They don't shove, they don't knock
Speaker 1: people off the ball. And that has been a problem
Speaker 1: with the red zone is that they have to rely
Speaker 1: on Dak or you know, making a play because that
Speaker 1: they're not just going to bull those people over the line.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with that, um I do, you know,
Speaker 1: and one game is such a small sample size, but
Speaker 1: you look at this, I mean, you look at the stats,
Speaker 1: and that's it's so clever, Like I don't care what
Speaker 1: Zeke's stat line is. Michael Gallup probably twenty of his
Speaker 1: thirty six receiving yards came on balls that were within
Speaker 1: two yards of the line of scrimmage. Same thing for
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard's receptions. Same thing. You know, Dalton Schultz had
Speaker 1: that really nifty screen. If you add up receptions that
Speaker 1: happened at the line of scrimmage and went free yardage,
Speaker 1: that's another sixty quote unquote rushing yards to your total.
Speaker 1: So now you're looking at it and say, oh, they
Speaker 1: had one hundred and twenty rushing yards. Nobody's talking about this.
Speaker 1: If we get a month into the season and this
Speaker 1: is what all of Zeke's stat lines look like, that's problematic. Um,
Speaker 1: But right now, I'm impressed that they had the adaptability
Speaker 1: to play it a different way because we saw them
Speaker 1: just try to stubbornly match a square peg into a
Speaker 1: roundhole for years and it never around. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I said it, right, Yeah, the same thing. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: I mean we'll talk about this on Monday. I was
Speaker 1: just telling you guys, I want to really dive into
Speaker 1: that because I do think to some degree, there's an
Speaker 1: argument that can be made that the identity of this
Speaker 1: team has shifted and they are this what we saw
Speaker 1: last night maybe what you may expect to see for
Speaker 1: the next who knows we can save this season. We
Speaker 1: can on Monday. We can save it for Monday, but
Speaker 1: that shift happen is not. Let's talk about that on Monday,
Speaker 1: because I do think there's some things we got to
Speaker 1: talk about. There's some nuances to that. Let's take our
Speaker 1: final break when we come back. We gotta take some
Speaker 1: time to talk about the offensive line, because I think
Speaker 1: going into that game, most of us thought that the
Speaker 1: big telltale was the fact that you didn't have your
Speaker 1: best offensive linement. Connor mcgovernment was going to have to start.
Speaker 1: The question for you guys is how did he play?
Speaker 1: And was that a problem for them? Was it a
Speaker 1: big of a problem as most peop I thought it
Speaker 1: would be. We'll talk about that when we come back.
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Speaker 1: SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star Cowboys lose thirty one
Speaker 1: twenty nine to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Next week they
Speaker 1: will be taking on the Sandy, I'm not San Diego
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers. We'll be out there next Sunday for
Speaker 1: game number two. We'll get into that next week on
Speaker 1: what that game may look like. But before we get
Speaker 1: to that, we do need to talk about this offensive line.
Speaker 1: As I said before the break, I personally thought that
Speaker 1: the biggest problem that the Cowboys would possibly face last
Speaker 1: night would be not having their their their best offensive player,
Speaker 1: maybe definitely their best offensive lineman is Zach Martin and
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor. We're trying to replace him. What did you think,
Speaker 1: Connor McGregor, I'm sorry, interesting, it's Connor McGovern. That's funny
Speaker 1: McGovern trying to replace him. What do you guys think
Speaker 1: of the offensive line playing, specifically the play of Connor McGovern.
Speaker 1: I thought they protected him, you know, I mean I
Speaker 1: thought he played a decent game, um, you know, and
Speaker 1: they threw the ball a lot, and that didn't really
Speaker 1: get hit that much. I mean, well he got hit somebody,
Speaker 1: he got hit somebody. Didn't get any sacks, just the
Speaker 1: one critical sack too, Like that was a bad one.
Speaker 1: That was on Doc. You gotta throw that away or
Speaker 1: gotta do something different that. You know, they were first
Speaker 1: and ten on the twenty one yard line, and they
Speaker 1: ended up kicking a sixty yard field goal, which somebody
Speaker 1: explained to me why that happened. Um, I was a
Speaker 1: bad coaching decision right there, and I'm just gonna be
Speaker 1: nice about it. I think I just don't know how
Speaker 1: you kick it. Unbelievable, especially he's struggling to make anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had thirty one yard field goal that
Speaker 1: did not hit the net. Can I throw this out?
Speaker 1: Though they hit the ship? I thought about this and
Speaker 1: even kicking that way, I'm gonna say, I don't think
Speaker 1: that was the right end zone. But it's a good
Speaker 1: job not about this. Do you think that maybe that
Speaker 1: was one of those situations where there was only upside
Speaker 1: from the standpoint of your kicker's mentality, like no, wait,
Speaker 1: let me hear me out. Sorry, a sixty yarders if
Speaker 1: you miss it. Your kicker doesn't feel bad about missing
Speaker 1: a sixty yarder if he makes it. Whatever it happened previously,
Speaker 1: that now feels a lot better because I made a
Speaker 1: sixty yard Or do you think that maybe that was
Speaker 1: a part of the thought process of the head coach
Speaker 1: with one second left in the clock, right yes, but
Speaker 1: not with fifteen and not with Tom Brady. And I
Speaker 1: mean they had a miscommunication. They could have easily gotten
Speaker 1: in there and gotten a field full. No. I from
Speaker 1: the strategy of the game, I agree with you completely.
Speaker 1: I'm asking if you're trying to rationalize how the coach
Speaker 1: came to this decision. Okay, that maybe is a part
Speaker 1: of the fact that I see it and then you
Speaker 1: immediately immediately, you immediately say, but then you give the
Speaker 1: goat to ball at the fifty with twenty seven? Did
Speaker 1: you see He's amazing the way that, like again he
Speaker 1: got them into fuel goal range with like so much
Speaker 1: time to spare, and he's just chucking out routes. He's like,
Speaker 1: I know this is only going to take two seconds
Speaker 1: off the clock. I can't prove this, We'll never know,
Speaker 1: but and I know a lot of people are complaining
Speaker 1: about it. The miscommunication with Antonio Brown. Brown ran a
Speaker 1: hitch and he threw deep. He's smart enough that he
Speaker 1: could have done that on purpose, because he was like, well,
Speaker 1: what I want not there? But they can't throw a
Speaker 1: flag on me for doing this. That's just expertise that
Speaker 1: comes with twenty two years of playing in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You're putting him on the fifty with twenty seconds to play. No,
Speaker 1: and by the way, you get the ball coming out
Speaker 1: a halftime, so you have all the opportunity to just
Speaker 1: grab the game in the second half if he misses
Speaker 1: the kick. And it worked out. It worked out, they
Speaker 1: got lucky. But even a fuel goal puts them up
Speaker 1: eight and all, and so now you can't even you
Speaker 1: can't even All you can do is tie the game.
Speaker 1: Best case scenario. It was. It was stupid. It was
Speaker 1: it was bad game management. I asked Mike about it
Speaker 1: last night and he kind of dismissed. His answer was icy,
Speaker 1: and I was like, saw he just he. I was like,
Speaker 1: it was like, was there a debate or a conversation,
Speaker 1: like how did you come to this decision? He was like,
Speaker 1: I just had a lot of confidence in Greg and
Speaker 1: and and that was It was a very f you
Speaker 1: kind of tone. Definitely, I don't know, because he didn't
Speaker 1: do anything in the offseason. He's got back surgery. His
Speaker 1: kickoffs are not going to the end zone anymore. His
Speaker 1: field goal went way left, he missed an extra point.
Speaker 1: What a part of all of that says he's gonna
Speaker 1: kill a sixty yard or here and and it'll be
Speaker 1: fine and we have no recourse. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: I just don't understand that. Now, Okay, I didn't get that,
Speaker 1: but I also will say this. You know, he did
Speaker 1: a nice job of getting the team ready to play.
Speaker 1: Like this team was prepared, played hard, they played well.
Speaker 1: They didn't care about anything else the outside noise. I
Speaker 1: do give him credit for that, but that that, you know,
Speaker 1: which is their job. I get it, it's their job.
Speaker 1: But like they came in there to hit him in
Speaker 1: the mouth and win that game. And I just did
Speaker 1: not understand that when and they got lucky that it
Speaker 1: didn't bite him and I and when I said at
Speaker 1: the top of the show, they were kind of sloppy
Speaker 1: the more you think about it. And I mean, the
Speaker 1: defense is going to give up play as Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: that's just gonna happen. Sorry, um, but especial special teams man.
Speaker 1: And it's not just Zerline, Like they gave up the
Speaker 1: long kick return. Zerline wasn't he wasn't getting balls in
Speaker 1: the end zone, which is kind of concerning. Um. I
Speaker 1: just thought they kind of looked like crap in that
Speaker 1: aspect of the game. It's great that he rebounded to
Speaker 1: kick the go ahead fuel goal, but that was gross,
Speaker 1: and I mean it just was it was. It was
Speaker 1: if And you know, we've been this has been a
Speaker 1: very positive show. First. I mean we've done we've done
Speaker 1: some shows where we just killed everybody after a loss.
Speaker 1: No doubt. This is a very positive post lost show.
Speaker 1: But if you're looking for something that I really hated,
Speaker 1: basically everything about the way they manage their special teams
Speaker 1: sucked last night in my opinion. Yeah, And I think
Speaker 1: it all goes back to starts, and it has a
Speaker 1: lot to do with what's going on with a kicker,
Speaker 1: And I think we got to talk a little more
Speaker 1: about that. We'll probably get into that on our next show.
Speaker 1: When we talked a little bit about what the kicker,
Speaker 1: I'm laughing because you guys in here, our producer, in
Speaker 1: our ears, we're talking about the kicker? Correct, Right, boy?
Speaker 1: We got a phone call. We gotta get to this
Speaker 1: phone call because I'm sure, I am absolutely positive she's
Speaker 1: got some takes from that game. Welcome to the show,
Speaker 1: Miss Ambercarcia. Amber, what up? Hey, guys, I just heard
Speaker 1: Day say, oh boy, but you know what, you guys
Speaker 1: got a positive amber today. Oh, abstivity today. Okay, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm mainly Collings because I want to know, do you
Speaker 1: guys and I myself qualify for a ring? I'm sorry
Speaker 1: if I would. If I could have put money on
Speaker 1: anybody calling us a bunch of bums for being excited
Speaker 1: about a loss, I would have bet it would be
Speaker 1: used with the Obviously they don't. They don't do NFC
Speaker 1: East rings, right, we know that everybody knows that. Now
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. You're talking about a Super Bowl ring? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I did see last night one of our one of
Speaker 1: our counterparts that works in the digital on the digital
Speaker 1: media staff for the Bucks was walking around with her
Speaker 1: big shiny ring and she's only two years in. So
Speaker 1: I'm guessing they went top to bottom in their organization
Speaker 1: they do. Those things are ridiculous. Yeah, those are paperweights. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're huge. Yeah. And if the Cowboys ever win a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, a paperweight you want on your desk, That's true,
Speaker 1: It'll be like a watch ring. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say this. I'm guessing what will probably happen is they
Speaker 1: will have one that they give to the players and
Speaker 1: they'll have a replica version that maybe they decide to
Speaker 1: let let employees. Yeah, gee, I thought you were calling
Speaker 1: to bring us back to reality. What are you doing? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what it is. You know what it was.
Speaker 1: I was going into this game. Obviously, I've been kind
Speaker 1: of keeping up with things, but not like very deep
Speaker 1: like you guys during training camp and all that. But
Speaker 1: what it was for me is that training camp. Okay,
Speaker 1: you hear about Dak and the shoulder injury. Then you
Speaker 1: hear you know SAG's not gonna play then, and I
Speaker 1: know these were preseason games, and I know it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: it doesn't count. You're looking for other things other than wings,
Speaker 1: but it does suck when you don't win a freaking
Speaker 1: single preseason game, Like it doesn't annoy me. So my expectations,
Speaker 1: my point is, my expectations for this game we're pretty low.
Speaker 1: To be honest. The defense, I wasn't trusting them or anything.
Speaker 1: And then we hear about the rain in Tampa and
Speaker 1: then I'm like, okay, won't this is not looking good? Sorry,
Speaker 1: my baby buddy, He's like, no rings the punt is.
Speaker 1: My expectations were kind of low for the game. So
Speaker 1: when they putted the way they did, I was pretty
Speaker 1: excited to be Dus performed the way he did, and
Speaker 1: it like, I'm like in a more positive mood because
Speaker 1: of how all my expectations were, if that makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's probably a lot of fans out there
Speaker 1: like that, that they went into this game assuming and
Speaker 1: by the way you look across all I was watching
Speaker 1: all the shows yesterday as we were waiting for the game,
Speaker 1: across the board everywhere, all the picks were Bucks, Bucks, Bucks, Bucks.
Speaker 1: Even on our shows, like Bucks Bucks, everybody's picking the Bucks.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think there was this feeling I think
Speaker 1: from a lot of fans that as of last night
Speaker 1: or this morning, where they were like, you know, like
Speaker 1: if everybody picked it that much of a landslide and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys played the way they did, that's actually somewhat
Speaker 1: of a like I feel better about that, even though
Speaker 1: it was a loss. Right, the Cowboys employ one of
Speaker 1: the four or five best quarterbacks in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: he looked every bit the part last night. And if
Speaker 1: that's if that's what you got, you got a chance
Speaker 1: in every game you play, it's really all you can
Speaker 1: ask for. So you should feel pretty good about what
Speaker 1: happened last night. We were seeing that last year. He
Speaker 1: was giving them a chance. They didn't win some of
Speaker 1: those games, he was giving them a chance. Sometimes they did,
Speaker 1: sometimes they didn't, but they were sorry not to cut
Speaker 1: you off. They were playing bad football. Him included like
Speaker 1: they were playing awful football. They played pretty good football
Speaker 1: last night, not completely great, but pretty good kicker. But
Speaker 1: the other thing before you guys are going to the
Speaker 1: coal kicker situation, the other thing for me was also
Speaker 1: is that it didn't take the whole first half of
Speaker 1: the game for them to do things. You know, it
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, they started off and they were doing something,
Speaker 1: and then they were keeping up with the Bucks, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't like, oh, we're getting into the third quarter
Speaker 1: then the fourth quarter for them to kind of try
Speaker 1: to catch up to them. So that was another aspect
Speaker 1: that for me was pretty positive and just feeling like, man, okay,
Speaker 1: but didn't start with the super slow first half of
Speaker 1: the game, and that we're doing moving the ball and
Speaker 1: doing a few things now with the kicker position. You
Speaker 1: guys can take on that conversation, this is ridiculous. I
Speaker 1: don't understand what the problem is. How hard is it
Speaker 1: to kick the ball right right? There we go, like
Speaker 1: an extra point. Really, Like, okay, I was thinking, where
Speaker 1: can I put my Damn Bailey poster? I know that
Speaker 1: was a long time ago, but um, how hard is
Speaker 1: it to find a damn Bailey back in the days
Speaker 1: when he was good? You can probably find him right now.
Speaker 1: You know. That's actually take on that conversation. All right,
Speaker 1: thanks gad to hear from you all. You know, that's
Speaker 1: act an interesting thing. I was having a similar conversation
Speaker 1: with my wife this morning about the game, and she
Speaker 1: was asking a similar question like is there somebody else
Speaker 1: out there? And I'm like, yeah, but this is the
Speaker 1: problem that teams face at this part at this time, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there are other guys you could go out and get,
Speaker 1: but you're basically giving up one problem that you know
Speaker 1: for an unknown problem. Like whoever's out on the street,
Speaker 1: there's a reason they're on the street, and they're probably
Speaker 1: even if they come in and they get on a
Speaker 1: streak where they're just like kicking everything, there's a reason
Speaker 1: why they're on the street, and at some point it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna rear its ugly head and then you're right
Speaker 1: back into that same inconsistency. So it's like you know,
Speaker 1: there's only there's several teams, and there are several teams
Speaker 1: in the league. They have a really good kicker, and
Speaker 1: they're good everybody else. They're kind of just hoping their
Speaker 1: guy can make the kicks they need because there's not
Speaker 1: really much recourse. Which and complicating this is Greg Zerline
Speaker 1: has a contract that is not your average kicker contract.
Speaker 1: I mean, they signed him for three years, seven million,
Speaker 1: so and they've freed up cap space with the restructures,
Speaker 1: but cutting him would cost like two or three million dollars.
Speaker 1: And I don't kick. I don't think that's something that
Speaker 1: you want to do after one week. If it persists,
Speaker 1: eventually things come to a head. But after one week. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to whoever said this on Twitter. I don't
Speaker 1: remember who it was, But I don't hate the idea.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think they need to cut Greg today.
Speaker 1: That's at a little bit of an overreaction for me,
Speaker 1: even though he was bad last night. But you could
Speaker 1: sign another kicker to your practice squad and even get
Speaker 1: you know, give Greg, that would give Greg time if
Speaker 1: he's not right, if he's not healthy, get him healthy,
Speaker 1: or just work until you feel more confident or whatever,
Speaker 1: But there's sixteen spots on your practice squad. I'd like
Speaker 1: to think you could afford to carry an extra kicker
Speaker 1: for at least a month or so. Do you think
Speaker 1: it's maybe even worth it to put that guy on
Speaker 1: the active roster and let him kick off, Because that's
Speaker 1: the other part to this. That's not when now we're
Speaker 1: going real college foot but I'm thinking about from a sandpoint,
Speaker 1: if his back is still an issue and he's having
Speaker 1: to work it back, the last thing you want to
Speaker 1: just put too much on him. So is that made
Speaker 1: a better in between this? He did say after the game,
Speaker 1: he did say that two or three of those kickoffs
Speaker 1: that were short where that was the call, that was
Speaker 1: the call now because they did come out and kicked
Speaker 1: after after that he did go go through. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's if he's heard or not or
Speaker 1: still you know, not one hundred percent. He did have
Speaker 1: back surgery, but um, you know it just the mechanics
Speaker 1: of that, the ugly field goal, that was just something
Speaker 1: we just haven't seen now. He kind of corrected himself
Speaker 1: as things were going. I didn't really get a good
Speaker 1: view of the sixty yard or was it online. Was
Speaker 1: it just short? I could tell the way our angle was,
Speaker 1: it was hard to see. It was definitely wide. It
Speaker 1: was short. Kind of was hoping that guy back there
Speaker 1: would return it like so that that would at least
Speaker 1: have less field. Well, I mean, got a tackle him,
Speaker 1: and we've seen Alabama fans will tell you that that's
Speaker 1: not always easy. But um, you know, not that we're
Speaker 1: should to talk about college football, but but I do
Speaker 1: think I do think that that I still just hate
Speaker 1: the kick. I hate the call, but I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna turn it around and be OK. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, who else you're gonna get? You're gonna
Speaker 1: get someone else's problems. I need, I need you to.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take me three games before I'm ready to
Speaker 1: like completely dive into they have to make a change. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's if they wanted to bring another guy on, that's
Speaker 1: fine with me. But yeah, I think that's a little premature.
Speaker 1: And it misses the kick with twenty four to go
Speaker 1: or oh yeah, I think then yeah, I think it does. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because you I mean, and it forty eight is I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the money range, Like that's sixty arders. I don't
Speaker 1: expect you to make. But forty to forty to fifty
Speaker 1: is where that's what's most money. Yeah, when he made
Speaker 1: the kick, everyone was like, too much time, too much time.
Speaker 1: If he misses that kick and then they kneel out
Speaker 1: the ball whatever, we'd be sitting here going that would
Speaker 1: have won the game, you know, like he probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: have come back, you know what I mean, Like you
Speaker 1: and however you want, of course, I mean you would
Speaker 1: be like, well, that was a game winning kick and
Speaker 1: you missed it, yep, which is still honestly, it still
Speaker 1: is a game winning kick because it put him in
Speaker 1: the league left and they just couldn't They couldn't finish it.
Speaker 1: They couldn't finish the game. Shout out wait before it
Speaker 1: just since we were talking about it, I just shout
Speaker 1: out to Jordan Lewis for running down on a Hail
Speaker 1: Mary cover, intercepting Tom Brady and getting to like the
Speaker 1: opposing forty. Yeah, I'd have to go back and look
Speaker 1: at it, but I just lack because the other side
Speaker 1: of the field looked really open, and I that just
Speaker 1: would have been like one of the more amazing things
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. But nice little two takeaway night for
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis. Yeah, that was a all things considered, that
Speaker 1: was a good performance by the defense from that standpoint.
Speaker 1: As far as it takeaway as a concern, they just
Speaker 1: if they don't sorry, if they don't, I mean, if
Speaker 1: they don't give up the bomb to Antonio Brown on
Speaker 1: the go route, amazing night by them. They still still
Speaker 1: a solid night, but that one bust kind of hangs over. Yeah, Monday,
Speaker 1: we're going to dive in a little deeper on that
Speaker 1: conversation to defense, how they performed, and really just looking
Speaker 1: at this team overall, how much complimentary football they played,
Speaker 1: how much is this team relying on dak is at
Speaker 1: a winning formula. We'll talk about that all on the Monday,
Speaker 1: But you guys, enjoy the weekend till then. For Nick Eatman,
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