WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Better in 2022? 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:05.560 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:16.279 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. Are you ready 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.160 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.480 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:29.840 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.960 with Nick Eatman, Brian brought us, a bar Garcia, and 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.880 Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, November eight, twenty twenty two, 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.360 Season eighteen, episode number sixty six. Welcome to the latest 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.520 edition of The Break. We're life from the s WBC 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.280 Morriage Studios at the Star and we're presented by Miller Lite, 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.279 the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. Got Nick here 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:54.560 with me. We got Patrick Walker sitting in for Amber Garcia, 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.760 and Brian brought us. They both should be back tomorrow, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:00.880 but Patrick and phill in nicely. I'm sure he'll be 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.920 able to give us some good insight today. We got 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.000 lots of different things we're gonna talk about today. We're 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.600 we're gonna get into some fan questions as I promised yesterday. 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.880 We got a lot of those that folks have sent me, 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:12.800 so we'll move around a lot of different topics. Give 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.039 you guys a chance to sound off and if we 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.479 have some time. Nick brought up a game that really 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.600 wasn't a game that he thought maybe we should do 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.800 yesterday that we didn't get to yesterday, but maybe we'll 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.840 do today. So in the third segment, if we have 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:25.920 some time, we might do a little bit of that. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:27.959 You made it sound like you already did the game. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.280 You had the game. I already had it written down 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.399 because I saw the article. It was the article you 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.040 guys did on Best and Worst of the first half. 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:36.760 And I saw the article and I thought it was 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.800 a good article. I saw your your your thoughts in there, 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.840 and I thought it would be something good, like a 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.280 long article. No, not really good. Well, I did a 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:49.400 little trimming, you know, Mickey, Mickey a little word. He 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.559 thinks it's mix shots. He's got the whole whole page 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.880 to himself. Yeah, trimmed down. Well, now I thought it 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:55.120 was good. I thought it was good. It was some 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.040 good insight, and I we'll get to some of those 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:58.720 things and maybe have you guys answered some of that 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.920 on the air and get your thoughts. Let's start first though. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.080 Last week obviously was a bye week for the Cowboys. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.240 Last weekend and I'll tell you this. Last Sunday, I 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.680 did not expect. I expected I was gonna watch football 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:13.800 all day. I did not expect I was gonna watch 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.239 it in the way I did. I have notoriously avoided 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.840 watching Red Zone channel because I'm the kind of person 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.639 I want to sit down from the beginning of a 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.440 game all the way through to the end, because I 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.320 want to be able to understand the story of the 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.760 game as the game develops. But I saw a message 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.080 Red Zone was available. I was like, I'm just gonna 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:37.600 give this a try. I'm totally addicted. Man. I was 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.000 losing my mind because it shows you every moment from 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.720 every game. And I my wife was like, are you 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.360 okay up there? Like, I'm like freaking out and going 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.919 crazy because I'm seeing all these plays happening in all 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.600 these It was the best Sunday I've spent watching football 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:56.080 maybe in my life. I really enjoyed Red Zone. I 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.560 really enjoyed Red Zone. But I wanted to ask you, guys, 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.600 what will takeaways for you guys from last weekend? A 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.799 lot of good games, a lot of interesting moments. What 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.399 was the takeaway? M I'm trying to think, I'm trying 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.720 to think because I gave up football on Saturday, but 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.040 they did get Yeah, but I did get it. I 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.480 didn't know what happened with your team. Sorry, I'm not 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.120 trying to bring up all got back on Sunday and uh, 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.720 what do we I'm trying to think what game? What game? 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.280 Would did we get on TV? Oh? I got uh 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:27.120 Jets and and good Jets and Bills and then oh 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:31.440 why Washington and the Vikings? Yeah? Man, the Vikings just 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.720 try to lose, but they just nobody will let him. 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.160 The body's gonna let him love. It's like you got 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.960 much respect for the Vikings? Who's your quarterback? Is there? 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.600 Where we're going? The seven and one? Okay, the seven 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.840 and one? The Giants are six and two. I don't 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.320 I just don't respect it. They're they're good. They're a 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.560 good team. I mean, I think Cousins is a good quarterback. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.120 He's good, but I don't think he's great. And I 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:58.640 don't think that team is great. But you don't have 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.000 to have a great quarterback to be good, you know, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.040 fell and go far in the NFL, I don't think. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.560 I mean, they get it done, yeah, I mean, and 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.800 my biggest takeaways plural are both from the NFC North, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.760 one being the Vikings, and I'm huge on hashtag keep 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.160 that energy. So for those that are questioning, you know 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.239 the Cowboys at six and two, and then that same breath, 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.200 they say, well, look at the Vikings, and the Vikings 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:25.520 aren't world beaters. They just barely escaped FedEx field with 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.040 the field goal and it took a late game penalty 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.840 and then interception from Heineke to do it. But don't 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.200 apologize for wins. I'm not saying they should apologize for wins. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.520 I'm just saying that's a takeaway like the Vikings are 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.800 trying to find ways to lose before they figure out 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.880 why He's to win. I think they were excited about 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.719 the win a little bit little bit, and they should be. Yeah, 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.039 I mean, what's the quote, you are what your record 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.400 says you are? They're seven and one. You remember that 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.880 time that Aikman took his shirt off on the charter 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.760 and and then the other cup for them, though, I 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.240 mean that they should be enjoying themselves. Win's a hard NFL. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.039 They are Scaron Rodgers, which goes right, Yeah, it goes 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.920 to my other takeaway from Sunday, and that the Packers 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.440 are trapped in the tailspin. And you look at who 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.280 they lost for the season, Rashaun Gary and maybe Eric 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.840 Stokes and Bok Terry is still dealing with an issue 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.320 at left tackle and Aaron Jones left the stadium in 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.360 a boot. We don't know what the status is. But 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.640 that's that's the big one. I read that story and 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.160 it just kept going and going, and then then and 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.880 then this guy and then this guy, and it's like home, Yeah, 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.680 It's it's rough on them, right. Yeah. So you got 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.279 the Vikings finding ways to win after they try to 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.080 lose games, and then you got the Packers who can't 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.479 figure out a way to even be in control of 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.760 a game at any point in the game. It's it's wild. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.000 NFC North is wild. But kudos to the Detroit Lions. 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.280 And I've said the time and again that's a scrappy bunch. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.560 You cannot overlook those guys. That's that's the trap game 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.120 of the highest order. If there's a such thing as 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:54.839 a trap game, the Detroit Lions is it. Yeah, if 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:56.520 I'll tell you this, I can't. I can't say that 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.359 I've watched every play of every game of the Packers 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.760 this season. I did watch a lot of that game 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:06.480 this last weekend and Rogers Rogers. It's interesting to me 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.599 because I assumed, watching from an outside perspective, catching highlights 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.080 and that kind of stuff, I assumed that a lot 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.400 of their problems were related to other things, not necessarily 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.839 Aaron Rodgers. But as I watched that game this last weekend, 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.360 I started to kind of change that opinion a little bit. 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.480 That interception he threw. Now, first of all, he threw 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.800 three interceptions. Two of them were in the red zone, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.359 one was just outside the red zone. The one he 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.640 threw where he was trying to hit Bok tri in 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.600 the end zone. I don't even know where he was 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.040 what he was Sorry, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, there was. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.040 You know, you got offensive lineman that was declared eligible 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.200 and he gets in the end zone and he's wide open. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.559 He's out there by himself. Rogers off his back foot 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.839 kind of throws it up and a defense it was 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.360 was who was who was the defensive lineman? The high 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.360 pick he was the first or second. He was first 0:06:54.440 --> 0:07:00.000 round picked this last year. So he comes out from 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.880 the defensive line and just pops out interception like it 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.280 was a great play by the defender. But it was 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.479 also just I think a poor throw by Rogers. It 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.280 was to a wide open offensive lineman in the end zone, 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.600 And to me, I was like, if that doesn't just 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.120 sum up kind of what they're feeling right now. It's 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.440 just like they can't get anything, or even things that 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.000 are presented to them on a platter, like here's your 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.240 opportunity for a touchdown. Something goes wrong. And I think 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:29.680 a lot of it is the connection between Rogers and 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.640 its receivers. We'll talk more about that as we go 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.800 into this week, but I don't know that. I don't 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:35.320 know if they got that kind of connection. He doesn't 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:36.800 have a go to guy like he's used to having, 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:38.920 and I just don't think they got it right now clearly. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:43.720 If that's their goat, if that's their play, yeah, yeah, 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.920 we don't need atoms, we don't need all these other guys. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.360 Let them go, you know. But but you know, one 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.840 reason that a lot of people believe that it was 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.560 it was not as far as the tailspin was not 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.320 necessarily on Aaron Rodgers, was because that's what Aaron Rodgers 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.160 laid everybody to believe. He's throwing everybody under the bus 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.960 and then in the same breath, when asked about his 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.640 own performance, he says, oh, that was my highest graded 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.920 game this season by the coaching staff. Yeah, okay, well, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.320 we'll give you the benefit of the doubt because you're 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.240 hearing that's also relative too, right when he says best 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.720 of the season, because you're averaging the seat, right, But 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:21.640 then you know, you see him throwing on Sunday against 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.720 the Detroit lines, and then it really starts to hit 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.680 home that, Okay, Aaron, you have to own this. And 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.320 that was the first time in his postgame person that 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.960 you really kind of saw sinking in like, wait a minute, 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.640 I might be the problem. So I'm sure there was 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.120 some chair throwing up there in Green Bay after that game. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.720 But Aaron has to own it. He has to own it. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.720 Ye right, you don't have your a number one guy, 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.560 or even a number two guy, or even a number 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:50.000 three guy. But rumor has it that great quarterbacks make 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.160 everybody else better? Where is that in Green Bay? Honestly, 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.800 there's only one of those in the NFL in my opinion, 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.120 and by the way, in most years, you ain't gonna 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.839 get one maybe two Patrick Mahomes, Like Patrick Mahomes right now, 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:06.120 is working with a cast of receivers that you would 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:11.120 say are are not. I don't think he has a 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.120 single receiver that you would consider to be a true 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.920 number one. They went out and got Juju Smith Schuster 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.760 this offseason. The reason why Pittsburgh let him go is 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.240 because he wasn't he had an assented to that for them. Now, 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:22.880 he's a good receiver, don't get me wrong. And they 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.240 have a cast of I think good receivers. No great receiver. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.800 But even in this game, there were moments when Pat 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.720 just took over the game, like he just took over 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.320 the game. That's the only quarterback in the NFL, in 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.000 my opinion this season, who is able to do more 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.000 with less. Everybody else, you better surround them with good 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.600 talent or you're not going to get the same return. Agree, 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.240 Mahomes is a one of one, none before him, none 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:51.600 to come, I mean, and he even got you look 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:57.160 at the descent of Cadarius Tony in New York first 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:03.600 game with Patrick Mahomes. He's out there making plays right right, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.360 so well we know we know Tony has talent. Yeah, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.640 we sawt We've seen it in Spurts in New York 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.360 issues ages can't. But to your point, it didn't take 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.720 them any time at all to get enough chemistry to 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.560 go into a game on Sunday and first quarter, second 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:24.000 quarter already making plays together. So mahomes is different different. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.400 All right, we're gonna take our first break when we 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.560 come back. 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I'm 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.280 getting my lights put up this week. I've already talked 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.480 to the people's coming out put them up. I'm getting 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:28.600 because climb on a roof really nah yeah, nah, bro, Christmas, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:30.920 somebody to come and do that. And uh, and I 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.520 take care of all the rest us on the ground. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.880 I'm not going on the room. Is it? Is it 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.640 like a top neighborhood of the neighborhood? Is it? Where? 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.360 Is it wrong? No? We just you just want to 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.560 be able to make sure our kids aren't embarrassed. Like 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.679 our house is the only one that doesn't have anything. 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:46.560 We're not trying to be the best. We just shot 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:51.120 don't get embarrassed. Huh. Halloween, I don't do that nothing. Okay, 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.880 well from candy, we're huge on Halloween. And I thought 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.640 you said you don't you turn the lights off? You 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.360 turn I do, but the wife wants to turn them on, 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.640 so she and the kids turn them on, and I 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.520 go in another room and do what I'm gonna do. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.400 You know, you gotta get past Thanksgiving at my house 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.439 to get to Christmas. There's it's all one. No, it's not, 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.480 it's all one. Look, the Christmas music and the Christmas 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.600 lights will all be on on Thanksgiving dinner, but for 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.240 Thanksgiving a choice that, yeah, it is. But I'm saying, 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.120 like I'm getting everything out of Christmas. I get out 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.720 of Christmas. So November comes, it's Christmas. Let's go. All right, 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.360 Welcome back to second segment of the Breaking Life from 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.080 that WBC Morgan Studios at the Star. We're presented by 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:30.960 mill of like the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.000 This segments also brought to you by blockchain dot Com. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.160 All right, so let's get into some fan questions. We 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.560 got a question first from Jose and j Jose Rodriguez. 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.000 He says, should Tony Pollard he called him Tony Hollard 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.400 get more touches or distribute evenly with Zeke? That's been 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.960 a big topic of discussion last week. Where do you, 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.760 guys fall I say ten, ten, and let's see what happens. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.000 Oh that's interesting. So whoever got the hot hand? You 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.160 keep rolling? Will you? I mean, if if Pollard is 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.400 playing a game like that at and and he's breaking 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.200 off a couple of big runs and still feeling good, 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.400 I mean, I'm fine with it. But uh, you know, 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.520 I think they're both both are gonna get in there 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.680 and you have to interchange them a little bit because 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.400 you don't want to give the defense a tell on 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.720 what they're doing. And so they both have to block. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:17.520 They're both gonna have to run outside. They bought the 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.960 run inside. They both to catch screens. You know, I 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.480 do both. I mean, it's like a basketball game. If 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.840 guy comes off the bench and hits five threes, I 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.800 mean think he says in the game. So that's kind 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:29.880 of the way I would handle it. I mean, I 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.800 think they're both pretty interchangeable. I think it's easy for 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.280 fans to demand percentages and say, we want to see 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.720 Tony sixty forty, we want to see a perfect fifty 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.240 fifty split. In real life, you guys know that's not 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.240 how it happens. And you there are instances over the 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.680 course of this season. Well, we've already seen Kellen Moore 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.440 and Mike McCarthy being willing to ride the hot hand 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.280 because there are games with Tony Pollard outtouches Zeke because 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.160 he's performing better against that respective defense. Then there are 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.440 games who are Pollard is being deleted completely, but Zeke 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.800 is having a great game. So it's equal touch. That's 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:04.120 the formula. Keep it going, that's the adaptation that everybody 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.240 wants to see. I love it. Just keep it going 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.320 that way. Do not going to any particular game feeling 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.840 I have to hit a perfect fifty fifty split. You're 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.560 gonna lose that game because one of those players is 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.280 not having a good game. But you're forcing those touches. 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.960 You're putting yourself behind the eight ball there. And I 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.200 think the other thing people have to realize is that 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:26.080 these are not characters on a Madden game. These are people, 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.360 which means yeah, right. So the interesting thing there is 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.720 you got your running backs coach, uh Skip Pete, who 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.160 has to as the game's also going on, he's got 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.800 to feel for Okay, how tired is this guy? When 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.120 does he need a moment to be out of the game, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.800 When does he need to regroup? Is he feeling some injury? 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.280 Like there are other things that are factors as well. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.360 That it's his job to figure out who needs to 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:50.960 be at the end of the game at any given 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.360 moment in time. So you might go in the game 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:57.160 thinking we want to go fifty fifty, but circumstances dictate 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.160 that you have to change that up. You get into 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.400 a game where you have a doubt you might think 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.440 of it like either hey, we need Polo on the 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.040 feel more because we're gonna be passing more and we 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.720 kind of want him out in pass routes, or hey, 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:09.640 we're gonna be passing more, we kind of want Zeke 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.399 in to block. There are other factors that are involved 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.760 in the game that will dictate how many snaps, how 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.040 many touches each of them get. So yeah, I agree 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:18.520 with you guys, Like at the end of the day, 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.080 you kind of want to go in thinking they're equal backs. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.840 But every game will have a different story. And obviously 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.440 it's hard to ever know what It's impossible to ever 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:30.240 know what someone's feeling inside. But for what, for what 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.520 I can gauge and you can get. I mean, we're 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.280 all kind of sense this and been and we're around 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.520 other people that are close to it. I think the 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.600 two people that don't have a problem about this, or 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.880 Zeke and Pollard, they I don't think they do. Now, 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.120 there's there's got to be some competitive vibes in there 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:47.879 that they want to get back. They want to do it, 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.199 you want to be the man and all that kind 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:53.560 of stuff. But I really believe that Zeke is cheering 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.240 for Pollard. I don't think it's fake. I think it's real. 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.200 I think he really is cheering for him. I think 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.240 Pollard cheers for him, and I think that they need 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.800 each other and they note that. I agree, And I 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.240 think they cheer for each other because much like what 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:10.320 Skip said regarding the running back room, these two guys 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:15.000 understand that one benefits the other as far as longevity 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.639 is concerned, as far as durability is concerned, if you 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.400 task Tony Poller with being the bell cow you knock 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.520 on wood, you'll probably see him deal with more injury situations. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.000 Or if you task Zeke with doing it, you're going 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.600 to probably shorten the shelf life of Ezekiel Elliott. So 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.520 why not have these two guys working together in tandem? 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.960 And Zeke and Tony they get it. That's why one 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.280 cheers on the other. And there is a competitive part 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.520 to it, but it's it's a friendly competition. It's saying 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.880 anything you can do, I can do better kind of thing. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.679 But those guys, they're brothers to each other. And you know, 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:50.760 so for all of the pomp and circumstance around, you know, 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:53.000 trying to divide those two all it should be Zeke 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.800 versus Polo pol versus Zeke. Those two guys, they're in 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:57.800 it all in for each other and you love to 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:01.240 see it. The next question, this one's from Chris Fifia. 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.760 He says, what's going on with Jabril Cox? What are 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:06.480 we hearing? What are we seeing? What are we thinking? 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.560 I mean, I don't think he's I mean people are interactive. 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.439 I mean he's not one of the he's not one 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.240 of the core players. I don't think he's as good 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:24.080 as a linebacker as Damon Clark, you know, and I 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.160 don't think he's a good especially teams players Gifford, so 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.200 they're in a numbers crunched there and and and that's 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.280 where he is. I don't think there's like a setback 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.160 or the knee or anything like that. I just think 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.520