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Speaker 1: Season eighteen, episode number sixty six. Welcome to the latest
Speaker 1: edition of The Break. We're life from the s WBC
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Speaker 1: with me. We got Patrick Walker sitting in for Amber Garcia,
Speaker 1: and Brian brought us. They both should be back tomorrow,
Speaker 1: but Patrick and phill in nicely. I'm sure he'll be
Speaker 1: able to give us some good insight today. We got
Speaker 1: lots of different things we're gonna talk about today. We're
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into some fan questions as I promised yesterday.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of those that folks have sent me,
Speaker 1: so we'll move around a lot of different topics. Give
Speaker 1: you guys a chance to sound off and if we
Speaker 1: have some time. Nick brought up a game that really
Speaker 1: wasn't a game that he thought maybe we should do
Speaker 1: yesterday that we didn't get to yesterday, but maybe we'll
Speaker 1: do today. So in the third segment, if we have
Speaker 1: some time, we might do a little bit of that.
Speaker 1: You made it sound like you already did the game.
Speaker 1: You had the game. I already had it written down
Speaker 1: because I saw the article. It was the article you
Speaker 1: guys did on Best and Worst of the first half.
Speaker 1: And I saw the article and I thought it was
Speaker 1: a good article. I saw your your your thoughts in there,
Speaker 1: and I thought it would be something good, like a
Speaker 1: long article. No, not really good. Well, I did a
Speaker 1: little trimming, you know, Mickey, Mickey a little word. He
Speaker 1: thinks it's mix shots. He's got the whole whole page
Speaker 1: to himself. Yeah, trimmed down. Well, now I thought it
Speaker 1: was good. I thought it was good. It was some
Speaker 1: good insight, and I we'll get to some of those
Speaker 1: things and maybe have you guys answered some of that
Speaker 1: on the air and get your thoughts. Let's start first though.
Speaker 1: Last week obviously was a bye week for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Last weekend and I'll tell you this. Last Sunday, I
Speaker 1: did not expect. I expected I was gonna watch football
Speaker 1: all day. I did not expect I was gonna watch
Speaker 1: it in the way I did. I have notoriously avoided
Speaker 1: watching Red Zone channel because I'm the kind of person
Speaker 1: I want to sit down from the beginning of a
Speaker 1: game all the way through to the end, because I
Speaker 1: want to be able to understand the story of the
Speaker 1: game as the game develops. But I saw a message
Speaker 1: Red Zone was available. I was like, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: give this a try. I'm totally addicted. Man. I was
Speaker 1: losing my mind because it shows you every moment from
Speaker 1: every game. And I my wife was like, are you
Speaker 1: okay up there? Like, I'm like freaking out and going
Speaker 1: crazy because I'm seeing all these plays happening in all
Speaker 1: these It was the best Sunday I've spent watching football
Speaker 1: maybe in my life. I really enjoyed Red Zone. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed Red Zone. But I wanted to ask you, guys,
Speaker 1: what will takeaways for you guys from last weekend? A
Speaker 1: lot of good games, a lot of interesting moments. What
Speaker 1: was the takeaway? M I'm trying to think, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think because I gave up football on Saturday, but
Speaker 1: they did get Yeah, but I did get it. I
Speaker 1: didn't know what happened with your team. Sorry, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to bring up all got back on Sunday and uh,
Speaker 1: what do we I'm trying to think what game? What game?
Speaker 1: Would did we get on TV? Oh? I got uh
Speaker 1: Jets and and good Jets and Bills and then oh
Speaker 1: why Washington and the Vikings? Yeah? Man, the Vikings just
Speaker 1: try to lose, but they just nobody will let him.
Speaker 1: The body's gonna let him love. It's like you got
Speaker 1: much respect for the Vikings? Who's your quarterback? Is there?
Speaker 1: Where we're going? The seven and one? Okay, the seven
Speaker 1: and one? The Giants are six and two. I don't
Speaker 1: I just don't respect it. They're they're good. They're a
Speaker 1: good team. I mean, I think Cousins is a good quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's good, but I don't think he's great. And I
Speaker 1: don't think that team is great. But you don't have
Speaker 1: to have a great quarterback to be good, you know,
Speaker 1: fell and go far in the NFL, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I mean, they get it done, yeah, I mean, and
Speaker 1: my biggest takeaways plural are both from the NFC North,
Speaker 1: one being the Vikings, and I'm huge on hashtag keep
Speaker 1: that energy. So for those that are questioning, you know
Speaker 1: the Cowboys at six and two, and then that same breath,
Speaker 1: they say, well, look at the Vikings, and the Vikings
Speaker 1: aren't world beaters. They just barely escaped FedEx field with
Speaker 1: the field goal and it took a late game penalty
Speaker 1: and then interception from Heineke to do it. But don't
Speaker 1: apologize for wins. I'm not saying they should apologize for wins.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's a takeaway like the Vikings are
Speaker 1: trying to find ways to lose before they figure out
Speaker 1: why He's to win. I think they were excited about
Speaker 1: the win a little bit little bit, and they should be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the quote, you are what your record
Speaker 1: says you are? They're seven and one. You remember that
Speaker 1: time that Aikman took his shirt off on the charter
Speaker 1: and and then the other cup for them, though, I
Speaker 1: mean that they should be enjoying themselves. Win's a hard NFL.
Speaker 1: They are Scaron Rodgers, which goes right, Yeah, it goes
Speaker 1: to my other takeaway from Sunday, and that the Packers
Speaker 1: are trapped in the tailspin. And you look at who
Speaker 1: they lost for the season, Rashaun Gary and maybe Eric
Speaker 1: Stokes and Bok Terry is still dealing with an issue
Speaker 1: at left tackle and Aaron Jones left the stadium in
Speaker 1: a boot. We don't know what the status is. But
Speaker 1: that's that's the big one. I read that story and
Speaker 1: it just kept going and going, and then then and
Speaker 1: then this guy and then this guy, and it's like home, Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's it's rough on them, right. Yeah. So you got
Speaker 1: the Vikings finding ways to win after they try to
Speaker 1: lose games, and then you got the Packers who can't
Speaker 1: figure out a way to even be in control of
Speaker 1: a game at any point in the game. It's it's wild.
Speaker 1: NFC North is wild. But kudos to the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1: And I've said the time and again that's a scrappy bunch.
Speaker 1: You cannot overlook those guys. That's that's the trap game
Speaker 1: of the highest order. If there's a such thing as
Speaker 1: a trap game, the Detroit Lions is it. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, I can't. I can't say that
Speaker 1: I've watched every play of every game of the Packers
Speaker 1: this season. I did watch a lot of that game
Speaker 1: this last weekend and Rogers Rogers. It's interesting to me
Speaker 1: because I assumed, watching from an outside perspective, catching highlights
Speaker 1: and that kind of stuff, I assumed that a lot
Speaker 1: of their problems were related to other things, not necessarily
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. But as I watched that game this last weekend,
Speaker 1: I started to kind of change that opinion a little bit.
Speaker 1: That interception he threw. Now, first of all, he threw
Speaker 1: three interceptions. Two of them were in the red zone,
Speaker 1: one was just outside the red zone. The one he
Speaker 1: threw where he was trying to hit Bok tri in
Speaker 1: the end zone. I don't even know where he was
Speaker 1: what he was Sorry, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, there was.
Speaker 1: You know, you got offensive lineman that was declared eligible
Speaker 1: and he gets in the end zone and he's wide open.
Speaker 1: He's out there by himself. Rogers off his back foot
Speaker 1: kind of throws it up and a defense it was
Speaker 1: was who was who was the defensive lineman? The high
Speaker 1: pick he was the first or second. He was first
Speaker 1: round picked this last year. So he comes out from
Speaker 1: the defensive line and just pops out interception like it
Speaker 1: was a great play by the defender. But it was
Speaker 1: also just I think a poor throw by Rogers. It
Speaker 1: was to a wide open offensive lineman in the end zone,
Speaker 1: And to me, I was like, if that doesn't just
Speaker 1: sum up kind of what they're feeling right now. It's
Speaker 1: just like they can't get anything, or even things that
Speaker 1: are presented to them on a platter, like here's your
Speaker 1: opportunity for a touchdown. Something goes wrong. And I think
Speaker 1: a lot of it is the connection between Rogers and
Speaker 1: its receivers. We'll talk more about that as we go
Speaker 1: into this week, but I don't know that. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they got that kind of connection. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have a go to guy like he's used to having,
Speaker 1: and I just don't think they got it right now clearly.
Speaker 1: If that's their goat, if that's their play, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't need atoms, we don't need all these other guys.
Speaker 1: Let them go, you know. But but you know, one
Speaker 1: reason that a lot of people believe that it was
Speaker 1: it was not as far as the tailspin was not
Speaker 1: necessarily on Aaron Rodgers, was because that's what Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: laid everybody to believe. He's throwing everybody under the bus
Speaker 1: and then in the same breath, when asked about his
Speaker 1: own performance, he says, oh, that was my highest graded
Speaker 1: game this season by the coaching staff. Yeah, okay, well,
Speaker 1: we'll give you the benefit of the doubt because you're
Speaker 1: hearing that's also relative too, right when he says best
Speaker 1: of the season, because you're averaging the seat, right, But
Speaker 1: then you know, you see him throwing on Sunday against
Speaker 1: the Detroit lines, and then it really starts to hit
Speaker 1: home that, Okay, Aaron, you have to own this. And
Speaker 1: that was the first time in his postgame person that
Speaker 1: you really kind of saw sinking in like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I might be the problem. So I'm sure there was
Speaker 1: some chair throwing up there in Green Bay after that game.
Speaker 1: But Aaron has to own it. He has to own it.
Speaker 1: Ye right, you don't have your a number one guy,
Speaker 1: or even a number two guy, or even a number
Speaker 1: three guy. But rumor has it that great quarterbacks make
Speaker 1: everybody else better? Where is that in Green Bay? Honestly,
Speaker 1: there's only one of those in the NFL in my opinion,
Speaker 1: and by the way, in most years, you ain't gonna
Speaker 1: get one maybe two Patrick Mahomes, Like Patrick Mahomes right now,
Speaker 1: is working with a cast of receivers that you would
Speaker 1: say are are not. I don't think he has a
Speaker 1: single receiver that you would consider to be a true
Speaker 1: number one. They went out and got Juju Smith Schuster
Speaker 1: this offseason. The reason why Pittsburgh let him go is
Speaker 1: because he wasn't he had an assented to that for them. Now,
Speaker 1: he's a good receiver, don't get me wrong. And they
Speaker 1: have a cast of I think good receivers. No great receiver.
Speaker 1: But even in this game, there were moments when Pat
Speaker 1: just took over the game, like he just took over
Speaker 1: the game. That's the only quarterback in the NFL, in
Speaker 1: my opinion this season, who is able to do more
Speaker 1: with less. Everybody else, you better surround them with good
Speaker 1: talent or you're not going to get the same return. Agree,
Speaker 1: Mahomes is a one of one, none before him, none
Speaker 1: to come, I mean, and he even got you look
Speaker 1: at the descent of Cadarius Tony in New York first
Speaker 1: game with Patrick Mahomes. He's out there making plays right right,
Speaker 1: so well we know we know Tony has talent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we sawt We've seen it in Spurts in New York
Speaker 1: issues ages can't. But to your point, it didn't take
Speaker 1: them any time at all to get enough chemistry to
Speaker 1: go into a game on Sunday and first quarter, second
Speaker 1: quarter already making plays together. So mahomes is different different.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take our first break when we
Speaker 1: come back. I got a line of questions for these
Speaker 1: guys that we got from you guys. The listeners will
Speaker 1: go through some of those questions, get their answers, will
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Speaker 1: All right, so let's get into some fan questions. We
Speaker 1: got a question first from Jose and j Jose Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: He says, should Tony Pollard he called him Tony Hollard
Speaker 1: get more touches or distribute evenly with Zeke? That's been
Speaker 1: a big topic of discussion last week. Where do you,
Speaker 1: guys fall I say ten, ten, and let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. So whoever got the hot hand? You
Speaker 1: keep rolling? Will you? I mean, if if Pollard is
Speaker 1: playing a game like that at and and he's breaking
Speaker 1: off a couple of big runs and still feeling good,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm fine with it. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think they're both both are gonna get in there
Speaker 1: and you have to interchange them a little bit because
Speaker 1: you don't want to give the defense a tell on
Speaker 1: what they're doing. And so they both have to block.
Speaker 1: They're both gonna have to run outside. They bought the
Speaker 1: run inside. They both to catch screens. You know, I
Speaker 1: do both. I mean, it's like a basketball game. If
Speaker 1: guy comes off the bench and hits five threes, I
Speaker 1: mean think he says in the game. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of the way I would handle it. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think they're both pretty interchangeable. I think it's easy for
Speaker 1: fans to demand percentages and say, we want to see
Speaker 1: Tony sixty forty, we want to see a perfect fifty
Speaker 1: fifty split. In real life, you guys know that's not
Speaker 1: how it happens. And you there are instances over the
Speaker 1: course of this season. Well, we've already seen Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy being willing to ride the hot hand
Speaker 1: because there are games with Tony Pollard outtouches Zeke because
Speaker 1: he's performing better against that respective defense. Then there are
Speaker 1: games who are Pollard is being deleted completely, but Zeke
Speaker 1: is having a great game. So it's equal touch. That's
Speaker 1: the formula. Keep it going, that's the adaptation that everybody
Speaker 1: wants to see. I love it. Just keep it going
Speaker 1: that way. Do not going to any particular game feeling
Speaker 1: I have to hit a perfect fifty fifty split. You're
Speaker 1: gonna lose that game because one of those players is
Speaker 1: not having a good game. But you're forcing those touches.
Speaker 1: You're putting yourself behind the eight ball there. And I
Speaker 1: think the other thing people have to realize is that
Speaker 1: these are not characters on a Madden game. These are people,
Speaker 1: which means yeah, right. So the interesting thing there is
Speaker 1: you got your running backs coach, uh Skip Pete, who
Speaker 1: has to as the game's also going on, he's got
Speaker 1: to feel for Okay, how tired is this guy? When
Speaker 1: does he need a moment to be out of the game,
Speaker 1: When does he need to regroup? Is he feeling some injury?
Speaker 1: Like there are other things that are factors as well.
Speaker 1: That it's his job to figure out who needs to
Speaker 1: be at the end of the game at any given
Speaker 1: moment in time. So you might go in the game
Speaker 1: thinking we want to go fifty fifty, but circumstances dictate
Speaker 1: that you have to change that up. You get into
Speaker 1: a game where you have a doubt you might think
Speaker 1: of it like either hey, we need Polo on the
Speaker 1: feel more because we're gonna be passing more and we
Speaker 1: kind of want him out in pass routes, or hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be passing more, we kind of want Zeke
Speaker 1: in to block. There are other factors that are involved
Speaker 1: in the game that will dictate how many snaps, how
Speaker 1: many touches each of them get. So yeah, I agree
Speaker 1: with you guys, Like at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you kind of want to go in thinking they're equal backs.
Speaker 1: But every game will have a different story. And obviously
Speaker 1: it's hard to ever know what It's impossible to ever
Speaker 1: know what someone's feeling inside. But for what, for what
Speaker 1: I can gauge and you can get. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: all kind of sense this and been and we're around
Speaker 1: other people that are close to it. I think the
Speaker 1: two people that don't have a problem about this, or
Speaker 1: Zeke and Pollard, they I don't think they do. Now,
Speaker 1: there's there's got to be some competitive vibes in there
Speaker 1: that they want to get back. They want to do it,
Speaker 1: you want to be the man and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. But I really believe that Zeke is cheering
Speaker 1: for Pollard. I don't think it's fake. I think it's real.
Speaker 1: I think he really is cheering for him. I think
Speaker 1: Pollard cheers for him, and I think that they need
Speaker 1: each other and they note that. I agree, And I
Speaker 1: think they cheer for each other because much like what
Speaker 1: Skip said regarding the running back room, these two guys
Speaker 1: understand that one benefits the other as far as longevity
Speaker 1: is concerned, as far as durability is concerned, if you
Speaker 1: task Tony Poller with being the bell cow you knock
Speaker 1: on wood, you'll probably see him deal with more injury situations.
Speaker 1: Or if you task Zeke with doing it, you're going
Speaker 1: to probably shorten the shelf life of Ezekiel Elliott. So
Speaker 1: why not have these two guys working together in tandem?
Speaker 1: And Zeke and Tony they get it. That's why one
Speaker 1: cheers on the other. And there is a competitive part
Speaker 1: to it, but it's it's a friendly competition. It's saying
Speaker 1: anything you can do, I can do better kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But those guys, they're brothers to each other. And you know,
Speaker 1: so for all of the pomp and circumstance around, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to divide those two all it should be Zeke
Speaker 1: versus Polo pol versus Zeke. Those two guys, they're in
Speaker 1: it all in for each other and you love to
Speaker 1: see it. The next question, this one's from Chris Fifia.
Speaker 1: He says, what's going on with Jabril Cox? What are
Speaker 1: we hearing? What are we seeing? What are we thinking?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think he's I mean people are interactive.
Speaker 1: I mean he's not one of the he's not one
Speaker 1: of the core players. I don't think he's as good
Speaker 1: as a linebacker as Damon Clark, you know, and I
Speaker 1: don't think he's a good especially teams players Gifford, so
Speaker 1: they're in a numbers crunched there and and and that's
Speaker 1: where he is. I don't think there's like a setback
Speaker 1: or the knee or anything like that. I just think
Speaker 1: it's taking him some time to develop. Are are you?
Speaker 1: Are you surprised by that? Or is this kind of
Speaker 1: just who he is when where he was drafted that's
Speaker 1: what you would expect? Or I know there was. And
Speaker 1: the reason why I say that, I think the reason
Speaker 1: why fans are asking these kinds of questions because there
Speaker 1: was a lot of talk about Jabril Cox coming off
Speaker 1: last year and people were excited that he might get in.
Speaker 1: They thought he might bring a little athleticism to the
Speaker 1: linebacker position, a little speed, and it just quite hasn't
Speaker 1: quite happened. The reason is Anthony Barr before last Yeah,
Speaker 1: before the game against the Bears, it was Anthony Barr.
Speaker 1: Jabril Cox was expected to take a lot of snaps
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. But then the Cowboys going to
Speaker 1: get a four time Pro bowler. You didn't go and
Speaker 1: get a four time pro bowler to sit them on
Speaker 1: the bench so that you can continue developing Jabrille Cox.
Speaker 1: So to next point, Jabrill is a victim of the
Speaker 1: numbers game, because special teams has to have their numbers also.
Speaker 1: But I think that if the Cowboys defense was stellar
Speaker 1: against the run but poor against the past, you'd see
Speaker 1: Jabril Cox and over Deman Clark because Deman is better
Speaker 1: at stopping the run. That's the tail of their two
Speaker 1: tapes at LSU. So, because the Cowboys need to figure
Speaker 1: out how to stop the run and Jabrille Cox is
Speaker 1: more of a coverage linebacker, they're going to look at
Speaker 1: demon and say, hey, we've been waiting for you, you know.
Speaker 1: And now they didn't anticipate throwing him in how they
Speaker 1: had to with the injury the bar, but when he
Speaker 1: was in there, he acquitted himself pretty well. So for
Speaker 1: those that are asking, well why did Damon instantly get
Speaker 1: a chance when Jabrill was inactive, Well, this is why
Speaker 1: you're trying to stop the run, and you were going
Speaker 1: to get some Bears run defense. That's first in the league.
Speaker 1: That's why. So again Jabrille victim of numbers and then
Speaker 1: from there, you know, I think there's another part of
Speaker 1: this as well as it's also how they play defense.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a very safety heavy team with
Speaker 1: Curse that comes down into the box. They like to
Speaker 1: use Donovan Wilson as well. Obviously they have Malie Cooker.
Speaker 1: So Jabrill Cox played I believe he played safety early
Speaker 1: in his college career and then he moved to a
Speaker 1: linebacker and he was at North Dakota State and then
Speaker 1: LSU and all that. But but I mean he if
Speaker 1: he was to go one way or the other, it'd
Speaker 1: be a safety, you know, as opposed to Demon Clark,
Speaker 1: who would be a defensive m So that's just kind
Speaker 1: of and I think Curse play it's it's bar is
Speaker 1: a good point. But also I think Curse and and
Speaker 1: Donmond Wilson. You know, Donan Wilson has has changed a
Speaker 1: lot over the last of what they're doing over the
Speaker 1: last few months, because I mean, I think he was
Speaker 1: supposed to be a just a nice player to be
Speaker 1: in the rotation, and they can't get him off the field.
Speaker 1: I think he's leading the team and tackles or right
Speaker 1: behind Vander He's one of your key run stoppers at safety. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and playmakers too. It's just it's a goodass defense. Break in.
Speaker 1: It's just not easy. It's hard, you know. And you're
Speaker 1: right about Damon Clark. If Anthony Barr doesn't get hurt,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure he special teams only I'm not sure
Speaker 1: when and how they they fit Clark in, And they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to figure that out because I don't know.
Speaker 1: As Bar we talked about Bart, Mike said immediately following
Speaker 1: the Bears game that there weren't weren't any concerns that
Speaker 1: his injury was long term. So obviously we'll see effective
Speaker 1: tomorrow and Thursday and Friday, how that goes. But I'm
Speaker 1: on the mindset even if Bars rested in will and
Speaker 1: he's ready to go against Green Bay now you've seen
Speaker 1: the moon. You can't cut that down to zero defensively.
Speaker 1: So the plan might have been special teams almost exclusively.
Speaker 1: Let's ramp him up from defense over the next two
Speaker 1: to three weeks. Okay, well, now he's already been on defense.
Speaker 1: You see it. You want to ramp it up. I
Speaker 1: think you know ten to fifteen snaps on defense for
Speaker 1: the Moon by the time the Cowboys get to Minnesota.
Speaker 1: That will be the formula. But you're not gonna like,
Speaker 1: I gotta get I gotta get Bar on the field
Speaker 1: of Minnesota. Why because, because, let me ask you, because
Speaker 1: I think I gotten over Daman Clark, but I gotta
Speaker 1: get Anthony bar. If he's got anything dog left in him,
Speaker 1: it's gonna come out on that. I get that. I
Speaker 1: get that. My question would be, and I know you
Speaker 1: guys are talking a lot about Anthony Barr, but at
Speaker 1: least what I've what I've seen, what I've heard, I
Speaker 1: think there are a lot of people that say Anthony
Speaker 1: Barr hasn't quite been as good as you wanted him
Speaker 1: to be. That being said, why I wouldn't you consider
Speaker 1: it a situation where Demon Clark, who you have a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of you think he has a
Speaker 1: lot of potential. Why you wouldn't be getting him on
Speaker 1: the field more to give him those opportunities, especially when
Speaker 1: the person's taken off as a guy that maybe hasn't
Speaker 1: live up quite to what you were expecting. I don't
Speaker 1: need to take demon Clark off the fit. You're right,
Speaker 1: I want to keep him going. I love what you've
Speaker 1: got out of him, and this is to me kind
Speaker 1: of a bonus year for him because if he if
Speaker 1: he's healthy and going into next year and he's got
Speaker 1: ten games under his belt, gravy um. I don't have
Speaker 1: to play Dante Fowler on the outside. I mean I
Speaker 1: kind of want to play him. Okay, I did too,
Speaker 1: But I think Barr I mean, I think Bars playing
Speaker 1: out of position is what I'm trying to say. Are
Speaker 1: they not going to move him at this point? Well,
Speaker 1: I think Bar's a pass rusher. I agree with he's
Speaker 1: a pass rusher. I don't think they're gonna make that
Speaker 1: change now. I just think that you can figure out
Speaker 1: a way for him. Now. Does that mean ke snaps
Speaker 1: from Sam Williams? Are you taking snaps from from Fowler?
Speaker 1: I mean, gott to figure out something, keep shaking you
Speaker 1: off like you're the picter, and I'm like, no, nope, no, nope,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking Williams. I'm trying to figure out how
Speaker 1: to get Sam on the field more, right, So help
Speaker 1: me out, Nick. But I think Barr. I think if
Speaker 1: Barr was playing the role of Sam Williams or Fowler,
Speaker 1: I think he would play it better. That's true. I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I don't think the coach is necessarily
Speaker 1: because they haven't done it. Yeah, right, And they also
Speaker 1: might be looking at like, we don't need him there.
Speaker 1: We got plenty of production in those positions like this,
Speaker 1: we just got they have too many pass rushers. If
Speaker 1: there's a thing such as a thing as having too
Speaker 1: many pass rushers. Brought us says this all the time,
Speaker 1: and he's so right about it. When a GM knows
Speaker 1: that he's gonna be the GM for years to come,
Speaker 1: you can look at things differently and you can say,
Speaker 1: gotta get to Moan Clark some snaps, gotta get Sam
Speaker 1: Williams on the field. Yeah. But when you're a head
Speaker 1: coach that knows if you don't go to the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship game, you could be let go. You're you're gonna play.
Speaker 1: If Bar is a little bit better than this guy,
Speaker 1: you gotta play him, you gotta use them. It's a
Speaker 1: different mindset. In the same room over there, Will mccley
Speaker 1: and McCarthy could sit and talk on the field right
Speaker 1: before the game about what they think and they have
Speaker 1: a complete different mindset. And that's just that's just the
Speaker 1: way life is, you know. So like I hear what
Speaker 1: y'all see, and we think we're gonna be here too.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see sam I want to see Daman. True,
Speaker 1: but if Anthony Barr is a better player on this Sunday,
Speaker 1: the coaches have to do that for them. And I
Speaker 1: guess that's still my question. Is he still the best
Speaker 1: player at the position he's currently playing, because I don't
Speaker 1: know that. I probably not. I think he's been I
Speaker 1: think he's been kind of up and down. I think
Speaker 1: there have been some good moments. There have been some
Speaker 1: moments it's like head scratchers. And I think you would
Speaker 1: probably have the same thing with Damon Clark. You might
Speaker 1: even get a little bit more of the of the
Speaker 1: big play opportunity with him because of his athleticism and
Speaker 1: so to me, I don't think it's like Bars better
Speaker 1: right now. And to your point, you go back and
Speaker 1: you look at the Los Angeles Rams game and Bar
Speaker 1: was all over the field, easily his best game of
Speaker 1: the season for me. But then you go back and
Speaker 1: you look at the Lions or the Bears before he
Speaker 1: left with injury. Not the best thing that he left
Speaker 1: on film. So I do think he's out of position.
Speaker 1: It was interesting because in the training camp when he
Speaker 1: was signed, McCarthy made it a point to, you know,
Speaker 1: aim at the fact that he has the ability to
Speaker 1: rush the passer and put his hand in the grass
Speaker 1: where you've not necessarily seen that thus far. So to
Speaker 1: your point, he is playing out of position. But I
Speaker 1: think you have so many guys performing that you hoped
Speaker 1: would but didn't necessarily know that it would happen. Sam
Speaker 1: Williams is performing Dante Fowler. Aside from the you know,
Speaker 1: the random neutral zone infractions. From a production standpoint, he's
Speaker 1: thriving again. Under Dan Quinn, you have just like a
Speaker 1: log jam at the edge. So then you can't look
Speaker 1: at Anthony bar and say, hey, we need you at
Speaker 1: the edge, because technically we don't, but we want you
Speaker 1: on the field. Four time pro bowler and two up
Speaker 1: to you know, before last week's game, you didn't have
Speaker 1: the moan, so' it was your show? Bar okay, well
Speaker 1: Bar leads with injury. Now you see the moan in
Speaker 1: his upside and his speed in tracking down Justin Fields,
Speaker 1: and you're like, we can't, we can't, you know, put
Speaker 1: that cat back in the bag. So yeah, just just
Speaker 1: that player didn't even count. But let's go back and
Speaker 1: watch that if he could go watch watch the mont
Speaker 1: Clark run down Justin Fields on the sideline. I mean,
Speaker 1: Miami didn't have anyone that could do it in their
Speaker 1: in their game. That guy, man, I'm telling he is
Speaker 1: and you put on Clark, but I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: fields gonna be a problem. Oh yeah, well he already
Speaker 1: is a problem. By the way, if you haven't realized
Speaker 1: it yet, he has already developed into weight problem. Now
Speaker 1: they get some things around him, that's when it is
Speaker 1: gonna get real dangerous and the rest of the NFL
Speaker 1: is gonna be looking like, man, what are we gonna
Speaker 1: do with this team? Got to jal Hurts, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be He's way better than that. I think you think
Speaker 1: justin Oh, I think he's one. I think once he
Speaker 1: really do, because he's going dangerous with his feet. Then
Speaker 1: I think Jalen is I don't know about I think
Speaker 1: the Duffel gangs of each other on the ground. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. The air attack is what would separate
Speaker 1: if Justin's arm from Ohio State ever makes it to Chicago.
Speaker 1: Then he think about how they run the ball. The
Speaker 1: difference is, like Jalen will run you over. Jalen will
Speaker 1: pick up the yards that that you don't like. If
Speaker 1: it's if it's you know, if he takes off around
Speaker 1: the outside and it's between it's one guy between him
Speaker 1: and the sticks, he's gonna get the first down. But
Speaker 1: the and by the way, what you can't remember, what
Speaker 1: you don't can't forget is Phills is six foot three.
Speaker 1: Say Phils ain't a little dude. He can bowl you
Speaker 1: over too. The difference is he's so fast and do
Speaker 1: you watch him last week? That's sixty one yard run.
Speaker 1: He basically just outran the defense like he just outran them.
Speaker 1: When you got a quarterback like that, now you're talking
Speaker 1: about somebody that's more of that Michael Vick type that
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, those kind of quarterbacks. And then
Speaker 1: in addition, he's a big guy. And then in addition,
Speaker 1: if that arm shows up from Ohio State, like you
Speaker 1: start thinking about it from that standpoint, if he develops
Speaker 1: the way that you would expect him to, maybe he
Speaker 1: has the skill set that no quarterback really has had
Speaker 1: in this league to date. Since if that arm comes
Speaker 1: over to Chicago from Ohio State, if I guess it
Speaker 1: got lost in baggage claim, whatever, but if it finds
Speaker 1: its way to Chicago, well they don't play Perdue. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't play you know, you don't have those you
Speaker 1: don't have those gaping If it ever happens, then two
Speaker 1: for them or Iowa, I don't. You don't have anything
Speaker 1: against I used to say that all the time when
Speaker 1: I when I was on here and saying, guys, I
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying about these corners, But I mean,
Speaker 1: what why? And I can go back and watch the
Speaker 1: tape so it's not just me patting myself on the back.
Speaker 1: I was saying it, why not Michael Parsons because every
Speaker 1: time I watch him, nobody can block him? And I
Speaker 1: understand Minnesota's not on the schedule, Well it is Gophers.
Speaker 1: You know those teams you know Red curs, but they
Speaker 1: can't block this guy. And that was just from the
Speaker 1: inside rush. They hadn't had him on the outside. I
Speaker 1: bet you if he would have opted to play that season,
Speaker 1: they probably would have dabbled into that. And but um,
Speaker 1: but and so so sometimes it doesn't translate over I
Speaker 1: get it. But I mean Fields is he just got
Speaker 1: his awareness. I mean it's not just jumping over Mike Parsons.
Speaker 1: I don't understand that play. But to me, there was
Speaker 1: the more of the you know, Tank can hurt you
Speaker 1: if you don't see him coming over here, you should
Speaker 1: maybe feel that and see it. And I don't know
Speaker 1: whose fault, but at all fairness, there were two other
Speaker 1: players where Tank was coming and he and and Tank
Speaker 1: basically tackled there. So I get it. But yeah, but
Speaker 1: in that play right there, I mean, he's unblocked him.
Speaker 1: You gotta know that. You gotta see it. But he
Speaker 1: definitely felt it. Um, but he got up. He's tough.
Speaker 1: He's a big dude, like he's not a little guy. No.
Speaker 1: I think I think that Cowboys, if they won't face
Speaker 1: him again for a while, when they do, he'll be
Speaker 1: a much better quarterback. It's kind of like the first
Speaker 1: time they faced Russell Wilson. I mean that was like,
Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't very good Tom Brady. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back that far. Tom never lost to him, So
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. He still remember that game.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it like what in the final score like at
Speaker 1: eleven and even No, there's no eleven? Was that was there?
Speaker 1: Was there a game that they played up in Yes,
Speaker 1: well thousand and three, come on, Nick, twelve to nothing
Speaker 1: got you? Thank you. It was a low scoring game
Speaker 1: and I don't think he completed very like. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like a game where it was a Tom Brady game.
Speaker 1: It was very much a defense two thousand. That two
Speaker 1: thousand and three team was the worst good team I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. They were ten and six parcels. First year.
Speaker 1: They were terrible. Yeah, they made Quincy started. They shot
Speaker 1: out twice that year? Did they in the playoffs that
Speaker 1: they played Philly Carolina? Carolina? Yeah, I remember you and
Speaker 1: I looked at each other. That's the first time we
Speaker 1: really talked about those white towels. Oh, they're like the
Speaker 1: game was that? The game was that? The game? At
Speaker 1: the end, Steve Smith was on the JumboTron. He was
Speaker 1: talking yeah, ash yeah, and it was it was all true.
Speaker 1: He was like we we yeah, yeah, he was being
Speaker 1: yeah he was it was. It was bad. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff in that game that was that
Speaker 1: was bad. Yeah. All right, we're gonna take off final.
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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. We're taking fan questions and I have
Speaker 1: one here. It might take the rest of the show,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go and throw it out now. The
Speaker 1: question comes from Zach Fowler, and he says, what gives
Speaker 1: you optimism that the Cowboys will go farther in the
Speaker 1: playoffs than they did last season? Remember, at this point
Speaker 1: last year, the records were exactly the same six and
Speaker 1: two you were coming off. I'm pretty sure coming off
Speaker 1: the game against Denver last year, so there was a
Speaker 1: lot of what was that? But that all being said,
Speaker 1: they were still six and two six and two. Now,
Speaker 1: what gives you optimism things will be different this year?
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. I think Michael Parsons is better this year
Speaker 1: than he was last year. I think he's the best
Speaker 1: player in football, and I think I really believe that.
Speaker 1: I think offense or defense sure of worse. Gout a
Speaker 1: little high on that one, okay, because that kind of
Speaker 1: surprised me, but whatever, Well, he can only play defense,
Speaker 1: even though wow, time he got the ball, he made
Speaker 1: it clear he need to give me a lot. I
Speaker 1: think I think, and I've said this before about college
Speaker 1: or pro. I mean, if you have the best player
Speaker 1: on the field, especially at a position that could wreck games,
Speaker 1: that you're always going to be in a chance. I
Speaker 1: think that I have optimism that this defense is better.
Speaker 1: It's a little nastier defense. I think it's better. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to travel and you know, wherever. And
Speaker 1: I think that the offense will have more playmakers, um
Speaker 1: than they do right now. I think I think they're
Speaker 1: coming out. They are going to figure out the Pollard,
Speaker 1: the situation. They're going to add somebody at some point.
Speaker 1: I think, and I think, I think they are just
Speaker 1: a better team. I think they're a better team than
Speaker 1: they were last year. And the schedule, sorry, Pat, I
Speaker 1: mean one more point. I think if you look at
Speaker 1: the six and two, they hadn't played a lot of
Speaker 1: really good teams yet, and they beat some teams that
Speaker 1: we thought they were good, and then as it turns out,
Speaker 1: like not really, when you face the good teams, they
Speaker 1: really weren't that good. I think this team's already beaten
Speaker 1: some pretty good teams and they'll be tested some more.
Speaker 1: But I just think this team is a little better
Speaker 1: than we're last year. I think the defense, the defensive
Speaker 1: guys who set records last year are better this year.
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons is better, Trevon Diggs is better at good point.
Speaker 1: And then in between those you have players that are
Speaker 1: now scratching toward that elite title. Donothan Wilson, he's cloning,
Speaker 1: he's trying to get there. Right. You got a healthy
Speaker 1: jay Ron Curse now hopefully that stays the case. But
Speaker 1: you got DeMarcus Lawrence playing out of his mind, right.
Speaker 1: You got rookies. Sam Williams is stepping up playing well,
Speaker 1: and the free agency edition Fowler, you know, penalty is
Speaker 1: notwithstanding he's playing well as well. You're going to get
Speaker 1: Jonathan Hankins and drop him right beside Quentin Bohannah to
Speaker 1: kind of help out. Damon Clark is now in the mix.
Speaker 1: Upside is great. So the defense as a whole, I
Speaker 1: could go on and on. They're better offensively. Guess what
Speaker 1: they just learned they learned. They just show that they
Speaker 1: learned from the mistake of forcing Ezekiel Elliott to play
Speaker 1: through the PCL injury last season, which is what led
Speaker 1: them to rest him against the Bears going into the
Speaker 1: bio week. So now you have a healthy Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: in the back half of the season. You didn't have
Speaker 1: that in twenty twenty one. So that's another issue or
Speaker 1: another positive. We'll see what James Washington can become, but
Speaker 1: that goes to help is on the way, be at
Speaker 1: James Washington and or a free agency edition like a
Speaker 1: guy who Shall Remain nameless? All right, But I say
Speaker 1: all that to say the chemistry is also coming back
Speaker 1: with between Lamb and Dak, between Gallop and Dad, Gallup
Speaker 1: is rapidly approaching being Michael gallop again. Right, Noah Brown
Speaker 1: kind of took a step back past a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: but we've seen what he can do. I think he
Speaker 1: gets his chemistry with Dak and so. And then you're
Speaker 1: throwing special teams your guy, Brett Maher, Right, you don't
Speaker 1: have a guy well based on the Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: special he's your favorite special teams guy, is what I mean.
Speaker 1: He's just favorite special teams guy. No, he's not my
Speaker 1: favorite special teams guy. My favorite special teams guy is
Speaker 1: the same as everybody in the stadium. I love that guy.
Speaker 1: I love watching him. Turpin maher. You don't have a
Speaker 1: concern about kicks anymore. And then you have guys like
Speaker 1: Durrance Armstrong blocking kicks. So all three phases are really
Speaker 1: starting to come together for the cop isn't me this
Speaker 1: is off off topic just a second. This is pro
Speaker 1: and college. Is there are a lot more blocked punts
Speaker 1: than there used to be. I feel like every I
Speaker 1: feel like there's a lot of block punts. That's a question.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't I can't figure out the number.
Speaker 1: I mean, you see more, you see highlights, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's a good indicator. I just feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like it happens not maybe not once
Speaker 1: a game, but I mean it's very close once or
Speaker 1: twice a Gamewboys are getting back there, yeah, routinely, even
Speaker 1: if it's not a block, it's like, hey, finger nail
Speaker 1: a way. Another point to that is I just don't
Speaker 1: feel another they did it once last year. I don't
Speaker 1: feel like the team was able to go four and
Speaker 1: one and against some pretty good teams last year without Dak.
Speaker 1: I don't think they were built that way. I think
Speaker 1: they need to die. I think this year that they
Speaker 1: showed that they can do that. They can win different ways.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter if he lose in the first round.
Speaker 1: No one's going to care who's better or worse or whatever.
Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, I still think the best
Speaker 1: team I've seen when Owen one in the playoffs back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven. I think that's the best
Speaker 1: the Cowboy team that I've covered. Doesn't matter. Ultimately. I
Speaker 1: think dan Quinn from a coordinator standpoint, I think he's
Speaker 1: he's wearing that Deebo Samuel whooping from the playoffs and
Speaker 1: he's wearing that and I think that going into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: He's going to do whatever he needs to do to
Speaker 1: make sure that whomever they play, you're going to have
Speaker 1: to beat the Cowboys in the air, and to do that,
Speaker 1: you got to beat the pass rush, and you gotta
Speaker 1: beat that secondary and good. Look. I mean, if they
Speaker 1: if they can split these next two games, and one
Speaker 1: way or another, just split these two games. If they
Speaker 1: do that, and then take care of the business for
Speaker 1: the next four games that are sitting there, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're just sitting You're probably just gonna be sitting at
Speaker 1: the five seed. That's where you're gonna be. I just
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have a hard time thinking they're
Speaker 1: gonna beat the Eagles. Maybe the Giants can beat the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and then you beat them and then that changes everything.
Speaker 1: But I don't not even expecting that. I just think
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a five seed and they're gonna play
Speaker 1: a four. I'll tell you this, Here's the reason why
Speaker 1: I think I'm more optimistic about the Cowboys this year
Speaker 1: is because looking around the NFL, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: a coincidence that some of the best quarterbacks that we've
Speaker 1: traditionally known in this league are having struggles this year.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of what's happening in the NFL
Speaker 1: is about the fact that defenses have just decided we
Speaker 1: are dropping seven sometimes eight, You're gonna have to throw
Speaker 1: into coverage, and we are going to do it until
Speaker 1: you force us to get out of it. What that
Speaker 1: means is, and that is translated into, is now the
Speaker 1: teams that are doing well in the NFL, teams that
Speaker 1: can run the ball and play good defense, because the
Speaker 1: only way to get a team to get out of
Speaker 1: that seven man drop is to just run the ball
Speaker 1: right down the throat and consistently be able to do it.
Speaker 1: That's why I think the Cowboys in a great situation.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Cowboys opponents are necessarily coming to
Speaker 1: the game thinking in order for us to win, we
Speaker 1: got necessarily beat their pass rush. I think they're coming
Speaker 1: in saying we're not going to beat their pass rush.
Speaker 1: So we got to keep ourselves out of those situations,
Speaker 1: and we got to run the ball well. Where the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have problems against teams who can run the ball,
Speaker 1: I think that is across the league. I think that
Speaker 1: is becoming more and more. Of the problem is you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to be able to run the ball and
Speaker 1: play great defense. And by the way, that matches up
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys right now, that's exactly what they're doing well.
Speaker 1: They're running the ball, they're playing good defense. That is
Speaker 1: the reason why I have optimism. The only problem with
Speaker 1: that is there are a lot of other teams that
Speaker 1: are in that division, I mean, in that conference, who
Speaker 1: are also playing great defense, who also running the ball.
Speaker 1: You look at teams like Seattle and Philadelphia and in
Speaker 1: New York and I mean you go down the list
Speaker 1: San Francisco and there are a number of teams that
Speaker 1: have figured out that formula. And it's not a coincidence
Speaker 1: that most of the teams in the league that are
Speaker 1: near the top have that formula. There's really only two
Speaker 1: or three that don't, and that those two two of
Speaker 1: them are Maine that don't run the ball particularly well.
Speaker 1: Have the best quarterbacks in the league right now in
Speaker 1: Josh Allen Pat Mahomes. So that being said, either you
Speaker 1: got to have a transcending quarterback or you better be
Speaker 1: able to run the ball. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: makes the Cowboys have at least that's for me, gives
Speaker 1: me more optimism. The Cowboys will be better this year.
Speaker 1: Everything cyclical in the NFL, and now we're back to
Speaker 1: talking about defense and the rushing attack being the reason
Speaker 1: teams are winning games. Well, this smells like the nineties
Speaker 1: all over here? Is it so? And the NFC least
Speaker 1: has turned into the NFC beast that ain't the nineties.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else is over again? All right,
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, Jonas. We'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna
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