WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Eagles Have D, Too 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:06.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:16.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:19.800 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:24.920 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah? And so 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.800 much for that. It's time for the Break on Dallas 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:34.479 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:41.320 bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, October thirteenth, 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.680 twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number fifty. Welcome to 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.760 another edition of the Break Lifts, WBC Morgan Studios. At 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:50.560 the start, we are presented our middle like the only 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.000 beer of the Dallas Cowboys. And today we talked about 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.040 the Philadelphia defense versus the Cowboys offense. We got lots 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.080 of questions. There are lots of things to discuss there. 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.320 We might even get some questions that were left over 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.760 from Tuesday about the offense. But let's start first with 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.440 getting some some updates on some injuries. Nick, what do 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.280 we hear this morning? I guess on Dak and where 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.959 he is from his practicesterday. I think it went well 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.520 as what McCarthy said, but I mean Dak said it 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.480 yesterday in the locker room as well that you know 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.120 they were it was. It was a good throwing session. 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.119 And you know, he's playing with the media. I mean, 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.039 he knows when the media is out there for fifteen minutes, 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.280 he's throwing the ball left handed and doing all that 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.080 kind of stuff. But he's doing things when they leave, 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.120 he's he's ramping it up a little bit more. And 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:36.800 he said that they were able to cut it loose 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:38.520 a little bit, put some zip on the ball. He says, 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.319 I'm not gonna throw if I don't have it. You know, 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.160 if I don't have the zip, I'm not gonna throw it. 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.440 So it sounds like it's ramping up that way. McCarthy said, 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.240 it went well, he'll do some more of that. Again. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:48.920 They're not going to rule him out. I don't think 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.200 unless I heard something different, I don't think they're gonna 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.320 rule them out until they have to. But he you know, 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.520 he's not playing this week. Yeah, he threw everything but 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.720 the nine, which is the vertical route, and then the post, 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.760 so everything else basically, Yeah, they took the deep shots 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.080 out of the game and so they threw underneath intermediate 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.880 stuff like that is how it all it all worked out. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:13.840 I was just laughing because it's like you can you 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.960 can argue they took that out a long time ago, 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.440 like that's not really, that's not but you know what, 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.560 is that true? Though? Nick? You said that yesterday, and 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.440 I think about a number of times I've seen him 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.560 connect downfield, particularly Michael Gallop, I don't. I don't think 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.280 it's fair say it's not a part of his game. 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.799 It's a part of his game. You ask me what 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.840 what Cooper Rush does better than than Dak I think 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.840 it would be deep ball. I think I think that, yes, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.880 more than we saw it with that, I don't think 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.840 so okay. I don't think so either. I don't think 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.240 so okay, not as often because I just think that 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:49.679 the way they've been playing with Cooper Rush, it's a 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.720 little bit more conservative in that aspect where they're not 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.320 giving him those many opportunities, but that it's a conservative throw. Honestly, 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.639 it'd be told it's a conservative throw for the way 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.720 Cooper Rush throws it. I think he throws the ball 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.440 more down the field even when he plays in the 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.480 preseason games, because that's what we have to go off of. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.960 I think he takes I think he feels more comfortable 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.040 throwing it express it to the right, his right side. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.680 I think he feels comfortable doing that more than some 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.919 of the other guys, I think than Dak does. Yeah, 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.680 I think it's it's fair to maybe say that's a 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.440 comfortable throw for him. I don't know that we've seen 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.440 evidence that he connects on that anymore frequently than Dak does. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.680 That's my point. So if you look at the results, 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.560 I don't think that this is necessarily thing where you 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.560 say Cooper Rush is a better deep ball thrower from 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.640 the standpoint of results than Dak. Well. The thing is, though, 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.000 with Cooper Rush, they will get max protection throw that 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.160 ball down the field. So that's the thing I think, 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.240 if you want to do it, They've done it occasionally 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.360 with Dak, but not to the point with Cooper Rush. 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.839 Cooper Rush has done it far more. And I think 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.040 all of it has to do with Michael Gallup the 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.800 game the other day, they got in a situation where 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.600 they were getting past interference called too. I think I 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.200 think you know, that's these coaches have got to figure out, 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.560 and a lot of them do when you have games 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.720 where officials are going to call things certain ways. The 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.280 game last year it was a great example of like, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.400 you know, you know, if I'm just throwing the deep 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.680 ball because the fistals are going to call pass interference 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.000 every time. And you got a situation the other day 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.880 where where where Gallup was able to get down the 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.120 field and it was either going to be pass interference 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.039 on the commander's corner or it was going to be 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.160 a catch. So I think that, to me, there needs 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.000 to be that plan in the game. It's like, hey, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.160 let's take a deep shot here, let's see what you know. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.680 I think I think Dat needs more of that, you know, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.000 I think that to me that that's I see it 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:34.960 as part of his game, but I think it's something 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.400 that they could probably take a little bit better advantage of. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.120 You know, if you go, if you're one of those 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.719 numbers nerds. I think he was fifth in the league 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.880 last year in deep ball throws, you know, So to me, 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.599 take some shots, go for it, you know, if you 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.120 want to do that, But they they need to do 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.880 it more. That's that's I you know, I like what 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.960 Nick saying about, you know, about the situation about how 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.320 he throws it, but take more shots at it, you know, 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.599 don't just you know, think everything underneath and intermediate with him. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.360 I am dying to know after this game, win or lose, 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:12.760 how the whole narrative starts changing on whether how soon 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.080 you got Dick back in or how a little bit 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.160 more longer it takes to heal that win or lose though, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.200 I mean, it's not win or lose. You don't think, no, no, 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.800 there's two completely different narratives based off win or lose. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:29.120 I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, I just want to see 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.480 it what happens. Yeah, yeah, because did you hear did 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.120 you hear it? Troy? He throws wood right on the 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.200 fire this morning? Like cowboys going win in Philly. I 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.719 think you gotta start talking about whether you really want 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.480 to bring Deak. But it's just this thing has taken 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.479 on a whole life of its own in my opinion 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.800 that I just don't I don't see, I don't get it. 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.480 But yeah, I mean, you know that's you know, Jerry 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.880 Jones came out several weeks ago and says he wants 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.599 a quarterback controversy. So you go out win Philadelphia, you 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.680 got your quarterback controversy. I know, I know one thing 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.039 doing radio every day, I want five three that that 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.480 there are people that absolutely want to see this thing 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.719 play out with Cooper Rush. And there's the people on 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.800 the Dack end of it. They're terrified that he's gonna 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.080 win this game. You know that there it's that divided 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.279 on these on these folks, and you know it's you know, 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.039 they've made the decision as a front office, and you know, 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.200 as critical as I've been at the front office, you know, 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.360 they have done a lot of things the right way. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.719 And you know, if by if they bring Dak Prescott back, 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.520 I'm I'm not betting against him now because everything they 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.919 seem to do has come to up asis for them. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.480 You know, it's it's worked out all Hey, don't worry 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.120 about the receivers, don't worry about the offensive line, don't 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:39.920 worry about this, don't worry about that. You know, all 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.720 those questions that we had, you know, it seems like 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.919 that their decisions are actually been the right decisions. You know, 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.920 so I'm you know, it's not me to sit there 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.440 and say, you know that it would be you know, 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:53.800 I think that they I think that they could do 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.240 more with Dak at quarterback. But you need to see 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.400 Dak do more and win games. Yeah, that's that's where 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.840 this argument is. You mentioned the receivers, and that led 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.359 me to think, do you guys feel that because we 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.680 always talk about how Dak needs help around him most 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.520 quarterbacks do. Okay, we get that point, but he does 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.040 need that kind of help. We know the improvements that 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.920 the old line has had and they're doing good, but 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.520 as far as the receivers and the rest of the 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.480 group you can throw in their running backs as well, 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.720 do you feel that everybody else is doing enough to 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.080 what Dak would need? And this is a weird question 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.520 because you're seeing it with what they're giving Cooper Rush, 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:39.280 But when you get daged back in, are everybody else 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:43.960 doing enough to cater to him? Well? Right now, my opinion, 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.440 catering to him, or catering to any quarterback on this 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:50.160 team is about the defense. It's not about the receivers, 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.320 it's not about the tight ends, it's not about the 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.600 offensive line. It is, in my opinion, about this defense. 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.160 That's the other reason why I have a hard time 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.360 with the whole Cooper Rush conversation is because he is 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.000 playing with right now, in my opinion, one of the best, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.960 if not the best defenses in the National Football League, 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.320 and doing that will forwards you a lot of letl 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.640 if you have a team where you're like punning is 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.360 a good thing, you know you're doing it like that 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.600 means that the defense is what you you rely on. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.280 So for me, I don't think it's about the it's 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.320 not about the receivers, it's not about all the other stuff. 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.239 It's about the defense. As long as the defense keeps playing, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.560 you can keep winning. Is it gonna be clear this week? 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.640 That's what I was gonna ask. Is it gonna is 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.560 this the weekend where all of a sudden that you know, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:41.280 ten offensive points are not going to be enough? Yeah? Probably, 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.640 I mean probably, I mean, yeah, it seems that way. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.480 We'll see what's gonna bend. I mean, we'll see if 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.720 the Cowboys defense is really really that good in that dynamic. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.800 But we're gonna get into it as well. Like the 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.439 Eagles are winning with defense as well. I mean the 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.360 Eagles deep, yes they are there, but look at their 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.000 offensive numbers. Their offensive numbers up there as well, right, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.439 but they're winning with defense though. Defense. I mean, look 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.160 at what look at what they're I mean, they that 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.640 they did not in the Detroit game, but all the 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:10.200 other games they won. Their defense is playing lights out. 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.800 I'm just saying this isn't You can't just make the 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.240 claim that the Cowboys have the best defense on the 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.840 field in this game. I mean, I think the Eagles 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.600 or defense is just is just as good. Their point 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.240 their stats are good, and the reason why they're five 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.559 and ohs because their offense is dynamic as well. It's 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:28.760 kind of what you hope Dallas's offense would be with 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.200 a really good defense, that the ability to score some 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.440 points and then you know, that's that's that that I 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.560 just go back to win. And I was working in 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.840 Green Bay way way back in the day when you 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.600 played the Cowboys the Super Bowl Cowboys, they would get 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.400 a lead on you and then the defense would choke 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:47.160 you out. You know. That's that's where my experience was. Yeah, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.000 that's the way it always was. It was they found 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.959 a way to use the weapons. They would get twenty 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.679 four points and that was enough. Yeah, it would always 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.120 that sounds like that's how Philly is doing it. I 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.120 think is is their offense good enough to get those 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:00.720 points and then the defense is just like, you're not 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:05.080 coming back where I think that that this is going 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:08.240 to end, you know, eventually, for for Cooper Rush and 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:12.960 the Cowboys, is this winning streak is the red zone offense. 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:17.439 And yes, there's things that I think that that Cooper 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.199 does just as well, if not somewhat better than Dak. 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.560 But there are some things that Dak obviously does better. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.520 And that to me is pocket presence and awareness and 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.480 red zone and the ability to RPOs and ability to 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.120 run in touchdowns. I don't see that happening from the 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.520 six yard line of Cooper Rush running it in. Dat 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.040 can do that. And I think red zone struggles are 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.000 going to be an issue if you can't run the 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.280 ball and have a quarterback because Jalen Hurts certainly does 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.520 and I'm not saying Dak would be Hurts, but Dad 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.360 can do more of that, and I think when you 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.679 get down there, it's gonna be harder to score. I 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.680 think obviously DAK would give you a better red zone 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.839 ability to score. Okay, you have better memories. I think 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.959 I'm trying to remember or if my memory is playing 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.640 games with me. But I feel like they have been okay, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.200 like they're bettering the red zone, but their problem is 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.840 getting to the red zone, Like they can never get 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.360 to that point. But when they get there, they seem 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.880 to be to be fairly okay. Which here which well, 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.200 I will say this get talking about what what Zeke 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.760 said yesterday. He pointed out that he thought the biggest 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.840 problem for this offense is third downs. Yeah, and they 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.280 look at it right now. They're twenty ninth in the 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.160 league and converting third downs that is a significant problem 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.000 for them. And you want to talk about sustaining drives 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.439 to get to the red zone, that's part of the problem. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.959 They're not sustaining drives enough to get those convert those 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.719 third downs. But once they rarely make it there, they 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:40.200 seem to I mean, from what I remember, they managed 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:44.679 to get in whether it's running the ball or going no, no, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.800 you're right, But it's with Zeke's right. They're they're they're 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.600 they're bad on third downs. And that's the thing about 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.720 it that you know you had two thirds, actually had 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.240 three third downs the other day that you could have 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.400 converted on all three, you know they but you had 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.520 the penalty on the third and one run when Hendershott 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.520 got called for holding. At the end of the game, 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:05.679 you had to drop by Ceedee Lamb and you had 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:10.240 to drop by by our other guy, Uh, why don't 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.240 everyone's the Gallup Michael Gallup. Yeah, guy just was to 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.160 me names in my head. But Gallup, you know his 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.960 drop and ceedee Lambs drop and then the holding point. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.079 That was three third down plays that should have been converted, 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.400 you know, those were all third and then that keeps 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.160 drives going. And so now your percentage was there. I 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.080 think they're like at thirty one percent right now, you know. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.480 So we're on the other end of it, though. The 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.400 Eagles on their offense are like, you know, ten to 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.440 twelve percentage points better than that. Yeah, so you know, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.760 but their Eagles defense though, has been a little bit 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.960 of a struggle on third down for them too. So well, 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.640 you know, something something might have to give in this 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.280 football game. Yeah, they're they're twenty fifth right now in 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.320 the league and third downs that they're giving up. So 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.240 they're giving up a lot of third downs. Cowboys aren't 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.480 getting third downs. Something will, something has to somebody's gonna 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:58.880 get better this game. I'll go back to the red 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.920 zone here. The the Cowboys rank thirty first in the 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:07.600 NFL and trips to the red eleven. Only Houston has 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.559 has less, with ten on the flip side. Oh well, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.040 and of that eleven there, they've scored six times, so touchdown, 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.120 so that's a forty five percent. You know that that 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.520 ranks them twenty six. But trips to the red zone 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.000 only eleven, which is the problem getting there. Yeah, now 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.880 they have you know, a couple of long runs and 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:26.680 stuff like that, but for the most part, you know 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.800 that that's been a challenge. But on the flip side, 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.720 they've only allowed teams in their nine times, which is 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.520 by far the best in the in the league. So 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.120 um and and so their defense is really really good 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.079 in the red zone. In their offense not so much. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.319 Once again, you're winning with defense. This is this offense 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.400 is actually if this offence is playing but no, but 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:46.720 but I think you know what the point is. The 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.679 point is if you take this offense run by Cooper 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.160 Rush and you put it with the defense from last year, 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.800 the Cowboys are probably a one or two win team 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.679 right now. That's probably where they with you. And and 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.880 so that's again that's what And I keep making a 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.040 point because I'm making the point that let's let's hold 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.280 off on trying to say that that you need to 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.240 just keep Cooper Rush in there, because there is gonna 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.720 come a game because it happens every year. Well, even 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:12.440 if you have a great defense, they're gonna have a 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.960 rough matchup or they're gonna have a rough game and 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.200 you're gonna need the offensive step up. And I'm with you. 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.480 I'm ready to see Dak. I'm ready to see him 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.760 back in the lineup. But again, I'm gonna stick with it. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.720 I mean, lose a game, Cooper Rush, I mean, quit 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:28.160 being a stubborn lose the game, you know, quit being 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.760 selfish and keep winning these games. I mean that it's 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.080 his faulty one. Is he winning these games though, Like 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.920 that's the that's the problem. He's not winning these games, 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.040 you know. But we set here for years and I 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.080 had Dave and you talking about Dak's four hundred yard 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.600 games with an l you know, like all these stats 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.480 he's putting down and all that. So I've been saying 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.560 it's a tough balance because you know, we've seen these 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.320 fourth quarter magical games that didn't end up well. But 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.480 it's like, with what kind of defense right, right, right, 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:59.840 and what's right He's never played with this kind of defense, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.440 it will be great. But again, it's just the superstition 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.040 in me. I'm not pulling a I wouldn't, but I'm 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.480 not the the same. I mean, how much would you 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:11.880 say the defense improved from week one versus the rest 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.359 of it? You know, he had this defense in week one? Yeah, 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.880 but but they and they, I mean they, hell, they're 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.000 not as good against goats. They're not they're I mean, 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.160 they're not a good against Brady. And let's also be clear, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.160 is that has that been the best offense this teams 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.480 played this year? I would say so. So maybe what 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.680 we find out is when you're playing right, So maybe 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.600 when you're playing that caliber team, maybe your offense is 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.280 really have to score more points. And by the way 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.640 you're playing, maybe that may have been the best defense 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:40.680 that you played this year. I think the point, I 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.000 think the point you made yesterday and I actually stole 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.800 it and used it on the radio yesterday was the 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.760 one about where you put all the rankings for the 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.520 offensive lines that they played. You know, when you start 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.400 saying rams thirty one, yeah, they're commanders thirty. You know, 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.440 you start going through and like, because I asked my 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.200 I mean they were My guys were like, you gotta 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:58.800 run the ball, you gotta you gotta you know, you 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.880 gotta and I go, you think this team's pass rush 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:02.480 is any good? And they're like, oh god, it's the 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.800 best in the league. Okay, here, let me run off 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:09.320 who all they're playing against. And then and then Gavin 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.440 immediately went to break. You know, we went right, you know, 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.000 we're not talking about you know, it's because you know, 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.640 the argument was. The argument was about you know, how 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:21.120 they went in these games, they do in this, you 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.000 know on that and I'm like, okay, and I go, 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.520 and I gave you credit I actually does is Derek 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.520 Eagleton brought this up on the on the show that 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.360 I was with, and so yeah, I mean it's sometimes, 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.960 but it's it's it's a it's not a small sample size. 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.840 I mean there's things that you're looking at right now 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.320 and you're going like, okay, is this what we're going 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.080 to see the rest of the year. Remember last year, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.840 eight weeks in the season, we were all talking about 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.240 Kevin Moore being the next head coat somewhere. We were 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.560 all worried about losing Kellen Moore because how good the 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.800 offense was. And then eight weeks later we were all 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.720 trying to get rid of Kellen Moore. You know that. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:17:00.040 You just you just hope this isn't the flip of 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.680 like all of a sudden, Oh, the Philadelphia, Philadelphia showed 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.440 you how to attack the Dallas defense. You know that 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.960 kind of thing I got. If that happens, I don't 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.480 know what do you do? You have? Were I forgot? 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:16.600 But where does Pheley rank? As far as these are 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.760 sacking we're talking about sacks, they're eighteenth, They're eighteenth their 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.119 offensive life, so it's not great, but they're they're banging. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.800 And they played some teams the Cowboys where they've taken 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.800 advantage of offensive lines. They've done and they and that's 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.440 something that in the past they never did. They never 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.960 took advantage of a compromised offense. And let's also be clear, 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.919 I think I personally think the model of how you 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.320 beat this defense is already out there. Team just haven't 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.880 been able to get them in that situation enough. They 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.040 are not a good run defense. They are towards the 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.119 bottom part of league when it comes to run defense. 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.879 You get them in a situation where you get an 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.280 elite on them and now you can effectively run the 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.119 ball and you don't have to panic and get away 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.639 from your run that's a way to get at this defense, 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.040 I think. And this is why this game I think 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.760 is pivotal because it is a team that has that balance. 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:07.479 Like you were saying, this is a really good defense. 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.919 It's a good offense too. They can score maybe more 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:11.760 points than what you've seen so far and be able 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:13.159 to stick with their run games. So you're saying, to 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:17.720 take the ball if you win the toss. No, no, 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:23.920 I'm deferring because we were trying to yesterday, trying to 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.159 figure out though, and ask you guys this question. We 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.360 were trying to figure out if you could trade for something. 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.240 I don't don't tell me a player, just tell me 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.560 a position. Tell me a position right now that you 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.479 would trade for to help this team going forward. Because 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:43.560 because my guys all were saying defensive tackle, and I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:48.120 it's not the inside runs, it's the perimeter stuff. And 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.960 so I went into this long you know how I talk, 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.760 you know, I'm like waving my hands like Brad Sham talking, 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.760 you know, and that kind of thing. And so I'm 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:58.840 trying to say to wait a minute, you know, how 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.959 about the safety, the forced corner, how about the defensive end. 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.119 How about that's not players, that's just how you play. 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.280 But there's like, no, if you get this, you go 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.080 trade for the guy a Carolina, the big defensive tackle, 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.400 you know. And I'm like, it's not that, it's the edges, 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:15.960 it's the outside that runs. The one thing the note 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:17.959 actually was just looking to stat before we came in. 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.280 Cowboys are ranked twenty first in the league and giving 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.240 up inside runs four point four yards per carry. They 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.880 are ranked twentieth giving up five point one yards per 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.080 carry on outside runs. So they have been equally bad 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.440 on both. Okay, they're not great, but here's it seems 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:35.520 like to me they get killed on the perimeter more 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:37.200 than they get killed in right now, And I agree 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.240 with you. I agree with you, but I don't think 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.080 I don't think it's necessarily about personnel. I think these 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.040 are scheme induced. Like what I mean by that is, 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.600 I think you got a very aggressive defense. They are 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.400 going at the quarterback, and I think they get gashed sometimes. 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.760 I think that if because there are times in games 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.840 when opponents want to run the ball and Cowboys are 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.639 having are not having it. And I think it's because 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.199 they basically are in no situations of the game, like, 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.399 all right, let's lock down on the run. We're not 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.639 rushing the passer in the same way we are locking 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.760 down the run. So I think they have the personnel 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.119 if you gave me that choice of what player I want. 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:10.920 It ain't even on the defensive side of the ball. 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.440 I'm good with my personnel there. Keep what we got 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.920 figure out, and I trust dan Quinn to figure it out. 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:17.560 I think there are a number of places on the 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:19.040 offense where you say, well, we could be a little 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:20.480 better here, and maybe that gives us a little more 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:21.800 All right, we're gonna take our first break and we 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.760 come back. We're gonna jump in Philly defense versus Dallas offense. 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.800 We'll be right back Dallas Cowboys dot Com review. Todd 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.000 thought it would be secure to jog and the cheetah Savanna. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.480 Todd believed the big Cat repellent he bought online was reliable. 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:35.960 And now Todd is trying to be faster than this 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.720 cheetah that can run eighty miles per hour. 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I think it's it 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.080 starts with really the front seven. You know, when you 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:58.200 look at them, they've got a really nice rotation, much 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:01.560 like the Cowboys do with their guys. Josh Sweats playing well, 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:04.480 Fletcher Cox, we all we know him from days gone by. 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:08.320 You know, Hargrave at the defensive tackle, him and Jordan 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:11.439 Davis had been kind of rotating their Brandon Graham is 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:14.280 every time I want to throw dirt on Brandon Graham, 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:16.560 he comes back with a soccer three, you know, that 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:18.880 kind of thing. But yeah, they've done a really nice 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:22.760 job and Hassan Reddick as well. So it's really about 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:25.640 up front. It's about the pressure that they're able to get. 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:28.600 They do a good job of their physical you know, 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:33.040 handling blocks, you know, getting off blocks, getting up the field, 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:36.920 being disruptive. I think that their secondary is the one 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:39.359 that you could kind of I know it's James Bradbury 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:42.119 and Darius Slay and guys like that. I think this. 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:46.120 I think Gardner Johnson their nickel or really their safety. 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:48.479 I think that's a little bit of a liability for 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:51.480 them as a tackler. So to me, when they play 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:54.280 zone coverage, they get in trouble. There's a lot of 0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:57.000 routes that you see in front and Arizona, I thought 0:23:57.000 --> 0:23:59.399 did a really nice job of sitting down in zones 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:02.520 and attack in that and they were Kyler Murray was 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:05.480 able to find, you know, find his guy. So when 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:07.120 you had to take advantage of that, they're gonna play 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:09.560 his own coverage on you. This Uh, this is a 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:12.480 team also too that likes to hold in the secondary. 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:16.480 And this week, you know, when you look at the officials, uh, 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:19.359 you know it's it's gonna be it's gonna be whether 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:23.600 you get those holding calls in this game. And because 0:24:23.640 --> 0:24:26.520 they're a very grabby group and you know that could 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:29.000 kind of swing a game one way or another. So 0:24:29.600 --> 0:24:32.520 it's John Hussey as the official in this game. And 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:37.600 Hussey's crew calls the second most UH pass interference penalties 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:40.320 in the league. And so but the you know that 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:42.479 that's something to keep an eye on right there. Because 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:46.439 Sleigh likes to hold, Bradberry likes to hold, and when 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:49.080 they get the opportunity. Maddox has been injured for them, 0:24:49.160 --> 0:24:51.360 so he hasn't been a factor in this thing. As 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:54.720 like the nickel, But I think it's going back to it, Derek. Guys, 0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:56.760 it starts really upfront with these guys. How many how 0:24:56.800 --> 0:24:59.600 many games or did you see other games than Arizona? 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:02.879 Because I wonder is when you when you face Kyler Murray, 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:05.920 you're worried about that kind of dynamic, do you play 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:07.960 it differently than they're not gonna be worried as much 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:10.399 about Cooper Rush. Do you think they play the zone 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:13.800 as much in other teams or maybe just that one. 0:25:13.840 --> 0:25:15.639 I just think that there was a there was a 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:17.520 good balance. It's a great question. I think there was 0:25:17.560 --> 0:25:20.040 a pretty good balance of that. When you see they 0:25:20.080 --> 0:25:22.359 they they get in man they like to play man 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:24.359 coverage when they get into their nickel stuff on a 0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:27.639 third down, and then they'll play the zone stuff seems 0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:30.199 to be I think they're a little scared about the 0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:33.760 speed on the outside or lack of when they get guys. 0:25:33.840 --> 0:25:35.080 You know, they don't want to just get up on 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:38.200 somebody and get run by. So I think it's more 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:40.800 of a it's more of a uh, it's more of 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:42.840 a trying like Okay, we're gonna come after you, we're 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:44.960 gonna blitch you, We're gonna rush you, We're gonna play 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:47.680 man there. But I saw a lot more zone than 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:49.960 I did, you know, with the with the man demand 0:25:50.040 --> 0:25:52.720 stuff on the games I did. I watched three three 0:25:52.800 --> 0:25:55.879 them play three games, and you know they were you 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:57.960 know they were, they were. It just seemed like to 0:25:58.000 --> 0:26:00.199 me when they're when they were given up plays, it 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:03.240 was because of the zone coverage stuff. Going back to 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:06.280 the stat which I had seen earlier to about third 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:09.720 downs and the comparison between what they give up and 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:13.159 what the Cowboys currently do. Do you think Brian that 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:16.000 for this game, because there are times where I think, Okay, 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:17.919 you trust your defense so much, and I get it, 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:20.880 you have to punt at times, but why not take 0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:25.159 that extra like try, like go for it? So do 0:26:25.240 --> 0:26:28.080 you think maybe this is a time where we'll see 0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:32.760 them kind of going for it a little more than 0:26:32.800 --> 0:26:34.480 what they're used to, just to give it a try 0:26:34.520 --> 0:26:36.720 and see if they are successful. I think you have 0:26:36.800 --> 0:26:39.840 two coaches, and I would call McCarthy pretty aggressive with 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:43.080 what he does too, when he goes back to when 0:26:43.080 --> 0:26:45.680 you go back to the look at what he's done 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:47.919 going for it on his own end of the field. 0:26:48.320 --> 0:26:50.840 You know, I mean, I think and I know that 0:26:51.359 --> 0:26:54.119 Siriani their coaches, he's a go for it guy from 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:56.280 the jump. So yeah, it's just gonna be one of 0:26:56.320 --> 0:27:00.240 those games where I think both teams have the ability, 0:27:00.280 --> 0:27:03.160 and especially if like say that, when I watched Philadelphia 0:27:03.160 --> 0:27:05.760 on tape, it was it just seemed like that they're 0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:07.800 always going for it on fourth down, no matter where 0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:09.239 they are on the field. Not as bad as what 0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:12.000 the Chargers do. Chargers are on their own eighteen yard 0:27:12.000 --> 0:27:13.640 line and they go for it on fourth down because 0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:16.240 that's what they do. But this guy is very, very 0:27:16.240 --> 0:27:18.919 aggressive that way. And then McCarthy has proven though the 0:27:19.000 --> 0:27:21.639 last couple of times that they've been out those fourth 0:27:21.640 --> 0:27:24.040 downs that they've had, whether on his end or the 0:27:24.040 --> 0:27:26.040 other end, that he's more willing to go for it. 0:27:26.160 --> 0:27:28.400 So I think this is a game that you got 0:27:28.400 --> 0:27:30.280 to go out there and you have to be aggressive end, 0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:32.359 you know. I mean, people are probably feeling like that 0:27:32.400 --> 0:27:34.080 the Cowboys are not going to win this game with 0:27:34.160 --> 0:27:36.720 Cooper Rush at quarterback, you know, they're gonna and he 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:39.760 might have to take some chances to get some points too. 0:27:40.000 --> 0:27:42.399 You know, three points kicking field goals might not be 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:44.639 enough in this game. You know, having to find a 0:27:44.680 --> 0:27:47.040 way to get touchdowns. That's probably the path that he 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:49.880 that he's gonna need to take. You look at Philadelphia's 0:27:49.960 --> 0:27:53.160 rush defense, and it's been it's been a weird mix. 0:27:53.280 --> 0:27:55.360 There's some games are given up a lot to some games. 0:27:55.400 --> 0:27:58.280 They've been very bad games Alliance. They're Yeah, they're averaging 0:27:58.280 --> 0:28:00.280 one hundred and three yards per game. Yeah, that they 0:28:00.320 --> 0:28:02.960 allow against the Lions, they gave up one hundred and 0:28:03.000 --> 0:28:05.200 eighty one yards on ground, which is huge, one to 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:08.280 twenty four against Arizona. What did Arizona and Detroit do 0:28:08.720 --> 0:28:11.880 specifically that made them more successful against the running than 0:28:11.960 --> 0:28:14.000 some of the other opponents. Yeah, I think which the 0:28:14.119 --> 0:28:17.160 thing that when Detroit just took the ball right at 0:28:17.240 --> 0:28:19.640 them too, and you know they were able to they 0:28:19.960 --> 0:28:21.520 know it was one of those things when you play 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:23.240 the first game as the first game of the year, 0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:25.880 so you always worry about conditioning and things like that. 0:28:26.440 --> 0:28:28.920 You know, when it comes to when it comes to 0:28:28.960 --> 0:28:31.520 how your team's gonna play, where they ready, were they 0:28:31.560 --> 0:28:34.480 prepared to have the rotations and stuff like that. I 0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:36.879 think Detroit was just more physical than and this is 0:28:36.920 --> 0:28:39.760 this could be a very physical front. But what they're 0:28:39.760 --> 0:28:42.959 also in a situation and right now is where you 0:28:43.000 --> 0:28:47.240 know they they're linebackers. When you get past that first level, 0:28:47.280 --> 0:28:50.800 it's see some problems with their linebackers too. You know, 0:28:50.840 --> 0:28:53.600 whether it was t J. Edwards, you know that he's 0:28:53.640 --> 0:28:56.920 as a MIC linebacker. They really Hassan Reddicks listened as 0:28:56.920 --> 0:28:59.520 a SAM linebacker, but he's more of a rusher, so 0:28:59.680 --> 0:29:03.240 people that we're able to kind of break that first, 0:29:03.280 --> 0:29:05.880 that first wave and then get there's you know, the 0:29:06.160 --> 0:29:08.320 stuff with this is a very aggressive defense. So you 0:29:08.360 --> 0:29:10.800 get guys that you take them one way and then 0:29:10.840 --> 0:29:13.440 bring the ball back the other with the polls and 0:29:13.440 --> 0:29:16.480 the traps and things like that. So that's kind of 0:29:16.480 --> 0:29:19.680 what the Detroit. I thought Detroit was just more physical 0:29:20.120 --> 0:29:23.360 running the football. Arizona again, the stuff with the quarterback 0:29:23.680 --> 0:29:26.000 makes a lot of difference for them too. Yeah, it's 0:29:26.040 --> 0:29:28.520 interesting you mentioned Hassan Reddick. He leads their team with 0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:31.360 four and a half sacks. He's a linebacker, which signifies 0:29:31.480 --> 0:29:34.080 me they must be blitzing quite a bit. That being said, 0:29:34.440 --> 0:29:36.920 how much do they blitz and where does he typically 0:29:36.960 --> 0:29:38.680 line up if there is a beat on that on 0:29:38.720 --> 0:29:41.400 where I noticed he plays on your he plays on 0:29:41.600 --> 0:29:45.440 a lot of it on the on the offensive right side. Okay, 0:29:45.520 --> 0:29:48.160 so he's gonna be on the defensive left is what's 0:29:48.160 --> 0:29:51.880 gonna happen. Josh Sweat generally plays the other side, uh, 0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:54.600 you know with with that rush. So if you're gonna 0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:58.880 if you're gonna see Reddick, he's gonna moving around part I. 0:29:58.960 --> 0:30:00.880 Every time I looked at it, I'd say, Okay, where's 0:30:00.920 --> 0:30:03.840 he going to be? It was off that right tackle 0:30:03.960 --> 0:30:06.440 spot is where he's going to come from. How comfortably 0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:09.479 feel with that? I mean still over there? They give 0:30:09.560 --> 0:30:11.640 him a little help, I would assume, But how do 0:30:11.640 --> 0:30:13.160 you feel? How comfortable do you guys feel with that? 0:30:13.200 --> 0:30:15.200 And you've talked Nick a lot about Tony Pollard and 0:30:15.240 --> 0:30:17.120 the reason why Tony Pollard doesn't get on the feel 0:30:17.120 --> 0:30:19.320 as much as everybody wants to see him is because 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:21.440 of blitz pick up. Yeah, I thought he missed one 0:30:21.480 --> 0:30:24.240 the other day with Ramsey coming off the edge. You know, 0:30:24.400 --> 0:30:26.520 I don't think he saw it right away. He kind 0:30:26.560 --> 0:30:29.040 of went inside of the guard and I didn't. I 0:30:29.080 --> 0:30:31.720 just didn't think he saw it at all. And now 0:30:31.720 --> 0:30:33.600 that would have been a quite a collision if he did, 0:30:33.640 --> 0:30:36.040 because I mean Ramsey's screaming off the edge there. But 0:30:36.080 --> 0:30:38.120 that's what he's supposed to do. I mean, you know, 0:30:38.160 --> 0:30:41.080 he's a willing blocker. He just you just gotta be 0:30:41.160 --> 0:30:42.960 alert and you also have to be big enough to 0:30:43.000 --> 0:30:45.880 do it. That's one of his issues. Um, but you 0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:48.840 know the awareness though, if you mentioned that, that's the thing. 0:30:48.880 --> 0:30:51.480 I think the biggest thing with with Pollard is his 0:30:51.640 --> 0:30:53.880 willingness to do it. I think don't think it's a problem. 0:30:54.000 --> 0:30:56.640 The finish is not always great. It's how are you 0:30:56.680 --> 0:30:59.200 reading it? How are you seeing it? Are you are 0:30:59.240 --> 0:31:02.720 You're you know, most guys are taught to read inside 0:31:02.720 --> 0:31:05.480 out and you know, and sometimes he gets just so 0:31:05.600 --> 0:31:09.000 inside focused that you miss that that slot blitz is 0:31:09.000 --> 0:31:11.880 what happened last week on that play. Yeah, yeah, real 0:31:11.920 --> 0:31:13.480 quick before we go to break. I did have this 0:31:13.520 --> 0:31:16.240 other question. You look at their past defense, and although 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:18.400 you talked about the front seven, yeah, they've been very 0:31:18.400 --> 0:31:20.520 Stingty only given up one hundred and eighty nine yards 0:31:20.560 --> 0:31:22.880 per game passing. That is a I mean, that's a 0:31:22.960 --> 0:31:25.880 really really great number. My question would be, is that 0:31:26.080 --> 0:31:29.480 more a reflection of their past rush? I think it's rush. 0:31:29.760 --> 0:31:31.800 I think it's the rush. I think the front the 0:31:31.840 --> 0:31:35.000 front clearly affects the way that people throw the ball. 0:31:35.440 --> 0:31:38.080 I do feel like, you know, this team is seeing 0:31:38.200 --> 0:31:40.600 James Bradbury play when he's with the Giants. You know, 0:31:40.760 --> 0:31:43.560 you've seen Darius Slay play, you know, with when he 0:31:43.640 --> 0:31:46.800 spent at Philadelphia. But I could say that you know this, 0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:49.320 this this Gardner Johnson that they traded for from the 0:31:49.520 --> 0:31:52.320 from New Orleans. I don't think he's been as good. 0:31:52.640 --> 0:31:55.720 And so to me, you know, these guys hold. I 0:31:55.760 --> 0:31:58.200 mentioned that because of the flat, they hold a lot. 0:31:58.520 --> 0:32:01.480 They're in position because they're holding. And I'll be interested 0:32:01.520 --> 0:32:04.520 to see if the officials, like I say, call this 0:32:04.680 --> 0:32:06.920 in a way that they allow them to get away 0:32:06.960 --> 0:32:08.760 with it. If they do allow them to get away 0:32:08.760 --> 0:32:10.720 with it, then yeah, that's where you that's where you 0:32:10.800 --> 0:32:13.800 limit the yards. But to me, there's a lot of 0:32:13.800 --> 0:32:15.800 times where this group could have been called for. I 0:32:15.880 --> 0:32:18.240 was watching the Arizona game and just the way Darius 0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:21.160 Slay inside breaking rods, grabbing guy's arms, pulling the guy's arm, 0:32:21.560 --> 0:32:23.720 you know, downline you're and it's not a call, and 0:32:23.800 --> 0:32:26.200 you're like going, oh, okay, well if that's if. But 0:32:26.360 --> 0:32:28.760 to their credit, they haven't been called for it. 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First question from Blue Star Gang says, 0:35:22.040 --> 0:35:24.880 have we seen enough from Noah Brown to where Washington 0:35:25.000 --> 0:35:28.600 is now expendable or as Tolbert underwhelmed to the point 0:35:28.680 --> 0:35:33.480 you have to keep Washington as your fourth receiver. So 0:35:33.520 --> 0:35:36.080 there's two questions here. I kind of really forgot about 0:35:36.120 --> 0:35:40.759 Tolbert again. You're done with Tolbert? No, no, no, no, no, 0:35:41.000 --> 0:35:43.120 I'm not done with him. He just got here, hold on, 0:35:43.160 --> 0:35:46.960 all right, but no, it's just again, we were waiting 0:35:46.960 --> 0:35:48.840 for him to get back from the injury and all that. 0:35:49.000 --> 0:35:53.560 Then he got back, he didn't do much, and then 0:35:54.200 --> 0:35:57.359 it just easily became like, I don't remember what has 0:35:57.400 --> 0:36:01.399 he done that. I genuinely do not remember what he's 0:36:01.440 --> 0:36:04.200 done other than that first week when he got back 0:36:04.239 --> 0:36:07.680 in Yeah, I think that his confidence really got crushed 0:36:07.680 --> 0:36:10.040 in Oxnard, you know, and they asked him to do 0:36:10.080 --> 0:36:12.200 a lot of things, and it just didn't appear that 0:36:12.239 --> 0:36:15.040 he was very capable of doing it. I really believed 0:36:15.080 --> 0:36:16.680 when we were doing the draft show that he was 0:36:16.800 --> 0:36:20.320 NFL ready. When you watched him play, he looked very confident, 0:36:20.480 --> 0:36:24.279 he looked poised, you know, he made big plays you know, 0:36:24.320 --> 0:36:26.879 in those games. And he got here and he looks 0:36:26.880 --> 0:36:29.520 like a completely different player. And so now when you 0:36:29.560 --> 0:36:31.439 do that, you go back and you say, Okay, what 0:36:31.480 --> 0:36:33.840 did I see? Did I miss something with this player? 0:36:34.360 --> 0:36:36.839 I think that I think that he just got overwhelmed 0:36:37.200 --> 0:36:39.839 and I don't think he ever recovered from that, and 0:36:40.400 --> 0:36:43.319 so being inactive and all that, I you know, it's 0:36:43.320 --> 0:36:46.640 sometimes it's it's one of those things that you have 0:36:46.719 --> 0:36:49.719 to go through. But he just doesn't look like that. 0:36:49.800 --> 0:36:52.439 They number one, They don't have confidence in him right now. 0:36:52.680 --> 0:36:54.520 They probably wouldn't you know, if you asked him with 0:36:54.560 --> 0:36:56.239 a microphone in their face, they would say, no, no, 0:36:56.280 --> 0:36:59.520 we're happy with everything. But they're probably thinking, Okay, how 0:36:59.560 --> 0:37:02.759 can we build this kid because he's he's not the 0:37:02.800 --> 0:37:06.080 same player he was at South Alabama? Coming from South Alabama? 0:37:06.120 --> 0:37:08.680 I mean, should we be a little more patient? Like, yeah, well, 0:37:08.680 --> 0:37:10.880 should they have to be more patient? Well? His I 0:37:10.920 --> 0:37:13.680 got his stats right here. His freshman year he had 0:37:13.960 --> 0:37:17.120 played five games, he caught five balls for sixty yards. Okay, 0:37:18.080 --> 0:37:21.520 his uh, his junior year he caught sixty four passes 0:37:21.520 --> 0:37:24.279 four thousand yards and eight touchdowns. And his senior year 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:30.080 twelve I mean eighty two catches fourteen hundred yards. Well, 0:37:30.120 --> 0:37:32.000 I mean, I know, I get your point. Yeah, I 0:37:32.040 --> 0:37:34.520 mean right, you have to and and and I will 0:37:34.560 --> 0:37:37.760 always be a little bit more patient every time because 0:37:37.800 --> 0:37:40.640 of A Miles Austin. They're not all gonna be that way. 0:37:40.760 --> 0:37:43.920 Sometimes they're Jamaica director is just gonna be Jamaica Director. 0:37:44.000 --> 0:37:46.400 I mean that's just the way it is, right, But 0:37:46.640 --> 0:37:49.560 but you have to be patient with not only receivers, 0:37:49.600 --> 0:37:52.560 but small school receivers like that. You said, you know, 0:37:52.600 --> 0:37:54.240 he got here and he looked like a different player, 0:37:54.280 --> 0:37:57.360 and he probably did. He also saw a different player 0:37:57.400 --> 0:37:59.719 on the other side of him, and so you know, 0:37:59.800 --> 0:38:01.600 I think you have to be patient. But yeah, I 0:38:01.640 --> 0:38:04.239 mean I would have thought, you know, but then again, 0:38:04.280 --> 0:38:06.360 he said, he's a few inches away from a different 0:38:06.360 --> 0:38:08.319 mentality all around. If he gets his right foot down 0:38:08.360 --> 0:38:10.399 and he scores that touchdown against the Chargers and then 0:38:10.400 --> 0:38:11.800 you're like, oh, look at him, you know, in the 0:38:11.800 --> 0:38:14.040 back of the end zone. Nice play. But so he 0:38:14.239 --> 0:38:17.000 you know, he was really close to making some plays, 0:38:17.480 --> 0:38:20.160 and so I think it gives you some confidence of saying, 0:38:20.160 --> 0:38:22.600 all right, don't need him as much this year. But 0:38:22.800 --> 0:38:25.759 I bet you next year we'll hear McCarthy saying, one 0:38:25.760 --> 0:38:28.880 guy I really like from last year is Jalon Tolber. 0:38:29.000 --> 0:38:30.840 He was in the workout, he's been at the backyard 0:38:30.960 --> 0:38:33.600 back there, he's you know, so we'll see. Yeah, that's 0:38:33.600 --> 0:38:35.239 the thing too. And I think you make a great 0:38:35.239 --> 0:38:39.640 point about that. The thing that maybe five to eight 0:38:39.719 --> 0:38:41.920 years ago, when you say that you kind of let 0:38:42.000 --> 0:38:44.840 go all right, makes sense. The way that these receivers 0:38:44.840 --> 0:38:46.759 are coming out of college that is true, and then 0:38:46.800 --> 0:38:49.560 all of a sudden jumping in and it doesn't matter. 0:38:49.920 --> 0:38:52.560 I know, the Packers drafting kid from North Dakota State 0:38:52.560 --> 0:38:54.640 and he's a dropping balls. He was a second round pick. 0:38:54.680 --> 0:38:57.799 I mean, there's a lot of kids, and not every 0:38:57.880 --> 0:39:01.359 kid is like Chase Sir Jeffers Center like that. But 0:39:01.400 --> 0:39:03.720 we're starting to see a lot more that these college 0:39:03.800 --> 0:39:06.400 kids are coming in and stepping in and immediately starting 0:39:06.440 --> 0:39:08.839 to play. Yeah, And that's the thing that's just a 0:39:08.840 --> 0:39:12.080 little disheartening as an evaluator that you kind of felt like, 0:39:12.120 --> 0:39:14.080 this is one of those kids, this is one of 0:39:14.080 --> 0:39:16.319 those kids that could come in and play. And you're right, 0:39:16.640 --> 0:39:19.640 you know, it's it's a lot different playing you know, 0:39:20.120 --> 0:39:23.600 Appalachian State than it is playing the Los Angeles Rams. 0:39:23.840 --> 0:39:25.759 You know, you know, but you know who messes it 0:39:25.840 --> 0:39:27.759 up for everyone? It's always one guy that messes it 0:39:27.840 --> 0:39:30.200 up because there's probably a thought process of these small 0:39:30.200 --> 0:39:32.680 school receivers and all that. And then Cooper Cup comes 0:39:32.719 --> 0:39:34.719 in and you are all over Cooper Cup in the 0:39:34.800 --> 0:39:38.480 draft and he was he was as good if not 0:39:38.600 --> 0:39:40.640 wait was he his first year? I don't remember. I 0:39:40.640 --> 0:39:43.440 think he was. He was immediately Brian was upset, but 0:39:43.600 --> 0:39:45.960 that they didn't. I mean he would he was all over. 0:39:46.080 --> 0:39:47.600 Yeah I knew, I knew from draft. But but I 0:39:47.640 --> 0:39:50.640 mean he obviously good enough to say hmm uhh yeah 0:39:50.800 --> 0:39:56.480 see the thing yea, But yeah, that's the thing that 0:39:56.920 --> 0:39:59.440 just because what we've seen in this day and age 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:02.480 with like say five to eight years ago, it man, 0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:05.200 these you know, first round receiver the numbers were forty 0:40:05.200 --> 0:40:08.200 eight catches, eight hundred and sixty four yards, four touchdowns. 0:40:08.640 --> 0:40:12.280 Now it's you know, now it's one hundred and ten catches, 0:40:12.360 --> 0:40:15.440 and you know, it's these crazy numbers, and you're going, Okay, 0:40:15.440 --> 0:40:18.399 that's I guess that's what's happening in our league now. Yeah, 0:40:18.680 --> 0:40:20.719 all right, real quick, we didn't answer the question. I 0:40:20.719 --> 0:40:22.239 was gonna say, no, that's where I was going. I 0:40:22.280 --> 0:40:23.920 was gonna say, give me up date on Washington. What 0:40:23.960 --> 0:40:26.759 are we hearing about him? Um? I think the Cowboys 0:40:26.800 --> 0:40:29.920 are in no hurry there and I don't know where 0:40:29.920 --> 0:40:31.480 he is as far as health wise, I was told 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:33.120 it could still be a couple more weeks. I don't 0:40:33.120 --> 0:40:35.520 know if it's because that's what the injury is or 0:40:36.160 --> 0:40:39.120 they just don't really need it, because initially it was 0:40:39.120 --> 0:40:41.000 going to be around this time. It would have been 0:40:41.040 --> 0:40:43.960 around this time. Knock on wood. One of these receivers 0:40:43.960 --> 0:40:45.680 comes out with the risk injury. It's like, you know, 0:40:45.800 --> 0:40:48.080 Washington's ready to play like Washington week, just like you know, 0:40:48.400 --> 0:40:50.279 so we'll see. I bet you he's a little bit 0:40:50.280 --> 0:40:52.880 further along. But you know that's what happens with the rules. 0:40:52.920 --> 0:40:55.719 The rules are. You just want to injury reserve and 0:40:56.160 --> 0:40:58.640 we'll start his twenty one day window when we want 0:40:58.640 --> 0:41:01.080 to start it. Right, all the receiver are doing things, 0:41:01.120 --> 0:41:03.120 and you know they're all playing, whether it's you know, 0:41:03.160 --> 0:41:06.200 they're playing special teams, even Semi Phihoko, guys like that. 0:41:06.280 --> 0:41:09.520 Everybody did stressing Washington doesn't do that for you. True. 0:41:10.239 --> 0:41:13.720 All right, let's move on to the next question. Anthony 0:41:13.800 --> 0:41:17.279 Villeneuava says, what's one area you think the passing game 0:41:17.320 --> 0:41:19.520 can get better with just one area? If you had 0:41:19.560 --> 0:41:21.920 to pinpoint one area we want the passing game to 0:41:21.920 --> 0:41:23.279 be better, what would you want to I wish they 0:41:23.320 --> 0:41:26.520 threw better screens. I wish they threw better screens, whether 0:41:26.520 --> 0:41:28.840 it's tight end screens. I mean, I'm watching everybody in 0:41:28.880 --> 0:41:31.240 the league the last couple of weeks I've watched guys 0:41:31.239 --> 0:41:34.239 like Tyler Higbee and I'm watching you know, Dallas god 0:41:34.320 --> 0:41:36.720 Or and these guys, and I'm watching teams leak backs 0:41:36.760 --> 0:41:39.200 out and all of a sudden, it's just a devastating play. 0:41:39.600 --> 0:41:41.440 This team can't get out of its own way when 0:41:41.480 --> 0:41:43.560 it comes to throwing a screen. They can't get the 0:41:43.600 --> 0:41:46.080 guys out about the offensive line not being mobile enough 0:41:46.080 --> 0:41:49.000 to get out there, or I don't know, if it's coronation. 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:52.040 I mean, they've got guys that can actually move. They do. 0:41:52.160 --> 0:41:54.919 They've got guys that are athletic enough to get out 0:41:54.920 --> 0:41:57.640 in space and make things happen. They don't get any 0:41:57.640 --> 0:42:00.360 blocks on the outside. You know, that gets all buddled 0:42:00.440 --> 0:42:02.720 up at times, but you know, or the run people. 0:42:03.040 --> 0:42:06.840 It's just it's so frustrating to watch teams around the 0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:08.799 league be able to use and this one, this team 0:42:08.840 --> 0:42:11.479 you're about to play, they will screen you to death. 0:42:11.880 --> 0:42:14.440 And because they know it's an easy throw for their quarterback. 0:42:14.840 --> 0:42:16.800 That's the kinds of things that could help Cooper rush. 0:42:17.080 --> 0:42:18.840 You know, just a little simple screen that could go 0:42:18.880 --> 0:42:21.879 for twenty six yards. That's a big help my thing, 0:42:22.000 --> 0:42:24.200 And I've said it for fifteen years. I've asked to 0:42:24.280 --> 0:42:26.440 get the player on the roster, and now he's on 0:42:26.480 --> 0:42:28.920 the roster and he's not any particle player. I just 0:42:29.040 --> 0:42:32.759 I just think you're you're using a You're wasting a 0:42:32.880 --> 0:42:35.239 dynamic player in turpid. I don't you don't have to 0:42:35.280 --> 0:42:37.279 give him the football, you don't. I mean, maybe once 0:42:37.320 --> 0:42:39.520 in a while, but use him on a screen on 0:42:39.600 --> 0:42:42.160 a reverse even if he doesn't get it. Just give 0:42:42.200 --> 0:42:44.000 it to him one time around the corner. See what 0:42:44.040 --> 0:42:45.880 happens if he gets five or six yards. But you 0:42:45.880 --> 0:42:47.680 could fake it to him three more times the rest 0:42:47.680 --> 0:42:50.600 of the game. And I just think they're not using that. 0:42:51.360 --> 0:42:54.040 You don't trust them as a as a blocker, whether 0:42:54.080 --> 0:42:56.640 that's fine, but he can have a role that can 0:42:56.760 --> 0:42:59.759 scare the crap out of some teams on the back end. 0:43:00.000 --> 0:43:02.200 And I'm kind of surprised they haven't done more of 0:43:02.239 --> 0:43:05.160 that with a backup quarterback in games or you can't 0:43:05.239 --> 0:43:07.000 really get your offense going. You would think in those 0:43:07.040 --> 0:43:08.960 kind of situations, that's where you think you see teams 0:43:09.000 --> 0:43:12.799 doing more wildcat or reverses or things that just kind 0:43:12.840 --> 0:43:15.759 of force a defense to respect different things, because you 0:43:15.760 --> 0:43:17.600 know you need to give your quarterback a little help 0:43:17.840 --> 0:43:19.759 and basically the only hope they're given him. As you say, 0:43:19.880 --> 0:43:22.480 Brian's really giving max protect They'll Max protecting let him 0:43:22.480 --> 0:43:24.880 throw a ball, but that's all they're doing. Other than that, 0:43:24.920 --> 0:43:27.239 they're just like, hey, we're okay if we do three 0:43:27.280 --> 0:43:28.960 and out, like we're just gonna pump the ball and 0:43:29.000 --> 0:43:31.920 trust our defense. You know. Yeah, the times and I'm 0:43:31.960 --> 0:43:34.640 surprised by that too. The times that he gets he 0:43:34.680 --> 0:43:37.040 does get on the field, they don't do anything with him. 0:43:37.080 --> 0:43:41.640 It's like, okay, why is he even under Yeah, and 0:43:41.680 --> 0:43:43.719 even then there are times he doesn't do anything and 0:43:43.760 --> 0:43:47.120 you're like, okay, then what are you trying to prove here? 0:43:47.200 --> 0:43:49.880 Or like put on tape that's gonna scare anybody because 0:43:49.920 --> 0:43:53.240 you're not. Um, I'm on that with Brian with the screen. 0:43:53.360 --> 0:43:55.960 I feel like a couple of years ago they were 0:43:55.960 --> 0:43:59.080 pretty good at that. There really sixteen how many times 0:43:59.280 --> 0:44:02.160 like the Zeke then Zeke would they faked the block 0:44:02.200 --> 0:44:03.880 and he just kind of slip out and they got 0:44:04.000 --> 0:44:06.600 Lineman in front, you know, whether that was Doug Free 0:44:06.719 --> 0:44:10.880 or Tyrann Smith whoever, or Frederick you know, get somebody. 0:44:10.960 --> 0:44:15.680 They it's just like it's it's so disjointed and bumping 0:44:15.719 --> 0:44:19.000 into each other and no, no, you know, no sell 0:44:19.200 --> 0:44:21.920 at all. So yeah, I mean to me that that's 0:44:21.960 --> 0:44:25.040 the simple thing because throwing the ball down the field 0:44:25.080 --> 0:44:27.560 and all that, yeah, that can add prove. But man, 0:44:27.680 --> 0:44:29.959 just give me something, give me a simple little throw 0:44:30.000 --> 0:44:33.640 from my quarterback that just devastates defense is when it works. 0:44:33.680 --> 0:44:36.359 And speaking of selling, I think one of the things 0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:40.480 is the fake. Before I would be fool every time 0:44:40.480 --> 0:44:42.560 and that God Burd's eye view up here and I 0:44:42.560 --> 0:44:44.480 would have like, oh, oh, the balls over here. I 0:44:44.480 --> 0:44:46.680 don't think they're good at that anymore, and they just 0:44:46.880 --> 0:44:49.480 and that's some small part, but I think it does 0:44:49.520 --> 0:44:51.440 play a big role in the game if they need 0:44:51.480 --> 0:44:54.720 to improve that aspect of things, just faking it better. Yeah, 0:44:54.840 --> 0:44:56.919 all right, appreciate you guys. Jones back tomorrow. We're gonna 0:44:56.920 --> 0:44:59.040 wrap this thing up for you. That's it. 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