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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number fifty. Welcome to
Speaker 1: another edition of the Break Lifts, WBC Morgan Studios. At
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Speaker 1: beer of the Dallas Cowboys. And today we talked about
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia defense versus the Cowboys offense. We got lots
Speaker 1: of questions. There are lots of things to discuss there.
Speaker 1: We might even get some questions that were left over
Speaker 1: from Tuesday about the offense. But let's start first with
Speaker 1: getting some some updates on some injuries. Nick, what do
Speaker 1: we hear this morning? I guess on Dak and where
Speaker 1: he is from his practicesterday. I think it went well
Speaker 1: as what McCarthy said, but I mean Dak said it
Speaker 1: yesterday in the locker room as well that you know
Speaker 1: they were it was. It was a good throwing session.
Speaker 1: And you know, he's playing with the media. I mean,
Speaker 1: he knows when the media is out there for fifteen minutes,
Speaker 1: he's throwing the ball left handed and doing all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But he's doing things when they leave,
Speaker 1: he's he's ramping it up a little bit more. And
Speaker 1: he said that they were able to cut it loose
Speaker 1: a little bit, put some zip on the ball. He says,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna throw if I don't have it. You know,
Speaker 1: if I don't have the zip, I'm not gonna throw it.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like it's ramping up that way. McCarthy said,
Speaker 1: it went well, he'll do some more of that. Again.
Speaker 1: They're not going to rule him out. I don't think
Speaker 1: unless I heard something different, I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: rule them out until they have to. But he you know,
Speaker 1: he's not playing this week. Yeah, he threw everything but
Speaker 1: the nine, which is the vertical route, and then the post,
Speaker 1: so everything else basically, Yeah, they took the deep shots
Speaker 1: out of the game and so they threw underneath intermediate
Speaker 1: stuff like that is how it all it all worked out.
Speaker 1: I was just laughing because it's like you can you
Speaker 1: can argue they took that out a long time ago,
Speaker 1: like that's not really, that's not but you know what,
Speaker 1: is that true? Though? Nick? You said that yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I think about a number of times I've seen him
Speaker 1: connect downfield, particularly Michael Gallop, I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's fair say it's not a part of his game.
Speaker 1: It's a part of his game. You ask me what
Speaker 1: what Cooper Rush does better than than Dak I think
Speaker 1: it would be deep ball. I think I think that, yes,
Speaker 1: more than we saw it with that, I don't think
Speaker 1: so okay. I don't think so either. I don't think
Speaker 1: so okay, not as often because I just think that
Speaker 1: the way they've been playing with Cooper Rush, it's a
Speaker 1: little bit more conservative in that aspect where they're not
Speaker 1: giving him those many opportunities, but that it's a conservative throw. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it'd be told it's a conservative throw for the way
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush throws it. I think he throws the ball
Speaker 1: more down the field even when he plays in the
Speaker 1: preseason games, because that's what we have to go off of.
Speaker 1: I think he takes I think he feels more comfortable
Speaker 1: throwing it express it to the right, his right side.
Speaker 1: I think he feels comfortable doing that more than some
Speaker 1: of the other guys, I think than Dak does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's fair to maybe say that's a
Speaker 1: comfortable throw for him. I don't know that we've seen
Speaker 1: evidence that he connects on that anymore frequently than Dak does.
Speaker 1: That's my point. So if you look at the results,
Speaker 1: I don't think that this is necessarily thing where you
Speaker 1: say Cooper Rush is a better deep ball thrower from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of results than Dak. Well. The thing is, though,
Speaker 1: with Cooper Rush, they will get max protection throw that
Speaker 1: ball down the field. So that's the thing I think,
Speaker 1: if you want to do it, They've done it occasionally
Speaker 1: with Dak, but not to the point with Cooper Rush.
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush has done it far more. And I think
Speaker 1: all of it has to do with Michael Gallup the
Speaker 1: game the other day, they got in a situation where
Speaker 1: they were getting past interference called too. I think I
Speaker 1: think you know, that's these coaches have got to figure out,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them do when you have games
Speaker 1: where officials are going to call things certain ways. The
Speaker 1: game last year it was a great example of like,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, if I'm just throwing the deep
Speaker 1: ball because the fistals are going to call pass interference
Speaker 1: every time. And you got a situation the other day
Speaker 1: where where where Gallup was able to get down the
Speaker 1: field and it was either going to be pass interference
Speaker 1: on the commander's corner or it was going to be
Speaker 1: a catch. So I think that, to me, there needs
Speaker 1: to be that plan in the game. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's take a deep shot here, let's see what you know.
Speaker 1: I think I think Dat needs more of that, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that to me that that's I see it
Speaker 1: as part of his game, but I think it's something
Speaker 1: that they could probably take a little bit better advantage of.
Speaker 1: You know, if you go, if you're one of those
Speaker 1: numbers nerds. I think he was fifth in the league
Speaker 1: last year in deep ball throws, you know, So to me,
Speaker 1: take some shots, go for it, you know, if you
Speaker 1: want to do that, But they they need to do
Speaker 1: it more. That's that's I you know, I like what
Speaker 1: Nick saying about, you know, about the situation about how
Speaker 1: he throws it, but take more shots at it, you know,
Speaker 1: don't just you know, think everything underneath and intermediate with him.
Speaker 1: I am dying to know after this game, win or lose,
Speaker 1: how the whole narrative starts changing on whether how soon
Speaker 1: you got Dick back in or how a little bit
Speaker 1: more longer it takes to heal that win or lose though,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not win or lose. You don't think, no, no,
Speaker 1: there's two completely different narratives based off win or lose.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, I just want to see
Speaker 1: it what happens. Yeah, yeah, because did you hear did
Speaker 1: you hear it? Troy? He throws wood right on the
Speaker 1: fire this morning? Like cowboys going win in Philly. I
Speaker 1: think you gotta start talking about whether you really want
Speaker 1: to bring Deak. But it's just this thing has taken
Speaker 1: on a whole life of its own in my opinion
Speaker 1: that I just don't I don't see, I don't get it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, you know that's you know, Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones came out several weeks ago and says he wants
Speaker 1: a quarterback controversy. So you go out win Philadelphia, you
Speaker 1: got your quarterback controversy. I know, I know one thing
Speaker 1: doing radio every day, I want five three that that
Speaker 1: there are people that absolutely want to see this thing
Speaker 1: play out with Cooper Rush. And there's the people on
Speaker 1: the Dack end of it. They're terrified that he's gonna
Speaker 1: win this game. You know that there it's that divided
Speaker 1: on these on these folks, and you know it's you know,
Speaker 1: they've made the decision as a front office, and you know,
Speaker 1: as critical as I've been at the front office, you know,
Speaker 1: they have done a lot of things the right way.
Speaker 1: And you know, if by if they bring Dak Prescott back,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not betting against him now because everything they
Speaker 1: seem to do has come to up asis for them.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's worked out all Hey, don't worry
Speaker 1: about the receivers, don't worry about the offensive line, don't
Speaker 1: worry about this, don't worry about that. You know, all
Speaker 1: those questions that we had, you know, it seems like
Speaker 1: that their decisions are actually been the right decisions. You know,
Speaker 1: so I'm you know, it's not me to sit there
Speaker 1: and say, you know that it would be you know,
Speaker 1: I think that they I think that they could do
Speaker 1: more with Dak at quarterback. But you need to see
Speaker 1: Dak do more and win games. Yeah, that's that's where
Speaker 1: this argument is. You mentioned the receivers, and that led
Speaker 1: me to think, do you guys feel that because we
Speaker 1: always talk about how Dak needs help around him most
Speaker 1: quarterbacks do. Okay, we get that point, but he does
Speaker 1: need that kind of help. We know the improvements that
Speaker 1: the old line has had and they're doing good, but
Speaker 1: as far as the receivers and the rest of the
Speaker 1: group you can throw in their running backs as well,
Speaker 1: do you feel that everybody else is doing enough to
Speaker 1: what Dak would need? And this is a weird question
Speaker 1: because you're seeing it with what they're giving Cooper Rush,
Speaker 1: But when you get daged back in, are everybody else
Speaker 1: doing enough to cater to him? Well? Right now, my opinion,
Speaker 1: catering to him, or catering to any quarterback on this
Speaker 1: team is about the defense. It's not about the receivers,
Speaker 1: it's not about the tight ends, it's not about the
Speaker 1: offensive line. It is, in my opinion, about this defense.
Speaker 1: That's the other reason why I have a hard time
Speaker 1: with the whole Cooper Rush conversation is because he is
Speaker 1: playing with right now, in my opinion, one of the best,
Speaker 1: if not the best defenses in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and doing that will forwards you a lot of letl
Speaker 1: if you have a team where you're like punning is
Speaker 1: a good thing, you know you're doing it like that
Speaker 1: means that the defense is what you you rely on.
Speaker 1: So for me, I don't think it's about the it's
Speaker 1: not about the receivers, it's not about all the other stuff.
Speaker 1: It's about the defense. As long as the defense keeps playing,
Speaker 1: you can keep winning. Is it gonna be clear this week?
Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna ask. Is it gonna is
Speaker 1: this the weekend where all of a sudden that you know,
Speaker 1: ten offensive points are not going to be enough? Yeah? Probably,
Speaker 1: I mean probably, I mean, yeah, it seems that way.
Speaker 1: We'll see what's gonna bend. I mean, we'll see if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense is really really that good in that dynamic.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna get into it as well. Like the
Speaker 1: Eagles are winning with defense as well. I mean the
Speaker 1: Eagles deep, yes they are there, but look at their
Speaker 1: offensive numbers. Their offensive numbers up there as well, right,
Speaker 1: but they're winning with defense though. Defense. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at what look at what they're I mean, they that
Speaker 1: they did not in the Detroit game, but all the
Speaker 1: other games they won. Their defense is playing lights out.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this isn't You can't just make the
Speaker 1: claim that the Cowboys have the best defense on the
Speaker 1: field in this game. I mean, I think the Eagles
Speaker 1: or defense is just is just as good. Their point
Speaker 1: their stats are good, and the reason why they're five
Speaker 1: and ohs because their offense is dynamic as well. It's
Speaker 1: kind of what you hope Dallas's offense would be with
Speaker 1: a really good defense, that the ability to score some
Speaker 1: points and then you know, that's that's that that I
Speaker 1: just go back to win. And I was working in
Speaker 1: Green Bay way way back in the day when you
Speaker 1: played the Cowboys the Super Bowl Cowboys, they would get
Speaker 1: a lead on you and then the defense would choke
Speaker 1: you out. You know. That's that's where my experience was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the way it always was. It was they found
Speaker 1: a way to use the weapons. They would get twenty
Speaker 1: four points and that was enough. Yeah, it would always
Speaker 1: that sounds like that's how Philly is doing it. I
Speaker 1: think is is their offense good enough to get those
Speaker 1: points and then the defense is just like, you're not
Speaker 1: coming back where I think that that this is going
Speaker 1: to end, you know, eventually, for for Cooper Rush and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, is this winning streak is the red zone offense.
Speaker 1: And yes, there's things that I think that that Cooper
Speaker 1: does just as well, if not somewhat better than Dak.
Speaker 1: But there are some things that Dak obviously does better.
Speaker 1: And that to me is pocket presence and awareness and
Speaker 1: red zone and the ability to RPOs and ability to
Speaker 1: run in touchdowns. I don't see that happening from the
Speaker 1: six yard line of Cooper Rush running it in. Dat
Speaker 1: can do that. And I think red zone struggles are
Speaker 1: going to be an issue if you can't run the
Speaker 1: ball and have a quarterback because Jalen Hurts certainly does
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying Dak would be Hurts, but Dad
Speaker 1: can do more of that, and I think when you
Speaker 1: get down there, it's gonna be harder to score. I
Speaker 1: think obviously DAK would give you a better red zone
Speaker 1: ability to score. Okay, you have better memories. I think
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember or if my memory is playing
Speaker 1: games with me. But I feel like they have been okay,
Speaker 1: like they're bettering the red zone, but their problem is
Speaker 1: getting to the red zone, Like they can never get
Speaker 1: to that point. But when they get there, they seem
Speaker 1: to be to be fairly okay. Which here which well,
Speaker 1: I will say this get talking about what what Zeke
Speaker 1: said yesterday. He pointed out that he thought the biggest
Speaker 1: problem for this offense is third downs. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: look at it right now. They're twenty ninth in the
Speaker 1: league and converting third downs that is a significant problem
Speaker 1: for them. And you want to talk about sustaining drives
Speaker 1: to get to the red zone, that's part of the problem.
Speaker 1: They're not sustaining drives enough to get those convert those
Speaker 1: third downs. But once they rarely make it there, they
Speaker 1: seem to I mean, from what I remember, they managed
Speaker 1: to get in whether it's running the ball or going no, no,
Speaker 1: you're right, But it's with Zeke's right. They're they're they're
Speaker 1: they're bad on third downs. And that's the thing about
Speaker 1: it that you know you had two thirds, actually had
Speaker 1: three third downs the other day that you could have
Speaker 1: converted on all three, you know they but you had
Speaker 1: the penalty on the third and one run when Hendershott
Speaker 1: got called for holding. At the end of the game,
Speaker 1: you had to drop by Ceedee Lamb and you had
Speaker 1: to drop by by our other guy, Uh, why don't
Speaker 1: everyone's the Gallup Michael Gallup. Yeah, guy just was to
Speaker 1: me names in my head. But Gallup, you know his
Speaker 1: drop and ceedee Lambs drop and then the holding point.
Speaker 1: That was three third down plays that should have been converted,
Speaker 1: you know, those were all third and then that keeps
Speaker 1: drives going. And so now your percentage was there. I
Speaker 1: think they're like at thirty one percent right now, you know.
Speaker 1: So we're on the other end of it, though. The
Speaker 1: Eagles on their offense are like, you know, ten to
Speaker 1: twelve percentage points better than that. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 1: but their Eagles defense though, has been a little bit
Speaker 1: of a struggle on third down for them too. So well,
Speaker 1: you know, something something might have to give in this
Speaker 1: football game. Yeah, they're they're twenty fifth right now in
Speaker 1: the league and third downs that they're giving up. So
Speaker 1: they're giving up a lot of third downs. Cowboys aren't
Speaker 1: getting third downs. Something will, something has to somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: get better this game. I'll go back to the red
Speaker 1: zone here. The the Cowboys rank thirty first in the
Speaker 1: NFL and trips to the red eleven. Only Houston has
Speaker 1: has less, with ten on the flip side. Oh well,
Speaker 1: and of that eleven there, they've scored six times, so touchdown,
Speaker 1: so that's a forty five percent. You know that that
Speaker 1: ranks them twenty six. But trips to the red zone
Speaker 1: only eleven, which is the problem getting there. Yeah, now
Speaker 1: they have you know, a couple of long runs and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, but for the most part, you know
Speaker 1: that that's been a challenge. But on the flip side,
Speaker 1: they've only allowed teams in their nine times, which is
Speaker 1: by far the best in the in the league. So
Speaker 1: um and and so their defense is really really good
Speaker 1: in the red zone. In their offense not so much.
Speaker 1: Once again, you're winning with defense. This is this offense
Speaker 1: is actually if this offence is playing but no, but
Speaker 1: but I think you know what the point is. The
Speaker 1: point is if you take this offense run by Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush and you put it with the defense from last year,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are probably a one or two win team
Speaker 1: right now. That's probably where they with you. And and
Speaker 1: so that's again that's what And I keep making a
Speaker 1: point because I'm making the point that let's let's hold
Speaker 1: off on trying to say that that you need to
Speaker 1: just keep Cooper Rush in there, because there is gonna
Speaker 1: come a game because it happens every year. Well, even
Speaker 1: if you have a great defense, they're gonna have a
Speaker 1: rough matchup or they're gonna have a rough game and
Speaker 1: you're gonna need the offensive step up. And I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to see Dak. I'm ready to see him
Speaker 1: back in the lineup. But again, I'm gonna stick with it.
Speaker 1: I mean, lose a game, Cooper Rush, I mean, quit
Speaker 1: being a stubborn lose the game, you know, quit being
Speaker 1: selfish and keep winning these games. I mean that it's
Speaker 1: his faulty one. Is he winning these games though, Like
Speaker 1: that's the that's the problem. He's not winning these games,
Speaker 1: you know. But we set here for years and I
Speaker 1: had Dave and you talking about Dak's four hundred yard
Speaker 1: games with an l you know, like all these stats
Speaker 1: he's putting down and all that. So I've been saying
Speaker 1: it's a tough balance because you know, we've seen these
Speaker 1: fourth quarter magical games that didn't end up well. But
Speaker 1: it's like, with what kind of defense right, right, right,
Speaker 1: and what's right He's never played with this kind of defense,
Speaker 1: it will be great. But again, it's just the superstition
Speaker 1: in me. I'm not pulling a I wouldn't, but I'm
Speaker 1: not the the same. I mean, how much would you
Speaker 1: say the defense improved from week one versus the rest
Speaker 1: of it? You know, he had this defense in week one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but but they and they, I mean they, hell, they're
Speaker 1: not as good against goats. They're not they're I mean,
Speaker 1: they're not a good against Brady. And let's also be clear,
Speaker 1: is that has that been the best offense this teams
Speaker 1: played this year? I would say so. So maybe what
Speaker 1: we find out is when you're playing right, So maybe
Speaker 1: when you're playing that caliber team, maybe your offense is
Speaker 1: really have to score more points. And by the way
Speaker 1: you're playing, maybe that may have been the best defense
Speaker 1: that you played this year. I think the point, I
Speaker 1: think the point you made yesterday and I actually stole
Speaker 1: it and used it on the radio yesterday was the
Speaker 1: one about where you put all the rankings for the
Speaker 1: offensive lines that they played. You know, when you start
Speaker 1: saying rams thirty one, yeah, they're commanders thirty. You know,
Speaker 1: you start going through and like, because I asked my
Speaker 1: I mean they were My guys were like, you gotta
Speaker 1: run the ball, you gotta you gotta you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta and I go, you think this team's pass rush
Speaker 1: is any good? And they're like, oh god, it's the
Speaker 1: best in the league. Okay, here, let me run off
Speaker 1: who all they're playing against. And then and then Gavin
Speaker 1: immediately went to break. You know, we went right, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about you know, it's because you know,
Speaker 1: the argument was. The argument was about you know, how
Speaker 1: they went in these games, they do in this, you
Speaker 1: know on that and I'm like, okay, and I go,
Speaker 1: and I gave you credit I actually does is Derek
Speaker 1: Eagleton brought this up on the on the show that
Speaker 1: I was with, and so yeah, I mean it's sometimes,
Speaker 1: but it's it's it's a it's not a small sample size.
Speaker 1: I mean there's things that you're looking at right now
Speaker 1: and you're going like, okay, is this what we're going
Speaker 1: to see the rest of the year. Remember last year,
Speaker 1: eight weeks in the season, we were all talking about
Speaker 1: Kevin Moore being the next head coat somewhere. We were
Speaker 1: all worried about losing Kellen Moore because how good the
Speaker 1: offense was. And then eight weeks later we were all
Speaker 1: trying to get rid of Kellen Moore. You know that.
Speaker 1: You just you just hope this isn't the flip of
Speaker 1: like all of a sudden, Oh, the Philadelphia, Philadelphia showed
Speaker 1: you how to attack the Dallas defense. You know that
Speaker 1: kind of thing I got. If that happens, I don't
Speaker 1: know what do you do? You have? Were I forgot?
Speaker 1: But where does Pheley rank? As far as these are
Speaker 1: sacking we're talking about sacks, they're eighteenth, They're eighteenth their
Speaker 1: offensive life, so it's not great, but they're they're banging.
Speaker 1: And they played some teams the Cowboys where they've taken
Speaker 1: advantage of offensive lines. They've done and they and that's
Speaker 1: something that in the past they never did. They never
Speaker 1: took advantage of a compromised offense. And let's also be clear,
Speaker 1: I think I personally think the model of how you
Speaker 1: beat this defense is already out there. Team just haven't
Speaker 1: been able to get them in that situation enough. They
Speaker 1: are not a good run defense. They are towards the
Speaker 1: bottom part of league when it comes to run defense.
Speaker 1: You get them in a situation where you get an
Speaker 1: elite on them and now you can effectively run the
Speaker 1: ball and you don't have to panic and get away
Speaker 1: from your run that's a way to get at this defense,
Speaker 1: I think. And this is why this game I think
Speaker 1: is pivotal because it is a team that has that balance.
Speaker 1: Like you were saying, this is a really good defense.
Speaker 1: It's a good offense too. They can score maybe more
Speaker 1: points than what you've seen so far and be able
Speaker 1: to stick with their run games. So you're saying, to
Speaker 1: take the ball if you win the toss. No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm deferring because we were trying to yesterday, trying to
Speaker 1: figure out though, and ask you guys this question. We
Speaker 1: were trying to figure out if you could trade for something.
Speaker 1: I don't don't tell me a player, just tell me
Speaker 1: a position. Tell me a position right now that you
Speaker 1: would trade for to help this team going forward. Because
Speaker 1: because my guys all were saying defensive tackle, and I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait,
Speaker 1: it's not the inside runs, it's the perimeter stuff. And
Speaker 1: so I went into this long you know how I talk,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm like waving my hands like Brad Sham talking,
Speaker 1: you know, and that kind of thing. And so I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say to wait a minute, you know, how
Speaker 1: about the safety, the forced corner, how about the defensive end.
Speaker 1: How about that's not players, that's just how you play.
Speaker 1: But there's like, no, if you get this, you go
Speaker 1: trade for the guy a Carolina, the big defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: you know. And I'm like, it's not that, it's the edges,
Speaker 1: it's the outside that runs. The one thing the note
Speaker 1: actually was just looking to stat before we came in.
Speaker 1: Cowboys are ranked twenty first in the league and giving
Speaker 1: up inside runs four point four yards per carry. They
Speaker 1: are ranked twentieth giving up five point one yards per
Speaker 1: carry on outside runs. So they have been equally bad
Speaker 1: on both. Okay, they're not great, but here's it seems
Speaker 1: like to me they get killed on the perimeter more
Speaker 1: than they get killed in right now, And I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I agree with you, but I don't think
Speaker 1: I don't think it's necessarily about personnel. I think these
Speaker 1: are scheme induced. Like what I mean by that is,
Speaker 1: I think you got a very aggressive defense. They are
Speaker 1: going at the quarterback, and I think they get gashed sometimes.
Speaker 1: I think that if because there are times in games
Speaker 1: when opponents want to run the ball and Cowboys are
Speaker 1: having are not having it. And I think it's because
Speaker 1: they basically are in no situations of the game, like,
Speaker 1: all right, let's lock down on the run. We're not
Speaker 1: rushing the passer in the same way we are locking
Speaker 1: down the run. So I think they have the personnel
Speaker 1: if you gave me that choice of what player I want.
Speaker 1: It ain't even on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: I'm good with my personnel there. Keep what we got
Speaker 1: figure out, and I trust dan Quinn to figure it out.
Speaker 1: I think there are a number of places on the
Speaker 1: offense where you say, well, we could be a little
Speaker 1: better here, and maybe that gives us a little more
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take our first break and we
Speaker 1: come back. We're gonna jump in Philly defense versus Dallas offense.
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Speaker 1: Studios at the Starlist Jump in Philadelphia, defense versus Dallas offense. Brian,
Speaker 1: what's the best thing they do. I think it's it
Speaker 1: starts with really the front seven. You know, when you
Speaker 1: look at them, they've got a really nice rotation, much
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys do with their guys. Josh Sweats playing well,
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox, we all we know him from days gone by.
Speaker 1: You know, Hargrave at the defensive tackle, him and Jordan
Speaker 1: Davis had been kind of rotating their Brandon Graham is
Speaker 1: every time I want to throw dirt on Brandon Graham,
Speaker 1: he comes back with a soccer three, you know, that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But yeah, they've done a really nice
Speaker 1: job and Hassan Reddick as well. So it's really about
Speaker 1: up front. It's about the pressure that they're able to get.
Speaker 1: They do a good job of their physical you know,
Speaker 1: handling blocks, you know, getting off blocks, getting up the field,
Speaker 1: being disruptive. I think that their secondary is the one
Speaker 1: that you could kind of I know it's James Bradbury
Speaker 1: and Darius Slay and guys like that. I think this.
Speaker 1: I think Gardner Johnson their nickel or really their safety.
Speaker 1: I think that's a little bit of a liability for
Speaker 1: them as a tackler. So to me, when they play
Speaker 1: zone coverage, they get in trouble. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: routes that you see in front and Arizona, I thought
Speaker 1: did a really nice job of sitting down in zones
Speaker 1: and attack in that and they were Kyler Murray was
Speaker 1: able to find, you know, find his guy. So when
Speaker 1: you had to take advantage of that, they're gonna play
Speaker 1: his own coverage on you. This Uh, this is a
Speaker 1: team also too that likes to hold in the secondary.
Speaker 1: And this week, you know, when you look at the officials, uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's it's gonna be it's gonna be whether
Speaker 1: you get those holding calls in this game. And because
Speaker 1: they're a very grabby group and you know that could
Speaker 1: kind of swing a game one way or another. So
Speaker 1: it's John Hussey as the official in this game. And
Speaker 1: Hussey's crew calls the second most UH pass interference penalties
Speaker 1: in the league. And so but the you know that
Speaker 1: that's something to keep an eye on right there. Because
Speaker 1: Sleigh likes to hold, Bradberry likes to hold, and when
Speaker 1: they get the opportunity. Maddox has been injured for them,
Speaker 1: so he hasn't been a factor in this thing. As
Speaker 1: like the nickel, But I think it's going back to it, Derek. Guys,
Speaker 1: it starts really upfront with these guys. How many how
Speaker 1: many games or did you see other games than Arizona?
Speaker 1: Because I wonder is when you when you face Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: you're worried about that kind of dynamic, do you play
Speaker 1: it differently than they're not gonna be worried as much
Speaker 1: about Cooper Rush. Do you think they play the zone
Speaker 1: as much in other teams or maybe just that one.
Speaker 1: I just think that there was a there was a
Speaker 1: good balance. It's a great question. I think there was
Speaker 1: a pretty good balance of that. When you see they
Speaker 1: they they get in man they like to play man
Speaker 1: coverage when they get into their nickel stuff on a
Speaker 1: third down, and then they'll play the zone stuff seems
Speaker 1: to be I think they're a little scared about the
Speaker 1: speed on the outside or lack of when they get guys.
Speaker 1: You know, they don't want to just get up on
Speaker 1: somebody and get run by. So I think it's more
Speaker 1: of a it's more of a uh, it's more of
Speaker 1: a trying like Okay, we're gonna come after you, we're
Speaker 1: gonna blitch you, We're gonna rush you, We're gonna play
Speaker 1: man there. But I saw a lot more zone than
Speaker 1: I did, you know, with the with the man demand
Speaker 1: stuff on the games I did. I watched three three
Speaker 1: them play three games, and you know they were you
Speaker 1: know they were, they were. It just seemed like to
Speaker 1: me when they're when they were given up plays, it
Speaker 1: was because of the zone coverage stuff. Going back to
Speaker 1: the stat which I had seen earlier to about third
Speaker 1: downs and the comparison between what they give up and
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys currently do. Do you think Brian that
Speaker 1: for this game, because there are times where I think, Okay,
Speaker 1: you trust your defense so much, and I get it,
Speaker 1: you have to punt at times, but why not take
Speaker 1: that extra like try, like go for it? So do
Speaker 1: you think maybe this is a time where we'll see
Speaker 1: them kind of going for it a little more than
Speaker 1: what they're used to, just to give it a try
Speaker 1: and see if they are successful. I think you have
Speaker 1: two coaches, and I would call McCarthy pretty aggressive with
Speaker 1: what he does too, when he goes back to when
Speaker 1: you go back to the look at what he's done
Speaker 1: going for it on his own end of the field.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I think and I know that
Speaker 1: Siriani their coaches, he's a go for it guy from
Speaker 1: the jump. So yeah, it's just gonna be one of
Speaker 1: those games where I think both teams have the ability,
Speaker 1: and especially if like say that, when I watched Philadelphia
Speaker 1: on tape, it was it just seemed like that they're
Speaker 1: always going for it on fourth down, no matter where
Speaker 1: they are on the field. Not as bad as what
Speaker 1: the Chargers do. Chargers are on their own eighteen yard
Speaker 1: line and they go for it on fourth down because
Speaker 1: that's what they do. But this guy is very, very
Speaker 1: aggressive that way. And then McCarthy has proven though the
Speaker 1: last couple of times that they've been out those fourth
Speaker 1: downs that they've had, whether on his end or the
Speaker 1: other end, that he's more willing to go for it.
Speaker 1: So I think this is a game that you got
Speaker 1: to go out there and you have to be aggressive end,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, people are probably feeling like that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are not going to win this game with
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush at quarterback, you know, they're gonna and he
Speaker 1: might have to take some chances to get some points too.
Speaker 1: You know, three points kicking field goals might not be
Speaker 1: enough in this game. You know, having to find a
Speaker 1: way to get touchdowns. That's probably the path that he
Speaker 1: that he's gonna need to take. You look at Philadelphia's
Speaker 1: rush defense, and it's been it's been a weird mix.
Speaker 1: There's some games are given up a lot to some games.
Speaker 1: They've been very bad games Alliance. They're Yeah, they're averaging
Speaker 1: one hundred and three yards per game. Yeah, that they
Speaker 1: allow against the Lions, they gave up one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty one yards on ground, which is huge, one to
Speaker 1: twenty four against Arizona. What did Arizona and Detroit do
Speaker 1: specifically that made them more successful against the running than
Speaker 1: some of the other opponents. Yeah, I think which the
Speaker 1: thing that when Detroit just took the ball right at
Speaker 1: them too, and you know they were able to they
Speaker 1: know it was one of those things when you play
Speaker 1: the first game as the first game of the year,
Speaker 1: so you always worry about conditioning and things like that.
Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to when it comes to
Speaker 1: how your team's gonna play, where they ready, were they
Speaker 1: prepared to have the rotations and stuff like that. I
Speaker 1: think Detroit was just more physical than and this is
Speaker 1: this could be a very physical front. But what they're
Speaker 1: also in a situation and right now is where you
Speaker 1: know they they're linebackers. When you get past that first level,
Speaker 1: it's see some problems with their linebackers too. You know,
Speaker 1: whether it was t J. Edwards, you know that he's
Speaker 1: as a MIC linebacker. They really Hassan Reddicks listened as
Speaker 1: a SAM linebacker, but he's more of a rusher, so
Speaker 1: people that we're able to kind of break that first,
Speaker 1: that first wave and then get there's you know, the
Speaker 1: stuff with this is a very aggressive defense. So you
Speaker 1: get guys that you take them one way and then
Speaker 1: bring the ball back the other with the polls and
Speaker 1: the traps and things like that. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: what the Detroit. I thought Detroit was just more physical
Speaker 1: running the football. Arizona again, the stuff with the quarterback
Speaker 1: makes a lot of difference for them too. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: interesting you mentioned Hassan Reddick. He leads their team with
Speaker 1: four and a half sacks. He's a linebacker, which signifies
Speaker 1: me they must be blitzing quite a bit. That being said,
Speaker 1: how much do they blitz and where does he typically
Speaker 1: line up if there is a beat on that on
Speaker 1: where I noticed he plays on your he plays on
Speaker 1: a lot of it on the on the offensive right side. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna be on the defensive left is what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Josh Sweat generally plays the other side, uh,
Speaker 1: you know with with that rush. So if you're gonna
Speaker 1: if you're gonna see Reddick, he's gonna moving around part I.
Speaker 1: Every time I looked at it, I'd say, Okay, where's
Speaker 1: he going to be? It was off that right tackle
Speaker 1: spot is where he's going to come from. How comfortably
Speaker 1: feel with that? I mean still over there? They give
Speaker 1: him a little help, I would assume, But how do
Speaker 1: you feel? How comfortable do you guys feel with that?
Speaker 1: And you've talked Nick a lot about Tony Pollard and
Speaker 1: the reason why Tony Pollard doesn't get on the feel
Speaker 1: as much as everybody wants to see him is because
Speaker 1: of blitz pick up. Yeah, I thought he missed one
Speaker 1: the other day with Ramsey coming off the edge. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think he saw it right away. He kind
Speaker 1: of went inside of the guard and I didn't. I
Speaker 1: just didn't think he saw it at all. And now
Speaker 1: that would have been a quite a collision if he did,
Speaker 1: because I mean Ramsey's screaming off the edge there. But
Speaker 1: that's what he's supposed to do. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: he's a willing blocker. He just you just gotta be
Speaker 1: alert and you also have to be big enough to
Speaker 1: do it. That's one of his issues. Um, but you
Speaker 1: know the awareness though, if you mentioned that, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing with with Pollard is his
Speaker 1: willingness to do it. I think don't think it's a problem.
Speaker 1: The finish is not always great. It's how are you
Speaker 1: reading it? How are you seeing it? Are you are
Speaker 1: You're you know, most guys are taught to read inside
Speaker 1: out and you know, and sometimes he gets just so
Speaker 1: inside focused that you miss that that slot blitz is
Speaker 1: what happened last week on that play. Yeah, yeah, real
Speaker 1: quick before we go to break. I did have this
Speaker 1: other question. You look at their past defense, and although
Speaker 1: you talked about the front seven, yeah, they've been very
Speaker 1: Stingty only given up one hundred and eighty nine yards
Speaker 1: per game passing. That is a I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: really really great number. My question would be, is that
Speaker 1: more a reflection of their past rush? I think it's rush.
Speaker 1: I think it's the rush. I think the front the
Speaker 1: front clearly affects the way that people throw the ball.
Speaker 1: I do feel like, you know, this team is seeing
Speaker 1: James Bradbury play when he's with the Giants. You know,
Speaker 1: you've seen Darius Slay play, you know, with when he
Speaker 1: spent at Philadelphia. But I could say that you know this,
Speaker 1: this this Gardner Johnson that they traded for from the
Speaker 1: from New Orleans. I don't think he's been as good.
Speaker 1: And so to me, you know, these guys hold. I
Speaker 1: mentioned that because of the flat, they hold a lot.
Speaker 1: They're in position because they're holding. And I'll be interested
Speaker 1: to see if the officials, like I say, call this
Speaker 1: in a way that they allow them to get away
Speaker 1: with it. If they do allow them to get away
Speaker 1: with it, then yeah, that's where you that's where you
Speaker 1: limit the yards. But to me, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: times where this group could have been called for. I
Speaker 1: was watching the Arizona game and just the way Darius
Speaker 1: Slay inside breaking rods, grabbing guy's arms, pulling the guy's arm,
Speaker 1: you know, downline you're and it's not a call, and
Speaker 1: you're like going, oh, okay, well if that's if. But
Speaker 1: to their credit, they haven't been called for it. We'll
Speaker 1: see if this crew does call it though this week.
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Speaker 1: Let's get into some questions that we have from some fans.
Speaker 1: They were sent earlier this week, but I save someone
Speaker 1: because we didn't get to them, and they are specific
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys offense. First question from Blue Star Gang says,
Speaker 1: have we seen enough from Noah Brown to where Washington
Speaker 1: is now expendable or as Tolbert underwhelmed to the point
Speaker 1: you have to keep Washington as your fourth receiver. So
Speaker 1: there's two questions here. I kind of really forgot about
Speaker 1: Tolbert again. You're done with Tolbert? No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not done with him. He just got here, hold on,
Speaker 1: all right, but no, it's just again, we were waiting
Speaker 1: for him to get back from the injury and all that.
Speaker 1: Then he got back, he didn't do much, and then
Speaker 1: it just easily became like, I don't remember what has
Speaker 1: he done that. I genuinely do not remember what he's
Speaker 1: done other than that first week when he got back
Speaker 1: in Yeah, I think that his confidence really got crushed
Speaker 1: in Oxnard, you know, and they asked him to do
Speaker 1: a lot of things, and it just didn't appear that
Speaker 1: he was very capable of doing it. I really believed
Speaker 1: when we were doing the draft show that he was
Speaker 1: NFL ready. When you watched him play, he looked very confident,
Speaker 1: he looked poised, you know, he made big plays you know,
Speaker 1: in those games. And he got here and he looks
Speaker 1: like a completely different player. And so now when you
Speaker 1: do that, you go back and you say, Okay, what
Speaker 1: did I see? Did I miss something with this player?
Speaker 1: I think that I think that he just got overwhelmed
Speaker 1: and I don't think he ever recovered from that, and
Speaker 1: so being inactive and all that, I you know, it's
Speaker 1: sometimes it's it's one of those things that you have
Speaker 1: to go through. But he just doesn't look like that.
Speaker 1: They number one, They don't have confidence in him right now.
Speaker 1: They probably wouldn't you know, if you asked him with
Speaker 1: a microphone in their face, they would say, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're happy with everything. But they're probably thinking, Okay, how
Speaker 1: can we build this kid because he's he's not the
Speaker 1: same player he was at South Alabama? Coming from South Alabama?
Speaker 1: I mean, should we be a little more patient? Like, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: should they have to be more patient? Well? His I
Speaker 1: got his stats right here. His freshman year he had
Speaker 1: played five games, he caught five balls for sixty yards. Okay,
Speaker 1: his uh, his junior year he caught sixty four passes
Speaker 1: four thousand yards and eight touchdowns. And his senior year
Speaker 1: twelve I mean eighty two catches fourteen hundred yards. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, I get your point. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean right, you have to and and and I will
Speaker 1: always be a little bit more patient every time because
Speaker 1: of A Miles Austin. They're not all gonna be that way.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they're Jamaica director is just gonna be Jamaica Director.
Speaker 1: I mean that's just the way it is, right, But
Speaker 1: but you have to be patient with not only receivers,
Speaker 1: but small school receivers like that. You said, you know,
Speaker 1: he got here and he looked like a different player,
Speaker 1: and he probably did. He also saw a different player
Speaker 1: on the other side of him, and so you know,
Speaker 1: I think you have to be patient. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I would have thought, you know, but then again,
Speaker 1: he said, he's a few inches away from a different
Speaker 1: mentality all around. If he gets his right foot down
Speaker 1: and he scores that touchdown against the Chargers and then
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, look at him, you know, in the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone. Nice play. But so he
Speaker 1: you know, he was really close to making some plays,
Speaker 1: and so I think it gives you some confidence of saying,
Speaker 1: all right, don't need him as much this year. But
Speaker 1: I bet you next year we'll hear McCarthy saying, one
Speaker 1: guy I really like from last year is Jalon Tolber.
Speaker 1: He was in the workout, he's been at the backyard
Speaker 1: back there, he's you know, so we'll see. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the thing too. And I think you make a great
Speaker 1: point about that. The thing that maybe five to eight
Speaker 1: years ago, when you say that you kind of let
Speaker 1: go all right, makes sense. The way that these receivers
Speaker 1: are coming out of college that is true, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden jumping in and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I know, the Packers drafting kid from North Dakota State
Speaker 1: and he's a dropping balls. He was a second round pick.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of kids, and not every
Speaker 1: kid is like Chase Sir Jeffers Center like that. But
Speaker 1: we're starting to see a lot more that these college
Speaker 1: kids are coming in and stepping in and immediately starting
Speaker 1: to play. Yeah, And that's the thing that's just a
Speaker 1: little disheartening as an evaluator that you kind of felt like,
Speaker 1: this is one of those kids, this is one of
Speaker 1: those kids that could come in and play. And you're right,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a lot different playing you know,
Speaker 1: Appalachian State than it is playing the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, but you know who messes it
Speaker 1: up for everyone? It's always one guy that messes it
Speaker 1: up because there's probably a thought process of these small
Speaker 1: school receivers and all that. And then Cooper Cup comes
Speaker 1: in and you are all over Cooper Cup in the
Speaker 1: draft and he was he was as good if not
Speaker 1: wait was he his first year? I don't remember. I
Speaker 1: think he was. He was immediately Brian was upset, but
Speaker 1: that they didn't. I mean he would he was all over.
Speaker 1: Yeah I knew, I knew from draft. But but I
Speaker 1: mean he obviously good enough to say hmm uhh yeah
Speaker 1: see the thing yea, But yeah, that's the thing that
Speaker 1: just because what we've seen in this day and age
Speaker 1: with like say five to eight years ago, it man,
Speaker 1: these you know, first round receiver the numbers were forty
Speaker 1: eight catches, eight hundred and sixty four yards, four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Now it's you know, now it's one hundred and ten catches,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's these crazy numbers, and you're going, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's I guess that's what's happening in our league now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, real quick, we didn't answer the question. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, no, that's where I was going. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, give me up date on Washington. What
Speaker 1: are we hearing about him? Um? I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are in no hurry there and I don't know where
Speaker 1: he is as far as health wise, I was told
Speaker 1: it could still be a couple more weeks. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's because that's what the injury is or
Speaker 1: they just don't really need it, because initially it was
Speaker 1: going to be around this time. It would have been
Speaker 1: around this time. Knock on wood. One of these receivers
Speaker 1: comes out with the risk injury. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: Washington's ready to play like Washington week, just like you know,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. I bet you he's a little bit
Speaker 1: further along. But you know that's what happens with the rules.
Speaker 1: The rules are. You just want to injury reserve and
Speaker 1: we'll start his twenty one day window when we want
Speaker 1: to start it. Right, all the receiver are doing things,
Speaker 1: and you know they're all playing, whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: they're playing special teams, even Semi Phihoko, guys like that.
Speaker 1: Everybody did stressing Washington doesn't do that for you. True.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the next question. Anthony
Speaker 1: Villeneuava says, what's one area you think the passing game
Speaker 1: can get better with just one area? If you had
Speaker 1: to pinpoint one area we want the passing game to
Speaker 1: be better, what would you want to I wish they
Speaker 1: threw better screens. I wish they threw better screens, whether
Speaker 1: it's tight end screens. I mean, I'm watching everybody in
Speaker 1: the league the last couple of weeks I've watched guys
Speaker 1: like Tyler Higbee and I'm watching you know, Dallas god
Speaker 1: Or and these guys, and I'm watching teams leak backs
Speaker 1: out and all of a sudden, it's just a devastating play.
Speaker 1: This team can't get out of its own way when
Speaker 1: it comes to throwing a screen. They can't get the
Speaker 1: guys out about the offensive line not being mobile enough
Speaker 1: to get out there, or I don't know, if it's coronation.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've got guys that can actually move. They do.
Speaker 1: They've got guys that are athletic enough to get out
Speaker 1: in space and make things happen. They don't get any
Speaker 1: blocks on the outside. You know, that gets all buddled
Speaker 1: up at times, but you know, or the run people.
Speaker 1: It's just it's so frustrating to watch teams around the
Speaker 1: league be able to use and this one, this team
Speaker 1: you're about to play, they will screen you to death.
Speaker 1: And because they know it's an easy throw for their quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's the kinds of things that could help Cooper rush.
Speaker 1: You know, just a little simple screen that could go
Speaker 1: for twenty six yards. That's a big help my thing,
Speaker 1: And I've said it for fifteen years. I've asked to
Speaker 1: get the player on the roster, and now he's on
Speaker 1: the roster and he's not any particle player. I just
Speaker 1: I just think you're you're using a You're wasting a
Speaker 1: dynamic player in turpid. I don't you don't have to
Speaker 1: give him the football, you don't. I mean, maybe once
Speaker 1: in a while, but use him on a screen on
Speaker 1: a reverse even if he doesn't get it. Just give
Speaker 1: it to him one time around the corner. See what
Speaker 1: happens if he gets five or six yards. But you
Speaker 1: could fake it to him three more times the rest
Speaker 1: of the game. And I just think they're not using that.
Speaker 1: You don't trust them as a as a blocker, whether
Speaker 1: that's fine, but he can have a role that can
Speaker 1: scare the crap out of some teams on the back end.
Speaker 1: And I'm kind of surprised they haven't done more of
Speaker 1: that with a backup quarterback in games or you can't
Speaker 1: really get your offense going. You would think in those
Speaker 1: kind of situations, that's where you think you see teams
Speaker 1: doing more wildcat or reverses or things that just kind
Speaker 1: of force a defense to respect different things, because you
Speaker 1: know you need to give your quarterback a little help
Speaker 1: and basically the only hope they're given him. As you say,
Speaker 1: Brian's really giving max protect They'll Max protecting let him
Speaker 1: throw a ball, but that's all they're doing. Other than that,
Speaker 1: they're just like, hey, we're okay if we do three
Speaker 1: and out, like we're just gonna pump the ball and
Speaker 1: trust our defense. You know. Yeah, the times and I'm
Speaker 1: surprised by that too. The times that he gets he
Speaker 1: does get on the field, they don't do anything with him.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, why is he even under Yeah, and
Speaker 1: even then there are times he doesn't do anything and
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, then what are you trying to prove here?
Speaker 1: Or like put on tape that's gonna scare anybody because
Speaker 1: you're not. Um, I'm on that with Brian with the screen.
Speaker 1: I feel like a couple of years ago they were
Speaker 1: pretty good at that. There really sixteen how many times
Speaker 1: like the Zeke then Zeke would they faked the block
Speaker 1: and he just kind of slip out and they got
Speaker 1: Lineman in front, you know, whether that was Doug Free
Speaker 1: or Tyrann Smith whoever, or Frederick you know, get somebody.
Speaker 1: They it's just like it's it's so disjointed and bumping
Speaker 1: into each other and no, no, you know, no sell
Speaker 1: at all. So yeah, I mean to me that that's
Speaker 1: the simple thing because throwing the ball down the field
Speaker 1: and all that, yeah, that can add prove. But man,
Speaker 1: just give me something, give me a simple little throw
Speaker 1: from my quarterback that just devastates defense is when it works.
Speaker 1: And speaking of selling, I think one of the things
Speaker 1: is the fake. Before I would be fool every time
Speaker 1: and that God Burd's eye view up here and I
Speaker 1: would have like, oh, oh, the balls over here. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're good at that anymore, and they just
Speaker 1: and that's some small part, but I think it does
Speaker 1: play a big role in the game if they need
Speaker 1: to improve that aspect of things, just faking it better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, appreciate you guys. Jones back tomorrow. We're gonna
Speaker 1: wrap this thing up for you. That's it. We're gonna
Speaker 1: wrap this thing up for you and let you guys
Speaker 1: know what thing's gonna happen this Sunday night, Cowboys versus Eagles.
Speaker 1: So then for Nick Eaman, Brian brought us Amber Garcia.
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