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Speaker 8: It is Tuesday, December nineteenth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 8: episode number ninety one. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 8: The Break. We are live from the s WBC Mortgage studios.
Speaker 8: At the start, we got Patrick and Brian and Amber
Speaker 8: with us today. Thank you guys for holding it down yesterday. Today, though,
Speaker 8: we're going to kind of extend the conversation because my
Speaker 8: guess is you guys tucked at nauseum about that game
Speaker 8: on Sunday. But I want to take the conversation a
Speaker 8: little different problem, a little different direction and really focus
Speaker 8: in on three particular problems that showed themselves this last
Speaker 8: game and really have been problems that the Cowboys have
Speaker 8: had throughout the season when they've lost, and talk to
Speaker 8: you guys about how big those problems are and how
Speaker 8: maybe the Cowboys can go about fixing them. We've got
Speaker 8: some player evaluations, I got a few player names. I
Speaker 8: want to throw at you guys and see how you're
Speaker 8: feeling about where they are in the season and how
Speaker 8: where they are after this last game. And of course
Speaker 8: we got to talk about the NFC. Man, that's getting
Speaker 8: really really interesting Philadelphia and the Cowboys feel like it
Speaker 8: feels almost like nobody really wants to just take it
Speaker 8: and it's going to be interesting all the way down
Speaker 8: the stretch. So we'll talk about that somewhere along the
Speaker 8: line as well. Let's start first, though, with those problems
Speaker 8: that I mentioned, And here's what I want to do.
Speaker 8: I'm going to throw out three different problems. And as
Speaker 8: I throw out the problem, I need you guys to
Speaker 8: tell me number one, how big is this problem for
Speaker 8: the Cowboys? And number two, how you think they could
Speaker 8: possibly go about solving it. Let's start first with the
Speaker 8: rusty rushing defense. How big of a problem is the
Speaker 8: rushing defense at this point?
Speaker 9: Okay, so, for more often than not the season, the
Speaker 9: Cowboys have been above sufficient and run defense. But when
Speaker 9: they give up the goat, man, do they give up
Speaker 9: the goat? There's no in between with them when they're
Speaker 9: having a bad day. Look at Arizona for example, then
Speaker 9: look back at the Buffalo Bills, look at Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 9: and the forty nine ers. When the Cowboys going to
Speaker 9: a game and they start struggling tackling the running back,
Speaker 9: it just turns out to be a long day for them.
Speaker 9: They had twelve misstackles against the Bills and James Cook
Speaker 9: went absolutely off one and seventy nine yards on the
Speaker 9: ground to twenty to twenty one from scrimmage. So for me,
Speaker 9: it's not going to get any easier as you go
Speaker 9: up against this Miami Dolphins team who has arguably more
Speaker 9: talent in the backfield than what the Bills had with
Speaker 9: James Cook. But it's especially with Hankins probably not playing
Speaker 9: this week.
Speaker 6: Either.
Speaker 9: But if you can get back to tackling, just get
Speaker 9: back to the fundamental of if you get your hands
Speaker 9: on a guy, make sure that first man takes him
Speaker 9: down and he doesn't get to that second and third level.
Speaker 9: If you can get back to that, then you will
Speaker 9: cut down three quarters of those big gainers and then
Speaker 9: you can give you your offense a chance and you
Speaker 9: know you're passing a pass rushing chance as well.
Speaker 6: So for me, that's what it boils down to.
Speaker 9: I mean, they're going to have a hard time, like
Speaker 9: I said, without Hankins, but tackle, because missing tackles, especially
Speaker 9: on the road, you end up getting run through.
Speaker 10: I mean, it is a huge problem, I think, and
Speaker 10: especially when you put out performances. When you keep putting
Speaker 10: out performances like the one they just had against Buffalo,
Speaker 10: you're showing once again the recipe for success for other
Speaker 10: teams to attack you and how to attack you. We
Speaker 10: know that Miami and Detroit they have the talent to run.
Speaker 10: They are really good at running. So it is a
Speaker 10: challenge that I don't. Don't ask me how because I
Speaker 10: don't have the answer. I think I would be making
Speaker 10: more money if I did and working somewhere else over the.
Speaker 11: But I don't have the answer.
Speaker 10: I just don't know how you fix it in such
Speaker 10: a short amount of time, and in December, it's hard
Speaker 10: to change things. That's very difficult to do. And one
Speaker 10: big thing that will be huge is by the playoffs.
Speaker 10: Jonathan Hankins is supposed supposed to return by then, so
Speaker 10: hopefully that it's something that will clearly help them to
Speaker 10: have a body like him and a talent like him
Speaker 10: back on the lineup.
Speaker 11: But I just I don't have an answer for you.
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's an easy fix. Oh yeah, there's an
Speaker 3: easy fix here. It's your offense.
Speaker 12: Look what happens when this team scores forty points a game.
Speaker 12: Nobody runs the ball on you. Your best weapon against
Speaker 12: the team that wants to run the ball on you
Speaker 12: is your offense.
Speaker 3: Because you put people in a lot of hurt.
Speaker 12: It's hard to be down thirty points in a game
Speaker 12: and sit there and run the football all day. Caroline
Speaker 12: did it? Carolina had some success run the ball. We
Speaker 12: forgot about Carolina. They ran the ball pretty well, and
Speaker 12: you misstackles and you didn't fit and you know so
Speaker 12: this is kind of an ongoing problem. Okay, to your
Speaker 12: bad road losses before the buy, which you've now kind
Speaker 12: of adapted your offense. This looked a lot better, but
Speaker 12: you saw what happens when somebody shut your offense down, Buffalo. Okay,
Speaker 12: when you shut this cowboy offense down, it takes away
Speaker 12: two things. It takes away Dallas's ability to rush the
Speaker 12: passer because people are committed to just saying you know what,
Speaker 12: you're right now you're constructed in a way because of injury.
Speaker 12: You're having to find ways to play with players out
Speaker 12: of place, and those guys are doing the best they can.
Speaker 12: Bell is doing the best he can to play down
Speaker 12: in the box. Curse is doing the best he can
Speaker 12: to play down in the box. All of a sudden,
Speaker 12: we've seen what Pennon pulled us to this team. Okay,
Speaker 12: when they have to deal with blockers on the move
Speaker 12: right at.
Speaker 3: Them, it's tough.
Speaker 12: When you're two hundred and twenty one pounds and you're
Speaker 12: taking on three hundred and twelve pound tackles all day,
Speaker 12: and guards and centers, it's not an easy task.
Speaker 3: This team got.
Speaker 12: This team lost its ability to defend the run when
Speaker 12: Layton Vanderush went down, When overshown went out, that's when
Speaker 12: this team, when they didn't get Shaq Lawson or she
Speaker 12: was Shack Leonard, that's when this team's ability to you know,
Speaker 12: we talk about Hankins all you want, but the ball.
Speaker 3: Was run on the edge. It was the edge.
Speaker 12: It was perimeter runs that killed you in that game
Speaker 12: the other day. But the best defense or the best
Speaker 12: way to stop this way of people running the ball
Speaker 12: on you is continued to score on offense, and that's
Speaker 12: what happened. Buffalo shut you down, and it took made
Speaker 12: their job a lot easier when they were just committed
Speaker 12: to like, okay, you're not going to stop the run
Speaker 12: and you're not going to score, We could play right
Speaker 12: with you. They were comfortable not throwing the ball at
Speaker 12: all in that football game. You know why because Dallas
Speaker 12: pass rushes the best in the league. You know, when
Speaker 12: people get behind, they get a dose to that. Nobody
Speaker 12: wants to deal with that in a game. Buffalo had
Speaker 12: a great game plan and they executed it very well.
Speaker 12: The mistackles, yeah, the lack of size and ball positions, yeah,
Speaker 12: but your offense did nothing in that game.
Speaker 9: And I love the point about offense, and I'll even
Speaker 9: add to that and just expanded a bit. It's just
Speaker 9: about scoring, period. Go back and look at Week one,
Speaker 9: rainy environment in New York and the offense just couldn't
Speaker 9: get going. But guess what, your defense put points on
Speaker 9: the board. So to that point, it's just about however
Speaker 9: you can be at offense and or defense, points have
Speaker 9: to be put on the brinblet. Because de Brian's point,
Speaker 9: playing from behind, that's going to give that other team
Speaker 9: an opportunity to keep pushing at that run.
Speaker 6: Defense, you have to take that away from them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 12: See Seattle, it got into a shootout game and defense
Speaker 12: was struggling their ass off to get a stop.
Speaker 3: But what did they do.
Speaker 12: Dallas's offense kept playing, kept playing, kept scoring, kept playing.
Speaker 3: What happened. You got three four down stops that that game.
Speaker 12: That's your fix, guys, that's your fix at your offense
Speaker 12: because people fear your offense, they fear your pass rush,
Speaker 12: but they know that they can if they that they
Speaker 12: take care of your offense, they're never going to see
Speaker 12: your pass rush.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's that's a good thinking outside the box a
Speaker 10: little bit here, trying to find solutions because when you
Speaker 10: go back to the beginning of the season, you were
Speaker 10: surviving because of your defense.
Speaker 11: You were there hiding a little bit.
Speaker 10: Of all the issues that the offense was having because
Speaker 10: of the defense. And then once the defense started getting
Speaker 10: hurt players coming out. You mentioned all the guys that
Speaker 10: were out and that they've struggled to that with that
Speaker 10: and having to adjust. Now, that's when the offense started
Speaker 10: getting their their stuff together and making it work. No, no,
Speaker 10: I'm a lady. But yeah, they're making it work. But now, when,
Speaker 10: like you said, when you see the offense not being
Speaker 10: able to take care of business, then again, and the defense,
Speaker 10: it's clearly shown with teams are run heavy.
Speaker 12: What happened to, Yeah, the game and I and I
Speaker 12: kind of put the I put the Arizona in San
Speaker 12: Francisco game in another category before because that's before you
Speaker 12: had the cross the hall meetings and fix the offense. Yeah,
Speaker 12: but you know what happened in those games. Offense didn't
Speaker 12: do anything against Arizona. Offense didn't do anything against San Francisco.
Speaker 12: Offense didn't do anything against Buffalo. Those are your losses
Speaker 12: right there. When this team, when this quarterback's playing at
Speaker 12: a high level, which he has the majority of the season,
Speaker 12: you know they got they got shut down.
Speaker 3: The other day.
Speaker 12: It couldn't get open, You couldn't complete a pass. The
Speaker 12: one thing Buffalo let him do is run the ball.
Speaker 12: They're like, cool, we're not giving up any big plays. Yeah,
Speaker 12: let Pollard run for six seven yards of crack were okay,
Speaker 12: but the game was in hand. They knew you couldn't
Speaker 12: stop them, so I you know, that's that's the common
Speaker 12: denominator here. To me, if the Cowboys are going to
Speaker 12: have success, it's going to be on the offense because
Speaker 12: the defense is wounded right now with the personnel that
Speaker 12: they're having to play with.
Speaker 3: And that's no disrespect to the.
Speaker 12: Guys playing, but man, you were asking guys to play
Speaker 12: in a in a situation that is it's tough. It's
Speaker 12: tough to deal with three hundred and eighteen pound guys
Speaker 12: coming at you all day when you're in the box
Speaker 12: and you're trying to fight blocks and find the ball,
Speaker 12: and you got to back like cook that's able to
Speaker 12: look it one way and then take it back all
Speaker 12: the way the other way, and.
Speaker 3: You're gonna it's only gonna get worse. It's only gonna
Speaker 3: get worse for that.
Speaker 8: Was there anything in what San Francisco, I'm sorry what
Speaker 8: Buffalo did to them defensively that can be used in
Speaker 8: the future this offense.
Speaker 12: Yeah, they what they did was and they we called
Speaker 12: back in the day where we said clog and cover. Yeah,
Speaker 12: you know, and when you when you to me, there
Speaker 12: was one play where it seemed like the first shot
Speaker 12: to Cooks was a play where you actually saw another
Speaker 12: route effect the same to get the ball down the field.
Speaker 3: They just missed the play.
Speaker 12: Other than that, it looked very much like offense weeks
Speaker 12: one through five.
Speaker 3: Nope, it was the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: What the Cowboys did not with the Bills to.
Speaker 12: Me, to me the Bills. We talked about this. We
Speaker 12: all on this panel believe in the metrics. We love
Speaker 12: to study the numbers. Now we love to look at
Speaker 12: this team was one of the worst in the league.
Speaker 12: When it came to separation, they.
Speaker 3: Were one of the worst.
Speaker 12: So what did they do to prevent separation? They played
Speaker 12: zone coverage. They played five across two on the back.
Speaker 12: Seven guys there, Okay, now find space. Okay, Then next
Speaker 12: time we're going to play four across three in the back.
Speaker 12: Find space. You know there was It was a time
Speaker 12: where they threw the route, the one route they had
Speaker 12: where they threw the corner route to seedy land along
Speaker 12: the sidelines. There was a nice deck through it over
Speaker 12: the top bone, big play like fifteen eighteen yards. On
Speaker 12: that play, Tolbert's usually the guy running the clear out there.
Speaker 12: That place shouldn't have been That place shouldn't even have
Speaker 12: been contested. But what happened. They didn't affect the safety.
Speaker 12: You know Tolbert didn't run the route far fast enough
Speaker 12: to effect. We've seen routes. How about the route that
Speaker 12: went to the middle of the field of ceed Lamb.
Speaker 12: They rotate to two deep, two guys in the hash.
Speaker 12: Dak reads it all the way. I'm gonna fit this thing.
Speaker 12: But you know why because that route by Cooks is
Speaker 12: going to affect Poyer.
Speaker 3: The safety didn't affect him. He kept his eyes and
Speaker 3: hips inside, didn't turn.
Speaker 12: How many times have we seen the safety turn the
Speaker 12: wrong way and now the ball's right behind him thirty
Speaker 12: seven yard game. We've seen that all year in this game.
Speaker 12: It didn't work. That didn't work, and so now that's
Speaker 12: the challenge. Like, okay, were we on the screws running
Speaker 12: routes in this game? You know, the Cowboys skill guys
Speaker 12: do a great job of helping each other, a great
Speaker 12: job of helping each other when when there's a route
Speaker 12: that needs to be thrown, two guys are running a
Speaker 12: route to get guys out of the way. We saw
Speaker 12: a big play down in the Philadelphia game to Cooks
Speaker 12: was that Lamb and Tolbert took four eagles with him
Speaker 12: and it was one on one on the outside. I mean,
Speaker 12: that's that's when this team is really good. When the
Speaker 12: route running is good and when the quarterback has that
Speaker 12: ability to find that opening, he knows where you need
Speaker 12: to go with the ball, but he also has to
Speaker 12: have time to throw.
Speaker 3: The ball to.
Speaker 8: So you say they weren't affecting the safety, affecting the DETA.
Speaker 8: Is that a lot about the fact?
Speaker 6: Was that?
Speaker 8: Would you put it more on Buffalo through their film
Speaker 8: study saying we're not we know what their tendencies are,
Speaker 8: We're not going to fall for the eye can Was
Speaker 8: that more of what happened, just that they weren't running
Speaker 8: the right right route.
Speaker 12: I think I think there was a combination of I'm
Speaker 12: not gonna say not running the right route. Yeah, I
Speaker 12: don't think the routes that the Cowboys were running. The
Speaker 12: combinations affected the Bills in a way Bills were Bills
Speaker 12: were comfortable with playing. You know, like, Okay, just sit
Speaker 12: in your zone, don't don't do anything stupid, don't go
Speaker 12: chasing a guy from one zone to another. And then
Speaker 12: Dallas is going to run a play behind it or
Speaker 12: run a route behind that.
Speaker 3: Because that's what Dallas will do.
Speaker 12: They'll take you, they'll take you inside and all of
Speaker 12: a sudden, you go chasing and you're playing zone and
Speaker 12: all leaves an area in Dack's like, oh right there,
Speaker 12: but are you the ball that didn't happen in this game?
Speaker 12: When we watch Dallas play with Dallas is really humming
Speaker 12: their Their tape is fun to watch because you see
Speaker 12: all the combinations, say that offense that we saw in Buffalo,
Speaker 12: very much like weeks one through five.
Speaker 9: And also to that point, for whatever reason, the pre
Speaker 9: snat motion got turned down against the Bills. When you
Speaker 9: look at the trend that the Cowboys have been on
Speaker 9: the past several weeks, I mean they've been doing pre snatboy,
Speaker 9: they've really leaned into sixty and now forty percent. So
Speaker 9: that goes to the prestat motion, goes to the ability
Speaker 9: of you know, redirecting and getting guys thinking on defense.
Speaker 9: And that's why you've been so successful in getting guys
Speaker 9: like Seeding Lamb on the heater that he was on
Speaker 9: over the past several weeks, getting Dak Prescott going with
Speaker 9: these these this offense, Jake Fergus and Brandon Cooks for example,
Speaker 9: some of these other guys, but in not doing the
Speaker 9: pre snat motion makes the offense a little bit less
Speaker 9: difficult to defend because whatever you're looking at more than
Speaker 9: half the time against the Bills, whatever they were looking at, that's.
Speaker 6: What it was.
Speaker 9: Once the ball was snapped, you got to get these
Speaker 9: guys moving around. And the Cowboys have shown that they
Speaker 9: can be a dominant offense more often than not when
Speaker 9: they use pre snap motion to a greater altitude than
Speaker 9: what they were doing against the Bills. So for whatever reason,
Speaker 9: and you know, there's context around it when you start
Speaker 9: talking about the situations and that situational football, but for
Speaker 9: the most part, I'm kind of hard pressed to just
Speaker 9: sit back and look at this and say, you know,
Speaker 9: come to a determination as to why they chose to
Speaker 9: turn down the pre stat motion, especially in the game.
Speaker 12: Well, it might have been because of the zone, because it's
Speaker 12: such a zone heavy team that motion. Mike said this,
Speaker 12: Mike said this before. I don't run motion just to
Speaker 12: run motion. It has to have a purpose to it.
Speaker 12: And maybe he's getting so much zone that he's thinking like, well,
Speaker 12: if I motion this, and and I'm with you, Patrick,
Speaker 12: I'm with you about the motion stuff, but I'm also thinking,
Speaker 12: like maybe what McCarthy would say, I'm getting such a
Speaker 12: zone heavy look, that motion is not going to affect
Speaker 12: a team that's playing zone coverage ninety percent of the time.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 12: He's like, well, if I'm moving, what am I moving for?
Speaker 12: You know, now, maybe you can move it in order
Speaker 12: to get to your bunch formations and get four on
Speaker 12: one side and attack and flood zones and stuff like that.
Speaker 12: But they made a determination that moving in this game
Speaker 12: was not going to affect Buffalo because Buffalo was going
Speaker 12: to sit there. How many plays did Buffalo make where
Speaker 12: your receiver had to be a defensive back in that game?
Speaker 12: That's that's the thing that that's what's disturbing to me that, like, man,
Speaker 12: that just wasn't That wasn't a good game for the
Speaker 12: play caller. I don't think it was particularly good for
Speaker 12: the quarterback, the receivers, anybody that was on the offensive
Speaker 12: side of the ball, really the whole team. But to
Speaker 12: your point, we started this whole conversation. In my opinion,
Speaker 12: the best way to help this defense is be great
Speaker 12: on offense, because you can't do enough right now making
Speaker 12: teams one dimensional, where one dimensional turns into throwing the ball,
Speaker 12: that's your defensive strength.
Speaker 5: And I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Speaker 8: And it is amazing to see how far we can
Speaker 8: come in such a short period of time. Because back
Speaker 8: during training camp, I think we all agreed the defense
Speaker 8: was the best thing this team done.
Speaker 12: The injuries have robbed completely changed Diggs being out.
Speaker 3: Hook or not playing the other day.
Speaker 12: I mean, there's a lot of things that went into
Speaker 12: that game the other day that that overshown. I mean,
Speaker 12: I'm watching over shown play a game, the last game
Speaker 12: of the year, and we're all watching the game. He's
Speaker 12: played six plays, he's got three tackles. How do you
Speaker 12: not tell me that doesn't translate into Okay, we got
Speaker 12: an idea for this guy. Yeah, you know, all of
Speaker 12: a sudden and now and then you lose, you know,
Speaker 12: and say what you want about Shackler, Say whatever you
Speaker 12: want about that. That could have helped that something. Just
Speaker 12: having a veteran that knows how to play a little right.
Speaker 12: He might not be able to cover worth of damn,
Speaker 12: but my god, the guy could play some run defense.
Speaker 5: All right, we're gonna take our first break when we
Speaker 5: come back.
Speaker 8: We're gonna jump into these other problems to see if
Speaker 8: we can give you some solutions as good as that.
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Speaker 8: Welcome back, second segment of the Break Life in that
Speaker 8: s WVC Morgan Studios at the Star, We're talking problems
Speaker 8: and solutions. Here we go, problems and solutions. I'll talk
Speaker 8: about the rush defense. No, we want your input. Penalties.
Speaker 8: Penalties is the next problem. The next problem were going
Speaker 8: to talk about. Tell me how big of this.
Speaker 3: Pro get the offense going.
Speaker 11: Let's put it.
Speaker 15: All one score forty a game.
Speaker 5: If it is don't matter.
Speaker 3: You scored forty points a game and have eighteen penalties,
Speaker 3: you will still win the game.
Speaker 5: How big of a problem is that those.
Speaker 10: Look at this last game, look at what happened just recently,
Speaker 10: and again I have no I like just kicking off
Speaker 10: the show because this is something that's not new. We've
Speaker 10: been talking about it since forever and they've gone, they
Speaker 10: started getting a little better, and then all of a
Speaker 10: sudden you have games like this, And to be fair,
Speaker 10: there are so many penalties that should not happen. Like
Speaker 10: it's not on them that I think they're just complete bs.
Speaker 10: But we come in here and we say yeah, but
Speaker 10: we say the same thing of like, Okay, it is
Speaker 10: what it is. You can't change the officiating. You can't
Speaker 10: change it's not in our power or hand. So it
Speaker 10: is up to you as a player to be cognizant
Speaker 10: and conscious of what kind of moves you're doing. Sam Williams,
Speaker 10: I absolutely love the guy. I love him so much
Speaker 10: and I'm rooting for him. I root every week for him.
Speaker 10: But you can never trust him. It's kind to the
Speaker 10: point that he's uh the Kelvin Joseph at the time,
Speaker 10: where the inconsistencies there. He'll make a really good play
Speaker 10: and then get a penalty, and it's like it happens
Speaker 10: so often Psach Martin. Absolutely love the guy. He's one
Speaker 10: of my favorite players, and you have and he has
Speaker 10: a lot of power, but to come in, but that's
Speaker 10: my quarterback.
Speaker 11: Get out of here.
Speaker 10: But things like that that you you know better, you
Speaker 10: know better, and there's no reason why this should be
Speaker 10: such a reoccurring issue week after week.
Speaker 9: All right, So it's it's twofold because one again, I mean,
Speaker 9: we could talk about the quality or lack there of
Speaker 9: in the NFL officiating. It is atrocious. But I'm not
Speaker 9: going to get on that soap box. Fine, yeah, don't
Speaker 9: don't make member.
Speaker 2: You work for this team, don't don't have to answer to.
Speaker 8: That, I'll say, Patrick right over there, go get his
Speaker 8: checked out. Ye at least at least wait until after
Speaker 8: the holiday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can get away with this Afterliday.
Speaker 8: But no, I'm literally type in texta Brian like, get
Speaker 8: off the official.
Speaker 5: Yah.
Speaker 9: I'm not going to get on that soap box. I
Speaker 9: did that a couple weeks or so ago. So I
Speaker 9: mean that's on record. So let's focus on what's controllable.
Speaker 9: And what's controllable is you know, you look at the
Speaker 9: penalty against Jayron Curs.
Speaker 6: It shouldn't have happened.
Speaker 9: But if you look at the penalty on Tank for example,
Speaker 9: yes that was Tiki tak, Yes, Josh Allen flop. But
Speaker 9: Tank be a little bit smarter there, don't. Don't get
Speaker 9: into him and then extend your arms and give him
Speaker 9: an opportunity to flop. They were driving down the field
Speaker 9: on that first drive, they get down deep and then
Speaker 9: guess what you hold them on on third and four
Speaker 9: and then you give them that right, So penalties three
Speaker 9: personal files. You award them eighteen of their first twenty
Speaker 9: one points. You're down twenty one to three. And then
Speaker 9: on your first offensive drive, you're moving down the field.
Speaker 9: No you didn't connect on Brandon Cooks, but you didn't
Speaker 9: let that defeat you. You get on their side of
Speaker 9: the field and then holding on tip Do Smith and
Speaker 9: then that moves to a third and fourteen and then
Speaker 9: they pin their ears back. Your offensive line was already struggling,
Speaker 9: and then they sacked Dak Prescott.
Speaker 6: You get nothing on that drive. That's a punt.
Speaker 9: So you look no further than the Bills game to
Speaker 9: see just how problematic penalties can be. Now, what I
Speaker 9: will say, though, is not obviously not all penalties are
Speaker 9: created equal it's timing and it's type. That's how I
Speaker 9: break down penalties, type of penalty and the timing in
Speaker 9: which the penalty happens. You get a personal file when
Speaker 9: you're up forty points, no one cares, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 9: You get a personal foul when you know they're punting
Speaker 9: the ball and you run into the kicker, that's a
Speaker 9: big deal. And on the road, so forth and so on.
Speaker 9: So it's just it's a discipline thing for the ones
Speaker 9: that you can control, and that's why they can be
Speaker 9: so infuriating, because when you know they know better and
Speaker 9: they still don't do better, that can be aggravating. So
Speaker 9: it's it's an easy fix in that. Don't put the
Speaker 9: game in the officials hands. Because they're going to make
Speaker 9: bad CAUs at some point in the game. Don't compile
Speaker 9: that by giving them an opportunity to make calls against
Speaker 9: you when you probably later in the game you're probably
Speaker 9: gonna get or you're not going to get, or you
Speaker 9: might get it rough in the passer for whatever the
Speaker 9: case may be. And it might be completely bogus, but
Speaker 9: what if you actually gave them.
Speaker 6: An opportunity to justify that cause?
Speaker 9: Just don't give an opportunity to justify the bad calls
Speaker 9: are going to happen. Don't make don't give them good
Speaker 9: calls on top of the bad calls. That's what's frustrated
Speaker 9: about it.
Speaker 12: Never worked for or covered a team that gets more
Speaker 12: penalties on third down than this crew and killer ones,
Speaker 12: killer penalties where you get off the field.
Speaker 6: You know, and you know that.
Speaker 12: I think they've done a better job with the alignment penalties.
Speaker 12: That's been a lot of problems they've had, you know,
Speaker 12: lining up off sides, those kind of things.
Speaker 3: Uh, but there is there's no fix for this.
Speaker 12: And I think McCarthy does a good job of talking
Speaker 12: about the officials. I know they study the officials. I
Speaker 12: know they go over what calls officials make. It's a
Speaker 12: segment I do every Friday on one O five to
Speaker 12: three the fan and I do it in a pregame show,
Speaker 12: talking about because you got to know, you've got to
Speaker 12: know that these guys called delay a game penalties. Can
Speaker 12: you take the clock down to it? Are they're going
Speaker 12: to call a lot of holding penalties? Are they gonna
Speaker 12: let the are they going to let you play? You know,
Speaker 12: you've got to know these things going into this game.
Speaker 12: But I think the thing that that bothers me the
Speaker 12: most or those third down penalties where you just you know,
Speaker 12: you have your you're off the field and now you
Speaker 12: get a defensive holding on the other side of the field,
Speaker 12: or you get a hands to the face, or you
Speaker 12: get a roughing the passer penalty. You know, those are
Speaker 12: the ones to me that are killer, the holding penalties
Speaker 12: and stuff. I understand it's tough blocking in the National
Speaker 12: Football League. They're really good athletes on the other side
Speaker 12: of the defense. You know, it's unfortunate, though, that your
Speaker 12: best player on defense doesn't get calls.
Speaker 3: He doesn't get calls.
Speaker 5: He really doesn't get Now up to thirty three, yeah,
Speaker 5: he orders that he.
Speaker 12: Has had one since the Chargers games. Yeah, there's no way,
Speaker 12: and and there, and there was, you know. And they
Speaker 12: even put him in the middle in the Buffalo game
Speaker 12: and he draws a call where he's basically it's like
Speaker 12: a rodeo move the center. Morse has got his arms
Speaker 12: around his neck like he's doing my bulldog technique. But
Speaker 12: you know that that's you just got to keep playing.
Speaker 12: But I don't think there's a fix for this, because
Speaker 12: they talk about it all the time, and it's they
Speaker 12: talk about.
Speaker 3: Discipline and all that.
Speaker 12: You just hope it's not gonna be one of these
Speaker 12: penalties that kills them in a game. Like all of
Speaker 12: a sudden, you're in a tight game and then you
Speaker 12: get the running into the kicker yeah, or something like that,
Speaker 12: and now the game is completely flipped.
Speaker 10: Can we make banners and be like, okay, every third down,
Speaker 10: key moments, be.
Speaker 11: Careful, no penalty discipline.
Speaker 10: Like everybody just reminder, Okay, this moment is not the Yeah,
Speaker 10: no penalties. No.
Speaker 12: I just don't I just don't see it changing. And
Speaker 12: but I hope it doesn't happen where it kills you
Speaker 12: in a game and you lose a game because of
Speaker 12: you did something stupid. I mean, we saw what uh
Speaker 12: I mean, I don't mean stupid in a I'm not
Speaker 12: trying to be mean, but we saw Tolbert line up
Speaker 12: in Green Bay off sides.
Speaker 3: You're lining up off side?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 12: And we saw it in Kansas City the other day
Speaker 12: in the game they were in they're gonna win the
Speaker 12: game and they line up off side.
Speaker 8: You literally have someone there who will tell you if
Speaker 8: you're okay or yeah.
Speaker 3: You just have to have the discipline and I know
Speaker 3: it's not gonna change.
Speaker 9: And Philly, you know, not man downfield because he didn't
Speaker 9: declare those types of that's just not mental area.
Speaker 8: And that's that's my biggest challenge. And even in this
Speaker 8: last game, and you you highlighted the ones that I
Speaker 8: was thinking about, but it's the ones where it's like
Speaker 8: that didn't have to be a penalty, like you just
Speaker 8: da I mean, I'm sorry, a tank just pull up
Speaker 8: like it's okay, he got rid of the Boston.
Speaker 5: You don't have to, Zach. You don't have approval point here.
Speaker 8: Like you might go over there and you might run
Speaker 8: over there, and you might say some things, and you
Speaker 8: can call him everything from here to whatever, but don't
Speaker 8: hit him because the moment you hit him, now you've
Speaker 8: allowed them to get fifteen yards and you don't need to.
Speaker 12: But but I remember a game against where Andy Dalton
Speaker 12: got lit up and nobody went to his defense and
Speaker 12: their offensive line got called out from that they did.
Speaker 8: And but again I go back to he can run
Speaker 8: over there, he can jump in the guy's face, don't
Speaker 8: butt him because the moment you touch, the moment there's contact.
Speaker 8: Because I guarantee you this, I'll say this. There's a
Speaker 8: bunch of calls that players don't like from referees.
Speaker 5: You ever see one hit a referee?
Speaker 8: They don't And the reason why is because they know,
Speaker 8: because they know they're they have control, because they know
Speaker 8: the penalty is going to be severe, right, and they
Speaker 8: don't have severe penalty. Right. So that's that's my point,
Speaker 8: Like you have enough control to say, I can I
Speaker 8: can make my point. I can get over there and
Speaker 8: I can get in his face and I can let
Speaker 8: him know like whatever you need to tell him, like
Speaker 8: whatever you use your imagining, whatever you want to tell him.
Speaker 8: But the moment you bump him is the moment you
Speaker 8: now have stepped into giving them yards that you just
Speaker 8: don't have to give away.
Speaker 3: There's some sports where you can get away.
Speaker 12: Yes, okay, last night, I'm gonna Dallas Stars yet Seattle
Speaker 12: Krakens in town and they they take a run at Wedgwood.
Speaker 3: The goalie, he catches.
Speaker 12: The puck, he's hold it. They take a run, guy
Speaker 12: runs over. All of a sudden, that guy that ran
Speaker 12: into Wedgwood goes to the corner and now all these
Speaker 12: green jerseys are just and the officials like, who do
Speaker 12: he send off the guy who ran into the goalie.
Speaker 12: That's the sport where they let they will let you,
Speaker 12: they will let you.
Speaker 3: Defend anybody that you take you take a run at.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I'm and I and then quite frankly, I
Speaker 8: think it a sport like football. I would I would
Speaker 8: approach it the same way if I was the person
Speaker 8: making the league rules around that kind of show a
Speaker 8: little bit more would I would allow that kind of
Speaker 8: stuff a little bit more?
Speaker 3: Did it?
Speaker 8: For a while they used to have back in the day, though,
Speaker 8: the horns and those kind they were regulators on the
Speaker 8: court like it. They took care of that kind of
Speaker 8: stuff on the court. It's just that that, for whatever reason,
Speaker 8: the NFL just doesn't have an appetite for that, And
Speaker 8: the players have to know the NFL doesn't have the
Speaker 8: appetite for that, So don't invite it.
Speaker 5: You can't invited.
Speaker 6: That's my point.
Speaker 9: I mean, bad calls are going to happen as far
Speaker 9: as officiating, you can't control those, But the ones you
Speaker 9: can't control, like those, just don't don't let that be
Speaker 9: one of the reasons that you lose the game.
Speaker 10: They just nothing crazy happened, Like no, I agree, no, no,
Speaker 10: what I'm saying, like right before, when for Zach to
Speaker 10: do that, it wasn't like a crazy because what exactly
Speaker 10: happened to that, Like, it wasn't anything we've seen worse.
Speaker 10: We've seen worse of like interactions, and it wasn't actually.
Speaker 8: Think you missed him my personally, Like it looked like
Speaker 8: he kind of went over deck and he hit him.
Speaker 11: But I don't missed them. So it's I don't know,
Speaker 11: but it's yeah.
Speaker 12: Run out of guy. That's for the whole thing about
Speaker 12: it is just taking a run. But what you lost
Speaker 12: was the fifteen yards.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's what you lost. He lost fifteen yards.
Speaker 5: That would have had you in their territory.
Speaker 8: And the next play you actually got the fifteen yards
Speaker 8: on the next play, but imagine that if you had
Speaker 8: already been at the forty three and then you get fifteen.
Speaker 5: Now where field goal range.
Speaker 8: We're really cooking right as opposed to that, that drive
Speaker 8: ends up stalling and you get no points.
Speaker 6: Out of type and time and type in time.
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Speaker 3: That's the best one.
Speaker 8: And I actually love that for all the past winners
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Speaker 5: It's a very well.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 5: got one more problem solve. You guys are doing a
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Speaker 8: By the way, I'm gonna send all this stuff on
Speaker 8: packaging it up, send it over to coach. We'll see
Speaker 8: if we can get it and to start working on
Speaker 8: this stuff. But here's the final problem. And I don't
Speaker 8: know if there's a clear answer on this one, but
Speaker 8: let's try it. Road games. How big of a problem
Speaker 8: is it?
Speaker 9: I mean, when you're three and four on the road,
Speaker 9: it's a problem. It's a pretty big problem. Well, and
Speaker 9: you're seven to no at home, but you're under five
Speaker 9: hundred on the road. It's something that let me be clear.
Speaker 8: Is it that you're three and four on the road
Speaker 8: because you're three and four on.
Speaker 5: The road, like the road has something to do with that?
Speaker 8: Or is it that the three teams that you've lost
Speaker 8: to that were really good happened to be on the
Speaker 8: road and you may have lost those games at home
Speaker 8: as well.
Speaker 9: For me, it's see all of the above because obviously
Speaker 9: when you're playing on the road, you don't have the
Speaker 9: benefit of you're playing in front of your crowd and
Speaker 9: a controlled environment in the dome. You don't have wind,
Speaker 9: you don't have this to account for. You get to
Speaker 9: sleep in your sleep number bid at home, and you
Speaker 9: don't have the right you don't have that added aspect
Speaker 9: of what part of the country you're traveling.
Speaker 12: To exactly right, so you get up that lace acquire
Speaker 12: at it.
Speaker 9: I think we can do right, that's me next next
Speaker 9: year place. But yeah, you don't have the added aspect
Speaker 9: of travel. Are you, you know, having to go to
Speaker 9: Buffalo then come back home and go to Miami. Do
Speaker 9: you have to go to the West Coast and lose time,
Speaker 9: et cetera, et cetera. So, I mean all of those
Speaker 9: are very real factors that and that's why playing on
Speaker 9: the road is always going to be more difficult in
Speaker 9: any sport, not just the NFL. You're going to typically
Speaker 9: play better at home. But it also goes to what
Speaker 9: we're talking about. When you're on the road, you have
Speaker 9: to play more mistake free football. You can't you know,
Speaker 9: have self inflicted wounds with penalties, that's just going to
Speaker 9: worsen the situation. So being that the type and timing
Speaker 9: of the penalties that are happening on the road seem
Speaker 9: to be worse than when they're happening at home, it
Speaker 9: just makes you wonder if the mentality is as sharp
Speaker 9: on the road as it is at home, And right
Speaker 9: now I would have to say the answer is no.
Speaker 9: And if we're talking about mentality of playing on the road,
Speaker 9: that combined with three and four is very concerning for
Speaker 9: me because let's assume you don't get the number two
Speaker 9: seed or the number one seed. Your road to going
Speaker 9: to the NFC Championship and then the Super Bowl, it's
Speaker 9: on the road. Quite literally, in the Super Bowl. I
Speaker 9: mentioned it yesterday with Ambar hosting. The Super Bowl is
Speaker 9: not played at the AT and T Stadium, that's guess where.
Speaker 9: That's in Las Vegas. That's on the road as well.
Speaker 9: So even if you get to the Promised Land and
Speaker 9: you get an opportunity to end this drought, even that's
Speaker 9: not at home. So for me, it's a mentality thing.
Speaker 9: They need to play sharper football and they need to
Speaker 9: get better at understanding, especially offense because the offense tends
Speaker 9: to turn down on the road. They need to get
Speaker 9: better on offense. They need to play more mistake free football,
Speaker 9: and then the rest will kind of handle it.
Speaker 12: So the Legends actually does the hospitality and stuff in Vegas.
Speaker 3: So I think we'll have a home game.
Speaker 12: A piece of home. Got a little piece of home there.
Speaker 12: This comes down to communication. The problem with is when
Speaker 12: you play it, when you play on the road. Communication
Speaker 12: for your offense, when you watch them play at home,
Speaker 12: we always see this. Here we go, we hear it,
Speaker 12: we see it. The communication is better. The Buffalo game,
Speaker 12: you're watching frantically Dak smashing his foot against the ground
Speaker 12: trying to get the ball. All of a sudden it
Speaker 12: turns into you don't see.
Speaker 3: That at home.
Speaker 12: You don't see violence of trying to get the ball
Speaker 12: and get the thing snapped. You know, you don't see
Speaker 12: the panic, and it's panic because you're trying to read.
Speaker 12: You're trying to get the ball. You know these officials
Speaker 12: are going to call it delay a game on you.
Speaker 12: It's going to cost you five yards, you might have
Speaker 12: to burn a time out. Communication at home for the
Speaker 12: Cowboys is elite. On the road, it wanes a little
Speaker 12: bit it wanes and all of a sudden, things that
Speaker 12: you think are clear and are taken care of on
Speaker 12: the road aren't.
Speaker 3: What happened. They run a twist stunt the other day,
Speaker 3: they give up a sack, they man the stunt. I've
Speaker 3: seen him do that.
Speaker 12: I haven't seen the Smith's man of stunt like that
Speaker 12: and get twisted and get a sack on him like that.
Speaker 12: Hadn't seen that at home, saw it on the road.
Speaker 12: Maybe they didn't get to Maybe they tried to man
Speaker 12: the stunt, thinking, oh, I'm trying to yell. I'm trying
Speaker 12: to tell you, you know, we're gonna twist it, twist
Speaker 12: and tweet. Know I'm trying to you don't hear it.
Speaker 12: They have problems, I believe, on the road with communication.
Speaker 12: And I'm not saying it's it's one of those things
Speaker 12: where it's where Dak struggles to get the snap off
Speaker 12: all the time. I'm just saying I don't think is
Speaker 12: as clean, and I think that's the issue because they
Speaker 12: at home they run like a as they say, a
Speaker 12: well roll machine and there's no problems. We all hear it.
Speaker 12: Here we go and they boom, they go play football.
Speaker 12: Here it on the road, it's a little bit different.
Speaker 12: And I think it happens on the offense, and I
Speaker 12: think it happens on the defense too.
Speaker 10: Uh well, positive Amber, Let's look at the price, yeah,
Speaker 10: wonder mean what wonder mean?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 11: Let's look at the bride side.
Speaker 10: Okay, after this team had their come to Jesus moment
Speaker 10: after the loss against the forty nine ers, which is
Speaker 10: that's my I don't look anything before that because they
Speaker 10: became a different team after that. They won against the
Speaker 10: Chargers twenty seventeen. They lost against the Eagles twenty eight,
Speaker 10: twenty three, was very very close game, very competitive, and
Speaker 10: then they beat the Panthers thirty three ten, and then
Speaker 10: against Buffalo this was pretty bad.
Speaker 11: So where I'm trying to.
Speaker 10: Get at, if you look at just this window, it's
Speaker 10: not as bad as it seems. Yes, they're the points
Speaker 10: that they do score drops down ups down quite significantly.
Speaker 10: I can't even talk than the ones they do score
Speaker 10: at home. Very different there, but they're still playing competitive.
Speaker 10: What I was lacking in this game against the Bills
Speaker 10: is they just simply did not show up whatsoever. Right
Speaker 10: off the bat.
Speaker 11: There was no.
Speaker 10: Fire in them like, which is not very typical of them.
Speaker 10: Do you see them going out there after in this
Speaker 10: span after the forty nine ers, And they've been a
Speaker 10: pretty competitive team even when they've lost, they they're they're competing.
Speaker 10: And so I'm trying to look at this game against
Speaker 10: the Bills just hopefully that was just that one time.
Speaker 10: Well I say that, and I'm lying because I think
Speaker 10: I might pick Miami to win this weekend.
Speaker 11: I don't know. Now, Oh my god, this is wherey
Speaker 11: this is the thing. There's so many things.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that happened in my head at once because I
Speaker 10: feel that way. And then we and we were talking
Speaker 10: about this Patrick about like they usually bounced.
Speaker 18: Back, like they don't lose so well, that game meant
Speaker 18: a lot though to them, that Buffalo game and a lot.
Speaker 18: It meant a lot to Buffalo, but it meant it
Speaker 18: meant a lot. I think a lot more to you
Speaker 18: because you know what your path is. You know, there
Speaker 18: was a time whether the Jason Garrett administration where they
Speaker 18: would never lose on the road.
Speaker 3: They couldn't win at home.
Speaker 12: Remember for a while they're at and T Stadium was
Speaker 12: not a home field advantage for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Going on the road.
Speaker 12: It was, and we asked the same questions, Well, what's
Speaker 12: the prom playing at home?
Speaker 3: You know what? You know? So this team is it's funny.
Speaker 3: It's it's throughout.
Speaker 12: It's the last say, you know, ten twelve years, it's
Speaker 12: been that way of like you've either played exceptionally well
Speaker 12: on the road or you played exceptionally well now at home.
Speaker 12: It's it's it's funny. They haven't been able to kind
Speaker 12: of put that together.
Speaker 10: I have a quick question for you guys, and you
Speaker 10: look at the time. Oh well there quick question for
Speaker 10: y'all because I've seen this on Twitter. Do you guys
Speaker 10: think that them finding out or knowing that they clinched
Speaker 10: the spot in the play?
Speaker 6: They didn't they did?
Speaker 5: They say? They say they didn't.
Speaker 6: Didn't There's no there's no way for.
Speaker 11: Us to do everybody has a phoney. I'm just saying
Speaker 11: it's hard.
Speaker 9: But they was just right ahead the kickoff, they're doing
Speaker 9: warm ups and everything, and I mean, I'm just.
Speaker 10: Saying, I'm putting it out there. Do you I mean
Speaker 10: they say what they say, it wasn't.
Speaker 8: Clear even if they hadn't clinched before that game, they
Speaker 8: I mean, every all of us knew this is a
Speaker 8: playoff team. They're going to the playoffs. I don't I
Speaker 8: don't think anything was revealed. They clinched it, but we
Speaker 8: all knew they were going to the playoffs. And and
Speaker 8: I I go back to what used to say, Brian,
Speaker 8: All the time, desperate team wins, the more desperate team wins. Buffalo,
Speaker 8: that was a playoff game. Right now, they're sitting outside
Speaker 8: of the playoffs looking in. So every game for them
Speaker 8: at this point is a playoff game.
Speaker 3: Everything.
Speaker 8: They gotta win them all, probably to get into the
Speaker 8: playoffs they got. They certainly don't have any room for era.
Speaker 8: Dallas is not in the same boat. And so I
Speaker 8: know what you're saying, Brian, this game should have been
Speaker 8: important to Dallas. I don't think Dallas was as desperate
Speaker 8: as Buffalo, you know, but.
Speaker 3: If you're, if you know that you're so much better
Speaker 3: at home.
Speaker 12: Anything to secure a home game to start this thing
Speaker 12: and to maybe give you a chance to maybe get
Speaker 12: a couple of home games. That that's Dallas's recipe for
Speaker 12: getting to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Right there. If you told me Dallas is give me
Speaker 3: Dallas's recipe. Play great offense and get home games. That's
Speaker 3: the recipe.
Speaker 5: That's two of our three problems exactly.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying to me.
Speaker 12: I there there has to be desperation of wanting to
Speaker 12: win this division, you know.
Speaker 3: And and they didn't have it the other day. They
Speaker 3: really didn't.
Speaker 6: Just two different teams right now.
Speaker 9: One one version of the Cowboys are at home and
Speaker 9: the other version, which is uh, you know significant minte.
Speaker 6: Uh what was that having fun? It's a different it's
Speaker 6: a different team, all right, it's a different team.
Speaker 5: Before you in the show, give us a lap coat?
Speaker 5: What you got, bring me in?
Speaker 6: Beamer.
Speaker 8: He was not ready to hear him over that, streaming like,
Speaker 8: oh man, Beamers already Beamers on Christmas?
Speaker 5: Yes, science, there you go.
Speaker 3: I got two.
Speaker 9: Okay, to twenty one this is not a fun number
Speaker 9: for the Cowboys or Cowboys fans. To twenty one Cook
Speaker 9: he ran for two hundred twenty four. Well, he had
Speaker 9: two hundred and twenty one yards from scrimmage, one hundred
Speaker 9: and seventy nine of that was rushing and two touchdowns
Speaker 9: against the Cowboys. That is the most from scrimmage allowed
Speaker 9: by the Cowboys since Todd Gurley did it in Week
Speaker 9: four of twenty seventeen. The Cowboys lost that game as well.
Speaker 9: Guess what it was over thirty points allowed, No surprise.
Speaker 9: But here's the positive and this what we have to
Speaker 9: try to take away from it. Hopefully the Cowboys can
Speaker 9: show some resiliency. They allowed two hundred and twenty two
Speaker 9: total to the Arizona Cardinals. Following game, they allowed only
Speaker 9: fifty three yards they won their game. They allowed one
Speaker 9: hundred seventy on the versus home.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry that was the Patriots. I hear are fair enough.
Speaker 2: He couldn't get it going that day.
Speaker 6: They couldn't get it go on another day.
Speaker 9: One hundred and seventy year tigh ground allowed to the
Speaker 9: forty nine Ers. Bounce back against the Chargers in Los Angeles,
Speaker 9: allowed only fifty three yards and a touchdown to a
Speaker 9: pre broken Austin Eckler. Okay, that was before Eckler was broken,
Speaker 9: and then you talked about it. The Cowboys have shown
Speaker 9: that they can bounce back and not lose two games
Speaker 9: in a row. They have a daunting, daunting task improving
Speaker 9: that again against the Dolphins. But yeah, two hundred and
Speaker 9: twenty one Cowboys need to use that as few to
Speaker 9: never let that happen again this season yeah.
Speaker 5: This will be the tough way.
Speaker 10: I was just gonna says, funny, how we're holding onto
Speaker 10: that stat that they don't lose.
Speaker 9: T it's because it continues to prove true. Unteah, it doesn't.
Speaker 9: It's actually, though, very very impressive stat like because look
Speaker 9: at the Eagles for example, right, they got decimated by
Speaker 9: the forty nine ers, and everybody was, well, not everybody,
Speaker 9: but most people were like, oh, well.
Speaker 6: They will bounce back, especially against the Cowboys.
Speaker 9: They got obliterated, and it's like, oh, well, they're not
Speaker 9: going to lose three in a row, especially to Drew.
Speaker 9: Oh so not losing two in a row stretching back
Speaker 9: to you know, late twenty twenty one, that's actually a
Speaker 9: huge accomplishment.
Speaker 8: The interesting thing will be and I have to go
Speaker 8: back and look, is this the best opponent they've paid
Speaker 8: faced coming off.
Speaker 5: Of a loss?
Speaker 8: Because this is a really, really good Miami team, And
Speaker 8: as I kind of threw up there with New England,
Speaker 8: like New England beating them off a loss was one thing.
Speaker 8: Going to Miami and beating them off a loss that's
Speaker 8: a whole different ball game. And so this is gonna
Speaker 8: be an interesting one. I'm gonna go back and look
Speaker 8: at that just for you know, just for GrITT yes,
Speaker 8: to see if this is the best team that they've
Speaker 8: played coming off of a loss.
Speaker 9: Miami also doesn't play well against teams above five hundred.
Speaker 5: So have they had many of those? I don't think
Speaker 5: they've had many they've had.
Speaker 9: It's similar to what the Cowboys. Yeah, so that's really
Speaker 9: don't know. Yeah, yeah, that narrative that's carried with the Cowboys,
Speaker 9: It's been true of Miami, just not as as pointed at.
Speaker 8: They did lose to those Eagles, right, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 8: they lost the Eagles.
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 6: They did. Yeah, So all right.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you guys.
Speaker 8: Jones'll be back tomorrow. We'll start breaking the I know
Speaker 8: we'll start. We'll start breaking this thing down. Brian's gonna
Speaker 8: tell us about this Miami offense versus the Cowboys defense.
Speaker 8: Till then, for Patrick Walker, Brian brot us An Amber Garcia,
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