WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: What's Different? 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:03.680 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.560 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:14.920 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:19.280 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:25.400 Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:30.120 Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesay, November twenty, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:33.360 episode number eighty three. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:37.080 live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. After start talking 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.200 some Cowboys football to day, we get you guys ready 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.320 for Cowboys versus Redskins Thanksgiving Day Tilt here at at 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.360 and T Stadium. I think the kick is three thirty 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.560 for all you guys out there in the Central time zone, 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.360 and I'll be just in time for you to sit 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.559 back and watch some football after you finish stuffing your 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.520 face with food. How's everybody doing today? Love the word tilt, 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:01.080 tilt I do to one of my favorite football tilt. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:07.200 Not feeling it okay, so anything tilt, I don't know. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.959 I like tilt. Just yeah, all right, we're gonna go 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.520 with it to uh you eat you eat before the 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.440 three thirty game. No, I eat Friday. Well thanks, if 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.479 you didn't, if you didn't cover the Cowboys, you would 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:22.920 eat like you're done eating when the Cowboys kick off. 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:29.039 Eat years. But yeah, I would probably eat before or 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.280 during that's I got. If you're a cow probably back 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.280 to seconds by the time the game starts. If you're 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.520 a Cowboys fan, I guess it kind of changes things 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.080 Like when I was a kid, we would probably eat 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.160 at like halftime in the Cowboys game, like five cents late. Like, 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.880 I mean, it's so what you've eating all day Thanksgiving dinner. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.800 Oh that's the best part. It's like I'd snack on 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.120 what we're making, like in the kitchen while I'm watching 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.280 the noon game, you know, like make deviled eggs. Maybe 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.600 you eat two or three nix so out on this time. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.280 I don't know. I don't know even well, yeah, I 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.320 mean you don't even know. If that's like any asking, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.640 I'm asking the wrong. Nick's been working on Thanksgiving his 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.200 entire adult life. Yeah, I mean yes, And I've gone 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:08.679 to a couple of games when I was a kid. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.840 I remember, like I went to a game and you know, 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.800 nineteen eighty nine, I was at the Bounty Bowl game. Yeah, 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.960 so I don't know it just whatever whatever works for 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.520 I guess people and people in Dallas and Detroit it's 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.880 a different animal for them, you know, like that is 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.120 what it is. I mean, I used his football. I 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.440 would wake up at like eleven and turn on the 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.320 noon game and watch that and help my parents make 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.600 dinner and we'd probably eat it like five. Yeah. I 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.679 think I'm as out as Hamburger is on this. So 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:44.800 she's like, how Dominican. I'm an American? And no, we 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.639 don't celebrate Thanksgiving obviously that's not a Dominican holiday. But 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:54.400 my stepdad, he is white, so his white family does 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.160 say Thanksgiving a lot. And all I knew was that 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.600 you ate turkey and watch football. I didn't know anything. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:06.040 I'm on football, but pretty accurate. Sounds pretty accurate. Great 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.080 while watching football, right, and then you went outside in 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.320 the cold weather or coolish weather and through the football around. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.800 That's exactly that was my childhood. That was that was 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.679 my childhood. It's not really cold in New Orleans on Thanksgiving, 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.919 not Houston either, but still we go outside and throw 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.480 the football. We really would make it to about third 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.240 quarter and when we were young, because as kids like 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:26.920 we just couldn't stand to be in the house. I 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.240 know that's a change for kids these days, but like 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.520 my third quarter, we were get the football, We're going out. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.000 I never saw a third quarter, probably for the Cowboys. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.880 I mean it was halftime, then you go play, and 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:37.320 then it goes into the third, and then you come 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.640 back and watch it exactly. Never saw a third quarter. Yeah, 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.080 I wonder I've been kids. Don't do that right now. Anyway, 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.680 all right, let's get into some Cowboys versus Red Skins 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.760 before we do that, though, we got to talk about 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.600 that game last night. Red I'm sorry. The Rams and 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.160 the Kansas City Chiefs play and break all kinds of records, 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.840 ending score fifty four fifty one Rams win. My question 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:00.880 to you guys is, did you is that entertaining? Did 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.840 you like that brand of football? Because it seems more 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.720 and more like that's maybe the way the NFL is leaning. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:07.880 But what were your thoughts just watching that by the 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.640 time it was all over. Did you enjoy it? Yes? 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:11.640 I thought was one of the best games I've ever seen, 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.960 So yes, I enjoyed it. I don't I had a 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.559 lot of people will come back to me on Twitter 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.960 or I guess you don't like defense. I think that's stupid. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:20.560 I think there was a lot of defense. There was 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.360 a lot of great plays in that game, great players 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.200 going back and forth. Sometimes games take on the tone, 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.880 you know, life of its own. And I thought it 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.279 was two great quarterbacks going back and forth, and you know, 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.400 defenses had to step up and they finally did there 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.240 at the end. You know that guy in Kansas City's 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.160 not gonna make a play, so I mean he had 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.240 a chance to make it and he didn't, and that 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.080 it was great. It was just like seeing that don't 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:48.120 well even Daz went after him. Do you do that play? Yes, Okay, 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.839 make that play Scandrick. He actually he's just like, oh, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.359 I'm surprised. Whitten didn't say anything, Oh Witten, No, Witten 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.480 said after the second touchdown, Witten was like, it's pretty 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.800 clear that the Rams have decided that tonight they're going 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:06.240 after Orlando Scandrick. That's it. And they were winning. I 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.520 mean they were winning it going after Orlando Skendrick. I 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.760 have a really vivid memory from my time covering this team. 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.760 Twenty fourteen Chicago Thursday Night Football was the year after 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.160 they got blown out in negative temperatures, they were up big. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.680 They let Jay Cutler bring the Bears back into it. 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:28.440 They're rallying and Scandrick picked Cutler off in the end 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.240 zone to kind of kill the rally, and I just like, 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.560 he like fell to his knees and it was like 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.000 the most over the top celebration I've ever seen in 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.480 my life. And I was like, Okay, like good play, dude, 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.240 but calm down, like it's a regular season game. But 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.839 then I think about it now and I'm like, given 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.719 his history trying to catch balls from opposing quarterbacks, there's 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.560 probably a pretty big moment for him because he's not 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.080 good at it at all. He had a chance to 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.560 win that game for the Chiefs and did not make 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.560 the play, which I thought it was fitting that the 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.719 guy wearing twenty two for the other team, who also 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.800 used to play for the Chiefs did make the play. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.119 I would get I would be over it if every 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:09.279 football game looked like that, But I sincerely enjoyed the 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.200 hell out of that. That was amazing. What I liked 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.520 the most is that it was it wasn't just some 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.360 random game. I mean, this was the most anticipated a 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.800 regular season game, you know, in many, many years. I mean, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.360 this is you've got this late in the season two 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.839 nine and one teams. There'd been a lot of talk 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.240 about this game already, controversy. It was supposed to be 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.719 in Mexico City. They moved to all this stuff going 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.080 on in La where there's been a lot of stuff 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.599 happening in that area as well, to go out and 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.880 then just not only you know, live up to the building, 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.840 but rise past that. I mean, I thought it was amazing. Yeah, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.320 you're right. If this every game, it won't be fun. 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.440 But that's why, that's why it's good, because it's not 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.520 that way, right and nothing. I was telling you guys 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.960 earlier this morning that when I think about what would 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.720 be an ideal game for me, that's a little bit 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.880 too much scoring, Like I really want, I want a 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:59.159 game where it's a little bit more defense. From the 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.760 standpoint of it, it takes a little more for teams 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:03.880 to figure out how to break through and get that score. 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.080 I want to see that really really tough game that 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.000 ends up being somewhere like a twenty one seventeen game 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.080 with a lot of really big defensive hits and that 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.040 kind of stuff. And I know that's changed, Like that's 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.840 not NFL football as as we used to know it, 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.480 But that's what's ideal in my mind. That's one of 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.320 the reasons why I never could quite get into arena 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.000 football because it's just when it's so much scoring and 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:26.960 it's just it loses a little bit of lust. But 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.280 you know that's that's the beautiful thing about football, though, 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.880 is like it that still is ANFL football. I mean, 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:34.560 you know, we're about to talk about the Redskins. They 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.080 just felt like twenty three twenty one, just the Textans 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:41.200 slogged their way to this not all that pretty win. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.840 Cowboys and Falcons just did the same thing. Like defense 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.480 is always going to be a component. I know the 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.960 rules have drastically changed to favor offense and I hate it, 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.760 but teams are going to adapt. And that's the cool 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.400 thing about football is like the game the Rams and 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.520 Chiefs just played is the same sport as the seventeen 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.520 fourteen game that the Colts and Tech or the Titans 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.119 and Texans are probably gonna play next week on Monday 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.360 Night football Like and I think people exaggerate. I think 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.640 it kind of course corrects. I enjoy the game. I 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.200 would rather much see something like that than what we 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.880 were used to seeing or like low scoring games. To me, 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.320 that's super boring. The fact that they're scoring back and 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.680 forth and that keeps you in the game, that keeps 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.680 you excited, that keeps me one to keep watching. And 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.960 to me personally, yes, defensive plays are great when it's 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.400 your team making them, but touchdowns are even more fun 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:37.080 to watch for me than just seeing the defense going 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.679 at it and keeping a game low scoring. I think 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.319 you're a soccer fan, all right, Sorry, yeah, you're a 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.679 soccer fan, all right. So that's that's the one area 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.640 where I get a little I feel a little bit 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.200 like it's kind of talking out of both sides your 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.360 mouth when people make the argument, well, scoring is great, 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.800 like soccer is the most popular sport in the world, 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.319 and obviously people are okay with the idea that in 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.040 a soccer match you're gonna have what one or two 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.599 goals in the most soccer matches. To be honest, I 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.600 watch soccer like the second half, jes because you figure 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.839 the first half is not gonna be too boring. It's 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.439 like to me, I, yes, it's sometimes fun depending on 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.840 what the team, who the team is and who they're 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.559 going up against. But that's just too long of the 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.120 ball going back and forth. So without a pain. When yes, 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.120 when I watch soccer, i'll watch the second half of 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:22.800 a game. Let me take it to a different sport. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.319 I mean a lot of us will watch boxing at 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.960 least you know half growing up and Amber, I know 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.560 you watch some of it boxing as well. I mean 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.199 you always say styles make fights. Sometimes you got you 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.520 got somebody that's a really big heavy puncher and they're like, 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.360 you know what, you can't stay toe to toe with them. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.360 What you're gonna have to win is do this this 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.800 all this side stuff. It's you appreciate the fact that 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.240 you've got too heavyweights going. I'm gonna stand right in 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.600 the middle and we're just gonna trade blows. That's what 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:50.480 we're gonna do. We're gonna hit and I'm gonna hit 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.959 you back and whoever still standing at the end. And 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.560 not everybody can run with the Saints and run with 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.560 the Chiefs and run with the Rams. Not everybody can 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.680 run with Golden State. You appreciate when you have somebody 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:03.880 that can play at that level and it's just back 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.640 and forth, back and forth. That's kind of what I 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.320 liked about it, and speaking of that, it's interesting this 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.360 morning Jerry on his radio show said he thinks his 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.400 team could play with those teams and not specifically saying 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.680 a specific a specific team, but saying that style because 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.280 he says the Cowboys would play with a different style 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.960 one that is like what we saw last weekend, where 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.880 they would try to slow the game down, they would 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.640 try to control the clock, they would try to keep 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.280 the opposing offense off the field. Do you think this 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.040 defense is that good to be able to play that 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.840 kind of game against a team that really right now, 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.440 it's it's those two teams plus the Saints. Those are 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:38.839 the three teams that just are going to score a 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.920 ton of points. Is his defense good enough to play 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.320 with those teams? And I'd have to disagree. It wouldn't 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.679 be about the defense. It would be about the offense. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:47.920 Your offense is what's going to have to keep them 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.520 off the field and help your defense. That's what You're 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.680 gonna have to be able to take these long third 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.320 and ones and you know, and drive and extend the 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.319 drive here and extend and then score. You can't be 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.280 dropping balls in the goal line. So I think yeah, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.080 the defense would have to kind of hold up, but 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.480 the offense would be the team that would have to 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.000 get them off the field, sort of like what we 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.240 saw in Atlanta. I mean that sounds good, but we've 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.760 seen in history when defenses have been good enough to 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:16.440 win championships against these high flying offenses. Typically they'll posing 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.680 offense had a part in it, but really it's about 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.160 that defense and they were having to make some critical Yes, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.280 the defense is good enough. You think the defense is 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.160 good enough to do that, but can the offense score enough? 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.319 That's that would be my point. I would I would 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:29.840 love to see it. I mean, I don't you know, 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.679 I don't want to be the Homer that sits here, like, yeah, 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.520 they could play with them, the five and five Cowboys 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.560 against these historic offenses, but like we see it all 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.360 the time, and I mean that's I mean, throw the 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.560 Bears in it. Bears are playing great defense right now. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.480 Are they good enough to beat some of these teams 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.880 that are just scorn tons of points? Love to see 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.959 that Bears pass rush against one of these teams. I mean, 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:49.840 and again, that's the beauty of football. I Mean, nobody 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:51.720 thought the Giants could hang with the Pats and Oh 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.280 seven or the Pats with the Rams and Oh one. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.360 I mean it was, and obviously football has changed so 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.920 much since then. But again, like that's the cool thing 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:00.960 about this league. These guys get paid a ton of 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:02.760 money to figure out how to stop that stuff, and 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.400 from what we've seen from the Cowboys defense, I certainly 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.880 think they could hold them to less than fifty four points. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.640 I think I think this Cowboys team could probably hold 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:16.280 the Rams in the thirties, like thirty one to thirty eight, 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.520 and then it's on your offense to play well enough 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.000 and keep them off the field, YadA, YadA, YadA, And 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:22.920 I'd love to see it. I don't I don't know 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.920 if they'd win, but I don't think it would look 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.280 like that. We'll see it, I mean, I mean, I 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.520 think the Saints are right there with those two teams, 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.360 and so we'll see that style with them. I think 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.840 the Saints can be just as much, yea even more explosive. 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.600 They've got a good defense to this. The Saints beat 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.120 the Rams at least by those I mean pretty bad, 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.199 Like ten points against that team is convincing in my opinion. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.560 So um, yeah, they'll get a great shot to see 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.800 what they look like against them in a week. Yeah, 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.080 they'll find out real quick if that style does match 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.160 up with those teams and what they can expect in 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.240 the future, because that's really a thing. You start looking 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.520 at the future of where this team's going. I'm talking 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.720 about few for years and you got those teams sitting 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.280 there with quarterbacks that are young and still playing and 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.080 up already playing really well. But I just make a challenge. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.240 It's and I'm such a dork for that type of stuff, 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.200 but I just you know, we had it was a 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.360 different team and a different style obviously, But like we 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.240 talked this way about the Seahawks for forever, it's like, well, 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.640 they're just gonna rule the league and they're gonna and 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.079 you know, people implement things that they do and they 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.800 copy them, and then the salary cap plays a role, 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:28.719 and all of a sudden, the Seahawks are five and 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:30.920 five team that's scraping to get by like everybody else. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:35.840 And that's between teams scheming forum between Jared Goff and 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.600 Patrick Mahomes needing contracts, not to mention the cost of 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.520 the defensive stars that they have and the receiver. I mean, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.480 they got weapons everywhere, and that's the beauty of this league, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.600 as they're gonna slowly pick them apart. So my advice 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.839 to them is capitalize on this window while you can. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.120 You won't have Patrick Mahomes at that cost forever, so 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.800 take advantage. All right, let's take our first break. When 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:58.720 we come back, we're gonna talk a little bit about 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.559 some injuries that the Cowboys have to deal with. Who 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.760 also get to Dave's breakdown of the Redskins offense that 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.480 when we come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.640 Com Radio. 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I'm sorry this Thursday, 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.200 Cowboys will have to enter the game without Jeff Swain. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.960 How big is that he's got this injury now, this 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.760 broken wrist, left half surgery. Um? How big is that? 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.240 Big big? He's the only tight end that that's that's 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:36.680 um good on this team? Mince words, Nick, tell us 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:38.560 how you really feel. And I don't know how good 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.200 he really is. I thought he played a nice game 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.280 though against Atlanta. It's too bad that he got hurt 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.280 there one of those last plays of the game. Um, 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.400 but I just don't see anyone. I mean, no one 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:53.920 else is playing well. I mean, Jarwin hasn't been his 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.720 snaps have gone to Schultz and Gathers and they're not 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.000 doing anything either. So I mean it's it's too bad. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:01.640 I mean, they're gonna have to figure this out because 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.480 they are going to be stubborn and play with tight ends. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.680 I mean, that's what they're going to do, and even 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.560 if they're really not good enough, and that's that's kind 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.800 of what's scary is because this offensive line needs a 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.760 little help there in the running game against Washington, and 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.160 I don't know who can provide it. He catched two 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.960 passes in the Sas game that to me, we're kind 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.120 of impressive. Not in a way that it's like, oh 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:24.760 my god, what a play, but in a way that 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.800 when you see those kinds of throws to a receiver 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.280 type of player, they usually drop it, and he was 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.560 able to catch those. And then that caught my eye 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.320 and I'm like, hmm, maybe he's not as bad as 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.720 we think, and maybe he can be utilized more and 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.040 be more productive in the offense. But I don't think. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.480 I don't think we think Jeff Swim is bad. I 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.480 think I think of Jeff Swim a lot of the 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.639 same way I thought of James Hannah like underrated player. 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:52.840 He can catch a little, he can block a little, 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.679 he can do everything you ask him to do. Problem is, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.159 you know you always looked at James Hannah and in 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.520 the context of a number two tight ends and whereas 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.520 Swam as your starter. I don't in an ideal world, 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.440 I don't think you want him to be your starter, 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.400 but I think he's a hell of a valuable guy 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.280 to have as your number two and just kind of 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.400 be versatileike. I like the block on the goal line 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.760 for Deck's touchdown, and he had that whole side sealed. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:19.439 There're sorry. I meant he did catch those two passes, 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.479 one off the ground the other one that we saw it. 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:23.119 It might have been because of the angle that we 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.320 had in the press box where it looked like it 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:26.960 could have been an interception, and he did a nice 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.760 job of coming back to Dad making that catch. I 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.639 think the angle, the angle had something to do with it. 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:34.800 But like he attacked that ball, no, like it could 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:36.800 have been a pick if he hadn't had been as 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.480 aggressive as he was with it. I mean, it's a 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.720 pretty routine twelve yard catch, but when you're looking in 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.360 the context of this team's tight ends, which is easily 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.600