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Speaker 1: It is Friday, November fifteen, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, Episode
Speaker 1: number eighty three. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at
Speaker 1: the Start talking Cowboys football with you guys for about
Speaker 1: thirty minutes today, a little short show, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: get lot in today. We're gonna talk about the Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus the lines. Get you guys ready for the game,
Speaker 1: tell you what's going to happen. Joined by Nick Dave
Speaker 1: Amber as usual, let's jump right in. Let's get caught
Speaker 1: up on this these injuries. Um, cot Boys have a
Speaker 1: pretty large injury list this week. And it seems to me,
Speaker 1: and you guys can correct me if I'm wrong, it
Speaker 1: seems to me like a lot of these are kind
Speaker 1: of like you just don't know, you think everybody's all right.
Speaker 1: At least that's the impression I had. And then I
Speaker 1: look at the injury part. I'm like, well, maybe that's
Speaker 1: a little more than I thought it was. So let's
Speaker 1: walk through this. Talk to me about Lyle College. You
Speaker 1: hadn't practice all week until today, practicing today, he's got
Speaker 1: he's got a back problem. I think it's it's a
Speaker 1: maintenance thing. I mean, you always hesitate to say he's
Speaker 1: gonna play, but he was moving around pretty good, Nick,
Speaker 1: would you say moving around pretty good to day? I
Speaker 1: think I don't think it's a big long list anyway.
Speaker 1: I mean, it might be a long list, but I
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be a big deal on Sunday.
Speaker 1: A classic case of a long list that won't be
Speaker 1: super long, okay in time for kickoffs? Are like injuries
Speaker 1: like this in the O line all around the league
Speaker 1: or like I don't really keep up that much with
Speaker 1: on their teams. So it's this like a very common thing.
Speaker 1: It's like a very common thing for every player on
Speaker 1: every team in the NFL. Like if your injury list
Speaker 1: is shorter than five people by November, than what's going on?
Speaker 1: I mean, it just you probably means you probably got
Speaker 1: a lot of them a high are Yeah, they just
Speaker 1: they're not even on the on the active roster either
Speaker 1: got a lot of guys on ir or you're lying.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to accuse people of anything, but it's
Speaker 1: it's just a violent game, and that's it kind of
Speaker 1: makes me laugh every week, Like, you know, I put
Speaker 1: out the injury report every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and there's
Speaker 1: always somebody that's like everybody's hurt. I'm like, is this
Speaker 1: your first week following the NFL, Like this is what
Speaker 1: the injury report looks like? It is a war of attrition? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like whoever can survive as far as offensive linemans and
Speaker 1: their backs and all that? Is that just very common
Speaker 1: all around the league? I don't I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think that's true. I think you're I
Speaker 1: think I mean the Cowboys right here. You know, most
Speaker 1: of these guys are battling with some kind of back injuries.
Speaker 1: So I'm just wondering, is this a common theme around
Speaker 1: the league when it comes to offensive linemens or is
Speaker 1: this something that the Cowboys are struggling with on their own? Basically, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the one thing I will say it's hard. I think
Speaker 1: I agree. I don't know that this is something you
Speaker 1: see around the league that all offensive linemen have back issues.
Speaker 1: But I do think it could be one of those
Speaker 1: situations where it's just like, sometimes these random things happen.
Speaker 1: It's hard to assign, well, there's a reason why this
Speaker 1: is happening. It's just the randomness of where they are.
Speaker 1: Says that all like and surely not all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: like over the last couple of years they've had these
Speaker 1: back injuries with their offensive linemen. I don't know that
Speaker 1: it's anything that you can point to to say, well,
Speaker 1: this is why the Cowboys have back injuries or offensive linemen.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of there. It's just random. I remember
Speaker 1: when I first started covering the team, they couldn't go
Speaker 1: two weeks without a receiver hurting his hamstring. Ye, And
Speaker 1: I mean we would get flooded with questions like what
Speaker 1: what aren't they doing? Why are their hamstrings falling apart?
Speaker 1: Like they need to change the training staff, they need
Speaker 1: to do this, they need to do that. I just think,
Speaker 1: I mean, wide receivers run a lot, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: probably hurt the muscles that are involved in you running.
Speaker 1: Linemen leverage their entire bodies into holding defenders back, use
Speaker 1: your back to do that. I think it's just a
Speaker 1: byproduct of playing a very physical game. It's unfortunate, though,
Speaker 1: and it is weird. I agree with you that it
Speaker 1: is weird to see I think four of the five
Speaker 1: starting linemen dealing with back injuries at the same time.
Speaker 1: Is that also maybe speak to the age of of
Speaker 1: this line. Again, they're not old, but they're not young either.
Speaker 1: These aren't guys that just got into the league. They've
Speaker 1: asked a lot of this line that you know, they
Speaker 1: lean on them physically. I mean, no pun intended, they do,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's what that's what this is supposed
Speaker 1: to be. So yeah, I mean, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: common that you have this many injuries, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of to be expected. But you know, again, a lot
Speaker 1: of it comes down to what teams want to do
Speaker 1: with the injury report. Do you want to put everything
Speaker 1: on there? Are you trying to make sure you don't
Speaker 1: get in trouble with the league? Are you trying to
Speaker 1: show something out there that maybe there's more of a problem.
Speaker 1: I mean, people have different you know, definitions of what injured,
Speaker 1: it hurt. Are you injured? Yeah, And I think there's
Speaker 1: different definitions of that. Some teams probably wouldn't put fourteen
Speaker 1: guys on there, where some teams said I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: everybody on there. So I think it's better to err
Speaker 1: on the side of caution so that you know the
Speaker 1: Lion the Lions are probably wishing they put Stafford on
Speaker 1: the injury report a week earlier, with the league sniffing
Speaker 1: around to make sure that they're doing everything the right way.
Speaker 1: Ye all right, talk to me about some of these
Speaker 1: other guys. Obviously we know Connor Williams won't play this week,
Speaker 1: but let's talk about guys like Amari Cooper, Cam Fleming,
Speaker 1: who's missed a couple of games. C J. Goodwin, Jeff Heath,
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence, Zach Bardon, Antoine Woods. They were all limited yesterday.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about any of those guys that you
Speaker 1: think have injuries that could concern you going into the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. The name that jumps out to me
Speaker 1: is Heath. Probably what he hasn't been doing a lot.
Speaker 1: He was out there today but wasn't participating a ton
Speaker 1: and and you know it's he's got a list of stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like both knees. His neck's been bothering him.
Speaker 1: Garrett sit that after the game last week. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: shoulder and too shoulder. You're right shoulder, shoulder injuries, um, head, shoulders,
Speaker 1: knees and toast everything. Um so I yeah, I wonder
Speaker 1: if he can get himself ready. Who else did you say? Fleming?
Speaker 1: I mean Cam came back on Wednesday. I think he'll
Speaker 1: be good to go. It is interesting while Lyle was out,
Speaker 1: they were working Brandon Knight at right tackle and not Fleming.
Speaker 1: I think maybe that just speaks to how good of
Speaker 1: a job they think Brandon Knight's been doing. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: bust c J. Goodwin. He came back yesterday. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't get the breed that there's something seriously wrong there.
Speaker 1: He's a significant special teams player absolutely yeah. And speaking
Speaker 1: of that, I mean I think losing Jeff Heath would
Speaker 1: be big on special teams. You know, he's the personal
Speaker 1: protector on the punt team. Um, you can expect some
Speaker 1: some all out rushes if he's not out there. You know,
Speaker 1: I think Pollard does some of that and some other
Speaker 1: guys that will fill in there, but you know, that's
Speaker 1: something the teams look at and if he's not there,
Speaker 1: and he's one of the better special teams players they've had,
Speaker 1: so it's not just old Darian Thompson can play safety.
Speaker 1: He can, but I don't know if they have a
Speaker 1: good backup for what he does on special teams. All right,
Speaker 1: So talk to me about the nactus for this week.
Speaker 1: The way I'm looking at this thing, you are you
Speaker 1: already know that Connor's out, um, and then you're looking
Speaker 1: at the guys that have traditionally been out. You got
Speaker 1: guys like Adam Redmond, Joe Jackson, Tristan Hill, Luke Gifford, Um,
Speaker 1: Devin Smith's, Cedric Wilson. Um. My assumption is Brandon Knight,
Speaker 1: with the injuries that that that they have a tackle,
Speaker 1: may not be a guy you put on that list.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about it and are fleming right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well so that's my question. Did you say Redmond that
Speaker 1: is seven? Although do you want to? I mean, you
Speaker 1: still have Joe Looney, you can still sit in Redmond
Speaker 1: if you want to. Yeah, I would think that. I
Speaker 1: I thought Redmond, that's when I'm not really worried about
Speaker 1: I'm more concerned about maybe having Brandon night. Even if
Speaker 1: I have Lyle Collins active and Fleming active, just because
Speaker 1: Lyle's been built dealing with something all week, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: take a chance. You can get you got to seven
Speaker 1: without needing too, so I think so. The two receivers
Speaker 1: Cedric and Devon, Tristan Hill, Joe Jackson, Luke Gifford, Adam Redmond,
Speaker 1: and Connor Williams. Yeah, boom, and that keeps Donovan Wilson active,
Speaker 1: right right boom shaka laskod. That was easy, all right.
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Speaker 1: Back to the Break, Welcome Back. It is the second
Speaker 1: segment of The Break live from the s WBC Mortgage studios.
Speaker 1: At the start, we're talking Cowboys versus Lions. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take some phone calls you guys, call us eight eight
Speaker 1: eight eight five five two two ninety seven. Before we
Speaker 1: do that, though, I want to give you guys an
Speaker 1: opportunity to answer a couple questions I have for you
Speaker 1: that are big picture questions about this game. Really, what
Speaker 1: I want to know is what do you think is
Speaker 1: the biggest challenge for the Cowboys? And we're going to
Speaker 1: talk first about offense. What's the biggest challenge for the
Speaker 1: offense this week? And then we'll say what's the biggest
Speaker 1: challenge for the defense. Let's start with you nick biggest
Speaker 1: offensive challenge for the Cowboys this week? I would say
Speaker 1: that the thing that's been about, you know, really hurting
Speaker 1: this team is there is the red zone and scoring
Speaker 1: in there and run the ball when they need to.
Speaker 1: And I know they have a big guy in there
Speaker 1: and Snacks, So I would say, when you get into
Speaker 1: third in short situations, let's see if Suaphilo really does help.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you will, but let's see, and
Speaker 1: let's see if they can move these guys around and
Speaker 1: run the ball when they really need to and everyone
Speaker 1: knows they're going to. Yeah, the combination of I guess
Speaker 1: the best Lions talent on defense is up front between
Speaker 1: Snacks and Trey Flowers, and then the line is banged up.
Speaker 1: You got eighteen back injuries and Connor Williams isn't out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I think Suaphilo is not that there's
Speaker 1: going to be this huge drop off, but it's still
Speaker 1: a guy that hasn't been part of the lineup. So
Speaker 1: handling that front, I think they'll I think they'll be
Speaker 1: okay though. I guess finding that balance between the passing
Speaker 1: game and the running game. Obviously, when they do, they
Speaker 1: have been successful at it, and I would say starting
Speaker 1: out fast, but clearly that I mean, they got to
Speaker 1: figure that out, but we don't necessarily have an answer
Speaker 1: for it. So see what they do. How do you
Speaker 1: think you do that? Like I've always thought about, Like
Speaker 1: you obviously go into a game saying, okay, guys, we
Speaker 1: want to score every time we get the ball. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you get a team to start fast.
Speaker 1: Is it that you change up maybe what you're doing,
Speaker 1: like from the standpoint of your scheme, your play calling,
Speaker 1: what do you think can help with that? I asked
Speaker 1: that same question to Stephen Jones this week and he
Speaker 1: just said, finish the drive, I mean, which I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's even the thing. I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: like we talked about the other day. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you were on here, but we talked about they
Speaker 1: haven't had a lot of three and outs. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've kind of been driving the ball. The things are working,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden that you know, treacherous
Speaker 1: forty yard line hits and it's like, oh man, you
Speaker 1: gotta go backwards. That's because they know they got a kicker.
Speaker 1: Then kick that's another thing. Not fifty seven then, right,
Speaker 1: not fifty seven, but sixty two. All good Callam Moore
Speaker 1: said the same thing yesterday. He was like, look, it's
Speaker 1: not like we're going three and out right off the
Speaker 1: bat and punting four plays into the game, like we're
Speaker 1: getting yards. We just we gotta stay consistent when we
Speaker 1: get down into that part of the field. And a
Speaker 1: lot of that comes down to just like running the
Speaker 1: ball when you really need to. I mean, it's one
Speaker 1: thing when you're seventy five yards back there, those receivers
Speaker 1: have a you know, a way to stop and you
Speaker 1: know the route running really comes into play. But when
Speaker 1: the field starts to shorten a little bit, can you
Speaker 1: just say, get out of my way, Snacks, I'm running
Speaker 1: the ball. That's what the great offensive lines can do.
Speaker 1: Great running games can do is just push people out
Speaker 1: of the way. Is this running go ahead? I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: finish that was gonna Is this running game that good?
Speaker 1: At this point? There was a time you could say that,
Speaker 1: is this running game still that good? Where they can
Speaker 1: just say I don't care what you're doing, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: move you out of the way, and we're running the ball.
Speaker 1: Not unilaterally. Well, obviously they couldn't just last week, but
Speaker 1: against this defense, I think so, Like, I think there's
Speaker 1: enough of a talent advantage there that they I mean,
Speaker 1: lest we forget, and I'm not trying to discount what
Speaker 1: happened against Minnesota, but they were doing that the three
Speaker 1: weeks prior to that, where they I mean, they were
Speaker 1: just bowling people over. So yes, I do think they
Speaker 1: can do that depending on who they're playing. Frankly, they've
Speaker 1: only been two games this year where they didn't do
Speaker 1: that right, where they didn't have their way in the
Speaker 1: running game right, and one game they scored ten points,
Speaker 1: one game they scored twenty four. I mean, so they
Speaker 1: got to give them credit for finding a way to
Speaker 1: throw the ball around, and that's I think. Maybe the
Speaker 1: encouraging part of this is that you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of third and tens and they converted. Dack did
Speaker 1: a nice job of converting, and Gallup and Cooper and
Speaker 1: Cobb did a really good job. So Sprinklin a little
Speaker 1: bit more running this week and maybe, like she said, balance,
Speaker 1: I think they'll be fine. And obviously the talent is
Speaker 1: not the same with the lines defense and the vikings.
Speaker 1: I thought DeMarcus Ware made an interesting point. I did
Speaker 1: our Happy Hour show with him on Wednesday, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe it's a little simplified, but he basically
Speaker 1: was like, just jump in the pool, like don't don't
Speaker 1: just dip, you know, don't dip your feet in the water.
Speaker 1: Come out like, Okay, how are they playing our guys,
Speaker 1: what coverage is this? What do we think is gonna work?
Speaker 1: Kind of what jumped in the pool? I did jump
Speaker 1: in the pool exactly. I jumped right in the pool.
Speaker 1: It was it was probably fifty five degrees in November,
Speaker 1: and I was like, whatever, LSU beat Alabama. I don't
Speaker 1: care anyway, Yes, jump in, just just go just don't
Speaker 1: feel it out and kind of let's see how the
Speaker 1: flow of the game goes. Just jump in. Just I
Speaker 1: don't know if that means. I'm not calling for him
Speaker 1: to just take shots down field from the date but
Speaker 1: first first place if they want to, that would be fun.
Speaker 1: But man attack if they score a touchdown on a
Speaker 1: flea flicker, like just log off Twitter for the day's
Speaker 1: to be like, I mean it will be through. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that happens on every Saturday. Somebody, I mean two lane
Speaker 1: gets one on on Southern Miss or something and there's
Speaker 1: a couple of people just see the flea flicker. I'm
Speaker 1: like I don't see them all, but like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: just like associated with you gotta have the brand and
Speaker 1: that's your brand. Mind, Yeah, but I do. I was
Speaker 1: just gonna say, you have to start incorporating all these
Speaker 1: different plays where you, Okay, do the screen pass, get
Speaker 1: Dak running with the ball, give the ball to Tony Potler.
Speaker 1: What are you doing with him? What is tap On
Speaker 1: Austin doing? Just because I'm feeling like we're running out
Speaker 1: of time, you know, there's only what seven games left,
Speaker 1: and you have to start putting those things on tape
Speaker 1: for the upcoming opponents. Make them just don't let them
Speaker 1: know everything that you do, basically like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: all we can do. This is everything we can do,
Speaker 1: you know, mix it up, give them things to be
Speaker 1: thinking about to where now you can be more effective
Speaker 1: when you run whatever player you decide to run. You know,
Speaker 1: I just think they're running out of time and you
Speaker 1: have to start putting those kinds of things on the tape.
Speaker 1: One thing I will say about that though, from standpoint
Speaker 1: of just the time. Remember last year at this point
Speaker 1: they were four and five, and Dave and I were
Speaker 1: talking yesterday and we were like, you know, if you
Speaker 1: want to make the argument, like if you just wanted
Speaker 1: to make the argument to convince somebody that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are in a good place right now, or at least
Speaker 1: in a place that is familiar to them. This time
Speaker 1: last year they were four and five and they went
Speaker 1: on run. And you start looking at the teams that
Speaker 1: we look at the beginning of this season. We looked
Speaker 1: at the schedule and we said, man, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a brutal second half of the season. That's changed a
Speaker 1: little bit some of those teams that we thought were
Speaker 1: going to be really good. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: think they have the same opinion of the Rams that
Speaker 1: you once did coming into this part of the year.
Speaker 1: Certainly had a big change last year. And that's a
Speaker 1: market all that. I get all that now, Like I
Speaker 1: said before, as I started that, if you wanted to
Speaker 1: convince yourself, because the problem, the problem with it is
Speaker 1: the problem with it. And the flip side to that
Speaker 1: is they haven't shown this year that with the pieces
Speaker 1: they have, which like you said, there's no new pieces coming.
Speaker 1: With the pieces they except for Suepilo like, there's not
Speaker 1: they haven't shown that they could be consistent even against
Speaker 1: subpar competition, that's where you start to get a little
Speaker 1: bit worried. But if they rip off another six and
Speaker 1: one run and you know after he joins the lineup,
Speaker 1: like yeah, because Cooper log out of Twitter for that
Speaker 1: one too, because his starting you know, starting record is
Speaker 1: seven and one as a starter. Yeah. Know, a game
Speaker 1: that they didn't win was the game he got hurt
Speaker 1: in the second quarter on it. There's everything you just
Speaker 1: said is right, but I would have hoped that we
Speaker 1: would have seen the signs a little bit more clearly,
Speaker 1: like it still can click, but there is not not
Speaker 1: a lot of evidence helping you come to that conclusion. Right,
Speaker 1: two big changes last year it was Amari Cooper and
Speaker 1: then offensive line coach would change last year and that
Speaker 1: that showed a difference with what they were doing. We
Speaker 1: can't forget more ben it. I mean, I think been
Speaker 1: it is a big change for them, and we I
Speaker 1: think we kind of sweep it under the rug a
Speaker 1: little bit because it's just not a part of the narrative.
Speaker 1: But but that I think that the past rush has
Speaker 1: been better since he got here, and so we'll see
Speaker 1: how that continues to help them down stretched defense. That's
Speaker 1: on the get it but I'm just saying that it's
Speaker 1: a change to the team and I think it should
Speaker 1: have an impact. Again, I'm not saying they're about to
Speaker 1: run run the table here. That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that this is not unfamiliar territory to them.
Speaker 1: It is. They've been here before. I don't I'm not
Speaker 1: going to try to quote the numbers because there's so
Speaker 1: many of them and I can't remember them all. But
Speaker 1: I'll take you on Twitter and the metrics will tell you,
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys are in the very good category across
Speaker 1: most ways that like advanced metrics chart these things as
Speaker 1: far as determine who are good teams. I expected plays
Speaker 1: per average and DVOA and all that super smart Harvard
Speaker 1: stuff that I try to understand, Like they're really good statistically.
Speaker 1: It has not translated yet and maybe it won't. But
Speaker 1: that's also why the games they've lost have been really close.
Speaker 1: It's not like they've been getting there the butts wooked.
Speaker 1: It's that they've really just they've played a lot of
Speaker 1: close games. They just haven't figured out how to win
Speaker 1: in this game. And I looked this up about clutch,
Speaker 1: you know, fourth quarter comebacks, and twenty six quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the league have a fourth quarter comeback, and Tom Brady doesn't.
Speaker 1: We know why Dak doesn't, and neither just Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: Which they're five and four. They haven't had a comeback
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter where they've come you know, they
Speaker 1: haven't proven to be clutch either, So there's this kind
Speaker 1: of a silver lining there. It's well, maybe, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe the Eagles are kind of have the same problem
Speaker 1: as a Cowboys do. Would I feel comfortable betting that
Speaker 1: that December twenty second game is kind of side the
Speaker 1: whole thing? Yeah, I bet, I bet you the Eagles
Speaker 1: are a game up on the Cowboys by then going
Speaker 1: into the game, I said, I think I can Cowboys
Speaker 1: seven and seven, verse eight and six, and the winner
Speaker 1: gets the tiebreaker and all that good stuff. Then gotta
Speaker 1: go beat Redskin. Yeah, yeah, I can see it. What
Speaker 1: got the Giants the Giants? So you get so whoever
Speaker 1: wins is going to be playing a bad team in
Speaker 1: Week seventeen, you'd like their odds to win. I can
Speaker 1: just picture it. I can just see it. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna dive into our final break. And speaking of diving,
Speaker 1: we got video of one David Helmet from last week,
Speaker 1: as you guys's diving into the pool to celebrate LSU
Speaker 1: had been a long decade. He'd been waiting for that
Speaker 1: for a long a long time. All Right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take our final break. We'll come back, we'll get some
Speaker 1: predictions for this game, Tillon. We'll be right back to
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Speaker 1: all right. We're doing predictions so we don't need to
Speaker 1: do a prediction for Nick next week, next week, not
Speaker 1: do predictions that a couple of weeks ago. I'm really
Speaker 1: real good about it if the Cowboys do what I
Speaker 1: predict right now. But I'm still going with it. All right.
Speaker 1: Before we get to our predictions for this game, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take one phone call. We got Ray from Maryland. Ray,
Speaker 1: what up? Hello, fellas and ladies. Two questions for you.
Speaker 1: Number one, Zeke slowed down in y'all's opinion. I remember
Speaker 1: him playing when you played the Bengals in his rookie
Speaker 1: a year. He split the safeties and took it to
Speaker 1: the house and no one touched him. Not seeing that now,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm I'm not sure if I'm seeing the
Speaker 1: right thing or have you seen the We all seem
Speaker 1: to sing number two. Where is our dear friend Brian Broadness.
Speaker 1: I'll hang up and listen. All right, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: So what do you think is z I think that
Speaker 1: the defense they play him a little bit differently, you know,
Speaker 1: his rookie year or I don't know if teams are
Speaker 1: thinking that guy's going to just split the safeties like that,
Speaker 1: that big old back is not going to do that,
Speaker 1: and he did. He did it a few times, and
Speaker 1: so I think when you look at how teams are
Speaker 1: playing him now, they do play him a little bit differently.
Speaker 1: Is he slowing down? Probably anybody that gets hit eight
Speaker 1: hundred times or whatever, he's a lot of touches. He's
Speaker 1: probably slowing down a little bit. He was beat up
Speaker 1: last year. That's why they drafted Pollard. I don't not
Speaker 1: worried about the sixty yarders. I want to see more
Speaker 1: of the twenty fives and thirties. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: a little bit, but I don't think it's alarming. But
Speaker 1: I think it's he's slowing down a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of been my stock answer is I would
Speaker 1: love to see more twenty thirty, forty or longer runs.
Speaker 1: And I definitely I mean whether whether he bulked up
Speaker 1: a little bit and he's not fat. I promise you
Speaker 1: that I think that narrative finally died. But he's not.
Speaker 1: But maybe he's bulked up a little bit to handle
Speaker 1: the beating that he takes as a feature back. Maybe
Speaker 1: defense is just key on him that heavily that it's
Speaker 1: just not there, or maybe he's just lost a step
Speaker 1: to a step and a half from taking what is
Speaker 1: it like seven hundred carries to this point in his career.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he doesn't. He doesn't look explosive,
Speaker 1: like you don't hold your breath when he's carrying the
Speaker 1: rock the way that I was doing for Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: the other night. But I still don't find it alarming
Speaker 1: because of everything that he does. And again, you know,
Speaker 1: he's got plenty of twelve, fifteen and sixteen yard carries
Speaker 1: and that does plenty. I mean, if he's rushing for
Speaker 1: one hundred or more yards per week, then that's fine
Speaker 1: with me. But I do miss that element of explosiveness
Speaker 1: that we haven't seen in a while. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know that. I don't know that that's a bad thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, you'd love to have that but like you said,
Speaker 1: if he's putting up the numbers he's putting up and
Speaker 1: they're able to run the ball effectively in most games,
Speaker 1: I think he's doing what you really pay him to do.
Speaker 1: With regard Bryan, I will just go I was just
Speaker 1: gonna say this might be a dumb observation. I don't know,
Speaker 1: because I haven't followed the NFL long enough too to
Speaker 1: really know. But is it me or does it happen
Speaker 1: when these players get these contracts and then they come
Speaker 1: back and it's like they're not necessarily playing at the
Speaker 1: level they should be playing. They're not playing any differently,
Speaker 1: just the expectations go up. It changes the expectations. I remember,
Speaker 1: which is when I got here, was like when the
Speaker 1: Deaths contract happened, and then he came back, and then
Speaker 1: I forgot what happened. But he wasn't playing. He just
Speaker 1: wasn't playing. How expected that one of the things that happened,
Speaker 1: So little things like that, I don't know. Again, I
Speaker 1: don't really know, but I'm just wondering Zeek doesn't really
Speaker 1: do that before he got paid, though, Like I would guess,
Speaker 1: and again this is a guess, but I would guess
Speaker 1: that like four of the six of his longest runs
Speaker 1: of his career happened when he was a rookie. I
Speaker 1: would get I mean, you know, he had a sixty yarder,
Speaker 1: he had a forty something yarder against Detroit that year.
Speaker 1: He's had a few screen passes that he took a
Speaker 1: long way, but that's more about patience than outright speed.
Speaker 1: I struggle to think of a run he's had that
Speaker 1: went longer than maybe twenty eight thirty. But you know,
Speaker 1: I will say this, if he can make those long
Speaker 1: runs on screens, I think it does have something to
Speaker 1: do with speed, because guys aren't catching him. It's not
Speaker 1: like a situation where he's getting run down. We've seen
Speaker 1: backs that get run down. He's not getting run down.
Speaker 1: I think that it may just be more of a
Speaker 1: situation where maybe he's not able to squeak pass that
Speaker 1: that secondary guy, whereas maybe before he was, or just
Speaker 1: that defenses so much like we're not letting him get
Speaker 1: beyond us. We'll give up that ten to fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty twelve yard but we know we can't let him
Speaker 1: get behind us because we can't catch I think that's
Speaker 1: definitely part of it. With regards to Brian. I just
Speaker 1: it's gonna say, uh, he is handling a private matter
Speaker 1: and we're gonna leave it private because it is a
Speaker 1: private matter for him. He is fine, but he has
Speaker 1: a private matter he's handling, and that'll be he's not it.
Speaker 1: He's not sick, and for anybody, like for anybody that's
Speaker 1: worried about his health, he's fine. And that he's handling
Speaker 1: a private matter and his his he has a right
Speaker 1: to have his own privacy. So we're not gonna gonna
Speaker 1: talk much more about that, all right, So let's get
Speaker 1: to some predictions here really quick. We got to go
Speaker 1: around the table. Let's start. Let's start with Dave. What
Speaker 1: as somebody. Let's start with Amber. Let's start with Dave
Speaker 1: and get your prediction. Dave h Man famous last words,
Speaker 1: because I've I've I said this about the Jets and
Speaker 1: it pit me. But I don't know. Stafford's not playing,
Speaker 1: by the way, he's not paying. He's out. Patricia ruled
Speaker 1: him out. So it's gonna be Jeff driscoll um. They's
Speaker 1: just i'man even you know, no, I'm even gonna I'll
Speaker 1: double down on it, like even Sam Arnold was a
Speaker 1: top five pick. Like this is this is a journeyman quarterback.
Speaker 1: This defense it is far too good to allow them
Speaker 1: to score more than fourteen to twenty points. And this
Speaker 1: offense should be able to score more than that against
Speaker 1: the thirtieth ranked defense. I struggle to overthink it more
Speaker 1: than that, even though there's a boatload of history that
Speaker 1: suggests that I should. But I think the offense can
Speaker 1: score twenty seven or more and I think the defense
Speaker 1: can hold them to seventeen or less. So I just
Speaker 1: it would be so bad if this was a dramatic game,
Speaker 1: because it shouldn't Beah, it should. They don't have a
Speaker 1: running back. I mean, Gala Day and Jones are great,
Speaker 1: but I don't think Driscoll can get it to them
Speaker 1: consistently enough to win this game. So I'm thinking like
Speaker 1: twenty seven to thirteen not I mean, I don't trust
Speaker 1: this team to like completely blow anybody out, but it
Speaker 1: should be a pretty comfortable game. And I'm sorry if
Speaker 1: it's not one thirteen, wouldn't scores defense scores go? There?
Speaker 1: We go? Sorry I went to I'm gonna be a blowout,
Speaker 1: blow out they will, Okay, you know, I hate myself
Speaker 1: for just being a believer again every week it comes
Speaker 1: down to it was like, she was like, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna convince me, and I was like, the hell we are.
Speaker 1: They're gonna win this game about because by Friday I
Speaker 1: go back again. Here we are in week eleven? Is it?
Speaker 1: And is it? Tanner eleven? It's eleven and they really
Speaker 1: railing back in. I believe in them again. It's it's
Speaker 1: they're gonna start slow again, but they're gonna figure it out.
Speaker 1: And I think with Driscoll playing, the Cowboys defense is
Speaker 1: going to be able to create some turnovers and get
Speaker 1: the ball maybe twice and get it over to the
Speaker 1: offense and they'll be able to capitalize on it. You
Speaker 1: don't have to apologize for thinking they're gonna win this game.
Speaker 1: Next week. We can have a conversation. Right this week,
Speaker 1: you're okay, I think all right, I think the same
Speaker 1: thing as all you guys think. I don't even think
Speaker 1: it's a close game game. I think the Cowboys should
Speaker 1: run away. I will say this just for the record,
Speaker 1: if Matt Stafford was playing, I think this would be
Speaker 1: a totally different game. I'd be picking the Lions. If
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford, it would definitely be a much closer game.
Speaker 1: But I think without Stafford, I just don't. I can't
Speaker 1: see how without a running back and without their quarterback,
Speaker 1: how they're going to really be able to move the
Speaker 1: ball enough against this off It's a Cowboys office, which
Speaker 1: I think can score. They've been good at that all
Speaker 1: most of the vast majority of the year. So you
Speaker 1: think this is y'all kind of get the vibe that
Speaker 1: this will be dominant from beginning to end. No, I
Speaker 1: think that the final score. I think the final score
Speaker 1: will if you don't watch the game and you just
Speaker 1: look at the final score, I think the final score
Speaker 1: is somewhere in the thirty four thirteen range. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a game you look back at the
Speaker 1: score and you're like, man, they must have just dominated
Speaker 1: for start to finish what I've seen so far this year.
Speaker 1: We all get a bad competition. They don't start fast.
Speaker 1: We are all thinking like thirteen to ten at halftime, yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that, and then all of a sudden they
Speaker 1: get rolling. And when they get rolling, they can't stop them,
Speaker 1: and it's just pop pop pop, it's tochdown, touchdown. He
Speaker 1: every other game they've won, the kicker, Do they have
Speaker 1: a good kicker greater. Yeah, he's good. It's look kid
Speaker 1: from field goals. All right, appreciate you guys joining us.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Monday. We'll let you know what
Speaker 1: went right and what went wrong with the Cowboys. Still
Speaker 1: then for Nick Keatman, Dave Hellman, Ambergarcia. I am Derek Hilton.
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