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Speaker 6: It is Monday, January eighth, twenty twenty four, Season nineteen,
Speaker 6: episode number one three. Welcome to the latest edition of
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Speaker 6: at the Star and we're talking Cowboys and the NFC
Speaker 6: East Championship. They go last night and beat the Washington
Speaker 6: Commanders in convincing fashion. They went thirty eight to ten
Speaker 6: and on the road, nonetheless, and so it sets up
Speaker 6: nicely for them. They are in the second seed and
Speaker 6: pretty much everything you wanted to happen if you're a
Speaker 6: Cowboys fan happened to where the Cowboys have the matchups
Speaker 6: that you would prefer.
Speaker 8: Now, it's all playoff.
Speaker 6: Teams, so there are no guarantees when you get to
Speaker 6: this time of the year, but I would think the
Speaker 6: matchups play out the way you kind of want them,
Speaker 6: and so we'll talk about that a little bit as
Speaker 6: we go throughout today's show. We're going to recap that
Speaker 6: game a little bit and talk about some different performances
Speaker 6: that stood out to us.
Speaker 8: I'll start first.
Speaker 6: Instead of doing we normally do on a Monday where
Speaker 6: we look for the storyline of the game, I want
Speaker 6: you to give me a bigger picture storyline of the season.
Speaker 6: If you had to write a storyline for the twenty
Speaker 6: twenty three regular season, what would it be.
Speaker 8: Patrick, Let's give you the first shot.
Speaker 9: I'm going to go with Dak Prescott's resilience. All everyone
Speaker 9: could talk about after last season was his fifteen interceptions.
Speaker 9: That's the whole storyline for the entire offseason. And suddenly,
Speaker 9: even though that was clearly an aberration, when you looked
Speaker 9: at how Dak Prescott protected the ball in the seasons
Speaker 9: prior to that, it was, oh, he's a turn over machine.
Speaker 5: He'll give the ball away. And we sat here, uh and.
Speaker 9: Several of these panels talking cowboys to break, and we
Speaker 9: started dissecting, said, Okay, some of those are attributable to him,
Speaker 9: some are miscommunications and miss timing with the receiver on
Speaker 9: the back end you come up, that's work tip right,
Speaker 9: perfect example though. Credit the Washington defense for no doubt,
Speaker 9: but they put in the work this offseason. Dak Prescott,
Speaker 9: Cede Lamb, Brandon Cooks, Jake Ferguson, these guys and they
Speaker 9: got on the same page. You credit Mike McCarthy with
Speaker 9: you know, his installs for this Texas Coast offense and
Speaker 9: the timing and things that they've been able those mechanations
Speaker 9: they've been able.
Speaker 5: To get going.
Speaker 9: And now you're talking about Dak Prescott leading the leads
Speaker 9: the league, ends the regular season as the league leader
Speaker 9: in touchdowns to only nine interceptions and the ninth wi
Speaker 9: was that kind of fluke tipped interception against Washington. So
Speaker 9: magnificent bounce back season for Dak Prescott has him uh
Speaker 9: in the MVP conversation right up against Lamar Jackson. And
Speaker 9: I still think that, you know, it should go to
Speaker 9: Dak Prescott, especially when you consider he's able to do
Speaker 9: what he did as far as leading the league in
Speaker 9: touchdowns with only nine interceptions and he sat out several
Speaker 9: of the fourth quarters the season.
Speaker 5: So for me, that's the big picture.
Speaker 9: Dak Prescott as if there were any doubt and there
Speaker 9: wasn't in this building. Dark Prescott is the franchise quarterback
Speaker 9: now and later for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Ironically, I kind of wish he would have actually made
Speaker 6: the comment that he was was attributed to him. I
Speaker 6: wish you would have actually said that, because that would
Speaker 6: have been fun at this point.
Speaker 8: But but yeah, no, go ahead, Amber.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think this is the year. I feel it.
Speaker 2: You guys are superstitious. Well you know what. Sorry, before
Speaker 2: it never happened.
Speaker 5: So that's.
Speaker 2: What you.
Speaker 3: Start over.
Speaker 8: We got a ship.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 10: And by the way, I say, shoot, say something else
Speaker 10: my accent and no, it was my accent.
Speaker 2: I didn't say that. I don't do that. I don't.
Speaker 2: But it's a memorable.
Speaker 8: Ahead.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 10: The point is, it's a memorable season. You talk about
Speaker 10: all the Okay, let's gather ourselves. It's a season where
Speaker 10: many many cool things have happened, historical, historic things. We
Speaker 10: talk about Darn Bland, the records he was able to set.
Speaker 10: We talk about finally, Jimmy Johnson getting inducted into the
Speaker 10: Ring of Honor, such a cool moment. You already said
Speaker 10: everything about Dak Prescott, which he's having the best season
Speaker 10: of his career. He's playing the best football he's ever played,
Speaker 10: Ceedee Lamb, the connection and the way that Ceedi Lamb
Speaker 10: has stepped up into that role and just looks absolutely
Speaker 10: great everything that he's been able to do. So I
Speaker 10: think like just all these little things, all these little
Speaker 10: nuggets of happening this season there is very very special.
Speaker 10: It just leads me to think that maybe you know,
Speaker 10: you got what it takes to compete. And I think
Speaker 10: that this weekend, the setup and how everything fell through
Speaker 10: for the fell into place for the Cowboys, I couldn't
Speaker 10: ask for a better opponent than Green Bay. I'm so
Speaker 10: excited for this weekend. Not only you're playing at home
Speaker 10: at a teenth stadium, but also you know, Mike McCarthy
Speaker 10: is still pissed from last year. The Cowboys got beat
Speaker 10: at Green Bay last year, and then I think he's
Speaker 10: still kind of you know, you don't get over that.
Speaker 10: You're gonna come in this weekend looking to get a win.
Speaker 10: And I think the Cowboys have everything they can to
Speaker 10: actually come out this weekend, compete and get a win.
Speaker 11: Mike McCarthy's willingness to adjust say the season, oh yes,
Speaker 11: they were not a good offensive football team to start
Speaker 11: the season. They had pieces in place to have a
Speaker 11: very good offense. The way the offense was being run,
Speaker 11: the way it was executed the first five weeks of
Speaker 11: the season wasn't going to be good enough for you
Speaker 11: to be twelve and five and second seed in the
Speaker 11: National Football League in this conference. And so his ability
Speaker 11: to listen to his coaches, to listen to his players,
Speaker 11: to look within himself and say this is not the
Speaker 11: way this thing needs to go. I think saved the season.
Speaker 11: It wasn't going to be good enough. And I think
Speaker 11: he knew that. I give him credit for that.
Speaker 6: And you know, to that point, Brian, I think when
Speaker 6: it comes to Mike McCarthy, I look at him and
Speaker 6: I'm thinking, this is why you hired this type of
Speaker 6: veteran coach. Because coaches have to understand that it's not
Speaker 6: about them, It's not about their system. It's about how
Speaker 6: do you tailor what you do to the players that
Speaker 6: you have. And as we saw it, as we've seen
Speaker 6: the season go on, they have more and more, in
Speaker 6: my opinion, tailored this offense to Dak Prescott and Ceedee
Speaker 6: Lamb and it is working and everything else is an
Speaker 6: offshoot of Dak Prescott and CD lamp And I think
Speaker 6: that's a credit to the coaching staff and their ability
Speaker 6: to morph this thing from what it was at the
Speaker 6: beginning of the season when the results weren't what you wanted,
Speaker 6: to what it has become now in one of the
Speaker 6: most prolific from a record standpoint, maybe close to the
Speaker 6: most prolific offense in the history of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 9: You know, one thing I love just the intergect really
Speaker 9: quickly when it comes to McCarthy. Excellent point by Brian.
Speaker 9: One thing I love about McCarthy is since he's coming
Speaker 9: to this organization, he has shown that he's not he
Speaker 9: is he perfect, no Mike Nolan, but he's shown that
Speaker 9: he's not afraid to quickly move off of a thought
Speaker 9: and idea of philosophy if it's not working, He's not
Speaker 9: going to hold tight to it for two years, three years,
Speaker 9: be it a coordinator, be an assistant coach, or just
Speaker 9: being you know, how an offense is run.
Speaker 5: So you talk about one year with Mike Nolan, he
Speaker 5: moves on. What does he do?
Speaker 9: Home run higher with Dan Quinn shouts to the front
Speaker 9: office for making that happen as well. You talk about
Speaker 9: in a microbe this season, like Brian said, you had
Speaker 9: to come to Jesus moment in Week five against the
Speaker 9: forty nine ers. What do you do You get in lab,
Speaker 9: you get with your analytics team that has been revamped
Speaker 9: this offseason, which is something that a lot of people
Speaker 9: were worried about with Mike McCarthy when he came into Dallas.
Speaker 9: Is it going to be the old school, just old
Speaker 9: football culture. Is he going to embrace analytics. He's embraced
Speaker 9: it this season like we've never seen before. So all
Speaker 9: of that goes to the fact that I just love
Speaker 9: how McCarthy is willing to look something in the face
Speaker 9: and take accountability for if it's not working, and then
Speaker 9: he fixes it. And that's why the Cowboys in the
Speaker 9: position they are right now three twelve and five seasons,
Speaker 9: clinched the division twice in the last three seasons, and
Speaker 9: like Ann bar said, you are matched up favorably, You're
Speaker 9: you're getting hot at the right time. Your running game
Speaker 9: kind of found some legs against Washington, which we will
Speaker 9: talk about here. But McCarthy, he for those that are
Speaker 9: saying whether the Cowboys have to do this or this
Speaker 9: or this for McCarthy not to be on the hot seat.
Speaker 9: Get I get where you're going with that, But when
Speaker 9: you look at what he's been able to do in
Speaker 9: his short period of time here, McCarthy's not.
Speaker 10: He's he's not anywhere. Stop it, stop it.
Speaker 5: No, I'm talking about you know.
Speaker 6: Actually, actually we're going to get to that a little
Speaker 6: later in the show because Jerry did have some comments.
Speaker 6: He was asked about that last night, and I want
Speaker 6: to get some comments from you because there are a
Speaker 6: lot of different ways you can read that. I kind
Speaker 6: of agree with you, guys, but there's some different ways
Speaker 6: you could read Jerry's comments. And one thing I know
Speaker 6: about Jerry Jones, at least from what I've perceived in
Speaker 6: the years that I've worked in this building, is sometimes
Speaker 6: he doesn't like people to feel comfortable. And I read
Speaker 6: from this and we'll get at this a little later,
Speaker 6: but maybe it's just a little bit of if I
Speaker 6: don't want anybody right around here right now to feel comfortable,
Speaker 6: everybody should be a little bit on edge, because that's
Speaker 6: when you get the best out of people. And everybody's
Speaker 6: a little bit on edge. All right, Let's talk about
Speaker 6: Dak Prescott. You mentioned him, Pat, and last night he
Speaker 6: was thirty one to thirty six, eighty six, eighty six
Speaker 6: percent completion rate. I think it's been four games this
Speaker 6: season he's been over eighty percent completion rate. And by
Speaker 6: the way, this is an eighty percent completion rate, eighty
Speaker 6: six percent completion rate when he's just dnking and dunking
Speaker 6: down the field. He's taking some shots in there too.
Speaker 6: That's a great percentage. Two hundred and seventy nine yards passing,
Speaker 6: four touchdowns, one interception, and one hundred and twenty four
Speaker 6: point four quarterback rating. You mentioned it, Patrick, I want
Speaker 6: everybody give me an opinion here. Do you think Dak
Speaker 6: Prescott has a legit shot at the league MVP? And
Speaker 6: if so, how would you make the case for him.
Speaker 2: I mean, he has a shot, legitimate shot.
Speaker 5: I think it's a legitimate shot.
Speaker 9: I think that up to this point, going into week seventeen,
Speaker 9: Week eighteen, you still had and obviously you still have
Speaker 9: the conversation of Brock Party.
Speaker 5: For example, in one.
Speaker 2: Of the quarterbacks right now in the conversation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just one of us.
Speaker 9: It's Lamar and Dack wanted to and it's for me
Speaker 9: that's right there, and then you have Purty beneath them
Speaker 9: as far as he has justification for being in the conversation,
Speaker 9: but it's.
Speaker 5: Neck and neck with Dak.
Speaker 8: The numbers just don't match it for right.
Speaker 9: So, and I can't stress enough how much I love
Speaker 9: what Lamar Jackson is doing. And also just as a sidebar,
Speaker 9: because of when he came into the league, how we
Speaker 9: entered the league, and how everybody, oh, he's a running back,
Speaker 9: and for him to put up the quarterback numbers he's
Speaker 9: putting up and get the Baltimore Ravens despite because they've
Speaker 9: had adversity as well up and they get that number
Speaker 9: one seat. So Lamar Jackson deserved to be there. But
Speaker 9: for me and Dak Prescott, it hearkens back to number
Speaker 9: one the level of improvement over twenty twenty two. So
Speaker 9: that's a big part of it as well, because you
Speaker 9: look at all the work they put into the lab.
Speaker 9: He and the receivers, and the receiver coaches and the
Speaker 9: quarterback coaches, Shot Humer McCarthy, they all went in the
Speaker 9: lab and then how here we are twenty twenty three
Speaker 9: slow start to twenty twenty three. As far as offensively,
Speaker 9: what do you do week five, you get your ass
Speaker 9: handed to you. You have to come to Jesus moment.
Speaker 9: And he's been on fire ever since. Ceedee Lamb has
Speaker 9: been on fire ever since. Like you said, they've Ceedee
Speaker 9: Lamb and Dak Prescott offense runs through them. Everything else
Speaker 9: is a ripple effective that they figured it out even
Speaker 9: when the run game has not been going well, which
Speaker 9: means that it was on Dak Prescott's shoulders to carry
Speaker 9: this offense and through ceed Lamb to make sure that
Speaker 9: it kept moving forward. So for me, while Lamar Jackson
Speaker 9: is the most valuable player on his team one hundred percent,
Speaker 9: I'm still I'm sixty forty for Dak Prescott based on
Speaker 9: what he was able to do, the numbers he was
Speaker 9: able to put up and without having to play as
Speaker 9: many quarters as Lamar and Jackson had to play in
Speaker 9: order to put up those particular numbers.
Speaker 5: So for me, it's it's Dak Prescott.
Speaker 9: And again no knock to Lamar Jackson will deserving great
Speaker 9: contender in this conversation, but yeah, look at the bounce
Speaker 9: back here from twenty twenty two, and it's Dak for me.
Speaker 11: One beat six playoff teams. The other beat three. That's
Speaker 11: how you got to kind of look at this and
Speaker 11: you look at the the only real losses. The Pittsburgh
Speaker 11: Steelers have a good plan when they play Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 11: I guess they have the right personnel to match up
Speaker 11: with him. But you look at what they were able
Speaker 11: to do in Baltimore. Yeah, it's one more game. They
Speaker 11: handedly beat San Francisco. I think that's something that people
Speaker 11: will look at, you know, when you start to talk
Speaker 11: about common opponents, you know, how did they and the
Speaker 11: Ravens played great defense that night in San Francisco, There's
Speaker 11: no question about that.
Speaker 3: But you look at you look at how they got the.
Speaker 11: Number one seed. Dallas is the second seed. Was it
Speaker 11: all on dak Absolutely? You can say a lot of
Speaker 11: it's on on Lamar Jackson as well. I mean, Lamar
Speaker 11: Jackson would kill to have Cede Lamb as a receiver
Speaker 11: over there.
Speaker 3: He's got a really good tight.
Speaker 11: End and some you know, some some good receivers, but
Speaker 11: not anything like Cedd Lamb over there. I just think
Speaker 11: that voters are going to look at the number of wins,
Speaker 11: the quality wins that maybe the one thing if there's
Speaker 11: a split, it might be what did they do head
Speaker 11: to head against one of the best teams in the league,
Speaker 11: San Francisco. That was a bad loss for the Cowboys,
Speaker 11: a good win for the Ravens. You know, that's the
Speaker 11: kind of thing that voters will look.
Speaker 6: At, especially when it's this close and you got two
Speaker 6: guys that really are Yeah.
Speaker 10: Well, I'll be honest, I have a pretty biased opinion,
Speaker 10: and mainly because and you mentioned Patrick last year. We've
Speaker 10: been following Dak's trajectory for since the star of his
Speaker 10: career and you kind of you know, you see the
Speaker 10: things and how much he's stepped up and how much
Speaker 10: he's changed as a quarterback from last year to this year.
Speaker 10: And at times there were multiple games where he was
Speaker 10: the best, the one actually carrying the team, and we
Speaker 10: had many questions about that, many unanswered questions.
Speaker 2: Can he be that guy when needed?
Speaker 10: And he showed to be that guy without a set
Speaker 10: o line, you know, healthy old line, without Zeke not
Speaker 10: having kulated and that running back quarterback dual type of
Speaker 10: dynamic there. And we've seen those games for him and
Speaker 10: just everything. So again, my opinion is completely biased, I'll
Speaker 10: be honest.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think he's got a legitimate shot.
Speaker 6: I agree with Brian, though I don't know that it's
Speaker 6: hard to make the case that he's better than what Lamar.
Speaker 6: He's had a better season than with Lamar, and I
Speaker 6: think that's the key is those those wins against those opponents.
Speaker 6: I was looking at that last night. You gotta love
Speaker 6: where Dallas sits. If they're at home, right, the three
Speaker 6: games that they've played against playoff contenders, they've won them
Speaker 6: at home. Yes, there have been four games against playoff
Speaker 6: teams that they have not won a single one. So
Speaker 6: it's like when you look at that, that's where you're
Speaker 6: kind of like, Okay, if they're at home, I love
Speaker 6: the Cowboys.
Speaker 8: Right they're on the road, I get a little bit shaky.
Speaker 6: Lamar hasn't had that and so and also you start
Speaker 6: looking at it and you start saying, Okay, what was
Speaker 6: the signature when for Dak this season? Was there a
Speaker 6: game where maybe they weren't favored. Was there a game
Speaker 6: that they were against a really, really tough opponent and
Speaker 6: Dak just completely lit him up like Lamar did against
Speaker 6: San Francisco. And I don't know that to have a
Speaker 6: game like that for Dak, and I don't know you
Speaker 6: guys may have one, but I don't know to have
Speaker 6: a game where I'm like, that was a team that
Speaker 6: Dak should not have done what he did. And again
Speaker 6: that's again, this is not a knock on Dak as
Speaker 6: much as it is just when you're parsing between two
Speaker 6: guys who are very very close, both have had exceptional seasons.
Speaker 3: That has had an historic season.
Speaker 8: Yeah, in my opinion, the best of his career.
Speaker 6: But when you're trying to compare him to Lamar, I
Speaker 6: think there is a little bit of distinction there that
Speaker 6: I think the voters will actually take into account.
Speaker 9: It's going to be a close call, but I mean
Speaker 9: every point that's been made on this panel today is
Speaker 9: a valid point in both directions. And that's why it's
Speaker 9: such a detailed conversation because, like you said, when you
Speaker 9: get to this point and you have two players that
Speaker 9: are this close as far as both being deserving, now
Speaker 9: you got to start nitpicking. Yeah, and then that's the
Speaker 9: unfortunate part about it, but you know that's what it
Speaker 9: comes to.
Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, we're gonna take our first break when
Speaker 8: we come back.
Speaker 6: Let's talk about the rushing offense last night a little
Speaker 6: bit better, Maybe you'd say, but we'll talk about that.
Speaker 6: We'll talk about where they were good and where maybe
Speaker 6: they struggled. We'll be back Dallas, Cowboys dot Com Radio.
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Speaker 6: let's talk about the rushing offense last night Tony Pollard
Speaker 6: at seventeen rushes for seventy yards, a four point one average,
Speaker 6: one touchdown. He did surpass one thousand yards rushing for
Speaker 6: the season, which was important to him and as he
Speaker 6: said after game, even more important for the offensive line
Speaker 6: because that's a goal that they set every year. They
Speaker 6: want to have a thousand yard rusher. That being said,
Speaker 6: how would you assess his game last night? And really
Speaker 6: the running game overall.
Speaker 9: From a Polish standpoint, much much better than against the Lions.
Speaker 9: And like I said after the Lions game, I said,
Speaker 9: that was one of the worst games I had seen
Speaker 9: him play as far as vision is concerned. And yeah,
Speaker 9: he was getting contacted one two yards in the backfield
Speaker 9: as well. Offensive line didn't do any favors, But you know,
Speaker 9: last week it was more so I didn't think that
Speaker 9: he made the decisions in that moment that he should
Speaker 9: have much better against the Commanders. He was much more decisive,
Speaker 9: his vision was much better, and I'd be remiss if
Speaker 9: I didn't give credit to both TJ. Bass and brock
Speaker 9: Hoffman for especially for Hoffman. He was thrown in the
Speaker 9: fires that Martin contracts his illness overnight. He was initially
Speaker 9: expected to play. But then at at you know, in
Speaker 9: actors came due and he was set out. You look
Speaker 9: at brock Hoffman and you say, hey, young man, you're up,
Speaker 9: you know, with the division and the number two seed
Speaker 9: on the line, go and play some good football. And
Speaker 9: damn it, they played some good football. So Hoffman TJ.
Speaker 9: Bass helped solidify the interior with Tyler Biaddish. Biadash didn't
Speaker 9: allow any pressures and they were carving up lanes and
Speaker 9: then it was just on Tony Pollard and Rico o'doudle,
Speaker 9: who looked fantastic with his reps as well, to just
Speaker 9: make the right decisions and they did.
Speaker 5: The burst was there.
Speaker 9: The vision was their running game looks like it's back
Speaker 9: on track over one hundred yards and this is what
Speaker 9: you wanted to see going into the playoffs. You wanted
Speaker 9: to see several things against Washington Commanders. That was one
Speaker 9: of those things. And the Cowboys or it seems like
Speaker 9: they're on track with the running game now.
Speaker 11: Man Tony Pollard loves to see the Commanders. He loves
Speaker 11: those white uniforms that they wear when they play. Because
Speaker 11: it was another positive game for him. He ran the
Speaker 11: ball with toughness, like Patrick's talking about, the vision was there.
Speaker 11: Hunter Lipke helped him a couple of times too with
Speaker 11: some really good point of attack blocks.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 11: They were able to sort some things out up front,
Speaker 11: got some second level blocks that they needed, but it
Speaker 11: was just Pollard taking the ball and really attacking the
Speaker 11: line of scrimmage. And you know when when Pollard gets
Speaker 11: hit at or behind the line of scrimmage, he's usually
Speaker 11: a negative play for them.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 11: There's some times where they ran the ball in this
Speaker 11: game where I noticed this, and I've noticed it even
Speaker 11: more when you when you just sit down and watch
Speaker 11: one of when you watch Pollard every one of his
Speaker 11: carries for the whole year, there are plays that they
Speaker 11: will now scrap because they are asking a tight end
Speaker 11: to get a block that he can't get, or they're
Speaker 11: asking a tackle to get a block that he can't
Speaker 11: get by alignment.
Speaker 3: There are a lot.
Speaker 11: Of negative plays for Tony Pollard where he where Tony's
Speaker 11: usually great is making the first one miss and we
Speaker 11: saw that a little bit yesterday, But going back and
Speaker 11: watching him play, just kind of having an understanding, there
Speaker 11: are plays that they no longer run in the running
Speaker 11: game because they can't block them, and I mean not physically,
Speaker 11: they can't get a guide to that. You're asking him
Speaker 11: to a tight end to be on one side and
Speaker 11: have to make a block completely on the other side,
Speaker 11: and they can't get there, and then it turns out
Speaker 11: to a negative play and then you don't see that
Speaker 11: play anymore. You know, there needs to be more of that.
Speaker 8: Got a play design problem.
Speaker 11: Absolutely absolutely, You're asking you're asking players.
Speaker 3: To do something.
Speaker 11: And this is where the coaching staff I think has
Speaker 11: been real good here this year is they generally ask
Speaker 11: their guys to do things they can do, but there's
Speaker 11: times where they think, well, let's just try this.
Speaker 3: Let's see if we could get Ferguson.
Speaker 11: To come in motion, stop and go all the way
Speaker 11: back to his right and block somebody. And then a
Speaker 11: bad backup linebacker for the Commanders is standing in the hole,
Speaker 11: you know, where he should have been accounted for, and
Speaker 11: you try to account for him by making some miracle block.
Speaker 11: You know, And I've seen this, organ I've seen excuse
Speaker 11: me this, this coaching staff scrap plays because of that.
Speaker 11: They need to find them four or five plays, the
Speaker 11: running plays that they're really good blocking. No matter what
Speaker 11: the front is and find a way to keep working
Speaker 11: those plays. It's not gonna be about Tony Pollard running
Speaker 11: the ball. It would be nice, it really would be.
Speaker 11: That's not that's you know, that's all our hope. It's
Speaker 11: gonna be about Dak. It's gonna be about CD. It's
Speaker 11: gonna be about cooks at times, Ferguson. That's what this
Speaker 11: thing is going to be about going forward. You know,
Speaker 11: find you four or five plays you block, you get
Speaker 11: hats on hats and Tony has a chance. Otherwise those
Speaker 11: plays don't need to be on Mike's call sheet.
Speaker 2: You know what. I was really pleased.
Speaker 10: It wasn't great the running in, but I was really
Speaker 10: pleased with the improvement that they had this game, and
Speaker 10: I was pleased with a lot of things. Actually to
Speaker 10: end the season. Why do you win on the road
Speaker 10: the husband and an issue? You win with two backup
Speaker 10: offensive lineman. I thought they did a really really good
Speaker 10: job in what was handled there.
Speaker 2: Two I mean three to third.
Speaker 10: You get thanks, right, third running game, Tony Poller being
Speaker 10: able to finish the season, the regular season with feeling good.
Speaker 10: I'm sure he walked out of that game feeling pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and better than what it's been for sure, and also
Speaker 10: the combination with Dowell and what.
Speaker 2: He was able to do there too as well. Then fourth.
Speaker 10: Brandon Aubrey, he misses two field goals and then he
Speaker 10: goes on towards the last quarter to score to kick
Speaker 10: a fifty yarder field goal, which is great. You don't
Speaker 10: want him ending that game with a bunch of misses.
Speaker 10: So everything just kind of ended up working to the
Speaker 10: Cowboys advantage. How you would rather see them finish this
Speaker 10: and the last game and defense also the way that
Speaker 10: they played and shatout We were talking a lot of
Speaker 10: about McCarthy, but shout out to Dan Quinn and everything
Speaker 10: he's been able to do. You talk about the linebacker position,
Speaker 10: safeties and having to do that whole combination trying to
Speaker 10: figure out with what.
Speaker 2: He's got on the roster.
Speaker 10: I thought he's honestly done a really, really nice job
Speaker 10: with what he has to work with.
Speaker 11: Yeah, they I tell you what, the linebacker play the
Speaker 11: moon and Clark had one of his best games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'll tell you.
Speaker 11: Something scheme specific that they did differently in this game,
Speaker 11: which I think is what we're going to see going forward.
Speaker 11: They played Micah kind of as a off the ball linebacker,
Speaker 11: but it was like he was a It was almost
Speaker 11: like the old Landry flex where you know, used to
Speaker 11: move the three technique back off the line. Well, they
Speaker 11: put Micah like in a middle linebacker position, but they
Speaker 11: stacked Clark behind him. So what happened is you had
Speaker 11: your two down, your two down, your three and your
Speaker 11: one techniques. Then you had Micah. Then you had the
Speaker 11: linebacker stack Clark behind him.
Speaker 3: So now he was it.
Speaker 11: Was like it was like three feet it was like
Speaker 11: three yards five yards.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: So what they did.
Speaker 11: Notice, So what they did was they allowed Micah to
Speaker 11: attack the line, attack the line like a linebacker, but
Speaker 11: they ran Clark over the top, is what they did.
Speaker 11: So we could run free. So he could run free.
Speaker 11: But which way the play went? So they hand the
Speaker 11: bal to Robinson, Mike attacks, the tackles attack, and now
Speaker 11: you got a free runner to go wherever. So it
Speaker 11: was it was a little bit of a scheme where
Speaker 11: to play mic and not down with his hand down
Speaker 11: as a tackle, but you're playing him like a lineman
Speaker 11: near the line of scrimmage, so he could go and
Speaker 11: run and make play.
Speaker 6: Do you happen to remember what down in distance they
Speaker 6: were doing that, like, was that a was that a
Speaker 6: rundown type situation?
Speaker 11: It was early like first downs they were playing it,
Speaker 11: but it's something different scheme wise. It was a way
Speaker 11: of saying, instead of playing him side by side, you
Speaker 11: played one up, which gave Mike the opportunity to go attack,
Speaker 11: which was great to do, and then Clark has the
Speaker 11: ability to run.
Speaker 3: It freed him up so much more.
Speaker 11: He was able to see it, and then he was
Speaker 11: able to go and make some plays that way.
Speaker 6: To check that out the film, that's a really really
Speaker 6: interesting way to play it, all right, and real quick.
Speaker 6: I wanted to also mention I don't know if it
Speaker 6: was just me, but when I found out that Zach
Speaker 6: Martin wasn't playing this game, I literally had second thoughts
Speaker 6: as to whether Dalla should play that.
Speaker 2: It was his wife.
Speaker 8: I really, I really have. I was like, I got
Speaker 8: a playoff here.
Speaker 6: I kind of want my quarterback around because I didn't
Speaker 6: know what to think. Like the ron playing Pain was
Speaker 6: still playing that game, and so I'm like, I don't
Speaker 6: love this idea, but you got to give credit.
Speaker 8: I got to give credit to Basenhoff, and I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: I gotted you.
Speaker 6: They played there, They played their butts off, and it
Speaker 6: wasn't perfect, doesn't need to be perfect, but at the
Speaker 6: end of the day, they did a good job. And
Speaker 6: and at the end of the day, Dak Prescott didn't
Speaker 6: have a single sack, didn't have a single quarterback hit.
Speaker 6: That says something about how well those games.
Speaker 2: Hawkett was so clean.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he was pressured, let's and seventeen percent of his
Speaker 9: drawbacks pushing off.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean those guys did great.
Speaker 11: Yeah, when they go back and look at the when
Speaker 11: all the teams are done playing and they go back
Speaker 11: and look at the players, the free agents that played
Speaker 11: and played meaningful snaps. When the league looks at that,
Speaker 11: there are going to be a lot of scouting departments
Speaker 11: that were going, why did we not draft TJ.
Speaker 3: Bass? Why did we not draft him? What?
Speaker 11: What did we not like about him? Because every time
Speaker 11: that he's got the opportunity to play, he stepped up.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you. Hoffman is antagonizes people. He really does.
Speaker 3: It's funny.
Speaker 11: After one of the plays he got pushed by three
Speaker 11: different commanders on the way back to the huddle.
Speaker 3: Like a guy shoved it.
Speaker 8: That means you were really kicking, he got.
Speaker 3: Shoved and he kind of stumbles. He gets shoved again.
Speaker 11: He's stumbling even more, and now the third commander just
Speaker 11: shoves him completely back.
Speaker 3: Into the huddle and he never turned around. He just
Speaker 3: kind of like he looks.
Speaker 8: Like a Bourbon state drug. He probably he probably.
Speaker 3: Smart like Yam, but that's but that's what he does.
Speaker 11: I mean, he plays with that kind of that grit
Speaker 11: and that toughness, and it's as you said, it's not perfect,
Speaker 11: it's not pretty. Bass on the other side, should be
Speaker 11: a starter in the National Football League. He could be
Speaker 11: a starter for a lot of these teams that Dallas
Speaker 11: has played this year where it's like, well, their offensive
Speaker 11: line struggling, they don't have a guard.
Speaker 3: TJ. Bass could have been your starter at guard and
Speaker 3: you'd probably been just.
Speaker 2: Fine well with Bass.
Speaker 10: I mean, you know he he he has talent. You've
Speaker 10: been hearing it about it since training camp. Everybody else
Speaker 10: speaks wonders of him from that side of the building.
Speaker 10: But with Huffman, we were talking about a pregame Derek
Speaker 10: the he doesn't have much experience, and that was the question.
Speaker 10: I'm like, Okay, what is how is he gonna look?
Speaker 10: We don't know what to expect, what is that gonna
Speaker 10: look like? So it was great that he was able
Speaker 10: to handle it the way that he did.
Speaker 5: And really quickly.
Speaker 9: And I want to flip back to the defensive side
Speaker 9: of the ball because dan Quinn obviously deserves roses for
Speaker 9: the adjustments, like like you said, Brian, but also here's
Speaker 9: another week of Joey Lewis and Donovan Wilson, two of
Speaker 9: your your key impact veteran guys in your secondary, stepping
Speaker 9: up and taking the ball away and showing that they
Speaker 9: are in top form. And this is you talk about
Speaker 9: things you love to see going into the playoffs. You'd
Speaker 9: love to see Jordan Lewis back in prime form. You
Speaker 9: love to see Donovan Wilson back in prime form taking
Speaker 9: the ball away. We'll see how the week goes with
Speaker 9: Stefan Gilmour fingers crossed sound. They're optimistic right now, but
Speaker 9: they're waiting for the MRI. But the secondary is making
Speaker 9: some plays. Millie Hooker is back to playing some great ball.
Speaker 9: Jay Ron Curse is having a very good streak of
Speaker 9: good football games that he's putting together. Damn what Twitter
Speaker 9: is talking about? Jay Roon Curse is out there doing
Speaker 9: some really good things. So when you have the secondary
Speaker 9: coming on like they're coming on, you have the linebackers
Speaker 9: playing like they're playing and dan Quinn scheming him the
Speaker 9: way he's scheming them, and you have your front four
Speaker 9: getting pressure. No matter who your front four might be
Speaker 9: talk about, Dante Fowler, Sam Williams is getting in on
Speaker 9: the action. DeMarcus Lawrence is still being DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 5: Oh soo Diggy Zua.
Speaker 9: Jonathan Hankins is back, and Jonathan Hankins looked really good
Speaker 9: last night as far as gap integrity and controlling the
Speaker 9: run game in that line.
Speaker 5: Of the scrimmage.
Speaker 9: So all things are starting to point in the right
Speaker 9: direction at the right time for the Cowboys, not only
Speaker 9: on offence but also on defense.
Speaker 8: Let's take our final break.
Speaker 6: We'll come back and we'll talk about one injury that
Speaker 6: did pop up last night.
Speaker 8: Is it serious? We will talk about it. It's Dallas
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Speaker 8: Well, welcome back.
Speaker 6: It is the second segment and the final segment of
Speaker 6: the break that cut you off.
Speaker 11: No, okay, And I was just thinking, man, that all
Speaker 11: that white's gonna show up with all that green. Get ready.
Speaker 11: You're gonna be fighting. We're gonna be fighting Packer fans
Speaker 11: this weekend. That's that's what we look.
Speaker 10: Hey, if they show up like they did, I guess us.
Speaker 10: What was that, Jimmy Johnson, what game was that?
Speaker 2: Lions?
Speaker 10: Yeah, if they show up like they did, I guess
Speaker 10: the that was. That was the best crowd we've had
Speaker 10: in a really really long time.
Speaker 2: That was really really good.
Speaker 3: Playoffs playoff crowds here, it's usually pretty good.
Speaker 11: I remember that trade game was one of the one
Speaker 11: of a lot of that was the one where Dallas
Speaker 11: got the break on the m through the touchdown. Yeah
Speaker 11: and then uh and then but they got the break
Speaker 11: on the passenger farence call.
Speaker 5: So yeah.
Speaker 6: Tough thing is that, you know, you when you play
Speaker 6: teams like By the way, there are there are probably
Speaker 6: about four or five teams in the travels that are
Speaker 6: just like the Cowboys. They don't really play real road games.
Speaker 6: And what I mean by that is when they go
Speaker 6: on the road, there's still is a good number of
Speaker 6: their fans in the Stateum, Pittsburgh's like that. San Francisco
Speaker 6: is like that, Like they're just gonna there's gonna be there.
Speaker 6: Cowboys fans. Same thing when we go this week, it
Speaker 6: was basically Cowboys fans.
Speaker 3: That was amazing on TV.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was crazy. It was like a home game.
Speaker 8: It felt like a home game.
Speaker 6: But that all being said, like this is gonna be
Speaker 6: one where you're gonna have to and I'm sure the
Speaker 6: Cowboys will be had four noise in this whole game
Speaker 6: because you're probably gonna have quite a few Packers fans
Speaker 6: in the building because that's just the way they I mean,
Speaker 6: that's just the numbers, those those types of teams travel.
Speaker 2: Your two teams, Brian, how about that.
Speaker 9: You hear this, Cowboys fans, don't don't get don't let
Speaker 9: them outnoise you right.
Speaker 5: Now, right they're coming.
Speaker 8: You can control that.
Speaker 5: You can control.
Speaker 6: There's only one thing in a football game. The crowd
Speaker 6: can actually control. That's the noise, do something about it.
Speaker 11: But your team needs to help you though. Your team
Speaker 11: needs to play well enough to where you feel like
Speaker 11: that's nice.
Speaker 6: Yeah, But regardless, Like, if I'm going to a game
Speaker 6: and it's my team, I'm gonna do all my part.
Speaker 8: I can't control what you can do. I'm gonna do
Speaker 8: my part.
Speaker 3: What's your email that we can get tickets from you?
Speaker 3: I know you reach out from that.
Speaker 8: Let me just perfect service. Let me make a couple.
Speaker 6: Let me let me make a public service announcement. Everybody
Speaker 6: out there that might know anybody in our.
Speaker 5: Group, don't hit them up for I got nothing for you.
Speaker 5: Don't hit them.
Speaker 8: It's a bad look.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I made a post just now. I'm like, don't don't
Speaker 2: ask me.
Speaker 8: Looking at Can I read that?
Speaker 3: I need to take it? Can sell some of your art?
Speaker 3: Can I have some of your tickets?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 6: Especially if you haven't talked to me in the last
Speaker 6: two weeks.
Speaker 8: That made you probably not close enough. Yeah, I haven't talked.
Speaker 3: I'll I'll sell.
Speaker 6: All right, Let's talk about Let's talk about his defense.
Speaker 6: Last night, Stefan Gilmour ends up with an injury. He
Speaker 6: leaves the game with a shoulder injury. What do we
Speaker 6: know about that injury? And how serious is it?
Speaker 11: That sublexation is what I was told last night. Uh,
Speaker 11: and there's still as of two minutes ago, still waiting
Speaker 11: on the m R I and that so this afternoon,
Speaker 11: I'm sure Patrick or somebody like that, if you keep
Speaker 11: checking on Dallas Cowboys dot com, they'll say, we'll have
Speaker 11: that injury.
Speaker 3: Update for you. But yeah, it popped in, popped out.
Speaker 11: What they're checking about is there's anything Is there anything
Speaker 11: tour or loose in the shoulder that's will determine I
Speaker 11: mean it was he talked about last night. Fine, everything
Speaker 11: cool and all that. Today is the big day. How
Speaker 11: sword does it feel?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 11: Is there any you know, is there any range of
Speaker 11: motion in that thing? So yeah, it's uh, it's a
Speaker 11: hold your breath on an MRI I that nothing in
Speaker 11: there's torn.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's exactly where they are.
Speaker 9: And you know, the good well, the optimistic side of
Speaker 9: it is that the Cowboys were not pessimistic about it
Speaker 9: last night. And if it were something that clearly and
Speaker 9: definitively would have been, you know, something that ended his season,
Speaker 9: we would have known that last night, So there's at
Speaker 9: least some you know, optimism there, Like Brian said, we'll
Speaker 9: know more when the m R comes back. But fingers
Speaker 9: crossed he himself and again, you know, some adrenaline was
Speaker 9: going there. So Stefan Gilmore said that he was he
Speaker 9: was going to play. He told Mike he's going to play.
Speaker 9: He told media he's going to play. Say, he's excited,
Speaker 9: he's looking forward to it. Let's see how the week goes.
Speaker 9: And hopefully that holds true because he's going to be
Speaker 9: massive for for Cowboys secondary that's already without Trevon Diggs.
Speaker 11: Yeah, every time they tell us don't worry about an injury.
Speaker 5: Again, let's hope that it bears true. Let's just put
Speaker 5: it that way.
Speaker 8: How that flew that team that they said last week?
Speaker 3: When Zach I know you did.
Speaker 9: Oh, Zach is definitely sick. Saw him on the plane
Speaker 9: last night when you walked past him. Oh man, he break.
Speaker 5: It up to the nose and like laid back. Normally
Speaker 5: he's like kind of chatty with wasn't at the game?
Speaker 3: Was he? I don't think he went the game.
Speaker 8: I saw him earlier.
Speaker 6: I saw the hotel that morning, but I didn't see
Speaker 6: him at the stadium necessarily. I saw him at the
Speaker 6: at the hotel.
Speaker 11: It might be sat in the bus the whole time,
Speaker 11: just waiting for you guys to get back.
Speaker 9: So for those who are wondering, well, could Zach have
Speaker 9: played in that game? Yeah, it's argument. You could argue
Speaker 9: that he could have. But I'm telling you I saw
Speaker 9: Zach last night.
Speaker 2: It must have been pretty bad for him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, whooping him.
Speaker 6: But we'll get into it. We'll get into Wednesday. What
Speaker 6: this matchup looks like Cowboys versus Packers. They got some
Speaker 6: receivers that you got to be aware of and uh
Speaker 6: and so it's still is.
Speaker 3: Something seven of the last nine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you got to be aware of this team, and
Speaker 6: then they can post some challenges for you, especially if
Speaker 6: you don't have Gilmore. So we'll keep an eye on
Speaker 6: that and we'll let you know how that progresses throughout
Speaker 6: the week. One other thing on this defense. Last night,
Speaker 6: another really great performance. And they've really had three weeks
Speaker 6: here when they've played pretty good football.
Speaker 8: What do you attribute this to?
Speaker 6: Do you attribute the defenses play over the last few
Speaker 6: weeks more so to matchups or do you think they
Speaker 6: kind of turned a corner here and maybe getting back
Speaker 6: some of that magic that they had earlier in the
Speaker 6: season when they had Travon Dix and Lake Vandrush still
Speaker 6: in the mix.
Speaker 9: I mean, you could go to matchups, but I mean
Speaker 9: when you talk about what happened with the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 9: I mean they just got run all over by the
Speaker 9: Buffalo Bills. They didn't even have to pass the ball
Speaker 9: because they were running so well, bounce back well against
Speaker 9: the Miami Dolphins as far as the run defense. But
Speaker 9: then you had the final drive where they allowed them
Speaker 9: to outfield, and we talked about that because that's not
Speaker 9: entirely on the Cowboys defense. The offense should have played
Speaker 9: better complimentary football and not put them in that position,
Speaker 9: because before then the Cowboys defense have been playing well.
Speaker 9: I just think that they looked at that Buffalo Bills
Speaker 9: game and said, we cannot have this happen to us
Speaker 9: in the playoffs. What do we need to fix, what
Speaker 9: needs to happen? We need to execute better. Dan Quinn
Speaker 9: went back in the lab and said, we need to
Speaker 9: make some adjustments like Brian is saying they made against
Speaker 9: the Washington Commanders. So you're seeing new wrinkles in the
Speaker 9: scheme start to show up as well. So I mean
Speaker 9: the matchups matter. They've had some quality opponents though, I
Speaker 9: mean they should have won against the Miami Dolphins. You
Speaker 9: did win against the Detroit Lions, and then you go
Speaker 9: out and you basically, you know, shut the door on
Speaker 9: the Washington Commanders by only allowing ten points in the game,
Speaker 9: where really it shouldn't have been even as close as
Speaker 9: thirty eight ten if the offense doesn't stumble a time
Speaker 9: or two. So now this thing, the defense is getting
Speaker 9: it together at the right time.
Speaker 3: Basically, I think you got some young guys that are
Speaker 3: kind of figuring it out. Yeah, I think Marquise Bell.
Speaker 11: There was one time when they when they ran that
Speaker 11: they ran that fourth down play, they ended up being
Speaker 11: a screen to the outside and Clark made the play.
Speaker 11: It's like Clark beats the tackles block to the edge,
Speaker 11: which was great. But if you watch the end zone
Speaker 11: copy of it, Bell all of a.
Speaker 3: Sudden sees the motion.
Speaker 11: He sees trips to his right, and he sees motion
Speaker 11: going that way. He hauls, you know what, to get
Speaker 11: out there and get outside. It's like he never hesitated.
Speaker 11: It's like they're about to throw a screen on us here,
Speaker 11: and I got to get over there and make a
Speaker 11: play him. Clark, all those guys got over there in
Speaker 11: time to make the tackle. I mean they were out
Speaker 11: numbered to start until until Bell and him ran over
Speaker 11: there and made that play. So I think he got
Speaker 11: some young guys that are playing a lot more football.
Speaker 11: They well, they've been playing all year, but it's it's
Speaker 11: really starting to click for them about Okay, they're in
Speaker 11: this formation, they're gonna do this to me. Oh, I've
Speaker 11: seen this before, They're about to do that to me.
Speaker 11: I think they're I think they're having a much better
Speaker 11: feeling about where they need to be, where they need
Speaker 11: to fit in a lot of the scheme that Dan's
Speaker 11: asking to play.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is a this is a question that we
Speaker 6: probably should wait for the off season. I don't throw
Speaker 6: out there anyway because I just think it's an interesting question.
Speaker 6: So you're just taff That's what you can do when
Speaker 6: you're the host. So, so the question is Marqui's Bell
Speaker 6: and what we've seen from emer this year, right, would
Speaker 6: you would you consider bulking him up this offseason, keeping
Speaker 6: him a linebacker?
Speaker 8: Marky spell what you've.
Speaker 6: Seen from him, the only knock you really have on
Speaker 6: him is that he gives up size. Would you consider
Speaker 6: bulking him up and maybe making him a linebacker if
Speaker 6: you could do that, if he can sustain the weight,
Speaker 6: I first.
Speaker 9: And foremost, I would absolutely keep him at linebacker. And
Speaker 9: the thing that helps me make that decision is the
Speaker 9: presence of Juana Thomas, the emergence of Wanya Thomas. So
Speaker 9: there's that, and I know that De Marveon Overshown is
Speaker 9: set to come back, and I love what the Marveon
Speaker 9: Overshowing brings as far as a super high ceiling, but
Speaker 9: you still need to see him on the field post
Speaker 9: torn a cl give him some time to acclimate. We've
Speaker 9: seen it with Michael Gallup, We've seen it with Terrence Steele.
Speaker 9: When it comes to these devastating injuries, especially the torn
Speaker 9: a cl the guy isn't necessarily going to hit the
Speaker 9: ground running.
Speaker 5: In his first several games back.
Speaker 9: So for me, I'm looking at marku Spell saying, continue
Speaker 9: to do next year what you're doing this year to
Speaker 9: give the Marveon time to kind of get his groove.
Speaker 9: Because he was also a rookie, so he's still going
Speaker 9: to be a rookie because this is a real shirt season.
Speaker 9: He's going to have to grow through the growing pains
Speaker 9: even when he's physically one hundred percent and mentally one
Speaker 9: hundred percent. Now, you got to learn the game. Now,
Speaker 9: you gotta understand how to make your reads. So I'm
Speaker 9: keeping Marque's bell at linebacker going forward. To answer the
Speaker 9: second part. As far as him bulking up, I don't
Speaker 9: know if I necessarily want him to bulk up, because
Speaker 9: I wonder how much of his ability as far as quickness,
Speaker 9: would that takeaway. And that's my only concern. I'm not
Speaker 9: completely against it, but that will be my question mark.
Speaker 8: He looks like he has the frame for it.
Speaker 5: I mean, but go ahead.
Speaker 11: Heck no, no, that wouldn't do this to this kid.
Speaker 11: I mean, and I mean this in all respect to
Speaker 11: everybody here, but I would not do I think to me,
Speaker 11: I'm getting over shown back. I'm gonna draft one, probably
Speaker 11: a couple of them high.
Speaker 3: And then how much you like Trotter? Yeah, I love
Speaker 3: his dad. His dad was hell a player for me.
Speaker 11: That shows you how old I am. But the thing
Speaker 11: about it is with bell Man, you could use him
Speaker 11: in so many different ways. That's one of the reasons
Speaker 11: why you know we were we were talking about adding
Speaker 11: you know, member Shack Leonard was a question and adding
Speaker 11: him and could.
Speaker 3: Shack Leonard help.
Speaker 11: I was gonna play Shack Leonard at linebacker with Clark,
Speaker 11: and then I was going to take Bell and I
Speaker 11: was gonna just do him in a lot of different roles.
Speaker 11: I was going to move him around. I think if
Speaker 11: you ask him to sit there and play just to
Speaker 11: play linebacker, he's just he's okay.
Speaker 3: But you move him around and let him run and
Speaker 3: let him.
Speaker 11: React and let him make tackles and let him you know,
Speaker 11: if you want to create matchup.
Speaker 8: Like what they do with the other safety.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, just you know, let him be a
Speaker 11: part of that. And to me, I think you're taking
Speaker 11: away his strength if you just allow him just to
Speaker 11: be a linebacker. I He's proven to me he's more
Speaker 11: than tough enough. But now I'm going to draft linebackers,
Speaker 11: get linebackers, and I'm going to do other things with
Speaker 11: him to help my defense.
Speaker 2: Fair great question, Derek.
Speaker 10: I like your creative way of thinking.
Speaker 13: And.
Speaker 10: But no, no, I'm totally no. I'm totally with Bryan.
Speaker 10: And the reason is I remember all too well when
Speaker 10: we couldn't find a freaking safety to save our lives,
Speaker 10: Like the safety position was an issue for so many.
Speaker 8: Years, going back to the earlier because.
Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, but I'm good my group of safeties there
Speaker 10: untouched until further notice.
Speaker 2: So I'm I like the way he's playing.
Speaker 10: I think it's one of those like if he's doing
Speaker 10: that way, like, don't change it. Keep letting him develop
Speaker 10: into what he's becoming. But yeah, I'm totally with drafting somebody.
Speaker 10: You're gonna need somebody, And I wonder, what do you
Speaker 10: think that's the end.
Speaker 9: Of a very real possibility. It's going to be a
Speaker 9: conversation between him his loved ones. I think that's where
Speaker 9: we are with let vander As. We have this conversation.
Speaker 9: It's fifty to fifty, and I just really want him
Speaker 9: to make the best decision for himself for his family.
Speaker 6: And I think that's where it goes. I think it's
Speaker 6: going to be a question for him and his family
Speaker 6: of hey, how much you want to play around with
Speaker 6: this or do we want to just kind of call
Speaker 6: it quits. But he will have to make that call.
Speaker 6: I think, all right, we appreciate you guys, So back tomorrow.
Speaker 6: We're gonna do a little bigger picture of view. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna do like an end of regular season recap. I
Speaker 6: got lots of questions for these guys on the playoffs.
Speaker 8: I'm not end of regular season.
Speaker 5: He quit on it.
Speaker 8: No, it's the fact. Matter is we got shot next day.
Speaker 10: Everybody here's Here's Tuesday is a big picture day and
Speaker 10: Washington yea yea yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: Usually Tuesday is a big picture day. And now we
Speaker 6: don't have a big picture other than the playoffs. And
Speaker 6: I don't want to ruin all the topics of the
Speaker 6: playoffs until Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 8: It's the host, that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2: Let him do this, let me let him, let him
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 5: Let me be back tomorrow.
Speaker 8: So then Patrick Walker, Brian Rodis, and Amber.
Speaker 5: I'm Derek.
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