WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Dak or Lamar for MVP? 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.440 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:07.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:15.160 Cowboys Let's go. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:16.760 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:17.279 Yes? 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:19.160 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.960 Absolutely? Ready for a break? 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:22.599 Yeah? 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:24.319 And so much for that. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.760 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:35.480 Were with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought Us, Patrick Walker and 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:36.680 Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.320 It is Monday, January eighth, twenty twenty four, Season nineteen, 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.879 episode number one three. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.280 The Break. We are a lot from SWBC Mortgage Studios 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.240 at the Star and we're talking Cowboys and the NFC 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.840 East Championship. They go last night and beat the Washington 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.920 Commanders in convincing fashion. They went thirty eight to ten 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:03.440 and on the road, nonetheless, and so it sets up 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.880 nicely for them. They are in the second seed and 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.480 pretty much everything you wanted to happen if you're a 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.880 Cowboys fan happened to where the Cowboys have the matchups 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:13.080 that you would prefer. 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:14.600 Now, it's all playoff. 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:15.959 Teams, so there are no guarantees when you get to 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:17.640 this time of the year, but I would think the 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.520 matchups play out the way you kind of want them, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.959 and so we'll talk about that a little bit as 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:23.920 we go throughout today's show. We're going to recap that 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.560 game a little bit and talk about some different performances 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:27.880 that stood out to us. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:28.760 I'll start first. 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:30.840 Instead of doing we normally do on a Monday where 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:32.560 we look for the storyline of the game, I want 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.880 you to give me a bigger picture storyline of the season. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.400 If you had to write a storyline for the twenty 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.960 twenty three regular season, what would it be. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:42.240 Patrick, Let's give you the first shot. 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.480 I'm going to go with Dak Prescott's resilience. All everyone 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:50.320 could talk about after last season was his fifteen interceptions. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.560 That's the whole storyline for the entire offseason. And suddenly, 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.000 even though that was clearly an aberration, when you looked 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.160 at how Dak Prescott protected the ball in the seasons 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.640 prior to that, it was, oh, he's a turn over machine. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.200 He'll give the ball away. And we sat here, uh and. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.720 Several of these panels talking cowboys to break, and we 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.720 started dissecting, said, Okay, some of those are attributable to him, 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.800 some are miscommunications and miss timing with the receiver on 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.840 the back end you come up, that's work tip right, 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.520 perfect example though. Credit the Washington defense for no doubt, 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.959 but they put in the work this offseason. Dak Prescott, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.760 Cede Lamb, Brandon Cooks, Jake Ferguson, these guys and they 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.000 got on the same page. You credit Mike McCarthy with 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.840 you know, his installs for this Texas Coast offense and 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.240 the timing and things that they've been able those mechanations 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.000 they've been able. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:37.240 To get going. 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.160 And now you're talking about Dak Prescott leading the leads 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.720 the league, ends the regular season as the league leader 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.720 in touchdowns to only nine interceptions and the ninth wi 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.600 was that kind of fluke tipped interception against Washington. So 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.400 magnificent bounce back season for Dak Prescott has him uh 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.240 in the MVP conversation right up against Lamar Jackson. And 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.360 I still think that, you know, it should go to 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.919 Dak Prescott, especially when you consider he's able to do 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.480 what he did as far as leading the league in 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.880 touchdowns with only nine interceptions and he sat out several 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.640 of the fourth quarters the season. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.280 So for me, that's the big picture. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.960 Dak Prescott as if there were any doubt and there 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.799 wasn't in this building. Dark Prescott is the franchise quarterback 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:18.600 now and later for the Dallas Cowboys. 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.399 Ironically, I kind of wish he would have actually made 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.040 the comment that he was was attributed to him. I 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.480 wish you would have actually said that, because that would 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:28.960 have been fun at this point. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:30.760 But but yeah, no, go ahead, Amber. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.920 Oh, I think this is the year. I feel it. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:48.040 You guys are superstitious. Well you know what. Sorry, before 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:49.480 it never happened. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.160 So that's. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:55.480 What you. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:57.720 Start over. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:01.160 We got a ship. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.240 I don't know. I don't know. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.920 And by the way, I say, shoot, say something else 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:08.640 my accent and no, it was my accent. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.400 I didn't say that. I don't do that. I don't. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:12.880 But it's a memorable. 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:15.600 Ahead. 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:15.880 Sorry. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.279 The point is, it's a memorable season. You talk about 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:24.200 all the Okay, let's gather ourselves. It's a season where 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:29.279 many many cool things have happened, historical, historic things. We 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:33.000 talk about Darn Bland, the records he was able to set. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.400 We talk about finally, Jimmy Johnson getting inducted into the 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.400 Ring of Honor, such a cool moment. You already said 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.919 everything about Dak Prescott, which he's having the best season 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.960 of his career. He's playing the best football he's ever played, 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.120 Ceedee Lamb, the connection and the way that Ceedi Lamb 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.520 has stepped up into that role and just looks absolutely 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.520 great everything that he's been able to do. So I 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:00.000 think like just all these little things, all these little 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:05.359 nuggets of happening this season there is very very special. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.919 It just leads me to think that maybe you know, 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.159 you got what it takes to compete. And I think 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:15.600 that this weekend, the setup and how everything fell through 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.440 for the fell into place for the Cowboys, I couldn't 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.960 ask for a better opponent than Green Bay. I'm so 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.800 excited for this weekend. Not only you're playing at home 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.960 at a teenth stadium, but also you know, Mike McCarthy 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:32.320 is still pissed from last year. The Cowboys got beat 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.960 at Green Bay last year, and then I think he's 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.479 still kind of you know, you don't get over that. 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.560 You're gonna come in this weekend looking to get a win. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.359 And I think the Cowboys have everything they can to 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.520 actually come out this weekend, compete and get a win. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.359 Mike McCarthy's willingness to adjust say the season, oh yes, 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.120 they were not a good offensive football team to start 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.400 the season. They had pieces in place to have a 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:02.720 very good offense. The way the offense was being run, 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.080 the way it was executed the first five weeks of 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:07.960 the season wasn't going to be good enough for you 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.520 to be twelve and five and second seed in the 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:17.239 National Football League in this conference. And so his ability 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.880 to listen to his coaches, to listen to his players, 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.560 to look within himself and say this is not the 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.280 way this thing needs to go. I think saved the season. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.640 It wasn't going to be good enough. And I think 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.400 he knew that. I give him credit for that. 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.200 And you know, to that point, Brian, I think when 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.080 it comes to Mike McCarthy, I look at him and 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.600 I'm thinking, this is why you hired this type of 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.120 veteran coach. Because coaches have to understand that it's not 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.480 about them, It's not about their system. It's about how 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.760 do you tailor what you do to the players that 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.040 you have. And as we saw it, as we've seen 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.440 the season go on, they have more and more, in 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.640 my opinion, tailored this offense to Dak Prescott and Ceedee 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.240 Lamb and it is working and everything else is an 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:03.160 offshoot of Dak Prescott and CD lamp And I think 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.719 that's a credit to the coaching staff and their ability 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.400 to morph this thing from what it was at the 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.160 beginning of the season when the results weren't what you wanted, 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.120 to what it has become now in one of the 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.440 most prolific from a record standpoint, maybe close to the 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.800 most prolific offense in the history of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.520 You know, one thing I love just the intergect really 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.920 quickly when it comes to McCarthy. Excellent point by Brian. 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.200 One thing I love about McCarthy is since he's coming 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.480 to this organization, he has shown that he's not he 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.000 is he perfect, no Mike Nolan, but he's shown that 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.320 he's not afraid to quickly move off of a thought 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.600 and idea of philosophy if it's not working, He's not 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.240 going to hold tight to it for two years, three years, 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.200 be it a coordinator, be an assistant coach, or just 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.600 being you know, how an offense is run. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.240 So you talk about one year with Mike Nolan, he 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:49.120 moves on. What does he do? 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.160 Home run higher with Dan Quinn shouts to the front 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.400 office for making that happen as well. You talk about 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.360 in a microbe this season, like Brian said, you had 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.240 to come to Jesus moment in Week five against the 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.360 forty nine ers. What do you do You get in lab, 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.120 you get with your analytics team that has been revamped 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.520 this offseason, which is something that a lot of people 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.120 were worried about with Mike McCarthy when he came into Dallas. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.080 Is it going to be the old school, just old 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.880 football culture. Is he going to embrace analytics. He's embraced 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.360 it this season like we've never seen before. So all 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.000 of that goes to the fact that I just love 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.720 how McCarthy is willing to look something in the face 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.720 and take accountability for if it's not working, and then 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.480 he fixes it. And that's why the Cowboys in the 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.960 position they are right now three twelve and five seasons, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.880 clinched the division twice in the last three seasons, and 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.280 like Ann bar said, you are matched up favorably, You're 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.719 you're getting hot at the right time. Your running game 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.800 kind of found some legs against Washington, which we will 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.920 talk about here. But McCarthy, he for those that are 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:43.600 saying whether the Cowboys have to do this or this 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.520 or this for McCarthy not to be on the hot seat. 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.120 Get I get where you're going with that, But when 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.160 you look at what he's been able to do in 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.360 his short period of time here, McCarthy's not. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:57.920 He's he's not anywhere. Stop it, stop it. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.280 No, I'm talking about you know. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.440 Actually, actually we're going to get to that a little 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.320 later in the show because Jerry did have some comments. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.400 He was asked about that last night, and I want 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.319 to get some comments from you because there are a 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.319 lot of different ways you can read that. I kind 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.560 of agree with you, guys, but there's some different ways 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.040 you could read Jerry's comments. And one thing I know 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.559 about Jerry Jones, at least from what I've perceived in 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.000 the years that I've worked in this building, is sometimes 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.080 he doesn't like people to feel comfortable. And I read 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:24.600 from this and we'll get at this a little later, 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.040 but maybe it's just a little bit of if I 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.040 don't want anybody right around here right now to feel comfortable, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.679 everybody should be a little bit on edge, because that's 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.360 when you get the best out of people. And everybody's 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.360 a little bit on edge. All right, Let's talk about 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.480 Dak Prescott. You mentioned him, Pat, and last night he 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.719 was thirty one to thirty six, eighty six, eighty six 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.400 percent completion rate. I think it's been four games this 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.120 season he's been over eighty percent completion rate. And by 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.320 the way, this is an eighty percent completion rate, eighty 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.240 six percent completion rate when he's just dnking and dunking 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.240 down the field. He's taking some shots in there too. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.240 That's a great percentage. Two hundred and seventy nine yards passing, 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.760 four touchdowns, one interception, and one hundred and twenty four 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.760 point four quarterback rating. You mentioned it, Patrick, I want 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.800 everybody give me an opinion here. Do you think Dak 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.800 Prescott has a legit shot at the league MVP? And 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:14.640 if so, how would you make the case for him. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.760 I mean, he has a shot, legitimate shot. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:21.640 I think it's a legitimate shot. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.000 I think that up to this point, going into week seventeen, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.840 Week eighteen, you still had and obviously you still have 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:29.199 the conversation of Brock Party. 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:30.680 For example, in one. 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.160 Of the quarterbacks right now in the conversation. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:34.400 Yeah, it's just one of us. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.520 It's Lamar and Dack wanted to and it's for me 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.280 that's right there, and then you have Purty beneath them 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.880 as far as he has justification for being in the conversation, 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:42.480 but it's. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:43.079 Neck and neck with Dak. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:44.560 The numbers just don't match it for right. 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.199 So, and I can't stress enough how much I love 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.960 what Lamar Jackson is doing. And also just as a sidebar, 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.520 because of when he came into the league, how we 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.680 entered the league, and how everybody, oh, he's a running back, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.679 and for him to put up the quarterback numbers he's 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.199 putting up and get the Baltimore Ravens despite because they've 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.080 had adversity as well up and they get that number 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.640 one seat. So Lamar Jackson deserved to be there. But 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.040 for me and Dak Prescott, it hearkens back to number 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:10.240 one the level of improvement over twenty twenty two. So 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:11.880 that's a big part of it as well, because you 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.880 look at all the work they put into the lab. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.040 He and the receivers, and the receiver coaches and the 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.400 quarterback coaches, Shot Humer McCarthy, they all went in the 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.880 lab and then how here we are twenty twenty three 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.520 slow start to twenty twenty three. As far as offensively, 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.760 what do you do week five, you get your ass 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.880 handed to you. You have to come to Jesus moment. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.040 And he's been on fire ever since. Ceedee Lamb has 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.800 been on fire ever since. Like you said, they've Ceedee 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.160 Lamb and Dak Prescott offense runs through them. Everything else 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.040 is a ripple effective that they figured it out even 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.120 when the run game has not been going well, which 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.000 means that it was on Dak Prescott's shoulders to carry 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.520 this offense and through ceed Lamb to make sure that 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.920 it kept moving forward. So for me, while Lamar Jackson 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.960 is the most valuable player on his team one hundred percent, 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.400 I'm still I'm sixty forty for Dak Prescott based on 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.000 what he was able to do, the numbers he was 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.200 able to put up and without having to play as 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.800 many quarters as Lamar and Jackson had to play in 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:04.679 order to put up those particular numbers. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.560 So for me, it's it's Dak Prescott. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.520 And again no knock to Lamar Jackson will deserving great 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.319 contender in this conversation, but yeah, look at the bounce 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.320 back here from twenty twenty two, and it's Dak for me. 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.439 One beat six playoff teams. The other beat three. That's 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.520 how you got to kind of look at this and 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.800 you look at the the only real losses. The Pittsburgh 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.320 Steelers have a good plan when they play Lamar Jackson. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.280 I guess they have the right personnel to match up 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.280 with him. But you look at what they were able 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.800 to do in Baltimore. Yeah, it's one more game. They 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.679 handedly beat San Francisco. I think that's something that people 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.840 will look at, you know, when you start to talk 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:48.640 about common opponents, you know, how did they and the 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.760 Ravens played great defense that night in San Francisco, There's 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:52.719 no question about that. 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.559 But you look at you look at how they got the. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.400 Number one seed. Dallas is the second seed. Was it 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.880 all on dak Absolutely? You can say a lot of 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.360 it's on on Lamar Jackson as well. I mean, Lamar 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.840 Jackson would kill to have Cede Lamb as a receiver 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:08.440 over there. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.080 He's got a really good tight. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.320 End and some you know, some some good receivers, but 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.840 not anything like Cedd Lamb over there. I just think 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.520 that voters are going to look at the number of wins, 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.600 the quality wins that maybe the one thing if there's 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.280 a split, it might be what did they do head 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.920 to head against one of the best teams in the league, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.599 San Francisco. That was a bad loss for the Cowboys, 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.240 a good win for the Ravens. You know, that's the 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:32.680 kind of thing that voters will look. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.520 At, especially when it's this close and you got two 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.280 guys that really are Yeah. 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.720 Well, I'll be honest, I have a pretty biased opinion, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.640 and mainly because and you mentioned Patrick last year. We've 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.679 been following Dak's trajectory for since the star of his 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.600 career and you kind of you know, you see the 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.800 things and how much he's stepped up and how much 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:58.839 he's changed as a quarterback from last year to this year. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.040 And at times there were multiple games where he was 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.840 the best, the one actually carrying the team, and we 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.600 had many questions about that, many unanswered questions. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.600 Can he be that guy when needed? 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.960 And he showed to be that guy without a set 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:21.320 o line, you know, healthy old line, without Zeke not 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:25.360 having kulated and that running back quarterback dual type of 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.280 dynamic there. And we've seen those games for him and 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:33.480 just everything. So again, my opinion is completely biased, I'll 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:33.880 be honest. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.120 Yeah, I mean, I think he's got a legitimate shot. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.360 I agree with Brian, though I don't know that it's 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.160 hard to make the case that he's better than what Lamar. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:44.960 He's had a better season than with Lamar, and I 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.880 think that's the key is those those wins against those opponents. 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.360 I was looking at that last night. You gotta love 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.120 where Dallas sits. If they're at home, right, the three 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.240 games that they've played against playoff contenders, they've won them 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.720 at home. Yes, there have been four games against playoff 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.360 teams that they have not won a single one. So 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.440 it's like when you look at that, that's where you're 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.520 kind of like, Okay, if they're at home, I love 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:07.160 the Cowboys. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.440 Right they're on the road, I get a little bit shaky. 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:13.160 Lamar hasn't had that and so and also you start 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:14.880 looking at it and you start saying, Okay, what was 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.880 the signature when for Dak this season? Was there a 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.240 game where maybe they weren't favored. Was there a game 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:25.200 that they were against a really, really tough opponent and 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.120 Dak just completely lit him up like Lamar did against 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:29.880 San Francisco. And I don't know that to have a 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.240 game like that for Dak, and I don't know you 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:32.760 guys may have one, but I don't know to have 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.000 a game where I'm like, that was a team that 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.160 Dak should not have done what he did. And again 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.560 that's again, this is not a knock on Dak as 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.040 much as it is just when you're parsing between two 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.560 guys who are very very close, both have had exceptional seasons. 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.160 That has had an historic season. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.400 Yeah, in my opinion, the best of his career. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:52.680 But when you're trying to compare him to Lamar, I 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.520 think there is a little bit of distinction there that 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.360 I think the voters will actually take into account. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:58.520 It's going to be a close call, but I mean 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.880 every point that's been made on this panel today is 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.000 a valid point in both directions. And that's why it's 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.640 such a detailed conversation because, like you said, when you 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.120 get to this point and you have two players that 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.640 are this close as far as both being deserving, now 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:13.600 you got to start nitpicking. Yeah, and then that's the 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.600 unfortunate part about it, but you know that's what it 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:15.960 comes to. 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:17.800 Yeah, all right, we're gonna take our first break when 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:18.120 we come back. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.480 Let's talk about the rushing offense last night a little 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.600 bit better, Maybe you'd say, but we'll talk about that. 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.360 We'll talk about where they were good and where maybe 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.680 they struggled. 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