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Speaker 6: It is Tuesday, November seventeenth, two thousan I'm sorry. November seventh,
Speaker 6: twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, episode number sixty five. Welcome
Speaker 6: to the latest edition All the Break, Live from s
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Speaker 6: and of course Amber here with us.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 6: We're gonna talk to some big pictures. I'm gonna take
Speaker 6: a big picture look at this team. I got a
Speaker 6: few questions here to talk about some different topics around
Speaker 6: the team.
Speaker 2: We'll take a little bit of time.
Speaker 6: To talk about the NFL and where we think the
Speaker 6: NFC is, particularly in the NFC, how we think the
Speaker 6: teams are stacking up. Each of these guys give me
Speaker 6: their top seven and then of course we will start
Speaker 6: today with a.
Speaker 2: Little bit of news.
Speaker 6: Cowboys working out a wide receiver, and normally when this
Speaker 6: name came up yesterday, when I first heard it, I
Speaker 6: was thinking, okay, well they're just kind of looking around.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But then Jerry and his time with one O, five.
Speaker 6: Dot three of the Fan this morning mentioned on a
Speaker 6: couple different occasions, well we got this wide receiver that
Speaker 6: we're bringing in the workout today, which made me just
Speaker 6: kind of like, is it that big of a deal
Speaker 6: Martevis Bryant, guy that hasn't played in the league since
Speaker 6: I think twenty eighteen, So it made me think let's
Speaker 6: at least have the conversation and see if there's anything
Speaker 6: we should be thinking about here. Brian, I'll start with
Speaker 6: you going back to your scouting of Martevis Bryant as
Speaker 6: a player, and before you.
Speaker 7: Even get into that, why do we need a wide receiver?
Speaker 4: Oh, we're going to We're gonna get to that.
Speaker 2: We're going to that. We're going to let's start first.
Speaker 4: Okay, I got a plan.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm going to apologize.
Speaker 6: But I do want to start first with saying, okay,
Speaker 6: Martins Bryant, tell me about the player.
Speaker 7: Sorry, proceed, he's gonna just.
Speaker 6: One day, I don't know, one day He's not just
Speaker 6: we're good.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just wanted to see the scenario first before
Speaker 7: getting into the player. Yeah.
Speaker 8: The thing with Brian is though, I I I think
Speaker 8: it's an interesting look at a player just because of
Speaker 8: the sis factor of the player.
Speaker 3: Uh, the ability. I mean, I think this guy might
Speaker 3: have some of that like Deebo Samuel type ability to
Speaker 3: him when you hand him the ball, or you throw
Speaker 3: him the ball, or you watch him run with the ball.
Speaker 8: And unfortunately for him, you know, he got into a
Speaker 8: situation with the league that they suspended him, and you know,
Speaker 8: he missed the whole entire year. But you look at
Speaker 8: this guy's body type, the plays that he has the
Speaker 8: ability to make. Yes, it was you know, a few
Speaker 8: years ago, but he's the type of guy that's got
Speaker 8: something to his game. Back in the day, he was
Speaker 8: a physical receiver, he was a physical runner. There were
Speaker 8: things about him when you watched him play where you're
Speaker 8: like going, gosh, that guy's kind of hard to deal with.
Speaker 8: And you know, maybe that time has gone by, but
Speaker 8: I always am interested in going back and looking at
Speaker 8: players that might have come off from suspensions.
Speaker 3: You know, the.
Speaker 8: We've seen guys in the past that have come and
Speaker 8: they haven't been able to recoup or redo what.
Speaker 3: They were once were.
Speaker 8: But this guy is an interesting one just because of
Speaker 8: his background and where he was that before his suspension
Speaker 8: was playing at a pretty high level. So I'm okay
Speaker 8: with kicking the tires on something like this.
Speaker 2: Interesting thing about him. He's been in the league.
Speaker 6: He came into the league in twenty fourteen, played fourteen
Speaker 6: and fifteen, suspended for a season, Yeah, in fifteen, I
Speaker 6: mean our sixteen, came back and played seventeen and eighteen
Speaker 6: and has not played since twenty eighteen. So it's interesting,
Speaker 6: like where is he as far as physically, I mean,
Speaker 6: that's six years ago that you lasted, five years ago
Speaker 6: you last played in the NFL. It's a long time
Speaker 6: to not have taken an NFL snap. But obviously the
Speaker 6: Cowboys are kicking the tires. And then I think the
Speaker 6: natural question that comes from that, which goes to what
Speaker 6: A was asking.
Speaker 2: Is why are the Cowboys looking for a wide receiver?
Speaker 6: Does this at all say something about what they currently
Speaker 6: have on the roster or is this a situation where
Speaker 6: you just kicked the tires because he was a guy
Speaker 6: at one point that was interesting to you.
Speaker 4: I think it's more so that than anything. I've been
Speaker 4: kind of mugging around in my head for the past
Speaker 4: couple of days on this likely signing at this point.
Speaker 4: And it's no harm, no file if you want to
Speaker 4: give him a shot because you had some interest in
Speaker 4: him a few years ago, And it's not like you're
Speaker 4: trying to add him to the active roster and you're
Speaker 4: going to sacrifice somebody's spot. It's a practice squad situation.
Speaker 4: If it works out for you, great, If it doesn't,
Speaker 4: what did it cost you? Right?
Speaker 7: So time is money, time is fou.
Speaker 4: He's going to be on the same field with the
Speaker 4: same coaches and the same players as the other people.
Speaker 4: So it's not that it's costing them any more time
Speaker 4: than if he weren't here. So to speak, my bigger
Speaker 4: question is what are you expecting him to be? So
Speaker 4: let's say it does work out, Like, what does that
Speaker 4: look like for the Dallas Cowboys? Because what a success
Speaker 4: look like?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: What does the success look like for them? So if
Speaker 4: he does come in and he's doing what they want
Speaker 4: him to do, like, what does that create for them?
Speaker 4: Because for me, even if you are of the subscription
Speaker 4: that Michael Gallup might not be the answer. Okay, I'm
Speaker 4: not quite there yet, especially seeing how he recovered in
Speaker 4: the Philadelphia game after that drop. I would, for one,
Speaker 4: like to see more snaps to Jalen Tobart. You've seen
Speaker 4: Tobart produce Tobert gets the touchdown. You see Jalen Brooks.
Speaker 4: He's the undrafted rookie, he's on the practice squad, he
Speaker 4: was a standout in training camp. You have that as well,
Speaker 4: so you already have some semblance of depth at the position.
Speaker 4: Cavante turping is an option at wide receiver as well.
Speaker 4: Behind you know Cookson and Ceede, Lamb and Gallop Jake Ferguson,
Speaker 4: who I believe should be the number two target for
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott until further notice. That's the only question I
Speaker 4: have is if Martavis Bryant works out for the Cowboys
Speaker 4: from a schematic standpoint, what does that look like for
Speaker 4: them at that position? And that's what I can't yet
Speaker 4: figure out. And that's where you and I are on
Speaker 4: the same page as far as kind of bumping our
Speaker 4: head against that wall, like what are we not seeing
Speaker 4: here behind that wall? But as far as risk reward
Speaker 4: if it doesn't work out, Okay, no harm no foul
Speaker 4: pennies on the dollar, you send him on his way.
Speaker 4: If it does, where does that go? So that that's
Speaker 4: kind of a great area for me right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it makes zero sense to me whatsoever because of
Speaker 7: the needs. I mean, if you've been looking at a player,
Speaker 7: what about a tackle? What a lot about an old
Speaker 7: lineman that can be I didn't depth in hear when
Speaker 7: injuries keep piling up. So it's just it makes sero
Speaker 7: sense to me. And on the other hand, But on
Speaker 7: the other hand, I would say I do trust a
Speaker 7: lot on the whole player acquisition, player evaluation Will McClain
Speaker 7: and his group and everything that they've done when acquiring
Speaker 7: talent they have history has shown that they've done enough
Speaker 7: to back up a lot of the reasonings as to
Speaker 7: them bring whoever they want to bring. So there is
Speaker 7: that benefit of the doubt, like they know what they're
Speaker 7: doing in that sense, But looking at everything that we've
Speaker 7: been following this season, it really makes no sense either.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not going to put too much stock a
Speaker 4: hype into it. You know, it's a name that was
Speaker 4: big in his prime or his best days with Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4: I get that, but we're far removed from that, he's
Speaker 4: not had a lot of time in the lead the
Speaker 4: past several years. He's over the you know, event horizon
Speaker 4: of being thirty. He's going to the practice squad, not
Speaker 4: the active roster. You don't really need a body there,
Speaker 4: so it's kind of a luxury item. So I mean,
Speaker 4: just just calling it what it is, I'm not it's
Speaker 4: not moving my needle one way or another. If it
Speaker 4: works out, I'm interested to see what they would do
Speaker 4: with that. If it doesn't, you know, life goes on.
Speaker 8: I think the quay the practice squad rules are now
Speaker 8: with the way you're able to add veteran players. It's
Speaker 8: to me if if you're really interested in a guy,
Speaker 8: that's not a problem at all. I mean you could
Speaker 8: work on the Yeah, it's not going to cost you
Speaker 8: really any money, veteran minimum money probably you maybe even
Speaker 8: practice squad money right now. If you have a deal,
Speaker 8: we just elevate him. But you know, yeah, you keep
Speaker 8: him on the practice squad. He goes out there, say
Speaker 8: he does sign here, I think there's another team interesting Tennessee.
Speaker 8: If he doesn't sign here, I think he's going to
Speaker 8: go on to Tennessee and work out for them. So yeah,
Speaker 8: So you know, there's there's if it was trying to
Speaker 8: put a guy on the fifty three and having to
Speaker 8: move on from So I think that's your story. I
Speaker 8: think right now it's well, let's see if the guy
Speaker 8: could practice. Does he look like this guy's six ' four,
Speaker 8: two hundred and ten pounds and he's a big guy.
Speaker 8: So there might be something that at thirty one years old,
Speaker 8: halfway through the season, maybe the guy's kept himself in
Speaker 8: incredible shape.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 8: Maybe somebody a lot of times too, these could be
Speaker 8: word of mouth thinks, you know, and maybe you're maybe
Speaker 8: Will is talking to another team or talking to another
Speaker 8: guy and like, hey, have you have you done any
Speaker 8: work on this Bryant? You know, I've got some tape
Speaker 8: on him. I've seen some workouts. Or maybe an agent
Speaker 8: called up Jerry, or called up called up Steven, called
Speaker 8: up Mike McCarthy, you know, and said, hey, have you
Speaker 8: guys taken a look at this this this Brian. He
Speaker 8: looks like he's a you know, he looks like he's
Speaker 8: in shape. You might want to bring him in just
Speaker 8: to see. And that's how it happens a lot of
Speaker 8: the times. It might not be for a reason other
Speaker 8: than that somebody that you trust as an evaluator has.
Speaker 3: Given you a tip to take a look at this guy.
Speaker 6: And that's the thing, Like, it doesn't necessary. I get
Speaker 6: your point, Amber, Like there are other positions that are
Speaker 6: probably more important, but I do think it also it's
Speaker 6: a matter of what's available at the time. Like there
Speaker 6: may not be offensive line probably are not offensive linemen
Speaker 6: that are just out there right now for you to
Speaker 6: really look at every team a strapped for offensive lineman.
Speaker 2: Right, but there may be.
Speaker 6: Again, this opportunity just presents itself, and this is a
Speaker 6: guy that's like, let's just take a look and see
Speaker 6: and if he actually happens, actually it turns out to
Speaker 6: be a guy that even you can use on your
Speaker 6: practice squad to present what you need to looks for
Speaker 6: other teams play.
Speaker 2: Like you mentioned him looking maybe like a debo, right, if.
Speaker 6: He has some of that ability, and if you got
Speaker 6: to play San Francisco in the playoffs, it's a great
Speaker 6: guy to be able through out there during practice to
Speaker 6: be able to show you that.
Speaker 2: Look, right, yeah, there are certain things you can get
Speaker 2: out of that.
Speaker 6: Even if he never touches the field in a game
Speaker 6: for the Cowboys, right, yeah, agree.
Speaker 8: You know it's funny. You know, there was a time
Speaker 8: in my life. There was a time in my life
Speaker 8: where I always believe that, you know, you carried extra
Speaker 8: linemen and all that. This past trading deadline proved my
Speaker 8: point wrong because Minnesota aided a starting offensive lineman to Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: And anytime you say.
Speaker 8: Go long at go along at defensive line, go long
Speaker 8: at offense, it's hard to find these guys teams. You know,
Speaker 8: we found the team that was willing to trade. It's
Speaker 8: very very rare. And Minnesota did it before they were
Speaker 8: starting this little run that they're on right now. They'd
Speaker 8: won like two games in a row, and then at
Speaker 8: the trading deadline they trade one of their young starting
Speaker 8: linemen to Jacksonville, another playoff team. So, man, you know
Speaker 8: that's any time you ever hear me say, well, you
Speaker 8: know you're never gonna find it. That's bs because people
Speaker 8: will if you give somebody the right amount of trade compensation.
Speaker 8: And I'm trying to make it to Ambar's point, if
Speaker 8: you want to go out there and to trade online,
Speaker 8: they wanted to go find an offensive lineman.
Speaker 3: They could have gone and found an offensive lineman.
Speaker 2: Give up something for it.
Speaker 3: You got to give up something for it.
Speaker 8: Where's Where's like a time in my life where I
Speaker 8: never believe that was ever gonna happen, and for a
Speaker 8: long time it didn't. But in this day and age,
Speaker 8: there's two things I've learned. Your starting quarterback can be moved.
Speaker 8: That when you can cut an Aaron Rodgers, you've proven
Speaker 8: to me that you can go and get a quarterback.
Speaker 8: Or someone's always willing to move on from their starting quarterback.
Speaker 3: It used to be not that way. They'd keep those.
Speaker 8: Guys and contracts would run out if there were no
Speaker 8: good But now people trade for quarterbacks and they move
Speaker 8: on from quarterbacks and elite type quarterbacks.
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Speaker 6: It's Christmas time.
Speaker 4: Literally is going to be feeling the love you.
Speaker 3: Had your mind there.
Speaker 6: I actually looked up as you were reading Brian right
Speaker 6: behind you on the TV. It had like a commercial
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Speaker 2: Here's what I want to do. I want to go through.
Speaker 6: We did this last week, and I think I'm gonna
Speaker 6: make this a weekly thing because this NFC is really
Speaker 6: interesting to me. But I want you guys to take
Speaker 6: the top seven teams right now and put them that's up.
Speaker 7: I'll started doing my full dive into who are they playing?
Speaker 7: But honestly, you've give him.
Speaker 6: All.
Speaker 3: Right, here we go.
Speaker 6: I got the top seven teams. I want you to
Speaker 6: put him in wader. We got Philadelphia, Detroit, San Francisco,
Speaker 6: New Orleans, Seattle, Dallas, and Minnesota. Put them in order,
Speaker 6: top to bottom.
Speaker 2: Top seven?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Did you did? I do? I have one too many?
Speaker 3: Did you put New Orleans in there? Yeah? Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're leading their division.
Speaker 3: Selective listening right now as we speak.
Speaker 8: Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit, Dallas, Seattle, Minnesota, New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Wait, that was your order, That was my order. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I say it again. You need it fast. You already
Speaker 2: had this written now, you had yell doing this on
Speaker 2: the show later.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no way.
Speaker 8: I just took advantage of when everybody was talking to
Speaker 8: look at these teams. Uh, Philadelphia, Yeah, San Francisco got it, Detroit, Dallas, Seattle,
Speaker 8: Minnesota on a heater right now?
Speaker 3: And New Orleans.
Speaker 4: The interesting thing interesting?
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 6: The interesting thing to stand out there is Detroit third.
Speaker 6: That was interesting. Yeah, and then also, uh, you got
Speaker 6: New Orleans behind Minnesota?
Speaker 2: No, did you get I have Minnesota.
Speaker 3: I have Minnesota ahead of New Orleans.
Speaker 6: Right, that's also kind of interesting because Minnesota doesn't have
Speaker 6: their quarterback, but they got Josh Job.
Speaker 2: Now they're playing the Cowboy.
Speaker 3: They're playing great right now.
Speaker 8: I mean, but if you're talking, if you're talking about yeah,
Speaker 8: you'll probably see them.
Speaker 3: In the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Ye right, No, that dude, man, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: don't even know what to think of.
Speaker 8: But they're they're playing, they're playing really well. I mean,
Speaker 8: if you look at what they're doing defensively, they're finding ways.
Speaker 8: They're playing without their their leading wide receiver too in
Speaker 8: that game of these games, so it's crazy they figured
Speaker 8: some things out up there.
Speaker 2: And traded their guard.
Speaker 8: Like I mean, it's it's like they went from being
Speaker 8: like give up mode to like, well, maybe we can
Speaker 8: find a way to win the NFC North. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 8: but I think I think Detroit is really I don't
Speaker 8: think Detroit gets nearly enough credit for me. I I
Speaker 8: kind of feel like that people always talk about Philadelphia
Speaker 8: and San Francisco Detroit is a team that you don't
Speaker 8: I don't think you want to play and you're going
Speaker 8: to catch them at the very end, and you know
Speaker 8: they might be playing for positioning and seeding and all
Speaker 8: that whould be a difficult game to begin with. But
Speaker 8: that is a physical, mean, nasty team and they got
Speaker 8: a quarterback that doesn't turn the all over. You know
Speaker 8: they got they got run by the Ravens. I think
Speaker 8: the Ravens might be the best team in the NFL.
Speaker 8: I mean the way that they pay are against NFC teams. Yeah,
Speaker 8: they blasted Seattle, they blasted Detroit. You know that division
Speaker 8: they play in too. Cincinnati is getting better. So yeah,
Speaker 8: that doesn't talk about what we're dealing with right now.
Speaker 8: But that that that AFC North is uh has got
Speaker 8: some got some.
Speaker 3: Teeth to it.
Speaker 11: Ye.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go because just like last week, I had
Speaker 4: the struggle of Seattle versus is Detroit, and I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna use the Baltimore game as a wash from both
Speaker 4: of those teams. Lions got walked by the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 4: and the Seattle Seahawks got walked by the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 4: So that keeps me at Seattle ahead of Lions. So
Speaker 4: let's go this way. Let's go Philadelphia. I want to
Speaker 4: say it, so I'm going to say it. Philadelphia, Seattle, Dallas, Detroit,
Speaker 4: San Francisco, and.
Speaker 3: San Francisco ran you you.
Speaker 4: Did, yeah, but they're also completely faced down in the
Speaker 4: mud right now that they need to write their ship.
Speaker 3: You can get all those guys back, and it's gonna be.
Speaker 4: Right back to where until it happens, it hasn't happened.
Speaker 4: He threw me off. So I got Philadelphia. Who is
Speaker 4: the Philadelphia, Seattle, Dallas, Detroit. I'm sorry, see y'all throw
Speaker 4: me off? God, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, Dallas, Okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, that makes more sense. Okay, San Francisco third, Okay,
Speaker 2: I got.
Speaker 4: I got Dallas, then Detroit, then Detroit, then Minnesota, then
Speaker 4: New Orleans. All right, let's do it that way.
Speaker 2: All right, that makes sense.
Speaker 4: Throwing me off?
Speaker 6: You really threw me put in San Francis. I got
Speaker 6: a fifth. I was like, wow, that was.
Speaker 4: I think that was one of those things where your
Speaker 4: brain is saying something, but your your processing so your
Speaker 4: mouth said something else. Why y'all pause?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that's that just threw me and Brian off
Speaker 2: a second, like.
Speaker 4: Because Brian had the selective listening and then I had
Speaker 4: the brain forart.
Speaker 8: Okay, cool, all right, I'll tell you what. I'll say
Speaker 8: this about San Francisco. They're gonna get those guys back. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it's gonna be No, we'll see if the quarterback could play.
Speaker 8: That's that's where this single come down to.
Speaker 2: We are putting to them.
Speaker 6: Now it's starting to get some doubt in his mind
Speaker 6: because he hadn't had any reality exactly where you start
Speaker 6: to make a quarterback question his own abilities.
Speaker 2: And now we'll see how that how he was?
Speaker 4: You were we the ones having the conversation walking up
Speaker 4: to the press box, just off the conversation about Seattle
Speaker 4: versus San Francisco, and I was saying, I felt like
Speaker 4: if San Francisco had to go to Seattle in the
Speaker 4: playoffs to win that game, I don't think they win
Speaker 4: that game.
Speaker 6: No, we did not have that conversation, and I would
Speaker 6: vehemently disagree with you. Okay, I think San Francisco runs
Speaker 6: that division. I honestly believe San Francisco.
Speaker 4: I think they they run it until further notice. But
Speaker 4: I think that Seattle was ready to change that. It
Speaker 4: feels like Seattle is ready to change that.
Speaker 6: I still, for some reason, I still think of Seattle
Speaker 6: as a good team that's not quite there to be
Speaker 6: one of the best in division.
Speaker 4: Which is why I would say this is what the
Speaker 4: key is at home in the playoffs. If they have
Speaker 4: to go to San Francisco, Seattle loses that game. But
Speaker 4: if you factor in the twelfth man in that environment
Speaker 4: and the Seattle Seahawks, I think that's a game that
Speaker 4: the forty nine is lose. I I would love to
Speaker 4: see it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, honestly, the first round of the playoffs,
Speaker 6: I fully expect San Francis is gonna win that division.
Speaker 6: So it's gonna be Dallas and Seattle kind of there
Speaker 6: and four, five and six slots.
Speaker 2: I think that's my opinion.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I do believe that because I think San Francisco
Speaker 6: is gonna get their guys back, and when they get
Speaker 6: their guys back, they're going to get on that roll again.
Speaker 6: And by the way, just look at what San Francisco does.
Speaker 6: They do this every year. There's a moment in this
Speaker 6: season where everybody's like, oh man, san Francisco's got problems.
Speaker 6: Then and usually it's because of injury, and sure enough
Speaker 6: they get it back on the right track. And when
Speaker 6: they get it going, then it's kind of like, oh yeah,
Speaker 6: we all should have known.
Speaker 4: This is still getting it in my gud and much
Speaker 4: like the love I have for the Lions are doing it.
Speaker 4: I'm right there with Brian. This one with the Lions.
Speaker 4: Something in my good just makes me feel like Seattle's
Speaker 4: got something for whoever if someone has to go to
Speaker 4: Seattle for a playoff game.
Speaker 2: I'm just not there yet on them, not there yet
Speaker 2: on them?
Speaker 4: All right, ab what you got?
Speaker 7: No? No, I did, I did, I did, have plenty
Speaker 7: of time, and I just keep going. I'm just I'll
Speaker 7: be honest. I'm unprofessional sometimes because it's hard to it's
Speaker 7: hard to take sometimes.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, like right now, because I wanted to make
Speaker 3: sure I heard your ya.
Speaker 7: Because it's hard, I wouldn't say unprofessional. Let me say unbiased.
Speaker 7: Opinion is actually the right word. I'm very professional. So
Speaker 7: I take that back, it's unbiased. But my thing is
Speaker 7: I'm having So I put Vikings first, Eagles second.
Speaker 2: Wait, huh what yeah, Vikings at the top team in
Speaker 2: the NFC.
Speaker 7: I put them ahead. Yeah, Okay, your opinion, unbiased opinion
Speaker 7: would be Eagles first, bias, just first. And they're still
Speaker 7: I still they're a great team. Okay, we've seen it,
Speaker 7: but every game lately has been so close that I
Speaker 7: just feel like at some point somebody else is going
Speaker 7: to figure it out and beat them and get them.
Speaker 7: So it's that's what.
Speaker 3: It's Buffalo or Kansas City.
Speaker 6: But you know that's that's actually an interesting that's an
Speaker 6: interesting thought because I've I've seen people talking about this
Speaker 6: in circles on social media, and to me, I actually
Speaker 6: look at that as a positive for Philadelphia because I'm like, if.
Speaker 2: You tell me you've gone eight and one and you.
Speaker 6: Still haven't played your best football, that says to me
Speaker 6: that you have a team that number one never gets rattled.
Speaker 6: You know how to figure it out in bad situations,
Speaker 6: even when you're not playing your best football. You figure
Speaker 6: out how can we still get the win. It probably
Speaker 6: means you know how to win in a lot of
Speaker 6: different ways because you've been presented with different situations where
Speaker 6: some week it has to be your offense has to
Speaker 6: take the lead, some weeks, your defense has to take
Speaker 6: the lead, some weeks, your special teams that whatever it is.
Speaker 6: They're figuring out how to win even in situations where
Speaker 6: they probably shouldn't win the game. And that's where I like,
Speaker 6: I'm looking at that and I'm like, that scares me
Speaker 6: more about Philadelphia than if they were just running through teams.
Speaker 7: And it's fair high. It's that whole glass glass half full,
Speaker 7: half empty, depending on their perspective. I'm choosing the other
Speaker 7: one half empty type of mentality. Were you gonna say something,
Speaker 7: let's just.
Speaker 8: Ask you something real quick though, Guys about that. Okay,
Speaker 8: Philadelphia has the ability, like when they're not playing great
Speaker 8: to put games away. Is that opposite of what the
Speaker 8: Cowboys are?
Speaker 6: Well, there's only really been there's only really been that year.
Speaker 8: Does that Does that make you nervous that your team
Speaker 8: doesn't have that ability right now?
Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 6: You've had really two games where you've been challenged through
Speaker 6: the end of the game. One of them you won,
Speaker 6: one of them you lost, right. All the other games
Speaker 6: either you killed the other team or they killed you, right,
Speaker 6: So it's like, do you have you really seen that?
Speaker 6: Do the Cowboys have the ability to finish a game
Speaker 6: when they're right there?
Speaker 8: I think Philadelphia's plan was to make Dallas keep playing.
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, that they'll make a mistake
Speaker 8: that you know, Philadelphia down the stretch was nails where
Speaker 8: Dallas fell apart.
Speaker 4: Well, it almost worked against them because they were nails
Speaker 4: until they fell apart, which is what extended the potential
Speaker 4: game when driving the first Yeah, the both teams fell apart.
Speaker 8: But Philadelphia's falling apart like three times this season and
Speaker 8: they won all the games.
Speaker 3: Right, That's what I'm saying. When you fall apart, you're
Speaker 3: not going to win.
Speaker 8: Arizona fell apart in that game, really though, right, Yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean really never had a chance.
Speaker 4: Right, So in the games that you had a chance
Speaker 4: going down to the wire.
Speaker 6: Only won one, lost one, right, I mean, I don't
Speaker 6: get again, I don't think any of the games.
Speaker 3: Trust you trust this team down the stretch. You really
Speaker 3: to finish a game to go get a win.
Speaker 4: I trust the defense to do so. If it's if
Speaker 4: it comes down to it and the defense is on
Speaker 4: the field, yes, I trust that they can get that.
Speaker 4: With the offense.
Speaker 3: You don't try, okay, but you don't trust the offense.
Speaker 4: The offense still has to show it because the defense
Speaker 4: and that one in one record. The defense is who
Speaker 4: closed it out. That's who I have the trust in.
Speaker 4: The offense didn't close it out. The offense made a
Speaker 4: mistake false start allowing the sack. So right now, until
Speaker 4: the offense shows it, no, I don't in the offense
Speaker 4: and the defense, yes, I do. So it just depends
Speaker 4: on who's on the field right now. I don't.
Speaker 8: It bothers me that they didn't finish that game. I mean,
Speaker 8: it completely bothers me. And and I don't know if
Speaker 8: that's man. Maybe it's something we've seen. They get down
Speaker 8: in the red zone, they get down tight red zone.
Speaker 8: They've had problems all year. You know, are they going
Speaker 8: to fix those problems keep cost them games?
Speaker 7: And Dyke played a really good game. And but it's
Speaker 7: one of those things that you tend to always criticize,
Speaker 7: you know, you put it all on the quarterback. So
Speaker 7: and we started I mentioned it you. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 7: this is a time where Dak needs to show up.
Speaker 7: And then let me in my head and this is
Speaker 7: not a fair comparison, but I'm like, man, imagine you
Speaker 7: having Rogers and he's in that situation right now. You
Speaker 7: just take the automatic like you just automatically assume you're
Speaker 7: gonna walk out of that game with a win. We
Speaker 7: have plenty of time to get in there. And what's crazy,
Speaker 7: I thought the Cowboys will only have the last chance
Speaker 7: to do it, and then they came back again for
Speaker 7: a second chance to actually get into the end zone
Speaker 7: and it still didn't happen.
Speaker 4: So I did to start. But you know why though,
Speaker 4: and this goes right back to my point, the way
Speaker 4: the defense clamped down in the fourth quarter and forced
Speaker 4: more than one punt from the Eagles offense. So if again,
Speaker 4: if it came down to it where it was Jalen
Speaker 4: Hurts and the Eagles offense trying to mount a game
Speaker 4: winning drive against the Cowboys defense in Philadelphia at one hundred,
Speaker 4: have confidence, but flip it and it's like, Okay, well,
Speaker 4: you know, it's an offense that had struggles for the
Speaker 4: first part of the season and now it's an offense
Speaker 4: that had some offensive issues. So no, until they show
Speaker 4: me that they can close out the game, I can't
Speaker 4: rightfully say I believe they can close out the game.
Speaker 4: But the defense has shown it. So that's for me
Speaker 4: where I'm hanging my head.
Speaker 6: I still go back to like Ambry, I think you
Speaker 6: hit the nail on head. For me, there are certain
Speaker 6: teams that when you're playing them, you're actually thinking, if
Speaker 6: your team gets a score and it's at the end
Speaker 6: of the game, you're like, how much time's left? Like
Speaker 6: I don't want to give that offense time to go
Speaker 6: down to score, because I know they will go down
Speaker 6: to score. Like if you're playing the Chiefs and you
Speaker 6: give them a minute and they only need a touchdown
Speaker 6: to win, or they need a field goal to win,
Speaker 6: You're like, man, we left too much time on the
Speaker 6: clockt right, But that's what I'm saying, Like, there are
Speaker 6: certain teams that are like that, and I don't want
Speaker 6: to confuse it, Like that's never been the conversation that
Speaker 6: we've had, Dak, Like that's the difference between a really
Speaker 6: good quarterback and the greats in the game right now,
Speaker 6: right there are only a few of those that you
Speaker 6: feel like, if they get the ball, it's happening, there's
Speaker 6: no question about it. But you and I, as we
Speaker 6: were sitting there watching the end of that game, we
Speaker 6: were both saying, is this Dak's moment to kind of
Speaker 6: ascend to that and start showing us that and we
Speaker 6: we that wasn't the outcome. In quite frankly, as is
Speaker 6: the case a lot of time, I don't think it
Speaker 6: was necessarily his fault.
Speaker 4: I think it could be.
Speaker 6: I think once again, and that's why I say offenses,
Speaker 6: because it's not just the quarterback.
Speaker 2: In this instance.
Speaker 6: It goes back to like, this was not just about
Speaker 6: Dak not making the plays. It was about your offensive
Speaker 6: line failing you in a moment when you needed them
Speaker 6: to be able to give him time twice to make
Speaker 6: the plays that he needed to make in order for
Speaker 6: you to win.
Speaker 2: That was a problem.
Speaker 7: We go back to several a couple of years ago,
Speaker 7: and you would go into games where the offense would
Speaker 7: have a very slow start, Dak having slow starts, and
Speaker 7: then in the second half of games he would come back.
Speaker 7: The offense would come back, get their act together and
Speaker 7: start scoring points. But it was always a little too late,
Speaker 7: like they would get up there, start scoring scoring, scoring,
Speaker 7: Oh well, damn, we ran out of time. They didn't
Speaker 7: make it. They should have won that game, And I'm
Speaker 7: that's where that's that's what I'm tired of. They should
Speaker 7: have They should have over here walking I'm not gonna
Speaker 7: name names, but walking around. People that come up to me,
Speaker 7: we should or want on stop. I don't want to
Speaker 7: hear it. I'm pissed off right now. I don't want
Speaker 7: to hear anymore. I'm tired of it. But anyways, I
Speaker 7: had the Vikings versus Eagles, forty nine Ers, Seattle, New Orleans, Detroit, Dallas.
Speaker 7: I don't know where I want to put Dallas because
Speaker 7: once again my bias opinion. Right now, I'm mad at them.
Speaker 7: I'm up said, I'm hurt. I don't know what to
Speaker 7: think of them. I don't I don't know where to
Speaker 7: place them because last week I spent all week truly
Speaker 7: believing that they were gonna win against the Eagles, and
Speaker 7: I set up with my chest all over the place.
Speaker 7: I was talking around all like other people that did
Speaker 7: not say Cowboys with their chest.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't.
Speaker 6: I was not confident about that game, and I said
Speaker 6: made no Honestly, I said before before we went into
Speaker 6: the game, I said, they got to show me after
Speaker 6: what happened in San Francisco, they got to show me.
Speaker 2: And they still haven't shown me.
Speaker 6: And by the way, if I'm doing any rankings for
Speaker 6: the NFC, the Cowboys cannot come in right now, before
Speaker 6: Philadelphia and San Francisco, because what I've seen in the
Speaker 6: games is they have not been able to beat those teams.
Speaker 6: And I'll say this, Dallas is a really good team,
Speaker 6: and I think up against any team in the NFC,
Speaker 6: Dallas will win the game.
Speaker 2: Any team in NFC other than.
Speaker 6: Those two teams right now, they got to show me
Speaker 6: because that's just not been what they've put.
Speaker 4: On on the field yet.
Speaker 8: And you're gonna get to see Detroit, and you're going
Speaker 8: to get to see in Seattle, yep, yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 8: then you get a couple of shots some AFC teams
Speaker 8: that are right in that same boat of good teams,
Speaker 8: and we will find out a lot about this team.
Speaker 6: But right now, I think those are the two teams
Speaker 6: I look at, and really there's probably only four or
Speaker 6: five in the NFL that I think I would put
Speaker 6: above the Cowboys right now. But that's also the problem.
Speaker 6: They're right up there with those teams. They have not
Speaker 6: shown they can beat those teams yet. Like that's the
Speaker 6: Kansas City's, the Baltimore's, the the Eagles, the forty nine ers,
Speaker 6: Like they haven't showed they can beat those teams yet.
Speaker 6: That's what I got to see in order to feel
Speaker 6: confident that they can make a deep running.
Speaker 4: The thing it's fun though, is that the from three
Speaker 4: to i'd say five, those three to five slots margin
Speaker 4: of aeras so slit. It is.
Speaker 3: The margin of ara of Cowboys offense is very slip.
Speaker 4: So, I mean, you got to get any your rankings,
Speaker 4: and when you're listening to this, if you're ranking one
Speaker 4: through seven, once you get three to five, whatever you're organization,
Speaker 4: however you organize it, it's probably gonna make sense. You
Speaker 4: could probably justify it, make it makes sense. Yeah, all right,
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Speaker 6: Here's some big, quick, big picture questions I want you
Speaker 6: guys to answer. Let's start with this one. Whose play
Speaker 6: is more concerning, Terrence Steele or Michael Gallup.
Speaker 4: M I'd say Michael Gallup. Reason I say Michael Gallup
Speaker 4: is for the hearkening back to what we were talking
Speaker 4: about yesterday, Terrence Steele, when you were having the offensive
Speaker 4: line injuries and those issues across that old line, it
Speaker 4: was Terrence Steele who was the bright spot over the
Speaker 4: majority of the first part of the season going into
Speaker 4: the by That gives me a lot of confidence. That
Speaker 4: combined with his play from last year before he suffers
Speaker 4: the twin acl Yeah, he as of late, he's had
Speaker 4: two bad days at the offices. Last Sunday was the
Speaker 4: worst at the office, But for the most part, I
Speaker 4: think he's showing that he can get it together and
Speaker 4: keep it together. Michael Gallup, on the other hand, while
Speaker 4: physically he's back to where he needs to get. The
Speaker 4: mental side of it is still not consistent enough. For
Speaker 4: Michael Gallup. He had a couple of good games Arizona,
Speaker 4: New England, the game's prior struggled the games after he struggled.
Speaker 4: He had a drop the key drop early against the Eagles,
Speaker 4: but then he bounced back. Kudos to him for doing so.
Speaker 4: But when you combine that the up and downs of
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three with the struggles to find his way
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty two, there's not a lot of recent
Speaker 4: see positives for Michael Gallup. Talent still there. Absolutely, skill set, physicality, physically,
Speaker 4: he's imposing, all of that's still there. But I think
Speaker 4: for him it's mentally more than anything else. And that's
Speaker 4: what's concerning. For Terrence Steel. I think he bounces back,
Speaker 4: maybe as early as this week.
Speaker 8: Kind of feel like it's it is Gallup. But the
Speaker 8: thing we've learned about Gallop, it's two good games for
Speaker 8: poor games, and that's been his history and so maybe
Speaker 8: that's what he is. You know, we felt like that
Speaker 8: maybe he could take that next jump. We talked about injury,
Speaker 8: him coming back, the off the field stuff he deals with.
Speaker 8: You know, being in the right place, right mind, all
Speaker 8: that works extremely hard. But he is who he is,
Speaker 8: and that's you know, like I say, you're gonna have
Speaker 8: flashing flashes of brilliance those catches he makes that are
Speaker 8: contorted along the sidelines. I don't know how he got
Speaker 8: his feet down, but he just did. And then you're
Speaker 8: going to have the play where they you know, have
Speaker 8: the unfortunate drop. But that's the inconsistency of his game.
Speaker 8: Maybe somebody else he gets more consistent, but for this team.
Speaker 3: He hasn't been.
Speaker 8: What's surprising to me about Steel is what he's dealing with,
Speaker 8: you know, coming back from the injury, and he's going to.
Speaker 3: Work extremely hard. He's going to be prepared.
Speaker 8: His run blocking hasn't been as good as it normally is.
Speaker 8: I understand the pass blocking struggles that he has because
Speaker 8: that's part of his game, that really, really is part
Speaker 8: of his game, and he does a great job of
Speaker 8: masking it at times. But you know, when it when
Speaker 8: it rains, it pours on him too. But he's not
Speaker 8: been as consistent as a run blocker, and that to
Speaker 8: me is the most surprising thing about his game. It's
Speaker 8: not what happens to him as a pass blocker, it's
Speaker 8: what happens to him as a run blocker, and it's
Speaker 8: but it's gallop. But both of them have had their issues,
Speaker 8: as we all know.
Speaker 7: I would definitely go with tern Steel because that's the
Speaker 7: but I have trust that he can get it together
Speaker 7: because it hasn't been a consistent like what we saw
Speaker 7: against the Eagles, hasn't been the storyline for his season
Speaker 7: coming after that injury, So I don't think it's something
Speaker 7: that we're going to be consistently talking about week after
Speaker 7: week as the main issue of the old line in general.
Speaker 7: I think he'll get better and it was just a one.
Speaker 7: You had have one bad day that went really bad
Speaker 7: for you, and it happens. It has happened to a
Speaker 7: lot of other people. But I would say the old
Speaker 7: line in general, more so than just Staring Steel, just
Speaker 7: finding some type of consistency for the old line. We
Speaker 7: haven't seen an established running game yet that has not
Speaker 7: happened all year, and I think it steams from or
Speaker 7: stamps from the old line and what they're doing and
Speaker 7: not doing for Tony Poller and the rest of the backs.
Speaker 7: So I think that's that would be the main concern
Speaker 7: Michael Gallup again. I don't know if I'm ready to
Speaker 7: give up on him as far as I given him chances.
Speaker 7: But it's one of those things again my feelings, I'm like,
Speaker 7: I'm mad at you. Go sit down for a little bit.
Speaker 7: He'll take a break. Go we go to the Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: go for it, just for a little bit, Just for
Speaker 7: a little bit. I still love you, you know, I
Speaker 7: still love you. I'll give you a hug afterwards, but
Speaker 7: take a moment to reflect and we'll we'll come back
Speaker 7: to you. Uh. And because some of the things we've
Speaker 7: seen from Tober, he's had those moments, you know. But
Speaker 7: it's it's one of those when it's not working. I'm
Speaker 7: a big disbeliever or I don't know the right word
Speaker 7: of forcing things. I don't think I don't think it
Speaker 7: makes it work, but you just keep trying to force
Speaker 7: it on people and stuff. He just he's not catching
Speaker 7: a break right now. And maybe you give him, you
Speaker 7: force him to have a break for a little bit
Speaker 7: and then bring him back up. But I would definitely
Speaker 7: go with steal right now, just for the moment.
Speaker 8: This team needs to focus on on on Lamb ferguson
Speaker 8: it Cooks. That needs to be their offense right now. Yep,
Speaker 8: they're not going to be able to run the balls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they they don't. It's going to be hard.
Speaker 8: This team is now you now have it's not a
Speaker 8: small sample size anymore.
Speaker 3: We're halfway through.
Speaker 8: They've got to ride Dak and they've got to ride Lamb,
Speaker 8: and they've got to ride Ferguson and the Cooks has
Speaker 8: got to find a way when he gets opportunities to
Speaker 8: make plays.
Speaker 3: That's where they need to go.
Speaker 8: Because the other ones, if they get the other ones
Speaker 8: to kind of step up, great, But the ones they
Speaker 8: need to focus on are the ones that I mentioned.
Speaker 6: So going on that, what do you guys think is
Speaker 6: the biggest reason that Brandon Cooks hasn't been more involved
Speaker 6: in the offense. Do you put it more on him
Speaker 6: and his abilities of getting open? Do you put it
Speaker 6: more on the offensive line not getting time or the
Speaker 6: play calling not getting him Downfiel getting him into situations
Speaker 6: where he's open.
Speaker 2: Where do you place most of them?
Speaker 8: They scheme stuff for him and then you know they're
Speaker 8: going to run a play where he's it's going to
Speaker 8: take some time for him to get from the right
Speaker 8: side of the formation to the left side of the formation.
Speaker 8: They're running place to try and get him open. They
Speaker 8: ran a pick for him the other day on the
Speaker 8: goal line to try and get him open.
Speaker 3: Uh. They're doing things to try and get him open. Uh.
Speaker 3: But then if you have a blitzing.
Speaker 8: Linebacker, Uh, Tyler Biattish unable to handle Jalalen Carter.
Speaker 3: And you know, now Dak can't go that way. Uh.
Speaker 3: It's really or he or all of.
Speaker 8: A sudden, they motioned Tony Pollard out in the flat,
Speaker 8: and now he's trying to find space on a scrambled drill.
Speaker 3: But what does he do.
Speaker 8: He runs into Cook who's trying to find space too,
Speaker 8: and both of them get eliminated from the play. I
Speaker 8: think the coaches are trying to find ways to get
Speaker 8: him the ball. I think there are certain certain situations
Speaker 8: and things that happened during the play that don't get
Speaker 8: him the ball, and they.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily other people.
Speaker 4: You can't.
Speaker 8: You don't quit on him because he is your best
Speaker 8: route runner in my opinion. He's the one guy that
Speaker 8: can separate. He's the one guy that can get in
Speaker 8: and out of the breaks. He's the one that can
Speaker 8: taken They can make the big catch when you need
Speaker 8: him to, So keep keep trying to get him the ball.
Speaker 8: It'll actually come to him. But they're dealing with a
Speaker 8: lot of he's dealing with a lot of bad luck
Speaker 8: when they're trying to get him the ball.
Speaker 4: Right now, I couldn't have said it better. Not much
Speaker 4: to add to that other than just to double down
Speaker 4: on it's it's certainly not his lack of separation ability
Speaker 4: to get open. He's getting open. The rest is everything
Speaker 4: that Brian said.
Speaker 7: I mean, you've made it a point of what game
Speaker 7: was that when they kept targeting and speaking of Michael,
Speaker 7: what game was it New England?
Speaker 4: Was his last game when they targeted Chargers?
Speaker 3: Was it Charger? Charger?
Speaker 7: So where I was trying to go with that is you've,
Speaker 7: as a play caller, you kind of made it a
Speaker 7: point to target him and try to get the ball
Speaker 7: to him. And the reason, the only thing that makes
Speaker 7: sense to me as to why they kept going to
Speaker 7: him was because they had some sort of plan that
Speaker 7: they were trying to make it happen that day. So
Speaker 7: my thing is like, if they did that with him,
Speaker 7: how come you can't do that with the guy like
Speaker 7: Cooks and the whole time in wise and all. That
Speaker 7: makes some sense, But then why is that an option, like,
Speaker 7: if it's not going to give you enough time to
Speaker 7: like go throw it at him, why is that even
Speaker 7: an option to begin with?
Speaker 8: You know what, I think that to me, I don't
Speaker 8: force it. I let it happen because my number two,
Speaker 8: my number one and number two options are good enough
Speaker 8: to win games. Throwing the lamb and throwing to Ferguson
Speaker 8: is good enough for me to win games.
Speaker 3: You know, if Cooks.
Speaker 8: Gets four targets, three receptions and it's fifty eight yards
Speaker 8: and three first.
Speaker 3: Downs on the catches, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2: But CD got off, Yeah City, But City.
Speaker 8: Had CD had twelve catches for one hundred and forty
Speaker 8: three yards, and then Ferguson had seven catches for one
Speaker 8: hundred yards.
Speaker 3: I'm going to live with that all day.
Speaker 6: And the other thing to consider on that point, Brian,
Speaker 6: I think is that when you get deeper into the
Speaker 6: seas and when you're gonna have that run of Seattle, Yeah, Dolphins, Buffalo,
Speaker 6: you got all these good teams, you're gonna need a
Speaker 6: wrinkle that hasn't necessarily shown up in a big way
Speaker 6: to win one of those games, maybe two of those games.
Speaker 6: And if you haven't used Cooks in that way, you
Speaker 6: can create some opportunities where teams come in because of
Speaker 6: what their scouting says. You're trying to get the ball
Speaker 6: to CD, you're scheming him open. That could create some
Speaker 6: opportunities for you to scheme open Cooks and go into
Speaker 6: a game saying we're going to scheme him open because
Speaker 6: they're not really looking for that.
Speaker 2: We haven't shown that as much.
Speaker 8: If you ask me for a fourth guy to add
Speaker 8: to my I'm going to mix. I'm throwing Turpin in there.
Speaker 8: Turpin shown to me that he the game is not
Speaker 8: too big for him. I always worried about him not
Speaker 8: you know, I didn't like the fact he didn't fair
Speaker 8: catch the ball and he you know, time went off
Speaker 8: the clock at the end.
Speaker 3: I think that was kind of a mental mistake.
Speaker 8: But overall, with his ability to run, run after catch,
Speaker 8: you know, get open, get open, you know, to make
Speaker 8: a secure catch, He's now I'm putting him in there. Okay,
Speaker 8: if if any wonder you others other than the three,
Speaker 8: I need you, but I'm it's gonna be limited, but
Speaker 8: I'm gonna get you when when I do throw you
Speaker 8: the ball, please make a catch for me. You know,
Speaker 8: if I get you two balls and you make two
Speaker 8: catches for two first downs and a and a red
Speaker 8: zone touchdown like like Turpin did.
Speaker 4: And the toughness, my goodness, how tough is that guy?
Speaker 8: I am now pairing down my offense to just make
Speaker 8: sure and and it's gonna help Dak. You know, it's
Speaker 8: there's no more questions about Okay, do we have to
Speaker 8: throw it the goalp No, we don't, because we're gonna
Speaker 8: throw it to Turpin, and we're gonna throw it the lamb,
Speaker 8: and we're gonna throw it to Ferguson because I know
Speaker 8: those guys are gonna make plays. I don't have time
Speaker 8: to waste it down over here on somebody that might
Speaker 8: not make a play.
Speaker 2: Ye, all right, real quick, let's get to lap cooat
Speaker 2: what we got over there?
Speaker 4: Bring me in.
Speaker 2: Beamer, Yes, science?
Speaker 4: All right? So started and actually finished my deep dive
Speaker 4: into some receiving comparisons around the NFL for the Science Lab.
Speaker 4: This week's edition drops on Thursday. Check that out on
Speaker 4: the dot. Calm, ladies and gentleman. Magic number today is
Speaker 4: forty eight. We're gonna round down to forty eight. I
Speaker 4: wanted to see how Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb as
Speaker 4: a tandem measure up against some of the best tandems
Speaker 4: in the league. And obviously I'm talking about you know,
Speaker 4: Pukah and Cooper and Mike, not Michael, but Matthew, Tua, Tyrek,
Speaker 4: things like that. Forty eight is the expected points above average.
Speaker 4: For those that aren't familiar with EPA, that's basically saying,
Speaker 4: prior to a play, this is what the points expected.
Speaker 4: After the play, this is what the new points expected.
Speaker 4: How valuable was that play in that situation? Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 4: and Dak Prescott are ranked number three in the entire
Speaker 4: NFL as a tandeman expected points above average? Who's top two?
Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts and aj Brown number one to in Tirek
Speaker 4: number two. That's some great company to be in. That
Speaker 4: caused me to go a little bit deeper and I
Speaker 4: looked at twelve categories across the league. The Cowboys, as
Speaker 4: far as Dak and Ceedee Lamb lead the league as
Speaker 4: a QB wide receiver tandem in seven of the twelve categories,
Speaker 4: stretching from passer rating, completion percentage, success rate, yards per attempt. So,
Speaker 4: if you're wondering if cedd Lamb had ascended as wide
Speaker 4: receiver one, if you're wondering if the chemistry between he
Speaker 4: and Dak Prescott have reached that upper echelon of the NFL,
Speaker 4: the answer definitively is yes, it is, absolutely so keep going,
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott ceedee. Lamb goes to everything Brian and Derek
Speaker 4: and Ambar talking about feed the Lamb, feed the Lamb,
Speaker 4: and feed them good. All right?
Speaker 7: Can I say something quick?
Speaker 2: Just well, what are you gonna say?
Speaker 7: Nice defense? I'm not talking to you. No, I just
Speaker 7: gotta I gotta text with someone that's listening. And apparently,
Speaker 7: in my dumb joke didn't translate into when I said
Speaker 7: Vikings first. There's a reason why I said Vikings first
Speaker 7: ahead of the Eagles. I was just being dumb about it,
Speaker 7: but I don't know if you translated to the I'm
Speaker 7: not that stupid, but I just wanted to clarify because
Speaker 7: apparently some people didn't get my The.
Speaker 3: Longer you do this, the more you don't pay attention
Speaker 3: to right exactly.
Speaker 2: You're like, if you don't get it, you don't get it.
Speaker 2: You know, you know you know right, So if your
Speaker 2: head all right, we appreciate you. Guys.
Speaker 4: We'll be back.
Speaker 3: You got platforms, they don't.
Speaker 6: Good point, all right, we'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna
Speaker 6: jump into the Cowboys versus the.
Speaker 2: Giants, so we're gonna talk about that this week. Right,
Speaker 2: we are all right, let's talk about Cowboys.
Speaker 7: Overlooking.
Speaker 6: We will start with we will start with the Giants
Speaker 6: offense tomorrow versus the Cowboys until then for Patrick Walker.
Speaker 2: Brian brought us Ambergarci. I'm Derek.
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