WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Scouting The Raiders Offense 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.080 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.959 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:16.360 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:21.680 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:27.960 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:32.880 It is Wednesday, December thirteenth, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, episode ninety. 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.559 Welcome to another edition of The Break. I'm Derek Eagleton, 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.839 the real host of The Break, and um, you came 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:42.600 back with a nice tan from the Bahamas. It was 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:49.120 snowing in New York anyway. Wow. Um. After a lot 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.360 of work and uh and a lot of promotion of 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.520 what we do as a group, I'm back in studio 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:57.800 now and ready for the show to resume. How about that? 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.640 What I sway to phrase? What about tomorrow? Are you 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.720 gonna be here tomorrow? I will not be here. I'm 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.800 out again tomorrow. Yeah. But uh, but Amber, she's now 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.039 a professional at this and so she should be able 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.560 to hold it down. She can kill it. She and Dave, Nick, 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.040 You're out with me tomorrow. So we're doing we'll do 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.960 management type things tomorrow and we'll leave Amber and Dave 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.200 to handle this. Okay, cool, to be fun. The millennials 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.280 will be the millennial show of the Break and Nick 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.319 and I will be doing other things tomorrow weeking of 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.320 Millennials tomorrow, So we're gonna miss tomorrow show. Yes, we 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.319 are gonna miss tomorrow show. I'm gonna miss. I don't 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.840 know about you. I'm definitely missing tomorrow show. I think 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.120 you should host tomorrow, Is that right? Yep? I think 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:47.200 you should be the birthday host. It'll be your party tomorrow. Okay, 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.000 Happy birthday to Dave. I'll just do Marco Murray. I'll 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.400 just do the whole thing. Yeah, be fun, it'll be great. 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:57.400 I'll listen, okay, but no, I'm probably won't Livensten's. I'll 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.560 listen later. Week of birthdays around here it has. Brian 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.120 had his birthday, Amber had her birthday. Now Dave's gonna 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.440 have his birthday. Is there's somebody else coming up this week? Oh? Nick? 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.800 When is it it already happened? You were going? Did 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.320 I miss it? It was Monday? Yep, that's okay. I 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.000 had to go buy and do something nice for him 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:16.639 or say something. We're having a nice birthday to day 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.120 he's lunch. Yeah, it'll be fun. Did you guys give 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.240 any input on where we're going to lunch today? This 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.400 is all in the air, you know that. Oh sorry, 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.800 I kind of forgot we were on there. Okay, just 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.200 kind of talking. I figured everybody else might want to 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.519 join un too, right, that'd be fun. I'm thinking me, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.840 you've seen that firston. Oh yeah, let's do it all right, 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:39.480 Let's let's talk some Cowboys football. Um, let's talk about 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.600 the Oakland Raiders. Cowboys have a unique opportunity at this point, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.040 and they're still alive despite everything that's happened this season, 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.800 still alive at seven and six. This week's challenge is 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.239 to go to Oakland and beat the Oakland Raiders, who 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.560 if you look at any team in the NFL that 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.360 I think parallels the Cowboys, it's the Oakland Raiders. And 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.120 I'm thinking more from a big picture standpoint, last year, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.480 how both teams kind of popped onto the scene, had 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.800 great seasons. You had young quarterbacks, You had teams that 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.840 were kind of their defenses were a little bit iffy, 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.079 but the offenses were just humming last year and then 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.080 this year. Things go wrong for both teams, I think, 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.639 and they end up kind of in a very similar situation. Oakland, ironically, 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:25.280 I think it's still in position to possibly win their division. 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.640 I'm not positive about that. Theoretically they're not. They're not 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:32.320 mathematically eliminated from winning their division at this point. And 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.960 the Cowboys obviously in the same kind of situation. Although 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.520 they aren't necessarily in the driver's seat, they still are 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.320 theoretically in contention for a playoff spot. And now they 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:47.400 meet up on Sunday Night Football this week. Yeah, be fun. Yeah, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.760 I don't know. I don't know what to say to 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.440 all that. Like, I agree, I guess. I mean, I 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.200 think I think the Raiders are a team that had 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.560 high expectations, so the serted the Cowboys and you know, 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.000 and this is the nature of the NFL. I mean, 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.400 Dave Dave had the list the other day of like 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.600 sixty three players that are like really really good players 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.200 that are not playing for whatever reasons for their team. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:10.880 And now I don't know if the Raiders, all these 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:12.960 teams across the league, just these two teams, No, I 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.120 don't think the Raiders actually have Well it's funny that 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.000 you say that they well they well, they might they 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.640 might on Sunday, because it remains to be seen if 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.120 a Marie Cooper is going to play it all for 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.040 the rest of the season. Goodday night. He's not good 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.880 not this year. Well, he's a good receiver. We we 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.600 spent ten minutes talking about how much Dez dropped off. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.720 I got some numbers for you right here. Really as 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.480 stands as a stands right now, Mari Cooper has forty 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.600 two catches for four hundred and ninety nine yards five touchdowns. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.080 Which you remember how many games? Um, I mean he's 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.560 been in and out, but we'll find it. Well, yeah, 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.880 pull it up for me. It's he's he's been there 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:55.239 for most of okay, um average of eleven point nine 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.839 yards per reception, which Das is at eleven point seven. 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.719 Cars missed some time though, two which could affect Car 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.960 Maury Cooper. They both are having bad years, both probably 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.680 as a result of injury. Cooper's got this ankle that 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.040 he can't shake. Car hurt his back earlier in the year. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.039 Cars having a bad year. He's averaging two hundred twenty 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.320 six yards a game. He's completing sixty three percent of 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.479 his passes. He's thrown eighteen touchdowns and ten picks. Oh 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.960 he's not. I mean they're not playing well, they're not. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.960 And is this about the running game? I think honestly, 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:27.920 if you compare it to last year, like what went 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.440 wrong compared to last year? How how well their offense 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.480 will playing? We know this year the Cowboys, it's it's 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.240 a lot about Ezekiel Elliott. What has been their thing 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.000 that's different this year. I think it's their quarterback. That's 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.640 what I'm trying to tell you. That he's just bad 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.280 this year relative to last year. It's one of those things. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.640 It reminds me a lot of DeMarcus Lawrence, where like 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.800 he got dogged for two years. He didn't play very well, 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.039 he was hurt, he had a back injury, he played 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.760 through it for the good of his team. It's we like, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.360 you know, it's hard to say this because Derek car 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.039 is still playing, but like I assume he's not at 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.760 one hundred percent. There's no I just refused to believe 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.040 you could play at an MVP level. I mean he 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.880 was in the MVP conversation before he broke his fibula. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:07.680 He missed the last two weeks of the season. He 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.960 wasn't there for the playoffs. They were people thought they'd 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.680 go deep into the playoffs where he got hurt. Yeah, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.400 last year hurt his back. I don't think he's been 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.320 the same guy. What point did he hurts back this year? 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.840 This was in October and he missed a few weeks. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.760 He came back. He's been playing ever since. But again, 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.560 I mean all right, I mean nineteenth in total offense, 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.840 fifteenth in passing offense twenties and to your point, twenty 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.279 six and rushing offense twenty first in scoring offense, they're 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:40.520 only averaging twenty points per game. He has not been 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.159 lighting the world on fire. And like I said, for 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.000 him to drop from an MVP level, the offensive lines 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.680 all still there. I mean, I mean Donald Penn awesome, 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.680 Melly gave Jackson, who they gave a big contract extension 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.800 too over the summer. Right guard Marshall Newhouse, Like, it's 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.680 the same dudes who were just Mall and people last year. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.400 And Marshawn Lynch. I don't know that he's the same 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.800 guy he was when he was in Seattle, but he's 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.120 still an effective running back. And so I look at 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.240 it and I'm just like quarterbacks not playing at the 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:10.720 level that you thought he was when you gave him 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.840 all that money. You talk about that offensive line this year, 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.800 they're twenty six and sacks allowed. They've given up twenty 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.480 one sacks, which can't be good for a quarterback with 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.640 annailing back right and so, and I would suspect, I 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.520 don't know the number, right off hand, I would suspect 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.120 he was not getting hit that often last year. That 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.640 maybe another reason that's contributing to some of the difficulties 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:37.000 at their experiencing. And as we are, the stats are ugly. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.200 I mean, you know, we don't like to take games away. 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.160 And this might be a point that Dave would have 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.120 made here, but he had eleven catches, two hundred and 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.480 ten yards two talk about Cooper. Yeah, okay, Cooper, I 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.000 know you were talking about car I was just looking 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.600 at these Cooper stats. He's played twelve games. He has 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.840 a two hundred and ten yard game with two touchdowns 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.920 and eleven catches. Like that was amazing. How long ago 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.680 that was the can the City Wild? Yeah October um. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.440 But he's got two hundred and eighty nine yards in 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:12.400 the other eleven games. Whoa, we'll back up, Yeah, he's 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:16.000 been two hundred and eighty nine yards. I'm trying to 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.360 do a quick math here, four ninety nine to ten 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.480 in one game. So two eighty nine had a bad 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.800 year and three touchdowns, that's what I'm saying. You can 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.200 say he's good. That's remarkably bad, Like it's a lot 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.040 more on No, no game more than sixty two yards. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.400 But against the Chiefs to ten with the world watching 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.120 on Thursday nine, that was a great game. And this 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.920 is every bit of it. You know, this was one 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:42.959 of the most explosive offenses in the year. Left. Yeah, 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.760 last year, Derek Carr, like I for the third time, 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.679 he nearly won the MVP, or was at least in 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:51.439 the consideration. Was Otavius Murray the runner last year? Yes? Okay, 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:57.120 So did the Cowboys want Cooper to play or not? Maybe? Yeah, 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.400 you you probably you probably want to go in and well, 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.240 you know, you've got five touchdowns that I mean, he's 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.400 still kind of he's still I don't the fact that 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.840 he had a two hundred yard receiving day says that 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.720 it's possible, Like, yeah, he's capable of doing that. And 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.040 you know how the luck is of this team if 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.920 there's something that's that that can be exploited. Sometimes you 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.280 end up in a bad situation and he gets exploited. 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.720 I just uh, I mean they made they made that 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:26.200 Denver offence look all world in week two. So I 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.480 in researching this scouting report, there are people that say 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.559 he might not play again the rest of the year. Like, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.200 I don't know, so we'll see. I don't know what. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.320 You know, it's two, it was, it's early in the week, 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.800 it's only Wednesday. Nobody's practiced yet. That's something to keep 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.600 an eye on. But the other thing with that is like, 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.000 as this all tends to kind of snowball. Quarterback's not 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.959 playing well, the offensive line hasn't been great, Cooper's not great. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:55.400 And then after Amari Cooper, like this is either leading receiver, No, 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.959 he's not, their leading their leading receivers Jared Cook okay, 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:03.360 and then tight end, yeah, Michael Crabtree is there as well, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.760 but like without a chain, hey will, I just don't 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.360 wear it on the field, dude, I don't get it deads. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:15.840 Don't wear your diamonds. Jordan Lewis, if we're asking Joan's 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.800 gonna steal this is going to be though, Yeah, my 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.600 thing is is this for as dynamic as they were 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.840 last year with Amari Cooper either out or hobbled. I 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.400 was just not afraid of most of the I mean, okay, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.560 Jared Cook, he burned the Cowboys in the playoffs. I 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.040 get that he's a good player. He's got six hundred 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.240 and twenty one yards, he's averaging thirteen yards per catch, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.839 But like, if that's your best option, if tight ends 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.640 your best option, then is that far for you to 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:44.199 move the ball consistently? Michael Michael Crabtree's got He's sitting 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.559 on five hundred yards like that, I mean a lot 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.120 like the Cowboys. Larin't larry in a lot there in 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.680 terms of just like this amazing dynamic passing production. After 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:58.680 after Cooper, you go Crabtree and then Cordurell Patterson, who 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.880 is like, I'm so, but he's the epitome of looks 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:06.160 like Tarzan, plays like Jane like that guy doesn't. He's 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.880 never done much for me. He's a great he has 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.719 at times been a great kick returner. He's way more 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.840 likely to like get an end around than go down 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.000 the field and catch a football. And you know, um, 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.160 talk to me a little more about Marshawn Lynch. Is 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.040 he is he a guy that is not getting Like 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.200 we talked about the fact that they are twenty six 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.840 and rush yards per game. Is that more a function 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.440 of them not running him enough like his Are his 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.080 yards per carry high enough that has suggested if he 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.439 got more carries, they'd have a more productive running game. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.840 Or is this just simply a situation where they're just 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.880 not running the ball well at all? See and I 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.800 watched the Chiefs game, which they were atrocious, and he 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.080 looked like Marshawn Lynch to me. I mean they were 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:52.160 running power, power runs and trap stuff. He's cutting fieldback, 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.840 bulldoze and over linebackers, and I mean it wasn't like 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.360 he was great. Obviously, they didn't score any points until 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.160 late in the third order of that game. They lost 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.200 twenty twenty nine to fifteen, or twenty six to fIF 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.640 twenty six to fifteen. But he's still he looks like 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.600 the same guy to me. He's got six hundred yards 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.640 on the year, seven touchdowns. If you watched him play 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.839 the Giants two weeks ago, he had a sixty yard 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:20.280 touchdown run. Like he can still do that stuff. It 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:24.360 just hasn't been there for whatever reason, and you know, 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.880 the offensive line, maybe that's that's part of it. Like 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.240 you said, twenty six and sacks, but for them to 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.480 only be a Russian for ninety one yards a game 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.800 seems weird to me. Like I said, I don't think 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:37.480 Marshawn Lynch is the same guy, but I don't think 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.760 he's dropped that far off that it's predominantly on him. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.040 All Right, So tell me the one thing, if there's 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.760 one thing you can isolate and say, if they are 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.120 a productive offensively, this will be the reason why. This 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.080 is the one thing that they do well that they 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:56.560 could possibly exploit against this Cowboys defense. Well, I'm Marshawn's 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.080 averaging four point two yards per carrying just forever that's worth. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.839 That's a pretty decent which I'm happy that Anthony Hitchins 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.600 and Sean Lee will both be That's what that was 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.079 My main impression from watching them play was like, Marshawn 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.120 Lynch will be a problem for this team if Lee 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.960 and Hitchins aren't playing well. But they've played well all years, 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.800 so that seems that's great to me. They're both out there. Yeah, No, 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:21.520 So that's what I'm watching because for whatever, I mean, 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.280 wherever you want to assign the blame, the Oakland passing 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.240 game just doesn't have it at all this year. I 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.640 don't that I didn't see anything that particularly scares me, 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.120 especially if Amari Cooper's not playing. They tend to be 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:35.960 better at home on the road, or does it matter? 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.120 They're pretty much the same team regardless. Well there's six 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.280 and seven, so I don't have that offhand. I'm sorry 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.600 you stumped me. Their team or their offense either one. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:53.800 I looked this up there they're four and three at home, 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.040 the same team. If you're below five hundreds, you're probably 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.800 I doubt you're just I mean, I guess you know. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:01.880 The year the Cowboys went twelve and four, they went 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.280 undefeated on the road and four and four at home. 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.600 I guess that's possible. But if you're below five hundred, 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.120 you're probable means are much better team on the road. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.720 With the record. You know, the Cowboys are four and three, 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.079 uh two acts to four and two. You're right, four 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.160 and the road on the road, So I guess that's 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.760 I don't think of it that way because both their 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.720 road losses are just beat downs, but I guess that's true. 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.440 You guys have made me scared. I haven't been, but 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.200 I'm just afraid of I don't believe much in home 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:38.720 field advantage. But what the conversation yesterday, you guys scare me. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.160 I'm the black hole. I don't know what the black 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.360 hole is, but I'm excited. I don't know about I'm 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.800 sure you are. This is gonna be. This is gonna 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.920 be your one and only chance to see like they 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.160 won't be there the next time the Cowboys play the rate. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:58.360 That's true. This is the last optunity. What I'm clapping 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.680 glad that that's the last time to be in that stay. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.520 This is the last time we get to go. Well, 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.480 I have to go, no, because we'll probably play there 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:08.000 in the preseason. Oakland is a is an interesting It's 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.520 it's a dump. I've been to Oakland Alameda Coliseum. It's 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:16.120 a dump, but it's it's cool though, like the black 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.200 you know, we I've never been there when the Raiders 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.720 were at least relevant. I know they're not good this year, 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:22.560 but like the fans, it would have been cool to 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.960 go last year. Yeah, but you know it'll be a 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.560 night game. I feel like the Raiders probably haven't played 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.600 a lot of primetime games in the last decade or so, 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.680 they hadn't enough to deserve it. But this is a 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.040 rival game. You know, this is a rival the fan 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.520 base is. It's a rivalry for the for this fan 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.400 base and you know in particular, so this is a 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.560 big deal. You know, when when we go to Oxnard 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.880 every year for training camp, you can tell there's there's 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.920 two teams that people really care. They'll be Oakland. There 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.480 are Oakland fans that come to our practice, our training camp. 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.920 You'll see some Oakland jerseys during our training camp and 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.760 ox Yeah, that was interesting, but that'll be honestly, that'll 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:01.920 be that's the same in either place. Like when Oakland 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.520 comes to play here, there are a lot of Raider 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.480 fans in the in the audience at the Cowboy at 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.560 at and T Stadium, same thing when we go there, 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.480 there will be a lot of Cowboys fans there. Yeah, 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.640 well most Raiders, I think. To next point though, like 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:20.200 the Cowboys are team. There's Oakland, San Francisco, and then 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.280 the Cowboys. And we'll see what happens with the Rams 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.200 now that they're back. But those are the three and 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.200 so I know all the Cowboys fans that live out 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:28.880 on the West coast, like this is a big deal 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.120 for them to have bragging rights over those West coast. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.640 So we haven't played a regular season game there since 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.200 two thousand and five. Oh, I'm thinking about preseason. We've 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.760 played a lot of preseason we have. All I know 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.200 is when we walked down to do our post game, 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.840 you guys are gonna I'm gonna be in between you guys, 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.200 I need someone in front of me. I'm gonna I 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.560 will tell you this Oakland is that is the only 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.280 stadium and that is the only stadium in the league 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.960 where I've walked in the stadium and smell marijuana. Like 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.360 I was like, is this okay? Like I'm smelling this 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:06.199 in a stadium? Is this okay? And that's Oakland for you. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.880 I'm gonna go get a picture with the gorilla I thought, 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:10.359 you guys say you're gonna go take a toke. I 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.720 was like, man, that's not good. I'm not gonna not 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.040 a good idea. Say okay, good, Just I gonna tell anybody, 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.040 I'm gonna go get a picture with the gorilla guy 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.119 and the skull guy. And all though crazy, is the 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.440 skull guys still there. I don't know. I'm gonna check 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.639 it out. I want to see him, Darth Vader. Yeah, 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.760 and I think there's a chef maybe. I don't know. 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.440 There's a lot of stuff chef. There's a lot of 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:33.000 stuff going on in them. But supposedly they're not nice. 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.479 Well they're not nice to the opposing team. Yeah, but 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.159 I don't what's that got to do with me. I 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.440 think they'll be okay. Honestly, I don't think Oakland is 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.399 as bad. Honestly, I don't think Oakland's near as bad 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.399 as Philly fans. In my opinion. I've only had eggs 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.280 thrown it at my bus one right, So Philly fans 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.120 are much different, like they are on a whole different 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.600 level than anybody else. The Oakland fans. Yeah, they rude, 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.640 hard for their team and more fun. You might get 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.240 stuck if you say something crazy, but hey, it happens, right, 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.320 So you know Philly stuck. Yeah, no, I got you. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.439 Second year covering the team in Philly is two thousand. 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.800 I was on the sideline at the end of the game. 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.600 Randall Cunningham was the quarterback for the Cowboys that day, 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.359 and all of a sudden, something hit me in the 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.560 bottom of the foot, and I like looked down and 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:20.800 there was a there was a like d size battery 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:27.240 thrown your foot. Oh I know, I mean dulous and Philly. 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.160 That makes sense. So all that stuff about the seattle 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.000 and the beer thrown on the guy whatever. Yeah, No, 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.840 Philly is a whole different level. Like those fans are crazy, 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.679 Like yeah, I think I think Oakland's fun. It'll be 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.160 a fun game. It'll be a fun atmosphere. I guarantee 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.840 on a Sunday night it will be a fun atmosphere, hope. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.600 So it's unique because unlike all the other stadiums, there's 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.840 typically three to four ways to get on the field, 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.760 but there's only one. And so you got you walk 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.560 right in the middle of the Raiders sideline, so you 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.440 have to go all the way around one way or other. 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.119 And don't we have to go Don't you have to 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:03.960 go through the fans when you come down the elevator, 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:05.159 you have to go through the fans to get to 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.920 the field. If the elevators working, I'm pretty sure we 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.640 have to go through the fans. That was It's a dump. Yeah, though, 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:16.760 So I shouldn't wear blue wear blue. I'm gonna leave 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:18.919 mine you shouldn't have to worry about that. Like there 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.840 will be other things you should probably be worried about, 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:22.840 but you don't have to worry about somebody make what 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:28.120 huh it's saying like it could be a rough day. 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.719 Was the last time we were there? The kid from 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:34.560 Akron was the quarterback who like it was it was 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:39.160 preseason or it was a kid. No for us An 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:44.000 it was like our it was Tanny. That's who it was. Tanny. 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.480 Tanny time. Yeah, try to lead a like last second 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.680 comeback against them. I think they won. Yeah, I don't 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.600 think it worked out for We're gonna do throwback Thursday 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.080 tomorrow and we're gonna pick one of the nineties games. 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.119 So they won there. But I was thinking the best 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.160 memory that I have from going to Glynn was when 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:07.720 Romo in one drive went from you're gonna be cut, like, yeah, 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:11.600 he is gonna be cut tomorrow. Two there's a you know, 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.720 because he threw an interception on fourth down like that said, 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.439 he's been horrible, Henson's been horrible. They just cut Quincy 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.200 like Romo, They're gonna cut this Romo guy. And it 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.879 was offsides on the Raiders. Oh so we get to 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.040 extend the drive, all right, and then it just was 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:28.239 Romo just twelve two six, eight fourteen what marched him 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.760 down the field, down the one clock running out? He 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:35.320