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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, December thirteenth, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, episode ninety.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of The Break. I'm Derek Eagleton,
Speaker 1: the real host of The Break, and um, you came
Speaker 1: back with a nice tan from the Bahamas. It was
Speaker 1: snowing in New York anyway. Wow. Um. After a lot
Speaker 1: of work and uh and a lot of promotion of
Speaker 1: what we do as a group, I'm back in studio
Speaker 1: now and ready for the show to resume. How about that?
Speaker 1: What I sway to phrase? What about tomorrow? Are you
Speaker 1: gonna be here tomorrow? I will not be here. I'm
Speaker 1: out again tomorrow. Yeah. But uh, but Amber, she's now
Speaker 1: a professional at this and so she should be able
Speaker 1: to hold it down. She can kill it. She and Dave, Nick,
Speaker 1: You're out with me tomorrow. So we're doing we'll do
Speaker 1: management type things tomorrow and we'll leave Amber and Dave
Speaker 1: to handle this. Okay, cool, to be fun. The millennials
Speaker 1: will be the millennial show of the Break and Nick
Speaker 1: and I will be doing other things tomorrow weeking of
Speaker 1: Millennials tomorrow, So we're gonna miss tomorrow show. Yes, we
Speaker 1: are gonna miss tomorrow show. I'm gonna miss. I don't
Speaker 1: know about you. I'm definitely missing tomorrow show. I think
Speaker 1: you should host tomorrow, Is that right? Yep? I think
Speaker 1: you should be the birthday host. It'll be your party tomorrow. Okay,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday to Dave. I'll just do Marco Murray. I'll
Speaker 1: just do the whole thing. Yeah, be fun, it'll be great.
Speaker 1: I'll listen, okay, but no, I'm probably won't Livensten's. I'll
Speaker 1: listen later. Week of birthdays around here it has. Brian
Speaker 1: had his birthday, Amber had her birthday. Now Dave's gonna
Speaker 1: have his birthday. Is there's somebody else coming up this week? Oh? Nick?
Speaker 1: When is it it already happened? You were going? Did
Speaker 1: I miss it? It was Monday? Yep, that's okay. I
Speaker 1: had to go buy and do something nice for him
Speaker 1: or say something. We're having a nice birthday to day
Speaker 1: he's lunch. Yeah, it'll be fun. Did you guys give
Speaker 1: any input on where we're going to lunch today? This
Speaker 1: is all in the air, you know that. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: I kind of forgot we were on there. Okay, just
Speaker 1: kind of talking. I figured everybody else might want to
Speaker 1: join un too, right, that'd be fun. I'm thinking me,
Speaker 1: you've seen that firston. Oh yeah, let's do it all right,
Speaker 1: Let's let's talk some Cowboys football. Um, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders. Cowboys have a unique opportunity at this point,
Speaker 1: and they're still alive despite everything that's happened this season,
Speaker 1: still alive at seven and six. This week's challenge is
Speaker 1: to go to Oakland and beat the Oakland Raiders, who
Speaker 1: if you look at any team in the NFL that
Speaker 1: I think parallels the Cowboys, it's the Oakland Raiders. And
Speaker 1: I'm thinking more from a big picture standpoint, last year,
Speaker 1: how both teams kind of popped onto the scene, had
Speaker 1: great seasons. You had young quarterbacks, You had teams that
Speaker 1: were kind of their defenses were a little bit iffy,
Speaker 1: but the offenses were just humming last year and then
Speaker 1: this year. Things go wrong for both teams, I think,
Speaker 1: and they end up kind of in a very similar situation. Oakland, ironically,
Speaker 1: I think it's still in position to possibly win their division.
Speaker 1: I'm not positive about that. Theoretically they're not. They're not
Speaker 1: mathematically eliminated from winning their division at this point. And
Speaker 1: the Cowboys obviously in the same kind of situation. Although
Speaker 1: they aren't necessarily in the driver's seat, they still are
Speaker 1: theoretically in contention for a playoff spot. And now they
Speaker 1: meet up on Sunday Night Football this week. Yeah, be fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what to say to
Speaker 1: all that. Like, I agree, I guess. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think I think the Raiders are a team that had
Speaker 1: high expectations, so the serted the Cowboys and you know,
Speaker 1: and this is the nature of the NFL. I mean,
Speaker 1: Dave Dave had the list the other day of like
Speaker 1: sixty three players that are like really really good players
Speaker 1: that are not playing for whatever reasons for their team.
Speaker 1: And now I don't know if the Raiders, all these
Speaker 1: teams across the league, just these two teams, No, I
Speaker 1: don't think the Raiders actually have Well it's funny that
Speaker 1: you say that they well they well, they might they
Speaker 1: might on Sunday, because it remains to be seen if
Speaker 1: a Marie Cooper is going to play it all for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. Goodday night. He's not good
Speaker 1: not this year. Well, he's a good receiver. We we
Speaker 1: spent ten minutes talking about how much Dez dropped off.
Speaker 1: I got some numbers for you right here. Really as
Speaker 1: stands as a stands right now, Mari Cooper has forty
Speaker 1: two catches for four hundred and ninety nine yards five touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Which you remember how many games? Um, I mean he's
Speaker 1: been in and out, but we'll find it. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: pull it up for me. It's he's he's been there
Speaker 1: for most of okay, um average of eleven point nine
Speaker 1: yards per reception, which Das is at eleven point seven.
Speaker 1: Cars missed some time though, two which could affect Car
Speaker 1: Maury Cooper. They both are having bad years, both probably
Speaker 1: as a result of injury. Cooper's got this ankle that
Speaker 1: he can't shake. Car hurt his back earlier in the year.
Speaker 1: Cars having a bad year. He's averaging two hundred twenty
Speaker 1: six yards a game. He's completing sixty three percent of
Speaker 1: his passes. He's thrown eighteen touchdowns and ten picks. Oh
Speaker 1: he's not. I mean they're not playing well, they're not.
Speaker 1: And is this about the running game? I think honestly,
Speaker 1: if you compare it to last year, like what went
Speaker 1: wrong compared to last year? How how well their offense
Speaker 1: will playing? We know this year the Cowboys, it's it's
Speaker 1: a lot about Ezekiel Elliott. What has been their thing
Speaker 1: that's different this year. I think it's their quarterback. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to tell you. That he's just bad
Speaker 1: this year relative to last year. It's one of those things.
Speaker 1: It reminds me a lot of DeMarcus Lawrence, where like
Speaker 1: he got dogged for two years. He didn't play very well,
Speaker 1: he was hurt, he had a back injury, he played
Speaker 1: through it for the good of his team. It's we like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard to say this because Derek car
Speaker 1: is still playing, but like I assume he's not at
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. There's no I just refused to believe
Speaker 1: you could play at an MVP level. I mean he
Speaker 1: was in the MVP conversation before he broke his fibula.
Speaker 1: He missed the last two weeks of the season. He
Speaker 1: wasn't there for the playoffs. They were people thought they'd
Speaker 1: go deep into the playoffs where he got hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: last year hurt his back. I don't think he's been
Speaker 1: the same guy. What point did he hurts back this year?
Speaker 1: This was in October and he missed a few weeks.
Speaker 1: He came back. He's been playing ever since. But again,
Speaker 1: I mean all right, I mean nineteenth in total offense,
Speaker 1: fifteenth in passing offense twenties and to your point, twenty
Speaker 1: six and rushing offense twenty first in scoring offense, they're
Speaker 1: only averaging twenty points per game. He has not been
Speaker 1: lighting the world on fire. And like I said, for
Speaker 1: him to drop from an MVP level, the offensive lines
Speaker 1: all still there. I mean, I mean Donald Penn awesome,
Speaker 1: Melly gave Jackson, who they gave a big contract extension
Speaker 1: too over the summer. Right guard Marshall Newhouse, Like, it's
Speaker 1: the same dudes who were just Mall and people last year.
Speaker 1: And Marshawn Lynch. I don't know that he's the same
Speaker 1: guy he was when he was in Seattle, but he's
Speaker 1: still an effective running back. And so I look at
Speaker 1: it and I'm just like quarterbacks not playing at the
Speaker 1: level that you thought he was when you gave him
Speaker 1: all that money. You talk about that offensive line this year,
Speaker 1: they're twenty six and sacks allowed. They've given up twenty
Speaker 1: one sacks, which can't be good for a quarterback with
Speaker 1: annailing back right and so, and I would suspect, I
Speaker 1: don't know the number, right off hand, I would suspect
Speaker 1: he was not getting hit that often last year. That
Speaker 1: maybe another reason that's contributing to some of the difficulties
Speaker 1: at their experiencing. And as we are, the stats are ugly.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we don't like to take games away.
Speaker 1: And this might be a point that Dave would have
Speaker 1: made here, but he had eleven catches, two hundred and
Speaker 1: ten yards two talk about Cooper. Yeah, okay, Cooper, I
Speaker 1: know you were talking about car I was just looking
Speaker 1: at these Cooper stats. He's played twelve games. He has
Speaker 1: a two hundred and ten yard game with two touchdowns
Speaker 1: and eleven catches. Like that was amazing. How long ago
Speaker 1: that was the can the City Wild? Yeah October um.
Speaker 1: But he's got two hundred and eighty nine yards in
Speaker 1: the other eleven games. Whoa, we'll back up, Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: been two hundred and eighty nine yards. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do a quick math here, four ninety nine to ten
Speaker 1: in one game. So two eighty nine had a bad
Speaker 1: year and three touchdowns, that's what I'm saying. You can
Speaker 1: say he's good. That's remarkably bad, Like it's a lot
Speaker 1: more on No, no game more than sixty two yards.
Speaker 1: But against the Chiefs to ten with the world watching
Speaker 1: on Thursday nine, that was a great game. And this
Speaker 1: is every bit of it. You know, this was one
Speaker 1: of the most explosive offenses in the year. Left. Yeah,
Speaker 1: last year, Derek Carr, like I for the third time,
Speaker 1: he nearly won the MVP, or was at least in
Speaker 1: the consideration. Was Otavius Murray the runner last year? Yes? Okay,
Speaker 1: So did the Cowboys want Cooper to play or not? Maybe? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you you probably you probably want to go in and well,
Speaker 1: you know, you've got five touchdowns that I mean, he's
Speaker 1: still kind of he's still I don't the fact that
Speaker 1: he had a two hundred yard receiving day says that
Speaker 1: it's possible, Like, yeah, he's capable of doing that. And
Speaker 1: you know how the luck is of this team if
Speaker 1: there's something that's that that can be exploited. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: end up in a bad situation and he gets exploited.
Speaker 1: I just uh, I mean they made they made that
Speaker 1: Denver offence look all world in week two. So I
Speaker 1: in researching this scouting report, there are people that say
Speaker 1: he might not play again the rest of the year. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, so we'll see. I don't know what.
Speaker 1: You know, it's two, it was, it's early in the week,
Speaker 1: it's only Wednesday. Nobody's practiced yet. That's something to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on. But the other thing with that is like,
Speaker 1: as this all tends to kind of snowball. Quarterback's not
Speaker 1: playing well, the offensive line hasn't been great, Cooper's not great.
Speaker 1: And then after Amari Cooper, like this is either leading receiver, No,
Speaker 1: he's not, their leading their leading receivers Jared Cook okay,
Speaker 1: and then tight end, yeah, Michael Crabtree is there as well,
Speaker 1: but like without a chain, hey will, I just don't
Speaker 1: wear it on the field, dude, I don't get it deads.
Speaker 1: Don't wear your diamonds. Jordan Lewis, if we're asking Joan's
Speaker 1: gonna steal this is going to be though, Yeah, my
Speaker 1: thing is is this for as dynamic as they were
Speaker 1: last year with Amari Cooper either out or hobbled. I
Speaker 1: was just not afraid of most of the I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: Jared Cook, he burned the Cowboys in the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: get that he's a good player. He's got six hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty one yards, he's averaging thirteen yards per catch,
Speaker 1: But like, if that's your best option, if tight ends
Speaker 1: your best option, then is that far for you to
Speaker 1: move the ball consistently? Michael Michael Crabtree's got He's sitting
Speaker 1: on five hundred yards like that, I mean a lot
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys. Larin't larry in a lot there in
Speaker 1: terms of just like this amazing dynamic passing production. After
Speaker 1: after Cooper, you go Crabtree and then Cordurell Patterson, who
Speaker 1: is like, I'm so, but he's the epitome of looks
Speaker 1: like Tarzan, plays like Jane like that guy doesn't. He's
Speaker 1: never done much for me. He's a great he has
Speaker 1: at times been a great kick returner. He's way more
Speaker 1: likely to like get an end around than go down
Speaker 1: the field and catch a football. And you know, um,
Speaker 1: talk to me a little more about Marshawn Lynch. Is
Speaker 1: he is he a guy that is not getting Like
Speaker 1: we talked about the fact that they are twenty six
Speaker 1: and rush yards per game. Is that more a function
Speaker 1: of them not running him enough like his Are his
Speaker 1: yards per carry high enough that has suggested if he
Speaker 1: got more carries, they'd have a more productive running game.
Speaker 1: Or is this just simply a situation where they're just
Speaker 1: not running the ball well at all? See and I
Speaker 1: watched the Chiefs game, which they were atrocious, and he
Speaker 1: looked like Marshawn Lynch to me. I mean they were
Speaker 1: running power, power runs and trap stuff. He's cutting fieldback,
Speaker 1: bulldoze and over linebackers, and I mean it wasn't like
Speaker 1: he was great. Obviously, they didn't score any points until
Speaker 1: late in the third order of that game. They lost
Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine to fifteen, or twenty six to fIF
Speaker 1: twenty six to fifteen. But he's still he looks like
Speaker 1: the same guy to me. He's got six hundred yards
Speaker 1: on the year, seven touchdowns. If you watched him play
Speaker 1: the Giants two weeks ago, he had a sixty yard
Speaker 1: touchdown run. Like he can still do that stuff. It
Speaker 1: just hasn't been there for whatever reason, and you know,
Speaker 1: the offensive line, maybe that's that's part of it. Like
Speaker 1: you said, twenty six and sacks, but for them to
Speaker 1: only be a Russian for ninety one yards a game
Speaker 1: seems weird to me. Like I said, I don't think
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch is the same guy, but I don't think
Speaker 1: he's dropped that far off that it's predominantly on him.
Speaker 1: All Right, So tell me the one thing, if there's
Speaker 1: one thing you can isolate and say, if they are
Speaker 1: a productive offensively, this will be the reason why. This
Speaker 1: is the one thing that they do well that they
Speaker 1: could possibly exploit against this Cowboys defense. Well, I'm Marshawn's
Speaker 1: averaging four point two yards per carrying just forever that's worth.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty decent which I'm happy that Anthony Hitchins
Speaker 1: and Sean Lee will both be That's what that was
Speaker 1: My main impression from watching them play was like, Marshawn
Speaker 1: Lynch will be a problem for this team if Lee
Speaker 1: and Hitchins aren't playing well. But they've played well all years,
Speaker 1: so that seems that's great to me. They're both out there. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm watching because for whatever, I mean,
Speaker 1: wherever you want to assign the blame, the Oakland passing
Speaker 1: game just doesn't have it at all this year. I
Speaker 1: don't that I didn't see anything that particularly scares me,
Speaker 1: especially if Amari Cooper's not playing. They tend to be
Speaker 1: better at home on the road, or does it matter?
Speaker 1: They're pretty much the same team regardless. Well there's six
Speaker 1: and seven, so I don't have that offhand. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: you stumped me. Their team or their offense either one.
Speaker 1: I looked this up there they're four and three at home,
Speaker 1: the same team. If you're below five hundreds, you're probably
Speaker 1: I doubt you're just I mean, I guess you know.
Speaker 1: The year the Cowboys went twelve and four, they went
Speaker 1: undefeated on the road and four and four at home.
Speaker 1: I guess that's possible. But if you're below five hundred,
Speaker 1: you're probable means are much better team on the road.
Speaker 1: With the record. You know, the Cowboys are four and three,
Speaker 1: uh two acts to four and two. You're right, four
Speaker 1: and the road on the road, So I guess that's
Speaker 1: I don't think of it that way because both their
Speaker 1: road losses are just beat downs, but I guess that's true.
Speaker 1: You guys have made me scared. I haven't been, but
Speaker 1: I'm just afraid of I don't believe much in home
Speaker 1: field advantage. But what the conversation yesterday, you guys scare me.
Speaker 1: I'm the black hole. I don't know what the black
Speaker 1: hole is, but I'm excited. I don't know about I'm
Speaker 1: sure you are. This is gonna be. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be your one and only chance to see like they
Speaker 1: won't be there the next time the Cowboys play the rate.
Speaker 1: That's true. This is the last optunity. What I'm clapping
Speaker 1: glad that that's the last time to be in that stay.
Speaker 1: This is the last time we get to go. Well,
Speaker 1: I have to go, no, because we'll probably play there
Speaker 1: in the preseason. Oakland is a is an interesting It's
Speaker 1: it's a dump. I've been to Oakland Alameda Coliseum. It's
Speaker 1: a dump, but it's it's cool though, like the black
Speaker 1: you know, we I've never been there when the Raiders
Speaker 1: were at least relevant. I know they're not good this year,
Speaker 1: but like the fans, it would have been cool to
Speaker 1: go last year. Yeah, but you know it'll be a
Speaker 1: night game. I feel like the Raiders probably haven't played
Speaker 1: a lot of primetime games in the last decade or so,
Speaker 1: they hadn't enough to deserve it. But this is a
Speaker 1: rival game. You know, this is a rival the fan
Speaker 1: base is. It's a rivalry for the for this fan
Speaker 1: base and you know in particular, so this is a
Speaker 1: big deal. You know, when when we go to Oxnard
Speaker 1: every year for training camp, you can tell there's there's
Speaker 1: two teams that people really care. They'll be Oakland. There
Speaker 1: are Oakland fans that come to our practice, our training camp.
Speaker 1: You'll see some Oakland jerseys during our training camp and
Speaker 1: ox Yeah, that was interesting, but that'll be honestly, that'll
Speaker 1: be that's the same in either place. Like when Oakland
Speaker 1: comes to play here, there are a lot of Raider
Speaker 1: fans in the in the audience at the Cowboy at
Speaker 1: at and T Stadium, same thing when we go there,
Speaker 1: there will be a lot of Cowboys fans there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well most Raiders, I think. To next point though, like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are team. There's Oakland, San Francisco, and then
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. And we'll see what happens with the Rams
Speaker 1: now that they're back. But those are the three and
Speaker 1: so I know all the Cowboys fans that live out
Speaker 1: on the West coast, like this is a big deal
Speaker 1: for them to have bragging rights over those West coast.
Speaker 1: So we haven't played a regular season game there since
Speaker 1: two thousand and five. Oh, I'm thinking about preseason. We've
Speaker 1: played a lot of preseason we have. All I know
Speaker 1: is when we walked down to do our post game,
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna I'm gonna be in between you guys,
Speaker 1: I need someone in front of me. I'm gonna I
Speaker 1: will tell you this Oakland is that is the only
Speaker 1: stadium and that is the only stadium in the league
Speaker 1: where I've walked in the stadium and smell marijuana. Like
Speaker 1: I was like, is this okay? Like I'm smelling this
Speaker 1: in a stadium? Is this okay? And that's Oakland for you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get a picture with the gorilla I thought,
Speaker 1: you guys say you're gonna go take a toke. I
Speaker 1: was like, man, that's not good. I'm not gonna not
Speaker 1: a good idea. Say okay, good, Just I gonna tell anybody,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get a picture with the gorilla guy
Speaker 1: and the skull guy. And all though crazy, is the
Speaker 1: skull guys still there. I don't know. I'm gonna check
Speaker 1: it out. I want to see him, Darth Vader. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think there's a chef maybe. I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff chef. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff going on in them. But supposedly they're not nice.
Speaker 1: Well they're not nice to the opposing team. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I don't what's that got to do with me. I
Speaker 1: think they'll be okay. Honestly, I don't think Oakland is
Speaker 1: as bad. Honestly, I don't think Oakland's near as bad
Speaker 1: as Philly fans. In my opinion. I've only had eggs
Speaker 1: thrown it at my bus one right, So Philly fans
Speaker 1: are much different, like they are on a whole different
Speaker 1: level than anybody else. The Oakland fans. Yeah, they rude,
Speaker 1: hard for their team and more fun. You might get
Speaker 1: stuck if you say something crazy, but hey, it happens, right,
Speaker 1: So you know Philly stuck. Yeah, no, I got you.
Speaker 1: Second year covering the team in Philly is two thousand.
Speaker 1: I was on the sideline at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Randall Cunningham was the quarterback for the Cowboys that day,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, something hit me in the
Speaker 1: bottom of the foot, and I like looked down and
Speaker 1: there was a there was a like d size battery
Speaker 1: thrown your foot. Oh I know, I mean dulous and Philly.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. So all that stuff about the seattle
Speaker 1: and the beer thrown on the guy whatever. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: Philly is a whole different level. Like those fans are crazy,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I think I think Oakland's fun. It'll be
Speaker 1: a fun game. It'll be a fun atmosphere. I guarantee
Speaker 1: on a Sunday night it will be a fun atmosphere, hope.
Speaker 1: So it's unique because unlike all the other stadiums, there's
Speaker 1: typically three to four ways to get on the field,
Speaker 1: but there's only one. And so you got you walk
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the Raiders sideline, so you
Speaker 1: have to go all the way around one way or other.
Speaker 1: And don't we have to go Don't you have to
Speaker 1: go through the fans when you come down the elevator,
Speaker 1: you have to go through the fans to get to
Speaker 1: the field. If the elevators working, I'm pretty sure we
Speaker 1: have to go through the fans. That was It's a dump. Yeah, though,
Speaker 1: So I shouldn't wear blue wear blue. I'm gonna leave
Speaker 1: mine you shouldn't have to worry about that. Like there
Speaker 1: will be other things you should probably be worried about,
Speaker 1: but you don't have to worry about somebody make what
Speaker 1: huh it's saying like it could be a rough day.
Speaker 1: Was the last time we were there? The kid from
Speaker 1: Akron was the quarterback who like it was it was
Speaker 1: preseason or it was a kid. No for us An
Speaker 1: it was like our it was Tanny. That's who it was. Tanny.
Speaker 1: Tanny time. Yeah, try to lead a like last second
Speaker 1: comeback against them. I think they won. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think it worked out for We're gonna do throwback Thursday
Speaker 1: tomorrow and we're gonna pick one of the nineties games.
Speaker 1: So they won there. But I was thinking the best
Speaker 1: memory that I have from going to Glynn was when
Speaker 1: Romo in one drive went from you're gonna be cut, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he is gonna be cut tomorrow. Two there's a you know,
Speaker 1: because he threw an interception on fourth down like that said,
Speaker 1: he's been horrible, Henson's been horrible. They just cut Quincy
Speaker 1: like Romo, They're gonna cut this Romo guy. And it
Speaker 1: was offsides on the Raiders. Oh so we get to
Speaker 1: extend the drive, all right, and then it just was
Speaker 1: Romo just twelve two six, eight fourteen what marched him
Speaker 1: down the field, down the one clock running out? He
Speaker 1: should have spiked it. He's decided. His instincts said I
Speaker 1: could sneak it in and win the game, and he did.
Speaker 1: And then the term Moxie was born with him. And
Speaker 1: that's when Romo became Tony Romo. That day and in
Speaker 1: a preseason game, and you know it went from there.
Speaker 1: But I guarantee you if he if that there was
Speaker 1: not a holding penalty or off side whatever the penalty
Speaker 1: was on the Raiders and the game ended like that,
Speaker 1: he was going to be released. Ye. So and if
Speaker 1: you want to read more about that or hear more
Speaker 1: about that, go check out our Deep Blue from season one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a good one. What was it called Starcross
Speaker 1: something I think it was. I think that one was Starcross.
Speaker 1: But it's about Quincy Carter and Tony Romo and about
Speaker 1: that moment. I know there's a lot we have to
Speaker 1: talk quite a bit about that moment. So all right,
Speaker 1: let's take our first break. When we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get some questions. Call us two one four eighty
Speaker 1: seven two twenty one oh two is our number. We're
Speaker 1: trying to get as many questions as we can today.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Amber hasn't gotten you guys, but I care
Speaker 1: about the fan, so we're gonna take some time to
Speaker 1: talk to you guys and let you guys give some
Speaker 1: feedback and give us some questions, and we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: Cowboys that take on the Raiders this Sunday at Sunday
Speaker 1: Night Football seven thirty pm Central Time. Make sure you
Speaker 1: check it out. Cowboys are on a two game two
Speaker 1: game winning streak now yep, two game winning streak. Need
Speaker 1: to win five in a row inder to even have
Speaker 1: a shot at the playoffs. So we'll see if they
Speaker 1: can continue their winning ways this week, and of course
Speaker 1: next week they get Ezekiel Elliott back. That is the
Speaker 1: big things they can get past this week, then you
Speaker 1: feel a lot better about those final two games. Is
Speaker 1: it mathematical that they're out if they lose another one?
Speaker 1: Or is it just like such a slimming I think
Speaker 1: I think mathematically they're out if the teams above them
Speaker 1: also win. Yeah, because really the big thing is those
Speaker 1: three teams in the NFC South you need right now,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys went out, you need one of those
Speaker 1: teams to lose two of their three final games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and so if you lose another one, then I
Speaker 1: think it kind of creates a scenario where even with that,
Speaker 1: I don't think you get in. Yeah, so I think
Speaker 1: you're probably probably done keeping keep absolutely if nothing else,
Speaker 1: just get to that final game and make it count
Speaker 1: like to where it actually matters. And if it doesn't
Speaker 1: work out, then it doesn't work out, you know. And
Speaker 1: with the Eagles, you know, playing without wins, I mean
Speaker 1: I still think that they're going to be good. You
Speaker 1: guys feel sorry for the Eagles at all? I feel
Speaker 1: fans Eagle fans, I should I feel sorry for the
Speaker 1: Eagles are and wins, I don't feel hold on, hold on,
Speaker 1: rewind it back about minutes. I'm standing on the sideline.
Speaker 1: I got hit by a battery. Yeah, I feel real
Speaker 1: sorry for you. No, but here's the thing, Like, you
Speaker 1: have a good team and a good young quarterback and
Speaker 1: he got hurt on a play that didn't count. Sorry,
Speaker 1: and and they were this is the thing, but I
Speaker 1: told you you did the game party quarterback. They didn't
Speaker 1: lose the game, though they lost the previous game before that.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. They're gonna They're gonna have two
Speaker 1: big losses in two straight weeks. Got it. But the
Speaker 1: thing about it is that's been the history of it.
Speaker 1: Makes that anyway? Is they all? It seems like whenever
Speaker 1: they get on a roll and they think, yes, this
Speaker 1: is going to be our year, like they're the only
Speaker 1: team in the division is not won a championship. And
Speaker 1: every time it seems like they get into a position
Speaker 1: where they think they have something rolling, it just doesn't
Speaker 1: work out for him. So you just got if I
Speaker 1: had the drop, I would play the Clinton Dicks drop.
Speaker 1: That's what I would playing for that. Huh huh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So you got no faith that, thank you? You got
Speaker 1: no faith that Nick Foles can. I do actually hate
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl and Philly in twenty thirteen. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the thing. I think They're gonna go deep in the
Speaker 1: playoffs with Nick Foles. They're a good football team. They're
Speaker 1: a good football team. Carson Wentz is really good. Yes,
Speaker 1: but I want you to tell me a team who
Speaker 1: I'm a believer that that offense flows because Wentz makes
Speaker 1: some throws that are exceptional throws. I don't think Nick
Speaker 1: Foles do. Do I think it's gonna happen. No, But
Speaker 1: I want you to tell me who you just are, Like,
Speaker 1: that's the NFC team right there, if that's the way. No,
Speaker 1: it's not that. I just think that with wins, they're
Speaker 1: right up there at the top. Without wins, I think
Speaker 1: there are probably four teams, if not maybe more, that
Speaker 1: are better than them without wins. When it's when it's
Speaker 1: all said and done, whatever the six team NFC field is,
Speaker 1: I feel like it could be anybody's day. Like any
Speaker 1: of the six teams that make it could probably make
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I don't think. I don't think the
Speaker 1: Eagles are in that category me anymore about wins. With
Speaker 1: that deepens and the fact that they'll probably they'll probably
Speaker 1: be playing any of their games at home, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think so. Are you sure about that though? I mean,
Speaker 1: they they're not. They haven't locked up anything. They gotta
Speaker 1: they gotta leg up if they can get home, if
Speaker 1: they can at least get a bye week and be
Speaker 1: one game one home game away from the NFC. Tap,
Speaker 1: are they one game ahead of game ahead of Minnesota? Minnesota,
Speaker 1: who consequently probably has the second worst two games ahead
Speaker 1: of the Rams. Is that right? Yeah? Okay, so they lose, No,
Speaker 1: they're three game, No, they're two games, they're two two
Speaker 1: games ahead of them. So if they lose two of
Speaker 1: these final three, they won't have a buy. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're going to, but we'll see, we'll see. I
Speaker 1: think that will be very interesting, and I again, I
Speaker 1: think they have a good team. I'm just not certain that,
Speaker 1: as we've seen this year, one player can make a
Speaker 1: huge difference, and I do think Wins is that player
Speaker 1: for them. I think there are probably a lot of
Speaker 1: other injuries they can absorb, which they have this year.
Speaker 1: They lost their left tackle, they lost other good players,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they've lost the player of the
Speaker 1: caliber of Wins and what Wins provides for them. I
Speaker 1: think that's going to be a really, really key for them.
Speaker 1: We shall see, we'll see. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: some questions. You guys can give us a call the
Speaker 1: numbers two one four eighty seven to twenty one h two.
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Speaker 1: We have a call from Calvin in Atlanta. Calvin, what up? Hey?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody? Hey? Doing? Hey? Pretty good? Hey listen. UM,
Speaker 1: I know coming up they got some team that have
Speaker 1: some really good defenses. And for me, when I when
Speaker 1: I see this team face a team that is just
Speaker 1: as physical defensively as we are offensively, Lenahan can't schematically
Speaker 1: get you a victory. Um. I think as I watched
Speaker 1: him call players or whatever, to me, it's like his
Speaker 1: his philosophy is We're gonna go in and physically beat
Speaker 1: you up for sixty minutes. And if he can't do that,
Speaker 1: he can't schematically get to get to a victory, which
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I mean, we're talking about a
Speaker 1: guy who comes from Detroit where he had possibly a
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback, arguably the best receiver in the game,
Speaker 1: and he couldn't accomplish anything. And his best play there
Speaker 1: was the jump ball, which we always see here. We're dad,
Speaker 1: I just don't know if he can get it done.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna thrown out there. I know it's a
Speaker 1: long shout of thrown out there. Need to bring Tony
Speaker 1: Romo back as the offer as a coordinator he knows
Speaker 1: the scheme, he knows the personnel, and he knows defense.
Speaker 1: Hang up this, hey, hey, Calvin, Calvin, Calvin, real quick?
Speaker 1: Are you just to be clear? Are you saying you
Speaker 1: think Oakland is a good defense? Not not necessarily Oakland,
Speaker 1: but you're talking about the last two? I got you? Okay,
Speaker 1: I just want to be clear in that. All right, thanks,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you. I wonder if Calvin is on Instagram?
Speaker 1: And if he is, does he follows Tony Romo? And
Speaker 1: if he does, did he see Tony Romo laying on
Speaker 1: his couch the other day? It's not coming back to
Speaker 1: be an offensive coordinator. I don't think he wants to
Speaker 1: do that. See your kids living the life. I'm leaving.
Speaker 1: I'm going to going to the office, try to figure
Speaker 1: this out, and it's not gonna work. In fact, if
Speaker 1: he's ever going to be a coordinator, he'd be a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. He's not gonna be an offensive coordinator. He
Speaker 1: ever was going to be a coach, he'd be a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. What makes you say that? Because he knows
Speaker 1: how to stop him? I mean he would he said
Speaker 1: that before he said that, I mean he said I'll
Speaker 1: be I mean, I know how to. I would rather
Speaker 1: scheme a defense than be an offensive coordinator. In fact,
Speaker 1: I've seen him be a defensive coordinator in flag football
Speaker 1: game too. But that's not why I said that. I
Speaker 1: was just Tea. That was before Tony Romo. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was Tea. We got this guy, nobody knows him. His
Speaker 1: name's Tony. He's gonna come out and play flag football
Speaker 1: with us, and we're gonna be good until the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Threw five interceptions in a playoff game, true store three
Speaker 1: yikes by the team that was all all Hispanic, spoke
Speaker 1: Spanish and had all these plays and stuff and just
Speaker 1: confused the hell out of everybody and him, and then
Speaker 1: he kept throwing interception after interception. This is a second
Speaker 1: I want to they. I wonder if now they have
Speaker 1: a great story, like they're like, we play Tony. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt. There's no doubt they did they if they,
Speaker 1: you think they would have noticed later that was a
Speaker 1: guy that was probably yeah, yeah it was. It was bad.
Speaker 1: It was real bad. I mean, he'd only that was
Speaker 1: his first year, and I remember thinking, like this guy,
Speaker 1: he's having a hard time with oh, black football. I
Speaker 1: don't know how he's gonna do in the end. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's two Romo stories from two thousand and four. Good,
Speaker 1: all right, Let's let's get back to some questions. Let's
Speaker 1: take a question from Twitter. We will help the Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense more against the Raiders the return of a for
Speaker 1: rush for Russies, ferocious pass rush or a great run
Speaker 1: game from the offense and effective Redstone scoring. Well, Hell,
Speaker 1: if the Raiders are twenty six in sacks, that's nice.
Speaker 1: But I thought the Cowboys pass rush would have more
Speaker 1: success against the Giants. So I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: Eli doesn't get sacked the whole does he? But they
Speaker 1: are I mean they You're right, they get to car
Speaker 1: I mean the Chiefs sacked him three or four times. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of that. Like, I don't know
Speaker 1: from watching this for DeMarcus Laren is gonna get a
Speaker 1: ton of calls this week, right, Did y'all talk about that?
Speaker 1: We did, and we kind of disagreed. I thought that
Speaker 1: I like that he's kind of stood up for himself
Speaker 1: and the team. But I do wonder is it gonna
Speaker 1: have some you know, did he go too far? That's
Speaker 1: what I want? Yeah, when you when you when you
Speaker 1: go when you've ended the way that he ended it,
Speaker 1: I think that's when there may be reffs that take
Speaker 1: that personal. Now, of course, here's the other part to that.
Speaker 1: I think reff's buying large are probably professionals, which means
Speaker 1: it as a professional, you dismissed that kind of stuff
Speaker 1: and you say, I still got to do my job,
Speaker 1: And so it doesn't necessarily make you not make calls
Speaker 1: that you should make because you're a professional. You got
Speaker 1: to be looking at all that. You can't be saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: where's ninety. Yeah, I don't worry unless they're just joining
Speaker 1: for the whole team and say yeah, exactly now. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe that, but I honestly, I don't think that happens.
Speaker 1: I honestly think more than anything else, is just gonna
Speaker 1: wake up the league to him, and he's probably gonna
Speaker 1: get fine. But but that's really what it's gonna do,
Speaker 1: is the league will look at it and say, probably
Speaker 1: we'll just say he's complaining for no reason. I don't
Speaker 1: know that it will make them necessarily look at this
Speaker 1: and say, hey, what's going on here? I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe it. Garrett seemed really upset about when he saw
Speaker 1: the video from DeMarcus Lawrence. Really no, I don't really know.
Speaker 1: And I wonder you looked at it like. That's the
Speaker 1: other thing though, too, is you know teams every week
Speaker 1: they send a tape. They usually send the tape to
Speaker 1: the league saying, hey, here's some things we're saying that
Speaker 1: are not being called the way that they should be called.
Speaker 1: And I wonder if this has been an ongoing thing
Speaker 1: for them, where every week they're sending in a tape
Speaker 1: saying hold, hold, hold, hold, and nothing's being called. And
Speaker 1: maybe Jason looks at Dan's like, yeah, it wasn't wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm barred with white hit Dad. You said you're on board. Yeah, yep, absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't have a problem with it. I
Speaker 1: thought it was funny. Actually, I thought it was great.
Speaker 1: It's immediately when you said it, though, I was like, oh, fine,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get he's gonna lose some money on that one.
Speaker 1: But hey, if he's willing to do it, so why
Speaker 1: why you get fine for that? Hold On? Hold on.
Speaker 1: I hate being this scrooge here, but if the refs
Speaker 1: is not it's not fine. It's not it's not fine
Speaker 1: for for our society. It's not I really like him
Speaker 1: as a player. I like him, and he's been a
Speaker 1: stand up leader. I like everything he did. But we
Speaker 1: can't say that I love it that that's not what
Speaker 1: you do. You don't. You don't cuss out authority like that.
Speaker 1: If we if we were in a room with like
Speaker 1: Congress people and we're talking politics, yeah, be polite, and
Speaker 1: you have a certain language, you're talking about football. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the right arena these ways. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, that's a horrible example like that. I'm saying
Speaker 1: in that scenario, that's the way you should, you know,
Speaker 1: watch out, Yeah, right, you should. Obviously we're not gonna
Speaker 1: everyone knows what's happening in today's world. But aside from that,
Speaker 1: you're talking about football players in this kind of environment,
Speaker 1: saying the F word. It is not a big deal
Speaker 1: in this environment. I agree, there's a level of respect.
Speaker 1: Agree about the word. It's about what, you know what.
Speaker 1: Four minutes, I'll tell you a little bit more why
Speaker 1: I think that way, but why I believe that way.
Speaker 1: But I just think it's not like the worst thing
Speaker 1: in the world. But I'm just saying he has a
Speaker 1: chance to maybe hurt his team and himself even more
Speaker 1: by by saying, Mom, I don't I heard him any
Speaker 1: hurt him anymore than they already are. They've gotten eight
Speaker 1: holding flags all year. Yeah, it's not it's half of
Speaker 1: the average. I'm just saying it for this show. I
Speaker 1: y'all can say what you want, but I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: sit here and say, like, I loved it, that was great, yep,
Speaker 1: cuss cuss out the refs and just just call them.
Speaker 1: I get what you're I get what you're saying mainly
Speaker 1: from the standpoint, mainly from the standpoint of it's not
Speaker 1: good when you say it's not good for our society.
Speaker 1: I get that because anytime there is a you know,
Speaker 1: that level of disrespect shown to an authority figure, it's
Speaker 1: not a good precedent to set. I get that. I
Speaker 1: guess the point that I'm saying is, I think it's
Speaker 1: it was. It's okay at some point for somebody to
Speaker 1: step up and say something about it, because I think
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous that this is a this is a penalty
Speaker 1: that throughout the NFL you hear people say a year
Speaker 1: after year after year, you could probably call it on
Speaker 1: every single play in every single game, and yet for
Speaker 1: seven games the Cowboys have gotten no calls, and we
Speaker 1: have literally sat there and watched moments when these defensive
Speaker 1: linemen have been basically tackled and there's no call. So
Speaker 1: it's about time, in my opinion, somebody says something. Could
Speaker 1: he have used better words? Probably so? Could you. Could
Speaker 1: he have said it a different way? Probably so. But
Speaker 1: I also think a lot of that may be born
Speaker 1: out of a certain level of frustration that, man, this
Speaker 1: is continuing to happen. You think it's going to get
Speaker 1: better at some point, but it doesn't seem to be
Speaker 1: getting better, and it's just it's it gets to a
Speaker 1: point where it's just a breaking point. And I think
Speaker 1: we all sometimes find ourselves in situations where we may
Speaker 1: say things the wrong way because of our level of frustration.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make it right, but it certainly happens, and
Speaker 1: it happens to all of us. Right, I'm good at that.
Speaker 1: I think what also helps, I mean, for men not
Speaker 1: to cut you off as kind of ironic all people,
Speaker 1: Yeah you're one, Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, now he's gonna say.
Speaker 1: I think it helps for me agreeing to that, just
Speaker 1: because I know DeMarcus character and I know had it
Speaker 1: been some other guy, that is just ridiculous. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna throw names, but had you been somebody else,
Speaker 1: and I would have been like, oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you know DeMarcus, like, yes, he's a crazy guy
Speaker 1: in some ways, but he's a you know, he's a
Speaker 1: good guy. He has um what do you call these
Speaker 1: um I can't think of the word, but whatever, he
Speaker 1: has those things that make you a good person. Good morals, yes, morals,
Speaker 1: So good job for him. Express yourself and you know
Speaker 1: if you're being, if you're being. He just helpead. He
Speaker 1: just helped out the community. Speak up, yes, speak up
Speaker 1: for your rights. He did. He did help the community
Speaker 1: out because where he's fine, and it'll be a hefty one,
Speaker 1: it's going to go somewhere in the community, gonna help somebody,
Speaker 1: So the NFL does. So he got his word out
Speaker 1: there and he's gonna help the community. That sounds like
Speaker 1: a good thing to me. People helping people there. You go,
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Speaker 1: Tim Boston, Tim, what up? Oh hey guys, thanks taking
Speaker 1: my call. He appreciate it. A quick question, Um, if
Speaker 1: there's any area that you guys have concerns with moving forward? Um? Nick,
Speaker 1: it always talks about receivers. We need that speed guy,
Speaker 1: we need those you know, those receivers. I mean the
Speaker 1: last couple of games, in particular the last one, you know,
Speaker 1: we had some issues catching the wall obviously moving forward,
Speaker 1: do you see them addressing the wide receiver position at
Speaker 1: any point, whether it be the draft, free agency? I mean,
Speaker 1: free agency hasn't necessarily worked out for us too well
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years. Um, so do you
Speaker 1: think it's something we're going to address in the draft
Speaker 1: or or or free agency? That's out of my question.
Speaker 1: I'll listen and hang up. Thanks guys, Thank you. I
Speaker 1: would be shocked this year if the Cowboys in the
Speaker 1: draft don't address the wide receiver position. Shocked. I'd be shocked,
Speaker 1: having drafted too last year. And I say in a
Speaker 1: meaningful way. What I mean by that is at least
Speaker 1: top three picks. Wow, shocked. I'd be shocked if they
Speaker 1: got that. I'd be shocked because I think I think
Speaker 1: this year illuminated for me at least that they have
Speaker 1: a hard time with a reliable receiving threat, somebody that
Speaker 1: gets open regularly and creates opportunities. They have a lot
Speaker 1: of guys. I think they have several guys who have
Speaker 1: the ability to catch the ball in situations where it
Speaker 1: looks like the cover, but if you throw it in
Speaker 1: the right place, they can probably make the catch. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they have a lot of guys who
Speaker 1: can get open, like even against man coverage. We see
Speaker 1: all the time, and I actually spent this last game
Speaker 1: spending quite a bit of time. I told you Nick
Speaker 1: before the game started, I was going to really focus
Speaker 1: on the receivers. Yeah, there aren't a lot of times
Speaker 1: that you see receivers open. Part of that may be
Speaker 1: because they're not scheming them to get open. I think
Speaker 1: that's a big issue. You look at other teams and
Speaker 1: you see how like these teams all around the league,
Speaker 1: how many times do you see like all of these
Speaker 1: rub routes and things that basically just free guys up
Speaker 1: Cowboys don't do a lot of that stuff. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: they don't do it enough. But even that being said,
Speaker 1: I don't think these receivers are the kind of receivers
Speaker 1: that get open enough and present themselves as an open
Speaker 1: receiver to make a big play, as I've seen with
Speaker 1: other teams around the league. So I would be shocked
Speaker 1: again if they don't address that high in the draft
Speaker 1: this year. I hope you're right, because I say this
Speaker 1: all the time, like there's so much receiver talent coming
Speaker 1: out of college football these days, and you can find
Speaker 1: great receivers as late as like pick seventy eighty. You
Speaker 1: don't even okay, Antonio Brown was like pick one fifty
Speaker 1: something that don't forget that. I mean, Juju Smith Schuster
Speaker 1: was pick sixty seven. I think Jarvis Landry was pick
Speaker 1: seventy eight. Like you can find good, good players later on.
Speaker 1: So I hope you're right. I just look at it,
Speaker 1: and I don't think Das is going anywhere. I don't
Speaker 1: think Terence is going anywhere. Cole's got another year left
Speaker 1: on his deal. Switzer's here, I don't think he's going anywhere.
Speaker 1: And I think Noah Brown has been impressive enough that
Speaker 1: he's not going anywhere. Really, the only mail Brown is
Speaker 1: still the same of what you already have. And I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm I'm not worried about that. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the numbers and I'm looking at like, how you get
Speaker 1: these guys on the field. And I wonder if these
Speaker 1: guys are gonna look at it and say, we can
Speaker 1: get through one more year before we have to worry
Speaker 1: about this. And if we draft a guy high, we're
Speaker 1: putting somebody that we invested in on the bench, whether
Speaker 1: that's one of your big money, bigger receivers or your
Speaker 1: draft pick or whatever. So I completely agree with your logic.
Speaker 1: I just wonder if they will feel as strongly about
Speaker 1: it as you do. Here's one thing I will say,
Speaker 1: although Switzer is going to be on this team, Switzer
Speaker 1: has a role, and whether they use him as a
Speaker 1: receiver a ton or not, he's still going to be
Speaker 1: on this team because he's a return guy. Right. So
Speaker 1: there's a way to be able to get a guy
Speaker 1: that you draft and you put him in there, and
Speaker 1: you know, as much as they rotate receivers in and out,
Speaker 1: if he's your fourth receiver, then there's a good chance
Speaker 1: he's gonna play quite a bit of snaps, right, So
Speaker 1: I think there's I think there's still an opportunity for him.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't change, It doesn't change necessarily from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of the makeup of the other guys on the
Speaker 1: wide receiver corps. Let's put it another way, if one
Speaker 1: of my first three picks is a wide receiver, I
Speaker 1: want him on the field all the time again, which
Speaker 1: that's okay, that's okay, because that just means that Terrence
Speaker 1: will be have limited numbers snaps. And I think I'm
Speaker 1: looking on right, I'm looking at Terrence's contract right now.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna get cut after this season, right, but
Speaker 1: he probably will get cut after the next season, right,
Speaker 1: So the same So it works, right if if if
Speaker 1: a little bit next year to sign Brice back, you
Speaker 1: draft him now, you draft the guy now, and then
Speaker 1: he plays that role in switcher. You know, maybe he
Speaker 1: can do more than two catches for nine yards this
Speaker 1: year next year, and then you know, and then then
Speaker 1: you figure out what you want to do with Daz
Speaker 1: if if you haven't already done it, your logic, Hey,
Speaker 1: I agree with both of you. I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: wonder if they'll think maybe not, we're good and then
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, we're going to spend a top fifty
Speaker 1: receiver real quick. How they get out from us. It's
Speaker 1: tough to throw that guy in though, immediately, especially if
Speaker 1: you're didn't worry about what are they doing with Desi's
Speaker 1: contract depends on how good It's not hard to throw
Speaker 1: that guy in immediately. If he's good, if he's the
Speaker 1: top like sixty caliber talent, I mean, like receivers, these
Speaker 1: like the good ones get I mean, especially if it's
Speaker 1: a first round pick. Yeah, but the good ones? Are
Speaker 1: you talking about the ones that like? You're right if
Speaker 1: it's a if it's an early to mid round first
Speaker 1: round pick, then I think you're probably right. You probably
Speaker 1: can throw that guy and expect him to play and
Speaker 1: play well immediately. I also will say, though, is typically
Speaker 1: when you find a receiver that's thrown in immediately that
Speaker 1: does well, it's usually in a situation where there's another
Speaker 1: really good receiver on the team and that takes a
Speaker 1: little bit of the pressure off him rather than him
Speaker 1: coming in and being the man immediately. I think that's
Speaker 1: a big part of that. And there's a good chance
Speaker 1: that will still be here, so it won't matter. You'll
Speaker 1: still have Dazz on the opposite side. I just look
Speaker 1: at the I look at the Cooper Cups of the world,
Speaker 1: and again, Jarvis Landry and I could probably come. But
Speaker 1: Robert Woods has been their main guy this year. He's
Speaker 1: been leading them this year as far as receivers or
Speaker 1: he's not. I noticed, I didn't say Juju because he's
Speaker 1: got a B. Robert Woods is not a B like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're good, you can get in and play.
Speaker 1: That's I believe that. Yes, I agree with I think
Speaker 1: we're saying the same thing. I just think that it
Speaker 1: probably helps to do that a year early rather than
Speaker 1: doing it once you've already made those moves and those
Speaker 1: guys are no longer on your roster. Question for you guys,
Speaker 1: this is I mean, it's kind of hard because just
Speaker 1: not taking into consideration all the different factors such as
Speaker 1: contract and money. Based on the group of wide receivers
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have right now, which ones ideally would
Speaker 1: you like to keep if you had to restart the
Speaker 1: whole group, And like say, I'm one hundred percent keeping
Speaker 1: this guy and this guy and this guy and drafting.
Speaker 1: You're not putting money involved, no talent wise, just all
Speaker 1: based on talent if it's got nothing. So this the
Speaker 1: salary cap doesn't affect anything. No, I'm just talking about
Speaker 1: just talent. You're keeping Des, Yeah, I mean this is
Speaker 1: the best one. I'm probably keeping Des Beasley and Noah
Speaker 1: and I guess Switzer real quick about when you'll think
Speaker 1: about Terrence Williams. What's the one thing, the negative thing
Speaker 1: you think the most about Terrence? Inconsistent catching, inconsistent everything. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good. Did you know that he leads all Cowboy
Speaker 1: wide receivers in in catch in like the catch percentage
Speaker 1: from the amount of targets to the catches. He's got
Speaker 1: the best one. That doesn't mean that doesn't mean everybody
Speaker 1: else hasn't been. I'm just saying, but I think Beasley
Speaker 1: is at like fifty or sixty percent, which is ridiculous
Speaker 1: for him because he's usually up in then like eight.
Speaker 1: But how many times is Beasley? Like what that that
Speaker 1: stat you're throwing out, that's a stat to me. That's
Speaker 1: about targets. Yeah, And so there are situations where the
Speaker 1: balls we've seen it this year where the ball severely overthrown.
Speaker 1: Beasley's not getting up there to get that one right.
Speaker 1: That's different than ball hits you in the chest and
Speaker 1: falls to them. I know. All I'm saying is for
Speaker 1: the amount of targets to the I mean the percentage.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't think that he would be leading all of
Speaker 1: the wide receivers over Noah Brown, over Bryce, over Dez.
Speaker 1: Who's the worst on the team over Beasley. Oh, that
Speaker 1: is surprising for me. It's it's shocking that that he's
Speaker 1: the one at sixty seven percent. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that he can do a better job at getting
Speaker 1: open and making plays all that. I just that's surprising
Speaker 1: to me. Best on the team is sixty seven percent. No, no,
Speaker 1: no the ride receivers, But okay, best Smith is the
Speaker 1: best of the best of the wide receivers wide receiver
Speaker 1: sixty That's still not good. But that's why I say
Speaker 1: I would be shocked at the Cowboys own address it,
Speaker 1: like that's a problem. I think it need to be addressed,
Speaker 1: and I think they'll do it in the first three
Speaker 1: rounds um And and I don't think they'll resign Bryce
Speaker 1: and so, like I said, I think he just kind
Speaker 1: of ease him into it. And but let's let's flip
Speaker 1: that conversation. How much of that is the receivers and
Speaker 1: how much of that is Dak? Because let's remember the
Speaker 1: first year, Dak was put in a situation where they
Speaker 1: were putting as much on him, and he hasn't been
Speaker 1: great in some games. There's been some games where he
Speaker 1: was just wasn't great throwing the ball. So how much
Speaker 1: do you put on the receivers versus put on Dak.
Speaker 1: I have no problem envisioning, you know, going to the combine,
Speaker 1: the owners meetings, all those offseason interviews where they kind
Speaker 1: of give you hints about how they feel about things,
Speaker 1: and I have no problem envisioning, you know, a scenario
Speaker 1: where they're fine with the receivers that they have, if
Speaker 1: they can get their team back to running the running
Speaker 1: back the way it was with Zeke and maybe reinforcing
Speaker 1: the running back position, you know, getting back to what
Speaker 1: they did so well in twenty sixteen when they had
Speaker 1: the same receivers and they were much more successful. That
Speaker 1: is that? Yeah, I can hear that crystal clear in
Speaker 1: my ears, Like I already feel like they're going to
Speaker 1: say it, So I'm with you. That's like I said,
Speaker 1: I agree with what you're saying about the receivers, but
Speaker 1: I won't be surprised if they don't agree. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just think, And I also think when you look at
Speaker 1: all the positions on the team that you could draft
Speaker 1: fore now, I'm still a big believer in draft the
Speaker 1: best guy that's available when you come up, But I
Speaker 1: think when you look at even just if you wanted
Speaker 1: to look at what you need, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: have a hard time coming up with a position that
Speaker 1: I think is way more important right now other than
Speaker 1: ny Bee linebacker than wide receiver. As far as what
Speaker 1: you're gonna draf, I don't think they're gonna draft cornerbacks
Speaker 1: as a high priority. They've already done that. They're gonna
Speaker 1: give those guys time to develop. Linebacker, safety, and depending
Speaker 1: on what happens in free agency, offensive line. Yeah, I don't. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't think any of those is necessarily other than linebacker.
Speaker 1: Because of the uncertainty of linebacker. I don't know that
Speaker 1: any of those I think is a bigger priority than
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Maybe the same. I don't know that think
Speaker 1: one's bigger. I think they all are. That's why really
Speaker 1: That's why I was saying that, yes, what offensive line,
Speaker 1: because they wouldn't start immediately. So you're gonna take a
Speaker 1: first or second round pick on a guy that's not
Speaker 1: gonna start. That's why I said, it depends on free agency.
Speaker 1: If you don't have a left card, you might get
Speaker 1: a drag guy that can start right away. You don't
Speaker 1: think Cooper's coming back, I don't know. That's why I said,
Speaker 1: depending on free agency. He's a free agent. I don't
Speaker 1: know where it's going to happen to him. You might
Speaker 1: need a left card. Don't forget about tight end. Tight ends?
Speaker 1: Got it? Maybe a position in the second round, Maybe
Speaker 1: that needs to be addressed. Oh god, another second round
Speaker 1: tight I mean okay, I mean you did it eleven
Speaker 1: years ago. It's gonna keep running there out. Did you
Speaker 1: see Fasano still playing in You'll see that. The other
Speaker 1: day I was looking and I looked at the stats,
Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, he's been in the legal
Speaker 1: eleven years. He's a blocking tight end essentially, but he's
Speaker 1: made a nice career for himself. Huh. If they don't
Speaker 1: like him, I mean, if this team doesn't want to
Speaker 1: use him, then I don't I don't know what to
Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't know what to think
Speaker 1: of that. I don't really don't. There's there's much more
Speaker 1: going on. I'll just leave it at that. There's much
Speaker 1: more going on behind the scenes of this whole situation.
Speaker 1: Some people probably like him, some people don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what's going on with
Speaker 1: with a training camp concussion and he's never played. I
Speaker 1: just don't know, and I it just it doesn't seem
Speaker 1: something just doesn't seem right about this. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know what's happened with him. And maybe there's more
Speaker 1: into his injury than we just haven't been told about
Speaker 1: all that. So but no, I mean, they obviously like
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin or they didn't want anyone else to take him,
Speaker 1: so he'll be in the mix. But I think you
Speaker 1: need to get him another tight end in here. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything about Jason Witten. Just think about
Speaker 1: Hannah and Swing. They don't really get open and do
Speaker 1: a whole lot for you. I know Hannah had the
Speaker 1: greatest catch of his life the other day, but I
Speaker 1: mean it doesn't do much. I mean, I think you
Speaker 1: need to get a different type of tied end in
Speaker 1: here somehow, I'm way, and I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 1: that's going to be on their radar. I think it
Speaker 1: was on their radar last year. They did like they
Speaker 1: did like a few of the tight ends class last year.
Speaker 1: So let's get a call from Chris and Houston. Chris,
Speaker 1: what up? Hello? Everybody? Thank you for taking the call.
Speaker 1: He excuse me. I agree with Dave about the safety
Speaker 1: being a higher priority than probably some of the other ones.
Speaker 1: And no, I'm not a Jeff Heath hater. I've always
Speaker 1: I've always liked them. I just never thought of him
Speaker 1: as a starter caliber type. And I don't know what
Speaker 1: happened to Barron Jones. I don't know why he hasn't,
Speaker 1: you know, been better. But I did want to mention
Speaker 1: something I called in last week talking about something going
Speaker 1: on with electronic arts, and I just wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that everybody was aware of this and that we
Speaker 1: keep pressing this issue. Electronic arts is getting into trouble
Speaker 1: with multiple governments around the world for basically selling gambling
Speaker 1: two children. Okay, we appreciate that, now, we know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: um okay, So he called in last week. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't remember, not on this show. Oh okay, I don't
Speaker 1: think I don't remember that. Yeah, I think it was
Speaker 1: the other one. Okay. Well, anyway, Um, platforms for everything.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is the one for that. This
Speaker 1: is not for us. We have a lot of this
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. Let's get another question from Twitter
Speaker 1: before you in the show. Well, how are you guys
Speaker 1: expecting that the Cowboys we will use rot Smith one
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott comes back. Good question. We talked about that
Speaker 1: on cover four last night. I go no. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just think that's something that we really haven't discussed much.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it'll be a huge difference,
Speaker 1: because if you saw what he did in the passing game,
Speaker 1: I think he'll he'll probably be your third down back. Though.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could just load everything up on
Speaker 1: Zeke as he as he comes back. I think it's
Speaker 1: really good timing for him to be a good on
Speaker 1: third down. I think he's your third down back. That's
Speaker 1: a good way to eat Zeke back in. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't like just throwing guys directly in and giving
Speaker 1: them all the snaps. I don't think they'll do that,
Speaker 1: so I think they probably will use him. One of
Speaker 1: his best plays of the game was picking up the
Speaker 1: blitz on the fifty four yard past the Beasley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a huge play in the game, and obviously
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have happened if he doesn't get his guy.
Speaker 1: So all the other touchdowns and plays he made that
Speaker 1: were great, but that one should have been on, you know,
Speaker 1: his one of his top three or four. I think
Speaker 1: the more important question is not when Zeke comes back,
Speaker 1: but this week against Oakland. Do you expect he'll have
Speaker 1: an increased role because of the production he had in
Speaker 1: this last game. That doesn't seem like Jason Garrett really
Speaker 1: it's I would imagine like they like they like what
Speaker 1: they got. I mean, like maybe maybe he'll see a
Speaker 1: few more carries, but like they're not gonna I don't
Speaker 1: think they're gonna drastically change anything. I think Alfred will
Speaker 1: be your first and second down guy, Rod third, and
Speaker 1: then he'll get a couple series, but I bet it.
Speaker 1: I thought more than anything, Rod Smith's success, I thought
Speaker 1: that touchdown really just showed the maturity that we're seeing
Speaker 1: more out of Dak. I thought Dak did a great
Speaker 1: job of getting that play open for him and creating
Speaker 1: him a spot and recognizing, oh, if I move him here,
Speaker 1: look over here, throw it here, we can have a
Speaker 1: big play. And you know, Rod did the rest. But
Speaker 1: I thought it was a really great play for Prescott.
Speaker 1: I'll throw this out there. I get what you're saying,
Speaker 1: and it makes sense, and you're probably right. But I
Speaker 1: hope Zeke comes back in a condition where he can
Speaker 1: handle the look like, I hope that they don't have
Speaker 1: to ease him in because he's not ready for it,
Speaker 1: you know, Like it's I don't know if it'll be
Speaker 1: a matter of him being ready or not being ready,
Speaker 1: as much as just the history of how they do things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like when guys come back from whatever, they
Speaker 1: tend to not just throw them in and give him
Speaker 1: a full workload. They tend to kind of ease him
Speaker 1: back in. And maybe this is different. He's already played
Speaker 1: some this season and they're at the final two games
Speaker 1: of the season and they feel like, hey, he's got
Speaker 1: a bunch of got a bunch of carries left that
Speaker 1: we can use. Let's get him out there. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but just historically that doesn't seem like something that Jason
Speaker 1: likes to do. I agree with you. I just I
Speaker 1: hope he's I hope he's been conditioning and he's ready
Speaker 1: for a big workload, whether they want to give it
Speaker 1: to him or not. I think he will be. I
Speaker 1: think he's coming back. It's weird. It's weird that we're
Speaker 1: five days away from that, I know, from this whole
Speaker 1: thing being over. Yeah, Monday, he can maybe back in
Speaker 1: the building Monday, Ye if he wants to be. I
Speaker 1: know that day. You know, it's the day off of
Speaker 1: the players. But all right, we appreciate you guys joining us.
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