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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Clubs. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that.

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Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, September ninth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode

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Speaker 1: number thirty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break,

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Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star

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Speaker 1: and we got a lot of talk about this morning.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys to get a big win to open the season.

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Speaker 1: They win thirty five seventeen and probably well, at least

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, was one of the most dominating performances

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Speaker 1: I've seen from them in quite some time. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about all that, We'll talk about Dak's performance, We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about this defense is performance throughout the course of the show.

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Speaker 1: How's everybody feeling this morning? Great? Great, awesome? Already jump in, Yes,

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Speaker 1: here we go. Let's start first a little blanket coverage.

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Speaker 1: I have one statement for you. There will be a

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Speaker 1: blank you fill in the blank. We're gonna start today

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Speaker 1: with Nick. After dominating performance last night, I learned blank

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Speaker 1: about this team, Nick. I learned that the Cowboys are

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Speaker 1: a lot better than the Giants. That's really all I

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Speaker 1: That's just the Giants aren't very good and I think

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys are very good. I learned that this team

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Speaker 1: can make it to the super Bowl. That's what I like. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go there. There, I am gonna go there.

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Speaker 1: I know. Okay, I am fully aware Giants are great.

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Speaker 1: Three days ago when you were like, I don't like

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Speaker 1: to get my expectations. This is what the Cowboys do

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Speaker 1: to me. But when they do to my feelings, they

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Speaker 1: gave me very larded against yourself, like three days ago.

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Speaker 1: I know, but it's hard to control those emotions. And

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Speaker 1: it was just very very exciting to see what they

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Speaker 1: were able to do. Obviously, the things that Kellen Moore

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Speaker 1: was able to apply, and that only gives me hope

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Speaker 1: for the future. Even though it is the first game

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Speaker 1: and it is against the Giants, it's still got me

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Speaker 1: very excited. Dave, you learned what I learned. The Cowboys

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Speaker 1: can win the modern way. And what I mean by

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Speaker 1: that is I mean I'm not sorry I agree with

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Speaker 1: Nick to a point. I thought the Cowboys would win comfortably.

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Speaker 1: I thought they were much better than Giants. They proved

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Speaker 1: my point, but we've never seen them so comfortably and

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Speaker 1: so efficiently and effortlessly win throwing the ball, you know,

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Speaker 1: the run game was basically an afterthought. They had ninety yards,

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Speaker 1: which is that's fine by NFL standards. But I was

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Speaker 1: here on Friday saying, you know, the Cowboys sweet spot

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Speaker 1: is like two hundred and fifty passing yards and they

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Speaker 1: need to have one hundred and twenty hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: rushing yards, like that's how the model goes. Didn't look

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Speaker 1: like that yesterday. The Giants loaded up to stop the run,

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Speaker 1: and for the most part, they did, and it didn't

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Speaker 1: matter at all. And part of that is because they're bad.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can totally discount that. But four

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Speaker 1: M that's something we're not used to, and it's even

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Speaker 1: if it is against a bad team, it's really encouraging

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Speaker 1: if the offense can continue to do that. Let's dive

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Speaker 1: into this passing game a little bit. You guys, kind

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Speaker 1: of do you want to answer that question too for me, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I'm guarding against being where you are because

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Speaker 1: but in all fairness, that is probably what a lot

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Speaker 1: of fans right now are dealing with this morning. Is

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Speaker 1: what they saw yesterday suggests tells their eyes and tells

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Speaker 1: their head. Hey man, this is different. This is not

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Speaker 1: what we've been used to seeing from this Cowboys team,

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Speaker 1: even in good years, you haven't been used to seeing them. Literally,

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Speaker 1: think about that. They had six their six opening possessions,

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Speaker 1: The next five they had touchdown, not field goals. They

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Speaker 1: of them were long drives where they drove methodically down

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Speaker 1: So they showed you so many different facets of this offense.

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Speaker 1: It looked like, as Dave said, it looked like a

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Speaker 1: modern NFL offense, which has not been what the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: looked better than that yesterday. So tell me how surprised

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Speaker 1: of the out of the huddle, if you can do that,

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Speaker 1: then you really can say pick your poison. You can

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Speaker 1: that won't happen. They'll have a safety back, they won't

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Speaker 1: it's a cliche, but that's exactly what they did. Whatever

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Speaker 1: not even need to worry about egos if the offense

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Speaker 1: a reason to be happy yesterday. I mean, Witton got

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Speaker 1: you know, the it's typically a younger crowd, the analytics

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Speaker 1: heavy crowd. Play action is everything, pre snap motion is everything.

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Speaker 1: Kellamore called this offense yesterday because that's exactly what it was.

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Speaker 1: And the running game will never be an afterthought if

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Speaker 1: You guys mentioned Kelvin Moore. He's getting a ton of

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Speaker 1: There were a lot of things that you could notice

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Speaker 1: He just made it all look so seeming less and

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Speaker 1: I don't think we ran a single play that hasn't

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Speaker 1: we were just watching Brian Baldinger's tape. They break down

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Speaker 1: But the way the play eventually went, I think that

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Speaker 1: when you don't know where it's going. You know what's

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Speaker 1: a huge difference to me is when you have players

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Speaker 1: that respect your coach. I don't think they had respect

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Speaker 1: big time. Yeah, I don't I forgot the three that

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Speaker 1: the running backs. In this game, Zeke Elliott had a

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Speaker 1: How does Zeke look to you, guys? Just the plays

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Speaker 1: to do more things. But that's a great thing where

429
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Speaker 1: this team is at right now that you don't have

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Speaker 1: to rely on the running game. You know, now you

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Speaker 1: have the ability to be able to make some plays

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Speaker 1: through the passing games. So I think, just like Nick

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Speaker 1: said and Date, just having seeked there, just his presence,

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Speaker 1: even if he's not running as much as we were

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Speaker 1: used to seeing him, he's still going to be dangerous.

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Speaker 1: To Nick's point from the top of the show, and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be Davey Downer, but we hope

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Speaker 1: that that carries over. Well, I can't sit here and

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Speaker 1: say that it definitely will. It was super impressive. I

440
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Speaker 1: think the Giants are going to be competing for a

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Speaker 1: top ten pick. And I think it's totally possible that

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Speaker 1: we've seen Eli Manning play his last game against New

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Speaker 1: York I mean, oh again against don't you mean like

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Speaker 1: his last game, and they don't They don't move this week,

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Speaker 1: they don't play again until November. It's totally believable for

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Speaker 1: me to think. And I don't know when their buy is,

447
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Speaker 1: but it's totally possible. Daniel Jones could be in there

448
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Speaker 1: the next time they play, right, So Monday night football, Yeah, yeah,

449
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Speaker 1: I want to see. I want to I mean, I

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Speaker 1: know Jonathan Allen's probably gonna miss next week. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if y'all have heard that yet. That's huge for

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. But you still, uh, Duran Payne is still there,

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Speaker 1: Carrigan's still there. They this is a pretty good front

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Speaker 1: seven they're gonna play and I want to see what

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Speaker 1: it looks like. And again, Washington's still not the end

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Speaker 1: all be all, But if you can take that on

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Speaker 1: the road and still play that well and throw the

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Speaker 1: ball that Well, that'll mean more to me than torching

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Speaker 1: this team. And that'll be The interesting thing is this

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Speaker 1: week's defense that you'll be playing, they don't necessarily have

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Speaker 1: to move that safety down in order to be able

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Speaker 1: to be stout against the run. Yeah, that helps, right,

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Speaker 1: because that's that's the one thing Landon Collins, right. They

464
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Speaker 1: were talking a lot about about this after the game.

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Speaker 1: I think I can't remember which player it was, but

466
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Speaker 1: they were saying, how you know with this With Kelly Moore,

467
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Speaker 1: the way he looks at it is he's trying to

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Speaker 1: agree restively exploit what you give him. And then the

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Speaker 1: keyword there is aggressively, right, So if he sees that

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Speaker 1: you're going to be able, you're gonna bring that safety down,

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Speaker 1: and he's going to go hard after the past and

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Speaker 1: sometimes I think in the past they've had the thought

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Speaker 1: around here, we're going to impose our will. So even

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Speaker 1: when the defense is showing you one thing, you're like, well,

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Speaker 1: we want to dictate the terms of what we're gonna do,

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Speaker 1: So you run into an eight man box because we

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Speaker 1: want to dictate what we're gonna do. Whereas it sounds

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Speaker 1: like Kellen's a little bit different well, very different from that,

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Speaker 1: and that he is aggressive in the in the in

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Speaker 1: the idea that if you're gonna give him something not

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Speaker 1: he only is gonna go after. He's gonna keep going

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Speaker 1: at it until he forces you to say, I gotta

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Speaker 1: do something different. I hadn't gotten around to that. You know,

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Speaker 1: it takes a while to process all the things you see.

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Speaker 1: But if Kellen Moore can get this team out of

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do what we do and get him into

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Speaker 1: We're gonna do what you can't do, that's exciting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and maybe you know onto that is we do. What

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Speaker 1: we do is kicking your ass. I mean, that's what

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Speaker 1: we go up and down the field whatever however we

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Speaker 1: want to do, however we need to do. Whoever, you know,

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Speaker 1: and maybe Jason Witten, Yeah, I thought it was interesting.

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Speaker 1: In the press conference of you there for Dak, Dak

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Speaker 1: said that when he heard the call for Jarwin, he

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Speaker 1: was like, oh man, that's the play. That's the play

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Speaker 1: that Witten has. He's like, he's not gonna like that.

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Speaker 1: And whether he did or didn't, they didn't make sure

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Speaker 1: when they got to the four yard line that they

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Speaker 1: ran a play exactly for him. But nobody would ever

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Speaker 1: admit this publicly, but like when that happened, I was like,

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Speaker 1: they like they called that for Witten, like they like

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Speaker 1: somebody was like, let's get Whitten his touchdown and his

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Speaker 1: first came back. But it was well done, The play

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Speaker 1: was well it was well designed. Yeah, and I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: It's not like they forced it to him. But like,

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Speaker 1: I just feel like somebody said, let's let's get Whitten

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Speaker 1: a tuddy and I and I've never heard that before

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Speaker 1: and never heard the phrase okay, no talk tod And

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Speaker 1: and then I also believe when they've got four touchdowns in,

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Speaker 1: I believe that they got to the ten yard line

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Speaker 1: and Zeke was gonna get that touchdown. Yeah, they were

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Speaker 1: gonna make sure he got in. So were you guys

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Speaker 1: at all disappointed in what you saw from from Pollard?

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Speaker 1: Because I'll say for myself, I had higher expectations of

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Speaker 1: what he would be and I was thinking at the

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Speaker 1: time what he would be in the event that Zeke

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Speaker 1: wasn't back. But at one point eight average thirteen carries

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Speaker 1: A little bit disappointed you guys. I think that's a

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Speaker 1: little deceiving though he didn't play that great, but a

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Speaker 1: lot of those carries there at the end of the

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Speaker 1: game were when Zeke was out and they took out

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Speaker 1: some linemen and they knew they were running it and

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Speaker 1: they just stacked it and you know what, you don't

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Speaker 1: you're right, but take it right out of Kellen Moore's mouth.

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Speaker 1: I appreciated him saying that last night. He was like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure his numbers don't look that great

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Speaker 1: on paper because he got he literally called it. He

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Speaker 1: was like, we got he got stuck in there at

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Speaker 1: the end and the run it out stuff where literally

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Speaker 1: we knew we were just going to charge into the

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Speaker 1: line and try to kill the clock. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: what they did, and so that's going to affect your stats,

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Speaker 1: I thought. He I mean, I'm not I'm not disappointed,

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Speaker 1: because immediately in the minute they signed that contract, I

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Speaker 1: was like, all right, I'm readjusting my expectations for Tony Pollard.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just what you're goin to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they had already signed him, but

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Speaker 1: when they drafted Pollard, I mean, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: everyone was convinced Tavon Austin was going to be here

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Speaker 1: beyond the team and have the training camp that he did,

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Speaker 1: because I think a lot of the end the round

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Speaker 1: stuff like that were things that Pollard might be able

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Speaker 1: to do, and maybe over time he will, which that

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Speaker 1: would even be even more dangerous because you have a

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Speaker 1: running back doing it. Absolutely, I think there's more that

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Speaker 1: he can do. But I mean, they were up thirty

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Speaker 1: five to ten. The passing game was humming. Like if

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Speaker 1: we're upset that Tony Pollard, if they didn't show enough

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Speaker 1: of their Tony Pollard package in week one against an

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Speaker 1: overmatch team, I mean, it's kind of splitting hairs at

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Speaker 1: that point. Right. All right, let's go and take our

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the Cowboys defense. Now gave up

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Speaker 1: seventeen points. But I guess the part that you could

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Speaker 1: at least start the conversation with, as they gave up

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty yards on eleven carries a ten

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Speaker 1: point nine average. To say, Quon Barkley, are you at

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Speaker 1: all concerned about the cowboys inability to stop the run yesterday?

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Speaker 1: I'm not concerned. I don't. They didn't. They did not

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Speaker 1: play their best game. They weren't amazing by any stretch.

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Speaker 1: I honestly, you know, the Cleveland Browns got spanked yesterday,

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Speaker 1: like a product of them buying their own height before

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Speaker 1: they actually played a game. I wonder. I mean, they're good,

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Speaker 1: they're very good, but the Dallas defense, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: that's I mean, that's where the star power is. I

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Speaker 1: mean that sounds stupid because they have a lot of

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Speaker 1: Like there's some I don't want to call them divas,

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Speaker 1: not the no name orphans. Yeah, a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: and I wonder it looked like they were buying their

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Speaker 1: own height before playing on that first drive, Like the

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Speaker 1: a little bit and they responded really well to it.

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Speaker 1: They're like, Okay, that was Embar saying we're not gonna

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Speaker 1: impression and the reason I say that. I said this

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Speaker 1: After the first touchdown, they went punt punt, turnover on

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Speaker 1: to keep anything stupid from happening. So, yeah, the Giants

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00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: had four hundred and seventy yards. They scored some garbage

641
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: time touchdowns, but after an ugly first drive, I thought

642
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: the defense did exactly what they needed to ye, all right,

643
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: So but I saw this game kind of like a

644
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: preseason game for the defense, and I know a lot

645
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: of them did play in the preseason and all that,

646
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: but it's like just putting all the elements back together,

647
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: you know, Byron Engine's coming back, DeMarcus Lawrence back in

648
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: the mix, everyone in the defensive line coming in as

649
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: a whole, I think, you know, it was just kind

650
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: of getting the speed going, getting into the same rhythm,

651
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: and getting everyone syncd in together. Yeah, on that note,

652
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: last night, the Cowboys only had six quarterback hits and

653
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: one sack, which I thought the sack, the quarterback hits,

654
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: that seems good. The sacks seemed a little bit off

655
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: to me that this team that's that's full of guys

656
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: that seemed to be able to push rush the passer

657
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: pretty well ended up with only one sack. Do you

658
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: guys attribute that to the fact that you had guys

659
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: like Crawford and Lawrence, who are just working back hadn't

660
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: played much in the preseason. Robert Quinn's out a guy

661
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: that they spent some money on this offseason to be

662
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: a pass rusher for them as well. Do you think

663
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: it's more of those kinds of things or do you

664
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: think it was something that the Giants were doing that

665
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: that kept the Cowboys from getting to the passer and

666
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: getting him down more frequently. Eline never has been a

667
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: guy that gets sacked a lot. Well last year he

668
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: was sixth in the league, he said, Cowboys. I mean

669
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,719
Speaker 1: for over the years, he just hasn't. I mean he's

670
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: slowing down obviously, and you know he thought he could

671
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: get out there on the edge. I think vander I

672
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: should close this so quickly that he didn't expect on

673
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: two plays, he didn't expect Bandarash to get there that

674
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: that quickly. The intentional grounding playof thought was a really

675
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: momentum changing play and a bad call actually, I thought,

676
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys got a break there. But I don't know.

677
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: I don't think it's alarming, but I do think that

678
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: you're not going to face a guy like Sequon Barkley

679
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: every week. You take away the fifty nine yard run.

680
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: You know, I hate doing that, but even if you

681
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: take it away, it's still averaging six yards to carry.

682
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: So he's tough. But they're not going to face that

683
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 1: guy every week, and but that will face better receivers

684
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: and quarterbacks. So yeah, I mean, I has something to watch.

685
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,239
Speaker 1: There's something I mean in the NFL, it's never a

686
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: good idea to just boldly just plow ahead and R

687
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: eleven will just beat your eleven, Like you get beat

688
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: that way. At the same time, when you have that

689
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: guy with his tree trunk legs and just arguably the

690
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: best back in the league, and on two different like

691
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: you know, inches to go situations, you're like, screw that.

692
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna roll Eli Manning out and get him on

693
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: the move. That's that's what's gonna do it. Like I

694
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: just twice they did that, and twice it blew up

695
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: in their face. Like this dude's thirty six. It's at

696
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: thirty seven years old, Like he's never really been known

697
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: for his mobility other than a crazy Super Bowl play.

698
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Like why would you do that

699
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 1: third and two down there? And we were telling ourselves

700
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: they got two plays to get this and the first

701
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: one they give it to Penny. I don't even know

702
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: his first name, Eli, No, I don't know his name.

703
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: Penny one in one yard, fourth and one and then

704
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 1: they roll out Eli. I mean, can you imagine that's

705
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: like Lenahan stuff right there, of like we would have

706
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: led the show with that right not giving it to Zeke,

707
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: giving it to Ola Wally first, and then you can't

708
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: even say Dak. It would have to be like a

709
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: Romo type rolling out Cooper Rush Cooper, Yeah, somebody that

710
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: you're like this, you know, the best option is Barkley

711
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: or Zeke. But because they really hadn't stopped it most

712
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: of the day that I I mean, he wanted yards, he

713
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: got yards for the most part it and you know,

714
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: I definitely don't want to downplay it. Barkley, Barkley got him.

715
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: It's something to watch. I mean, the first play of

716
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: the game, you know, vander esh and Heath both got beat.

717
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: She fetched him. That was amazing first drive of the game,

718
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: because really, I think the first play of the game

719
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: was interesting with you know, he hadn't lost a fumble

720
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: all year long, and Xavier Woods goes up there on

721
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: the actual first play of the game and pops the

722
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: ball out. That could have been a huge, uh you know,

723
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,720
Speaker 1: tone setting play there by Woods. I thought Xavier Woods

724
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: did play well. I mean, he played well throughout the game,

725
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: had eleven tackles, but to lead the team. But he

726
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: was all over the place forcing forcing that fumble, had

727
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: a nice play on the goal line. It looked good.

728
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: It's so weird. We I said this during the break,

729
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,720
Speaker 1: but it's so weird. You know, we're big college football fans.

730
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: Go Tigers. Not that we need to talk about that, right, congratulations.

731
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: That's what college football is like. The first game of

732
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: the season. You usually play like erectional state. You you,

733
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: you know, you you crap the bed for a quarter

734
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: and then you're like, all right, all right, let's go.

735
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,359
Speaker 1: We're playing football now. And all of a sudden you're

736
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: up twenty eight to seven, and then you get your

737
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: young guys in and directional State, you get some stuff

738
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: going and you're like, well, this really didn't look as impressive.

739
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: The stat sheet doesn't look as impressive as the game was.

740
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 1: And that's what I mean. You don't see that in

741
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: the NFL, but that's kind of what this was like.

742
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: The Giants came out and popped them and was like, whoa,

743
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: that's ooh, that was kind of embarrassing. All right, let's

744
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: get this thing going, and all of a sudden, it's

745
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: thirty five ten and Zach Martin's out of the game

746
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: because he doesn't need to be there, and you just

747
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: it's kind of trippy when you see that happening. I mean,

748
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: first downs the Giants had twenty five, Cowboys twenty three.

749
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: And then total yards the Cowboys had twenty four more yards.

750
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: Do you I mean, don't look away from the stat sheet.

751
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: Do you know what well, you're a big fantasy football guy,

752
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,919
Speaker 1: do you know what ever? Evan Ingram's line was, Yeah,

753
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: it was like eleven eleven catches for one hundred yards

754
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. Yeah, like he had one of the

755
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: team some point. He might have had the best game

756
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: of any tight end in the league. And I literally

757
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: up there I saw that last night, and I was

758
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 1: like he did, because like I was writing stories and

759
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 1: stuff when that all stuff happened, because I was like,

760
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: I guess he had an impact on the game. Although

761
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: that's gonna be his role all season. I mean, you

762
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: think about an offense like that, They don't have a

763
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: lot of offensive weapons in the passing game, and he's

764
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: probably the most He's probably the best offensive receiving threat

765
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: they've got on their team. He is a very good player.

766
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to knock him, but my point is

767
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: he had a dominant stat line and I'm over here

768
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: like an afterthought in the game, like I don't even

769
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: remember him doing anything. It's kind of hard when your

770
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: best offensive weapon, outside of your running it, your best

771
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: receiving weapon, is a tight end. It makes it very

772
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: very tough, especially you get into a game like they

773
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: were yesterday, where this team's running up to score on

774
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 1: you and you got to start finding ways to get

775
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: these quick points. You just don't have the horses to

776
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: be able to do it. Here's the final question I

777
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: have for you, guys, and this is more. It goes

778
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: back to what Amber said at the beginning of the

779
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: show and how you know she's trying to temper her

780
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: expectations year for all those fans out there that are

781
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 1: listening without completely destroying their excitement today, that's a perspective

782
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: for those fans on what we saw yesterday and how

783
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: great it was yesterday in the context of a fuller

784
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,479
Speaker 1: season and what that might mean for a farmer season.

785
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: I can say this, the Giants and the Cowboys always

786
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 1: plays pretty close games. Regardless of who's good that year

787
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 1: or not. They find a way to keep it close.

788
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 1: And it looked like it was going to go that

789
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: way for a little bit, and then, like Dave said,

790
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: like happens in college games, we're just better than you,

791
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: and we're gonna we're gonna show it over the course

792
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: of sixty minutes. It reminds me of that Patriots Cowboys

793
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: game in two thousand and seven when they were undefeated

794
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: and they come in here and they were hanging with

795
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: it for a while, but the clock keeps going, and

796
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 1: after sixty minutes, you look up and they've scored forty

797
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: eight on you because they just keep scoring and you can't,

798
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: you know. And that's what I think happened. The better

799
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: team you They just showed that they were better and

800
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: they don't always do that to teams, and they did

801
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: it in this game. So that's a sign. Uh yeah,

802
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: I mean it, there's nothing wrong with being excited to spet. Like.

803
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: The offense was fun again. It looked modern. It was

804
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: all the stuff we've been clamoring for. And I would

805
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: that's not going to change. It might not be as

806
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: absurdly effective, but it's gonna be happening all years. So

807
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: that's exciting. Um. But man, I mean, the Ravens did

808
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: this too, and I feel like the Ravens open every

809
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: season by just plastering somebody like that, like three or

810
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: four years in a row, they've won like fifty five

811
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: to ten. They beat the crap out of Miami yesterday

812
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,879
Speaker 1: and it has come to down. But my point is,

813
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: you know, the Ravens haven't won a Super Bowl in

814
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 1: seven years, like you know a lot. I mean, as

815
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: good as you look in Week one, it doesn't necessarily

816
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,320
Speaker 1: have bearing. But the trends are what I watch, and

817
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: I don't think Kellen Moore is just suddenly gonna shelve

818
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: his offense for the rest of the year. So that's

819
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: what's encouraging for me. But I'm not I'm not ready

820
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: to crown anybody off of the strength of beating a

821
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: bad football team. How much do you guys expecting that

822
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: The fact that this was the first time the NFL

823
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 1: got to see Kellen Moore's offense and they don't really

824
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: have a good playbook on his tendencies yet how much

825
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: do you think that was a factor yesterday and then

826
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: as you move forward, becomes less and less of a factor.

827
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 1: The more there's there's more, there's film on tape of

828
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: what he likes to do in certain situations. See. I

829
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,760
Speaker 1: think it's pretty similar to when Dak and Seek first

830
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,399
Speaker 1: got here. You know, other teams had no idea who

831
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: these guys really were, what they could do on a

832
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: professional level, and that's why I believe that they were

833
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: so successful that year. Now with Kellen Moore, I'm just

834
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: really curious to see after several games once other teams

835
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: star studying his playbook and trying better defenses, trying to

836
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: analyze exactly how to stop them. You know, what is

837
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: he going to do under that kind of pressure? Is

838
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: he going to be able to adjust and play a

839
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,719
Speaker 1: better game? That's what I'm curious about. But I am

840
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: still excited. There's nothing wrong with that, I am And

841
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: here's here's Here's the thing too, is the fact that

842
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 1: the offense made me forget about the defense in a way.

843
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Like, um, the offense played so

844
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: well that you weren't even concerned about the defense and whatever, exactly,

845
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: thank you you got exactly, but I was chemistry show.

846
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: But that's the point. And I believe that the defense

847
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: is gonna pick it up next week and get back

848
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: to their groove. And once that happens, and you got

849
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball playing at that level, they're

850
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: gonna be very destructive. I think the defense did play well.

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Speaker 1: This is kind of sounding like they didn't play well. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: compared to what we've seen in the past. Well yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the expectations. Yeah, I mean I think they I think

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Speaker 1: they did a really nice job in the game, and

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Speaker 1: so um this is they gave up ten points really

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, and that's definitely good enough to win

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Speaker 1: a lot of games. So it just looks balanced. You know,

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Speaker 1: the special teams did a nice job, and you don't

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Speaker 1: have to worry about you don't have to worry about

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Speaker 1: the kicker. If you're not scoring, you're not settling for

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Speaker 1: field goal. Good point. And how about the red zone?

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Speaker 1: You know, two out of two, but they didn't even

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Speaker 1: get down there because they were scoring above that. I

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Speaker 1: just I just think that Randall Cobb, I mean, Beasley

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Speaker 1: as good as he was doing what he does, cobbed

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Speaker 1: and just give you a little bit more. He can

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Speaker 1: give you that more down the field type type presence. So, um,

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Speaker 1: just a great start. I mean it's it's a great start,

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Speaker 1: but that's all it is. I mean there's I would

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Speaker 1: say there's gonna be sixteen teams that are one to know,

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Speaker 1: but that's not the case because the Cardinal Tis ruined

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Speaker 1: it and it was the NFL has ruined it with

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Speaker 1: their rules of ties. Yeah, was that you that that

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Speaker 1: put that out? Tyler Murray? Did you call him that? No,

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Speaker 1: that was Bill Builds a good joke. It was actually

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Speaker 1: really good. That does sound like me. Yeah, that's what

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Speaker 1: someone in the press box. We're gonna it wasn't me.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to do math like every time we

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Speaker 1: talk about the Well, no we're not, because the Lions

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Speaker 1: and Cardinals are not gonna playoffs. But when the Packers

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Speaker 1: and somebody tied, I hate ties, I hate it. But

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Speaker 1: it was a good game for a Cowboys, good start

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Speaker 1: to the season. This week, it'll be a little bit

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Speaker 1: more of a challenge, I would think with this Washington

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Speaker 1: Redskins team. I think they got a little bit more there.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that starting tomorrow. We'll start getting you

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Speaker 1: guys ready for that game until they're for Nick Gatman,

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Speaker 1: Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been

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