WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Winning With Style? 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:06.800 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:17.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. Are you ready 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:21.400 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:25.720 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:31.080 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:37.400 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.880 It is Friday, December third, twenty twenty one, season seventeen, 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.839 episode number seventy one. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.880 The Break, live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:50.919 We've got a win to talk to you about. Cowboys. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:52.839 You get a win on the road Thursday Night football. 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:56.600 They beat the New Orleans Saints twenty seven seventeen win that, 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.240 by all accounts, is nothing more than that. It's us 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.240 to win, and in these days in the NFL, that's 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.360 a good thing. And we're gonna break it down for 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.760 you here on today's show. Let's start where we normally 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.520 start to day after a game with big picture storyline. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.240 I'd love for each one of you guys to tell 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.240 me what you think is the story of the game. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.920 Following that twenty seven seventeen victory, we got Dave remote, 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.440 So Dave, let's get started with you. What's your big 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:27.960 picture story coming out of that game. My big picture 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:33.080 takeaway is thank God that this stretch is over. And 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.520 I mean, I don't know if the Cowboys are gonna 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:39.039 play noticeably different down the line, but this has been 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.320 a tough three or four weeks, you know, the whole 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.840 the three games in twelve days. Look, everybody's got to 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.000 do it, but doing it in the back half of 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.560 the year around the holidays is not easy. They're banged up. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.840 They had a COVID outbreak. By the way, I kind 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.280 of forgot that sounds bad, but like halfway through the game, 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.400 I was like, oh, yeah, Mikeelcarthy's not here, or like 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.120 this this whole week has been so surreal, but you 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:05.840 didn't have time to really think about it because you 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.119 got a game to get ready for on Thursday. So 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.880 not an inspiring performance. Yeah, I mean, the defense gets 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:16.520 four takeaways. That's always great, albeit against maybe a guy 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:21.639 that shouldn't be playing quarterback in the NFL. So kind 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.280 of similar to what we saw against the Chiefs. Like 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.280 it's nice to see the defense put in a performance 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.840 like that, But this offense has got to huddle up 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:29.920 and have some kind of come to Jesus moment, and 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.079 fortunately for them, they get time. They got a long 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.880 weekend off, They've got a long time to get ready 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.520 for their next game, whole divisions in front of them, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.440 and they can be rested for it. So I'm just 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.079 I'm happy that they get a break and we don't 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.120 have to keep doing this breakneck pace all right. Amber 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:49.760 storyline of the game, well, I wish I was feeling 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.920 more excited after what we saw in them getting the Wayne, 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:58.760 which I'm glad. I'm glad, but it's just it's been 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.480 hard for them ever seeing Dak got back from the injury, 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:04.800 and I'm out too. I don't want to blame Dak 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:06.880 on everything that they've been through. You know, you got 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.040 the offensive line making mistakes, you got receivers making mistakes. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.760 After he got back, we got issues with receivers missing 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.760 games and being out injured, COVID and all that. So 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.560 a lot of moving parts. But what I was lacking 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.760 from this team is being able to see them with 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.800 that ability that they had shown earlier in the season, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:31.960 where they were capable and able to overcome anything, anything 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.480 that came their way, they overcame it, and now it's 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:39.720 like it's just missing that little spark that we've seen, 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:41.720 and we saw it at different place. We saw that 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.840 great series with the receivers back to back and getting 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.560 that touchdowne with Gallup, but then you got the running 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.280 game that's just not there. And that's my concern. Right now. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.440 It's like, great, they gotta win. They needed it. Now 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.320 we're slowly getting back on track. The defense is being 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:03.560 pretty solid, but eventually, like Dave said said, this offense 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:08.080 needs to pull it back together not become one dimensional 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.000 without any help of the running game, because as we 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.280 get closer to the end of the season, eventually that's 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.200 gonna catch up to you and it's gonna bite you 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.280 in the butt. And then you know, you have to 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.840 be able to run the ball despite what you're doing 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.960 with the passing game. So anyways, great, great win. My 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:34.320 point is what Nick, I'm laughing what no, I'm laughing at. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.520 I'm looking at these rushing yards. Go ahead, keep going, well, 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:42.279 go ahead up. They ran the ball well, I mean 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:47.800 they have one hundred forty six yard I mean, yeah, product, 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.560 The product was good as far as the total six 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.560 that's a good number. They had a fifty one yard run, 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.880 and they had a thirty three yard run. Well yeah, 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:01.040 and and and most, but most I'm not sure. I'm 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.400 not discounting I'm me but I get it. But like 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:07.280 I understand, but who can do a fifty eight yard run? 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.840 Not every team? I get them. By the way, I'm 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.160 not discounting those because I don't. I don't like when 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.360 people say, but for these plays, well, these plays matter too, right, 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.279 I get it. My point is if you watched as 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.000 we watched that game, we were saying, man, they're getting 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.839 nothing out of this running game. So I think I 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.559 think there is something to the fact that the running 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.080 game wasn't quite what you wanted it to be. Now, 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.120 of course you were playing against a really good run defense, 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.240 and the fact that you get those two big chunk 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.839 plays that matters, But you didn't get what you really 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.000 wanted out of the running But but they you know 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.520 how many times have we heard him say, well they 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:39.520 didn't stick to it. They did, They kept and they 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.000 stuck to it. They figured out you got to run 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.719 it on the outside. So these runs by Pollard and 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.600 CD or from the outside. But I mean, there's still 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.000 technically runs. But let me back you up for a second, 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.360 because you didn't give your storyline, and I saved you 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.080 until last mainly because I know your storyline. Yeah, I 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.359 thought it was a great win. I know that's not 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:04.440 your storyline. The game storyline. Game is Dallas. Fine, that's 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:09.400 storyline of the game. Flicker. Yeah, yeah, do it again, 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:15.159 do it again? Every day? Absolutely underwhelming. Yeah, it wasn't blocked. 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.480 I get it. It was it wasn't blocked. But I'm 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.919 telling you do it again, like like, run it. I mean, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:22.279 may you don't have to run it next game, but 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.000 running you know, a couple of weeks, you got it 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.360 out there, you put it on tape, run it, run 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.919 it again. I mean, I loved it. I thought it 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:30.880 was It was so funny because I looked over at 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.719 Nick's computer after this happened, and Twitter is just going crazy. 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:40.520 Nick's getting all these tweets from people like it sucks. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.920 that's true. Um, go ahead, but I did. I just thought. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.800 You know, I'm not a big fan of saying it 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:48.600 was an ugly win. You know that's what I wrote. 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.039 I mean, I don't My definition of ugly is I 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.880 mean nine points in Kent City was ugly. One hundred 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.920 and fifty yards, penalties was ugly. You know, getting shut 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.360 out for most of the Bronco game was I mean this, 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.960 this wasn't that way. I mean, I thought they figured 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.560 out ways to win and beat a team. I mean, 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.640 to beat a really really good football coach. I mean, 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.120 he knows how to do his thing. Now. I don't 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:10.920 know what he's doing with his quarterback right now, but 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:12.560 you don't have a lot of options. Didn't have options. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.200 He didn't have options, and I thought, you know, I 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.520 said it to y'all in the press box. I said 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:18.920 that second play of the game, and he threw it 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.440 and Layton missed it, and I was like, well, you 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.920 keep throwing that like you're gonna get picks. I mean, 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.520 he just he's not capable of sustaining those drives with 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:29.520 his arm. Now, he's a damn good runner, there's no 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.440 doubt about it. And turn him into a running back, 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.640 well yeah, because he's gonna get the ball, he's gonna 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.080 get hurt, keep running. But I don't know. He's the 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:38.800 kind of guy that I kind of wonder he has 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:40.920 the build of a running back. I kind of wonder 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:42.720 if maybe they ought not use him in that way, 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.520 just because I told you in the second half when 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.320 they were on those drives where they were running the 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.200 ball with him and they were doing it consistently, I 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.360 was like, if I were them, I keep doing it 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.080 because they were having success, and they got out of 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.280 it and started trying to throw instead of forcing Dallas 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.080 to get them out. Yeah, and Dave alluded to this earlier. 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.480 But like just everything it takes to win a football 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.960 game throughout the week, the preparation and all that, I 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:07.640 do think fans forget that and how wonky it was 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.360 for this team. So to come out and just overcome 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.560 all of that, I thought it was a really impressive win. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.480 I really I think it's good. He had to stop 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.160 this slide, and they did it in a week that 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.240 it was it was tough to do that. They did 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.560 it without their head coach, Mike McCarthy, who was out 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.080 due to COVID. Did you guys have any did you 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:29.280 see any discernible difference between him coaching or Quinn acting 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:34.000 as the head coach last night, Dave, We'll go to you. No, 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.720 not really. And the one thing that we talked about 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.080 in the press box was like are these decisions. Are 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.560 these Dan Quinn decisions independent of any input from Mike McCarthy, 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.680 or is there kind of a guideline he's following. Cowboys 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.600 went for a fourth down early in the game, that 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.040 type of thing, and we asked him Quinn about it afterward, 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:54.760 and he was like, yeah, we're just following the guidelines 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:56.360 that we set up during the week. He talked to 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.319 Mike McCarthy right up until when it was time to 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.720 go to the stadium him on Thursday afternoon, so as 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.319 you would expect, he had tons of input from his 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:06.960 head coach. I think he followed a plan that they 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.480 put together. I hope that doesn't sound like a knock 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.440 on Mike McCarthy, But I didn't feel like there was 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.240 much of a difference in terms of the way the 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.880 game was coached. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't really either. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:19.800 The one thing and I did get a chance to 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.840 talk to some some people afterwards, you know, offensive line, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.360 they were down two coaches and then London Welles had 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.439 to slide over and tied in and all that, And 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.080 from what I was told is that the biggest problem 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.559 or challenge, challenge is the better word, right is, is 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:38.240 just in game adjustments, especially on that offensive line. You're 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.400 just not used to see him those fronts and what 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.680 the Saints are doing and how do you adjust to that, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.280 So that that was the only thing. I mean, I 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.440 think it's underrated a little bit having both your old 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.400 line coaches out. Remember this team didn't have the weight 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.600 room open all week, and I mean the strength coaches 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.440 where it was virtual meetings just a lot different. And 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.760 you know, if we're making excuses, but those were they 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.960 they weren't real things. They wouldn't do them. You know, 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:03.800 they wouldn't have a walk around head coach if it 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.240 wasn't something that you did, or you wouldn't have in 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.040 person meeting. So I just I thought they had to 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.280 overcome a lot of challenges there and to be able 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:12.840 to get a win because they got two more road 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.120 games in a road they're gonna be tougher than this Washington. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.040 The Giants will probably be tougher than than these two teams, 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.720 just because it's division games and you know that they're 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.760 gonna be fighting for their lives right now. As the 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.320 Saints sort of were. Well, I thought he did a 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.520 nice job and we talked and I mentioned it. I 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.520 guess I was gonna say Friday, but today's Friday. So 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.640 the Tuesday Tuesday, I mentioned that, and I was a 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.440 little bit concerned them whether the defense was gonna suffer 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:44.440 a little bit because of, oh my god, dan Quinn's 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.559 role in the game. But clearly it didn't, and the 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.679 defense played a really good game. And initially, and I'm 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.640 switching it over too, and I know we're gonna get 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.600 into it. But initially I was like, oh, well, great 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.840 job by the defense and getting hyped and all that. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.120 But then I stopped myself and then I'm like, well, 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.480 the Saints aren't playing well, like they kind of saw 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.199 what I was watching. And then eventually I'm like, well, 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.719 hold on, this defense has been solid throughout the year. 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.199 It's not just this one game. So got to give 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.400 them credit. And it was impressive to me to watch 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.360 this defense finally be the kind of have the kind 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:25.440 of players that these balls are not just necessarily falling 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.440 into their hands or their laps. They are going after 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:32.199 the ball and you see it over and over and anyways, 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.880 I was just amazed the fact that dan Quinn had 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.640 this other role added to him and the defense was 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.080 able to perform the way that it did. Yeah, you 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.240 look at this stretch of games where I think most 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.160 people believe the Cowboys have not played their best football. 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.280 It's really the defense, in my opinion, has played pretty well. 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.680 I mean, you could say in the Oakland game that 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.840 was not one of their better performances, but any of 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.240 those other games in these last five, I think the 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.000 defense has played fairly well. It's been the offense that's 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.840 failed them. I mean, they held Kansas City in Kansas 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.320 City to nineteen points. Not a lot of teams do that. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.199 And so I think this defense is coming into its 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.280 own and to me, that's a good thing because if 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.600 this offense and by the way, they're getting pieces back, 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.199 it's gonna take them a while obviously to get all 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.440 that rolling. But if they get it rolling and they 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:22.080 got this offense back to rolling by December and January, 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.360 this defense is shown they can win some games, not 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.520 just kind of give you a moment here or there 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.560 in a game, like they can win some games. That 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.920 becomes a really, really, really good team, and that's what 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.240 you have to hope for. We'll see how it all 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.280 plays out. You can't write the story before it happens. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:37.840 But that's what you have to hope for at this point. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.760 If you're following Dallas. I told myself I wasn't gonna 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:42.959 let anybody say that again about it. They only held 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:44.880 can't see it to nineteen points. I was like, if 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.520 I hear that again, I'm gonna I'm going off because 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.559 they didn't really because like the Chiefs could do whatever 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.960 they I mean, they could have scored thirty five if 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.240 they needed to, they needed to score ten points because 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.360 of that crappy offense on the other side that day. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.200 So like games take on their own life, you know, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.640 and like if the Cowboys would have kept scoring, they 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.480 wouldn't even probably stopped the Chiefs. I don't know about that, Nick, 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.640 I don't think, well, you think if the Cowboys would 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.880 have scored thirty one points they win thirty one? Nineteen? 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.760 Maybe not. I don't think it's necessarily nineteen. But I 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.240 do think that the defense played well enough in that 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.480 game to where if Dallas could have gotten anything gone 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.480 going offensively, they could have won that game. Yeah, And 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.840 so guess what that's the NFL. The NFL is such 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.240 that teams do what they need to do. You're right, Yeah, 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.600 But I do think that defense played pretty well against 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.040 that offense. They did play pretty well. But I think 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.200 if if the Cowboys would have made it a challenge 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.880 and scored some points, I think my homes and then 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:36.920 would have scored some points too. I mean, I just 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:38.880 say all the point I was made. They didn't give up. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.600 This defense made it challenging for Kansas City, and and 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.520 they're playing games right now to where it is. It 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.240 is not just an offensive team, which is what we 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.280 thought it was earlier in the season. They have progressively 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.760 gotten better and this defense I think is good enough 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.960 where they can win you some games if the offense 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.080 can give you just a little bit, and that that 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.360 hasn't been like over these last five years, they've had 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.040 some games with offense has just been putuls on defense. 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.040 I mean, he's the best player. I think he's best 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:07.679 player on the team. I think he's the best player 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.959 in I think he's the best defensive player. I don't 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:13.760 I don't think right now, NICKI and you're and I 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.319 are talking about this before the show. I can't remember 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.360 a player. And I've been watching football for a long time, 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.440 going back to the Love You Blue days of the 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.280 Houston Oilers with ar Old Campbell. Like I've been watching 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.160 football a long time. I can't come up with a 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.840 single player that I think was as good as at 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.720 as many things as Michael Parsons is. This year, you've 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.920 had guys who are really good, Like he plays linebacker 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.720 like a Luke Keekley, he plays defensive end like DeMarcus Ware. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.360 That's two Hall of Fame type players, and it's one 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.080 guy doing both those things. I can't come up with 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:48.840 another name. And I would love for somebody to give 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.880 me a comparable player that's doing what he's doing. I 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.240 can't think of one, not just in the NFL right now, 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.040 in the history of the NFL. I can't think of one. Dave, 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.920 you want to take a shot at that, Not really 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.520 to be honest with you, because like I was making 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.960 a face because like, yeah, I feel like embarrassed about 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.600 the things that I start thinking about, like maybe the 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.760 name Lawrence Taylor, you know that type of thing, And 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.000 then you're like, oh, shut up, Dave, Like surely, surely 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:21.640 you're a homer. Surely you're not comparing like two years ago, 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.240 I don't remember who the player was. Yeah, fair, Oh wow, 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.560 I need to hear that story. Yeah, Okay, good to know. 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:32.320 Um uh no, I it was a few it was 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:33.800 a few years ago. I don't remember who they were 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.680 talking about. But Bill Belichick was like, whoa pump the 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.800 brakes on comparing anybody to Lawrence Taylor, and like, that's 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.840 kind of how I feel. I'm like, yeah, let's not 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.400 get carried away. But at the same time, did y'all 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.200 see Brian Baltire's cut up of Mica from last night 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:54.040 and every week? Every week? Every week? Yeah? I mean, 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.000 I guess if I was, if I was trying to 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.040 tamp the brakes a little bit, I could point out 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.840 that the Saints were without either of their tables, but still, 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.000 like the guy wins the edge like an all probe 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.560 edge rusher, He's carrying receivers down the field. He's taken 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:11.600 away for saver routes. Yeah, real, I can't. I just 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:13.640 I need him to get a pick in coverage before 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.840 the season's over, just to kind of complete the trifecta 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.120 or like kit for the cycle in terms of defensive stats, 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.680 because he's a freak. And don't get me wrong, I'm 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.880 not saying he's a finished product. I don't even know 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:26.920 that his career is gonna be this. What I'm saying 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.960 is through this whatever number of games sample that we've 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:34.920 seen with Michael Parsons, and yeah, he's not Lawrence Taylor. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.240 But my point is, did Lawrence Taylor do all the 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.720 things that Dallas is asking this guy to do and 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.520 do them as well as he's doing. That's the part 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.240 where I'm like, I don't know that I can name 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.240 a player that has done that many different things. Lawrence Taylor. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.680 You know, one, I think he won the defensive Player 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.680 of the Year as a Rickie in eighty one. I 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.720 believe that happened maybe one Rickie of the Year, but 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:57.200 I also think he was Player of the Year. But 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.880 Dave just called Parsons a freak, which I think is 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.120 fitting because we also looked something up yesterday. He's got 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.879 ten sacks now with five to go. The NFL rookie 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:13.240 record is fourteen by Javon Curse, who was called the freak. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.320 And who's he related to? And who's he related to? 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:22.000 Nurse who's pretty freakish himself. I mean, this is this 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.800 has been I mean, but but the thing about Parsons 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:29.760 that I that justin Herbert didn't realize and Taysom Hill 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.760 didn't realize. And most quarterbacks just don't realize they have 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.680 this clock. They have this sense of you're there, I'm here, 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.399 you're gonna get here in about one second, or you're 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:40.800 gonna get here in two and all of a sudden, 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.600 it's bam right in your face. And I mean, he's 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.400 just he's got that back. Can I add a point 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:49.600 to that? Sure, I'm sorry, I know I'm on a 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.399 delay here, But throughout the season I've been I agree 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.720 with you, Like throughout the season, I don't think quarterbacks 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.320 realized it. I think they realize it now. I just 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.560 don't think they're anything they can do about it. Like 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:06.080 if Taysom Hill, he's as purely athletic as a quarterback 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.320 is going to be in terms of just maneuverability and escapability. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.320 If Taysom Hill can't adjust for his closing speed, nobody 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.119 in the league probably can except let's throw out Lamar 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.080 Jackson and maybe Jalen Hurts. There's just there's not a 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.399 lot of guys that can account for that. And so 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.480 I mean, if you're trying to scramble or extend to 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:25.919 play at his side of the field, I just think 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.400 you're gonna have a bad time. There's there's literally two 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.760 or three times every game when he does something where 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.600 you're like, wow, I can't believe what I just saw 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.159 in how fast he got to the point that he 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.480 was trying to get to. Has anyone seen a stat? 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.720 And I mean we see stats all the time next 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.280 Gin Sat, you know, there's there's companies that are make 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:46.160 a living doing this. Has anyone seen a stat on 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:51.560 the amount of sacks versus the rush attempts? Because these 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.000 guys that are leading the league in sacks, they rush 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.680 every play. He doesn't rush every play, but like so 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.520 when you think about average, you know, sacks per attempt, 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.760 Like that's got to be off the charts. 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They had some some some interesting moments last night. 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:59.600 There were some struggles. There are also some good things 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:03.800 that they They did get Amari Cooper back and and 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:06.680 so you started to see some things that were that 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:08.960 were favorable for them. But they were two of thirteen 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:11.920 on third downs, which is obviously not great, oh of 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:14.639 one on fourth downs. Dak was twenty six to forty 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:18.120 a sixty five percent completion rate, two hundred and thirty 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:21.960 eight yards, one touchdown and one interception, and in my opinion, 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:26.080 several missed opportunities where he was just off target on 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.640 some throws that should have been completions. That all being said, 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:32.080 tell me what your thoughts were on the offensive performance 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:35.119 last night. Nick. We'll start with you offensively. You know, 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:37.800 they left some some yards out there, and they had 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.480 they were one dimensional at times when they were running 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:43.000 the ball. Like I said earlier, though you know, they 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:45.600 stuck to it. What I liked about it, I thought 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:47.920 one of the best players of the game was when 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:50.359 they got up there, up ten, they were down on 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:52.399 their own four yard line. They had to get themselves 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:55.080 out of that, and that passed over the middle to 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.199 to CD where he went down and got it. They 0:22:57.200 --> 0:22:59.479 gave him some breathing room, took three or four more 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:02.159 minutes off the clock. I thought when they really had to, 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:05.399 they were able to function just enough. I mean, this, 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:08.879 this isn't gonna win any shootouts. We know that, but 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:13.480 I thought, based on all the circumstances going on, I'm 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:17.239 not giving them as bad grades for this one. Are 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:19.360 you saying you brought up that that Kansas City game. 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:20.920 Are you saying that Dallas would have been in a 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:22.920 simmer Bowl last night if they had to win a shootout, 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:25.280 they would have scored more points than twenty seven. I 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:28.680 think so. I mean, sometimes you have to you have 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:31.440 to for I mean, why why do teams always kind 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:32.960 of score a little bit more there at the end 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:35.000 of the game. It's based off coverage and all that stuff. 0:23:35.040 --> 0:23:37.160 But I just think sometimes games take on a life 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:38.600 of their own, and if you have to get it 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.440 a shootout, you kind of do. I think they could 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:43.560 have scored more if they needed to. So yeah, similar 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:47.040 to that, they kind of played within themselves. When you 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:49.040 see Taysom Hill on the other side making those throws, 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:51.359 I just don't do anything stupid here, Let's don't. I mean, 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:54.800 he's gonna he's gonna throw. They're shorthanded, they don't have Kamar, 0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:56.920 they don't have their guys. They're leaning on him in 0:23:57.000 --> 0:23:59.800 his arm. Eventually it's gonna go the other way. Amber. 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:04.200 I mean, with you saying they could have scored more 0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:08.720 if they needed to, it's like they've needed to be 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:13.000 scoring more and they haven't. So you know, I you 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:15.920 know what, if that sounds weird, I get it. I 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:18.200 just believe what. I don't even know how to how 0:24:18.240 --> 0:24:21.000 to even interpret this. I just think the games take 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:23.600 on a different life if if they're over there going 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:25.720 up and down the field, Saints so scorn. I think 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:29.160 the Cowboys match them to some degree. I don't think 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:32.760 it's a low scoring game. Well, we have seen in 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:36.400 plenty of different games where they're down and Dak somehow 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:39.040 every time at the end of the game just starts 0:24:39.400 --> 0:24:43.840 playing better and putting points out there. But anyways, overall, 0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:48.040 and I mentioned it earlier, this offense is just lacking 0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:53.000 that spark right now. And the good thing, the positive 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:55.400 thing is that they are getting some of their guys 0:24:55.480 --> 0:24:58.679 back in slowly and every week we should start now, 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:02.000 we should now start seeing a lot of progress. They 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:05.040 get a little break here. So with them being back 0:25:05.119 --> 0:25:09.040 again together, the receiving group being together again, the old 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:13.399 line hopefully taking form now and being more solid as two. Okay, 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:15.639 these are the guys that are gonna be in playing 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:18.840 week after week. It should get better. I think that 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:21.800 Kellen Moore should get better again. I know he's getting 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:24.760 a lot of criticism, but we've seen him being capable 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:27.680 of doing great things with this offense. So I think 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:30.000 it's it's gonna be a good end of the year 0:25:30.119 --> 0:25:32.480 for them and they're gonna get back on track. But 0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:36.760 I do want to bring this up Dak Prescott, and 0:25:37.160 --> 0:25:38.879 I know I feel like all of us on this 0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:44.280 show are agree with what we think of Dak. I 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:48.680 know Nick makes some comments here and they're sometimes criticizing Dak. 0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:51.639 But all in all, we think that Dak has been 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:54.720 pretty solid. He's a great leader, he's everything, and he's 0:25:54.760 --> 0:25:58.840 shown upward trending. But when I get on Twitter and 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:00.800 I see all these comments and so, you know, people 0:26:01.240 --> 0:26:04.240 really attacking him right now and like, oh see, he's 0:26:04.280 --> 0:26:06.760 not the quarterback that he needs to be, he doesn't 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:09.200 deserve the amount of money that he's getting paid. Blah 0:26:09.240 --> 0:26:12.120 blah blah. I mean, I want to ask you guys 0:26:12.160 --> 0:26:15.359 and bring that from Twitter into this conversation real quick. 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:18.840 How are you guys currently feeling about him? And can 0:26:18.920 --> 0:26:22.920 he turn things around back again for the remainder of 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:29.119 the season. Dave, what do you think? Yeah? I mean, 0:26:29.200 --> 0:26:31.880 and this is this is what happens when you give 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:34.480 a quarterback forty million dollars a year, It comes with 0:26:34.560 --> 0:26:38.560 the dinner. You're gonna be hyper criticized. And Dak Dak 0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:41.720 has been down this month. And if anything, the impression 0:26:41.760 --> 0:26:43.879 that I keep coming back to, and I take my 0:26:44.000 --> 0:26:47.800 impressions from Dak himself, because last night he said a 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:50.720 lot of that is maybe me being too greedy, trying 0:26:50.720 --> 0:26:52.800 to put the dagger in on one play instead of 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:55.920 going through my reads, I think Dak has been pressing 0:26:56.160 --> 0:26:59.080 for most of the last month. Now. Is that because 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:01.080 he knows that they're banged up and he's got to 0:27:01.320 --> 0:27:04.119 raise his level of play? Is that because he's here 0:27:04.160 --> 0:27:07.399 an MVP chatter whatt Is that because he wants to 0:27:07.440 --> 0:27:12.239 justify the contract. I don't know, But for how much 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:14.600 we talk about the Dak yard and how these guys 0:27:14.640 --> 0:27:17.080 are in the lab all the time, Dak hasn't looked 0:27:17.119 --> 0:27:19.480 like he's been on the same page with his receivers 0:27:19.600 --> 0:27:22.560 consistently for about a month. I mean the fourth and two. 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:26.720 If there's better communication between DAK and CD on the 0:27:26.800 --> 0:27:29.359 fourth and two early in the game, not only do 0:27:29.400 --> 0:27:32.479 they probably score a touchdown, but we're throwing laurels at 0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:35.600 Kellen Moore's feet because it's such a cool play design. 0:27:35.640 --> 0:27:38.600 I mean, they schemed it up beautifully, and whether it 0:27:38.680 --> 0:27:40.719 was supposed to go to the inside shoulder or the outside, 0:27:40.720 --> 0:27:43.399 it doesn't matter. Dak and CD just weren't on the 0:27:43.440 --> 0:27:47.280 same page. We've seen that throughout the last month, I 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:49.560 mean throughout the game. On the play where Dak got 0:27:49.640 --> 0:27:52.879 picked CD for the eighteenth time in the game, is 0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:55.240 gesturing to the sideline, like, I don't know what the 0:27:55.359 --> 0:27:59.679 hell's going on, what's happening? And sure it's the Superdome, 0:27:59.760 --> 0:28:01.680 but these guys love to tell you how much that's 0:28:01.720 --> 0:28:03.400 not a big deal. So I'm gonna take their word 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:06.240 for it and say, surely we should be better than this, 0:28:06.400 --> 0:28:11.720 Surely we should have better communication. So, I mean, everybody 0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:14.359 can see the inconsistencies. I think it's a result of 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:18.480 pressing on Dak's part, and again going back to the 0:28:18.600 --> 0:28:20.719 having a break thing, this group just needs to take 0:28:20.800 --> 0:28:25.359 a deep breath, reassessed self scout, think about what we 0:28:25.480 --> 0:28:28.960 do well and where we've been messing up. I really, 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:32.640 I think they're just a few tweaks away from being better. 0:28:32.840 --> 0:28:38.200 But it's been frustrating to watch. You know, how many 0:28:38.240 --> 0:28:42.480 games do you think Dak has not played as well? Here? Four? Five, five? 0:28:43.240 --> 0:28:45.280 You know what else is darting with Denver? Yeah? You 0:28:45.320 --> 0:28:47.360 know what else does not happened in five games? Was 0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:51.320 that Zeke hasn't gone like over fifty yards rushing. I mean, 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:54.960 and it's just and it's hand in hand. I'm not 0:28:55.040 --> 0:28:57.560 just saying it's Zeke not running the ball. So Dak 0:28:57.640 --> 0:29:00.280 hasn't played as well. Maybe Dak hasn't played as well Zeke. 0:29:00.920 --> 0:29:02.840 They go hand in hand that this is where they 0:29:02.880 --> 0:29:05.440 are now. It's not back to rookie season when it 0:29:05.520 --> 0:29:08.360 was mainly it was Zeke first and then Dak was 0:29:08.440 --> 0:29:11.280 able able to kind of, you know, compensate and and 0:29:11.600 --> 0:29:14.320 and play complimentary football. I think I think it's fifty 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:17.000 fifty if if not leaning more towards Dak, but I 0:29:17.080 --> 0:29:19.640 do think that he needs a running game, and that 0:29:19.800 --> 0:29:22.600 hasn't happened. So I kind of put it on both 0:29:22.680 --> 0:29:25.560 of them. They're they're they're having to play one dimensional 0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:27.960 football right now. And and I don't know if that's 0:29:28.080 --> 0:29:31.440 that's never anyone's strong student. It's certainly not Dax. That's 0:29:31.480 --> 0:29:34.520 not his game. He he needs play acts and to 0:29:34.640 --> 0:29:37.680 help him, uh, flee flickers and things like that. That 0:29:38.000 --> 0:29:40.440 was my big thing about the flee flicker on a game. 0:29:40.480 --> 0:29:43.200 When you're running the ball better, I think it's gonna 0:29:43.240 --> 0:29:45.920 work better when you're not running as well. It's hard 0:29:45.960 --> 0:29:47.440 to be like, all right, well, I'm the safety is 0:29:47.440 --> 0:29:49.760 not just gonna jump up there and bite because they're 0:29:49.800 --> 0:29:51.840 not getting more than five yards anyway, So that that 0:29:51.880 --> 0:29:54.560 wouldn't be my favorite time to run it, but hey, 0:29:54.720 --> 0:29:56.840 I've asked for it for twelve years or fifteen years, 0:29:56.880 --> 0:30:00.400 so can't be greedy about it. But I do think 0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:02.400 that they're not running the ball as well and that 0:30:02.600 --> 0:30:04.920 is affecting dec. I think they kind of playing off 0:30:04.920 --> 0:30:06.640 each other. But I agree with Dave. I mean, we're 0:30:06.680 --> 0:30:09.360 not talking about a bunch of tweaks here. They're getting 0:30:09.400 --> 0:30:11.800 their receivers back, They're getting everybody kind of back. The 0:30:11.880 --> 0:30:14.080 offensive line will be will be okay, I mean, but 0:30:14.280 --> 0:30:16.280 there'll be a huge test this week or the next 0:30:16.320 --> 0:30:18.640 game against Washington and the other thing I'll say too 0:30:18.760 --> 0:30:20.200 is that, and I want to keep an eye on this. 0:30:20.240 --> 0:30:24.480 Go ahead, Dave, quit you go. I'm sorry, and I 0:30:24.600 --> 0:30:27.160 wanted to bring this up y'all y'all got really heated 0:30:27.160 --> 0:30:29.320 about the did they or did they not run the 0:30:29.360 --> 0:30:31.600 ball well? Things? So I left it alone. But like, 0:30:32.760 --> 0:30:35.560 I get what Nick is saying, and yes, this offense's 0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:38.280 best performances came when they were running the ball well, 0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:41.720 but I really hate their stubborn insistence on trying to 0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:44.600 do it when it's not working. And yeah, you can't 0:30:44.680 --> 0:30:47.400 take you can't take the good runs out, like that's 0:30:47.440 --> 0:30:49.640 not how that works. But at the same time I 0:30:50.120 --> 0:30:52.840 looked this up for the story that I wrote last night. 0:30:53.440 --> 0:30:56.880 They ran at twenty four times. Six of the twenty 0:30:56.960 --> 0:31:01.720 four went for more than three yards. That's awful, that's 0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:05.479 so bad. And one of them, that's how you get 0:31:05.520 --> 0:31:09.920 a lot of three and out. Yeah, and a thirty 0:31:10.000 --> 0:31:13.680 three yard rushing game was a bubble screen to Ceedee Lamb, 0:31:13.840 --> 0:31:16.600 where it's really more your receiver corps and the design 0:31:16.680 --> 0:31:19.680 of the play doing the blocking and not your offensive line. 0:31:19.680 --> 0:31:22.760 So that's twenty three percent of your rushing total that 0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:26.400 isn't traditional rushing yardage. And I just I say all 0:31:26.480 --> 0:31:29.760 that to say with the exception of the big breaks, 0:31:30.120 --> 0:31:32.479 and also two of those runs that went longer than 0:31:32.560 --> 0:31:35.200 three went for four, So it's not even like those 0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:38.160 were eight or nine yard games. Like they had three 0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:42.320 sizeable running games the whole time. And yet they just 0:31:42.520 --> 0:31:44.720 kept on plowing right up the middle. And I would 0:31:44.800 --> 0:31:47.720 argue hurt Dak in the process, because the last thing 0:31:47.800 --> 0:31:49.560 you want to do is put him into an obvious 0:31:49.680 --> 0:31:53.280 third and seven, which I felt like they did six 0:31:53.400 --> 0:31:55.360 times last night. I don't have that number in front 0:31:55.400 --> 0:31:56.800 of me, but it had to have been more than 0:31:56.840 --> 0:32:00.760 a handful m and so that's that's what's frustrating to me, 0:32:01.000 --> 0:32:05.160 is just stubbornly trying to do something that that wasn't working. 0:32:06.120 --> 0:32:08.320 It broke in the third quarter with the Pollard run, 0:32:08.400 --> 0:32:12.320 which was great, but again that that's something I would 0:32:12.360 --> 0:32:13.760 like to look at as well. I felt like this 0:32:13.880 --> 0:32:16.040 offense was a lot more adaptable earlier in the year. 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:20.040 That Pollard touchdown, was it number forty three? Was that Latimer? 0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:24.960 That no? Which was there? Safety Marcus Williams, He's still 0:32:25.040 --> 0:32:27.560 waits Williams. He's still waiting for Pollard to cut back. 0:32:27.640 --> 0:32:29.600 I guess like when I watch that play out, but 0:32:29.720 --> 0:32:33.120 just it's funny watch the play and watch the safety 0:32:33.240 --> 0:32:36.160 and watch Pollard. The safety is just kind of like, well, 0:32:36.160 --> 0:32:38.360 all right, what's gonna happen. What's gonna happen? And Tony 0:32:38.400 --> 0:32:40.720 Pollard is just like running like he's in the Olympics, 0:32:40.800 --> 0:32:43.160 just straight, like I'm not even looking at anyone else. 0:32:43.200 --> 0:32:44.840 I'm going as fast as I can. And it's like, 0:32:45.800 --> 0:32:48.040 you know, your angle is known, you don't have an 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:50.880 angle anymore. Like it's gone. He's gone. And that's two 0:32:50.920 --> 0:32:53.600 weeks to the row. We've seen that, and I mean 0:32:53.680 --> 0:32:57.920 he's Tony Pollard is going to get himself into the 0:32:58.000 --> 0:33:01.760 Pro Bowl and probably as a kick returner. But you 0:33:01.800 --> 0:33:04.440 know how those games go, you know if the Cowboys 0:33:04.440 --> 0:33:08.040 playing the game, But how those games go is that 0:33:08.200 --> 0:33:10.440 he'll be He'll be running the ball. He'll probably get 0:33:10.560 --> 0:33:12.680 more carries than anyone, but he might because of the 0:33:12.760 --> 0:33:15.920 kickoff returns. He might get himself in there. He's doing 0:33:16.000 --> 0:33:19.240 it on national TV, Big Games. All right, Can I 0:33:19.320 --> 0:33:23.600 ask a question real quick? Dave talked about how it 0:33:23.680 --> 0:33:25.880 bothers him when they're like trying to run the ball 0:33:26.000 --> 0:33:28.400 it's not working, then why do you keep going back 0:33:28.440 --> 0:33:30.440 to that? But I feel like a lot of times 0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:33.840 we also talk about them the opposite way and say, well, 0:33:34.520 --> 0:33:37.240 they're not trying to run the ball enough to worry 0:33:37.240 --> 0:33:41.280 it actually gets going. So how do you how do 0:33:41.360 --> 0:33:43.280 you how do you figure out, like, at what point 0:33:43.320 --> 0:33:45.880 do you decide, Okay, let's keep running the ball, let's 0:33:46.120 --> 0:33:49.120 actually not this game. Well that's a good point because 0:33:49.200 --> 0:33:51.640 also the play that I thought was a real big 0:33:51.800 --> 0:33:54.200 moment there. I just mentioned it about that passed the 0:33:54.320 --> 0:33:56.520 CD down in the end zone when Dak was kind 0:33:56.560 --> 0:33:57.880 of hanging out in the end zone for a few 0:33:57.920 --> 0:34:01.240 seconds and found CD. But that was a play acction passed. 0:34:01.560 --> 0:34:03.320 So if you don't run the ball and you don't 0:34:03.320 --> 0:34:05.320 commit to the run, your play accents is not gonna 0:34:05.320 --> 0:34:08.480 work either. So that's a fine line of when do 0:34:08.680 --> 0:34:12.560 you say this in working like Tampa, or say let's 0:34:12.640 --> 0:34:15.320 keep let's keep going. Let's keep going because it'll it'll 0:34:15.360 --> 0:34:17.879 open up more things for us. It's a fine line 0:34:17.920 --> 0:34:20.800 to walk. And who knows. Who knows if that fifty 0:34:20.840 --> 0:34:24.160 eight yard run happens had they not been just consistently 0:34:24.239 --> 0:34:26.440 trying to pound them up the middle to where it 0:34:26.520 --> 0:34:28.680 created opportunities for them. Like that's what you don't know 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:31.680 is what kind of side effects happened as a result 0:34:32.000 --> 0:34:34.759 of them continuing to consistently try to run the ball. 0:34:35.000 --> 0:34:37.960 And I get it, like you can't take away the 0:34:38.000 --> 0:34:39.680 big plays. But at the end of the day, like 0:34:39.880 --> 0:34:42.680 they got. I think they got as much as they 0:34:42.760 --> 0:34:46.080 probably could have expected to get against that defense that 0:34:46.200 --> 0:34:48.600 was a number one rush defense in the NFL. So 0:34:48.800 --> 0:34:50.560 I don't think I went into that game thinking the 0:34:50.600 --> 0:34:52.600 Cowboys were gonna be able to run very well, especially 0:34:52.640 --> 0:34:54.960 with Zeke in the condition that he's in right now. 0:34:55.600 --> 0:34:57.239 I expected whatever they got out of the Running Game 0:34:57.280 --> 0:34:59.080 was gonna be gravy. For them to get a fifty 0:34:59.160 --> 0:35:01.360 eight yard touchdown out of it, that's a win in 0:35:01.440 --> 0:35:03.640 my opinion. That was a huge play for them. Also, 0:35:03.680 --> 0:35:05.800 the way I see it though, is, and I know 0:35:05.880 --> 0:35:09.600 we're specifically talking about this game, but when it's like 0:35:09.680 --> 0:35:13.080 a reoccurring thing that we've seen game after game lately. 0:35:13.239 --> 0:35:16.160 And yes, Seek has been banged up, but when I 0:35:16.360 --> 0:35:19.080 was mentioning the Running Game and not working, Yes, they 0:35:19.120 --> 0:35:21.239 had those two plays that were great and l and 0:35:21.360 --> 0:35:25.520 you can't take those away whatever. But the thing where 0:35:26.000 --> 0:35:30.279 I became becoming critical of them is when you see 0:35:30.320 --> 0:35:33.279 a game after game where it's not necessarily working, and 0:35:33.360 --> 0:35:36.200 then we start talking about them becoming one dimensional, and 0:35:36.280 --> 0:35:38.120 then you look at the rest of the stretch and 0:35:38.200 --> 0:35:40.920 it's like, Okay, who are they really gonna scare down 0:35:41.000 --> 0:35:43.839 the line? And is it gonna even ever get going 0:35:43.960 --> 0:35:46.320 and work. So it's just one of those things that 0:35:46.840 --> 0:35:49.120 it's just to me, it's been happening every week. Well, 0:35:49.560 --> 0:35:53.480 everybody knows. What's really the problem is they haven't had 0:35:53.600 --> 0:35:56.080 McGovern as the fullback and for a game I'm sorry, 0:35:56.160 --> 0:35:58.640 but the McGovern fullback package I mean, what's going on 0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:01.480 with they've been that it seems like it. I mean, 0:36:01.520 --> 0:36:04.920 we haven't seen we haven't seen that McGovern as a fullback. Now. 0:36:05.000 --> 0:36:06.560 Connor Williams did it something at the end of the 0:36:06.640 --> 0:36:09.440 game last night, but it didn't matter. M Yeah, we're 0:36:09.440 --> 0:36:10.880 gonna say our final break. We're gonna come back. I 0:36:10.920 --> 0:36:12.440 do want to talk about the offensive line. I want 0:36:12.440 --> 0:36:13.800 to get some opinions from you guys on what you 0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:17.000 saw from laoll Collins, from McGovern, from yadish how did 0:36:17.000 --> 0:36:20.000 the offensive line look with what we projected was going 0:36:20.040 --> 0:36:21.879 to be their starting offensive line at the beginnings, He's 0:36:21.920 --> 0:36:23.440 nor close to it. We'll talk about that when come 0:36:23.520 --> 0:36:25.840 right back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio. I 0:36:25.880 --> 0:36:28.040 want to use what the pros use. 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Visit Dallas Cowboys dot 0:38:43.520 --> 0:38:45.759 com slash United to get us today, Welcome back to 0:38:45.840 --> 0:38:48.560 the final segment of the Break Life nest WBC Mortgage Studios. 0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:50.360 At the start, Hey Dave, I got a question for you? 0:38:50.719 --> 0:38:53.120 Is there any chance at all we can get we 0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:55.520 can get Papa Hellman or Mama Helman to come and 0:38:55.520 --> 0:38:59.640 give us some opinions on the game. Al Well, I'm 0:38:59.680 --> 0:39:01.799 still in my hotel. Oh, I thought you were back 0:39:01.800 --> 0:39:03.440 at the house. So okay, I thought you were back 0:39:03.440 --> 0:39:07.239 at the house. Man hell I'm I'm I'm gonna use 0:39:07.360 --> 0:39:10.120 every minute of free hotel time that I am afforded. 0:39:11.400 --> 0:39:13.680 I get you. So, I know they're not here, but 0:39:13.840 --> 0:39:15.360 I'm gonna go see them in a little bit. I 0:39:15.440 --> 0:39:17.680 thought maybe we could get a little little perspective from 0:39:17.719 --> 0:39:20.680 them as as Louisiana folks on what they thought of 0:39:20.719 --> 0:39:23.719 the game. What are you Saints fans? Aren't they? Well 0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:25.400 I don't know, Dave, are these Saints fans? They are 0:39:25.480 --> 0:39:27.759 Saints fans? Well, that would have been fun, Yes, they are. 0:39:27.880 --> 0:39:31.080 That would have been a lot of fun. They my 0:39:31.400 --> 0:39:35.000 my dad, Hey, he doesn't listen to the show, but 0:39:35.160 --> 0:39:39.080 love you dad, because he my dad hated the Cowboys 0:39:39.200 --> 0:39:42.279 my whole life, Like he couldn't stand them. And now 0:39:42.480 --> 0:39:45.120 he's like calls me and he's like, oh my god, 0:39:45.160 --> 0:39:47.000 when you think about Parsons, I'm like, Dad, I know 0:39:47.120 --> 0:39:49.160 you don't like the Cowboys. You don't have to talk, 0:39:49.239 --> 0:39:51.680 you don't have to humor me. But he loves it. 0:39:51.840 --> 0:39:55.359 He's like roots for the Cowboys when they're not playing 0:39:55.440 --> 0:39:57.520 the Saints. Yeah, you know that's what's great. You know, 0:39:57.600 --> 0:40:01.400 your parents will do some crazy things. Kids. My dad listens. 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:05.080 My dad listens to the show, and yeah, he'll he's 0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:07.480 he'll send a text message or twelve. You know. He 0:40:07.840 --> 0:40:10.399 gets frustrated too with the in the game. So yeah, 0:40:10.480 --> 0:40:12.480 maybe he was feeling better last night. Talk to me 0:40:12.480 --> 0:40:14.600 about this offensive line. What do we see last night? 0:40:14.719 --> 0:40:16.440 Let's start with Lyle Collins. What were your thoughts on 0:40:16.520 --> 0:40:19.320 Lyle Collins play last What show is it? Derek? Episode 0:40:19.520 --> 0:40:22.879 seventy one? There we go, Lyle Collins. Oh good, it's 0:40:22.960 --> 0:40:25.440 my seventy one? Thank you. He's playing. He's playing did 0:40:25.480 --> 0:40:31.839 all right? Nate Livings? Nate Livings? Um, how about two 0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:35.200 an A? But um, anyways, I thought he played, you know, 0:40:35.280 --> 0:40:37.120 pretty well. I mean, it's hard for us to kind 0:40:37.160 --> 0:40:39.480 of talk about that. We didn't see all the you know, 0:40:39.600 --> 0:40:42.120 we don't grade him out like that, but it seemed 0:40:42.120 --> 0:40:44.359 like Dad had a lot of time lesson they were right, Yeah, 0:40:44.600 --> 0:40:46.800 that was I just kind of know there were sometimes 0:40:47.080 --> 0:40:49.600 he did. I thought Lyle played pretty well. You can 0:40:49.680 --> 0:40:51.799 kind of tell, you know a guy. Especially after the game. 0:40:51.840 --> 0:40:54.960 I talked to him. He was feeling pretty good about it. 0:40:55.000 --> 0:40:58.239 You know, he's going back home to Louisiana two with 0:40:58.360 --> 0:41:01.080 him and you know, being in lsue guy and you know, 0:41:01.320 --> 0:41:03.480 and getting it to play, and I think this is 0:41:03.520 --> 0:41:05.640 where he feels like he should be starting. He should 0:41:05.640 --> 0:41:07.239 be starting to right tackle. Of course, he feels that 0:41:07.320 --> 0:41:11.359 way back with Zach Martin and you know, they they 0:41:11.680 --> 0:41:14.839 they did okay. I think they'll they'll continue to get better. 0:41:14.960 --> 0:41:17.560 But I don't I don't think Lyell was a problem there. 0:41:18.160 --> 0:41:23.160 Camber Um trying to remember if there was anything noticeable 0:41:23.680 --> 0:41:25.600 that I watched from the game, but I can't think 0:41:25.640 --> 0:41:28.560 of anything good or bad. You know, it was just 0:41:28.680 --> 0:41:31.600 like one of those where you didn't necessarily noticed the 0:41:31.640 --> 0:41:34.839 whole a whole lot, which we haven't had in quite 0:41:34.840 --> 0:41:38.320 a few games. So that's good, that's a positive, and 0:41:38.440 --> 0:41:41.719 it's to me an indication that they are starting to 0:41:41.920 --> 0:41:46.000 hopefully get better and kind of figuring things out there 0:41:46.040 --> 0:41:48.840 with the old line. But just in general, nothing necessarily 0:41:48.880 --> 0:41:51.520 stood out. I don't know if DATE saw anything differently. 0:41:54.280 --> 0:41:56.719 I mean, I haven't watched the game back at all, 0:41:56.840 --> 0:42:00.960 but Dak got sacked one time. I thought, I thought 0:42:00.960 --> 0:42:04.719 the protection was pretty good, especially for being in the Superdome. Ironically, 0:42:05.680 --> 0:42:07.880 there were at least two plays where they did go 0:42:08.000 --> 0:42:11.279 to play action and like the protection was impeccable and 0:42:11.520 --> 0:42:13.160 Dak had like two and a half three and a 0:42:13.160 --> 0:42:22.520 half seconds to look down field and almost made it obvious. 0:42:23.760 --> 0:42:26.640 The push up front concerns me. Obvious. Like I said, 0:42:26.680 --> 0:42:29.319 I think they averaged like one point five yards per 0:42:29.400 --> 0:42:32.560 carry between the tackles. I get it, outside the tackles 0:42:32.640 --> 0:42:34.279 was awesome, but you'd still like to see better. But 0:42:34.800 --> 0:42:37.359 I thought they were fine. Yeah, that's that's the one 0:42:37.440 --> 0:42:39.800 thing about it, and is I think that from a 0:42:39.840 --> 0:42:42.400 standpoint of running the ball, I give a lot of 0:42:42.480 --> 0:42:44.799 the a lot of what we've seen over the last 0:42:44.840 --> 0:42:46.520 several weeks with the guards of the running game. I 0:42:46.640 --> 0:42:49.799 think a lot of that's about the offensive line because 0:42:49.920 --> 0:42:51.960 these these backs are not getting a lot of room 0:42:52.000 --> 0:42:53.719 to be able to run. I think you got two 0:42:53.800 --> 0:42:56.960 quality backs obviously, and even with Zach, I mean, even 0:42:57.000 --> 0:42:59.879 with a Zeke being hurt, Zeke still can run the ball. 0:43:00.239 --> 0:43:02.160 But I don't think he's just getting a lot of opportunities. 0:43:02.160 --> 0:43:03.920 They're not giving him much room. And that's where I 0:43:04.000 --> 0:43:05.880 look at this offensive line and I just think right 0:43:05.960 --> 0:43:08.919 now as a unit, they're not performing at their best 0:43:09.040 --> 0:43:10.759 when it comes to the running game. Yeah, you don't 0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:13.560 see them really creating those holes that we have been 0:43:13.680 --> 0:43:16.800 used to see. It. It's like you see usually seek 0:43:17.040 --> 0:43:18.880 when he's at there and then he just kind of 0:43:19.000 --> 0:43:21.640 hits a wall. He just there's no space for him 0:43:21.680 --> 0:43:23.680 to get in. They don't get to the second level. 0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:25.400 I mean, it's it's kind of like you got a 0:43:25.440 --> 0:43:28.040 guy on a guy, but nobody ever gets up to 0:43:28.120 --> 0:43:30.040 that second level to the linebacker to where you can 0:43:30.120 --> 0:43:32.680 create that play that's more than two or three yards. Basically, 0:43:32.719 --> 0:43:34.840 the running backs are running right into the line and 0:43:34.960 --> 0:43:36.800 there's nothing there, and you just can't get to the 0:43:36.800 --> 0:43:38.800 second level because none of the offensive linemen are getting 0:43:38.800 --> 0:43:43.800 to the second level. Maybe, you know, I mean Connor Williams. 0:43:43.840 --> 0:43:46.440 Of the penalties have gone down obviously from you know, 0:43:46.640 --> 0:43:50.319 Connor McGovern. But who's to say that Connor Williams isn't 0:43:50.360 --> 0:43:52.719 blocking better than than McGovern, You know what I mean? 0:43:52.800 --> 0:43:54.880 Would you take some of those penalties if you. I mean, 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:56.839 because they were running the ball better with him. If 0:43:56.880 --> 0:43:59.400 you're resting with McGovern as the fullback. Well, but how 0:43:59.520 --> 0:44:01.359 long has ever been starting now as a second game, 0:44:02.160 --> 0:44:07.280 I feel like this is the third Yeah, okay, okay, 0:44:07.920 --> 0:44:11.400 So I mean, I honestly I did. I thought running 0:44:11.560 --> 0:44:14.000 over Connor Williams was a problem. When Connor Williams is 0:44:14.040 --> 0:44:15.960 in there, You're right, I don't want to rewrite that history. 0:44:16.000 --> 0:44:18.160 I think he was a problem in the run game 0:44:18.480 --> 0:44:21.319 as well as the pass game hasn't fixed anything. Yeah, 0:44:21.800 --> 0:44:24.080 And honestly, what I think we've learned is they're about 0:44:24.120 --> 0:44:26.880 comparable players. Yeah. I don't think one's necessarily better than 0:44:26.960 --> 0:44:29.800 the other, um, except for they don't have the penalties. 0:44:29.960 --> 0:44:32.240 So if you're getting a comparable player without the penalties, 0:44:32.520 --> 0:44:34.160 I still think at this point you probably made the 0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:37.600 right movie. He got one penalty, right and for the 0:44:38.000 --> 0:44:41.000 legal man downfield, you know, I feel like that that 0:44:41.200 --> 0:44:43.719 penalty is getting called a lot more these days, and 0:44:44.000 --> 0:44:46.440 it's probably because of the run pass options and these 0:44:46.800 --> 0:44:48.600 you know, and these guys thinking it's run they don't 0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:51.719 know it's past. You're seeing it a lot. But um, yeah, 0:44:51.800 --> 0:44:53.439 he was only a couple of yards down the field. 0:44:53.480 --> 0:44:55.160 I thought that was a little sicky tack. But for 0:44:55.239 --> 0:44:58.959 the most part, though officiating like it was, it wasn't 0:44:58.960 --> 0:45:02.040 the Thanksgiving crew for sure. You know. Yeah, I mean, 0:45:02.120 --> 0:45:04.520 can we talk about Anthony Brown too, because I thought 0:45:04.560 --> 0:45:07.719 Anthony Brown just the bounce back game, you know, and 0:45:07.800 --> 0:45:10.839 and he did. Michael Irvin texted him before the game saying, hey, 0:45:11.200 --> 0:45:13.160 you got this. You know you have a bad memory, 0:45:13.239 --> 0:45:14.920 go out there and do it. And they picked on 0:45:15.040 --> 0:45:16.839 him early, you could tell, but it didn't really work 0:45:16.880 --> 0:45:18.360 out for him. I mean, you got to give a 0:45:19.000 --> 0:45:21.000 pass breakups. Ye give him some credit for the way 0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:23.399 he kind of fought through that Mentally, he even said 0:45:23.440 --> 0:45:25.600 it was a long week. It was a long week, 0:45:25.680 --> 0:45:27.120 and I'm like, it was only seven days, but I 0:45:27.160 --> 0:45:28.719 get it. It was a long week. And he came 0:45:28.760 --> 0:45:31.480 back and and you know, I give him props for 0:45:31.520 --> 0:45:33.360 the way he played in that game. But let's be honest. 0:45:33.600 --> 0:45:35.840 I think that most of us who have watched this 0:45:35.960 --> 0:45:38.920 team playoff season, we know how good Anthony Brown has 0:45:38.960 --> 0:45:40.680 been this season. He has not been as bad as 0:45:40.719 --> 0:45:42.680 people want to say he's been. And I think it 0:45:42.760 --> 0:45:45.759 all started with that Week one mistake that wasn't his 0:45:45.880 --> 0:45:48.680 mistake that got got given to him, and I think 0:45:48.760 --> 0:45:50.960 from there people just had that opinion of him. But 0:45:51.040 --> 0:45:53.560 I think he's played really well. He's played as as 0:45:53.600 --> 0:45:57.120 well as any cornerback on this team, minus the interceptions. Obviously, 0:45:57.360 --> 0:45:59.359 Dix gets a lot of interceptions, and that matters. Don't 0:45:59.400 --> 0:46:01.440 get me wrong now saying that doesn't matter, but just 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:04.759 on a play to play, who wins that play. I 0:46:04.920 --> 0:46:07.680 think Brown has been every bit as good as Dicks 0:46:07.719 --> 0:46:10.480 from that standpoint, And I just think he's had some moments, 0:46:10.560 --> 0:46:12.759 and that's gonna happen when you play cornerback. They're gonna 0:46:12.760 --> 0:46:14.560 be some days. They're gonna be some moments you're gonna 0:46:14.600 --> 0:46:17.839 give up plays. That's the National Football League. All right, guys, 0:46:17.840 --> 0:46:19.520 we appreciate you join us. We'll be back on tomorrow. 0:46:19.560 --> 0:46:21.839 I'm sorry now, we'll be back on Monday. 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