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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, December third, twenty twenty one, season seventeen,
Speaker 1: episode number seventy one. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 1: The Break, live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the start,
Speaker 1: We've got a win to talk to you about. Cowboys.
Speaker 1: You get a win on the road Thursday Night football.
Speaker 1: They beat the New Orleans Saints twenty seven seventeen win that,
Speaker 1: by all accounts, is nothing more than that. It's us
Speaker 1: to win, and in these days in the NFL, that's
Speaker 1: a good thing. And we're gonna break it down for
Speaker 1: you here on today's show. Let's start where we normally
Speaker 1: start to day after a game with big picture storyline.
Speaker 1: I'd love for each one of you guys to tell
Speaker 1: me what you think is the story of the game.
Speaker 1: Following that twenty seven seventeen victory, we got Dave remote,
Speaker 1: So Dave, let's get started with you. What's your big
Speaker 1: picture story coming out of that game. My big picture
Speaker 1: takeaway is thank God that this stretch is over. And
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if the Cowboys are gonna
Speaker 1: play noticeably different down the line, but this has been
Speaker 1: a tough three or four weeks, you know, the whole
Speaker 1: the three games in twelve days. Look, everybody's got to
Speaker 1: do it, but doing it in the back half of
Speaker 1: the year around the holidays is not easy. They're banged up.
Speaker 1: They had a COVID outbreak. By the way, I kind
Speaker 1: of forgot that sounds bad, but like halfway through the game,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, Mikeelcarthy's not here, or like
Speaker 1: this this whole week has been so surreal, but you
Speaker 1: didn't have time to really think about it because you
Speaker 1: got a game to get ready for on Thursday. So
Speaker 1: not an inspiring performance. Yeah, I mean, the defense gets
Speaker 1: four takeaways. That's always great, albeit against maybe a guy
Speaker 1: that shouldn't be playing quarterback in the NFL. So kind
Speaker 1: of similar to what we saw against the Chiefs. Like
Speaker 1: it's nice to see the defense put in a performance
Speaker 1: like that, But this offense has got to huddle up
Speaker 1: and have some kind of come to Jesus moment, and
Speaker 1: fortunately for them, they get time. They got a long
Speaker 1: weekend off, They've got a long time to get ready
Speaker 1: for their next game, whole divisions in front of them,
Speaker 1: and they can be rested for it. So I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm happy that they get a break and we don't
Speaker 1: have to keep doing this breakneck pace all right. Amber
Speaker 1: storyline of the game, well, I wish I was feeling
Speaker 1: more excited after what we saw in them getting the Wayne,
Speaker 1: which I'm glad. I'm glad, but it's just it's been
Speaker 1: hard for them ever seeing Dak got back from the injury,
Speaker 1: and I'm out too. I don't want to blame Dak
Speaker 1: on everything that they've been through. You know, you got
Speaker 1: the offensive line making mistakes, you got receivers making mistakes.
Speaker 1: After he got back, we got issues with receivers missing
Speaker 1: games and being out injured, COVID and all that. So
Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts. But what I was lacking
Speaker 1: from this team is being able to see them with
Speaker 1: that ability that they had shown earlier in the season,
Speaker 1: where they were capable and able to overcome anything, anything
Speaker 1: that came their way, they overcame it, and now it's
Speaker 1: like it's just missing that little spark that we've seen,
Speaker 1: and we saw it at different place. We saw that
Speaker 1: great series with the receivers back to back and getting
Speaker 1: that touchdowne with Gallup, but then you got the running
Speaker 1: game that's just not there. And that's my concern. Right now.
Speaker 1: It's like, great, they gotta win. They needed it. Now
Speaker 1: we're slowly getting back on track. The defense is being
Speaker 1: pretty solid, but eventually, like Dave said said, this offense
Speaker 1: needs to pull it back together not become one dimensional
Speaker 1: without any help of the running game, because as we
Speaker 1: get closer to the end of the season, eventually that's
Speaker 1: gonna catch up to you and it's gonna bite you
Speaker 1: in the butt. And then you know, you have to
Speaker 1: be able to run the ball despite what you're doing
Speaker 1: with the passing game. So anyways, great, great win. My
Speaker 1: point is what Nick, I'm laughing what no, I'm laughing at.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at these rushing yards. Go ahead, keep going, well,
Speaker 1: go ahead up. They ran the ball well, I mean
Speaker 1: they have one hundred forty six yard I mean, yeah, product,
Speaker 1: The product was good as far as the total six
Speaker 1: that's a good number. They had a fifty one yard run,
Speaker 1: and they had a thirty three yard run. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and most, but most I'm not sure. I'm
Speaker 1: not discounting I'm me but I get it. But like
Speaker 1: I understand, but who can do a fifty eight yard run?
Speaker 1: Not every team? I get them. By the way, I'm
Speaker 1: not discounting those because I don't. I don't like when
Speaker 1: people say, but for these plays, well, these plays matter too, right,
Speaker 1: I get it. My point is if you watched as
Speaker 1: we watched that game, we were saying, man, they're getting
Speaker 1: nothing out of this running game. So I think I
Speaker 1: think there is something to the fact that the running
Speaker 1: game wasn't quite what you wanted it to be. Now,
Speaker 1: of course you were playing against a really good run defense,
Speaker 1: and the fact that you get those two big chunk
Speaker 1: plays that matters, But you didn't get what you really
Speaker 1: wanted out of the running But but they you know
Speaker 1: how many times have we heard him say, well they
Speaker 1: didn't stick to it. They did, They kept and they
Speaker 1: stuck to it. They figured out you got to run
Speaker 1: it on the outside. So these runs by Pollard and
Speaker 1: CD or from the outside. But I mean, there's still
Speaker 1: technically runs. But let me back you up for a second,
Speaker 1: because you didn't give your storyline, and I saved you
Speaker 1: until last mainly because I know your storyline. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought it was a great win. I know that's not
Speaker 1: your storyline. The game storyline. Game is Dallas. Fine, that's
Speaker 1: storyline of the game. Flicker. Yeah, yeah, do it again,
Speaker 1: do it again? Every day? Absolutely underwhelming. Yeah, it wasn't blocked.
Speaker 1: I get it. It was it wasn't blocked. But I'm
Speaker 1: telling you do it again, like like, run it. I mean,
Speaker 1: may you don't have to run it next game, but
Speaker 1: running you know, a couple of weeks, you got it
Speaker 1: out there, you put it on tape, run it, run
Speaker 1: it again. I mean, I loved it. I thought it
Speaker 1: was It was so funny because I looked over at
Speaker 1: Nick's computer after this happened, and Twitter is just going crazy.
Speaker 1: Nick's getting all these tweets from people like it sucks. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Um, go ahead, but I did. I just thought.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not a big fan of saying it
Speaker 1: was an ugly win. You know that's what I wrote.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't My definition of ugly is I
Speaker 1: mean nine points in Kent City was ugly. One hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty yards, penalties was ugly. You know, getting shut
Speaker 1: out for most of the Bronco game was I mean this,
Speaker 1: this wasn't that way. I mean, I thought they figured
Speaker 1: out ways to win and beat a team. I mean,
Speaker 1: to beat a really really good football coach. I mean,
Speaker 1: he knows how to do his thing. Now. I don't
Speaker 1: know what he's doing with his quarterback right now, but
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of options. Didn't have options.
Speaker 1: He didn't have options, and I thought, you know, I
Speaker 1: said it to y'all in the press box. I said
Speaker 1: that second play of the game, and he threw it
Speaker 1: and Layton missed it, and I was like, well, you
Speaker 1: keep throwing that like you're gonna get picks. I mean,
Speaker 1: he just he's not capable of sustaining those drives with
Speaker 1: his arm. Now, he's a damn good runner, there's no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. And turn him into a running back,
Speaker 1: well yeah, because he's gonna get the ball, he's gonna
Speaker 1: get hurt, keep running. But I don't know. He's the
Speaker 1: kind of guy that I kind of wonder he has
Speaker 1: the build of a running back. I kind of wonder
Speaker 1: if maybe they ought not use him in that way,
Speaker 1: just because I told you in the second half when
Speaker 1: they were on those drives where they were running the
Speaker 1: ball with him and they were doing it consistently, I
Speaker 1: was like, if I were them, I keep doing it
Speaker 1: because they were having success, and they got out of
Speaker 1: it and started trying to throw instead of forcing Dallas
Speaker 1: to get them out. Yeah, and Dave alluded to this earlier.
Speaker 1: But like just everything it takes to win a football
Speaker 1: game throughout the week, the preparation and all that, I
Speaker 1: do think fans forget that and how wonky it was
Speaker 1: for this team. So to come out and just overcome
Speaker 1: all of that, I thought it was a really impressive win.
Speaker 1: I really I think it's good. He had to stop
Speaker 1: this slide, and they did it in a week that
Speaker 1: it was it was tough to do that. They did
Speaker 1: it without their head coach, Mike McCarthy, who was out
Speaker 1: due to COVID. Did you guys have any did you
Speaker 1: see any discernible difference between him coaching or Quinn acting
Speaker 1: as the head coach last night, Dave, We'll go to you. No,
Speaker 1: not really. And the one thing that we talked about
Speaker 1: in the press box was like are these decisions. Are
Speaker 1: these Dan Quinn decisions independent of any input from Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: or is there kind of a guideline he's following. Cowboys
Speaker 1: went for a fourth down early in the game, that
Speaker 1: type of thing, and we asked him Quinn about it afterward,
Speaker 1: and he was like, yeah, we're just following the guidelines
Speaker 1: that we set up during the week. He talked to
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy right up until when it was time to
Speaker 1: go to the stadium him on Thursday afternoon, so as
Speaker 1: you would expect, he had tons of input from his
Speaker 1: head coach. I think he followed a plan that they
Speaker 1: put together. I hope that doesn't sound like a knock
Speaker 1: on Mike McCarthy, But I didn't feel like there was
Speaker 1: much of a difference in terms of the way the
Speaker 1: game was coached. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't really either.
Speaker 1: The one thing and I did get a chance to
Speaker 1: talk to some some people afterwards, you know, offensive line,
Speaker 1: they were down two coaches and then London Welles had
Speaker 1: to slide over and tied in and all that, And
Speaker 1: from what I was told is that the biggest problem
Speaker 1: or challenge, challenge is the better word, right is, is
Speaker 1: just in game adjustments, especially on that offensive line. You're
Speaker 1: just not used to see him those fronts and what
Speaker 1: the Saints are doing and how do you adjust to that,
Speaker 1: So that that was the only thing. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's underrated a little bit having both your old
Speaker 1: line coaches out. Remember this team didn't have the weight
Speaker 1: room open all week, and I mean the strength coaches
Speaker 1: where it was virtual meetings just a lot different. And
Speaker 1: you know, if we're making excuses, but those were they
Speaker 1: they weren't real things. They wouldn't do them. You know,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have a walk around head coach if it
Speaker 1: wasn't something that you did, or you wouldn't have in
Speaker 1: person meeting. So I just I thought they had to
Speaker 1: overcome a lot of challenges there and to be able
Speaker 1: to get a win because they got two more road
Speaker 1: games in a road they're gonna be tougher than this Washington.
Speaker 1: The Giants will probably be tougher than than these two teams,
Speaker 1: just because it's division games and you know that they're
Speaker 1: gonna be fighting for their lives right now. As the
Speaker 1: Saints sort of were. Well, I thought he did a
Speaker 1: nice job and we talked and I mentioned it. I
Speaker 1: guess I was gonna say Friday, but today's Friday. So
Speaker 1: the Tuesday Tuesday, I mentioned that, and I was a
Speaker 1: little bit concerned them whether the defense was gonna suffer
Speaker 1: a little bit because of, oh my god, dan Quinn's
Speaker 1: role in the game. But clearly it didn't, and the
Speaker 1: defense played a really good game. And initially, and I'm
Speaker 1: switching it over too, and I know we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into it. But initially I was like, oh, well, great
Speaker 1: job by the defense and getting hyped and all that.
Speaker 1: But then I stopped myself and then I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: the Saints aren't playing well, like they kind of saw
Speaker 1: what I was watching. And then eventually I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: hold on, this defense has been solid throughout the year.
Speaker 1: It's not just this one game. So got to give
Speaker 1: them credit. And it was impressive to me to watch
Speaker 1: this defense finally be the kind of have the kind
Speaker 1: of players that these balls are not just necessarily falling
Speaker 1: into their hands or their laps. They are going after
Speaker 1: the ball and you see it over and over and anyways,
Speaker 1: I was just amazed the fact that dan Quinn had
Speaker 1: this other role added to him and the defense was
Speaker 1: able to perform the way that it did. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: look at this stretch of games where I think most
Speaker 1: people believe the Cowboys have not played their best football.
Speaker 1: It's really the defense, in my opinion, has played pretty well.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could say in the Oakland game that
Speaker 1: was not one of their better performances, but any of
Speaker 1: those other games in these last five, I think the
Speaker 1: defense has played fairly well. It's been the offense that's
Speaker 1: failed them. I mean, they held Kansas City in Kansas
Speaker 1: City to nineteen points. Not a lot of teams do that.
Speaker 1: And so I think this defense is coming into its
Speaker 1: own and to me, that's a good thing because if
Speaker 1: this offense and by the way, they're getting pieces back,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take them a while obviously to get all
Speaker 1: that rolling. But if they get it rolling and they
Speaker 1: got this offense back to rolling by December and January,
Speaker 1: this defense is shown they can win some games, not
Speaker 1: just kind of give you a moment here or there
Speaker 1: in a game, like they can win some games. That
Speaker 1: becomes a really, really, really good team, and that's what
Speaker 1: you have to hope for. We'll see how it all
Speaker 1: plays out. You can't write the story before it happens.
Speaker 1: But that's what you have to hope for at this point.
Speaker 1: If you're following Dallas. I told myself I wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: let anybody say that again about it. They only held
Speaker 1: can't see it to nineteen points. I was like, if
Speaker 1: I hear that again, I'm gonna I'm going off because
Speaker 1: they didn't really because like the Chiefs could do whatever
Speaker 1: they I mean, they could have scored thirty five if
Speaker 1: they needed to, they needed to score ten points because
Speaker 1: of that crappy offense on the other side that day.
Speaker 1: So like games take on their own life, you know,
Speaker 1: and like if the Cowboys would have kept scoring, they
Speaker 1: wouldn't even probably stopped the Chiefs. I don't know about that, Nick,
Speaker 1: I don't think, well, you think if the Cowboys would
Speaker 1: have scored thirty one points they win thirty one? Nineteen?
Speaker 1: Maybe not. I don't think it's necessarily nineteen. But I
Speaker 1: do think that the defense played well enough in that
Speaker 1: game to where if Dallas could have gotten anything gone
Speaker 1: going offensively, they could have won that game. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so guess what that's the NFL. The NFL is such
Speaker 1: that teams do what they need to do. You're right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I do think that defense played pretty well against
Speaker 1: that offense. They did play pretty well. But I think
Speaker 1: if if the Cowboys would have made it a challenge
Speaker 1: and scored some points, I think my homes and then
Speaker 1: would have scored some points too. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: say all the point I was made. They didn't give up.
Speaker 1: This defense made it challenging for Kansas City, and and
Speaker 1: they're playing games right now to where it is. It
Speaker 1: is not just an offensive team, which is what we
Speaker 1: thought it was earlier in the season. They have progressively
Speaker 1: gotten better and this defense I think is good enough
Speaker 1: where they can win you some games if the offense
Speaker 1: can give you just a little bit, and that that
Speaker 1: hasn't been like over these last five years, they've had
Speaker 1: some games with offense has just been putuls on defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the best player. I think he's best
Speaker 1: player on the team. I think he's the best player
Speaker 1: in I think he's the best defensive player. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't think right now, NICKI and you're and I
Speaker 1: are talking about this before the show. I can't remember
Speaker 1: a player. And I've been watching football for a long time,
Speaker 1: going back to the Love You Blue days of the
Speaker 1: Houston Oilers with ar Old Campbell. Like I've been watching
Speaker 1: football a long time. I can't come up with a
Speaker 1: single player that I think was as good as at
Speaker 1: as many things as Michael Parsons is. This year, you've
Speaker 1: had guys who are really good, Like he plays linebacker
Speaker 1: like a Luke Keekley, he plays defensive end like DeMarcus Ware.
Speaker 1: That's two Hall of Fame type players, and it's one
Speaker 1: guy doing both those things. I can't come up with
Speaker 1: another name. And I would love for somebody to give
Speaker 1: me a comparable player that's doing what he's doing. I
Speaker 1: can't think of one, not just in the NFL right now,
Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL. I can't think of one. Dave,
Speaker 1: you want to take a shot at that, Not really
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, because like I was making
Speaker 1: a face because like, yeah, I feel like embarrassed about
Speaker 1: the things that I start thinking about, like maybe the
Speaker 1: name Lawrence Taylor, you know that type of thing, And
Speaker 1: then you're like, oh, shut up, Dave, Like surely, surely
Speaker 1: you're a homer. Surely you're not comparing like two years ago,
Speaker 1: I don't remember who the player was. Yeah, fair, Oh wow,
Speaker 1: I need to hear that story. Yeah, Okay, good to know.
Speaker 1: Um uh no, I it was a few it was
Speaker 1: a few years ago. I don't remember who they were
Speaker 1: talking about. But Bill Belichick was like, whoa pump the
Speaker 1: brakes on comparing anybody to Lawrence Taylor, and like, that's
Speaker 1: kind of how I feel. I'm like, yeah, let's not
Speaker 1: get carried away. But at the same time, did y'all
Speaker 1: see Brian Baltire's cut up of Mica from last night
Speaker 1: and every week? Every week? Every week? Yeah? I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess if I was, if I was trying to
Speaker 1: tamp the brakes a little bit, I could point out
Speaker 1: that the Saints were without either of their tables, but still,
Speaker 1: like the guy wins the edge like an all probe
Speaker 1: edge rusher, He's carrying receivers down the field. He's taken
Speaker 1: away for saver routes. Yeah, real, I can't. I just
Speaker 1: I need him to get a pick in coverage before
Speaker 1: the season's over, just to kind of complete the trifecta
Speaker 1: or like kit for the cycle in terms of defensive stats,
Speaker 1: because he's a freak. And don't get me wrong, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's a finished product. I don't even know
Speaker 1: that his career is gonna be this. What I'm saying
Speaker 1: is through this whatever number of games sample that we've
Speaker 1: seen with Michael Parsons, and yeah, he's not Lawrence Taylor.
Speaker 1: But my point is, did Lawrence Taylor do all the
Speaker 1: things that Dallas is asking this guy to do and
Speaker 1: do them as well as he's doing. That's the part
Speaker 1: where I'm like, I don't know that I can name
Speaker 1: a player that has done that many different things. Lawrence Taylor.
Speaker 1: You know, one, I think he won the defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year as a Rickie in eighty one. I
Speaker 1: believe that happened maybe one Rickie of the Year, but
Speaker 1: I also think he was Player of the Year. But
Speaker 1: Dave just called Parsons a freak, which I think is
Speaker 1: fitting because we also looked something up yesterday. He's got
Speaker 1: ten sacks now with five to go. The NFL rookie
Speaker 1: record is fourteen by Javon Curse, who was called the freak.
Speaker 1: And who's he related to? And who's he related to?
Speaker 1: Nurse who's pretty freakish himself. I mean, this is this
Speaker 1: has been I mean, but but the thing about Parsons
Speaker 1: that I that justin Herbert didn't realize and Taysom Hill
Speaker 1: didn't realize. And most quarterbacks just don't realize they have
Speaker 1: this clock. They have this sense of you're there, I'm here,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get here in about one second, or you're
Speaker 1: gonna get here in two and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's bam right in your face. And I mean, he's
Speaker 1: just he's got that back. Can I add a point
Speaker 1: to that? Sure, I'm sorry, I know I'm on a
Speaker 1: delay here, But throughout the season I've been I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Like throughout the season, I don't think quarterbacks
Speaker 1: realized it. I think they realize it now. I just
Speaker 1: don't think they're anything they can do about it. Like
Speaker 1: if Taysom Hill, he's as purely athletic as a quarterback
Speaker 1: is going to be in terms of just maneuverability and escapability.
Speaker 1: If Taysom Hill can't adjust for his closing speed, nobody
Speaker 1: in the league probably can except let's throw out Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson and maybe Jalen Hurts. There's just there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that can account for that. And so
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're trying to scramble or extend to
Speaker 1: play at his side of the field, I just think
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a bad time. There's there's literally two
Speaker 1: or three times every game when he does something where
Speaker 1: you're like, wow, I can't believe what I just saw
Speaker 1: in how fast he got to the point that he
Speaker 1: was trying to get to. Has anyone seen a stat?
Speaker 1: And I mean we see stats all the time next
Speaker 1: Gin Sat, you know, there's there's companies that are make
Speaker 1: a living doing this. Has anyone seen a stat on
Speaker 1: the amount of sacks versus the rush attempts? Because these
Speaker 1: guys that are leading the league in sacks, they rush
Speaker 1: every play. He doesn't rush every play, but like so
Speaker 1: when you think about average, you know, sacks per attempt,
Speaker 1: Like that's got to be off the charts. You know,
Speaker 1: one every I don't know ten, twelve, I don't know that,
Speaker 1: but I bet you that that stat's out there. Yep.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna check our first break when we
Speaker 1: come back, and we're gonna talking to about some of
Speaker 1: these offensive struggles. This offense is not playing at its
Speaker 1: best right now. They did have some good moments last night.
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Speaker 1: the offense. They had some some some interesting moments last night.
Speaker 1: There were some struggles. There are also some good things
Speaker 1: that they They did get Amari Cooper back and and
Speaker 1: so you started to see some things that were that
Speaker 1: were favorable for them. But they were two of thirteen
Speaker 1: on third downs, which is obviously not great, oh of
Speaker 1: one on fourth downs. Dak was twenty six to forty
Speaker 1: a sixty five percent completion rate, two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: eight yards, one touchdown and one interception, and in my opinion,
Speaker 1: several missed opportunities where he was just off target on
Speaker 1: some throws that should have been completions. That all being said,
Speaker 1: tell me what your thoughts were on the offensive performance
Speaker 1: last night. Nick. We'll start with you offensively. You know,
Speaker 1: they left some some yards out there, and they had
Speaker 1: they were one dimensional at times when they were running
Speaker 1: the ball. Like I said earlier, though you know, they
Speaker 1: stuck to it. What I liked about it, I thought
Speaker 1: one of the best players of the game was when
Speaker 1: they got up there, up ten, they were down on
Speaker 1: their own four yard line. They had to get themselves
Speaker 1: out of that, and that passed over the middle to
Speaker 1: to CD where he went down and got it. They
Speaker 1: gave him some breathing room, took three or four more
Speaker 1: minutes off the clock. I thought when they really had to,
Speaker 1: they were able to function just enough. I mean, this,
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna win any shootouts. We know that, but
Speaker 1: I thought, based on all the circumstances going on, I'm
Speaker 1: not giving them as bad grades for this one. Are
Speaker 1: you saying you brought up that that Kansas City game.
Speaker 1: Are you saying that Dallas would have been in a
Speaker 1: simmer Bowl last night if they had to win a shootout,
Speaker 1: they would have scored more points than twenty seven. I
Speaker 1: think so. I mean, sometimes you have to you have
Speaker 1: to for I mean, why why do teams always kind
Speaker 1: of score a little bit more there at the end
Speaker 1: of the game. It's based off coverage and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But I just think sometimes games take on a life
Speaker 1: of their own, and if you have to get it
Speaker 1: a shootout, you kind of do. I think they could
Speaker 1: have scored more if they needed to. So yeah, similar
Speaker 1: to that, they kind of played within themselves. When you
Speaker 1: see Taysom Hill on the other side making those throws,
Speaker 1: I just don't do anything stupid here, Let's don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna throw. They're shorthanded, they don't have Kamar,
Speaker 1: they don't have their guys. They're leaning on him in
Speaker 1: his arm. Eventually it's gonna go the other way. Amber.
Speaker 1: I mean, with you saying they could have scored more
Speaker 1: if they needed to, it's like they've needed to be
Speaker 1: scoring more and they haven't. So you know, I you
Speaker 1: know what, if that sounds weird, I get it. I
Speaker 1: just believe what. I don't even know how to how
Speaker 1: to even interpret this. I just think the games take
Speaker 1: on a different life if if they're over there going
Speaker 1: up and down the field, Saints so scorn. I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys match them to some degree. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a low scoring game. Well, we have seen in
Speaker 1: plenty of different games where they're down and Dak somehow
Speaker 1: every time at the end of the game just starts
Speaker 1: playing better and putting points out there. But anyways, overall,
Speaker 1: and I mentioned it earlier, this offense is just lacking
Speaker 1: that spark right now. And the good thing, the positive
Speaker 1: thing is that they are getting some of their guys
Speaker 1: back in slowly and every week we should start now,
Speaker 1: we should now start seeing a lot of progress. They
Speaker 1: get a little break here. So with them being back
Speaker 1: again together, the receiving group being together again, the old
Speaker 1: line hopefully taking form now and being more solid as two. Okay,
Speaker 1: these are the guys that are gonna be in playing
Speaker 1: week after week. It should get better. I think that
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore should get better again. I know he's getting
Speaker 1: a lot of criticism, but we've seen him being capable
Speaker 1: of doing great things with this offense. So I think
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a good end of the year
Speaker 1: for them and they're gonna get back on track. But
Speaker 1: I do want to bring this up Dak Prescott, and
Speaker 1: I know I feel like all of us on this
Speaker 1: show are agree with what we think of Dak. I
Speaker 1: know Nick makes some comments here and they're sometimes criticizing Dak.
Speaker 1: But all in all, we think that Dak has been
Speaker 1: pretty solid. He's a great leader, he's everything, and he's
Speaker 1: shown upward trending. But when I get on Twitter and
Speaker 1: I see all these comments and so, you know, people
Speaker 1: really attacking him right now and like, oh see, he's
Speaker 1: not the quarterback that he needs to be, he doesn't
Speaker 1: deserve the amount of money that he's getting paid. Blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. I mean, I want to ask you guys
Speaker 1: and bring that from Twitter into this conversation real quick.
Speaker 1: How are you guys currently feeling about him? And can
Speaker 1: he turn things around back again for the remainder of
Speaker 1: the season. Dave, what do you think? Yeah? I mean,
Speaker 1: and this is this is what happens when you give
Speaker 1: a quarterback forty million dollars a year, It comes with
Speaker 1: the dinner. You're gonna be hyper criticized. And Dak Dak
Speaker 1: has been down this month. And if anything, the impression
Speaker 1: that I keep coming back to, and I take my
Speaker 1: impressions from Dak himself, because last night he said a
Speaker 1: lot of that is maybe me being too greedy, trying
Speaker 1: to put the dagger in on one play instead of
Speaker 1: going through my reads, I think Dak has been pressing
Speaker 1: for most of the last month. Now. Is that because
Speaker 1: he knows that they're banged up and he's got to
Speaker 1: raise his level of play? Is that because he's here
Speaker 1: an MVP chatter whatt Is that because he wants to
Speaker 1: justify the contract. I don't know, But for how much
Speaker 1: we talk about the Dak yard and how these guys
Speaker 1: are in the lab all the time, Dak hasn't looked
Speaker 1: like he's been on the same page with his receivers
Speaker 1: consistently for about a month. I mean the fourth and two.
Speaker 1: If there's better communication between DAK and CD on the
Speaker 1: fourth and two early in the game, not only do
Speaker 1: they probably score a touchdown, but we're throwing laurels at
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore's feet because it's such a cool play design.
Speaker 1: I mean, they schemed it up beautifully, and whether it
Speaker 1: was supposed to go to the inside shoulder or the outside,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Dak and CD just weren't on the
Speaker 1: same page. We've seen that throughout the last month, I
Speaker 1: mean throughout the game. On the play where Dak got
Speaker 1: picked CD for the eighteenth time in the game, is
Speaker 1: gesturing to the sideline, like, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: hell's going on, what's happening? And sure it's the Superdome,
Speaker 1: but these guys love to tell you how much that's
Speaker 1: not a big deal. So I'm gonna take their word
Speaker 1: for it and say, surely we should be better than this,
Speaker 1: Surely we should have better communication. So, I mean, everybody
Speaker 1: can see the inconsistencies. I think it's a result of
Speaker 1: pressing on Dak's part, and again going back to the
Speaker 1: having a break thing, this group just needs to take
Speaker 1: a deep breath, reassessed self scout, think about what we
Speaker 1: do well and where we've been messing up. I really,
Speaker 1: I think they're just a few tweaks away from being better.
Speaker 1: But it's been frustrating to watch. You know, how many
Speaker 1: games do you think Dak has not played as well? Here? Four? Five, five?
Speaker 1: You know what else is darting with Denver? Yeah? You
Speaker 1: know what else does not happened in five games? Was
Speaker 1: that Zeke hasn't gone like over fifty yards rushing. I mean,
Speaker 1: and it's just and it's hand in hand. I'm not
Speaker 1: just saying it's Zeke not running the ball. So Dak
Speaker 1: hasn't played as well. Maybe Dak hasn't played as well Zeke.
Speaker 1: They go hand in hand that this is where they
Speaker 1: are now. It's not back to rookie season when it
Speaker 1: was mainly it was Zeke first and then Dak was
Speaker 1: able able to kind of, you know, compensate and and
Speaker 1: and play complimentary football. I think I think it's fifty
Speaker 1: fifty if if not leaning more towards Dak, but I
Speaker 1: do think that he needs a running game, and that
Speaker 1: hasn't happened. So I kind of put it on both
Speaker 1: of them. They're they're they're having to play one dimensional
Speaker 1: football right now. And and I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: that's never anyone's strong student. It's certainly not Dax. That's
Speaker 1: not his game. He he needs play acts and to
Speaker 1: help him, uh, flee flickers and things like that. That
Speaker 1: was my big thing about the flee flicker on a game.
Speaker 1: When you're running the ball better, I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: work better when you're not running as well. It's hard
Speaker 1: to be like, all right, well, I'm the safety is
Speaker 1: not just gonna jump up there and bite because they're
Speaker 1: not getting more than five yards anyway, So that that
Speaker 1: wouldn't be my favorite time to run it, but hey,
Speaker 1: I've asked for it for twelve years or fifteen years,
Speaker 1: so can't be greedy about it. But I do think
Speaker 1: that they're not running the ball as well and that
Speaker 1: is affecting dec. I think they kind of playing off
Speaker 1: each other. But I agree with Dave. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: not talking about a bunch of tweaks here. They're getting
Speaker 1: their receivers back, They're getting everybody kind of back. The
Speaker 1: offensive line will be will be okay, I mean, but
Speaker 1: there'll be a huge test this week or the next
Speaker 1: game against Washington and the other thing I'll say too
Speaker 1: is that, and I want to keep an eye on this.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Dave, quit you go. I'm sorry, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to bring this up y'all y'all got really heated
Speaker 1: about the did they or did they not run the
Speaker 1: ball well? Things? So I left it alone. But like,
Speaker 1: I get what Nick is saying, and yes, this offense's
Speaker 1: best performances came when they were running the ball well,
Speaker 1: but I really hate their stubborn insistence on trying to
Speaker 1: do it when it's not working. And yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: take you can't take the good runs out, like that's
Speaker 1: not how that works. But at the same time I
Speaker 1: looked this up for the story that I wrote last night.
Speaker 1: They ran at twenty four times. Six of the twenty
Speaker 1: four went for more than three yards. That's awful, that's
Speaker 1: so bad. And one of them, that's how you get
Speaker 1: a lot of three and out. Yeah, and a thirty
Speaker 1: three yard rushing game was a bubble screen to Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 1: where it's really more your receiver corps and the design
Speaker 1: of the play doing the blocking and not your offensive line.
Speaker 1: So that's twenty three percent of your rushing total that
Speaker 1: isn't traditional rushing yardage. And I just I say all
Speaker 1: that to say with the exception of the big breaks,
Speaker 1: and also two of those runs that went longer than
Speaker 1: three went for four, So it's not even like those
Speaker 1: were eight or nine yard games. Like they had three
Speaker 1: sizeable running games the whole time. And yet they just
Speaker 1: kept on plowing right up the middle. And I would
Speaker 1: argue hurt Dak in the process, because the last thing
Speaker 1: you want to do is put him into an obvious
Speaker 1: third and seven, which I felt like they did six
Speaker 1: times last night. I don't have that number in front
Speaker 1: of me, but it had to have been more than
Speaker 1: a handful m and so that's that's what's frustrating to me,
Speaker 1: is just stubbornly trying to do something that that wasn't working.
Speaker 1: It broke in the third quarter with the Pollard run,
Speaker 1: which was great, but again that that's something I would
Speaker 1: like to look at as well. I felt like this
Speaker 1: offense was a lot more adaptable earlier in the year.
Speaker 1: That Pollard touchdown, was it number forty three? Was that Latimer?
Speaker 1: That no? Which was there? Safety Marcus Williams, He's still
Speaker 1: waits Williams. He's still waiting for Pollard to cut back.
Speaker 1: I guess like when I watch that play out, but
Speaker 1: just it's funny watch the play and watch the safety
Speaker 1: and watch Pollard. The safety is just kind of like, well,
Speaker 1: all right, what's gonna happen. What's gonna happen? And Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard is just like running like he's in the Olympics,
Speaker 1: just straight, like I'm not even looking at anyone else.
Speaker 1: I'm going as fast as I can. And it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, your angle is known, you don't have an
Speaker 1: angle anymore. Like it's gone. He's gone. And that's two
Speaker 1: weeks to the row. We've seen that, and I mean
Speaker 1: he's Tony Pollard is going to get himself into the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and probably as a kick returner. But you
Speaker 1: know how those games go, you know if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: playing the game, But how those games go is that
Speaker 1: he'll be He'll be running the ball. He'll probably get
Speaker 1: more carries than anyone, but he might because of the
Speaker 1: kickoff returns. He might get himself in there. He's doing
Speaker 1: it on national TV, Big Games. All right, Can I
Speaker 1: ask a question real quick? Dave talked about how it
Speaker 1: bothers him when they're like trying to run the ball
Speaker 1: it's not working, then why do you keep going back
Speaker 1: to that? But I feel like a lot of times
Speaker 1: we also talk about them the opposite way and say, well,
Speaker 1: they're not trying to run the ball enough to worry
Speaker 1: it actually gets going. So how do you how do
Speaker 1: you how do you figure out, like, at what point
Speaker 1: do you decide, Okay, let's keep running the ball, let's
Speaker 1: actually not this game. Well that's a good point because
Speaker 1: also the play that I thought was a real big
Speaker 1: moment there. I just mentioned it about that passed the
Speaker 1: CD down in the end zone when Dak was kind
Speaker 1: of hanging out in the end zone for a few
Speaker 1: seconds and found CD. But that was a play acction passed.
Speaker 1: So if you don't run the ball and you don't
Speaker 1: commit to the run, your play accents is not gonna
Speaker 1: work either. So that's a fine line of when do
Speaker 1: you say this in working like Tampa, or say let's
Speaker 1: keep let's keep going. Let's keep going because it'll it'll
Speaker 1: open up more things for us. It's a fine line
Speaker 1: to walk. And who knows. Who knows if that fifty
Speaker 1: eight yard run happens had they not been just consistently
Speaker 1: trying to pound them up the middle to where it
Speaker 1: created opportunities for them. Like that's what you don't know
Speaker 1: is what kind of side effects happened as a result
Speaker 1: of them continuing to consistently try to run the ball.
Speaker 1: And I get it, like you can't take away the
Speaker 1: big plays. But at the end of the day, like
Speaker 1: they got. I think they got as much as they
Speaker 1: probably could have expected to get against that defense that
Speaker 1: was a number one rush defense in the NFL. So
Speaker 1: I don't think I went into that game thinking the
Speaker 1: Cowboys were gonna be able to run very well, especially
Speaker 1: with Zeke in the condition that he's in right now.
Speaker 1: I expected whatever they got out of the Running Game
Speaker 1: was gonna be gravy. For them to get a fifty
Speaker 1: eight yard touchdown out of it, that's a win in
Speaker 1: my opinion. That was a huge play for them. Also,
Speaker 1: the way I see it though, is, and I know
Speaker 1: we're specifically talking about this game, but when it's like
Speaker 1: a reoccurring thing that we've seen game after game lately.
Speaker 1: And yes, Seek has been banged up, but when I
Speaker 1: was mentioning the Running Game and not working, Yes, they
Speaker 1: had those two plays that were great and l and
Speaker 1: you can't take those away whatever. But the thing where
Speaker 1: I became becoming critical of them is when you see
Speaker 1: a game after game where it's not necessarily working, and
Speaker 1: then we start talking about them becoming one dimensional, and
Speaker 1: then you look at the rest of the stretch and
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, who are they really gonna scare down
Speaker 1: the line? And is it gonna even ever get going
Speaker 1: and work. So it's just one of those things that
Speaker 1: it's just to me, it's been happening every week. Well,
Speaker 1: everybody knows. What's really the problem is they haven't had
Speaker 1: McGovern as the fullback and for a game I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but the McGovern fullback package I mean, what's going on
Speaker 1: with they've been that it seems like it. I mean,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen we haven't seen that McGovern as a fullback. Now.
Speaker 1: Connor Williams did it something at the end of the
Speaker 1: game last night, but it didn't matter. M Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna say our final break. We're gonna come back. I
Speaker 1: do want to talk about the offensive line. I want
Speaker 1: to get some opinions from you guys on what you
Speaker 1: saw from laoll Collins, from McGovern, from yadish how did
Speaker 1: the offensive line look with what we projected was going
Speaker 1: to be their starting offensive line at the beginnings, He's
Speaker 1: nor close to it. We'll talk about that when come
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Speaker 1: the final segment of the Break Life nest WBC Mortgage Studios.
Speaker 1: At the start, Hey Dave, I got a question for you?
Speaker 1: Is there any chance at all we can get we
Speaker 1: can get Papa Hellman or Mama Helman to come and
Speaker 1: give us some opinions on the game. Al Well, I'm
Speaker 1: still in my hotel. Oh, I thought you were back
Speaker 1: at the house. So okay, I thought you were back
Speaker 1: at the house. Man hell I'm I'm I'm gonna use
Speaker 1: every minute of free hotel time that I am afforded.
Speaker 1: I get you. So, I know they're not here, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see them in a little bit. I
Speaker 1: thought maybe we could get a little little perspective from
Speaker 1: them as as Louisiana folks on what they thought of
Speaker 1: the game. What are you Saints fans? Aren't they? Well
Speaker 1: I don't know, Dave, are these Saints fans? They are
Speaker 1: Saints fans? Well, that would have been fun, Yes, they are.
Speaker 1: That would have been a lot of fun. They my
Speaker 1: my dad, Hey, he doesn't listen to the show, but
Speaker 1: love you dad, because he my dad hated the Cowboys
Speaker 1: my whole life, Like he couldn't stand them. And now
Speaker 1: he's like calls me and he's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: when you think about Parsons, I'm like, Dad, I know
Speaker 1: you don't like the Cowboys. You don't have to talk,
Speaker 1: you don't have to humor me. But he loves it.
Speaker 1: He's like roots for the Cowboys when they're not playing
Speaker 1: the Saints. Yeah, you know that's what's great. You know,
Speaker 1: your parents will do some crazy things. Kids. My dad listens.
Speaker 1: My dad listens to the show, and yeah, he'll he's
Speaker 1: he'll send a text message or twelve. You know. He
Speaker 1: gets frustrated too with the in the game. So yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe he was feeling better last night. Talk to me
Speaker 1: about this offensive line. What do we see last night?
Speaker 1: Let's start with Lyle Collins. What were your thoughts on
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins play last What show is it? Derek? Episode
Speaker 1: seventy one? There we go, Lyle Collins. Oh good, it's
Speaker 1: my seventy one? Thank you. He's playing. He's playing did
Speaker 1: all right? Nate Livings? Nate Livings? Um, how about two
Speaker 1: an A? But um, anyways, I thought he played, you know,
Speaker 1: pretty well. I mean, it's hard for us to kind
Speaker 1: of talk about that. We didn't see all the you know,
Speaker 1: we don't grade him out like that, but it seemed
Speaker 1: like Dad had a lot of time lesson they were right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was I just kind of know there were sometimes
Speaker 1: he did. I thought Lyle played pretty well. You can
Speaker 1: kind of tell, you know a guy. Especially after the game.
Speaker 1: I talked to him. He was feeling pretty good about it.
Speaker 1: You know, he's going back home to Louisiana two with
Speaker 1: him and you know, being in lsue guy and you know,
Speaker 1: and getting it to play, and I think this is
Speaker 1: where he feels like he should be starting. He should
Speaker 1: be starting to right tackle. Of course, he feels that
Speaker 1: way back with Zach Martin and you know, they they
Speaker 1: they did okay. I think they'll they'll continue to get better.
Speaker 1: But I don't I don't think Lyell was a problem there.
Speaker 1: Camber Um trying to remember if there was anything noticeable
Speaker 1: that I watched from the game, but I can't think
Speaker 1: of anything good or bad. You know, it was just
Speaker 1: like one of those where you didn't necessarily noticed the
Speaker 1: whole a whole lot, which we haven't had in quite
Speaker 1: a few games. So that's good, that's a positive, and
Speaker 1: it's to me an indication that they are starting to
Speaker 1: hopefully get better and kind of figuring things out there
Speaker 1: with the old line. But just in general, nothing necessarily
Speaker 1: stood out. I don't know if DATE saw anything differently.
Speaker 1: I mean, I haven't watched the game back at all,
Speaker 1: but Dak got sacked one time. I thought, I thought
Speaker 1: the protection was pretty good, especially for being in the Superdome. Ironically,
Speaker 1: there were at least two plays where they did go
Speaker 1: to play action and like the protection was impeccable and
Speaker 1: Dak had like two and a half three and a
Speaker 1: half seconds to look down field and almost made it obvious.
Speaker 1: The push up front concerns me. Obvious. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I think they averaged like one point five yards per
Speaker 1: carry between the tackles. I get it, outside the tackles
Speaker 1: was awesome, but you'd still like to see better. But
Speaker 1: I thought they were fine. Yeah, that's that's the one
Speaker 1: thing about it, and is I think that from a
Speaker 1: standpoint of running the ball, I give a lot of
Speaker 1: the a lot of what we've seen over the last
Speaker 1: several weeks with the guards of the running game. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of that's about the offensive line because
Speaker 1: these these backs are not getting a lot of room
Speaker 1: to be able to run. I think you got two
Speaker 1: quality backs obviously, and even with Zach, I mean, even
Speaker 1: with a Zeke being hurt, Zeke still can run the ball.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's just getting a lot of opportunities.
Speaker 1: They're not giving him much room. And that's where I
Speaker 1: look at this offensive line and I just think right
Speaker 1: now as a unit, they're not performing at their best
Speaker 1: when it comes to the running game. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: see them really creating those holes that we have been
Speaker 1: used to see. It. It's like you see usually seek
Speaker 1: when he's at there and then he just kind of
Speaker 1: hits a wall. He just there's no space for him
Speaker 1: to get in. They don't get to the second level.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's kind of like you got a
Speaker 1: guy on a guy, but nobody ever gets up to
Speaker 1: that second level to the linebacker to where you can
Speaker 1: create that play that's more than two or three yards. Basically,
Speaker 1: the running backs are running right into the line and
Speaker 1: there's nothing there, and you just can't get to the
Speaker 1: second level because none of the offensive linemen are getting
Speaker 1: to the second level. Maybe, you know, I mean Connor Williams.
Speaker 1: Of the penalties have gone down obviously from you know,
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern. But who's to say that Connor Williams isn't
Speaker 1: blocking better than than McGovern, You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Would you take some of those penalties if you. I mean,
Speaker 1: because they were running the ball better with him. If
Speaker 1: you're resting with McGovern as the fullback. Well, but how
Speaker 1: long has ever been starting now as a second game,
Speaker 1: I feel like this is the third Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So I mean, I honestly I did. I thought running
Speaker 1: over Connor Williams was a problem. When Connor Williams is
Speaker 1: in there, You're right, I don't want to rewrite that history.
Speaker 1: I think he was a problem in the run game
Speaker 1: as well as the pass game hasn't fixed anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And honestly, what I think we've learned is they're about
Speaker 1: comparable players. Yeah. I don't think one's necessarily better than
Speaker 1: the other, um, except for they don't have the penalties.
Speaker 1: So if you're getting a comparable player without the penalties,
Speaker 1: I still think at this point you probably made the
Speaker 1: right movie. He got one penalty, right and for the
Speaker 1: legal man downfield, you know, I feel like that that
Speaker 1: penalty is getting called a lot more these days, and
Speaker 1: it's probably because of the run pass options and these
Speaker 1: you know, and these guys thinking it's run they don't
Speaker 1: know it's past. You're seeing it a lot. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was only a couple of yards down the field.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a little sicky tack. But for
Speaker 1: the most part, though officiating like it was, it wasn't
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving crew for sure. You know. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: can we talk about Anthony Brown too, because I thought
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown just the bounce back game, you know, and
Speaker 1: and he did. Michael Irvin texted him before the game saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you got this. You know you have a bad memory,
Speaker 1: go out there and do it. And they picked on
Speaker 1: him early, you could tell, but it didn't really work
Speaker 1: out for him. I mean, you got to give a
Speaker 1: pass breakups. Ye give him some credit for the way
Speaker 1: he kind of fought through that Mentally, he even said
Speaker 1: it was a long week. It was a long week,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, it was only seven days, but I
Speaker 1: get it. It was a long week. And he came
Speaker 1: back and and you know, I give him props for
Speaker 1: the way he played in that game. But let's be honest.
Speaker 1: I think that most of us who have watched this
Speaker 1: team playoff season, we know how good Anthony Brown has
Speaker 1: been this season. He has not been as bad as
Speaker 1: people want to say he's been. And I think it
Speaker 1: all started with that Week one mistake that wasn't his
Speaker 1: mistake that got got given to him, and I think
Speaker 1: from there people just had that opinion of him. But
Speaker 1: I think he's played really well. He's played as as
Speaker 1: well as any cornerback on this team, minus the interceptions. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Dix gets a lot of interceptions, and that matters. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong now saying that doesn't matter, but just
Speaker 1: on a play to play, who wins that play. I
Speaker 1: think Brown has been every bit as good as Dicks
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, And I just think he's had some moments,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna happen when you play cornerback. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be some days. They're gonna be some moments you're gonna
Speaker 1: give up plays. That's the National Football League. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you join us. We'll be back on tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry now, we'll be back on Monday. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what day it is. We'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 1: We'll start getting you guys ready for the division. Man,
Speaker 1: these next four out of those five against the Division,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get real interesting here. We'll play the Washington
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