WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Different Opinion? 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.719 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:20.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys Let's go. Are 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.880 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:28.040 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.920 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:37.600 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us, and 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:46.639 bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, November sixteenth, 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.600 twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number seventy two. Welcome 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:51.440 to the latest edition of The Break, Live from the 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.000 s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, presented by Milla Lake. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.280 The only beer of the Dallas Cowboys were a little 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.760 earlier time today. So for you the for those of 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.840 you out there listening live, thank you for joining us. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:04.880 The rest of you guys will be like Norman, just 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.039 get us on demand. Got Nick in studio, We got 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.800 Amber studio. Brian should be joining us momentarily. Nick, before 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:12.840 we get into it too much. I did want to 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.280 we had a question yesterday and I would be interested 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.480 to hear your thoughts on this. I asked these these guys, 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.200 um did anything that happened Monday night in that Washington 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:28.120 Philadelphia game change your opinions of Philadelphia, Washington or the 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.840 NFC East. Uh, yeah, a little bit. I mean, well 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:33.880 just just knowing that, you know, if Philly's not going 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.640 to run away with anything. I mean I did kind 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.280 of mention that I thought Washington had a chance. You 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.520 did you call that? And somebody on Twitter actually called 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.800 that out there, like Nick actually said this was going 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.680 to happen. Yeah, but as you and Todd Archer point out, 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:53.640 when you make a lot of predictions, yeah, there's about that. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.200 But but division games, we've seen it several times where 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.400 you know, you blow out the team the first time, 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.960 and the second time around, it's not the same. So, 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.760 and I said this before, I think Washington's gonna be 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.440 a factor in this thing. Had they even played the 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.440 Giants yet? Washington and the Giants, I'm not sure if 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.560 they have. And I know that Giants haven't played Philly yet, So, like, 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.400 there's there's a lot to be done here. I just 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.040 think that it's going to it's going to be interesting 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.400 how how it goes. Philly though, they're good, I mean, 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.640 they were better than Washington. You know, face mask penalty 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.880 didn't get called, and that deep ball with the Fumm, 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.120 it's just kind of some slooky things. But I mean, 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.760 I think you know, but it's good to know that 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.520 they can be beat. Yeah, looking at Washington, No, and 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.960 looking at their ability to u to run the ball 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.079 pretty good, Looking at their ability to stop the run, 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.120 they're pretty stout there. As you look at all the 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.520 teams in the NFC East, if you had to prioritize 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.440 them as the team that is the worst matchup for 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:56.400 Dallas through to the how would you rate them? Um, 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:01.960 I think it's I think it's Philly, Washington and the Giants. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.880 That's just because of that run matchup and stopping the run. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.760 It's what they're trying to do. Um. Also, you get 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:16.600 to go at Washington, so Philly, Washington the Giants, which 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.399 I think that's what y'all said, right, Yeah, I think 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:24.960 we all agree the same. Yeah, yeah, order, And I 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:30.080 mean they're all they're all tough. I mean, it's I 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.800 think you said that. I think you said on the 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.080 show that you felt better about the game. I felt 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:39.680 worse about the Packer game because you're just like, I mean, 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.640 think about just think about what the what the perception 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.440 of the Cowboys would have been if they would just 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.120 win the game. Just whatever, whatever play you want to say, 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.280 it goes their way and they win that game. And 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.760 then that happens to the Philly You're like, there we go, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.000 Cowboys could get the one seed. That that's what you'd 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.560 be thinking. They could get the one seed. So that's 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.600 that's why it's a little frustrating to know. That's why 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.320 I would, you know. I mean, I'm not saying I'm 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.120 gonna take the headset and slam it down. You know 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:09.080 I'm not doing that. But you're the only one. Yeah no, 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:12.000 But you know, honestly, though, I still look at it 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.320 again because of what happened Monday night, I do think 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.320 the Cowboys still could get the one seat. I think 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.120 it starts with this week, and they gotta win this 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:24.000 weekend if they want to to get that in that error. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:30.800 But look, Philadelphia is not unbeatable and the Vikings aren't unbeatable. 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.520 There's nobody in the NFC that you're like, I really 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.520 worry about them. The teams that I worry about most 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:37.480 are below the Cowboys right now. And I heard you 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.040 talking this morning on the fan like San Francisco is 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.839 the one I still look at, like man, I don't really, 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.520 I don't know how well Dallas matches up there. And 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.840 Tampa Bay is still a team. I'm like, I don't 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.960 know how well Dallas matches up there. And if the Packers, 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.520 who now are only two games out of the playoffs, 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.200 they happen to get back into it, I don't know 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.159 how well they match up there if they had to 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.200 play them again. So it's the teams below than the 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.960 teams that are right now. I'm there at the top 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.400 for the psake of the discussion, and you know, like, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.839 how confident are you even about the Cowboys right now? 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.200 Because we I mean, I get it, you got to 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.280 win these games and you can get up there or whatever. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.719 But when you look at what the Cowboys currently are, 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.560 what they did last week or yeah, I guess that 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.680 was last week some day when they did what they 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:30.760 did there, and when you start looking at the issues 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.560 that they currently have, and you've seen them in their 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.840 best moments, and you've seen them what they can do 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.880 and when the offense is working, when the defense is 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.320 attacking the way that they do, being able to pressure 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.960 the quarterback and all that, But now when you look 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.360 at the areas where they're really lacking, and you can 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:53.160 still point out the receivers group and also the quarterback, 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.680 I mean Dak at times is not perfect. And then 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.120 on top of that you add the run defense and 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:05.200 what they're currently struggling with there, and you look at 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:09.960 the analysis of now where we're at with them, how 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.760 is your like, where is your confidence level at when 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.240 looking at the Cowboys as a whole for the for 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.039 the second half of the season. To me, yeah, that's 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.880 same they got. They got one major flaw in my opinion, 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.400 and that's they can't stop the run. And my belief 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.919 is if and this is going to start with the 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:33.040 defensive coordinator and go down the line, if everybody from 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.320 the defensive coordinator all the way down to the players says, 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:41.080 stop worrying about getting after the quarterback as your primary concern, 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:45.320 Your primary concern is stop the run. If all of 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.960 those people make that the primary concern, my belief is 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.080 that they will be adequate at stopping the run. If 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.839 their adequate is stopping the run, they win that game. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.640 They win that win game going away in Green Bay 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:01.160 they had a fourteen point lead in the fourth quarter, Like, 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.599 they win that game going away. And you can say 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.520 what you want about the offense and DAC and whatever, 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.560 but guess what yet started off. It wasn't perfect. They 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.400 got twenty eight points by the beginning of the fourth quarter. Yeah, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.120 if you can stop the run, you win that game. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.040 So all I'm saying is like, there are lots of 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:18.880 areas where they can improve. Don't get me wrong, I'm 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:20.800 not saying they can't improve. Dad can be better, the 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.560 receivers can be better, the offensive line can be better. 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.560 They got one major flaw that if they don't fix that, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.160 they're not going anywhere. And that to me is a 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.240 run defense. Yeah, and it's probably gonna come to I mean, 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.800 they can stop the run. They can get the runs stopped. 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:35.960 It's just that that's not the way they want to play. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.360 And there's guys that they that are on this team 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:42.000 that are supposed to be here for you know, dynamic 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:47.040 pass rushing ability, and they won't get to play the 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.320 same way. They're gonna have to stop the run. And 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.200 then after that, well we'll see. I think there's gonna 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.160 be different personnel. I mean, I think you got to 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:58.120 play guys like Chauncey Golston in there, and there's somebody 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.640 I believe I don't know what I'm implying. Somebody's getting cut. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.880 I do think that somebody, somebody that's a player like 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.120 that's actually playing games. Yeah, somebody like a pass rusher, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.040 they or or or just benched. But but maybe cut 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:14.920 because you're gonna need roster spots. I just think that 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.560 they got too many of these guys. There's just too 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.960 many of them. They're similar kind of yeah, So I 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:25.960 just think that there's there's not enough space who I'm 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.960 not saying you bring in anybody necessarily unless you unless 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.400 you've got a defensive end that's out there. I just 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.320 don't think that they'll they'll keep There's no room for 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:41.200 bash them Fowler, Doran's Armstrong and Sam Williams. There's no 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.400 room for all of those guys. And we know when 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.320 you already got Tank, yeah, and you already got Micah 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.560 and yeah, yeah, there's just not room for all them. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.080 And so you can look at it and say, all right, 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.400 who makes the money, who's drafted, who's young, and you're 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.520 gonna keep me, and you can kind of figure it out, 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.520 you know, I mean, you don't have to keep some 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.839 of those guys. Um, there may be more help on 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.320 the practice squad coming. I mean, I mean, there's there's 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.320 there's names out there being floated out there that are 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.120 going to happen here on the You know that the 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.600 Cowboys are bringing in from the practice wide. Not the 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.199 biggest name, not the OBJ name, but there's some others 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:16.920 that are out there. So we'll see, we'll see what 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:18.960 happens here. I think today is going to be interesting day, 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.360 just roster moves wise. You keep hearing this name in 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.080 Dominican Sue that fans keep throwing around as as an 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.719 option to bring in defensive tackle. Obviously I'm not as 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.040 big a fan of it, but what do you guys 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.560 think as far as that being something that the Cowboys 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:37.640 maybe should consider. I mean, they're not stopping the run 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.680 on the edge like it's probably defensive tackle. That's that's 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.720 the problem. I think I think they could get it 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.760 stopped up the middle. It's it's the outside runs and um, 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.319 I don't know if he helps you there, and I'm 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.000 I'm you know, I mean, I know why Obj's out, 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.440 you know, he's rehabbing his knee. Yeah, I don't know 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.120 why Sue is out. Yeah I don't, I mean, I do, 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.560 you know, I don't know. My assumption is just because 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.720 he's not in football, nobody just signed him. And by 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.800 the way, that doesn't mean that doesn't mean players like 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.920 that can't come in and add something to your team. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.120 I just don't know if it solves the problem. I 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.200 think you got Hankins to solve that problem, and I 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.199 think Hankins is doing an adequate job. I did notice 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.679 one thing. I saw this I I was looking at 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.439 on Twitter and Brian baal Dinger, you know he does 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.280 his breakdowns. He did an interesting breakdown and on one 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.280 play it was actually the touchdown play where Aaron Jones 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:31.520 ran off tackle and scored the touchdown. And and to me, 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.720 that's where you look at and you're like, whoa defensive coordinator, 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.560 that was probably not the best idea because essentially what 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:42.520 happened play starts defensive end and defensive tackle both just 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:46.880 shoot outside and create this gaping hole that now your 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.240 linebackers have to fill. The problem is offensive lineman's on 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:54.360 Micah on him pretty quickly, and so now him trying 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.000 to get off a block and basically control of this 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.800 big gaping hole. It's like, that's a That's an example 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:02.679 of where I said earlier in the show. It has 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.520 a start with the defensive coordinator and go all the 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.720 way down that the priority needs to be stopping the run, 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.840 which in that instance you don't send your tackle outside. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.640 Now we also have to we were I'm assuming that 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.760 was not it that was his assignment. Maybe it wasn't 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.240 his assignment and he messed it up. But but that's 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.240 where I think there are some issues here with this 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:25.160 run defense that maybe fixable if you just either focus 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.319 on what you're doing or everybody know their assignment and 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.200 play their assignment and fit in their gaps. You can't 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.760 keep worrying about sacks all the time. That's what it is. 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.040 I mean, you got guys that come off the field 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.319 and they're they're they're asking about that I get a 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.360 sack there, and they need to call in the league 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.319 to see if they can switch the sacked, you know, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.160 for it was my sack versus I mean, they're all 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.080 worried about it. I get it, because that's that's the 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.040 stat that people view. But it's causing problems. And I 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.719 say it all the time about the Colts bet way 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.800 back in the day, Dwight Freeney, those guys, Dwight Freeney 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.440 cared about sacks. They didn't ever stop the run because 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.520 they got up the field. And so you gotta be 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.160 you gotta find a way to be disciplined and and 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.480 know that this is more embarrassing. Is getting two hundred 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.960 yards rushing on you is more embarrassing than finishing a 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.520 win without a sack. They all need to realize that. 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:12.600 And I don't think that they do. I mean, whether 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.920 they do or not. You know, we've seen, we've interviewed 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.960 players that aren't real happy about a win because they 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:24.200 didn't get individual stats. That brings him an interesting point. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.720 How do you guys think Mike is gonna respond to this? 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.520 Because this will be the first time in Micah's career 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.520 with the Dallas Cowboys where people are talking about him 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.719 in a negative way. I saw this morning on Good 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.760 Morning Football. They were basically saying, oh, yeah, here's the 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:42.760 blueprint for neutralizing Michael Parsons. And and I wonder a 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.240 guy like him who is very, very prideful and takes 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:47.800 a lot of pride in the fact that he is 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.080 among the best in the NFL. I wonder how he 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.839 responds to a game where everybody's looking at him and 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.560 saying you're part of the problem. What do you guys think? Well, 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:00.199 I think he plays I don't think he plays well 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.240 when he's frustrated. I think he plays well when he's 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.880 pissed off. Though, Oh maybe that's a good thing for 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.160 this week. Yeah, I mean I think so. I mean, 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.240 last time he went to Minnesota, he was a defensive 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.480 player of the week. I mean, had four tackles for loss. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:17.120 So you know, we'll see. I mean there's another element 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.280 on this too that yes, they gave a lot of 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.520 rushing yards to the Bears because the Bears just kept 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:23.960 doing it and that's the only thing the Bears could do, 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:25.800 so they just kept running and running, and the Cowboys 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.400 kind of let him have it and all that. The 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.360 Packers did it as well, and Aaron Rodgers did a 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.800 really nice job there. But I don't think other teams 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.920 are going to have the same success because they don't 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:39.200 have the same quarterback as Aaron Rodgers. And I think, yes, 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.280 you can keep running it, you can running, but at 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.080 some point you're gonna have to make a play. And 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.720 I don't think that the next three opponents, even though 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.560 they've got three great running backs, I don't think it's 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.760 going to be the same. But I do I do 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.120 this week, and it's not so much that the quarterback 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.040 is great. I think the receiver is great and the 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.440 quarterback is pretty good, and so because of that, I 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.840 do think there will be times in this game where 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.680 it's the similar kind of thing is what you experience 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.319 with Green Bay. They may not have to throw it 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.400 a lot. They can get going with the running game 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.000 and do a lot of their damage on the ground 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.400 if the Cowboys are going to give up that ground yardage, 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.439 but they can make a few big plays in the 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.839 passing game as well, which is exactly what the Packers did. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.040 They just made a few big plays in the passing game, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.400 and with those receivers out there, I think they can 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.160 make those big plays. They've been making them all season. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.640 We saw last week. I should not have been a completion, 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:28.160 but just Jefferson is just He's just stupid, crazy good, right, 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.920 And so that's where I differ a little bit on that. 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.040 I do think this. I agree with you with the Giants, 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:34.680 but I think for this week, I do think it's 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.160 very similar to what you face last week. You know, 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:42.040 I don't want to say this because it's gonna be recorded, 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.040 and I don't want to regret saying this. Here we go. 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:48.200 It's good time to turn around, I know. But whatever 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.800 I'm gonna say it, it's in regards to my come 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.000 I think I do think he's one of the greatest players. 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.480 He's definitely the best player that the Cowboys currently have 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.640 on the roster. But I feel that in the past 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:10.360 weeks and he's the type of player, Yes, you can 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.400 move him around and do all that, but when you 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:17.160 take him away from doing the defensive end job and 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.080 like pressuring the quarterback, and you put him a linebacker 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.920 and have to and he's still the type of player 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.520 that a lot of the times you see him just 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.040 show up, he's like, how how did he get there 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:32.400 faster than anybody else? But there have been time certain 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:37.280 places that I've seen, especially in this last game, where 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.360 him being like that part of the field linebacker, his 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.240 game is kind of looking like a little slower where 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:51.920 he's not as impactful as he can be on the defense. Overall, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.240 I'm not saying he's bad or anything, but I think 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:58.240 that his game is taking a hit. When you take 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.760 him away from just pressure in the quarterback, his game 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.400 goes down a level, and I'm not saying that level 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.040 is bad whatsoever, but it's not at the top where 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.440 it's been this whole time. So I do think his 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:16.760 game is just he looks at time a little not 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.320 a step behind, but just a little slower and differently. Yeah, 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.280 I don't know if you guys have noticed that, And 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:26.040 I know people are kind of starting to comment about him, 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.400 and I don't know if you saw the comment. I 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.360 was trying to look for it, but dan Quinn was 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.280 act do you know what I'm talking about? Where Mica 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:41.400 made a comment about accountability and like players taking accountability 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.760 and he said some like players weren't taking accountability, and 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.640 then dan Quinn was asked about it and he just 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.600 came back and said everybody has everybody's back and kind 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.800 of switched it around. But that's the kind of thing 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.160 that you wouldn't expect him necessarily to say, because I 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.400 do see him kind of as a leader and all that. 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.560 But when he gets to him, it does get to him. 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.760 And that's the difference between how he responds. Does he 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.280 play harder and go out there and play even more, 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.840 or does he become that frustrated player where now he's 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.480 going on Twitter saying all kinds of things, just letting 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:18.480 it the frustration get to him. So it'll be interesting 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:23.640 to see when, if it happens again this weekend, how 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.240 he responds to all those types of comments and how 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.119 he handles that, because he hasn't faced any of that 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.040 since he got here. I don't know, I mean, I 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:32.919 don't know where do you play him. That's the problem. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.520 He's a tweener. And it doesn't matter what position that is, 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:41.119 no matter what sport, basketball, football, anybody that's ever been 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:45.080 labeled somebody like that and in between end, in between linebacker, 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.960 in between a forward or a guard or whatever. Like you, 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.600 Mismatch problems are are good when it's in favorable for you, 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.360 but it's also a mismatch problem. It depends on who 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.359 you're facing, you know, and that's the problem. They just 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.240 don't You don't know exactly where to play him. If 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.080 you just played him strictly at defensive end all the time, 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.840 I think he'd get I think they'd run at him 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.040 a lot. I think he'd get worn down a lot 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.879 more in the games, and he'd probably be playing a 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.639 lot less snaps. He's defensive, he helps he wouldn't be 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.000 as effective. And if you play him at linebacker, we're 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.520 finding why you don't draft linebackers that high in the draft, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.439 because that's why he didn't go that high. I mean, 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:23.840 I mean went high, but I mean that's why he 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.879 didn't go top five because he wasn't a pass rusher 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.320 until he showed he could pass rush. So it's just 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.000 it's a cat and mouse game all the time. They're 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:31.320 gonna have to figure out how to do it. They 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:33.520 gotta stop the run. They gotta get this run stopped. 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.720 They get it stopped. Put him in third long situations. 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:37.600 Then you could play Mica wherever you want. All Right, 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.239 we're gonna take our first break when we come back. 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.600 I'm gonna ask these guys, if you were the head coach, 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.520 what would be your message to the team coming off 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.520 that game and now heading into a game against Minnesota, 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:48.320 do when we come right back this Dalas Cowboys dot 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:51.640 Com Radio, Todd thought it would be secure to jog 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.399 in the Cheetahs. Even Todd believed the big Cat repellent 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.520 he bought online was reliable. 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