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Speaker 1: It is Monday, December second, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode
Speaker 1: number ninety two. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at
Speaker 1: the Star and we've got so much to talk about today.
Speaker 1: We are not only going to start getting you guys
Speaker 1: ready for the upcoming game Cowboys versus Bears this Thursday,
Speaker 1: but because we haven't been on the air since Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: we still gotta go back and see. Yes we do.
Speaker 1: It's just like the game film. You gotta go back
Speaker 1: and talk about it and talk about what happened on
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day. Cowboys loose to the Buffalo Bills twenty six
Speaker 1: to fifteen, and something that happened yesterday. The Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: also get a lost, so Cowboys maintain a one game
Speaker 1: lead in the division. No one's really battling to keep
Speaker 1: that to get that spot in the playoffs and win
Speaker 1: this division. But that may actually end up working towards
Speaker 1: the Cowboys advantage. I told Channon Gross this morning that
Speaker 1: the NFC East is like that mangy dog that's running
Speaker 1: around the street. Nobody wants it. Like it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it would be nice to have a dog, but not
Speaker 1: that one. It's like, nobody wants the NFC East, Like, no,
Speaker 1: you take it here. We lost to the Bills, Go
Speaker 1: ahead and beat the Dolphins. No, I'm not gonna beat
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. We're good. Yeah, nobody wants this just division.
Speaker 1: It's the worst division in football. This division exists every
Speaker 1: year like there's ally. But I didn't think it would
Speaker 1: be the East this year. I didn't either. I thought
Speaker 1: at least the Cowboys and the Eagles would have a
Speaker 1: nice battle and they'd be in. I think we all
Speaker 1: got a nice battle. Yeah, nice depends on there's a battle.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a nice bat which I get.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought it would be a two team race.
Speaker 1: I didn't think Washington or New York was really equipped
Speaker 1: to compete. But you know, I think out of it yet,
Speaker 1: not mathematically no, which the funny that tells you everything.
Speaker 1: They're two and nine and they're not mathematically out of it.
Speaker 1: That's not great, Bob, note great at all. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that a little bit later, but I want to
Speaker 1: start first by talking about this game, Cowboys versus Bills. Man,
Speaker 1: it was a tough day. But when you go back
Speaker 1: and you look at the statistics afterwards, I'm having a
Speaker 1: hard time feeling out putting my putting my finger on
Speaker 1: exactly what the problem was. So it's like the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah, right, yeah, it was absolutely well.
Speaker 1: Let's let's look at this. DAK was thirty two forty nine,
Speaker 1: sixty five percent completion radio three and fifty five passing yards,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, an interception, Zeke Att nineteen total touches, one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seven yards, five point nine average on
Speaker 1: the ground amar at eight for eighty five. Like it
Speaker 1: looked like Phistically. Offensively, the ball was moving, Cowboys were
Speaker 1: picking up yards. What do you guys think was the
Speaker 1: problem offensively with this team? They suck the red zone
Speaker 1: and their offensive line doesn't push anybody around. They don't
Speaker 1: even try anymore. First and goal from the nine and
Speaker 1: fourth straight passes. Dak is really good in between the twenties,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he's really that great this year.
Speaker 1: In the red zone. That's one of the things that
Speaker 1: he's struggled at. They don't throw the ball well in there,
Speaker 1: and they don't even attempt to run, which takes away
Speaker 1: any play action opportunities they get down there. They're not
Speaker 1: very good, and I think the fans and the media
Speaker 1: basically forced Jason Garrett last week to not kick the
Speaker 1: field goal and go for it on fourth and nine
Speaker 1: just because of what happened the week before and all that.
Speaker 1: I really think the smart play was to kick the
Speaker 1: field goal. Either way, it doesn't matter. But I just
Speaker 1: think right now they're just trying to find answers and
Speaker 1: they don't have them. I still can't figure out why
Speaker 1: they haven't been able to find the solution for the
Speaker 1: red zone. That it's something that they were struggling with
Speaker 1: last year, and then for this year, we were thinking, oh, well,
Speaker 1: Jason Witten, he's going to be able to help in
Speaker 1: the red zone. Having Travis Frederick back, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big thing for the Cowboys with the line and
Speaker 1: what he does there at center and none of that
Speaker 1: has really changed anything. I mean, they're still unable to
Speaker 1: get inside the red zone. Past that, getting to the
Speaker 1: end zone and getting points and then I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: talk about brand Moher. But now, I mean, when you
Speaker 1: don't got a kicker making those field goals, then you're
Speaker 1: really screwed up. How about pressing well as a number,
Speaker 1: I mean, one of many issues. But I thought they
Speaker 1: were pressing and it killed them in this game. Try
Speaker 1: to set up the screen to Tony Pollard, it's not
Speaker 1: there at all. Any quarterback that's you know, a college
Speaker 1: quarterback knows to throw that at the guy's feed. Dak
Speaker 1: tried to turn it into a play anyway, he's picked
Speaker 1: off by a d tackle. That kind of starts the snowball.
Speaker 1: That turns into an avalanche of bad stuff happening. Same
Speaker 1: thing on the strip sack, which you know you can
Speaker 1: criticize Xavier Suaphilo. You know he comes in and it
Speaker 1: was his first or second snapond snap, second snap after
Speaker 1: he comes in for Connor Williams beat on the first
Speaker 1: snap as well. Though they had a rough day against that. Oliver.
Speaker 1: Maybe you pointed that out in the press box, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I didn't give him enough credit for being a
Speaker 1: top ten pick. He is not a starter for that team,
Speaker 1: but he certainly looked like a top ten pick. He abused.
Speaker 1: He abused the interior or that line point being you
Speaker 1: can criticize the offensive line if you want to, and
Speaker 1: they deserve it. But the reason that strip sack happened
Speaker 1: is Dak was fixated on the long ball. To Michael Gallup,
Speaker 1: I mean he was hanging in there waiting for it
Speaker 1: to come open. It felt like an eternity. So again,
Speaker 1: two plays that probably don't happen if you're not trying
Speaker 1: to press for the big play, and those two plays.
Speaker 1: You know, you can never single out one or two plays.
Speaker 1: But like I said, that's kind of starts the snowball
Speaker 1: effect where you know, one minute you're like, man, they
Speaker 1: kind of slowed down, and then five minutes later, like,
Speaker 1: holy crap, they're not in this game anymore. Like what happened?
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, that's just two big flash
Speaker 1: points that I think we're a big part of it.
Speaker 1: Does have any faith that any of the problems you
Speaker 1: just pointed out are fixable this season, well, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're fixable, because this team, I mean, somebody's got to
Speaker 1: go eat and eight, right, you know, somebody has to
Speaker 1: do it in all of the NFL. So there's great teams,
Speaker 1: there's really bad teams, and then there's teams right there
Speaker 1: in the middle. And this is what Dallas is. And
Speaker 1: they haven't beat anybody with a winning record. They don't
Speaker 1: have to. They don't have to beat anyone with a
Speaker 1: winning record. Really, they could beat the Bears, they could
Speaker 1: even lose to the Rams. But they beat the Eagles
Speaker 1: and the Redskins. I mean, they're gonna be in the playoffs. Actually,
Speaker 1: they can lose both those teams, they both of the
Speaker 1: next two games, as long as they beat the Eagles
Speaker 1: and the Redskins, which, by the way, what had they've
Speaker 1: done all you Yeah, you've beating the NFC. If they
Speaker 1: just keep being who they are, Yeah, we'll get in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Cowboys, it's not it's not. But yeah, that
Speaker 1: tells you how bad the NFC East is. Cowboys fans
Speaker 1: took issue with me yesterday because I said they have
Speaker 1: a commanding lead in the division. They're like, it's one
Speaker 1: game with a month to play. That's not commanding. If
Speaker 1: all you have to do is beat a middling Eagles
Speaker 1: team and a bad Redskins team to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It sounds pretty commanding to me. Like I said all
Speaker 1: last week, the Bills game didn't matter. These two games
Speaker 1: mathematically don't matter anymore because of what the Eagles did yesterday.
Speaker 1: Obviously you would prefer to get on a role. Getting
Speaker 1: into the playoffs at eight and eight isn't gonna make
Speaker 1: anybody happy, and it's not going to give you confidence
Speaker 1: that they can make a run. But from a mathematical standpoint,
Speaker 1: all they have to do is win those two division
Speaker 1: games and they can make the playoffs. It's amazing. And
Speaker 1: if the Eagles somehow lose to the Giants next week
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys beat the Bears, I mean, it is
Speaker 1: really all but over because you know, then you can
Speaker 1: just lose to the Eagles, it doesn't matter because you've
Speaker 1: got assuming you beat the Redskins. At the last game,
Speaker 1: the Redskins beat the you know, Carolina, I just beat them,
Speaker 1: beat the Brakes off of the bout eight. But if
Speaker 1: you watched the game like they were they were beating though,
Speaker 1: like that was not a I don't think that was
Speaker 1: a game where the score really reflected how well the
Speaker 1: Redskins thirty seconds ago. They were trying to tie the game,
Speaker 1: but they took a thirty yard sack. It's like I said,
Speaker 1: every year this happens, Like the Vikings and the Panthers
Speaker 1: and the Bears and the Rams and the Seahawks are
Speaker 1: all like fuming that some mediocre NFC East team is
Speaker 1: gonna post a playoff game, whereas you know what three
Speaker 1: years ago, what you know, the thirteen and three year,
Speaker 1: you know, the Giants went what twelve and four and
Speaker 1: had to go on the road in the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: mean happens every year, yeah, you know. And every year
Speaker 1: we talked about the schedule and we're like, man, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a few teams that aren't as good as
Speaker 1: you think they are, So don't don't sit here and go,
Speaker 1: oh my god, we gotta play the Bears. Maybe the
Speaker 1: Bears aren't gonna be good, Maybe the Rams aren't gonna
Speaker 1: be good. Maybe the Cowboys aren't gonna be good. It
Speaker 1: turned out to be the Cowboys in the Eagles. Is
Speaker 1: the two teams that aren't as good as you thought
Speaker 1: they would be. Well, the Bears, like, yeah, they're probably
Speaker 1: about four teams. The Rams probably be in the same boat. Like,
Speaker 1: they're not as good as even I thought they were
Speaker 1: gonna be after coming off a year when they went
Speaker 1: to the Super The forty nine ers, you know, are
Speaker 1: really good, and the Packers are better than they were
Speaker 1: last year. So I mean it always had Vikings as well. Yeah, Vikings,
Speaker 1: All right, talk talk to me a little bit about
Speaker 1: Brett Maher and where you brought him up. He missed
Speaker 1: two field goals in that game, one of them being tipped,
Speaker 1: which just adds to the issues that they're having as
Speaker 1: a special teams unit. That was the thirty five yard
Speaker 1: but you also missed a forty seven yard or Cowboys
Speaker 1: had a workout yesterday brought in three kickers. Tell me
Speaker 1: about right now, what do you think as far as
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are looking at their crick of position? Do
Speaker 1: you think that a change is imminent? And if not,
Speaker 1: what do you think would have to happen for them
Speaker 1: to actually make a change. I think I think it's
Speaker 1: right there. You know, this is you just miss against
Speaker 1: the Bears, and you have any kind of struggles against
Speaker 1: the Bears. You know, if they like what they saw yesterday,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they did, but if they like
Speaker 1: that they are we have a contingency plan that we like.
Speaker 1: If he struggles again, boom. I mean issue had never
Speaker 1: gotten to this point. Do you think they should make
Speaker 1: a changed a long time ago? I mean, when I
Speaker 1: go back and I understand that that's just the position.
Speaker 1: It's easier. You can easily just bring someone in plucking
Speaker 1: man blah blah. But when you go back to training
Speaker 1: camp and just not bringing someone in when you know
Speaker 1: this ruggles that he had the year before, it's just like,
Speaker 1: why does he need to get to this point of
Speaker 1: the season for you to bring in three guys to
Speaker 1: try them out and see how they do it? Just
Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense to me. And when you
Speaker 1: have cut them, when would you have cut him? Like,
Speaker 1: but at least bringing someone to just check them out
Speaker 1: and add some competition to maher like, let them know, yes,
Speaker 1: you have his back, but be on your toes. Like.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's dumb or blind either, for when
Speaker 1: he makes those kinds of mistake, But it's very different
Speaker 1: when you have somebody next to you kicking the ball
Speaker 1: as to not having anybody and you're the only one kicking.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know about that not a kicker.
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that because I think most kickers
Speaker 1: will tell you that they're competing with guys on the
Speaker 1: street all the time because you can just swat you.
Speaker 1: I would argue, though, if the Cowboys were going to
Speaker 1: do this, I think they waited too long, honestly, Oh,
Speaker 1: because most guys are I mean there will. There was
Speaker 1: a small pool of guys who have done it before
Speaker 1: that has been available on and off throughout the season.
Speaker 1: Kai four Bat Young Hoku is another one. He's kicking
Speaker 1: pretty playing well for Atlanta. He's twelve and fourteen on
Speaker 1: the year. Um, those guys are gone, Nick Rose, your
Speaker 1: guy Longhorn only one of the three that they worked
Speaker 1: out with NFL experience. He went eleven of fourteen two
Speaker 1: years ago. The other two, um Tristan viz Kayano and
Speaker 1: um oh, Austin McGinnis both haven't. I think McGinnis kicked
Speaker 1: it in the the AAF, you know, in the spring,
Speaker 1: but he's never kicked in a regular season NFL game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's what I'm saying. Yeah, nothing, So viz viz
Speaker 1: Kayano is however, you know, sorry if I mispronounced it.
Speaker 1: He he went twelve of twenty in his final season
Speaker 1: at Washington, So that's college And I'm just like, is
Speaker 1: that definitively better than what you got? So I agree.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they were going to do this, they
Speaker 1: should have done it when they had a more viable option. Um,
Speaker 1: I'd see that blocked though, and the yeah, I know
Speaker 1: he got blocked before the half, but that thing went
Speaker 1: really far, so like like it might have gotten blocked,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: headed through the up breaks. Anyways, you know, it's been
Speaker 1: four days, like you kind of have a chance to
Speaker 1: get over the knee jerk, and you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: as worked up about this as I was on Friday.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about the decision making process on that
Speaker 1: drive in the first place. You get the ball back
Speaker 1: with like a minute and a half, no urgency whatsoever.
Speaker 1: You just very deliberately let all the time bleed off
Speaker 1: the clock, which I get you don't want to give
Speaker 1: the Bills the ball back, but they had three timeouts
Speaker 1: and really didn't put themselves in position to do better
Speaker 1: than a fuel goal attempt with a kicker that they
Speaker 1: don't really trust. And they even especially at that set
Speaker 1: up the fuel goal purposefully with a throw to the
Speaker 1: right hash, which is where we know he's not good.
Speaker 1: It's almost like they're stubborn with the with you know,
Speaker 1: with him, They're like, no, we're not good. I mean
Speaker 1: he called time out, wouldn't get And I kind of
Speaker 1: disagree with you there because if you just look at
Speaker 1: where the Bills were doing, they were not going to
Speaker 1: give anything other than a field goal. I mean they
Speaker 1: were playing almost prevent in the end zone, no shots
Speaker 1: to the end zone. They're just gonna give you three points.
Speaker 1: But call time out and there's run Witten for ten yards.
Speaker 1: He could have done that on any hash. I now
Speaker 1: that goes to another problem. If your kicker has to
Speaker 1: be on a certain hash, you got a problem and
Speaker 1: you do, and I agree with you. I would probably
Speaker 1: make this move. I really would. I'd find somebody I
Speaker 1: don't know who, maybe anybody that's kicked in the NFL before.
Speaker 1: Maybe I would do that because the guy has absolutely
Speaker 1: no confidence, which I think I would have just go
Speaker 1: full Kevin Kelly, which is the Arkansas high school coach
Speaker 1: who never kicks at like that's his claim to fame.
Speaker 1: Like he doesn't punt, he doesn't kick I would just
Speaker 1: operate as if I can't make a fuel goal unless
Speaker 1: it's from sixty or plus yards. Hey, guys, that's what
Speaker 1: I would do. Is there any role that stubbornness plays
Speaker 1: in this? The fact that Maher is the guy that
Speaker 1: you let Dan Bailey walk, for the fact that maybe
Speaker 1: they can move on from Maha, but they don't want
Speaker 1: to be wrong. Again, I don't agree with that, because
Speaker 1: your head coach has no contract, so he needs to
Speaker 1: win games, and like now, he is stubborn, There's no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. But I don't think to the fault
Speaker 1: of that. I think he wants to cut him. Listen
Speaker 1: to the press garments. I mean he wanted to cut him.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Cowboys do, but I think some
Speaker 1: of the coaches. If he doesn't need his shoulders to
Speaker 1: the kick, that's the thing. I even said that in
Speaker 1: the press box. The worst part is that Heath can't
Speaker 1: go out there and kick an extra You know what, what,
Speaker 1: just have Heath kick an extra point if you need to.
Speaker 1: I mean, if it was five yards or ten yards
Speaker 1: an end, I'd trot Jeff out there. This team can't
Speaker 1: make a two point conversion to save their life. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're just talking about their red zone. So
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think they want to be
Speaker 1: right about Dan, like that's so far, that's so water
Speaker 1: under the bridge. But I think they want to be
Speaker 1: right in the sense that they're like, well, he's got
Speaker 1: this leg, he's made these kicks like blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, and there's nobody and there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of better options. So I do think stubborness is part
Speaker 1: of it, but not necessarily because of Dan Bailey. But
Speaker 1: if you just look at how he performed last season,
Speaker 1: he was toward the bottom of the league in percentage
Speaker 1: of Phil Golds. So I agree with Amber from the
Speaker 1: standpoint I think during training camp, whether you're bringing him
Speaker 1: in for competition or not, I would have legitimately had
Speaker 1: a kicking competition, like I would have legitimately brought in
Speaker 1: somebody who I thought I could kick more reliably from
Speaker 1: all the way from the goal line to forty yards.
Speaker 1: I would have brought in that guy, and then I
Speaker 1: would have made a decision, I'll take the guy and
Speaker 1: know what he's gonna do in those kind of situations.
Speaker 1: And it's really really iffy when you get beyond fifty,
Speaker 1: then take a guy that I know can maybe make
Speaker 1: a sixty two yarder, but it's really really if he
Speaker 1: thirty to forty. I would just rather have the knowledge
Speaker 1: of being able to rely on my kicker in certain situations.
Speaker 1: And I don't think the Cowboys have that right now. Like, yes,
Speaker 1: all day, every day, Give me the guy that's automatic
Speaker 1: or close to it from closer than forty five, because honestly,
Speaker 1: I mean, Maher's leg gets them in trouble in the
Speaker 1: first place, because you're like, well, we know he can
Speaker 1: make it from sixty, and then you're doing stupid stuff
Speaker 1: that sets your opponent up at midfield anyway if he misses,
Speaker 1: and I just don't know that, you know, the fact
Speaker 1: that he hand hit those kicks is not as valuable
Speaker 1: as maybe some people want it to be. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our first break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the offensive line. We mentioned
Speaker 1: it a little bit earlier. Ed Oliver had some exposed
Speaker 1: some issues and now an offensive lineman is done for
Speaker 1: the year. We'll talk about that when we come right back.
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Speaker 1: one score. September twenty nineteen. Back to the Break Welcome Back.
Speaker 1: It is the second segment of The Break Life s
Speaker 1: WBC mortgage studios at the start talking about the Cowboys
Speaker 1: loss to the Buffalo Bills. They lose twenty six to nineteen,
Speaker 1: and it was miss our fifteen twenty six fifteen giving
Speaker 1: them four points there. It was I was trying to
Speaker 1: help him out, but it was a game that by
Speaker 1: and large, even with the score ending up where it was,
Speaker 1: it wasn't really that close. In my opinion, it looked
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys were struggling most of the day. Other
Speaker 1: than the first series, of course, which they got up
Speaker 1: to a fast start, give them credit for that, but
Speaker 1: then everything kind of went south. It really like and
Speaker 1: and I don't know, maybe it's reckless, like because I,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't gauge their their hustle. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying they weren't trying, but like, it's so weird that
Speaker 1: the one time, the one time they really came out gangbusters,
Speaker 1: I mean, touchdown on the first drive, defense got off
Speaker 1: the field quick on the first Bills possession, and then
Speaker 1: they just went flat. It's almost like the thirty yard
Speaker 1: run on the next possession. Yeah. And after that, watching that,
Speaker 1: it was almost like they were like, all right, we
Speaker 1: solve this flat start thing. And then they were they
Speaker 1: forgot it that there's fifty more minutes of football to play.
Speaker 1: Like this guy that I've heard use this analogy a
Speaker 1: thousand times this year about holding jello in his hand. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he loves say you hold jello in your hand, you
Speaker 1: get a little bit here, but then this spills out
Speaker 1: over here and then oh that was that game completely. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You start thinking like you got one thing fixed, and
Speaker 1: before you know it, one time Zeke season. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: witting back in the end zone, fast starts. I forgot,
Speaker 1: I mean, so much bad stuff happened. I forgot about
Speaker 1: the Zeke run. I was like, okay, that's if Zeke's
Speaker 1: doing that on even a somewhat regular basis, nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: complain about him. Ever again, he was breaking tackles, he
Speaker 1: looked fast, and then you know, nothing but bad stuff
Speaker 1: happened for a half hour. One big thing that we
Speaker 1: talked about a little earlier, mentioned a little earlier. The
Speaker 1: offensive line has some issues with add Oliver and Xavier Suefilo.
Speaker 1: I think was the culprit on the situation and on
Speaker 1: the play whether you have the strip sack, but um
Speaker 1: Connor Williams we find out this week has an ACL
Speaker 1: tear he has done for the year, which means now
Speaker 1: Suipilo is going to be your full time guy. How
Speaker 1: concerned are you or do you think he's more than
Speaker 1: capable to be able to handle that role for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season. I feel is better. I mean,
Speaker 1: I believe that he's a better player than Connor Williams.
Speaker 1: I believe that. I believe that exactly what they need.
Speaker 1: And if you and if you're gonna throw out the Connor.
Speaker 1: I mean these Xavier Suafilo play then Mike Sure and
Speaker 1: show about twenty more from this year when Connor Williams
Speaker 1: does the same thing, if not worse that they They're
Speaker 1: not perfect. Connor's not perfect at guard. Sufilo is not
Speaker 1: perfect guard. That's what do you think? Do you think
Speaker 1: you're better with Suphilo? Do you think you're about the same,
Speaker 1: because it sounds like what you're saying there is they're
Speaker 1: about the same. They're both gonna give a place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's true, but seventy seven that you're all
Speaker 1: pro left tackle gives up plays, I mean, Travis Frederick,
Speaker 1: Zach Martin. But do you think they're better? Do you
Speaker 1: think they're better off with Shilo than Williams? Yeah? I do.
Speaker 1: I do. I think that. I think they can run
Speaker 1: the ball better with him. But it's a small sample size,
Speaker 1: but we'll see. Yeah, I don't think so. I get
Speaker 1: I'll preface it by saying like they can survive with
Speaker 1: Davier Sufilo. They did it last year, So I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to sync their offense, but
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I don't I'm not saying this
Speaker 1: to you like I'm you know, I'm bashing you. But
Speaker 1: I think Connor's just an easy scapegoat because he's, you know,
Speaker 1: he's a project. He played tackle in college. He's the
Speaker 1: least drafted guy on the line, you know, the least
Speaker 1: amount of talent from a scouting standpoint. Uh And and
Speaker 1: Tyrn and Zach and these guys have been standards for
Speaker 1: all offensive line excellence, so it's easy to point out
Speaker 1: what he's not. I don't think he's been terrible by
Speaker 1: any stretch of the imagination this season. Um, but I
Speaker 1: also don't think the drop off is going to be severe. Um,
Speaker 1: So that there. I mean, I think regardless of which
Speaker 1: one is in the lineup, it's the weak link of
Speaker 1: the offensive line. It's just as what it is. It
Speaker 1: always has. There's always that that guy. I mean, back
Speaker 1: in the day when they had three All Pro Bowlers
Speaker 1: back in oh seven, Kyle Kozer was the weak link
Speaker 1: and he was pretty damn good. Yeah, so, I mean
Speaker 1: it happened Mark Colombo was also the non Pro bowler.
Speaker 1: They're just like people hated Doug Free for a long time.
Speaker 1: Tell you, but I mean, I I think that he'll
Speaker 1: he'll do better. I really do I think he'll be
Speaker 1: He'll be fine. Um, you know, have all week to
Speaker 1: prepare when in there. Yeah, he prides himself on being prepared,
Speaker 1: and he certainly wasn't. Those first two plays. You're standing
Speaker 1: there without a helmet on. Next thing you know, you're
Speaker 1: making a tackle because you you know, got drove back there. Now,
Speaker 1: if you listen to the broadcast Romo, which I don't know,
Speaker 1: does Romo really critical of Dak a lot? But he
Speaker 1: he was on that play, he was like, you gotta
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball, step up and get rid
Speaker 1: of the ball. Either way, he was getting drove all
Speaker 1: the way back. Yeah, I mean that's the play where
Speaker 1: he also had like two or three guys underneath who
Speaker 1: were open, and he becau There was a play I
Speaker 1: saw on Twitter somebody was pointing out and I don't
Speaker 1: remember if it was that play, but it was like
Speaker 1: the point they were making was there are options underneath.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you take the option underneath because you don't have
Speaker 1: to wait for the other place, especially when you're in
Speaker 1: situations where you're under a bit of dress. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: strip sac Yeah, he's still I mean, it felt like
Speaker 1: six seconds and it probably wasn't, but that's I mean,
Speaker 1: Xavier got driven back, there's no question, but he held
Speaker 1: that ball for a long long time. He was asked
Speaker 1: that question Sophila was do you think that Dak held
Speaker 1: the ball for too long? And he said, um, I
Speaker 1: don't know how long he held it, but our goal
Speaker 1: is to make sure he can hold it for a minute. Okay,
Speaker 1: so lofty goals and he like no, but I'm just
Speaker 1: saying it doesn't matter, right, yea, yeah, block until until
Speaker 1: find an offensive lineman who's ever going to say that anyway? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh Jesus staff for the ball. I actually stopped and
Speaker 1: turned around and looked at him, like, dude, what are
Speaker 1: you doing any day now? You know. I know all
Speaker 1: of these offensive linemen are struggling with some kind of
Speaker 1: injury and stuff, But one of the things that concerns
Speaker 1: me is canny Xavier go ahead and play the rest
Speaker 1: of the season healthy and be healthy because he has
Speaker 1: it passed with where he has been dealing with injuries
Speaker 1: on his knees and that's something that is just not
Speaker 1: gonna go away. And I can't remember how many games
Speaker 1: he's able he's been able to play back to back
Speaker 1: fully healthy. Yeah, I don't know, but it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like it's been more than two or so where he's like,
Speaker 1: he played all eight games last year, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're if he was banged up. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, when's the last time Tyran was
Speaker 1: healthy's rookie year. I mean, like he still plays, but
Speaker 1: he played in the last eight games of the season.
Speaker 1: They did get poked in the eye, Yeah, missed the
Speaker 1: games or so, what are their options at this point?
Speaker 1: If it lets assume for a second, either if he's
Speaker 1: not healthy or if he's not playing well, does Joe
Speaker 1: Looney become an option? What are there other options here?
Speaker 1: I asked Jason about that. Go ahead, and I, oh, well, sorry,
Speaker 1: they did sign Caleb ben and knock um. He's a
Speaker 1: he's been a knock it's been around. He has been around. Well,
Speaker 1: he's a fifth round pick by the Bucks. He started
Speaker 1: for them for several years. He's spent short stints with
Speaker 1: New England and Carolina this year, but short stints like
Speaker 1: he wasn't there. Oh yeah, he started, Let's get him
Speaker 1: in here yet. Here's what they like is they like
Speaker 1: his versatility to do both. I mean, so, I mean
Speaker 1: he's he's a new Adam Redman. If I had to
Speaker 1: guess um, I asked Garrett today about Looney, like we
Speaker 1: never talked about Joe as an option at left guard,
Speaker 1: and it was a very Jason Garrett response. He was like,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a good player. We like him better
Speaker 1: as a center, and we think Xavier can handle that.
Speaker 1: So if Joe Looney were to get time at left guard,
Speaker 1: it says a lot about how poorly they think Xavir
Speaker 1: Suva Philo is playing, basically, like I think that would
Speaker 1: only be a break glass in a case of emergency thing.
Speaker 1: But Connor McGovern, like Jason Garrett also, he said last
Speaker 1: week they haven't closed the book on him coming back,
Speaker 1: but he's not ready. And if you can just do
Speaker 1: a rudimentary level of math, you realize that the season's
Speaker 1: running out. Like if you activate a guy off ir,
Speaker 1: he gets three weeks before you have to put him
Speaker 1: on the fifty three. That means he would have to
Speaker 1: start practicing next week. He hasn't done anything all year
Speaker 1: better than somebody else. It's very it's admirable that Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett doesn't want to close the book on that, but
Speaker 1: like I can't imagine Connor McGovern can do a lot
Speaker 1: to help you with He's never played in a preseason
Speaker 1: game now he hasn't. I think he's taken Ota snaps
Speaker 1: in shorts. He's never he has not put on pads
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Well, he did practice for like one
Speaker 1: day here at the Star and think reaggravated it, right,
Speaker 1: remember so, But but that was OTA's right, which isn't
Speaker 1: even fully padded. Remember like at the end of training
Speaker 1: he comes back and then you're right, they hate when
Speaker 1: that happens. But I mean, he's he It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that his career is like a wash or anything, but
Speaker 1: that's he's a twenty twenty guy. That's play and he's
Speaker 1: just a little bit less than Tristan Hill. That's that's
Speaker 1: just fair. That's just the fact. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: Good days Thornhill got an interception for a touchdown where
Speaker 1: everybody got tweeted about it. Right, you know what I like,
Speaker 1: don't it. I'm not mad at me. It is, which
Speaker 1: you know, draft classes are about so much more than
Speaker 1: one season. But it's completely fair to say, man like,
Speaker 1: for a team that's trying to get over the hump,
Speaker 1: you're not getting anything from your rookie class, which like
Speaker 1: look all around the league, like if good teams get
Speaker 1: production from their rookies, I mean and not just teams
Speaker 1: drafting at the top of the round either, Like and
Speaker 1: they're just not in a team where they needed, they've
Speaker 1: been needing forever the safety that could come in and
Speaker 1: actually make plays for them. Right, Tony Pollard is the
Speaker 1: only member of this draft class that has made a
Speaker 1: tangible contribution to the season. That's just not that's not
Speaker 1: going to get it done when Taco's not doing anything
Speaker 1: for you. But DeMarcus Lawrence is something, Well he did yesterday,
Speaker 1: Yeah he made a play. But when DeMarcus Lawrence is
Speaker 1: playing well, and then that's you're like, okay, well, why's
Speaker 1: Taco not playing well? That's one reason. But when Tristan
Speaker 1: Hill's not playing and you have to go out and
Speaker 1: make a trade so you can get a help with
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett and they're still not playing well in the middle,
Speaker 1: and you know what, he made a tackle the other day,
Speaker 1: like Antoine Woods out and he made a play. But
Speaker 1: the tackles position is really hurting this team right now
Speaker 1: because the guy's getting all day to just sit there,
Speaker 1: and they end, and they step up and there's they
Speaker 1: shouldn't have anything to step up to, but they do.
Speaker 1: I bet I can. I can go through the playoff
Speaker 1: chase and look at every team and think about contributions
Speaker 1: that their rookies are making, and like Nick Bosa is
Speaker 1: easy obviously, but like you know, DK metcalf is coming
Speaker 1: on for Seattle and wan Thorne Hills pretty damn good.
Speaker 1: As it turns out, Taylor Rapp also had a pick
Speaker 1: six yesterday, which is another safety they considered. So um,
Speaker 1: it's a bummer. It doesn't mean that, it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that they're definitely somebody will probably say Paulo does that
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. No, I don't think they've used them ano. No. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's you know, not nearly a big enough when you
Speaker 1: think about what rookies have done for this team in
Speaker 1: the recent past, that doesn't even register on the radar.
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Speaker 1: all right, Uh, Dave, let's talk about the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: Give me a quick scatter report. We got about eleven minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: give me a quick scatter report on the Yeah, this
Speaker 1: Thursday's Wednesday. On the Chica Wednesday. I'm sorry, Chicago Bear offense. No,
Speaker 1: it is Thursday. Wow, I'm an idiot, You're right, believe all.
Speaker 1: I'm all out of sorts. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm not
Speaker 1: a superstitious person. I think I've made that clear. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try it the other way
Speaker 1: this time. I'm just gonna say this Bears offense, Holy
Speaker 1: caw are they good? Holy cow do they have a
Speaker 1: lot of weapons. I don't know how the Cowboys could
Speaker 1: possibly stop them all they're so good. The quarterback man
Speaker 1: Mitch Drubisky, Pro Bowl, Alan Robinson one of the best
Speaker 1: deep threat receivers in the league, pretty good. Tarik Cohen mismatched,
Speaker 1: can line up in the slot, can play running back.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys cannot stop these guys. They are amazing, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm being sarcastic. I didn't have a very high opinion
Speaker 1: of the Bills. Every time I don't have a high
Speaker 1: opinion of an opponent, they come back and kick some ass.
Speaker 1: So you know, maybe a little bit of reverse psychology works.
Speaker 1: But the Bears, the Bears are they are going through it.
Speaker 1: On offense, they are struggling. They're twenty ninth in the league.
Speaker 1: They're twenty seventh and scoring. They they don't really do
Speaker 1: anything well. And I didn't. I mean, I'm serious, I
Speaker 1: didn't have a ton I didn't have a ton of
Speaker 1: time to deep dive on this like I normally do.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if you followed the season at all,
Speaker 1: I don't think you should be surprised by that. Trubisky
Speaker 1: is just app I feel bad for the guy. Honestly,
Speaker 1: he's he is a lightning rod for for everything that
Speaker 1: is wrong with the Bears, probably because you know, the
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks drafted after him are looking like the future
Speaker 1: of the NFL and he's just not. He's the other one.
Speaker 1: Mahomes and who Watson. He's good. Yeah, he's good too.
Speaker 1: Decisions they you know, they drafted David Montgomery out of
Speaker 1: Iowa State. Tarik Cohen is one of the most fun
Speaker 1: gadget players in the league. But they don't even really
Speaker 1: run the ball. Well, they're running, you know, three and
Speaker 1: a half yards per carry. Trubisky six point one yards
Speaker 1: per attempt on the season, which is less than Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: and we spend a lot of time talking about how
Speaker 1: Brady's lost it and can't go down field with these receivers.
Speaker 1: He did play really well against Detroit twenty nine thirty
Speaker 1: eight for three thirty eight and three touchdowns. Have a
Speaker 1: stat on that form my storylines that Derek neglected. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna do tomorrow. You're gonna go and give it away.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean go ahead, and I mean the
Speaker 1: story it's on the website for the world yesterday anyway,
Speaker 1: seventeen of nineteen on first Down, Dad, like he was
Speaker 1: against the against the Lions. His two best games this
Speaker 1: year have been against the Lions. I'm very I'm very
Speaker 1: had a big game against the Lions. True. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought about that immediately, and on I'm I'm frustrated
Speaker 1: with NFL game pass because the all twenty two for
Speaker 1: the Lions game is not up, even though it was
Speaker 1: played on Thanksgiving. That seems ridiculous to me. So I
Speaker 1: couldn't watch it, at least not from that angle. Um,
Speaker 1: but Trubisky, I just you know, it seems so much
Speaker 1: like he just struggles to see the field, a lot
Speaker 1: of locking onto receivers, a lot of throwing it to
Speaker 1: what I assume as his first read, regardless of how
Speaker 1: good the coverage is. Had a terrible pick against the
Speaker 1: Giants where he again like nothing suggested that the play
Speaker 1: was open, and he was like, well, this is this
Speaker 1: is what the red tells me that I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 1: And again you just kind of see that, you like,
Speaker 1: he locks onto stuff even before the snap. One thing
Speaker 1: that really stood out to me is again like Tarik
Speaker 1: Cohen is he's so exciting. He's so fast and quick.
Speaker 1: He's caught fifty four passes. This sh don't really run.
Speaker 1: He's a receiver, right, but fifty four passes. How many
Speaker 1: yards would you guess he has? Man less I mean
Speaker 1: less than ten pop probably probably four hundred. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: even maybe thing like about three fifty four catches for
Speaker 1: three hundred yards. That's awful. Yeah, that that's like, clearly
Speaker 1: you understand that he's a priority, but there's no creativity
Speaker 1: or or truebisky can't do it one way or the other.
Speaker 1: A lot of screen passes that don't go anywhere, a
Speaker 1: lot of routes to the flat that get like one
Speaker 1: or two yards Like that's I could have sworn I
Speaker 1: wrote it down. But that's an average of like four
Speaker 1: point eight per catch, which is awful for anybody, let
Speaker 1: alone a guy who's as quick as he is, and
Speaker 1: you would think he can make people miss. So granted,
Speaker 1: you know the Cowboys struggle with that sometimes. And Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary he was a problem, just like we thought he'd be. Um,
Speaker 1: so that's something to watch. Um their line, it's okay,
Speaker 1: it's not terrible, it's not great. Um, it's funny as
Speaker 1: somebody that does the draft show. The Bears have picked
Speaker 1: early a lot the last few years because last year
Speaker 1: was really their first good season in a while. Like
Speaker 1: they got they got a lot of talent. I mean,
Speaker 1: we mentioned Cohen. Anthony Miller is a guy that we
Speaker 1: loved coming out. Um slot receiver out of Memphis. Doesn't
Speaker 1: really do a lot because they're not a dynamic passing offense.
Speaker 1: James Daniels, good left guard out of Iowa. Cody Whitehair
Speaker 1: another guy that we really loved. Their center. Like the
Speaker 1: talent yeah, he well he tackle Kansas thing. I think
Speaker 1: it was a guard he could, but he could. He's
Speaker 1: a He's like a four or five position type of guy.
Speaker 1: He's a good player. Um what else do I think? Um,
Speaker 1: So here's my question. Alan Robinson's a super underrated player.
Speaker 1: He's a good I mean, he's a good downfield player.
Speaker 1: The problem is Mitch Rubisky's quarterback. So so, thinking about
Speaker 1: all things you just said, Let's assume for a second
Speaker 1: that this offense has a day. They just have a
Speaker 1: day that's which uncommon. Sure they could what abody else does,
Speaker 1: whether they say they're bad, right, what are the piece
Speaker 1: is of this offense that can really hurt the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I'll I mean, like for the however many times, and
Speaker 1: however many weeks, like the running backs scare me. Not
Speaker 1: because the Bears are great at running the ball, but
Speaker 1: this team has struggled at times with defending the run.
Speaker 1: They definitely struggled at times with tackling. You know, yards
Speaker 1: after contact are big for them. Quarterback with it and
Speaker 1: and Trubisky is an athlete, There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: So if I were them, expect, like, the weather's not
Speaker 1: gonna be terrible, but it's going to be thirty something
Speaker 1: degrees Like, well, yeah, I would love not crazy clue.
Speaker 1: I would lean into that, give me some of that
Speaker 1: run option. I mean, you know, Josh Allen, he didn't
Speaker 1: kill him the same way that Jeff Driskell did, but
Speaker 1: he scored from seventeen yards out and made it look easy.
Speaker 1: Have those wins been at home or like you guys
Speaker 1: never ceased to ask a question that I didn't think,
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, here we go. Sorry, Well, they
Speaker 1: won in Detroit last week, so not exclusively. I want
Speaker 1: to say honestly that they're not good at home. Let's look,
Speaker 1: they're probably three and three they're three and three at
Speaker 1: home and on the road. Boom oh, so they're media
Speaker 1: they're equally mediocre on the road as they are at home.
Speaker 1: I thought about that, actually, I was like, well, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys just they don't win on the road. But they're
Speaker 1: what They're three and three on the road, aren't they. Yes,
Speaker 1: they beat they lost to the Pads. They beat the Lions,
Speaker 1: they beat their Redskins, they beat the I have a question, okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: the Josh Allen fumble that he picked it up and
Speaker 1: got a yard and got a first down. That really
Speaker 1: was the play of the whole game. Yeah, you have
Speaker 1: that play? I do, right? How far it gets cut off?
Speaker 1: Because I don't know. No, I haven't said this to anyone.
Speaker 1: They lost, Okay, Cowboys lost, no excuses, They're gonna lose anyways.
Speaker 1: They weren't the better team, the worst. But the worst
Speaker 1: late hit you've ever seen happens on that play. Here
Speaker 1: you go two angles at it? Where okay, Byron Jones,
Speaker 1: Stay on, Byron Jones. How's that not a penalty? You
Speaker 1: see that? Yeah? Like, I mean guy's on the ground,
Speaker 1: he's about to get up and start. I mean it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, but I mean it seems kind of late
Speaker 1: for Byron Jones. He's here, he's down. Yeah, late, I
Speaker 1: mean that's what That's what Jerry Hughes got flagged four
Speaker 1: later in the game when Dak trucked White. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and that was not even a penalm. Dack trucked White
Speaker 1: and Hughes kind of jumped on top at the end
Speaker 1: and got flagged for. I just it just looked kind
Speaker 1: of weird to me I was watching, I know, especially
Speaker 1: the way they called that in the game that the
Speaker 1: Bills got flagged for a couple that were kind of questionable,
Speaker 1: but they didn't obviously didn't call for that one. Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'm just good. Good job for having that. That's my best.
Speaker 1: That's the closest I've looked at it in the last
Speaker 1: couple of days, Like people are killing Jalen Smith on
Speaker 1: that play for not seeing what was going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is Christian is the one you gotta look like
Speaker 1: on top of the ball. And I don't understand how
Speaker 1: that season. I mean that that is what the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: You you get a fumble that you didn't even force,
Speaker 1: but you get a fumble it's on the ground. It
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter who gets it. I mean if the
Speaker 1: Bills get it, great, doesn't matter it's fourth. But no,
Speaker 1: not only does he get it, he picks it up
Speaker 1: and gets a first down. And then then the next
Speaker 1: play is this reverse pitch pass that Dallas could never do,
Speaker 1: but the Bills do it at the guy's wide open.
Speaker 1: Could they ever get a play like this, I mean
Speaker 1: pitch oh, I mean the guy that plays receiver that
Speaker 1: used to play quarterback. I mean I would think maybe,
Speaker 1: I mean something like Dez did that once, des and
Speaker 1: Witten did that. That's I mean. The Cowboys have a
Speaker 1: lot of problems, but their inability to run a reverse
Speaker 1: wide receiver pass, I don't know. I mean it was
Speaker 1: a great play by the Bill, but they run things
Speaker 1: like that and it just gets stuffed for like four yards. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh well every time they try something fun like that,
Speaker 1: it never works. Yeah. My big thing going back to
Speaker 1: the fumble play is yeah, I mean, I'm stealing it
Speaker 1: right from you. Like, they're not clutch. They don't have
Speaker 1: a killer instinct that like the quarterback puts the ball
Speaker 1: on the ground on fourth and inches and at least one,
Speaker 1: if not two guys have a shot at it and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden Josh Allen's you know, celebrating six
Speaker 1: yards downfield. Somehow I thought that that was no doubt
Speaker 1: the play of the game, because they had Dak had
Speaker 1: thrown a pick. They stop them on defense missive field goal.
Speaker 1: Then Dak fumbles the ball they were about to stop
Speaker 1: them again. It's like, okay, we just gave you two
Speaker 1: presidents under the tree and you gave him back to us,
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, well, like we're gonna go win
Speaker 1: this game. It's still seven seven, but that fumble and
Speaker 1: then they score and then it went and it seemed
Speaker 1: like it changed the whole momentum of the game. After
Speaker 1: that is when it just seemed to go downhill. All
Speaker 1: the miss field goal before the half was it's like,
Speaker 1: oh okay, here's Ella golden. You know, like it was
Speaker 1: a really bad nime for the halftime show when everybody
Speaker 1: was like I whenever, the mood, the mood permeating that
Speaker 1: whole building was as bad as I can remember it being.
Speaker 1: The only time it's been worse was when they closed
Speaker 1: that Texas Stadium after getting routed by the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 1: in the rain and they're having a whole Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: cold and rainy, and you're having a celebration of this
Speaker 1: building that's now going to go away, and fans are
Speaker 1: just like, I'm old for it. I'm so done with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how that's the that's the mood I get, which
Speaker 1: you know, we're turning the page to Chicago, but I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of people are ready to let
Speaker 1: that mood go. But there's a reason why those two things,
Speaker 1: and they they are the same that year two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight. I mean, coming off of the two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven season, they're gonna win the Super Bowl. They
Speaker 1: started out three and oh yeah interesting, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the bottom dropped. And that's what this
Speaker 1: season has been. He started off three, oh, you have
Speaker 1: high expectations, and then these losses are just like unexplainable.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna win this next four games, all right.
Speaker 1: I mean they we're very autamant after the game. You know,
Speaker 1: the way that were unbelievable after the game was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: You know, you're right, which all was shocked. I think
Speaker 1: we all were expecting fire brimstone and it was just
Speaker 1: the opposite. We're gonna go run the table like that's
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess, I mean, we're out of time anyway.
Speaker 1: But we didn't really get into the whole, you know,
Speaker 1: basically the media trying to convince Jerry Jones that he
Speaker 1: was gonna fire Jason Garrett right there on this. He's like,
Speaker 1: we're about to go run this, you know, run the
Speaker 1: table that said we still control our own destiny. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: at any point, if you want to grab the wheel
Speaker 1: and get it out of the ditch, would be great.
Speaker 1: I don't know, We're all kind of just sitting here
Speaker 1: right now. Nobody's actually grabbing this wheel. The cars just
Speaker 1: kind of going Jesus, take the wheel. Recch, you guys
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Speaker 1: old thing Cowboys versus Bears to then for Nick Even,
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