WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Looking Ahead 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:05.960 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:16.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. Are you ready 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.560 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.880 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:30.280 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:36.599 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.680 It is Tuesday, December twenty eight, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.000 episode number eighty six. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.680 The Break, live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.440 the start, we're getting you guys ready for Cowboys versus 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.240 Cardinals that's coming up this Sunday. It has been moved 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.480 if you didn't know, to a three twenty five kick 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.600 time at AT and T Stadium. That will be a 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.080 fun game to watch. We'll get you ready for it. Nick, 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.319 let's start off first. Give me an eighty six eighty six? 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.480 Eighty six? Man? How about I mean, have you ever 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:13.440 heard of the California quake? Yeah? Butch Johnson were eighty six, 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.520 that was back in the day. Eighty six. Why do 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.039 I think he was eighty three? Nine? Eighty six is 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.360 eighty six? He used to be. He used to he's 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.479 the six shooters, you know, touchdown all that, he's about 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.199 the third. You know, well you've seen them. The catch 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.000 he didn't catch against the Broncos and Super Bowl you 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.360 know you've seen that that highlight Um oh, he's the 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.440 guy that caught that. Yeah, I don't know why that 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.120 just bothered ute. Yeah, it's like in today's world, like 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:47.040 that wouldn't even be a thing that no chance, trust me. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.400 And there's been a lot of times we do you know, 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.640 highlight videos and top ten moments and people will say, 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.840 Nick Luca this video and I'm like, nah, to take 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.920 that out. He didn't catch that, like super Bowl, like, nah, 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:02.160 give me something else, eighty six. Butch Johnson you got 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:06.760 one day, I got one. No, you know he's going, well, 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.840 I I don't, I don't. I'm right, I'm out on 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.280 this game because like when I weigh in, then I 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.840 start getting the comments people like you didn't bring this 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.680 guy up. I'm like, I don't know when Dan Campbell 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.760 Dan Campbell now head coach of the Detroit Lions, Yep, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.639 Golden Scholtz perfect, great, that's yeah. I'm just he's having 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:29.880 a great I just got off a show with him 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:31.960 eighty six. So I have to say, Isaiah, stand back, 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:33.960 here you go. That's a good one. He's actually good. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.480 More of that number. Yeah, that's actually good. Shout out Isaiah, 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:40.080 Isaiah good. All right, let's let's jump in. I do 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.080 want to talk about one player that's been injured. That 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.400 sounds like maybe there's a chance he's coming back. Tyron Smith, 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:50.760 what are we hearing? Swassunt sent it's for our French listeners. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:55.160 Yeah that mean I mean seventy seven. Oh, get your 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.440 ass back on the line up. Not at all. Yeah, 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:04.919 it sounds like he's gonna plays seventy seven. Okay, it 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.600 makes more sense. It's just the way stadium slower. We 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:13.840 were so off the rails already. Sais sand set. The 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.240 set is seventeen in French and swissant is sixty six 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.640 sixty plus seventeen. Is that how they do their numbers? Like, 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:21.959 not all of them, but that's how they do that? Okay? 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.280 Yet anything else? No? I used to be pretty good 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.160 at French, but it's been a look a lot of 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.280 years of that. In high school, I took six years 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.440 of French. Wow, it's impressed. It sounded smart, at the time. 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.080 But like I really would just wish I never could 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.640 use well, I would like speaking Spanish makes so much 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.720 more sense, Like that is such a more useful skill 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.120 if you gotta live in Texas yet in America at 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.280 this point. Yeah, and I don't know anything about it, 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:50.160 but I can count to seventy seven in French. So, okay, 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:55.200 smiths looking he's looking like he's gonna play. I'm sorry, everybody, 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.440 he's looking like he's gonna play against Arizona. That's the 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.840 early word on the street. Well have to see. But 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:02.720 are you okay with that? Because I know a couple 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.480 of weeks ago you were saying, like, man, just let him. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.480 Well that's untill now. I'm not really okay with it, 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:10.560 I guess because in my mind I'm thinking, all right, 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.240 let me look at the calendar. He plays this game, 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.480 he gets through it, but he gets a setback, and 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:21.159 then he misses the Eagles game, and then two weeks later, 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.359 so so I'm already thinking, yeah, you know, when's the 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.799 next one. I probably wouldn't play him. I probably wouldn't, 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.480 but he's good to go. He's good to go. Me, 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.200 you gotta have this game, you gotta you gotta win. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.440 That's the thing for me, and unfortunately I haven't had. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.960 I'm gonna run the rest of these numbers today because 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.440 I am curious what like all of the contenders home 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:49.200 away splits are. But like this, this is sneaky important. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.080 It's not even sneaky. Why would I say it's sneaky 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.359 Like they need these wins, they need to maximize their seating. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.640 I looked this up this morning. They are winning their 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.560 home games by an average score of thirty eight to 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:05.119 twenty two, and their road the road split is twenty 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:09.240 three to twenty. Oh you serious? So what am I 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.479 looking at here? That's like everybody's schedule the rest of 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.000 the way. Oh no, yeah, I mean I'm not worried 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:15.760 about that. I just I don't I don't know how 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:19.920 much better everybody else's home person. I'm sure everybody. Well, 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.800 I think the Cardinals that Cardinals are not. They are 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.080 great on the road right way better on their problems 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:29.440 right now. But it just what they did to Washington 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.680 only emphasizes to me how important it is that this 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.159 play team plays as many games as possible at home. 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:41.080 And yeah, what Denver's really the only game where they 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.719 haven't played pretty damn well at home. Like I know, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.960 they lost to the Raiders. They scored thirty three points 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:50.440 in that game, took it to overtime. So my point is, 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.159 if if Tyring can play, I'm trying to at least 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.440 get the number two seed. Number one seeds not really 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.839 in your control. But if you can get the two seed, 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.960 you're guaranteed to home playoff game, and that that is 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.360 all in your control. You win the final two, stay 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.760 at well, you hope that you stay at two. You 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.200 need the Rams account. It's weird with you, but it's weird. 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.520 You got. The best you can do is you gotta 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.599 keep winning, right yeah, which and then well, the Bucks 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.719 can lose. I mean it's not like they're cam. They 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.640 don't have they don't have to kind of schedule that 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.520 makes you think they're going to lose it. But they can't. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.520 Nick's gonna come at us because the Lions just beat 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.440 the Cardinals, I'm saying, I mean they can though they yeah, no, absolutely, 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.960 but the Saints can. That Saints team that we just 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.680 saw last night against Miami can shut out the Bucks 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.800 at home, then yeah they can be beat They can 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.559 who they play, I don't even I guess the Jets. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.840 They play the Jets in the Cardinals team that just 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.599 that they just beat by twenty five. Yeah, so the 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.479 Bucks don't Bucks don't get to do the whole division 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.080 stuff at the end. No, well they I mean the 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.120 last game division. They played three of their last four 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.280 against the division Panthers. I guess, I guess you can't 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.240 do everybody that way. Yeah. I think this is a 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.159 team that I look at Tampa and I'm like, they're 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.599 probably gonna keep winning. So your best shot is you 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.920 gotta keep winning, and you gotta pray the Rams keep 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.480 winning because without the Rams there, then you drop back 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.360 to three instead of two, and that means you get 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.080 a home game that first round, but that next round 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.280 you are on the road. Ask you this, though, you do, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.200 who's gonna be the seventh scene? Okay? Right now, let 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:23.560 me tell you where they are right now. So you 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.120 got the top four, you got Green Bay, Dallas, Rams, 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.000 Tampa Bay. Then you got Arizona at five, then you 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.760 got San Francisco at six, and you got Philadelphia at seven. Okay, 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.320 and I ask again, do you want to be the two? Yeah? Yeah, 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.200 and take on the Eagles back to back like they 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.720 I mean, you play them, bring it on. I don't 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.640 care about. Well, here's the other thing. You beat the 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.840 Philadelphia Eagles in Week seventeen, there is a chance that 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:47.680 you knocked them out of the playoffs. I think they 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.240 have to win out to make it. Yeah, believe because 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.360 they right behind them, right right now behind them. I 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:56.400 think they've got New Orleans in Minnesota. I want to say, 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.720 they're both seven and eight, one game behind them, and 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:01.880 I think if they I think the Saints. I think 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.960 the Saints would have the tiebreak over them. But um, 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.360 I'd rather play the Eagles than the Vikings. I think 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.360 I agree with that. Yeah, No, I definitely agree with that. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:13.880 I don't know if I agree with that. I just 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.120 think division games are tricky, you know how it is 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.600 when you're playing division teams, it's just tricky. And I 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.520 recognize that iron you're saying that coming off a fifty 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.120 six to fourt team where but but it is it's 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.480 trickier when you're playing division games, just because I mean, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.720 I think that's the Saints in the Bucks. Like division games, 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.960 division teams know you better and it's just a little 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.320 different than playing an uncommon opponent. You're right, but the 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.760 Eagles just I don't know. I don't They're not afraid 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.160 of them. I'm afraid of the team with the better quarterback. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.559 And I don't think Jalen Hurts is that guy at 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.800 this point is better than he is. He is a 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:49.840 better passer, I don't know the he's a better quarterback 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.640 because what they're doing, what Philly is doing right now 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.280 running the ball, this quarterback works for that, and he 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.520 works very well for that kind of style of playing football. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.920 I don't think it'll matter though, because I just I mean, 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.640 if the Cowboys win the game, then I Philly's probably out. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.080 The Cowboys lose the game, then they're probably out. They're 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.440 probably not. Yeah, yeah, I don't think that's super yes, 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.680 So either way, it's not likely that now. I don't 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.600 know what's gonna happen with San Francisco in Philly because 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:21.480 they're both eight and seven. So Phil hurt too, right, yeah, yeah, 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.120 he has a well that might be good for him, 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.720 but they may actually Philly may actually jump up to 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.600 the six, which if they beat Dallas and Dallas may 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.240 drop to the three, so they still may get them. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.400 So there's still a lot to be figured out. The 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.200 point I think that all of us are trying to 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.480 make is Dallas to secure the best seat possible needs 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.160 to win out. They need those final two games, and 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.440 then they need a little help along the way with them. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.640 And it's it's annoying because typically at this time of year, 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.120 the results of this week can kind of set it 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.000 in stone a week ahead of time. But that doesn't 0:09:54.040 --> 0:10:00.480 seem likely because unless and less like the Rams lose 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:04.320 and the Cowboys win and the Buccaneers win and the 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.400 Packers win, than maybe that would say. But I guess 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.000 the point I'm trying to make is that both of 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.160 these games, there's still gonna be something to play for 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:15.120 it no matter what happens. So that's it's kind of 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:16.800 a bummer in the sense of, like, yeah, I'd love 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.760 to rest Zeke and Tyron and Tony and all these guys, 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.800 but is it worth not having the two seed? And 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.560 I don't think it is. And going back to what 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.680 originally prompted this, Stealen and Seki have played well enough 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:34.800 that I'm I'm okay risking the chance that he aggravates 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.480 his injury, and I don't want that to happen, but 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.760 I'd rather have Tyron out there for games that can 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.880 get me a better playoffs. Okay, you make that argument 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.640 the other way. Can't you also say, well, they've played 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:49.120 well enough that I'd rather keep resting Tyring. Hope. I'm 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.280 still trying to win this game, still trying to win 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.439 in hoping that you know that they play well. But I'm, 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.440 you know, gonna just save Tyron for the playoffs or Yeah, 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.160 I think he's a good enough player that he can 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.920 do that, Like he can just go right into your 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.720 playoff game. Absolutely, we've seen him do it. Like he's 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.360 not one of those guys that comes back from injury 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.439 and he has needs a game or two to to 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.679 kind of knock the rust off. He tends to be 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.920 tiring because it's not just his ankle, it's just the 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:18.800 neck in the back of the ankle, I mean, the 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.920 elbow and all that stuff. So you're resting at all 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.720 when you rest him. So no that I don't I 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.600 don't disagree with you, Dave. You actually brought up an 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.880 interesting question I have for you guys. And this is hypothetical, 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.800 but let's assume Dallas didn't have anything to play for 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.319 in week eighteen, um, but Philly is playing to get 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.000 into the playoffs. Would you play your players just to 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:39.600 knock them out now, or would you rest your guys? 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.800 I would rest my guys if I had if there 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.560 was nothing at all to be gained from that game. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.200 Other you're cemented at three, which is probably what would 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.520 be the scenario three or four. You're cemented there, if 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.960 you're there, or you're just you're sitting your guys. I 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.640 don't have to care what Philly does. I mean, it doesn't, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.040 but if but it could be that that's your chance 0:11:58.080 --> 0:11:59.720 to get them out and you don't have to face 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.839 him in the first round. I don't. You don't care 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.679 about how afraid of Philadelphia. They're not good. They's like no, 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.240 and I know, like famous last words. I get it. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:13.000 I'm not oh my god, we gotta play because Philly 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.560 might get into the playoffs. No, they're not good. They're 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.840 not good. It's like we knocked you out of the playoffs. Cool, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:22.760 I knocked back out. I mean that's serious, man, that 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.960 doesn't happen, right, I'm just saying that, no idea, no things. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:27.400 All right, we're gonna take our first break when we 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.480 come back. 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I think so because Calabury 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.440 doesn't look to run all the time, like he's been 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.880 a little more hesitant and selected when it comes to running. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.880 But I think now with this team in the middle 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.160 of a slide, I think all things are off. I 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.200 think he'll do anything. But yeah, Mica is certainly athletic. 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.080 Enough to make it uncomfortable for Cala Murray in and 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:47.160 around the vocket. How did the Lions beat them? Beat 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.120 them up, physically, beat them up. We can say a 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.800 lot of the Capital Lions in their record, but they 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.880 play hard. No, they play hard, their physical football team. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.680 And what they did is they took the fight to 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.000 the Cardinals. They also caught the Cardinals at the right time. 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.320 Cardinals were kind of sleepwalking after getting beat by the Rams, 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.520 walked into the air, weren't ready to play, and they 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.760 get hit in the face. And I think what people 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.480 have seen like they are a team that typically dictated 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.360 the terms earlier in the year with their aggressiveness and physicality. Well, 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.640 the tables have turned and people are kind of utilizing 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.520 that formula against them, and they haven't responded well. And 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.240 so I think the recipe for dealing with the Cardinals 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.640 in general is you want to make it a fistfight. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.040 You want to make it one of those physical games 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.440 and see if they have the ability to withstand it. Buck. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.920 I'm glad you mentioned Kyler being a little more hesitant 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:40.160 to run because I mean, yeah, since his injury, that 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.520 hasn't been a big thing. I think he and yeah, 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.920 he only ran for three yards in that loss to Detroit, 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.080 but the last two weeks, I mean, he had seventy 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.480 four yards on Saturday against Indianapolis. So like, and you 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.520 kind of alluded to this, do you expect them to 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.480 make more use of that because it makes them so 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.800 much more dangerous or is it not worth the risk 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:05.480 of him aggravating that injury. I think he did it 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:10.880 and he kind of popped to play lose our guy, 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:18.639 We lose him here you go? Yeah, sorry, you back now? Yeah, 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.560 okay nah. So like, look, he had a big run. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.600 He had a fifty two yard run in that game, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.879 and then he selected, but they're not using them the 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:27.760 same way then I really run in zone read and 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.399 some of that other stuff that they were running early 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.680 in his career. But I think, now, man, when you 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.640 lost the way that they've lost and you in jeopardy 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.919 of kind of falling down the seedings, I think you 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.639 have to unleashed Kyler and let him do whatever you 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.400 can to keep this offense going. So they are now 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.800 without DeAndre Hopkins, and I know they played some games 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.000 earlier this season without him as well. How much does 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.960 this offense change and in what ways does it change. 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:55.840 Without Hopkins, didn't have anybody on the perimeter that scares 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.160 you outside of zach Ertz, And zach Ertz only troubled 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:00.880 you a little bit because he can control the middle 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.040 of the field. But there's not a receiver out there 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.880 that you're worried about, no one that demands a double team, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.919 no one that demands special attention like Trayvon Diggs traveling 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.760 in those things. The loss of DeAndre Hopkins really hurst. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:14.680 I mean, he's a different type player because he's not 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.960 a speaster, but he wins fifty fifty balls. Without that 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.560 element on the becomes very pedestrian. That's why we're seeing 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.399 them engaging these tough battles where they're not scoring the 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.480 amount of points that they were scoring early in the year, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.840 and the running game has not been as effective and 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.040 as prevalent in their game plan as it had been 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.160 early in the year. How much does that affect their 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:37.639 red zone because I know in the red zone he's 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.400 another guy that can, like you said, he can catch 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.080 the fifty fifty ball. They throw it up to him 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:42.960 a lot. How much is that affecting their ability to 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.600 be effective in the red zone? Well, I mean he's 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.720 a huge loss because he is an outstanding red zone weapon, 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.639 does a great job catching the ball when it's contested. 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.080 Without him, now they're kind of leaning on other guys 0:18:56.280 --> 0:19:00.800 unknown and those guys, but they don't have a dominant play. Addition, 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.800 Countle and AJ Green is not the Aj Green that 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:09.080 the name used to represent, like he's a solid player. 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:14.280 If without those weapons, you're seeing that they're having a 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.800 tough time consistently moving the ball, consistently putting the ball 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:19.719 in the end zone has been one of the reasons 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.680 why they struggled. This is that time of year where 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.240 we ask you about the Cowboys fourth cornerback. But I 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.240 wanted to get your thoughts on how you thought Kelvin 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.359 Joseph played in his first start and he got a 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:36.880 lot of snaps the other night. Yeah, he probably got 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:38.840 a chance to play, and I think it's a good 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.680 thing for him to get in the field. Look, man, 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:47.480 the Cowboys have been playing so well, whom I think 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:51.200 you can say good things about Kelvin Joseph. Sound like 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.280 we started that way. How boys are playing so well 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.959 that you put anybody at cornerback. You put Dave at 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.280 cornerback and he played well, I don't know about that, man, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.960 I don't want to see that. No against two. You 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:05.639 don't Christian Kirk, Christian Kirk, Christin Kirk bad idea. That's 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.480 what my question was gonna be about Christin Kirk. Well, 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:13.800 between Kirk and um More, Rondell More both. But it's 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:16.960 interesting from what I understand. I mean, and this makes sense, 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:19.800 but them not having Hopkins is forcing them to play 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.280 those guys out of position, like Kirk has been a 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.280 great slot receiver for most of the season. Rondel Moore 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:28.960 is I mean, he's just get him the ball however 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.080 you can. But those I'm not gonna say that about 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.399 Christian Kirk doesn't scare anybody because I mean, if you 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.280 if you're an Arkansas fan and you've watched him and him, 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.920 um my god, he's he's scored about and by the way, 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:43.280 and last year, he's doing it this year too, Like 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.600 he's playing pretty well this year eighty on the Cowboys, 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:48.720 Like yeah, yeah, he's just not Hopkins, but he's a 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.359 he's a very formidable opponent. Not to take credit away 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:54.119 from Christian Kirk, but the Cowboys just decided not to 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:56.840