WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: The Need For OBJ? 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.480 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:17.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. Are you ready 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:21.040 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.400 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:30.760 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:35.879 with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and bar Garcia and 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:41.920 Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, December fifth, twenty twenty two, 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.960 Season eighteen, episode number eighty three. Welcome to the latest 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.760 edition of The Break. We were laughing that SWBC Mortgage 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:49.559 Studios at the Star presenter by mill of like the 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.680 only beer of the Dallas Cowboys, and we're talking about 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.600 a crazy, crazy win by the Cowboys, fifty four to 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:59.000 nineteen beat down of the Indianapolis Colts. That the score, 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.960 I don't know if it necessarily reflects what the game 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.039 was throughout, but say it as you as you want to. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:06.840 At the end of the day, Cowboys score a ton 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.720 of points, have a crazy fourth quarter and end up 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.119 with the win fifty four nineteen. At home, let's talk 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:13.880 about the story of the game. What is the story 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.320 who of the game? For you guys? With so much 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.680 that happened there throughout that game. Nick will start with you. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:23.160 I thought they had an OBJ like performance. They were dynamic, 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.560 they were electric, they were exciting, they were talented. They 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.240 did the things that you're looking for when you try 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.000 to describe a player that you may want to add 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.959 to your team. They showed that, especially on defense. You're 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.160 not supposed to have an explosive defense like that, and 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.440 they did. I mean I kind of disagree a little bit. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.080 I think the score was exactly the way the game was. 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.559 And I always go back to one game two thousand 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.880 and seven Patriots Cowboys. They were two undefeated teams. The 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.320 Patriots went undefeated. The whole year Cowboys were undefeated. Was 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.040 a clash. They were within it for a while, but 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.279 as you just continue to play, as the game sixty 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.400 minutes goes out, you realize, yeah, they're a lot better 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.320 than you and all that. And I think that Cowboys 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:08.160 did that. Yeah. I think, um, they were able to 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.800 recover from how the game started. I mean, they started 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.000 pretty inconsistently, not fast. They got better as it when 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.799 they were making certain mistakes, even when Dak threw the 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.440 interception and you're like, oh, here we go again. But 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.919 they were able to pick it up, skeety lamb. He like, wow, 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.600 he had one of his best games yesterday. He was 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.160 playing and I know people and Brian, you saw a 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.360 tweet that I thought was pretty funny. It's just like, um, 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.680 I forgot what it says, specifically, like he doesn't want 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.640 Odella here right, playing like he doesn't want here, which 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.040 was pretty funny because just the way that he was 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.200 playing in something. It was just another level, another energy 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.639 that he had yesterday. It was like with some grunt 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.160 in him, like like he had some power to him. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:59.480 So that was really really exciting to see an offense 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.040 and seeing him play that way as well as the 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.079 you know, the running game was working too. So it's 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.320 just when you start seeing every single piece working out, 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.720 it just gets you really really excited to what this 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.920 team has ahead and what they can be when they 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.120 get to the playoffs. Yeah, dan Quinn figured out yesterday 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.240 that his four man rush wasn't getting home, so all 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.360 of a sudden, the adjustment that he makes is now 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:28.000 you're gonna bring linebacker pressure. You're gonna bring you're gonna 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.600 bring safety pressure, and then that's how you're gonna get 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.960 the sacks. And that's how you're gonna get. I think 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:38.960 that they're I think the Cowboys defensive reputation was preceding 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.080 them in this football game because I look at the 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.960 way that that Matt Ryan. I mean, it was like 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:47.200 he was not really interested in sitting in there and 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.320 delivering a football. Several wide throws, several throws that were, 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.280 you know, really not on target for him, and you know, 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.680 it just became a real struggle for them to have 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.040 to pick up the front, the blitz and things like that. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.520 So you know, when you watch enough tape of the 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.280 Cowboys defense, you see how they attack you and the 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.560 last thing you want to be doing is holding the football. 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.600 I think it was another really good game of playing 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.040 run defense. I felt like that Hankins has been worth 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.880 his weight in gold. And that's a lot of weight 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.560 and a lot of gold right there, because this guy 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.200 doesn't get moved off the spot. You've got guys that 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.839 are you know, You've got guys like Wilson and vander 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.080 esh and these guys they tackled, they had bar back. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.039 I think he played pretty well for you. So yeah, 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.240 your defense just kind of you know, the offenses. Ambar 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.320 was saying, you know, she always asks this. Get off 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:36.960 to a good start, Get off a good start. I mean, 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.719 you couldn't have got off to a worst start to 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.000 start the second half. Then they get the ball at 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.120 the fifty yard line and go nowhere, you know, and 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.360 you're like, damn it, what's going on here? You know, 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.360 find a way to kind of get the rhythm going. 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:49.400 But you know, you were able to kind of, you know, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.880 the defense kind of kept you in this game. And 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.640 the more that and we've talked about this, the more 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.200 you score, the harder it was going to be for 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.880 the Colts. And then once you've got that rhythm, like 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.720 and Bar was talking about with your receivers, the running game, 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.520 the quarterback, the offensive wine, that's when the avalanche came. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.760 And you know, we were expecting that that the Colts 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.159 couldn't score, and you know, I mean I think it 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.800 was the like the third or fourth highest toll they've 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.360 had for the for the season, and that was only 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.600 nineteen points. So that kind of shows you where you're 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.440 at going into that one and how you were able 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.400 to finish it off. Yeah. The interesting thing is I 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.480 think what's getting lost in this for some fans. First 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.080 of all, if you can't find Joy in a fifty 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.160 four to nineteen drubbing of the opponent. Then what are 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:35.800 you doing as a fan, Like maybe you need to 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:37.960 just reevaluate whether you really want to be a fan 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.440 of the sport or not. But one thing I think 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.040 that's getting lost in that conversation is this is a 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.000 team that's scrappy, and they have been scrappy in some games. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.640 They took Philadelphia to the wire, Philadelphia ends up winning 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.919 with a touchdown they're late in order to take a 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.279 one point lead and to win that game. This is 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.280 not a team that and we talked about it last week, 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.000 and I told people last week that I talked to 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.600 it's like, this is not the kind a team where 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.680 you usually when you look at him and you're like, oh, 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.320 this is a foregone conclusion. The Cowboys are going to 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.280 just destroy them. You just don't know. And they've been 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.800 playing better football since their head coach was fired, ironically, 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.120 and that's what you saw there in the first half. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:15.760 I think in the second half, which you saw is 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.560 what good teams do. Nick, you hit the nail on 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.359 the head. Good teams they figure it out at some 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.919 point and then they just start kind of it starts 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.440 piling on because they're just better. They're just better. Yeah, 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.440 they were. They did a really I just felt like 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.120 when you look it over, I thought it was a 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.120 really nice game plan too. I know there was some 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.520 stumbling a little bit with the offense, but the fact 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.360 that I'm encouraged by what I'm seeing with them moving 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.880 Seedee Lamb around and getting him in motion and getting 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.840 him opportunity to separate and things like that. And I 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.400 you know, you're going to give Michael Gallop some credit 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.040 on the first touchdown that he had his ability, he 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:51.960 was you know, he was going to be The play 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.360 was designed a bunch formation, and all of a sudden 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.320 that it wasn't open what he'd do, he stopped and 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.560 then he saw Dak break and he took off running, 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:00.680 you know, and it's like, listen, I had just stand here. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.599 I gotta keep going, and he did and he got 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.599 the ball and then he got in, you know. And 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.960 that's what this team is doing. It's finding ways to 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.320 manufacture stops, it's finding ways to score touchdowns when they 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.480 get opportunities, and I think that's the right thing. I 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.360 think what you're also seeing is this is a pretty 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.640 deep team. This is a really deep team, and you 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.400 know they're battle tested in a lot of ways just 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.040 because of some of the adversity that they've had to 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.880 deal with. So you do see some young guys stepping 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.560 up and making plays. You talk about the rookie class 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.960 and things like that. You know, they've done a really, 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:37.200 really nice job of having to incorporate a lot of 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.280 kids and they're making plays. Look at Dak Prescott's a 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.440 day he had as he was twenty of thirty, sixty 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.040 seven percent completion rate, one hundred and seventy yards, three touchdowns, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.960 one I and T one hundred point seven quarterback rating. Nick, 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.040 what do you think of his play particularly? And I 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:53.640 want to focus in on all these three first three 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.080 quarters because it was kind of some up and down 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.840 moments where the offense was good and the offense was 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.200 not so good. What were your thoughts on play? I thought, 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.400 I thought he played pretty well. I mean, I'm trying 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.240 to go back. I mean, it's funny because the fourth 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.280 quarter just kind of clouds everything. As far as you know, 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.160 it's hard to go back and remember some of the game, 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.880 some of the first couple of drives of the game. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.680 But but I you know, I thought it was. It 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.800 was pretty good. They they they stumbled, uh somewhat. Um, 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.080 but you know, he he was, he was solid. I 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:26.920 think at the end of the night, his his you know, 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.360 his ratings, one hundred and three touchdowns. Um. I'm trying 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.600 to go back and even remember the interception. I don't 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.640 even remember. I know, I know he threw one, but 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.040 I thought it I thought they bumped the receiver a bit, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:38.559 but I mean it was it would have been it 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.599 would have been a They probably would have thought it 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.040 was a Tiki tech face masks, a face mask off 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:44.920 the line that that's what they missed. They missed the 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.480 face mask there. But I don't think the bump was 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.079 was a penalty so much. Um. But you know, I 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:52.720 gotta give the Cowboys credit. I know that's not what 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.000 you're asking, but you got to give him credit for 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.160 the three penalties. I mean three penalties, especially when one 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.400 of them right off the bat with Joseph and then 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.120 right off the bat and the second quarter, I mean 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.760 the second in the second half with Ferguson, and that 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.520 was the only two other than a PI from Bland. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.120 I mean, I thought, for the most part, you know, 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.400 we knew this was going to be a crew that 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.040 throws a lot of flags. But I thought the Cowboys 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.440 stayed pretty disciplined. Best for Dak, I thought I thought 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.160 he was solid. He did what he needed to do, 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.679 didn't throw an interception up for the half that was 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:24.040 big over them, even threw to the middle. I tried 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.839 look at hold those shoults. But now I thought he 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.839 I thought he played pretty well. He didn't run at all. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.880 It didn't feel like he needed to. Really. Yeah, the 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.120 running back feed and Speed did a great job for 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.360 you with her twenty nine carries and there one hundred 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.800 and sixty eight yards and three touchdowns. You know, I 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.280 just keeps a good back. Yeah, that's feed and Speed 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.319 is a really bad it's a really good back. And 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.959 that's what I really That's that's what this team is 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.000 going to be all about and went forward. It's going 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.240 to be can those two guys find ways to combine 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.640 and have you know, whether who gets how many carries, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.160 it doesn't matter if they were close. One gets seventeen, 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.040 one gets fifteen, you get one hundred and sixty eight yards. 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.160 You answer with the three touchdowns right there, You're going 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:05.160 to make your quarterbacks life really, really easy. Playing these games. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.960 You know something that I don't think we've talked about 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.440 a whole lot, And going back to the topic of 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.040 when we were talking about Mike McCarthy and what he's 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.080 done with this team and even Kellen Moore what he's 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:22.200 done with the offense, is their ability to adjust in 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.319 the middle of the game. They're like, for the longest time, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.920 for a couple of years, they were incapable on Cape. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.319 I don't even know what's the right word, but they were. 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.560 They could not damn bad at it, exactly damn bad 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.560 at it. They could not adjust to save their lives. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.520 Like it was terrible and the other team would end 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.280 up coming back and kicking them. But now we see 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:48.880 a team, whether they end up with a win or loss, regardless, 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.520 they have a very good ability to adjust and going 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.520 back and I know we're talking about that, but real quick, 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.679 going back to even the defense and what you were 0:10:56.679 --> 0:11:00.079 talking about, Brian, the defense struggled at the beginning. The 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.800 den Quinn figure out a way to kind of adjust 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.120 and just make it work and make and stop the 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:11.080 opposing team and just completely dominate them. So doesn't aspect 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.559 an aspect that I don't think we've kind of pointed 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.080 out and talked about a whole lot and going back 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:21.320 to Dyke, he that applies with him as well, his 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.840 ability to kind of, I guess, recover from his mistakes 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.400 and just kind of adjust throughout the game and try 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.400 to play a more clean game with the offense. I 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:36.520 think it's very notable, and honestly, I know that there's 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.080 a lot of d criticism out there, but it does 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.959 deserve a lot of praise in that aspect. Let's talk 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.520 about the running game. Running game obviously was really really 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.199 good yesterday. Had thirty four rushes for two hundred and 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:53.040 twenty yards a six point five average, four touchdowns. Pollard 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.240 had twelve carriage for ninety one yard, Zeke Head seventeen 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:00.560 carries for seventy seven yards for twenty nine Millie David. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.360 But but yeah, just all the way around, the running 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.440 game was really really impressive yesterday. Uh then after the 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.239 game there was a little question as to why exactly 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.520 Pollard got the start. I'll start the question really with 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.920 doesn't even matter now, it does, does not matter what 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.160 the deal is. It just that's it's just an annoying, 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.440 you know a little bit when you get you get 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:29.199 four different answers um and the owner said. The owner 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.880 says that there's there's something wrong, you know with I 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.959 mean with Zeke, and a disciplinary issue with his cell 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.280 phone wasn't major. He wasn't sent home from the bowl game. 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.600 I mean, like he he gets to play, so gets 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.640 the slag. It's still a credit card there, get the 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.200 Belt Bowl. Come on now. I don't know why you 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.400 gotta sprinkle that news out there, but like that, but 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:55.520 um no, I think I think he played in seventeen carries. 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.959 I mean he played whatever. It was like, oh sorry, 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.320 sit down for a second, and now you come in 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.559 and he ran and pissed off and I thought he 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.880 ran really well. Zeke did. Um whatever it is, you know, 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.599 but it's just weird of like, you know, Zeke's like, 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.760 it's not a big deal. You know, this is what 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.680 I wanted to do. And Dak was like, yeah, we 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.199 want to mix it up a little bit and was 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.240 like whatever it is, just just just give him the ball. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.240 Who cares? At this point, it doesn't matter, Brian said 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:24.200 it best. It doesn't matter. These guys are are interchangeable. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.120 Zeke is scoring. I mean these poler's scoring up the 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.240 middle and the three yard run. He's showing he can 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.960 be a short yardage guy at times. Not all the time, 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.160 but at times. And then, you know, I think Zeke's 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.320 doing a nice time. Zeke hasn't really been kind of 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.320 at your outside guy, but he did bust one there. 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.480 You know, I don't remember when it was in the game, 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.000 but I thought he had a nice little run to 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.560 the outside. He can start a little high step. It 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.280 was down there by the goal line. You know, you 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.319 kind of looked like old Zeke for a little bit. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.400 So whatever it is, it's working, you know, if a 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.600 cell phone's going off into meetings, whatever it is. I 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.640 don't think it's flashbacks of that run you were talking 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.880 about down the sidelines. Because somebody sitting next to me 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.360 the press box was like, it's fantasy football. And the 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.120 first thing I thought of was Derek with his fantasy 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.200 football team and stuff like that. In this he was watching. 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.200 He was like, ze go, go go, and I'm like, bro, 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.480 really he goes? He was like, he goes fantasy football. 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:16.199 He's got a score right there. You remind me a 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.680 guy's door. It was a glorious fantasy for me last night. Defense. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.680 But you know, Nick, you're not talking about it during 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.680 the game as you were watching Zeke, and really it's 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.600 been over the last couple of weeks. He has a 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.840 little bit of burst that I haven't seen from him 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.120 in a while. There was one run last night where 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:35.560 you could clearly see the whole open. He's exploded through it. 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:36.960 And that was one of the things that we hadn't 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.080 been seeing from Zeke in a while that you could 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.680 see the difference from Paula was in there because he 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.240 does he has that explosiveness and you hadn't really seen 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.040 that from Zeke consistently. But I think he's starting to 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:49.720 get a little bit more of that. He feels he 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.880 seems a little bit shiftier, He seems like he has 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.000 a little bit more healthy. First, maybe the health is 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:56.680 the big issue there, right, And Nick, I think you 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.200 mentioned that last night. When has he been healthy like this? 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.600 It's all around. I do think that. And it doesn't 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.440 matter which one is in there. They were using them 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.440 both and using them both well. And pride has got 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.560 a factor into it as well. I mean, Zeke has 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.920 been the man and now all of a sudden, Tony 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:12.880 Pollard is coming in there, and and whether or not, 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.520 I mean they are. I think they're they have a 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.240 great relationship. I don't think it's a problem. But like 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.160 if any alpha male in the world sees, you know, 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.240 another guy coming in and making in some plays and 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.280 doing that, it's gonna he's if he's got anything to him, 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.600 and we know Zeke does you know, it's kind of 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.240 I think they they've carried each other in a healthy way. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.280 Tip of the cap two to some couple of positions. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.160 Tyler Biadas played his best game at center, and then 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.640 also the wide receivers. All the crack toss stuff that 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.520 they ran. You got helmet stickers for Gallup for Lamb, 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.720 for Brown, all those guys every time yeah, blocking every 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.640 time the ball got to the edge, it was it 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.240 was a crack a seal by the receivers. Great job 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.680 by them. And now you're getting big bodies in space 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.800 and stuff like that. So they did some that with 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.200 the toss sweep stuff was really effective. But I felt 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.760 like that watching the All twenty two that Tyler Bodish 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.480 by far had one of his best games and you 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.200 start talking about some of the pickups inside the pass 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.080 protection and then what he was able to do in 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.240 the running game one on one with Buckner several times 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.160 in that in that game, you know that they were 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.760 able to have some positive yards. Yeah, you could tell 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.120 that they're they're doing some things with that offensive line, 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.640 shuffling and around little bits. The end about when Tyring 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.200 comes back, you know that they're getting Tyler Smith's some 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.640 work at left guard. But man, that touchdown run by 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:32.480 Pollard down the left sideline where Tyler Smith, Yeah, I 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.840 mean he looked like Sunshine from remember the Titans. He 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.280 was just running and blocking and running and blocking, and 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.120 he was down there with him at the same time. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.280 I mean, I thought that was I mean, that was impressive. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.360 I mean, they have a good problem to have here 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.400 with all with with their offensive line and Tyring coming 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.520 back and what they're gonna do with McGovern and Tyler 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.240 Smith and Peters is getting some work. 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