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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and bar Garcia and
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, December fifth, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: Season eighteen, episode number eighty three. Welcome to the latest
Speaker 1: edition of The Break. We were laughing that SWBC Mortgage
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Speaker 1: only beer of the Dallas Cowboys, and we're talking about
Speaker 1: a crazy, crazy win by the Cowboys, fifty four to
Speaker 1: nineteen beat down of the Indianapolis Colts. That the score,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it necessarily reflects what the game
Speaker 1: was throughout, but say it as you as you want to.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, Cowboys score a ton
Speaker 1: of points, have a crazy fourth quarter and end up
Speaker 1: with the win fifty four nineteen. At home, let's talk
Speaker 1: about the story of the game. What is the story
Speaker 1: who of the game? For you guys? With so much
Speaker 1: that happened there throughout that game. Nick will start with you.
Speaker 1: I thought they had an OBJ like performance. They were dynamic,
Speaker 1: they were electric, they were exciting, they were talented. They
Speaker 1: did the things that you're looking for when you try
Speaker 1: to describe a player that you may want to add
Speaker 1: to your team. They showed that, especially on defense. You're
Speaker 1: not supposed to have an explosive defense like that, and
Speaker 1: they did. I mean I kind of disagree a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think the score was exactly the way the game was.
Speaker 1: And I always go back to one game two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven Patriots Cowboys. They were two undefeated teams. The
Speaker 1: Patriots went undefeated. The whole year Cowboys were undefeated. Was
Speaker 1: a clash. They were within it for a while, but
Speaker 1: as you just continue to play, as the game sixty
Speaker 1: minutes goes out, you realize, yeah, they're a lot better
Speaker 1: than you and all that. And I think that Cowboys
Speaker 1: did that. Yeah. I think, um, they were able to
Speaker 1: recover from how the game started. I mean, they started
Speaker 1: pretty inconsistently, not fast. They got better as it when
Speaker 1: they were making certain mistakes, even when Dak threw the
Speaker 1: interception and you're like, oh, here we go again. But
Speaker 1: they were able to pick it up, skeety lamb. He like, wow,
Speaker 1: he had one of his best games yesterday. He was
Speaker 1: playing and I know people and Brian, you saw a
Speaker 1: tweet that I thought was pretty funny. It's just like, um,
Speaker 1: I forgot what it says, specifically, like he doesn't want
Speaker 1: Odella here right, playing like he doesn't want here, which
Speaker 1: was pretty funny because just the way that he was
Speaker 1: playing in something. It was just another level, another energy
Speaker 1: that he had yesterday. It was like with some grunt
Speaker 1: in him, like like he had some power to him.
Speaker 1: So that was really really exciting to see an offense
Speaker 1: and seeing him play that way as well as the
Speaker 1: you know, the running game was working too. So it's
Speaker 1: just when you start seeing every single piece working out,
Speaker 1: it just gets you really really excited to what this
Speaker 1: team has ahead and what they can be when they
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs. Yeah, dan Quinn figured out yesterday
Speaker 1: that his four man rush wasn't getting home, so all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the adjustment that he makes is now
Speaker 1: you're gonna bring linebacker pressure. You're gonna bring you're gonna
Speaker 1: bring safety pressure, and then that's how you're gonna get
Speaker 1: the sacks. And that's how you're gonna get. I think
Speaker 1: that they're I think the Cowboys defensive reputation was preceding
Speaker 1: them in this football game because I look at the
Speaker 1: way that that Matt Ryan. I mean, it was like
Speaker 1: he was not really interested in sitting in there and
Speaker 1: delivering a football. Several wide throws, several throws that were,
Speaker 1: you know, really not on target for him, and you know,
Speaker 1: it just became a real struggle for them to have
Speaker 1: to pick up the front, the blitz and things like that.
Speaker 1: So you know, when you watch enough tape of the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense, you see how they attack you and the
Speaker 1: last thing you want to be doing is holding the football.
Speaker 1: I think it was another really good game of playing
Speaker 1: run defense. I felt like that Hankins has been worth
Speaker 1: his weight in gold. And that's a lot of weight
Speaker 1: and a lot of gold right there, because this guy
Speaker 1: doesn't get moved off the spot. You've got guys that
Speaker 1: are you know, You've got guys like Wilson and vander
Speaker 1: esh and these guys they tackled, they had bar back.
Speaker 1: I think he played pretty well for you. So yeah,
Speaker 1: your defense just kind of you know, the offenses. Ambar
Speaker 1: was saying, you know, she always asks this. Get off
Speaker 1: to a good start, Get off a good start. I mean,
Speaker 1: you couldn't have got off to a worst start to
Speaker 1: start the second half. Then they get the ball at
Speaker 1: the fifty yard line and go nowhere, you know, and
Speaker 1: you're like, damn it, what's going on here? You know,
Speaker 1: find a way to kind of get the rhythm going.
Speaker 1: But you know, you were able to kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: the defense kind of kept you in this game. And
Speaker 1: the more that and we've talked about this, the more
Speaker 1: you score, the harder it was going to be for
Speaker 1: the Colts. And then once you've got that rhythm, like
Speaker 1: and Bar was talking about with your receivers, the running game,
Speaker 1: the quarterback, the offensive wine, that's when the avalanche came.
Speaker 1: And you know, we were expecting that that the Colts
Speaker 1: couldn't score, and you know, I mean I think it
Speaker 1: was the like the third or fourth highest toll they've
Speaker 1: had for the for the season, and that was only
Speaker 1: nineteen points. So that kind of shows you where you're
Speaker 1: at going into that one and how you were able
Speaker 1: to finish it off. Yeah. The interesting thing is I
Speaker 1: think what's getting lost in this for some fans. First
Speaker 1: of all, if you can't find Joy in a fifty
Speaker 1: four to nineteen drubbing of the opponent. Then what are
Speaker 1: you doing as a fan, Like maybe you need to
Speaker 1: just reevaluate whether you really want to be a fan
Speaker 1: of the sport or not. But one thing I think
Speaker 1: that's getting lost in that conversation is this is a
Speaker 1: team that's scrappy, and they have been scrappy in some games.
Speaker 1: They took Philadelphia to the wire, Philadelphia ends up winning
Speaker 1: with a touchdown they're late in order to take a
Speaker 1: one point lead and to win that game. This is
Speaker 1: not a team that and we talked about it last week,
Speaker 1: and I told people last week that I talked to
Speaker 1: it's like, this is not the kind a team where
Speaker 1: you usually when you look at him and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a foregone conclusion. The Cowboys are going to
Speaker 1: just destroy them. You just don't know. And they've been
Speaker 1: playing better football since their head coach was fired, ironically,
Speaker 1: and that's what you saw there in the first half.
Speaker 1: I think in the second half, which you saw is
Speaker 1: what good teams do. Nick, you hit the nail on
Speaker 1: the head. Good teams they figure it out at some
Speaker 1: point and then they just start kind of it starts
Speaker 1: piling on because they're just better. They're just better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were. They did a really I just felt like
Speaker 1: when you look it over, I thought it was a
Speaker 1: really nice game plan too. I know there was some
Speaker 1: stumbling a little bit with the offense, but the fact
Speaker 1: that I'm encouraged by what I'm seeing with them moving
Speaker 1: Seedee Lamb around and getting him in motion and getting
Speaker 1: him opportunity to separate and things like that. And I
Speaker 1: you know, you're going to give Michael Gallop some credit
Speaker 1: on the first touchdown that he had his ability, he
Speaker 1: was you know, he was going to be The play
Speaker 1: was designed a bunch formation, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: that it wasn't open what he'd do, he stopped and
Speaker 1: then he saw Dak break and he took off running,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's like, listen, I had just stand here.
Speaker 1: I gotta keep going, and he did and he got
Speaker 1: the ball and then he got in, you know. And
Speaker 1: that's what this team is doing. It's finding ways to
Speaker 1: manufacture stops, it's finding ways to score touchdowns when they
Speaker 1: get opportunities, and I think that's the right thing. I
Speaker 1: think what you're also seeing is this is a pretty
Speaker 1: deep team. This is a really deep team, and you
Speaker 1: know they're battle tested in a lot of ways just
Speaker 1: because of some of the adversity that they've had to
Speaker 1: deal with. So you do see some young guys stepping
Speaker 1: up and making plays. You talk about the rookie class
Speaker 1: and things like that. You know, they've done a really,
Speaker 1: really nice job of having to incorporate a lot of
Speaker 1: kids and they're making plays. Look at Dak Prescott's a
Speaker 1: day he had as he was twenty of thirty, sixty
Speaker 1: seven percent completion rate, one hundred and seventy yards, three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: one I and T one hundred point seven quarterback rating. Nick,
Speaker 1: what do you think of his play particularly? And I
Speaker 1: want to focus in on all these three first three
Speaker 1: quarters because it was kind of some up and down
Speaker 1: moments where the offense was good and the offense was
Speaker 1: not so good. What were your thoughts on play? I thought,
Speaker 1: I thought he played pretty well. I mean, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to go back. I mean, it's funny because the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter just kind of clouds everything. As far as you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to go back and remember some of the game,
Speaker 1: some of the first couple of drives of the game.
Speaker 1: But but I you know, I thought it was. It
Speaker 1: was pretty good. They they they stumbled, uh somewhat. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, he he was, he was solid. I
Speaker 1: think at the end of the night, his his you know,
Speaker 1: his ratings, one hundred and three touchdowns. Um. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to go back and even remember the interception. I don't
Speaker 1: even remember. I know, I know he threw one, but
Speaker 1: I thought it I thought they bumped the receiver a bit,
Speaker 1: but I mean it was it would have been it
Speaker 1: would have been a They probably would have thought it
Speaker 1: was a Tiki tech face masks, a face mask off
Speaker 1: the line that that's what they missed. They missed the
Speaker 1: face mask there. But I don't think the bump was
Speaker 1: was a penalty so much. Um. But you know, I
Speaker 1: gotta give the Cowboys credit. I know that's not what
Speaker 1: you're asking, but you got to give him credit for
Speaker 1: the three penalties. I mean three penalties, especially when one
Speaker 1: of them right off the bat with Joseph and then
Speaker 1: right off the bat and the second quarter, I mean
Speaker 1: the second in the second half with Ferguson, and that
Speaker 1: was the only two other than a PI from Bland.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought, for the most part, you know,
Speaker 1: we knew this was going to be a crew that
Speaker 1: throws a lot of flags. But I thought the Cowboys
Speaker 1: stayed pretty disciplined. Best for Dak, I thought I thought
Speaker 1: he was solid. He did what he needed to do,
Speaker 1: didn't throw an interception up for the half that was
Speaker 1: big over them, even threw to the middle. I tried
Speaker 1: look at hold those shoults. But now I thought he
Speaker 1: I thought he played pretty well. He didn't run at all.
Speaker 1: It didn't feel like he needed to. Really. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: running back feed and Speed did a great job for
Speaker 1: you with her twenty nine carries and there one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty eight yards and three touchdowns. You know, I
Speaker 1: just keeps a good back. Yeah, that's feed and Speed
Speaker 1: is a really bad it's a really good back. And
Speaker 1: that's what I really That's that's what this team is
Speaker 1: going to be all about and went forward. It's going
Speaker 1: to be can those two guys find ways to combine
Speaker 1: and have you know, whether who gets how many carries,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if they were close. One gets seventeen,
Speaker 1: one gets fifteen, you get one hundred and sixty eight yards.
Speaker 1: You answer with the three touchdowns right there, You're going
Speaker 1: to make your quarterbacks life really, really easy. Playing these games.
Speaker 1: You know something that I don't think we've talked about
Speaker 1: a whole lot, And going back to the topic of
Speaker 1: when we were talking about Mike McCarthy and what he's
Speaker 1: done with this team and even Kellen Moore what he's
Speaker 1: done with the offense, is their ability to adjust in
Speaker 1: the middle of the game. They're like, for the longest time,
Speaker 1: for a couple of years, they were incapable on Cape.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what's the right word, but they were.
Speaker 1: They could not damn bad at it, exactly damn bad
Speaker 1: at it. They could not adjust to save their lives.
Speaker 1: Like it was terrible and the other team would end
Speaker 1: up coming back and kicking them. But now we see
Speaker 1: a team, whether they end up with a win or loss, regardless,
Speaker 1: they have a very good ability to adjust and going
Speaker 1: back and I know we're talking about that, but real quick,
Speaker 1: going back to even the defense and what you were
Speaker 1: talking about, Brian, the defense struggled at the beginning. The
Speaker 1: den Quinn figure out a way to kind of adjust
Speaker 1: and just make it work and make and stop the
Speaker 1: opposing team and just completely dominate them. So doesn't aspect
Speaker 1: an aspect that I don't think we've kind of pointed
Speaker 1: out and talked about a whole lot and going back
Speaker 1: to Dyke, he that applies with him as well, his
Speaker 1: ability to kind of, I guess, recover from his mistakes
Speaker 1: and just kind of adjust throughout the game and try
Speaker 1: to play a more clean game with the offense. I
Speaker 1: think it's very notable, and honestly, I know that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of d criticism out there, but it does
Speaker 1: deserve a lot of praise in that aspect. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the running game. Running game obviously was really really
Speaker 1: good yesterday. Had thirty four rushes for two hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty yards a six point five average, four touchdowns. Pollard
Speaker 1: had twelve carriage for ninety one yard, Zeke Head seventeen
Speaker 1: carries for seventy seven yards for twenty nine Millie David.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, just all the way around, the running
Speaker 1: game was really really impressive yesterday. Uh then after the
Speaker 1: game there was a little question as to why exactly
Speaker 1: Pollard got the start. I'll start the question really with
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter now, it does, does not matter what
Speaker 1: the deal is. It just that's it's just an annoying,
Speaker 1: you know a little bit when you get you get
Speaker 1: four different answers um and the owner said. The owner
Speaker 1: says that there's there's something wrong, you know with I
Speaker 1: mean with Zeke, and a disciplinary issue with his cell
Speaker 1: phone wasn't major. He wasn't sent home from the bowl game.
Speaker 1: I mean, like he he gets to play, so gets
Speaker 1: the slag. It's still a credit card there, get the
Speaker 1: Belt Bowl. Come on now. I don't know why you
Speaker 1: gotta sprinkle that news out there, but like that, but
Speaker 1: um no, I think I think he played in seventeen carries.
Speaker 1: I mean he played whatever. It was like, oh sorry,
Speaker 1: sit down for a second, and now you come in
Speaker 1: and he ran and pissed off and I thought he
Speaker 1: ran really well. Zeke did. Um whatever it is, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's just weird of like, you know, Zeke's like,
Speaker 1: it's not a big deal. You know, this is what
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. And Dak was like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: want to mix it up a little bit and was
Speaker 1: like whatever it is, just just just give him the ball.
Speaker 1: Who cares? At this point, it doesn't matter, Brian said
Speaker 1: it best. It doesn't matter. These guys are are interchangeable.
Speaker 1: Zeke is scoring. I mean these poler's scoring up the
Speaker 1: middle and the three yard run. He's showing he can
Speaker 1: be a short yardage guy at times. Not all the time,
Speaker 1: but at times. And then, you know, I think Zeke's
Speaker 1: doing a nice time. Zeke hasn't really been kind of
Speaker 1: at your outside guy, but he did bust one there.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't remember when it was in the game,
Speaker 1: but I thought he had a nice little run to
Speaker 1: the outside. He can start a little high step. It
Speaker 1: was down there by the goal line. You know, you
Speaker 1: kind of looked like old Zeke for a little bit.
Speaker 1: So whatever it is, it's working, you know, if a
Speaker 1: cell phone's going off into meetings, whatever it is. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's flashbacks of that run you were talking
Speaker 1: about down the sidelines. Because somebody sitting next to me
Speaker 1: the press box was like, it's fantasy football. And the
Speaker 1: first thing I thought of was Derek with his fantasy
Speaker 1: football team and stuff like that. In this he was watching.
Speaker 1: He was like, ze go, go go, and I'm like, bro,
Speaker 1: really he goes? He was like, he goes fantasy football.
Speaker 1: He's got a score right there. You remind me a
Speaker 1: guy's door. It was a glorious fantasy for me last night. Defense.
Speaker 1: But you know, Nick, you're not talking about it during
Speaker 1: the game as you were watching Zeke, and really it's
Speaker 1: been over the last couple of weeks. He has a
Speaker 1: little bit of burst that I haven't seen from him
Speaker 1: in a while. There was one run last night where
Speaker 1: you could clearly see the whole open. He's exploded through it.
Speaker 1: And that was one of the things that we hadn't
Speaker 1: been seeing from Zeke in a while that you could
Speaker 1: see the difference from Paula was in there because he
Speaker 1: does he has that explosiveness and you hadn't really seen
Speaker 1: that from Zeke consistently. But I think he's starting to
Speaker 1: get a little bit more of that. He feels he
Speaker 1: seems a little bit shiftier, He seems like he has
Speaker 1: a little bit more healthy. First, maybe the health is
Speaker 1: the big issue there, right, And Nick, I think you
Speaker 1: mentioned that last night. When has he been healthy like this?
Speaker 1: It's all around. I do think that. And it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter which one is in there. They were using them
Speaker 1: both and using them both well. And pride has got
Speaker 1: a factor into it as well. I mean, Zeke has
Speaker 1: been the man and now all of a sudden, Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard is coming in there, and and whether or not,
Speaker 1: I mean they are. I think they're they have a
Speaker 1: great relationship. I don't think it's a problem. But like
Speaker 1: if any alpha male in the world sees, you know,
Speaker 1: another guy coming in and making in some plays and
Speaker 1: doing that, it's gonna he's if he's got anything to him,
Speaker 1: and we know Zeke does you know, it's kind of
Speaker 1: I think they they've carried each other in a healthy way.
Speaker 1: Tip of the cap two to some couple of positions.
Speaker 1: Tyler Biadas played his best game at center, and then
Speaker 1: also the wide receivers. All the crack toss stuff that
Speaker 1: they ran. You got helmet stickers for Gallup for Lamb,
Speaker 1: for Brown, all those guys every time yeah, blocking every
Speaker 1: time the ball got to the edge, it was it
Speaker 1: was a crack a seal by the receivers. Great job
Speaker 1: by them. And now you're getting big bodies in space
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So they did some that with
Speaker 1: the toss sweep stuff was really effective. But I felt
Speaker 1: like that watching the All twenty two that Tyler Bodish
Speaker 1: by far had one of his best games and you
Speaker 1: start talking about some of the pickups inside the pass
Speaker 1: protection and then what he was able to do in
Speaker 1: the running game one on one with Buckner several times
Speaker 1: in that in that game, you know that they were
Speaker 1: able to have some positive yards. Yeah, you could tell
Speaker 1: that they're they're doing some things with that offensive line,
Speaker 1: shuffling and around little bits. The end about when Tyring
Speaker 1: comes back, you know that they're getting Tyler Smith's some
Speaker 1: work at left guard. But man, that touchdown run by
Speaker 1: Pollard down the left sideline where Tyler Smith, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean he looked like Sunshine from remember the Titans. He
Speaker 1: was just running and blocking and running and blocking, and
Speaker 1: he was down there with him at the same time.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought that was I mean, that was impressive.
Speaker 1: I mean, they have a good problem to have here
Speaker 1: with all with with their offensive line and Tyring coming
Speaker 1: back and what they're gonna do with McGovern and Tyler
Speaker 1: Smith and Peters is getting some work. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a pretty good it's a good problem to have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our first break when we come back.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little bit more about the wide
Speaker 1: receivers particularly and what they're doing and how much that
Speaker 1: should or shouldn't factor into what's going on with OBJ.
Speaker 1: We'll also talk about the offensive line and maybe the
Speaker 1: return of Tyrant Smith and what they're doing on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. We'll do that when we come right back.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the wide receiver. Ceedee lab had five
Speaker 1: catches on seven targets for seventy one yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup had four catches on seven targets for twenty
Speaker 1: three yards and two touchdowns. Question for you guys the
Speaker 1: emergence of Ceedee Lamb and Michael Gallup, which I think
Speaker 1: by over the last few weeks, we started to see
Speaker 1: those guys step up in a bigger way and make
Speaker 1: more impressive plays for this team. But all that being said,
Speaker 1: do you think that should make the Cowboys more or
Speaker 1: less feel like they really need to land Odelle Beckham Junior.
Speaker 1: Do you think it matters at all? Does that matter
Speaker 1: at all? Honest? The answer to the question would be,
Speaker 1: I think that they don't need Odell as much as
Speaker 1: everyone thinks they do. I really don't think that they
Speaker 1: need him so much, especially for what it might take.
Speaker 1: But again, I'm not saying not to sign him, but
Speaker 1: need him for for what I mean, Like, they can
Speaker 1: win these games without, you know, without it, but like
Speaker 1: as Brian mentions, a lot of the time, it's gonna
Speaker 1: get tough when an ear in the playoffs and it's
Speaker 1: gonna get fourth and three and all that, and who
Speaker 1: do you want out there? I mean, they can win
Speaker 1: these games and they can be dynamic without him. But
Speaker 1: but I've seen great football teams in the last twenty years.
Speaker 1: I've seen them. I'll also see them go home in
Speaker 1: the divisional round. At some point, you got to get
Speaker 1: somebody that can take you over the top, and maybe
Speaker 1: he could be that guy. Great movie, by the way,
Speaker 1: over the Top too. It's a really good bad movie. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: good bad movies over top. Now That's what I was
Speaker 1: thinking too, is it's do you need him? Okay? Now,
Speaker 1: with the way that they play, I mean not to
Speaker 1: say exactly what you just said, but that is exactly
Speaker 1: how it is. They've been playing each week after week
Speaker 1: they keep playing better. I think CDs complimenting Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: and they're complimenting each other the longer they go with
Speaker 1: practicing and being around Dak Prescott. And that's something that
Speaker 1: they've mentioned themselves, like CD and I'm talked about it
Speaker 1: that just spending more time with Dak after him being
Speaker 1: back from the injury, it just keeps getting better and
Speaker 1: better naturally. So seeing that in the way that and
Speaker 1: like I said something about him and the way that
Speaker 1: he played yesterday, he just had some some some you
Speaker 1: know some in him, Like he was ready to play
Speaker 1: and fight and give it his all. So his energy
Speaker 1: was at another level that I don't think we've seen.
Speaker 1: I can't remember a game where he's played with that
Speaker 1: kind of not anger, but tenacity. It was Oklahoma CD.
Speaker 1: It was freaking great. So you would love to keep
Speaker 1: seeing that. But again, are we all in for this season?
Speaker 1: I think that I don't care how they're playing. If
Speaker 1: you had a guy like Odell Beckham Junior, you're gonna
Speaker 1: need like there's gonna be a moment that he's gonna
Speaker 1: make a point for you, which is just gonna take
Speaker 1: you to the next level. And the other part of it, too,
Speaker 1: is that yes, they're playing better week after week, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, there's still that quote unquote inconsistency
Speaker 1: aspect of it, where you're you're just don't a thousand
Speaker 1: percent trust what kind of offense you're gonna get that
Speaker 1: day or how long it's gonna take for them to
Speaker 1: kind of get things moving. And by that time when
Speaker 1: they get things rolling, is it too late? Is the
Speaker 1: opposing team just way ahead of you. So that's another
Speaker 1: point to look at. But I think that, yeah, this year,
Speaker 1: I'm going all in. Give me whoever you can bring
Speaker 1: it here, doesn't matter you know who's number one or
Speaker 1: just have them all out there. There's a space for
Speaker 1: you and we can always use you. Bring it. Just
Speaker 1: bring it. I wish he was a cornerback. I wish
Speaker 1: he was an all cornerback. I could take that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you could probably use that right now. But yeah, everything
Speaker 1: that these guys said about the players, absolutely right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one more thing about Odell. I mean, well Odell and CD.
Speaker 1: You know, I've said this a bunch of times that
Speaker 1: you know this, if you try to sign him, you're
Speaker 1: pretty much making sure that you're going to I think
Speaker 1: you're going to make a decision on what you want
Speaker 1: to do with CD as well. And the good thing
Speaker 1: for CD is that he's playing right now, like you
Speaker 1: want to keep him on your football team. Because if
Speaker 1: he was the best five receivers in the league right
Speaker 1: and he's playing right right now, he is, and so
Speaker 1: if he wasn't, though, and you would be like, all right, well,
Speaker 1: this is kind of weird because I mean, we're gonna
Speaker 1: sign him. We also signed Gallup, and then what are
Speaker 1: we gonna do with CD? But if this means that
Speaker 1: next year in the offseason, the CD's agent says, Hello,
Speaker 1: we want a little something done as well. Let's start.
Speaker 1: Let's start, you know, feeding us. I think he'd be like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: let's figure it out, because he's playing like a guy
Speaker 1: you want to keep on your football dam When he
Speaker 1: made that move back over the middle late in the game,
Speaker 1: caught a pass over the middle and third down and
Speaker 1: then he went backwards to go around. That was just
Speaker 1: a shifty type play that you've seen in college so
Speaker 1: many times. And that's right, that's the Oklahoma CD right there, right,
Speaker 1: ball across the middle. All of a sudden, everybody's got
Speaker 1: angles and he's killing angles with the way he's running
Speaker 1: the ball or he's making moves. It makes you just
Speaker 1: like you overrun the play. Yeah, he was. That's the
Speaker 1: kind of dynamic player that I think everyone that evaluated
Speaker 1: him thought question getting where they drafted him where they
Speaker 1: drafted him, And he's showing flashes of that sense he'd
Speaker 1: been with the Cowboys. Over these last several games, you're
Speaker 1: starting to see it more consistently every week. He's now
Speaker 1: giving you these plays in these moments where you really
Speaker 1: need somebody and he's playing you know, like like Amber said,
Speaker 1: he's playing with some with some grit, you know, like
Speaker 1: they ran the ball with him a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Be careful with that, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 1: he's not Jim Brown. I mean, like he can't just
Speaker 1: keep oh I'm gonna lower my showl and everybody, because
Speaker 1: he's gonna lose some of those. But he is running
Speaker 1: the ball well, and he's finishing runs, which you don't
Speaker 1: really talk about a number one receiver about finishing the play,
Speaker 1: finishing the runs. Well, some of Zeke's is like kind
Speaker 1: of rubbing off of him. That's what I saw in him,
Speaker 1: just kind of that Zeke ability that he just kind
Speaker 1: of keeps fighting for those extra yards or whatever. He
Speaker 1: keeps going at it. So it's it's it's really impressive
Speaker 1: and very very exciting to see this happening at the time,
Speaker 1: that is happening in December, exactly when you need them
Speaker 1: to be playing this way. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Yesterday they allowed one sack throughout the course.
Speaker 1: Right then, they were going for what four straight games
Speaker 1: without a sack, three straight games something like that without
Speaker 1: a sack. But the good thing is you look at that,
Speaker 1: and you look at the fact that they allowed they
Speaker 1: will the primary catalyst behind that two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: yards on the ground. All in all accounts, it was
Speaker 1: a really good day for the offensive line. That being said,
Speaker 1: we also saw a lot of moving around, Nick, you
Speaker 1: mentioned it, Tyler Smith moving to guards, some Conor mcgrev,
Speaker 1: Conor McGovern staying in at guard, while Jason Peters was
Speaker 1: a tackle. What did you guys take from all that
Speaker 1: you saw yesterday with regards to the guard, the left guard,
Speaker 1: left tackle and what they were doing with it kind
Speaker 1: of feel like that when you watched them play, and
Speaker 1: you know it's It's funny because Stephen Jones has always
Speaker 1: been one of those guys about continuity. You know, you
Speaker 1: always talk about well, same five guys. You know we've
Speaker 1: had continuity, continuity, continewy. I asked him a question one
Speaker 1: oh five three the fan. I'm like, we're in a
Speaker 1: new era here, boss, No continuity, it's all just and
Speaker 1: he goes, yeah, it's kind of weird. You know when
Speaker 1: you look at how you know you got guys, you
Speaker 1: want to play them, you want to keep them ready,
Speaker 1: you want to do all those things, and you know
Speaker 1: they really are. They're preparing themselves for when Tyron Smith
Speaker 1: comes back. Tyron Smith is we've talked about this, We've
Speaker 1: been on this from day one about him and when
Speaker 1: he's going to come back. You're going to see Tyron
Speaker 1: Smith practice this week and can you get him ready?
Speaker 1: I don't think it's this weekend, but the Jacksonville game
Speaker 1: sure looks like a possibility where you'll see you know now.
Speaker 1: I mean personally, I think you might see a rotation
Speaker 1: at left guard. I don't think I would take McGovern
Speaker 1: necessarily off the field on some stuff. If you want
Speaker 1: to take Tyler Smith and McGovern and kind of work
Speaker 1: them together. But then like, it's good to kind of
Speaker 1: keep Peter's fresh and get him some work because if
Speaker 1: something does happen, you don't want him to have to
Speaker 1: completely come in in week seventeen in a game and
Speaker 1: be cold. By getting him work, at least you're keeping
Speaker 1: his conditioning up and being ready if something does happen.
Speaker 1: But I think they're absolutely doing this thing the right
Speaker 1: way when it comes to all these guys playing. I
Speaker 1: think Peters did a nice job in the game yesterday.
Speaker 1: I told you what I thought about Beaddish, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know he I thought he had one of
Speaker 1: his best games. And that's that's difficult. I felt like
Speaker 1: one of the strengths of the Colts defensive line was
Speaker 1: inside at those tackles, and there were several times where
Speaker 1: he was one on one and was able to finish
Speaker 1: up pretty well. Yeah. I mean, and and you know,
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele not not playing. I'm practicing a lot during
Speaker 1: the week, had some personal issues he was dealing with,
Speaker 1: and he came back and he played and you know,
Speaker 1: all in all, two hundred and something rushing yards to twenty.
Speaker 1: Everyone's you know, for for that kind of shuffling around
Speaker 1: and still having that kind of success even at the
Speaker 1: end of the game. Malie Davis, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: like they're just they did what they wanted to do
Speaker 1: and that that's just a dominant effort and it's it
Speaker 1: was fun to watch. I mean and say what you want,
Speaker 1: Colts aren't or a good team whatever, but um, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be getting, you know, beat down like that. And
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys are a hungry team because they
Speaker 1: are they're still chasing. Yeah, they see what they made
Speaker 1: the Colts. They made the Colts quit yesterday, they did.
Speaker 1: They made the Colts quit, and that was the whole
Speaker 1: idea to you know, to try and do that, you know,
Speaker 1: because they they don't score a lot of points, they
Speaker 1: don't finish games particularly well. So yeah, that thirty yard
Speaker 1: run you started seeing, so a little bit of quit
Speaker 1: out there on the Colts. Yeah, to me, they were
Speaker 1: they were kind of like hyenas, Like what you see
Speaker 1: of hyenas when they were taking packs and as soon
Speaker 1: as they they sensed that they got the prey where
Speaker 1: they want them, Oh, they all attack and there's no
Speaker 1: pulling them back. And that was what that fourth quarter
Speaker 1: felt like to me yesterday, Like they just there was
Speaker 1: there was blood there and they were like, Oh, we're
Speaker 1: going to finish them, We're gonna eat. Well. There's sometimes
Speaker 1: this team doesn't like prosperity. There's sometimes they don't like it.
Speaker 1: Make it easy. They made it easy yesterday. They really
Speaker 1: really did. Yeah, and the only thing that didn't happen
Speaker 1: was a sack by Mark Michael Parsons. I mean that's
Speaker 1: that's about it, you know, Yeah, Mia Michael. In the
Speaker 1: locker room after the game, it was interesting because you
Speaker 1: know he was I think he's happy for the for
Speaker 1: the win, don't get me wrong. Well you could you
Speaker 1: could tell he's just a little different in the locker
Speaker 1: room when there's no sacks versus when there's two sacks,
Speaker 1: because that's really the only two options for him. It's
Speaker 1: either going to be zero, it's going to be more
Speaker 1: than than two. Yeah, you mean to be the wet
Speaker 1: blanket guy. The only thing that I was really disappoint
Speaker 1: you had a blocked extra point, you know, and that
Speaker 1: was over between the center and then McGovern if you've
Speaker 1: talked about offensive line, yeah, that was that. You don't
Speaker 1: want to go back and watch that play because Fossil
Speaker 1: said after the game I talked to him walking out
Speaker 1: and he said that he went to the officials because
Speaker 1: they did something that the Occults did something that was
Speaker 1: pretty much illegal. They overloaded that one side is what
Speaker 1: they did. But they if he's sandy to hit the center,
Speaker 1: I don't know, because the center, the center Overton got turned.
Speaker 1: He got I mean, he opened up bad and then
Speaker 1: that had just allowed you know, the rush to get through.
Speaker 1: But they were they were bad at center, and they
Speaker 1: were bad at the right guard and Mahars extra points
Speaker 1: are hugging that right up right. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you noticed that, but getting well, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 1: That's what they're doing. They're they're rushing. They're rushing off
Speaker 1: that side because people are feeling like the ball is
Speaker 1: since they're on that hash, that he's going to start
Speaker 1: it right. So they're overloading that the Cowboys right side
Speaker 1: to rush. Yeah, it is. If you want to be
Speaker 1: a nitpicky about a special teams play the boy that
Speaker 1: one was. That one was kind of a bad one.
Speaker 1: I do want to take our final break and come back.
Speaker 1: Let's talk some defense. Some interesting moments from the defense,
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Speaker 1: Yesterday the Cowboys defense only allowed one hundred and six
Speaker 1: yards on the ground on thirty carries. That was a
Speaker 1: three point five average. Question is is a run defense fixed? Finally? Um?
Speaker 1: I think so. I mean, I think that they've they've
Speaker 1: figured out that, you know, it's fixed against teams that
Speaker 1: don't have running quarterbacks. But I think that's true when
Speaker 1: you quarterback though, there's more dynamics that and so yeah,
Speaker 1: if you if you got the statues back there, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think that's fine. But let's let's see
Speaker 1: what happens when you get a quarterback that can, that
Speaker 1: can move a little bit more when you look at
Speaker 1: the rest of their schedule. You got Philly obviously, that
Speaker 1: is that is there another team that you'd be concerned
Speaker 1: about from from that standpoint? I mean Tennessee's guy runs
Speaker 1: a little bit. He does yesterday. He was a wide
Speaker 1: receiver in college. Yeah, Hill and and and I would imagine.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think he's gonna run any sprinting contest,
Speaker 1: but I think Trevor Lawrence can probably. Yeah, he's tall, lanking,
Speaker 1: he can you know, it can move around. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna just take off if you need to. So, uh,
Speaker 1: nothing like what the Eagles do, you know, as far
Speaker 1: as that type of thing. But you know, when you
Speaker 1: when you talk about the Eagles, though they've got two
Speaker 1: really good receivers, Diggs can't cover both of them. So
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be a problem there. Yep, we're getting
Speaker 1: to that at all. We'll say that for another day more.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna talk about Oh no, no no, yes, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about that, okay, but not the other oh
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Yeah. Um, I think it's too soon to
Speaker 1: say it's fixed. I think the sample size is still
Speaker 1: pretty small, and looking at the opposing teams that we
Speaker 1: played like Nicks, I mean, that's a great point. It
Speaker 1: all depends what the quarterback does. So right now I
Speaker 1: think they've taken step to get steps to get better,
Speaker 1: but it's still the sample size is not enough for
Speaker 1: me to say it's completely fixed. We'll have to see
Speaker 1: kind of in two weeks what that looks like. But
Speaker 1: I like where it's going. I like where it's trending,
Speaker 1: and I like what they're doing. And even if it's
Speaker 1: a small adjustment, it's still taking a step forward. They're
Speaker 1: better with Hankins and they're playing as a defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Teams have a hard time. The nineteen
Speaker 1: yard run they gave up was kind of a bad play.
Speaker 1: They had it for a gain of maybe three or
Speaker 1: four and it turned into nineteen yards because nobody felt
Speaker 1: they needed to use their arms to tackle on that Pa.
Speaker 1: It's almost like they lost him there. Well, it's funny
Speaker 1: because they had a chance to tackle. It would have
Speaker 1: been like a three or four yard game, which they've
Speaker 1: been doing a really good job. But all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know, he goes in there. He's bouncing off guys
Speaker 1: and then he's out the back door and it's a
Speaker 1: nineteen yard game, and you know, you would have been
Speaker 1: in a situation a lot better off. I think they are.
Speaker 1: I think they're getting more bodies to the ball. I
Speaker 1: think they're kind of figuring out about you know, they
Speaker 1: have to get off blocks. They're not getting hooked. I
Speaker 1: think teams are still going to try perimeter runs on
Speaker 1: you though. I think that you know, there's a couple
Speaker 1: of times there the ball you know, got to the edge.
Speaker 1: But you know, like I say, Wilson did a really
Speaker 1: good job having him in the game. I just really
Speaker 1: like what Hankins has been able to do, especially inside.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is not he's just not a guy
Speaker 1: that's sitting there holding on blocks. He's being really active.
Speaker 1: He's he's forcing blockers to have to take him. And
Speaker 1: then when the backs are running they see indecision the
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm not sure where the hole is here,
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know that's somebody make a safe and
Speaker 1: then you know, I'm sorry, p k's are going on here.
Speaker 1: It's the only place you just make a safe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the only part of the soccer I like, like to
Speaker 1: me like this is this is fun, like this is
Speaker 1: fun soccer. When you get to the the well, you
Speaker 1: know what's not fun? Uh, what's happening now that we're
Speaker 1: talking about the run defense? I started thinking, Okay, what's
Speaker 1: happening a cornerback and how that's gonna affect possibly how
Speaker 1: they've are managing like the run defense. I feel like,
Speaker 1: now you're gonna need help with like linebackers, because I
Speaker 1: do think there was a moment in this game. Obviously
Speaker 1: it was I think was the first touchdown Indianapolis had.
Speaker 1: On that drive, you saw Anthony Brown give up a
Speaker 1: forty five yard play pass downfield. And this is not
Speaker 1: the first time we've seen that. And as the season
Speaker 1: has gone on, it seems like teams more and more
Speaker 1: frequently are starting to say, Hey, that guy over there
Speaker 1: at number three, he's a target down field, like we
Speaker 1: should be going after him. And these aren't even against
Speaker 1: necessarily the best receivers on the opposing teams. They're just saying,
Speaker 1: put one of your guys out there and let him
Speaker 1: go downfield and win one on one, and they're winning.
Speaker 1: So when you start talking about Anthony Brown now, and
Speaker 1: for those that haven't heard, there's there's a speculation that
Speaker 1: he's lost for the season. Jerry kind of mentioned it
Speaker 1: that it looks like it might be an achilles, he'd
Speaker 1: be done for the season. How much are you really
Speaker 1: missing or how much of a delta is there between
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown and, let's say in the for the sake
Speaker 1: of argument, Kelvin Joseph. Me personally, I kind of feel like, okay,
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about running game. The one
Speaker 1: thing I know about Kelvin Joseph official forward, because we've
Speaker 1: seen him tackle on special teams. You know, we'll see
Speaker 1: he has that aggressive mentality. We've seen Bland come up
Speaker 1: and tackle, you know, with ball in the flat, he
Speaker 1: comes charging up. I actually feel like you're going to
Speaker 1: be better on the outside playing the run defense when
Speaker 1: you got guys that are willing to set the edge,
Speaker 1: you know, more of a willingness to step up and
Speaker 1: make those plays. Has been a problem on Anthony Brown's Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's been both. It's been both. I mean
Speaker 1: and Brown is it's Brown is just a smaller guy
Speaker 1: and sometimes he just gets bounced. I mean, he's standing
Speaker 1: there and he gets bounced, and you know that with
Speaker 1: when you got guys like Joseph and Bland. They do
Speaker 1: a good job of seeing it and is flying forward
Speaker 1: and I think that's where I think that's where you're
Speaker 1: going to benefit. Now, I'll say this about Joseph in coverage.
Speaker 1: Joseph has not played a lot of football, and I
Speaker 1: mean that at LSU he didn't play very much. He
Speaker 1: was like one season he didn't play very much at
Speaker 1: Kentucky and the next thing you know, he's now playing
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys. I kind of feel like there's
Speaker 1: a reason why that Dan Quinn and those and Will
Speaker 1: McClay went to Lexington, Kentucky to work on this guy
Speaker 1: and then they draft him. I think the ability is
Speaker 1: absolutely there. The special team's play was bad yesterday. You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta have better awareness, but you look at his situation.
Speaker 1: I do think he can cover. I think he's fast enough.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna run by him, and I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna compete. You know, those are all give
Speaker 1: me if you tell me this guy is going to
Speaker 1: get more reps and more opportunity and more time to
Speaker 1: practice at his craft. I think there's a legitimate player
Speaker 1: there for you. I really do, And this might be
Speaker 1: one of those things. I think something's wrong with Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: I really do. I don't know if it was confidence.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he was injured. You know, the
Speaker 1: play he got hurt on was really unfortunate. It was
Speaker 1: the screenplay that they ran for a big yard. He
Speaker 1: got pulled. I mean the blocker grabs him. I mean
Speaker 1: Pierce pulls his jersey and he gets yank back, and
Speaker 1: that's where his achilles ruptures. You know, he's trying to
Speaker 1: step and then he stepped and then it's it kind
Speaker 1: of yanks and you know, it's like it's one of
Speaker 1: those injuries, like if you yank a guy from behind,
Speaker 1: it blows out his hamstring, just sudden stops. I think
Speaker 1: that's what happened in this game. But I I'm confident
Speaker 1: that they will figure out between Bland and then and Joseph.
Speaker 1: With the number of reps that these guys will get
Speaker 1: in practice, I think you'll see two young guys that
Speaker 1: will fight and compete and be better for it. I
Speaker 1: just he scares you because he's a reckless player, and
Speaker 1: he's reckless on how he plays um. And I'm just
Speaker 1: talking about it on the field. Obviously, off the field,
Speaker 1: there's been his thing. Um, but that's but you know,
Speaker 1: beyond that reckless of course, but on the field, he's
Speaker 1: a penalty waiting to happen and he and it just
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like structure is always that important as far
Speaker 1: as like, well, run down here. I mean he's just
Speaker 1: gonna hit someone or do you know, run forty five
Speaker 1: yards or whatever. And and you know that scary that
Speaker 1: scares you to death when he's covering somebody. And and
Speaker 1: you know, I think if he gets in a crew
Speaker 1: where they throw a lot of pis, I think that
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he gives up a touchdown, they
Speaker 1: throw it, you know, and and he's he's going to
Speaker 1: give up some plays, probably more so than than Brown.
Speaker 1: But like y'all said, Brown has been making some as well.
Speaker 1: Uh maybe, like Brian said, he's got to continue to
Speaker 1: play against you need to play. But I'm definitely gonna
Speaker 1: look at my options. I'm looking at my options on
Speaker 1: outside of this football team to try to get a
Speaker 1: little bit more stability at that position. You were a person,
Speaker 1: I think, Craig, if I'm wrong, that earlier, going back
Speaker 1: to training camp, you kind of wanted to see Mkuamu
Speaker 1: down at corner a little bit more. Is that something
Speaker 1: you still would hope to see. I don't think they'll
Speaker 1: do that. I don't think they'll do that. And you know,
Speaker 1: Nashan Wright is a player that mean drafts a third round.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, you know what, I still
Speaker 1: think he is a a safety type player. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a corner so much, but they might we
Speaker 1: might get to see that a little bit. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the Sheffield he's been on the practice squad, right,
Speaker 1: Kendall Sheffield. I mean, you just gotta look at look
Speaker 1: at options. I mean, but they're committed to Kelvin Joseph.
Speaker 1: They're committed because based off this offseason, if you weren't committed,
Speaker 1: you would let him go. You would let him go.
Speaker 1: So they're committed, and this is the opportunity that I'm
Speaker 1: just hoping that they're Like you said, I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: the reps. I'm hoping that the reps give him confidence
Speaker 1: that you're right, because I saw it was funny you
Speaker 1: said that, because I saw your tweet last night. Is
Speaker 1: is there anybody that gets more penalties for the number
Speaker 1: of plays he plays in the game than this guy?
Speaker 1: And that's something that But I also feel like though
Speaker 1: that he's the one guy that he's got more ability
Speaker 1: and that he really do I love Bland, I really do.
Speaker 1: I think Bland. I think somebody out in out in
Speaker 1: California missed that guy playing Pack twelve football. But you
Speaker 1: watch at what he's been able to do, how confident
Speaker 1: he plays, what three interceptions already this year for him,
Speaker 1: great for him to do that, But I think they'll
Speaker 1: figure it out between Bland and then also with Joseph,
Speaker 1: I really really do you know? I want to buy
Speaker 1: while your eyes are seeing because I trust your expertise
Speaker 1: and your years of experience and what you watch on film.
Speaker 1: But right now this is a compliment sandwich I found.
Speaker 1: Man Well, I mean, I'm sorry, I don't want it
Speaker 1: right now. Do you know this guy has made me
Speaker 1: more angry than happy, Like there's there's only ones that
Speaker 1: I was like, oh that was pretty nice, But other
Speaker 1: than that, I'm just upset every time. And I think
Speaker 1: that at this point of the year. And another thing
Speaker 1: like that play where Hooker got the interception he starts running.
Speaker 1: I put up a video on there, but if you
Speaker 1: watch the replay, I mean, Joseph kind of goes as
Speaker 1: if he's about to tackle the guy, like tackle his
Speaker 1: own teammate and stop him and Hooker he was. He
Speaker 1: kept going, you know, he kept running us, not very
Speaker 1: aware exactly. That's the problem awareness, Like dude, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? But at the same time, that's that's the
Speaker 1: point that we're in the month of December, heading into
Speaker 1: mid December. I don't think now is enough time for
Speaker 1: him to take the next step to get to the
Speaker 1: next level. I think maybe next year you see what
Speaker 1: he does at training camp, if there's really an extensive
Speaker 1: amount of things that he's doing out there that gives
Speaker 1: you hope or whatever keep him if not by because
Speaker 1: right now I'm just like, but the point is, like
Speaker 1: who do you have? You know, well, that's why that's
Speaker 1: why I kind of say that you give Bland and
Speaker 1: Joseph both the opportunity to play, and you know you're
Speaker 1: going to kind of have rather see more of Bland.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I mean they might, they might very well
Speaker 1: see that too, But there there is somebody upstairs that
Speaker 1: put his you know what on the line. Yeah, for
Speaker 1: Kelvin Joseph to be here and to nixt point, there's
Speaker 1: a reason why they didn't send him into the streets
Speaker 1: when all that went down in the streets. You know,
Speaker 1: so somebody, somebody is like thinking we might need this guy.
Speaker 1: Well to your point, I can't no, I can't disagree
Speaker 1: with your point. It just comes with experience. It's it's
Speaker 1: the experience that's the year. That's what I think that
Speaker 1: he has not played a lot of football. They took
Speaker 1: a gamble on a guy that has not played a
Speaker 1: lot of football. I think you're gonna get into a
Speaker 1: situation where, you know, a whole week of of reps
Speaker 1: and and prep going into a game. I could see
Speaker 1: where you know, you're sitting in the press box going,
Speaker 1: all right, they're really picking on Joseph here today. You
Speaker 1: know they're going at him, going at him. How does
Speaker 1: he respond to that? That's going to be the key.
Speaker 1: But you know that he gets a penalty. Because cornerback
Speaker 1: confidence is a huge thing and it can snowball on you.
Speaker 1: We've seen it with really good players like Terrence Newman.
Speaker 1: I remember a game at his last few games with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, his confidence just wasn't there, and he still
Speaker 1: played six more years in the league um and played
Speaker 1: a fifteen year career but at that moment right then,
Speaker 1: he just didn't have it anymore. And so confidence can
Speaker 1: be a tricky thing for corners. I hopefully he can
Speaker 1: you not get in one of those ruts. Well and
Speaker 1: real quick, I know we're about to leave, but you're
Speaker 1: talking about confidence. Let me to think. We know these
Speaker 1: defensive players. They get mad and they started like yelling
Speaker 1: at you and we saw it out forgot what game
Speaker 1: was that in Green Bay? Green Bay where they I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they were turning on each other, but it
Speaker 1: kind of seemed that way. And then they got into like, well,
Speaker 1: we just like to have people take accountability for what
Speaker 1: the role is, take to your role and do your job.
Speaker 1: It does concern me in a scenario where now you
Speaker 1: got a guy like Kelvin Joseph, a young guy who's
Speaker 1: trying to learn whatever but making these mistakes. How are
Speaker 1: his teammates reacting to that? Then does that kind of
Speaker 1: take a toll on him as a player, his confidence?
Speaker 1: And then it just goes downhill from that because that's
Speaker 1: a big thing with this defense. They want you to
Speaker 1: do your job, do what you're supposed to do, and
Speaker 1: if you're not, I mean I'm not gonna say, turn
Speaker 1: on you. But it's just it creates a little bit
Speaker 1: of conflict. I think this is gonna be big on
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn and it's gonna be big on Al Harris
Speaker 1: and those guys and Joe wit As how they get
Speaker 1: this kid ready every week. They've got to pump him up.
Speaker 1: They've got to pump him up. They've got to pump
Speaker 1: him up to the team, you know. I mean they
Speaker 1: got to point out when when Joseph makes a good
Speaker 1: play or even bland, when they make good plays in practice,
Speaker 1: the right reads, hey, good job, good job. You know
Speaker 1: that kind of thing, because that's gonna be important. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people like you an bar and a
Speaker 1: lot of people are out there that just gonna like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't trust this guy. I don't This guy hasn't
Speaker 1: shown me anything for my trust to be there. But
Speaker 1: we're to the point now where you're like, you got
Speaker 1: to get somebody ready, Like in San Francisco right now,
Speaker 1: they got to get you know, they're got to get
Speaker 1: a quarterback or readie out there. You know, they're they're in,
Speaker 1: they're in the I mean, nobody's feeling sorry for you
Speaker 1: right now that you just lost your starting corner that
Speaker 1: you got to figure out with the guys. You got
Speaker 1: how to make this work. And I think this is
Speaker 1: gonna be on Quinn and Wit and then Al Harris
Speaker 1: and them to get these catch or readie all right,
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, Yellnis, We'll be back tomorrow. Bron's gonna
Speaker 1: have a game for us on Susie tomorrow. Go little
Speaker 1: that will just get some big picture looks around the
Speaker 1: NFC till then for Nicky mcbrian brought us Ambergarcia. I'm
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