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Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, November twenty six, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number eighty five. Welcome to another edition of The

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Speaker 1: Break live the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Amber's

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Speaker 1: not joining us today, but I do have Nick and

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Speaker 1: Dave Wooden. We're gonna talk to some Cowboys football. If

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Speaker 1: you guys were about forty five minutes, we haven't had

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Speaker 1: a chance to discuss that big win on Thanksgiving Day

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Speaker 1: by the Dallas Cowboys. They win thirty one twenty three

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Speaker 1: Washington Redskins. Dave said, I mean, I'm sorry, Nick said

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Speaker 1: before the game, they win that game to go on

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. So I overstay that a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a little too thought it was just the Falcons games

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Speaker 1: and you'll make the player, Okay, all right, I may

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Speaker 1: have overstated that just just a bit, just a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well they're there. Hey, right now things are looking positive

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Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys. If if Seattle would have would

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Speaker 1: have won the game or lost the game, wouldn't they

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Speaker 1: have been a wildcard spot? Now Minnesota is still up

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Speaker 1: there in Minnesota, Minnesota, and it's it's all. But I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying, I still think you have to win your

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Speaker 1: division you get in. I tend to agree with you,

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Speaker 1: but I mean, take a look around. I mean there's

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Speaker 1: two ways you could think about it. If Carolina beats

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Speaker 1: Seattle yesterday, then they take a pretty firm grip on

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Speaker 1: the five seed. Yeah, and then so you're like, well,

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Speaker 1: there's only one seed left. But now it's literally a

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Speaker 1: jumble of teams with roughly six wins. The Vikings are

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Speaker 1: six four and one, Seahawks are six and five, Panthers

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Speaker 1: are six and five, Cowboys are six and five. I

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Speaker 1: just think that Panthers and Seahawks though, that's but I

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Speaker 1: just think that if the cow Boys or even the Redskins,

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Speaker 1: if you get to the point where you're good enough

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Speaker 1: to be in that wild card conversation, that will win

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Speaker 1: your division. So probably probably so well, and it hurts

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They don't have tiebreakers against several of these teams,

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Speaker 1: but with five games to play, all these records are

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Speaker 1: the same. I mean their tiebreakers are going to be

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Speaker 1: against the NFC East, so which I think would win

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Speaker 1: their division. Yeah, it's I said this yesterday, like I can't.

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Speaker 1: I picked the Cowboys to go nine and seven and

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Speaker 1: weakness did they have on paper before the season, The Saints,

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Speaker 1: the Panthers, the Falcons, the Packers have Aaron Rodgers, so

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Speaker 1: they have a chance. I thought about it the wrong way,

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Speaker 1: like as an SEC fan, I should have thought about

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Speaker 1: it that way. I've been like, oh, yeah, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: have more than nine or ten wins, which is exactly

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Speaker 1: looks like, is what's going to happen. Yeah, yeah, they

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Speaker 1: look like seven looks very good right now for the Cowboys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: impressed with was what he was doing on third downs.

427
00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,240
Speaker 1: Cowboys had one, two, three, They had six third downs

428
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Speaker 1: that they converted. He converted four of those six. He

429
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Speaker 1: is I think that is the biggest difference between what

430
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,679
Speaker 1: they were doing before Amark Hooper got here and what

431
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:08,359
Speaker 1: they've done since he's got here, is he is a

432
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Speaker 1: third down converting machine for them. He reminds me and

433
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Speaker 1: he's not as accomplished. I understand that. But he reminds

434
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Speaker 1: me of Julio Jones in that he's a big possession

435
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Speaker 1: type receiver who can also make a big play. He

436
00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:25,080
Speaker 1: doesn't look like he's that fast, but he was running

437
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Speaker 1: away from people. He's got that long stride, you know

438
00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,080
Speaker 1: he was. He played that trivia game no Moss. He

439
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,000
Speaker 1: said if he could be in the Olympics, he'd be

440
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Speaker 1: a fifteen hundred meter runner and fifteen hundred you know

441
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Speaker 1: those long strides. You saw it in that in that

442
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Speaker 1: ninety yard touchdown. I was like, he's gonna get caught.

443
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Speaker 1: He's gonna get caught, and he just never did. Yeah,

444
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Speaker 1: and he didn't, like, yeah, he's just taking these long strides.

445
00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,280
Speaker 1: I always think about Vince Young, like like, he doesn't

446
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Speaker 1: look like he's running that fast because his legs aren't

447
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Speaker 1: moving that everybody else looks like they're standing steel. Yeah. Yeah,

448
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Speaker 1: and you know what I mean, he made his free throw.

449
00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:57,840
Speaker 1: That's the thing. You know, you can go and make it,

450
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Speaker 1: score your point, but then go to the line and

451
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Speaker 1: make it. I like that. I just it was a

452
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Speaker 1: great celebrations all the way around. I'm not Sanjay lal,

453
00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:07,720
Speaker 1: it was no, you're right, You're right about that, but

454
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 1: I don't, like I don't know about route running, you know,

455
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,200
Speaker 1: like I you know, I can. You gotta drop your

456
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Speaker 1: hips and lower your center gravity, but like I don't

457
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Speaker 1: know how to do that. But he just looks different,

458
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Speaker 1: like if you watch him, and it's like when you

459
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Speaker 1: have a chance to watch the replays, but even in

460
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Speaker 1: real time, like no offense to Dez Bryant. He was

461
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Speaker 1: great in his prime, but like even I mean Dez

462
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,359
Speaker 1: ran slants and out muscled people, you know, like you

463
00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:33,760
Speaker 1: can see this dude, like the way he like shifts

464
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Speaker 1: his hips or like stutters his feed like and it

465
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Speaker 1: like it's obvious, like it creates this separation that is rare,

466
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Speaker 1: at least around here. It has been. I I'm not

467
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Speaker 1: used to seeing it, and maybe I don't watch enough

468
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Speaker 1: AJ Green or Julio Jones, but it just it looks

469
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Speaker 1: different from what I'm used to seeing. I was just

470
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Speaker 1: happy to see that. You know, for three games, you

471
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Speaker 1: could tell that he has done a better job and

472
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Speaker 1: the offense has done better with him here. But his

473
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Speaker 1: numbers aren't great because you know, we live in a

474
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Speaker 1: fantasy football world where it's just like they were great,

475
00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 1: well they were great, and then they were on a

476
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Speaker 1: lot of people's bench. I understand that, but I'm just me.

477
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, he was like, he's this

478
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Speaker 1: guy's different and he's got well five catches for sixty yards?

479
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Speaker 1: Is that different? Was like, yeah, you know what I mean.

480
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Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to really say, yeah, but it is.

481
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Speaker 1: So finally this was a yeah, see which And I mean,

482
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Speaker 1: you're not going to do that every week. You'll probably

483
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Speaker 1: do that once a season. But but I mean even

484
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Speaker 1: in the games where even in the games where he

485
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Speaker 1: didn't blow up, I mean not that this is a

486
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Speaker 1: good thing, but he literally shook um what's he shook

487
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,639
Speaker 1: Ronald Darby so bad that he tore his acl Like

488
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 1: if you go back and watch that, he he cut

489
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Speaker 1: on a dime twice in a row, and Darby literally

490
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Speaker 1: like couldn't stand up. You know, he's just he's he's

491
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Speaker 1: good at what he does. You know who he is

492
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,919
Speaker 1: actually more than Julio Jones. I mean in that game

493
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 1: that it was a Terrell Owens type of game where

494
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Speaker 1: you catch the ball and then you spin away and

495
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,959
Speaker 1: then it's just you and another guy. Now, who's who fast?

496
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Speaker 1: Because it's not like it was a running head start.

497
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:03,480
Speaker 1: He was at a stand still. You know. It wasn't

498
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: like the Juju touchdown yesterday ninety seven yards. I mean

499
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 1: this was like, you know, over the middle should have

500
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 1: been about fifteen twenty yards, and so he's strength the

501
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,919
Speaker 1: break tackles and then just on a dead sprint to

502
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,120
Speaker 1: go out run everyone. I thought it was awesome. Yeah,

503
00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 1: I think this is this is turning out to be

504
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: one of those moves at the Cowboys. Mate, that's so

505
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 1: far seems like it's worth it. And it's not often

506
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:25,680
Speaker 1: you can say that when you get the first round

507
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 1: pick that you can go back and look at and say, man,

508
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 1: this is gonna be this might be a great trade.

509
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: But it sounds it's looking like it has the potential

510
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 1: to be a really great move for the Cowboys. I

511
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,439
Speaker 1: understand this. This math is faulty, I get, but I

512
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: still think it's fun. Like if you adjust his four

513
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 1: game stats for sixteen games, it's obscene, like eighty eight catches,

514
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Speaker 1: fourteen hundred yards, twelve touchdowns and even, and so I'm

515
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: you know, like, oh, well, of course you had a

516
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: two hundred yard game. How often you see that, So

517
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 1: I readjusted it and it's still like seventy something catches

518
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,959
Speaker 1: for nine hundred and fifty yards, which again, I mean,

519
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 1: that's that's all you need to be in this offense.

520
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 1: That's exact the game out. I took the Thanksgiving game

521
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 1: out just to see, you know, just too, because that's

522
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: such a ridiculous outlier. You can't expect any receiver to

523
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 1: do that, but he will. I think the kind of

524
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 1: receiver he is, there will be one, two, possibly three

525
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 1: per year that he'll have like but that just games

526
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: where he just goes crazy, and then most of the

527
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,600
Speaker 1: games will be what you see. There will be those

528
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 1: five six catches somewhere between sixty and eighty yards, and again,

529
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: in this offense, that's really all me and I understand

530
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 1: why you did that, but like you have to leave

531
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Speaker 1: it in because when you take a first round pick,

532
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Speaker 1: that's what you're hoping for games like that, So that's

533
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 1: what you get. He's played four games. One of them

534
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,960
Speaker 1: was a monster game, one of them wasn't that great,

535
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 1: two of them were pretty good. I just wanted to

536
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 1: see sides of it. Either way, it's good and the

537
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,360
Speaker 1: residual effect of that is, now defenses have to pay

538
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: attention to him. And that's all you really wanted, you had,

539
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: you wanted to make defenses have to play you honest.

540
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,679
Speaker 1: And because he's making these big plays, he's starting what

541
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Speaker 1: would be, as you said, would have been probably just

542
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 1: a routine catch and he took it ninety yards. That

543
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: makes defensive think, you know, is it really worth us

544
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,120
Speaker 1: bringing that extra safety down in every circumstance like they've

545
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 1: been doing, or do we have to just kind of

546
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: pick and choose. And when we pick and choose, it

547
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 1: may create some really nice openings for a seat. And

548
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,640
Speaker 1: they've done really nice job. This team needs a tight

549
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 1: end so bad. And I understand that their offense has

550
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: done a lot better, but if you had a real

551
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: tight end that could that was like a complete tight

552
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: end who could stay on the line and block for you.

553
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,199
Speaker 1: He also can get downfield for you. And there's not

554
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: many of those guys and they've definitely been, you know, spoiled.

555
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 1: Do they go back to the well this offseason on

556
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: that one? You have to what's the well sorry, I

557
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: mean draft like doing, but you know you have yeah,

558
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,680
Speaker 1: I mean it has it's I mean, you haven't seen

559
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: what what Schultz can do yet. I mean, he's gonna

560
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: he's gonna obviously get bigger this offseason. You would hope.

561
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Speaker 1: Hope is not a strategy, I got you, That's true.

562
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: Like you gotta do. I mean, if you don't want

563
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: to spend your second round pick, that's fine, but you

564
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 1: gotta do something. Yeah, I mean yeah, free agency draft,

565
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,400
Speaker 1: I think I think you can't run You can't run

566
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Speaker 1: these back. In my opinion, I run him back. You can't, Hey,

567
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: I would. I'm I would love to sign Jeff Swain

568
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: to a contract like what James Hannah got. I would

569
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: love Swam to be my second tight absolutely. I would

570
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: love the Salts back to be my third. Yeah. And

571
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 1: then whatever you gotta do to find a starter to

572
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: experiment on what the experiment experiment has been over pretty cool?

573
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, yeah, I don't think he's gonna get

574
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: to fives. He's not gonna get to five catches. You

575
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: have five touchdowns. I think if there were ever a

576
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: year where you know he's gonna be able to do something,

577
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 1: look at all the injuries, look at all the opportunities,

578
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 1: and he's still it's just not you know what it

579
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: is them he's gonna go somewhere else and you're just

580
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to just deal with it if he If

581
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 1: he does well, But they've done everything they can do. Yeah,

582
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Speaker 1: I just don't know. All Right, We're gonna take our

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585
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Speaker 1: John I think everybody in here has experienced the greatness

638
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: of Tommy John. I like how you say that it

639
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: is an experience. It is. It's the best underwear I

640
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: think that you'll ever have. That's the guarantee Tommy John

641
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: gives you is that is the best. And if you're

642
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,959
Speaker 1: not satisfied, they'll return it and they'll give you your

643
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: money back. I'll adopt that that happens too often. I

644
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: bet you when you do contact them again, it's because

645
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: you're doing a reorder. So Tommy John dot com forward

646
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: slash Cowboys feels great, looks good. Get your twenty percent

647
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: off your first order. See if they got some kind

648
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: of deal for your second or third order. And Derek's

649
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: going to hook us up this year for Christmas with

650
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: some Tommy John busy. That's so I just cool. You

651
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: better talk to missus Eagleton about that. Thanks. We got

652
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: a lot of people on the list. I didn't think

653
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: y'all were on it, but I second see, well that's okay,

654
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: what they I don't know whatever, Just stop stop stop

655
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: all right, let's let's jump back in the defense. The

656
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: Dallas defense. This defense it's playing well. Now. You don't

657
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: always get Colton McCoy. But you know, I do think

658
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: you I do think Drew Brees is going to be

659
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: an upgrade there a little bit, a little bit. See

660
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: it's funny, like you're right. I mean, hey, they held

661
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: them to twenty three points. They picked Colton McCoy off

662
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: three times. My main takeaway from that game is that

663
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: they gave up a fifty three yard touchdown to Vernon

664
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: Davis as the first like really bad break in coverage

665
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: in a while. I mean, Julio Jones. But you're gonna

666
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: give those up every once in a while. I mean,

667
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: you're they still are human. I mean, that's gonna happen

668
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: from time. It's high right. They got Damien Wilson on

669
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: a bad matchup there and which just gonna help. I know.

670
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: I just it troubles me when you think about who's

671
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: coming in here on Thursday. Let's put because no doubt

672
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: about that. And it's it's fitting because it's something I've

673
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: been working on, Like I literally for the last week.

674
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: I went back and looked, I'm like, what are the

675
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: drives you know that have started in Dallas territory? And

676
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: how did they I'm sorry that have finished opposing territory

677
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: and how did they finish? So I just finished this

678
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: this morning. Fifty eight drives where the opponent took the

679
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: ball in their own territory and drove it into Dallas territory,

680
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: and eighteen of them have ended in touchdowns, which is

681
00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: pretty good. Seventeen field goals, I think, nine punts and

682
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: a few takeaways. But they hadn't given up a play

683
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: like that in more than a month and then so

684
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: to see him give it up right there the week

685
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,240
Speaker 1: before this Saints game bothered me. But but make no

686
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: mistake about it, there will be at least one moment

687
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: in this game against the Saints where they'll probably have

688
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: somebody get behind the defense and now it's gonna definite

689
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: saying like against this team, you're not gonna go You're

690
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: not gonna set them. I don't think that you're gonna

691
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: get them in an over Like they're not gonna go

692
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: all day without breaking a big play. That's what they do.

693
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: But that best in the league at it. That's how

694
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna beat them. That's and that's it's I think

695
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: of the Houston game all the time. It's like, give

696
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: up all the yards you want, just don't let them

697
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: finish in the end zone. It's certainly and if they

698
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: are going to finish in the end zone, it needs

699
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: to be a five yard touchdown or a three yard touchdown.

700
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: You need to make them drive the length of the field.

701
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: Giving up fifty three yards on a scoring play is

702
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: not winning defense. And it's fine against the Redskins when

703
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: they're starting Colt McCoy and you can pick them off

704
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: three times. But against Drew Brees that's not good enough.

705
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: It's just not that's not good. And so I like,

706
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: I'm hearing myself say it, and I feel like a

707
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: jerk because they played far like way more good than bad.

708
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: But when you consider the upcoming opponent, that's just not good. Yeah,

709
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's not ideal, But I still don't

710
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: believe that if you give up a big play against

711
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: the Saints that means you lose. I think you still

712
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: have to manage it. But you have to go into

713
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: this game knowing there may be moments when you get

714
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: punched in the mouth, because that's the kind of offense

715
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: that you're playing, and if you're gonna win, you have

716
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: to be able to jump back on after you get

717
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: punched in the mouth and be able to make the

718
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: next stop right. But I think, like you know, from

719
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: a boxing reference there, I don't think that the Cowboys

720
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: can get punched in the mouth and win. I really don't.

721
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: I think they have not even once. No, I mean

722
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,719
Speaker 1: they have to be the first one. They have to

723
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: take the fight to them. Yeah, you'll get punched back,

724
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: and that's fine, but you can't get you can't. This

725
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: isn't like Rocky Too, where you can just you know,

726
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,239
Speaker 1: get like two rounds where you're down and then all

727
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: of a sudden start wreck. No, I don't think that

728
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: can happen. It has to be like oh nine, or

729
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: they take it right to them and say, we're gonna

730
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: be here all day. This is a this is the

731
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,439
Speaker 1: way it is. We've got a seven nothing lead, we've

732
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: got a ten three to lead, and and then you know,

733
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: hold on for life. I certainly don't think you're bouncing

734
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: back from fourteen to three. That's what I like. That's yeah,

735
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: I agree in that regard. But I agree with you too,

736
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: like you're gonna get punched in the mouth by this

737
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,800
Speaker 1: team you just are? Did you work around it? Sorry?

738
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: Did y'all hear that they talked about. I mean, I

739
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: guess al Michaels had a problem with the Vikings taking

740
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: the ball started the game yesterday. I don't know if

741
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: y'all saw this on the broadcast. Well, just like and

742
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: then they did three and out and had to punt,

743
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 1: and he kind of talked about it. They went and

744
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: did their research at halftime and they said that ninety

745
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,439
Speaker 1: five percent of the league has deferred when they won

746
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: the toss. Ninety five Well, when did Jason Garrett start

747
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: doing this midway through the year? When you start it

748
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 1: wasn't quite midway? Was it season this season? He I

749
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,240
Speaker 1: don't actually, I don't think he has won the toss

750
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: and taken the ball this year really, but they've lost

751
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: a lot of tosses. That's the thing they've started with.

752
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: I thought it was early in the year the first

753
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: time he deferred. I thought it was like week I'm saying,

754
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: is that of the time. I'm thinking most of that's

755
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 1: gotta be Garrett. Not this year, though, I don't think that.

756
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: I really think early on they did. I don't think

757
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: that they have. I might be wrong. Last year they

758
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,479
Speaker 1: did it all the time and then and this whole

759
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: thing started, Like I want to say, Week four of

760
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, they had done a great job and then

761
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: he's like, you know what, yeah, let's take the ball.

762
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: And it worked, and then they kept doing it in

763
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen even though it wasn't working. I really think

764
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: they haven't done it this year because they lost the

765
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: toss two or three times in a row to start

766
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,840
Speaker 1: this season, and they went three and out and they're like,

767
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: you know what, we'll defer like everybody else, that's fine,

768
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 1: knowing that they have to, you know, get an early lead.

769
00:35:58,400 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: What do you think you get the ball if you

770
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: win the toss. I still like to defer, but yeah,

771
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: I always defer. I mean, I guess just set the

772
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: tone early. I mean, the thing about it is, is

773
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 1: crowd going to be unbelievable. I'm sure it'll be a

774
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: lot of Saints fans will be Cowboy fans, of course,

775
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: I mean it'll be it'll probably be a close to

776
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: fifty fifty maybe we'll see it might even be sixty

777
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: forty Cowboys. But it'll be so loud because there's their

778
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: fans are louder. I don't know if there's any other

779
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: way to say it. They're just louder. Fans, so so

780
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: I do think if you do want to kick off,

781
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: you play some defense early and let's just see, let's see,

782
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: right off the bat, what do we have. I don't

783
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 1: like the thought of sending them out there, sending the

784
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:35,919
Speaker 1: Saints out there with a chance to take a seven

785
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: nothing lead, but I don't like the thought of kicking

786
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: the ball to start it. But in the third quarter,

787
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: right yeah, and the third quarters half of the stadium

788
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: is still doesn't remember that it's a thirteen minute and

789
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: a half time and they can't get back to their

790
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: seat and it's quiet, and Breech just goes Kamara for

791
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: Twylfth's you definitely want the ball in the third quarter. Yeah, yeah,

792
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 1: I agree. And that's that's the way that if you

793
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: do get punched them out early, that might be your

794
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: say even grace if you have the ball at the

795
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: beginning the third quarter, because if you can turn around

796
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: and get that back to back score at the end

797
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: and score again at the beginning, it allows you to

798
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: get either some cushion or allows you to get back

799
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: into a game that you might be a little bit

800
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 1: behind without off the other posing offense having a shot

801
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: to get back on the fin I really do. All

802
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: I know is I've seen this scenario before them, but

803
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:21,919
Speaker 1: I really think that they can. I know you said

804
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 1: it in the press box the other day, you don't

805
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: really expect to pick the Cowboys, but wouldn't be surprised

806
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: if they want at all. Who would be, like, I mean,

807
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: nobody Vegas. Probably the Saints or seven point favorites I think,

808
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: so that's not huge. I mean the ten point favorites

809
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: on a neutral field, Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. But

810
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: it's gonna it's gonna take all hands on deck. I mean,

811
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,360
Speaker 1: how about you talked about defense. How about de Marcus

812
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: Lawrence again, I mean that interception and that I mean,

813
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: it's not the best interception I've ever seen by de

814
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: Marcus because what Ware did against the Falcons still that's

815
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:06,919
Speaker 1: pretty almost lucky. But you know, quietly, he's playing so

816
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: well that Tyrone Crawford's playing really well, and he just

817
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 1: doesn't have the numbers and and you know, for stat

818
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: I think that I think he's playing the best game

819
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: of his entire I mean, best season of his entire career,

820
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: and it's it's overshadowed because he's moving around doing different things.

821
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: But but just de Marcus and those two guys, they're

822
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: they're leaders, you know, just with the way they play,

823
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: with the way that they're acting. I mean their defense

824
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: of line. It starts up there and both those guys.

825
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: I know, the laws getting a lot of the credit,

826
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,360
Speaker 1: but I think you gotta, you gotta remember what Crawford

827
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: has been doing. Yeah, I need to look at him.

828
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: He's up to like at least four and a half,

829
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 1: if not five or more sacks Like he's yeah, he's

830
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: I really admire the job that he's doing. And then not.

831
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,439
Speaker 1: I mean, I've made my feelings on Tank perfectly clear.

832
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: He needs to be extended the day after their season ends.

833
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: And the crazy part is the numbers don't even begin

834
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: to do justice to the kind of season that DeMarcus

835
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: Lawrence is having. If you just look at his numbers,

836
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: it's like, I was pretty good, but he's actually playing

837
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: much better than that. Like the things that that don't

838
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: show up on the stat sheet, the way he's able

839
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 1: to affect plays without getting the tackle, without getting the sack,

840
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: it's huge in my I know I say this every

841
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: week and I'm not name dropping, but I mean, we

842
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,919
Speaker 1: did an interview with Steven Jones right after the game

843
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: and I said to him right before we were about

844
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: to do the interview, and I said, every play the

845
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: Marcus makes, it's just like hitting the pocket, you know,

846
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: hitting the wallet a little bit more. And he goes yeah.

847
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, it's the price that keeps going up.

848
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: But you know what, we're gonna do it. And you're

849
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: happy to do it when you got a player like that, right,

850
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the kind of deal where you're like, hey,

851
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: if I gotta pay, at least I'm at least I'm

852
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 1: getting what I'm paying for. Right. Somebody brought that up

853
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: to Jerry too, and he was like, he was like

854
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: her de Marcus making it hit in your pocketbook, and

855
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: he's like a lot of guys are making a hit

856
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: in my pocketbook right now. He's like a mari He's

857
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: making a bid for some money too. No doubt they

858
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: got a lot of those guys coming up too. They

859
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 1: have to figure out some some some ways to pay

860
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 1: all these guys, which you forgot about him, that it'll

861
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: be smart for them to actually extend him, right, you

862
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: could probably, Yeah, you can lower number Byron Jones. You

863
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: don't have to, but you could. Yeah, you probably want

864
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: to consider it. I think he's playing really well too.

865
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: I mean, if he if you could get in to

866
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: agree to it, I would try to extend Zeke too,

867
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: and just just do it. Yeah, just do it. And

868
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: then I actually like that idea. Yeah, you keep him.

869
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you get him under contract for a longer

870
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: period of time, you can maybe lower his number off

871
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: the fifth year option, and then if you extend him now,

872
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: then he's under contract until he's probably twenty eight or so,

873
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 1: and man, okay, hey, thanks for your time. You finish

874
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 1: your career, unless, of course, at that point he's got

875
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: enough yards to where you keep him around just because

876
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: he's that kind of like he's m Smith, transcendent kind

877
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: of player, and you keep him around, right maybe, I mean, yeah,

878
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 1: you got to be special. I mean, Adrian Peterson is

879
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: showing that. I mean, maybe he's not the same, but

880
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,399
Speaker 1: he's still showing that he can be pretty good. Well

881
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: with that is off the field stuff. I suspect he

882
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 1: may have continued where he was having to make a move.

883
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: I really wonder if that would have been the case,

884
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: because those kind of transcendent players you play for a

885
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,919
Speaker 1: long time in your place, and then at some point

886
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to move on. Ladanian Tomlinson is a

887
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,879
Speaker 1: good example. Eight or nine years. But but yeah, you'll

888
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: be there for a while, and and I think it

889
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: could get beyond that second. We could stand him one

890
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: more time. Look at those guys in that oh eight draft,

891
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: all all those backs in that draft. I think it.

892
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: You know, you've got Jamal Charles and Matt Forte and Fadden,

893
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: and they all played about eight or nine years and

894
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: then it's like, I don't even know are they in

895
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: the league at all. I think Charles trying to be

896
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: in the league. Charles got cute. He came in for

897
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 1: like a week or something. He was with the Panthers.

898
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,800
Speaker 1: I think somebody brought him in. Didn't we just play him? Yeah?

899
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: I mean no, we we played him this year. I

900
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: think it was the Airline. Yeah right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

901
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: So I don't know. We had this whole conversation and

902
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 1: didn't bring up the quarterback. I have to pay him too, Yeah, yeah,

903
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: it would be so lukewarm. Nick, No, you do have

904
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 1: to pay him. You have to pay him next year.

905
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I might defer on that a

906
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: little bit because if you got to pay them. You

907
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: gotta pay him anyway. Quarterbacks they're gonna cost. But I

908
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,479
Speaker 1: think i'd want to see as much as I could

909
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: possibly see before I made I agree with I agree

910
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: with you, but I don't know. I mean, he's regardless

911
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: of what you think about him, there's no denying the

912
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: fact that he's playing at an absurd discount compared to

913
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 1: the going rate for a good starting quarterback, which I don't.

914
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: I mean, but don't you want to ride that as

915
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: long as you can? What if Dak is like I

916
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: ain't riding this. There's nineteen backups that are making more

917
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: than him. I looked this up. I'm not backups, Yes,

918
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: backup or going rate for a backup is like a million,

919
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: but nineteen, I'm not. I have heard nothing. I'm not

920
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 1: trying to suggest that. But like, what if Dak may

921
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: makes an issue of this? DA would I honestly don't

922
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: think he would. I don't know. Maybe he would. I

923
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: don't think you would. I would. I mean, even if

924
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: you think he's terrible, which he's not, But even if

925
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 1: you think he is, he is playing at an absurd

926
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: discount compared to the going rate for a starting quarterback.

927
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: And so I just think that's something you got to

928
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: consider heading into the final year of his deal. I

929
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: mean is I think if you looked at the quarterbacks

930
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: in the in the history of the league, that are

931
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: the first three seasons of their career. Um, I only

932
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: think there's I think he's right there in the top

933
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: four or five of wins. He's right there. Whatever inner

934
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: you can say, is it because of the line and

935
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 1: all the he's winning games. I can't. I can't imagine

936
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: him holding out, but I can imagine him in his

937
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: camp being deeply unhappy at the thought of having to

938
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: play another season on a fourth round picks rookie contract.

939
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 1: But but that being said, if that happens, then I

940
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys would probably be okay with it because

941
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: they could probably get him for a discount because of

942
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: what he's done right now. He has won the games.

943
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: But from stats standpoint, where does he where would he

944
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: rank among the high What they did with with Romo

945
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: and the first big contract he got it was like

946
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: a little less than what you would say, maybe he

947
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: could have even gone for, but they did it at

948
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: the right time when there like sixty seven it was

949
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 1: something like that. But I know When the negotiations began,

950
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,919
Speaker 1: it was for to be the highest paid quarterback league,

951
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: and they did not end it and go that way.

952
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, and so you know, you they'll

953
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: they'll make the argument the Dak's camp about law the winds,

954
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: and then the Cowboys will say, well, look look at

955
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: the stats and look how much we have to help you.

956
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: And so it's it's going to be interesting. I think

957
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: that there will be a different offensive coordinator. I think

958
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: it'll be a very It won't just be entitled of

959
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 1: saying Dack friendly. This really will be Dack friendly. I

960
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: don't think the system is friendly for Dak, but I

961
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 1: think I think it will be um if they get

962
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: a new new system. I think you have to you know,

963
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: I think it depends on what happens here down the stretch,

964
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: because I'll tell you this, if if they keep rolling

965
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: like they're rolling right now, it's gonna be hard to

966
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 1: make a lot of moves once the offseason gets here.

967
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 1: I think I don't agree with that. But the well,

968
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 1: the funny thing for me is, and you know, the

969
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: Cowboys are in as favorable a spot as anybody in

970
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: the NFC East, But you know, a month ago. All

971
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 1: looked hopeless. So there's there's a coaster, Give me a twister,

972
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: a turn or two before it's all said and done.

973
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate you guys, join us. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow where another edition of The Break Till then for Nike,

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