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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 Susie. November twelve, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode

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Speaker 1: number eighty. Welcome to another edition All Break, where you're

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Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Morty Studios at the Star.

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Speaker 1: You got about forty five minutes to talk about the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys with you guys. Today, we're gonna talk about levels

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Speaker 1: of concern coming off a game like that one that

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Speaker 1: we saw on Sunday. There's a lot of things that

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Speaker 1: how much should you be concerned about certain things that

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Speaker 1: we saw Sunday, about certain position groups, about particular players

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Speaker 1: But is it a real trend or is it something

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Speaker 1: as we go forward. So I got my crew here,

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Speaker 1: got Nick, even Dave Hellman, Danny no excuse me, Danny

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Speaker 1: serekis joining us today as well. So let's jump right

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Speaker 1: in level of concern. It's gonna be a rating of

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's start first with the offensive line. And

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Speaker 1: I heard you guys actually had some interesting conversation on

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Speaker 1: that yesterday. And so before we get to your levels

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Speaker 1: news on what's happening there on the offensive line. Don't

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Speaker 1: you take care of that? Nick? And you called your

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Speaker 1: shot like, babe, freaking I didn't he always done? And

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Speaker 1: then later he's like he has no I didn't know anything. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: He's like, I don't have a source, I don't know anything.

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Speaker 1: He didn't know anything about an injury to Connor Williams.

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Speaker 1: And and as I was telling you this earlier, if

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Speaker 1: protecting him and they're trying to start Sufilo. I don't

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Speaker 1: a legitimate injury. He's gonna have scope on his right knee,

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Speaker 1: I believe. I don't think it's left because last year

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Speaker 1: They just didn't draft him. But as I saw you,

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Speaker 1: Maybe instead of saying, you know what, Connor, maybe you

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Speaker 1: would assume Connor Williams is still going to have a

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Speaker 1: hard time thinking that Philadelphias. Philadelphia is just as schizophrenic

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Speaker 1: don't think the cow I mean, the Cowboys can compete

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Speaker 1: here comes another screen pass. Here we go again. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna do it coming out of this look. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: do it coming out of that look. And the Cowboys

428
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Speaker 1: just aren't like that. And Kellen Moore is obviously doing

429
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Speaker 1: a good job. They have the best offense in the league,

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Speaker 1: but said, I just think they could be more creative

431
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Speaker 1: across a bunch of different fronts. The interesting part about

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Speaker 1: this is you talked about the money. Christian McCaffrey has

433
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Speaker 1: not reached his second deal. Correct, No, all right, So

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Speaker 1: check this out. Five rushers in the league right now,

435
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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, Nick Chubb, Dalvin Cook, Leonard Fournette, Josh Jacobs,

436
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Speaker 1: all young guys, all still on their first contracts. If

437
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Speaker 1: you go beyond that, Zeke's at six. But then you've

438
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Speaker 1: got Chris Carson, You've got Marlon Mack, You've got Derrick Henry,

439
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Speaker 1: Carlos Hyde, Lamar Jackson, Funny Kenyon, Drake, mark Ingram, Philip

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Speaker 1: like you start going down this list, and it is

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Speaker 1: the whole argument that was being made before the deal

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Speaker 1: with Zeke of do you ever and I've heard people

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Speaker 1: make this argument, and I think it's a valid argument,

444
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Speaker 1: do you ever go big on a second contract on

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Speaker 1: a running back in today's NFL where you look at

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Speaker 1: this and this is not uncommon that you look at

447
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Speaker 1: the top rushers in the league and they tend to

448
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Speaker 1: be young guys on first deals. Does this change? Are

449
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Speaker 1: you looking at this and do you guys have any

450
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Speaker 1: questions now about whether it was a good idea to

451
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Speaker 1: make the decision to pay him the amount of money

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Speaker 1: that they ended up paying him. Yeah, I mean, go

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Speaker 1: back and you know now and and make that argument.

454
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Speaker 1: But I don't think it was a bad idea. I

455
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Speaker 1: think we were there in training camp. We kind of

456
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Speaker 1: knew what this team was about, what they needed, and

457
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Speaker 1: I think Zeke is the guy that he has been,

458
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Speaker 1: the guy that kind of makes it all go. So, um,

459
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Speaker 1: you know, Dak hasn't. This was one of the few

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Speaker 1: games that we've really seen Dak really play great game

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Speaker 1: without having him out there. I guess you could say

462
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Speaker 1: the Giants from last year, but you know, against a

463
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Speaker 1: much better team and uh, you know, Dak's kind of

464
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Speaker 1: been the guy that's needed Zeke. And let's be honest,

465
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Speaker 1: he still had Zeke. I mean, he had Zeke in

466
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Speaker 1: that game. Like he wasn't rushing for a lot, but

467
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Speaker 1: he was there and the Vikings certainly knew he was there.

468
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Speaker 1: So I think I think Zeke's president certainly helped Dak

469
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Speaker 1: in that game. Um, I don't know, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think we went in we went into

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Speaker 1: this with our eyes open, like all that. None of

472
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Speaker 1: that should be surprising to you if you play close

473
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Speaker 1: pay close attention to the NFL. And I even I

474
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Speaker 1: was like, it's scary have that much money to a

475
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Speaker 1: running back. But if there's a guy that I would

476
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Speaker 1: give it to, it's Zeke x y Z. His age,

477
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Speaker 1: his durability, his talent, blah blah blah blah blah. So

478
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Speaker 1: I mean, it hurts to hear that, but you shouldn't

479
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Speaker 1: be surprised, Like it shouldn't have taken to I'm not

480
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Speaker 1: talking to you, ye speaking rhetorically, right, So like it

481
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Speaker 1: kind of stings to hear that, But yeah, I agree

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Speaker 1: with Nick. I mean, the Vikings were so obviously keyed

483
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Speaker 1: on Zeke and we I mean coach's fault in my

484
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Speaker 1: opinion that they were still focusing that much on the

485
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Speaker 1: run even late in the game, and the Cowboys did

486
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Speaker 1: adjust to throw more, but I think they could have

487
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Speaker 1: done more, I think, And yeah, and I agree, like

488
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Speaker 1: that was one of Dak's first games where he was

489
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Speaker 1: really able to carry that load on his own and

490
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Speaker 1: they still didn't win. They could have, which hasn't always

491
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Speaker 1: been the case. When Zeke has had a bad day,

492
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Speaker 1: but they didn't, and so Dak will hopefully continue to

493
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Speaker 1: grow into that guy. I don't know if he's ready

494
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Speaker 1: to be that guy a weekend and week out yet,

495
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Speaker 1: and so I still don't have a problem with it,

496
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Speaker 1: even if it does kind of sting to hear those stats. Yeah,

497
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Speaker 1: the part that's worsome for me is if you go

498
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Speaker 1: back and watch the game, there were so many plays

499
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Speaker 1: where it wasn't even like the it wasn't even a

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Speaker 1: situation where the Vikings were just saying, at least in

501
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Speaker 1: the situations I'm talking about, where the Vikings were saying,

502
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Speaker 1: we're gonna put both safeties down in the box and

503
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,280
Speaker 1: we are committed to stopping Zeke. Like, these are situations

504
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Speaker 1: where what the defense was dedicating to stop the run

505
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Speaker 1: was beatable. And especially when you consider the fact of

506
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Speaker 1: how much money and how many first round draft picks

507
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Speaker 1: have been used across that offensive line and at the

508
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Speaker 1: running back position, You're like, they should be able to

509
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Speaker 1: beat the front that says run against this front, And

510
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Speaker 1: I know they weren't. I get all that, But that's

511
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Speaker 1: the part that's worthsome to me is the guys that

512
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Speaker 1: you've really invested in to say third and two, we

513
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Speaker 1: feel like we should be able to run against a

514
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Speaker 1: four man front and six men in the box, and

515
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Speaker 1: you can't. You get a two yard loss. Right, That's

516
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Speaker 1: where I think there's a a disconnect and a problem.

517
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Speaker 1: Danny used the jello analogy that, yeah, it was so great,

518
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Speaker 1: I want to fight through the fan. This morning, Jerry

519
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Speaker 1: was saying he was asked if he has, like any

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Speaker 1: concerns I guess more about Cowboys run defense. Was I

521
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Speaker 1: think what the specific question was and is analogy. He's

522
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Speaker 1: great analogies. He said, It's like holding jello in your hands.

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Speaker 1: As soon as it starts to like you think you're good,

524
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Speaker 1: it's not seeping through your middle fingers anymore. It starts

525
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Speaker 1: overflowing on the edges. So as soon as you think

526
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Speaker 1: you're good and comfortable in one aspect of your game,

527
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Speaker 1: something else kind of grabs your attention. Which the reason

528
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Speaker 1: I asked you to bring that up is it's very

529
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Speaker 1: fitting in that regard because whether it's injuries, whether it's

530
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Speaker 1: the other talent in the NFL, whatever you want to

531
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Speaker 1: chalk it up to, like, it's rare when you can

532
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Speaker 1: just line up and out talent another NFL team, and

533
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: it takes coaching to compensate for that. In my opinion,

534
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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, I believe, had they had their

535
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Speaker 1: starting tackles for the first time in like a month

536
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Speaker 1: and a half night which they lost. Ironically, they lost,

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Speaker 1: but they also got to eight no without their starting tackles.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine that happening here? No? I can't. But

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Speaker 1: that also tells you, you you know, you invest so much

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Speaker 1: in a particular area of your team, and when that

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Speaker 1: part of the team is just performing like all these

542
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Speaker 1: other teams that don't invest at and it makes you wonder,

543
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Speaker 1: is it a bad investment? Right? No, that's and that's

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Speaker 1: my You know, yes, you spend all this money on

545
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Speaker 1: the O line, but I mean, you know, Tyrone's his

546
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Speaker 1: injury list is like a CBS receipt, and Lyle's been

547
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Speaker 1: dealing with something. Travis is coming back from a sickness

548
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Speaker 1: that knocked him out all year, and on and on

549
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Speaker 1: and on and on, and it's it's unrealistic to be like, well,

550
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Speaker 1: we spent first round picks on these guys for years

551
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Speaker 1: and years, so we can just line up and run

552
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Speaker 1: over whoever we want to. You gotta be more creative

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Speaker 1: than that. All right, Look, I was gonna say, you

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Speaker 1: look at the teams, some of who they've lost too,

555
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Speaker 1: and you think if the Cowboys were dealing with those injuries,

556
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Speaker 1: could they have won games? Right? The Saints didn't have Breeze,

557
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Speaker 1: if we didn't have Dak right Cooper Rush, Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: Giant or Packers didn't have jamont To Adams. Like we've

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Speaker 1: seen how this Cowboys team performs without Cooper. It's it's

560
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Speaker 1: just concerned. Yeah, you see the depth and then when

561
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: they're putting this situation to use their backups doesn't always

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Speaker 1: pan out the way it should. All Right, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: say our final break, we will come back. We'll talk

564
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: about the run defense, we'll talk about the linebackers, and

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about special teams a little bit

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Speaker 1: as well. We'll get levels of concern on all those

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Speaker 1: Detroit seems like it's gonna be pretty cool. I know

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Speaker 1: we're getting a right, let's get back in. Yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: talk some run defense. Uh, this last game, that one

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Speaker 1: series is what I just had him my mind because

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Speaker 1: it'll be honest with you, And we even mentioned in

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Speaker 1: they were actually doing a pretty good stopping the run.

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Speaker 1: Their problems were in the screen game like they were

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Speaker 1: having a hard time stop in the screen game. But

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Speaker 1: as far as the run was concerned, they were doing

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Speaker 1: a pretty good job. And then you get to that

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Speaker 1: series and basically Minnesota just lined up and see it.

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Speaker 1: We're going to run the ball. You're not going to

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Speaker 1: stop us. And the Cowboys had no answers. Yeah, it's

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00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: very old school. Yeah, And you know, you can say

636
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: what you want about Tony Pollard, he is a change

637
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: of pace back, but Minnesota does it differently that when

638
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: they bring a guy in, they bring a guy that's

639
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: even bigger and more pissed off than Dalvin Cook and

640
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: he runs that way. And you don't really know the

641
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: difference of these two guys, and it wasn't an advantage

642
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: for them not to say that. You know, the Cowboys

643
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: were doing it in another way, but they were able

644
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: to just interchange them within a drive and keep it going,

645
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: keep it pounding, and it was it was very impressive

646
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: to see for that end. It wasn't impressive to see

647
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: the linebackers and the defensive lines. Isn't it the same

648
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: thing we've been saying all season? Tackling? Yeah, I mean,

649
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: tackling was definitely a problem in this game. Run defense

650
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: has been at least somewhat of a concern sporadically throughout

651
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: the season. At times I think we were getting better

652
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: at one point, and can anybody pinpoint what the deal

653
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: is here, because I mean, yeah, I'm I'm way, I'm

654
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: way up there, close to ten with the defense. I

655
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: will say this anytime, anytime a team is getting run

656
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: on the way the Cowboys got run on in that

657
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: in the second half in that game, my first set

658
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 1: of attention goes to the linebackers, and I think there

659
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: were a number of times in that game where linebackers

660
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: overran plays where linebackers slipped and fell, where linebackers had

661
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: a guy like they had him and he got away

662
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: and he's running. And so for me, the number one

663
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: job of a linebacker is make the tackle. Diagnosed the play,

664
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: get there and make the tackle. And I don't think

665
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: enough in that second half of that game the linebackers

666
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: were diagnosing the play, getting there and making the tackle.

667
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,479
Speaker 1: That also means sometimes you gotta run through blocks. I mean,

668
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta know enough about what's coming to not

669
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: get in a bad position to get blocked. Didn't look

670
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: like often enough the linebackers were doing that in this game.

671
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: It didn't seem like anybody was really doing it. Getting

672
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: off I mean, m DeMarcus Lawrence played pretty well all things.

673
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: I mean, what else is new? But yeah, get not

674
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: being able to get off blocks, not diagnosing plays, tackling

675
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: I think I think I read the Vikings had one

676
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: hundred and forty four yards after contact. It's amazing. Yeah,

677
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 1: it's amazing. It's it's it's incredible in all the wrong ways. Yea,

678
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: So maybe they were diagnosing plays. Maybe they were diagnosing

679
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: plays working righta all all season? Yeah, I don't think

680
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: it's been all season. I think yeah, I think consistently, Yeah,

681
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: I think there's been issues tackling throughout the season. I

682
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: get a confused with Texas football sometimes, So I don't know,

683
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: it's sorry for me to say for the whole year,

684
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: please don't bring up college football with David. I think, oh, yeah, right,

685
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: we don't have to go there. You know the guy

686
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: that that's really hard to figure out here is when

687
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: you just watch him plays, Alan Smith. I mean, is

688
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: he good? Does he make a lot of plays? He

689
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: makes some he tells you about it when he does,

690
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: and you think, well, well, you know he's around the ball,

691
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: he's making plays. He doesn't always make great plays, though

692
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: he misses a lot too. And Jalen is very similar

693
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 1: to this team in that you know, you see the good,

694
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: he sees some of the bad at the end of

695
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: the day. Though it doesn't add up like you like

696
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: you'd want it to. You know, thirteen tackles, but it

697
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: just seems kind of hollow. Would it be fair? And

698
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: I don't have them all in front of me, obviously,

699
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: but like most of Jalen's really great plays this season

700
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: have been as a pass rusher, really, haven't they I'm thinking,

701
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm thinking Saints, I'm thinking he had a

702
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 1: sack against the Giants. I believe. I don't think he's

703
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: a great rusher, though I'm not saying one way or

704
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: the other. I'm saying most of his good plays have

705
00:34:55,360 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: been just screaming downfield trying to write, which I mean,

706
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: that's nice, but that's not what I want from my linebackers.

707
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: I want them using their instincts to get side to

708
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 1: side and sniff stuff out before it gets started. I mean,

709
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: that's what you're there to do. Yeah, And I think

710
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: if you're if if we're talking about this holistically, I

711
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: don't think there's a linebacker on among those top three

712
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: that have consistently done that this year, and to be

713
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,960
Speaker 1: honest with you, the one I'm probably most disappointed in,

714
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: and again it's because of expectations, is Latent. My thoughts

715
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: after last year was that Latan's gonna be a bad

716
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: you know what in this league. He was going to

717
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: be a really, really great linebacker. So my expectation is

718
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: sideline a sideline. I think about that Houston game and

719
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: the way they run down that play on the sideline

720
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: and stop the quarterback cold in his tracks and there

721
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: is nothing that he gets out of the play. How

722
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: often have we seen that this year? Like that's the

723
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: part that I'm really concerned about, is they're just not

724
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: flowing sideline the sideline. They're not diagnosing a play and

725
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: making tackles for lasses where they just basically shoot through gaps.

726
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: You're not doing any of that stuff, and so there's

727
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: not the big plays coming from They're not even making

728
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: the kind of plays where receiver catches a ball in

729
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,439
Speaker 1: middle field, linebacker comes up and dislodges the ball. Those

730
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: kind of like what kind of plays are they making

731
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: right now? And I just don't see a lot of

732
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 1: those splashed plays from the linebacking win late, sorry down,

733
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: Would you even consider him healthy? No? Right? Which what

734
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 1: sucks is it? Honestly it puts us in a bad spot.

735
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 1: Not that anybody, not that I expect anybody to have sympathy,

736
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: But like Layton's got a stinger. It was bad enough

737
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 1: that it kept him out the game after the bye week,

738
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: so clearly something pretty nasty to sideline him for that long.

739
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: Then he's clearly gimpy in this Vikings game, like he's limping.

740
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: You could see it with your own eyes. He runs

741
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: off the field, he goes to the locker room without

742
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: his helmet, comes back, gets back in, finishes the game.

743
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: And so for all intents and purposes, he's healthy. Like,

744
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: if you're healthy enough to be out there, then you're

745
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: healthy enough for me to critique your level of play.

746
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,399
Speaker 1: But probably not in reality, you know, But how many

747
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: guys on the field are all like that? Absolutely? I'm

748
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,240
Speaker 1: about football is if you're out there playing, you're probably

749
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 1: playing with an injury. And it's just a matter of

750
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: how much pain tolerance can you can you handle? But

751
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: and again I don't even I don't know, like Jay,

752
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: we even asked Jason Garrett about it specifically. Yesterday we

753
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: were like, did he come out of that game? Okay?

754
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: And Jason said yes. So I'm going to take him

755
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: at his word on that, even if it's probably not

756
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: one the truth. But if he's and again pure conjecture

757
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: on my part, I don't know, I'm speculating, but like,

758
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: if he's got like a mild groin strain, no wonder

759
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 1: he's not doing that type of stuff, you know, But

760
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: if you're healthy enough to be out there, then I

761
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: have to critique what I see. You know, I think

762
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: the big difference is is, you know, at the linebacker position,

763
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: I think those are a lot of guys in the

764
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: league that make tackles, especially since that's a that's a

765
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: stat that you know, teams keep by, you know, to themselves,

766
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: and it changes with every everybody who's who's grading those players.

767
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: But you know, I think Layton made the Pro Bowl

768
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: last because he had interceptions. He had a couple in

769
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: a row. He had a couple against the one on

770
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: Monday night or Sunday night, and the next week as well,

771
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: And I think that's right when you're really voting, and

772
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: this guy's a stud and now he's making other plays,

773
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: But I don't. I don't know. I think that's the

774
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: big difference here. I don't he hasn't had those turnovers.

775
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: I disagree with you, and I think you're right, like

776
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: interceptions or splash plays and they stand out and they

777
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: run on Sports Center. But just week after week last year,

778
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: he's knifing back into the backfield and like if he

779
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: had been playing like he was last year, half of

780
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: those pitches to Dalvin Cook, they're going for negative one,

781
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,919
Speaker 1: zero or one because Layton vander esh is getting through

782
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: two blocks and getting there before he can get going.

783
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,280
Speaker 1: He did it. He made a huge play against Philly

784
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: on the road last year where he did exactly that,

785
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 1: and he did that reliably. They did it against Houston.

786
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 1: They wound up losing that game, but they both were

787
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: doing stuff like that and you just don't see it.

788
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: You remember Layton. I think he did it once in

789
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: this game, and he's done it a few other times,

790
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: and it stands out because it happened so rarely where

791
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: you're like, WHOA, there's the latent that I remember from

792
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: last year. How many games did he miss last year,

793
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 1: like to start the year, how many he didn't work well?

794
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 1: He wasn't starting until week four or five, but he

795
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 1: didn't miss anything. He didn't miss any games. I mean,

796
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: he's on pace to get way more tackles this year.

797
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 1: And I understand that he didn't, you know, play, it

798
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: wasn't starting a lot in the first few games. But

799
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's still making plays. I really do.

800
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: I think he's making plays. I just don't know if

801
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,479
Speaker 1: he's making these splash plays, especially the turnovers. I've seen

802
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: some tackles, but you know where he's chasing them down

803
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: and all that, But I guess they haven't. I don't know.

804
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: Let's ask Corey Miller. How the house. Yeah, it's not

805
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: very often. And actually the big board up there, how

806
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: many times are they hitting the house? I heard it

807
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: once in the game, and I want to say this

808
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: last game where he did it, it was like a

809
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 1: it was a play that I was kind of like

810
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: a little nondescript, like I didn't think it was a

811
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: great play, but he made a tackle his wife on

812
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: six yard. I mean, so I don't know. All right,

813
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 1: real quick, we don't have much time left. I really

814
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: quickly wanted to bring up special teams because I wanted

815
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: to talk about Brett Maher. Is there any level of

816
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: concern with him? I don't personally put okay, good every

817
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: time he kicks, oh, okay, every time he makes every

818
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: time he kicks, there's a concern. Yeah, there is. I

819
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna make it. I don't know

820
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: if he's gonna make it, including extra points, I don't

821
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: know if he's going to make it. I was really

822
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: wondering if they make that touchdown at the end of

823
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: the game, was he going to make it? You know? Yeah,

824
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: it was just I just thought it was gonna come

825
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: down to either Maha or Bailey or both or whatever.

826
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: But it didn't. It almost did. That's what's concerning. I

827
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: get that they know he can make those really long kicks,

828
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 1: you know, forty five fifty yarders, but does that mean

829
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: that you have to put him in the multiple situations

830
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: like that every game. Did you guys talk about that yesterday? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

831
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: there's too much, too much faith. Well, extra points that

832
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 1: I've seen him do it, cool, but I just like

833
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 1: which he's seen him do it. He also knows that

834
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: he's missed. He's fifty percent this year, which fifty plus,

835
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: so he threw him. He threw him out there for

836
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: the fifty seven yard or and then twenty minutes later

837
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: had an opportunity at the same kick and didn't want

838
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 1: to do it. It's like, but but you had all

839
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: this confidence in him, and so just watching him miss

840
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 1: one kick changed all of that, even though you've seen

841
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: him miss plenty of times in your life. Yeah, I

842
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: just I can't fathom why you would make the decision

843
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a fifty fifty shot at something, at anything,

844
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: I would take a fifty fifty shot at something that

845
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: early in the game where it's not necessary, Like you

846
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: do that going into a half, when you have any

847
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,439
Speaker 1: more time. You do that at the end of a game.

848
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: Maybe late in a game when you just feel like, hey,

849
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 1: we've been struggling all game to get into position to

850
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 1: even get a score. We gotta get something here, then

851
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: maybe you take it was the first series of the game.

852
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 1: Why I didn't understand the point of it. I really

853
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: didn't understand the point of It's not gonna give you

854
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: a boost to go up three nothing. Rightly, look at

855
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: the percentages. What's the percentage Chris Jones is gonna put

856
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,359
Speaker 1: the ball in ten yard line? Probably like seventy five percent.

857
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 1: That's what he does right there? Yeah, that and then

858
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: what's the percent that the Vics are gonna go ninety?

859
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, it's smaller than fifty. Who

860
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 1: do you don't know they did it on the next series.

861
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: Who do you implicitly trust on this team? Implicitly like

862
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: they're like it's a zero, you got a zero? Since

863
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: we're talking about how concerned you are, I can think

864
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: of a few, all right. I was about to say, like,

865
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,720
Speaker 1: I'm having a hard time coming up with a single

866
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: one other than maybe a Marmari I trust him four

867
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: for me, I don't know. I mean, maybe I'm just

868
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: a homer. Yeah, but I think Forrest shown us that

869
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: at times, like he's had some games where you kind

870
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: of like, yeah, but even there, even when he really not,

871
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: even when I'm thinking that's true, not this year, You're right, nothing,

872
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: and so it maybe past this year that kind of

873
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 1: closet for me. Right against the Packers, he was forcing

874
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: a little bit, even though he went for four to fifty.

875
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 1: But I mean he was no, he was he made

876
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: little That's my point. Even even the bad games. I

877
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 1: mean he threw he ends up threw a pick on

878
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: the first play of the Giants game, and wasn't four

879
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: nineteen and ninety. I'm good with you on nineteen and

880
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: I'll even you know what, I'll probably throw in thirty one.

881
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: Maybe that's just more it's been really good this year.

882
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 1: I think that's not the reason you say that. I

883
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: think is just more about the struggles all over the

884
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: rest of the secondary. Maybe he's not giving a ton

885
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: of help, but I think he's played really you know what,

886
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if if the reason

887
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: why we're seeing what we're seeing is because teams think,

888
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: why even mess with thirty one when we could just

889
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: go to the other side. And so I wonder it

890
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: is Byron really that good or is it a situation

891
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: where teams just are like, I don't really want to

892
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: deal with that. If I can go over here, this

893
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 1: is a better match. Guess what that counts is being

894
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: good if teams don't even want to mess with you

895
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: because it's that kind of black. But the flip side

896
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 1: of that, if the flip side of that is the

897
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: more important part, which is the guy on the other

898
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: side is a guarantee, then it doesn't matter necessarily how

899
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: good that guy is over there, he's I mean, and

900
00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not trying to take anything away from Byron.

901
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is, I don't know if teams are

902
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: just so heavily focused on the matchup of whoever's with

903
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: with Cheeto that they just say that's a better matchup

904
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: rather than it being on the scheme, then that's on

905
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: Christopher Shard. That's on those guys, because I'm telling you,

906
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: I know football has changed a lot over the years,

907
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: but I've seen Larry Brown get nine interceptions one year

908
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: and win a Super Bowl and MVP. Not because he

909
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: was really that good. He was opportunistic. The other guy

910
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: was the best corner to ever play. So work on

911
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: your defense to make that work to If Byron is

912
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: that good and Cheeto is not, then why can't you

913
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: give him more help and play that way, cheat that way,

914
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,359
Speaker 1: or give him some help. That's on the scheme. If

915
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: that's if that's what's happening, quit just saying one guy

916
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: over here, one guy over here, and god, I hope

917
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: you know, I hope they both win. You know you

918
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 1: think that's what they're doing. No, I mean, I don't

919
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: think Cheo's getting some help. I mean, he's got safety

920
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 1: over the time. A lot of times we see the

921
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: safety running into the screen as the completions being made,

922
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: So I think a safety is there is well, I

923
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: mean maybe, I don't know. I don't think that they're

924
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: they're benefiting from the fact that thirty one is not

925
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: doing anything, like he's not giving up anything. Yeah, they

926
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: need to benefit from that and maybe get even more hill.

927
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: My point was just to say, it's not a long list,

928
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 1: and that's right, and for a team with you know,

929
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: an MC championship aspirations at the start of the season,

930
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: that's that's not great. What I don't know is if

931
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: you went around all the teams in the NFL, is

932
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:16,720
Speaker 1: it the same thing, Like why who they implicitly trust

933
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: is still just a handful of guys and everybody else

934
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: just kind of takes their moments when they're really really

935
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 1: good and the Cowboys aren't getting those other guys to

936
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: step up and have those really really good games at

937
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: just on a rotation. You know what I'm saying, I

938
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: would sack Martin I think I do. I agree with you.

939
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: Is his injuries I feel like I have hurt him

940
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, But I mean you know, if you're

941
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: talking about the offensive line, and you could say, well,

942
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: they didn't have a good game because they didn't run

943
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: the ball as well as you wanted them too. But

944
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: they still threw for four you know, like they had

945
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty five yards. I mean that that's

946
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 1: a lot of yards. So they were you know, in

947
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: one sack and Dak could have been through or four.

948
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: He did a nice job of getting out of it.

949
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: But you know, they they did a good job in

950
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: certain aspect. They didn't move the ball up and down

951
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: the field. It's hard to just say the offensive line

952
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: was terrible. They they they're short art situations weren't good.

953
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 1: I remember during the game when they got down to

954
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: the ten yard line. I think I even said that

955
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: you or Rob I said, okay, that's good, but this

956
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: is where it gets really tough. It's just hard to

957
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: score right in here at the ten. And that's when

958
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 1: we started dissecting all these touchdowns. When you get inside

959
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: the red zone, you know, they're not as good. That's

960
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: been a problem for a long time. They don't push

961
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: the pile. So maybe Swiftie lokan help there. All right,

962
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Speaker 1: we're gonna say that's in the show. Yea. We will

963
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. We're on twenty five and a half

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Speaker 1: hour Break. Here you go for Nick Even, Dave Hellman,

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