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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hello, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of The Break. The Cowboys are
Speaker 1: now two, I know, after beating another division rival this
Speaker 1: weekend against the Redskins thirty one twenty one. Before we
Speaker 1: get into it, how are you guys doing. I'm fantastic.
Speaker 1: We got home at eight fifteen, at a regular night's sleep.
Speaker 1: Cowboys looked good. What could you possibly complain about? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are there's things that people could find,
Speaker 1: and they are finding him. But I think that just
Speaker 1: goes to the expectations of this team that you know
Speaker 1: you can Oh my god, what's wrong with the defense?
Speaker 1: I mean, give it up twenty one point. This is
Speaker 1: a good football team, and I think we knew that
Speaker 1: before this season started, and we're finding it out and
Speaker 1: don't know how good Washington is or the Giants don't
Speaker 1: look that great. But you're gonna face bad teams, and
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do is you're supposed to beat
Speaker 1: them down. And I think they're gonna face a bat
Speaker 1: even I almost said batter team. They're gonna face a batter.
Speaker 1: You could probably come up with new adjectives to describe
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, but well you know that. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get to them. You never know what could happen.
Speaker 1: You know, it's very impossible. You're right, they might cover,
Speaker 1: but you never know. But let's start off with this game.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the offense started kind of bad.
Speaker 1: Dak ended up doing what he does basically usually takes
Speaker 1: him a little while to get going, and yesterday he
Speaker 1: aside from being under pressure, aside from throwing an interception
Speaker 1: which wasn't really his fault, maybe that was kind of
Speaker 1: on Randall cup a little bit. But then after all that,
Speaker 1: he didn't. He stayed put, very focused, ended up getting
Speaker 1: completing twenty six out of thirty attempts for two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty nine yards his final his final eighteen passes
Speaker 1: and all fourteen of his passes in the second half.
Speaker 1: Very impressive. Yeah, so where how did he turn the
Speaker 1: switch on? What happened then that we saw the offense
Speaker 1: finally being able to get moving even after being pressure.
Speaker 1: I think this team just does a good job and
Speaker 1: whether it's Kellen Moore, whether it's John Kitting up top,
Speaker 1: whoever on offense, they do a good job of figuring
Speaker 1: out what can we do here? What what what is working?
Speaker 1: And what are the Redskins trying to do? And as
Speaker 1: the Giant or whoever, and let's beat them. I mean,
Speaker 1: the most impressive thing to me when I look at
Speaker 1: all these stats is that for the second straight game,
Speaker 1: they have scored touchdowns on five straight possessions. Last week
Speaker 1: was five touchdowns, this week four touchdowns in a field goal.
Speaker 1: They are figuring out, Okay, I see what you've gained
Speaker 1: planned all week to do. Got it. Good job, nice sack,
Speaker 1: good interception, not happening again. Watch this and then they
Speaker 1: just take over. Yeah that's you know, not to pat
Speaker 1: myself on the back, but it looked let me pat
Speaker 1: myself on the back. Yeah, always when you say that,
Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna do. But it kind of encompassed
Speaker 1: like what I thought was going to happen. Although I
Speaker 1: didn't expect them to struggle so much early and then
Speaker 1: after they struggled. I didn't expect it to be that
Speaker 1: easy the rest of the way, Like I kind of
Speaker 1: thought it would be more back and forth. I said
Speaker 1: they'd win by ten, but I thought it would feel
Speaker 1: a little bit closer than that. And like they got
Speaker 1: all the struggles out of the way in like twenty
Speaker 1: minutes and then they were like, all right, let's go
Speaker 1: carrot it over time. You should listen to your buddy, Derek.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, oh, what do you say? I don't
Speaker 1: remember what about. So what I said was we can
Speaker 1: go back and play if I want to. I actually
Speaker 1: said it was going to be adversity at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the game, and everybody would be like, man, this
Speaker 1: isn't the team we saw last year, last week. Then
Speaker 1: the Cowboys would get going, the Cowboys got out to
Speaker 1: a comfortable lead at the end, the Cowboys would win it.
Speaker 1: Thirty one twenty three was my final score. And I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: thirty one twenty three was my final score. I said,
Speaker 1: But the Redskins would score late in order to make
Speaker 1: you look closer than it actually was. That's exactly I'm
Speaker 1: just every once in a while, if you get these right.
Speaker 1: It really every once in a while you get these right.
Speaker 1: It really was finny one. I gave you about twenty.
Speaker 1: It did have a twenty plays a game, and I
Speaker 1: got one. Yeah, and it was a good one. And
Speaker 1: it was we were standing we were sitting there and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Nick says, Devin Street to the house.
Speaker 1: Now I'm Darren Smith. Now I'm doing I did that
Speaker 1: because I watched New We should do it last night. Anyway,
Speaker 1: very different players, it very different. Nick was like Dev
Speaker 1: Smith to the house. And I just kind of I
Speaker 1: didn't even really pay attention to it. It was just
Speaker 1: kind of like, okay, here Nick goes with his predictions again,
Speaker 1: and then here he's gone down and play. And so, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a good one. That was a really good
Speaker 1: one out of twenty. That was a good one because
Speaker 1: that's not one that you would just if you would
Speaker 1: just say Cooper to the house thing, you know, that
Speaker 1: doesn't count. But I honestly saw him out there and
Speaker 1: I thought, they don't think he can run that fast.
Speaker 1: I bet you that they don't think that he could
Speaker 1: just fly right by him. But you know the thing
Speaker 1: about that, and the play action is huge. I mean
Speaker 1: Zeke doesn't have the greatest numbers. I mean, good game, great,
Speaker 1: great game. But to me, this is all about Zeke
Speaker 1: and and the and the running game. I mean, the
Speaker 1: two biggest plays of the game on offense to me
Speaker 1: were Devin Smith and Dack's run, and both of them
Speaker 1: were off play fakes, one to Pollard and one to Zeke.
Speaker 1: I think the offensive line, the running game gets so
Speaker 1: much attention. This other stuff's you know, just falling right
Speaker 1: into their lap. And the Red I mean, the Redskins
Speaker 1: did not. It didn't look like they over adjusted for
Speaker 1: the four hundred yards in week one, like there were
Speaker 1: still a ton of guys out in the box. They
Speaker 1: tried to trash it up and stop Zeke. I think
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. Play action was another big part of this.
Speaker 1: It's just wild to me, you know, last year and
Speaker 1: for years, like adjustments as everybody's fit. Oh, they'll make
Speaker 1: any adjustments. They're not adjusting. Well, everything that we thought
Speaker 1: Washington might do to muck this thing up happened in
Speaker 1: the first ten minutes. You know, Karagan, dron Payne not
Speaker 1: being able to run the ball, Dack not having time
Speaker 1: certainly looked like they adjusted because it stopped being a
Speaker 1: problem after about the first quarter, like and again, once
Speaker 1: they got it out of the way, Washington didn't really
Speaker 1: put up a fight the rest of the game until
Speaker 1: it was thirty one fourteen. Like I kind of thought
Speaker 1: there would be a few back and forth where it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, Dallas is up twenty one and seven, here
Speaker 1: comes the Washington run. Did not happen twenty four Then
Speaker 1: they went and made it twenty four fourteen. Yeah, that's right. First,
Speaker 1: there was never a twenty one to fourteen was a
Speaker 1: one score game, And I thought the interesting part about
Speaker 1: that was that, Okay, here we go, crowds into it,
Speaker 1: and what do the Cowboys do? They sit Zeke Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they let Pollard take that whole drive. I thought
Speaker 1: that the first down pass to Jarwin, we had a
Speaker 1: great view of it. It was a great throw by
Speaker 1: dak to Jarwin, and it was like, all right, you know,
Speaker 1: we see your touchdown, and we see that you got
Speaker 1: the momentum back. We're gonna take it right back with Pollard.
Speaker 1: There was there was never a point in that game
Speaker 1: after fourteen to seven where I felt like Washington was
Speaker 1: threatening to try to retake control of the game, like
Speaker 1: not no point whatsoever, even when it was at one
Speaker 1: score game, and that was surprising and impressive to me.
Speaker 1: Like I hesitate to call it a complete and total beatdown,
Speaker 1: but it was a you know, in the NFL, it
Speaker 1: was a controlled, you hate to say, easy, but easy
Speaker 1: looking win. You can see. You can have those games
Speaker 1: sometimes and you're like there was no doubt throughout the
Speaker 1: game of who the better team was. Yeah, sometimes those
Speaker 1: things will flip on you another other team will win.
Speaker 1: But usually in those kind of games you can kind
Speaker 1: of sense that. I mean, I don't really want to
Speaker 1: say this, but it was kind of like Texas playing LSU.
Speaker 1: I never, at any moment that game felt like we
Speaker 1: were a better team. I felt like LSU was the
Speaker 1: better team and there were moments when we could have
Speaker 1: won it, but that were just a better team. But
Speaker 1: I think it was the same thing yesterday. Cowboys were
Speaker 1: just a better team throughout the entire game. And that's
Speaker 1: probably going to be the case on almost every game.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they played that way, yeah, but
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be the better football team
Speaker 1: just about every every week. There are probably two teams
Speaker 1: right now I look at and I say they are
Speaker 1: equal to them, at least equal to them. Like I
Speaker 1: wouldn't call them the better team. That would be the
Speaker 1: Packers and the and the Patriots. Obviously the Patriots are
Speaker 1: the Patriots. But yeah, yeah, they're gonna have some challenges
Speaker 1: this year and we'll get to see and they're gonna
Speaker 1: lose some of these. Absolutely that you know, a team
Speaker 1: that you're not expected to be I feel I feel
Speaker 1: like Jason Garrett right now, and that there was and
Speaker 1: I'm not you know, I'm not hating on y'all, but
Speaker 1: there was a lot of chatter last night during that
Speaker 1: Eagles Falcons game. I was like, well, if the Eagles
Speaker 1: and Falcons look like this, who can challenge the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I'm like, calm down, guys, It's September fifteenth. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: looked like trash through most of the first six weeks
Speaker 1: of last year. I'm not ready to write off the
Speaker 1: Eagles because they didn't look great last night. I'm not
Speaker 1: ready to write off a lot of teams. Anybody does
Speaker 1: that has not been watching the NFL. Yeah, but again,
Speaker 1: you can only play who you can play, and through
Speaker 1: two weeks, the Cowboys look about as impressive as anybody
Speaker 1: in the NFL. There you go. Now, you know, we
Speaker 1: always talk about the old line and when they struggle,
Speaker 1: that becomes an issue for the Cowboys and then the
Speaker 1: game kind of goes down. But even despite of Connor
Speaker 1: Williams not playing well, even as regardless of us talking
Speaker 1: so many good things about him during training camp and
Speaker 1: all preseason, it wasn't a good game based on the
Speaker 1: adjustments that we saw Kellen Moore do during the game.
Speaker 1: Do you feel a little bit more comfortable or confident
Speaker 1: that you're not so worried from those games where Doc
Speaker 1: is going to be under pressure but they're able to
Speaker 1: get out of there and still make plays. I'm not worried.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought the offensive line is playing very
Speaker 1: very well. Connor Williams. It happens all the time. When
Speaker 1: you have a great line, there's always a guy or
Speaker 1: two that they're not elite, and so they kind of
Speaker 1: stand out a little bit. And he didn't have a
Speaker 1: great game, and maybe he doesn't play well in Washington.
Speaker 1: That's two now that he hasn't played well. But you
Speaker 1: know the rest of the line is playing great and
Speaker 1: if he if he doesn't pick it up, I think
Speaker 1: they'll replace him. I'm not sure there's not a better
Speaker 1: backup than him right now, but that's not I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're at that point where they need to
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, I'm interested because there are some teams
Speaker 1: that they are going to play this year that have
Speaker 1: a similar guy to de Ryan Payne in the middle
Speaker 1: of their defense that he's gonna have to deal with,
Speaker 1: and so I'm a little bit concerned from that standpoint.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to face that kind of guy every week,
Speaker 1: so he'll be fine. A lot of the times. I
Speaker 1: do wonder though, when he faces you know, better talent
Speaker 1: at the defensive tackle position, if this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a common theme because he did not have a good
Speaker 1: game now, but he's a competitor. And when remember in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and it was like, how's this guy going
Speaker 1: to handle the rams? He played really well against the
Speaker 1: best defensive player in all of football, and so he
Speaker 1: you know, I would imagine he'll step up to the challenge.
Speaker 1: And you know, for an offensive lineman, you get called
Speaker 1: for a holding, you get you get beat for a sack,
Speaker 1: and give up another play and that's three plays and
Speaker 1: you're like, this guy's terrible. They ran probably but sixty plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he may not have played that bad. I think he
Speaker 1: was fine on it. Like, I'm not worried about it
Speaker 1: at all. Like and and yeah, I mean they had
Speaker 1: their struggles in the first quarter. They got it together.
Speaker 1: He's got Travis Frederick to help him out. That's huge. Um.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's it's probably unrealistic to think all five
Speaker 1: of your guys across the line are gonna be all
Speaker 1: pros capable of handling their business. I mean, Lyle played
Speaker 1: great against Karagan. Again, you know, Karagan got the sack.
Speaker 1: That was all paying for me. Like that's so it
Speaker 1: was all about Connor. Yeah, I was not about Lyle.
Speaker 1: But again from like from the end of the first
Speaker 1: quarter on, I did not really notice a problem, So
Speaker 1: I'm not super worried about it. Yeah, that's one of
Speaker 1: the things I love about what Kellen's doing right now.
Speaker 1: K I'm talk about kell him Moore just because you're right, Nick,
Speaker 1: I think it was you was saying, like, he's the
Speaker 1: fact that they are able to make these adjustments, which
Speaker 1: in both games first possession, but as game wore on,
Speaker 1: they got better and better and better and better. And
Speaker 1: that to me is all about adjusting to what the
Speaker 1: defense is showing you and taking advantage of your opportunities. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean third and one, you know, I thought that
Speaker 1: on the first on the interception third and one, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's run the ball or at least get dacted to it,
Speaker 1: but miss a shotgun. It was almost like it was
Speaker 1: third and eight, you know, And they throws it and
Speaker 1: gets intercepted. And they come back on the third and
Speaker 1: one again with Pollard, and I thought maybe the play
Speaker 1: of the game or one of them when Dak scrambled
Speaker 1: or and I scrambled, it was the zone read and
Speaker 1: he got around and faked me out because I think too.
Speaker 1: I was like, what is Pollard doing? Like run and
Speaker 1: then I realized that Dak had the ball. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: funny how much really good at faking it. I said
Speaker 1: this during the game, like, and I mean Devin Smith
Speaker 1: got open, he burned Josh Norman, great play call, all
Speaker 1: of that, but like Dak is so good at this
Speaker 1: sleight of hand and the body posture that fakes the
Speaker 1: defense out, like fake play, fake to Zeke. Then he
Speaker 1: play fakes it again on the screen, like if you
Speaker 1: go back and watch it, like half the defense bites
Speaker 1: on two different fakes, and he's just so good at
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Like Smith beat his man anyway, but
Speaker 1: it just makes it that much easier of a play
Speaker 1: when you can throw people off like and I love
Speaker 1: that of the past to Smith. I love the fact
Speaker 1: that he was like, that's just knowing your guy is knowing, Okay,
Speaker 1: where's the open part. I'm gonna throw it way out here,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna go get it because he can run
Speaker 1: and go, you know, and do that. And then now
Speaker 1: when Devin Smith is in the game or watch fifteen,
Speaker 1: because he can run, that's only that's just another weapon
Speaker 1: that you've got. And he might be out there a
Speaker 1: little bit more now because he's the one guy that
Speaker 1: can really stretch the field like that. These other receivers, well,
Speaker 1: I say that Gallup can run too. Now he ran
Speaker 1: right by Josh Norman. I was kind of a whose
Speaker 1: fault was that on that deep ball though he kind
Speaker 1: of you know, turned, and honestly, I don't know there
Speaker 1: was anybody's fault. It just I don't think he tracked
Speaker 1: it the well as well as he should have. And
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if Dak threw it in the best
Speaker 1: position for him to have to come back across and
Speaker 1: catch on that side. I don't think it was the
Speaker 1: perfect throw for that route, but I also think he
Speaker 1: could have adjusted to it better sim I mean, similar
Speaker 1: to the Cobb interception, is like, yeah, da, Dak could
Speaker 1: have placed that better. But also he was under duress
Speaker 1: and it hit Cobb's hands like he would prefer not
Speaker 1: to bat that into the air. And Cobb did say
Speaker 1: after the game, He's like, I was on me, I
Speaker 1: should I gotta catch that Well's and it's you know,
Speaker 1: and that's been an issue, especially with Gallup. That's been
Speaker 1: an issue for Dak, and people kill him for it.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I thought that in the NFL, if
Speaker 1: the ball hits your hands and it's on you, even
Speaker 1: if it could have been a better throw, Like that's
Speaker 1: what I've heard since I was a kid. So it
Speaker 1: seems like his body place, man, he was just not
Speaker 1: a place right, Like he was turned in word and
Speaker 1: then the ball was coming behind him a little bit
Speaker 1: and just making that an adjustment to turn all the
Speaker 1: way around. That's just weird. Yeah, that would have been
Speaker 1: a tough catch. I mean, that's a tough catch when
Speaker 1: you're tracking on the right and the ball's coming over
Speaker 1: the left, and you got to kind of track it
Speaker 1: over your head, like with a helmet and shoulder pads on.
Speaker 1: Like you think about. You don't have the same range
Speaker 1: of motion as you normally, so trying to track that
Speaker 1: that's a tough thing to do. So it would have
Speaker 1: been a tough catch, I think all the way around. Probably.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I blame either one of them.
Speaker 1: They both could have done things maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: different or better, but I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: That's a fifty fifty ball. There's a reason why they
Speaker 1: called fifty fifty balls. And just the fact that how
Speaker 1: he turned on the jets to just zoom right past
Speaker 1: him there, Like he's got some speed. He's a deep
Speaker 1: ball guy for sure, obviously Devin Smith is, and I
Speaker 1: still think Cooper can, I mean as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's not his best part of his game. He can
Speaker 1: get by you, and I don't know if it's the
Speaker 1: best part of his game, but he's pretty damn good
Speaker 1: at it. You can ask Phillies DBS. Yeah, he's a glider.
Speaker 1: He just kind of cold. How long do we have
Speaker 1: before we bring about to take him all right, I have.
Speaker 1: I really want to talk about my favorite subplot to
Speaker 1: this whole thing, but we can save it for they. Well,
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Speaker 1: allow you just take it away, Okay, I wrote I
Speaker 1: wrote a story last night about how Dak did such
Speaker 1: a good job of spreading the ball around everybody, eight
Speaker 1: different receivers, two different running backs, YadA YadA, YadA YadA,
Speaker 1: and something that really jumped out to me. I hate
Speaker 1: to throw shade at him because I love Dez Bryant,
Speaker 1: but I just couldn't help but think about the old
Speaker 1: days when win or lose. If Dez Bryant were to
Speaker 1: finish with four catches for forty four yards in a
Speaker 1: touchdown win or lose, we would be sitting here today
Speaker 1: talking about, like how can they get Dez going? What?
Speaker 1: What was the defense doing that kind of limited Dez's day?
Speaker 1: Like that's that's not what he's about, YadA YadA, YadA,
Speaker 1: YadA YadA, like regardless of seeing so many other guys
Speaker 1: being involved and productive, well, well change. First, First of all,
Speaker 1: the old Cowboys offense never had in the time I've
Speaker 1: been here, there were never this many guys that could
Speaker 1: be on top of the stat sheet, like you're talking
Speaker 1: Dez or you know, Zeke as a runner, passer, combined whatever,
Speaker 1: But there weren't that many other options, you know, like
Speaker 1: once in a blue moon, you'll have a Terrence Williams
Speaker 1: blow up game like the Chiefs a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: But like, there weren't a lot of other options. And
Speaker 1: that's kind of my point is look down on the
Speaker 1: stat sheet. Devin Smith is leading the team in yards,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup is leading the teams and team in receptions.
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb had at least one, if not two, pretty
Speaker 1: clutch third down conversions. There's just so many options that
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. I mean, I hate to say
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, but Amari Cooper can be like your
Speaker 1: third or fourth option, and the offense still rolled. Everybody
Speaker 1: got involved, everything looked good, and everybody was happy at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. And that's first of all,
Speaker 1: it's refreshing. Second of all, it's scary in a good
Speaker 1: way in terms of what this offense could be like.
Speaker 1: If you don't need Amari Cooper to take over to roll,
Speaker 1: that's exciting. And I just I was writing this story
Speaker 1: last night and I was like, this is amazing. Like
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup as your leading receiver through two games, and
Speaker 1: it's awesome. And I think the key there, and I
Speaker 1: think we talked about this before the season, like if
Speaker 1: you really you know, you can say pick your poison.
Speaker 1: But the guys have to be able to handle it,
Speaker 1: Like they have to be able to handle games like
Speaker 1: this and not having you know, the divas that want
Speaker 1: the ball all the time. And you know, Mary Cooper
Speaker 1: came from Oakland, so he's like, well, I'm just happy
Speaker 1: to win. And you know, I would think he's not
Speaker 1: really that worried about it. He was saying it on
Speaker 1: the sideline and after, I mean during the last game
Speaker 1: he was telling I think it was Gallop he was
Speaker 1: talking to where he was like, look, when we present
Speaker 1: this kind of of of offense to an opponent, it
Speaker 1: is too hard for them to be able to keep
Speaker 1: up with. They don't know where the ball is going
Speaker 1: to go from play to play because everybody's getting involved.
Speaker 1: So we want everybody to get involved, right. He talked
Speaker 1: about that last night. He was like, imagine being a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator watching the tape of this and everybody's putting
Speaker 1: plays on tape and the other somebody asked him like,
Speaker 1: do you kind of have to fight against that natural
Speaker 1: instinct to want the ball and classic coup. He was
Speaker 1: just like, no, I worry about the opportunities that I
Speaker 1: do get and that's that's enough. Which I just love it.
Speaker 1: I love that guy. Which I don't say any of
Speaker 1: this to like insinuate that Dez Bryant was this problem child,
Speaker 1: like he really never had that very many moments where he,
Speaker 1: you know, give me the ball, give me the ball,
Speaker 1: Like we know that's not true, but it still was
Speaker 1: this ever president story. Yeah, it was this ever present
Speaker 1: storyline where it's like, if we're not targeting Dez seventeen
Speaker 1: times a game, the offense probably isn't gonna do what
Speaker 1: we wanted to do. And it's just it's it's new
Speaker 1: and exciting to see this where it's like everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: do a little bit. Nobody really has to take over
Speaker 1: for this thing to work. So what's going on with
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup and the injury? So he banged his knee. Um,
Speaker 1: we don't know the severity. He's getting an MRI. I
Speaker 1: think it's okay, Like Mr sounds scary, but guys, get
Speaker 1: him our eyes for everything, like you have access to
Speaker 1: it anyway, why not just be safe but something to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on. Hopefully Jason garrettle update us later today.
Speaker 1: I would hate to sound like an idiot. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's serious, but we'll see. Let's see what Jason says.
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's get into the defense, because there's
Speaker 1: a lot well the same ghost for Antoine Woods for
Speaker 1: anybody that hasn't heard any injury with MCL doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to be too severe, but again they're looking into it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, sorry, And as Nick was mentioning during the break,
Speaker 1: you know, being having the Dolphins coming up next that
Speaker 1: eases things with guys that are injured that you can
Speaker 1: probably sit down and not worry about it. And they're
Speaker 1: I think they're looking for a way to get Tristan
Speaker 1: Hill in the game, and this would be this would
Speaker 1: be one to do that. Let's see, let's see what
Speaker 1: his injury is like. But I mean, I definitely think
Speaker 1: they would love the opportunity to get him involved. Well,
Speaker 1: there are going to be some changes in the defensive
Speaker 1: line in this week, but before we get into that,
Speaker 1: let's just talk about the defense overall. People are kind
Speaker 1: of starting to or keep talking about the defense kind
Speaker 1: of concern about their production and what they've been doing
Speaker 1: on the field, not necessarily the kind of defense we
Speaker 1: were talking about last year, they've been kind of slow
Speaker 1: a little bit. What is going on? What is the
Speaker 1: problem here? Let's start off with the defensive line. Can
Speaker 1: I correct? I don't think there's a problem. That's I think.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we're on the side. I think the defense
Speaker 1: is played. Probably problem in the aspect of when you
Speaker 1: start talking about comparison between last year and what they
Speaker 1: we're doing. You know, people's expectations. We go back with expectations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's been plenty of years if you go
Speaker 1: back and you look that the Patriots had the worst
Speaker 1: rank defense in the NFL, and that's because of how
Speaker 1: these games are going when you have a lead like that.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys weren't having as money many leads early in
Speaker 1: the season, having to rely on the defense to make
Speaker 1: plays and feel position and all that. With the Cowboys
Speaker 1: score in the way they are, I think I think
Speaker 1: it's opening up for teams to to, you know, get
Speaker 1: some chunk plays in the second half. I think the
Speaker 1: defense they're getting off the field. Yeah, they could get
Speaker 1: more Saxon turnovers. Jalen Smith said that to be elite,
Speaker 1: we had to get Saxon turnover. We got to do
Speaker 1: a better job but they're getting off the field and
Speaker 1: they're making some plays. I think the defense is actually
Speaker 1: playing really well. That's it's so fun. And yeah, like
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not trying to talk down to anybody
Speaker 1: listening to this because I'm with you, like you know,
Speaker 1: you're see you know Byron Jones, Anthony Brown. They're giving
Speaker 1: up receptions. The Redskins seemed to be moving the ball
Speaker 1: pretty well. They go down and score a late touchdown.
Speaker 1: You're like, eh, I don't know about it, Like it
Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't feel like they had a good day. Then
Speaker 1: you pull out the stat sheet. Two of nine on
Speaker 1: third down, two hundred and fifty five total yards, less
Speaker 1: than five yards per play um red zone. They didn't
Speaker 1: allow three or three in the red zone. That ain't great, um,
Speaker 1: But like you look at what they did on paper
Speaker 1: and it was pretty good. Especially with an offense that's
Speaker 1: cracked thirty points in both games so far. They are
Speaker 1: not generating enough pressure on the quarterback and they missed
Speaker 1: at least two, if not three opportunities at takeaways like that.
Speaker 1: If you're going to criticize them, that's where it lies.
Speaker 1: For me. One sack or two sacks in two games
Speaker 1: one per game not awesome. I thought, you know, Malie
Speaker 1: Collins and Christian Covington were great against the run yesterday
Speaker 1: Washington couldn't really do anything but not blowing up the
Speaker 1: pocket the way that we thought we might see so
Speaker 1: far in training camp, or you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: after what we watched in training camp, and then you know,
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath and Xavier Woods should both have interceptions today
Speaker 1: like both of them had good shots at it. I
Speaker 1: think that's the key, and I think you're right amber
Speaker 1: It's really about expectations, and I'm a big believer in that.
Speaker 1: From the standpoint of what I thought of this defense
Speaker 1: coming out of training camp to what I've seen through
Speaker 1: the first two weeks, they haven't been as as spectacular
Speaker 1: as I thought they would be. And what I mean
Speaker 1: by that is I thought there would be more bigger plays.
Speaker 1: I thought these linebackers were be making more or tackles Philossies.
Speaker 1: I thought the secondary will be getting more interceptions. I
Speaker 1: thought the defensive line will be getting more pressure and
Speaker 1: more sacks. And I'm not seeing that. That's the part
Speaker 1: that is a little bit troubling, because again, going back
Speaker 1: to what we thought of them, my thought was they
Speaker 1: were about to take the next step to being elite.
Speaker 1: They are a good defense, no doubt about it. Those
Speaker 1: statue were just reading says they are a good defense
Speaker 1: and they're winning games. That's so there are no complaints here.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying by any means there's a problem with
Speaker 1: the defense. The problem is with me. The problem is
Speaker 1: I created these expectations. You know, that's not usually sh
Speaker 1: goes like you make the expectation and you hold somebody
Speaker 1: else to your about so many turnovers there in training
Speaker 1: camp and that always happens, and they did it. They
Speaker 1: did it during training camp, and I thought that was
Speaker 1: a sign that this secondary is really ready to take
Speaker 1: that next step. And Xavier Woods had that opportunity yesterday.
Speaker 1: I was I really thought he had that pick and
Speaker 1: that's the kind of pick he was making in training
Speaker 1: camp that again he didn't make yesterday. So I understand
Speaker 1: the expectations part. I don't think the defense is bad.
Speaker 1: I just think expectation wise, they're not living up to
Speaker 1: what we thought they were going to be. Two games,
Speaker 1: that's the other players, just two games. It's a long season.
Speaker 1: Our view in the FedEx press box is terrible and
Speaker 1: you know, we're behind the end zone. So like you
Speaker 1: don't have good death perception, you can't really tell. But
Speaker 1: one thing that you can see really clearly is angles
Speaker 1: on passing plays. And man, I mean I thought Jeff
Speaker 1: Heath was going to the house. I mean the way
Speaker 1: he broke from his spot on the route. I was like,
Speaker 1: he sees it, he's housing this thing, and then it
Speaker 1: just clanged off his dome. I was like, well, what
Speaker 1: I you know, sitting back here, I saw it perfectly,
Speaker 1: like I think he was just and he saw it too.
Speaker 1: It's like I think he was. I think he was
Speaker 1: worried more about the receiver than the ball, which and
Speaker 1: I've never coached safety. Maybe that's what he should have
Speaker 1: been doing. Maybe it's not, but I thought he had
Speaker 1: a touchdown and he did. You know. You know, um,
Speaker 1: it's the second straight game now where the you know,
Speaker 1: teams have scored kind of late in the game. But
Speaker 1: you know, if you're old enough to remember, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: played a game that still gets talked about a lot
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and five against the Red where
Speaker 1: they were dominating thirteen to nothing with five minutes to
Speaker 1: go in the game, and the only way that you're
Speaker 1: going to lose the game is if you give up
Speaker 1: deep balls. Santana Moss got two of them. They won
Speaker 1: the game. And that's the only way that the Redskins
Speaker 1: or the Giants are going to come back is if
Speaker 1: they score quickly. So thirty one to fourteen, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna give up a deep ball. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to work with the clock and just we're gonna
Speaker 1: give you everything underneath. The Giants took it last week,
Speaker 1: the Redskins took it. Yeah, it doesn't look good for
Speaker 1: your fantasy defense or whatever. It looks good for the scoring,
Speaker 1: but it's the way to win the game is we've
Speaker 1: got this lead and we're just gonna choke you out
Speaker 1: with it with the clock because we got the clock,
Speaker 1: and so you can go score, but you're not gonna
Speaker 1: do it again. They you know, they need to pressure
Speaker 1: the quarterback better if they're going to be a lad.
Speaker 1: They definitely need to get takeaways. But I mean, so
Speaker 1: you spent okay, they got once like last week, once
Speaker 1: like this week. We spend so much time talking about
Speaker 1: how much talent there was in the defensive line and
Speaker 1: how much depth, and then this is what we're seeing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I mean, and I you know I haven't I
Speaker 1: haven't watched this game back, but I know the Redskins
Speaker 1: were paying a ton of attention to DeMarcus Lawrence. Like
Speaker 1: I said, Malie Collins played a great game yesterday. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen the pass rushing aspect of it yet. And
Speaker 1: then over on that right side, I think, you know
Speaker 1: you've got Tyrone Crawford, who didn't have much of a
Speaker 1: training camp, although ironically he got the loan sack and
Speaker 1: it was one of the biggest players in the game.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, Dorrence Armstrong looked like he played better yesterday,
Speaker 1: but you know, still not just blowing people's socks off.
Speaker 1: And then you know, luckily you got Robert Quinn back
Speaker 1: in the building today, who you would hope would be
Speaker 1: able to help with all of this. You know, I'll
Speaker 1: say this though, I think Tank has been a disruptive player. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: Like his stats may not show it, but he's been
Speaker 1: a player that even when they're paying a lot of
Speaker 1: attention to him, which they have been, he's still managing
Speaker 1: to get to make quarterbacks have to get rid of
Speaker 1: the ball, getting opportunities to get in their face and
Speaker 1: affect the play. So I think I think DeMarcus is
Speaker 1: playing fine. I think there are probably a lot of
Speaker 1: other guys on this d fince out of playing fine.
Speaker 1: They're just not making those big plays. They're not turning
Speaker 1: that into a sack or turning it into a forced
Speaker 1: fumble and a fumble recover him. Tell him what Tyrone
Speaker 1: told you? Yeah, I mean, And I went back and
Speaker 1: watched it and I was asking him about the play.
Speaker 1: I thought. I agreed, Dave. I think it was the
Speaker 1: play of the game, and maybe a couple of plays
Speaker 1: before that. The penalty that Malie Collins drew. It was
Speaker 1: first and five and then seven nothing they're driving, you know,
Speaker 1: and then get a holding penalty, and then that took
Speaker 1: him back. The sack though on Crawford was not just
Speaker 1: a stunt inside. But I mean DeMarcus Lawrence went inside
Speaker 1: and just blasted Brandon sheriff Sheriff just like as hard
Speaker 1: as he could, just to take the whole thing inside
Speaker 1: and created a huge lane for him Tyrone to just
Speaker 1: loop over. So and afterwards I tried to talk to
Speaker 1: Tyrone and he didn't really want to talk, but he
Speaker 1: was like I think he kind of got banged up
Speaker 1: a little bit too, but he said d Law made
Speaker 1: the play, and then d Law was right there. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did you know what I mean? And he did?
Speaker 1: You know he made I went back and watched it
Speaker 1: and it's it was just one of those like all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you three out and it'll create a lane.
Speaker 1: Just like we talked on the offensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball about hey, do you want to double team me?
Speaker 1: That's fine. It's the same on defense too, and it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to do that because these guys get judged
Speaker 1: by sacks. Yeah, so, but that's that's made a play.
Speaker 1: That's a tough position because even on offensive line, like
Speaker 1: you're not watching that every play, but typically like if
Speaker 1: you're not noticing a guy, he's probably playing adequately, if
Speaker 1: not really well on you know, if you're a pass rusher,
Speaker 1: you could make a play like that as DeMarcus Lawrence
Speaker 1: open it up for your boy to get a sack.
Speaker 1: And nobody's talking about that. Or again, Malie Collins drawing
Speaker 1: a holding penalty, it doesn't register. I think they can
Speaker 1: play better, don't get me wrong, Like I'm not completely
Speaker 1: absolving them, but there's silent stats there that don't show
Speaker 1: up on the box score or in your memory of
Speaker 1: watching the game, Like they're not playing poorly. And again,
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say a g is give me
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty five yards and twenty one points
Speaker 1: all day. Like you will win a lot of football
Speaker 1: game allowing him, especially with this offense. Yeah, especially if
Speaker 1: your offense is do I mean, you'll win every game
Speaker 1: if your offense is doing that, So win them all.
Speaker 1: Who on the on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: The one guy we never talked about, but he's probably
Speaker 1: playing as well as anybody. We just don't never talk
Speaker 1: about him, is who offense? A lineman? Yeah, it's probably
Speaker 1: probably Tyring Smith. Yeah, yeah, just doesn't you just take
Speaker 1: that for grant? You do you do on defense? There's
Speaker 1: a guy too that we're not ever talking about. It
Speaker 1: never doesn't really anything because he's just locking his guy down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Cheetle. I mean once again, I mean they
Speaker 1: tested Byron a little bit. I don't did they even
Speaker 1: test Cheetle that much? He gave up. He gave up
Speaker 1: that one ball to Eli. I'm talking last week. He
Speaker 1: gave and it was a perfectly placed ball. Just tough break.
Speaker 1: And other than that, I mean, I couldn't tell you
Speaker 1: for sure that he's given up and we realize at all.
Speaker 1: And of course he got a lot of headlines with
Speaker 1: speed and all, you know, which is good too because
Speaker 1: you know, okay, we're not testing him. It feel like
Speaker 1: to me yesterday the Reskin say we're going to test
Speaker 1: Byron Jones and and so that was which on the
Speaker 1: way they went at it, that goes you know, watching
Speaker 1: the game, you're like, oh, man, another throw at Byron,
Speaker 1: like he's really kind of struggling. And I come in
Speaker 1: today and Brian's watched the tape and he was like, oh,
Speaker 1: Byron was great. Yeah, Byron he did. He played well.
Speaker 1: The play he made I think he tackled Paul richardson
Speaker 1: a third down. It wasn't his man. He came off
Speaker 1: of a rub and and just dominated the receiver to
Speaker 1: keep him sure of the sticks. It was a fantastic play. Now,
Speaker 1: he played well, And that's that's the thing you gotta love,
Speaker 1: is that if they tested him, I think he passed
Speaker 1: the test. And now we'll see in the future weeks,
Speaker 1: maybe not this week, but a week after that, we'll
Speaker 1: start to see our our offense is gonna say, okay,
Speaker 1: do we just kind of go with whoever? Because there's
Speaker 1: not a clear distinction between these two cornerbacks. They're both
Speaker 1: really good. Yeah, I think I'm I give him a
Speaker 1: solid bee through the first two weeks because I don't
Speaker 1: don't think either one of these teams is going to
Speaker 1: compete for a playoff spot, So you have to keep
Speaker 1: that in mind. But I mean nitpicking to find things
Speaker 1: that that terribly, terribly concern me. But I will be
Speaker 1: interested to see him play some better offenses. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and take a break. When we come back. We still
Speaker 1: need to talk about Taco Charlton and what's going on
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Speaker 1: we don't have much time talking. Cowboys threw us off
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Speaker 1: and Brian and Mickey we're getting into it right before
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Speaker 1: Why I'm kid so dumb? Okay, you're saying stop Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn coming back. You said Dave that he's back in
Speaker 1: the building. Um, I don't. I don't know that he
Speaker 1: like I haven't seen him, but he I just would
Speaker 1: think in the Monday is not the off day anymore.
Speaker 1: Players are here getting rehab and doing meetings and stuff.
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn's suspension is over. It stands excited. It stands
Speaker 1: to reason that he's here. But I have not laid
Speaker 1: eyes on him myself. Now, keep in mind, this is
Speaker 1: a guy that hasn't practiced for a while. Prior to
Speaker 1: the suspension. He had the whole hand injury back at
Speaker 1: training camp, so it's been a while since he's been
Speaker 1: out on the field doing some things. What is the
Speaker 1: expectation that the Cowboys are going to do here as
Speaker 1: far as the roster moves. Taco Charlton healthy scratch for
Speaker 1: two weeks, but they've kept him inactive both times. Is
Speaker 1: this the assumption that that might happen? They have they
Speaker 1: have until Wednesday, They have a roster exemption, so they
Speaker 1: don't have to make a move until they start practicing
Speaker 1: for real. And we said all along that this stuff
Speaker 1: would kind of work itself out, you know, maybe somebody
Speaker 1: might get hurt or not play well. And I don't
Speaker 1: think it has really worked itself out because even though
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods is hurt, he's not banged up to the
Speaker 1: point where it would be a roster spot there. So
Speaker 1: it hasn't worked itself out. But I don't know this.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've heard that there's trade rumors with Tacco,
Speaker 1: but there's I mean, Dorian's Armstrong hasn't done enough where
Speaker 1: you wouldn't just you couldn't just play Tacco this week,
Speaker 1: you know. In fact, he hasn't done really much of anything,
Speaker 1: so I would I would think that if you wanted
Speaker 1: to play Tacco you could. I think there's something else
Speaker 1: going on here where they're not trying to get him
Speaker 1: hurt or whatever. I think I think this week to
Speaker 1: answer the question, I think he is not on the
Speaker 1: team this week that like after you know, wins D
Speaker 1: or three, you know, I'm I'm I'm with you, like
Speaker 1: in the sense that I feel reluctant to say that
Speaker 1: because it's a big you know, it's a big thing
Speaker 1: to say, to say they're gonna like cut or trade
Speaker 1: a former first round pick. But there's just so much
Speaker 1: writing on the wall, like I don't know, like where
Speaker 1: else does it come because you would think it's a
Speaker 1: d lineman, Like how many d lineman are you gonna put?
Speaker 1: And and there's just so much noise. Like Jerry Jones,
Speaker 1: he declined to comment last night about trading Taco, but
Speaker 1: even he was like, you know, I know there's speculation
Speaker 1: out there about it, so like for him to acknowledge
Speaker 1: that it's everywhere, and then you know, if you want
Speaker 1: to take an even deeper dive like Tacos on social
Speaker 1: media liking tweets for me and Rappaport about how the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are trying to trade him or uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Dayton Jones, who used to play here tweeted like you know,
Speaker 1: free my man or whatever, and he like liked that
Speaker 1: and retweeted it or whatever, like it's I feel stupid
Speaker 1: even talking about it. But funny how he'll get traded
Speaker 1: to like the Dolphins or something like that. You know,
Speaker 1: that's not freedom, I just something, Yeah, I wont like
Speaker 1: is that Is that relationship fixable at this point? Because
Speaker 1: it seemed like the Cowboys seemed done with him and
Speaker 1: he doesn't seem super int and being here anymore either,
Speaker 1: And so are you really gonna not that? And we
Speaker 1: said last week like, I don't think it's gonna like
Speaker 1: derail the locker room or anything, but it's just kind
Speaker 1: of it's just kind of hanging there in this awkward space.
Speaker 1: So at some point, don't you just rip the band
Speaker 1: aid off and do something about it? Well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think if you're in a situation where you think it's
Speaker 1: clear that the player doesn't want to be here, if
Speaker 1: you think you're at that point and the team is
Speaker 1: not going to really find a role that's suitable for him,
Speaker 1: then yeah, I think you just need to for the
Speaker 1: sake of your locker room and not having just a
Speaker 1: malcontent because I think that's one of the biggest dividers
Speaker 1: and problem causers for groups is a person that's a malcontent,
Speaker 1: a person that just isn't happy with their current station.
Speaker 1: So if he is to that point and you don't
Speaker 1: feel like it's salvageable, I think you do it quickly.
Speaker 1: So you don't allow that because young guys are impressionable,
Speaker 1: and all it takes is the wrong person in their ear.
Speaker 1: So you see that, you see that, you see why
Speaker 1: they did that, You see that, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you got this this malcontents starting to grow among different
Speaker 1: players in the in the room, which I'm sure they
Speaker 1: would prefer to trade him. I'm sure they've tried. But again,
Speaker 1: like with there's so much writing on the wall, like
Speaker 1: what what would another team be willing to give up?
Speaker 1: If anything? And the answer might be nothing, And so
Speaker 1: are you willing to cut your losses and eat the money? Nothing?
Speaker 1: It's you got? You mean, you have to eat the contract.
Speaker 1: You have to deal with the embarrassment of cutting a
Speaker 1: first round pick in its third year. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: not a good look for anybody. Say you'll get nothing,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you do. You get nothing. But you might
Speaker 1: have to just suck it up and make that decision. Unless,
Speaker 1: unless you're prepared to put him out there on game
Speaker 1: day and try to sale you could play that same
Speaker 1: drop for him being out there. I mean they really
Speaker 1: haven't gotten anything. Now. Is there any other guy that
Speaker 1: you could think of that maybe they would decide to
Speaker 1: make that roster move with. Yeah, I think Von is
Speaker 1: a guy that you have to consider, right, Yeah, once
Speaker 1: those other two safeties of health, yeah, Cavan, and then
Speaker 1: you've got some I mean, just you don't need Adam Redman.
Speaker 1: You just don't need him on the team. I mean
Speaker 1: I don't think you do. I mean you've got backup
Speaker 1: guard and to a filough, you got backup guard center
Speaker 1: and Joe Luney got a backup guard tackle in Brandon Knight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean backups do you really need? I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a backup center, but he would be your third center
Speaker 1: and guard. I just they like him, obviously, they don't
Speaker 1: really want to let him go. But I just don't
Speaker 1: know if you need that much depth. What if you
Speaker 1: feel more confident that he could develop into a player
Speaker 1: who can help you down the road, which that's that
Speaker 1: would be an embarrassing thing. I locked up Lyle Collins,
Speaker 1: Zach Martin, Yeah, Tyran Smith, I mean Connor is pretty
Speaker 1: much I mean, forgot about him. Yeah, he's not doing
Speaker 1: anything right now, but you got him for Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's hard to think there's a place on the offensive
Speaker 1: life for you to be worried too much about the
Speaker 1: immediate future. I should say, I'm and I'm talking three
Speaker 1: to four years. There are several other places where you
Speaker 1: could get that roster spot, and maybe they will. But again,
Speaker 1: like it just feels awkward, like you don't feel good
Speaker 1: enough about him to put him out there when he's
Speaker 1: healthy and he is not giving the impression that he's
Speaker 1: thrilled about being here, and so how they're not thrilled
Speaker 1: about not playing YEAD receiver wide receivers one now that
Speaker 1: you're I mean, I didn't even think about that. We're
Speaker 1: just fine with with Cedric Wilson. Yeah, that's honest. That's
Speaker 1: the easiest fix of all. I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 1: Or they just keep Cedric Wilson, it could, I mean,
Speaker 1: and let the most also got to see what's happening
Speaker 1: with Gallup right that that that's happening with Gallup, See
Speaker 1: what's happening with Tavon. The most surprised I was all
Speaker 1: of yesterday was when they sent Cedric Wilson out there
Speaker 1: on like the ten yard line. They hadn't been playing well.
Speaker 1: The game was very much in doubt. I was just like, please, God, man,
Speaker 1: I'm freaking out, like I don't I'm not, you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm not worried, no offense to anybody. I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about it from the Cowboys standpoint, like they'll be fine.
Speaker 1: But I'm just like, Cedric Wilson is gonna just bepublican,
Speaker 1: I mean number one, and this is going to be bad.
Speaker 1: He didn't when he caught that thing. I was just like,
Speaker 1: thank god, Cedric, I'm so I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to see it all in like that.
Speaker 1: I did not. All Right, Well, that is all the
Speaker 1: time we've got for today. Thank you guys so much
Speaker 1: for tuning in with us tomorrow. I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna talk about, but I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: gonna be good. Real quick. Can you give a shout
Speaker 1: out to all those Cowboys fans in DC. That was
Speaker 1: freaking amazing DMPA fans that were there, and how loud
Speaker 1: they were, and especially the part where they were basically
Speaker 1: singing to the Ridskins fans to leave as the game
Speaker 1: was my buddy, a buddy of mine, big Ohio State fans,
Speaker 1: So naturally he was interested in the Devin Smith touchdown.
Speaker 1: So he went back and watched it and texted me
Speaker 1: and was like it sounds like a home game, Like
Speaker 1: basically it was all right, Well, thank you guys so
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