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Speaker 1: time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com wa

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

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, October eight, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode

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Speaker 1: number fifty five. Welcome to another edition of The Break.

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Speaker 1: This will be an explosive hour, so buckle in. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot to talk about. A lot that happened in

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Speaker 1: that game yesterday when the Cowboys lose to the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans in overtime nineteen sixteen. Close game, mostly throughout, fairly

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Speaker 1: entertaining game, but at the end of the day, Cowboys

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Speaker 1: just couldn't do enough in order to get that win.

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Speaker 1: We'll break it down for you, guys, tell you what

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Speaker 1: we think, what went right and wrong for the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: How's everybody feeling this morning? Awesome? Tired? Amber looks like

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Speaker 1: she's a little tired right now. Zombiezombie, all right, So

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Speaker 1: let's get into it. Um. Usually I'll go around the

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Speaker 1: table and ask what you thought, like what your big

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Speaker 1: got to talk about fourth down. That was I think

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Speaker 1: what fans are talking about right now, with fans are

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Speaker 1: thinking by far, and there were a lot of key

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Speaker 1: moments in this game. Nick, We'll talk about that a

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Speaker 1: little bit later, because I know you had your five

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Speaker 1: plays and maybe should have been ten or twenty probably

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Speaker 1: you did eight. You could have probably gotten a fifteen probably,

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Speaker 1: But um, I think that by far the biggest play

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Speaker 1: on fourth down in overtime. There was basically six twenty

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Speaker 1: three and I think it actually started with this play.

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Speaker 1: It was six minutes, twenty three seconds left in overtime.

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Speaker 1: It was third and one, and the Cowboys decide to

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Speaker 1: so I will throw it out to you guys at

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Speaker 1: this point, was that the right decision? And if so,

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Speaker 1: why I'll start and let me say this too. I

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Speaker 1: went back and looked at it. The sheet says fourth

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Speaker 1: and one. It really wasn't. It was a little bit

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Speaker 1: more than that. I'm not I'm not giving them any

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Speaker 1: You have a pretty good punter. He got you down

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Speaker 1: the last fifteen minutes of real time. Um, you saw,

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Speaker 1: you know, two minutes ago that they just got stuffed.

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Speaker 1: You know, they tried to run Zeke. That wasn't working

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Speaker 1: which they probably should have if you want to win

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Speaker 1: That's an indictment on the whole the whole thing, which

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Speaker 1: he's not the same as what he was. He could

429
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Speaker 1: still do that sometimes. Yeah, he's gonna drop some passes.

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Speaker 1: He Let me ask you what I just asked. You

431
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Speaker 1: put him on the team right now. Who is your

432
00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:33,560
Speaker 1: best wide receiver on the team right now? No training camp,

433
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Speaker 1: know nothing. Who's your best receiver on the team? Is

434
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,399
Speaker 1: he is? But that's a low bar. Okay, two and

435
00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,760
Speaker 1: three is pretty low too, But I hear your point.

436
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Speaker 1: I guess my problem with it is still Dez was

437
00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,960
Speaker 1: here last year and the results still were the same.

438
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Speaker 1: The offense was putrid towards the end of the season,

439
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,000
Speaker 1: so it wasn't like des was making a difference last year.

440
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Speaker 1: So what makes you think bringing him back is gonna

441
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Speaker 1: now all of a sudden make things better. I don't

442
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Speaker 1: think it's gonna make things better. You're right, he would

443
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Speaker 1: still be the best guy on this on this team

444
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,520
Speaker 1: as far as the wide receivers I concerned. Okay, but

445
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,520
Speaker 1: he was here last year and it didn't make a difference. Hey,

446
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,440
Speaker 1: but you're two and three in your fan base. You're

447
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,920
Speaker 1: losing your fan base. You just lost the state championship

448
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,159
Speaker 1: to a decent football team, and then you've got to

449
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Speaker 1: do something. You're not changing the quarterback. You're definitely not

450
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Speaker 1: changing your running back. I know what you need to change, Well,

451
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Speaker 1: then then do that. That's fine too, because the only

452
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Speaker 1: thing I know, Cooper Rush won't be better, so that

453
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Speaker 1: I know Rod Smith won't be better. There's nobody on

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Speaker 1: the line that'll be better. The only thing I can

455
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Speaker 1: get better at receiver that's out there that knows the

456
00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:35,760
Speaker 1: offense right now would probably be Deaz I don't know

457
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Speaker 1: how good and shape he's in. That's the only thing there.

458
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Speaker 1: And I know Jason Garrett is better at calling plays

459
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Speaker 1: than Scott Linehan. So that's the only thing that I

460
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Speaker 1: can think of to change this thing right now. Can

461
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Speaker 1: throw this out though, Yeah, go ahead, when you start

462
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Speaker 1: talking about all of this. The philosophy that they have

463
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Speaker 1: with the wide receivers. I think what we're missing here

464
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Speaker 1: is the big problem right now, in my opinion, is

465
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Speaker 1: the offensive line. If this offensive line was playing like

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Speaker 1: it's played the last couple of years, there would have

467
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Speaker 1: been no question on third down that you picked that up.

468
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Speaker 1: And if you don't, there's definitely no question you're not

469
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Speaker 1: going forward on fourth down because this offensive line would

470
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Speaker 1: have been playing to the level that we expect them

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Speaker 1: to play. Right now, even your best offensive linemen are

472
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Speaker 1: not playing to the level of all pro Like yesterday,

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Speaker 1: there were some moments that Zach Frederick, I mean, Zach

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Speaker 1: Martin didn't look as good as Zach Martin is supposed

475
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Speaker 1: to look. Tyren Smith has at those moments throughout this

476
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Speaker 1: season where he has not looked like Tyren Smith. I

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Speaker 1: really believe that. Right now, we're making judgments on a

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Speaker 1: lot of other things that really go back to the

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Speaker 1: offensive line. I mean, they played pretty well last night,

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Speaker 1: all things considered. I think they did too. I think

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Speaker 1: Dak was on the run a lot and he got

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Speaker 1: hit a lot. They I don't know that Clowney and J. J. Watt,

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Speaker 1: I mean, get all that at home, But this is

484
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Speaker 1: Tyren Smith and Travis and they won, and Zach Martin

485
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Speaker 1: and I mean, you think about it, look at look

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Speaker 1: at the stat sheet, look at how many plays there

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Speaker 1: were they won. Okay, so let's break that down J

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Speaker 1: J J. Offensive line is judged by what It's judged

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Speaker 1: by how well they run the ball. It's judge, well,

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Speaker 1: how well you protect your quarterback. Right yesterday, as far

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Speaker 1: as running a ball is concerned, the Cowboys ran the

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Speaker 1: ball with Zeke Elliott twenty times for fifty four yards

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Speaker 1: with a two point seven average, his worst of the season.

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Speaker 1: And you're telling me the offensive line played pretty well.

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Speaker 1: I've meant more protection. That's not what I said. You

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Speaker 1: changed to general Tyrant. I was talking about Tyrant Smith.

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Speaker 1: Tyrann Smith took on uh clowney, right, I think for them,

498
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Speaker 1: took on everyone he did. He's he's a beast, he

499
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Speaker 1: moves around. They should have drafted him number one. Actually

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Speaker 1: he is ridiculous. Um. And so just from the most part,

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Speaker 1: I mean Tyrant versus him, when when I thought Tyrn

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Speaker 1: probably won, that won that battle. And that's what I

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Speaker 1: was talking about. I'm not talking about the offense liners,

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Speaker 1: their defense line. I'm talking about Tyrann Smith. There Lyle

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Speaker 1: Collins got a lot of help on that side, but

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Speaker 1: I thought I thought Lyle played a pretty good too.

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00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 1: Now they've got a bunch of other issues there, and

508
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Speaker 1: because you can do things different, because nobody's gonna win

509
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Speaker 1: at receiver and they don't look downfield. And that's another

510
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Speaker 1: thing I was talking about. Those two guys right there.

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Speaker 1: I thought they played well. Their offensive line did not win.

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Speaker 1: And to go back on that fourth down real quick

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Speaker 1: or third down, they did exactly what you want them

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Speaker 1: to do. Their third and one and a half. It's

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Speaker 1: a very long one. You give me something, give me something,

516
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Speaker 1: give me a yard, give me a half yard, do

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Speaker 1: something where they have to pull the chains out and

518
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Speaker 1: it's fourth and something, then we're gonna go for But

519
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: you get stone walled right there and don't get anything.

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Speaker 1: What kind of confident, you know what I mean? I

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Speaker 1: like what they did there. They set it up to

522
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Speaker 1: go fourth down, but they didn't make anything. But that's

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Speaker 1: about the offensive line, in my opinion. And so when

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Speaker 1: you're thinking about the offensive line, and you're right, okay,

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Speaker 1: if you want to go person by person, you can

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Speaker 1: say they had good moments, good good days, whatever. The

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Speaker 1: fact of the matter is the offensive line was not

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Speaker 1: as good as what the Cowboys. Cowboys need the offensive

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Speaker 1: line to be in order for this whole philosophy to work.

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Speaker 1: So if you start talking about wide receivers and needing

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Speaker 1: a number one wide receiver, guess what yesterday, If the

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Speaker 1: offensive line would have been as good as they expected

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Speaker 1: it to be before Travis Frederick went out, they would

534
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Speaker 1: have probably won that game. That would have been a

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Speaker 1: whole we would have been talking about a whole different

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Speaker 1: thing today and then talking about wide receivers. That is

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Speaker 1: a reach. I don't think so big. Okay, So if

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Speaker 1: they if they get if they go for it on

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Speaker 1: fourth down and they get it, do you think they

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Speaker 1: win that game? Yeah? Absolutely? Okay? Was that not about

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Speaker 1: the offensive lugging Travis Frederick and for one play? He

542
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Speaker 1: hasn't played a snap since mid August? And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I don't what's even the point? Who like, we're so

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Speaker 1: we're so past that it doesn't even matter. And it

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Speaker 1: goes it goes back to the word indictment, because if

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Speaker 1: your offensive line has to be that good for anything

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Speaker 1: to work, then the whole things. But what do you

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Speaker 1: think this whole philosophy is built on? It's built on

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Speaker 1: the fact that they're gonna have a better offensive line

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Speaker 1: than you're defensive. Now, but if that's what the whole thing,

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Speaker 1: you don't have a quarterback, then it doesn't matter. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. Twenty fourteen great offensive line, three

553
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowlers, Romos, the quarterback Murray goes eighteen hundred yards.

554
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Speaker 1: They do you know they should have been in the

555
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Speaker 1: championship game. We know that twenty fifteen, Romo goes down.

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Speaker 1: They played everybody at quarterback that's that's ever been a backup,

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Speaker 1: Kellen Moore, Castle Weed and all that. They had one

558
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Speaker 1: of the worst offensive lines. It couldn't run the ball

559
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Speaker 1: in thirty one. They were the worst third and one

560
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: football team. They have no threat to do anything else.

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Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden twenty sixteen, they start moving

562
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Speaker 1: the ball again, they get Zeke and all that, and

563
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Speaker 1: now they're a great offensive line again. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think if you it starts with a passing game and

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Speaker 1: a quarterback, it's not just the line, because there's no

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Speaker 1: way that that line got bad in fifteen and now

567
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Speaker 1: good in sixteen. Again, it's are a lot of things

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Speaker 1: involved there. Yeah, I really obviously this team missus Travis Frederick.

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Speaker 1: Of course they do. But like I don't buy I

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Speaker 1: don't buy it that that just it all collapses because

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Speaker 1: he's not there. Like, I think the offensive line has

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Speaker 1: played well enough to win in at least four of

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Speaker 1: the five. I mean, Carolina was pretty rough, but I

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Speaker 1: don't think they played good enough to win yesterday. I

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Speaker 1: think if the offensive line would have been better yesterday,

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Speaker 1: if your other game, no, if your other players were

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Speaker 1: making plays, I think the offensive line, yes, they haven't

578
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Speaker 1: been amazing, but that's not on the top of my

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Speaker 1: concerns right now. And when you look at I've seen

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Speaker 1: plenty of times where the offensive line has been able

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Speaker 1: to buy Dak a lot of time where Dak is

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Speaker 1: just sitting there in the pocket and it's still you're

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Speaker 1: not able to make plays. And that's where it comes from.

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Speaker 1: Had Dak Prescott being made been making passes, connecting passes

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Speaker 1: with receivers last night, we won't even be talking about

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Speaker 1: the offensive line right now. So you got to tell

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Speaker 1: But a team that's built around the idea that they're

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Speaker 1: going to run the ball, that can't pick up a

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Speaker 1: third and one that you don't feel confident can pick

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Speaker 1: up a third and one and then a fourth and one.

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Speaker 1: Y'all don't think that's the major problem. Like that's what

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Speaker 1: this team does. If we went into training camp, we

593
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Speaker 1: talked about throughout training camp, what's the best thing that

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Speaker 1: this team does. I know I asked that question a

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Speaker 1: number of times and we all just flippantly said, the

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Speaker 1: offense running the ball. Running the ball's the best thing

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Speaker 1: they do. That's the best thing they do. That's not

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Speaker 1: the best thing they do. And that means the whole thing. Fair.

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Speaker 1: They're sixth in the league. They're sixth in the league

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Speaker 1: and rushing offense, they're still pretty good. And that goes

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Speaker 1: back to they are sixth in the league and rushing offense,

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Speaker 1: and they are twenty sixth in the league in total offense.

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Speaker 1: That is how embarrassingly bad their passing game is. I

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Speaker 1: said it this morning on Twitter. It is probably harder

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Speaker 1: to be that imbalanced, so good at one thing and

606
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Speaker 1: so bad at the other thing, than it would be

607
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Speaker 1: to just be mediocre at both. So no, I sit

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Speaker 1: here on Monday morning, and I mean no, the offensive

609
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Speaker 1: line isn't perfect, and they won't be. They don't have

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Speaker 1: Travis Frederick. But can a receiver make a play. Can

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Speaker 1: the quarterback make a good like on target throw like

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Speaker 1: It's that part is way more of a disaster than

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Speaker 1: nitpicking the offensive line. You're talking about what you're talking

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Speaker 1: about two different things. Today. You're going back and taking

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Speaker 1: numbers from the whole season. I'm not talking about these

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about last night. They could not run the

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Speaker 1: ball yesterday. They couldn't run the ball yesterday. That was

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Speaker 1: the worst output as far as rushing is concerned for

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Speaker 1: this team that we've seen in a long time. They

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Speaker 1: couldn't run the ball. So, yes, if you want to

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Speaker 1: look at the entire season, they're six in the league.

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Speaker 1: That's great. That means for the season they've done pretty well.

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Speaker 1: As of yesterday. In that particular game, they were not

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Speaker 1: able to run the ball, so the offensive line was

625
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: not as effective as it needed to be. Do they

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Speaker 1: run the ball better if Tavon Austin can catch a

627
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Speaker 1: twenty yard pass that hits both of his hands, or

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Speaker 1: maybe Deonday Thompson picks up a critical third down in

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Speaker 1: the second half. Maybe, But going into this season, were

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Speaker 1: you expecting those receivers to be difference makers they don't

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Speaker 1: have to do. Were they literally. No, that's the thing

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Speaker 1: they don't that. That's the whole philosophy was that they

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Speaker 1: didn't have to be difference makers just because your offensive

634
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: line of your running game was gonna be great. You're

635
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Speaker 1: running or your wide receivers need to make the plays

636
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Speaker 1: that are put there on the platter for them to

637
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Speaker 1: keep the offense moving when the opportunity arises, like these

638
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: are routine plays like I'm not asking you to be

639
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. I'm asking you to just catch a ball

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Speaker 1: that hits you that in both of your hands every

641
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Speaker 1: time you face the team that is able to stop

642
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: the run for you. When of the Cowboys, when yes,

643
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: I think in this play, No, with this current philosophy,

644
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: the way they've built this team, I absolutely think so.

645
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: If they aren't able to run the ball, I don't

646
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: think they can be successful. Now. If they had the

647
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: kind of receiver like DeAndre Hopkins that now can do

648
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Speaker 1: things in games that they take a routine catch and

649
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: turn it into a big play, then yeah, maybe maybe

650
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: they can do that. But they don't have those kinds

651
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Speaker 1: of guys. Their quarterback is not playing at that kind

652
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,959
Speaker 1: of level where he can take average receivers and make

653
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 1: them really really good. Right, So if they're not being

654
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Speaker 1: able to run the ball, which is what they're built

655
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: to do, and they're not certainly not being able to

656
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Speaker 1: pick up those short yardist type situations, that I don't

657
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: think they can be successful built the way they're currently built. Well,

658
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: sometimes you're gonna get beat even your strongest area, and

659
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: when you come and face the team that can do

660
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: that for you, you better have a freaking backup plan

661
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: and make it work. And that's maybe the problem. Now,

662
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: maybe they just don't. I'm gonna blame the last night

663
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: on the defensive line. At least they've got Jacksonville coming in.

664
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: I mean, you know Jaguars, right. I really I didn't

665
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: get a chance to answer, and I don't feel like

666
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: super strongly about this, but like, I still think this

667
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: philosophy could work. They just haven't they maybe, you know,

668
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: blame the front office for not doing a good enough

669
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: job of getting the right receivers good receivers. I mean

670
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: offseason talk aside. I mean, did anybody believe Deonte Thompson

671
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: was going to go from being like a journeyman fifth

672
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: sixth receiver around the league to being a stud here?

673
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,719
Speaker 1: I still there a question is whether he should make

674
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: this think you play this. I still believe Tavon Austin

675
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: can make a difference in this offense, and we've seen it.

676
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: Don't know that he's the guy that should be going

677
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: down field for you and trying to catch those types

678
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: of routes on a regular basis. Terrence Williams nightmare. I mean,

679
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: oh my god. Bryce Butler's played two snaps since he

680
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: joined the team. Michael Gallop, I think highly of him

681
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,959
Speaker 1: as a person, and I still think that he can

682
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: be a good player, But the lights appear to be

683
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: too bright for him at this point in his career.

684
00:31:56,440 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: Who am I forgetting right easily? He gets over looked

685
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: a lot, and for the life of me, I feel

686
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: like I'm banging my head against the desk, like when

687
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: he has had opportunities once every six hours. Alan Hearns

688
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: does stuff. He caught a touchdown last night. I don't

689
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: remember him having just any egregious drops, Like why can't

690
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: Alan Hearns be the guy running a post eighteen yards downfield.

691
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: He's a big body guy. He can box out the dB.

692
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: He has not displayed bad hands to this point in

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Speaker 1: the season. By the way, He's had the best season

694
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: of any receiver on this team. He had a really

695
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: really good season in Jacksonville. Him and the old and

696
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: him and Beasley are the only guys here that I

697
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: trust to do their jobs the way that they're supposted.

698
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: The thing about Beasley is if the defense the sides, oh,

699
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: we are stopping number eleven, then he gets stopped. It's

700
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Speaker 1: not he If he's a byproduct of other things, then

701
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: he can be, you know, dangerous. Who does he get

702
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: compared to all the time just because of what he

703
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: looks like? He get Westwall Welker, Okay, Welker did some

704
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: great things in New England when not only do they

705
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: have Tom Brady throwing him the ball, but he did

706
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: a lot of great things when when Randy Moss was

707
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: on the other side, and um, and then when he

708
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: goes to Denver and he has Damarius Thomas. So you

709
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: know these guys. And I'm not saying he's not a

710
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: really great player. Manning right there you go. But I'm

711
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 1: just saying Beasley can't be your number one. He can't

712
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: because he will get shut down. If the last year

713
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: they decided we're not letting you, we're not giving you

714
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: called Beasley, Dad, You're gonna have to do something else.

715
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: And so when they make it, say to something else,

716
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: the something else that you want to bring back and

717
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: think is gonna work. I don't know if it's going

718
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: to work, but I know this, he'll be the best

719
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: receiver on the team. And so right now, and as

720
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: Bill Parcel used to always say, you can't just go

721
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: down to the Texico and just pick up something else. Well,

722
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: the only you got to fix the problem somehow. So

723
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: who's out there? Who? Who can I get a wide receivers?

724
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Speaker 1: He's out there and not a whole lot of I'm

725
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it, I would. Are you really making

726
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: yourself And I know this's gonna sound weird, but are

727
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: you making yourself worse? Because you bring Dez in right now,

728
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: He's gonna absolutely feel the pressure that if I'm not

729
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: getting the ball I'm making, I'm showing everybody up there.

730
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: See I'm I just think that that's bad for your

731
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 1: locker room. That's horrible for your locker room. And I

732
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: don't end by the way, I don't think it's going

733
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: to be much of a difference. I saw this, this

734
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: this playout last year, like it wasn't. He didn't make

735
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: a huge difference last year. So am I willing to

736
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: deal with all the other stuff and then maybe room yeah,

737
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 1: and poisoning my locker room and not getting the production

738
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: out of Zeke doesn't get suspended six games? Do they

739
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: make the playoffs? Probably okay? Are they gonna make the

740
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: playoffs this year? I don't know. Probably at this point

741
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: what you're seeing probably not right. Probably not so. All

742
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 1: I'm saying is is you know you can sit here

743
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: and say that does didn't really make a difference. But

744
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: I think with the way that team was structured and

745
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: stuff last year, I think you they were better. To me,

746
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: that was about the fact that you had Travis Frederick

747
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: last year. That's not about the fact that you would

748
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: ask I'm just you gotta fix something. So I mean,

749
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,479
Speaker 1: if they come in here and today and Jason says that,

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00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: you know, he has a lot of faith in this

751
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: and this and this and this and this, then you

752
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: know you're gonna keep You know that you do realize

753
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: that's probably okay. You know what we're great today? You know,

754
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: do something different. Don't come in with the blue thing

755
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: and say how are we doing? Guys? I mean I'm sorry.

756
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I really really like Jason as a person.

757
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying this, this whole thing of just

758
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: saying we're gonna keep doing it, keep doing it, keep

759
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: doing it like that. You have to change it somehow.

760
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 1: Isn't that the definition of insanity? Insanity just keep doing

761
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

762
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: You have to he has to change the play calling

763
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: right now. You have to. You have to remove Scott

764
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 1: Linahan as the play caller, and you have to do

765
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 1: something else. You have to some something, Go get another player.

766
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: I don't know who's out there that. I'm so mystified

767
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: because I mean, I just said that they didn't do

768
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: a good enough job of putting talent on this receiver corps.

769
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: But I'm fairly confident des would not be making a

770
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: huge impact. And I don't know, I certainly I don't

771
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: think Sammy Watkins wouldn't be doing much, I mean except

772
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: just eating up salary cap space. Um. I mean, I

773
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: wonder if a guy like like Cooks who traded was

774
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: he traded this off season? I wonder if if you

775
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: would have gone to get a guy like that, does

776
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: he make a difference I'm just thinking about the guys

777
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: that move teams over last offseason. Were their guys in

778
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: that mix that could have been better fits if the

779
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: Cowboys wanted to go with a different philosophy and really

780
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: invest in, if they want to upgrade the wide petition.

781
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: I mean, they basically said we're gonna not have a

782
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: number one type wide receiver. If they would have gone

783
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: the other route and say it, we don't think Dez

784
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 1: is a number one anymore, but we're gonna go out

785
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: and get a number one. What kind of guys could

786
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: they have gotten that could have changed? I wish that

787
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: they Alan Hurns has said this, and I've heard it,

788
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: you know from people off the record too. Is like that,

789
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,399
Speaker 1: like Alan Hurns thought for real that he was gonna

790
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: play with Dezh just just cut his salary a little

791
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: bit and give it one more go and then if

792
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: it doesn't work, you can you're with him, go get it. No, no, no, no,

793
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Oh, I wish they had handled the whole

794
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: thing differently to begin with. I thought you were saying,

795
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: but go get dead. The one thing that I did

796
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: say a lot of times is that you know you're

797
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: going to bring in a good teacher. You know, it's

798
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,760
Speaker 1: Sanjay Law, which I haven't really seen these unbelievable routes

799
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: that are being run. But but he was supposed to

800
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: be this great route running teacher and coach where you know,

801
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: that's the one thing des really needed to work on.

802
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 1: So that's, you know, that would have been nice to

803
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: maybe see that. I'm just saying, they're sitting there, they're cut,

804
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: they're bleeding and blood stripping all over the place. So

805
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: get a band aid, figure it out, do something, or

806
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: you're just gonna sit there and just bleed to death.

807
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: You gotta do something here to fix this out. I

808
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. Badass defense coming in here

809
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: next year. Pissed off defense too. They got embarrassed yesterday,

810
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 1: so by their standard. Yeah, and I don't think they're

811
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: gonna get my homes, you know out here. I don't

812
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 1: think they're I don't think they have anybody. I can't wait.

813
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear what Jalen Ramsey has to

814
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: say about this offense. He really need to shut the

815
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 1: front door. I disagree. No, No, I mean you love

816
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: it because you like that whole like I like guys

817
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: who are willing to speak their moment right right, But

818
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: I mean he got embarrassed yesterday. I mean they absolutely

819
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: pick up. I mean yeah, but I mean he's over

820
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: here talking about Tyreek Hill and did all that antics

821
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and ja he'll say, I mean,

822
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: he'll admit it when he looked like it's not like

823
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: he's he'll he'll call a spade a spade, regardless of

824
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: whether it's good or bad. So I don't know. I'm

825
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 1: interested to see what that's how the Cowboys to win

826
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: right there, that's what that's what. That's what if the

827
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: Cowboys have a land in Collins, that's what they need

828
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: to say. You know what, we need to do something

829
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: on offense. Put the ball in Bartle's hand and see

830
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: if we can win. That's the best chance that Cowboys

831
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 1: have to win. Yep, all right, let's take our final break.

832
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: When we come back, I do want to talk about

833
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: the defense a little bit more and how they performed yesterday.

834
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: Well that when we come right back. This is Dallas

835
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Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com Radio. Well, a player can look good

836
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: on paper, it's when he's out on the field that

837
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: you really find out what he's made of. Twining to

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00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 1: Cowboys rely on more than staffs and scouting reports when

839
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: building their team. When picking a tractor, it's why you

840
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,439
Speaker 1: should rely on more than specs and features as well.

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Speaker 1: You got to take it out and put it to

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848
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Speaker 1: protecting parking lot parties from sad drinks. It's why they

849
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Speaker 1: at Stetson dot Com. Today, back to the Break, Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: It is the final segment of The Break, Live from

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Speaker 1: the s WBC Morgage studios at the Star. We're breaking

884
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,240
Speaker 1: down this Cowboys lost nineteen sixteen versus in Houston, Texans

885
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 1: in Houston. Not a great moment, not a great moment

886
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,919
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys at all. But the interesting part about

887
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,760
Speaker 1: this NFL is you're probably one or two plays difference

888
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: in a very different show today. And that's just the

889
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: nature of the NFL. And there's probably last week same

890
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: as last week. Right, you get one or two plays

891
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: that go a different way, and our whole conversation is

892
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: different because and that also means it is probably not

893
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 1: as good as as you think it is after a win,

894
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:00,919
Speaker 1: probably not as bad as you think it is after

895
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: a loss. Now, there are a lot of things to

896
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: point out and a lot of things that this team

897
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: didn't do well yesterday. But this whole conversation would be

898
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: very different if a couple of plays would have gone

899
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,280
Speaker 1: a different way. There's like three teams in the league

900
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: that can be confident that they're very good, and about

901
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: four that can be confident that they're total but and

902
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: then there's twenty five that who the hell knows. In

903
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: any given week, it just depends on how they show

904
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: up and what happens in the game. That's exactly right,

905
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: all right, So let's let's talk a little about the defense.

906
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: I thought, overall, this defense played a remarkably great game yesterday.

907
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: What I mean by that is the fact that they

908
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: had their opponent was in I mean, they were within

909
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: the three yard line, the Cowboys three yard line on

910
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: five different occasions, and the Cowboys only allowed them in

911
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: the end zone one time. That is a really, really

912
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: great effort against an offense where, yeah, they don't run

913
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: the ball great, but Alfred Blue looked pretty decent on

914
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: some plays. And more importantly, they got some receivers that

915
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,760
Speaker 1: are some difference makers, and they got a really difference

916
00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: making quarterback. Yeah, I mean, I thought it was a

917
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: definition should have been but don't break the defense. I mean,

918
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: they did a lot of bending, but you know, they

919
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: got down to the one yard line. I mean they

920
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: you know was they won a six in the red

921
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: zone for touchdowns. I mean, I thought that was an

922
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: amazing stat They played really tough, Um had some big

923
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 1: time hits. They were flying around the ball. As I

924
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: wrote in my column, I thought they were They were really,

925
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: really good. But the biggest problem they had is they

926
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: didn't have They weren't great. And for this football team,

927
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: you have to be great to win because they're so

928
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,919
Speaker 1: one dimensional, and they weren't great. They were really good. Though.

929
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: It's interesting you say that because in the post game

930
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 1: we were talking to Tyron Crawford and he said, you know,

931
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: maybe that he said, we didn't do enough yesterday. I

932
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: think there's there comes a point when you have to

933
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: think about it, like if if they're not scoring, then

934
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 1: we got to score. Jalen kind of kind of said

935
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: the same thing. But if you think about it, sometimes

936
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,919
Speaker 1: when your offense isn't being able to do the things

937
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,720
Speaker 1: that they normally are able to do, that's the nature

938
00:43:57,719 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: of a team, is that that means the defense then

939
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: may have to pick up that side. Now, I just

940
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: don't like I want to hear that. I don't want

941
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 1: to hear that in October because that that will lead

942
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: to more I hope not more finger pointing than the

943
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: guys saying that in week five. But I don't think

944
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: let me, let me be clear, it was It was

945
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: not in any way. It was more pointed at Hey,

946
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,959
Speaker 1: that's what teams do. Teams are teams because you don't

947
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: you don't. Yeah, if if one side of the ball

948
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: isn't having a great day, then the other side got

949
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: to pick up the slack. And this is it goes

950
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 1: the other way too. There will be days when they're

951
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: going to run into some offenses that this defense won't

952
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: be able to stop, and it'll be the offense's job

953
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: on those days to match with that offense. Right, It's

954
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: that's nature for sure, and then that happens. I didn't

955
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: get I didn't get any sense of like resentment or

956
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: frustation from those comments, which and that's what you have

957
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: to say. But me, like, they can't say this in

958
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 1: front of the media, but I can say, nah, Like

959
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 1: they doubled their turnover tally on the season. They had

960
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: two in one game after only having two all year,

961
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: held them to nineteen points sixteen points in regulation, three

962
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: goal line stands. They played well enough to win. Houston

963
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:07,320
Speaker 1: was thirty three percent on third down and it feels

964
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: weird to say they played this amazing game because they

965
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: gave up four hundred and sixty two yards. Like I said,

966
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: maybe that's why you don't punt in overtime, because you

967
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,879
Speaker 1: know they're gonna they can zip down the field. It's

968
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: only when the field shrinks that they're good. That doesn't

969
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: help you in overlimess my frame. What look at the

970
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: second half. Look at the second half. You look at

971
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: the second half, Colt. The Texans had seven possessions, only

972
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: two times that they score and those are two field goals.

973
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: They forced them to punt three times, and they had

974
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: two turnovers. That's more turnovers than they've had all season.

975
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:38,959
Speaker 1: They had it in the second half of that game.

976
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: So if you look at it from that, make a

977
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: nice point. In the second half, the defense really was

978
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: playing well enough to wear I just it kind of

979
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: corroborates why you would, if you're Jason Garrett, why you

980
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: might say, I'll put this in the hands of my defense.

981
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: And say that they're gonna stop them because they've been

982
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: doing a really good job of that. In the second

983
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: in their quarterback was you know, they just knocked them

984
00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:59,439
Speaker 1: to the ground, and you know, you're not really sure

985
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: exactly what you had over there. I mean, you know,

986
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: so you're thinking about everything, you know. I know I

987
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: wrote eight plays. We don't have time to get to it.

988
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you one play, one play that I

989
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: think really affected the whole game the most. If you

990
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 1: think about it. Right before the hell, Mary, that was

991
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: the play of the game for me. The balls at

992
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 1: the forty seven yard line. You have ten seconds to go,

993
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: you need eight yards he Jason says he wanted to

994
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:27,919
Speaker 1: get to the forty now, not at no fifty seven yarder. Now,

995
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: he made a fifty seven yard in preseason, hit the

996
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: net with that electricity that crowd, all of us could

997
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: have probably kicked a fifty yarder. I mean, I don't

998
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 1: know where it's gonna go, but I'm just saying, he

999
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: you would have tried a sixty two yarder with him,

1000
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: and you just needed five yards. Eight yards over the middle, Beasley,

1001
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: somebody make the play, called time out, and then you

1002
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: have a chance to go and win this. I had

1003
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: people telling me on Twitter with four seconds to go

1004
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: they should have done something a quick out because they

1005
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: had nobody covered them over there one, two, three, get

1006
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: about eight yards and then you could try but you

1007
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: know that. But I think right there with that ten seconds,

1008
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: you're you just need about eight yards and he had

1009
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: a time out. I thought that was the biggest play

1010
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: right there, because I'm telling you, Brett Maher would have

1011
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: he would have got it there, sixty two, sixty three,

1012
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: He would have got the ball there. I don't know

1013
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: if it's going through, but the adrenaline that he's got

1014
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 1: and I would have given him a shot. Hey, no

1015
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: doubt about it. His kids made eleven in a row.

1016
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no, I mean, hey, let's not talk about

1017
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 1: what happened to know who has no Let's absolutely talk

1018
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, you know, we spent an hour

1019
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: killing him for everything, and rightfully so this is not

1020
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: a good football team. But um, everybody and their mother,

1021
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: including all of us, questioned that decision. But Brett Maher

1022
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: looks great. Dan Bailey does not. He struggled in Philadelphia yesterday. Um,

1023
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: so they get it right. Sometimes. Yeah, sometimes here's what

1024
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: I want to see too. And I told you this

1025
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: in the press box. Fourth and one with a quarterback sneak,

1026
00:47:55,719 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: it makes it almost every time, right, Um, why fourth out?

1027
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: You know, third and one? I mean why not? Why

1028
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: not let Dak do something on third and one? I mean,

1029
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: wrinkle it up a little bit. I mean, put him

1030
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: in the shotgun and he goes up there to tell

1031
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: somebody something. Then snap the ball. I mean that that's

1032
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 1: a yard right there. You can lean forward. Who does

1033
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: it a lot? And that's just the Patriots do that

1034
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: a lot, like they always They get down there, it's

1035
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: one to go there, their quarterbacks Naku and everybody knows

1036
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: what's coming. He just leans on his offensive line, the center,

1037
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,399
Speaker 1: and it gets like three. It happens all the time.

1038
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: It would have it would have, I don't know. It

1039
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: would have been really embarrassing if it had blown up.

1040
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: But I wonder with the way the Texans were keying

1041
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,399
Speaker 1: on it, like a naked bootleg or something like that,

1042
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: how that would work. But you know, that's my thing.

1043
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: And now I think this all goes back to who's

1044
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 1: making the offensive play calls and and how creative they are.

1045
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: Who's to say they're on fourth down that you had

1046
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: to run Zeke up the middle right. There should have

1047
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:54,800
Speaker 1: been lots of opportunities. You know, they were going to

1048
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: be keying on Zeke, so there should have been a

1049
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: lot of things you could have done there. If you

1050
00:48:58,440 --> 00:48:59,839
Speaker 1: were going to go for it on fourth and one

1051
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: and a half to be able to get that first down,

1052
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: that may not. That could have been a play faked

1053
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 1: Zeke and then somebody else has the ball, whether it's Tavon,

1054
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:10,359
Speaker 1: whether it's whether it's um um um Dak, whether he's

1055
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: strolling the ball, like I think, there are lots of

1056
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: other things he could have probably done. You know. Let's

1057
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: also remember this on third and one, Dak, it was

1058
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 1: a it was a read option, and so he I

1059
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: mean he missed the read I guess you should have run.

1060
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, I didn't see that. He said. Well,

1061
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: he said the end sat on it, and he wouldn't

1062
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: have had anywhere to go. That's I mean, I haven't

1063
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 1: watched it back, but that's what he said. It was

1064
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: very tersely because somebody was like what happened on the

1065
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 1: read option, He's like, the end sat on it, so

1066
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have had I mean, that's what he wants

1067
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: them playing. And sometimes sometimes defenses can can give you

1068
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: the look where they got both things blocked, and I

1069
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: mean they got both things defended. You know, you know,

1070
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 1: not anything this is. This was big on big though.

1071
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: It really was. I mean we talked because of this side.

1072
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: We talked about what the Cowboys were built for with

1073
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: the offensive line and their their first round picks and

1074
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: all that. But you got to remember too and that

1075
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 1: you know, this is what Houston has built for. I mean,

1076
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: they drafted to top ten defensive ends and one of

1077
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: them if they have to redraft even that, that was

1078
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 1: an amazing draft. JJ Watt's not going what eleven, Yeah,

1079
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,439
Speaker 1: he's not going that far. I guarantee that in clown

1080
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,919
Speaker 1: he's gonna get drafted probably number one again. But I'm

1081
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: just saying they're built for that as well. It was

1082
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 1: big on big was it was. It was a slug

1083
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: fest from that standpoint. I mean I thought I thought that.

1084
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't an entertaining football game, but just

1085
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 1: that one wrinkle down there when they they got a

1086
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: gift for the turnover and they got some creative plays

1087
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: and it was some nice stuff. But why does it

1088
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: have to be at the red zone to do that.

1089
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: Why can't we have some creativity to do some of

1090
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: that stuff? Although I will I don't remember. It was

1091
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: late in the game. It was probably late in the fourth,

1092
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: but it was another third and one, wasn't it. They

1093
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: they did this slow It might have been the play

1094
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 1: where Watt finally got his sack, like they just they

1095
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 1: did like a double motion on a third and short

1096
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: where you know, it was like a fake to Zeke

1097
00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: and then a fake to Tavan and then you try

1098
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: to like just get the ball out man in that

1099
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: situation with the crowd loud and the defense keying on

1100
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: the pass. Like, I didn't like that. I didn't That

1101
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:08,760
Speaker 1: sack was a big sack, it was. That was actually

1102
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,959
Speaker 1: a second nine if that's what you're talking about nine

1103
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: with what That was a big play in the game

1104
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 1: because after the punt returned by Austin, I mean they're

1105
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: they got the forty five yard line. I mean they

1106
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 1: eat about twenty yards and they got three minutes to go.

1107
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 1: They have everything working for him and then they go backwards.

1108
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 1: That was a bad drive. We kind of really bad,

1109
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: You're right, We kind of which we kind of glossed

1110
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 1: over it because there's so much frustrating bad stuff to

1111
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: say about the offense, and it does. It amounts to

1112
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: nothing because they lost. But like, just shout out to

1113
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 1: the Dallas defense made like as many heroic plays last

1114
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,280
Speaker 1: night as you see in a typical seat, like Jalen

1115
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: Smith the fourth down just annihilated Watson. Both tackles for him,

1116
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: thirteen tackles for Vanderiss. They were everywhere. Xavier Woods just

1117
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 1: mauled Watson on the pylon to keep him out of

1118
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: the end zone. Jeff Heath lowered the boom on DeAndre

1119
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: Hopkins with I mean that that's the difference between winning

1120
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: and losing. It is like you gotta stop him cold

1121
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: U best game, Iron Jones too, I'm sorry, no, Well,

1122
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: Byron Jones had at least one or two breakups on

1123
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: end zone passes, so they were they were lights out.

1124
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: They didn't well, not lights out. They were really good,

1125
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: especially in that area of the field, and they played well.

1126
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: I think I think you know now I've said all

1127
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: along with about their old Thomas situation or getting a

1128
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: safety or whatever, because I'm like, I'm not really sure

1129
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,479
Speaker 1: what I have and is Zavier Woods. Um, I thought

1130
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: that was his best game. I thought he played. He

1131
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 1: played pretty well. He had he had some moments. I

1132
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: mean they all did, but but I thought, you know,

1133
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: you saw some good sideline to sideline speed out of

1134
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 1: him and good instincts. It's unfortunate for him because I mean,

1135
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: I thought he played pretty well, but the spin he

1136
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: got put in a spend cycle on the play that

1137
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 1: lost them the game, which I mean, but that that

1138
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:56,919
Speaker 1: to me, that was an absolute terrible job by Anthony Brown.

1139
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 1: And Anthony Brown had had a nice play too. But

1140
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: do you think you're not taller than Hopkins, you don't

1141
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: jump higher than Hopkins, and you don't recognize in the

1142
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: ball like he is. So why would you undercut him

1143
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: to think you're going to knock that ball? You know

1144
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:14,399
Speaker 1: what play it's safe at that point it tackle him.

1145
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,839
Speaker 1: You're not making this unbelievable play to change the game.

1146
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 1: And then what it is that it just opened it

1147
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: up for him to go fifty yards. But I will

1148
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: say this of the different mistackles on that play, and

1149
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, to me, I also put that a lot

1150
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: on the fact that that's why you have a number

1151
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: one receiver is because he makes those kinds of plays.

1152
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 1: That would normally be a routine catch and turns them

1153
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,359
Speaker 1: into game winning plays. And that's exactly what he did.

1154
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,879
Speaker 1: And that's the argument that we I think we were

1155
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: making earlier in this show, which is when you don't

1156
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: have that guy, you don't have the ability to have

1157
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:48,959
Speaker 1: that room for error where you can take something again

1158
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: that's just a routine play and now turn it into

1159
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: your game winner. You are You're right, You're absolutely right.

1160
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 1: I'm not disagreeing with you, but it reminds me I

1161
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: thought about bringing this up earlier, and since you talked

1162
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: about Laton vander esh it makes sense, like I feel

1163
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 1: really good about having that duo of freakishly athletic linebackers.

1164
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: I mean, that can make your defense formidable for the

1165
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: foreseeable future. So would it would be nice to have

1166
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: Dj Moore or Calvin Ridley, But would you trade that

1167
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: away with what you've seen from Layton vander Esch and

1168
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,240
Speaker 1: Dalen Smith? And honestly, I don't think those guys would

1169
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: have been great for you this year, which so it

1170
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: like it's an uncomfortable It's an uncomfortable spot because like,

1171
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what would make it better, right,

1172
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 1: now it's I mean, obviously if your quarterback was just

1173
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: playing much much better, but I think we all would

1174
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: agree that that's not going to happen right now. Yeah,

1175
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: a healthy, strong Frederick, Yeah, I mean that would be

1176
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: nice too, but that's also a different places that that's

1177
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 1: officially not gonna happen, which we didn't even talk about that,

1178
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,399
Speaker 1: but I mean, yea Frederick is now Frederick at least

1179
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:53,319
Speaker 1: eight weeks eight weeks from now, he's not gonna be

1180
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: in the he's not gonna be playing football. I don't

1181
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,319
Speaker 1: think he will play this year, and I don't think

1182
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,879
Speaker 1: he should play this year. Like just being in the bill,

1183
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: seeing what he's working through, I wish nothing. But yeah,

1184
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 1: well that that it goes back to what I said

1185
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:08,799
Speaker 1: in August, like they should have put him on IR

1186
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 1: right away and just like, hey, your nerves are attacking

1187
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: your body, like go figure that out and don't worry

1188
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: about football right now, like you got bigger fish to

1189
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 1: fry in terms of your life. So so, but he's

1190
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 1: not going to be here anytime soon, and neither is

1191
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: Terrence Williams. Not that he was helping you, but he

1192
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 1: definitely can't now. Yep. So all right real quick before

1193
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:28,800
Speaker 1: we end the show. I didn't need to give a

1194
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: shout out though, to Cowboys Nation in Houston. That was

1195
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: about as electric and an environment I've seen in an

1196
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:38,960
Speaker 1: NFL game in a long time. On both sides, it

1197
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 1: was almost felt like a college game because no matter

1198
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: who was on the field, the fans were going crazy

1199
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,840
Speaker 1: and they were making it hard for the offenses, both offense,

1200
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: and at one point you saw the text and saying

1201
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,279
Speaker 1: quiet down, and they didn't realize no, no, no, you're

1202
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: hyping them up because those are Cowboys fans. It was

1203
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: a great environment. I've never seen the road defense like

1204
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 1: hyping up the crowd during a time out before. That

1205
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 1: was easily one of one of the top three best

1206
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: non playoff environments I've been in. And it goes back

1207
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:12,320
Speaker 1: to what Nick wrote last week. And I know you

1208
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: guys asked Stephen about it in the pregame. If there

1209
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:16,439
Speaker 1: was a way to get that game every year, it's

1210
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: you can't tell me that within five years that thing

1211
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: would have talk about rivalries in the division, that thing

1212
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:24,320
Speaker 1: would be right up there with those rivalries in the division.

1213
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:29,280
Speaker 1: The passion that's in every seat, you know, because that

1214
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: person goes to work today and that person's got Cowboy

1215
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: fan here, Cowboy fan here, Texans fan over here, and

1216
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:40,479
Speaker 1: then Eagle fan over there. That just always talking whatever.

1217
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, But that is you got

1218
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: to have this game. You got and that's every seat

1219
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: in the thing, and the passion is there. And then

1220
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:49,439
Speaker 1: this guy over here has been talking the whole game

1221
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: and you just want it. That's what these You know,

1222
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 1: you put the geography into place, you're going to have

1223
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,399
Speaker 1: a lot of split stuff like that's why shout out

1224
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: to you. That's why you're a team that Texas though

1225
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:02,400
Speaker 1: you game that was it's such a big deal to

1226
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: you because it's so close and everyone's right there and

1227
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: it just means so much. And in this case you

1228
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: had this is a point in the year where you

1229
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,479
Speaker 1: just gotta have a win like this. I ran into

1230
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: a guy in the lobby yesterday afternoon and he asked

1231
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: me who I picked, and I was like, oh, I

1232
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: hope I'm wrong, but I picked the Texans, you know whatever.

1233
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: That's just how I feel. And he was like, you

1234
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 1: can't tell me that, dude. Like if they don't get

1235
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: this game, like it's three hundred and sixty five days

1236
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: where I got to hear about it from everybody in

1237
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: my life. I was like, that sounds terrible. I'm sorry,

1238
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: I don't know what but that, But that's where real

1239
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: rivalries are made. Like, that's when the real rivalries are made.

1240
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 1: Is win not It's not the game so much as

1241
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 1: much as it is what you gotta deal with all

1242
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: of your surrounding people, your family, your friends who are

1243
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 1: on the other side, which I'm dealing with a lot

1244
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: of that today. But that's a part of it, you

1245
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: know what. I like that part of it where the

1246
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 1: Spanish radio was located. I had to go through, you know,

1247
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: the crowd and people in the stance and all that.

1248
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: The environment was so good, like everyone just have fun

1249
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: between everyone. It's not like the Eagles. I want to

1250
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: get into a fight every time. If someone bumps to you,

1251
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna punch in the face. No, this was like

1252
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 1: a good energy and the rivalry rivalry, say that is

1253
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: there for sure, but it's in a good it's a

1254
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: fun it's a fun rivalry. It is energy. It's a

1255
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 1: good energy. We'll end the show on that. Thank you

1256
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: guys for joining us. We're back tomorrow. We'll give you a

1257
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 1: a Big Picture Tuesday. Tell you what's happening around the league,

1258
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 1: around the NFC East till then for Nick Even, Dave Hellman,

1259
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:32,720
Speaker 1: Amber Garcia, I'm Derek Eagles and this has been the

1260
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 1: Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has

1261
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:41,080
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