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Speaker 1: time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Break. I hope everyone had a

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Speaker 1: very merry, merry Christmas. How are you guys doing awesome?

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Speaker 1: Extremely well? Davis trying to get back into town. Is

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Speaker 1: he really? I don't know, but I think he's gonna

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Speaker 1: make it. You think, yeah, obviously obviously. Now maybe I

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Speaker 1: think he's gonna make it by the end of the show. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we've had some weather issues here in Dallas a little bit.

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Speaker 1: It's sunny, No, it isn't anyways, anyway, they practice out

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Speaker 1: already had made. You know how important weather it's. Hilario's

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Speaker 1: Dave gotta have you better have my gumbo. Were gonna

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Speaker 1: have a problem, tiny Jim, good luck with that one

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Speaker 1: in a while. But Jim doesn't use anymore. The Cowboys

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Speaker 1: are officially in the playoffs, and we haven't really gotten

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Speaker 1: a chance to talk about the game. It's been a

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Speaker 1: just getting an overall opinion of what you saw on

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Speaker 1: took away from that game. Despite the win, there's still

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Speaker 1: some room for improvement on the offense, and so just

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Speaker 1: give me your thoughts. Derek, let's start with you. Oh man, um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I honestly I didn't take a hole

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Speaker 1: they would. The score actually ended up being closer than

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Speaker 1: what the game really was. I thought personally, I thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously that they scored there with what was

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Speaker 1: it right at too right too. But I mean, I think, honestly,

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Speaker 1: right now, the Cowboys have two possible opponents, Minnesota and

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Speaker 1: players that did not practice today. David Irving obviously wasn't there.

429
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,200
Speaker 1: Didn't see him. Uh, Anthony Brown, but looked pretty close.

430
00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,760
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown looked like you moving around with a back injury.

431
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 1: Looks pretty good working to the side, working to the side,

432
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 1: but with helmet on, so it looks pretty good. Zack

433
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,040
Speaker 1: Martin was not there. Makes me think Zach Martin's not

434
00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,359
Speaker 1: gonna play. Um this week. I just why would you

435
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,919
Speaker 1: know this? This is one point yeah, where you wouldn't

436
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 1: and and you see a big difference with him. Tampa

437
00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 1: Bay game goes out there that they'd play better Indianapolis,

438
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 1: he wasn't there. They really struggled. He's he's a difference

439
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 1: maker on that offensive line. I don't know if you

440
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 1: call him the MVP, but he's very valuable. He's an

441
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,119
Speaker 1: All Pro multi times like that's that's five years in

442
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,080
Speaker 1: a row. Yeah, I mean that's you're talking about one

443
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,119
Speaker 1: of the best in the league, be in the league, So,

444
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 1: which is what I think. It made a good point

445
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,359
Speaker 1: a few minutes ago about those are the type of

446
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,800
Speaker 1: guys that changed what you're trying to do. Uh, and

447
00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,879
Speaker 1: if they're not one hundred percent, then you need to

448
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,640
Speaker 1: get him at one hundred percent when it was close

449
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,879
Speaker 1: to it when the game matters the most. Now, we

450
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 1: kept talking about how Tyron Crawford he's had a really

451
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,359
Speaker 1: good season and the things that he's able to do

452
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 1: on the defensive line that not many people notice that much,

453
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 1: but he's a key player to that line and he

454
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 1: can do multiple things. He can play for you at

455
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 1: different spots. And when he came out of the game,

456
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 1: we were able to see to keep seeing the line

457
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,919
Speaker 1: perform very well. Now, I wanted to make note of

458
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory and the things that he has been able

459
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Speaker 1: to accomplish so far, which sometimes a lot of the

460
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:37,800
Speaker 1: times he's being called for penalties are up and down,

461
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: up and down, But then he comes back and gives

462
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 1: you something, so he makes a pretty balance for you.

463
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: But pre card less not necessarily a good thing. But hey,

464
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,440
Speaker 1: you know, but at least last game he paid off.

465
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,399
Speaker 1: It doesn't always work out that way. Said, he was

466
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 1: the MVP of both teams. Right in the first half.

467
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: I thought he was the MVP for the Cowboys and

468
00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:01,879
Speaker 1: the Bucks. It's like the penalties are just really alarming

469
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 1: for for the you know, the team, but mainly his penalties.

470
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, it just seems like he just

471
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 1: kind of was going along. You don't hear much about

472
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 1: Gregory and then boom, he's just gonna do something. He

473
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: just you know, doesn't really maybe have a full understanding

474
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Speaker 1: of what some of the rules are. Not all the

475
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:24,919
Speaker 1: penalties I think have been you know, good calls. Oh,

476
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 1: but that's that's the league. And then yeah, and that's

477
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: that's the other thing. When you talk about those calls,

478
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 1: which has been happening throughout the whole year, just making

479
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 1: back calls. And I was talking to you about this, um,

480
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 1: I think sometime during the game after when we weren't

481
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 1: headed down to the field. But as far as Randy

482
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 1: Gregory goes some of those penalties, it's like, you can't

483
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 1: really fault him when yeah, if he goes offsides or whatever,

484
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 1: then yeah, that's on him. But when he gets to

485
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, some of those quarterback hits, it's very debatable

486
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 1: and it's tough. It's tough for you to have it

487
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,399
Speaker 1: clear on the understanding of the things that you're supposed

488
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: to do, and especially when you're trying to get to

489
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: the quarterback the adrenaline rush and the things and the movement,

490
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: it's hard to tell some of the calls are going

491
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: to happen there. I think I think you can argue.

492
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 1: I think you can argue the validity of the rule itself.

493
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Speaker 1: I don't think in this last game that unnecessary roughness

494
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: or roughing the pass or whatever the call was, I

495
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: don't think that was a bad call based upon the

496
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 1: letter of the law. The letter of the rule is

497
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: you can't drive, you can't land with your body weight

498
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 1: on top of the quarterback. Now, I know that, as

499
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 1: you said, when guys are going full speed and they're

500
00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,439
Speaker 1: hitting a quarterback like you can question whether that's a

501
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 1: good rule. You can question whether that's always possible, even

502
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 1: for guys to do or not do. But I think

503
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 1: according to what the rule says, it says you can't

504
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,880
Speaker 1: come down in the quarterback with your full body weight,

505
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: And to me, he came down in the quarterback with

506
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 1: his full body weight. I think the spirit of the

507
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 1: rule is to pick up a guy and then drive

508
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: him into the ground. And I don't think you can't

509
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: tackle a guy and lay on and bring him to

510
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 1: the ground without putting your your weight on him. Not true,

511
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 1: Not true. We've seen I've seen guys this year. Not okay,

512
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 1: hold on before you say that this that this is

513
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: why this thing is is different. Brandy Gregory weighs two

514
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,400
Speaker 1: hundred and forty pounds. Jamis Winston is listed at two

515
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: thirty seven. I think that's very nice for him. Um,

516
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: I don't think that he weighs two thirty seven. So

517
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,959
Speaker 1: so to do to get the guy down, like you

518
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 1: need to get him down, you're not you're you have

519
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 1: to tackle him, you have to lift him. They have

520
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: to get him to the ground. Right now, you're debating

521
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: the rule. Okay, I get it. The rule might be

522
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: a bad rule. My point is that's how they said

523
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 1: that they were going to call it, which is if

524
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 1: you bring your body weight down on the whether you

525
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,159
Speaker 1: think you need to or not, if you bring your

526
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,160
Speaker 1: body weight down on the quarterback, the rule says that's

527
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 1: a penalty. Yeah, I thought he I thought he hit

528
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: the guy and he went down and they went down together,

529
00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: and yeah, your body weight's gonna go on him. I

530
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Speaker 1: thought that it was not exactly what the intention of

531
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,640
Speaker 1: the rule was. Wasn't the worst call in that drive, though,

532
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: I mean the one later with you know, with Xavier Woods,

533
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,439
Speaker 1: I think it is one of the worst calls that

534
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 1: they've had this year against them. But um, overall, penalties

535
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,959
Speaker 1: are an issue and and and there, and that's the

536
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: one thing that's setting back that I think this defense

537
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: is those undisciplined and definitely untimely penalties. And you have

538
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: to play and you know, you have to play to

539
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: them to what the rules are. But you know, I

540
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: don't think Xavier Woods is going to change what he's doing.

541
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: He shouldn't, you know. And that's the thing you almost

542
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 1: have to in today's NFL when you're coaching your defense,

543
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: you almost have to accept that there are going to

544
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: be some of those penalties and that's why again I

545
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 1: don't have I don't necessarily have a problem with Randy

546
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: for that penalty. I do think it was again according

547
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: to the rule, I think it was the right call.

548
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,719
Speaker 1: But I think that as a defense, you just have

549
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: to know they're gonna be sometimes you're gonna get those calls.

550
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 1: Same thing with Xavier Wood. You're gonna get those calls

551
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: because the league has made it a priority. We're trying

552
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,959
Speaker 1: to protect quarterback, to protect receivers that aren't looking like

553
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: all these things they've they've now kind of put built

554
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: this into the game that that's the that's their priority.

555
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: And so if that's the case, you don't want you

556
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: guys not being aggressive on defense because that's what makes

557
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 1: a good defense. So you just have to accept the

558
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: fact that sometimes those penalties are going to go against you.

559
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: You just have to suck it up and move on.

560
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like it's a guy that just

561
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: walks into like the zoo, like where the tigers are

562
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:23,960
Speaker 1: and just was just kind of walking around. I'm not

563
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: really paying attention, you know, and then he gets like

564
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: mauled and you're like, well, like, you know, why are

565
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 1: you defenseless? Well, you know, like I'm a defenseless We'll

566
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: get the hell out of the damn cage. Like I'm

567
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: not trying to discriminate against guys like like humphriese Beasley.

568
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: They've had a really good career. It's great that you

569
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,479
Speaker 1: can be in the league and play at one hundred

570
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: and sixty five pounds or whatever. But I do think

571
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,359
Speaker 1: that it's kind of a hockey situation that's going on

572
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: here is how the penalty, how the play looked, is

573
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: what determines us to throw. Because you got hit hard

574
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: and you went flying you that shouldn't necessarily be but

575
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: you have to admit that it did look like and

576
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: I think on the replay we kind of saw it

577
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: and said maybe that wasn't the case, but it looked

578
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: like because of the way it's heads snapped, it looked

579
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: like his the crown of Xavier's helmet may have hit

580
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: him in the face. Mask. Now, I think when we

581
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: saw an review again, it looked like, oh, it really

582
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: didn't actually make contact, But when you saw it in

583
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: bang bang, it looked like because it waves his head snap,

584
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,479
Speaker 1: it looked like he got hit in the head. So

585
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: that's how the things called right raps are watching it

586
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,400
Speaker 1: lot down there and then when we get the luxury

587
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 1: to watching it from up cup and then seeing the

588
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 1: replay on TV and seeing how that you play actually

589
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: played out. So it's different. But college football has figured

590
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: out a way to make it targeting a reviewable play.

591
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: Why why is the NFL not doing the same thing,

592
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, and I know this is there's a

593
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: lot that would have to be worked out. I really

594
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: want to get to the day when the NFL has

595
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: somebody or a group of guys that sit in the

596
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: press box or sit somewhere else and they're watching this

597
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: thing on television and they're making the calls from there, Like,

598
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: why why are we in a day of technology now?

599
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: Why are we in a day of technology still forcing

600
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: guys to be standing at phil level where you know,

601
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: at fil level you can't see everything, and letting them

602
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: call a game, rather than having a guy that's just

603
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: focused on the offensive lineman that's watching a screen that

604
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: can hit a button, and when they hit a button,

605
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: somebody on the field can say, Okay, flat goes out,

606
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: there's a penalty. Here is the penalty. But that to

607
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: me is a smarter way of calling games and it's

608
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: gonna be way more accurate than having guys down on

609
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: the field having to make those coins. And if that

610
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: play is Mike Evans, if Mike Evans catches that ball

611
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: over the middle for different reasons, that is not going

612
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: to be a penalty. Number one, he's a lot taller,

613
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: so you're not Probably Zavier Woods is not gonna hit

614
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: him in the head. He's gonna hit him in the shoulder.

615
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: Maybe what I'm sure Evans is still gonna go down

616
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: because that was such a forceful hit. Nice, but he's

617
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: not gonna he was hit like at the fifteen and

618
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: I think he went back to I mean, Humphreys landed

619
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: a like around midfield maybe like I mean, it was

620
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 1: not that far, but I mean he went back ten yards.

621
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Speaker 1: I don't you're gonna do that. And I think that

622
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: that's what forced the officials to be like, well, this

623
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: has gotta be a penalty. I mean, the guy might

624
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: be dead, so it's gotta be a penalty. That's that's

625
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: the thing that you know, I think hockey officials refs

626
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: do that on on what looks bad. What you know,

627
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: if there's blood, oh that must be real, you know, whatever,

628
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: it didn't look bad. It did look bad because the

629
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: hit it really didn't look like because he looks like

630
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: he plays junior high football. That's why, and that's why

631
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: it's not it's not Davier Woods's fault. Yeah, I agree,

632
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: but but yeah, I mean, just because Rudy's out here

633
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: playing doesn't mean another movie y'all probably haven't seen, but

634
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: Rudy and Hoosiers there's probably like a two pack DVD

635
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: blue ray you can get. Well, we talked about what

636
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: the Mac? What's the all right, that's my point is

637
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: what the Mac? Stick with your Hoosiers? What's the Mac?

638
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: It's a great movie, really great movie. Go look it up.

639
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: Return of the Man. All right? Okay, Well, we talked

640
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: about Randy Gregory's penalties and another guy that has been

641
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: pretty constant as far as penalty goes is who would

642
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 1: it be? Yes, Tyren Smith? Now, what are some of

643
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: the things that we've been able to see him from

644
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: the field a few times towards the end of the game.

645
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: Keep just keep holding, just keep doing what he's doing.

646
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: Just take whatever. I mean, it's unfortunate, but he kind

647
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: of you know. Flozell Adams was a false start machine

648
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: at left tackle for almost every game right he got

649
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: about won a game, and he was also a five

650
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: time Pro bowler a left tackle, and better than him.

651
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: Tyrn is better than him. He does have to figure

652
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: out the whole I mean, because the while he has

653
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: been blocking, they are calling that as a as a penalty,

654
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: and that's kind of what he's done for you. Which

655
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: is kind of interesting because this last game, one of

656
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: those holding calls, his hands were inside. Now I know

657
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: that they a lot of times you'll hear guys talking

658
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: about it. That the way it's taught is if your

659
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: hand to get outside, and the ref sees your hands

660
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: outside and the guy's lateral movement is limited, then they're

661
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: gonna say, well, that was holding. But if you get

662
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: your hands inside, which if you look at offensive line

663
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: play throughout the league, almost every single play you see

664
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman he's trying to get his hands inside,

665
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: and once he gets inside, he locks in and usually

666
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: grabs the opposing player by the by their jersey or

667
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: by their shoulder pads in the front with their hands inside.

668
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: That's how you play offensive line. So for him to

669
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Speaker 1: get called for holding on that kind of play, that's

670
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: what was a little bit weird. To me, because his

671
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: hands weren't outside, they were inside. And to me, that

672
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: happens again every single play, and that's how you're taught

673
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: to play offensive line. That's how you get That's why

674
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: guys are hand fighting because they don't want to let

675
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: that offensive lineman actually lock in inside. Because you do that,

676
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: you can't get off the yeah, you can't get off

677
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: the yeah. I think it's become a little bit problematic,

678
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: but I mean he's you're fine with taking it. I mean,

679
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the Gregory thing. I mean, it's

680
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: just it's you have to be able to produce and

681
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, well it's I mean, it offsets it

682
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: on the defensive side because of the way that the

683
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: defense is playing, it kind of balances it off. But

684
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: when it comes to the offense point, the penalty is

685
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: that tyre and get to Lyle. Those are big time

686
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: ones and that could end up costing me a lot.

687
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,239
Speaker 1: This offense doesn't need any set when they get down there.

688
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: You're right, and so far they haven't been too bad.

689
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: In the Indianapolis game, they probably missed the field goal

690
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: opportunity because of that. Was that the Indianapolis game, No, No,

691
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: it was it was a home game. Actually, I forgot exactly.

692
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Speaker 1: It might have been the Philadelphia game where the mahar

693
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694
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,520
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695
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,280
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696
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: you can push him back into the fifty seven to

697
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: sixty range, Maher's money, you know. And we'll talk about

698
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Speaker 1: him when we come back after this final break. We'll

699
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701
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702
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,480
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Speaker 1: three and five, in the middle of the season, the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys obviously made it a few adjustments to turn things around,

747
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: and that's what teams need to do the middle of

748
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: the season, middle of the game. Whatever adjustments the middle

749
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: of the day. It's not a good time for guys

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752
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Speaker 1: hit me up yesterday on Twitter and was like, oh, wife,

760
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Speaker 1: got the message. You got the Tommy John for Christmas.

761
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Speaker 1: I was like, that's a that's a win, that's a win. Yeah,

762
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Speaker 1: that's definitely on. Some people got Tommy John and my

763
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Speaker 1: family for Gootmas. They got they got pretty excited. I

764
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Speaker 1: don't know, but but it's good stuff. It's good stuff.

765
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Speaker 1: If it's very nice material, I'll say that very comfortable. Now,

766
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: before we went on break, we mentioned Brett Maher, a

767
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: guy that Nick was ready to I was ready to

768
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: cut last week. No, you started talking about that last week, Yes,

769
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: you did. It's on record. No, we don't need to

770
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 1: pull it back, say to cut the guy you mentioned it.

771
00:37:58,040 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: We and then when you say, well, who are you

772
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Speaker 1: gonna bringing? Okay, well we don't know. Well there's a

773
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: lot of other guys in the market. Well blah blah blah.

774
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,280
Speaker 1: But you didn't mention that. Now that's not up for debate.

775
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: I just want to say that Brandma Hurt did win

776
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: NFC Special Teams Player off the Week and this has

777
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: been the second time that he wins that this year.

778
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:23,399
Speaker 1: So why are you looking at me like that? Does

779
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: this change your mind? Do you see Brandma Hurt any

780
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: differently after him winning this title this week? All right,

781
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: they got they're playing Seattle. They're playing Seattle, and they're

782
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: down seventeen to sixteen, and they're driving and they have

783
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: a forty seven yard field goal to win the game.

784
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: Are you comfortable that he's gonna make it? No? I mean,

785
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Are you comfortable that the offense is

786
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: gonna score six points? Are you comfortable that Dak is

787
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: gonna make a past? You're not very comfortable throughout the game.

788
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: That's just how it is right now. I understand, I

789
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: understand and I'll go back, and you know, I challenge

790
00:38:58,080 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: you to find that where I said that they need

791
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,919
Speaker 1: to cut him. I never said that because I don't

792
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I don't know who's out there. But

793
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is he's on the thin ice. And

794
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: if he had if he did not play well in

795
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: this last game. Yeah, he was a player of the week, congratulations.

796
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: If he missed two kicks against Tampa Bay, they probably

797
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: would have found someone else. He's at that point. I

798
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 1: think he's got a little bit more leeway now, especially

799
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: going into New York whatever happens there. I don't think

800
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna make a change. But there was a time,

801
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: and everyone knows this two or three weeks ago, that

802
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: if he did not pull himself out of this, he

803
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: was going to be replaced. But he has No one's

804
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: comfortable about anything that he's doing. But it is what

805
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: it is. And yeah, I agree. I mean, you're not

806
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: comfortable about anything right now unless you're unless you're wearing

807
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: Tommy John John, then you are comfortable. But other than

808
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 1: wearing Tommy John, you're not that comfortable. But here's the

809
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: other thing that I think keeps him, keeps him from

810
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,439
Speaker 1: being replaceable right now, right now, And that could change

811
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: next week, but right now, and that is the fact

812
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: that he's hitting these longer ones. So if he's a

813
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Speaker 1: little bit shaky, as you said, at that forty seven

814
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Speaker 1: yard mark, I might be a little bit nervous. He's

815
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Speaker 1: roll him out there for a sixty yarder, fifty eight yard,

816
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 1: which is I feel I actually feel more confident in

817
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 1: those because I think Rob said it during the game

818
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: this last week. Those aren't pressure kicks, like if you

819
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Speaker 1: miss it, no one cared. Everybody's like, well, that's a

820
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Speaker 1: fifty eight yard or it's a sixty two yarder. It

821
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: is what it is now. If it's for the game,

822
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Speaker 1: if it's to win the game, then that's a little

823
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: bit different. But if it's just you know, at the

824
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Speaker 1: end of the half and you're just taking a shot

825
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: because that's all you can do, yes, I feel like

826
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,879
Speaker 1: he'll go out and nail that kick regularly. I don't

827
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Speaker 1: even I don't feel nearly as as nervous about that

828
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: as I would have forty five yarder. I agree in

829
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: the middle at the end of a half, but I

830
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Speaker 1: don't think if you're sitting on the forty one yard

831
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Speaker 1: line with, you know, twelve minutes to go in the

832
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Speaker 1: second quarter and he in your ear at home and

833
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Speaker 1: you have a chance for a fifty eight fifty nine

834
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: yard field goal. I don't like that. I wouldn't try that,

835
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: even though I know he can make it, yeah, because

836
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: the ball will be right there at midfield percentage, just

837
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: say that's not a smart play, right, So so while

838
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: into the half you have a little you know, in

839
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 1: an end of half, end of games, you don't have

840
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: to get as far as other kickers might because of

841
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: his leg. I don't think it changed as much in

842
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: the middle of the game. I don't think you still

843
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,439
Speaker 1: want to be trying fifty eight fifty nine yard field

844
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: goal so far. It was the one where he almost

845
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: missed it this weekend nine but it was but it

846
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 1: was yeah, And that wasn't like right at the end

847
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,240
Speaker 1: of the half because the Bucks went scored a touchdown.

848
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: So you know, you could make the case there that

849
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Speaker 1: that you know he made a fifty nine yarder, but

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Speaker 1: would you if you would have punted and pinned them

851
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: down there, you probably would have saved four points. Because

852
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if Tampa drives that whole way. I

853
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: didn't actually didn't like the call to go for it

854
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: at that moment in the game. I was like, I

855
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: was like, the potential, the chance that he doesn't get it,

856
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: it's too great to give them the ball where they

857
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: would have gotten it on a day when I feel

858
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: like they really didn't have a hard time moving the ball.

859
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: They were they were bogging down a little bit. I mean,

860
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: I feel like their offense had some big had some

861
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: big plays. I would have wanted to force them to

862
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,479
Speaker 1: drive the entire field, because I did think they would

863
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: drop the entire fields. I'm with you. I would have

864
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: probably tried to you know, it's it'll be a case

865
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: by case basis on each kick where they are, you know,

866
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 1: and and if you have to, you know, there's really

867
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: only Chicago would be the only place you'd have to

868
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: play where you would really be kind of worried about weather, right,

869
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I mean all the others are either

870
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: indoor or nice weather. Yeah, I mean, you know, so

871
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see. I don't think you you

872
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: you replace him, um, but but I you know, it's

873
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: a little shaky, but you know, give him credit when

874
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: when he's kind of like Dak in the way. As

875
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 1: soon as you think that it's not gonna you know, like, Okay,

876
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 1: this isn't good, or you know, then he comes Basha

877
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,839
Speaker 1: this watch a few of those guys. Huh yeah, well

878
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: we're running out of time. But I wanted to make

879
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,479
Speaker 1: sure we talked about Shaun Lee. A few weeks ago.

880
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: He did, went back to the game, played a few snaps, uh,

881
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: nothing major, nothing remarkable. Then coming back after that game,

882
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: he showed up once again on the on the practice

883
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: report with the hamstring. Now this past weekend, the Cowboys

884
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:06,240
Speaker 1: did decide to set him out and this started raising

885
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about his future. Once again, what

886
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: is going to happen with him? Have we seen the

887
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,720
Speaker 1: end of Seawan Lee? Or do you guys, guys expect

888
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to throw him back in there at some

889
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: point before the end of the season. Oh. What Jason

890
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: Garrett said was the injury to Anthony Brown kind of

891
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: forced the trickle down effect. Jordan Lewis had to play more,

892
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: and maybe they put a little bit, you know, a

893
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: different special teams guy in there, Darius Jackson. But and

894
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: I believe that, and I still think there's a chance

895
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:41,840
Speaker 1: for Sean Lee to play in a game where you

896
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: could have that guy as a backup. But I think

897
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: that that goes to show that he won't be back

898
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 1: next year. It's definitely for that that price. Won't be

899
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: back as a player next year for that price. And

900
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 1: so I just I just feel like if you're a

901
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: healthy scratch that doesn't that doesn't bode well for you

902
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: next year when you make you know, when they can

903
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: save I think three or four or five million dollars

904
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: or some of them doesn't. Doesn't you know mean that

905
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be on the team next year.

906
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:14,919
Speaker 1: I mean that's as simple as that. If he's because

907
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: you were trying to win the division, you need to

908
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: go out and beat Tampa Bay. You need all hands

909
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: on dad, and Sean Lee was healthy enough to play

910
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,399
Speaker 1: and didn't. I think he's not gonna play. I think

911
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 1: the interesting thing that if you go back to last

912
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: year when they couldn't do anything on defense while he

913
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 1: was out, if you had that team and you were

914
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: in that situation, yeah, there is no doubt unless the

915
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: hamstring was off the bone, he was not playing right

916
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: pretty much. But this is a situation where they had

917
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: the flexibility and this that's the great thing about where

918
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: they are right now, these two young linebackers, they have

919
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: the flexibility to say, well, you know, if Sean isn't one,

920
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: if he's feeling a little something on that hammy, let's

921
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: just sit him and let's just have him for the

922
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: playoffs and if we can use him in the playoffs.

923
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 1: I still believe if they if Sean Lee plays in

924
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,760
Speaker 1: the playoffs, he'll have at least one play that's wow,

925
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: that was a great play, because I think that's the

926
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,280
Speaker 1: kind of player Sean Lee is. He's gonna give him something,

927
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: and so I think they feel like we'd rather get

928
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,919
Speaker 1: that something from him in a playoff type scenario because

929
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,479
Speaker 1: we find our other two guys they can handle the load,

930
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: they can do this, and they can do it well

931
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: even without Sean. So there's no point in even putting

932
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 1: him out there. If he's sensing a little something's going

933
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 1: on with that hamstring, just let him sit and hopefully

934
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: by the time we get to the playoffs he's one.

935
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: He can go out there and he can give us

936
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: that one or two plays that may make the difference

937
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: in the game. You know, it's so sad to me,

938
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 1: it's so sad, like you're literally losing all those older

939
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 1: players that you've had here and just finishing up the

940
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: whole reconstruction. Yeah, it does happen quickly. Now, that is

941
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: all the time we have for today. Thank you guys

942
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 1: so much for tuning in. For Derek Eagleton, Nick Iman,

943
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,800
Speaker 1: and Burgercia. This has been the break on Das Cowboys

944
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945
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946
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