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Speaker 1: Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Break. I hope everyone had a
Speaker 1: very merry, merry Christmas. How are you guys doing awesome?
Speaker 1: Extremely well? Davis trying to get back into town. Is
Speaker 1: he really? I don't know, but I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: make it. You think, yeah, obviously obviously. Now maybe I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna make it by the end of the show. Okay,
Speaker 1: we've had some weather issues here in Dallas a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's sunny, No, it isn't anyways, anyway, they practice out
Speaker 1: why they moved it indoors today because of the clouds,
Speaker 1: because of the expected rain and the rain that we've
Speaker 1: already had made. You know how important weather it's. Hilario's
Speaker 1: Dave gotta have you better have my gumbo. Were gonna
Speaker 1: have a problem, tiny Jim, good luck with that one
Speaker 1: in a while. But Jim doesn't use anymore. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: are officially in the playoffs, and we haven't really gotten
Speaker 1: a chance to talk about the game. It's been a
Speaker 1: few days now, but I wanted to start off with
Speaker 1: just getting an overall opinion of what you saw on
Speaker 1: Sunday and what were some of the things that you
Speaker 1: took away from that game. Despite the win, there's still
Speaker 1: some room for improvement on the offense, and so just
Speaker 1: give me your thoughts. Derek, let's start with you. Oh man, um,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I honestly I didn't take a hole
Speaker 1: out from that game. They did exactly what I expected
Speaker 1: they would. The score actually ended up being closer than
Speaker 1: what the game really was. I thought personally, I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously that they scored there with what was
Speaker 1: that for so minutes? Left even less nice? It was
Speaker 1: it right at too right too. But I mean, I think, honestly,
Speaker 1: to me, it was the Cowboys pretty much dominant dominated
Speaker 1: that game. Um So I wasn't or at least defensively
Speaker 1: to dominate a game. We can talk about the offense,
Speaker 1: but I mean that's kind of what we've seen from
Speaker 1: the offense all season. They do just enough right and
Speaker 1: so um, so, I didn't really take much away from
Speaker 1: that game other than the Cowboys as a team went
Speaker 1: out in a game where they needed to go ahead
Speaker 1: and close it out, and they went ahead and closed
Speaker 1: it out. And so for that, you say, great, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I agree. I mean, you know, the playoffs or
Speaker 1: a big house, they walked right in the front door.
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't have to do anything like that.
Speaker 1: Well they didn't have to do you know, back into
Speaker 1: anything side door, got help from anyone else. They they
Speaker 1: went out, they won the game. Uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was as one sided as you
Speaker 1: kind of made it sound. I thought, you know, without
Speaker 1: that fumble, that was a gift by the Bucks to
Speaker 1: just drop the ball and and Gregory picked it up.
Speaker 1: And Gregory really did a nice job of realizing that
Speaker 1: the offense isn't going to score touchdown from the seventeen,
Speaker 1: So let's bat it forward a little bit to get
Speaker 1: it to the four and then get it and then
Speaker 1: we can score. We do have to throw it to
Speaker 1: Noah Brown first, and then we'll throw it to a
Speaker 1: more accomplished receiver and get a touchdown. I thought the
Speaker 1: offense struggled like you said, but but that's what they did.
Speaker 1: That's that's what this team is. That game right there,
Speaker 1: that offense a little bit here and there. They're gonna
Speaker 1: show some flashes. We're gonna lean on the defense and
Speaker 1: the special teams, you know, the special teams player of
Speaker 1: the week, Brett mohurrigan. We're gonna lean on them and
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs and now we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: from there. And we've keep talking about how good the
Speaker 1: defense is. Clearly they proved so last week, and now
Speaker 1: some of the things that they need to fix, and
Speaker 1: we talk about the red zone and some of the
Speaker 1: things that we saw there and we knew by the
Speaker 1: reports that they've gave us how bad this defense, Uh
Speaker 1: they yeah, Tampa. How about how bad the Tampa The
Speaker 1: fence was in the red zone. And when you see
Speaker 1: the struggles that the Cowboys still had and they only
Speaker 1: got that the run when Dak went in. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that two out of three, yeah, three times. Still struggling.
Speaker 1: Now do you expect this to be something that they
Speaker 1: could possibly fix in the next few weeks. I mean
Speaker 1: just gonna come down to you know, maybe a few
Speaker 1: plays here and there, Like I don't think they fix
Speaker 1: anything this week. I mean, if there is a new
Speaker 1: play something that that they they've seen on tape that
Speaker 1: they think they can score in there, I don't think
Speaker 1: you show it for this week, but it's something that
Speaker 1: you can work on for the playoff game. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it can be fixed. I mean, nothing's gonna
Speaker 1: be fixed at this point. You just need to have
Speaker 1: a good game in the playoffs. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: if they went three for three against Seattle or Minnesota
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, you wouldn't call it a fixed red zone,
Speaker 1: but it was good enough to get in and win.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you can fix anything at
Speaker 1: this point. You just got to be good on the
Speaker 1: day that you need them to be good, which is
Speaker 1: January probably six third, fifth, fifth, or sixth. Yeah, Derek,
Speaker 1: you always talk about the defense and how they can
Speaker 1: win you games, they can win you super Bowls and
Speaker 1: all of that good stuff. Now do you expect this
Speaker 1: to be enough for the Cowboys to win this next
Speaker 1: playoff game and take it further down the road? Honestly,
Speaker 1: the team they have right now, yeah, honestly, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if their defense is good enough to
Speaker 1: carry the whole load. I think their defense is good
Speaker 1: enough that if the offense can give them a little
Speaker 1: bit of support, that they can win. What we saw
Speaker 1: the other day that was that was a little bit
Speaker 1: of support. I think they're gonna need a little bit
Speaker 1: more support than that in order to beat some of
Speaker 1: these playoff teams, because if you look at the NFL
Speaker 1: and what's happened down the stretch here, a lot of
Speaker 1: these teams have good defenses. So it's not like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are the only team with a good defense. Chicago
Speaker 1: has a really really good defense. New Orleans has a
Speaker 1: good defense. They're playing good defense right now. Seattle's playing
Speaker 1: good defense right now. So the Cows aren't the only
Speaker 1: team in the in the NFC even that has a
Speaker 1: good defense. The problem is that when you look at
Speaker 1: a team like New Orleans, New Orleans is not only
Speaker 1: playing good defense, but obviously have one of the best quarterbacks, definitely,
Speaker 1: in my opinion the NFC, the best quarterback left in
Speaker 1: the NFC in the playoffs, and they have an offense
Speaker 1: that can put up points. They've been they've been a
Speaker 1: little bit shaky here down the stretch, but you don't
Speaker 1: certainly don't want to count them out because they have
Speaker 1: so many playmakers on offense. So that all being said,
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys have a good enough defense that
Speaker 1: if the offense can be a little bit better, particularly
Speaker 1: in the red zone, like you talked about it, if
Speaker 1: they can get that part to a point where it's
Speaker 1: it's more functional as Nick said, now, maybe not fixed,
Speaker 1: but at least more functional, I think they have a
Speaker 1: good shot because the defense is a legitimate defense. If not, though,
Speaker 1: if the offense can't score some more points for them,
Speaker 1: if they can't get them to that twenty range consistently
Speaker 1: throughout the playoffs, then I don't I don't think they're
Speaker 1: gonna win very many thirteen ten games in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I think there'll be a little more scoring than that
Speaker 1: because these teams are pretty good. So I think that's
Speaker 1: really what it's going to come down to, is can
Speaker 1: the offense give them enough support that they can then
Speaker 1: close it out? Now, correct me if I'm wrong. Now,
Speaker 1: right now, the Cowboys have two possible opponents, Minnesota and
Speaker 1: then Seattle. Which of these two teams would you guys
Speaker 1: rather see the Cowboys face or who are you expecting
Speaker 1: out of those two for them? To face. I'll answer
Speaker 1: that part. That's easier than to answer the expecting I
Speaker 1: expect it to be Seattle because I expect a playoff
Speaker 1: team like Seattle to beat the Cardinals, who I believe
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are fighting for the for the number one
Speaker 1: overall pick fighting right, Yeah, So, um, Seattle needs to
Speaker 1: win to be the fifth seed, and and you know
Speaker 1: Arizona needs to lose, I think to be the number
Speaker 1: one overall pick. All the cards are you know, aligned
Speaker 1: for that to happen. I don't think the Cardinals are
Speaker 1: good enough to win, So I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be Seattle. They have to lose that game, not be
Speaker 1: the better match for the Cowboys game. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a tougher question. Um, I think, well, all things consider,
Speaker 1: here's the thing, because there is a there is a
Speaker 1: legitimate chance that the Vikings are not in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and they're replaced by the Eagles. Basically, those are the
Speaker 1: three teams that are left kind of now fighting. Seattle
Speaker 1: is already locked up. Actually, so it's really two teams.
Speaker 1: It's Minnesota and Philly, and Minnesota has to play Chicago, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, if Chicago wins and the Rams lose,
Speaker 1: they can get a buy so they got something to
Speaker 1: play for this weekend. This is not going to be
Speaker 1: a situation where they're gonna sit everybody. That being said,
Speaker 1: if they can beat Minnesota and Philly wins against Washington,
Speaker 1: which again it's very possible, now you've got a situation
Speaker 1: where Philly jumps into that sixth spot. And if you're
Speaker 1: asking me, who would I prefer the Cowboys to play?
Speaker 1: Between Philly and Seattle or Philly and Minnesota. Not to
Speaker 1: cut you off, Philadelphia cannot play the Cowboys this weekend.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia cannot be a team to face the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: Week one. They will not be the five. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that doesn't matter. They will not play Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Let's it's the NFC Championship game, correct, correct now. But
Speaker 1: that's also the other thing too, is who do you
Speaker 1: want to see in that sixth spot? And that's why
Speaker 1: I was getting around too. It's not necessarily just I
Speaker 1: was taking her question and kind of going a little
Speaker 1: bit okay, but fans are asking that I don't want
Speaker 1: to face the Eagles, like you don't have to, but
Speaker 1: but I do want. I do prefer to see the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles in the playoffs, because I do think they
Speaker 1: have a better shot of beating Chicago maybe the Rams,
Speaker 1: and i'd rather I'd rather have and the thing about it,
Speaker 1: but not only that, that's one of the teams that
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Yeah, and if you win, if you
Speaker 1: keep winning, then that means that if you face the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, I know we're way out, way ahead, but
Speaker 1: you would actually get a home NFC championship game. So
Speaker 1: I don't think Minnesota has the ability to run the
Speaker 1: table on that side of the bracket. I do think
Speaker 1: Philadelphia could because Philadelphia is heating up at the right
Speaker 1: time of the year and we're starting to see shades
Speaker 1: of what they were last year when they went all
Speaker 1: the way to the Super Bowl. So if you're asking,
Speaker 1: if you're asking from that standpoint, yes, I'd rather see
Speaker 1: the Cowboys face Minnesota in the first round because I
Speaker 1: think Seattle is looking really good right now. But I
Speaker 1: think that that's probably far fetched. I think Nick's right.
Speaker 1: I think Seattle wins this weekend, so it's all move
Speaker 1: point and I think Seattle ends up being the team
Speaker 1: the Cowboys play, and then I want to see Philadelphia
Speaker 1: jump into if it comes down to quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you know, they've beaten Kirk Cousins a lot
Speaker 1: for some reason, they kind of they seem like they've
Speaker 1: got his number more so than Russell Wilson, and Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson would be more dangerous quarterback. Good job, Nick, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank him. More dangerous quarterback to face probably the most
Speaker 1: dangerous quarterback. What are you saying after the game that
Speaker 1: you would rather see Seattle like going up against the
Speaker 1: Cowboys playing against them. I think that that, Yes, after
Speaker 1: the game, Philadelphia was still sort of in play at
Speaker 1: that point, and you'd rather see Seattle at Philadelphia. I
Speaker 1: just don't like. And that's why I think Chicago six
Speaker 1: versus three. If Chicago's the three and the Vikings are
Speaker 1: the six, I think that's that's important. I think the
Speaker 1: Vikings could could win that game. What'll be weird is
Speaker 1: that Minnesota plays him at home this week, would have
Speaker 1: to win, Seattle will have to lose, then they would
Speaker 1: have to play again. And also, let's let's throw this
Speaker 1: part out. Philadelphia could lose to the Redskins on the
Speaker 1: road and then Minnesota gets in even if they regardless,
Speaker 1: even if they lose, so they could be the six
Speaker 1: facing the three at the time of those games. Is
Speaker 1: that all I know? The night game? I just I know.
Speaker 1: I know, you know, week seventeen, they put every game
Speaker 1: at noon and then and then they make changes, and
Speaker 1: I know Cowboys haven't changed. I know that the two
Speaker 1: AFC teams AFC South teams Tennessee and Indianapolis are playing
Speaker 1: the night game, and I know, I know Seattle's in
Speaker 1: the afternoon. I don't know about the Washington Washington Philly game,
Speaker 1: and I don't know about the Chicago Minnesota game, so
Speaker 1: I don't either. Um, I'm still expecting it to be Seattle.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think the Vikings, if they get in,
Speaker 1: they you know, they got two good receivers. They got
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. They can throw the ball around. He hasn't
Speaker 1: had a lot of success against else and I think
Speaker 1: that the defense of Mike Zimmer coming in here, that
Speaker 1: would be kind of scary. You know, you do have
Speaker 1: some some former Cowboy coaches that are sitting there that
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna face at some point in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You know, we got Wade Phillips at the Rams. You
Speaker 1: got Sean Payton obviously with the Saints, and so it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see. Now a lot of talk about
Speaker 1: this following week about this weekend going against the Giant.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna play, should the Cowboys play their starters, and
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen there. Zeke when he talked about about
Speaker 1: it after the game, he basically said, no, we need
Speaker 1: to go out there. You know we're gonna keep playing
Speaker 1: and we all need to play. This is it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean anything that we got in the playoffs. We still
Speaker 1: have things to prove, blah blah blah, things to work on. Now.
Speaker 1: There's a big debate going on as far as who
Speaker 1: you should play and who you should sit. We have, well,
Speaker 1: they have several injured players that probably would be good
Speaker 1: to sit out. Now. I want to get your opinions
Speaker 1: on this topic and what you would rather see happening
Speaker 1: this weekend as far as who's going to be available
Speaker 1: on the field and who to sit out. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: heard a lot of fans basically call this a fourth
Speaker 1: preseason game and say, you know, sit everyone. That doesn't
Speaker 1: work that way. Your roster is not ninety players. Your
Speaker 1: roster is fifty three players. You only play forty six.
Speaker 1: You can't really do that across the board. I thought
Speaker 1: it was Nate that set it after the game in
Speaker 1: the show on Monday morning, the joint show that they
Speaker 1: did in here, and he said, you know, a case
Speaker 1: by case basis, and I agree with that. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think you can say now if you get
Speaker 1: if too many cases are made on your offensive line,
Speaker 1: like Tyrant Smith out Zack Martin. That's the thing we
Speaker 1: talk about, the domino effect, so that that would change
Speaker 1: the case for Dak Prescott if you've changed and all that.
Speaker 1: I think this is more like a third preseason game
Speaker 1: for me, a dress rehearsal game. I think you go
Speaker 1: out there, you're the starters, play the healthy ones. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about who practice today and who may not be
Speaker 1: in that boat. But the healthy one go out there,
Speaker 1: play and you know, a quarter or two or something,
Speaker 1: and then pull them out if you can, or pull
Speaker 1: some of them out and then they all can't come
Speaker 1: out you can. You don't have that many backup spots. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think the interesting thing is how does because
Speaker 1: Garrett even said it this morning on his press conference,
Speaker 1: he said, you know, if we think all that all
Speaker 1: of our healthy guys are going to play well. My
Speaker 1: question becomes, what do you define as healthy? Because Tyren Smith,
Speaker 1: although he's playing, I don't know that ever anybody would
Speaker 1: call him completely healthy. So what's that that that that
Speaker 1: marker that lets you say, yeah, this guy is healthy
Speaker 1: enough to play or not? Because I think it should
Speaker 1: be different. I don't know that it is for Jason
Speaker 1: because he hasn't confirmed that, but I think it should
Speaker 1: be different. Uh, depending on like this week's game versus
Speaker 1: next week's game, what you call healthy this week may
Speaker 1: not be what you call healthy next week, right when
Speaker 1: it's a playoff type atmosphere. So um, that all being said,
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see how that plays out. I agree
Speaker 1: with Nick. I think you play everybody for a little bit.
Speaker 1: But for a guy like Tyron, for or guys like
Speaker 1: Zach that are you know, banged up and have some
Speaker 1: significant issues, I would I personally wouldn't play them at all.
Speaker 1: I give them a week of being able to mend
Speaker 1: like oh we Basically that would give them two weeks
Speaker 1: of not having to get hit at all, not having
Speaker 1: to get torque on their bodies at all. Because to me,
Speaker 1: those guys playing at an optimal level changes the trajector
Speaker 1: of your team dramatically. I would even consider something like
Speaker 1: that for Zeke because I know, I mean, this year,
Speaker 1: it seems like Zeke is he's playing through a lot
Speaker 1: more than he does in past years, and he he
Speaker 1: just looks to me like he could do some time.
Speaker 1: And you give a running back like him two weeks,
Speaker 1: he'll be a lot more spry than he is right now.
Speaker 1: And I want that going into the playoffs. So for me,
Speaker 1: I look at as an opportunity to see some of
Speaker 1: my young guys, but also to give these vets that
Speaker 1: I think are a little bit more banged up, give
Speaker 1: them two weeks to be able to rest them. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, you look at your key players. If this
Speaker 1: was me, I would go Zack Martin zero quarters because
Speaker 1: he I would put him out. He didn't practice today
Speaker 1: and he's been dealing with that knee injury back and forth.
Speaker 1: I would go zero for him, Tyrn Smith one, Zeke
Speaker 1: one quarter yep, and Daki Cooper two two quarters all right,
Speaker 1: probably a half, but I would probably just go one
Speaker 1: quarter for Zeke. And and you know, I know this
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like a big deal, but I mean, I
Speaker 1: really think Jason Garrett wants to win this game for
Speaker 1: for some momentum, you know, even building into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and you know nine and seven, you know, that's the
Speaker 1: same as what they were last year. They didn't make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. This year they did ten and six, nine
Speaker 1: and seven. You know, just just in the NFL scope
Speaker 1: of what's a good year, it's a it's a better year,
Speaker 1: and that stuff will be used against him later on
Speaker 1: when he didn't well, he didn't finish. He's only finished
Speaker 1: with ten wins like twice. Since it's important to win,
Speaker 1: you don't want to go nine and seven. When Philadelphia
Speaker 1: goes nine and seven and you get in on tiebreak,
Speaker 1: you want to go ten and six. So I think
Speaker 1: you in the super Bowl. Okay, Okay, nothing matters, Okay, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I just think it matters kind of two people more
Speaker 1: than they think about keep this thing going, get get hot,
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs, and win without jeopardizing some guys
Speaker 1: that are really hurt. Now, let's take a quick break.
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Speaker 1: football to talking Cowboys back to the Break, got it right,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Break, not fucking Cowboys. Um yeah,
Speaker 1: well we were talking about some of the injured players.
Speaker 1: You mentioned, Tyrn Smith, Zack Martin, some of those guys now,
Speaker 1: Tyren Crawford. He suffered and pretty pretty nasty injury during
Speaker 1: the game. K yeahah, I mean the way it went down.
Speaker 1: And remember and this we've seen this before and this
Speaker 1: is something that makes perfect sense for the all teams
Speaker 1: and to do. But when any time of neck injury
Speaker 1: like that, it looks really bad. Because it will look bad,
Speaker 1: they're going to take the face mask off. They're not
Speaker 1: going to do anything, you know, to to jeopardize further
Speaker 1: injury here. They're gonna take every precautionary measure possible. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he was moving around at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, moving his neck left, left to go home
Speaker 1: before the end of the game, so he was in
Speaker 1: good spirits. He's fine. Um. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be ready to play against them in the playoff game.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't play this week, did not wasn't did not practice.
Speaker 1: He was one of the five players I believe five
Speaker 1: players that did not practice today. David Irving obviously wasn't there.
Speaker 1: Didn't see him. Uh, Anthony Brown, but looked pretty close.
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown looked like you moving around with a back injury.
Speaker 1: Looks pretty good working to the side, working to the side,
Speaker 1: but with helmet on, so it looks pretty good. Zack
Speaker 1: Martin was not there. Makes me think Zach Martin's not
Speaker 1: gonna play. Um this week. I just why would you
Speaker 1: know this? This is one point yeah, where you wouldn't
Speaker 1: and and you see a big difference with him. Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay game goes out there that they'd play better Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: he wasn't there. They really struggled. He's he's a difference
Speaker 1: maker on that offensive line. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: call him the MVP, but he's very valuable. He's an
Speaker 1: All Pro multi times like that's that's five years in
Speaker 1: a row. Yeah, I mean that's you're talking about one
Speaker 1: of the best in the league, be in the league, So,
Speaker 1: which is what I think. It made a good point
Speaker 1: a few minutes ago about those are the type of
Speaker 1: guys that changed what you're trying to do. Uh, and
Speaker 1: if they're not one hundred percent, then you need to
Speaker 1: get him at one hundred percent when it was close
Speaker 1: to it when the game matters the most. Now, we
Speaker 1: kept talking about how Tyron Crawford he's had a really
Speaker 1: good season and the things that he's able to do
Speaker 1: on the defensive line that not many people notice that much,
Speaker 1: but he's a key player to that line and he
Speaker 1: can do multiple things. He can play for you at
Speaker 1: different spots. And when he came out of the game,
Speaker 1: we were able to see to keep seeing the line
Speaker 1: perform very well. Now, I wanted to make note of
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory and the things that he has been able
Speaker 1: to accomplish so far, which sometimes a lot of the
Speaker 1: times he's being called for penalties are up and down,
Speaker 1: up and down, But then he comes back and gives
Speaker 1: you something, so he makes a pretty balance for you.
Speaker 1: But pre card less not necessarily a good thing. But hey,
Speaker 1: you know, but at least last game he paid off.
Speaker 1: It doesn't always work out that way. Said, he was
Speaker 1: the MVP of both teams. Right in the first half.
Speaker 1: I thought he was the MVP for the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: the Bucks. It's like the penalties are just really alarming
Speaker 1: for for the you know, the team, but mainly his penalties.
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, it just seems like he just
Speaker 1: kind of was going along. You don't hear much about
Speaker 1: Gregory and then boom, he's just gonna do something. He
Speaker 1: just you know, doesn't really maybe have a full understanding
Speaker 1: of what some of the rules are. Not all the
Speaker 1: penalties I think have been you know, good calls. Oh,
Speaker 1: but that's that's the league. And then yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: that's the other thing. When you talk about those calls,
Speaker 1: which has been happening throughout the whole year, just making
Speaker 1: back calls. And I was talking to you about this, um,
Speaker 1: I think sometime during the game after when we weren't
Speaker 1: headed down to the field. But as far as Randy
Speaker 1: Gregory goes some of those penalties, it's like, you can't
Speaker 1: really fault him when yeah, if he goes offsides or whatever,
Speaker 1: then yeah, that's on him. But when he gets to
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, some of those quarterback hits, it's very debatable
Speaker 1: and it's tough. It's tough for you to have it
Speaker 1: clear on the understanding of the things that you're supposed
Speaker 1: to do, and especially when you're trying to get to
Speaker 1: the quarterback the adrenaline rush and the things and the movement,
Speaker 1: it's hard to tell some of the calls are going
Speaker 1: to happen there. I think I think you can argue.
Speaker 1: I think you can argue the validity of the rule itself.
Speaker 1: I don't think in this last game that unnecessary roughness
Speaker 1: or roughing the pass or whatever the call was, I
Speaker 1: don't think that was a bad call based upon the
Speaker 1: letter of the law. The letter of the rule is
Speaker 1: you can't drive, you can't land with your body weight
Speaker 1: on top of the quarterback. Now, I know that, as
Speaker 1: you said, when guys are going full speed and they're
Speaker 1: hitting a quarterback like you can question whether that's a
Speaker 1: good rule. You can question whether that's always possible, even
Speaker 1: for guys to do or not do. But I think
Speaker 1: according to what the rule says, it says you can't
Speaker 1: come down in the quarterback with your full body weight,
Speaker 1: And to me, he came down in the quarterback with
Speaker 1: his full body weight. I think the spirit of the
Speaker 1: rule is to pick up a guy and then drive
Speaker 1: him into the ground. And I don't think you can't
Speaker 1: tackle a guy and lay on and bring him to
Speaker 1: the ground without putting your your weight on him. Not true,
Speaker 1: Not true. We've seen I've seen guys this year. Not okay,
Speaker 1: hold on before you say that this that this is
Speaker 1: why this thing is is different. Brandy Gregory weighs two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty pounds. Jamis Winston is listed at two
Speaker 1: thirty seven. I think that's very nice for him. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think that he weighs two thirty seven. So
Speaker 1: so to do to get the guy down, like you
Speaker 1: need to get him down, you're not you're you have
Speaker 1: to tackle him, you have to lift him. They have
Speaker 1: to get him to the ground. Right now, you're debating
Speaker 1: the rule. Okay, I get it. The rule might be
Speaker 1: a bad rule. My point is that's how they said
Speaker 1: that they were going to call it, which is if
Speaker 1: you bring your body weight down on the whether you
Speaker 1: think you need to or not, if you bring your
Speaker 1: body weight down on the quarterback, the rule says that's
Speaker 1: a penalty. Yeah, I thought he I thought he hit
Speaker 1: the guy and he went down and they went down together,
Speaker 1: and yeah, your body weight's gonna go on him. I
Speaker 1: thought that it was not exactly what the intention of
Speaker 1: the rule was. Wasn't the worst call in that drive, though,
Speaker 1: I mean the one later with you know, with Xavier Woods,
Speaker 1: I think it is one of the worst calls that
Speaker 1: they've had this year against them. But um, overall, penalties
Speaker 1: are an issue and and and there, and that's the
Speaker 1: one thing that's setting back that I think this defense
Speaker 1: is those undisciplined and definitely untimely penalties. And you have
Speaker 1: to play and you know, you have to play to
Speaker 1: them to what the rules are. But you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think Xavier Woods is going to change what he's doing.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't, you know. And that's the thing you almost
Speaker 1: have to in today's NFL when you're coaching your defense,
Speaker 1: you almost have to accept that there are going to
Speaker 1: be some of those penalties and that's why again I
Speaker 1: don't have I don't necessarily have a problem with Randy
Speaker 1: for that penalty. I do think it was again according
Speaker 1: to the rule, I think it was the right call.
Speaker 1: But I think that as a defense, you just have
Speaker 1: to know they're gonna be sometimes you're gonna get those calls.
Speaker 1: Same thing with Xavier Wood. You're gonna get those calls
Speaker 1: because the league has made it a priority. We're trying
Speaker 1: to protect quarterback, to protect receivers that aren't looking like
Speaker 1: all these things they've they've now kind of put built
Speaker 1: this into the game that that's the that's their priority.
Speaker 1: And so if that's the case, you don't want you
Speaker 1: guys not being aggressive on defense because that's what makes
Speaker 1: a good defense. So you just have to accept the
Speaker 1: fact that sometimes those penalties are going to go against you.
Speaker 1: You just have to suck it up and move on.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like it's a guy that just
Speaker 1: walks into like the zoo, like where the tigers are
Speaker 1: and just was just kind of walking around. I'm not
Speaker 1: really paying attention, you know, and then he gets like
Speaker 1: mauled and you're like, well, like, you know, why are
Speaker 1: you defenseless? Well, you know, like I'm a defenseless We'll
Speaker 1: get the hell out of the damn cage. Like I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to discriminate against guys like like humphriese Beasley.
Speaker 1: They've had a really good career. It's great that you
Speaker 1: can be in the league and play at one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five pounds or whatever. But I do think
Speaker 1: that it's kind of a hockey situation that's going on
Speaker 1: here is how the penalty, how the play looked, is
Speaker 1: what determines us to throw. Because you got hit hard
Speaker 1: and you went flying you that shouldn't necessarily be but
Speaker 1: you have to admit that it did look like and
Speaker 1: I think on the replay we kind of saw it
Speaker 1: and said maybe that wasn't the case, but it looked
Speaker 1: like because of the way it's heads snapped, it looked
Speaker 1: like his the crown of Xavier's helmet may have hit
Speaker 1: him in the face. Mask. Now, I think when we
Speaker 1: saw an review again, it looked like, oh, it really
Speaker 1: didn't actually make contact, But when you saw it in
Speaker 1: bang bang, it looked like because it waves his head snap,
Speaker 1: it looked like he got hit in the head. So
Speaker 1: that's how the things called right raps are watching it
Speaker 1: lot down there and then when we get the luxury
Speaker 1: to watching it from up cup and then seeing the
Speaker 1: replay on TV and seeing how that you play actually
Speaker 1: played out. So it's different. But college football has figured
Speaker 1: out a way to make it targeting a reviewable play.
Speaker 1: Why why is the NFL not doing the same thing,
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, and I know this is there's a
Speaker 1: lot that would have to be worked out. I really
Speaker 1: want to get to the day when the NFL has
Speaker 1: somebody or a group of guys that sit in the
Speaker 1: press box or sit somewhere else and they're watching this
Speaker 1: thing on television and they're making the calls from there, Like,
Speaker 1: why why are we in a day of technology now?
Speaker 1: Why are we in a day of technology still forcing
Speaker 1: guys to be standing at phil level where you know,
Speaker 1: at fil level you can't see everything, and letting them
Speaker 1: call a game, rather than having a guy that's just
Speaker 1: focused on the offensive lineman that's watching a screen that
Speaker 1: can hit a button, and when they hit a button,
Speaker 1: somebody on the field can say, Okay, flat goes out,
Speaker 1: there's a penalty. Here is the penalty. But that to
Speaker 1: me is a smarter way of calling games and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be way more accurate than having guys down on
Speaker 1: the field having to make those coins. And if that
Speaker 1: play is Mike Evans, if Mike Evans catches that ball
Speaker 1: over the middle for different reasons, that is not going
Speaker 1: to be a penalty. Number one, he's a lot taller,
Speaker 1: so you're not Probably Zavier Woods is not gonna hit
Speaker 1: him in the head. He's gonna hit him in the shoulder.
Speaker 1: Maybe what I'm sure Evans is still gonna go down
Speaker 1: because that was such a forceful hit. Nice, but he's
Speaker 1: not gonna he was hit like at the fifteen and
Speaker 1: I think he went back to I mean, Humphreys landed
Speaker 1: a like around midfield maybe like I mean, it was
Speaker 1: not that far, but I mean he went back ten yards.
Speaker 1: I don't you're gonna do that. And I think that
Speaker 1: that's what forced the officials to be like, well, this
Speaker 1: has gotta be a penalty. I mean, the guy might
Speaker 1: be dead, so it's gotta be a penalty. That's that's
Speaker 1: the thing that you know, I think hockey officials refs
Speaker 1: do that on on what looks bad. What you know,
Speaker 1: if there's blood, oh that must be real, you know, whatever,
Speaker 1: it didn't look bad. It did look bad because the
Speaker 1: hit it really didn't look like because he looks like
Speaker 1: he plays junior high football. That's why, and that's why
Speaker 1: it's not it's not Davier Woods's fault. Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: but but yeah, I mean, just because Rudy's out here
Speaker 1: playing doesn't mean another movie y'all probably haven't seen, but
Speaker 1: Rudy and Hoosiers there's probably like a two pack DVD
Speaker 1: blue ray you can get. Well, we talked about what
Speaker 1: the Mac? What's the all right, that's my point is
Speaker 1: what the Mac? Stick with your Hoosiers? What's the Mac?
Speaker 1: It's a great movie, really great movie. Go look it up.
Speaker 1: Return of the Man. All right? Okay, Well, we talked
Speaker 1: about Randy Gregory's penalties and another guy that has been
Speaker 1: pretty constant as far as penalty goes is who would
Speaker 1: it be? Yes, Tyren Smith? Now, what are some of
Speaker 1: the things that we've been able to see him from
Speaker 1: the field a few times towards the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Keep just keep holding, just keep doing what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Just take whatever. I mean, it's unfortunate, but he kind
Speaker 1: of you know. Flozell Adams was a false start machine
Speaker 1: at left tackle for almost every game right he got
Speaker 1: about won a game, and he was also a five
Speaker 1: time Pro bowler a left tackle, and better than him.
Speaker 1: Tyrn is better than him. He does have to figure
Speaker 1: out the whole I mean, because the while he has
Speaker 1: been blocking, they are calling that as a as a penalty,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of what he's done for you. Which
Speaker 1: is kind of interesting because this last game, one of
Speaker 1: those holding calls, his hands were inside. Now I know
Speaker 1: that they a lot of times you'll hear guys talking
Speaker 1: about it. That the way it's taught is if your
Speaker 1: hand to get outside, and the ref sees your hands
Speaker 1: outside and the guy's lateral movement is limited, then they're
Speaker 1: gonna say, well, that was holding. But if you get
Speaker 1: your hands inside, which if you look at offensive line
Speaker 1: play throughout the league, almost every single play you see
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman he's trying to get his hands inside,
Speaker 1: and once he gets inside, he locks in and usually
Speaker 1: grabs the opposing player by the by their jersey or
Speaker 1: by their shoulder pads in the front with their hands inside.
Speaker 1: That's how you play offensive line. So for him to
Speaker 1: get called for holding on that kind of play, that's
Speaker 1: what was a little bit weird. To me, because his
Speaker 1: hands weren't outside, they were inside. And to me, that
Speaker 1: happens again every single play, and that's how you're taught
Speaker 1: to play offensive line. That's how you get That's why
Speaker 1: guys are hand fighting because they don't want to let
Speaker 1: that offensive lineman actually lock in inside. Because you do that,
Speaker 1: you can't get off the yeah, you can't get off
Speaker 1: the yeah. I think it's become a little bit problematic,
Speaker 1: but I mean he's you're fine with taking it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the Gregory thing. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just it's you have to be able to produce and
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, well it's I mean, it offsets it
Speaker 1: on the defensive side because of the way that the
Speaker 1: defense is playing, it kind of balances it off. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to the offense point, the penalty is
Speaker 1: that tyre and get to Lyle. Those are big time
Speaker 1: ones and that could end up costing me a lot.
Speaker 1: This offense doesn't need any set when they get down there.
Speaker 1: You're right, and so far they haven't been too bad.
Speaker 1: In the Indianapolis game, they probably missed the field goal
Speaker 1: opportunity because of that. Was that the Indianapolis game, No, No,
Speaker 1: it was it was a home game. Actually, I forgot exactly.
Speaker 1: It might have been the Philadelphia game where the mahar
Speaker 1: mistrol forty seven yard or and they had a couple
Speaker 1: of plays on tire and that pushed him back. But
Speaker 1: you know, he should have had one more because if
Speaker 1: you can push him back into the fifty seven to
Speaker 1: sixty range, Maher's money, you know. And we'll talk about
Speaker 1: him when we come back after this final break. We'll
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Speaker 1: three and five, in the middle of the season, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys obviously made it a few adjustments to turn things around,
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Speaker 1: the season, middle of the game. Whatever adjustments the middle
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Speaker 1: before we went on break, we mentioned Brett Maher, a
Speaker 1: guy that Nick was ready to I was ready to
Speaker 1: cut last week. No, you started talking about that last week, Yes,
Speaker 1: you did. It's on record. No, we don't need to
Speaker 1: pull it back, say to cut the guy you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: We and then when you say, well, who are you
Speaker 1: gonna bringing? Okay, well we don't know. Well there's a
Speaker 1: lot of other guys in the market. Well blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But you didn't mention that. Now that's not up for debate.
Speaker 1: I just want to say that Brandma Hurt did win
Speaker 1: NFC Special Teams Player off the Week and this has
Speaker 1: been the second time that he wins that this year.
Speaker 1: So why are you looking at me like that? Does
Speaker 1: this change your mind? Do you see Brandma Hurt any
Speaker 1: differently after him winning this title this week? All right,
Speaker 1: they got they're playing Seattle. They're playing Seattle, and they're
Speaker 1: down seventeen to sixteen, and they're driving and they have
Speaker 1: a forty seven yard field goal to win the game.
Speaker 1: Are you comfortable that he's gonna make it? No? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Are you comfortable that the offense is
Speaker 1: gonna score six points? Are you comfortable that Dak is
Speaker 1: gonna make a past? You're not very comfortable throughout the game.
Speaker 1: That's just how it is right now. I understand, I
Speaker 1: understand and I'll go back, and you know, I challenge
Speaker 1: you to find that where I said that they need
Speaker 1: to cut him. I never said that because I don't
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I don't know who's out there. But
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is he's on the thin ice. And
Speaker 1: if he had if he did not play well in
Speaker 1: this last game. Yeah, he was a player of the week, congratulations.
Speaker 1: If he missed two kicks against Tampa Bay, they probably
Speaker 1: would have found someone else. He's at that point. I
Speaker 1: think he's got a little bit more leeway now, especially
Speaker 1: going into New York whatever happens there. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're gonna make a change. But there was a time,
Speaker 1: and everyone knows this two or three weeks ago, that
Speaker 1: if he did not pull himself out of this, he
Speaker 1: was going to be replaced. But he has No one's
Speaker 1: comfortable about anything that he's doing. But it is what
Speaker 1: it is. And yeah, I agree. I mean, you're not
Speaker 1: comfortable about anything right now unless you're unless you're wearing
Speaker 1: Tommy John John, then you are comfortable. But other than
Speaker 1: wearing Tommy John, you're not that comfortable. But here's the
Speaker 1: other thing that I think keeps him, keeps him from
Speaker 1: being replaceable right now, right now, And that could change
Speaker 1: next week, but right now, and that is the fact
Speaker 1: that he's hitting these longer ones. So if he's a
Speaker 1: little bit shaky, as you said, at that forty seven
Speaker 1: yard mark, I might be a little bit nervous. He's
Speaker 1: roll him out there for a sixty yarder, fifty eight yard,
Speaker 1: which is I feel I actually feel more confident in
Speaker 1: those because I think Rob said it during the game
Speaker 1: this last week. Those aren't pressure kicks, like if you
Speaker 1: miss it, no one cared. Everybody's like, well, that's a
Speaker 1: fifty eight yard or it's a sixty two yarder. It
Speaker 1: is what it is now. If it's for the game,
Speaker 1: if it's to win the game, then that's a little
Speaker 1: bit different. But if it's just you know, at the
Speaker 1: end of the half and you're just taking a shot
Speaker 1: because that's all you can do, yes, I feel like
Speaker 1: he'll go out and nail that kick regularly. I don't
Speaker 1: even I don't feel nearly as as nervous about that
Speaker 1: as I would have forty five yarder. I agree in
Speaker 1: the middle at the end of a half, but I
Speaker 1: don't think if you're sitting on the forty one yard
Speaker 1: line with, you know, twelve minutes to go in the
Speaker 1: second quarter and he in your ear at home and
Speaker 1: you have a chance for a fifty eight fifty nine
Speaker 1: yard field goal. I don't like that. I wouldn't try that,
Speaker 1: even though I know he can make it, yeah, because
Speaker 1: the ball will be right there at midfield percentage, just
Speaker 1: say that's not a smart play, right, So so while
Speaker 1: into the half you have a little you know, in
Speaker 1: an end of half, end of games, you don't have
Speaker 1: to get as far as other kickers might because of
Speaker 1: his leg. I don't think it changed as much in
Speaker 1: the middle of the game. I don't think you still
Speaker 1: want to be trying fifty eight fifty nine yard field
Speaker 1: goal so far. It was the one where he almost
Speaker 1: missed it this weekend nine but it was but it
Speaker 1: was yeah, And that wasn't like right at the end
Speaker 1: of the half because the Bucks went scored a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So you know, you could make the case there that
Speaker 1: that you know he made a fifty nine yarder, but
Speaker 1: would you if you would have punted and pinned them
Speaker 1: down there, you probably would have saved four points. Because
Speaker 1: I don't know if Tampa drives that whole way. I
Speaker 1: didn't actually didn't like the call to go for it
Speaker 1: at that moment in the game. I was like, I
Speaker 1: was like, the potential, the chance that he doesn't get it,
Speaker 1: it's too great to give them the ball where they
Speaker 1: would have gotten it on a day when I feel
Speaker 1: like they really didn't have a hard time moving the ball.
Speaker 1: They were they were bogging down a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like their offense had some big had some
Speaker 1: big plays. I would have wanted to force them to
Speaker 1: drive the entire field, because I did think they would
Speaker 1: drop the entire fields. I'm with you. I would have
Speaker 1: probably tried to you know, it's it'll be a case
Speaker 1: by case basis on each kick where they are, you know,
Speaker 1: and and if you have to, you know, there's really
Speaker 1: only Chicago would be the only place you'd have to
Speaker 1: play where you would really be kind of worried about weather, right,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I mean all the others are either
Speaker 1: indoor or nice weather. Yeah, I mean, you know, so
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see. I don't think you you
Speaker 1: you replace him, um, but but I you know, it's
Speaker 1: a little shaky, but you know, give him credit when
Speaker 1: when he's kind of like Dak in the way. As
Speaker 1: soon as you think that it's not gonna you know, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this isn't good, or you know, then he comes Basha
Speaker 1: this watch a few of those guys. Huh yeah, well
Speaker 1: we're running out of time. But I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure we talked about Shaun Lee. A few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He did, went back to the game, played a few snaps, uh,
Speaker 1: nothing major, nothing remarkable. Then coming back after that game,
Speaker 1: he showed up once again on the on the practice
Speaker 1: report with the hamstring. Now this past weekend, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: did decide to set him out and this started raising
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about his future. Once again, what
Speaker 1: is going to happen with him? Have we seen the
Speaker 1: end of Seawan Lee? Or do you guys, guys expect
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to throw him back in there at some
Speaker 1: point before the end of the season. Oh. What Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett said was the injury to Anthony Brown kind of
Speaker 1: forced the trickle down effect. Jordan Lewis had to play more,
Speaker 1: and maybe they put a little bit, you know, a
Speaker 1: different special teams guy in there, Darius Jackson. But and
Speaker 1: I believe that, and I still think there's a chance
Speaker 1: for Sean Lee to play in a game where you
Speaker 1: could have that guy as a backup. But I think
Speaker 1: that that goes to show that he won't be back
Speaker 1: next year. It's definitely for that that price. Won't be
Speaker 1: back as a player next year for that price. And
Speaker 1: so I just I just feel like if you're a
Speaker 1: healthy scratch that doesn't that doesn't bode well for you
Speaker 1: next year when you make you know, when they can
Speaker 1: save I think three or four or five million dollars
Speaker 1: or some of them doesn't. Doesn't you know mean that
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be on the team next year.
Speaker 1: I mean that's as simple as that. If he's because
Speaker 1: you were trying to win the division, you need to
Speaker 1: go out and beat Tampa Bay. You need all hands
Speaker 1: on dad, and Sean Lee was healthy enough to play
Speaker 1: and didn't. I think he's not gonna play. I think
Speaker 1: the interesting thing that if you go back to last
Speaker 1: year when they couldn't do anything on defense while he
Speaker 1: was out, if you had that team and you were
Speaker 1: in that situation, yeah, there is no doubt unless the
Speaker 1: hamstring was off the bone, he was not playing right
Speaker 1: pretty much. But this is a situation where they had
Speaker 1: the flexibility and this that's the great thing about where
Speaker 1: they are right now, these two young linebackers, they have
Speaker 1: the flexibility to say, well, you know, if Sean isn't one,
Speaker 1: if he's feeling a little something on that hammy, let's
Speaker 1: just sit him and let's just have him for the
Speaker 1: playoffs and if we can use him in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I still believe if they if Sean Lee plays in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, he'll have at least one play that's wow,
Speaker 1: that was a great play, because I think that's the
Speaker 1: kind of player Sean Lee is. He's gonna give him something,
Speaker 1: and so I think they feel like we'd rather get
Speaker 1: that something from him in a playoff type scenario because
Speaker 1: we find our other two guys they can handle the load,
Speaker 1: they can do this, and they can do it well
Speaker 1: even without Sean. So there's no point in even putting
Speaker 1: him out there. If he's sensing a little something's going
Speaker 1: on with that hamstring, just let him sit and hopefully
Speaker 1: by the time we get to the playoffs he's one.
Speaker 1: He can go out there and he can give us
Speaker 1: that one or two plays that may make the difference
Speaker 1: in the game. You know, it's so sad to me,
Speaker 1: it's so sad, like you're literally losing all those older
Speaker 1: players that you've had here and just finishing up the
Speaker 1: whole reconstruction. Yeah, it does happen quickly. Now, that is
Speaker 1: all the time we have for today. Thank you guys
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