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Speaker 1: Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, October first, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number If you welcome to another edition of The Break,

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Speaker 1: live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, and

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Speaker 1: we're ready to talk to the Cowboys football. Cowboys get

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Speaker 1: a big win yesterday. They moved to two and two

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Speaker 1: with a win over the Detroit Lions twenty six, twenty four,

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Speaker 1: a game that came down to the wire. Dak Prescott

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Speaker 1: had a game winning drive, Brett Maher had a game

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Speaker 1: winning field goal. Everything in that game seemed to look

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Speaker 1: up for the Cowboys. So we're gonna paint that rosy

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Speaker 1: picture for you today. I'm sure dave some things that

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys can improve on. Just it fits with the personality, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you tend to be one that kind of

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Speaker 1: brings brings realism back to moments when we kind of

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Speaker 1: get a little bit ahead of ourselves, right, I want

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Speaker 1: good ahead. So we're gonna talk about that, and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about what went right and wrong for the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll get into Nick's five plays that you

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Speaker 1: should not overlook. And these are the plays that were

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Speaker 1: otherwise not necessarily grand in and of themselves. But what

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Speaker 1: So we'll do all that throughout the show. Let's first

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Speaker 1: jump right in, and as we do every Monday, I

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Speaker 1: want to hear from each of you, guys, what's the

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Speaker 1: storyline of this game. What's the thing do you walk

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Speaker 1: this team. We'll start first with Dave. I don't think

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Speaker 1: My main storyline coming out of today is good or yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Good things can happen when you make a dedicated effort

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Speaker 1: to put the ball in the hands of your absolute

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Speaker 1: best player. Obviously, Ezekiel Elliott did whatever he wanted to

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Speaker 1: been in the passing game. Another screen passed to the

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Speaker 1: then you know, Dak Prescott played like a good quarterback.

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Speaker 1: He played like the guy that we've seen him play

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Speaker 1: like for what twenty five games over the course of

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Speaker 1: for a second ever speaking now, no um Well, not

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Speaker 1: Was it the offensive line? Was it just as Amber

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Speaker 1: what keeps this offense moving, not these deep shots. Again,

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Speaker 1: it's important, there's a place for it, but to make

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Speaker 1: those types of decisions. And then yeah, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: can't believe we got almost twenty minutes into the show

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Speaker 1: and we haven't talked about that throwaway. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: game's over if he doesn't get that ball, and even

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Speaker 1: if he just falls on it, the game's still probably

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Speaker 1: over because now it's second or third and which is

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Speaker 1: twenty something, which is what I think they teach you

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Speaker 1: to do. You know, it's fallowing the ball down there.

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Speaker 1: We've been used to watching Tony Romo's years, so we

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Speaker 1: don't assume that we assume you pick it up and

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Speaker 1: you try to make a play second and three from

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Speaker 1: the Dallas thirty two. Dak recovers at the nineteen. So

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Speaker 1: if he just falls on the ball, you're talking about

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Speaker 1: like second and third and seventh done, you have to

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Speaker 1: call time out, which they're pinning there. They're pinning their

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Speaker 1: years back on the third down, you're just gonna have

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Speaker 1: to throw up a prayer instead. You know, I hesitate

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Speaker 1: to compare it to Romo because Romo did some crazy

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Speaker 1: stuff in situation. Saint Louis is what comes to mind,

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Speaker 1: But I mean the wherewithal the game's over if he

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Speaker 1: doesn't play that exactly the way he did, and for

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Speaker 1: him to have the poise to do it was incredible.

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Speaker 1: Let's take our first break. When we come back, I

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Speaker 1: do want to talk about this defense. It was the

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Speaker 1: first time that we've seen them this season where it

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Speaker 1: looked like they were a little bit more on the

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Speaker 1: Back to the Break Welcome Back. It is the second

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Speaker 1: segment of The Break Live from the s WBC Mortgage

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Speaker 1: studios at the Star talk about the Cowboys big win yesterday,

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Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty four at AT and T Stadium over

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. We've talked about the offense quite a bit.

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Speaker 1: Let's move over to the defensive side of the ball

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Speaker 1: and I'll start first with the quarterback Matthew Stafford. He

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Speaker 1: was twenty four thirty eighty percent completion rate. That's a

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Speaker 1: really really great number. Three hundred and seven yards, two touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: no interceptions, one hundred and thirty one point five quarterback rating.

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Speaker 1: All in all a good day. You look at his

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Speaker 1: three top wide receivers. Golden Tate had eight catches one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two yards, two touchdowns, Kenny Galladay had

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Speaker 1: four catches for seventy four yards, and then Marvin Jones

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Speaker 1: had three for fifty six. All in all, the passing

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Speaker 1: game for the Lions worked yesterday. That was that was

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Speaker 1: a part that really worked. And my question for you

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Speaker 1: guys is what did you think of that relative to

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys secondary where so far this year we haven't

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Speaker 1: really seen them get carved up quite like this, but

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Speaker 1: they were having some struggles yesterday. Ben but don't break

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Speaker 1: is what they try to play. They broke a few times,

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Speaker 1: but you know, they the Lions made themselves, I think

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Speaker 1: one dimensional. You know, they had a thirty two yard

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Speaker 1: run early in the game and carry on Johnson and

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Speaker 1: it looked like the Okay, it's gonna be tough. That

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Speaker 1: was their first played again. Yeah, this is gonna be something.

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Speaker 1: You know, Now, Stafford's gonna have some help here, and

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Speaker 1: they didn't. They didn't utilize that as much. I mean

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Speaker 1: only got nine carries overall, and so I think that,

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Speaker 1: you know, they were somewhat one dimensional and when they

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Speaker 1: got they got down there, and that the Cowboys did

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Speaker 1: a nice job of just picking their spots and getting

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Speaker 1: some timely sacks. I mean, it was just it was

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Speaker 1: just one of those shootouts, not like high scoring shootouts,

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Speaker 1: but it was one of those games where you know,

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Speaker 1: the quarterback who has the ball ass is gonna win.

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Speaker 1: And the Cowboys were probably fortunate that that touchdown came

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Speaker 1: with two seventeen to go and not under the two

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Speaker 1: minute warning. That's yeah, I mean we say that. That's

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Speaker 1: my biggest pet peeve, like the Cowboys leave the opposing

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Speaker 1: quarterback too much time. The Lions did it yesterday. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. It seems ridiculous that carry On Johnson only

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Speaker 1: had had nine carries, But I mean, I thought the

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Speaker 1: run defense did a good job of really buckling down

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Speaker 1: after I mean thirty two yards on the first play.

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Speaker 1: The next one goes for four, then negative one, then one,

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Speaker 1: then three, which no, no disrespect to him. I don't

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Speaker 1: know why they're trying to make la Garrett blunt a

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Speaker 1: thing when they have Carrie on Johnson, like I mean,

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Speaker 1: unless it's like the goal line. I like that guy

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Speaker 1: a lot, but I don't know when Maybe they just

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Speaker 1: when you have that match, a favorable matchup like that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they were doing whatever they wanted to through

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Speaker 1: the air, so maybe they could have tried to wear

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Speaker 1: the defense down little bit more running it. But it's

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Speaker 1: hard to argue against the numbers that they put up,

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Speaker 1: which ironically, I thought Cheeto and Byron both played really well. Yep,

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Speaker 1: and begs the question who didn't everybody else? Everybody? I

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Speaker 1: think this kind of defense works against this kind of

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Speaker 1: quarterback and this kind of passing game. Only when your

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Speaker 1: own offense he's able to help you out. I think

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Speaker 1: they can do enough to kind of stop it in

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Speaker 1: a way. Obviously they're still going to allow certain points,

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Speaker 1: but it only helps you win when your office is

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Speaker 1: also scoring points and helping you keep the game moving.

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Speaker 1: But we'll see how long this offense can play like this,

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Speaker 1: and if they keep playing better and helping out the defense,

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Speaker 1: I think the team can be really good, good enough

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Speaker 1: to get where we all want them to be at.

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Speaker 1: So are you concerned about the defense at this point?

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Speaker 1: Or was this the result of maybe just a really

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Speaker 1: good passing offense they ran into and and they didn't

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Speaker 1: get I don't want to because I don't want to

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Speaker 1: overstate this. It wasn't like they got destroyed. In my opinion,

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Speaker 1: I thought the defense played okay. It just wasn't as

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Speaker 1: good as what they've played maybe in some other games

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Speaker 1: this season. But I thought they played okay. What do

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Speaker 1: you guys think from a standpoint of just relatively speaking

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Speaker 1: and big picture speaking about this defense, Well, I think

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Speaker 1: that they're they're pretty good. They are pretty good, and

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Speaker 1: they've got some some playmakers there, especially with DeMarcus DeMarcus Lawrence. UM,

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Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean, today is the first day that um,

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Speaker 1: David Irvinge can come back. I'm not sure exactly what

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Speaker 1: his role is going to be or if if he's

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Speaker 1: even going to be on the roster this week. I

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Speaker 1: believe they have a one week they do, you have

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Speaker 1: a one week exemption. If they feel like he's not ready,

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Speaker 1: they can wait a week and so they don't have

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Speaker 1: to make a move. They just he did have him

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Speaker 1: in the building and start getting macclimated. And that's important

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Speaker 1: because of what happened to Antoine Woods. He's hurt and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he'll be able to play next week.

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Speaker 1: He was injury, calf injury and a big guy like

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Speaker 1: that as a calf injury, that's he's ruled out of

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Speaker 1: the game. It could be somewhat, you know, somewhat serious

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Speaker 1: enough for he might not play. I think Jerry even

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Speaker 1: said he won't play next week. He said he doesn't

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Speaker 1: know if he'll be available, doesn't know if so, well

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Speaker 1: for Jerry to say that, right and to say that,

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Speaker 1: to get Irving on the team, you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: cut someone. So who do you cut? And knowing that

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Speaker 1: you have to not only replace Woods, you know, I

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Speaker 1: got a lot of it. Does it does Woods? But

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Speaker 1: it does beg the question or Terrence Williams did not

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Speaker 1: play this he was not active this week, did not

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Speaker 1: practice at the end of last week, and this was

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Speaker 1: not injury related. By Butler also got a grand total

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Speaker 1: of no snap. No, I get it. But I'm just

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Speaker 1: saying that the fact that that all came about at

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Speaker 1: the end of last week and going into the game

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, does that beg the question that maybe there's

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Speaker 1: something afoot there? Maybe? Sure, it sounds good, an easy move, right,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's logical at that point. Right, Well,

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Speaker 1: we've covered this extensively, haven't we am. I don't know logical. Actually,

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Speaker 1: it's not practical either. Right now, just to cut him,

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Speaker 1: let's see what happens. Remember he counts about three million

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Speaker 1: right now. If you cut him, he counts five. There's

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Speaker 1: no reason to do that, Capri. You do unless you're

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Speaker 1: gonna you're not wrong, you're not wrong. Then make a

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Speaker 1: trade for who I mean, let's we can go. We

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Speaker 1: can going into what we've been talking about for the

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Speaker 1: last They could you know, they could flip a seventh

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Speaker 1: round pick or something like that over to uh him.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that tomorrow actually, because I do

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Speaker 1: want to kind of wrap this whole safety thing up.

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Speaker 1: Dave show me some numbers a day that just kind

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Speaker 1: of blow your mind. But we're gonna talk about that tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Let's save the whole safety conversation. Well, all right, let's

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Speaker 1: say if you want to. But I mean, I was

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Speaker 1: gonna say, do I have to say it because the

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Speaker 1: safeties didn't look good yesterday? No, we I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about our safety. That was actually gonna be the

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Speaker 1: next direction I went. But I'm talking about the other stuff.

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Speaker 1: You appear to have two cornerbacks who can play on

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Speaker 1: the boundary and do a good job. I'm I don't

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Speaker 1: know the numbers. I know Cheeto gave up some catches.

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Speaker 1: I defy you to tell me what he could have

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Speaker 1: done better in most of those situations. Those are all

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00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: covered well Byron Jones, you know ESPN. I'm not saying

642
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: that they're the end all be all. I think we

643
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: probably know this team much better than they do. But

644
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: they gave him the most improved Player in the Year

645
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: in the League award through a quarter of the season

646
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: Byron Yes, So I can't argue that these two corners

647
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: are playing really well. I don't know about literally anybody

648
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: else in the secondary. I've long been a defender of

649
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath. I think it is well worth pointing out

650
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: that he's dealing with about four different injuries right now,

651
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: but he was still on the field. I mean, if

652
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Speaker 1: you yesterday was not a good day. If you can

653
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: get on the field, I can't completely. I mean, I

654
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: get it. Everybody's fighting through injuries. I understand that, but

655
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: he had I mean, he was named the starter at

656
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: the start of last season, and I think that was

657
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: probably his worst game in that time stretch where he

658
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: was named a starter. I mean, the play on the

659
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: sideline on Tait's first touchdown is on. I mean, it

660
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: sounds who's the sideline? Right? It sounds stupid, like you know,

661
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: we're like, oh, I could have made that play, Like, no,

662
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: you couldn't. You're not in the NFL. If a lot

663
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: of people probably could have made that play, Like you

664
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: just have to shove him out of bounds. Not a

665
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 1: great day. I mean, what do you want to what

666
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: do you want me to say? Amber, Like, we've been

667
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: talking about these safeties since March y. It looks troubling this.

668
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: I always say Rod Marinelli's defenses are so good at

669
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: not giving up chunk touchdowns. They don't do it very often. Well,

670
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: that's three in two games. That's not good. That's a

671
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: troubling trend. I really told you the safety doesn't really

672
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: matter clearly, I mean not at all. So that's how

673
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how eighteen yard completions turn into forty

674
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: five yard touchdowns straight up. Well, we'll save the conversation

675
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: on what they can do to try to address that

676
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: till tomorrow, because I think there's there's definitely some conversation

677
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: we had there about what they could have done versus

678
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: what's available to them now. But let's move on. Let's

679
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: talk about de Marcus Lawrence. Yesterday he had eight tackles,

680
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Speaker 1: He led the team in tackles at least at the

681
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: initial outset, and then had three sacks. He is playing

682
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: phenomenally this year again after the second year, and it's

683
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: just to me, it's just amazing. Talk about DeMarcus Lawrence

684
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: and what he's providing for this defensive to Well, I

685
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: mean they didn't, like I said, I don't think they

686
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: had a ton of pass for rush yesterday, but he did.

687
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: I mean, he had an unbelievable game. I think he

688
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of help. I think Tyrone Crawford

689
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: played well from the middle, but you know, we're not

690
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: seeing really a lot out of Gregory Tacos okay, So

691
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: for him to be able to kind of do it

692
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: all by himself yesterday, I thought that was what was

693
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: really big. I mean, he's I would throw Tyrone in

694
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: there too. I just thought he played also too. He

695
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: had a really good game hidden hidden stats, you know,

696
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: when you played defensive tackle. I think he was disruptive,

697
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: But I agree with the overall point. I mean, hey,

698
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm guilty. I jumped on that Randy Gregory hype train

699
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: super hard in the preseas season and I'm so surprised,

700
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: Like I keep watching and it's like he completely disappeared.

701
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: And before coming into the regular season, we were talking

702
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: about him like, oh my god, this beast guy is

703
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: just gonna come in here and kill every quarterback. Hey

704
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: you no, we I mean we go, we go based

705
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: on what we see against this team, like, well, he's

706
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: beating Tyron Smith regularly, That's that's amazing. Well, Tyron Smith

707
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: has not had the best first month of his career,

708
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: so it's all stuff to keep in mind. Um yeah,

709
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: I mean I think Taco has been fine. Tyrone had

710
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: a good game, but DeMarcus Lawrence is insane. I actually

711
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: I asked Jerry Jones last night. I was like, I

712
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: was like, are you starting to think about the fact

713
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: at all that you're probably gonna have to talk about

714
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: some pretty big numbers with him soon? And Jerry was like, well,

715
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: his number's pretty big right now. And I was like,

716
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: you're right, And in the back of my in my head,

717
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: I was like, it's gonna be bigger. It's gonna be bigger.

718
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: It's gonna be bigger. So it's I mean, five and

719
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: a half sacks, he leads the league. He's got twenty

720
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Speaker 1: in his last twenty games. Not to get too far

721
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: into that, but the good thing about that when he

722
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Speaker 1: says that his number is really big right now it's

723
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: seventeen million, it's because that's that's important, because it's sitting

724
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 1: there on the cap. And next year, like his cap number,

725
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 1: it'll say they signed him to this monster. It won't

726
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: be seventeen million, you know, so you have it now

727
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 1: you're absorbing it. It'll be less than that and you'll

728
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: still get a really big number. I agree, and I

729
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 1: hope you're right. It's only week four. We'll see, but

730
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,479
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope they don't try to play tag

731
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: with him again. No, get it, well, you saw it.

732
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: You saw it happened there in with the Rams. I

733
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: mean they did that how many times, like two or

734
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: three years. Yeah, and that was the best defensive player

735
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: in the league. That's what I'm in the league when

736
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: they I mean, whether it's fair or not, whether he's

737
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: as good as a player or not. When it comes

738
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,760
Speaker 1: time to talk contract with the Marcus Lawrence, he's looking

739
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,879
Speaker 1: like he's going to have the resume to ask for

740
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: Leo macmoney and it's up to the Cowboys if they

741
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 1: want to pay that. I mean, he's done everything that

742
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: you've wanted a franchise player to be. I mean, like

743
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: he signed it immediately. He's not playing around. He didn't

744
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: he didn't know, he didn't make it make an issue

745
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: out of it. He's still a leader. He doesn't look

746
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: like he's just sitting on a one year deal. He doesn't.

747
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's upset about losing. I mean, he

748
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,919
Speaker 1: wants to win um and I just think it's it's

749
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: he's done in everything right. He's playing under he's playing well,

750
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: I think that they reward him. They only only need it,

751
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: but he's deserved it. Talk about leadership, just the way

752
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: he kind of pulls that hole, oh yeah, defensive line

753
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: together and and creates that bond, creates that that camaraderie,

754
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: creates whatever it is that makes teams work. True, Like

755
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: he is really you can see you can see his leadership.

756
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: You really can't. Yeah, and that you're right about that.

757
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 1: I mean, how else would we be interviewing Daniel Ross

758
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I mean, like, but they're they're

759
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: in the group. You know, they're in the club. So

760
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: like he's put him in there and he's and he

761
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: made sure, hey change your number here, or do this,

762
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: let's be all together. I mean, he's done it. But

763
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: the best part is he's going out and getting three

764
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: sacks on that there we go, and that that's the

765
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: first stop. But we've seen guys that have produced and

766
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: not they weren't those kind of leaders like they could

767
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: produce and you could say, follow me, Marcus. I mean,

768
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: DeMarcus wasn't that kind of right, was a great player,

769
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: extremely great gay, He wasn't that kind of leader you right,

770
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: I would even say and I don't mean this as

771
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: a knock at all, but like Jason Witten and Sean Lee,

772
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: they're they're tremendous leaders, they have tremendous passion, but it

773
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: still feels like different, Like it's like there's a respect there,

774
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: but they're kind of older and stuffy in a way. Like,

775
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: you know, like DeMarcus Lawrence is one of the guys.

776
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: He's he is fun, he's one of the guys. He

777
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: is you know, he's a guy that Antoine Woods, who's

778
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 1: you know, barely made the team as an undrafted guy,

779
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: Like he feels just as comfortable with him as Taco,

780
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: who's a first round pick. I think it's a fun,

781
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: different sort of leadership to see from what we've been

782
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: used to with guys like Witten. That's interesting that you

783
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: say that, because do you think DeMarcus Lawrence really wants

784
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: Taco to have like six or seven sacks? Eight sacks?

785
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: Be really good? Yeah? I did too, I think so

786
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 1: do you think it never wanted Gavin escobardt or Facano

787
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,919
Speaker 1: mean just keep going down the list. I mean it's

788
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 1: a different dynamic, you know, obviously because you can only

789
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: have one well, no, you can have more than one.

790
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: Tight end on the field. But yeah, yeah, they do

791
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: actually love that. Yeah, yeah, it's but those are the

792
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: best kind of leaders when they put themselves within the

793
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: group and not a little step above you. And DeMarcus

794
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,240
Speaker 1: he's amazing, pure entertainment on the field off the field,

795
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 1: and he has a kind of energy that is absolutely contagious.

796
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 1: There's no way that you're around him and you're not better.

797
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: He's yea quote, yes, oh yeah, which the quote DeMarcus

798
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: Lawrence does not care if there's a camera in his

799
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: face or not. No, he doesn't. Somebody, you know, we

800
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: were talking to him and somebody was like, are you

801
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,720
Speaker 1: keeping track? He the Lions have given up three sacks

802
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: this season? He had three, so we're like, you know,

803
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: are you keeping tracktoring the course of the game, Like, oh,

804
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: that's two, that's three, And he's like, I don't pay

805
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,760
Speaker 1: attention to that. I know when I drag a person's

806
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: in the dirt. Except he doesn't censor himself. He never does.

807
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: He never does. He's been rhymes with my name. Yeah,

808
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 1: he's you know, they drafted him thirty fourth overall, he's

809
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: pretty much been good from the minute they got him.

810
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: He got hurt as a rookie, playoff sacks as a rookie,

811
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: had eight sacks when he had Greg Hardy helped him

812
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: out in his second year, played through injuries. But like

813
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: so he's been good this whole time. But like it's

814
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: he is a revelation on what he has become. Like

815
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: I I don't know that I ever expected him to

816
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: be like a cornerstone type of player, but that's certainly

817
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: what he is. And it's not even just the defensive line.

818
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: I mean, he takes ownership with that defense. Yeah, last

819
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: night in the locker room, latent vander Esch was over

820
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: giving an interview. Of course, there was a bunch of media,

821
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: so Tyrone Crawford's given him, giving him a lot of

822
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: flak about the fact that there's a bunch of people

823
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 1: around him. And then him comes to Marcus. He runs

824
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: over there and gets behind him and he's like, way

825
00:38:58,239 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: to go, young fella. You know, it's just kind of

826
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: that you could tell there was a certain level of

827
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 1: respect that Leyton had for DeMarcus when he was standing

828
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: there beside him, because the question actually that he just

829
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: answered was about DeMarcus and how much DeMarcus helps the

830
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: rest of the defense. But there's just you. I mean,

831
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: you nailed it. You can tell that the rest of

832
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: that defense, how much they rest. It's not just for

833
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: the cameras, because we've seen situations where it's kind of like, yeah,

834
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: he's our leader, and then the cameras are off in

835
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: the eyes kind of roll. Right, you've seen that before.

836
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: I think it's really genuine. These guys really respect him

837
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: like that, and he plays like that, and so they

838
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: command He commands that respect, right. All right, So let's

839
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: take our final break. Let's come back. We're gonna get

840
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 1: into the five plays of the game that you should

841
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 1: not miss. Nick wrote an article as he does every

842
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: Sunday following the game, and we'll talk about those those

843
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: plays when we come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys

844
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: dot Com Radio. Well, a player can look good on paper,

845
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 1: it's when he's out on the field that you really

846
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: find out what he's made of. That's why the Cowboys

847
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: rely on more than staffs and scouting reports when building

848
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: their team. When picking a tractor, it's why you should

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Speaker 1: we just do it. Go go Cowboys all the way

895
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Speaker 1: from top to bottom. Dak Prescott's performance is not determined

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Speaker 1: by what kind of underwear you're wearing or what jersey

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Speaker 1: you were in the game. Yes, I am positive about that.

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Speaker 1: It'll like, let your mind be free. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: not so probably Okay, all right, all right, let's get

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Speaker 1: back into it. We gotta talk about these five plays. Nick,

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Speaker 1: that's my sheet, leave it alone. Let's talk about these

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Speaker 1: five plays. Let's see if Nick can remember the five plays,

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Speaker 1: you can remember the score of the Texans from two

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Speaker 1: thousand and two seineteen to ten. See, one of these days,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have a challenge on this show. We're going

906
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: to just throw dates out at Nick, like Cowboys on

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Speaker 1: this day. Make sure they're not in the last three

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Speaker 1: years because I don't know. And we'll let Nick just

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Speaker 1: say the score and amazed fans. It's amazing. Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: all right. So five plays. These were the five plays

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00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: yesterday that you should not miss because they had a

912
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Speaker 1: bigger impact on the game than you may have fought

913
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 1: at the time. Let's start with the first one. Lions

914
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: failed to pin Cowboys deep. Nick tell us what happened. Well,

915
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: it was the first drive of the game for the

916
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: for the Lions. They got down inside the fifty, punted,

917
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: looked like they got the ball down on the one

918
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: yard line, and then I don't know exactly the player's name,

919
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: but his toe was right there on the end touchback.

920
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: How the significant is that cowboy was getting nine yards

921
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: on the next dray And if and if they're conservative

922
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: at the twenty, they're gonna be conservative at the one.

923
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: They're gonna be punting out of that and instead of

924
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Speaker 1: the Lions getting the next posession of the thirty, they

925
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Speaker 1: probably get it in midfield. That's that's a field goal

926
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 1: at least right there, just those inches right there, So

927
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: I thought that was a big one. Yep, that's a

928
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Speaker 1: huge room, all right. Next one dlog gets to Stafford

929
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: before half. They're driving right before halftime, and they you know,

930
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: they weren't like the forty five yard line. They got

931
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: a minute thirteen to go and a nine yard sack

932
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: there just changed the whole, you know, outlook for what

933
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Speaker 1: the Lions were trying to do. They had an easy

934
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: chance to go down and get a field goal and

935
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Speaker 1: they needed fifteen twenty more yards. By doing that, now

936
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Speaker 1: you wonder did the Cowboys want to be aggressive to

937
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: get the ball back? It just kind of set them

938
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 1: on their heels a little bit. I thought that was

939
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: they needed a defensive stop big time there. That's one

940
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Speaker 1: of the interesting things here too, is DeMarcus Lawrence. It's

941
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Speaker 1: not just sacks, it's sacks in moments and games kindly

942
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Speaker 1: need them Like that was always one of the big

943
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Speaker 1: Knox people would have for DeMarcus. He get these sacks

944
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: and it was like, was it really changed the game?

945
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Speaker 1: Were you really? Were you getting sacks when you needed them?

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Speaker 1: M I kind of disagreed a little bit at the

947
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Speaker 1: time because I thought there were some games where he

948
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Speaker 1: made some of those. But I think DeMarcus Lawrence, you

949
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Speaker 1: see that quite a bit. When you need a sack,

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Speaker 1: need a plus a guy that goes and get you

951
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: one deftly. Let's talk about Dak finds Beasley near the

952
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: end zone, you know, third and ten on the twelve

953
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Speaker 1: yard line, and he's got some pressure and he's side

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Speaker 1: arms to Beasley, and Beasley did a nice job too

955
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Speaker 1: of stretching it out everything. He's got to get nine

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Speaker 1: yards and get close to that. They don't kick, they

957
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Speaker 1: kick a field goal there. For sure. It's I think

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Speaker 1: it's twenty to seventeen. I believe it's the school. No, no no, no, no,

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00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: it's it's actually thirteen to ten at that point, and

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00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: they're definitely gonna kick a field goal to make it

961
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Speaker 1: sixteen to ten if they don't get that. But fourth

962
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Speaker 1: and one on the two different different possession for sure,

963
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 1: Jarwin's fumble recovery actually should have been on there too,

964
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 1: because that was a huge fumble recovery because yes, you

965
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Speaker 1: don't get the touchdown, but if the Lions would have

966
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Speaker 1: got it at the touchback, so that was actually a

967
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: big player there, huge all right, and Lions penalty leads

968
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 1: to field goal. It was right, it was twenty to

969
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: seventeen Cowboys. It was that drive that everyone you know

970
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: hates when they got down on the goal line. But

971
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,919
Speaker 1: third and seven. I think, like at the forty five,

972
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,479
Speaker 1: I've throwed a gallop incomplete, the Lions lined off, lined

973
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 1: up offside, Eli Harold. Now it's third and two. What

974
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: are you gonna do with it? Zeke? First down, they drive.

975
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 1: Of course they don't get the touchdown, but they still

976
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: get a field goal and take some time off the clock.

977
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: It would have been a different game because then if

978
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: you don't get that field goal, I mean you're down

979
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: by four if the Lion score. So that one was big,

980
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,439
Speaker 1: and then the fifth one was we already talked about.

981
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: It was just don't forget how important it was for

982
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: Dak to pick up that fumble, roll out there and

983
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: may keep it at third and three. I said this yesterday,

984
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,280
Speaker 1: but it really. I mean, football is so amazing because

985
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: I mean, spend eight months talking about it and then

986
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: it boils down to like sixty five snaps on a Sunday.

987
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: And if deshan Hand comes up from that play a

988
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: little bit differently and sees the ball, or if it

989
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: just bounces differently hitting the ground, it not I mean

990
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: not only anything. Game's over. Cowboys are one in three.

991
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: We're talking about how they ignored Ezekiel Elliott on the

992
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: four yard line against the worst run defense in the league,

993
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 1: which is still stupid. By the way, that's because they

994
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 1: won through Rico and through it to Rico against I'm

995
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: not against either. I'm against it in the sense that

996
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: if the guy can only come into the game in

997
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: one scenario and the defense knows what's coming, is it

998
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 1: really that useful. He played, Yeah, he played more no, no no, no,

999
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about specifically when you throw the fade

1000
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: to him, like I just see you're telegraphing it. That

1001
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: had some great throws. That one was not. That one

1002
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: was fastball that I mean, you're not going to hit

1003
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: the scoreboards it up there, And honestly, they got what

1004
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,720
Speaker 1: they wanted. They got him isolated on a smaller player.

1005
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: That's what they're trying to do on that play. So

1006
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,479
Speaker 1: the fact is the play call was the right play call.

1007
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: The problem was they didn't connect on it. And that

1008
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:44,320
Speaker 1: to me, when you don't connect on that kind of play,

1009
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 1: to me, that's about the fact that you obviously haven't

1010
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: done that enough. That should be muscle memory. That kind

1011
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 1: of play needs to be muscle memory to where I

1012
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: know when I throw it to the end zone, to

1013
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: this guy, because he's bigger than the other guy. I

1014
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: know exactly where to place it. He knows exactly where

1015
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. He can go up, he can secure

1016
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: the ball touchdown. Like to me, that's just about practicing

1017
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: that more because they got what they wanted out of

1018
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: the play. I can't go there with you, which you know,

1019
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: I even what I've heard people talk about it, like

1020
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 1: the end of Super Bowl forty nine. You know, the

1021
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: Mike the Malcolm Butler pick. The Seahawks should have run clearly,

1022
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: But you can even convince me like an NFL defense

1023
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: that's geared up for that call is going to stop

1024
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: it every time. I understand it's hard, but four yard line,

1025
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: worst run defense in the league. Second down, second down,

1026
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: second Yeah, let's exactly. I refuse to believe it's not

1027
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: as easy as just running it three times. You will score.

1028
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:36,839
Speaker 1: Even if it takes till fourth down, you will score.

1029
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 1: I'm not at all saying that I prefer to throw

1030
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: it to Rico over running the ball. What I'm saying, though,

1031
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: is I don't think and this could have come in

1032
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: another point in the game. My point is that when

1033
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: you get in that situation, if you've get that. If

1034
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 1: you get that matchup where you can isolate Rico with

1035
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,959
Speaker 1: a smaller guy, that's still a good play call. Now, yeah,

1036
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: you're right. If you're lined up there at the four

1037
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: the way that game was going against this rush defense,

1038
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: run the ball all day. I get second, run the

1039
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 1: ball all day. But they're gonna be teams that are

1040
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 1: better running defenses where I think that played a Rico

1041
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 1: becomes a viable option if they can get to the

1042
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:13,439
Speaker 1: point where it is a run in practice, not nutcutting time.

1043
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: To mean that second and four, that when he rolled

1044
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: out and threw as I called it, a mini hall Mary,

1045
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: I mean to swam any hill Mary gallop. They're all in.

1046
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: I mean, like, what why that play? That's the one

1047
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: I don't like. Third and four your higher percentage. I mean,

1048
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:31,320
Speaker 1: letting the guy go up there and get a rebound.

1049
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: That's what we should have done, Like get up there

1050
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: so we can get a rebound. But second and four,

1051
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: that one, that play was bad, And you're right, if

1052
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 1: they don't win that game, that's exactly what that's what

1053
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 1: we're reading. That's what we would have talked about for

1054
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 1: the first half hour instead of waiting until there's ten

1055
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: minutes left in the show, which but again, that's it's

1056
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: so I mean, it's it's agonizing, but it's so much

1057
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: fun because literally, if Dak doesn't feel that ball the

1058
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: way he's supposed to, we're talking hot seat, we're talking

1059
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,440
Speaker 1: play calling, we're talking like, oh, Dak was better, but

1060
00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:59,879
Speaker 1: it still wasn't good enough. You know, the sky would

1061
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: hundred percent be falling on the third d or no,

1062
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 1: after the fumble recovery by Jarwin, now it's first and

1063
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: goal on the one yard line, two yard line. You

1064
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:12,919
Speaker 1: know they actually went they took Rico out of the game,

1065
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 1: put in Cameron Fleming as a backup tackle to be,

1066
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,479
Speaker 1: you know, your third tight end, and then they throw

1067
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 1: it to Swim for the touchdown. So you know that

1068
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: it's not always Rico down. There is the third tight

1069
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: end that Cameron Fleming was the third tight end. Funny

1070
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:28,879
Speaker 1: this is I feel like this is something you would say,

1071
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: but I just think it's funny, Like Jeff Swaims scored

1072
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: his first career touchdown, but all three of the tight

1073
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: ends had a shot at their first career touchdown because

1074
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:41,240
Speaker 1: I thought Jarwin scored on the fumble and then obviously

1075
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: Rico had a chance at that fade. So just you

1076
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: did not like that rule. You're like, that's a dumb rule.

1077
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: It is a dumb it's a stupid run and get it.

1078
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: I understand, like, you know, you know, I think about

1079
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: the Jimmy Graham play that what was that like twenty ten,

1080
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: yeah or twenty eleven. Yeah. I can understand the point,

1081
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: but like, I don't know, it's just it seems arbitry,

1082
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: like if it's fumbled backward then it's legal, but if

1083
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: it's fumbled forward then it's dead and blah blah, like

1084
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 1: that's stupid. I can just see like for instance, the

1085
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, I don't even know if that was fourth down,

1086
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: probably wasn't. I'm talking about the Rams and Titans where

1087
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: that guy catches a slant and he's going for the

1088
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: end zone and he's tackled and it's like, fumble it

1089
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: into the end zone. Then it's like you know what

1090
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: I mean, of course, why why can't you just do

1091
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,919
Speaker 1: that on third down? Well? Because but the thing about

1092
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: is if it's a if it's a Ford fumble, then

1093
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 1: that's if he's passed a line of scrimmage, that's equivalent

1094
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 1: to an illegal pass, right, Well, yeah, I mean that's

1095
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: my point, Like, that's that's probably why the rule is

1096
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: But that's what I I say, that's probably why the rule

1097
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,359
Speaker 1: is in place, probably and yeah, because I mean it

1098
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,280
Speaker 1: can swing it like that Saints Cowboys game is crazy.

1099
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,280
Speaker 1: The Saints gained like forty yards on a fumble. But

1100
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: but if that's third down, it's a touchdown by Jarwin. Yeah.

1101
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 1: But it's just it's weird that, you know, like you

1102
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: should be able to go back and review like, Okay,

1103
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 1: did he do it on purpose? No? All right? I

1104
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:57,879
Speaker 1: mean if you can review a football move, why can't

1105
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: you review that like it's popped up in the I

1106
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: mean talk about how bad you know, we're talking about

1107
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: how Zeke last week had a really good performance, but

1108
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: he had the miscuse. Yeah, you know that could have

1109
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 1: been that could have been disastrous. It could have been disastrous.

1110
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: One other thing I did want to hit on. We

1111
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about Sean Lee. The linebackers though

1112
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: yesterday I thought played really well between Jalen Smith and

1113
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:25,240
Speaker 1: Layton vander Esh. I think Jalen had seven seven tackles,

1114
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: Layton had six. They seem to be moving around the

1115
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: field really well. It didn't seem like there were a

1116
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: lot of ill effects from not having Sean Lee there.

1117
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: But when you think about the grant the overall perspective,

1118
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 1: we don't think the defense played as well yesterday as

1119
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 1: they half Pitt played before. Do you think that maybe

1120
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: there is a part of that is because they didn't

1121
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: have Shaun Lee on the field. Yeah, absolutely, you don't

1122
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: have an All Pro player. I mean there's only two

1123
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 1: All pros on this defense, and Shaun Lee is one

1124
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: of them. So yeah, it's not good. And you know,

1125
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: they went away from the run, as Nick pointed out,

1126
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: but they were I mean they averaged five yards per carry,

1127
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,920
Speaker 1: so it certainly it was not an amazing effort. I Oh,

1128
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 1: like I judge linebackers just in the flow of the

1129
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,280
Speaker 1: game by like are you active, are you near the ball?

1130
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,879
Speaker 1: Do you look like you're flowing to it and you're

1131
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: not lost? And that's Jalen and Layton both looked good

1132
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: from that standpoint. I'm positive there were some mistackles and

1133
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: some plays they'll want back, but at least not does

1134
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:24,359
Speaker 1: sink like not the disaster we've seen in the past.

1135
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: When wasn't it It was an encouraging sign. It wasn't

1136
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: perfect by any stretch of the imagination. There was a

1137
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: point in the game, I think it was right before halftime,

1138
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: a little short pass the theoretic riddick in the left flat,

1139
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: and he had some blockers and vander esh did a

1140
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: nice job of getting he kind of knife through all

1141
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: of them and just made the tackle for two yards.

1142
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:49,959
Speaker 1: I mean, that was one that looked like he's gonna

1143
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,800
Speaker 1: get blocked and then it's gonna be twenty thirty yards.

1144
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: That was a really big tackle in the game. And

1145
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 1: that showed those instincts of Sean leelike to be able

1146
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: to kind of slither here and bend here and get here,

1147
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: and it was a very Shan Lee esque play. Well,

1148
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: that was a that was a big way that That's

1149
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: one that's like and I think I even tweeted this

1150
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: like if this is the you know, this is the

1151
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: floor and he's gonna get better, Like this is pretty good. Yeah,

1152
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 1: And you combine that with Jalen and how he's playing,

1153
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 1: you might have yourself something that you're working with here

1154
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: at linebacker, which which which is I think important? Like

1155
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: when you start thinking about the future of this defense,

1156
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:27,280
Speaker 1: if you can get those corners to continue to develop,

1157
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 1: and those two linebackers continue to develop, and by some

1158
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: chance you happen to go out and get a safety.

1159
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 1: You might actually be working with something here. Derwin Derwin James.

1160
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: It's a pretty good defense. That's a pretty good Derwin

1161
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: James is lighting it up, he is. But I can't

1162
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: hate on the pick. Layton looks pretty damn good all

1163
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: things considered. Ye and you and honest, honestly, if you

1164
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: didn't make that pick, you might be sitting here today

1165
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: saying Cowboys need a linebacker bad because it may have

1166
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: been one of those situations where you don't have which

1167
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: we knew, Yeah, we knew. At some point there's probably

1168
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 1: a good chance that Sean was going to miss a

1169
00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: game or two or whatever. And at that point, if

1170
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: that would have happened, then they may not have had

1171
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: the results where the linebackers played really well. The linebackers

1172
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: could have been the problem yesterday. You also whatever day,

1173
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't have Michael Gallup, which he's not lighting the

1174
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: world on fire. But the arrow, is there any third

1175
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 1: round guard that's doing well starting as a rookie, because

1176
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 1: that's where it comes down, is like, well, because the

1177
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,240
Speaker 1: right You're right, Gallup's not really making a big difference

1178
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: at receiver. I don't really know. I don't know how

1179
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: will Hernandez is doing for the Giants. I mean they're

1180
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:32,720
Speaker 1: one in three round, right, yeah, well that's what Connor

1181
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: Williams is, right. But I'm trying to oh third, third

1182
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 1: round because because I know what I wanted to do

1183
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 1: with me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, fifty I got you. Yeah.

1184
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:42,360
Speaker 1: But the other thing, too, is when you think about Gallop, like,

1185
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:44,359
Speaker 1: to me, that pick is not a pick for this year.

1186
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: When you take a wide receiver in the third round,

1187
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 1: your expectation is not that he's going to come in

1188
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 1: and immediately light it for you. He's taking a couple.

1189
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: I don't think so for me. I think wide receivers

1190
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 1: one of the hardest positions to adapt to in the NFL.

1191
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: I expect to see him contributing a lot more next year,

1192
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 1: and buy a third year, that's when I expect to

1193
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,399
Speaker 1: see him be a guy win. With the Bronco game

1194
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:06,280
Speaker 1: the fifty one forty eight October twenty thirteen, about a fifth,

1195
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: fifth game, fifth game or six if I remember correctly,

1196
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: Terrence Williams kind of had a slower start. He was

1197
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 1: the third round receiver, didn't do a lot. Actually, it's

1198
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 1: funny to think about that. He I don't know if

1199
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: blew up is the right word, but he had a

1200
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: pretty nice day in San Diego that year, which was

1201
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: the fourth game, but he fumbled trying to turn a

1202
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: first down into a touchdown and it didn't like sink

1203
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 1: the game because they were already down by two possessions.

1204
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 1: But it was just a bone headed But it came

1205
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 1: back against Denver, and yeah, and that's kind of led

1206
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: to a decent rookie year for him. So yeah, Gallup

1207
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: might be I'm not And I think when receivers typically

1208
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 1: have a pretty good rookie year or a good year

1209
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: rookie year, typically they got a great goal on the

1210
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: opposite side of them. He doesn't really have that here. Like,

1211
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not what he's been brought in with.

1212
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: I'm not down on Michael Gallup at all, but I

1213
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: am a little um I don't even want to say disappointed.

1214
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,359
Speaker 1: But I thought he'd be better. I thought he'd be

1215
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: better quicker, but by no means closing them still, Babe,

1216
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 1: he still needs too mature. Yesterday in the locker room.

1217
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: I saw, yeah it look just look at his little face.

1218
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 1: It's like it was so cute and so such like

1219
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 1: a kid. And yesterday in the locker room, I was

1220
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: watching that. We're in a corner him and Tabon Austin.

1221
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: Tabon was was helping him put on a bow tie,

1222
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: and it was the cutest thing ever, like just on

1223
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: their own. And I'm like, oh my god, look at this.

1224
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 1: Look at it. So clearly there's some some growth there

1225
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 1: that needs to be happening on and off the field,

1226
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be there. These guys. I wish you

1227
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 1: guys are watching right there, see Nick nothing a job.

1228
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: These guys are. I mean, there's some of the best

1229
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: athletes in the world. They can do things without thinking

1230
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 1: about it that I could never do. But like every

1231
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 1: now and then you'll see something funny like that where

1232
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, you don't know how to tie a tie? No,

1233
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: you give most of them a time. Have you ever

1234
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: noticed go in the locker room everybody and having free tide,

1235
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: just like they are not taking a loose and they

1236
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: take it off like they're keeping it tied so they

1237
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: can easily put it back. And I'm like, all right,

1238
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 1: Maybe my life's not just the complete disaster I think

1239
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,439
Speaker 1: it was. You know, I'm like I'm doing okay, right,

1240
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 1: all right, guys, appreciate you joining us. We'll be back tomorrow.

1241
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: We'll get into some big picture talk. Like I said,

1242
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 1: we're definitely talking safety tomorrow. Not just safety on this team,

1243
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,400
Speaker 1: but safety around the league and what the Cowboys maybe

1244
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 1: should have done in the off season, looking at some

1245
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: of the guys around the league and how they're performing.

1246
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:19,800
Speaker 1: Interesting conversation with that when we come come back tomorrow.

1247
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: Till then for Nick even Dave Hellma Ambergarcia on Derek

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00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: Eagles from This has been The Break live on Dallas

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