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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's

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

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Speaker 1: Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and Bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of The Break. I am very,

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Speaker 1: very very happy. My heart started being fast a few

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Speaker 1: minutes before the show because I show I saw Sean

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Speaker 1: Lee running around and that made me happy. And why'd

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Speaker 1: you make that face? Derek? No, I'm nothing. I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: I guess for a different reason. And it was still

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Speaker 1: players that I saw running around. That's another one that

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Speaker 1: is little exciting. Tavon Austin finally finally running around, just

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Speaker 1: running around, been running around, He hurting around helmet on though,

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Speaker 1: Can we stop and always? Oh no, no, I can

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Speaker 1: add some No, Okay, let's just appreciate thinking back to

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Speaker 1: where this team was last year. Yeah, you're more excited

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Speaker 1: about the gadget player that barely touches the ball coming

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Speaker 1: back than the all pro linebacker who his absence sank

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Speaker 1: the season last year. That's crazy as the NFL as

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Speaker 1: a fickle, fickle beast. So they're both gonna play about

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Speaker 1: six snaps a game now, I mean, you're not wrong, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think, But I get your point. No, I get you.

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Speaker 1: But we know how much of an impact bringing Tavon

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Speaker 1: Austin back to the offense and adding him with and

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Speaker 1: we talked about it yesterday or the day before him.

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Speaker 1: Oh there you go, adding him next to Amari Cooper

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Speaker 1: and just having Michael Galla do some things as well

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Speaker 1: as Ezekiel Elliott. I mean, so it's just a little

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Speaker 1: gadget player. It could be a lot more than that.

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Speaker 1: Listen you go back to April and May and listen

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Speaker 1: to this show when I was gushing about what I

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Speaker 1: thought Tavan could do. Like, I absolutely I'm a fan

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Speaker 1: of his skill set, the downfield ability that Cooper and

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Speaker 1: you know, the defense to keep a presence in the box.

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Speaker 1: The stuff Tavon Austin could do as a side to

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Speaker 1: important part of that, too, is that right now the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys have two players that have exhibited their ability to

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Speaker 1: But you're starting to see kind of how this thing

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Speaker 1: and that happened before I was even born, right, But

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't buy that. In the NFL though,

428
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Speaker 1: Like they play indoors. It's not going to be miserable

429
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Speaker 1: playing games there and the money is the same, and

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Speaker 1: you know you have a quarterback that makes you viable, Like, yeah,

431
00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,399
Speaker 1: but that does because in the league has been there. True,

432
00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,879
Speaker 1: but that does become relevant when you're evaluating two deals

433
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Speaker 1: that are similar. I think if you're looking at two

434
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Speaker 1: things that are similar, you might say, well, I can

435
00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,160
Speaker 1: go play in LA or I could go play in

436
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,359
Speaker 1: Indianapolis and make the same money, probably gonna go to

437
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 1: La right, just because that matter. It's like I'm taking

438
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Speaker 1: my family to a place where how quality of life

439
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 1: will be a little bit better. The cults are in

440
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 1: a position to outbid people though, and that yeah, right,

441
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 1: But also ill like I feel this. I don't know

442
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Speaker 1: why I feel this need to stand up for these

443
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,679
Speaker 1: cities in the Midwest, Like people crap on Cleveland and

444
00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,680
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and Indie and Milwaukee, and I'm here to tell

445
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Speaker 1: you what are you here to tell this? There are

446
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,000
Speaker 1: redeeming qualities about all of those places. Like look, I

447
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 1: don't love cold weather. I get it, it can be miserable,

448
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Indianapolis, I have a great time every

449
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Speaker 1: time I go, and I've been like six times at

450
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Speaker 1: this point. I go to the Combine every year. It's walkable,

451
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Speaker 1: it's a great downtown, it's centrally located, it's convenient, there's

452
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Speaker 1: fun stuff to do. Stop Hayden. That's actually how I

453
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Speaker 1: feel about Minnesota. Like Minneapolis. Yeah, every time I go

454
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Speaker 1: to Minneapolis, I have a good time. Cleveland, I like,

455
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,680
Speaker 1: people love to crap on Cleveland and it's just it's

456
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,919
Speaker 1: not true. In my opinion, I see exactly. Cleveland's a

457
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,359
Speaker 1: perfectly fine city. I don't want to bag on him,

458
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 1: but you just you but you are No, I'm not

459
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Speaker 1: gonna say. I'm just gonna say, but the Indianapolis Colts,

460
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,440
Speaker 1: they're a team ahead of schedule, getting back to where

461
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 1: we could, like literally like they looked like they were

462
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,399
Speaker 1: tearing this thing down, like they don't have a lot

463
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 1: of veterans, they haven't drafted well. They brought in a

464
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Speaker 1: new GM, Chris Ballard, Frank Reich, the Eagles offensive coordinator

465
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Speaker 1: that helped them win the Super Bowl. So basically all

466
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Speaker 1: they have is the quarterback. And you're like, I mean,

467
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Speaker 1: if you go back to the preseason predictions, people were like,

468
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Speaker 1: this is a two or three win team, and they

469
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Speaker 1: looked like that they started one in five, like they

470
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,359
Speaker 1: were so far out of it it was gross. And

471
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:50,480
Speaker 1: then turns out, I think Chris Ballard has a pretty

472
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Speaker 1: good idea what he's doing because this young talent is

473
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Speaker 1: playing really well, Quentin Nelson. They drafted Brayden Smith as well,

474
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Speaker 1: so you know, reminiscent of the Cowboys. You've all a

475
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,880
Speaker 1: sudden got some talent on your offensive line. It correlates

476
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Speaker 1: to Andrew Luck is not getting hit. He has been sacked.

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Speaker 1: The Colts have allowed sixteen sacks in thirteen games, and

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Speaker 1: since Week nine they have only allowed nineteen hits. He's

479
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Speaker 1: only been hit nineteen times in the second half of

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Speaker 1: the season, So he's getting hit in average of three

481
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 1: times per game, which you do the math on DAC

482
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Speaker 1: for I mean forty eight sacks opposite ends of the time.

483
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:30,919
Speaker 1: I don't even know how many times he's been hit,

484
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Speaker 1: but I promise you it's a ton. So yeah, and

485
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: it's it's correlating Luck's playing great. Thirty seven hundred yards,

486
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Speaker 1: thirty four touchdowns. Actually crazy to me because I think

487
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: of Luck is like this big cannon armed guy. He's

488
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Speaker 1: twenty second in the league in yards per attempt like

489
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Speaker 1: they and again going back to protecting him, probably because

490
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 1: of his shoulder short passes everywhere, quick quick releases everywhere,

491
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Speaker 1: throws a lot of comeback routes, curls and slants and

492
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Speaker 1: things like that. He just gets rid of the balls

493
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 1: super quick. Um and so it's not like a big playoffense.

494
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 1: They definitely still throw downfield. Again, being slept on t

495
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Speaker 1: Y Hilton, probably the most slept on receiver in the

496
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Speaker 1: entire NFL, led the league in yards two years ago.

497
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Speaker 1: Nobody talks about him. Huge, huge, big play threat. He's

498
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Speaker 1: the guy that's gonna do it. But you know, and

499
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Speaker 1: that That's the other point though, is there's not a

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Speaker 1: ton of scary talent here in my opinion at least.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you got Marlon Mack at running back. He's like,

502
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 1: he's all right. Um. Jordan Wilkins is a guy they drafted.

503
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 1: And then Nahem Hines gets a lot of publicity because

504
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 1: he's kind of the scat back. The Cowboys liked him

505
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Speaker 1: a lot. He's more of a receiving threat than a

506
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Speaker 1: between the tackles runner. But like, other than that, I mean,

507
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Speaker 1: you got Ryan Grant, who was like the fourth receiver

508
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Speaker 1: in Washington. You got um their their gadget guy, the

509
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Speaker 1: guy that they like to do jet sweeps and stuff with.

510
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Speaker 1: Is um Zach Pascal never heard of him. Um. And

511
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 1: then the best red zone threat right now is a

512
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Speaker 1: cast off from Detroit, Eric Ebron, who is finally playing

513
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Speaker 1: like the stud that he was. By the way, he's

514
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Speaker 1: having hit by far his best season. It's not even close.

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Speaker 1: And he's having He's had some games that have been monstrous,

516
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Speaker 1: I mean multiple touchdowns, big yards. Like, he's had some

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Speaker 1: really good games. Imagine being a Detroit Lions fan and

518
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Speaker 1: you pass on Zach Martin, Odell Beckham, Aaron Donald for

519
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron and he's the he's bad, and he goes

520
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Speaker 1: and immediately in his first year since leaving the Lions,

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Speaker 1: he has I wrote his stats down fifty eight catches

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Speaker 1: for six hundred and fifty four yards and twelve touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: which tight end. That's great. It's this year he's got

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Speaker 1: twelve touchdowns. He's been money. He's the only guy on

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Speaker 1: their team that scores touchdowns. Yeah, I mean on a

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Speaker 1: consistent basis. I think Marlon Mack has five. Think t

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Speaker 1: Y Hilton has like six. I mean he has been

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Speaker 1: It's really really it's unbelievable. And even I mean that's

529
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: not better than Aaron Donald or Odell Beckham, but like

530
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: just that's got to hurt if you're the leadens. So

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00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,440
Speaker 1: this is a past happy team. Their offensive line is

532
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: a lot better, but they don't run the ball well.

533
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of that is talent to like,

534
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Speaker 1: whether free agency or draft. I bet this team goes

535
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Speaker 1: and gets a better running back in the off season

536
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Speaker 1: one way or the other, and that's It's a young team,

537
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Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna be if they keep doing

538
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 1: what they're doing. I think they're gonna be scary good soon.

539
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: But I think they're ahead of schedule. And that sound

540
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys in a lot of ways a little bit,

541
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Speaker 1: I think on the standpoint of their youth and kind

542
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Speaker 1: of maybe performing a little better than you expected at

543
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Speaker 1: this point in their in their experience, particularly about the

544
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Speaker 1: defensive the Cowboys, but just overall kind of you think

545
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: about this, it kind of sounds a lot like they

546
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: may be some of your up and coming teams around

547
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,719
Speaker 1: the NFL, then the next year or two will be

548
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: real players. But especially I mean, and especially in light

549
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Speaker 1: of the Cooper trade, like there's just there's so much

550
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: more proven talent on this Cowboys offense, just just between

551
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Speaker 1: Zeke and Cooper. I mean, I t why Hilton's great,

552
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: but the drop off after him, in my opinion, is

553
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 1: pretty severe. Um And so I like, I mean, yeah,

554
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 1: this is a team that they won five or six

555
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: in a row and then they broke their winning streak

556
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: by losing to the Jags six to nothing. So that's

557
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: that's something that that I it just vision rival though,

558
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 1: yeah it's it does but six to nothing, I know,

559
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,879
Speaker 1: but you know that's division many It is bad. It

560
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 1: is it's bad football. This is a young team. They're

561
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: they're clearly capable. I mean, they're right in the thick

562
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,640
Speaker 1: of the playoff hunt. But I think I mean it's

563
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: I think it's the Luck show right now, and he's

564
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 1: lifting these other young talents um. And like I said,

565
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be frustrating for the

566
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: Cowboys because they're gonna try to death by a thousand

567
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: paper cuts, like I mean, and Luck's gonna take his shots.

568
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: T Y Hilton's dangerous, but like he's just gonna be

569
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: danking all over. He hasn't faced the hot Boys. He hasn't.

570
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Speaker 1: You're right, well, I mean, hey, DeMarcus Lawrence, no body

571
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: else's sacking this guy, so get after it. That could

572
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: go a long way toward getting you a win. Obviously,

573
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: the Jaguars you mentioned shut them out. What did they

574
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Speaker 1: do defensively to counteract? What what the Colts want to do?

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00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: I only watched the Texans game. Sorry, sorry, I guess

576
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 1: I should ask that question. There's only so many hours

577
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: in a day there. Sorry, uh no, that's okay. But

578
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Speaker 1: I mean I looking at it purely from the Cowboys standpoint,

579
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 1: I think I don't want to go as far as

580
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,880
Speaker 1: to say it's favorable because I worry. I worry about

581
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: Luck having not not being affected. I mean, you know,

582
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: how did they how did they stop the Saints? They

583
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: got in Drew Brees's face? Can you do that here?

584
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: Quintin Nelson's a stud, Like can you push the pocket

585
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: back and make him uncomfortable? And if you can, can

586
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: you be disciplined? Because Luck is a deceptively good athlete.

587
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: I think anybody that's followed the NFL knows that. I mean,

588
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: he can run the ball um. But these Cowboys dbs

589
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: I think match up really well. I mean, you know,

590
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, he's he's one way more often than he

591
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: hasn't I have no problem letting him handle t Y Hilton.

592
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: And then I think this is a net win for

593
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: the Cowboys secondary other than that, like, I'll take these

594
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: Cowboys dbs over the rest of these wide receivers. And

595
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: it's a very interesting clash of strategies because I think

596
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: the Colts want to dink and dunk their way down

597
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: the field, ball control, keep luck on his feet, and

598
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are the ABV like they're the bin but

599
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,479
Speaker 1: don't break masters, right, So it's going to be a

600
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: matter of who plays better in the red zone. Probably.

601
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Speaker 1: One of the things that the reason I asked that

602
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: question about the Jaguars is because if you think about

603
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 1: kind of the derivative of the Jacksonville defense, it's it's

604
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: a derivative of the Seattle defense. Again, Chris rah Shark

605
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: coming from Seattle bringing some of those principles to the Cowboys,

606
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: I wonder if they are as equipped to be able

607
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: to play them effectively. Maybe not a shutout, I mean,

608
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: it's hard to shut any team out in the NFL,

609
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 1: But are they equipped because of some of the principles

610
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: of what they do and Chris Rashard understanding maybe the

611
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: principles of how Jacksonville plays, if maybe that helps the

612
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: Cowboys be able to slow down that offense in a

613
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: similar way. You see that all the time in the NFL.

614
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: An offense or defense that's playing really well and then

615
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: somebody finds a way to beat it. And then when

616
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: you find a way to beat it, then teams that

617
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: have those similar kinds of skills, similar kind of players,

618
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: are able to mock that and be able to do

619
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: the same thing, and then they find the same results

620
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: here here it is. I mean I just looked at

621
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: the stats of that game. I mean I never saw

622
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: one play, thank god, but sixteen rushes for the Colts

623
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: forty one yards. Yeah, I mean, luck through it fifty

624
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: two times for only two hundred and forty eight yards.

625
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: It was sacked three times, but forty one rushing yards.

626
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if your running game is a lead

627
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 1: or not. You have you can't be one dimensional. And

628
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: I think that that's the Cowboys trying to do. That's

629
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: any team regardless if they have a top tier back,

630
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: and that's probably what Jacksonville did. But my question is

631
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: is that is that? Is that kind of how they

632
00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: play all season? Are they? Do? They have that kind

633
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: of sparty all season where they tend to throw a

634
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: ton more than they throw it. They don't run for

635
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: forty one yards. I mean they I don't know. I'm

636
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. They average one hundred and two per game,

637
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: which that sounds good when I say it, but it's

638
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: twenty fourth in the League, Like, I mean, this this

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Speaker 1: team is They're not a good running team, No, not

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Speaker 1: a good running team, but forty one yards. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Zeke did that on a couple of plays. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm just but I absolutely I think I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think the Cowboys are equipped to do that, though we've

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Speaker 1: seen them do that against better running teams than this,

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Speaker 1: and that's you know, to quote Jason Garrett, the runner matters,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm sorry, I'm not super impressed by their

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Speaker 1: talent in the running game, you know, and even think

648
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Speaker 1: about it. Nahem Hines is a dangerous He is a

649
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Speaker 1: mismatch type of player. But if the Cowboys can limit

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Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara in that offense, surely nahem Hines isn't just

651
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Speaker 1: gonna go crazy. I don't see how the culture favored

652
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Speaker 1: in this game. I mean, Vegas is very smart. They

653
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Speaker 1: know what they're doing. What's the spreads three? And that

654
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Speaker 1: makes it an even game. But that but that that's

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Speaker 1: still surprising to me. Yeah, surprising to me that they

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Speaker 1: would say that these two teams are even right now, um,

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Speaker 1: just because i mean, like we talked about the record,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're six and six, the Cowboys are eight

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00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: and five, seven and six. Sorry, but they're they're better.

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Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys are better eight and five. We

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Speaker 1: talked about that the other day. I mean they're playing

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Speaker 1: you know this, this team is playing better. I just

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Speaker 1: am surprised that they they would do that way. But

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Speaker 1: Vegas hot also has a reason why they bet certain lines,

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Speaker 1: knowing that Cowboy fans will be like, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: I mean it would it'll it'll go down. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: this this this is not the most impressive run of success. Uh.

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Speaker 1: They started this winning streak against Buffalo. Well they're not

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Speaker 1: on a winning streak right now, but they started winning

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Speaker 1: against Buffalo. Uh. They beat Oakland, they beat Jacksonville, they

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Speaker 1: beat Tennessee soundly, they squeaked past Miami. They lose to Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: But then and to the I mean you could say

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Speaker 1: you could say all the same stuff about the Cowboys though,

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Speaker 1: but then nice feather in their cap by beating the

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Speaker 1: nine and three d Texans stream. Yeah, and we'll get

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Speaker 1: into their defense. Their defense is a big part of

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Speaker 1: that too. It's linebackers, yeah, Darius Leonards. So the Texans

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Speaker 1: actually started um their streak against the Colts in kind

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Speaker 1: of a gift game. Wasn't that one where that was

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Speaker 1: against the Cowboys? No, no, no no, no, that one the

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Speaker 1: Like they went for it in overtime on it was

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Speaker 1: like fourth and four on their side of the field

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Speaker 1: the Texans up for a field goal and then a

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Speaker 1: nine game winning streak. Yeah, and then they lost it.

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Speaker 1: Fitting they came back and beat him. But and you

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Speaker 1: know I did set you know, so these are favorable matchups.

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Speaker 1: Ibron is interesting though, and we saw how much success

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Speaker 1: him on third downs, third and long specifically, But again,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's their red zone guy. That's he did

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Speaker 1: a nice job on him too, Like he'd had some

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Speaker 1: He had a couple of really good plays I thought

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Speaker 1: against our I wonder if they roll that into this game.

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Speaker 1: And I think zach Ertz is the best tight end

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Speaker 1: you're gonna open that roof, Brian, Yeah, Brian was trying

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Speaker 1: to convince me they're going to open the roof for

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Speaker 1: this game. That doesn't make sense to me. Oh Brian, no,

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Speaker 1: shut up. You don't even go to games. Sit here,

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Speaker 1: Put him outside of the Ford Center. Put it's a good,

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Speaker 1: good idea. I like that, Derek. Make it happen. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna do that to them. Why why it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: It's nice, all right. I'm glad y'all kept talking because

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Speaker 1: I was about to make a comment after years. Oh lord,

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Speaker 1: I thought you were headed in another direction. But no,

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Speaker 1: no thing is. I just keep talking, right, all right? Okay,

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Speaker 1: you would have just killed the whole segment, right yeah,

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Speaker 1: or made it better, made it better, different perspectives, all right. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys are on a five game winning streak, and

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Speaker 1: before that there was a lot of talk about sorry,

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Speaker 1: Nate is just laughing at me over there, big. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he loves talking about the kicker. We're not gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about that right now. Anyways, five game winning streak before that,

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Speaker 1: a lot of talk about the offensive coordinator. What was

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00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: gonna happen with him? Probably get fired? When is that

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00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: going to happen? As of right now? Seeing the way

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Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have been playing thus far, has your

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Speaker 1: opinion about him and the way he's been playing the

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Speaker 1: game or managing the game alongside with Jason Garrett? Has

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Speaker 1: that changed your overall opinion of what might happen in

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Speaker 1: the off season once the season ends. Yes, divided opinions

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Speaker 1: on camera, Yeah, that was a great little exchange. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't on camera. I was looking over Honestly, I don't

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Speaker 1: know how I can't. I mean, and here's why, Because

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Speaker 1: we now know as a wide receiver cord that really

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Speaker 1: wasn't very good, right, And as soon as he got

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Speaker 1: a really good wide receiver, which again this was all

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Speaker 1: an experiment, can you make this go without a number

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Speaker 1: one wide receiver? What they figured out is you really can't.

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Speaker 1: So you're really going to crucify the guy that he

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Speaker 1: then he got a number one receiver and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, now the offensive movie. Now he saw his

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Speaker 1: issues in the red zone. This offense isn't perfect. But

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't hear a lot of people complaining

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Speaker 1: anymore about the play calls, and so to me, I

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Speaker 1: don't see how you you don't. I don't. I don't hear,

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Speaker 1: not even when they go down in the red zone

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Speaker 1: and forget about their best player. Here's here's another thing.

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Speaker 1: And this is why I don't I say that I

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Speaker 1: haven't changed yet, because they haven't done anything yet. If

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Speaker 1: they if they go to the super Bowl and they

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Speaker 1: win the super Bowl, okay, different story. But if they

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Speaker 1: do that, right, he's absolutely right, But they's going they're

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Speaker 1: going to If they don't do that, they're obviously going

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Speaker 1: have calls that they probably would like to take back.

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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be hard, maybe not for Jason Garrett,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna be hard, I think for Scott Linahan

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Speaker 1: to end this thing. In a good way. I remember

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen Tony Romo. I thought, how is this going

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Speaker 1: The only way it's gonna happen is if you make

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Speaker 1: and the rough set he didn't catch it and you lose.

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Speaker 1: That's it, and that that's what happened, and that's Linnahan's

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator that can really fit what Dak is. His

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Speaker 1: something we need to look at when the season's over.

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Speaker 1: But this is what we got right now, and we're

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Speaker 1: especially if they have some real success. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, even if they get to the conference championship game.

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Speaker 1: But maybe somebody hires them as the head coach. If

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Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. All right, Oh, I get it. It

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Speaker 1: took me a second, but I get it. NFL, but

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Speaker 1: Yeah I doubt it. But no, I mean, this offense

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Speaker 1: no doubt about that. It's still got a lot awards

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Speaker 1: and and they they haven't yeah, like they haven't all

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00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: been fixed. We don't know if they will be. I

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00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: mean if if the red zone struggles contribute to them

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Speaker 1: exiting in the playoffs or somehow not making the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: that's still possible that happens. Yeah, no, for sure they

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Speaker 1: don't make the playoffs. No, you're right. Yeah, we might

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Speaker 1: be gone if they don't make the playoffs, right, everybody,

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00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: you're right. But I mean there's this fight if they

856
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: if they freaking if they scored thirteen points and go

857
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: one to five in the red zone and go one

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Speaker 1: and done in the playoffs. Get you're absolutely right about that.

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Speaker 1: And again I wasn't saying you have to keep him.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't saying they definitely gonna keep him. All I'm

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Speaker 1: saying is Amber's question was has your opinion of him changed?

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Speaker 1: And I think, yes, my opinion has changed. It may

863
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Speaker 1: not be that I think he's the greatest right now,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm just saying my opinion has changed.

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Speaker 1: I do recognize the fact that this offense is appreciably

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Speaker 1: better when you actually give him a number one wide. Now,

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Speaker 1: when you evaluate a position like that, as far as

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Speaker 1: a coaching position, what's your window? What's the window evaluation? Like,

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00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: do you look at it just from this season? Do

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00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: you look at past seasons of It's even more than that.

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Speaker 1: I think it's to me, what's even more important is

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Speaker 1: who you're going to replace him with, Because if you're

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00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 1: gonna let him go, then you better have an option

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00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: for somebody that's better, because you don't want to bring

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00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: in somebody that's worse, because you can be worse. So

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00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: you better have an idea of who your next guy is.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's probably even more important than just

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00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: how long what the window is of the evaluation. I

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00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 1: think you got to figure out who is the best

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00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: person you can bring in here, are they going to

881
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 1: give you the things that you need to make this

882
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: offense better? And, to be honest with you, if we

883
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: want to start talking about the people that they should

884
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: think about replacing, I'm way more on the train of

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00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: give me a more experienced quarterback coach than I am

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00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: giving me another offensive coordinator. I must speak crazy because

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00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: I don't care about that at all. I absolutely do

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00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: for a young quarterback. Don't care like I don't think

889
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: it matters or matters. Not matters is harsh. But he's

890
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: not the guy coming up with the concepts and calling

891
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: the play. He is the one, though, that's telling the

892
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: quarterback here are the things that we want to be

893
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: able to do, and walking him through those things and

894
00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,760
Speaker 1: making sure that he understands what's important in this offense

895
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: and order for him to do. And if you feel like,

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00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: which I think a lot of people out there do,

897
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: if you feel like the quarterback is not where he

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00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: needs to be at this point in his career, and

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00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people that believe that. If

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00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,720
Speaker 1: you believe that, then you probably want to get somebody

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Speaker 1: who can coach him up a little bit more. Did

902
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: you watch All or Nothing? The show. Yeah, Scott Linahan

903
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: is the quarterbacks coach just as much as Kellen Moore.

904
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,919
Speaker 1: Like I do not think Dak has the quarterbacks coach.

905
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Speaker 1: But but to me, that's also a part of the problem.

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00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: If you've got a title and you've got a responsibility

907
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,720
Speaker 1: to be the quarterback coach, be the quarterback. You need someone.

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00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 1: Quartet has a lot of other things to deal with.

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00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the time to invest in the quarterback

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Speaker 1: that a quarterback coach should. I sorry, I would like

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Speaker 1: for Dak too. And I know that Romo is not

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00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: the guy that that coaches him up and all that stuff,

913
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Speaker 1: but I would like for Dak to take some of

914
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Speaker 1: the approach, the offseason approach that Romo always had, which

915
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: was find a couple of things each year to really

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Speaker 1: improve on. And I mean we're talking like very specific

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Speaker 1: things where you hold the ball in the pocket, laces

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Speaker 1: out feet, all that kind of stuff that that you

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Speaker 1: deal with. You know, what are you looking at, looking

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Speaker 1: at safeties before pre snap and all that stuff. He

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Speaker 1: needs to do that too, And I don't know who

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Speaker 1: the guy is to help him with that, you know,

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Speaker 1: and Romo did have some veteran quarterback coaches and Wade Wilson,

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Speaker 1: David Lee, guys like that. So I would like to

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Speaker 1: see some kind of veteran coach, somebody that's been able

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Speaker 1: to coach mobile quarterbacks and play the game the way

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Speaker 1: Dak's gonna, you know, have to play it in this

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Speaker 1: day and age. I can't remember the guy's name, but

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Speaker 1: Dak's got a guy in Orlando like, um he go.

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Speaker 1: He's worked with him every offseason. You know, he took

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Speaker 1: all the receivers down there. He's gonna spend way more

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Speaker 1: time with that guy than Kellen Moore in the office.

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Speaker 1: So he's year all through the song. Maybe we fire

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Speaker 1: him because maybe, I mean, maybe we don't go to Orlando.

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Speaker 1: I had so much more stuff I wanted to say.

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Speaker 1: We got another show tomorrow. Yeah, that's fine, Friday, I

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00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: have to bring this conversation. I have a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff to say. Kellen a straw man, like that's just

939
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Speaker 1: he's just a punching bag. For There's no such thing.

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Speaker 1: If you've got the if you've got the position on

941
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Speaker 1: your coaching staff, you have it for a reason, and

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Speaker 1: everybody should be held We're not saying that about the

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Speaker 1: wide receiver coach. When I staying out about the offensive

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Speaker 1: line coach. Everybody has responsibility and if you don't think

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Speaker 1: that they are necessarily the best person as a fit

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Speaker 1: for that job, then you need to upgrade it. Coordinator

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Speaker 1: is the reason. Okay, coordinator is the overarching reason. By guys,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. We'll bring this conversation back up

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Speaker 1: some other day. Thank you for Derek Hilton, Nikki Man,

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