WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Luck Running Out? 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:03.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:11.600 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.480 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:21.439 time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:27.760 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and Bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hi, guys, 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.520 welcome to another episode of The Break. I am very, 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.960 very very happy. My heart started being fast a few 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.080 minutes before the show because I show I saw Sean 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.720 Lee running around and that made me happy. And why'd 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.720 you make that face? Derek? No, I'm nothing. I'm saying, 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.560 I guess for a different reason. And it was still 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.159 players that I saw running around. That's another one that 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:57.400 is little exciting. Tavon Austin finally finally running around, just 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.800 running around, been running around, He hurting around helmet on though, 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.959 Can we stop and always? Oh no, no, I can 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:09.360 add some No, Okay, let's just appreciate thinking back to 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.360 where this team was last year. Yeah, you're more excited 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.360 about the gadget player that barely touches the ball coming 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:20.520 back than the all pro linebacker who his absence sank 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.560 the season last year. That's crazy as the NFL as 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.440 a fickle, fickle beast. So they're both gonna play about 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.720 six snaps a game now, I mean, you're not wrong, yeah, 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.640 I think, But I get your point. No, I get you. 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.800 But we know how much of an impact bringing Tavon 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.640 Austin back to the offense and adding him with and 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:45.080 we talked about it yesterday or the day before him. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.120 I don't remember if I was on the show yet. 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:53.360 Oh there you go, adding him next to Amari Cooper 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.280 and just having Michael Galla do some things as well 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.560 as Ezekiel Elliott. I mean, so it's just a little 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.440 gadget player. It could be a lot more than that. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.360 Listen you go back to April and May and listen 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.640 to this show when I was gushing about what I 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.560 thought Tavan could do. Like, I absolutely I'm a fan 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.880 of his skill set, the downfield ability that Cooper and 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.360 the Gallup have and the fact that Zeke commands, as 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.560 you know, the defense to keep a presence in the box. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:23.679 The stuff Tavon Austin could do as a side to 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.440 side player is very exciting. I just we were talking 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:28.840 about this before we went on the air. I gotta 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.160 see it to believe it, because they didn't utilize him 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:33.839 enough when he was healthy. In my opinion, The most 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.520 important part of that, too, is that right now the 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.040 Cowboys have two players that have exhibited their ability to 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.640 be able to take us a routine, ordinary play all 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.480 the way to a touchdown, no matter how what part 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.960 of the field they're on, as Zeke and as Cooper 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.200 at this point, if you add him, he has that 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.680 same kind of ability because he has that kind of speed, 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.160 and so you get him in the open field, he 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.080 breaks a tackle or he happens to make a guy miss, 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.640 and now if there aren't enough defenders on him, he 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.000 has a speed to take it all the way. Those 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:04.760 kind of players are rare, and they have three of 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.240 them on one team. Now you're starting to see, I 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.160 think the big the interesting part about this is you're 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.520 starting to kind of see this offense and the vision 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.440 of what this offense can be. It's not there yet 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:16.840 because they still got a lot of things. They got 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.280 to get Gallop and Dak on the same page. They 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.040 got to really figure out how to integrate Tavon into this. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.360 But you're starting to see kind of how this thing 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.120 could you can envision how this could work and how 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.960 you could have really you have the pieces of a 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.480 great offense not there yet. Again, they got a long 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.400 way to go, but you see how it can start 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.200 to develop into that. It's got to start with that 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.200 offensive line, though, and that's the that's the thing. The 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.640 offensive line is still banged up and Zach Martin, Um, 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.880 you know clearly that's going to be an issue that 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.960 they're gonna have to, you know, deal with this week 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.080 and moving forward. Hiring Smith's not one hundred percent probably 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.920 won't be maybe the rest of the year. And so 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.640 you know that that's that sounds great and I get you. 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.400 I get what you're saying, and they've done a really 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.480 nice drive of patching this together. But I think if 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.240 you're gonna have a dominant team in an offense, which 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:04.920 they're far away from that, they got to get that 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.040 offensive lineback, and it's I don't know if it's ever 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.840 gonna get there. Not this year. Travis Frederick obviously won't 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.800 be back, and Travis's not coming back. Tyron probably won't 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:16.960 be one hundred percent healthy, Zach won't be a one 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.400 hundred percent The last time Tyron was hit healthy in 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:23.039 two thy fourteen season. Yeah, it's in a while, a while. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.240 He plays hurt a lot because he's to do it 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.520 or Sue Field is another one. He's I mean that 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.880 ankle injuries don't heal when you're reacting, I mean playing 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.920 and re aggravated. Yeah, so that's a that's a thing 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.960 Zach's not practicing today. That's something to watch. But but 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.400 we'll say this, clinching this week could change of a 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.279 few things. I don't think you know, you're not going 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.040 to arrest everybody and you're still gonna have things to 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.040 play for. I mean, there's no doubt you you'd want 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.440 to get that three seed because of the difference between 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.280 Seattle and the other teams is big and nameless, faceless, 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.240 opposed and who knows if the Bears, you know, the 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.479 Bears could win, you know, their their game and you 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.760 could be i mean lose their game, right well, I mean, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.719 I mean if you get to the fact that they're 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.080 they're the fourth seed and you're the three. Oh okay, 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.240 I mean it could be important there. I mean, I 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.159 don't know if when the last time a three seed 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:20.240 is hosted a you know, championship game two thousand and wow, actual, Well, okay, 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.880 I think the last time a team that did not 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.000 have a buy put it that way hosted a championship game. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.159 Oh wait, no, I was gonna say twenty eleven, the 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:33.320 forty nine ers or the yeah, twenty eleven, but they 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.039 were the two seed that year, so I take that back. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.600 So I don't know, it's been a while, but um, 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:39.800 maybe what I was saying is you could you could 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:41.800 rest a little bit, you know, maybe a suphie little 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.440 here or tiring there. And Zeke, you know, Zeke's not 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.640 practicing right now. He's uh you you're definitely you know 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.919 that's that's the name of the game in the NFL. 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.320 As you're like, can Zach be ready to play? Like? 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:53.839 Can we get him there in six days? Can we 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.640 get him into uniform? But if you win this game, 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.039 you don't have to do that. I mean you can 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.880 obviously you still got stuff to play for it, but 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.000 it is no longer this urgent issue. I mean, he 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.000 could sit for as much as two weeks, and I 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.680 know the Cowboys won't probably won't do that because Garrett 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.719 preaches to his team play through circumstance, no matter what 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.839 the circumstance, and that's not just in the bad time, 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.080 that's also when things are going good and you may 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.640 have wrapped up everything, you still play football because it's 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.640 time to play football. But I would probably go different 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.000 way on that. A guy like Tyren Smith, who like 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.080 you said, aggravates his injury every week, a guy like 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.920 like Zach who may be in order to play this week, 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.880 will aggravate that a little bit. Again, not necessarily causing 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.159 more damage, but just you know, it is when you 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.000 got an injury and you got something that hurts, you 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.360 keep pounding on it. It It doesn't feel any better. So 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:45.240 guys like that, I might shelf for two weeks and say, 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.680 because I know, and I'm not talking about guys like 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.520 a skill position is a little different because you don't 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.479 want them to lose that chemistry that they maybe have 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.520 developed with the quarterback or whatever. But when it comes 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.200 to the offensive line, I think those guys are these 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.560 guys I'm talking about specifically, are so good good that 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.280 they don't need those weeks in order to be good. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.360 They'll still be good if they sat for two weeks, right, 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.480 they'll come back and they'll probably come back better because 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.360 they'll probably be a little healthier so for me, I 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.440 would probably look at that again. If the Cowboys rap 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.400 everything up this weekend, you know, then they get back 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.760 into that preseason mode. Remember what happened back in the 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.920 preseason with they didn't have a um they didn't have 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.480 yeah Gress Russal game because Zach didn't play, because and 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.160 Travis is not playing and the Tyron didn't play. So 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.880 then do we want to play quarterback? I'm gonna play 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.560 Zeke and then the next thing, you know, don't see 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:40.120 Cooper rush? Right right, that's a great time to see 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:44.920 Cooper rush. Is a rushing title matter at all? And 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.760 Garrett rushing title does a matter of to who, well 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.560 does it making the decision? Okay, it does not. It 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.840 does not matter to Jason Garrett, I don't think. And 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.240 Girly might be you know, held out some as well. 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.680 It's girly and that's layer type of accomplishment than a 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.240 team or like head coach or any of that. So absolutely, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:10.840 I don't know. That's that's interesting because it's almost and 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:12.880 you know, there's a lot of football left, so who knows, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:17.320 but it almost feels like the the one and two 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.640 seed will have more to be playing for it in 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.440 the final stretch of the season than because yeah, maybe 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.920 the Cowboys and Bears could trade place, but they're certainly 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.840 not catching the Saints and the Rams. But the Rams 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.360 and the Saints, I mean, that is a razor thin 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.200 margin between home field advantage throughout the playoffs, and that 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.160 is a difference. Like you can see a scenario where 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.040 one of those teams loses in the other one gets 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.480 to hope whoever the second seed gets to host that 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.160 NFC championship game. So yeah, it's it's definitely that's that's 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.120 something worth playing for. And they may be playing right 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.400 down the wire final week of the season. Yeah, where 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.240 but I could easily see I could see a scenario 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.600 where Week seventeen rolls around and the Bears and Cowboys 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.160 are like, cool, we're three and four or whatever, and 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.280 the Saints and Rams are like, we gotta win if 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.240 we want home field. Yeah. So, which that's interesting. And 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.440 by the way, they both get about a bye week, 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.520 so they can afford to play through Week seventeen because 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.800 they're gonna have two weeks to rest before their next game, 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.320 unlike the Bears and Cowboys, who have to turn around 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.040 and play that next week in the wild card weekend. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.160 My new goal for today is to find out when, 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.720 if ever two teams that didn't have a bye played 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.520 in the conference title game. I thought, I thought maybe 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.959 twenty ten Giants. It was Packers Bears in twenty ten, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.000 but the Bears were the two seed that year. There 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.920 was a year in the I want to say, the 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.960 mid two thousands or something where you had a few 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.360 years where you had fifth or six seed teams that 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.640 got to the Super Bowl. I would check those years, 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.400 and the Steelers did it once obviously, the Giants did 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.840 it once or twice, the Packers Packers did it, So 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:48.760 check those years as those might be years when it 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.199 was twenty ten was the year the Packers won the 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.760 Super Bowls a sixth seed, but the Bears were too ill. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.640 We don't have to do that here. I'll look it up. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.960 I'm curious, and by the time we finished the show, 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.720 somebody's gonna tell us. You know that, right, I hope, 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.400 so some foller apt here is already somebody tweet me 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.440 the answer. Okay, well, sorry to back it up a 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.679 little bit, a bid back to Tavon Austin and that topic. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:14.920 We know how we would like the Cowboys to utilize him. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:20.040 But how do you really expect them to use him? 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:24.040 Is are you expecting something different than what we already 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.040 seen before when they first got him and he was 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.680 healthy and the things they were doing with him. Let's 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.120 let's first talk about what they might do with the 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.320 position at with the inactives. I know we talked about 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.080 that on Friday, But like, who's inactive is at lance 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.079 Lenore and he runs down on special teams, he does things. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.480 What about Noah Brown? He's got a role as well. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.439 The guy that really well could be inactive here is 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.560 Alan Hearns. It's possible because just just to get another 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.600 receiver in place, I mean, that's an interesting thing. I mean, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.920 it's still still I wouldn't do it, though, because if 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.520 if something happened, not gonna wint to Gallup or Cooper. 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.160 He's a better outside guy than Tvon or Beasley or 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.760 lean Or Brown. So I wouldn't do it. I probably 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.199 would sit in Lance Lanor and just be like, well, 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:13.680 I we'll figure out that. I mean I don't I 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.559 don't know. I mean, you guys tell me if you've 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.800 noticed something different. I haven't noticed him making a lot 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.920 of plays on special teams. That doesn't mean his role 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.760 is still not important the right ones. But but I 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.280 do think that I agree. That's what it was just 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.760 about to say. With Hearns, I mean, his role may 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.360 not be as a starter. His role may be he's that, 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.440 you know, he's your swing tackle kind of guy. Like 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.079 he's the guy that can go in and play a 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.120 lot of different positions if you sustain any injury with 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:42.280 your wide receivers. Let's answer the question now, Tavon, I 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.640 think he'll you know, I think we'll see a jet 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.640 suite or a fake or you know what. We'll see 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.400 him out there and stuff. But but kind of what 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.360 we talked about yesterday is, you know, he was running 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.760 around playing receiver a lot. I don't think you'll see that. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.360 You don't think you have to see that as much. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.920 I said this on last night show The Happy Hour. 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.760 I think that this group, everybody gets to play what 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.160 they're supposed to be playing. Hearns should be a backup, 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.040 doesn't matter about the money. Beasley should be just a 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.760 slot guy. Tavon should be kind of a gadget guy. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.000 Gallup should be a pretty good two and a deep 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.080 decent deep threat. And Cooper's your number one and he 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.280 can do everything, and I think this is this finally 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.160 has a group that can do that. Yeah, the addition 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.440 of Cooper kind of crystallize. Then that's yes, if I 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.160 have hope for Tavon Austin, it's that these roles have 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:30.040 become crystallized with Cooper joining the team. Because I just 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.160 looked it up. That's the reason I'm not that excited 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:37.000 about Tavon being healthy is he had fifteen They targeted 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.600 him nine times and gave him six handoffs in the 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.360 six games that he played. That's they tried to give 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.240 him the ball fifteen times in six games. That's two 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.280 and a half opportunities a game. But remember that's the 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.120 time when you were you were switching it around a 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.480 bunch of everybody was getting it was not really getting 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.800 a lot of the numbers indicate the numbers. It's not 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.320 a good indicator. But yeah, you're absolutely right. Is you 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.640 can kind of firm up these roles on offense and 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.040 you know you don't have to send him on a 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.559 deep post that bangs off his hands and turns into 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.600 an interception because Amari Cooper and Michael Gallop do that. Now, well, yeah, 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.959 what much better much better than he'd like. He never 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.760 should have been doing that, and I think it was 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.080 their deficiencies at receiver that forced him into that in 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.959 the first place. So I'm optimistic that he can focus 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.560 strictly on gadget stuff, for lack of a better word, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:31.080 bubble screens, jet sweeps, handoffs, reverses, all that type of stuff. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.000 What I'd ideally like to see is I'd like to 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.800 see the Cowboys do more ten personnel now where they 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.079 can put Gallop and Cooper on the outside, they can 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:42.760 use Beasley and and Tavon in the slots and have 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:44.920 Zeke in the backfield. I think that gives you an 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.960 opportunity to be able to have some quick guys there 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.720 in the slots of the year and you want to 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:55.200 knock him off the field completely. Hey, I'm not saying 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.000 do it every time. You don't great every place, and 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:58.959 you're gonna you're gonna still use the tight ends. Don't 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:00.880 get me wrong. If you want to use the tight ends, 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.280 figure out how to use them in the red zone. 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.160 That could help you a lot. Three of them had 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.640 their best game though, that's great, best week, that's great, 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.000 but use no moss. But it was still he had 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.000 a great week on no Moss out here. But no, 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.079 but that's the point, like, use if you want to 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.160 use the tight ends more, let's use them in the 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.240 red zone because right now, that's where you're deficient, and 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.440 that's where I think you're missing tight end more than 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.720 anything else. Is that ability to be able to get 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.080 you some quick some easier scores. Kind of disagree with that. 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.280 I would actually keep him out of the red zone. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.520 I want it because I want to spread them out 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.800 and then I'll run the ball a little bit more there. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.680 I don't like it, but that's what they're They're already 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.840 spreading them out. And you know what's happening when they 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:38.960 spread them out, the defense is saying, we ain't buying it. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:40.800 We're gonna keep man on the outside. We're still going 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.880 to crow the box. He really don't. They don't they 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.720 go three wide. I mean when you go through wide 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.920 right now. What they're doing is they're saying we're gonna 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.560 man up on the outside. You're saying three wide as 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.280 in three wide receiver. But they don't necessarily go wide. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.560 They sometimes will just oh, or Brown's coming in, he's blocking. Well, No, 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.640 I I know specifically last week. I was looking at 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.240 that and because I remember Garrett saying, or it was 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.720 either Garrett Orlenahan talking about how teams are not necessarily 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.240 they're they're not presenting the right look for them to 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.880 run it when they're in the goal line situations. And 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.480 it happened a couple times in this last game where 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.440 you had three will and I get it, Yes, still 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:22.000 run it. But my point is, my point is run 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.800 the ball. When you start talking about just start talking 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.480 about spreading them out for the purposes of running, I 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.000 don't know that that's going to help you right now. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.440 As a matter of fact, if you're gonna run it 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.280 right now, I say crowded up because if the defense 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.480 is still gonna still gonna put eight men in the 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.680 box in those situations, then give me more blockers, give 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.160 me an extra tackle out there, and I'm gonna load 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:42.720 up and I'm gonna run the ball. Okay. But the 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.440 thing about it is this is this is where I 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.680 think the problem is. The tight ends cannot block and 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.480 move people off, so they they lose. When you have 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.240 your saying here's the ten guys in the box, him 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.840 versus him, advantage them, It's never advantaged tight end. Those 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.160 tight ends are not winning, true, but get them out. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.240 But but if you have a tight end and if 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:06.040 they're planned better as receivers, now you block down and 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.480 defender heads up. Feel you squeak out? How many times 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.240 you see that in the NFL these days where tight 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.840 end is wide open because he blocked down, they thought 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.520 he was a blocker, and all of a sudden he's 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.320 wide open in the end zone. I'm just saying that 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.480 gives you one more option in the red zone in 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.280 the in the goal and goal on situation to be 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.320 able to get touchdowns. In the span of like two 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.520 and a half minutes, Derek just said I need more 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.280 ten personnel, and then it's like, give me all the 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.000 tight ends in the ten ten personnel was not in 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.040 red zone. I wasn't talking about ten personnel. I'm just 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:35.760 giving you crab I know him because you like to 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:37.560 do that. Yeah, well, let's go ahead and take a 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.960 quick first break when we come back. Let's dive into 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.920 the Colts offense and what they've got going on over 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.640 there in Indie. Pretty lucky. 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