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Speaker 1: Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and Bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of The Break. I am very,
Speaker 1: very very happy. My heart started being fast a few
Speaker 1: minutes before the show because I show I saw Sean
Speaker 1: Lee running around and that made me happy. And why'd
Speaker 1: you make that face? Derek? No, I'm nothing. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I guess for a different reason. And it was still
Speaker 1: players that I saw running around. That's another one that
Speaker 1: is little exciting. Tavon Austin finally finally running around, just
Speaker 1: running around, been running around, He hurting around helmet on though,
Speaker 1: Can we stop and always? Oh no, no, I can
Speaker 1: add some No, Okay, let's just appreciate thinking back to
Speaker 1: where this team was last year. Yeah, you're more excited
Speaker 1: about the gadget player that barely touches the ball coming
Speaker 1: back than the all pro linebacker who his absence sank
Speaker 1: the season last year. That's crazy as the NFL as
Speaker 1: a fickle, fickle beast. So they're both gonna play about
Speaker 1: six snaps a game now, I mean, you're not wrong, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, But I get your point. No, I get you.
Speaker 1: But we know how much of an impact bringing Tavon
Speaker 1: Austin back to the offense and adding him with and
Speaker 1: we talked about it yesterday or the day before him.
Speaker 1: I don't remember if I was on the show yet.
Speaker 1: Oh there you go, adding him next to Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: and just having Michael Galla do some things as well
Speaker 1: as Ezekiel Elliott. I mean, so it's just a little
Speaker 1: gadget player. It could be a lot more than that.
Speaker 1: Listen you go back to April and May and listen
Speaker 1: to this show when I was gushing about what I
Speaker 1: thought Tavan could do. Like, I absolutely I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of his skill set, the downfield ability that Cooper and
Speaker 1: the Gallup have and the fact that Zeke commands, as
Speaker 1: you know, the defense to keep a presence in the box.
Speaker 1: The stuff Tavon Austin could do as a side to
Speaker 1: side player is very exciting. I just we were talking
Speaker 1: about this before we went on the air. I gotta
Speaker 1: see it to believe it, because they didn't utilize him
Speaker 1: enough when he was healthy. In my opinion, The most
Speaker 1: important part of that, too, is that right now the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have two players that have exhibited their ability to
Speaker 1: be able to take us a routine, ordinary play all
Speaker 1: the way to a touchdown, no matter how what part
Speaker 1: of the field they're on, as Zeke and as Cooper
Speaker 1: at this point, if you add him, he has that
Speaker 1: same kind of ability because he has that kind of speed,
Speaker 1: and so you get him in the open field, he
Speaker 1: breaks a tackle or he happens to make a guy miss,
Speaker 1: and now if there aren't enough defenders on him, he
Speaker 1: has a speed to take it all the way. Those
Speaker 1: kind of players are rare, and they have three of
Speaker 1: them on one team. Now you're starting to see, I
Speaker 1: think the big the interesting part about this is you're
Speaker 1: starting to kind of see this offense and the vision
Speaker 1: of what this offense can be. It's not there yet
Speaker 1: because they still got a lot of things. They got
Speaker 1: to get Gallop and Dak on the same page. They
Speaker 1: got to really figure out how to integrate Tavon into this.
Speaker 1: But you're starting to see kind of how this thing
Speaker 1: could you can envision how this could work and how
Speaker 1: you could have really you have the pieces of a
Speaker 1: great offense not there yet. Again, they got a long
Speaker 1: way to go, but you see how it can start
Speaker 1: to develop into that. It's got to start with that
Speaker 1: offensive line, though, and that's the that's the thing. The
Speaker 1: offensive line is still banged up and Zach Martin, Um,
Speaker 1: you know clearly that's going to be an issue that
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to, you know, deal with this week
Speaker 1: and moving forward. Hiring Smith's not one hundred percent probably
Speaker 1: won't be maybe the rest of the year. And so
Speaker 1: you know that that's that sounds great and I get you.
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying, and they've done a really
Speaker 1: nice drive of patching this together. But I think if
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a dominant team in an offense, which
Speaker 1: they're far away from that, they got to get that
Speaker 1: offensive lineback, and it's I don't know if it's ever
Speaker 1: gonna get there. Not this year. Travis Frederick obviously won't
Speaker 1: be back, and Travis's not coming back. Tyron probably won't
Speaker 1: be one hundred percent healthy, Zach won't be a one
Speaker 1: hundred percent The last time Tyron was hit healthy in
Speaker 1: two thy fourteen season. Yeah, it's in a while, a while.
Speaker 1: He plays hurt a lot because he's to do it
Speaker 1: or Sue Field is another one. He's I mean that
Speaker 1: ankle injuries don't heal when you're reacting, I mean playing
Speaker 1: and re aggravated. Yeah, so that's a that's a thing
Speaker 1: Zach's not practicing today. That's something to watch. But but
Speaker 1: we'll say this, clinching this week could change of a
Speaker 1: few things. I don't think you know, you're not going
Speaker 1: to arrest everybody and you're still gonna have things to
Speaker 1: play for. I mean, there's no doubt you you'd want
Speaker 1: to get that three seed because of the difference between
Speaker 1: Seattle and the other teams is big and nameless, faceless,
Speaker 1: opposed and who knows if the Bears, you know, the
Speaker 1: Bears could win, you know, their their game and you
Speaker 1: could be i mean lose their game, right well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean if you get to the fact that they're
Speaker 1: they're the fourth seed and you're the three. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: I mean it could be important there. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know if when the last time a three seed
Speaker 1: is hosted a you know, championship game two thousand and wow, actual, Well, okay,
Speaker 1: I think the last time a team that did not
Speaker 1: have a buy put it that way hosted a championship game.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, no, I was gonna say twenty eleven, the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers or the yeah, twenty eleven, but they
Speaker 1: were the two seed that year, so I take that back.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it's been a while, but um,
Speaker 1: maybe what I was saying is you could you could
Speaker 1: rest a little bit, you know, maybe a suphie little
Speaker 1: here or tiring there. And Zeke, you know, Zeke's not
Speaker 1: practicing right now. He's uh you you're definitely you know
Speaker 1: that's that's the name of the game in the NFL.
Speaker 1: As you're like, can Zach be ready to play? Like?
Speaker 1: Can we get him there in six days? Can we
Speaker 1: get him into uniform? But if you win this game,
Speaker 1: you don't have to do that. I mean you can
Speaker 1: obviously you still got stuff to play for it, but
Speaker 1: it is no longer this urgent issue. I mean, he
Speaker 1: could sit for as much as two weeks, and I
Speaker 1: know the Cowboys won't probably won't do that because Garrett
Speaker 1: preaches to his team play through circumstance, no matter what
Speaker 1: the circumstance, and that's not just in the bad time,
Speaker 1: that's also when things are going good and you may
Speaker 1: have wrapped up everything, you still play football because it's
Speaker 1: time to play football. But I would probably go different
Speaker 1: way on that. A guy like Tyren Smith, who like
Speaker 1: you said, aggravates his injury every week, a guy like
Speaker 1: like Zach who may be in order to play this week,
Speaker 1: will aggravate that a little bit. Again, not necessarily causing
Speaker 1: more damage, but just you know, it is when you
Speaker 1: got an injury and you got something that hurts, you
Speaker 1: keep pounding on it. It It doesn't feel any better. So
Speaker 1: guys like that, I might shelf for two weeks and say,
Speaker 1: because I know, and I'm not talking about guys like
Speaker 1: a skill position is a little different because you don't
Speaker 1: want them to lose that chemistry that they maybe have
Speaker 1: developed with the quarterback or whatever. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to the offensive line, I think those guys are these
Speaker 1: guys I'm talking about specifically, are so good good that
Speaker 1: they don't need those weeks in order to be good.
Speaker 1: They'll still be good if they sat for two weeks, right,
Speaker 1: they'll come back and they'll probably come back better because
Speaker 1: they'll probably be a little healthier so for me, I
Speaker 1: would probably look at that again. If the Cowboys rap
Speaker 1: everything up this weekend, you know, then they get back
Speaker 1: into that preseason mode. Remember what happened back in the
Speaker 1: preseason with they didn't have a um they didn't have
Speaker 1: yeah Gress Russal game because Zach didn't play, because and
Speaker 1: Travis is not playing and the Tyron didn't play. So
Speaker 1: then do we want to play quarterback? I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: Zeke and then the next thing, you know, don't see
Speaker 1: Cooper rush? Right right, that's a great time to see
Speaker 1: Cooper rush. Is a rushing title matter at all? And
Speaker 1: Garrett rushing title does a matter of to who, well
Speaker 1: does it making the decision? Okay, it does not. It
Speaker 1: does not matter to Jason Garrett, I don't think. And
Speaker 1: Girly might be you know, held out some as well.
Speaker 1: It's girly and that's layer type of accomplishment than a
Speaker 1: team or like head coach or any of that. So absolutely,
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's that's interesting because it's almost and
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of football left, so who knows,
Speaker 1: but it almost feels like the the one and two
Speaker 1: seed will have more to be playing for it in
Speaker 1: the final stretch of the season than because yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Bears could trade place, but they're certainly
Speaker 1: not catching the Saints and the Rams. But the Rams
Speaker 1: and the Saints, I mean, that is a razor thin
Speaker 1: margin between home field advantage throughout the playoffs, and that
Speaker 1: is a difference. Like you can see a scenario where
Speaker 1: one of those teams loses in the other one gets
Speaker 1: to hope whoever the second seed gets to host that
Speaker 1: NFC championship game. So yeah, it's it's definitely that's that's
Speaker 1: something worth playing for. And they may be playing right
Speaker 1: down the wire final week of the season. Yeah, where
Speaker 1: but I could easily see I could see a scenario
Speaker 1: where Week seventeen rolls around and the Bears and Cowboys
Speaker 1: are like, cool, we're three and four or whatever, and
Speaker 1: the Saints and Rams are like, we gotta win if
Speaker 1: we want home field. Yeah. So, which that's interesting. And
Speaker 1: by the way, they both get about a bye week,
Speaker 1: so they can afford to play through Week seventeen because
Speaker 1: they're gonna have two weeks to rest before their next game,
Speaker 1: unlike the Bears and Cowboys, who have to turn around
Speaker 1: and play that next week in the wild card weekend.
Speaker 1: My new goal for today is to find out when,
Speaker 1: if ever two teams that didn't have a bye played
Speaker 1: in the conference title game. I thought, I thought maybe
Speaker 1: twenty ten Giants. It was Packers Bears in twenty ten,
Speaker 1: but the Bears were the two seed that year. There
Speaker 1: was a year in the I want to say, the
Speaker 1: mid two thousands or something where you had a few
Speaker 1: years where you had fifth or six seed teams that
Speaker 1: got to the Super Bowl. I would check those years,
Speaker 1: and the Steelers did it once obviously, the Giants did
Speaker 1: it once or twice, the Packers Packers did it, So
Speaker 1: check those years as those might be years when it
Speaker 1: was twenty ten was the year the Packers won the
Speaker 1: Super Bowls a sixth seed, but the Bears were too ill.
Speaker 1: We don't have to do that here. I'll look it up.
Speaker 1: I'm curious, and by the time we finished the show,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna tell us. You know that, right, I hope,
Speaker 1: so some foller apt here is already somebody tweet me
Speaker 1: the answer. Okay, well, sorry to back it up a
Speaker 1: little bit, a bid back to Tavon Austin and that topic.
Speaker 1: We know how we would like the Cowboys to utilize him.
Speaker 1: But how do you really expect them to use him?
Speaker 1: Is are you expecting something different than what we already
Speaker 1: seen before when they first got him and he was
Speaker 1: healthy and the things they were doing with him. Let's
Speaker 1: let's first talk about what they might do with the
Speaker 1: position at with the inactives. I know we talked about
Speaker 1: that on Friday, But like, who's inactive is at lance
Speaker 1: Lenore and he runs down on special teams, he does things.
Speaker 1: What about Noah Brown? He's got a role as well.
Speaker 1: The guy that really well could be inactive here is
Speaker 1: Alan Hearns. It's possible because just just to get another
Speaker 1: receiver in place, I mean, that's an interesting thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's still still I wouldn't do it, though, because if
Speaker 1: if something happened, not gonna wint to Gallup or Cooper.
Speaker 1: He's a better outside guy than Tvon or Beasley or
Speaker 1: lean Or Brown. So I wouldn't do it. I probably
Speaker 1: would sit in Lance Lanor and just be like, well,
Speaker 1: I we'll figure out that. I mean I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, you guys tell me if you've
Speaker 1: noticed something different. I haven't noticed him making a lot
Speaker 1: of plays on special teams. That doesn't mean his role
Speaker 1: is still not important the right ones. But but I
Speaker 1: do think that I agree. That's what it was just
Speaker 1: about to say. With Hearns, I mean, his role may
Speaker 1: not be as a starter. His role may be he's that,
Speaker 1: you know, he's your swing tackle kind of guy. Like
Speaker 1: he's the guy that can go in and play a
Speaker 1: lot of different positions if you sustain any injury with
Speaker 1: your wide receivers. Let's answer the question now, Tavon, I
Speaker 1: think he'll you know, I think we'll see a jet
Speaker 1: suite or a fake or you know what. We'll see
Speaker 1: him out there and stuff. But but kind of what
Speaker 1: we talked about yesterday is, you know, he was running
Speaker 1: around playing receiver a lot. I don't think you'll see that.
Speaker 1: You don't think you have to see that as much.
Speaker 1: I said this on last night show The Happy Hour.
Speaker 1: I think that this group, everybody gets to play what
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be playing. Hearns should be a backup,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter about the money. Beasley should be just a
Speaker 1: slot guy. Tavon should be kind of a gadget guy.
Speaker 1: Gallup should be a pretty good two and a deep
Speaker 1: decent deep threat. And Cooper's your number one and he
Speaker 1: can do everything, and I think this is this finally
Speaker 1: has a group that can do that. Yeah, the addition
Speaker 1: of Cooper kind of crystallize. Then that's yes, if I
Speaker 1: have hope for Tavon Austin, it's that these roles have
Speaker 1: become crystallized with Cooper joining the team. Because I just
Speaker 1: looked it up. That's the reason I'm not that excited
Speaker 1: about Tavon being healthy is he had fifteen They targeted
Speaker 1: him nine times and gave him six handoffs in the
Speaker 1: six games that he played. That's they tried to give
Speaker 1: him the ball fifteen times in six games. That's two
Speaker 1: and a half opportunities a game. But remember that's the
Speaker 1: time when you were you were switching it around a
Speaker 1: bunch of everybody was getting it was not really getting
Speaker 1: a lot of the numbers indicate the numbers. It's not
Speaker 1: a good indicator. But yeah, you're absolutely right. Is you
Speaker 1: can kind of firm up these roles on offense and
Speaker 1: you know you don't have to send him on a
Speaker 1: deep post that bangs off his hands and turns into
Speaker 1: an interception because Amari Cooper and Michael Gallop do that. Now, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: what much better much better than he'd like. He never
Speaker 1: should have been doing that, and I think it was
Speaker 1: their deficiencies at receiver that forced him into that in
Speaker 1: the first place. So I'm optimistic that he can focus
Speaker 1: strictly on gadget stuff, for lack of a better word,
Speaker 1: bubble screens, jet sweeps, handoffs, reverses, all that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: What I'd ideally like to see is I'd like to
Speaker 1: see the Cowboys do more ten personnel now where they
Speaker 1: can put Gallop and Cooper on the outside, they can
Speaker 1: use Beasley and and Tavon in the slots and have
Speaker 1: Zeke in the backfield. I think that gives you an
Speaker 1: opportunity to be able to have some quick guys there
Speaker 1: in the slots of the year and you want to
Speaker 1: knock him off the field completely. Hey, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: do it every time. You don't great every place, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna still use the tight ends. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. If you want to use the tight ends,
Speaker 1: figure out how to use them in the red zone.
Speaker 1: That could help you a lot. Three of them had
Speaker 1: their best game though, that's great, best week, that's great,
Speaker 1: but use no moss. But it was still he had
Speaker 1: a great week on no Moss out here. But no,
Speaker 1: but that's the point, like, use if you want to
Speaker 1: use the tight ends more, let's use them in the
Speaker 1: red zone because right now, that's where you're deficient, and
Speaker 1: that's where I think you're missing tight end more than
Speaker 1: anything else. Is that ability to be able to get
Speaker 1: you some quick some easier scores. Kind of disagree with that.
Speaker 1: I would actually keep him out of the red zone.
Speaker 1: I want it because I want to spread them out
Speaker 1: and then I'll run the ball a little bit more there.
Speaker 1: I don't like it, but that's what they're They're already
Speaker 1: spreading them out. And you know what's happening when they
Speaker 1: spread them out, the defense is saying, we ain't buying it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep man on the outside. We're still going
Speaker 1: to crow the box. He really don't. They don't they
Speaker 1: go three wide. I mean when you go through wide
Speaker 1: right now. What they're doing is they're saying we're gonna
Speaker 1: man up on the outside. You're saying three wide as
Speaker 1: in three wide receiver. But they don't necessarily go wide.
Speaker 1: They sometimes will just oh, or Brown's coming in, he's blocking. Well, No,
Speaker 1: I I know specifically last week. I was looking at
Speaker 1: that and because I remember Garrett saying, or it was
Speaker 1: either Garrett Orlenahan talking about how teams are not necessarily
Speaker 1: they're they're not presenting the right look for them to
Speaker 1: run it when they're in the goal line situations. And
Speaker 1: it happened a couple times in this last game where
Speaker 1: you had three will and I get it, Yes, still
Speaker 1: run it. But my point is, my point is run
Speaker 1: the ball. When you start talking about just start talking
Speaker 1: about spreading them out for the purposes of running, I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's going to help you right now.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, if you're gonna run it
Speaker 1: right now, I say crowded up because if the defense
Speaker 1: is still gonna still gonna put eight men in the
Speaker 1: box in those situations, then give me more blockers, give
Speaker 1: me an extra tackle out there, and I'm gonna load
Speaker 1: up and I'm gonna run the ball. Okay. But the
Speaker 1: thing about it is this is this is where I
Speaker 1: think the problem is. The tight ends cannot block and
Speaker 1: move people off, so they they lose. When you have
Speaker 1: your saying here's the ten guys in the box, him
Speaker 1: versus him, advantage them, It's never advantaged tight end. Those
Speaker 1: tight ends are not winning, true, but get them out.
Speaker 1: But but if you have a tight end and if
Speaker 1: they're planned better as receivers, now you block down and
Speaker 1: defender heads up. Feel you squeak out? How many times
Speaker 1: you see that in the NFL these days where tight
Speaker 1: end is wide open because he blocked down, they thought
Speaker 1: he was a blocker, and all of a sudden he's
Speaker 1: wide open in the end zone. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: gives you one more option in the red zone in
Speaker 1: the in the goal and goal on situation to be
Speaker 1: able to get touchdowns. In the span of like two
Speaker 1: and a half minutes, Derek just said I need more
Speaker 1: ten personnel, and then it's like, give me all the
Speaker 1: tight ends in the ten ten personnel was not in
Speaker 1: red zone. I wasn't talking about ten personnel. I'm just
Speaker 1: giving you crab I know him because you like to
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, well, let's go ahead and take a
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Speaker 1: Back to the Break, Welcome back to the second segment
Speaker 1: of the Break. Now deep Talks. Yes, Derek Man, all right,
Speaker 1: let's let's just learn about this Colts offense and what
Speaker 1: they have for us this week? Can the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 1: This is the this is the most like boring is harsh,
Speaker 1: and they're not. They're not boring. They're just the most
Speaker 1: like slept on team in the NFL. Like I honestly
Speaker 1: think if you pulled NFL fans just basic facts other
Speaker 1: than the Andrew luck is their quarterback, I bet you
Speaker 1: you're not coming back. Naming players would be a problem. Yeah, yeah, going.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had that conversation about the Titans and you're, yeah,
Speaker 1: this one, this one takes the cake in my opinion,
Speaker 1: because this is I think that I look at the
Speaker 1: Colts as a team that are ahead of schedule because
Speaker 1: just based on what they've done, they're going to be
Speaker 1: number one in cap space like that, you know by
Speaker 1: a large amount, Like they're gonna have like one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty million dollars in cap space this year. Think
Speaker 1: about that for a second. They've got one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars in cap space. I think the cap
Speaker 1: is what it's some It's connected between one eight seven
Speaker 1: and one. So what is that like? Is that a
Speaker 1: seventy percent sixty percent, and now they are they are
Speaker 1: paying a veteran and they already playing their quarterback and
Speaker 1: it's Chris. You could go get ten guys that make
Speaker 1: you know, twelve million. Yeah, I know there's more two
Speaker 1: than that, but I mean you can get seven players
Speaker 1: like that that are like maxed out players. They could
Speaker 1: remake their franch like they could remake their team with
Speaker 1: frontline players this offseason. But the problem is is they
Speaker 1: live in Indianapolis, and I don't still don't think that
Speaker 1: many people want to go there unless they in the
Speaker 1: middle of the nay money money calls. I really I
Speaker 1: got that nice. Oh, I get it, I get it,
Speaker 1: and that happened before I was even born, right, But
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't buy that. In the NFL though,
Speaker 1: Like they play indoors. It's not going to be miserable
Speaker 1: playing games there and the money is the same, and
Speaker 1: you know you have a quarterback that makes you viable, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but that does because in the league has been there. True,
Speaker 1: but that does become relevant when you're evaluating two deals
Speaker 1: that are similar. I think if you're looking at two
Speaker 1: things that are similar, you might say, well, I can
Speaker 1: go play in LA or I could go play in
Speaker 1: Indianapolis and make the same money, probably gonna go to
Speaker 1: La right, just because that matter. It's like I'm taking
Speaker 1: my family to a place where how quality of life
Speaker 1: will be a little bit better. The cults are in
Speaker 1: a position to outbid people though, and that yeah, right,
Speaker 1: But also ill like I feel this. I don't know
Speaker 1: why I feel this need to stand up for these
Speaker 1: cities in the Midwest, Like people crap on Cleveland and
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and Indie and Milwaukee, and I'm here to tell
Speaker 1: you what are you here to tell this? There are
Speaker 1: redeeming qualities about all of those places. Like look, I
Speaker 1: don't love cold weather. I get it, it can be miserable,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Indianapolis, I have a great time every
Speaker 1: time I go, and I've been like six times at
Speaker 1: this point. I go to the Combine every year. It's walkable,
Speaker 1: it's a great downtown, it's centrally located, it's convenient, there's
Speaker 1: fun stuff to do. Stop Hayden. That's actually how I
Speaker 1: feel about Minnesota. Like Minneapolis. Yeah, every time I go
Speaker 1: to Minneapolis, I have a good time. Cleveland, I like,
Speaker 1: people love to crap on Cleveland and it's just it's
Speaker 1: not true. In my opinion, I see exactly. Cleveland's a
Speaker 1: perfectly fine city. I don't want to bag on him,
Speaker 1: but you just you but you are No, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say. I'm just gonna say, but the Indianapolis Colts,
Speaker 1: they're a team ahead of schedule, getting back to where
Speaker 1: we could, like literally like they looked like they were
Speaker 1: tearing this thing down, like they don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of veterans, they haven't drafted well. They brought in a
Speaker 1: new GM, Chris Ballard, Frank Reich, the Eagles offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: that helped them win the Super Bowl. So basically all
Speaker 1: they have is the quarterback. And you're like, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you go back to the preseason predictions, people were like,
Speaker 1: this is a two or three win team, and they
Speaker 1: looked like that they started one in five, like they
Speaker 1: were so far out of it it was gross. And
Speaker 1: then turns out, I think Chris Ballard has a pretty
Speaker 1: good idea what he's doing because this young talent is
Speaker 1: playing really well, Quentin Nelson. They drafted Brayden Smith as well,
Speaker 1: so you know, reminiscent of the Cowboys. You've all a
Speaker 1: sudden got some talent on your offensive line. It correlates
Speaker 1: to Andrew Luck is not getting hit. He has been sacked.
Speaker 1: The Colts have allowed sixteen sacks in thirteen games, and
Speaker 1: since Week nine they have only allowed nineteen hits. He's
Speaker 1: only been hit nineteen times in the second half of
Speaker 1: the season, So he's getting hit in average of three
Speaker 1: times per game, which you do the math on DAC
Speaker 1: for I mean forty eight sacks opposite ends of the time.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how many times he's been hit,
Speaker 1: but I promise you it's a ton. So yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's it's correlating Luck's playing great. Thirty seven hundred yards,
Speaker 1: thirty four touchdowns. Actually crazy to me because I think
Speaker 1: of Luck is like this big cannon armed guy. He's
Speaker 1: twenty second in the league in yards per attempt like
Speaker 1: they and again going back to protecting him, probably because
Speaker 1: of his shoulder short passes everywhere, quick quick releases everywhere,
Speaker 1: throws a lot of comeback routes, curls and slants and
Speaker 1: things like that. He just gets rid of the balls
Speaker 1: super quick. Um and so it's not like a big playoffense.
Speaker 1: They definitely still throw downfield. Again, being slept on t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton, probably the most slept on receiver in the
Speaker 1: entire NFL, led the league in yards two years ago.
Speaker 1: Nobody talks about him. Huge, huge, big play threat. He's
Speaker 1: the guy that's gonna do it. But you know, and
Speaker 1: that That's the other point though, is there's not a
Speaker 1: ton of scary talent here in my opinion at least.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got Marlon Mack at running back. He's like,
Speaker 1: he's all right. Um. Jordan Wilkins is a guy they drafted.
Speaker 1: And then Nahem Hines gets a lot of publicity because
Speaker 1: he's kind of the scat back. The Cowboys liked him
Speaker 1: a lot. He's more of a receiving threat than a
Speaker 1: between the tackles runner. But like, other than that, I mean,
Speaker 1: you got Ryan Grant, who was like the fourth receiver
Speaker 1: in Washington. You got um their their gadget guy, the
Speaker 1: guy that they like to do jet sweeps and stuff with.
Speaker 1: Is um Zach Pascal never heard of him. Um. And
Speaker 1: then the best red zone threat right now is a
Speaker 1: cast off from Detroit, Eric Ebron, who is finally playing
Speaker 1: like the stud that he was. By the way, he's
Speaker 1: having hit by far his best season. It's not even close.
Speaker 1: And he's having He's had some games that have been monstrous,
Speaker 1: I mean multiple touchdowns, big yards. Like, he's had some
Speaker 1: really good games. Imagine being a Detroit Lions fan and
Speaker 1: you pass on Zach Martin, Odell Beckham, Aaron Donald for
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron and he's the he's bad, and he goes
Speaker 1: and immediately in his first year since leaving the Lions,
Speaker 1: he has I wrote his stats down fifty eight catches
Speaker 1: for six hundred and fifty four yards and twelve touchdowns,
Speaker 1: which tight end. That's great. It's this year he's got
Speaker 1: twelve touchdowns. He's been money. He's the only guy on
Speaker 1: their team that scores touchdowns. Yeah, I mean on a
Speaker 1: consistent basis. I think Marlon Mack has five. Think t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton has like six. I mean he has been
Speaker 1: It's really really it's unbelievable. And even I mean that's
Speaker 1: not better than Aaron Donald or Odell Beckham, but like
Speaker 1: just that's got to hurt if you're the leadens. So
Speaker 1: this is a past happy team. Their offensive line is
Speaker 1: a lot better, but they don't run the ball well.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that is talent to like,
Speaker 1: whether free agency or draft. I bet this team goes
Speaker 1: and gets a better running back in the off season
Speaker 1: one way or the other, and that's It's a young team,
Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna be if they keep doing
Speaker 1: what they're doing. I think they're gonna be scary good soon.
Speaker 1: But I think they're ahead of schedule. And that sound
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys in a lot of ways a little bit,
Speaker 1: I think on the standpoint of their youth and kind
Speaker 1: of maybe performing a little better than you expected at
Speaker 1: this point in their in their experience, particularly about the
Speaker 1: defensive the Cowboys, but just overall kind of you think
Speaker 1: about this, it kind of sounds a lot like they
Speaker 1: may be some of your up and coming teams around
Speaker 1: the NFL, then the next year or two will be
Speaker 1: real players. But especially I mean, and especially in light
Speaker 1: of the Cooper trade, like there's just there's so much
Speaker 1: more proven talent on this Cowboys offense, just just between
Speaker 1: Zeke and Cooper. I mean, I t why Hilton's great,
Speaker 1: but the drop off after him, in my opinion, is
Speaker 1: pretty severe. Um And so I like, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a team that they won five or six
Speaker 1: in a row and then they broke their winning streak
Speaker 1: by losing to the Jags six to nothing. So that's
Speaker 1: that's something that that I it just vision rival though,
Speaker 1: yeah it's it does but six to nothing, I know,
Speaker 1: but you know that's division many It is bad. It
Speaker 1: is it's bad football. This is a young team. They're
Speaker 1: they're clearly capable. I mean, they're right in the thick
Speaker 1: of the playoff hunt. But I think I mean it's
Speaker 1: I think it's the Luck show right now, and he's
Speaker 1: lifting these other young talents um. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be frustrating for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys because they're gonna try to death by a thousand
Speaker 1: paper cuts, like I mean, and Luck's gonna take his shots.
Speaker 1: T Y Hilton's dangerous, but like he's just gonna be
Speaker 1: danking all over. He hasn't faced the hot Boys. He hasn't.
Speaker 1: You're right, well, I mean, hey, DeMarcus Lawrence, no body
Speaker 1: else's sacking this guy, so get after it. That could
Speaker 1: go a long way toward getting you a win. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Jaguars you mentioned shut them out. What did they
Speaker 1: do defensively to counteract? What what the Colts want to do?
Speaker 1: I only watched the Texans game. Sorry, sorry, I guess
Speaker 1: I should ask that question. There's only so many hours
Speaker 1: in a day there. Sorry, uh no, that's okay. But
Speaker 1: I mean I looking at it purely from the Cowboys standpoint,
Speaker 1: I think I don't want to go as far as
Speaker 1: to say it's favorable because I worry. I worry about
Speaker 1: Luck having not not being affected. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: how did they how did they stop the Saints? They
Speaker 1: got in Drew Brees's face? Can you do that here?
Speaker 1: Quintin Nelson's a stud, Like can you push the pocket
Speaker 1: back and make him uncomfortable? And if you can, can
Speaker 1: you be disciplined? Because Luck is a deceptively good athlete.
Speaker 1: I think anybody that's followed the NFL knows that. I mean,
Speaker 1: he can run the ball um. But these Cowboys dbs
Speaker 1: I think match up really well. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, he's he's one way more often than he
Speaker 1: hasn't I have no problem letting him handle t Y Hilton.
Speaker 1: And then I think this is a net win for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys secondary other than that, like, I'll take these
Speaker 1: Cowboys dbs over the rest of these wide receivers. And
Speaker 1: it's a very interesting clash of strategies because I think
Speaker 1: the Colts want to dink and dunk their way down
Speaker 1: the field, ball control, keep luck on his feet, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are the ABV like they're the bin but
Speaker 1: don't break masters, right, So it's going to be a
Speaker 1: matter of who plays better in the red zone. Probably.
Speaker 1: One of the things that the reason I asked that
Speaker 1: question about the Jaguars is because if you think about
Speaker 1: kind of the derivative of the Jacksonville defense, it's it's
Speaker 1: a derivative of the Seattle defense. Again, Chris rah Shark
Speaker 1: coming from Seattle bringing some of those principles to the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I wonder if they are as equipped to be able
Speaker 1: to play them effectively. Maybe not a shutout, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's hard to shut any team out in the NFL,
Speaker 1: But are they equipped because of some of the principles
Speaker 1: of what they do and Chris Rashard understanding maybe the
Speaker 1: principles of how Jacksonville plays, if maybe that helps the
Speaker 1: Cowboys be able to slow down that offense in a
Speaker 1: similar way. You see that all the time in the NFL.
Speaker 1: An offense or defense that's playing really well and then
Speaker 1: somebody finds a way to beat it. And then when
Speaker 1: you find a way to beat it, then teams that
Speaker 1: have those similar kinds of skills, similar kind of players,
Speaker 1: are able to mock that and be able to do
Speaker 1: the same thing, and then they find the same results
Speaker 1: here here it is. I mean I just looked at
Speaker 1: the stats of that game. I mean I never saw
Speaker 1: one play, thank god, but sixteen rushes for the Colts
Speaker 1: forty one yards. Yeah, I mean, luck through it fifty
Speaker 1: two times for only two hundred and forty eight yards.
Speaker 1: It was sacked three times, but forty one rushing yards.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if your running game is a lead
Speaker 1: or not. You have you can't be one dimensional. And
Speaker 1: I think that that's the Cowboys trying to do. That's
Speaker 1: any team regardless if they have a top tier back,
Speaker 1: and that's probably what Jacksonville did. But my question is
Speaker 1: is that is that? Is that kind of how they
Speaker 1: play all season? Are they? Do? They have that kind
Speaker 1: of sparty all season where they tend to throw a
Speaker 1: ton more than they throw it. They don't run for
Speaker 1: forty one yards. I mean they I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: I don't know. They average one hundred and two per game,
Speaker 1: which that sounds good when I say it, but it's
Speaker 1: twenty fourth in the League, Like, I mean, this this
Speaker 1: team is They're not a good running team, No, not
Speaker 1: a good running team, but forty one yards. I mean,
Speaker 1: Zeke did that on a couple of plays. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm just but I absolutely I think I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys are equipped to do that, though we've
Speaker 1: seen them do that against better running teams than this,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, to quote Jason Garrett, the runner matters,
Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm sorry, I'm not super impressed by their
Speaker 1: talent in the running game, you know, and even think
Speaker 1: about it. Nahem Hines is a dangerous He is a
Speaker 1: mismatch type of player. But if the Cowboys can limit
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara in that offense, surely nahem Hines isn't just
Speaker 1: gonna go crazy. I don't see how the culture favored
Speaker 1: in this game. I mean, Vegas is very smart. They
Speaker 1: know what they're doing. What's the spreads three? And that
Speaker 1: makes it an even game. But that but that that's
Speaker 1: still surprising to me. Yeah, surprising to me that they
Speaker 1: would say that these two teams are even right now, um,
Speaker 1: just because i mean, like we talked about the record,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're six and six, the Cowboys are eight
Speaker 1: and five, seven and six. Sorry, but they're they're better.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys are better eight and five. We
Speaker 1: talked about that the other day. I mean they're playing
Speaker 1: you know this, this team is playing better. I just
Speaker 1: am surprised that they they would do that way. But
Speaker 1: Vegas hot also has a reason why they bet certain lines,
Speaker 1: knowing that Cowboy fans will be like, wait a second,
Speaker 1: I mean it would it'll it'll go down. I'm sure
Speaker 1: this this this is not the most impressive run of success. Uh.
Speaker 1: They started this winning streak against Buffalo. Well they're not
Speaker 1: on a winning streak right now, but they started winning
Speaker 1: against Buffalo. Uh. They beat Oakland, they beat Jacksonville, they
Speaker 1: beat Tennessee soundly, they squeaked past Miami. They lose to Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: But then and to the I mean you could say
Speaker 1: you could say all the same stuff about the Cowboys though,
Speaker 1: but then nice feather in their cap by beating the
Speaker 1: nine and three d Texans stream. Yeah, and we'll get
Speaker 1: into their defense. Their defense is a big part of
Speaker 1: that too. It's linebackers, yeah, Darius Leonards. So the Texans
Speaker 1: actually started um their streak against the Colts in kind
Speaker 1: of a gift game. Wasn't that one where that was
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys? No, no, no no, no, that one the
Speaker 1: week before kind of a game where I think Frank
Speaker 1: Reich was like he decided to go for it on
Speaker 1: fourth down or something. Yeah, no, you're absolutely he did.
Speaker 1: Like they went for it in overtime on it was
Speaker 1: like fourth and four on their side of the field
Speaker 1: or midfield, and they didn't get it, and it's set
Speaker 1: the Texans up for a field goal and then a
Speaker 1: nine game winning streak. Yeah, and then they lost it.
Speaker 1: Fitting they came back and beat him. But and you
Speaker 1: know I did set you know, so these are favorable matchups.
Speaker 1: Ibron is interesting though, and we saw how much success
Speaker 1: the Cowboys had against Urts this time around. Byron played
Speaker 1: him on third downs, third and long specifically, But again,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's their red zone guy. That's he did
Speaker 1: a nice job on him too, Like he'd had some
Speaker 1: moments they had him on him and he plays some
Speaker 1: He had a couple of really good plays I thought
Speaker 1: against our I wonder if they roll that into this game.
Speaker 1: And I think zach Ertz is the best tight end
Speaker 1: in football right now, but Ebron is as he's a
Speaker 1: super athletic guy like R too. Yeah, and I mean
Speaker 1: he does. He's an off the line type of guy.
Speaker 1: He's not He's not your prototypical tight end by any stretch. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna open that roof, Brian, Yeah, Brian was trying
Speaker 1: to convince me they're going to open the roof for
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Speaker 1: gonna do that to them. Why why it's gonna be
Speaker 1: nice to people? I'm kind of trying to be nice.
Speaker 1: It's nice, all right. I'm glad y'all kept talking because
Speaker 1: I was about to make a comment after years. Oh lord,
Speaker 1: I thought you were headed in another direction. But no,
Speaker 1: no thing is. I just keep talking, right, all right? Okay,
Speaker 1: you would have just killed the whole segment, right yeah,
Speaker 1: or made it better, made it better, different perspectives, all right. Well,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are on a five game winning streak, and
Speaker 1: before that there was a lot of talk about sorry,
Speaker 1: Nate is just laughing at me over there, big. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he loves talking about the kicker. We're not gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that right now. Anyways, five game winning streak before that,
Speaker 1: a lot of talk about the offensive coordinator. What was
Speaker 1: gonna happen with him? Probably get fired? When is that
Speaker 1: going to happen? As of right now? Seeing the way
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have been playing thus far, has your
Speaker 1: opinion about him and the way he's been playing the
Speaker 1: game or managing the game alongside with Jason Garrett? Has
Speaker 1: that changed your overall opinion of what might happen in
Speaker 1: the off season once the season ends. Yes, divided opinions
Speaker 1: on camera, Yeah, that was a great little exchange. It
Speaker 1: wasn't on camera. I was looking over Honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: know how I can't. I mean, and here's why, Because
Speaker 1: what we were judging him on was based upon what
Speaker 1: we now know as a wide receiver cord that really
Speaker 1: wasn't very good, right, And as soon as he got
Speaker 1: a really good wide receiver, which again this was all
Speaker 1: an experiment, can you make this go without a number
Speaker 1: one wide receiver? What they figured out is you really can't.
Speaker 1: So you're really going to crucify the guy that he
Speaker 1: couldn't make something go that you were testing out anyway,
Speaker 1: you didn't even know that it could necessarily work. And
Speaker 1: then he got a number one receiver and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, now the offensive movie. Now he saw his
Speaker 1: issues in the red zone. This offense isn't perfect. But
Speaker 1: I don't I don't hear a lot of people complaining
Speaker 1: anymore about the play calls, and so to me, I
Speaker 1: don't see how you you don't. I don't. I don't hear,
Speaker 1: not even when they go down in the red zone
Speaker 1: and forget about their best player. Here's here's another thing.
Speaker 1: And this is why I don't I say that I
Speaker 1: haven't changed yet, because they haven't done anything yet. If
Speaker 1: they if they go to the super Bowl and they
Speaker 1: win the super Bowl, okay, different story. But if they
Speaker 1: do that, right, he's absolutely right, But they's going they're
Speaker 1: going to If they don't do that, they're obviously going
Speaker 1: to lose. And if they lose a game, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have calls that they probably would like to take back.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be hard, maybe not for Jason Garrett,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be hard, I think for Scott Linahan
Speaker 1: to end this thing. In a good way. I remember
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen Tony Romo. I thought, how is this going
Speaker 1: to end? You know, well for him, because everything's going great.
Speaker 1: The only way it's gonna happen is if you make
Speaker 1: a perfect pass or a guy who catches the ball
Speaker 1: and the rough set he didn't catch it and you lose.
Speaker 1: That's it, and that that's what happened, and that's Linnahan's
Speaker 1: gonna have to have something like that. And I don't
Speaker 1: see that happening. And I still think they need an
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator that can really fit what Dak is. His
Speaker 1: skill set, what he wants to do kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me of the tight Ends in the sense of you're like, well,
Speaker 1: this isn't great. It could be a lot better. That's
Speaker 1: something we need to look at when the season's over.
Speaker 1: But this is what we got right now, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna roll with it. But I mean, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's it's certainly possible that nothing changes. That's totally possible,
Speaker 1: especially if they have some real success. I mean, if
Speaker 1: they get to the super Bowl, if they win the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, even if they get to the conference championship game.
Speaker 1: But maybe somebody hires them as the head coach. If
Speaker 1: they go that, the college season is already over, like
Speaker 1: like the hiring firing is done. Like I don't think
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. All right, Oh, I get it. It
Speaker 1: took me a second, but I get it. NFL, but
Speaker 1: I head coach, I mean, yeah, I'll see the rams.
Speaker 1: Yeah I doubt it. But no, I mean, this offense
Speaker 1: has gotten better since Amari Cooper came on board. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. It's still got a lot awards
Speaker 1: and and they they haven't yeah, like they haven't all
Speaker 1: been fixed. We don't know if they will be. I
Speaker 1: mean if if the red zone struggles contribute to them
Speaker 1: exiting in the playoffs or somehow not making the playoffs,
Speaker 1: that's still possible that happens. Yeah, no, for sure they
Speaker 1: don't make the playoffs. No, you're right. Yeah, we might
Speaker 1: be gone if they don't make the playoffs, right, everybody,
Speaker 1: you're right. But I mean there's this fight if they
Speaker 1: if they freaking if they scored thirteen points and go
Speaker 1: one to five in the red zone and go one
Speaker 1: and done in the playoffs. Get you're absolutely right about that.
Speaker 1: And again I wasn't saying you have to keep him.
Speaker 1: I wasn't saying they definitely gonna keep him. All I'm
Speaker 1: saying is Amber's question was has your opinion of him changed?
Speaker 1: And I think, yes, my opinion has changed. It may
Speaker 1: not be that I think he's the greatest right now,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm just saying my opinion has changed.
Speaker 1: I do recognize the fact that this offense is appreciably
Speaker 1: better when you actually give him a number one wide. Now,
Speaker 1: when you evaluate a position like that, as far as
Speaker 1: a coaching position, what's your window? What's the window evaluation? Like,
Speaker 1: do you look at it just from this season? Do
Speaker 1: you look at past seasons of It's even more than that.
Speaker 1: I think it's to me, what's even more important is
Speaker 1: who you're going to replace him with, Because if you're
Speaker 1: gonna let him go, then you better have an option
Speaker 1: for somebody that's better, because you don't want to bring
Speaker 1: in somebody that's worse, because you can be worse. So
Speaker 1: you better have an idea of who your next guy is.
Speaker 1: So I think that's probably even more important than just
Speaker 1: how long what the window is of the evaluation. I
Speaker 1: think you got to figure out who is the best
Speaker 1: person you can bring in here, are they going to
Speaker 1: give you the things that you need to make this
Speaker 1: offense better? And, to be honest with you, if we
Speaker 1: want to start talking about the people that they should
Speaker 1: think about replacing, I'm way more on the train of
Speaker 1: give me a more experienced quarterback coach than I am
Speaker 1: giving me another offensive coordinator. I must speak crazy because
Speaker 1: I don't care about that at all. I absolutely do
Speaker 1: for a young quarterback. Don't care like I don't think
Speaker 1: it matters or matters. Not matters is harsh. But he's
Speaker 1: not the guy coming up with the concepts and calling
Speaker 1: the play. He is the one, though, that's telling the
Speaker 1: quarterback here are the things that we want to be
Speaker 1: able to do, and walking him through those things and
Speaker 1: making sure that he understands what's important in this offense
Speaker 1: and order for him to do. And if you feel like,
Speaker 1: which I think a lot of people out there do,
Speaker 1: if you feel like the quarterback is not where he
Speaker 1: needs to be at this point in his career, and
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people that believe that. If
Speaker 1: you believe that, then you probably want to get somebody
Speaker 1: who can coach him up a little bit more. Did
Speaker 1: you watch All or Nothing? The show. Yeah, Scott Linahan
Speaker 1: is the quarterbacks coach just as much as Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1: Like I do not think Dak has the quarterbacks coach.
Speaker 1: But but to me, that's also a part of the problem.
Speaker 1: If you've got a title and you've got a responsibility
Speaker 1: to be the quarterback coach, be the quarterback. You need someone.
Speaker 1: Quartet has a lot of other things to deal with.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the time to invest in the quarterback
Speaker 1: that a quarterback coach should. I sorry, I would like
Speaker 1: for Dak too. And I know that Romo is not
Speaker 1: the guy that that coaches him up and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: but I would like for Dak to take some of
Speaker 1: the approach, the offseason approach that Romo always had, which
Speaker 1: was find a couple of things each year to really
Speaker 1: improve on. And I mean we're talking like very specific
Speaker 1: things where you hold the ball in the pocket, laces
Speaker 1: out feet, all that kind of stuff that that you
Speaker 1: deal with. You know, what are you looking at, looking
Speaker 1: at safeties before pre snap and all that stuff. He
Speaker 1: needs to do that too, And I don't know who
Speaker 1: the guy is to help him with that, you know,
Speaker 1: and Romo did have some veteran quarterback coaches and Wade Wilson,
Speaker 1: David Lee, guys like that. So I would like to
Speaker 1: see some kind of veteran coach, somebody that's been able
Speaker 1: to coach mobile quarterbacks and play the game the way
Speaker 1: Dak's gonna, you know, have to play it in this
Speaker 1: day and age. I can't remember the guy's name, but
Speaker 1: Dak's got a guy in Orlando like, um he go.
Speaker 1: He's worked with him every offseason. You know, he took
Speaker 1: all the receivers down there. He's gonna spend way more
Speaker 1: time with that guy than Kellen Moore in the office.
Speaker 1: So he's year all through the song. Maybe we fire
Speaker 1: him because maybe, I mean, maybe we don't go to Orlando.
Speaker 1: I had so much more stuff I wanted to say.
Speaker 1: We got another show tomorrow. Yeah, that's fine, Friday, I
Speaker 1: have to bring this conversation. I have a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff to say. Kellen a straw man, like that's just
Speaker 1: he's just a punching bag. For There's no such thing.
Speaker 1: If you've got the if you've got the position on
Speaker 1: your coaching staff, you have it for a reason, and
Speaker 1: everybody should be held We're not saying that about the
Speaker 1: wide receiver coach. When I staying out about the offensive
Speaker 1: line coach. Everybody has responsibility and if you don't think
Speaker 1: that they are necessarily the best person as a fit
Speaker 1: for that job, then you need to upgrade it. Coordinator
Speaker 1: is the reason. Okay, coordinator is the overarching reason. By guys,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. We'll bring this conversation back up
Speaker 1: some other day. Thank you for Derek Hilton, Nikki Man,
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