WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Too Much Prep? 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.080 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:20.239 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.960 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.280 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:33.680 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.959 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.320 It is Wednesday, December second, twenty twenty, Season sixteen, Episode 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.920 number seventy three. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break, 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.479 presented by Geico Live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.000 at the Star. We got Dave and Nick at the Star. 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.920 They are in the studio, myself and Amber. We're at 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.680 our home studios, and we got forty five minutes of 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:05.720 Cowboys Talk here for you guys. Today. We're gonna have 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.240 Bucky Brooks joining us here in a moment. He's going 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.720 to talk to us about the Baltimore offense versus the 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.080 Dallas defense. We'll have some questions for these guys about 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.959 the Dallas Dallas defense versus the Baltimore offense, and maybe 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.160 even hopefully get to a question or two there. Towards 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.479 the end of the show. We're gonna turn over first 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.640 though to Nick and Dave in studio. Mike McCarthy had 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:27.600 his press conference this morning ten thirty. It's been a 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.959 little while since he's met with the media. What do 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.600 you have to talk about today, Nick, Well, I mean 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.680 he basically talked about just how unique this schedule is 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.640 and how he uh, you know, he looks at it 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.280 as he's got like the a positive vibe about it 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:44.560 that you know, this is unique that they get the 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:49.400 chance to to practice, like get a chance to evaluate 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.680 the team they're playing in the middle of their of 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.480 their installation in practice week. So you know, he's he's 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.960 not looking at it as a negative. He's he's got 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.200 some you know, positivity vibes there. And and Dave, I know, 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.840 he talked a little bit about injuries as well, but 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:04.720 I mean it just sounded like he was kind of 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:08.080 relieved and kind of get back on the field. Well, yeah, 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.080 what I keep thinking about is you remember, like we 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.200 used to make fun of Jason Garrett for being like 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.400 it's Wednesday, it's Thursday, Like today's today's our Friday. Like 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.680 I need that right now, like I need I need 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.480 a little bit of structure in my life. So I 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.520 appreciate Mike McCarthy, I mean, it's been so weird. So 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.560 they I mean, they play Thursday, and the expectation is 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.360 you're going to go right back into a game week 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.160 for a Thursday game. Obviously, that hasn't been the case. 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.840 The game's been moved two or three times, and so 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.440 they're coming off basically what was a half bye week, 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.200 but now it's kind of a short week. And another 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.680 big thing Mike McCarthy talked about is the memorial service 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.400 for Mark Marcus Paul is going to be tomorrow. It 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.240 sounds like the team's gonna watch that virtually. You know, 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:50.440 they can't all go to the church with COVID obviously, 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.919 so they're gonna watch it virtually. And that's so it's 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.960 kind of built into their game week where yeah, I 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.359 mean this is some Monday, it's on it kind of 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.640 it's like a Monday, but it's also a Wednesday, like 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.359 they're going through an install. This is an install day 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.600 where they kind of have their game plan for Baltimore. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.720 They know what they want to do, but when practice 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.760 is over, they're going to go watch the game together 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.400 and just sort of get a feel for what Baltimore 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.040 looks like. Right now, I guess maybe try to get 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:16.560 a feel for how many of those guys are even 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.000 going to be able to play, because I think the 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.959 Ravens only have thirty eight players on their roster right now, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.840 and so then Tomorrow is sort of like they're going 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.280 to do a little bit of work, but it's kind 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.480 of a day off to commemorate Marcus Paul. And then 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:33.040 Friday you really get into the swing of like Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.480 where you're really, you know, gearing up for the game. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.320 So all of I just said all of that and 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:43.760 just confused myself. Honestly, it's this is weird. Sorry, what's up? Hey, Hey, 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.880 Dave and Nick, I'll ask you as a question, Aimber 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:47.640 you can chime in this too, but like, how much 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.960 do you think that they can really glean from that 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.400 game that's going to happen this afternoon with Baltimore and 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.640 Pittsburgh because of the fact that Dave, as you said, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.760 so many of their guys are out and so many 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.000 of their big players players that will make a difference 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.920 it's in the game against the Cowboys. How much you 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.080 think they can actually get from watching that game together? 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.920 You know, I'm glad you asked me that, because I 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.520 asked Mike McCarthy that, So I'm glad that we're on 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.920 the same page, you know, I was, as usual, it's weird, Yeah, right, 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.400 it's weird because I mean, by this point in the week, 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.800 you've already put your plan together and that's you know, Mike, 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:20.680 Mike said that. He was like, you know, we've we've 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:22.560 already done a lot of that. We know how we 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.240 want to attack, we know what we want to do. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.320 But I think this game you can glean you know, 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.560 what personnel do they have, who are they using, what 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.960 do the snap counts look like, who's available? And then 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:34.719 obviously you got to keep an eye on guys that 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.040 might become available. You know, I would guess Lamar Jackson's 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.920 not going to play today, but he will very likely 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:45.360 be available against against Dallas, which that's Nick's that's Nick 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.960 one oh one, right, there's well, there's no other reasons. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.039 There's no other reason. They haven't come up with another reason. 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.640 There's no reason why they've moved the game from when 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:58.320 from Monday to Tuesday other than to get more players 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.600 in there, maybe a raining MVP. I mean, because it 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.640 makes no sense. It hurts the Cowboys even more. And 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.720 I didn't say this yesterday, but when I found out 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.720 that the Ravens play on Monday night the following week, 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.640 like that pissed me off, But it didn't piss anybody 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.040 else off. I mean, Jerry wants to play on national TV. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.719 You're not subject to league discipline if you question it either. 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.960 I mean, like Mike McCarthy or Jerry Jones could get 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:25.280 a fat envelope from FedEx if they say something like that, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.400 I would just, you know, I would just ask the question. 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.919 I mean why, I mean, why, why why are we moving? 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.919 Why are we moving a game? Why are you giving 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.360 the Ravens six games six days between each of their 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.000 games and the Cowboys get four and five? Why? I'm 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.599 just is it because Lamar is he because he's on 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:50.120 the cover of Madden? If so, just tell me it's 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.279 an interesting thought, and it's certainly you know, I know 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.679 there's been a lot of arguments. You know, the Denver 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.360 game didn't get called off because they felt that they 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.279 had you know, they had contained that and it was 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.000 really just the quarterbacks. Whereas this is an ongoing outbreak 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.720 with Baltimore where I think for ten straight days they 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.280 had at least one positive test and you can't play 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.160 the game until you have your hands around it. But 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.640 at the same like, it's hard, it's hard to parse 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.159 out the real rhyme and reason to it. All you saw. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.160 It was similar with Tennessee All you know back in October, 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.000 the links that the league went to. I don't want 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.880 to say to protect them, but to but more or less, Yeah, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:29.800 it's kind of how it feels. So yeah, I don't 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.320 I don't really understand why this game couldn't be happening 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.479 on Monday, other than if not for what you're saying, 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.160 then maybe just to keep the TV schedule from being 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.600 too crowded. But that seems focused to me. Yeah, that, 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.920 and it may not even be TV schedule being crowded. 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.960 It may be a situation literally where you start talking 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.279 to the networks and the networks are saying, hey, we 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.280 don't have a spot for this, we can't put this 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.840 on television Tuesday. We could put it on at this 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.960 time and it would work, right. So those are the 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:58.800 put things that we don't know. But I agree with 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.159 you Nick, overall, we just look at it from the surface, 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.440 it seems a little curious that they would make the 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.000 decision to move it to Tuesday versus Monday, because you know, 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.040 it's a five day lead time for for Baltimore coming 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.000 from a Wednesday game to a Monday game, and that's 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.920 the exact number of days that the Cowboys are going 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.720 to have going from a Tuesday to a Sunday. So 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.800 you would think it's it's possible. I just again, there 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:21.560 may be some things under the surface that we just 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:27.200 don't know about this. I don't have I'm not chiming 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.760 in on this subject because I really don't have any 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.920 input in the whole situation. There are many things that 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.600 the league is doing that I don't understand. I know 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.320 that Dave has been talking about the whole thing of 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.400 why not make a week eighteen, and there's a lot 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:48.400 of questions around that whole aspect. But my best thinks 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.760 are what I think about is I'm hoping that the 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:57.000 NFL is just doing their best to for everyone, just 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.360 mutually everyone and trying to figure this out. There are 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.280 so many moving elements, so many different things that go 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.760 into place that I wouldn't want to be in their positions. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.320 I mean, I'm sure this is a very tough decision. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.720 There's a lot of money involved, and we know that 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:18.080 money is what drives everything, and we just don't know 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.840 as much as they do as far as having to 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.280 handle so many different factors and elements, which I will 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.680 say this too. I mean, oh, I'm sorry, Derek. I 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.920 just maybe Mike McCarthy. Maybe McCarthy's really pissed off about 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.880 this in private. I mean, all football coaches are always 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.480 pissed off about everything that affects their team, so he 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:40.840 probably is. But I just my attitude and maybe maybe 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:42.800 it's his too, is like in a situation like this, 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.400 go all the way back to August, this is what 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.920 you were worried about, playing a season in a pandemic 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.520 like they made through training camp because you're not dealing 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.360 with other teams. And then the first few weeks is 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.800 one thing, but like now we're into the depths of 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.680 this where like flu season's part of it, the novelty 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.280 is worn off, so you got a guard even harder 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.000 against doing things the right way because you know some 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.440 I mean, the Ravens are in this situation because somebody 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.760 on their staff let their guard down. And so my 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.240 attitude is just like, whatever we got to do to 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.640 get these last four weeks of the season and let's 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.000 let's just do it. I mean, I agree with you 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.640 guys for sure on that. All I'm saying is is that, yeah, 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:25.480 if you know is John Harball, is he quiet about it? 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:30.280 I mean, he voices his displeasure on everything, and and 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.640 here here they are. It's almost seems like the NFL's 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.600 kind of catering to it a little bit. So it's 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.760 that whole squeaky wheel gets the grease a little bit. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.520 But you know, at some point, you know, just just 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.440 ask the question. That's all I'm saying. It's just like 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.520 I would like to know the answer. But hey, if 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:48.240 Jerry's not upset and McCarthy's not upset, I shouldn't be. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.440 But I'm just saying, I mean, it didn't it's fine 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.840 TOI football great, I mean yeah. And the fact the 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.240 fact is they may have already asked the question, right, 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.840 They may have asked the question and gotten an answer 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.360 and they're like, huh, I don't like it, but I 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.880 see why you made the decision. And maybe that's why 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.640 publicly they're not as upset about this as as as 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.600 we all seem to be. But you know, again, there 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.360 are lots of moving parts, and I agree with you, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.520 Dave at this point, I think the NFL is trying 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.320 to do whatever they can to cross the finish line 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.480 on this season. They in my opinion, have done a 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.520 really great job from the standpoint that when you're dealing 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.760 with thirty two teams that have upwards of sixty people, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.520 sixty players and then other people involved that are all 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.199 having to be a part of this to be able 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.040 to have to go through a season where they've had 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.080 what maybe I think there's been a total of three 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.000 or four games that have had to be rescheduled, and 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.880 you look at college football where they're canceling games and 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:48.360 rescheduling games every week. It's I think an amazing job. Yeah, 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.280 I think it's been an amazing job by the NFL 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:51.559 and what they've been able to do, And really it 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:56.240 speaks to the level of care that the players and 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.240 the staffs have have had to take in trying to 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.479 do the right things and try to mitigate their exposure. 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.160 You know, I've never run a marathon before at all, 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.520 or even close to that, Derek. I know you've run 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.800 some or half marathon, but I can imagine it if 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.800 you're you know, twenty six point two, twenty six point 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.600 two the whole, and you gets about nineteen or twenty 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.600 and someone tells you, hey, by the way, we're just 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.360 moving it up to twenty seven. You have to run 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.680 twenty seven miles, Like that's kind of what it feels 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.560 like here, like week eighteen Like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:32.240 seventeen weeks only. Great, that's a really great analogy about it. 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.559 That way. I'm bad about thirty percent on my analogies. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.640 Some are really bad, some are okay. Put you in 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.640 the Hall of Fame if you're a baseball player. Anyway, 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.800 So I'm guessing there will be some fights. If someone 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.000 in a marathon decided they were going to add an 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.640 extra mile to that, even just an ole a mile, 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.800 it'd probably be a couple of fights. I might break 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.880 out with people a little bit unhappy with that. Let 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.280 me know, okay, because I won't be in that conversation. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:58.160 Let me know if that ever happens. Other than, hey, Michael, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.960 party have anything to say about juries? Now that's I 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.839 was just gonna say, not really. I mean, we know 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.679 we know Cam Irving and Zach Martin aren't going to 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.680 be available. I don't I don't get the impression that 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.719 either one of them is going to I R. I think, 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.280 you know, Mike said maybe a couple of weeks for 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.000 Zach and maybe more quickly than Cam for Cam. So 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:20.720 I'm thinking, you know, San Francisco or Philly for Zach 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:26.240 maybe and maybe maybe um Cincinnati or San Francisco for Cam. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.400 That's just a guess, but it doesn't sound like either 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.400 one of them's going I R. Here's the interesting thing. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.880 It's three weeks. It's three games, right, so if you 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.400 put them on IR, it goes all the way. The 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.040 game didn't even start until Baltimore, so like, yeah, that's 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.560 the first game, right, so sore. I mean, at this 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.319 point in the year, you're kind of shutting them down 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.480 if you do that, which maybe they should, and I 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.160 they're gonna make those decisions based on what happens, like 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.920 if they lose to Baltimore. I mean, let's say Zach 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.560 can come back against San Francisco. If they lose to 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.439 Baltimore and Cincinnati, yeah, I mean, I don't know if 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.839 it's worth it at that point, but we'll see when 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.520 we get there. I guess. Yeah. I think what will 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.560 be more important is what's happening with those other NFC 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.439 East teams if they're also losing, then maybe they look 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.960 at it and they're like, huh, we're still in this right. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.520 So that's the craziness of this season for the NFC 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.480 East is no matter who's winning around the league, the 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.480 NFC East tends to not win, which keeps all the 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:27.240 teams in the middle of the hunt to win the division. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.199 We're gonna take our first break a little early. Go ahead, Dave. 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.360 I'm loving how the delay versus the non delay. It's 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.080 really nice being in the studio. You're not wrong. I 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.600 was just I was just gonna joke that, you know, 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.160 a month or a month or six weeks ago, we 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.840 were like, no, seven, seven or eight wins might do it, 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.000 and then now it's like five or six wins might 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.560 do it. Like three weeks from now, it's like, shoot, 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.840 whoever can get that fourth one? Well, a couple of 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.400 them already do. But I mean, I'm just bracing myself 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.640 for a five and eleven playoff team. That would be insane. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.040 I got five on it better. Yet, all the sudden, 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.120 Jason's all the sudden Jason's eight and eight doesn't sound 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.360 too bad. Oh, my god, I didn't have a parade. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:13.000 If hit eight and eight, like, I mean, that's a 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.400 five game winning streak. Let's go. It's if this sale 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.960 goes to eight and eight and a baby, oh man, 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.320 love it. You never know. We're gonna take our first 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.120 break when we come back. We got Bucky Brooks lined up. 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.280 He's gonna talk to us about the Baltimore offense versus 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.160 this Dallas defense with that when we come right back. 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:35.080 This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. There's nothing as 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:39.360 unique as our eyes, which is why SLOR pioneers ways 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.960 to make lenses as unique as you. 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We might we might restore 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.840 some Don't tell me to stop. That's the only good 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:10.720 thing I've had come out of my college program in 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.960 a long time. Maybe y'all Campbell, after the season's over, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.720 herban my year. Now lord, all right, let's go on. 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.000 We gotta have Bucky Brooks joining us. We got Bucky 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.919 Brooks joining us from NFL Network, Bucky, let's talk a 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:31.719 little Baltimore offense versus Dallas defense. We're gonna start with 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.199 the guy that makes it all work, Lamar Jackson. He 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.280 was reigning MVP of the league last year, as we 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.640 all know, but he seems to be a little less 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.240 potent in twenty twenty than he was in two thousand nineteen. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.320 His quarterback rating then was one hundred and thirteen point three, 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:48.000 this year's ninety three point four. Um, what do you 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.600 think has been the biggest difference between Lamar Jackson last 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.040 year and Lamar Jackson this year? There are a couple 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.199 of different things that are impacting Lamar Jackson. He's been 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.359 a little off his game after playing at the MVP level. 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.720 He certainly has and continue to play that way. But 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:03.920 I would say it's a combination of the offensive line 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.840 struggles similar to the Dallas Cowboys, They've had a lot 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.920 of moving pieces and moving parts on the offensive line 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:11.600 that has impacted the way that they've been able to 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.480 run the football. And then it's play called Greg Roman. 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.040 Greg Roman has kind of changed a little bit of 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.600 what they do offensively. They've gone away from some of 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.000 the run heavy sets they really created a ton of 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.840 problems a season ago, and they tried to spread it 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.040 out and open it up and put more athletes on 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.920 the field. And what that has done is that has 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:34.480 allowed the defense to have a more athletic defense, a 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.080 faster defense than they've done, a better job of containing them. 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:39.840 And then finally, when you look at the way they 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.159 run their passing game, Lamar Jackson is a guy that 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.959 doesn't throw the ball really well outside the numbers. For 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.200 whatever reason, they continue to try and throw the ball 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.960 outside the numbers and do some things that don't really 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:55.480 play to these strimps as a playmaker. Bucky. Intoday's press conference, 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.520 McCarthy said something that made me scratch my head. He 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:03.200 said something like, you don't want to over prepare for games, 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:07.720 and given the current circumstances, I mean, is there such 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:13.040 thing as that can you really over prepare for this game? Yeah? 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.440 I think what you try to guard against is when 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.000 you have a lot of time leading up into a game, 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:22.359 you don't want to kind of give your players too 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:26.280 much information because then what happens is a little paralysis 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.040 by analysis. And so typically what you want to do 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.040 is you want to keep things as close to your 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.159 normal schedule as possible, and so the first couple of 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:36.960 days may have been let's just have regular practice, let's 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.760 just work on footwork and fundamentals and technique, and will 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.199 slowly implement a game plan. Also, because the Ravens are 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.440 playing today, you don't know who's going to be available, 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.040 so you don't want to put a lot of energy 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.840 and effort until you kind of figure out, Okay, who 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.040 are they going to have available, what will it look like? 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:56.640 Because they really won't get a lot out of this game. 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:59.199 RG three is not going to play, and so the 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.679 way they play Pittsburgh, you just don't know. So you 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:04.600 just want to kind of wait and see and see 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:06.480 what it looks like coming out of this game and 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.119 then put together a game plan after that. That's why 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.959 he doesn't want to over prepared, because you don't want 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.159 to waste a lot of time defending things that you 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:20.600 won't ultimately see on game day. That I was like, Dave, 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.760 go hey, Bucky tight Ends that you know, we've seen 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.480 Kelsey Kittle there. Like two of the best is Mark Andrews, 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:30.359 and he's on the list too, but I mean he's 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:32.560 gonna play. I'm sure so Mark Andrews. Where does he 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.520 rank on your tight end lists? He's not one of 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:38.800 those guys. I think he's the benefitiary if you're playing 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:42.399 in the system that really creates opportunities for the quarter 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:44.600 for the tight end to get open on play action. 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:47.880 Lamar Jackson is also very comfortable throwing down the middle 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:49.680 of the field, and so the play action passing in 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.639 today utilize. Mark Andrews is the star. He's also a 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:55.959 bigger target, and so they have him. But if we 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.600 were to stack him up, if we were playing in 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:00.400 the backyard and you told me of all the tight 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:02.960 ends to pick, he certainly wouldn't be one of those 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:07.439 guys because he's not necessarily special in any area. Um. 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:09.640 He is a solid tight end, but he doesn't have 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.960 dynamic or a level playmaking skills in a ton of 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:14.920 different ways where you put him up there with Kelsey 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:17.080 and Kittle and some of the other ones. Will he 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:19.800 be a problem though for this for this defense though, 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:23.600 because I mean we've seen you've seen those linebackers trying 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.000 to cover. That's really what I'm asking is this defense. 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:30.240 Oh yeah, now they we're talking about playing against the Cowboys. 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:35.400 That is to be sorry, I'll just get to the point. 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:39.959 It could be it could be a problem if Jalen 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:42.840 is forced to check him and they're unable to deal 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:45.320 with the running game. Yes, it can be problematic. I 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:49.520 think the big thing has been the deception. And I 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.040 will say this after they get their hands on the 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:56.080 Washington tape and all the blur motion and the misdirection 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:59.200 and deception that the Washington football team was able to do. 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:02.680 That really created some problems in terms of making the 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:05.159 linebackers pause and who do I have and where do 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.240 we line up? You will see a lot of that 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:10.520 because Baltimore kind of introduced a lot of that into 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:13.040 the league, this unique offense that they were running with 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:16.159 Lamar Jackson. So now with Mark Andrews being able to 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:18.440 get down the field and get to the seam, yes, 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:21.600 it could be problematic because if the discipline isn't there, 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:24.480 with the eye discipline from the linebackers, they could be 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:26.520 big problems down the field the passing game for Mark 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:31.160 Andrews and others. How are they coping without Ronnie Stanley 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:33.720 because I mean, you know, one of the top two 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:35.840 or three tackle duos in the league. I mean are 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:39.840 they are they handling it or or what's the biggest difference. 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:44.280 You know, without him in the lineup, they're struggling. They're 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:47.040 struggling up front. The reason why the Ravens haven't been 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:50.080 the juggernaut offensively that we saw a year ago is 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.240 because the offensive line is completely different. When you remove 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.199 Ronnie Stanley, you move Orlando Brown over the left tackle, 0:22:56.480 --> 0:23:00.119 and he's simply not the same player. And then the 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:04.359 bigger problem is not Brown playing, is you move DJ 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:07.159 Flucker out the right tackle and he just does not 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:11.520 have defeat and so that offense is not being able 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:13.919 to move. The last four games, they've been outrushed by 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:16.000 their opponent. That's something that we never would think about 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:18.440 with the Baltimore Ravens. So it's a huge problem. It's 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:20.760 a huge issue, and it's one of those things that 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:24.760 the Cowboys maybe may be able to exploit because they're 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:26.679 really not good up front right now and that's been 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:30.720 their biggest issue looking at that and this could be 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:33.320 an offshoot of that question a bit. But teams have 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:37.600 sacked Lamar Jackson more frequently this year than last five 0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:41.160 point four percentage of the time sacked when he's attempted 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:44.159 to pass in twenty nineteen verses eight percent of the 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:47.720 time in twenty twenty. Is the reason all about the 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:51.119 offensive line? Is it because Lamar is doing something differently, 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:54.040 maybe staying in the pocket more. What's the rationalie to 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:57.240 why maybe he's being sacked more frequently this year? A 0:23:57.280 --> 0:24:00.159 few different factors. The offensive line isn't as good, but 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:03.879 also what teams are doing. They're playing more zone coverage 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:06.280 against Lamar Jackson. What you're seeing is when you play 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:09.639 his own coverage, particularly against athletic quarterbacks, for guys that 0:24:09.680 --> 0:24:11.800 are mobile, you have more eyes on him, so when 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:14.480 he escapes the pocket, you can run them down quickly. 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:16.240 When you're a man to man, you make it very 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:18.280 very easy for them to see it and attack it. 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:22.399 They go run. They also have easier reads for Lamar Jackson. 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:24.159 The reason why you want to play his zone coverage 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:27.359 and those things. It makes him have to try and 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:30.720 throw with timing and anticipation, which aren't the strong suits 0:24:30.720 --> 0:24:33.560 to his game. And if he doesn't like what he sees, 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:37.080 he pauses, he hesitates, He then looks to run, and 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:39.560 that gives the pass rush more time to get to him. 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:42.760 So there are a bunch of different factors that are 0:24:42.840 --> 0:24:44.760 kind of contributing to the fact that he has been 0:24:44.760 --> 0:24:49.880 sacked Moore this year. You talked about some of the challenges, 0:24:50.080 --> 0:24:53.480 but what would be some of the most favorable matchup 0:24:53.680 --> 0:24:56.800 that would benefit the Cowboys. Would that come from the 0:24:56.880 --> 0:25:00.880 d line versus the oline that you just talked about. Yeah, 0:25:00.880 --> 0:25:03.439 it has to be upfronts. It has to be the 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:06.320 defensive line being able to really control it. And for 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:07.760 the rest of the games, it's gonna be about the 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:10.760 front seven. And so how are they able to handle 0:25:10.960 --> 0:25:15.600 the things up front? The Marcus Lawrence and Alden Smith 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:17.920 and those guys Randy Gregg. Can they set the edge 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:21.320 and not allow the running game to get outside? But 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:23.680 really the most important part of it is the second level, 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:26.800 Lady Vander asked Jalon Smith. Those guys have to be 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:30.160 able to get into their gaps. When they're wrong, big 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:32.640 plays happened. We saw it against the Washington football team. 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:35.200 We saw the big runs from Antonio Gibson and those things. 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:38.400 When those guys are not right in terms of where 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:42.960 they're supposed to insert into the defense, it's problematic. And man, 0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:45.320 you put bad stuff on tape because as good as 0:25:45.320 --> 0:25:47.639 it been going into the Washington football team game in 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:49.879 terms of the way they played run defense. It was 0:25:49.920 --> 0:25:52.280 all bad. You now put it on tape. Everyone's gonna 0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:54.520 look at what Scott Turner did in terms of the shifting, 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:57.800 the motioning, the misdirection, and they're gonna get a heavy 0:25:57.840 --> 0:26:01.160 dose of that until they can answer those problems. You're 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:03.439 gonna continue to see it from everybody going down the stretch. 0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:09.119 Bucky Donovan Wilson. We see the hits, we see the 0:26:09.200 --> 0:26:12.200 big the big plays, the force fumbles. What what is 0:26:12.240 --> 0:26:14.840 he doing on the back end? How would you evaluate 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:17.159 him as a cover guy? And really, what I'm asking is, 0:26:17.200 --> 0:26:19.639 do you think that he's somebody that Cowboys can be 0:26:19.680 --> 0:26:25.840 excited about moving forward as as a starting safety. I 0:26:25.880 --> 0:26:27.800 think they should be excited about him. I think the 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:30.720 one thing that he has given him is he's given 0:26:30.760 --> 0:26:34.120 them maybe some jews, some thump and enforcer between the hashes. 0:26:34.680 --> 0:26:38.520 He plays hard, He's a pretty solid tackler, and he 0:26:38.600 --> 0:26:41.359 has made plays. And for defense that hasn't had a 0:26:41.359 --> 0:26:44.080 lot of splash plays, he has been around a ton 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:46.520 of them, and I think there's something that you certainly 0:26:46.640 --> 0:26:49.360 can build upon. Wh when I look at him in coverage, 0:26:49.400 --> 0:26:51.119 there's gonna be some live builds. There canna be some 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:53.439 things where like safeties are just not It's hard to 0:26:53.440 --> 0:26:55.600 find a safety that can cover and hit and do everything. 0:26:55.600 --> 0:26:58.400 Those guys are your elite players. I wouldn't put him 0:26:58.400 --> 0:27:00.320 in that category, but he's a really good and I 0:27:00.359 --> 0:27:02.800 think they should be excited about him. I'm more concerned 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:05.679 about the guy that's playing beside him, Xavier Woods. I 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:08.639 think they have to find an upgrade at that in 0:27:09.080 --> 0:27:12.600 If they could find a better safety to go with 0:27:12.680 --> 0:27:14.719 Donovan Wilson, I think I would feel a little better 0:27:14.720 --> 0:27:18.160 about the secondary. Sounds like a topic for the Draft show, 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:21.200 which Bucky, we can announce that you will be joining 0:27:21.240 --> 0:27:25.680 me on. So that's great. Speaking of which, you know 0:27:26.440 --> 0:27:29.159 the Ravens, I mean and rightfully so, Like the Ravens 0:27:29.200 --> 0:27:31.800 get so much credit for being a great drafting team, 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:35.520 but I am curious. They've thrown a lot of resources 0:27:35.520 --> 0:27:39.080 at receiver in the last couple of years, and maybe 0:27:39.119 --> 0:27:41.600 I'm wrong, it doesn't seem like it's working terribly well. 0:27:41.640 --> 0:27:44.920 You know, Hollywood Brown out of Oklahoma, they drafted boy 0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:47.560 Can out of Notre Dame, and they doubled up this 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:51.240 year too, with Devin Duvernet. And James Prochet, but they 0:27:51.320 --> 0:27:55.359 still had to go get Dez Bryant. You know, what's 0:27:55.400 --> 0:27:57.680 the deal with these receivers. I mean, it doesn't seem 0:27:57.720 --> 0:28:00.959 like despite their efforts, they haven't found a reliable weapons 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:05.840 on the outside. They just don't draft wide receivers really well, 0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:08.000 like for whatever reason, going all the way back, and 0:28:08.080 --> 0:28:10.479 I love Ozzy Knewsom, He's a pro. I mean he's 0:28:10.480 --> 0:28:12.119 a Hall of Famer. I mean he's one of the 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:13.879 best to ever do it. They just have always had 0:28:14.080 --> 0:28:16.399 a truugh a tough time with wide receivers, going all 0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:18.439 the way back to Travis Taylor and some of the 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:21.760 other guys, Brochard, Perriman. I mean, they just cannot seem 0:28:21.800 --> 0:28:24.359 to find the guy that works for them. They're better 0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:27.320 dealing with other teams leftovers that they've already seen and 0:28:27.440 --> 0:28:29.600 they can plug and play. I would say the challenge 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:34.080 that they have now with Hollywood Brown and Dermine and 0:28:34.280 --> 0:28:37.159 person like, they have smaller guys, and when you have 0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:40.880 a quarterback that's not necessarily an accurate guy, you need 0:28:40.920 --> 0:28:43.360 to expand the strike zone, and you expand the strike 0:28:43.480 --> 0:28:46.200 zone with bigger guys. That's why Dez Brian is there. 0:28:46.520 --> 0:28:48.640 Daz can't run like he could run in his prime, 0:28:48.720 --> 0:28:51.400 but he's a big body. He's a bigger target, and 0:28:51.440 --> 0:28:54.560 so when Lamar Jackson is looking to find somebody over 0:28:54.600 --> 0:28:56.400 the middle of the field, he can identify him and 0:28:56.400 --> 0:28:58.360 find him and get it to him. And so that's 0:28:58.840 --> 0:29:02.040 the thing. They just haven't lean into who they are. 0:29:02.320 --> 0:29:03.920 And you have a bit of that rug where you 0:29:03.960 --> 0:29:06.080 have the front office and maybe the coach said, hey, 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:07.440 we need to spread it out. We spread it out, 0:29:07.480 --> 0:29:10.600 we can play this way. But this team is built 0:29:10.600 --> 0:29:12.840 to play a certain way and they haven't necessarily put 0:29:12.880 --> 0:29:16.160 all the pieces around Lamar Jackson that work for how 0:29:16.200 --> 0:29:19.720 he plays the position. Hey, Bucky, before we let you go, 0:29:20.120 --> 0:29:21.640 I did have a little bit of a bigger picture 0:29:21.720 --> 0:29:25.040 question about the Ravens. They most of their losses this 0:29:25.080 --> 0:29:28.160 year as have been against teams that are really good Pittsburgh, 0:29:28.240 --> 0:29:31.520 Kansas City, Tennessee. However, they did have that loss to 0:29:31.600 --> 0:29:34.080 the Patriots, and the Patriots, in my opinion this year, 0:29:34.120 --> 0:29:36.160 are a little closer to the Cowboys. So tell me 0:29:36.440 --> 0:29:38.440 what were the Patriots able to do in that game 0:29:38.480 --> 0:29:41.640 to get the win that maybe the Cowboys could possibly 0:29:41.640 --> 0:29:44.840 look at doing this week or next week to win 0:29:44.880 --> 0:29:48.520 against the Ravens. Rain well, it would be something. It 0:29:48.520 --> 0:29:51.000 would be something that we have advocated on this show 0:29:51.120 --> 0:29:53.640 multiple times, but I don't know if the Cowboys are doing. 0:29:54.120 --> 0:29:56.840 The Patriots ran the football and they played a keepaway. 0:29:56.960 --> 0:30:00.680 They slowed the game down. They muddied it because they 0:30:00.800 --> 0:30:02.680 ran the ball and ran the ball and ran the ball. 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:05.560 It also helped that they had a rainstorm that helped 0:30:05.560 --> 0:30:07.800 them kind of control it, but that's what it is. 0:30:07.840 --> 0:30:12.240 Then defensively, they just did a good job of throwing 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:15.280 a net around Lamar Jackson. Some of that is playing 0:30:15.320 --> 0:30:17.280 man coverage, some of that is playing zone, but that's 0:30:17.320 --> 0:30:20.360 what they did. But they played complimentary ball. They really 0:30:20.480 --> 0:30:24.280 leaned on the running game to really allow them to 0:30:24.360 --> 0:30:27.440 keep the ball, retained possession, and it put pressure on 0:30:27.480 --> 0:30:29.960 the Ravens to deviate from the style of play that 0:30:29.960 --> 0:30:33.080 they wanted to. That's really what it is, and so 0:30:33.440 --> 0:30:35.600 they can be had. But the problem that you have 0:30:36.240 --> 0:30:37.760 to do is you got to play a certain way 0:30:37.840 --> 0:30:41.040 on each aspect and when the defense plays well, the 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:43.320 Cowboys have a tendency to, hey, let's throw it all 0:30:43.320 --> 0:30:45.800 over the yard or let's do a fake punt when 0:30:45.800 --> 0:30:47.800 it doesn't make sense to do a fake punt. I 0:30:47.800 --> 0:30:51.040 mean all of those things, like things that you just 0:30:51.680 --> 0:30:54.560 don't see and I can't really understand what I'm watching 0:30:54.640 --> 0:30:58.160 sometimes and it's frustrating. So if they played complimentary ball, 0:30:58.240 --> 0:31:00.000 they certainly can win, but they have had a tough 0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:03.560 time doing that to this point. All right, Bucky Man, 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:05.400 we appreciate you taking some time with us today. We're 0:31:05.400 --> 0:31:06.880 gonna have you back tomorrow. 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Dave, 0:33:42.120 --> 0:33:45.000 who would be the guy you would snap a photo with? Uh? 0:33:45.440 --> 0:33:47.920 Is Dak still on there? Yes? He's on the team? 0:33:48.200 --> 0:33:50.880 Well but is okay? Yeah? I don't know, I would imagine. 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:53.120 I would imagine, yes, probably Dak or yeah he's on 0:33:53.160 --> 0:33:57.520 there's CD. Yeah, I mean, I hope they don't update 0:33:57.560 --> 0:33:59.240 it that much where it's like, sorry, guys, it's just 0:33:59.280 --> 0:34:01.360 the new G this week. That'd be pretty good if 0:34:01.400 --> 0:34:03.640 you could do the photo and Dak is like on 0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:06.240 his little scooter or something. I don't know, maybe you 0:34:06.360 --> 0:34:08.799 never know. That actually would be pretty cool. Yeah, Hey, 0:34:08.880 --> 0:34:11.680 real quick. Dave mentioned it a little earlier in passing, 0:34:11.800 --> 0:34:14.120 but we didn't make an announcement yesterday about the Draft Show. 0:34:14.160 --> 0:34:16.560 It's starting up this Friday. We will not have our 0:34:16.600 --> 0:34:20.120 normal podcast schedule this Friday because of the game on Tuesday. 0:34:20.640 --> 0:34:22.399 So what we're gonna do is on Friday, we're gonna 0:34:22.440 --> 0:34:25.120 do an hour and a half of Draft talk, and 0:34:25.440 --> 0:34:28.359 we have a whole new lineup. We've got brought us, 0:34:28.400 --> 0:34:31.879 We've got Brugloo, We've got Brooks, We've got Hellman, we've 0:34:31.920 --> 0:34:35.920 got Kavanaugh, Katie, and we got Kyle trying to corral 0:34:36.000 --> 0:34:38.000 all those guys. So it's gonna be a really, really 0:34:38.040 --> 0:34:40.279 good time. I'm at very, very excited about what we're 0:34:40.280 --> 0:34:42.279 gonna do this year with the Draft Show. So makes 0:34:42.320 --> 0:34:44.960 you tune in this Friday eleven am. It'll be an 0:34:45.000 --> 0:34:47.520 hour and a half show and they'll start talking you 0:34:47.600 --> 0:34:50.920 guys through some topics around the draft and getting you 0:34:50.960 --> 0:34:53.080 guys ready. There's a lot of college football left to play, 0:34:53.360 --> 0:34:55.360 and so they'll tell you some of the guys you 0:34:55.440 --> 0:34:57.080 might want to keep an eye on down the stretch 0:34:57.200 --> 0:35:00.640 and into the bowl games. So Ambertan that question you 0:35:00.719 --> 0:35:05.560 said about McCarthy, over preparing for games. Maybe doesn't sound 0:35:05.600 --> 0:35:07.759 like you can over prepare for the draft. You can't. 0:35:08.080 --> 0:35:10.760 There's no such thing. Can't get ahead of it. You cannot. 0:35:11.040 --> 0:35:14.080 You absolutely cannot last time, And based upon my timeline 0:35:14.080 --> 0:35:16.839 on Twitter, I don't think that fans think that either. 0:35:16.880 --> 0:35:19.400 I think they're very, very excited. They're ready for it, 0:35:19.719 --> 0:35:23.160 especially this year. The last time the Cowboys were this bad, 0:35:23.520 --> 0:35:27.279 Brian started watching tape the day after Thanksgiving. So we're right, 0:35:27.560 --> 0:35:31.600 We're right where we need to be. This will be fun. 0:35:31.800 --> 0:35:33.600 It'll be a lot of fun, all right. So let's 0:35:33.680 --> 0:35:36.800 I got some questions for you guys, particular to the 0:35:36.960 --> 0:35:41.799 Cowboys defense and some about the Ravens offense. Let's start 0:35:41.880 --> 0:35:45.680 first with the rushing defense. Baltimore second and rushing in 0:35:45.680 --> 0:35:48.120 the NFL, averaging one hundred and sixty one yards per game. 0:35:48.600 --> 0:35:51.760 Dallas allowed Antonio Gibson in the last game twenty rushes 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:53.719 for one hundred and fifteen yards of five point eight 0:35:53.800 --> 0:35:56.879 average and three touchdowns. That was coming off a game 0:35:56.920 --> 0:35:59.520 where he it lit him up the last time they 0:35:59.600 --> 0:36:01.800 played as well. What do you guys, what did you 0:36:01.840 --> 0:36:06.360 guys see as the biggest problem last game with the 0:36:06.480 --> 0:36:09.880 run defense? After what they had been doing where it 0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:11.879 seemed like maybe they were starting to turn to corner 0:36:11.960 --> 0:36:14.520 and being able to defend runners. Let's start first with you, Dave. 0:36:15.200 --> 0:36:17.480 The coaching staff faked a punt in their own red 0:36:17.560 --> 0:36:20.000 zone and put them behind the eight ball, and they 0:36:20.320 --> 0:36:23.239 were like, screw this. That's what I think happened because 0:36:23.280 --> 0:36:25.120 they didn't look that bad for the first three and 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:28.520 a half quarters of that game. I mean, look, this, 0:36:28.760 --> 0:36:31.520 this is a flawed defense. They're not They're never gonna 0:36:31.560 --> 0:36:34.560 be great. We know you are what you are by December. 0:36:34.719 --> 0:36:37.719 But they were, they were doing their thing. They were 0:36:37.840 --> 0:36:41.680 you know, Washington had twenty points and hadn't driven the 0:36:41.760 --> 0:36:44.160 field for like, Nick, you were the one that said there, 0:36:44.200 --> 0:36:46.240 maybe it was you, Derek, Like they had not driven 0:36:46.280 --> 0:36:49.520 the field since the first quarter, and then the fake 0:36:49.560 --> 0:36:53.560 punt happens and Antonio Gibson goes untouched the very next play, 0:36:54.120 --> 0:36:56.359 and then you know, just to hammer at home five 0:36:56.400 --> 0:36:59.520 minutes later, he went untouched from even further away. So 0:37:00.840 --> 0:37:04.480 maybe I'm wrong, but that screams like just mental to me, 0:37:04.680 --> 0:37:07.320 where you're just like like, what are we supposed to do? Why? Like, 0:37:08.440 --> 0:37:11.480 what the hell's going on? That's that's what I think happened. 0:37:11.640 --> 0:37:13.759 I guess I can't prove that I'm right, but I 0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:15.480 mean that's my theory. Well, he had one hundred and 0:37:15.520 --> 0:37:17.960 fifteen yards in the game, and he had sixty of 0:37:18.040 --> 0:37:20.000 it on those two runs in the fourth quarter right 0:37:20.040 --> 0:37:22.919 after that. So yeah, I mean going into the fourth quarter, 0:37:22.960 --> 0:37:26.399 it was about fifty yards rushing. Um, I think, Derek, 0:37:26.480 --> 0:37:29.360 I think what the biggest problem was was the what 0:37:29.480 --> 0:37:31.440 they were doing with the backs was getting them out 0:37:31.480 --> 0:37:33.960 of the backfield. I mean that that was you could 0:37:34.000 --> 0:37:36.840 tell early in the game that that mckissic and Gibson 0:37:36.880 --> 0:37:39.200 were going to catch those passes, you know, in the flat. 0:37:39.280 --> 0:37:41.600 They weren't really trying to throw it down the field 0:37:41.640 --> 0:37:44.520 too much. And so you know, that's that's the part 0:37:44.600 --> 0:37:46.640 that I think really kind of messed up the defense, 0:37:46.719 --> 0:37:49.239 the linebackers and all that. But but I agree, I 0:37:49.360 --> 0:37:52.200 just think the bottom dropped out and they just it 0:37:52.360 --> 0:37:54.480 was over at that point. I mean, they just deflated 0:37:54.520 --> 0:37:57.719 this team, de moralize them. It was I don't know, 0:37:57.960 --> 0:37:59.880 it just it was just like the hot air balloon 0:38:00.000 --> 0:38:02.120 and that fake pond was just like the needle right 0:38:02.160 --> 0:38:05.279 at the tops, like it's over, which I feel like 0:38:05.400 --> 0:38:12.040 that's oh sorry, go ahead, a g go ahead, Dave, Okay, 0:38:12.600 --> 0:38:14.920 I just it's it's been a season long trend that 0:38:15.000 --> 0:38:17.759 these things happen in the fourth quarters of games. You know, 0:38:18.120 --> 0:38:21.040 um Kenyan Drake had his seventy yard er, I mean 0:38:21.120 --> 0:38:24.480 that game was out of reach. Fourth quarter, Odell Beckham's 0:38:24.520 --> 0:38:27.239 reverse went fifty yards for a touchdown. That game wasn't 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:29.960 even out of reach. But for whatever reason, they have 0:38:30.080 --> 0:38:32.759 these lapses late in games. Maybe it's a mental thing, 0:38:32.880 --> 0:38:36.080 maybe they're exhausted. I don't know, but that, I mean, 0:38:36.160 --> 0:38:38.799 that's a very real trend that when the game goes 0:38:38.840 --> 0:38:41.440 on they have a pension for giving up these backbreakers. 0:38:41.480 --> 0:38:43.480 Their longest runs are probably in the fourth quarter. I 0:38:43.560 --> 0:38:48.160 would bet my life absolutely. What do you think, aber 0:38:48.400 --> 0:38:51.279 I was gonna say that if you go back and 0:38:51.440 --> 0:38:54.480 watch some of those plays. The thing that I noticed 0:38:54.760 --> 0:38:58.680 from watching back it's that there is a lot of 0:38:58.800 --> 0:39:03.919 confusion within the defense. There is and credit to Washington's 0:39:04.080 --> 0:39:06.439 offense that I thought they did a really nice job, 0:39:06.880 --> 0:39:11.520 but our defense they lack anticipation. And because of that, 0:39:11.920 --> 0:39:15.520 because of that lack of anticipation and vision and predicting 0:39:15.640 --> 0:39:18.000 what's going to happen and keeping an eye on who 0:39:18.080 --> 0:39:21.760 has the ball, it makes you be a step behind. 0:39:22.000 --> 0:39:24.600 And if you go back and watch that, the Cowboys 0:39:24.760 --> 0:39:29.720 always seem to be a few steps behind the Washington offense. 0:39:29.920 --> 0:39:33.000 So it just creates a slower game and therefore you 0:39:33.080 --> 0:39:36.160 can't really catch up to the running back or whoever 0:39:36.520 --> 0:39:39.120 has the ball at the time. So to me, they 0:39:39.200 --> 0:39:42.839 just need to get better at anticipating where the ball 0:39:43.040 --> 0:39:44.840 is going to go and who has the ball so 0:39:45.000 --> 0:39:47.879 that there's no so that there is not as much 0:39:48.320 --> 0:39:52.879 confusion during those kinds of place. Let's talk about Dez 0:39:52.960 --> 0:39:55.480 Bryan a little bit. He was elevated to Baltimore's active 0:39:55.600 --> 0:39:58.520 roster last week. He's played in a couple of games. 0:39:58.600 --> 0:40:01.440 Now for them, what type of challenges as he presented 0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:07.200 this stage of his career. Let's start first with you Amber. Well, 0:40:08.920 --> 0:40:12.200 I'm gonna send this question to someone else because I'll 0:40:12.280 --> 0:40:16.040 be honest, I have not been really watching what this 0:40:16.280 --> 0:40:20.200 Brian has been doing. It is when I said, I'll 0:40:20.239 --> 0:40:23.279 say this, I am very impressed at the fact that 0:40:23.440 --> 0:40:25.920 he is where he's at now. I mean, if you 0:40:26.200 --> 0:40:29.400 if you follow him on Twitter, you know how persistent 0:40:29.800 --> 0:40:32.759 he has been in trying to get back on the 0:40:32.920 --> 0:40:35.600 field and back on an NFL team. So it's very 0:40:35.640 --> 0:40:38.520 impressive that he's gotten to this point where he's actually 0:40:38.840 --> 0:40:42.320 on the active roster now and based on what and 0:40:42.520 --> 0:40:44.680 we know, we've seen this Brian, we know what he 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:49.160 can do, but he is several years have gone by, 0:40:49.400 --> 0:40:51.960 so I do think that the last time I watched 0:40:52.040 --> 0:40:55.040 some of his some of the things that he was doing, 0:40:55.320 --> 0:40:58.239 it wasn't necessarily anything that impressed me. It wasn't the 0:40:58.320 --> 0:41:02.080 death Brian that we've been used to share, you know, 0:41:02.280 --> 0:41:05.080 cheering for and being excited about when he was here 0:41:05.120 --> 0:41:07.720 with the Cowboys. So he is gonna be a threat 0:41:08.239 --> 0:41:12.600 because he is a skilled player, and I'm hesitant to 0:41:12.760 --> 0:41:15.680 say that he's not gonna be a problem because the 0:41:15.840 --> 0:41:20.840 thing is, we cannot trust Dallas defense, and that's really 0:41:20.880 --> 0:41:24.440 the problem there is I cannot rely on what our 0:41:24.520 --> 0:41:29.319 secondary can do. So therefore any wide receiver can really 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:33.480 be a threat to your defense. But it's gonna be 0:41:33.600 --> 0:41:36.040 really fun to just watch this whole matchup and see 0:41:36.120 --> 0:41:40.200 him again, and this time playing against the Cowboys. Nick, 0:41:41.080 --> 0:41:45.160 you know, watching some of those videos on Twitter. I 0:41:45.520 --> 0:41:48.839 stopped pretty early in the process there, but I've seen 0:41:48.920 --> 0:41:50.640 some of it, and here like, who who are you 0:41:50.680 --> 0:41:52.600 going up against? I mean some of these guys, He's 0:41:52.600 --> 0:41:54.719 like he was bringing in some of his Twitter followers 0:41:54.800 --> 0:41:58.560 to come in and go up against. That sounds funny. 0:41:59.080 --> 0:42:02.560 But if if Richard Robinson and Savian Smith weren't on 0:42:02.600 --> 0:42:04.520 the Cowboys, would they be on the street, I mean 0:42:04.600 --> 0:42:06.960 would they would they be on another team? I mean 0:42:07.080 --> 0:42:10.200 they probably wouldn't be. So he's gonna I mean, I 0:42:10.280 --> 0:42:12.040 think she makes a good point. I mean, who's he 0:42:12.080 --> 0:42:14.719 gonna be facing. He doesn't run routes and you know, 0:42:14.840 --> 0:42:17.200 well right now, I mean never was a strong part 0:42:17.239 --> 0:42:19.040 of his game. I saw some of the Tennessee game 0:42:19.080 --> 0:42:20.800 to the days he just kind of runs around. So 0:42:20.960 --> 0:42:22.759 if a play breaks down and it's just him and 0:42:22.840 --> 0:42:25.080 Jordan Lewis in the back of the end zone, yeah, 0:42:25.080 --> 0:42:27.560 I worry about that. I don't think he's necessarily gonna 0:42:27.600 --> 0:42:30.600 just outrun people and and out maneuver them. But if 0:42:30.640 --> 0:42:33.840 it's just a fifty fifty ball against some of these corners, 0:42:33.960 --> 0:42:37.040 yeah he could. If the ball's thrown right, yeah, I 0:42:37.320 --> 0:42:40.239 mean I would imagine he's he's I would guess he's 0:42:40.280 --> 0:42:43.120 a he's a possession guy now, and I mean we 0:42:43.200 --> 0:42:45.040 don't really know for sure. He's got four catches for 0:42:45.120 --> 0:42:48.360 twenty eight yards since he came back. Also, you know, 0:42:48.520 --> 0:42:52.400 it won't be Lamar today that I just love the 0:42:52.560 --> 0:42:55.480 circumstances of the It's gonna be Dez and Robert Griffin, 0:42:55.640 --> 0:42:57.800 who are I mean, two of the best players to 0:42:57.840 --> 0:43:00.920 come out of Texas in recent memory. And they're not 0:43:01.000 --> 0:43:04.000 those guys anymore clearly so, but I'll be interested to see, 0:43:04.480 --> 0:43:06.640 you know, can RG three get him the ball? Can 0:43:06.719 --> 0:43:08.600 Dez do something with it? If he does? I have 0:43:08.719 --> 0:43:12.640 no idea. Washington hadn't beaten the Cowboys since on Thanksgivings 0:43:12.880 --> 0:43:15.480 Forever twenty twelve, and in the two players in that 0:43:15.640 --> 0:43:19.440 game that were starring were Dez and which actually I 0:43:19.560 --> 0:43:21.479 got in an argument on Twitter the other night because 0:43:21.520 --> 0:43:24.400 I was talking about DK Metcalf reminding me of Dez. 0:43:24.920 --> 0:43:27.319 People were like, oh, he's way more athletic than Daz. 0:43:27.520 --> 0:43:30.360 Was like, go watch Dez a decade ago. Like, I 0:43:30.400 --> 0:43:33.520 feel like people forget because he scored a touchdown from 0:43:33.520 --> 0:43:36.480 about eighty five yards out in that Thanksgiving game where 0:43:36.520 --> 0:43:40.120 he was moving, I mean, he torched the whole defense 0:43:40.200 --> 0:43:42.120 on a and it was like an eight yard reception 0:43:42.200 --> 0:43:45.000 that he took to the house. So so Derek, sorry, 0:43:45.000 --> 0:43:47.040 I know this isn't in your plan. But on the 0:43:47.360 --> 0:43:50.240 in the mail bag this morning, we talked about ranking 0:43:50.320 --> 0:43:53.800 the speed of the eighty eights, and I had a 0:43:53.840 --> 0:43:56.280 hard time because I don't really know about Michael Irvin's 0:43:56.280 --> 0:43:58.759 speak compared to Drew Pearson. But I and I haven't 0:43:58.800 --> 0:44:01.080 even seen ceedee lamb make it big long play. But 0:44:01.160 --> 0:44:04.520 I just got him number one. I went seed des 0:44:05.360 --> 0:44:09.560 Irvin Pearson, Sorry Drew, but Drew even makes fun of 0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:12.960 his own speed, So I don't know I speed, I've 0:44:13.040 --> 0:44:16.240 never seen. I've only ever seen Drew Pearson highlights. Obviously 0:44:16.320 --> 0:44:19.200 I was getting by people. Yeah, well it was nineteen 0:44:19.360 --> 0:44:21.279 seventy fight. That's why I would say. That's why I 0:44:21.320 --> 0:44:24.800 would probably put Mike Glass. You put Pierson, Yeah, I 0:44:26.239 --> 0:44:28.960 and yeah, obviously I'm biased based on what I have 0:44:29.080 --> 0:44:31.960 a scene I've I've covered two of them, and I've 0:44:32.000 --> 0:44:35.040 only ever watched the other two on on highlights. Yeah, 0:44:35.200 --> 0:44:38.279 I remember a very small amount of Mike's career from 0:44:38.320 --> 0:44:40.840 when I was a kid. I'm take I'll take the 0:44:41.200 --> 0:44:44.560 prime des over all of them, Like twenty ten, twenty eleven, 0:44:44.600 --> 0:44:48.239 twenty twelve, Brian London, London de London des is better 0:44:48.320 --> 0:44:51.520 than Odell. You're not You're not catching twenty two year 0:44:51.600 --> 0:44:53.960 old DEAs. I mean he was. He was explosive. I 0:44:54.040 --> 0:44:58.800 feel like the R two like speed that That was 0:44:58.840 --> 0:45:01.200 the fastest I've ever seen him. That took my breath 0:45:01.239 --> 0:45:03.320 away too. It was that game was remarkable. It was 0:45:03.400 --> 0:45:06.000 a ten yard crossing route and man, you would have 0:45:06.040 --> 0:45:07.719 thought somebody could get an angle on him and it 0:45:07.760 --> 0:45:09.120 was next thing you know, he's in the end like 0:45:09.160 --> 0:45:12.759 a Sonic the Hedgehog, just like little yeah, I'll yeah, 0:45:12.760 --> 0:45:15.520 I'll take a prime which but I mean, but that's 0:45:15.560 --> 0:45:20.160 not Desert like you know, their sonic And he's running 0:45:20.160 --> 0:45:21.640 and he does that little you know where you like 0:45:22.360 --> 0:45:26.160 a little ball and you're like, well, yeah, I got it, 0:45:26.360 --> 0:45:29.280 I got I had a Sega, I would I'm gonna guess. 0:45:29.680 --> 0:45:32.440 I'm gonna guess. Dez Is. They're basically like Dez We're 0:45:32.520 --> 0:45:34.560 gonna run. You know, it's either a fade or a 0:45:34.719 --> 0:45:37.680 go or a go. Maybe a hitch. Yeah, Like he 0:45:37.760 --> 0:45:40.480 can run eight yards, box out Jordan Lewis and go 0:45:40.680 --> 0:45:42.839 up for the ball still I don't know if he's 0:45:42.840 --> 0:45:45.279 gonna take over the game, but he can definitely do that. 0:45:45.480 --> 0:45:48.680 He's gonna try. He's gonna be at Lamarck since that's 0:45:48.719 --> 0:45:51.480 the other thing too. Man, you know, he wants he 0:45:52.040 --> 0:45:54.680 no doubt he wants that bad. I mean he'll he'll probably. 0:45:55.120 --> 0:45:57.160 He always says winning is what he cares about. So like, 0:45:57.239 --> 0:45:59.399 if he catches two balls for twelve yards and they win, 0:45:59.680 --> 0:46:03.040 he'll probably be happy. But he'll be way happier if 0:46:03.120 --> 0:46:05.360 he's got, you know, a lot to do with with 0:46:05.560 --> 0:46:07.520 why they went. I hope Sean I hope he's over 0:46:07.560 --> 0:46:10.480 the middle for Sean Lee. You know, let's not forget 0:46:10.520 --> 0:46:13.600 he called, you know, Snake Lee. That's that. It seems 0:46:13.640 --> 0:46:18.799 like even that feels like ancient history. Yeah, it's gonna 0:46:18.840 --> 0:46:21.120 be fun. Yeah, But that's also why I think that's 0:46:21.160 --> 0:46:22.680 also why I think he'll be a threat in the 0:46:22.760 --> 0:46:25.319 red zone is because that's something I think he does 0:46:25.400 --> 0:46:28.239 still possess in him and uh and that's an area 0:46:28.320 --> 0:46:30.120 where he can make a different Yeah, that's a different 0:46:30.120 --> 0:46:32.200 place where he can make Okay, that place where he 0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:35.200 can make a difference, uh and and score some points 0:46:35.200 --> 0:46:37.239 for them, And it's good for him. It's good for them. 0:46:37.320 --> 0:46:39.480 I think that's an area that you could possibly see 0:46:39.520 --> 0:46:42.279 this or next Tuesday. All Right, we appreciate you guys 0:46:42.320 --> 0:46:45.600 joining us. It sucks. Yeah yeah, sorry, yeah yeah, come on, 0:46:46.000 --> 0:46:48.000 mask up. Let's get back in here as a group, 0:46:48.080 --> 0:46:50.600 as a team. Dude. I'll be back. I'll be back 0:46:50.640 --> 0:46:52.840 on Monday. I'll be back on Monday. I just have 0:46:52.920 --> 0:46:54.760 to do this this week. I'll be back Monday, Monday, 0:46:54.760 --> 0:46:58.520 all right, so until tomorrow. We will be back on tomorrow. 0:46:58.560 --> 0:47:00.399 We'll talk a little bit about the ball to more 0:47:00.640 --> 0:47:03.200 defense versus the Cowboys offense. That's a really good defense 0:47:03.280 --> 0:47:05.440 over there, but we'll talk about that tomorrow. Till then. 0:47:05.440 --> 0:47:08.080 For Nick Eatman, Dave Helm and Amber Garcia, I'm Derek Eagelton. 0:47:08.280 --> 0:47:10.680 This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:47:10.719 --> 0:47:16.960 Com Radio. 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