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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and bar Garcia and
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, December thirty at twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: season eighteen, episode number ninety eight. Welcome to the latest
Speaker 1: edition of The Break, live from the s WBC Morgan
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Speaker 1: Beer of the Dallas Cowboys. We were talking about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys big win last night. Cowboys win twenty seven thirteen
Speaker 1: over the Tennessee Titans, a team that that didn't really
Speaker 1: roll out all of their best players. But as it
Speaker 1: the Cowboys said after the game, they are NFL players
Speaker 1: as well, and a win is a win. I will
Speaker 1: never be one to go on there and and think
Speaker 1: there needs to be an apology for a win. It's
Speaker 1: the NFL. Wins are hard. They gotta win on the
Speaker 1: road and we move on. You know why. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've convinced why I think I know what you're about
Speaker 1: to say, but yeah, go ahead. That's because we were here, right,
Speaker 1: we were here at two thousand and eleven. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: we started working here. It was five eleven, five eleven,
Speaker 1: five and eleven, and it was like so so winning
Speaker 1: on the road by fourteen points in December, you'd be like, wow,
Speaker 1: wins the party, you know, and um, so it's it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard to do that. I get it. In our
Speaker 1: world now, it's like nothing's ever good enough. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I thought it was. It was. It
Speaker 1: was ugly at times, but I mean a methodical in
Speaker 1: the way that this team keeps playing and you know,
Speaker 1: and and to pick it up and win like that.
Speaker 1: It was like all right, and good win, let's move on,
Speaker 1: keep keep rolling to get a two touch down win
Speaker 1: on the road in December. As Nick said, Brian, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's got to be you want to Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was certainly worth some moments, and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: some of the moments that that you want to see
Speaker 1: them be better. Yeah, but the fact is that's still
Speaker 1: a big thing. Like that's still a good thing, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to figure out and December football is all
Speaker 1: about winning, and it's all about positioning, and it's all
Speaker 1: about putting pressure on others to have to win. And
Speaker 1: they did just that. I know in the you know,
Speaker 1: all week long we were talking about this game. It's just, hey,
Speaker 1: find a way to keep the pressure on Philadelphia. Go
Speaker 1: and win a game. And I was saying on our
Speaker 1: pregame show last night, I don't care if it's by
Speaker 1: one point or one hundred points. Find a way to win,
Speaker 1: find a way to keep your opportunity to win the
Speaker 1: division alive, and then and play that way. I think
Speaker 1: that these times that they go through now are really
Speaker 1: really good. I think this anytime you can get battle tested,
Speaker 1: a physical game up front. It wasn't pretty, run block
Speaker 1: and wise. It was there was a lot of things
Speaker 1: going on in that football game. And you know what,
Speaker 1: it wasn't really about their players. It was about you know,
Speaker 1: it was about or who they had on the field.
Speaker 1: It was about your ability to kind of fight through
Speaker 1: some things. Because you're right, it's not pretty, but December
Speaker 1: football is not always pretty. December football is about getting
Speaker 1: to the next one and finding a way to get
Speaker 1: that done. It was a very physical game, a very tough,
Speaker 1: emotional game against Philadelphia. You know, five six days later
Speaker 1: you come back and you have to play another one.
Speaker 1: You know, those are the kinds of things that your
Speaker 1: team gets battle tested. It's better for it. It's better
Speaker 1: to coach off a win than it is a loss.
Speaker 1: You know, you're not gonna say it, Derek. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's in your rundown, but you know, before
Speaker 1: on Friday or whatever day we picked games. Wednesday, Brian,
Speaker 1: what what score did you have for the Cowboys? I
Speaker 1: picked it, right, I mean, but I mean it's team Well,
Speaker 1: you guys big guys have you guys have this big
Speaker 1: like graphic and it's got your name. So I figure,
Speaker 1: so you figure if you're if you make this big
Speaker 1: graphic and put it your name on there, you have
Speaker 1: to at least give it a go. But now, I mean,
Speaker 1: you nailed it in prime time, thank you. But that's
Speaker 1: that's where. But that's to me. I you know, I
Speaker 1: can't I can't stand. I just wish people could feel
Speaker 1: what we feel working here. You know, I wish you
Speaker 1: could feel the you know, just the this, the the
Speaker 1: relief of getting wins and moving on and not and
Speaker 1: not having to be four and twelve at this time
Speaker 1: and think about firing a bunch of coaches and all
Speaker 1: that stuff like that, or hey, what's gonna happen or
Speaker 1: what player? And with that and dealing with that, you're
Speaker 1: dealing with team that is trying to get ready for playoffs.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing, and it's hard. It is so
Speaker 1: hard because you guys are right, we were all part
Speaker 1: of of a five and eleven program for three years
Speaker 1: in a row. That that's no fun for anybody, you know.
Speaker 1: It's not fun for the fans. It's especially not fun
Speaker 1: for the men and women that work in this building,
Speaker 1: you know. So I wish that people could sit in
Speaker 1: our chairs. I really really do and feel what this
Speaker 1: is like, and you would understand. And I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to say that we're better than you that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying we've been blessed to be able to
Speaker 1: be here and feel how hard it is to win
Speaker 1: these games. And when you win them, there's so much
Speaker 1: relief and it's like, Okay, oh we got another one
Speaker 1: coming up, you know, But that's what the season does.
Speaker 1: And you're still playing meaningful football to try and win
Speaker 1: this division. You put a lot of pressure on Philadelphia
Speaker 1: to have to make a decision about their quarterback. That's right,
Speaker 1: And and you know, I just feel like this team,
Speaker 1: it's tough to get to get a grasp on them
Speaker 1: after a game like that. I'm talking about the Cowboys
Speaker 1: last night, because you know, you look at it and
Speaker 1: in one hand, you could say, well, you know, they
Speaker 1: didn't really play that great in Tennessee, who didn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of their main guys, and so is this
Speaker 1: worrisome for the season coming up in the playoffs and
Speaker 1: all that, or you can take the other side and go,
Speaker 1: this is a damn good football team because you go out,
Speaker 1: don't play your best game and you still sleepwalk for
Speaker 1: a quarter and a half and win by fourteen points.
Speaker 1: That that's that's kind of exciting because if this team
Speaker 1: does play to the level of their competition, well great,
Speaker 1: I heard you say this morning. That's a good Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good point, because fine, it's going to get
Speaker 1: better than this. And and you just got to get
Speaker 1: through it and get through it. And the Jacksonville was tough,
Speaker 1: I mean, but Dak has come back from the injury.
Speaker 1: They've not scored less than twenty four points. It was
Speaker 1: twenty four and twenty seven last night, the two lowest
Speaker 1: they're average in like thirty four points a game. They've
Speaker 1: lost two road games in overtime, two teams that are
Speaker 1: a little above average and fighting to get in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's going, it's it's this is pretty good.
Speaker 1: This is a really good football team. Twenty four wins
Speaker 1: in two years. I don't care. I mean, yeah, you
Speaker 1: care about the playoffs, but these fans are like, I
Speaker 1: don't care about anything else. No, you got to build
Speaker 1: something here, and that's what they've done. Twenty four wins
Speaker 1: in two years is really amazing. And I even point
Speaker 1: this out for those fans out there that are looking
Speaker 1: for and I get it. Let me get first of all,
Speaker 1: say I get it. A lot of this is the
Speaker 1: defense mechanism. You know, people who are trying to convince themselves.
Speaker 1: Don't get too excited because I've been here before and
Speaker 1: I don't want to be disappointed. I get you're playing
Speaker 1: that defense mechanism. It is. It absolutely is not doing.
Speaker 1: But beyond that, though, I mean, I think when you
Speaker 1: look at it. The one thing that I keep looking
Speaker 1: at about this team. As much as people want to
Speaker 1: you know, style point wins at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like they have beaten teams that are playoff caliber teams.
Speaker 1: There five one against those teams. There. I think there's
Speaker 1: seven and one against winning record teams. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: about that. The five and one verse five. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: are they are killing. I shouldn't say kill, they are killing.
Speaker 1: They are killing it when it comes to playing quality
Speaker 1: teams this year and last year, that was not the
Speaker 1: k s. Last year, you look at the record, they're
Speaker 1: winning a lot of the games against teams that weren't
Speaker 1: as good teams are really good, as a little bit shaky.
Speaker 1: That has not been the case this year. Not only
Speaker 1: are they winning, they beat the breaks off Minnesota that
Speaker 1: is a right now the number two seed in the NFC,
Speaker 1: and they destroyed them in their place. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of things to look at to say this team
Speaker 1: has some things working in its favor that make you
Speaker 1: think going in the playoffs, this could be a team
Speaker 1: that could have some success. Now, let's also be realistic
Speaker 1: in knowing that the NFL playoffs is a crapshoot. Like
Speaker 1: when you get there, it is one and done. So
Speaker 1: every week you gotta bring your best or you gotta
Speaker 1: have some things fall away. And by the way, they've
Speaker 1: been Super Bowl teams and had some things fall their way.
Speaker 1: But you gotta get fortunate, you gotta be good with injuries,
Speaker 1: you gotta be able to play good footballs, all those
Speaker 1: things that come together in January and February in order
Speaker 1: to win a championship. They will be in the hunt.
Speaker 1: They're as good as any team that's out there that's
Speaker 1: in the hunt. Then we'll see what happens. And that's
Speaker 1: the way you have to approach it. No, I absolutely
Speaker 1: agree with that. You know, and I look at this
Speaker 1: team and you talk about since Dack's returned, and they
Speaker 1: don't run the ball particularly well. Last night, I think
Speaker 1: Tennessee did a great job. Tennessee's numbers will tell you
Speaker 1: regardless of who's playing up front, they are not going
Speaker 1: to let you run the ball. That team has the
Speaker 1: mentality of their head coach Mike Frabel. Their attitude is
Speaker 1: stop the run and we're going to run on you.
Speaker 1: They didn't have their primary runner last night. But the
Speaker 1: thing about it was as bad as you were running
Speaker 1: the ball in first down, when you try to run
Speaker 1: or second down, you still were sixty two percent on
Speaker 1: third down, and that just and and people will say,
Speaker 1: well that doesn't carry. That doesn't know. This team on
Speaker 1: third down since Dack has returned, has been one of
Speaker 1: the best in the National Football League. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what down and distance. You could put them in third
Speaker 1: and thirty and they'll find a way to convert, you know.
Speaker 1: So to me, when you feel about, well they just
Speaker 1: didn't do this, no, the one thing that is, the
Speaker 1: one thing is translating is how this team is finding
Speaker 1: a way to keeping drives going even if they don't
Speaker 1: run the football. They run the ball for almost a
Speaker 1: little over two yards of carry night in that game.
Speaker 1: But what happened sixteen passes for first downs, five of
Speaker 1: them by penalty, five of those by penalty. You put
Speaker 1: them in a situation where they had to do something
Speaker 1: illegally to keep you from getting a first down or
Speaker 1: catching a football. So to me, those are things they
Speaker 1: told me, Well, these turnovers don't travel. These turnovers don't
Speaker 1: one year you're leading the league in turnover when you're
Speaker 1: creating turnovers, you it doesn't translate next year. What's happened,
Speaker 1: It's translated. It's yeah, it's the second year in a
Speaker 1: row that they're getting people to turn the ball over.
Speaker 1: These things matter when you get to the playoffs. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: all right, here's gonna do. We're gonna take our early
Speaker 1: first break. When we come back. Let's talk about the offense.
Speaker 1: We got some things to talk about there that didn't
Speaker 1: go right and why maybe some of those things happen.
Speaker 1: And we also have something that went really right. Historic
Speaker 1: to be in fact, Nick tweeted about it last night.
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Speaker 1: talk about the offense last night. After going up ten
Speaker 1: oh there early in the game, they had three straight turnovers,
Speaker 1: the fumble, two interceptions. Still end up scoring twenty seven
Speaker 1: points on the night, but let's talk about those that
Speaker 1: that portion of the game where it just kind of
Speaker 1: the wheels kind of fell off a little bit. What
Speaker 1: happened on those three plays? Uh, and where do you
Speaker 1: kind of look at this and and what are you
Speaker 1: Is there anything you take from that part of the
Speaker 1: game that makes you a little more concern going forward?
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, concern going forward? Yeah, yeah, it's okay,
Speaker 1: because I mean you have a quarterback that is turning
Speaker 1: the ball over. He's making a lot of plays. He's
Speaker 1: making plays, and they just don't I mean they go
Speaker 1: hand in hand. You can't have a guy that's going
Speaker 1: to keep, you know, making some of these throws and
Speaker 1: having the mental toughness to keep going forward and not
Speaker 1: letting it bother them, like like it's really early impressive.
Speaker 1: But he is turning the ball over. So if you
Speaker 1: want to be worried moving forward, yes, because you're gonna
Speaker 1: face better teams. And if he turns the ball over
Speaker 1: at the wrong time in the playoffs, like you said,
Speaker 1: it's a different beasts, you could lose. You could. But
Speaker 1: he also could make that throw that he that he
Speaker 1: made to Shultz for the touchdown in the in the
Speaker 1: same game. And so I'll take the guy. I'll take
Speaker 1: the guy that's not afraid to sling it and and
Speaker 1: that that is scoring points for this team. The turnovers, yes,
Speaker 1: you can't deny them. He threw one really bad throw.
Speaker 1: I think in the entire game. I think he threw
Speaker 1: one bad throw in the game, but I mean the
Speaker 1: other one. I mean again, Hendershot is he's qualifying for
Speaker 1: the Olympics right now. And with the with the rest
Speaker 1: of his teammates, it was hilarious. The best volleyball team
Speaker 1: they are, I mean, I mean I would give the
Speaker 1: University of Texas or run for the right for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those receivers, and then you know I can't have volleyball
Speaker 1: team without Diggs. I mean, I mean, yeah, we mean,
Speaker 1: we've got the squad ready to go. Oh Diggs. Diggs
Speaker 1: had a volleyball moment too, he did, He did, Ryan.
Speaker 1: I mean you you might have a different take on it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna say that I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about it, because you should be because he keeps happening.
Speaker 1: But I'll take I'll take the good because there's more
Speaker 1: good than bad. I'll take it. Yeah. I think to me,
Speaker 1: with the with the situation with the quarterback is and
Speaker 1: maybe I need to have this rant like I did
Speaker 1: about the penalties, because remember I said the penalty going
Speaker 1: to change. It's not gonna change. They're gonna keep ben
Speaker 1: never every game. Now they've had three penalties, so maybe
Speaker 1: I need to will in a Dak is not going
Speaker 1: to throw any more interceptions. Um, you know, I think
Speaker 1: Nick is absolutely right about this. I just you know,
Speaker 1: his aggressiveness. They're the interceptions that bother me with Dak
Speaker 1: are the ones who I don't think he sees the guy.
Speaker 1: I think his intention, Yeah, the defender. I think that
Speaker 1: those are the ones that get me. That like, damn,
Speaker 1: what was he looking at? You know, Oh, he didn't
Speaker 1: see the cover, he didn't see the rotation, or he
Speaker 1: didn't see the linebacker. Those are the ones that get me,
Speaker 1: the ones that he's trying to fit in there to
Speaker 1: like adult and Chultz on that play man that is
Speaker 1: is that's a tough throw. I mean, I'm not defending
Speaker 1: the guy. He probably but if you if you look
Speaker 1: at how the route developed for everybody else, he might
Speaker 1: as well just have taken the sack because I mean,
Speaker 1: but that's Dak and that that I'm not going to
Speaker 1: give up on a play. I'm not gonna I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna let this. I'm gonna try and find a way
Speaker 1: to make this. I'm gonna stand real tall on that
Speaker 1: front left leg and I'm gonna throw it as hard
Speaker 1: as I can and hope that it makes it. But
Speaker 1: that the way the Titans played their coverage, he had
Speaker 1: no chance on that ball. I mean, it had to
Speaker 1: be perfect, and at that point he wasn't perfect. A
Speaker 1: little banged up, need you know. But like I say,
Speaker 1: when he gets really stiff on that front left leg
Speaker 1: and lets it fly, two things are gonna happen. We're
Speaker 1: gonna all be cheering or it's gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: defense defense, you know, because that's how it is with him.
Speaker 1: But that he that throw that he makes there, that
Speaker 1: ball had no chance. It had no chance. And that's
Speaker 1: where that's where you almost with Dak. How do you
Speaker 1: get that out of him? The the the fight for
Speaker 1: another day play, because if you watch the way it
Speaker 1: broke down, like I said, nobody was open and nobody
Speaker 1: was open, and and the and and the probably the
Speaker 1: guy that was covered the most was the guy he
Speaker 1: threw it to. Yeah, you know that's how. And then
Speaker 1: you got an all pro safety standing there too, just
Speaker 1: kind of ready to you know, drive on the ball.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how to take that, just eat
Speaker 1: it and fight for another day, because that's that's the
Speaker 1: way I'm I'm the guy that says when he's muddied
Speaker 1: and bloodied, he plays better. Maybe I'm wrong about that.
Speaker 1: Maybe he shouldn't be muddied and bloody because that makes
Speaker 1: him play even more intense. Yeah, his numbers yesterday twenty
Speaker 1: nine to forty one, seventy one percent completion. He's like
Speaker 1: rattling off seventy every week. It seems like at this
Speaker 1: point completing a high percentage of his past it's two
Speaker 1: u D eighty two yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions
Speaker 1: and eighty five point six rating now was pretty much
Speaker 1: determined by those two interceptions. That being said, and Brian,
Speaker 1: I think he brought up an interesting point there. Do
Speaker 1: you guys think that a conversation should be had if
Speaker 1: it has not already been had where dak is told, Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe we ought to back off that level of aggression
Speaker 1: just a bit, or do you or do you think
Speaker 1: it's better to say as you were saying, Nick, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm going to account for the fact that
Speaker 1: they're gonna be there's gonna be a minus play here
Speaker 1: and there as as Macartey called it last night, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some of those, but man if I don't,
Speaker 1: if I let him keep that same aggressiveness, there's also
Speaker 1: gonna be plays like a touchdown to Schultz, like path
Speaker 1: to to t Y Hilton. They're gonna be those moments
Speaker 1: in games where he's gonna let it fly and we're
Speaker 1: gonna see something really positive and really great happen as
Speaker 1: a result. Yeah. I mean it's funny because I mean
Speaker 1: we probably were sitting here seven, eight years ago, ten
Speaker 1: years ago talking about Tony Romo about this is kind
Speaker 1: of what Romo was, and you had to live with it. Um,
Speaker 1: And and you know, and we know where it got
Speaker 1: him and where it didn't take him. We we we
Speaker 1: we get that. So UM, the answer to your question,
Speaker 1: I think is yes. And I think that they have
Speaker 1: had that conversation. UM. I think the center of the field,
Speaker 1: especially late, especially red zone type stuff that's not good
Speaker 1: Green Bay. Like we saw the interceptions. UM, I think
Speaker 1: that you're seeing if you're gonna take the chances and
Speaker 1: stuff like that high out of bounds throw like and
Speaker 1: Schultz has had a couple touchdowns like that, Um, even
Speaker 1: third and twenty nine, third and nineteen last night. So
Speaker 1: it deep deep ball to gallop. If it gets caught, great,
Speaker 1: If it gets incomplete, okay, if it gets intercepted, as
Speaker 1: long as you make the tackle, that's a great punt. So,
Speaker 1: by the way, great tackle by Tyler Smith. He saved
Speaker 1: it to be a ten ten game at half on
Speaker 1: the on the pick, it could have been pick on
Speaker 1: the pick Tyler Smith. Tyler Smith, Yeah, he said he
Speaker 1: saved a touchdown right there. I mean hustling, but yeah too.
Speaker 1: I think that with Dak, the conversations you have with
Speaker 1: him about that, I think he looks at you and
Speaker 1: goes okay, but then in the heat of the battle,
Speaker 1: it's he doesn't remember the conversation, you know. And and
Speaker 1: that's the thing I think that you, I think you
Speaker 1: really appreciate the fact that he did. He wants the
Speaker 1: will to win and the will to complete the play
Speaker 1: and make the play. But what I think that the
Speaker 1: one thing we we we cannot talk about Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: for all the good things he's done, because of the interceptions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing right now. Nobody wants to tell, you know,
Speaker 1: talk about the throws, the Shultz or anything like that.
Speaker 1: What they want to talk about is, well, what happened
Speaker 1: with Hendershot? Well, what happened with That's the first question.
Speaker 1: See he gets a press conference last week. Sometimes he
Speaker 1: gets lucky the other like last week when he threw
Speaker 1: the ball to Gallop in the on the front pylon
Speaker 1: for the touchdown. Yeah, I think he was throwing the
Speaker 1: ball to Pollard in the back corner. If that ball
Speaker 1: gets through, Bradbury intercepts it, that's that's the margin. That's
Speaker 1: the line this guy rides every time he throws the football.
Speaker 1: He rides that line of like Okay, I'm let's just
Speaker 1: one fly. Oh it's called great or oh wait, they
Speaker 1: just made an interception. So I think they talk to him.
Speaker 1: I think he knows it. But man, his turnovers are
Speaker 1: really overshadowing how well he's really playing. So what's changed
Speaker 1: in his career? Because his first two seasons he wouldn't
Speaker 1: throw any interception, isn't it? I think it is that
Speaker 1: this year his teammates have kind of what is it,
Speaker 1: six or seven of the interceptions have been situations where
Speaker 1: it's deemed to not have been his fault. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you take those away, his numbers probably in line
Speaker 1: with what he typically does in a season. As far
Speaker 1: as interceptions, it's concerned right, Yeah, I agree on that
Speaker 1: on the taking it away, but but also I do
Speaker 1: think you could find six or seven passes where he
Speaker 1: probably almost threw an interception, and the yeah, but isn't that?
Speaker 1: Isn't that like every quarterback in the league. I think
Speaker 1: that's why I used to remember why I seemed like
Speaker 1: they have a little bit more, but no forms. The
Speaker 1: worst Brett Farres would always the ball would always hit
Speaker 1: somebody's hand, but they couldn't catch it too, because his
Speaker 1: receivers couldn't catch it. I mean, it's just that happens
Speaker 1: around the league. You know. Defensive backs aren't great catches. Typically.
Speaker 1: We Brett Farre's first season in Green Bay just real quick,
Speaker 1: Mike Homegren, we had Mark Burnell as a quarterbacks a backup,
Speaker 1: and Ron Wolfe, the general manager went to Mike Homegren
Speaker 1: after like one of those twenty three interceptions first season
Speaker 1: and said, listen, if you want to play Burnell, I
Speaker 1: unders Dan and Mike's like, no, we gotta keep going
Speaker 1: with this guy. This guy is gonna get us there.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the kind of sometimes the thoughts that
Speaker 1: you have to have, like the general manager who brought
Speaker 1: far Vin is thinking, if you want to change the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks because of the turnovers, I'm not going to stop you.
Speaker 1: But the coach is like, no, no, no, no, We're
Speaker 1: gonna keep playing with this guy. This is one of
Speaker 1: those things that with with with Dak, it's it's his DNA.
Speaker 1: It is his DNA. He is not going to give up.
Speaker 1: And that will either that will either take you there
Speaker 1: or it will absolutely kill you. And you know you
Speaker 1: have to be willing to live with both. I think
Speaker 1: let's talk about Ceedee Lamb last night. He catches eleven
Speaker 1: passes of the fourteen targets, he received hundred yards. He
Speaker 1: became the third player. Cassie something real quick too. Let's
Speaker 1: think about when Dak started, just real quick, when Jack
Speaker 1: started in twenty sixteen. Who was this receiving corps where
Speaker 1: you're like Bryce Butler, Daz Beasley. I mean they had
Speaker 1: was Will Williams here. I see. I'm just thinking, I
Speaker 1: wonder if with if things change with your supporting cast,
Speaker 1: were you more willing yeah, yeah, safety see, but I
Speaker 1: wonder I wonder if there was more was there guys
Speaker 1: that caught the ball better? You know? With that crew?
Speaker 1: I mean are you more. Yeah, I'm trying to also
Speaker 1: be Could it also be though two this year, you
Speaker 1: look at the receiving cores, including the tight ends, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of new faces out there. Dad didn't play
Speaker 1: for a lot of the early part of the season.
Speaker 1: Could that also be a part of it, at least
Speaker 1: on the players where guys aren't catching the ball, that
Speaker 1: that maybe there's the miscommunication where guys just aren't on
Speaker 1: the same page. I'm trying to find what is his
Speaker 1: willingness to just go ahead and throw it, because maybe
Speaker 1: when you're when you're like when you're just the guy
Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm not going to change plays. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw the ball where they tell me too. I'm
Speaker 1: going to hand the ball off to this back. You know,
Speaker 1: those are the kinds of things I think that you
Speaker 1: think about earlier career, and now you wonder if the
Speaker 1: personnel has changed, is there more of a willingness to
Speaker 1: throw it? Sound like, you know, the receivers they had
Speaker 1: back then, some quality receivers probably should have you know,
Speaker 1: probably should have you know, made some really really good
Speaker 1: throws with those cats. Yeah, all right, let's talk about
Speaker 1: ceedee lamb. He became last night the third player in
Speaker 1: Cowboys history. How this shocked me. There have only been
Speaker 1: three players in Cowboys history have had a season of
Speaker 1: over where they had over a hundred receptions. He became
Speaker 1: the third Michael Irvin Jason Witten of the other two.
Speaker 1: My question for you, guys, this is a kind of
Speaker 1: a big picture question, but thinking about where you thought
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb was at the moment that the Cowboys decided
Speaker 1: they no longer wanted to continue with a Mariy Cooper
Speaker 1: to where he is now? How much better is he
Speaker 1: or is it exactly what you expected from him at
Speaker 1: this point? No, No, I didn't expect that. I can't
Speaker 1: say that. I've been on record. Somebody's gonna go find
Speaker 1: it if if I said otherwise, oh, they'll definitely find No,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't. I didn't like the Mary Cooper
Speaker 1: trade and I still don't really, because I mean about
Speaker 1: making you feel No, hold on, was the Ron Bland
Speaker 1: the fifth round pick that you got for that or no,
Speaker 1: I think it was might have been well let's go,
Speaker 1: I am, I'm playing. I don't know whoever it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, I make you feel a little bit, a
Speaker 1: little bit Land, but no, I didn't. I didn't love it,
Speaker 1: and I didn't and I and I said, we will
Speaker 1: see about Cedee Lamb because he hasn't shown that yet
Speaker 1: and he needs I mean, who's the Who's the Cede
Speaker 1: Lamb that Cooper had, you know, who's gonna be his guy?
Speaker 1: But he has been amazing and I think it's start. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think it has all really started with him when
Speaker 1: they started talking about Odell. I totally agree, as I
Speaker 1: think that's where it all began. Absolutely that he had
Speaker 1: to stand there and answer questions about not being good
Speaker 1: enough that they had to bring somebody else in. And
Speaker 1: I think that put him on notice. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you another thing. I think they're moving him around a
Speaker 1: lot more down. Yeah, and I think that I think
Speaker 1: that the one thing that I'm so critical of Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore of in play calling is when you utilize I
Speaker 1: know what I saw at Oklahoma with Ceedee Lamb, and
Speaker 1: I'm seeing that right now with the way he's playing
Speaker 1: that you know that one of my favorite players they
Speaker 1: run is the air row that they run and they
Speaker 1: moved the pocket and they run the arrow in through
Speaker 1: the defense. As it's all rotating one way. Was that
Speaker 1: the Giants game that he dropped? Yeah, that was three
Speaker 1: or four exactly, that's the play. I thought they were
Speaker 1: going to run to t Y Hilton. I was thinking, Oh,
Speaker 1: how do you get t Y Hilton involved? Well, he's
Speaker 1: a little guy, so you run him through all that
Speaker 1: trash and then get him open back there. But they
Speaker 1: run the play with they run the play with Lamb,
Speaker 1: and it's like, as soon as you see the pocket
Speaker 1: move and Dak turns back to the left, You're thinking
Speaker 1: twenty eight yard game every single time, because I know
Speaker 1: somebody on that side over there's open, and it's usually Lamb.
Speaker 1: But I think that Kellen Moore. I I challenged Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore in the summertime. Go watch his Oklahoma tape. Whatever
Speaker 1: they whatever Lincoln Riley did for him, you need to
Speaker 1: think about because that's the player. And we're starting to
Speaker 1: see that with this guy. Yeah, and I think it's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. I wish so Mary Cooper was still
Speaker 1: here in though, moving around Me too, Me too. And
Speaker 1: and you know I've I've said this before about you know,
Speaker 1: Dez and Cole Beasley. You know, des wasn't a that
Speaker 1: really moved around a lot, and I think I think
Speaker 1: it made a career for Cole Beasley because I don't
Speaker 1: believe Cole Beasley could have played if des was playing
Speaker 1: in the slot and all that, um, all the way around,
Speaker 1: I don't think Cole Beasley has a role um. So
Speaker 1: I think I think they kind of worked well together.
Speaker 1: But the best in the league, the best receivers in
Speaker 1: the league line up everywhere, and they create matchups for
Speaker 1: people that say, oh, I'm just take your best corner
Speaker 1: and cover him wherever he came. Double guy that moving
Speaker 1: all the time exactly. Yeah. So um, and that's why
Speaker 1: corners that do travel, if they can also play in
Speaker 1: the slot, then that certainly helps them because these the
Speaker 1: best receivers in the game are lining up everywhere. And
Speaker 1: I think you're right, CD's doing that. He's lining up everywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about another receiver, t Y Hilton last night,
Speaker 1: most production he's assets he's been here. From the standpoint
Speaker 1: of number of receptions, you have four receptions, five targets
Speaker 1: fifty yards or twenty eight? How many past three? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean at one point we were like catches is
Speaker 1: it a first down? That's what That's what I was
Speaker 1: asking that my my vision of what Odell Beckham. Remember
Speaker 1: I was talking about the green back, about the green
Speaker 1: Bay fourth and three. I have an option? Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have something I could. He caught that ball in
Speaker 1: the He caught that ball in the drag and made
Speaker 1: a guy miss. And now what is It's like a
Speaker 1: twenty yard game. It should have been a first down
Speaker 1: and like, but no, he's gonna he's gonna take nineteen
Speaker 1: more yards out of that play. That's what this team
Speaker 1: was looking for to me when they were hunting Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: and they're yeah, they're looking for that guy on third down,
Speaker 1: you throw them the ball and it's a twenty yard
Speaker 1: game and and no offense to any other player on
Speaker 1: how it's done. Okay, But but one of the big
Speaker 1: things about Odell, other than other than being injured, was
Speaker 1: just how's this gonna fit what you know? Right in
Speaker 1: the middle of the season. We kind of know what
Speaker 1: we think we know of him and all that. And again,
Speaker 1: he might have been better, maybe he would have been
Speaker 1: or could could be or whatever, but he's not gonna
Speaker 1: have a five catch game like that for sixty yards
Speaker 1: and makes them really key plays. And talk to four
Speaker 1: or five reporters and say, am I good? Am I good?
Speaker 1: And kind of sneak out without the camera's coming and
Speaker 1: be like, okay, good, that's not Odell. That's not what
Speaker 1: it's going to be. And I'm not saying that's a
Speaker 1: bad thing, because everybody's their own way. But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying t Y comes in, he's doing his job, he's blending.
Speaker 1: He fits and he's not trying to get it. He's
Speaker 1: not trying to take he's so happy for CD and
Speaker 1: all that. Again, I'm not talking about Odell. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about what's Ty has done, and it's fitting perfectly. That's
Speaker 1: what they want. This is a move that probably at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, as Stephen Jones would like
Speaker 1: to say this, probably they caught a break. They probably
Speaker 1: caught a break not having O'Dell Beckham come in here
Speaker 1: and have to rehab in all the questions about that.
Speaker 1: And at least you're getting stump, you're getting stuff out
Speaker 1: of t Y Hilton, You're getting a healthy player that's
Speaker 1: making plays. Yeah, it's interesting. Last night and you mentioned
Speaker 1: CD in the locker room afterwards. CD was talking about
Speaker 1: having t Y on the team and what that does
Speaker 1: and He's like, look, team's on a double team. He
Speaker 1: can go for it, right, because that's the beauty of
Speaker 1: having somebody like ty. He is an experience, not just
Speaker 1: an experienced receiver, a really good experienced receiver. And if
Speaker 1: they can keep him healthy, which that's really been his
Speaker 1: issue is staying healthy. If they can keep him healthy,
Speaker 1: he adds a lot to this team from the standpoint,
Speaker 1: and not only the big plays, but as we saw
Speaker 1: last night, some of those shorter plays and he could
Speaker 1: turn into longer plays because he has the ability to
Speaker 1: get the yards. That's the guy was looking for it
Speaker 1: when they were hunting these receivers. I was looking for
Speaker 1: somebody a third down, you throw them the ball and
Speaker 1: it turns into a big first down and then a
Speaker 1: big play. Derek said that in the press box talking
Speaker 1: about Yeah. To me, it's exactly what what Brian was
Speaker 1: talking about. Like, how was the barbecue, asked? And I
Speaker 1: heard it was good. It's pretty good, good, all right,
Speaker 1: compared to Jacksonville. We were coming up Jacksonville. So let's
Speaker 1: be clear what else you talked about. The barbecue was better? Now,
Speaker 1: Nick cat a little moment he didn't get his chance
Speaker 1: to eat his barbecue and self impos whatever it's like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was still good. It was a good barbecue. It
Speaker 1: wasn't my best weekend for eating, but no, it was not. Oh,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say t Y and CD. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: play of the game wasn't thrown to either one of them,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't even caught. I mean the past interference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fifty two or one yard past interference. I mean that's
Speaker 1: one of those where you just think, I guarantee you
Speaker 1: there are people that are like, what's the college rule again?
Speaker 1: I mean, doesn't have to be spot on when well,
Speaker 1: when your team get ye perfect, when you're the Titan fan,
Speaker 1: you're thinking, give me the fifteen yards, don't get in.
Speaker 1: Al Michaels was even surprised, like, fifty one yard okay,
Speaker 1: he like hugged him, you know, he was hugging his waist.
Speaker 1: He can't do that. Yeah, all right as a bailout play.
Speaker 1: I mean that that changed everything momentum the game. That's
Speaker 1: Dak not giving up on a play. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: he does. I'm gonna throw it. Two weeks in a row,
Speaker 1: it's been a fifty one and a fifty two yard
Speaker 1: pass from here to there. Yeah, that's really changed the game. Yep. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna take our final break. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about the offensive line, hopefully get
Speaker 1: to the defense as well. Got some injuries to talk
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Speaker 1: a field to have to wear all white uniforms on.
Speaker 1: That justus a mess. And they're playing a bowl game
Speaker 1: there tomorrow, are they? Yeah? Yeah? What wait? What are
Speaker 1: you talking? What are you talking about? Ze Zeke? He's
Speaker 1: I mean, he was just sitting there just did it
Speaker 1: did look like that? But uh, you know, he had
Speaker 1: a game that just like he scores another touchdown, another
Speaker 1: milestone for him, nine straight games with a touchdown. The
Speaker 1: amazing part about that is like Emmett did it back
Speaker 1: in ninety five, took off his helmet every single time, right,
Speaker 1: every time. And I don't think he won MVP that year,
Speaker 1: but he set the record for most touchdowns in a
Speaker 1: season that year in twenty five. I mean, Emmett was
Speaker 1: the dude and they were into the Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: all that, and Zeke it's like nine in a row. Quietly,
Speaker 1: you know, he's not the main guy right now. But
Speaker 1: but I will say this is everyone that says Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry though they would have, you know, I would have
Speaker 1: been a different game with Henry, and it probably would
Speaker 1: have been. I think the Cowboys miss Pollard, maybe not
Speaker 1: as much, but they definitely missed Pollard in the game.
Speaker 1: I mean they missed that one two plays. Well, they
Speaker 1: missed some blocks too. Yeah, they missed blocks in this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had they had going back and watching and they
Speaker 1: there was some point of attack stuff. The tight ends
Speaker 1: weren't particularly very good in this game. They had some
Speaker 1: problems getting up on the second level let linebackers run through.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Pollard would have made much of
Speaker 1: the inside running aspect of their game. And then there
Speaker 1: were some cuts that Zeke tried to make that normally
Speaker 1: Zeke just kind of pushed the hole and it's a
Speaker 1: gain of five or your spill for six instead of
Speaker 1: trying to cut it and now it's a gain of
Speaker 1: two kind of a thing. So yeah, to me watching,
Speaker 1: there was some. There was some times where they got buckled.
Speaker 1: I mean, Tyler Smith got buckled a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Beadish got buckled one time. I mean they really and
Speaker 1: even even Zach Martin, he's trying to help. He's trying
Speaker 1: to help Tyrn Smith on a play, so he goes
Speaker 1: really far down inside and as he's going, now he
Speaker 1: has to adjust back and linebacker comes right through and
Speaker 1: makes the tackle behind him. And it's a play where
Speaker 1: you're kind of think and if it's it's it. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's muscle memory for Zach Martin when he's used to
Speaker 1: play with Steele that he has to help. So he
Speaker 1: like slams that guy all the way to Tyron Smith.
Speaker 1: Tyron already had him. Yeah, and now you see Zach
Speaker 1: Martin kind of go oh damn, you know, and now
Speaker 1: he has to just back. There was some. There were some.
Speaker 1: There were some battles they lost at the point of attack,
Speaker 1: and there was some run through plays that really really
Speaker 1: run through linebackers. That really hurt them in this game
Speaker 1: to run in the football. Speaking of the offensive line,
Speaker 1: Cowboys take another hit there. Uh, their center goes down
Speaker 1: during the game. Interesting part though, And I don't know
Speaker 1: if we know anything about that injury yet. No, I don't, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hear anything. Nick, Well, I'm a couple things. Um,
Speaker 1: I will say three three things that I can kind
Speaker 1: of go off here. Number one, just seeing him in
Speaker 1: the locker room after the game walking a little bit
Speaker 1: without the boot, then he puts the boot on. You
Speaker 1: can just kind of tell the way he was moving
Speaker 1: that this wasn't wasn't major. Did get a chance to
Speaker 1: talk to somebody on the medical staff that said, we'll see,
Speaker 1: they weren't overly concerned. And that's pretty much what Jerry
Speaker 1: said on the radio about an hour ago on one
Speaker 1: or five three of the fan that that they're not
Speaker 1: as worried as they maybe they thought that he could be.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean he plays this week. I wouldn't put him
Speaker 1: out against Jonathan Allen and pain, you know. But um,
Speaker 1: but I'm curious how I don't really I haven't looked
Speaker 1: at the tape. I'm sure I think you didn't go
Speaker 1: was just gonna ask about mc governor. The governed at
Speaker 1: center was fine. Actually, yeah, he actually was. The thing
Speaker 1: about it was he the assignments, the way that he is,
Speaker 1: technique and things like that not an issue when they
Speaker 1: put Tyler Smith at guard is a little bit of
Speaker 1: a struggle. That was a struggle for him. And I
Speaker 1: think what happens to him is he goes from playing
Speaker 1: tackle to now, okay, I gotta remember my guard assignments here,
Speaker 1: and maybe gets a little bit overwhelmed and you kind
Speaker 1: of see him thinking a little bit too much. He's
Speaker 1: a really strong guy, but there's be those there will
Speaker 1: be those times where his base gets like really narrow
Speaker 1: and he's like fighting the like sit down on a
Speaker 1: guy and then he and and that's when I'm saying
Speaker 1: he gets crumpled a little bit and he's dealing with
Speaker 1: more power and size down there guard and the guy
Speaker 1: like Tart, you know those guys there's just so damn
Speaker 1: big inside and they're gonna play teams that have big
Speaker 1: inside players and that's gonna be But this was this
Speaker 1: was a battle that I'm saying that that there were
Speaker 1: some one on one stuff in this game that they lost,
Speaker 1: and that I say that's give the Titans some credit
Speaker 1: for playing the way they did upfront. Yeah, if that,
Speaker 1: there were obviously three moves that happened as a result
Speaker 1: of that. One you got governed down at center. Now
Speaker 1: you got Tyler at a guard, and now Peters was okay.
Speaker 1: The thing about Peters is it sixty five Peters, you know,
Speaker 1: is it? Or is it eight Peters or ten Peters
Speaker 1: or twelve whatever? You know, that's the thing that you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to worry about. Going his block on the
Speaker 1: Dak shot to Schultz. I mean, he did a great
Speaker 1: job holding the guy right there, and then Dak kind
Speaker 1: of slightly moved a little bit and then got the
Speaker 1: launch angle he needed. This makes me wonder, like, what's
Speaker 1: these next two weeks are going to be interesting because
Speaker 1: you know, they're not as worried about be oddest. That's
Speaker 1: if that's the quote. That's what that makes me think
Speaker 1: over the next two weeks. I mean like like or
Speaker 1: were they worried that he was out for the year,
Speaker 1: and that means he probably doesn't come or may not
Speaker 1: come back until two weeks into the playoffs, right, right,
Speaker 1: But I mean I would I would think there's probably
Speaker 1: a chance that maybe he could, he could give it
Speaker 1: a go. I mean, there's a chance he could probably
Speaker 1: play for the playoff game. Yeah, they're these offensive lineman
Speaker 1: or like they need their feet and they need their
Speaker 1: base and all that. But guys like the oddest, they're
Speaker 1: so tough. They're just like you know, Zack Martin. Zach
Speaker 1: Martin got rolled late in that game too. I mean
Speaker 1: he was just kind of by the pile and got
Speaker 1: rolled up up on the Tyler did too at one point.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, you're really at the mercy of
Speaker 1: how bad somebody's falling around and stuff like that. You know,
Speaker 1: there will Rason Allen and an NBA get falling into people,
Speaker 1: you know that, dude, that's believed. But that's what happens.
Speaker 1: These guys get knocked into people and they fall like
Speaker 1: into someone's legs just standing there like really beyondest is
Speaker 1: just blocking and they kind of like, you know, a
Speaker 1: guy just gets driven into his legs. Yeah. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, if if there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: people in this organization, in the Cowboys Nation, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be rooting for the Saints, and rightfully so if they
Speaker 1: do not win, there will be some people that will
Speaker 1: probably be like, you know what, good because this team
Speaker 1: needs a break they need There's some players that really
Speaker 1: kind I'm kind of like, there isn't a loss for
Speaker 1: me this weekend. No, now, either way, I think there's
Speaker 1: a positive that can come out of it. I really
Speaker 1: have all thought this was gonna be the five seed.
Speaker 1: You know, this is the five seed. The Eagles are
Speaker 1: gonna win. What are you gonna be? Okay, we come
Speaker 1: in here Monday morning and the Saints somehow pull that
Speaker 1: thing out. Well, let me lay this out for you.
Speaker 1: There are four games. There are four games weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were four games this weekend that could matter for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Sure, you got New Orleans at Philadelphia for
Speaker 1: obvious reasons. You've got Carolina at Tampa Bay because right
Speaker 1: now you could be staying alive. Whoever you're gonna play
Speaker 1: at the four seed is probably gonna be the winner
Speaker 1: of this game, absolutely right. Then you've got if Philadelphia
Speaker 1: should lose, there are two games that then become really
Speaker 1: important to you. San Francisco at Las Vegas one laws
Speaker 1: to each there, yeah, and then Minnesota at Green Bay
Speaker 1: because those are the two teams that if you're gonna
Speaker 1: jump Philadelphia. You kind of want to jump them and
Speaker 1: get something really valuable, which maybe could be a number
Speaker 1: one seed. Those two teams both have to lose another
Speaker 1: game for you to be able to jump them if
Speaker 1: you jump Philadelphia, and Minnesota's playing in Green Bay and
Speaker 1: green Bay's trying to get into this tournament. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: there's those four games I think are very important to you,
Speaker 1: the first two being the noon games New Orleans at Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: Carolina at Tampa Bay. See what happens there, and they're
Speaker 1: based on that. The afternoon would be interesting if if
Speaker 1: if Philadelphia beats New Orleans turned this thing into a
Speaker 1: preseason game, do exactly what Tennessee. Give it to Washington,
Speaker 1: do what you do. Let's see some of these guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Micah Parsons, you get a nice looking cowboy, Joe Hoodie
Speaker 1: and everybody else gets which really gives them a great
Speaker 1: opportunity because now they get more than than the two
Speaker 1: weeks because they played on Thursday this week, So you
Speaker 1: really can give them a good amount of time to
Speaker 1: get rested and healed if you don't have to play
Speaker 1: that game. But again, though, this is not a preseason game,
Speaker 1: and the difference is you don't have eighty people and
Speaker 1: you don't, No, don't you have to be selective. But
Speaker 1: the point but the last preseason game is what they're
Speaker 1: down to, like sixty, I mean it's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a low number still, like it's sixty five or something
Speaker 1: like that. Remember it's not the whole eighty. I think
Speaker 1: they got twenty two players. I think I think it's
Speaker 1: seventy five to fifty three. I think that's typically the way.
Speaker 1: What I will say though, is that I'm not really
Speaker 1: worried about everybody sitting down. I just have a certain
Speaker 1: guys like Mica. I feel I feel like MICA's body
Speaker 1: has taken a toll, and that's an easy one for me.
Speaker 1: J Ron Curse is another one. Every week it felt
Speaker 1: like he's just battling, battling, battling to trying to stay
Speaker 1: in there. Sit him down, Like those are the kind
Speaker 1: of guys I look at and I'm like, give them
Speaker 1: a break. Can I ask you one really quick one?
Speaker 1: Do you rest Nashan? Right? No? And you don't have
Speaker 1: anything else behind him? Or does he need the experience
Speaker 1: he needs to play to play? Maybe not? I mean
Speaker 1: that's one where I'm like, man, I want to see
Speaker 1: Calvin Joseph. Let's see what Calvin gott Joseph out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see what he can do. And here's the Commanders.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Commanders might lose this week and it
Speaker 1: might mean nothing for right, exactly, do we know if
Speaker 1: we're playing Saturday or Sunday yet? No, we do not
Speaker 1: do not know what this is all. Just like we're
Speaker 1: just so weirded out as we go and we'll probably
Speaker 1: find out I'm assuming. I think our pr staff said
Speaker 1: that we may find out like Saturday, I'm sorry, Sunday night,
Speaker 1: but it could be until Monday, after the Monday night
Speaker 1: game because the NFL is trying to see how they
Speaker 1: get their best matchups for that final week. So it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be Das Washington. That's not gonna be your
Speaker 1: best matchup now, probably not. I'm guessing we're gonna be
Speaker 1: Sunday at Now. See the reason why I don't think
Speaker 1: you're the reason why I don't think that Dallas Washington
Speaker 1: will be anything other than an afternoon game, and it
Speaker 1: could be Saturday, right, it could be the reason why
Speaker 1: is if the Dallas Washington game matters, it's it means
Speaker 1: that Philly and the Giants matter, and then you're not
Speaker 1: gonna put these two games not at the same time.
Speaker 1: So it's not gonna be a night game. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna be same to play at the same time. So
Speaker 1: I think that they're gonna play in the afternoon together
Speaker 1: together at the same time if it matters, and if
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, then it's not a game you want
Speaker 1: to put it at night anyways. Yeah, yeah, but but
Speaker 1: I let me say one more thing about playoff stuff.
Speaker 1: I did it last year, and I was wrong. I
Speaker 1: openly cheered for the forty nine ers to go drive
Speaker 1: it down the field and beat the Rams and that cool.
Speaker 1: Now we're at home with the three seed and all
Speaker 1: that stuff, and that did not work out well at all.
Speaker 1: I'd rather play Kyler Murray again. They should have done that.
Speaker 1: So I'm not really as much as everyone wants to say, Man,
Speaker 1: get Tom Brady out of there, let's play Carolina. We'll
Speaker 1: be sitting at the press box in Carolina eating krispie
Speaker 1: creebwe that's going this forming guy keeps running all over
Speaker 1: their ass, and so I'm like, I'm sorry, I'm still
Speaker 1: I'm just still don't trust it. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I do not want to play, Tampa. I'm just okay.
Speaker 1: I'm just not pay i just not caring. It is
Speaker 1: what it is. Go playing because good point whoever it is.
Speaker 1: I gotta drive, all right, folks. We appreciate you. That's funny.
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