WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: All Over The Map 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.639 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:23.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.880 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:31.040 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, And so 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.880 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:40.600 Cowboys dot Com wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman and 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:46.760 bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, December seventh, 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.760 twenty twenty one, season seventeen, episode number seventy three. Welcome 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:52.360 to the latest edition of The Break, live from the 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.160 s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star. Got Nick and 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:57.280 Dave here with me. Amber's out today, but we'll be 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.400 talking some Cowboys football with you guys here on the Break. 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.240 We got a lot of different topics we're gonna hit. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:03.800 We also want to hear from you. You can call 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.959 us eight eight eight eight five five two two nine 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.840 seven again eight eight eight eight five five two two 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.760 nine seven and we'll take your calls throughout the show. 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.039 Let's start first with Jerry Jones and his time this 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.280 morning with one h five dout three the fan. Really 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.720 not anything that was that was terribly enlightening during that call, 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.160 but there are a couple of things I thought were 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:31.640 worth discussing. He did mention he's asked specifically about about 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.920 Dak and Dak's health and whether he's completely healthy, and 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:36.960 we've talked about it on the show that we didn't 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.880 necessarily think Dak was playing at his best. And Jerry 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.720 said something that I thought was really interesting. And it 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.120 always is a It's kind of a cautionary tell for 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:50.320 me because it's easy when you see an errand throw 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.640 to always assume the quarterback is off. But I think 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.960 what Jerry dial was remind all of us that the 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.320 receivers in this instance, in a lot of these instances, 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.640 it could be the receiver that's not in the right place. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.240 What were your thoughts about his comment. Yeah, I think 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.800 that's that's the comment that's going to make the rounds 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.600 in this round of the Jerry news cycle. I guess 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:11.760 a lot of people, and I think the way that 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.760 he worded it, I don't think you can disagree, like 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.080 kind of through the receivers under the bus. Like he 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.160 didn't say the communication has been off, Dak and his 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:21.840 receivers need to get on the same page. He was like, 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.040 the receivers need to run he was. I think the 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.120 direct quote is they need to run crisper routes, like 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.839 they need to do a better job running routes being 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.600 where Dak wants them to be. So again, it's not 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.040 that's not a very balanced critique. That's putting a lot 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.359 of blame on the receivers as opposed to the quarterback. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.760 But I think we've been saying that for a few weeks. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.760 Is part of this whole thing is that the communication 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.400 between Dak and his receivers has been off. Now maybe 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.440 that's more on the receivers than Dak. Who really knows 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:54.679 unless you're in those meetings, But I agree that's that 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:59.520 they've been sloppy. The I mean, the perfect example that 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.640 I've taught about a lot already as the fourth and 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.080 two in New Orleans. Schemed it up as beautifully as 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.120 you could want. CD walks into the end zone if 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:11.080 it's a complete pass, and for whatever reason, Dak and 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:12.960 CD were not on the same page about where that 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.120 ball was supposed to be, and that's kind of been 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.760 emblematic of a lot of their struggles. I don't know, 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.960 I mean, I don't know who's running the wrong route 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.760 or you know, the pass being right or wrong. I mean, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.239 I know that he's paid one hundred and forty million 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.280 dollars or one hundred and sixty million dollars for DAK, 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.840 So you know he's gonna he's gonna definitely defend DAK 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.440 without a doubt there, and so you know, I I 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.480 but who knows it? Like you said that play right there? 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.400 I mean I look at it. I mean I put 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.960 that on DAC. But but it could be he could 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.880 CD could be completely in the wrong spot or didn't 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:48.560 have it, didn't turn the right way. So you know, 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.440 it's hard to ever know that. That's why he's great. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.520 Sometimes gonna be tricky because you just don't know what 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.960 the assignment is. I mean, we watch the games. We 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.240 know Dak's not playing great. I mean not not as 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:01.640 great as we've seen. We've seen him play better than well. 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.320 I think that's the part where I start accounting the 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.120 receiver every single time. Well, what I don't know is 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:12.080 over these last three weeks, he's been dealing with receivers 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.880 that are not his primary receivers in roles, maybe that 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.160 they aren't accustomed to being in. It's very different when 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.120 you're the third guy. And now you're the second guy, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.360 or whatever the case might be there there is that 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.360 to me sounds a lot more plausible then all of 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.720 a sudden Dak has fallen off. It seems more plausible 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.800 to me that maybe it is a it is a 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.840 communication issue. And as we know, if you watch the game, 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.960 a lot of time, the ball comes out of quarterbacks 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.240 hands as the receiver's making a cut, or before they 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.200 even make the break sometimes, And and that to me, 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.839 if the timing is off, if a guy is one 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.080 or two yards different than where they're supposed to be, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.240 it's going to be an incompletion. That seems more plausible. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.040 It's plausible to me, knowing what they're dealing with these 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.960 last few weeks at receiver, than all of a sudden 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.000 Dak's having this great season and then all of a 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.119 sudden he's not. Yeah, I mean, all of these things 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.599 are true. That's and it makes maybe it makes for 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:08.880 boring radio, but that's what I always say, is that's 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.320 what I always say, is like these it's it's more 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.720 than just one thing or the other. And I kind 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.760 of laugh. There's an irony to the thought that like, well, 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.400 Dad doesn't have his guys the starters are hurt, and 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.440 that's totally true. I said this this morning. For all 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.520 we talk about the pass rush and the guys that 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.760 they haven't had available, Dak hasn't had his primary three 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.000 receivers available for more than a game really this year, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.360 like right when Gallup was ready to come back. That's 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:38.720 when Amari Cooper got COVID etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But but 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:40.640 then at the same time, why do we spend all 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.600 that time talking about the Dak yard. I mean that 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.160 was the point, is that we've gotten time on task 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.680 with everybody. Cedric Wilson and Noel Brown have been in 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.240 the lab just as much as everybody else, So that 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.760 feels like a convenient excuse to fall back on when 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.200 things aren't going your way. Having said that, I do 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.840 think I think there's something to that. I think it's 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.600 I think it's both. Um. I've I've said this a 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.600 few times too. Go watch the New Orleans game. Go 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.200 look at how many times Ceedee Lamb didn't seem like 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.560 he knew what the call was or what the alignment was. 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.680 I mean, that was that happened five times on Thursday night? 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.400 Is that Dak or is that lamb. Maybe it's a 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.320 little bit of both. Um so that I mean, I'll 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:20.880 cross the board. I think they all just need to 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.000 get on the same page. Yeah, I mean, this is 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.600 I don't know if this happens every year about this, 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.080 this little lull here or it's not a lull, but 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.719 it's like right here at the end of November. I mean, 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.400 there's just there's some craziness to the schedules and everything. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.040 I mean, like if they were on the same page 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.880 through everything that that happened, then they would never practice. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.560 You don't need to practice if you if you were 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.160 just completely fine with the fact that you, oh, now 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.920 you're virtual. Now you're not. Now you lose your head, coach, 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.440 now you you you're doing this. Oh, Terrence Steel's the starter. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.120 I mean, I was just writing the story on the 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.600 offensive line and it's like, oh my god, like, what 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.040 the hell's going on going on at right tackle? Well, 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.320 it's been five games, but then Collins came back, but 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.480 then he didn't start because then Terren Steele had six 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.159 games and he was still playing well. But then Tyrean 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:07.920 got hurt, so he slid over here. But then he 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.880 came back and he took a Lyle's spot again, but 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.280 then he had COVID and then he left, and now 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.360 he's back, and now they're both gonna play. I mean 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.600 that's just one position. I mean that's happening a lot. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.360 And so there there nothing's been steady on the receivers 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.640 from the old line for Dak's calf, Zeke's in and out. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.360 He's banged up. I mean, so I'm not it's not excuses. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.000 That's the fact. I just laid it all out there. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.080 If you call that excuse, that's fine. But this team 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:37.320 hasn't you know, they're not like clicking on all cylinders. 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.800 That that's one of the reasons why. Yeah, all right, 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.960 let's talk about the right tackle position. This is another 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:44.520 thing that Jerry talked about when he was on with 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.440 Sean and rj um. He said that this was interesting. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.600 They asked him a question, who's gonna start, bluntly, who's 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.160 gonna start a right tackle? He said, well, both of 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.120 them will play, and both of them will play a lot. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.120 And here was the part that was interesting to me. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.600 He said, you know, they if they decided to go 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.400 with the big package to run, you know, we could 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.240 we could maybe see you know, some of that and 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.800 maybe start thinking, you know, is this kind of a 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:10.400 replacement for what they were doing with McGovern now that 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.240 they have Connor Williams in that role. We saw some 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.040 of Connor Williams work back there in the backfield. It 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.680 wasn't great. I think as he ran through the whole 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.200 he kind of missed a guy or didn't even figure 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:21.760 out where he was supposed to be going who were 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:23.600 supposed to block. If he had the ball, maybe he 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.200 would have scored. I don't know, But that all being said, 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.680 it does make me wonder if they say, hey, we 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.000 got Steele and Lyle, they are both better options if 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.360 you're gonna have an additional offensive lineman on the field, 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.439 then putting Connor Williams out there, what do you guys think? Well, 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.400 I think you know, Jerry has said this some things 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.839 before about who's gonna start, and you could just tell 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.520 it didn't help. Then Mike McCarthy didn't really love it. Yeah, 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.920 I think Mike McCarthy would rather him just say who 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.199 was gonna start than to say that they might do 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.760 both jumbo package out there and let him be the 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:56.440 tied end. But you know, it's also about the matchups too. Now, 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.440 Washington is kind of like the cow Boys. I mean, 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.600 they've lost both of their defensive ends, but one might 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.400 be well Sweat. Maybe I thought I saw somewhere the 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.520 Sweat might be back sweet, but that was these were 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.360 fans talking, So I don't know if that's well. I mean, 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.880 you know, that's a big deal because he's Reggie White 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.599 when he plays against the Cowboys, like, honestly, he's a 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.880 really like I know that that the other guy is 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.079 like the all time you know, at whatever, But Manta 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.079 Sweat if you watched him play, he's just as disruptive. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.040 He is a problem. He was a killer for the Cowboys, 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:29.920 but not just against the Cowboys, just in general. He's 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.840 a really good player. You know. I asked Kellen Moore 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.800 yesterday in the conference call, and he basically was just like, well, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.079 nothing from last year matters because nobody was playing in 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:39.920 those games. You know, they didn't have like, oh, they 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.000 didn't have Tying, they didn't have Zack Martin for all 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.199 but one. They didn't have Zach Martin at guard he 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.520 played one series of tackle. They didn't have Dak in 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.680 any of those games. And then Washington has some different 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.440 group as well. But I mean, they're still playing really 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.320 well Washington is so, Um, I just think it might 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.800 be a matchup thing to put you know, Steele or Collins. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.040 I don't know who's gonna start, honestly. Um, you know, 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.640 it sounded like the last time they were both healthy, 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.720 Steel started right Kansas City. Yeah, but then Collins played 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.280 pretty well against the against the Saints. And but it's 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.079 not like you can't lose your job for being out 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.960 for other reasons, Like that's how it happens, ended up 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.840 losing his job. So you know, it is what it is. Yeah, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.440 I mean, they're not that much better than each other 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.120 if they were then. And Jerry said that, he said, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.920 there the same player, And I was like, that's an 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.240 interesting He didn't say that. You don't think that's what 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.319 he said. No, no, no, no, I thought that, And 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.360 I was actually transgressed. I don't think he said that. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.200 What he said, they're the same player, whether they start 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.840 or they come into the difference. I thought you were 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.320 saying that they're the same guy, like they're like he's 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.200 great at a sixty three, he's no. But I'm saying 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.679 the way you just said that, what's the difference between 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.319 the two. Tell me the difference. I think what he 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:53.640 was saying was they're both the same if they start 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.160 or they don't, they both can come in and be 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.000 the same player. Right, but that's what I'm saying. That 0:10:58.120 --> 0:10:59.880 means they can play to the same level. Does that 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.199 I mean that they're the same. Difference Okay, no, tell me, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.800 I mean I thought you were. He said, they're the 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:10.079 same player. Now now obviously they are graded very similar, 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.079 or that we wouldn't be in this situation. He said that, 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.360 and he kind of paused, and then he kept talking. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:21.080 What he was saying was that both Steele and Collins 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:26.920 played exactly the same, whether they start or they come 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.520 in as a backup. Right, Okay, you're saying, okay, so 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.880 that's what he said. What's the difference between that? It 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.760 doesn't matter if you and if the three of us 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:39.200 are confused everyone else Okay. I've heard I've heard from 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.920 people who weren't speaking on the record that they don't 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.280 think the differences or if there is a difference, it's 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.760 not appreciable. And to next point, we wouldn't be having 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.120 this debate if they thought so. Yeah, they can't figure 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.760 it out. But you know what with Tyron situation on 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.200 the other side, he just sticked through it. I mean, 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:01.319 it's not like it's hurting really anything. I just I 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:05.199 don't like it. Just well, I mean it we're it's 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.000 like we're talking about two like when you got two 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.560 bad quarterbacks and you're like, well, can we go back 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.200 to like kind of I mean, Philly's trying to create 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.640 a controversy up there, like well should Minshu keep going 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.160 and when maybe Hurts needs to come backs? Like, can't 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.680 just make a decision it just and maybe maybe they've 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.120 got some grand plan, like maybe they aren't confused at all, 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.360 but like it just looks like they're afraid to make 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.080 a decision to me, espect like at a position where 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.800 all I've ever heard my whole life is that like 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.760 best five, continuity is important, just stick with a guy 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:40.360 and go. And that's not what they're doing. Yeah, thats 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.839 crazy part of that. They have the control, sure, but 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.480 we just from week to week and you're right, Steele probably, 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.240 I mean Steele would have started in New Orleans if 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.719 he'd been healthy, So put him back in there or 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.559 or or whatever, or don't I just what whatever, just 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.040 make it. I'm honest, I'm tired I'm gonna I'm sitting 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.360 in a g seat. I'm gonna say an age thing. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.280 I'm tired of talking about it. I don't I have 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.360 lost the potential to care because I'm just over it. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.319 I'm just like whatever, I'm bored. I'm bored by this 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.920 weird tackle. He did say something else that I don't 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:16.559 know if we believe, but he said that contract status 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.880 doesn't matter about anything. The question I would think was 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.800 more about it. It's about the running backs. Yeah, but 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.079 it does come he come into play. He said, No, 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:27.240 if this juncture in the season, you play the best guy. Now, 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.559 I believe that I do too. I do too. So 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.240 here's what I would do. Right tackle. I'm starting Lyle. 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.920 That's my guy. He's he's I think he's playing better now. 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:41.840 I think that him and Zack Martin, they'll they'll be fine. Tyrn, 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.319 I never know what's going on with him. Something happened 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.959 with Tyran, the option would be steal. So Steal's the 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:49.800 younger guy. Let him. He's going to do a swing 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.000 tackle anyways. Now he plays a little bit of tight end. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.280 He comes in if he something happens left tackle, he's 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.560 the guy because if you make him at right tackle, 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.319 and then something happened, Tyron, you gotta move everything around, 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.720 and they've just said there's not that much of a difference. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.760 That being said, I'm keeping Lyle at right tackle and 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.480 moving Terrence Steele whatever that's right. I'm I'm with you. 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.400 If I said, if I said, we're going with you know, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.160 we'll bring back Raw Petiti to play right tackle. At 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:16.760 this point, you just seem like you'd be like whatever. 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.240 Kurt Bohler's like, anybody just goes no. I think I 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.080 think I like you. I like your plan. I do 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:24.960 like your no. But I think the proofs in the 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.400 pudding with regard to what he said about the contracts, 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.920 because we wouldn't be having this debate about the tackles 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.440 if if they really went with the contracts right. I 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.080 don't think it's just about the contracts. I think they're 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:35.560 looking for the guys gonna give them best chance. That 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.400 clause at this point in the year is really important though, 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.760 and again that's what I said yesterday, is like, that's fine. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:42.720 Play the guy who thinks you're gonna gonna give you 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.760 the best chance. But you can't deny that it presents 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.720 you with decisions to make in the offseason, if you 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.600 go with Steel over Collins. If let's just forget football 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.760 for a second, let's just say this was gonna just 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.960 be like four guys coming over here. There's just gonna 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.800 be a fistfight. Okay, It's just that's what it was. 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:02.960 It's not a football game. Elsie's like one of my 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.280 first five picks on the whole team. I'm taking LC. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.280 He's he's leading the way. Okay, he's the get off 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.760 the bus guy. If we're in a fistfight. Um, playing 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.760 against Washington with the way that they're playing and the 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.120 way that they have to have this that will be 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.080 almost buried if they don't win this game, that's gonna 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.600 be a fist fight. And I want Elc out there. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.960 Nothing against Terrence Steele. He might throw some hands too, 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.000 He's got some good length and reach, but uh, I 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.840 want We've heard them say it multiple times. He is 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.280 the enforcer on this offensive enforce. So if if that's 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.160 the case, then you're right, and that's this kind of game. 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.200 This is the kind of player you want on the field. 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.120 Let's get a phone call before we take our first pick. 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.560 We got a call from Steven Mississippi. Steve, what up? 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.119 I love the show, and I guess I'm a starstruck. 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:54.600 Nick said, Derek David, Man, you guys are killing it. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.640 I love the show, a great content day in and 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.520 day out. Um, I said, I'm just little starstruck. I 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.440 can't believe I'm talking to you guys. But h and 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.800 we got we got a question for you when it's over. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:06.320 I got a question for you when you're doing with 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.800 your question. All right, man, all right, well look my question, 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.000 I guess is around really coaching. All right. So I 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.480 just get the vibe there's a different chemistry with this 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.440 team this year. And I guess, um Nick and David, 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.280 you guys are a little bit closer, you know the 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.120 locker room, you know, with in the past. I guess 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.320 with with Garrett. You know at this time of year, 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.880 we're in a little rough patch right now. But I mean, 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:28.760 going into this time of year, I just get the 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.720 different I get a vibe that we're gonna we're gonna 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.880 work through that. I mean with personnel, it seems like 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:35.800 we put the best players in the field. There's not 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.440 you know, like a a loyalty factor that I felt 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.440 like we had with Garrett, I just want to get 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.800 your input. What what do you guys think um is 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.200 going on there? Do you get the same feeling? Can 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.120 we overcome some of those issues? I feel real good 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.520 going into these league last five games. I just think 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.520 we're gonna get some guys back, and I think we're 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.400 gonna overcome some of the cities we've had been making 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.480 a good playoff run. I want to get your thoughts 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.560 on that. And Nick, I'll take your question. Hey, you 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.480 said you're from Mississippi. I mean is it is it 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:08.120 the ReBs or is it state? Well, then then you'll 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.639 probably get a better answer from date. Then you'll get 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.920 a much better answer now than you would have maybe 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.600 a few seconds ago. I can't thanks for they called 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.840 to appreciate Steve, Thank appreciate it. Hey, yeah, Haile State. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.360 I mean I can't hold my grudges against the stranger. 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.760 But yeah, good choice there, Hail State. We've talked about 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:31.200 this before. We that that dream scenario or not hypothetical 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.440 where you're on this date with someone and she's like, 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.040 oh yeah, I love old miss and you're like, oh gosh, 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.040 it wouldn't it wouldn't. It wouldn't get to a date, 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:40.960 it wouldn't get to a date. Check that out. You'd 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.480 already have that figured out. That's an auto swipe left 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.200 in the dating app. I'm not kidding. Y'all are laughing. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.200 I'm not like Bama Bama. I can make it work. 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.639 Old miss. I'm sorry, I'm out. I'm not doing all right. Um, 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.480 you know we can talk about that off the air, Okay. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.960 I love a great story there. Um. You know. To 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.960 answer the question, I mean, it's it's not an easy answer. 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.000 You know, those are one of those things that it's chemistry. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.680 It's up there with leadership and things like that's hard 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.920 to kind of see and qualify. But I'll say this 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.680 based off of last year. I mean, it's chemistry as 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.680 a fac you know, COVID is affecting all kinds of chemistry. 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.480 I mean, it's been really tough, and especially when you're 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:28.119 trying to establish a coaching staff and a team and 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.159 all of this things. Some teams did it better, and 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.879 you know, first year coaches did it better than they 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.960 did last year. I get it, but I agree that 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.520 it does seem a little bit different. It does, and 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.639 I think it's more of the players, I really do. 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.560 I think it's the leadership and the players, and I 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.880 think the guys really buy in. It's hard to have leadership. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.239 I'll say this a set of thousand times. You can 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.560 have guys that get up there and talk and speak 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.080 and all that, they better be damned good players. If 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.919 they're not, then it doesn't hold anything. And I think 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.240 they've got them. And I think the thing about that 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:01.920 is when you look at and you I don't know 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:04.359 most of you guys have probably watched Sounds of the 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.520 Sideline as a piece we do every week where you 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.000 get a chance to see and hear what players are 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.600 saying on the sideline during games. And one of the 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.159 interesting things about that is I've noticed that as the 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.000