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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, season seventeen, episode number seventy three. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the latest edition of The Break, live from the
Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star. Got Nick and
Speaker 1: Dave here with me. Amber's out today, but we'll be
Speaker 1: talking some Cowboys football with you guys here on the Break.
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Speaker 1: Let's start first with Jerry Jones and his time this
Speaker 1: morning with one h five dout three the fan. Really
Speaker 1: not anything that was that was terribly enlightening during that call,
Speaker 1: but there are a couple of things I thought were
Speaker 1: worth discussing. He did mention he's asked specifically about about
Speaker 1: Dak and Dak's health and whether he's completely healthy, and
Speaker 1: we've talked about it on the show that we didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily think Dak was playing at his best. And Jerry
Speaker 1: said something that I thought was really interesting. And it
Speaker 1: always is a It's kind of a cautionary tell for
Speaker 1: me because it's easy when you see an errand throw
Speaker 1: to always assume the quarterback is off. But I think
Speaker 1: what Jerry dial was remind all of us that the
Speaker 1: receivers in this instance, in a lot of these instances,
Speaker 1: it could be the receiver that's not in the right place.
Speaker 1: What were your thoughts about his comment. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's that's the comment that's going to make the rounds
Speaker 1: in this round of the Jerry news cycle. I guess
Speaker 1: a lot of people, and I think the way that
Speaker 1: he worded it, I don't think you can disagree, like
Speaker 1: kind of through the receivers under the bus. Like he
Speaker 1: didn't say the communication has been off, Dak and his
Speaker 1: receivers need to get on the same page. He was like,
Speaker 1: the receivers need to run he was. I think the
Speaker 1: direct quote is they need to run crisper routes, like
Speaker 1: they need to do a better job running routes being
Speaker 1: where Dak wants them to be. So again, it's not
Speaker 1: that's not a very balanced critique. That's putting a lot
Speaker 1: of blame on the receivers as opposed to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: But I think we've been saying that for a few weeks.
Speaker 1: Is part of this whole thing is that the communication
Speaker 1: between Dak and his receivers has been off. Now maybe
Speaker 1: that's more on the receivers than Dak. Who really knows
Speaker 1: unless you're in those meetings, But I agree that's that
Speaker 1: they've been sloppy. The I mean, the perfect example that
Speaker 1: I've taught about a lot already as the fourth and
Speaker 1: two in New Orleans. Schemed it up as beautifully as
Speaker 1: you could want. CD walks into the end zone if
Speaker 1: it's a complete pass, and for whatever reason, Dak and
Speaker 1: CD were not on the same page about where that
Speaker 1: ball was supposed to be, and that's kind of been
Speaker 1: emblematic of a lot of their struggles. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know who's running the wrong route
Speaker 1: or you know, the pass being right or wrong. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know that he's paid one hundred and forty million
Speaker 1: dollars or one hundred and sixty million dollars for DAK,
Speaker 1: So you know he's gonna he's gonna definitely defend DAK
Speaker 1: without a doubt there, and so you know, I I
Speaker 1: but who knows it? Like you said that play right there?
Speaker 1: I mean I look at it. I mean I put
Speaker 1: that on DAC. But but it could be he could
Speaker 1: CD could be completely in the wrong spot or didn't
Speaker 1: have it, didn't turn the right way. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to ever know that. That's why he's great.
Speaker 1: Sometimes gonna be tricky because you just don't know what
Speaker 1: the assignment is. I mean, we watch the games. We
Speaker 1: know Dak's not playing great. I mean not not as
Speaker 1: great as we've seen. We've seen him play better than well.
Speaker 1: I think that's the part where I start accounting the
Speaker 1: receiver every single time. Well, what I don't know is
Speaker 1: over these last three weeks, he's been dealing with receivers
Speaker 1: that are not his primary receivers in roles, maybe that
Speaker 1: they aren't accustomed to being in. It's very different when
Speaker 1: you're the third guy. And now you're the second guy,
Speaker 1: or whatever the case might be there there is that
Speaker 1: to me sounds a lot more plausible then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden Dak has fallen off. It seems more plausible
Speaker 1: to me that maybe it is a it is a
Speaker 1: communication issue. And as we know, if you watch the game,
Speaker 1: a lot of time, the ball comes out of quarterbacks
Speaker 1: hands as the receiver's making a cut, or before they
Speaker 1: even make the break sometimes, And and that to me,
Speaker 1: if the timing is off, if a guy is one
Speaker 1: or two yards different than where they're supposed to be,
Speaker 1: it's going to be an incompletion. That seems more plausible.
Speaker 1: It's plausible to me, knowing what they're dealing with these
Speaker 1: last few weeks at receiver, than all of a sudden
Speaker 1: Dak's having this great season and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he's not. Yeah, I mean, all of these things
Speaker 1: are true. That's and it makes maybe it makes for
Speaker 1: boring radio, but that's what I always say, is that's
Speaker 1: what I always say, is like these it's it's more
Speaker 1: than just one thing or the other. And I kind
Speaker 1: of laugh. There's an irony to the thought that like, well,
Speaker 1: Dad doesn't have his guys the starters are hurt, and
Speaker 1: that's totally true. I said this this morning. For all
Speaker 1: we talk about the pass rush and the guys that
Speaker 1: they haven't had available, Dak hasn't had his primary three
Speaker 1: receivers available for more than a game really this year,
Speaker 1: like right when Gallup was ready to come back. That's
Speaker 1: when Amari Cooper got COVID etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But but
Speaker 1: then at the same time, why do we spend all
Speaker 1: that time talking about the Dak yard. I mean that
Speaker 1: was the point, is that we've gotten time on task
Speaker 1: with everybody. Cedric Wilson and Noel Brown have been in
Speaker 1: the lab just as much as everybody else, So that
Speaker 1: feels like a convenient excuse to fall back on when
Speaker 1: things aren't going your way. Having said that, I do
Speaker 1: think I think there's something to that. I think it's
Speaker 1: I think it's both. Um. I've I've said this a
Speaker 1: few times too. Go watch the New Orleans game. Go
Speaker 1: look at how many times Ceedee Lamb didn't seem like
Speaker 1: he knew what the call was or what the alignment was.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was that happened five times on Thursday night?
Speaker 1: Is that Dak or is that lamb. Maybe it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of both. Um so that I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: cross the board. I think they all just need to
Speaker 1: get on the same page. Yeah, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: I don't know if this happens every year about this,
Speaker 1: this little lull here or it's not a lull, but
Speaker 1: it's like right here at the end of November. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's just there's some craziness to the schedules and everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, like if they were on the same page
Speaker 1: through everything that that happened, then they would never practice.
Speaker 1: You don't need to practice if you if you were
Speaker 1: just completely fine with the fact that you, oh, now
Speaker 1: you're virtual. Now you're not. Now you lose your head, coach,
Speaker 1: now you you you're doing this. Oh, Terrence Steel's the starter.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was just writing the story on the
Speaker 1: offensive line and it's like, oh my god, like, what
Speaker 1: the hell's going on going on at right tackle? Well,
Speaker 1: it's been five games, but then Collins came back, but
Speaker 1: then he didn't start because then Terren Steele had six
Speaker 1: games and he was still playing well. But then Tyrean
Speaker 1: got hurt, so he slid over here. But then he
Speaker 1: came back and he took a Lyle's spot again, but
Speaker 1: then he had COVID and then he left, and now
Speaker 1: he's back, and now they're both gonna play. I mean
Speaker 1: that's just one position. I mean that's happening a lot.
Speaker 1: And so there there nothing's been steady on the receivers
Speaker 1: from the old line for Dak's calf, Zeke's in and out.
Speaker 1: He's banged up. I mean, so I'm not it's not excuses.
Speaker 1: That's the fact. I just laid it all out there.
Speaker 1: If you call that excuse, that's fine. But this team
Speaker 1: hasn't you know, they're not like clicking on all cylinders.
Speaker 1: That that's one of the reasons why. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the right tackle position. This is another
Speaker 1: thing that Jerry talked about when he was on with
Speaker 1: Sean and rj um. He said that this was interesting.
Speaker 1: They asked him a question, who's gonna start, bluntly, who's
Speaker 1: gonna start a right tackle? He said, well, both of
Speaker 1: them will play, and both of them will play a lot.
Speaker 1: And here was the part that was interesting to me.
Speaker 1: He said, you know, they if they decided to go
Speaker 1: with the big package to run, you know, we could
Speaker 1: we could maybe see you know, some of that and
Speaker 1: maybe start thinking, you know, is this kind of a
Speaker 1: replacement for what they were doing with McGovern now that
Speaker 1: they have Connor Williams in that role. We saw some
Speaker 1: of Connor Williams work back there in the backfield. It
Speaker 1: wasn't great. I think as he ran through the whole
Speaker 1: he kind of missed a guy or didn't even figure
Speaker 1: out where he was supposed to be going who were
Speaker 1: supposed to block. If he had the ball, maybe he
Speaker 1: would have scored. I don't know, But that all being said,
Speaker 1: it does make me wonder if they say, hey, we
Speaker 1: got Steele and Lyle, they are both better options if
Speaker 1: you're gonna have an additional offensive lineman on the field,
Speaker 1: then putting Connor Williams out there, what do you guys think? Well,
Speaker 1: I think you know, Jerry has said this some things
Speaker 1: before about who's gonna start, and you could just tell
Speaker 1: it didn't help. Then Mike McCarthy didn't really love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Mike McCarthy would rather him just say who
Speaker 1: was gonna start than to say that they might do
Speaker 1: both jumbo package out there and let him be the
Speaker 1: tied end. But you know, it's also about the matchups too. Now,
Speaker 1: Washington is kind of like the cow Boys. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've lost both of their defensive ends, but one might
Speaker 1: be well Sweat. Maybe I thought I saw somewhere the
Speaker 1: Sweat might be back sweet, but that was these were
Speaker 1: fans talking, So I don't know if that's well. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, that's a big deal because he's Reggie White
Speaker 1: when he plays against the Cowboys, like, honestly, he's a
Speaker 1: really like I know that that the other guy is
Speaker 1: like the all time you know, at whatever, But Manta
Speaker 1: Sweat if you watched him play, he's just as disruptive.
Speaker 1: He is a problem. He was a killer for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but not just against the Cowboys, just in general. He's
Speaker 1: a really good player. You know. I asked Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: yesterday in the conference call, and he basically was just like, well,
Speaker 1: nothing from last year matters because nobody was playing in
Speaker 1: those games. You know, they didn't have like, oh, they
Speaker 1: didn't have Tying, they didn't have Zack Martin for all
Speaker 1: but one. They didn't have Zach Martin at guard he
Speaker 1: played one series of tackle. They didn't have Dak in
Speaker 1: any of those games. And then Washington has some different
Speaker 1: group as well. But I mean, they're still playing really
Speaker 1: well Washington is so, Um, I just think it might
Speaker 1: be a matchup thing to put you know, Steele or Collins.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's gonna start, honestly. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it sounded like the last time they were both healthy,
Speaker 1: Steel started right Kansas City. Yeah, but then Collins played
Speaker 1: pretty well against the against the Saints. And but it's
Speaker 1: not like you can't lose your job for being out
Speaker 1: for other reasons, Like that's how it happens, ended up
Speaker 1: losing his job. So you know, it is what it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not that much better than each other
Speaker 1: if they were then. And Jerry said that, he said,
Speaker 1: there the same player, And I was like, that's an
Speaker 1: interesting He didn't say that. You don't think that's what
Speaker 1: he said. No, no, no, no, I thought that, And
Speaker 1: I was actually transgressed. I don't think he said that.
Speaker 1: What he said, they're the same player, whether they start
Speaker 1: or they come into the difference. I thought you were
Speaker 1: saying that they're the same guy, like they're like he's
Speaker 1: great at a sixty three, he's no. But I'm saying
Speaker 1: the way you just said that, what's the difference between
Speaker 1: the two. Tell me the difference. I think what he
Speaker 1: was saying was they're both the same if they start
Speaker 1: or they don't, they both can come in and be
Speaker 1: the same player. Right, but that's what I'm saying. That
Speaker 1: means they can play to the same level. Does that
Speaker 1: I mean that they're the same. Difference Okay, no, tell me,
Speaker 1: I mean I thought you were. He said, they're the
Speaker 1: same player. Now now obviously they are graded very similar,
Speaker 1: or that we wouldn't be in this situation. He said that,
Speaker 1: and he kind of paused, and then he kept talking.
Speaker 1: What he was saying was that both Steele and Collins
Speaker 1: played exactly the same, whether they start or they come
Speaker 1: in as a backup. Right, Okay, you're saying, okay, so
Speaker 1: that's what he said. What's the difference between that? It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you and if the three of us
Speaker 1: are confused everyone else Okay. I've heard I've heard from
Speaker 1: people who weren't speaking on the record that they don't
Speaker 1: think the differences or if there is a difference, it's
Speaker 1: not appreciable. And to next point, we wouldn't be having
Speaker 1: this debate if they thought so. Yeah, they can't figure
Speaker 1: it out. But you know what with Tyron situation on
Speaker 1: the other side, he just sticked through it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not like it's hurting really anything. I just I
Speaker 1: don't like it. Just well, I mean it we're it's
Speaker 1: like we're talking about two like when you got two
Speaker 1: bad quarterbacks and you're like, well, can we go back
Speaker 1: to like kind of I mean, Philly's trying to create
Speaker 1: a controversy up there, like well should Minshu keep going
Speaker 1: and when maybe Hurts needs to come backs? Like, can't
Speaker 1: just make a decision it just and maybe maybe they've
Speaker 1: got some grand plan, like maybe they aren't confused at all,
Speaker 1: but like it just looks like they're afraid to make
Speaker 1: a decision to me, espect like at a position where
Speaker 1: all I've ever heard my whole life is that like
Speaker 1: best five, continuity is important, just stick with a guy
Speaker 1: and go. And that's not what they're doing. Yeah, thats
Speaker 1: crazy part of that. They have the control, sure, but
Speaker 1: we just from week to week and you're right, Steele probably,
Speaker 1: I mean Steele would have started in New Orleans if
Speaker 1: he'd been healthy, So put him back in there or
Speaker 1: or or whatever, or don't I just what whatever, just
Speaker 1: make it. I'm honest, I'm tired I'm gonna I'm sitting
Speaker 1: in a g seat. I'm gonna say an age thing.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of talking about it. I don't I have
Speaker 1: lost the potential to care because I'm just over it.
Speaker 1: I'm just like whatever, I'm bored. I'm bored by this
Speaker 1: weird tackle. He did say something else that I don't
Speaker 1: know if we believe, but he said that contract status
Speaker 1: doesn't matter about anything. The question I would think was
Speaker 1: more about it. It's about the running backs. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it does come he come into play. He said, No,
Speaker 1: if this juncture in the season, you play the best guy. Now,
Speaker 1: I believe that I do too. I do too. So
Speaker 1: here's what I would do. Right tackle. I'm starting Lyle.
Speaker 1: That's my guy. He's he's I think he's playing better now.
Speaker 1: I think that him and Zack Martin, they'll they'll be fine. Tyrn,
Speaker 1: I never know what's going on with him. Something happened
Speaker 1: with Tyran, the option would be steal. So Steal's the
Speaker 1: younger guy. Let him. He's going to do a swing
Speaker 1: tackle anyways. Now he plays a little bit of tight end.
Speaker 1: He comes in if he something happens left tackle, he's
Speaker 1: the guy because if you make him at right tackle,
Speaker 1: and then something happened, Tyron, you gotta move everything around,
Speaker 1: and they've just said there's not that much of a difference.
Speaker 1: That being said, I'm keeping Lyle at right tackle and
Speaker 1: moving Terrence Steele whatever that's right. I'm I'm with you.
Speaker 1: If I said, if I said, we're going with you know,
Speaker 1: we'll bring back Raw Petiti to play right tackle. At
Speaker 1: this point, you just seem like you'd be like whatever.
Speaker 1: Kurt Bohler's like, anybody just goes no. I think I
Speaker 1: think I like you. I like your plan. I do
Speaker 1: like your no. But I think the proofs in the
Speaker 1: pudding with regard to what he said about the contracts,
Speaker 1: because we wouldn't be having this debate about the tackles
Speaker 1: if if they really went with the contracts right. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's just about the contracts. I think they're
Speaker 1: looking for the guys gonna give them best chance. That
Speaker 1: clause at this point in the year is really important though,
Speaker 1: and again that's what I said yesterday, is like, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Play the guy who thinks you're gonna gonna give you
Speaker 1: the best chance. But you can't deny that it presents
Speaker 1: you with decisions to make in the offseason, if you
Speaker 1: go with Steel over Collins. If let's just forget football
Speaker 1: for a second, let's just say this was gonna just
Speaker 1: be like four guys coming over here. There's just gonna
Speaker 1: be a fistfight. Okay, It's just that's what it was.
Speaker 1: It's not a football game. Elsie's like one of my
Speaker 1: first five picks on the whole team. I'm taking LC.
Speaker 1: He's he's leading the way. Okay, he's the get off
Speaker 1: the bus guy. If we're in a fistfight. Um, playing
Speaker 1: against Washington with the way that they're playing and the
Speaker 1: way that they have to have this that will be
Speaker 1: almost buried if they don't win this game, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a fist fight. And I want Elc out there.
Speaker 1: Nothing against Terrence Steele. He might throw some hands too,
Speaker 1: He's got some good length and reach, but uh, I
Speaker 1: want We've heard them say it multiple times. He is
Speaker 1: the enforcer on this offensive enforce. So if if that's
Speaker 1: the case, then you're right, and that's this kind of game.
Speaker 1: This is the kind of player you want on the field.
Speaker 1: Let's get a phone call before we take our first pick.
Speaker 1: We got a call from Steven Mississippi. Steve, what up?
Speaker 1: I love the show, and I guess I'm a starstruck.
Speaker 1: Nick said, Derek David, Man, you guys are killing it.
Speaker 1: I love the show, a great content day in and
Speaker 1: day out. Um, I said, I'm just little starstruck. I
Speaker 1: can't believe I'm talking to you guys. But h and
Speaker 1: we got we got a question for you when it's over.
Speaker 1: I got a question for you when you're doing with
Speaker 1: your question. All right, man, all right, well look my question,
Speaker 1: I guess is around really coaching. All right. So I
Speaker 1: just get the vibe there's a different chemistry with this
Speaker 1: team this year. And I guess, um Nick and David,
Speaker 1: you guys are a little bit closer, you know the
Speaker 1: locker room, you know, with in the past. I guess
Speaker 1: with with Garrett. You know at this time of year,
Speaker 1: we're in a little rough patch right now. But I mean,
Speaker 1: going into this time of year, I just get the
Speaker 1: different I get a vibe that we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: work through that. I mean with personnel, it seems like
Speaker 1: we put the best players in the field. There's not
Speaker 1: you know, like a a loyalty factor that I felt
Speaker 1: like we had with Garrett, I just want to get
Speaker 1: your input. What what do you guys think um is
Speaker 1: going on there? Do you get the same feeling? Can
Speaker 1: we overcome some of those issues? I feel real good
Speaker 1: going into these league last five games. I just think
Speaker 1: we're gonna get some guys back, and I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna overcome some of the cities we've had been making
Speaker 1: a good playoff run. I want to get your thoughts
Speaker 1: on that. And Nick, I'll take your question. Hey, you
Speaker 1: said you're from Mississippi. I mean is it is it
Speaker 1: the ReBs or is it state? Well, then then you'll
Speaker 1: probably get a better answer from date. Then you'll get
Speaker 1: a much better answer now than you would have maybe
Speaker 1: a few seconds ago. I can't thanks for they called
Speaker 1: to appreciate Steve, Thank appreciate it. Hey, yeah, Haile State.
Speaker 1: I mean I can't hold my grudges against the stranger.
Speaker 1: But yeah, good choice there, Hail State. We've talked about
Speaker 1: this before. We that that dream scenario or not hypothetical
Speaker 1: where you're on this date with someone and she's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I love old miss and you're like, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't it wouldn't. It wouldn't get to a date,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't get to a date. Check that out. You'd
Speaker 1: already have that figured out. That's an auto swipe left
Speaker 1: in the dating app. I'm not kidding. Y'all are laughing.
Speaker 1: I'm not like Bama Bama. I can make it work.
Speaker 1: Old miss. I'm sorry, I'm out. I'm not doing all right. Um,
Speaker 1: you know we can talk about that off the air, Okay.
Speaker 1: I love a great story there. Um. You know. To
Speaker 1: answer the question, I mean, it's it's not an easy answer.
Speaker 1: You know, those are one of those things that it's chemistry.
Speaker 1: It's up there with leadership and things like that's hard
Speaker 1: to kind of see and qualify. But I'll say this
Speaker 1: based off of last year. I mean, it's chemistry as
Speaker 1: a fac you know, COVID is affecting all kinds of chemistry.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been really tough, and especially when you're
Speaker 1: trying to establish a coaching staff and a team and
Speaker 1: all of this things. Some teams did it better, and
Speaker 1: you know, first year coaches did it better than they
Speaker 1: did last year. I get it, but I agree that
Speaker 1: it does seem a little bit different. It does, and
Speaker 1: I think it's more of the players, I really do.
Speaker 1: I think it's the leadership and the players, and I
Speaker 1: think the guys really buy in. It's hard to have leadership.
Speaker 1: I'll say this a set of thousand times. You can
Speaker 1: have guys that get up there and talk and speak
Speaker 1: and all that, they better be damned good players. If
Speaker 1: they're not, then it doesn't hold anything. And I think
Speaker 1: they've got them. And I think the thing about that
Speaker 1: is when you look at and you I don't know
Speaker 1: most of you guys have probably watched Sounds of the
Speaker 1: Sideline as a piece we do every week where you
Speaker 1: get a chance to see and hear what players are
Speaker 1: saying on the sideline during games. And one of the
Speaker 1: interesting things about that is I've noticed that as the
Speaker 1: season goes on, if the offense is on the field
Speaker 1: and the defense is on the sideline, when the offensive
Speaker 1: guy makes a play, the defensive guys are like, oh,
Speaker 1: that dude's just a beast, Like they believe that. When
Speaker 1: the other unit is on the field, like you have
Speaker 1: the offensive guys talking about Mica and they're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god. So when you have really good players across
Speaker 1: your team, then I think it breeds a certain level
Speaker 1: of confidence, not just in your own abilities, but in
Speaker 1: the abilities of the rest of your team, so that
Speaker 1: you know, hey, if we have a little mistake, our
Speaker 1: defense can pick us up on defense. If we can
Speaker 1: get them the ball, they're gonna go score. Like. That's
Speaker 1: what I think the chemistry is is they believe in
Speaker 1: one another. They know they got players, they know they're good.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of them then going out and
Speaker 1: actually executing it. Yeah, and on time. I agree with
Speaker 1: all of that. The chemistry stuff falls by the wayside
Speaker 1: when you're not winning games, Like you go back to
Speaker 1: the sixth game win stream. This team is special, man,
Speaker 1: and they do have that type of bond, but we're
Speaker 1: not talking about that when they're trade and wins and
Speaker 1: losses because we're trying to figure out why they're not
Speaker 1: playing well anymore. But I don't think that stuff went away.
Speaker 1: I think yes, I think all of the good players
Speaker 1: on this team, or the vast majority of them at
Speaker 1: least bring something intangible, whether you want to talk about
Speaker 1: Dak or what Amari does as as more of a
Speaker 1: quiet leader but still a leader, Parsons the enthusiasm that
Speaker 1: he's injected into this team. And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think about twenty nineteen. Remember they started
Speaker 1: three and zero and just were never able to recapture that.
Speaker 1: But later on we were like, well, maybe that was
Speaker 1: fool's goal. Those three teams that they beat sucked. I
Speaker 1: don't feel that way about that. Like the body of
Speaker 1: work is much more impressive. They've won eight games, they've
Speaker 1: got one really really looking impressed of win, which would
Speaker 1: be New England. Yeah, we didn't think it was at
Speaker 1: the time. I don't think it was that not at all,
Speaker 1: but it got they played under They like they underwhelmed
Speaker 1: to have to go into overtime against the team. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, Jamar Chase, Yeah, you can win Rickie
Speaker 1: of the Year, is it Jamar Chase? Yeah? Throwing three
Speaker 1: pass Yeah, And I get it that his fault. Talk
Speaker 1: to this coach about that. If he could throw better,
Speaker 1: he probably would tell him where the win was. Like,
Speaker 1: I get it, No, I understand that, But I think
Speaker 1: Belichick would just wanted to have some fun. I think
Speaker 1: he was trolling Sean McDermot. I mean, they're just gonna
Speaker 1: stay kid brother forever. You guys watch that whole game,
Speaker 1: because I could get past that time. I was like,
Speaker 1: I watched Peyton Manning and Eli Man, Yeah, I had
Speaker 1: it on and yes, still last night, but anyway, no,
Speaker 1: they were it was a good last night. Keep to
Speaker 1: Lee lit it up in the third quarter, and Joe
Speaker 1: Buck was funny too. I have to say yeah, and Letterman,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess that's so. But I'm just not
Speaker 1: a I'm not a big I don't know. I honestly
Speaker 1: I like them better than I like the No, I
Speaker 1: guess I just if we're being honest, Eli could take
Speaker 1: the night off and I'll just listen to Peyton give
Speaker 1: his thoughts about it because he's He's incredible. Now. I
Speaker 1: think Eli is the funniest part because I don't love
Speaker 1: how I love how he trolls. Peyton plays into it,
Speaker 1: like Eli has bought into this whole thing, and I
Speaker 1: think it works. It does respect him for it. It
Speaker 1: does work. And I like Eli Manning like I'm not
Speaker 1: one of these cowboy people that hates Eli Manning, but
Speaker 1: I just love the way Peyton is type A and
Speaker 1: a perfectionist and one of the best to ever do
Speaker 1: what he did, and it pisses him off to watch
Speaker 1: people screw it up, and it's just so funny it is,
Speaker 1: which is also why Eli is so funny too, because
Speaker 1: Elis is kind of like, okay, set down to say
Speaker 1: it's all right, Like he has the exact opposite person
Speaker 1: the game, the game deciding play. Buffalo's got fourth and
Speaker 1: whatever on like the twenty five. If they, I mean,
Speaker 1: they score, they probably win. If they don't pick up
Speaker 1: the first down, it's over. And Peyton called it. He
Speaker 1: said what they were gonna do. He's like, all right,
Speaker 1: you're looking for a post over the middle here. You
Speaker 1: gotta bail out of the pocket, like you need to
Speaker 1: get but he's like, you gotta get back enough to
Speaker 1: have time to get the throw because they're coming. It's
Speaker 1: zero coverage. He lays it out beautifully. That's exactly what
Speaker 1: the Bills do. Alan does like an eight step drop
Speaker 1: and it's a double post and they just he throws
Speaker 1: it behind the guy and the Pats bat it down
Speaker 1: and Peyton looked like he was about to lose his mind,
Speaker 1: but because he knew exactly what to do and they
Speaker 1: still couldn't get it. But he actually called it. On
Speaker 1: third down, he said, you better get something short here
Speaker 1: to make fourth down manageable. And they did it. They
Speaker 1: threw some almost hail mary to the end zone, which
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is a great athlete by the way, to
Speaker 1: get out of that. But he's basically saying, hey, you
Speaker 1: gotta play a shot ahead here. You gotta get something here.
Speaker 1: Don't fourth and fourteen from the nineteen ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: You gotta get seven eight yard. That's where Beasley's got
Speaker 1: to do a little bit more. And to be quite honest,
Speaker 1: they got to use him more. Talking about just them
Speaker 1: on that cat. If they had one guest throughout the
Speaker 1: entire thing and the rest of it was Jess, Peyton
Speaker 1: and Eli talking about the game, I would probably in
Speaker 1: a lot more. Sometimes the guest, In my opion, it
Speaker 1: just kind of derails it a bit, just because if
Speaker 1: the guest is really entertaining, then with the delay, it's
Speaker 1: just it's kind of all over the place. I'd rather
Speaker 1: just listen to Peyton. You know, you ever see them
Speaker 1: just go over the over the guests. It's basically like
Speaker 1: and Peyton does it. He just goes right over the guests.
Speaker 1: He's like, uh, you know, like the double zone coverage here, Eli,
Speaker 1: you know, like right, you know, He's just like, all right,
Speaker 1: you're out of this one letterman. We're talking ball and
Speaker 1: that's that's why I love him, because he just he's
Speaker 1: he wants he's so dialed into a game that really
Speaker 1: he has no stakes and that he doesn't have time
Speaker 1: to like ask Letterman about his career. So the guests
Speaker 1: that are best, so the guests that's just gonna fit
Speaker 1: into that, like Sean Lynch, like give me a drop
Speaker 1: me an f bomb. So I didn't like everyone else did.
Speaker 1: But I didn't like that because he was just he
Speaker 1: just was peppering with questions. It's like, I get it,
Speaker 1: you're prepared, it's awesome, but blah blah. But I thought
Speaker 1: Eli I said the funniest thing last night about all
Speaker 1: these designed runs and quarterback runs. He goes, I had
Speaker 1: two runs my whole career quarterback sneak and kneel down.
Speaker 1: Like that was only two, right, real, since we got
Speaker 1: off the rails that I wanted to finish. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to finish it. Now he's gonna be killing all
Speaker 1: of us and break right, go ahead. Real. Just the
Speaker 1: point I wanted to make is twenty nineteen, they beat
Speaker 1: Nobody of consequence and then just traded, and every time
Speaker 1: they played a good team they looked terrible. You know,
Speaker 1: they didn't score a touchdown in New England. They couldn't
Speaker 1: score a touchdown against Philly. I just think the body
Speaker 1: of work is so much better this year. Like they
Speaker 1: played Tampa to the brink, even though they looked bad
Speaker 1: doing it. They were in that Chiefs game in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, so you played close against both Super Bowl teams.
Speaker 1: They've blown out a lot of current wild card content.
Speaker 1: I mean they comfortably beat the Saints, they destroyed the Falcons,
Speaker 1: they destroyed the Eagles. Are these good teams, No, but
Speaker 1: they're teams that are in the playoff race. Like these
Speaker 1: are not the Giants, Dolphins and whatever that other team
Speaker 1: was from twenty I mean they beat up on some
Speaker 1: of the worst teams in the league at the beginning
Speaker 1: of that year, washing there we go. I just don't
Speaker 1: think that's what this season is. I think if you
Speaker 1: look at the body of work, I trust that they're
Speaker 1: a pretty good team and having a chance to get
Speaker 1: healthier and take some time off, I think they will
Speaker 1: play much better down the stretch. Not saying they go
Speaker 1: five and no, but I think they're going to play
Speaker 1: much better football these last five after the break. I
Speaker 1: have a point on something else, I think that we're
Speaker 1: not we never talked about, but I think a reason
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Speaker 1: at December twenty Just think what was last thro right? Okay, Nick,
Speaker 1: you had a point you were going to make just
Speaker 1: before we went to break. What is your point? Out correct?
Speaker 1: Could be funny stories gets auto corrected to steroids, I
Speaker 1: might go, awesome, don't do that. No, that a little
Speaker 1: bit different. Um, I would think I typed stories way
Speaker 1: more than I type the words steroids. But maybe maybe not.
Speaker 1: I was gonna talk about the fact that you know
Speaker 1: the chemistry. And we always say when we get coaches
Speaker 1: in here that are all he's been a head coach,
Speaker 1: he's been a head coach. They've got three that are
Speaker 1: head that have been head coaches, Philbin, John Fossil and
Speaker 1: of course Dan Quinn, and then Ben McAdoo is more
Speaker 1: of a consultant. He's obviously been a head coach for
Speaker 1: a little bit. So those guys right there, I think
Speaker 1: what we forget sometimes is did you qu and here
Speaker 1: say did not same? Tan Quinta, Yeah, Quin. So those four,
Speaker 1: you know, it's more than just having like, you know,
Speaker 1: knowledge on all the positions. But when you're a head coach,
Speaker 1: you've got to be a coach of everybody. And I
Speaker 1: hear Dan Quinn talk about the offense sometimes, I hear
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore talk about the defense. I hear John Fossil
Speaker 1: talk about all aspects of it. And I think when
Speaker 1: when you see you know these guys are they're getting
Speaker 1: coach that way they're talking, you know, defensive backs, they're
Speaker 1: talking about the offense because it's not a competition like that.
Speaker 1: We saw it at training camp that they're not they're
Speaker 1: competing at camp, but they are an absolute team. And
Speaker 1: I think when you have head coaches that have I
Speaker 1: mean assistant coaches who have been head coaches and kind
Speaker 1: of get that whole team aspect about this thing helps us.
Speaker 1: Then I think it leads to that. So I don't
Speaker 1: want to I don't want to say that that's just
Speaker 1: the players. The coaches help as well with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, to that same point. Um, I think the
Speaker 1: other thing you have to notice is that this team
Speaker 1: competes hard against one another when you have offense versus defense.
Speaker 1: We saw it in one of the videos we put
Speaker 1: up earlier this year of when Diggs was was up
Speaker 1: against I think Amario and they were going hard at
Speaker 1: each other and throughout training camp did we thought we did,
Speaker 1: but but even during training camp we saw when when
Speaker 1: Diggs and uh and and CD were going at each
Speaker 1: other pretty hard. It is a sign of to me
Speaker 1: of good chemistry when you can go at each other
Speaker 1: really really really hard and after the play is over
Speaker 1: you dap each other up, like there's still that connection that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going at each other really hard and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: beat you, I'm gonna talk bad to you, but you
Speaker 1: still my brother, like we still our teammates, and I
Speaker 1: still want you want the best. And that's not always
Speaker 1: what you see. Sometimes you can get frayed. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know feelings with that kind of stuff. They got the
Speaker 1: right kind of chemistry, right kind of guys to be
Speaker 1: able to do that. Where else does that happen too?
Speaker 1: Where else in life do you argue with people NonStop?
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, family family, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what That's what it is. And that's what family is.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you you can argue with it,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't change whatever anything, right and so and
Speaker 1: and and some of the best battles in the history
Speaker 1: of sports have probably been in the backyard with older brothers,
Speaker 1: you know, that kind of stuff. So the day, it's family,
Speaker 1: and I think that they've created that they've created a
Speaker 1: family atmosphere here. I think the ultimate sign of good
Speaker 1: chemistry is just implicitly trusting that the other phases of
Speaker 1: the team are not going to let you down. And
Speaker 1: like they're not going to say that. Yeah, but again,
Speaker 1: like you know, Amari Cooper goes against Diggs every day
Speaker 1: and sees what he offers, and then during these games
Speaker 1: you see Parsons doing what he's doing. The defense getting
Speaker 1: what are they at, like twenty takeaways now with five
Speaker 1: games left to play or whatever it is, reliably doing that,
Speaker 1: reliably holding opponents to manageable point totals. The defense knows
Speaker 1: what the offense can do. And even for we talked
Speaker 1: about this yesterday, for all the flak we gave the
Speaker 1: special teams the first four or five weeks of the season,
Speaker 1: they're holding their own in a big way right now.
Speaker 1: I mean the contributions they're getting. Tony Pollard got them
Speaker 1: back in that Raiders game with his kick return. So
Speaker 1: I think when you just trust that you don't have
Speaker 1: to do it yourself. I think you're not gonna go
Speaker 1: say that. But everybody's like, yeah, these guys got my back.
Speaker 1: They can get off the field and get us back
Speaker 1: out there, or get the ball for the offense, or
Speaker 1: we know that they're going to score twenty seven points.
Speaker 1: We're good. As you know. We know that in the
Speaker 1: back from I I think that is the ultimate thing
Speaker 1: that helps chemistry is just that trust. All right, looks
Speaker 1: like a phone call. We got robbed out in Vegas.
Speaker 1: Rob What up? Hey, guys, how you been Hey? You
Speaker 1: to hear from you. It's been a minute. I don't
Speaker 1: think we've talked to you since there's been a football
Speaker 1: team in Vegas. Wow. Okay, And that was a tough Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I had a deal with Ooh, I bet sorry about that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny how this team is now. The
Speaker 1: defense is blue collar and the offense is white collar.
Speaker 1: And I, as a fan, and I'm sure other fans
Speaker 1: you know, when Dak got hurt last year and he
Speaker 1: came back, my biggest concern was was he going to
Speaker 1: change his playing style? And he has, and that's hurting
Speaker 1: this team because I love Dak. You know, every year
Speaker 1: he's gotten better throwing the ball, but he's still not
Speaker 1: Brady or Aaron Rodgers. But when you combine his legs,
Speaker 1: that's what makes him, in my eyes, a top five quarterback.
Speaker 1: But I noticed he you know, there's no more read option.
Speaker 1: They don't. They don't even have that in the offense
Speaker 1: at all. And down by the goal line that was
Speaker 1: almost unstoppable when he would just keep it, they don't
Speaker 1: use that, and I just I'm just afraid that unless
Speaker 1: he starts playing more reckless, which I know we say, well,
Speaker 1: we don't want him to be reckless. We don't want
Speaker 1: him to take those hits because he may get hurt.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't look at it like that
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, if he doesn't
Speaker 1: play like that, we're not going to beat the Green
Speaker 1: Bays or the Tampa Bays. So what's the difference, Because
Speaker 1: to me, it's all about winning a Super Bowl. I
Speaker 1: want to see him. I just I just want to
Speaker 1: see Dak a little more reckless. And it just I
Speaker 1: think it gets this offense really going. I mean his stide.
Speaker 1: I think when he runs over thirty yards, I think
Speaker 1: they only lost one game. Okay, we thanks you for
Speaker 1: a call. You know something that's interesting about that point.
Speaker 1: And actually Jerry was talking about this morning on one
Speaker 1: or five out through the Fan. He was talking about
Speaker 1: the offense and kind of how the play calling is going.
Speaker 1: One thing he said that I thought was really interesting
Speaker 1: was he said, you know, we've got stuff that we
Speaker 1: put into the offense, or we put into our playbook
Speaker 1: back in training camp that we specifically were holding until
Speaker 1: this part of the year, until December, until January, because
Speaker 1: you want your offense to kind of evolve over time.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be doing the same things you
Speaker 1: were doing in September in December. And it made me
Speaker 1: wonder there for a second. Although this question was not
Speaker 1: necessarily about Dak, it made me wonder if they were, like,
Speaker 1: you know, we want to mitigate the risk with Dak,
Speaker 1: and mitigating a risk means September, October, November, we're going
Speaker 1: to be very judicious and how we use him. And
Speaker 1: in the run game December, January, that's what we might
Speaker 1: see a little bit more of that. Now that all
Speaker 1: remains to be seen, who knows what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: What do you guys think, First of all, from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of what Rob is talking about of Dak taking
Speaker 1: himself or them taking Dak out of the running game,
Speaker 1: and then number two about the possibility of maybe that
Speaker 1: being something that they use more as they go down
Speaker 1: the stretch. You want to go first. Not wrong, He's
Speaker 1: not wrong. We talked about it yesterday. He's not wrong,
Speaker 1: But I mean, it's it's a very it's a slippery
Speaker 1: slope for sure, when you're dealing with you know, this
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback who got hurt last year and the season
Speaker 1: was pretty much over after that happened. It was gonna
Speaker 1: be an uphill battle anyways, and they just couldn't do
Speaker 1: it without him. And so he it's a you know,
Speaker 1: he's got to make business decisions, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: It's and and sometimes he'll r he's making or you
Speaker 1: think the teams, I think he makes them. I think
Speaker 1: we see them. I think we see him. It's not
Speaker 1: because some of his best runs aren't necessarily supposed to
Speaker 1: be runs, but he's making them. I don't think he's running,
Speaker 1: don't You don't think someone is telling him, we don't
Speaker 1: want you to run on as much? Like That's what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out, is do you think this
Speaker 1: is where what's that perfe doing in the Falcons game
Speaker 1: when he just ran over someone to get to the
Speaker 1: fortieth point? You know what I mean? Like that that
Speaker 1: person's not not telling him to do that, that that
Speaker 1: person told him after the game, don't do that again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was like I had to show him. But you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, so yeah, even if they tell him,
Speaker 1: you're right, Yeah, that's still gonna do what he thinks.
Speaker 1: He gain enough things where he does what he what
Speaker 1: he does. I just he's got to be he even
Speaker 1: said it now season, I got to be smart about it.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're seeing, and it's it's not I mean,
Speaker 1: I sort of agree with Rob that he to be dack.
Speaker 1: To be what he is, he's gonna have to play
Speaker 1: reckless and you can't worry about it, even though I
Speaker 1: still worry about it. When I see him running on
Speaker 1: that side of the field, I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't like that. And so if I'm thinking about it
Speaker 1: and it didn't affect me, he probably is to Here's
Speaker 1: the funny thing. I looked this up while y'all have
Speaker 1: been talking. Sorry, no, no, it helped me get my
Speaker 1: numbers right, okay, And but it's it's funny. It makes
Speaker 1: it sound like, and I know that's not what y'all mean,
Speaker 1: but like this whole conversation makes it sound like Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson has suddenly decided to stop running. Dak's average in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, the last year he was healthy, he carried
Speaker 1: the ball three point two times per game for about
Speaker 1: seventeen yards. That's what we're talking about, three scrambles for
Speaker 1: two first downs a game. Right now, he's averaging two
Speaker 1: point seven a game for eight yards, so roughly the
Speaker 1: same amount of attempts for about half the yardage. But
Speaker 1: that's what I love about football, is seventeen yards a game.
Speaker 1: Two of those three runs could be for crucial first downs,
Speaker 1: or especially in the red zone where the field is
Speaker 1: so condensed, if you pull the ball and get two
Speaker 1: yards and give yourself four new downs, you just greatly
Speaker 1: increase your chance of scoring in goal situation. Get a
Speaker 1: touch well. And the other funny thing is so Dak
Speaker 1: scored six touchdowns a year his first three years. His
Speaker 1: best year as a runner ever was twenty seventeen, and
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a coincidence that's that's when he
Speaker 1: had the worst receiving core of his career. Absolutely, you know,
Speaker 1: guys that couldn't get open, and he's got to improvise
Speaker 1: a lot more. But in twenty nineteen he only had
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. Well, he'd have three touchdowns right now if
Speaker 1: he hadn't, in my opinion, gotten robbed of two QB
Speaker 1: sneaks earlier. In the season. So again, that's what makes
Speaker 1: football so funny, is if two other players go the
Speaker 1: wrong way, you're like, or the right way. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: He's like, damn, he's run thirty two times for ninety
Speaker 1: five yards and three touchdowns. That ain't bad for a
Speaker 1: guy that's trying to do less. So I don't think
Speaker 1: it's drastic, but I do think there needs to be
Speaker 1: more an element of that. I mean, in theory, I
Speaker 1: agree with Rob and Nick. I just don't think it's
Speaker 1: as drastic as that. I think there needs to be
Speaker 1: two more occasions per game where he's willing to tuck
Speaker 1: and get six yards and slide or whatever. I don't
Speaker 1: think you need to reinvent the wheel. Here again, we're
Speaker 1: talking about the difference between seventeen yards a game and
Speaker 1: eight yards. Again, like, it's not this drastic thing, but
Speaker 1: I do think they need to be more mindful of that.
Speaker 1: So while Day was talking, I did a little ago
Speaker 1: research helping each other. Yeah, here we go, and how
Speaker 1: many times in his career do you think he's rushed
Speaker 1: for six times or more, six attempts or more. I
Speaker 1: bet it would be a lot less than most people thinking,
Speaker 1: what do you think. I mean, because I was six
Speaker 1: rushes in a game, maybe three, I don't know, three
Speaker 1: games in his career. I don't think that's a normal thing.
Speaker 1: Six six rushes seems like okay, I was gonna I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, twelve eighteen. I'm a little low. He
Speaker 1: rushes that. I didn't realize he rushed that many times
Speaker 1: in a game. I mean, you know, and he's played
Speaker 1: how many of those game in that season twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: I say, I'm thinking that's probably most of them. You know,
Speaker 1: it's fun. I bet that number because he haven't done
Speaker 1: at all season this eighteen twenty one, and this is
Speaker 1: the year eighteen twenty one, sixteen, sixteen, sixteen, eighteen, nineteen, sixteen, seventeen, seventeen, seventeen, eighteen, eighteen, eighteen, eighteen,
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty. That's his eighteen games where he's had where
Speaker 1: he's had six rushes or more. Sounds like eighteen and
Speaker 1: sixteen with a two per dominant years record for fourteen
Speaker 1: and four. And when it's seven or more, it's like
Speaker 1: seven six and zero seven. No, So I mean that's
Speaker 1: those numbers can be a little misleading. I get it,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, that's when he's running, when
Speaker 1: he's doing his thing. You know, it's it's it's probably
Speaker 1: it's better. Um. And only one of those games he
Speaker 1: runs nine times in twenty twenty one. Yeah, but again
Speaker 1: like that, that goes to your point of, that goes
Speaker 1: to your point of it can be misleading. He ran
Speaker 1: nine times for six yards in that game. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not like he was gashing the Eagles. And also,
Speaker 1: you know, I also wonder how many times? How is
Speaker 1: that possible? Because if it's a run, and it's if
Speaker 1: it's a run and he gets sacked, Betty, I bet
Speaker 1: he had one scramble for no. I bet he had
Speaker 1: one for like eighteen yards, and then that offset a
Speaker 1: bunch of one and two yard losses. If I had
Speaker 1: to guess, I'd have to go back and look, all right, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I just I feel like
Speaker 1: when it comes down to running, I think the smarter
Speaker 1: thing when you've got receivers and running backs and tight
Speaker 1: ends the caliber of the ones on this team, I
Speaker 1: think the smart thing is to say, Dak, let your
Speaker 1: skill guys do the work. But that doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: shouldn't find opportunities. I just think and I would I
Speaker 1: really want to see what happens in December and January.
Speaker 1: If in December and January we start seeing a little
Speaker 1: bit more of that did. I think that was a
Speaker 1: very smart move not to do it early in the season.
Speaker 1: That gives you one other wrinkle you can add in
Speaker 1: in the time of the year when you really need
Speaker 1: to do something a little different to mix it up.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see Dak carrying the ball six
Speaker 1: or more times a game unless it's some weird circumstance,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, but this goes back to
Speaker 1: and I always try to listen to what he says
Speaker 1: because you can kind of parse out some kernels of
Speaker 1: truth if you go between the QB speak. And he
Speaker 1: said it after the Saints game. He's like, that's probably
Speaker 1: me being a little bit greedy, And he was talking
Speaker 1: about one specific play, but I think it pertains to
Speaker 1: a lot of their issues and the things that you
Speaker 1: can He was talking about rating within the flow of
Speaker 1: the offense, taking it play by play, perfect example, and
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about one specific play, but you see
Speaker 1: this in football all the time. Josh Allen did it
Speaker 1: last night. You break contain the play is kind of
Speaker 1: breaking down. You bolt to the sideline, guys in pursuit,
Speaker 1: but you're athletic enough to get the corner on him.
Speaker 1: Do you take your three or four yards and take
Speaker 1: it to third and six? Or do you try to
Speaker 1: fire to ceedee lamb bolting towards the sideline and get
Speaker 1: eighteen right there? Dat can make that play. I'm not
Speaker 1: he can make that play, and he should have trust
Speaker 1: in himself. But maybe the smarter, more efficient play is
Speaker 1: like third and six. And then We've got so many
Speaker 1: other concepts that are easier to get, and I think
Speaker 1: that element's been missing from this offense. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of times over the last month, I think they've
Speaker 1: been trying to dial up the touchdown play every time
Speaker 1: they snap the ball. And it's awesome when it works,
Speaker 1: but it's tough to do that on a consistent basis
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And that's an interesting thing because even
Speaker 1: when you see it open, sometimes you see I think
Speaker 1: I can fit it in there. Yeah. Just the percentage
Speaker 1: chance of completing a play, though, is lesser in a
Speaker 1: situation where you might want to take the lesser don't
Speaker 1: have to complete the Play's that's why when they say,
Speaker 1: fifty fifty balls. I mean Derek Carr throwing it up
Speaker 1: on Anthony Brown. It wasn't a fifty fifty, it was
Speaker 1: an eighty twenty. That you're gonna get the ball there,
Speaker 1: regardless of if the catch or not the flag might
Speaker 1: be there. So that's why I do think they well maybe,
Speaker 1: but I do think they need to they need to
Speaker 1: throw the ball up a little bit more because we're
Speaker 1: seeing that happen a lot, a lot. It's just tough
Speaker 1: to well, but you know something, I don't know, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna get way off the tracks here, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if we're seeing out a lot in every game.
Speaker 1: We saw it a lot in the game where the
Speaker 1: Cowboys played the Raiders. We were just I was just
Speaker 1: watching a game yesterday or Sunday where the exactly it
Speaker 1: was a very similar play to what happened in the
Speaker 1: Cowboys Raiders game, and there was no call, Like literally,
Speaker 1: you saw the guy tugging the jersey. Yeah, you see
Speaker 1: the guy tugging the jersey, and you're like, that would
Speaker 1: have been a call that week. And that's my whole
Speaker 1: problem with all of the ref If you're gonna do
Speaker 1: something consistently every time the same way, then hey, it
Speaker 1: is what it is. But when you got such drastic
Speaker 1: differences between in this game, it's a penalty in this game,
Speaker 1: it's not. And I know it's different different referees, but
Speaker 1: it's just it's just really frustrating as a fan to
Speaker 1: watch that pay But I'm gonna say one more thing.
Speaker 1: You don't I don't know if I even agree with
Speaker 1: with with you saying Jerry saying we're holding some plays
Speaker 1: back and all that. The only thing I can think
Speaker 1: of is, Okay, what if Seattle's doing that? Every team
Speaker 1: is doing that. I think, well, what if Seattle's like Russ,
Speaker 1: We're not gonna call all the plays right now, We're
Speaker 1: gonna wait till the end of the season. And he's
Speaker 1: like cool, Now, I'm three and eight like no. But
Speaker 1: but I think I think you're missing the point. I
Speaker 1: think the point is when you look at the offense,
Speaker 1: I think it is an evolving thing over the season.
Speaker 1: There's some things you do early in the season. As
Speaker 1: it progresses, you know, teams are game planning you. It's
Speaker 1: like your idea of the flea flicker, right, you do
Speaker 1: it because you're setting up other things. So my point
Speaker 1: is like, there are things you do early in the
Speaker 1: season that are setting up things for later in the season,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to show those things until you
Speaker 1: get later in the season because that gives you something
Speaker 1: that that you know teams are going to be keying
Speaker 1: on that you now can take it manage. That's the point.
Speaker 1: Better not be better than what I've been running, because
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I'm saying, don't save all the
Speaker 1: good stuff to the end. If the end doesn't mean
Speaker 1: it's not better stuff. It's just different stuff. It's just
Speaker 1: things that you can do to take advantage of other
Speaker 1: things that you've been doing earlier. I think, Okay, I
Speaker 1: agree with you, but I mean I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't think they got some golden play that they're like,
Speaker 1: we're not running this until the super Bowl. Like that's
Speaker 1: a bad idea. I don't think that's the point of Okay,
Speaker 1: I think I just don't. Maybe I don't understand that
Speaker 1: this is such a hypothetical argument as well. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: about who saves money and who doesn't. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, just like to spend it now?
Speaker 1: I got it, you know what I mean, I got
Speaker 1: the money you'll go with it as opposed to you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just that just seems weird to me
Speaker 1: to just kind of wait till later in the season
Speaker 1: when you don't know how the season's gonna go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I also I think the teams that do really
Speaker 1: well they have the ability to keep building on that.
Speaker 1: If you're three and eight, then you're emptying. You're emptying
Speaker 1: because the stuff that worked earlier isn't working. So guess what,
Speaker 1: You've already You've already done all that stuff because you're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to get a win right
Speaker 1: with the amount, with the amount that Mike McCarthy talks
Speaker 1: about self scouting and being aware of your own tendencies.
Speaker 1: And I would like to think, but I also trust
Speaker 1: that Kellen Moore is going to keep an eye on that,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys offense is going to look basically the
Speaker 1: same what we've always seen. But it's about throwing in wrinkles,
Speaker 1: right and if you can find ways to take advantage
Speaker 1: of that. This is just an easy example. Dak hasn't
Speaker 1: run QB keeper off an option read all year. If
Speaker 1: you think that that's there for you against one specific
Speaker 1: look where one team's really crashing on it, then you
Speaker 1: should do it. Not to say you're going to start
Speaker 1: running read option in every game, but it gets It's
Speaker 1: like Man Mantes Sweat is so aggressive, he's had so
Speaker 1: much success doing that, crashing inside on this play. That's
Speaker 1: how you find a twenty five yard game for dak
Speaker 1: and with minimal risks. It's stuff like that, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I would like to think we'll see maybe not that
Speaker 1: exact scenario, but those types of things where you can
Speaker 1: build on your own tendencies to take advantage of people.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna take our final break. We're gonna
Speaker 1: come back. We're gonna get some more phone calls. We
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Speaker 1: welcome back. I'm not one of these days I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna sing this song. I'm I'm gonna sing one of
Speaker 1: these reads one of these days. You know, I want
Speaker 1: to see how that goes. Do it now? No, wait,
Speaker 1: I'll wait a little bit and work on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's probably the best day to do it, though, what
Speaker 1: did you don't want to have to see that young
Speaker 1: lady sitting across shell. Yeah, she'll spit and she'll be
Speaker 1: like terrible. Yeah, all right, and it will be It'll
Speaker 1: be terrible. I'm seeing one of these reads. But all night.
Speaker 1: We're in our final segment of the break Leaf and
Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we haven't gotten
Speaker 1: through half of our rundown for today because you guys
Speaker 1: talk so much. But one of these days you'll believe me, like,
Speaker 1: we'll be fine. Well, I went Today's office yesterday. I
Speaker 1: was like, man, Derek, Derek, dude, where we can talk
Speaker 1: about Dave has an office. Good point, Dave, you don't
Speaker 1: call its cubicle and off the office and Dave's corner
Speaker 1: the room. I don't if Dave could close his door,
Speaker 1: which he can't, Dave's He's the perfect person for it
Speaker 1: because it's it's like, I mean, what if we turn
Speaker 1: my office into like the break room and we all
Speaker 1: sitting there together, Chris, is this recording? I'm good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want that. I think you would hate that? Turn
Speaker 1: into the break room your office? Yeah cool, we'd all
Speaker 1: work in there every day. I would together to see
Speaker 1: your reaction on that. Why you project this easy going
Speaker 1: demeanor on the show, Like if eight people just showed
Speaker 1: up in your office, your eyes would talk out. No, no,
Speaker 1: no not. I'm saying, if we all knew this is
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do, we're just gonna make this out.
Speaker 1: You just don't just just don't have a quiet place
Speaker 1: where you can ever. And I know you're not. If
Speaker 1: I spent the days with the day with you guys,
Speaker 1: i'd be I'd be happy with you. No, you wouldn't.
Speaker 1: You don't think No, I would love that. Fans, if
Speaker 1: you're listening right now, don't believe in relies. I don't
Speaker 1: believe in this. I would enjoy hanging out with you
Speaker 1: guys all day. No, we're gonna go in there and
Speaker 1: we're gonna smoke a cigarette or whatever. Who's the same
Speaker 1: thing all smoking is both of y'all are kind of similar.
Speaker 1: Like when y'all want to come out and socialize, it's
Speaker 1: everybody's happy and there can be all the noise in
Speaker 1: the world. But when y'all are trying to focus on something,
Speaker 1: it'd better be quiet as a church and the office. Everybody, though,
Speaker 1: isn't that kind of everybody that happens. I just close
Speaker 1: my door because I have calls and I'm loud. I close.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of hearing it. Yeah, I'm extremely loud, and
Speaker 1: I know that that bothers everybody else. When I get
Speaker 1: loud on a phone call. I don't know what I
Speaker 1: really I feed off of other people's energy. Like I
Speaker 1: like to watch football at bars. I like for there
Speaker 1: to be a little bit of background noise in the office. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you said that. Remember when we were in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: You said that kind of surprising what we were. We
Speaker 1: were like, um, we worked together in Kansas City. We
Speaker 1: were kind of after the game, we didn't go, we
Speaker 1: didn't fight, Yeah, Charter after the game, and so we
Speaker 1: were like, we're in lobby, and I mean there's this
Speaker 1: like group of people that just weren't leaving the hotel.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just they're playing the football and
Speaker 1: what it thrown around. It was like a family of thirty,
Speaker 1: you know, and it was kind of like, you know, wait,
Speaker 1: they're playing football in the lot. How they were kids
Speaker 1: playing you know. I don't know what was going on.
Speaker 1: We were waiting for seven ubers or I don't know,
Speaker 1: but and I said something, you know, and Dave, and
Speaker 1: Dave was like, h I like it. I like the
Speaker 1: background noise. I'm just like, okay. After the Charger game,
Speaker 1: I was. I was the last person that stayed after
Speaker 1: the Charger game. I took a red eye, so I
Speaker 1: got back to the hotel after the game at like
Speaker 1: probably five thirty, and I was like, okay, my flight's
Speaker 1: not till midnight. I got all the time in the
Speaker 1: world to kill. I put my laptop just like it
Speaker 1: is right now at the hotel bar, ordered a burger
Speaker 1: and a beverage and I sat there and watched the
Speaker 1: games and worked for two and a half hours. Is great.
Speaker 1: So came up, chatted with a few people. I think
Speaker 1: Clarence Hill was there. We kind of walked about the game.
Speaker 1: I just yeah, I don't know. I like other people's
Speaker 1: energy gives me energy. If I'm just left to my
Speaker 1: own devices, probably fall asleep something. We were in Kansas
Speaker 1: City to tell a story. People say they like to
Speaker 1: hear stories. We were in Kansas City Tuesdays, just the
Speaker 1: Tuesday's the No Structure show. So we're in Kansas City
Speaker 1: watching the like the Chargers and the Steelers, I believe,
Speaker 1: And you know, in the hotel lounge bars wasn't really
Speaker 1: a bar. It was more like a lounge area and
Speaker 1: a lobby. And we're there and we were talking to
Speaker 1: some people and there were there were a few guys here.
Speaker 1: They were like ready to have some fun and they
Speaker 1: were kind of they were in I think they had
Speaker 1: been in Jerry Sweet because it was sort of some
Speaker 1: Arkansas ties. They were there and Jerry sweeterler in the
Speaker 1: day and they were going to stay for the Arkansas
Speaker 1: basketball games. And they were kind of, you know, having fun.
Speaker 1: And then you know, Jab and I are sitting there
Speaker 1: watching the game and then this guy comes up to
Speaker 1: us and goes, do you guys do pictures? Like we're
Speaker 1: like pictures as take them? Yeah, yeah sure, And he's
Speaker 1: like I love what you guys do and all that,
Speaker 1: and these other guys are just like, you know, they're
Speaker 1: they're trying to be we were in Churish for you
Speaker 1: blah by you know, cool, awesome, that's that's great. And
Speaker 1: then they look over and they're like what is going
Speaker 1: on here? Like who are y'all? Like we stood up?
Speaker 1: This guy's wife takes the picture. He's like, I'm so,
Speaker 1: you know, I love what you guys do, which we
Speaker 1: really appreciate that absolutely, but this guy, these two guys
Speaker 1: over here did not know how to handle that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they thought they were the most important people. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they ever come out to you guys and getting the
Speaker 1: incomfortable like who are you guys? Yeah, that's that's maybe
Speaker 1: the first time that's ever happened, because you like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not out getting stopped every day of my life.
Speaker 1: But if I'm in a Cowboys atmosphere, like if I'm
Speaker 1: at the team hotel or at a game, I'm used
Speaker 1: to that, Like that's common training and yeah, training camp definitely.
Speaker 1: Um So normally when I'm in that setting, it makes
Speaker 1: sense people are like, oh, you're somehow affiliated with the
Speaker 1: team or whatever. So no, that doesn't happen to me.
Speaker 1: But what it happens when you're not in the inviting down,
Speaker 1: when people kind of looking at like, I are you,
Speaker 1: like somebody I should know. I have friends that listen
Speaker 1: to this show and they'll tell you, like it'll happen
Speaker 1: to me, like out at bars or at one time.
Speaker 1: I hope I hope this guy's listening because it was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Like this was before COVID, but like we were all
Speaker 1: hopping in an uber. We were going a brunch in
Speaker 1: the off season and the car pulls up and I
Speaker 1: just I like sitting up front, So I just naturally
Speaker 1: go to get in the front seat of this guy's
Speaker 1: car and he's like, yeah, Dave, sit up here with me.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the Cowboys. Freak out. I not really,
Speaker 1: I say the Cowboys. Y, yeah, I was. I was like, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? And like I had some friends that had
Speaker 1: never seen that happen before, and they gave me grief
Speaker 1: about it for the rest of the day. They're just like,
Speaker 1: who the hell are you? Like we knew, which we did,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean, nothing's better than than getting pulled
Speaker 1: over in the cop just basically leaning into your window
Speaker 1: for about fifteen minutes talking to you about you know who,
Speaker 1: what they should do with the running game and whatever.
Speaker 1: Cars will like going eighty miles, but you know he's
Speaker 1: on the right side, just like talking whatever, and it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, slow down, see you later, Okay, as long
Speaker 1: as that doesn't even in a ticket. Oh it didn't know.
Speaker 1: It's just like cool all day. But but I'll say
Speaker 1: this too, And I know we're way off in the
Speaker 1: weeds here. It's fine. I do an extra fifty. I
Speaker 1: do love it when that happens. Yeah, And it's not
Speaker 1: for the reason you would kind of think, because it
Speaker 1: is kind of embarrassing. It is. It is a little
Speaker 1: bit very It's embarrassing because you just know that you're
Speaker 1: not you know, like a training camp and I sign
Speaker 1: this and you're hey, can I get a picture? And
Speaker 1: you feel weird. It's feels awkward. But I will tell
Speaker 1: you what why I do like it. It's because, you guys, know,
Speaker 1: my moods can kind of go up and down a
Speaker 1: little bit. Just tad, Yeah, don't even start a pot
Speaker 1: and cattle over there, you don't start. But anyways, my
Speaker 1: moods can't go up and down when I see when
Speaker 1: when I hear that, it is a reality check of
Speaker 1: what we're doing and why we're doing it and the
Speaker 1: fans that are out there, and it kind of brings
Speaker 1: you back like you got a really good job whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever you're worried about, whatever the issue is, it'll be
Speaker 1: all right. It always will be all right. It's a
Speaker 1: huge reality check for me. It's like, wow, this is
Speaker 1: this is a big deal, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like we I'd have twenty five followers on Twitter if
Speaker 1: I didn't work for the Cowboys. I think he's got
Speaker 1: the same opinions, right, but you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and and and and we don't and we know why
Speaker 1: we have what we have. And I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: I don't have balloons for a hundred thousand, but not
Speaker 1: my faulty talk about embarrassing. That's embarrassing. That embarrassed that
Speaker 1: kind of day. It stood up there for four days. No,
Speaker 1: I'm scared. I was like, no, that's that's but that's yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember when you started, like you switched Twitter accounts.
Speaker 1: You don't have any followers and zero. Yeah, he tweets
Speaker 1: a little bit like he'll spend to say if to
Speaker 1: say that's Clarence, but he gets out there, he'll spend
Speaker 1: some time out there. You did he'll spend some time
Speaker 1: out there, all right, real quick before we in the show,
Speaker 1: we do have to get a call from Nigel. He's
Speaker 1: been holding Yeah. As the world turns, right, how you doing, man,
Speaker 1: I'm great man. As the world turns with Nick's life, Man,
Speaker 1: you're killing me anyway. I don't watch that. I got
Speaker 1: a couple of things. I got a session and my
Speaker 1: clients are waiting. But I've been waiting patiently because Nick
Speaker 1: super califragilistic XPILA. That's me, man, I'm the guy who
Speaker 1: did that. Anyways, Um, you brought it up there, so
Speaker 1: I heard him saying he wants to sing, and you know,
Speaker 1: if you need help with that, I'll bring in connecting.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there you go, buddy. Um offensive line, Phil Callahan, Man,
Speaker 1: I think we were at our peak when we had him.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of bummed his garden. It seems everywhere he's gone,
Speaker 1: he's he's been so successful. And what I'm not seeing
Speaker 1: is the tenacity man in our offensive line. I'm not
Speaker 1: seeing the push are tight end zone holding blocks. I'd
Speaker 1: like you to touch on that and the other thing
Speaker 1: before I gotta go. I love you, guys, but what
Speaker 1: in God's name are we doing putting Ziegel on an
Speaker 1: empty backfield out as a wide receiver when we all
Speaker 1: know Tony Pollard is a beast out there. Thanks, guys,
Speaker 1: love you. Let's kick the you know what out of
Speaker 1: the WWFT than appreciate the call. I'm really happy and
Speaker 1: we can get to the offensive line. But I'm really
Speaker 1: happy he brought that up. And because we can talk
Speaker 1: about Dak and the receivers and the offensive line. Kelly
Speaker 1: Moore is part of this too, And oh my god,
Speaker 1: I was so pissed off when they lined Zeke up
Speaker 1: out wide on a third down and threw him a
Speaker 1: slam it. Yeah, and he like Zeke, he has shown
Speaker 1: his hands this year. Still, what are we doing? Yeah?
Speaker 1: There's literally three Pro Bowl caliber receivers on this team
Speaker 1: and another two that I would still I would want
Speaker 1: Malik Turner doing that before Zeke Elliott. That drove me nuts. Well,
Speaker 1: in all fairness, you do have to point out the
Speaker 1: fact that when you get Dak I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: when you get Zeke out there running that slant, his
Speaker 1: matchup is going to be better. He's probably going to
Speaker 1: have a linebacker, which is a better matchup than a
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Who would have a defensive back, So that
Speaker 1: does matter a bit. I think the point that that
Speaker 1: um Nigel was making, I think that's a valid point.
Speaker 1: Who do you want running that slant between yes Zeke
Speaker 1: and I mean Pollard? Pollard a one hundred times out
Speaker 1: of a hundred. He played some receiver in college. I
Speaker 1: still don't care. By the way, you don't came about
Speaker 1: the match. I don't when was this play? Was fourth quarter?
Speaker 1: It was? I remember it. I remember it vividly because
Speaker 1: when it happened, I was like, that's what like it was.
Speaker 1: It was during that stretch. I felt like there was
Speaker 1: a stretch there and yeah, like that's part of the
Speaker 1: thing fans don't see too, is like we gotta get
Speaker 1: down to the field. And also in the new nice stadiums,
Speaker 1: there's a TV on every wall where you can kind
Speaker 1: of keep track of everything. The dome. We were watching
Speaker 1: on Derek's phone in the tunnels while we were trying
Speaker 1: to get out to the field. I know this is
Speaker 1: your home city, but that's a dump. It's a dun't
Speaker 1: It is now the if not the worst, then the
Speaker 1: second worst stadium in the league. I mean it holds
Speaker 1: a special place in my heart. Yeah, yeah, FedEx is
Speaker 1: my least favorite. Yeah, and that's probably because I have
Speaker 1: a nostalgic tide of the Dome, but it's not a
Speaker 1: nice building and do the same thing to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: remember when Sex don't like hosted the Super Bowl? Though
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't at least this play. And
Speaker 1: it's also about the atmosphere. And by the way, you
Speaker 1: got you got the city right, that's the part that
Speaker 1: makes New Orleans always always when you can actually aways
Speaker 1: say hate about that, you gotta get down there and
Speaker 1: you can't miss especially you know, for us, we got
Speaker 1: to interview guys right after the game. But like you
Speaker 1: always fraid you're gonna miss that. And one time I
Speaker 1: did miss the game changing play. One time it was
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Giants. I forgot the year twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: Two times I got another one for you. Oh man,
Speaker 1: maybe but it was but I just remember the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were down seven, they drove, they scored with about three
Speaker 1: minutes to go, tied the game. We were about to
Speaker 1: go on the field. I was like, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: to the restroom right real quick. All I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: is miss the kickoff. And you just hear this crowd
Speaker 1: and you're like, this doesn't seem like a thirty yard return.
Speaker 1: It's still going. It seems like, you know, I get out.
Speaker 1: I was like Dwayne Harris just went on hundred the
Speaker 1: Giants game. The Giants game. I'm like, okay, and that's
Speaker 1: I missed it. What was what was another player in
Speaker 1: Texas Stadium, Santana Moss. We both were going in the elevator,
Speaker 1: elevator and missed that. The Cowboys were up fourteen, three, thirteen, thirteen, nothing, nothing,
Speaker 1: and then right back to back he goes bam, big play, touchdown, Bam,
Speaker 1: big play touchdown, and we I think we missed both
Speaker 1: of them. I know we missed one, but we may
Speaker 1: have missed both of those. And we got down the
Speaker 1: field and like what they're they're they're losing, and it
Speaker 1: just like you know, when you're in that elevator, you
Speaker 1: never know what's gonna happen. When did when did that happen?
Speaker 1: I can't find it. What the the Washington game, No, No,
Speaker 1: the zeke in completion, I don't know. I remember I
Speaker 1: remember play vividly. I don't remember what I was part
Speaker 1: of the game it was in I just remember I
Speaker 1: remember watching it and thinking that's an odd call, Mickey,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, anyway, he loves to tell
Speaker 1: Rob things in the middle of the game, Like he
Speaker 1: just passes you and just tells Rob something that happened.
Speaker 1: And Rob's like, okay, yeah, that looks like okay me
Speaker 1: and me and we have a good relationship. But that's
Speaker 1: his guy. The offensive line, I mean, I that's what
Speaker 1: he was asking about, and I think we have touched
Speaker 1: on it. It is not the same, is I Mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if Bill Callahan would be the answer.
Speaker 1: And he's always been good wherever he's been, but um,
Speaker 1: he's got a job too, so I mean, like that's
Speaker 1: it worked out for him. But you're right, I mean
Speaker 1: it's not the same. These guys are not you know,
Speaker 1: there's not as aggressive. What was the other was another
Speaker 1: caller that said this, it's a blue collar defense and
Speaker 1: a white collar and white collar offense. And that's part
Speaker 1: of what's going on with the offensive line, which is
Speaker 1: it's frustrating because they were mauling people. I mean, they
Speaker 1: were running for two hundred yards a game for a
Speaker 1: solid month. I mean that's not white collar to me.
Speaker 1: But over the last over the last couple of games.
Speaker 1: You think maybe it's the fact that you mean talk
Speaker 1: about the offensive line coach not being there, like literally,
Speaker 1: you got your you got another coach having to come
Speaker 1: over and and coach the offensive line. And by the way,
Speaker 1: as you said, it's not so much the preparation, it
Speaker 1: is the end game adjustments. So those things. If you're
Speaker 1: not adjusting to what the other team is doing throughout
Speaker 1: the game as well, then you would expect they're not
Speaker 1: going to be as good as they've maybe been earlier.
Speaker 1: And someone told me this just just the other day,
Speaker 1: that the Saints are the worst team you could face
Speaker 1: when you don't have your offensive line just the way
Speaker 1: they play on there that front and very good up front. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Kellen Moore said that yesterday. He was like,
Speaker 1: the Saints have been great against the run for years
Speaker 1: at this point, I mean, from maybe marking around the
Speaker 1: time Cam Jordan got there. They've just been awesome at
Speaker 1: it more often than not. So I mean, that's worth considering.
Speaker 1: But this is a problem that stems for five weeks now,
Speaker 1: Like I don't just like, I mean, they didn't even
Speaker 1: run the ball that well against Atlanta, did they am I, Well,
Speaker 1: they didn't have to. Well, I know, but not really.
Speaker 1: I mean, Zeke's numbers have good, they've been, they've been
Speaker 1: having some they've been they've been not as productive in
Speaker 1: the run game. For five weeks. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: had a one hundred yard game and like eight weeks
Speaker 1: since maybe the Giants, Yeah, the Giants game, I think,
Speaker 1: which it's injuries. I don't. I don't have a great answer,
Speaker 1: but it's it kind of goes back to what we
Speaker 1: were saying about Dak and the receivers. You think there's
Speaker 1: just little snapshots like the one that's in my head
Speaker 1: right now is I can't believe this happened to somebody
Speaker 1: of Tyron Smith's caliber. But like he fires off into
Speaker 1: a double team to help Connor McGovern out and just
Speaker 1: lets the end run free and the play gets blown up,
Speaker 1: and Tyron Smith was like, yeah, I just can't make
Speaker 1: errors like that. It's like, yeah, I'm not used to
Speaker 1: seeing you make errors like that. And so on top
Speaker 1: of the injuries, on top of not having as much
Speaker 1: consistency or talent as they did back when Bill Callahan
Speaker 1: was here, just whole thing's off sync, Like the whole
Speaker 1: the whole. They're just like three degrees west of where
Speaker 1: they need to be. Just everybody on the offense, they
Speaker 1: better figure it out. It's time of the year when
Speaker 1: you need to figure it out. They gotta figure out
Speaker 1: because if you go into the playoffs without a running game,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a hard time against these teams. You
Speaker 1: got this, I could be setting myself up for colossal
Speaker 1: disappointment because in my head, I'm between the injuries and
Speaker 1: then the chance to just sort of breathe, And I
Speaker 1: do think this is important. Like during that stretch where
Speaker 1: you're playing three games in twelve days, like you're onto
Speaker 1: the next opponent before that game's even done, you're not
Speaker 1: mixing a lot. Yeah, given five or six days to
Speaker 1: sort of breathe and self scout and reassess. I'm really
Speaker 1: hoping that fixes it. And if it doesn't, I'm all
Speaker 1: out of answers. If they go up to Washington and
Speaker 1: don't eat, I mean, winning and losing is one thing,
Speaker 1: but if they don't even look like the offense that
Speaker 1: we've gotten used to, then I don't know what to say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we appreciate you guys. Jonas. We went a
Speaker 1: little long today, but it was worth it. Some good stories.
Speaker 1: We'll sate you guys. You're gonna move back Tomorrow we'll
Speaker 1: start getting into the next game Cowboys versus Washington football team.
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