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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, season seventeen, episode number forty six. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the latest edition of The Break, live from the
Speaker 1: s WBC Morriage Studios at the starcoming fresh off the
Speaker 1: Cowboys Buy. They didn't play yesterday, but there was some
Speaker 1: action in the NFL. We'll talk about that a little
Speaker 1: bit more tomorrow. To day. We got some topics around
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Nick, before we get going, get me started
Speaker 1: with a forty six Actually, oh man, actually, did y'all
Speaker 1: do this when when we didn't? We didn't, But you
Speaker 1: and I talked about this, and we couldn't go by
Speaker 1: and not acknowledge the forty four best men a lot
Speaker 1: to both of us, right, without a doubt. Robert Newhouse
Speaker 1: is one of the my favorite players of all time,
Speaker 1: not only when he played. I was just young kid
Speaker 1: when he played. But after that, when he was here,
Speaker 1: I know he was. He was a great mentor for
Speaker 1: a lot of people, just an awesome person. He's no
Speaker 1: longer with us, and it's very sad, but Robert Newhouse
Speaker 1: is it was an outstanding person and player. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was telling you about some of my experiences with Robert.
Speaker 1: He was like coming into this organization, I was a
Speaker 1: manager at a very young age and uh, and there
Speaker 1: weren't a lot of people that looked like me at
Speaker 1: that table of leaders here through at the Cowboys. He
Speaker 1: was one of them. And I remember him pulling me
Speaker 1: aside one time and telling me he's gave me some
Speaker 1: really great advice about handling those types of situations. And
Speaker 1: it still serves me well to day. Um So, I
Speaker 1: just I'm forever grateful to the House and he was
Speaker 1: a really really the great guy and miss having him
Speaker 1: around here. You guys never got you never obviously got
Speaker 1: a chance to meet him. Five. Yeah we gotta go
Speaker 1: forty five and forty six. Yeah, you got a forty five. Well,
Speaker 1: Darren Woodson wore it before he moved to twenty eight.
Speaker 1: It was forty five. I don't know if I remember
Speaker 1: that rod Smith, Baby, come on, rod Smith, beast. I
Speaker 1: like it. I was going with. I mean, Niki, so
Speaker 1: did you said rod Smith? But Somebodason I thought Denver Broncos. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that one, like one of the best receivers in the nineties.
Speaker 1: One had like one great game against the Giants, right
Speaker 1: forty six. I think there's a guy named Joe Fishback.
Speaker 1: I just like the name Joe Fishback. Ember, you want
Speaker 1: to tell us about Joe Fishback. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I think what I'm learning here. What I know out
Speaker 1: of these names is Ron Smith. I mean, the forties
Speaker 1: are avoided like the plague by everybody. I mean, unless
Speaker 1: you're a long snapper or a fullback. Nobody wants to
Speaker 1: wear a number in the forties other than Alfred Moors
Speaker 1: was also forty six. No there like it was a
Speaker 1: fun player. Different cat still is I mean ye, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he was when he was here, he was good. Different,
Speaker 1: he was different, but I mean yeah, in a cool way,
Speaker 1: he was the best. He was. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds dumb,
Speaker 1: but like if a player, and not to say like
Speaker 1: players are jerks, but you get used to that lifestyle.
Speaker 1: And the amount of people that are asking for things
Speaker 1: from you, you don't care so much about that. Alfred
Speaker 1: Morris would like he went through it. Every time he
Speaker 1: talked to the me. He'd be like, when you say
Speaker 1: your name was Dave, good to see you, and then
Speaker 1: he would remember it later. Yeah, and that's not like
Speaker 1: I said, like that doesn't make other guys jerks, but
Speaker 1: like to have that many demands on your attention and
Speaker 1: your time and still take the time to do that.
Speaker 1: He would go sit outside the weight room on Tuesdays
Speaker 1: on the off day or maybe it was Mondays, but
Speaker 1: like one of the days when they weren't practicing, you
Speaker 1: could catch him outside the weight room, like reading a book. Now,
Speaker 1: you just don't see that type of stuff. When you
Speaker 1: pull up into the parking lot to go fly out
Speaker 1: for the charter, you know, you you drive in there
Speaker 1: with your car are and it's like you see all
Speaker 1: these other guys and their stuff, and then you drive
Speaker 1: next to Alfred Morris and you're like, is this I mean?
Speaker 1: He would oh yeah, the Mazda. Yeah, he was famous
Speaker 1: for having the same car from when he was a kid. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like Mazda re outfitted it for him. And I
Speaker 1: think every time he went to a new team, the
Speaker 1: media would pick up that story and be like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, he I think he's still I follow him
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Still I think he still has I think
Speaker 1: the funny thing about that mosta was he had a
Speaker 1: Mercedes front license plate on it, like the logo for Mercedes.
Speaker 1: I would yeah, I think that's right. I would like
Speaker 1: to think that. I mean, I think at some point
Speaker 1: in his career he probably got another car, not saying
Speaker 1: it was like a Lambeau or anything, but he's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: the Mazda treated me well, I can probably get another car.
Speaker 1: Good guy. I loved Alfred Morris. That was a good
Speaker 1: You can do this on a Monday when there's no game.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Another forty five is Richmond Flowers Senior, by
Speaker 1: the way, in nineteen seventy one. Let's just go through
Speaker 1: the whole, the whole roster and not talk about Dak's cats.
Speaker 1: Not talk a good forty five minutes of numbers numerology
Speaker 1: here on the pick. All right, let's let's do talk
Speaker 1: about Deck's injury. Uh we this this injury came up
Speaker 1: last week. Obviously, he was in the boot coming out
Speaker 1: of the game against the Patriots. Um, what are we hearing?
Speaker 1: What are you guys hearing? As far as his injury, Um,
Speaker 1: how how? How how much of an injury is it?
Speaker 1: How much of a concern is it? How much could
Speaker 1: it possibly affect his ability to not only play but
Speaker 1: play well over the next coming weeks. Why why is
Speaker 1: Dave looking at me? You look like you have something
Speaker 1: to say. No, I don't. I don't think anything. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody has anything to say. I really don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. There's no report or anything. Tell me what it's.
Speaker 1: What he's gonna do on Friday afternoon, Tell me what
Speaker 1: he's gonna do Sunday afternoon. I mean that Sunday when
Speaker 1: he's on he's there. I mean you can say everything,
Speaker 1: you can rest and all that, but it is a
Speaker 1: injury that is very, very difficult, and I think we'll
Speaker 1: wait and see. I mean, yeah, all jokes aside, Oh
Speaker 1: you funny. I'm sorry, man. I just every time I
Speaker 1: hear about asked, I just think about you, because you're like,
Speaker 1: before I have my injury, I didn't think cash. But now, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's let's just leave this out of it, because I mean,
Speaker 1: he is an athlete, and I'm down only that, but
Speaker 1: he's got like, got people caring, the power of a
Speaker 1: five billion dollar organization is bent on getting him ready
Speaker 1: for that game. And Nick, they're just like, yeah, and
Speaker 1: I was stupid and I wasn't, you know, jumping around
Speaker 1: and still trying to do something that was dumb. But
Speaker 1: the thing about it is is that you won't really
Speaker 1: know what it is until we get later on and
Speaker 1: he can rest all week, he's got to go and
Speaker 1: run and do things. I said this on the radio
Speaker 1: this morning and really kind of kind of deflated those
Speaker 1: guys on the air because I said, I'll be I'll
Speaker 1: be shocked if he's able to play the way he
Speaker 1: normally is. I think he might play, but he won't
Speaker 1: be the same. Really, I don't believe that. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's a bad guess. I mean, you asked what
Speaker 1: we're hearing. I've heard that he's out of the boot,
Speaker 1: which I mean that's a positive sign, but that doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean anything. Again, like you can rest all week end,
Speaker 1: all week in the hot tub, doing all the treatments
Speaker 1: to it, and you know, he hasn't had to backpedal
Speaker 1: or plant and throw since the game. Um So I
Speaker 1: think he's I think he's making progress, and I think
Speaker 1: the optimism from last week was probably well founded, you know.
Speaker 1: I think it was Jerry that it was like the
Speaker 1: buys a perfect time, and I think he can get
Speaker 1: out there against Minnesota. We'll see. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of costs for optimism, a lot of things training in
Speaker 1: the right direction, but playing and existing are different things,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's just something as
Speaker 1: as always with these types of injuries, you just got
Speaker 1: to watch the workload and see how it changes as
Speaker 1: the week. If he's not like anywhere close, if he's
Speaker 1: going to be struggling through it, I'd set him, really,
Speaker 1: I would. I would sit him. If there's any kind
Speaker 1: of chance to reaggravate this and make it a longer thing. Well,
Speaker 1: that's one of the interesting things you gotta think about
Speaker 1: too here, is that sometimes you can play through an injury,
Speaker 1: but what happens is your body kind of compensates for
Speaker 1: what's ailing you and it puts extra strain on other things,
Speaker 1: which you may not reaggravate that particular injury, but it
Speaker 1: could create other things as you go forward, because you
Speaker 1: start using your body in different ways. So that's the
Speaker 1: part you get a little bit concerned about if he
Speaker 1: rushes back with you, if any player rushes back from
Speaker 1: any injury, that you could have other injuries that that
Speaker 1: come from them. But Amber, I'll ask you this question,
Speaker 1: and Nick brought up a point of maybe sitting him
Speaker 1: from what you've seen from this team. Wait wait, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, you gotta we gotta wait from me answer
Speaker 1: the question. I ask the question. No, no, no, so
Speaker 1: so thinking about what you want, thinking about what you've
Speaker 1: seen from this team, and I'm talking offensively and defensively,
Speaker 1: how they've been able to play. Obviously, they're five and
Speaker 1: one and they're considered one of the top teams in
Speaker 1: the NFL, definitely one of the top teams in the
Speaker 1: NFC and the top team in their in their division.
Speaker 1: Do you think this team is capable of winning without
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, I'll say it Spanish, no, no, no. Honestly, again,
Speaker 1: I don't think that they have enough at quarterback behind
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. And I was all up for Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: back when he started and got here. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush. But then in the past few years, I
Speaker 1: just he hasn't given me enough to feel comfortable. And
Speaker 1: you know, last year they had Andy Dalton, and I
Speaker 1: feel comfortable about Andy Dalton, and then the offense was
Speaker 1: still kind of working and they could do some work
Speaker 1: on there and play good on the field. But look
Speaker 1: how they performed last year, and that was with Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton behind the line. And I get it that this
Speaker 1: team is on a role right now and everyone's playing
Speaker 1: pretty well and all that, but I just I do
Speaker 1: not feel comfortable enough to think that Cooper Rush can
Speaker 1: get back there behind that line and make it happen. No,
Speaker 1: I don't, I agree, I mean, I don't. You want
Speaker 1: to sit him and you don't even think they're they
Speaker 1: can win without him. I want to send him if
Speaker 1: he's if, if he's not, if he's still kind of
Speaker 1: going through some stuff. This isn't a bone that needs
Speaker 1: that's going to heal, you know, eventually, and maybe you
Speaker 1: can cast it up until it does. Hell, this is
Speaker 1: this is a muscle strain. And I can speak for
Speaker 1: that that that if you don't, you don't give it
Speaker 1: the proper attention, you'll two years later you'll still feel it.
Speaker 1: You still feel it. So I don't, No, I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not going to risk that, And yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think he can. I don't think Cooper rushing, not against Minnesota,
Speaker 1: not against the Horn, not against Sunday Night football. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think that they'll go up there and win
Speaker 1: that game without him in there. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: call y'all homers, but I'm relieved to I'm relieved that
Speaker 1: I don't have to be the downer because I was.
Speaker 1: I wasn't one hundred percent sure, because I think it's
Speaker 1: the peak of hubrists to assume that Cooper Rush could
Speaker 1: pull that off for you. No, No, I don't think that. No,
Speaker 1: they have depth in so many other areas. That's the
Speaker 1: one that you're like, He's thrown three NFL passes, And
Speaker 1: I don't think you can fully rely just on the
Speaker 1: running game either. Like I and I get it, Zeke
Speaker 1: husband doing good. You got um, oh my god, my
Speaker 1: Polar Pauler, Tony Polar, you got him who we know
Speaker 1: he can do the job as well behind Zeke. But
Speaker 1: even with those two running backs, I don't think they
Speaker 1: can just rely on the purely on the run to
Speaker 1: win a game. You got to throw out the caveat that.
Speaker 1: The NFL is weird. And anything can happen, Like, of
Speaker 1: course there is a physical, theoretical chance that they could
Speaker 1: win in that game without Dak. I certainly wouldn't put
Speaker 1: money on it. I would know no way. So is
Speaker 1: this about just how great Dak is or how little
Speaker 1: you think of Cooper Rush? Well, I mean it was
Speaker 1: fifty fifty for I think a lot of us wouldn't.
Speaker 1: At the end of training camp it was like Rush
Speaker 1: or Garrett or Garret Gilbert, you know, kind of a
Speaker 1: toss up. I don't know about you, but I think
Speaker 1: at this point I'd rather have Garrett Gilbert in there
Speaker 1: right now that thing, which that's bad foresight for me
Speaker 1: because I think I was leaning towards Rush. But now
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about what you said about three passes. I'd
Speaker 1: rather the guy that's gone and played Pittsburgh when they
Speaker 1: were eleven to oh and gave him a fighting chance.
Speaker 1: And that was if you remember like that, he had
Speaker 1: a lot less weapons than what they have right now
Speaker 1: due to injury. So that's why I look at it
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, if he could do that, no,
Speaker 1: it's not the same guy, and I personally he lost. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't play I get that, but I think the
Speaker 1: way that they played with all the things that they had,
Speaker 1: all the players they didn't have for that game, I
Speaker 1: felt like it was enough of an effort that you
Speaker 1: give those players back, particularly the tackles. You give him
Speaker 1: some tackles, you give him some protection. That game may
Speaker 1: have been a different game. Yeah, you agree with that. Again,
Speaker 1: you're not wrong, and there is a chance, But I
Speaker 1: think it's bold, bordering on hubrists to just be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he can come in and do the vikings and their
Speaker 1: record doesn't show it. I'm Kirk Cousins is playing great, right, Like,
Speaker 1: this is a tough game. If Dak is available, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, we've been kind of on this role where
Speaker 1: we think the Cowboys are gonna win by two or
Speaker 1: three scores for the last month. This ain't gonna be that.
Speaker 1: I'll be shocked even if Dak is available. I'll be
Speaker 1: shocked if this is anything but a tight game. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard to go into that building and
Speaker 1: win and definitely do it decisively. So if there's fans,
Speaker 1: that's what Yeah, I mean they won last week last year,
Speaker 1: no fans. Minnesota is on that shortlist of like collegiate environments,
Speaker 1: you know, we always talk about the NFL is a
Speaker 1: little bit different, but some stadiums get noisy. Why can't
Speaker 1: I talk? Was it like? Was it like I don't remember, Yes,
Speaker 1: and I know, but I don't remember when we were
Speaker 1: When they were at their old stadium, it used to
Speaker 1: be extremely loud. One time we've been there since they
Speaker 1: opened a new place was Thursday night the Vikings had Bradford.
Speaker 1: They were decent and you can tell too, because it's
Speaker 1: one of the few stadiums in the league that has
Speaker 1: an open press box. Yeah. I couldn't hear myself it
Speaker 1: was so loud. Yeah, yeah, the one Cowboys won on
Speaker 1: like the last play of the game. I think the
Speaker 1: Vikings didn't get the two point conversion. It was loud
Speaker 1: all night. Again, it was open status. I know the
Speaker 1: old stadium was open. Get ready it's gonna be Bradford. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Remember you you have that app on your phone, Derek
Speaker 1: Gloves having this app not to recourse how loud each
Speaker 1: stadium look looks cool. But yeah, I mean, I so no,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't feel good about that, but this
Speaker 1: is this is what you sign up for. The I mean,
Speaker 1: and it's hard. It's hard to the Jones has said
Speaker 1: that all through the off season is when you pay
Speaker 1: the quarterback like this, it's hard to have somebody that
Speaker 1: you feel good about. Last year created some really unique
Speaker 1: scenarios like Andy Dalton was willing to sign for that,
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston was willing to sign for that. Especially and
Speaker 1: with COVID opening up and it not being quite as
Speaker 1: crazy as it was, that's harder to pull off. Um.
Speaker 1: I would love if they had a former NFL MVP
Speaker 1: who's unemployed on this team to help deal with this,
Speaker 1: but they don't, And for that matter, I don't know
Speaker 1: if he would even be willing to sign here. But
Speaker 1: it's just these are the things that you think about
Speaker 1: when you ponder whether or not Dak is going to
Speaker 1: be able to play. Do you guys give any benefit
Speaker 1: of doubt that maybe they've developed Cooper Rush to a
Speaker 1: point where he can give them a chance after looking
Speaker 1: at what they did with Terrence Steele, Because I know
Speaker 1: before Terrence Steele this year, I was convinced I'm not
Speaker 1: trusting anything they say about young guys because they put
Speaker 1: all these young guys out there, but they weren't performing,
Speaker 1: and so I just didn't trust it. Now I'm starting
Speaker 1: to think, well, maybe maybe they got that one right.
Speaker 1: Maybe they developed him, maybe they knew what they were
Speaker 1: talking about when they say we see potential in him,
Speaker 1: do you give them any benefit of doubt that comes
Speaker 1: from that that you can now move over to the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. He plays the most important position on the team.
Speaker 1: And when they signed Andy Dalton they fired him. They
Speaker 1: were like, now you gotta go, and that's I mean,
Speaker 1: somebody does have to go when you sign somebody. But
Speaker 1: if you think the world of this guy, and again
Speaker 1: he plays a position where you might not ever get
Speaker 1: him back if he shows anything, they were like, well,
Speaker 1: that's fine, to go to New York. Do what you
Speaker 1: gotta do. They brought him back when a ridiculous amount
Speaker 1: of injuries forced their hand. They lost Dak, they lost Dalton,
Speaker 1: and then this year, I mean still baffled by the
Speaker 1: way that whole thing played out. It's it's not a
Speaker 1: major storyline once the season starts, but like again, people
Speaker 1: are like, well, you guys didn't see this coming. It's
Speaker 1: like they didn't show us anything. Cooper Rush didn't get
Speaker 1: a single first team rep all of training camp. They
Speaker 1: handed it all to Garrett Gilbert, and then in the
Speaker 1: final week of the preseason it became the Cooper Rush Show.
Speaker 1: So no, I mean, they can say that if they
Speaker 1: want to, and maybe they're right, but nothing about their
Speaker 1: process has shown that that's how they feel. But also
Speaker 1: the fact that even after they had him back here,
Speaker 1: they were still talking about the possibility. It didn't come
Speaker 1: to fruition, but they were still talking about possibility of
Speaker 1: bringing in a quarterback and experienced quarterback. So that makes
Speaker 1: me think like they know so, because if you feel comfortable,
Speaker 1: confident enough, and a guy like Cooper Rush that you
Speaker 1: can develop for this year, you wouldn't be still like
Speaker 1: kind of shopping around and see what can come. And
Speaker 1: it's a good thing. It's a great point. They worked
Speaker 1: out Driscoll, they worked out Hundley, like they did not.
Speaker 1: They weren't acting like a team that felt great about
Speaker 1: its step at quarterback. Yeah, any chance Greer is the
Speaker 1: guy that they kind of can move up into that position.
Speaker 1: Have you heard anything about him since they signed it ative.
Speaker 1: I actually asked Doug nus Meyer about him. They made
Speaker 1: the assistance available on Tuesday during the bye week, just
Speaker 1: I didn't really ask him, thinking that he might start
Speaker 1: this game, just more like, what's that? What's it look
Speaker 1: like when you have to bring a guy on like that?
Speaker 1: And he just said, you know, you start small, start
Speaker 1: with just the basics of what they would have to
Speaker 1: do if they had to be active or had to play.
Speaker 1: And he did say he thought Will Greer has picked
Speaker 1: up a remarkable amount in the whatever it's been six
Speaker 1: eight weeks since he's been here. I don't I would
Speaker 1: be shocked if that meant that he was elevated over
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, but yeah, I guess he would be active. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna go and take a first break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna do an interesting little
Speaker 1: game here. Nick sent this out over the weekend for
Speaker 1: everyone to figure out what their top fifteen players in
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys during this season have been. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go through that list. Everybody has their own list of fifteen.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go through that list. Talk about it. See
Speaker 1: where everybody ranks these guys Will day when we come
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Speaker 1: gonna do. We're gonna talk about the top fifteen player.
Speaker 1: We all went through and gave our top fifteen for
Speaker 1: the two twenty one season thus far, and Nick compiled
Speaker 1: all those and an article will be going to later on.
Speaker 1: Doubs appreciate the people that did their homework assignment. Not
Speaker 1: everyone did, but everyone in this room did. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: That's because we all are dedicated members of the team
Speaker 1: and we try to do what's best for the team.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about those other folks so old later.
Speaker 1: All right, So Nick, why don't you tell us the
Speaker 1: compilation of all those, what do we have a top fifteen?
Speaker 1: Why don't you start from fifteen? And then let's I
Speaker 1: got some honorable mentions out of fifteen, you had honorable mentions? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had four honorable mentions. Sure, when you're five and one.
Speaker 1: Damante Kazy, Greg Zerline, Layton vander Esh, Terrence Steele, Greg Zerline.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting one. I thought he was like public
Speaker 1: Enemy number Terrence Steele didn't make the top fifteen. Really
Speaker 1: he did for me. I had Zerline, right, he won
Speaker 1: two games for you, Okay, he could have won three
Speaker 1: if they would have stopped the Bucks. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: played pretty good. He's had some clutched kicks for this team.
Speaker 1: So you look around, you look around the league, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I was missing Yeah, I mean yeah, I think and
Speaker 1: if he what it was a pat that he missed
Speaker 1: in Tampa. Yeah, if he doesn't miss that, I think
Speaker 1: people are probably not whining so much. No, No, it
Speaker 1: wasn't a pat or it was a really short whield goal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he didn't miss a pad like no, Like the
Speaker 1: next week after after the Chargers win, I remember he
Speaker 1: missed one the next game and it was like, well,
Speaker 1: you did make a fifty six yard or so he
Speaker 1: had he point being, He's like one of his misses
Speaker 1: was really egregious. Other than that, I think people would
Speaker 1: be fine. Yeah, uh, Casey's are line Vanderesh Stern Steel
Speaker 1: or number fifteen Anthony Brown, let's go no what. I
Speaker 1: actually was very happy to see that because I was like,
Speaker 1: there's there are a lot of people out there that
Speaker 1: are hating Anthony Brown. And really, if you think about
Speaker 1: how he's played, like he hasn't really made a lot
Speaker 1: of bad plays. There's a lot of people in this
Speaker 1: world that don't understand that the lead league is designed
Speaker 1: to produce four hundred yard passers on a regular basis
Speaker 1: and those yards have to come from somebody. But how
Speaker 1: many teams in the NFL have two lockdown corners that
Speaker 1: simply don't allow completions. It's it's Cheetah o Woozier all
Speaker 1: over again. You know, he was typically in good coverage,
Speaker 1: didn't play the ball as well as you would prefer,
Speaker 1: and lost out sometimes because of it. But guess what
Speaker 1: most cornerbacks do, because the league is unfairly slanted against them,
Speaker 1: leads the team and tackles, and then that could be
Speaker 1: it that's always a great thing for a corner, but
Speaker 1: it's making tackles, making plays. Fourteen Cedric Wilson, Hell yeah, yep,
Speaker 1: absolutely should be on the list, should be dead high.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's perfect number for him. It
Speaker 1: wasn't on my list but really no, but I mean
Speaker 1: it was. Why Why wouldn't you put him Nick? It's
Speaker 1: it's it's the curve. It's the curve. Grading on a
Speaker 1: curve versus not grading on No, he's played great, but
Speaker 1: I mean I I put Terrence Steele over him. I
Speaker 1: put zirline over him. I mean their line is the difference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had him at fourteen. That's the thing when when
Speaker 1: he sent out the email to put together this list,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that you're thinking, Okay, how
Speaker 1: do you keep it very neutral to what we're actually
Speaker 1: looking at this year on the field, and not think, okay,
Speaker 1: well he was this way last year and then now
Speaker 1: like great in on a curve. So I had a
Speaker 1: rough time putting together my list one because of that too.
Speaker 1: Once we get closer to the top, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of those players are very like right there on
Speaker 1: the line. So it was very, very hard to judge
Speaker 1: because they're right there, but for different reasons, Like every
Speaker 1: player has their own unique skill and everything. But it
Speaker 1: was an interesting list. But I'm surprised you didn't have
Speaker 1: him at all. No, I mean it was close. I
Speaker 1: just I didn't put him, but you had him on
Speaker 1: one of your honorable mentions. Well, yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: just put fifteen. Now. The next guy also didn't have
Speaker 1: on the list was number thirteen. Oh so did Gizua?
Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, third had him up higher than that. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: I had Tony Polar thirteen. That. Yeah, that's a I
Speaker 1: think I had also up at ten. I thought he's
Speaker 1: been other than Randy Gregory, I think he's been the
Speaker 1: best defensive lineman this team has had. Yeah, I had
Speaker 1: him right out thirteen. Yeah he was not What did
Speaker 1: you have him not on the list? You haven't on
Speaker 1: the list at all? Why? I again, I went with
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, Terrence Steele and Greg's are aligned. Those are
Speaker 1: my last three guys like that. I didn't put Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson or or I mean, I think he's played pretty good. Again,
Speaker 1: like I he's played okay, I mean he's played probably
Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see who else. Okay, because he's
Speaker 1: a rookie third round pick from us to like that matters.
Speaker 1: Not to me, it does that, And there we go again.
Speaker 1: It's corect like a curve verse, not a curve. And
Speaker 1: that's fine if that's the way you view it, but right,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't. I don't view it that way.
Speaker 1: I mean, why, why should why should we do that?
Speaker 1: Why should we grade that way? I'm honestly, I'm not
Speaker 1: grading that way that you can put him up against
Speaker 1: against the other guys who've been in the leaf much longer.
Speaker 1: He still is the second best defensive linement on this team.
Speaker 1: Seventy five percent of guys drafted to play that position
Speaker 1: where he was drafted would be struggling to get a jersey.
Speaker 1: That's why it matters. That's why I think it matters.
Speaker 1: I think he's drastically out playing his draft stock for
Speaker 1: where he is in his career. And that's that's great,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. That means don't come callin to try to
Speaker 1: trade the guy or whatever. No, we got great upside
Speaker 1: in him. But that doesn't mean to me that he
Speaker 1: has been better than Terrence Steele. I think Terrence Steele
Speaker 1: has been better. I think I think Zeroline has has
Speaker 1: made more of an impact and that. But that's okay,
Speaker 1: I mean it's we're talking. He ranked thirteenth. I would
Speaker 1: have had him seventeenth. Okay, no big deal, all right,
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard number twelve, had him at thirteen. I mean
Speaker 1: that's he's a backup running back and he's ranked twelfth.
Speaker 1: That just tells you how great he's played. It tells
Speaker 1: you how great Zeke has been. Yeah, that's unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's way more than a backup too, because the way
Speaker 1: that his number says way more. Yea, he would start
Speaker 1: for like twenty four teams. Yeah, and as good as
Speaker 1: Zeke has been, you still can tell the difference when
Speaker 1: he gets the ball versus when Zeke gets the ball.
Speaker 1: You're just watching, especially watching from the press box, there
Speaker 1: is a burst of the ass that's different, I think
Speaker 1: than what Zeke has. I'm gonna look at that. I
Speaker 1: just said. I just kind of threw twenty four out there.
Speaker 1: But I really wonder how many teams feel like they
Speaker 1: have a better starter than Tony Pollard right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just can't be artistically, they aren't allow. It can't
Speaker 1: be very many. Yeah, now you do have to factor in.
Speaker 1: He gets to come in and he's he's fresher than
Speaker 1: the most backs. But still he runs the ball inside
Speaker 1: the tackles more than we think he does. I mean
Speaker 1: it's not just a light you know, thunder and lightning thing.
Speaker 1: It's they're they're both they're all right eleven Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 1: I had him at twelve, so ran this dropped him
Speaker 1: a little bit just because maybe that you don't like him. No,
Speaker 1: I love Dalton? Are you kidding me? We swap restaurant recommendations.
Speaker 1: Um No, he had that, he had that, he had
Speaker 1: the Drop Sea game. He had, he had the Drops game.
Speaker 1: I don't know. And I mean not hating the guy.
Speaker 1: I just I mean he made my list. He seed,
Speaker 1: he's at some of those moments. He I dropped him
Speaker 1: a little bit too, I had, but yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he's been great. I'm not hating on the guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, number ten jay Ron Curse. Yeah, but yes,
Speaker 1: I mean just is shocking the way you know, we
Speaker 1: didn't even factor him into training camp. Really was like, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: I guarantee when people were talking about who's gonna play Sea,
Speaker 1: he wasn't ever ever mentioned. He's just and now he's
Speaker 1: leading the team or his second on the team and tackles,
Speaker 1: he's right up, he's playing special teams. Done, everything's been.
Speaker 1: Like I said last week, I think his attitude is
Speaker 1: part of this. It's part of it. I think his
Speaker 1: attitude is part of the defense's confidence right now. I
Speaker 1: remember back during the offseason when they were doing there
Speaker 1: on the field activities and and he was out there
Speaker 1: playing a lot, and I'm thinking, man, who are they
Speaker 1: trying to save like that? Why they got this guy
Speaker 1: out there? He's just kind of taking a spot right
Speaker 1: now just because somebody else doesn't want to or because
Speaker 1: they're hurt, Like there's no way he's going to be
Speaker 1: around once we get past training camp. And sure enough
Speaker 1: that was not the case. He would have Sorry, go ahead,
Speaker 1: I would saying most of the time, when you when
Speaker 1: you call the guy that get off the bus guy,
Speaker 1: you know, it's because he looks really good. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that he plays great. It just means like
Speaker 1: he looks the part. But you wouldn't say that if
Speaker 1: he was a dynamic player. But he he's done everything.
Speaker 1: He would have been near the top of my list
Speaker 1: of like guys who better have their head on a swivel,
Speaker 1: come roster cut time, and I mean, just get ready
Speaker 1: for the jay Ron curse stories. If you're a Cowboy fan,
Speaker 1: you follow a lot of people in the media, get ready. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a bye week, he's going back to Minnesota. It's
Speaker 1: just it's on a platter for you. You're gonna have it.
Speaker 1: We'll have it on our side as well, all right.
Speaker 1: Number nine, Amari Cooper a little higher than I had.
Speaker 1: I had him higher than that you had him. That's
Speaker 1: when you had him a little lower. I think I
Speaker 1: had him in like eleven. I had him top five.
Speaker 1: I just that's a big difference for all. I just
Speaker 1: I think the world of the guy. And again maybe
Speaker 1: I great on a curve, but we know, we know
Speaker 1: what he's dealing with. And he's got the hamstring, he
Speaker 1: had the ankle in the off seasons, ribs. He's fighting
Speaker 1: through so much and still still being productive. Somebody on Twitter,
Speaker 1: Oh it was my buddy Vatch. He posted of he
Speaker 1: posted tape from the Patriots game. They were tripling. They
Speaker 1: clouded his side of the field, and and they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, don't don't be disrespectful, saying like ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: did all this and Amari Cooper had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with it. They were accounting for him so much. And
Speaker 1: by the way, he still caught five for fifty five,
Speaker 1: which is pretty like that's good. That's if you catch
Speaker 1: five for fifty five every week, you're going to finish
Speaker 1: with a thousand yards, which a thousand isn't what it
Speaker 1: used to be. Still a nice benchmark. Like he's having
Speaker 1: a really good season. Yeah yeah. And against the Chargers
Speaker 1: and in this game against the Patriots, this last game,
Speaker 1: he didn't have great stat numbers, but if you if
Speaker 1: you go back and you remember the final drive of
Speaker 1: the game, he had clutch catch is around midfield both
Speaker 1: of those games to kind of get him in that position. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you can tell he looks like an old
Speaker 1: man running around there right now. He's banged up, but
Speaker 1: he's playing really well. He still gets open. And if
Speaker 1: you respect Bill Belichick, I think what he told you
Speaker 1: in that game was there are two things you got
Speaker 1: to try to stop if you're if you're going against
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, the running game and Amari Cooper, and
Speaker 1: you live with whatever else you get. And they tried
Speaker 1: to live within They almost won living with everything else.
Speaker 1: But you can't let those two factors get on. Then
Speaker 1: CD Lamb goes off and yeah, waves to the does
Speaker 1: that's ridiculous, by the way, it's ridiculous. I don't understand that.
Speaker 1: Oh I missed that. They find him for that ten
Speaker 1: it's a it's an American greeting. It's a greeting difference
Speaker 1: the bye week, baby, I was doing my best to
Speaker 1: not pay attention you. I mean he got shoved late
Speaker 1: number one. Yeah right, okay, Yeah, he was kind of
Speaker 1: walking in there like that, and I thought was college football.
Speaker 1: He probably wouldn't accounted. I don't know. If fel saw that,
Speaker 1: I would say I didn't see it, but I heard
Speaker 1: about it. That's that's also ridiculous. But yeah, wait, I mean,
Speaker 1: guy who shoved you late, he could have done a
Speaker 1: lot of things. He just decided to wave at him.
Speaker 1: And it's been there. When you visit someone, you stay
Speaker 1: for like five or six hours, and then you're about
Speaker 1: to go home, you just waved by. What's the problem.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. How is it fine? I don't know,
Speaker 1: because well, taunting, I mean, that's they're trying to they're
Speaker 1: trying to crack down punched him in the throat. Instead,
Speaker 1: he just waved at him goodbye, see you later. If
Speaker 1: he punched him in the throat, he wouldn't playing right.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, when you get shoved in the back
Speaker 1: like that late unnecessary. You could you could react in
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways. I mean, I hate, I
Speaker 1: hate to defend the league, but like, I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: by that at all. I'm not surprised, but I still
Speaker 1: think it's wrong. I really want, I really want the
Speaker 1: league to embrace the fact that sports is entertainment folks,
Speaker 1: Like this isn't We're not out here, it's not just
Speaker 1: play like, this is not war this I know there
Speaker 1: are a lot of analogies people make between sports, particularly
Speaker 1: football and war. It's not this is a game. This
Speaker 1: is fun. We're supposed to be having fun. So if
Speaker 1: guys are talking trash and having fun going against each other,
Speaker 1: let's embrace that, Like that's a part of why it's fun.
Speaker 1: I just don't get it. I totally don't understand it.
Speaker 1: You know what else is fun? Giving money to charity
Speaker 1: and when they find players they do that's what happens.
Speaker 1: I guess your eighth best player on the team is
Speaker 1: Micah Parsons, according to our Dallas colmoos dot com staff
Speaker 1: got it. I had him at nine right there. I ain't.
Speaker 1: That just goes to show how good this team is.
Speaker 1: He's changing the whole defense. That's how I feel about
Speaker 1: this whole list. Really believable. He's eight. I think I
Speaker 1: had him around there. I don't remember, but I mean
Speaker 1: I remember typing it whatever. I had him, Like god,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, there's so many guys. I honestly
Speaker 1: went through my list and I was like, could he
Speaker 1: move up? Some sings like he should be up higher?
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm not taking that guy down
Speaker 1: for him and I'm not taking Let me right keep
Speaker 1: creating space here. Number seven, Cede Lamb. I had him
Speaker 1: at eight, so right there, and he yeah. I mean everybody,
Speaker 1: how ceed ahead of amar Or you had him Ari Head.
Speaker 1: I had CD back at ten. It's hed at eight
Speaker 1: ahead of him. Mark Yeah, okay, all right. Number six,
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith, That's exactly where I had him. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: been really good. He's yeah, it's fun. I mean, going
Speaker 1: back to the thing about Dalton Schultz, I think like
Speaker 1: I was making this list and I was like yeah,
Speaker 1: Tyron looks awesome. He battled through some injuries last week,
Speaker 1: and but then think like, well, he gave up that
Speaker 1: really easy sack to the Chargers in Week two, and
Speaker 1: that kind of took me by surprise. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying I like moved him down because of that,
Speaker 1: but these are all the conversations you're having with yourself
Speaker 1: when you're trying to rank players, because I think I
Speaker 1: started out with like tiring up by Zach Martin, and
Speaker 1: I was like, no, that can't be right because I've
Speaker 1: had no reason to even say Zach's name all year,
Speaker 1: whereas Tyron, you know, you can, you can quibble if
Speaker 1: you want to, And so that's probably how he winds
Speaker 1: up at like six or seven. That's exactly I went
Speaker 1: through it. I had him up there by by Zach,
Speaker 1: and then I thought about that moment and I was like,
Speaker 1: and then he had another penalty I thought in it,
Speaker 1: and he had he had a couple, Yeah, well and
Speaker 1: he had. I mean, obviously he started out really rough
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. So so I think when when I
Speaker 1: started factory in those sounds like, yeah, this is where
Speaker 1: you're kind of you kind of you know, just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how you can make a difference between
Speaker 1: these guys. They've all been great, it's just how do
Speaker 1: you make a difference between them? And that kind of
Speaker 1: dropped him a little bit. I got the top five.
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Speaker 1: our top fifteen players of the two thousand twenty one
Speaker 1: season so far for the Dallas Cowboys. Paratyar through fifteen
Speaker 1: up six fifteen, Anthony Brown fourteen or so, Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: also did zoe A, Tony Pollard, Dalton Schultz, Jeron Curse,
Speaker 1: I'm Maari Cooper, Micah Parson, Cedee Lamb Tyran Smith was six,
Speaker 1: and now we go to the top five, amive, Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: That's where I had him, great, Ezekiel Elliott. I had
Speaker 1: him at seven. I don't know why. There's just there's
Speaker 1: a lot of good players on this team. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at you like, I don't know why I like good
Speaker 1: players on this team. Maybe he deserved to be higher. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh I had him a five too, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this brain trust over hearing. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: Zeke number five, I think he's been outstanding. Um but
Speaker 1: I think, you know, these other four guys have made
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a difference. Maybe, I mean
Speaker 1: we say that. I mean, he's like you just said,
Speaker 1: Belichick said, we gotta take away Mariy Cooper and Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: But and neither one of them is top well top
Speaker 1: four right, But um but I think Zeke's getting a
Speaker 1: lot of help. I think both of those guys are
Speaker 1: kind of a committee type thing. They're getting help from
Speaker 1: other guys that may be the best at their position.
Speaker 1: But they're getting some pretty good help with Pollard. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly where I was going to go with that.
Speaker 1: How much do you think where you rank ZEKEA what
Speaker 1: you think of Zeke is affected by what you think
Speaker 1: of Tony Pollard. I don't know. I mean, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think it helps. I think it helps the offense
Speaker 1: to have them both. I don't know that Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: Is Tony Pollard doing that much for Zeke? Like is
Speaker 1: Zeke being fifteen percent fresher doing that much? I don't.
Speaker 1: I just credit Zeke, to be honest with you. And
Speaker 1: there's a I guess I'm looking at the flip flipway.
Speaker 1: Do you think that Zeke maybe higher on this list
Speaker 1: if Tony Pollard wasn't playing as well as he's playing. No,
Speaker 1: And again, I'm again there's a flip side of this
Speaker 1: conversation that people have all the time where it's like, man,
Speaker 1: I wish I wish Zeke hadn't waited till year six
Speaker 1: to buckle down the way that he has this year,
Speaker 1: but he did. And I mean, I just I think
Speaker 1: that's hard work paying dividends right now, honestly, And I
Speaker 1: think if he was, if he was doing it all
Speaker 1: by himself, I think he would. It wouldn't be as
Speaker 1: good because Pollard brings a different element, but I think
Speaker 1: he'd be doing fine. I'm really, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you should be really proud of what he's done this
Speaker 1: year because running backs, you know, the life of a
Speaker 1: running back is typically when they say three years and
Speaker 1: so a special one like him. But he had every
Speaker 1: reason to kind of just start tailing off after that
Speaker 1: fifth his fifth season. Wasn't is this his sixth year,
Speaker 1: so it's fifth year. Yeah, it was kind of going
Speaker 1: south and had some bumbles and wasn't he could live
Speaker 1: it out for another three or four years, just kind
Speaker 1: of coasting, as he called it, you know, a show
Speaker 1: and not the good kind. And uh, you know he
Speaker 1: said it was crappy and he's changed it. I felt aware.
Speaker 1: I love it. Give him credit for it. He's very
Speaker 1: self aware. That's what Tony Pollard's doing too. He doesn't
Speaker 1: want Tony to take all the snamps. Yeah, it bit's
Speaker 1: worked out great. And the fact that they worked together
Speaker 1: all right. Number four Randy Gregory hell exactly where I
Speaker 1: had him, yep. Perfect. Yeah, I mean he's think about
Speaker 1: those other guys, Randy Gregor, He's had a position where
Speaker 1: Tank Lawrence has gotten hurt, Dorn's arm, Frank got hurt,
Speaker 1: and he's taken over and he's been stud I had
Speaker 1: when teams trying to stop him by the way doubling
Speaker 1: him Will I hadn't thought about this in a while,
Speaker 1: but didn't We kind of get into ker fluffle in
Speaker 1: the offseason when I said he could play his way
Speaker 1: into the franchise tag k E R f l U
Speaker 1: f l E. I believe fail. I think I'm not.
Speaker 1: I didn't look that up, didn't I I believe I
Speaker 1: said that. I thought he could play his way into
Speaker 1: a franchise tag, and he's on his way to doing that,
Speaker 1: or at least you think that's what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: It has to be that that has to be one
Speaker 1: of the more expensive it has to be. It has
Speaker 1: to be a conversation um with Dalton Chiltz. What's that
Speaker 1: franchise I think I might look at. I'm not joking
Speaker 1: a lot less. I'm sure it's at. I'm saying, I'm
Speaker 1: ten nine point six million for a tight end, sixteen
Speaker 1: million for a defensive end. Yeah, I mean it's cheaper. See,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I don't want to do franchise tag with
Speaker 1: with Randy. I want to just get Randy signed up
Speaker 1: to a deal. I want to give him again. But
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz to me is Jay Novacheck, and and that's
Speaker 1: there's that's a good thing. I mean, I think Dalton
Speaker 1: Schultz can definitely be your Jay Novcheck for this offense
Speaker 1: if he's aware to do it. I mean, Jay, No,
Speaker 1: does it affect it that you've already paid Blake? I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure about that. Lateral about that later. I don't, no,
Speaker 1: not necessarily. Why are you talking, not saying ready to
Speaker 1: Blake's Blake's contract is structured in a way that they're
Speaker 1: not married to it. Oh, they're not married to it.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to have that conversation shifted
Speaker 1: away from me. What a great story it is. He's
Speaker 1: been outstanding. And also the thing I love the most
Speaker 1: is that he's not just this agile, quick guy around
Speaker 1: the edge. He is bull rushing people back. He's got
Speaker 1: some strength. Okay, But and I know we're gonna run
Speaker 1: out of time, but let's talk about that though, Because yes,
Speaker 1: it would be great to sign Randy to the long term,
Speaker 1: but that probably means you have to franchise tag him
Speaker 1: in the meantime. That's how this always works. He ain't
Speaker 1: gonna sign a deal right now, unless unless he just
Speaker 1: feels that much loyalty to the Jones family for the
Speaker 1: way they stuck with him. And maybe he does, and
Speaker 1: maybe he should. That's okay, maybe he does, maybe he should.
Speaker 1: Whatever the point is, you don't see those types of
Speaker 1: extensions negotiated during the season very often because Randy and
Speaker 1: his people have to be well aware of what could
Speaker 1: be at stake. And like I said, unless unless he's
Speaker 1: just Tyrann Smith and he's like, I'm good, I don't care,
Speaker 1: just give me something that seems fair. I owe you anyway,
Speaker 1: And that's possible. I wouldn't bet on it. And so
Speaker 1: that's how you wind up in a situation with the
Speaker 1: franchise tag and we negotiate something later. And don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, I'm not saying he should take a hometown
Speaker 1: discount I think, because I think you have to make
Speaker 1: the money when you can make the money. But I
Speaker 1: do think that. I don't want to say oh, because
Speaker 1: oh it is a strong word, but I do think
Speaker 1: he should at least hear out offers, and if it's
Speaker 1: something that seems fair, then I think he should be
Speaker 1: willing to maybe do that, where otherwise he may be like, NA, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm waiting. Absolutely, I think now you would kind of
Speaker 1: give a little bit referential treatment because this team did
Speaker 1: stick by you in times when most teams would have
Speaker 1: been like, we're out. I certainly anymore. I don't want
Speaker 1: to speak for Randy period, especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: his money, but I won't be surprised if that loyalty
Speaker 1: plays a factor in all of this. Like I feel
Speaker 1: optimistic that Randy Gregory has a long term future here
Speaker 1: one way or the other. Still don't think he would
Speaker 1: sign an extension in the middle of the season. You
Speaker 1: just don't see it. Halp of very often. Wasn't there
Speaker 1: a time back in the day when the bye week
Speaker 1: seam a week that they did deals. All people were
Speaker 1: hitting me up all the time for the last two
Speaker 1: weeks heading up to the bye week, Like Randy, Gallop
Speaker 1: and Schultz just question after question about like I think
Speaker 1: some could get done during the bye week, and the
Speaker 1: answers usually no, because guys, and you want leverage. Leverage
Speaker 1: is everything, and leverage is continuing to play well and
Speaker 1: stacking those numbers and making your best case. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call a audible here. We're right at the time.
Speaker 1: I'm going to hold the final three until tomorrow. Oh, come,
Speaker 1: let's just power through going on the website. Let's just
Speaker 1: power through. Come on, we got all right? Number three?
Speaker 1: Treyvon Diggs? What I had him? Number three? He was
Speaker 1: number two? O Zach Martin. Okay, Tyvon Diggs number three,
Speaker 1: number two if you want, if you want to just
Speaker 1: say has been the most dominant of that position. Zach
Speaker 1: Martin will be number one. Let's okay, what is my
Speaker 1: number one? So I'm just saying, put Zach Martin number one.
Speaker 1: I think he's definitely number two. The on reason he
Speaker 1: put him number two is because the other guy is
Speaker 1: the quarterback. I had Zach number three. He's the best
Speaker 1: guard in football. He's playing out of his mind. I
Speaker 1: still think concessions need to be made when a guy
Speaker 1: is on pace to shatter the season record for interceptions
Speaker 1: in a season that has stood since like the year
Speaker 1: my dad was born. That's insane. No, he has a
Speaker 1: chance that. I'm saying the record has stood since nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty four. I think my dad was actually born in
Speaker 1: fifty two, but nineteen fifty four. I'm not saying he's
Speaker 1: gonna break it, but seven picks in six games. I
Speaker 1: mean I put him number two. I think he deserves.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna say all that, might as won't make
Speaker 1: one in the league. I know I'm gonna say it.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you say all that, but then you're like,
Speaker 1: he's number two. Well yeah, because this team would be
Speaker 1: up s Creek without a paddle with mean Scott Dak.
Speaker 1: I mean Dak has lost this year. Zack Martin has not.
Speaker 1: And I see what you did now, I've been Zack
Speaker 1: number one. I think he's played out absolutely outstanding. Um.
Speaker 1: And if you go buy grades from you know the websites,
Speaker 1: that grade. I mean he's he's been the best player
Speaker 1: in the all of football three of the five games
Speaker 1: he's played. That's ridiculous. Um, he's playing at an incredible
Speaker 1: level too. I put him too. I mean I put
Speaker 1: number one. He's number two on the list. You just
Speaker 1: can't show it in like an interceptions totally. He has
Speaker 1: been every bit as dominant, absolutely Gigs has been. These
Speaker 1: three guys, These three guys could be or could be
Speaker 1: number one on almost every other team's list. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's why that's that's why they're five and one, and
Speaker 1: that's why they're everyone's talking, you know, where the parade's
Speaker 1: going to be in playoffs and stuff. Just well, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying number one, Dak Prescott has to be in
Speaker 1: my opinion. It's just I mean, again, you're right, everything
Speaker 1: you said about Zach is right. But like again, the
Speaker 1: league is skewed so unfairly against cornerbacks. You get so
Speaker 1: few interceptions or so few opportunities to make plays on
Speaker 1: the ball, and he's cashing in on all of them.
Speaker 1: Whereas Zack's got somebody to block every time the ball
Speaker 1: gets snapped, and he does an amazing job. But it's
Speaker 1: I hate to say easier, but like you know, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm trying to say, Like every snap he's
Speaker 1: gonna line up and match the guy across from him
Speaker 1: and create lanes and pass protect and Diggs might get
Speaker 1: two to three real opportunities at the ball in in
Speaker 1: sixty snaps and he is maximizing though, And I just
Speaker 1: that's incredible. And by the way, those those chances that
Speaker 1: he gets at the ball he's making, some of those
Speaker 1: some of those are not like situations like you hear
Speaker 1: a lot of times, you know, tip ball, that's where
Speaker 1: you get a lot of interstad. A lot of these
Speaker 1: are not those kind of situations. And even the situation
Speaker 1: like in this last game where it was a tip ball,
Speaker 1: that's a tip ball that I would say ninety eight
Speaker 1: percent cornerbacks don't make that interception. It came. Most of
Speaker 1: them don't have the reaction skills and the ability to
Speaker 1: catch the ball to still can't. He was still not
Speaker 1: gonna go and hurdle a guy in mid He was
Speaker 1: still corralling it when he jumped over. Was it Jacobe Meyers?
Speaker 1: Whoever it was. If he had zero interceptions right now,
Speaker 1: we would say, yeah, you know, he has no picks
Speaker 1: this year, but he takes everyone's number one receiver. He's
Speaker 1: locking them down, So he didn't have a lot of opportunities.
Speaker 1: So don't worry about that. I mean, Dion didn't get
Speaker 1: a ton of picks, you know, that kind of stuff
Speaker 1: with what we would say, But he's you know, so
Speaker 1: he's the best number three in the league of any
Speaker 1: other team. So just like football is unfairly skewed against cornerbacks,
Speaker 1: it's unfairly skewed toward quarterbacks. So I just if your
Speaker 1: quarterback is in the MVP conversation with that is I
Speaker 1: think he belongs to number one. Yeah, it's just and
Speaker 1: that's how I feel about He's everybody's worried about the backup,
Speaker 1: but that just goes to show just how valuable that
Speaker 1: he is. Um. You know, they didn't lose it, they
Speaker 1: didn't win with Zach Martin like that. I think they
Speaker 1: would play differently against the Bucks if Zach was in there.
Speaker 1: I think if they have to play them again, I
Speaker 1: don't think that they'd be as I think would be
Speaker 1: more balanced this time up, not not be so quick
Speaker 1: to get away from anyone. Maybe not. Honestly, don't think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are at all intimidated about having to go
Speaker 1: back to Tampa Bay if they have to do that
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. There's there's five really good football teams
Speaker 1: in the NFC. And how did anybody an we're going long?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but liked did anybody see with the way
Speaker 1: that the Chiefs were set up and the bill, like,
Speaker 1: did anybody see the NFC being the juggernaut side of
Speaker 1: the league like the AFC looks like a mess and
Speaker 1: the NFC. I think of the six quote unquote like
Speaker 1: best teams in the league, I'd say five of them
Speaker 1: are in the NFC. And then I also think this
Speaker 1: is just a moment in time. I think once to
Speaker 1: the end of the season, I think there'll be a
Speaker 1: lot think the Bills are serious, like that is a
Speaker 1: really good team. They've had a misstep here or there. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know the Kansas City is gonna get it
Speaker 1: together until the quarterback starts playing better. But but there
Speaker 1: are some teams. If you're if you're leaving, if you're
Speaker 1: leaving the Chiefs for dead at three and four, I
Speaker 1: know you feel free. Not what I'm saying. What I'm
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is their quarterbacks gonna have to play better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not playing. Their whole team is gonna have to
Speaker 1: play better. But how many times have we seen the
Speaker 1: Bucks were mediocre as hell until about Thanksgiving last year
Speaker 1: and then they just took on get on. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: exactly right, That's what I'm saying. We're still early. We'll
Speaker 1: see what this thing looks like at the end, but
Speaker 1: right now it does look very heavily skewed towards the NFC.
Speaker 1: With those five teams sitting at the top and all
Speaker 1: of them looking like teams that could possibly win a title.
Speaker 1: All right, we appreciate you guys, Jonas, and we'll be
Speaker 1: back on tomorrow. There was a little big picture look
Speaker 1: around the NFL, some things happening in the NFC East
Speaker 1: and around the league. Will do that when we come
Speaker 1: back tomorrow. Till then, for Nick Even, Dave helm and Ambergarcia.
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