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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, December six, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode
Speaker 1: number ninety four. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: Real life from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start,
Speaker 1: and oh do we have so much to get into.
Speaker 1: Cowboys lay an egg? Not not literally because the points
Speaker 1: say that they didn't lay an egg, but he watched
Speaker 1: the game. They laid an egg. They got they lose
Speaker 1: to the Chicago Bears last night in Chicago thirty one,
Speaker 1: twenty four. We're coming off the visit up there to Chicago,
Speaker 1: and there are a lot of hot opinions, at least
Speaker 1: there were last night about this team and about where
Speaker 1: they're going and how they performed last night. So let's
Speaker 1: dive right in. The First thing that I took from
Speaker 1: this game is you look at the offense, and to me,
Speaker 1: it was probably as inept a performance as you've seen
Speaker 1: from them all season. Checked this out. There were five
Speaker 1: possessions they had last night where they went three and out.
Speaker 1: Three of those possessions they got zero yards, and one
Speaker 1: of those possessions they actually got negative twelve yards. What
Speaker 1: was the problem with the offense last night? I mean,
Speaker 1: let's start where it always starts. It starts with the
Speaker 1: offensive line and the quarterback and so offensive line. You know,
Speaker 1: I just didn't think they were there was dominant at times.
Speaker 1: I mean they ran the ball decently, and they actually
Speaker 1: did well in the red zone there. I thought the
Speaker 1: past protection wasn't I mean, Dak was running around for
Speaker 1: his life. But das was Dak's worst game of the season,
Speaker 1: I think. I mean, I don't care what the stats say,
Speaker 1: stats lie in this case, I think it was his
Speaker 1: worst game. He did not play well. He missed open receivers,
Speaker 1: and not until people started going to bed, you know,
Speaker 1: turning it off, did he start playing well. So I
Speaker 1: said last week that you know, he threw for like
Speaker 1: three to fifty against Buffalo, and I was like, that's
Speaker 1: a hollow stat line. Well this is worse, honestly, Which
Speaker 1: that's the crazy thing. You know, I guess I have
Speaker 1: a reputation at this point of being a Dak apologist.
Speaker 1: I certainly don't think he played well, but I said
Speaker 1: it during the game, and the offense was bad. I
Speaker 1: mean they had the sevent team play drive that you know,
Speaker 1: established the runs. Zeke looks good, they go down and
Speaker 1: score and then completely disappear. I get that. How many
Speaker 1: three announced did you say? They have five? Three announced
Speaker 1: last night? And I think they have more first downs
Speaker 1: on the first possession than like up until the fourth quarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's crazy. But at the same time, my impression was
Speaker 1: the I mean Mitch Trubisk he looked like Lamar Jackson. Like.
Speaker 1: That's what I couldn't get over is Yes, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense wasn't moving the ball. That's the player you don't like,
Speaker 1: And yeah, what are we? Oh, well, you're mentioning there
Speaker 1: was a play last night. There was a play last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was the first play showed. There were
Speaker 1: there were three different guys that had man coverage. There
Speaker 1: was one player that had like three or four guys
Speaker 1: around him, and Dak throws the ball to the guy
Speaker 1: with three or four men around him, and to me,
Speaker 1: it was just it was a symbol of what the
Speaker 1: night was for Dak Prescott. Talking about his numbers, he
Speaker 1: was twenty seven forty nine fifty five percent completion, three
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four yards, a touchdown, and no interceptions,
Speaker 1: eighty three point two passer rating. The interesting part, though,
Speaker 1: is if you go back and look at the first half,
Speaker 1: that's when you see the just how bad it was.
Speaker 1: He was six or thirteen in the first half, forty
Speaker 1: forty six percent completion with only sixty yards, fifty nine
Speaker 1: point eight passer rating. That's really the story of the
Speaker 1: game in the first half. Other than that first drive,
Speaker 1: they absolutely could do nothing on offense. A lot of
Speaker 1: the year, I feel like a lot of this has
Speaker 1: fallen on dropped passes. Not necessarily his fault, but I
Speaker 1: feel like this game it was just bad throws. There
Speaker 1: were a lot of drop offs of an o' gallup
Speaker 1: had a bunch of them and comment and it was
Speaker 1: kind of everyone, But this felt like those drop passes
Speaker 1: felt a lot more onto Prescott than they have throughout
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. I oh, he was off
Speaker 1: target all night up and I mean he got it
Speaker 1: together in the fourth quarter. I guess kudos to him
Speaker 1: for doing that. But the game was well out of
Speaker 1: reach obviously, and that's you can still say they laid
Speaker 1: an egg just because they lost by seven. The Jerry Jones,
Speaker 1: the owner of the team, came out after the game
Speaker 1: and was like, let's not let anybody get confused that
Speaker 1: this was a close game. It's like, yeah, so they
Speaker 1: definitely laid an egg. But here, I guess, here's the
Speaker 1: point that I was trying to make flame flame away.
Speaker 1: If I'm a dak apologist, I'm sorry. But seventeen plays touchdown,
Speaker 1: Bears drive field. Jordan Lewis gets a great toe drag
Speaker 1: interception Cowboys on the one inch line. They don't I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't expect him to drive the field. They play
Speaker 1: very concerned relatively. They punt, Bears get the ball back,
Speaker 1: go down, score a touchdown seven to seven. Cowboys do
Speaker 1: go three and out, I mean no yards gained on
Speaker 1: the next drive. Then the Bears go down and score
Speaker 1: a field goal. And now you're getting toward the end
Speaker 1: of the first half. Not a pretty drive, but the
Speaker 1: Cowboys get to the Bears twenty four. Don't give me started.
Speaker 1: We've already talked crap on the offense and defense. You
Speaker 1: might as well throw special teams in there gets him
Speaker 1: into field goal range to potentially tie the game with
Speaker 1: five minutes to play. Brett Maher misses from the all
Speaker 1: important forty to forty nine range. He's one of five
Speaker 1: on the year now from forty to forty nine, which
Speaker 1: arguably is the most important range for an NFL kicker
Speaker 1: to be accurate from. But he slept well, he did.
Speaker 1: That's what I heard. I heard. Yeah, here was his quote,
Speaker 1: just to be clear. He says, I hit every ball
Speaker 1: pretty well tonight. I'll put my head on the pillow
Speaker 1: to night feeling good about what I did. I feel good.
Speaker 1: You know what you need to be cut for that?
Speaker 1: You don't. You don't feel good. Why are you gonna
Speaker 1: feel good about what you did? The results matter, right,
Speaker 1: you know what? I actually one time, You know, I
Speaker 1: don't play a lot of golf, but one time I
Speaker 1: hit the greatest shot ever into the middle of the
Speaker 1: number twelve fairway. Was unbelievable. The problem was I was
Speaker 1: on number nine. Great shot. Hitting the ball well is
Speaker 1: not what we're trying to do here. Hitting it through
Speaker 1: the middle is what we're trying to do. I would
Speaker 1: take the knuckleball that just trickles in and hits every
Speaker 1: crossbar and upright and all that. Oh I struck it. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sleep well tonight. Yeah. Well, a lot of
Speaker 1: that with when they talk to the media is kind
Speaker 1: of not telling the ful truth. And that's what really
Speaker 1: everything they say, you know, they're always going to say,
Speaker 1: you know, like we still believe in this team. There's
Speaker 1: no confidence. As all that stuff you take with a
Speaker 1: grain of salt. But with this, you can't lie to yourself.
Speaker 1: You can't lie to the media about that. You have
Speaker 1: to be honest. Yeah, And that wasn't his worst kick.
Speaker 1: His worst kick was the four kickoff out of bounds.
Speaker 1: You know what. I said this in the pregame show
Speaker 1: about two thousand and seven against the Bears when they
Speaker 1: went up there and Devin Hester was the guy and
Speaker 1: you had to kick it away from him, and they
Speaker 1: kicked out of bounds and all that, and they finally
Speaker 1: they just told the coaches, listen, kick it will tackle him.
Speaker 1: At some point, you just have to see be an
Speaker 1: NFL player and say we're gonna stay in our lane.
Speaker 1: Run down there. Yes, Cordarell Patterson's a great player, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna tackle him because you're doing all this extra
Speaker 1: stuff and then you kick it out of bounds. And
Speaker 1: but my question is is was that also a reflection
Speaker 1: of the fact that maybe special teams just isn't on
Speaker 1: the right, Like special teams has not played well these
Speaker 1: last few weeks. Was a situation where they were making
Speaker 1: a decision because they knew special teams that not played well,
Speaker 1: and they're like, just don't get it to it, Cordarell
Speaker 1: pass Patterson because we don't trust that the special teams
Speaker 1: will make a tackle. But the alternative there is you
Speaker 1: kick out of bounds absolutely forty, which is what he's
Speaker 1: trying to do. But that also again that makes that
Speaker 1: shows you why it is such a big problem is
Speaker 1: because one thing begets the other. It's the same thing
Speaker 1: with him kicking these field goals and being inconsistent. At
Speaker 1: some point it starts to affect the strategy of the game.
Speaker 1: It affects your decision making, and that becomes a problem,
Speaker 1: I guess. But that's what I was gonna say, is
Speaker 1: like the irony is you're out thinking yourself on kickoff
Speaker 1: because you don't trust your deficiencies in the kick game,
Speaker 1: but they have no problem trotting him out there for
Speaker 1: field goals that he can't make, Like I mean, this
Speaker 1: week isn't a great example. He should make that kick,
Speaker 1: but like Thanksgiving against the Bills as a perfect example,
Speaker 1: where like they're not even thinking about what hash he
Speaker 1: should be on, or like how accurate he is from
Speaker 1: certain They're just like, well, like he'll, he'll, he's the kicker.
Speaker 1: He goes out and kicks, and they have no reason
Speaker 1: to feel that confidence, but they do it anyway. It's maddening.
Speaker 1: And after the game, I mean, I know we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about it, but I guess we can talk about now.
Speaker 1: I mean after the game, Jerry was very noncommittal about
Speaker 1: that situation. He basically said, now he did talk today.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear it, I think at first, No, I
Speaker 1: mean he didn't say anything. I mean, he didn't say
Speaker 1: anything about Brett Maher. Jason Garrett's got a conference call
Speaker 1: today at four. I mean, I wouldn't be shocked if
Speaker 1: we hear something about it today. I don't know that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean it can't get worse, kin it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my thing. I don't think it can get worse.
Speaker 1: It doesn't you can find the guy that can miss
Speaker 1: and kick out of bound. That's my point, right, I
Speaker 1: don't And I said this year in the press box
Speaker 1: last night, what is maher doing for you? Right now?
Speaker 1: He's kicking out of bounds regularly. He's not kicking it
Speaker 1: through the end zone, so he's not doing much on
Speaker 1: the kickoffs. He's so in act, I mean, so um
Speaker 1: inconsistent when it comes to kicking field goals. The only
Speaker 1: thing that right now you could say that's even on
Speaker 1: the on the plus side of the ledger for him
Speaker 1: is if you get in a situation where you need
Speaker 1: a sixty two yarder, he's got as good a shot
Speaker 1: of doing that as any kicker in the league. Like,
Speaker 1: that's the most you can say about him. That's not
Speaker 1: enough to keep a guy. I don't agree anybody last week, right,
Speaker 1: anybody on the street, in my opinion, that is an
Speaker 1: NFL caliber kicker should be able to be at least
Speaker 1: that bad. Right, Yeah? Is it? There's like a weird
Speaker 1: parallel there with the coach as there in my way,
Speaker 1: I mean, just I mean, at this point, with everything
Speaker 1: that's happened, like what are who's out there? Who's out
Speaker 1: I mean, well, like you're like, what are you getting
Speaker 1: from Jason Garrett And you're like, well, what's the alternative?
Speaker 1: And you're like, well, can it be worse? Like could
Speaker 1: it be worse than what I've seen in the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. I think that this last game, after the
Speaker 1: Bills game, they came back and told us all what
Speaker 1: it was going to be. You know, we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna actually grab the wheel and we're gonna take control
Speaker 1: of the destiny and it's gonna happen and all that.
Speaker 1: Dac said it. He was really clear about it, and
Speaker 1: he comes out and plays his worst game Dak does
Speaker 1: in my opinion, and then Jason Garrett same thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: they go out and I thought they had okay and
Speaker 1: some coaching situations. They had some head scratching moments, you know,
Speaker 1: throughout the game like they always do, but the message
Speaker 1: just isn't being hurt anymore. So to your point, who
Speaker 1: else I don't know, but they're something has to light
Speaker 1: a fire under this team, and you know that's a
Speaker 1: bad Joe considering what's happened with this team and the
Speaker 1: hot boys and stuff like that, that they're doing okay
Speaker 1: on their own doing that, but they no one else
Speaker 1: is doing is igniting this team to anything, and that
Speaker 1: does fall on the head coach. Do you think there's
Speaker 1: another coach here whose message could be received, because as
Speaker 1: much as this falls on Garrett, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: other coaches who play a part in now. I think
Speaker 1: it would that's a good question. I think it would
Speaker 1: be Jerry's message. Jerry's message of it, just like he
Speaker 1: did nine years ago and he fired Wade and he said,
Speaker 1: I fired a good coach today because of you guys.
Speaker 1: Can't fire all of you. So I had to fire
Speaker 1: this good head coach because you guys aren't playing well.
Speaker 1: I don't think you would say that anymore. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's the same type of situation, but it's still
Speaker 1: it's like I can't do everything, so I have to
Speaker 1: I have to let him go because it's not working.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if that lights a fire under
Speaker 1: this team, because here's the issue. The issue got right
Speaker 1: now is there's a bunch of guys that'll be in
Speaker 1: that room that already got paid. So what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do. You're gonna cut them. You can't really cut them.
Speaker 1: They're too early in their contracts, right, you can't really
Speaker 1: cut them, So what's what's the real harm to them?
Speaker 1: Especially if they're like, well he's gone okay whatever, like
Speaker 1: if they I don't know that that firing Garrett. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that lights a fire under anybody in
Speaker 1: that locker room. Where are the right people in that
Speaker 1: locker room? Because buying large, there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: in that group who are supposed to be playing better
Speaker 1: than they are. Their money, the amount of money they're making,
Speaker 1: says they should be playing better than they are. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's going to change because they're still
Speaker 1: gonna get paid. Right. How many guys on this team
Speaker 1: are playing up to their price tag right now? I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this. I'll gladly say, Lyle call, yeah, we
Speaker 1: were about We said that earlier this morning, like as
Speaker 1: we started going through the list. Lyle's a guy that yeah, right,
Speaker 1: good point. But Lyle, I think is is especially when
Speaker 1: you talk about the offensive line, which that's probably the
Speaker 1: position where you have most of your money and it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be the strength of your team. And right
Speaker 1: now across that line, outside of Lyle, I don't know
Speaker 1: that anybody's playing up to their expectations and that includes
Speaker 1: Zach mardin track like all of them. They're not playing
Speaker 1: every level that you would expend them to be, and
Speaker 1: you know, we get it. Injuries are part of that.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys are going through stuff. It's but
Speaker 1: the you know, the black and white truth of the matters,
Speaker 1: that's just it is what it is. There aren't very
Speaker 1: many heavy hitting, expensive players playing up to that building
Speaker 1: on this team. Yeah, and the glaring ones are the
Speaker 1: ones that just got paid, Like those are the ones
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people are looking at,
Speaker 1: Like the expectation was that you were getting paid because
Speaker 1: you were supposed to be the up and coming leaders
Speaker 1: of this team and you're not even playing at the
Speaker 1: level of the money you're getting in If you've listened
Speaker 1: to this show all season, you know, like I'll you know,
Speaker 1: I'll go to bad for DeMarcus Lawrence any day and
Speaker 1: say he's played a lot better than people want to
Speaker 1: give him credit for. Didn't play well last night. It's
Speaker 1: a bad look when you're crashing down and giving up
Speaker 1: a twenty three yard rushing touchdown to a quarterback that
Speaker 1: had eighty yards entering the game, eighty yards on the season.
Speaker 1: Entering that game, he had sixty four last night, Like
Speaker 1: the Bears basically flipped on the Detroit and Bills games
Speaker 1: and we're like, oh, oh, they can't defend running quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna do that, and there's nothing they
Speaker 1: can do it well, he said, And as press conference
Speaker 1: he said, we saw some things on tape that we figured,
Speaker 1: you know, we thought we could do. You know, that's
Speaker 1: a novel concept. Figuring out what the other team doesn't
Speaker 1: do well. Well, that's the endocument this coach. It's not
Speaker 1: really that's my point. Yeah, I see, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: You can do that, I think with the Cowboys because
Speaker 1: they do what they do exactly. That's just who it's
Speaker 1: It's a novel concept to game plan for what your
Speaker 1: opponent doesn't do well instead of just focusing on what
Speaker 1: you do well. And the fact that the Cowboys were
Speaker 1: and I don't know, maybe this is the right word.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it is, we're arrogant enough to
Speaker 1: to just think, well, it'll fix itself. There were two
Speaker 1: games there were lesser quarterbacks were able to get all
Speaker 1: those ground yards against you, right, and you didn't think, hey,
Speaker 1: this could be a problem. Coming up. Last week when
Speaker 1: you did the Scattery port in Chicago. One thing said
Speaker 1: it was great, but one thing you said about mister
Speaker 1: Rubisky is, yeah, he's a guy that can run on you, right,
Speaker 1: And if the fact that you could see it, but
Speaker 1: they weren't thoughtful enough to say he is a guy
Speaker 1: that can run on and we've been run on by
Speaker 1: two other lesser quality quarterbacks, it is that they wouldn't
Speaker 1: be prepared for that, to me was the indictment. It's
Speaker 1: very rare that dumb me, non scouting me can watch
Speaker 1: an hour's worth of NFL game pass and call my
Speaker 1: shot and be so blindingly right, like it was so
Speaker 1: obvious mister Trubisky's an athletic quarterback, like it was painfully out.
Speaker 1: And if he can't do that, it changes the whole
Speaker 1: projection of what he's going to do in that game.
Speaker 1: And that actually goes back to the point I wanted
Speaker 1: to make. Look, Dack didn't play well. I don't think
Speaker 1: Nick's wrong. He might have played his worst game in
Speaker 1: the season. It's certainly one of the worst two or
Speaker 1: three games that he played this year. But I come
Speaker 1: out of that game stupefied by the defense. Really more
Speaker 1: than the offense, because I just looked this up while
Speaker 1: we were talking. The offense had four possessions in the
Speaker 1: first half. They go seventeen yards and score. They go
Speaker 1: three and out from their own goal line, which, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to kill you for that. That's you're
Speaker 1: limited in what you can do. Another three and out,
Speaker 1: that's not great. They have another scoring drive that gives
Speaker 1: them the potential to tie the game with the field goal.
Speaker 1: Brett maher missus. And what is happening while all of
Speaker 1: this is going on. The Bears are driving the field
Speaker 1: five out of five times. If true Bisky doesn't throw
Speaker 1: a bad pick on the first possession, they probably score
Speaker 1: on five straight possessions. They scored on their next four
Speaker 1: after the pick, and that includes after halftime when they
Speaker 1: you know again, Cowboys took the ball to start the game.
Speaker 1: I have no idea why, but the Bears took advantage
Speaker 1: of it because the defense just didn't elect to stop
Speaker 1: anything until it was what twenty four to seven. That's
Speaker 1: when the defense started forcing points. When it was twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven, the defense started forcing punts. And then
Speaker 1: when the offense rediscovered their mojo and scored, that's when
Speaker 1: the Bears were like, oh oh no, we're not done scoring.
Speaker 1: We Okay, now that y'all are back in the game,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go take care of business. I thought the
Speaker 1: defense was atrocious. Okay, so we're gonna take a break.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break real quick. I'm gonna leave
Speaker 1: you guys with this stat before we go to break.
Speaker 1: This is interesting. I saw this last night, mister brisky.
Speaker 1: Last night was the first quarter back in NFL history
Speaker 1: two yeah, complete seventy percent plus of passes on thirty
Speaker 1: plus attempts, throw three touchdowns, rush for fifty plus yards,
Speaker 1: rush for a touchdown in a single game. He made
Speaker 1: NFL history last night. Not the first time a player
Speaker 1: has made NFL history against the team this year. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a break, and when I come back,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you guys what went wrong with this defense?
Speaker 1: I want you to give me some answers, because it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like many people have answers. I want to
Speaker 1: hear a few thoughts from you guys on what you
Speaker 1: think went wrong defensively really over the season. What's gone
Speaker 1: wrong with this defense? When we come right back, this
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Speaker 1: the Break Welcome back. It's the second segment of The
Speaker 1: Break Black and s WBC Mortgage Studios. We are talking
Speaker 1: about Cowboys. We are talking about Cowboys versus Bears. Cowboys
Speaker 1: lose thirty one, twenty four, fallt six and seven on
Speaker 1: the season. They're down under five hundred three games to
Speaker 1: go and still leading the NFC East. Amazing, absolutely amazing,
Speaker 1: But like, do you think they'd be playing better if
Speaker 1: they had to like chase to catch up to somebody,
Speaker 1: Like if the Eagles were having a good season and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys had to keep pace. Do you think they'd
Speaker 1: be playing better. That's a hard question. Maybe like you
Speaker 1: need that, which I mean you shouldn't because this is
Speaker 1: your professionals, but they need that motivating factor like, oh,
Speaker 1: if we don't start winning games, we're done. Whereas like damn,
Speaker 1: we lost again and our you know, their percentage of
Speaker 1: making the playoffs only dropped from seventy three to sixty
Speaker 1: seven last night. Yeah, what a blessing to be in
Speaker 1: this division, if I mean that's what you want to
Speaker 1: call it. Yeah, it's something, all right. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: before the break, we were talking about the defense, and
Speaker 1: I pose the question, what do you think is the
Speaker 1: problem with the defense? And I think it goes beyond
Speaker 1: just this game. I think it's probably it might be
Speaker 1: all season, but it's definitely been a growing theme as
Speaker 1: the season has gone on, and personally, I think it's
Speaker 1: one that's gotten worse as the season's gone on. The
Speaker 1: defense seems to get worse, not better. What are your
Speaker 1: thoughts as to some of the issues and why they're
Speaker 1: happening to this defense? Well, I don't there's everything. They
Speaker 1: don't get enough pass rush to to really you know,
Speaker 1: make a difference there, And I think that everybody's just
Speaker 1: kind of okay. You know, the secondary's just just an
Speaker 1: okay secondary. Nothing great there. Um, They're just not special
Speaker 1: at anything. The linebackers don't fly around the ball like
Speaker 1: you would expect. Missing Layton van Erush is a big deal.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you have Sean Lee and Joe Thomas,
Speaker 1: you think you would be able to, you know, overcome
Speaker 1: and other teams overcome their injuries all the time. So
Speaker 1: and by the way, he wasn't playing great before the injury.
Speaker 1: I don't think he wasn't playing to his expectations. I
Speaker 1: mean he was playing, you know, he was. He was
Speaker 1: like the rest of you. Yeah. Right. Tackling has been
Speaker 1: terrible too, all across the board. That's to watch some
Speaker 1: break like three or four tackles multiple times last night
Speaker 1: was insane there. And that I mean that's you know,
Speaker 1: I was harping on the defense before the break. If
Speaker 1: this is Aaron Rodgers, I'm like, you know, I say
Speaker 1: it all the time, like, oh, the rules are skewed
Speaker 1: toward offense, these things are going to happen. This was
Speaker 1: this is one of the worst offenses in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They were twenty ninth. Going into the game. Mitch Rubisky
Speaker 1: got benched a month ago. I know they came back
Speaker 1: and said he got hurt. I don't buy it. He
Speaker 1: got benched in the waning minutes of a loss to
Speaker 1: the Rams, says a guy who's struggled to throw for
Speaker 1: two hundred yards. This is an offense that failed to
Speaker 1: score more than twenty points in eight of their twelve games.
Speaker 1: Heading into last night, they scored thirty one. It's only
Speaker 1: the second time they've hit thirty all year. Speaks for itself.
Speaker 1: They picked on these guys. Jalen Smith got picked on
Speaker 1: last night. They singled him out in the red zone
Speaker 1: three times in a row. Yeah, until it worked, and
Speaker 1: it did and it didn't work. It and it's baffling,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was illuminating. We all know Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett is great at not giving specific answers to questions.
Speaker 1: He went up last night and said, specifically on defense,
Speaker 1: guys are trying to do too much. They're pressing, they're
Speaker 1: trying to make the big play. You know the I
Speaker 1: thought Sean Sharif on the fan this morning had a
Speaker 1: great analogy, like, you know, you try to hit the
Speaker 1: six run home run in baseball when you're trailing by
Speaker 1: a bunch instead of just focusing on getting a hit,
Speaker 1: it certainly looks that way. And like I said, I
Speaker 1: thought it was illuminating that if Jason Garrett gives you
Speaker 1: a specific like that, then I think it's an even
Speaker 1: bigger issue than it actually, like, it's even bigger if
Speaker 1: it's so big that Jason Garrett is willing to acknowledge it,
Speaker 1: it's pretty damn BIG's what I'm trying. So you think
Speaker 1: that that's happening because guys are trying to get their
Speaker 1: own personal highlights or because they're just trying so hard
Speaker 1: to help the team win. The reason why here's the
Speaker 1: only reason why I asked that question. Yeah, well, here's
Speaker 1: the only reason why I asked that question. Because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that are giving Jalen Smith a
Speaker 1: lot of flat last knife for swiping when they're getting
Speaker 1: their butts whoop and he makes a play, and it
Speaker 1: makes me wonder, are there guys that are that are
Speaker 1: thinking more about their personal brands and thinking more about, Hey,
Speaker 1: I gotta get my highlight. And that's why you tend
Speaker 1: to go away from doing your job for the purpose
Speaker 1: of maybe making the big splash play, and that's a
Speaker 1: different that's a whole different thing than Hey, I see
Speaker 1: my teammate over here who's struggling. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: give him a little extra help. And that takes me
Speaker 1: out of position from what I'm supposed to be doing. Right,
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to figure out where do you think
Speaker 1: the slides? It can be both of those things, right,
Speaker 1: and which it's I always it's always dicey when you're
Speaker 1: talking about somebody's motives, like we don't you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I can't pinpoint to a certainty what drives
Speaker 1: these guys. But I do know it's a terrible look
Speaker 1: when you show boat down three scores in a football game.
Speaker 1: I mean it could be. It's a terrible look when
Speaker 1: you're dancing in front of you know, like after you've
Speaker 1: made a play on second down and a guy is
Speaker 1: down there on the ground hurt. Now whether or not
Speaker 1: you saw that or not, because I think he tweeted
Speaker 1: out that he did see it, but that's still a
Speaker 1: problem because you're doing some kind of like high fives
Speaker 1: that like teenage girls do, you know, like a camp
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, like with some other camp. I
Speaker 1: think I had any major high fives when I was
Speaker 1: a teenage girl at camp. You didn't have like a secret.
Speaker 1: Well you should, well because what was happening, because because
Speaker 1: you were probably paying attention to see if some other
Speaker 1: camp director was heard or something like that, because that's
Speaker 1: what was going on. So yeah, you didn't see it
Speaker 1: because you were doing that. And either way, it's second
Speaker 1: down because they went not on first, they went on second,
Speaker 1: and they might do it again, and they got him
Speaker 1: the third time, which I still would like to see
Speaker 1: it more of a review on that play, but you know,
Speaker 1: because we review everything. But you know, and I'll say this,
Speaker 1: if there's a weird call that you haven't heard of before,
Speaker 1: watch a Cowboy game because you're gonna get it. Not
Speaker 1: only gone fourth time out, you're gonna get it twice
Speaker 1: a fourth time out, which I don't want to talk
Speaker 1: out of both sides of my mouth. Football should be fun.
Speaker 1: You should have fun while you're playing it. This year
Speaker 1: hasn't been fun for me. No, I'm sorry, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know, but you get my play football. I want
Speaker 1: touchdown dances. I want Robert Quinn to dance like a
Speaker 1: snake when he gets a sack, but maybe not if
Speaker 1: you're getting pummeled right which they were, No, the right time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a time and place. And like I said, like
Speaker 1: I don't know to a certainty what drives these guys,
Speaker 1: but they're pressing, they're out of position, like that's coming
Speaker 1: from their head coach. And it doesn't lead you to
Speaker 1: a good conclusion when you see that type of stuff
Speaker 1: in a game. No, that is lopsided. It shows that
Speaker 1: you do not care. That's what it looks like, is
Speaker 1: that you really don't care. I remember and another fifty four,
Speaker 1: they're in Hamburg. They we're getting beat by the Eagles
Speaker 1: forty to seven in the rain, and he did a
Speaker 1: he made a tack like on third and five and
Speaker 1: went right in front of the Eagles bench and did
Speaker 1: the gravedigger dance right in front of them. And it
Speaker 1: was forty to seven, and you're like, h Okay, it
Speaker 1: just shows that I don't really care about the score.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get mine. There's there's to a degree where
Speaker 1: you do that gamble to hype each other up, and
Speaker 1: I get that, like, hey, you know we can still
Speaker 1: do this. We're still in this. Let's let's stay confident
Speaker 1: we can do this, but you have to understand the limit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by that, and that's I do think. I do think
Speaker 1: the chemistry among the defensive players is good. Like I
Speaker 1: think those guys love each other, they get along. It
Speaker 1: hasn't translated. And yeah, like I know people are tired
Speaker 1: of hearing about the hot boys, and I totally understand that.
Speaker 1: So I have a hard time buying that they're out there,
Speaker 1: like I don't give a damn about these other ten guys,
Speaker 1: Like I don't necessarily think that's true, but they're clearly
Speaker 1: trying to do too much in a lot of different ways. Well,
Speaker 1: the point is there are a lot of brands on
Speaker 1: this team. Oh yeah, there's a lot of brands. And
Speaker 1: that's why I asked the question. Is when you have
Speaker 1: a lot of brands, I think sometimes that can lend
Speaker 1: itself to guys making business decisions. And part of those
Speaker 1: business business decisions are look at me, Like I need
Speaker 1: those moments where you have to look at me and
Speaker 1: say I'm a great player, right, And and that may
Speaker 1: not always lend itself to doing what's best for the team.
Speaker 1: You're assignment. Maybe one that does the dirty work so
Speaker 1: somebody else can shine. And if you're not always focused
Speaker 1: on just doing your assignment and not being the guy
Speaker 1: to make the play, then what we're seeing right now
Speaker 1: is what happens right right, All right, let's take our
Speaker 1: final break. When we come back, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about this quote from Jerry Uh. It just kind of
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of people reacting to it. Basically
Speaker 1: said us night, every healthy coach will continue to coach,
Speaker 1: and that probably means that there aren't going to be
Speaker 1: changes to this coaching staff. I'll ask you, guys if
Speaker 1: that's the right decision when we come back. This is
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Speaker 1: back to the Break. It is the final segment of
Speaker 1: the Break Clackness WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, and
Speaker 1: we're talking about this depressing loss. Cowboys lose to the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears thirty one twenty four. Nick, give us some
Speaker 1: kind of something. I don't know. You want to go
Speaker 1: to a championship gameball go to the Big twelve Championship
Speaker 1: because that's probably the closest thing we're gonna have this
Speaker 1: year at the A T ANDC Stadium other than the
Speaker 1: high school games that are the u IL Texas state
Speaker 1: playoffs will be there well, but December seventh, which is tomorrow, Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: we'll play at eleven am. So you can go to
Speaker 1: SeatGeek dot com to get some tickets there. I will
Speaker 1: say this, I'm very, very excited about the fact that
Speaker 1: there are no Cowboys games this weekend. So tomorrow I
Speaker 1: plan to sit down on my couch around ten o'clock
Speaker 1: and I really don't plan to move again until like
Speaker 1: about ten o'clock tomorrow night. The best just watching all
Speaker 1: the conference championships. It'll be a great day of football.
Speaker 1: Those are the best days. It is. Who you guys
Speaker 1: plan LSU. I am going to be in New Orleans
Speaker 1: watching LSU play for an SEC title with most of
Speaker 1: my closest friends. Sounds fine. Yeah, I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1: Sounds fine, And me and Nick will just be living
Speaker 1: vicariously through other people my college football. What's your curry, y'all? Well,
Speaker 1: all three of us, Like, this has been a really
Speaker 1: bad college year, really bad college the worst. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about that this morning. This is my worst football
Speaker 1: season I've ever had between college and brother. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: can't be true. It is h No, No, he's saying
Speaker 1: across the board. But I mean I'm not trying to Like,
Speaker 1: you've wrote a book out the fifteen season and it
Speaker 1: didn't go great. Yeah it didn't. It didn't go great.
Speaker 1: But like coach was fired on one team, Arkansas, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that might be getting fired on this team. I mean,
Speaker 1: everyone wants it. The will both for you. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a good point eight eighteen year you know, streak of
Speaker 1: winning seasons on my other team that was snapped. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just hasn't been a good year and okay, twenty
Speaker 1: twenties almost here, neck it is. I was gonna say
Speaker 1: I invite anybody to vicariously root for LSU through me,
Speaker 1: but I think the opposite's gonna have. They hate it.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that are gonna rooting. Started.
Speaker 1: I started me earlier this year after y'all beat us.
Speaker 1: I started coming around on the idea, I really want
Speaker 1: to see these fans be able to get that championship.
Speaker 1: Get over bam all that night, and the more of
Speaker 1: the season is on, and I've heard you on Twitter,
Speaker 1: the more I'm like. I was tell my wife the
Speaker 1: other day, I was like, I hope they don't win
Speaker 1: this national time because they get that much more. Yes,
Speaker 1: I hope Ohio State just completely runs them off the field,
Speaker 1: just so I don't have to hear about it for
Speaker 1: the year. Go big or go home, like I'm not,
Speaker 1: I hear you, this isn't this isn't a game for
Speaker 1: the meek. Go like you like, bring it off like
Speaker 1: I'm either, and if they lose, pile it ONFA. This
Speaker 1: is why I love football. And then the book that
Speaker 1: I wrote that you're alluding to is the same thing
Speaker 1: it was in a great season. But you know, but
Speaker 1: the thing about it was is that that's why we're
Speaker 1: in this because next year we're gonna be back. And
Speaker 1: that's what's so beautiful about sports, and especially football, is that,
Speaker 1: you know what these people that said I'm done, I
Speaker 1: am done. You're done because it's Monday, and you're done
Speaker 1: because it's Tuesday and you don't have to do anything.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're not gonna read our stories or The Break
Speaker 1: or the Talking Cowboys, but on Sunday, you're gonna wear
Speaker 1: your old Troy eightman jersey again, and you're gonna put
Speaker 1: on the same slippers you always wear, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: sit in the same spot in your couch and you're
Speaker 1: gonna watch the game because that's what your dad did
Speaker 1: and that's what you do. Like I said in a
Speaker 1: Thousand Times, you don't choose to be a Cowboys fan.
Speaker 1: It chooses you. So you'll be back Sunday against the
Speaker 1: Rams pissed off. So you'll be there, and that's the point.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be pissed, But the point is you're still
Speaker 1: You can't if you're a real fan, and a fan
Speaker 1: of football and a fan of your team, You're still
Speaker 1: gonna be watching. It's wow. I watch Texas football, even
Speaker 1: though I'm frustrated with it. I completely agree we are
Speaker 1: all that sick type of breed and the people that
Speaker 1: listen to this type of show are too. But I
Speaker 1: will say, and Jerry Jones said this this morning on
Speaker 1: his radio adeo. He was like, you know, I get
Speaker 1: like people are pissed off, and I get that and
Speaker 1: I understand it. And I don't remember the direct quote,
Speaker 1: but he was like, it's apathy that concerns me as
Speaker 1: the owner and general manager. I think that could be
Speaker 1: a problem if somehow this gets run back. Like what
Speaker 1: do you mean run back? I mean like people are
Speaker 1: out on Jason Garrett right, the vast, vast, vast majority
Speaker 1: of Cowboys fans. But I think the great news for
Speaker 1: them is the way this thing has gone. It really
Speaker 1: in my opinion, And again I don't know. Jerry still
Speaker 1: gets the final say obviously, but I have a hard
Speaker 1: time believing that this thing turned out any way other
Speaker 1: than one of two. Either he goes all the way
Speaker 1: and Jerry's like, we'll see, I told you. We just
Speaker 1: got ahead to give it time, or it doesn't and
Speaker 1: he's gone and they start over. And I think that's
Speaker 1: the disconnect. I think we would all agree we're on
Speaker 1: the same page with that, and we're on the inside.
Speaker 1: This is our job, so we approach it a little
Speaker 1: more even keeled than a fan would, and we're like, look,
Speaker 1: whether it's today or in three weeks or after their
Speaker 1: playoff game, the Jason Garrett era seems like it's over
Speaker 1: and it is what it is. And I think a
Speaker 1: lot of fans are like, I'll believe it when I
Speaker 1: see it. They see that graphical and check right and yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're just like they're like, tell me, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be sitting down and it's gonna be Cowboys Giants
Speaker 1: at three thirty on September tenth next year, and Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett's gonna be the head coach. And I think a
Speaker 1: lot of them believe that. And that's I mean, you
Speaker 1: bring back app He's gonna be the head coach. Just
Speaker 1: not well, oh my god, if if that were so,
Speaker 1: it would be Sunday Night football, right, it would have
Speaker 1: to be Garrett comes back to Yeah. But I think
Speaker 1: there and I think that's we're sitting there like, look,
Speaker 1: just let this thing play out. It'll be fine. And
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans are like, I don't think I believe seeing
Speaker 1: it before. Yeah, And that's and that's where I wonder, like,
Speaker 1: how many times can you do this before? Or even
Speaker 1: the most died and the wool Cowboys fan is like, enough, okay,
Speaker 1: but when are you guys or other people are gonna
Speaker 1: gonna kind of come with me on this and say,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who your coaches, these players are not
Speaker 1: as good as we think they are. Tellent is not
Speaker 1: as great, and that's the that's what the media does
Speaker 1: and we're a part of it too. But how many
Speaker 1: times do you see Cowboys are gonna do this? Cowboys
Speaker 1: are great, this team is the number one team in
Speaker 1: college football. All of a sudden they barely make a
Speaker 1: bowl and they're like, well, the coach sucked, the players sucked.
Speaker 1: You know what, Media, maybe you suck, maybe we suck
Speaker 1: thinking that the Cowboys were going to be better. Here's
Speaker 1: the question, though, because I think it's two different things.
Speaker 1: Is it is it that they aren't talented or arnist
Speaker 1: talented as we thought, or is it that they're not
Speaker 1: playing up to potential because I think those are two
Speaker 1: different things, and I think in this instance, I think
Speaker 1: I go more to the point of I think they're
Speaker 1: not playing up to their potential because there are guys
Speaker 1: that I know are really good players on this team
Speaker 1: that have not played like really good players all season.
Speaker 1: We talked about the offensive line, give me they're a
Speaker 1: numb guy, Tyring, Okay, zach Ts Travis like go down
Speaker 1: the line, like there are a number. DeMarcus Lawrence. I
Speaker 1: think DeMarcus Lawrence is a phenomenal player. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's played like that this year. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's been as bad as some people think, but
Speaker 1: I don't think he's played up to where he played
Speaker 1: last year. This is absolutely the two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: season all over again, because that seat team was coming
Speaker 1: off a really good team for the year before everything
Speaker 1: was ready for him. They went three and oh to
Speaker 1: start the season, and then the bottom dropped out and
Speaker 1: they've had some terrible, embarrassing losses there and in the
Speaker 1: season and in the offseason before that, they signed about
Speaker 1: three guys that they signed to big long term deals
Speaker 1: basically off of what they have done and not what
Speaker 1: they were going to do. One of them was Terence Newman.
Speaker 1: One of them was Marion Barber who was pretty much done.
Speaker 1: Maybe Colombo or did they sign when did they resign?
Speaker 1: That wouldn't have been there was a there was another
Speaker 1: guy that they put a lot of money into and
Speaker 1: it hasn't really worked out. And that wasn't Hamlin. Wasn't
Speaker 1: was Hamlin, wouldn't you say? I mean which I wasn't here.
Speaker 1: I was in college, which means, Danny, you were probably
Speaker 1: in high school? Yeah, middle school? Oh god, piece lord,
Speaker 1: But I'm just okay. They went thirteen and three the
Speaker 1: year before that whole bunch of crap happened, they missed
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and the next year they went eleven and five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm led to believe that must have been a
Speaker 1: pretty talented group of players to push playoff runs and
Speaker 1: barely missed the playoffs in the middle of that. Oh,
Speaker 1: they kept the same coach, So how could they have
Speaker 1: been so talented last year when this is a majority
Speaker 1: of the same team. Then this it's just fall That's
Speaker 1: why I think. I think that's the point, Like, that's
Speaker 1: the NFL. If you look at the NFL, it happens
Speaker 1: like that. Think about the Atlanta Falcons. Two years ago,
Speaker 1: they were twenty eight to three and a half time
Speaker 1: of a Super Bowl in the lead, and now they
Speaker 1: are one of the worst teams in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: a lot of the same players that were the best
Speaker 1: of what they had back then are still on that
Speaker 1: team and still playing for them. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: they've added talent. I mean, that's the NFL. That's how
Speaker 1: the NFL worked. What are you saying. Do you think
Speaker 1: that these fifty to sixty year old coaches that have
Speaker 1: been doing it their whole life just now Aaron is good?
Speaker 1: I think I think it's both. I think sometimes players
Speaker 1: just don't play as well as they should. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think sometimes they aren't put in the right position
Speaker 1: because coaches, Because here's the thing, if you're really that good,
Speaker 1: that means that next offseason, everybody that you're going to
Speaker 1: face the next season is spending a little extra time
Speaker 1: getting ready for you to make sure they have answers
Speaker 1: to play, especially in your division. I think I think
Speaker 1: this team's getting their ass kicked on Wednesday and Thursday.
Speaker 1: That's what we've said it several times over the you know,
Speaker 1: the years, And I think we're starting to see it
Speaker 1: more and more now that they're not as prepared to
Speaker 1: go and win games. And that is on coaching. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt that that's a coaching. It's on players too too.
Speaker 1: I mean that used to that was what we said
Speaker 1: was Jason Garrett's strength. Yeah, and yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: doesn't It doesn't seem like it this year, right, and
Speaker 1: getting your ass kicked to something he hasn't really happened
Speaker 1: a lot with him, but it did last night. Like
Speaker 1: the score aside, whatever, they got beat and they got
Speaker 1: beat by a pretty average to bad team. And that's
Speaker 1: now the two weeks in a row. Yeah, because the
Speaker 1: same thing happened to him on Thanksgiving Day, they got
Speaker 1: the I mean, the Bills are probably gonna be in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, the Bears are not. I get it. My
Speaker 1: point though, is like you're not used to seeing Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett teams get dominated like that. You're used to sing
Speaker 1: them even if they lose. You used to sing them,
Speaker 1: put put forth the effort to be in the game
Speaker 1: at any point in the fourth quarter, like they're in
Speaker 1: the game. That's what me and me and say Taylor
Speaker 1: Stern had a little back and forth on Twitter last
Speaker 1: night where I was like, this is one of the
Speaker 1: worst three game stretches of football of the Jason Garrett era,
Speaker 1: and Taylor was like, well, what about twenty fifteen? I
Speaker 1: was like, twenty fifteen didn't have a quarterback and they
Speaker 1: went down to the wire. Week after week. They were
Speaker 1: fighting their asses off, they were losing an overtime, castle,
Speaker 1: they were getting beat on the last play of the
Speaker 1: game by the Bucks, like they weren't they weren't good,
Speaker 1: but they were not getting blown out ever, Like nobody
Speaker 1: just kicked their ass. Ye, and and this team has
Speaker 1: gotten its ass kicked a few times. You're going to
Speaker 1: pick the Cowboys to win another game? Yeah? No, I
Speaker 1: want like I mean, I'm gonna pull a Nick Eatman,
Speaker 1: Like They're gonna lose to the Rams on Sunday, then
Speaker 1: they're gonna turn around and win two straight an FC
Speaker 1: East games and make the playoffs. That's who they are.
Speaker 1: What we know of them is they beat teams that
Speaker 1: are worse the NFCAST teams. That's that's what they beat
Speaker 1: up on this season. They're gonna finish this season six
Speaker 1: and zero against the NFC East and then two and
Speaker 1: two and eight against everybody else, and they're two wins
Speaker 1: would be against Miami and Detroit, who are not good,
Speaker 1: and both of them beat the Eagles. True, Wow, yeah
Speaker 1: they did. Which I mean that just this I kind
Speaker 1: of u the Ringer, the sport, you know, the National website,
Speaker 1: they did an article last week where they like ranked
Speaker 1: the worst divisions of the realignment era, and they were like, oh,
Speaker 1: the nineteen NFC East isn't like, it's not the worst,
Speaker 1: but it's up there. And I kind of took issue
Speaker 1: with that. This was before the Dolphins game, the Miami
Speaker 1: the Eagles Dolphins game, and since then and since the
Speaker 1: Bears game, I was thinking about it. I was like, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: like this this could be one of the worst two
Speaker 1: or three divisions in you know, in the history of
Speaker 1: sense realignment. I sure, is it possible? I think it is.
Speaker 1: It's possible for the win of this division to be
Speaker 1: seven and nine, right absolutely, I mean that just speaks
Speaker 1: volumes with three games left, the possibility, and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: think it's a far fetched possibility that the win of
Speaker 1: this division is seven and nine. Definitely a great possibility.
Speaker 1: They could be eight and eight, which, to go back
Speaker 1: to my point, I think like that. I think is
Speaker 1: what has Cowboys fans mad today is they're like, I'll
Speaker 1: be damned if this team isn't going to go eight
Speaker 1: and eight and maybe even mess around and win a
Speaker 1: home playoff game, and then what do you do with
Speaker 1: this coach that they don't like? And I think that
Speaker 1: is probably keeping a lot of fans awake at night. See,
Speaker 1: but I think that that's going to be even more
Speaker 1: validation that something else has to happen, because that means
Speaker 1: that and Jerry talked about this morning in his call.
Speaker 1: He was like, you know, if you've seen something happen before,
Speaker 1: then you know there's a possibility it can happen again.
Speaker 1: I think Jerry belize heartily this team's talented, which leaves
Speaker 1: you with, Okay, if you're just not getting the most
Speaker 1: out of your talent, at some point, you gotta do
Speaker 1: something to get the most out of your talent. I
Speaker 1: know we're running out of time, but I wanted to
Speaker 1: say that too. Is I agree with Nick to a degree, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, thinking back to training camp, Nick, Xavier Woods
Speaker 1: didn't make the jump that I think we thought he would.
Speaker 1: Cheeta A Woozier is another one fantastic didn't translate like
Speaker 1: media definitely takes some accountability in that. I still, even
Speaker 1: after all of this, contend that the core of this
Speaker 1: team is very talented. I think the quarterback is good.
Speaker 1: I think the running back is great. I think Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper's phenomenal. I don't. I mean, he struggled in the
Speaker 1: early going for some reason. He can't he can't play
Speaker 1: great on the road. I don't know why. I still
Speaker 1: think he's a fantastic receiver. I think there's talent on
Speaker 1: the defense. It just hasn't translated this year, and I
Speaker 1: don't know why. All Right, we appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 1: We're back on Monday. We'll tell you about what happens
Speaker 1: this weekend. We'll tell you where the Cowboys sit, and
Speaker 1: we'll start getting ready for Cowboys versus Rams. Still then,
Speaker 1: for Nickietman, Dave Hellman, Danny Serek, I'm Derek Eagleton. This
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