WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Too Weird To Win? 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:05.520 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:17.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:21.440 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.759 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.120 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:37.440 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.040 It is Friday, October sixteenth, twenty twenty, season sixteen, episode 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.640 number forty six. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:48.320 I got Nick Eatman here live with me in the 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.560 s WBC Mortgage Studios. Got Amber and Dave on the show. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.000 Dave looking a little perplexed. I don't know why we'll 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.080 get into that. I'm sure at some point during the show, 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.280 and uh, we're gonna start first though, talking a little 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.240 bit about Mike McCarthy had a press conference. He talked 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.000 about two players. Will get some updates on on those guys. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.039 Then we'll get you guys ready for Cowboys Versus Cardinals 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.240 that happens this Monday night. I have a series of 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.479 questions I'm going to pose to these guys and it'll 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:14.840 get you ready for the show. And then we're gonna 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:16.600 take some time to hear from you guys. If you 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:18.640 have questions, make sure you get on Twitter. You hit 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.200 Amber up. She can make sure that your question gets 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.560 answered as many as we can get to. So hopefully 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.520 we can spend the majority of the final segment just 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.120 answering fan questions because we very rarely get to do 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.480 questions on this show because Nick and Dave talked too much. 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.440 All right, so let's jump right in. Let's talk about 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:41.039 Mike McCarthy and somebody with the eight hundred word rundown 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.760 maybe needs to take some responsibility for what we do 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.240 and don't do on the show. Hey man, I'm just 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.080 calling it like I see it. You know, I'm just 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.640 saying yea. Also, that's okay. I was just I was 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.200 trying to look curious and engaged, and I came off 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.560 looking confused. Okay, good, good good. I'm glad you weren't confused. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.480 So I'm actually gonna go to you first. You tell 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.600 me what a coach McCarthy you have to say about 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.680 Layton Vanderesh I guess, and what his prospects look like 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.840 going into this game Monday night. He said he looked 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.400 like he hadn't missed a beat, which is super encouraging. 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.400 I think, you know, we talked about this last week. 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.480 You just have to readjust your expectations for the practice 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.000 week today. This practice that's happening as we speak is 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.720 the only padded one of the week. It's the longest one, 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.119 so this is really where they're going to find out 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:33.280 where he is. And Mike said that how he feels 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.320 in the morning when they come in for Saturday will 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:39.160 probably dictate what they do with him. Unrelated to any 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:40.840 of that, I just I'm you know, I think Nick 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:42.400 has brought it up a few times, like it's just 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.280 kind of amazing that a guy who broke his collar 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.720 bone on September thirteenth is maybe preparing to play in 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.880 a game on October what nineteenth. I mean, that's that's insane. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.120 So we'll see what happens, but very fast progress for 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:00.440 Layton Vanderesh. Nick talk to me about Randy Gregg. He's 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.240 a guy that seemed to get some rave reviews, not 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.440 just from McCarthy, but there are a lot of people 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.720 from Jerry to Stephen to players, and we're talking about 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.000 him yesterday and how he performed in his first I 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.359 guess first practice back even without pads. What'd you what'd 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.959 you hear? Well? I mean, let's see, I forgot exactly 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.760 what what Zeke said. Dave Dave wrote an article about it. 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.000 He said, he looked, he looked lights out and as 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.880 good as he can remember him looking. Stephen said, nothing's changed. 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.960 He's still special. So um, yeah, I think And what 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.960 I thought what Zach Wharton said was was interesting too, 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:41.200 about him gaining muscle and and gaining weight, but also 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:46.440 still having that that quick first step. However, let's let's 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:51.880 also remember that DeMarcus Ware I'm sorry, Marcus Lawrence who 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.960 looked like DeMarcus say, are we talking a couple lot 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.080 every time? No? No, no no, no, d law who looked 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.600 like Dware and Alden Smith who looked like two thousand 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.800 and eleven. And we're just having a party at the 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:06.440 quarterback in training camp. So andy, I mean, so Gregory 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.240 going up against this offensive line. Let's see, let's wait 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:10.960 till it gets to the game, and let's see what 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.360 happens when they're actually trying to block them to the 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.359 ground and there they've actually played more than five games 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.040 in the league. Yeah, ironically, that was my first thought, 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:23.200 and right or wrong, my first thought was, Man, that's 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.120 something about the tackles to me more than anything else. 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.480 And again it goes back to training camp and how 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.000 great we thought these past rushers were during training camp. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.560 And by the way, I think we've had moments from 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.200 particularly from Tank and from Aldon Smith. We've seen moments 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.680 this year when they've looked really good in games. But 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.039 it did speak more to me about the tackles than 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.960 it did about Randy Gregory. Nothing against it Randy Gregory, 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.440 but I'll hold judgment until I can see him in 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.840 an actual game. All right, let's jump in. I want 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.160 to talk about Cowboys versus Cardinals, and I'm gonna throw 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.080 this first question to you. Start with you on this one. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:00.280 What part of the Arizona offense is it that Alice 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.600 will have to most focus on stopping If they're going 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.000 to get a win, Kyler Murray running or DeAndre Hopkins 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:13.040 catching passes. I think to me it would have to 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:17.880 be DeAndre Hopkins, just because I feel like with the 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.320 running game, even though it has been a problem for 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.000 the Cowboys defense, with a running game, you at least 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.840 have more guys that can jump in and work towards 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.960 trying to stop that rather than having DeAndre Hopkins over 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.240 there by himself with another man or two guys on him. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:41.080 It's just when you look at man versus I guess, 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:46.360 group versus one player, I tend to go towards the 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.560 running game. You have more guys trying to stop, so 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.640 I need to they need to focus on trying to 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:56.160 take out Hopkins because that guy is just amazing, Dave. 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.560 Obviously there's things kind to tie together, don't they. I 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.400 mean what I mean by that is, if I'm trying 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.960 to stop Kyler Murray from killing me on the ground, 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.040 I probably want to play a ton of zone. At 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.320 least I would, because that's how you wind up given 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.760 up eighty yards to a quarterback, as if everybody has 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.479 their backturn worrying about an assignment, and you know he 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.400 just leaks out for easy five to fifteen twenty yard games. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.919 So I want to play a lot of zone in 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.479 this game to try to neutralize that. But like, can 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.520 these guys successfully coordinate that. They've had problems with it 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.040 many times this year. They've They've lost guys on at 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:40.520 least four, if not five, six, seven occasions, So you know, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:45.560 they just have to be more cohesive. They have to 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.520 be able to communicate more clearly. Hopefully you know, this 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.680 whole thing with Mike Nolan being on the sideline can 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.119 help with that because I mean, and for my money, 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.120 I would rather stop Kyler. I would rather not give 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.719 up that easy yardage. But at the same time, you 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.640 can I afford to lose the guy. I mean, Hopkins 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.359 is gonna make his fair share of plays, but you 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.920 can't lose him the way that we've seen. So, I mean, 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.720 it's Kyler, but but I have a feeling trying to 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.360 stop that it's going to hurt them in the passing 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.760 game as well. Nick. Yeah, I mean it's it's like 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.080 getting kicked in the face or punched in the face. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.680 I mean what I mean, They're both gonna hurt. So, 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.160 I mean, I don't know. I think that's probably the 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.880 focus would be on Hopkins because you know, as Dave said, 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.520 Hopkins can can get free and that's a quick touchdown. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.120 I don't know if if if Kyler's gonna bust off, 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.280 you know, run for a touchdown, he probably could, but 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.040 I just think that, yeah, you know, you'll die a 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.280 slow death if he keeps getting first downs. But I 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.360 think it'll be a quick touchdown to the house if 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.120 if you know, if Hopkins goes off. So, I mean 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.480 the answer is both. But I think I think you've 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.120 got to make sure you don't have those those big 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.680 plays in the secondary. Yeah, you can kind of account 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.880 I think for for DeAndre Hopkins. Hopkins doing what he 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.040 does against most teams, as long as he doesn't go crazy. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:05.920 You know, if he has a day where he has 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:10.560 five catches, one hundred and fifteen yards, maybe a touchdown, 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.240 I think the Cowboys can win that game. You combine 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.600 that with a game where Hopkins, I mean, I'm sorry, 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.800 where Kyler Murray is running all over you and moving 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.600 the chains regularly throughout the game. I just don't think 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.080 you can sustain that. So I think, more than anything else, 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.760 they gotta make him stay in the pocket. They gotta 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.520 make him beat him, beat them from the pocket. And 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.560 if he does, you tip your cap to him. But 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.120 I think that's the best shot the Cowboys have at 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:34.760 winning this game, at least from the standpoint of what 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.640 they'll have to do defensively. All right, let's move on 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.760 to the next question of the offenses that Dallas has faced. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.120 Where does Arizona rank? You got Seattle, you got the Rams, 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.800 you got Cleveland, you got Atlanta. We'll just leave the 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.320 Giants out for now because I don't know that they 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.480 necessary rank up there with those top ones. But where 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.920 would you rank that Arizona offense relative to the other 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:57.760 offenses the Cowboys have played. Let's start first with you, Dave. Okay, 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.280 if this is the sixth team they've played, I'd probably 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.160 put them fourth, maybe, I think, I mean in Seattle, 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.320 I think I would definitely take over them. LA is 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.480 just more of a well oiled machine. Although I like 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.119 Kyler more than I like Jared Goff, I like Hopkins 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.319 more than any of those receivers, But the Rams offense 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:21.560 is just cleaner, better, and then I'd probably take the Browns. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.840 You can even make an argument for the Falcons based 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.120 off talent alone, but I won't do that because the 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.960 Cardinals at least have a winning record. Um, it's funny, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:33.080 like the Cardinals, they're they're very impressive looking, and I 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.160 mean they are talented. I think you know, they're eleventh 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:39.280 and offense, but they're mediocre at scoring. They're very inconsistent, 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:40.920 and you know, it goes to the point Nick made 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.000 yesterday that like you know this ain't the twenty eleven Packers, 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.160 like they are a flawed team. They can crew a 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.200 ton of u crew, they ucrew a ton of penalties. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.560 They don't finish drives. You know, they're only averaging twenty 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.960 five points a game to fight all this firepower. So 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.199 I mean they're good, but yeah, probably probably fourth, Nick, 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.480 where do you rank? I like that. I like fourth. 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.600 I mean I think and I think he makes a 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.600 really good point without the rams because you know they're 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.760 not as flashy, don't They don't know who the running 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.680 back is. The receiver is probably one of the most 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.400 underrated receiver. Both of them are both of them are 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.520 very underrated. Cup and would uh golf. You know he's 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.400 he's golf. He's the number one overall pick. But he's 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.320 but you know, he has his issues. He's played in 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.000 a super Bowl. There's not a lot of guys that 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.360 haven't said that. Um, So I just think that I 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.000 think that's that's good. I would probably go Seattle because 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.079 I think their quarterback is playing the best in the game. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:33.840 I mean last week when he was going against the 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.760 vicause we were about to leave to go um to leave, 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.440 you know, the stadium and everybody knew he was gonna 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.560 score tight down. Everybody everybody knew yeah he you know, 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.480 I say to him number one, and then but I 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:50.720 like fourth for the Cardinals, all right, Amber, Um, I 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.720 would put them right in the middle. I think that 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:58.880 the Cardinals is a team that if this is something 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.480 that we haven't seen the Cowboys go up against, it's 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:05.120 not a winning record team. It's not a losing completely 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.559 losing record team either, So it's like it falls right 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.640 in the middle. So I'm really really curious to see 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.560 how the Cowboys are able to handle at least those 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.719 kinds of teams and get a better idea of what 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.400 the Cowboys can actually do this year. Because when we 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.679 talk about analyzing the Cowboys first, you know, month and 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.080 a half or so of the season, it's like, Okay, well, 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.120 if you look at the team that they've lost too, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:33.520 they're doing better, so maybe they're they're not as bad 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.800 as we think. It's just the kind of talent that 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.600 they've gone up against. So now we get a team 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.040 that kind of falls right there in the middle. So 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.920 hopefully the Cowboys are able to succeed in this game 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.600 and give us at least a better idea of what 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.199 they can do for the rest of the season. Well, 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.319 you know, you know, I'm an Arkansas raised a back fan. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.960 Of course, are you. In two thousand and seven, they 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.480 were to play number one LSU. Yeah, and someone asked me, 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.520 while you don't have a chance to win the game, 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.040 they're beautiful, you don't have a chance to win the game. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.960 I said, well, we do have the best player on 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.000 the field, Darren McFadden. He's the best player on the field. 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:11.880 And elishe was number one. But we have the best player, 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:13.319 and if you have the best player, you can win. 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.560 And we did win that game, and elishe still won 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.880 the National championship, So Dave, Dave's fine with that, but 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.000 that year. But what my point is is the Cardinals 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.000 maybe fourth on offense is the way you ask the question. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.760 But Hopkins is the best receiver, and as the quarterbacks, 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.920 Murray's probably two behind Russell Wilson. So they're not all 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.280 putting it together. But on any given night, on a 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.360 Monday night with the you know, bright bright lights, I 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.840 don't you know, that's what's scary. They may be number four, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.520 but they have two guys that can take over. Yeah, 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.439 you know, the interesting part is when I asked the question, Nick, 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.800 I actually was thinking to myself, this is a kind 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.559 of a tricky question, because you're right. I think Dave 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.360 hit it on the head when he talked about the Rams. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.600 They are a well old machine. However, when you think 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:05.280 about the kinds of matchup problems that this particular offense 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.200 can give the Cowboys, I'm talking about the Cardinals, I 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.840 think that I'd put them right up. There is maybe second, yeah, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.880 because because the unique challenges that they present from the 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.160 standpoint of this dynamic quarterback and this wide receiver that 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.000 I think is the best in the game. And I 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.320 think he's one of those receivers. It doesn't matter if 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:22.480 you try to take him out of a game. You 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.520 could put two guys on him. Good luck. He's still 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.440 gonna get open, he's still gonna make his catches. He's 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.040 still gonna do what he does. Right. So I look 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.720 at this offense and I would probably put him up. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.880 There's maybe number two probably between them and Cleveland. I 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.160 would put the Rams probably below them, because I do 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.440 think they present some challenges that the other offenses just 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:43.120 don't present. Get them. Yeah, But doesn't that I mean, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.400 you can apply that to the Cowboys like in a vacuum. 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.559 The Cowboys are one of the two or three best 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.080 offenses in football, but they can't get out of their 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.280 own way. They're minus aid and turnover differential. They start 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:55.880 in a hole every week. It's why they have a 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.240 losing record. And I think, you know, the Cardinals aren't 0:13:58.240 --> 0:13:59.760 as bad as the Cowboys, but they have a lot 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.760 of the same problems, like I said, like they can't 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.679 finish drives. They their minus four and turnover differential, I believe, 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.320 So I do agree with you that they have, you know, 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.440 scary difference makers that we haven't seen the quality of 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.559 every week. But if you can't get if you can't 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.160 get out of your own way, if you're taking bad sacks, penalties, 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.840 turning the ball over, it doesn't always matter, as the 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.600 Cowboys have demonstrated very often this season. But what we 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.760 also have seen this season is that this defense, the 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:34.160 Cowboys defense against much lesser quality opponents or much lesser 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.760 quality offenses or offensive players in my position, in my opinion, 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:42.040 have played really, really poorly. And so now you match 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.960 them up against guys of this caliber, maybe that's their 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.440 antidote to a lot of the issues they've been dealing with. Right, 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.000 very fair, very fair. All right, we're gonna do this. 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:52.520 We're gonna take our first break. When we come back, 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.160 I'll have some more questions. And real quick, did you 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:55.560 have something you were about to say there too? I 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.360 think if you were jumping in on something, I was 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.880 just gonna I mean, Dave just basically said it. I 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.000 was just gonna say the same thing that the same 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.400 story can be applied to the Cowboys offense and at 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.360 any given moment, I mean, the story might be a 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.920 little different because we haven't fully seen what Andy Dalton 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.920 can do inside the offense, but it could have been 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.280 applied the same way. It's like, oh, at any given moment, 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.720 the Cowboys stopped turning over the ball, and then we 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.160 start seeing the kind of offense that they've been playing 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.960 in the second half of the game. We start seeing 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:27.120 it from the start of the game. So it's it's 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:31.760 a very tricky situation, very interesting season because you you 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.960 can see what they can possibly become, but at the 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.480 same time, you can see how terrible they can be. 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.880 And frankly, that's that's a great point. But I think 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.080 right now this is the part of season where you 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.320 start seeing the differentiation like what you've seen to this point. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.200 Is the potential now is when the guys, the teams 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.840 that are really good, they'll start to separate themselves. The 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.960 teams that are really bad, they'll continue to do the 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.760 things that they've done that you've said that could be 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:57.840 the reason why they're not very good, and they will 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:59.720 be just bad. Right, So, I think this is a 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.920 party we're about to see. Will the Cowboys continue to 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:03.720 be that team? Will Cardinals continue to be that? You 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.240 can also have another option. You can be like really 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.080 good one week and then bad at the next, and 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:09.920 then good and then then bad and bad, and that 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.360 finishes you around the eight and eight mark, and maybe 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.320 both these teams are that. All Right, We're gonna take 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:15.920 our break. When we come back, I am going to 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.640 ask you guys the question around the guys that may 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.600 be coming back. We had Anthony Brown comeback last week, 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.520 possibly late, and Vandersch this week. 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But let's jump 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.760 back in. We've been talking about this Cardinals offense and 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.640 some of the playmakers they have on that offense. Last week, 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.399 the Cowboys got Anthony Brown, their cornerback, back from injury. 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.960 This week, it looks like there's a possibility Laton vander 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.240 esh will be back as well, which is probably as 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.760 big of a guy that they're wanting to get back 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.840 from his defensive all the guys that they've lost on 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.640 defense this year, he's probably the guy that you point 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:35.679 to that you think can have the biggest impact. My 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.959 question is, is the impact of having him back and 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.959 having Anthony brownback enough that this defense changes from what 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.639 it's been in the first five weeks substantially enough to 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:47.800 where we see a difference on the field. Let's start 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.800 first with you, Nick Well. I mean the standards up there, 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.240 I mean, you better score a touchdown. I mean, Anthony 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.360 Brown comes back, Lake comes into the score. I think 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.600 it's just, you know, it's a couple of stops. I mean, 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.040 when you think about having just a better player at 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.919 corner that helps, a better linebacker that helps, And a 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:06.960 couple stops here and there on third down gets you 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:09.440 off the field. That's just another possession, and that could 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.000 lead to seven ten points the other way. So yeah, 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:14.000 I think I think that that stuff helps. And you know, 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:15.800 you can roll people, can roll their eyes and go 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:17.959 all these as you're gonna make a difference. They wouldn't 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.480 be starting if they were if they weren't better. So yeah, 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.879 you want your better players in there, and yeah, I 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:25.520 think they should help. If they're not, then you know, 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:27.600 why did you give them all that money? Why'd you 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:33.400 draft them? Yeah? Amber, Well, when you're at the bottom, 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:37.960