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Speaker 1: twenty two, Season seventeen, episode number ninety two. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the latest edition of The Break live in s WBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage Studios at the Star. We are getting you ready
Speaker 1: for Cowboys versus Eagles that happened Saturday night. We will
Speaker 1: be joined in the second segment by Bucky Brooks of
Speaker 1: NFL Network to talk a little bit about that game
Speaker 1: and the matchup specifically between the Philadelphia defense and the
Speaker 1: Dallas offense. Before we get to that, though, we do
Speaker 1: have some things you got to talk about. Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: finished his press conference a few moments ago, um he
Speaker 1: did announce that there were two more additions to the
Speaker 1: the COVID protocol list. Who's been added and what are
Speaker 1: we looking at here? Anthony Brown has been added and
Speaker 1: that's the one that's really uh. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: that Tyron Smith is also on the list, but I
Speaker 1: mean Tyren Smith was on a different list, like you
Speaker 1: ain't playing list, So I mean that one doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1: We gotta go. People say, oh, we don't even need
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown at Anthony Brown haters, but they're there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh they're definitely there. They don't need him for Saturday,
Speaker 1: Yeah they don't. They don't need him for Saturday. Well,
Speaker 1: you need a team to play football, yeah, they God,
Speaker 1: if it was something you said, everyone else they got guys,
Speaker 1: it'll be okay. I actually like the idea of being
Speaker 1: able to see Kelvin Joseph play a little more. I mean,
Speaker 1: in a game that there's relatively little consequence. I'd love
Speaker 1: just to see him get some more snaps and see
Speaker 1: what he can do. I don't want to make light
Speaker 1: of a global pandemic that has ruined our lives for
Speaker 1: a couple of years and caused a lot of grief,
Speaker 1: but like, don't be over dramatic. Her day, but that's
Speaker 1: not over dramatic. Has ruined our lives. It's ruined a
Speaker 1: lot of people's lives. This thing sucks. Yes, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not dramatic at all. This thing, it has changed
Speaker 1: our lives, no doubt, has changed our lives. I don't
Speaker 1: know about forever, but definitely for nowass the point being,
Speaker 1: um understanding the severity of this whole thing and not
Speaker 1: trying to make light of any But I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: keep talking through this nonsense, understanding that you shouldn't make
Speaker 1: light of it. Like this is working out in the
Speaker 1: cowboys favor in my opinion, I don't. I didn't want
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons to play in this game, and I don't
Speaker 1: want them to be sick. That's my point. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith, rest that ankle, buddy, Hope get get better
Speaker 1: for next week. Anthony Brown not the same caliber player
Speaker 1: of the as those two guys, but a veteran that
Speaker 1: I don't need to see play in this game. You
Speaker 1: don't have that much to gain. So for the fifth time,
Speaker 1: I'll say, I don't want these guys to be sick,
Speaker 1: but if they're not on the field, then that makes
Speaker 1: me feel better about what they'll be available to do
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And there's gonna be more. I mean
Speaker 1: McCarthy made it. I mean he just said there's other
Speaker 1: guys that are sick. They're sick, and if they have
Speaker 1: symptoms then they're probably i mean not gonna play either.
Speaker 1: So they're not on the list yet. But that was interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, and it's always so fluid. But yeah, Mike
Speaker 1: was basically like, they don't have it right now, but
Speaker 1: ask me again in a few hours, like, who the
Speaker 1: hell knows, Like, yeah, it's almost like we're working on it.
Speaker 1: I mean, like the Eagles is gonna put twelve on there,
Speaker 1: like their copies are gonna do the two and they
Speaker 1: know what's going on. And I'm not saying the Eagles
Speaker 1: all those guys are not don't have COVID or whatever.
Speaker 1: But you know, this is a way to kind of
Speaker 1: manipulate the system here. If you if you wanted to
Speaker 1: go that route, you could. You could definitely do that,
Speaker 1: and teams are probably are stretching that a little bit.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Michael Parson specifically. You mentioned him. How
Speaker 1: does this work from the standpoint, because I think at
Speaker 1: linebacker you do start to wonder a little bit about numbers.
Speaker 1: Javon Curse, j Ron Curse, I'm sorry, is right now
Speaker 1: limited In practice, He's a guy that can jump in
Speaker 1: and play some nickel linebacker. Without him, you do have
Speaker 1: Keyan O'Neil coming backward. He concerned about numbers a little
Speaker 1: bit at lineback, of being able to have enough guys
Speaker 1: to play the game. Yeah. Um, j Ron Curse is
Speaker 1: a guy that helped with that last week. He's in,
Speaker 1: he's limited, so I probably want to watch him this week.
Speaker 1: Kean O'Neil's back from covid. Um. They signed a guy,
Speaker 1: I forgive me, I don't remember his name. They signed
Speaker 1: a kid out of Oklahoma or the practice squad bond. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's his last Okay, okay, can come personal stuff working? Sure? Sure, sure, sure?
Speaker 1: Um I lived there eight years, did you really? Maybe
Speaker 1: that's my problem? Uh, they could call him up. I
Speaker 1: bet you they will call him up. Donovan Wilson is
Speaker 1: not a linebacker, but he's a he's a box guy.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that you can use to help. You
Speaker 1: can talk about this more. But like he made it sound,
Speaker 1: I mean he even said they run the ball like Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: like they run the ball there, and so you would
Speaker 1: need linebackers. Yeah, the Cowboys. The Cowboys comfort level with
Speaker 1: not having a lot of those this year. Has been
Speaker 1: kind of amusing because like when Jason Garrett was here,
Speaker 1: it was like you couldn't have enough, Like they'd have
Speaker 1: seven on the fifty three man roster, and this year
Speaker 1: they've got like four. And Mike's like, yeah, it's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's fine, Yeah, we're okay. Have they used Donovan Wilson
Speaker 1: in that role? I know he's not a big guy
Speaker 1: like not. No, I know they've used him at around
Speaker 1: a lot of scrimmage, but not necessarily as a nickel
Speaker 1: line No, they haven't used him the way they've used Curse.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I mean he was doing it against
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. He missed a pretty key tackle in that game.
Speaker 1: He just I mean, he plays closer to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. They've used a lot of three safeties. Looks
Speaker 1: he's not a linebacker, but when you're just talking about
Speaker 1: the numbers, he is a guy who can be on
Speaker 1: the field and make tackles or be in position to
Speaker 1: make them. Anyway. I want to go a little big,
Speaker 1: bigger picture here with regards to the COVID talk, there
Speaker 1: were questions from the media with regard to what should
Speaker 1: the team be doing to try to mitigate their risk,
Speaker 1: should they be bubbling, should they be at the hotel?
Speaker 1: For those that don't know, here at the Star where
Speaker 1: we are at the practice facility, there is a hotel.
Speaker 1: It literally is attached to the practice facility to where
Speaker 1: players if they wanted to stay there, they could literally
Speaker 1: stay in the hotel and walk immediately into work, never
Speaker 1: really being exposed to the outside world. I guess theoretically,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on that, And is that even
Speaker 1: realistic to expect these guys to just stop their lives
Speaker 1: and now go and live in a hotel for a
Speaker 1: month during the playoffs if it happens to be a
Speaker 1: month real quick. Just to be clear as far as
Speaker 1: the protocols right now, they're only really getting tested if
Speaker 1: they're feeling sick. That's my understanding is when you have symptoms,
Speaker 1: you get tested. Yeah, and then as of now, there
Speaker 1: are multiple other guys from what McCarthy said, that are
Speaker 1: feeling sick. Yeah, so okay, So you know, just to
Speaker 1: clear up the protocol and he also pointed this out
Speaker 1: out and I think that, you know, I think Derek,
Speaker 1: you know, I talked about this yesterday. I mean it
Speaker 1: we should also remember that, you know, people people got
Speaker 1: pharmacies were open in the last one hundred years, you know,
Speaker 1: doctors that were were employed. I mean, like people get
Speaker 1: sick for other reasons, and especially this time of year,
Speaker 1: and it happens, especially spreading, especially in Texas when it's
Speaker 1: eighty degrees and then twenty in the same like three days,
Speaker 1: So it happens, and so that people are getting sick,
Speaker 1: you know, and then with COVID, it's like all symptoms,
Speaker 1: every symptom in the world is seems to be a
Speaker 1: COVID related symptom. Sou I just I say all that
Speaker 1: with like, there's other reasons why these guys are getting
Speaker 1: sick this and that. My answer to your question is no,
Speaker 1: I don't think the players should do that. I don't
Speaker 1: if players wants to sit at court side of the
Speaker 1: matterfiscan and makes to sit there. I mean, there's twenty
Speaker 1: thousand people there and they have jobs to do. You
Speaker 1: have a job to do, and you've got to be
Speaker 1: ready to do your jobs, regardless if it's on TV
Speaker 1: or not. You have a job to do and you
Speaker 1: got to be healthy. And that's that's the world that
Speaker 1: we're in right now. So no, I don't think the
Speaker 1: player should do that. I don't think Ceedee Lamb should
Speaker 1: be criticized for going and sitting there with it. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got a mask in his hand. He didn't have
Speaker 1: it on his mouth, but he had it in his hand. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think he should be criticized for that. Zeke,
Speaker 1: they want to do that, they should do that. That's
Speaker 1: my opinion. Yeah, I struggle with that because there was
Speaker 1: a time in my life where I would have been
Speaker 1: really fired up about that, like just like that's really selfish,
Speaker 1: how can you do that? And now and even with
Speaker 1: like cases spiking, maybe maybe it's just COVID fatigue and
Speaker 1: I like, I'm not making as much money. It's not
Speaker 1: my job to be available on Sunday. But like I'm
Speaker 1: I'm living my life like I try to be careful.
Speaker 1: But but I watched Las Use Bowl game in a
Speaker 1: bar the other night. I'm preparing to head to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Like these guys are finding to get this
Speaker 1: right now. But yeah, he is, he is, He is prepared.
Speaker 1: I mean he is to need to get get there
Speaker 1: because they get there, he'll be there. No, but right,
Speaker 1: but I mean, sorry, Dave, He's not like my cap
Speaker 1: Parson no, you know Mica Parson. He's not Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: in and yes he is. He is in our on
Speaker 1: our staff. He is Michael Parsons on our staff. And
Speaker 1: I mean that like, are we talking about me? Yes?
Speaker 1: Like I thought we're talking about Michael Parson. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But it's not ridiculous. It's not ridiculous. Are you gassed
Speaker 1: me up? Let's go. I'm here for this. I'm saying
Speaker 1: a little bit. I get hopped up from a money standpoint,
Speaker 1: obviously not. But what I'm saying is is that everybody's
Speaker 1: got a job to do, and we need you to
Speaker 1: do and right now we're down some too. Our staff
Speaker 1: is down, and so everybody's got a responsibility to do
Speaker 1: their job. And you're right, you're living your life. You're
Speaker 1: doing that and you're you're being as healthy I think
Speaker 1: as you can be. But like, but okay, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: And I know the guy in that's listening right now
Speaker 1: doesn't care so much if David's going to write the
Speaker 1: story or I write it or write, but he does
Speaker 1: care if Michael Parsons plays or Luke Gifford plays. I
Speaker 1: get it. It's a big difference there and the thing is,
Speaker 1: let me interrupt you there, because I strongly disagree with that,
Speaker 1: like Dave and any of us can do our job
Speaker 1: somewhat remote from home or whatever. These guys, and I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to criticize anybody. I'm not saying to stay
Speaker 1: at home, be like you're in jail or anything. No
Speaker 1: go out and whatever, but take all the precautions that
Speaker 1: you need when you know you are this stretch of
Speaker 1: the year where you need to be available. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying for this weekend. Okay, we know this game
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter that much, but at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, looking forward, there's only one chance. You know,
Speaker 1: there's only one chance for you to play in that game,
Speaker 1: and you need to be available. So therefore, take all
Speaker 1: the precautions that you need. It sucks to be wearing
Speaker 1: a mask, it sucks to kind of stay away from
Speaker 1: crowds and stuff like that, but this is a one
Speaker 1: time thing that you cannot replicate or you're a do
Speaker 1: over like. So it's very different than what you're trying
Speaker 1: to say. And I get it. I agree with everything
Speaker 1: you just said. You're right and that, and I think
Speaker 1: it's it's easy to just kind of be dismisses, a
Speaker 1: dismissive of it right now, because like, honestly, again, I
Speaker 1: hope he I hope he doesn't feel bad. I'm hoping
Speaker 1: Micah feels better soon if he's feeling sick. But like,
Speaker 1: I was kind of relieved when I heard he was
Speaker 1: on the COVID list. I was like, great, you know,
Speaker 1: but he's tearing their acl on Philly on Saturday. Let's go.
Speaker 1: That's just me being like a callous. It's also the
Speaker 1: chicken pox kind of thing, like, yeah, oh, one of
Speaker 1: my cousins gets chicken fox. There, all the kids over
Speaker 1: so you can all get chicken fox at the same time,
Speaker 1: so you're done with it, right. I'm kind of that.
Speaker 1: I'm all in faith, like anybody that you're nervous about,
Speaker 1: get him on the COVID list for this game like that.
Speaker 1: Get like it sounds callous, but it's a it's a
Speaker 1: strategical thing like and that. And notice Nick brought up
Speaker 1: CD because I don't give a damn what Amari does.
Speaker 1: He had COVID like a month and a half ago.
Speaker 1: He's fine, not even a month and a half ago.
Speaker 1: So um no, I mean I agree with you. I guess,
Speaker 1: like I said, maybe it's just fatigue, because we all
Speaker 1: know people that have taken it super seriously who have
Speaker 1: still gotten sick, especially in this omicron window where like
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like it matters what you do. I
Speaker 1: just I know people who have taken it very seriously,
Speaker 1: who wear a mask everywhere to this day, who still
Speaker 1: tested positive for this thing. And so I, like I said,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I just I don't think I
Speaker 1: have the energy to get worked up about it anymore.
Speaker 1: It's been two freaking years. Also, a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: when we got all the coaches and a bunch of people,
Speaker 1: that are you getting sick? In my mind like this,
Speaker 1: this is why this is so surprising to me, because
Speaker 1: I'm thinking even when Jerry got on the radio and
Speaker 1: was saying like, well, everybody now is COVID free because
Speaker 1: you got the vaccinated and the suit didn't vaccinate, you know,
Speaker 1: they got sick and everybody's like free now. But then
Speaker 1: these news are starting to come up and you're like, well, crap,
Speaker 1: like this thing is still I mean, not that it's
Speaker 1: not going around yet, but we thought, or I thought
Speaker 1: that the team had already gone through that kind of
Speaker 1: spread and got to know, it is a different strain,
Speaker 1: and we're seeing the difference and we're seeing how contagious
Speaker 1: this thing really is. It's different in a good way,
Speaker 1: not in a bad way. It's I think it's different
Speaker 1: in a good way. Yeah. The good thing about it
Speaker 1: is it's not getting people. Doesn't seem like it's getting
Speaker 1: people as sick, but certainly it is spreading like wildfire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the NFL is gonna have to make a decision at
Speaker 1: some point, and it probably will be after the season,
Speaker 1: but they don't have to make a decision on how
Speaker 1: to clarify this because right now when we when it's
Speaker 1: called the coronavirus, it's still it's got that like you've
Speaker 1: got COVID, you know, and especially with omicron, like you said,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's it's definitely not as serious, especially
Speaker 1: in not the some there are and I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to say that. You know, there's people in the world
Speaker 1: that are dealing with it, of course, but I mean
Speaker 1: from the NFL standpoint, I think the players for the
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the players that have been come
Speaker 1: back and then and they're they're fine. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to just change it. I think next year they'll change
Speaker 1: how they view this and how they treat it, and
Speaker 1: it's it's already changing. I think that that's part of
Speaker 1: it too, is also with the way that they've changed
Speaker 1: the rules and everything like, and I'm not saying this
Speaker 1: is ideal, but you can test positive on a Tuesday
Speaker 1: or a Wednesday and be back like they're they're bending
Speaker 1: over backward to make it possible to get back. These
Speaker 1: are also in accordance with the CDC. Course way of course,
Speaker 1: these are recommendations from the CDC. What just the NFL
Speaker 1: kind of doing their own thing the meme. The NFL
Speaker 1: was probably very relieved when they saw the SEC do that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they were very happy for it to happen.
Speaker 1: But let's just be clear. The CDC put out the
Speaker 1: recommendations within the NFL. The meme's going around for the
Speaker 1: CDC are fantastic. By the way, all right, the numbers
Speaker 1: will go down in the playoffs. That's my prediction is
Speaker 1: they will go down. Well. One thing to note in
Speaker 1: the whole conversation is that, and Mike McCarthy mentioned it,
Speaker 1: there are players who are opting to take the OMNI
Speaker 1: offer and are staying over there at the Omni Hotel
Speaker 1: and kind of bubbling themselves. I know I saw a
Speaker 1: player there are a couple about two weeks ago when
Speaker 1: I stayed there, so I know this is happening. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said, it's happened, So that means that there are
Speaker 1: some that are doing it, and maybe when we get
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, say maybe more who opt to say
Speaker 1: for this period in time, as Amber was saying, I
Speaker 1: have a short window of something that's really important to me.
Speaker 1: Anything I can do to give me the best shot
Speaker 1: possible to be available, I'm gonna do it. And maybe
Speaker 1: that happens over the next couple. I would love nothing
Speaker 1: more than when they get back from Philly if they
Speaker 1: all check it into the Omni and don't leave until
Speaker 1: the season's over. Whenever that is. That's their choice. Not
Speaker 1: only is it their choice, I just don't think it's
Speaker 1: realistic to ask sixty five young wealthy men to do that.
Speaker 1: It just I mean, have fun and you can try.
Speaker 1: Just hearing you say that, it seems like that's just
Speaker 1: so ludicrous, right sixty five. I mean, I'm saying, not Ludacris,
Speaker 1: but just ludicrous that it would even happen like that,
Speaker 1: you could really convince that many guys to say, yes,
Speaker 1: we are all gonna just do this. If I would
Speaker 1: settle for getting what's up, no, I go ahead, I
Speaker 1: would settle for getting buy in from like the core guys.
Speaker 1: Like if we can get I wouldn't be Dak might
Speaker 1: not be at the OMNI. But I don't think Dak's
Speaker 1: doing much of anything these days besides watching tape or whatever.
Speaker 1: But like, if I could get Dak and O Line
Speaker 1: and Micah to just huddle up and bubble, I'll take that,
Speaker 1: Like that's a win for me. But you say you're
Speaker 1: also you know, assuming that you know, like when you
Speaker 1: when you say like a CD or Dak that you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's twenty six years old and single and either going
Speaker 1: to the bars or going home. When there are players
Speaker 1: that have kids, there are players that have wives, or
Speaker 1: of course necessarily you know, it's easy to just hotel,
Speaker 1: you know, so there's a lot of different Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys are married with kids, and y'all
Speaker 1: go bubble up at a hotel every summer for work
Speaker 1: and don't come home for a month, and it's just
Speaker 1: understood that that's part of your professional obligation. I mean
Speaker 1: very Hey, I'm with you all the whole time. I
Speaker 1: know it's challenging, but you can get to hear us.
Speaker 1: I get to about it. Oh well, I mean I
Speaker 1: I yes, I get to hear about it. But you
Speaker 1: still you do what you gotta do sometimes. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our first break. We'll come back. We
Speaker 1: got and we got a Bucky Brooks Nifel Network joining
Speaker 1: us in the second segment to talk Philadelphia defense versus
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Speaker 1: now by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. Bucky Ellis talks
Speaker 1: from Philadelphia defense versus a Cowboys offense. Over the last
Speaker 1: four games, I mean the last four games versus teams
Speaker 1: winning records, Philadelphia has allowed an average of thirty five
Speaker 1: points per game. In the rest, they've only allowed sixteen.
Speaker 1: Most of the games that they've had where their defense
Speaker 1: is only allowed sixteen have happened in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season. What have you seen from their defense?
Speaker 1: What is the area where they're most improved as how
Speaker 1: they've played over the last six seven games. It's a
Speaker 1: team that's gone from zone heavy covers to more man
Speaker 1: demand and so man to man plays to the strength
Speaker 1: of the personnel that they have on the team. Darius
Speaker 1: Play and others played well locking up and because they
Speaker 1: have tight of covers, they've been able to get off
Speaker 1: the field. Before they were trying to kind of play
Speaker 1: where Indianapolis plays a lot of zone, a lot of
Speaker 1: covered to a lot of keep the ball in front,
Speaker 1: and it just didn't do it well. It's not really
Speaker 1: a great fit for the personnel. But since they've gone
Speaker 1: to one man demand, they've been better for them now.
Speaker 1: It also coincided with them teams that are not as talented,
Speaker 1: and so when you go man the man against teams
Speaker 1: during the town team, you haven't tend the people suffocate them,
Speaker 1: and that's what the headers are being able to do.
Speaker 1: But you I'm gonna pole vault this game and maybe
Speaker 1: even hit the playoffs as well. I'm going to next year.
Speaker 1: I can Terrence Steel is going to start at left tackle,
Speaker 1: probably for Tyron Smith. Do you think Terren Steele is
Speaker 1: a full time starter for the Cowboys next year? Not
Speaker 1: at left apple? I mean, I think you can get
Speaker 1: bogged with him, but I think it's best. The thing
Speaker 1: you know, Timer Smiths only be that you need INVESTI
Speaker 1: top pick in the left apple position. You need a
Speaker 1: blue chair player. I think Terry Smith is good. He's
Speaker 1: gonna follow stealing. You're not a starter because when you
Speaker 1: get down to it, you got a forty million dollars quarterback.
Speaker 1: You want to make sure you have sufficient protection and
Speaker 1: elite level of protection. The Cowboys offensive line is not
Speaker 1: what it once was, and they need to address them
Speaker 1: to make sure that they have the best offensive line.
Speaker 1: Because all the money is taught up in the defense.
Speaker 1: In the offense, you want to make sure that the
Speaker 1: offense is always superior and the way that you that
Speaker 1: is investing apps a lot. So yeah, I think they
Speaker 1: need an upgrade. Charance to Bucky. Can you make an
Speaker 1: argument for me? I guess just with everything we've seen
Speaker 1: from the Cowboys offense since the bye week, over the
Speaker 1: last eight weeks whatever it is, nine weeks, what do
Speaker 1: you what what what is to be gained from this performance? Like,
Speaker 1: let's even say they go to Philly and play a
Speaker 1: fantastic game. I mean, I guess I'm asking you if
Speaker 1: you believe in the concept of week to week momentum, Like,
Speaker 1: does putting a good effort on tape in Philly really
Speaker 1: matter toward how you play in the playoffs? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think so. I don't think you can flip the switch.
Speaker 1: I think how you play it's part of habit for me.
Speaker 1: So you want to create championship habits. And so if
Speaker 1: you're the Cowboys, you want to play well goin to
Speaker 1: the postseason because they kind of give you an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play well the next week. I don't believe you
Speaker 1: can say, all right, you guys, we're going to playoff.
Speaker 1: Let's turn around, let's focus more, Let's make sure we
Speaker 1: play more attention to detail. It doesn't work like that.
Speaker 1: And I think the Cowboys have to be careful because
Speaker 1: even as I heard you guys talk about, oh just
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, these things don't matter, like I Philly can't
Speaker 1: beat them this and that you have to be careful
Speaker 1: about the outside noise because the perception is that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are a super Bowl team, and they may be,
Speaker 1: but they got to play the right way. And if
Speaker 1: you started getting into a head where you're not playing
Speaker 1: the right way the week after week after week, they'll
Speaker 1: never realized their goals and being a super Bowl champion.
Speaker 1: So they need to get back on track this week.
Speaker 1: And they need to play better in the playoffs because
Speaker 1: the game changes once you get into the postseason. Bucky,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to play the blaming game or anything
Speaker 1: like that, but as far as like struggles on offense,
Speaker 1: I mean, would you put it more towards player execution
Speaker 1: or kind of what Kellen Moore has been doing these
Speaker 1: past few weeks all of the above. I'm not in
Speaker 1: love with the play calling all the time. I feel
Speaker 1: like sometimes Kellen Moore gets too cute. Sometimes your team
Speaker 1: is better than the other team. You just need to
Speaker 1: get the ball to the playmas and less they make plays,
Speaker 1: you don't have to do all the hanty designs and
Speaker 1: reverses in those things. But I don't think the players
Speaker 1: are played great. I think we saw a little bit
Speaker 1: of an effort when Dad got back on track against
Speaker 1: Washington football team and that stuff, but inconsistent. And so
Speaker 1: I just think they need to tighten up on all
Speaker 1: the details because when you get into the postseason, the
Speaker 1: game is faster, and the consequences of dires, like the
Speaker 1: mistakes that you make in the postseason, like can end
Speaker 1: your season, and so you just want to be on it.
Speaker 1: And so I think it's just really important that everyone
Speaker 1: understands the urgency that's needed to play at a higher level,
Speaker 1: and you've got to be on the details. And it's
Speaker 1: more important now than ever to be on it, because look, man,
Speaker 1: the margins the area so slim between the teams that
Speaker 1: move on and the teams they're gone. So there's kind
Speaker 1: of this narrative that's popped up here in the last
Speaker 1: couple of days about Dak and his ability to read
Speaker 1: coverage and disguises and teams disguising things and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: How much do you put into that, Do you think
Speaker 1: Dak is having problems with being able to handle pre
Speaker 1: snap versus post snap reads or do you think this
Speaker 1: is just a big conversation about something that really isn't happening.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a big conversation about something that's
Speaker 1: really not happening. I think all quarterbacks get food from time,
Speaker 1: food from time to time. I don't think it's an
Speaker 1: issue with Dak. Ruscott can't read coverage, he can't decipher
Speaker 1: what's going on. Look, he's played too good for so
Speaker 1: long to be fooled by some of the things consistently
Speaker 1: to have a major liability when it comes to being
Speaker 1: able to diagnose what teams are doing to them. That's
Speaker 1: not the fact they're not executed. They hadn't been on
Speaker 1: the same page for a long time because it was
Speaker 1: him and those guys Gallup, CD and Cooper hadn't played
Speaker 1: together for the chemistry was off. Then you finally get
Speaker 1: them together, they start playing better than Gallup goes out
Speaker 1: and so you bring it in new pieces. He'll get
Speaker 1: back on track. He's still playing at a level. When
Speaker 1: you look at the numbers, Completion presented the best of
Speaker 1: his career. More touchdowns in the ever zone in his career.
Speaker 1: He is playing well, but Dak is a polar rising
Speaker 1: figure for whatever reason, and so people like the poke
Speaker 1: holes in his game that he's playing well. He's not
Speaker 1: playing well. I think that reason is that he's the
Speaker 1: quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. I mean, that's always been
Speaker 1: the reason. Um, I gotta ask, Bucky, do they have
Speaker 1: a problem with kicker in your mind? Yeah? Yeah, Okay, okay, okay, well,
Speaker 1: you know, hold on, hold on because my you know,
Speaker 1: my knee might hurt in the morning. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have surgery. Do they need a Do they
Speaker 1: need to make a change at kicker? I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's too late in the game to make a change.
Speaker 1: It into the polar season, but yeah, it's a problem.
Speaker 1: I am not whenever I see run out, I don't
Speaker 1: get up and walk away from the TV and go
Speaker 1: get a smack like I did with Justin Tucker and
Speaker 1: Justin Tuckers runs up to the field for the Raven.
Speaker 1: I know it's money, Duran. I'm like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: and no one wants to feel okay, but no one
Speaker 1: wants to fill Okay, hold on the hold on because
Speaker 1: a lot of times we say this coach isn't like
Speaker 1: Belichick would have done this, or Aaron Rodgers would have
Speaker 1: done this, and Justin Tucker would have done this. Okay,
Speaker 1: those are those are the goats? Like is there another
Speaker 1: Justin Tuckers? I mean, like who who else in the
Speaker 1: league is like that? Like I feel like he's the best?
Speaker 1: And then who else? Like I mean, like I think
Speaker 1: everybody had some some some struggles. You're asking me in
Speaker 1: a perfect world, because I'm looking at it like if
Speaker 1: you ask me as the general manager for the Cowboys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel about it. Okay, yea, he hasn't been He
Speaker 1: hasn't been automatic, and I wanted to be automatic. When
Speaker 1: we run onto the field with the PA and the
Speaker 1: field goal team, boom, that's my night points on the board.
Speaker 1: So I'm a little worried about it, more so for
Speaker 1: the opposed to kild. So my follow up question of that, Bucky,
Speaker 1: you're a former personnel guy in the NFL, How does
Speaker 1: that conversation go when you have a kicker that's running
Speaker 1: out every game and you don't know what he's gonna
Speaker 1: do one game to the next or one kick to
Speaker 1: the next but you also know that whatever's out on
Speaker 1: the street may not be you might be getting the
Speaker 1: same thing. How does that conversation go? Do you get
Speaker 1: to point where you have to start talking about contingencies
Speaker 1: and how much are you willing to accept maybe what's
Speaker 1: on the street just for the sake of doing something different.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to get that the conversation. I
Speaker 1: think former Cowboys coach Jimmy Jeffinson, when they start missing
Speaker 1: go ahead and cut because it's harder than to turn
Speaker 1: it around. Now I'm at the end that you cult greatly,
Speaker 1: but this was part of a two year problem where
Speaker 1: we see some inconsistencies in its play and so socialty
Speaker 1: and coaches don't like to change it. But at some point, man,
Speaker 1: the production has to be there. He has been good
Speaker 1: at times from long distancing those things. The PAT thing
Speaker 1: is the thing that concerns me because we need spat.
Speaker 1: It changes the way that you have to conduct and
Speaker 1: manage the game, and so it should be able to
Speaker 1: knock those down like there's no exclusions from missing PAT
Speaker 1: like those other kids I can live with. So the
Speaker 1: pot needs to be money all the time. Hey, real quick,
Speaker 1: before we let you go and before we get to
Speaker 1: your prediction for the game. I did have a defensive
Speaker 1: question I wanted to ask you about, how do you
Speaker 1: assess Kean O'Neil's play this year. It seems like he's
Speaker 1: gonna probably be playing quite a bit this week without
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. How do you assess what he's done as
Speaker 1: a Cowboys? Sure, I mean, I think he's been telled,
Speaker 1: he has been asked to do a lot. But I
Speaker 1: think he's in cella in the role that they put
Speaker 1: him there. Anytime the other guy who's making a transition
Speaker 1: from safety to the linebacker, you're gonna have some bumps
Speaker 1: in the role. But I think the packaging, the way
Speaker 1: that dan Quinn had packaged him and tried to use
Speaker 1: him parlier of the season played to his strength now
Speaker 1: with Michael's Parsons being out, and maybe a good thing
Speaker 1: because now dan Quinn gets an opportunity to dig in
Speaker 1: his bag a little bit and kind of see what
Speaker 1: he could come up with and what could help them
Speaker 1: down the road versus maybe so Rams versus Camp or
Speaker 1: versus somebody else who was really prolific in terms of
Speaker 1: pulling the ball all over the yard. So I think
Speaker 1: he's been good enough, and I think he'll do a
Speaker 1: good job for them. He's not Parson, but he's good enough.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get your prediction. What do you think's
Speaker 1: gonna happen Saturday night. I mean, it's so up in
Speaker 1: the air because I don't know how the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: going treated. Yeah, I would expect that Cowboys, you win,
Speaker 1: did a better team. They've only divisioned, that work has
Speaker 1: only division whenever he so, So I would expect them
Speaker 1: to win. The one thing that they just got to
Speaker 1: come with the right mind frame, the right mentality to
Speaker 1: take care of business and to put themselves in the
Speaker 1: best position when it comes to seating if they play
Speaker 1: the Cardins or whoever. You just want to feel good
Speaker 1: going in for the next week, even though the records
Speaker 1: we said you start all over. You want to do that.
Speaker 1: And pole point, you guys are talking about not being
Speaker 1: worried about the guys being out and about I will
Speaker 1: say this, Championship teams begin to make some changes to
Speaker 1: their behaviors to ensure that everyone is available, and so
Speaker 1: it takes sacrifice in something. Sometimes it's like not going out,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's not drinking whatever, But you want to put
Speaker 1: your team in the best position to win it. And
Speaker 1: what you don't want to do is have a COVID
Speaker 1: situation prevent you from having your stars available in the postseason.
Speaker 1: So you may just want to have that conversation with
Speaker 1: the team, like, hey, guys, let's just dollar back a
Speaker 1: little bit, make sure we can get everybody to the part.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for that book. Yes, good stuff. We'll
Speaker 1: see you next week. We're gonna take our final break.
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Speaker 1: Back to the Break, Nicholas, welcome back. We're in the
Speaker 1: second five second of the break life in this WBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage studios, and I think they've stopped. I mean I've
Speaker 1: got some I got some old ones about rally days
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but I mean they've kind of
Speaker 1: stopped sending I think, should you should have just given
Speaker 1: me the like go And I'm already talking to Dave
Speaker 1: as I was talking to Himber I know we just
Speaker 1: kind of had in conversations. Did you have some of
Speaker 1: you were trying to say they're in the break? You know,
Speaker 1: um about the Kicker situation about I will say this
Speaker 1: I actually went and did the math, which is not
Speaker 1: a strength of mine, but it is. I'm okay, simple math.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty pretty okay. And in this case, so zirline
Speaker 1: missed the field goal and they lost by three. If
Speaker 1: he makes the field goal and then everything kind of
Speaker 1: plays the way it played, they lose twenty six to
Speaker 1: twenty four. They don't lose twenty five twenty two. They
Speaker 1: lose twenty six to twenty four. If he would have
Speaker 1: made the field goal, they still lose by two based
Speaker 1: off of everything that would have happened. That's why it's
Speaker 1: it's it's tricky to just say that, and especially in
Speaker 1: the first half because Arizona scored to make it nineteen
Speaker 1: to seven or whatever. But if the score was nineteen
Speaker 1: to ten, they kick it, they probably make it twenty
Speaker 1: to ten, and then the Cowboys don't go for two
Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff, and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: they lose by two. It's one of my least favorite
Speaker 1: things in football is you miss a field goal on
Speaker 1: like the first or second possession of the game. He
Speaker 1: lose by three, and yeah, like the kicker should make
Speaker 1: the kick that I'm not, but that's not you didn't
Speaker 1: lose because of that. You lost because you punted three
Speaker 1: straight times between the second and third quarter. Like there's
Speaker 1: always a million reasons why you lose. It was a
Speaker 1: part of the reason why I lost it. You can't
Speaker 1: just retroactively add three to the score, Like that's not
Speaker 1: how it works. You know, they miss He missed the
Speaker 1: field goal early in the game, and and it was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, he sucked and they lost by two. He
Speaker 1: also had a forty eight yard or to take the
Speaker 1: lead that could have been the game winning field goal.
Speaker 1: You know, but but they got bradied. But um, I
Speaker 1: like using that as a verb good job, I mean
Speaker 1: Rogers and doesn't sound as good rogered Roger twelve? They
Speaker 1: got twelve for both Actually yeah, oh you remember where
Speaker 1: were we in? What press box were we in where
Speaker 1: the NFL came out and said here, here's the greatest
Speaker 1: quarterback number of all time. And they're like they gave
Speaker 1: like ten number twelves And we were like, seriously, like
Speaker 1: rob oh that wasn't was that was that? It was
Speaker 1: on their social channel they did ye and Roger was not.
Speaker 1: They were like dubious lists, Hello, like what did we
Speaker 1: end up doing? We did something and didn't, didn't they
Speaker 1: corect Yeah, I think we put something out of those
Speaker 1: kind of snarky but yeah, it was. It was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean I mean the original, I mean the original ying.
Speaker 1: I don't know any twelves before him, I'm guessing, but
Speaker 1: I mean when you when you started though, I'm like
Speaker 1: when they threw Andrew Luck out there. Okay, this over Roger,
Speaker 1: all right, we made a mistake here, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think somebody didn't realize what that. That was my
Speaker 1: point through just about the math. All right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Blake Jarwin Dave, you asked a question too, and
Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about about Blake and what
Speaker 1: he could be coming back. But you asked Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: the question, and I thought he had an interesting response.
Speaker 1: What was his response on on Blake and what he
Speaker 1: can bring to the offense? I just I thought it
Speaker 1: was funny because and rightfully so. But like the first
Speaker 1: eight questions he got asked, we're all about dealing with COVID,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I want to talk about the
Speaker 1: backup tight end if you don't mind me. He was like,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the backup Mike, uh No, I did
Speaker 1: think and actually somebody else said this too, and it's
Speaker 1: it's the type of inside football stuff that I love
Speaker 1: that you don't necessarily think about. But a big part
Speaker 1: of his answer was just the way that it opens
Speaker 1: up more lanes in the running game because you have
Speaker 1: an extra tight end a guy who can block. And
Speaker 1: he was talking about that. You're saying, oh, that's what
Speaker 1: You're right, that's what it was, and Mike said the
Speaker 1: exact same thing. It gives you like a wider varray
Speaker 1: of options in the running game. Um. He kind of
Speaker 1: made it sound like Blake has a chance to play
Speaker 1: on Saturday. I don't know why my voice doesn't either,
Speaker 1: but interesting, that is it. I would know both are
Speaker 1: doing that today. These are good, mind, These are good mins.
Speaker 1: Like when you whisper this doesn't really matter, like it
Speaker 1: still picks up. You know you can convey it with
Speaker 1: my tone of voice. You did it earlier. You said
Speaker 1: something like this game doesn't really matter or something like that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but um no, I would. I would love
Speaker 1: it if Blake could get out there and get some run.
Speaker 1: And like that's a situation where you should play like
Speaker 1: you've been off for two months. If you're of course,
Speaker 1: always only if you're healthy enough to do it, but
Speaker 1: you kind of knock some rust off get ready. I just,
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't think it's like this magic
Speaker 1: potion that's just going to fix the offense. But I
Speaker 1: think in the running game, and again what I said
Speaker 1: yesterday about giving you a diversity of options in the
Speaker 1: passing game while not giving up ground in the running game,
Speaker 1: I just I think it could be very useful. All
Speaker 1: there was another question I wanted to get to before
Speaker 1: we end the show. I kind of asked Bucky about
Speaker 1: it as well, and it's it's become the narrative that
Speaker 1: somehow Dak is having this issue. I wanted to get
Speaker 1: you guys's opinion. Do you think this is much to
Speaker 1: do about nothing? Because I personally think like I kind
Speaker 1: of agree with Bucky. The production this year says that
Speaker 1: I don't think this looks like a quarterback that can't recoveragees.
Speaker 1: But obviously the offense hasn't been working the way that
Speaker 1: we were accustomed to seeing it earlier in the season.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I put that all on deck,
Speaker 1: where do you guys fall with this? I thought Dak
Speaker 1: had and it wasn't like this groundbreaking answer. It was
Speaker 1: very straightforward. But he said something yesterday along the lines of, like,
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are, I don't care what
Speaker 1: your level of expertise is, like if and like if
Speaker 1: if fifty percent of your offense isn't working, well, it's
Speaker 1: gonna make life hard on you. And then he was
Speaker 1: talking about the running game. I mean, and there are
Speaker 1: some that can do it better than others, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: being like the peak example of just a guy who
Speaker 1: can make it work. But most quarterbacks struggle when they
Speaker 1: don't have that balance. And as we know, balance isn't
Speaker 1: twenty five carries to twenty five attempts. It's can you
Speaker 1: efficiently gain yards both ways? And the Cowboys can't right now,
Speaker 1: not on a regular basis. And I really dek reads
Speaker 1: coverage with the best of them, Like don't I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear that crap. I like he's fantastic, his
Speaker 1: accuracy has been a little lacking in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season. I'm comfortable even if he doesn't want to.
Speaker 1: I bet you his calf injury has something to do
Speaker 1: with that. Just reworking his mechanics. I think it's as
Speaker 1: simple as saying they just don't have a way to
Speaker 1: shake defenses out of those looks, where again like find
Speaker 1: the windows versus eight guys as opposed to versus five.
Speaker 1: I mean, do the math yourself. Obviously that's a little
Speaker 1: bit simplistic, but I think that's the main problem more
Speaker 1: than anything. Yeah, I think I think he's right about that,
Speaker 1: and I think it goes a step further to I mean,
Speaker 1: we asked this the other day, and I don't think
Speaker 1: you were on this show. There was just the three
Speaker 1: of us. We talked about any offensive players that have
Speaker 1: exceeded expectations, and really, I think Amber said Terrence, Steele
Speaker 1: and Schultz would be in there. But when you go
Speaker 1: back and look, this offensive line isn't as good as
Speaker 1: we thought they would be. And I think that took
Speaker 1: defenses time to realize they're not overpowered anyone. The receivers,
Speaker 1: as good as they are at times, we have not
Speaker 1: seen training camp CD this year. We've seen some good CD,
Speaker 1: but we haven't seen training camp CD, which is ironic
Speaker 1: because the cornerbacks have been good. It wasn't like it
Speaker 1: was they were playing bad corners. They were playing pretty
Speaker 1: good corners. And he was he was awesome, They're not
Speaker 1: winning as much as that we thought. Dak isn't throwing
Speaker 1: the ball accuracy as well as we've seen him in
Speaker 1: the past, and Zeke's not running it as well. This
Speaker 1: offense is they can have all the numbers they want,
Speaker 1: but the offense isn't dominating to the point where we
Speaker 1: thought they would. And it all just kind of it's
Speaker 1: connected to me. I don't think it's and that he's
Speaker 1: not able to read coverages. I think it's still more
Speaker 1: of a mental thing that he's dealing with as far
Speaker 1: as confidence, something that happened to him mentally whenever he
Speaker 1: got back from that injury. That has just kind of
Speaker 1: lingered through this point of the season. And I get it,
Speaker 1: like you do need a good balance in a running game.
Speaker 1: But going back to the beginning of the season, I mean,
Speaker 1: back then, they weren't really needing them to run the
Speaker 1: ball or anything. They were having a pretty good game,
Speaker 1: but you weren't relying on the running game. So when
Speaker 1: you talk about it being perfectly balanced, that wasn't a thing.
Speaker 1: And of course, letting the opposing team know that you
Speaker 1: can't run the ball, it's gonna affect in how they
Speaker 1: play you as well. But I just I think it's
Speaker 1: just a combination of everything that they talked about. You
Speaker 1: got the running game, then you got the old line struggling,
Speaker 1: you got Dak struggling with his own things. Then you
Speaker 1: got maybe the plays being called that maybe he isn't
Speaker 1: necessarily the best play for the moment. And then you
Speaker 1: also got receivers dropping the ball at times that they
Speaker 1: shouldn't be dropping it. So it is a culmination of
Speaker 1: everything that is just not clicking how it needs to be.
Speaker 1: But I do think that Dak is very much capable
Speaker 1: of reading things. He's just struggling with something mental in
Speaker 1: my opinion from what I see from the outside, He's
Speaker 1: had too many fantastic games with gaudy passing numbers against
Speaker 1: too many like maybe not great teams, but good NFL teams.
Speaker 1: For like, No, that's a bogus storyline. I just think
Speaker 1: they don't have a CounterPunch right now. And I was
Speaker 1: when she was talking. I was thinking, I don't remember
Speaker 1: how they ran the ball against Atlanta. It probably wasn't great.
Speaker 1: Atlanta and Tampa are the only good games they've played
Speaker 1: this year that I can think of where they really
Speaker 1: weren't able to get a run game going, like I
Speaker 1: just think, and I'm not Dak's not a bus driver.
Speaker 1: He's a better quarterback than that. He's shown it consistently
Speaker 1: throughout the last three years. But there just aren't that
Speaker 1: many guys who are good enough to still be that
Speaker 1: productive with no semblance of balance, and they haven't had that.
Speaker 1: I'll challenge everybody listening if you have an opportunity, to
Speaker 1: go and look at any of the game pass on
Speaker 1: NFL dot com. I went back today and I just
Speaker 1: spent time watching the last two games, and I specifically
Speaker 1: was watching a lot of running plays to see what
Speaker 1: I thought the issue was. And I think the big
Speaker 1: issue and I think I agree with you Dave that
Speaker 1: I think the passing game problems are a reflection of
Speaker 1: what they can't do in the running game. But the
Speaker 1: running game all is about the offensive line, and particularly
Speaker 1: in the middle. And now I'm not talking about Connor Williams.
Speaker 1: I said, I'm talking about Beddest Like there's so many
Speaker 1: he plays running plays where his guy gets him and
Speaker 1: then sheds him and now he's right there meeting the
Speaker 1: runner and it happens consistently enough to where that can
Speaker 1: definitely cost problem, and there are other guys on the
Speaker 1: offensive line that miss blocks here and there as well,
Speaker 1: But I think overall, as a unit, I just don't
Speaker 1: think they're playing well when it comes in the running game.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the biggest problem you're seeing right
Speaker 1: now with this offense, is because you really don't have
Speaker 1: a threat in the running game, a consistent threat in
Speaker 1: the running game. I think teams are just saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we'll play coverage against you, and we're just gonna make
Speaker 1: it really tough when your quarterbacks and your receivers to
Speaker 1: find open spots and be able to get the ball
Speaker 1: there in a quick amount of time without Dak feeling
Speaker 1: the pressure because again the offensive line is struggling to
Speaker 1: block form. It does make me wonder and part of
Speaker 1: that is, I mean, Dak burned a lot of people
Speaker 1: in the early going in the season, and so they've
Speaker 1: probably course corrected with that. But like they were able
Speaker 1: to get it going in the first six weeks, so
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe that gives you optimism that they
Speaker 1: can do it again, or maybe the fact that it's
Speaker 1: been so long since they were able to really get
Speaker 1: it cranked. I don't know, but I if I could
Speaker 1: wish for anything heading into the playoffs, it's that they
Speaker 1: rediscover how to be more efficient in the run game.
Speaker 1: But now that you mentioned that, it makes me think
Speaker 1: I do recall many many plays where and maybe I
Speaker 1: don't have the right terms for it, but basically, when
Speaker 1: they are trying to run the ball, they're so tight,
Speaker 1: like there's no space, Like why can't you just spread
Speaker 1: it out a little? Like every play? And that's why
Speaker 1: you Zeke or Pauler sometimes are just running into a
Speaker 1: wall where there's literally no gap being created in between.
Speaker 1: A lot of that is the push. They're not getting
Speaker 1: any push. Like you you watch this offensive line look
Speaker 1: down the middle, like when they have that camera angle,
Speaker 1: well you see the offensive defensive line, look and see
Speaker 1: which way it goes. Like a lot of times watching
Speaker 1: football games, you can tell how good teams are doing
Speaker 1: by seeing which side is kind of winning that battle
Speaker 1: up front when the ball is snap, which way is
Speaker 1: everybody going? Is everybody pushing forward? Everybody pushing backwards? And
Speaker 1: it's very often that Cowboys offensive line just doesn't get
Speaker 1: you put. They just don't get any pushed and so
Speaker 1: it doesn't create any holes because the defenders are basically
Speaker 1: being able to get in whatever gaps they want to
Speaker 1: get in and not being pushed out of the way.
Speaker 1: This is the perennial debate, and I would always, I'd
Speaker 1: always rather have a good team to follow and cover
Speaker 1: than a good draft pick. Like I'm not saying I
Speaker 1: wish the Cowboys season was ending on Saturday. But if
Speaker 1: I could pick one draft prospect to put on this
Speaker 1: team right now, I always got a center who is
Speaker 1: a stud, and I just think they're probably too good
Speaker 1: to hope for that, right. Great thing about centers, they
Speaker 1: will drop in the draft, true, really good ones. True, Nick, Nick,
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned that the other day. You get
Speaker 1: a guard or center, that's a good chance you might
Speaker 1: get the best one in the draft at the end
Speaker 1: of the first round. I mean, Travis was pick thirty one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's possible, but I just and yeah, it's January, but
Speaker 1: that would surprise me. But it would be a very
Speaker 1: nice surprise, because that's something I do think they need
Speaker 1: to address. All Right, we appreciate you guys, Joan us.
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