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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, October twenty second, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen,
Speaker 1: episode number sixty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We're locking s WBC Mortgage Studios at the starts the
Speaker 1: bye week, so we're gonna do some big picture stuff
Speaker 1: pretty much all week this week. Today, we're gonna focus
Speaker 1: in on the offense. Um, what I'm gonna do is
Speaker 1: we're going to go through every single player that has
Speaker 1: a role on this offense that plays decent time. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about expectations. We're going to talk about
Speaker 1: whether they are above expectations, below expectations, or right at
Speaker 1: expectations of where you thought they were going into the
Speaker 1: season compared to where they are seven games into the season.
Speaker 1: How's everybody doing today? Great? Good? So good? See some
Speaker 1: problems with this? Really great? Do you see some problems
Speaker 1: with what this the premise of your game because my
Speaker 1: expectations and Dave's expectations and your expectations. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: the point that they can all chime in. Honestly, that's
Speaker 1: the point of the game is because I want to
Speaker 1: know not only how they're playing, but how they're playing
Speaker 1: relative to what you thought they would be when we
Speaker 1: went into the season. And this comes It stems all
Speaker 1: the way back to the difference that Dave and I
Speaker 1: have with grading players with Avali grading on a curve
Speaker 1: because it's like whether or not you thought they would
Speaker 1: be great or not, as he's still good, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: is like is a Mark Cooper like still having a
Speaker 1: good year or you know. But here's why it's important.
Speaker 1: The reason why it's important, in my opinion, is because
Speaker 1: if the if the team went into the season and
Speaker 1: they expected this player to be at the middle level
Speaker 1: and they expected this play player to be great, then
Speaker 1: they factor all that into how they build a team. Right, oh,
Speaker 1: the team. Now that now we're on the team's expectations,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, yes, yes, but I'm I'm talking about it.
Speaker 1: But you give my point though, and because of that
Speaker 1: then If a player is meeting expectations, then that means
Speaker 1: for the overall team and how they composite, how they
Speaker 1: built the team, they feel like, Okay, we're getting what
Speaker 1: we need out of the different players were getting. If
Speaker 1: you've got too many guys following below expectations, whether those
Speaker 1: expectations were high or middle, middle, or low, then that's
Speaker 1: when you run into problems. That's because what you built
Speaker 1: isn't performing as it should. Does that make sense? I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm talking to a lawyer. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying. It makes sense. Okay, good. I
Speaker 1: just I'm sitting here, I'm doing the math in my
Speaker 1: head already, like okay, above, above, maybe below, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, how does that jive with the fact
Speaker 1: that the team's four and three and lost to the Jets,
Speaker 1: because that's not where I thought they'd be. Well, Thursday,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you up will get into the big overall
Speaker 1: where they are as a team that is relative where
Speaker 1: they can't like this is this This is a multi
Speaker 1: year trend where like I start asking the questions that
Speaker 1: Derek is trying to save that's just what I do.
Speaker 1: He just kills shows. Yeah, I'm sorry. Well let's just
Speaker 1: say this though, that was a really bad loss until
Speaker 1: last night. Then it was just loss loss. They beat
Speaker 1: the Eagles. It was great, and that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: We talked about it yesterday, is like, how good should
Speaker 1: you feel about that? And you're allowed to feel good
Speaker 1: about it. It's a division rival. They beat him really bad.
Speaker 1: They're above five hundred on top of the Vision, all
Speaker 1: that good stuff. But man, it was hard to turn
Speaker 1: that on and watch it and not I mean, it's stung.
Speaker 1: You're sitting like this team is trash. They're they're awful,
Speaker 1: and even I mean, oh Sam Darnold's back, maybe they'll
Speaker 1: be good. No turns out. All you gotta do is
Speaker 1: blitz him even a little bit and he falls apart
Speaker 1: a terrible How did they lose that game? That's what
Speaker 1: that's the crazy part, because it did. It was a
Speaker 1: buzz kill because you're riding high off Sunday and then
Speaker 1: you watch Dad and you'll like, I've never felt that victory.
Speaker 1: Monday vibe just sucked away so quickly as I did
Speaker 1: when I turned that game on. Literally, Sinica looks over
Speaker 1: at me at one point it's like this is the
Speaker 1: team we lost to last week. Yeah, that's the team
Speaker 1: we lost to last week. It's been an interesting first
Speaker 1: seven weeks. Yeah, all right, So let's jump into this
Speaker 1: conversation on expectations we've got. I'm gonna run through this
Speaker 1: list of the different players. We'll also get to some
Speaker 1: some bigger picture stuff around that. I'll talk about the
Speaker 1: running offense, passing offense, the red zone offense. But let's
Speaker 1: start first with some of the players. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. Let's start with the big guy. Has he
Speaker 1: performed above expectations, at expectations or below expectations? And again,
Speaker 1: I want you to factor in all seven games, not
Speaker 1: just the last game, or not just the last the
Speaker 1: three before that where they lost, factor in the entire
Speaker 1: body of work he's been. He's at expectations. For me,
Speaker 1: I expected him to have his team above I mean
Speaker 1: you could almost you could almost say below, but his
Speaker 1: stats have been pretty good, So I will say at expectations.
Speaker 1: I agree with that, and I'm I'm the guy that
Speaker 1: grades on a curve. But he's not the fourth He's
Speaker 1: not a fourth round pick anymore. He's a guy that's
Speaker 1: trying to be a franchise quarterback and get the money
Speaker 1: that goes along with that. So it's hard for me
Speaker 1: to say above Yeah, they they're four and three. They're
Speaker 1: four and three. At the very least they should have
Speaker 1: beat the Jets, but they should have gone two and
Speaker 1: one against those three teams and they went oh and
Speaker 1: three instead. I agree. I think he's at expectations. I
Speaker 1: think we've seen a massive jump and improvements between year
Speaker 1: three and four, and a lot more confidence. He's playing well.
Speaker 1: I don't have his stats in front of me, but
Speaker 1: the touchdown to jar Win the other net, so he's
Speaker 1: at twelve touchdowns. I just I'm writing a story about
Speaker 1: the Cooper trade right now. Like he was averaging one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty passing yards and less than a touchdown
Speaker 1: per game at this point in the season last year. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he's playing much better than that. He's made a couple
Speaker 1: of you know, the pick against the Eagles was ugly
Speaker 1: and the one against the Dolphins, but I'll take that
Speaker 1: because he's playing more aggressive and I think he's playing
Speaker 1: really well, but not above expect I say, and we're
Speaker 1: not gonna do this with every player you could every
Speaker 1: player you could say they're four and three, but quarterbacks
Speaker 1: obviously get linked to two records, and so that being said,
Speaker 1: I think it's, you know, right out of expectations. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The interesting thing to note though, he is right now
Speaker 1: seventy percent completion rate, he has two over two thousand yards,
Speaker 1: he's got twelve touchdowns. I mean, the seven interceptions is
Speaker 1: the part that that certainly would bother you. But when
Speaker 1: you look at that overall, I think then and again
Speaker 1: I'll point out one thing in particular. I think his
Speaker 1: ability to throw the ball down field with more accuracy
Speaker 1: is much better this year than it was last year,
Speaker 1: and that's the part of their game I felt like
Speaker 1: they needed to improve the most, because if you're gonna
Speaker 1: have teams that are gonna suck down and they're gonna
Speaker 1: have eight guys in the box, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: be able to kill him down field them to back up. Now,
Speaker 1: they haven't been able to do that consistently across all
Speaker 1: seven games, but by and large, I think he's way
Speaker 1: better there, and that's where I would give him. May
Speaker 1: I certainly think he's had expectations. Maybe you can get
Speaker 1: him a little bump above, but I get what you guys. Well,
Speaker 1: and I'll let me say this about Dak. Either they
Speaker 1: were three and four last year they traded for a Maori,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the offense got better. I think
Speaker 1: you could put that on him. Look at this year
Speaker 1: without any of their receivers, you know. I mean, when
Speaker 1: he has Gallup and Cooper in the lineup, they're three
Speaker 1: and oh whether they or not in the lineup, they're
Speaker 1: they're one in one in three because they were able
Speaker 1: to win the Dolphins game without Gallup, But when he
Speaker 1: doesn't have those guys and definitely doesn't have both of them,
Speaker 1: like the Jets game, they don't win. So I don't
Speaker 1: not just comparing him to Aaron Rodgers. No one is
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, but you could see a guy that makes
Speaker 1: these other guys around him better, and Dak's not at
Speaker 1: that point yet. So yeah, that's fair. Um, It's so
Speaker 1: funny because what I was thinking is, like, if you
Speaker 1: beat the Jets, obviously if they should they should have.
Speaker 1: If they beat the Jets and he finds a way
Speaker 1: to win that New Orleans game, you I mean, he
Speaker 1: wouldn't be like the leader in the clubhouse, but like
Speaker 1: he would probably be on like the shortlist of like
Speaker 1: MVP talk. Yes, you know, like with the way that
Speaker 1: he's played, and I mean if ifs were fifth fifth,
Speaker 1: we'd all be drunk. I get that. But I mean
Speaker 1: it's a fine line. He's played really well. As what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say, he really has um, but not
Speaker 1: above expectation. Yeah, somebody just tweeted at me and said,
Speaker 1: you know what, you're down twelve to ten, why don't
Speaker 1: you just let Maha kick a seventy yard at field
Speaker 1: goal instead of doing the hell marriage We kind of
Speaker 1: talk talking about the Saints game, We kind of we
Speaker 1: sort of mold that over in the Superdome. We were
Speaker 1: like what I was saying was it was especially with him,
Speaker 1: you know Russian like that. I would have tried the
Speaker 1: hard count if anyone could hear, but I would try
Speaker 1: the hard count. See if you can get a five
Speaker 1: yard pilming, if you get a five yard pilny in
Speaker 1: the sixty five yard or let's go get some adrenaline
Speaker 1: going the one from Sunday Night would have gone in
Speaker 1: from sixty five. So yeah, I mean that that's where
Speaker 1: he is as a weapon, right as you put him
Speaker 1: back there, Like he may not make that thirty three yarder,
Speaker 1: but he is a weapon you get beyond fifty and sixty, Like, seriously,
Speaker 1: think about no, I get it. It's just he doesn't
Speaker 1: make layoffs, but on half court shot people will kill him. Right,
Speaker 1: And that's the part where it does affect your ability
Speaker 1: to maybe win some games if you're willing to do that,
Speaker 1: win some games that maybe you wouldn't win otherwise, right,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, all right, Let's me on to the
Speaker 1: next player, Zeke Elliott. How's he performed above at or
Speaker 1: below expectations? At again at I mean top five pick
Speaker 1: ninety million dollar contract. He's been. He's been really good.
Speaker 1: But when you're talking about the amount of money involved,
Speaker 1: like I don't begrudge fans for wondering where the long
Speaker 1: runs are and the you know, the jaw dropping stuff
Speaker 1: that makes Red Zone channel cut in and like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, you have to see what Zeke did. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been really good, and there's no doubt that he
Speaker 1: sets the tone for this team, But I can't say
Speaker 1: he's playing above expectations. The greatness from him in the consistency. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's been he's borderline being below expectations, really really
Speaker 1: he'd be he'd be closer to that than he would
Speaker 1: be above. Yes, because because of fumble in New Orleans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he had and when he got here, you know,
Speaker 1: now he he got here without a training camp and
Speaker 1: he's been when you factor that part, and I know
Speaker 1: you always think that guys are going to have, you know,
Speaker 1: have a huge drop off, so he hasn't really had that, right,
Speaker 1: But I think it's just add expectations. You expected him
Speaker 1: to be one of, you know, probably be the best
Speaker 1: running back in the league, and he's just he's right there.
Speaker 1: I wish and not necessarily on him, like I wish
Speaker 1: he was more involved in the passing game. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times are we going to say that? But
Speaker 1: you know, other than like the no I actually I
Speaker 1: thought quietly, six catches for thirty six yards against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: like I'd like to see that on a weekly basis even.
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't sound like a lot, but it
Speaker 1: really does help. It moves the chains, you know, when
Speaker 1: he was just running into a brick wall time after
Speaker 1: time against the Saints. There's other ways to use him
Speaker 1: that could maybe help you with that. And it's ridiculous
Speaker 1: that you go a year between seeing him run a
Speaker 1: wheel route. He did it against Detroit in eighteen in
Speaker 1: Green Bay in nineteen, Like, maybe he could do that
Speaker 1: more often than once per season, just stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Right now, he is sixth in the league in yards
Speaker 1: per attempt, which is not a bad thing to be obviously,
Speaker 1: expectations might be higher than that, but he's also fifth
Speaker 1: in the league and attempts per game, so he's getting
Speaker 1: the bass, it's in a significant amount of times, and
Speaker 1: again maybe getting him more involved in the passing game
Speaker 1: would help. Really. I think, as you guys said, the
Speaker 1: big challenged there as he's not getting the big, big
Speaker 1: chunk yard plays that you'd expect from him. But you know,
Speaker 1: still that's a pretty good number to be, what fifth
Speaker 1: or six with the yards per attempt because he is
Speaker 1: a short yardage back pack. He's gonna get third and one,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get the one yard or two yards here,
Speaker 1: So that kills your average there. What helps is getting
Speaker 1: those thirty and forty yard runs, which he doesn't have,
Speaker 1: so that means he's getting a healthy amount of ten
Speaker 1: and eleven yard runs. Yeah, they're not going to cut
Speaker 1: into the red zone channel with that, but if you
Speaker 1: keep doing it. Obviously, I haven't checked on it since
Speaker 1: the Eagles game, but again, I mean, I think he
Speaker 1: leads the league in terms of explosive runs if you
Speaker 1: consider that an explosive run is only twelve yard and
Speaker 1: changing the word on that explosive to me, I think
Speaker 1: it's it speaks to how hard it is to get
Speaker 1: running room in the NFL. I think that's fine. Twelve
Speaker 1: yards if you get a first down on one touch,
Speaker 1: that's explosive to me. I agree, Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: But he definitely doesn't lead the league in terms of
Speaker 1: you know, twenty thirty forty plus, and you'd like to
Speaker 1: see more of that. I'm not going to kill that's
Speaker 1: an explosive pass play sixteen ye eighteen. The parameters are
Speaker 1: a lot lower than you would says Witten gets I mean,
Speaker 1: how often does Jason get that? Say? He has maybe
Speaker 1: a few in the career. Yeah, like an eighteen yard fumble.
Speaker 1: It's true, he doesn't do it often. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take our first break when we come back. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you about Tony Pollard. Then we'll move into this
Speaker 1: offensive line. We're gonna move move quickly, all right. Then
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Speaker 1: Back to the Break Welcome back to the second segment
Speaker 1: of the Break. Lock Nest WVC Morgy Studios at the
Speaker 1: Star We're talking about expectations for this team. We talked
Speaker 1: about the quarterback in the running back. Tell me about
Speaker 1: Tony Pollits. He's been above expectations, below er at expectations,
Speaker 1: below expectations. That is that entirely his fault. None of
Speaker 1: it's his fault, but it's below expectations. I expected him
Speaker 1: to be the gadget player that would be, that would
Speaker 1: be similar to Alvin Kamara. Okay, so let me ask
Speaker 1: you this. Does it change your answer? If I tell
Speaker 1: you a little later we're gonna actually talk about expectations
Speaker 1: for Kellen Moore and the offensive, it doesn't change my answer.
Speaker 1: But because what I'm saying is that sept To me,
Speaker 1: that separates out what For me, it separates out Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard from how he's being used for what I've seen
Speaker 1: in the plays that I've seen. That is a different
Speaker 1: like when you're talking about met expectations. To me, he's
Speaker 1: been above expectations the plays I've seen him play. He's
Speaker 1: actually played above what I thought he would play. He's okay,
Speaker 1: but he's not being utilized enough. That's on Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1: If he can't what if he doesn't know where to
Speaker 1: line up? What if he doesn't. What if he's not
Speaker 1: get Well, that's an assumption. I'm not making an assumption.
Speaker 1: I'm saying based on what I've seen, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I buy that. Because he blocked the hell out
Speaker 1: of that guy on the first snap of the second night.
Speaker 1: I just wonder why they're not using that. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: we have a history with this team of seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of players alf talent that not that are underutilized,
Speaker 1: and I would say he's at the expectation of the
Speaker 1: talent that I expect him to have and we're not
Speaker 1: seeing it. I don't put that on him. So fine, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard's at expectation, But I say at not above
Speaker 1: because spent the whole offseason telling me how awesome he
Speaker 1: is and like basically intimating that you might not need Zeke.
Speaker 1: I mean, they basically did that, and obviously it was posturing,
Speaker 1: but you believed it enough to even say it to
Speaker 1: begin with. So, but what we saw in training camp
Speaker 1: for him to come out and have you know, this
Speaker 1: kind of numbers, it is below the expectations that I
Speaker 1: thought they'd have for him. Put it on him, Kellen Moore, whatever,
Speaker 1: I'm not sawing him a bad player. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I've expected more. I get lead back at camp. I
Speaker 1: just look at it as some of the things I've
Speaker 1: seen him do on the field are better than where
Speaker 1: I expected him to be at this point in his career.
Speaker 1: Now they're not utilizing him enough, and you're right, it
Speaker 1: could be that there's something he's doing to make them
Speaker 1: not when you I don't know that. What I know
Speaker 1: is in the opportunities they've given him. That run he
Speaker 1: made last week, that that level of balance I didn't
Speaker 1: expect that he had, Like that is that is an
Speaker 1: extraordinary run that I didn't necessarily think this guy would
Speaker 1: necessarily be able to provide. Me. I'm not gonna let
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let them off the hook for that.
Speaker 1: And now I mean no, no, no, but it's it's no.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go as far as to say, like none
Speaker 1: of it is Tony Pollard's fault, because at every step
Speaker 1: of the way, like all through training camp, like do
Speaker 1: you trust him to block? Do you try? Like really,
Speaker 1: he's your number one guy. Where's Darius Jackson and Alfred
Speaker 1: Morris And they're like no, Like every step of the way,
Speaker 1: he just impresses us, like, every time we put more
Speaker 1: on his plate, he can do this, he can do that.
Speaker 1: We totally trust him way more than we thought we would. Like,
Speaker 1: these are all things that they said, Could this also
Speaker 1: be a situation where because I do think in this
Speaker 1: last game we saw Tony Pollard out there with Zeke
Speaker 1: more frequently. Could this be a situation where up until
Speaker 1: this point, the reason why he hasn't been utilized as
Speaker 1: much as because they don't want to take Zeke off
Speaker 1: the field. And we know how important Zeke is, we
Speaker 1: know how good Zeke is is. That could that be
Speaker 1: part of it? And now they're starting to realize, hey,
Speaker 1: we could put them out there together more frequently. That's
Speaker 1: how you get it more involved rather than necessarily having
Speaker 1: to take Zeke off the field. Yes, I'd be okay
Speaker 1: with that. I don't like I mean, the guy played
Speaker 1: receiver in college. Like, there's so many different ways you
Speaker 1: can do this, and that's I keep I like this
Speaker 1: analogy is like that, it's so paint by numbers. They're like, well,
Speaker 1: we have Zeke. We can't take Zeke off field. Nobody
Speaker 1: said you had to do something different. Fun you think
Speaker 1: that would have been different if during training camp you
Speaker 1: had Zeke there, which meant you could have Zeke in
Speaker 1: the backfield and now you could actually practice him out
Speaker 1: of very fair assessment that he wasn't able to do
Speaker 1: those kind of things because he was the number one
Speaker 1: running back. Okay, I didn't even really think about that
Speaker 1: until you just said it. But yeah, that's probably one
Speaker 1: of the reasons. What that kind of hurt him with that,
Speaker 1: And I wonder if that's a I wonder if that's
Speaker 1: something he can pick up in season with a limited
Speaker 1: amount of reps. Like you know how it goes during
Speaker 1: the season. Everything this week might be a week, but
Speaker 1: you know how during the season it's it's very tough
Speaker 1: to get reps outside of just installing the offense. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder how much they can really build those skills
Speaker 1: and teach him. Okay, here's what you gotta do on
Speaker 1: this play as a wide receiver playing whichever one of
Speaker 1: the positions you want to play you want to play
Speaker 1: him at. I wonder if that's something they can develop
Speaker 1: now or if they have to wait all the way
Speaker 1: till the next offseason. There's probably something in between that
Speaker 1: to where you can start working on parts of it
Speaker 1: and get him involved in certain parts of it without
Speaker 1: giving him the whole thing. I would guess. I'm not
Speaker 1: a football coach, okay, but I know shocking. All I
Speaker 1: want is for number twenty to line up in the
Speaker 1: slot motion across the formation. It could be an orbital
Speaker 1: thing like we saw from Tavon, it could be straight
Speaker 1: across the formation. And I want him to be right
Speaker 1: there at the mesh point when Dak snaps the ball,
Speaker 1: and sometimes I want it to go to Zeke and
Speaker 1: sometimes I want him to take it. And I don't
Speaker 1: think that would be very hard to pull off. I
Speaker 1: just don't because Tavan does it all good. Point, absolutely,
Speaker 1: you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Just get your
Speaker 1: very fast, talented playmaker onto the field and put him
Speaker 1: in position to make place. All right, let's move on.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this one from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of the unit, the offensive line above at or below
Speaker 1: expectations below below below expectations. It's amazing that we all
Speaker 1: agree on that one. It's it's just a statement about
Speaker 1: how high the expectations are. Yeah, and okay, they've been
Speaker 1: banged up, so you know they that those injuries cost
Speaker 1: him a game maybe two. You can go down the
Speaker 1: I mean Tyrone has been banged up. We know that.
Speaker 1: Zach Martin, I mean he he might be playing like
Speaker 1: the worst football of his career right now. And I
Speaker 1: mean that sounds I don't like that the way that
Speaker 1: sounds coming out of my mouth, because I still think
Speaker 1: he's a hell of a player. But he's been dealing
Speaker 1: with this back injury. We've talked about it. Nobody played
Speaker 1: very well against the Saints. He didn't have a great
Speaker 1: game against the Jets. I'm sure that's part of it,
Speaker 1: but those are the expectations that come along with being
Speaker 1: at all pro every year of your career. We talked
Speaker 1: the other week too about Frederick not have not playing
Speaker 1: up to his standards and if we would have started
Speaker 1: Looney and I feel like we're talking about Connor Williams
Speaker 1: that if you want to put into a filo, I
Speaker 1: think it's just every player and earlier, I mean, even
Speaker 1: the guys filling in for injuries. I just they haven't
Speaker 1: been performing to the standards that this offensive line has. Okay,
Speaker 1: so good day, um My guy Lyle has been killing
Speaker 1: it though I know, I mean he lost the game
Speaker 1: to injury too. But he stepped right back in and
Speaker 1: kicked Brandon Graham's But the other night, I guess you
Speaker 1: would say ad expectation because they paid him very well.
Speaker 1: He got that extension, So still hard to say above,
Speaker 1: but he's playing very well. I'll say this, when you
Speaker 1: look at how he played last year compared to this year,
Speaker 1: I think it's above expectations. My expectations for him were
Speaker 1: not that he would be the best right tackle in
Speaker 1: football through what was that Week five? I think it
Speaker 1: was before he went on the injury. Doesn't it kind
Speaker 1: of I mean, I'm going along with Nick here, like,
Speaker 1: doesn't it kind of reset your expectations when he gets
Speaker 1: a sixty nine million dollars extent or whatever it was? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a lot. No, No, we'll tell him. Let
Speaker 1: me just say this, and I may be a little
Speaker 1: different on this. I know fans are out there saying absolutely.
Speaker 1: I've just over the years, I've come to believe, Look,
Speaker 1: you pay the guy, you get him in the building.
Speaker 1: Because you don't pay, you're not paying necessarily for how
Speaker 1: the guy plays. I think a lot of times you're
Speaker 1: paying for what it would cost to either replace him,
Speaker 1: or you're trying to figure out what the market value
Speaker 1: is relative to that position, and if you think you
Speaker 1: have a good one, then you kind of have to
Speaker 1: pay at the top part of that market, right, So
Speaker 1: there are a lot of factors involved in that that
Speaker 1: aren't necessarily saying because I give him a top contract
Speaker 1: means he's a top player, I think, especially at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. I just think there's a lot of other factors.
Speaker 1: So I don't not for me so much just answering
Speaker 1: your question, that doesn't factor in so much for me.
Speaker 1: But that all being said, I still think where Lyle
Speaker 1: was last year to where Lyle is this year, I
Speaker 1: think he's performing significantly better than he was last year
Speaker 1: in my opinion. Okay, all right, let's do this. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna change that question a little bit, just on this
Speaker 1: position alone. If you have to lean more toward good
Speaker 1: or bad, and this is not about expectations, has offensive
Speaker 1: linemen closer to good or closer to bad on a
Speaker 1: seven game full body of work seven game games full
Speaker 1: body of work, I'd say more good because you know,
Speaker 1: there have been injuries, and they've they've played, they've played
Speaker 1: their fourth you know, tackle, he had to start a game,
Speaker 1: he had to play you know, a game and a
Speaker 1: half and again I win the lost to the worst
Speaker 1: team in football. So I don't know if that's good.
Speaker 1: Quarterback took a few hits, I will say, but I'll
Speaker 1: I will continue to insist this, like we've seen bad
Speaker 1: offensive line play completely sink this team's ability to win
Speaker 1: a game. I don't think that was the case against
Speaker 1: either the Packers or the Jets. Like they did not
Speaker 1: lose that game because either of those games because their
Speaker 1: tackles couldn't protect. That's not why, UM, And so to
Speaker 1: some degree, I think it's you know, it's impressive that
Speaker 1: Cam Fleming stepped up. He wasn't awesome by any stretch,
Speaker 1: not saying that, UM. And then Brandon Knight like they
Speaker 1: were playing him at guard and training camp and they
Speaker 1: got him ready to go in and handle himself at
Speaker 1: right tackle and play fairly well. So you take all
Speaker 1: that stuff together, injuries to Zach and Travis coming back
Speaker 1: from a year long absence, like there's way more to
Speaker 1: feel good about than bad. And an interesting stat here,
Speaker 1: Cowboys right now ranked sixth in the league and sacks allout,
Speaker 1: They've only given up ten for the season, So when
Speaker 1: you compare them to the rest of the league. Although
Speaker 1: we watched these games, we think Dak's getting hit a lot,
Speaker 1: and maybe he is getting hit more than he's being sacked.
Speaker 1: Right now, they're only ranked six in the league in
Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, they've never allowed they haven't allowed more
Speaker 1: than three in a game in this so far. Right,
Speaker 1: the Packers got Dack three times. I think I don't
Speaker 1: know about per game, but I think the Eagles and
Speaker 1: Packers got him three each. I think, yeah, they gave
Speaker 1: up eight against Atlanta on their own that one time.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying is, yeah, they're playing pretty well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that one of those sacks was probably one of the
Speaker 1: worst play of the season though. We're just getting getting
Speaker 1: against the Saints. The sack there and it also he
Speaker 1: runs into tire and you know, they lost yards, they
Speaker 1: lost ten seconds, they lost their left tackle, they lost
Speaker 1: the game. I mean, that was a very bad play
Speaker 1: on that And they didn't give up a sack in
Speaker 1: the two point conversion, but miscommunication right at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage mess that whole play up. So they've gotten
Speaker 1: some pressure. Packers game forced a couple of interceptions. I
Speaker 1: don't think they've been great, but you know, pressure does matter.
Speaker 1: It's not a sack, but horseshoes, hand grenades and pressure.
Speaker 1: I've always said that needs to be included because close matters.
Speaker 1: Have you always said that always? Okay, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: We've talked about it with Anthony Spencer for you about Anthony. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe you. I just thought it was funny because
Speaker 1: it's always horses and hand grenades the only thing that
Speaker 1: matters close. No, if you get after the quarterback and
Speaker 1: you hit him and you don't get the sack, but
Speaker 1: he's still looking at his year whole when he gets
Speaker 1: up that you did something there, which is a big
Speaker 1: deal in today's NFL because it's not even often you
Speaker 1: can hit a quarterback. You'd better be like a split
Speaker 1: second after gres the ball. Right, all right, so let's
Speaker 1: let's move on. Let's actually take our final break. We'll
Speaker 1: come back. We'll get it to some of the skill
Speaker 1: positions to tight end the wide receivers. Do that when
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Speaker 1: two Madden players as they face off in the EA
Speaker 1: Sports Madden NFL twenty Club Championship presented by Spire. That's
Speaker 1: actually a really cool thing. What they're gonna do is
Speaker 1: they're gonna actually take the There are every team's having
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Speaker 1: tournament against all the other teams. And if that happens,
Speaker 1: I mean, do you have do you play with the Cowboys?
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Speaker 1: would assume the team I would assume. So I'm not.
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Speaker 1: Rodgers is playing for the Cowboys. I doubt that, actually
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Speaker 1: I would assume they're going to be playing with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but maybe in this in this championship game, then are
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Speaker 1: a good question. Can you show up and figure it out?
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Speaker 1: will be fun. All right, let's jump back in. We
Speaker 1: got a few more players we gotta hit. We're talking
Speaker 1: about expectations above below or ad expectations. Jason Witten, he
Speaker 1: is literally like at the definition of ad expected. This
Speaker 1: is like, this is what we thought. He's exactly like
Speaker 1: the day he came out of retirement. You're like, he's
Speaker 1: gonna play most of the snaps. He's gonna run eight yards,
Speaker 1: turn around and catch it a bunch of times, unless
Speaker 1: this is the last minute of the game. Three times
Speaker 1: when it's an end of scenario, he's going to run
Speaker 1: a ten and out like he's Jason Witton and he'll
Speaker 1: have a few penalties here and there, and some of
Speaker 1: them will be costly. But I mean, he is what
Speaker 1: he is, and this is exactly what we thought he'd be.
Speaker 1: Is he the same guy that he was when he
Speaker 1: was here his final year before he went into retirement.
Speaker 1: I do think like he does. Look he still looks
Speaker 1: fresher like that was a storyline at camp, and I
Speaker 1: think it's fair. I'm a little better than I thought
Speaker 1: he would be. Yeah, that's where I was getting to
Speaker 1: like moves a little better. Probably he seems like he's
Speaker 1: a little bit and this is gonna be like this
Speaker 1: is here a little bit better than he was before,
Speaker 1: And maybe that is taking a year away and letting
Speaker 1: your body actually actually heal. Well, he's got better wide
Speaker 1: receivers around him that are better at running routes, which
Speaker 1: should open up the guys in the in the middle.
Speaker 1: So he's got three route runners that are way better
Speaker 1: than the three that when he was here before, with
Speaker 1: Dez Beasley and Terrence Williams. It seems like forever ago.
Speaker 1: It was literally two years ago, not for long. Terence
Speaker 1: in the XFL. I believe he is he was his
Speaker 1: like I heard his name crop up, but he was
Speaker 1: not drafted into the exile. Okay, scooting, No, na, all right,
Speaker 1: let's let's go ahead and get with Blake Blake Jarwin
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin above below or at expectations, much like Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: It's very similar to me. How much is just his usage? Verse?
Speaker 1: Like how good he actually is? I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: I played a decent amount of twelve personnel, So he's
Speaker 1: getting on the field a decent amount of times at expectations. Yeah, yeah, probably,
Speaker 1: it's so it's running into a problem though, because it's
Speaker 1: four and three at expectations for this team or below. Well,
Speaker 1: you kill him on the Thrisday Show. No, I'm not,
Speaker 1: We're not. But this this, this would happen with Wade
Speaker 1: Phillips on a Monday after the Cowboys would lose by
Speaker 1: twenty points and he would sell everybody played pretty well,
Speaker 1: but you lost by twenty to the to the Rams.
Speaker 1: So guess what a guess what tomorrow? That's so, but
Speaker 1: that's but tomorrow, I'm but here's no, here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow We're going to talk about the defense, and I
Speaker 1: want to see if we start to see more of
Speaker 1: those below expectations when you talk about the defense. Now
Speaker 1: we've already talked about the offensive line. You guys say
Speaker 1: it was below expectations, right, true, And if if your
Speaker 1: offensive line is performing below expectations, that's a big reason
Speaker 1: why you could be losing three games in a row,
Speaker 1: right I. Honestly, the offense is not the reason why
Speaker 1: this team is where they are kind of, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm just saying. I mean, they are playing
Speaker 1: pretty well. Like the Green Bay game was a stinker
Speaker 1: in the sense that, like, you know, guys that don't
Speaker 1: typically do this stuff for are making boneheaded players. A
Speaker 1: Mari's tip that was picked even with the potential penalty,
Speaker 1: the throw Dack's throw to Kevin King bad throw, bad
Speaker 1: throw over the middle, Like that was like the outlier
Speaker 1: because even even the Saints game, like we were so
Speaker 1: troubled about how bad they looked. Well, what if the
Speaker 1: Saints done since completely annihilated the Bears. Uh, they you
Speaker 1: know the game before they played the Cowboys, they went
Speaker 1: up to Seattle and like Russell Wilson scored a garbage
Speaker 1: time touchdown in that game, but they shut them out. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's another game. I'm forgetting in there. But like the Saints,
Speaker 1: their defense is for mine. For my money, they're probably
Speaker 1: the best team in the league considering they're doing all
Speaker 1: of this without Drew Breests. Yes, I mean, you got
Speaker 1: to give people credit in the NFL regardless, But like,
Speaker 1: go look at the supposed murderers Row that the Patriots
Speaker 1: have beaten, because it's a bunch of crap. It's a
Speaker 1: bunch of baden playing out there. Knowing that hit coach,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bet they might be very point actually put
Speaker 1: it there. Okay, the Saints have the best resume of
Speaker 1: any team in the league. They have beaten some good
Speaker 1: teams without the starting Tom Brady have the best resume
Speaker 1: in the I'm trying to have it both ways. Regardless,
Speaker 1: I agree with the points you're making. The Cowboys have
Speaker 1: been great. The Cowboys offense played a very bad game
Speaker 1: in our arguably the toughest environment in the league. Against
Speaker 1: the defense that we are seeing is pretty legit. So
Speaker 1: even if that's their one stinker, I'll give it to
Speaker 1: him because it's you know, it's not an outlier in
Speaker 1: the way that the Jets are an outline. And so
Speaker 1: I mean not to throw out this as an excuse
Speaker 1: but I would have liked to have seen Michael Gallop
Speaker 1: in that game because I think that that would have
Speaker 1: opened up a little bit more from them trying to
Speaker 1: throw the ball around down the field. So I guess
Speaker 1: my overarching point is I think more the offense has
Speaker 1: been pretty good for the most part, like more often
Speaker 1: than not. Like I don't think they're the reason why
Speaker 1: this team is four and three, So I don't have
Speaker 1: a problem saying most of them are playing at or
Speaker 1: above expectations. So let's move to the wide receivers of
Speaker 1: Mark Cooper above below or at expectations. I think it's
Speaker 1: kind of similar almost to think in a sense that
Speaker 1: your expectations, yeah, are so high because of what he
Speaker 1: can do. Not just to be clear, if you look
Speaker 1: at if you look at as of this week, he's
Speaker 1: now been with the Cowboys sixteen games, which would be
Speaker 1: a full season. That would be ninety one options, thirteen
Speaker 1: hundred and forty six yards and eleven touchdowns. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say it has been bawling. It's at for me, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it talk for me to go below it. But he's playing.
Speaker 1: He had a crucial part in all three losses because
Speaker 1: he had He had two pass interference penalties against the
Speaker 1: Saints that were big. He had a big drop pass
Speaker 1: against the Packers, even though he came back with so
Speaker 1: many great plays, And then he got hurt against the Jets,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I don't mean he didn't he
Speaker 1: didn't get back on the field. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the deal was there. I don't know how bad he
Speaker 1: was in pain. I don't know. But he did come
Speaker 1: back the next week and help him. But his absence
Speaker 1: hurt them in that game. I'm not gonna blame him
Speaker 1: for that. Just he was a he was a part
Speaker 1: of all three losses. Yeah, well but but but but
Speaker 1: he's balled out completely when he's out there, even in
Speaker 1: that game against the Packers. So I don't think they'd
Speaker 1: win the four games they win without him. So if
Speaker 1: you want to say, well, those three he had a
Speaker 1: hand in all three losses, well that tells me how
Speaker 1: critical he is to his team, because go back to
Speaker 1: even last year, what were they doing before he got here?
Speaker 1: What do they do after? He may be one of
Speaker 1: the most critical parts on this entire team because they
Speaker 1: just need him in order to make this offense work.
Speaker 1: For something, something about him elevates this entire offense. Right,
Speaker 1: We've seen that plenty of times last year, this year,
Speaker 1: even all the points you were just listing off Nick,
Speaker 1: it's something about him being on that field that makes
Speaker 1: his offense overall a whole different teams. Oh sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I just wish I would have known what was going
Speaker 1: on with that injury there in the Jets game, because
Speaker 1: just watching him, they just showed him on the bench,
Speaker 1: I mean just just his body language. I just didn't
Speaker 1: understand any of that, and and I know he was
Speaker 1: in pain, but I was like, never thought he'd come
Speaker 1: back and play the very next week. So I just
Speaker 1: wondered why he didn't try more. There's a phrase, come back.
Speaker 1: There's a phrase that he keeps using. He said it
Speaker 1: over and over again. He said it after that game
Speaker 1: and after the Eagles game and leading up to it,
Speaker 1: where he was like, I didn't think I could do
Speaker 1: my job. And I think that's probably the crux of it,
Speaker 1: and not like in the sense of like, you know,
Speaker 1: I need to get my numbers or I'm gonna be unhappy,
Speaker 1: because like he hasn't been that guy the whole time
Speaker 1: he's been here, and he's had some not great games
Speaker 1: in the Atlantic Game last year. Like, I don't think
Speaker 1: he's thinking about it from a stat standpoint, but he
Speaker 1: was simply like me, being out here is going to
Speaker 1: hurt the team more than than than it won't. And
Speaker 1: that's you watched the sluggo that he ran against the Jets,
Speaker 1: like he's basically hobbling at the end of his route.
Speaker 1: I can see. I can see where that comes from.
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, especially with all the stuff he's
Speaker 1: fought through since the start of training camp. I'm not
Speaker 1: about to question his toughness or his want to planned
Speaker 1: or fasciitis. Yeah, I mean, that's the point. The fact
Speaker 1: that throughout his career, not just even with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: just throughout his career college in pro. He's a guy
Speaker 1: who's played through some pretty painful injuries. So for him
Speaker 1: to be like, I just can't do it during this
Speaker 1: game because of the pain, that says to me the
Speaker 1: pain must have been immense for him not to be
Speaker 1: able to go. I wouldn't question personally, I wouldn't question
Speaker 1: his toughness. I think that if he couldn't and he
Speaker 1: was doing because he said, I just can't give what
Speaker 1: I need to give his toughness at all. I'm just
Speaker 1: questioning the fact that if you watched it. When you
Speaker 1: were you were watching, you had the binoculars on him
Speaker 1: as well. Just the whole sequence seemed odd to then
Speaker 1: come back and play the next week, That's that's all.
Speaker 1: It was just odd that he wasn't even trying Byron
Speaker 1: Jones had a hamstring injury. He was running around and
Speaker 1: hopping and trying to see it. Maybe I missed it.
Speaker 1: It just seemed like he was tugging on the shoulder
Speaker 1: pads the whole time, and like, but there is something
Speaker 1: to say, like if you know because you let's say
Speaker 1: he went into that game in those first three plays, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he kind of knew it and he was like, all right,
Speaker 1: this ain't right. And then after that third play he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this definitely ain't right. I ain't got it. Just can't
Speaker 1: do it right. Then then he knows, like there's no
Speaker 1: point in jumping around on it, Like he knows I
Speaker 1: don't have it right now. I've already done three plays
Speaker 1: and I'm not I don't have it. That have been
Speaker 1: I think the biggest surprises that he was able to
Speaker 1: come back, maybe because I thought if that's the case
Speaker 1: where you absolutely know you're not gonna be back. And
Speaker 1: that's and that's also when I also questioned, like or
Speaker 1: at least I say, maybe this guy's that tough where yeah,
Speaker 1: he wasn't there, he couldn't do it that day, but
Speaker 1: then that next week he's like, he probably went into
Speaker 1: this game not one hundred percent, but he's like, I
Speaker 1: feel better than I felt last week. I feel like
Speaker 1: I can give a little something and here we go,
Speaker 1: right or knows he always balls out against Philly either way.
Speaker 1: But the point is, I think there are a lot
Speaker 1: of guys played in this game because they feel like
Speaker 1: they needed it, and they were at a situation where
Speaker 1: they were like, literally, I'm gonna put my body on
Speaker 1: the line a little bit more this week because I
Speaker 1: think we needed I don't think those guys were all healthy.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't get myself to believe all five
Speaker 1: of them where all of a sudden healthy. No chance,
Speaker 1: yeah they were. None of them were healthy. And they
Speaker 1: always say we figured it out. Kudos to them, they say,
Speaker 1: when we're not gonna determine whether or not someone's going
Speaker 1: to play or wrestling before by a week, if we think,
Speaker 1: but these players know, I've got to buy a week
Speaker 1: if if I have to go through a little extra pain.
Speaker 1: This week, I had more recovery time. I think that played.
Speaker 1: It was a critical game like being four and three
Speaker 1: verses three and four and having that division win is
Speaker 1: a ton of difference. They didn't want to go went
Speaker 1: to that bye week on a four game loser. The
Speaker 1: Giants and Eagles play, does anyone know? Not off the
Speaker 1: top of my head, because that's big. I mean, you
Speaker 1: want to be able to beat the Giants coming up,
Speaker 1: but you know you want the Giants to kind of
Speaker 1: be competitive here and beat the Eagles. That would be huge.
Speaker 1: Eagles got somebody tough this week too, don't they. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that when we get thirty. But I think
Speaker 1: they got a tough game this week at all. Get
Speaker 1: tough for them. They have a tough schedule coming up.
Speaker 1: I think the Bills are in there and the bill yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you. I knew it was gonna register as soon
Speaker 1: as you said it. All right, let's go to a
Speaker 1: real quick Randall Cobb and Michael Gallup. How do you
Speaker 1: think they've performed above or below expectations? Expectations for Gallup
Speaker 1: for he's above. What I thought. I thought was, what
Speaker 1: about the last two games, Um, you have some drops? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he but he have every drop the ball
Speaker 1: against Philly, Yeah he did. I never expected him to
Speaker 1: be the number one receiver. I just I was hoping
Speaker 1: he would be a good, solid number two. And he's
Speaker 1: been even better than that. But in that game against
Speaker 1: the Jets, he showed that he wasn't ready to be
Speaker 1: in the number one. That's fine. I didn't expect that
Speaker 1: get out of him. That's not what they drafted for.
Speaker 1: That's not what they're paying for. They expect him to
Speaker 1: be a very good, complimentary receiver. He's been that and
Speaker 1: more so. I say above, definitely above. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: under for cop I'm gonna say below for Cobb, And
Speaker 1: I hate I hate that because, like he's such a
Speaker 1: victim of circumstance almost I mean, injuries is obviously part
Speaker 1: of it, but like he had a seventy four yard
Speaker 1: touchdown negated by a penalty he got within just a
Speaker 1: hair or the goal line the other night against Philly. Like,
Speaker 1: if four, I'm serious, give him five, reminds me seven
Speaker 1: more yards at the end of the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: he get tripped up, but if he can get seven
Speaker 1: the hail Mary, Yeah, then then you're talking about a
Speaker 1: Brett Maher kick. If four or five different plays go
Speaker 1: the other way for Randall Cobb, we would be talking
Speaker 1: about him much differently. And I you know that's that's
Speaker 1: in small consolation. But Dak had a bad throw. He
Speaker 1: was wide open in the end zone against the Saints
Speaker 1: and Dak missed him, missed him in the missed him
Speaker 1: on third well, I mean half and half. He should
Speaker 1: have caught the third down ball in New Orleans, but
Speaker 1: it was not a great throw her. So again, so
Speaker 1: he's been so close so many times. Like on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: I was like, can we get this man a touchdown
Speaker 1: because he's he's I know, he's a pro, but like
Speaker 1: he's got to be frustrated based on how close he
Speaker 1: is to having a better season and having that great
Speaker 1: first game as a cowboy. Yeah, touchdown the staff arm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's been below. I'm not going to kill him
Speaker 1: for it because there's there's a few different circumstances that
Speaker 1: contribute to that. But hasn't quite clicked for him yet.
Speaker 1: All Right, I think Galve's above too good. All right,
Speaker 1: that's a rap for today. We'll be back to Mark tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the defense. We wanna talk about
Speaker 1: the guys that are above below and av expectations on
Speaker 1: the defense and the defensive unit as a whole. Do
Speaker 1: that when we come back tomorrow. Until then, for Nick Even,
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