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Speaker 8: It is Monday, December eleventh, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 8: episode number eighty six. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 8: The Break. We are live from the s WBC moreh Studios.
Speaker 3: At the Star.
Speaker 8: We got Ambery Shade, we got Patrick over there just
Speaker 8: humming along. Brian's just like here like we're all just
Speaker 8: trying to fill this thing out. Cowboys get a big
Speaker 8: win yesterday. Dallas thirty three, Philadelphia thirteen. I think we
Speaker 8: all picked Dallas, but man, I don't think anybody expected
Speaker 8: to see what we saw last night. That was a domination.
Speaker 8: From the beginning of the game. Dallas looked really, really
Speaker 8: good last night. We'll break that down for you guys
Speaker 8: throughout the course of this show. We'll start what we
Speaker 8: start on every Monday with the storyline. What's the big
Speaker 8: picture storyline coming out of this game today. I want
Speaker 8: to start with Amber. Let's go with you first, big
Speaker 8: picture storyline.
Speaker 9: Come on, well, big picture, we found out that the
Speaker 9: Eagles are actually not a good football team.
Speaker 3: How are you gonna go there?
Speaker 10: I don't know that.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that.
Speaker 9: I said, no, I don't either. I don't believe that either,
Speaker 9: But that's what I see all over twel Yeah, so shut.
Speaker 3: It, post, move post.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, it's ridiculous. It's insane. Some of the
Speaker 9: takes that I've been reading since last night are seeing
Speaker 9: on Twitter and other media outlets out there that like
Speaker 9: they just will not give it to the Cowboys. They're
Speaker 9: just like coming up with different reasons. Let's just see
Speaker 9: what kind of insane reason can we come up with
Speaker 9: this time to change the narrative and make it look
Speaker 9: again and sound like the Cowboys are not a good
Speaker 9: damn but they are.
Speaker 2: They are.
Speaker 9: Sorry, fly birds? What is a fly Eagles flag?
Speaker 2: Over?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 2: Real quick?
Speaker 9: You know? For my birthday, I went to six Flags
Speaker 9: and out there a bunch of Eagle fans and just
Speaker 9: out of know where people just adults, grown adults riding rides. Godbird,
Speaker 9: I'm like shut up like that.
Speaker 3: Talk to you.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 9: Like, just enjoy the freaking park. They're so obnoxious.
Speaker 11: Oh my god, but I'm.
Speaker 9: Why you enjoyed Arlington Texas too much.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: But anyways, the storyline for me, I mean, what an
Speaker 9: amazing job McCarthy has done with this team and everything
Speaker 9: that he's done and implemented with all the changes. I know,
Speaker 9: we were very questionable of what he was doing the
Speaker 9: first few weeks of the season, and rightfully so, because
Speaker 9: everything that we were seeing wasn't necessarily great. You know,
Speaker 9: we were there were concerns there, and to be fair,
Speaker 9: he was able to change everything very quickly with the
Speaker 9: new system that he implemented, and it seems to be
Speaker 9: exactly fitted for what Dak Prescott is as a quarterback.
Speaker 9: It fits him perfectly. And they just keep exceeding my
Speaker 9: personal expectations and playing better and better each week. After
Speaker 9: the loss, the tough loss against the forty nine ers,
Speaker 9: so I think, to me, we saw a complete football
Speaker 9: team in all three facets of the game from start
Speaker 9: to finish. I was concerned heading into the second half
Speaker 9: when Dak had that fumble. I was concerned that I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 9: let me buckle up, buncle up that seat belvet, because
Speaker 9: it's about to get bumpy here. Because we've seeing the
Speaker 9: Eagles come back in the second half of many, many
Speaker 9: other games, so that wasn't out of the question yet.
Speaker 9: And the Cowboys handled the situation perfectly, and they just
Speaker 9: played a beautiful competitive game all from beginning to end.
Speaker 2: Produst, It's going to really come down to two things
Speaker 2: for me in this game.
Speaker 12: How well were you going to be able to help
Speaker 12: your right tackle in the game and how well was
Speaker 12: he going to play? Were you going to let Hassan
Speaker 12: Reddick be a factor in this game like he was
Speaker 12: the first time round or whoever played as the left
Speaker 12: edge for the Eagles. Those were the worries for me.
Speaker 12: And the second worry was how well were you able
Speaker 12: to hold up in the secondary when you needed to?
Speaker 12: And you know, they're really on both accounts. I felt
Speaker 12: like it was outstanding. When you watch the film, you'll
Speaker 12: see you know, still did a really nice job. The
Speaker 12: single blocks he had to deal with. They helped him
Speaker 12: with the double teams with Pollard, they chipped with Ferguson,
Speaker 12: they spaced him with Ferguson out there. So everything that
Speaker 12: we kind of talked about in the game leading up
Speaker 12: to like how would you try and handle how would
Speaker 12: you handle dealing with Reddick? And I was really impressed
Speaker 12: because they sometimes when coaches will be really stubborn and
Speaker 12: they won't have a plan for that, they'll say, Okay, no,
Speaker 12: we're good enough. But they realized that there were some
Speaker 12: issues there at the right tackle the last time that
Speaker 12: these two teams played, and give gives still a lot
Speaker 12: of credit the single blocks he had. He did a
Speaker 12: really nice job, but his teammates helped him well. In
Speaker 12: the secondary though, you needed to find a way to
Speaker 12: handle these receivers. It came down to, well you can
Speaker 12: be able to travel guys. You know a lot of
Speaker 12: teams don't like to travel guys. Well, they took they
Speaker 12: took your your your.
Speaker 2: Corners, and they moved him around a little bit. You know.
Speaker 2: Gilmour was able to go uh you know and handle
Speaker 2: Brown when they needed to him.
Speaker 12: The turnovers that they created, we talked about how well
Speaker 12: that the uh that the safeties needed to play in
Speaker 12: this game, and to a man, they did a great job.
Speaker 12: The turnovers, the fumbles, all those things were led to
Speaker 12: a victory. So things that they needed to work on
Speaker 12: to get a victory. They were able to take advantage of.
Speaker 6: Those first and foremost.
Speaker 5: I want every opposing receiver to call Stefan Gilmore old
Speaker 5: from now on. I just need you to do that
Speaker 5: so you can learn the lesson that AJ Brown learned
Speaker 5: on yesterday. Gilmore was outstanding, and so was Bland when
Speaker 5: he was targeted, and going to Bland kind of brings
Speaker 5: me back to a central point that I spoke about
Speaker 5: going into the game, which was, you have to tackle
Speaker 5: against this Eagles offense. You have to tackle, tackle, tackle,
Speaker 5: because a large part of their offensive production in the
Speaker 5: air comes from yards after the catch.
Speaker 6: Well, the Cowboys did exactly exactly that.
Speaker 5: They were exceptional in deleting potential yak once the ball
Speaker 5: was caught. Talk about Bland and how he takes down
Speaker 5: Dallas Goddard on the left flat. Talk about Gilmore and
Speaker 5: what he was able to do on two consecutive plays,
Speaker 5: critical plays late in the game as the Eagles were
Speaker 5: really gasping for some air there. And then on the
Speaker 5: one particular play which was kind of a microcosm of
Speaker 5: the game when the Eagles were able to get some yak.
Speaker 5: Talk about that Devonte Smith playing the fourth quarter, what
Speaker 5: happens come from behind force fumble, So even when they
Speaker 5: were able to get some yack, they paid for that.
Speaker 5: So Cowboys defense stepped up, and we talked about them
Speaker 5: giving up that many points to the Seahawks, but we
Speaker 5: were saying, well, three games in eleven days, and then
Speaker 5: you look at the offense they were going up against,
Speaker 5: maybe they were tired coming off of a manybody.
Speaker 6: They proved that that was actually the.
Speaker 5: Point you come in and you shut down Jalen Hurts
Speaker 5: in that offense. You don't allow them a single touchdown
Speaker 5: throughout four quarters of football. And this was supposed to
Speaker 5: be a front runner for MVP. You asked about Nick
Speaker 5: Bosa last week and what Nick Bosa said. The blueprint
Speaker 5: was out there, and I said the Cowboys had the
Speaker 5: blueprint and the personnel to execute the blueprint.
Speaker 6: So there you go.
Speaker 5: Dak Prescott now has to be the not a the
Speaker 5: front runner for MVP based on what he was able
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 6: As well.
Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy, he's out there calling a great game with
Speaker 5: suitors in his stomach. So I mean, just it's a
Speaker 5: statement when it destroys all narratives and I'm with you.
Speaker 5: I love what you said on Twitter last night. We're
Speaker 5: not I'm not accepting any goal posts moving. There's no Oh, well,
Speaker 5: they didn't beat a good team. Why is it that
Speaker 5: you're saying this team is not good? Is it because
Speaker 5: they got beat up? Well maybe that's because the team
Speaker 5: that beat them up is just a better team. So
Speaker 5: it's time to change that narrative to that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: In fact of the matter is like when you look
Speaker 8: at at this is this is typical of the NFL
Speaker 8: every there. There are lots of teams out there. There
Speaker 8: are a few really good teams. There's not a team
Speaker 8: most of the time that doesn't have at least a
Speaker 8: portion of their season where they hit some adversity. This
Speaker 8: is the nature of it, right. But you don't get
Speaker 8: to ten and three without being a good team. So
Speaker 8: don't move the goalpost now. Now, Philly is a good team.
Speaker 8: They got beat by a better team last night. And
Speaker 8: that's what Mike I said after the game. He was like,
Speaker 8: we were a better team tonight. And by the way,
Speaker 8: you run this thing back in Philadelphia in two weeks,
Speaker 8: who knows what it might be. Last night, Dallas was
Speaker 8: clearly the better team. So there is no moving the
Speaker 8: goal post. Philadelphia is a good team. Dallas just played
Speaker 8: a phenomenal game. They had a great game plan and
Speaker 8: they executed really well, no doubt. Let's talk about Dak
Speaker 8: Prescott last night. He was twenty four to thirty nine,
Speaker 8: sixty two percent completions, two hundred and seventy one yards,
Speaker 8: two touchdowns, no interceptions. He did have the one fumble,
Speaker 8: which was a turn for a touchdown, the only touchdown
Speaker 8: of the night for the Philadelphia Equals. And by the way,
Speaker 8: when you mentioned that about them not scoring a touchdown,
Speaker 8: it had been since twenty seventeen. That was the last
Speaker 8: time to them that Philadelphia and Dallas did to them.
Speaker 8: Then that Philadelphia didn't score an offensive touchdown in a game,
Speaker 8: that's a long streak. That's a very long streak. But
Speaker 8: Dallas shut it down last night. Deck did also have
Speaker 8: a ninety nine point four quarterback rating.
Speaker 3: How do you assess this play overall?
Speaker 12: I think the only mistake he made and he admitted
Speaker 12: it on the he got a little sloppy on the
Speaker 12: fumble and they're going to take a deep shot. Cooks
Speaker 12: his wide open and ch it's a touchdown and he.
Speaker 2: Tries to go back to it late and he drifted in.
Speaker 12: Now, Martin didn't exactly have you Cox lockdown, I mean,
Speaker 12: but Dak drifted into into Cocks, which made it difficult.
Speaker 2: That's why you get the sack.
Speaker 12: And as he's trying to unload the ball or trying
Speaker 12: to set it up to launch it, that's where all
Speaker 12: of a sudden, when he gets hit, it's on the ground.
Speaker 12: So really the only mistake he talks about him not
Speaker 12: playing perfect, there were a couple of throws he'd probably
Speaker 12: like to have back with some guys that were open.
Speaker 12: There were you know, some missed some early in the game.
Speaker 12: I thought he threw the ball a little high. But
Speaker 12: many dial things back in. The things that he's really
Speaker 12: really getting so much better at is seeing an understanding
Speaker 12: pre snap though where he needs to go with the football.
Speaker 12: That throw he the throw he makes uh you know,
Speaker 12: to ferguson the one that goes.
Speaker 2: Up up the hash. I mean, he realizes that he's going.
Speaker 12: To get a drop linebacker there, and it's going to
Speaker 12: be and you know, when you when you get a
Speaker 12: drop linebacker that's not used to playing coverage, was really
Speaker 12: a defensive end that's playing as a linebacker that's dropping
Speaker 12: the coverage. He saw exactly what was going to happen there,
Speaker 12: and he says, well, you're going to match that guy
Speaker 12: up with that guy, Well, I'm gonna take a shot
Speaker 12: up the middle of the field. And that's exactly what
Speaker 12: he did. So his ability to read and understand what's
Speaker 12: ahead of him has improved so much. And the coaches
Speaker 12: are doing a great job with these combination routes of
Speaker 12: allowing routes to be run off other routes and it's
Speaker 12: given him some really, really good throws and he's taking
Speaker 12: advantage of that too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, dek Is, he's seeing the field like I mean,
Speaker 5: he's Bruce Lee right now. As far as being able
Speaker 5: to read defenses, reading zone, reading man handling blitz packages, he's.
Speaker 6: Just getting it all done. Now. Was it a perfect
Speaker 6: game for him, Not at all.
Speaker 5: We've seen more explosive production from Dak Prescott and took
Speaker 5: to Brian's point, in the first quarter, he was a
Speaker 5: bit uneven. There were some dots mixed with some high throws.
Speaker 5: That throw that was high to gallop. It was catchable,
Speaker 5: but it was high. But then the high throwing Ferguson
Speaker 5: across the middle that was not catchable, but he settled
Speaker 5: down and he settled.
Speaker 6: In really, really nicely.
Speaker 5: And then when you look at what he did with
Speaker 5: his legs as far as keeping them off balance, they
Speaker 5: were two big gainers on the ground with his legs.
Speaker 5: They were both delete it by penalties. So the Cowboys
Speaker 5: didn't get that production. But what it did do was
Speaker 5: keep that defense honest and say, hey, you know what,
Speaker 5: if not for that penalty, that would have been a
Speaker 5: big play. So it keeps it in their mind and
Speaker 5: they have to stay true and defend that as well.
Speaker 5: So going throughout the rest of the game they had to.
Speaker 5: And that, you know, accounting for that helped make the
Speaker 5: secondary that was already questionable for the Eagles that much
Speaker 5: more so over the course of the game. So he
Speaker 5: did it on the ground even when it didn't count
Speaker 5: because of penalties.
Speaker 6: He did it in the air.
Speaker 5: He didn't make many mistakes, only one mistake and he
Speaker 5: owned up to that one. You got to, you know,
Speaker 5: figure out how to get that ball out Quicker. That's
Speaker 5: a deep throw to Cooks. But then there were you know,
Speaker 5: a couple of mistakes by the receivers, like the deep
Speaker 5: left in coverage that's an absolute dot to see thee
Speaker 5: lamb hits them in the hands with the guy draped
Speaker 5: over him. That ball got in there one of the
Speaker 5: Lamb's drops. He wants to have that back. But then
Speaker 5: you see, you know, Cooks come up with that play
Speaker 5: Blitz that takes the hit, delivers it. Cooks thirty yards,
Speaker 5: gets it down to the one yard line. How boys
Speaker 5: punched that in So it wasn't perfect for Deck, but
Speaker 5: by all means, it was still an MVP caliber performance,
Speaker 5: especially when you look at who they were going up against.
Speaker 12: If he, by the way, if he wins the MVP award,
Speaker 12: the play they need to show everybody for when he
Speaker 12: accepts the award is the throw that he made to Ferguson.
Speaker 2: That was kind of a miracle catch when he's.
Speaker 12: Got Buyer just unblocked and I don't know how he
Speaker 12: got the ball over the top.
Speaker 2: I don't know how he got the top the ball
Speaker 2: over the top.
Speaker 12: Of him and then get it to Ferguson enough to
Speaker 12: allow Ferguson to even have a chance because Sidney Brown
Speaker 12: was in great coverage, and I you know, for that,
Speaker 12: that's that if you go back and we look at metrics,
Speaker 12: probably the most difficult throw that they're going to say
Speaker 12: that he made that game would be that one an
Speaker 12: n being a thirty two yard catch, And it just
Speaker 12: goes to show you the relationship that he and Ferguson have.
Speaker 12: He has that much trust in Ferguson that like, when
Speaker 12: he's facing a blitzing safety that is not accounted for,
Speaker 12: you know, it's like, Okay, I'm gonna throw the ball.
Speaker 12: That ball could have very easily been tipped knocked up
Speaker 12: in the air. Heck, Sidney Brown could have knocked it
Speaker 12: up in the air, but it was put in a
Speaker 12: really perfect spot, a difficult spot, and Ferguson came up
Speaker 12: with a huge, huge play.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 9: Yeah, not a perfect game, but expecting a perfect game
Speaker 9: every time it's a very unrealistic expectation to set on
Speaker 9: a quarterback. I think he's still checking all all boxes.
Speaker 9: He's checking out all every single box, and it's impressive
Speaker 9: and very cool to see. From the start of his career,
Speaker 9: his whole development and everything that we've kind of had
Speaker 9: to sit here and watch and talk about and discuss,
Speaker 9: you know, earlier on was him having to relied on
Speaker 9: those short passes. You never saw deep throw passes down
Speaker 9: the field, or him having to sit in the pocket
Speaker 9: second guess, you know, or trying to figure out what
Speaker 9: am I gonna do? Where am I gonna throw? And
Speaker 9: now none of that, like everything has changed. He's throwing
Speaker 9: that all so beautiful and so perfect all the way
Speaker 9: down the field. It happens so often now to where
Speaker 9: he's constantly connecting with the receivers and it's so in sync.
Speaker 9: It happens so quickly, so you're you're getting a Dak
Speaker 9: Presca that's mentally like you were saying, Patrick, he can
Speaker 9: read everything so quickly now and get rid of that
Speaker 9: ball so quickly, and it's just like everything in his mind, body,
Speaker 9: everything is just in perfect time in.
Speaker 2: For him right now.
Speaker 5: It's like Neo looking at the matrix. He's just seeing
Speaker 5: it's like ones and zeros for him.
Speaker 6: Right now.
Speaker 5: The game has slowed down so much for Dak Prescott.
Speaker 5: And you see it and last night and you can
Speaker 5: ask Nick Harris this because I kept saying I didn't
Speaker 5: realize I did until Harris pointed it out. But over
Speaker 5: the course of the game, you could almost tell when
Speaker 5: the when the timer went off in Deck's head in
Speaker 5: the pocket because at a certain point, it'd be like
Speaker 5: one point seventy five seconds, and you can tell he
Speaker 5: was about to go. He was not looking to stand
Speaker 5: in that pocket, not a moment longer than he needed to.
Speaker 5: He was looking to get out, extend plays and things
Speaker 5: like that and apply that extra pressure to the secondary
Speaker 5: and that passwords. So I mean, like you said, he's
Speaker 5: just seeing it in slow motion and he is only
Speaker 5: going to continue to get better.
Speaker 6: He's he's so comfortable with.
Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy's play callers, so comfortable with his weapons. Like
Speaker 5: that throw to Jake Ferguson making that throw.
Speaker 6: Who does that?
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have pulled that trigger he did, but that
Speaker 5: the amount of trust required to pull that trigger and
Speaker 5: then for Jake to reward him with a catch like that,
Speaker 5: and then yards after the catch like that.
Speaker 6: This offense is as special as the defense can be.
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Speaker 8: It is the second segment of The Break, live from
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Speaker 8: running game. Yesterday, Tony Pollitt was sixteen for fifty nine
Speaker 8: yards three point seven average. Ric o'dowdell was also twelve
Speaker 8: carries for forty six yards or three point eight average,
Speaker 8: with a touchdown. Perhaps you asked in the Break, You're
Speaker 8: asking if I noticed or if we noticed that there
Speaker 8: was more It seemed like there was a little bit
Speaker 8: more usage of dawdall.
Speaker 3: I don't really see that.
Speaker 8: Again, I was saying, I really feel like the second
Speaker 8: half of this year, it's been pretty much to me
Speaker 8: a running back by committee. I'm not surprised at any
Speaker 8: moment to see one running back in or the other
Speaker 8: like it just it seems like they're interchangeable at this point.
Speaker 3: For the Cowboys, what were your thoughts.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm distinctly remembering we talked about it during the break.
Speaker 5: There is a point where I want to say third
Speaker 5: quarter ish where it felt like Rico was really getting
Speaker 5: a lot of burn. I mean like three four reps
Speaker 5: in a row, to the point where I kind of
Speaker 5: sat out loud, I said, is Tony okay? And then
Speaker 5: a couple plays later, Tony was back in and he
Speaker 5: got two or three runs in a row, so he
Speaker 5: was obviously physically fine. But the fact that I had
Speaker 5: that thought, if I recall correctly, that's the first time
Speaker 5: I've had that thought all season. And it may go
Speaker 5: to your point that it's more so a fifty to
Speaker 5: fifty and it could be, you know, fifty one forty
Speaker 5: nine for Tony this week and next week could be
Speaker 5: fifty one forty nine for Rico Daldo. And that's probably
Speaker 5: the case, which I would be completely fine with because
Speaker 5: it keeps both of those guys fresh going into December
Speaker 5: and in January and then hopefully in February. So I'm
Speaker 5: with McCarthy if that's his plan. It looks like that
Speaker 5: is because it is bearing itself out. We'll see how
Speaker 5: things go in Buffalo where that run game might really
Speaker 5: come into play depending on what the weather is. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean it was good to see because Tony. The
Speaker 5: thing I'm liking about Tony Pollard is as the offensive
Speaker 5: line has come together and the continuity there, you're seeing
Speaker 5: the lanes developed and he's not doing a lot of
Speaker 5: dance and he is running north and south. That at
Speaker 5: a couple of plays last night where he hit that
Speaker 5: hole and he hit it hard. That was very Ezekiel
Speaker 5: Elliottish to me, and I was like, okay, Tony, I
Speaker 5: see you getting dirty. And then Rico Dawdle will come
Speaker 5: in and Rico sees the lane and he either hits
Speaker 5: it or if that lane closes, its immediate bounce like
Speaker 5: his quickness is out, which reminded me of Tony Pollard
Speaker 5: in like twenty twenty two and twenty twenty one. So
Speaker 5: it feels to me like those two are kind of
Speaker 5: settling in those roles and Pollard is getting much more
Speaker 5: comfortable with doing that dirty work now that his offensive
Speaker 5: line is is really jelling and giving him those lanes
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 9: So, yeah, I'll say I agree with you, and I
Speaker 9: would have to go back because I can't think exactly
Speaker 9: like why the reason, like why that thought came into
Speaker 9: into it. Yeah, because same with what you were saying, Derek, Like,
Speaker 9: we do see them being interchangeable all the time. That's
Speaker 9: what it's been. But I do remember twice in two
Speaker 9: occasions where I'm working on the computer and I look
Speaker 9: up and I see Rico and I'm like, huh, we're
Speaker 9: in situationally where usually you would see Tony instead. But again,
Speaker 9: because it is interchangeable like that, you don't give it
Speaker 9: that much thought or look into it that deeply. But
Speaker 9: it felt like they were using them a little bit differently.
Speaker 9: I don't know if Brian, if you've had time to
Speaker 9: kind of.
Speaker 12: Yeah, they take a better when they throw the ball.
Speaker 12: They would rather have Pollard in there. He catches the
Speaker 12: ball well and he blocks well. The thing that's encouraging
Speaker 12: me he had eleven yard run last night where he
Speaker 12: broke an arm tackle of the safety buyered you know,
Speaker 12: and it's now you're starting to see that where he's
Speaker 12: making people miss or he's running through arm tackles. I
Speaker 12: think early in the season you didn't see that happen
Speaker 12: at all.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: One other things to note, I just looked up their
Speaker 3: snap count.
Speaker 8: Pollard actually had the lion's here of the snaps between
Speaker 8: the two. He had fifty nine snaps seventy two percent,
Speaker 8: where doubt Will only had twenty three snaps twenty eight percent.
Speaker 8: So he's getting the lion's here of the work. But
Speaker 8: it doesn't even feel like that to me. It just
Speaker 8: feels like any either one of them can be out
Speaker 8: there at any moment.
Speaker 5: It might have been that there's a particular stretch of
Speaker 5: time where there was so much Rico that second half. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 5: particularly in the third quarter, where it made me have
Speaker 5: that thought, well, is Tony okay? Because we had seen
Speaker 5: Tony a good bit in the first half, and then
Speaker 5: maybe so after that, you know, you kind of go
Speaker 5: back to Tony. But Rico got a ton of burn
Speaker 5: in that third quarter.
Speaker 12: We're starting to see it where it's more like it's,
Speaker 12: like you said, more like a college program. There was
Speaker 12: a time where it was Zeke and Pollard, and there
Speaker 12: would be like second or third series you would see
Speaker 12: a guy come in for that whole series, and they're
Speaker 12: really not doing that. It's it's like shuffling tight ends.
Speaker 12: They'll put a back end. Then the little shuffling receivers,
Speaker 12: they'll put a back end. So they're part of like
Speaker 12: the packages that these guys are running right now.
Speaker 8: If you remember, that was a time when every games
Speaker 8: we'd finished now and Pollard didn't seem to feel very
Speaker 8: much like they just didn't use him in the same way.
Speaker 8: But you're seeing they're using both of these guys, I
Speaker 8: think is actually a really good thing. It's just a
Speaker 8: good thing for your offense. And you got two guys
Speaker 8: you're using regularly. All right, let's talk about the offensive line.
Speaker 8: They did allow to sacks. Just we talked about the
Speaker 8: running game, How did the offensive line play specifically, I
Speaker 8: want to talk about it. I know you mentioned Steel,
Speaker 8: but I want to talk about Steel and be Oddish
Speaker 8: because there were a couple of moments there where you
Speaker 8: kind of it seemed like the oddish kind of was
Speaker 8: having a little trouble there in the middle.
Speaker 3: What did you see from the offensive line?
Speaker 12: He got tripped on the He had twenty five yards
Speaker 12: of penalties on one drive and the one play where
Speaker 12: he got hold of he got run over the butt.
Speaker 2: He probably would have been.
Speaker 12: Able to maintain his feet, but he tripped on Martin's
Speaker 12: foot going backwards. And so what happens is he's going back,
Speaker 12: he's got his hands inside, and he just pulls the
Speaker 12: defender on top of him.
Speaker 2: The officials call that.
Speaker 12: I don't know how you could call clipping on him
Speaker 12: his head his head. His head was across the defender's leg,
Speaker 12: and so if it was behind or in the back
Speaker 12: where he was going into the back of his leg,
Speaker 12: but the fact that his head was already front side
Speaker 12: of the play, that that.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't have been a tripping call. And so you know
Speaker 2: that happens.
Speaker 12: I can't remember the last time I saw a tripping call,
Speaker 12: by the way, or not tripping clip call inside on
Speaker 12: an offensive lineman like that.
Speaker 2: Overall, though, I tell you what, the combo blocks that they.
Speaker 12: Got in the Running Game with Steele and Martin were
Speaker 12: coming off really well.
Speaker 2: Pattish I held his.
Speaker 12: Own in the Running Game. They ran some really creative runs.
Speaker 12: They tried an old school trap, they did some misdirections.
Speaker 12: They did double screen where they ran both guards and
Speaker 12: the tackles opposite directions, so they're trying to create some
Speaker 12: space there. I like doing that. But I mentioned this
Speaker 12: stuff about with Steel, and they went into this game
Speaker 12: thinking Okay, we're gonna have to help him a little bit.
Speaker 12: And I talked about the single blocks he did were good,
Speaker 12: the double team blocks Pollard helped him. There the sack,
Speaker 12: I have a question, and I wish I could ask
Speaker 12: somebody in the organization about this, because the sack that
Speaker 12: Steele gave up, it was almost like he was expecting
Speaker 12: Pollard to help him to the outside, and Pollard was
Speaker 12: set up to do that because Steele never got out
Speaker 12: of his stance. It's like still only engaged with his
Speaker 12: right hand, and his feet were so slow, so you
Speaker 12: were thinking, okay, is he slow setting here to give
Speaker 12: Pollard a chance to get outside and help in that way,
Speaker 12: Because the very next play they ran the same thing
Speaker 12: and Pollard helped him and so they were able to
Speaker 12: So I wonder if maybe Steele thought, hey, I'm getting
Speaker 12: help on this particular pass play. But I mean he
Speaker 12: allowed Reddick and you know, luckily you didn't lose Dak
Speaker 12: because Reddick went really really low coming in there onto
Speaker 12: his knees. But overall, I mean, I think you have
Speaker 12: to be pleased with the way that they were able
Speaker 12: to hold up both in the running game and then
Speaker 12: also with their pass protection stuff.
Speaker 3: I was looking at Tyron Smith. This is an interesting
Speaker 3: stat from him.
Speaker 8: He was against Josh Sweat nineteen times last night, allowed
Speaker 8: five pressures, a twenty six point three pressure percent pressure rate,
Speaker 8: So not great, but you know, obviously it didn't end
Speaker 8: up being disastrous for the Cowboys. And then juxtaposed that
Speaker 8: to Zach Martin, who was up against Fletcher Cox twenty
Speaker 8: six percent of the time. I heard you say it
Speaker 8: on the sh oh last night, and I went and
Speaker 8: looked it up, and he had one pressure, one sack
Speaker 8: against Ta Yeah, which and now he's the league.
Speaker 6: Shouldn't have happened.
Speaker 3: He's second lowest pressure rate.
Speaker 8: He's allowed the second lowest pressure rate of any guard
Speaker 8: right guard in the NFL through Week fourteen. So Zach
Speaker 8: Martin playing more outstanding football. Tyron continues to play more
Speaker 8: outstanding football, though yesterday was a bit of a challenge
Speaker 8: for him. But overall, you look at the offensive line
Speaker 8: as a unit. They played pretty well.
Speaker 2: No issues. There no issues there with you know that.
Speaker 12: It wasn't anything like that some of the protections in
Speaker 12: Week nine, where there was seemed like every down there
Speaker 12: was some type of pressure in Dak's face.
Speaker 2: In this game, it was a little bit more of
Speaker 2: a clean pocket for him.
Speaker 6: The offensive line looked looked really good.
Speaker 5: I mean, like you said, five pressures from Josh Wood
Speaker 5: against Tyrant Smith, but no sex, and I venture to
Speaker 5: say those pressures didn't really disrupt with the Cowboys are
Speaker 5: trying to do on any of those plays. Zach Martin,
Speaker 5: fantastic football against Fletcher Cox. If Dak Prescott gets rid
Speaker 5: of that ball, it's a touchdown and out of second.
Speaker 5: We're not talking about Fletcher Cox having any impact on
Speaker 5: the game whatsoever. Jaylen Carter, he gets his scoop and
Speaker 5: score from that, but other than that, he had one pressure.
Speaker 5: Jordan Davis, zero pressures. I mean that interior really held
Speaker 5: up when it comes to Tyler Smith, talerbe ad Ishan,
Speaker 5: Zach Martin. They were not allowing any pressure up the middle,
Speaker 5: and that allowed for Dak Prescott to be able to
Speaker 5: read the field and react.
Speaker 2: That's Philadelphia's problem, right there.
Speaker 12: If they don't get edge pressure now their secondary gets exposed.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and you know, I'll mention this, like, I do
Speaker 8: think part of this, part of what the offense, what
Speaker 8: we're seeing from the offensive line right now and how
Speaker 8: well they look is also, in my opinion, a result
Speaker 8: of how good Dak is playing. I remember back when
Speaker 8: when Bledsoe was the quarterback here, they were having all
Speaker 8: kinds of problems with the offensive line, and then they
Speaker 8: made that decision to put Tony Romo in there, and
Speaker 8: all of a sudden, offenserve line is playing great and
Speaker 8: everybody's like, Wow, offense lines really gotten better. They're doing
Speaker 8: the same, but he knows how to move around. He
Speaker 8: forces the defense to play him differently so they can't
Speaker 8: just rush because he did rush into a spot. And
Speaker 8: I think that's that's what gets lost a lot of times,
Speaker 8: is for an offensive line, a lot of times, the
Speaker 8: ability of the quarterback can make him look really good
Speaker 8: or make them look really poor and really exacerbate whatever
Speaker 8: problems they already had.
Speaker 12: Well, the touchdown passed that Prescott had that threw to
Speaker 12: Lamb the first one, yeah, I mean it was just
Speaker 12: Lamb running across and then Dak being able to get
Speaker 12: You get a really good edge block by Tyrone Smith
Speaker 12: that allows him to get to the outside, and there's Dak.
Speaker 12: You know, Dak on the move throwing the football. You know,
Speaker 12: you get the receiver, you get separation, Dak finds the guy,
Speaker 12: Dak running to his left, Jesusly Money throwing the ball, and.
Speaker 2: He was able to complete it.
Speaker 12: It was really a really pretty play just because your
Speaker 12: quarterback was able to move and your receiver kept moving
Speaker 12: with him, which is.
Speaker 9: Why I was just gonna say that, I think a
Speaker 9: lot of the times that I'm watching because it helps
Speaker 9: him a lot of the fighter. DK gets red of
Speaker 9: the ball so quickly because at times, and I feel
Speaker 9: like I've seen many many plays where had he held
Speaker 9: the ball, maybe three more seconds or somebody would have
Speaker 9: gone Dak and riding his face. So it's always like
Speaker 9: the right timing, the perfect timing, not enough to the
Speaker 9: point where it just distracts Dak and messes up with
Speaker 9: what he's trying to do, but just the perfect timing.
Speaker 9: And I think, right now, maybe it's the fact that
Speaker 9: they want and I'm feeling positive and I feel good today,
Speaker 9: but I feel like giving them more praise than criticism,
Speaker 9: because we know that even though some of these guys
Speaker 9: are no longer popping up on the injury report with
Speaker 9: some type of injury, we know that they're still dealing
Speaker 9: with stuff, all of them pretty much. So the fact
Speaker 9: that they've held strong to this point and that we
Speaker 9: are at least seeing progress in the running game, which
Speaker 9: was a huge deal. I think they've done a really
Speaker 9: really good job.
Speaker 12: I think they're better. I think there's actually better idea
Speaker 12: of how they want to attack fronts with the way
Speaker 12: that they're blocking these fronts.
Speaker 5: And also to that point, kind of circling back to
Speaker 5: deck really quickly. Excellent point by Inbar. I think that
Speaker 5: if you compare Dak Prescott post week five to Dak
Speaker 5: Prescott pre week five. Pre week five, it was much
Speaker 5: more mechanical as he tries has he tried to figure
Speaker 5: out how to operate this offense.
Speaker 6: It was much more drop back, what's my timer? Let
Speaker 6: it go? Who's going now?
Speaker 5: It's he's so comfortable with it that he's no longer
Speaker 5: that statue in the backfield trying to figure it out.
Speaker 5: It's one two, it's not there. I'm moving, but I'm
Speaker 5: still eyes downfield. I'm moving still, eyes downfield, Okay, screw
Speaker 5: this ten yard rush for a first down. So because
Speaker 5: he's so much more comfortable, and the better word is
Speaker 5: he's in command. He's in total command of this offense.
Speaker 5: That was not the case week's one through week five.
Speaker 5: But now that he's in total command, you're seeing it
Speaker 5: and how explosive they can be. And the offensive line,
Speaker 5: like you said, one hand washes the other. They're helping
Speaker 5: him with continuity and you know, protecting and carving out
Speaker 5: lanes for the running game.
Speaker 6: He's helping them.
Speaker 5: When the pressure does come five pressures from Josh Sweat,
Speaker 5: Sweat can't get his hands on him because Dak the
Speaker 5: timer went off Dak side of there in a big plays.
Speaker 3: Maybe Yeah, I love that word.
Speaker 8: I think that sums up his play here over these
Speaker 8: last several weeks.
Speaker 6: His command.
Speaker 8: I think you can really see how much he is
Speaker 8: really commanding this offense. Are we're going to take our
Speaker 8: final break, we'll come back. We got to talk about
Speaker 8: this defense. They had another really good night, not a
Speaker 8: great night necessarily compared, I mean a great night compared
Speaker 8: to last week.
Speaker 3: For sure.
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Speaker 8: Let's finish this thing up. Let's talk about the defense
Speaker 8: last night. I want to start with Stephan Gilmour. He
Speaker 8: had nine tackles, one force fumble.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 8: He after the game did talk about the fact that
Speaker 8: he traveled quite a bit with AJ Brown, and he
Speaker 8: said that they come to him earlier in the week
Speaker 8: and told him about it, and he was like pretty
Speaker 8: excited about it, because he admitted sometimes he can get
Speaker 8: a little bored when you have to sit in one spot.
Speaker 8: But he did a fairly good job. The interesting thing
Speaker 8: is it wasn't like a J. Brown got shut down.
Speaker 8: I mean, he did have nine catches for ninety four yards,
Speaker 8: didn't have a touchdown, so it weren't any killer plays,
Speaker 8: but it didn't really shut him down.
Speaker 3: How would you assess this play overall? Gilmore?
Speaker 5: I think Gilmore was fantastic, honestly, Like I said, I
Speaker 5: hope everybody calls him old so he can feel away
Speaker 5: and play accordingly. And like you said, Aj, he had
Speaker 5: just under one hundred yards. But it's also fair to
Speaker 5: say that there was some stat patting going on there
Speaker 5: as well. Yeah, there was some stat pay going on.
Speaker 5: But you know, when you talk about Gilmore in this
Speaker 5: particular game, you also have to talk about, you know,
Speaker 5: I mentioned it earlier, his ability to tackle, his willingness
Speaker 5: to get in there, get his hands dirty, take down
Speaker 5: a bigger guy like Aj Brown. On more than one occasion,
Speaker 5: critical stops to delete the yards after the catch. You
Speaker 5: talk about the force fumble from behind, that was one
Speaker 5: of those plays where, yeah, Aj makes the play. He's
Speaker 5: trying to get some yards after the catch and Stepan
Speaker 5: comes up behind him and just completely rips the ball out.
Speaker 5: Another huge play for the Cowboys defense. So you love
Speaker 5: what you're getting from Stefan Gilmore and quite as it's kept.
Speaker 6: He's played some really.
Speaker 5: Good football the majority of this season, and that's what
Speaker 5: you need when you lose a guy like Diggs. And
Speaker 5: we talked about it when when the Cowboys lost Digs
Speaker 5: for the season, that made the value of Stefan Gilmore's
Speaker 5: trade that much more priceless. And now you see why
Speaker 5: that is. So shouts out to Gilly. He did a
Speaker 5: fantastic job there.
Speaker 2: I thought his fourth down stop was a change the game.
Speaker 2: I really did.
Speaker 12: I felt like the Eagles, I mean with the turnovers
Speaker 12: were huge as well, but that you know they're going
Speaker 12: to try and run him through the trash and he
Speaker 12: you know, on the other side, here's coming from the
Speaker 12: opposite direction, here's big Brown, coming right at you, and
Speaker 12: he totally avoids that and is able to stay, you know,
Speaker 12: with with his man with Smith going across. And I
Speaker 12: think what was even better about it was that Kurs
Speaker 12: and Armstrong.
Speaker 2: Got home on the blitz. They ran a six man
Speaker 2: blitz to and.
Speaker 12: The ball came out low and so Smith had to
Speaker 12: wait on the ball and had to adjust low, and
Speaker 12: that gave that gave Gilmour even more of an.
Speaker 2: Opportunity to close in the open field.
Speaker 12: And hats off to him for making a sure tackle
Speaker 12: on the outside, because if somehow that Smith misses that
Speaker 12: or gets through that tackle, it's up the sidelines and
Speaker 12: who knows what's happening. But I thought that play right
Speaker 12: there changed the momentum of the game for the Cowboys.
Speaker 9: Yeah, there are times, and I'm not calling him old, okay,
Speaker 9: but there are times that.
Speaker 6: You think there's a benefit now to doing that.
Speaker 9: Well, I'm not doing that. I'm not saying that, But
Speaker 9: there are times where he does appear slow, where he
Speaker 9: is slow and not appear he is slow at times
Speaker 9: in previous games, and there are many plays that I
Speaker 9: can remember where you see him and he's in pursuit
Speaker 9: a few steps behind it didn't really happen in this game,
Speaker 9: at least I haven't gone back and rewatched everything, but
Speaker 9: nothing that I can recall out of the top of
Speaker 9: my head where he's constantly having to chase somebody. He
Speaker 9: was there and where the action was happening. So that's
Speaker 9: something that I noticed, where he was just where's the ball. Oh,
Speaker 9: he's there, he's there, he's involved, He's right where he
Speaker 9: needs to be. That was one of the differences that
Speaker 9: I just noticed from his game compared to previous games.
Speaker 5: And it was clear that Nick Sirianni made a concerted
Speaker 5: effort to throw away from Deran Bland because he only
Speaker 5: targeted Bland twice and Bland only allowed eight yards, so
Speaker 5: he was really targeting Gilmour and he was trying to
Speaker 5: take advantage of getting his playmakers in space against an
Speaker 5: older veteran guy who doesn't have the quickness of Bland
Speaker 5: and Lewis and some of these younger corners. But all
Speaker 5: Gilmour did was keep the work in front of him
Speaker 5: and those that kind of got behind him, he turned
Speaker 5: it into a takeaway. So when you look at his
Speaker 5: stat line and you see nine tackles to lead the
Speaker 5: team and they were all solo tackles. And then you
Speaker 5: go and marry that to the film and see that
Speaker 5: those were, you know, impact tackles, almost each one of those.
Speaker 6: Gilmore, he had himself a day.
Speaker 3: Michael Parsons scared all Cowboys Nation. I was.
Speaker 8: I was sitting at my house before I left for
Speaker 8: the game. I had a lot of family in town
Speaker 8: for the game, and they all all my nephews on
Speaker 8: their pone and they see they see the message come up.
Speaker 8: Michael Parsons added to the injury board. He's sick, and
Speaker 8: everybody's like, oh, my.
Speaker 3: Goshes that me and I said. I was like, I said,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put money on it.
Speaker 8: This is gonna be one of those games where Micae's
Speaker 8: he's sick going into the game, but Michae's going to
Speaker 8: have a good game.
Speaker 3: Don't even don't even right, don't even fret about it.
Speaker 8: And sure enough Michael shows up and after the game
Speaker 8: to ask him like, so you feeling good now?
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 8: He got to go and get some rest. But yeah,
Speaker 8: I thought it was he played a good game. But
Speaker 8: here's an interesting thing against Lane Johnson, who I think is,
Speaker 8: in my opinion, the best right tackle in football and
Speaker 8: has been for several years. Against Lane Johnson last night,
Speaker 8: he was matched up against him eleven times.
Speaker 3: Uh, and he had two pressures, one sack.
Speaker 8: He was he was against him forty two point three
Speaker 8: percent of the time and that was only that's going
Speaker 8: back to Week nine, he was only against him one time.
Speaker 8: So that was something the Cowboys obviously went into the
Speaker 8: game saying, we think that Michael may be able to
Speaker 8: be effective against him, and absolutely was. What were your
Speaker 8: thoughts on Michael Parsons last side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, straight, bull rush got the sack and Lane Johnson's
Speaker 2: holding him. I mean Lane Johnson, he's he's in. He's in.
Speaker 12: Lane Johnson's body so deep that Johnson has no choice,
Speaker 12: but he's got his left arm kind of wrapped around him.
Speaker 12: And then Cam Jurgens, the guard is like he can't
Speaker 12: even get.
Speaker 2: It's it's such a bull rush.
Speaker 12: That Johnson is back and now Jurgens can't even get in.
Speaker 12: It can't even help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen that, I can't even think a situation.
Speaker 3: Johnson just get bull rush.
Speaker 12: Usually Tank will tank back in the day when Tank
Speaker 12: would like move him the one thing Lane Johnson can.
Speaker 2: Do is he can adjust to you. Yeah, he can adjust.
Speaker 12: But the one thing is he gets a little tall
Speaker 12: and you get inside of him, he can't reset his
Speaker 12: feet fast enough. And Parsons knew this and just took
Speaker 12: him straight. But really, give give a lot of give
Speaker 12: a lot of credit, uh to. But Clark was coveraged
Speaker 12: with Goddard.
Speaker 2: It looked like that.
Speaker 12: It looked like Hurts wanted to throw the ball inside
Speaker 12: and and and Clark had such good coverage on Goddard
Speaker 12: that it made Hurts just kind of have to hesitate
Speaker 12: to even want to throw the ball. And by that
Speaker 12: time Parsons is on it. But he just completely just
Speaker 12: bull rushed him back. He just said, okay, you're not
Speaker 12: gonna be able to set your feet on me in
Speaker 12: this one.
Speaker 2: And he got inside of that body.
Speaker 12: And that's what the ones when you when you affect
Speaker 12: Lane Johnson, it's usually you get him playing playing back
Speaker 12: like that.
Speaker 5: When when you see and like you said yesterday, I
Speaker 5: mean I was washing dishes when I got that text
Speaker 5: message that Michael was added and almost dropped the plate
Speaker 5: because I was like what And then I read the
Speaker 5: rest of it and say he's expected to play, and.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 6: All right, lead with that.
Speaker 2: Next I think we're just protecting ourselves from getting.
Speaker 3: In to do what you need to absolute.
Speaker 5: Just lead with that next time to say he's expected
Speaker 5: to play, but he's battling the onn it's okay, make
Speaker 5: my heart stop. But uh, for him to go out
Speaker 5: there and do what he did, I mean, it wasn't
Speaker 5: the most explosive game, but he definitely impacted the game.
Speaker 6: He drew several double teams.
Speaker 5: And then you talk about just that bull rush to
Speaker 5: Lane Johnson, showed me someone else over the course of
Speaker 5: Lane Johnson's career that has embarrassed him to that particular point.
Speaker 5: I mean, like, like Brian said, he was he almost
Speaker 5: ran through Lane Johnson, like he completely obliterated and left
Speaker 5: him with a bloody nose to boot. So uh, and
Speaker 5: there was no flag going to play funny all that works.
Speaker 5: So Micah true to his hands.
Speaker 2: The face was legit.
Speaker 6: Almost took the helmet. Yeah he was. He was fed up.
Speaker 5: But Mike Micah, you know, he he battled through flu
Speaker 5: like symptoms and basically the flu. He talked to him
Speaker 5: in the locker room after the game and he said
Speaker 5: that he took as many medications and as much I
Speaker 5: V as any human could possibly take to be ready.
Speaker 3: To take taking scoops of stuff.
Speaker 2: Ye, no more.
Speaker 6: That was no, it did not he had to throw
Speaker 6: that up.
Speaker 3: No, it did not.
Speaker 2: How did he play that?
Speaker 5: Yet?
Speaker 6: Then he threw it up and then he still had
Speaker 6: had facts.
Speaker 9: So you want to do it every game, just go
Speaker 9: for it.
Speaker 5: Then it becomes a scene from the program and if
Speaker 5: you know careful, it's gonna starting buses in half like
Speaker 5: any given Sunday or so on, cars and half. But no, Michael,
Speaker 5: he affected the game and he was less than one
Speaker 5: hundred percent. And to see him do it against the
Speaker 5: future Hall of Famer like Lane Johnson, I mean, it
Speaker 5: just tells you just how generational, generationally special this young
Speaker 5: man is so good stuff.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, same great game, good for Micah, but definitely
Speaker 9: when I saw that, I was I was concerned too,
Speaker 9: and like if he if something happens, I mean, that
Speaker 9: would be a big game changer. I think your defense
Speaker 9: completely changes. If Mike it's not able to.
Speaker 6: Be to step up, there's no replacement.
Speaker 9: You can't replicate what they're able to do with Micah
Speaker 9: on the Field, So yeah, great victory for them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, real quick before he end the show. One storyline
Speaker 8: that dominated the headlines last week shoul kill Leonard. He
Speaker 8: is now with the Philadelphia Eagles, but he only had
Speaker 8: fourteen snaps, so it wasn't like they could really integrate
Speaker 8: him much into what they were.
Speaker 3: Trying to think.
Speaker 2: Regret, I don't think so.
Speaker 8: I think he probably sitting there thinking, once y'all get
Speaker 8: me in there, more will be better.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 8: I'm sure he's looking at it like I'll be I'll
Speaker 8: be more integrated into this defense at some point.
Speaker 3: I think they probably think that as well.
Speaker 12: He'll play next week in Seattle against Moro. They'll take
Speaker 12: forty one out of the lineups.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll do it.
Speaker 5: But speaking of Shack Leonard, and you know, not to
Speaker 5: take anything away from because like you said on only
Speaker 5: fourteen snaps and you know, two tackles, and that fourteen
Speaker 5: snaps didn't affect the game for the Eagles at all.
Speaker 6: But you know who did is Damon Clark.
Speaker 5: And Marquise Bell four tackles a piece, you know, Demon
Speaker 5: with the fumble recovery in the past, breakup, Marky's Bell
Speaker 5: with the funk perforce fumble in the past breakup. I mean,
Speaker 5: those two young men absolutely stepped up, and I feel
Speaker 5: like they felt a way after hearing all these Shack
Speaker 5: Leonard headlines. And I had kind of an EXCLUSI side
Speaker 5: to side with with the Moon after the game in
Speaker 5: the locker room, and I asked him, I said, hey,
Speaker 5: was that kind of a message game for you and
Speaker 5: Marquise after you know, days and days of hearing Shack
Speaker 5: Leonard headlines and whatnot. His quote was, we're young, but
Speaker 5: this ain't our first rodeo end quote. So you take
Speaker 5: that how you want to take it. But Damon Clark
Speaker 5: and Marquise Bell, they're they're here to continue sending a
Speaker 5: message for the Cowboys linebackers.
Speaker 8: It's funny. I heard him say that. I was standing
Speaker 8: in front of you, yeah, Micah, and I heard.
Speaker 3: I was like, who said that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, And.
Speaker 3: I was like, that's Patrick back then, I know exactly
Speaker 3: what he's.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly a Q and A with Damon Clark and
Speaker 5: very candid, very very open, and a very intelligent young
Speaker 5: man who is focused. So not only was he you know,
Speaker 5: talking about you know how this is not their first
Speaker 5: rodeo and Basically, what he was saying is, at the
Speaker 5: end of the day, this is just football. This is
Speaker 5: the same sport they've been playing their entire lives. But
Speaker 5: then he immediately started to turn the page to Buffalo.
Speaker 5: So in the span of a two and a half
Speaker 5: minute conversation with him, he talked about the Eagle, and
Speaker 5: then the last sixty seconds of it was talking about
Speaker 5: Buffalo and potential temperatures and the adjustments that they might
Speaker 5: make in Buffalo. So he's already on to the next game,
Speaker 5: which is the culture of the Cowboys right now.
Speaker 8: Guess what, the next time we're on the air, we
Speaker 8: will also be talking about the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3: We will not be on the air tomorrow.
Speaker 8: Tomorrow we are going out to do a little service
Speaker 8: in the community, going to work at the Salvation Army.
Speaker 3: And so we won't be on there. We won't be
Speaker 3: on the air tomorrow. We won't be on there tomorrow.
Speaker 8: But real quick, because we're not on the air, I
Speaker 8: do have to go ahead and give an early birthday
Speaker 8: shout out to my guy, mister Brian brought a very
Speaker 8: special birthday for him.
Speaker 3: So, hey, man, you have a great day.
Speaker 2: I appreciate there is No, there's no, it's not on
Speaker 2: your calendar.
Speaker 3: It's not on your calendar. I'm sure christ over that.
Speaker 3: Like I know, I already said, it's for your bird.
Speaker 3: What's to say, it's for your birthday. We're giving your
Speaker 3: day for your birthday. You go kick it. I have
Speaker 3: a good time, you have some good barber.
Speaker 2: What you want to do right? Appreciate that.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you. Guys, join us. We'll be back on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Will tell you what went right. I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: We'll tell you about the upcoming game Cowboys versus the
Speaker 8: Bill for Patrick Walker. Brian brought us the Ambergarci. I'm
Speaker 8: Derek Eaglets and this has been The Break live on
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