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Speaker 1: well with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. Monday, September eighteenth, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, Episode

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Speaker 1: number forty one. Welcome to another edition of The Break.

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Speaker 1: I'm Derek Eagleton and we're gonna talk some Cowboys football

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Speaker 1: with you guys here today. We're live from the s

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Speaker 1: WBC Mortgage Studios. Cowboys lose yesterday in a game that

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Speaker 1: was at least surprising to me in the way that

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Speaker 1: they lost, because we really haven't seen them lose like

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Speaker 1: that in quite a while. But they lose forty two

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Speaker 1: to seventeen in Denver versus the Broncos, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: break that whole thing down for you. How's everybody doing

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Speaker 1: this morning? Awesome? I'm freaking great, freaking great, freaking awesome.

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Speaker 1: We gotta love this stuff, right, Hey, that's what we do.

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Speaker 1: Still my job to talk about football. Regardless of what

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Speaker 1: the result was. My mom. I just talked to my

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Speaker 1: mom on the phone and she said, how did How

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Speaker 1: was the trip? And I was like, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: the plane landed. I mean, we got that right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was a positive part of it. A lot of

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Speaker 1: things that went wrong for the Cowboys. Yeah, they said

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Speaker 1: we're gonna break it down. I mean it's really easy

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Speaker 1: moving on end result. Yes, you're absolutely right, But I

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Speaker 1: think there's so many pieces to that on a level

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Speaker 1: that we really haven't I mean, you alluded to that

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Speaker 1: on a level that we really haven't seen very often.

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Speaker 1: It was the last time you saw them get beat

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Speaker 1: like that. I did. You can take your pick between

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen Carolina, twenty fourteen Philadelphia on Thanksgiving, and twenty

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Speaker 1: thirteen New Orleans. I'm gonna throw one in. I still

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Speaker 1: remember that New Orleans. I'm gonna throw another one in

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Speaker 1: there too. From that fifteen season. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: think they were ever competitive against the Patriots. See I

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Speaker 1: thought about that, and I disagree. I thought they were

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Speaker 1: and they I don't think the Patriots scored to really

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Speaker 1: put it out of reach until maybe early in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Like it was a lopsided looking score, but

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Speaker 1: if you watch that game, it wasn't terrible for most

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Speaker 1: of the game. And as bad as the score was

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Speaker 1: yesterday and the Cowboys were dated, the Cowboys got beat

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Speaker 1: yesterday worse than the score. And I know that sounds crazy, yes,

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Speaker 1: know about that, considering that they were both professional teams. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this was right up there. Though. This is number two

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Speaker 1: because that was not a thirty five twenty four game

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Speaker 1: that would have been embarrassing really for the Broncos if

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Speaker 1: that's all it was. I mean, forty two to seventeen.

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Speaker 1: And that's what it looked like, all right. Was Let's

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Speaker 1: You guys can disagree, but the fact that they couldn't

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Speaker 1: that game. Yesterday, Ezekiel Elliott was held to eight yards

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Speaker 1: His worst game before that was against the Giants Week

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Speaker 1: everybody can do what Denver did it, like you're saying

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Speaker 1: Back to the Break, Welcome back. It's the second segment

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Speaker 1: at the Star. We're talking Cowboys versus Broncos. Cowboys lose

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Speaker 1: forty two seventeen in a game that was not close

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Speaker 1: really at any point other than the first quarter. Maybe

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Speaker 1: even when it was close on the scoreboard though didn't

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Speaker 1: didn't feel like I didn't feel close so much for

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Speaker 1: the one hour pause. Yeah, due to the inclement weather.

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Speaker 1: How many of you guys when they when they had

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Speaker 1: the rain delay or the storm delay whatever it was,

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Speaker 1: thought Okay, well they're gonna go in, they'll come back out,

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Speaker 1: there'll be a different team. This will feel different in

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Speaker 1: when they come back out and resume this game. Well,

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Speaker 1: it did actually worse. No, they came back, tied the game,

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Speaker 1: and they had the momentum. They actually it did turn

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Speaker 1: around briefly. Big play in the game was that not

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Speaker 1: not getting that fumble. Jeff Heath went down there and

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Speaker 1: got after the touchdown, got the fumble, and I mean

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Speaker 1: they're the ball sitting there and then they couldn't get it.

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Speaker 1: And then Denver goes and scores. And I thought that

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Speaker 1: was a big, big momentum shift there, because you could

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Speaker 1: they were starting to hit, they were flying around, and

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Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence made a play at Collins. You know, they

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Speaker 1: scored with Dez. It's like, well, here we go. So

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Speaker 1: I thought things did change a little briefly. But you know, Denver,

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Speaker 1: you just can't. It just couldn't. Cowboys just couldn't get

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Speaker 1: off the field and they couldn't tackle him. I thought

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Speaker 1: Sean Lee played one of his worst games I've ever

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Speaker 1: seen him play. I mean it really did he say that, Yes,

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Speaker 1: he said, this is the worst tackling game he's ever

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Speaker 1: played in all of his history of football. And it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a bad game for him. It was a

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Speaker 1: bad game. Really. Again, I have a hard time pointing

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Speaker 1: out any person's playing poorly because they all played poorly.

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Speaker 1: Like yeah, like you said, there was very There wasn't

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Speaker 1: a person you could point to to say, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: had a game. Bailey. Bailey did his job. He gave

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Speaker 1: every kickoff was of course, he's playing in thin air,

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Speaker 1: you know this stuff, so you expect that and I'm

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Speaker 1: sure LP did his job and all that. Even though

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Speaker 1: there was no it wasn't him. I thought Frederick Snapps.

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Speaker 1: I thought Dak was catching him all over the place yesterday. Um,

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Speaker 1: That's why I like covering Shaun Lee. I mean when

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Speaker 1: when you because I wrote that yesterday, I wrote that

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Speaker 1: he didn't play well. But it's always it's always good

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Speaker 1: when you cover someone that just says it first, you know.

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Speaker 1: With Jason Wenton had a really bad game one time

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Speaker 1: in Seattle after that injury, and we were thinking this

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Speaker 1: the end for him, and he he basically was like,

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Speaker 1: this the worst game I've ever played, and he and

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Speaker 1: I will come back and I'll play better, And he

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Speaker 1: went and set the catch record for tight ends that

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Speaker 1: year or so. Shaun Lee is one of the more

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Speaker 1: accountable guys I've you ever seen that. It's like one

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Speaker 1: of the classic NFL photos of y a Tittle after

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Speaker 1: the game where he's like on his knees in the

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Speaker 1: end zone and he's like bleeding from the head. That's

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Speaker 1: what Shaun Lee looked like in the locker room yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Like you know, it's like it's chaotic. There's interviews going

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Speaker 1: on over here, the equipment guys are bagging up the

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Speaker 1: locker room the stuff and pads and you know, get

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Speaker 1: it on the truck and get out of there. Sean

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Speaker 1: Lee was just sitting in the chair at his locker

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Speaker 1: just staring. He wasn't there. He was just staring off

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Speaker 1: into space. And he was like he had his under

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Speaker 1: armor on, he had his game pants still on, Like

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Speaker 1: he wasn't talking to anybody, he wasn't moving. He probably

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Speaker 1: sat like that for like six minutes, like he was

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Speaker 1: just lost, and it was it was just I could

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Speaker 1: just show that picture of him sitting there to anybody

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Speaker 1: and they would know what happened. And ironically, he wasn't

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Speaker 1: the only one I noticed. There were a few guys

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Speaker 1: that were kind of just sitting there, kind of looking

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Speaker 1: into space after the game. And I think I don't

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Speaker 1: think they expected that to go down like that. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I think they were shell shocked at how poorly they

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Speaker 1: really played. Yeah this is humbling, Yeah they this team

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00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,919
Speaker 1: hasn't had its ass kick even in twenty fifteen. I

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Speaker 1: really feel like they didn't get their ass kicked like that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the Panthers game, but this hasn't happened to them

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Speaker 1: very often, and you know, you say they had injuries.

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Speaker 1: I know we're gonna talk about defense, and you know

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Speaker 1: Scandrick that that was big and kind of snowball there

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Speaker 1: from that one position. But I don't think Scandrick coming

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Speaker 1: back with the cast, Demontre Moore walking into the halls

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Speaker 1: here today and David Irving in two weeks, I don't

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Speaker 1: think those guys fixed that problem. You know. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they they'll help, they'll help, but I don't think they'll

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Speaker 1: fix the problem per se. Well, let's start with that,

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Speaker 1: because I do think that there was one part of

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Speaker 1: that that that could be a difference. Yesterday we find

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Speaker 1: out that the Cowboys made the decision prior to the

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Speaker 1: game when they made their inactives list, they decided to

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Speaker 1: make Bene bin Wickery, the free agent, I mean, the

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Speaker 1: cornerback that they traded for, they decided to make him

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Speaker 1: inactive yesterday, and that means they started with only four

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Speaker 1: healthy cornerbacks. And in addition, and as opposed to having

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Speaker 1: him active, they make Noah Brown, a sixth wide receiver

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Speaker 1: active for the game now quickly as does. This is

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Speaker 1: a case when you know, in my opinion, whenever you

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00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: set yourself up like this, it's gonna always turn out

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00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: to be what you don't expect it to be. But

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Speaker 1: they lose two cornerbacks in the game. Chittabe goes down

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Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury, and then you get an injury

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Speaker 1: to Nolan Carroll the concussion, and then they're down to

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Speaker 1: two cornerbacks. Obviously, I do think Scandrick helps with that.

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Speaker 1: But do you think they made a poor decision just

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Speaker 1: from the standpoint of the inactives? Again, I know hindsight

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Speaker 1: is twenty twenty, but do you think that was a

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Speaker 1: short sighted decision knowing that Noah Brown was going to

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Speaker 1: be a six guy and he's probably not gonna play

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Speaker 1: a whole lot at wide receiver. I do think that.

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Speaker 1: I think it was a poor decision, and not just

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Speaker 1: because of what happened, because you're right, hindsight is always

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty and I but I mean, when you think

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Speaker 1: about having four guys active for a position that you

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Speaker 1: really play three a lot, and so most of them

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Speaker 1: you don't even have a backup at every spot. And

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Speaker 1: that's why I think they were You know, you're you're

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Speaker 1: exposing yourself there, you know, that's why they get on

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Speaker 1: the field. Terrence can you play or can you? Can

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Speaker 1: you not? Are you gonna play? If you're gonna play,

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Speaker 1: then let's play five receivers. That's fine. You sit Noah Brown.

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Speaker 1: If he gets hurt, then you're playing with four receivers

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Speaker 1: and you can figure out other packages there. So I

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Speaker 1: thought it was a bad decision by them. Not only

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Speaker 1: do you have four corners, but one of them's never

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Speaker 1: played a game, the other one's only played one game.

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Speaker 1: And then you've got Anthony Brown who's played one season.

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Speaker 1: And then in the worst one of the four wards,

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Speaker 1: Nola Carroll. He was bad before before he got hurt, right,

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Speaker 1: that was so that was not I'll I agree with

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Speaker 1: everything y'all just said. I'll throw this out there that

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I don't know that Ben a Benwicker,

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Speaker 1: he's a cure all there. It would have been his

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Speaker 1: first game snaps with the Cowboys. He's been here for

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Speaker 1: a little more than two weeks at this point. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it would have been nice to have the body, especially

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Speaker 1: given that Jordan Lewis had never played in an NFL game,

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Speaker 1: But I don't know that would have made a huge

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Speaker 1: difference in the outcome to me. Maybe not a big

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Speaker 1: difference in the outcome, But I'd like to see it

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Speaker 1: rather than seeing a guy that's a rookie safety now

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Speaker 1: dropping down to playing the slot. Yes, you know Xavier

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00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: Woods was taking snaps in the slot. To me, that

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Speaker 1: was as soon as I saw it. I'm thinking that

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Speaker 1: can't be good. And so if you at least have

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Speaker 1: been they've been wicker. You have a veteran cornerback that's

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Speaker 1: playing cornerback. Yeah, it helps, which so I mean Carol

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Speaker 1: has a concussion, Cheeto is dealing with the same hamstring

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Speaker 1: that's been bothering him. It's too soon to try to

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Speaker 1: make a prognosis on either of those guys for Monday,

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Speaker 1: but I think even if they seem like they're healthy,

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Speaker 1: I would probably put ben Wickery up this week just

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Speaker 1: to have the body. You might have to go sign someone. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and not don't say the name. It's gonna be him.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's in our He's in our mailbox. It's

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Speaker 1: not gonna happen. It's in our mailbox. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of dry drill. They're calling for him, are there. It's

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Speaker 1: not gonna have the island. He's sitting on an island

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Speaker 1: right now. Maybe all right, Let's let's talk some more

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Speaker 1: about the defense. Though yesterday I thought the biggest problem

640
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Speaker 1: for them was that they couldn't stop the run. If

641
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: you can't stop the run, everything else will float from that.

642
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: But CG. C. J. Anderson's first hundred yard rusher. They've

643
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: given up uh in the last year. They didn't give

644
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: one up all last season. He goes for twenty five

645
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: carries for one hundred and eighteen yards to four point

646
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: seven average in a touchdown. UM. What was the difference

647
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: yesterday as opposed to what they've been doing all this

648
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: other time as far as being able to stop the run?

649
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: I thought it was tackling. I thought, I mean, there

650
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: was a lot of plays they just couldn't tackle, even

651
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: when they had two or three guys there. He is

652
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: a shifty player there, There is there's no doubt. There

653
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: was a couple of plays down in the gold line

654
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: where they they have him stopped and he's still kind

655
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: of you know, strong. Yeah, he gets as he kind

656
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: of it's low and kind of slippery and gets in

657
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: there and gets a yard or two and and but

658
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: there was a playout in the flat when they had

659
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: what three or four guys and he's spending and moving

660
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: and they just did not wrap up. They didn't play

661
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: very physical. And you know, when Shawn Lee's not playing well,

662
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: when he's not put tackling well, who is going to

663
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: play well? You know? And I just they they were

664
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: that offensive line kind of got after him a little

665
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: bit too, and they just did what they wanted to do.

666
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: I mean, it was this has stopped me if this

667
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: sounds familiar, but you're not going to see very many

668
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,239
Speaker 1: opponents that have played the Cowboys in the last year

669
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: or so that ran the ball thirty nine times. That's

670
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: no disrespect to them. Obviously, they could have tackled better.

671
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: They did not play I mean, they did not play

672
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: sound defense. But part of the reason the Cowboys have

673
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: been good at defending the run is because teams team

674
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: stopped trying to run the ball after a while, when

675
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: you're down or in an even game in the fourth

676
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: quarter and you haven't had a lot of success with it,

677
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: or you don't have a lot of time to do it.

678
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have the numbers offhand, but go

679
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: look it up. I bet thirty nine attempts against is

680
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: probably right up there with as many as they've had

681
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: to face in the last season plus. Yeah, but the

682
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: one thing that goes against that is in the first

683
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: half CJ. Anderson had twelve carries for fifty eight yards

684
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: or four point eight average. And that's although the number

685
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: the total number of you're right, the total number of runs.

686
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: Cowboys probably haven't faced that, but they were having success

687
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: early in the game, and that's where the bad defense

688
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: comes into play. Yeah, I don't think aside from the tackling,

689
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: there were also a lot of instances and occasions where

690
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: you would see two guys next to each other in

691
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: a hole completely open, a space wide open, where the

692
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: whole defense just looked completely disorganized, and some of these

693
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: guys looked like they didn't know what they were doing,

694
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: just kind of there and then they see last minute,

695
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: don't get fast enough to make that tackle. So it

696
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: was just just the whole thing. If you if you

697
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: were you're right, if you were to look at that

698
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: team and just not know anybody and go, okay, somebody's

699
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: playing their first NFL game out there, you wouldn't have

700
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: picked Jordan Lewis. I mean, you would have picked five

701
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 1: or six guys before that, like, okay, not him, this

702
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: guy and I'm not even talking about the interception. I

703
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: thought he played pretty well and some in the other spots.

704
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: The interception just kind of came to him, but he

705
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: caught it. And that's better than some of the receivers

706
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: on the team, uh could say. Uh? And which, what's

707
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: going back to that? You guys talked about Dez saving

708
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: a couple of interceptions. He did one, maybe two. I

709
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: don't know what happened on the goal line there. The

710
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: one that was down, well, I think that was just

711
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: the exact same throw the Deck had made those other

712
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: two that Dez knocked down, and Dez didn't make the

713
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 1: play defensively on that one, but it was the same situation.

714
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: Threw it inside. I don't know if he was expecting

715
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: Dez to be inside. We had a shot for that,

716
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: I mean, it was kind of right in front of us,

717
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: had a shot, almost made the tackle, but I just

718
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: not to. You know what's funny. I would have been

719
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: like Beasley, you know, just go up there and we'll

720
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: just whipple you off. This look at the Broncos stat

721
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: line and like they did exactly what the Cowboys want

722
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: to do. I love the same thing I thought. I mean, look,

723
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: look looked at it, it it would have looked that is

724
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: the that's the Cowboys ideal stat line. Trevor Simeon didn't

725
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: bomb away. He threw for two hundred and thirty one yards,

726
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: but he completed seventy percent of his passes. It seemed

727
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 1: like every third and every time they were in a

728
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: third down passing situation. It's not like I can't remember

729
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: more than maybe one super long passing game. He just

730
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: found the guy that was poorly covered. Was that touchdown

731
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,439
Speaker 1: pass and he threw over the top of the deef. Yeah,

732
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: that was the best roy he made all day. Yeah,

733
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: But other than that, you're talking about slants and comebacks

734
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: on soft coverage on third and five, third and six,

735
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: and then even better, he looked like freaking Dak Prescott

736
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 1: in the red zone. I mean, I think it was

737
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: twice in a row. They just abused Jordan Lewis on

738
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: play action in the red zone. And that's exactly the

739
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: type of stuff that Cowboys love to do. So although

740
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: I'm not certain on that one touchdown to eighty five,

741
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that wasn't Byron Jones, because Byron reached

742
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: for him as though, oh my gosh, my guy just

743
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: got away and he's chasing him. I shouldn't I shouldn't

744
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: use words like abuse until I've watched the game tape.

745
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: But they beat the defense badly on a couple of

746
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: play actions down there. So you look at those numbers

747
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: for him, and I guess you look at the receivers

748
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: and what they did to Marus Thomas catches six balls

749
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: for seventy one yards. Sanders Goes catches seven balls for

750
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: sixty two yards and two touchdowns. Are you all concerned

751
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: looking at what the cornerbacks we did yesterday? Are you

752
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: all at all concerned about the future of these cornerbacks

753
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: facing some pretty good offenses that you love to face. Obviously,

754
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: you got Green Bay, you got Atlanta, you got some

755
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: teams coming up that'll be very tough to handle. Are

756
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: you worried about the cornerbacks? No, Derek, I feel fine.

757
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: I think it's all great. I think they're gonna be awesome.

758
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 1: This is Radio Dave, not that I got to talk

759
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: about it. Not as concerned as as sarcastic Dave is. Sorry.

760
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 1: I mean you are gonna get Scandrick back at some

761
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: at some point here, I think Jordan Lewis, you know,

762
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: assuming he doesn't get hurt. I thought Anthony Brown, you know,

763
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: he was he was battling. I actually thought he played.

764
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: He played all right, relatively speaking. Think about this, What

765
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys would have done what they normally do

766
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: on offense, you know, move the ball, scored some points

767
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: and gotten the Broncos into kind of a shootout. Right

768
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: when you look at Thomas six catches seventy one yards

769
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: Sanders six catches sixty two, it's almost like they were

770
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: taking it easy on him because of what the score was.

771
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: If the Cowboys would have been up on this game,

772
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,959
Speaker 1: Denver would have done whatever they wanted to passing, because

773
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 1: they would have just these guys would have towarched the cornerbacks.

774
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: But they got They kind of a little bit fortunate

775
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: that all they had to do was run. But I

776
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: just when you consider that a rookie safety was playing

777
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: in the nickel and a guy with no NFL snaps

778
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: was playing outside, I really thought they could have taken

779
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: more advantage, right, And they did and they didn't have

780
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: to running. But I'm saying if the Cowboy, if this

781
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: game would have been more of a shootout, Denver I

782
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: think would have exposed them a little bit more. You know,

783
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: I disagree a little bit with that because the reason

784
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 1: why I think, I think that really the play action

785
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: is what allowed them to be as successful in the

786
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: passing and now early on, some of those situations were

787
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: just like literally they were just throwing passes, short passes,

788
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys corners weren't making the tackles quickly enough.

789
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: That seemed to settle down a little bit. I know, right,

790
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: that seemed to settle down a little bit. But I just,

791
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: you know, I think that because you can't stop the role.

792
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: When you get in situations where you can't stop the run,

793
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: good luck with the passing game, especially if it's a

794
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: game if it's offense that's predicated on short, quick passes,

795
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 1: which is what they were doing. Yes, yeah, yeah, And

796
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: to your point, you will get Scandrick back at some point.

797
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis, honestly, for his he wasn't supposed to play

798
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: defense yesterday, I don't. I wrote about that last night.

799
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,240
Speaker 1: His original game plan was to be a special teamer

800
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: and maybe some spot duty like in dime or something

801
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: like that. So for him to get thrown in like that,

802
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: I'll take that, you know. I mean, when you look

803
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: at the circumstances is what they are. He was all right,

804
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: and maybe the Broncos weren't picking on him the way

805
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: that they could have. But I'll take that as your

806
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: debut in adverse or substances. The thing that troubles me

807
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: is Cheeto. This is the same hamstring. We know how

808
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: hamstrings go. I and I don't know for sure, We'll

809
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: have to wait and see, but I hope that this

810
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: isn't something that impedes him, you know, for at least

811
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,399
Speaker 1: the first half of his rookie season, because that's that's

812
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: how you wind up having a rookie year where you

813
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: don't make the type of impact that you want to.

814
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: So hopefully he can get right sooner rather than later,

815
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: because these are the types of things that you know

816
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: can linger and frustrate and ir season. I might go

817
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: I R with him. I'd like to seat maybe. I mean,

818
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 1: this is the same injury now, right, same hamstring injury.

819
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe this is an eight week thing. It gives

820
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: you a spot a long time it is, but it

821
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 1: gives you a spot to go get another corner. Are

822
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: you more concerned though about Nolan Carroll? I mean, he

823
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: took that's another one yeah. And let's be honest, like,

824
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 1: even this goes back to training k didn't look great.

825
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: Not he has not looked great. Like there have been

826
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 1: a couple days during training camp when we say, hey, wow,

827
00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: Nolan Carroll had a pretty good day. We'll do what

828
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: you gotta. I think there were way more days when

829
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: it was like, man, what's what's going on with Nolan Carroll? Right?

830
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: And you know, make the move then. I mean, I

831
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: don't know what it costs you, but make the move. Well,

832
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: right now, you don't have any options. I don't think you.

833
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: I don't think cutting him is an option. At this point.

834
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: You kind of have to ride with him. But you're

835
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: also hoping that these rookies kind of ascend a little

836
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: bit and they can play a little more. That's kind

837
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: of my point is, And this isn't This is not

838
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:27,280
Speaker 1: a hard and fast rule because I remember last year saying, well,

839
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:31,720
Speaker 1: Malie Collins's rookie years awash because he's gonna miss mini camp,

840
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: he's gonna miss most of training camp, and rookies just

841
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,919
Speaker 1: don't recover from stuff like that. Well he did, he did,

842
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: But as a general principle, it's hard for a rookie

843
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: to come up and develop into something super meaningful if

844
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: he's not available to play. And that's and practice for

845
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,800
Speaker 1: that matter. And that's what I worry about with Cheeto,

846
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: given that you know, he missed something like seventeen days

847
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 1: of training camp. This is bothering him again again. I

848
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: don't know how long this is going to hold them out,

849
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: but it's got to be concerning when the guy that

850
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: you drafted first among all these defensive backs some or

851
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Speaker 1: I mean, and it was pretty much a blowout from

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Speaker 1: that was that was interesting. Um, let's get back into it, Nick,

912
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,399
Speaker 1: you had a point you want to make there before well,

913
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 1: I think that you know the Cowboys are driving there.

914
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: It would have been nice if um, um, Jason Witten

915
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: catches all over the middle. Would have been a tough play.

916
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: It was the first play when we walked down there

917
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: on the field. That's the first thing I saw was

918
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 1: a past to Witten. I thought he could have caught

919
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: it for a touchdown. Would have yeah, would have maybe

920
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: changed things a little bit, made it interesting, made it

921
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: thirty five to twenty four. But with fourth down with

922
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: three fifty one to go, I thought they should have

923
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 1: kicked a field goal there. I mean, you're down three

924
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: scores already, so make it two scores. I mean, here's

925
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: your shot to do that fourth and three from the seven,

926
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: especially if you're gonna throw a low percentage passed the

927
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: Daz to go and catch the ball. And you know,

928
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: Jason was asked that after the game, and I thought

929
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: he had a good answer. But I still think, especially

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Speaker 1: because you make it a fifteen point game, you kick

931
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Speaker 1: it to them, they're gonna they're gonna start, you know,

932
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna be conservative. Now you're still gonna get

933
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: the ball back. And they got down there again. Yeah,

934
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Speaker 1: I guess the only the way I disagreed a little

935
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: bit was where they were on the field against this defense.

936
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: I couldn't count on them getting that close again. So

937
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: the chances of getting into the end zone when you're

938
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Speaker 1: at the seven versus getting in the end zone where

939
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Speaker 1: you're starting back at your own twenty or you're own

940
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Speaker 1: twenty five or you're own thirty, whatever it is. Yeah,

941
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: they hadn't moved the ball consistently all day, so you

942
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: only have to get to about the thirty five to

943
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Speaker 1: get a field goal, thirty seven maybe to get a

944
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: field goal. So I would have felt more comfortable at

945
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: three forty three. That's even better, right, gonna kick a

946
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,919
Speaker 1: sixty yard that's even better. But I guess the point

947
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: I'm making no is, yeah, if you have to just

948
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: get there for a field goal, I think I have

949
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: more faith that they can get there than I do

950
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: that they can get back to the seven for a touchdown.

951
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 1: If this is a scenario where it's like forty one

952
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: thirty one and you've been moving the ball all day

953
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: and you can cross that your offense has had some success,

954
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: maybe I'll quibble about do you kick or go for

955
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 1: the touchdown? But kind of irrelevant. I just never felt

956
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: like this was even remotely close to a situation where

957
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: they could have made it a game. And so I

958
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: know it's like it doesn't matter, but I just look

959
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: at it like, but it should. It should matter to

960
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,879
Speaker 1: the coach that's getting paid handsomely to try to put

961
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: his team in the past as position. I think what

962
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: you always try to do. You see these coaches they

963
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: call time out all the time. You're trying to extend

964
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: the game, And I think in a situation like this

965
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 1: that you know you're saying you don't think they could

966
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: they could have drive down there. I don't like fourth

967
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: and three from the seven. I mean, I don't like that.

968
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 1: I think it even it gets tight down there, they

969
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 1: can't score, they can't find I mean, look at all

970
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: of his options are just to throw it, fades and

971
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: stuff like that. They can't really work it in there.

972
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 1: So I just would have said, all right, let's make

973
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: it fifteen. Let's let's kick off. They're gonna do nothing

974
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 1: with the ball, and they got a little bit of

975
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 1: pressure on them. Now they're gonna punt it back. You

976
00:45:58,320 --> 00:45:59,879
Speaker 1: don't know if you can count on a twenty yards

977
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,959
Speaker 1: turn again from Switzer, but he did a nice job,

978
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: you know, and they got down there again. And then

979
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: so let's say you're down there like they were again,

980
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: they're down there down by fifteen, you can maybe work

981
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: a little bit more clock to run or to do

982
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: something to try to punch it in, because then if

983
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: you score and make it an eight point game with

984
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: under a minute, now you're now all you are is

985
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,839
Speaker 1: an on site kick away from at least throwing it

986
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: into the end zone, you know what I mean. So

987
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: Jason likes to prolong the game. I kind of thought

988
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: he could have done that, but his answer was, you

989
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: know you're probably gonna you're already there to score, try

990
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: to get another one in if you have to kick

991
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: a sixty yard or try to win, that's where it's

992
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: gonna be. I mean, I see the point. I think

993
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: I would have kicked it. All right, Let's let's jump

994
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 1: into some phone calls. You guys can call us two

995
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,439
Speaker 1: one four eight seven two twenty one oh two. Again

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Speaker 1: You can also hit us on Twitter at Cowboys Break

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Speaker 1: will start with a call from Chris in Maryland. Chris,

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00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 1: what up? Hey, guys? Are you Chris can hear me? Yeah,

1000
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: you can hear you? Okay, sorry about that. It's I

1001
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: was having a hard time here you get through my bluetooth. Um, yeah,

1002
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: I'm calling it about Um, there's a couple of things

1003
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: I saw yesterday that really bothered me. And um, it's

1004
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 1: a second consecutive game I've seen this. Um, Dak Prescott

1005
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:22,800
Speaker 1: has to me, has not looked sharp. We're very accurate

1006
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: in both games I watched. And UM, I don't know

1007
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: if it's him or Dez when he's trying to connect

1008
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: to him. But yesterday it looked like he was throwing

1009
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: straight to the DD. It's De's not coming coming back

1010
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: for the ball, or is here? Is Dak just throwing

1011
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: it that poorly? And my second point was something you

1012
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: guys touched on earlier, was I'm sorry, but I don't

1013
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: think dez Really's earned at eighty eight. And that's just

1014
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: my opinion. But we look like we got a bunch

1015
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: of really good number two's, but we don't look like

1016
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,240
Speaker 1: we've got that number one, like that playmaker like Michael

1017
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: ervin Is. And um, I'll think your comments off the air,

1018
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: and you guys have a good day, all right, thanks

1019
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: for the call. Well let's start. I'm not even gonna

1020
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: go with that second part. I mean, I mean, isn't

1021
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 1: he Is he not yet the franchises all time leader

1022
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: in receiving touchdowns? Yeah, and he makes plays. And I

1023
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: heard this morning when I was driving in, I heard

1024
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: some people trying to make that argument. And then when

1025
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: I got to the office, I started watching the game back,

1026
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:26,720
Speaker 1: and I think people forget about some of the catches

1027
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: that he made yesterday, that catch on the sideline where

1028
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: we thought it was, that one we thought was was

1029
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: not going to be a catch, but on the replay

1030
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: a catch. On the replay it looks like one, and

1031
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: certainly they called it a catch. So either way, all

1032
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 1: I'm saying is, there's some plays that he made yesterday

1033
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: that I thought was some really really great catches for

1034
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: this team. Now I get where the callers coming from.

1035
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: You want to see him when he's up against really

1036
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: great cornerbacks be able to win more. Um. Last week,

1037
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: you would have wanted him to win more. This week,

1038
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: you probably would have wanted him to win more. You

1039
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: certainly don't him to let the ball go through his

1040
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: hands and then that ends up in an interception. He's

1041
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,959
Speaker 1: saved two interceptions though as well. But I guess that's

1042
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 1: where I understand what the call is saying. I just

1043
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: don't think I agree completely because I think you forget

1044
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: about the really good plays, great plays that he makes.

1045
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: He's a number one receiver in my mind, he's just

1046
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: I mean, he's off to not the start that he

1047
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 1: wants for this season. Let me say that first and foremost.

1048
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: But he's no nobody ever thought he was in that

1049
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,879
Speaker 1: class with Julio A. B And Beckham, did they? I mean,

1050
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: like those I think the case that you had to

1051
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 1: put him up there, hasn't you haven't had much to

1052
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 1: go on since about twenty fourteen, and you know, he

1053
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:44,760
Speaker 1: is what he is. I think he's a very good receiver.

1054
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 1: I think he's a number one receiver. I certainly think

1055
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: he's worthy of being number eighty eight. I think that's silly,

1056
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: but I don't know that he is that Antonio Brown

1057
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: always going to produce guy. The guy that he gets

1058
00:49:56,360 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: compared a lot too, for many reasons, is the Marus Thomas,

1059
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: the Broncos receiver. They were drafted in the same class,

1060
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Speaker 1: very close to each other. I believe they were signed

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00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: on their extension not same day, same day, same amount

1062
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: of money. So you know, um yeah, yeah, he sports

1063
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: is eighty eight, and he's a more productive player. Damarius

1064
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: Thomas has been a more productive player in his career.

1065
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: I mean he's you know, he catches ninety balls a

1066
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: season for five straight years and you know he has

1067
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:30,760
Speaker 1: a solid, solid game there yesterday, so not as flashy.

1068
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't understand when people say as a

1069
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 1: number one receiver. Number one receiver means you're the starting receiver, right,

1070
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:39,839
Speaker 1: means you are You're the number one guy on the team.

1071
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: So there's thirty two number one receivers. That's silly to

1072
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: say that he's not a number one. He's not an elite,

1073
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: top five receiver. That's what you paid him to be.

1074
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 1: Those three you mentioned. Now you've got Mike Evans in there,

1075
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: who I think is better, and aj Green probably well

1076
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: more accomplished. He's stuck in his own situation. I mean,

1077
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: everyone's got you know, and you got Jordi Nelson, you

1078
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 1: got all this situations different receivers. But I think he's

1079
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: a top ten receiver. I will say that I'm okay

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00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 1: with that. And this goes back to your point from

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00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: last week. Nick sixteen targets knowing the type of coverage

1082
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 1: he's going to be facing and the type of cornerbacks

1083
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: he's playing. I don't know that you're doing him any

1084
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: favors there, and that's I mean, that sounds like a

1085
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: knock on him, like he's not capable of beating that.

1086
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: But if and that goes back to the fact that

1087
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: the Broncos have the cornerbacks capable of playing man up

1088
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 1: on these guys and you don't have to double cover him.

1089
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: But I would like to think there's an easier option

1090
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: out there. Somewhere rather than just you're bound and determined

1091
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: to get Dez the ball. I mean, five targets for

1092
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 1: Terrence certainly seems small to me. Five targets for Zeke

1093
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: seems small to me. And even in a game like this, Beasley,

1094
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: and in a game like this, maybe Ryan Switzer can

1095
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: do something for you. Yeah, he was an interesting stat

1096
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: to think about. Dez Bryant right now is second in

1097
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 1: the league and number of targets through two games, Yet

1098
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 1: he is ranked down around thirty six, thirty five and

1099
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:12,400
Speaker 1: number of receptions. So you just think about the disparity

1100
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: there in the number of targets to the number of

1101
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: actual receptions. He only has nine receptions for the season,

1102
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 1: but has been targeted. What's said, gotta be like whey

1103
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: five times and through two games that they will They

1104
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 1: will never admit it, and maybe they're not, but it

1105
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,320
Speaker 1: certainly seems like they're listening to the noise that says,

1106
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: you know, Dez has to do this, this, and this,

1107
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 1: whereas the line is we're gonna run our offense, We're

1108
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: gonna get it to the guy there or maybe or

1109
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:41,919
Speaker 1: maybe it's something in between, which is they say, we've

1110
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 1: got this really dynamic receiver. We've seen him have a

1111
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: great offseason. We think we need to feed him the

1112
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: ball because we feel like it's best for our office.

1113
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 1: We think he can make some dynamic plays, and they

1114
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: just haven't been able to. It's interesting because you go

1115
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: back and you think about this caller. He said, well,

1116
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: Dez hasn't been living up to number eighty. But then

1117
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 1: he also says the quarterback has been highly inaccurate. Well,

1118
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: that it be why Dez maybe isn't being as productive

1119
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: as you wanted to be. Is because maybe the quarterback

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00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: isn't being as accurate as he needs to be. With

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00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: a receiver like Dez, who we know is not necessarily

1122
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: going to get a lot of separation, he sees the

1123
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: ball placed in the right position for him to make

1124
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: a playoff. You know, unlike other years, Dez has been

1125
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: there all of training camp. He really wasn't hurt. It

1126
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: wasn't like there was injuries that that slowed them down.

1127
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: They were he was there for this offseason. You know,

1128
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: there's really no reason why these two shouldn't be on

1129
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 1: the same page. But again, let's wait and see. Not

1130
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,399
Speaker 1: everybody's denver in the Giants on defense and and let's

1131
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:35,440
Speaker 1: let's see how it plays out. It's still early in

1132
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: the year, but I'm certain, like, on even as bad

1133
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 1: of a loss as that was, I'm somewhere around to

1134
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:44,880
Speaker 1: three in terms of like how troubled I am about

1135
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: you know what this means for the season. I mean,

1136
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: I went and looked it up. Good teams get their

1137
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: asses kicked in the NFL. It's Sunday Night football, last

1138
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: night fotball. Two years ago, Green Bay got demolished in

1139
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: that same stadium twenty nine to ten. I remember watching

1140
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 1: it in the press by at At and T. It

1141
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: wasn't even close. Tom Brady famously lost forty one to

1142
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: fourteen to the Chiefs in a year that they won

1143
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So, I mean, I'm sorry if that

1144
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: sounds like sunshine pumping, but it was true. It was bad.

1145
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff they need to fix. It

1146
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that they're a bad football team, and you

1147
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: just you take I mean, I loved Sean Lee's quote

1148
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: last night. He was like, you watch the tape, take

1149
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: what's good from it that you can won't be a

1150
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: whole lot, and then you try to fix what else

1151
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: was bad, which is a lot let's get a question

1152
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:34,720
Speaker 1: from Twitter. So there's a lot of questions about Byron Jones.

1153
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 1: Can we quickly mention him just are you guys concerned

1154
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: about his performance moving forward based on everything that we've

1155
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: seen so far? Yeah, I just thought child came up

1156
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:46,839
Speaker 1: with the other guys. I mean, there was a few

1157
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 1: play he made, a play he made he made a

1158
00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:53,720
Speaker 1: nice play to save a touchdown. Yeah, you know, showers, Okay,

1159
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: he showed some range there, but he also had I

1160
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: think he gave up at least one touchdown, maybe another.

1161
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean the whole thing they were scrambling.

1162
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: I thought we would see him at corner or some

1163
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: that they were probably really close to doing that. Now,

1164
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: let's not forget. You know, he did miss sometime this

1165
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: week with a growing injury. I bet he was dealing

1166
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: with that a little bit, but he was healthy enough

1167
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: to play, and you know, it's got to get better

1168
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:21,759
Speaker 1: with him too. It's unfortunate because of the injuries. But

1169
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: I mean, to this point, the optimism that they had

1170
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: in the secondary, you know, improving it through talent alone

1171
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: is not I mean, it's not coming to bear through

1172
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: two games and it's early in the season. But you know,

1173
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: you have that optimism in the offseason before games actually

1174
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: start getting played. And this is what it's actually looked

1175
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 1: like through two games, which, again, to be fair, there

1176
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: have been a lot of injuries, but doesn't look awesome.

1177
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: I think I think as as fans and spectators and

1178
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 1: media like, I think we're bit spoiled. Maybe, and that's

1179
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: maybe a wrong word because it's only been one year,

1180
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: but I think I think everybody looks at the immediate

1181
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: success of that rookie class last year and they forget

1182
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: that rookies take sometimes and most of the time, vast

1183
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: majority of the time, it takes rookies a little bit

1184
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: of time. And in these cornerbacks, you were expecting them

1185
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: to come in and be able to contribute early, and

1186
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: especially the cornerbacks, they missed a significant amount of time

1187
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:17,839
Speaker 1: during training camp, which which is which is really their

1188
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:20,720
Speaker 1: only training for the NFL. Yeah, and so to expect

1189
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 1: that they were going to be able to be thrown

1190
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:23,879
Speaker 1: out there yesterday and all of a sudden be able

1191
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: to just play, I just think that's a lot to

1192
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,839
Speaker 1: ask for for rookies cornerback. Yeah. Let me also throw

1193
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:31,880
Speaker 1: this part out too, because we've said this several times

1194
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: about the defense, like facing this defense, it's they're not

1195
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 1: always going to be this tough. You're not always going

1196
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: to face defenses like that. That being said, they get

1197
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,240
Speaker 1: better than Trevor Simeons, they get better than c. J. Andrews,

1198
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: better offense. So that's that's part of it as well.

1199
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: And so it's you could kind of take one thing.

1200
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:52,400
Speaker 1: I mean, this was a bad loss all the way around,

1201
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:55,399
Speaker 1: no way to slice it. The special teams was bad.

1202
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:58,439
Speaker 1: I mean, well they had some moments, but they had

1203
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 1: some They had some misues too. But the one thing

1204
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:03,400
Speaker 1: I will say is in the dack Ar this team

1205
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: has been able to perform against better against good offenses

1206
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: than they have against good defenses. They played great defenses,

1207
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,799
Speaker 1: they struggle, they played great offenses. They can they can

1208
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: play with them because again they can stick within how

1209
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: they play offense, and that's how they good. I'll take

1210
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 1: my chances against all the best quarterbacks in the NFL

1211
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: absolutely before I want to play a defense like that. Yeah,

1212
00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,439
Speaker 1: but in more parts of that. But I think that

1213
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:28,439
Speaker 1: you know, teams got to be kind of careful there

1214
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:30,480
Speaker 1: because this they're gonna look at it and say this

1215
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,439
Speaker 1: is the blueprint go up there and you stop them.

1216
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 1: Look and you stop these guys on the outside. But

1217
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: that's and you're right, the blueprints right there. The Cardinals

1218
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: will try, you know, I guess what the Giants set

1219
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: the blueprint last year. Only the Vikings could replicate it,

1220
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: and they couldn't replicate it to a win. My point

1221
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 1: was going to be that there's, like I said, I

1222
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: really only think there's so many teams in the league

1223
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: that can replicate that blueprint. You can try if you

1224
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: want to, But how many teams have they played. I

1225
00:57:57,720 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: don't know, something like fifteen teams. If you take out

1226
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: repeat against division opponents, three of them have managed to

1227
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:07,919
Speaker 1: put that plan together. So I don't think it's worth

1228
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: panicking over. It's definitely something to consider when you're going

1229
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: up against these types of teams, especially if you get

1230
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Yep, you gotta win your division. We

1231
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 1: know that. And nobody in this division is going to

1232
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: go run away with anybody or anything. You know. It

1233
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 1: looks like, depending on what the Giants do, Night might

1234
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: have a four way time here in the second week,

1235
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:27,959
Speaker 1: which is not uncommon all. It looks like everybody's gonna

1236
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 1: be bunched up together, and that's probably gonna look like

1237
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 1: a lot of the season. I would have suspect there's

1238
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: not gonna be an eleven game winning streak after this loss.

1239
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 1: Who knows. Maybe they were one and one after last

1240
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: season two, weren't they? That was fun? Yea, let's do

1241
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: that again. All right, guys, we appreciate you joining us.

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Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow at our normal time of nine thirty

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00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 1: AMS Central Time till then for Nick even, Dave Hellman,

1244
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: Amber Garcia on Derek Eagles. And this has been The

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00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:57,360
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