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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, December Night, twenty twenty, season sixteen, episode
Speaker 1: number seventy six. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are alive from the s WBC Mortgage studios at
Speaker 1: the Star. We got forty five minutes to tell you,
Speaker 1: guys what went wrong yesterday for the Dallas Cowboys, And
Speaker 1: there was so much that went wrong yesterday for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. They lose thirty four seventeen to the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: I think we all picked against them going into this game,
Speaker 1: so I don't think it was a surprise that they lost.
Speaker 1: But there were certainly some moments where you felt like
Speaker 1: they missed opportunities and maybe they could have made this
Speaker 1: more of a game than it was. We start where
Speaker 1: we normally start the day after a game, with big
Speaker 1: picture storylines coming out of the game, Nicholas, start with you,
Speaker 1: what's the big picture storyline for you? Well, I mean
Speaker 1: they were outclassed, outplayed, out coached, out hit, you know,
Speaker 1: just everything. Really. I mean, I thought They're offense just
Speaker 1: didn't play very well at all. The defense was way worse.
Speaker 1: Special teams wasn't really good other than one play. And
Speaker 1: you had all that up and you get somebody that
Speaker 1: scores twice as many points as you and they have
Speaker 1: twice as many wins as you, So that just you know,
Speaker 1: they were they were you know, and there were some
Speaker 1: crazy stuff happening way before kickoff. But when it got
Speaker 1: to actually play in the game and they decided to play,
Speaker 1: they got They got beat by a much better football team. Amber,
Speaker 1: what's your big picture storyline? Big picture, Well, that someone
Speaker 1: needs to get fired and probably won. Let's get a
Speaker 1: lot of people, probably the defense on the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball, especially now the defensive coordinator. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is I feel like this game, and we've been
Speaker 1: talking about this throughout the season, but I feel like
Speaker 1: this specific game was maybe like the tipping point where
Speaker 1: people are just like, okay, there absolutely needs to be
Speaker 1: a change in coaching because and I know we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into this, but we cannot just blame everything on
Speaker 1: the play or the coaching for whatever reason is simply
Speaker 1: just not working. So maybe this is something that obviously
Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen this year, but for next year
Speaker 1: in the offseason, I would expect some changes. Dave, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean a G when a G stole my thunder.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know, because I think my big
Speaker 1: takeaway is, like, what do we always say about football teams?
Speaker 1: What do we always say in the NFL? Like December
Speaker 1: is when you're trying to round into playing your best football.
Speaker 1: Good football teams are supposed to improve as the year
Speaker 1: goes along. Specifically the Dallas defense. What on earth was that?
Speaker 1: Because like we saw this trajectory of them, maybe they're
Speaker 1: not great, but like slowly getting better, making improvements, and
Speaker 1: then the bottom just completely drops out. They look just
Speaker 1: as pathetic as they did back in like October when
Speaker 1: we thought they were never going to win another game,
Speaker 1: and honestly, leave the offense out of all of it.
Speaker 1: Like the offense honestly looked pretty decent. Andy Dalton played well.
Speaker 1: I thought he got the ball to eight different receivers.
Speaker 1: Zeke had a pretty nice night all things considered. The
Speaker 1: offensive line held up Greg zerline misses three kicks, but
Speaker 1: they were in position to score, you know, twenty six points.
Speaker 1: But what about that defense? Like embarrassing doesn't do it justice,
Speaker 1: Especially in December, after we've already had all of these
Speaker 1: growing pains, they just revert right back to where they
Speaker 1: were against the Arizonas and the Washington's of the world.
Speaker 1: I'm at a loss, and yeah, I mean, how can
Speaker 1: you look at that defensive performance and think that you
Speaker 1: can just run it back? Like, what's the excuse there?
Speaker 1: Who's who's hurt on defense? That's not allowing them to
Speaker 1: play their best game? Um, it's mystifying and embarrassing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know how else to say it.
Speaker 1: We will. Let's let's dive into that a little bit more. Actually,
Speaker 1: one of the things that I think is a big
Speaker 1: picture storyline for this team, and it's been a consistent theme,
Speaker 1: is they really can't stop the run. It was very
Speaker 1: apparent last night. They give up almost one hundred yards
Speaker 1: on hundred ninety four rush yards on thirty seven attempts.
Speaker 1: In average, let'sist an average of seven point nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry. It's almost eight yards per carry every time
Speaker 1: they ran the ball. That's just it won't do. And
Speaker 1: and the interesting part about it is, you know there
Speaker 1: were there were all these different things out look at
Speaker 1: and I'm just like baffled by And this has been
Speaker 1: an all season thing that are about the scheme one
Speaker 1: of the things and this it's funny. We were watching
Speaker 1: the game last night, Dave, you were sitting right there
Speaker 1: by me. Micky was sitting across from us. And this
Speaker 1: drove Mickey absolutely crazy. That you get teams that present
Speaker 1: a twelve personnel so they have two tight ends on
Speaker 1: the field, or they have a fullback on the field,
Speaker 1: and Dallas will notoriously stay in their nickel like they
Speaker 1: are not moving off of their nickel. They're gonna keep
Speaker 1: that extra defensive back in there. And when you think
Speaker 1: about that, you're basically allowing the other team to overmatch
Speaker 1: you like that. You're allowing them to have more power
Speaker 1: on the field than you do. And when you're playing
Speaker 1: a power running team like they were playing last night,
Speaker 1: it just makes no sense why they would do that.
Speaker 1: But Mike McCarthy says after the game, he says, we're
Speaker 1: pretty far down the road to blame it on scheme.
Speaker 1: He's not blaming it on the scheme. He obviously is
Speaker 1: saying that there's more issues from the standpoint of execution
Speaker 1: and the players. My question for you guys is is
Speaker 1: it believable that all these players on dee Fense, now
Speaker 1: we're here last year, all of a sudden can't play
Speaker 1: football anymore? Or is it more believable that there has
Speaker 1: been something changed from the standpoint of what they're being
Speaker 1: asked to do that is causing them to be not
Speaker 1: as good as they were even last year. Let's start
Speaker 1: first with you Amber. It's so hard because for me
Speaker 1: and I don't play football, I'm not on the field,
Speaker 1: so I know we see from the outside we see
Speaker 1: things differently, But for me, it looks so simple. It
Speaker 1: looks like, Okay, this is football and doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: kind of scheme you're playing, you should be able to
Speaker 1: play it like you're a football player. You get paid
Speaker 1: to do this. So I just don't talk to me
Speaker 1: about scheming. Simply, the coaching, whatever they're doing, they're not
Speaker 1: being able to get their players to play at a
Speaker 1: decent level. And the thing to me when I've watched
Speaker 1: the defense playing and like, look at highlights and all that,
Speaker 1: they just absolutely we looked lost most of the time.
Speaker 1: They just looked confused. They don't have the anticipation. I
Speaker 1: talked about this last week, and it's every time I
Speaker 1: look at place, every single time, it's like they're always
Speaker 1: a step behind and they're always just being confused at
Speaker 1: what's going on in the field. There's not a good
Speaker 1: reaction time, and to me, that has been the problem.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really know what to blame it
Speaker 1: specifically on, because again, we look at last year, these
Speaker 1: players were able to perform better. We were still criticizing
Speaker 1: the defense last year, but they were playing a lot
Speaker 1: better than they are this year. So there has to
Speaker 1: be something to do with the coaching and them not
Speaker 1: just not getting the players to be right where they
Speaker 1: need to be. Dave Yes, Stephen Jones, actually he had
Speaker 1: a radio appearance like right before we came on, he
Speaker 1: said something similar where he was like, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of these a lot of these guys are out
Speaker 1: here last year and we didn't look this bad against
Speaker 1: the run. And I mean, if Mike McCarthy doesn't want
Speaker 1: to blame it on scheme. That's fine, but like I said,
Speaker 1: it was mystifying, like I'm at a loss for how
Speaker 1: to explain it otherwise, because these breakdowns have been and
Speaker 1: continue to be unconscionable. And that's you know, Derek, I
Speaker 1: was arguing with you and Mickey last night, is like
Speaker 1: who cares how many linebackers they have on the field
Speaker 1: when the linebackers just completely bite on basic play fakes
Speaker 1: like Layton Vanderesh Lamar Jackson's thirty seven yard touchdown was
Speaker 1: just it was just a read option, like it was
Speaker 1: something that every high school team knows how to do.
Speaker 1: There wasn't any crazy eye candy or motion or any
Speaker 1: of that stuff. He just put it on JK. Dobbins
Speaker 1: and then pulled it and Layton Vanderesh ran himself five
Speaker 1: yards out of the play. Darry And Thompson was in
Speaker 1: the box, so there's no backup and he's in the
Speaker 1: end zone five seconds later. Like that's it just shouldn't happen.
Speaker 1: Huge NFL team and it's a perfect sorry go ahead now.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, you just answered your own
Speaker 1: question with regard to that though, in my opinion, because
Speaker 1: if Darian Thompson is not in the box, and let's
Speaker 1: say he's back and that's a linebacker there in the box,
Speaker 1: then maybe there's a chance that either that other linebacker
Speaker 1: makes a stop, maybe he can get off a block.
Speaker 1: He has a much better chance of getting off a
Speaker 1: block than Darian Thompson does. And you start that safety
Speaker 1: back there that can come up and fill in the
Speaker 1: event both the linebackers missed. So my point is, I
Speaker 1: still just feel like in those kind of situations, when
Speaker 1: you're playing a run deep a run offense that plays
Speaker 1: power run football, you want bigger guys on the field.
Speaker 1: You want more of those bigger guys on the field
Speaker 1: so that you have the better opportunity to maybe make
Speaker 1: those stops. I just want my Pro Bowl middle linebacker
Speaker 1: who's supposed to be in the middle of my defense
Speaker 1: to make a better read and agreeing, Layton, to his credit,
Speaker 1: owned he owned it last night. He was like, that's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent on me. I second guessed myself. But
Speaker 1: the frequency with which that has happened this season is
Speaker 1: absolutely unbelievable. Yep, nick Um, we got kind of far
Speaker 1: down there. What's your question again, Well, question, is is
Speaker 1: it more believable? Is it more believable. Has been on
Speaker 1: a flight all night again, give him a little bits. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I go, okay, I got it. Um, you know there
Speaker 1: are there's not the same team. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: not the same defense at all. I mean, whether they've
Speaker 1: missed a couple of really big free agents. Um, you
Speaker 1: know that that left I mean Byron Jones being one
Speaker 1: of them. But but some of these guys have taken
Speaker 1: a step back, you know. And and I think the
Speaker 1: one player on defense that's probably been the I don't
Speaker 1: know you guys that were gonna say Jalen, but I
Speaker 1: mean he's made some plays this year. You can't say
Speaker 1: that about Davier Woods. He makes zero plays and he
Speaker 1: doesn't to me, he doesn't understand the sideline. He doesn't
Speaker 1: understand that a sideline is his twelfth defender. And he
Speaker 1: he just makes these plays and then he gets beat.
Speaker 1: Happened to two games in a row, and like if
Speaker 1: you get them back to the inside, you would think
Speaker 1: you'll have some help that could make the play. I mean,
Speaker 1: he doesn't make it any plays at all, and so
Speaker 1: I think that that's it. And he didn't he seems
Speaker 1: like he gets a pass. He doesn't I think people
Speaker 1: are killing him. I mean people are I'll put it
Speaker 1: like this, you don't know, I said last night, I
Speaker 1: tweeted that, I'm sure you guys probably saw on TV.
Speaker 1: They showed that one image of all four of the
Speaker 1: defensive backs kind of sitting on the bench together, and
Speaker 1: it looked really like they were just sitting there like
Speaker 1: they'd all lost their best friends. And what I got
Speaker 1: back in tweets from people mostly targeted Xavier and they
Speaker 1: I think it's because most people believed that of all
Speaker 1: those guys, he still had Tod the chance to maybe
Speaker 1: turn out to be a player that could be a
Speaker 1: player for them long term. And I think everybody after
Speaker 1: this season has come to the same conclusion that he's
Speaker 1: not the answer. Well, you know, when Romo made the
Speaker 1: comment he made about this, this is the worst thing
Speaker 1: that's ever happened to me. You know, he can't act
Speaker 1: the next what seven eight, nine years and was a
Speaker 1: pretty good player. So it's like, okay, okay, yeah, but
Speaker 1: when you make the comments Xavier woods Maine and then
Speaker 1: he hasn't he hasn't come in and done anything about it,
Speaker 1: it still hangs over your head, you know. And so
Speaker 1: that's that's unfortunate. But they just you know, they don't
Speaker 1: have any safety that make play. I mean, their best
Speaker 1: guy was out. So it is the scheme, right, is
Speaker 1: that they have to the cowboys. The cowboys, they've known
Speaker 1: this for years. I don't know what are you saying
Speaker 1: what you're saying about the safety, but they need to
Speaker 1: go get into safety. Yes, I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: only not yeah quite acting like you could just go
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I don't know. I don't want
Speaker 1: to name any stores because they're not sponsors. But you can't,
Speaker 1: you know, you can't. You can't go down the street
Speaker 1: and just get a safety and just say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: just we'll just get one up. Oh hey, where are
Speaker 1: you going? Oh can you get the safety for me
Speaker 1: real quick? Okay? Things that doesn't work like that. It's
Speaker 1: not milk. You gotta you can put some you know,
Speaker 1: investment into it, and they don't do that. So there
Speaker 1: needs to be a change a defense. I bet you,
Speaker 1: I bet it happens before the end of the season
Speaker 1: that they'll change the coordinator. Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 1: And that's gonna be tough. That's easier said than done,
Speaker 1: because why because the head coach, that's his buddy. At
Speaker 1: some point, at some point it becomes you know, you
Speaker 1: just can't continue to do it right. And and my
Speaker 1: thing is, even if even if you buy what Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said that it's not the scheme itself, like there
Speaker 1: are not flaws in the scheme itself, my thing is,
Speaker 1: then that point's even more to the coaching. And I
Speaker 1: think that's the point that Amber is making. Two is,
Speaker 1: if you have a team and your team isn't able
Speaker 1: to buy in and do the things that you're asking
Speaker 1: them to do, then as a coach, you got to
Speaker 1: figure out a way to either change it up or
Speaker 1: put them in a different situation. You got at some
Speaker 1: point realize they aren't capable of doing what you're asking
Speaker 1: them to do. And that still comes back to coaching. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, to their credit, they didn't really have
Speaker 1: a lot of time to prepare for this game, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't like they had two full weeks.
Speaker 1: It wasn't two weeks. Okay, it was like twelve. That's
Speaker 1: not two weeks. They're prepared, but it was herkey, jackey.
Speaker 1: They didn't know when they were because they were trying
Speaker 1: to prepare, but they didn't know when they were actually
Speaker 1: preparing to play, so that does kind of affect what
Speaker 1: you can do, right. Yeah, well, remember remember guys, why
Speaker 1: McCarthy said he wanted to make sure they did not
Speaker 1: over prepare for this game because it could actually hurt
Speaker 1: Point so they you know, I actually I got in
Speaker 1: I got into an argument with some people last night
Speaker 1: just about like the talent level on this defense relative
Speaker 1: to other teams. And you know, technically the Cowboys, you know,
Speaker 1: they let Byron Jones leave, Taco Charlton did not become
Speaker 1: a good player, so they really only have one first
Speaker 1: round pick on this defense. I don't care. They have
Speaker 1: absolutely invested a decent amount of resources in to this defense.
Speaker 1: When you think about Cheeto, Jordan lewis Leyton Vander esh To,
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence, Jalen Smith, Like, they don't have the talent
Speaker 1: to be elite, but we know that they have the
Speaker 1: talent to be pretty good because we've seen them do it.
Speaker 1: Like they were middle of the pack last season, they
Speaker 1: were a top ten defense. Somehow in twenty eighteen. I
Speaker 1: have no idea how that happened in light of what
Speaker 1: we've seen in the last two years. But I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear that. I do not want to hear
Speaker 1: that they don't have enough talent. I'm not asking them
Speaker 1: to be incredible. I'm asking them to be basically. I
Speaker 1: came into this season obviously we didn't know everybody was
Speaker 1: going to get hurt. But I came into this season saying,
Speaker 1: if you can just be a mediocre or a little
Speaker 1: bit worse, this team has a chance to be pretty good.
Speaker 1: And they're not even close to being mediocre, and that
Speaker 1: is a coaching failure on every conceit. Don't come to
Speaker 1: me about the COVID stuff either, because the New York
Speaker 1: Giants have a new coaching staff with a first time
Speaker 1: head coach, by the way, and are rounding into decent
Speaker 1: form for their talent level, like without their base ones
Speaker 1: five in the last seven games. As yeah, they went,
Speaker 1: I mean they went on the road to Seattle and
Speaker 1: beat Russell Wilson with Colton McCoy, largely because their defense
Speaker 1: played so inspired. Which go ahead, name the best defender
Speaker 1: on the New York Giants, right, badass stud that the
Speaker 1: Giants have. I guess they have Leonard Williams, but he
Speaker 1: is certainly not you know, he ain't Aaron Donald, So
Speaker 1: please please do not talk to me about the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I do not ever want to hear that again. Sorry, anyway,
Speaker 1: what I mean, but that's a thing. I mean, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's okay, that's not that's not I know, I
Speaker 1: know what you're saying. No, it's but it's a thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it affects, it affects teams. I mean,
Speaker 1: it affects the Cowboys. I mean, it definitely affected the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in what way. Let me let me rephrase. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a big I'm not saying that. We
Speaker 1: don't need to talk about COVID nineteen never again. And
Speaker 1: there are considerations that you've got to make. Of course,
Speaker 1: it affects everybody, but like nobody else seems to be
Speaker 1: handling that adversity as poorly as the Cowboys are. That's
Speaker 1: that's my only point. I think that's the point because,
Speaker 1: by the way, the Dallas isn't dealing with things that
Speaker 1: other teams aren't dealing with. You want to talk about injuries,
Speaker 1: other teams are dealing with injuries. You want to talk
Speaker 1: about COVID, other teams are dealing with COVID. You want
Speaker 1: to talk about a new coaching staff that having to
Speaker 1: dealing with no offseason. Other teams are dealing with that
Speaker 1: and they're dealing with it better. And so that's the
Speaker 1: point I think some people are making and I think
Speaker 1: I agree with, is that this team is not handling
Speaker 1: adversity very well. And and again it's it's hard because
Speaker 1: you look at it and you say, one of the
Speaker 1: best things, in my opinion about the previous regime in
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett, was that they tended to handle adversity pretty well.
Speaker 1: They didn't handle success well, but they had to handle
Speaker 1: adversity pretty well. And this team just seems to fall
Speaker 1: apart when they face adversity. Yeah, there's there's too many
Speaker 1: resources now on the Like, this thing blew up on
Speaker 1: them because they keep putting resources on the offense to
Speaker 1: have the best offense in the land. And maybe they
Speaker 1: could have if everything, you know, fell into place, but
Speaker 1: it didn't, and the injuries were you know, just kept
Speaker 1: you know, piling up, and then the offense was supposed
Speaker 1: to carry the defense because and I don't think they
Speaker 1: have enough talent to win on defense. But they knew
Speaker 1: that going in. They knew that because they were the
Speaker 1: offense supposed to carry them. But when that didn't work,
Speaker 1: and that's a bad that's a bad plan because you
Speaker 1: gotta be you gotta be balanced. You can't just say
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a right handed fighter and just punch
Speaker 1: punch with my right hand and then when you break
Speaker 1: your right hand, then you can't do anything. So it
Speaker 1: was a bad, bad concept to start with. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think they should have put more resources on the defense. Clearly,
Speaker 1: let's take our first break when we come back. Well,
Speaker 1: do we need to talk about des Ryan and we
Speaker 1: need to talk about COVID because you mentioned that and
Speaker 1: it certainly was a part of the conversation last night
Speaker 1: prior to the game, and I think it'll probably be
Speaker 1: a bit of the conversation about this team for the
Speaker 1: next few days at least as people keep an eye
Speaker 1: on what happens. We'll talk about that when we come
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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about Dez Bryant last night.
Speaker 1: He was planning to play the Cowboys. It was going
Speaker 1: to be the first time he would appear in a
Speaker 1: game against his former team. Very excited about it, as
Speaker 1: as indicated by the interviews he did before the game
Speaker 1: and the excitement you saw from him as he was
Speaker 1: warming up out in field, the little images that you'd
Speaker 1: see of him out there, a woman up on the field.
Speaker 1: And then we find out, not to mention from Dez
Speaker 1: himself on Twitter, that he tested positive for COVID and
Speaker 1: was no longer going to be able to play in
Speaker 1: the game. And the way it all went down, according
Speaker 1: to reports from Tom Pellicero, was he had an inconclusive
Speaker 1: test earlier in the day, had another test that was
Speaker 1: also inconclusive, then got a final test that revealed he
Speaker 1: was positive. At the point when they pulled him off
Speaker 1: the field and told him that he had to go
Speaker 1: home because he had now tested positive for COVID. My
Speaker 1: first question is more on a personal level, what did
Speaker 1: you feel for Dez as this all went down, Because
Speaker 1: as we all know that he's a very emotional guy,
Speaker 1: and this was something he was looking forward to, an
Speaker 1: opportunity just to get out on the field and show
Speaker 1: his former team that he still could play. Nick hated
Speaker 1: it for Dez. For Dez, I hated it. I know
Speaker 1: he wanted it so bad. And you know, anytime you
Speaker 1: get that close to a game like this, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody kind of wanted to see the matchup,
Speaker 1: so we hated it for all of us. I mean,
Speaker 1: we'll get into why it went down like that, but
Speaker 1: for DEAs specifically, I you know, I hated it for him. Dave.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm not speaking for every Cowboy fan in
Speaker 1: the world, but I think i'm I think I'm speaking
Speaker 1: for a lot of people. Like I didn't have high
Speaker 1: hopes that the Cowboys were gonna win that game. I
Speaker 1: didn't have high hopes that it was even going to
Speaker 1: be a very entertaining matchup. But I was excited to
Speaker 1: see Dez Bryant play football. And even you know, even
Speaker 1: if that came at the expense of the Cowboys, you
Speaker 1: know that that was like a bright spot where you know,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like an old friend and it was
Speaker 1: gonna be weird, but it would have been really fun
Speaker 1: to see him have a moment, like I said, even
Speaker 1: if it was at the Cowboys expense. So I hated
Speaker 1: it for Dez, I hated it for us. It was
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just classic twenty twenty that it's just
Speaker 1: one more bitter disappointment. And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: it was really just I mean, that's des Bryant in
Speaker 1: a nutshell. You were kind of saying that during the
Speaker 1: break is the guy. The guy just can't help himself.
Speaker 1: He never he never has been able to. It's an
Speaker 1: endearing thing sometimes and it's also a problem sometimes it
Speaker 1: is like maybe maybe put the phone down, Dees. But
Speaker 1: that's that's him to a to a t, that is
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant, and you gotta you gotta love it. I
Speaker 1: guess it's just it's very typical him, the phone and
Speaker 1: or the wine amber. What are your thoughts on that
Speaker 1: he keeps it entertaining? I mean, I mean, we like drama,
Speaker 1: we like watching, but no, the same thing as these
Speaker 1: guys said, it sucks. And when I heard the news
Speaker 1: and so it happening like on TV and all that,
Speaker 1: I was like, man, what are the freaking odds of that?
Speaker 1: That of everyone on the field, death happens to be
Speaker 1: the one that this happens too. And I'm not saying,
Speaker 1: oh hope, I would have hoped that it happened to
Speaker 1: someone else or anything, but not at all. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, out of all people, this happens to death.
Speaker 1: So it just sucks. We all knew the emotion and
Speaker 1: the excitement that he had going into this game, and
Speaker 1: for him to be warming up on the field and
Speaker 1: then you get pulled out to get tested again, You're like,
Speaker 1: what the heck. So it's just it's crazy the way
Speaker 1: that it went't down. Yeah, the interesting part is I
Speaker 1: actually think that last night was a perfect illustration of
Speaker 1: why Dez Bryan was no longer with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I think what we saw last night was how he
Speaker 1: is a highly emotional player, a highly emotional person. When
Speaker 1: things are going good that can be a good thing
Speaker 1: for you. When things are going bad, he tends to
Speaker 1: just not have a filter and he puts it all
Speaker 1: out there. And that's what we saw last night take
Speaker 1: place on Twitter. Once he got back home and he
Speaker 1: had his phone in his hand, he's sitting there, then
Speaker 1: he just kind of starts just throwing everything out there,
Speaker 1: and and it just it feels as though that's the
Speaker 1: kind of thing that in a locker room setting can
Speaker 1: be a distraction, because when things are going wrong, the
Speaker 1: last thing you needs people just kind of losing it.
Speaker 1: You know, you need people that kind of steady and
Speaker 1: know how to pull back and say, Okay, right now,
Speaker 1: I don't need to say anything. I need to just
Speaker 1: let things lie for a second, let my emotions come
Speaker 1: down a bit, and then I may say something when
Speaker 1: I'm more controlled in what I say. And I don't
Speaker 1: think that's who des Brian is. I don't know that
Speaker 1: he'll ever be that person. They're good size to that
Speaker 1: because and Nick, I heard you say that on the
Speaker 1: radio when you were talking about him yesterday. Like him
Speaker 1: being a leader, he brought that energy when it came
Speaker 1: to those practices when you're ten days into training camp
Speaker 1: and it's starting to get to a point where guys
Speaker 1: are getting tired and they can be be monotonous. He's
Speaker 1: the guy that would show up and challenge enough guys
Speaker 1: that were made for good practice. So it goes both ways,
Speaker 1: like there's good in it and there's bad in it,
Speaker 1: But at some point it can be a little bit
Speaker 1: too destructive. Yeah, without a doubt. And it was there,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think you know, it was gonna
Speaker 1: be his night, you know, and not to say he
Speaker 1: was gonna have a huge game or whatever, but this
Speaker 1: was gonna be his stage. And and you know, it
Speaker 1: got taken away from him. And and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know all the details there of why they went
Speaker 1: down the way it did, but you know, somebody messed
Speaker 1: up on this. I think you think, well, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: don't you I mean, don't you think somebody messed up
Speaker 1: if he's over there and he No, No, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna ask you that somebody messed up. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: be I'm just gonna be a firm on it because
Speaker 1: because he went and hugged too many people, too many players,
Speaker 1: too many Cowboy employees, too many Cowboy players. He went
Speaker 1: and did all of that, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: that's a problem. Now in the middle of the game,
Speaker 1: people are talking about that. We've got the trainers on
Speaker 1: the sideline dealing with that also, and things were different
Speaker 1: on the on the flight back home. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if it was because of that, but yes, somebody messed
Speaker 1: up if they allowed this guy with two tests that
Speaker 1: were pending and then all of a sudden, the third
Speaker 1: one comes back. See, and I who I'll agree with
Speaker 1: you is I don't know if someone messed up or
Speaker 1: if the policy is messed up, Because what I mean
Speaker 1: by that is if if the policy doesn't say my
Speaker 1: opinion is, if a guy has an inconclusive test on
Speaker 1: the day of a game, until you give me a
Speaker 1: negative test, you shouldn't be or not anybody. That's how
Speaker 1: I look at it now. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: what the protocol says. And maybe the protocol doesn't say that,
Speaker 1: and so nobody messed up, but the protocol may be
Speaker 1: messed up. This whole thing is airing on the side
Speaker 1: of caution everything we do. That's exactly why it doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense, because everything else is just like, hey, we're
Speaker 1: gonna do whatever we gotta do to make sure we're
Speaker 1: being as safe as we possibly can be under the
Speaker 1: under this scenario. But the fact is, if a guy
Speaker 1: has an inconclusive test, the fact that he's allowed to
Speaker 1: just kind of go and warm up on the field
Speaker 1: and interact with people, go ahead, we'll call you if
Speaker 1: it's bad. Yeah, that to me says that that maybe
Speaker 1: that's just not a great policy. If that's the policy,
Speaker 1: well then that whoever writes the policy messed up. Okay, guy, okay,
Speaker 1: we can agree on that. We can agree on that.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this is there it'd be
Speaker 1: the same guy that changed the game from Monday to Tuesday. Hey,
Speaker 1: here we go. Do you think that there is or
Speaker 1: at least will you guys be keeping a close eye
Speaker 1: on what happens with this team for the next few days,
Speaker 1: because obviously there was some contact. Now And just to
Speaker 1: be clear, the science around this, as much as the
Speaker 1: science they know about the science from the things I've read,
Speaker 1: suggests that you don't necessarily get it just by a
Speaker 1: happenstance contact with someone who has COVID. It typically happens
Speaker 1: when you have prolonged when you're in a setting prolonged
Speaker 1: period of time, typically indoors, where you then are more susceptible,
Speaker 1: let's say, to getting the virus. But all that being said,
Speaker 1: and obviously the NFL has contact tracers on all these players.
Speaker 1: They know how long any of them are around each other,
Speaker 1: so they kind of know and that's why they supposedly
Speaker 1: the game was allowed to continue. It's because their contact
Speaker 1: tracing mechanisms suggested that nobody had been in that kind
Speaker 1: of close contact that would have necessitated them sitting anybody
Speaker 1: else down. But with that being said, do you think
Speaker 1: there is at least caution at this point with regards
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys players heading into this week? Dave, Let's
Speaker 1: start with you. I mean, there should always be caution.
Speaker 1: That should be the name of the game with everything
Speaker 1: they do. And I mean, you know, for I feel
Speaker 1: like you gotta give the Cowboys a pretty healthy amount
Speaker 1: of credit because there they are on a short list
Speaker 1: of teams that really haven't had a ton of problems
Speaker 1: with this like they they I mean, the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: not been responsible for these types of situations so far
Speaker 1: this season, not on any sort of you know, Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton caught it, but they managed to limit that. So
Speaker 1: obviously you should be cautious. I'll say what I said
Speaker 1: to you, Derek last night is I don't think it's
Speaker 1: super troubling. Remember, this team played a game against Vance
Speaker 1: McDonald and he had it and they came out Okay,
Speaker 1: the game was outdoors. Everything we know suggests that being
Speaker 1: outdoors helps a lot in terms of like mitigating the spread.
Speaker 1: But that wouldn't make me feel any better if I
Speaker 1: was a guy that had hugged Dez Bryant last night.
Speaker 1: I know that for a fact. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to be cautious and keep an eye
Speaker 1: on it for a few days, but I'm cautiously optimistic
Speaker 1: that this won't be a huge problem for the Cowboys. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's interesting you say that, Dave, because I know we
Speaker 1: all probably know people who have had COVID. I've had
Speaker 1: friends who have had it, and to me, and one
Speaker 1: of the things that a lot of them have told
Speaker 1: me is the craziest part about it is the mind game.
Speaker 1: Because you're sitting around and you're like, you have a
Speaker 1: little shortness of breath, and you're like, oh God, oh God,
Speaker 1: is this like the am I gonna need to be
Speaker 1: in the hospital by tomorrow? Or you know, you got
Speaker 1: this you know this cough, this little cough, And all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you're like, oh God, is that it?
Speaker 1: Like is this the telltale sign that now it's about
Speaker 1: to tip? And so it is. It's that part where
Speaker 1: maybe there's some players that maybe had that interaction that
Speaker 1: they know the science says they're probably okay, but in
Speaker 1: the back of their minds Now, the mind game starts
Speaker 1: of every time you feel something a little bit weird
Speaker 1: in your body, is this covid? Is am I now infected?
Speaker 1: And you start wondering about those things, and then it
Speaker 1: becomes some of those things kind of start really playing
Speaker 1: with you after a while. Do you think Lamar was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm only gonna rush for ninety four yards against the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in about ten days, or we're only gonna only
Speaker 1: gonna score three touchdowns against them, you know what. I
Speaker 1: don't know what he said in the post game, but
Speaker 1: like if he said, man, I was only seventy five
Speaker 1: to eighty percent, I mean, how demoralizing would that be
Speaker 1: if he was like I wasn't really back to one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. Yet you're like, oh, man, well you saw
Speaker 1: the their offensive lineman that was in the camera after
Speaker 1: the touchdown. It's like easy money like that. Those are
Speaker 1: the kind of things where when you're playing like this,
Speaker 1: I mean, you want somebody on that defense to just
Speaker 1: be like, look, we're not gonna be a laughing stock.
Speaker 1: So hey, you know, and this is gonna sound really bad. Guys,
Speaker 1: so excuse me. If we're gonna lose the game, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna lose the fight. So if that means we
Speaker 1: gotta knuckle up at some point in the game, you
Speaker 1: gotta knuckle up because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lose the fight too. Like, it's just
Speaker 1: you're not gonna disrespect me. You're not gonna treat me
Speaker 1: like I'm just some random person. I'm like, I'm just
Speaker 1: not gonna let that happen. And it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: they had that kind of fight. They got one guy
Speaker 1: that wants to do it. Ninety nine. Yeah. True, that's it, Antoine, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. All right, we're gonna take our final break.
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Speaker 1: There were as as my co host here joked with
Speaker 1: me before the show, I've laid out a lot of them.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of moments in this game that
Speaker 1: that mattered. There are a lot of moments, and then,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: missed opportunities in this game. I think the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: had opportunities to maybe even win this game. You could
Speaker 1: make that argument because there were so many moments that
Speaker 1: had they been a little more discipline, had they made
Speaker 1: a play that was there and available to them, had
Speaker 1: the right call been made on the field, they would
Speaker 1: have put themselves in position to possibly be in this
Speaker 1: game and maybe even win it. But we're gonna go
Speaker 1: around and each one of you guys to give me
Speaker 1: the moment that you thought mattered. Most ambulests start with you,
Speaker 1: this might not be the moment that mattered the most
Speaker 1: when you look at the game in general, but to me,
Speaker 1: I think that Lamar Jackson's rushing touchdown in the first
Speaker 1: quarter was the moment that mattered the most to me
Speaker 1: because I was like, Okay, here we go again. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be one of those games. And prior to
Speaker 1: that touched them, the Ravens were able to run the
Speaker 1: ball in a few plays pretty well as well, but
Speaker 1: it was still like, Okay, it was still in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, and maybe the Cowboys are just kind of
Speaker 1: warming up. But as soon as I saw that touchdown
Speaker 1: and the way it happened, how he was completely wide open,
Speaker 1: like he just had the whole thing to himself and
Speaker 1: he just ran all the way forward, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess it is. It is gonna be one of
Speaker 1: those games where the defense is simply not able to
Speaker 1: stop the run. So to me, that was the one
Speaker 1: moment that I was just like, okay, does that basically
Speaker 1: even though that we're still not out at that point
Speaker 1: of the game. You know, I think interesting part of
Speaker 1: that play too. It was third and fourteen before that,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys, if you look at their defensive alignment.
Speaker 1: They pretty much were standing about fourteen to fifteen yards
Speaker 1: off the ball to make sure that they didn't give
Speaker 1: up a first down. But okay, Luke Wilson caught a
Speaker 1: pass for twelve yards and if you saw. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the cameras caught this, but but Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: like Adam Lee told, you know, the coaching staff, keep
Speaker 1: the special teams off the field, punk kick, field goal, whatever,
Speaker 1: we're going for this, we're gonna score touchdown probably is
Speaker 1: what he said. And they did. But but I thought
Speaker 1: the twelve yard I mean, she's right, that was a
Speaker 1: huge moment. The play right before that was big because
Speaker 1: it just gave him enough to say, all right, we
Speaker 1: will go for this, we can get this, and they scored. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I will mention this too. And I was talking to
Speaker 1: Isaiah standback last night. He was here in the building.
Speaker 1: We were talking about that play particular, and we were
Speaker 1: talking about it. I talked about it literalier in the show.
Speaker 1: The fact that the Cowboys decided that they wanted to
Speaker 1: go with the goal. They basically they stuck with the nickel.
Speaker 1: They had only two linebackers in the game. They had
Speaker 1: Jalen lined up outside, they had Lvee and Darien Thompson
Speaker 1: in the middle, and so there was really basically once
Speaker 1: Vee took himself out of the play by getting completely
Speaker 1: tangled up and then dry and Thompson, he had no
Speaker 1: shot when their offensive lineman gets onto his body, he
Speaker 1: has no shot of being able to do anything with that.
Speaker 1: And my thought was, what are you why would you
Speaker 1: do that? And hem actually made a good point. Isaiah
Speaker 1: was like, look from a schematic standpoint, he was like,
Speaker 1: I used to be a running quarterback. And what teams
Speaker 1: would do, and it's a really good strategy is they
Speaker 1: would try to line it up and match it up
Speaker 1: to where they had two spies on the field and
Speaker 1: one was on one side of the field, one was
Speaker 1: on the other, which would make sense. You put Jalen
Speaker 1: on top, you put Darien Thompson on the other side,
Speaker 1: and essentially you got two guys that can spy. He
Speaker 1: set The problem with that he had with that alignment
Speaker 1: and that scheme or the players that they had on
Speaker 1: the field, was that they decide to go man and
Speaker 1: you get a quarterback like Lamar Jackson immediately when he
Speaker 1: sees man. And by the way, the way they were
Speaker 1: lined up, they basically zero coverage. There was no safety
Speaker 1: back deep. All the guys were lined up in man across.
Speaker 1: When he sees that, he immediately says, I'm running the
Speaker 1: ball because none of those defensive backs are gonna see me.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be looking at the defender that they're having
Speaker 1: to cover in man. So it creates this great opportunity
Speaker 1: for him to do what he does best. And that
Speaker 1: was the problem he saw there, And I agree. I
Speaker 1: think again, you can look at this thing and you
Speaker 1: can come up with a number of different schematic challenges
Speaker 1: and personnel challenges with this defense that have nothing, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, necessarily to do with execution. It has to
Speaker 1: do with putting your players in the right position. And
Speaker 1: I just don't think they're doing enough of that right now.
Speaker 1: All right, Dave, what's your moment that mattered? I mean mathematically?
Speaker 1: Nick mentioned it at the top of the show. The
Speaker 1: third down that Lamar picked up, Xavier Woods probably could
Speaker 1: have forced him out a bound if he'd taken a
Speaker 1: better angle, didn't Baltimore scores. You know, he finds Hollywood
Speaker 1: Brown on the next play to go up twenty four
Speaker 1: ten that Hay in the quarter. You know, there's no
Speaker 1: way the Cowboys are making up that deficit with the
Speaker 1: amount of time they have left, So mathematically I think
Speaker 1: it would be that. But I completely agree with ag
Speaker 1: in the sense that between Lamar's touchdown run, you know,
Speaker 1: he finds Boykins, I think for a thirty eight yard touchdown,
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards had a thirty six yard run, and JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins had runs of eighteen and thirty yards And that
Speaker 1: was all on the first half. All of those plays
Speaker 1: happened in the first half. And after what I was
Speaker 1: just like, they will not win this game. Their defense,
Speaker 1: they cannot win this game. And I think, you know
Speaker 1: it was it was seventeen ten at halftime. They had
Speaker 1: a few opportunities to make it even closer than that
Speaker 1: zerline misses a kick, so mathematically they were in it.
Speaker 1: But seeing the way the defense was playing, like in
Speaker 1: the late first quarter, early second quarter, I was like,
Speaker 1: they will not win this game the way they're playing.
Speaker 1: And you know, one of the interesting things Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: said after the game, it was actually point of emphasis
Speaker 1: that his coaches were talking to the team about all week,
Speaker 1: saying we can't give up big plays big plays will
Speaker 1: kill us in this game. He can't give up big plays.
Speaker 1: And then they go into halftime and he thought it
Speaker 1: was by at that point there were five, as he
Speaker 1: defined him, five big plays heading into halftime that they'd
Speaker 1: already given up. And this was after a whole week
Speaker 1: of telling players over and over we can't give up
Speaker 1: big plays. But again, if you're not giving them the
Speaker 1: tools to not give up big plays, then you still
Speaker 1: you know, you could talk about as much as you want,
Speaker 1: but it may not matter. Nick, what was your moment
Speaker 1: that matter? I got a couple, but I'll leave this
Speaker 1: one free to go. Now, I'll just do the one.
Speaker 1: You know, if the teraway jerseys were back, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: might have won this game. Seriously, I mean that was
Speaker 1: a huge play in the game. Amari Cooper, he's rolling
Speaker 1: like he if he gets away from this guy that's
Speaker 1: got in out of the jersey, it's just one other
Speaker 1: game and there's a blocker. I mean, I'm not seeing
Speaker 1: these scores, but this is gonna be a really big play.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get down into the thirty twenty yard line
Speaker 1: of the Baltimore They're already up ten to seven, and
Speaker 1: then a great job for making that that tackle there,
Speaker 1: Harris made it. DeVante Harris made that tackle. So that
Speaker 1: down's first and ten on the thirty seven, still in
Speaker 1: good shape. And then interception interception the next play a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I mean that if he can break out of that
Speaker 1: that was that would have been huge. And then the
Speaker 1: other one real quick is CD right before the half.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not asking you to be a superhero,
Speaker 1: but catch it. I mean, yeah, I mean I understand
Speaker 1: that's a tough, tough play, but it's there. I mean
Speaker 1: catch it. And literally, it wasn't a situation where you know,
Speaker 1: somebody was interfering with him, somebody was grabbing him. I
Speaker 1: mean literally, the ball was there. The ball went straight
Speaker 1: through his hands, and there is no really excuse. Really
Speaker 1: it's a tough it's a tough play, but but that's
Speaker 1: the kind of play you expect him to make. I
Speaker 1: think Andy had that. Andy had that in him. No
Speaker 1: matter fact. I was wondering why they I was wondering
Speaker 1: why they would line up to do it instead of
Speaker 1: just saying let's just go to half and then let's
Speaker 1: just get out of here. But he slung it down there.
Speaker 1: He absolutely slung it. Yeah, and I just I was surprised,
Speaker 1: were either you got surprised that CD didn't come up
Speaker 1: with that catch because that's what we expect from him,
Speaker 1: is to make those kind of plays. Right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try my best to be a like I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna spin it really good here. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: some really good cowboy propaganda, because I think we would
Speaker 1: all agree. You know, CD's had a great rookie year
Speaker 1: all things considered, Like he's he's lived up to the pick.
Speaker 1: He's done some really impressive things. Who knows how good
Speaker 1: his season would have been if he gets to play
Speaker 1: with Dak all year. But I think he's gonna look
Speaker 1: at this as a humbling experience, like because you know,
Speaker 1: this season of that guy out there he said, just
Speaker 1: he has had moments throughout this season that should humble him.
Speaker 1: Gott and say, hey, you're a really good player. You
Speaker 1: are not DeAndre Hopkins. Who is you know? That's his guy,
Speaker 1: that's his favorite player, That's the guy he says he
Speaker 1: models himself after. DeAndre Hopkins made that exact catch like
Speaker 1: three weeks ago. DeAndre Hopkins has performed like a badass
Speaker 1: throughout the years and not always with a good quarterback,
Speaker 1: by the way, So if I'm Ceedee Lamb, I'm going
Speaker 1: out like I'm leaving this season saying okay, I belong.
Speaker 1: I'm a good player to do if I want to
Speaker 1: be one of the league's best. And I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I've never met Ceedee Lamb face to face because of
Speaker 1: this whole dumb pandemic, But just based on my impression
Speaker 1: of him from Afar, I feel like he's got the
Speaker 1: right makeup where you know, he's I can be a
Speaker 1: much better player in year two than I was in
Speaker 1: year one. I mean, Dave, I'll speak, go ahead and
Speaker 1: broke ahead. I was just gonna say that it sucked
Speaker 1: that he wasn't able to catch that ball. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, on the positive side is the fact
Speaker 1: that I don't think that many of us expected to
Speaker 1: see that kind of play happening. So the fact that
Speaker 1: it was something that we didn't really expect we saw
Speaker 1: Indy Dalton throw the way that he did, and it
Speaker 1: was almost a great play had it been caught by
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb. But at the same time, just seeing a
Speaker 1: little moment so of just opportunities like that that, Okay,
Speaker 1: you get a sense that, Okay, maybe with sometime he's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to make those kinds of catches and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. Maybe not a Deander Hopkins level,
Speaker 1: but close to that. So it's just it's good even
Speaker 1: though it didn't work out this time, but it's still
Speaker 1: good looking forward. I don't think I was gonna say
Speaker 1: it's just kind of piggyback on what Dave said about
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb. He is his heart, his stuff is critic
Speaker 1: is himself, I mean, and that's a good quality to have.
Speaker 1: I mean, no excuses for him. He's had some really
Speaker 1: tough games, you know, specifically against Washington. You know, you
Speaker 1: think about it, now, that's two weeks in a row
Speaker 1: that hit the ball has been in his hands in
Speaker 1: the end zone. One was ten yards, one was sixty.
Speaker 1: But still you know it's you know, it's been there,
Speaker 1: and he prides himself on making that play. So I think, Dave,
Speaker 1: I think you're right about that is humbling experience that
Speaker 1: you're both right. You know, he goes about it the
Speaker 1: right way. And you know he didn't care about when
Speaker 1: airon in some NFL record or or cowboy record for rookie.
Speaker 1: You know, catches. He's gonna look at the plays that
Speaker 1: he didn't make it. I think that'll help him as
Speaker 1: he tries to get better and be one of those
Speaker 1: best great receivers. Yeah, there's a lot of guys you
Speaker 1: look at that make that that missopportunities and you start
Speaker 1: worrying about their confidence. I think you can look at
Speaker 1: him and you can look at Digs there. They're similar mentalities,
Speaker 1: at least from what I can tell from the outside
Speaker 1: looking in, they seem to be those type mentalities that
Speaker 1: are gonna really make that push them and fuel them
Speaker 1: to be even better. They're not, I don't think, deterred
Speaker 1: necessarily by their their bad plays or misplaced All right,
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, you want us, We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll start getting you guys ready for Cowboys versus Bengals. Actually,
Speaker 1: that game has been flexed down. The Cowboys will be
Speaker 1: playing at noon on Sunday instead of a Sunday. I'm sorry, No,
Speaker 1: that was a San Francisco. No, this game already be
Speaker 1: at noon, but the Cowboys will be on a plane Saturday, Nick,
Speaker 1: So go ahead and get your big backpack. You may
Speaker 1: not even have to unpack he's getting ready again. Saturday.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on a plane. All right. We pro
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