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Speaker 1: It is thirty December twenty six, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen,
Speaker 1: episode number one oh six. Welcome to the latest edition
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Speaker 1: at Derek Eagles and I'll take questions there. How's everybody
Speaker 1: doing today? Fantastic? All right? Nick? All right? Good? You sure? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're just kind of like, yeah, great, okay, good Amber good,
Speaker 1: I mean as good as you could be. Honestly, as
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm ready to get this over
Speaker 1: or if I want them to keep going. I'm just
Speaker 1: confused us to what I'm feeling right now. Well, it
Speaker 1: sounds like you're right there with all the other Cowboys
Speaker 1: fans out there, so let's jump right in. Let's start
Speaker 1: first talking about a couple of injuries. There were some
Speaker 1: guys that did not practice yesterday to Marcus Lawrence, shan Lee,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, and Tyren Smith. Are any of those injuries
Speaker 1: that you suspect will their abilities to play this week?
Speaker 1: Or is this one of those situations where again guys
Speaker 1: just missed practice sometimes yeah, well yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 1: affect their ability to play. I should have said that
Speaker 1: a different way. I mean, I should have said where
Speaker 1: they won't be able to play, because the next question
Speaker 1: they're gonna be how can they play? But yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: I would guess they'll all be able to play. I think, sorry,
Speaker 1: go ahead, And Nick, I just don't understand the dak
Speaker 1: part of it, you know, but I mean just like
Speaker 1: last I mean last week, he didn't practice, that didn't
Speaker 1: look good. I mean whether or not that helped his
Speaker 1: shoulder get through the week. Then they didn't put him
Speaker 1: on the injury report, and then he played, and he
Speaker 1: played like a guy that didn't practice, or he played
Speaker 1: like a guy that had a shoulder injury or both.
Speaker 1: And now this week this is kind of the same plan.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, like it's just weird that now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's back on it again. Did
Speaker 1: he get hurt again? That's so strange. It's a great point.
Speaker 1: That's I said earlier today, Like it felt kind of
Speaker 1: cocky to me in the first place that they did
Speaker 1: that last week, Like oh question ar orderback question, you know,
Speaker 1: his availability or his effectiveness, We're not even going to
Speaker 1: list him on Friday. Well he sure looked like he
Speaker 1: should have been listed on Sunday. And then writing on Monday,
Speaker 1: you right back on right, which is why, like I
Speaker 1: you know, people kind of it's so funny to me,
Speaker 1: like there's this dichotomy of people that are like like
Speaker 1: Deck didn't get any help and he was hurt like
Speaker 1: how you're gonna dog him after that? And then there's
Speaker 1: other people that are like I've been telling you for years,
Speaker 1: he's trash, Like it always has to be one of
Speaker 1: those two things, right, Whereas but I'm like, he didn't
Speaker 1: play well and I know he's hurt, But if you
Speaker 1: didn't even list him on Friday, well, how much benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt should I give him? Like you didn't
Speaker 1: think it was a big deal Friday, so why should
Speaker 1: I think it's a big deal on Sunday. Well, they
Speaker 1: clearly did not help him at all as far as
Speaker 1: the game plan. They did not plan the game. According
Speaker 1: to a guy that's hurt on the shoulder, his quarterback
Speaker 1: has been hurt all week and it didn't seem like
Speaker 1: the game plan was fitting to that. They should have
Speaker 1: rent the ball a lot more. Yeah, I mean you've
Speaker 1: seen Home Alone, right, you've seen it. I have most times.
Speaker 1: You know, where the guy goes in and at the
Speaker 1: very end of this movie, and here they are, they're
Speaker 1: finally going to get this kid, and he like opens
Speaker 1: the door and it's like flaming hot. You know, that's
Speaker 1: one of the twelve things, And all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he goes in. Well, then the next door he opens,
Speaker 1: He's like, is this hot? Now? Okay? This was good?
Speaker 1: Like he understands that, like already have been burned before.
Speaker 1: He's learning, he's learning. Why aren't we learning? Like? Why
Speaker 1: are we just saying did you come up with that
Speaker 1: on my Christmas? Even I saw it was on yesterday,
Speaker 1: and you know, and and I didn't realize there was
Speaker 1: a sequel in another I didn't realize that. You know,
Speaker 1: only Rocky can get away with just keep putting out
Speaker 1: the sequels, but or Star Wars. Okay, let's not getting
Speaker 1: into that again, saying I was really just transitioning to
Speaker 1: Star Wars, which day I I, we don't have enough
Speaker 1: time for me to hire Star Wars. It's just learning
Speaker 1: from your mistakes, you know, That's all that it is.
Speaker 1: And so I just don't understand why you would do
Speaker 1: that again. Maybe he does need to practice kind of
Speaker 1: go through it or whatever. And like you said, there
Speaker 1: was no injury and then now there's an injury. Yeah.
Speaker 1: At the same time, though, I mean, don't you hinder
Speaker 1: whatever effectiveness he's going to have by making him throw
Speaker 1: all week? Well, but here's the thing, man, which you're
Speaker 1: so you're saying the answer is to let to prepare
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush to start. No, No, I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: think he needs to play a little bit more. But
Speaker 1: it's like it's almost like we're playing extremes here. Either
Speaker 1: he doesn't practice at all or he has to take
Speaker 1: every throw. Isn't there maybe some gray area here where
Speaker 1: maybe he can work into team a little bit where
Speaker 1: he can get a couple a couple of plays during
Speaker 1: the week that helps him kind of, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe he needs it to visualize it, to be
Speaker 1: able to actually stand back there in the pocket and
Speaker 1: look at what he's gonna see on game day. Because,
Speaker 1: like I think we all agree, what we saw this
Speaker 1: last week was reflective of a guy that didn't look
Speaker 1: like he was playing at his best. So the difference
Speaker 1: there was that he didn't practice all week. So if
Speaker 1: you can get him into some reps here in practice
Speaker 1: this week, then that would make sense. Now, if he's
Speaker 1: so hurt that he can't do that, then again then
Speaker 1: you question, well, why was he not on the injury
Speaker 1: port on Friday? Right, So it's all of it just
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense. Thing
Speaker 1: for me, like if he's hurt, he's hurt, like just
Speaker 1: just say just say that, just say he's hurt and
Speaker 1: all that. But there's there's Jason Garrett trying to say,
Speaker 1: you know, he's probably trying to throw out there with
Speaker 1: the Redskins or I don't think Bill Callahan cares right
Speaker 1: now about you know, like Wat's coaching for a job. Well,
Speaker 1: I know, but I don't think he can have Dak's play.
Speaker 1: You know, those those coaches are like, he's playing. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's gonna right, he's gonna play in the game, and
Speaker 1: that I don't know. I kind of if they want, sorry,
Speaker 1: they need to sign Clayton Thorson, if they really want
Speaker 1: to play this thing up, they need to sign him
Speaker 1: and be like, all right, well let's just make sure
Speaker 1: ramp three quarterbacks ready for the game. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a go ahead. I was just gonna say, It's
Speaker 1: not like if Dak was not gonna play or had
Speaker 1: a bad game or has a bad game, I mean
Speaker 1: this weekend and they put in whoever, clay or Cooper,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna be like, oh my god, oh we
Speaker 1: gotta change this game plane. This is really gonna throw
Speaker 1: us off. No, they're they're gonna be okay, Like it's
Speaker 1: a big diff prince there between her Dak and these
Speaker 1: other backups. I just kind of it kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me of the like you should have been practicing outdoors
Speaker 1: and that would have made all the difference. And I'm
Speaker 1: just like it would it have helped? Sure? Is Like
Speaker 1: should a professional football team be able to overcome that?
Speaker 1: I think so, Like, of course it's better if Dak
Speaker 1: is practicing, But hasn't he been throwing dozens of passes
Speaker 1: a day since like at least April, if not before that,
Speaker 1: Like would it help him? Of course? But you're a
Speaker 1: professional quarterback and one that's angling for a mighty big
Speaker 1: pay raise at that, So just go out and make
Speaker 1: the throws, Like, if you're good, if you're healthy enough
Speaker 1: to play, go out and make the throws. Which I'll
Speaker 1: keep saying, like I don't have a problem with the
Speaker 1: way they played the Eagles, Like the plays were there
Speaker 1: to be made and it wasn't all on deck. It
Speaker 1: was not it was Cooper, it was Gallop, it was Witten,
Speaker 1: it was everybody couldn't catch the stuff that he was
Speaker 1: putting on target, and he couldn't put the other stuff
Speaker 1: on target. It was everybody's fault. But the game plan
Speaker 1: would have worked if it executed it. Yeah, I believe that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Yeah, but offensively I think so. Yeah, But
Speaker 1: like if your quarterback isn't good enough to execute it,
Speaker 1: then it's not a good game plan. But again, but
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, that falls on everybody. You know,
Speaker 1: how many how many more yards and points do they
Speaker 1: have if those six drops get caught because some of
Speaker 1: them were big gainers. Yeah, and then there's I mean
Speaker 1: there's the overthrow to Tavon, YadA, YadA, YadA. I I
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying, But I just I don't like
Speaker 1: the idea of running into a brick wall for the
Speaker 1: sake of it. I mean, yeah, I mean, if Dak
Speaker 1: said he got up on Thursday and he's like, I'll
Speaker 1: be fine. I dealt with way worse stuff than this
Speaker 1: in college, Well, then go make the place right exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's all there is to it, in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Does he need three hundred and five yards to help
Speaker 1: himself with them? With its contract? You know, if he
Speaker 1: gets about I think that breaks Romo's record of forty
Speaker 1: nine hundred yards which he got. I don't know. It
Speaker 1: didn't matters for his contract, do you well. I mean
Speaker 1: it's nice to have. I mean, you know, because they're
Speaker 1: going to throw record and stuff, like they're gonna throw
Speaker 1: his record in there. They just gonna throw it out there,
Speaker 1: no matter what, whether he gets that record or not,
Speaker 1: he's gonna say he was right there on the record.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't, you know whose record he's gonna break.
Speaker 1: His Romo in twenty twelve eight and eight eton eight
Speaker 1: lost to the Redskins last game in the season to
Speaker 1: get to eight, which ironic, and it's it's whether it's
Speaker 1: fair or not. It's gonna happen like this Eagles game
Speaker 1: is gonna color his contract negotiations. It's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the lasting flashpoints from the season. I'll be curious
Speaker 1: to see how much it affects it, because if I
Speaker 1: remember right, they signed Romo to a huge extension after
Speaker 1: in eight and eight season two. Probably it's twenty twelve
Speaker 1: season after he was he signed it the month before
Speaker 1: I got here. I remember that, and they went eight
Speaker 1: and eate. He threw a terrible pick against the Redskins
Speaker 1: to keep him from going to the playoffs. You know,
Speaker 1: still got his money. I watched that play this weekend,
Speaker 1: not as bad as I remember it. The guy made
Speaker 1: an outstanding play. He did. He faked him. I mean,
Speaker 1: he faked Romo out. He was like, I'm blitzing and
Speaker 1: I'm blitzing, and then he faked it and came back
Speaker 1: in Romo. I mean, he gambled and he won on
Speaker 1: that plane. But I mean that bad loss. They should
Speaker 1: have won. Well, I don't know if I should have
Speaker 1: won the game, but I'm just saying it was a tough,
Speaker 1: tough way to end. But I think the point is
Speaker 1: is that, you know, his stats look good with passing yards, decks,
Speaker 1: but that's really it. I mean, his touchdowns are okay.
Speaker 1: His rating is right there, you know, and kind of
Speaker 1: an average. I mean it's it's above average. It's just
Speaker 1: like in the top fifteen or so. His teams like
Speaker 1: ranked what sixteenth right now, and just overall about it,
Speaker 1: you know, the middle of the pack. I mean, his
Speaker 1: passing yards look good, but if they could have established
Speaker 1: things earlier, they would have been leading these games and
Speaker 1: running the ball. But I think that's that's where it
Speaker 1: gets back to in my opinion, I don't know that
Speaker 1: he's helped or hurt his cause necessarily when it comes
Speaker 1: to the contract. I think where he was at the
Speaker 1: beginning season, there's been some really good stuff where you
Speaker 1: were like, oh wow, maybe he jumped up, and then
Speaker 1: there's been some bass. I was like, oh well, maybe
Speaker 1: it fell back down. I think it probably ends up
Speaker 1: netting out around wherever the Cowboys were thinking they were
Speaker 1: going to pay him. He probably I think he took
Speaker 1: a step forward from where he was last year. But
Speaker 1: that all being said, you can make the argument very
Speaker 1: clearly that he hasn't. I mean, you started talking about
Speaker 1: fourth quarter comebacks, he's much he didn't play like that
Speaker 1: this year, and he did do that earlier in his career.
Speaker 1: So I think he took a step forward for what
Speaker 1: the agent and what their stance was. Their stance was
Speaker 1: to go for forty and up there, and I don't
Speaker 1: think so at all. I think that whatever the Cowboys opening,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever their their you know, cost was earlier,
Speaker 1: I think it's about yeah, no, no, no no. I wasn't
Speaker 1: saying he took a step forward for the money. I
Speaker 1: say I'm saying just from his strictly from his play,
Speaker 1: I think he was a little bit better quarterback than
Speaker 1: he was last year. Now that all being said, like
Speaker 1: I said, I think you can make a pretty good
Speaker 1: argument that he's not me personally what I've seen I
Speaker 1: suggested he is. I think he's a pretty good quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think he has shown signs that he is progressing.
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna pay him, it would be banking
Speaker 1: that that continues. I can't argue if you tell me
Speaker 1: he doesn't look like a quarterback who can like completely
Speaker 1: elevate his team. I can't really argue with you. He
Speaker 1: hasn't hadn't been able to do that this year. But
Speaker 1: I'm signing him because well, it's gonna be way too.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be it's gonna be so hard to try
Speaker 1: to start from the ground ground, you know, floor, to
Speaker 1: try to get back to that point he's there. Is
Speaker 1: he perfect? No, not at all, but he's good enough
Speaker 1: to get where they want to go. And I but
Speaker 1: here's and I completely agree with you. But that's the
Speaker 1: thing is like this should be easy, like the Cowboys
Speaker 1: should be like, we'll pay you one hundred thousand more
Speaker 1: than whatever Jared Goffcott and Dak says, yeah, that's fine,
Speaker 1: but will it be that easy, like one hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yeah, I was thinking like, yeah, we'll put
Speaker 1: you right in that cluster with Winston guy. Yes, right,
Speaker 1: and we'll give you more than them if it makes
Speaker 1: you feel better. Yeah, yeah, but we're not paying you
Speaker 1: Russ money and you're not going to compete with Mahomes. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that's fine. Will that actually happen? Like are the
Speaker 1: Cowboys gonna lowball him? Or is he gonna do this
Speaker 1: forty million dollar thing that keeps being rumored? Like, because
Speaker 1: that's where it gets dicey. It should be easy. You
Speaker 1: should be able to say we'll pay you to where
Speaker 1: you're top ten, and everybody should be happy. But I'll
Speaker 1: be curious to see if that actually happened. And that's
Speaker 1: actually what I'd like to see happen. And you look
Speaker 1: at the friend and the franchise tag broughly about thirty three, No,
Speaker 1: it's twenty eight. They stand just have a little bit
Speaker 1: of leverage there, right, yeah, but they yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: I don't I wonder if this will be more contentious
Speaker 1: this year than it was last time you franchise a guy.
Speaker 1: You're basically that's where you're starting, right, so you mean
Speaker 1: per year, so you which is good because at least
Speaker 1: you know they're probably gonna go more than twenty eight anyways, right, Which,
Speaker 1: But that's I guess that's my point is like I
Speaker 1: understand why Dak would be like insulted by a number
Speaker 1: like twenty eight, Like I get a year, yeah, per year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wonder why he really thinks his worth I don't know.
Speaker 1: And that's that's the question, because I also understand why
Speaker 1: the Cowboys would be insulted if Dak was like, no,
Speaker 1: like thirty eight to forty obviously and be like what
Speaker 1: why what did you do? Let's turn on the film
Speaker 1: so exactly, And that's my but he's like, let me
Speaker 1: pick the game, right right. Yeah. It's like it's very
Speaker 1: unusual when both sides are like, yeah, thirty three sounds good.
Speaker 1: Here you go, all right, happy to sign it, Like
Speaker 1: I just probably won't be that easy if I had
Speaker 1: to go. Maybe he wants to see what the direction
Speaker 1: of the team looks like, yes, And I mean that
Speaker 1: that could be fair. That could be fair. Like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that people are talking about right
Speaker 1: now with regards to whether what this team is going
Speaker 1: to be doing going forward, and so he may want
Speaker 1: to know more about that before he settles on a number.
Speaker 1: Maybe the Cowboys want to know what their new coach
Speaker 1: thinks about Dak as well. Maybe assuming they have a
Speaker 1: new coach, Yeah, they probably will. See all right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take our first break when we come back. We
Speaker 1: got some questions already rolling in. But before we get
Speaker 1: to those questions, we're going to have our scatter report
Speaker 1: of the Washington Redskins offense and defense days. Gonna run
Speaker 1: that down force. We'll do that when we come right back.
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Speaker 1: the Break, Welcome Back. It is the second segment of
Speaker 1: The Break live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At
Speaker 1: the start, we're talking about Cowboys versus Redskins. Happens this
Speaker 1: Sunday three, three thirty at at and T Stadium. Dave
Speaker 1: give us a scoutter report on the offense and defense
Speaker 1: for the Washington Redskins. Okay, quick, it's gonna be real quick,
Speaker 1: is it. Yeah, there's so much to talk about. No, honestly,
Speaker 1: you want to know what there is to talk about.
Speaker 1: Like name, name a player on the Redskins who you're
Speaker 1: familiar with. Out Anderson, he's in. Good job, good guys
Speaker 1: out I mean Haskins out written No, definitely out. He's
Speaker 1: like the point like this is honestly, like this is
Speaker 1: like when you know Arkansas knows that they're not going
Speaker 1: to a bowl game, and the red shirt Arkansas he's
Speaker 1: sitting across from because I know they did it. They're like,
Speaker 1: we're not going to a bowl our coach is gone.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a look at these guys that are
Speaker 1: on the back end of the depth chart, because what's
Speaker 1: the point, Like, that's what this game is probably gonna
Speaker 1: look like for them, not necessarily because just because they're bad,
Speaker 1: but they're bad and hurt. Ruben Foster, Descheser, Everett, Vernon Davis,
Speaker 1: Jordan Reid, Darius Geis, Tray Quinn, Dominique, Rodgers, Cromarty, Alex Smith, obviously,
Speaker 1: Brandon shurf Um, Ryan Carrigan, Quentin Dunbar, Trent Williams, Paul Richardson.
Speaker 1: I just named like two thirds of the guys that
Speaker 1: you're familiar with on some defensive lineman though, don't they They
Speaker 1: They got Jonathan Allen, they got Darn Payne, they got Norman.
Speaker 1: Not everybody's hurt, but like the names that you have
Speaker 1: come to know in this matchup, were they all out?
Speaker 1: All those guys are on, not even just hurt, they're on.
Speaker 1: Irruten Gruden's been gone. Yeah, that's a good point. I
Speaker 1: didn't even think about that. Yeah, I mean we played
Speaker 1: them way back in week two. He got fired in
Speaker 1: like week six, so and Haskins is definitely out. Haskins
Speaker 1: is so so he's definitely I believe so stat I
Speaker 1: told you earlier. I think it's amazing because it's a
Speaker 1: division team. If if Haskins would have played this game,
Speaker 1: he would have been the fifth different quarterback to play
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys from the Redskins. Like, in what period
Speaker 1: of time the last five games? Oh, every game there's
Speaker 1: been a different quarterback going back to the end of
Speaker 1: the seventeen, which is Kurt Cousins. Then they played Alex Smith,
Speaker 1: then they played Colton McCoy, then they played Keenham, and
Speaker 1: then they were going to play Haskins. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: Haskins got hurt and Keenham comes back. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just that's not good. I shouldn't. I don't want to
Speaker 1: say this, but I'm going to anyway. But it goes
Speaker 1: back to the conversation. You know, you disagree with me
Speaker 1: last week, like for better or for worse. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of Cowboy fans who don't want to win this game,
Speaker 1: or they'll tell you that, like they want to just
Speaker 1: get into the offseason, change the head coach. Whether you
Speaker 1: agree with it or not, that's not the point. There's
Speaker 1: just people that feel that way and they're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, just in our suffering blah blah blah. I
Speaker 1: get it to some degree. I think you have an argument,
Speaker 1: but like, try being a fan of this team. Like,
Speaker 1: if you don't, if you don't think it could be worse,
Speaker 1: it could be a lot worse. Man five different starting
Speaker 1: quarterbacks the last five games with the Cowboys, they've won
Speaker 1: the division like twice in the last twenty years. Just
Speaker 1: a joke of a franchise. Honestly, I'm gonna get to
Speaker 1: that point after you're done with the whole Scott and report,
Speaker 1: because I just think there's something fans are missing about
Speaker 1: this whole, Like I want to get it over with.
Speaker 1: I think they're missing something we can we'll get into.
Speaker 1: That's a great tease, which I don't have a lot
Speaker 1: to say anyway, even I mean, Terry mclaurin's great. He's
Speaker 1: got a concussion. He goes, oh he does, he might
Speaker 1: not play. Wow, he's got a concussion. You yeah, exactly. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean you want to talk about Eric Flowers playing
Speaker 1: left guard? They're down to I mean Jeremy Sprinkles, Yeah
Speaker 1: he does. Speaking of the Hogs, Jeremy sprinkle is the
Speaker 1: starting tight end for this game. Adrian Peterson and Chris
Speaker 1: Thompson are there. We were very familiar with what they
Speaker 1: do there's definitely still talent on their front. Jonathan Allen,
Speaker 1: dron Payne, matt Ianitis, sneaky good player, eight and a
Speaker 1: half sacks this season, playing three to four end, which
Speaker 1: is I mean, that's impressive. Yeah, um monted sweat the
Speaker 1: Mississippi State pass rusher. They stole him in the first round.
Speaker 1: Um So they still got some pretty decent players up
Speaker 1: front on the defense. Yeah they do. But and again, okay,
Speaker 1: in the league and or second to last in rushing
Speaker 1: on defense rush defense, Yeah, which is surprise. You would
Speaker 1: think they would be able to loose control that. But
Speaker 1: they're getting smashed up front and then even among guys
Speaker 1: that are not on IR Okay, I wrote the So
Speaker 1: Donald Pin's not practicing right now. They signed him because
Speaker 1: they're a regular left tackle. Trent Williams hates him and
Speaker 1: he's not basic. Donald Pin's got a knee injury, not practicing.
Speaker 1: Morgan Moses their right tackle, knee injury, not practicing. Terry
Speaker 1: McLaren is can cussed um Fabian Moreau. They're a cornerback.
Speaker 1: One of their cornerbacks has a hamstring. Landon Collins and
Speaker 1: Monte Nicholson their starting safeties, not practicing. Right now. Again,
Speaker 1: some of these guys will upgrade as the week goes,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but like this is, this is and I
Speaker 1: know we just played the Eagles, but this is like
Speaker 1: as banged up of a team as I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to speak for all the people out
Speaker 1: there listening right now. I know you know what I know,
Speaker 1: which I even wrote and we wrote a PA was
Speaker 1: the same scoutter report last week when you were playing
Speaker 1: an Eagles team that was completely banged up and nobody
Speaker 1: was playing and and Cowboys still late at went out
Speaker 1: and couldn't really do much. One big difference at the quarterbacks. True, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I get that. I'm just saying. I know there
Speaker 1: are people out there listening right now that are saying, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. But we also face the
Speaker 1: mash unit of a team last week, and and we
Speaker 1: didn't The Cowboys didn't look like they took advantage of that.
Speaker 1: Right With everything that that team is currently going through
Speaker 1: right now and this being the last game of the
Speaker 1: season makes me wonder, I mean, do they go out
Speaker 1: there still like trying to win a game or do
Speaker 1: they just go out there all Let me just do
Speaker 1: my job. Get this season. We've talked about that one
Speaker 1: hundred times and then and I'll say it again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean they'll play hard. They'll play hard on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Everybody plays hard on Sunday. They you know, the guys
Speaker 1: at the rect League are playing hard on ten am
Speaker 1: on Saturday mornings. But it's what are they preparing this week?
Speaker 1: Did they get distracted about Christmas? Did they get distracted?
Speaker 1: Are they really looking at film or the Cowboys doing
Speaker 1: the same. That's the question goes both ways. Yeah, it's Wednesday, Thursday,
Speaker 1: Friday reparation, and especially this week of preparation. It's it's
Speaker 1: tough to figure that out. That's kind of going back
Speaker 1: to my other point. It's like as mediocre and frustrating
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys have been at times, like it's been
Speaker 1: a while, I mean, I guess twenty fifteen, but like
Speaker 1: it's been a while since you've really known how that feels.
Speaker 1: Like I am impressed if anybody that plays for a
Speaker 1: team like this where you've been out of it since October,
Speaker 1: it's just misery everywhere. Like if you can show up
Speaker 1: to work and really dedicate yourself in light of all that,
Speaker 1: Like that's really impressive and is obviously like the mark
Speaker 1: of a true professional. Like trying to put myself in
Speaker 1: that situation, I don't think i'd be very good at it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just I mean, that's a tough thing to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, you start thinking about it, you can easily
Speaker 1: rationalize in your mind, Okay, we're playing kind of a
Speaker 1: meaningless game. My kids are sitting here on a Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: I can need to put in that extra little bit
Speaker 1: of film work, or I can sit here and play
Speaker 1: with my kids literally, right, I mean, it's just like
Speaker 1: those are the kind of things where as a professional
Speaker 1: you know the right answer, but you also as a person,
Speaker 1: you're like, I know the right answer, right. My tape
Speaker 1: study would have been way more extensive if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were really gunning exactly, that's exactly right. The number one
Speaker 1: seeds on the line. Why would have been like, babe,
Speaker 1: go do your your study. And when I got the kids, like,
Speaker 1: when you're not doing that, then it's kind of like
Speaker 1: well watching what's you know? What you know? I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a solar lining and everything, and so for when
Speaker 1: I started here and in my first four seasons with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, that were eight and eight made the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but eight and eight five and eleven five to eleven,
Speaker 1: five and eleven. And I think that that helped me, honestly,
Speaker 1: because I didn't know any other way about how Christmas
Speaker 1: and Thanksgiving, December and games like that, you know, and
Speaker 1: so like I That's why it's kind of weird to
Speaker 1: me when you when you I I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 1: You're like, I could my kids, I could play with
Speaker 1: my kids and all that, but but the toys that
Speaker 1: he has, and the and the the playroom that he's playing,
Speaker 1: you know with, and all that are all provided because
Speaker 1: of the job that you have. Right But you're thinking
Speaker 1: right now as a forty something year old guy, when
Speaker 1: you're a twenty five year old guy, when you're a
Speaker 1: twenty eight year old guy, are you still thinking the
Speaker 1: same way? Do you have that that kind of perspective?
Speaker 1: And again, I'm not saying that anybody's doing anything that
Speaker 1: like anybody. I'm not trying to paint this picture that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys just taking the week off. All I'm saying
Speaker 1: is it does become a tougher prospect and you have
Speaker 1: to be way more disciplined and way more mentally tough
Speaker 1: to be able to force yourself to do it when again,
Speaker 1: you can, in your mind rationalize a good reason why
Speaker 1: you shouldn't. Yeah, but the reason why you should is
Speaker 1: that they have a chance to make the playoffs. They
Speaker 1: really do. Like this isn't like they got six things
Speaker 1: that need to happen. They don't. They have to go
Speaker 1: run their game, and the question becomes, to the Redskins
Speaker 1: do that when they don't? Yeah? Also the flip side
Speaker 1: of that, do the Giants do that when they don't? Right?
Speaker 1: This week is going to be easy for the Giants
Speaker 1: and Redskins in my opinion, because they have a chance
Speaker 1: to make life absolutely miserable for a division rival. And
Speaker 1: I think that's a hell of am monovator. And we
Speaker 1: we always think, you know, as cowboys and cowboy fans
Speaker 1: think the Giants are gonna want to help us, that
Speaker 1: the Redskins don't want to help. You know, there's hatred.
Speaker 1: We don't think about it. We don't think about the
Speaker 1: Giants Eagles hatred or the Giants Redskins or the Redskins
Speaker 1: Eagles and all that. But they hate each other all
Speaker 1: the same, all equally hate around the division. So It's
Speaker 1: not like, let's just lose to the Eagles, so the
Speaker 1: Cowboys don't get in that's dumb. They're gonna play, They're
Speaker 1: gonna play hard. And you know, I think the NFL
Speaker 1: did a really really good job this week that that
Speaker 1: was a very smart thing that they did, waiting like
Speaker 1: they do and then picking the games. If you go
Speaker 1: look at what the AFC four o'clock games are, every
Speaker 1: one of those games is about teams that are playing
Speaker 1: for that final wildcard spot, and then the early games
Speaker 1: are teams that are playing within them. You know, the seating.
Speaker 1: You know, somebody opened a president yesterday that had tickets
Speaker 1: to the Redskin Cowboy game that costs four hundred, five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars whatever. They deserve the right to have a
Speaker 1: good game, and the NFL did the best that they
Speaker 1: could to get that. It's one of the it's one
Speaker 1: of the smartest things the NFL has done in the
Speaker 1: last ten or so years is backloading the schedule with
Speaker 1: division games because it just guarantees that the majority of
Speaker 1: the games are going to mean something and if they don't,
Speaker 1: it's still Cowboys Redskins and that might mean something to somebody.
Speaker 1: Um I expect the Redskins to utilize their running backs
Speaker 1: a lot because it's the most it's the healthiest position group.
Speaker 1: Chris Thompson's a good receiving back, and the coach yeah
Speaker 1: and and and they will run it. Uh. They're actually
Speaker 1: surprisingly good at forcing takeaways and getting sacks. They're top
Speaker 1: ten in sacks with forty three sweats. A guy to watch,
Speaker 1: Um Ryan Anderson if he can play, and then Unitas
Speaker 1: is their leaders prising with that shoulder that bum quarterback
Speaker 1: Um and they have. They have twenty one takeaways on
Speaker 1: the year, which is five more than the Cowboys, even
Speaker 1: though they're supposedly like the worst team in the league.
Speaker 1: So it says a lot about how good the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are getting the ball, or there m anyway whispering going on.
Speaker 1: They can't get the football, they can't get any turnovers,
Speaker 1: they get short feeling. I fully expect this to be
Speaker 1: a dramatic game, win or lose. I kind of like,
Speaker 1: if you think the Redskins are roll they haven't rolled over,
Speaker 1: they haven't gotten their doors blown off in weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this won't be a I don't think this will be
Speaker 1: a Cowboys blow them out kind of game. Like this
Speaker 1: is a game. It's going to be close, and it's
Speaker 1: actually let's take a look. I'm they lost by They
Speaker 1: lost by six to New York in overtime. They lost
Speaker 1: by ten to Philly, which is really three because the
Speaker 1: last play of the game was a defensive touchdown. They
Speaker 1: pushed Green Bay to the brink in at Lambeau. Lost
Speaker 1: by five, beat Carolina by eight, beat Detroit. They got
Speaker 1: whooped pretty bad by New York by the Jets. But
Speaker 1: that was all the way back on November seventeenth. Like
Speaker 1: the last month and a half, they've either been winning
Speaker 1: or playing really tough. So they're gonna play. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a hard fought game. It'll be impressive. If the
Speaker 1: Cowboys can whip these guys well the way they did
Speaker 1: in Week two, I don't expect to see that. And
Speaker 1: they won by ten. Yeah, but they were up by
Speaker 1: seventeen with like four minutes to play. Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: know the Redskins have. That's what they do, that's what
Speaker 1: case keenom does. You know. I think the Deacon dunk
Speaker 1: stuff that the Eagles had success with, I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna see that in this game. Agreed, all right, We're
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. It is the final segment of the Break
Speaker 1: Life in the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get some questions you guys can call us the
Speaker 1: numbers eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven,
Speaker 1: and we'll start with for us in Atlanta, for us,
Speaker 1: what up? Hey? What's up? Guys? Hey? Up doing break? Guys? Hopefully?
Speaker 1: How to merry Christmas? Hey? I was listening to you
Speaker 1: all earlier, I guess the show before the holidays in
Speaker 1: your whole question or whether or not you should extend that,
Speaker 1: and I think it would be ludicrous if you didn't,
Speaker 1: or even create an issue where you wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: pay the man. I mean, he's you know, earlier. I remember,
Speaker 1: earlier in his career, Nick would bring up the point
Speaker 1: that his average per pass wasn't as high as some
Speaker 1: of the other quarterbacks, and now it's one of the
Speaker 1: highest in the league, and that's not good enough. So
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of ludacrous. And I think that
Speaker 1: someone who is now leading the lead in passing um
Speaker 1: still isn't I guess, getting the getting your approval to
Speaker 1: extend to him or or give him the money that
Speaker 1: I guess most of the other average of the upper
Speaker 1: echelon quarterbacks are making. Can you can you name for
Speaker 1: me real quick the other like if you were to
Speaker 1: name the top five guys that are leading the league
Speaker 1: in passing right now? You know those other guys are
Speaker 1: All of those guys are not in the playoffs, James Weston,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan that and there's a couple of a couple
Speaker 1: of the guys. I can't think, but yeah, how does
Speaker 1: that really matter? I guess the reason I'm asking that,
Speaker 1: I want to know for you, for you to bring
Speaker 1: that up, what do you think that really means? When
Speaker 1: you say he's leading the league? So that means so
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you pay him? What does that really mean?
Speaker 1: I would have paid him a long time ago. I
Speaker 1: would have. I would have. I didn't feel like he
Speaker 1: needed to lead the league in passing. I felt like
Speaker 1: you guys made the point. And I mean you guys
Speaker 1: like Nick and some of the other guys. Brian had
Speaker 1: mentioned that he hasn't had the average yard for passing
Speaker 1: that some of the other quarterbacks that had, like the
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and all of them when they were doing that.
Speaker 1: And now Aaron Rodgers is his career stats are mediocre
Speaker 1: at best, but his team is winning. But it's okay
Speaker 1: because he's Aaron Rodgers and he's winning. I mean, like
Speaker 1: I think the winning part of it is the big deal.
Speaker 1: I really don't remember making the big deal about that
Speaker 1: that stat the passing yards per play. That might be
Speaker 1: more Brian than me. Okay, and uh, but I know
Speaker 1: that he is. He has garnished a lot of your
Speaker 1: criticism and and is he still has a high completion rate,
Speaker 1: you know. And you can't have a high completion rate
Speaker 1: if you're not completing passes, So you have to be
Speaker 1: accurate enough to be completing passes. Where would you pay him?
Speaker 1: You say, you would definitely think of ludicrous if you wouldn't.
Speaker 1: What's the range that you would you would be shooting
Speaker 1: for that you'd be willing to pay well if he,
Speaker 1: like he said he came down to I guess what,
Speaker 1: saying thirty five million or something like that, which which
Speaker 1: I would say, I believe I heard that the last
Speaker 1: time that they were talking about negotiations that he had
Speaker 1: brought hit him and his team and said they had
Speaker 1: came down and were willing to meet them at like
Speaker 1: thirty five or something like that. I would definitely do that. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, thanks for one more thing. I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask if I could you know, um, I looked at this,
Speaker 1: and I was looking at the twenty fourteen game win.
Speaker 1: We were fourth and two against Green Bay and our
Speaker 1: best play was a fifty fifty ball to Desk Bryant.
Speaker 1: And then we come back, same coaching staff, different roles,
Speaker 1: of course, but then a fourth and eight and our
Speaker 1: best players a fifty fifty ball, almost the same kind
Speaker 1: of pass. What is it that we do? What is
Speaker 1: it that you feel that we do best? And why
Speaker 1: doesn't this team do that when they need eight yards
Speaker 1: or two yards? I don't see why we can't get
Speaker 1: eight yards and keep that drive going versus trying to
Speaker 1: throw up a fifty fifty ball. Yeah, I oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with that last part. More. Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: said so many times after the game that they got
Speaker 1: the look they wanted. Why is the look you wanted?
Speaker 1: A jump ball to Michael Gallup, who has had a
Speaker 1: really nice season, But I would not classify that as
Speaker 1: his forte and it's not fifty. He was the best
Speaker 1: receiver he had on play he was, which is also
Speaker 1: part of the problem. But I mean, like when you
Speaker 1: threw the ball up to Daz it was not even
Speaker 1: fifty fifty. He could he would go get it, and
Speaker 1: he went and got that one. Everyone knows he caught
Speaker 1: that ball, so like he caught it, and it was,
Speaker 1: you know, just an unfortunate call against him. But like
Speaker 1: I think he could have gone to Beasley underneath on
Speaker 1: that play. Yes, And and you know, I think Romo
Speaker 1: saw he finally got one on one. He threw it
Speaker 1: up des made the play. But I don't think Gallup
Speaker 1: goes and makes that play all the time. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's fifty fifty anymore he does. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the world of the job Michael Gallup has done
Speaker 1: this year, but he dropped a ball like that five
Speaker 1: minutes prior. He should have had that. I the best
Speaker 1: thing they do is, honestly, probably the RPO slant to
Speaker 1: I mean to Cooper, which even that didn't work on
Speaker 1: Sunday nothing. For they should have called the timeout. They
Speaker 1: should have completely us and just say let's get our
Speaker 1: best player, let's get our best call. And if if
Speaker 1: we don't like what Callen's gonna call, then you jump
Speaker 1: in and say something. And you know what, you better
Speaker 1: make the right call because you only have two timeouts now,
Speaker 1: and if you don't make this then obviously it's gonna
Speaker 1: be really, really hard. But but do that, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be just as hard to try to get Jarwin and
Speaker 1: Witton open on, you know, for eight yards. I don't
Speaker 1: know how to parse through the whole Dak thing, which,
Speaker 1: just for the record, everybody knows I'm the Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: fanboy here. Like his stats are not mediocre, they're not
Speaker 1: He's not leading the league, and he has definitely taken
Speaker 1: a backseat to his defense this year. There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. He played poorly on Monday Night, but he's
Speaker 1: thrown twenty four passes, twenty four touchdowns, and three picks
Speaker 1: all year. He's he's doing Dak twenty sixteen at a
Speaker 1: higher level than what Dack did in twenty sixteen. There's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that, and yeah, if you win games,
Speaker 1: that's all that matters. And just to be clear, when
Speaker 1: he says that that, you know, we were talking last
Speaker 1: week about not wanting to pay him. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody was saying they wanted to let Dak go. The
Speaker 1: argument was do you sign him to a long term
Speaker 1: deal or do you franchise him? That was the argument,
Speaker 1: because I think we all agree that needs to be
Speaker 1: back here because the Cowboys don't want to go back
Speaker 1: into quarterback a bits. I don't care, that's the point.
Speaker 1: But but and my argument was, I'm not willing to
Speaker 1: overpay him. So if his camp is really hardcore sitting
Speaker 1: there at to be honest with you, if they're anywhere
Speaker 1: above thirty five, I mean even at a hair over
Speaker 1: thirty five, I'm holding out like that. And that's where
Speaker 1: I would use the franchise tag if I needed to.
Speaker 1: But that's my ceiling as far as what I'm willing
Speaker 1: to pay him, right That's where I can see this
Speaker 1: being frustrating. It's it reminds me of DeMarcus Lawrence, where
Speaker 1: it seems pretty obvious. You're like, you're one of the
Speaker 1: best defensive linemen in the game. You do this, this
Speaker 1: and this, but you have not displayed an ability to
Speaker 1: completely wreck a game like a Khalil, So why are
Speaker 1: you asking for more money than Khalil Mack Like Dak,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you are well deserving of this pay day.
Speaker 1: You slot right in there somewhere between like you know,
Speaker 1: four and eight, and we feel great about your upside
Speaker 1: everything you do off the field. You got some developing
Speaker 1: to do, but we feel confident you'll do it, So
Speaker 1: let's pay you thirty four or a year and call
Speaker 1: it a day. Right, better than wins and golf by
Speaker 1: the way, Yeah, who you know, arguably people can say
Speaker 1: wins might be they're right there neck and neck, but
Speaker 1: I won't tell you more. Do the Cowboys agree with
Speaker 1: what I just said? Like are they willing to meet that?
Speaker 1: And does Dak agree that that's the assessment of his game?
Speaker 1: And are he and his people willing to meet that?
Speaker 1: Like it should be that easy, But so many times
Speaker 1: we've seen that's not the case, because everybody's trying to
Speaker 1: maximize in their favor. And I don't blame him for
Speaker 1: doing that, but that's why we're gonna wind up with
Speaker 1: it being made eighteenth and Dak's still on the tag
Speaker 1: and everybody's pissed off, and I'm already dreading having to
Speaker 1: talk about it. Yeah, all right, think that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: definitely have the upper hand here in every single way. One,
Speaker 1: you're changing your coaching staff, that's basically gonna happen, and
Speaker 1: you don't know what's gonna come with that, but you're
Speaker 1: hoping something better. And the fact, again, the whole sponsor
Speaker 1: thing that really changes a lot. Dak is not gonna
Speaker 1: get that much attention in any other team that he
Speaker 1: would land on, and that changes everything. And I think
Speaker 1: he's a smart guy too, So the way the Cowboys
Speaker 1: go about this and my problem with that guy and
Speaker 1: I like him. I think he's evolving and getting better
Speaker 1: and all that, but is he a guy that can
Speaker 1: win games on his own? You know, he needs those
Speaker 1: other guys to help him. And that's where my problem
Speaker 1: comes in to question. It's like, okay, now, when you're
Speaker 1: needing so and so and then this other guy or
Speaker 1: this other guy to help this one guy win games,
Speaker 1: that changes things for me as far as how much
Speaker 1: money or how elite do you think a player is. Well,
Speaker 1: Dave just been saying, one of the best in the
Speaker 1: league Aaron Rodgers. That's what they're doing this year, and
Speaker 1: they're getting back to the level of success that they
Speaker 1: got earlier in his career when he was when he
Speaker 1: did have everything on his shoulders. But this year they're
Speaker 1: they're playing a he's playing a very efficient brand of
Speaker 1: football and they're relying on their defense, they're relying on
Speaker 1: their running game. And I do believe that in this NFL.
Speaker 1: I think if you have a really good quarterback, being
Speaker 1: able to have other pieces around them and being able
Speaker 1: to use those other pieces and let the quarterback just
Speaker 1: be the quarterback, I think it's actually the best way
Speaker 1: to be able to do it. Sometimes you can't do
Speaker 1: that financially because the amount of money that you have
Speaker 1: to pay for them. But they don't have those those pieces.
Speaker 1: I mean, like when when those guys get hurt, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys aren't the same. I mean, look at last year.
Speaker 1: I mean, didd was he that much better in the
Speaker 1: second half of the season, And when Lamari Cooper came in,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, and they go to the
Speaker 1: Jets and then Cooper's out of that game, and the
Speaker 1: tackles are out of that game, and then the offense
Speaker 1: just falls apart. Like that's not happening with other guys.
Speaker 1: It just it just doesn't. So I agree with that
Speaker 1: they get thrown off very easily with anything that happens.
Speaker 1: And like I'm think about, Okay, what's gonna happen this
Speaker 1: weekend with Sue Philo now being out, you know, he
Speaker 1: was the one replacing Connor Williams. And then it's like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are unable to figure things out. As soon
Speaker 1: as you take one little piece out of their game
Speaker 1: and throw them off, they're like, oh my god, what
Speaker 1: do we do here? And and those are the situation
Speaker 1: where I would expect the quarterback to be able to
Speaker 1: take the bigger load on his back, but haven't. We
Speaker 1: also said on this show that a lot of that
Speaker 1: is about the philosophy of the head coach. When you
Speaker 1: got that next man up mentality, then you can't necessarily
Speaker 1: absorb those because you don't. You don't necessarily change up
Speaker 1: what you're doing to account for the fact that this
Speaker 1: guy's gone. You just say, well, the second guy that's
Speaker 1: coming in should be able to handle the job, and
Speaker 1: he can't always handle the job. I don't even know
Speaker 1: if that's what next man up means entirely. I think
Speaker 1: next man up doesn't necessarily mean looney for through a
Speaker 1: philo and then it's all good. I think it means
Speaker 1: play better Travis Frederick, play better Tyrants. But that's not
Speaker 1: the way it's been happening. It doesn't seem like it doesn't.
Speaker 1: So the example I'll give you is, Okay, you know
Speaker 1: you're starting left guard is out and you bring in
Speaker 1: the next guy. Well, there would be a lot of
Speaker 1: coaches that may go the route of saying, Okay, we
Speaker 1: need to protect that left guard a little bit because
Speaker 1: that that guy's not as good as the guy that
Speaker 1: was there before. It doesn't seem like the Cowboys take
Speaker 1: that approach all the time. It's sometimes they take the approach, well,
Speaker 1: the guy should just be able to play, he should
Speaker 1: just be able to step up and be that good,
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, he's not, because if he was, he'd
Speaker 1: be the starter. And that's where I get back to.
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna have that argument, my question becomes,
Speaker 1: is that more about the coach and them not trying
Speaker 1: to hide the deficiencies more or is it really about
Speaker 1: the fact the quarterback isn't doing enough for them to
Speaker 1: be in spite of it. I think you have a
Speaker 1: decent point, But I mean, I've just watched Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: win way too many games where like nobody was helping
Speaker 1: him at all. Like you're talking about hiding the fact
Speaker 1: that you're left guard's not good. He's won games where
Speaker 1: his whole offensive line was a rat. But that's not
Speaker 1: that No, that's my point, But too, I mean Seriously,
Speaker 1: if if you're sitting there and you're telling me you're
Speaker 1: scared that Dak is not on that level of a
Speaker 1: guy who can elevate you too, will win no matter
Speaker 1: how bad things are. I mean, look, Aaron Rodgers has
Speaker 1: Davante Adams who missed half the season and like not
Speaker 1: a whole lot else in terms of and and he's
Speaker 1: still making it work. Aaron Jones is great, but I'm
Speaker 1: talking about pass games. Winch is making an argument right
Speaker 1: now in the same way, like if you're I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna tell me reverse those roles and you're
Speaker 1: just like, Dak is going to go into this game
Speaker 1: without his starting right tackle, both of his starting receivers,
Speaker 1: his starting his week one starting running back, all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and find a way to win the game. You feel
Speaker 1: good about that right now? Can you say to a
Speaker 1: certainty that's going to happen? And I think the world
Speaker 1: of Dac. I think he can grow into that type
Speaker 1: of quarterback, which is why I'm comfortable paying him. He's
Speaker 1: not that guy right now, and I get why that
Speaker 1: scares people, and that yeah, and that's that's a good
Speaker 1: way to say it. He's just not the guy right now.
Speaker 1: But we're not saying not to pay him, because those
Speaker 1: guys get paid. I mean they get paid. Derek Carr
Speaker 1: got paid, and Matthew Stafford got paid, and Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: got paid. I mean, those guys got paid and they
Speaker 1: haven't won anything really yet. So that that happens, that's
Speaker 1: one a little bit more than them. I'm not starting
Speaker 1: over with Dak. I'm gonna pay him. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get the best deal that I can get him, and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to pay him and not franchise him because
Speaker 1: I think you need that franchise for other people. And further,
Speaker 1: you know, Mary, Hey, there you go. Maybe I mean
Speaker 1: not that it would happen. Check out the road games
Speaker 1: and see where we're playing on the road and see
Speaker 1: how that's going to work. Well, he's not playing well
Speaker 1: on the road. He sucks on the road this year,
Speaker 1: and he's pretty good at home. Well, that they got
Speaker 1: a shot at him, they gotta play. They gotta play
Speaker 1: eight of him next year too. Last year, you know what,
Speaker 1: it wasn't just like I mean, he played one of
Speaker 1: his worst games indoors against the Saints, So it's not
Speaker 1: like it was just an outdoor cold thing. I don't know. People.
Speaker 1: People maybe they can always fly him out the morning
Speaker 1: of the game. Just let him sleep in his own
Speaker 1: bed at night and then fly him out and see
Speaker 1: if that hapens. It's twenty million a year. You can
Speaker 1: have a house in every place, and then he can
Speaker 1: get home all over the place. Point to that point,
Speaker 1: great point. People have been tweeting me a lot because
Speaker 1: I root for LSU. They're like, we gotta go after
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow and I'm just like, like, entertain this idea
Speaker 1: where Dak isn't the future of your quarterback position even
Speaker 1: for a second, And you're like, all right, what are
Speaker 1: we giving up to get into a position where we
Speaker 1: can get him? How long is it going to take him?
Speaker 1: The odds that the odds that any quarterback you draft
Speaker 1: is going to be ready to be the guy right away,
Speaker 1: and even that he turns out to be a good quarterback,
Speaker 1: Like it's a crapshoot getting quarterbacks no matter where you
Speaker 1: draft him, right yeah, even I mean Baker Mayfield has
Speaker 1: had a year to forget and people were telling me
Speaker 1: he was better than Dak at the start of the season,
Speaker 1: after Rookie of the Year, Right, so that he didn't
Speaker 1: get off Barkley. He got did. Yeah. I just however
Speaker 1: you feel, however you feel about Dak, I think it's
Speaker 1: a better chance he finds his way under that salary.
Speaker 1: Then you go back to the well and do what
Speaker 1: you would have to do to make that one thing
Speaker 1: real quick. Because I was gonna tease this early. I
Speaker 1: a lot of fans are like, I don't want the
Speaker 1: Cowboys to win because I don't want Jason Garrett to
Speaker 1: be the coach. Jason Garrett is not going to get
Speaker 1: an extension for beating the Redskins and the Eagles losing
Speaker 1: and you back in at eight and eight. He's not
Speaker 1: getting an extension for that. If they beat the forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers or Seahawks, he's not getting an extension for that.
Speaker 1: And even if you win the divisional game, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that'll do it either. I don't know that,
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying they went ten and six down
Speaker 1: the stretch last year and he didn't give him another deal.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get it. If Jason Garrett gets an extension,
Speaker 1: it'll the fans will probably be okay because of what
Speaker 1: that meant for the team. That meant I mean, all
Speaker 1: your perceptions of him would change because if they just
Speaker 1: went to a level you didn't think he could go to,
Speaker 1: Which is that going to happen? Probably not, But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, don't don't think that that's gonna do anything.
Speaker 1: I don't think winning getting into the playoffs is going
Speaker 1: to affect it. It's gonna have to be a deep,
Speaker 1: deep run and if that happens, and your perceptions of
Speaker 1: him might change. If this thing went to the super
Speaker 1: Bowl right now, I just had an argument with this
Speaker 1: an hour ago. It's like, well, he went to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. We don't want him to win because I'm
Speaker 1: tired of the clapping. I'm tired of saying all I'm
Speaker 1: tired from saying he's a good football player and he
Speaker 1: has been for a long time. Tom Landry was stow
Speaker 1: it for thirty five years and it was fine because
Speaker 1: they were winning. No one cares about the clapping, No
Speaker 1: one cares about his press conferences, No one cares that
Speaker 1: he wears blue every day because it's the fact that
Speaker 1: they don't win always. Right, if he did something to
Speaker 1: change all that, which I don't believe is going to happen.
Speaker 1: But if he does, those things are kind of petty
Speaker 1: now and you don't care as much, but they are
Speaker 1: the reasons now because they're eight and eight, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But and you know if they were to pull that off,
Speaker 1: if they were to go on a run like that, obviously,
Speaker 1: like you're going to root for him in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But I'm playing Devil's advocate with you. But I think
Speaker 1: people would say, we've got ten years of evidence that
Speaker 1: suggests he's not that great of a coach, not anymore,
Speaker 1: because he just showed you. But then that's a four
Speaker 1: game sample size. And even though I mean it would
Speaker 1: be one of the most impressive things has happened in
Speaker 1: recent NFL history, that's an interesting conversation that we would
Speaker 1: need another show for it. Should four unbelievable games offset
Speaker 1: ten years of not so much, Well, you can take
Speaker 1: his name. You would be able to take his name
Speaker 1: off that graphic that everybody's seeing where you've been coached
Speaker 1: for that long and haven't gone to a super Bowl. Right,
Speaker 1: then he now becomes a part of that group of
Speaker 1: guys that have been as tenured as he is and
Speaker 1: being able to take their team to a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it changes a bit. I do
Speaker 1: think there'll still be some people that will be like
Speaker 1: unless he wins, and even some that might even if
Speaker 1: he wins, are like I just I'm tired of his stick,
Speaker 1: like I'm tired of what he represents. That's all fine
Speaker 1: and dandy, but they're still going to be rooting for
Speaker 1: the Cowboy, right So, and that changes if you get
Speaker 1: to the to the sup Bowl and that conversation we
Speaker 1: just had five minutes ago about that, that changes too,
Speaker 1: because if all that stuff happened to go Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Sorry, I know we're trying to end the show,
Speaker 1: but I said this on Twitter. It's not like getting
Speaker 1: the music. This thing could end in disappointing fashion in
Speaker 1: five days, or we could be here five weeks from now.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to happen, but the fact
Speaker 1: that both things are in play at the same time
Speaker 1: is very weird. Crazy. How often, like how many times
Speaker 1: as a head coach had a shot at the playoffs
Speaker 1: and we're sitting here thinking he might not be the
Speaker 1: coach a week from today. That's weird, but here we are,
Speaker 1: like I mentioned upstairs day, in five weeks, how many
Speaker 1: games have the Cowboys one one in five weeks, only
Speaker 1: one game, so there's that. Thanks for having us back
Speaker 1: to reality again. You appreciate you, guys, John us from back. Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: we're gonna let you know what we think is gonna
Speaker 1: happen this weekend, Cowboys versus Redskins. Still then for Nick Eatman,
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