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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com wall

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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, November nineteenth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode

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Speaker 1: number eighty two. Welcome to another edition of The Break,

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Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Warriors Studios at the Star.

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Speaker 1: It is a good Monday around here. Cowboys get a

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Speaker 1: big win yesterday against the Atlanta Falcon. It's their second

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Speaker 1: in a row on the road. They win twenty two nineteen,

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Speaker 1: and we will tell tell you guys all about it

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Speaker 1: today and what went right what went wrong for the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys because there were some things they're still gonna have

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Speaker 1: to work on. And we have a short week. This Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Cowboys are right back at it against the Washington Redskin

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Speaker 1: and it will be victory Wednesday. This is pretty much

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Speaker 1: like a Wednesday already we go with that um. But no,

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Speaker 1: this game this week is going to be for the division.

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Speaker 1: As of right now. Obviously it'll be for the lead

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Speaker 1: in the division, very very important game, just as last

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Speaker 1: week was a very important game, and just as a

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Speaker 1: week before was a very important game. How's everybody doing

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Speaker 1: this morning? Great? Ready to jump right in? Yeah? Ready

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Speaker 1: to ump them? Are important games, Yeah they are. You're

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Speaker 1: right about that. All you spend too much time with

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Speaker 1: broad us from coming from the Redskins. Win is the

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Speaker 1: and you know that that one's going to be really,

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Speaker 1: really tough. You gotta win this one because if you go,

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Speaker 1: gonna do anything. And the pressure will mount with each

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Well, I said last week, if they beat

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Speaker 1: I did say that. Feel good about that. I feel

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Speaker 1: that they're they're they're struggling right now, yeah they are.

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Speaker 1: And the Redskins are struggling as well. I mean the

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Speaker 1: of the season as I can remember the Cowboys having.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, like the Colts look good

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden four game win streak. Andrew Luck

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys the week they gotta win. Love this dumb league.

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Speaker 1: It's always entertained, always been changing, all right, So let's

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Speaker 1: him in his you know Monday Morning column today. He's

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's blowing up. Obviously, he's got to keep

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Speaker 1: You know, we sort of compared in my guests or

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Speaker 1: he got comparisons to Brian Urlacher, which is like, whoa

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Speaker 1: think we really saw a lot out of Shaun Lee.

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Speaker 1: And I hate saying that because Saun Lee, no disrespect

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Speaker 1: Back to the Break, Welcome back to second segment of

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Speaker 1: the start, talking Cowboys football and Cowboys big win. Yesterday

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Speaker 1: they get a huge win, a really huge win against

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons on the road. That's two in a row.

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Speaker 1: Now on the road and get ready for a Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: Day game this Thursday against the Washington Redskins. Tomorrow, we'll

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Speaker 1: get you guys ready. We'll talk about the Washington offense

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Speaker 1: and then on Wednesday we'll hit the Washington defense and

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Speaker 1: give you some predictions for the game. Let's we'll also

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Speaker 1: take some costs throughout the show. So if you guys

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Speaker 1: want to call us the numbers eight eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: five five two two nine seven again eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: real quick. I do want to talk about the offensive

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Speaker 1: line a bit. We've talked about Zeke and his performance

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Speaker 1: and how well he performed, and I think that goes

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Speaker 1: to be able to get hold create holes for him.

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Speaker 1: We saw a lot of situations yesterday where Zeke was

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Speaker 1: getting past the h the first wave of defenders, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of instances without being touched. To me, that

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Speaker 1: is a great indication that the offensive line is doing

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Speaker 1: their jobs. What do you guys see yesterday from the

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Speaker 1: offensive line overall? Well, I thought they did a pretty

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Speaker 1: nice job. You know the fact that Zeke likes to

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Speaker 1: be a patient runner, and you do that because you

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Speaker 1: know that you have confidence in your offensive line. You know,

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Speaker 1: you can't just you have to wait for it just

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Speaker 1: a second, It'll be there. I thought, I think Xavier

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Speaker 1: Suaphilo is gonna end up being one of the better

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Speaker 1: additions to this team when we go back they continue

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Speaker 1: to make you know, strides here and maybe get into

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. I think we're gonna come back to that

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Speaker 1: moment and go, you know what, like that was a

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Speaker 1: really good decision to put him in there. He adds strength,

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Speaker 1: he's a smart guy, he's pretty, you know, he's he's agile.

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Speaker 1: I just think he gives him a little bit more

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Speaker 1: of a push up there. Yeah. No, I mean they

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Speaker 1: arguably looked the most like the unit where to seeing

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Speaker 1: as they have all season. I mean even last week

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Speaker 1: in Philly they gave up four sacks, gave up two yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I don't remember both of them in vivid clarity right now,

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Speaker 1: but I know one of them I would call a

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Speaker 1: coverage sack. You know, Dak double clutched the ball it

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Speaker 1: felt like three times and didn't have anywhere to go

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Speaker 1: with it. So you know that that type of stuff's

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Speaker 1: going to happen. But they kept him clean. And obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, Zeke did Zeke stuff which people have been

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Speaker 1: commenting on Twitter like ever since the game that that

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Speaker 1: was as patient as Zeke has looked maybe ever, just

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Speaker 1: you know, allowing things to develop for him. That's I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's a byproduct of blocking. When you have time to

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Speaker 1: let things develop and wait for the right opening, that's

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Speaker 1: because your guys are doing their job. And yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to speak for Jason Garrett, but I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't think you go away from Xavier Suaphilo

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Speaker 1: after these two games. Yeah, they've looked really impressive. And

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Speaker 1: credit to Mark Colombo too. I mean, the lineups different,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think you can deny the fact that

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Speaker 1: they've looked a lot better in the three games since

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Speaker 1: he took over either. So honestly, the only like little

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Speaker 1: struggle that I keep seeing it or that I saw

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Speaker 1: this game was Lyle callins just little moments here and there,

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Speaker 1: and even then it was still good enough to obviously

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Speaker 1: allow them to keep moving the ball and move around

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Speaker 1: the field. But other than that, they looked pretty clean.

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Speaker 1: I think Vic Beasley had both of their sacks, and

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Speaker 1: he had one coming into the game. He lines up

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Speaker 1: on the left side. That's I mean, it hasn't been

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Speaker 1: an amazing season for Lyle by any stretch, although he

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Speaker 1: did make the play of the game yesterday. If it's

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Speaker 1: not gallop catch, it's that one, it's the it's not

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Speaker 1: only him scooping up that fumble, but falling for that

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Speaker 1: was huge, he said on the plane. I talked to

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Speaker 1: him on the plane and he said, I didn't even

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Speaker 1: know I got it first down. But he's still funny

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Speaker 1: because he goes he's I have the stats. He's like,

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Speaker 1: do I get rushing yards for that? No, dude, you don't. Actually,

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Speaker 1: he just recovered a fumble, recovered a fumble. We looked

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Speaker 1: at it. It's like fumble recovery two yards, So you

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Speaker 1: get two fumble recovery yards. And it was huge though

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Speaker 1: to do that to because a lot of times you

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Speaker 1: just kind of use your big body and fall on

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Speaker 1: the ball, but I mean he kind of un scooped

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Speaker 1: it up. Brian made another great point in his notebook

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Speaker 1: last night too, like these if you haven't ever looked

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Speaker 1: like these guys, they taped the hell out of their

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Speaker 1: hands and then they put like they're basically like lacrosse gloves.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if anything like you know, they're yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're like goalie gloves, like I mean, padding out to here,

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Speaker 1: like they look like they're going to play lacrosse. And

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Speaker 1: he picked up the ball and did something athletic with it,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty impressive. He probably hasn't touched a football

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Speaker 1: since he was in junior high so when he was

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Speaker 1: running back and quarterback. Yeah, exactly. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: LC was ever, I don't know. All these guys are

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Speaker 1: so athletically amazingly athletic that I wouldn't be surprised. So

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Speaker 1: just just imagine, you know, just taping up your hands

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Speaker 1: and then a little golf balls bouncing around. You got

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Speaker 1: to pick it up, because that's pretty much what it

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Speaker 1: is for like, right, yeah, how much? How much do

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Speaker 1: you want to attribute though, too, that those coaching changes

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Speaker 1: that you've made versus the change in personnel. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: specifically about Sue Philo. Do you think it kind of

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Speaker 1: goes hand in hand or do you think one has

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Speaker 1: more of an impact on how the offensive line has

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Speaker 1: played these last couple of weeks. I'll say that I

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Speaker 1: do think that he fits the style that they were

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Speaker 1: talking about where we call Colombo was like, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get back to what we do. We're gonna be more

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Speaker 1: of an attacking, you know, punch first type thing instead

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Speaker 1: of kind of weight. And I think Suephilo gives them

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Speaker 1: that possibilities more than Connor Williams. I think Connor Williams

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Speaker 1: is not not there yet. They're not going to give

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Speaker 1: up on him at all. I mean, he's got he's

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Speaker 1: got some skill, he's got a mean streak to him

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Speaker 1: that is gonna fit on this line. You don't know exactly,

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Speaker 1: you really know. You don't really know how the Cowboys are.

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Speaker 1: And I'm saying they've won two games with the Xavier

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Speaker 1: on there. They're not changing that. They're super supers. What

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Speaker 1: is it like superstitious. It's Jason Garrett. No, it's not

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Speaker 1: even superstitious. It's like this case better. Yes, he's just better,

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Speaker 1: but they are. They've been better. They are, But I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying they've been better as an offensive line us

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Speaker 1: as an offense. They've been better with him in the game.

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Speaker 1: They I mean, you have to mention both. It can't

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Speaker 1: be all or one or the other. But I mean

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Speaker 1: all all three four really of the veteran guys, I

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Speaker 1: think they've played better too. And I think whether whether

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if Colombo is like this

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame coach, but I think they're probably just

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Speaker 1: it's like a burden off their shoulders, like they can

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Speaker 1: forget that conflicting technique that they clearly didn't like. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's a guy, like I said, it's a guy that

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Speaker 1: they like that they get along with. I think it

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Speaker 1: probably just makes playing easier and more fun for them.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's superstitious. There's a there's a guy. There's a guy

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Speaker 1: up in the PR department. It's to go to one

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Speaker 1: game of the year. He goes to Philly, they win.

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Speaker 1: Guess what, he gets to go to Atlanta. He'll be

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Speaker 1: in it, and I heard his boss telling him last night.

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Speaker 1: Makes you get bags are packed because you're traveling. You're traveling.

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Speaker 1: You guys know you guys know how I feel about that.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just like, man, y'all put a lot of

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Speaker 1: time and effort and blood and sweat and tears into

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Speaker 1: winning these football games. And to chalk it up to

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Speaker 1: something as silly as who's on the trip? Oh you

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Speaker 1: want to hear another one? It's insulting, honestly in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: like what like give yourselves some credit rather than meaningless

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Speaker 1: like who wore what sock? Like stop stop Brian and

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Speaker 1: I do our periscope on Wednesday, I too left because no, no,

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Speaker 1: it's like we're always looking for the room where we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go in and do our periscope if we win.

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Speaker 1: If the Cowboys win that week, they're like, oh, let's

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Speaker 1: go back to the winning room. If they lose, us

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Speaker 1: like we need to change rooms again. I'm like, Brian,

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Speaker 1: this has the game. It's so stupid. Sorry. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what we do on this show and what we write

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Speaker 1: about it obviously motivates the coaching staff. I saw I

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Speaker 1: saw your little exchange with GB after the game. It

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Speaker 1: is not happy. No, I wouldn't be. Gary Brown likes

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Speaker 1: to point out if you pick him to lose, and

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Speaker 1: he doesn't really understand it. There's a psychological thing going

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Speaker 1: on with all of us in our own picks, because

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Speaker 1: it's like, well, I picked him here and I picked

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Speaker 1: him here, so obviously I thought they could win. I

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Speaker 1: just didn't see it. I didn't expect them to win,

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Speaker 1: to expect that defense to play like them picked up

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Speaker 1: the Falcons to win. I mean, we're about to do

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Speaker 1: the stand up. He comes over and says something about it.

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Speaker 1: I have no problem with that. It's just that where

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Speaker 1: are you in Tennessee? Where were you when we're about

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Speaker 1: to shoot Tennessee and I said, y'all would win by two?

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Speaker 1: Is having fun. There's other people that would not be.

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Speaker 1: But I think he's just having fun. I it's it's

639
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: pretty one sided, and it sucks, like, yeah, come and

640
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: find me and apologize when I picked you to win

641
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: and you don't embarrass yourselves on national TV. It's not fair.

642
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 1: One other thing I wanted to throw about at the

643
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: offense yesterday. Dad gets another game winning drive there and

644
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: it was interesting. After the game I heard Dak talk

645
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: about it. I heard Cole talk about it that he

646
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: Ze talk about as well, But they talk about how

647
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: the fact when they get the ball with those kind

648
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: of situations. Right now, they're getting a point where they

649
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: feel like they're gonna win. They fuck, They're at least

650
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: gonna have a shot to win. Are you guys starting

651
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: to feel that same level of confidence, because I do

652
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: believe when Tony was the quarterback of this team towards

653
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: the end of his career, I felt like if the

654
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: Cowboys got the ball with a minute and a half

655
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: left and they needed a field goal to win, I

656
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: felt very certain they were gonna win. If they need

657
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: a touchdown, I felt maybe they're gonna do it. They're

658
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: gonna definitely be a chance. He's gonna be throwing into

659
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: the end zone at the end of the game. They'll

660
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: have a shot at it. Are you starting to get

661
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: that level of confidence yet? With Dak in this offense

662
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: really telling quote actually speaking of the offensive line. You know,

663
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: I give Dak grief because he goes out of his

664
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: way to be boring with the media more often than not.

665
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: But a really telling answer from him because somebody asked him, like,

666
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: are you more confident and have you been more confident

667
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: these last few weeks than you were earlier in the season.

668
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: And he was like, yeah, I would say so, and

669
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: he said and he said something like, I don't really

670
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: know why. I can't put my finger on it. And

671
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: then he stopped himself and he was like, the offensive

672
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 1: line has a lot to do with it, Like their

673
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: mindset right now and their confidence, Like everybody feeds off that.

674
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: I think he's more confident that he's not going to

675
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: get hit, He's more confident that they can open up

676
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: the holes that they need to, and he's he's playing

677
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: like it. I sawt you know his Uh, he's completing

678
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: sixty three percent these last two games. Obviously, his averages

679
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: are way up. His rating is at like ninety five.

680
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: He looks like the guy we remember. It's what I

681
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: said on Twitter last night. I think having that offensive

682
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: line playing at a high level probably has a lot

683
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: to do with it. All goes back to the offensive line, huh.

684
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: I mean we shouldn't be surprised. That's the blueprint for

685
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: this team. I know we had this conversation about five weeks.

686
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: It looks good. Yeah, yeah, Can I piss off our

687
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: fans real quick? Sure? Absolutely do it. The coaching staff

688
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: out coached the Falcons in this game. They did they

689
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: They did a really nice job in this game. And

690
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: and I saw some things on Twitter about it. We'll

691
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: wait till Garrett has a chance to manage the game,

692
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens. He managed the game like

693
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: you don't just manage a game when you lost. They

694
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: did a nice job there at the end of the game.

695
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: And I told you about it before we went on

696
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: the show. If you play it right, and the way

697
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: that there's like a little sweet spot of time, you

698
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: have three timeouts. The Cowboys had five timeouts because they

699
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: made the Falcons have to call one. Then they got it,

700
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: and then they were able to call timeouts. Atlanta's trying

701
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: to call timeouts to stop the clock. And therefore that

702
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: Cowboys don't have to do anything. They don't had They

703
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: just run the ball, time out, calm down, and do everything.

704
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: They managed it perfectly right there. I think you got

705
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: to give credit where credit is due. Absolutely, And people

706
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: were tweeting me like they expected me to be mad

707
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: because I was so mad about the way the Washington

708
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: game ended. I don't see the similarity there at all.

709
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: I thought I thought they played it beautifully. They clearly

710
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: wanted Maher's kick to be the last play of the game.

711
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: You can say what you will, regulation yeah, yeah, or

712
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: regulation sorry. And that is a crucial point too. The

713
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: game's tied. If you don't score, you're you're not done.

714
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: And the thing that pissed me off in Washington was

715
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: you'd been outplayed. You had a chance to at least

716
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: you had a chance to try to win, or at

717
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: least make an easier kick. They settled for a ridiculously

718
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 1: difficult kick. Um yea. So those are totally different things

719
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: different they got. I mean, people are like, why would

720
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: you put that on Brett Maher? You got to trust

721
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: that your kicker can make a forty one yard kick.

722
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 1: If he can't, then you're having tryouts. Like if he

723
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: had missed that kick and they lose that game, they're

724
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: probably having tryouts this week weekend. They don't have tryouts

725
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: right now. But they've got names, I mean, I mean,

726
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: without it, probably every position they've got. Yeah, I don't

727
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: think Brett Mohur will be the kicker at the end

728
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: of the season. Really, Wow, it's a big sta't Nicholas

729
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: with flame? Jeez? I think he's going to I mean

730
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: you saw the kicks. I mean they're not just right

731
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: down the post. I mean he's spraying it all over

732
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: the place. They got to figure this out. And and

733
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: I know what you're about to say. I know who?

734
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: Then who You're not gonna get anybody that's just like

735
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: this great, awesome kicker. He wouldn't be on the street.

736
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: But his kickoffs are shorter now he's just not striking

737
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: the ball like he did. And so I'm just saying

738
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: there's a short leash if he loses a game. I

739
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be looking at here's the

740
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: thing right now, I'm Brett Maher right now is ranked

741
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: twenty third in the league as far as is make percentage.

742
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: He's at eighty four twenty one of twenty five. He

743
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: has missed a field goal or extra point in all

744
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,280
Speaker 1: the last four games. Missed the extra point yesterday mister

745
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: forty two yard or at Philadelphia, miss a thirty eight

746
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: yarder versus Tennessee, and then missed a fifty two yarder

747
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 1: at Washington there at the end of the game. Yep.

748
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: So it's getting to a point now. And I said

749
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 1: it during the game yesterday when he missed missed the

750
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: extra point. I looked over at Amber and I was like,

751
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: we ready yet? Should we be having this conversation yet?

752
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: And really it is to me it was ready to

753
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: time to have that conversation last week, because any kicker

754
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: that's on the street, like you said, you're probably gonna

755
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: get the same kind of average. You might get a

756
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: little better, but you're probably not gonna be much worse.

757
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 1: And so it does get to a point that and

758
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: I was really worried that I said this last week.

759
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: My fear is that at some point when your kicker

760
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: becomes unreliable to the point where your coach starts making

761
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: different decisions based upon his fear that the kicker won't

762
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,720
Speaker 1: make makeable kicks. He obviously did and do that yesterday.

763
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: So it doesn't look like Garrett's in that place yet.

764
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,240
Speaker 1: But he certainly was in a position where you wouldn't

765
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: have blamed him if he would have said, hey, guys,

766
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: we really can't settle for a kick forty two yarder.

767
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: We gotta keep driving and we gotta be a lot

768
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: more aggressive than just running the ball. Here're not sure

769
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 1: he wasn't in that position yesterday. I'll say this we get.

770
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: It's the interception. They're up twelve to nine. He's just

771
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: missed the extra point. I look over at you and

772
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: I say, absolutely four down territory here, which I agree with.

773
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: You run the ball to Zeke for eight, run the

774
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: ball to zek for twenty three. Okay, yeah, touchdown. But

775
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: who's to say that they weren't playing a four down

776
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: strategy of run, run run. My point already been in there. Yeah,

777
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: but my point was more And on that final drive,

778
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: they were running the ball there towards the end of

779
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: that and managing the game well. And as Dave said,

780
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:45,959
Speaker 1: he was putting the game in the hands of his kicker.

781
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: If he didn't trust his kicker to make what would

782
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: be a makeable kick forty two yards, then he probably

783
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,320
Speaker 1: would have been a lot more aggressive there, trying to

784
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: get to the end zone or try to make it

785
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: a much closer field goal. Instead, he trusted his kicker.

786
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: So the point is, I don't think Garrett is there

787
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,919
Speaker 1: yet to say he's making decisions differently based upon the kicker.

788
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna find an NFL coach who

789
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: has so little faith in his kicker that he's going

790
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: to try to score a touchdown in that situation unless

791
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: unless don't know, unless the kicker had already had like

792
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: an absolutely awful day, Like I'm talking like multiple misses.

793
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: I mean, he did miss an extra point. He also

794
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: hit a fifty yard field goal. And yes, Garrett has

795
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:27,359
Speaker 1: more confidence in Mahr than than anybody else probably. Um,

796
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: So they were never going to try to get all

797
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: the way the end zone. And that's I don't I

798
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: applaud their their decision making process. They got within very

799
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: makeable range for an NFL kicker or some mechanics mechanics

800
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: issues that maybe he can he can adjust a couple

801
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: of things. Number One, he's made it clear he doesn't

802
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: kick on the sidelines. He doesn't kick into a net

803
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: um everybody else does. He doesn't do that. I'm not

804
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: sure why, um, but maybe that's something he can he

805
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,280
Speaker 1: can do on the sidelines. Also, on these extra points,

806
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: you know, they line up kind of like far to

807
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: the left hash you know, And maybe that's not the

808
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: right way because he hooked that ball on the extra point,

809
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: you know, I mean he's kicking it left, he's kicking

810
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: it right. Maybe they should just line up right down

811
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: the middle on these extra points. Now, he did say

812
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: on the extra point it wasn't so much a situation

813
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: of mechanics or the operation. It was more he just

814
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: will I guess that would be mechanics. But basically his

815
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: foot just got caught in the turf, and you know,

816
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: it's just kind of like that happens sometimes. You know,

817
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: you're kicking and foot gets caught in the turf before

818
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: it gets to the ball. Right, Well, that's that's over there.

819
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: It's pretty similar to the turf that's over on the sideline. Yeah,

820
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: maybe we should but but but I think that was

821
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: just one of the situations where if you if you

822
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: listen to his explanation, then that's just one of those

823
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: things that just kind of happens, right, I know, but

824
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:46,720
Speaker 1: you give him my point. He had a really funny

825
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: line yesterday that was like, you know, what what do

826
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: you do to bounce back from that? You know, like,

827
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: what's your process to get yourself right when you miss

828
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: a kick like that? And he was like, He's like,

829
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: I don't really want to get into this specifics, but

830
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: I just have this process. And we're like, is it

831
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 1: a physical process or a mental one? He's like, no,

832
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: it's not physical. It's a mental So he's like, it's

833
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: a it's a mental thing. I don't want to get

834
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: into the specifics, so like he's got I just I

835
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: want to know what his internal monologue is if he's

836
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: got this like top secret mental process that he goes to.

837
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: The thing about Garrett too, and how what people you

838
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: know don't really like about him. Lance Lenora makes a

839
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 1: really dumb play yesterday that was bad, and then that

840
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 1: affected Atlanta getting fifteen more yards and going down there,

841
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,919
Speaker 1: and some people say that might have been a little

842
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 1: bit better because it gave the cowboys a little more time.

843
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know that. That's kind of the second

844
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But let's not make dumb plays like that.

845
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: But even if it worked out, that doesn't mean it's

846
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,479
Speaker 1: smart to hit a three yards off Garrett. He comes

847
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: over and Garrett kind of you know, hits him on

848
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: the on the head and kind of says, all right,

849
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: you know, it'll be all right. That's where I think

850
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,760
Speaker 1: a lot of fans want, you know, old school grabbed

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Speaker 1: by the face mask and get into it like that.

852
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,439
Speaker 1: But the same mentality the Lance Leonore is not gonna

853
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: make a lot of players the rest of the game.

854
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: But he also goes over to Brett Maher after that

855
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: and says, don't worry about that. We're gonna give you

856
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Speaker 1: more chances and you're gonna make it. Does that help him,

857
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm just saying it. That's kind

858
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Speaker 1: of Garrett's a pro teck that and I think maybe

859
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Speaker 1: it helped her a little bit there when you know it,

860
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Speaker 1: you want him to be a little bit more of

861
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Speaker 1: that fiery bear Bryant types. Although I will say this

862
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Speaker 1: there if you if you notice, I don't know if

863
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Speaker 1: you guys saw, we were right there on the sideline

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Speaker 1: when he came off. Garrett gave him the pat and

865
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Speaker 1: Keith O'Quinn grab Hi by the shoulder pats and said

866
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Speaker 1: come over here, and they had a little talk. So

867
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: my assumption is he was corrected. It might not have

868
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: been the head coach that was doing to him, but

869
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: he certainly was corrected. And again I don't know what

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00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: Keith was telling him, but he certainly was having a

871
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Speaker 1: conversation with him. And I would have supposed it had

872
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Speaker 1: something to do with let's not make bonehead decisions, figure

873
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Speaker 1: out where you are, know where you are on the field,

874
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: and make good decisions. I can. I can come up

875
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 1: with a million reasons to criticize Jason Garrett, but like

876
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: people who want the fire and brums the stuff or

877
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: just dumb and they're mad and just want an excuse

878
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Speaker 1: to yell at somebody, because like NFL coaches don't do

879
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: that anyway, and it wouldn't last very long if you

880
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: were grabbing grown men and professionals by the face mask

881
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: in the first place. You know, people love Chris Richard

882
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: because he's fiery, and he is and it's great, but

883
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Speaker 1: even I mean, I think it was New York, like

884
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: Cavon Frasier made a mistake and that they caught it

885
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: on the miked up afterwards, like Chris Richard's over on

886
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Speaker 1: the sideline gently telling him, like you don't do stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, like you know better than that. This is

888
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: what you got to do next time, play your game,

889
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 1: like very gently offering him coaching points, and like five

890
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: minutes later he went and got a sack, Like that's coaching. Coaching. Yeah,

891
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: coaching is very much like parenting. You can't do all

892
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895
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Speaker 1: That's I never I never understood that, no, no coach

897
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898
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899
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904
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905
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Speaker 1: You don't even notice the holiday season. Yeah, keep going,

966
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Speaker 1: never heard that song. Yeah you have? Okay? I like

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Speaker 1: Maybe he wants to sing. I hope not. Let's get

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Speaker 1: a call. Let's calls from Mike and Maryland. Mike, what up?

971
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Speaker 1: How you doing today? Um? I have a few negatives

972
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: from take on the game yesterday, and it's with the quarterback. Um.

973
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about that, but he

974
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: it seems like he make his throws harder than what

975
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,839
Speaker 1: they have to be. It's like he throws the ball

976
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: and it takes the ball takes forever to get to

977
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: the receiver because he never steps up in the pocket

978
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: or clam the pocket and make the throw easier. He's

979
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: always fading back or jumping off that one leg and

980
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: the balls it just stays in the air forever. Like

981
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: two times yesterday, one true Front almost got but Mark

982
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 1: Cooper made a hell of a catch on the sideline.

983
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: He was late with the ball, but Maria Cooper came

984
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: up with the ball. And on the opposite sideline, Gallup

985
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: had a catch on the sideline where the defender almost

986
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: undercut it and it barely missed his fingertips and it

987
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: got to the receiver, but it seemed like it just

988
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 1: took a year to get to the receiver. And another

989
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: thing with the secondary, I don't know what's cover just

990
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: they're calling either it's man or Cover three or whatever,

991
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 1: but it seems like it's always so much space in

992
00:46:54,880 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: between the receiver and the d beings they always this, slants,

993
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: always open, the digs, always olden, hold on, hold on

994
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: real quick. I mean this Cowboys defense pretty much shut

995
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: down the Falcons for most of the game. Nineteen points

996
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: at home. I mean, don't you think that's nip picking

997
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: a little bit? That defense played a hell of a game.

998
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: But it's a bit but don't break huh. They had

999
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: a couple breaks with drops with with with with the

1000
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: tight end and and some of the receivers, it dropped

1001
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: some passes. Who is the better quarterback yesterday? Who was

1002
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: the better quarterback yesterday? I mean I would say pretty

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00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: much even for real well, okay, I mean if that

1004
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 1: is even with Matt Ryan, I think Dad's doing some

1005
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: good things. I'm not trying to say that You're not

1006
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 1: wrong with with some of those throws and and I

1007
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 1: don't think he wants to throw off his back foot

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00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: and all that. I mean, but but I think he

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00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 1: was still protecting the ball pretty well. Yeah, there's some places,

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00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: but you know, you say almost this almost that they

1011
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: almost lost deck, almost lost the fumble. I mean, there's

1012
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,319
Speaker 1: a lot of almost in this game that they That's

1013
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: the way that it is. I think for the most part,

1014
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: Dad played a pretty good game exactly. But it's more

1015
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Speaker 1: often you're talking about what's what's happening with with Dad

1016
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: and his throws and his the basic quarterback and like

1017
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: the basic technique to step with a quarterback, it's he's he's.

1018
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 1: It seems like he's lack he lacked those basic and

1019
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 1: it's almost causing us. And I know, I guess a

1020
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Speaker 1: good defense was this what really wasn't a good defense,

1021
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: but a good defense are gonna take advantage of that.

1022
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: I agree, I mean you're right about that. But just remember,

1023
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Speaker 1: like you're trying to compare him to these quarterbacks like

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00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: a Drew Brees or whatever, or even a Matt Ryan.

1025
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Speaker 1: But when the Falcons get down to the three or

1026
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Speaker 1: four yard line, they can't run the read option with

1027
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan to run over a linebacker and get into

1028
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: the end zone. They can't do that like that. That's

1029
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: that's not part of his game. So for everything and

1030
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: all the little flaws that you might see out of Dack,

1031
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: he's got another element to him that that kind of

1032
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:00,879
Speaker 1: I guess you could say, make up for it. I'm

1033
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 1: not trying to say that he's We've been We've talked

1034
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 1: about him a lot. But yeah, I don't know. I

1035
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Speaker 1: don't know what I want to say. I don't know

1036
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Speaker 1: what I want to say in response to that, because

1037
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Speaker 1: I agree with him to a degree, and I mean,

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Speaker 1: Dak is Dak is Dak. He's got He's got ten

1039
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Speaker 1: games of film that show you what he does well

1040
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: and what he doesn't do well. He forgets his mechanics

1041
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: at times, especially if he's not comfortable in the pocket. Um,

1042
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: he's not that accurate by NFL standards. Just I mean,

1043
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: he's not Drew Brees. He cannot put the ball literally

1044
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Speaker 1: wherever he wants it to go every time. He can't

1045
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 1: do that. That's why he needed Amari Cooper. And clearly,

1046
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's a coincidence, even with the small

1047
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: stat sheet that Cooper put up, I don't think it's

1048
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: a coincidence that he's throwing the ball better having that

1049
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:47,800
Speaker 1: guy there. He doesn't see the field that well at times,

1050
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Speaker 1: and that's just who he is. And if you're a

1051
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Speaker 1: Cowboys fan, you know, and I know, two wins aside,

1052
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of y'all that are convinced that Dak's

1053
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: not the future of this team. And that's fine, but

1054
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Speaker 1: he he's going to be for the time being, and

1055
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Speaker 1: if you know, my advice to you would be appreciate

1056
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Speaker 1: what he does well and hope that he continues to

1057
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Speaker 1: grow as a passer, and I think there's plenty of

1058
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Speaker 1: evidence to suggest that he will. But getting mad about

1059
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 1: what he's not at this point in the season and

1060
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 1: at this point in his career, I just don't think

1061
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,399
Speaker 1: it's just better win. I just yeah, yeah, I don't

1062
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: think it's worth the energy. And I can't I can't

1063
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: go there with you. About the secondary, they gave up

1064
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: three explosive plays to this offense, which we spent all

1065
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:34,440
Speaker 1: week worrying about. Julio Jones is gonna Julio Jones Like,

1066
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you don't want to hear that, but

1067
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:39,240
Speaker 1: this isn't college, you know, Like when I watch LSU,

1068
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: I expect us to shut down the best guy because

1069
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: you can do that in college. But this is the pros.

1070
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: Julio's an alien. They held him to three explosives in

1071
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 1: one touchdown. I mean, what else do you want? And

1072
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: go ahead? The D zone. We talked about how great

1073
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 1: they were in the red zone eighty eight percent and

1074
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: all that. I only got there once there once and

1075
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: down at the eleven and I firmly believe you get

1076
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 1: to first goal in the eleven, or first and tenth

1077
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: to eleven, or first and goal to ten nine with

1078
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: this Cowboys defense, like they really do a nice job

1079
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:10,879
Speaker 1: of stopping them. When you get to that, everything gets,

1080
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 1: you know, shrinks down. And they did it again, and

1081
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: that was a big part in the game of stopping

1082
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: them down there at the eleven yard line. And I

1083
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 1: actually disagree with him about the defense from the standpoint

1084
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: of just schematically what he's saying, I think it's actually inaccurate.

1085
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: I think that this defense, particularly, they challenge guys the

1086
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage a lot more than defenses that the

1087
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: Cowboys have done in the last several years. You'll see

1088
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 1: them a lot more frequently getting up in guy's face

1089
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: and affecting them off the line of scrimmage. And not

1090
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: only that, but I think when you look at the

1091
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: linebackers that they have, I think they feel comfortable with

1092
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: the idea that even if we give that cushion, our

1093
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: linebackers drop well, our linebackers also can lure hits, can

1094
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: bring hits. And so they look at in those kind

1095
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 1: of situations, particularly when they're in Cover three or they're

1096
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 1: they're in situations like that, and I think their goal is,

1097
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: even if he makes the catch, we want to get

1098
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 1: up and we want to make the tackle quickly. If

1099
00:51:57,320 --> 00:51:59,879
Speaker 1: we give up five or six yards, that's our strap.

1100
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 1: That's okay because we feel like we could still make

1101
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,799
Speaker 1: the stop on second or third down. That's how they

1102
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 1: played defense. That's the philosophy of the defense. They're not

1103
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: gonna give up the explosive play. They'll give up a

1104
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: little bit of yard, some yards here and there, and

1105
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: and really throughout the game. If you notice a lot

1106
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: of teams this year that the Cowboys have played, they'll

1107
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: rack up yards on him, but when he gets down

1108
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: that red zone, they tighten up, and that's when they

1109
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 1: hold teams to field goals. That's how they play defense.

1110
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: If you don't like that, that's just a philosophical difference,

1111
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: but understand that's how they played defense. And you can't

1112
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:28,759
Speaker 1: have one without the other if you want this good

1113
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 1: defense that has these kind of results, That's how they

1114
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: play defense. They gave up. They gave up the touchdown

1115
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: to Julio, which I think was a thirty four yard game,

1116
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: and and then Julio had a pretty big chunk on

1117
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: him in the first half, like I think their first possession.

1118
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 1: Other than that, nobody on this offense had a game

1119
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: of longer than eighteen yards. And I mean Cheeto on

1120
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: that touchdown to Julio, that's I was so he was

1121
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 1: but he was great and he would have knocked that

1122
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 1: ball out of anybody because he saw him bad at

1123
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: somebody else would have dropped that. It's a theme. It's

1124
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: a theme for the season. And I see people talking

1125
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 1: about that too. Is like it's who who was almost almost?

1126
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: Very church like Cheeto is almost there almost oh Man

1127
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: went five almost sex. I feel like six six weeks

1128
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: in a row. You know, Detroit comes to mind. They

1129
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: have just been about six games where it's like, ah,

1130
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 1: like Cheeto's coverage was so good, but the ball was right,

1131
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: which you know at some point you'd like to see

1132
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: him make the play and win a couple of those.

1133
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: But like, I can't sit here and dog the guy

1134
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: like his coverage has been good. There's just some badass

1135
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: players in this league and he gets and they get

1136
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: paid too. He gets put up against them from time

1137
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: to time, which I don't I can't find a ton

1138
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: of fault with forcing the Atlanta Falcons to four field

1139
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: goals in a touchdown at home. You know, you can

1140
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 1: call it an excuse or what I mean. They do

1141
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 1: have their front line defensive lineman they're playing, but you

1142
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: know they were without four guys inactive on that one position.

1143
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: There's a reason why they make Antoine Woods a starter,

1144
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: and he plays, and Taco plays, and David Irving, you know,

1145
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 1: that would be nice to have him out there, you

1146
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: know as well. But Karen Reid steps in and when

1147
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: the first play the game should have forced an interception

1148
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 1: by Malik Collins. Get him on about that. That's why

1149
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: he's a three defensive line. Three sacks. Literally, we didn't

1150
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 1: know who was gonna play defensively. Marinelli and leon Lett

1151
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: worked out Damian Wilson at end before the game, I

1152
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: just in case, and they got three sacks. Now, can

1153
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: I switch it back to Dak real quick? Let's do it. So,

1154
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 1: going back to his point and some of the things

1155
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 1: that we mentioned, it, I guess it doesn't to me.

1156
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 1: I wouldn't talk about it now because it's like when

1157
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:47,359
Speaker 1: they win, you tend to okay whatever. They still one.

1158
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 1: But there were a couple of plays where Dak in

1159
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 1: this instance, and we've seen him have hesitation problems where

1160
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:56,439
Speaker 1: he's just holding onto the ball and trying to figure

1161
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: out what to do. In this couple of plays, he

1162
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: backed out of the pocket and throw the ball. One

1163
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: of them was too Amry Cooper. I forgot who the

1164
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: other one was too, But it looked like that's obviously

1165
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: the play that was designed, and that's exactly what he did.

1166
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,359
Speaker 1: And he looked like a machine like, Okay, back out,

1167
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 1: I get the snap, but throw the ball, but it

1168
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: would be too further, too far ahead from the receiver

1169
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: to where it's like, okay, why are you making that

1170
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 1: play though? Why are you throwing the ball at that

1171
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:32,479
Speaker 1: moment when clearly the receiver isn't anywhere near the ball

1172
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: just yet. Whether that's the receiver that maybe took off

1173
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: took longer to get there, or whether you know it

1174
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 1: was between the battle between him and the defender and

1175
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: it just slowed him down a little bit. It's like,

1176
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 1: but and it makes me wonder, I mean, what do

1177
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: you do there? I don't know what too? Pinpoint is

1178
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: that like on Dak completely, what kind of adjustment do

1179
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: you make that break? Because he just looked like a machine.

1180
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: That was the automatic move. I'm backing up. I'm throwing

1181
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,839
Speaker 1: the ball right there no matter what. You know, he's

1182
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 1: not necessarily waiting to see what is exactly happening. If

1183
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: that's the moment to throw, that sounds like your third

1184
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:11,359
Speaker 1: down play after Beasley dropped it on third end goal

1185
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: when he was just basically I think I think it

1186
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 1: was Cooper. He was just forcing it into Cooper. It

1187
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: wasn't really looking at anyone else, and it was incomplete.

1188
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the player you're talking about,

1189
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 1: but there are some predetermined reads. It seems like where

1190
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: that's the throw, that's what we're doing, and you know

1191
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 1: he can do better job of looking, you know, looking

1192
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: somewhere else and then making that throw. But he gets

1193
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: closer to throwing interceptions of life don't five this year

1194
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: in ten games. He gets close to throwing some. But

1195
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: that's I mean Matt Ryan got close to throwing two

1196
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: or three. I mean Jeff Heath, I mean Julio Jones

1197
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: been one of the best defensive plays of the game

1198
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:48,520
Speaker 1: by knocking that pull out of Jeff Heath, and it's

1199
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: gotten him hurt. I've been thinking I've been thinking about

1200
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 1: a conversation we had during the summer a lot which

1201
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: was basically this, which is like, DA's not Aaron Rodgers,

1202
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 1: but this is what he does well, and this is

1203
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 1: how you can win with him. And the first half

1204
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: of the season kind of torpedoed that because they were

1205
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 1: all so bad, I mean the whole obviously you saw

1206
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 1: the games, but whether it's you know, whether it's the

1207
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 1: fixes on the offensive line, whether it's Amari Cooper, this

1208
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 1: looks like the guy that I thought we'd see and

1209
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,080
Speaker 1: and it's the same story, like he's not he's not

1210
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 1: all that polished. He's certainly not perfect. He's got a

1211
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 1: long way to go to win the way that a

1212
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan does. But the way this team's constructed, when

1213
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: he plays this way, you can win ball games multiple

1214
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: in a row. In fact, And one of the reasons

1215
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 1: why they don't throw the ball deep a lot, you know,

1216
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 1: it's because he's not very good at it, Like that's

1217
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: not his thing. He doesn't throw the ball deep that well. Um,

1218
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 1: And that was evident they did. They had a couple

1219
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 1: tries there with Gallup and wasn't really close. And Gallup

1220
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: didn't you know, it wasn't really able to go win

1221
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: the ball or anything like that. It really wasn't a

1222
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: play that was that was even close to being complete.

1223
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 1: And I think if they were a little bit better

1224
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 1: at that, we'd see more deep balls. And I'll say

1225
00:57:58,040 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: this too, on those deep balls, I think they're going

1226
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: to have to try how to find ways to give

1227
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:04,880
Speaker 1: him enough time on those deep routes for the receiver

1228
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: to be able to make a second move, like a

1229
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: hesitation or something, because just running straight line speed, it

1230
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like he has that ability to just outrun

1231
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: guys down the field, and I think that's why you

1232
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 1: end up in situations where there's really no separation, so

1233
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: it's really a fifty fifty shot at best. Right, But

1234
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 1: we've seen him earlier this year. We've seen some plays

1235
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:25,919
Speaker 1: where they have converted where he's gotten some separation, where

1236
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: he had time to make a hesitation move, the defender

1237
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: bites and now he's off, and that can get you

1238
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: some separation. I think Terrence Williams is a good example

1239
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: of that. Earlier in his career. That's one of the

1240
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: things we'd see from him often was it wasn't he

1241
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 1: had burner speed. It was that he had the ability

1242
00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 1: to kind of bait a guy, and when he bait him,

1243
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: he takes the bait. He's off and he can get

1244
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: you a play down field. They're gonna have to really

1245
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: give him time for that kind of stuff to develop

1246
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:48,920
Speaker 1: to be able to connect like that downfield. But I

1247
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: think there's something there. I think they got that now

1248
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 1: part of the offense. They just got to start connecting

1249
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: on him. I'd like to find I'd like to see

1250
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: them find ways to get the ball down the middle

1251
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: of the field more often, like and I'd a good

1252
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: tight end for that. That's a break tight end, tight end.

1253
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 1: You know, it seems like they never want to run

1254
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: crossing routes with anybody, but Beasley, I kind of missed that.

1255
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:14,920
Speaker 1: That was a staple. If I'm remembering this correctly, that

1256
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 1: was a staple of Garrett's offense when he was calling

1257
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: the place. It seemed like they were doing a lot

1258
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 1: of that kind And it's sorry, I didn't mean to

1259
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: cut you off, but like it's it's probably fair to

1260
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 1: say there's more traffic in the middle of the field,

1261
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 1: you're more susceptible to throwing interceptions, and if you don't

1262
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: trust that to do that right now, then maybe you shouldn't.

1263
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: And again, he's not a perfect passer. He's got a

1264
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 1: long way to go, and that's a way you can

1265
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: continue to develop. It's also a fifteen yard targeting penel

1266
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: any waiting to happen, because I mean, you can't hit

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Speaker 1: Julio Jones, all right, guys, pretend you join us. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. We'll get into the Washington offense. Dave

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Speaker 1: will give us a scoutter report. Get you guys ready

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Speaker 1: for that game on Thanksgiving Day. Till then for Nick

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Speaker 1: even Dave helm At Amber Garcia, I'm Derek Eagleton. This

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