WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Worried About Diggs? 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.360 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:16.680 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys let go. Are 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.600 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:24.720 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.600 much for that. It's time for the Break on Dallas 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:34.720 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:41.239 Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, November ninth, two, 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:45.080 Thy twenty one, season seventeen, episode number fifty seven. Welcome 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.479 to the latest edition of The Break Life from the 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.960 SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We got a gumbo 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:51.480 show for you today. We've got a lot of different 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.559 topics we're gonna hit. Before we get to that, Nick, 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.560 give me a quick fifty seven. Remember Baron Wortham, Yes, 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.440 I do. Linebacker? Yeah do. He came from the Titans, right, yeah, 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:02.279 you know what I like about him. He came from 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.360 the Titans. He was a good player, four or five 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.399 years good player, and came in like two thousand. He 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.600 actually wasn't. I think he was one of the holdovers 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:11.479 from the Oilers. I think he maybe from the Oilers. 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.400 He were fifty two and he got here and he said, 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.720 you know, what this young guy that they got Dexter 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.360 Coakley's he's got it, he's got it going. I'm not 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.479 gonna take kids number. I thought it. Fifty seven's fine. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.959 He was a cool dude. Yeah he was fifty seven. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.880 Baron worth it. I can't think of anyone else, really, 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:31.240 can you? Current guys current? No, Damian Wilson, Warrant, m 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:36.560 Victor Butler about Davante Holliman, that was one of my 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.120 I was that's probably one of the saddest stories in 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.360 the time I've covered the Cowboys, that he didn't get 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.920 a chance to really let his career. When when we 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.840 do that documentary on what could have been? Guys, is 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:50.520 that him, He'll be up He'll be up there. What 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:55.040 could have been? For a lot of reasons, Um, David Irving, Yeah, 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.000 you know, oh, I thought you meant fifty seven. I 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.040 was like, no, no, no, we're fifty seven. No, No, 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.760 just guys on him, Yeah, I got you, guys are 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:03.960 just man, he could have been, it could have been 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.200 something different. There's a few guys like that, but that 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.560 actually would be a good documentary. Put that on your listening. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.560 I think, I think I still I'm not gonna say, 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.240 I follow Holloman, but his name pops up from time 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.840 to time like he was a he was like a 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.600 GA at South Carolina after his career, and then I 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.119 think he's coaching high school football now, Okay, I could 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.440 see that. I just I feel like maybe it wouldn't 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.160 be surprising if one day I see him. No, I'm 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.240 not saying like a head coach, but like in college 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.639 or the NFL, just like, oh yeah, like what linebackers 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.480 coach DeVante Hallam And I'm like, well, I'm just what. Okay. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.040 That just reminds me of another guy that keeps seeing 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.239 a lot of that's coaching. And he maybe wore fifty 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.880 seven Kevin Burnett, h Kevin. I don't think it was fifties. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.320 I don't know, but he definitely is coaching now. Yeah, 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.680 he's coaching a lot. You see, definitely coach doing a 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.359 lot of things. Maybe he wouldn't fit shout out to 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.680 the bros. Was he wasn't he? There's no such thing. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.399 There was tru Hey, I had I got a long 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.639 you can't get I mean a long information can't get 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:04.160 kicked out of the omega. Yeah, I guess, but that's 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:07.400 not that's not normal. Yeah, you get kicked out of anything. 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.680 Always there you go, there you go. And even if 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.839 you get kicked out, like you're still a brother still 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.600 if you go to the other team, there's no that 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.240 does not happen. Okay, that ain't gonna happen. All right, 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.799 real quick before we get yeah, before we get into 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:22.720 the cowboys talk, I do need a real quick I 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.639 gotta say happy birthday to my mom. It is her 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.919 seventieth birthday. Wow um, and so I'm just like very 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.640 very excited for her today. It's like a really big 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.520 milestone for her. Happy birthday. Happy birth I know she's 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.720 listening because she's a long time breaker, Like she've been 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.920 listening since it was just me and you doing this. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.640 So she's been listening to pretty much every episode since 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.200 we started doing this. So, oh, I got a video 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:53.320 you can send her, which one? Well she's listening, Oh okay, okay. Yeah. Basically, basically, 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.400 like four years ago, I got Zack Martin to say 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.480 happy birthday to my dad wearing number seventy. He was 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.560 wearing seven. Happy birthday from number seventy, Zach Martin, and 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.720 he said, you know. And then three years later, when 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.800 my mom turned seventy. I kind of trimmed off the 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.600 first part when you talked about that, and I sent 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.160 it to her happy birthday, so I have a happy 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.080 birthday from numbers. That would have been so awesome. That 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.080 would have been so awesome if you just had not 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.120 just sit that on the air like actually, I could 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.479 have used it kind of said that. Maybe he shouldn't. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.360 Can you told him to say it? Anyway? I did? 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.040 You're right? Do you think we're gonna get a flat 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.160 tire in the ditch here as we're maybe driving here? 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.840 Maybe didn't you write an article about that, something about 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.560 flat tire if you start, if you keep driving on 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.120 a flat it will end in a blowout. Well, okay, 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.440 let's jump in real quick again. Happy seventy the birthday 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.200 of your mom. Love you, all right, So here's what 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.000 we're gonna do. Let's talk a little bit about injuries. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.520 Let's start first there because there are quite a few 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.280 we need to catch up on. Let's start with Tyren Smith. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:52.520 We'll see and we'll see that's what that's what Jerry said. Okay, 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.159 we'll see. Okay, after you read through what Jerry said 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.600 and what Mike said, what's your thought? I don't. I truly, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.479 I truly don't have a read. I know Jerry says 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.120 the best way to get over this injury is to 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.160 give it rest and to get back on it. Well, 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.720 well he did well, he did say he did say 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.719 that this is not one of those injury. He said, 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:13.599 It's gonna get better whether you're on it or not, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.440 is what he said. And right, and he said, he said, 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.640 this is an injury about pain. How much pain can 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.000 he tolerate? So that makes me wonder like can he 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:23.880 come back this week and just deal with a lot 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.880 of pain or after sitting out a week, is the 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.840 pain lesson to where it does make sense for him 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.360 to get because out he was with the rehab crew 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.640 yesterday working and getting up on it like he's not 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:38.480 off his feet, he's he's taking steps to getting back 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:39.960 onto the field. I don't know what that means for 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.320 this week. If it's about if it's about pain tolerance, 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.200 I'm not going to bet against Tyrn Smith, that's for 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:48.599 damn sure. So yeah, Thursday, Thursday is the new day 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.160 where I sort of make determinations about how I feel 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.839 about things. Because we've said with Garrett it was Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.320 you're ramping up. But now it's they kind of do 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.280 stuff Wednesday. Thursday is the real practice. They don't practice 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.560 at all really on Friday, and then they do something Saturday. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.599 So thursday's the padded practice. We'll see what he does, 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.320 all right. Talk to me about Ezekiel Elliott. He had 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:11.960 the I think it was a knee contusion there in 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.200 the game. They wrapped it in a heating pad. Then 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.440 he came back on the field. What are we hearing 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.720 at this point? Zeke said, after we were done ask 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.320 him about that. When the interview was over, he was 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.800 just like, I'm doing this every Week's first time you'll 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.160 ask me about it, Like he means the first time 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:29.680 he's came out of a game for it. It's right. 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.320 He didn't come out of the game though, like he 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.680 rotates with Pollard all the time. That's yeah. But after 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.840 the guy fell on it, you saw him limping and 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.800 he called he went onto the sideline and then he 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:42.440 didn't come back out the next time. Maybe that was 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.200 already gonna be Pollard's series, But I'm just saying he 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.560 didn't miss like this crazy amount of time. He went 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.039 back in in the same quarter that he left. He's 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.279 been dealing with this all season. He's been on the 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.360 injury rapport before as football. I'm not gonna say he's 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.479 fine because I'm sure it bothers him. But he's not 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.200 gonna miss time because well, he was playing thirty to nothing, right, 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.880 wasn't he out there towards the while? He was definitely 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:08.840 out there? And yes, yeah, first of all, yeah, yeah, 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.560 so's you know. I mean I think that that's a 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.960 good sign there too. If if it was really bad 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.960 and the game was out of reach, you know, he 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.840 like I said, like if I if I told him 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.720 you're fine, right, he'd probably like laugh, like, of course, 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.840 I'm not fine. I get the crap beat out of 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.280 me every week, but I'm gonna play. I feel like 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.800 I'm good. I'm good. It's not a big deal. All right, 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.360 let's talk about Michael Gallup and thank Lawrence, Boats still 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.400 have not returned. Michael Gallup's going to play against the Falcons, 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:40.800 all right, Thank Lawrence. Uh. I mean we've been talking 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.800 about and I think it was it was longer than 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.960 a lot of people anticipated. I think that's fair. I 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.360 think part of that was Jerry even said that today 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.960 he was like it was close enough that in hindsight, 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:52.840 you're like, maybe we should have played him in this game. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:57.120 Of course, nobody in the world thought they really needed him. Um, 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.760 but they said last week that if he didn't play 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.520 again Stenver, he'd be ready for Atlanta. He's his practice 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.560 window is up either tomorrow or Thursday. They have to 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.720 activate him. He's going to be up and playing against 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:13.840 the Falcons. Yep, need and needed. Um, you know, I 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.720 think it'll be interesting to see how they how they 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:21.080 rotate him in but um, probably less reps for Noah 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:25.360 Brown maybe or definitely a league turner, you know, but 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.680 he wasn't playing a whole lot anyways until it got bad. 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.000 So um, but yeah, I'm I'm anxious to see kind 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.120 of how they could. And even Jerry said this morning 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.840 that his deep threat, you know, that's something that we're 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:41.120 you know, needed and and something that Gallip obviously provides. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.240 Tank to my knowledge, they have not started the twenty 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.920 one day window. So yeah, what did we say last week? 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:55.640 I feel like we said we're hopeful for for Thanksgiving. 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.800 That would be fun, but that even that, I mean 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.560 wild how the season works that way where you look 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.000 and all of a sudden. Thanksgiving is two weeks away, 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:10.600 so uh might be Saints. We'll see. And I get 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.600 that that's frustrating because he got injured week two and 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.720 you say two months, So two months from September eighteenth 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:21.240 is November. I get that, but these things don't always 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.800 follow a perfectly linear path. And even if he's even 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.959 if he comes back in December, you've still got him 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.400 for four or five games. And then on top of 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.160 where whatever happens with the playoff situation, which despite the 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.520 sky falling this week, still think it's a good bet 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.800 the Cowboys will be in the playoffs. They we have 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.040 walked off of that one. Well, it depends when you 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:47.880 talk to you. But yeah, so we'll we'll see. I 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.640 would still I'm still hopeful for Thanksgiving, but maybe a 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.440 little bit later. All right, Let's let's talk a little 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.960 bit of Broncos strategy. This week. We heard some interactions 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.880 after the game. Vic Fangi, who is the head coach 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.920 of the Broncos, said that the teams haven't played the 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.280 Cowboys right, talking about how well they were able to 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:11.600 perform against this Cowboys offense. McCarthy says, in response to that, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.240 this is a copycat league. I hope they do so. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.079 And he was talking about referring to even Dak's comment 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.680 where he said, you know, I hope teams do actually 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.360 look at this and want to keep doing what they did, 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.760 because I think we can beat that. And we even 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.959 talked about it a little bit last week. Brandon Staley 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.400 is a kind of a disciple of Vic Fangio and 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:34.360 Cowboys did have some challenges offensively against the Chargers. That 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.280 was one of the defenses that's probably given them more 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.120 trouble than any other defenses this year. And so my 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.480 question for you guys is what did you see in 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:45.760 this game that may have been the Achilles heel or 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.640 the thing that can give Dallas a bit of problem? 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:49.440 What did they do that was very different, maybe than 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.520 other teams have been able to do. I'll be very 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.800 transparent this. I mean, it's Tuesday morning. It's super annoying. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.679 The game pass ALL twenty two. I don't know if 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.719 it's up yet. It usually isn't up till Tuesday. I 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.680 haven't had a chance to watch any type of All 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.040 twenty two angle and give you some type of great 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.960 breakdown of it. But just off the rip and Mike 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:13.400 McCarthy probably said this four times. The Denver played match Man, which, 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.360 without going too far into the weeds, it's it's what 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.640 he's known for, which is dropping in coverage. Match Man 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.920 is basically you can switch between more of his own 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.120 look and a man look depending on what you see, 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:30.560 which sounds insanely difficult to me and takes a high 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.520 amount of precision and communication. You can go. Brian Baldinger 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.200 did a great breakdown of this. If you bald these breakdowns, 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.520 he goes viral, like every Monday. Of the interception that 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.640 Caden Sterns had of Dak, he had a guy coming 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.760 out of the slot. He was carrying him over the 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:51.000 middle of the field, realized what Dak was doing, communicated 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.600 with the safety behind him, and passed his guy off 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.520 and then dropped into a zone in the middle of 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.800 the field and was just waiting for the past. All 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.720 of that happened in the time since the all was snapped. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.000 You just again, you gotta be on your p's and 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.559 q's and you can just move within the scheme depending 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.240 on what you see. That's not unique to Denver, though, 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.880 Like that's the thing that most NFL teams can do. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.679 I think The big difference for me is that Denver 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.480 didn't have to bring extra pressure to bother Dak the 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.120 stack going around, as they blitzed fourteen percent of the time, 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.960 which is the lowest of the season by far. Dak 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.679 was like running away with the league lead in terms 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.880 of how often he was getting blitzed. So not only 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.559 were they not doing that, which means you can have six, seven, 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.760 maybe even eight guys in coverage, but they were still 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.400 getting home. Like the ridiculous Hail Mary that we talked 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.160 about yesterday where Dak had like he got all the 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.480 way out to the sideline and threw it sixty yards 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.000 to Dalton Schultz on a third and twenty one. It's 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.760 three man rush, and they still bothered him that much 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:51.760 to where he was flushed and had to run twenty 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.720 yards to the sideline. I just think Denver did a 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.920 way better job of pressuring him with fewer people than 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.600 anybody we've seen before. It's easy to blame the tackles, 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.600 but I wonder if there was more to it than that. Yeah, 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.720 and I think just them, like any game, you know, 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.080 not being able to run, you know, running the football 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.079 can offset a lot of those things. A lot of 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.640 the down and distance that you get yourself in and 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.760 that that I thought was a big problem too, first 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.480 and second. Really on first down, they just never seemed 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.199 to get anything going. Um, you know, every once in 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:22.920 a while they did, but it just felt like it 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.160 was second nine, second and eight, second and ten and 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.120 unlike what Denver was able to do on second down 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.320 on offense, the Cowboys just weren't able to do that 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.800 when this was the one game I thought this year 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.240 that when they got behind the chains, they didn't make 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.400 up for it. And we were noticing that they could 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.280 do that, and a lot of these games, penalties weren't 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.480 hurting them. Sacks early weren't hurting them because they were 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.480 explosive enough. Not in this game, And I think what 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.600 Dave said, I mean, I just think getting pressure, because 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.520 when you can play that way, then you can play 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.280 his zone and man and do all that because you're 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:58.360 you're you're getting there, and it's a it's unbelievable when 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.760 you think about the injuries that they've had and then 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.320 trading von Miller away and Chubb and Miller was supposed 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.120 to be their guys, and you know, and you go 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.079 back and look early in the season. They were, they 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.240 were playing really well on defense. Still are. Yeah, So 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.640 if I learned anything from this matchup, I don't know 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.560 much about Vic Fangio. He's in the A. I mean, 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.640 I know who he is. He was in Chicago. His 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.520 very well respected. He's a great defensive mind. I knew 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.040 all that, the two deep safeties. He's a big part 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.040 of what everybody's trying to do. I just didn't know 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.200 a lot about him as a guy. And I came 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.960 out of this matchup like, Okay, Vick Fangio has a 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.640 really high opinion of himself, which a lot of football 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.400 coaches do. But not only did he say he said 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.200 three things after the game that I missed because you know, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.240 we cover the Cowboys. We're focused on what happened to 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:47.320 the Cowboys. In the postgame press conference, he said nobody's 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.640 played them the right way. He said, you know, I'm 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.040 in charge of the defensive calls in the alignments, so 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.400 we knew that was going to be good. Like, that's 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.320 my responsibility, So we knew we were going to be 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.240 on top of that. And then he started out as 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.280 press conference by saying, as Jimmy Johnson would say, how 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.600 about them Broncos all in the span of like ten minutes. 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.640 So I was just like, man, this meant a lot 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.200 to you, or you're really amped about this win, like 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.520 tip your cap. They beat their ass. But I just 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.640 I came out of it like, damn Vic Fangio, like 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.840 talk talk, you're trash. I guess, man, he's gonna be 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:24.280 good coordinator for someone next year. Well, honestly he had 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.040 to double down in that instant. I mean because all 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.360 week I'm sure he was telling his team nobody thinks 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.160 you guys can win. Everybody's counting you out. We're gonna 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.080 go in there, We're gonna beat him. And so when 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.280 you do that, that's the kind of win that can 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.560 propel you are some better things. Like they're a middling 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.520 team right now, but they certainly can get on a 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.560 run maybe if they can have the right pieces in 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.560 place and do the right things. I'm really interested to 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.680 see where they go because if they play like that, 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.080 they're gonna win a lot more. And AFC is not 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.240 like nobody's running away with AFC. So we've also like 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.920 and that's the reason why those of us on the 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:00.360 outside took them lightly. They haven't looked like that year, 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.560 Like they're struggling to score seventeen eighteen points in games, 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.720 losing to the Browns who didn't have anybody the week 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.640 they played. I mean, so, I'm just are they all 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.640 of a sudden gonna go on this run and contend 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.040 for the AFC West or a month from now? Are 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.160 they going to be hovering around five hundred losing the 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.280 bad teams And we're like, man, that's a bad looking 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.880 they They're going to lose next week at home against Philly. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.520 They just will what I think? So, yeah, just the 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.480 way it works out for the Yeah, yeah, they beat 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.640 the Cowboys, they beat their hals and then so the 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.720 cow of like, at least at least you can just 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:37.000 keep it up and beat Philly. They won't. They won't. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.080 The free and four they won't. They won't. I don't 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.680 think you're definitely wrong, but Philly ain't. Grady, No, No, 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.800 they're not. Think I think the home for teams like Philly, 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.600 I think the home fil advantage in Denver is hard 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.640 to overcome when you're not just a better team, and 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.840 I don't think Philly's a better team like that. The 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.680 altitude is a like, that's a that's a hard thing 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:57.720 to get that is that is a tough place to 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.720 play at. This is more. But I was wondering, remember 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.680 we went up there in seventeen. Broncho fans do this 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.320 annoying thing every time the opposing team throws incomplete they yell, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.600 comb please remember that Dak threw like forty in completions 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:16.159 that day. Are so annoying. In the fourth quarter on Sunday, 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.439 I was like, are we gonna hear that here? Like 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.639 there are enough Broncho fans that are would have gotten 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.439 that would have been demoralized. Yeah, fortune we didn't hear it, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.560 which was nice. So how concerned do you, guys, all 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.119 that being said, how concerned do you that other teams 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.399 really can do this to the Cowboys? That that maybe 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.119 playing coverage against Dallas and mixing up your coverages to 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.359 where Dak can't get a good pre snap read and 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.520 be able to get rid of the ball quick. How 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.320 much do you think that can affect them if other 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.520 teams are able to do that to them. I'm not 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.480 and I know I know that the Chargers and the 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:51.800 Broncos aren't identical. No team is doing the exact same stuff. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.240 But that's Staley's part. Of that tree. Staley does the 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.680 same stuff. He got a head coaching job because what 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.800 he was doing as the DC with the rams and 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.800 they piled up yards on the chargers, uh and and 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.680 and people disguising coverages has never bothered him to this point, 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.240 Like the windows that he can fit throws into, it 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.080 doesn't bother me at all. Um. And I think there's 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.800 a little bit of defiance there where it's like, you're 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.600 not going to be like, I hope we don't see that, 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:20.840 Like that's really confident guy. Of course he's gonna say 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.680 he hopes to see more of it. But no, I'm 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.640 not thinking I'm not super worried. But there's a lot 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.199 of factors involved there. I mean, not everybody can do 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.800 what what Denver does. Not. Not everybody's schemes it the 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:32.919 same way. They don't have the pass rushers the same 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.200 They don't have the discipline in their secondary. You have 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.960 to you have to be really well coached. You can't 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.480 just go out and just do the same thing, um 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.080 and say, well, we're just gonna run the same stuff 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.320 that the that the eighty five Bears ran and will 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.439 be you know, it didn't. It doesn't always work the 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.040 same um. But also, you know, I think what we 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.280 said yesterday and let's don't know, you know, underestimate the 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.359 fact that that the wide receivers were not at one 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.119 hundred percent all that they were out of sync with 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.200 the quarterback. And that's not what we've seen all year long. 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.040 So if Atlanta comes in here and does it, then 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.840 I think the next Monday we'll hit panic buttons and 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:11.760 stuff like that. But I just think there's a lot 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.560 of factors in seventy seven. The left tackle. I think 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.600 that's a big factor as well. I don't I mean, whoever, 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.160 whoever was rushing to the edge for Denver, I don't 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.720 think has the same kind of success. I guarantee you 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.480