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Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brons, Rob Phillips,

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Speaker 1: and Bill Jones. It is a forty degree morning here

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Speaker 1: in forty degree weather. Yes, it is forty degrees outside

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Speaker 1: here at the start. As the Cowboys get set to

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Speaker 1: take on the Detroit Lions. Bill Jones with Mickey Spagnola

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Speaker 1: and Rob Phillips, we take your phone calls at eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight, five five two two nine seven as we

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Speaker 1: turn our attention to the Lions. But Mickey, I don't

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Speaker 1: think the Minnesota game goes away very quickly. No, when

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Speaker 1: you lose games like that, and there's always you know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes I think you're better off getting beat twenty eight

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Speaker 1: to seven than twenty eight twenty four. I don't know

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Speaker 1: about that, but well, there's less contention. You just got

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Speaker 1: your button whipped and that's it, right. But now when

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Speaker 1: you lose close games to two pointers and a four pointer,

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Speaker 1: you find this play that play and this reason and

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Speaker 1: that reason for getting beat and not because you weren't

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Speaker 1: good enough. The media likes it when there's contention, absolutely absolutely,

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Speaker 1: you think so. I think so Sota's talk radio too, by,

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Speaker 1: But you have a point, Mick. I mean, they've lost

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Speaker 1: four games this year. They've lost three by a total

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Speaker 1: of eight points. And when you do that, it's always

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Speaker 1: a player two here, player two there. And in this

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Speaker 1: particular case, we're still talking about that last second to

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Speaker 1: last drive. We're still talking about Tavon Austin's fair catch.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you just hope that when you get

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Speaker 1: to the end of the season, those aren't the things

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Speaker 1: different here, maybe we'd have a different result of our season.

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Speaker 1: So like last year when you probably won about three

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Speaker 1: or four games by that margin of points, but it

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Speaker 1: wasn't talked about because you won. And when they went

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Speaker 1: seven and one last year, the last eight games, it

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Speaker 1: was like, well, they blew everybody out. But the you know,

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Speaker 1: the the honest part of it is they beat Atlanta

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Speaker 1: by three points, they had a last late fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: drive to beat Philadelphia the first time. They beat Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: the second time in overtime. By the way, they had

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Speaker 1: a close call with Washington, if I remember correctly. But

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Speaker 1: because you won, you beat everybody handedly. When you lose,

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Speaker 1: and you lose close, then it becomes an issue. And

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Speaker 1: Troy Aakman spoke to that on local radio this week

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Speaker 1: didn't seem too bothered by the play calling at the

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Speaker 1: on that drive in question. But when you lose, you all,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's fair game. You can open it up

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Speaker 1: on to Detroit. But no one brings up the second

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Speaker 1: you bring it up? Brought it up? Mickey's banging that

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Speaker 1: drum man, Well should should they have run at that possession?

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Speaker 1: a text from a friend this morning at how come

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Speaker 1: And that's another one. Yeah, but I mean theoretically sure

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Speaker 1: high bar to get those overturned. Yeah, it's got to be.

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Speaker 1: last week, the rate of that of a past interference

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Speaker 1: So they might as well just get rid of the

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Speaker 1: going to need all three timeouts. Yep, sou And by

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Speaker 1: the way, I was you're talking about close games, and

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Speaker 1: those were in ninety two, ninety three, and ninety five.

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Speaker 1: were a lot of close games during those Super Bowl seasons.

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Speaker 1: But it's your ability to win those close games that

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Speaker 1: makes you a championship team, right, And you have to

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Speaker 1: be good enough to exactly and sometimes you're not. Yeah

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Speaker 1: you got And that's the bottom line. To give Minnesota

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Speaker 1: stat earlier in the season. You know, two thirds of

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Speaker 1: just the life in this league. You know, you're not

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Speaker 1: close games last year. This year, well, you're gonna lose

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Speaker 1: that you're a good team and you win those games?

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Speaker 1: So is this team? Do you think this team is

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Speaker 1: record says so at this point with Amari Cooper, the

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Speaker 1: record says they are better against superior competition. They haven't

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Speaker 1: shown it yet. They've been competitive against those teams, but

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Speaker 1: they haven't shown it in the final score. But they

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Speaker 1: still have opportunities to show it. Just like a lot

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Speaker 1: this point last year, we were sitting here going all

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Speaker 1: Todd Archer from ESPN had the stat of the final

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Speaker 1: seven opponents. It's like a thirty two, twenty and one record.

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Speaker 1: You know they're going to be tested down the stretch here,

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Speaker 1: they know it. And they're in a four game stretch

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Speaker 1: right now against four teams that have going into last weekend,

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Speaker 1: we're twenty three, ten and one. The one team that

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Speaker 1: But you want to talk about close games, look at

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Speaker 1: what the Detroit Lions have done this season, and you

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Speaker 1: talk about games that are within one score of going

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Speaker 1: the other in the fourth quarter. Every single one of

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Seven Okay, they played nine games.

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Speaker 1: Eight of the nine games have been decided by a

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Speaker 1: they're talking about Mitchell Trubisky and so it's been a

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Speaker 1: struggling Bears offense. Not the same as as the season

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Speaker 1: Against the Eagles, they lose by four. They played a

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Speaker 1: how you defend Mahomes in that game. Even though Mahomes

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Speaker 1: But then at Green Bay they lost by one. Minnesota

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Speaker 1: tight fit in Detroit on Sunday afternoon. Yeah, they all are. Yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: That was the best game they played all year. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you what they can do if they are on point,

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Speaker 1: third down conversions. So they converted sixty percent, but it

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Speaker 1: four losses, and I wrote about this yesterday, beyond third downs,

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Speaker 1: last year more than anything, because they were able to

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Speaker 1: at those four losses, they're they're overall, they're much better

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Speaker 1: you factor in their percentages up, I don't have them

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Speaker 1: In the four losses, they're one of two or they're

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Speaker 1: playing against lesser opposition, the red zone percentage was amongst

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Speaker 1: right now that has drifted for the Cowboys offense. They're

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Speaker 1: now seventeenth in the league in red zone percentage. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of the problem was inside the ten

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Boy, you'd love to have that, you know,

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Speaker 1: and well, just got to get in. You do have

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Speaker 1: to just get in and every and you're right, Mick,

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Speaker 1: everything is in front of them. I mean, what was

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Speaker 1: what was their record after nine games last year? Four

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Speaker 1: and five? Yeah? Is that right? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah. Well

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Speaker 1: I said last segment. They they're better team, I think

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Speaker 1: than they were last year. But I don't feel like

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Speaker 1: they would say they haven't felt like they've played their

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Speaker 1: best football on a consistent basis. Well, no, obviously not.

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Speaker 1: But but it goes back to my point. Sometimes you

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Speaker 1: win those close games and sometimes you lose those close games.

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Speaker 1: They did win a lot of close games last year.

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Speaker 1: All right. For those who did not hear Jason Garrett's

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Speaker 1: press conference today, what happened during Jason Garrett's press conference today?

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Speaker 1: What's your take from it? Go ahead, Mick. Well, it

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Speaker 1: sounded like, um, folks think he misrepresented what they told

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Speaker 1: Tavon Austin and on that last punt return that he

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Speaker 1: immediately called a fair catch. And if I remember correctly, yesterday,

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Speaker 1: Jason said they miscommunicated what they were trying to get done.

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Speaker 1: In his mind, what they wanted to get done was

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Speaker 1: don't catch the punt and run around for a long

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Speaker 1: period of time. If you don't have that, we can't

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Speaker 1: waste seventeen seconds if you don't have that, call fair catch.

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Speaker 1: That was what was in their minds. And evidently the

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Speaker 1: chain of communication got to Tavon before he went out

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Speaker 1: in the field, call a fair catch. And so that's

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Speaker 1: why you saw the ball was barely off the punter's

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Speaker 1: foot and he was waving for a fair catch when

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Speaker 1: in reality he looked at it and he probably could

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Speaker 1: have gained twenty yards. And I thought, that's what Jason

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Speaker 1: said even after the game about it, And yesterday I'm

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Speaker 1: getting mixed up which press conference it was. I think

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Speaker 1: the two press conferences. He basically said it was on

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Speaker 1: the coaches needed to communicate better to the player and

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Speaker 1: explain it that way that if you have if you

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Speaker 1: can go north south and get in a limited amount

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Speaker 1: of time, get as much yardage as you can, but

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Speaker 1: air on the side of fair catching, right if air

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Speaker 1: on the side of caution, right right? You know? And

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Speaker 1: Tavon said it. Somebody got ahold of them Monday in

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Speaker 1: our limited time in the locker room, and he basically said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was told to fair catching. So so he did

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Speaker 1: what he was supposed to do in his in his mind. Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 1: because that's what somebody told him apparently, but it was

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Speaker 1: a chain of command from But what should have been

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Speaker 1: communicated to him was if you've got twenty yards of

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Speaker 1: well estate in front of you, take what they give you, basically,

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Speaker 1: right exactly, And so that that's where the communication. And

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Speaker 1: I think that it happened now, sir, and I think

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Speaker 1: it started on talk radio that they were basically calling

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Speaker 1: Jason a liar, that he was throwing Tavon under the bus,

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Speaker 1: which I don't think that's what happened. That that was

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Speaker 1: not you know, that was not the intention, right, And

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Speaker 1: it's just unfortunate because he gets out there quickly for

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Speaker 1: the return and like you said, Shannon, command wasn't there.

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Speaker 1: And boy, if you go back and you watch it,

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Speaker 1: we mentioned it yesterday, he might have wound up at

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Speaker 1: the thirty twenty five yard line and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you can call a play, You can get to something

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Speaker 1: that is beyond a hail Mary, you know, maybe twice.

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Speaker 1: So although Jason did make a good point, but I

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Speaker 1: don't know if guys actually see that when they're running

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Speaker 1: up field to cover a punt, that the guy are

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Speaker 1: what he called a called a fair catch. So there's

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Speaker 1: no sense me running hard, Yeah, because I'm thinking they

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Speaker 1: tell you to run hard because he might drop the ball. Right. Well,

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Speaker 1: one of the things on it, when you've got your

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Speaker 1: gunners in tight and they're protecting against a block, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that should be an indicator that there's not going to

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Speaker 1: be anybody that's close to tell you when I'm catching

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Speaker 1: this punt, you know. And so whoever was the last

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Speaker 1: person to relay, you know, call a fair catch when

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Speaker 1: they saw no gunners, they should have been yelling at him.

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised they punted to him. Well, I him too.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure the punters trying to get it

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Speaker 1: out of there as quickly as he can. But punt it,

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Speaker 1: you know, just like a kick off, a coffin corner kick,

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Speaker 1: you know, punt it to the sideline, straight out of bounds. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well do you want to get some depth on it?

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Speaker 1: But well it's still straight out of bounds, but you yeah, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: at least get it inside the numbers or outside the numbers.

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Speaker 1: I guess what I mean. And I think Tavon was

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Speaker 1: he was lined up near the Cowboys sideline and that's

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Speaker 1: where he caught it, and so punt it away from him.

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Speaker 1: You're next up on Talking Cowboys. James, Hey, guys, good,

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Speaker 1: good morning to you guys. How you guys are going good?

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Speaker 1: All right? Good to hear? Um. I think I need

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Speaker 1: like guys to talk around and trying to get over this.

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Speaker 1: But one cowboy way by the way. But I gotta

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Speaker 1: um the defensive back coach, I guess it's Christa Shard

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Speaker 1: Kyle he doesn't teach his guys to look back for

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Speaker 1: the football to make a play on the ball. They

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Speaker 1: never do. Like, I don't get it, Like, what are

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Speaker 1: they teaching them how to cover? It makes absolutely no sense.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen a linebacker over run to play as

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Speaker 1: much as Chilan does. It's it's beyond me for him

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Speaker 1: be a great linebacker. I don't I don't see that. Um,

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Speaker 1: So I'll just hang up and listen to you guys

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Speaker 1: take on that. Okay, thanks James. You know, these back

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Speaker 1: shoulders started becoming very prevalent how long ago, within the

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Speaker 1: last ten years, maybe even less than that with Deaz Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I mean around the league, the back shoulder fades

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Speaker 1: became prevalent, okay, And I think secondary coaches had to

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Speaker 1: change their way of teaching how to defend. And because

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Speaker 1: if you turn on a back shoulder fade, if you

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Speaker 1: turn back towards a quarterback, you're you got no chance.

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Speaker 1: That's what an old secondary coach told me, and the

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Speaker 1: old secondary coach and specifically texted me when the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: gave up the back shoulder fade to Aaron Rodgers, and

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Speaker 1: that Packers game at the recently. Yeah, yeah, that's the

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Speaker 1: coaching point, right, Yeah, so don't call Campo. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: he was five and eleven three straight years as the

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Speaker 1: damn good exactly, that's exactly right. He's got some rings

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Speaker 1: and he texted me and said they got to teach

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Speaker 1: him how to defend that soon does He turned and

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Speaker 1: looked back. He was beat. And you recall on that

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Speaker 1: one they twice they threw to that corner and first

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Speaker 1: it was wasn't a back shoulder, it was a fade

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Speaker 1: in front of the receiver, and Jordan Lewis looked back

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Speaker 1: at the quarterback. Okay Rogers, as Campo said, so does

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Speaker 1: Rogers saw that he knew how that what technique he

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Speaker 1: was going to use, and he hit that back shoulder

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Speaker 1: fade and Jordan turned around. So there's I think what

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Speaker 1: has happened in the league where it's being coached that way,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we need to We probably ought to

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Speaker 1: have Campo on and have him explain it because I

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Speaker 1: can't do it justice. But that's that's one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons why it's being defended that way. Well, what are

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Speaker 1: the things they're doing, and they're obviously teaching it is

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Speaker 1: to keep your eye on the receiver's hands. His hands

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of what they're doing. Now, you're exactly right.

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Speaker 1: As far as his other question, I think was about

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Speaker 1: mindful of that. You know, teams will probably continue to

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Speaker 1: try to do that. And if it is Jeff Driscoll

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Speaker 1: this week at quarterback for the Lions, that's a guy

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Speaker 1: that's a mobile quarterback. He's a leading rusher the other

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Speaker 1: and the quarterback. Yeah, and they lost Carrie on Johnson Johnson.

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Speaker 1: running back. Yeah, yeah, and yeah, they haven't gone out

639
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 1: and tried to acquire anybody to to help fix that problem.

640
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: And there's nobody out there right now. Yeah, Paul Perkins,

641
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,280
Speaker 1: there's a guy they picked up off the street. So

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00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: so Driscoll ran for thirty seven yards the case they

643
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Speaker 1: had thirty six yep. And you know, I just watching

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Speaker 1: that game back, Mick. He showed some good poise in

645
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: that game. And I didn't realize that he's had about

646
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Speaker 1: six or seven starts in the league. Driscoll has had

647
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: a nice first drive. They just didn't convert a touchdown

648
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: down down deep wound up with a field goal. Um.

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Speaker 1: By the way, he was a guy they coached here

650
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: Cowboys coach at the Senior Bowl. He was on the

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00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: North squad. I forgot about that. Um so you know,

652
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Speaker 1: was he the kid from lattecht from Florida? Right, yeah,

653
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,399
Speaker 1: Blaton Well and lon Tech by the way. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's go to Ray in New Orleans next up. I'm

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Speaker 1: talking Cowboys. Hello, Ray, Hey, how you guys doing great? Ray?

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00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: I think what gets I think what gets lost in

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Speaker 1: this thing? Does anybody realize that we lost to a

658
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: good football team by like one player or two plays?

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00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: You know? And in saying that, Nagantes start winning on

660
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,879
Speaker 1: Sunday and so they're five and four. But I know

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00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: our our defense gave up some some big time runs

662
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: on the one drive on the I guess on the

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00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 1: winning drive for the Vikings, Kirk Cousins had to complete

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Speaker 1: one third down. The rest of them are like four

665
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: consecutive first downs of ten plus yards. That's that's the concern.

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Speaker 1: But if we find a way to pass the ball

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00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,240
Speaker 1: into the end zone and win the game. The Vikings

668
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 1: are screaming about their defense. They couldn't stop back because

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Speaker 1: at that point it would have been four cartoons and

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Speaker 1: probably over four hundred yards. So all of these games

671
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: are so close man, I don't. I think fans just

672
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: start tripping out and on one of them, yea, my

673
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: head was in my check on the fourth down call, Mickey,

674
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Speaker 1: That's the only one I have a problem with. And

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you this question here in a minute,

676
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Speaker 1: but or here a couple of seconds. But the only

677
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: problem I have a problem with, the only call I

678
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: guess is the fourth down call and maybe the fifty

679
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: seven yard field goals. In the beginning of the game,

680
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: Where did you want What did you want him to

681
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 1: do on fourth down? Run the ball? Maybe not? Maybe

682
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 1: not go And I don't have the luxury of watching

683
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 1: the All twenty two, so I'm just a fan watching

684
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: them TV. I just didn't want them to go to Zeke.

685
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: Maybe on that out well maybe, Yeah, they doubled Amari.

686
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: Amari got doubled on that play, and they did have

687
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: Cobb inside, you know, but he Dak looked at him, Mark,

688
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: I think we broke it down yesterday, right, Look, he

689
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: glanced at Amari and then he went left and went

690
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: to Zeke. Try It's not like, yeah, it's not like

691
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Speaker 1: they said, Okay, we're throwing this ball to Zeke. No

692
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: matter what that was Dak's decision. They called a pass

693
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: play and he's got to read his coverages. And when

694
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: he read the coverage, it was like, okay, I don't

695
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: have amri here, I'm going left. All right. He should

696
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: have hung he should along, He should have hung in

697
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: a little longer, and Cobb eventually broke open. But there

698
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 1: was another factor there. But he never looked back to

699
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 1: the right. He was getting pressure from the left. He

700
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: got the ball off just in time because he was

701
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: getting ready to get hit. Yeah, and you know what,

702
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,800
Speaker 1: so don't say you don't think because of what they do.

703
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: That was the play. They don't get in the huddle

704
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: and say, okay, Zeke, go out, I'm thrown to you.

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00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: That's not that's not all right. That's just like when

706
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: you played a deep pass. It's not like, Okay, go deep,

707
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw it until you you get past the foot.

708
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: Was the lead options play where I'm with you, I

709
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: don't I think ninety nine that decides to keep it.

710
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: So some of that is great Minnesota deep. And what

711
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 1: was my point to begin with? We played a good

712
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: football team and they kind of shout an maybe we

713
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: make a difference play. Like I said, when the Windy's

714
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: close to and that's another thing. But this team was

715
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: almost the same as last year. Rob says, they're a

716
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: little better. I don't. I won't disagree with that. We're

717
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: losing some of the close teams. And because when we

718
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: got to when I went to the college seams in playoffs,

719
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the hell did we just watch with

720
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy nine yards? Well, we kind of

721
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 1: see a little bit of that against the Colts, So

722
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: it just depends on what teams. And then we shut

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Speaker 1: down the Giants running back. So I think it's just

724
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 1: about styles and matchups. But in saying that, we gotta

725
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: started this week with winning because if we're just close enough,

726
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: we won't make it to the tournament. We won't make

727
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: it to the playoffs. So I think we're okay. I

728
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: see we're a good football team making with the potential

729
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: to be a great football team on against different teams,

730
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: against different matches, matchups. If you make one or two

731
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Speaker 1: more plays, we're not having this conversation in Minnesota's wondering

732
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: how the heck did our past defense get like this?

733
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Speaker 1: Because we did. We scored a lot of points on them,

734
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: and we gave up. They gave up a lot of

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00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: passing yards. I should say, Okay, appreciate. I think that's

736
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 1: well said. I think you could say that about eight

737
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 1: or nine teams in this conference. Though. There's good teams

738
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Speaker 1: that have potential to be great and win a lot

739
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Speaker 1: of games depending on matchups, depending on execution. It comes

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Speaker 1: down to, you know, how consistent you can be down

741
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Speaker 1: to down. He mentioned about the fifty seven yard field

742
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: goal attempt to start the game. What do y'all think

743
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Speaker 1: about that? I think, yeah, I mean I looked it

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Speaker 1: up and I think he's four of eight this year

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00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: fifty plus. It's not guaranteed, and it was a momentum shift,

746
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 1: but I mean that's Jason Garrett with He's got the

747
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: pulse of his team and he thought that that would

748
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: be well within range for Bret Moher to make and

749
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: he's done it before. He didn't make it there, and

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Speaker 1: it did put the defense in a bind early, you know,

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00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: for that first touchdown. I was a little surprised they

752
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: tried it, but it was like then, I thought, well,

753
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Speaker 1: he's made All those sixty yarders were indoors and roof's open,

754
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's the door shut It wasn't a there

755
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:53,959
Speaker 1: wasn't a win factor there. But you know, it wasn't

756
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: so much that he can't make it. He just did.

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00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: He didn't hit it, well, yeah, he ain't it. If

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00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 1: you would have hit fifty seven down the middle when

759
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: he came up short, it's like, okay, fine, right, but

760
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: he yanked it. He's better than that. Any thought it

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00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: was fourth and six, there's no I didn't thought now,

762
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: no thought of going for it on fourth and six

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Speaker 1: at the thirty nine. No, that's why you have him.

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Speaker 1: That's one reason why you have him is because of

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Speaker 1: his ability for those deep kicks. What's this percentage? No,

766
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Speaker 1: um should not ask I had? Yeah, he's he's fourteen

767
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: of twenty. That's it, fourteen of twenty. And how about

768
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 1: beyond fifty from you know, he's only get this. He's

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Speaker 1: only tried one forty to forty nine yard field goal. Okay,

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00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: eight four of eight beyond fifty, that's what you have

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00:41:55,080 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: already indicated that. Okay, we will continue talking Cowboys tomorrow.

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