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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, December tenth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode
Speaker 1: number ninety six. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are live nest WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: It's a Tuesday, so you know what that means. It
Speaker 1: means we got a lot of topics we want to
Speaker 1: hit our infamous Gumbo show. We got a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff to talk about. We also want to hear from
Speaker 1: you guys. The numbers eight eight eight eight five five
Speaker 1: two two nine seven to get eight eight eight eight
Speaker 1: five five two two nine seven. If you should have
Speaker 1: questions or comments or topics that you'd like us to hit,
Speaker 1: feel free to give us a call. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that stuff, but we gotta start first with the NFC East.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming by that look on Day's face as says
Speaker 1: he's tired he watched that game last night, and I
Speaker 1: here physically or tired of like the NFC East in
Speaker 1: general at all. Right, but I'd love to hear from
Speaker 1: all you guys what your thoughts were last night as
Speaker 1: you were watching the Eagles and the Giants play and
Speaker 1: just how the game transpired. You know, Eli looked like
Speaker 1: Peyton to start the game, and then he turned into
Speaker 1: Eli at the end of the game. That's what it
Speaker 1: looked like to me. No, he had a great moment.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. But then you know, the Giants aren't
Speaker 1: any good. The Eagles aren't any good, you know, but
Speaker 1: they got a little bit of momentum there, and that's good.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Cowboys are not going to be able
Speaker 1: to just i mean back their way into this. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to. They're gonna have to win a
Speaker 1: game to make it into the playoffs, win a couple
Speaker 1: of games. So you know, it's like they don't really
Speaker 1: deserve to get it just handed to them on a
Speaker 1: platter like that. You're gonna have to actually win. So
Speaker 1: that's what it was. For all the problems they're dealing with,
Speaker 1: they looked pretty good, just slicing right down field. And
Speaker 1: overtime like they did. I mean, I know, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Giants aren't good, but the Eagles looked terrible for
Speaker 1: most of the night, and then when the chips were down,
Speaker 1: they looked like a team that wasn't ready to call
Speaker 1: it a season just yet, which I mean this. You know,
Speaker 1: the division race isn't over if they lose that game,
Speaker 1: but they're in a heck of a tough spot because
Speaker 1: I mean, if if the Cowboys win one and they
Speaker 1: lose one any combination of the next three, then it's over.
Speaker 1: So they bought themselves some breathing room and then to
Speaker 1: the lead. I mean they jumped into like, well, it's
Speaker 1: not the lead, but they have a better probably probably
Speaker 1: have a better chance to make the playoffs and the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I think, honestly, it's just it's gonna it's gonna be
Speaker 1: that game, just like we've been saying. I mean, not mathematically,
Speaker 1: but the Eagles have Washington, who's they're banged up as well.
Speaker 1: Darius Geist isn't going to play next weekend, um, and
Speaker 1: I just it's gonna be that December twenty second, Philly
Speaker 1: hadn't was it their right tackle someone else say they've
Speaker 1: had a ton of injuries this year. In that game,
Speaker 1: right Lane Johnson is hurt. Al Sean Jeffrey left the game. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Deshaun Jackson hasn't played for most of the year.
Speaker 1: They had one you know, jj ar Sego white side
Speaker 1: or jj Artiago white side, as Joe Testator kept saying
Speaker 1: last night, which that's probably the correct pronunciation, but it's
Speaker 1: just cracked me up. Um, they had one receiver left
Speaker 1: by the end of that game. Like Zach Ertz was
Speaker 1: playing receiver. I thought he said after the game he
Speaker 1: played every skill position but running back. I saw that
Speaker 1: Josh McConnell was changing his helmets to be ready to
Speaker 1: go out as a receiver. I mean, it was they
Speaker 1: were gonna have to do what they had to do
Speaker 1: at that point. Yeah. But if I mean you just
Speaker 1: look at it from a mathematical standpoint, Let's say the
Speaker 1: Eagles beat Washington and the Cowboys lose to their Rams
Speaker 1: next week. That puts them both at uh. No, that
Speaker 1: puts I'm sorry, no, that I'm sorry, that puts the
Speaker 1: Eagles in the leam head. But then they play each
Speaker 1: other so again, and then if the Cowboys beat the
Speaker 1: Eagles on December twenty second, they've got a relatively bad
Speaker 1: Washington team to wrap it up. Like I said, not mathematically,
Speaker 1: but it all seems like it's gonna hinge on when
Speaker 1: they play each other. So what you've seen and what
Speaker 1: you saw last night from the Eagles really what you've
Speaker 1: seen all season. Do you think if right now you
Speaker 1: had to decide which of these two teams you think
Speaker 1: it's better, the Cowboys or the Eagles, which way do
Speaker 1: you side on that? I mean, you have to remember
Speaker 1: the fact that the Cowboys have basically beaten the NFC East,
Speaker 1: and they've beaten Miami, and they've beaten who's the other
Speaker 1: team on the Cowboys? You have to say the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: don't you, because they laid each other. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: That's what it's the whole college football thing. It's like
Speaker 1: if they actually play each other, you know, and then
Speaker 1: you can determine who you know, who's better than who
Speaker 1: you have to go head to head. And right now
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have absolutely destroyed the Eagles and pretty much
Speaker 1: every other team in that divid Do you not give
Speaker 1: any difference to the fact at the Eagles beat better teams,
Speaker 1: They beat the Packers, they beat the Bills. True. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so the point I'm making though, is it seems
Speaker 1: like both the teams are bit schizophrenic all over the place.
Speaker 1: But if you look at it and you say, well,
Speaker 1: which of the team shows that they can turn it on?
Speaker 1: And when they turn it on, they can be pretty good.
Speaker 1: I think I have more faith than the Eagles based
Speaker 1: upon some of the wins that they've had. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen the Cowboys going get a better team yet this year.
Speaker 1: Like most of the time when they played better team
Speaker 1: this year, they've lost or every team they've lost. I
Speaker 1: think I'm with Nick, but it's hard to say that
Speaker 1: because they are mired in so much stink right now.
Speaker 1: Like it's been a pretty it's been since the Eagles game,
Speaker 1: really since anybody felt great about where the Cowboys were.
Speaker 1: Like even I mean they beat the Giants, they looked
Speaker 1: bad for three quarters of that game. It wasn't an
Speaker 1: impressive win. They mean the Lions game didn't have anybody
Speaker 1: fist pumping. So it's been a while, but they did
Speaker 1: beat the breaks off that Philly team. Philly's banged up,
Speaker 1: Philly's got some ugly losses on their resume. I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are the more talented of those two teams.
Speaker 1: But I'm not trying to convince anybody that they should
Speaker 1: feel good about him right now. But I think what
Speaker 1: the Eagles have in front of them seems to be
Speaker 1: a better road. I mean, they got at Washington, which
Speaker 1: I mean they could easily lose that game, um and
Speaker 1: then but they have you know, Cowboys at home. It's
Speaker 1: all Division games for the Morana Giants on the road.
Speaker 1: And by the way, what the Giants are gonna do?
Speaker 1: I mean, is he like going to play that last game?
Speaker 1: I don't know what Daniel jones A situation is. What
Speaker 1: is this less you know, final to get him to
Speaker 1: five hundred? Well, what is he when he's won below
Speaker 1: five hundred for his career? He lost? That loss last
Speaker 1: night dropped him below five Hall of Fame quarterbacks below
Speaker 1: five hundred in their career. If Joe Montana is not below,
Speaker 1: he's right at it. I mean, I'm sorry name okay, nay.
Speaker 1: If it's not in the Hall of Fame, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: what I mean? What? And that's really terrible. Joe doesn't
Speaker 1: matter like Joe. That's why he's that's and that's why
Speaker 1: Eli in the Hall of Fame. Too Black should have
Speaker 1: done that. Then we're gonna beat the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: The lights are gonna go out, but we're gonna beat
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. We said, we've said it before,
Speaker 1: Like that's the whole the whole story about it is,
Speaker 1: if you can't tell the story of the NFL without
Speaker 1: mentioning their name, they probably belong in. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I necessarily ascribe to that, because I think there's
Speaker 1: some guys that are intricate to the story of the
Speaker 1: NFL that aren't Hall of Fame players, and I think
Speaker 1: Eli's kind of one of them. Paid that argument because
Speaker 1: as a writer, you know, people ask you to write
Speaker 1: a story, the first question is how long do you
Speaker 1: need it to be? So how long is the story?
Speaker 1: It's volumes. Can you tell the Cowboys story without Tony Romo? No?
Speaker 1: And that's that's kind of my point. If it's quick,
Speaker 1: if you want to tell a story of the NFL,
Speaker 1: I mean, Tony Romo had a place in NFL history.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean as a Hall of Fame player right place. Well,
Speaker 1: but well, I mean I think that a guy coming
Speaker 1: from being undrafted to getting to the point where he
Speaker 1: was considered to be a really, really good quarterback. That's
Speaker 1: a part of the story. Got that story, Kurt Warner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that guy actually was working at Kroger or whatever.
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm just saying, though, that's still a
Speaker 1: part of if you if you were to tell your kids,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to tell your kids about the NFL,
Speaker 1: I think that's an interesting story about the history of
Speaker 1: the NFL. My point though, is just because the story
Speaker 1: is interesting to the history of the league doesn't mean
Speaker 1: it's a Hall of Fame player. And in that at
Speaker 1: this instance, I don't necessarily see Ali Manning as a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame player, but that's my opinion. I do.
Speaker 1: But that's okay, we don't have to do that. We
Speaker 1: don't about that. It's all about their defensive front. That's
Speaker 1: how they wanted Super Bowls. That's say, we don't have
Speaker 1: to do this right now. But I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be in the Hall yeah, bit Terry b Yeah,
Speaker 1: he will. Their defense is pretty good too, make no
Speaker 1: mistake about it. He will be in the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. All right, let's move on. Um, Actually,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and take our first break. When we
Speaker 1: come back. I want to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett and something he said about some changes that
Speaker 1: could possibly be happening. I'm gonna get some opinions from
Speaker 1: these guys on what that could possibly mean, and we'll
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Speaker 1: one score, September twenty nineteen. Back to the Break Welcome Back.
Speaker 1: It is the second segment of The Break Life and
Speaker 1: thats WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. It's our gumbo show.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of stuff we're getting into today.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Jason Garrett. There was a
Speaker 1: comment he made um recently and I thought was kind
Speaker 1: of interesting, and I want you guys to get playing
Speaker 1: some color to this because I'm not really quite sure
Speaker 1: who are what he's talking about here. But here's the quote.
Speaker 1: He said, the guys who earned the playing time by
Speaker 1: playing the right way are going to play more. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you can't swap everybody out, that's not what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: But we have to look for opportunities to play the
Speaker 1: guys who play the right way and have done that
Speaker 1: consistently when they've gotten opportunities. My question for you guys
Speaker 1: would be, who could he be talking about here? My
Speaker 1: favorite guys? My thought, I guess for when you think
Speaker 1: about who would be getting more playing time, when you
Speaker 1: think of all the positions, I think DBS. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think they offensively on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. I don't necessarily think they make changes there.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're doing anything with receivers. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have Gallop and you have Cooper and then you
Speaker 1: know slotting guys. But that's my thought. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that means Jordan Lewis. That's the thing that's why
Speaker 1: I I mean, we got to talk about something. I
Speaker 1: get it, but it's frustrating and comment because what is
Speaker 1: the right way? You your right way is that you know,
Speaker 1: toes on the line for national anthems? That the right way?
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the right way? Is it not dancing
Speaker 1: when a guy's hurt? Is it being in your gap?
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you talking about, you know, being
Speaker 1: a discipline player, being a good player. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know, and he doesn't want us to know. He
Speaker 1: just wants to throw something out there to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make some changes because we've lost three in
Speaker 1: a row. So I'm gonna make some kind of changes.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm not gonna tell you what they are.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell the rams what they are, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do some things differently. So let me change
Speaker 1: the question. Let's let's not try to get in his head,
Speaker 1: because that's a futile endeavor. Let's say, if if it
Speaker 1: were you and you were looking at this team and
Speaker 1: you were saying, we got three games left, I've seen
Speaker 1: how these guys have played to this point. Who are
Speaker 1: some guys or some positions that you feel like there
Speaker 1: is an opportunity maybe to upgrade what you're doing by
Speaker 1: getting this guy more opportunities, even at the expense of
Speaker 1: this other player upgrade. And that's what I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: is I agree with what Nick was just saying, like
Speaker 1: the right way like that, to me, that doesn't mean good,
Speaker 1: like if you had batter or players, you'd play those
Speaker 1: right Like that doesn't mean to me, that doesn't say
Speaker 1: like we're gonna like, oh, we've got this cornerback who's
Speaker 1: better than Cheeto, but we just haven't been playing him. No,
Speaker 1: like that to me, I mean, and I get sure
Speaker 1: that's not the truth. Though, Do you think they have
Speaker 1: a corner who's better than Cheeto who hasn't been playing.
Speaker 1: I will say this, I've been more impressed with the
Speaker 1: opportunities that with what Jordan has done with the opportunities
Speaker 1: he's gotten, then what I've seen from cheto this year.
Speaker 1: So my question would be, but George, is it worth playing?
Speaker 1: I understand that, But would it be worth in situations
Speaker 1: where there's only two cornerbacks on the field as opposed
Speaker 1: to three because Jordan is out there typically when they're
Speaker 1: a nickel. So my question is, should this be a
Speaker 1: situation where maybe he should be the guy that's starting
Speaker 1: and playing more when they're in their base defense and
Speaker 1: bringing Cheeto in even though Jordan's slide into the slot
Speaker 1: bringing Cheeto in whenever they go to Nickel and I
Speaker 1: don't know that they could. That's like twenty percent of snaps.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like I have a which Again, to
Speaker 1: go back to, my point is like and I hate,
Speaker 1: I hate to infer because I could be wrong, but
Speaker 1: I hear that quote and I it sounds like a
Speaker 1: shot to me at guys who are not playing maximum effort, max,
Speaker 1: maximum discipline, maximum, what the coaching staff asks of them,
Speaker 1: Like that is what I infer from that quote. And
Speaker 1: for me, I mean, based on the last game that
Speaker 1: we saw, I'm thinking about linebackers and I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: safeties honestly, And again, you're kind of in a bind
Speaker 1: in some of those spots. Laden vander Esh can't play
Speaker 1: right now. Jeff Heath maybe he can get back for
Speaker 1: this game against the Rams, but it's definitely not a
Speaker 1: sure thing. So again you're shorthanded. So Jalen Smith hasn't
Speaker 1: been playing well. I don't think Xavier Woods played a
Speaker 1: great game the other night. Maybe I mean, there you've
Speaker 1: got Joe Thomas and Sean Lee. Maybe you bumped them
Speaker 1: up into the rotation a little bit more. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can hear people clamoring for Donovan Wilson, but I
Speaker 1: don't really think that's going to happen. They trust him
Speaker 1: to do any better. And if you I mean if
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis, if they think that he could give them
Speaker 1: a boost in base then I don't have a problem
Speaker 1: with that. It just doesn't seem like a big enough
Speaker 1: sample size of plays for me to get worked up about.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I think they could do
Speaker 1: differently is not maybe not so much changing the personnel,
Speaker 1: but how they rotate it, especially on the defensive line.
Speaker 1: You know, if you think about it from a standpoint
Speaker 1: of a basketball coach, you might have played ten players,
Speaker 1: but just because you're six minutes into the game, you
Speaker 1: don't take all five out and put five new in
Speaker 1: and see how that works. I mean, you kind of
Speaker 1: sprinkle them in and out. That's what I think they
Speaker 1: should be doing with the D line. There was a
Speaker 1: game of the Buffalo Game where a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: where they actually drove the length of the field, and
Speaker 1: it's just like, well, we're gonna go with the whole backup,
Speaker 1: you know. The b team actually goes out there together,
Speaker 1: Tristan Hill, Carry Hyde Er, Durrance Armstrong and at that
Speaker 1: point Michael Bennett and I'm like, why, you know, you're
Speaker 1: only a couple You're only a couple of series into
Speaker 1: the game, you know, And then we saw something really interesting.
Speaker 1: I wonder if you're going to get yeah, very interesting.
Speaker 1: At the end of the Bears game, they're down, I
Speaker 1: believe ten third and seven Bears, a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: to go in the game, and Michael Bennett's on the
Speaker 1: field and Michael Bennett basically points to two linemen to
Speaker 1: get on the field for this third down play. I
Speaker 1: don't care what the rotation is, get on the field,
Speaker 1: and it was d Law and Robert Quinn and then
Speaker 1: Hyder and Armstrong kind of came out. That's maybe a
Speaker 1: shot at the coaching staff or at those guys forgot
Speaker 1: about that. That was really I mean, he was standing
Speaker 1: as I feel like, get out here, come on. You know. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it could be the coaching staff, but I also think
Speaker 1: my question would be if he is the one that's
Speaker 1: calling for them. Yeah, maybe it's the players. Tank makes
Speaker 1: enough money where if he's like I'm going in whoever's
Speaker 1: in there is coming out right, he could call his
Speaker 1: own own plays and say I need to be out
Speaker 1: there right now. So if if Michael Bennett is the
Speaker 1: one summoning him out, then why wouldn't he take himself
Speaker 1: out there? It would be my question. Right. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: starting to think, like the whole Hot Boys thing, there's
Speaker 1: some negativity to it when you think about it. Just
Speaker 1: like we always said, next man up is has got
Speaker 1: its downfalls because you can't just say, well, next guy up,
Speaker 1: I mean put him in there, because it's not the same.
Speaker 1: You have to do things differently because he doesn't play
Speaker 1: as well. So sometimes this whole group of we're in
Speaker 1: this together, I mean I get what Tank was trying
Speaker 1: to do and all that, and it works worked well
Speaker 1: last year, but it's not a group of nine guys
Speaker 1: that are all equal. So just because this particular guy
Speaker 1: has the cap, that doesn't mean that he can play
Speaker 1: on third and nine when you need him too. And
Speaker 1: if all of them are equal, then they should be
Speaker 1: paid equal, right and not certainly not, they're not you
Speaker 1: know that when you're paid out of premium, then the
Speaker 1: expectation is that you're going to play it at premium.
Speaker 1: That means when there are money downs out there, the
Speaker 1: money man needs to be on the money down. I
Speaker 1: don't think no, which this this is what I keep
Speaker 1: thinking about when we talk about this again. The quote
Speaker 1: is the right way, Like, that's defense just all the way?
Speaker 1: Like is there? I mean you go along the offensive lineup, like,
Speaker 1: sure they could get better production from tight end Jason
Speaker 1: Witten isn't what he used to be, But like, is
Speaker 1: he not playing the right way? Right? I doubt that
Speaker 1: very much? And you know, Xavier Suaphilo, like, is not
Speaker 1: he Like they could get better play from their left guard,
Speaker 1: but is he not playing the right way? I doubt it?
Speaker 1: And Jerry Jones, like every time he's talking since the
Speaker 1: Chicago game, he's harped way more on the defensive shortcomings
Speaker 1: than anything else. So that's it. Just I think that
Speaker 1: is where the ire of this team is right now.
Speaker 1: Is this defense is just not performing. Xavier Woods, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe Jeff Heath comes back, and actually it's Thompson that
Speaker 1: stays in the lineup. Man, I don't know. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to single out Xavier Woods here, how
Speaker 1: how much you think the Cowboys are now regretting their
Speaker 1: decision on draft Day to not take a safety with
Speaker 1: that pick in the second round us even absolutely what
Speaker 1: they've gotten from Tristan Hill just thinking about it from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of has Xavier really developed to the point
Speaker 1: that they thought he would or should and looking at
Speaker 1: the two young safeties who we've mentioned before and what
Speaker 1: they've done so far this year, do you think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are regretting just the idea that they could have
Speaker 1: upgraded their safety position? Probably? I would think so. They
Speaker 1: I mean they've even before injuries, I think they knew
Speaker 1: like before them in Cavon Frazier still out, I think
Speaker 1: they probably, I would assume, would be you know, we'll
Speaker 1: be okay this year. We'll look into safeties next year
Speaker 1: when some of the contracts are up. But I think
Speaker 1: in hindsight, when you look it's it's something they should
Speaker 1: have taken into more consideration and maybe made a move for.
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's exactly right. I guess
Speaker 1: my pause or my hesitation was because like, are they
Speaker 1: ready to call that a mistake? Like and That's what
Speaker 1: I always you know, I always joke like, it's not
Speaker 1: a bad ideas, it's a bad idea until it's their idea,
Speaker 1: or it's a you know, it's not a good idea
Speaker 1: until it's their idea. Like are they ready to say that?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like maybe you know, they have a
Speaker 1: much better read on where Tristan Hill is and how
Speaker 1: he's developing than I do, Like maybe, yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: project for the next month or so. It is, be like,
Speaker 1: do you guys, are you guys out on this guy yet?
Speaker 1: Because I just feel like they're probably not, even if
Speaker 1: I do think it was probably a mistake. And also
Speaker 1: then you look at the trade that they almost made
Speaker 1: with Jamal Adams. Did they look back now and go, well,
Speaker 1: we're glad we didn't do that, or which they would have?
Speaker 1: You know, could he have changed a few games here
Speaker 1: and there? He did get hurt, but I mean, there's
Speaker 1: no telling that he would get hurt there. And the
Speaker 1: thing about it is he's a guy that that you know,
Speaker 1: you got your last year, you got your lift from
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper and it basically got you rolling into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Maybe that could have been that sort of guy for
Speaker 1: you this year that could have been that much of
Speaker 1: a difference maker for you to where it kind of
Speaker 1: wins some of these games that you. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's on ir he's hurt, but there he is hurt.
Speaker 1: That's two years in a row that a guy that
Speaker 1: almost got traded to the Cowboys ends up getting hurt
Speaker 1: right after the deadline, right or after the deadline there?
Speaker 1: What didn't Earl Thomas get hurt? Oh? Oh yeah, he
Speaker 1: messed up his leg? Right, didn't he safety set carted
Speaker 1: off the field? I sure did. Had something to say
Speaker 1: about it, he can say it. He didn't say you
Speaker 1: know that? I mean, and and who knows where the
Speaker 1: season would have gone. And obviously I don't think they'd
Speaker 1: feel bad about trading for Jamal Adams. But if if
Speaker 1: a regime change is coming, then I think they'll be
Speaker 1: happy about having a first round draft pick heading into
Speaker 1: this new time. Ye so, and me, as somebody who
Speaker 1: covers the draft, it's very happy about that. So let's
Speaker 1: take a call real quick. We got a call from
Speaker 1: Chris and Connecticut. Chris, what up? Hey, good afternoon, guys.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you take him a call. Yep, it's got just first,
Speaker 1: I want to say, as much as it pains for
Speaker 1: me to say, kudos to the Eagles. Um, they you know,
Speaker 1: they picked themselves off off the ground and found a
Speaker 1: way to win that game last night, unlike the Cowboys
Speaker 1: who don't seem to be able to come back from
Speaker 1: a three point definite, let alone fourteen. But UM, my
Speaker 1: question to you guys is this is how how is
Speaker 1: it that we never seem we know going into the
Speaker 1: game where they know going into the game, even as
Speaker 1: a layperson, you know, we are really vulnerable to the screens,
Speaker 1: We're really vulnerable to running quarterbacks. And it's just you know,
Speaker 1: it's game after game after game, and yet they don't
Speaker 1: seem to prepare. It's you know, you see them line
Speaker 1: up the same way, you can see it coming. And
Speaker 1: I just don't understand. Do you think it's the function
Speaker 1: of the players that they have playing in the wrong
Speaker 1: scheme or is it the scheme that's wrong in that,
Speaker 1: you know, have they have other teams just figured us out?
Speaker 1: We've become so predictable. I just would love to hear
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that, as if the players or as
Speaker 1: the schemes because something's not right. Yeah, well, I will
Speaker 1: say congratulations. You always want to be the first to
Speaker 1: do something. I think he's the first one to ever
Speaker 1: call and say kudos to the Eagles on here. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's ever said that before. It's all good, No,
Speaker 1: it's all good. That's fine. They did themselves up, but
Speaker 1: they did get down by fourteen to the Giants. I
Speaker 1: mean that I don't think they figured it out. I
Speaker 1: think that they want a game, but I don't think
Speaker 1: that they're they're any good, and that the Cowboys aren't
Speaker 1: any good. They're just gonna whoever's gonna, you know, walk
Speaker 1: into the walk into the door here, you know, last
Speaker 1: we'll win it. But scheme or players, Danny, you go good. Well,
Speaker 1: I should say that that's what's frustrating is the way
Speaker 1: they haven't been able to defend mobile quarterbacks. And I
Speaker 1: struggle with whether or not it's players, because for the
Speaker 1: most part, this is a lot of the same players
Speaker 1: as last year. I mean, you know, we haven't had Layton,
Speaker 1: I know you have Robert Quinn stuff, But I don't
Speaker 1: know that they've necessarily changed the scheme up so much.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure if it's players just aren't performing
Speaker 1: for whatever reason that is, I know tackling has been
Speaker 1: such a large issue this year, and I mean the
Speaker 1: coaches can't go out there and tackle for them, so
Speaker 1: I guess I would lean more to the players just
Speaker 1: not performing. Well. You just I just thought of something
Speaker 1: when you said that. You remember how last year ended,
Speaker 1: last season ended, What play won this game for the Rams?
Speaker 1: It was a yeah, bootleg bootlegs And by the way,
Speaker 1: in that game, it was a ton of misdirection and
Speaker 1: all that kind but really with him, Yeah, they got
Speaker 1: run all over by C. J. Anderson and yeah and
Speaker 1: Gurley and then at the end it was it was
Speaker 1: that play. So because I because I was thinking, well,
Speaker 1: who they played this week? It played golf. He doesn't
Speaker 1: really Yeah, well I know that's what I'm saying. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe golf will hurt No, it's if you can anybody
Speaker 1: better than ELI would probably hurt them running, you know,
Speaker 1: with their legs. It's just the way it is. The
Speaker 1: answer is always going to be both. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can't tell me the scheme doesn't work purely because this
Speaker 1: is the scheme that created the most dominant defense in
Speaker 1: modern NFL history. Like you know, a lot of single
Speaker 1: high cover three Christoph Shards. You know, it worked gangbusters
Speaker 1: in Seattle. Why did it work so well? It had
Speaker 1: Hall of famers everywhere? Why did it work so well?
Speaker 1: Last year? Guys were playing Pro bowlers on all levels
Speaker 1: of the field. Byron Jones was erasing the right side
Speaker 1: of the defense. The linebackers were making good reads and
Speaker 1: making athletic plays, and that's I think that is. I
Speaker 1: think that's the source of a lot of frustration. Is
Speaker 1: you know, Jason Garrett, we associated with offense a lot,
Speaker 1: but it's defense too. It's like, well, if we do
Speaker 1: this at the highest level possible, will be pretty good
Speaker 1: and or will be very good. And they did it
Speaker 1: last year, and I think you know, teams spend an offseason,
Speaker 1: you know, teams try to figure out Dak. They also
Speaker 1: try to figure out your linebackers, like, oh, Jalen Smith
Speaker 1: doesn't change direction in space very well, Let's take advantage
Speaker 1: of that. Let's take advantage of the aggression of this
Speaker 1: defense and missdirect and do a lot of stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And again, if they were playing at an all pro level,
Speaker 1: if Layton Vanderesh was completely healthy and playing better than
Speaker 1: he did last year, he'd probably be sniffing a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff like this out. But he's not part of that.
Speaker 1: Maybe you know your development or lack thereof. Injuries are
Speaker 1: part of it too. Coaches unwillingness to adjust from what
Speaker 1: had worked before, it always ties together. So I don't
Speaker 1: you know. I don't think the scheme is bad on
Speaker 1: its own, but the scheme is bad when the players
Speaker 1: aren't operating at it at an elite level. And when
Speaker 1: you combine that with the coaching staff's unwillingness to tweak
Speaker 1: it to make up for their deficiencies, you get a
Speaker 1: bad product. Yep, you hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 1: Because if you listen to what the players have been
Speaker 1: saying after all of these losses, every single one of them,
Speaker 1: what I hear over and over in the locker room
Speaker 1: is we beat ourselves. We just need to play better.
Speaker 1: We just got to figure out how to play better. Well,
Speaker 1: what happens in the instance where you cannot play better.
Speaker 1: You are playing as good as you can based upon
Speaker 1: where you are. Like if you're Jalen Smith and your
Speaker 1: limitations are your limitations, and teams to figure out what
Speaker 1: your limitations are, You're not gonna get any better. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna overcome that limitation necessarily. So that's where I
Speaker 1: get back to if it's up to the coaches at
Speaker 1: that point to realize what we're asking of our players
Speaker 1: they are not capable of doing. Yeah, we can say
Speaker 1: you gotta be better, but you're not gonna make me
Speaker 1: turn into Dion Sanders like. It's just it's not possible, right,
Speaker 1: And that's where you have to kind of change up
Speaker 1: what you're doing, because you may be asking something of
Speaker 1: your players if they're just not capable of doing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But it goes back to what Danny said, if you
Speaker 1: can't tackle. I mean a lot of it is simple
Speaker 1: stuff too. Yeah, but a part of that may be
Speaker 1: I missed the tackle because I recognize what was going
Speaker 1: on late, so I take off running full speed. Now
Speaker 1: I get out there and I'm over pursuing, and now
Speaker 1: the guy makes a move and he cuts back against me,
Speaker 1: and bam, I've missed the tackle. So there are a
Speaker 1: lot of things that can go into missing the tackle
Speaker 1: other than Jess I didn't wrap up right. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's everything, it really is. I mean, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have a new coach. I think we all know that
Speaker 1: that Jason Garrett is not going to be the coach
Speaker 1: next year because they're not gonna go They're not gonna
Speaker 1: get hot. There's nothing that says this team's gonna get hot.
Speaker 1: And if they do, you know what, call in and
Speaker 1: say you were wrong, and I'll be like, I was
Speaker 1: wrong because they're not gonna get hot, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: take something. And this is gonna take a Christmas miracle
Speaker 1: to the New Year's miracle to get them to enough
Speaker 1: where you're like, I gotta keep Jason. Garrett's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: We always joke. We I mean, you know, Michael Myers,
Speaker 1: we don't have to do it. But if in the
Speaker 1: back of your mind, I want to know from all
Speaker 1: y'all like the percentage. I think we would all agree
Speaker 1: that you're right, But what is the percentage in your
Speaker 1: head that they could get hot? You know, like, you're like,
Speaker 1: is it zero every time? About one percent? Now you
Speaker 1: know what it is? After you ask me that at
Speaker 1: the end of every game, I'm like zero percent. They
Speaker 1: are who they are, They're done. And then by about
Speaker 1: Thursday or Friday, same thing the Amber was saying last
Speaker 1: week about Thursday Friday, I'm kind of like, I still
Speaker 1: do think this team has some talent. I still do
Speaker 1: think maybe they can turn it on. I still did
Speaker 1: see them last year after they had a dismal first
Speaker 1: half just turn it on and go crazy, So maybe
Speaker 1: they have it in them. So right now I'm probably
Speaker 1: feeling like there's still fifty fifty chance that they show. Yeah, say,
Speaker 1: toss up what I knew if this team is they
Speaker 1: are tossed. I do know who they are. They're not
Speaker 1: a toss up. You're right, You're right, they're not a
Speaker 1: toss up. But my mine keeps telling me I have
Speaker 1: experience knowing that this team is better than what they
Speaker 1: hold on, better than what they've shown. Real quick, I
Speaker 1: want Danny's answer, Okay, this is this both it's it's Sunday.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be getting hot in a
Speaker 1: misleading way. I think if they come out and they
Speaker 1: beat Philly, who's terrible, and then they beat Washington, who's terrible,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna say they had this momentum going into
Speaker 1: the playoffs winning the division, and I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to be a real momentum because you just beat
Speaker 1: terrible teams. I don't think it will be getting hot
Speaker 1: in the sense that it will help them. Do we
Speaker 1: all think they're going to make the playoffs? I don't
Speaker 1: see it right now. That's because I'm most people like I,
Speaker 1: you know, I talked to fans on Twitter all the time,
Speaker 1: Like most fans seem to think it's like six or
Speaker 1: seven wins. They're like, we're not. We're winning one if
Speaker 1: maybe anymore. Yeah, And I don't think I still I
Speaker 1: don't think I believe that. I don't think they can
Speaker 1: talk up honestly, just like I said about them getting
Speaker 1: on a run, I think it's a toss up whether
Speaker 1: they win a division. I think it's a toss up
Speaker 1: whether they get to the playof I just think all
Speaker 1: of this is, in my opinion, a fifty five. It
Speaker 1: is no different than basically flipping a coin because I
Speaker 1: don't have a hand. I don't have a handle on
Speaker 1: win or if this team has the ability to turn on.
Speaker 1: I know they've got talent, but for whatever reason, they
Speaker 1: ain't showing up, and so does that at some point,
Speaker 1: can they figure out a way to get that that
Speaker 1: switched to flip or if not, they'll continue to be
Speaker 1: who they are. It's it's interesting because they don't have
Speaker 1: to get hot, like right now, they don't even really
Speaker 1: have to get They can just kind of, like she said,
Speaker 1: just kind of stumble along and just win enough games
Speaker 1: and let the Eagles be the Eagles, and you know,
Speaker 1: you can steal kind of back into this thing. But
Speaker 1: are you good enough to beat the Vikings or the
Speaker 1: Seahawks or whoever is going to be sitting there that's
Speaker 1: the five seed. Yeah, the crowd will be hot, and
Speaker 1: it'll be able, you know, flat, they'll have the white
Speaker 1: towels going and all that good stuff. But will it
Speaker 1: be good enough to win? I mean, I don't and
Speaker 1: it hasn't been yet. They don't. They don't have to
Speaker 1: beat a team with a winning record to get into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They don't. They can lose Sunday, beat the Eagles,
Speaker 1: beat the Redskins in there in yep, all right, let's
Speaker 1: take our final break. When we come back, I want
Speaker 1: to talk about something that Jerry had to say this
Speaker 1: morning on his radio show. Pretty interesting stuff. Will be
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Speaker 1: what we were talking about. And so all right, let's
Speaker 1: get back in some of that fun. Okay. I did
Speaker 1: hear a quote from Jerry Jones this morning on his
Speaker 1: radio show here with r J and Sean RJ on
Speaker 1: the Fan, And here's the quote, and I want to
Speaker 1: get your opinions on what you think it means. He says,
Speaker 1: we haven't met with urban Meyer. He says, I don't
Speaker 1: want to imply that we wouldn't. The implication is you're
Speaker 1: not interested. That shouldn't be the thought that followed either,
Speaker 1: Like you laughed, I had to do. Not interested, but
Speaker 1: I'm not interest right, covering himself in case the future
Speaker 1: he wants to talk to him, it's not well, you
Speaker 1: said at to talk to me. He also, and I'll
Speaker 1: a lot of people have pointed this out to me today.
Speaker 1: He said, we have not talked to any coach. Urban
Speaker 1: Meyer is not a coach. He is an animstraight now correct,
Speaker 1: so just saying just saying so smart I did. I
Speaker 1: did a massive double take. I was listening in the
Speaker 1: car and I was just like, did he just say that?
Speaker 1: Even though he hasn't talked to him, he doesn't mean
Speaker 1: he's not interested. Just laughing out like, I can't believe
Speaker 1: he just said that's Honestly, I was nervous because I
Speaker 1: was like, am I miss hearing this. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: in trouble when I tweet it like this, because that,
Speaker 1: to me, he's gone. Jerry Jones has gone out of
Speaker 1: his way to back Jason Garrett and he's not going
Speaker 1: to do something during the season. And he's still I
Speaker 1: assume won't. But he's out here, you know, five days
Speaker 1: before a game, three games to play, playoffs still in play,
Speaker 1: and he's like, well, yeah, I mean I might be
Speaker 1: interested in talking to some people, which is not that
Speaker 1: you're surprised to hear that, but I'm surprised to hear
Speaker 1: him say it. But in public, I will say this
Speaker 1: like we all. I shouldn't say we all. Me and
Speaker 1: Nick lived through a time when Jerry was publicly not
Speaker 1: saying he was looking for a coach and was having
Speaker 1: meetings with his next coach, Bill Parcels, trying to figure
Speaker 1: out if he was the right guy. And so I
Speaker 1: think that when you're dealing with these kinds of situations,
Speaker 1: you have to be very careful if you're in Jerry's position,
Speaker 1: because anything you say, as in the case of this,
Speaker 1: can be used for or against you, right, and so
Speaker 1: you have to be very careful with what you say.
Speaker 1: But you also got to be thinking about the current
Speaker 1: and the future of your organization, and if you're gonna
Speaker 1: make a coaching change, you better have a shortlist of
Speaker 1: guys and be prepared to make that change before you fire.
Speaker 1: So I think the worst thing you can do as
Speaker 1: the manager of any business is fire someone and not
Speaker 1: have a replacement option. Like if you don't have a
Speaker 1: plan already set up, did You're you're doomed to fail.
Speaker 1: If you're going to just fire someone and not have
Speaker 1: a plan, well, they don't have to. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: to fire Jason Garrett. He you know the contract will
Speaker 1: run out. But but like you said, I mean he did.
Speaker 1: He was sitting on the runway meeting with Bill Parcels.
Speaker 1: I think the day or the weekend before that game
Speaker 1: against the Eagles, and so in two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: and you know, the Campo was asked about it and
Speaker 1: it was really awkward. And so the same thing here.
Speaker 1: I mean, Garrett, you know, how does your team respond?
Speaker 1: That team responded with losing that game like twenty seven
Speaker 1: to three, so like that that didn't do anything, you know,
Speaker 1: like that they weren't good enough to beat the Eagles
Speaker 1: that day. And I don't know if the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: good enough to beat the Rams. But as Dave always says,
Speaker 1: a great analogy of just when you think, you know,
Speaker 1: they finally killed off Michael Myers and it's over, like
Speaker 1: this is it? All right, roll the credits, finally this
Speaker 1: would be this is it. But this would be the
Speaker 1: comeback of all comebacks. This is like the end of
Speaker 1: Halloween eight, where like he's been lit on fire and
Speaker 1: shot a million times and had the cement kind of
Speaker 1: hanging off the girls. Yeah we're alive. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: never want to ever think about that again. This would
Speaker 1: be an escape of all escapes, which and that's I mean,
Speaker 1: short of tampering, Like obviously Jerry can't talk to other
Speaker 1: NFL clubs coaches, but like short of tampering, I would
Speaker 1: be doing my due diligence on anybody that I might
Speaker 1: be able to talk to. Well, who, I mean, Urban Meyer,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's not working, I don't know whatever. I would
Speaker 1: be absolutely shocked. I'd be absolutely shocked if Jerry or
Speaker 1: Steven or whoever is having to think about these kinds
Speaker 1: of things, doesn't, at least even if just in their minds,
Speaker 1: have a short list in their minds of if we
Speaker 1: were going to move away from our coach, who would
Speaker 1: we'd be looking at to possibly replace him. If if
Speaker 1: they're not doing that to me, that's just that's just
Speaker 1: that would be your response. I would be absolutely shocked.
Speaker 1: Still strange, maybe not strange, but surprising that he would
Speaker 1: say something like that is on the radio the week
Speaker 1: before a game while also backing Jason Garrett. But that's
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Been an interesting couple of weeks, though, with
Speaker 1: every statement, every time I think I've been part of
Speaker 1: the weirdest season, I'm wrong. I just well, twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: still takes the cake for me. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight was pretty wild for y'all, But
Speaker 1: what happened in seventeen again, I mean everything well Zeke suspension,
Speaker 1: national anthem, everybody got hurt. They couldn't do anything without Tyron.
Speaker 1: I mean the team just absolutely fell apart. Without Tyron Smith.
Speaker 1: I'm probably forgetting some stuff Lucky Lucky Whitehead's dog. The
Speaker 1: index card, I mean, twenty seventeen just goes on and
Speaker 1: on and on. The index card to me is still
Speaker 1: just that's just the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Like
Speaker 1: the more it goes on, just like that's that's part
Speaker 1: of the rules, Like if you just can't figure it out,
Speaker 1: you have to just I don't even remember who had
Speaker 1: the ball. Did the Cowboys at the ball? Cowboys at
Speaker 1: the ball? They went for it, and then they wound up.
Speaker 1: They went down and scored at the index card, putting
Speaker 1: that there was showed that it was. It was it
Speaker 1: was that close, Like he put the card in there
Speaker 1: and it like grazed the football like that was proof
Speaker 1: enough for Jane's territory. And he was smart smarting the
Speaker 1: whole time. God, that was weird. Yeah, and yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you dubbed Jeff he's the goat that game. I
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath's been the goat since way before then, he's
Speaker 1: just he's was he kicking field goals? That year? Was that?
Speaker 1: The year? Sixteen was the field goal year? And then
Speaker 1: fifteen he led the team and picks and six. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's he's been a playmaker. That's all he does.
Speaker 1: Which team does? Don't ask that question something? No, I
Speaker 1: like Jeff, but but yeah, I mean he said, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what Jeff versus future Hall of famers has
Speaker 1: not gone? Well, no, no, when he goes up against
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson and and Calvin Johnson and maybe Graham kind
Speaker 1: of dog my man for stuff that happened when he
Speaker 1: was an undrafted rookie. I know, I know it's okay.
Speaker 1: He had a moment left. No, but I mean the
Speaker 1: moment the big player we were just talking about. Wasn't
Speaker 1: that a part of his work? I don't remember the
Speaker 1: last play of the game, M Like, wasn't that part
Speaker 1: his resume? He also picked off a future Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer in the playoffs before that. Let Robbie Anderson go
Speaker 1: ninety's all right, just say, were you han't? Were we
Speaker 1: doing thee it? We can do this, but everybody, you're right,
Speaker 1: everybody everybody on this team. We can probably go through
Speaker 1: a dossier of plays at two thousand and eight. Two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight had a bunch of off field drama,
Speaker 1: didn't it? Just like a tonne was here? Was that
Speaker 1: the year of the helicopter flying over his place after
Speaker 1: the supposed no no, no, no no? What year was that? What?
Speaker 1: That might have been the craziest experience I've ever had
Speaker 1: to Cowboys. I thought he was still with the Eagles
Speaker 1: when that happened. When no, no no, no, no no talking about
Speaker 1: the overdose to you talking about the overdose, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what about? But what I mean was he was with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. The hack Man was in Oa, wasn't he?
Speaker 1: And Tank with the stuff in the trunk of the
Speaker 1: car in two thousand and eight. That's that's what's crazy
Speaker 1: about this year to me, is like it's they're they're
Speaker 1: so up and down and there's so much weird stuff
Speaker 1: going on. They're not playing well. It's but there's no
Speaker 1: like drama that none of the drama that typical whole
Speaker 1: dramas just y'all the dramas just that, Oh we thought
Speaker 1: y'all were really good, and you're not, like that's the
Speaker 1: drama weight had drama because that was the year that
Speaker 1: TiO said that that Witten and Roma go out to
Speaker 1: practice and plays in the dirt. No, well, he said
Speaker 1: they were in their hotel rooms the night before games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: making up plays. Which the ironic part of that was
Speaker 1: the forty four to six game at the end of
Speaker 1: the season against the Eagles, when they had a chance
Speaker 1: to win it, they lost terribly. Yeah, there was the
Speaker 1: weirdest play you've ever seen where they like run the
Speaker 1: ball to Witten or TiO and he throws it back
Speaker 1: to Witton and when Whitton throws it maybe I don't
Speaker 1: remember something. It was like one of the better plays
Speaker 1: of the year. Though you remember that I don't. So
Speaker 1: it's better than did you get tweeted about the fleeflicker
Speaker 1: that went two yards last night? Any in any football
Speaker 1: game televised, I get a tweet? It would have matter,
Speaker 1: madam Ohio versus youngstound state fleeflicker. It would have worked
Speaker 1: gangbusters if Nate's soldier could protect the left side. But
Speaker 1: oh well, is what it is? Good? Not all right?
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