WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Split Picks 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.440 and the Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:12.039 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.920 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:21.880 time for the break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:31.480 Nick Eatman and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hey guys, Lucky, Hi, Hi, Hi, 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:36.240 are you there? You're good. You're the one with the energy. Okay. 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:41.800 I'm glad doesn't just making making judgments on my mood 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.400 after five freaking seconds. Oh, I can already tell his 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:49.640 grumpy Dave, Well, when you're in a really good mood, 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:54.680 you walking like dancing around and moving your arms. Always 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:59.800 in a good mood. Always me too when it comes 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:04.920 to that's very questionable. But all right, well, welcome back 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.240 to Cowboys Break. I'm glad to have the usual cast 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.600 here with me. What a blessed day, huh wow, surrounded 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.880 by you guys speaking of right, I was gonna say 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:19.440 that that's the person, okay. So I wanted to get 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:25.040 right into the injured and then the injured injuries and 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.920 shut in. Yeah yesterday. Hey, Black people that go to 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.560 black churches know what I was talking about when I 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.319 said that, Okay, it's something from Black Jay Man. Okay, Okay. 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.480 So we've talked about all the injury to go home, 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:45.080 all the injuries that the Cowboys have in their defense. 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.720 So that is still a big question mark. So let's 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.400 just get a quick update. Is there any changes as 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.760 to some of the guys that we've been seeing in 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:59.160 the injury report as far as being able to possibly participate. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.520 David or Daniel Ross, Antoine Woods, Taco, Charlton, all of 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.480 them did not practice or not practicing right now. Sean Lee, 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.280 Tavon Austin did not practice. Tavon Austin did more than 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:16.320 anyone else though, of those five dancing I'm gonna say, 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.360 which is to say what, Yeah, basic ask several people 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.280 why is he out? They said growing, and I said, 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.280 look at him right there like that. Nobody dances like 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.760 in a club like that. So he's ready. He looks 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.680 good to go, like he's working with in the chords 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:35.079 with Uh. Yeah, that's a good thing, right. So they 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.160 are going to probably bring up a defensive tackle Christian Ringo, 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.280 and I would be surprised if it's Tavon Austin because 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.640 I think they're getting him ready to come back. It's okay, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.600 So back up for me for a second. So you're 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.320 saying that every single one of those defensive linemen are 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.960 expected to not play, or do you think I'm saying that. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.799 I didn't say that. I'm practiced this all week. I don't. 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:57.359 I think Malik is the only guy in that group 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.040 that I would expect to play in this game. He's 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.799 been limited. Yeah, I didn't even gonna say him. Okay, Yes, 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.560 So the other four that have not practiced at all 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:11.040 this week is Nah Woods, Nah, Taco, Nah Ross Nah. Now, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:15.280 your owner Jerry Jones did say he thought Antoine Woods 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.799 has a shot to play, But I'm not seeing him 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.200 as a guy that in the category of missus all 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:24.840 three practices and plays on Sunday at that position. To me, 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.360 it seems like you may that may be a position 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.440 where you kind of could, right. I just think of 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.760 it more as he's not at a protocol like I mean, 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.120 at some point you have to get out right. But 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.920 that's that's also a little different. That's also a little 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:40.840 bit different than let's say a knee. If your knee's 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.640 not feeling good today, the likely it's gonna feel good 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.320 tomorrow is probably not great the protocol from from what 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.200 I understand now, I don't know all the rules around it, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.360 but it's a matter of whenever you're tested, you meeting 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:54.440 certain qualifications, which my assumption is that could happen tonight 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.160 into tomorrow and then he gets you know it, could 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.920 You want to get a visual of what I saw him? Sure, 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:05.440 And he's a really nice guy, funny guy walks out 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:09.240 of the shower, towel on. I'm giving you a visual, walking, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.720 walking slowly. He gets to his locker, sits down, stealing 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:19.359 his towel. I won't I won't go further, but what 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.520 happened with the towel? But he's sitting there and he 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.320 just literally just staring in the blank, just sitting there, 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:29.920 like looking at nobody, doing absolutely nothing, just staring at 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.760 back up. Do you want another visual? Oh god, Amber, 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.920 I must be sitting in the locker room staring at 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.960 a guy in a towel walking. He's ahind me, still 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.839 looking at still staring, and I mean, you don't space 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.039 out after your shower. That's what I do, like I 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.640 kind of do sometimes. Yeah, and I haven't played football 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.360 in fifteen years. Are there forty people walking. Yeah, now 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.080 forty other people are walking around showering at the gym. 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:58.640 Then you know what is just saying his movement was 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.559 very slow and that has nothing to do with the game. 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:03.560 But I'm saying as he got out of the show 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.760 where he got to his locker, he was just slow pacing, 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.120 you know, and he seems like a guy that's who 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.839 that's his way right right here here. I don't know 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.800 back to okay, I'm trying to add, what are you 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.960 able to count? I mean, what what are the Cowboys? 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.040 That's that's trouble? What are you left with? I just 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:27.239 typed it in here. I've got Crawford, MALIEK. Collins, Karen Reid, 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:36.320 and Christian Ringo. Yep, m m hm wow sound I'm 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:42.200 worried suspense. It's I mean, you've got Gregory, U d Law, 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:47.920 Dorian's Armstrong. Is that it? Yeah? So you got seven. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.760 It's not ideal. One of these guys is going to 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.440 have to play. I mean, but honestly, it's it's one 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.560 of those things. Can you have a game? And the Cowboys, 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:58.960 I know they don't do this, but can you have 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.839 a game? Will you just say, look, my best two players. 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.640 I need you to play more than you typically play. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:06.800 I need you to be out there instead of rotating 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.760 as much. I'm gonna give you a breather here and there, 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.720 but we're not going to start a series with you 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.880 on the sideline. You are two best players. These other 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.080 guys are much lesser experienced. We need you out there 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.960 and on the off chance it on the off chance 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.119 that somebody can't get up in time, I would ask 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:27.000 that of Tyrone and DeMarcus, and that's I think that's 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:28.840 probably what the it's not going to rotate as much, man, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.120 let's go, let's play. Kind of sucks too, is that 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.480 you have a game coming and I know we're focusing 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.440 this game, but you got another game coming up on Thursday. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.240 Point that is a great point right after it, and 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.160 so you may not be able to do You may 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.680 have to rotate them because you need them to be 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.200 as fresh as they can for two games in four days. 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.279 And if that's a really great point. If you get 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.520 somebody in with a concussion in this game, I mean 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.760 the protocol, I mean it's very unlikely, yeah, that they 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.719 could even come back, and then that would get Dave 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.400 to get back on this soapbox, which I don't disagree about, 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.640 you know, Thursday games and of course Thanksgiving that they've 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.679 been always going to be there yet but it's always 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.200 gonna be there. It's it's tough when you start, when 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.520 you're dealing with things like that, because every other situation 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:13.920 is protecting the players and making them healthy and all 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.280 this stuff. And you got ask these guys to play 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.040 Thursday games every week stuff. So do we want to 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.840 go through the inactis? I mean we got plenty to 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:27.680 choose from. Sure, um Tavon and Sean Lee and and 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.400 David Irving. For sure. It looks like Ross too, I 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.200 would say yea, or um, Mike White. What about you 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.720 guys like Joe Thomas to Conna Williams. I think they 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.880 both suit up. You think they both suited up? Okay, 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:43.400 Joe has been practicing all week and uh and Connors, Yeah, 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.760 they both have been limited since since earlier this week. Yeah, 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.200 it's this is an interesting cause. I mean, you you know, 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.160 you follow you follow unwritten rules about how this works. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.600 Mike White has been inactive every week because they don't 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.920 need him. You could say the same thing. You know, 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.800 Adam Redmond is another guy if Connor Williams is healthy, 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.400 you would take his jersey away. But with the amount 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.400 of injuries, you might suit those guys up anyway, And um, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.040 you could make Mike White active if you just absolutely 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.920 need to sit one of these injured guys. It just 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.000 he won't play. But yeah, so well, I mean it's 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.720 it's I think it's I think Ross, Irving, Lee, Tavon 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:26.360 and probably Taco are locks to not play, and then 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:32.760 Woods is a guy to watch. Um Woods is Woods 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.360 is the big variable for me is you know, if 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.160 he can get out of the protocol by tomorrow, maybe 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.960 he can play. But other than that, and then you know, Tavon, 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.800 Mike White, maybe you could sit either Connor Williams or 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:49.000 Adam Redmond. Yeah, that's what I'm looking at. It'll be interesting, 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.719 will be I mean, that's a lot of guys that 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.640 will be missing from your defensive line. That's a ton Well, 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.600 you know, maybe this is what they look at. It 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.240 one of those games that this is not one of 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.679 your best running teams that you're gonna face. And they 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.120 play a lot of nickel you know, I mean, I'm sorry, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:05.920 they play a lot of three wides. The Cowboys will 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:07.679 be in Nickel and Diamond a lot. I don't know 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.000 if that that changes, uh, the approach, but you know, 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.000 I think I think it's interesting though we talked about 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.280 you think Connor's going to play? I still think Suaphilo 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.280 is going to get to start. Yes, that's gonna be 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.440 think it should be like that. So, yeah, I heard 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:25.600 anything else from Jerry or Jason in regards to this 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:31.440 whole Connor in Swahilo. Jerry talked about Connor. Yeah, well yeah, Jerry. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:33.720 Jerry kind of talked about Connor today like a guy 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.840 who lost his job. So just you know, just in 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.640 the way he talked about it, he just kind of 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.400 draw that conclude the same the same thing, which the 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.360 same thing we've said on this show all this week is, 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.200 you know, we he's a young guy. He's played up 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.800 to what our expectations were. We feel great about him 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.559 going forward. We think he's got the flexibility to play 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.320 all five spots on the line. We're not down on 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.040 him at all, which you know, I gain. I'm you're 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.480 if you're being clever and thinking about what he's saying, 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.679 there's a way to fit that into he's no longer 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.160 I'm inferring from what he's saying that he's probably not 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.079 going to be starting, rather than emphatically saying when he's healthy, 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.720 he's our starter. Yeah, that's that's the spectrum of where 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.880 those comments can go, right which and I completely agree 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:16.240 for the record. I mean, you know, Jerry has a 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.160 reputation of being like the optimist, even to the point 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.520 that he's not always genuine. But I agree with what 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.720 he's saying about Connor. I think I think he was 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.200 you know, obviously he could have played better. You wish 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.200 he had, but I think he was within the reasonable 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:32.920 realm of expectations, and I thought he played well way 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.000 up more often than he played poorly. I mean, I 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.360 know when you when you draft that guy's second overall, 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.679 a second round sorry overall, and yeah second round, you 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.240 want them, you know, to come in and play and 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.920 be a starter. On this line, this is this is 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.840 kind of a different type of line. I mean, it 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.080 wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. What if 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.880 what if he is a what if he's a game 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.240 day and what if he's a backup? But if that's 0:10:58.280 --> 0:10:59.839 what his role is it, there'll be times where he 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:02.200 has to start this year. For this year, yeah, maybe 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.520 going into next year and you can say, oh my god, 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.199 you just wasted a second round pick. Yeah, but you 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.640 stole one. If that's the case, you stole a second 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.960 round pick by getting into a field if he's that good. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.319 I understand this is just one game, but but my 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.480 point is is that when this line, this is a 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.440 very talented line, you got a lot of money there. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.080 If you got a guy you're counting on your line 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.360 to be to be, you know, to help this running 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.559 game and help Dak that maybe you do need six 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.920 really good ones. Yeah, especially and he's kind of cheap 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.000 right now. So I don't look at it as wasting 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:32.720 a pick. If I feel like I stole one with 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.440 the second round, and because they're putting so much pressure 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.560 on this offensive line by the other things that they're 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.360 doing offensively, then I think it's important really for the 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.160 Cowboys to continually be dropping second round, first round, third 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.760 round picks on their offensive line because remember, in another 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.160 what is it, two years year, Lyle Collins will be 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:51.800 up and you've got to make a decision on him. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.800 Does this become his replacement in the event that they 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.439 decide they want to move on from him. Now you 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.280 move Hi back to his original position that he played 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.319 in college. I think there's a lot of things to 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.560 factor in on this. This is a pure hunch. I 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.120 haven't had a single conversation. I don't want anybody to 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:09.200 misread me. But I've seen this song and dance because 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.240 we really think Lyles a guard. We really think Lyles 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.079 a guard. Like I've heard this before and there's like, 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.720 well now we kind of think he's a tackle, and 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.720 you know, and they were convicted. He said, yeah, which 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.160 people put that on us. They're like, oh, you guys 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.439 just wrote that. Like we talk to people like we're 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.800 not just pulling this out of thin air. And so 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.800 you know, here and Jerry today say, you know, we 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.920 like him at guard. We think he's got the flexibility 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.000 to play tackle. We also, I think his direct quote 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:35.680 was like it's just a little bit of a stretch, 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.800 but we even think he could maybe play some center. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.719 I just I won't be surprised if they change their 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.959 tune about what they think he is before it's all 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.640 said and done. Especially and it is a big if, 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.080 but if Sue Philo seems like a guy that's really 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.559 an answer for them. You know, I'm not going to 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.319 be surprised if in March it's like, well, he's actually 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.240 really got these great feet and that makes him a 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.920 great tackle. Were are the smart ones for thinking about it, 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.000 and you're dumb for not thinking about it even though 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.800 people have been saying it for six months. Just it's 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.240 kind of keep it out. I be surprised. I won't 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.880 be surprised when they said, I mean look at Byron Jones. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:10.959 I mean he's a tall, lanky corner. I mean of course, 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.280 it's like, wait a second, that's not what you're safety's 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.840 it's never a good idea until it's their idea. Like 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.680 that's pretty much. Love it well, but you just gotta 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.600 you know, it goes when you're talking in the public. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.440 What you say in the public is what supports whatever 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.439 you want the public to know or what you want 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.720 the public to buy. Am I am I wrong? That's 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:31.520 just how it goes. Am I wrong? Right now? Well said, 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.080 And it's just that's that's That's the same for a 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.000 lot of things, and not just the Cowboys front off. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.199 That's a pole people. It's not a good idea that 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.480 it's mine idea. Yeah, so let's go something to watch 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.360 something to I think I do that. Yeah, I think 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:48.440 I'm guilty. Event. One of the things I was thinking 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.880 about is I'm really excited and I hope that so 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.760 I feel is able to keep playing as well as 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.760 he did against the Eagles, because that's another aspect that 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.800 you're able to take off the list of excuses as 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.760 to why this team is maybe not performing at the 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.320 level that they should be. I thought you were going 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.880 to say because he gave you the first Spanish interview 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.840 since you've been here. Well, yeah, he's a great guy. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.960 But aside from that start, yeah, yeah, yeah, it just 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.240 helps because you got a list of different issues and 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.280 it's hard to pinpoint exactly where the main problem is 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.960 coming from when you have different things happening at the 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.560 same time. Now, to me, i've crossed off the receiver position. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.720 I've now I'm crossing off old line, which I had 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.800 crossed off a while but according to Derek, that was 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:39.800 a big issue. So now are you crossing this off there? Well, 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.880 it's only one game, so no, I'm not crossing. We 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.840 got the pen there, just over it. We're sitting there 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.040 and we're thinking at this point maybe this game I'll 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:48.960 be able to cross it. Yeah, we'll see Okay, and 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.560 then now you got Now you start your quarterback on 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:57.600 that list. He's still there. He's still there on the list. 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.600 And then you still got your coaches and stuff. But 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:04.400 to me, that's just but your quarterback is better if 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.960 your offensive line and your wide receiver are in tech. Right, Yeah, 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.120 you feel like that's gonna make your quarterback better. Right, 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.120 Those things are where everything else exactly kind of comes from. Right, 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.800 You'll get much better everywhere else with those two in plays, 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.120 and those guys will make those coaches look better. They 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.600 absolutely will. You've already seen that. All right, Well, let's 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.400 take our first break. When we come back, we'll get 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.040 into game day predictions and hit us on Twitter sending 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:31.200 us your questions at Cowboys Break or give us a call. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.720 We'll be answering some calls on the third segment, Derek, 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.120 what's the phone number? The phone numbers eight eight eight 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.880 eight five five two two ninety seven again eight eight 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.080 eight eight five five two two nine seven. We'll be 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.280 back in a second. If you're like me and you 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.320 love I mean, if you have a thing, then cutting 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:50.960 the chord is scary. 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Back to 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:47.040 the Break, Welcome back to the second segment of the Break. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:51.199 We are ready the most awaited for a segment of 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:56.440 the whole week game date prediction, So Nick, why don't 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.600 you go ahead and do the honor, all right. I 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.520 do think the Cowboys will play much better than they 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.879 did last time they went to Atlanta. I think Tyrand 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.280 Smith and Zekiel Elliott and Layton Vander esh because I mean, 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:11.520 we always talked about those three guys. Was the first 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.760 game that those three Lee, Tyrant and Zeke did not 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:19.919 play affected everything? Um and now even though Lee's not playing, uh, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.200 Layton will be and Tyrn's gonna be there and Zeke. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.720 I think it'll be better. I just don't trust the 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.520 fact that they're gonna stop Atlanta on the road. I 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.040 think Atlanta is very similar to the Cowboys in that 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.719 what team do you have or a team that can win? 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:36.760 You know, almost beat the Saints and should have beaten 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.800 the Saints or killed by the Browns. I think this 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:41.440 is a turning point game for them. I think it'll 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.760 be a tough one. I think Atlanta will win twenty 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:53.960 eighth twenty three Atlanta. Sorry, apologize, what do you say 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:59.560 not to y'all? Just to assistant coach? That's fair, That's fair? 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:04.240 All right? Next? Yeah sure, I really I really hate 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.760 myself for this pick because I pride myself on like 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.959 show me. I gotta see it to believe it, you know, 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.240 like they played really well against Philadelphia. I don't know 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.840 if that's that's not good enough to be a trend, 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.040 Like it's not good enough that I should trust them, 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:25.960 but it was just so impressive. And this Falcons team 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.800 is like probably even more schizophrenic than the Cowboys are, honestly. 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:31.600 I mean, I know they have a high powered offense, 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:35.600 there's still four and five, they're thirtieth in total defense, 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.280 They're given up thirty points a game. They're much better 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:43.800 at home, But I'm just banking on seeing that running 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.199 game again. Like that's really what this all hinges on 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.439 for me is if you can run for one seventy 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.440 against the Eagles, you should be able to crack two 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.520 hundred against the Falcons. That is going to stop even 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.399 the best offense from being completely effective. I think on 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.280 top of that, I've said this all week, said at 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:02.880 Wednesday when we preview their offense. Red zone, red zone, 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:04.760 red zone. Falcons are so good at home in the 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.479 red zone. The Dallas defense has been good at stopping 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.400 teams in the red zone. It's a hallmark of Rod 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.640 Marinelli's um. So I think I think they're gonna find 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.320 a way I didn't, you know, I was really blown 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.640 away by how much better this offense looked in Philadelphia. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.359 And I think the defense, you know, if they can 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.800 hold them to a field goal or two or maybe 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:28.720 get a takeaway, I think the Cowboys can score twenty 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.400 eight on these guys. I'll say they can score thirty one. 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:33.600 And I think they can hold the Falcons to like 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:35.840 twenty eight. I mean, it's it's not gonna be a 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:38.000 it's gonna be a shootout, but I think they can 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:42.320 do it. Um that would be the next highest um 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.160