WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Who's Got Ertz? 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:04.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:08.119 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.840 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:16.200 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:21.560 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:27.840 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.520 It is Wednesday, December fifth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.680 number ninety. Welcome to another edition of The Break, live 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.600 from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. It 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.519 is Cowboys versus Eagles week, so there's a lot we 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:42.880 gotta talk about. Dave's gonna give us a scouting report 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.560 on the Eagles offense a little later in the show 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.319 tomorrow we'll get to the defense. But first I want 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.519 to talk a little bit about some injuries. There have 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.880 been quite a few guys, five in particular, who've missed 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.160 several games. And after kind of going through the gauntlet 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:58.600 of what the Cowboys have to go through when they 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.600 get to Thanksgiving every year, that game than Thanksgiving Day, 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.440 than the game after um, and then having that ten 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.080 day break, UM, I'd like to catch everybody up on 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.520 what you guys think right now regarding these five players. Now, 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.840 I understand you may not have a definitive word, so 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:15.319 I'm gonna throw out the name. What I really want 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.200 you to just tell me is what's the last thing 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.200 you've heard on this guy and where is he right 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.240 now in his in his progression to come back. So 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:25.399 let's start first with Sean Lee. That's the sorry, go ahead. Well, 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.680 I was just gonna say, the last thing I've heard 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.640 is what just just not at practice today? Not practice? 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.679 That's what what you know was happening. It's actually happening 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.840 right now. You were there for Garrett and maybe the 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.280 walk off he might have had a little bit more 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.039 about what their plan is. With Sean, Uh, he's not 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.120 practicing today. Keep an eye on him the rest of 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:45.920 the week. That's kind of what I was gonna say 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:47.920 is It's a funny thing, is you know Sean said 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.400 he's optimistic he can practice this week. That turns into 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:53.200 you know, he's gonna get his starting job back, and 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.680 what are we gonna do with these linebackers? And uh, 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.600 he still needs to practice, and so we'll see how 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.880 that for the rest of the week. Um, but yeah, 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:04.960 he's he's not out there to start. So, and the 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.040 interesting thing I heard yesterday when Jerry was talking about 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.400 Sean Lee was he talked about him, but then he 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.440 also said, we're not going to rush him back. And 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.960 they've been saying that throughout this We're not rushing this thing. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.680 We're not going to rush him back. So my assumption 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.200 has always been until he gets to the point where 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.800 he's practicing fully and I mean fully for a week, 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.720 I would be kind of shocked if I see him play. Yeah. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.640 I don't think this is one of those situations where 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:29.800 God gets to Thursday or Friday and maybe can go 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.960 through walkthrough, so you run him out there on Sunday. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.240 I think they're going to be very very cautious with 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.079 this because they don't have a need to force him back, right, 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.320 I would agree with that completely. Yeah, and so, but 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.880 but that's good that that sounds good for them. You know, 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.240 Sean Lee's probably wanting to come back and play. Yeah, 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.400 but he doesn't make the decision. No, he doesn't. But 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.000 I mean it's well, it's great. I mean, Witt made 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.800 a decision for fifteen years. Whitton is different. We know 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.320 that Whitnines has done things that I don't know, but 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.120 I don't think is gonna be out on the field 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.320 saying late and go back, go back, like they send 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.000 him in. He's like, no, no, I'm not ready to 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.760 come off the field. You go back. Jason dictated a 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.880 lot of games that other players don't get to dictate. 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.480 And no, I mean Jason didn't deal with a lot 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.679 of severe injuries injuries period, right, he dealt with him. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.560 He dealt with him playing a little bit a little 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.480 bit different though, I mean, Sean is all you know, 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.880 when Sean's hurt, it's stuff you can't play through, right, 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.000 um and so and yeah, I mean you know, if 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.959 if they were playing without him the way they played 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.800 without him last year, he probably it would be a 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.080 different story. But that's not the case. All right, let's 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:39.240 move on Tyren Smith. He was out there today limited 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:44.320 participants A good sign, yes, Um, and that's different Wednesday. Yeah, 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.040 probably won't be like truly full the rest of the year, 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.360 if I had to guess. I mean, even even if 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.360 it says he does everything like they're you know, he's 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.720 he's he's Tony Romo. Now he's you know, they're gonna 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.480 watch him. They're not going to give him a heavy 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.880 workload during the week. I know, like that, that's weird. No, 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.440 I'm thinking of yesterday, like with Tyrant, Like I just 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.200 he's walking in the locker room and I mean just 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.240 walking him. He looks he looks pretty good, and he 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.200 looks like he's ready to go. But he's one of 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.040 those guys. Nice guy. He really is a nice guy. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.200 But he's he's kind of got that mentality all the way. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.440 Like he's one of those guys that's walking, you know, 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.359 and you're kind of in the path, and like you 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.279 need to move or you're gonna get hit. I mean, 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.920 it's a fre there's not like, well excuse me. He's 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:33.800 just like walking, you know, and you're like excuse me, sorry, 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.479 because if you don't, then he's gonna just that's the 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.159 path he's taking, you know what I mean. He's not 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.159 like rude about it. It's just like I'm not really 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.960 moving And if you knock you down, he'd probably help 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.000 you up. Maybe, No, I think he would. He's a 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.600 nice enough guy. I think you would help you up. 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:48.720 He's just like I would suggest that you get out 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:52.040 of the way, okay, maybe just don't like you. No, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.200 I mean, it's not even a dislike he likes everybody. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.720 That's I mean, he's he's a super nice dude. But yeah, 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.640 like he's he focused. Is that the word we're looking for? Focus? 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.200 Like blunt, Like you know, like when he's in a 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.360 great mood, he's like, hey, tire, what's going on? Good? 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.400 Just like he's a man in a few words, he's 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.599 a man of action. Yep. That's a good good or bad. Yeah, 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:17.320 it's a good thing. Wow, I I I think he 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.719 it's Wednesday. I don't have to assign playing time, but like, 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.360 but you can give me an opinion. This is this 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.960 is why I think this is why he didn't play 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:26.840 against the Saints. I think you know, they're gearing him 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:28.600 up for this and I would be pretty surprised if 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.200 he doesn't play in this game. Okay, too awesome, Jeff Swain, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.560 I would be surprised if he plays. He I mean, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.159 I understand you can take like like wraps and stuff 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.360 off your hand, but it's not a full fledged like 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.440 cast that like the whole team has signed. But like 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.400 it's it's it's like pretty hefty. Yeah, it's a cast. 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.600 I mean, and he's not a defensive player. He is 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.839 an offensive. Yeah, he has to catch it. Just it 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.240 just doesn't look like he's playing in three days. They 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.560 saw him in the locker room and he's just no, 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.960 I can't imagine that, all right, Taylan Austin the day 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.640 dancing man didn't seem a practice. He was not a 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.040 he's not practicing. I'm I hate. I don't want to 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.400 say I'm surprised, because again, you know, you don't I 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.600 don't know these injuries. I'm not tavan. I don't know 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.600 how he feels. But you know he's been missing since 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.640 the Jaguars game. Yeah, I got hurt. And he's been 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.120 out since so mid October, so you're talking like six 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.720 weeks at this point. You had the extra week for 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.120 him to not be practicing at all like it is. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.240 It is kind of surprising to me, but you know, 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.479 it's a groin injury for a fast twitch guy whose 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:37.000 entire skill set is based on his speed. So, and 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.240 I've seen all kinds of ranges when it comes to 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.320 groin injuries. I mean, you remember Black in the Day, 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.000 that groin injury that that Terrence Newman had that was 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.320 sounded like it was pretty nasty. Uh, didn't Mo have 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.600 one at one point that I ended up in surgery 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:54.520 or something. Well, I mean memory serves on Terrence Newman, 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.560 I mean that that that was more than that wasn't right. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.719 But I'm saying it's so from what I understood. And 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.479 again I'm not a doctor, but I don't think but 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.000 it started as a groin injury and somehow ended up 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:08.320 in an abdomen Yeah, that's somebody. Somebody told me within 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.280 the last week that Tavon's thing was so severe that 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.840 he felt it up in his oblique and I just 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.200 wanted to curl into a ball, like, oh my god, 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.640 like that sounds so pain. And then it reminded me 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.080 when he got hurt in that game. He literally like 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.520 kind of crawled off the field and was just on 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.520 the sideline like in a heap watering like I can 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.480 imagine why you felt that way, Like that sounds. I 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.720 guess My point is, like groin injury, when you hear growing, 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.080 don't just assume it's just your average every day. This 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.000 ain't like I got a little pain down here. It's 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.559 my thigh. It hurts, you know, like it's a little 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.240 more so it's hard to It's hard to unless you 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.920 know the medical prognosis is hard to really know. Yeah, 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.080 but so's he's still not practicing. It's it's never good 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.600 if you're not practicing on Wednesday. I hope we didn't 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.000 reinjure it. You know why, You're just all on this 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.960 dancing thing. Like I'm just telling you. It doesn't look 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:06.120 look like he's that hurt. But he he he's dancing down, 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.800 getting down out there down. Yes, he's like Dave at 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.400 training camp. That's literally I mean Dave. Dave could pull 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.040 a growing way better what he does, way better than me, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:24.200 but same basic lists. Yeah, okay, um, David Irving, No, no, 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.440 I know, yeah, I just I don't see it anymore. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.040 That's you know what I think. You don't think this 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.480 year he's gonna be back. They get a playoffs, he's 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.480 back by the end. At this point, we can has 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.160 a better chance of playing. Wow, I just start that 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:44.800 MS already didn't start thanks to some people out there somewhere. 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.880 I don't know. I it's clear. I mean, you know, fans, 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.040 Fans are not stupid like you, Like you follow the team. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.160 You can tell the difference between Like I sprained my ankle, 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.079 but I'm at practice every day. I'm working out on 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.839 the side, like there's pictures of me. I. I haven't 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.319 seen David Irving since the Tennessee game, I don't think, 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.600 and therefore I know the fans haven't seen him. Uh, 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.839 and like it's different. There's there's something almost like he's 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.800 on IR like with Terence Williams, Like I don't expect 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.160 to see him, so I don't see him. Yeah, but 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.640 but I'm I kind of wonder if, yeah, if it 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.200 feels I mean, does it feel like that to you guys, 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.040 like almost like he's on IR and just kind of 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.840 isn't really a surprise, like you know when he was 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.600 kind of missing time and you kind of thought he 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.600 might come back for a little bit, and then it 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.079 wouldn't surprise me if he got hurt somehow and then 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.839 didn't play. I mean because because the difference is is 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.199 the checks are still coming in now. Um, I just 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.640 it just doesn't surprise me at all that this is 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.000 going on. And I think I think this is I 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.160 don't know why the Cowboys haven't done more than this, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.880 like maybe either release him. But as a as a 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.880 vested veteran, I mean as a veteran, if he is, yeah, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:57.520 here Week one did his contracts guaranteed? Right, Well, he 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.840 wasn't here for a week one technically, I don't know 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.560 how how that works, but he wasn't hearing well, yeah, 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.040 as a restricted I don't even know he's a restricted 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:06.760 free agent. I'm not really sure. But at this point, 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.199 you're only talking about like, yes, you're not saving any 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.040 money as a point. No, no, you're not saving any money. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.120 But you just get a roster spot, you get a 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.200 guy that can practice for you, and you know, and 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.480 if he signs with another team, so be it. I mean, 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.360 are all the problems going to go away that he's 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.640 dealing with and all that stuff? I mean, I don't know. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:24.480 I don't know if he's going to do that. And 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:26.800 you know there's well maybe he would sign with another 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.520 team and get a chance to make a playoff run. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.360 I don't, Well, the hottest teams in the league right now, Yeah, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.840 this on one of the hottest humans in the league. Yeah, 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.040 I want to speak. I want to speak clearly because 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.679 I mean, as far as I'm aware, Rico Gathers has 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.240 not been a problem for the Cowboys since I mean 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.280 this year. While we call it probably like a hard 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:46.640 guy to deal with, like as far as I know, 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.640 he's been a model citizen. But it reminds me. It 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.400 reminds me of the Rico situation, where it's like, like, 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.160 you know, maybe you could do something with his roster spot, 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.920 but like the fear of letting him be somebody else 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.760 is talented player is what keeps him around base or 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.920 the chance that he comes back and just kind of 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.679 actually can give you something that church significant. Like they've 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.040 seen him come in and be able with relatively little work, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.040 be able to make a difference, and they may be thinking, 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.439 maybe he gets it together and actually shows up ready 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.760 to do something, and we're we're week seventeen heading into 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.040 the playoffs. That's valuable, right, And I mean, you know, 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.920 Antoine Woods is playing great, Daniel Ross and Karan Reid 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.760 have given you something, Malie Collins and Tyrone Crawford, so 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.760 like you're not just dying at that position where you 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.880 need to do something else. But yeah, they have to 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.360 be frustrated. And I don't know the ins and outs, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.560 but it's weird because I mean, that's a I'm sure 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.080 it's a painful injury, but it's a routine injury in 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.040 the sense that like the guy shouldn't just be off 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.280 the radar, you know, like and he is habbed. Yeah, 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.520 and just to be clear, he's off the radarf for us, 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.679 there is a possibility that he could be working out 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.800 with the trainers absolutely the evening and nights when we 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.600 aren't there and around and don't have access to that 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.000 area of the building. Who knows, But I just want 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.320 to make make aware that there is a possibility that 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.360 he's still doing those things, just not doing them when 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.680 the media or when we're around. Yeah, you know, it's possible. 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.080 It's possible, but it's a it's a fishy situation. Just 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.440 when you've been around a football team and covered the 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.960 way injuries are handled. This as an outlier, like it's 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.000 not usually like this. 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What she's trying to say is 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:07.120 he has a situation with her car. So she says 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.560 streets has gotten many tickets? Good. She said street as 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.840 in like driving criminal classic, I get a lot of 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.000 ticket classic language barrier it is. And that's why I 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:18.720 had to explain it because he could have gotten really 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:20.720 ugly there. But no, no, no, I'm just saying that, 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.360 which I do get a lot of tickets. Derek drives 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:28.920 like a you know, budget for tickets. You drive tickets 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.480 part of what I do. You are like jer not 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.800 a jerk. So I had a case and that trying 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:37.000 to get in touch with the drive faster, weaving in 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.600 and out like Dale Earnhardt's just that's me. That's not 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.960 in affecting anybody else. I drive. I mean he did. Yeah, 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:45.920 I had to go with the driver to die because 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.360 he's the most famous one. I mean sorry, like Jimmy Johnson, Wow, 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.960 this went well serving everywhere. I like, you're Jimmy john 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.400 I drive fast like I do seventy five, if not 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.200 faster anytime I'm on a highway and you have blown 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.480 past me before, Like it was. I saw you the 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.760 other day and we were both coming out of here, 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.240 and Dave, can you guess what Dave was doing as 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:10.400 he's driving? Eyebrows? Those are two good rapping. Rapping and 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.080 dance rapping. I was like, yeah, as Dave, that would 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.160 be Dave. All right, let's jump into it. Dave, give 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.720 us your your scouting report on these Philadelphia Eagles in 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.960 their offense. The fun thing about division games is we 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.840 already did this once, so you know you kind of 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.040 have an idea of what to look for. Um, it's 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.920 been a month, you know, I mean obviously a month 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.440 is a long time. Like. The biggest difference for me though, 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.720 is just Josh Adams. That's that's a name to know, 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.400 and he's not He's not like lighting the league on fire. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.880 But you know, without Jayagie, they seem to have found 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.360 their feature back in him. Um he I wrote it 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:53.240 down somewhere on one of these pieces of paper. Uh, 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.240 I swear to god, I did. Oh. Yeah. He started 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.360 the last three games at running back. He's averaging sixteen 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.600 carries and said York seventy four yards per game in 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.160 that stretch. Two hundred and twenty two of his three 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.800 hundred and eighty four yards this season have come in 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.959 the last three weeks. So clearly they've found something they like. Um, 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.000 he's a he's six two, two thirty. He's a big guy. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:18.560 He's got deceptive agility. He's good at bouncing the ball outside. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:24.040 So what's up Layton Vanderesh and Jalen Smith? Another big 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.920 challenge for you that I mean, he looks like a 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:28.720 tough guy to corral. I mean, if he gets to 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.680 the second level, that's problematic. So that's that's probably the 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:36.800 biggest difference. Darren Sprowles is back. Shockingly, though he did 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.760 not catch a pass in this Washington game, he had four. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.160 They using him the same role the third downs primarily. Yeah, 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:44.760 well they were, I mean they were so they were. 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.000 I mean they still do a committee. Corey Clement still 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.600 gets a decent amount of carries and receptions and then 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:51.760 they can bring Sprowls in. So yeah, I mean they 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:53.840 use running backs in that third down roll. It wasn't 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.960 Sprowls here. He had four carries for twenty two yards. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.439 I have to imagine they're going to try to use 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.520 him as us though. That's what he's so good at. 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:07.040 Clements got eighteen catches on the year. No, I'm sorry, 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.560 twenty five. And Wendell Smallwood is another guy who they 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.200 used a lot as a receiver. So you can use 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:13.840 Scrolls in that role if you want to. That's what 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:15.520 I would imagine they would do, which is why it's 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:21.399 surprising that they didn't against Washington. Zach Ertz. I mean, 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.680 if you watched the last game, I don't need to 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.720 say anything. I didn't realize this. Nick and I talked 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.080 about it this morning. He's, barring an injury, he's gonna 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.040 break Jason Witten's record for our receptions by a tight end. 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.359 Did you hear the really cool story they said during 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.679 the game the other night? During the Monday night game, 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.359 I was at the Christmas party, not paying attention to 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.280 the game, so I was running a little bit late 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.399 because of somebody else with But beside the point, they 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:48.280 were talking about the fact that it was Jason Witten's 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.159 last game, and zach Kurtz had told him multiple times 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.639 over the years, man, you were the guy looked up 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.320 to thank you for being the role model for me, 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.040 Like you were the guy really wanted to be like. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.359 And they got to the final game and it was 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.600 a game last year at Philly and uh and and 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.000 Jason at Jason says he had never taken part in 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.760 jersey swap. That day he decided to let zach Ertz 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.639 have his jersey. So Zach Kertz not only got his 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.199 final game, but the only game that he ever did 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.440 a jersey swap. Zach Ertz has the jersey makes you 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:20.960 kind of wonder, and then he's gonna get the record 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.600 makes you kind of wonder if Whitten knew he was 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.960 done playing football maybe or was at least sidering it. No, 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.000 I would think absolutely not, or he wouldn't have done that. Yeah, 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.240 I don't think. But for a guy that that would 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.800 why would Zach Hurtz get your final jersey? Well, if you, 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:36.600 if you want to do it from a standpoint, I 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:38.520 think of it like this, if he was looking at 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.920 himself and in his place as a tight end, and 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.440 this is kind of yeah, I mean like maybe that 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.000 was and he and the guy he has a lot 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:46.560 of maybe he has a lot of respect for the guy, 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.000 and he's like, here you go, go take it. I 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.280 think I think twenty four hours before Jason Witton was 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.720 over there doing the inner the press conference. I think 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.719 he was he had decided he was playing, and then 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.680 he decided he's not playing. So I don't think on 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.199 that last game of the year, you're well, you're right, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.800 I don't want to speak. Maybe he didn't in his mind. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:08.520 I don't think he had made up his mind that 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:10.360 he was done playing football, but it was at least 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.200 in his mind that it might be his last, because 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:16.399 otherwise he doesn't even do the tryout for if it 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.560 wasn't even something that he was considering at that point. 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.560 What a game to go out on though, starters shut 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:24.840 out the champs right now, there you go, great game. 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.359 I mean, Urtz is unreal though ninety three. He's at 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.440 ninety three, so he needs seventeen. He caught fourteen again, 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.359 four points last seventeen and four. I mean he's catching 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:35.800 something like nine balls per game. And I mean, like 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.000 I see is their offense. He is end out about it. 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.200 I think. You know, I'll due respect to Travis Kelsey 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.040 in Kansas City. I think he's the best all around 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.920 tight end in football right now. He's not He's not 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.119 like this smaller blocker, but he's good enough. He's I mean, 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:53.959 he's basic. Yeah, he's way more athletic. I wasn't covering 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:58.040 the team in Witten's hey, but I think he's more 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:00.520 athletic than Witten ever was. Witten was never that athletic. 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:03.399 He's he is, he can play. He's basically a big 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:06.800 wide receiver who can block adequately. Does he wham the nose? 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.040 I don't know if he can wham the nose as 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:12.600 well as Wit, but and you guys explained what that means. 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:16.000 Fans out there heard this story. It's Jason Garrett's second 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.240 favorite story about Witton besides the hy option story. And 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:22.639 just you know, he's Jason Witten. He's been to ninety 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.399 Pro Bowls. Like, you don't need him to eat, like 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:27.520 to take on the nose guard on that he does 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.200 a block on the nose. Special teams play. No, this 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:32.080 is just a it was just a regular where he 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:34.360 and he goes in motion. He supposed to wham the nose. 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:36.040 Tried to get the other tight end to do it, 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:37.720 and Witten was like, you don't think I can wham 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:39.360 the nose, Like, what the hell's wrong with you? Yeah, 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:41.320 we do. We're trying to. I can wham the nose. 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.639 There's the next play. As we talked about a little earlier, 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.080 Wit got to do what he wanted to do pretty much. Yeah, um, no, 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:49.560 Wit can wham the nose, but he can't split out 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.040 wide and run a slant and catch the ball like 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.720 he's freaking true. Alshon Jeffrey which zacharyots can do a 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.040 touchdown in the Super Bowl? Yeah, or whatever you want 0:21:58.080 --> 0:21:59.760 to call it. It was a it was a touchdown. 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:01.800 But saying that play right there, we never saw Whitten 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.240 do that. He just absolutely eats over the middle of 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.120 the field all routes, any routes. But he's all. He's 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:10.680 got the athleticism. He runs like deep crossers and stuff 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:12.840 that you see receivers do. He can do it all. 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.639 As far as I'm concerned, he's He's the most important 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:19.520 part of this matchup from a defensive standpoint. Obviously you 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:22.840 saw that if you watched the last game. Keep doing 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:28.440 it or which Nixt got him on his fantasy team it. 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:31.399 You know, Brian wrote about this this morning, is they 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:34.440 didn't do this last time. But do you consider moving 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:37.320 Byron Jones inside and letting him deal with it. He's 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:39.359 done that before. He's had success against a lot of 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:42.600 tight ends, including Arts for the millionth time. It doesn't 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:45.600 seem like something that Rod Marinelli and Christopher Shard liked doing. 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:48.760 But you know, however, I think a big difference. Though 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:50.639 you talked about Adams the runner, I think one of 0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:52.920 the bigger differences right now with the Eagles is that 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:56.800 Tate is now starting to look more like the golden 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.480 Tate we've seen before. He wasn't that first game. He's 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:03.560 kind of he's doing what slow slow start for him. 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:05.880 He's got eighteen catches for one hundred and eighty two 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:08.480 yards since they traded him, and almost half of that 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:11.360 production came on Monday night. He finally had the game 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:14.000 that they were hoping for from him. He's kind of 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.359 limited before that. So yeah, I mean, that'll be interesting. 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:18.840 And that's one extra guy that you got to worry about, 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:23.080 which I mean he's probably well, no, he's honestly, he's 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:24.879 he's not their best receiver because they do still have 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:26.920 all Shan Jeffrey. He's not lighting the world on fire, 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:30.080 but he's a big, talented guy, which it sounds great 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:32.680 to move Byron, but then you're asking somebody else to 0:23:32.760 --> 0:23:34.920 deal with a six three receiver. But I think I 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:38.080 think here's the thing that consider here is that we 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:40.480 hadn't been used to the Cowboys making the kinds of 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:42.560 adjustments on defense where they say, Okay, we're going to 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:44.800 try to make these create these matchups that we like 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:47.639 rather than just letting offense dictate. And they did it 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:50.399 in this last game against New Orleans. They specifically did 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:52.840 some deep things defensively that we hadn't even seen before 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:55.800 because they were trying to to affect that offense. And 0:23:55.880 --> 0:23:58.399 so my question for you guys is is this offense 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:01.520 that the Eagles have it has a similar number of 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:05.080 talented offensive weapons. When you look at the receivers and 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:07.520 Jeffrey and Golden Tate, and you look at Darren Sproles, 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:08.879 who is a unique guy that can come out of 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:11.000 the backfield, and you look at Zach Erst, who is, 0:24:11.040 --> 0:24:13.480 as Dave says, the best tight end in football. They've 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:16.400 got an array of guys and different kinds of guys. 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:18.520 What makes you think the Cowboys don't look at that 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:20.560 and say, hey, maybe we make some adjustments and do 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:22.680 something a little different, even if it means taking Byron 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:25.719 Jones and throwing him on their best option to limit him. 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:27.480 And if we can limit him, we fuck the rest 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:29.159 that offense. It's not going to be as good. I 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:31.879 don't like Byron Jones on Earth's because I don't like 0:24:32.359 --> 0:24:35.280 because you still you're talking about a number one receiver 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:37.920 in Jeffrey A Golden Tate has been a number one 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:41.200 Nelson Aguilars was a first round pick. I think he's 0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:44.080 you know, he's not doing great things, but he's he's fine. 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:46.240 He's fine. He's not living up to the building of 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:48.480 his pick. But I think I would put Jordan Lewis 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:51.879 on Earth's really, Oh, that would be a heck of 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:54.240 a draw for him. He gives up a lot of 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:56.920 side I'm playing basketball here. We're not going to get rebounds. 0:24:56.960 --> 0:24:58.600 I mean, like, no, but if the balls being thrown 0:24:58.680 --> 0:25:00.480 up high, is he really going to be able affect that? 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:05.240 I think so? How you act like every play is 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:06.760 a jump ball to the corner. No, that's not what 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:08.240 I'm saying. I mean, like, that's not what I'm saying. 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:11.160 Way quicker than Nerts, so he can get to whatever 0:25:11.200 --> 0:25:12.680 he's trying to do. He I mean, he's not gonna 0:25:12.760 --> 0:25:14.920 just like out move him with his hips. He's gonna 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:16.720 be right there now. If the ball is up in 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:19.120 the air, yeah, that's fine. But he's not Rico. That's 0:25:19.160 --> 0:25:22.200 gonna just like ask his way back in and no. 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:24.719 But I think the reason why Byron, the reason why 0:25:24.840 --> 0:25:27.760 Byron Jones could play tight ends is because Byron Jones 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:29.879 has extremely long arms. I get so he might not 0:25:29.920 --> 0:25:31.560 be as tall, but he has really long arms and 0:25:31.600 --> 0:25:35.320 he can right. So I don't think guy's just as 0:25:35.400 --> 0:25:38.640 quick and he can stay with Kamara. Then he's gonna 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:41.320 any kind of double move that Earth's is gonna do, 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:43.000 He's gonna be right there now. He's gonna have to 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:44.120 go up and get it. I mean, I just think 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:46.760 it's a good It's be a good man if every 0:25:46.840 --> 0:25:49.000 pass is up in the air. If the Eagles see 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:53.040 Jordan Lewis on Earth, don't they It's like every time 0:25:53.160 --> 0:25:55.440 I jump balls for the rest of the night, I'll 0:25:55.480 --> 0:25:57.800 take my chances. He's not the most accurate quarterback ever. 0:25:58.280 --> 0:25:59.760 I guess I just look at it as we just 0:26:00.200 --> 0:26:02.840 talking about the volume that they try to feed arts. 0:26:03.160 --> 0:26:04.960 I think if you can disrupt that, and if that 0:26:05.119 --> 0:26:08.120 even means taking your best cornerback and putting him on him, 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:10.880 if you can disrupt that, then it makes that entire 0:26:10.960 --> 0:26:12.840 It puts a lot more pressure on than the entire 0:26:12.960 --> 0:26:16.160 offense to do something different than they typically do. I saw, 0:26:16.680 --> 0:26:19.040 I want to say it was I remember it was 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:20.520 a key to leave. I don't remember what team he 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:23.280 was on, but they were playing the Patriots years ago, 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:26.520 and they put it basically, they lined him up across 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:29.159 from Gronk pretty much the whole day, and that offense 0:26:29.280 --> 0:26:31.480 it had some hard times, like trying to figure out 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:34.240 and at that time, the Patriots offense was really Gronk, 0:26:34.359 --> 0:26:37.440 like he was their best playmaker. Gronk. Gronk might still 0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:39.199 be the best tight end in football. He's just been 0:26:39.280 --> 0:26:41.280 hurt so much recently. I didn't think of even when 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:43.280 he's healthy, though he hasn't this year. He's not the 0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:46.480 same dude. The injuries, Yeah, maybe they're mounting to the 0:26:46.520 --> 0:26:48.199 point where he's just not the same. I feel all 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:50.720 right saying ERTs, but like Gronk Gronk's a Hall of Famer. 0:26:50.840 --> 0:26:53.840 He is, no doubt, no doubt about that. I could 0:26:53.920 --> 0:26:57.000 live with Buyer and dealing with arts, and then that 0:26:57.240 --> 0:27:00.560 means Cheeto probably has to cover alshon jeff Free because 0:27:00.640 --> 0:27:03.920 I mean Jeffrey's size bothers me. I still think about 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:07.960 that twenty thirteen game. Jeffrey and Brandon Marshall were just 0:27:08.080 --> 0:27:10.920 out jumping the Dallas secondary on it felt like every 0:27:11.000 --> 0:27:15.480 snap Um and then Anthony Brown, I feel like he 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:19.359 could cover Golden Tate. That's Tate. Tate's scary just because 0:27:19.400 --> 0:27:21.560 he moves around so much. He's there. You know, this 0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:23.920 offense doesn't look like the Saints in terms of the 0:27:23.960 --> 0:27:26.639 amount of pre snap motion, but they do. They do 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:30.440 nobody but yeah, but they do that, and Tate is 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:32.280 usually the guy that does it because he you know, 0:27:32.400 --> 0:27:34.560 he can go out outside, he can laugh in the slot, 0:27:34.640 --> 0:27:37.000 he moves into the backfield and does just you know, 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:39.600 trying to move the defense around and show the offense 0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:41.639 a look, you know, see what they're looking at. So 0:27:41.800 --> 0:27:45.800 he's the guy to watch there. Um Carson Wentz certainly 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:50.240 not having an MVP caliber season, but he's a very 0:27:50.520 --> 0:27:53.680 scary guy because he is he's he's really good. He's 0:27:53.680 --> 0:27:58.000 a good pocket passer um and he's he's not a 0:27:58.440 --> 0:28:02.919 mobile quarterback, but he has the mobility to extend plays 0:28:03.600 --> 0:28:06.119 and turn it into playground football, which is always a 0:28:06.160 --> 0:28:10.320 stressful thing to watch. So let's take our second break. 0:28:10.320 --> 0:28:11.520 When we come back, I do want to talk a 0:28:11.560 --> 0:28:13.080 little bit about the offensive line. I want you to 0:28:13.119 --> 0:28:15.199 tell us a little bit about what's happening there, how 0:28:15.240 --> 0:28:18.159 they're looking regarding their injuries relative to when the Cowboys 0:28:18.160 --> 0:28:19.359 played him the first time. We'll do it when we 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:21.320 come right back. 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Before we get back to that, though, 0:31:01.520 --> 0:31:04.600 Nick tell us about Tommy John n why this always 0:31:04.640 --> 0:31:06.560 creeps up on me? Tommy John. You know one thing 0:31:06.640 --> 0:31:09.400 about is that not only can you get Tommy John 0:31:09.480 --> 0:31:11.480 with like the cowboy logo and stuff on there, but 0:31:11.640 --> 0:31:14.600 I think they've kind of, like, you know, created some 0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:17.240 more color options there. Have you've seen like some of 0:31:17.280 --> 0:31:19.960 the ads and stuff that you got some festive red 0:31:20.240 --> 0:31:24.560 and blue and those grave you've seen all that you 0:31:24.640 --> 0:31:27.800 can have seen all the multiple colors there for your draws, 0:31:28.960 --> 0:31:31.680 for your breeches, for whatever you want to call them. 0:31:32.120 --> 0:31:34.880 Seems you visit their website pretty often. It kind of 0:31:35.000 --> 0:31:37.400 visits me, you know, like, how does that work? Is 0:31:37.440 --> 0:31:40.080 it like on your Instagram page? Well, it's just one yeah, 0:31:40.240 --> 0:31:42.200 just like stuff he just kind of pops up. Yeah, 0:31:42.320 --> 0:31:44.160 see it there. If you if you've clicked on something 0:31:44.200 --> 0:31:46.440 like one time, you know how that goes. Anyways, Tommy 0:31:46.480 --> 0:31:48.880 John dot com Forward slash Cowboys twenty percent off your 0:31:48.920 --> 0:31:51.880 first order Tommy John dot com Forward slash Cowboys in 0:31:51.960 --> 0:31:54.880 a day and age where you can customize like everything 0:31:55.280 --> 0:31:57.840 I'm asking Tommy John in a world where you got 0:31:57.960 --> 0:32:02.640 customize world, Tommy John, Let's get a custom option where 0:32:02.720 --> 0:32:05.800 like I can upload a photo and you make it 0:32:05.920 --> 0:32:08.400 my own, you know what I mean? Yeah, I do need. 0:32:08.440 --> 0:32:10.560 I don't know what photo I would use, but it 0:32:10.600 --> 0:32:12.800 would be fun. Who would want to see that? What 0:32:12.880 --> 0:32:16.800 if I had? It's a world. It's probably for me person, yes, 0:32:16.960 --> 0:32:20.160 probably for the person whoever is it? Or maybe it's 0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:22.000 just for me. Maybe I just want to treat myself. 0:32:22.120 --> 0:32:25.360 Maybe look at yourself. Maybe I want to go your 0:32:25.440 --> 0:32:27.840 face in the area. Maybe I want to go to 0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:33.320 work knowing that like Smiley's face smiling from here, or 0:32:33.440 --> 0:32:36.360 like maybe you know, like the LSU tiger just roaring 0:32:36.480 --> 0:32:38.960 on my underwear, you know, like and I just have 0:32:39.160 --> 0:32:41.400 that quiet confidence when I go into work. I like 0:32:41.520 --> 0:32:43.760 that someone's like kind of talking crap and you're like, 0:32:44.240 --> 0:32:48.840 you're yeah, exactly, Wow, that's like that. That could be here. 0:32:48.920 --> 0:32:51.680 You go, Tommy John. If you do this, he shark tank. 0:32:52.240 --> 0:32:54.480 I never wondered. Yeah, I will make a pair for 0:32:54.560 --> 0:32:56.520 all of us if they do it. Do you get 0:32:56.560 --> 0:32:58.440 to pick the picture or if we all get to 0:32:58.480 --> 0:33:01.240 pick our own picture, I get finals say, but you 0:33:01.360 --> 0:33:04.960 can yeah anyway, that could be Tommy john call me. 0:33:05.200 --> 0:33:07.320 Let's go all right, Yeah, let's make a phone call. 0:33:07.400 --> 0:33:09.200 See if we mean that, make that happen. All right, 0:33:09.280 --> 0:33:11.520 let's jump back in, Dave, we were talking about the offense. 0:33:11.560 --> 0:33:14.080 You've given us a good assessment of their skill positions. 0:33:14.320 --> 0:33:16.760 Let's talk about the offensive line. No, you're absolutely right. 0:33:16.840 --> 0:33:18.760 I mean, that's it's fair to say I buried the 0:33:18.840 --> 0:33:24.080 lead because you think back this this offensive line was struggling. 0:33:24.200 --> 0:33:26.720 The last time they played Lane Johnson didn't play. He's 0:33:26.760 --> 0:33:29.560 still dealing with some stuff. So that's something to watch. 0:33:29.680 --> 0:33:31.600 But you know, Jason Peters is expected to play in 0:33:31.680 --> 0:33:34.040 this game. Isaac sue amalo I hope, I said that 0:33:34.160 --> 0:33:38.480 right is back. Um. I know pro football focuses and everything, 0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:40.520 but it can give you a gauge. And they were 0:33:40.600 --> 0:33:44.760 ranked as the best run blocking and the fifth best 0:33:45.080 --> 0:33:47.760 pass blocking line in the league. For this past week. 0:33:47.880 --> 0:33:51.040 They they mauled Washington. They they put up for that's 0:33:51.040 --> 0:33:53.320 a good defensive front. Yeah. They put up one hundred 0:33:53.320 --> 0:33:55.440 and thirty rushing yards on him, four hundred and thirty 0:33:55.440 --> 0:33:58.840 total yards, did not give up a sack. Uh. And 0:33:59.040 --> 0:34:01.479 that's I mean, if you can protect Carson Wentz suspect. 0:34:01.520 --> 0:34:03.440 You know, if he can extend plays and he's not 0:34:03.520 --> 0:34:05.760 got guys collapse in the pocket on him, that's trouble. 0:34:05.920 --> 0:34:09.080 So this is quiet. I mean they were the best 0:34:09.160 --> 0:34:11.320 offensive line in the league last year, big part of 0:34:11.360 --> 0:34:13.880 why they won a Super Bowl. Uh. If if they 0:34:13.960 --> 0:34:16.279 can round that back into for him, it's it's gonna 0:34:16.320 --> 0:34:19.399 be something to watch. Although Lane Johnson is still something 0:34:19.440 --> 0:34:20.960 to watch. I'm not sure if he's gonna be back 0:34:21.000 --> 0:34:24.560 for this game. Jason Peters left that last game. Jason, 0:34:24.800 --> 0:34:28.560 Jason Peters, Trent Williams, and Tyrone Smith are all quietly 0:34:28.640 --> 0:34:31.680 like the same guy. Like they're they're so good, so good. 0:34:31.800 --> 0:34:34.359 But you every week you're like seeing how play? What's 0:34:34.680 --> 0:34:37.160 Oh he's got another problem? Like he broke something out 0:34:38.960 --> 0:34:41.640 right now right try Williams had to go to the hospital. 0:34:42.480 --> 0:34:44.640 H he did. He didn't fly home to DC after 0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:47.160 the game in Dallas because he like broke his ribs. 0:34:47.360 --> 0:34:50.279 So yeah, all three and all three of them are tough. 0:34:50.400 --> 0:34:53.920 They're just guy warriors. Yeah. I mean, Jason Peters is 0:34:54.120 --> 0:34:57.839 what probably like thirty six and Skin's gonna win another game. 0:34:59.480 --> 0:35:02.359 I wouldn't on it. You know, when people were saying, 0:35:02.480 --> 0:35:04.759 maybe we should hope for the Redskins to win this game. 0:35:04.960 --> 0:35:07.520 I can I can see why. I get it. As 0:35:07.560 --> 0:35:09.840 soon as Sanchez became their quarterback, it was like I 0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:11.480 want more, Yeah, I want to see more of that. 0:35:11.600 --> 0:35:14.920 Well yeah, okay, for for the reader, I everything I 0:35:15.000 --> 0:35:17.480 said about that game, I said with the thought that 0:35:18.200 --> 0:35:20.600 Colt McCoy was going to be playing quarterback for them, 0:35:20.760 --> 0:35:23.800 not Mark Sanchez. Could not have seen that coming. But 0:35:24.520 --> 0:35:27.359 I still you know, it's the way it worked out. 0:35:27.480 --> 0:35:29.600 It's right in front of you, Like, beat the Eagles 0:35:29.640 --> 0:35:31.279 at home. If you can't do that, what are you 0:35:31.320 --> 0:35:33.560 even complaining about it? Like it's going to get tougher 0:35:33.600 --> 0:35:35.920 than that, Yeah, any the Eagles at home. To be 0:35:35.960 --> 0:35:37.640 honest with you, all those teams that are right there 0:35:37.680 --> 0:35:39.839 in the mix for not only the division but also 0:35:39.960 --> 0:35:44.240 for the wildcard, teams like Cowboys have the easiest schedule 0:35:44.600 --> 0:35:47.200 I think by far of any of those other teams 0:35:47.239 --> 0:35:48.960 that are in the mix that have as much talent 0:35:49.000 --> 0:35:51.520 as the Cowboys do. So you're right, if you can't win, 0:35:51.640 --> 0:35:52.640 and if you can't do what you need to do 0:35:52.680 --> 0:35:54.400 it get in the playoffs at this point, this that's 0:35:54.440 --> 0:35:57.120 on you. If you're like, you know, in college basketball, 0:35:57.280 --> 0:35:59.360 maybe you build up a lead in the standings and 0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:01.399 hang on and then you're like, well we've lost three 0:36:01.400 --> 0:36:02.640 in a row, but we're still two and for Like, 0:36:02.680 --> 0:36:04.439 it doesn't work that way in the NFL. You don't. 0:36:04.800 --> 0:36:07.239 You don't coast into the playoffs by not winning games. 0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:10.080 That doesn't happen. So just go beat the Eagles at home. 0:36:10.239 --> 0:36:12.880 Ye it would be nothing better than not only putting 0:36:12.880 --> 0:36:16.040 yourself in but putting them out right. That's always the best. 0:36:16.239 --> 0:36:20.160 It's insane, like the swing. It's like, it's a ninety 0:36:20.400 --> 0:36:23.080 eight point five percent chance you make the playoffs if 0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:25.040 you win this game, and it drops to like sixty 0:36:25.120 --> 0:36:27.480 two percent. If you don't win this game, you probably 0:36:27.600 --> 0:36:30.160 won't win the tiebreaker against the Eagles if you get 0:36:30.239 --> 0:36:32.520 If they lose to the Eagles and then they ended 0:36:32.600 --> 0:36:34.920 up being tied, the Eagles are going to have an 0:36:34.920 --> 0:36:38.480 advantage on you because they they're that wouldn't make them 0:36:38.560 --> 0:36:40.520 four and one in the division and you're three and 0:36:40.600 --> 0:36:43.040 two and they got to just play the Redskins and 0:36:43.120 --> 0:36:45.360 you gotta play the Giants just to tie them. So 0:36:45.640 --> 0:36:47.280 it's not like they would have to lose the Redskins. 0:36:47.320 --> 0:36:48.840 You'd have to beat the Giants. It's not likely that 0:36:48.880 --> 0:36:51.399 you're gonna win a tiebreaker on the Eagles. If they're 0:36:51.440 --> 0:36:53.600 good enough to come down here and beat the Cowboys, 0:36:53.920 --> 0:36:57.000 then you can't. They're good enough to beat at least 0:36:57.040 --> 0:36:59.120 one of the Rams and the Texans to agree with that, 0:37:00.040 --> 0:37:01.080 And that's what I was saying. If they get on, 0:37:01.239 --> 0:37:02.960 if they beat the Cowboys, to me, they are officially 0:37:03.000 --> 0:37:05.320 on a role, and we saw when they were on 0:37:05.360 --> 0:37:07.560 a role last year. They beat a lot of good 0:37:07.600 --> 0:37:10.040 teams down there going into the playoffs and in the playoffs. 0:37:10.080 --> 0:37:13.279 So it's this team. This game will tell me a 0:37:13.360 --> 0:37:15.160 lot about one of these two teams. Yeah, one of 0:37:15.239 --> 0:37:17.440 these two teams I think will be poised to be 0:37:17.520 --> 0:37:20.560 able to do something in the playoffs. It's you know, 0:37:20.800 --> 0:37:22.759 you don't need to be I mean, it's better if 0:37:22.800 --> 0:37:24.480 you are, but you don't need to be a good 0:37:24.560 --> 0:37:26.920 team until December, like if you if you can just 0:37:27.200 --> 0:37:30.360 hang around the conversation till the last like five games. 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:32.920 We've seen those teams a lot a lot of times. 0:37:33.280 --> 0:37:35.839 You don't want to peak too early, though, No, you don't. 0:37:36.480 --> 0:37:38.440 The Cowboys have done that because all those years that 0:37:38.560 --> 0:37:41.680 Romo was good. He didn't hardly lose in November, but 0:37:41.760 --> 0:37:44.399 it was get to December and then it was like, yeah, 0:37:44.440 --> 0:37:47.960 but I well not Romo. Well, Romo kind of he 0:37:48.080 --> 0:37:50.200 put that narrative to bed. I got. I can't say 0:37:50.239 --> 0:37:51.440 he put it to bed, but he had a really 0:37:51.560 --> 0:37:54.560 great December in twenty fourteen. And then the twenty sixteen 0:37:54.600 --> 0:37:58.239 team obviously they just rolled over everybody. Yeah, except do 0:37:58.320 --> 0:38:00.279 you think the Giants When you say that, were you 0:38:00.360 --> 0:38:02.799 thinking about the New Orleans game and thinking that maybe 0:38:02.880 --> 0:38:05.600 that was their peak moment and that maybe somehow you 0:38:05.719 --> 0:38:07.439 fall off from them. I'm just saying, like you're talking 0:38:07.440 --> 0:38:09.439 about the Eagles are official on a role like who cares? 0:38:09.600 --> 0:38:11.680 Because the Saints were on a ten game streak, and 0:38:11.760 --> 0:38:13.640 then if that, if the Eagles were to beat the Cowboys, 0:38:13.719 --> 0:38:15.279 and the Cowboys were on a roll too. So I'm like, 0:38:15.520 --> 0:38:17.359 you can get beat every week even if you're hot 0:38:17.520 --> 0:38:19.440 right now. The league is set up to the point 0:38:19.480 --> 0:38:21.520 where you kind of start feeling good again and then 0:38:21.560 --> 0:38:23.919 you drop off. So the Eagles are gonna lose again 0:38:24.160 --> 0:38:27.520 maybe a couple of times. Maybe I don't like him 0:38:27.680 --> 0:38:30.719 at all, Okay at all? Like I'm just sitting here, 0:38:30.760 --> 0:38:35.200 I'm like, yes, I you know, I don't hate much, 0:38:35.600 --> 0:38:38.480 but I hate them. I'm gonna start calling you famber 0:38:40.000 --> 0:38:44.080 doesn't really work if it was an end instead never mind. Yeah, 0:38:44.560 --> 0:38:47.560 I want them to lose really bad. Well, and I 0:38:47.640 --> 0:38:51.319 hope everyone listening is like, yeah, good. I mean you're 0:38:51.320 --> 0:38:56.759 speaking their language, because absolutely there's you know, everyone hates them. Yeah, 0:38:57.360 --> 0:39:00.920 I think that's fair. Educate me on this, because I mean, 0:39:01.520 --> 0:39:05.000 I'm I'm not a lifelong Cowboys fan. I'm still relatively 0:39:05.080 --> 0:39:07.120 new to this whole thing, but like I am under 0:39:07.160 --> 0:39:12.480 the impression that, uh, the the Cowboys quote unquote biggest 0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:15.840 rival kind of changes with who's the best. I mean, like, 0:39:15.920 --> 0:39:19.040 the Eagles just won a Super Bowl. They've been good 0:39:19.239 --> 0:39:21.239 more often than not for most of the time that 0:39:21.360 --> 0:39:24.960 I've been here, whereas the you know, the Giants have 0:39:25.160 --> 0:39:29.000 been pretty trash other than one season where they were 0:39:29.040 --> 0:39:31.480 the wild card. And but you know, when the Giants 0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:33.799 were winning Super Bowl, weren't they the Cowboys biggest rivals 0:39:33.840 --> 0:39:37.000 winning super Bowls? Excuse me, and it's been a long time, 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:39.920 but when the Redskins were really good in the eighties 0:39:39.960 --> 0:39:42.960 and the early nineties, and weren't wasn't that, Like, I mean, 0:39:43.000 --> 0:39:46.320 people talk about Cowboys Redskins like you've like, this is 0:39:46.360 --> 0:39:48.000 one of the most important rival reason in football, and 0:39:48.000 --> 0:39:50.239 I'm like, really, because it seems like it lacks used 0:39:50.280 --> 0:39:53.239 to me. So my point and then for every person 0:39:53.320 --> 0:39:55.040 that says that, though, there's somebody that's like, no, it's 0:39:55.080 --> 0:40:00.759 always the Eagles. The Packers and the Vikings have I 0:40:00.920 --> 0:40:03.239 have a good rivalry going on two and and and 0:40:03.440 --> 0:40:06.239 that that's kind of like the Cowboys and Eagles, or 0:40:06.320 --> 0:40:09.839 maybe Cowboys and Giants. But when when both teams are good, 0:40:09.960 --> 0:40:12.560 Packers and Bears take you way way back. Yeah, And 0:40:12.680 --> 0:40:14.960 that's what I think the Cowboys Redskins is. Whenever the 0:40:15.080 --> 0:40:18.000 it's it's they're they're good, then you bring back like 0:40:18.160 --> 0:40:21.400 this is the real rivalry. But these other teams have 0:40:21.520 --> 0:40:24.839 come in. There's just more disrespect with the Eagles both 0:40:24.920 --> 0:40:28.440 there and I mean, it's the most venomous of the degree. 0:40:28.760 --> 0:40:31.759 And I started with a start the people, that's the 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:36.400 people in Phillies. There's no there's no respect in this rivalry. 0:40:36.719 --> 0:40:38.520 I feel like there's at least some respect in the 0:40:38.640 --> 0:40:40.920 Giants and Redskins, right, So that's why I don't like 0:40:41.000 --> 0:40:44.759 the Eagles, they're they're fan base. It's just them. And 0:40:44.840 --> 0:40:47.640 then the Raiders. I don't like the Raiders either, but 0:40:47.800 --> 0:40:51.880 those are I love Tutors, Oh, I love. I mean, 0:40:51.960 --> 0:40:54.440 they're terrible right now, Jeremy. I just that's why I 0:40:54.520 --> 0:40:58.879 love the black Hole and the Yeah, the Raiders are great, 0:40:59.080 --> 0:41:01.600 but best uniforms in the NFL for my money. The 0:41:01.719 --> 0:41:03.960 interesting thing about it, though, is that I don't think 0:41:04.080 --> 0:41:06.359 anybody is as big and this I hope this comes 0:41:06.360 --> 0:41:08.560 off the sounds the right way, but nobody is as 0:41:08.640 --> 0:41:13.160 big a rival. Everybody perceives the Cowboys a big arrival 0:41:13.440 --> 0:41:16.239 than the Cowboys perceived them. What I mean by that 0:41:16.480 --> 0:41:19.279 is this week in Philadelphia, all over the city, what 0:41:19.400 --> 0:41:21.759 they're saying is Cowboys, we Cowboys with Cowboys week, Like 0:41:21.800 --> 0:41:24.600 they go crazy getting ready for the Cowboys game, and 0:41:24.680 --> 0:41:28.200 fans get into a fury over Cowboys games. And I 0:41:28.280 --> 0:41:29.839 think it's the same thing in New York. I think 0:41:29.880 --> 0:41:32.000 it's the same thing with the Redskins. There is this 0:41:32.200 --> 0:41:34.680 hatred for the Cowboys that I don't know if it's 0:41:34.719 --> 0:41:36.719 the same level of hatred. Now, don't get me wrong, 0:41:36.760 --> 0:41:39.319 Cowboys fans will hate these teams, but I don't think 0:41:39.360 --> 0:41:41.919 it's as venomous as you guys are saying with any 0:41:41.960 --> 0:41:43.560 of those teams. I don't think there is just like 0:41:43.840 --> 0:41:47.160 this such a despise. And I think it's probably because 0:41:47.280 --> 0:41:50.080 for so long, and I'm talking about back in the 0:41:50.200 --> 0:41:54.839 seventies nineties, the Cowboys were so good that I think 0:41:54.880 --> 0:41:58.080 the team, the fans of those cities just absolutely absolutely 0:41:58.200 --> 0:42:01.800 hated them, and I think that's created that level of venom. 0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:03.600 And the Cowboys are always kind of sitting on the 0:42:03.680 --> 0:42:05.680 perch kind of like in those years, at least sitting 0:42:05.719 --> 0:42:07.160 on the perch kind of like, yeah, you hate us, 0:42:07.200 --> 0:42:11.280 but it's got like Houston too, Houston fans hate the Cowboys. 0:42:11.640 --> 0:42:14.360 Cowboys care less about to think about it like this. 0:42:14.680 --> 0:42:17.960 There's thirty two teams that live in this country. I 0:42:18.080 --> 0:42:20.320 mean that the thirty two teams, and yeah, one of 0:42:20.360 --> 0:42:25.040 them has this this nickname. No. Yeah, so it's like 0:42:25.080 --> 0:42:27.839 when we're here too, I mean like kinda no, there 0:42:27.880 --> 0:42:30.840 are literally no one likes that America's team when this, 0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:33.520 when the Cowboys roll up on your schedule, it doesn't 0:42:33.560 --> 0:42:37.080 matter if you're in the AFC West, Like when we 0:42:37.160 --> 0:42:39.799 went to Denver last year, I just I remember being 0:42:39.880 --> 0:42:43.040 taken aback, Like why do y'all care so much? Y'all 0:42:43.080 --> 0:42:45.600 hate so we play all like once every four years. 0:42:45.680 --> 0:42:47.880 Like like the signs on the highway leading to the 0:42:47.920 --> 0:42:51.160 stadium were like beat the Cowboys. They shot just slams, 0:42:51.200 --> 0:42:53.839 Like where's this coming from? Why do y'all care? There 0:42:53.960 --> 0:42:56.840 is just read I read something the other day about 0:42:57.040 --> 0:43:00.799 and from a colts um. It was a Indianapolis paper, 0:43:00.840 --> 0:43:03.000 I guess Indianapolis Star, and they were talking about Darius 0:43:03.120 --> 0:43:05.160 Leonard is not going to win Rookie of the Year 0:43:05.239 --> 0:43:07.840 because I mean because he doesn't wear a star in 0:43:07.880 --> 0:43:09.560 his helmet. It's basically what they said. He doesn't wear 0:43:09.600 --> 0:43:10.880 a star in his helmet, and he's not going to 0:43:10.920 --> 0:43:14.640 be able to compete with Layton Vanderesh, which when you 0:43:14.680 --> 0:43:16.440 look at the rankings right now. I saw something on 0:43:16.680 --> 0:43:20.439 ESPN and Vanderesh is the fourth best rookie for Rookie 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:22.759 of the Year voting, which means I think there is 0:43:22.800 --> 0:43:24.960 something to be said for that. Like then, the visibility 0:43:25.000 --> 0:43:27.080 of the Cowboys plays a role in that, and that's 0:43:27.120 --> 0:43:29.160 why when they're good, they send so many people to 0:43:29.239 --> 0:43:32.040 the Pro Bowl, and it certainly will help Layton Vanderesh, 0:43:32.120 --> 0:43:36.560 But I don't think that's completely true because a dude 0:43:36.600 --> 0:43:39.560 that plays for the most unseen team in the NFL 0:43:39.719 --> 0:43:41.680 is probably gonna win Defensive Rookie of the Year, and 0:43:41.800 --> 0:43:45.120 that's Darwin James. Like they get out sold in their 0:43:45.200 --> 0:43:48.480 home stadium every you think part of this because the 0:43:48.640 --> 0:43:51.520 Cowboys are kind of looking at him, and so fans 0:43:51.640 --> 0:43:56.840 kind of knew about him because the Cowboys. I'm just asking, 0:43:56.920 --> 0:44:00.120 I think that's because he's bawling the hell out, no 0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:02.600 doubt about it. I'm just saying, though, I do think 0:44:02.640 --> 0:44:04.719 there is something to that. Neby not that and that's 0:44:04.719 --> 0:44:06.080 a that's a little bit, that's a little bit, that's 0:44:06.080 --> 0:44:07.960 all over. But I'm just saying, though, I do think 0:44:08.040 --> 0:44:10.440 there is something too. I saw a clip somebody sent 0:44:10.520 --> 0:44:13.200 me a clip just yesterday and it was it was 0:44:13.280 --> 0:44:15.600 a it was a national media person talking about the 0:44:15.680 --> 0:44:18.760 Cowboys and just saying, like, think about it from this perspective. 0:44:19.120 --> 0:44:21.840 If tomorrow, if at the end of this season, Belichick 0:44:21.880 --> 0:44:24.239 and Brady both said we're done, we're out, do you 0:44:24.320 --> 0:44:26.239 think that the networks are gonna be next year as 0:44:26.239 --> 0:44:29.600 they start putting together schedule like clamoring for we want Patriots. 0:44:29.640 --> 0:44:32.359 We want Patriots, we want Patriots now, and then think 0:44:32.400 --> 0:44:34.520 about the Cowboys when they were five and eleven. Think 0:44:34.560 --> 0:44:38.520 about the Cowboys when they had relatively unknown players on 0:44:38.640 --> 0:44:41.040 their team. Throughout a good part of the two thousands, 0:44:41.360 --> 0:44:44.440 and every single year, the networks are saying, give us Cowboys, 0:44:44.480 --> 0:44:47.080 Give us Cowboys, Give us Cowboys. There is just something 0:44:47.120 --> 0:44:49.719 about the brand and the popularity of the brand, whether 0:44:49.719 --> 0:44:53.040 you're rooting for them or against them, that people care about. 0:44:53.120 --> 0:44:55.000 People care about it one way or the other, but 0:44:55.120 --> 0:44:58.279 people care and that that's something that most teams don't have. 0:44:58.640 --> 0:45:03.719 It's like the Cowboys, the Yankees, the Lakers, Duke Basketball, 0:45:03.880 --> 0:45:06.360 and Notre Dame football, like those are the probably the 0:45:06.440 --> 0:45:09.239 big five? Am I forgetting anybody? Maybe the Packers throw 0:45:09.280 --> 0:45:10.920 them in there too. Luke Basketball? Do you said? I said, 0:45:11.000 --> 0:45:13.840 Duke Basketball? Yeah? You love him? You love them or 0:45:13.880 --> 0:45:15.880 you love to hate him. You're gonnach You're gonna watch him, 0:45:15.880 --> 0:45:17.319 You're gonna watch all right. Appreciate you guys. You want 0:45:17.360 --> 0:45:19.480 us go back tomorrow, We'll give you the update or 0:45:19.560 --> 0:45:22.040 the scout report on the Philadelphia defense. Till then, for 0:45:22.120 --> 0:45:24.520 Nick even Dave helm and Amber Garcia, I'm Derek Eagleton. 0:45:24.560 --> 0:45:26.799 This has been the Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:45:26.880 --> 0:45:31.800 Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys 0:45:31.880 --> 0:45:34.520 dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.