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Speaker 1: Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Welcome back to the Break guys. Uh,
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Speaker 1: What an intro? Just get right to the point. None
Speaker 1: of that fluff and the weird numbers and stuff. I'll like, Derek,
Speaker 1: catch up on the numbers. I love it. That's all right.
Speaker 1: Eighty three Terrence Williams sweet feet. I needed to get
Speaker 1: to eighty three though today. Eighty three Well, probably my
Speaker 1: best friend that has ever played for the team. Like, like,
Speaker 1: of all the guys that I've covered, I'm not really
Speaker 1: friends with anyone except for one guy. Maybe a couple,
Speaker 1: but um, James Whitlan, that's my guy. Okay, he's worn.
Speaker 1: He's worn like six different numbers in his career, he
Speaker 1: would kind of bounced around a little bit, but he
Speaker 1: wore eighty three, and I was like, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: I'm kind of running out of numbers here. I think
Speaker 1: he wore eighty one, eighty two, thirty five, forty six,
Speaker 1: but he wore eighty three. I actually talked to him
Speaker 1: yesterday a little bit, so James Whitlan, that's my guy.
Speaker 1: Eighty three. A lot of good ones though, Doug Donnelly,
Speaker 1: you ever heard of him? No, No, I hate this
Speaker 1: because like it just exposes me as a young person.
Speaker 1: Terry Glenn, I was gonna say, feel if it exposes year,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, r r ip Terry Glenn. And
Speaker 1: I didn't know he wore eighty three. He was a
Speaker 1: good player. He was a really good player. I mean
Speaker 1: he Bill Parcels brought him in and had a you know,
Speaker 1: had a plan for him, and he was he was
Speaker 1: a good player for for the Cowboys for a while.
Speaker 1: There's a few like you know how when you're a kid,
Speaker 1: like you watch football, but you're it's week like you're
Speaker 1: not fully cognizant of what's happening. So maybe there's just
Speaker 1: a few names that keep coming back to you and
Speaker 1: Terry Glenn was one of those for me, just like
Speaker 1: I just remember they would always call this. This was
Speaker 1: more during his patriot years than his cowboy years. Another one,
Speaker 1: she what's that she? When she Bill Parcels called him.
Speaker 1: She Oh, no, I don't remember that. Yeah at yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm young, he said. He said, yeah, well, I think
Speaker 1: she's gonna be okay. And so Amani tumor was another
Speaker 1: one of those for me where I just like, you know,
Speaker 1: I just felt like he was always making plays for
Speaker 1: the giants when I was a kid. M in the break,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you know, you always get on to
Speaker 1: me about stories that I've told you know, and Dave's like,
Speaker 1: heard this one, heard this one. I'm not as bad
Speaker 1: as Brian. You've heard me say that before. I know
Speaker 1: about me, no about me. But I'm saying, I don't
Speaker 1: think have you heard the Armani Amni tumors story with
Speaker 1: Bill parcel I don't remember that. I'm I do. It's
Speaker 1: annoying because I'll be like, I don't think I've heard
Speaker 1: that one, and then you get like five words into
Speaker 1: the story and I'm like, oh, yeah, no I have,
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you the break anyways, we's sorry three
Speaker 1: all right, people see people seem to respond to Dayne mcgarrity,
Speaker 1: good one. All right, Well, I have tons of different
Speaker 1: questions for today's shows that pants just sent in for today,
Speaker 1: But before we got to those, wanted to talk about
Speaker 1: the games that are happening tonight. We got Washington against
Speaker 1: the Eagles and then the Seahawks against the rams. Um
Speaker 1: what different outcomes here could affect in what way could
Speaker 1: affect the Cowboys? Well, the big ones obviously the division game,
Speaker 1: which theoretically, theoretically the Cowboys could clinch the NFC East
Speaker 1: tonight if Washington and Philly played to a tie, which
Speaker 1: I get fifty dollars, I was gonna say it might
Speaker 1: actually happen now because my smart ass Nick was like, hey,
Speaker 1: do you think who's gonna write the stories. It's like
Speaker 1: maybe you could get something together in case they somehow
Speaker 1: win the division, and I was just like, that's not happening.
Speaker 1: I'm not spending twenty minutes of my day writing that
Speaker 1: for a tie. So now it probably will happen. So
Speaker 1: we'll see. Well, if it gets into overtime, get your
Speaker 1: computer out, that's fair. If it's gonna take it takes
Speaker 1: what ten, you know, ten minutes, and it'll take probably thirty. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: that's if if it's even if it's tied like late
Speaker 1: in the fourth, I'll get to work. How about that? Okay? Um,
Speaker 1: that's that's the only way. There's been some other talk
Speaker 1: that maybe the Cowboys would get in if Philly won,
Speaker 1: but I don't think so. I think I think they
Speaker 1: needed a few things to happen over the weekend and
Speaker 1: it did not happen. They That's nobody agrees on this stuff.
Speaker 1: Like I had a lot of people tell me the
Speaker 1: whole segment we did about those games, a lot of
Speaker 1: people were like, this was wrong. Dave ESPN said this,
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. I'm like, Derek got that information
Speaker 1: straight from the league. League. So I don't think there's
Speaker 1: any other way they can clench ten night other than
Speaker 1: a tie. Obviously, they're one win away from clinching no
Speaker 1: matter what happens, right, so they just keep winning. It's
Speaker 1: almost kind of a move. The winner of this game
Speaker 1: will be three games behind the Cowboys with three to play,
Speaker 1: and still play the Cowboys. Yeah, so it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if you know which which one which one wins. Dallas's
Speaker 1: magic number is one because nobody else in the NFC
Speaker 1: East can get to eleven wins. Let's let's discuss this though.
Speaker 1: What do you think the Cowboys have a better chance
Speaker 1: of beating Washington if they win the game and they're
Speaker 1: still kind of in it, or if they lose and
Speaker 1: they're kind of out, Because I think Washington's the type
Speaker 1: of team that might even be more dangerous if they're
Speaker 1: just playing. They're just kind of out there playing, because
Speaker 1: that's what they were when they were two and six,
Speaker 1: you think, you don't think they handled the pressure well,
Speaker 1: and then when they get to six and six, then
Speaker 1: they got Comma, we've seen it happen. I don't I
Speaker 1: remember if it was with Washington, but some other team.
Speaker 1: I remember that they were out and then you go
Speaker 1: to the game and they're actually playing a lot better
Speaker 1: than they wear and like competing. Yeah, you know, so
Speaker 1: it's not always like they still go out there and compete.
Speaker 1: I think it for me, I mean, and I get it,
Speaker 1: nobody cares. The Cowboys had to do this as well,
Speaker 1: but like Washington's I can't even keep track of who's
Speaker 1: available for them, Like, so they moved the game because
Speaker 1: the number of guys that were out and now in
Speaker 1: the time since they decided to move it, like Brandon Schurf,
Speaker 1: all pro guard, one of their best players, like he
Speaker 1: tests positive for COVID, so he can't play on Tuesday now,
Speaker 1: would have been able to play Sunday. It's just it's
Speaker 1: a mess. So like, honestly, my whole theory for this
Speaker 1: game is like, talk to me Friday, when I've had
Speaker 1: a few days to digest who's even available for Washington.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know, do we know who's playing
Speaker 1: quarterback for them tonight? It might be Garrett Gilbert, right,
Speaker 1: it could be I think that they're they're still testing,
Speaker 1: and again we don't. There's people that are listening that
Speaker 1: are probably no, and then they'll be listening later on
Speaker 1: when they get announced. But I mean, as it stand
Speaker 1: right now, heineke, No, Well, okay, this was an hour ago.
Speaker 1: This is Tuesday, more afternoon for anybody listening to this later.
Speaker 1: But so get signs point toward Garrett Gilbert's starting for
Speaker 1: them against Philly. So and COVID protocols, like we've seen
Speaker 1: guys come back quickly. Cedric Wilson did it for Dallas
Speaker 1: last week, but it's typically been like eight to ten
Speaker 1: days for people, So we don't know right now if
Speaker 1: Heineke or um, who's the other guy? Um, yeah, Kyle Allen,
Speaker 1: which will be available Sunday. Either. You know Garrett Gilbert,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously was we've seen him at training camp.
Speaker 1: The one thing that I liked about him, I mean,
Speaker 1: we all saw what he did against Pittsburgh was that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was only here for like a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks and he played. He played well. He was ready.
Speaker 1: He's one of those those journeyman quarterbacks are going to
Speaker 1: stay ready. He's got a good deep Ballum, you have
Speaker 1: to get after him, though, I mean you kind of
Speaker 1: you if you get after him. He's not he's not
Speaker 1: that nimble, but I mean he did. I think he
Speaker 1: did run the ball pretty well in that game. If
Speaker 1: I remember so, he it was one of those things
Speaker 1: where you're like, okay, I didn't know you had that
Speaker 1: in yet. Expectations were like Danucci level, you know, he
Speaker 1: was down there. My expectations for that game. I was
Speaker 1: just like, is Dallas gonna score points? Are they gonna
Speaker 1: put together a competent drive? And he played really well.
Speaker 1: Be a war intent they should I'm I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: go that far, but they had a chance to win. Well,
Speaker 1: he did enough. He did a pick in the end zone.
Speaker 1: I mean that would have put him up ten and
Speaker 1: then oh fifty four or got a got a couple
Speaker 1: of penalties that that cost them the game, or nine
Speaker 1: or forty five or whatever. He ran, Yeah, he ran
Speaker 1: for twenty eight yards in that game. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the victory formation. Oh god again, what's going on there?
Speaker 1: The things that you miss at when you're at the game,
Speaker 1: because like, you made it out onto the field, you
Speaker 1: have that access. This six foot five guy with a
Speaker 1: Jersey accent like bowed me off that. He was like,
Speaker 1: you can't be out here. So like I'm in the
Speaker 1: tunnel trying to watch on the on the JumboTron. I
Speaker 1: did not see that. Jalen Smith did the landry shift
Speaker 1: with the offensive line for the final snap of that game,
Speaker 1: fifty four fifty four and I'm might wait a minute
Speaker 1: completely okay, So in case people are kind of confused,
Speaker 1: you've seen at the end of the game when the
Speaker 1: Cowboys win, they do the landry shift just when they're
Speaker 1: kneeling the ball down. They'll do it once or twice,
Speaker 1: however many times they have to kneel it. Well. I
Speaker 1: think it was the last time they did it with
Speaker 1: about thirty seconds to go. The offensive line the two
Speaker 1: running backs did it, but on the other side, Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith number forty five, not only does the shift as well,
Speaker 1: but then kind of fist pumps and he looked pretty pumped.
Speaker 1: He was like like rocking out, like yes, and that's
Speaker 1: just like the Giants are like, welcome, welcome to Jalen Smith.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what that is. And and then after
Speaker 1: the game, it was really cool. A lot of the players,
Speaker 1: I mean they they love him, and yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: the best part was I got to see that one
Speaker 1: of the team doctors, doctor Cooper, who did the surgery
Speaker 1: with Jalen before he was even a Cowboys. So that's
Speaker 1: what kind of tipped off the Cowboys that you know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to come back from this whatever.
Speaker 1: And they they kind of shared a moment there on
Speaker 1: the field. It was really cool. He was like, I
Speaker 1: appreciate everything you did for me. I would not be
Speaker 1: standing here if it wasn't for you, doctor Cooper, you know.
Speaker 1: Was they kind of had a hug. Everything was great,
Speaker 1: but there their guy, their cable whoever, they're the guy
Speaker 1: that runs the Giants. At the end, was like, Jalen,
Speaker 1: let's go off the field, Let's go who's the last guy?
Speaker 1: And then he didn't know where the locker room was.
Speaker 1: It's actually that's a good something that I've thought about
Speaker 1: before for anybody that was curious. So Cable Johnson is
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys head of security. And I only bring
Speaker 1: that up because if you've ever watched the Cowboys after
Speaker 1: a game, he's the big bearded guy that is always
Speaker 1: walking players off the field. So if you've ever wanted
Speaker 1: to know who that was, because I like when Dak
Speaker 1: jogs off or he's everywhere, he's everywhere, Like he's always
Speaker 1: with those guys, keeping an eye on them, making sure
Speaker 1: they're good. And I mean every team has that guy.
Speaker 1: So just saying I think Jalen in one game or
Speaker 1: not even a week, he's probably annoyed some of their
Speaker 1: fans and team teammates. I mean, welcome to the Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith experience. Again, Like he is well liked here. He's
Speaker 1: a good dude. Don't have anything bad to say about
Speaker 1: him as a person, and that's totally understandable and fine
Speaker 1: if he's happy for his teammates, just maybe don't do
Speaker 1: it in the last couple snaps of a blowout loss
Speaker 1: to a team that you just joined three days ago,
Speaker 1: like you're not gonna win yourself. A lot of fans
Speaker 1: I was. I was in the but knowing the situation,
Speaker 1: as we said it when he got cut, like that's
Speaker 1: what enabled him to come back from an injury that
Speaker 1: everybody said would end his career, and it's also why
Speaker 1: he regularly there. It is winds up in the news
Speaker 1: for I was looking time I was on the elevator
Speaker 1: headed down to the game, I mean headed to the
Speaker 1: field at the end and listening to the in the
Speaker 1: elevator you can hear the Giants broadcast and their announcers.
Speaker 1: We're talking about Jalen and they said, what this guy
Speaker 1: needs is some real coaching because he hasn't really had
Speaker 1: that before. And I was like, interesting, you know, just
Speaker 1: when you think about eber Flus and Marinelli and then
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn, am I okay, yeah, George Edwards, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was just like I was just like uncle and he
Speaker 1: goes because the thing about him is you got to
Speaker 1: put him in the right spot because there's one thing
Speaker 1: I know about Jalen Smith. This guy can flat out run.
Speaker 1: And I was like sorry, I was like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I thought you said run Like I mean, okay, You're
Speaker 1: just like yeah. I mean that's why people keep getting signed,
Speaker 1: because you look at him and you're like, this guy
Speaker 1: can play right. It's amazing. And we do it too.
Speaker 1: I mean, I try my best to keep my tabs
Speaker 1: on every team in the league, Like I pride myself
Speaker 1: on having a functioning knowledge of every team, but it
Speaker 1: pales in comparison to when you're just watching every single
Speaker 1: thing that a team does. And I mean, if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys signed I'm sure we've done that before. Like I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of like, oh yeah, just like, oh,
Speaker 1: this guy was a tough fifty pick last year. Every
Speaker 1: free agent last year. Yeah. Haklin Dicks is a great example. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great example. And so they get to Gontarry Po, they
Speaker 1: get to go through that process. There are tons of
Speaker 1: players and we've talked about this before, how you always
Speaker 1: think that your coach is going to be the one
Speaker 1: who can coach this guy. And I feel, I mean,
Speaker 1: we've experienced it we know, we're like, okay, go take
Speaker 1: and we're done with this person. And then the other
Speaker 1: coaching from whatever team can be like, well I can
Speaker 1: I can do it. I can turn things around for him,
Speaker 1: which I think that dan Quinn did try with him,
Speaker 1: clearly he did try. And then we'll think about if
Speaker 1: you're a Detroit or Minnesota in there, like the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have signed j Ron Curs, good luck, good luck with
Speaker 1: that special teams. And then I mean, the Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: gets announced tomorrow. I don't know if he's gonna make it.
Speaker 1: At safety, I kind of lean towards no. I leaned
Speaker 1: toward no just and that's not his fault. That's it's
Speaker 1: a popularity contest. But that being said, who are the
Speaker 1: safeties in the NFC? To tell me that guy from
Speaker 1: the Vikings Adrian Amos, Harrison Smith, U Savior Woods, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. Now, well, we'll find out tomorrow, find
Speaker 1: out tomorrow night, tomorrow. Now, so in the meantime, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and take our break because I do have
Speaker 1: a lot of questions that people sent in that I
Speaker 1: want to get to. So we'll do that right after
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Speaker 1: the break. Okay, here's a question that I just saw.
Speaker 1: I just saw just now, so I don't I didn't
Speaker 1: get time to look into it and get much information.
Speaker 1: But this guy says that after struggling in the first
Speaker 1: half in twenty fourteen the playoffs where McCarthy played, he
Speaker 1: McCarthy put a wide receiver in the backfield in the
Speaker 1: second half to get mismatches and it worked. Should the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are the same to allow the receiver free release
Speaker 1: and more options, that would have been time Montgomery, Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would assume. So, I mean, we talked about this
Speaker 1: last week, Like, I love the idea of getting Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb involved in the run game, just to mix it
Speaker 1: up and help the fact that your guys aren't healthy.
Speaker 1: But I know, I don't want ceedee lamb like carrying
Speaker 1: the ball out of the backfield on a regular basis,
Speaker 1: opening him up to get hit somewhere between ten and
Speaker 1: twenty times a game. He's also tackles. I think he's
Speaker 1: also talking about in there, lining him up back there
Speaker 1: to get him an opportunity to get a free release
Speaker 1: and still run the ball some but also be in
Speaker 1: the pass coverage, but just not have to do it
Speaker 1: from the lane of scrimmage. I just don't think he's
Speaker 1: the guy for that. I don't. I don't think he.
Speaker 1: I think you're wasting him a little bit. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: do we need to scheme up ways to get CD
Speaker 1: a free release? Like he plays in the slot predominantly
Speaker 1: since gallops back and he's open. He's got. It's not
Speaker 1: like he can'ah, he's not like he's struggling to get open.
Speaker 1: He dropped the ball three times. I love it. I
Speaker 1: love it when a player lets me off the hook
Speaker 1: because I don't want to bash guys. CD said it
Speaker 1: himself he played terrible, so I don't have to be
Speaker 1: the jerk that says it. He knows it. He played
Speaker 1: a bad game. Well. I did receive lots of questions
Speaker 1: about the whole white receiver groups also not only dropping passes,
Speaker 1: but also making plays in like contested catches where it's
Speaker 1: just kind of hard to catch the ball. Also, what's
Speaker 1: happening with Amari Cooper. He's disappearing and things like that.
Speaker 1: So when you when the road games again, Oh, that's
Speaker 1: not nah, he hasn't been doing that though. That hasn't
Speaker 1: been a thing in like a year and a half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean his best game of the year this season
Speaker 1: was on the road Vikings. Yeah, I mean, it is
Speaker 1: a dome, I get kind of he kind of took
Speaker 1: a while to get going, I mean, and not a
Speaker 1: lot of that was Cooper rush. But I'm just saying
Speaker 1: it was that one drive at the end and then
Speaker 1: he balled out made some great plays. This is this
Speaker 1: is it's a classic case of like it's always it's
Speaker 1: it's always the thing that they're not doing. Like when
Speaker 1: everything's humming and the receivers are all balling out and
Speaker 1: everybody's kind of getting involved, it's like, man, we're so
Speaker 1: we're so blessed to have three receivers that aren't like
Speaker 1: demanding the ball and these guys are always there. Whatever.
Speaker 1: Michael gallup doesn't need to get this, that, and the other.
Speaker 1: And then you see a mar gets targeted five times,
Speaker 1: finishes with two catches for eight yards, and you're like,
Speaker 1: hell are we doing? I mean you gotta I mean
Speaker 1: you gotta find a way to get a guy that
Speaker 1: talented involved, even if the opponent is doing everything they
Speaker 1: can to limit him, which I bet you Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: would say something along the lines of like, yeah, why
Speaker 1: do you think I'm calling receiver screens like it is
Speaker 1: an obvious way, Like you can't take that away, Like
Speaker 1: if that's what you decide to run, he'll be open
Speaker 1: for it. And to be that's it's kind of amusing
Speaker 1: to me. A lot of these screens haven't worked, and
Speaker 1: sometimes it's frustrating. But like CD took a screen forty
Speaker 1: yards in New Orleans and set up one of their
Speaker 1: only touchdowns that night. Amari got a screen. I think
Speaker 1: it went for three yards. If he slips one more tackle,
Speaker 1: maybe it goes a lot further. That's tricky territory for
Speaker 1: me because I like that idea of like, Okay, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna bracket this guy, I'm gonna come up with
Speaker 1: a way to get him the ball just hasn't been
Speaker 1: working and it is. It is frustrating. There's so many
Speaker 1: plays to throw off of that though, that they don't
Speaker 1: seem to do. Like I mean, I'm fine with the
Speaker 1: bubble screens, but you know, faking it like the guy
Speaker 1: the guy that's in front that's about to block, Like,
Speaker 1: why don't you fake the bubble screen? And he blocks
Speaker 1: for a half second and then takes off. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's going to be there. They did that in week one.
Speaker 1: That was how CD got his first touchdowns, right, and
Speaker 1: they set it up the play before. I don't think
Speaker 1: we've seen it since. Yeah, I mean I understand saving
Speaker 1: it call, but let's go Well then that puss is
Speaker 1: a question that when you start looking into play calling
Speaker 1: versus player execution, how much do you put into the two?
Speaker 1: I mean, do you think there's one that's lacking more
Speaker 1: than the other? I do think, I mean execution is
Speaker 1: a huge part of it. Like the offensive line hasn't
Speaker 1: played well. Connor Williams goes in the running game seems
Speaker 1: to have a little bit more juice than it did. Again,
Speaker 1: it sounds maybe people think it sounds crazy, but like
Speaker 1: if CD catches those three balls, I said that yesterday,
Speaker 1: that's anywhere from like forty to sixty yards of extra
Speaker 1: offense and God knows what happens. I mean, one of
Speaker 1: CD's catches is a perfect example of that. It was
Speaker 1: like a little crosser or an end and he caught it,
Speaker 1: and he danced and made like three guys miss and
Speaker 1: turned like an eight yard catch into an eighteen or
Speaker 1: twenty yard game. Like that stuff matters, So execution is
Speaker 1: a big part of it. But having said that, I
Speaker 1: just feel like Kellen is he's frustrated right now, like
Speaker 1: he doesn't trust the stuff that he trusted or I
Speaker 1: always use baseball analogies, like people have figured out where
Speaker 1: his curve goes, so he hasn't come up with something
Speaker 1: to work off of that. I asked him about that yesterday.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, well you're seeing you're seeing all
Speaker 1: this too high, and I mean, is there anything you
Speaker 1: can do to break out of that? Like I know
Speaker 1: that sounds like a dumb question, but what do you do?
Speaker 1: And he just I don't know. He had this kind
Speaker 1: of tone of exasperation where he's like, teams are testing
Speaker 1: our patients right now, and we just have to find
Speaker 1: a way to work through that, and they haven't done
Speaker 1: as good of a job of it as you know
Speaker 1: what I feel about, Like how Dak feels right now.
Speaker 1: I think that's the same way, yes and and I
Speaker 1: don't I think I said that yesterday too, is I
Speaker 1: don't think he's been that good at it. Like I
Speaker 1: think Dak gets frustrated to a point and he's like,
Speaker 1: screw this, like the fumble. The fumble was that the
Speaker 1: fumble was screw this. We're making a big play and
Speaker 1: and it didn't. You know, oh, such a terrible play
Speaker 1: because it's like with eight minutes to go and you're
Speaker 1: up by fifteen and you want to get a first down.
Speaker 1: That's fine, but like he he's getting sacked, you know,
Speaker 1: like he's like he doesn't think. He's like, well, what
Speaker 1: do you mean? Liked CD didn't block the edge? You know,
Speaker 1: CD is supposed to block the end, and then he doesn't, shockingly,
Speaker 1: and he like goes to the right and he's about
Speaker 1: to throw and he gets hit. It's like you just
Speaker 1: assume that your lanky wide receiver who's lighting the ass anyways,
Speaker 1: is going to block the edge on defensive end, Like
Speaker 1: there's got to be a better play than that. I
Speaker 1: think CD is a willing blocker for who he is,
Speaker 1: but he's not going up against he can't weigh He
Speaker 1: weighs like one hundred and ninety pounds, like just maybe
Speaker 1: don't is on the other side. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know who who got him. There wasn't was it? Oh see,
Speaker 1: he's in their Ring of honor, Nick Kiwanuka, I don't
Speaker 1: know who's rushing in the past. I don't remember who
Speaker 1: it was, but Lorenzo Carter is pretty good. If I
Speaker 1: the Ring of honor, yeah, seventy two when he was
Speaker 1: he was up there on Sunday. Yeah, I mean, if
Speaker 1: I were them, anybody that was part of a pass
Speaker 1: rush that won me two Super Bowls is automatically and yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah you're in. So I was thinking about this looking
Speaker 1: at looking at CD's numbers going back to Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: so you would think there's always guys that have numbers,
Speaker 1: and he especially because they don't share it was Lorenzo Carter.
Speaker 1: He's a pretty good He's a pretty good player. So
Speaker 1: DeVante Adams in justin Jeffersonson, Jefferson got enough stats for that, right,
Speaker 1: He's I think he's like leading the league's close well,
Speaker 1: the guy that's leading the league is Cooper Cup and
Speaker 1: he's finitely Yeah, that's three. So after that, I mean
Speaker 1: I was like looking at the NFC East Washington Giants Eagle. No, nobody,
Speaker 1: Arizona has Hopkins. He's not doing anything this year too.
Speaker 1: He's hurt, right, he's been. I mean, he had to
Speaker 1: have enough stats for it. So then you got Seattle
Speaker 1: at calf Locket would be my guess. I haven't Locket
Speaker 1: some my fasty team. Now he's eleventh in the league
Speaker 1: and yards and he's got five. Carolina and guy's putting
Speaker 1: up hollow numbers, probably DJ. They have no quarterback. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been doing much. I got it right here. I
Speaker 1: mean justin Cup, justin Jefferson, Davante lock Done does get interesting.
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin is now out for the year. UM debos
Speaker 1: deep Deebo Samuel's going to be in for sure. He's
Speaker 1: a running back and a receiver about him. Then you
Speaker 1: got Locket, yeah, I mean, and then CD he's up there, CD.
Speaker 1: I mean, CD's gonna hit a thousand yards, but there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys in front of him. This there's
Speaker 1: a chance for him to make the Pro Bowl. There's
Speaker 1: a chance, but his name is CD Lamb, it would
Speaker 1: be it would be as like an alternate I feel
Speaker 1: like though, um, but yeah, I mean this, Not that
Speaker 1: anybody cares about this at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: because there are loftier goals, but this little slump is
Speaker 1: probably going to cost some guys in terms of that.
Speaker 1: Like I would have guessed Amari and Lamb were definitely
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl and Zeke. I thought Zeke was
Speaker 1: leading the NFC, and he's still up there. I think
Speaker 1: Zeke still might because again you said, because his name
Speaker 1: is Zeke Elliott and and he's also still having a
Speaker 1: pretty nice season. I mean eight hundred and sixty two
Speaker 1: yards and nine touchdowns. The only guys in the NFC
Speaker 1: that are definitively better are near our Dalvin Cook. That's
Speaker 1: honestly it wow. All of the really badass running backs
Speaker 1: in the league this year in the AFC, for Connor's
Speaker 1: got for the Arizona Connor's got like twelve touchdowns. That yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of touchdowns. James Connor, Leonard Fournette,
Speaker 1: Zeke those are those are probably the guys. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Zeke will make it. I do I think
Speaker 1: this costs Dak and the receivers were about Tyrant? Oh
Speaker 1: my god. Probably just in terms of availability, I would
Speaker 1: guess not. But but the thing is with offensive lineman
Speaker 1: is like once you make it to like two, then
Speaker 1: it's just when he plays he's I think he's he's
Speaker 1: graded the second best left tackle in all the football
Speaker 1: Batri and Tehran Armstead have been out just as often
Speaker 1: as he has this year, if not more. Trent Williams, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he'll make it. Trying to think of so
Speaker 1: we got Parsons, Digs and Zach Martin. We were locking
Speaker 1: that in, locking those in for sure. Uma I locked
Speaker 1: Zeke too. That's that's he's Zeke Elliott. He plays for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and he's having a nice are good enough
Speaker 1: to get in? Yeah? I think he'll be there. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of se scenes in anger, he's a guy that
Speaker 1: last year when we saw the mistakes that he was
Speaker 1: making last year, you know, the balls dropping and all that,
Speaker 1: and then you got to see Tony Poller what he
Speaker 1: could do. Uh, And then I got the conversation going
Speaker 1: as to, Okay, well Tony should get more plays in there,
Speaker 1: and all that is Zeke kind of starting to trend
Speaker 1: downwards and all that now that you guys have seen
Speaker 1: another year out of him, and he has been dealing
Speaker 1: with an injury since like week four of the season.
Speaker 1: But are we at the point where Zeke is starting
Speaker 1: to curve down and like I actually think he's starting
Speaker 1: back up. Yeah, like he's been in a valley for
Speaker 1: a minute. But and he's not right, Like he's not
Speaker 1: all the way right. You can see it. He had
Speaker 1: like last week. I'm looking at this season though, looking
Speaker 1: at his career overall. Are you talking about the contract? Yeah, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, his career because obviously last game we saw
Speaker 1: much improvement, but overall as a player, if you find
Speaker 1: me a running back, honestly, find me a running back
Speaker 1: who in a sixth or seventh year, a sixth year,
Speaker 1: in a sixth year is actually trending up, I'm gonna say, Hi,
Speaker 1: Berry Sanders, Derrick, Henry Good Good. Actually he got hurt,
Speaker 1: so maybe not. I mean, it's so rare, it's just
Speaker 1: it's i mean, the the average, the average about three
Speaker 1: and a half. I mean, I'm more and more confident
Speaker 1: than I've ever been that they'll wind up regretting that
Speaker 1: deal at some point, and it is what it is,
Speaker 1: especially since they've rearranged the money a couple of times.
Speaker 1: But but for for for this year though, I agree
Speaker 1: with Dave. I mean, Zeke said this is the best
Speaker 1: if felt after a game in a while. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he's he's figuring out that that's
Speaker 1: brace is bulky. It's a bulky brace, that's what he's
Speaker 1: But he says he's it's comfortable with it. It's easy,
Speaker 1: Like you know, there's you're not supposed to pay running backs.
Speaker 1: It's certainly it's hard to argue against it. Right now
Speaker 1: with just things are piling up for Zeke. Derrick Henry's
Speaker 1: now hurt, Christian McCaffrey feels like he's played five games
Speaker 1: since he signed that deal. It's hard to argue in
Speaker 1: favor of that. But I just I still like and
Speaker 1: I know at the end of the day, it's it's
Speaker 1: you produced. But like, I have so much respect for Zeke.
Speaker 1: Last year, it was the fact that he was kind
Speaker 1: of the last man standing on a terrible like on
Speaker 1: a decimated team. He just he had to face the
Speaker 1: music every week, and he did. This year, he's hurt,
Speaker 1: He's gotten through it. He's still playing okay. Definitely not
Speaker 1: up to his standard, but playing okay. I just I
Speaker 1: think the guy's a warrior. So I did too. And
Speaker 1: I also, I mean, think about where he was five
Speaker 1: years ago, and you know, he was getting just so
Speaker 1: many headlines for off the field things and on the field.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's matured. There's no doubt he's done that.
Speaker 1: He's been humbled a little bit here, but I still
Speaker 1: like being great. Like it's amazing because we've seen it
Speaker 1: with players that I get some such a spotlight and
Speaker 1: the way he's managed everything since he got here. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to say mature and not great, because as
Speaker 1: soon as you say that is when something else happens. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, his dogs only thing that's really weird hear
Speaker 1: in the media, and that's been a while. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's yeah, like I said, I mean, like I said,
Speaker 1: he's he's not living up to a contract of that size,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I just respect the way he goes about it.
Speaker 1: Don't Also from the Pro Bowl, don't rule out Tony Pollard.
Speaker 1: You really like this Pro Bowl fans? Do fans like
Speaker 1: it too? Yes? They do. I feel like I always
Speaker 1: see people not the game, not the game. They don't
Speaker 1: want to watch the game, even though it's the highest
Speaker 1: rated All Star game there is. But um, the game
Speaker 1: is it's just not a football game, and so that's
Speaker 1: what and it can't be and you wouldn't want it
Speaker 1: to be if your guy gets hurt and all that,
Speaker 1: but um, it matters, like it definitely matters when you
Speaker 1: start looking at the end of the career and all that,
Speaker 1: like what is the use three time Pro Bowl or whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, Tony Pollard. My prediction is he will
Speaker 1: get in as a return specialist and he'll get more
Speaker 1: carries than anybody in the game, because that's what happens,
Speaker 1: that they'll play him at running back. He'll play I
Speaker 1: think he's going to get in as a return specialist. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't feel particularly strongly about this, but
Speaker 1: all right, take your word for it. No more proll talk.
Speaker 1: I'm done. No, I'm no. I think. I just I
Speaker 1: wish we could. I wish we could revamp the way
Speaker 1: we do the Pro Bowl voting, like everything about it,
Speaker 1: you know, like change it so that it fits the
Speaker 1: modern game. Like it we're still arguing about, like well,
Speaker 1: it's just guy a linebacker or a defensive end, like, well, right,
Speaker 1: it's just all that type of crap. I should call
Speaker 1: them pass ushers. And and the voting formula I don't like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw somebody complaining about this the other day, Like,
Speaker 1: and I get it, Like we have a job to do.
Speaker 1: We're trying to promote our guys. But teams are out
Speaker 1: here like retweet this for votes to the Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, so if so and so gets
Speaker 1: ten thousand retweets, he's gonna beat a guy who's clearly
Speaker 1: having a better season than him. Because I just I
Speaker 1: don't I don't like the way and and to your point,
Speaker 1: like it's easy to say, oh this is this is trivial.
Speaker 1: Who cares, it's as it's a BS game and everybody
Speaker 1: gets into it anyway, But like, these are the things
Speaker 1: you look at when it's time to decide if a
Speaker 1: guy goes to the Hall of Fame, and so I
Speaker 1: think it should reflect that I think we I think
Speaker 1: it should be taken a lot more seriously. What is
Speaker 1: what I would do? Honestly, I would I would let
Speaker 1: the players and the coaches vote for the guys that
Speaker 1: make the team um and then I would leave probably
Speaker 1: eight spots open something like that and let the fans vote,
Speaker 1: you know, because then the fans are back the snubs
Speaker 1: and all that. This is who the fans want to
Speaker 1: see in the game. So okay, well, these these twelve
Speaker 1: fifteen people didn't make it the You can vote for
Speaker 1: the last eight and they'll figure out how it works
Speaker 1: position wise, because it's the fans game. They want to
Speaker 1: see who they want to be in there. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, it shouldn't be like you said, it
Speaker 1: shouldn't be rigged because I mean, Tyler Beatis was leading
Speaker 1: the fan voting centers. Yeah, come on, well, and we've
Speaker 1: seen these played better lately. Though you gotta say about
Speaker 1: he did this last week, I felt bad. No, like Tyler.
Speaker 1: Tyler has improved, although some of the issues. I feel
Speaker 1: like anytime which totally makes sense, but like anytime they
Speaker 1: go against like a really badass nose tackle, I feel
Speaker 1: like I noticed Dak reaching for snaps and trying to
Speaker 1: find snaps and stuff like that. But I mean he's
Speaker 1: a young guy, you know. I mean they did score
Speaker 1: against the Saints. Let's let's throw that out there. It's
Speaker 1: not like they get shut out by the Saints. Oh
Speaker 1: we're talking, oh the Bucks. I'm just saying that that
Speaker 1: win was considered an ugly win on the road. Whatever,
Speaker 1: it looks better now than it did. Just saying you
Speaker 1: can't complain. I didn't, so I did my whole spiel. Yes,
Speaker 1: John Payton resigned yet or he did not. They just
Speaker 1: be like, we don't need you. Freaking Cardinals lost to
Speaker 1: the Lions, like the team that has been the highest league. Strange,
Speaker 1: lady lay, Strange, lady David. Does he know it's lady? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Ships or ladies, I don't know. It's just a thing,
Speaker 1: you know, Big Sheila. All right, the boat Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: said he would name his boat Big Sheila. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't hear that. I was kind of confused, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: And the thing about it is nobody in his family,
Speaker 1: no hesitation. Was like Big Sheila, I love that. And
Speaker 1: nobody in his family's name Sheila, no mom. Nothing like
Speaker 1: speaking of unsung heroes, Jordan Lewis isn't gonna make the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, but having a career year three career high
Speaker 1: and picks made that play Again, Guys are making plays
Speaker 1: on balls that we haven't seen like it sounds dumb,
Speaker 1: but I don't trust past Dallas secondaries to track popped
Speaker 1: up pass and bring it in. Like he said, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you heard the interview about Treyvon Diggs,
Speaker 1: and I asked him about Treyvon after the game, and
Speaker 1: you know, he was just like the it's a record setting,
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. What is what's happening? But he said, I
Speaker 1: told him last year, you were doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: Last year, you were just dropping him. He's like, He's like,
Speaker 1: you had hands on the ball all the time. He
Speaker 1: just didn't catch it all the time. Ah, Jay Lou
Speaker 1: underrated just as a personality as a player. Glad to
Speaker 1: see he's having some still can't believe they overturned that call.
Speaker 1: That just I thought for sure that was going to
Speaker 1: be an incomplete pass. The interception by Diggs, oh yeah, same.
Speaker 1: I mean I wanted it to be a pick because
Speaker 1: only ten picks. This will be great. This is the
Speaker 1: last thing we need for I set it on Twitter
Speaker 1: during the game. I was like, I do not trust
Speaker 1: the league to have the consistency to give this back
Speaker 1: to them when they ruled it in complete on the
Speaker 1: field man, But I'm glad they did. I just didn't.
Speaker 1: I did not believe. I did not think that was
Speaker 1: going to be a catch. Let's go ahead and take
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Speaker 1: So on offense, is there any player that has exceeded
Speaker 1: your expectations on the offensive side of the ball Tony poll?
Speaker 1: If there is an answer, that's it besides him, nobody else.
Speaker 1: If there's exceeded, No, but that's our fault though too.
Speaker 1: That's our fault for for putting Dak up there. But
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's what we that's there our expectations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so see, I don't know that's our expectations, you know.
Speaker 1: But but Dak was meeting the expectations up until about Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: like like we didn't make this up. Dak was playing
Speaker 1: at an MVP level. That was happening. That was a
Speaker 1: real thing that happened for half the season. And so
Speaker 1: he was exceeding my expectations honestly, And it's what's that
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele to me, he definitely exceeded. Okay, No, that's fair,
Speaker 1: That's totally fair because the expectation was basically that he
Speaker 1: was awful. So yeah, and I mean, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to be a jerk. I mean, back and listen to
Speaker 1: the shows from week two. Was it week two? Yeah,
Speaker 1: when Lyle got suspended, everybody was just like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Joey Bosha, don't kill our quarterback. Like and and that
Speaker 1: hasn't been the case. He's he's been solid. I mean
Speaker 1: to the point where we're wondering who the better option
Speaker 1: is it? Right tackle, Yeah, I mean with Lyle, and
Speaker 1: that a lot of that's on Lyle for not maybe
Speaker 1: playing as well as we thought he would. But I mean,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Terrence Steeles is great. Terrence Steele is the
Speaker 1: best one I saw some some people have mentioned, some
Speaker 1: people have mentioned, be honest, and I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: dog the guy. I think he's gotten better as the
Speaker 1: season is gone. He's been fine. But going back to
Speaker 1: me and Nick Harping on the same thing, when you
Speaker 1: don't bring in competition for the job, that raises my expectations,
Speaker 1: Like I don't I don't think he's met the expectation
Speaker 1: of like we're good here, we don't need to do
Speaker 1: anything about center souste and steal and Pollard. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I mean and Cedric Wilson has played better than I
Speaker 1: thought he would. Um. Now, he hasn't last few weeks.
Speaker 1: He's been injured COVID and then off the COVID list
Speaker 1: and hasn't practiced a lot. But the versatility that he
Speaker 1: brings is But also I mean that's something that you
Speaker 1: have seen from him in the past. Yeah you're like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: this guy, but he has he has done it over
Speaker 1: a larger sample size. Like, honestly, of what Cedric Wilson
Speaker 1: had done coming into this season was his one great
Speaker 1: game against Seattle last year, Like that was almost all
Speaker 1: of it in terms of offense. And this year he's
Speaker 1: done it reliably. I mean, they didn't miss a beat
Speaker 1: without Gallup for most of the first half of the season.
Speaker 1: His biggest play of the game came without of the
Speaker 1: season came without Dak. I'm not sure they beat Minnesota
Speaker 1: without him going the distance. Definitely, So yeah, yeah, that's okay,
Speaker 1: that's three? Or is there anybody else? Is there anybody else? All? Right? Defense?
Speaker 1: Everyone else? All of them? Well, here's the question. At
Speaker 1: the exception of maybe, no, everyone has exceeded my expectations.
Speaker 1: Even Tank has come in and played better than I
Speaker 1: thought he would in those three games. I mean he,
Speaker 1: I mean he's been very, very, very active for I
Speaker 1: say this all the time, like we spent half the season,
Speaker 1: like when they get these guys back, when they get
Speaker 1: these guys back, and I had all the confidence in
Speaker 1: the world that they would. What's that one guy? What
Speaker 1: one guy has not exceeded your expectations? Who Layton Vandresh
Speaker 1: That's yeah. I don't know how high my expectations were
Speaker 1: for him in the first place, though, better than being
Speaker 1: like sixth on the team and tackles? Yeah maybe so? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought so too, And I guess I think I
Speaker 1: was probably I was probably more excited for Keano than
Speaker 1: what he's shown, although he maybe played his best game
Speaker 1: of the season against the Giants before we the show.
Speaker 1: Would you rather have the defense that you're having, right,
Speaker 1: now or don't stop it, stop it? No, I won't.
Speaker 1: You can't make me wow, Say which one you have
Speaker 1: to pick one? If I if I have to, if
Speaker 1: I have to pick one, and you got. I think
Speaker 1: you guys know how much this will pain me because
Speaker 1: of who I am as a person. But like you
Speaker 1: need that type of defense to win in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you got. I mean a pass again. The New York Giants,
Speaker 1: mediocre ass team. It bothers me, I don't. It bothers
Speaker 1: me to this day, and not even as a Cowboys fan.
Speaker 1: It bothers me to this day that that mediocre ass
Speaker 1: team beat the Patriots. Like I believe in I believe
Speaker 1: in history. I wanted to see an undefeated team. I
Speaker 1: don't care if you don't like the Pats. I can't
Speaker 1: believe that a nine and seven bombass team won the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl over the best football team that I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: But that's what happens. When you've got a killer pass
Speaker 1: rush and you make the right players in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you can go into lambeau Field and win. You can
Speaker 1: go wherever the hell you gotta go. Defense travels, and
Speaker 1: so if I gotta have one, I'll roll with that.
Speaker 1: Which I hate that I'm saying that out loud. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I was gonna say. Defense travels, I mean
Speaker 1: it does. I mean Tampa Bay, same thing. Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: kind of you know, they don't sneak into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but they are a wild card team. But you can
Speaker 1: say Brady and Gronk and all, whose team of the
Speaker 1: defense is what carried them. The defense shut down Mahomes
Speaker 1: at the end of the year and in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Kelsey and you know, Yeah, I'd say defense, if
Speaker 1: it's gonna be you have to do something great, and
Speaker 1: I think this defense can be great. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's more than a couple offensive lines in this entire
Speaker 1: league that can put up with what they're bringing at
Speaker 1: the quarterback every snap. Like a fully healthy Green Bay maybe,
Speaker 1: but they're not fully healthy. By the way. Tampa Bay's
Speaker 1: line is pretty sick. God, that would that would be
Speaker 1: fun to see that game again now that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense is kind of I mean, because that was Week one,
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't even close to what he's doing now.
Speaker 1: That would be fun. I'm sure there are some others
Speaker 1: if I thought hard enough, But I mean San Francisco
Speaker 1: could be a challenge. Sure. Their defense, I mean, their
Speaker 1: offensive line is really good. That's one game I think
Speaker 1: if you're a Cowboy fan, you kind of and they're
Speaker 1: also and they run the ball so well they can,
Speaker 1: I mean, they can take your take the pass rush
Speaker 1: element out of it if you give them a chance.
Speaker 1: Are they currently being rated against other teams as far
Speaker 1: as like defenses run the league? Cowboys? Cowboys? Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: put me on the spot. Hang on, I can do this.
Speaker 1: We can go over whatever is anybody even behind us?
Speaker 1: Mix shots? Wow, they can wait he's not out there
Speaker 1: with his pad just yet. I don't No, I'm not
Speaker 1: logged into football outsiders, right, I mean, there's different stats
Speaker 1: for the for the defense. I mean, but I think
Speaker 1: that they I think that they're like in the teams
Speaker 1: maybe ten twelve, but but that's that goes on yards,
Speaker 1: I mean, and right now they're trending. But turnovers, they're
Speaker 1: first in turnovers right Definitely, in interceptions they are, they're definite.
Speaker 1: Um so they're top three in the league for sure,
Speaker 1: So you know, yes, I'm sorry to be there. They're
Speaker 1: third in the league in defensive DVOA, which again that
Speaker 1: it's it's defensive efficiency, Like it's it's just how successful
Speaker 1: you are on a per snap basis, how much you
Speaker 1: affect the other team's offense. It's good. Just take my
Speaker 1: word for it. It's good. So who are the other two? Uh?
Speaker 1: They're behind New England and Buffalo right now. Won't see
Speaker 1: them until they I mean, I'm telling like that's so,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I hate that I'm saying it. They're just
Speaker 1: if they keep this up, which again I actually although
Speaker 1: I said this yesterday too, is like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: happening against Mike Glennon and Asom Hill. But they picked
Speaker 1: off Brady three times, They've done They did this to
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, they held Mahomes to nineteen points and forced
Speaker 1: to fumble, like they've done this to some good quarterbacks
Speaker 1: as well. I'm not trying to delegitimize it. And that's
Speaker 1: before they had the guys that they really have in
Speaker 1: there together, right, like Gregory wasn't played against the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Do you law get into the tournament with a defense
Speaker 1: like that? And like you know, nobody ain't nobody gonna
Speaker 1: be mad if you win a game scoring twenty four
Speaker 1: points against Tampa or Green Bay? So what we're here
Speaker 1: for baby, We're bringing, we're going, We're here to really
Speaker 1: you back in the defense, it's just, you know, the
Speaker 1: offense has had me on an edge, the offense. But
Speaker 1: the offense has three more weeks to work it out
Speaker 1: and then another week to game plan for whoever they got. Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll even get the buy who knows it's all
Speaker 1: out in front of them. Age, stabilities, chiefs, activities, totally
Speaker 1: different vibe than the yesterday. So it's like I won
Speaker 1: again twenty one six? What's wrong with the team. That's
Speaker 1: the way this goes. You sit, you digest it, and
Speaker 1: then you look around and you're like, man, there's really
Speaker 1: not a great team in the league this year, right,
Speaker 1: And then you start to think and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: well here's another for the last month. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: here's another opportunity for the offense to get it right.
Speaker 1: I mean, nothing has changed. Why I complain so much.
Speaker 1: It's like one of those things that you're so close
Speaker 1: to it and then you know what you have but
Speaker 1: you're not seeing it reflected on the field, and like
Speaker 1: that's my thing, and I get it. Obviously, you want
Speaker 1: to win games, and I'm all for it, of course,
Speaker 1: but if we got to sit here and talk about
Speaker 1: the team and analyze it and criticize it or whatever,
Speaker 1: that's one of those things that I'm like, we see
Speaker 1: the amazing talent that they do have, why is it
Speaker 1: not translating onto the field, And what happened since Dad
Speaker 1: got back from the injury? What's going on and all that.
Speaker 1: So that's why I get moody when it comes to that.
Speaker 1: But yes, of course I want them to win games,
Speaker 1: no matter how or what. So anyways, just when you
Speaker 1: think about like the lost to Denver or the Raiders,
Speaker 1: you know just how bad that was, especially the one
Speaker 1: to Denver because it caught everyone by surprise. I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you think is going on in Arizona? Like,
Speaker 1: because Denver's average and then they played great and dominated you.
Speaker 1: But go to Detroit and just keep yeah, and Herbs
Speaker 1: dumped like that to start ten and one and be
Speaker 1: ten and three back to back losses, one of them
Speaker 1: to the worst record in the league. Yeah that's what.
Speaker 1: And Okay, Tampa just got shut out at home by
Speaker 1: a mediocre Saints team and also lost like they lost
Speaker 1: Godwin for the year. Four nets banged up Mike Evans
Speaker 1: is banged up, like but I'll say this, the ninety
Speaker 1: five Cowboys went twelve and four. They lost two games
Speaker 1: to the four and twelve Redskins two games. And when
Speaker 1: the Saints went thirteen and zero to start the year
Speaker 1: and they lost the Dallas and then they lost to
Speaker 1: the Bucks at home, which was bad. I remember, being
Speaker 1: at twenty year old Saints fan. They started. It was
Speaker 1: very I said this on the radio today, it was
Speaker 1: very similar to what's happening in Dallas right now a
Speaker 1: little bit because it was different because thirteen wins is
Speaker 1: like incredible, But they lost to the Cowboys, then they
Speaker 1: lost to a bad Bucks team. Then they sat everybody
Speaker 1: because they didn't have anything to play for and lost
Speaker 1: that game too. So you go thirteen and oh to
Speaker 1: thirteen and three, and you thought that, I mean, you
Speaker 1: would have thought the city was on fire. Everybody's just
Speaker 1: like it was this all for nothing, like we suck,
Speaker 1: We're not gonna win a game in the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: then they took the week off and won Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: so you never know, well, we gotta go. I already
Speaker 1: saw Mickey and I am not Derek Eagleton, so I
Speaker 1: don't have that kind of power to stay here for
Speaker 1: much longer. Anyways, Thank you guys so much for listening.
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