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A 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.720 lot of stuff happening here, and it's five and four 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:03.560 football team always gonna happen like that. Yeah, we're eventful. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.880 We're gonna talk about storylines. We're gonna talk about the Lions. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.720 You had to do some research on that pad too, 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.440 is a good way to phrase that. We're gonna talk 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.600 about the weather because it is cold out there. It's 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.839 that's it. That's all we're gonna talk about there. Okay, 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.600 So all right, are we doing here? Well, Amber's watching 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.760 the show on Paris. Actually clicked on the app. Well 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.000 I didn't accidentally click. I clicked on the app and 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.959 then it automatically plays the podcast. So I had my 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.040 volume all the way up. Sorry for that. I did 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.800 that during Jason Garrett's press conference today. You're fine, don't 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:39.399 worry about it. Speaking of the press conference, Yeah, what 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.679 are the storylines coming out of that? Oh man? That 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.800 it was an interesting morning at the old Jason Garrett 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.360 press conference? Are we looking back or forward? Both? Um? 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.480 I mean, first of all, I get you know, if 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.680 Derek was here, he'd want to go through the injuries, 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.120 and there's a lot of them. That was a big 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.960 part of it. Um Zach mar and Lyle Collins, Connor 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.919 Williams are not practicing today. We knew about Connor, um 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.880 Zach and Lyle or you know, that's stuff they've been 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.760 dealing with all year. Uh, they're not out there. The 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:16.200 first team line right now is Tyrant Smith, Zavier Suphilo, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.680 Travis Frederick, Joe Looney and Brandon Knight. I doubt that'll 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.280 be the first team offensive line on Sunday. But it's 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.799 not fun when you see that. Mary Cooper is not practicing, 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:30.240 Michael Bennett is absent today, and I don't know why 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.560 Garrett didn't mention that at his pressor or at his 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.519 walk off. I don't know if it's injury related. I 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.799 don't know if he's got something personal going on. It 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.799 is his birthday, although typically that's you know, that's not 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:46.560 usually a reason. Yeah, that's not a thing. Um, So 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.040 I don't know. We'll we'll try to get to the 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:54.960 bottom of that. Um. I think that's everybody of consequence. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:59.679 Cam Fleming is back, Um, but yeah, there there was 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.200 a lot of it was a lot. Wait a second, 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.400 Cam Fleming is back doing what he's back at practice? 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.000 Why isn't he starting it at right tackle over Brandon Knight. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.080 I guess Brandon Knight did a good job. I don't know. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.959 Good to know. Um, do you feel bad about what 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:18.480 you were saying about Connor the other day? It was 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.440 on Monday, like he willed the guy to get hurt. No, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.720 he didn't. But maybe that was the reason why he 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:28.600 was playing that way. Oh maybe, I mean, if that's 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.400 if that did, I mean, if that's what the issue is. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.320 But either way then I don't feel bad because they 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.840 need to upgrade there. This isn't dak to Cooper Rush. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.360 This is Connor Williams to his davers to a Filow, 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.560 a guy that most people would say is equal, maybe 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.200 even better, and if anything, he's stronger. He's a guard 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.160 Connor Williams. There's still a debate whether or not that's 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.440 his natural position. There's never been a debate on to 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.480 a philo, And I think that's what this team needs, 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.600 is some strength. So if he was hurt and not playing, well, okay, 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.520 well you're gonna get back. I figured it out. But 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.840 dampers like, I hope you're proud of yourself, and get 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.000 a lot of people on Twitter, like one guy even 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.320 said to me, and you did you, Tanya? Tanya Harding, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:13.160 Jeff Glouley, the guy like that's uncalled for. Why did 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.760 they say that? That's because it's fun and it's Twitter 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.680 and you can say stuff like that. The joke there, 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.040 it's not really a joke. Oh I get it now. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.520 I'm a decent bit younger than you. I needed a 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.240 minute to you know, I didn't live. I was alive 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.000 when that happened, but I don't remember it. Sorry, So 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:36.120 what did Jason Garrett talking? I mean, wasn't talking about that. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:40.080 We we analyzed the fair punt, the fair catch punt 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.040 thing with Tavon Austin as if it were the Zibbruder film. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:47.039 I do get that historical reference. I mean, we broke 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:51.960 it down from every angle. You know, whose fault was 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.920 it for not communicating? And how far apart was Jason 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:01.800 Garrett and his special team's coordinator Keith O'Quinn, and just like, like, 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.119 you know, what exactly did you say or not say? 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.640 And like I understand like they could have picked up 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.240 twelve to fifteen extra yards and it would have given 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:11.960 them a much better chance to win that game. But 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.840 I mean, I don't know. Garrett on Monday, he was like, 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.160 we miscommunicated, We didn't do a good job with that. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.280 I guess maybe I think there was some concern that 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.440 he threw Tavon Austin under the bus. I honestly never 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.280 got that impression from what he said. I didn't he said, 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.280 we didn't. We gave him the opportunity to do that. 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:34.600 We didn't to do He get get some yards if 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.280 you want, make sure you can go north and south, 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.279 do not waste any time going east and west. And 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:39.960 if you have to fair catch it, you can fair 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.080 catch it. And I think there's some people that believe 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.000 that's what he heard yeah, I think there were some 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.120 wires crossed and he you know, you said this, or 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.120 maybe the fair catch stood out to him the most. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.880 But again, I don't know to still be beating it 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.039 into the ground on a Wednesday afternoon, to me, he's overkill. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.479 It was it was bad. It was a bad sequence 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.839 from the coaching staff, Tavon, everybody all the way around. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.919 And I think what the storyline is, what the narrative 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.040 people want to to bring up here, is that there's 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.520 some dissension in the locker room between the coaching staff 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.000 and miscommunication and all that stuff. But you know, I 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.520 think things get miscommunicated all the time. I mean, when 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.440 you have, you know, thirty seconds on between each play 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:28.080 to figure this out, that's what ye Garrett. And you 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.880 know what, I criticized Garrett a lot, and and he has. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.080 He's been contentious in the past whenever something like that 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.800 kind of gets harped on. He kind of he owned 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.320 it today. He was like, he's like, I don't really 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.880 want to talk about the Minnesota game, but here we go. 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:44.640 Let's break this whole thing down. He did it at 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.640 the press conference and then at the walk off, which 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.200 is not televised. He did it all over again, Like 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.720 he went through every angle of it and basically was like, 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.280 if it sounded like I threw Tavon under the bus, 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.160 that wasn't my intention at all. It was on us, 0:06:58.160 --> 0:06:59.919 Like it was you know, it's on Keith, It's on me. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.480 Everything falls on me. I take responsibility for it. We 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.880 didn't communicate it well enough. He also, you know, not 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:06.560 to like let him off the hook, but he was like, 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.480 we miscommunicated a dozen things during the Eagles game three 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.720 weeks ago, and we won by twenty seven points. So 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.080 that's kind of the nature of football as these things 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.320 get hyper analyzed in the wake of a loss, and 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.320 rightfully so, there's only sixteen of these things, so you know, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.720 it makes sense to second guess things that lead to 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.640 you losing a game. I get that. I've recently started 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.480 to listen to listen to podcasts, just one of them 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:36.040 being Oprah. Oh okay, all right, I'm fascinated to see 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.440 where this is going. Yeah. So, no, I was listening 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.320 to one on my drive in today and there's one 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:45.280 where she just goes on about this quote that really 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.800 stood out to her throughout her life when she first 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.200 heard it. When you know better, you do better. And 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.560 then I started thinking about you know, you start applying 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.520 it to your own life, and I'm like, these Cowboys, 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.160 you should know better by now. You know, you're heading 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.800 into week eleven, and the things, the way that you're 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.880 handling this team, you get and it baffles me because 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:14.240 you got a whole team of coaches, assistant coaches, assistant 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.240 to the assistant, and you got all these guys that 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.760 this is what they do week after week, day by 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:25.840 day and study the game, look at other teams, look 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.680 at the opponent. They go in have these meetings and 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.480 talk about it and then go and communicated to the 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.720 players and spend all this time looking at film, And 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.480 it's just like, should you not know better by now? 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.760 But what are you saying? Though? No? Better to do? What? Though? 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:48.200 What did they not do better? Communicate? Well, one of 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.800 them being in this scenario for example, Okay, there's a 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:55.080 communication communication factor, but then when you go out and 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.120 go look at a game after game and the struggles 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.160 and the issues that they're currently having that should not 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:05.319 be happening as far as okay, play calling per se. 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.520 Play calling has been an issue surrounding the Cowboys and 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.560 has been recently started to be talked about because of 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.160 what happened in this previous game and the calls that 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.120 they should have made. It's like, you should know better 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.679 by now, you should know what works for your team. 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:28.120 You should know what to do rather than keep making 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.520 those same mistakes that we keep seeing week after week. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.880 In a way, you might not agree, but that's my 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.040 own personal opinion, and that's how I see it, and 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.480 that's what I think. I disagree because of the Zeke part. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.880 I mean, it's like, you should know better to give 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:43.880 the ball to Zeke. The only thing we do know 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.439 is Zeke's one of the best running backs in the 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.800 NFL and he has been, so I don't I don't 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:49.720 know what you should know not to give him the 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.320 ball there now, you should know how to adjust. You 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.559 should know that if you're watching this game and you're 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.120 giving the ball to Zeke and Zeke is not able 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.280 to run the ball, what do you do at that point? 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.480 They did. They adjusted this week. They took out Connor 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.520 Williams and put in Zas. Whether or not he was 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.040 hurt or not, they did. They made that adn't happened 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.240 during the game. Okay, that just due to an injury, 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.040 but I'm picking up what you're putting down. Maybe not 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.319 across the board, but I mean, that is the most 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.640 maddening thing about this team is like, I don't know, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:26.679 they keep doing the same stuff that leads to where 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:30.040 we are right now. I mean, which again I don't 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:31.840 have an answer for how to fix it. I wish 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.640 I did, but like, can you stop falling into these 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.560 holes in the first quarter? Can you come out and 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.480 play better? Can you come out and play better? Like, 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.600 I don't have it in front of me, but they're 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.280 like they're getting outscored by an astronomical margin in the 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:49.120 first quarter and kicking people's butts from the second to 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.040 the fourth. Shouts out to Bobby Belt for that stat. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.400 I saw it on your thirty seven first quarter fifty 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.400 five to thirty seven, twenty points. Yeah, seventy one to 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.320 forty eight the Cowboys in the second half, in the 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.839 second half of the second quarter, I mean, third quarter, 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.080 they're up sixty five to forty one, and the fourth 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:11.079 quarter seventy eight to twenty six. That's they're killing people 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.760 the rest of the way. It's the first quarter. It's 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:18.320 they're absolutely killing people. In three of the four quarters. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.199 But when you start behind the eight ball, it affects 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.480 everything else that you do. And I'll say it for 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.600 the eighteenth time and then we can move on from 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:30.160 the Minnesota game. But I don't begrudge them trying to 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.840 get two yards with Ezekiel Elliott in crunch time. That 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.440 makes a lot of sense. It's all of the first 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.160 down runs that got us to that point that I 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:42.640 still can't wrap my mind around. Do you feel, based 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.920 on all the games that we've seen so far, when 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.280 they start out a game, do you feel that, week 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.520 after week, maybe you've seen them trying to do something 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.719 different than what they've been doing in the past. Or 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.600 do they do you think that they just go out 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.040 there and kind of do basically the same thing that 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:02.240 we've been seeing every week. It looks awfully similar to me. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:06.240 I mean, nothing jumps out at me that makes me 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.480 think that they've really tried to get outside of their 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.800 comfort zone in any particular week. So that's my problem. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.960 It's like you come in watch the film, you see 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.480 what didn't work, so you should know better and go 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.720 next week and try something completely different. I think, which 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.920 you can agree with this or you can't. You don't have. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.720 You don't have to agree with this, but I'm telling 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.280 you what I think that they think, which the the 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.280 third down call to Zeke that got blown up is 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.200 a perfect example where you know, Connor Williams, he didn't 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.040 stay on his block long enough before he moved to 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:45.400 the second level d lineman swam, swam moved right past him, 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.800 blows up Zeke in the backfield. I think they watch 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.200 that play and they say, if he just holds his 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.760 block half a second longer, that'll work. Like that that 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.000 would have worked if he had just done that right, 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.440 And so we're just going to practice harder and emphasize 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.240 harder making that work and then it'll work. Instead of 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.640 being like, oh that really didn't work, maybe we should 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.200 try something completely different, you know what I mean. Like 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:16.120 I think Jason Garrett looks at everything bad from the 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.719 course of a game, all games. He's just like, we're 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.040 just we're a fraction of an inch away from that 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.800 having worked, and then we wouldn't be talking about this, 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.280 Whereas I don't know that that's how everybody would approach 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:33.560 the situation. And we talk about coaches being adaptable and 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.400 malleable and varying things up from week to week, and 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.600 I think Jason Garrett is more like we're so close 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.040 to just being able to do it our way, the 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.520 right way, you know. Well, And I said this yesterday, 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.800 and it's just it's weird that like, if you get 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.240 beat bad, like twenty eight to seven, then you can 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.319 talk about how all these things are really bad. But 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.679 I don't know what we would be talking about, nothing 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.000 about this if they could get twelve more yards, of course, 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.439 and so yeah, I mean it was a great football 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.760 game back and forth. They didn't win the game, but 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.880 we wouldn't have monumental problems if they got twelve yards. 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.560 I just don't think that that is the biggest difference here. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.800 I don't. I don't think that now we need to 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.920 talk about this guy is following because they didn't win 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.920 this game. If they got beat bad, then that's one thing. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.480 But I think the issue comes down when you start 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:29.800 seeing a trend, and this has become a trend. Look starts, yeah, 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.360 and obviously that comes and bites you in the butt 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.360 at the end of the game, Like it's hard to 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.160 kind of keep up when you start out that way 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.520 and the other team, even though they cut up caught 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:45.200 up before the halftime and they were able to manage, 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.560 you know, balance out the board a little bit. But 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.080 even then, it's just like when you when the issue 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.840 for me is it's a trend. It's not just a 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.440 one game thing. Yeah, and I mean slow starts is 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.520 a big part of it, but just I mean, and 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.680 you can't pinpoint into one person. I think the Vikings game, 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.600 I said this right after the game, It's like it 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.360 was the biggest example of coaching failures this year in 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.520 my opinion, because like you go back to you know, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.080 go back to the Saints game. You know, Dak missus 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.560 Cobb in the end zone, Cob drops a big pass 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:25.920 on third down, like more player oriented problems, Green Bay interceptions, 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:30.800 defense forgot how to defend the run. Regardless, I think 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.440 the trend is not being able to figure out how 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.400 to win games against good teams. And I mean, at 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.920 this point, the Cowboys are out of bad teams to beat, 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:43.320 with the exception of a game against Washington in Week seventeen. 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.440 So the Lions, you know, I'm not waiting about that. 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.040 We can talk about that. The Lions are not a 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.760 bad football team. They might be forced to be bad 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.600 if Matthew Stafford can't play. I mean that obviously drastically 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.800 changes this matchup. But this is not a This is 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.120 not a bad fire team. We're gonna talk about Detroit. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.840 We're gonna talk about storylines and their offense when we 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:14.120 come back. This has been a production. I'm Jay Novachik, 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.240 former tight end for the Dallas Cowboys. 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Why 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.240 does it look pissed off? Because because he was being 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:36.040 a manager a director, he's got a deal with stuff. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.840 You better put a smile on your face now, Derek, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.400 all right, we're talking about the Lions. Now we were 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:48.760 the Lions, Detroit Lions. No more talking about fair catching 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.320 and fourth and two or third and two and running 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.600 the ball and trends and Oprah and all this stuff 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.600 we've been talking about. Yeah, don't you missed it. Don't 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.800 let's keep going. She brought that to the table. I 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.080 don't only agree with it. Whatever, Sorry, I don't care 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:09.280 if you agree or at all. Well, I've opish on 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.320 the show. She does not care what any of us think. 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.119 I just think everyone has their own opinion. That's fine 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.080 as long as we're walking out of this room respecting 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.400 each other at school and we do and we do, yes, 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.560 we do. Okay, we have a loving show starting with 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.960 the Lions. Here the storylines love story the Lions really quick. 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:30.160 Matthew Stafford injury. The NFL wants to figure out why 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:35.000 they didn't tell people earlier, so they're kind of investigating that. 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.120 That doesn't really matter to the fans. What they're talking 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:38.920 about now, as is he gonna play? Is he week 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.720 to week, day to day? It's got like broken bones 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.640 in his back. That's never really good. But we've seen 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.760 with Romo that sounds a little bit worse than it 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.440 really is. But is it not sure if he's going, Yeah, 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.520 I mean broken bones in your back and you miss 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.640 one game that seems like it would put you out forever. 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.359 And then I ascribed to the whole Day philosophy on 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.320 this that NFL players are crazy, like, yeah, broken bones 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.359 your back is that is a bad injury. That is sorry, 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.440 keep going all right? And if he doesn't doesn't play, 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:09.679 then Jeff Driscoll, who's not been very good in his career, 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.200 but he played last week, played Okay, I guess against 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.680 the Bears. They lost. They don't have any running backs. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.560 It's another storyline. Carry on. Johnson, Trey Carson are out. 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.880 They're gonna go with probably j. D. McKissick, Ty Johnson 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:24.200 to run the ball. Dave will tell you a little 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.040 bit more about them. Kenney galla Day is leading the 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.480 NFL and touchdown it catches off eight right ahead of 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.840 the Cooper. Very good receiver, big guy. I'd like to 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:34.639 throw the ball to him in the red zone. Had one. 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.280 He set four in the last three games. And then 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.320 another storyline that doesn't really affect the game, but something 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:43.080 that the Lions are definitely dealing with is the death 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:47.160 of a former receiver, Charles Rogers number two overall pick. 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:51.159 One of the greatest commercials in NFL history when he 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.480 was coming into the league, him and ray Lewis, but 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.520 never really panned out at all. If you're gonna call 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.159 him a bust, he certainly was. He just didn't, you know, 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.320 number two overall pick and just didn't never pan out. 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:04.680 But you know, a member of the Lions organization, and 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:06.280 when you look at a lot of things that they're 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.240 dealing with, you'll see a moment of silence, I'm sure, 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:10.879 and then game it's just sad. You know, off the 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:13.560 field issues injuries got up to him. But you draft 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:15.440 a guy number two overall, you expect him to kind 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:17.600 of change your franchise and they don't always pan out. 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.480 The guy next to him, Andre Johnson, draft the third. 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:22.480 It's one of the best players in the history of 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.600 the Houston Texans. That's what they wanted Charles Rogers to be. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.280 But that's just a storyline that Lions are dealing with 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:31.000 that's not going to affect the game. That's it. That's 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.120 what I got. Good stuff. It's a good storylines going 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:37.080 on this weekend in this game, and most of them, 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:41.359 most of them that are specific to the game, seem 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.399 like they should work out well for the Cowboys. Dave, 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.639 your turn talk to us about this Lions offense and 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:49.680 what the Cowboys can expect to call them. It's good. 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:51.760