WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Toughest Game Yet? 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.440 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:16.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Let go. Are you 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:21.040 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:25.360 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.720 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:37.040 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.199 It's Wednesday, December eighth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, episode 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.839 number seventy four. Welcome to the latest edition of The 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:49.960 Break Life from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.800 before I give Nick a chance to give us a 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.960 seventy four, I gotta quickly give a very happy birthday 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:00.320 shout out to the lovely Missing Cambray. Happy birthday, Amber. 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:02.639 Thank you. Let's make it a good show now. Now, 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:04.880 this is your birthday, so let's bring it. Let's bring 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.240 the heat. You don't turn twenty two every day, okay Smith? 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.600 Are you feeling old? Yes? Every time I look in 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.880 the mirror, I feel I see myself. I'm like, man, 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.400 I'm a woman. Like I'm a woman now, I'm not 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.840 a I'm not a college kid. Yeah a minute, but 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.679 I'm saying like a grown woman no longer in college 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:33.280 woman responsibilities right, yeah, yeah, oh my god about it. Yeah, 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.720 I asked her what the real number was or like 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.200 a couple of minutes ago, and she's just stared bullets through. 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.720 Don't do that. We're not having that conversation. Is basically 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:45.720 she don't do that at home. Yeah, I'm positive, and 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:50.200 I'm still the youngest one. I'm here by a wide margin. Yeah, 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:51.600 as we say it right before we on the show, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:53.840 we take shots around here. Yeah that was just a 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.240 very slight It's gonna stay that way. That's an easy shot. Yeah, 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.920 it's gonna stay that way. Um. But happy birthday, Ambering, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.800 Happy birthday. It's still us first them. Okay, like we're 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.360 still younger. We're on the younger side. I need you 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.840 to stop agreeing so much with Nick. I know you're right, 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.040 we're right. Get back on track over here. I agree. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.760 If you're aging quickly, I know trust if anybody can 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.320 catch us, it would be like man aging very quick 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.720 hair going though man in a few days. Yeah, birthday 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.320 got here in because we got Mickey coming up. Old 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.560 Brian brought us he's got one coming up. So yeah, 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.640 late month. But you know she said, oh boy, Nick, 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.799 seventy four, give me seventy four. There's only one answer. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.079 There's not a Nick answer, there's not a right. It's 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.959 just Bob Lily. He's he's the original seventy four. There's 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.119 the only seventy four. Is there a reason they don't 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.480 just retire his number? I mean, if they're gonna just 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.520 like never yet anybody have it, why wouldn't they do? 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.200 The reason because in the preseason they need to put it. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.720 You put it on. Maybe Dorance Armstrong got it. I 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.320 know a guy like Jalen Jelks wore it, which I 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.280 thought was gonna be great. He wasn't. There was an 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:04.280 old player named Junior Fili Katonga. Yeah, I don't remember. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.000 That's why, because they put him in seventy four. Seventy 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.560 four stands for in the NFL, not for long, like 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.799 you're not for long. If you're seventy four in Dallas, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.480 then you're probably gonna get you're not gonna be here 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.440 long and you're definitely not gonna wear it for very Yeah, 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.760 that's not before the show or do you just remember 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:25.079 well Bob Lily, well, yeah, but the other well those 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.200 names aren't even in the media guide it is. It 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.520 is one of my favorite running jokes, which they're not 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.880 always cut. But every spring you find seventy four and 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.040 you're like, Okay, he's either switching or he ain't gonna 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.120 be here. Like, sorry, buddy, I'm not gonna highly of 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.040 you to give you seventy four. I do think it's interesting, 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:47.000 like Bob Lily, mister cowboy, I'm not I'm not talking 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.600 down on that, but it's funny that they give that 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.120 out with no problem at all. But they don't even 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.000 give eight, twelve and twenty two to like, they don't 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.840 give that. You cannot walk in the door and get that. 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.400 You don't wear that even if you're a training body, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.840 you don't get those numbers. Yeah, so that is true. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:06.520 Maybe that's because I don't know. There are no rules 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.480 about this. It's just it's this unwritten it's this unwritten 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.080 book of rules. But like seventy four goes out to 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.640 a scrub like every year, but the other ones never do. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.640 We did like this list of like the ten most 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.520 sacred numbers in cowboys history, and that doesn't mean they're 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.359 all like that, He's seventy four is number one because 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.520 like nobody else has ever been in it, you know, 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.960 and warned, but no one's gonna wear eight or twelve 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.800 or eight or twelve or twenty two. See. That's also 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.240 what I don't quite understand, because I look at it like, 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.080 I actually like what they've done with the number eighty 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.960 eight to where it is a privilege to be able 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.080 to wear the number eighty eight. And I think it's 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.000 more there's it's more value in doing that than saying, well, 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.120 you can't touch this number. But they backed into that. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.479 I mean that they lucked into that because they weren't 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.239 doing that for Drew Pearson. They were just Michael Irvin 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.880 gets it, and Michael irvn was great. And because now 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.480 you had two at the same position, then you give it. 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:00.920 But they gave to some other. They give it to 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:02.960 a tight end, They give it to ant Antonio Brand. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.080 Then they gave it to No he wasn't okay, he 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.160 wasn't great, And then now it was going to be 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.600 eighty eight Onday on Show eight. Now. But if if 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.320 somebody had they drafted a guy right after Troy and 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.799 he was number one pick in the draft or whatever, 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.000 have you given a number eight? Maybe yeah, you know, 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.560 but it's just tricky. Though. It's great when they live 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.440 up to the billing, but so LSU makes a big 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.680 deal out of number seven. They give that to the 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.600 stud and they've given it to a few guys who 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:33.560 sucked and it's kind of a bummer and you're like, 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.599 what was he doing wearing seven? Like that's gross? And 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.360 they try with fifty four, but it doesn't always work. 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:44.320 Jalen didn't work, he didn't want it, and then Bobby Carpenter. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.200 They tried though with fifty four, but it just has 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.080 been a hard one. Yeah, to get anybody to live 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:50.760 up to that. All right, let's go ahead and get 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.560 some quick get a quick COVID update. Where are we 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.200 as far as COVID from from a standpoint of procedures 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.479 as well as from the standpoint of coaches and players 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.000 who've been out. The only two people who are still 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.840 in the COVID protocol or Mike McCarthy and Nishan Wright. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.440 They're both expected to be back by the end of 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.960 the week. McCarthy joked that he's going to come to 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.440 work at twelve o one tonight because that's the first 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.080 time allowed in the building. Will you Okay? So I'm 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:15.560 just feeling it right now. All right, good for you. 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.320 I will not So that's it. Everybody else's back. All 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.760 the assistant coaches came back yesterday or Monday, and they 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.080 activated all the other COVID players. That's literally the only 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.120 two people right now. So knock on wood always. But 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.359 they look like they're on the other side of it 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.480 right now with regards to injuries they're getting. It looks 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.920 like Gallimore and Randy Gregory back this week. Are they 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.440 about at this point? They completely healthy? Like? Is that 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.039 a thing? I had this thought this morning while I 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.719 was getting ready for work, and I think we'll have 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.640 to see. They haven't practiced yet, but I think when 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.080 they take the field today they will have, like the 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:58.560 whole projected starting twenty two from camp out there for 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:02.240 the first time since whenever. And really, who am I 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:06.960 forgetting win in camp early? Because well, I I was 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.479 gonna say, And even if you want to go to 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.280 guys that have significant roles, Blake is the only one 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.840 that's left that would have even had a real role 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.480 right that is now not with the team practicing, and 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.120 you know he went to COVID list and now he's 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.520 back up COVID. I don't even remember. I don't know 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.720 that happened, but that he got COVID. Yeah, yeah, it happened. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.360 He got it. He got it before other people, he 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.840 got it before his outbreak kind of started. He's still 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.400 on there with a hip injury. He's got a hip injury. 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.760 He Mike was asked today. I know people have been 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.720 curious about Jarwin. Mike was asked today if he was 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.600 done for the year, and he said, we don't think 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.760 that COVID set him back because he can't be here 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.800 rehabbing for a whole however long. That is so, Um, 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:48.720 they're not ruling him out for the year. But yeah, 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:50.480 that's tough. It doesn't I mean, he's been out for 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.200 a month already and it doesn't sound like it's going 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.160 to be immediately. Maybe maybe you get him back for 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.240 the playoffs or something like that. Hey, if that's the 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.400 worst you got to deal with on this team, this 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.520 is that is a blessing. This is probably as good 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.320 as it's gonna get. Yeah, the rest of the year, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.800 because more injuries will happen, hopefully not, but maybe more 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.880 COVID stuff will happen. Um, But yeah, I mean it's 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.480 good because twenty one and a half of your like 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.760 twenty two. Well, this is the toughest game on the 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.520 schedule that that remains on the schedule. I think, I 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:22.040 think this one right here, I can't go there what 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.280 I don't think so, I mean, I think this typical 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.000 nick It isn't what Okay, So explain that to me 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.640 real quick. I just think this is this game is 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.840 gonna be a tougher game to go win. Arizona at 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.280 Washington will be a tougher game to win. I mean 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.080 I believe that. I mean Arizona, yeah, they're good, but 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:43.200 everybody's getting beat by every Arizona is not like unbeat 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.000 only lost twice. They got the best record in the 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.400 NFLK but I mean they also got their ass kicked 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.320 by the Panthers. I mean, like it happens, they get beat, 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.400 they get beat. Well, yeah, everybody gets beat. I get that. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.080 But you won't be a tougher matchup than Washington. Won't 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.120 win the East if they don't win this game. And 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.600 I don't know what Arizona will be at and maybe 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.800 they'll be fighting for the bye. It could be, but 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.480 I just think at Washington in this game and the 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.280 way it's gonna be. I think it's gonna be the 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.320 toughest game for them to win. I couldn't get a 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:16.480 yard last year on Washington. They couldn't. I understand everybody's different, 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.680 but they've lost both their defensive ends. Cool doesn't slow 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.880 them down. They've only gotten better. They actually have gotten better. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.720 You're right about that. All I'm saying is I believe 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:27.640 that this is the toughest game that they have to play. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.040 Martin came out of that game too. I was looking 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:34.760 out about last year for pictures. Yea. It was like 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.000 three players being now for injury during that game. I'm like, 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.440 oh my god, hopefully it goes down differently this time around. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.040 Jack tyrant Lyell and Zack Martin for all but one 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:50.079 series didn't play against Washington. I admire Nick's worldview. I'm 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.679 not saying you're wrong, it's just it's just different. Honestly. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.959 The thing I like about the way Nick does it, No, no, 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:56.760 the reason why I'm making fun of you, No, but 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.959 it doesn't. This isn't like this is up for debate. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.840 I mean, right at Washington versus Arizona at home. I 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.959 like the nuance of how you look at it. That's 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:07.640 that's the point I was going to make, and no, 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.719 I'm not. I'm not. My feelings are not. Yeah. Good, 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.600 that is not a that's not a slight. Yeah, that's 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.760 like if you ask anybody, you would think the immediate 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.360 ants will be that. But I think you made a 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:20.400 good point like this is they are desperate, and in 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.240 a league where you run into a desperate team, sometimes 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.440 that can be even more challenging than a team that's 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.719 playing really well, right, because desperation can bring that out 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.680 of out of teams. So I think that's a good point. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.200 We'll get back to that. We certainly we'll talk about 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:33.600 that Friday when we start talking what we think will 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.600 happen in the game. I don't think Arizona will have 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.520 anything locked up by then. Everybody's too close for them 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.920 to just have it locked up with two games to play, 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.679 so they'll be playing for something as well. And then 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.560 you know Kyler Murray coming back to Dallas and the 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.439 clip that he said they called the Cowboys ass like 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.400 that will resurface and all that stuff, and that'll be 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:57.600 that'll be fun. That'll be a fun game, and it 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.000 won't be at noon. I don't think I don't think 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.840 so they got to announce that soon. If they're gonna 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.920 be about it, I'm guessing that's gonna be a little 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.959 later than at least in an afternoon. Do play Washington 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.120 the week before at night at night, so I don't 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.839 know if NBCC and then you got the final game 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.920 of the season at Philadelphia, another game that that might 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:16.640 have some implications as well. All right, let's go and 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:17.880 take our first break. When we come back, we got 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.959 Buckey Brooks of NFL Network. He'll be joining us. He'll 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.800 talk to us about this Washington team, particularly the Washington offense. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:24.120 Will do that when we come right back. This is 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:29.800 Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 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It's a 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.360 two day WrestleMania event. Welcome back, second segment of the 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.840 Break Life in SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.800 are joined right now by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.880 As we do every week, we'll talk about the opponents 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:02.959 of day. We will focus in on the Washington football 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.640 team offense, Bucky, Let's start with what does this offense 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.240 do well? Because it looks like on paper that really 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.560 it's about the defense and the offense is just kind 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.679 of taking up space. But tell me what do they 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.720 do well? What is it if there was a situation 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.080 where the Cowboys could run into a problem against this offense, 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:23.160 what would that look like? I think, first and foremost, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.040 this isn't a game about like personnel and talent and 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.320 the xes and oos. This is a game where the 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.680 Washington football team has a feeling that they always can 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.800 kind of punk the Cowboys. I think if you go 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.320 back and you remember last year I played out where 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.080 they had to issue where the quarterback got hit and 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.080 no one kind of stood up and kind of fall back, 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.920 I think that permeates kind of how like the Washington 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:50.360 football team feels about them and they existed before Ron Rivera. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.200 So this has a game that little to do with 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.400 about the talent on the field and more to do 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.000 about are the Cowboys mature enough to hit the bully 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.520 in the mouth. Because the only way the Washington football 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.160 team should be able to beat the Cowboys if the 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.200 Cowboys absolutely play bad, don't execute and do those things. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.480 I would say offensively, the Washing football team has one 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.440 weapon that scares you. That might be Terry mclauren. But 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.880 the rest of the guys are just I mean, they're okay. 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.280 Antonio Gibson can get loose a little bit, but he's 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.800 not what I would call a top ten running back. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.800 The quarterback runs around and make plays, particularly in the clutch, 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.680 but he's not an elite playmaker at the position. The 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.400 offensive line is okay, and so this is a team 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.480 that is winning now because they feel like they can 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.080 kind of grind it out and they're tougher than the opponent. 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.080 And Ron River has done a really good job of 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.239 convincing them of that fact. But from a talent standpoint, 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.640 it is not a high end team, particularly on offense. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:50.040 Do you think Tyler Hennikey is a top tier quarterback 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.920 or potential to be in that group. I mean, I 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:54.560 know he's kind of come out of nowhere here, but 0:15:54.960 --> 0:16:03.280 where do you think his ceiling is? Man, he's a 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.240 bottom third quarterback. Like, I don't know who would I 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.680 like him to. I mean, he's a little bit like 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.760 how Ryan Fitzpatrick is in terms of like he'll flash 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.560 for a while, But then you wonder when is the 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.320 magic carper Rode going to run out. Look, I'm not 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.280 disparaging like he's good. I mean he's good at what 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.320 they do for right now, But I wouldn't want to 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.080 hitch my wagon to him as a long term investment. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:29.640 I think what you want to do is speed up 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.800 his clock. You want to pressure and see if you 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.080 can get him to make mistakes. But I mean that's 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.080 kind of what he is. He runs around and makes plays. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:40.120 That's that's his game. So the big thing that I 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:44.880 look at and they haven't been insane, I guess, But 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.240 like for an offense we just kind of talked about, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:52.640 with not a lot of special stuff going on, Washington 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.960 has been able to string together like a crazy amount 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.320 of just the long sustained scoring drives like they have 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.760 been keeping people off the field. I'm seeing you know, 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.400 they famously they put the Bucks away with a nineteen 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.879 play scoring drive. You're seeing fifteen play field goal drives, 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.360 eleven play touchdown drives, like at least two or three 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.600 times a game. You're talking about ten twelve, fifteen play drives. 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.640 How are they doing that? Is it simply because Heineke 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.480 can extend plays and pick up yards with his feet. 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.760 I mean, what is leading to that sort of ability 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:29.560 to stay on the field. I mean, it's a little 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:34.000 bit of everything, right, It's a little bit of Telehenneke 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.320 making plays. It's a little bit of sometimes getting the 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.679 benefit of a ill time penalty that extends to drive 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.080 is Antonio Gibson makes a remark play art Terry mclauren 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.320 makes a remarkable play in a key moment. I would 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.880 say it's probably not ideal to have these fifteen sixteen 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.760 seventeen play drives because it's hard to live like that 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.320 because when you have that many plays to move the 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.360 ball down the field, it means that you don't really 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.240 have explode some playmakers, and so typically you have to 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.320 have explosive plays to score. They have been able to 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.040 sustain some of those dribs, but when you look at 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:09.840 the total amount of points that they're scoring get to 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.840 end the games, it's hard for them to get well 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:16.159 over twenty points, and so it's a matter of just 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.560 kind of understanding and making them kick field goals and 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.600 hopefully on the office you can score enough points against 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:25.400 their defense. Bucky, there's a lot of hype around the 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.119 return of some of these defensive players right now, and 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.040 the defense has been pretty solid without them. But if 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.440 you had to look at something that could be negative, 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.400 or something not negative, but something that they might struggle 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:41.520 with putting these guys back together out there on the field, 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:46.040 what would that be trying to figure out a rotation, 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.240 trying to figure out how you put the pieces in place. 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.160 And the biggest piece of the poles is Michael Parsons. 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.919 Michael Parsons is so good doing a few different things 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.760 that if you just keep them an inside linebacker, you 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.560 take away from his superpower as a pass Russian. So 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.960 how do you incorporate Randy Gregory, DeMarcus Lawrence, and Michael 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.520 Parsons in the pass rush while still keeping the Gazooa 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.720 and everybody else in the mix? And so it will 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.200 take dan Quinn trying to figure out how to reshuffle 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.119 the deck to get the best players on the field 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.960 enough to make the impact while keeping everybody else happy. 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.520 And so this would be a test of the chemistry 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:26.680 and continuity. Can people sacrifice some of the individual snaps 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.240 for the betterment of the defense. That would be the 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.320 biggest issue, because this is a team that I would 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.879 expect the last five games, we should see the Cowboys 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.480 play the best football of the season because now everybody 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:39.960 is back, and with everybody being back, we're talking about 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.320 a top five, top seven roster in the league. The 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:46.119 excuses go out the door. They should be able to 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.440 get on a role heading into the postseason. Bucky Ill 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.359 was looking at the offensive line for the Washington football team. 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.399 Eric Flowers is a name that you look at this 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.879 guy years ago, like I thought he was going to 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.439 be out of the league within two or three years, 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.720 just the way he was playing where he's being talked about. 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.520 Has moved around a few teams, but seems to be 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:08.560 playing pretty solidly for the Washington football team. So looking 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.919 at that entire offensive line, what do you think, what 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.199 do you think is their weakest point with Dallas, As 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:16.359 Amber was saying, with all those defensive linemen that are 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:17.600 going to be coming back, what do you think is 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.520 the weakest point on that offensive line for Washington that 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:25.760