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Speaker 6: It is Wednesday, October sixteenth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty,
Speaker 6: episode number fifty. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
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Speaker 3: Nice time to have a bye right now.
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Speaker 6: Go to your corners and uh and let's just see
Speaker 6: where we where we land come one day getting ready
Speaker 6: for San Francisco. There was a lot of news around
Speaker 6: the NFL yesterday. There was a bevy of of moves
Speaker 6: that were happening, big moves, teams trading wide receivers Davante
Speaker 6: Adams Mari Cooper both being traded to to other teams.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 6: Jerry made it clear earlier this week. And and I
Speaker 6: know Nick, you've you've seen this report, but uh, he
Speaker 6: made it clear earlier this week that they're not going
Speaker 6: to be expecting to be players in this you know,
Speaker 6: whatever is going to happen before.
Speaker 5: The trade deadline.
Speaker 6: Here's the question I have for you guys, because as
Speaker 6: I started thinking about this, I think there are kind
Speaker 6: of two ways you can look at this.
Speaker 5: What's more valuable to this.
Speaker 6: Team draft capital or a big time player that they
Speaker 6: could possibly go out and trade for that they think
Speaker 6: would change the trajectory of where they are this season
Speaker 6: and where they can go.
Speaker 9: I think a big player just because for for draft pick,
Speaker 9: it's because you still have to develop the player. If
Speaker 9: we want impact right now and be able to go
Speaker 9: somewhere with this team, I think it's now is the time,
Speaker 9: which means getting a big player off season I.
Speaker 7: Would say I would say draft capital because if you
Speaker 7: get the player, it's and I've said this, if you're
Speaker 7: going to draft for a player, it's got to be
Speaker 7: somebody that'll.
Speaker 2: Be here longer than a year.
Speaker 7: So if you're going to just rent the player for
Speaker 7: this year, I don't know, especially receiver receiver stuff. They
Speaker 7: don't they don't always come in right and understand what
Speaker 7: you know, the terminology and all this kind of stuff,
Speaker 7: So how much how long are you getting the player
Speaker 7: for it? Like you know, I think what made it
Speaker 7: work for the Jets. I don't know about Mark Cooper,
Speaker 7: but words for the Jets is that that terminology that
Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers uses and in the connection he's got with
Speaker 7: the Van Adams. I think that they can maybe speed
Speaker 7: up that process. But for me, knowing what they're gonna
Speaker 7: have next year is gonna be you know, they just
Speaker 7: don't have a lot of players that are going to
Speaker 7: be here on the for the on the solider cap.
Speaker 7: They need as Mets draft picks as they can get.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you, Nick.
Speaker 10: I think my philosophy in general is just you build
Speaker 10: through the draft, right, it doesn't matter where you are
Speaker 10: as an organization. That capital is so important because you
Speaker 10: can build guys in through your system from start to
Speaker 10: finish not have to make that adjustment that you were
Speaker 10: talking about. I mean, it's nice to get a veteran,
Speaker 10: experienced guy who's played it.
Speaker 2: Know y'all never agree with me.
Speaker 4: I think we're pretty across the board.
Speaker 2: But no, exactly, just.
Speaker 10: To wrap that up, like having the younger guys building,
Speaker 10: you think about the young guys that are already playing
Speaker 10: for the Cowboys. If you get those guys experience, you
Speaker 10: get those guys snaps, you keep building through the draft,
Speaker 10: you're gonna be.
Speaker 4: Looking at a really solid veteran group.
Speaker 2: But how long do we have to wait for that?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 7: And that's that's that's that's always the problem, And that's
Speaker 7: the thing. Like, and I think there are some teams, like,
Speaker 7: for instance.
Speaker 2: Like Buffalo.
Speaker 7: I think Buffalo's four and two, they look like a
Speaker 7: different four and two than the Cowboys three and three.
Speaker 7: I mean, and I think that where they are right now,
Speaker 7: if they were to get Amari Cooper, that seems like
Speaker 7: that he's a He's a piece that they've been missing.
Speaker 7: The Cowboys, I think have more than one piece right
Speaker 7: now that they would need. True And that's where that's
Speaker 7: why I think for the Cowboys, I don't know if
Speaker 7: it makes as much.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And that's and that's I guess where I want
Speaker 6: to go with this is when you look at this team,
Speaker 6: if they're if they're as you evaluate it right now,
Speaker 6: where are the areas that you would say they need
Speaker 6: to upgrade this if they want to have any success
Speaker 6: this season?
Speaker 3: Like, what are those positions right now?
Speaker 10: Probably defensive tackle would be one for me, yeap and
Speaker 10: that's you know, not to take a shot at anybody
Speaker 10: in that room already, but they're they're just not getting
Speaker 10: any sort of push up front in the run.
Speaker 3: Game, actually moving backwards exactly.
Speaker 10: They are getting pushed and that can't happen. You know,
Speaker 10: you need an anchor in the middle of that defensive line.
Speaker 10: I think os has had some really good games this year.
Speaker 10: Mazzi had one of his better games a couple of
Speaker 10: weeks ago against New York and but you need that consistency, right,
Speaker 10: you need an anchor there in the middle of the
Speaker 10: defensive line. I think if you look ahead to this draft,
Speaker 10: it's a really good class for defensive tackles.
Speaker 4: So this might be a good year for the Cowboys.
Speaker 10: Maybe use that one of those early round picks on
Speaker 10: a defensive tackle to bolster that line. But I think
Speaker 10: that's where it starts, because if you stopped earlier, early round.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, so that's that's where the Cowboys are picking. Huh,
Speaker 7: early round, you've already got it.
Speaker 10: Okay, eround, I'm trying to get me in trouble.
Speaker 4: It was his first or second round pick.
Speaker 2: Because I'm with you. I was with you. I was like,
Speaker 2: top fifteen, were they going to Pike?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 7: You know what I wonder, you know, we don't see
Speaker 7: this in practice? Because you said they don't get any push.
Speaker 7: They don't get any push. I could I make the
Speaker 7: same argument about the offensive line. So my question is
Speaker 7: who wins out in practice?
Speaker 5: What did you see a training camp?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I mean they well, they don't really, It's not like
Speaker 7: I don't know. It's not like really going at it
Speaker 7: like live practice. But I'm like, the offensive line is
Speaker 7: not pushing, you know, and creating a lot of run opportunities,
Speaker 7: and the defensive line is getting pushed back. So in practice,
Speaker 7: I mean, I want to know, is that like a
Speaker 7: good back, good like battle out there, good matchup. It's
Speaker 7: not good for the games because they're both struggling, but
Speaker 7: in practice, I bet they're like a good day.
Speaker 2: We had a good day.
Speaker 7: It was back and forth, it was really good competitive,
Speaker 7: but neither one of them seem to be at the
Speaker 7: standard of what they need.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm with both of y'all, both the defensive line
Speaker 9: and offensive line.
Speaker 2: There's pieces that we need.
Speaker 7: I said that on this last show to the storyline,
Speaker 7: since you had me do a double dip, I'll say
Speaker 7: that if you're big and you're strong, and you you
Speaker 7: can push people around, that's that's what they need. Offense defense,
Speaker 7: that's fine, you know, Yeah, but here's here's there Travis
Speaker 7: Hunter of Alignment that can do both.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that guy, but yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 6: But here's also the thing, like they I know, right,
Speaker 6: are they? I don't think that because I don't even
Speaker 6: put wide. I mean, I'm sorry, I don't put offensive
Speaker 6: line in that same category because I don't know that
Speaker 6: right now the Cowboys would even if that player was
Speaker 6: somehow available to them where they could go and get him,
Speaker 6: I'm not sure they would want to take out one
Speaker 6: of the starting five to put that guy in, because,
Speaker 6: as we talked about yesterday, I think we all at
Speaker 6: least agree, the best five offensive lineman may not be
Speaker 6: the starting five and for value valid reasons. Right If
Speaker 6: that's the case, do you think they're really going to
Speaker 6: go out and get somebody and replace one of these guys,
Speaker 6: because I think they have a vision for ch these guys.
Speaker 6: They've paid one guy steal that they're going.
Speaker 2: To keep in there.
Speaker 6: I don't think they're moving him out of there, but
Speaker 6: that's that's been an area where they've had some inconsistencies.
Speaker 6: Zach Martin ain't going anywhere for this year, but there's
Speaker 6: in a place where they've had some inconsistencies. The rookie
Speaker 6: center and the rookie left tackle. You put him out
Speaker 6: there and you know that there's going to be some
Speaker 6: going pain. So they're not going to change those. You're
Speaker 6: developing them. And obviously the left guard's the best offensive lineman.
Speaker 6: You got so off the line. I throw out when
Speaker 6: I say, if you were going to look at a position,
Speaker 6: I don't even look at that because that wouldn't be
Speaker 6: one that you would change out talk about defensive tackle.
Speaker 6: Is running back in that mix, is wide receiver in
Speaker 6: that mix? But the question becomes, is there a single
Speaker 6: player that you go out and spin draft capital on
Speaker 6: that all of a sudden, Now your team goes from
Speaker 6: where they are right now, where they're three and three,
Speaker 6: and everybody's kind of like, I don't know, the wills
Speaker 6: seem a little wobbly, to oh wow, this team can
Speaker 6: really compete in the NFC against the better teams in MC.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: To me that that position is usually a defensive end,
Speaker 7: a position a player that can just come in a
Speaker 7: wreck a game, and I don't know if they're going
Speaker 7: to do that. That's a lot of draft capital and
Speaker 7: to go get certain guys that are.
Speaker 2: I would love that though.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that would be great, and Michael Park would love
Speaker 7: that too, because they keep losing. You keep losing, you know,
Speaker 7: pass rushers, but I just don't there's not a lot
Speaker 7: of positions you could say that guy changes a lot.
Speaker 7: It's usually you know, maybe a great cornerback would or.
Speaker 5: A great receiver would.
Speaker 6: But I think that's also the thing, like you give
Speaker 6: up all give up all that draft capital to get
Speaker 6: what would effectively be a second wide receiver. Like that's
Speaker 6: that's where it gets a little bit challenging. You give
Speaker 6: up some draft pick, you give up a draft pick
Speaker 6: or multiple draft picks. You've probably got to pay that guy.
Speaker 6: So now you've added to the amount on a cap
Speaker 6: that already is struggling a bit. You know what, does
Speaker 6: that Does that really make sense? Does that really help
Speaker 6: you in the long term?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think in one position.
Speaker 9: I think definitely not as running back, because we know
Speaker 9: we can get a free agent running back to so
Speaker 9: many running backs now they don't. You don't need to
Speaker 9: have like a first round or second round running back anymore.
Speaker 9: I think the league is kind of shown that now
Speaker 9: you can get a free agent, you can get someone
Speaker 9: that's not even you know.
Speaker 5: In the draft that's high.
Speaker 9: That makes a difference.
Speaker 7: I wish they would have gotten somebody though in the
Speaker 7: draft this year.
Speaker 2: They didn't.
Speaker 7: They didn't and even the free agent that they pick
Speaker 7: up was like not even a starter at his school
Speaker 7: in Missouri. So like they really didn't didn't address that position.
Speaker 7: They tried to, or at least they said they tried to.
Speaker 7: But you know, with all those picks, I thought somebody
Speaker 7: they would have they would have picked up there, And
Speaker 7: that's what I'm looking at. I'd look at the practice
Speaker 7: squad right now. If I was the guy was other
Speaker 7: teams practice squads, there's young running backs.
Speaker 2: Probably out there. I would do that.
Speaker 7: If you're not going to use your own guy who's
Speaker 7: for whatever, whatever the reason, Dalvin Cook is there. But
Speaker 7: I mean, I think it's time to kind of look
Speaker 7: at something. But I still think it's the guys up front.
Speaker 7: If you don't get him blocked, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's not going to matter who you throw out
Speaker 10: there if the offensive line isn't getting any push.
Speaker 4: So I agree with Derek.
Speaker 10: I don't think you look at offensive line as a
Speaker 10: position where hey.
Speaker 4: We need to draft a guy, or hey we need
Speaker 4: to go pick somebody up.
Speaker 10: Because the five that they've got out there has been
Speaker 10: clear with everything that's been said this week, they're going
Speaker 10: to ride with those five guys and just wait till
Speaker 10: they put it together, right, Just get some continuity out
Speaker 10: there and so once that happens, maybe the run game
Speaker 10: starts to open up, and maybe the guys they do
Speaker 10: have start to show you what they showed you in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 10: Right and Nico Daddle gets twenty touches and gets eighty
Speaker 10: seven yards, maybe you start to see that stack. But
Speaker 10: right now it's just they're not putting it together. There's
Speaker 10: no continuity the last two games. So yeah, the consistency
Speaker 10: it gets, it gets difficult.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're going to take our first break a little
Speaker 6: early here, but when we come back, I actually want
Speaker 6: to dive into that topic a little bit more and
Speaker 6: talk about the running backs and ask you guys the question,
Speaker 6: which of the running backs Hunter Lipkey, Rico Dwell or
Speaker 6: Dalvin Cook do you think the Cowboy should commit to
Speaker 6: and be willing to really ride and give an opportunity
Speaker 6: to really be your lead running back. We'll talk about
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Speaker 6: about the running back position on the break. We've been
Speaker 6: talking a lot about the running back position more from
Speaker 6: the standpoint, and this goes back to training camp. Brian
Speaker 6: and I both have a theory. Brian brought us and
Speaker 6: I both have the theory that if Dallas would just
Speaker 6: commit to Rico Dowbell, he could be successful in this
Speaker 6: offense as the lead running back.
Speaker 5: The running game may not be great.
Speaker 6: But it certainly would be serviceable. My question for you
Speaker 6: guys is, do you guys agree with that premise and
Speaker 6: is he the guy that you would do that with
Speaker 6: or would it be someone like a hunter O Libkey
Speaker 6: or would it be someone like a Dalvin Cook. So
Speaker 6: it's kind of a two part question. Do you agree
Speaker 6: with the premise and to who should be that guy?
Speaker 7: I do not agree with that at premise. I think
Speaker 7: that most teams in the league have two backs, and
Speaker 7: I think the Cowboys are using two backs with Rico
Speaker 7: and Zeke. I don't think either one of them are
Speaker 7: good enough to be the lead guy. I don't think
Speaker 7: Rico is. I think he's solid. I think Rico would
Speaker 7: be a solid number two, But I don't think you
Speaker 7: have that lead back right now. So I mean, even
Speaker 7: in the game he had against Pittsburgh, I mean eighty
Speaker 7: seventy yards, I mean that's not something that you would
Speaker 7: be too excited about.
Speaker 6: I just unless you're the starving man who just got
Speaker 6: assaulting Cracker exactly and you're like, oh gosh, that so good.
Speaker 12: It was.
Speaker 7: It was just right really really great and that's and
Speaker 7: that's fine, but he's not going to get fat on that,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean. He's just it's just like
Speaker 7: you need another one and you need to put some
Speaker 7: mone in. Well I'm just saying like that's fine, but
Speaker 7: he's he's not going to go into sumo wrestling just
Speaker 7: because he had a couple of assaulting crackers, like doesn't
Speaker 7: help the problem.
Speaker 9: But he seems to be the guy that we have
Speaker 9: right now.
Speaker 5: That's what we have to that's what we.
Speaker 2: Have to work with.
Speaker 9: He's not in every down back, but that's what we got.
Speaker 9: But at the same time, like I love Hunter Lipkey,
Speaker 9: I think he's just a versatile back. You know, you
Speaker 9: can play the f the wide age backfield, slot, everything,
Speaker 9: and then you could see that Dak has a lot
Speaker 9: of confidence him in third down situations. So I love him.
Speaker 9: I know that he wouldn't be the solution to the problems.
Speaker 9: And then Dalvin Cook doesn't seemed to even be in
Speaker 9: the equation, right, so I think we just have to
Speaker 9: go with Rico.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I agree with that. I think Rico's your guy,
Speaker 10: not an every down guy obviously. I think in those
Speaker 10: short yard situations, you look at Zekie, look at Hunter Lipkey.
Speaker 10: He probably lucky over Zekera, I think, I'll being honest.
Speaker 10: But when you look at Rico, I mean, he's averaging
Speaker 10: north the four yards to carry every time he touches
Speaker 10: the ball every game that he's played. You're keeping the
Speaker 10: offense on schedule doing that. It's what I've said before,
Speaker 10: he's just not getting touches. And when he did get touches,
Speaker 10: you saw what he did. Sure, eighty seven yards doesn't
Speaker 10: blow you out of the water, but when you went
Speaker 10: back and watched the second half of that Pittsburgh game,
Speaker 10: he was moving around. He's establishing the run for this
Speaker 10: team like we hadn't seen all season before.
Speaker 7: What's impressive of the four yards to carry is that
Speaker 7: there's no thirty nine yard or that's like messing up.
Speaker 7: There's nothing longer than a thirteen yard run exactly by
Speaker 7: the entire team this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And.
Speaker 6: That tells you even more about how productive he's being
Speaker 6: just in those steady production four or five yards.
Speaker 10: You know, exactly. It's all about keeping your offense on
Speaker 10: schedule right. One of the things that michaemccarthy said he
Speaker 10: was so happy about in that Pittsburgh game was setting
Speaker 10: themselves up is that it was the best they played
Speaker 10: on first and second down. They're setting themselves up in
Speaker 10: third and short, third and manageable situations. Whereas you look
Speaker 10: at some of the other games this year, you've got
Speaker 10: third nine, ten, eleven constantly just because guys are getting
Speaker 10: pushed back, tackles for lost things like that. So if
Speaker 10: you're setting up the run well with Rico, watch run
Speaker 10: away from it. Just give him touches.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I'll be clear, I wasn't saying he should
Speaker 6: be the every down back because I think it's clear
Speaker 6: Hunter Lipki has I don't think done a good job
Speaker 6: as a third down back. I think they should actually
Speaker 6: find ways to give him more opportunities to get the
Speaker 6: ball in his hand because I think he's I think
Speaker 6: he's he's the kind of guy that, you know, I
Speaker 6: liken him to somebody like Uscheck in San Francisco.
Speaker 5: He's not just a blocking fullback.
Speaker 6: He's a guy that you can give the ball and
Speaker 6: trust him with the ball, and throw passes to him
Speaker 6: and do things that can kind of create mismatch issues
Speaker 6: for the defense. But that being said, I do think
Speaker 6: Rico is the guy that if you committed to him
Speaker 6: as being the guy that was going to get the
Speaker 6: majority of the touches, and you use the other backs
Speaker 6: to spell him when he needs to be spelled, rather
Speaker 6: than I'm gonna take this series and run somebody else
Speaker 6: out there, or whatever the case might be.
Speaker 5: I think if you did that, I think you'd.
Speaker 6: Probably get more out of your running game than what
Speaker 6: you're getting right now. Again, may not be great, but
Speaker 6: it certainly I think will be serviceable for this offense
Speaker 6: and right now what they need and they need right now,
Speaker 6: they need just a respectable running game where defenses are like,
Speaker 6: we have to.
Speaker 5: At least respect it right now? They don't, right all right.
Speaker 6: I don't think many defenses are, and I think that's
Speaker 6: part of what you're seeing in the passing game and
Speaker 6: the struggles there. I don't think defenses think about the
Speaker 6: running game is something that can hurt them. You said,
Speaker 6: A thirteen yards the most you've gotten on the ground.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, there's no juice there, Yeah, right, all right.
Speaker 6: Next question I have for you, guys, jal and Toba
Speaker 6: continue to be the wide receiver to when Cooks returns?
Speaker 7: No, yeah, I said no, I say no to that
Speaker 7: but this is okay because you're second and your third receiver,
Speaker 7: like they play a lot, and I'm fine with with that.
Speaker 7: There's not like it's the the third guy now is
Speaker 7: creeping into like to change all that.
Speaker 2: I mean, like, would it be Brooks I mean or
Speaker 2: or yeah, Brooks Turpin.
Speaker 7: I mean, Turpin's kind of a unique player, so he's
Speaker 7: doing yeah, and he's still gonna.
Speaker 2: Do all that, right, So it doesn't that's not gonna change.
Speaker 7: So no, I mean, receiver two receiver three, that's not
Speaker 7: a huge difference for me. So I would probably put
Speaker 7: Cooks back into the into the same role. But I
Speaker 7: think they got to use Cooks differently.
Speaker 5: But that's the question.
Speaker 6: Have you seen an appreciable difference in the offense without
Speaker 6: cooks versus with.
Speaker 9: Cooks have four red zone targets? I mean, I know
Speaker 9: obviously cooks have been yeah, hurt, but doesn't.
Speaker 7: He I Again, I think the point I'm making is
Speaker 7: Jalen Brooks. I don't need Jalen Brooks to take any
Speaker 7: of the theirs away. So it's fine if it's gonna
Speaker 7: be Cooks. It's too Tolbvert is too. That doesn't really
Speaker 7: matter because I think three guys still play a lot.
Speaker 7: So those are the three, doesn't It doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 7: It's kind of like cornerback, where if it doesn't matter
Speaker 7: who's the start, second, third, they're all gonna play. So
Speaker 7: I that's fine, it's not it's not the fourth guy
Speaker 7: though that I don't think Cooks goes to the fourth spot.
Speaker 2: So if he's the.
Speaker 7: Three, that's fine. You still need them. You still need
Speaker 7: to get him down the field more though. Don't run
Speaker 7: the routes they've been running with him. Get him a
Speaker 7: little bit more vertical, which is what we're seeing with
Speaker 7: Tolbert too, to make a place when he can see
Speaker 7: the ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, messy man, so messy.
Speaker 4: He's on one today?
Speaker 5: Is today his whole life? Yea, his whole life.
Speaker 9: But it's no emotion, just looked especially.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5: I kind of miss it, but I don't like.
Speaker 14: You got to.
Speaker 10: Like that.
Speaker 4: No, I'm with you.
Speaker 10: I think that the gap between two and three is
Speaker 10: not as large as maybe some folks think it is.
Speaker 4: I think Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 10: Obviously brings you that veteran experience, and he's been in
Speaker 10: the offense for quite some time now. But Jalen Tolbert
Speaker 10: shown you that he can give you wide receiver to production. Right,
Speaker 10: it's not consistent, but he should you that he can
Speaker 10: do it. And so if that means, you know, you
Speaker 10: you lessen your targets to him, but he makes them
Speaker 10: count and that third wide receiver spot and you're getting
Speaker 10: Brandon involved. Your offense is going to be fine. This
Speaker 10: is an offense we know it is going to throw
Speaker 10: the ball around a lot. So the more options you've
Speaker 10: got to throw it to that are reliable and that
Speaker 10: you've seen play reliable for you this year.
Speaker 7: I think the better the irony there of the you know,
Speaker 7: because everyone saw it and that Brandon Cooks has really
Speaker 7: been one of the big reasons that Jalen Tolbert has
Speaker 7: matured as a player and maybe even as a as
Speaker 7: a person. I mean, he's a he's a great leader
Speaker 7: for that locker room, and he took Tolbert under his
Speaker 7: wing from the very beginning.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of I right.
Speaker 7: Because like he gets hurt, he comes back, he's like,
Speaker 7: do they even need coox? You know you got Tolvert now,
Speaker 7: you know, it's like.
Speaker 2: I'm you know, he was a young you know, I'm
Speaker 2: I'm the Jedi night. You know, I got him. I
Speaker 2: got him up here. Now all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 2: just like a you're good.
Speaker 6: Well, the thing about it is for me, but the
Speaker 6: thing about it for Cooks is I think Cooks is
Speaker 6: better than what the Cowboys, than how they use him.
Speaker 3: I agree, I.
Speaker 6: Think you should be able to if you look at
Speaker 6: his career, what he's been able to produce at every stop.
Speaker 6: I just don't think Dallas is getting that out of him.
Speaker 6: And I don't think that's about his skill level at
Speaker 6: this point. I think for whatever reason, he's just not
Speaker 6: getting the same kinds of opportunities that he once did.
Speaker 6: And maybe Dallas just isn't using him in the way
Speaker 6: that he can do more things than just kind of
Speaker 6: be your guy. That this stretches the field. I think
Speaker 6: Cavante Turpin can do that for you. I think Brandon
Speaker 6: Cooks has a deeper skill level than that, and I
Speaker 6: just don't know that they're using it in that way.
Speaker 9: You know what's funny, Derek, that you say over and
Speaker 9: over again I've heard is that the usage like Rico Cooks,
Speaker 9: like we're not using our players to the best situation
Speaker 9: setting them up to succeed, right. Well, that's that's which
Speaker 9: is so funny because I've heard that now it's the
Speaker 9: same thing over and over again.
Speaker 3: That sets up my next question.
Speaker 6: How much of the ineffectiveness of the offense do you
Speaker 6: guys attribute to the play caller? How much credit or
Speaker 6: how much of that does does Mike McCarthy have.
Speaker 2: To wear a lot? I mean, that's the preparation.
Speaker 7: We talked about it yesterday of the slow starts and
Speaker 7: to begin in the game.
Speaker 2: That's what they're preparing for.
Speaker 7: And you know what, if you're gonna call Schottenheimer is
Speaker 7: the offensive coordinator. He's the offensive coordinator, and he helps
Speaker 7: to share with the game plan. He's part of it
Speaker 7: as well, because because they give him that title and
Speaker 7: it's supposed to be setting up your game plan, setting
Speaker 7: up the structure of it, and it hasn't been good
Speaker 7: enough either.
Speaker 2: So I mean he.
Speaker 7: Goes up there every every week with the coordinators and
Speaker 7: he talks. He should be part of it too, play caller, yes,
Speaker 7: but also the structure of the offense just doesn't doesn't
Speaker 7: seem like it's working right now.
Speaker 9: And it seems like it's inability to adjust the defensive schemes.
Speaker 9: I feel like I notice that a lot, But I
Speaker 9: don't think it's just McCarthy. I think there's also position
Speaker 9: coaches and O see. I think there's a lot of
Speaker 9: responsibility that they need to evaluate across the board.
Speaker 10: The whole staff has to wear right and it falls
Speaker 10: on Mike McCarthy because he is a play caller. And
Speaker 10: there are some decisions like I completely disagreed with going
Speaker 10: away from the run in the first half, like we
Speaker 10: talked about yesterday, after that the board had touchdown, they
Speaker 10: ran the ball one time for no game. You can't
Speaker 10: do that if you're wanting to win a football game.
Speaker 10: I understand you're in a two score hole, but it's
Speaker 10: two score you still got two and a half quarters
Speaker 10: of football left to play.
Speaker 4: You got to try.
Speaker 10: And I understand mixing things up that you need to
Speaker 10: establish the run because otherwise teams are just gonna drop
Speaker 10: seven eight defensive backs back into coverage and that's what's
Speaker 10: gonna happen. The turnovers five turnovers. First of all, you're
Speaker 10: not gonna win a game turn the ball over five times.
Speaker 10: But it's extremely hard to move the ball down Fiel
Speaker 10: and you've got to throw against eight guys. So yeah,
Speaker 10: I would say play calling is a big part of it.
Speaker 10: But there's more issues than that too.
Speaker 6: What do you think they're well, I mean, I think
Speaker 6: it's obviously at the end of the day, the head
Speaker 6: coach has to be accountable, the offensive play caller has
Speaker 6: to be accountable, the defensive caller play caller has to
Speaker 6: be accountable.
Speaker 5: Like that's just a part of it.
Speaker 6: Like that's you can't be in a position of leadership
Speaker 6: and then not be accountable for whatever happens. That doesn't
Speaker 6: work because ultimately you have some say in it, regardless
Speaker 6: how much say, you have some say in whatever's being done.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I think they certainly have to I'm not
Speaker 6: saying anything. I don't think they would say. I think
Speaker 6: they all would agree they have to be accountable to
Speaker 6: this as well, and they to figure out answers. And
Speaker 6: I think that's why Mike said I'll be here all
Speaker 6: this break because he's got to figure it out.
Speaker 5: Like that's a part of the job that comes with
Speaker 5: the dinner.
Speaker 6: If you're going to be the head coach, you're going
Speaker 6: to be the offensive guy, and offensive unitism isn't playing well.
Speaker 6: You got to figure it out. And so I think
Speaker 6: it's certainly false to him. I think it's a little
Speaker 6: grayer though, and this is my next question. I think
Speaker 6: it's a little more of a gray area when we
Speaker 6: start talking about the defense, primarily because I think last
Speaker 6: year the problem that we saw coming into the offseason
Speaker 6: last year was Dallas is having a hard time consistently
Speaker 6: stopping the run against really really physical teams. Teams have
Speaker 6: physical running games, they have a hard time doing it.
Speaker 6: We're seeing the same thing this year. I don't know
Speaker 6: how much I can attribute that to Yes, he has
Speaker 6: to take some accountability. I don't know how much I
Speaker 6: give Mike Zimmer versus the personnel, because it starts with
Speaker 6: I think, as we talked about a little earlier, are
Speaker 6: they being able to hold up at the point of attack?
Speaker 3: Are they not getting pushed back?
Speaker 6: Are they protect linebackers so the linebackers can flow to
Speaker 6: the ball and pursue. If you're not getting that from
Speaker 6: your players, I'm not sure what a coordinator can necessarily
Speaker 6: do to change that. Do you how much of the
Speaker 6: blame do you put on Mike Zimmer for the challenges
Speaker 6: of the defense.
Speaker 10: I think it's split between personnel and coaching, and I
Speaker 10: say that because when you look at last week against
Speaker 10: the Lions and what's Mike Zimmers talked about this week,
Speaker 10: Cowboys are really struggling to tackle. They can't bring guys down,
Speaker 10: and you know you'll be You can't have one guy
Speaker 10: tackling every play, right. You need to get guys to
Speaker 10: the ball. You need to get more caps to the ball.
Speaker 10: Detroit had over one hundred yards rushing after contact alone.
Speaker 4: Last week.
Speaker 10: You can't do that. You have to bring guys to
Speaker 10: the ground. Doesn't matter what kind of running game you're playing,
Speaker 10: how physical the opposing team is playing. If you can't tackle,
Speaker 10: the guys are going to run all over you and
Speaker 10: throw all over you. So I think that's problem number
Speaker 10: one with this defense because that's the run game, that's
Speaker 10: the pass game. They had over one hundred yards after
Speaker 10: the catch too against Detroit, or Detroit did against the Cowboys,
Speaker 10: excuse me. So it really starts with tackling, I think
Speaker 10: for me, amongst other things like stopping the run. But
Speaker 10: if you can't get guys down, they're just gonna keep running,
Speaker 10: They're gonna keep scoring.
Speaker 4: This is the NFL.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I hate to throw out all the excuses, but
Speaker 7: with the defense with the injuries like that, it's not
Speaker 7: even an excuse anymore.
Speaker 2: It's just reality.
Speaker 7: And you know, in that game against the Lions, I mean,
Speaker 7: I think I said it to you, Derek. I would
Speaker 7: argue their two best pass rushers and their two best
Speaker 7: run stoppers are both out of the game, and their
Speaker 7: their best playmaker in the secondary and Deron Blant. Your
Speaker 7: two best pass rushers I thought were Micah and Tank,
Speaker 7: and your best run stoppers are Tank and Eric Hendricks.
Speaker 7: You lose that stuff in one game. It is It
Speaker 7: is tough, I mean, and that that that's the snowballs everything.
Speaker 7: So I have a hard time just putting it all
Speaker 7: on Zimmer when Zimmers got here to do this job.
Speaker 7: And I mean, you just can't lose your top four
Speaker 7: defensive ends and that's what how and the top four
Speaker 7: ends are all out, and I mean, it just wipes
Speaker 7: your your your depth chart and you're playing with guys
Speaker 7: that wouldn't even be in the league. There's a there
Speaker 7: was a picture I saw this on Twitter. Y'all might
Speaker 7: have seen this or that showed the front seven. None
Speaker 7: of these players were on this team like in the
Speaker 7: playoff game or you know last year. None of the
Speaker 7: seven out there, and then the secondary only hooker was
Speaker 7: the only one that was there from last year. Just
Speaker 7: look at overshown and look at the you know, look
Speaker 7: at Tyrus Wheat and I mean like it goes on
Speaker 7: and on with Lynvald Joseph. A lot of these guys
Speaker 7: weren't even here at camp.
Speaker 2: So it's it's what do you expect?
Speaker 7: I mean, Zimmer's it's a tough job and it's his
Speaker 7: job to figure it out.
Speaker 5: But man, it's a tough situation asked for him, definitely.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and the continuity, like you said at both y'all's points,
Speaker 9: the miss tackles, getting off the blocks, I mean all
Speaker 9: those different things. I think the personnel and the coaches
Speaker 9: and what the new defensive coordinator. I think it's everyone's
Speaker 9: trying to get in a rhythm. So if you've got
Speaker 9: new players and you got a new defense, I mean,
Speaker 9: everything has to kind of settle in. I mean, obviously
Speaker 9: we're in October, but still I think that's part of
Speaker 9: the injuries.
Speaker 4: Very depth.
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Speaker 6: who do you think the Cowboys have missed more. If
Speaker 6: you could get one of these guys back, Michael Parsons,
Speaker 6: DeMarcus Lawrence to Ron Bland or Eric Kendricks. Who's been
Speaker 6: missed more and who they need us. We'll talk about
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Speaker 6: Right, let's let's finish the show off, right. Here's my
Speaker 6: question for you guys, who's been missed more? Michael Parsons
Speaker 6: to Marcus Lawrence, Deron Bland, Eric Kendricks.
Speaker 7: I'll start Micah Parsons. Let me think about it, Michael Parsons,
Speaker 7: you need more time. No, I think he I think
Speaker 7: he just say he wrecks the game when he when
Speaker 7: he's when he's on his game. Now, it's not always perfect.
Speaker 7: With him in as far as you know when they're
Speaker 7: running the ball. But I think I think for the
Speaker 7: most part he is a just a dynamic, catalytic player
Speaker 7: that they they've missed.
Speaker 2: So I go with Michael Parsons there.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna be the odd man out because Mike is
Speaker 10: the easy answer, and.
Speaker 4: I mean it's it's the correct right.
Speaker 10: All four of those players you mentioned are correct answers,
Speaker 10: But I think Eric Kendricks is the guy that you
Speaker 10: miss the most because he's your tackling machine, right Like,
Speaker 10: he just sits in the middle of that defense and
Speaker 10: he just eats guys up, makes all the tackles you need.
Speaker 10: And I think that is one of, if not the
Speaker 10: most glaring issue with this Cowboys defense. If you get
Speaker 10: your leading tackler back, if you get the guy who's
Speaker 10: gonna fly around and get guys to the ground, things
Speaker 10: are gonna slowly but surely get easier.
Speaker 4: Right. So I'm going with Eric Kendricks.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I had Eric Kendricks as well, obviously all of them,
Speaker 9: but Kendricks Green Dot. He you know, he really knows
Speaker 9: Zim's defense, so he really is great leadership as well.
Speaker 9: So I think he was really missed and the tackling
Speaker 9: of course. Micah, Yes, but I've talked about just this
Speaker 9: Lions game. I know it's a huge difference.
Speaker 2: Kendricks out well, and they're both should be coming back.
Speaker 7: I don't know if Michael be back for this forty
Speaker 7: nine er game, but like, like, if you seriously though,
Speaker 7: if you're if you're like, hey, it just came out
Speaker 7: that he's out for the season.
Speaker 2: You know who? Right?
Speaker 7: The question was if that was the question, he's out
Speaker 7: for the season, it was like, Kendricks or Micah, you really?
Speaker 6: I mean, of course, Mike, here's what I know, Here's
Speaker 6: what I know last year.
Speaker 7: I'd rather take my chances with Mike and being here
Speaker 7: and figure out middle linebacker.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna be good. It's not gonna be good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, But I just I look at last year and
Speaker 6: I'm like, the hell they were in when it came
Speaker 6: to linebackers last year, we saw what that looked like.
Speaker 6: I don't think you want to go back to that.
Speaker 6: Quite frankly, I would even say, if you could give
Speaker 6: me Kendricks and DeMarcus, I'd be okay with that. If
Speaker 6: I didn't get Michael back. Now again, Mike is one
Speaker 6: of the best players in the National Football League On
Speaker 6: the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 5: He makes plays. I love that. I'm also thinking, like.
Speaker 6: How can I keep from getting embarrassed like a lot
Speaker 6: of this was like in this game against Detroit. Can
Speaker 6: I get a defense out there that can just hold it?
Speaker 6: I don't even be special. I don't need him to
Speaker 6: be the eighty five Bears. I need him to be
Speaker 6: able to play solid defense. And I think if you
Speaker 6: give me Kendricks, you give me DeMarcus, I think that's
Speaker 6: more going to give me a solid defense. Michael will
Speaker 6: have the ability to make those splash plays, but I
Speaker 6: don't know if the defense will be as solid if
Speaker 6: I just have him and I don't have a linebacker,
Speaker 6: say to be able to replace Eric Kndrick.
Speaker 7: If you've lost Kendricks, you probably lose them both because
Speaker 7: as much as he would hate it, they might have
Speaker 7: to move Micah to linebacker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't hate it.
Speaker 6: But that's what makes Michael special is that you can
Speaker 6: put him up there on the on the line where.
Speaker 2: You should be playing.
Speaker 7: I think in any scheme in the NFL, he should
Speaker 7: be playing three four outside linebackers.
Speaker 2: Okay, three four.
Speaker 14: Second.
Speaker 7: Yeah, ok, yeah, right, right, be all right, he wouldn't
Speaker 7: be the worst. But yes, but he's not than Clark.
Speaker 5: I mean, but he's not gonna be He's not.
Speaker 6: I don't think he will give you the same level
Speaker 6: of dynamic plays he makes from the defensive ambasition.
Speaker 7: No, but I'll say this that forty nine Ers middle
Speaker 7: linebacker seems to make a lot of plays he does.
Speaker 7: Fred Warner, you know everything. I think he's one of
Speaker 7: the best players in the NFL.
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 2: I mean he is an outstanding player Hall of Famer.
Speaker 9: I think, yeah, he stays on track. Tommy, you mentioned
Speaker 9: some before we came on. You said, even before Micah
Speaker 9: was out in tank, how was the defense doing. You
Speaker 9: made a great point with that, Yeah, struggling.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I get it.
Speaker 10: You like, you know, it's early in the season. You're
Speaker 10: learning a new system with Mike Zimmer. That's why Eric Kendrick,
Speaker 10: I think you made a good point biding Jill is
Speaker 10: saying that he's been in zimmer system when he was
Speaker 10: in Minnesota, and that's going to translate to right. But
Speaker 10: that also doesn't take away from the fact that you
Speaker 10: don't want one of the best players in the league,
Speaker 10: one of the best playmakers for your defense and one
Speaker 10: of the more veteran guys on your defensive line pack, right, Like,
Speaker 10: it doesn't change that fact at all.
Speaker 6: That New Orleans game, they had everybody except for Deron Blay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe there's an argument to be made that not having.
Speaker 6: Deron Bland makes a difference for this defense, makes a
Speaker 6: big difference for this team, absolutely, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I also think that the safety position has not
Speaker 7: been as good as it has been in the past,
Speaker 7: and that could be a trickle down effect for all
Speaker 7: of the past rush and all that. It's a lot
Speaker 7: easier to play safety when it's just one to throw,
Speaker 7: you know. But but we've seen them that for that
Speaker 7: Saints game you're talking about. I remember, this is the
Speaker 7: deep ball right down the middle domin Wilson and and
Speaker 7: and Malik Hooker and all that. I don't think this
Speaker 7: has been a good year for for Hooker. I don't
Speaker 7: think he's he's played that that great this season. And
Speaker 7: you know, I know there's Marquis Bell and Janie Thomas
Speaker 7: there as the backup. I don't know if they'll make
Speaker 7: a change there, but the safety position has struggled, and
Speaker 7: I think it is a product of of you know,
Speaker 7: not having not having.
Speaker 2: The pass rush like it's like it's been.
Speaker 6: Yes, I mean they could also be a part of
Speaker 6: not having Bland too. The safeties have a little different responsibilities.
Speaker 6: When you've got a rookie over there, you got to
Speaker 6: kind of take care of it, and there are things
Speaker 6: you got to be aware of there. So I think
Speaker 6: there's a lot of factors. And to be quite honest
Speaker 6: with you, I would be very interested in seeing what
Speaker 6: Mike Zimmer can do if he had a full contingent
Speaker 6: of players, if he didn't have, like he's working without
Speaker 6: some of some of the most important players at some
Speaker 6: of the most important positions, and and it just it
Speaker 6: just makes me wonder, like how much better could this
Speaker 6: defense be if he had all of them out there
Speaker 6: and we got to see that.
Speaker 7: You're probably just getting Bland back this week. I mean,
Speaker 7: I wouldn't. I don't know, Mike, I'm you don't think
Speaker 7: I We'll see. He's tough to read. Body language is
Speaker 7: really hard with him.
Speaker 6: Gas where he gets up from whatever happened and you're
Speaker 6: like is he okay? And then he's like fine, or
Speaker 6: they come out to get him. He's hurt, he goes
Speaker 6: up his siland we're like, oh wow, it's going to happen,
Speaker 6: and then two plays later back in there and making
Speaker 6: a sack.
Speaker 2: Ever know, I was surprised when he was even out,
Speaker 2: like cool, he'll be back. He's not going to miss
Speaker 2: up a chance to get sacks.
Speaker 9: Help, he's back for the fortys.
Speaker 2: I think you'd want to be too.
Speaker 3: They need him, Yes.
Speaker 4: They want to.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm with you. And he was on the chords
Speaker 2: last week at practice, so.
Speaker 5: He was a good thing.
Speaker 7: But I don't think he looked great on the chords.
Speaker 7: But then again, it's hard to figure out. You know,
Speaker 7: he's got that one speed and that's when he's rushing
Speaker 7: in the past.
Speaker 6: Just so people know when you say on the cords,
Speaker 6: he's working with the trainer Britt Brown, right, we're doing
Speaker 6: cord work.
Speaker 5: Typically, yes, go ahead.
Speaker 7: Typically that that's a sign of it's the return is
Speaker 7: sooner than later. So I'm not sure what happened. Then again,
Speaker 7: you know, sometimes he's guys do have a little bit
Speaker 7: of setback. We saw it with dron Bland. You know,
Speaker 7: it looked like he was trending to come back and
Speaker 7: then it just didn't work. So hopefully there's no setbacks
Speaker 7: and this is a good week for the Buy to
Speaker 7: get get these guys back.
Speaker 6: All right, let's wrap up this conversation with this final
Speaker 6: big picture question. What do you need to see most
Speaker 6: from this team coming out of the bye.
Speaker 4: Wins?
Speaker 5: That's a loaded question. What gets them to the wins?
Speaker 5: What characteristic?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 6: What thing do they need to improve on the most
Speaker 6: in order coming.
Speaker 5: Out of the buy for them to have getting healthy
Speaker 5: as the season goes.
Speaker 2: They had to take away the ball. They they're not
Speaker 2: getting the.
Speaker 6: Foot well, Zimmer told us when he came in that
Speaker 6: was probably going to be less in this defense. But
Speaker 6: you also wouldn't be giving up big plays.
Speaker 7: Okay, well all right, and they're they're doing that. They're
Speaker 7: giving up big, big plays, big plays. So they need
Speaker 7: the ball. You know, the ball matters. As Jason Garrett
Speaker 7: you still always say, so take care.
Speaker 10: You did say that they've got to play better at
Speaker 10: the line of scribbage both sides. Offensive lines got to
Speaker 10: play better, Defensive lines got to play better, because that
Speaker 10: is what sets up everything else. Talked about it yesterday,
Speaker 10: every level of football. If you can't win in the trenches,
Speaker 10: you're not going to win a lot of football games.
Speaker 4: That's the case.
Speaker 9: There's true touchdowns. I'm tired of field goals and Aubrey
Speaker 9: being m v P so getting in the end zone,
Speaker 9: red zone problems all that.
Speaker 3: What's the biggest challenge with the red zone offense.
Speaker 7: I think it's what Tommy just said about pushing people back.
Speaker 7: I think, you know, you say it all the time.
Speaker 7: When it's the balls on the seven, eight nine yard line,
Speaker 7: you just don't feel like they can run the ball
Speaker 7: in and it has to and then that's where it
Speaker 7: gets tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and you're throwing interceptions.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: All yeah, I mean like like it's it's got to
Speaker 7: be you know, it's you just like to have a
Speaker 7: little bit more balance. But running the ball there and
Speaker 7: and also you know Jake Ferguson, that's where a tight
Speaker 7: end usually kind of in the play, and he hasn't
Speaker 7: done that, uh, to the to the level that I
Speaker 7: thought he would maybe take that that leap he did
Speaker 7: get hurt.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 7: He's had a couple of good games, I think, though,
Speaker 7: to take it to the next level, he's got to
Speaker 7: be dominant there in the red zone.
Speaker 9: I'd love to see him more in the Niners game.
Speaker 9: For Yeah, I think I'll make a big difference. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I really you mentioned that yesterday too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I really think the run game is the piece
Speaker 6: that that has been missing that makes the red zone
Speaker 6: so much harder. Is if you got guys that don't
Speaker 6: aren't respecting the running game, Uh, then it makes a
Speaker 6: lot easier for them all that guy in the zone
Speaker 6: and make it very very tough this warterback to find
Speaker 6: an open spot.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And I'll say this, this has nothing to do with
Speaker 7: the with the Lions and this I know a lot
Speaker 7: of what the Lions were doing was I feel like
Speaker 7: it was jabs at the Cowboys with the tackle eligible.
Speaker 7: But that's what they do. That's the type of football
Speaker 7: that that they they play. Why not do that for
Speaker 7: the Cowboys?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 7: Why not have awesome richards earlier in the game reporting eligible,
Speaker 7: have a little bit more, you have some defensive linement.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 7: It takes, big strong guys up front. They know you're running.
Speaker 7: But that's okay. I'm okay with that. I just think
Speaker 7: they need a little bit bigger bodies in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 5: All right, We appreciate you guys. Has been a fun,
Speaker 5: fun mixed week.
Speaker 6: We make sure real quick, everybody, you're you're over at
Speaker 6: gross stock boys stock, Nick, you're at storyline.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I wasn't doing that. I was just like, what's
Speaker 2: the storyline. I wasn't doing the hooks.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, get a storyline. Care about that? You
Speaker 5: can't do that.
Speaker 2: I got three longhorns. That's not what it was. Nothing
Speaker 2: to do with the longhard. No, it's not.
Speaker 5: All right, get yourself in order, okay.
Speaker 6: And Tommy's gonna be floating around. He's gonna we're gonna
Speaker 6: put him on some different stuff. You might ever come
Speaker 6: over to the break a little bit. I keep fighting
Speaker 6: with Nick. I'm trying to pull him over there, and
Speaker 6: Nick's like he's got things to do.
Speaker 5: So maybe I'll win at some point and I can
Speaker 5: get you over the break a little bit more frequently.
Speaker 5: All Right, We appreciate you, guys, Jones.
Speaker 6: We'll be back next week in our normal shows, normal
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