1 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 2 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 3 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Headhowarters at the 4 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:34,239 Speaker 1: Star in Frisia. No, your hosts Nicky Spagnola, Rob Phillips, 5 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 1: Everson Walls, and Bill Jones, And welcome into Talking Cowboys 6 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: inside the SWBC Mortgage Studio. Rob Phillips and for Bill Jones, 7 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: off for it. You decide that I will not weird. 8 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: We are not better off. We're not right, Mack. Are 9 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: you okay? No, he's not. Oh he's going headphone less. 10 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: Oh he's left the noise cancelers on and the battery 11 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: ran down. No, yeah, I want to come sit by me. 12 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: I'll stay in my spot. Had a power through this. 13 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: We're off to a roaring start today. Yes, we hope 14 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 1: everybody had a happy Holidays. Yes I did. Did you did? 15 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: It was fun? Get some rest? I know, no rest, no, 16 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: no rest. It was all about family and yes that's 17 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: the good thing about is Christmas and my family. We 18 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: had a good time. Yeah. I think I wore myself 19 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: out on Christmas Eves. I believe it. Christmas Day was 20 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: kind of recovery day. What did you do on Christmas Eve? Oh, 21 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: we had a bunch of people over, did a lot 22 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: of cooking. I had a glass of wine or four 23 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: or five. That's the nick I know some veno. Well, hey, 24 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: i'd love it to you. I'd love to hear you 25 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: do the jack black jack reading. I got it? Well, no, no, 26 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: oh like that after five? Probably better that happens right? 27 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: Rate more well, and what about you tip the same thing? Family? 28 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: It's nice ever since You're right, it's nice to take 29 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: just a break from this season and kind of put 30 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,080 Speaker 1: things in perspective. But we're back at it today, and 31 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: the team is back at it today, practicing outside on 32 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: a Thursday, even though not going on the road. Their 33 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: day out there, back at home on Sunday. Yeah, nice, 34 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: little overcast, but preparing for those Washington Redskins. We'll have 35 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: Bill Jones back tomorrow. Sometimes it's good to get out 36 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: of your routine, change things up a little bit. I think, 37 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: so kind of refresh. Let's hope it works. I just 38 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: want to work it needs. They have all these remedies, 39 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: but it doesn't work. Everything's yeah, we want to lay 40 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: this out for I mean, okay, guys, you guys are okay, 41 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: that's all right. You've been having the tough day, you've 42 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 1: been having the tough year. It's okay. All you need 43 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: is just so vast and you'll be good. That is 44 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 1: not it? No, not so far right. Wish that was 45 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: the game. These guys need to be focused, and it 46 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: doesn't look like they get a higher level of intensity 47 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: than anyone around these holidays. It doesn't look like they 48 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: got any healthier either. By the way, Well, let's go 49 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: through it. This list is pretty long. Vacation I needed 50 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: two patents. It looks like, yeah, I'm looking at vacation 51 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,679 Speaker 1: for them or allay? I mean? Is that the mindset 52 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: in this in this arena, that would be That would 53 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: be like the last slap in the face, because, as 54 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: I wrote yesterday, the biggest fear should be the motivation 55 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: should be that you don't win and the Eagles get beat. 56 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: That would scare me to death. I know I would 57 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: be out there trying as hard as I can because 58 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: I don't want that on my legacy of You could 59 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: have won the division title at eight and eight and 60 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: gone to the playoffs, but you didn't beat the three 61 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: and twelve Redskins. Wow, because all year they've been saying 62 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: to us after every loss, we control our own destiny, 63 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: still control our own destiny. Well you don't now, but 64 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: you could. Isn't that sad that the last weeks and 65 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: weeks and weeks of this every week you right, we've 66 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 1: said that every week and when it was like a 67 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: broken record. So when you guys sit there and you 68 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: go to the press conference, doesn't that sound like a 69 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: broken record? Yeah? Done everything he said, sound like a 70 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: broken record. Done every post game interview, sound like a 71 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,119 Speaker 1: broken record. Yeah, I mean you took it, took you 72 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: and I think I got this right. Fifteen games to 73 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: fall out of first place? Wow? Is that in the 74 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: first place the whole time? Right? Or tiedelievable because when 75 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: they were three and three, I don't think the Eagles 76 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 1: had a winning record, so that no one else did either. 77 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: That door has been opened for such a long time. Yeah, 78 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: just waiting for the Cowboys to just walk through and 79 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: shut it behind. And I'm not sure when they took 80 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: over first place last year at the end of the 81 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: season when they finished ten and six and won seven 82 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: of their last eight, so at some point they moved 83 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: into first place. So it's been a while since they 84 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: haven't been in first place, and that that team's destiny 85 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 1: seem to be the opposite of what this team's yeah destiny, 86 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: because they were winning all those close games. He talked 87 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: about it, eight out of ten were one score games, 88 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: and this year they've lost everyone that's been a one 89 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 1: score game. God, this lost six games, right, So do 90 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: those things even out? Like, you're not gonna win them 91 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: all and you're not gonna lose them all. But over 92 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: a course of two seasons it evens itself out. You 93 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: get about fifty fifty on one score games. And once 94 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: again it goes back to you've got the players, is 95 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 1: it the coaching? Do the players of this caliber? Do 96 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: they need to be motivated? As you spoke of just 97 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: a minute ago, do they need to be motivated? These 98 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: are players that are getting paid a lot of money. 99 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 1: You got a lot of linebackers something I don't think 100 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: some of the highest paid linebackers maybe in the NFL, 101 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: I don't think so. No, he's not making much. Vander 102 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: esh was on his rookie deal, yes, and san Sean 103 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: took a pay cut to come back and play this year. 104 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: It's just him like serious, like he's making two million 105 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 1: b bo. I'm sure he was thinking he was going 106 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: to do it because this team has the potential right 107 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: to be off the charts. Such same thing with Whitten, Right, 108 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 1: he didn't take what he normally makes to come back, 109 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 1: but he thought this is I'm sure he thought the 110 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 1: same thing. Oh ten and six, you know, if I 111 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: come back and help out here we go. Hey with Witten, 112 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: he I think he kind of missed his little opportunity 113 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: that he he went into the booth. I think that's 114 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: when things to change for him all of a sudden. Uh, 115 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 1: you know, his hairline goes and he's back with the 116 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: cop and think about it, the cornerbacks aren't you know, 117 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: making big bucks? Oh no, right, the safety the only 118 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,479 Speaker 1: guy that's got paid. The only guy that got paid 119 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: on this defense was DeMarcus Lawrence. You know, Quinn was 120 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,239 Speaker 1: on a you know, uh like a five million dollar 121 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: base and then he had a a bonus for seven 122 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: and a half sacks, so he got that ten and 123 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 1: a half and I think he had a per game 124 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: bonus also, so but still no one was making like 125 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: ten to twelve thirteen million a year on this team. 126 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: I forgot what Byron Jones would have been on his 127 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: fifth year. Um um, I forget is it like nine 128 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: or ten something like that. Yeah, yeah, and he's played. 129 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: You know, he didn't have any more interceptions this year 130 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: than he had last year. I hate to say it, 131 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: but it's kind of no. But you know what if 132 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: you take him off of the secondary and where are 133 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 1: they at right now? Yah? Know, So just you know, 134 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: turnovers aside, and I know you're the you're you're the 135 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: one of the godfathers of interceptions in the in the 136 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: second area there without an interception. That was that was 137 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: amazing to me. I talked to him about that. I 138 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: talked to him about how did you do that? You know, 139 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: how do you do that? I don't think there's ever 140 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: been a pro bowler that didn't have an interception. That's 141 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: got to be an NFL record. It's because normally they'd 142 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: look at stats, right, So that's the first thing you 143 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: can numbers. I don't know how many times you get toasted, 144 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: they're gonna consider you, right if you've got a number 145 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: of interceptions. Yeah, absolutely. And so when you look at 146 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: this team and you look at the not just the individuals, 147 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: but you look at this group when this season is 148 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: all said and done, they're gonna be who's gonna point 149 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: the finger at who linebackers at that DB's offensive line, 150 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: You're gonna point out the defensive line. And to me, 151 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: the answer, the answer is you all failed. There's not 152 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: You're right there. There's not a position on this team 153 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: that you can look at and say they've been one 154 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: hundred percent consistent throughout the season, and that bar is tough. 155 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 1: One hundred percent? Is it to give me a lower percentage? 156 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: And it's still gonna be. It's gonna be a few, 157 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: just a few groups, and they're gonna look back at this. 158 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: And so you can help with the history here, it's 159 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: been I would think quite some time that a Cowboys 160 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: team that so much was expected of did this. Didn't 161 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: give us anything because normally there was a reason for it, 162 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 1: right like in twenty fifteen, Tony Romo played four games, 163 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,959 Speaker 1: finished two, and there was a reason why they finished 164 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 1: the way they did, you know, twenty seventeen, nine and seven, 165 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: but Zeke misses six games and they had an effect 166 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: on this team, the one that it reminds me of. 167 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: And it's not over yet, but oh eight, they won 168 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,719 Speaker 1: the first three games of the season, and everybody was 169 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: talking about how this is a super Bowl team won 170 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: thirteen games a year ago. Naturally they're gonna take the 171 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: next step. Right, finished nine and seven. Now, Tony Romo 172 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 1: missed three games, l two of them. Yeah, and that 173 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: probably costs him at the end of the cost him 174 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: getting in the playoffs. And they went to fill weeks 175 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: seventeen with with a chance to get in and they 176 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: got blown out. I don't know that you could look 177 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: at this season and say, okay, there's why, right, it 178 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: wasn't like a quarterback injury. I mean this season, yeah, 179 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: this is and I call it last season. Yeah, this season. 180 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: So no, and Jerry has been quick to point out 181 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: on his radio segments, this is a pretty healthy football 182 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: team overall. I mean, he makes a point of saying that, 183 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 1: and he's right. We knew in twenty two thousand through 184 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: two thousand and two this team, the roster wasn't very good. Uh, 185 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: Troy got hurt in two thousand. Uh, you know, things 186 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: went downhill. You didn't have a quarterback and O one, 187 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: O two miracle and oh three oh four you brought 188 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: in Vinny Testaverdi because you wanted a veteran backup right, 189 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, he's got a start 190 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: fifteen game, right, right, pretty right? I remember that, you know, 191 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:03,559 Speaker 1: I can take you nineteen ninety nine when they finished 192 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 1: eight and eight, but they lost Michael after a three 193 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: and old start. They got off to a great start. 194 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:14,439 Speaker 1: They didn't have wide receivers, right, So ninety seven, I 195 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: don't know if anybody thought ninety seven was going to happen, right, 196 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,959 Speaker 1: and they fell apart they were six seven five. But 197 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,559 Speaker 1: but there's the difference that that team was getting older. Yes, 198 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 1: the core of that team was getting older. And that's 199 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: why this one is so surprising. Trying to right, we 200 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: don't have anything, don't because this this was a young 201 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: This is a young team that was even younger last 202 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 1: year that started three and five, and all of a sudden, 203 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: you get Amari Cooper and they grew up. They grew 204 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: up down the stretch. They were able to win closer 205 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: games because I think they the experience benefited them. And 206 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: to y'all's point, and six and games decided by one 207 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: score less this year, yeah, and someone won. And some 208 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: of these games haven't been close, and they haven't shown 209 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: the same Uh, resolve against adversity on the road the 210 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: best word. We have, no resolve. It seems like every 211 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: time we hit some type of adversity, we're ready to buckle. 212 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: We're ready to buckle, it takes us. And then when 213 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: we do buckle, it takes us a while. We're reeling 214 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 1: for so long, and then at the end of the game, 215 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: here we are got a chance. Guys, we're still in it. 216 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: You know. It's like a distance runner who coasted and 217 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: then that last lap. Okay, my high school track coach 218 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:36,319 Speaker 1: I hated that. You come sprinting across the run. You 219 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: will hear his voice all over the stadium, the late 220 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:42,959 Speaker 1: John Freeman. Guys, you man rest in peace. But I'm 221 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: just saying that it's that's kind of how it is. 222 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: We don't We always take sometimes even a game to 223 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 1: make adjustments. Going back to Atlanta, that gets the heck 224 00:12:58,000 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: beat out of him. One guy makes a pro bow 225 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: along him in one game made his career. Yeah, so, 226 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:07,319 Speaker 1: I mean, but look how long it took it. We 227 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: didn't even make the adjustment of that game. We didn't 228 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: even put in two tight ends that game. We didn't 229 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 1: even have a back to chip him that game. Yeah, well, 230 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: the next time they started Cameron Fleming, they had two 231 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: tight ends in Low Long that was the next year, 232 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 1: this year, and then even after that the next week, 233 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: then I was suddenly, oh we got we got dacks back. 234 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: Now we're gonna get protected. But yeah, he just got 235 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 1: sacked what was it eight times in Atlanta? Okay, So 236 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: our coaching staff, for some reason, I don't know if 237 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: it comes from, they don't trust the players to grasp 238 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: the changes and the adjustment that needs to be made, uh, 239 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 1: in real time, in real time. When they finally made 240 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: the change in the third quarter in that Atlanta game 241 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: and brought Fleming in, it didn't get any better. It 242 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: didn't get us the same same thing. They just needed 243 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: help over there, and that's all you just to But 244 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: I think they were just stubborn. I think they thought 245 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: that with um A Green in there, uh taking tiring spot, 246 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 1: that they'd seen him play well before, so it was like, Okay, 247 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: sometime it's gonna come along. It's gonna come along and 248 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: at halftime and it hadn't come along. And it took 249 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: them midway through the third quarter to take Chaz Green 250 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: out and put Fleming in, and it didn't get any 251 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: better once again the whole time, and they were they 252 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: were just stubborn. And I know what it cost problem. 253 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: I think it costs the offensive line coach his job 254 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: because they made the change. No doubt that they cost him. 255 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: And it's a ripple effect. That entire season was a 256 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: ripple effect. That's why your offensive coordinated from last year 257 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: it's gone as well. Yeah, it was a ripple effect 258 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: all the way down the line. So I'm just wondering 259 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: if we need I wonder why we don't have more 260 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: of a sense of urgency to make the adjustments sometimes 261 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: they made I mean next drive right. I've been on 262 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: teams where they've made that the next drive ye. And 263 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: that's the thing about Philly last week. Doug Peterson is 264 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 1: in a situation where he doesn't have any receivers. Zach 265 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 1: Ertz gets banged up in the game. But they found 266 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: a way to kind of read refigure things offensively and 267 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: win ball games. And yeah they didn't. They said, not 268 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: next guy up, We're just gonna use two tight ends 269 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: because there are two best wide receivers. Guess when that 270 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: falls right into our lap, well, we we fall into 271 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: their lap, I would I would say, because now they're strict, 272 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: and how they were able to to survive the way 273 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: they weble to struggle and still make it in those 274 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: two games and still be victorious. Yeah, and now that 275 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: that fall, that fell right into our weakness, right tight 276 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 1: ends running backs and when I can't get back into 277 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: the into the eighties. Eighty six, Danny got hurt, right, 278 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: Pilau wasn't good enough to finish those last seven games. 279 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: Eighty seven, the strike was there kind of screwed things up. 280 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: Now eighty eight. I don't know what everybody thought the 281 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: eighty eight team was going to be, but it was 282 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: done right, it was it was I put it like this, 283 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: that was the most competitive what we three three, three 284 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: and thirteen. That was the most competitive three and thirteen teams, right, 285 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: I've ever been on. There was a lot of close games. 286 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 1: I just didn't win them. Didn't win them, didn't win them. 287 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: And and a lot of people thought that Tom's uh, 288 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: you know, age right was getting in the way of 289 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: him being more aggressive on calling plays and being more 290 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 1: heads up. Right. Yeah, we knew it was gonna happen. 291 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: Eighty nine. Yes, the surprising thing was ninety because they 292 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: won seventy games and it's so funny about ninety we 293 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: won three preseason games and we're like, man, we're going 294 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: to nine eighty nine. Remember nine, we're winning field goal 295 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: against Houston the final, the last preseason game, I think 296 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: or something. I mean, I'm not sending to you a 297 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: fumble return. We were like, whoa, we are good. We 298 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: were like, no, that's so much So it's been a 299 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,080 Speaker 1: while since this has happened to this and every we 300 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: had excuses on all of those years is where you started. 301 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: Excuses in all of those years. I mean legitimate, exclusive excuses. 302 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: No talents. You know, we're getting older. It is what 303 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 1: it is. You can't change for the time. 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They've got the Redskins at home on Sunday, 355 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 1: the regular season finale. Will find out about six thirty 356 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: seven o'clock on Sunday whether the season continues. We need 357 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,479 Speaker 1: a couple of things to happen in order for that 358 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: to happen. And Nick, you're chotting down what you got? 359 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: What do you think we should have a split screen 360 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 1: on the big video board half giants. Oh, that ego 361 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,719 Speaker 1: will happen. No, because they change, they change the time. 362 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 1: They will not do though, been on the video board. 363 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: Oh no, no no. In regards to the networks, yeah, 364 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: I would look forward to that. Got to get dicey 365 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: on both sides, or either side. Yeah, the other see 366 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: what they're and they changed it. What we were playing 367 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 1: at noon and now with those games we're gonna be new. Yeah, 368 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: so they changed both of them. Come on, man, that 369 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: they want us to fail on national television. That's what 370 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 1: they want. This is not about Cowboy fans. You We're 371 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: gonna give you a chance to root your team on 372 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 1: and support them nationwide. No, that's not what it's about. 373 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: They want to see the Cowboys fall flat on their face. 374 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith is gonna be I'll get the Cowboy 375 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: hat on, right, Yeah. Yeah. Those those those end zone 376 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 1: um scoreboards that have stats on them, they just should 377 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: have the running total of the Eagles Giants. So I'm 378 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: just telling you this is this is score time out 379 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: to be Uh how can I put? This could turn 380 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:51,880 Speaker 1: out to be uh real satisfaction for the Cowboys. It could, 381 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 1: and that is a shame that they have this opportunity. 382 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: You know, God is good because there's no way a 383 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 1: team should still have a chance like this. And they 384 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 1: know it. They know it, and they I mean they 385 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: set it back after the is It Chicago and they 386 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: still found themselves in first place after losing on the road, 387 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,959 Speaker 1: and now at seven and eight. Here's a stat from 388 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 1: Gil Brandt. We'll get to the injuries in the second, 389 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: but the great Gil brand tweets the Cowboys have the 390 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 1: best point differential plus eighty two and yardage differential plus 391 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,159 Speaker 1: fourteen hundred and twenty six of any sub five hundred 392 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: team in the Super Bowl era. Last year, the last year, 393 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: they were ten and six with a plus fifteen point 394 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 1: differential and plus two thirty three yardage deferential, which just 395 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 1: it speaks again to just how puzzling the season has been. 396 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 1: They put up yards, they put up points, but they 397 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:57,679 Speaker 1: have eight losses and are staring playoff watching playoffs at 398 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: home in the face. So it just qualifies what we've 399 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 1: been talking about. And to me, I promise you guys, 400 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,919 Speaker 1: you can say what you want. The numbers for defense 401 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: is good. Whether they still ain't top ten defensive, yeah, 402 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: maybe something. You lost two games when you gave up 403 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:17,239 Speaker 1: thirteen points and seventeen points of defense only gave up 404 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: six of those. And offensively we don't have them any 405 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 1: turnout what's doing. I mean, we're not there about they're 406 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 1: about even. I bet so. Then you look at that's 407 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 1: just how important it is defensively to tilt that scale. 408 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: Yes you must tilt the scale. Yes, your dige is amazing, 409 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 1: But the turnover differential, to me and I we've always 410 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: taken it for granted here in this in this organization. 411 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: I'm going way back to Valley Ranch. I'm going way 412 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: back to Abham's road. Okay, Mail, rentfro Cornell Green, Charlie Waters, Okay, 413 00:23:54,920 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 1: Dennis Thurma, Thermo Steves, Dion Sanders, Okay, Darren Woodson. This 414 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: is something that we have taken for granted all this 415 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: time because it's all about offensively. We've you know, we've 416 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 1: got these stars offensively, we've got this defensive linement. Well, 417 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: the real catalysts of any successful team, and we've we've 418 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: seen it with the Patriots, We've seen me with some 419 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 1: of the better teams. You've got to have a turnover 420 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,719 Speaker 1: hungry defense. You have to have a turnover hungry defense. 421 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: I don't care how good your offense is. And the 422 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: Cowboys have that culture is no longer here. It's almost 423 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: as if they're immune to interceptions, which is amazing to me. 424 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: It's just amazing to me with these great athletes that 425 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: we have. A Woozier got benched because forgetting the seven. 426 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: You couldn't even cover a guy. Okay, he looked like 427 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 1: he was tight. He looked like he's going was tight. 428 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,679 Speaker 1: Everybody else had warmed up, looked like he didn't. I mean, 429 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: you're gonna have those plays. A defensive back. But to 430 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: offset any of that, you must redeem yourself with tonos. 431 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:10,640 Speaker 1: And and here's how incongruent it is. Their giveaways are 432 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: the eleventh fewest in the league. So they've got seventeen 433 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: come on, and I don't know that's not all that bad. 434 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 1: They've lost six fumbles um eleven interceptions. Dack's interceptions are 435 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: up a little bit this year. But but he's throwing 436 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: the ball. He's throwing the ball, damn near fifty times 437 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: a game. Okay, Now on takeaways, only four teams have 438 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: fewer than their fifteen takeaways, six interceptions, nine fumble recoveries US. Yes, 439 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 1: so that yeah, wow, that's a lot more than I thought. 440 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: But only six interceptions, and I'm guessing that is quickly 441 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 1: looking tied for with Detroit for the fewest in the league. Six. 442 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: They sit at a minus two turnover margin Reverson tied 443 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: for seventeenth, and they are ranked eleventh in total defense. 444 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: But there needs to be a tweak in the rankings 445 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: formula for defense, I mean, because it's based just off 446 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: of yardage. Yes, and they're giving up three hundred thirty yards. 447 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 1: Tell you didn't tell you doing the important parts of 448 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 1: the game, last two minutes of the game, last five 449 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 1: minutes of the game. How many third downs? What's our 450 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,400 Speaker 1: third down percentage? How long they keep the drives going 451 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,880 Speaker 1: when we need the ball back? Yep. Those the kind 452 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 1: of things that aren't quantified. And you're talking about you 453 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: and I think they should be able to factor takeaways 454 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 1: into that formula too, because that is that's as important 455 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,720 Speaker 1: a measure of a defense as anything. How quarterback on 456 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,160 Speaker 1: all of that, So why shouldn't you wait the defense 457 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: on it? I agree, they just do it by yards 458 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: and it's you know, and I think this is the 459 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: first time since I want to say, the second week 460 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 1: of the season that their total offense and total defense 461 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: hasn't ranked in the top ten. They fell out defensive 462 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 1: league to the eleven. There's still number one offensively in 463 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: total yards because they gave up what four hundred something. 464 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 1: And this is all what I used to complain about 465 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: with Tony Romo. Uh he would you know, we would 466 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,880 Speaker 1: all fall into into a deficit a lot of times. 467 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 1: He was thrown pick six his members Detroit game. He 468 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 1: became he became this quarterback because the team really wasn't 469 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: all that good, especially defensively. He's trying his best to 470 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: make everything happen. You get a couple of big pick sixes, 471 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 1: you're down fourteen nothing, and okay, Romo, forget the running game, 472 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: and that's what Dack's doing, either by his own devices 473 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 1: or whatever goes on. You put yourself in this part. 474 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,719 Speaker 1: Now you gotta fight your way out and throwing one 475 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: in one. Oh those stats look good. Wow, Look he's 476 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: got four hundred yards, but that doesn't really tell the stormid. Yeah, 477 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 1: all right, uh injuries, Yeah, what you got over there? 478 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: We promised the injury Well I got twice four guys, 479 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: and this was only an estimation yesterday, but I think 480 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: he qualified the estimation today about who's probably not practicing 481 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 1: because the four guys that didn't practice yesterday where DeMarcus 482 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 1: Lawrence with a shoulder, Sean Lee Peck thigh, uh, Tyrn 483 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: Smith with a back, and Dak with the shoulder. Now. 484 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 1: I just saw Tyrn Smith this morning. It was all 485 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,360 Speaker 1: he could do to walk in here on his own 486 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: two feet. So that back's really tightened up on. Yeah, 487 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: and because that's a big bay. Yeah, absolutely, So it 488 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: didn't sound like Dak was going to do much today. 489 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 1: Didn't sound like DeMarcus Lawrence was going to do much. 490 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: Joe Thomas probably not going to do much. Uh So, 491 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: I don't know that any of these things over Christmas, 492 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 1: anybody laid hands on him and said, okay, you're good 493 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: and and by the way, so and that I envy 494 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: right event, And then that doesn't account for having already 495 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: placed Suephilo on injured reserve. He broke the fibula, so 496 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: you know how, you know how you get a high 497 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: ankle sprain and they say, well, sometimes it's better just 498 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: to break or tear. Well, he did both. He broke 499 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: his fibula and he's got a torn ligament in there too, 500 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 1: because when I saw him in that walking boot leaving 501 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: the game, I said, high ankle sprain, and then it 502 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: was worse than that, and that's why they did the surgery. 503 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 1: And then also latent Vanderish on injury reserve. Finally, and 504 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: he's going to have surgery in a couple of weeks now. 505 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: Somewhere along the line, somewhere along the line it was 506 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: called mentally invasive. Well I've found out that basically what 507 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: he's having is interior cervical dyssectomy, which means they go 508 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 1: in and they take the disc out between his fifth 509 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: and sixth vertebrae in your neck and and what they do, 510 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: and it's also called fusion, and so they take some 511 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 1: bone from your hip and put it in the space 512 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 1: where the disc should be and they fuse it in there. 513 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 1: It was and it's the same thing Daryl Johnston had, 514 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: Chad Headings had it, and rocket Ishmael had it. So 515 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: that doesn't sound minimally invasive to me anytimes. And I 516 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: think I saw somebody here say it was minor. Well, 517 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: that doesn't sound minor to me. Jason Garrett called him. Yeah, yeah, 518 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 1: And so four months rehab, so he's basically gonna maybe 519 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: be ready for the surgery before rehab. Yeah, okay, I 520 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 1: don't think I've ever minus surgery. So they people, we 521 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 1: got some questions from fans why they waited to do this. 522 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,479 Speaker 1: I think they were trying to let it calm down, Well, 523 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: let the inflammation calm down, you see if he could 524 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 1: do it on its own. And what people don't understand 525 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: is it's surgery. You don't just you know, go out 526 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: there and say, okay, let's go, let's cut the guy's neck, right. 527 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: You try to medically treat it, and you hold the 528 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: less resort invasive surgery. That's what doctors think because what 529 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 1: you want to do is treated medically. And and again, 530 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 1: if it was your back, you would get a shot. 531 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: I don't think they can give you a shot in 532 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: your neck. So what they do is they it's it's 533 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 1: like an oral treatment to try to reduce the swelling 534 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 1: of the herniated disc. And it it didn't work, and 535 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: they were hoping and hoping and hoping, and I think 536 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: the last time they did the exam it was like, 537 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 1: this has got to be fixed. There's no two ways 538 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: about it. Because the last thing you want to do 539 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: is take discs out if you don't have to. So 540 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: what I mean we're talking to me sounds like major surgery. 541 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 1: You're taking a disc, right, and we've been putting it 542 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: into How's it gonna his career? Is it? In? Jeffany? No? 543 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: I those guys that I mentioned had it and came 544 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: back and played. And so you know what you do. 545 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: All those guys came back. They all came back and played. 546 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 1: So but what what you what you uh jeopardize is 547 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: if another disc goes in that same area, the last 548 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 1: thing you want to do is have like three vertebrae 549 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: feuds together, because then you will be Randy White. Yeah, 550 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 1: Randy can't even look up in the sky enough. For real, 551 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: he can't look up in the sky. You're right, that 552 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: is a scary thing. And so you don't want that 553 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: to happen. No, and that that lets you know, guys, 554 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: and I know we're talking about Andrew, but that's just 555 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: you know, you gotta put that into perspective about how 556 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 1: dangerous this game really is. Well, how old is VANDUS 557 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 1: twenty two? Yeah, scary man to have to go through 558 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: something like that, and we take it for granted because 559 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: people haven't served you all the time in the NFL, 560 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 1: and people complain about the salaries that they make, and 561 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: you know that's scary, man. This this guy is an 562 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: amazing athlete, you know, and forget all of that. I mean, 563 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: you just want the guy to be healthy as a person, right, 564 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 1: and we're trying to get him on the field and 565 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 1: go out here and probably get hurt again. Yeah, so 566 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,720 Speaker 1: you just kinda kind of put things into perspective about 567 00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: how dangerous this game in You know what helped me 568 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 1: put in perspective watching LSU play their freshman corner Stingy 569 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: and I and I heard his name and yeah, oh 570 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: is that Daryl Stingley son. No, it's his son's son. 571 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: And then it made me think, oh, that's right because 572 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 1: that was Jack Tatum hit him and he was going 573 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 1: for a quick slant and tam hit him head on 574 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 1: and ended up paralyzed and in a wheelchair. And this this, 575 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 1: this is his son's kid. So that was his great 576 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: his grandfather. Yeah, but made me think of that, and 577 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, that dangerous game and here he is 578 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: out here playing even after what happened to his grandfather. Yeah. Yeah. 579 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 1: And his dad was like, you know, that's his decisions, right, 580 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,160 Speaker 1: that's right, and his dad and I read a story 581 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: and his dad qualified it as one of the best 582 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: things that happened to me playing athletics was the discipline 583 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 1: I learned and how you had to take care of 584 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 1: your own business all the time every day. And he 585 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: goes and I probably wouldn't have been the person I 586 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: was or am if I had and played athletics. So, uh, 587 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: this kid's a Freshman of the Year, I bet, and 588 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,600 Speaker 1: he'll last. I mean, if you watch him play corner 589 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 1: at LSU, he's unbelievable. Yeah, as a freshman. So anyway, 590 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:15,560 Speaker 1: that made me think of that. I know, I just 591 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,279 Speaker 1: got off on a team build, big game for the 592 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,560 Speaker 1: sooner than Saturday night. He's gonna be watching. I'm gonna 593 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:25,080 Speaker 1: counter him to my own brigant do it just in case. 594 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 1: Please get that going. I'd love to see that. All right, 595 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,799 Speaker 1: let's take our final break, come back, we'll wrap it up, 596 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 1: uh and talk a little bit more about Dak and 597 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,400 Speaker 1: what to expect from him this week. I'm talking Cowboys 598 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,880 Speaker 1: since eighteen sixty five. 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Right, 647 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,560 Speaker 1: it's only the second time I've made baby. They're on, 648 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:54,759 Speaker 1: They're blowing up my mentions about you, well, good on 649 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,960 Speaker 1: Rob's mentions than mine. You haven't been on Twitter in 650 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,880 Speaker 1: a while, have you. I'm out, No, I'm on. I 651 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,319 Speaker 1: just don't read the mentions. Okay, So if you all 652 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 1: want to just kind of save your time, well you 653 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,080 Speaker 1: put him on Robs. You told some guy Monday, Hey, 654 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,479 Speaker 1: big boy, come tweet at me again. But Jordan Lewis 655 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,359 Speaker 1: didn't you know, I won't say you gotten that yet. 656 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,680 Speaker 1: I won't see it. I should check in, all right. 657 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,400 Speaker 1: Injury update from practice. According to Todd Archer, don't you 658 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,359 Speaker 1: know what I heard today what Mark Cuban was doing 659 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,719 Speaker 1: his yearly thing, and uh, he was talking about how 660 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:33,040 Speaker 1: you have to work really hard not to pay attention 661 00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:37,400 Speaker 1: to people that tweet you because the people on Twitter 662 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,600 Speaker 1: are like twenty percent of the entire world, and so 663 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,680 Speaker 1: you get one or two people that aggravate you, you 664 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,879 Speaker 1: just gotta walk off. Because I think Mike Tyson said 665 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,960 Speaker 1: something about, yeah, you can say anything you want to 666 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,959 Speaker 1: somebody on Twitter or over the phone, because you can't 667 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:59,680 Speaker 1: get punched in the face, can't you. I can see 668 00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:04,239 Speaker 1: him do some Twitter face. I don't think yeah, you 669 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,080 Speaker 1: just I can't punch him in the face. I don't. 670 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:13,200 Speaker 1: I don't pay any attention to whatever they say. That's 671 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,200 Speaker 1: good words to live by for the new year. Yeah, 672 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:22,759 Speaker 1: your black jack reading, go ahead and say what you want, 673 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,640 Speaker 1: because I can't punch you in the face. Not that 674 00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,279 Speaker 1: I would punch anybody in the face. You would not 675 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,399 Speaker 1: do that, never verbally maybe never. Dak Prescott courting Todd 676 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,440 Speaker 1: Archer VSPN. Not throwing during the open portion of practice. 677 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,920 Speaker 1: I did go through. The walkthrough should be limited at 678 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,719 Speaker 1: best today as he was yesterday when he was not 679 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,600 Speaker 1: listed as a participant on the estimated interest. So at 680 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,759 Speaker 1: least he was doing the walkthrough, which was more than 681 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:51,080 Speaker 1: he did last week until Friday. So at least the 682 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,600 Speaker 1: walkthrough mean you're walking through all the plays and they 683 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,160 Speaker 1: weren't even asking him to do that last week. So 684 00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,480 Speaker 1: that's it didn't seem to work well for him, not 685 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,560 Speaker 1: at all. I thought physically he looked great out there, 686 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,840 Speaker 1: but yeah, he just he just he looked hesitant, no 687 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:11,520 Speaker 1: pocket presence at all. The first drive, I believe he 688 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,200 Speaker 1: broke out. They kind of kip clipped him at the 689 00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,920 Speaker 1: feed and he stumbled and got up and tried to 690 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,720 Speaker 1: run for a first down. Yeah, that's the best pocket 691 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,040 Speaker 1: present he showed. And that was a little shaky right there. 692 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,560 Speaker 1: So that was that started at the beginning of the game. 693 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,319 Speaker 1: It didn't get any better for him. Um, we could 694 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,640 Speaker 1: talk about all the drops we want and that was 695 00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,799 Speaker 1: something and that can throw you off, but we don't 696 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:41,040 Speaker 1: expect that from that. Yeah, we just don't be fourth year. Yeah, yeah, 697 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,560 Speaker 1: not only his fourth year, but even in this during 698 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:48,359 Speaker 1: this season, he's been our steady guy, and this particular game, 699 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:53,400 Speaker 1: he was extremely unsteady. Yeah. It was uncomfortable in the pocket. 700 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,360 Speaker 1: You could tell. And I don't know if it was 701 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,160 Speaker 1: in his mind that, Okay, I gotta look someplace to 702 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,480 Speaker 1: get this ball out because I'm not running and my 703 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,480 Speaker 1: shoulder and somebody could hit me at any time on 704 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,319 Speaker 1: my shoulder. Yeah, I got to get the ball out. 705 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,520 Speaker 1: Oh he did run that one time. Yeah, one time, 706 00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,879 Speaker 1: but that was it right landed right on it, yeah 707 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,040 Speaker 1: seven Yeah, and and and it looked up. He looked great. 708 00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,200 Speaker 1: Maybe that's why he never did it again, because that 709 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,279 Speaker 1: I think the strange thing was not it was he 710 00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,840 Speaker 1: he uh kind of went back to the same problems, 711 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,480 Speaker 1: you know, throwing behind you know, like he was last year. 712 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,719 Speaker 1: A couple of years ago. You know, it's like the 713 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:33,239 Speaker 1: pregame routine didn't really work. There are certain times where 714 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,920 Speaker 1: he saw he fired it in there right on that out, 715 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,640 Speaker 1: that's right. I mean he was fine. It was almost 716 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,719 Speaker 1: like he wasn't stepping into his passes like normal. And 717 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:45,719 Speaker 1: that had nothing to do with the shoulder. I think 718 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,160 Speaker 1: it was getting hurried, like okay, I got I gotta 719 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,480 Speaker 1: get this ball. And yeah, that that's always a factor. 720 00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,319 Speaker 1: I won't care whether you're hurt or not. I don't 721 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,719 Speaker 1: care if your dad Prescott, or your my homes or 722 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:58,480 Speaker 1: you're Aaron. You see quarterbacks, I saw Aaron Rodgers the 723 00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,279 Speaker 1: other night. I'm it wasn't a good game at all 724 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,840 Speaker 1: for him. It's just they're just right now, they're just 725 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,320 Speaker 1: human defenses. They get played, gay get paid also, and 726 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,080 Speaker 1: sometimes they can cross you up. But we just know 727 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,240 Speaker 1: that with Dak having all of the fourth coreter drives 728 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,960 Speaker 1: that we're accustomed to seeing game winning drives that he's 729 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,880 Speaker 1: accustomed to giving us. But this particular time, he just 730 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,120 Speaker 1: didn't seem to have the confidence that you talked about 731 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,320 Speaker 1: in two thy seventeen when you talk to him and 732 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,040 Speaker 1: said we're gonna win seven out of eight. Yeah, the 733 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,600 Speaker 1: comp that was you didn't see it in his body language, 734 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:32,759 Speaker 1: nor did you see it in his play. And when 735 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,759 Speaker 1: you did see it in his play, the drops continued. 736 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,120 Speaker 1: I believe for a team that has more drops than 737 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,680 Speaker 1: anybody else in the NFL, they do. And I don't 738 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,840 Speaker 1: know how much we touched on Amori on Monday, but 739 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,440 Speaker 1: his stretch that he's going through right now, it's not 740 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,440 Speaker 1: even close to what he was earlier in the season. 741 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,719 Speaker 1: Wasn't in anybody language as well. Yeah, it wasn't in 742 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,560 Speaker 1: for the end of the game. Neither was random. No 743 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,239 Speaker 1: one's touching on that. No one asked Jason Garrett about that. 744 00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,319 Speaker 1: They didn't even is that not been asked and known. 745 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,120 Speaker 1: We haven't got a good answer. And he's not on 746 00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,160 Speaker 1: the injury report. He was not on the injury report. 747 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:05,919 Speaker 1: It was not listed as an injury in the press 748 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,360 Speaker 1: box during the game. He doesn't. He doesn't seem the 749 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,960 Speaker 1: same to me off the line of scrimmage aspen. But 750 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:13,799 Speaker 1: he says his health is fine. So I take him 751 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:17,240 Speaker 1: at his word, and so he doesn't really reveal anything. 752 00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,400 Speaker 1: He's not gonna he's not gonna go against h status 753 00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:24,440 Speaker 1: quo Uh, I'm sure he's probably like Dak, I mean, 754 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,040 Speaker 1: I'm okay, guys, no excuses. You know the previous game 755 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:32,520 Speaker 1: before the Eagle game, it was the Bears, got that 756 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,040 Speaker 1: before the Eagles game? Yeah, what was the game before 757 00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,640 Speaker 1: the Rams? The Rams? The Rams they had started off 758 00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:42,360 Speaker 1: doubling him, for sure, but the Eagles they were in 759 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,960 Speaker 1: basically man defense the whole game. And so that shouldn't 760 00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,319 Speaker 1: have been difficult for Dak to read, by the way, 761 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,640 Speaker 1: because you're in man now. I mean, they were playing 762 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,080 Speaker 1: single safety high the entire game, and even when they 763 00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,800 Speaker 1: played some weird zones, he still figured out the throws 764 00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,200 Speaker 1: was just still bad. Yeah, and he was off and 765 00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,040 Speaker 1: were bad. And then from Cooper standpoint, yeah, I mean, 766 00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,400 Speaker 1: what do you attribute to I don't know, because his 767 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:08,640 Speaker 1: road home splits are they're a thing and I can't 768 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,799 Speaker 1: figure it out. But he's basically doubled his production at 769 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:13,759 Speaker 1: home compared to a way and he's gonna do it 770 00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,800 Speaker 1: this week and some of those same thing this weekend games. 771 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,839 Speaker 1: I understand why it happens because one of the road 772 00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,319 Speaker 1: games was New England, so that kind of that one 773 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,000 Speaker 1: shouldn't even be encountered in there, right, m but some 774 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,839 Speaker 1: of the other ones, Yeah, Chicago, Buffalo, and then there 775 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,440 Speaker 1: was games and he only played two snaps that was 776 00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,080 Speaker 1: on the road the Jets, right, and so that all 777 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,560 Speaker 1: factors into his road kind of those two games almost 778 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:44,719 Speaker 1: he didn't play. So but yeah, last week, I mean, 779 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,040 Speaker 1: he needed to be more productive. He was in they 780 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:50,040 Speaker 1: were in man coverage and he's got to win those 781 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,600 Speaker 1: and I don't and I agree with you. He's just 782 00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:54,360 Speaker 1: not getting off the line of scrimmage the way he 783 00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,440 Speaker 1: normally does. So who knows. I hope they don't have 784 00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,520 Speaker 1: an issue because this is and I say they, I 785 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,600 Speaker 1: mean it's is QB versus and wide receiver. They have 786 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,560 Speaker 1: to they have to communicate. So as much as we 787 00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,880 Speaker 1: don't know what's going on, I hope they're talking to 788 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,960 Speaker 1: each other because this this is it, This is it. 789 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,759 Speaker 1: I mean, I love I love Gallup, but he's not 790 00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,600 Speaker 1: I go to guy. I do love Gallup. He has improved. Yes, 791 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,240 Speaker 1: he's made the draws, but this guy has still shown 792 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,959 Speaker 1: progress as far as a young receiver doing very well. 793 00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,560 Speaker 1: I think Cole has got to be more involved in 794 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,839 Speaker 1: the game. I think on third day and we've got 795 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,040 Speaker 1: to look for Cob or look for Jarvis. Those two guys, 796 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,680 Speaker 1: you can't double both of them and Cooper, Okay, one 797 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:37,279 Speaker 1: of them has to be open. They got to win 798 00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,760 Speaker 1: that one on one off the line. You said it everything, 799 00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,680 Speaker 1: this is it very well, could be it anyway. Gotta 800 00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:47,280 Speaker 1: win Sunday. Gotta have some help from me Eli Manning 801 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:51,759 Speaker 1: in the New York Giants. Oh God, and we'll see 802 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:55,080 Speaker 1: what happens. Hey, no one's coming on him. Yeah, well, 803 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,440 Speaker 1: turn that music off. The break will be next. Thank 804 00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,840 Speaker 1: you guys for joining us. Bill will be back on Friday, 805 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,759 Speaker 1: and we'll wrap up the week. 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