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Speaker 1: wall with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us, and bar Garcia
Speaker 1: and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, October seventeenth, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: season eighteen, episode number fifty two. Welcome to the Lettus
Speaker 1: edition of The Break, live from That's WBC Mortgage Studios
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Speaker 1: time in a long time, we come in on a
Speaker 1: Monday morning ready to talk about something other than a
Speaker 1: win Cowboys lose at Philadelphi for Him twenty six seventeen.
Speaker 1: At some point in this show, we will get to
Speaker 1: our feelings on where we feel about this team, because
Speaker 1: I've had I've heard a lot of mixed feelings this
Speaker 1: morning from people, some very optimistic, some very pessimistic. I'd
Speaker 1: be interested to hear what you guys think. We'll do
Speaker 1: that a little later in the show, but let's start
Speaker 1: first where we start on Mondays. Give me storyline of
Speaker 1: the game, nick uh, storyline of the game. Cooper Rush.
Speaker 1: You know, it looked like a backup quarterback out there
Speaker 1: for a little while. He did. He looked like it. Finally,
Speaker 1: I mean he did. He took your advice lose a game.
Speaker 1: That was your advice, lose a game. You know, he didn't.
Speaker 1: He he had some moments there where he was trying
Speaker 1: to force the ball in there and just it just
Speaker 1: didn't didn't work. But I mean I give them credit that,
Speaker 1: you know, they were fighting and him. Boy, it would
Speaker 1: have been interesting. It would have been interesting if if
Speaker 1: it was twenty seventeen. It was like, if he gets
Speaker 1: this ball back and they go I'm like, they even
Speaker 1: got quiet, and it was it was gonna be obvious,
Speaker 1: just thinking, Holy f like, if he does this, Wow.
Speaker 1: But he didn't. He didn't any you know, he made
Speaker 1: a bad throw. Um. You know, Tyler Smith was some
Speaker 1: of the part of that that deep throw. But you know,
Speaker 1: the defense and then I'll let them, you know, there's
Speaker 1: other points there, But I just thought, I just thought
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, he didn't play like we've seen before. We
Speaker 1: kept saying don't make mistakes, and he made them. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I to me, it really started early when you started
Speaker 1: talking about some of the decision making. They get the
Speaker 1: third and two play and they have a chance with
Speaker 1: the read option. They hand the ball to Seek and
Speaker 1: it's a gain of one and he pulls that ball
Speaker 1: and just goes forward. Then it's a first down. Now
Speaker 1: you're keeping the drives going. So from that point on,
Speaker 1: he started making bad decisions in the game, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's something that with Cooper Rush. You know, it's
Speaker 1: max protection, you got routes, you get you know where
Speaker 1: you need to go with the ball. You can't throw
Speaker 1: the ball behind people, you know. And that's the thing
Speaker 1: with him. He had done a really good job of
Speaker 1: when it was okay, this is how we have to play.
Speaker 1: And he played a little hero ball last night, you
Speaker 1: know it with some of his throws, and we kind
Speaker 1: of get on Dak Prescott about that a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, Hey, you can't force the ball into that coverage.
Speaker 1: You gotta read this. You know, you've got guys that
Speaker 1: are open to this side. Why are you just going
Speaker 1: at one guy right here? So I think it started
Speaker 1: very early with him and some of the decision making
Speaker 1: it approved in the second half with the stuff when
Speaker 1: they started to move the pocket a little bit and
Speaker 1: the boots and the waggles and things like that, the
Speaker 1: left throws were giving him an opportunity, some simple stuff.
Speaker 1: You know. The Eagles made some really good plays along
Speaker 1: the way. The tip ball by hardgrade before the half,
Speaker 1: it could have been twenty to seven at that point,
Speaker 1: you know, and that would have been a good momentum
Speaker 1: builder for the Cowboys. They max protect the deep ball
Speaker 1: that Nick was talking about that gets intercepted, They max
Speaker 1: protect another interception. I mean, it was just kind of
Speaker 1: they were trying to help him, but he wasn't helping himself.
Speaker 1: But I want to say this is for point, my
Speaker 1: point for this. Your best unit on the field didn't
Speaker 1: get a stop when it needed to get a stop,
Speaker 1: and they ran the ball into eleven straight times, and
Speaker 1: you didn't get a stop. And I think that to
Speaker 1: me right there, you could say all the things you
Speaker 1: wanted I just did about Cooper Rush, but the fact
Speaker 1: that that the Cowboys needed a stop in the second
Speaker 1: half defensively, when the momentum was swinging their direction and
Speaker 1: they couldn't get a stop and that to me was
Speaker 1: really the when you start to talk about this game,
Speaker 1: you know, could they brought this thing back? Sure, they
Speaker 1: could have. Philadelphia we talked about this. Philadelphia is a
Speaker 1: team that doesn't Once they scored the second they kind
Speaker 1: they kind of slow down in the second half and
Speaker 1: you caught them there, and I think it's just disappointed
Speaker 1: that the team that you just hanger had on through
Speaker 1: all this is that defense and they couldn't get off
Speaker 1: the field on that one last final drive that Philadelphia
Speaker 1: rando to kill the game. Yeah, as far as storylines,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can talk about the quarterback situation. You
Speaker 1: can talk about how the Eagles were able to neutralize
Speaker 1: Micah Parsons and how that affected the whole defense overall.
Speaker 1: But to me, the way I see this game is,
Speaker 1: you know, even though there's still a lot of football
Speaker 1: left to play, we're gonna see them again in December.
Speaker 1: And I think that the way that the Cowboys were
Speaker 1: able to play some of the things that they showed,
Speaker 1: despite the penalties, despite the mistake, despite them not stopping
Speaker 1: at critical moment, this is a very they can compete
Speaker 1: and this was a game they could have won. And
Speaker 1: to Brian's point. And you can mention it last week,
Speaker 1: how they just kind of come to a stopping point
Speaker 1: where they can't keep producing points and moving the ball around. Well,
Speaker 1: this team, the Cowboys team just showed me that. You know,
Speaker 1: the Eagles aren't. I don't want to say they're not
Speaker 1: that good because they are. They're not. They're not. It's
Speaker 1: okay to say it. I mean, is this the best
Speaker 1: team in football? No? No, no, no no, no. I mean
Speaker 1: when you're best in football. No, they may be the
Speaker 1: best team in the NFC. I don't think they're the
Speaker 1: best team in football, but I think there's a very
Speaker 1: clear no one cares about No one cares about that
Speaker 1: because you're not going to play them until it really matters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then, but I do think they're the best team
Speaker 1: they see. You know, I don't mean to cut you off,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying that's okay to say that because I
Speaker 1: don't think that they're If this is the best team
Speaker 1: in the NFC, I would be like, Okay, we'll see
Speaker 1: you again, definitely once, maybe twice, because it would anybody
Speaker 1: be afraid to go play them again in Philadelphia with
Speaker 1: foot at full strength. I mean, I wouldn't be afraid
Speaker 1: to play him again. This team can win. I mean
Speaker 1: they beat themselves. The Eagles and Cowboys both beat the
Speaker 1: Cowboys last night. Sorry, I keep finishing. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's my point exactly. It's just like, it's not this untouchable,
Speaker 1: unbeatable team that you keep thinking of because of the
Speaker 1: way they've been playing and the fact that they've been
Speaker 1: winning every single game so far. It's just it was,
Speaker 1: it showed me a clear vision. They'll like, Okay, we
Speaker 1: can definitely beat their butts next time we see them.
Speaker 1: But they made they made critical plays and you couldn't.
Speaker 1: I mean the fourth and threes, the you know, and
Speaker 1: when you look at this and Mica looks like that
Speaker 1: he's missing coverage. No, they're running picks. I mean, they
Speaker 1: had some really good designs of plays, they really really did.
Speaker 1: And you're like, and and the fact that the titan
Speaker 1: didn't kill you in this game, the quarterback running didn't
Speaker 1: kill you in this game. But they found a way
Speaker 1: to win this game. And it might be because of
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, but they also along the way made some
Speaker 1: critical plays and I think that's the that's the thing
Speaker 1: you have to worry about. They put you in a
Speaker 1: lot of They put a lot of stress on you
Speaker 1: for having to try and defend them. That's the thing
Speaker 1: I worry about. And you know, I man, I just
Speaker 1: feel like that you made some mistakes along the way.
Speaker 1: But man, the one thing that I just keep saying
Speaker 1: is your defense is you're calling card right now and
Speaker 1: you needed to stop. You couldn't afford them to drive
Speaker 1: the ball on you like that and score that that touchdown.
Speaker 1: You needed to stop and you didn't get it. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing that's the most disappointing to me right now.
Speaker 1: It's not that Cooper Rush struggled the way he did.
Speaker 1: You know, Ezekiellott played his ass off. The offensive line.
Speaker 1: You watched him play. It's not pretty with the pass
Speaker 1: block and stuff. But they didn't. The offensive line didn't
Speaker 1: kill you in this game. You know, Philly, just Philly
Speaker 1: made some really really good plays along the way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll say this, Nick, you said, you know you're not
Speaker 1: afraid to play this team. I don't think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: should be afraid. But I will say this, I think
Speaker 1: they exposed yesterday what will be a challenge for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys to win a game because of and what I
Speaker 1: mean by that is the stopping the run has been
Speaker 1: a problem for them throughout this season. We know that
Speaker 1: this is a team that can run the ball. Quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I don't think the numbers tell the story. They had
Speaker 1: a lot of short feels, That's why they didn't get
Speaker 1: a lot of yards. I think they had longer fields
Speaker 1: data gotten a lot more yards, and they probably would
Speaker 1: have scored the same amount of points. So when I
Speaker 1: would have liked to have seen that fields, dude, No,
Speaker 1: that's fine. My point though, is I do think that
Speaker 1: I don't think yesterday this defense. Yesterday, I come out
Speaker 1: of that game feeling like the Cowboys defense is more
Speaker 1: susceptible than I thought they were. Um, I mean to
Speaker 1: give up three touchdowns and that last one, and what
Speaker 1: you talked about it bring that last touchdown. Basically your
Speaker 1: offense got you back into the game. Now's the time
Speaker 1: when if you're that defense, this is when you need
Speaker 1: to make that stop. And what did they do seventy
Speaker 1: five yards just methodically ran the ball right down their throats.
Speaker 1: And that's the part that worries me. And I've been
Speaker 1: talking about this for a few weeks now that I
Speaker 1: think the run defense is a bit of a problem,
Speaker 1: Like they get into games and they have a hard
Speaker 1: time stop in the run at times. And until I
Speaker 1: see them consistently doing that, especially in situations where they
Speaker 1: need to, that's a concern. They missed some tackles in
Speaker 1: the hole in the running game and the first run
Speaker 1: and I'm just ch I can hear to see the
Speaker 1: Sanders run. Okay, Sanders had seventy one yards. This long
Speaker 1: run was thirteen. The thirteen yard run came on the
Speaker 1: very first play of the long drive, and it was
Speaker 1: and what happened is this is where you got to
Speaker 1: give them credit. Because Dallas runs what they call a
Speaker 1: slant front, and they slant everybody do the right. They're
Speaker 1: gonna bring a polar back the other way. And now
Speaker 1: it's a polar one on one on vander ash and
Speaker 1: the ball coming behind him, and so you've got everybody
Speaker 1: caved down to one side. Sometimes the offense is just good.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you guess the right kind of lucky Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a lucky good whatever you wanted. Sometimes they make a
Speaker 1: call and you're like, going, damn it, they caught us
Speaker 1: in a they caught us in a slant front, and
Speaker 1: we you know, we're trying to like we're trying to
Speaker 1: do but yeah, the runs were like five yards, four yards,
Speaker 1: one yard, five yards, six yards, one yard. It was
Speaker 1: that kind of a running game, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: it looked really really bad and they just couldn't do
Speaker 1: anything about it. I'm not worried as much about it,
Speaker 1: but for other teams, because I don't think they have
Speaker 1: that ability. I don't they don't have Jalen Hurts. You know,
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts hurt him with with his with his legs,
Speaker 1: um not in this game, but in the previous games.
Speaker 1: Because three three twelve rushes for twenty seven yards. I
Speaker 1: mean that's that. One of them was on the quarterback
Speaker 1: yard like that. But it was it was the RPOs.
Speaker 1: It was the yeah, when you said before we started
Speaker 1: that it freezes your team your team, and that's and
Speaker 1: that's you know, you're gonna play fields in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Not to look ahead, but I mean, he's
Speaker 1: an incredible athlete, but they don't have the running game,
Speaker 1: the Sanders and all that, and I'll give you know,
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders. I always thought that their running game was
Speaker 1: kind of tricky a little bit and not I'll power
Speaker 1: running game. They they because of the RPO and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. They ran a lot of it in the middle.
Speaker 1: You got to give them credit for that. They lost
Speaker 1: their best offensive linemen and in the second half. And see,
Speaker 1: that's the thing that's the most disappointed, because we talked
Speaker 1: on this show about how bad Jack Driscoll was. Were like,
Speaker 1: if he's in the game, parts flip right to see
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying that you could never get him
Speaker 1: in the situation. And they realized this. They're like, listen,
Speaker 1: if we dropped back and pass Jack Driscoll is going
Speaker 1: to get our quarterback killed. And so they made they
Speaker 1: made the concern. Even if it was one yards, two yards,
Speaker 1: three yards, whatever it was, it was good enough for
Speaker 1: them not to get their quarterback hit. Right. They don't
Speaker 1: go down Phil hardly at all. They were All the
Speaker 1: passes were quick passes and in the running game like
Speaker 1: that's how they moved the ball, and they did it effectively.
Speaker 1: And by the way, they had to do it cleanly.
Speaker 1: That's the key. If you're gonna do that play that
Speaker 1: kind of football, you can't have a lot of penalties.
Speaker 1: And they did it pretty cleanly. I said it last week.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, this defense needs to start off the
Speaker 1: game making a statement, but the statement was made against them,
Speaker 1: and there was something that was just off about the
Speaker 1: defense because it wasn't like they got in the game
Speaker 1: and then as you go on, okay, they're starting to
Speaker 1: kind of embarrass you a little bit, and then you
Speaker 1: start trailing back and falling behind and all that. I
Speaker 1: just felt like, right off the bat, like first quarter,
Speaker 1: the defense was just not playing with the explosiveness, the energy,
Speaker 1: the like something was off. Michael Parsons was like slow
Speaker 1: in the way he was playing. So the whole thing
Speaker 1: just didn't look right like their usual self, the type
Speaker 1: of defense that they've been playing this whole season so far.
Speaker 1: It just didn't start that way. And I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I don't know what what happened exactly, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: like a thing that, oh, as the game went along,
Speaker 1: you got tired, your defense got tired because they were
Speaker 1: on the field so much, and the Eagles offense was
Speaker 1: just kind of draining you. It wasn't that because it
Speaker 1: just started like that right off the bat. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: honestly think, and you guys can correct me if you
Speaker 1: feel a different way, but I think it's the RPO off.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's the fact that there's so
Speaker 1: much indecision when you're playing that kind of offense. Every
Speaker 1: play you don't know exactly where the ball's going. And
Speaker 1: they were holding the ball to the last second. I mean,
Speaker 1: Hurst is holding ball the last second to figure out
Speaker 1: whether you're coming to get him, you're gonna get that
Speaker 1: running back, and that is causing to slow down. Like
Speaker 1: if that is a way to slow an aggressive defense
Speaker 1: is make them have to think, and make them have
Speaker 1: to think on every single playoff. I think that's exactly
Speaker 1: you know, and there are also you know the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: What goes against them sometimes, mean what works for them
Speaker 1: is just how they have mismatches. They have undersized players playing,
Speaker 1: you know, but but they're quicker. And then sometimes you
Speaker 1: get in a situation like this where it can work
Speaker 1: against you. I mean, like if you when you think
Speaker 1: about a defensive line that has Dorn's Armstrong playing at
Speaker 1: the end and d Law playing tackle and Mica Partson
Speaker 1: is playing in on third and nine, yeah you're worried,
Speaker 1: But on third and two or second and four and
Speaker 1: you're running downhill, it's a mismatch. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: on to pick your poison type things like it works
Speaker 1: when it works, but sometimes you can go to your point,
Speaker 1: to your point. When you watch you All twenty two,
Speaker 1: you'll see that Doran's Armstrong is an effective pass rusher.
Speaker 1: You'll also see the All twenty two where Dorant's Armstrong
Speaker 1: is getting hooked and hooked and bullied and beating at
Speaker 1: the point of attack. So then you wonder why the
Speaker 1: Running Game, You're going, Okay, well, I see what's happening.
Speaker 1: Ninety two is getting blocked, ninety nine is getting blocked inside.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, those are the things that happened
Speaker 1: to you in the Running Game. When you watch, you're like, well,
Speaker 1: what happened on that play? Ninety two got hooked, Oh,
Speaker 1: ninety two got knocked inside? Oh, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: those are the things that that show up and ask
Speaker 1: you about this. Because every time he gets a sack,
Speaker 1: it's so easy to say, Durance Armstrong. It's so easy
Speaker 1: to say, what's Randy Gregory doing? You know, like, and
Speaker 1: I get it. I mean he's got the sack numbers.
Speaker 1: Did Gregory? Was Gregory a liability in the Running I
Speaker 1: think it was a little bit more of a jump
Speaker 1: around and kind of get pushed outside kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Ball come up inside. N No, No, actually your best defender, well,
Speaker 1: Tank is good against the run to his side, but actually, uh,
Speaker 1: you know when you when you look also too, they
Speaker 1: have a situation inside where they tend to move these
Speaker 1: guys around. And I'm trying to think about who I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about here No. Ninety nine why I'm always Yeah,
Speaker 1: Gholston is one of those guys that plays the run
Speaker 1: better because he could play. There was a couple of
Speaker 1: times playing tackle that he was able to defeat blocks
Speaker 1: and get in on a play. And then when he's
Speaker 1: playing on the edge, he was able to defeat the
Speaker 1: Tank and Gholston are the two best run defenders then
Speaker 1: anybody else that's that's on the on the defensive line
Speaker 1: when it comes to the ends. But speaking of the run,
Speaker 1: like Layton Vanders, he has to have better vision than
Speaker 1: that because there were multiple touchdown the touchdown it was
Speaker 1: a bad one, yeah, and there were a couple of
Speaker 1: other ones that weren't a touchdown. There were just runs.
Speaker 1: But it was like, Okay, you get this hole in
Speaker 1: the middle and Layton is right there, just sitting there.
Speaker 1: But he's just kind of he loses track of like
Speaker 1: he can't locate the ball where it's at, So now
Speaker 1: he's paying attention to this crowd over here and up.
Speaker 1: So there are a lot of times that I just
Speaker 1: felt like he wasn't vendor Ish to be the guy
Speaker 1: to kind of put the stop or try to make
Speaker 1: the stop there, and the hole was just completely free
Speaker 1: and empty for the guy to run. So linebikers need
Speaker 1: to play better. Yeah, the Sanders touchdown run, the ball
Speaker 1: is going really off the tackle between the tackle and
Speaker 1: the guard, and Vanderish reads it and he jumps inside.
Speaker 1: He's right there on the outside of position for the collision,
Speaker 1: and then something carried him inside, his eyes carried him inside.
Speaker 1: So now he's behind a stack and then the ball
Speaker 1: comes and he can't get back to the outside. There
Speaker 1: were several times in this game where where Cowboys were
Speaker 1: in position. Donovan Wilson was in position to make a tackle.
Speaker 1: Hooker was in position to make a tackle on a
Speaker 1: fill that would have been a two yard game that
Speaker 1: all of a sudden turns into a spin run in
Speaker 1: an eight yard game. You know, they had to your point, Ambar,
Speaker 1: they had guys in positions to make plays. They did
Speaker 1: a poor job at finishing on some of these runs
Speaker 1: in this game. And it's just one more thing I
Speaker 1: was uncommon for them yesterday because they've been a pretty
Speaker 1: good tackling team when they had opportunities. Yesterday they were not.
Speaker 1: It seemed like there were a number of times when
Speaker 1: they missed tackles that they should have made and that
Speaker 1: you would expect them to make because they're good enough
Speaker 1: players to make them. Are we gonna take our first break,
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back. We'll dive a little deeper into
Speaker 1: some of these topics. We'll talk about Cooper Rushan we
Speaker 1: come back. In the offense, I want to talk about this,
Speaker 1: at least this wide receiver corps and whether this offense
Speaker 1: was hindered more by the quarterback or by the wide
Speaker 1: receivers and their ability to get open. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that when we come back. Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio.
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Speaker 1: They go to four and two. Giants win yesterday, so
Speaker 1: they're at five and one. It's amazing that win against
Speaker 1: the Giants, and the way you beat him is looking
Speaker 1: more and more impressive by the week. But that team,
Speaker 1: as much as I don't know if I want to
Speaker 1: believe in them, they certainly are making the case that
Speaker 1: they are a pretty good team. You know, I don't
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Speaker 1: Rams put the Rams in there. Yeah, they beat the
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Speaker 1: traveling New York to London is not a huge trip.
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Speaker 1: they got Daniel Jones playing pretty well, Barkley running the
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Speaker 1: you know, the Ravens just I don't know what you know,
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Speaker 1: would be an MVP candidate. He fumbles the snap, he
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Speaker 1: and I just you know, it's crazy, but strange lady
Speaker 1: is I like to say, indeed is. And they and
Speaker 1: they'll play each other, you know, it's like forget with
Speaker 1: the Giants and Eagles to play each other and it'll
Speaker 1: figure itself out. And yeah, this division got yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean there's you know, you know, and you're driving your
Speaker 1: neighborhood and there's people that have like haunted house things
Speaker 1: in their neighborhood, you know, like they got like stuff
Speaker 1: going on for Halloween. That scares me more than like
Speaker 1: the Giants. I mean just that just that crowd. They
Speaker 1: they're not good. They're not good. That's fine. I mean
Speaker 1: they're five and one. Give them credit, but it'll you
Speaker 1: are what your record says. You are, right, they're good
Speaker 1: at the end of They may not be great, but
Speaker 1: they're good, but they're good that I'm gonna keep saying
Speaker 1: that they're when we look at it, right, that only
Speaker 1: applies at the end of what this fluid it Joc
Speaker 1: Taylor says all the time. I think it's the best thing.
Speaker 1: He says. It's true. Sports is fluid. As of now,
Speaker 1: they're a good team. Now that may change season, but
Speaker 1: that's it. Right now, they are a good team. But
Speaker 1: no five win team has ever made the playoffs. That's
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. So so so yeah, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying right now never matters because rankings and all
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter, or it doesn't. See, I don't think
Speaker 1: that they're very good. They're not the microwave Society. Now, now,
Speaker 1: I get it. We don't have time. We don't have
Speaker 1: time to All I'm saying is is that I think,
Speaker 1: I really believe that the Cowboys at third place in
Speaker 1: the NFC East, I think that is the best team
Speaker 1: in this division. I think I think they are the
Speaker 1: best team in the NFCAS and I think that they're
Speaker 1: gonna win the NFC East. Okay, I think right now
Speaker 1: I think that the best the second best team. I
Speaker 1: do think they're better than the Giants. I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's not been anything I've seen. It gives me evidence
Speaker 1: that they're better than Philadelphia because Philadelphia took it to
Speaker 1: him last night. And I know that they came back
Speaker 1: and they made it interesting, but they took it to him,
Speaker 1: and I don't know that there was a point in
Speaker 1: the game where I thought Dallas has winning this game. Now,
Speaker 1: the saving graces, you did that with your backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: You gotta feel really good about the fact you did
Speaker 1: that with your backup quarterback. The thing about Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: is that he was doing a nice job of managing
Speaker 1: the game and the defense was carried and then the
Speaker 1: defense got in the situa each one. They can't carry
Speaker 1: you the whole time. But there's just zero running ability
Speaker 1: from your quarterback. Yeah, just zero, Like like it's not
Speaker 1: third and three like you said, or RPO. He did
Speaker 1: pulls that it's a six yard gain. Yeah, I mean literally, no,
Speaker 1: that's I'm saying. It's one of those decisions that you're saying.
Speaker 1: And he's looking at he's looking at Sweat, and you know,
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm looking at you. I'm looking at you.
Speaker 1: I'm still going to hand this ball off and I
Speaker 1: get it. You hand it to Zeke. You're thinking, well,
Speaker 1: he could get two yards Zeke, Yeah, he could get
Speaker 1: two yards, but he pulls that ball. It's like a
Speaker 1: seven yard gain and you just fall down and now
Speaker 1: you keep the drive going. How many yards did Zeke
Speaker 1: run last night? Backwards? He was twisting? Yeah, two really
Speaker 1: good twisting runs to the middle of their defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: I hate ran well, I hate saying this about a
Speaker 1: guy that's been like so good and you're like eighty
Speaker 1: one yards rushing and you're like, he ran is that
Speaker 1: he did eighty one yard mighters will have been a
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty one yards It might as well have been.
Speaker 1: I mean, the way that he was trying touchdown was
Speaker 1: the old old school Zeke it was it was he needed.
Speaker 1: But but man, think about what it RPO does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Miles Sanders ain't isn't just lining up running
Speaker 1: like that if it's not for the quarterback Thart So
Speaker 1: I think getting that back I would have loved that.
Speaker 1: We can we're doing that. It's what we saw being
Speaker 1: real quick, though. I would love to have seen Mohr
Speaker 1: make that field goal, Yeah, because I wanted to see
Speaker 1: I wanted to see if this if the Beagles would
Speaker 1: really fall apart. It was so chaotic we were we
Speaker 1: were down, walking down. I didn't even know how they
Speaker 1: got into that range and you know it was three.
Speaker 1: I mean, if he passes in a row, right, all incomplete,
Speaker 1: all incomplete, and you think if you get to me,
Speaker 1: I started calculating, like I'm going, They've got to kick
Speaker 1: this field goal. Now they can't go. They can't let
Speaker 1: the scene get Like when it was a minute forty,
Speaker 1: I was thinking, all right, get a first down or
Speaker 1: get close, kick the field goal, now go for it.
Speaker 1: Just try walking, just try and just try, and you know,
Speaker 1: see if you can get an onside kick. I will
Speaker 1: say this though, Brian. Last week you talked about this defense,
Speaker 1: and I remember asking you a question, was it the
Speaker 1: front that made the back end look better? Or was
Speaker 1: it the back end that was really that good? And
Speaker 1: you talk about the back end, and I wasn't so
Speaker 1: sold on what you were saying. But last night I
Speaker 1: came by of that game being that secondary might be
Speaker 1: the best secondary football. Yeah. They they don't give up
Speaker 1: much to anything. They're gonna play. Last night, they are
Speaker 1: right there in position and they will knock the ball down.
Speaker 1: Like how many times did you see balls getting knocked down?
Speaker 1: Some of them were bad throws, but some of them
Speaker 1: were good throws. And it was just like those guys
Speaker 1: were all over those receivers. You see a little bit
Speaker 1: of lack of the arm strength the quarterback too when
Speaker 1: that ball goes the outside. But no, not to take
Speaker 1: anything away from they were in great position really all night,
Speaker 1: you know, with the plays they were able to make.
Speaker 1: But they cut a break, they cut a break, the
Speaker 1: corner falls down, you know, and they just they could not.
Speaker 1: Brandy Graham is one of those guys who will forever
Speaker 1: when you say his name, I just think about him
Speaker 1: making one or two plays every Cowboy game that he's
Speaker 1: ever played against them. That is that what you're talking
Speaker 1: about on the goal line talking the one, the one
Speaker 1: where that would have been a CD yard. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: would have been. It would have been the interception that
Speaker 1: that uh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I mean he literally
Speaker 1: the corner falls down that I mean, it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be if the ball if they just they
Speaker 1: max protected too, which is so, and they leave Smith
Speaker 1: one on one on the outside, you know, they leave
Speaker 1: him one on one and that super brint Billy Blitzen
Speaker 1: on that play. No, no, they weren't. So if they
Speaker 1: were max protecting, how did he end up over there
Speaker 1: by himself? They just slide everything every other way. Everything.
Speaker 1: All the blockers were to the right. They were worried
Speaker 1: about what was going on in the right right side there,
Speaker 1: and they were just they said, you know what, Smith's
Speaker 1: good enough to hold up over here on the left
Speaker 1: side by himself. There needs to be a new rule
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Like if you get under the hood
Speaker 1: and you say, okay, was this in or out? And
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't know, but is this a Sports
Speaker 1: Center Top ten play? And you're like yes, then you're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's give it to him if we
Speaker 1: called it on the field, I'm kidding. So okay, well
Speaker 1: you're kidding, But I wish he'd have challenged a fourth
Speaker 1: in one spot with ceedee lamb. Yeah, you know, let's
Speaker 1: go there. He may not have had a good angle
Speaker 1: because he was only like six years You see the
Speaker 1: all twenty two in the in the official the official
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys side marks as a first down. She
Speaker 1: marked it as a first he when he extended and
Speaker 1: put the ball down she went. She went half a
Speaker 1: yard beyond the marker on front, and I could see
Speaker 1: where Dallas got confused because the way she marked it,
Speaker 1: the way she went past the marker and went up
Speaker 1: the line. So they're just like, go, let's go first
Speaker 1: and then and then the other side. The other official
Speaker 1: came in short and she went. She went from going
Speaker 1: first down, first down, first down to oh, like a
Speaker 1: little bit like the stock market, which is the way
Speaker 1: they do it. If you notice side, they kind of
Speaker 1: merged back forth the right. She she she had the
Speaker 1: better view, she had the better view to her side,
Speaker 1: and she's marking it, and I think Dallas got a
Speaker 1: little confused. He's like, whoa's McCarthy's recent. And then he
Speaker 1: talked about it in the press conference after the game.
Speaker 1: He basically said they were on turbo, and then when
Speaker 1: he talked to the official, the what he got from
Speaker 1: the official was kind of like they weren't gonna give
Speaker 1: it to him. So that's why he decided not to
Speaker 1: challenge the player. They were already up at the line too.
Speaker 1: That was something. When you said they were already turbo,
Speaker 1: they were already moving. That's what I don't understand. How
Speaker 1: could the official without the benefit of replay tell him
Speaker 1: we're not changing that that doesn't Based on what the
Speaker 1: official kind of said to him, he felt that it
Speaker 1: wasn't something that they would get, so he decided to
Speaker 1: just keep going. She marked it, I don't buy that,
Speaker 1: because the whole point of replay is you stop everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you give them the benefit of somebody looking at it
Speaker 1: on camerons and slowing it down and saying, whoa where
Speaker 1: was he? And by the way, from the replay, we
Speaker 1: could see from the TVs that were sitting right in
Speaker 1: front of us, it seemed like he stretched out round. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Terry McCauley, who's the official for NBC, who they hire,
Speaker 1: said that's a first down. Yeah, he said it, And
Speaker 1: you know, so you're like going, And to me, it
Speaker 1: was such an important point of the game. You're down fourteen,
Speaker 1: you need you got to drive, you know if even if,
Speaker 1: even if you don't have another challenge left, I mean
Speaker 1: challenge that you just have to. You can't let that,
Speaker 1: you can't let the official. But they're they're hurrying to
Speaker 1: the line, and then the play call, you're going, why
Speaker 1: why whoa? Whoa? What do we do it? And because
Speaker 1: you know, everything happens. You know, CD's trying to run around,
Speaker 1: he gets knocked down, and you know it's all this
Speaker 1: clutter and stuff, and you're thinking, Okay, we'll just run
Speaker 1: the ball. Then you got you got a zeke, Ohiott,
Speaker 1: just run the ball. It's like third and one. He
Speaker 1: gets it every single time. It's fourth one, he gets
Speaker 1: it every single time. Yeah, you know, it's just that's
Speaker 1: that's the disappointing things. Well, as like I said to
Speaker 1: you in the press box, is like I think a
Speaker 1: lot of times fans just they're watching games on TV
Speaker 1: and they always see a yellow line so they know
Speaker 1: what a first down is. That that's obviously not there
Speaker 1: in real life. But in this case, because it was
Speaker 1: started at the twenty five, the first down markers the
Speaker 1: thirty five, there's the line. You see it, and he
Speaker 1: goes across of it. So I don't understand that. I
Speaker 1: think that's a terrible reasoning. If that's really what McCarthy said,
Speaker 1: that's I think that's that's terrible. See because you're down
Speaker 1: fourteen to nothing, So if anything, call a timeout, throw
Speaker 1: a challenge, if anything, the slowest, crap down, slow it down.
Speaker 1: And then but but I tweeted this out, don't tell
Speaker 1: me you trust Zeke in this offensive line if you're
Speaker 1: not going to give him the ball both in one
Speaker 1: for a a mobile quarterback to roll right and throw
Speaker 1: it to a tight end that hasn't proven he can
Speaker 1: make a play. Now he's getting there. Talking about Hindershot, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's getting there and he made a nice catch,
Speaker 1: and I mean the team was disappointed obviously. You know,
Speaker 1: you look at the defensive side, they were pretty quiet
Speaker 1: down there. And I'm not saying these guys don't don't
Speaker 1: like football or anything like that, but Hindershot and Ferguson,
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're like two guys in one, you know,
Speaker 1: they're always joining the hip. They're like I think you
Speaker 1: could just tell the confidence that they had, Like they
Speaker 1: both played really well last night, and I think you know,
Speaker 1: now what happens in the future and tied in I
Speaker 1: don't know, but uh well, yeah, I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: just it's just a shame of it. If he's losing money,
Speaker 1: by the man, and by the way, he might not
Speaker 1: be losing money. He's just losing money here, Like there's
Speaker 1: somebody that might be willing to pay that money market Yeah,
Speaker 1: that market value. He's just waiting for Dak to come back,
Speaker 1: and that's true. That will help him, That will help him.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take our final break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Actually have a question for you guys. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about not only that that that play we just talked about,
Speaker 1: the one on where they maybe should have challenged it,
Speaker 1: but I also want to talk about another play that
Speaker 1: was critical for the Cowboys where Fowler jumped off so
Speaker 1: I got into the neutral zone. I want to find
Speaker 1: out which play you think affected this team more by
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Speaker 1: nest WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we are dissecting
Speaker 1: the cowboys second loss of the season. They lose to
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles twenty six to seventeen. So here's my
Speaker 1: question for you guys, which was the bigger mistake in
Speaker 1: last night's game That third and nine passed the CD
Speaker 1: where coach McCarthy decided not to try to challenge. Let
Speaker 1: me read the child real quick, because I found it
Speaker 1: exactly what he said. He said, you know, the communication
Speaker 1: was originally first down and then we went turbo on
Speaker 1: the ball for a quick play. Then the communication when
Speaker 1: they pulled it back forth down with Robin on the hideline,
Speaker 1: she told him the knee down. The knee was down
Speaker 1: before he extended, So he said, in his history has
Speaker 1: been when the official tells you that, it's usually pretty clear.
Speaker 1: And because they were in turbo, they were on the
Speaker 1: other side of the fence. And then he's like, from
Speaker 1: my experience, when I'm communicated by the official, I'm usually
Speaker 1: discouraged from challenging that play. So basically it was a
Speaker 1: back call. But given the time of the moment, that's
Speaker 1: what happened, and he just kind of went with what
Speaker 1: he was being told. Look, I understand his experience. I
Speaker 1: don't want to negate that because coaches do have to
Speaker 1: make some of these decisions based upon their experience. My thing, though,
Speaker 1: is that's what replay is for, is because the fact
Speaker 1: that we know that referees are human, that means that
Speaker 1: what they thought they saw may not have been what
Speaker 1: they what really happened. And so by the way he
Speaker 1: should be watching, which he was I'm sure all the
Speaker 1: guys he's got up in the boot, they got plenty
Speaker 1: of assistant coaches. They should have all been watching. There
Speaker 1: should have been somebody saying, hey, Mike, by the way,
Speaker 1: looks like he might have that first down and that
Speaker 1: in that situation, that should have at least triggered to him. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know she said that, but maybe on review they'll
Speaker 1: see what my guys are seeing. Somebody should have given
Speaker 1: him that information, I would think, well, but yeah, and
Speaker 1: and why are you worried about a challenge When you're
Speaker 1: down fourteen to nothing, you're gonna try to go for
Speaker 1: it and you're gonna go down twenty one to nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't, but in your mind you're thinking,
Speaker 1: why would I not feel this way? So you're on
Speaker 1: your own with thirty five yard line or whatever. It is, like,
Speaker 1: this is the biggest play in the game. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the biggest player in the game. So I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna wait throw I mean, I'm gonna wait as
Speaker 1: long as I can here and then throw the challenge
Speaker 1: flag and then and then just see it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it was too critical of a play, and that's what
Speaker 1: you always say, Brian about knowing your team and knowing
Speaker 1: getting to feel for the game, and I mean, you're
Speaker 1: about to lose it right there. I mean that I
Speaker 1: think it's the biggest play in the game. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that. I think that the thing I was disappointed,
Speaker 1: I was more disappointed in the play call than I
Speaker 1: think the lack of the challenge to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: just what they did, you know, But still the fact
Speaker 1: that she marked it as a first down initially that
Speaker 1: and then you know, that's the thing about it. Did
Speaker 1: she get talked out of that? She had the best angle. Seriously,
Speaker 1: when you watch the All twenty two sideline, she's past
Speaker 1: the stick, she's come down the line and then you
Speaker 1: see her start to drift because she's looking at the
Speaker 1: Now the official on the other side, he didn't have
Speaker 1: the play wasn't near him. It was near her. So
Speaker 1: if there was a discussion right there, she's just said no, no, no,
Speaker 1: he reached. Still, I think you have to look at
Speaker 1: that play even if she even if she told him, hey,
Speaker 1: the knee was down, well, you didn't mark his knee down.
Speaker 1: You said first down, And so you know, to me,
Speaker 1: if you're telling me first down, then I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna challenge this thing, you know, but I think it's
Speaker 1: I just think the play call was bad for that. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: we didn't challenge. We're gonna turbot run it, get the
Speaker 1: first down and then you know, go from there. But
Speaker 1: all right, so that all being said, and we all
Speaker 1: have talked about how pivotal that that play was. Then
Speaker 1: you also had a fourth and four where you got
Speaker 1: Dante Fowler getting a neutral zone in fraction that led
Speaker 1: to a touchdown. I've tend to believe that Philly would
Speaker 1: have if they would have they were trying to draw
Speaker 1: them off sides. If they wouldn't have, then they would
Speaker 1: have kicked the field goal. Probably saves you four points,
Speaker 1: would you guys think? I thought it was huge, and
Speaker 1: I think it's very very comparable to that other play
Speaker 1: because it's gonna be three to nothing instead of seven
Speaker 1: to nothing. And also, you know, you just got fooled.
Speaker 1: I mean, well one guy got fooled. All takes us
Speaker 1: one and the rest of the day. But everybody knows
Speaker 1: that we're up there talking in the press box. We
Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do. Everyone sees what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna run the clock down, and it's just
Speaker 1: like a free a few seconds. We'll see if fIF
Speaker 1: the Cowboys or someone's dumb enough to go offside you
Speaker 1: here and then and he was, I mean, he wasn't
Speaker 1: paying attention and he jumped off side. He had a
Speaker 1: pretty good game throughout Fowler, he had a sack, he
Speaker 1: made some other plays, But that right there, I mean,
Speaker 1: that to me, that's in excusable for a veteran player.
Speaker 1: I agree, you know, I just I think that the
Speaker 1: clock was running down there, they're just trying to get
Speaker 1: off the field, and that they'd run the motion and
Speaker 1: all that just to draw and the fact that he
Speaker 1: he it wasn't even like a tackle. It was just
Speaker 1: a tight end moving you know. Again that the thing is,
Speaker 1: you know that that's a disciplinting. You know, we talk
Speaker 1: about that you need to play with discipline, and that
Speaker 1: was the furthest thing from the word of discipline right there.
Speaker 1: Which one do you think hurt them more? Which of
Speaker 1: those two plays hurt hurt them more? That one? The
Speaker 1: fourth and four? I man, I mean it's it's a
Speaker 1: four point swinging there, and it's a three point swinging
Speaker 1: the other way around. But but I think I think
Speaker 1: going down three to nothing and then if, if, even
Speaker 1: if Eagles do what they're doing again ten to nothing,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's way more manageable. I think
Speaker 1: that right there was was pretty big. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: say the to me, the the lack of discipline was big.
Speaker 1: I just think the sideline management in that, I think
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta know what's going on. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was a big point in the game right there there.
Speaker 1: I mean, you gave up three points on the drive anyway, right,
Speaker 1: I mean you gave up points. You know, who knows
Speaker 1: even if you have to punt. Maybe they don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's just it was one of us. I
Speaker 1: just felt like that McCarthy. I've been I really liked
Speaker 1: the way that Mike mc arthy's coach. And that's hard
Speaker 1: for me to say, but I really last night, I'm like,
Speaker 1: why did you let us down last night? You got
Speaker 1: to manage the game better than that. And you could
Speaker 1: make the argument back back to the fourth down play
Speaker 1: or not. The challenge is that it's not so much
Speaker 1: just the three you gave up, but also you need
Speaker 1: some kind of spark you've got a first down, let's
Speaker 1: keep it going, Let's go maybe get you know, so
Speaker 1: what if they go down and just keep that and
Speaker 1: get a field goal, make it fourteen to three instead
Speaker 1: of seventeen to nothing, So you can call it a
Speaker 1: three point swing. And maybe it was a six point swing.
Speaker 1: So I mean, you can make the argument for both.
Speaker 1: I think they're both very critical. But I was thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, which one because the end result result
Speaker 1: would have been kind of the same, you know, but
Speaker 1: who which side of the ball from your team needs
Speaker 1: that extra spark at the moment. So and I'm keep
Speaker 1: going back and forth in my mind as you guys
Speaker 1: are discussing this. I'm like, Okay, would have been nice
Speaker 1: for the offense to kind of get going and have
Speaker 1: that tempo and momento kind of building up. And then
Speaker 1: but then I filled back, I'm like, Okay, it would
Speaker 1: have been nice for the defense to start making kind
Speaker 1: of that statement and not letting them kind of score
Speaker 1: a touchdown later on. So it's just I tell you,
Speaker 1: who would you say which side of the ball at
Speaker 1: that point off the game. Let's also be clear he's
Speaker 1: going four on fourth down before giving this softense spark
Speaker 1: the past of the Cincinnati game, and he goes, oh man,
Speaker 1: you gotta punt this ball, and he goes where he
Speaker 1: throws the ball to nowhere Brown over the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, and you're like going, oh man, huge play
Speaker 1: right there. I would say this though, but the way
Speaker 1: the game was going the fourth and four, we know,
Speaker 1: we feel very certain what would have been the outcome.
Speaker 1: They go for the field goal, there's no guarantee, and
Speaker 1: I certainly didn't feel confident they're still on their side
Speaker 1: that was still on its side of the field there
Speaker 1: at the thirty four I want to say their own
Speaker 1: thirty four. I don't feel confident that even if they
Speaker 1: get that first down, even if they challenge that and
Speaker 1: get the first down, that they're going to turn that
Speaker 1: into points because at that point in the game, the
Speaker 1: offense was not clicking. So yeah, that all being said,
Speaker 1: I know maybe that I know on four point third play,
Speaker 1: I got another one for you throw it to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, first quarter games still, you know, scoreless, and
Speaker 1: you just throw a pass the midfield to Ferguson to
Speaker 1: the forty eight yard line and I'm sorry there, I mean,
Speaker 1: is anyone checked on Darius Slay's back because I mean
Speaker 1: he I mean, he got a huge block in the
Speaker 1: back from CD. I'm certainly being facetious there two hands
Speaker 1: on the back that that's ridiculous, and that called. I
Speaker 1: mean then then it was an off setting penalties pushed
Speaker 1: from back the Cowboys head to pump. But you know
Speaker 1: now you're yeah, yeah, you're but you're moving, you know,
Speaker 1: first first down at midfield, you know, and this is
Speaker 1: the this is the second possession of the game. I
Speaker 1: think that was that was huge right there. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: only reason I don't put that one in the same category,
Speaker 1: the same category, yeah, because it was off setting. So
Speaker 1: you still got first and ten. You were still at
Speaker 1: first and ten. You didn't really lose anything. You didn't
Speaker 1: get that play. You didn't know that the point at
Speaker 1: that point in the game, how much you needed that stuff.
Speaker 1: You didn't know it till later. You're like, man, we
Speaker 1: were close to midfield. They didn't get the midfield until
Speaker 1: Turpin gave him, you know, put him the ball at midfield,
Speaker 1: by the way, for the first time this season, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, they got an opportunity to see what a
Speaker 1: weapon that guy can be because they were kicking it
Speaker 1: they were giving him opportunities yesterday and I thought you
Speaker 1: saw some of that, and one of them got negated
Speaker 1: by a penalty. But that's sixty three yard return that
Speaker 1: put him in position. But I want to get field
Speaker 1: goal out of it, but that he was gonna do
Speaker 1: that and the opening kickoff, yeah, he could cut back.
Speaker 1: I think, honestly, I think that the blades of grass there,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not used to that, you know it.
Speaker 1: It was a very soft, spongy, thick grass and and
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're not used to playing against that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And he tried to make a cut
Speaker 1: he used used to making. But um, I hed a
Speaker 1: mcquam who had a great block on that return. Because
Speaker 1: if they're gonna try and run it to the middle
Speaker 1: and instead he says, I gonna just take it up
Speaker 1: the sidelines because they got everybody pins inside. Mcquamo with
Speaker 1: a just really good one on one block in space
Speaker 1: that got him sprung out the door. Vision is this
Speaker 1: is a really good pickup by the cowboy, and he's
Speaker 1: he's a weapon. He makes plays that you don't without
Speaker 1: even touching the ball. We've seen some bad punts this year,
Speaker 1: shank punts and stuff like that, and and it's because
Speaker 1: of him. He's putting that on tape that you need
Speaker 1: to be fearful of him. And I think he'll he'll
Speaker 1: break one before with these colder weather games. That's what
Speaker 1: I was thinking too. You're gonna have to kick the
Speaker 1: ball and it's gonna be short, and he's gonna come
Speaker 1: flying and you're gonna block and he's gonna give you
Speaker 1: feel position or score. Yeah, that's the end of our show.
Speaker 1: But tomorrow we will talk about Dak coming back and
Speaker 1: what we think of Dak coming back. We got a
Speaker 1: chance to see him yesterday before the game and doctor said,
Speaker 1: Derek said, he's ready to play. I saw his sweet
Speaker 1: I think he's ready to play. But and then we
Speaker 1: heard from him after the game. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: all tomorrow and tell you where we think he is
Speaker 1: and what the prognosis is as far as him coming
Speaker 1: back this week. We'll do that tomorrow. So then for
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