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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, A bar Garcia, and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Monday, September twenty first, twenty twenty, Season sixteen,
Speaker 1: episode number twenty seven. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We're live in this WBC Mortgage Studios at the start
Speaker 1: at Dave and Amber joining us from their homes, and
Speaker 1: we got about forty five minutes to break down what
Speaker 1: we saw yesterday. That was That was one of those
Speaker 1: games that I love being a part of because it's
Speaker 1: all over the place. There's so many emotions that you
Speaker 1: feel as the game's going on. There's so many moments
Speaker 1: that you think, oh, this is going one way and
Speaker 1: then it flips. And then the great part about it
Speaker 1: is at the end of the day, the team that
Speaker 1: you're kind of rooting for actually ends up winning. So
Speaker 1: there's really nothing I have to complain about in that game.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna break down everything. There was so much
Speaker 1: to break down that game. Cowboys win forty to thirty nine.
Speaker 1: It was actually a historic game. Wait wait, did you
Speaker 1: say there's really nothing you have to complain about in
Speaker 1: that game? Yes, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I mean they won. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: they won. So yeah, there were gonna be some complaints
Speaker 1: I have and Amber, you know, because during the game
Speaker 1: I was losing my mind at certain parts. But yeah,
Speaker 1: when you get a win then it kind of changes,
Speaker 1: It kind of changes everything. But it was a historic
Speaker 1: day for the Cowboys. Here's it's interesting thing. I saw
Speaker 1: ESPN Stats put this out last night. Entering Week two
Speaker 1: of the NFL season, teams that were teams were four
Speaker 1: hundred and forty to nothing when they scored thirty nine
Speaker 1: points and had zero turnovers since nineteen thirty three, Like,
Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL, there's never been a
Speaker 1: team that scored thirty nine points, didn't have a turnover
Speaker 1: and ended up losing the game. And yesterday the Cowboys
Speaker 1: showed the Falcons how to get to that one that
Speaker 1: lone one of those four hundred and forty one game.
Speaker 1: So let's go around the table. I want everybody to
Speaker 1: tell me what do you think is the biggest story
Speaker 1: coming out of this game. We're gonna start first with you, Amber.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest story currently, I would say, is
Speaker 1: the questioning behind the coaching staff and the play calling
Speaker 1: and some of the decision making, not just from this
Speaker 1: specific game, but also looking back at Week one. I
Speaker 1: think there's still some questionable moments there as far as
Speaker 1: some of the decisions that we're made. So I would
Speaker 1: have to say the biggest conversation I've been seeing going around,
Speaker 1: it's just the question mark on whether or not McCarthy
Speaker 1: and his group of coaching have been making the right
Speaker 1: decisions at the right time. Nick, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. I mean, it's just it's playing the way
Speaker 1: he did and and you know, I've been wanted to
Speaker 1: kind of question him being a clutch player, and he's
Speaker 1: still got more of that to do, because you know,
Speaker 1: he this was one game, but he's you know, he's
Speaker 1: got a good body of work leading up to this.
Speaker 1: The last couple of years, he hasn't been and the
Speaker 1: team hasn't been as clutch, but they were on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And it starts with him he's a linebacker that plays quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's he's tough as nails, and he showed it in
Speaker 1: this game how resilient he was, and um, you know
Speaker 1: it was it was unbelievable, you know, just just the
Speaker 1: way he kind of led the team back like that,
Speaker 1: all of them did, I mean, and it was fortunate.
Speaker 1: They were fortunate to win. But I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: Dak been I've been asking for and he showed it.
Speaker 1: When you show his stat line, he was thirty four
Speaker 1: forty seven seventy two percentage completion and four and fifty yards,
Speaker 1: one passing touchdown, three rushing touchdowns, five rusgertes for eighteen yards.
Speaker 1: First time in the history of the NFL anyone's done that. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns and four hundred passing yards and then one fumble.
Speaker 1: Had a phenomenal day statistically, Dave, what's the storyline of
Speaker 1: this game for you? I'm so disappointed by the energy
Speaker 1: happening right now. And if we were all in the
Speaker 1: same room together, I would have cut y'all all off
Speaker 1: a long time ago. But it's hard to do over zoom.
Speaker 1: But like, are you actually kidding me? I mean, Nick's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right, The story of the day is
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. Like whether it's four because he wears four,
Speaker 1: four because he scored four touchdowns, four because he threw
Speaker 1: for four hundred and fifty yards. He put the entire
Speaker 1: franchise on his back in a hopeless situation, played like
Speaker 1: an absolute badass mofo. I want to curse, but I won't.
Speaker 1: I just think it's so big because I mean, Dak's
Speaker 1: done stuff like that his entire career. It didn't always
Speaker 1: look that flashy, but even going back to his rookie year,
Speaker 1: he's done stuff like that. It didn't happen in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: it was. It's the story of why they didn't get
Speaker 1: to the playoffs is because they came up short in
Speaker 1: these types of games. Obviously games not they weren't this crazy,
Speaker 1: but they were on the short end of the stick.
Speaker 1: Every time they wound up in a one score game.
Speaker 1: They flip the script against every odd, imaginable yesterday, and
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott was at the center of it all. And
Speaker 1: he's one of the most confident guys I've ever been around,
Speaker 1: football player or otherwise. But I just have to imagine
Speaker 1: that he's feeling good today knowing like, yeah, I still
Speaker 1: can do this. I did this six times in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: and here I am again pulling it out of the fire.
Speaker 1: My other big impression is, like, listen, a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff went wrong. There's a whole bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: we can criticize, and we'll get to it, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: But like, that's why you're a football fan, Like that's
Speaker 1: why you should love this sport is for stupid crap
Speaker 1: like that. And if you can't just laugh at the
Speaker 1: absurdity and just say wow, I'm I'm thrilled that the
Speaker 1: team I care about got to be part of a
Speaker 1: win like that, Like that's that's why you do it well.
Speaker 1: And we can critique it because that's our jobs. But
Speaker 1: just take a deep breath and have a nice laugh
Speaker 1: because that was incredible. Yeah, it's interesting day because you
Speaker 1: wake up in mornings like this the day after games
Speaker 1: like that, and it's so fun listening to people around
Speaker 1: the nation responding it. And I'm not talking about football.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about people around the nation and other sports,
Speaker 1: other athletes, other celebrities that were watching the game, and
Speaker 1: it's just funny just to listen to all the different
Speaker 1: you know, everybody talking about this game and at the
Speaker 1: end of it, how was get to win? Like that's
Speaker 1: the fun of games like this is that everybody's got
Speaker 1: an opinion. Everybody saw it, and it was just really, really,
Speaker 1: really fun to be able to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: If the Cowboys had played that game in a national
Speaker 1: window like they usually do instead of at noon during
Speaker 1: ten other games, we'd be talking about it as one
Speaker 1: of the best regular season games of the last ten years,
Speaker 1: which it still was, but it didn't have that. You know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't on its own. If it had been on
Speaker 1: its own in a primetime window, it would be it
Speaker 1: would be on another level than it already is before
Speaker 1: we get to the moments that matter. I do want
Speaker 1: to stick with that topic of Dak Prescott. Nick, you
Speaker 1: brought it up and talked about how how clutch you
Speaker 1: thought he was in that game. I saw a couple
Speaker 1: of different things on social media where people were kind
Speaker 1: of like, well, he didn't play that great for most
Speaker 1: of the game. I think there is a perception out
Speaker 1: there that he didn't play great throughout the game. It
Speaker 1: was just clutch in the end. I take exception to that.
Speaker 1: I think of all the players on the Cowboys team.
Speaker 1: I think he was one of the most consistent players
Speaker 1: throughout the game outside of the fumble. I don't know
Speaker 1: that I had a problem with anything else. He'd be
Speaker 1: at the rest of the day. What did you think? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, I thought he you know, yeah, he fumbled
Speaker 1: early on, But that was the story of everybody who
Speaker 1: messed up early in the game. I mean they redeemed themselves.
Speaker 1: Not everybody, but I'm just saying, you know, fumbled by
Speaker 1: by Dak, fumbled by Zeke, fumbled by Schultz, goodwe d
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, Fossil, you know, I mean, Fossil
Speaker 1: redeemed himself. And it maybe it wasn't even what he did,
Speaker 1: his decision yesterday, but his decision a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago or months ago to practice that kick. So a
Speaker 1: lot of them redeemed themselves. But I thought, Dak, I thought,
Speaker 1: I mean, who comes from the tent to a quarterback sneak?
Speaker 1: Who does that? I mean it's like, is your head okay,
Speaker 1: you have a concussion? No, okay, well then go lead
Speaker 1: with your head and ram it into there to twenty
Speaker 1: players and see if you can score touchdown. Go okay,
Speaker 1: and He's like, Okay, what he does? Yeah, what do
Speaker 1: you guys think? You guys agree that, I mean pretty
Speaker 1: pretty much do out the game Dak I thought was great.
Speaker 1: What did you guys think, David Amber The first thing
Speaker 1: I did, the first thing, sorry, Angie, The first thing
Speaker 1: I did this morning was watch you know, the NFL
Speaker 1: put up a four minute cut up of all of
Speaker 1: Dak's big plays. It was four freaking minutes long. It
Speaker 1: was four minutes long, a cut up of his of
Speaker 1: his completions and his his rushing touchdowns. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he fumbled. He was trying to do too much. I
Speaker 1: thought the entire team was pressing in the first quarter
Speaker 1: and it only made it worse. Whether I mean anything
Speaker 1: from Tony Pollard making inexplicable decisions to take kicks out
Speaker 1: of the end zone to you know, guys fumbling because
Speaker 1: they're thinking ahead of time and they so. Yeah, Dak
Speaker 1: does that. He's trying to do too much. He's trying
Speaker 1: to turn a busted play into a game. Fumbles and
Speaker 1: from there on out, honestly, what did he do wrong?
Speaker 1: He had one questionable throw in the third quarter that
Speaker 1: could have been picked. He was looking for Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: on the sideline and threw into double coverage. Other than that,
Speaker 1: I don't know that he made a bad decision the
Speaker 1: rest of the way. I mean, I thought he was
Speaker 1: fantastic from about the midway point of the first quarter
Speaker 1: through the end of the game. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: one of the three best games he's played in his career.
Speaker 1: If I had to guess, as indicated by that seventy
Speaker 1: two percent completion rate, that is a huge number. I think,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Amber, what are your thoughts. I was gonna
Speaker 1: say that I'm the first one to make to start
Speaker 1: the argument of whether how great Dak is and the
Speaker 1: fact that he, to me, has always needed great players
Speaker 1: around him in order for him to be successful. It
Speaker 1: wasn't the case in this game, at least that's not
Speaker 1: how I took it. The way he played, I felt
Speaker 1: that he was regardless of the mistakes. Let's just forget
Speaker 1: about that. It wasn't a situation where I felt that
Speaker 1: he was forcing the ball to a specific player. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a situation where he was needed to rely on
Speaker 1: these great players specifically. And again we know cite Lamb,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup. They made great catches and great plays at
Speaker 1: key moments, but at the same time, taking into account
Speaker 1: the fact that he didn't have the starting two tackles,
Speaker 1: he was able to play the game. And there wasn't
Speaker 1: a single instance where I was like, damn, Dak, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? He was able to be a leader
Speaker 1: he did. We know how much confidence he has in
Speaker 1: himself and the way that he is not able to
Speaker 1: get startled by the situation, whether it's better or no.
Speaker 1: We saw him get out of the feel hurt. He
Speaker 1: had something I don't remember what it was, but he
Speaker 1: was getting checked by the medical staff, and that he
Speaker 1: got back riding to the game, made a play. So
Speaker 1: he was just so consistent throughout the game as far
Speaker 1: as the kind of leader that you need someone to
Speaker 1: be in such a crazy game like that. So to me,
Speaker 1: he was absolutely amazing. What we're gonna do is we
Speaker 1: have these moments that matter. We started the segment last week,
Speaker 1: We're gonna do it, continue it this week, and we're
Speaker 1: going to go through some of the big moments of
Speaker 1: the game. Obviously, there were a lot of questionable At
Speaker 1: least I'll say this, there were a lot of situations
Speaker 1: in that game where you questioned what the coaches were
Speaker 1: thinking and what players were thinking. So we're gonna go through.
Speaker 1: I think I have like four or five of those
Speaker 1: that we're gonna go through real quick. And actually, what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do is, let's go ahead and take a
Speaker 1: quick early break. We got a couple of minutes before
Speaker 1: our normal break. We're gonna go and tecond early break.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back. We're gonna jump into those moments
Speaker 1: that matter, and we're gonna start with that first fake
Speaker 1: punt and talk about that and the circumstances around it.
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Speaker 1: we're gonna get into the moments that mattered here, and
Speaker 1: I got four of them for you, guys. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: walk you through these, and I want you guys to
Speaker 1: tell me what you think the significance was of these
Speaker 1: plays and some of the decision making that was made
Speaker 1: in them. Let's start first with first quarters five to
Speaker 1: fifty seven left in the first quarter. Atlanta's up fourteen nothing.
Speaker 1: It's fourth and fourth of Dallas twenty nine, so they're
Speaker 1: backed up in their own territory and Dallas runs a
Speaker 1: fake punt where Chris Jones attempts to pass to CJ. Goodwin,
Speaker 1: passes low, Goodwin can't make the catch. Do you think
Speaker 1: it was a good decision there in your own backed
Speaker 1: up that far in your own territory, down fourteen nothing
Speaker 1: to be able to go for a fake punt. Let's
Speaker 1: start first with you, Dave. This is a really classic
Speaker 1: case of like your opinion being dictated by the result.
Speaker 1: And I felt it at the time. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: awfully early to be this desperate, like you have that
Speaker 1: little faith in your defense that you think you got
Speaker 1: to do this right here on this yard line to
Speaker 1: keep this thing from getting out of control, like, maybe
Speaker 1: put a little faith in your defense. They've already forced
Speaker 1: a punt or two. Having said that, if Chris Jones
Speaker 1: throws a better pass or c. J. Goodwin doesn't slip
Speaker 1: looking back for it, it's amazing, and we're talking about
Speaker 1: it like it's amazing. You know, the Chris Jones fake
Speaker 1: four years ago where he ran for forty yards against
Speaker 1: Philadelphia comes to mind. I don't remember the specific circumstances,
Speaker 1: but it was an aggressive call and everybody loved it
Speaker 1: because it worked like Gangbusters, So I will you know,
Speaker 1: it felt desperate at the time, but I'll just say
Speaker 1: I like the thought that they're going that they are
Speaker 1: going to be this aggressive. We know if John Fossil
Speaker 1: loves to fake punts and do stuff like that, I'm
Speaker 1: in favor of it as a trend, even if I
Speaker 1: didn't love it at the time. Camber, I liked it.
Speaker 1: I liked the call. I thought I'd whipping asking for
Speaker 1: creativity and for them to be, you know, risky in
Speaker 1: certain scenarios, and that's exactly what they gave was. But
Speaker 1: it comes down to execution. I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: how often they've been practicing this during their practices. Is
Speaker 1: this something that the coaching staff was feeling comfortable with
Speaker 1: their players making or being able to make that kind
Speaker 1: of play. I don't know, but it just comes down
Speaker 1: to the player. I thought the call was great, but
Speaker 1: they were lacking any execution. Nickum, Yeah, I actually got
Speaker 1: a got some win that this might happen. And I
Speaker 1: had a conversation with someone about that. They he'll throw
Speaker 1: the ball to CJ. Godwin or Cedric Wilson, and I
Speaker 1: my question was why CJ. Goodwin? Why why don't you
Speaker 1: throw it to a receiver. It's like, well, whoever's going
Speaker 1: to be open. But you know, today's point that was
Speaker 1: that was I don't know if it was desperate because
Speaker 1: they were. That was like on Friday, They're like, they're
Speaker 1: gonna do this at some point and then they're gonna
Speaker 1: find the time where the look is right. So the
Speaker 1: look was right, and and CJ. Goodwin's going to be
Speaker 1: more open because he's really fast and he's one of
Speaker 1: the best special teams players on the team, if not
Speaker 1: the best, and so when he's running, I mean, they
Speaker 1: know that if he stops, he's gonna be wide open.
Speaker 1: The pass was lower than it needed to be and
Speaker 1: he fell and he didn't look like a receiver. But
Speaker 1: you know, I regret and I was gonna mention that
Speaker 1: to you guys. I was like, watch watch for this
Speaker 1: because it could it could happen, because I didn't think
Speaker 1: they're gonna do two fake punts. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: just think it was a look they were looking for.
Speaker 1: And you know, Chris Jones got to throw the ball
Speaker 1: better than that. Yeah. Actually I loved this call, and
Speaker 1: during the game, I actually love the call because you're
Speaker 1: already down fourteen. Oh you kind of want to get
Speaker 1: something going and established some momentum and try to flip
Speaker 1: the game a little bit. And to me, the call
Speaker 1: was great. I mean, they obviously whatever they saw and
Speaker 1: whatever they were working on, it presented itself there. They
Speaker 1: just didn't execute it, and that you put on the players.
Speaker 1: I don't put that on the coaches. I think it
Speaker 1: was a good decision. I think the timing was good.
Speaker 1: I just think in that situation, the players got execute
Speaker 1: and they didn't do it very well. And that's where
Speaker 1: you run into the issue of, well, the guy is
Speaker 1: a special teams player and a backup secondary player, like
Speaker 1: the likelihood that he's going to run a great route
Speaker 1: and catch it. Yeah, you're kind of playing with it
Speaker 1: a little playing with fire a little bit there. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I think the call
Speaker 1: was right, and I think I didn't have a problem
Speaker 1: with him doing it. Let's move on to the next
Speaker 1: moment that matter mattered. It was seven or four left
Speaker 1: in the third quarter. Atlanta's up twenty one seventeen, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: twenty nine seventeen. Third and two at the Dallas forty one.
Speaker 1: Gage gets a direct snap. He throws a deep past
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, and Jones drops it. Now, of course, that's
Speaker 1: not what you would expect to see from Julio Jones
Speaker 1: already in Dallas territory. Atlanta lines up to go for
Speaker 1: the fourth down conversion, only to get a penalty for
Speaker 1: having too many men on the field and that forced
Speaker 1: them to punt it. My question for you guys, if
Speaker 1: Atlanta scores on Jones drop, probably don't lose the game.
Speaker 1: You guys agree or disagree with that call. Agree. I
Speaker 1: just did a video for BOS. Turning to the going
Speaker 1: of the game, that was the in my opinion, the
Speaker 1: biggest play of the game. You guys agree that the
Speaker 1: whole sequence of that, and then not because they're not
Speaker 1: gonna get stopped on fourth and two. That's why they
Speaker 1: did it on third and two, because they're not going
Speaker 1: to stop you on fourth and two. Then stopped you
Speaker 1: all game until they get a penalty. But it was
Speaker 1: the stop the Cowboys needed. And then they flip it
Speaker 1: in the Mary gets that long catch which they needed
Speaker 1: a big, quick touchdown to go the other way. So
Speaker 1: that whole sequence is, to me, the difference of the game.
Speaker 1: How shocked were you, guys? No, I just I have
Speaker 1: to laugh because you know, there's there's a fatalist type
Speaker 1: of Cowboy fan, and given how long the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: been waiting to win another Super Bowl, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of them. And people are always like, we never get
Speaker 1: those breaks, that stuff never happens to us. It's always
Speaker 1: us doing the dumb stuff. And I mean that that
Speaker 1: is a break that is that was such a ridiculous
Speaker 1: break that the best, the best receiver in football drops
Speaker 1: an open touchdown pass and then you make a bow
Speaker 1: and had a decision like that that robs you out
Speaker 1: of getting points out or being able to go for
Speaker 1: it on fourth down. Yeah, if either one of those
Speaker 1: players goes in different way. We're talking about a loss,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt in my mind, but you know where
Speaker 1: that happens. I was talking to a coach after the game,
Speaker 1: and he was saying high school coach, not one of
Speaker 1: the coaches, but he was saying that that happens when
Speaker 1: you do personnel like that. When your quarterback goes over
Speaker 1: here and you've got like gauge throwing it, it messes
Speaker 1: up your whole personnel. So then they get in there
Speaker 1: and then he thinks he's staying on the field and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, that kind of led to the
Speaker 1: fourth down, which I didn't even I don't think about
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But but yeah, I mean, so
Speaker 1: it's just all small little things, a five yard penalty,
Speaker 1: but that that wiped them, you know, off the field,
Speaker 1: and then that was the break the Cowboys needed. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones dropping that pass like that, Like, how shocked
Speaker 1: are you guys that the Cowboys were able to hold
Speaker 1: Julio Jones to only two catches. You only had four targets,
Speaker 1: but two catches for twenty four yards? Do you think
Speaker 1: that was more function of the defense, which we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the defense a little bit later. But do
Speaker 1: you think that was more of the defense or do
Speaker 1: you think Julio just had a rough day, Dave. Wasn't
Speaker 1: he dealing with an injury he was? Yeah. I will
Speaker 1: say this though, the whole thing a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I will say this, I have watched I have
Speaker 1: watched Julio Jones play a lot of football because he's
Speaker 1: only been on my fantasy team a lot of years.
Speaker 1: Even when he's hurt, that what we saw yesterday is
Speaker 1: not typical Julio Jones. He still makes plays even when
Speaker 1: he's hurt. The guy's a machine, so right that he
Speaker 1: should have caught that one, right, I mean, didn't he
Speaker 1: just maybe Trayvon wasn't ready. Yeah. I really like him though,
Speaker 1: Trayvon Dix, if he can just actually catch the ball,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be he's gonna drop. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I didn't say it was a drop. What I said
Speaker 1: was he makes some extraordinary plays, like him getting in
Speaker 1: position to even be able to knock that ball down.
Speaker 1: That takes extraordinary talent, outing his ability. If he can
Speaker 1: catch it, now he turns into that next level player
Speaker 1: that they've been looking for. The cornerback position for a while, right,
Speaker 1: I bet you. I bet if it was the other
Speaker 1: way around, they might have called interference on it. If
Speaker 1: it was the defensive guy, you know, if he because
Speaker 1: he can't close someone's hands like that, can't you get
Speaker 1: I don't know. On offense, it doesn't work. Hey, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys got another break. They got an offensive pass interference
Speaker 1: that they didn't call this week. Did you see that?
Speaker 1: I mean it was yeah, it was Tiki ta yah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But the guy also flopped too, and you're like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: you're not Jalen Ramsey. I mean, Jaylen can flop and
Speaker 1: he gets it. You can't flop, you'd get up? Who
Speaker 1: are you? He just lost the game because he was
Speaker 1: trying to you know, get him, get him charge. Sorry,
Speaker 1: all right, We're would have to go back, and I'd
Speaker 1: have to. I'd have to. I'd have to watch the
Speaker 1: tape for sure to see what the Dallas defense did
Speaker 1: to Julio. It's fair to say he struggled because he
Speaker 1: dropped a touchdown pass. But that's what I always say,
Speaker 1: is like, I mean Ridley and Ridley gauge and Hurst
Speaker 1: ate him alive. So you know, I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: probably focused on Julio, but it's it's not like they
Speaker 1: shut down the passing attack, and they did score thirty
Speaker 1: nine points, so something worked for them. Yeah, let's move
Speaker 1: on to the next moment that mattered. This is fourth
Speaker 1: quarter to twelve, fifty three left in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: Atlanta's up thirty six twenty four, and it's fourth and
Speaker 1: five at the Dallas forty. Dallas runs another fake punt.
Speaker 1: This time it is a direct snap to Darry and Thompson.
Speaker 1: Do you like this decision to go for it on
Speaker 1: fourth down? Let's start first with you, Nick. No. I
Speaker 1: didn't like that one because again, you've got Pollard in there,
Speaker 1: and like, it's like, let your running backs run the ball,
Speaker 1: not your safety. And if fourth and five, if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys lined up on offense, would they run Zeke up
Speaker 1: the middle on fourth and five? I doubt it. I
Speaker 1: mean they might, but it's like, if you're gonna just
Speaker 1: do that, then why don't you let the guy that's
Speaker 1: already got three hundred and seventy five yards passing? Whyn't
Speaker 1: you just let them try to get five yards? If
Speaker 1: you really want to go for it, don't give it
Speaker 1: to Darry and Thompson to run the ball up the
Speaker 1: middle with those blockers that that's not Connor Williams up there,
Speaker 1: that's like Joe Thomas and the Schultz blocking and left.
Speaker 1: So I didn't didn't like that call. Yamber absolutely agree.
Speaker 1: I think that if that was their decision going in,
Speaker 1: that should have Just like you, they always say you
Speaker 1: want your best guys on the field. So if you're
Speaker 1: going with that mentality that you're just gonna go try
Speaker 1: to get those five yards, then keep your best guys
Speaker 1: on the field and make it happen. So I completely
Speaker 1: agree with everything that Nick said. I don't think that
Speaker 1: was the right call for me, Dave. It has it
Speaker 1: has been a law. I can't remember hating a call
Speaker 1: more than I've hated that, Like anything Jason Garrett ever did,
Speaker 1: I can't remember a time where I hated something more
Speaker 1: than I hated that. Because what's what is the benefit
Speaker 1: of a fake? It's that the defense doesn't see it
Speaker 1: coming right, Who in their right mind would be surprised
Speaker 1: by a fake? When you're down by twelve and the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, you know you need to generate offense. You
Speaker 1: know you need to stay on the field. You've already
Speaker 1: faked it. Your special team scored Nator has a reputation
Speaker 1: for faking it. Put your offense on the field and
Speaker 1: just go for it. Nobody is surprised by that. I
Speaker 1: hated it so much, and I mean Amber and Nick
Speaker 1: already covered it. But yeah, I thought it was awful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad. Glad. Now I'm glad we all agree because
Speaker 1: that's exactly the way I looked at it. I didn't
Speaker 1: have a problem with them going for it on fourth down.
Speaker 1: It was all about the fact that there was no
Speaker 1: surprise in doing a fake punt at that point. So
Speaker 1: put your offense, which, by the way, your offense was clicking.
Speaker 1: That was a part of the game where they were
Speaker 1: actually moving the ball pretty well. Take a shot, go
Speaker 1: for it on fourth down. Put your guys out there,
Speaker 1: let them actually make a play and see if you
Speaker 1: can get a first down and keep the change moving.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the final memorable moment that I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about. This one happened in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: about four fifty seven left in the game. Dallas is
Speaker 1: down thirty nine to thirty. At this point, Dallas scores
Speaker 1: a TD on a pass from Dalk from Dak to
Speaker 1: Schultz by the way, really really I thought, really really
Speaker 1: great route. And we'll talk about Schultz a little later
Speaker 1: in the show as well, but I thought it was
Speaker 1: a really great route. Though it was really great passed,
Speaker 1: they convert, they get the touchdown, Mike McCarthy opts to
Speaker 1: attempt a two point conversion rather than take the point
Speaker 1: after touchdown. After the game, Mike McCarthy was asked about it,
Speaker 1: and he says that he would prefer to know earlier
Speaker 1: than later whether he would need to score twice, which
Speaker 1: is an interesting take that I'd never really heard a
Speaker 1: coach put out there before. My question for you guys
Speaker 1: is do you agree with the strategy? Let's start first
Speaker 1: with you Amber. No, not at all. I kept going
Speaker 1: back and forth, and I wish I had I wish
Speaker 1: I wrote it on a piece of paper because I
Speaker 1: had it on my phone on my note and I
Speaker 1: kept writing every single scenario. I'm like, let me try
Speaker 1: to make sense of this reasoning as to why you
Speaker 1: would try to go for a two point conversion in
Speaker 1: this specific play at this time of the game. And honestly,
Speaker 1: it came down to me not being able to make
Speaker 1: much sense of it. I would have rather getting to
Speaker 1: a point where I can tide the game rather than
Speaker 1: risk it on that last play of the game where
Speaker 1: I'm sure we're gonna talk about it in death here
Speaker 1: with the kick. But that's that's that's how improbable. I
Speaker 1: think that they got lucky in that play and they
Speaker 1: won the game because the Falcons didn't do what they
Speaker 1: were supposed to do. And I know that there was
Speaker 1: some confusion there as to Okay, at what point should
Speaker 1: you grab the ball, at what point do you go
Speaker 1: for it or what? But they just got really, really
Speaker 1: fortunate and it ended up working in their favor this time.
Speaker 1: But just going back of it, I just cannot make
Speaker 1: much sense of that call, Dave. Let's let's lay let's
Speaker 1: lay this out and give it some context, because it's
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a you could you could write
Speaker 1: a thesis about this if you wanted to. Like, this
Speaker 1: wasn't a willy nilly decision on Mike McCarthy's part. There's
Speaker 1: been a ton of study done about this. The numbers
Speaker 1: show that it is actually a sensible thing to do.
Speaker 1: We've seen coaches like Doug Peterson do this before. If
Speaker 1: you think back to the Eagles Packers game last year.
Speaker 1: I believe the Eagles scored to take a seven point
Speaker 1: lead and Doug Peterson went for two and he didn't
Speaker 1: get it. But again, the numbers bear that out, like
Speaker 1: you can look at the charts and say, this is
Speaker 1: what the numbers people say you're supposed to do. So
Speaker 1: it's not like Mike McCarthy pulled this out of thin air.
Speaker 1: There's a ton of stuff out on the Internet that
Speaker 1: you can read about why it makes sense me personally,
Speaker 1: and I will acknowledge I'm terrible at math. That's why
Speaker 1: I became a writer, is I don't understand stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but at the same time I can't fully wrap my
Speaker 1: head around it. The idea is that, and Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: said it, you want to know as quickly as possible
Speaker 1: what you need or what you don't need. So it's
Speaker 1: almost like it's almost like Pavlov's or not Pavlov's dog,
Speaker 1: Schrodinger's cat is like the two point conversion is just
Speaker 1: kind of hanging out there in the ether, and the
Speaker 1: sooner you figure out whether you have it or not,
Speaker 1: the better off you all. And it worked in the
Speaker 1: cowboys favor. They caught every break. It imaginable, and they
Speaker 1: made it work. But in my mind, I think you
Speaker 1: have a better chance of kicking the extra point there,
Speaker 1: and then it is an eight point game and you
Speaker 1: take it down to the end and you either get
Speaker 1: the extra point or you don't. But at least you
Speaker 1: don't have to get two more possessions. You only need one.
Speaker 1: And I can hear the analytics people right now. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys tried that against the Jets last year and they
Speaker 1: lost on the two point conversion. So it's not guaranteed
Speaker 1: to work. But the thought that you're going to get
Speaker 1: the ball two more times in less than five minutes
Speaker 1: is crazy to me. And what's even crazier is that
Speaker 1: it actually worked out. Like you're talking about a point
Speaker 1: zero one probability, and the Cowboys got it yesterday and
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. Nice
Speaker 1: shout out there on Shrodden, just cat, and I love
Speaker 1: that that reference. All right, go ahead, Nick, which I'll
Speaker 1: just say all that stuff said. I still don't like it.
Speaker 1: I still don't like it, but there's way smarter people
Speaker 1: who say it's the right thing to do. So all right, Nick,
Speaker 1: they can sit right here and I'll argue with them
Speaker 1: all day. I don't care. I've said it one hundred times,
Speaker 1: Butcarthur can sit right here with the Super Bowl ring
Speaker 1: in my face and I'll argue with him. A terrible call,
Speaker 1: terrible decision. You don't do that at all, And I agree.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's what they just said you. You need
Speaker 1: to know what you need to do, like he wants
Speaker 1: to find out what he wants. Hey, the Falcons have
Speaker 1: scored thirty nine points on your ass the whole game.
Speaker 1: You need to stop him. That's what you need to do.
Speaker 1: And you need to stop him once, not twice. So like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what else, what else. Analytics sound great,
Speaker 1: but the game is telling you what's happening. The game
Speaker 1: is telling you. And what I hate about it is
Speaker 1: is that if you get the when you get the
Speaker 1: ball back and you're down by nine, you got to
Speaker 1: score twice your offensive. I mean, your best player is
Speaker 1: Zeke and he can't really be a factor because you
Speaker 1: now have to score twice. You have to run down.
Speaker 1: It worked out for them, that's great, but to me
Speaker 1: that I think, I think it was a terrible decision
Speaker 1: to do that, and I see it happen all the
Speaker 1: time now I see coaches do it, and I definitely
Speaker 1: don't understand it. But yeah, it worked. It didn't work
Speaker 1: because of that. It just worked out. It didn't work
Speaker 1: because it's like, oh, they went for two. It worked,
Speaker 1: they got lucky, they went they You can't tell me
Speaker 1: you're using analytics if you're going to rely on an
Speaker 1: onsite kick, which is what is the percentage of that
Speaker 1: nine percent? Eight percent? So I don't know six six percent.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it worked out for them, But man,
Speaker 1: I thought that was a terrible move. Yeah. It's the
Speaker 1: interesting part here to me is I kind of see this.
Speaker 1: I see the point on both sides. I was, by
Speaker 1: the way, I was losing my mind when he did it,
Speaker 1: thinking what was that? That is a horrible Nick I
Speaker 1: texted you. I was like, I'm starting to worry a
Speaker 1: little bit about the coach's ability to make the right
Speaker 1: call because I don't know if that's a good call
Speaker 1: like that just and I'm combining with it with other
Speaker 1: calls that I've seen over the last two weeks that
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's another text that I sent to you.
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, Nick did say in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: First quarter, Nick did say they were going to win
Speaker 1: this game. But that's a typical Nick calling the kickoff
Speaker 1: like that. Nick he does. Don't act like I didn't
Speaker 1: put it on Twitter. You put it out, you did.
Speaker 1: You absolutely do it, You absolutely do. But but it
Speaker 1: was hinted on that that that player like they have
Speaker 1: to stop him here because twenty four nothing. I'm not in,
Speaker 1: but I'm in on twenty nothing, but not twenty four.
Speaker 1: But but I think the interesting thing is what you
Speaker 1: always hear from coaches. What I've always heard from coaches
Speaker 1: over the years I've watched football and played football when
Speaker 1: I was in high school, was you always keep yourself
Speaker 1: in the game as long as you possibly can. And
Speaker 1: that's the purpose of taking the extra point. You take
Speaker 1: the extra point, and you defer the thing of having
Speaker 1: to go for two until later because you just want
Speaker 1: to keep giving your team hope and giving your team
Speaker 1: the opportunity to know that, hey, if we get to touchdown,
Speaker 1: then all we need a two point conversion, rather than
Speaker 1: hey we need a point, we need a touchdown, we
Speaker 1: need an extra point, and then we got to get
Speaker 1: the ball back and go down and score again. You know,
Speaker 1: you can make the argument that going for two actually
Speaker 1: lost the game for the Falcons. Because they're up twenty
Speaker 1: six to seven, they decide they just want to go
Speaker 1: up a nice even twenty one points. Why, I mean,
Speaker 1: just just keep taking points until you need it, because
Speaker 1: it would it would have changed some things. Now you
Speaker 1: lost by one point, yeah, the game would have been
Speaker 1: a little bit different. But I mean, at that point
Speaker 1: in the game, third quarters, just keep taking your points,
Speaker 1: your points. I will say this one one of the
Speaker 1: arguments that I've heard is, hey, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: get a two point conversion either way. At some point
Speaker 1: you had to get a two point conversion here, and
Speaker 1: so you're gonna have to go for it. So why
Speaker 1: not go ahead and go for it early? And then
Speaker 1: again goes back to what Mike McCarthy said, you at
Speaker 1: least know where you are in the game, rather than
Speaker 1: you miss it with the like in the Jets game,
Speaker 1: you don't get the two point conversion and then everything's done.
Speaker 1: My argument back to that is you're probably still in
Speaker 1: the same boat. You still now have to go and
Speaker 1: get an onside kick, which they were somehow miraculously able
Speaker 1: to convert, and then go down to get a field goal.
Speaker 1: So I don't know that that changes anything. My point
Speaker 1: is that you still put yourself in a situation early
Speaker 1: where you did, to some degree make your team feel
Speaker 1: like there was a larger uphill climb in order to
Speaker 1: tie or win that ball game that you put yourself
Speaker 1: in by taking that two point try early. I still
Speaker 1: think the right call is to go ahead and take
Speaker 1: your extra point there, Good Dave. I'll steal this line
Speaker 1: from my buddy Cowboys Stats and Graphics, which, like, you
Speaker 1: should follow that account on Twitter. It's it's great, which
Speaker 1: he said last night. If you can divorce yourself from
Speaker 1: the idea that losing late is better than losing early,
Speaker 1: you can open yourself up to this line of thinking,
Speaker 1: which I appreciate that, Like, he's not wrong, but I
Speaker 1: just can't get all the way there because I think
Speaker 1: purely analytical people like they want football to be baseball
Speaker 1: so badly, and it's it's just not for me, Like
Speaker 1: some of these decisions don't happen in a vacuum. That's
Speaker 1: a great point. If you go for two early and
Speaker 1: don't get it, you run the risk of demoralizing the
Speaker 1: entire team, which maybe that's not you know, maybe that's
Speaker 1: not right. Maybe you should have a more professional mindset,
Speaker 1: but human nature is what it is. There are so
Speaker 1: many ridiculous moving parts that go into every facet of
Speaker 1: a football game that you can't approach it from a
Speaker 1: purely analytical standpoint. In my opinion, love analytics. I think
Speaker 1: they're great, but sometimes I do think like gut feeling
Speaker 1: and all that other stupid crap come into play. Now.
Speaker 1: Of course, the irony is that it worked out for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. It did. I think if you do if
Speaker 1: you run that sequence, if you run that sequence ninety
Speaker 1: nine times, I think you lose one hundred. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, if you run it one hundred times, I
Speaker 1: think you lose ninety nine. But who am I to
Speaker 1: talk too much trash? When they pulled it off, I
Speaker 1: mean they really needed a miraculous moment, which was that,
Speaker 1: I mean that an onside kick. Without that, then we're
Speaker 1: talking today about the fact that you didn't give you
Speaker 1: a chance. I don't think you gave your team the
Speaker 1: best chance to win by keeping them in a situation
Speaker 1: where it could come down to that final two point conversion.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go and take our final break when we
Speaker 1: come back. I do want to talk about a couple
Speaker 1: of players and how they performed yesterday, including Dalton Schultz. Nick,
Speaker 1: you mentioned that last week. We'll talk about that when
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Speaker 1: Cowboys were able to get twenty one thousand people into
Speaker 1: the stadium and all by all accounts, it looks like
Speaker 1: it was pretty successful. They had people in the pods
Speaker 1: based upon you know, you kind of sat with your
Speaker 1: friends and family that were with you. Everybody else was
Speaker 1: socially distant, and I know, it was a nice environment.
Speaker 1: It was nice to be back in an environment where
Speaker 1: you actually could hear crowd noise and it felt like
Speaker 1: a regular game to me, as opposed to Week one,
Speaker 1: that felt very very weird. Yeah, it where I was sitting,
Speaker 1: I was away from you guys, but which sucked. But
Speaker 1: I was sitting in a spot where the you know,
Speaker 1: the window was opened. You could kind of hear the
Speaker 1: crowd and somebody mum. But when they got the onsite kick,
Speaker 1: I mean, that seemed loud to me. I mean, that
Speaker 1: seemed like that was not as loud as it could be,
Speaker 1: but I didn't really notice. I mean, it seemed like
Speaker 1: it was a big deal. Yeah, it was good. It
Speaker 1: was It was fun to be in that environment, and
Speaker 1: certainly after so many, so many months of being isolated,
Speaker 1: it felt good to be in an environment where there
Speaker 1: were people and uh, and they were actually enjoying a
Speaker 1: game together. So what happens when it's really cold, like
Speaker 1: in December, They're gonna keep them keep it open like that.
Speaker 1: I think they will. Yeah, I think you have to.
Speaker 1: I think you need to and a baby. And by
Speaker 1: the way, even at that, it's not gonna be nearly
Speaker 1: as cold as if you're doing an outside game in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: And they managed to filter stadium during a normal season,
Speaker 1: So I think, I think you'll be fine. They can
Speaker 1: always have to play in Cincinnati and it's not gonna
Speaker 1: be that bad. It'll be all right. Real quick, I
Speaker 1: did one too before we end the show, talk about
Speaker 1: a couple of players and their performances yesterday. Dalton Schultz
Speaker 1: comes to mind. He was a guy that we've given like,
Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about how he's not the answer.
Speaker 1: And I think when Blake, yeah you did you absolutely
Speaker 1: cut him on last Monday, I think it was Blake
Speaker 1: Jarwin goes down and I think all of us agreed
Speaker 1: across the board that the Cowboys needed to do something.
Speaker 1: They need to consider something. I know I was looking for,
Speaker 1: pushing for them to go and look at Delaney Walker.
Speaker 1: But yesterday Dalton Schultz shows up in a big way
Speaker 1: for the team. He does have the fumble early in
Speaker 1: the game, but he comes back. He has ten targets.
Speaker 1: He catches nine of those passes for eighty eight yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. My question is, at this point, do
Speaker 1: you feel like the Cowboys, between Schultz and Bell have
Speaker 1: enough at tight end for you to feel comfortable with
Speaker 1: the tight end position moving forward for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. Let's start first with you, Nick, because you're
Speaker 1: the one that called this on Friday saying you expected
Speaker 1: Schultz is gonna have a big game, Right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: expect us that our expectations of him to be a
Speaker 1: little bit better. I don't know if I'm still comfortable
Speaker 1: with that. I mean, I do think his nine catches
Speaker 1: eighty eight yards was a product of the game being
Speaker 1: more wide open stuff like that. I don't think he
Speaker 1: is your prototype tight end to be the blocker and
Speaker 1: catcher and all that stuff. Um, but he did a
Speaker 1: nice job and and he he did catch the ball. Well. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't think in a twenty one to seventeen type
Speaker 1: of game that he's he's the right answer there. But
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's got a spot for sure. And
Speaker 1: I thought he did a nice job catching the ball
Speaker 1: and all that. Uh, he surpassed my expectations. I thought
Speaker 1: he would be better than than he was last week,
Speaker 1: but not not to this point. But I still think,
Speaker 1: you know, he's not I mean, he's not like the
Speaker 1: guy that's just going to be overpowering at the Lion
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Dave Um Well, I mean, I gotta give
Speaker 1: him a shout out first, because yeah, I mean everybody
Speaker 1: everybody killed him last week, at myself included. I'm not
Speaker 1: like trying to not be part of that. Everybody was
Speaker 1: very critical. Even going back, you know, people were saying
Speaker 1: he might not make the team out of training camp.
Speaker 1: There's competition, YadA, YadA. I thought he played great. No
Speaker 1: disrespect to him. Like all I'm doing is I'm putting
Speaker 1: a pin in it, like this is something that I'm
Speaker 1: monitoring week by week. He played great. I don't think
Speaker 1: at Lanta's defense is anything special. I don't think you're
Speaker 1: always going to be in a situation where you're just
Speaker 1: absolutely airing it out all the time like this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Nick Nick is right. The stats kind of
Speaker 1: gets skewed. You're probably asking your tight ends to do
Speaker 1: less in the running game when you're trailing by two
Speaker 1: scores in the second half. So I was really impressed.
Speaker 1: So I'm not looking I'm not looking for tight ends
Speaker 1: right now, but I'm also not just satisfied. And you know,
Speaker 1: we're all good at the tight end position. But I
Speaker 1: thought he was great, and but you still want to
Speaker 1: cut him, just like Dave said, I'm gonna put a
Speaker 1: pin on that one. I mean, it was great. It
Speaker 1: was forgetting the first part of the game, because everyone
Speaker 1: played bad basically, but forgetting that, I thought it was
Speaker 1: really nice. And credit to him for making the plays
Speaker 1: that he did. It was nice to see him take
Speaker 1: some of what he did during training camp and apply
Speaker 1: it into an actual game. I was one that really
Speaker 1: really doubted him and said I didn't think he would
Speaker 1: be able to carry that from training camp into a game.
Speaker 1: So kudos to him. But at the same time, am
Speaker 1: I fully convinced. Absolutely not. I need to see more.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys will won't go out and get
Speaker 1: it tight end. I think that after what they saw there,
Speaker 1: maybe they just kind of stayed put for another week
Speaker 1: and keep going with what they have. But I'll say this,
Speaker 1: I don't think he would have a game such a
Speaker 1: game against a better defense. So I think that next
Speaker 1: week it might get ugly a little bit there. But
Speaker 1: great job for him in this game, you know. I
Speaker 1: will say this. One thing I think I've learned about
Speaker 1: him is I think what I'm trying to convince myself
Speaker 1: of is that he just is what he is and
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be that great all around tight end
Speaker 1: that's a great blocker and a great pass catcher. What
Speaker 1: he is is he's a guy that can catch the
Speaker 1: ball pretty well. He's a guy that can win when
Speaker 1: he is the fifth option on the offense. So basically,
Speaker 1: defenses are gonna say, in most instances, they're gonna say,
Speaker 1: we'll let that guy have one guy like, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna double Dalton Schultz. We got too many other problems
Speaker 1: to deal with, and I think he can win in
Speaker 1: some of those scenarios. So when you look at it
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, this type of high powered offense which
Speaker 1: yesterday they get the forty burger. It's something we've thought
Speaker 1: that they could be since they got Ceedee Lamb Right.
Speaker 1: So I think when you look at it from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: and even going to Amber's point, I think even a
Speaker 1: great defense a really good defense. I think when you
Speaker 1: look at how they're gonna play the Cowboys, they're still
Speaker 1: gonna be focused on a lot of other guys before
Speaker 1: they get to Dalton Schultz. And I think Dalton Schultz
Speaker 1: is going to be the guy that's going to be
Speaker 1: the benefactor there. He's gonna be the guy that's gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of opportunities this year. And I think
Speaker 1: in those situations, I think he's shown that he can
Speaker 1: kind of catch the ball and buy a lot. Now,
Speaker 1: I still question sometimes he makes some bonehead decisions. We've
Speaker 1: seen that before when he's gotten on the field. But
Speaker 1: that all being said, yesterday made me a little more
Speaker 1: a little more comfortable in the idea that I think
Speaker 1: he could play this role on this team with these
Speaker 1: weapons pretty well. And it made me feel pretty good
Speaker 1: about what they can do with him and with Blake Bell.
Speaker 1: All Right, here's what I'm gonna do real quick. We're
Speaker 1: gonna end the show, but it's amazing to me that
Speaker 1: we were able to get to an entire show coming
Speaker 1: off a game where both starting offensive tackles did not play,
Speaker 1: and that was not the storyline of the game of
Speaker 1: the show on Monday. I thought you were going to
Speaker 1: refer to the play that everyone's talking about, but we
Speaker 1: did not talk We did not talk about. But that's
Speaker 1: another one that we're gonna get to tomorrow, so it
Speaker 1: makes you tune in tomorrow. We got a lot more
Speaker 1: stuff we got to dissect from this game, and we'll
Speaker 1: do some of that tomorrow. We'll also give you guys
Speaker 1: a bigger picture look at the NFC. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot going on in this division and a lot of
Speaker 1: it is actually helping the Cowboys, I think long term.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about all that tomorrow too. Then for
Speaker 1: Nick Even, Dave Helman, Hellman, Amber Garcia, I am Derek Eielton.
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