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Speaker 1: ware with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, September nineteenth, twenty seventeen, Seasons thirteen,

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Speaker 1: episode of forty one. Welcome to another edition of The Break.

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Speaker 1: We're locking SBbc Mortgage Studios talking Cowboys football. If you guys,

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Speaker 1: We've got a full show, lots to talk about here

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Speaker 1: to kind of recap on what's gone on in Week

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Speaker 1: two of the NFL season. We'll take tuesdays to kind

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Speaker 1: of get a bigger picture look and figure out what's

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Speaker 1: happening across the NFC East and talk about some bigger

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Speaker 1: things with regards to the Cowboys. Every Tuesday here on

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Speaker 1: the Break. Haws everybody this morning. Every good. Everyone's doing good? Good?

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Speaker 1: What I don't know, I'm speaking for everyone. That's fine.

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Speaker 1: I haven't talked to anyone yet, but I feel like

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Speaker 1: they're all doing good. Well. Was this the first time

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Speaker 1: you've talked all morning. No, no, no, no, I've been

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Speaker 1: doing some talking, a little parenting. It's a little bit.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump in, let's talk some some Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: I think the first thing I wanted to do is

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Speaker 1: of what's going on across the NFCS and get an

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Speaker 1: opinion or two from you guys. Right now, the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: are are deadlocked as of two weeks. It really doesn't

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Speaker 1: make a big difference, but there are three teams sitting

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Speaker 1: in first place, tied at one and one, Cowboys, Eagles, Washington.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys obviously lose this week, Philly loses as well, and

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Speaker 1: then Washington gets to win against the Rams. The Giants

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Speaker 1: are sitting at the end of the division at owen

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Speaker 1: two after they lose on Monday Night Football last night.

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Speaker 1: Oh the question I have for you guys, and I

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Speaker 1: think memory serves correct. I think when we talked about

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Speaker 1: thought we all were in agreement that the Giants were

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Speaker 1: to the Cowboys. From the standpoint of either they win

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Speaker 1: a division Cowboys win the division. If that's the case,

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Speaker 1: do you still feel that way? And if not, who

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Speaker 1: do you think is the team after two weeks that

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Speaker 1: Cowboys as far as winning the division. Dave, We'll start

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Speaker 1: with you. It's way too soon into the season for

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Speaker 1: I know how bad they looked. I don't care. Eric

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Speaker 1: whole NFL looks like crap right now, to be honest

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Speaker 1: like you just see a lot of bad, disjointed football.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, the Giants look like crap. I still think

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Speaker 1: the combination of the experience that they have on offense

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Speaker 1: Matt Stafford throwing for one hundred and twenty yards, the

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Speaker 1: highest player, highest paid player in the NFL, a damn

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Speaker 1: That's how bad their offense was. But that's also how

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Speaker 1: I'm not ruling them out as some crappy team. It

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Speaker 1: you know, Halloween or so. So that said, from what

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Speaker 1: And the question is outside of the Cowboys, who's that team? Right?

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Speaker 1: The Kansas City seems to be good. They played them

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Speaker 1: saying so you can't lump Chadz and Lyle into that.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think that generally means that they have

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Speaker 1: Actually I thought it was pretty good against what's considered

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Speaker 1: But they have similar components to what we talked about before.

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Speaker 1: he's not a Jaguar. I'm sorry, jas, I'm sorry, I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking something he was with him last year. Yeah, who's

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Speaker 1: their pass rusher? Don't they have a pass rusher? They have?

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Speaker 1: They got the kid. They got the kid from um

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Speaker 1: We're not. We're not. But I guess I asked that

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Speaker 1: studios at the Star. I want to talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about Ezekiel Elliott this last game. After the game

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Speaker 1: was over, we started hearing different people around the media

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Speaker 1: being very critical of his not necessarily his performance overall.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are saying talking about

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Speaker 1: the offensive line from the standpoint the performance, but particularly

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Speaker 1: about a couple of plays where he didn't show the

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Speaker 1: kind of effort that you would expect from an NFL player.

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Speaker 1: I guess this is the best way to say it.

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Speaker 1: D I think Ken has that audio force. Ken, can

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Speaker 1: you play an audio of what coach Garrett had to

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Speaker 1: say yesterday about Ezekiel Eli Well, he had the two

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Speaker 1: plays that were not good plays, the two interceptions. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that we preached to

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Speaker 1: our team on both sides of the ball, when there's

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Speaker 1: a turnover, everybody's involved for an offensive player to become

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Speaker 1: a defensive player on a fumble or an interception. And

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Speaker 1: you know, Zeke is one of the most natural competitors

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Speaker 1: I've ever been around. He loves to play, he loves

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Speaker 1: to practice. I think we've seen that through his first

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Speaker 1: year playing. And those two players were not indicative of

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Speaker 1: the kind of competitor that he was, and we have

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Speaker 1: to get that addressed. So my question for you guys

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Speaker 1: is is this a big deal? You think this is

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Speaker 1: a big deal? Is this much to do about nothing?

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Speaker 1: I want to I want to share a personal anecdote

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Speaker 1: that shed some light on this. It comes from the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter of this game. I was standing with you

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Speaker 1: on the sideline. We were about eight feet away from

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Speaker 1: a keept league when he picked six Dak, and Dak

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Speaker 1: was doing his thing, and good for him, great effort

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Speaker 1: and all that. He's chasing the play down trying to

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Speaker 1: do that, and Derek's standing right next to me going,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Get away? From there. Don't you

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Speaker 1: don't need to make this tackle. This is talking about

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Speaker 1: that Dak He's get out of there. Stop And I

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Speaker 1: agreed with you. I was like, it's like, I know,

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Speaker 1: like that's what you want your quarterback to do, but

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Speaker 1: let's not get hurt on the last meetingless play of

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Speaker 1: this game. And that kind of I mean, that kind

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Speaker 1: of sums it up for me. But is it different,

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Speaker 1: because I know for me it is different for you.

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Speaker 1: Is it different for the quarterback versus all the other players?

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Speaker 1: I know that sounds bad, but the quarterback trying to

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Speaker 1: replace the quarterback is a lot harder than every other player.

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Speaker 1: And I just think I think of my quarterback differently.

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Speaker 1: If you're down there trying to make that tackle and

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Speaker 1: there guys blocking, just get out of the way. The

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Speaker 1: game was tied. If the game was tied, it's a

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Speaker 1: different story. Well then it's a different story then, because

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Speaker 1: every player that you're talking about a play in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the field Zeke, like middle midway through the game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you only said that because the game was

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Speaker 1: over and you don't need him get hurt with fifty

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Speaker 1: seconds to go. But the Zeke play, and that's different

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Speaker 1: you need to go make a play. If you're gonna

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Speaker 1: do all this stuff like let's eat, let's eat, then

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Speaker 1: go eat, eat all the time, be hungry every time.

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Speaker 1: I think it is an issue because because he showed

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Speaker 1: his disinterest when he doesn't want when things aren't going well.

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Speaker 1: So the line wasn't there, the blocking wasn't there. But

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Speaker 1: there's more you could do. You don't just stop. The

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Speaker 1: play's over and you put your hands on your hips

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Speaker 1: and then you go to the sideline and you don't

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Speaker 1: talk to anyone. To me, it was a too cool

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Speaker 1: for school attitude that I mean. I don't think it

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Speaker 1: will be a huge issue, because I think it'll be

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Speaker 1: addressed in a lot more stern tone than that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be addressed. I hear you. I do,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not. I don't want to completely absolve him

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, that's fine, but I don't think this

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Speaker 1: should be a storyline that lasts longer than about today.

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Speaker 1: I agree, and I perfect agree. It'll get taken care of,

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Speaker 1: I think. And I'm about to make excuses for them

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Speaker 1: and say they're not excuses. But I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: it last night. I was talking about it with somebody,

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Speaker 1: you go back. I mean, we've it's well documented that

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Speaker 1: this guy has been a beast at every step of

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Speaker 1: the way. I don't know the stats, but you remember

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Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, his last year at Ohio State, he

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Speaker 1: made national news for yet like basically calling out his

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Speaker 1: coaches for not giving him the ball they lost to

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Speaker 1: Michigan State. I guarantee you he had better stats in

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Speaker 1: that game than he did on Sunday, and that was

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Speaker 1: probably the low light of his career to this point. Well,

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Speaker 1: he said in the press conversence, and when we're talking

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Speaker 1: him in the locker room afterwards, he said, and somebody asked,

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Speaker 1: have you ever had a game worse in this and

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Speaker 1: he was like, no, this worst game out. So you're

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Speaker 1: literally witnessing the worst moment of his career. He's he's immature,

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Speaker 1: and we know that. We've that's been the storyline surrounding

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys since he was drafted basically, but even more

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Speaker 1: so in the last eight weeks for obvious reasons. He's

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Speaker 1: an immature guy. You hope that he's working on it,

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Speaker 1: but it's fair to call him that based on everything

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Speaker 1: that we know. So no, I don't think it's it's

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Speaker 1: the right play, but in a seventeen twenty five point

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Speaker 1: game in the third quarter, he's obviously very frustrated about

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Speaker 1: the way it's going. I don't, yeah, But going back

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Speaker 1: to Dak's play at the end, obviously we all knew

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Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna get there on time, he wasn't gonna

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Speaker 1: make that tackle, but he still tried. And although it

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Speaker 1: was a complete meaningless run for him to even go

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Speaker 1: and try to do that, and he is the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: he needs to be careful even then, it's still I

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Speaker 1: mean to me, that meant a lot for him to

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Speaker 1: even go and try to do that. I think these

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Speaker 1: players see everything, as you know, in the moment, this

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Speaker 1: is the game, this is the time. You don't you're

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Speaker 1: not really thinking, You're just trying to act on you know,

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Speaker 1: make whatever play you need to make. And he did that.

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Speaker 1: He well, he tried to. But it shows a lot

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Speaker 1: for He's a football player, and football players in the

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Speaker 1: mentality of the moment, says, the ball's going the other way,

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Speaker 1: I need to make a tackle. Right in all, I'm

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Speaker 1: a quarterback and to get back. In all aspects of everything,

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Speaker 1: Dak is what the Cowboys want Zeeke to be, but

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Speaker 1: to this point, he's not. They're different people. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's something to work on and it'll be a teaching point.

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Speaker 1: I'm yeah. I mean Garrett said as much. He's going

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Speaker 1: to talk to Zeke about this. I would be fairly

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Speaker 1: surprised if we saw him do it again, at least

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Speaker 1: anytime soon. This is not an excuse for Zeke. But

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Speaker 1: but I will say this. You know, to every other

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Speaker 1: player on the team, this is their second game, this

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Speaker 1: is their second game, this is their second fight. Zeke's

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Speaker 1: been fighting for a while. He he has I mean this,

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Speaker 1: this is this. To say that this isn't weighing on

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Speaker 1: him would be ridiculous. This whole yeah, and it is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, everyone else is here and he's in Sherman, Texas,

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Speaker 1: He's in a suit and tie, and this whole thing

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Speaker 1: has been weighing on him and and I it's affected

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Speaker 1: his demeanor. There's no doubt about it. And I'm not again,

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Speaker 1: I'm not dissolving of this. I mean that should be

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Speaker 1: your sanctuary to go out there and play. Everything's you know,

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Speaker 1: off the table, just go play football. And you know

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Speaker 1: the frustration is mounting. But I'll say this though he's

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Speaker 1: got to be tired physically, tired for us mentally and yeah,

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Speaker 1: mentally for sure, but that affects you physically, and I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that that is probably weighing on him.

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Speaker 1: He's got to be able to correct that. So I

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Speaker 1: don't agree that. I mean, I don't think this is

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Speaker 1: going to be a big deal, but I think it

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Speaker 1: it was. It could be something that needs to be

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Speaker 1: nipped into. But if he's as much of a competitor

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Speaker 1: as Jason Garrett said, then he needs to show that more.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what Garrett was saying. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think anyone's concerned moving forward. Yeah, that's I guess.

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Speaker 1: I agree, But I just don't think it's like this

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Speaker 1: huge deal. It doesn't need to be a first take

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Speaker 1: segment for many more days. It was. It's funny because Garrett,

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Speaker 1: for everything that he answered about about Zeke, he said

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Speaker 1: everything the other way about Dak. Yeah, and that's interesting. Actually,

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Speaker 1: let's hear that audio of what Garrett had to say

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Speaker 1: about Dak Prescott in this last game. Well, if you

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Speaker 1: get a chance to go back and watch the tape

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Speaker 1: at number four numberfore as a special player was not

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Speaker 1: an easy game for him. I got knocked around a

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Speaker 1: little bit, got banged up early, and talk about a

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Speaker 1: guy who battles, talk about a guy who fights, talk

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Speaker 1: about a guy who leads the team under adversity, under duress.

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Speaker 1: It was special. And you know, I reflect back on

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Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks I've been around, and oftentimes the games

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Speaker 1: that I remember most are the ones that the situations

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Speaker 1: were the most challenging. And you see how they respond,

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Speaker 1: how they respond to a turnover, how they respond to

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Speaker 1: guys hitting him in the face over and over and

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Speaker 1: over again. You've heard me say this before. My old

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Speaker 1: man says, you know, you can hit him in the

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Speaker 1: face with a shovel and he keeps coming back. And

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Speaker 1: that's what Dak Prescott again demonstrated yesterday. So I have

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Speaker 1: no real concern about him responding the right way. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: Zeke had a couple of those plays that we talked

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Speaker 1: about already. We have to address those with him. But again,

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Speaker 1: he's a natural competitor, he loves to play, he plays

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Speaker 1: the game the right way. We'll get him right going forward.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's Coach Garrett talking about Dak Prescott, and actually, Nick,

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Speaker 1: you made a simil a similar argument yesterday talking about

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Speaker 1: how how impressed you were with Dak and not necessarily

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Speaker 1: results of his play, right, but just how he went

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00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: about it yet in a game that was full of

638
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: adversity and things not going his way. You know, I

639
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: always take that line Bill Parcells used to say about it.

640
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: You know, you don't really know about a player until

641
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: they get beat thirty five to seven, and everyone's kind

642
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: of looking sideways at the quarterback and is you know, wait,

643
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: every play he's getting up looking out of the ear

644
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: hole because he's just been hit every time, and we'll

645
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,719
Speaker 1: find out then how how he comes back. And so

646
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: I thought that that was kind of indicative of that

647
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: just just showed it reminded me of a Brett Farve

648
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: type of thing of like you're a football player playing quarterback.

649
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,959
Speaker 1: There's a difference between a quarterback and then football players

650
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: that play it. I think Walter Payton was the best

651
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: football player to ever play running back. I'm not saying

652
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: he's the best running back, but I think he was

653
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: the best football player to ever play running back. And

654
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: I think Dak is playing it like that, you know,

655
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: never give up that that that type of stuff. And

656
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: then actually after the press conference when Garrett kind of

657
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: talks to us a little bit, and most of it's

658
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: off the record, but one story he shared was Troy

659
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: Aikman and his favorite Aikman moment. It's the same favorite

660
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: moment for him at Smith the ninety four championship game

661
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: against the Niners when they lost and they had a

662
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: chance for a three peat. But it was that game.

663
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 1: But he said, agmam was just standing in there taking

664
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,239
Speaker 1: shot after shot after shot, and that's what he was

665
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: talking about. Dak just standing in the pocket, hit a

666
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: couple of throws like that we talked about, you know,

667
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: we're just standing right there and knowing that he's gonna

668
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: get hit. So he showed some toughness in that game. Yeah,

669
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of things about that you like,

670
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: not only the things he did during the game, think

671
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: after the game. You liked the way that he approached

672
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: handling the media from the standpoint of yeah, I didn't

673
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: have the greatest game, and I gotta be better. I

674
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: gotta do more for my team. Now, I think the

675
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: most important thing is what does he do in response

676
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,479
Speaker 1: to that in the next game, Because you can let

677
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: those kinds of games snowball to where you get beat

678
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: twice off of a really bad game, and so can

679
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: he somehow play better, and not only that, but bring

680
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: his teammates along with him to play better, to get

681
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: out of that funk, to get themselves back on the

682
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: right track going into or out of Week three and

683
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: into week four in the rest of the season. I

684
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: hope it was hot in the press conference room. He

685
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: was sweaty, because he was sweating more than he ever has.

686
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: And I wonder if you know it, it it was one

687
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: of those situations where you're just kind of feeling the

688
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: pressure a little bit. I didn't notice it to be

689
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: too hot, but maybe it was. I wasn't in there.

690
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: Maybe the altitude, maybe no. But he handled it like

691
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: like he played the worst game of his life and

692
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: he was the one that messed it up. Yeah, and

693
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: that's what a quarterback it's really supposed to do, which

694
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: was a common thing thing in that locker room. I

695
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: know you guys were in there, and I think, almost

696
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: to a man that I heard talk, they all said, Hey,

697
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: I didn't play my best game. I didn't play up

698
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: to standards. We didn't play up to standards. I think

699
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: everybody kind of had that same thought that same mentality.

700
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: I don't know how it couldn't be a humbling experience.

701
00:33:55,080 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: Even Garrett yesterday I thought was a lot were forthcoming

702
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: and offered better explanations than typical, you know, like he's

703
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 1: big on coach speak and not giving away too much,

704
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: and he was still himself, but he I mean, you know,

705
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: he was very forthcoming about the Zeke stuff. He was

706
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: very forthcoming about praising Dak and talking about, you know,

707
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: the way that Denver defense played them and how that's

708
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: difficult to deal with when you do it the right way.

709
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: And I just I thought it was more than we

710
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,240
Speaker 1: typically get from him, and I was wondering if maybe

711
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: that was because after a performance like that, you kind

712
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: of don't have a choice but to swallow your pride

713
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: and go with the flow. Basically, you know what they

714
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 1: say the whole time in training camp that you know,

715
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: we start at the bottom, you don't build off of

716
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: last year. You're starting, And I think it's easy to

717
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: say that. It's harder for players to really believe that

718
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: until you get hit in the mouth like this and

719
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: then you realize, oh, this is different now, and hopefully,

720
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: hopefully for Cowboys and Cowboys fans, this is the kind

721
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: of game that kind of waked him up to the

722
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: reality of every single week, this is a new opponent,

723
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: and that new opponent can really just destroy you if

724
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: you don't play your best game, and especially when you're

725
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: playing really good team. So maybe maybe it has that

726
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 1: kind of effect. That is the toughest place to play

727
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: in the NFL, absolutely, because what is it nineteen and

728
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: one in the last twenty games. I want to say, well,

729
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 1: they that host to last year, but I mean it's no,

730
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 1: it's not a lot. They don't. They don't lose often,

731
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: they don't lose often. I mean there's a lot of factors.

732
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's loud. Well, first of all, the

733
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: team is good, really good. It's it's a loud stadium.

734
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 1: They and you look around. They do not give their

735
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: tickets away. It's orange. I mean, Dick Haboys hadn't played

736
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: their nine year eight years. Usually when that happens, you start. No,

737
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: we didn't even talk about the fact that the press

738
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: box shook on every second and third down from the

739
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 1: moment the game was about to start. I told I

740
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 1: remember telling Nick, I was like, this is gonna get

741
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: on my nerves. Like the whole thing is just shaking.

742
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,760
Speaker 1: Everybody's beating like you can just you hear the audible

743
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,720
Speaker 1: sound of people stopping their feet and beating on stuff.

744
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 1: And that starts when the game begins. It stops at halftime.

745
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: It did stop during the rain delay that luckily, and

746
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: then it starts. The game starts back up. You usually

747
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: see a crowd like a crowd is usually thinner after

748
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,919
Speaker 1: a raindelay, not that. They were just waiting right under

749
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: the under overhang and they ran right back out and

750
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,879
Speaker 1: their seats are all blue and even that, even then,

751
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: all you can see was orange. Yeah, I didn't think

752
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: about that. Yes, you know. So at some point Garrett's

753
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: going to have to address this situation of I mean,

754
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,919
Speaker 1: he said it two years ago, we like to take

755
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,399
Speaker 1: the ball and start the second half, because he had

756
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: this whole theory about how fans don't come back into

757
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: their seat at halftime and it's not as loud, but

758
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: before the game they're all jacked up and all that.

759
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: So I don't understand why he continues to take the

760
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: football and when he when he wins the toss, that

761
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense to me. The Broncos start out,

762
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: you kick it off to the twenty five yard line.

763
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: You can't hear you go three and out and you punt, Like,

764
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 1: why why don't you play defense first? I think I

765
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: kind of understand his philosophy. I'd love last game, and

766
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: I think I think it's more about, you know, with him,

767
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: everything is a t shirt of mentality or whatever. I

768
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: think what he's trying to say to his team is,

769
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: we take the ball all the time. Our offense is

770
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: that good. We're not going to be afraid because we're

771
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: on the road against a good defense to take the ball.

772
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: Give us the ball. I think it was a mentality thing.

773
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: I don't think it's about strategy for him. I think

774
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: it's more about we do this all the time because

775
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: we believe that we're going to get out to a

776
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: fast start. And getting out to a fast start means

777
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: putting our all and put it on your defense. I

778
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: think I think that is strategy though, because where we

779
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: talk about this team plays best with a lead. You

780
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: want to run the ball, you want to control the clock,

781
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: you want to be in front so that their offense

782
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 1: has to throw the ball, and that if you do

783
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: it right, that starts with points on the first possession. Obviously,

784
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: it's a big gamble, and usually I do get points

785
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: on the first which I and you know, it's funny

786
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: because we just mentioned that it worked very well for

787
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: them last year year, right, that doesn't mean it will

788
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: work well for them this year. So it'll be interesting

789
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: to see how that plays because I think they got points.

790
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: They did this all last year and they got points

791
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 1: six out of the seven first games. Well now they're

792
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: one and one, so I wonder if that affects their

793
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: thought process going forward. What we know about Jason Garrett

794
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: is he is a He is really a creature of habit.

795
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: I have a hard time thinking he's going to change

796
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 1: it up. That seems to be what he's done. Since

797
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: he's got it, I would hesitate to just call it

798
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: like a Jason Garrett thing. Though, Amber and I had

799
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: a conversation with mister Prescott on Oh Yeah Friday. He

800
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: loves it. He's like, yeah, we're good. We're good at

801
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: the start of the game. That's why we take the ball.

802
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 1: That's a matter of fact part of the game. Whenever

803
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,919
Speaker 1: Derek decides we'll play this audio, hopefully sometime this week.

804
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: Let's because people were very passionate about this subject through

805
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 1: you know, people on Twitter. So you know what, I'm

806
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: motivating me to go ahead and go ask the man

807
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: himself and hopefully you guys will get to listen to

808
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 1: that audio. For people that don't know we're talking about

809
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: last week, it was a very interesting conversation. I think

810
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: it happened on Thursday, was that right, Wendsay or Thursday,

811
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,320
Speaker 1: one of the two. Anyway, there's a conversation that happened

812
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: on the air, and Amber was making the argument that

813
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: Dak specifically has that is starting and I want to

814
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: make sure I get this right. That is that he

815
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:18,720
Speaker 1: doesn't he has a better He's better in the second

816
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: half than he is in the first half. Um and

817
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: Nick and Dave argued that point on the other side

818
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: that they think it's pretty consistent. He's pretty much the

819
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: same guy first half, second half. I think you've already

820
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: butchered it. Yeah, sorry, it's it's that's not how it started.

821
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: It started, let's say. Anyway, the point was, the point

822
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: was you asked Dak about it to get Dak's word

823
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: on it, and we did get audio from that. We're

824
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: gonna play that sometime later this week, probably we might

825
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: do it tomorrow. We'll play that later this week, just

826
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: so people can hear and then hopefully put this whole

827
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: thing to bed, because I'm oh, we don't, we don't

828
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: need to this cast it again. I just went ahead.

829
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: You can listen to the audio. And she just wants

830
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: to know that the quarterback series right. She wants to

831
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 1: say I was right. Okay, So we're gonna we're gonna

832
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: take our final break. We're gonna come back. I do

833
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: need to talk about something a little more administrative. We

834
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: need to talk about dem Entre Morris. He's gonna be

835
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: back on this team. I would assume as of today

836
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: he's gonna finish the suspension. Question is who's going Cowboys

837
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,239
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838
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: order to make room for him. I'll ask that question

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00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,880
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Speaker 1: It's the final segment of The Great Black from the

874
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Speaker 1: SWBC Mortgage Studios. Let's talk a little bit about Demontrey Moore.

875
00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: He's been on suspension for the first two games of

876
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: the season. He should be I guess activated today. A

877
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 1: Cowboys will have to make a move. I think is

878
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,280
Speaker 1: it true that they have a twenty four hour period

879
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: in order to make that move or do they have

880
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: to immediately cut somebody whenever he is well. He's been

881
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: back in the building, right back on the team today.

882
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: They have until three today, three today to make the move.

883
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: So they will have to make a transaction of some

884
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: sort um, either cutting a player or maybe moving a

885
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: player to IR in order to get him onto the

886
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,720
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. So I'll ask you guys the question,

887
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 1: who do you think is going to be the odd

888
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: man out? About three o'clock today. I don't get the

889
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 1: impression that Nolan Carroll's concussion is like an ir type

890
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: of deal. I could be wrong. So if there's an

891
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: injury thing, that's totally different. But if you're just if

892
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: you have to release a healthy player, I think I

893
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: would go with jay Ron Elliott. And that's just me speculating.

894
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: I don't know anything, but I'm just trying to put

895
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: the pieces together. I don't think how did they get

896
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: him trade? They claimf waivers, but they claimed Brian Price

897
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: off waivers. They traded for jail And isn't it the

898
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: same thing? Like their compensation is tied to how much

899
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: he's exact, they're not using him at all. He did

900
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: not participate in the Giants game at all. He was

901
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: inactive on Sunday, So clearly he was inactive on Sunday

902
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: despite you know, you're already sort of thin at linebacker

903
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 1: as it is with Anthony Hitchins injured, so clearly they

904
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: feel like they can get through a game without him.

905
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say Demontre Moore can play linebacker,

906
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: but he does do some stand up stuff as a

907
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: pass rusher, especially in that nickel and dime sub packages.

908
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: And j Elliott is a kind of an outside linebacker

909
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: pass rusher, right, So it's kind of that similar. Yeah,

910
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: So if you're not using him and you get your

911
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: draft pick back, if you cut him and they sort

912
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 1: of fill a similar role, I think it makes sense.

913
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:57,320
Speaker 1: And you know he wasn't active, but Tapper would probably

914
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: be inactive anyways, You're just gonna make Tapper in active.

915
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: You don't want to cut Tapper, but obviously what you

916
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: want to and Demontre Moore should be in um I

917
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: would you know what, I would think that way, But

918
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: would you make Tapper inactive or Taco because there's no

919
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,919
Speaker 1: way they make Taco inactive. Huh. I mean it looks bad, Yes,

920
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: it looks bad. That's about this. The optics that Charles

921
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 1: Tapper is one of two players on this team with

922
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: a sack, right, Yeah, So I'm just saying, and I've

923
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,919
Speaker 1: been critical of Charles Tapper, but he has played well

924
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: enough that I don't know that I'm sitting him down.

925
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: And I am the president of the Taco Charloton Fan

926
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 1: Club going back to draft time. But if you gotta

927
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: sit him, you gotta sit him. I mean, he's not

928
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 1: starting anyway, so he's already he's already not meeting people's

929
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: the hype of the expectations or whatever. So if you

930
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 1: gotta sit him for Demontre Moore, I mean whatever. I think, though,

931
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: when you when you're talking about what they're asking these

932
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: guys to do, I think, Taco, Um, I've only really

933
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,720
Speaker 1: seen Tapper on third downs or at least pass rushing

934
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: situa us and I know that they asked Oacho to

935
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: do a little bit more than that, so I wouldn't imagine.

936
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'm you're right. I think it would be between

937
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: those two though. Yeah, with Monty can slide tackle in

938
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: to play defensive tackles right right, it can, but they haven't.

939
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: They really haven't. Don't like and he can play left

940
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 1: end too, but he's really only played right and I

941
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: take issue with that. But he's the first round pick,

942
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: so they want him to play the sexy position. I

943
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: guess I don't know. Yeah, you guys agreed, Jay Jay,

944
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: but that seems logical. I mean I could see a

945
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: cornerback though getting in the mix here really like who well,

946
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: I mean it would have to be. I mean, if

947
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:40,720
Speaker 1: you've got a good maybe cheeto on ir you mentioned

948
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: that yesterday. You really think that's an option? If it's

949
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: the same is it the same hamstring? It's the same hamstring.

950
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: Although Stephen Jones said yesterday they he went through an MRI,

951
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: they didn't see anything super troubling. It's it sounds like

952
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:54,879
Speaker 1: they hope he can practice this week. So I don't

953
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: get an I all right, And it's the same thing

954
00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:00,399
Speaker 1: as what you were saying too about um, I'm drown

955
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: a blank on the tight end. Rico gathers. The reason

956
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: why you would do the I R for only the

957
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 1: set the eight weeks is because you need he needs

958
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: to practice. I think with a rookie like Tito, he

959
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: needs to practice as well. So you wouldn't want him

960
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: on R four and extended periods. Andy, you'd be done

961
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: with your if you're gonna bring him back, if you're

962
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: gonna do another guy, I are you're gonna bring him back,

963
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: then you'd don't be out of guys. Don't have too, Yeah,

964
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: I don't have too. Yeah, they don't have to bring

965
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: Rico back. But what were you gonna say now, I was.

966
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,399
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say to that point, I think

967
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:33,439
Speaker 1: that would be a good move if they weren't last

968
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 1: week in the position, you know, yeah, if they weren't

969
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,879
Speaker 1: having all these troubles with I mean, to have him

970
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: out for like eight weeks, I don't think it would

971
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: be good. And the reason why is it gives you

972
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: a spot. It opens a spot to get another guy.

973
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 1: That's kind of why. Yeah, but the guy, the guy

974
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,720
Speaker 1: you're gonna bring in doesn't have a job, so he's

975
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: not any good either. The same reason when they could

976
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: release Ben abin Wickery too. But I don't think that's

977
00:46:58,239 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: a good idea with what they're dealing with in the

978
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: secondary right now. Yeah, I'd be interested to see if

979
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: they would make that. Has anybody asked him, you guys

980
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 1: may know it. Has anybody asked the coaches why they

981
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: made the decision to have him in active last week

982
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: knowing they only had four active. I mean he said

983
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,959
Speaker 1: it after the game. He said, because of Noah Brown.

984
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: Because they wanted they didn't know about Terrence and they

985
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that they had the receivers there.

986
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: I mean, again, it doesn't make sense to me, But

987
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 1: I mean five and five would seem right, Yeah, it's

988
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: at four and six, yes, and they got bit. I

989
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: mean maybe they're winning to this week thinking feeling pretty

990
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: confident after the Giants game with yeah, guys they had

991
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: playing out there. But see the way I look at

992
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: it is with Scandrick being hurt, wouldn't you want to

993
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,320
Speaker 1: kind of hey, what do we know about? What do

994
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 1: we know about Cheeto? Lease, Let's let this guy maybe

995
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 1: play if he gets down to it. And then of

996
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:52,839
Speaker 1: course Nolan Carroll goes out and has a bad game

997
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:57,800
Speaker 1: before Yeah, yeah, I mean he unfortunately, I mean he

998
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: played better than the last three quarters than he did

999
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:04,720
Speaker 1: the first time. Like Carol well Um saying, I wouldn't

1000
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: agree with either of these, but I mean, as long

1001
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 1: as we're covering our bases, Rod Smith and and Noah

1002
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: Brown are guys that I mean, when you look at

1003
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: what role they feel, it's small enough that if you

1004
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,760
Speaker 1: absolutely had to have a spot. And Demontreamore plays special

1005
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: teams too, so h those are guys they could release.

1006
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: I wouldn't expect it. I would be kind of surprised

1007
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: and I would disagree with it if that's what they did.

1008
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: But I disagreed with Darius Jackson last year. You know,

1009
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: I mean, if they got a good handle on the

1010
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 1: zeke thing, you could always cut one of the running backs,

1011
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 1: one of the veteran running backs. Yeah, cut McFadden. I

1012
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: don't think they'd have a handle on it though. No.

1013
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,360
Speaker 1: So all right, let's let's get some phone calls. You

1014
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: guys call us at two one, four eight seven two

1015
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: twenty one h two. You can also hit us on

1016
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: Twitter at Cowboys Break will start with a call from

1017
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: Rob in Vegas. Rob, What up? Hey, everybody? How are you?

1018
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: I mean, if you would tell me that after two

1019
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: weeks we'd have a division win against the team we

1020
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,959
Speaker 1: couldn't beat last year and a road loss against Denver

1021
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: and be like, Okay, I take that. But there's three

1022
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: guys that I'm a little concerned about. One is Byron Jones.

1023
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 1: I'm starting to think he was just a combined superstar

1024
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 1: because I don't I just don't see it. I hear

1025
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: it in practice and I hear it in training camps.

1026
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: He just doesn't make enough plays at the safety position.

1027
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 1: Another guy is crossed. How many years have we talked that? Now?

1028
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 1: This guy, you know, he's healthy he's that was just

1029
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: a mistake paying him and another guy that I'm concerned

1030
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: about a Scott Linahan, because I'm wondering if he's in

1031
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 1: his mind he's saying I'm going to prove that Dak

1032
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,280
Speaker 1: Prescott's the guy and he's not gonna have a sophomore slump.

1033
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,879
Speaker 1: And I started to see it in the playoff game

1034
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: against Green Bay. Zeke Elliott is ab player on offense

1035
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: and that's your best option. And I didn't think they

1036
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 1: leaned on him enough in that game. Even the Giant game,

1037
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 1: he first been goal from the three. You didn't even

1038
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: give him one touch, and I'm sorry, Zeke should have

1039
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 1: been frustrated eight touches. I know he wasn't getting anything,

1040
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: but he's the only guy on your offense that could

1041
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: score from anywhere on the field. You still have to

1042
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: run the ball, especially when you know your defense is

1043
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,840
Speaker 1: not playing good. You got to eat up some clock

1044
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 1: and hope to get the game going. I'm a little

1045
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: concerned about him. I don't see him using Dez. You

1046
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 1: got to stop acting like Dez runs a four three

1047
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: forty and running him down the sideline. You guys know

1048
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 1: Dez's best players are always short pros where he makes

1049
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: a guy miss and he runs after the catch, more

1050
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: bubble screens put him in the flot stop treating you

1051
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:57,439
Speaker 1: know these jump balls, these fifty fifty balls, And that's

1052
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,720
Speaker 1: what you guys were talking about. You look at Deck's

1053
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 1: percentage to all the other wide receivers, it's high and again,

1054
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: and when he throws the Dez it's low, and all

1055
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 1: the interceptions. What throws to Dez? So lenihan um, I

1056
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: need him to change his philosophy a little bit. And

1057
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 1: and the other two guys, I don't know. I think

1058
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: we're going to be looking for a safety come next year.

1059
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for the call. What do you guys

1060
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: think about Byron Jones? You know, I don't have like

1061
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: much of a problem with anything that guy just said.

1062
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 1: I mean, you could quibble over like the semantics of it,

1063
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,359
Speaker 1: but like the overall theme of that call pretty much

1064
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:39,399
Speaker 1: agree with. I'm not that far out on Byron yet,

1065
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I don't think anybody was good

1066
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: in that game. They got their butts kick. But he

1067
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 1: made a nice play in pass coverage. I did see.

1068
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: Did y'all see that thing going around Twitter? It's like

1069
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 1: a it's a replay where it's a pulling play and

1070
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: CJ it was CJ Anderson's touchdown. Do you see Byron

1071
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 1: on where it looked like he had a clear path

1072
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: to the ball carrier and kind of chose to pick

1073
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: up a block instead. I mean, I hate to, you know,

1074
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: I hate to sign that without knowing for sure, but

1075
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: that's certainly what it looked like on tape. So not

1076
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: a great day by anybody in the defense. I think

1077
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: everybody knows that. But was it I can't point to

1078
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 1: him being terrible, I guess, is what I'm trying to say.

1079
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:21,800
Speaker 1: It was just a collective letdown across all fronts. So

1080
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to single him out as like the

1081
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: reason why the defense sucks. Let me make a bigger

1082
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 1: question out of that, though, Do you think that has

1083
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 1: he lived up to what you expected as a first

1084
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: round pick when the Cowboys made that pick. These years

1085
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: that have passed, has he lived up to what you

1086
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: expected of him to this point? You know what's funny

1087
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: is when he was a rookie and they were they

1088
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: didn't have a spot for him in the starting lineup,

1089
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: and he was like the handyman who handled the tight

1090
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 1: end and played dime. I thought he was better than

1091
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: I expected him to be as a rookie. In the

1092
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: time since when they've tried to plug him into a

1093
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 1: full time role, he hasn't been as good grading on

1094
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: the curve right, which which But that happens. I mean

1095
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:07,240
Speaker 1: that's what you do. Your expectations do go up. I mean, rookie,

1096
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,439
Speaker 1: you have rookie expectations, just like the same with Dak.

1097
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 1: I mean Dak's expectations last year as a rookie. Now

1098
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 1: he's a superstar, so he's gonna get he's gonna get

1099
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: evaluated differently. I mean as far as Byron Jones, I

1100
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 1: he hasn't He's not there yet and I'm not even

1101
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: sure what his best position is, but I guess it's

1102
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought it was safety. I was saying

1103
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 1: safety from his rookie year, But I don't know. There's

1104
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 1: issues that I think that are there that I'd rather

1105
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 1: not say. So I don't know. I don't know about him.

1106
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he'll get better though, like everyone else,

1107
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: that jury's out and Crawford, it's just hard to knock

1108
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: a guy that's playing so many different positions. It's playing

1109
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,360
Speaker 1: hard he's playing. He's been playing hurt for two years.

1110
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't think he's special though. Ye,

1111
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: well that's and he's getting paid to be. This is

1112
00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 1: It's a conversation we've had a million times. Like I,

1113
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 1: I love him as a locker room presence. He's gonna

1114
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: play through any injury. He's gonna he'll play anywhere. He's

1115
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:09,399
Speaker 1: a great team guy. The only reason he ever comes

1116
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: up is because of the contract he's playing under wad Car.

1117
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: At this point, you don't have a choice but to say, yeah,

1118
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 1: they probably shouldn't have given him that deal, but that's

1119
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: where they are, that's what they're dealing with. Yeah, Like

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00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: I'm not I have a hard time dogging on him

1121
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: for the effort that he puts in and what I

1122
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: know about him as a high character guy. But it's

1123
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: a fair criticism that he's not living up to that contract.

1124
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 1: You know, when you draft a guy, you draft these

1125
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 1: guys that aren't first rounders, and you know, whether it

1126
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 1: be third, fourth, whatever it is, and you draft them

1127
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 1: to develop them, and then when you do develop them,

1128
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: it sounds good. But this is not the seventy five

1129
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:47,800
Speaker 1: Cowboys anymore, where you can just develop these guys until

1130
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: they get good. You have to make decisions on them,

1131
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,439
Speaker 1: and sometimes you have to make decisions before you really

1132
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: know what they are. And I go back to ten

1133
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: years ago when they had to make those decisions, Like,

1134
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 1: you know, Miles Austin had played four years, but he

1135
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: had a couple of big games, and now they got

1136
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 1: to make it a call on him, and so they

1137
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: said they got to pay him. That's what the market was.

1138
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 1: Doug Free, Tony Romo, same thing. Doug Free worked out,

1139
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 1: Tony Romo definitely worked out. But sometimes you have to

1140
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 1: make a call. So they had to make a call

1141
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 1: on Crawford. He'd played a few years, he'd gotten hurt

1142
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: or he toward his achilles. So he's about to be

1143
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: a free agent after the end of the year. So

1144
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 1: what do you do. This is kind of the market value,

1145
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 1: and you just you kind of say, well, let's go

1146
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: for it. And honestly, it doesn't work. The saving grace

1147
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 1: is that a few years later, like it's not a

1148
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 1: good contract, but it's not terrible either, Like he's not

1149
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: even one of the like super highest paid tackles in

1150
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: the league anymore. After I mean Sue and Atkins and McCoy,

1151
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 1: like those deals are substantially bigger than his. So it's

1152
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 1: not it's not a good deal by any stretch of

1153
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: the imagination, but it's not like it's it's not like

1154
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: that Romo deal that just hangs over your salary cap.

1155
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: So I to think people forget that you have to

1156
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: make decisions on guys before you really know what they are,

1157
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: and you just you just a hope and that they

1158
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: turned out to what you think, and sometimes it doesn't

1159
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:07,439
Speaker 1: work out. That last point. I think about Levian Bell

1160
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 1: all the time and the way the Steelers seemingly when

1161
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 1: he's when he's healthy and not and when he's playing

1162
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 1: and kind of in the you know, the the swing

1163
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:19,800
Speaker 1: of things, they do everything with him. He plays like

1164
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 1: straight up receiver. I know Zeke lines up out there,

1165
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: but he doesn't ever get the ball like they never

1166
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: they the screen pass, even as well as it worked

1167
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: in that Pittsburgh game, it's like something they refuse to

1168
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 1: ever run with him. I know he had I think

1169
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 1: he's I think he's already got nine or ten receptions

1170
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:40,360
Speaker 1: on the year, but they don't. It doesn't seem like

1171
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:42,800
Speaker 1: they're that interested in putting him in space like swing

1172
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 1: passes and things like that. I just I agree with

1173
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 1: the caller, like he's he's the best player, He's the

1174
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: best skill player on your team and one of the

1175
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: best skill players in the league. But the space, I mean,

1176
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: I thought he was lined out in the and as

1177
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: a receiver more than I've ever seen him, he was

1178
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 1: out there. They never get from the ball. And here's

1179
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 1: my problem with it, Like it doesn't seem like they

1180
00:57:03,400 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 1: do much creatively with him when it comes to the

1181
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: passing game, Like they'll throw the ball to him on

1182
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: a little flare route. Have you seen him run any

1183
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: other routes? Like, That's not the only route you can

1184
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: run with a running back, you know. There there are

1185
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 1: lots of things that you can do with a running back,

1186
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: and I think Levon Bell is a good example different

1187
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: kind of routes. Use that that Texas you know route

1188
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: when you kind of go out and then you flip

1189
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: come back into the middle of the field where typically

1190
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna be lined up with a you're gonna be

1191
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: manned up with a linebacker. I think that is a

1192
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 1: great route for him, especially if you got went and

1193
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:34,920
Speaker 1: clear in the middle out There are things that they

1194
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: could do creatively with him in the passing game, they

1195
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: just don't seem to do. Where's the wheel route that

1196
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 1: he killed linebackers on throughout training camp? Where's that? I mean? Yeah,

1197
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:46,440
Speaker 1: I mean, and I know even eleven on eleven is

1198
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 1: different than one on one, but I just he's way

1199
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 1: too dynamic of a player for at what he went

1200
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: into the locker room with like four touches or five

1201
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 1: times like and I thought the same thing in the

1202
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: Green Bay game, like back in the play, he's he's

1203
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,040
Speaker 1: the thing that makes this whole thing run. And I

1204
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: just think their scope of how to use him seems limited.

1205
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: I still go back to what I remember Gary Brown

1206
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:09,160
Speaker 1: told me this after draft day when they drafted Ezequelely.

1207
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 1: He see it when we were going through and we

1208
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:13,120
Speaker 1: were we were working him out and working him out,

1209
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: and we were thinking about how he compared to other

1210
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: running backs. We actually were comparing him to wide receivers

1211
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: as far as how good his pass catching game is.

1212
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: He's that good of a dynamic player. It's not just

1213
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: what he does when he's running the ball, it's also

1214
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: what he does in the past the game, and they

1215
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: have yet to realize that. I don't think this coaching

1216
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: staff they do some things really well. I think it's

1217
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 1: they're good, they're fine. They're not that creative. And you know,

1218
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 1: in terms of like looking around the league, I've said

1219
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 1: that about the defense before, Like they they're like everybody

1220
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 1: has a square hole and we have square pegs that

1221
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 1: go everywhere. Like you don't see those hybrid type of

1222
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: honey Badger players. You don't see that type of mismatching

1223
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 1: and all that type of stuff. I just I think

1224
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: they're very traditional. This is an old school coaching staff,

1225
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 1: and some of that stuff seems like it gets away

1226
00:58:58,120 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: from him. All right, guys, appreciate you joining us. Back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow at nine thirty am. We'll start getting into Cowboys

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