WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Concern After Week 2? 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.319 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:12.039 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:16.360 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.720 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:26.880 ware with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:33.199 Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, September nineteenth, twenty seventeen, Seasons thirteen, 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.080 episode of forty one. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:40.240 We're locking SBbc Mortgage Studios talking Cowboys football. If you guys, 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.279 We've got a full show, lots to talk about here 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.160 to kind of recap on what's gone on in Week 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.440 two of the NFL season. We'll take tuesdays to kind 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.879 of get a bigger picture look and figure out what's 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.000 happening across the NFC East and talk about some bigger 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.880 things with regards to the Cowboys. Every Tuesday here on 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:00.880 the Break. Haws everybody this morning. Every good. Everyone's doing good? Good? 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.480 What I don't know, I'm speaking for everyone. That's fine. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.160 I haven't talked to anyone yet, but I feel like 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.720 they're all doing good. Well. Was this the first time 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:14.120 you've talked all morning. No, no, no, no, I've been 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:18.360 doing some talking, a little parenting. It's a little bit. 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:21.959 All right, let's jump in, let's talk some some Cowboys. 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:23.760 I think the first thing I wanted to do is 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.000 just kind of give everybody a kind of a recap 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:27.760 of what's going on across the NFCS and get an 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.080 opinion or two from you guys. Right now, the Cowboys 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.279 are are deadlocked as of two weeks. It really doesn't 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.399 make a big difference, but there are three teams sitting 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.960 in first place, tied at one and one, Cowboys, Eagles, Washington. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.280 Cowboys obviously lose this week, Philly loses as well, and 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:48.120 then Washington gets to win against the Rams. The Giants 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:49.680 are sitting at the end of the division at owen 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.800 two after they lose on Monday Night Football last night. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.040 Oh the question I have for you guys, and I 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.320 think memory serves correct. I think when we talked about 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.360 this before, it may have been on on the air, 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.440 may have been off the air. It seems like I 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.080 thought we all were in agreement that the Giants were 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.440 the team that you that you felt like was closest 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.960 to the Cowboys. From the standpoint of either they win 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.800 a division Cowboys win the division. If that's the case, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.880 do you still feel that way? And if not, who 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.560 do you think is the team after two weeks that 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.800 you would tab as the team that's closest to the 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.160 Cowboys as far as winning the division. Dave, We'll start 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:28.120 with you. It's way too soon into the season for 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.079 this conversation to hold any merit. And I know oh 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:32.840 and two is a big hole to dig out of, 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.839 but I'm I mean, I'm not writing the Giants off 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.600 as like this horrible team yet. And I watched that game. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.959 I know how bad they looked. I don't care. Eric 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:46.600 Flowers is not a very good left tackle. But the 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.239 whole NFL looks like crap right now, to be honest 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.160 with you, that's my main impression through two weeks, except 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.919 for maybe the Kansas City Chiefs. Awkins looked pretty good, 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.919 the Falcons, the Steelers, and hey, the Detroit Lions look 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:04.960 pretty solid. But it looks like nobody had a preseason 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.880 like you just see a lot of bad, disjointed football. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.640 So yeah, the Giants look like crap. I still think 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.160 the combination of the experience that they have on offense 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.360 and that defense did. The Lions won that game despite 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.799 Matt Stafford throwing for one hundred and twenty yards, the 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.919 highest player, highest paid player in the NFL, a damn 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.040 good quarterback in my opinion. I know Nick doesn't like 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.600 him that much, but he threw for one hundred and 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.320 twenty yards on the road and still managed to beat them. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.680 That's how bad their offense was. But that's also how 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.080 good their defense is. And I mean their defense looked 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.320 pretty damn good against the Cowboys last week too, So 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.440 I'm not ruling them out as some crappy team. It 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.800 is a long season, I don't I don't get the 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.520 feeling a lot of teams are really going to find 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.760 out who they are and hit their stride until how 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:54.200 you know, Halloween or so. So that said, from what 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.800 I've seen of the Eagles and the Redskins, they both 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.800 look like they have their strong suits. I haven't seen 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.840 a ton. I know offensive line is maybe a problem 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.080 for those guys, but the Eagles have an awesome defense. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.960 I know they gave Kansas City a decent game on 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.440 the road and Arrowhead, So you still think the Giants 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.760 are the team that was a lot I'm just asking 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.560 you still think the Giants are the team. What do 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.200 you think about the Falcons. I haven't seen a lot 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.680 of the Falcons, but they box right. They only play 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:29.440 one game? Um team boys, Yo, Mississippi State. Damn they 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.720 look good. Well you had to throw that when kind 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.840 of a low blow, I think, so I didn't mean that. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.640 We don't really do that to each other. That's kind 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.240 of low. Oh I do that to everybody. So I mean, 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.039 are you doing if anybody if I deserve it all 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.560 back when ls who loses? Because I'm a jerk when 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.560 I when they're winning. I try to leave people alone 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.840 about their college team. But whatever, I digress. Team to beat, 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.440 the team to beats probably the Cowboys in terms of 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.960 like who looks the most well rounded out of right? 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.240 And the question is outside of the Cowboys, who's that team? Right? 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.359 It's I don't don't know. I'm all I know is 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.440 the Giants have had a crappy star but I'm not 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:08.960 ready to write them off yet. Nick Philly, We'll just say, Philly, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.200 I don't know they I mean, I just look at it. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.520 They haven't lost at home. Everyone else is lost at home, 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.920 and so Philly hasn't lost at home. The Cowboys haven't 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:18.520 lost at home. I mean, that's how early it is, 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.240 so you just kind of start saying things like that. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.400 The Kansas City seems to be good. They played them 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:29.479 fairly well up there, lost and then they've handled the Redskins. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.520 But I don't think their offensive line doesn't look that great. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.599 Neither does the Redskins needs the Giants. Neither does the Cowboys. Actually, 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.719 from week one week two, I mean offensive line, so 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.920 like everybody's offensive lines got issues. But I think if 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.720 you have to make a call, it'say Eagles. That's a 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.560 pretty big statement. You think the Cowboys have offensive line problems. Yeah, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:52.040 they look like crap against Denver. I mean bad, bad, bad, 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.160 bad offensive And maybe maybe it's just me, but I 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.200 think that was one game. I don't I don't think 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.599 the Cowboys have offensive line problems. I think they had 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.520 off line problems in that game. There is a difference. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.560 We've only played understand that, but there is a difference 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.640 between saying you have offensive line problems and you had 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.919 offensive line problems in a game. Well, you know what, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.440 Jason Garrett tells everyone to recommit, don't worry about last year. 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.760 Start from scratch, started zero and at zero, we've played 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.320 two games. One of them they could not get more 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:23.080 than one yard. You know, average per carry for for 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.400 Zeke the best in the league and the second. In 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.240 the Giants game, they didn't have a great success but 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.119 I mean they did fairly well in that game against 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.479 the Giants, against what we think is a good defense. 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.080 But they've only played two games. Yeah, I think the 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.680 offensive line played well in Week one. You don't. Yeah, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.440 I mean they played well, and then they've played horrible. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.400 So what are they That's all. That's all I'm saying. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.640 I think Derek is trying to say he's willing to 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.120 give them the benefit of the doubt from last year, 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.720 just from well based on again, if you look at 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.240 body of work, I think that's a good way to 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:54.839 put it. You look at body of work. Let's just 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.120 go back to last year, last year. If you start 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:58.840 at the beginning of last year earlier, all the way 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.760 through these first two games of this season, two of 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.080 the things have way more They have way more successes 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.560 than they have failures. And I'm not one that believes 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.479 that one game or two games in a body of 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.520 eighteen games says that you're bad. Two of your five 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.440 starters don't have a body of work. Okay, I'm just 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.280 saying so you can't lump Chadz and Lyle into that. 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.480 But I'm talking about as a whole. And you got 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.120 three of those guys that have a ton of body 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.080 of work, and they didn't play well this game either. No, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.600 I guess the point I'm making still is I think 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.840 there is a distinction between you have offensive line problems 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.840 in general, or you had offensive line problems in one game. 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.440 I think we all agree they played horribly this last game, 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.640 and we should say they played horribly this last game, 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.560 But I don't think that generally means that they have 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.360 offensive line problems. I agree with you, But going back 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.280 to the point I made yesterday, it was like the 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:51.200 totality of how bad they were should alarm you. I 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.360 mean it should be concerning at least. I'm not saying 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.800 it'll play them again. Yes, it would alarm. But I 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.760 think the main concern with the offensive line has been 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.400 whether Collins would do good at that position and task 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:07.200 Green and I think they managed well. Yeah, No, Lyle. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.160 Actually I thought it was pretty good against what's considered 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:11.880 the best pass rusher in the league. I'm not and 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.360 I'm I'm not overly worried that it's going to be. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.720 I don't think they have offensive line problems. To go 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.320 back to your point, but again, it's not like they 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.400 ran for seventy yards and three point two yards per carry. 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.800 Like they got owned. They got destroyed. They got owned, absolutely, 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.360 And so that should at least be concerning that fifty 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.640 percent of your sample size for this season was real, 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.160 real bad. Yeah. So, and if we start to see 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.520 that becoming a trend, then I think you got you've 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.960 got some issues. But right now, I'm not ready to 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.719 say that's a trend yet. I'm not willing to say 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.240 that that is a an overall problem for them right now. 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.160 I agree, build the best thing they do. Yeah, but 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.240 you know, like I said, to struggle is to one 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.080 is one thing, and to do what they did on 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.600 Sunday is another thing. So I got, I got, so Okay, 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.800 aside from the Giants defense, Broncos D defense, what's the 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.959 other defense that you guys would be concerned that this 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.640 team will be facing. Maybe we we actually yesterday we 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.880 kind of talked about that a little bit, and we 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.000 didn't throw in the team that they're gonna play next week. 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.800 But they have similar components to what we talked about before. 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.720 They don't have them in mass like the like the 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.440 Broncos do. But they've got a dominant cornerback that they 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.200 could presumably put on Dez. They've got a dominant pass 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.760 rusher and KLi Campbell, who I think he had four 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.720 sacks in Week one. Now he's not, he's not you know, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.760 he's not a Jaguar. I'm sorry, jas, I'm sorry, I'm 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.120 thinking something he was with him last year. Yeah, who's 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.240 their pass rusher? Don't they have a pass rusher? They have? 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.839 They got the kid. They got the kid from um 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:43.600 it was he was a top three pick though, right 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.760 he was just never turned out to be worth the 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.600 top three. They traded for the kid from New England, 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.079 Chandler Jones. And I want to say, something's up with him. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.280 I don't. We're not supposed to preview the Cardinals, right, 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.280 We're not. We're not. But I guess I asked that 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.560 question while I was going to a question of So, 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.280 with that being said, who are those defense? It is 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.080 what Arizona qualifies one of those defenses? I'm not sure, 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.840 but they do have at least some components that suggest 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.640 they can give the Cowboys some problems. Yeah. I mean, 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.120 they're gonna have some defensive guys, and you know that 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.840 they've got two playmakers in the secondary in you know, 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:17.360 Peterson and then the honey Badger who made a game 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:21.640 winning play last week for them, I believe interception. Yeah, 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:23.920 so I gotta be careful for those two guys. And 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.439 you know, I'm not as familiar with them upfront, but 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.280 I'm sure that they'll be good. And you know, Monday 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.800 night football and playing it, you know up there where 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.200 are out there, crazy things happen. To your point, am, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.000 I mean, I don't know that there I've been saying 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:39.280 this over and over and over again. I don't know 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.280 that there are many defenses that can mimic what the 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.240 Broncos were able to do. But there are some good 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:47.240 defenses left on the schedule Seattle, Kansas City. I don't 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.040 know about their whole defense, but the Rams have Aaron Donald. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.959 So if your offensive line is a problem, that's that'll 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.679 be an issue for you. So there'll be some challenge. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.880 There'll be a couple, but I don't think I don't 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.240 think that By and large. You have a lot of 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.680 teams in the NFL, let alone teams on the Cowboys 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:07.439 schedule that have the defensive the defensive players at the 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.960 positions that can give Cowboys problems. Yeah, Denver, I think 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.040 is a unique beast, and their defense has been good 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:14.920 to last several years, one of the best in league. 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.000 Throw Denver in there with like the there's like four 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.120 teams in the league that have looked pretty good through 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.960 two weeks, and then the other twenty eight are kind 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.360 of a mixed bag of crap. Three of them in 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.920 the same division. Yes, Oakland, in Kansas City and Denver, 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.080 and we gotta play all three. That's Hey. I don't 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.760 buy into the strength of schedule thing like like, oh, 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.760 we got a tough SCT like the difference, but it's minuscule. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.680 But AFC West as a hell of a draw. That's 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.800 and I think we've already seen the worst. It can't 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:49.040 get anywhere. Honestly, I think Kansas City is better. I 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:50.760 think Kansas City is better than Denver. I don't know 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.680 what you guys think. Yeah, but you're gonna be at home. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.320 I mean it won't be how about as bad as 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.120 that nuggal go about the black hole at Christmas time, 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.480 guy that was a candidate for NFL MVP and a 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.720 guy who was the NFL Defensive Player of the Year. 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.120 I mean, when you start comparing the two, though, you 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.520 compare those two teams, I don't think Oakland's I don't 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.200 David Irving will be back. I don't think I don't 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.920 think Oakland's defense is better than Kansas City's defense, and 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.280 I think Kansas City's offense will be as explosive as Oakland. 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.360 Thanks changed throughout the year, you know, freas and stuff 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.080 like that, especially by the time you get to something, 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.920 it will be two both teams will be very different. Man. 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:28.920 But did you have an opinion on who you think 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.200 is the team next to the Cowboys that's battling for 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:35.600 the most battling for the MC's. Well, again, like they've said, 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.320 it's just I mean, for me, it's too early to 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.800 kind of determine that. Again, looking at the Cowboys, I 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.760 thought the Cowboys were gonna come in And I know 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.160 we're talking about other teams inside the Cowboys, but just 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.600 to talk in that regard, the Cowboys, I thought were 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:53.760 gonna come in this year very strong, and after Week one, 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.760 I thought okay, seeing them manage the New York Giants, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.960 although they had a lot of things that they needed 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.719 to improve, you know, actually make it being touched on, 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:09.280 getting you know, points on that scoreboard. But man, after 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:13.800 week two, everything just kind of changed. You know. The 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.400 best team that I thought was in this division is 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.400 now almost to the bottom of my list right now, 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.520 especially with how their defense is. It's just, I don't know, 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.720 my thoughts have kind of changed all over the place 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:32.400 with this whole Cowboys don't. I don't know what to 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.600 tell you. Honestly, you sound so disappointed. I am, because 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.680 I thought they were going to win eleven in a row. Again. No, 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.960 definitely not. But I think I think the Cowboys everyone 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.520 came in hoping that the Cowboys were gonna have a 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:48.600 very good season, right you would say that although it's 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.280 a brand new season. But thinking of the guys that 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.720 got during the draft, all these rookies. We saw how 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.400 the rookies did during training camp. A lot of them 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.920 were out, couldn't get any you know, practice time. Then 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.200 we move in here we see injuries happening again. Orlando's 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:08.040 Kendrick to me, not the greatest, but he still gets 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.839 the job done. Now we have Nolan Carroll who's out. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.840 Not the worst than Orlando, but now he's out too. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:21.600 So it's very concerning, especially when you see how they perform, 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.680 and again looking at them against the Giants, Oh, I'm like, okay, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.920 there's some hope here. You know, they did good Orlando 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.400 was out, they still didn't miss a beat. They were 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.760 able to manage. But then now we see this and 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:38.640 again going against the Broncos' is totally different. But I 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.080 don't know what they're gonna do. I don't know how 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.440 they're going to resolve this issue, but they need to 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:44.800 figure it out, and I know how there are some 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.240 guys that are working out. But yeah, you know that. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.880 And maybe I'm just maybe I'm just the eternal optimists. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.520 Sunshine pumper. It's not a sunshine pumper. It's it's how 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.760 I live life. But I'm just not I don't think 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.520 this is a huge deal. Yeah, they got the butts whoop, 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.840 it happened. If you go back right now and you 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.360 look at week look at Week two last year, I 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.400 guarantee you the teams that everybody was saying, we're great 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.400 and we're on the up, and they were. They were 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.280 the teams that were gonna be in the mix. I 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.000 bet there are several of those that didn't. They fell off. 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.000 I want to say Minnesota was five and oh at 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.280 some point last year, I don't remember, but and there 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.600 were probably some teams that had lost a game in 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.600 those first two weeks that everybody's kind of like, man, 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.080 what's going on with them? And they ended up being 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.040 in the mix when the whole thing was done. All 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.680 I'm saying is it's week two in the NFL. There 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.400 are gonna be some weeks that you look at where 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.680 you like, man, they just really laid an egg that week. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.440 It doesn't necessarily mean that they're not the same team 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.400 you thought they were, whether they were good or whether 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.760 they were bad. There are examples of it all throughout 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:46.920 the league, every single Now it is true, but did 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:52.760 you analyze each player in each position? Unalyze position? Sorry, 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.680 and you look at the players that you have, do 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:59.160 they have the right guys to stop all these people? 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.680 I'm talking on the defense side. I'm not worried about 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:06.000 the offense. I think Dak Prescott last week, everyone we know, 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.720 everyone played bad. The ability that they have, they have 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:11.960 so many tools. You know, whether it's a running game, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.080 the passing game. They have so many things that they 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.040 could do, and the Broncos were just able to eliminate 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:21.280 all aspects for them. But it's a combination. Once the 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.080 offensive line does their job. They helped Dak obviously, and 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.680 so they helped Seek. I'm not worried about the offense, 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:35.320 but defense, Derek, you should be worried. Honestly, I don't 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.080 know that the defense is worse than it was last years. 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.160 A matter of fact, I think from the past rush standpoint, 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.560 it may be better. What we've seen from DeMarcus Lawn 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.640 so far suggest it may be better. We all believe 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.720 Molle Collins is going to be a player, it may 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.840 be better. We believe Pie is a better player than 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.160 what they had last year. May be better. Yeah, the 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.800 secondary is an issue right now. We'll see what happens 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.080 with Carol. I've never been a fan since he's gotten here. 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.040 I've made it clear I'm not a fan of what 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:58.920 he brings to the table, and I do think they 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:00.760 made a mistake by not bringing back one of those 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.200 veteran guys. But we'll see how that plays all out. Um. 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.160 I will say again, I think though, when you look 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.280 at the defense. I don't know that it's worse than 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.040 what you had last year. I don't know. I don't know. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.320 Baron Jones and Jeff Heath I had my hopes for them, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.040 and this I mean right now, I haven't seen them 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.760 play up to their potential. I haven't seen much from them. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:25.080 And when you talk about veteran gay guys in the secondary, 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:29.320 I mean, they're not doing much really if you analyze 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.360 them aside from those guys what nick Oh, I mean, 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.760 they're not You're right, and the safeties aren't doing anything. Um, 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.359 I haven't seen. We haven't seen guys that we were 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.520 kind of hoping for. We haven't really seen a lot 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.160 out of uh, you know, I guess unless you're gonna 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.760 say to Marcus Lawrence and he looks like he's ready to, 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.119 you know, turn the corner and he already has I 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.480 mean two sacks and in two games each, So what 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.440 if that's yeah, I understand what that too into a sport. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:18:00.080 I'm just saying, I don't know. I was trying to 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.680 say elementary school. I think that's four times as many 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.440 as he had last year. He had one right one, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.080 So he's a third of the way to his career 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:12.640 total three games. I mean, you're right, Derek about last year, 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.199 this team went thirteen and three. In twenty fourteen they 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.440 went twelve and four. Both of those teams were one 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.080 and one, so that's what they are right now. It 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.679 could go either way. But you know in twenty fifteen 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.280 there were two and oh and they went four and twelve. 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:30.320 So it's early. It's early. I think I'm a little 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:32.480 bit too early than what you know. Amber's ready for. 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.199 I mean, she's got the panic button like down, No, 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.600 she's like laying on it. Yeah. No, I think they'll 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.600 come back. I just think if they don't do something 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.320 with this defense right now, you know, there needs to 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.800 be some improvement. If not, it's not going anywhere. I 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:50.440 think we all agree with Secondary is gonna have to 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:51.919 play better, and I don't know how they're gonna get 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.280 him there. They got to get these guys coached up 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.520 quickly because they're young, they're they're just learning this NFL 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.880 game and they missed a lot of training camps, so 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:01.679 they're gonna have to do something. I don't think they 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:03.159 have a lot of other options because it's not like 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.000 you're just gonna grab somebodies from the street. I think 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.080 that the secondary was worse than the front seven yesterday 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:12.000 or Sunday. Does that mean I don't think they were 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.879 stopping anybody in the running game. Yeah, I kind of 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:16.480 think that was the issue. You put that on the 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.080 linebackers though, more than the front flour just everybody, all 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.480 of them. Yeah, I don't know why. I don't know why. Yeah, 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:23.879 I was about say, I don't know why were splitting 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.200 hairs and picking between units, like your best player, Dan 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.080 Bailey as well. Yeah, as Nick said, like Dan Bailey's 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.399 probably the only guy that got on the bus, you know, Like, 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:35.679 and he was too. We got on that bus and 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.320 he was just like, that's the best y'all got. I 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:41.840 can't believe he was acting like that. All right, let's 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:43.800 take our first break. When we come back, I want 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.879 to talk a little bit about Ezekiel Elliott. 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The rest of you 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:23.560 can visit stetson dot com slash cowboy to find a 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:28.399 retailer nearest you. Back to the break, Welcome back at 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:32.000 second to second segment of the break lacking SWBC Mortgage 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:34.640 studios at the Star. I want to talk a little 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:38.040 bit about Ezekiel Elliott this last game. After the game 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:41.639 was over, we started hearing different people around the media 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:46.480 being very critical of his not necessarily his performance overall. 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:48.520 I think a lot of people are saying talking about 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:51.600 the offensive line from the standpoint the performance, but particularly 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:53.639 about a couple of plays where he didn't show the 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:58.200 kind of effort that you would expect from an NFL player. 0:22:58.240 --> 0:22:59.800 I guess this is the best way to say it. 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:02.919 D I think Ken has that audio force. Ken, can 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:04.520 you play an audio of what coach Garrett had to 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:07.840 say yesterday about Ezekiel Eli Well, he had the two 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:11.520 plays that were not good plays, the two interceptions. Obviously, 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:13.560 you know, one of the things that we preached to 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:15.240 our team on both sides of the ball, when there's 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:19.000 a turnover, everybody's involved for an offensive player to become 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:22.120 a defensive player on a fumble or an interception. And 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:24.560 you know, Zeke is one of the most natural competitors 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:26.600 I've ever been around. He loves to play, he loves 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:29.200 to practice. I think we've seen that through his first 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:32.520 year playing. And those two players were not indicative of 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:34.119 the kind of competitor that he was, and we have 0:23:34.160 --> 0:23:37.159 to get that addressed. So my question for you guys 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:40.200 is is this a big deal? You think this is 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:42.080 a big deal? Is this much to do about nothing? 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:44.360 I want to I want to share a personal anecdote 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:47.199 that shed some light on this. It comes from the 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:49.840 fourth quarter of this game. I was standing with you 0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:52.960 on the sideline. We were about eight feet away from 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:56.160 a keept league when he picked six Dak, and Dak 0:23:56.320 --> 0:23:59.600 was doing his thing, and good for him, great effort 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:01.480 and all that. He's chasing the play down trying to 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:04.480 do that, and Derek's standing right next to me going, 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:08.159 what are you doing? Get away? From there. Don't you 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:10.440 don't need to make this tackle. This is talking about 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:14.480 that Dak He's get out of there. Stop And I 0:24:14.520 --> 0:24:16.719 agreed with you. I was like, it's like, I know, 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:18.760 like that's what you want your quarterback to do, but 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:21.119 let's not get hurt on the last meetingless play of 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:24.000 this game. And that kind of I mean, that kind 0:24:24.000 --> 0:24:25.800 of sums it up for me. But is it different, 0:24:25.880 --> 0:24:28.240 because I know for me it is different for you. 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:31.800 Is it different for the quarterback versus all the other players? 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:34.800 I know that sounds bad, but the quarterback trying to 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:37.760 replace the quarterback is a lot harder than every other player. 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:40.360 And I just think I think of my quarterback differently. 0:24:40.400 --> 0:24:42.480 If you're down there trying to make that tackle and 0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:44.960 there guys blocking, just get out of the way. The 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:47.320 game was tied. If the game was tied, it's a 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:49.720 different story. Well then it's a different story then, because 0:24:50.040 --> 0:24:52.199 every player that you're talking about a play in the 0:24:52.200 --> 0:24:56.440 middle of the field Zeke, like middle midway through the game. 0:24:56.880 --> 0:24:58.879 I mean, you only said that because the game was 0:24:58.960 --> 0:25:00.960 over and you don't need him get hurt with fifty 0:25:01.000 --> 0:25:03.760 seconds to go. But the Zeke play, and that's different 0:25:03.920 --> 0:25:06.160 you need to go make a play. If you're gonna 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:08.119 do all this stuff like let's eat, let's eat, then 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:11.120 go eat, eat all the time, be hungry every time. 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:14.680 I think it is an issue because because he showed 0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:18.399 his disinterest when he doesn't want when things aren't going well. 0:25:18.680 --> 0:25:21.600 So the line wasn't there, the blocking wasn't there. But 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:25.040 there's more you could do. You don't just stop. The 0:25:25.080 --> 0:25:27.359 play's over and you put your hands on your hips 0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:28.880 and then you go to the sideline and you don't 0:25:28.920 --> 0:25:31.760 talk to anyone. To me, it was a too cool 0:25:31.840 --> 0:25:35.680 for school attitude that I mean. I don't think it 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:37.840 will be a huge issue, because I think it'll be 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:41.840 addressed in a lot more stern tone than that. I mean, 0:25:41.840 --> 0:25:45.440 I think it'll be addressed. I hear you. I do, 0:25:45.600 --> 0:25:48.160 and I'm not. I don't want to completely absolve him 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:51.680 and say, hey, that's fine, but I don't think this 0:25:51.760 --> 0:25:54.719 should be a storyline that lasts longer than about today. 0:25:54.920 --> 0:25:57.359 I agree, and I perfect agree. It'll get taken care of, 0:25:57.560 --> 0:26:00.160 I think. And I'm about to make excuses for them 0:26:00.200 --> 0:26:02.560 and say they're not excuses. But I was thinking about 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:04.399 it last night. I was talking about it with somebody, 0:26:04.880 --> 0:26:07.199 you go back. I mean, we've it's well documented that 0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:09.720 this guy has been a beast at every step of 0:26:09.760 --> 0:26:12.240 the way. I don't know the stats, but you remember 0:26:12.240 --> 0:26:14.919 in twenty fifteen, his last year at Ohio State, he 0:26:15.040 --> 0:26:18.119 made national news for yet like basically calling out his 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:20.000 coaches for not giving him the ball they lost to 0:26:20.000 --> 0:26:23.760 Michigan State. I guarantee you he had better stats in 0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:25.960 that game than he did on Sunday, and that was 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:28.479 probably the low light of his career to this point. Well, 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:30.520 he said in the press conversence, and when we're talking 0:26:30.600 --> 0:26:33.119 him in the locker room afterwards, he said, and somebody asked, 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:34.720 have you ever had a game worse in this and 0:26:34.760 --> 0:26:36.840 he was like, no, this worst game out. So you're 0:26:36.880 --> 0:26:42.440 literally witnessing the worst moment of his career. He's he's immature, 0:26:42.480 --> 0:26:45.840 and we know that. We've that's been the storyline surrounding 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:49.280 the Cowboys since he was drafted basically, but even more 0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:52.280 so in the last eight weeks for obvious reasons. He's 0:26:52.280 --> 0:26:54.600 an immature guy. You hope that he's working on it, 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:57.840 but it's fair to call him that based on everything 0:26:57.880 --> 0:27:01.160 that we know. So no, I don't think it's it's 0:27:01.200 --> 0:27:04.720 the right play, but in a seventeen twenty five point 0:27:04.760 --> 0:27:08.040 game in the third quarter, he's obviously very frustrated about 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:10.840 the way it's going. I don't, yeah, But going back 0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:14.240 to Dak's play at the end, obviously we all knew 0:27:14.680 --> 0:27:16.680 he wasn't gonna get there on time, he wasn't gonna 0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:19.919 make that tackle, but he still tried. And although it 0:27:20.000 --> 0:27:24.040 was a complete meaningless run for him to even go 0:27:24.119 --> 0:27:27.639 and try to do that, and he is the quarterback, 0:27:27.720 --> 0:27:30.760 he needs to be careful even then, it's still I 0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:32.679 mean to me, that meant a lot for him to 0:27:32.720 --> 0:27:35.040 even go and try to do that. I think these 0:27:35.080 --> 0:27:38.400 players see everything, as you know, in the moment, this 0:27:38.480 --> 0:27:40.280 is the game, this is the time. You don't you're 0:27:40.280 --> 0:27:43.280 not really thinking, You're just trying to act on you know, 0:27:44.040 --> 0:27:46.480 make whatever play you need to make. And he did that. 0:27:46.560 --> 0:27:49.840 He well, he tried to. But it shows a lot 0:27:49.920 --> 0:27:54.240 for He's a football player, and football players in the 0:27:54.640 --> 0:27:57.160 mentality of the moment, says, the ball's going the other way, 0:27:57.200 --> 0:27:59.320 I need to make a tackle. Right in all, I'm 0:27:59.320 --> 0:28:02.680 a quarterback and to get back. In all aspects of everything, 0:28:03.000 --> 0:28:05.880 Dak is what the Cowboys want Zeeke to be, but 0:28:06.040 --> 0:28:08.720 to this point, he's not. They're different people. I mean, 0:28:08.720 --> 0:28:10.879 that's something to work on and it'll be a teaching point. 0:28:11.520 --> 0:28:13.560 I'm yeah. I mean Garrett said as much. He's going 0:28:13.600 --> 0:28:16.840 to talk to Zeke about this. I would be fairly 0:28:16.920 --> 0:28:18.960 surprised if we saw him do it again, at least 0:28:18.960 --> 0:28:22.520 anytime soon. This is not an excuse for Zeke. But 0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:25.760 but I will say this. You know, to every other 0:28:25.760 --> 0:28:27.760 player on the team, this is their second game, this 0:28:27.840 --> 0:28:30.879 is their second game, this is their second fight. Zeke's 0:28:30.880 --> 0:28:33.560 been fighting for a while. He he has I mean this, 0:28:33.560 --> 0:28:36.240 this is this. To say that this isn't weighing on 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:40.560 him would be ridiculous. This whole yeah, and it is. 0:28:40.800 --> 0:28:43.320 I mean, everyone else is here and he's in Sherman, Texas, 0:28:43.360 --> 0:28:46.120 He's in a suit and tie, and this whole thing 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:49.240 has been weighing on him and and I it's affected 0:28:49.280 --> 0:28:53.240 his demeanor. There's no doubt about it. And I'm not again, 0:28:53.280 --> 0:28:55.920 I'm not dissolving of this. I mean that should be 0:28:55.960 --> 0:28:59.080 your sanctuary to go out there and play. Everything's you know, 0:28:59.160 --> 0:29:01.720 off the table, just go play football. And you know 0:29:02.160 --> 0:29:05.080 the frustration is mounting. But I'll say this though he's 0:29:05.120 --> 0:29:10.360 got to be tired physically, tired for us mentally and yeah, 0:29:10.440 --> 0:29:14.520 mentally for sure, but that affects you physically, and I think, 0:29:15.080 --> 0:29:17.120 you know, I think that that is probably weighing on him. 0:29:17.120 --> 0:29:19.120 He's got to be able to correct that. So I 0:29:19.120 --> 0:29:20.520 don't agree that. I mean, I don't think this is 0:29:20.520 --> 0:29:23.040 going to be a big deal, but I think it 0:29:23.040 --> 0:29:25.560 it was. It could be something that needs to be 0:29:25.680 --> 0:29:28.040 nipped into. But if he's as much of a competitor 0:29:28.040 --> 0:29:30.520 as Jason Garrett said, then he needs to show that more. 0:29:30.560 --> 0:29:32.840 And I think that's what Garrett was saying. I mean, 0:29:32.840 --> 0:29:35.840 I think anyone's concerned moving forward. Yeah, that's I guess. 0:29:36.360 --> 0:29:38.280 I agree, But I just don't think it's like this 0:29:38.360 --> 0:29:40.960 huge deal. It doesn't need to be a first take 0:29:41.040 --> 0:29:44.680 segment for many more days. It was. It's funny because Garrett, 0:29:45.160 --> 0:29:49.280 for everything that he answered about about Zeke, he said 0:29:49.400 --> 0:29:52.360 everything the other way about Dak. Yeah, and that's interesting. Actually, 0:29:52.440 --> 0:29:54.280 let's hear that audio of what Garrett had to say 0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:57.640 about Dak Prescott in this last game. Well, if you 0:29:57.680 --> 0:29:59.160 get a chance to go back and watch the tape 0:29:59.160 --> 0:30:02.920 at number four numberfore as a special player was not 0:30:03.160 --> 0:30:05.680 an easy game for him. I got knocked around a 0:30:05.680 --> 0:30:08.320 little bit, got banged up early, and talk about a 0:30:08.320 --> 0:30:10.400 guy who battles, talk about a guy who fights, talk 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:14.040 about a guy who leads the team under adversity, under duress. 0:30:15.240 --> 0:30:17.600 It was special. And you know, I reflect back on 0:30:17.680 --> 0:30:21.720 the best quarterbacks I've been around, and oftentimes the games 0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:25.600 that I remember most are the ones that the situations 0:30:25.600 --> 0:30:27.880 were the most challenging. And you see how they respond, 0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:30.120 how they respond to a turnover, how they respond to 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:31.720 guys hitting him in the face over and over and 0:30:31.720 --> 0:30:34.080 over again. You've heard me say this before. My old 0:30:34.080 --> 0:30:35.840 man says, you know, you can hit him in the 0:30:35.840 --> 0:30:37.920 face with a shovel and he keeps coming back. And 0:30:38.400 --> 0:30:41.600 that's what Dak Prescott again demonstrated yesterday. So I have 0:30:41.640 --> 0:30:45.440 no real concern about him responding the right way. Certainly, 0:30:45.520 --> 0:30:46.960 Zeke had a couple of those plays that we talked 0:30:46.960 --> 0:30:49.360 about already. We have to address those with him. But again, 0:30:49.400 --> 0:30:51.600 he's a natural competitor, he loves to play, he plays 0:30:51.640 --> 0:30:53.959 the game the right way. We'll get him right going forward. 0:30:54.720 --> 0:30:59.240 All right, that's Coach Garrett talking about Dak Prescott, and actually, Nick, 0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:03.080 you made a simil a similar argument yesterday talking about 0:31:03.440 --> 0:31:06.880 how how impressed you were with Dak and not necessarily 0:31:06.880 --> 0:31:09.280 results of his play, right, but just how he went 0:31:09.320 --> 0:31:11.640 about it yet in a game that was full of 0:31:11.680 --> 0:31:14.360 adversity and things not going his way. You know, I 0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:16.880 always take that line Bill Parcells used to say about it. 0:31:16.920 --> 0:31:19.840 You know, you don't really know about a player until 0:31:19.920 --> 0:31:22.240 they get beat thirty five to seven, and everyone's kind 0:31:22.240 --> 0:31:25.040 of looking sideways at the quarterback and is you know, wait, 0:31:25.320 --> 0:31:27.680 every play he's getting up looking out of the ear 0:31:27.720 --> 0:31:29.720 hole because he's just been hit every time, and we'll 0:31:29.760 --> 0:31:31.719 find out then how how he comes back. And so 0:31:32.000 --> 0:31:33.880 I thought that that was kind of indicative of that 0:31:35.320 --> 0:31:38.520 just just showed it reminded me of a Brett Farve 0:31:38.640 --> 0:31:42.440 type of thing of like you're a football player playing quarterback. 0:31:42.600 --> 0:31:44.959 There's a difference between a quarterback and then football players 0:31:44.960 --> 0:31:46.680 that play it. I think Walter Payton was the best 0:31:46.680 --> 0:31:48.720 football player to ever play running back. I'm not saying 0:31:48.760 --> 0:31:50.520 he's the best running back, but I think he was 0:31:50.520 --> 0:31:52.440 the best football player to ever play running back. And 0:31:52.720 --> 0:31:56.560 I think Dak is playing it like that, you know, 0:31:57.160 --> 0:31:59.440 never give up that that that type of stuff. And 0:31:59.480 --> 0:32:02.400 then actually after the press conference when Garrett kind of 0:32:02.400 --> 0:32:04.160 talks to us a little bit, and most of it's 0:32:04.200 --> 0:32:07.880 off the record, but one story he shared was Troy 0:32:07.920 --> 0:32:11.680 Aikman and his favorite Aikman moment. It's the same favorite 0:32:11.720 --> 0:32:14.280 moment for him at Smith the ninety four championship game 0:32:14.320 --> 0:32:17.160 against the Niners when they lost and they had a 0:32:17.240 --> 0:32:18.960 chance for a three peat. But it was that game. 0:32:19.000 --> 0:32:21.280 But he said, agmam was just standing in there taking 0:32:21.360 --> 0:32:24.239 shot after shot after shot, and that's what he was 0:32:24.320 --> 0:32:27.360 talking about. Dak just standing in the pocket, hit a 0:32:27.360 --> 0:32:29.200 couple of throws like that we talked about, you know, 0:32:29.200 --> 0:32:32.960 we're just standing right there and knowing that he's gonna 0:32:32.960 --> 0:32:36.040 get hit. So he showed some toughness in that game. Yeah, 0:32:36.080 --> 0:32:37.920 I think a lot of things about that you like, 0:32:38.200 --> 0:32:40.280 not only the things he did during the game, think 0:32:40.360 --> 0:32:42.720 after the game. You liked the way that he approached 0:32:42.760 --> 0:32:44.880 handling the media from the standpoint of yeah, I didn't 0:32:44.880 --> 0:32:47.000 have the greatest game, and I gotta be better. I 0:32:47.000 --> 0:32:49.760 gotta do more for my team. Now, I think the 0:32:49.760 --> 0:32:52.040 most important thing is what does he do in response 0:32:52.080 --> 0:32:54.479 to that in the next game, Because you can let 0:32:54.520 --> 0:32:56.520 those kinds of games snowball to where you get beat 0:32:56.560 --> 0:32:59.600 twice off of a really bad game, and so can 0:32:59.680 --> 0:33:02.760 he somehow play better, and not only that, but bring 0:33:02.760 --> 0:33:04.840 his teammates along with him to play better, to get 0:33:04.880 --> 0:33:07.320 out of that funk, to get themselves back on the 0:33:07.400 --> 0:33:09.920 right track going into or out of Week three and 0:33:09.960 --> 0:33:11.400 into week four in the rest of the season. I 0:33:11.400 --> 0:33:13.960 hope it was hot in the press conference room. He 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:17.480 was sweaty, because he was sweating more than he ever has. 0:33:17.520 --> 0:33:19.880 And I wonder if you know it, it it was one 0:33:19.880 --> 0:33:22.200 of those situations where you're just kind of feeling the 0:33:22.200 --> 0:33:24.800 pressure a little bit. I didn't notice it to be 0:33:25.000 --> 0:33:27.600 too hot, but maybe it was. I wasn't in there. 0:33:27.640 --> 0:33:31.240 Maybe the altitude, maybe no. But he handled it like 0:33:31.240 --> 0:33:33.560 like he played the worst game of his life and 0:33:33.600 --> 0:33:35.800 he was the one that messed it up. Yeah, and 0:33:35.840 --> 0:33:38.160 that's what a quarterback it's really supposed to do, which 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:40.200 was a common thing thing in that locker room. I 0:33:40.240 --> 0:33:42.760 know you guys were in there, and I think, almost 0:33:42.760 --> 0:33:45.400 to a man that I heard talk, they all said, Hey, 0:33:45.400 --> 0:33:47.160 I didn't play my best game. I didn't play up 0:33:47.160 --> 0:33:49.280 to standards. We didn't play up to standards. I think 0:33:49.360 --> 0:33:52.920 everybody kind of had that same thought that same mentality. 0:33:52.960 --> 0:33:55.000 I don't know how it couldn't be a humbling experience. 0:33:55.080 --> 0:34:00.920 Even Garrett yesterday I thought was a lot were forthcoming 0:34:01.240 --> 0:34:06.160 and offered better explanations than typical, you know, like he's 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:08.359 big on coach speak and not giving away too much, 0:34:08.360 --> 0:34:11.360 and he was still himself, but he I mean, you know, 0:34:11.440 --> 0:34:13.840 he was very forthcoming about the Zeke stuff. He was 0:34:14.000 --> 0:34:17.799 very forthcoming about praising Dak and talking about, you know, 0:34:17.840 --> 0:34:20.080 the way that Denver defense played them and how that's 0:34:20.080 --> 0:34:22.160 difficult to deal with when you do it the right way. 0:34:22.560 --> 0:34:25.040 And I just I thought it was more than we 0:34:25.080 --> 0:34:28.240 typically get from him, and I was wondering if maybe 0:34:28.280 --> 0:34:31.200 that was because after a performance like that, you kind 0:34:31.200 --> 0:34:33.120 of don't have a choice but to swallow your pride 0:34:33.160 --> 0:34:37.480 and go with the flow. Basically, you know what they 0:34:37.520 --> 0:34:39.799 say the whole time in training camp that you know, 0:34:39.840 --> 0:34:42.120 we start at the bottom, you don't build off of 0:34:42.200 --> 0:34:44.759 last year. You're starting, And I think it's easy to 0:34:44.840 --> 0:34:47.719 say that. It's harder for players to really believe that 0:34:48.040 --> 0:34:49.960 until you get hit in the mouth like this and 0:34:50.000 --> 0:34:53.880 then you realize, oh, this is different now, and hopefully, 0:34:54.080 --> 0:34:57.480 hopefully for Cowboys and Cowboys fans, this is the kind 0:34:57.520 --> 0:34:59.600 of game that kind of waked him up to the 0:34:59.600 --> 0:35:03.360 reality of every single week, this is a new opponent, 0:35:03.360 --> 0:35:06.239 and that new opponent can really just destroy you if 0:35:06.239 --> 0:35:08.960 you don't play your best game, and especially when you're 0:35:08.960 --> 0:35:11.600 playing really good team. So maybe maybe it has that 0:35:11.680 --> 0:35:13.919 kind of effect. That is the toughest place to play 0:35:13.920 --> 0:35:16.520 in the NFL, absolutely, because what is it nineteen and 0:35:16.560 --> 0:35:18.160 one in the last twenty games. I want to say, well, 0:35:18.200 --> 0:35:21.360 they that host to last year, but I mean it's no, 0:35:21.800 --> 0:35:23.839 it's not a lot. They don't. They don't lose often, 0:35:23.840 --> 0:35:26.000 they don't lose often. I mean there's a lot of factors. 0:35:26.000 --> 0:35:28.680 I mean, it's it's loud. Well, first of all, the 0:35:28.680 --> 0:35:32.440 team is good, really good. It's it's a loud stadium. 0:35:32.840 --> 0:35:35.759 They and you look around. They do not give their 0:35:35.760 --> 0:35:39.839 tickets away. It's orange. I mean, Dick Haboys hadn't played 0:35:39.840 --> 0:35:44.160 their nine year eight years. Usually when that happens, you start. No, 0:35:44.880 --> 0:35:46.880 we didn't even talk about the fact that the press 0:35:46.880 --> 0:35:49.640 box shook on every second and third down from the 0:35:49.719 --> 0:35:52.239 moment the game was about to start. I told I 0:35:52.239 --> 0:35:54.319 remember telling Nick, I was like, this is gonna get 0:35:54.320 --> 0:35:56.920 on my nerves. Like the whole thing is just shaking. 0:35:57.440 --> 0:36:00.760 Everybody's beating like you can just you hear the audible 0:36:00.760 --> 0:36:03.720 sound of people stopping their feet and beating on stuff. 0:36:03.920 --> 0:36:07.240 And that starts when the game begins. It stops at halftime. 0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:10.120 It did stop during the rain delay that luckily, and 0:36:10.120 --> 0:36:13.320 then it starts. The game starts back up. You usually 0:36:13.320 --> 0:36:16.000 see a crowd like a crowd is usually thinner after 0:36:16.040 --> 0:36:18.919 a raindelay, not that. They were just waiting right under 0:36:18.920 --> 0:36:21.680 the under overhang and they ran right back out and 0:36:21.719 --> 0:36:24.879 their seats are all blue and even that, even then, 0:36:25.560 --> 0:36:28.160 all you can see was orange. Yeah, I didn't think 0:36:28.160 --> 0:36:30.920 about that. Yes, you know. So at some point Garrett's 0:36:30.920 --> 0:36:34.000 going to have to address this situation of I mean, 0:36:35.200 --> 0:36:38.919 he said it two years ago, we like to take 0:36:38.920 --> 0:36:41.399 the ball and start the second half, because he had 0:36:41.440 --> 0:36:43.960 this whole theory about how fans don't come back into 0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:46.480 their seat at halftime and it's not as loud, but 0:36:46.560 --> 0:36:48.759 before the game they're all jacked up and all that. 0:36:49.120 --> 0:36:51.880 So I don't understand why he continues to take the 0:36:51.880 --> 0:36:54.680 football and when he when he wins the toss, that 0:36:54.760 --> 0:36:57.839 doesn't make any sense to me. The Broncos start out, 0:36:58.120 --> 0:37:00.000 you kick it off to the twenty five yard line. 0:37:00.280 --> 0:37:03.319 You can't hear you go three and out and you punt, Like, 0:37:03.360 --> 0:37:05.800 why why don't you play defense first? I think I 0:37:05.880 --> 0:37:08.160 kind of understand his philosophy. I'd love last game, and 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:11.000 I think I think it's more about, you know, with him, 0:37:11.040 --> 0:37:14.040 everything is a t shirt of mentality or whatever. I 0:37:14.080 --> 0:37:16.120 think what he's trying to say to his team is, 0:37:16.719 --> 0:37:18.759 we take the ball all the time. Our offense is 0:37:18.840 --> 0:37:21.359 that good. We're not going to be afraid because we're 0:37:21.360 --> 0:37:23.520 on the road against a good defense to take the ball. 0:37:23.920 --> 0:37:26.480 Give us the ball. I think it was a mentality thing. 0:37:26.520 --> 0:37:29.000 I don't think it's about strategy for him. I think 0:37:29.040 --> 0:37:31.560 it's more about we do this all the time because 0:37:31.640 --> 0:37:33.239 we believe that we're going to get out to a 0:37:33.280 --> 0:37:35.279 fast start. And getting out to a fast start means 0:37:35.280 --> 0:37:36.759 putting our all and put it on your defense. I 0:37:36.840 --> 0:37:39.600 think I think that is strategy though, because where we 0:37:39.600 --> 0:37:41.960 talk about this team plays best with a lead. You 0:37:42.000 --> 0:37:43.799 want to run the ball, you want to control the clock, 0:37:43.880 --> 0:37:46.600 you want to be in front so that their offense 0:37:46.640 --> 0:37:48.879 has to throw the ball, and that if you do 0:37:48.920 --> 0:37:52.440 it right, that starts with points on the first possession. Obviously, 0:37:52.440 --> 0:37:54.359 it's a big gamble, and usually I do get points 0:37:54.360 --> 0:37:57.040 on the first which I and you know, it's funny 0:37:57.040 --> 0:37:59.400 because we just mentioned that it worked very well for 0:37:59.440 --> 0:38:01.600 them last year year, right, that doesn't mean it will 0:38:01.600 --> 0:38:03.640 work well for them this year. So it'll be interesting 0:38:03.719 --> 0:38:07.000 to see how that plays because I think they got points. 0:38:07.040 --> 0:38:09.759 They did this all last year and they got points 0:38:10.000 --> 0:38:12.799 six out of the seven first games. Well now they're 0:38:12.840 --> 0:38:15.680 one and one, so I wonder if that affects their 0:38:15.760 --> 0:38:18.520 thought process going forward. What we know about Jason Garrett 0:38:18.600 --> 0:38:20.920 is he is a He is really a creature of habit. 0:38:21.000 --> 0:38:22.719 I have a hard time thinking he's going to change 0:38:22.719 --> 0:38:24.359 it up. That seems to be what he's done. Since 0:38:24.360 --> 0:38:28.000 he's got it, I would hesitate to just call it 0:38:28.040 --> 0:38:30.600 like a Jason Garrett thing. Though, Amber and I had 0:38:30.640 --> 0:38:34.160 a conversation with mister Prescott on Oh Yeah Friday. He 0:38:34.600 --> 0:38:36.279 loves it. He's like, yeah, we're good. We're good at 0:38:36.280 --> 0:38:38.000 the start of the game. That's why we take the ball. 0:38:38.280 --> 0:38:40.840 That's a matter of fact part of the game. Whenever 0:38:41.040 --> 0:38:44.919 Derek decides we'll play this audio, hopefully sometime this week. 0:38:45.239 --> 0:38:49.040 Let's because people were very passionate about this subject through 0:38:49.400 --> 0:38:51.879 you know, people on Twitter. So you know what, I'm 0:38:52.120 --> 0:38:54.920 motivating me to go ahead and go ask the man 0:38:55.080 --> 0:38:58.520 himself and hopefully you guys will get to listen to 0:38:58.520 --> 0:39:00.839 that audio. For people that don't know we're talking about 0:39:00.960 --> 0:39:03.120 last week, it was a very interesting conversation. I think 0:39:03.160 --> 0:39:06.080 it happened on Thursday, was that right, Wendsay or Thursday, 0:39:06.080 --> 0:39:08.320 one of the two. Anyway, there's a conversation that happened 0:39:08.360 --> 0:39:11.360 on the air, and Amber was making the argument that 0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:14.600 Dak specifically has that is starting and I want to 0:39:14.600 --> 0:39:16.640 make sure I get this right. That is that he 0:39:16.680 --> 0:39:18.720 doesn't he has a better He's better in the second 0:39:18.760 --> 0:39:21.640 half than he is in the first half. Um and 0:39:21.760 --> 0:39:24.600 Nick and Dave argued that point on the other side 0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:27.279 that they think it's pretty consistent. He's pretty much the 0:39:27.320 --> 0:39:29.400 same guy first half, second half. I think you've already 0:39:29.400 --> 0:39:32.759 butchered it. Yeah, sorry, it's it's that's not how it started. 0:39:32.840 --> 0:39:38.080 It started, let's say. Anyway, the point was, the point 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:41.120 was you asked Dak about it to get Dak's word 0:39:41.200 --> 0:39:43.000 on it, and we did get audio from that. We're 0:39:43.000 --> 0:39:45.440 gonna play that sometime later this week, probably we might 0:39:45.480 --> 0:39:47.239 do it tomorrow. We'll play that later this week, just 0:39:47.239 --> 0:39:49.160 so people can hear and then hopefully put this whole 0:39:49.160 --> 0:39:51.160 thing to bed, because I'm oh, we don't, we don't 0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:53.120 need to this cast it again. I just went ahead. 0:39:53.200 --> 0:39:55.680 You can listen to the audio. And she just wants 0:39:55.719 --> 0:39:58.000 to know that the quarterback series right. She wants to 0:39:58.000 --> 0:40:01.319 say I was right. Okay, So we're gonna we're gonna 0:40:01.360 --> 0:40:03.440 take our final break. We're gonna come back. 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Let's talk a little bit about Demontrey Moore. 0:41:57.520 --> 0:41:59.440 He's been on suspension for the first two games of 0:41:59.520 --> 0:42:03.120 the season. He should be I guess activated today. A 0:42:03.200 --> 0:42:05.320 Cowboys will have to make a move. I think is 0:42:05.360 --> 0:42:07.280 it true that they have a twenty four hour period 0:42:07.320 --> 0:42:08.680 in order to make that move or do they have 0:42:08.680 --> 0:42:12.640 to immediately cut somebody whenever he is well. He's been 0:42:12.680 --> 0:42:15.520 back in the building, right back on the team today. 0:42:15.600 --> 0:42:18.520 They have until three today, three today to make the move. 0:42:18.600 --> 0:42:20.680 So they will have to make a transaction of some 0:42:20.719 --> 0:42:24.200 sort um, either cutting a player or maybe moving a 0:42:24.200 --> 0:42:27.040 player to IR in order to get him onto the 0:42:27.040 --> 0:42:29.720 fifty three man roster. So I'll ask you guys the question, 0:42:29.760 --> 0:42:31.359 who do you think is going to be the odd 0:42:31.360 --> 0:42:35.160 man out? About three o'clock today. I don't get the 0:42:35.200 --> 0:42:39.760 impression that Nolan Carroll's concussion is like an ir type 0:42:39.800 --> 0:42:42.920 of deal. I could be wrong. So if there's an 0:42:42.960 --> 0:42:45.319 injury thing, that's totally different. But if you're just if 0:42:45.360 --> 0:42:48.640 you have to release a healthy player, I think I 0:42:48.680 --> 0:42:53.440 would go with jay Ron Elliott. And that's just me speculating. 0:42:53.440 --> 0:42:55.120 I don't know anything, but I'm just trying to put 0:42:55.160 --> 0:42:57.319 the pieces together. I don't think how did they get 0:42:57.400 --> 0:43:02.040 him trade? They claimf waivers, but they claimed Brian Price 0:43:02.080 --> 0:43:04.279 off waivers. They traded for jail And isn't it the 0:43:04.320 --> 0:43:06.920 same thing? Like their compensation is tied to how much 0:43:06.960 --> 0:43:10.319 he's exact, they're not using him at all. He did 0:43:10.360 --> 0:43:12.840 not participate in the Giants game at all. He was 0:43:12.920 --> 0:43:17.680 inactive on Sunday, So clearly he was inactive on Sunday 0:43:17.840 --> 0:43:20.920 despite you know, you're already sort of thin at linebacker 0:43:20.960 --> 0:43:24.839 as it is with Anthony Hitchins injured, so clearly they 0:43:24.880 --> 0:43:26.960 feel like they can get through a game without him. 0:43:27.440 --> 0:43:30.160 I'm not going to say Demontre Moore can play linebacker, 0:43:30.200 --> 0:43:32.600 but he does do some stand up stuff as a 0:43:32.600 --> 0:43:35.759 pass rusher, especially in that nickel and dime sub packages. 0:43:35.920 --> 0:43:39.080 And j Elliott is a kind of an outside linebacker 0:43:39.719 --> 0:43:42.360 pass rusher, right, So it's kind of that similar. Yeah, 0:43:42.400 --> 0:43:45.440 So if you're not using him and you get your 0:43:45.520 --> 0:43:48.520 draft pick back, if you cut him and they sort 0:43:48.520 --> 0:43:51.280 of fill a similar role, I think it makes sense. 0:43:51.719 --> 0:43:57.320 And you know he wasn't active, but Tapper would probably 0:43:57.360 --> 0:44:00.440 be inactive anyways, You're just gonna make Tapper in active. 0:44:00.440 --> 0:44:02.239 You don't want to cut Tapper, but obviously what you 0:44:02.280 --> 0:44:05.040 want to and Demontre Moore should be in um I 0:44:05.040 --> 0:44:06.960 would you know what, I would think that way, But 0:44:07.160 --> 0:44:11.680 would you make Tapper inactive or Taco because there's no 0:44:11.760 --> 0:44:15.919 way they make Taco inactive. Huh. I mean it looks bad, Yes, 0:44:16.000 --> 0:44:20.000 it looks bad. That's about this. The optics that Charles 0:44:20.000 --> 0:44:21.880 Tapper is one of two players on this team with 0:44:21.920 --> 0:44:25.200 a sack, right, Yeah, So I'm just saying, and I've 0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:27.919 been critical of Charles Tapper, but he has played well 0:44:28.000 --> 0:44:30.120 enough that I don't know that I'm sitting him down. 0:44:30.320 --> 0:44:33.719 And I am the president of the Taco Charloton Fan 0:44:33.800 --> 0:44:37.360 Club going back to draft time. But if you gotta 0:44:37.400 --> 0:44:39.680 sit him, you gotta sit him. I mean, he's not 0:44:39.719 --> 0:44:43.200 starting anyway, so he's already he's already not meeting people's 0:44:43.840 --> 0:44:46.040 the hype of the expectations or whatever. So if you 0:44:46.080 --> 0:44:49.360 gotta sit him for Demontre Moore, I mean whatever. I think, though, 0:44:49.560 --> 0:44:51.920 when you when you're talking about what they're asking these 0:44:51.920 --> 0:44:56.239 guys to do, I think, Taco, Um, I've only really 0:44:56.280 --> 0:44:59.720 seen Tapper on third downs or at least pass rushing 0:44:59.719 --> 0:45:02.239 situa us and I know that they asked Oacho to 0:45:02.280 --> 0:45:04.719 do a little bit more than that, so I wouldn't imagine. 0:45:05.400 --> 0:45:08.040 I'm I'm you're right. I think it would be between 0:45:08.080 --> 0:45:10.680 those two though. Yeah, with Monty can slide tackle in 0:45:10.760 --> 0:45:13.880 to play defensive tackles right right, it can, but they haven't. 0:45:13.920 --> 0:45:16.560 They really haven't. Don't like and he can play left 0:45:16.640 --> 0:45:18.800 end too, but he's really only played right and I 0:45:19.600 --> 0:45:22.600 take issue with that. But he's the first round pick, 0:45:22.680 --> 0:45:24.480 so they want him to play the sexy position. I 0:45:24.560 --> 0:45:27.600 guess I don't know. Yeah, you guys agreed, Jay Jay, 0:45:27.760 --> 0:45:30.080 but that seems logical. I mean I could see a 0:45:30.120 --> 0:45:33.200 cornerback though getting in the mix here really like who well, 0:45:33.239 --> 0:45:36.640 I mean it would have to be. I mean, if 0:45:36.680 --> 0:45:40.720 you've got a good maybe cheeto on ir you mentioned 0:45:40.760 --> 0:45:43.279 that yesterday. You really think that's an option? If it's 0:45:43.320 --> 0:45:45.719 the same is it the same hamstring? It's the same hamstring. 0:45:45.840 --> 0:45:49.480 Although Stephen Jones said yesterday they he went through an MRI, 0:45:49.680 --> 0:45:52.920 they didn't see anything super troubling. It's it sounds like 0:45:53.000 --> 0:45:54.879 they hope he can practice this week. So I don't 0:45:54.920 --> 0:45:57.480 get an I all right, And it's the same thing 0:45:57.520 --> 0:46:00.399 as what you were saying too about um, I'm drown 0:46:00.440 --> 0:46:03.640 a blank on the tight end. Rico gathers. The reason 0:46:03.719 --> 0:46:06.040 why you would do the I R for only the 0:46:06.760 --> 0:46:08.879 set the eight weeks is because you need he needs 0:46:08.920 --> 0:46:10.880 to practice. I think with a rookie like Tito, he 0:46:10.960 --> 0:46:12.520 needs to practice as well. So you wouldn't want him 0:46:12.520 --> 0:46:15.520 on R four and extended periods. Andy, you'd be done 0:46:15.600 --> 0:46:18.920 with your if you're gonna bring him back, if you're 0:46:18.960 --> 0:46:20.960 gonna do another guy, I are you're gonna bring him back, 0:46:20.960 --> 0:46:23.480 then you'd don't be out of guys. Don't have too, Yeah, 0:46:23.480 --> 0:46:25.600 I don't have too. Yeah, they don't have to bring 0:46:25.840 --> 0:46:27.880 Rico back. But what were you gonna say now, I was. 0:46:27.960 --> 0:46:30.399 I was just gonna say to that point, I think 0:46:30.440 --> 0:46:33.439 that would be a good move if they weren't last 0:46:33.520 --> 0:46:36.319 week in the position, you know, yeah, if they weren't 0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:38.879 having all these troubles with I mean, to have him 0:46:38.920 --> 0:46:41.719 out for like eight weeks, I don't think it would 0:46:41.719 --> 0:46:45.160 be good. And the reason why is it gives you 0:46:45.239 --> 0:46:47.640 a spot. It opens a spot to get another guy. 0:46:47.719 --> 0:46:50.239 That's kind of why. Yeah, but the guy, the guy 0:46:50.280 --> 0:46:52.720 you're gonna bring in doesn't have a job, so he's 0:46:52.719 --> 0:46:55.239 not any good either. The same reason when they could 0:46:55.320 --> 0:46:58.200 release Ben abin Wickery too. But I don't think that's 0:46:58.239 --> 0:46:59.920 a good idea with what they're dealing with in the 0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:02.120 secondary right now. Yeah, I'd be interested to see if 0:47:02.120 --> 0:47:04.520 they would make that. Has anybody asked him, you guys 0:47:04.600 --> 0:47:06.759 may know it. Has anybody asked the coaches why they 0:47:06.800 --> 0:47:08.680 made the decision to have him in active last week 0:47:08.760 --> 0:47:11.759 knowing they only had four active. I mean he said 0:47:11.760 --> 0:47:13.959 it after the game. He said, because of Noah Brown. 0:47:15.400 --> 0:47:18.120 Because they wanted they didn't know about Terrence and they 0:47:18.200 --> 0:47:21.000 wanted to make sure that they had the receivers there. 0:47:21.120 --> 0:47:23.960 I mean, again, it doesn't make sense to me, But 0:47:24.760 --> 0:47:28.279 I mean five and five would seem right, Yeah, it's 0:47:28.320 --> 0:47:30.560 at four and six, yes, and they got bit. I 0:47:30.600 --> 0:47:33.480 mean maybe they're winning to this week thinking feeling pretty 0:47:33.480 --> 0:47:37.120 confident after the Giants game with yeah, guys they had 0:47:37.239 --> 0:47:39.600 playing out there. But see the way I look at 0:47:39.640 --> 0:47:42.640 it is with Scandrick being hurt, wouldn't you want to 0:47:43.200 --> 0:47:46.320 kind of hey, what do we know about? What do 0:47:46.360 --> 0:47:49.279 we know about Cheeto? Lease, Let's let this guy maybe 0:47:49.360 --> 0:47:50.800 play if he gets down to it. And then of 0:47:50.840 --> 0:47:52.839 course Nolan Carroll goes out and has a bad game 0:47:53.400 --> 0:47:57.800 before Yeah, yeah, I mean he unfortunately, I mean he 0:47:58.320 --> 0:48:00.359 played better than the last three quarters than he did 0:48:00.400 --> 0:48:04.720 the first time. Like Carol well Um saying, I wouldn't 0:48:04.760 --> 0:48:07.520 agree with either of these, but I mean, as long 0:48:07.560 --> 0:48:10.839 as we're covering our bases, Rod Smith and and Noah 0:48:10.880 --> 0:48:13.160 Brown are guys that I mean, when you look at 0:48:13.239 --> 0:48:16.000 what role they feel, it's small enough that if you 0:48:16.120 --> 0:48:18.760 absolutely had to have a spot. And Demontreamore plays special 0:48:18.840 --> 0:48:22.160 teams too, so h those are guys they could release. 0:48:22.840 --> 0:48:24.960 I wouldn't expect it. I would be kind of surprised 0:48:25.000 --> 0:48:27.000 and I would disagree with it if that's what they did. 0:48:27.200 --> 0:48:30.200 But I disagreed with Darius Jackson last year. You know, 0:48:30.320 --> 0:48:33.480 I mean, if they got a good handle on the 0:48:33.560 --> 0:48:35.880 zeke thing, you could always cut one of the running backs, 0:48:35.960 --> 0:48:38.800 one of the veteran running backs. Yeah, cut McFadden. I 0:48:38.840 --> 0:48:41.600 don't think they'd have a handle on it though. No. 0:48:41.880 --> 0:48:44.360 So all right, let's let's get some phone calls. You 0:48:44.400 --> 0:48:46.200 guys call us at two one, four eight seven two 0:48:46.320 --> 0:48:48.040 twenty one h two. You can also hit us on 0:48:48.040 --> 0:48:50.040 Twitter at Cowboys Break will start with a call from 0:48:50.160 --> 0:48:54.560 Rob in Vegas. Rob, What up? Hey, everybody? How are you? 0:48:54.920 --> 0:48:57.279 I mean, if you would tell me that after two 0:48:57.360 --> 0:49:00.239 weeks we'd have a division win against the team we 0:49:00.239 --> 0:49:02.959 couldn't beat last year and a road loss against Denver 0:49:03.040 --> 0:49:07.480 and be like, Okay, I take that. But there's three 0:49:07.560 --> 0:49:12.200 guys that I'm a little concerned about. One is Byron Jones. 0:49:12.239 --> 0:49:15.839 I'm starting to think he was just a combined superstar 0:49:16.880 --> 0:49:18.799 because I don't I just don't see it. I hear 0:49:18.880 --> 0:49:22.600 it in practice and I hear it in training camps. 0:49:22.840 --> 0:49:26.520 He just doesn't make enough plays at the safety position. 0:49:27.680 --> 0:49:32.640 Another guy is crossed. How many years have we talked that? Now? 0:49:33.000 --> 0:49:35.759 This guy, you know, he's healthy he's that was just 0:49:36.200 --> 0:49:40.160 a mistake paying him and another guy that I'm concerned 0:49:40.160 --> 0:49:45.960 about a Scott Linahan, because I'm wondering if he's in 0:49:46.160 --> 0:49:50.239 his mind he's saying I'm going to prove that Dak 0:49:50.320 --> 0:49:53.280 Prescott's the guy and he's not gonna have a sophomore slump. 0:49:53.960 --> 0:49:56.879 And I started to see it in the playoff game 0:49:56.960 --> 0:50:01.520 against Green Bay. Zeke Elliott is ab player on offense 0:50:02.400 --> 0:50:05.279 and that's your best option. And I didn't think they 0:50:05.400 --> 0:50:08.719 leaned on him enough in that game. Even the Giant game, 0:50:08.800 --> 0:50:10.839 he first been goal from the three. You didn't even 0:50:10.880 --> 0:50:13.719 give him one touch, and I'm sorry, Zeke should have 0:50:13.760 --> 0:50:17.560 been frustrated eight touches. I know he wasn't getting anything, 0:50:17.840 --> 0:50:20.160 but he's the only guy on your offense that could 0:50:20.239 --> 0:50:23.520 score from anywhere on the field. You still have to 0:50:23.640 --> 0:50:27.480 run the ball, especially when you know your defense is 0:50:27.560 --> 0:50:29.840 not playing good. You got to eat up some clock 0:50:30.239 --> 0:50:33.719 and hope to get the game going. I'm a little 0:50:33.760 --> 0:50:36.640 concerned about him. I don't see him using Dez. You 0:50:36.800 --> 0:50:39.160 got to stop acting like Dez runs a four three 0:50:39.320 --> 0:50:42.520 forty and running him down the sideline. You guys know 0:50:43.160 --> 0:50:46.839 Dez's best players are always short pros where he makes 0:50:46.840 --> 0:50:50.640 a guy miss and he runs after the catch, more 0:50:50.719 --> 0:50:54.200 bubble screens put him in the flot stop treating you 0:50:54.280 --> 0:50:57.439 know these jump balls, these fifty fifty balls, And that's 0:50:57.440 --> 0:51:00.720 what you guys were talking about. You look at Deck's 0:51:00.800 --> 0:51:04.319 percentage to all the other wide receivers, it's high and again, 0:51:04.480 --> 0:51:06.640 and when he throws the Dez it's low, and all 0:51:06.680 --> 0:51:11.320 the interceptions. What throws to Dez? So lenihan um, I 0:51:11.440 --> 0:51:14.920 need him to change his philosophy a little bit. And 0:51:15.600 --> 0:51:17.799 and the other two guys, I don't know. I think 0:51:17.880 --> 0:51:21.040 we're going to be looking for a safety come next year. 0:51:21.760 --> 0:51:23.480 All right, thanks for the call. What do you guys 0:51:23.520 --> 0:51:29.080 think about Byron Jones? You know, I don't have like 0:51:29.239 --> 0:51:31.200 much of a problem with anything that guy just said. 0:51:31.280 --> 0:51:33.800 I mean, you could quibble over like the semantics of it, 0:51:33.920 --> 0:51:36.359 but like the overall theme of that call pretty much 0:51:36.360 --> 0:51:39.399 agree with. I'm not that far out on Byron yet, 0:51:40.160 --> 0:51:42.319 I don't. I mean, I don't think anybody was good 0:51:42.400 --> 0:51:44.200 in that game. They got their butts kick. But he 0:51:44.280 --> 0:51:46.319 made a nice play in pass coverage. I did see. 0:51:46.320 --> 0:51:49.279 Did y'all see that thing going around Twitter? It's like 0:51:49.400 --> 0:51:52.440 a it's a replay where it's a pulling play and 0:51:52.520 --> 0:51:55.200 CJ it was CJ Anderson's touchdown. Do you see Byron 0:51:55.280 --> 0:51:57.319 on where it looked like he had a clear path 0:51:57.400 --> 0:51:59.440 to the ball carrier and kind of chose to pick 0:51:59.520 --> 0:52:03.440 up a block instead. I mean, I hate to, you know, 0:52:03.520 --> 0:52:05.680 I hate to sign that without knowing for sure, but 0:52:05.880 --> 0:52:08.600 that's certainly what it looked like on tape. So not 0:52:08.760 --> 0:52:12.000 a great day by anybody in the defense. I think 0:52:12.120 --> 0:52:16.680 everybody knows that. But was it I can't point to 0:52:16.800 --> 0:52:18.839 him being terrible, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. 0:52:18.880 --> 0:52:21.800 It was just a collective letdown across all fronts. So 0:52:22.080 --> 0:52:24.560 I'm not ready to single him out as like the 0:52:24.640 --> 0:52:26.680 reason why the defense sucks. Let me make a bigger 0:52:26.840 --> 0:52:29.879 question out of that, though, Do you think that has 0:52:29.920 --> 0:52:32.359 he lived up to what you expected as a first 0:52:32.440 --> 0:52:36.600 round pick when the Cowboys made that pick. These years 0:52:36.640 --> 0:52:38.640 that have passed, has he lived up to what you 0:52:38.800 --> 0:52:41.720 expected of him to this point? You know what's funny 0:52:42.000 --> 0:52:45.560 is when he was a rookie and they were they 0:52:45.600 --> 0:52:47.520 didn't have a spot for him in the starting lineup, 0:52:47.560 --> 0:52:49.719 and he was like the handyman who handled the tight 0:52:49.880 --> 0:52:52.279 end and played dime. I thought he was better than 0:52:52.320 --> 0:52:54.520 I expected him to be as a rookie. In the 0:52:54.640 --> 0:52:57.160 time since when they've tried to plug him into a 0:52:57.239 --> 0:53:00.880 full time role, he hasn't been as good grading on 0:53:00.960 --> 0:53:04.640 the curve right, which which But that happens. I mean 0:53:04.680 --> 0:53:07.240 that's what you do. Your expectations do go up. I mean, rookie, 0:53:07.360 --> 0:53:09.439 you have rookie expectations, just like the same with Dak. 0:53:09.480 --> 0:53:12.839 I mean Dak's expectations last year as a rookie. Now 0:53:12.960 --> 0:53:15.799 he's a superstar, so he's gonna get he's gonna get 0:53:15.920 --> 0:53:18.680 evaluated differently. I mean as far as Byron Jones, I 0:53:19.960 --> 0:53:22.799 he hasn't He's not there yet and I'm not even 0:53:22.920 --> 0:53:25.759 sure what his best position is, but I guess it's 0:53:26.040 --> 0:53:28.520 I mean, I thought it was safety. I was saying 0:53:28.600 --> 0:53:32.680 safety from his rookie year, But I don't know. There's 0:53:32.760 --> 0:53:35.719 issues that I think that are there that I'd rather 0:53:35.840 --> 0:53:38.400 not say. So I don't know. I don't know about him. 0:53:38.560 --> 0:53:41.319 I mean, I think he'll get better though, like everyone else, 0:53:41.360 --> 0:53:44.560 that jury's out and Crawford, it's just hard to knock 0:53:44.600 --> 0:53:47.480 a guy that's playing so many different positions. It's playing 0:53:47.560 --> 0:53:50.360 hard he's playing. He's been playing hurt for two years. 0:53:50.480 --> 0:53:54.680 So you know, I don't think he's special though. Ye, 0:53:54.840 --> 0:53:57.239 well that's and he's getting paid to be. This is 0:53:57.640 --> 0:53:59.719 It's a conversation we've had a million times. Like I, 0:54:00.160 --> 0:54:03.279 I love him as a locker room presence. He's gonna 0:54:03.280 --> 0:54:06.719 play through any injury. He's gonna he'll play anywhere. He's 0:54:06.719 --> 0:54:09.399 a great team guy. The only reason he ever comes 0:54:09.480 --> 0:54:11.920 up is because of the contract he's playing under wad Car. 0:54:12.160 --> 0:54:15.120 At this point, you don't have a choice but to say, yeah, 0:54:15.120 --> 0:54:17.680 they probably shouldn't have given him that deal, but that's 0:54:17.680 --> 0:54:20.480 where they are, that's what they're dealing with. Yeah, Like 0:54:20.560 --> 0:54:23.000 I'm not I have a hard time dogging on him 0:54:23.040 --> 0:54:24.920 for the effort that he puts in and what I 0:54:25.040 --> 0:54:28.080 know about him as a high character guy. But it's 0:54:28.080 --> 0:54:30.520 a fair criticism that he's not living up to that contract. 0:54:30.680 --> 0:54:33.560 You know, when you draft a guy, you draft these 0:54:33.600 --> 0:54:36.080 guys that aren't first rounders, and you know, whether it 0:54:36.280 --> 0:54:39.640 be third, fourth, whatever it is, and you draft them 0:54:39.680 --> 0:54:42.640 to develop them, and then when you do develop them, 0:54:43.000 --> 0:54:45.120 it sounds good. But this is not the seventy five 0:54:45.200 --> 0:54:47.800 Cowboys anymore, where you can just develop these guys until 0:54:47.800 --> 0:54:50.160 they get good. You have to make decisions on them, 0:54:50.200 --> 0:54:52.439 and sometimes you have to make decisions before you really 0:54:52.520 --> 0:54:55.200 know what they are. And I go back to ten 0:54:55.320 --> 0:54:57.520 years ago when they had to make those decisions, Like, 0:54:57.920 --> 0:55:01.360 you know, Miles Austin had played four years, but he 0:55:01.440 --> 0:55:02.920 had a couple of big games, and now they got 0:55:02.960 --> 0:55:04.279 to make it a call on him, and so they 0:55:04.360 --> 0:55:06.239 said they got to pay him. That's what the market was. 0:55:06.440 --> 0:55:09.920 Doug Free, Tony Romo, same thing. Doug Free worked out, 0:55:10.080 --> 0:55:13.279 Tony Romo definitely worked out. But sometimes you have to 0:55:13.360 --> 0:55:14.640 make a call. So they had to make a call 0:55:14.680 --> 0:55:16.680 on Crawford. He'd played a few years, he'd gotten hurt 0:55:16.719 --> 0:55:18.960 or he toward his achilles. So he's about to be 0:55:19.000 --> 0:55:20.560 a free agent after the end of the year. So 0:55:20.600 --> 0:55:22.880 what do you do. This is kind of the market value, 0:55:22.920 --> 0:55:25.080 and you just you kind of say, well, let's go 0:55:25.200 --> 0:55:28.000 for it. And honestly, it doesn't work. The saving grace 0:55:28.200 --> 0:55:30.920 is that a few years later, like it's not a 0:55:31.000 --> 0:55:33.840 good contract, but it's not terrible either, Like he's not 0:55:34.000 --> 0:55:36.480 even one of the like super highest paid tackles in 0:55:36.520 --> 0:55:40.200 the league anymore. After I mean Sue and Atkins and McCoy, 0:55:40.440 --> 0:55:44.719 like those deals are substantially bigger than his. So it's 0:55:44.800 --> 0:55:47.000 not it's not a good deal by any stretch of 0:55:47.040 --> 0:55:49.200 the imagination, but it's not like it's it's not like 0:55:49.280 --> 0:55:52.120 that Romo deal that just hangs over your salary cap. 0:55:52.360 --> 0:55:55.920 So I to think people forget that you have to 0:55:56.040 --> 0:55:58.960 make decisions on guys before you really know what they are, 0:55:59.000 --> 0:56:00.880 and you just you just a hope and that they 0:56:00.960 --> 0:56:03.040 turned out to what you think, and sometimes it doesn't 0:56:03.080 --> 0:56:07.439 work out. That last point. I think about Levian Bell 0:56:07.560 --> 0:56:10.640 all the time and the way the Steelers seemingly when 0:56:10.760 --> 0:56:13.400 he's when he's healthy and not and when he's playing 0:56:13.480 --> 0:56:16.120 and kind of in the you know, the the swing 0:56:16.200 --> 0:56:19.800 of things, they do everything with him. He plays like 0:56:19.920 --> 0:56:22.480 straight up receiver. I know Zeke lines up out there, 0:56:22.640 --> 0:56:26.000 but he doesn't ever get the ball like they never 0:56:26.440 --> 0:56:29.040 they the screen pass, even as well as it worked 0:56:29.040 --> 0:56:31.200 in that Pittsburgh game, it's like something they refuse to 0:56:31.280 --> 0:56:35.279 ever run with him. I know he had I think 0:56:35.360 --> 0:56:37.920 he's I think he's already got nine or ten receptions 0:56:37.960 --> 0:56:40.360 on the year, but they don't. It doesn't seem like 0:56:40.400 --> 0:56:42.800 they're that interested in putting him in space like swing 0:56:42.880 --> 0:56:46.120 passes and things like that. I just I agree with 0:56:46.200 --> 0:56:48.880 the caller, like he's he's the best player, He's the 0:56:48.920 --> 0:56:50.560 best skill player on your team and one of the 0:56:50.640 --> 0:56:53.560 best skill players in the league. But the space, I mean, 0:56:53.600 --> 0:56:56.200 I thought he was lined out in the and as 0:56:56.239 --> 0:56:58.680 a receiver more than I've ever seen him, he was 0:56:58.880 --> 0:57:01.520 out there. They never get from the ball. And here's 0:57:01.560 --> 0:57:03.319 my problem with it, Like it doesn't seem like they 0:57:03.400 --> 0:57:05.960 do much creatively with him when it comes to the 0:57:06.200 --> 0:57:08.680 passing game, Like they'll throw the ball to him on 0:57:08.719 --> 0:57:11.040 a little flare route. Have you seen him run any 0:57:11.080 --> 0:57:13.200 other routes? Like, That's not the only route you can 0:57:13.320 --> 0:57:15.160 run with a running back, you know. There there are 0:57:15.239 --> 0:57:16.960 lots of things that you can do with a running back, 0:57:17.000 --> 0:57:19.560 and I think Levon Bell is a good example different 0:57:19.640 --> 0:57:22.200 kind of routes. Use that that Texas you know route 0:57:22.200 --> 0:57:23.560 when you kind of go out and then you flip 0:57:23.640 --> 0:57:26.000 come back into the middle of the field where typically 0:57:26.440 --> 0:57:27.880 you're gonna be lined up with a you're gonna be 0:57:27.920 --> 0:57:30.800 manned up with a linebacker. I think that is a 0:57:30.920 --> 0:57:32.960 great route for him, especially if you got went and 0:57:33.040 --> 0:57:34.920 clear in the middle out There are things that they 0:57:34.960 --> 0:57:36.640 could do creatively with him in the passing game, they 0:57:36.680 --> 0:57:38.840 just don't seem to do. Where's the wheel route that 0:57:39.000 --> 0:57:44.400 he killed linebackers on throughout training camp? Where's that? I mean? Yeah, 0:57:44.440 --> 0:57:46.440 I mean, and I know even eleven on eleven is 0:57:46.480 --> 0:57:48.800 different than one on one, but I just he's way 0:57:48.840 --> 0:57:51.240 too dynamic of a player for at what he went 0:57:51.280 --> 0:57:53.840 into the locker room with like four touches or five 0:57:53.920 --> 0:57:56.320 times like and I thought the same thing in the 0:57:56.360 --> 0:57:59.040 Green Bay game, like back in the play, he's he's 0:57:59.080 --> 0:58:01.040 the thing that makes this whole thing run. And I 0:58:01.200 --> 0:58:04.440 just think their scope of how to use him seems limited. 0:58:04.480 --> 0:58:06.520 I still go back to what I remember Gary Brown 0:58:06.600 --> 0:58:09.160 told me this after draft day when they drafted Ezequelely. 0:58:09.160 --> 0:58:10.480 He see it when we were going through and we 0:58:10.600 --> 0:58:13.120 were we were working him out and working him out, 0:58:13.120 --> 0:58:15.120 and we were thinking about how he compared to other 0:58:15.200 --> 0:58:17.840 running backs. We actually were comparing him to wide receivers 0:58:18.160 --> 0:58:21.000 as far as how good his pass catching game is. 0:58:21.240 --> 0:58:23.640 He's that good of a dynamic player. It's not just 0:58:23.760 --> 0:58:25.400 what he does when he's running the ball, it's also 0:58:25.440 --> 0:58:26.880 what he does in the past the game, and they 0:58:26.960 --> 0:58:30.160 have yet to realize that. I don't think this coaching 0:58:30.240 --> 0:58:33.240 staff they do some things really well. I think it's 0:58:33.360 --> 0:58:37.800 they're good, they're fine. They're not that creative. And you know, 0:58:37.880 --> 0:58:39.560 in terms of like looking around the league, I've said 0:58:39.600 --> 0:58:42.720 that about the defense before, Like they they're like everybody 0:58:42.840 --> 0:58:45.080 has a square hole and we have square pegs that 0:58:45.160 --> 0:58:47.560 go everywhere. Like you don't see those hybrid type of 0:58:47.600 --> 0:58:50.640 honey Badger players. You don't see that type of mismatching 0:58:50.720 --> 0:58:53.320 and all that type of stuff. I just I think 0:58:53.360 --> 0:58:55.960 they're very traditional. This is an old school coaching staff, 0:58:56.040 --> 0:58:58.080 and some of that stuff seems like it gets away 0:58:58.120 --> 0:58:59.960 from him. All right, guys, appreciate you joining us. 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