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Speaker 1: twenty one, Season seventeen, Episode or seventy five. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the latest edition of The Break. We're live from the
Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Nick, give me
Speaker 1: a seventy five. It's going good. Jethrope was really good player.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know Philipos Derek. Yeah, you ever heard
Speaker 1: of him? Bill? Yeah, No, you haven't. You never heard
Speaker 1: of him. I've heard the name. But you know, Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown's had some games where we hear his name a lot,
Speaker 1: and Connor Williams has had a game. The most famous
Speaker 1: one was phil Pose Derek. We keep hearing about LT.
Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor. Maybe Mica is gonna be then Eltic maybe.
Speaker 1: But there was a game I think it was like
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six where the Cowboys probably got four first
Speaker 1: downs on one drive to try to win the game,
Speaker 1: and every time was holding seventy five holding. He couldn't
Speaker 1: block Lawrence Taylor Man, Okay, sorry, he couldn't. But like
Speaker 1: they were, they were driving for the win, and it
Speaker 1: was like three or four in a row of just
Speaker 1: holding seventy five seventy five. So that's the one I
Speaker 1: remember the most. I mean, jeth Rope was a great player,
Speaker 1: and Tony Castillus was pretty good. But Philip pos Derek
Speaker 1: seventy five, let's just call him phil Pose. He doesn't
Speaker 1: deserve Derek. All right, let's move on. Geez let hell,
Speaker 1: I'm an askue right there. That was pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some injuries. Many let's not have a
Speaker 1: few injuries that I think we should uh, I think
Speaker 1: we should mention. Um, Yesterday, obviously Cowboys signed Edo Smith.
Speaker 1: I don't know when they did it, but it happened
Speaker 1: within the last few days. Um. And then the tone
Speaker 1: the we find out that Tony Pollard didn't practice yesterday
Speaker 1: with a foot injury. My first thought is I'm sure
Speaker 1: a lot of people was was like, does this mean something?
Speaker 1: About was the signing of Edo Smith? About the fact
Speaker 1: that Tony Pollard was out, Does that mean maybe he's
Speaker 1: not playing this weekend? What what are we hearing as
Speaker 1: far as what's happened with the running back position? Thanks
Speaker 1: for making me feel smart. I asked Mike McCarthy that said,
Speaker 1: did you sign this guy because you're worried about Zeke
Speaker 1: and Tony? And he sort of danced around it and
Speaker 1: said a bunch of other stuff. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's why it's an insurance signing. He's a guy
Speaker 1: that they liked in twenty eighteen as a draft prospect.
Speaker 1: Both of their running backs are dealing with things. But
Speaker 1: he also said he thinks they're both gonna play, Like
Speaker 1: the expectation is that Tony's gonna play. He didn't practically, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Zeke's him any if the drag Zeke off the field,
Speaker 1: That's what he said. Um, and I've also heard some
Speaker 1: things and then they end up not to be the case.
Speaker 1: It's very fair. It's very fair. I mean, at this point,
Speaker 1: I don't feel confident about it, and that's why Edo
Speaker 1: Smith is here. I think like they are going to
Speaker 1: monitor Tony for the rest of the week. He didn't practice,
Speaker 1: but he was out there he was in uniform, like
Speaker 1: he was sitting up somewhere with his foot up. No, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: Like there's differences between like the two dnps can be different.
Speaker 1: Like Tony was out there in uniform working with Britt,
Speaker 1: jogging around, working on his legs, So that's different from
Speaker 1: just not being out there at all. So watch him
Speaker 1: this week and maybe you need to lean on Edo
Speaker 1: Smith or maybe you don't. I mean, dan Quinn coached
Speaker 1: him for three years in Atlanta, so he knows him.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you know his opinion was was you know,
Speaker 1: asked about this, so you know, maybe he's better than
Speaker 1: Corey Clement. I don't know. Clement's giving him a lot
Speaker 1: on special teams, plays a lot on the special teams units.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, well if Tony can't play, he will
Speaker 1: probably want three running backs. So that's so you would
Speaker 1: have Clement. And you know, I think he's gonna play too.
Speaker 1: I do this every week. I'm like, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he's playing. Zeke's definitely playing. I mean he when the
Speaker 1: guy comment, you can't make that comment, can't make that comment.
Speaker 1: Not play. But this isn't a new injury. He's been
Speaker 1: playing with it, so I wonder though, like if you're
Speaker 1: like the training staff, you know, you're like, listen, if
Speaker 1: we if we'll drag you off, if we if you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like he was like they have
Speaker 1: to drag me off. It's like, well, if you're not
Speaker 1: gonna play, we will. I gotta fill in the brips,
Speaker 1: Like all right, is that what we need to do?
Speaker 1: Because if we decide that you're not playing, then that's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna have to do. I'm like, okay, but
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's a great quote when he said
Speaker 1: it was like, okay, this will be a story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was. I love those moments. We had one
Speaker 1: today too. I want to talk about that? Sure, why not?
Speaker 1: I was gonna put it on the on the thing
Speaker 1: for tomorrow, but we talk about tomorrow too. But go ahead,
Speaker 1: last thing he said or not? Yeah he said the
Speaker 1: last thing. No, it's not. What was the last thing
Speaker 1: he chatty Kathy way before that? Yeah, right before that,
Speaker 1: net Man, that's you know that the day's vocabulary is
Speaker 1: that is such where it just just glosses. Right. They
Speaker 1: didn't even like he didn't even really hear it. It's
Speaker 1: just he gave him a good day, he gave him
Speaker 1: a g D A good day. Oh I love Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: so right, he's that's my kind of guy. I just
Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing. I don't swear more on the
Speaker 1: podcast honestly because thank you, that's just how I talk. No,
Speaker 1: that didn't even register with me. I was like, yeah, sure, whatever, Mike.
Speaker 1: He just it's just one of those sound bites that
Speaker 1: make sure eyebrows raised, where he's like, we're gonna win
Speaker 1: the game. I feel confident in that. And then the
Speaker 1: media gave him every opportunity to kind of back down.
Speaker 1: They were like, kind of you're giving no, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be on every talk show. Yeah, basically, and he
Speaker 1: was like, what do you want me to say? Like
Speaker 1: I've which he couched it really well. He was like,
Speaker 1: I expect to win every game that I've ever played
Speaker 1: in my career. Like that's what I mean. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: hard to do, but that is how you're tired if
Speaker 1: you're in the NFL. But it's a good sound Bye.
Speaker 1: It's gonna make the rounds. Oh yeah, you know, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be on every talk show, it's gonna be on
Speaker 1: every radio show. But the fact is he's right, Like,
Speaker 1: if a player or a coach goes into a game
Speaker 1: and doesn't think they're gonna win, there's probably something wrong
Speaker 1: with that. And as I thought, matters the classic hypocrisy
Speaker 1: of media where we're like, you're so boring, you never
Speaker 1: say anything, and then Mike McCarthy's like, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna win the game, and everybody's like, sir, how
Speaker 1: could you say something so audacious? Like oh, I just
Speaker 1: I saw the tweets coming, Like Mike McCarthy says like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. It's gonna be everywhere. And but I
Speaker 1: like it. I like the confidence. I like that he's
Speaker 1: willing to say it and we'll see if they can
Speaker 1: back it up on Sunday. He's still he's a football
Speaker 1: coach at the end of the day, and like they're
Speaker 1: they're trying to be boring and not give you a ton.
Speaker 1: But I love working with Mike McCarthy, Like he'll he'll
Speaker 1: throw a gd out there on you know, he'll tell
Speaker 1: you a funny story about Pittsburgh. He'll you know, he
Speaker 1: got up today and was like, yeah, I missed you guys.
Speaker 1: It's pretty far down the list of things I missed
Speaker 1: about being at work. But you know, he's just but
Speaker 1: it's on the list. He's fun to work with. I
Speaker 1: like it all right, talk to me about the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position because all of a sudden, Dallas is kind
Speaker 1: of back in a situation where some of their depth
Speaker 1: might be affected. Noah Brown, what's up with his groin injury?
Speaker 1: It's a two week injury, a couple week injury, That's
Speaker 1: what Mike said. I'm not gonna play this week. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play this week where they with Cedric Wilson with
Speaker 1: the ankle he was limited yesterday. Being limited at the
Speaker 1: start of the week is always a good sign in
Speaker 1: my eyes. Um, So they'll keep an eye on it.
Speaker 1: But the big three are all as healthy as they like,
Speaker 1: he said. He said today like he doesn't anticipate that
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper would need a snap a pitch count this week.
Speaker 1: So you got all three of them, good to go,
Speaker 1: Malik Turner, Semi Pajoko and the fact that Cedric is
Speaker 1: limited at the outset of the week is good. So
Speaker 1: I'm not overly worried about it. Good. As long as
Speaker 1: you got the top three, you feel pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Brown is now I mean I think Cedric
Speaker 1: I forgot his name, Cedric Wilson. Malik Turners, Okay, Malik Turner.
Speaker 1: I mean he can do that. He's a special teams guy.
Speaker 1: He can do the things Noah Brown is doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think probably better. I've actually been a little disappointed
Speaker 1: with Noah Brown over the time when the when Amari
Speaker 1: was out, I expected more of him. Yeah, he it
Speaker 1: was all working toward that moment, Like he had a
Speaker 1: great training camp, he's he's been a very useful player
Speaker 1: for them in the role that they had for him,
Speaker 1: and he got a bigger opportunity and he didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't do anything. This is year fifth five, Yeah,
Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen, nineteen twenty. Yeah, and by the way, I
Speaker 1: was joking on fifth, but it really is his fifth year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wasn't really expecting him to do like like takeover games.
Speaker 1: What I was disappointed in is the number of drops,
Speaker 1: a number of opportunities he had that he just you know,
Speaker 1: he had a few catch had He's had the most
Speaker 1: contested catch you've ever seen in college football. Like he's
Speaker 1: brought one of the greatest catches ever, which is ironic
Speaker 1: because like he doesn't catch the ball well on contested
Speaker 1: plays like that, which it always seems like it's third,
Speaker 1: third and eight, it's over the middle, and it's like
Speaker 1: he didn't get it, And of course I'm thinking my stuff,
Speaker 1: like why are you throwing it to Noah Brown? Even
Speaker 1: though he's made enough plays where you can kind of
Speaker 1: get past that, But I still say it in my
Speaker 1: head every time and sometimes out loud, but I'm just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, why are you throwing it? He was like
Speaker 1: he's made plays before, you know, but yeah, he just
Speaker 1: doesn't come up with that ball and that, you know,
Speaker 1: if I had to guess, he probably had four opportunities
Speaker 1: at big plays like whether it's a third down conversion
Speaker 1: or whatever, over the course of the time that Lamb
Speaker 1: and Amari weren't healthy, and he just he didn't make them.
Speaker 1: And it's disappointed because like, I love Noah Brown, I
Speaker 1: love what the role that he's had and what he's
Speaker 1: done for them. He had a great train camp, just
Speaker 1: didn't show up when the moment came and that and
Speaker 1: Malik Turner conversely, has like he's made some of those
Speaker 1: like yeah, it's garbage time against Denver, but he had
Speaker 1: that nice fourth quarter, and he's made some other plays
Speaker 1: in these last few games where if for some reason
Speaker 1: you need somebody other than the big three on the field,
Speaker 1: i'd probably feel best about Well, I feel better about
Speaker 1: him than Noah Brown put it that way him. I agree.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take our first break. We come back.
Speaker 1: We'll be joined by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about the Washington defense versus the Cowboys offense. Stool
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Speaker 1: at the Star. We are joined right now by Bucky
Speaker 1: Brooks of NFL Network. Bucky, let's talk this Washington defense
Speaker 1: versus the Cowboys offense. And I want to start with
Speaker 1: the fact that it seems like this Washington defense got
Speaker 1: better after they lost their best player, Chase Young. They
Speaker 1: also will be without Montes Sweat. Talk to me about
Speaker 1: what has changed from the beginning of the season to
Speaker 1: really the last four games, when it seems like this
Speaker 1: defense is now started being the defense that most of
Speaker 1: us expected them to be when the season began. The
Speaker 1: lesser players are doing their jobs and playing within the
Speaker 1: framework of the defense. Mates Sweat and Chase Young were
Speaker 1: They had a lot of conversation prior to the year
Speaker 1: about chasing Chris Doleman and Keith him on Lard's duo
Speaker 1: sack record, and so they were kind of getting out
Speaker 1: of swords trying to make plays and they compromise the
Speaker 1: integrity of the defense. Those guys have been removed, and
Speaker 1: so now you have guys that are playing the scheme
Speaker 1: the way that it was designed to be played, and
Speaker 1: so they're doing their jobs. Everyone's fitting in their gaps,
Speaker 1: and they're playing better defense because because of it. Bucky
Speaker 1: wrote an article this week on our website about your
Speaker 1: five bucks, and one of them was that you thought
Speaker 1: it's it's Pollard time. When when you're saying that, are
Speaker 1: you thinking he needs the bulk of the carries, he
Speaker 1: needs more carries, or that you just need to figure
Speaker 1: out ways to get him the ball even more. Now
Speaker 1: he has to get the ball even more. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that Deek needs to be Zeke needs to be
Speaker 1: removed from the equation, but it's obvious when you kind
Speaker 1: of just track the numbers and just look at the
Speaker 1: big plays per touch, like he's a big play performer,
Speaker 1: and so you would like to think if you give
Speaker 1: him more touches and more opportunities, he'll deliver more big plays.
Speaker 1: And we're reaching a critical juncture of the season where
Speaker 1: you also want to think about how can you preserve
Speaker 1: Zeke for the postseason run. How can you make it
Speaker 1: where he is beginning to play at his best when
Speaker 1: you get close in into the tournament, And so one
Speaker 1: of the ways you can do is kind of level
Speaker 1: the playing field when it comes to the number of
Speaker 1: carries that you're distributing to both guys. So I think
Speaker 1: Tony pollit needs to be a bigger part of the
Speaker 1: game plan. That's also me Nudge and Kellen Moore a
Speaker 1: man room to running game. Don't get so carried away
Speaker 1: where you start throwing it all over the yard, because
Speaker 1: December is when the running game has to be a
Speaker 1: factor because that's the only way for you to control
Speaker 1: the action. Bucky, the memories and are still fresh in
Speaker 1: my mind of Chris Jones rag dalling this offensive line
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. Can you make me feel better about
Speaker 1: them going against Jonathan Allen and Dron Payne, Or if
Speaker 1: you can't make me feel better about out it, can
Speaker 1: you give me some ideas for how to mitigate that one.
Speaker 1: I can suggest that you get a bank youre pacifier,
Speaker 1: because I can't make you feel better at the point
Speaker 1: of its sad. I can tell you that it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough one. And I think the big thing
Speaker 1: when you're dealing with Washington, all the teams in the
Speaker 1: nfcas this is a challenge. The interior is probably the
Speaker 1: best part for most of those other teams, like the
Speaker 1: defensive tackles are the ones that are able to get
Speaker 1: it done. And so for the Cowboys, they got to
Speaker 1: find a way to control the interior part of the line.
Speaker 1: If they can control the interior part of the line
Speaker 1: where they can run it and throw it and Deck
Speaker 1: doesn't have people write it is lap, you know, then
Speaker 1: this is a game where the Cowboys should be able
Speaker 1: to have their way. But it's all up front. Man.
Speaker 1: The games that the next five games on the horizon,
Speaker 1: they all be decided that the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: typically be the offense person the defense of the opponent.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I mean, is there another area of
Speaker 1: concern certain for the Cowboys offense that you're looking at.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I think in anything, I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys want to operate with a level of balance. You
Speaker 1: want to make sure that you're able to run the ball,
Speaker 1: but in the balance is also in the distribution of
Speaker 1: the targets. And it doesn't mean that it's always going
Speaker 1: to be even every game, but you just want to
Speaker 1: make sure that now that you got the entire game
Speaker 1: back together, you have Michael Gallup, you have a Maori Cooper,
Speaker 1: you also have Cde Lamb. You want to make sure
Speaker 1: that those guys are actively involved in the game plan
Speaker 1: because you need all of them. Because you can make
Speaker 1: teams defend all three wire receivers plus the tight end
Speaker 1: and the running game man. The advantages go to the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in those situations. Bucky, this offense has been one
Speaker 1: that started the season, and I think everybody was keenly
Speaker 1: aware of how good they were. Over the last several weeks,
Speaker 1: I think that FRA impression has gone down. Some people
Speaker 1: point to Dak not playing as well. Some people point
Speaker 1: to the receivers not getting separation. Others point to the
Speaker 1: offensive line, the running backs, like there's everybody is getting
Speaker 1: some lame from someone. What do you think is the
Speaker 1: biggest challenge of the biggest problem right now for this
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense, Well, the biggest problem like the month where
Speaker 1: they didn't play well is I mean, you had injuries
Speaker 1: that took away the primary playmakers. I mean, when you
Speaker 1: play without two of your top receivers, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard to move the ball. And I heard you guys
Speaker 1: talking about Noah Brown and other guys. Man, there's a
Speaker 1: big drop off between number one and number two, and
Speaker 1: then when three, four and five sliding, when those guys
Speaker 1: are elevated, it changes. And so with Amari Cooper, Cedee
Speaker 1: Lamb back, Michael Gallaback on the perimeter, it's the first
Speaker 1: opportunity that we've really seen the entire crew back together
Speaker 1: now when they get healthy. You like the thing that
Speaker 1: they can roll. But this is a team that is
Speaker 1: good enough to still do the special stuff that we
Speaker 1: think about. Oh, I want to I want you to
Speaker 1: clarify that you said there's a big difference between one
Speaker 1: and two, or it's a big difference between one, two
Speaker 1: and three, four and five. Now I'm just saying in
Speaker 1: the general pecking order, like when you have a number
Speaker 1: one receiver, it's a huge difference between being a number
Speaker 1: one and the number or two. Look, I would say
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have two number ones and CD and
Speaker 1: Maury Cooper. But every time you drop down or run,
Speaker 1: it's a huge talent disparity in terms of being able
Speaker 1: to handle the roles because when you're the number one receiver,
Speaker 1: that means even if you're a double team, you get
Speaker 1: untilted coverage your way, you still should be able to thrive.
Speaker 1: Those guys that are threes and fours typically can't can't
Speaker 1: handle that kind of situation. This is it's useful. Obviously
Speaker 1: they're in the division, so they're playing the same teams.
Speaker 1: We saw the Bucks have plenty of success against the
Speaker 1: Cowboys through the air. Raiders did it to Washington, held
Speaker 1: both of those guys below twenty points, And I'm just
Speaker 1: curre like, what what what's the overall theme of that?
Speaker 1: Like are they doing all of this with pressure or
Speaker 1: or are they getting takeaways in these games? Like what
Speaker 1: has been the formula for what's enabled them to hold
Speaker 1: these explosive offenses to such a low point. Total coverage
Speaker 1: coverage has been good. They're throwing a blanket over everybody.
Speaker 1: If you know Jack there, you know he's not one
Speaker 1: that is really a big fan of listening. They want
Speaker 1: to sit back and rush forward. They want to drop seven.
Speaker 1: They want to keep the ball in front of the defense.
Speaker 1: They want to bog you down and the red zone
Speaker 1: and make you kick field goals as ipposed to score seven.
Speaker 1: What has been better is they got more effort and
Speaker 1: energy up front that has been able to kind of
Speaker 1: create the chaos. And obviously we talked yesterday about the
Speaker 1: long drives from offense. Well they're playing keepaway. I mean
Speaker 1: you have fifteen seventeen nineteen play drives on offense, your
Speaker 1: defenses and exposed on the field, the game shrinks. What
Speaker 1: the Washington football team wants to do, they want to
Speaker 1: make it a fifteen minute game at the end of it.
Speaker 1: They want to get into the fourth quarter and let's
Speaker 1: see if you can beat us in fifteen minutes. That's
Speaker 1: their whole goal in the jet and that's how they
Speaker 1: call in the game. But yeah, you alreally talked about
Speaker 1: the running game. But after learning about the polar injury
Speaker 1: and all that, is this a game that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can still win without a non existent running game? I mean, like,
Speaker 1: hopefully they can run the ball something. I don't think
Speaker 1: you want to get to the point where you're you're
Speaker 1: throwing the ball fifty times, because what happens is the
Speaker 1: more throws you have bad things, sacks and turnovers and
Speaker 1: do things. You still got to try to run the ball. Look,
Speaker 1: you can try and be aggressive at the beginning, then
Speaker 1: settle into the running game later. The thing that you
Speaker 1: don't want to do against the Washington football team you
Speaker 1: just don't want to give them opportunities. This is a
Speaker 1: team that struggles scoring on their own accord, So the
Speaker 1: last thing you want to do is give them short fields,
Speaker 1: give them takeaway opportunities, those things like just play it straight.
Speaker 1: If this is a game of ping pong, just sit
Speaker 1: back and back and just keeping it and waiting for
Speaker 1: them to mess it up. They're not good enough to
Speaker 1: necessarily beat the Cowboys in a straight up game, but
Speaker 1: if the Cowboy gives they give them stuff, the Washington
Speaker 1: football team can win it, all right. So give me
Speaker 1: your prediction. What do you think happens is this this Sunday
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Washington football team. Well, I mean, look, Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy guaranteed it, so they said they're gonna win. So
Speaker 1: they're gonna win. I put it out there for all
Speaker 1: of us to consume and talk about it. I actually
Speaker 1: appreciate that because I don't really like coach speak. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that he has enough confidence, and I think what
Speaker 1: he's trying to do is take a fresh off the team.
Speaker 1: He would rather all of us come at him, then
Speaker 1: everyone go at the team, so then his guys can
Speaker 1: play comfortable and free. All right, Well, appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 1: We'll be there to have you back. Next week. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take our final break. We'll come back. We got
Speaker 1: a little more talk on this Cowboys Washington football team matchup.
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Speaker 1: Shouts out to Danny. Didn't win a million dollars. He
Speaker 1: made it to the final sixth though. They'll just ruin
Speaker 1: somebody's day. We talked about that earlier. I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but if you're gonna do that, you know, you guys
Speaker 1: are getting take part in life. You were getting on
Speaker 1: somebody like Clarence Hale because he tweeted so yeah, like
Speaker 1: he like, because you didn't have it, don't do it
Speaker 1: tediate right, you don't. You don't tweet about a show immediately.
Speaker 1: You don't tweet about it find out something like that
Speaker 1: to find immediately, like you give it. I thought Britt
Speaker 1: said it the right way upstairs. She said, give it
Speaker 1: at least twenty four hours, Like, just don't do it
Speaker 1: right at I tweeted about it this morning. I waited,
Speaker 1: I waited. I will say that that's better than last
Speaker 1: night because if you're if you're I mean, like, by
Speaker 1: the way, that's the way media works today. You don't
Speaker 1: have to watch everything live. A lot of people listen
Speaker 1: to this show, they will not be listening to it live.
Speaker 1: They will listen to it later. So if somebody kills
Speaker 1: whatever we talked about for them, part of the we
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of I get yeah, part No.
Speaker 1: Part of the fun of social media is engaging with
Speaker 1: something during a game. I don't do score, not not
Speaker 1: during a game, engaging with something in the moment, Like
Speaker 1: you want to talk to people that are enjoying what
Speaker 1: you're enjoying. Like, if you you can't watch it on time, Well,
Speaker 1: that's what's your wife or husband or boyfriend or girlfriend
Speaker 1: is for, Like, talk to them. Maybe not everybody has that. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: if you got a friend a dog that works too,
Speaker 1: You've never like, I mean, why do you tweet during games? Hey? Sparking?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't try not to get things away
Speaker 1: during games. But I do think it's understood you don't
Speaker 1: get on Twitter if you're watching a game. Yeah, talk
Speaker 1: to your dog, Dave, you don't talk to your dog.
Speaker 1: I never told I talk to my sea. Don't even
Speaker 1: say I know you talked to me, Josie. Yes, as
Speaker 1: if you are invested, if you can't watch the Cowboy
Speaker 1: game and you want and you don't want to have
Speaker 1: it spoiled for you, and you get on social media,
Speaker 1: that's your fault. Like, yes, last you're right, but I'll
Speaker 1: give I'll give you an example. Let's go back and
Speaker 1: go back to Game of Thrones when it was on.
Speaker 1: I saw many people like like they agree, like, you
Speaker 1: don't talk about what just happened on Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1: You write this if people watch it like it's poor form.
Speaker 1: But guess what, don't get on Twitter, then get off
Speaker 1: of the super duper live social media platform where people
Speaker 1: from all of you have to disconnect. If that's how
Speaker 1: you're gonna play it. We lost a few people here.
Speaker 1: We lost the plot. Danny, I'm sorry. On Survivor, he's
Speaker 1: no longer he got voted because it got you didn't
Speaker 1: watch it. I'm sorry these people gave that to the
Speaker 1: end and they're like, hey, we gotta we gotta have
Speaker 1: a real physical athletic challenge here. It's like, let's let's
Speaker 1: get rid of the NFL player. Did you did you
Speaker 1: say that? I mean, there's no spoilers and you're over
Speaker 1: here giving almost the whole thing. D WI deal with it? WHOA, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's that's not what I want to play
Speaker 1: with it. It's not the acronym. I know, yes it is.
Speaker 1: Deal with it. Okay, build a bridge, get over it.
Speaker 1: How about that one? Look they look they they tamped
Speaker 1: his fire out with the thing. I'm a bomber. And
Speaker 1: then he turns around and goes go cowboys at the camera, Danny.
Speaker 1: That point I loved. I was like, all right, there
Speaker 1: we go. There Weiler Danny. Yeah, he just gave it.
Speaker 1: It's not like this is even the finale. Oh no,
Speaker 1: he's one of the like twenty other people that didn't win.
Speaker 1: Like if what you tweeted last night about it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. No, he didn't. All he said was
Speaker 1: it was a it's been a rough week. I'm not sorry.
Speaker 1: It's been a rough week, all right. Anyway, we do
Speaker 1: need to get back into some cowboys watching the football team,
Speaker 1: because you guys took about six minutes on that, um
Speaker 1: real quick. I wanted to get some opinions. How concerned
Speaker 1: do you, Dave? You asked the question, how concerned are
Speaker 1: you about Watchington football team's defensive tackles Ron Payne and
Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen up against the interior part of the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offensive line. It's ironic. For many years, I thought Ryan
Speaker 1: Carrigan was the most underrated player that this team went
Speaker 1: against all the time, gave them fits. I think it's
Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen Now he's a He's He's a top five
Speaker 1: defensive tackle in the league in my mind. And darn
Speaker 1: Pain's really good as well. Yeah. Um, and interior pressure
Speaker 1: has been a problem for these guys, like it took
Speaker 1: him a minute to figure out Fletcher Cox and Javon Hargrave.
Speaker 1: I'm obviously they won that game comfortably, but the early
Speaker 1: going was not great. Vita Vea beat them up. I
Speaker 1: know that's week one. Morales still happen, and then obviously
Speaker 1: Chris Jones stat line speaks for itself. So I think
Speaker 1: it's a problem, and I think one of the biggest
Speaker 1: things that I think I need for this game, and
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that he normally doesn't. Zach Martin's incredible,
Speaker 1: but I need him to play amazing because I just
Speaker 1: need one of those guys to not be a factor
Speaker 1: so that the Garden Center and everybody else can focus
Speaker 1: on the other one. I need Zach Martin to just
Speaker 1: wipe one of those guys. This could be a Tampa offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, this could be the game plan
Speaker 1: that they used in Tampa where a lot of it
Speaker 1: was outside and you know that's where you're seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of success with Tony Pollard and all those guys
Speaker 1: and even CD. You know, quick passes like that. They
Speaker 1: didn't have Zach in that game, but they didn't even
Speaker 1: try really with those interior defensive lineman. This might be
Speaker 1: a game where they do that because that got them
Speaker 1: some points. And as Bucky said, you get twenty four,
Speaker 1: twenty eight points. If you can do that, you should
Speaker 1: win the game. Yeah, that's one thing. But I'm way
Speaker 1: more concerned about can they actually give Dak time because
Speaker 1: if those defensive tackles are pushing your guards and centers
Speaker 1: back into Dak's lap, then because I don't think they're
Speaker 1: gonna win the game just running the ball like the
Speaker 1: running game has not been Remember the Tampa game, Remember
Speaker 1: what they did. That's what I'm saying. You don't need
Speaker 1: time to throw a quick out like that or a
Speaker 1: quick bubble screen. I think that helps, I don't. I
Speaker 1: just think that when it comes down to it, this
Speaker 1: offense is predicated on them being able to get the
Speaker 1: ball downfield. I think that's when they're at their best. Now,
Speaker 1: you're right, they may not have to score a lot
Speaker 1: of points against this team. Some teams have beaten them
Speaker 1: without a lot of points. They don't score a lot
Speaker 1: of points. I still believe that it's going to be
Speaker 1: problematic if those guards and if the guards and the
Speaker 1: center can't keep them out of Dak's lap, because if
Speaker 1: he's in Dak's lap, he won't be able to have
Speaker 1: time to be able to make those he needs to make.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see I'm with Nick. I'd like to
Speaker 1: say sorry, I'm sorry, Amber, just keep a grand with Nick.
Speaker 1: But I'd like to see some adaptability, whether that's just
Speaker 1: you don't have to challenge the teeth of that, Like
Speaker 1: those two are the best things about probably this entire team.
Speaker 1: Like that duo is probably the best thing on this roster.
Speaker 1: And you don't have to just run into the teeth
Speaker 1: of it to prove something. Let's see some off tackle,
Speaker 1: Let's see some bubble screens, Let's get the ball out
Speaker 1: of dacks. Like, give me some hot reads, give me
Speaker 1: some quick game. Anything you can do, and it challenge
Speaker 1: these guys horizontally, like again, it feels like it's been
Speaker 1: forever since a jet sweep or even the threat of
Speaker 1: a jet sweep has been a reliable thing. I get
Speaker 1: the Tony Pollard fake against Kansas City was nice. That
Speaker 1: was three weeks ago. I'd like, just challenge these guys horizontally.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be stubborn. We've seen them struggle
Speaker 1: with you know, dropping the ball and all that. But
Speaker 1: help my memory. Please have those happen in games where
Speaker 1: you've had your three wide receivers or has it been
Speaker 1: where oh, you got one of those guys missing and
Speaker 1: they had They didn't have Gallop against Denver, but they
Speaker 1: had Lamb and Cooper and they I mean that that
Speaker 1: was a rough day. Atlanta was the last time all
Speaker 1: three of us played, right I believe. Well now they
Speaker 1: played against the Saints. True, yeah, well yeah, Mario was limited.
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering what I mean is because in my
Speaker 1: mind you can see it going both ways. But is
Speaker 1: this gonna be the game where, at least in the
Speaker 1: passing game they finally get in sync and they're finally
Speaker 1: connecting and becoming dynamic again, because yeah, take the pressure
Speaker 1: away from Deck and all that. If these receivers are
Speaker 1: not catching the balls or dropping it or you know,
Speaker 1: not in sync with him, it's gonna be an issue
Speaker 1: all or run, especially if you're running game is not
Speaker 1: working out either, which I mean that it goes back
Speaker 1: to what Bucky said about Jack del Rio, and it's
Speaker 1: been something that defensives have been able to do with success.
Speaker 1: Drop seven and if you're getting home with four, if
Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen and Dron Payne are just whooping your line
Speaker 1: and you don't need to do anything else, that that
Speaker 1: has proven to be problematic. And it's Ondac and the receivers.
Speaker 1: McCarthy he got so excited when Clarence Hill asked him
Speaker 1: about separation today. He was like, Oh, we're talking ball, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go. Yeah. That's been a problem for us, and
Speaker 1: that's they need, I think even more so than the
Speaker 1: running game disappearing. They need that so desperately. They need
Speaker 1: the receivers to win and make those plays when they
Speaker 1: do win. Dack to have confidence that it's going to
Speaker 1: work and trust what he's seeing. It hasn't been there,
Speaker 1: and I think that's the biggest because I just don't
Speaker 1: think opponents are afraid that they're going to get killed
Speaker 1: by the pass because they haven't been recently. Do you
Speaker 1: think the problem of not getting separation is a recent
Speaker 1: problem that has happened with all of the games that
Speaker 1: have been missed by the starters, or do you think
Speaker 1: that's a problem that's persisted all season. And the reason
Speaker 1: why I asked that question is because it doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: match up with what we think of this wide receiver corps.
Speaker 1: We put him up there with one of the best
Speaker 1: as one of the best wide receiver corps in the league.
Speaker 1: But if they're not getting separation, obviously they wouldn't be that.
Speaker 1: I completely think it is a matter of like guys
Speaker 1: not being healthy and being out of the lineup, like
Speaker 1: it they were killing people all through the first like
Speaker 1: six weeks of the season. I mean, Ceedee Lamb walks
Speaker 1: off in New England because he just toasts his man
Speaker 1: on an over route, Like, no, I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: it if the three are healthy and doing what they're
Speaker 1: supposed to do. But that hasn't been the case, and
Speaker 1: that people are like, oh, it's always an excuse with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and maybe it is. You would have liked
Speaker 1: to see better from Noah Brown and Cedric Wilson and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But it matters when you have really
Speaker 1: good players healthy and doing what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: All right, that's a rap. We'll be back on tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the Washington football team versus Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: We will talk about get some predictions from these guys,
Speaker 1: talk about some other big picture storylines heading into that game.
Speaker 1: Till then for Nick Eatman, Dave Hellman. Oh yeah, by
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Speaker 1: instead of our normal time. We have some things in
Speaker 1: the morning, so we'll be on at twelve thirty. Makes
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