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Speaker 1: season sixteen, episode number forty nine. Welcome to the latest
Speaker 1: edition of The Break. I'm Derek Eagleton. I'm lifing s
Speaker 1: WBC Morey Studios. At the start, I got Nick Amber
Speaker 1: and Dave with me, and we're joined as we are
Speaker 1: every Wednesday and Thursday, by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. Bucky, Today,
Speaker 1: we get to talk about the Washington football teams defense
Speaker 1: versus the Cowboys offense. Looks like teams don't even really
Speaker 1: try to throw much against this Washington defense. And my
Speaker 1: question for you is that because this pass rush is
Speaker 1: just that good, or there really just some some real
Speaker 1: deficiencies in the running game that teams are finding more
Speaker 1: more easy to kind of exploit. This defense is loaded
Speaker 1: with pass rushers, Dave invested heavily in the defensive line
Speaker 1: and is paying dividends. They have five former first rounders
Speaker 1: on their defensive front. Chase Young, Monte Sweat to Run Payne,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen, and Ryan Carrigan comes off the bench, and
Speaker 1: they absolutely can get after using a four man rush
Speaker 1: and max coverage in the back end. This is how
Speaker 1: Jack del Rio wants to play. It's how he played
Speaker 1: when he was at Carolina, when I was there as
Speaker 1: a scout. That's what he wants to do. And so
Speaker 1: they wanted to put the onus on the offense to
Speaker 1: drive the ball to length of the field without the
Speaker 1: quarterback making turnovers. And they're banking that your quarterback will
Speaker 1: make a mistake, he will force the ball down the
Speaker 1: field or the rush would just overwhelm them to the
Speaker 1: point that he throws up a pass and air and
Speaker 1: pass under the rest. And so that's how it works. Yes,
Speaker 1: teams are being able to move the football and run
Speaker 1: the football and do those things, but when they've been
Speaker 1: able to control the game, meaning their offense doesn't give
Speaker 1: it away, their defense is certainly good enough to win
Speaker 1: it by themselves. Well, in that case, based on the game,
Speaker 1: we just watched from the Cowboys and looking at what
Speaker 1: they were able to do and not do in the
Speaker 1: passing game and the running game. Which side Which of
Speaker 1: the two should the Cowboys try to exploit more the
Speaker 1: running game or the passing game. I think this is
Speaker 1: a game with Dallas has to be very careful. The
Speaker 1: only way that the Cowboys can lose this game is
Speaker 1: they gift the Washington football team easy opportunities in short fields.
Speaker 1: Because offensively, the Washington football team is very challenge in
Speaker 1: terms of coming up with big plays. And so I
Speaker 1: would say maybe a little more conservative game plan, not
Speaker 1: only to protect themselves against turning it over, but also
Speaker 1: to protect the quarterback, the backup quarterback, Andy Dalton. They
Speaker 1: need to try and run it. They have to establish
Speaker 1: the run. They have to be able to control the
Speaker 1: game from a clock management tempo standpoint, and so Zeke
Speaker 1: has to be prominently featured regardless of the fumbling wolves.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he takes care of the football. But I think
Speaker 1: it has to be a running game with some selective
Speaker 1: quick passes. Quick passes them control the game and a
Speaker 1: very ball control standpoint. Bucky, just can they go east
Speaker 1: and west on this team? I mean I know that
Speaker 1: we always say they need to go north, but I
Speaker 1: just don't know if they have the power up front
Speaker 1: on the offensive line being so banged up. Is this
Speaker 1: one where you have to kind of try to spread
Speaker 1: the field on them or they are is watching them
Speaker 1: too fast for it? They're very fast. I mean they're
Speaker 1: fast and athletic front. You can look at their linebackers
Speaker 1: in their linebackers are non notable bull guys k Holkman
Speaker 1: and John Boston. But it doesn't matter because the front
Speaker 1: is so good that you can't even get to the linebackers.
Speaker 1: And the way they play they want you to run
Speaker 1: sideline the sideline because that plays to the strength of
Speaker 1: their team. But their athleticism, particularly upfront, I think you
Speaker 1: have to hit them right up in the face. You
Speaker 1: have to make this a game that is played in
Speaker 1: the phone booth, and you have to see if your
Speaker 1: offensive line, in spite of all the change, is up
Speaker 1: to the task of being able to create some movement
Speaker 1: at the point of attack. It's going to be tough
Speaker 1: sledding for the offense, particularly on the ground, but I
Speaker 1: think it's the only way that you can play against him,
Speaker 1: because you simply do not want Amy Dum to throw
Speaker 1: the ball fifty times against this pass for us and
Speaker 1: against the coverage that they've been able to play successful. Bucky,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of do the same thing
Speaker 1: I did to you yesterday. I mean, I hear where
Speaker 1: you're coming from. The offense needs to play clean, maybe
Speaker 1: play a little bit conservatively so they don't make mistakes.
Speaker 1: But that's what they do. They make a lot of
Speaker 1: mistakes and it's gotten them in a lot of trouble
Speaker 1: over the last month. You know, I know you just
Speaker 1: said you can't worry about Zeke's fumbling problems, and I
Speaker 1: think I agree with you, But I mean, is there
Speaker 1: something they can do to mitigate the risk. Do you
Speaker 1: just say clean it up Zeke and hope he can
Speaker 1: do it, or you know, do you rotate these running backs?
Speaker 1: Is there a certain type of run or maybe the
Speaker 1: screen game that you can get him involved in to
Speaker 1: mitigate that? What do you think? You know the problem
Speaker 1: with that is, in spite of his flaws, I think
Speaker 1: we all will say that Zeke is still the best
Speaker 1: offensive weapon that the Cowboys have, and so you can
Speaker 1: try to avoid the issues, but at some point you
Speaker 1: gotta put the ball in the best the hands of
Speaker 1: your best player and let him go to work. Now
Speaker 1: it's on him to be able to figure it out.
Speaker 1: The funnels five fumbles that he's had this year, for
Speaker 1: those on one hundred and one rushing attempts, that's unacceptable,
Speaker 1: But you're hoping that he can get it corrected. Traditionally,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been a high volume fumbler, even though he
Speaker 1: has twenty in his career. I think you have to
Speaker 1: continue to give it to him. I do like the
Speaker 1: way that Tony Pollard played, but then I think we
Speaker 1: can go back early in the year year he has
Speaker 1: some eras and miskews and things that made you queasy
Speaker 1: about him being on the field, And so right now
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of trustworthy guys that you really
Speaker 1: can lean on, and so I would like to think
Speaker 1: that you just hang your head on Zekiel Elliott fixing it.
Speaker 1: But also the quick rhythm passing game. Because they play
Speaker 1: so much zone, it should be an opportunity for us
Speaker 1: to see more slants, quickouts, little things the Cede Lamb
Speaker 1: and Mary Cooper and gallop and maybe those guys can
Speaker 1: break tackles in space. There's a way to attack this
Speaker 1: Washington football team. You just have to be smart in
Speaker 1: the way that you go about doing it. And so
Speaker 1: a mix of the run and the ball control passing
Speaker 1: game should give you opportunities to move the chains and
Speaker 1: move the ball consistently into scoring range where you can't
Speaker 1: score some touchdowns and field goals against this squad. On
Speaker 1: that note, Buckie, the Rams of all the teams that
Speaker 1: the Washington football team have played at their at the
Speaker 1: best day, passing the ball against this Washington football team defense,
Speaker 1: they gained three hundred yards of the air. How were
Speaker 1: they able to be successful? What were some of the
Speaker 1: things that they did, and maybe the Cowboys have the
Speaker 1: capabilities to do that could lead to some of the
Speaker 1: same success. We're one of the Rams married their run
Speaker 1: game with their pass game, the same things that gave
Speaker 1: us issues early the first game of the year, where
Speaker 1: they were running fly sweep action, complimentary play action passes
Speaker 1: down the field. That's where they were able to hit
Speaker 1: the Washington football team with The Cowboys don't operate with
Speaker 1: that kind of dynamic scheming when it comes to their
Speaker 1: running game. But you can put the Washington football team
Speaker 1: in the bond if you're able to create some form
Speaker 1: of concern about the running game. And so however you
Speaker 1: get to that running game, whether it's throw early, run later,
Speaker 1: throw on first down, get back to running on second
Speaker 1: and third down, you have to make them make a
Speaker 1: decision that we have to drop LANDA Collins in the box.
Speaker 1: We have to create some one on one situation, some
Speaker 1: single high safety looks, and you have to attack them
Speaker 1: when you get that. You have to use Zeke as
Speaker 1: the threat to make them change the way that they
Speaker 1: played their coverage. And then when you get them in
Speaker 1: those situations, you have to cash in on those opportunities
Speaker 1: when you have one on one on the outside with
Speaker 1: Michael galloping al Maria Cooper. Because as much as I
Speaker 1: made like how Kim the Fuller is playing, Ronald Darby
Speaker 1: and Favorite Moreau are just guys and they've been able
Speaker 1: to protect him by playing this soft zone. If you
Speaker 1: can give them in a situation where they're having to
Speaker 1: play more man to man, are having to play more
Speaker 1: one on one situations, that's when the scales tip to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys when their offense is in control. You talked
Speaker 1: about the pass rush, and then we all know the
Speaker 1: struggles that the Cowboys offensive lines are dealing with currently.
Speaker 1: Last week, I feel that there were instances where I'd
Speaker 1: be watching the offense and seeing Andy Dowton and I'm
Speaker 1: just like comeing in the get out, go run, get
Speaker 1: out of there, go for it, And it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: And I know that the running and his mobility, it's
Speaker 1: not necessarily his strength at quarterback. But is this a
Speaker 1: game where maybe the Cowboys give him a little more
Speaker 1: wiggle room and liberty for him to kind of just
Speaker 1: kind of move around a little more and just and
Speaker 1: not be so static. I mean, like, ideally you would
Speaker 1: think that the veteran would get the ball out of
Speaker 1: his hands he held onto it. Now, some of that
Speaker 1: is rushed because he hadn't played, and as you guys know,
Speaker 1: when you're the starting quarterback, you take up all the
Speaker 1: reps where Andy Dalton hadn't gotten those reps, and so
Speaker 1: he is still adjusted. I would expect him to be
Speaker 1: a much better player the second start as opposed to
Speaker 1: his first start, because now he's more comfortable as the starter.
Speaker 1: I think this is also a game where Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: has to have a conversation with Kellen Moore to feature
Speaker 1: the quick game. Make Andy Dalton get the ball out
Speaker 1: of his hands by calling routes dead are quick, try
Speaker 1: to avoid being tempted or I'm gonna take shots. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go attack this coverage. We're gonna set him up.
Speaker 1: Just let the playmakers work and so Andy, get the
Speaker 1: ball to Mary Cooper and Ceedee Lamb and Michael Gallant
Speaker 1: and let those guys do the work for you. Five
Speaker 1: yard passes via air yards and let those guys break tackles.
Speaker 1: When you look at a Marey Cooper and Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 1: they can go to work when they have the ball
Speaker 1: in the hands, let them do it. Get it to
Speaker 1: him on the perimeter, and let them do all the
Speaker 1: heavy lifting instead of trying to call these deep and
Speaker 1: intricate pass routes where one year old line can't protect
Speaker 1: and to Andy darn is going to be tempted to
Speaker 1: hold onto it waiting for a receiver to uncover. I mean,
Speaker 1: I doubt that, this is my opinion. I doubt Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott fumbles this week. However, do you feel like when
Speaker 1: a guy's trying not to fumble, he's still gonna be
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott. I mean, he's just gonna be like two
Speaker 1: hands on the ball. Wait, looking at me like that,
Speaker 1: I'm just listening. Okay, he's not gonna find it's not
Speaker 1: the ball. But is he gonna run? I mean, he's
Speaker 1: gonna get more than five yards doing it. Because everybody's
Speaker 1: talking about the fumbles. He's going back to the lab
Speaker 1: to look at fumbles. I mean, all I'm saying is
Speaker 1: is that he's not going to be a guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna sit there and say eat because he's worried about
Speaker 1: the football all the time. So I mean not Nick. Now, Nick,
Speaker 1: you bring up a good point, because certainly it's going
Speaker 1: to be in his head and it's also going to
Speaker 1: be in the minds of every Washington football team defender.
Speaker 1: Because he has put the ball on the ground, and
Speaker 1: he's put it on the ground consistently the first part
Speaker 1: of the season. Every defender is going to Pope, Pride
Speaker 1: pool swipe at the ball when he's running it. Now,
Speaker 1: the thing that Zeke has to be able to do
Speaker 1: is he still has to remain an aggressive runner while
Speaker 1: being mindful of the ball. And so what you try
Speaker 1: to do is you try not to over coach him
Speaker 1: when it comes to the fumbling walls. You tell him
Speaker 1: to be mindful when you're in traffic, put two hands
Speaker 1: on it, covered up. Understand, when you're going for extra yards,
Speaker 1: you do put the ball in jeopardy. But you still
Speaker 1: have to let Zeke be Zeke. And so it's that
Speaker 1: fine line where you emphasize it and you touch on it,
Speaker 1: but you don't want to overtalk it because you don't
Speaker 1: want him to be a tenantive player. He has been
Speaker 1: a dominant play, a top five runner because he has
Speaker 1: played a certain style. You have to continue to encourage
Speaker 1: him to play the style while Steel being mofuled of
Speaker 1: just taking care of football. I don't think anybody who
Speaker 1: listens to this show really needs to hear a lot
Speaker 1: about the actual pass rushers on this team, Like Washington's
Speaker 1: given Dallas fits for years, and that was before they
Speaker 1: even had Sweat or Chase Young. But I'm curious. Landon
Speaker 1: Collins strikes me as a very similar type of safety
Speaker 1: to Buddha Baker. And we saw what Buddha Baker was
Speaker 1: able to do the other night, due does Washington? You know,
Speaker 1: are they gonna ask him to do that type of stuff?
Speaker 1: Are we gonna have to worry about him lifting or
Speaker 1: do they trust those you know that front four to
Speaker 1: do it all themselves. Well, when you put put it
Speaker 1: on tape and you see Buddha Baker go crazy, certainly
Speaker 1: Jack del Rio will have to add it to the
Speaker 1: play sheet. He'll have to at least test him to see.
Speaker 1: I was worried if you're gonna say that fixed it,
Speaker 1: if they fixed that issue. But I mean, when you
Speaker 1: see the Cardinals have so much success being able to
Speaker 1: dial up pressures from all angles and the confusion with
Speaker 1: an inexperienced offensive line, yeah, you may get some of that.
Speaker 1: That's not their normal emo. They typically don't like to
Speaker 1: dial up pressure because when you dialoup pressure, it exposes
Speaker 1: them in the back end. But I do believe now
Speaker 1: that they've seen a team have success, it will maybe
Speaker 1: lead to a couple more blitzers and pressures that you
Speaker 1: may see from the Washington football team, even though it's
Speaker 1: not their normal way of going about doing their business defensively. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even though that's not what they do. I think for
Speaker 1: the next several weeks, we could probably expect the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are going to get a lot of that because this
Speaker 1: offensive line and what they put on tape there against
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Final question for you, Bucky, we get to
Speaker 1: the moment of truth. Who wins this game and why?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think this is a game for Dallas
Speaker 1: to win. I don't think the Washington football team has
Speaker 1: enough offensive firepower to score unless the Cowboys give it away.
Speaker 1: And so if the Cowboys just can win the turnover battle,
Speaker 1: and I don't even really worry what that looks like
Speaker 1: plus one or whatever, as long as they win the
Speaker 1: turnover battle, they should be in a position to win.
Speaker 1: I think the key to the game really rest on
Speaker 1: Zekiel Elliott and how he approaches it. Is he tentative
Speaker 1: and timid like Nick has been alluding to, or does
Speaker 1: he just play? Because if he plays like Zekiel Elliott,
Speaker 1: he can have success. We have seen him have success
Speaker 1: against his team before. He just has to tote it
Speaker 1: and they have to be confident enough to tote it
Speaker 1: because we know that the recipe for disasters andy Dalton
Speaker 1: throwing the ball fifty times. Zeke has no choice but
Speaker 1: to be good because they have to give him enough
Speaker 1: opportunities to be good, and I think he will and
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys should be able to win this game.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be a touchdown a less. I think
Speaker 1: it'd be very similar to the New York Giants game
Speaker 1: Real Quick Bucky as a follow up to that. Do
Speaker 1: you think Zeke is good enough to be able to
Speaker 1: have success even with this offensive line? Yeah? I mean
Speaker 1: it's tough, like normally depended upon your offense some line
Speaker 1: as a runner, but I think he certainly is good enough.
Speaker 1: I think the thing it comes to a commitment not
Speaker 1: only from Zeke, but from the play caller and everyone involved.
Speaker 1: Has Mike McCarthy stood in front of the room and said,
Speaker 1: our path to success is running the football with Zeke Elliott.
Speaker 1: When they have that declaration, that's when you'll see things
Speaker 1: start to change. And I just don't know if they've
Speaker 1: gotten to that point because it's not only Zekiel Ellett
Speaker 1: in the offensive line. Does Kellen Moore know that that
Speaker 1: is the best course for them to be able to win?
Speaker 1: Does he have a clear understanding of how to do it?
Speaker 1: And I think as the losses mount, Mike McCarthy at
Speaker 1: some point has to put a bigger imprint on this
Speaker 1: offense and the way the team is managed. And I
Speaker 1: think we're nearing that point at two and four he
Speaker 1: has to kind of step up with all the criticism
Speaker 1: and the whispers. He has to kind of turn this around,
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that he'll do that. All Right, we
Speaker 1: appreciate you, Bucky ell as good stuff as usual. We'll
Speaker 1: catch up with you next week when we talk a
Speaker 1: little bit more about Cowboy's next opponent. Let's take our
Speaker 1: first break. When we come back, we're gonna talk a
Speaker 1: little more about this Dallas offense and the matchup with
Speaker 1: the Washington football team. Defense. Will do that when we
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Speaker 1: Let's do it all right? Hold on, Can I say
Speaker 1: something real quick? This has been bothered me for a while,
Speaker 1: definitely this week? All right? Okay, Dave Amber helped me
Speaker 1: on this because I don't really know. Is it Washington
Speaker 1: Football Team? As is that their title? Dallas? That is
Speaker 1: their name? They are the Washington team? Are they the
Speaker 1: Washington Football team? Just like it's Dallas? Are they Washington
Speaker 1: Football Team? Well, it depends on where you look at it.
Speaker 1: Like if you look at it on thost sites where
Speaker 1: they you know where they they they have your name,
Speaker 1: they have your city, and then they have your moniker.
Speaker 1: Then they actually listed as Washington is their city and
Speaker 1: football team. They're annoying. We don't sit there and say,
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons do this, the Philadelphia Eagles are this?
Speaker 1: The Washington football team just called Washington like the Washington Dallason.
Speaker 1: That's honestly, that's what I do. Like I've said annoying
Speaker 1: ever since they made the change, I just typically call
Speaker 1: it Washington. I'm just glad it's something different than it was.
Speaker 1: It just seems like it's so cute and fun that
Speaker 1: everyone just loves to say Washington football team, washing football
Speaker 1: team business and then watching football teams, and even Bucky
Speaker 1: said at fourteen times, well you know why I do that? Now?
Speaker 1: You know why I do that is because I've said
Speaker 1: the other name for so many years that mentally I
Speaker 1: have to do that to keep myself from saying the
Speaker 1: other name. So like literally really, as I was driving
Speaker 1: to work Monday of this week, I was thinking to
Speaker 1: myself and I said, probably fifty times, watch the football team.
Speaker 1: Watch the football team. Watch the football team, just because
Speaker 1: I had to get it into my head because I've
Speaker 1: been saying the other name for solo. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, Well, on the radio the other day, I
Speaker 1: said the red teams over under, and I think I'm
Speaker 1: at two this week. So let's see what happens in
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, all right, so let's jump in. Let's
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about this Cowboys offense versus
Speaker 1: the Washington football team's defense. One question I have for
Speaker 1: you guys about the offense. Can Dallas win playing more
Speaker 1: ball control and scoring twenty points per game if they
Speaker 1: get rid of turnovers? I know Bucky was talking about that.
Speaker 1: He was saying, you know, you want to have the
Speaker 1: quick passing game and combine with your running game. That
Speaker 1: may be your way to success. And I think if
Speaker 1: you do that, you're probably gonna not You're not gonna
Speaker 1: be scoring. I don't think as quick and as many
Speaker 1: points as we've seen throughout this year. But the question
Speaker 1: is do they have a defense that's good enough to
Speaker 1: do that if they don't turn it over? Nicko, let's
Speaker 1: go to you first. I think the defense. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: defense is not as bad as as the points they're
Speaker 1: giving up just because of the turnovers. Now, there is
Speaker 1: something to be said of you know, you don't have
Speaker 1: to give up a touchdown just because your offense fumbled.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean you have to go right out there
Speaker 1: and just have a our fault. Might as well just
Speaker 1: give up a touchdown. I mean, you mean, show some
Speaker 1: pride on that part. But I do think, yeah, the
Speaker 1: turnovers would would certainly help, because not only are you
Speaker 1: not turning it over, but like in Zeke's first fumble,
Speaker 1: you're at the forty yard line of the Cardinals. You're
Speaker 1: gonna drive and drive, probably get a field goal, maybe
Speaker 1: a touchdown, so you know you're it's it could be
Speaker 1: a fourteen point swing if it's seven points out of
Speaker 1: your hand, seven points to them. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I don't know about twenty but but I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, it could be that if this offense was
Speaker 1: not turning it over, probably twenty four twenty eight would
Speaker 1: would probably win amber I think. So, I mean that's
Speaker 1: a huge part of it. The defense obviously needs to
Speaker 1: do their part as well. Well. I mean, aside from
Speaker 1: that first game of the week. Aside from that game,
Speaker 1: they've given up thirty plus point every week, so that's huge.
Speaker 1: But again, turnovers don't help. But I absolutely think that
Speaker 1: against Washington, if the offense, the Cowboys offense, is able
Speaker 1: to knock out all their their turnovers, they can definitely
Speaker 1: win that way. Dave number one, I mean against against
Speaker 1: an offense this lifeless. Yes, they can do it. The
Speaker 1: defense can do it against this offense. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the Giants scored thirty four. It's really probably more like
Speaker 1: seventeen or twenty if if not for turnovers and mistakes
Speaker 1: by the offense. So it is possible. I don't know
Speaker 1: if we lost Dave there and making his great point,
Speaker 1: but let's do this, let's do this, let's I want
Speaker 1: to I want to throw out something real quick about
Speaker 1: what that point. You were just making compassionate about it too,
Speaker 1: sepoldn't um we have two spots done here. Um No.
Speaker 1: I was saying that, you know they the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: averaging seventy point nine yards on every scoring drive, every
Speaker 1: scoring drive they've had that the average is seventy yards
Speaker 1: per drive. That's doing it the hard way. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that and that even counts like if you get if
Speaker 1: you get a field goal. I mean, you're only get
Speaker 1: in twenty thirty yards, you know, so it's just the
Speaker 1: yards that you're driving, do you happen to know? And
Speaker 1: the other opponent, the Cowboys opponents are fifty four point one,
Speaker 1: so I mean they they're having I mean you see
Speaker 1: some of these yards for the for the other teams,
Speaker 1: you know, thirty yard drives, the seventeen yard drive, thirty one,
Speaker 1: thirty eight. Cowboys hardly have. They only have two this year.
Speaker 1: They're less than fifty and both of them were field goals,
Speaker 1: so they're not they're not getting any turnovers obviously, any
Speaker 1: big plays on the punt return or anything for short fields.
Speaker 1: And it's like you're right doing it the hard way.
Speaker 1: And and the interesting part about that is you can
Speaker 1: expect to maybe do that to some level of success,
Speaker 1: maybe not winning, but some level of offensive success if
Speaker 1: you've got all your pieces in place. And I'm talking
Speaker 1: particularly about the quarterback. Without that, as we saw last week,
Speaker 1: that is a that is a tough ask with this
Speaker 1: offensive line and Andy having to play a little different,
Speaker 1: Like that's not Andy's game to be able to deal
Speaker 1: with a bad offensive line and make people miss. That's
Speaker 1: not his game. So when you're asking putting him in
Speaker 1: that situation, now you're saying, Okay, every drive you're gonna score,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go seventy yards. The likelihood of
Speaker 1: you doing that regularly is is probably not that great.
Speaker 1: Dave you back? Am? I am? I back? Yes, you're back.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, y'all. I don't I don't know why this
Speaker 1: only ever happens to me. It's it's you. It sucks
Speaker 1: because I was nice and riled up, like I was, really,
Speaker 1: where'd you lose me? Like? What was the last thing
Speaker 1: I said? Tell you what you were going to say? That?
Speaker 1: Do you trust the offense to actually quit turning over
Speaker 1: the ball? Okay? Exactly? Okay, so yes they can. They
Speaker 1: can hold Washington to twenty points if they don't turn
Speaker 1: over the ball. But why do we think that they won't?
Speaker 1: Why do we think that they won't do it? Like,
Speaker 1: it's not an aberration, it's not a rough patch, it's
Speaker 1: what they've done all year. I will bet any of
Speaker 1: y'all an ice cold Miller light. I mentioned PBR, so
Speaker 1: I want to throw out one of our sponsors instead,
Speaker 1: I will buy you a Miller lighte if Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: does not get strip sacked on Sunday. It is going
Speaker 1: to happen. One of these guys is going to rip
Speaker 1: through this line and hit the crap out of him,
Speaker 1: and the ball's gonna be on the ground. They're going
Speaker 1: to turn the ball over. I refuse to believe that
Speaker 1: they won't until they prove me otherwise. And that's what
Speaker 1: that's what troubles me is. Yeah, this Washington offense is putrid,
Speaker 1: like the Dallas defense might actually have a chance against them,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna get some help. I promise you they are.
Speaker 1: You know, one thing, do you trust the I was
Speaker 1: gonna ask, do you trust the cop of the Washington
Speaker 1: offense and our defense to actually be able to Well,
Speaker 1: do you trust the Washington offense to capitalize on those turnovers?
Speaker 1: I mean he goes back to the defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you trust the defense enough to actually stop them
Speaker 1: from scoring touchdown suddenly? Well, I mean that's that's hard
Speaker 1: to predict, right because I mean, you know, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: they turn it over on the Washington thirty, or maybe
Speaker 1: they turn over at midfield. But what I mean, you know, Dad,
Speaker 1: there's been a strip sack that sets Seattle up on
Speaker 1: the three yard line. I mean, any offense can score
Speaker 1: if they're inside the five, start to drive or you know,
Speaker 1: or the defense say that Washington is going to get
Speaker 1: seven to ten points off of turnovers. Just based on
Speaker 1: everything we've seen so far this season. You know, I
Speaker 1: think that one thing the Cowboys have got to do
Speaker 1: in this game, and really in a lot of games,
Speaker 1: is they have to throw the ball down the field
Speaker 1: way more. I mean, like even the safeties aren't playing
Speaker 1: that far back and you can spread them all over
Speaker 1: the field. Find your mismatch. Fine, is it Cooper is
Speaker 1: a gallop? Is it CD? Whatever it is. But they
Speaker 1: need to take shots down the field because I said
Speaker 1: this for years. You do that early in the game,
Speaker 1: it's gonna let everybody know what you're trying to do.
Speaker 1: It lets them know if it pushes them back, and
Speaker 1: you can kind of offset. You know, you're getting the
Speaker 1: shotgun three steps block it, Max protect throw the ball
Speaker 1: down field. You have playmakers that can go make plays.
Speaker 1: They can run by people and guess what they throw
Speaker 1: flags in this league for past interference, which in this
Speaker 1: offense you could take it forty yards. You know, Lord
Speaker 1: knows that the Cowboys defense gets called for it. So
Speaker 1: I'm just saying they need to do that. Back off
Speaker 1: the pressure a little bit. But let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: does that work in an instance where you're playing a
Speaker 1: team like the Washington football team that does not necessarily blitz.
Speaker 1: So that means if they're playing they got seven let's
Speaker 1: say they got seven guys back, they're only rushing four.
Speaker 1: They got seven guys back. Even if you max protect,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean you're gonna get it guy open because
Speaker 1: you got three guys in a route and you got
Speaker 1: seven guys defending. Like, how do you how do you
Speaker 1: manage that against a team that doesn't blitz as much? Well?
Speaker 1: And stop? I mean, you know, do it. I mean
Speaker 1: you don't have to. I mean, you don't have to
Speaker 1: run deep if they're gonna play that far over the top.
Speaker 1: But I mean you can find within that group, you
Speaker 1: can find a favorable deep ball. They're not just playing,
Speaker 1: you know, prevent blanket coverage back there. I mean, and
Speaker 1: if not, then then you're tied end. Better get to
Speaker 1: work this week. If that's the case. If they're gonna
Speaker 1: do that and take away your deep ball and only
Speaker 1: rush for then you're tied end. Better work it this week.
Speaker 1: With Dalton Schultz. And you know, that's something I think
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton would like to do is throw it kind
Speaker 1: of down. But we've seen he's got a nice deep ball.
Speaker 1: These receivers got to go make a play on the ball,
Speaker 1: and I think they can and I think that would
Speaker 1: kind of offset a few things there. Well. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think one of the things they got to consider
Speaker 1: is I think you're right with the tight end, but
Speaker 1: also think they're gonna have to you should we should
Speaker 1: expect to see them flood particular zone. So if you
Speaker 1: got seven guys playing, one way to beat that is
Speaker 1: go to one part of the field and put a
Speaker 1: lot of receivers in that area that with route combinations
Speaker 1: that get a guy open and then get the ball
Speaker 1: to him as quickly as you can. So there are
Speaker 1: ways to do it. I don't know if the deep
Speaker 1: ball is going to be the answer this week. I
Speaker 1: do think though there are ways to be able to
Speaker 1: beat a defense like this. Now is all still as
Speaker 1: predicated on can you stop those four? Because those four
Speaker 1: are gonna be coming and they're better than your five.
Speaker 1: So he even went just five verses four, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna win those matchups. A lot of times this weekend,
Speaker 1: so we'll see how that all plays out. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our final break when we come back.
Speaker 1: I didn't have another question about the offensive line, and
Speaker 1: we also need to catch up on an injury update
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Speaker 1: The Cowboys are two and four. We find some fun
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Speaker 1: that ain't funny. All right, let's jump back in. UM,
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit more about the
Speaker 1: offensive line if at this point, I think we all
Speaker 1: probably expect that there's a very good likelihood that both
Speaker 1: Knight and Martin will miss this game. So what is
Speaker 1: the best line combination in your opinions? I don't want
Speaker 1: to know necessarily what you think the team will do,
Speaker 1: because I think we all agree they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: minimize movement as much as possible. So cam Urban probably
Speaker 1: is your option to just pop right in there where
Speaker 1: Brandon Knight is and then keep everything else as it
Speaker 1: was last week. But what do you think is the
Speaker 1: best offensive line combination? Let's start first with Dave while
Speaker 1: we have you, Dave woh No, it's totally justified. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean honestly, I don't know at this point, like
Speaker 1: where we are, like who who? Who? Am I to
Speaker 1: even argue that there's a better possibility out there? I mean, Okay,
Speaker 1: cam irvings Is, I assume gonna start left tackles. He's experienced,
Speaker 1: he's done it before. Ye, maybe you try Jordan Mills
Speaker 1: at right tackle. But like when they signed Jordan Mills,
Speaker 1: I heard a lot of people from Chicago and Buffalo, likesh,
Speaker 1: watch out, Dallas, don't start that guy. So it's not
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like anybody left is like this
Speaker 1: just badass? You know. Um, maybe you know Greg Sinnott
Speaker 1: was good enough that they wanted to poach him off
Speaker 1: Cleveland's practice squad, like they took him from another team,
Speaker 1: So maybe he's worth a look. But I mean we're
Speaker 1: talking about the bottom of the barrel here. No offense
Speaker 1: to all of these guys. I mean, they're NFL players,
Speaker 1: but you're talking about with all due respect, No, and
Speaker 1: with all due respect, but like you're you're talking about
Speaker 1: like your fourth you're talking about like your fourth option
Speaker 1: at left tackle, your third option at right tackle, your
Speaker 1: fourth option at right guard, your second option at center.
Speaker 1: Like what are they supposed to do? I guess maybe
Speaker 1: I would try to not at right tackle, but we
Speaker 1: know that they really like Terrence Steele, so I don't
Speaker 1: think they will, So I would probably just plug Irving
Speaker 1: in on the left side and see what happened, all right, Amber,
Speaker 1: I mean, what else is there to add to that?
Speaker 1: Not much. I agree with everything that Dave said, and
Speaker 1: at this point I'm just like, okay, let's just try
Speaker 1: to keep some kind of consistency in the old line.
Speaker 1: So okay, yes, you're gonna keep Steel. He hasn't been
Speaker 1: playing great, but that's what you got and you don't
Speaker 1: got many options. So now, Cameron Irving, that's another guy
Speaker 1: that you've had in the line in previous time. So
Speaker 1: maybe that's a guy that's just easier to maybe just
Speaker 1: plugging there as well. Obviously not obviously he might surprise us,
Speaker 1: you never know, But I so now in this year,
Speaker 1: you know, we haven't gotten a chance to really see him,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys clearly preferred of other guys over him
Speaker 1: prior to the injury that happened with him. So it's
Speaker 1: a tough one. You just don't have many options. And
Speaker 1: right now, I guess it's based on whatever they are
Speaker 1: seeing at practice, which are things that we don't get
Speaker 1: to see. So hopefully they make a good choice and
Speaker 1: just figure it out, figure out one way or another,
Speaker 1: trying to poor Andy, Poor Andy, Poor Andy, because it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough game. Amber didn't sound very convinced. Nigga,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I mean, they don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, they want to play Terrence Steele, and
Speaker 1: I feel like they're they're trying that's kind of a
Speaker 1: future thing, like, you know, let's just see how this guy.
Speaker 1: Let's just keep throwing him out there and see if
Speaker 1: he can get better. I mean, where if he gets
Speaker 1: all these reps this year, will he be a better
Speaker 1: player here next season? So I mean I think that
Speaker 1: you know that that's kind of that they're gonna keep
Speaker 1: playing him, and there's really no reason not to. Jordan
Speaker 1: Mills isn't coming off the practice squad yet they haven't
Speaker 1: done it. I mean Gregg's and not. You know, we
Speaker 1: keep hearing he's a basketball type player, a good athlete,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I don't know if he's ready. He's
Speaker 1: on Cleveland's practice squad. So I mean, I think that
Speaker 1: they said it best cam irving left side and just
Speaker 1: keep keep rolling with Steel, but that right side of
Speaker 1: just be oddish, McGovern and Steele. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: if you were just to say, hey, when they go
Speaker 1: play Washington, this is the three that they're going to
Speaker 1: have on the right side, not not Looney Zach Martin,
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins, but but these three. So here's which just
Speaker 1: I think about this every time they play Washington. I
Speaker 1: talked to Lyle one time. You know, you remember a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, like his first year at right tackle,
Speaker 1: he had a murderers row, Like he had to play
Speaker 1: Von Miller, He had to play Khalil mac that year.
Speaker 1: Like week after week he was having to play these
Speaker 1: badass left ends. And I was like, Who's who's the
Speaker 1: best one, Who's the hardest guy to play? He was like,
Speaker 1: if you want me to be honest, those guys are
Speaker 1: all good. But Karan Karagan is the hardest guy to
Speaker 1: play like. He's relentless every snap. He never gives you
Speaker 1: anything but his best. I hate playing him, and that
Speaker 1: was coming from Lyle Collins. So Karrogan doesn't even start
Speaker 1: for this team anymore. By the way, I like good
Speaker 1: good luck, which I did. I wanted to throw I
Speaker 1: wanted to throw one more thing out there. You know,
Speaker 1: we talked about Connor Williams as a tackle and if
Speaker 1: things improve a little bit, like if when you get
Speaker 1: Zack Martin back, maybe you can have that conversation. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe you can play mc govern at left guard and
Speaker 1: Zach at right guard. But like, you can't move Connor
Speaker 1: Williams now like you don't have a guard to play.
Speaker 1: If you move him, like you could, you could swap
Speaker 1: Cam Irving in at guard. I think he's done a
Speaker 1: little bit of that. But now you're asking two guys
Speaker 1: to play positions they're not used to on short notice
Speaker 1: against a great pass rush, like you can't. You can't
Speaker 1: do that right now. Maybe when Zach is healthy again,
Speaker 1: maybe it's something you talk about, but that's not possible
Speaker 1: right now. So looking at everything that's happened with the
Speaker 1: offensive line, the injuries you've had, the guys you've had
Speaker 1: to play, how they've performed. Has it gotten bad enough
Speaker 1: yet to where if you were the GM, you would
Speaker 1: be looking out there and looking at the possibility of
Speaker 1: giving up draft capital to trade for an offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: particularly a tackle. Now. I know, obviously both those two
Speaker 1: tackles you expect are going to be back next year,
Speaker 1: but they're both I think definitely with Tyrone, his age
Speaker 1: and the types of injuries he's had, makes you think
Speaker 1: it's still not a bad idea to have a great,
Speaker 1: a really good swing tackle on this team. Would you
Speaker 1: be willing to go up draft capital to go out
Speaker 1: and trade for a replacement tackle to come in right
Speaker 1: now and give you some help, Nicholas, let me find
Speaker 1: out this week and let me get to well, when's
Speaker 1: the buy? I mean, when's the trade deadline? As I
Speaker 1: guess it is coming up week eight? I think, is
Speaker 1: that right? Well, it's it's it's next week, I believe. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know I mean, and I say this because it
Speaker 1: comes to a point in any two weeks. I'm sorry too, Sorry, Yeah,
Speaker 1: any season, it doesn't matter if it's NFL, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, NBA. I mean baseball, you try to figure
Speaker 1: out where you are, and I think Stephen Jones even
Speaker 1: said that, like where you are is for are you
Speaker 1: playing for the future or are you trying to win?
Speaker 1: And I think with this division, you're always gonna try
Speaker 1: to win because you're you're never really gonna be out
Speaker 1: of it. I mean, nobody's out of it. So I
Speaker 1: just I think that's a good question. And don't forget
Speaker 1: about the compensatory picks the Cowboys will probably get for
Speaker 1: about four or so. I mean, so they're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of picks this year. Um, yeah, you could,
Speaker 1: you could possibly do that. I just feel like you
Speaker 1: got to figure out though, is is it worth doing though?
Speaker 1: Is it worth trying to get into the playoffs it's
Speaker 1: eight and eight or is it you want to just
Speaker 1: say just play it out and see. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wait, this will be a good, good test. You
Speaker 1: got one more game against a really really good defensive line,
Speaker 1: so you'll find out if you have any hope. And
Speaker 1: then if you if you win the game, it's like maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we do want to get a little
Speaker 1: bit better here and try to win this thing. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know that that's a tough question.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. It is a tough question. One.
Speaker 1: On one hand, I'm like, Okay, do I trust that
Speaker 1: my defense is going to be able to turn things
Speaker 1: around and do something more for my team? In that case,
Speaker 1: do I trust that we actually have a good run
Speaker 1: to make it? Because the thing it's like, yes, it
Speaker 1: sounds great, Oh you're still ahead in the division, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, but what happens in the playoffs? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you might win the division, but what happens once you
Speaker 1: start facing those other teams are playing better? I mean,
Speaker 1: you're not automatically just gonna get better all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: unless you know there's some progression throughout the weeks. But
Speaker 1: let's say that that's the case, and I'm thinking, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: I want to win this year at least get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, then my answer would be absolutely yes. I
Speaker 1: would be looking into trading and bringing someone in, mainly
Speaker 1: because it doesn't matter the fine. Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: matters a lot. The fact that these guys level wise
Speaker 1: are a lot lower than your starters that you initially had,
Speaker 1: and to me, that creates more possibilities for other injuries.
Speaker 1: You don't know what can happen to a Leidalt and
Speaker 1: you don't know, and God forbid something happened to Zeque
Speaker 1: as well, But you don't know what the lack of
Speaker 1: good protection it's going to lead to as far as
Speaker 1: creating possibilities of injuries of other guys that you absolutely
Speaker 1: need healthy this year. So yes, I would be looking
Speaker 1: to make some kind of trade, all right, Dave, start
Speaker 1: off with my general philosophy. I mean, just with the
Speaker 1: way this roster is constructed right now. If I'm trading
Speaker 1: for somebody, it's got to be a young guy who's
Speaker 1: in the you know, second second year of his deal
Speaker 1: at the world Like, I can't do Amari Cooper again,
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper. It worked, It was a great trade, It
Speaker 1: worked out for everybody. Oakland got a good pick and
Speaker 1: they have a great receiver. But they had to turn
Speaker 1: around and pay them twenty games later. I can't do
Speaker 1: that right now. With how bloated this this contract situation is.
Speaker 1: There's so many big contracts on this team and not
Speaker 1: enough of them are pulling their weight. I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't add that into the mix. Like, if I'm making
Speaker 1: a trade, it's got to be for a guy that
Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about paying for a little while.
Speaker 1: On top of that, yeah, I mean you are right
Speaker 1: to be concerned about the long term future of Tying
Speaker 1: and Lyall, but they're still here and they're still counting
Speaker 1: towards the salary cap, and I've I've got to try
Speaker 1: my best to get them right for at least the
Speaker 1: next few years. So if you want to make it,
Speaker 1: if you want to trade a Day three pick for
Speaker 1: a serviceable tackle who can just help you get through
Speaker 1: the season, I would do that because you need a
Speaker 1: third tackle anyway, like they need to get a guy
Speaker 1: next year no matter what. But it can't be like
Speaker 1: your first round pick. I mean, even with the concerns
Speaker 1: about Tying and Lyle, you can't spend your first round
Speaker 1: pick on a position where you already have to twelve
Speaker 1: million dollar guys. I just don't think that's smart roster building.
Speaker 1: So if you can get a guy for a Day
Speaker 1: three pick, knowing that you've got compics coming, I would
Speaker 1: do it just to keep the season afloat. But like
Speaker 1: a major trade is something that you do to get
Speaker 1: over the top or save your season, and without trying
Speaker 1: to sign like a pessimist, I just don't know that
Speaker 1: that's realistic for this team right now, so I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to commit too much. You know. The one thing
Speaker 1: I will point out is actually, I personally think that
Speaker 1: they have to address offensive line in next year's draft.
Speaker 1: I think it's actually just as important as addressing this
Speaker 1: defense in next year's draft, because you look at the
Speaker 1: players that they have on this offensive line, and it's
Speaker 1: an offensive line that's really banged up, and I think
Speaker 1: you have to account for the fact that you're not
Speaker 1: going to have Tyren Smith for every game of the
Speaker 1: season next year. I think for the rest of his career,
Speaker 1: you probably have to account for that. Now, if he
Speaker 1: happens to do it, great, that's great because I think
Speaker 1: when he's playing, he's still wanted the best out there.
Speaker 1: But I think you have to account for the fact
Speaker 1: that you might not have him for full sixteen games.
Speaker 1: So I think you gotta address the offensive line, and
Speaker 1: probably a player that can move around a little bit
Speaker 1: there can maybe help you out of guard, can pop
Speaker 1: out the tackle if you get an injury there. But
Speaker 1: I think you have to And so my point is,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna have to address it in the draft anyway.
Speaker 1: Then I'm looking around at teams, and I agree with you, Dave.
Speaker 1: I'm not looking at those top notch guys that I'd
Speaker 1: have to give up a first or second round pick four.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for those guys that maybe I give up
Speaker 1: a fifth round pick four. And it's a guy that
Speaker 1: comes in and he is a very solid tackle. He
Speaker 1: is a and I know fans are gonna roll their
Speaker 1: eyes right now. He is a Doug Free. He is
Speaker 1: a guy that has some wartz, but a guy that
Speaker 1: is serviceable, that is better than what I have right now,
Speaker 1: that I think can be a future swing tackle as
Speaker 1: well on this team. Honestly, I disagree completely. I think
Speaker 1: if you're gonna trade, I would trade a guy that's
Speaker 1: in the last year of his deal that the team
Speaker 1: knows that they're not going to resign. They're still pretty good.
Speaker 1: They might get something. I mean, I don't have a name,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to throw a name out there
Speaker 1: for tampering, but I'm just saying, oh, I thought you'
Speaker 1: on the couch. No, on another team, he's a second
Speaker 1: round pick, a former first round pick maybe, and they're
Speaker 1: not going to sign him. He hasn't been that great,
Speaker 1: but he can. You know, let's just get instead of
Speaker 1: lose him in free agency, you give him something. Because
Speaker 1: think about it. Would the Cowboys right now for a
Speaker 1: fifth round pick? Would they trade Terrence Steele for a
Speaker 1: fifth round pick? Um? Yeah, they would want to. Yes,
Speaker 1: they may not have enough bodies. They would want to.
Speaker 1: They might not be able to. Yeah, they have enough
Speaker 1: bodies for it. I mean even if the guys got back,
Speaker 1: even if you even if let's say Tyman wasn't now,
Speaker 1: you think they would trade for a fifth round pick,
Speaker 1: maybe a sixth. I mean, I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: no brainer. I mean, teams don't what I'm trying to say,
Speaker 1: his teams don't want to get rid of young lineman.
Speaker 1: There's not many out there, so there's not going to
Speaker 1: be a lot of young lineman you can just go
Speaker 1: and get. I don't know if the Cowboys would just
Speaker 1: be willing to just trade maybe a fifth round pick,
Speaker 1: but I mean they wouldn't trade him for a seventh
Speaker 1: round pick or sixth round pick. Probably. I mean they
Speaker 1: feel like they got a good young team. Saying Larry
Speaker 1: Allen got thrown around by Reggie White and he was
Speaker 1: the best to ever play. I'm just I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's gonna be Larry Allen. I'm just saying he let
Speaker 1: these guys keep going, keep going. He's a big, strong guy.
Speaker 1: He looks the part. You know, he just gotta. I'm
Speaker 1: you're a believer. You're a believer in his upside. I
Speaker 1: think you have to. I mean you, No, you don't
Speaker 1: have to. I mean I'll put it like this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen enough that makes me believe in his upside.
Speaker 1: The coaches obviously have seen more, and they do believe
Speaker 1: in it. I'm asking you, do you believe in his upside.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna be right now. I can't
Speaker 1: say he's gonna be a great player, but I know this.
Speaker 1: You play football to get better. I mean, you get
Speaker 1: better by playing football, and teams most teams don't have
Speaker 1: the luxury of throwing out a rookie you like that
Speaker 1: to play. He's having to play. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: benefit from it. My point all along is that's our
Speaker 1: that's our guy that we're talking about. A lot of
Speaker 1: teams wouldn't want to part ways with a young tackle.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying I got you all right. We
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. You going back to borrow. We're gonna
Speaker 1: tell you what we think is gonna happen on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Cowboys will take on the Washington football team at noon
Speaker 1: and we'll get you guys ready for that. Till then,
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