WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Pick the Poison? 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.560 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:15.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.800 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:23.920 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah? And so 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.800 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:33.919 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:39.920 Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, October fifteenth, twenty 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.479 twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number forty two. Welcome to 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.720 the latest edition of The Break, live from the s 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:49.080 WBC Mortgage studios at the Star. Got Nick and Amber 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.880 here with me. Dave, we'll be joining us momentarily. We 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:53.600 got a lot we're gonna talk about today. We're gonna 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.040 get you guys ready for Cowboys versus Patriots. That happens 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.360 is Sunday, um and we have some storylines will go through. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.280 We're gonna play a little game of c or No. 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.640 We haven't done that in a long time. And Amber 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.200 has so many questions for us, so that I think 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.840 that'll be a fun segment and we'll certainly try to 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.120 if we have some time take some questions from you guys. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.440 You can call us eight eight eight, eight, five, five 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.440 two two nine seven, or you can hit me up 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.160 on Twitter and I could also get some questions that way. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.399 Let's start first with some injury updates, and I think 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.119 at some point we'll probably get even more updates because 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.800 I know Dave is right now with the head coach 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.600 talking to him about different things. But Nick, give us 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.479 what you know about and I obviously the two big ones, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.720 Tyren Smith and Trey Bond. Yeah, Tyren Smith had an 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.840 MRI yesterday and still look at the neck. I think 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.920 that they're they're encouraged by what they saw or probably 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.440 what they didn't see. Um, but I think the word 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:52.120 was favorable. The Mike mccarthury used about that. Um. But 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.400 you know, this is a situation. It's always gonna happen, 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.280 you know. I think it's always gonna be a thing 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.760 with his neck, and things are gonna pop up. And 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.640 I think for right now though, that they're not too 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:07.440 concerned about it. Treyvon Diggs ankle injury, and I think 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.600 it's been told that he'll be a game time decision 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:17.000 to play in the game in New England against Bill Belichick. Yes, 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.200 I mean this morning, I opened up my email and 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.480 saw the practice report for the first time many months, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.359 and I was like, you know, come back yesterday. We're 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.560 talking good and everything, Okay, I was winning all that, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.560 and look at the report. I'm like, oh, oh, oh, 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.800 that name too. So I don't But then again, I 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.760 don't know how concerned I should currently be because I'm 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.080 kind of getting back into things and trying to So 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.360 what what you guys have been here? What's the most 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.720 concerning injury that's popped up right now? I mean, obviously 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:54.200 Timing and then Digs, Trevon Diggs, but you know, sometimes 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.440 they show up on the report and it's just kind 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.600 of to take care of them. But I was clean 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.840 this year for the most part. Right, I haven't remember 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.040 seeing him on on injury reports. So when I saw 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.880 that yesterday, and especially when I saw it was the neck, 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.919 I got concerned, mainly because again, like you're saying, Nick, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.600 this is gonna be an ongoing thing, and it was just, uh, 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.200 you know, when we were when we talked to him 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.200 back at training camp, he was saying that, you know, 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.160 he's feeling the best he's ever felt. He's glad he 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.600 did the surgery the whole night, and and so it 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.720 just it. For me, it was like, okay, good, we're 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.440 into the season, he's not having issues, and then this 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.760 pops up, and I know I got concerned. Yeah, I 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.160 mean all this of what it turns out to be, 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.679 it's definitely concerned. Yeah, it has to be concerning. And 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.280 and and you know, I've been told in the offseason 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.880 this stuff's gonna happen. Man, this is gonna happen with him, 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.640 and you just gotta manage it. And that's what he'll do, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.800 and that's what he'll play through. And he's probably played 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.520 through this game and then of course he's got the 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.080 much needed by week, you know, for for him and 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.160 for probably a few players. Um you know it's for 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:57.240 tra Trayvon Dixon. I don't know. I mean I think 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.960 he'll play. And reason why I said that about the Patriots, 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.760 you know, it's like, I mean, if anybody has I 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:09.080 would say manage the injury report. Over years, it's been them. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.000 It's been you know, like putting guys on. Tom Brady 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:13.600 I think was on the injury report for like four 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.560 years in a row. So like, you know, this is 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.279 a cat and mouse game. They'll probably put you know, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.279 Diggs I think is gonna play, but they're gonna call 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.120 him a game time decision. But if it's a game 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.640 time decision at that point, with a guy like him 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.320 that has been having such an amazing season, do you 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.160 want to even put him out there, even if it's 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.080 kind of okay and they give him the green light, 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.479 do you want to risk him having a game maybe 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.919 too soon for him to be back and play, or 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.200 just kind of set him out and give him an 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.880 extra week too, maybe because you don't want to lose 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.080 him for the season basically, or for more than one game. Well, 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.080 that's what we don't know. We don't know if this 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.520 is the kind of injury Like there's some injuries. You're 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.120 right that if you try to play through it you 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.560 could make it worse. There are other injuries that it 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.520 just kind is what it is. It's not necessarily like 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.080 playing through it's not going to necessarily create more problems. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.320 And you get a bye week next week, so you 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.039 got two weeks after that to get him to a 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.159 point where he can just rest. Um. So you know, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.440 I'd have to know more about the injury and whether 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.760 he actually could do more damage to it before I 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.120 would know the answer to that. Yeah, I mean, I 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.000 don't think it's a high ankle sprain. I think it's 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:26.040 just a regular ankle sprain or ankle injury. So, um, 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.640 I have a feeling he's he's going to play. Um 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.680 and you know, game time decision is go out there 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.599 two or three hours beforehand, you know, run, cut, do whatever. 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.359 See how you know it feels. Maybe you take a 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.560 I don't know, take it, take a shot, or heavily tape. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.359 It depends on what the nature of it is. But 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:44.960 I just have a feeling that he'll he'll play in 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.280 this game. And yeah, and risking it. Yeah, yeah, there's 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.479 a there's a one minute video we're about the or 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.800 we posted yesterday about him with all the interceptions and 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.840 this year, Like, yeah, he's he's worth it because just 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.200 what he can do and what he's worth if he 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.880 can play his his eighty percent might be better than 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.200 I think the alternative right now. Well that's the other 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.360 thing too, Like I know there are probably people out 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:07.880 there that are listening to the show right now that 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.720 are probably thinking, well, Patriots, aren't they don't have like 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:15.120 this high powered offensive attack through the air. So if 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.560 there was a week you were going to miss him 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.520 and this might be a week where it might be okay, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.160 but I still say to that this defense isn't at 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:23.920 the level yet where you're like, oh, this is a 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.400 shutdown defense if you don't have him, even against a 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.480 bad offense or an average offense, like you're good. I 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.240 think they need every bit of what they can get 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.240 from Treyvon Diggs, every bit of what they can get 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.400 from Michael Parsons, like they need these guys. He's part 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.240 of it. So he's the reason why they've been what 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.560 they are. Yeah, he needs to play, So you can't 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.520 just say that on any given week. I don't think 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.480 you're not at that point Yetah well, hopefully they've have 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.720 some good news for us. What do you know about 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.400 these injuries? Man um, I'm not that worried about him 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:58.400 either one not in the grand scheme of life. Well 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:03.840 just no, of no, you know what I mean for 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.760 this week? Probably not, but just yeah, like it's never 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.040 good when guys aren't practicing on Friday, right. I don't 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.600 know how many times I've said that, but I don't 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.880 think it's a huge deal for the season, and I'm 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:20.400 at least optimistic that they'll both play. Cautiously especially with Dix, 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.040 feel a little a little more confident about Tying. Yeah, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.960 that's kind of the sense I'm getting listening to the 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.200 things I've heard from McCarthy, from you guys, it seems 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.800 like Tying is pretty much kind of like, Okay, we 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.080 feel pretty good. He's gonna play Trayvon. This seems to 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.560 be a little like rich, we'll see. The thing that 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.920 makes me nervous about Trayvon is that McCarthy earlier in 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.160 the week was like, I'm not worried about his status, 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.720 and then as the week goes on, it's like, well, 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.320 we'll see how he feels on Sunday, which to kind 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.880 of backtrack like that is not usually a good thing. 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.320 And he did say this morning on one or five 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.960 out three the fan was shot at r J. He 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.280 was like, well, well, he says, if he keeps progressing, 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.320 he should be okay. And that to me was the 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.920 kind of the thing where it's like, okay, well, it's 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.960 not just a blanket. Yeah, we think he'll be fine. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.480 It's like they got to see something from him today 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.920 and tomorrow that makes him think he'll be okay, because 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.920 where he is right now may not be enough purely 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:18.920 anecdotal and purely subjective. But he had a press conference yesterday. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:20.760 I mean, if they were that worried about it, I 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.840 feel like he wouldn't do it. He would like they 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.360 would Guy again, you know if you're out, yes, yes, sorry, 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.480 trayvon Dix Tyre and press conference is kind of a 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:34.760 waste of everybody's time. And so I mean if they were, 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.440 if they were super duper worried about it, I just don't. 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.120 I don't think they let him do that same thing 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.319 a few weeks ago, everybody was worried about Randy. He 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.000 was out of practice, jogging around having fun with everybody. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.240 Zeke too. I mean last week kind of just reading 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.800 context clues, I am cautiously optimistic that they'll play What 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:55.559 do we know about Demante Hazy and Donald Wilson CAZy. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.600 He's like, I'm fine, I'm all right, no big deal whatever. 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:05.240 Again he talked to the media yesterday. Donovan, I don't know. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.800 I don't know how to feel about him. Um what, 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.720 this is his first week practicing since the opener. They 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.480 didn't put him on IR, so like they don't have 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:19.400 to activate him or anything, and maybe maybe they feel 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.400 more pressure to play him if Casey can't play, but 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.200 he can, so I don't know. I don't know. I've 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.959 maybe leaned toward thinking, you you know, you got to 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.559 buy right there. You'd bring him back for Minnesota, but 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.800 you want good players available, So if it feels good 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:36.400 enough to play, maybe you try it. I don't know 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.880 I'm gonna happen here, especially like the next week or 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:44.040 the next game. You know, if Kelvin Joseph comes back 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.679 and he's ready to play, and he's practiced in this week, 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:48.640 but maybe ready to the next game, and then Donovan 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.600 Wilson's back, I mean, somebody's gonna be inactive here. They 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.079 haven't had to make an issue every I mean because 0:09:55.240 --> 0:10:00.600 obviously mquamu and Nashan. Yeah, but feel like there needs 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.120 to be another one. And that's going to be interesting 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.640 if if one of those guys. This is interesting, no 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.720 one who is it a safety? Is it? I mean, 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.560 because everyone's playing pretty well. I mean, Kazy's played well. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.319 I'm Lily Cookers starting to really turn the corner and 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.800 get lean on Kennedy for special teams too. Yeah, that 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.760 might be the one Kennedy, But I mean has he 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.480 played a lot of special teams? I don't know his 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.040 saf like, he doesn't stand out, like he's not one 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.920 of the gunner guys like Cedric Wilson, who's we'll go 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.960 back to a lot of special teams when Michael Gallop 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.200 comes back, So you could get away with making him 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.959 an active yeah, if you wanted to. All Right, here's 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.320 what we're gonna do. We're gonna go and take our 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.199 first break. 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They are notorious and they are very 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.120 very good at taking away at least that one thing 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.679 that their opponents want to be able to do. The 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:50.680 question becomes, what does Belichick decide that that is that thing? 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.599 For the Cowboys. I'll start with you, Nick. Where do 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.199 you think they go on this? We've already had a 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:01.640 nice argument today about this on radio show, so um, 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.839 I mean I think they start with and basically what 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.000 I've said. I said this on yesterday's media match. I mean, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.679 if you want to know what the identity of the 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.880 team is, I mean Bill Belichick's gonna tell you here 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.920 pretty soon. But what he is going to try to 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.000 take away, I mean I think you still got to 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.760 try to take away the run. But I mean, that's 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.000 it's the problem is you just can't take away one 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.120 thing because they will kick your ass in the other stuff. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.520 They've shown that, so you know, but I still think 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.360 if they just gonna say we're not gonna let Dac 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.000 beat us, We're gonna let him run, that's gonna be 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:39.920 a blood bath. So that's what I think. Yeah, I 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.160 think I think I agree. We talked about that leading 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.880 into the week of like somebody eventually is gonna batten 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.200 down the hatches and try to stop the Cowboys from running, right, 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.800 and Belichick has the personnel to do that, I think, well, 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.080 that's what they do regular I don't know if they 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.320 have the personnel to just completely shut it down. You know, 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.000 I'll believe somebody can hold the Cowboys under one hundred 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.960 as a team when I see it happen. But one twenty, 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.640 I think that's probably a win when you're considering the 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:13.000 level of opposition and it's never just one thing right 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.440 like on third downs. I'm sure they'll kind of revert 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:21.080 to that classic Patriots man cover one, cover zero, maybe 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.800 even try to, you know, especially if Tyrann Smith is 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:25.840 gimpy or god forbid, if he doesn't play in this game. 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.840 I think there's some wins you can find in pass protection. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.560 But if I was Bill Belichick, I would probably try 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.360 to commit to the run more than a lot of 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.000 people have, because I think some of these teams have 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.760 just outright given it up, in my opinion, and it's 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.000 gotten them killed. But I think that's kind of the 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.760 key here, is that the base of what they do, 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.840 which is at cover one, bring that other safety down 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.840 that gives you what you want really to be able 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.800 to stop the run putting eight men in the box. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.040 My question is are they good enough even with eight 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.720 men in the box to stop the Cowboys from running? 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.160 Because I think there have been other teams that the 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.640 Cowboys have played the last few weeks that, in certain 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.760 situations had eight men in the box. I just don't 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.640 know that it's worked. I think right now they're just 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.960 playing at such a high level running the ball, it's 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.240 gonna be difficult for them to stop them. They don't 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.800 run conventionally, That's that's the thing. I mean, they can 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.120 with with Zeke, but but you know, they run the ball, 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.880 and you know on the outside they run with you know, 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.480 sweeps and reverses and things with Pollard out there, so 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.680 um they they you. I mean, yeah, you can put 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.920 eight guys in the box, but still there's ways to 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:36.320 run around that. But I just it's not an easy 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.280 solution at all because and that's what we're seeing, that's 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.000 why we're seeing Dalton Schultz have so much success because 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.360 they're trying to figure out how to stop the run. 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.640 They kind of stop in the past, and then Charltz 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:48.440 is just open right in the middle, and they're gonna 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.240 have to just keep doing that. I mean, and Belichick 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.560 mentioned his name a couple times in the press conference. 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.280 There's no way they're going to try to stop him. Well, 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.400 if they were, I don't think Belichick will be mentioning 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.520 his name bunch of times in a press conference, right, 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:05.960 I mean, like that's that's vintage Belichick, kind of laying 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.320 out there, kind of what you what he wants you 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.040 to know, and then he's going to do something different. Right, 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.600 he said the name of every person on this offense 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.359 at one point. I mean, he basically just gushed about 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.000 how great they are for five minutes the other day, 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.359 which is what he does, no mean standards. Yeah, but 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.480 he does that, Like again, this is a this is 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:29.920 a that's a thing that when you accomplish what he 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.760 has accomplished, you can have your own adjective for sure. Yeah, 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.679 Like this is a common thing I think among NFL coaches. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:37.920 Jason Garrett used to do it all the time. You 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.359 spend you know, five minutes just going on and on 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.680 about the opponent, no matter how good or how bad 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.040 they are. You find all the things that you think 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.200 are good about them, whether you can make a case 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.560 or somewhat good about them, and then you talk about 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.840 them publicly Like that question is what is he saying 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.480 behind the scenes, like this is the guy we really 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.520 need to Is he really going behind the scenes with 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.600 his team and saying, man, we got to worry about 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.680 this Sheltz guy. Or is he saying, hey, stop Zeke, 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.520 Like stop Zeke, stop Pollard and we got a shot. 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:06.880 That's our only shot, right, I think you gotta worry 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.960 about everybody. And going back to your question this, I 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.920 don't think. I keep trying to play different scenarios in 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.800 my head, but I just don't see them being able 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:20.680 to completely shut down the Cowboys offense, especially how they've 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:22.640 been playing. The only way I see this going bad 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.040 is what I mentioned yesterday is that if they go 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.240 out there and the Cowboys themselves walk out and start 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:33.360 a game, all sloppy create mistakes, I think lose the ball. 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.080 Zike did it last game, and it wasn't necessarily fully 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.840 his It was was it that had two turnovers, our 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.560 interception in a fumble, dropped a snap, But was there 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:52.080 a play where Zick recently but I had seem for 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.200 some reason. But either way, the point is keeping the ball, 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.120 making sure that they don't go out being sloppy, which 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:00.800 I don't think should happen because the Cowboys, I mean, 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:04.320 they've been walking out there and just being confident in 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.560 the way they played and the fact that they are 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.480 winning games. It just kind of builds you up even more. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.760 And I don't know if it's just me because I 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.040 haven't been around here for a while, but based on 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.080 the things that I've seen on the TV and you 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.760 guys know, I always like to watch body language. They 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.959 have a different kind of energy, like they're energized right now. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.520 And last game they started out even walking on the 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.400 sideline I saw and I was gonna text to you guys, 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.880 I'm like, this is not gonna start out good. They're 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.080 walking around with nowhere energy and they did look sloppy. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.800 Not to give me credit, but hey, I know a 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.880 thing or two about body language, which Will McLay has 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.080 kind of gotten me into that because they look around 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:51.040 that's how they really evaluate players, you know. But anyways, 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:53.000 my point is this game is gonna come down to 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.760 Cowboys themselves and not necessarily what the Patriots are gonna 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.280 do against them. Traymon Digs actually kind of the unks 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.720 that theory because his body language is that he's hurt, 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.040 he's tired, and he's old, and then he's actually like 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:08.080 and then next play he takes. He's the best cornerback 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:13.200 in the league right now. He might be doing this week. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.840 I don't know. If I had to take it into 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:17.800 another level trying to put money on it today, I 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:21.320 think he plays. Yeah, it's based on nothing other than hunch. 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:23.600 I just know this. If they go into this game 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.439