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Speaker 1: two twenty one, season seventeen, episode number seventy eight. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the latest edition of The Break Life from st
Speaker 1: WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star got Nick with me.
Speaker 1: Dave is back in studio after a day of travel yesterday.
Speaker 1: Amber's out today, but we got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 1: We'll got some big picture stuff. We got a few
Speaker 1: topics regarding the Cowboys, specifically the Cowboys, maybe some injury talk.
Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit about the NFC East, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the conference and where the Cowboys line
Speaker 1: up in the conference. Let's start first, though, Nick, give
Speaker 1: me a seventy eight big cat Leon leap love it.
Speaker 1: I love that he's back. He gets hurt in like
Speaker 1: week two, like when something happened with his kneel and
Speaker 1: the sideline got run into. It's been out for a while,
Speaker 1: but he's back. He traveled this week, so yeah, I
Speaker 1: saw him at the game, and I was like, man's
Speaker 1: good to see big good to see big head. But
Speaker 1: of course we also have to do another number today
Speaker 1: because there's a special number, mister David Hellman hitting thirty three.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, bro, thanks man, give me a thirty three?
Speaker 1: Or said, right, I mean, I don't know. That's the answer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the answer. I don't know if you had a
Speaker 1: better answer my answer. I mean people I liked when
Speaker 1: Cheeto wore thirty three. Like people get all up at
Speaker 1: the about numbers. They're like, ah's cornerbacks can't wear a thirty.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it when you get a
Speaker 1: little off kilter he got. He changed it as soon
Speaker 1: as he could. He was like, twenty four is open.
Speaker 1: I'm gone. But I thought it was cool, So I'll
Speaker 1: probably I'll probably associate thirty three with Cheeto for the Cheetos.
Speaker 1: Anybody even wearing thirty three right now. They don't give
Speaker 1: it out a lot, no, because it's got to be defensive.
Speaker 1: They don't really want to give it out to the
Speaker 1: offensive got like a running back, right, and these days
Speaker 1: running backs don't want thirties anymore. Didn't see which, No, no,
Speaker 1: nobody does. I think it's we've talked about this, probably
Speaker 1: back when we were in the thirties, Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: Earl Campbell made thirty four look awesome, Lady Ricky Williams
Speaker 1: Terrell Davis, like thirties are cool to me, So I
Speaker 1: don't get it. But yeah, it's just waving, waving goodbye
Speaker 1: to like the idea of my youth. Like when you
Speaker 1: turn thirties not a big deal. Thirty one and thirty
Speaker 1: two you're like, ah, that's kind of the same thing.
Speaker 1: And now I'm just like it's over. Man, Wait till
Speaker 1: you hit forty, I know, and your body starts betraying
Speaker 1: you get every way possible. Bro, I'm already there. We
Speaker 1: talk about you and me talk about our random He's
Speaker 1: really got it crazy that you're talking about that to me,
Speaker 1: Like you got it. I got a bad bad I
Speaker 1: got gray in my beard. I mean it's over. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got an ankle injury, and I have no idea
Speaker 1: how it happened, Like I haven't even been running, and
Speaker 1: my wife's like, how did it happen. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I do the I do the elliptical trainer
Speaker 1: every morning in the gym because it's the only thing
Speaker 1: I can do where I feel confident that I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna strain or no hurt something. Right, Yeah, if we're
Speaker 1: doubt so, all right, I'm getting I'm gonna get orthopedic
Speaker 1: running shoes as a gift for myself. That's actually good idea,
Speaker 1: I know, but shoes matter, right, Yeah, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's jump in, man, we got we got a few
Speaker 1: topics we want to hit today. Let's start with Tyren Smith.
Speaker 1: He's been I guess at this point ruled out for
Speaker 1: the Giants game. What do they likely do there? I
Speaker 1: know Jerry talked this morning about it. What do you
Speaker 1: say about what they're gonna do at left tackle? Jerry
Speaker 1: said Terren Steele. I appreciate his honesty there. Um, I
Speaker 1: think Mike McCarthy kind of left some wiggle room because
Speaker 1: we don't know for sure that Lyle Collins will be available.
Speaker 1: I think there was a report last night from the
Speaker 1: Morning News that he likely won't be suspended. I haven't
Speaker 1: heard anything official about that, but if he's available, it
Speaker 1: sounds like it'll be Steel on the left and Lyle
Speaker 1: on the right. Yeah, what I wonder is just you know,
Speaker 1: they went into the game with Steele doing all this
Speaker 1: other stuff on the right side, left side and move
Speaker 1: it around, and then it seems like every time they
Speaker 1: try that, it doesn't work for very long because then
Speaker 1: somebody gets hurt and then it switches it up. So
Speaker 1: and Schy came in and finished the game. But but yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Steele's probably your better option there. So I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just thinking it's it's nice that they said
Speaker 1: he's out. We're not playing this game like he's out.
Speaker 1: He's out this week. McCarthy even referenced that, like I
Speaker 1: think it was. It's usually Todd Archer, him and him
Speaker 1: and Archer have some fun back and forth, but Archer
Speaker 1: was pushing him on something else, and he was like,
Speaker 1: how about you just say thanks Mike for ruling tiring
Speaker 1: out on a Monday instead of making you wait always. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But but Todds to Todd's point, was like, well if
Speaker 1: out six days, is he out forty? I mean, like
Speaker 1: that's what it was, yeah, because I mean this got
Speaker 1: this got aggravated last time, and he missed three games,
Speaker 1: so I mean it's a fair question. Although and maybe
Speaker 1: this is just me being defensive, but and I get it.
Speaker 1: Tyrant's availability is a blinking red issue. Um it's been
Speaker 1: a thing for like five years. But he had a
Speaker 1: three hundred pound man fall on his ankle like that's
Speaker 1: it's gnarly looking if you go back and look at it, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I struggle with the whole thing of
Speaker 1: like a Tyrants made a glass. You can't count on him,
Speaker 1: Like it's fair, you can't count on him to be available,
Speaker 1: but Governed fell on his ankle like this, I don't
Speaker 1: know that that's that's tough. Would you be okay if
Speaker 1: his next game is the playoffs? Depends on what happens
Speaker 1: this week and next week. I mean, yeah, if you
Speaker 1: if you wrap up let's let you wrap up the
Speaker 1: division in this week and next week, then you know,
Speaker 1: how how how much do you really want that game
Speaker 1: against Arizona. We're gonna talk a little bit about that
Speaker 1: later and what that could mean for the Cowboys. But
Speaker 1: you know, if if if I get those two things
Speaker 1: that where I'm wrapping up the division and I know
Speaker 1: I got a home playoff game, I'm may be willing
Speaker 1: to do it, especially if I look at it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, I think my offensive line is functioning. They're
Speaker 1: still trying to win. You're trying to win the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna try to win these games because
Speaker 1: if you even if you can get from three to
Speaker 1: two or four to three, that's important. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think Tyron's next game should be in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Saturday night. This wild card, what do you think Saturday?
Speaker 1: It's got Sunday night written all over it. To me,
Speaker 1: they love putting that. I mean, the last time they
Speaker 1: made the playoffs, they played on Saturday. And I know
Speaker 1: because I missed a wedding, I know, but I just
Speaker 1: kind of feel like they're gonna do a Sunday night
Speaker 1: because you know, this year they got the Monday night
Speaker 1: as well. They have a Monday night game as well,
Speaker 1: so yeah, there'll be Monday night playoffs starting this year.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of thinking they're gonna sing with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys there on the Monday Night. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I say the same thing that I've been
Speaker 1: saying about Zeke. If he needs the time, like if
Speaker 1: he's not healthy and he needs the time sit him down.
Speaker 1: But if he can play, there's a variety of things.
Speaker 1: I want him out there protecting Dak. You've still got
Speaker 1: stuff to play for. And on top of that, this
Speaker 1: offense like this, This is hardly a situation where you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get these guys some rest. It's like, no, we
Speaker 1: need these guys playing and clicking and figuring out what's wrong.
Speaker 1: Like is anybody that's healthy enough to play, I think
Speaker 1: should be playing. But if he's not healthy enough to play,
Speaker 1: then it's a move point. This is this is something
Speaker 1: that we've seen happen many times around here that you
Speaker 1: cover the team for a long time. You know, you
Speaker 1: have veteran players that over time injuries just start to mount.
Speaker 1: Is it getting to that point now where you think
Speaker 1: or has it already been at this point where Dallas
Speaker 1: really has to make tackle a priority. It's been the
Speaker 1: off season. It's been at this point and it's and
Speaker 1: that's not saying get rid of tied, just you got
Speaker 1: to get an option. It's a bummer because I was
Speaker 1: thinking about this last night after McCarthy ruled him out,
Speaker 1: Like all through the off season, if you remember, I
Speaker 1: was very bullish on Tire and Lyle both being available.
Speaker 1: And what sucks is the neck really hasn't given him
Speaker 1: any issues. Like the thing that was his problem for
Speaker 1: so long has not been the problem. Now it's an ankle,
Speaker 1: and it's this will be his fourth absence, I believe,
Speaker 1: And so he's missing significant chunks of the season with
Speaker 1: an entirely unrelated injury to what was the problem before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a huge problem. I mean I wanted him to
Speaker 1: draft for Shaan Slater and we don't have. Obviously, they
Speaker 1: made a great choice. We're not by the way is
Speaker 1: playing his but that's that's my point, is like, and
Speaker 1: they may, we're not second guessing the Mica pick, but
Speaker 1: that's the fun of the draft is. Had they gone
Speaker 1: that way, they would have a guy playing at a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl level. Maybe, I mean, he might not be
Speaker 1: starting every week like he is for the Chargers, but
Speaker 1: you could do a lot of fun stuff with him.
Speaker 1: They didn't do it. It was a great decision. As
Speaker 1: it turns out, they've got one of the best defenders
Speaker 1: in the entire NFL as a rookie. But it is
Speaker 1: something they have to They got to do something about it.
Speaker 1: They have to and yeah, I don't want him to
Speaker 1: get rid of tire and I don't think he talked
Speaker 1: about this a few weeks ago. It's not even financially
Speaker 1: a good idea in terms of like cap hits and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But I can't count on him. You
Speaker 1: just can't, No, And that's why you didn't do anything
Speaker 1: with Terrence Steele. That's why I think Lyell's the guy
Speaker 1: to play right tackle, because you had to always factor
Speaker 1: that part in. And that's what's what's happening right now.
Speaker 1: How much is this offensive line affecting the offense's ability
Speaker 1: to sustain drives, because that's a big problem for them.
Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit later in the next segment
Speaker 1: about something that Jerry said regarding Dak. But how much
Speaker 1: you think the offensive line is really where the issue
Speaker 1: start for this offense. I'm not I'm I don't begrudge
Speaker 1: you asking this, but like, I hate I just hate
Speaker 1: it because it's it's everything like there's not I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know if it starts with the offensive line,
Speaker 1: because the quarterbacks also playing bad, and so are the receivers,
Speaker 1: by the way, and also the running backs are hurt,
Speaker 1: So like, who am I to Power Rank that I
Speaker 1: don't think the offensive line has been at its best
Speaker 1: during this rough stretch of three and three. Way, do
Speaker 1: you think that the injuries and the inconsistency is the problem.
Speaker 1: Nigga Like, yeah, that standpoint. Yeah, I mean I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it kind of starts with the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I mean, but this isn't anything new. They've kind of
Speaker 1: been able to overcome it. I thought it was interesting though,
Speaker 1: because even one yard has hasn't always been something the
Speaker 1: Cowboys could go get. So getting that penalty after the
Speaker 1: touchdown and moving the ball from the two to the one,
Speaker 1: it's nine nothing, you're gonna go up ten nothing. And
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I think I even said to you, I
Speaker 1: don't like this because or are you gonna run the
Speaker 1: ball right up the middle because we haven't always seen that?
Speaker 1: And they did and they scored, and so I was
Speaker 1: kind of surprised by that. So that that showed me
Speaker 1: that they get had a little bit of confidence. I
Speaker 1: know it's a yard, but with that group in the middle, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and so I I thought they actually ran
Speaker 1: the ball. Okay, it was it was okay. As they
Speaker 1: talked about yesterday, they kind of they just kind of
Speaker 1: did it. They just kind of kept going at it,
Speaker 1: kept that three yard average. As I was saying, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna get you me first downs as
Speaker 1: we saw. But it was okay, right, I think it was.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Dak was the biggest problem though.
Speaker 1: I think he just him and the receivers. I could
Speaker 1: just like, just remember this play with Amari, just this
Speaker 1: quick little screen. It could have been like at the forty,
Speaker 1: or could have been the twenty or the ten. I
Speaker 1: don't even know. It was somewhere over there, you know,
Speaker 1: but possible to telling that press. Ye, Kyle's giving me
Speaker 1: some water. I can't even Hey Kyle, what's up? Man?
Speaker 1: Hey guys? Thanks? All right? You're doing now? Like you
Speaker 1: got him running? Errand I asked him, I said, I
Speaker 1: really need I'm a throw I sound sound about to say, man,
Speaker 1: we need these pages up, all right? No, thank you
Speaker 1: or not. Let's not joke about that. Say, oh, if
Speaker 1: there were thirty seven positive tests in yesterday, that ain't
Speaker 1: a joke. That's real. I know, I don't know something
Speaker 1: one of them was on the plane with us. Oh gosh, okay,
Speaker 1: well maybe now I feel uncomfortable yeah, right, you weren't
Speaker 1: on the plane. I'm here. I'm sitting here with y'all
Speaker 1: as you take a drink because you can't talk. Um.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take our first break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about Cedric Wilson, who has
Speaker 1: now been added to that COVID list. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: what that means for the receiver position, and also talk
Speaker 1: about what's going on with Tony Pollotwi do that woman?
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Cedric Wilson. He was at it yesterday
Speaker 1: to the COVID list with Noah Brown already on ir
Speaker 1: what happens with that fifth wide receiver spot? My League Turner,
Speaker 1: he's the fourth, right, Yeah, I mean that the fifth
Speaker 1: well semi Pahoco do they do? I guess what I
Speaker 1: should have asked. League Turner moves up into central spot
Speaker 1: at this point. Do you think they can stric down
Speaker 1: to just keeping those four as the guys they play
Speaker 1: the most? Or yeah? Yeah if Simmy, If Simmy was
Speaker 1: gonna get some run, I feel like he would have
Speaker 1: done it when Lamb and Cooper were both unavailable. Somebody
Speaker 1: somebody asked us about that a week or so ago,
Speaker 1: and I get it. I mean, and that it goes
Speaker 1: back to the Jabril Cox thing back during training camps,
Speaker 1: like why isn't he playing? It's like who's coming off
Speaker 1: the field for him. There's a couple of things though,
Speaker 1: Domino effects here, Tony Pollard's injury, Zeke because I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's if it's like a third and three
Speaker 1: and I got to get an outside run. I think
Speaker 1: eighty eight the guy. Yeah, that was gonna be the
Speaker 1: next question. So that might trickle in down to where
Speaker 1: Fahoko will play a little bit more because one of
Speaker 1: your receivers is you know. Yeah, let's back up a
Speaker 1: second on that. What do you guys think about them
Speaker 1: using him in that way? Because we've seen teams in
Speaker 1: the NFL recently over the last couple of years using
Speaker 1: wide receivers more lining them up as running backs and
Speaker 1: running the ball with them with these injuries. Do you
Speaker 1: did you like what they did with Cede Lamb there?
Speaker 1: I loved it with the caveat I think of Okay,
Speaker 1: let me let me be clear, Like I'm not saying
Speaker 1: Pollard's not a physical player, but go back to the
Speaker 1: beginning of his career and it was like, I get it,
Speaker 1: Zeke's going to do his thing. He's the bell cow.
Speaker 1: But like they've got a manufacturer, more touches for this
Speaker 1: guy and until everybody's healthier. That's how I feel about Lamb.
Speaker 1: I don't want him banging between the tackles like he's
Speaker 1: not that hitt he took too. He ain't. He ain't
Speaker 1: built for that. No offense. I'm not saying he's not tough,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna get hurt. Yeah, that's you don't have
Speaker 1: a running back. I just usually I don't want him
Speaker 1: in a position where he's taken a shot like that
Speaker 1: more than once or twice a game. But until everybody's
Speaker 1: healthy or healthier, find him six to eight touches the
Speaker 1: run again, jet sweeps. If you want to do it
Speaker 1: at running back, that's fine, But there's a dozen ways. Nick.
Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that, because, like people were so
Speaker 1: mad during the game, They're like, what's with all these
Speaker 1: screens And I'm like, they would probably be working if
Speaker 1: they were where they were supposed to be. Dak was
Speaker 1: not leading those guys at all. You gotta catch it
Speaker 1: moving forward and just go and I mean guys were
Speaker 1: jumping for screens, they were out. Yeah, Dak was off.
Speaker 1: I think Washington was probably the worst that he's played
Speaker 1: during this entire stretch of mediocre games. Like even he
Speaker 1: probably played better against Kansas City. If I had to guess,
Speaker 1: i'd have I mean, i'd have to go back and rewatch.
Speaker 1: But I just I thought he was bad in Washington
Speaker 1: and he didn't do his receivers any favors. But again,
Speaker 1: throw it eighteen yards to cd out on the perimeter
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. That is effectively a run
Speaker 1: if if you put it where it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: and give him a chance to run, So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he needs to be a part of that until
Speaker 1: Tony's healthy. Because I was given some advice to the
Speaker 1: Social team on certain graphics that they could do after
Speaker 1: the game, and there was a couple of stats that
Speaker 1: were really out there and didn't like it. I was like,
Speaker 1: how about if they win, how about that being eight
Speaker 1: one against Washington, you know, And I think they went
Speaker 1: with that, but it just seemed kind of weird because
Speaker 1: there's like, he didn't just go out and just dominate Washington.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's dominating. It'll go on his record. But yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a game about the defense. Really, Yeah, definitely
Speaker 1: about the defense. I had a whole I mean that
Speaker 1: the Social teams the same way, but like I had
Speaker 1: a whole little folder of things that I wanted to
Speaker 1: tweet out that I had put together, especially with Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy guaranteeing the win and everything, and by the time
Speaker 1: it was over, I was like, I'm just not going
Speaker 1: to touch any of this stuff, Like nobody wants to
Speaker 1: hear it after this performance. Yeah, it's honestly that it's
Speaker 1: kind of weird that the Cowboys can, from a record standpoint,
Speaker 1: being as good of a season as they are. They
Speaker 1: are nine and four, and it doesn't feel like it
Speaker 1: felt early in year when they were six and one.
Speaker 1: I think most fans probably are a little bit tentative.
Speaker 1: They're like, I really don't know what to think about
Speaker 1: this team. But they're not in four. Like they have
Speaker 1: a really good record they've played. I mean, they've won
Speaker 1: a lot of games, and it's just it's a weird situation.
Speaker 1: And that's why, you know, Like you know, I do
Speaker 1: these radio shows with the guys in local here and
Speaker 1: even on our show like yesterday, I mean I disagreed
Speaker 1: with with Amber, Yeah you know, and who thinks that
Speaker 1: you know, and this is embarrassing And she said yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and double down on it too. Like me, he was like,
Speaker 1: it's fair, Like it's fair, it's fair. I think, by
Speaker 1: the way, they're probably a ton of fans out there
Speaker 1: listening right now they probably feel the same. Let's see,
Speaker 1: my perspective is different than others. I'm looking at it
Speaker 1: like they're gonna probably make the playoffs, you know, like
Speaker 1: when the division Like I'm not looking at the one seed.
Speaker 1: They're not better than They're not one of the top
Speaker 1: teams in the NFC. Now do they have the talent
Speaker 1: to sneak through, because when you get to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: we've seen it all. We've seen great teams get there,
Speaker 1: lose in the first round, or maybe you win a
Speaker 1: wild card, but then you lose. It's gonna come down
Speaker 1: to a player or two here and there. I think
Speaker 1: they they're capable of doing it, But like, I don't
Speaker 1: have this vision of like that, where's the super Bowl
Speaker 1: parade gonna be? I don't think like that, because why
Speaker 1: would I. I've been here too long to think that way,
Speaker 1: So I don't, So I don't look at it like, man,
Speaker 1: if you play like this, you're gonna lose. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you probably are. I don't know. I've seen it happen.
Speaker 1: I'm honestly, I'm not to sound like, oh this is
Speaker 1: Christmas spirit, but I'm enjoying the ride here. Nine to four.
Speaker 1: This is better than I thought they were gonna be.
Speaker 1: This is fun, And I don't know what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But they ain't nobody in the NFC
Speaker 1: that would scare me. Nobody. The Cardinals don't scare me.
Speaker 1: The Rams it could be scary, but I think, you know,
Speaker 1: Stafford's never won a playoff game, so he's gonna have
Speaker 1: to do that. And I do I just, I just
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of like enjoying the right. I think
Speaker 1: this is a this is a fun team, and you know,
Speaker 1: there's some ups and downs. I am with you, but
Speaker 1: this is a perspective that I've picked up over the
Speaker 1: years meeting all of our different fans and listeners. And
Speaker 1: we here in DFW are in a bubble. Obviously, we
Speaker 1: in this building or in a bubble, like when the
Speaker 1: Cowboys lose, it's like, oh, that kind of sucked. Onto Tuesday,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? But so many people fans
Speaker 1: if you're listening, I mean, we and a lot of
Speaker 1: people that listen to what I say this all the time.
Speaker 1: I know we've got listeners in DFW, but like so
Speaker 1: many of our people are out of market, and they
Speaker 1: know if this thing goes south, they're gonna get texted
Speaker 1: the memes. Y'all stilled in boys. I thought y'all were
Speaker 1: in boys, Like nobody likes the Cowboys. If you don't
Speaker 1: like them, you hate them. And so if you're in
Speaker 1: the DMV or the Pacific Pacific Northwest, wherever you live.
Speaker 1: If it's not DFW, your life's gonna be hell the
Speaker 1: minute this falls apart. And I think there's that's that's
Speaker 1: what makes people so antie is the paranoia of like PTSD,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do all this to lose in the wild
Speaker 1: card round and then I catch hell from my uncle
Speaker 1: again because I don't want to do that like every
Speaker 1: and especially if they were just mediocre and trading wins
Speaker 1: and losses all year, you kind of get used to that.
Speaker 1: But then when you're six and one and six of
Speaker 1: those wins come in a row, now, I mean, the
Speaker 1: expectations change and you're like, we're gonna do all this
Speaker 1: just to once again not get to where we haven't gotten.
Speaker 1: And that's what's that's what so I get it. I
Speaker 1: understand where it comes from, but I do. I mean,
Speaker 1: I you can't live like that. It's it's it's a
Speaker 1: miserable way to live. I think you just gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta take it way more myopic than that, Like week
Speaker 1: at a time, And I said this on the radio
Speaker 1: today too. A month ago, nobody was worried about this, like,
Speaker 1: I mean a month ago, what they'd played. I think
Speaker 1: a month ago they had just beaten Atlanta, and it
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, there's the team. We know, we're good.
Speaker 1: We're forty points, crushed them, scored thirty six in the
Speaker 1: second quarter or whatever it was. The playoffs are a
Speaker 1: month away, literally four more games that It's weird how
Speaker 1: it can change. Only adding one game to the schedule
Speaker 1: just made this season feel so much longer. Like usually
Speaker 1: December fourteenth, we were talking, Yeah, it's not the case.
Speaker 1: It's not the case this year, especially with the NFC
Speaker 1: as top heavy at it as it is. This thing's
Speaker 1: gonna go all the way down to January ninth before
Speaker 1: we're totally clear on what's happening. So keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: And I think also fans only follow their team to
Speaker 1: the to most degree, Like I don't think anybody is
Speaker 1: necessarily looking at Tampa Bay like that. But they had
Speaker 1: a game last week that played out similar to Washington
Speaker 1: game where they were up big Bills, come back, take
Speaker 1: them to overtime. They still win. Yeah, but I would
Speaker 1: guess that Tampa fans were a little bit like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, like the wheels kind of fell off there
Speaker 1: for a moment, like we should have won that game
Speaker 1: by a lot more so I don't know. And I
Speaker 1: say this all the time to Cowboys fans while I
Speaker 1: talked to who are kind of up, and I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: every team in the NFL has periods of their season.
Speaker 1: I don't care how good they are, They're gonna have
Speaker 1: periods of their season where things don't look great. Think
Speaker 1: about Kansas City. Earlier this year, there were people writing
Speaker 1: them off, like maybe they don't even make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Now they're right back and rolling again. Somebody, it just happens.
Speaker 1: It's a part of NFL football. You're not gonna by
Speaker 1: the way, it's a part of any job that you have.
Speaker 1: If you don't come and give your very best version
Speaker 1: of yourself every single day in your job, you just can't.
Speaker 1: It's not possible. Somebody tweeted me last night and they
Speaker 1: were like, well, the Rams don't have a running game either,
Speaker 1: Like they're just taking all these deep shots all over
Speaker 1: the field. They look great. What the hell? I was like,
Speaker 1: did you miss the three weeks where the Rams were
Speaker 1: broken beyond repair? Because that happened. I mean, they were
Speaker 1: writing the Rams off. It's recently like they went into
Speaker 1: that game like if they lose this, this is like
Speaker 1: they've lost three out of four and then they lost
Speaker 1: one of their best defensive players going into the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and everybody's ready to write them off. Yeah, so welcome
Speaker 1: to the NFL. Watch that game last night. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was an entertaining game. Actually, spike the ball, I dude, Yeah, Kyler,
Speaker 1: what are you talking? I mean, I mean they weren't
Speaker 1: you guys are just ran thirty yards this way? Now
Speaker 1: they're running thirty yards back. Yeah, and then you want
Speaker 1: to just you don't want to spike the ball, and
Speaker 1: now you want to snap it, and then they got
Speaker 1: to run seventy yards like but they self destructed, like
Speaker 1: I mean, just the I mean the play where Kyler
Speaker 1: picks up all the yards on the ground gets out
Speaker 1: of bounds. They gotta I think they had twenty six
Speaker 1: seconds left at that point. They were close enough at
Speaker 1: that point to take a few shots at the end
Speaker 1: zone and holding rings like him, Like I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I don't like him? Why because he's great? Like he's awesome. No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have to like him. I mean
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, I'm saying why why they are
Speaker 1: you saying you don't like his game or you don't
Speaker 1: like him as a what do you say? He's a
Speaker 1: track star, right, I mean he's he's great, I mean
Speaker 1: phenomenon ru I mean it takes him a hundred steps
Speaker 1: to get there, but those little steps were moving like that,
Speaker 1: like he can he can roll and go. You know,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I don't know. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: the it's the body language. I don't Maybe that's just
Speaker 1: so Nick, though, Yeah, I see exactly what you're talk about,
Speaker 1: because Nick, you're you one those people that you don't
Speaker 1: like the person that that is, as you call it
Speaker 1: too cool for school, like he is. And yeah, and
Speaker 1: I know exactly what you're because I've heard you say
Speaker 1: it about other people too, Like I get exactly. But
Speaker 1: but but it's just I don't know, like maybe I'm
Speaker 1: used to Dak, Like Dak doesn't show that kind of stuff. Dak,
Speaker 1: you know, Dex has his own problems. But we've talked
Speaker 1: about it and we'll continue to talk about it. But
Speaker 1: I mean from a leadership standpoint, and this is just
Speaker 1: a perception, I don't I don't really know. It just
Speaker 1: always seems like he's pouting always. Now I don't know,
Speaker 1: they're ten and three. I mean, ye, now, he's he's great.
Speaker 1: He's a great quarterback. There's not a player in the
Speaker 1: NFL I like watching more. Right now, that's fun. I
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying, and well, and I think
Speaker 1: that goes That's what I said last night. It goes
Speaker 1: back to the Spike thing. I have a point. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry I say that, but I'm just gonna say, like
Speaker 1: he comes off and when he was like yelling at
Speaker 1: his at his offensive line and his and his coordinator,
Speaker 1: like like what are we doing? Let's go. It's like
Speaker 1: you just threw a pick because you didn't throw it
Speaker 1: high enough, Floyd tipped it. It's a great play now,
Speaker 1: as goes Randy, but a great play. And and like
Speaker 1: you threw a pick. You threw that pick and you
Speaker 1: coming off you know, I don't know, but you know
Speaker 1: he might. He might. That's the whole thing we saw
Speaker 1: with Dez a few years, like twenty four years old,
Speaker 1: and he's never experienced true athletic hardship. I think that's
Speaker 1: basically what you've been winning since for him can't. It's
Speaker 1: it takes my breath away when I think about it.
Speaker 1: Never loses a game at Allen three straight state titles,
Speaker 1: probably the best quarterback in Texas high school football history,
Speaker 1: which I mean that says a lot. Yeah, goest to.
Speaker 1: I guess he had hardship at A and M because
Speaker 1: Kevin Sumlin lied to him about having the starting job. Transfers. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, wins the Heisman. Oh by the way,
Speaker 1: number one overall pick at five eight and a half
Speaker 1: or whatever. He is, Oh by the way, rookie of
Speaker 1: the year just, oh by the way, top ten pick
Speaker 1: in baseball. Yeah, yeah, he's just And so he's like
Speaker 1: the I mean, he's the closest thing to the Dion
Speaker 1: Bo Jackson thing that we've seen wild and and I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about him as an athlete and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Just so something about his body language, though, just kind
Speaker 1: of rubs me the wrong way. I know exactly what
Speaker 1: it is, because again, I've been around you long enough
Speaker 1: I know exactly what you're talking about. It doesn't bother
Speaker 1: me in that way. But I know exactly where you're
Speaker 1: going with that, I know. But I'll tell you this,
Speaker 1: Like I lived ten minutes from that stadium in Allen
Speaker 1: and when he was in high school. I remember driving
Speaker 1: down the street there were helicopters above news helicopters that
Speaker 1: were covering one of their games because Kyler Allen was
Speaker 1: playing in this it was I mean, Kyler, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: Murray was playing in this game. It was like this
Speaker 1: guy was a whole different breed of high school athlete.
Speaker 1: He was this area. His career was taking off when
Speaker 1: I got here, and I remember being like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like all this hype about a high school court, and
Speaker 1: then I started paying closer attention as his career went on.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I get it. And that what
Speaker 1: I was gonna say about the spike is I think
Speaker 1: you can see that he's so he's like, I'm Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run around, I'm gonna do my little loop
Speaker 1: the loop and throw a dart and we're gonna win
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah. It was just and he can do it.
Speaker 1: He can do it, so why wouldn't he? And I
Speaker 1: just think that's the natural maturation process of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: even though I'm the man, we should probably spike this
Speaker 1: and regroup and like this is still the NFL. But
Speaker 1: I think he's just still learning that. He's still learning
Speaker 1: that you're not gonna win every no he's all. The
Speaker 1: one thing that makes me feel a little bit better,
Speaker 1: and we'll get to this in the final segment. One
Speaker 1: thing makes me feel a little bit better about Dallas
Speaker 1: if they have to play him, is that I do
Speaker 1: think they have a guy that could possibly keep him
Speaker 1: from going crazy. You're not gonna stop him, but keep
Speaker 1: him from going crazy. Because as a football fan, you
Speaker 1: should just be scintillating about Micah Parsons going against Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray because that's that'll be fun. That's probably the one
Speaker 1: quarterback on planet Earth who could who has the potential
Speaker 1: to make Michael look silly. Like the whole thing we've
Speaker 1: talked about all year where quarterbacks just aren't ready for
Speaker 1: his closing speed, Murray has the type of quickness to
Speaker 1: get away from that. Right, maybe he won't. That's what
Speaker 1: makes it And like how dan Quinn gonna use him,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be amazing. That definitely could happen. Like if
Speaker 1: they can, you know, stay the course, get the number
Speaker 1: one seed, the Cowboys get maybe the four, that second
Speaker 1: round game could be sitting right there. Well, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about that when we come back, because there's a
Speaker 1: there's a possibility that Dallas can get up there to
Speaker 1: the three. If they handle their business. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: me down. It does. We need do that more frequently,
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta do that some of our segments.
Speaker 1: We gotta have some theme music that just count of nice.
Speaker 1: Thank Dak is fine? Hem okay, we would yeah, keep going.
Speaker 1: Start he's got a calf injury. I know from experience
Speaker 1: there's nothing that rhymes with that word, so we should
Speaker 1: just stop it right now. This is a nice effort.
Speaker 1: It was. I'll do one. I'll do one this week.
Speaker 1: I'll do one of these reads in in song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll sing a phone. Yeah, all right, let's see you
Speaker 1: see if your voice comes back, yeah before right now.
Speaker 1: But it's a little raspy. Yeah, but um, yeah, like
Speaker 1: I smoked a pack a day or something like that,
Speaker 1: let's hope not, which I have not. Yeah, so I'm not.
Speaker 1: You've never smoked anything that to shit? You told me right,
Speaker 1: I've never smoked a cigarettes. I don't even know what
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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little NFC right now. Dallas is the
Speaker 1: fourth seed in the nfcum. The Green Bay Packers are
Speaker 1: ten and three at the one seed, Tampa is ten
Speaker 1: and three at the two seed. Arizona drops all the
Speaker 1: way to the third seed after they're lost the last night.
Speaker 1: They are ten and three. Here's some interesting things though,
Speaker 1: if Dalla Us is to win. If Dallas wins out
Speaker 1: that will include a win over Arizona, they can get
Speaker 1: to the three seeds. They control their own destiny with
Speaker 1: regards and moving to the three seed, which, as we know,
Speaker 1: is a really big deal because the fitth seed is
Speaker 1: way better than the sixth seed, So who you play
Speaker 1: in the first round matters a ton. That being said,
Speaker 1: if they can get Green Bay and or Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: to lose one they have a shot at the second
Speaker 1: seed or the first seed. How likely do you think
Speaker 1: those scenarios are. Let's start first with them getting to three.
Speaker 1: I have two thoughts mainly, and I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I guess this is just my contrarian nature. Pay attention
Speaker 1: to San Francisco because like all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: sixth seed doesn't look at it. I mean, if George
Speaker 1: Kittle's health. Have you seen what George Kittle's been doing?
Speaker 1: Amazing things this last week, But that's still they are
Speaker 1: still not in the class of the Rams. I don't think,
Speaker 1: maybe not, but they look like they are rounding into
Speaker 1: They look like they're rounding into being in a dangerous
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know what, I'm saying that their defense,
Speaker 1: they got some nasty players on their defense. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying they're salty like I got. Three weeks ago. It
Speaker 1: looked like the sixth and seventh seeds we're gonna be
Speaker 1: garbage teams. And I don't know if that's true. Well,
Speaker 1: by the way, let's be real, in the NFL, you
Speaker 1: don't take any team for granted the playoffs. It just
Speaker 1: is what it is. But I do think there is
Speaker 1: a sizeable difference between five and then the next closest
Speaker 1: team that whole bevy of teams. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a tall order to get out of the fourth
Speaker 1: spot because you gotta basically win out and then still
Speaker 1: probably hope for some help and I don't. And to
Speaker 1: get to three, I know, I know, I know. If
Speaker 1: they win everything in beat Arizona, I get it, but
Speaker 1: that's it's a tall order to win four games and six,
Speaker 1: I mean there would be six, yeah, to end the season,
Speaker 1: and in this team, I just don't see them being
Speaker 1: that consistent, especially with some of the injuries, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to make some tough decisions like what are
Speaker 1: we doing here? Are we gonna Yes, we're gonna try
Speaker 1: to win these games, but at all costs. I don't
Speaker 1: know about it. At all costs, um, But it's also
Speaker 1: hard to and I win and looked last night at
Speaker 1: everybody's remaining slate, which going to your second question again,
Speaker 1: And you can't take anything for granted in the NFL,
Speaker 1: but like, thanks League office for handing Tom Brady the
Speaker 1: easiest December of his life. I mean they had to
Speaker 1: play the Bucks in December, which great game. They built.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Yeah, thank you the Bills, but they go
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. They go Carolina twice, New
Speaker 1: Orleans and the Jets. Yeah, only only the Saints even
Speaker 1: have a shot in my opinion. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I think the Saints got a shot. But you don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'll bet you five dollars right now the
Speaker 1: Bucks don't lose again. That they do, I bet they don't. Ever.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be I'm just talking. I think
Speaker 1: the Saints will get him. Maybe. I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 1: Saint That Saints game is in Tampa. By the way
Speaker 1: they already played, you wouldn't have thought Washington would have
Speaker 1: beaten him those division games. Yeah, but Washing play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's just me taking field calling my shot right
Speaker 1: now that they won't lose again in the regular So
Speaker 1: Tampa ends up one. What about green Bay? Green Bay
Speaker 1: that's gonna be really interesting. Got Baltimore this week, and
Speaker 1: they got Cleveland the week after that, so there's more
Speaker 1: potential there for hijinks. And then they got Minnesota, which
Speaker 1: a division games. Yeah, this Cowboys playing in Washington like
Speaker 1: that's it's a tough division game. I bet Green Bay
Speaker 1: one of those three finds a way to beat them. Probably, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'll say Tampa Bay gets home field for the postseason.
Speaker 1: Put Green Bay at two and the winner of Dallas
Speaker 1: Arizona at three. Who you think right now? Like, if
Speaker 1: you had to just say right now, who you think
Speaker 1: is gonna win that game? Who do you think it is?
Speaker 1: Dallas Arizona based on what you see from Arizona in
Speaker 1: obviously what you know the Cowboys? I hate that because
Speaker 1: what have I seen from the Dallas offense that should
Speaker 1: give me confidence to win, to pick them to win.
Speaker 1: But then it's funny because you can't the networks can't
Speaker 1: predict to a certainty who's going to be good. So
Speaker 1: like if they had known Arizona was gonna be this good,
Speaker 1: they would have been on national TV way more often.
Speaker 1: Last night was only the second time I've I have
Speaker 1: gotten to see them play, and the other time was
Speaker 1: when they lost to Green Bay on Thursday night. Is
Speaker 1: this a noon game Cowboys? Right now? Yes? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: probably gonna get flex I'm guessing, but maybe um I
Speaker 1: would I would at least in the afternoon. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: won't be a noon game, but so the two times
Speaker 1: that I've gotten to I'm like, all right, let's sit down.
Speaker 1: They're on national TV. Let's see what the cards are
Speaker 1: all about. They've lost both games, and Kyler's looked crappy
Speaker 1: and both yeah, so crappy by his stand, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say he didn't look crappy last night, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he didn't. Two or three picks. Yeah, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: so I'm kind of with Nick. I'm I'm not impressed
Speaker 1: by them, and that's that's so unfair because I'm just
Speaker 1: talking about two games against two really good teams. But
Speaker 1: I absolutely think the Cowboys could beat them on their
Speaker 1: home turf. Although did you see the stat that they
Speaker 1: put up last night about the road home splits, Like
Speaker 1: they are playing like gods on the road and like
Speaker 1: crap in their own stadium. So so you kind of
Speaker 1: want them in the one seed. I mean, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: keep them at home. I've never seen Arizona like, you know,
Speaker 1: bring a ton of fans in, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 1: I've never seen that, So it's not like, oh, Cardinal fans.
Speaker 1: You know, they're having a great year, so they'll probably
Speaker 1: be here. But I don't I don't think it would
Speaker 1: be that big a deal. So what are we seeing
Speaker 1: right now with regards to the NFC East. It looks
Speaker 1: like if they win the next two, they clinch. Like
Speaker 1: we had an interesting conversation before we came on the
Speaker 1: Showache supposedly there's like an infinitesimal chance that they clinch
Speaker 1: this weekend. You know what, what what's the scenario because
Speaker 1: Nick to scenario, Yes, scenario's insane, like they would have
Speaker 1: to they obviously they got to beat New York. Philly
Speaker 1: has to lose to Washington. I'm not buying that. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you what the article said. And then but let's
Speaker 1: let's take that for a second. Washington is one and
Speaker 1: one in the East right now. They only they've only
Speaker 1: played two games, so I think I think that their
Speaker 1: next play division rest of the way, I guess so
Speaker 1: they do, because it's they play Philly then then Dallas again,
Speaker 1: and then I think they finished with Philly and the Giants. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So I don't understand how any scenario has Washington winning
Speaker 1: and it helps the Cowboys because if Washington wins, then
Speaker 1: they'll be they'll be two and one in the division,
Speaker 1: which means they can be five and one so the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but what's their conference record? Because the division is would
Speaker 1: be first though division when it comes to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: in Washington. So the Cowboys are three and oh. If
Speaker 1: they beat the Giants their four and oh, they can
Speaker 1: still be four and two in the in the division
Speaker 1: three up on Washington with three to play in Washington's
Speaker 1: two and one, they can get to five and one.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how you Washington. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: either either. I know that Cayden showed me the article.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a very simple way that Nick said
Speaker 1: not very likely. But the simple way is if Washington
Speaker 1: Philly tie and Dallas wins, Dallas is in Yeah, they
Speaker 1: win the division just like that, because if you have
Speaker 1: a tie, there's no way they can get to I
Speaker 1: know ties are more common in these days than they
Speaker 1: have it's not happening, But I'm just saying like, that's
Speaker 1: the scenario to me, that happens. Otherwise. I look at
Speaker 1: it as you need to somebody in our department if there,
Speaker 1: if their job is to get a we won in
Speaker 1: the East video album. You better be ready this, you
Speaker 1: better be ready. Yeah, you want to be ready this weekend?
Speaker 1: Probably not gonna happen. But you just want to be
Speaker 1: what time is that game? Nude? I think so it
Speaker 1: will be the same time be up there, and then
Speaker 1: it doesn't. It's kind of clouds. It doesn't matter. We'll
Speaker 1: be in the cloud. Yeah cloud Wait why if it's
Speaker 1: a noon game? Though? In New York talking with the clouds, Oh,
Speaker 1: I thought you meant like flying home. I was like,
Speaker 1: are we playing at nine am? Game? About the same height? Like, okay, literally,
Speaker 1: the it's pretty high. You're up there. It's higher than
Speaker 1: any other stadium in my opinions, meeting, higher than the Superdome.
Speaker 1: I think so because the Superdome isn't as tall as
Speaker 1: as a stadium in New York Church. Up there, it's
Speaker 1: just so quiet quiet. Yeah, you're sitting in the clouds. Yes,
Speaker 1: is what happened to Gregory's Okay, okay, yeah, okay, it's
Speaker 1: just so until until yeah, until the w FA N guy, Well,
Speaker 1: welcome back here met web Stadium, Thanks t Bone. I'm
Speaker 1: here at eight thirty three. Just threw a touchdown. That happened.
Speaker 1: That happens and it's not even a touchdown. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like yeah, whatever he says. He's like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm here. It's a thirteen twenty two to go. In
Speaker 1: the first quarter of the Cowboys up punting on their
Speaker 1: first dry. It's like, who's listening, right, who's listening to that?
Speaker 1: Because if they cared, if they gave anything at all,
Speaker 1: they already know, they'd be watching right there. And if
Speaker 1: they can't watch, they're they're following on Twitter. There are
Speaker 1: lots of ways to be able to consume that game
Speaker 1: rather than getting it up the guy in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: I thought where I thought Nick, which again it's I'm
Speaker 1: not this isn't a criticism, like it's annoying, but like
Speaker 1: I can just sort of compartmentalize it and carry on
Speaker 1: with my day. I thought Nick was going to turn
Speaker 1: around and punch the guy in the face, especially like
Speaker 1: it's this big game. Cowboys are kind of struggling to
Speaker 1: start in. The offense isn't doing anything, and this guy's
Speaker 1: just behind us, Like cowboys offense really not getting a
Speaker 1: whole lot of stuff going here. On the third possession
Speaker 1: of the first Nick's just like Jesus. That's when he
Speaker 1: tees on. He says something slick to the guy, like
Speaker 1: you know, he don't say it to him. He just
Speaker 1: kind of stays it into the air. The classic Eatman
Speaker 1: maneuver would be to be like, what's that, Derek, Sorry,
Speaker 1: didn't hear you? Over all the people talking right in
Speaker 1: my ear. Let's not act like you're above it either,
Speaker 1: like you get it, say what I say, Like, I'm
Speaker 1: just not like that, But yes, I will to me
Speaker 1: that that bothers me because I just don't understand the
Speaker 1: premise of it. It was a nineteen eighty seven thing.
Speaker 1: It's not today's world. It's the same thing when they
Speaker 1: just pass out all these stats and they're just killing
Speaker 1: trees left and right, and you're like, everyone's got the
Speaker 1: stats on their front. Everyone's got a computer. Man, don't
Speaker 1: need We're good. There are so many elements of this
Speaker 1: industry that just haven't acknowledged that it's not nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: seven anymore. All Right, guys, appreciate you joining us. We'll
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. We'll start getting into the next matchup.
Speaker 1: Let you guys know what we think is going to
Speaker 1: happen this weekend. It'll be an interesting game. I think
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Giants are and we hope it will be.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that goes. But until then. For Nick Eatman,
Speaker 1: Dave Hellman, I'm Derek Yelton. This has been The Break
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