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Speaker 2: Cowboys, Let's go.

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Speaker 3: Are you ready for a break? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Are you ready for a break? Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: Ready for a break?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And so much for that.

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Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com.

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Speaker 4: We were right.

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Speaker 1: With Mbar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 5: It is Tuesday, September twenty sixth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,

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Speaker 5: episode number thirty nine. Welcome to the latest edition of

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Speaker 5: The Break. We are live from the SWBC Mortgage studios

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Speaker 5: at the Star and it's Tuesday. So it's the data

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Speaker 5: that we kind of make sense of all of the

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Speaker 5: emotions that everyone has been feeling for the last twenty

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Speaker 5: four hours. Following the game, Cowboys get the first loss

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Speaker 5: of the season, and I think this is where we

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Speaker 5: started to get some perspective and start to realize maybe

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Speaker 5: they aren't as bad as everybody thinks they might be

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Speaker 5: yesterday when they were high off emotion.

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Speaker 2: But we'll see.

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Speaker 6: We'll get out of our normal crew here today.

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Speaker 5: We got Amber, Brian and Patrick ready to talk a

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Speaker 5: little Cowboys football. Where I wanted to start it today though,

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Speaker 5: is Mike McCarthy yesterday had a press conference. There were

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Speaker 5: two quotes that he had that I want to throw

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Speaker 5: out to you guys and just get your thoughts on them.

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Speaker 5: The first one was with regard to play calling more

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Speaker 5: running in the red zone laid in that game. His

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Speaker 5: quote was, I wish I had been a little more

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Speaker 5: aggressive in the passing game on first and second down.

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Speaker 6: Patrick, you were also there at the press conference.

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Speaker 5: Where are your thoughts on his reaction to the questioning

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Speaker 5: around how he called the game there towards the end.

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Speaker 7: You know what love I love when anyone takes accountability

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Speaker 7: because it shows that they're willing to look at what

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Speaker 7: they might have done wrong and then improve, and that

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Speaker 7: that should give everyone a lot of optimism as far

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Speaker 7: as the Cowboys improving in that aspect, because obviously going

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Speaker 7: to be much different than a head coach standing up

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Speaker 7: there in front of the fire and squad and saying, no,

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Speaker 7: you know what I got this.

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Speaker 4: We know he has been seeing to charge of the

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Speaker 4: this year.

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Speaker 8: You notice every time he talks he refers us himself

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Speaker 8: and taking accountability.

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Speaker 7: One hundred percent. So I love that he continues to

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Speaker 7: take accountability. This is not something new for Mike McCarthy.

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Speaker 7: He's been taking accountability, uh for a very long time now.

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Speaker 7: I mean, look at Mike Nolan. He didn't last so

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Speaker 7: took accountability for that.

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Speaker 2: Moved on to Dan Quinn.

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Speaker 3: But that wasn't a hard one.

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Speaker 2: No, it wasn't.

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Speaker 7: But he didn't that was one of his guys. He

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Speaker 7: didn't have to put him to the acts.

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Speaker 3: He could have said several coaches that were his that

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Speaker 3: he had to take accountability for.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 7: So, I mean the accountability aspect of it, I love it.

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Speaker 7: It tells me that the Cowboys are looking inside themselves

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Speaker 7: and we should now expect to see. Like Ambar said yesterday,

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Speaker 7: where's the creativity that's been kind of hitting from the

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Speaker 7: media and we've not seen it through the first three weeks.

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Speaker 7: So maybe this is a strong hint Amber that he

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Speaker 7: heard you and he's willing to start mixing some things

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 3: You know, if you look at Dak Prescott's numbers, I

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Speaker 3: see why he ran the football. You know, Dak, there's

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Speaker 3: some struggles with Dak throwing the football in the red zone.

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Speaker 3: There's also some struggles with his accuracy. There's also some

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Speaker 3: and to win on the outside. You know, if you're

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Speaker 3: one of those guys or gals that believes in numbers,

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Speaker 3: you know, three of eleven for thirty five yards in

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Speaker 3: the red zone passing, you know that's not going to

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Speaker 3: we saw an interception there late. That's another thing you

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Speaker 3: have to account for right there. You know, his offensive line.

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Speaker 3: Maybe he thought he was a little bit compromised there.

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Speaker 3: But to me, there's a lot of things that factor.

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Speaker 3: I think the Arizona Cardinals played really well down there,

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Speaker 3: but this is something that they're going to have to

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Speaker 3: but sometimes you just get covered. But quarterbacks got to

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Speaker 3: be better down there, Head coach, play callers got to

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Speaker 3: I think there's things that they've tried to do. You know,

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Speaker 3: when you say, you know the creativity of trying to

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Speaker 3: run an option with Ceedee Lamb is nice when it works.

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Speaker 3: It's real nice when it doesn't. Work it. It's like,

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Speaker 3: what are you doing that for? So there's a lot

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Speaker 3: and make sure that the issues that they've struggled with,

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Speaker 3: the routes, the quarterback, the play caller all are cleaned

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Speaker 3: up before they get into as we go through this season.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and he did mention yesterday. I mean, they're very

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Speaker 8: well aware of everything. And he did mention how they

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Speaker 8: lead the league on drives and they're able to move

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Speaker 8: the ball and the most important thing is getting down there.

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Speaker 8: But more important than that is now exit cuting and

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Speaker 8: actually getting into the end zone. And it's good when

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Speaker 8: you hear everybody talking about that, Steven Jones on the fan,

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Speaker 8: everybody being well aware of where their issues are and

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Speaker 8: then trying to focus and dedicate more time this week

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Speaker 8: as far as preparation and trying to get better in that.

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Speaker 8: We know they have the talent, they have weapons that

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Speaker 8: they can utilize. Now it's actually applying it and making

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Speaker 4: But it's good.

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Speaker 8: I love it when I hear people take accountability mention.

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Speaker 8: It's not like Jalen Smith type of vibe, you know,

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Speaker 8: it's more like you take it. So anyways, hopefully we

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Speaker 8: see some progress this week, because again, one of the

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Speaker 8: things that was mentioned when not Kellen Moore Mike McCarthy

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Speaker 8: a play caller he is and how he can be creative.

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Speaker 8: We're waiting to see that and hopefully it happens this weekend.

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Speaker 5: All right, Let's look at another quote that he had yesterday.

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Speaker 5: He said, this was in regard to the vertical passing game.

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Speaker 5: He said that might have been a slight overreaction by

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Speaker 5: you had mentioned that earlier and yesterday you said, you know,

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Speaker 3: The second sack that that they gave up, as they

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Speaker 3: outside and and Marco Wilson didn't bite and dak is

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Speaker 3: either got to let that thing fly or he's you know,

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Speaker 3: he's gotta, he's gotta. You know, it's one of those

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Speaker 3: too far. But you know it, we had a couple

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Speaker 3: If he can climb the pocket, maybe he can make

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Speaker 3: the throw. But on that particular thing, you know, by

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Speaker 3: holding the ball, you're presenting yourself some problems there. And

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Speaker 3: maybe McCarthy after that play said, listen, I can't throw

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Speaker 3: then you give up a couple of sacks like that.

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Speaker 3: The other sack was just, you know, just a nice

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Speaker 3: that might have been the thing that kind of scared

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it definitely made him gun shy. And even though

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Speaker 7: it to the offensive line, but for the most part,

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Speaker 7: perfect chance for McCarthy to kind of settle down as

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Speaker 7: far as his apprehension with that offensive line and say, hey, okay,

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Speaker 7: on a seven step drop, a five step drop, and

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Speaker 7: then let's see what we can do with the vertical game.

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Speaker 7: But then there's another aspect of it that I kind

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Speaker 7: of wondered, and I know several people were wondering as well, well,

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Speaker 7: why was Chuma not And we talked about it.

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Speaker 2: We touched on it yesterday.

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Speaker 7: Why was Chuma not at left guard and Tyler Smith

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Speaker 7: to them being unsure about Tyron Smith going into that

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Speaker 2: That was the game plan.

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Speaker 7: That was the game plan, and McCarthy just was completely

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Speaker 7: a lot of things that made McCarthy apprehensive about that

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Speaker 7: offensive line. I mean, you're down three starters, that's seventeen

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Speaker 7: he would be nervous, and to Brian's point, especially when

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Speaker 7: you see sack number one and then sacked number two

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Speaker 7: a lot went into it. But again, accountability. He didn't

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Speaker 7: little bit overreacted, So kudos to him for doing it,

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Speaker 7: for saying that. But hopefully this is not a situation

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Speaker 7: lack of verticality in the Cowboys offense and or the

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Speaker 6: Hold.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to be a doom and gloom guy

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Speaker 3: on this, but with the way this offensive line is,

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Speaker 3: with the age and a couple of guys, I think

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Speaker 3: now and McCarthy the one thing that I that you

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Speaker 3: talked about taking accountability for something, and I don't know

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Speaker 3: if you're going to get to it, but the fact

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Speaker 3: that he feels like he's got to get his backup

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Speaker 3: a script at practice and they have eight plays committed

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Speaker 6: You know something.

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Speaker 5: I actually, Brian, you and I were talking before we

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Speaker 5: yards right This year they're averaging two point three of

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Speaker 5: Here's where it gets interesting, though. It's the volume, it's

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Speaker 5: eight last year. This year they're doing sixteen point seven

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Speaker 5: Here's the even bigger one behind the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 5: Last year, they averaged three point three passes per game

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Speaker 7: I think it goes I mean, like you said, a

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Speaker 6: Interesting you asked the right me throw it out there

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Let me and Brian have been all over this thing.

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Speaker 5: But when you start looking at the twenty plus yard

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Speaker 6: Not so good in the middle of the field.

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Speaker 5: They were only two of twelve in the middle of

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Speaker 6: Now here's what you if you want a.

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Speaker 3: Juxtae, that's where some of your turnovers well, exactly a

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Speaker 5: The deep middle at all, not at all. But even

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Speaker 2: But they're taking the shot.

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Speaker 5: They're taking the shots, but it hasn't been as successful

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Speaker 5: to get it. It's not as effective as it was

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Speaker 6: It's just not hasn't been as successful.

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Speaker 7: I mean that that's basically where I was leading to

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Speaker 7: it magnificently. Shout out to nixt Gen stats because they're

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Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean, so that's that's what Cowboys, fans

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Speaker 2: And he owned that. So that answers that question.

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Speaker 7: So when you start to hear things like that, hopefully

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Speaker 5: It is the second segment of the Break with Life

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Speaker 5: here's the question for you guys. Three areas we talked

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Speaker 5: about yesterday that were problems for the Cowboys on Sunday,

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask you, guys, which area was the area

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Speaker 5: that had the largest impact on the game? Run defense,

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Speaker 5: penalties or red zone offense.

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Speaker 7: You know what I'm gonna go with. Yesterday I said

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Speaker 7: my biggest takeaway with was the run defense. So today

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Speaker 7: and that I'm going to pivot to the penalties. I'm

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Speaker 7: going to go with penalties because I think both of

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Speaker 7: them are like one A, one B. And I talked

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Speaker 7: on the run defense yesterday, so let me talk about

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Speaker 7: the penalties today. Thirteen and forced penalties one hundred and

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Speaker 7: seven yards. But even bigger than that, you look at

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Speaker 7: the context of when these penalties were happening. I brought

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Speaker 7: up Doga's holy penalty that force third and thirteen and

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Speaker 7: Ferguson got ten of that back, but then they failed

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Speaker 7: to convert on fourth and three. You talk about Devin

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Speaker 7: Harper's penalty that negated a fifty one yard return from

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Speaker 7: Cavante Turpin on the punt that came after the defense

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Speaker 7: it's forced a fourth and thirteen. So it was also

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Speaker 7: the untimeliness of those and it just when you then

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Speaker 7: combine that with the run defense allowing these chunk plays,

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Speaker 7: the Cowboys just became more and more frustrated, more and

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Speaker 7: more demoralized. And then before you knew what, the train

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Speaker 7: was just off the rails in Arizona, and really there

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Speaker 7: was not much that the Cowboys could do. It felt

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Speaker 7: like they could climb back into the game. But then

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Speaker 7: guess what, every time they tried to climb back into

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Speaker 7: the game, there was another penalty. Then there was another penalty.

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Speaker 7: Good play, solid play, intermediate play, penalty bring them back

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Speaker 7: ten yards. So as demoralizing as the rushing attack became

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Speaker 7: for the Cardinals against the Dallas Cowboys, I think the

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Speaker 7: penalties are equally if not slightly more worrisome, but that

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Speaker 7: can be cleaned up. That can be cleaned up, and

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Speaker 7: so can the run defense. So I think, and I

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Speaker 7: know Ambar will agree with this, the red zone is

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Speaker 7: what is going to continue to be the concern until

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Speaker 7: it's no longer concern. I don't like what happened with

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Speaker 7: the run defense, but you showed me twy against some

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Speaker 7: really good backs that you can stop that. The penalties,

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Speaker 7: you only had six penalty five penalties in a week

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Speaker 7: on I think six penalties in week two. You kind

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Speaker 7: of got a cap on that red zone efficiency. Though,

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Speaker 7: where's it at? Where is it at?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: You get answer today.

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Speaker 2: I mean, hey, you know, man asked you one, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I gave them three.

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Speaker 8: So you do that sometimes too, Bryan, when I don't know,

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Speaker 8: but you do it sometimes, all right.

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Speaker 2: Self awareness is self aware.

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Speaker 4: But it's a tough it's a tough question to answer.

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Speaker 2: I gave them three.

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Speaker 4: Let me hear your answer.

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Speaker 3: Ryan, go ahead if you want to answer it.

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Speaker 4: Well, not jumped in there.

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Speaker 8: I was going to say to me, it's it's more

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Speaker 8: the red zone because you go back and it's kind

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Speaker 8: of similar to what Patrick said. You go back to

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Speaker 8: what you've seen in the first two weeks. Defensively, it's

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Speaker 8: not a reoccurring theme, like it hasn't become a theme

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Speaker 8: for the cob was although we've pointed out how the

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Speaker 8: run defense is their weakest point area of attack, but

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Speaker 8: it's not something that you've been extremely concerned about as

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Speaker 8: opposed to the red zone offense. That's something that we've

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Speaker 8: seen since week one. We saw it even now. Remind

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Speaker 8: me of my timeline was this last year when it

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Speaker 8: was happening.

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Speaker 3: Before the Hanking straight If you're talking about you're talking

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Speaker 3: about red zone A, you're talking about red zone. No,

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Speaker 3: that was it two years ago, two years ago, two

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Speaker 3: years ago.

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Speaker 8: Again, my timeline after COVID is gone. I always forget

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Speaker 8: what year we're at, but we've seen it before under

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Speaker 8: Mike McCarthy and them having struggles in the red zone,

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Speaker 8: then being effectively able to move the ball. But then

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Speaker 8: when they get down there, they get stuck. And you

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Speaker 8: can't always count on your defense to be the one

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Speaker 8: to score points for you. You got to be as

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Speaker 8: an offense. You got to be able to to score

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Speaker 8: more than just a field goal. So to me, that's

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Speaker 8: kind of the area where my focus would be one

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Speaker 8: hundred percent. But again that's a that's something tough to

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Speaker 8: answer because you absolutely need both. And if your defense

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Speaker 8: is playing like that again, then I think your whole

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Speaker 8: season completely changes to what we were expecting from what

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Speaker 8: was becoming a really, really great defense.

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Speaker 3: They cleaned up the run game in the second half.

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Speaker 3: All the rushing yards were in the first half of

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Speaker 3: the game. They were able to kind of sit on

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Speaker 3: the sidelines getting the halftime, and they kind of figured

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Speaker 3: some things out better fits, you know, maybe a little

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Speaker 3: bit you know, they were getting after they were winning

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Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage a little bit better. Guys were

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Speaker 3: in position. It's a red zone offense. Keep going down

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Speaker 3: there and having opportunities to kick a bunch of field

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Speaker 3: goals here. The last couple of weeks, you know, we've

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Speaker 3: talked about particular players missing blocks, bad play calling at times,

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Speaker 3: not putting your team in the best position to execute.

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Speaker 3: You're not doing a very good job or running routes

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Speaker 3: down there. Quarterbacks not able to throw the ball very

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Speaker 3: well down there. You better clean that thing up. You

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Speaker 3: know you can't. You're you know, as great as your

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Speaker 3: field goal kicker has been, you know, you're gonna beat

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Speaker 3: a lot of these situations where you need to You're

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Speaker 3: going to need to find a way to make this work.

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Speaker 3: You're going to need seven, not three. In some of

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Speaker 3: these games that hurt them the other day. They could

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Speaker 3: have won that game the other day if they just

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Speaker 3: convert in the red zone. They played good enough of David.

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Speaker 4: Watch film, we would you point out to.

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Speaker 8: Be like, they have a lot of change that they

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Speaker 8: need to make.

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Speaker 3: They really do miss somebody that has the ability to

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Speaker 3: find space down there right now. They're their guys are

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Speaker 3: not fine in the space. And that's where we go

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Speaker 3: back to Dalton Schultz and I'm not you know, when

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Speaker 3: you throw Zeke, Zeke is the one guy that is

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Speaker 3: always going to fall forward for a yard, you know,

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Speaker 3: but you had a touchdown last week or two weeks

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Speaker 3: against the Jets six yard run. Pollard gets it in

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Speaker 3: holding on the back side. Can't have that, can't have that,

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Speaker 3: can't miss blocks, can't throw an interception down there, you know,

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Speaker 3: and the middle of the field like that, can't miss

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Speaker 3: on a fade down there, can't call a play where

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Speaker 3: you don't block two guys. There's a lot of things

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Speaker 3: going on with this, you know, you correct that you've

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Speaker 3: got the type of offense to and you know, with McCarthy,

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Speaker 3: the way they're driving the ball. I appreciate that, I

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Speaker 3: really do. He's trying to help his defense, he's trying

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Speaker 3: to keep his quarterback from turning over the ball. I

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Speaker 3: appreciate what he's trying to do there. But you better

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Speaker 3: find a way to kind of clean up all the things.

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Speaker 3: It's just not one thing. There's like two three things

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Speaker 3: a game that keeps them from scoring points that they need.

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Speaker 5: Do you think that in any way the big sixty

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Speaker 5: nine yard are that to me was the death nail

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Speaker 5: for the Cowboys?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Do you think that that.

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Speaker 5: Was in any way a result of some of the

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Speaker 5: changes they made, or some of the attention that they

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Speaker 5: were paying to the run to stopping the run game

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Speaker 5: that maybe forced them into some mistakes in the passing game.

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Speaker 3: I think that was one of those things. And I

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Speaker 3: don't know. You know they talked about dan Quinn talked

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Speaker 3: about yesterday me if I'm wrong, because you were there.

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Speaker 3: Dan Quinn talked about how well Hooker played. So I'm thinking, okay,

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Speaker 3: in that big sixty nine yard old Hooker, Hooker or

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Speaker 3: Lewis Lewis is going to pass. Everybody else looks like

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Speaker 3: they're playing man coverage, and Hooker's focused on the outside,

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Speaker 3: like they're going to Okay, we're not gonna let one

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Speaker 3: of these outside receivers be so maybe they're focused on that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Lewis, he passes this guy, he drops like he's playing

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Speaker 3: zone and now the guy's Wilson's passed him and now

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Speaker 3: he's into the secondary. Somebody right there with everybody else

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Speaker 3: playing man, something happened between Hooker and Lewis right there

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Speaker 3: that caused that that was a flat bust and they

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Speaker 3: set it up though Arizona set it up because they

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Speaker 3: went max protection. They kept everybody in. They're like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna we're gonna line to sing up and maybe

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Speaker 3: they'll lose our guy across the field and we're going

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Speaker 3: to take a deep shot here, and they hit it.

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Speaker 3: They hit it, and they I think a lot of

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Speaker 3: it had to do with and I don't know if

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Speaker 3: it's it's or if it's hook her, but somebody lost

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Speaker 3: the responsibility of those two guys in the way that

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Speaker 3: thing was playing, especially with everybody playing man elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: I was with you.

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Speaker 5: I was confused because I saw everybody else playing man,

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Speaker 5: and I was like, why is he passing him off

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Speaker 5: if everybody else is playing Man? And again, there can

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Speaker 5: be some coverages that are mixed coverages.

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Speaker 3: Like there's some mixed coverages.

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Speaker 6: That's yeah, that definitely confused me a little bit as well.

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Speaker 2: Bring me in? Beamer?

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Speaker 6: Yes, science all right.

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Speaker 2: So great that we're talking about verticality.

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Speaker 3: Which I had one of those I love you Beamer jealous.

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Speaker 7: Great that we're talking about verticality. After seeing what happened

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Speaker 7: against the card News and just the totality of the

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Speaker 7: first three weeks, it prompted me to think about explosiveness,

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Speaker 7: and then, of course, how explosive are the Cowboys as

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Speaker 7: compared to recent cowboys?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 7: So I used a couple of qualifiers. One, I took

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Speaker 7: the thirty most explosive plays through the first three weeks

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Speaker 7: of twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one. I omitted twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty because it was just a weird year, pandemic.

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Speaker 2: CBA, it's weird.

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Speaker 7: It was McCarthy's first year from Grace there, So twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 7: twenty twenty one, those are these seasons. I'm using thirty

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Speaker 7: most explosive plays through the first three weeks as compared

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Speaker 7: to the thirty most explosive plays of this particular season.

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Speaker 7: I also wanted to do McCarthy versus McCarthy, but also

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Speaker 7: McCarthy versus Garrett and Kellen.

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Speaker 2: More So, that's a qualifier as well.

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Speaker 7: And also the good thing about twenty nineteen and twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty one when you compare it to twenty twenty three

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Speaker 7: is there's mostly similar personnel, right, so you have at

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Speaker 7: least some form of the triplets. I know it was

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Speaker 7: Randall Cobb in twenty nineteen City Lamb and twenty one,

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Speaker 7: but you at least have a similar personnel.

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Speaker 2: So here we go.

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Speaker 7: The two numbers forty and five ladies and gentlemen forty

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Speaker 7: and five. Forty is very bad. In twenty nineteen, the

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Speaker 7: Cowboys were nearly forty percent more explosive than they are

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Speaker 7: through the first three weeks in twenty twenty three. That's

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Speaker 7: kind of a disturbance trend that shows that between those

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Speaker 7: two seasons cowboys are in fact less explosive on big plays.

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Speaker 7: Twenty twenty one, they're only five percent more explosive than

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Speaker 7: they are in twenty twenty three through the first three weeks.

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Speaker 7: With DAK and this personnel set, that's actually not that

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Speaker 7: bad because that goes back to what you were saying

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Speaker 7: about nixt gen perception versus what the numbers bear out.

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Speaker 7: But then that caused me to dig a little bit

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Speaker 7: deeper into twenty twenty one to say, okay, well, considering

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Speaker 7: it's the same coaching staff in twenty one as twenty

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Speaker 7: three with Mike McCarthy, how Mike McCarthy fair after that

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Speaker 7: first three weeks of trying to figure out some things

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Speaker 7: on the offense, well, twenty five percent jump in explosive

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Speaker 7: explosiveness from week one through week three versus week four

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Speaker 7: through week seven, a twenty five percent jump in explosiveness.

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Speaker 7: They went on a four game win streak because they

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Speaker 7: became the most explosive team in the NFL weeks four

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Speaker 7: through week seven. A couple of years ago after having

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Speaker 7: a similar start in lack of explosive explosiveness over the

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Speaker 7: first three weeks, So forty and five of the numbers

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Speaker 7: forty as compared to twenty nineteen, they're just not as

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Speaker 7: explosive as they were in twenty nineteen through the first

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Speaker 7: three weeks, but they're not far off where they were

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Speaker 7: in twenty nineteen. On twenty twenty one, I'm sorry. And

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Speaker 7: if that trend continues in Mike McCarthy, who didn't suffer

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Speaker 7: a two game losing streak last season, Also, if he

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Speaker 7: bounces back and this offense can get going like I

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Speaker 7: think they might. We might be in for a show

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Speaker 7: over these next several weeks.

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Speaker 6: That'll be interesting.

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Speaker 5: I do wonder how much games, particular games, factor into

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Speaker 5: something like that. And what I mean by that is,

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Speaker 5: let's say, for example, we know this year week one,

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Speaker 5: the passing game was hampered by the conditions. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 5: I wonder how much when you start looking at that

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Speaker 5: and you're saying.

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Speaker 3: Maybe the scoreboards two.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, right, you start looking at three games, are you

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Speaker 5: are you factoring in those kinds of things that may

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Speaker 5: even make this this year seem a lot less explosive

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Speaker 5: because of the fact that there was one game in

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Speaker 5: those three that just didn't have the same There wasn't

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Speaker 5: a potential to be as explosive.

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Speaker 7: You try to make it as apples to apples as possible,

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Speaker 7: and obviously it's not always going to be. I looked

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Speaker 7: at grass versus grass, turf versus turf, out outdoors versus

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Speaker 7: a dome, and then you look at twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 7: which would be the more apples to apples. They were

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Speaker 7: on the road at Tampa Bay, they were on the

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Speaker 7: road in New York, right, they were on the road

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Speaker 7: in Los Angeles, but see, so those competitors Buccaneers, Chargers,

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Speaker 7: and then the Eagles in week three. You finish week

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Speaker 7: three and you're sitting at a two and one record.

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Speaker 7: You just finished week three and you're sitting at a

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Speaker 7: two and one record, and your rate of explosiveness is

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Speaker 7: almost equal to what it was then. So all things considered,

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Speaker 7: as much as you can make it apples to apples,

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Speaker 7: there's optimism for the Cowboys, particularly as early as this week,

782
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Speaker 7: coming against the Patriots. You asked, well, yesterday, I believe

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Speaker 7: how long will it take for us to know what

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Speaker 7: this Cowboys offense looks like.

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Speaker 2: I know you're asking about the rushing attack.

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Speaker 7: And everything, and we talked about maybe by week five,

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Speaker 7: by the time you get to San Francisco, you'll know

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Speaker 7: what you're dealing with. These numbers kind of bear that out.

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Speaker 7: It's like you give them the first three to four

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Speaker 7: weeks to kind of figure things out, particularly with Mike McCarthy,

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Speaker 7: Dak Prescott and having the weaponry now that's similar to

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Speaker 7: what they had in twenty twenty one, and kind of

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Speaker 7: most signs point to them snapping out of it.

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Speaker 2: Probably as early as this week.

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Speaker 5: You guys have been NFL observers for years. I never

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Speaker 5: recall I don't recall ever there ever being a time

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Speaker 5: when Mike McCarthy was the head coach of the Green

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Speaker 5: Bay Packers a criticism that that offense wasn't explosed. No,

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Speaker 5: And that's why I kind of wonder where the thought

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Speaker 5: comes that his offense, just as an offense as a scheme,

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Speaker 5: is not exploded, like they don't build in opportunities for

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Speaker 5: explosive plays. Because I don't think that that was the

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Speaker 5: offense in Green Bay. And maybe you could make the

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Speaker 5: argument it was a different quarterback. Obviously there was a

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Speaker 5: very different quarterback. We're talking about a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 5: But I just I don't know that I buy into

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Speaker 5: the fact that the offense itself doesn't lend itself to

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Speaker 5: big those kinds of explosive plays as much as I

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Speaker 5: said with those other numbers before that. Maybe it's just

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Speaker 5: that the base of the offense is we're dinking and

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Speaker 5: dunking you. But there's gonna be some shots that are

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Speaker 5: gonna be taken. But we're going to dink and dunkey

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Speaker 5: down the field.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, those little Green Bay teams. I think about

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Speaker 3: the Donald Drivers and the Adams and Jordy Nelson. It

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Speaker 3: always seemed like those dudes were on the move, catching

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Speaker 3: passes and then finishing, you know, and they get down

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Speaker 3: in the red zone and they really weren't having red

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Speaker 3: zone problems. They'd hand into a back or they throw

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Speaker 3: that red zone screen saw the other which I thought

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Speaker 3: was a great call in that football game. But to me,

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Speaker 3: with the Packers, I just always felt like that quarterback

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Speaker 3: was going to be just so accurate and if there

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Speaker 3: was a little you know if and the way that

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Speaker 3: the routes were run and the separation that they were

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Speaker 3: able to find. You know, there were things that we

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Speaker 3: saw in this team and and things that were different

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Speaker 3: with the bunch formations, the scattering, the picks and stuff.

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Speaker 3: You know. The even hell, they tried to run a

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Speaker 3: pick on the damn goal line to get Cooks across.

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Speaker 3: It just didn't work to get him open. But you know,

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Speaker 3: that seemed like to what was always with Mike McCarthy's

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Speaker 3: offense when you're watching those old Green Bay days, that

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Speaker 3: it was that it's just you know, Rogers back ball, downfield,

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Speaker 3: Rogers back ball, you know, ball underneath. Now they're going

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Speaker 3: to run after catch and all that I'm I was

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Speaker 3: hopeful of some of that. I think there's still some

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Speaker 3: of that, the ability to do that. You know, this

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Speaker 3: this season was going to be about Dhak's ability to

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Speaker 3: be accurate, to throw the receivers on the move. That's

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Speaker 3: what the West Coast offense is. It's just it's about

842
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Speaker 3: hitting guys. It's the timing, but it's about hitting guys

843
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Speaker 3: on the move and letting those guys take well. Much

844
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Speaker 3: like the past that Gallup caught, catches a slant and

845
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Speaker 3: he takes in another fifteen yards. You know, that's where

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Speaker 3: that's where this offense is. That's what they'd like to

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Speaker 3: do out here within. You know, hopefully you'll see more

848
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Speaker 3: of that going forward. But it seemed like just those

849
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Speaker 3: Green Bay games, they were so exploded, just down, down

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Speaker 3: after down. That quarterback was just punishing you, and those

851
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Speaker 3: receivers were punishing you with the way that they caught

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Speaker 3: the ball and the way they were able to finish

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Speaker 3: on those plays.

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Speaker 8: I think that the question you post is kind of

855
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Speaker 8: a trap because however you put it, everything you say

856
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Speaker 8: it kind of leads. It's going to lead you back

857
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Speaker 8: to the quarterback and having that quarterback conversation and criticism

858
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Speaker 8: and you know, fans criticizing and questioning, is Dak the

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00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 8: right guy? Which those questions are starting to pop back up, and.

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Speaker 3: They always will, Yeah, always are, They always are.

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Speaker 9: But I.

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Speaker 4: Feel like the first two weeks it's not what you see.

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Speaker 8: Most of the things you saw was like defense, defense,

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Speaker 8: you know, everybody cheering for the defense. But now after

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Speaker 8: week three we hear those things again. Do you have

866
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Speaker 8: the right type of quarterback leading the team? And people

867
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Speaker 8: posing that question and this is the guy you got.

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Speaker 8: I personally, there are things that I would like to

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Speaker 8: see more of Dak doing. One is incorporating his ability

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Speaker 8: to run his feet, move, get on the move, because

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Speaker 8: he has the body, the physique, and the condition to

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Speaker 8: be able to do that. And two, can he be

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Speaker 8: the guy that in critical situations towards the end of

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Speaker 8: the game be able to finish. Can he be the

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Speaker 8: guy that can finish? And we've seen him comebacks and

876
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Speaker 8: make comebacks really really good, and he turns it on

877
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 8: in the second half of the game, fourth quarter when

878
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 8: it's tied and they're fighting back, but it tends to

879
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 8: not be enough because it's a little too late for

880
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 8: the game and how it ends. But when you start,

881
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 8: there's no comparison to be made with a guy like

882
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 8: Dak and Aaron Rodgers.

883
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you make some excellent points. And the

884
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 3: thing that that I think the criticism of Dak is

885
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 3: if you're down three linemen and you're you know, you're

886
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 3: does he have the ability to be the difference maker

887
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 3: in a game? Does he have that ability to carry

888
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 3: an offense when there's they're not at their absolute best?

889
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 3: You know, the defense For the last couple of weeks,

890
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 3: Dak hasn't had to play great. I mean, he's played fine,

891
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 3: he has absolutely played fine, But you know, now you're

892
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 3: in a situation and it goes to the thing that

893
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 3: does Dak have to absolutely have and he hasn't had

894
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 3: the same five offensive linemen you know who They've talked

895
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 3: about what two thousand snaps or something like that. We

896
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 3: keep yeah, we keep, yeah, we keep talking about this.

897
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 3: But does Dak Prescott have to have a upper echelon

898
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 3: offensive line in order to have success? That's the questions

899
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 3: that people ask. Can he have the ability? Is he

900
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 3: talented enough to carry this team when things aren't absolutely perfect?

901
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 6: This is where I look at it and I'm like,

902
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:16,239
Speaker 6: I don't.

903
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 5: I think the conversation sometimes with Dak is a conversation

904
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Speaker 5: that you can have about most quarterbacks in the league.

905
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:24,439
Speaker 6: And quite frankly, let's look at the.

906
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 5: Top three teams in the NFC, right, you got Brock

907
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 5: Purdy over in San Francisco, You've got Jalen Hurts out

908
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 5: in Philly, and you got Dak Prescott here.

909
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 3: I think, quite.

910
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 5: Frankly, all three of them have had the same first

911
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 5: three weeks of the season. The games that they have

912
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 5: won have been because they've played excellent defense and they've

913
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 5: run the ball really well. I don't think either one

914
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 5: of those three quarterbacks have had played their best football

915
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 5: in these first three weeks of the season. But the

916
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 5: conversation with Dak always turns to, well, Dak is the problem,

917
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 5: and I think I think a lot of things going

918
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 5: on with this. I think the offensive line this last

919
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 5: game was compromised. I think you're talking about a team

920
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,320
Speaker 5: that really is a team that's driven by its defense.

921
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 5: This year, the defense is going to be the strongest

922
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 5: part of this team. So we'll get comfortable with that.

923
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 5: That's okay. It doesn't mean Dak's any lesser. It just

924
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 5: means the defense is where your strength is. So I

925
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 5: just I think the conversation is just a little bit.

926
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 5: I think it's a little bit unfair because I think

927
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, Dak is doing with

928
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 5: a lot of quarter like offenses are not where defenses

929
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 5: are at this point in the season. What you expect

930
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 5: is that by the time you get to week five,

931
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 5: week six, the offenses are going to start to come around,

932
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 5: and Dak should have this offense.

933
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 3: Fall unless you're Miami right now, right Miami's fear Okay,

934
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,240
Speaker 3: but let me ask you this though, in the expectations,

935
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott with a handicapped roster should have beaten the

936
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,399
Speaker 3: Arizona Cardinals, right, I'm not asking to beat the San

937
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,840
Speaker 3: Francisco forty nine ers of the Miami Dolphins, or the

938
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills or the Philadelphia Eagles for that regard. I mean,

939
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 3: I'm just saying though, that's why people question because it's okay,

940
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 3: I get it, but you you know, are you the

941
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:57,839
Speaker 3: difference maker when your team's down but you're playing in

942
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,919
Speaker 3: fear competition? That's that That's where I think people are

943
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 3: looking at and saying, well, he's you know, gosh, he's

944
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 3: got to beat these guys, right, I'm not. I don't

945
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 3: think people are asking him to win the game by

946
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 3: himself against San Francisco or or any other the top

947
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 3: teams in the league.

948
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Speaker 7: I think we need to make sure that everyone's applying

949
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 7: blame where it needs to be applied.

950
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 3: It's not blame, it's questions. It's questions about it's questions

951
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 3: about where your team is and where your team is

952
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 3: trying to go. But it may not be blamed for

953
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 3: you as much as it's wow, yeah, Kickary.

954
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 7: It may not be blamed for you as much as

955
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 7: it's blamed from Cowboys fans. So it's addressing the point

956
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 7: about Cowboys fans are going to circle back to blaming

957
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott. And for my money, number one, that throw

958
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 7: in coverage, that was the interception. You can't make that throw.

959
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 7: You just don't make that throw on accountable today. It's

960
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 7: also true, as McCarthy said yesterday, he himself was he

961
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 7: overreacted to the fact that he was missing sury offensive

962
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 7: lineman and then so he took some verticality out of

963
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 7: the playbook against the Cardinals. And if you are the

964
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,800
Speaker 7: play call, you're taking the vertical game out of the playbook.

965
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 7: Then you're not asking your quarterback Dak to throw the

966
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 7: ball deeply as often as he probably would have. So

967
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 7: there's the accountability for Mike McCarthy as well. So those

968
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,919
Speaker 7: two individuals have to share that accountability and they do.

969
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 7: But the question for me, if the question is can

970
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott carry the team? Well, this is a guy

971
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 7: with nineteen game winning drives in his career. He had

972
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 7: two just last season. One was a ninety eight yard

973
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:29,840
Speaker 7: drive against the Texans. I don't know the Texans, but

974
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:31,280
Speaker 7: that was a dog fight with the Texans.

975
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 2: But it's hard to win.

976
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 7: But why did that ninety eight drive happen? That ninety

977
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 7: eight yard drive happened because he got better protection. Jason

978
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 7: Peters came into the game after the Terrence Steel injury.

979
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 7: Peters came in and helped save the day at that edge.

980
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 7: And with that added time, what did Dak Prescott do?

981
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 7: He marched down the field ninety eight yards and won

982
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 7: the game. So, while there is accountability to be had

983
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 7: when you're talking about Dak Prescott and whatever interception or

984
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,360
Speaker 7: interceptions are accountable to him, put him right in his

985
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 7: lap and he will only put it in this lap

986
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 7: before the added accountability of maybe you take verticality out

987
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 7: of it, Well, that's Mike McCarthy, that's on your play

988
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 7: call it the protection issues.

989
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 2: Three starters are out.

990
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 7: Three starters, So no matter what how you slice that,

991
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,800
Speaker 7: three starters are out, and then your backups are young

992
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 7: guys going against a veteran front. Even without Carlos Watkins

993
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 7: going against a veteran front. Brian did a magnificent job

994
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 7: of breaking down that Cardinals front last week. So yeah,

995
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 7: you're gonna have apprehension and they're going to have good moments,

996
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 7: but they're going to have some bad moments, and then

997
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 7: how does that play into.

998
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 2: Whatever the play call might be at any given point time.

999
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 7: That's the only problem I have with sweeping judgments against anyone,

1000
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 7: not just Dak, not just McCarthy, not Sidney's and Lamb

1001
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 7: or Michael Gallup. When people are like, oh my, Michael Gallup,

1002
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 7: throw them away, trade them, Stop making sweeping judgments and

1003
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 7: actually do the work. Like Brian said, dive into the film,

1004
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 7: dive into the numbers, look for the tricks, try to.

1005
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 8: Figure out what the that stems from a little bit,

1006
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 8: and I totally agree with you, and that is split

1007
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 8: into everybody, because there are so many factors happening all

1008
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:06,240
Speaker 8: at once that you can't just put blame on one individuals.

1009
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 8: But I think that where that conversation from fans and

1010
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 8: people that watch stems from is looking at year after year,

1011
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 8: the things that you've changed around the offense, the team,

1012
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 8: the talent, the organization, coaches. The one remaining factor that

1013
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 8: has remained constant is the quarterback. So I think that's

1014
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 8: where the crisis and from fans comes from.

1015
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,280
Speaker 4: It's like, and I absolutely agree.

1016
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 8: I don't think it's fair sometimes and Dak will stand

1017
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,359
Speaker 8: up in there and call it how it is, and

1018
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 8: I love that about him. I don't think it's fair.

1019
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 8: I think he is a very talented quarterback. But I

1020
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 8: think that's where, after you see so many changes around

1021
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:50,839
Speaker 8: him and the team investing in him and trying to

1022
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:54,359
Speaker 8: find him and give him the right weapons to make

1023
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 8: his type of game work, I think that's where the

1024
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 8: conversation leads back to is the right quarterback to lead

1025
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:02,720
Speaker 8: this team to victory?

1026
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 2: Well?

1027
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 5: But I think that's that's also where you get into

1028
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 5: this is not a situation, as Parcels used to say,

1029
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,879
Speaker 5: where they're just growing the growing quarterbacks on trees out

1030
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 5: there picking new one.

1031
00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 2: Right.

1032
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 5: It's one of those things where I think, is Dak

1033
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 5: Prescott you know Aaron Rodgers.

1034
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 6: No, I don't think he's Aaron Rodgers.

1035
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 5: But I also think Dak Prescott is good enough to

1036
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 5: win a championship.

1037
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 6: I really believe that. Now, does that mean you got

1038
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 6: to have the right piece around him? Yes, I think so.

1039
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 5: And going back to your press your question right, and

1040
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 5: going back to your question Brian when you talk about, like,

1041
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 5: you know what, should he have been able to beat

1042
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 5: a Carazona and Arizona team, Yes, with his offensive line compromise.

1043
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 6: He should have been able to.

1044
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 5: But he should have been able to depending on the

1045
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 5: fact that his defense would have played the kind of

1046
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 5: game that they should have played, not failed him in

1047
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:45,959
Speaker 5: the way that they did.

1048
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 2: His defense was.

1049
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 5: A big part of the reason why they lost that

1050
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 5: game as well. And if I go back to the

1051
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 5: original point I was making about Brock Purty and about

1052
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 5: Jalen Hurts, they have not had a game this season

1053
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 5: where their defenses didn't show up. Those two defenses have

1054
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 5: played outstanding football all three weeks season, and they've had

1055
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,760
Speaker 5: some games where they haven't been as close. But because

1056
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 5: of the fact their defenses have played consistently over three

1057
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 5: weeks is the reason why they're three and oh. So

1058
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 5: I don't think there's any difference necessarily in Dak and

1059
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:13,839
Speaker 5: those other two quarterbacks other than the fact that it's

1060
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 5: gonna come down in the NFC. It's gonna come down

1061
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 5: to which defense can consistently play the best, because I

1062
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 5: don't think any of those quarterbacks are necessarily what we've

1063
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 5: seen so far that they're transcending quarterbacks. They're gonna need

1064
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 5: things around them, They're gonna make some plays here and there,

1065
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 5: but ultimately the defenses are the strongest parts of all

1066
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 5: three of those teams.

1067
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Speaker 6: And I just think the Cowboys defense.

1068
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:33,520
Speaker 5: Didn't play a great game against Arizona, and that was

1069
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 5: the main reason, in my opinion, why they didn't win.

1070
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Speaker 7: Sunday was a bad sandwich of you give up over

1071
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 7: one hundred and forty yards on the ground in the

1072
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Speaker 7: first half in the same game that the head coach

1073
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 7: admitted lead scale back the verticality and you're behind on

1074
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 7: the score boards. So you need those big plays to

1075
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 7: try to make up the ground, especially when your defense

1076
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 7: is allowing the opposing offense to have their way on

1077
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,240
Speaker 7: the ground. Those two things combined and you start spiraling,

1078
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 7: and that's what happened on Sunday.

1079
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Speaker 5: All right, I appreciate you guys, John Us will be

1080
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Speaker 5: back on tomorrow. Start getting into the next opponent. We

1081
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 5: gotta Bill now, yeah, we gotta be Bill Belichick. No right,

1082
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 5: So then for Patrick Walker, Brian brought us Amberg City.

1083
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