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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Ready for a break? 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 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, A bar Garcia, and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, September twenty four, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number forty six. Welcome to a new edition of

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Speaker 1: The Break, live from s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star.

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Speaker 1: Great show we got lined up for you guys today.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna dissect that game from yesterday. It is gonna

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Speaker 1: be great. It's always great when we have to. It

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Speaker 1: is a new edition because I think na, yeah, so

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Speaker 1: it's it is going to be a good show. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you guys what went wrong for the Cowboys yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Dave will have one or two things that went right.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll see. We could phil, we could

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Speaker 1: be done in five five minutes if we just wanted

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Speaker 1: to do what went right. We have top ten players

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Speaker 1: from the game going up on the website later. Well,

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Speaker 1: we're really going to do that today. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: are you really going to do that today? One? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we did, and I thought, you know, if you could

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Speaker 1: do it. Hey, sorry sorry it's not my original joke,

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Speaker 1: but well something else, if nothing else, fans would get

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Speaker 1: They probably need it right now. It was a rough

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Speaker 1: one for the Cowboys. I mean, they lose this game

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Speaker 1: happened with this offense? Um, what did you guys think?

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Speaker 1: Just overall? I want to get and I'd like to

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Speaker 1: start with you, Nick. Big picture to take well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the guy you've been talking about for six months, that

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Speaker 1: changer and he you know he was. That's why you

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Speaker 1: wanted to get him, not only to have him on

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Speaker 1: he beat you in more ways than one yesterday. And

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Speaker 1: so you can talk about a lot of other things offense.

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Speaker 1: I'll let him go that, but I'm just saying, Earl Thomas,

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Speaker 1: He's exactly the type of player that this defense has

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Speaker 1: But I'm saying they didn't have great quarterbacks. They had

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Speaker 1: picture this scenario. Earl Thomas is playing for your defense, right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: which I don't know if that happens. How does that happen? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and still look that bad, Like, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: Back to the Brink Welcome back. It is the second

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Speaker 1: segment of the show. We're talking about the Cowboy we're talking.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the Cowboys lost thirteen at Seattle. This

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Speaker 1: him like he had time if he played that different.

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Speaker 1: But a lot of those those sacks are called coverage sacks,

428
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Speaker 1: so he can say he can call it self pressure

429
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Speaker 1: all you want to, but it's also those receivers aren't

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Speaker 1: getting open. Are you sure about that? Though? Yeah, I'm

431
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,040
Speaker 1: pretty sure they're not. I mean, who's open, Who's sitting

432
00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:42,880
Speaker 1: there going I'm wide open? I mean how many times?

433
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Speaker 1: And I have to go back and I have to

434
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Speaker 1: go back and watch it. I just know that in

435
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Speaker 1: the last two weeks, I've seen receivers open on several

436
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Speaker 1: occasions and the quarterback didn't get him the ball. I

437
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,040
Speaker 1: haven't seen this is all twenty two for this game.

438
00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,280
Speaker 1: Yet to be able to say that you're gonna find that,

439
00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna find some receivers that are open at times.

440
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,960
Speaker 1: You can find that all over the place. But you

441
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 1: know that that this offense isn't scheming these guys to

442
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,119
Speaker 1: run free and all that. I mean, you saw a

443
00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,960
Speaker 1: difference between what Seattle does and how they get their guys,

444
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,120
Speaker 1: and they get guys you've never even heard of wide open,

445
00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,440
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are struggling to get anybody open. I mean,

446
00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,240
Speaker 1: it's it's ridiculous, full disclosed. Again. Like I I feel

447
00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 1: a little bit uncomfortable because what we got. I got

448
00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,760
Speaker 1: in bed at two last night, I got up, I

449
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,120
Speaker 1: had to go to the doctor. I had to get

450
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,240
Speaker 1: my dog from the vet. I haven't rewatched this game,

451
00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:29,119
Speaker 1: but I bet when I do, I will see a

452
00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,760
Speaker 1: combination of all of the above. I think Dak, for

453
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Speaker 1: whatever reason, especially two weeks on the road now, in

454
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:39,359
Speaker 1: these hostile environments against good defenses, he I think he's

455
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 1: a little gun shy. I think he's hesitant. I think

456
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 1: the receivers probably don't do a great job of getting open.

457
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,280
Speaker 1: I think he misdiagnoses his pressure sometimes, and then when

458
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: the defense builds up a lead and can tee off,

459
00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 1: and then I think the offensive line gets beat as well.

460
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,120
Speaker 1: I think it all ties together to be a disaster.

461
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Speaker 1: I don't think you can scapegoat any one person, but

462
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,159
Speaker 1: the receivers, the quarterback, and the offensive line between the

463
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,439
Speaker 1: three of them, I think they're all playing pretty poorly

464
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Speaker 1: right now. So what do you think it says about

465
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Speaker 1: this offense as Zeke ran so well, which is what

466
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Speaker 1: they want to do. They did what they want to

467
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Speaker 1: do that we wanted to do on the ground yesterday

468
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Speaker 1: and they still couldn't get the offense to consistently run it.

469
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it goes to what one of

470
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Speaker 1: the first things that Dave said on the show was

471
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Speaker 1: that just how bad the passing game is, because it's

472
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Speaker 1: kind of like a bend but don't break. I mean,

473
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Speaker 1: we're gonna keep bending here and we're gonna give up

474
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Speaker 1: some some runs to a really good running back, but

475
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Speaker 1: when it gets down to it, we're gonna eventually kind

476
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Speaker 1: of shut him down and we're gonna force, you know,

477
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Speaker 1: the receivers to make plays and Dad to get him

478
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Speaker 1: the ball, and over a long period of time in

479
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,200
Speaker 1: this drive, you're not going to be able to do it.

480
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Speaker 1: And that's kind of what happens. They just don't have

481
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Speaker 1: guys that just win one on one that passed that

482
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson threw to Brandon Marshall on the sideline. I mean,

483
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 1: Cheeto can't cover the guy better than that. It was

484
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Speaker 1: the most unbelievable throw dak Is ever made that throw.

485
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 1: He doesn't make that throw and you need that every

486
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Speaker 1: once in a while, you need that, and he just

487
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 1: I don't win the last time we've said that was

488
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Speaker 1: an amazing throw by Dak. I think that's part of

489
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Speaker 1: the issue though here too, though, the way the Cowboys

490
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Speaker 1: have gone about the strategy of going with the kind

491
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Speaker 1: of the receivers that are all here versus having an

492
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Speaker 1: amazing receiver, You're gonna have to have a quarterback that

493
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Speaker 1: can make that throw if that's going to be successful,

494
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 1: because they're more often than not, those guys are not

495
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Speaker 1: necessarily going to be in situations where they're just running free.

496
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Speaker 1: They're gonna be in situations where they got somebody close

497
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Speaker 1: to him. But if you put the ball on a spot,

498
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 1: they can probably make a play, and Dak hasn't shown

499
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Speaker 1: consistently he can put the ball on a spot it

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Speaker 1: goes back. I mean, there's amounting amount of evidence that says,

501
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Speaker 1: when everything is great, Dak Prescott can be a pretty

502
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 1: damn good quarterback. If anything is off, he's not. And

503
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Speaker 1: like I said, I mean that's not three games, that's

504
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 1: about ten games, right, And again, you know you don't

505
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 1: see you don't see those anticipation throws. You don't see

506
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: a throw that's like, well, what else can the cornerback do?

507
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: Like you never see that. Um, everything has to be great.

508
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: The receiver has to be blatantly open or you know

509
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 1: something like that. Um, what he averaged four point nine

510
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: yards per attempt? And with the rules the way they

511
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Speaker 1: are in the NFL, like the NFL is begging the

512
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: NFL is begging teams to have dynamic passing offenses. That's

513
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Speaker 1: what they want to the first two weeks of the season,

514
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Speaker 1: they had more more scoring in the NFL before. It

515
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Speaker 1: is it's the basis of this league right now, and

516
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:39,919
Speaker 1: all the rules are set up the way. If you

517
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Speaker 1: can't do better than I mean, like six, six point

518
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Speaker 1: nine is could be better, you know, like you're aiming

519
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Speaker 1: for eight to eleven, Like eleven is like Pat mahomes territory.

520
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Speaker 1: But either I mean four point nine, yeah, I know,

521
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Speaker 1: first round pick I mean, but he was supposed to

522
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Speaker 1: be good, and that's I mean. But again, hey, I'm

523
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Speaker 1: saying he's got He threw for four touchdowns in the

524
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Speaker 1: first half of the game, and the Cowboys have four

525
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Speaker 1: touchdowns this whole season. Yep. I mean, I'm not making

526
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Speaker 1: excuses for the guy. I love Dak. I still do

527
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Speaker 1: and too, I still despite all the evidence of the contrary,

528
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Speaker 1: I still think he can be a good quarterback. Again,

529
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Speaker 1: he can be a good quarterback when everything's rolling the

530
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Speaker 1: right way for him. I don't know. I mean Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 1: The Seahawks ran for two point nine yards per carry,

532
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Speaker 1: like Russell Wilson engineered most of that himself. Obviously, the

533
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Speaker 1: Seahawks had a game plan to lean on the run,

534
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: but Russell Wilson was making plays out of thin air

535
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Speaker 1: and has done that for a long time. I don't

536
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Speaker 1: know if Dak is that guy. I'm sorry, but I

537
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: mean again, I like Dak too, But I don't think

538
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 1: when you say, when you say he's a quarterback, when

539
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: things are going well, he can be really good. But

540
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: if they're not going well, then it's really bad, Like

541
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 1: that's not a good quarterback. Then if that's really the case,

542
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 1: then that is not a good NFL quarterback. Because quarterback,

543
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,719
Speaker 1: your job is to make it right. Your job when

544
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 1: it's third and eleven because this guy missed the block,

545
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: this guy had a penalty, and now you're behind the chains.

546
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: It's your job to bring it back. It's not really

547
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: the other way around. I honestly, I think we've seen

548
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 1: two decks. I mean, I think earlier in his career,

549
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Speaker 1: I think there were some games where things weren't necessarily

550
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,479
Speaker 1: going well and he played well despite that. So I

551
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 1: think it's we've seen and really you can see the

552
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,400
Speaker 1: dividing line after that Atlanta game. It's been a whole

553
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,239
Speaker 1: different player, it really has. So. But there's two RG

554
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Speaker 1: three's I don't yeah true, there's one that there's a

555
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: ball cap and one hat was Rookie of the Year.

556
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: I mean, if you watch Houston, same things happening with

557
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Speaker 1: Shaun Watson. Last year he was lighting the league on fire,

558
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: and this year he has been anything but Hey, defensive

559
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: coordinator X. Your job this whole summer is to figure

560
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: out these teen quarterbacks that you have to face, and

561
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 1: especially these five or six that you've never faced. Figure

562
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: them out. It happened all other guys. And it happened

563
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Speaker 1: again yesterday. I don't know if anybody else noticed, but

564
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: Barkivous Mingo shouts out, Lsu sacked the hell out of

565
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: Dack on one of those you know action waggles where

566
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: the sleight of hand and the action in the back

567
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: didn't fool anybody. And that's the third week in a row.

568
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: That's like, I know, take that stuff out of the

569
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 1: playbook because they know what they know what it is,

570
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: they know what's got a lot of fans that are

571
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: upset about the fact that you can grab the quarterback

572
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: like that and throw him down like that, but you

573
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: can't do a textbook tackle and bring a guy to

574
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Speaker 1: the ground. I'll tell you what's gonna happen. There's no

575
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: makes it difference. Happened when when you know, a guy

576
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: just hits a quarterback like that and he just doesn't

577
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: throw it and he kind of bounces off and then

578
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: he rolls over here. I mean, I really I don't

579
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: know anything different that Tyron Crawford could have done on

580
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: that play. I really don't. But you know, and I'll

581
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: show you the juxtaposition of that. I don't know if

582
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: you guys saw the ending of the of the Saints game,

583
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 1: Drew Brees was running around the corner trying to get

584
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: in the end zone. The guys that there were two

585
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: defends there. They both hit him. They didn't wrap him up.

586
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: They hit him and he spun around and he went

587
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: into the end zone. And it's one of those things

588
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: where now guys can't even wrap up because if you

589
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: wrap up and you drive, there's a good chance you're

590
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: gonna drive him back down and you're gonna fall on

591
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: top of him, because that's the rule. Though, can you

592
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: do that like on the other side of the scrimmage.

593
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure you can do that. I'm sure runner maybe

594
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: want to become a runner. All I'm saying, though, defenders

595
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: are now having the second guess how they tackle because

596
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,959
Speaker 1: you can't even make what has been a textbook tackle. Literally,

597
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: this is text This is what they used to show

598
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: as this is what you do when you tackle someone.

599
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: You hit them not with your head, you hit them

600
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: with your shoulder. You drive backwards, you drive, and you

601
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: drive through the person into the ground. Like that's what

602
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: you do. That's a textbook tackle. I firmly believe that

603
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: NFL officials are calling these hits just based on optics,

604
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: like whether it looks nasty or not, or whether it

605
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: looks violent. Um to no it' I know, I wrote

606
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: a story about it. I was. I was impressed and

607
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: refreshed by Tyrone Crawford's honesty yesterday. He is he is

608
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: not a guy that wants to give a great sound

609
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: bite like he's he's a cautious interview, understandably so in

610
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: this day and age. But he did not hold back

611
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: to all he's about that flag. He I mean, what

612
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: didn't he say? He said, I don't know any other

613
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: way to hit. Leon Lette told me that he would

614
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: have been flagged about two hundred times in his career

615
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: if that was a flag in his day. I'm not

616
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: going to change the way I hit. I can't afford

617
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,479
Speaker 1: to let these officials get in my head. You know,

618
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are slippery again to your points, like if you

619
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Speaker 1: don't hit that way, they're going to get away from you, exactly.

620
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: M Bessie Russell Wilson. He's like, I'm sure the finds

621
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: come in my way. And I mean basically was like,

622
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: I don't care, Like that's how I have to play

623
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Speaker 1: football to be successful at my job and I think,

624
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Speaker 1: you know, he's like, I would prefer that money to

625
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: go to my family, but if they want to flag

626
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: me on some petty stuff, it is what it is.

627
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: Changed the first half of the game. That was absolutely

628
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: huge point. That was it was I'm glad you said

629
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Speaker 1: that because I don't really disagree, and that's I hate

630
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: the flag. I think it's I mean, I don't really agree,

631
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: is what I mean. I hate the flag. I think

632
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: it's stupid. I think it's ruining the game. I can't

633
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: sit here and act like that's why the Cowboys lost.

634
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: It's not why they lost. But I'm just saying this

635
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: team is. Momentum is a big deal. Field position is

636
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: a big deal. They have their average starting field position

637
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: with their own twenty yard line. You get off the

638
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: field and dickon his punting in his own end zone.

639
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: Now he could maybe boom at sixty yards, but you're

640
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: gonna be at like the forty or fifty rights. That's

641
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: the type of play that you need to play downhill,

642
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: get a field goal, get a lead, get a touchdown.

643
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: That changes things. Do they win? I don't know, but

644
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's a big deal. All those things

645
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: add up The beautiful thing about football is like, you know,

646
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: you play seventy snaps, it doesn't feel like they all

647
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: matter in the moment. They do. They all really do.

648
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: You know. That's something I learned when I started covering

649
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: this team is like when you're watching as a fan,

650
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: it's a three hour game, it feels like forever, but

651
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: it's eight possessions, like it's not a lot. Having said,

652
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: I still I can't bring myself to completely agree. I

653
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: hear everything you said. Seattle didn't score any points. It

654
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: was the first quarter. You know, you had a hole.

655
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: You had a hole two three and a half quarters

656
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: to make a positive impact. After that, it sucked. It

657
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: changed the flow of the game. But I'm not can't

658
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: use that as an excuse for why they will. Just

659
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: remember this though, Seattle has been playing behind in the

660
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,239
Speaker 1: first two games, especially the second game, and you know,

661
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: and that's not what their strength is. They can't run

662
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: Carson thirty two times when they're behind. And if this

663
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: defensive line could have maybe got a lead, teed off

664
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: on him a little bit and actually split one of

665
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: their weaknesses, it could have been different. If you take

666
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: the lead. That again, that doesn't change things, but there's

667
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: a big play in the game, and how much did

668
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: it affect the other guys later in the game of like, well,

669
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: I can't do this, you can't hold them, can't hit them.

670
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: Here goes back to the point which I mean, and

671
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a coincidence that the Cowboys took

672
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: an early lead against the Giants last week. Either is again,

673
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: if I think we said it after a week one,

674
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys are dictating the game, they can be

675
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: pretty good. If the game is being dictated to them,

676
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: they look lost, all right. One of the thing I

677
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: want to ask you before we get Joan, I'm gonna

678
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: ask this question too. We talked about the offensive line.

679
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: Knowing what you solved from that game, does that change anything?

680
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: And now you go take you back to second round

681
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: of the draft. Does that change anything that you do? Now?

682
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: Can I throw out something as a part of that.

683
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: At about the same time as Connor William was giving

684
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: up a sack yesterday, Derwin James was catching an interception

685
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: in the end zone in the game that he was playing.

686
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: Now again, they Derwin James was not there when it

687
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: was time for them to select in the second round.

688
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: But I do think that even in the first right

689
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: they had, they would have had to move up two spots.

690
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: But I guess the point that I'm making is I

691
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: think there was there was certainly opportunity for the Cowboys

692
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: to go and get a safety in the draft if

693
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: they felt like they wanted to get a safety. And

694
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: I think that when you look at everything that happened

695
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: yesterday from the standpoint of the Cowboys safeties, from the

696
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: standpoint of the safety they were playing, from the standpoint

697
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,160
Speaker 1: of the guy that they ended up drafting, from the

698
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: standpoint of the guy that they could have drafted, I

699
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,719
Speaker 1: think there was a lot of stuff that suggested that maybe,

700
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: just maybe they should have gone up and gotten Derwin James.

701
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: I hate that you're making me do this because it's

702
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: well documented how much I liked and wanted Derwin James

703
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: and how stupid I thought it was that this Cowboys

704
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: didn't address the safety position. But as we sit here

705
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: on Monday morning, drafting Layton vander esh looks pretty smart

706
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: because it doesn't sound like Sean he's going to be

707
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: playing for the foreseeable future. Could Joe Thomas do that? Maybe,

708
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: But you didn't know that at the time. I understand that.

709
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: I'm just saying what I'll ask you, like this, take

710
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: Sean out of the mix. Is your bigger problem at

711
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: safety or at linebacker? The linebacker corps has looked Goodith

712
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: just understood. I get it, and that's what it was.

713
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: This is the epitome of hindsight twenty twenty. I get.

714
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: So I'll say I I hate this again. I wanted

715
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: Derwin James. I think they probably made the right call

716
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: because you did not know any of that stuff at

717
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 1: the time you had to make that pick. And we

718
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: have seen we have seen a small sample size. They

719
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: broke down yesterday, but through three games, safety has not

720
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: been as drastic of an issue as we thought it

721
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 1: might be. But at that time, did you think which

722
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: did you think was a bigger problem linebacker safety heading

723
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: into the draft? Linemanbacker? Honestly, But I thought on the show,

724
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: I thought, when you talked about safety, you said they

725
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 1: have to address the safety position. Maybe it's not a draft,

726
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: they got to do it, and they didn't under standpoint

727
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: of going out and even getting one of those other

728
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: free agent safeties that was out there, right, But but

729
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: you did nothing, which I'm firmly anti that they did. Not.

730
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: I mean, they could have signed to any number of

731
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: free agents. They could have drafted somebody. There were a

732
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: lot of them that were available up through the training camp.

733
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: Irwin James, if you're gonna, if you're gonna say that

734
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: they could have gotten him, do you just remember that

735
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: you don't have Layton vander Esh and Connor Williams, because

736
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: you're not gonna you have to give up a second

737
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,319
Speaker 1: round pick, probably to move up three spots or well

738
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: at least a third probably gonna say maybe not a second.

739
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: If you had Derwin James, you wouldn't have Laton Vanderesh

740
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: and Michael Gallup, which through three games, I'm sure a

741
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: lot of people are sitting here like big whoop, Like

742
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: Layton Vanderesh has ten tackles and Michael gall looks terrible. Which, okay,

743
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: we're three games in Layton Vanderesh. They made that pick

744
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 1: because they can't trust Sean Lee to play sixteen games.

745
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 1: And Sean Lee is thirty two. He's way closer to

746
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: the end of his career than the beginning. It looks

747
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 1: like a pretty smart pick right now. The news coming

748
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,959
Speaker 1: out right now, I mean, it seems very unlikely Sean

749
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: is going to play against Detroit. I would guess he's

750
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: probably gonna be out multiple report Well, Sean Sean said

751
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,959
Speaker 1: last night that you know, we'll see he didn't sounds

752
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: not sound optimistic. Rappaport came out this morning. Sources say

753
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 1: he'll likely be sidelined for multiple weeks. And Jason Garrell

754
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: talked this afternoon. But it doesn't sound like you know,

755
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: last week it was I'll be ready for some last

756
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: it was a cramp, yeah, and now it's a full

757
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: blown hamstring. So I have a hard time killing him

758
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: for drafting Layton Vanderesh right now, and especially I thought

759
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 1: he played pretty well yesterday. Answer the question, do I

760
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: wish I had Derwin James? No, of course I wish James,

761
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: but not at that. This is different, And honestly I'm

762
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: not I'm not making the claim one way or the other.

763
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: Here's that playoffs telling you about. I'm not making the

764
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: claim one way or the other. The point is that

765
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: I think it does beg the question did the Cowboys

766
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: not do enough at the safety position, regardless of whether

767
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 1: that was Derwin James, most way beyond the safety position.

768
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: And it's like I've been talking about safety positions since

769
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: I can remember Dave and I have been going at it.

770
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 1: But this is past the safety position. This is all

771
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: about the offense. And I don't care why you guys

772
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 1: say about making this defense great and yes they can

773
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: really help the Cowboys. I do believe that. Yes, right

774
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: now you're relying on your defense, but at this point,

775
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: looking at what you have, the safety position is the

776
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: least of my worries At this moment, I don't I

777
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:53,720
Speaker 1: don't put it in that category because I think yesterday

778
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: and what we've seen in the first two weeks of

779
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 1: the season, this defense was actually pretty good to hold

780
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,919
Speaker 1: those teams to too much to like, you know, sixteen points.

781
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 1: You gotta you can't. You gotta separate the like just

782
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: because the offense is bad doesn't mean you just can't

783
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: even focus on the defense. I mean, those are these

784
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: are two different conversations. Yes, absolutely, But I'm just saying,

785
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: if you're wanting to get somewhere and again, separate the two.

786
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: You need the other to help you win games. As

787
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: as of right now, the defense is pulling a ton

788
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: of weight and the offense is doing very little things.

789
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, again, if if the Cowboys offense keeps

790
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: going in and out of the field, being there for

791
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: like a minute. It's like you're putting more work on

792
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: your defense, You're wearing them off, and it's like, how

793
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: long are you gonna be able to keep this going?

794
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: How long can you keep relying on your defense? At

795
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: some point you have to help them and give them something.

796
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: And even if you, like I said, even if they

797
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 1: get a takeaway and get an interception, give the Cowboys

798
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: the ball back, what does that matter? Why does it? How?

799
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,240
Speaker 1: How does that matter? If you're not able to score

800
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: at you're being I mean, I think you're saying that

801
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: this team, this offense is like absolutely like ineffective when

802
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: they I mean, if they got the ball at midfield,

803
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna score points, are they? Yeah, they're gonna score

804
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 1: They got the ball on the Giants half last week

805
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: and kicked a field goal with it? Is that not point? Okay?

806
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: If you're gonna win games not even scoring field goals? Cool? Yeah,

807
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 1: I mean Tennessee did because their defense was outstanding. Good

808
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: point every time, not every time. But they're gonna score touchdowns.

809
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: But they have they have a dynamic running back. They

810
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: can they can score. They just keep giving them the

811
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 1: ball in midfield and see what happens. I mean, it's

812
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: not gonna have any dynamic running back. Didn't help this,

813
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: but no, but no, Amber, I think I think the

814
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: point of I think the point of it is. I

815
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: think the point of it is, if you're gonna have

816
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 1: a dynamic running game, if you're gonna be successful, and

817
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: you don't have if you've got a very very mediocre

818
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: quarterback play. Right if you got mediocre quarterback play, but

819
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: you got a good running game, the only way, genus,

820
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: the only way, the only way you're gonna be successful,

821
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 1: in my opinions, if you have a great defense. And

822
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: that's my point. The chances of this team being successful

823
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: are better right now with them having a great defense.

824
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: And that's about the safety position. I think that is

825
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: the weakest link of this defense right now. You could

826
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: solve You could have solved that problem. I think I

827
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: think you could have had a better safety position and

828
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 1: this defense would have had a chance to be great

829
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: enough to where you do give yourself a chance even

830
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: with an offense that's just ineffective. What would that very

831
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: mixed feelings and again, you're just you're I'm just I'm

832
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: just really upset. No, that's I love it when you

833
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: bring like you're pissed off listening, And that's okay, because

834
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: a lot of people listening right combine like twelve hours,

835
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: we all agree, we all agree about the safety Yeah, no,

836
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: you're probably right. Yeah, I don't know. We all agree

837
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: about the safety position. And I'm not arguing that well

838
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: I am right now just because I'm so upset. It's like, again,

839
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: you look at the Cowboys offense and you see the

840
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: talent that you have. I truly believe that they are

841
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: capable of moving the ball, scoring points and getting this

842
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: team going. But when you see Seek putting up those

843
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: runs and looking at the numbers that they got and

844
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: they're still coming out the game with the loss like that,

845
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: it's it's upsetting. And that's just where I'm going at

846
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: It's like when you see this offense not really producing

847
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 1: what you expect them to or at least getting going,

848
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: especially after what you saw worked last weekend. And remember

849
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: when I said, okay, maybe they'll go back look at

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Speaker 1: It's like week two, the Cowboys are going into Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Everything's gonna be great. What I am? Oh? Man? All right,

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Speaker 1: let's get some phone calls. Um, I want to kind

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Speaker 1: of hear from a fan on this. Joe and Merrill

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Speaker 1: and Joe, what up, Joe? How's it going? Guys? I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to say that I was one of the

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Speaker 1: many fans trying to kick Tony Romo out of the

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Speaker 1: door and uh, Dak Prescott although he has not been

932
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Speaker 1: playing well, I don't think he should take most of

933
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Speaker 1: the blame. I mean he can't play offensive line or

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Speaker 1: can he account for not having a Chason Witten or

935
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Speaker 1: Dez Bryant on the outside. That because the coordinators have

936
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Speaker 1: to account for because right now you have one player

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Speaker 1: So until this team can get someone else on offense

939
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940
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Speaker 1: we're going to run into the same problem week after weeks.

941
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Speaker 1: And that's all I have to say to you guys.

942
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Speaker 1: And I don't think there's anything we could possibly do

943
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Speaker 1: midseason to bring someone in, um besides des Bryant. But um,

944
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Speaker 1: I just like to hear your thoughts on that and

945
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Speaker 1: Amber it goes down in the DM. Can I ask

946
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Speaker 1: you a question? Can I ask you a question? Was

947
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Speaker 1: he shooting a shot at you? He was trying? UM,

948
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Speaker 1: let me ask you this question. So you said the

949
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Speaker 1: Was the same thing happening last year when des Brian

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Speaker 1: do that. No, I really want to ask the question

953
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Speaker 1: because I think I've heard this from fans before. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: because I want to hear from fans when they say,

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Speaker 1: and I've heard them say it on Twitter multiple times,

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Speaker 1: des is the answer to this problem. But I don't

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Speaker 1: see that because Dez was a part of this problem

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Speaker 1: last year. I don't think having Dez here solves your problem.

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Speaker 1: And I want to hear from someone who believes that.

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Speaker 1: Why they think that all of a sudden Deaz was

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Speaker 1: gonna be better when last year dead was here and

962
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Speaker 1: it wasn't the answer to the problem. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't feel like the fact that he

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Speaker 1: said that, you know Witton and he didn't have Witten

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Speaker 1: and Dez. I mean Dak is one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: for that. I mean, the Cowboys made the decision that

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Speaker 1: they didn't think this could work together, so they went

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Speaker 1: with Dak, and that that they cut de Witt. That's

969
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Speaker 1: another lemonade question right there. But I gues you think

970
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Speaker 1: Jason Witten walks away to Monday night football if he's

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Speaker 1: I don't, honestly not if he did, I don't in

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Speaker 1: my opinion, he didn't have confidence in in this offense,

974
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Speaker 1: the calling, the quarterback, and he's like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to Monday night. I agree with that. I

976
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Speaker 1: think that said all he had to said. The weapons

977
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Speaker 1: is part of this is, you know, because they said

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go here with Dak and we're gonna make

979
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Speaker 1: this friendly offense and we're gonna do this, but it's not.

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Speaker 1: It's not friendly because as you asked Amber, as you

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Speaker 1: of course not, but they do. They do. They have

985
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Speaker 1: too many guys trying to figure this out, and nobody

986
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Speaker 1: gets in a flow. Nobody can do anything special. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you start off a game with three tight ends, are

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Speaker 1: you serious? And one of them barely even knows the position.

989
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: I mean that just that just tells you right there

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Speaker 1: that like and the other guy, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'll go back to him, I'll go back to Jarwin.

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Speaker 1: How big is Randy Gregory's penalty? Three points? No big deal?

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Speaker 1: Imagine it. Let's just say it plays out this way.

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Speaker 1: And imagine you're down eight driving with five minutes to go.

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Speaker 1: Do you have to force the ball to to Blake Jarwin,

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Speaker 1: who's made zero plays in the NFL. Do you have

997
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Speaker 1: to force it in there to him? You don't, you

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Speaker 1: can you played a little differently. It's just comes down

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Speaker 1: to it. They just don't have any guys that can

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Speaker 1: make any plays. Yeah, no, I mean I again, I'm

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm pretty high up in the Dak

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1003
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Speaker 1: absolve him of this. There's plenty of stuff that he's

1004
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 1: doing wrong. But that's the beautiful thing about what's happening

1005
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:21,320
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Speaker 1: at receiver, at tight end. What else have I mean,

1009
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Speaker 1: they went in this direction. This was the mode, and

1010
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 1: it has not worked out through three games really at all.

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Speaker 1: Some of the plenty of that's on the quarterback, plenty

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Speaker 1: of it's on the offensive line, a lot plenty of

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Speaker 1: it is definitely on the fact that they don't have

1014
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Speaker 1: a reliable playmaker in the passing game. I mean, you

1015
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Speaker 1: tell me, I think I thought this yesterday. Like good

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1017
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Speaker 1: But when I say good stuff, I mean like a

1018
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1019
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1020
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: the best playmaker on offense outside of is Equel Elliott

1021
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 1: is a lot of Oh you know, I was gonna

1022
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Speaker 1: right there, and quite frankly, Tavan Austin, they're not. I

1023
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: don't think they're they're integrating him enough into the offense

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00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: to say he's the second best, second most productive offensive player.

1025
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Speaker 1: I think he needs to be. He needs to have

1026
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: a way more opportunities with the ball in his hands

1027
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: than he does. I want to say, his carry against

1028
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1029
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Speaker 1: yard So he's averaging fifteen yards a carrier right now? Yeah,

1030
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Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, they don't. They don't use him enough,

1031
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: which I'm not being facetious when I say this. Are

1032
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Speaker 1: they afraid that they're gonna break him? Like? Are they

1033
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: afraid that he can't stand up against an NFL defense?

1034
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: Because that's the only explanation I can come and touch

1035
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 1: the ball eight times yesterday for forty yards, I mean,

1036
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Speaker 1: and and a lot of those is some punt returns

1037
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Speaker 1: and some wide open spaces and all that. So I

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00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: mean how many of those were returns though, I mean

1039
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't count those in the same way before offense. Yeah,

1040
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 1: if your offense is having problems, that's where you need

1041
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 1: to be using anymore. But but also, I mean this

1042
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Speaker 1: helps my unlimited maths skills. Four for twenty so that's

1043
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Speaker 1: also five. So I mean an offense, he got the

1044
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: ball four times twenty yards. Now one of that was

1045
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,560
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1046
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Speaker 1: What would tax rating be like without that bad rule?

1047
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 1: Like if if that little pop pass counts as a

1048
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Speaker 1: touchdown pass, you take that away? Was it looked like? Then? Again,

1049
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:34,240
Speaker 1: both those interceptions aren't on him either. All I'm saying

1050
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 1: is when he went down Phil, we've seen good things happen. Yeah,

1051
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: when he's taking the ball on the reserve on the reverse,

1052
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Speaker 1: we've seen good things happen. When he had the little

1053
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 1: the little pass there yesterday for the touchdown, we saw

1054
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Speaker 1: good things happen. He is he is giving them good

1055
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1056
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1057
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Speaker 1: had it four times in an offense that that wasn't

1058
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: functioning and wasn't consistently being able to move the ball,

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00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 1: that to me just seems like a miss. Given given

1060
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 1: the lack of success everywhere else, it certainly would be

1061
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:07,799
Speaker 1: nice to see him get more of an opportunity. But

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00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: and I think it actually helps Zeke even more when

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00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: teams have to factor in that there's this other guy

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00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: whipping around May yeah, I mean it just to me, Yeah, okay,

1065
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: make sure you gotta go out there to stop him

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00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:22,760
Speaker 1: just in case he gets the ball. That only helps

1067
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: like that, there's nothing wrong with that. If they say

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00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: we're gonna stop Tavan, awesome, Great. That means that's one

1069
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 1: less guy is dedicated to trying to stop Ezekiel Elliott.

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00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: So I just I don't see the downside of having

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00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: him way more involved in the offense. But for whatever reason,

1072
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: it's the same thing in the zone read for whatever reason,

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00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 1: and they may they must have some I don't pretend

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00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: to be smarter than these guys. They do it every

1075
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: day all day. They must have some reason. Buff for

1076
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they're deciding that those two things are things

1077
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: that they just don't want to do. Yeah, yeah, all right,

1078
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 1: real quick, before we end the show, let's talk about

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00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: this defense, because overall the defense has played really well

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00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: for the first two weeks. Yesterday they had a lot

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00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: more moments when it wasn't what we've seen so far

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00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: this year. Are you at all concerned or are you

1083
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 1: backing off how good you think this defense can be?

1084
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: H Do you think it was just a bad day.

1085
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it was a bad day. Seriously,

1086
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: I mean I think it. I think they played all right,

1087
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: but we're asking them to play phenomenal and this is

1088
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: this defense is to me just not built to be

1089
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: a phenomenal defense. It's been to be pretty good. You're

1090
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: gonna get beat by a Pro Bowl quarterback at times.

1091
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,319
Speaker 1: He beat them with some with some throws. Um. I

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00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: think they played well enough to win a game. Two

1093
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety five yards of offense, two point nine

1094
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: yards per carry, uh, twenty four points. They were negative

1095
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: which they're negative three in turnovers, which can't have that

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00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:43,920
Speaker 1: from the offense. It's also, if there's one valid criticism,

1097
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: they're not getting the ball enough they have no picks

1098
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 1: through three weeks. Yeah, and they talked about that in

1099
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: the in the locker room after the game. Third down,

1100
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,800
Speaker 1: that's not gonna cut forty four percent, you know, seven

1101
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:55,919
Speaker 1: out of sixteen. They could have got off the field

1102
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: a little bit better there, but I can't, and I

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00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: mean what And they had a busted coverage for a

1104
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: fifty two yard touchdown, which is uncharacteristic of a Rod

1105
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 1: Marinellie Deep. They really don't give up chunk touchdowns. And

1106
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: that's how you know that they're having problems is when

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00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: they do. And I don't think it's a coincidence that

1108
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath was getting his ankle x rayed when it happened.

1109
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: And if you saw the play, the corner released a guy,

1110
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: you could tell corner was playing up safety was suppose

1111
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: a deep and Cavon just wasn't there. A classic It

1112
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 1: is a classic case. And I'm I'm not making excuses.

1113
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: I got in a lot of hot water for quote

1114
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: unquote making an excuse for Randy Gregory yesterday, which I

1115
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: was not trying to do. But what did you say?

1116
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 1: I said, this is the third youngest roster in the NFL,

1117
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,359
Speaker 1: and Randy Gregory's playing his fourth game in the last

1118
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 1: two years. Dumb stuff like that happens in those types

1119
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: of situations and people just did not which but in

1120
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 1: the same bit's true. But it's also just like you

1121
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:52,919
Speaker 1: gotta be smart than that. In the same vein well,

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00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: you gotta be better at safety than that. But when

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00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods and Cavan Frasier have three combined starts at

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00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:02,399
Speaker 1: the position in their careers on the road, these things happen.

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00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,280
Speaker 1: It's not an excuse for it. I'm trying to explain

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00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 1: how that stuff happens. I mean, you don't have Earl Thomas,

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00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,839
Speaker 1: you don't even have Kenny Vaccaro. You've got guys who

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00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 1: are learning the positions though, and Cavan I love what

1129
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: he does, but he really shouldn't be playing a lot

1130
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: of deep safety. He is a third to fourth safety

1131
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: on your team. Great special teams guy can play some

1132
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: nickel coverages and dime packages, but doesn't need to be

1133
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 1: about there playing and doing all that kind of stuff.

1134
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 1: He doesn't have that kind of range and every he

1135
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: is beat up right now. He is not one hundred

1136
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: percent healthy. He's fighting through what he's playing. I think

1137
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: with the shoulder injury that he's just gonna wait to

1138
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 1: the season. I mean, he's not healthy. He's not healthy.

1139
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 1: Which I'm gonna remember this game too, because anytime the

1140
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 1: storyline is just that obvious, don't bank on it. Like

1141
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: NFL teams play, the players are too talented and the

1142
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: coaches are too smart. We saw that throughout the NFL

1143
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 1: this week. Yeah, well one hundred percent. But I mean, oh,

1144
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are going to have fifty sacks because the Seahawks. No,

1145
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,640
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are going to spend all weeks scheming away

1146
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: to give Russell Wilson time to do his job. Two

1147
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,920
Speaker 1: sacks is good. I mean, you know, the pass rush

1148
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 1: was fine considering his release time was insane, but it's

1149
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 1: never gonna be that obvious in the NFL. These people

1150
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: get paid way too much money to figure out ways

1151
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: to work around it. So I thought, I thought the

1152
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:28,360
Speaker 1: defense was fine, that you could win a game with

1153
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: your defense playing that way, but the offense just didn't

1154
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: meet him halfway. All right, guys, appreciate you joining us.

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Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow. We're gonna do a little bit more

1156
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Speaker 1: in breaking down the bigger picture of some of the

1157
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:39,239
Speaker 1: stuff we saw yesterday and starting to look forward a

1158
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: little bit as to how the Cowboys recover from this

1159
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 1: get themselves ready for this next opponent, who, by the way,

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00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:49,319
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions beat the New England Patriots like there

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00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:51,800
Speaker 1: will be. That game just got a lot more interesting

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00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: than we thought it was last week. We'll talk about

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00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: that tomorrow. This is for Nick Even, Dave helm and

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00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 1: Amber Garcia on Derek Eagels and this has been The

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