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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Season eighteen, episode number ninety nine. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the latest edition of The Break. We're life from
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get you guys ready for the final week
Speaker 1: of the season. But before we do that, I do
Speaker 1: need to very quickly. I just wanted to be able
Speaker 1: to say our prayers are with Damar Hamlin safety for
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. We know, I'm sure most of us,
Speaker 1: I'm sure everyone at this point has seen or heard
Speaker 1: would happen to him last night during the Monday night game.
Speaker 1: Sad situation, obviously, but we will be praying for this
Speaker 1: young man. Hopefully all works out for him and all
Speaker 1: works out for his family, because I'm sure this is
Speaker 1: a tough situation and a tough time for his family
Speaker 1: as well as they are waiting to see how he
Speaker 1: progresses through this. So I wanted to go ahead and
Speaker 1: get that out there. And I know if you guys
Speaker 1: had anything to say on it, but I'm sure it
Speaker 1: was something that we all watched and probably were horrified by,
Speaker 1: as I'm sure everybody out there listening. His family just
Speaker 1: released a statement. What was the statement? On behalf of
Speaker 1: our family. We want to express our sincere gratitude to
Speaker 1: the love and support shown to Damar during this challenging time.
Speaker 1: We were deeply moved by the prayers, the kind words,
Speaker 1: the donation from fans around the country. We won't all.
Speaker 1: I want to acknowledge the dedication of first responders and
Speaker 1: healthcare professionals the University of Cincinnati Medical Center who have
Speaker 1: provided exceptional care to DeMar. We feel blessed to be
Speaker 1: part of the Buffalo Bills organization and to have their support.
Speaker 1: We'd also like to thank Coach Taylor and the Bengals
Speaker 1: for everything they've done. Your generosity and compassion means the
Speaker 1: world to us. Please keep DeMar in your prayers well,
Speaker 1: release an update as soon as we have them. It's
Speaker 1: from the Hamlin family. Awesome. It's it's eleven o'clock this
Speaker 1: morning for us. You know. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people listen at all times, and so there may be
Speaker 1: some more updates as the day goes on, but it
Speaker 1: is eleven o'clock where we are. I'll say this, and
Speaker 1: I don't if I speak if I'm not speaking for
Speaker 1: you guys, because you guys might have a different opinion,
Speaker 1: and I know a lot of other people have opinions too.
Speaker 1: I think the NFL did a remarkable job in what
Speaker 1: they did yesterday. And that's just my opinion based off
Speaker 1: of what we know. We all kind of know the
Speaker 1: same thing of what we hear, but and not only that,
Speaker 1: but you know, kind of for what we do from
Speaker 1: a media standpoint, those people at ESPN, I thought they
Speaker 1: they they did a great job as well, you know,
Speaker 1: watching the game's very very difficult situation to sit there
Speaker 1: and talk when nothing else in the world matters, but
Speaker 1: what's going on here and you don't know anything about it.
Speaker 1: And I thought, you know, from from Scott Van Pelt
Speaker 1: obviously and Ryan Clark, very passionate about it, Booker McFarland,
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter, Susie Kolber. I mean, of course, Joe Buck
Speaker 1: and Eightman as well. I mean, it's it's tough. It's
Speaker 1: tough to do that and keep going and keep going
Speaker 1: different analogous assaulters. I'm sorry for leaving out her because
Speaker 1: she was right there on the scene and you know,
Speaker 1: and I heard a lot of people say, well, why
Speaker 1: are we still watching this? Why don't they switch it to?
Speaker 1: You know? And I'm like, this is what news is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when when when tragedy hits, I mean, you sit there
Speaker 1: and you watch the news, and those and the best
Speaker 1: ones just have to keep going and keep figuring out
Speaker 1: different ways to say the same thing over and over.
Speaker 1: And basically what you're saying is I don't know that
Speaker 1: situation doing the best they can. And frankly and my
Speaker 1: wife said the same thing. We were watching it and
Speaker 1: she's like, I don't know why they won't just get
Speaker 1: away from this, And I said, the reason why, and
Speaker 1: the reason why I don't want them to is because
Speaker 1: in moments like this, I know there's no update yet,
Speaker 1: but I want somebody to make me understand this, like
Speaker 1: paint the picture for me, because we're all sitting here
Speaker 1: with bated breath, trying to figure out what's going to happen,
Speaker 1: How is this young man doing right and so, And
Speaker 1: that's the situation. Whenever you get into a situation, when
Speaker 1: there's a trying time. I think we all as people,
Speaker 1: as humans, we want to be communal. We want to
Speaker 1: be able to get with other people who are experiencing
Speaker 1: the same thing and be able to kind of figure
Speaker 1: this all out. And that's why what they did last
Speaker 1: night was so important. And I thought, as you mentioned
Speaker 1: all those names, they did a phenomenal job of painting
Speaker 1: the picture for us and keeping us as up to
Speaker 1: date as they could under some really tough circumstances. Well,
Speaker 1: and the people of the first responders that were there
Speaker 1: that performed CPR on him, the quickness for that to happen,
Speaker 1: because we've seen the injuries when they have and granted,
Speaker 1: some of the guys on the floor are still kind
Speaker 1: of moving around, but we've seen times where it takes
Speaker 1: a minute for someone to get out there and do
Speaker 1: something where you're still wondering what is it. Are they
Speaker 1: really hurt or just kind of trying to get back
Speaker 1: up or whatever. But for his heart to have stopped
Speaker 1: those crucial seconds, like the way they that, how quickly
Speaker 1: they acted, it's amazing and definitely praying for him. And
Speaker 1: it's just it was it was very difficult to see
Speaker 1: something like that happen. Yeah, I was. We were watching
Speaker 1: the game too, and I told my wife, I said,
Speaker 1: the way that they ran onto the field, the way
Speaker 1: that those those trainers ran onto the field, that's unusual.
Speaker 1: And now, what we didn't see until later, if you
Speaker 1: saw the replays, is how he actually felt. Because if
Speaker 1: you just watch the collision, you hear it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was so violent, and then then you watch it
Speaker 1: and then and then, but not till the replays that
Speaker 1: they never showed again. You had to watch that on
Speaker 1: social media. But the way he felt that that's what scared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I didn't see that. All I saw all I
Speaker 1: saw in them. It was just the way that they
Speaker 1: rushed there, and it's like, this seems a little weird.
Speaker 1: And then he kind of, you know, doing something else
Speaker 1: to come back. They're still there and you're like and
Speaker 1: then it's this wide angle. But I'll let me say
Speaker 1: one more thing about the about the NFL and a
Speaker 1: lot of people are saying, well, they took an hour
Speaker 1: to make a decision. You don't know that it took
Speaker 1: an hour for them to announce it. You don't know
Speaker 1: if it took an hour for them to make that decision.
Speaker 1: And also you're talking about billion dollars decisions here. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: I get it's not as important as the life, but
Speaker 1: when you there's a lot of factors involved here, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if it took one hour to say
Speaker 1: we're not playing. I have no idea about the five
Speaker 1: minute thing. I don't know if that's a real deal
Speaker 1: or not. Well, I'll tell you this, Troy Vincent came
Speaker 1: out and made a statement and said there was never
Speaker 1: a decision made back at the league about this five
Speaker 1: minute thing. He said that would be insensitive and that's
Speaker 1: not who we are. And I'll tell you this just
Speaker 1: from the personal interactions I've had with Troy Vincent, he
Speaker 1: an honorable man. If he tells me that, I trust it,
Speaker 1: because I trust him and know him to be an
Speaker 1: honorable man from at least the interactions that I've had
Speaker 1: with him. But I agree with you, like, that's also
Speaker 1: the thing about our society, and it's sometimes it can
Speaker 1: be a little unfair, I think, but it's a human nature.
Speaker 1: Something happens, and everybody wants to take it out on
Speaker 1: someone or something, there has to be an object for it.
Speaker 1: And and last night and last night it happened. There
Speaker 1: were a few targets last night, and some of them
Speaker 1: brought it on themselves. I'm not gonna get into all that,
Speaker 1: but there were some targets last night, and I think
Speaker 1: that's what happens. Yeah, we're gonna skip past that one.
Speaker 1: But but that's part of it. Like I think, when
Speaker 1: people are in those moments, you're looking for somebody to
Speaker 1: take it out on. And and that to me is
Speaker 1: human nature. It's just a part of it. So don't
Speaker 1: be that object, Like, don't turn yourself into that target,
Speaker 1: because that's it's very it's very much just part of
Speaker 1: human nature for people to want to take it out
Speaker 1: on someone. I had a few drafts writing something that
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not doing this. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not going there. I mean, it's stupid. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's there's all because we don't really know everything. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't really know, but man, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of there's a lot of arm waving going on. I
Speaker 1: thought last night, well, I'll tell you this, and I
Speaker 1: think this is something I've learned from working here. Be
Speaker 1: careful when you just run out to say anything good
Speaker 1: or bad. You just have to be very very careful
Speaker 1: because you don't if you don't know the facts, or
Speaker 1: if you think you know the facts but you're not
Speaker 1: quite sure, just it's better to say nothing and just
Speaker 1: kind of leave it and let it all play out,
Speaker 1: because it will. It will all play out. You don't
Speaker 1: have to be first to be the one out there
Speaker 1: saying whatever. You just need to just let it play out.
Speaker 1: But all that being said, we are praying for Damar Hamlin.
Speaker 1: I've been praying for him some since last night. I'm
Speaker 1: a believer in prayer, and I believe that, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll keep praying for this young man and all will
Speaker 1: work out and we'll see how it goes. But amazing also,
Speaker 1: by the way, to see the amount of support he's
Speaker 1: gone he has. His charity, Yeah, that's basically he started
Speaker 1: when he was trying to get into the NFL to
Speaker 1: donate toys for when the pandemic started, to give kids
Speaker 1: toys for Christmas, and his goal was twenty five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars and now is up to like three million dollars,
Speaker 1: over three million dollars. Just amazing. Everyone just donating five bucks,
Speaker 1: ten bucks, so everything helps, and it's amazing to see
Speaker 1: the amount of support he's been getting. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out all what happened here, and
Speaker 1: there's there's cardiologists that are coming out and doing videos
Speaker 1: about and they're talking about you know, heartbeats and if
Speaker 1: you're hit at the right time. Um, you know, being
Speaker 1: on the radio, having to do some more research about this,
Speaker 1: potentially talking about it as this subject. It happens in
Speaker 1: hockey when hockey players get hit in the chest with
Speaker 1: the puck. Matter of fact, an amateur player I was
Speaker 1: doing reading a story about you know, him getting hit
Speaker 1: and you know, similar what happened last night. You see
Speaker 1: a shot to the chest and then cardiologists talking about
Speaker 1: did you catch it just at the right time between
Speaker 1: heartbeats and then it sets you off into a cardiac situation,
Speaker 1: and so you know that's something that again, you know
Speaker 1: my experience, the University of Cincinnati one of the best
Speaker 1: trauma trauma places ever. When you start to talk about
Speaker 1: things like this, so you know, you talked about being
Speaker 1: at the right time. I remember Gil Haskell when he
Speaker 1: got hurt on the sidelines with Green Bay and they're
Speaker 1: talking about head trauma, being in Dallas, the care that
Speaker 1: he was able to get. Um, you know, if there's
Speaker 1: any type of silver lining, it was trainers going onto
Speaker 1: the field, people understanding the situation, not panic, and being
Speaker 1: able to do their jobs. Uh you know, I mean, heck,
Speaker 1: let's be honest here, you had a situation here in
Speaker 1: your weight room two years ago, but you lost somebody,
Speaker 1: you know, but trainers trying to save you know, And
Speaker 1: that's that's the thing that that's you know, you you
Speaker 1: you're thankful for that. They're people that can come in
Speaker 1: and do these things and maybe make the situation a
Speaker 1: little bit better until they can get him to further.
Speaker 1: But the universe is Cincinnati's outstanding, and I'm sure that
Speaker 1: they're they're doing everything in their in their power to
Speaker 1: to to get him back to quick as health as
Speaker 1: they can. Absolutely. All right, So here's we're gonna do.
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Speaker 1: the second segment of The Break Life from s WBC
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Speaker 1: There are three different playoffs scenarios for this weekend that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys could possible from. Just brought to you by somebody. Ah,
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Speaker 1: thank you. All right, the playoff scenarios, they're three different players.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. That's why
Speaker 1: we got the four of us. Somebody should remember me preferably,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it works when when I don't and you
Speaker 1: can jump in there right. So here are the three scenarios.
Speaker 1: The first, Currently, the Cowboys are in the fifth seed,
Speaker 1: and if Philadelphia should win this weekend versus the Giants
Speaker 1: or if Dallas should lose this weekend at Washington, everything
Speaker 1: stays the same for the Cowboys. They are still the
Speaker 1: number five seed and they will be traveling to Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay to take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now here's
Speaker 1: scenario two. If Dallas should win and Philadelphia loses, and
Speaker 1: San Francisco wins versus Arizona, Dallas moves to the number
Speaker 1: two seed. Then they will face either in this order
Speaker 1: based upon the who wins this weekend, Green Bay, Seattle,
Speaker 1: or Detroit. All those all those opponents would then come
Speaker 1: to Dallas or one of those opponents would come to
Speaker 1: Dallas to play the Cowboys. Scenario three, if Dallas wins,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia loses, and San Francisco loses, Cowboys then moving to
Speaker 1: the number one seed. They will then have a buy
Speaker 1: in week one and then from there see what happens.
Speaker 1: A question for you guys is what do you think
Speaker 1: is more likely this weekend the five and that's the
Speaker 1: most likely scenario that Philly will win. Then they'll they'll
Speaker 1: beat the Giants. I don't know who the Giants are playing.
Speaker 1: I know what their coach said, but we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: You believe that, I don't know. I kind of do.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think he's trying to build a
Speaker 1: different culture. And I'll tell you why. It goes all
Speaker 1: over back to week one for me, he went his
Speaker 1: first coaching gig, first job with the Giants. In Week one.
Speaker 1: They're playing in Tennessee, and what does he do. He
Speaker 1: goes for a two point conversion in the win. I
Speaker 1: think that, you know, this is a team that hasn't
Speaker 1: been to the playoffs. I think since twenty sixteen. A
Speaker 1: lot of bad football all going on there. This is
Speaker 1: just my thought about him and you. You'd be absolutely right, Nick.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to play the other side of it.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say no, you don't know what
Speaker 1: the hell you're talking about. I'm just I'm just saying
Speaker 1: to me, sometimes these coaches. The Giants were in the
Speaker 1: game in two thousand and seven where they played, and
Speaker 1: I know it's way back, but we liked in Cowboys fans,
Speaker 1: we'd like to go way back in history and try
Speaker 1: and correlate to two things. The Giants did a game
Speaker 1: against New England. It was they were undefeated at the
Speaker 1: time in two thousand and seven, and they played the
Speaker 1: game to Coughlin, played the game to try and win,
Speaker 1: and then it mid nothing for the Giants, by the way,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and they and they almost won the game.
Speaker 1: They lost like thirty eight thirty five, And you're sitting
Speaker 1: there thinking, and so it's like, okay, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a game that the Giants tried to play. They tried
Speaker 1: to win. What happened to him, His fate ran them
Speaker 1: through the playoffs, It ran them through Tampa, Dallas, Green Bay,
Speaker 1: and then they got to play the Patriots again and
Speaker 1: won the game. If you go back and look and
Speaker 1: they listen to them talk about that particular game, they
Speaker 1: will tell you that Super Bowl. They will tell you
Speaker 1: the fact that they played them and tried to win
Speaker 1: the game the last week of the season helped them win. Now,
Speaker 1: they got some huge breaks along the way, don't you know.
Speaker 1: But you know, to me, they're locked into the sixth
Speaker 1: seed no matter what. So you know, if you want
Speaker 1: to rest, that's their priority, prerogative to do that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: But they also to for somebody that's trying to build
Speaker 1: culture in a program and they got rolled by the Eagles,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of weeks ago. Even if they
Speaker 1: try to play I think they could be Yeah, well
Speaker 1: they let's play it well to me? To me, then,
Speaker 1: to me, I think you're going to get a different
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts for the playoffs. That se joint is something
Speaker 1: that they can't medicate. And if they want to go
Speaker 1: into a game plan of trying to win a game
Speaker 1: with him running for eighty yards in that game, that
Speaker 1: might be a mistake. That might be a mistake for them.
Speaker 1: So to me, if you could say Jalen and he's
Speaker 1: throwing the ball well this year, he's throwing the ball
Speaker 1: well enough, I think there's a ton of pressure on
Speaker 1: the Eagles right now. They should have had this and
Speaker 1: clinch three weeks ago and they couldn't get it done.
Speaker 1: So to me, if I'm the Giants, I play it,
Speaker 1: I try. You know what, let's go for it. Let's
Speaker 1: see if we could beat these guys. It proved our record,
Speaker 1: give us a little bit more momentum. They haven't been
Speaker 1: playing great. The Giants haven't been playing great, So you know,
Speaker 1: for them to get the victory this last week, maybe
Speaker 1: get another one. And I'm not just seeing it as
Speaker 1: a cowboy homer. I'm just thinking about from a giant's
Speaker 1: perspective of their coaching staff looking at their team and saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, this would be a good opportunity to
Speaker 1: build a couple and go back to back at some
Speaker 1: games and go figure out how to win a game
Speaker 1: at you know, Minnesota or San Francisco, wherever they have
Speaker 1: to go. I think sometimes when you see I mean,
Speaker 1: I do find it hard to believe or to think
Speaker 1: that Philly would lose this weekend. But do you feel
Speaker 1: like they were gonna lose to the Saints. No? But
Speaker 1: but I know I get it. They say, we've seen it,
Speaker 1: we've seen it where when the other team that's quote
Speaker 1: unquote the less talented team, it's playing for something that
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter that much. You know, they're just going
Speaker 1: out there having fun, playing trying to not get hurt.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they win, like those teams can't win against opponents
Speaker 1: like the Eagles right now, And man, you have no idea.
Speaker 1: I talk about prayer, that's another prayer, that's another prayer,
Speaker 1: because oh my god, oh my god, how good? How good?
Speaker 1: With that freaking be? Because I am telling you I
Speaker 1: don't hate. Hate is a very strong word, but sports
Speaker 1: there's something to hate. I would say Eagles fan are
Speaker 1: kind of making a good run for it. Man. God,
Speaker 1: That's why I've been hating Twitter lately because I cannot
Speaker 1: get an Eagles fan off my timeline one way or another.
Speaker 1: So something crazy for like this crazy because three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: I don't think any of us ever imagine this scenario
Speaker 1: to even be a possibility for the Cowboys. So that's amazing.
Speaker 1: And I think the Cowboys are gonna go out to
Speaker 1: Washington and I think they're they're gonna play a good game.
Speaker 1: Washington's gonna give them some some hard times there, but
Speaker 1: I think that they're capable of winning against Washington. And
Speaker 1: I do think, weirdly enough that the Giants, regardless of
Speaker 1: their situation, they're gonna go out there and we'll make
Speaker 1: it competitive for the eat. Nick's probably gonna be right
Speaker 1: that you know about this though. Nick's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: right that the Philadelphia is gonna just smash the child
Speaker 1: has been like they will. But because that's I still
Speaker 1: think they're a pretty good team. When they're all healthy.
Speaker 1: Now they're not all healthy, But I still think that
Speaker 1: they've been good enough. I think that they'll win that game.
Speaker 1: But and even if they don't, what I mean, are
Speaker 1: we sure the Cowboys are gonna go win this game
Speaker 1: Washington now and they're out of it, and see, I
Speaker 1: don't know what Washington does. Maybe they I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: they'll play their better quarterback where they benched that is,
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know why they thought it was a
Speaker 1: better idea to go back to Carson Wentz unless they
Speaker 1: felt like that what Carson Wentz did in that blowout
Speaker 1: loss to San Francisco gave them hope that he could
Speaker 1: come back. And when they put him in when they
Speaker 1: were getting blown out, his numbers were not terrible. And
Speaker 1: maybe they fooled the coaching staff and Ron Rivera there
Speaker 1: that like, listen, you know what our guy, Heineke's turning
Speaker 1: over the ball. Carson didn't look bad against the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers. You know that that would be if if
Speaker 1: he came out and said that, then I would better understand.
Speaker 1: I'm just speculating right now. I am totally speculating because
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz in the blowout loss maybe because there's no pressure,
Speaker 1: maybe he didn't have to bring anybody back. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was just one of those things they just called San
Speaker 1: Francisco's defense. San Francisco was yeah, exactly. But he showed enough,
Speaker 1: he showed enough throwing the ball that maybe that Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera and Scott Turner and those guys over there said, man,
Speaker 1: he wasn't bad against a really good San Francis School defense.
Speaker 1: But nobody's thinking about, well, the game was in hand.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe they've given him some stuff. I would
Speaker 1: believe that if you, if you got him all in
Speaker 1: a room and ask him, I believe that's what they
Speaker 1: would probably tell you. Here's the thing I think, going
Speaker 1: back to the Eagles, I think Jalen Hurts, We're gonna
Speaker 1: find out a lot about what's going on with this
Speaker 1: Eagles team because we'll first have to find out will
Speaker 1: he play with Minshew in there. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: necessarily the better team Giants, But if he plays, the
Speaker 1: question becomes how much does this this injured shoulder on
Speaker 1: his throwing arm of effects ability to throw? Yeah, because
Speaker 1: one thing, and you can people can say what they
Speaker 1: want to say about Jalen Hurts and is throwing ability.
Speaker 1: He's been throwing the ball well this he has, he's
Speaker 1: been putting it on the on the money, and he's
Speaker 1: been taking advantage of those wide receiver options he's got
Speaker 1: out there. If he can't do that at the same
Speaker 1: level that he's been doing it earlier this season, they
Speaker 1: go back to being who they were last year. And
Speaker 1: last year I don't think they were as good of
Speaker 1: a team as the best team in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: their record says they are now. So we're about to
Speaker 1: find out something about the Eagles. I think this week again, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's where to me, I actually think this. If
Speaker 1: I had to handicap it, I would say it's more
Speaker 1: likely Dallas ends up in the number seed, number two seed.
Speaker 1: This week. I think Dallas wins. I think Philadelphia doesn't win,
Speaker 1: and I think Arizona, I think San Francisco does win,
Speaker 1: and I think Dallas ends up in the second seed,
Speaker 1: and then they end up playing Aaron Rodgers. And my
Speaker 1: question for you, that's actually gonna be the next question,
Speaker 1: but I knew you were gonna say that. But the
Speaker 1: next question is which you think is a better matchup
Speaker 1: for Dallas having to go for you today? Sorry, having
Speaker 1: to go to Jampa Bay or being at home against
Speaker 1: Green Bay Green Bay. I mean, I mean, the thing
Speaker 1: is is that And I got to ask this on
Speaker 1: the radio the other day too. It's not you can't
Speaker 1: just separate it like that. This isn't a bowl game
Speaker 1: where you just say which matchup do you want? It's
Speaker 1: what it means. It means you go to the five
Speaker 1: and you go and try to beat Tom Brady, which
Speaker 1: you've never won before. Then you definitely have to go
Speaker 1: on the road. A well, not definitely, but you probably
Speaker 1: have to go on the road again. If you're in
Speaker 1: the number two seed. You gotta beat a guy that
Speaker 1: you have beaten before and you lost in overtime too
Speaker 1: on a you know, on a game you should have
Speaker 1: won at their place. You gotta beat him and then
Speaker 1: you then you're definitely gonna be at home again. So
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not so much the matchup. To me,
Speaker 1: I get the matchup, But to me it's the it's
Speaker 1: the it's what it means. I'll take the number two
Speaker 1: with Green Bay all day long, even though he's he's top,
Speaker 1: he's he's tough with so's Tom Brady. But if you
Speaker 1: want to project does it matter at all who that
Speaker 1: second that second round matchup would be, because the likelihood is,
Speaker 1: if you win that first one against Tampa Bay, if
Speaker 1: you're the fifth seed, the next round you gotta go
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia. If you win that one at home against
Speaker 1: Green Bay, likelihood is next round you gotta have San
Speaker 1: Francisco comes. Does that matter to you? There's the side
Speaker 1: of you that that I love the fact that there
Speaker 1: wouldn't be San Francisco. It would be it would be
Speaker 1: the three. It wouldn't be sanc Oh, I'm sorry, San
Speaker 1: Francisco be the one. You're right, Yeah, yeah, it would
Speaker 1: be it would be the dance in Minnesota. That's that's
Speaker 1: what that's Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's your If
Speaker 1: you're a cowboy fan and you want to think about
Speaker 1: if you want to think about knocking San Francisco or
Speaker 1: Philly out, you honestly don't want to play Green Bay
Speaker 1: because they're the seven seed and you let them go
Speaker 1: and knock out the two seed, which you know, whoever
Speaker 1: that is, you let a knock out that in San Francisco, Like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're the five, it's gonna be Green Bay. Maybe
Speaker 1: what time is that game they're the night game, which
Speaker 1: is an interesting thing. Good did you did you know?
Speaker 1: You know the scenario there? Right? So basically set Seattle, Yeah, Seattle,
Speaker 1: they have a three o'clock game. Yeah. So it's it's
Speaker 1: one of situations where I let me get this right.
Speaker 1: If Seattle wins, then they still aren't in. If Detroit,
Speaker 1: Detroit then has to beat Green Bay in order for
Speaker 1: them to in order for Seattle to get in. So
Speaker 1: that means Detroit's playing for nothing at seven o'clock. If
Speaker 1: if Seattle wins, they're just playing, and the question becomes,
Speaker 1: are they gonna play it? Give it everything to go
Speaker 1: out there and beat a Green Bay? Yeah? Right, that's
Speaker 1: the interesting part, right, that's the interesting part. See. So
Speaker 1: it's it's there's some a little bit of Seattle's a
Speaker 1: little bit Seattle has. Seattle has no reason to cry
Speaker 1: right now for anything. They were owing four against the
Speaker 1: NFC South, they lost to Carolina Atlanta, they lost to
Speaker 1: the weakest division in the National Football League. They were
Speaker 1: owing four. So don't don't give me any well, they're
Speaker 1: playing this, they're playing that kind of yeah for me.
Speaker 1: When you look at those two opponents, Green Bay in Tampa,
Speaker 1: you talk about Tom Brady. I feel that I would
Speaker 1: rather take my chances against Tom Brady. But what concerns
Speaker 1: me is being on the road and the Cowboys. Out
Speaker 1: of the four losses, three of those came on the road,
Speaker 1: so they've show them too. And yeah, exactly, yeah, I've
Speaker 1: only lost one at home and then three came Oh
Speaker 1: wait yeah, but these last two years, it's been pretty
Speaker 1: close to the point where you, okay, you feel that
Speaker 1: you can beat him. Now beyond that, my biggest concern
Speaker 1: and something that I'm kind of scared of, is how
Speaker 1: different the Cowboys defense currently looks compared to when they
Speaker 1: faced Tom Brady and when they faced Aaron Rodgers. So
Speaker 1: the issues that you're having defensively, I'm that's okay. Part
Speaker 1: of me thinks I have We've gotten very close and
Speaker 1: it's competitive enough to where they can beat them. But
Speaker 1: can the actual like the current Cowboys defense do enough
Speaker 1: to go up against those two quarterbacks. I don't think
Speaker 1: you could really stop Green Bay's running game. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you could stop Tampa's wide receivers. That's how
Speaker 1: you That's how I'm a judging this thing. I agree,
Speaker 1: And let's also flip it swip that. I do think
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay's defense is markedly better than Green Bay's defense.
Speaker 1: You can move the ball, I think on Green Bay exactly.
Speaker 1: So you're going to you play Green Bay, Hey, it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be a shootout similar to what it was,
Speaker 1: and you got to come out on top. You play
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, their offense probably is going to be clicking
Speaker 1: because they're starting to figure it out, and their defense
Speaker 1: is gonna be hard. Yeah, there's a lot more of
Speaker 1: a challenge I think having to go to Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: I don't care what their record is than having Green
Speaker 1: Bay coming. The problem is if it's a close game
Speaker 1: and it comes down to the last drive, you're pretty
Speaker 1: much ft because you know, you really are, you know,
Speaker 1: because if even if you like okay, you don't get
Speaker 1: that third down and you have to pun and there's
Speaker 1: a minute too and we've seen clock management issues here
Speaker 1: and leaving time and leaving timeouts and all that stuff
Speaker 1: like that. You know, it's hey, listen this either way,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take my chances playing at home. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna take I'm eight and one at home. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take my chances playing at home this year that's
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. I mean, the best situation would
Speaker 1: be you know, I mean, well, the best situation will
Speaker 1: be number one. If the Raiders would have you know,
Speaker 1: won that game, that would have changed everything. But you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, what if who's to say that the Detroit
Speaker 1: doesn't beat him? I mean, Detroit's playing well. I mean
Speaker 1: I don't see it. No one, no one expects that,
Speaker 1: no one sees it. And it could be Seattle too,
Speaker 1: I mean could be. That would be the best situation.
Speaker 1: If you're not number one, it's to be number two
Speaker 1: and Seattle comes to town, you're ideal. But because you
Speaker 1: know what I told myself last year, wasn't ever going
Speaker 1: to do that again because I really cheered for the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers to win that game so they could
Speaker 1: come play Dallas, and that was a bad move. So
Speaker 1: who knows. Who knows if you'd be sitting there next
Speaker 1: to me and going, you know, Smith hasn't thrown any
Speaker 1: completion and circle. By the way, He's had some games
Speaker 1: this year where you're like, man is this you know,
Speaker 1: Smith like, he's played well this year. And they definitely
Speaker 1: can run the ball, and they got receivers, they can
Speaker 1: run the wall. Well, yeah, I was just thinking of
Speaker 1: Green Bay getting in the tournament at seven and just
Speaker 1: knocking off all those teams and then somehow you find
Speaker 1: a way, if hind enough to keep winning, to play them,
Speaker 1: and to play them at home in the champions But
Speaker 1: you get the game at you know, you get the
Speaker 1: game at home. You might get your early games at home.
Speaker 1: But because you're five and they're seven, that maybe you
Speaker 1: get the chance to host a game, yeah, the championship game,
Speaker 1: because they're knocking guys off for you and you're you're
Speaker 1: playing the Giants. And about this scenario. So you're you're
Speaker 1: the five, you know, the five seed, and seven the
Speaker 1: Green Bay gets in. As the seven goes and beats
Speaker 1: San Francisco seven verses two and then six verses three,
Speaker 1: the Giants go and beat Minnesota. Yeah, they had them
Speaker 1: on the ropes the other Now San Francisco goes to
Speaker 1: Philly and the Giants come to Dallas in a six
Speaker 1: five game. Yep, yeah, let's go. Yeah, that's your hope.
Speaker 1: We're seeing the Giants, a team that you've beaten handily
Speaker 1: took two times come to your place in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But I'll take that again. They they they've they've dominated
Speaker 1: the Giants in both games. Score wasn't as I mean,
Speaker 1: the game wasn't close as a score. I'll take my
Speaker 1: chances with the Giants again in the playoffs. You have
Speaker 1: to over anything else. Yeah, over the rest of the Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you look at the rest of the field and
Speaker 1: you don't like him against Philadelphia this weekend. No, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, that's my point. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't respect them to the point where I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna go beat Philly. I really don't.
Speaker 1: I think Philly will figure it out. Philly's too good
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia's offense is gonna look dramatically different. Now is
Speaker 1: that quarterback? They can't medicate that that that sc joint,
Speaker 1: that that ac joint. You can medicate that thing. You
Speaker 1: can't medicate his whole game, which is his ability to
Speaker 1: run too. That's what I'm saying, take that away exactly,
Speaker 1: you take you take fifty to one hundred yards away
Speaker 1: from them running. Yea, Dallas played without them. Dallas played
Speaker 1: without him in the game, they played without him, and
Speaker 1: where they get three yards to carry? Yeah, who's gonna
Speaker 1: win MVP in the league is it? Is it? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Jalen hurts, we should should get some
Speaker 1: votes now, I mean he's gonna get votes. He should
Speaker 1: get more votes now. I mean this is what this
Speaker 1: is what true value when you look at I think
Speaker 1: he should. Quite frankly, I think he should because I
Speaker 1: do think Michael it starts wrong, Michael was wrong. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean when you just when you think about what
Speaker 1: what happens, I like, maybe he does come back and
Speaker 1: they win the game and they play. I mean, you
Speaker 1: get a chance to really see the value. And Brian,
Speaker 1: you said it a while ago. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you said it on the air, but I remember you
Speaker 1: said it way back in like middle of the November.
Speaker 1: You're like, how good the Eagles are. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we'll see. It'll see what happens if they lost their
Speaker 1: quarterback for five weeks? Yeah, could they win the same
Speaker 1: And right now they're not not? You know, so I
Speaker 1: think I think you got to give McCarthy a little
Speaker 1: bit more credit. That's what we were talking about Coach
Speaker 1: of the Year thing, because I have no love for
Speaker 1: Nick SERIANTI at all. Well, I mean on the radio,
Speaker 1: we would say it's a punchable face. I could see
Speaker 1: him giving it to the Giants guy. Yeah, how about
Speaker 1: Jackson Doug Peterson, I actually think he should win, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, Jacksonville. When you think about what
Speaker 1: the Giants were last year to what they and they
Speaker 1: didn't change a lot of that personnel. To me, the Giants,
Speaker 1: I think, I think it's clear day ball as you're
Speaker 1: you're coach, That's why it's gonna What about what about?
Speaker 1: What about Shanahan and San Francisco? I mean, well, that's
Speaker 1: a team that's lost their quarterback can continue with its win.
Speaker 1: They haven't lost with brought Purdy at quarterback. I don't
Speaker 1: believe debo and Debos hasn't hasn't been playing. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a well built team and it and knows what
Speaker 1: he's doing. I think, Yeah, all we're gonna take our
Speaker 1: final break. We'll come back. Got a game from Brian.
Speaker 1: We'll do that. Come back when we come back to
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Speaker 1: the Star. Brian got a game four? I do, I do?
Speaker 1: I do? Anna bar Garcia, You're ready? Everything good, everything?
Speaker 1: All right? What do you got? What do you got?
Speaker 1: How about this one to start today for you? You
Speaker 1: can have you can have this guy back for sure
Speaker 1: for the playoffs, Layton vander esh or Tyler Battish who
Speaker 1: you're taking? Mm Layton, I think the defense needs it
Speaker 1: a lot more. I think, well, hold on now, I
Speaker 1: gotta think of like a whole game with Jason Peters
Speaker 1: in there. Okay, all right, I thought it was huh
Speaker 1: h are we playing? You're in the You're in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I know, I know. But that's that's a tough one.
Speaker 1: That's a really it's a really tough question because I
Speaker 1: think who your playing definitely matters there with on defense.
Speaker 1: You play San Francisco, I mean I definitely would want
Speaker 1: uh Layton vander Esh out there in San Francisco run
Speaker 1: that football. That's a tough one. I mean that's what
Speaker 1: you do. Yeah, stop it, you know, but but huh,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. It's like, I don't. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: the game where you have Jason Peters going in the
Speaker 1: whole goal game. Are we sure that we'd have to
Speaker 1: do that? I mean, you got Matt Farniac that's starting
Speaker 1: up his window now. Can you use him? Can you
Speaker 1: use him at guard? Maybe? Could you use him at center? Maybe?
Speaker 1: I don't be honest as my answer, because I can
Speaker 1: Daman Clark and they can figure it out a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be hotish. I never thought i'd say it,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to be hotest I'm not. I want
Speaker 1: my I need my defense to get back to what
Speaker 1: they were earlier this season. And to me, that means
Speaker 1: I gotta get LV back and I gotta get Hankins back,
Speaker 1: because it has to start with me being able to
Speaker 1: stop the run, and those two components, to me, are
Speaker 1: the biggest factors in stopping the run. If you can
Speaker 1: do that, then it creates a lot less pressure on
Speaker 1: that secondary because that's what would you rather have Hankins
Speaker 1: and Daman Clark Because if you get it Hankins back,
Speaker 1: then you would yourather have Moan Clark or would you
Speaker 1: rather have Farniyac and Jayson Peter. I mean, I don't know. Frankly,
Speaker 1: I look at it like what I'm doing is I'm
Speaker 1: limiting both Clark and bar They will now have some
Speaker 1: split reps. I got lv In there, lv In there
Speaker 1: more than either one of them, in my opinion. So
Speaker 1: for me, I look at it and say, I just
Speaker 1: want to limit that a little bit. I don't need
Speaker 1: both of them out there most of the game, you know,
Speaker 1: I just I just look at it like I need
Speaker 1: my defense back, and I need my rush defense back
Speaker 1: more than anything else, and I need those two players now,
Speaker 1: you know, the secondary still need to help. So I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I think I would rather just have lat
Speaker 1: In back. But the thing that concerns me is we're
Speaker 1: I do feel that the Cowboys offense is starting to click.
Speaker 1: They're starting to show really really good moments and thin
Speaker 1: and things working. So it concerns me if it changed
Speaker 1: like that, even though it worked like they and Connor
Speaker 1: mc govern credit to him, he did a really really
Speaker 1: good job going in like that and Jason Peters coming in, um,
Speaker 1: but even then, does that change like that for whole
Speaker 1: game kind of throws things off. What would you choose, Brian?
Speaker 1: I would take the defender myself, I would take I
Speaker 1: would you're gonna have to play some defense in these
Speaker 1: playoff games, I think I would take the defender. By
Speaker 1: the way, I'm hearing very positive things. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: tight on Tyler Bodish by the way, for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: For the playoff game, Yeah, it's gonna be tight. From
Speaker 1: what I heard. They're going to do the best they can,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be tight. So keep an eye on
Speaker 1: that one. Nick. You can run the football, or you
Speaker 1: can create turnovers continue to create turnovers. Which one's you
Speaker 1: going with? You have one? You can run the football
Speaker 1: or you can continue to create turnovers. I will say
Speaker 1: I will right now because they are so random kind
Speaker 1: of they're on the other side of the ball and
Speaker 1: it's and you're about to answer, You're like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: the hold on. Yeah, the stress giving turnovers. I slipped twice.
Speaker 1: But I'll take the turnovers because I know they can
Speaker 1: move the football throwing, and you know, if I got turnovers,
Speaker 1: then I'm already I'm already down there. It should be
Speaker 1: I'll take turnovers. Derek. I agree with that because I
Speaker 1: look at these opponents you got, and yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 1: want to run the ball. But ultimately, if you're not
Speaker 1: throwing the ball effectively, you're not winning those games anyway,
Speaker 1: and you're probably gonna need some turnovers. So yeah, tell me,
Speaker 1: give me the turnovers, and I'll be okay and we'll
Speaker 1: make it work. By the way, that doesn't mean I
Speaker 1: can't get polet out in the flats and throw the
Speaker 1: ball to him, or get him down field and throw
Speaker 1: the ball to him and get the same kind of
Speaker 1: production out of him, just in a different way. So yeah,
Speaker 1: give me, give me the give me the turnovers, and
Speaker 1: I agree. I think I would rather get the turnoversum,
Speaker 1: because that means you're keeping the opponent from scoring you
Speaker 1: know less. But the thing is, you talk about the
Speaker 1: offense being able to win games throwing the ball. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen it off it happened. What I'm losing track
Speaker 1: of time. I know one game for sure where they
Speaker 1: just weren't really was this just this list the way
Speaker 1: Philly was a game you just really didn't run great.
Speaker 1: You didn't run great in this pass game. Then two
Speaker 1: games so then okay, they're making me. But but I'm
Speaker 1: still cautious, you know, because it's not something like a
Speaker 1: tendency that we've seen them consistently be successful at where
Speaker 1: they still win a game without running the ball as much,
Speaker 1: and we've known we've seen it before where they just
Speaker 1: they need that kind of balance. So but anyways, turnovers,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this question. Is part of what
Speaker 1: we saw in with the run game in the last
Speaker 1: two games and then also seeing explosion in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Is it one of those things where well defenses are choosing,
Speaker 1: let's say, in these last two games, to say we
Speaker 1: were going to commit extra resources to stopping the run,
Speaker 1: they then exposed themselves to being beat in the air.
Speaker 1: Like is that what we're seeing or is this just
Speaker 1: they just can't run the ball? I think that. I
Speaker 1: think the last two teams you played have been really
Speaker 1: good in run defense. I don't think it's I mean,
Speaker 1: just watching them play that extra resource, they're good. I
Speaker 1: think you get some I think I think you get
Speaker 1: some learning stuff going on at left guard, I's gonna
Speaker 1: get right guard and right tackle. I think those guys
Speaker 1: are trying to figure out each other and how they
Speaker 1: fit in the combo blocks and you know, and where
Speaker 1: they need to be. I think like the center when
Speaker 1: he's doesn't get up on the second level, you really
Speaker 1: don't run the ball all that well. You know, on
Speaker 1: the on the back side, your guy, your left tackle
Speaker 1: gets compressed at times in the running game, so there's
Speaker 1: a lot going on. You take steal out of there,
Speaker 1: you lose that continuity that you had on that right side,
Speaker 1: and now you're dealing with a lot. I mean, the
Speaker 1: one thing you kind of figured out is we can
Speaker 1: run the ball to the right side and be okay.
Speaker 1: And now you're a little bit of iffy because the left,
Speaker 1: the right guard, and the right tackle haven't had a
Speaker 1: lot of work together doing this. So I think, and
Speaker 1: I think you're playing teams that me personally, let me
Speaker 1: run the ball. I'm gonna let me run the all
Speaker 1: guy because I think that helps Dac and ultimately I
Speaker 1: think it helps Dac throw the ball. Is what I
Speaker 1: saw I would look at it. We have time for
Speaker 1: one more sure, okay, uh, Derek, has t Y Hilton
Speaker 1: already shown you enough to take more snaps away from
Speaker 1: Noah Brown? Yeah? Yeah, yes, come on, Brian, come on
Speaker 1: with a better question than that. Your third question. I
Speaker 1: actually thought you're gonna go a gallop there, but that
Speaker 1: would have been a harder question. But Noah, Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: do you take do you take snaps away from Gallup?
Speaker 1: I'm considering it. I'll change that for my show today. Thanks, Derek,
Speaker 1: appreciate that I might. I might even say that I
Speaker 1: want them on the field about the same amount of time.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I have a preference one over
Speaker 1: the other, but I definitely want him. I want him
Speaker 1: having being more part of this offense, no doubt about it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know the part about that is is that you
Speaker 1: just think of the receiver aspect of like him. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to the Noah Brown thing, like t Y
Speaker 1: Hilton or Noah Brown. Brown's one of your game or
Speaker 1: to actually, and this is not a knock on Noah Brown, right,
Speaker 1: And I'm not after him knowing I did not, but
Speaker 1: I think he went after the game quick answer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's it is right. You're thinking of him catching
Speaker 1: the football over the middle third and five. But when
Speaker 1: Noah Brown is out there, what they can do from
Speaker 1: his I mean there's plays that they that they switched
Speaker 1: to a run that they would do that they can
Speaker 1: do that better with Noah Brown than you can with
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton. So I mean it's kind of why
Speaker 1: do you have twelve personnels and things like that, because
Speaker 1: you can just be a little bit more versatile with it.
Speaker 1: So I again, I don't know Brown has. He's won
Speaker 1: some games, cost some games, but but for the most part,
Speaker 1: he's been a solid player. I think he gives you
Speaker 1: more versatility than people think because of what he could
Speaker 1: do blocking on the edge. Well here's the part, and
Speaker 1: I agree with that part, But the other part you
Speaker 1: didn't factor in was it's not just a third and five.
Speaker 1: It's what he can give you down the field that
Speaker 1: Noah Brown can't give you, right, So, so I think
Speaker 1: you can play that game back and forth. There are
Speaker 1: certain things you can get from each one of them
Speaker 1: that maybe the other person can't. But the way I
Speaker 1: look at at t Y and the reason why I
Speaker 1: want him on the field more is not only for
Speaker 1: picking up those those yards that can get me the
Speaker 1: first downs. I want defenses having to think about where
Speaker 1: is he on the field every single play, because if
Speaker 1: they're having to think about that, that's less time that
Speaker 1: they can really devote in resources they can really devote
Speaker 1: to trying to stop CD. That opens up the entire
Speaker 1: passing game, and that to me is where I feel
Speaker 1: that t Y add something. I know, it just doesn't
Speaker 1: one word answer real quick here, just one word answer
Speaker 1: and bar more playoff pressure on Dan Quinn or Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1: M uh okay, you made up for the last questions.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Oh thank you. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: feel so good about ninety seconds ago. I would change though,
Speaker 1: I would. I think I would maybe change Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: for Mike McCarthy a little bit because because of some
Speaker 1: of those decisions that you mentioned earlier, you know, those
Speaker 1: timeout decisions, lasts going forward, some of those decisions, I
Speaker 1: think it comes down to Mike McCarthy and what he's doing.
Speaker 1: It's not just Kellen Moore. I think. I think that
Speaker 1: I think you left it out because it's a given.
Speaker 1: I mean, like Mike McCarthy right as a that he's
Speaker 1: he's on a hot seat to win a playoff, to
Speaker 1: win this playoff game. Sure, both those two coordinators maybe
Speaker 1: have a chance to get the jobs head coaching jobs.
Speaker 1: All that I mean, I think I think from those two,
Speaker 1: I would say Kellen Moore a little bit more pressure.
Speaker 1: Last year, they did a decent job against the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers on defense, but they did not they did
Speaker 1: not start the game. Well, they were bad on offense
Speaker 1: to start the game. So I would say Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, yeah, I agree with you. I think
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore just because I think the defense, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: the defense has gotten a little bit of a pass
Speaker 1: even when they haven't been great. An offense will never
Speaker 1: get a pass. Now, Like you can have a game
Speaker 1: where like we've we've talked about it, like these can
Speaker 1: have a bad series at to begin a game and
Speaker 1: get behind, and then the rest of the game they're flawless,
Speaker 1: and everybody will still point back if they lose, they
Speaker 1: will still point back to the offense and say they
Speaker 1: got off to a slow start. Yeah, it's like you
Speaker 1: can't you can't win on the offense side unless you
Speaker 1: score every time you get the ball. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: people that are gonna say that they have a problem
Speaker 1: when the season comes to an end. Even then, and
Speaker 1: for those that look at just stats and forget about
Speaker 1: how the game actually went and the things that happen
Speaker 1: and there in the frustrations and all that. On paper,
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore has done a really, really good job for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and the offense offensively. So I think that
Speaker 1: taking all the things that happened in the game out
Speaker 1: and all that, Like if you are going for a job,
Speaker 1: and I mean they look at what you do too.
Speaker 1: It's not like you just look at a rescue mail.
Speaker 1: You got this many, this much shreker or this wrecker
Speaker 1: for being the offensive coordinator. But I'm starting to change
Speaker 1: my tune a little bit on give pressure on dan
Speaker 1: and Quinn and how things are kind of going the
Speaker 1: wrong way for him right now. I mean, you think
Speaker 1: about it what you just said about Kellen Moore. He
Speaker 1: had the number one offense in the league last year.
Speaker 1: I don't know what his current stats are, but I'm
Speaker 1: guessing he's top five this year. Like any offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: that's doing that over two years, that's pretty impressive. But
Speaker 1: you listen to the commentary about Kellen Moore and you
Speaker 1: would think he's not a very good offensive coordinator. Right
Speaker 1: That's where I'm like, he can't win, Like it's that's
Speaker 1: a no win situation. And so he's always, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: he's always going to get more criticism than dan Quinn will.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's because of what dan Quinn's come in
Speaker 1: and done with this defense overall, you don't really put
Speaker 1: it as every game, you're not really kind of judging
Speaker 1: him every game. But Kellen Moore is getting judged every
Speaker 1: play almost by what he does and doesn't do, So
Speaker 1: I agree. All right, appreciate you guys. Jones. We'll be
Speaker 1: back tomorrow. We're gonna jump into this final game Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus Commanders. To then for Nick Eatman. Brian brought us
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