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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Yeah, welcome gat. I can't speak today. I
Speaker 1: am so excited that I can't speak. I am so
Speaker 1: impressed of what the Cowboys were able to do last night.
Speaker 1: What a dominant win against the Rams forty four twenty one,
Speaker 1: a game that was I think very unexpected the way
Speaker 1: they won that game. And it's once again proven that
Speaker 1: once the Cowboys are able to run the ball and
Speaker 1: stop the running game from the opponents team, they walk
Speaker 1: out with a win. I guess that's the definition of speechless. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, people say, I'm speechless, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to say, like that's yeah, that was the definition of that.
Speaker 1: I could even get it out. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We need to go unanimously against the Cowboys more often,
Speaker 1: I guess. I guess, I don't know, you know, And
Speaker 1: and they they I don't feel bad about that at all. No,
Speaker 1: they don't deserve to be picked. And they they weren't
Speaker 1: playing good at all. They hadn't beaten anybody that was
Speaker 1: worth man almost cuss around here, but they just don't
Speaker 1: feel I mean, they just haven't done anything to say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna get it together. Derek kept trying
Speaker 1: to patrol me in the press box last night. He
Speaker 1: was like, you regret your pick yet I was like,
Speaker 1: I won't regret my pick if they went a hundred
Speaker 1: to nothing. Good for them. Yeah, but there was the
Speaker 1: same thing. What is it talking about? Derek satroll like
Speaker 1: that's what he does. It's fine. Uh, But I mean
Speaker 1: they they had given us no sign that they were
Speaker 1: capable of playing a game like that against the team
Speaker 1: with a pulse, and that's exactly what this Rams team was.
Speaker 1: They're fighting for their playoff life. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: weren't aware of the margin, consider Rams lose and Vikings win,
Speaker 1: which basically ends their season. I mean they're behind the
Speaker 1: a ball. This win completely, just like maybe not mathematically,
Speaker 1: but kills their realistic chances of making the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: everything to play for for the Rams, and it absolutely
Speaker 1: did not matter. H. The Cowboys were the team that
Speaker 1: looked like a buzz saw yesterday, and if you saw
Speaker 1: it coming, good for you, because you're the only one.
Speaker 1: The answer is, I don't know, Like because the question
Speaker 1: is where has this team been a year? That's that's
Speaker 1: what everyone's asking. Where has this team been? Isn't that
Speaker 1: why this year has been so frustrating? Can they be consistent?
Speaker 1: Can the seven and seven? I mean it's like boom,
Speaker 1: I guess that is a pretty consistent Which what is it? Consistent?
Speaker 1: Consistently and consistent? Yeah, which I can't talk to me either.
Speaker 1: In a way, in a way, I feel kind of indicated.
Speaker 1: I mean, I picked the Rams to win. I won't
Speaker 1: apologize for that. Is Derek here, Yes, cool, just because
Speaker 1: we have a team, just because it's the it's the group.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, you know, not that we weren't. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: he can actually have some words because we're all just
Speaker 1: kind of fumbling around, or he also picked the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to lose against the Rams. So but it's probably like
Speaker 1: some kind of caveat to this. Yeah. Well, but what
Speaker 1: I was going to say is, and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not trying to I was totally wrong. I
Speaker 1: picked him to lose. I didn't think they would play
Speaker 1: that well. But I've been insisting this whole time that
Speaker 1: I think this is a talented football team. I think
Speaker 1: they're good. No, I don't think they're good. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: they're not good. They're talented, and that talent was on
Speaker 1: display last night in all phases of the game. And
Speaker 1: I mean, you can choose to look at it wanted
Speaker 1: to way it's a super encouraging sign heading into the
Speaker 1: most important game of the year, or it's frustrating that
Speaker 1: this is the maybe and maybe the second time we've
Speaker 1: seen them play this way the Philly game as well,
Speaker 1: may like two times in fourteen games we've seen him
Speaker 1: playing the thing. I think was kind of interesting as
Speaker 1: I was looking at as I was as I was
Speaker 1: looking at the game and kind of reviewing it in
Speaker 1: my mind, there were probably two areas of this team
Speaker 1: that I thought were two of the better areas of
Speaker 1: this team, at least what I've seen this season, or
Speaker 1: what I thought going into the season. And those two
Speaker 1: areas I still think were two areas that really didn't
Speaker 1: show a lot last night, and that was really encouraging.
Speaker 1: The wide receivers. They didn't really use them very much.
Speaker 1: Ye had three receptions by the top three wide receivers.
Speaker 1: It was basically a game for the running backs in
Speaker 1: the tight ends and the defensive front. I expected them
Speaker 1: to still get more pressure. And both sacks came when
Speaker 1: they blitzed, and they came from a cornerback and they
Speaker 1: came from a linebacker. Right, So you look at those
Speaker 1: two and I talked about that in the week last week.
Speaker 1: I said, you know, if this team's going to get
Speaker 1: on a role, those three guys on that defensive line
Speaker 1: are gonna have to show up and start making their
Speaker 1: presence known. And I don't know that I necessarily thought
Speaker 1: that happened consistently enough yesterday, especially at times when I
Speaker 1: was noticing these guys had one guy in front of
Speaker 1: them and they weren't necessarily winning all at all. I
Speaker 1: think the secondary played great, though, and so you start
Speaker 1: looking at that, and that's why I started wondering right now,
Speaker 1: like was that a good sign or a bad sign?
Speaker 1: That you won in an unconventional way that areas of
Speaker 1: your team that maybe haven't played as great started to play.
Speaker 1: Really the offensive line played really great yesterday. They hadn't
Speaker 1: been that good in a lot of parts of this season.
Speaker 1: So that's the part I'm kind of, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of I don't know which way I really feel
Speaker 1: about it. I disagree with you on that, Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: I disagree that the receivers didn't play well. I think
Speaker 1: they did. I think that their presence alone is why
Speaker 1: they were able to once the offensive line was able
Speaker 1: to go hat on a hat knock people off the ball.
Speaker 1: I think the way that Rams were still playing a Murray,
Speaker 1: Cooper and Gallup helped them run the ball. And on
Speaker 1: the same for the defense, I think they got a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on Golf. I think he was run
Speaker 1: around and Gurley didn't do anything. So that defensive line,
Speaker 1: to me, did show up yesterday. Maybe not in the stats,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I still think you can show up
Speaker 1: on defensive point. But let's be clear, what I was
Speaker 1: saying was not that they didn't play well. What I
Speaker 1: said was number one. On offense, they didn't rely on
Speaker 1: the wide receivers. No, they were not a big part
Speaker 1: of what they did yesterday. On the defensive front, I think, yes,
Speaker 1: they played well stopping the run because obviously Gurley did
Speaker 1: nothing now, But I still think there were situations yesterday
Speaker 1: as far as the pass rush. Let's concerned where that
Speaker 1: when they were sending four and there were guys that
Speaker 1: literally didn't they were not being double teamed, they weren't
Speaker 1: necessarily getting home, and they weren't necessarily even some of
Speaker 1: those instances providing a whole lot of pressure. That's more
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about is the pass rush. I don't
Speaker 1: know that it's and maybe it's my expectations, my expectations.
Speaker 1: If you talk about those three guys, my expectations is
Speaker 1: my expectation is that they should be able to dominate
Speaker 1: opposing offensive lines. I don't think they've gotten to that
Speaker 1: point yet in any particular game where I said those
Speaker 1: three have dominated an offensive line, Yeah, I'd like you too.
Speaker 1: I mean, considering how bad Jerry Goff played, I mean,
Speaker 1: he was horrible yesterday. He could not have played a
Speaker 1: worst game. Every pass he threw, I'm like, I could
Speaker 1: have thrown a better pass, and I can barely hold
Speaker 1: a football, and like it was, it was really bad.
Speaker 1: So I was expecting a lot more considering that scenario.
Speaker 1: I was expecting a lot more from the defensive line.
Speaker 1: I wonder how much injuries affected both quarterbacks. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, Da Dak he played well as a well
Speaker 1: rounded effort, you know, guided the offense, picked up some
Speaker 1: crucial yards with his feet, had some crucial third down completions,
Speaker 1: but he didn't look his sharpest. I wonder if his
Speaker 1: hand is part of that. And then Goff appeared to
Speaker 1: hurt his thumb, and I buy it because he looked
Speaker 1: terrible even when he and they did put some pressure
Speaker 1: on him. Nick's right. I mean, they made him uncomfortable
Speaker 1: in the pocket a few times, but even when he
Speaker 1: had all the time in the world, He's just he
Speaker 1: was bad. He missed some routine throws. There were some
Speaker 1: throws that were just like, okay, you should be able
Speaker 1: to make as a g's exaggerating, which I do all
Speaker 1: the time, but no. But seriously, the one that stands
Speaker 1: out to me is like the dump off to Gurley
Speaker 1: all by himself fifteen yards minimum, maybe as many as
Speaker 1: thirty yards, and he just shorted it and he was
Speaker 1: not under pressure. What do you've caught it? I mean,
Speaker 1: based on too, I don't think yet they definitely did. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: there's there's a million different ways I could go with
Speaker 1: it like right off the bat. I think another you know,
Speaker 1: I mentioned the Philly game. What happened in the Philly game.
Speaker 1: They forced two quick takeaways, got up early. This team
Speaker 1: is so well built to protect a lead. And I
Speaker 1: kind of I'm stealing this talking point from my buddy
Speaker 1: Jeff Kavanaugh, because I thought it was really smart. People
Speaker 1: are like, oh, look what happens when they run the ball.
Speaker 1: This is perfect. Well, how do they get that lead?
Speaker 1: They took advantage of big plays. Uh Tavon Austin gets
Speaker 1: completely separated on a rub route fifty nine yard touchdown
Speaker 1: that comes after Yes, the running game did get him
Speaker 1: down there on Witton's first touchdown, passing game gets him
Speaker 1: up fourteen to seven, and then Sean Lee's takeaway at
Speaker 1: the end of the first half allows them to score.
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, you can just run the
Speaker 1: ball at will because you're protecting this size. It was.
Speaker 1: It was really if I'm not if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: you may have the play by play. I think it
Speaker 1: was the third touchdown drive where they actually really started
Speaker 1: relying on the run, like they were just driving the
Speaker 1: ball down the field on the ground. The previous possessions
Speaker 1: they hadn't. I mean it was a mix. Really it
Speaker 1: was literally run pass, run pass, run, run pass pass.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was all the way down the field,
Speaker 1: but it was I think it was a third touchdown
Speaker 1: possession where you start to see them really focus in
Speaker 1: on running the ball and they were having success doing
Speaker 1: it well getting you know, when you have third and
Speaker 1: third and two from the eight yard line on that
Speaker 1: possession that you're talking about, third and two from the
Speaker 1: eight and you know, Zeke gets one yard, then fourth
Speaker 1: and one, Dad gets two yards first and going from
Speaker 1: the five, Zeke for two or Zeke for three, and
Speaker 1: then Zeke for one and then Zeke for one. They
Speaker 1: kept running get in and we talked about that in
Speaker 1: the press box. We were like, the way they're running
Speaker 1: the ball, I'm gonna keep running it here. And they did.
Speaker 1: They just they stayed committed to it and they kept
Speaker 1: pounding and they were picking up a yard, picking up
Speaker 1: two yards. Remember to get the first down to touchdown.
Speaker 1: You remember that big play. Aaron Donald had no and
Speaker 1: he didn't and he's you know, he's an outstanding player
Speaker 1: and he has been for a long time and all that,
Speaker 1: but I mean, get I think Zack Martin, I mean
Speaker 1: Zack Martin into a fielo. I think those two guards
Speaker 1: played an outstanding I bet everybody did up front Frederick
Speaker 1: and all the day because they really did knock him
Speaker 1: off the ball. To me, this was the exact flip
Speaker 1: of the script of the game against the Rams back
Speaker 1: in January. Yeah, exactly. I mean, like they ran the
Speaker 1: ball for two fifty. They couldn't you know, girly there,
Speaker 1: their starback, couldn't do anything. They were dynamic. Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: did a great job. But you know, no one wants
Speaker 1: to hear it, but you gotta give the coaching staff
Speaker 1: credit for this because they came out and if Belichick
Speaker 1: out coached him, you know, in the game in New England,
Speaker 1: then Art out coach McVeigh in this game all the
Speaker 1: way because they had everything to play for. And the
Speaker 1: Cowboys came out and they they were the team that
Speaker 1: was doing some different things, which you know, not to
Speaker 1: get in we don't have to get into a whole
Speaker 1: deep conversation about like accountability and all that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: But Antoine Woods gets arrested two weeks ago, and there's
Speaker 1: plenty of people that are like, well, what's he still
Speaker 1: doing on the team. Why is he here? Well, that's
Speaker 1: probably why he kicked ass last night. He didn't he
Speaker 1: would I mean he, I mean he wrecked the Rams
Speaker 1: stuff the way that you would think Donald would ye
Speaker 1: for a nose tackle to stand out like that tackle
Speaker 1: for loss in the backfield. Consistently the Rams ran the
Speaker 1: ball for what twenty twenty two yards? That's amazing. And
Speaker 1: I told y'all this stat the other day. In the
Speaker 1: two games that Jalen Ramsey has played at at and
Speaker 1: T Stadium, the Cowboys will scored eighty four points. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's a great quarter bim comming, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that that hasn't worked out for him. Forty four
Speaker 1: less night and forty against the jag I bet he's
Speaker 1: sitting there out of day saying I do imagine, And
Speaker 1: that's a fun thing for me. I think. I think
Speaker 1: fantasy football has skewed that a little bit because you know,
Speaker 1: you need your guy to have a big game. I
Speaker 1: get it, it's the fantasy semifinals. But like and and
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys offense had been struggling, then that's a
Speaker 1: problem that Amari Cooper and Michael Gallup can't get separation
Speaker 1: but they weren't needed. It's like it's the perfect example
Speaker 1: of complimentary football. I mean, I thought it was cool
Speaker 1: the way I assume they designed their game plan to
Speaker 1: take advantage of the fact that they wouldn't need their
Speaker 1: receivers to beat that coverage. Blake Jarwin was great, Jason
Speaker 1: Witten had arguably the catch of his career, and the
Speaker 1: running game was clicking. And if if the receivers have
Speaker 1: a bad day because of that, again, if they're not moving,
Speaker 1: then that's a problem. But they did whatever they wanted to.
Speaker 1: I will say this too, and I think what what
Speaker 1: it showed me was that they were willing to also
Speaker 1: kind of adapt as the game went on, because if
Speaker 1: you notice, most of the catches the receivers got and
Speaker 1: a lot of the targets they got happened in the
Speaker 1: first half. By the second half, it was like, all right,
Speaker 1: we see the right on the wall here, we're want
Speaker 1: to run the ball in. Usually, don't do that, right,
Speaker 1: don't go ahead and do what they do. Keep banging
Speaker 1: their head against the wall, keep banging their head against
Speaker 1: the wall because they're convicted to do what they do.
Speaker 1: And in this game, it seemed like they just kind
Speaker 1: of realize, Hey, we know what's working here. Let's stick
Speaker 1: with what's working, and let's keep giving it to them
Speaker 1: in that way. And I think that to me was
Speaker 1: as much of a win for this coaching staff as
Speaker 1: anything else. All Right, we're gonna take our first break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll have a little bit deeper
Speaker 1: into some of these topics. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: the offense and the fact that they scored all these touchdowns.
Speaker 1: They had I think four touchdowns out of five possessions
Speaker 1: in the first half. I want to see if these
Speaker 1: guys saw anything that was different in what they were
Speaker 1: doing offensively than what they've done in pass games. So
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Speaker 1: one score, September twenty nineteen. Back to the Break, Welcome back.
Speaker 1: It's the second segment of the break. We're lifing st
Speaker 1: WBC Border Studios. At the start, we're talking about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys big win yesterday, they beat the Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 1: forty four twenty one. Now it all comes down to this.
Speaker 1: It'll be a Cowboys versus Eagles this Sunday three twenty five,
Speaker 1: I think is kick time, and the winner takes to
Speaker 1: lead the division. If the Cowboys win, they actually clinched
Speaker 1: the division. Eagles win, there still would be a chance
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys to get in and win the division.
Speaker 1: But this game really is everything, and we'll get into
Speaker 1: that as we get later into the week. Get you
Speaker 1: guys ready, But first, let's talk more about this Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams win. As I mentioned before the break, Cowboys
Speaker 1: yesterday offensively in the first half were as good as
Speaker 1: I've seen them this season, probably even more so when
Speaker 1: you factor in that they were playing the caliber of
Speaker 1: team that they were playing relative to when we've seen
Speaker 1: this before. We've seen the first three games of the season.
Speaker 1: We all thought this offense was all world, but they
Speaker 1: were playing teams that aren't very good. This team is
Speaker 1: a good team, and the Cowboys were moving the ball
Speaker 1: at will, score four touchdowns on five possessions. The only
Speaker 1: possession they didn't was the first one. Those next four
Speaker 1: it was four back to back to back to back touchdowns.
Speaker 1: In the interesting part, again, these weren't field goals. They
Speaker 1: actually finished the deal and got into the end zone.
Speaker 1: Did you guys see anything different in what they were
Speaker 1: doing yesterday that maybe led to that kind of success.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I saw anything different in what
Speaker 1: they were doing. I just saw a difference in the
Speaker 1: way that you know they were actually they were seemed
Speaker 1: like they were. They were running the ball more in
Speaker 1: between the tackles. Some of these outside players don't don't
Speaker 1: work that well. I don't think the Cowboys have a
Speaker 1: great team speed. I don't you know. Maybe Pollard can
Speaker 1: run on the outside and final a whole, but was Zeke.
Speaker 1: I think it was more up the middle in him
Speaker 1: just grinding out yards. So I thought that was the
Speaker 1: biggest difference there because it was taking your second and
Speaker 1: six and no second and five, and he was sometimes
Speaker 1: seven or eight yards on first down. So I just
Speaker 1: think it was the way they were running and getting
Speaker 1: those holes and he was really running hard. I thought
Speaker 1: this was his best game of the season by far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a couple thoughts, I want to get into that. But
Speaker 1: the other thing not different, just doing the smart stuff
Speaker 1: at the right times, Like quarterback sneak on in a
Speaker 1: short yard situation. It's a given when your quarterback is
Speaker 1: built like that. I think, so that was encouraging getting
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard and involved. It's like, it's not stuff that
Speaker 1: we haven't seen, it's stuff that we haven't seen consistently.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, it's frustrating to think that there
Speaker 1: have been like six games where Tony Poller has had
Speaker 1: less than ten snaps and that's not a knock on
Speaker 1: Zeke is just I mean, find ways to use your weapons.
Speaker 1: It's kind of baffling. And but just doing the smart
Speaker 1: stuff at the right times, Like again, not stuff we
Speaker 1: haven't seen, but stuff we haven't always seen. And then
Speaker 1: the other thing is, yeah, I think you know we
Speaker 1: dog We have dogged the guy a lot fans and media,
Speaker 1: Zeke is balling, And you know, you talk a lot
Speaker 1: about like running backs getting better as the game goes on.
Speaker 1: He seems like he's rounding into form as the season
Speaker 1: goes along. Maybe it's because he didn't have a training camp,
Speaker 1: maybe he wasn't feeling all the way right, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but like all of the criticisms, I know, you know,
Speaker 1: he hasn't gone to the house from sixty yards out,
Speaker 1: but we've seen the twenty and thirty yard runs the
Speaker 1: last few weeks. You forget about it because the rest
Speaker 1: of the team was playing crappy, But he's kind of
Speaker 1: had the ball rolling a little bit here over the
Speaker 1: last three weeks, and I think he looks as explosive
Speaker 1: and powerful as he has in quite some time, honestly.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, he had four or five runs yesterday
Speaker 1: where I was like, there's the juice that everybody's been
Speaker 1: saying he doesn't have anymore. Like that's it right there,
Speaker 1: and it might not again. It's not a sixty yard run,
Speaker 1: but it's a fifteen yard run where he cuts back,
Speaker 1: dodges one guy, and then plows over the next guy.
Speaker 1: Like that's the type of stuff you used to see
Speaker 1: it from him, and I just thought it was super encouraging.
Speaker 1: Both they're good. I was just gonna say, I think
Speaker 1: one of the things we've been talking about is preparation
Speaker 1: and the way this team prepares during the week and
Speaker 1: what the coaching staff does, and I think they were
Speaker 1: finally able to do that. They came prepared to this game.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that was frustrating me in
Speaker 1: somewhat somewhat frustrating to me was the fact that I
Speaker 1: wasn't feeling the tension around I wasn't feeling like this game.
Speaker 1: This team had just lost three games in a row,
Speaker 1: and that was like, okay, all right. It bothers me
Speaker 1: when you're not on the same page. It's like you
Speaker 1: should be upset too, you know. But they that just
Speaker 1: came to show that they were just feeling confident and
Speaker 1: came prepared. They were ready for it, and they knew
Speaker 1: how to adjust to the game. And by adjusting, sometimes
Speaker 1: that means figuring out exactly what to keep doing that's working.
Speaker 1: And we already talked about that in the Running game.
Speaker 1: So that was just very impressive. Never did I imagine
Speaker 1: that I was going to see Cooper rush on the
Speaker 1: field later in that game. Yeah, you know, that's the
Speaker 1: interesting part. Amber. I think for me it's it's both
Speaker 1: frustrating and encouraging because it did seem like yesterday they
Speaker 1: flipped the switch, right, and they became the team yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yesterday alone, not speaking of any other game this year,
Speaker 1: yesterday alone, they became the team that I thought they
Speaker 1: were at the beginning of the season. Highly frustrating if
Speaker 1: you're watching this team and you're expecting that of them
Speaker 1: all season and you see it for the first time
Speaker 1: in week fourteen, right, but even more so fifteen. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: But where's where it's encouraging is if they flip the
Speaker 1: switch and they keep the switch on. Who knows what
Speaker 1: they can do, but can they And that certainly hasn't
Speaker 1: been the mo this year. There's been tons of inconsistency.
Speaker 1: So again, you're in this really weird space. If you're
Speaker 1: watching this team and you're rooting for their success, you're
Speaker 1: in a really weird space because you know they have
Speaker 1: the capability to do great things, you just haven't seen
Speaker 1: them be able to put it together and do it consistent.
Speaker 1: I think it's encouraging because you know you're actually going
Speaker 1: to face a team, I don't think they're going to
Speaker 1: face it if they go to the playoffs that if
Speaker 1: they'll face a defense, it's as good as that. So
Speaker 1: certainly not a defense has more talent than that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so at least you put it out there that you
Speaker 1: can do that, and I think it's it's just it's
Speaker 1: not realistic to say, well, they don't do this every week. No,
Speaker 1: I mean the forty nine ers got beat at home
Speaker 1: by the Falcons yesterday. I mean, I think the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers are a really, really good team, but I
Speaker 1: just think that, yeah, you can see you get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you have you have the potential to go
Speaker 1: and beat anyone. You also have the potential to go
Speaker 1: out there and play terrible. I mean, look what the
Speaker 1: Rams did. I mean, like Daves said earlier, they had
Speaker 1: everything and it was do or die for them. That
Speaker 1: wasn't do or die for the Cowboys. And even next
Speaker 1: week's not do or die for the Cowboys. Um, it
Speaker 1: is for the Eagles, but it's not, and it's really not.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, if they lose to the Eagles, that's
Speaker 1: it's not great, but it's still a very I think
Speaker 1: it's a decent chance that they get in even if
Speaker 1: they lose to the Eagles. I'd rather not leave it
Speaker 1: and leave it to Eli and Daniel Jones to go
Speaker 1: to beat the Eagles. But the Eagles want to be beat.
Speaker 1: I mean, they wanted the Giants to beat them. What
Speaker 1: they just couldn't do it. They wanted the Redskins to
Speaker 1: beat them, but they couldn't do crazy part was up
Speaker 1: to this week you could say some of the thing
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys, and that's where again, that's where it
Speaker 1: gets back to that frustration thing is which of these
Speaker 1: teams is the real Cowboys? Which of these teams is
Speaker 1: a team you can maybe rely on to be to
Speaker 1: show up in that way for the rest of this
Speaker 1: is Dallas's game, and the Eagles have the buff game.
Speaker 1: That's what they have. They went to Buffalo and they
Speaker 1: just toot their butt all over the field and that
Speaker 1: was their game. And this is the Cowboys game. They
Speaker 1: beat the Packers too, right, I don't know if that
Speaker 1: was a close game. Yeah, yeah, they did go and
Speaker 1: beat them. It. You know, it's funny. It's just the
Speaker 1: timing is really funny. Not to pat myself on the
Speaker 1: back because I didn't even I didn't predict anything. I
Speaker 1: just asked a question yesterday morning. I was like, I
Speaker 1: tweeted this out. I was I said, is there a
Speaker 1: level that this team could play at on Sunday afternoon
Speaker 1: that would restore your faith and make you feel optimistic
Speaker 1: about the last three weeks and maybe the playoffs? And
Speaker 1: I even like I threw an example in there. I
Speaker 1: was like, if they crushed the Rams forty five to ten,
Speaker 1: is that good enough for you to feel like, all right,
Speaker 1: we could do something with this? And everybody just murdered me.
Speaker 1: And then about just halfway through the second quarter, people
Speaker 1: started tweeting me like, holy crap, it's happening. And I
Speaker 1: think that's that's where everybody's at right now. It's like,
Speaker 1: it was a good enough performance if restore your optimism.
Speaker 1: I think I'll say this. We're gonna hold that question
Speaker 1: because that's actually what we're gonna talk about tomorrow, is
Speaker 1: I mean, what does this mean they're playing? That's the
Speaker 1: funny thing. I was gonna say that at the top
Speaker 1: of the segment is like, and I get it, we
Speaker 1: need to fill five days of shows, but like, I
Speaker 1: don't care about the Rams game anymore now that it's over, like,
Speaker 1: prove you can do it again. That's absolutely proof you
Speaker 1: can do it again. Prove People keep saying like we
Speaker 1: needed this momentum. I'm like, you don't have momentum yet.
Speaker 1: You gotta do something with it before it's momentum. You
Speaker 1: just won a game, you snap the losing streak, and
Speaker 1: now I want to see what you do with it,
Speaker 1: because history this season indicates that you won't. And it
Speaker 1: all sets up nicely because they have a game coming
Speaker 1: up next where it is a division rival that obviously
Speaker 1: knows them and they know they know each other, right,
Speaker 1: and this is a game that can clinch it for you.
Speaker 1: So in that circumstance, can you now go in and
Speaker 1: play the same kind of game is what you played
Speaker 1: against the Ramus. It may have be the same outcome.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying necessarily have to beat them forty four
Speaker 1: to twenty one. The point is, can you go and
Speaker 1: give the same level of effort and same level of
Speaker 1: execution to where you can really really take it to
Speaker 1: them and win a game convincingly in a more hostile situation,
Speaker 1: or even win a close game, but do it convincingly
Speaker 1: where people feel like, man, this is a different thing.
Speaker 1: They're playing at a different level than they've played throughout
Speaker 1: most of this year. You know, the exciting thing for
Speaker 1: me is that I truly believe that it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: who the opponent is. It's more the Cowboys own doing.
Speaker 1: Even when you see when you saw them playing against
Speaker 1: teams with winning records earlier in the year, throughout the season,
Speaker 1: the mistakes that they weren't doing, I mean, that wasn't
Speaker 1: because the opposing team completely dominated them and took them
Speaker 1: out of the game. That was their own doing own decisions,
Speaker 1: coaching decisions, their own mistake, creating penalties here and there.
Speaker 1: So that's a positive thing because if they can clean
Speaker 1: up their own game, then they can really make some
Speaker 1: damage in the near future. So to me that I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the brighter side, and they seem to hold
Speaker 1: fully have cleaned things up with this game, at least
Speaker 1: in this game. At least in this game, and we'll
Speaker 1: see if it carries all of it over. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go and take our final break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about the kicker
Speaker 1: and what he did yesterday. Some of it good, maybe
Speaker 1: some of it not so good. We'll talk about when
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Speaker 1: the Break final segment of the Break Life in the
Speaker 1: SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star Nick which you got
Speaker 1: for someone. We got a few more sessions of the
Speaker 1: Christmas at the Stars, the Annual Christmas of the Star
Speaker 1: pretended by Alverton's and Tom Thumb returns to the Star.
Speaker 1: It's actually been going for a few weeks here twenty
Speaker 1: minute show Electrifies the Star at six pm every Friday
Speaker 1: and Saturday before between now and December twenty first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really cool little thing they got out there at the
Speaker 1: tree is actually like a more days. It's an animated
Speaker 1: tree that has like video built into the tree. It's
Speaker 1: you got to see it to believe it. But it's
Speaker 1: really really cool. Got some dancing animation that happens with it.
Speaker 1: Santa gets out there. I think Santa breaks dances. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really really cool to hold a really cool event
Speaker 1: for you to take the kids out too. And now
Speaker 1: the kids are going to be out of school, as
Speaker 1: mine will after this week. I'll be looking for something
Speaker 1: to do get him out of the house before they
Speaker 1: drive you crazy. It's a great option, right Nick. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do a good job. I'm just saying, like, you know,
Speaker 1: you get free. Yeah, let's come check it out, all right.
Speaker 1: Let's jump back in Cowboys versus Rams. Cowboys get the win. Um,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the kicker man Kai for bat. This
Speaker 1: is his first game with the Cowboys. Um goes three
Speaker 1: for three field goals, five for five from the extra points.
Speaker 1: Pretty good day. I shouldn't even say pretty good day.
Speaker 1: That was a great day based upon what we've seen
Speaker 1: this season. For you to have five opportunities to kick
Speaker 1: balls to get points and make all all eight of them,
Speaker 1: I should say that's a really, really great day. There
Speaker 1: were two moments at the beginning of the game and
Speaker 1: then a little later in the game where he kicked
Speaker 1: the ball out of bounds. He said after the game,
Speaker 1: like literally he can't remember a time when he's ever
Speaker 1: done that. Certainly not done that twice in a game.
Speaker 1: That all being said, give me your evaluation of what
Speaker 1: you saw from kay for Bath yesterday and how encouraged
Speaker 1: you are or not with the kicker position. I saw
Speaker 1: a kicker that's already hit more field goals from forty
Speaker 1: to forty nine than Brett Maher did in the first
Speaker 1: thirteen games. So that's a win for me. I mean,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't attempt to feel goal longer than fifty
Speaker 1: yards the rest of the time he's here, that's a okay.
Speaker 1: Cowboys have a good enough offense, if it's even questionable,
Speaker 1: they should be going forward anyway, So hit him from
Speaker 1: fifty and n be consistent doing it, and that's great.
Speaker 1: Kickoffs out of bounds not good, But the field is
Speaker 1: fifty three yards wide. I'm I'm confident he can figure
Speaker 1: it out. He can figure out how to put it
Speaker 1: somewhere in the field of play that he can figure
Speaker 1: that's easier to prefer perfect during practice time on here.
Speaker 1: I think you can definitely clean that up. And for
Speaker 1: that to be his first game, than yeah, the irony
Speaker 1: all come to the Cowboys. How many yards wide is
Speaker 1: a goalpost? Like eight? I don't even know. I don't
Speaker 1: even know the footage, but it's a lot narrower than
Speaker 1: a football field. So the fact that he could put
Speaker 1: five different kicks through the uprights and two kickoffs out
Speaker 1: of bounds is it's funny. Not in a good way,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I'll take that. If you're hitting all
Speaker 1: five field goals, it has come down. It does. Are
Speaker 1: you really saying it? Are you saying I'm saying special
Speaker 1: teams coaching, you don't he can kick it straight down
Speaker 1: the middle. They're asking him to kick it the directional
Speaker 1: to kick it over here, and then that he goes
Speaker 1: out of bounds. Just kick just kick it, Just kick
Speaker 1: it as far as you can straight down the middle
Speaker 1: of the field and try to get fancy. I don't
Speaker 1: try to angle it and try to pin the guy
Speaker 1: to deep and all that stuff. Don't do all that
Speaker 1: just because just kick it straight. Yeah. The field goals
Speaker 1: were good. It looks a little different coming, but it
Speaker 1: also looks good when they goes right through the middle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good they did. They at least one of them looked
Speaker 1: kind of knucklely. Yeah, And I was like, like, my
Speaker 1: gut reaction was like, oh, that doesn't look very good.
Speaker 1: Oh never mind. I went in. Okay, cool, and that's
Speaker 1: all that matters. I found myself by the end of
Speaker 1: the game starting to kind of take it for granted.
Speaker 1: Bit when you when you got dextronog, Yeah, maybe that's it.
Speaker 1: That's exact. But earlier the game, I was like, oh god,
Speaker 1: oh god, oh god, the exact same thing, because he's
Speaker 1: gonna do that Philadelphia watching it, it's the exact same
Speaker 1: thing as Michael Bennett, Like you like, we're not even
Speaker 1: talking about two straight off sides flags because this was
Speaker 1: a blowout. But then if it's seventeen to thirteen with
Speaker 1: five minutes to play next week and he goes off sides,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be spending a whole segment on it on
Speaker 1: Monday morning. True, so I wouldn't say take it for
Speaker 1: I don't take it for I can't. I can't be comfortable. No,
Speaker 1: don't get don't get comfortable at any point of what's
Speaker 1: left in the season. No, there, this team has done
Speaker 1: nothing to show that you should feel comfortable with anything.
Speaker 1: I wasn't saying the same I was saying the kicker
Speaker 1: like I was starting. The kicker definitely hasn't. I'll started
Speaker 1: to get a little comfortable by the end of the year.
Speaker 1: But I'll say this, and this might give you a
Speaker 1: segue to what we're going next. But I've never ever
Speaker 1: seen a game that started off as crappy as that.
Speaker 1: You told us without one play. We didn't even had
Speaker 1: a snap yet, and you've already had two mistakes. That's
Speaker 1: not what you said. No, I said two major f ups.
Speaker 1: And I censored my tweet because I was just like,
Speaker 1: screw it. Oh, And you know, honestly, I knew you
Speaker 1: were going to do something because you looked at me
Speaker 1: and you were like and you didn't have any words,
Speaker 1: and I was and then you start typing. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh God, whatever he's about to put on Twitter? And
Speaker 1: then I hear Taylor back there like Nick and I
Speaker 1: can't believe you did that. Yeah, so well it was
Speaker 1: I mean, a guy kicks out of bounds and then
Speaker 1: of course it started. Let me come back and say
Speaker 1: it wasn't a major um mistake. But so I see
Speaker 1: the tour coming by. But I mean, Dak seriously, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the court, okay, So so paint to
Speaker 1: paint the picture here. I mean, you got Dak out there,
Speaker 1: he and Tank are talking and they're showing the video
Speaker 1: right now. You guys blame Dak for this, I know, yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of how because I blamed DeMarcus Lawrence and Jalen Smith. Honestly,
Speaker 1: here's the problem. Here's what I here's what happened. The
Speaker 1: verbiage of the coin toss is so needlessly complicated, like
Speaker 1: actually not though, no, I mean, well, for okay, yes,
Speaker 1: all you gotta do is go out there and say defer.
Speaker 1: That's all. But Das, here's the thing you say defer,
Speaker 1: but nobody ever, like the problem is nobody's ever gonna
Speaker 1: choose to kick kick on purpose, Like nobody's gonna say
Speaker 1: just let me finish. Nobody's ever gonna be like yeah,
Speaker 1: we want to kick, That's what we want to do.
Speaker 1: They know that once they defer, the Rams will choose
Speaker 1: to take the ball because otherwise they kick twice. That's
Speaker 1: how this whole thing goes. So d Law and Jalen
Speaker 1: they played like crap last week. They're chomping at the bit,
Speaker 1: like they know they're gonna be on defense because they're
Speaker 1: gonna get the ball to start the second half, but
Speaker 1: you still have to wait for the Rams to say that,
Speaker 1: and instead they were like defense, defense, we want defense,
Speaker 1: and Das all of a sudden like, well yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll kick because we're gonna be on defense because y'all
Speaker 1: are gonna choose to receive. Because this is obvious, they
Speaker 1: just skipped the whole rim. They skipped the part where
Speaker 1: you let the Rams say the ball. And that all
Speaker 1: makes sense until you get to Dak's postgame interview where
Speaker 1: Dax is somebody asked him is there a chance when
Speaker 1: anybody would actually choose to kick? And what he says
Speaker 1: is baffling to me. He says, well, yeah, yeah, depending
Speaker 1: on circumstances of the game and the conditions of the game.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, there's never a situation I don't you
Speaker 1: tell me whatever the situation you think could be, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I'm still gonna say either, I'm gonna defer,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the ball. I'm no circumstance where I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say yes, I want to kick both hass. I
Speaker 1: think Dak was being a smart ass. Honestly, I think yeah,
Speaker 1: just like not. I just think he was like not
Speaker 1: giving me to come off like that. I was with
Speaker 1: sitting there and I just I detected some smart ass
Speaker 1: or it happened I wasn't happened any game up words
Speaker 1: his first year. It happened with the Cowboys because he
Speaker 1: wanted it to. I don't know. I think he just
Speaker 1: same thing. Didn't didn't know the rules and the NFL
Speaker 1: or something like that. But you know, hey, they have
Speaker 1: replay for everything, and they went to the audio and
Speaker 1: they get figured It was a little disturbing that it
Speaker 1: that you can't that we couldn't figure that out earlier.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know who dropped the ball on
Speaker 1: that one, but why why can't they just clean that up? Side?
Speaker 1: Like quicker, I always joined Aaron Andrews the one telling
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett why it was a mess. Yeah, she's the one.
Speaker 1: Not anybody else, not Todd, none, that someone else, Aaron Andrews.
Speaker 1: We figured it out, coach. I always joke that interview.
Speaker 1: I always joke that fans don't understand the actual kickoff
Speaker 1: rule because they play matten and you just you win
Speaker 1: the toss and you choose to receive, and then the
Speaker 1: person that lost the toss chooses to receive. Maybe they
Speaker 1: should just do that because nobody's gonna kick the ball twice.
Speaker 1: I don't care what Dak said. Nobody's gonna do that.
Speaker 1: So win the point toss and then you like somebody
Speaker 1: chooses and then you go and it's fine, it's whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you do the opposite of which the first half
Speaker 1: the cow the Cowboys captain's skipped the step where you
Speaker 1: have to let the loser of the coin toss say
Speaker 1: kick or receive. Well, maybe this is the reason why
Speaker 1: you shouldn't send twenty guys out there for the coin toss,
Speaker 1: but just point one and he just goes out there.
Speaker 1: He knows I'm gonna say one or two words. I'm
Speaker 1: either gonna say I'm going to receive or I'm going
Speaker 1: to defer. That's all you need to say one of
Speaker 1: the also, well, throw Wald Anderson out here too, because,
Speaker 1: like he Dak said what he needed to say. He
Speaker 1: was like, we're gonna kick or we'll play the guy.
Speaker 1: I'm confusing myself even talking about it. Dak said we
Speaker 1: want to defer. He said defer and we'll kick because
Speaker 1: the Rams are obviously gonna take the ball. But Walt
Speaker 1: Anderson was like, oh, you want to kick? Okay, you
Speaker 1: can kick, and then Dak was like, uh, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: I don't know what just happened. Did see how the
Speaker 1: unsure he was is your Oh yeah, he got really
Speaker 1: confused by the side. Wall said that I think he realized.
Speaker 1: I honestly think at that point, look he realized. Here
Speaker 1: He's like, and he starts looking at d Law like
Speaker 1: is that right? Wait? Uh yeah, I think so. Panics
Speaker 1: like what did you notice that? He kind of uncomfortably laughed.
Speaker 1: From what I heard, the Rams were actually laughing because
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, they just gave us the ball twice, right,
Speaker 1: because I think they realize, oh, when he said do
Speaker 1: you want to kick and he's like yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they realize, oh gosh, we got the ball. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get the ball twice, and you know what, it
Speaker 1: did matter, And I mean it's easier to go out.
Speaker 1: It didn't really matter. It actually did because it's twenty
Speaker 1: eight to seven. Just think about if the Rams get
Speaker 1: the ball. We know that there's a hundred people in
Speaker 1: the stands. When when you know, you start the third quarter,
Speaker 1: everyone goes out and thinks it's a twenty five minute
Speaker 1: a half time, but it's only thirteen minutes, and so
Speaker 1: they don't they're not back in their seat. It's very quiet.
Speaker 1: They go down to score and it's twenty eight fourteen,
Speaker 1: and then now it's a game. It's a game now
Speaker 1: Aaron Donalds, guys, everybody ready to go, and instead Cowboys
Speaker 1: go down and get a field goal thirty one seven.
Speaker 1: I think it changes everything. So that was very important
Speaker 1: to get the ball there. I was playing an interesting
Speaker 1: game yesterday and I played it with Dave. I was
Speaker 1: at multiple points in the game. I said, you feel
Speaker 1: comfortable yet changing your pick? Oh? I already talked about control.
Speaker 1: Actually no, I did the same thing my wife when
Speaker 1: I got home, because she watches the game after, like
Speaker 1: you know, he got kids. You can't watch it live,
Speaker 1: so she's recorded and she was at halftime when I
Speaker 1: got home and I was like, she was like, don't
Speaker 1: tell me what happened. I was like, well, I was like,
Speaker 1: you just tell me. At whatever point you feel like
Speaker 1: you're comfortable to Cowboys are gonna win, just scream out
Speaker 1: to me, Hey, they're gonna win now. And literally it
Speaker 1: wasn't until maybe it wasn't. Yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: around that time in the fourth quarter. And the point
Speaker 1: was The point I'm making is that I think everybody
Speaker 1: probably believes that this game wasn't really one for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys until later, certainly after halftime. Certainly, I would say
Speaker 1: probably a quarter after halftime at least in my opinion,
Speaker 1: just because I have seen this team have these moments
Speaker 1: when they just fall apart and things just don't work anymore.
Speaker 1: And I know that's an explosive offense on the other side.
Speaker 1: So I didn't feel comfortable, and so I agree with
Speaker 1: your point. If you're talking about it from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of whether that matter or not, it certainly matters, because
Speaker 1: you're right, twenty eight fourteen, after one possession into the
Speaker 1: second half, I don't feel comfortable to Cowboys necessarily gonna win.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just not don't. I felt totally comfortable and
Speaker 1: Matt like whatever, at what point at halftime? I asked
Speaker 1: you to get that put that question and you were like, Nope,
Speaker 1: not there yet. Whatever doubt that I had at twenty
Speaker 1: eight seven when they got points on the first possession
Speaker 1: of the third quarter, I was like, yeah, they're there,
Speaker 1: we go. That's points. That's the point we're making, right,
Speaker 1: That's why it matters because without that, I think we
Speaker 1: all if it would if it would have become twenty
Speaker 1: eight fourteen with them scoring coming right out of the half,
Speaker 1: I think we all are sitting there like, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: could this could this flip on us? Right? Yeah? And
Speaker 1: that's the point, Like, that's a really good team on
Speaker 1: the other side. And the Cowboys have had their moments
Speaker 1: when they kind of lose it a little bit. Can
Speaker 1: we just real quick talk about Jason Witten making and
Speaker 1: catch it better? Can we can we talk about Shawn
Speaker 1: Lee head do both talk about both? That was like
Speaker 1: my heart, It was like a warm hug to my
Speaker 1: heart when I saw Sean Lee get that and not
Speaker 1: only catch the ball but then started to miss tackles
Speaker 1: and get away with you know, getting there. Are we
Speaker 1: going to play it on there. Maybe it was so
Speaker 1: exciting and just seeing his smile afterwards too, it just,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that's exactly what made my whole Season's
Speaker 1: exactly what the social media team that That's what they
Speaker 1: tweeted out, like retweet if this like melted your heart
Speaker 1: or something like that, and I'm like, okay, like where
Speaker 1: did this come from? Because it was said in English.
Speaker 1: It wasn't me. You sit right up there. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody was so even Dak said it. I mean the
Speaker 1: only person that didn't really love it, I guess is
Speaker 1: Kyle because Kyle's not going to show it but just
Speaker 1: runs whatever they give. What do you don't have Sean Lee,
Speaker 1: We even through we don't have that, but that that
Speaker 1: was impressive the way he was able to catch that
Speaker 1: ball and then turn and keep going and not you
Speaker 1: know when you make that turn at his eighte Okay,
Speaker 1: now we're watching. You asked him you shall receive it.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Jen Smith. Do you think Jalen would have
Speaker 1: made that interception he was flying? If Sean doesn't get it,
Speaker 1: Jalen's least tipping it. Sean's got I think fourteen career
Speaker 1: picks after that one and Jalen has none, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with Sean. I'm glad Shan's pretty sure. You're
Speaker 1: sure handed. He had nine picks over three seasons from
Speaker 1: eleven to thirteen. Uh and and I think that was
Speaker 1: the second one in the last four years. Have the
Speaker 1: Witten catch best catch of his career. There we go,
Speaker 1: there we I think so Dan San Francisco game was
Speaker 1: really good a couple of years ago, but this was
Speaker 1: and then the spike. Of course, did y'all hear the
Speaker 1: story about it? Tell the story. We don't have time.
Speaker 1: We don't have time for that. Who's gonna stop us? Okay?
Speaker 1: All right? He said, which story? The one that involves
Speaker 1: day Yeah, that's the one I thought you so, so
Speaker 1: this one, he said, I have to call my granddad
Speaker 1: and apologize him to him because this is probably my
Speaker 1: first spike in Like that's a week spike too, like
Speaker 1: I was told it was across the spike. Anyways, first
Speaker 1: spike in like sixteen years. But I will say this,
Speaker 1: he gave Dave like quite the tongue lashing going on.
Speaker 1: He gave me the business a few weeks ago because
Speaker 1: and oors were on when when nuts after beating Alabama
Speaker 1: and he's like, act like you've been there. He's like,
Speaker 1: I thought you were lsu. I thought you win games
Speaker 1: all the time. Act like you've been there before. He
Speaker 1: was like wow. He was like like me, I hand
Speaker 1: the ball back to the ref and smirk at him
Speaker 1: in the locker room. I didn't see him last night.
Speaker 1: I'll probably bring it up when I see him on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Hill kind of like, oh, yeah, you got It's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, the moment he could do it right, No,
Speaker 1: that the moment is everything, like you should celebrate in
Speaker 1: a moment like that. Wasn't wrong with good than that too,
Speaker 1: because down to our left there's a lot of snickers.
Speaker 1: Every time he catches the ball, card one yard for
Speaker 1: two yards, go get it, grandpa. I mean every every
Speaker 1: time he does it, talking about the other media people
Speaker 1: in there, you know, one yard, two yards, and then
Speaker 1: he makes it catch like that, and everybody looks over
Speaker 1: at this one particular guy and it's like, oh, you
Speaker 1: can see it, Clarence Clarence apologize. That was cool to see.
Speaker 1: I mean, Witton set the at the time, set the
Speaker 1: tight end record for catches in twenty twelve, and I
Speaker 1: believe Lee had four picks that year, or maybe it
Speaker 1: was the next year. Either way it was they turned
Speaker 1: back the clock. It was fun to see. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a good game. We'll see if if they can
Speaker 1: find mean anything, doesn't meanything. We'll talk about that tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about feels can't bring their championship hats to
Speaker 1: the sideline and the Cowboys can there. You go to
Speaker 1: the sideline, to the sideline T shirt game, all right,
Speaker 1: only on the Cowboys sideline? Will will they be there?
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