Speaker 1: And Bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Friday, November first,
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode number seventy four. Welcome to
Speaker 1: another edition of Break seventy four. Seventy four. Thank I
Speaker 1: didn't really didn't know that. Why is there something you
Speaker 1: need to do? Yeah, I'll do it at a break
Speaker 1: all right. Sorry, I didn't realize that he was seventy four.
Speaker 1: If you paid attention, yes, say, you would have known
Speaker 1: his seventy times. I got it. I never pay attention
Speaker 1: to your leader. I know because every time when I'm
Speaker 1: starting my show, if if you guys notice Ambers on
Speaker 1: her phone, days on his phone? Perfect is that? And
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, it's actually kind of
Speaker 1: cold in here. So I was like, man, I don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. I'll just tweet something later. But if
Speaker 1: it is seventy four, see perfect. For those of you
Speaker 1: that don't know Bob, that was his number seventy four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: people that are listening, they don't know that they're on
Speaker 1: the wrong. If you're listening to Cowboys Break, I bet
Speaker 1: you know there's only one seventy four. There's only one
Speaker 1: player to ever wear it, and it's him. It's a
Speaker 1: regular Seas game. Yeah, yeah, anyone that matters put some
Speaker 1: respect on Jalen jelks name. That's true. So when anytime
Speaker 1: somebody comes in and they say, oh, they got seventy four, like,
Speaker 1: that's not looking good for you. They don't expect you
Speaker 1: to be here for long or in that number. Cool
Speaker 1: T shirt? What is that though? Let people know what
Speaker 1: it is. Um, it's the Dallas Cowboys. Um throwback shirts.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm never really player card T shirts.
Speaker 1: It's honestly, it's one of the coolest promotions that I
Speaker 1: can remember. Like they if you're not aware of this,
Speaker 1: they release a shirt for a different player on every Monday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they've been doing. Is it Monday? Yeah? I think
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah. I think they make an available Monday.
Speaker 1: But there they got them for all different players like
Speaker 1: Bob Lily, Drew Pearson, Roger Staubach, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin.
Speaker 1: I think this is Irvan's week. I'd like they're selling
Speaker 1: Irvan shirts in the store this week. The one that
Speaker 1: Nick has is from last weekend. Yeah, there he is
Speaker 1: in there. You go. Um. Yeah, and they like they
Speaker 1: so they make them available. They stay available. So if
Speaker 1: you missed to your favorite player. You can go get them.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about the Darren Woodson shirt. I don't
Speaker 1: remember remember when it comes out, but it'll come out
Speaker 1: at some point this season. Yeah. Yeah, they're really really
Speaker 1: cool promotions. When they first told us about it, I
Speaker 1: thought it was really really great promotion, especially for people
Speaker 1: that have been fans for a long time. It's got
Speaker 1: some really really cool, really cool and they got some
Speaker 1: modern ones too, like they have dak Zeke de Marcus.
Speaker 1: I think the Marcus were Layton vander Esh. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so really cool. So nice. Okay, you guys get to
Speaker 1: see now that we're done selling T shirts. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: what we do, Yeah, we do. We do a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff. Yeah all right, so let's let's jump into
Speaker 1: this thing. I need to talk We need to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about some injuries and and get to
Speaker 1: uh the enactors for this week, and then Amber has
Speaker 1: a game for us. We've been trying to get this
Speaker 1: game in now for like two weeks, and this morning
Speaker 1: Amber hit me up and it was like, we better
Speaker 1: get it on the show to today. See you. No,
Speaker 1: this is what really happened. I got a text from
Speaker 1: Derek saying, hey, I don't really know what to talk
Speaker 1: about on the show. We will completely bad. Keep the
Speaker 1: curtain a little, I keep it real. This has gone
Speaker 1: on for for me for twenty years. The Friday after
Speaker 1: the bye week's stream, you're like, give me a game, Please,
Speaker 1: give me give a game. Then see your no will work? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's you're about to say, give me a game. See
Speaker 1: or no? He said, we need a game. We're gonna
Speaker 1: play games here, all right, So we're gonna do that.
Speaker 1: Let's talk first about injuries. The interesting thing is there's
Speaker 1: only one guy that that is not practicing. That's Cam Flamming.
Speaker 1: You guys mentioned that yesterday. The assumption right now is
Speaker 1: that these Cam's not gonna play. He's not playing. There
Speaker 1: were five guys that were limited in practice, Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: Lyall Collins, Zach Martin, Tyrn Smith, Layton Vanderesh. Any of
Speaker 1: those five expected to maybe not play. So this is
Speaker 1: tricky because it's Monday night. I know it's Friday, it's
Speaker 1: the last show we're gonna do, but it's only Thursday
Speaker 1: for them, so it's early. I think I feel good
Speaker 1: about most of those guys. I'm curious about Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: because his hamstring was pretty severe. He's missed. I think too,
Speaker 1: he's been missing since the Green Bay game or the
Speaker 1: Jets game. I'm sorry, Yeah, you heard in the Jets game.
Speaker 1: So I'm worried about him, and I'm a little nervous
Speaker 1: about Layden Vanderesh just you know, he had a stinger.
Speaker 1: It was pretty severe from what we heard as far
Speaker 1: as stingers go, I think they're easing him back in,
Speaker 1: which again, I mean, you know, I wish it was
Speaker 1: actually Friday and we'd have a better idea. I just
Speaker 1: I don't have a good read on that. But those
Speaker 1: are two guys you keep an eye off. The guys
Speaker 1: that are on that list, Like Zach Martin is gonna play.
Speaker 1: I think both of the offensive tackles are fine. I'm
Speaker 1: not as sure about Brown and Vanderesh's surprised if Brown
Speaker 1: doesn't play. I watched him kind of in his rehab
Speaker 1: like a week ago, like on the Chords, and the
Speaker 1: thought because we were we couldn't tell who it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were just like, I don't know who this guy is,
Speaker 1: but he looks like he's ready to go, And it
Speaker 1: was him. So that was a week ago. Unless he's
Speaker 1: had any setbacks, which I don't think he has. I
Speaker 1: think he'll be good. He'll be good. I wouldn't. I
Speaker 1: would not be surprised if all five play. And that's,
Speaker 1: like I said, it sucks because that thing's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It's you know, they don't play till Monday night, it's Friday,
Speaker 1: or it's Friday morning. So between that's seventy two hours.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow is Friday. I know it's Friday for them, but
Speaker 1: for us, for fans that are trying to figure out
Speaker 1: that who's gonna play. I just hate and Garrett. I mean,
Speaker 1: I get it. I don't understand what he does. It's
Speaker 1: so like the effort, the effort that they take to
Speaker 1: do this, like you know, to make things feel like
Speaker 1: they are every you know, every Friday. They have certain
Speaker 1: songs they play on Friday. I can't remember the guy's name,
Speaker 1: but they play a song called Friday at practice. They
Speaker 1: didn't play it today, they will probably play They're gonna
Speaker 1: play it tomorrow. They serve Split Peace soup in the
Speaker 1: cafeteria on Fridays. I believe that's a Jason Garrett favorite.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna serve it today. They're gonna serve it tomorrow,
Speaker 1: like all of this, like they go to such crazy
Speaker 1: lengths to get people into that mindset. You go by
Speaker 1: our office today about two o'clock, it's Friday, Friday, walk
Speaker 1: it or anything you got for us? Yeah, you got
Speaker 1: lots of us, but around us. Yeah, maybe let's talk
Speaker 1: about an actives. Kem Fleming will obviously put on there.
Speaker 1: But then you got guys like Adam Redmond, Joe Jackson,
Speaker 1: Tristan Hill, Connor mcgovernment, Luke Gifford, Donovan Wilson, sorry, Ventrell Bryant,
Speaker 1: Devin Smith, Cedric Wilson. Right, of all those guys, where
Speaker 1: do you find six more guys who will be an active?
Speaker 1: Give me one receiver for sure, Devin Smith or Cedric Wilson,
Speaker 1: probably both, because if Cop and Cooper are both healthy,
Speaker 1: I don't know that you need him both. We'll just
Speaker 1: take one for sure, Devin Smith probably. Yeah. Um give
Speaker 1: me Adam Redman, he's you know, all reliable. Give me
Speaker 1: Triston Hill, I mean yeah, yeah, just doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: he's playing right based on what's happened to before and
Speaker 1: adding a new another guy. Well, let's first of all
Speaker 1: the other guy. Um it means it is Michael Bennett,
Speaker 1: because Michael Bennett replaced Hamilton, right, Hamilton who was inactive? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what are you thinking like this like the I don't
Speaker 1: know which you know what I'm yeah, I'm then you
Speaker 1: know what I'm thinking? I live with a theater nerd. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was about to go. I'm sorry. Um yeah. So
Speaker 1: Tristan Hill probably he was sent home from practice. They
Speaker 1: added a d tackle to the mix. We never talked
Speaker 1: about that, but yeah, go ahead, Sorry, not much to
Speaker 1: talk about it. I mean these guys they were late,
Speaker 1: and Jason Garrett I think, wanted to kind of send
Speaker 1: a message. And you know, I don't disagree with that,
Speaker 1: Antoine woulds Tristan Hill. They were they were late for
Speaker 1: a meeting on Tuesday. They were gone for four days
Speaker 1: and then they were gonna be gone for a fifth
Speaker 1: day on Wednesday. So be here and be here on time.
Speaker 1: I guarantee that. With Garrett just being frustrated and wanted
Speaker 1: to send a message and said, you know what, you've
Speaker 1: had enough time off. I'm asking you to be here
Speaker 1: one day out of a sixth day period and you missed.
Speaker 1: You missed it the meeting, so just go home. That's
Speaker 1: a good point because Garrett was taught. You know, the
Speaker 1: coaches came back Monday, and he made a comment about how,
Speaker 1: like by Monday afternoon it felt like they'd been off
Speaker 1: for six weeks, you know, like he's the coaches are
Speaker 1: like pacing around like waiting for players to get here
Speaker 1: so they can get to work. And yeah, yeah, if
Speaker 1: you're late after that much of a layoff, it's probably aggravating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt. So we're gonna say, Tristan Hill, what about
Speaker 1: Joe Jackson, Um, sure, yeah, I throw them on there.
Speaker 1: Louke Gifford, Uh, it's kind of you know, wait and
Speaker 1: see with Laton vander Esh. Although if Desh is the
Speaker 1: only one hurt, you could still probably get away with
Speaker 1: sitting him, couldn't you sitting sitting Gifford? And let's say,
Speaker 1: and that's true, I would say a linebacker, let's say,
Speaker 1: let's hold on him for a second. Talk to me
Speaker 1: about about Donovan Wilson or Ventral Bryant. Not not Bryant.
Speaker 1: Bryant's gonna be active and like he's too good on
Speaker 1: special team. Cover your ears. But I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if Wilson's inactive, Okay, healthy scratch just because there's not
Speaker 1: enough snaps go around, all right, So at that point,
Speaker 1: let's assume it's Redman, let's Jackson Hill, Wilson, Devin Smith.
Speaker 1: You're at five six with Cam Flem and you need
Speaker 1: one more. I would say a linebacker, Luke Gifford, if
Speaker 1: if Vanderesh can go or Vanderesh, Yeah, yeah, that feels
Speaker 1: that feels good. Do we ever do we ever go
Speaker 1: back and see how are these are? You know? I
Speaker 1: hold on? I think we're right more off than hold on.
Speaker 1: Hold on. You need a line you need a special
Speaker 1: teams player. Luke Gifford is going to be a better
Speaker 1: special teams player than Cedric will And if you've got
Speaker 1: Cooper and Cobb, that's true and Gallup, Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: get away with sitting both of those receivers if you
Speaker 1: wanted to. May we're doing it at one point the season.
Speaker 1: I would do that, knowing that Layton. So I'm over
Speaker 1: here talking like like I'm gonna call Jason, like, no,
Speaker 1: this is what we've decided, coach, But I mean that's
Speaker 1: what I would scratch the original play. Yeah, no, that
Speaker 1: makes sense. It makes more sense just because Layton kind
Speaker 1: of banged up to yourself. If Cobb's healthy, you've got
Speaker 1: two returners. I mean you have a stinger. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: feels good, but he's not taking a hit out there
Speaker 1: like he's gonna take on the first play of the game.
Speaker 1: You guys are agreeing Cedric Wilson as the Yeah, both
Speaker 1: Redmond Jackson, Hill Smith, Wilson and Wilson the two. Wilson's
Speaker 1: love it with Flemy. Okay, awesome, So we got it.
Speaker 1: I'll send it over to coach. We'll get that all set.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that, and Dave, you go and writ your story.
Speaker 1: Let's have ready for some of them. You know what,
Speaker 1: I might. I might do that just to get it
Speaker 1: out of the way from Monday by store. All right,
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Speaker 1: of the show, we're gonna go through and answer the
Speaker 1: questions here on the air. So I'll already have our
Speaker 1: answers in those first quarter. Look at us, aren't the problem.
Speaker 1: The problem is the game starts and we're kind of
Speaker 1: supposed to be watching the game. But at least we'll
Speaker 1: have the first questions in there, and we'll get those
Speaker 1: answers in and we'll be ready to play this week
Speaker 1: so that we don't all up into that. At the
Speaker 1: bottom of the leaderboard list of the supposed celebrity, that's
Speaker 1: where we're hanging a yes we got we gotta join
Speaker 1: me in the seller calf a celebrity. Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, I am you are all right good already, Yes,
Speaker 1: we're ready for this. Let's go a what you got?
Speaker 1: What you got? All right? I got a lot of
Speaker 1: people asking the same question. When Anthony Brown is back
Speaker 1: to being healthy, should Jordan Lewis go back to being
Speaker 1: a backup? That is, oh, yeah, that's I mean you
Speaker 1: want to yes or no answer? Uh? My answer not
Speaker 1: a yes or no. It's a CEO no sorry, no, no,
Speaker 1: My answer is no. But here's here's the thing, which
Speaker 1: is why I wanted to qualify. It is like, that
Speaker 1: is what I think. That is what you think. I
Speaker 1: don't want to speak for you, but that's probably what
Speaker 1: you think too. That's not what does that? Does that matter?
Speaker 1: And I honestly don't know the answer. And I feel
Speaker 1: like people people think like we're not trying to get
Speaker 1: to the bottom of that, Like they're not going to
Speaker 1: tell us that I've asked that question like three or
Speaker 1: four different times. They're like, well, you know, find ways
Speaker 1: to get everybody involved. And then you're watching the game
Speaker 1: and you're like Jordan Lewis doesn't come off the sideline
Speaker 1: in forty five minutes. It's just it's how they want
Speaker 1: to do it. And I really don't know the answer.
Speaker 1: I think he's played well enough to be their nickelback.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they agree. Let's flip that. Do
Speaker 1: you think Anthony Brown has played poorly enough to get
Speaker 1: some planet by Jordan Lewis. It's not about him playing
Speaker 1: poorly enough. He's played average enough. But but Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: has been in the game and he's made more of
Speaker 1: an impact. He's done enough to make you wonder what
Speaker 1: he can do with more opportunities. It's a good way
Speaker 1: to put it. Yeah, I really don't think Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: has been as bad as a lot of people want
Speaker 1: to act. But I think Jordan Lewis has just slashed more.
Speaker 1: He's done more with the opportunities that he's gotten, which
Speaker 1: you want to reward that, don't you. He's given the
Speaker 1: team what they desperately need. They need some guy that's
Speaker 1: going to make a play, get an interception when you're
Speaker 1: down in your own red zone, or get a sack
Speaker 1: on Carson Wentz and he's done that. So I think
Speaker 1: he's played more so, if we're all seeing the flashes,
Speaker 1: what do you think is holding this coaching staff back
Speaker 1: from putting him on the field more, Because this is
Speaker 1: not just I don't think this is just about the
Speaker 1: last couple of games. I mean throughout the time he's
Speaker 1: been or I think there have been moments where he's flashed.
Speaker 1: I mean, and he just hasn't, for whatever reason, gotten
Speaker 1: more opportunity. I say, let's just wait till Tuesday when
Speaker 1: we talk about it then, because you know, he hadn't
Speaker 1: done a whole lot before the Jets game. It's been
Speaker 1: he's been pretty good. But then the Jets game, he
Speaker 1: gets an interception and then Brown has hurt, and then
Speaker 1: he plays the next week just because he has to,
Speaker 1: and he gets another play. So if they now, if
Speaker 1: it's if they come back to the normal schedule and
Speaker 1: he doesn't play as much, then I think we talk
Speaker 1: about it more. But I think, right I would be
Speaker 1: surprised if he doesn't play more. I hope you're right.
Speaker 1: We'll see. All right, we've been talking about injuries and
Speaker 1: all that are the injuries in the old line kind
Speaker 1: of going to effect or make the Cowboys have to
Speaker 1: use a high draft capital in the offensive line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the line for next drive. No, that wouldn't change
Speaker 1: what they do. The injuries that we're seeing. I know
Speaker 1: everybody's trying to bury Tyrn Smith, and I won't do it.
Speaker 1: He's freaki zoid. I know he gets he gets hurt
Speaker 1: from time to time. It's unfortunate. He's still awesome and
Speaker 1: mostly available. Somebody asked me yesterday, They were like, maybe
Speaker 1: they should have traded for Trent Williams. He can, He's
Speaker 1: healthier than Tyron Smith. Trent Williams has missed thirteen games
Speaker 1: the last three years. That type of stuff happens in
Speaker 1: okayall He's still a really good player, and I'm not
Speaker 1: ready to call it a career for him. I think
Speaker 1: if you just altered the question a little bit, or
Speaker 1: you just fast forward to next year. Let's say they're
Speaker 1: picking like twenty third or so twenty fourth, and they're
Speaker 1: sitting there and the best guy on the board is
Speaker 1: an offensive tackle who you thought was twelve or thirteen,
Speaker 1: but now he's kind of fallen a little bit, and
Speaker 1: so he's sitting there and he's your best guy. You've got.
Speaker 1: He's a three year starter at Boston College whatever something
Speaker 1: like that, and you're like, yeah, it makes sense. Just
Speaker 1: kind of like the Eagles, did you know where they
Speaker 1: they took a first round tackle? They didn't know where
Speaker 1: he's going to start right now. But I think that
Speaker 1: was a little more obvious for them because Jason Peters
Speaker 1: is I mean, he might he might get eat another
Speaker 1: year out, but he's like thirty eight years. He seems
Speaker 1: like he's hurt a lot. Yeah he is most Okay,
Speaker 1: forget that Tyrants fifty seven, second round, no doubt. Well,
Speaker 1: let's I mean, you can apply the same logic to
Speaker 1: the Connor mcgovernment pick. If it's like so obvious that
Speaker 1: that's the best player, then that's what you should do. Okay,
Speaker 1: you'll have the best swing tackle in football. That would
Speaker 1: that's fine, But like that's not a role that you
Speaker 1: don't need right now. You can tell you that role,
Speaker 1: right and if that's the way it falls, then that's
Speaker 1: what they should do. Don't window dress your board all
Speaker 1: that good stuff. But like, I'm not going into the
Speaker 1: offseason like they got to do something about this because
Speaker 1: Zach's not going anywhere, orly I'll just resigned. Tyring is
Speaker 1: turning twenty nine in a month, like he's still a
Speaker 1: young player. I will if Travis Frederick's fine too. See,
Speaker 1: I don't really say this, I am more I am
Speaker 1: getting a little bit and I don't even know if
Speaker 1: concerned is the right way. But I am starting to
Speaker 1: raise my own eyebrow a little bit when it comes
Speaker 1: to the age of this offensive line, not necessarily because
Speaker 1: they're old, but because I am starting to see, Okay,
Speaker 1: guys are starting to miss a little bit, They're starting
Speaker 1: to get injured here and there, and that some of
Speaker 1: the injuries are pretty seeing. When you're talking next and backs,
Speaker 1: that starts to make you worry, right, So from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: it has my attention. Here's the issue, though, The issue
Speaker 1: is if we're walking as of what we know right now,
Speaker 1: I don't even think offensive line is in top five
Speaker 1: of the issues I think I need to address next
Speaker 1: year in the offseason. That being said, when you start
Speaker 1: talking about using high capital, unless a guy just completely
Speaker 1: false to me, I'm not going to set aside draft
Speaker 1: picks for the offensive line because I have so many
Speaker 1: other areas that I need to address that I feel
Speaker 1: like a much bigger priorities to me right now than
Speaker 1: offensive line exactly. Yeah, that's a tough one because again,
Speaker 1: every year it's like a guy or an injury gets
Speaker 1: added on top of what you already had to deal
Speaker 1: with in the past. It sucks, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: But there's bigger, bigger fish to fry. Oh doubt. Now.
Speaker 1: I got this question prior to the to the bye
Speaker 1: week when we were supposed to play this game, Derek,
Speaker 1: but we'll answer it and we'll change it to instead
Speaker 1: of the bye week, say, within the next few weeks,
Speaker 1: will Dak Prescott be signing a contract within the next
Speaker 1: few weeks? Few as in three? Well, what are we
Speaker 1: going to write about today? Well? What's what's? Uh? What
Speaker 1: Jerry say today? He said that there has been positive
Speaker 1: movement and he's but he also but he said he
Speaker 1: was like, he's like I always think there's movement even
Speaker 1: when there's not movement. Like it was classic Jerry, like,
Speaker 1: let me contradict myself like four times. Basically, you're gonna
Speaker 1: come away from this and you can write whatever you
Speaker 1: want to write because I gave you something for everything.
Speaker 1: I think that they're in a good spot with it,
Speaker 1: but I haven't heard or seen anything that makes me
Speaker 1: think it's gonna happen imminently. Well, let's say this, Does
Speaker 1: it happen before the season ends, Yeah, before they see
Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to be in a situation
Speaker 1: where they have to use the franchise tag on him.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to get it done before it
Speaker 1: gets to free agency. So if that's end of the year,
Speaker 1: if that's I was gonna say, that doesn't mean it
Speaker 1: has to happen during the season. They have till February,
Speaker 1: so whatever that date is. I think before you get
Speaker 1: to free agency, he will not hit the free agent market.
Speaker 1: He will. I don't think they will use the franchise tag.
Speaker 1: I think they will get something done before that, especially
Speaker 1: if he keeps playing like he's playing right now. Because
Speaker 1: I personally don't think there are any questions as to
Speaker 1: who your quarterback should be for the future. He has
Speaker 1: done everything in his first three years that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: should want to see from a young quarterback as far
Speaker 1: as his development into being their franchise guys, So I
Speaker 1: don't think there should be any questions. I think this
Speaker 1: stal gets done publicly. You know, Jerry's always gonna be
Speaker 1: optimistic about what the team is going to do this year.
Speaker 1: And now I'm sure he's and he has said it.
Speaker 1: I think that we'll turn things around and we'll get
Speaker 1: where we want to go. They have to really realistically
Speaker 1: answer that question of what's going to happen here. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna get on a roll and we're gonna
Speaker 1: win and get to the playoffs and all that. If
Speaker 1: that happens, DA's going to be playing well and that
Speaker 1: price tag is probably gonna go back up. So if
Speaker 1: they find themselves in a situation right now where they
Speaker 1: think that Dak's going to continue to play well and
Speaker 1: the numbers are good, maybe right now they probably should
Speaker 1: do it because I guarantee if they get to where
Speaker 1: they want to go to, the price tag will go
Speaker 1: back up. But Joe, if it went down at all,
Speaker 1: that's my thing. I don't know that. I don't know
Speaker 1: that the price tag is fluctuating by a week or
Speaker 1: two week or three week. I really don't think it is.
Speaker 1: I think Dax people are one place. I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are another place, and I think it's pretty much
Speaker 1: staying consistent because that's where they are, and I think
Speaker 1: at some point they're going to meet in the middle.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, you know, I'm not worried. Yeah, Dak's
Speaker 1: play on a week to week basis isn't going to
Speaker 1: affect anything, but another contract would. And that's what I
Speaker 1: would be worried about if I were them. Pat Mahomes
Speaker 1: can resign after the season's over. Yeah, it's after his
Speaker 1: third year. He at what point is it before February,
Speaker 1: that fourth February deadline or is it a February as
Speaker 1: far as I'm aware, once his third season is finished signed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like Pat Mahomes can resign in January or whenever. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs are done to throw everything out away exactly, so
Speaker 1: they should probably be a million dollars. They should probably
Speaker 1: figure it out before that happens. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. All right, how's this defense finally clicked?
Speaker 1: Will they be playing to the expectations that people initially had?
Speaker 1: So after watching the Eagles games two different questions there,
Speaker 1: I say, no, Ansie, Oh okay, because I don't think
Speaker 1: they've clicked. Who's to say that they have clicked? They
Speaker 1: haven't yet. But will they meet the expectations? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think so. I think they are going to. I think
Speaker 1: that Michael Benn if they meet the high expectations. I
Speaker 1: guess he's saying, but they haven't clicked. I haven't seen one.
Speaker 1: You don't think, Well, oh, with Michael Bennett, I think
Speaker 1: that's see what you say. I thought you were saying
Speaker 1: they haven't clicked yet the season, because I think they
Speaker 1: were a couple of games where the defense has seemed
Speaker 1: like they were the more they've they've played two really
Speaker 1: good games out of seven, But that's not a great percentage,
Speaker 1: as the percentage will get higher that I agree. So
Speaker 1: I hope so, but I mean I'd like to see
Speaker 1: it some more before I just blindly assume it's going
Speaker 1: to happen. Yeah, I hope they can carry that Eagles
Speaker 1: game forward, but let's see what they do Monday. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's They've been so up and down all season long, really,
Speaker 1: so I think I'm optimistic it'll be better at going forward.
Speaker 1: I will just say, for me, the one thing I've
Speaker 1: complained about the most about this defense this season was
Speaker 1: and I felt like they weren't getting enough push in
Speaker 1: the middle. That was my biggest complaint. I was just like,
Speaker 1: they're just not the tackles aren't giving you anything when
Speaker 1: it comes to the past rush, and that's why you
Speaker 1: keep seeing these defensive engines or run right around them.
Speaker 1: They're running right around the quarterback and the only times
Speaker 1: it getting sacks or affecting quarterback really is when they're
Speaker 1: able to kind of reach around to grab him as
Speaker 1: they're running past him, and that's how they make plays.
Speaker 1: You get a push up the middle. Now these defensive
Speaker 1: ends get a ton better, and I think this move
Speaker 1: solves that problem. And if you solve that problem, I
Speaker 1: think the turnover problem gets solved because now quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: going to be a little more anti They're gonna make
Speaker 1: some bad decisions and hopefully, hopefully the secondary can take
Speaker 1: advantage of linebackers can take advantage, you can get some turnovers.
Speaker 1: So for me, this is where it all starts. I
Speaker 1: think this was the move to actually make this defense
Speaker 1: click more than it's been clicking before. Now we have
Speaker 1: recently started talking about Luke Geffer. Do you expect him
Speaker 1: to have an impact this year? No? No, I mean
Speaker 1: an impact, like a real impact that that would require
Speaker 1: a lot of people getting hurt. I mean he's not
Speaker 1: just going to be magically playing over Sean Lee, Layton,
Speaker 1: vander esh and Chalen Smith yeah, not really. What's he
Speaker 1: one of those guys that just that we just noticed
Speaker 1: in training camp because he wasn't a name that we
Speaker 1: really cared about a whole lot, and because he made
Speaker 1: a couple of plays and it's like, oh, wow, Luke Gifford,
Speaker 1: or do you think he really has something where this
Speaker 1: guy is a starter caliber linebacker in the NFL. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that, But honestly, the Luke Gifford whispers
Speaker 1: started before he even played a game, Like the coaching
Speaker 1: staff was enamored with him, and what that means is
Speaker 1: like they're impressed by what he can handle, what he
Speaker 1: can process, how many things they tell him to do,
Speaker 1: and how quickly he does it. So in that regard,
Speaker 1: I do think he could be a good player, just
Speaker 1: if he can catch on that quickly, like two weeks
Speaker 1: into his pro career. But I haven't seen anything close
Speaker 1: to enough to know if he's going to be like
Speaker 1: a superstar. His body catches your attention, and by that,
Speaker 1: I mean stop it. I'm just listening. If you guys
Speaker 1: said it, it sounds okay, But then if a girl
Speaker 1: says he's like, oh no, what I mean by that
Speaker 1: is he kind of has that linebacker mold that the
Speaker 1: rest of these linebackers have. And yes, and that little
Speaker 1: triangle type body where he kind of fits the mold
Speaker 1: of all the rest of linebackers, Shan Lee, Jalen Layton,
Speaker 1: he fits in that group, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So that's how he caught my attention because a training
Speaker 1: camp when he was in the bunch, I'm like, oh, wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: he looks like he has the build for to be
Speaker 1: in this group and just with some time and for
Speaker 1: him to get you know, developed a little more than
Speaker 1: I think, he has the potential to be effective on
Speaker 1: the field for the Cowboys. Can see that. I mean,
Speaker 1: because he was making plays. And I mean, so I
Speaker 1: think to what you're saying is he was making plays
Speaker 1: that when you're at camp and you're like kind of
Speaker 1: from Afar, You're like, oh, Sean Lee's looking pretty good. Wait,
Speaker 1: that's not Sean Lee. It kind of looks like him,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, but because they are kind of built
Speaker 1: the same in white and you know, and making play
Speaker 1: and he was making plays and that's what you know.
Speaker 1: He doesn't fifty seven though, like Luke Gifford does. Right,
Speaker 1: All right, cool, all right, We're so dangerously close to
Speaker 1: the ditch right now. This is a really tough one.
Speaker 1: Cowboys will finish the season with both their offense and
Speaker 1: defense ranked in the top five in the league. We're
Speaker 1: talking about I'm tek my yards in their rankings, no where.
Speaker 1: I feel bad for not knowing to Does anybody know
Speaker 1: where the defense is right now? I don't even think.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're in the top ten. I think
Speaker 1: I thought it was like they Yeah, I wouldn't it was,
Speaker 1: it was right outside of it. It was ten going
Speaker 1: into the Eagles game. Yeah, I would guess around twelve
Speaker 1: or so. I would guess twelve with their team, wouldn't
Speaker 1: you say? Well, I don't know whether byeweek does I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's still an average they don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know if only four people who cover the team
Speaker 1: professionally had this in front of them, or I'll get it,
Speaker 1: We'll keep talking. I don't think that's going to happen though.
Speaker 1: Just be top five is tough because it's just on
Speaker 1: either side. It's just an in the NFL, like look
Speaker 1: across that. I don't think there's any team that's top
Speaker 1: five and they factor they're eight. Yeah, see yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: so the offense is number one right now, right, we
Speaker 1: have watched they're they're not number one, but they're in
Speaker 1: the top five. They're Oh no, they are one. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry that one. They were three before the Eagles game
Speaker 1: and they opped up. Yeah, they're number one and your
Speaker 1: number eight defense, you see, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go see two. I'm like, why not, just why not
Speaker 1: be optimistic and like they've got them no, because they
Speaker 1: got the talent. I just it's not it's not a
Speaker 1: negative thing. I just think most most of the time
Speaker 1: that it affects each other. So if if your offense
Speaker 1: is gonna keep doing that, you're gonna if you're gonna
Speaker 1: get in the lead. I mean, if this offense stays
Speaker 1: number one, they're gonna be successful and win some of
Speaker 1: these games. And when you do that, your defense suffers
Speaker 1: for that. So let me ask you this. Don't think
Speaker 1: they will. They will. The fact that the Cowboys, the
Speaker 1: fact that the Cowboys are number eight, number eight defense,
Speaker 1: and are we maybe miss evaluating how good they've played
Speaker 1: relative to the rest of the NFL. I mean, we
Speaker 1: only watched them every week, so we see all the
Speaker 1: deficiencies we see where they don't quite meet up to standards.
Speaker 1: But when you look at it, if they're eighth, are
Speaker 1: they maybe better than we're giving them credit for. Stacked
Speaker 1: together some more performances and make me forget about what
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold did to you and we can revisit it.
Speaker 1: That's the thing every question really comes down to. Still
Speaker 1: was the Jet? I get it, That's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like every answer to a question still comes back to
Speaker 1: the Jets. Like what you saw against the Jets? What
Speaker 1: is that? I don't feel guilty about it with that?
Speaker 1: I mean, and okay, obviously the Pats were gonna blow
Speaker 1: them out, but the Jaguars kick their butts too, like
Speaker 1: their garbage. They're bad and they did that to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So no, they don't get that benefit of them. You don't.
Speaker 1: You have not beaten a team right now with the
Speaker 1: winning record you still have it, so I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're not giving them the benefit of
Speaker 1: the down. And they haven't really proven that they can
Speaker 1: beat quality team yet. I mean, the Eagles are quality,
Speaker 1: I think, and they beat them pretty good. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really their only really good win. And that I mean,
Speaker 1: you know they are. There are so many teams that
Speaker 1: would kill for a defense that's played this way. But
Speaker 1: that's the expectations when you have this many good players
Speaker 1: and three All pros and give you know, given out
Speaker 1: big contracts like those are the expectations that go with that.
Speaker 1: So that's where we're at. All right, final question? All right,
Speaker 1: Cowboys will beat the Giants Monday night? See see see
Speaker 1: all right, we got it? What's your answer? See? All right?
Speaker 1: We all are in on this. That hasn't gone well
Speaker 1: for they have no first week we all we're all
Speaker 1: in on every game, but then it kind of fell
Speaker 1: apart of I pride myself on being the you know,
Speaker 1: the realistic guy, and I've picked all wins this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's wrong with me. It Hasn't that
Speaker 1: going to change? Is that going to be England? We'll see, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see how they play, like how they play, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like a clean slate. I know it's not really,
Speaker 1: but they've been they've been off, they played while their
Speaker 1: last game. We'll see how they do here and that'll
Speaker 1: influence how I feel about November, because the schedule looks
Speaker 1: pretty scary. It does well thank you Amber for a
Speaker 1: really really fun game of Sea No, and we thank
Speaker 1: you guys for joining us. We'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, We'll be back on Tuesday. We'll let you
Speaker 1: know what happens on Monday Night Football. There will be
Speaker 1: no shows on Monday, but on Tuesday we'll be back.
Speaker 1: We'll let you guys know what went right and what
Speaker 1: went wrong for the Cowboys till then, for Nick Even,
Speaker 1: Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eld and this
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