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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are

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

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Speaker 1: a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so

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Speaker 1: much for that. It's time for the Break on Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com. Were with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and

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Speaker 1: bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, January tenth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, season seventeen, episode number ninety four. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the latest edition of The Break. We are lifting

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Speaker 1: nest WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, it is a

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Speaker 1: victory Monday Cowboys are heading to the playoffs. They get

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Speaker 1: a big win on Saturday night versus Philadelphia Eagles, fifty

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Speaker 1: one to twenty six. We're gonna talk all about that,

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Speaker 1: and it starts a little talk on the playoffs here

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Speaker 1: Later in the show, Nick, we'll start off with the

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Speaker 1: ninety four. They can really only be one, right, Michael Myers? Sure,

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Speaker 1: Michael Myers, let on, there's three? Is it? Yes? That's

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Speaker 1: why they do it, and that's why they do it.

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Speaker 1: I know, he's just my favorite. Which one? Yes, my favorite?

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Speaker 1: Who's the third? Am I bad, oh yours, Hey, Randy's

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Speaker 1: my guy? Guys, Well, I didn't know we were putting

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Speaker 1: him there with d Weare and Hayley. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: he's got the number, but that ring of honor they

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Speaker 1: end Gary put him there. He didn't. You gave him

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Speaker 1: the number and he stuck by him. True, Okay, which

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Speaker 1: is another reason why they gotta pay him. Because if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna stick by him, who was one of you

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Speaker 1: guys were making that point last week. If you're gonna

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Speaker 1: stick by them all this time and then get to

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Speaker 1: a point where now he's playing, well, don't let him

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Speaker 1: go at this point exactly. Get the dividends off of

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Speaker 1: all that invested time that you put into him. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about this this win Cowboys win fifty one

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Speaker 1: twenty six. I don't know, it was just from the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the game, you just saw that, especially offensively,

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Speaker 1: this Cowboys team was clicking. Let's go through first and

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Speaker 1: get some storylines. What's the big storyline takeaway from that

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Speaker 1: game here on Monday morning? I mean a big, big,

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Speaker 1: big picture storyline is that it worked out perfectly. I

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Speaker 1: kind of like my eyebrows went up when you said

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Speaker 1: they were clicking. They were don't get me wrong, they

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Speaker 1: were playing the B team or the C team even

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the big pictures that Philly made

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Speaker 1: it really clear what their priorities were going into that game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they left eleven starters on the COVID list

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Speaker 1: take credit away from what the Cowboys did, like they

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Speaker 1: They did all of that. Let's see how it translates.

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Speaker 1: I thought they did a great job, you know, in

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Speaker 1: I thought Dec threw the ball better. You can tell

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Speaker 1: And you know, beating the little brother like that and

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Speaker 1: right now, that's the way, it is absolutely perfect game

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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. Everything they needed work to their advantage.

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Speaker 1: They walked out with no really any major injuries or

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Speaker 1: I think it was great. I think it's a great

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Speaker 1: they played this week and again the better teams than

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Speaker 1: the cycle of the way the league is. I saw

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Speaker 1: a stat that this is the NFL. This is the

426
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Speaker 1: fewest amount of one thousand yards of rushing seasons ever

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Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL, only six. Dam that.

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Speaker 1: That just goes to show that it is definitely a

429
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Speaker 1: passing league. Talk about why that is, well, I mean

430
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of reasons. Number one, there's not many

431
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Speaker 1: dual backs. I mean there's not many, you know, just

432
00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:04,399
Speaker 1: one back systems, and the Cowboys don't have one. They

433
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Speaker 1: got two two backs, So they got two guys that

434
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Speaker 1: are sharing it. They're throwing the ball around a lot,

435
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,879
Speaker 1: very much turned into a passing league. And the durability

436
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Speaker 1: of keeping these players healthy. We I mean, Derrick Henry

437
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:18,200
Speaker 1: is unbelievable and he's sitting in like nine fifteen. He's

438
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Speaker 1: only played like half the year. It's just really hard

439
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Speaker 1: to get it out. One of the few guys that

440
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 1: actually runs is the primary runner for his team. Derrick

441
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Speaker 1: Henry finished the regular season ninth within nine hundred and

442
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Speaker 1: thirty seven yards. He played eight games. Yeah my god,

443
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,640
Speaker 1: I mean, and then well two thousand if he can

444
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Speaker 1: stay healthy. But that's the thing about a running back

445
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Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell, who will see this weekend for San Francisco

446
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 1: nine sixty three and only played eleven. They can run

447
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 1: the ball man. You know, this reminds me, and we're

448
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about this more this week as we get

449
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Speaker 1: into it. But the more I start thinking about it,

450
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Speaker 1: I'm like, this is reminding me more and more what

451
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 1: he's doing in San Francisco, and I'm talking about Shanahan.

452
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,160
Speaker 1: It reminds me so much of what his dad did

453
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Speaker 1: in Denver. You remember how they used to just plug

454
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Speaker 1: in rent backs. They were talking about it on the

455
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Speaker 1: show on the game broadcast last night. You know you

456
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Speaker 1: gotta land us Gary and you know who had driven

457
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Speaker 1: Mike Anderson. Yeah, they got all these guys. It just

458
00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 1: seemed like every year they'd run somebody in there. And

459
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Speaker 1: if you played fantasy football, you just want to whoever

460
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Speaker 1: was the back in Denver because you knew he was

461
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Speaker 1: gonna get production. And it's way more. And there is

462
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Speaker 1: another thing they mentioned, way more about the scheme there

463
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Speaker 1: than it is about who's actually running the ball. And

464
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:26,360
Speaker 1: uh and and I think it's the same thing here.

465
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Speaker 1: I think these running backs they can really hurt you.

466
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Speaker 1: And it's not that they're great running backs, it's that

467
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Speaker 1: they have a system that works. And as they said

468
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Speaker 1: last night, if they have a running back that can

469
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Speaker 1: actually find the hole consistently, he can work in that system. Man.

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Speaker 1: I think that's what you're probably gonna see this weekend.

471
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Speaker 1: They look they just look different when they run the ball,

472
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Speaker 1: Like the way the way they scheme their blocks. They've

473
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Speaker 1: got a true fullback that gets involved. Obviously they got

474
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Speaker 1: Deebo doing his thing, but like at time when they

475
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,639
Speaker 1: just battened down the hatches, like we're gonna run the

476
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Speaker 1: ball like they had like a fourteen or fifteen play

477
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Speaker 1: drive yesterday where it felt like they ran the ball

478
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Speaker 1: twelve of those fourteen plays and it actually maybe rapping.

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00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,399
Speaker 1: They ran the ball tunnel. They look like they're running

480
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: the wing tea like they just they got tight ends

481
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Speaker 1: pulling with guards and fullbacks out in space like it

482
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Speaker 1: just it looks very unique compared to what the rest

483
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Speaker 1: of the league is doing. And you know what, I'm

484
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Speaker 1: pretty impressed with Zeke right now because we've been talking

485
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Speaker 1: about his injury since like week four is when I

486
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: think he started getting hurt a little bit, and then

487
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:30,959
Speaker 1: weeks came by and when and then we were like, Okay,

488
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Speaker 1: maybe this is the time to sit him out so

489
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Speaker 1: he can rest a little bit. He never did. He

490
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,880
Speaker 1: was always there out there on the field. So it's

491
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Speaker 1: impressive to me that right now he's looking the way

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Speaker 1: that he's looking because I see since the last two weeks,

493
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Speaker 1: I would say he has a different kind of burst.

494
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Speaker 1: He seems more energized, more powerful, He's able to move

495
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Speaker 1: a little bit better right now, and that was all

496
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Speaker 1: done without him actually resting. So congratulations to them. I

497
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 1: don't know what exactly they've been doing with the training

498
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Speaker 1: staff and all that. But it worked and I am

499
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: glad that this is the type of Sea that's going

500
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Speaker 1: into the playoffs. All right, I want to go back

501
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Speaker 1: to Cedric Wilson. You mentioned him. He was five. He

502
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: had five five catches on six targets, four hundred and

503
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 1: nineteen yards and two touchdowns. My question for you guys

504
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 1: is what are they missing by not having Gallop and

505
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 1: replacing him with Wilson And is there anything This I

506
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,919
Speaker 1: think is the more important part. Is there anything you

507
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 1: think they gain? Is there anything that Cedric Wilson does

508
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: maybe better than Michael Gallop or do you think it's

509
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: pretty much an even split one way or the other.

510
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Speaker 1: I think there's things that they both do better than

511
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Speaker 1: the other. I mean, to me, I think Cedric Wilson

512
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: is a little bit more versatile in his and where

513
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,919
Speaker 1: he lines up then that they play different positions. But

514
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 1: I think that that he compliments the other two guys

515
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 1: a little bit better because of just when they're When

516
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Speaker 1: Gallup is one of the three, you just got like

517
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,399
Speaker 1: three really good receivers out there. I think Wilson is

518
00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a slot I think he's

519
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 1: he's just a lot more versatile. You can do some

520
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 1: more trickery with him and all that. Gallup is just

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Speaker 1: I think he's a he's an outstanding sideline catcher and

522
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,640
Speaker 1: you know, contested catcher. Um. But I mean, they're both

523
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 1: great that they just feel it feels like it's just

524
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 1: a better connection between DAK and Centricals. And I'm glad

525
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: you brought this up because that's I don't I'm I

526
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Speaker 1: don't think like they're better without Michael Gallup. That's silly.

527
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Speaker 1: And I think Michael Gallup is the best contested ball

528
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Speaker 1: catcher and the best deep ball catcher on this team.

529
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Speaker 1: Like if they're on the opposing forty and they gotta

530
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: you gotta take a shot at the end zone to

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Speaker 1: win the game, I would want the ball targeted at

532
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Speaker 1: Michael Gallop in a perfect world. But something which it

533
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,959
Speaker 1: sounds weird because yeah, Michael, Mike's a boundary guy, like

534
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: he doesn't really play that he can, but they just

535
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: don't ask him to play the slot. So you would

536
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: think that you have Gallop and Cooper on the outside

537
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,679
Speaker 1: with Lamb in the slot. Like that's that that sounds

538
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: very favorable to me, and they've looked good doing that.

539
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: I mean, the offense was great against Tampa Bay when

540
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,159
Speaker 1: they were all healthy, but moving Cedric into the slot

541
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: and having those other two guys kind of interchange around him,

542
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: it just seems like it works. He has chemistry with Dak.

543
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: The guy's made so many great plays this season, and

544
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: I don't know what to attribute it to, but it

545
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: just kind of looks fluid when he's in there. To

546
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,880
Speaker 1: me and make said the word connection Dave side chemistry,

547
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what it is to me. I don't

548
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 1: think that one player is necessarily better than the other.

549
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 1: It's like, if you're a professional dancer, you can dance

550
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: with another professional dancer, but you're always gonna look better

551
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: with your partner. So it's it's to me, that's what

552
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: it is. Like they can both dance and all do

553
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: and do it well, but for some reason, Dak can

554
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: dance better with set. You know, like that analogy actually good,

555
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: that's true. That is a good point, but it kind

556
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Speaker 1: of messes up my point now. I was thinking about

557
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: hal Cedric in the in the open field has really

558
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: been good. He's probably the best on the team, and

559
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,400
Speaker 1: he was that one time when he was dancing with

560
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,719
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush in Minnesota. Um, that was still working. But

561
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: that pass over the middle, you know, if you remember

562
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: the touchdown, he was weaving through and turning the safety around.

563
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: He had a touchdown six years ago which was really

564
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: like Week four against I think Carolina, when he caught

565
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: a he caught like a slant over the middle and

566
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: he did like that spin. Remember that. Oh yeah, that

567
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 1: was like whoa that was this season? This season? God right,

568
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 1: it feels And he had some plays in this last

569
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: game where I mean he's really yardists after catch is

570
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,719
Speaker 1: you know, for a guy that weighs one hundred and

571
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: twenty six pounds, he does kind of you know, he's

572
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: very fluid in the in the open field. He had

573
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Speaker 1: a play thinking thinking of plays that feel like a

574
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: lifetime ago he did. He had a play on a

575
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: bubble screen against the Chargers, just you know, Dak just

576
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: flashed it to him in the flat and he weaved.

577
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: He weaved his way between about four guys. He picked

578
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: up like eighteen But I just remember thinking like, oh,

579
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 1: if you'd cut that a different direction, you might be

580
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 1: going to the house. But yeah, no, I'm agreeing with you.

581
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Speaker 1: So if they were gonna give Michael Gallup an offer

582
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 1: to stay, which was probably going to be something that

583
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: they would would reject, just that over to Cedric Wilson.

584
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: That's interesting though, because maybe the injury affects what Gallup

585
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: is willing to sign for. And I would love to

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Speaker 1: have Michael Gallop back, Like That's my point is I'm

587
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: not trying to sit here and be like they're better

588
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Speaker 1: without him. They should sign Cedric and not Gallop. I

589
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: don't know about all that, but Cedric Wilson has had

590
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: a really nice season. I don't even think of him

591
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: as like, well, he's got to step up for this starter.

592
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: It's like, no, you're just starter. Be like you're three

593
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Speaker 1: A instead of four, you know what I mean. Like

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Speaker 1: Stephen Jones, he said that they were not going to

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Speaker 1: base their decision off Michael Gallup's injury. That's not really

596
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Speaker 1: gonna be a factor. But I mean that is it

597
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: is gonna be a factor. So that's another thing to

598
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: look at, is injury wise. And I mean how many

599
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Speaker 1: games he played total this year because he got that

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Speaker 1: an injury the first Michael, Yes, he played the opener,

601
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Speaker 1: and then he came back against Atlanta and got her.

602
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Speaker 1: So I mean different injuries less than less than half

603
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: the season, like yeah, five, five or six, I don't

604
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: know the number, but yeah, it's just it doesn't help him.

605
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 1: It allows the Cowboys to see a preview of what

606
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: it could be without him. He actually he started eight games.

607
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: That seems high. But yeah, all right, we're gonna stack

608
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Speaker 1: our final break. When we come back, we're gonna jump

609
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Speaker 1: to the defense. I got some questions for you guys

610
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Speaker 1: on defense, and we also got to talk about the kicker.

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Speaker 1: At the start, let's talk some defense and some special teams.

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Speaker 1: Let's start first with the Dallas defense. They allowed one

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00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine rush yards in this game against

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia four point five average. Here's the kicker. Ninety four

658
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: of that came in the first half, and that was

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Speaker 1: when the game was still I guess somewhat in doubt.

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00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: That being said, I concerned to you about this run game.

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00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, this run defense very and I

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00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: mean nothing to do with the Eagles game, just just

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Speaker 1: in general. Well, we asked this question last week, and

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Speaker 1: no one seemed to be I asked this question last week,

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00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: nobody seemed to be too concerned about the run defense

666
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: at that No, I mean, and I don't think you're

667
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: I mean, let's just throw that game out the window,

668
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: because that's not how the Eagles run the ball. Cowboys

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Speaker 1: didn't have, you know, I mean, Cowboys have three really

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00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: key pieces that did not play in that game, including

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Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. They don't have their guy or their best

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00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: if they don't have their short down corner, they don't

673
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: have their leading tackler and jay Ron Curse, and then

674
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: they don't have the rookie of the year. And Michael Parsons,

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00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: you know, who's not gonna win defensive a Player of

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00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: the Year, but he's gonna win a Rookie of the Year.

677
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: And that's fine. So I think that, you know, I

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00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: think that they'll be They'll be as good as they

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00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: can be. They're still going to have problems with the

680
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: team that really does like to run the ball. But

681
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: if they can stop it early and they couldn't put

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00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: third and eight, third and nine situations, then I think

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00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: it'll be a fun match up to see what digs

684
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: against Deebo. I think he'll probably follow him around a lot.

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00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see how that how that shakes out.

686
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: I did. I said last week that I wasn't super

687
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: concerned about it, but for everything missing on the Cowboys defense,

688
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: the Eagles didn't play Landon Dickerson, they didn't play their

689
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: starting right guard, they didn't play Lane Johnson. They didn't

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00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: play Jalen Hurtz, who having a running quarterback is a

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00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: big part of being successful at running. Didn't play Miles Sanders,

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00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: didn't play Jordan Howard. So that was the B team offense.

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell, rookie out of Memphis, fifth round pick, just

694
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: gashed him. And I know they didn't have guys, but

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00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,959
Speaker 1: it's discon asserting and even still the thing. If they

696
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: were playing the Rams, I'd be like, yeah, whatever, they

697
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 1: didn't play anybody, But they're playing a team in San

698
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: Francisco that not only can run the ball, they are

699
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,919
Speaker 1: determined to do it. They got back into a game

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00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: that they were trailing by three possessions by running the ball.

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00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,959
Speaker 1: Second half starts, they're down seventeen to three. Quote Brian

702
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: brought us here, we go gonna ram it right up

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00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: your rear. They just marched down the field on it.

704
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: So my point is, that's like my thing football one

705
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: oh one is like build a lead and take the

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00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: run game out of it. I don't know if you

707
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: can do that against San Francisco, and so that's definitely disconcerting.

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00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 1: I'm still feeling the same as last week pretty much.

709
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 1: Think I would be freaking out and probably crying on

710
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 1: my couch. Mica Parsons is unable to play for whatever reason,

711
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: So if that was my not that I needed any

712
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: more proof of what Micah Parson means. But that was

713
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: like another revelation of like, oh my god, Like the

714
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: amount of impact that he creates on that feel in general,

715
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: in the defense overall, it's unbelievable. So I'm good as

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00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: long as Mica is back on the field. It is

717
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,479
Speaker 1: a very good point Nick and I were talking about

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00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: in the press box, and Dig's not being there was

719
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: part of it, but I was just like, there's a

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00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: lot less fun without Micah, Like it's not as fun

721
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: watching this defense when he's not out there flying around. Yeah,

722
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: he's the most exciting defensive player that since I've been here,

723
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 1: and the only player that I've ever like looked for

724
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 1: every snap. Like I in the press box, I'm not

725
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: even the quarterback that's about to get hit by him.

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00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just where is he? Where's he lining

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00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 1: it up? This time? He's something fun? Yeah, and uh

728
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 1: and then of course, you know when he's not out there,

729
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: then I go crazy in the press box, get pissed off.

730
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 1: Happened in Week two against the Chargers. That's why I

731
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: wanted the Chargers to win, because you know, at least

732
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 1: they could be a playoff team, because in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: I think it's the most important victory of the season

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00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. That game was the game where we

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00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: found out a lot about a lot of things. We

736
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 1: found out that Terrence Steele can block, He's a pretty

737
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: good player. We found out Michael Parsons can watch to

738
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: the pastor so did Herbert. We found out if we

739
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 1: needed at the Cowboy fan base in LA still as

740
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 1: strong as ever, and we found out you know, they're

741
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: not going to go in two there they sput this thing.

742
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 1: They go one and one, and they needed that win

743
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 1: after that first loss of the season. We thought it

744
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: was good against Tampa, but they didn't win. They gotta win.

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00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: I thought that game really changed everything and it led

746
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: to a big winning stry. I actually asked Dan about

747
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: that last week. I was like, yep, ye, sorry, Daniel,

748
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: don't know what Dan. It would be Dan Quinn the Cowboys. Rather,

749
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: I was like, you think it's fair, Well, you think

750
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: it's fair to say that, like and not to paint

751
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: it as a good thing when you lose your guys,

752
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,879
Speaker 1: but like you were forced to move Mica to end.

753
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: Do you think it's fair to say that that changed

754
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: the trajectory of his season? Like maybe you don't just

755
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: throw him a rookie into the deep end? And he

756
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that's absolutely fair because it's like we

757
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: asked him to do it on short notice, he responded,

758
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: And now you've got a better idea of what he's

759
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: capable of. You feel more confident. You just learned. You

760
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: learned so much new stuff about him because of that.

761
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: So I agree with you that I think that game

762
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: launched the Micah Parsons that we saw this season. I

763
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: don't know if he would have had the same season

764
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: if DeMarcus hadn't broke. I'll say this real quick too.

765
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: It probably created a certain amount of confidence for him too,

766
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: not just in Dan, but also I'm sure Mica came

767
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: out of that game feeling like, huh, okay, I can

768
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 1: do that too. Okay, I can do this NFL thing right.

769
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: You know what else happened in that game too, is

770
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: they also we also find out that when he really,

771
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: really really have to make the kick, Zora Line can

772
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: make the kick. Wow, what a segue? Are we going

773
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: to go there? Go there? You said we were going to?

774
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: Would I wasn't gonna go there right then? But let's

775
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 1: go there. Let's just go there, Zerline. This is another

776
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: extra point. They did not take Day's advice and just

777
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: sit him for the game. And he goes out and

778
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: he does what I think all of us were hoping

779
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 1: he wouldn't do. We were hoping it's like the offense,

780
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: he would find his rhythm and everything. Would you go

781
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: into the playoffs feeling better about him? He found his rhythm. True,

782
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: he didn't exactly get what he's done for two years.

783
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: I looked this up. He's an eighty seven percent on

784
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,240
Speaker 1: his extra points last year, this year, eighty seven percent

785
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: on extra points. He goes out and kicks seven extra points,

786
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,720
Speaker 1: he makes six of them, which is eighty six percent.

787
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: That's what he is. He's an eighty six eighty seven

788
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: percent extra point kicker. That's what he did. It is

789
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,320
Speaker 1: what it is. Man. He did. He did. He's nothing

790
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: you can do. I know you're you're right. There is

791
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: nothing he's going to do. I thought, I thought about

792
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 1: you after the game, and I thought we we talked

793
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: about you and and the zeroline thing in the press pot. Yeah,

794
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: by the you know, by late third quarter, we're just like, okay,

795
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: this is we don't have to just be following this

796
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: as closed. So we were just sitting over there talking

797
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: trash about you and your kicker, your kicker thoughts. But

798
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: but there's something that I thought of, what what you

799
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: want to happen? And what cowboy fans, not just you,

800
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: cow boy fans want to happen, is they they want

801
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: to feel good about it. Buck He said it too.

802
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,280
Speaker 1: I really want to be able to see a field

803
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 1: goal and feel he's gonna make this kick. I don't

804
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: want to have to worry about extra point point kick

805
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: is one thing, like the extra point. I want to

806
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: feel like I can go to a restaurroom during an

807
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: extra You will not be able to do that. I know.

808
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if they cut a guy, they bring

809
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: another guy in, like it's you're not gonna feel better

810
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: about it, so that part of the game is over,

811
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,959
Speaker 1: Like want might as well take a guy who has

812
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 1: done it. He corrects himself for the most part, he

813
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: went out and made all those kicks and all that

814
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: he's it is what it is like, it's not going

815
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: to be better. Let me ask you this though, if

816
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: if it's possible, because I think this might be it

817
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: that it's just a mental thing with extra points, because

818
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: it's not he can't kick an extra point, he just

819
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: is missing them. Is it worth maybe going and getting

820
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: a guy off the street and keeping both of them

821
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: and you're on your roster and using one for extra

822
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 1: points in one and for the cakes And again I'm

823
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: not I am not no, I wasn't really can now

824
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: you can never do it before, but now you can

825
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: with the way you could just elevate a guy. Is

826
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: it worth doing? I don't know, I guess, I mean,

827
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 1: I don't know. They're not going to That's I know,

828
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: that's a bummer of a way to approach this, but

829
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: I just what's the point they're not gonna do that?

830
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: And also, I a weird part of me this is

831
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: backward logic maybe, but like better the devil I know

832
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 1: than the one I don't like. Let me, I know,

833
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: I kind of know what to expect from Zerline, Like

834
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna he'll miss and then he'll make the next

835
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: few in a row and I'm not gonna feel good

836
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,919
Speaker 1: about it, but you know, he'll hit the important ones.

837
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: Whereas like some new guy who I've never seen kick,

838
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: and now, well we won't see a new guy kick

839
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: unless it's in a playoff game, which is absolutely terrifying

840
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 1: for me. I get that I would rather like, I'd

841
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: rather the guy that I don't trust that I've been

842
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: watching for two years than some new guy that's never

843
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: kicked in a Cowboy game. Ever that I don't like

844
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: the sound of that at all. Right, all right, for

845
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: the kicking export over here. No, it's just it is

846
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,959
Speaker 1: what it is. You guys said it already. I don't

847
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: bring it in a guy. It's like, Okay, how much

848
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: confident confidence do you have any guy that is just

849
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: brand new in here? Also, how is he building that

850
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: connection to me? Like kicking Sin's pretty easy, but in reality,

851
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: you got to connect with the placeholder who's holding the

852
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 1: ball and all that. So that's already there, that's already

853
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: established with who they got here with, sirline. But it

854
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 1: just like I said a few weeks ago, have your

855
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: offense score enough points, don't rely on your kickers. So yeah,

856
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: that's what it is. That's what it comes down to

857
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: at this point. I think play well enough to give

858
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: him a lot of opportunities because if you go five

859
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: of six on extra points, I'm okay, so you scored

860
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: north of thirty points, that's pretty good chances with that here.

861
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: The only thing is that I think going into the

862
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: playoffs where you're gonna be playing much better or opponents,

863
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: then you know, as soon as you miss an extra point,

864
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 1: it changes the strategy of the game. Yes, now it

865
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: calls into question who's going to go for two? And

866
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: when are they going to go for two? And how

867
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: not just your team, the other team as well, And

868
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: so I think the strategy changes when you have those

869
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: kinds of missus. And that's the part that's disconcerting is

870
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: you start tinkering with that and you find yourself in

871
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: games that are just kind of you know, you're having

872
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:24,760
Speaker 1: to do things you wouldn't normally do, or your opponent

873
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: starts doing things they wouldn't normally do just to kind

874
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: of play that point game. Right. Well, I can't recall

875
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: other than one time, and I don't even remember what

876
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: game that was, but I can't recall where they haven't

877
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: felt confident enough to where it changed their game plan

878
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: as far as what they're doing. What do you mean

879
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: what the couple is everything that you mentioned like are okay,

880
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: are you going for or you know, are you kicking

881
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: or whatever? I feel like that has that affected their

882
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: game plan? Well? I think I think it. There have

883
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: been games where, yeah, obviously, when you start trying to

884
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: figure out okay, okay, now that we're at six versus seven,

885
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: Now you the other team those case, say, scores two touchdowns,

886
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: when do you go for two? At what point do

887
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 1: you go for do you get to do it the

888
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 1: next time you get a touchdown? Do you go for

889
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: two at that point? Do you hold until later? Now

890
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: you start having those kind of questions, and then the

891
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: other team they're also playing that point game two now

892
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: because they're like, is this a time where maybe we

893
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: try to get up by ten, so do we go

894
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: for two? Right? So I think it just changes the

895
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: strategy for everybody when you start getting misses of an

896
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: extra point. I got it, but I guess I wondered

897
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: it wrong. But what I'm wondering is has there really

898
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 1: been a time the season this year where you feel

899
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys decision were based on maybe them not

900
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: feeling confident enough in their kicker. No, I don't know

901
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: that's what I was trying. I don't think. I don't

902
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 1: think they've run from their kicker, Like, if that's what

903
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: you're asking, Like, I don't think there their situations we're like,

904
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna go for it on fourth down just because

905
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: we don't trust our kicker. Here's been a good example

906
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 1: of that in the first game of the season against

907
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. I think he missed an extra point and

908
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,959
Speaker 1: as a field goal. Yeah, it was a very very

909
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 1: bad start to the season. At the end of the game,

910
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: they were very conservative and waiting for him or you know,

911
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: setting up a forty eight yarder to take the lead.

912
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: They were kind of playing for the field goal there,

913
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,879
Speaker 1: and so even though you know he had been kind

914
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: of a train wreck throughout that game, so that if

915
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: you're going to run from him, you would have done

916
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,399
Speaker 1: it in that one. But you're you're not. And Nick

917
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: made the best point of all. You're just you're not

918
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: going to feel good about this. You're just not based

919
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: on the body of work this season. But and I'm

920
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: I'm kind of going off the dome here, but how

921
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:33,280
Speaker 1: many opportunities at like must have field goals has Zerline

922
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: had this year? Tampa Bay Uh, New England tied it

923
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:41,440
Speaker 1: with like twenty seconds left sentence overtime Raiders, which I mean,

924
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: they lost that game, but it is when he's Chargers.

925
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: Chargers is the big one. When he's had an opportunity

926
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: at like a must have end of game fuel goal,

927
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he's made them all except for New England.

928
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: He missed before that. Yeah, he missed because he wanted

929
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: Digs to get an interception on the next play and

930
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: that set up the interception. Said he said it up

931
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: and going back, I didn't missed that one, but he

932
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: missed it. But they got the ball back and then

933
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,760
Speaker 1: presented he needed to make a kick with twenty seconds

934
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: left to sendence overtime, and he did and it was

935
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:15,959
Speaker 1: even forty forty nine yards. So that's how I would

936
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: consulet myself. It's just like when he's had to make

937
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: him he's been pretty reliable. And that was kind of

938
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: the point of the question I was asking earlier, can

939
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 1: you get somebody in here to kick extra points? Because

940
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 1: he can make those kicks. He can make those forty

941
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 1: fifty yard kicks when he needs them in games, like,

942
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: he's pretty consistent at doing that and doing that pretty well.

943
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 1: It's the extra points for whatever reason, and that's why

944
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,760
Speaker 1: I think it's a mental thing. Like at this point,

945
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:40,800
Speaker 1: it is a mental thing for him, those extra points.

946
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: It just really is. It's the whole job is mental

947
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 1: because every kicker in the league can kick from fifty

948
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: yards out that you're that's why they're here. But you

949
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: have to be really, really good at it. It has

950
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: to be a mental thing because they all have a

951
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,919
Speaker 1: very similar physical skill set, Like they can all kick

952
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,040
Speaker 1: the crap out of the ball. Yeah, we almost and

953
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 1: we got one points. I want to say one more

954
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: thing about special teams. You know, John Fossil has been outstanding.

955
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 1: I mean the special teams has been really really good

956
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: this year when you think about not just the block

957
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: punts and things. They had a kickoff return for a touchdown,

958
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: but he hasn't had one fake. He hasn't They haven't

959
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 1: faked the ball at all. And yet just the fakes

960
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: he did last year, look what it led to. The

961
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: Cowboys set a franchise record in net average, which means

962
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: when everyone's worried about his fakes, so they're not really

963
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: worried about I mean, they're not gonna just rush. They

964
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: don't worry about a return. You just punt the ball.

965
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: It's a fair catch. And it's to the point of

966
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: a Cowboys record that there's a method to it. I

967
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: say it all the time, and when we're seeing it,

968
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 1: they are really good on special teams because he throws

969
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: that fake out there and everyone's worried about it to

970
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: the point where they're setting records for field position. So

971
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: I think kudos to them and what they've done. Yes,

972
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: the field extra point field goals have been in shaky,

973
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: but special teams have been really really good this year.

974
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: That's a great point. All Right, we appreciate you, guys,

975
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: joann Us. We'll be back tomorrow we're gonna start talking

976
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 1: a little. Cowboys verses forty nine are still live for

977
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: Nick Eatm, Dave Film and in Amber Garcia. I am

978
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979
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