WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Trimester in Review 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:07.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:08.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:18.640 Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a Break? 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:19.160 Yes? 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:21.040 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:21.840 Absolutely? 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:23.959 Ready for a break? 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.200 Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:30.600 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:38.560 with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought Us, Patrick Walker and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.640 It is Monday, October twenty third, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.479 Episode number fifty four. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.599 The Break. We'll live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:53.240 the Star. We're into our mashup week, our mashup shows. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.360 This is the second of two. We've got Nick Harris, 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.680 We've got Danny McCrae. Danny's from Players Lounge and Nick 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.040 is from Talking Cowboys, And so we're gonna spend a 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.479 little time today continuing our conversation from last week. Last 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:10.480 week we did do our tat trimester first trimester review, 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:12.639 and I had a lot of questions for you guys. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:14.920 They were going to continue that, but a lot of 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:16.400 our questions are going to be filling the blank. So 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:17.960 I'm gonna let you guys just kind of riff a 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.080 little bit. I got some questions for you before we 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.320 get into that, though, I do want to talk a 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:23.840 little bit about some of the things we saw this 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.080 last weekend. I'm assuming you guys watched a lot of 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.080 NFL football, as we all do. We're all sports fans 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.040 first and foremost so, and I see that little smile. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.720 We actually we're going on there. We were talking college football. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:36.319 Danny still thinks his team has a shot. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.560 They do not. They are absolutely done. 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.479 Texas, on the other hand, is still in the MIDX. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:47.280 Listen, two thousand and seven, LSU lost two games. Okay, 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.080 we were going into we won the SEC championship, and 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:51.040 I think West Virginia. 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:52.480 It was three or four. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:59.880 Teams that still in today's a BCS. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:58.000 But they all lost. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.640 They all lost, and then that's what got us in 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.920 there as a two loss team. But it was like 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:04.960 every team that just needed to win to get in, 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.000 they all ended up losing. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.200 Matt Flynn was like my first college football. 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.800 Herot and we're going there and we win it. 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:12.359 So tell yourself what you need to. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:14.799 I have to. I have to. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.320 We're the right shirt today though we didn't even bring 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:17.520 it back. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.680 Yeah, we love the burd and Orange. Keep that going. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.360 And of course, yeahs the night game seven, we playing 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.799 the Rangers. You're Rangers, so this should be fun. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.920 We'll see how this this plays out. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.600 Like, I actually watched the baseball game more than I 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.000 watched the Miami versus Philly game too. 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.880 Honestly, I'm at and I'm not a baseball like I 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:39.840 used to. When I was a kid. I was a 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.120 huge baseball fan and growing up collected baseball cards. I 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.000 was all in and then literally just kind of fell 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.200 off by the time I got to high school and 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.040 haven't really followed it since then. But I've been watching 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.120 this series. I've watched every game of this series start 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.560 to finish. I'm like, you know, Baseball's interesting again. 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.840 I love the clock, the pitch clock, like I. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.160 Think it moves the game little bit, which has always 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.040 been one of my big pet peeves about baseball. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:04.720 But man, I've been into this series. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:06.640 No, it's been fun to watch. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.560 I went to the game here, game four, yeah, and 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.120 that was the first Astros games that I had been to. 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.520 I remember on the show new He's asking me like, 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.600 can you name any players? I'm like, al TV, I mean, 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.080 I don't know that I don't know anything about baseball, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.640 and but when it comes on, just like LSU Baseball, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.800 I'm like, I'm glued to the seat watching it, like 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:26.600 I know exactly what's going on, but I just know 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.839 the three strikes. I don't know anything about four, two, six, 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.480 double players all that. I'm just watching to see who 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:32.040 wins the game. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.680 So it's been exciting now LSU Baseball, Alex Fox, I've 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.320 had some good time there. That Ridge does it right 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:38.040 for baseball. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:39.760 Yeah, well, they do it right for a lot of sports. 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:40.880 They get sports. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:42.240 They really do get sports. I don't know about the 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:43.440 education they get. 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.720 See just what I thought, I gotta take, you got 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:48.520 to take all? 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:49.160 Right, here we go. 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:50.800 So I want to talk about Week seven of the 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.240 NFL season, which is more surprising. Yesterday of these three games, 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.880 New York wins over Washington fourteen to seven, Baltimore kills 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.040 Detroit thirty eight to six, or Miami wins last night 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.840 thirty one to seventeen over Miami Eagles. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:10.960 I was like, Eagles, Yeah, mineus Detroit because I watched 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.640 Detroit last year. I have an old teammate who coaches 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.200 for Detroit, Kevin Shepperd, linebacker, coach, and I've been watching 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.120 them more, especially with them on hard knocks, and I'm like, 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.120 I can see them getting better. It's Detroit, and then 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:23.839 now this year you're like, wait, Detroit might be one 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.120 of the best teams in the league. And I've been 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.360 watching Baltimore and you're like, they're still trying to figure 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.599 it out with Monket and this new offense ken Lamar, 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.479 you know, mix it up and be a passion and 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.120 also a runner, but spread it out a little bit 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.120 more with Odell, and it hadn't looked how I expected 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.400 it to look. And then they go out there against Detroit, 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.200 who I think is probably top two in the league, 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:49.320 and they dismantle them. I'm talking about from start to finish, offensively, defensively, special, 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.440 I'm talking about they just beat the brakes off of them. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.640 So to me, I wasn't expecting it. And what I 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.039 thought Detroit was, which they probably still are because it 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.479 is the NFL. I just didn't know that it would 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.760 be that domin nating of a performance from Lamar Jackson 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.320 because he looked like the old MVP candidates. So that 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:05.599 was the most surprising one to me. 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.680 Yeah, I agree with you. It actually I was watching 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.360 that game yesterday and I think it was twenty eight 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:10.560 to nothing at half, and I was sitting there and 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.200 I was like, Okay, Baltimore is about to run away 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.680 with this, and Detroit's a really good team and Baltimore 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.320 is a really good team. And so it made me 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.160 think back to that San Francisco game. I was like, Okay, 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.640 these games they happened to other teams, right, Yeah, So 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:22.960 it honestly gave me a little bit more confidence coming 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:24.479 out of that one. But I also want to touch 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.240 on Philly and Miami. Once Jalen Hurts through that pick six, 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.000 I thought Miami was about to really turn it up 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.560 and run away with it, and it was the complete opposite, 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.440 and Philly just came right back on offense and march 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:34.960 down the field. Then they did it again and then 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.560 their defense showed up. Philly's defense really surprised me. They 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.760 gave up ten points to that Miami offense and only 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:43.880 you know, the seven came on the defensive touchdown. So 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.760 I man, they looked really good yesterday. That kind of 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.839 scared me. As the night went on, I'll say that. 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.719 I gave I gave him a little bit of an 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.720 asterisk just because the offensive line issues that Miami had, 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.719 I think the whole left side were back ups, and 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:01.120 the Philly defensive line is probably top two players, so 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.520 essentially their whole office in line was back ups at 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.480 that point in a show in that game, but Philly 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.039 did It was still surprising what they were able to 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.640 do with the receivers stopping to run. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:14.440 Yeah, they played a hell of a game, so I'll 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:15.000 still work. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:16.599 Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Yeah. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.960 Speaking of that Philadelphia team, right now, they are six 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.119 and one, Cowboys at four and two in second place 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:21.920 in the division. 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.560 How big do you think the gap is between Philadelphia 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:25.200 and Dallas. 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.640 I think it's sizable. There's definitely a different tier there. 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:30.640 If it's Tier one to Tier tier or Tier two 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.279 to Tier three, I think it's one to two. But 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.000 I think there is still pretty sizable gap there. Obviously, 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.680 they have a really good opportunity here in two weeks, 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.680 so it's it's crazy that we're already getting getting close 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.760 to that trip out to Philly. I'm really excited about it. 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.279 We'll see how big that gap really is. I don't 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.520 think that game will be as poor as the forty 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.040 nine ers showing. I still think the forty nine Ers 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.920 are a step above Philly just because I feel like 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.599 they're more complete. They've played more complete games to this point. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.840 Obviously the Browns game is an exception, but you look 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.040 at the Eagles and the loss that they had, So 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.599 right now, I'd have like forty nine Ers Eagles, and 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.520 then in that second tier you got Cowboys, Lions. 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.359 Yeah, I'm pretty much the same. I do have forty 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.800 nine Ers and Eagles kind of even at this point, 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.320 just because Philly, I think they have so many different 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.880 ways to beat you. Like, if one way is if 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.600 the defense isn't working, they can get the offense rolling, 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.800 if the passing game isn't rolling, they can get the 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.600 running game rolling with Jalen Hurts, and then also game 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.680 well and swift. So I think their ability to win 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.280 in multiple ways to me, has them even with San Francisco. 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.360 But then that is why we are under them, because 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.920 we always find a way to Like, all right, if 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.280 one part of our team isn't working well, then it 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.240 seems like it just kind of trickles all the way 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.200 down through the rest of it. Right, If our running 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.240 game isn't working, then all of a sudden we have 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.560 to pass the ball a lot, and then Dak is 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.440 under pressure. Dak may be throwing interceptions. If we can't 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.560 stop the run, then that affects us on offense and 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.800 specialty like it. Just if something's not working for us, 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.040 then we watch the game and we're like, wait, why 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.600 isn't the other parts of the team picking up the 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.840 offense or picking up the defense. So I think that's 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:08.920 why we're behind. But I do think we're getting better 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:10.720 because we saw the offense kind of come alive a 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.640 little bit. Dak Prescott say I'm gonna put the team 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.680 on my back, and I think if he continues to 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.080 use his legs, we can then get up in that 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.320 upper echelona teams. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.600 That's a great point because, as always going back, I 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.400 watched a little bit of a film of pass games 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.440 this past weekend, just because there was enough time there. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.960 When the defense is on, the offense is typically off 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.560 and it's hard to get the defense to carry you 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.959 to a win. And when the offense is playing really well, 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:34.840 then it's the defense that's there's a little bit of 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.000 we just need a little bit more symmetry, man, And 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.080 that's a great point to what we're talking about as 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.520 far as tiers because those good teams, whenever there's one 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.439 side of the ball that's not quite clicking, they can 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.600 trust that other side of the ball to carry them 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.520 to a victory. I would love to see that out 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.440 of a Cowboys team at some point in the next 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.440 few weeks. You can make a case that something like 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.400 that happened in the Chargers game with the defense, but 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:55.720 they really stepped up late and they were able to 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.320 capitalize on a couple of poor drives from Los Angeles 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.120 and then on the last drive with the interceptions. So 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.720 maybe see one of those nitty gritty type of wins 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.000 where one side of the ball really helps carry to 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.560 a victory, preferably the offense. But you know, beggars can't 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:08.040 be choosers. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.880 If there's one thing that you would want to see 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.360 from this Cowboys team that you think would lessen the gap, 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:13.400 the most. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.520 Will to be efficiency on offense top to bottom. I 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.440 just I feel like there's so much left on the 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.080 table with the weapons that they do have. With Pollard 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:22.480 in the run game. I know we talked about it 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.079 in the last show, just getting more creative with him 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.480 in the run game, getting more of those receivers involved. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.280 I mean ceedee lamb. Yes, he has great numbers. He's 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.480 leading the team and receiving right now, eleventh in the NFL, 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.640 but his potential is so much higher where he could 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.240 be right now and Brandon Cooks that speaks for itself. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.319 Still under two hundred yards on the season. Get him involved. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.480 I just want to see efficiency around the board, you know. 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.440 I want to see things happen downfield, a little bit 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.440 more creativity all across the board. I think if they 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.240 can be more efficient on offense, then they can be 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.720 more of a complimentary team. And obviously, as we were 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.560 just saying that that helps create a better football team. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.520 Yeah, I just like, to me, it's just it's on Dak. 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.959 To me, it's how creative can Dak be? Stending plays right, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:02.800 Because a lot of those players that you see on 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.679 Sunday when you're not watching the Cowboys, you see the 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.079 quarterback breaking out of the pocket, run right, run left. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:08.719 All of a sudden, it's a foty yard pass down 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:10.520 the field. We saw Dak do it with Tony Poller 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.719 where he throws it back across his body and it's 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.560 just an extended play of you saying, Okay, everything is 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.240 broken down I'm gonna find a way to make a 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:18.760 big play. 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.560 And I think, just thinking back. 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.680 To Dak in his first couple of years, that was 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.280 that can I just see Dak running and diving over 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.240 guys into the end zone and improvising with his legs 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.280 and that's when he felt more comfortable before the injury. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.760 But I think we saw it last week to say, okay, 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.760 all right, Dak is going to be that elusive guy 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.439 to where Okay, it's not just oh he's sacked. He's 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:39.959 gonna find a way to break out of that sack 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:41.400 and then extend to play. And I think if he 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.600 does that, we can find a way to then win 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.280 because that extends the drive, helps your defense out. You 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.720 don't have to go crazy with you two hundred yard receivers, 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.200 but you're finding a way to move the chains when 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.880 the calls aren't working as they should. And I think 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.560 that one demoralizes a defense, but then it helps your 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.240 defense as well, and it kind of gathering and as 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.439 a team to say, look at our leader. He's out 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.559 there doing putting his body on the line, and you 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.680 saw him do that in his first few years and 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:07.959 the injury kind of set him back. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:08.640 But last week. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.360 I was happy to see it because I think that's 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:11.520 a huge part of our success. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.000 So take the top four teams I think these are 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:15.839 the top four teams in the NFC, and put them 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.440 in order. You got San Francisco, Philly, Dallas Detroit. Where 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.839 would you rank them right now? Between that as one 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:22.280 through four? 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.040 Since I have to rank them, I don't want to 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.440 do the recency that like the recency bias, because we 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.679 just saw Philly go out there and beat Miami, who 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:36.000 put up seventy on Denver. But I'm going with Philly. 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.680 I'm going with Philly as number one because the multiple 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.160 ways that they can win. They got the receivers, they have, 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:47.160 the D line. Hassan Reddick went crazy last night, Like 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.000 there's so many different ways for them to win and 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.800 so many players that can impact the game. When I 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.480 look at San Francisco, I'm looking at a injury to 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.800 Christian McCaffrey that could then change the whole outlook of 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.840 like what we think about San Francisco, Like, is McCaffrey play, 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.400 He's not, okay, we can figure out a way to 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.520 then just zone in on party. So I think that's 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:09.480 why I have them below Philly, and then I have Detroit, 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.240 even though they got blasted yesterday. It has happened to 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.480 almost every team in the league where they go out 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:16.920 and you're like, wait, that's not the team that I 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.200 thought they were, And I think Detroit is still a 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.160 really good team. And then I will put us at 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:21.640 number four. 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:28.080 Yeah, I will go Philly, San Francisco, excuse me, San Francisco, Philly, Dallas, Detroit. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.000 And just the reason I give that edge to San 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.240 Francisco is just gosh, They're so efficient in so many ways, 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.120 and they have so many weapons on the offensive side 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.120 of the ball. It's a really good point though about McCaffrey. 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.120 If he goes out for an extended amount of time, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.320 then that's a really young backfield. You're going to have 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.280 all of a sudden, like do they put Jordan Mason 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.760 or Elijah Mitchell in there. They're gonna have to figure 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.000 that one out. But they still have Deebo Samuel and 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.160 George Kittle and Brandon i Uk who's taken anto their 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.200 step this year. On the defensive side of the ball. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.480 I think with Philly and San Francisco both there are 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.880 opportunities in that secondary to take advantage of, especially with CJ. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.560 Garner Johnson now in Detroit and leaving Philly. But their 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.360 pass rushes are so aggressive that it's hard to really 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.800 take advantage of those secondary lapses. And as far as 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.840 the difference between Dallas and Detroit, I think Dallas is 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.360 just slightly more complete. I think Detroit can be really complete. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.080 They just need time, they need reps. I think by 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:16.400 the end of the season, when we get to that 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.920 week seventeen, sixteen or seventeen matchup against Detroit, we're probably 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.800 looking up and saying, Okay, Detroit's probably the better team 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.679 here that's going to be coming into town. But as 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.520 of right now, I have the slide edge to Dallas 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.040 just because I think they've they've shown some more grit 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.719 and games like what Detroit had last night. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:34.719 Are you giving it to yesterday? It's a golf or 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.320 deck right now, GoF, for sure, I give it. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:39.640 I get to Dak because I look at how and 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.000 I'll put it like this, the way Dak played last week. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.000 If you give me that DK, I think it's better 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:45.760 than what GoF can give you. I think he will 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.960 be He's a better quarterback than what GoF can give you. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:49.040 Now Dak. 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.640 It's always been in my opinion, with Dak, it's always 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:52.640 been about consistency. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.920 Can you give me that same thing every week? Especially 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.760 when you start talking about can you use your legs 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:57.440 a little bit more? 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.280 Can you force teams to respect the fact that if 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.160 they're going to turn their backs and run and they're 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.880 going to be a man man coverage, you can take 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.360 off and run on them and you can hurt them 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.320 like that. Now, if team, if you forced team to 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.000 respect that, it only makes the Cowboys better. I just 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:11.480 don't know the Dak's going to do that every week. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.040 And by the way, I don't know if the coaches 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:14.440 allowed Dak to do that every week. 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:15.400 And you know that could be. 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.480 A part of this too, is it's not just Dak's call. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.440 Could be about how they offense, how they want the 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.640 offense to run. But I think at his best, I 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.360 think Dak's a better quarterback than I think. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.680 He has the talent and athleticism to be more dynamic 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.880 than Jared Golf. As I watched Jared Golf with the 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.640 Detroit Lions, I didn't go back to Jared Golf went 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.480 to the Super Bowl absolutely with the Rams and they 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:38.800 got rid of it, and they got rid of it. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.200 But you're watching them now and you're saying, this guy 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.080 looks like the guy who took him to the super 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.560 Bowl that season to where Saint Brown is all of 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.600 a sudden, like you're looking at this guy and you're saying, wait, 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.320 where is this is Detroit? And Jared Golf was he 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.360 thirteen and four? Well now thirteen to five over the 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.360 last seventeen I keep seeing that stat He's been consistent 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:00.040 there and we can't forget that Detroit was Detroit. We 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.000 all looked at Detroit at the Stafford left and was like, 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.520 they're sending Jared Golf there to end his career because 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.280 they have no faith in him as a quarterback. And 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.920 he's kind of you know, it's been rejuvenated there in Detroit. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.640 So I'm just you know, I'm just just watching them. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.560 I'm happy for Golf because what he went through getting 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.240 traded from the team that he took the Super Bowl 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:19.880 and then ay man, you go out there and die 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.120 in Detroit and you're saying, look look at me now. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.040 So I think Detroit's a really interesting case too, because 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.760 just most likely, if you're looking at likelihood, Dallas is 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.520 probably either traveling to Detroit or to the winner of 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.320 the NFC South first round of the playoffs. That's just 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:35.880 kind of how things look right now because season end 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.560 of today, they'd be going to Detroit. So that'd be 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.400 two games against Detroit in the final three or hopefully 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.240 not final three, you know, hopefully they would win, right 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.200 But I think that's an interesting he's leading the South Atlanta. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.760 They took four in three. 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:53.000 Four and three three, and Detroit's record is five and two. Right, 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.720 so Dallas, I thought Dallas would be going if they 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:57.840 in the first round, they'd be going to the South 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:58.680 to play the South winner. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.040 Right I think there's Sex in the wild card right 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.360 now and the third ranked division winners. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.680 Who's the fifth team right now? Seattle? 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:13.840 Yes, I thought I thought Dallas right now at the 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.440 top of the wild cards, but maybe not. 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.680 It will take me like five seconds, but I didn't think. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.720 Anybody had more less than two loss. But it might 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.680 also be when you get in those tie breakers, who knows. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.680 It's Seattle, yes, Seattle, yes, breaker over Dallas right now? 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.080 Okay, yeah, all right, that makes sense, which Dallas will 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.280