WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Too Aggressive? 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:06.960 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:19.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.840 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:27.160 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:32.519 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:38.839 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.120 It is Tuesday, December first, two, Thy twenty, season sixteen, 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.280 episode number seventy two. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:52.199 The Break, present by Geico. We appreciate you guys joining us. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.120 We've got forty five minutes here to talk some Cowboys football. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.040 We got a lot of different topics we're gonna try 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.840 to hit today. Um and it's some point, at some 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:02.720 point we'll try to get to some questions from you guys. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.240 Hopefully we can hit some questions towards the third segment 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.200 of the show. So if you want to hit up 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.399 Amber on Twitter, you can get those questions. And she 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.640 already has some questions, but I'm sure she'll take some 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:14.959 more if you have a really good one. Welcome to 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.479 the show. Let's let's get started. Yesterday we find out 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.120 the Cowboys game that was supposed to originally be played 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:25.720 this Thursday against the Baltimore Ravens was moved again. It 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.080 had been moved to Monday of next week. Now it's 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.760 been moved to Tuesday. My question for our panel is 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.240 how does this affect this team? Now getting a really 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.039 long break between the last game and the game with 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.920 the Ravens and then having another short week very very 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:44.160 much like what you would typically have for a Thursday 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.920 game heading then into the game with Cincinnati. Let's start 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.880 with you, Nick, Well, I don't know everything that's that 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.320 you know it's going and that's involved in these decisions, 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.880 and I'll invade the NFL for having to do all that, 0:01:55.920 --> 0:02:00.600 but you know, I you know it'll it'll affect Cowboys 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.840 probably more on the back end. I wish, I wish 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.480 we could understand why they move the game from Tuesday 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.720 to Wednesday. Um, I only can think of one reason, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.040 and I don't know if that's a good, you know, 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.640 reason to do it. So I just I don't know. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.520 I you know, this is a team that lost their 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.200 strength coach in the middle of a Thursday, Thanksgiving weeks, 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.120 so they're having to deal with a lot of stuff. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.160 So how does it affect them. I mean, they'll they 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.239 get a little bit more time to face a Baltimore 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.079 team who you have no idea who's going to be 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.360 out there. So I guess that's good, but I mean, 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.320 what do you how can you really help with this 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:37.200 extra time other than just use it as rest amber 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.239 It just sucks when I mean, obviously no one wants 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.240 this kind of situation to happen, but I know, I 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.160 know it must suck when when your schedule is just 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.639 thrown off. The fact that you have a weekly schedule, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.400 a weekly structure that you go by. You know, this 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.440 week your practice, you know this week you look at 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.040 film and all that, this day and all that. So 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.720 it it sucks in that way because you can really 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:06.560 fully utilize this time because you don't really know what's 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.200 going on with Baltimore. It's not like, oh, you can 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.600 fully prepare for them. So in my head, I'm hoping 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.960 that maybe they use this week and divide it into 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.760 sometime spending it for the preparation for the next opponent. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.040 Maybe because the next week it's going to be a 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.880 short week for the Cowboys, so they're gonna have to 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.400 balance out that kind of preparation and hopefully because of 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.520 what's happening in Baltimore and the uncertainty there, maybe you 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.680 use that time to look at the next opponent in 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.640 there and prepare for the following week. Dave, it's a really, 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.240 it's a great point. A g Just yeah. I mean, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.560 there's only so much you can do with this extra time, 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.080 and teams advance scout anyway, so I would bet they 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.280 will spend some time on Cincinnati as a result of that. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.400 My thing is, I just and I'm with Nick, like, 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.920 I don't envy the people that have to decide this stuff, 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.760 but I'm I'm just kind of at a loss for 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.600 why the NFL seems so reluctant to extend the season, 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.920 you know, I mean at a week eighteen, like you 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.200 can build that into the playoffs and still get what 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.720 you want to do done. It just seems like the 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:20.880 links that they're going to play it on schedule is 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.760 gonna I mean, it's it's it's kind of ridiculous. I mean, 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.480 you know, all of these late changes, asking teams to 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:31.039 play games on four and five days rest. I just 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.640 think it's bizarre, and I don't understand what the harm 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.480 would be in just adding a week to the season, 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.240 but the league seems bound and determined not to do that. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.800 And maybe maybe we're not going to see an outbreak 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.440 on scale with what we're seeing in Baltimore right now. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.520 But like this, I just I have a feeling this 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.719 is going to keep happening. I mean, it's December now, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.200 It's we're in the middle of the flu season. COVID 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.840 cases are going getting worse and worse. Like I would 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.600 just imagine this next month is going to be really dicey. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.039 So I don't envy the league for having to figure 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.359 all this out, but I'm not convinced they're doing a 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.279 great job. Yeah, it seems a little strange to me, 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.719 just that there are there are some teams that are 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.360 being forced to just deal with their circumstances. I look 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.560 at Denver last weekend where they were essentially they were 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.200 told basically played the game without a quarterback and that's 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.720 what they had to do. And there seems to be 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.680 this this decision from the standpoint of the Ravens, that 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.960 they keep making allowances for them with their COVID cases 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.320 rather than just saying everybody they can't play, just can't play. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:38.000 Figure it out and put a team on the field. Obviously, 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.160 there's a lot more to it, and there's probably some 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.680 things that are being discussed that are far beyond what 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.080 we know, but it just seems like everything keeps getting 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.880 pushed back for the Ravens and we'll see how much 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.599 that affects the Steelers in their game coming up this Wednesday. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.279 That's been moved around quite a bit for them, and 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.039 the Steelers have to be a little frustrated because they've 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.640 this is the second time this year when they faced 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.080 this kind of situation where the other team had issues 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.960 and because of that, it was games had to be 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:08.640 moved and adjusted on the Steeler schedule. But all things considered, 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.760 we all knew going into this season there'd be lots 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.560 of changes and they just have to deal with it. 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:17.400 I think somebody would probably offer the rebuttal and say 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.080 deadverse situation didn't involve an ongoing spread, at least not 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:23.920 that we knew about. You know, they had their high 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.520 risk contacts, they didn't have any positive tests, whereas I 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.320 think Baltimore had nine straight days of positive tests, which 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.359 is to say they don't even know if they've contained it, 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.000 so they don't feel comfortable having guys travel or play. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.120 I guess I get that, but I do agree with you. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.400 It doesn't seem like there's a lot of consistency. I mean, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.640 this all happened with Tennessee back in October. It was 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:51.640 very similar, and it is interesting. You know what constitutes 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.440 getting the league to make all these accommodations verse saying oh, sorry, 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.200 you're just gonna have to deal with it. Like I said, 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.080 it doesn't seem very consistent, and I would guess we're 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:03.960 going to have a few more situations like this before 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.640 the regular season is over, and God help us if 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.400 it happens in the playoffs. Yeah. I just wonder if 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.280 at some point the league is forced to make teams, 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:16.520 especially if they find proof that the teams weren't following 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.880 the protocols as they should, if they will force teams 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.840 to forfeit games, that'll be interesting to see. They haven't 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.040 been willing to do that to this point, but that 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.760 would definitely be interesting if they go that far with 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.920 this whole thing. Let's change the subject. Let's flick a 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:33.840 little bit more into internally at the Cowboys. Let's start 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:35.760 first with the offensive line. We didn't get a chance 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:41.160 to talk extensively about them. Yesterday, but obviously they lost 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.600 both their tackles, both their second string tackles in the 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.680 game against the Washington football team, and they were left 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.840 with Brandon Knight and Terrence Steele. Again, my question for 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.400 you guys is is there another option that they have 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.840 at this point at the tackle position or are they 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.640 forced Not that they haven't been willing to do it 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.200 in the past, but are they forced at this point 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.080 to just roll with Brian. I'm sorry with Brandon Knight 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.080 and Terrence Steele. Let's start first with you Amber, not 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.600 that I know of. I mean, these are the guys, 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.320 you know what the worst part. I mean, obviously it 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.360 sucks seeing sick Martin going down and all that, but 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.600 then I'm like, oh my god, here comes still back again. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.200 Just when we got him out of the feel he 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.120 comes back. And I feel terrible for saying that. I 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.880 apologize because I know he's trying the best that he 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:36.120 can do. But it just sucks. It sucks all these injuries. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:41.439 It sucks that you cannot find any kind of consistency 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.280 there and as of right now, I mean, maybe Dave 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.560 and Nick have a better answer here, but I don't know. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.960 No name comes to mind right now, someone who would 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:56.520 be better at the tackle position at this moment, Dave, 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.000 I mean there are other names on the roster. You 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.320 got Eric Smith, who they claimed off of waivers back 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.719 in September. You got Greg Snott who they poached from 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:13.600 Cleveland's practice squad. And then Jordan Mills, who was the 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.000 veteran guy that we've talked about before. You know, he 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.920 started a few seasons for Buffalo in Chicago. But like 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.000 I'm okay, I did, Like you know, I get we're 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:26.280 doing we're doing our due diligence, but are we talking 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:30.839 about improvements? I tend to doubt it. So maybe they 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:32.439 want to trot one of those guys out, but I 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.120 would guess not based on how firm they've been about 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.600 Terrence Steele all season. I would be surprised to see 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.200 that at this point. Nick, Yeah, I mean, I don't 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.160 think that they have any intention of doing that. For 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.800 some reason, they want to see this through with Steele. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:49.880 You know, I don't know how many times I mean, 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.760 he's you know, he's he's struggled for sure, and he struggled, 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.600 you know, with giving up sacks, penalties, whatever. I mean, 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.960 Brandon Knight, you I think I was telling you this 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.760 other day, Derek. You know Brandon knyat uh it doesn't 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.240 have one penalty against him this year. I was surprised 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:10.800 by that. Um, uh, the steel leads the offense and penalties, 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.920 don't lead the team. I think we know who leads 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.960 the team and penalties, but he's the leads of the offense. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.559 He's got six and uh, you know, I just it's 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.080 kind of weird for Brandon Knight, first time starter. Um, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.200 and he hasn't played a whole lot, you know, but 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.040 but I think that you know, he's he's been a 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.120 good option for them. But but yeah, I don't see 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.520 any other option of the other than Steele and Night. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:35.520 Right now, would you guys consider and I know the Cowboys, 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.040 I should say, I know I feel pretty certain that 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.640 the Cowboys are not going to do this. Would you 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.880 guys consider the possibility that when Tyler Beatis is healthy, 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.160 that maybe you put him in at center, you put 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.760 Luni in at guard, and maybe you get a look 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.599 at at Connor Williams at tackle. I would because I 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.480 think I look at next year and I don't and 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.880 I think Connor McGovern is probably going to be a 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.920 better guard than Connor Williams. So when I think about 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.120 all that for next year, where does Connor Williams go, 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.880 I probably would look a look at him as a 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:12.040 being a swing tackle there, So yeah, I would do it. Dave, Okay, 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.280 I like that. I like that idea. And if if 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.760 Tyler Beatis comes back, I'm you know, Joe Looney is 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.120 going to play center till he's healthy, but I'd like 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.520 to think if he can come back this season that 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.600 they would want to get him some reps and keep 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.560 you know, getting him experience and having him playing games. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:32.440 So that's certainly an intriguing option to try at different 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.240 best five. Yeah, I don't know if you do it 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:38.959 right now while while Tyler's hurt, but I would definitely 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.960 try to give that a try. If Tyler can come back. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.080 I don't think they will, but I would. Yeah, I'd 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:48.480 be interested for sure. Amber absolutely. I mean, we've been 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.200 talking about this for quite a while now, wanting to 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.600 see Connor a tackle and giving him a try it. 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.280 But I'm curious to know to really know what the 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.560 coaching staff think is and how do they feel, because 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.920 clearly we have not been on the same page as them. 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:09.240 We see things differently than they do. So I would 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.280 be really curious to see or no, just kind of 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.640 their thoughts on that and if that's a move that 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.439 they would want to make at some point, even if 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.480 it's not this specific season, but at some point in 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.320 the near future. You know. The interesting part about that, 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.839 Amber is that we have been on a different page 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.600 from them, but it seems like at some point throughout 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.040 this year they always come around to our line of 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.200 thinking happening. We saw it happen with Walley, we saw 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.960 it happened with Poe, we saw it happened lately with 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.160 the move of Zach Martin out to tackle again, putting 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.320 still on the bench. So eventually they come around and 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.360 thinking like we're thinking, so we must be onto something. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.320 We're gonna take our first break when we come back. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.079 I want to talk about this coaching staff, particularly about 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.440 some of the decision making that's been happening. 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We are talking Cowboys. 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.440 We're talking a show where we're gonna talk about a 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.160 lot of different topics. We're gonna talk about this coaching 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.200 staff next, and we're gonna start with Mike McCarthy. There 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.480 have been a number of times this decision this season 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.880 when he's made some decisions that have raised eyebrows, and 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.880 I'm wondering for myself, I'm wondering if a lot of 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.760 that is because we've just been so used to the 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.880 Jason Garrett style of coaching, which I don't think anybody 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:57.200 would characterize as aggressive, and then flipping to another extreme 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.760 where Mike McCarthy seems to be extremely aggressive. But I'll 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.680 ask you, guys, are you concerned about the decision making 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.640 of coach McCarthy. Let's start first with you, Nick. Yes, 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:11.520 I am. Nothing He's done so far, um has shown 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.000 what the things that they hired him for. And and 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.840 when I say shown, I'm talking about what we've seen 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.000 now behind closed doors maybe maybe it's better, but but 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.400 you know, you you you've got a three and eight 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.400 football team. Obviously there's been a lot of injuries, but 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.520 but there, you know, you have a veteran staff. You're 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.040 supposed to be able to figure out how to get 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.760 guys in place and try to, you know, help with 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.200 your depth a little bit. And maybe maybe it's just 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.160 been too many injuries. Then then one team can can take. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.000 But you know, from the decision making that he's done 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:48.000 within the game, the game management, it hasn't worked. You know, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.000 it didn't work even in the first game of the season. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.920 So um, he got lucky obviously with the second game, 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:55.960 you know, with the with the on side kick, but 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.520 you know, I think that was a questionable decision as well. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.280 But but nothing that he's done so far you can 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.320 really say and go, wow, you know, that's that's that's 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.479 really good. The only thing that's got going for him 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.359 it is the pedigree in the history of that he 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:13.760 has a Super Bowl Trophy. And Nick, I'm gonna challenge 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.760 you a little bit here because everybody on this show 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.639 and everybody who's listening out there knows that you're a 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.840 fleeflicker guy like you like do it every game. I 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.240 want to see them do a fleef flicker every single game. 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:29.080 So tell me the difference. You're aggressive in that aspect, 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:33.280 but you're concerned about his aggressiveness. Tell me that the difference, Well, 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:39.639 his aggressiveness. I was really talking more about the fake punts. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:44.920 But but but his aggressiveness. Um, here's the difference. This 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.080 team isn't good enough to be as aggressive as he 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.720 wants to be. He wants to to to put it 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.800 on the players. Well, the players aren't good enough right now. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.879 This team isn't good enough. So he's taking chances like 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.440 he did and Thursday in the game when he shouldn't 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.960 have to and and and that's not a calculated risk. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.200 So to try to throw the ball to a punter 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:08.000 so that I feel like the flee flicker thing is 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.200 I want those safeties thinking that Zeke might pitch it back. 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.879 He might because they do it once again. Is this 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:16.639 the play? No, it isn't. So go up there and 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.159 make the tackle. But you were a little bit late 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:19.960 and there was an eight yard run. I want you 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.320 thinking that way. But I don't know the advantage of 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.040 always thinking, well, this might be a punt, this might 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.760 be a fake. So I mean that I think there's 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.879 way too many fakes when you're talking about fake punts. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.080 But I just think he's he's too aggressive for a 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.840 team that's not good enough to handle it. Yeah, And 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:38.919 the point is you're saying you don't think that that 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.439 a flea flickers aggressive. That's just that should be a 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.720 part of your offense, just to make safeties have to 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.320 account for the fact that this could be a run, 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.359 this could be a pass. And the problem though is 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.960 I'm sorry, all right, Dave, what do you think? Go ahead? 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.560 But but but Nick no Um, what I was gonna 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.480 say is is it stems back to when you can't 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.840 run the football on that On that after Jalen's interception 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:01.639 first and goal at the four, they get stuff for 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.879 a two yard loss. Okay, they tried to run it. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:08.040 Then they tried this fake reverse pass to maybe Andy 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.720 Dalton or whatever. But because they know that you don't, 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:12.200 you don't have to worry about the run, they can 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.680 look for all that kind of stuff. So and when 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.360 the special team's coach runs a fake, I mean every 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.960 other game, they're looking for that kind of stuff, so 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.840 they'll give up just a you know, a non return 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:24.880 and you fair catch it and it's a forty five 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.720 yard punt no return. That's fine because they're looking for 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.160 a fake punt. That's a little different than a safety 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.320 that's always looking for a flea flicker. In my opinion, 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.560 makes sense. Dave, are you concerned about coach McCarthy's aggresiveness. 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.840 I really I don't have too much of a problem 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.720 with what Mike McCarthy has done during games this season. 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.240 Obviously we covered it. The fake punt the other day 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.720 was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen that 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.840 that is, that's a different category. I don't like that. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.600 But even you go back over the course of the season, 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:01.200 the fake punt return, you know, the lateral back to 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.240 c J. Goodwin against Pittsburgh, big part of why they 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.879 were able to keep that game close. Great play. I 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.320 think they did a fake against Atlanta where CJ just 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.560 dropped the ball like again, probably would have worked. Like 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:17.040 these are all decisions where you're like, uh, it could 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.239 have worked, but it didn't, and that's football. You know, 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.560 same thing going forward on fourth down against LA all 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:24.640 the way back in Week one. Love it, I love 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:28.119 that call, just didn't work. It has also worked a 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.000 few times. They went forward on fourth down twice against Minnesota, 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.240 got them both big part of why they won that game. 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:37.240 So I love the in game stuff. I think you 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:40.320 could probably dial back the special team's craziness a little bit, 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.360 but I'm even okay with that. My problem with Mike 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:46.920 McCarthy is really Monday to Saturday decision making to this point, 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.800 which is kind of funny because I loved what Jason 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:52.119 Garrett used to do Monday to Saturday, and I hated 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.240 what he did on Sunday. I'm kind of the opposite 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.600 with Mike. Can't have it all, Dave, you can't have 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:00.439 it all. I mean, like the stuff that others me 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.840 about Mike McCarthy is, why did it take your defense 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:07.000 seven weeks to look like an NFL defense? Like? Why 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:09.640 did it look like JV And we can talk about 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:12.600 Dontari Poe and Everson Griffin and Darryl Worley all we want. 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.720 I don't think I buy that that's the difference between 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.280 giving up seventy yard rushing touchdowns and not like that 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:22.760 that's just unacceptable at the NFL level of football. How 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:25.760 about the fact that everybody in the world was like 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:29.080 anyone but Terrence Steele and Mike McCarthy was like, that's 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:31.960 fantasy football nonsense. And then like three weeks later he 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.520 tries Zach Martin and it works. Like it's stuff like 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.760 that that gives me pause. Where like you know, like, 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:40.119 like you just said in the first segment, Derek, like 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:44.240 us four dummies shouldn't be able to sit here and 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:47.080 have better ideas than the coaching staff does. But it 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:51.119 has felt like that at times this season. But as 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.240 far as like the aggressiveness on game day, I leaned 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.240 toward liking it for the most part. Like I'll I'll 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:00.480 live and die on that hill. You know, even even 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:02.880 you're not gonna win all those decisions, but I'll take 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:05.800 it if you're aggressively trying to win games. Okay, So 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.879 as a fun aside, David, if you had to choose 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.280 between the coach that's great on Monday through Saturday or 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.520 the coach just says great on game day, which one 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:18.000 are you're taking? Yeah? I mean, look, we're one year 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:22.159 into this thing with Mike and everything that can go 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:26.040 wrong has gone wrong. So I'm not saying Mike McCarthy's 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:30.119 gonna win the Super Bowl for this team, but like, i'll, i'll, 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:32.560 I'm okay with trying this out and seeing where it 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:35.600 goes as opposed to just going back to what didn't 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:38.320 work for a decade. All right, So Amber, are you 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:42.600 concerned with Mike McCarthy's decision making? I am. I have 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:47.119 very mixed emotions about this whole situation. Obviously, we were 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:50.080 wanting to see a change. We were wanting someone new 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:53.480 and hear, someone with a new voice, someone who could 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:56.840 be more fun out on the field, who could have 0:22:56.960 --> 0:22:59.520 more fun when he comes to play calling and have 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:02.760 that kind of aggressiveness that we were lacking from Jason 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:07.040 Garrett as far as playing conservative football. But at the 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:10.199 same time, even though I have liked certain things that 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:13.960 he's done, there has been a lot of questionable decisions 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:17.760 throughout the season. And the thing with me, how I 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:21.520 see it is you need to have self awareness. You 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:24.960 need to know what your team is doing, know what 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:28.280 you look like. No that, Okay, we're not really accomplishing 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:32.800 this and unable to make this place happen. So maybe 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:35.440 as for right now, just for right now, we kind 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:38.480 of take it back a little bit, play and more conservative, 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:41.600 more conservative. I can't even say the word, but you 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:45.479 get my point, Just not be as aggressive, just so 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:50.200 that you can start completing place and being more effective 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:54.560 on the field. And it's hard to say because I 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:57.880 do like it, because when you're aggressive, it makes football 0:23:58.040 --> 0:24:00.960 more fun. But at the same time, it sucks when 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:03.840 you're losing games. It sucks when you see a fun play, 0:24:03.920 --> 0:24:06.480 you put it out on the field, but it wasn't effective. 0:24:06.560 --> 0:24:09.520 So therefore next week you're not scaring anybody because the 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:12.960 opponent knows you can't make it happen. So it's just 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:16.240 for me, it's just having a little more self awareness. 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:20.280 And again, like these other guys said, we don't know 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:22.879 what happens behind closed doors. We don't know how he 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:25.360 is in team meetings and any or any of that, 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:28.719 but we do know what we see on the field 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:31.840 and what we see from players. And the reality is 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:34.040 that it took a really long time for it to 0:24:34.160 --> 0:24:37.840 start translating to these players. And the fact that the 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:40.640 whole first season, first half of the season, we were 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:45.439 seeing that lack of emotion, that lack of what's the 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:50.000 word I'm looking for, the just being competitive, We weren't 0:24:50.040 --> 0:24:54.080 seeing that were this team had no soul throughout the 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:57.919 first half of the season, so that that's that's a 0:24:58.000 --> 0:25:01.560 problem because you need your leader to be able to 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:05.000 have a voice and translate at the same time. And 0:25:05.160 --> 0:25:07.880 you cannot tell me that this is just oh lack 0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:11.040 of talent of players and blah blah blah, because at 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:13.560 the same time you got a lot of guys. How 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:16.080 many players are there on a football team. There is 0:25:16.119 --> 0:25:20.000 no possible way that everyone just simply sucks on the field. No, 0:25:20.280 --> 0:25:23.440 it has to come from the person who's trying to 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:28.800 inspire you. So I'm sorry, but as of right now, 0:25:28.920 --> 0:25:32.600 it's just not quite working out. Now, I think that 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:35.960 I think those are valid points. I'm personally not willing 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:41.240 to completely crucify Mike McCarthy yet, as Dave mentioned, there's 0:25:41.240 --> 0:25:44.119 been pretty much everything that could go wrong has gone wrong, 0:25:44.560 --> 0:25:47.080 and a lot of that stuff is well beyond his control. 0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:50.160 I would have expected with an experienced coach like this 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:53.000 that he could have made up that difference and they 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:55.760 wouldn't have been as bad as they've been, particularly on 0:25:55.840 --> 0:25:59.199 defense throughout the year, even with all the challenges that 0:25:59.240 --> 0:26:02.000 they've had. But I'm not willing to completely crucify him 0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:04.200 on that. I think we give him a little bit 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:06.920 of a mulligan because this was such a weird year 0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:09.520 and I want to see what happens in the future. 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:11.200 What I do know, or at least what I think 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:13.240 I know at this point, is he's not a coach 0:26:13.280 --> 0:26:16.320 that necessarily knows how to coach his team through adversity well, 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:19.719 and that's something that we did always say about Jason Garrett. 0:26:20.240 --> 0:26:23.240 In adverse situations, it seemed like he had an ability 0:26:23.280 --> 0:26:25.520 to get his team to play above their heads. And 0:26:26.440 --> 0:26:29.240 the problem that we had with Coach Garrett was when 0:26:29.280 --> 0:26:32.040 then they were in the front, they seemed to play 0:26:32.080 --> 0:26:35.320 down sometimes. So, however, you want to ment that, I'm 0:26:35.359 --> 0:26:37.440 not willing to completely crucify him yet. I think we 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:40.480 got to still figure out over the next couple of 0:26:40.560 --> 0:26:42.919 years really what we think of this coach and what 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:44.840 he's able to do here. Let's move up to the 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:46.800 special teams though, I want to talk about John Fossil 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:49.919 and a lot of these decisions that have been made 0:26:50.320 --> 0:26:53.800 have revolved around the special teams. My first question for 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:56.760 you guys is do you think he has the latitude 0:26:56.880 --> 0:26:59.480 to be able to just make decisions on what he 0:26:59.520 --> 0:27:02.200 wants to do on special teams without the head coach's 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:05.879 input because we I know, we saw Nick I don't know. 0:27:05.920 --> 0:27:07.720 I think it was you that sent the clip of 0:27:08.359 --> 0:27:11.280 his last game with the Rams, and it was a 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:13.720 play where they did they ran a fake on a 0:27:14.200 --> 0:27:17.600 special teams on a punt and the head coach, you 0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:20.800 could tell he was seemed very aggravated, as though he 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:23.320 didn't know what was really going on, and the special 0:27:23.320 --> 0:27:25.760 teams coordinator just decided that's what he was gonna do. 0:27:26.040 --> 0:27:28.320 And it made me think Number one, was that the 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:31.359 reason that maybe the Rams moved on from Fossil? And 0:27:31.560 --> 0:27:33.840 number two, does he have the same kind of latitude 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:37.440 here where he's making decisions and they don't necessarily match 0:27:37.560 --> 0:27:39.960 up with what's going on in the game. Let's start 0:27:40.000 --> 0:27:44.600 first with you, Dave. I mean, I think there's there's 0:27:44.680 --> 0:27:51.040 no way to know the mechanism of that, like publicly basically, 0:27:51.160 --> 0:27:54.199 like that's I mean, that's the essence of coaches. You're like, 0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:56.520 you're going to protect that that process, and if it 0:27:56.560 --> 0:27:59.560 does come out, it probably means you're heading for like 0:27:59.600 --> 0:28:02.439 a mess divorce. Like those starts of details start to 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:05.879 come out when you're looking for justification for firing a 0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:08.800 guy or moving on or whatever. So I don't know 0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:13.040 if he's got that latitude. It wouldn't surprise me based 0:28:13.080 --> 0:28:16.000 on his expertise and the amount of times they do it. 0:28:16.080 --> 0:28:19.080 But again, that's what I feel for a head coach 0:28:19.119 --> 0:28:21.480 in a situation like that. Maybe McCarthy thought that that 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:24.720 was a great call, maybe he actually hated it, but 0:28:24.880 --> 0:28:27.240 he's got to go defend it because you're opening a 0:28:27.280 --> 0:28:29.520 can of worms. If you don't like it. It ain't 0:28:29.560 --> 0:28:32.439 worth it to throw your special teams coordinator under the 0:28:32.440 --> 0:28:36.359 bus like that, unless you're trying to move on from him. 0:28:36.400 --> 0:28:40.520 I will say, just with John Fossil, and it came 0:28:40.600 --> 0:28:46.400 into crystal clarity after this fiasco on Thursday, is it's 0:28:46.440 --> 0:28:49.800 great to be aggressive, but if you're so aggressive that 0:28:49.840 --> 0:28:52.920 teams change the way they play you because of your reputation, 0:28:53.880 --> 0:28:56.680 that's not great. Like I don't know if that's great 0:28:56.720 --> 0:28:59.320 for everybody to be like, well, we got John Fossil 0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:02.240 on the schedule, we better be on our p's and q's, 0:29:03.120 --> 0:29:06.280 Like Like how we don't talk about that with like 0:29:06.440 --> 0:29:09.240 ninety nine percent of teams, But I remember last year 0:29:09.760 --> 0:29:12.320 when they played the Rams in December, we talked about 0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:13.800 that leading up to the game. We were like, you 0:29:13.880 --> 0:29:17.200 gotta be careful with Fossil, Hecker and Zerline like they're 0:29:17.200 --> 0:29:20.160 gonna do something wild. I don't know if that's great 0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:23.880 when people know that right off the bat, Nick, what 0:29:23.920 --> 0:29:27.440 are your thoughts? What was the question again? I'm sorry, 0:29:27.480 --> 0:29:31.400 what are you asking? Specific? The question is do you 0:29:31.400 --> 0:29:34.480 think Fossil has the latitude to be able to make 0:29:34.520 --> 0:29:36.160 these calls in all? And if so, do you think 0:29:36.160 --> 0:29:38.960 that's the right decision? No, to give him that lattices. No. 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:41.640 I think I think he does have that latitude. I 0:29:41.640 --> 0:29:44.120 think he's always I think I don't think he sleeps 0:29:44.120 --> 0:29:46.480 at nine. I think he thinks about fake double punt 0:29:46.800 --> 0:29:49.240 reverses and stuff like that, and I think he comes 0:29:49.240 --> 0:29:52.400 in the next morning about four am and about dreaming 0:29:52.400 --> 0:29:54.959 about them. He might. He might he bust into McCarthy's 0:29:54.960 --> 0:29:56.560 office and be like, what do you think about this? 0:29:56.680 --> 0:29:59.280 You know? And I think the whole game he's probably 0:29:59.320 --> 0:30:01.280 trying to use you his ear, trying to convince him 0:30:01.320 --> 0:30:02.920 to do that. That's what I really believe. I don't 0:30:02.960 --> 0:30:05.800 think like he he makes the call, but I think 0:30:05.880 --> 0:30:08.120 he's talking about it throughout the game and trying to 0:30:08.160 --> 0:30:11.200 do that. Um, you know, and I think it's just 0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:14.720 too much. I mean, like I said, If If and I, 0:30:14.800 --> 0:30:17.720 we've been told this punt returners, you know, like like 0:30:17.880 --> 0:30:21.200 you you have a different plan when you're playing against 0:30:21.320 --> 0:30:23.680 him because and what are you giving up? Okay, so 0:30:23.720 --> 0:30:25.480 we're not going to return it this game this time. 0:30:25.560 --> 0:30:28.000 Just tell CD faircatch it because we're not going to 0:30:28.120 --> 0:30:31.040 return this because we want to play the gunners a 0:30:31.040 --> 0:30:33.800 little bit differently. That's that's all you're giving up. Really, 0:30:33.840 --> 0:30:35.560 and just make sure you don't give up fake punts 0:30:35.560 --> 0:30:37.600 because you're always watching for it. So yeah, I do 0:30:37.680 --> 0:30:40.240 think that I think he has probably a little bit 0:30:40.280 --> 0:30:43.440 more leeway than than he should because I mean they've 0:30:43.480 --> 0:30:46.640 run two in one game before, they've run three this year. 0:30:47.000 --> 0:30:49.040 It hasn't worked. I mean I think he's run four 0:30:49.080 --> 0:30:52.880 trick plays maybe, um nah, you can you can say 0:30:52.920 --> 0:30:56.480 they probably run seven trick plays this year and they've 0:30:56.480 --> 0:30:59.280 gotten two of them. It was an on site kick 0:30:59.320 --> 0:31:02.360 counts a trick play, which too, they got the watermelon 0:31:02.480 --> 0:31:07.040 kick and then they got the Steelers and return throwback. 0:31:07.200 --> 0:31:10.320 The three fake ponts, they haven't gotten the drop kick 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:13.600 against Philadelphia. I mean that almost worked, but it didn't. 0:31:13.680 --> 0:31:17.160 You know, I mean that almost worked, and that's all 0:31:17.200 --> 0:31:20.240 I can really think of Cleveland. They tried a couple 0:31:20.280 --> 0:31:24.000 of weird looking plays there, so um, you know, he 0:31:24.120 --> 0:31:26.280 did one where and they like snapped it to darry 0:31:26.320 --> 0:31:28.560 and Thompson too, didn't they? That was that was the 0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:34.760 It's basically yeah, it's basically been a weekly thing. Yeah, 0:31:35.520 --> 0:31:38.800 and that's yeah. I wish there would have been a 0:31:38.920 --> 0:31:42.480 camera on McCarthy's face so we would have seen a 0:31:42.560 --> 0:31:46.400 reaction and how he really felt about that decision. But 0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:49.479 you know, I feel bad for Fossil. I mean, I 0:31:49.520 --> 0:31:53.160 think he has great intentions and I think he really 0:31:53.160 --> 0:31:56.360 works hard. He really wants his whole Special Team's group 0:31:56.680 --> 0:32:02.280 to be able to make game changing plays. But the 0:32:02.280 --> 0:32:05.240 thing is, again I go back to the whole self 0:32:05.280 --> 0:32:09.160 awareness thing, like you need to know when you need 0:32:09.200 --> 0:32:13.960 to take a step back, And to me, I see him, 0:32:13.960 --> 0:32:16.360 I'm not trying to call him like a nerd or anything, 0:32:16.400 --> 0:32:18.440 but I see him as a nerdy guy who's like 0:32:18.600 --> 0:32:22.080 really invested on his playbook and just out there just 0:32:22.120 --> 0:32:25.240 trying to come up with creative plays and everything. But 0:32:25.720 --> 0:32:28.719 at the same time, you gotta make it happen on 0:32:28.760 --> 0:32:32.480 the field and I think he can get better at 0:32:32.560 --> 0:32:37.200 this next year. I expect special teams to be better 0:32:37.400 --> 0:32:41.200 than what we've seen so far with more time to 0:32:41.320 --> 0:32:45.280 prepare and all that. But that's that's an easy fix. 0:32:45.400 --> 0:32:48.040 I think when it comes to a play call, I mean, 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:50.400 you make the decision and you just you just gotta 0:32:50.480 --> 0:32:53.479 be more aware of what's going on on the field 0:32:53.640 --> 0:32:57.120 and more aware of your players and knowing that. Okay, 0:32:57.760 --> 0:33:00.560 I love the guys, and I think they can get there, 0:33:00.600 --> 0:33:03.600 and I think they can make it happen, but I 0:33:03.680 --> 0:33:07.320 gotta be real and understand that this is maybe not 0:33:07.360 --> 0:33:10.200 the year where we tried those kinds of things. Unless 0:33:10.680 --> 0:33:12.400 you you're not trying to win the game and you 0:33:12.400 --> 0:33:15.320 want to risk it, then that's fine. Be playful and 0:33:15.480 --> 0:33:18.120 go for it. Let's also point out on that that 0:33:18.160 --> 0:33:21.680 play with Fossil against them, it was against the Cardinals 0:33:21.760 --> 0:33:24.160 last year with the Rams. That was his last game 0:33:24.360 --> 0:33:26.280 with the Rams. It was the last game of the 0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:28.400 season after they had lost to the Cowboys and they 0:33:28.400 --> 0:33:30.480 were out of the playoffs, so it was Week seventeen. 0:33:30.600 --> 0:33:33.800 There was just playing it to play, so you know, 0:33:34.200 --> 0:33:36.720 but still, I mean, the head coach didn't didn't appreciate 0:33:36.800 --> 0:33:39.960 it um When did he get so mad? Then? I 0:33:40.000 --> 0:33:43.080 mean because it was McVeigh gets so fourth and eight 0:33:43.160 --> 0:33:46.719 on their own twenty four. But but that that shows 0:33:46.760 --> 0:33:49.600 to me that familiar Yeah, but that shows to me 0:33:49.680 --> 0:33:52.400 that that he was making the call. I mean, I 0:33:52.480 --> 0:33:55.800 mean he just went ahead and ran it. Anyways, that's 0:33:55.840 --> 0:33:58.400 on that's on mcvaigh, just like it's on McCarthy if 0:33:58.400 --> 0:34:01.800 he didn't have control over it. Yeah. The way I 0:34:01.840 --> 0:34:03.960 look at this is there's good news and there's bad news. 0:34:03.960 --> 0:34:06.200 The good news is there really is a third phase 0:34:06.240 --> 0:34:08.320 to the game. There's the offense, there's a defense, and 0:34:08.360 --> 0:34:11.279 there's a special teams, and I think Fossil takes it 0:34:11.520 --> 0:34:14.319 very seriously to figure out ways that special teams can 0:34:14.360 --> 0:34:17.080 affect the outcome of the game. The bad news is 0:34:17.360 --> 0:34:21.320 it doesn't seem like they always are all coordinated, the offense, 0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:24.120 working with the defense, working with the special teams in 0:34:24.200 --> 0:34:26.480 order to do what's best for the team. And that's 0:34:26.480 --> 0:34:28.720 where I have a problem here. And whether it's Fossil 0:34:28.760 --> 0:34:31.920 who's making decision or whether it's McCarthy who's making the decision. 0:34:32.360 --> 0:34:34.440 I think that last game and that decision to go 0:34:34.520 --> 0:34:38.439 for that fake punt in that situation on fourth down, 0:34:38.440 --> 0:34:41.240 when you're backed up and you're still in the ball game, 0:34:41.640 --> 0:34:44.200 to me, was a panic and it didn't work. It 0:34:44.239 --> 0:34:46.359 didn't coordinate with what you were doing on defense. Your 0:34:46.400 --> 0:34:49.960 defense was, in my opinion, playing above their heads. Why 0:34:50.000 --> 0:34:52.759 put them in a situation where they as they did 0:34:52.800 --> 0:34:54.480 on the very next play they give up a twenty 0:34:54.480 --> 0:34:56.640 three yard touchdown and then the game gets out of hand. 0:34:56.719 --> 0:34:59.120 So I just I like the idea of it being 0:34:59.160 --> 0:35:01.640 a really truly being a third phase of the game. 0:35:01.880 --> 0:35:03.759 What I don't like is that it doesn't seem like 0:35:03.800 --> 0:35:06.719 it's always well coordinated with the other parts or other 0:35:06.719 --> 0:35:10.120 phases of the game. Dave, what are the three Yeah, Dave, 0:35:10.160 --> 0:35:14.600 what are the three phases of the game? Offense, defense, 0:35:14.600 --> 0:35:16.920 and special Right? And I could say the same thing 0:35:16.960 --> 0:35:21.560 and everybody would say the exact same order. It's always offense, defense, 0:35:21.640 --> 0:35:24.040 special team. I don't know if the coach, ever, I 0:35:24.040 --> 0:35:26.480 don't know if Fossil actually he probably doesn't say that. 0:35:26.520 --> 0:35:29.840 He probably sad special teams, defense, offense. But there's a 0:35:29.880 --> 0:35:32.520 reason why that's the order, because that's always the priority. 0:35:32.680 --> 0:35:35.080 I don't know if if I mean because that's that's true, 0:35:35.120 --> 0:35:37.000 that's just the way that it is, and so you go, 0:35:37.680 --> 0:35:42.880 that's a great mentality, that's a great mentality. That's but 0:35:42.960 --> 0:35:44.759 that's the way that I know. But I don't think 0:35:44.880 --> 0:35:47.279 he Fossil thinks that way. He even said in his 0:35:47.360 --> 0:35:49.440 very first interview that we are a big part of 0:35:49.440 --> 0:35:52.799 the game. But you know, it's that's not the way 0:35:52.800 --> 0:35:54.680 head coaches feel. If they felt that way, they'd put 0:35:54.719 --> 0:35:57.080 their starters on there. They don't. It's a third phase. 0:35:57.480 --> 0:36:01.319 It can't mess up though, um and we've seen you know, 0:36:01.560 --> 0:36:03.879 we've seen them mess up. But I mean they've made 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:07.200 some plays. They've made some plays. I mean Rico, you know, 0:36:07.320 --> 0:36:09.640 Daddle made a really nice play. I mean, they didn't 0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:11.560 lead to points, but it definitely could have if it's 0:36:11.560 --> 0:36:14.040 not their fault. I mean, they've made some plays this year. 0:36:14.080 --> 0:36:18.440 But for both teams. All we're gonna take our final break. 0:36:19.120 --> 0:36:21.359 We're gonna take our final break. When we come back, 0:36:21.400 --> 0:36:24.360 We're gonna get some fan questions. Amber has some lined up. 0:36:24.400 --> 0:36:26.680 We'll be right back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:36:28.120 --> 0:36:30.719 We're back in a tasty treat that's sweeping airwaves and 0:36:30.880 --> 0:36:34.120 taste buds. 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Back to the Break, Santa 0:38:33.320 --> 0:38:36.640 is back and Dallas Cowboys Cottage at the Star and Frisco. 0:38:36.760 --> 0:38:40.719 Appointments are available now to take your socially distanced holiday 0:38:40.719 --> 0:38:44.120 photo with Santa through December twenty fourth. Say five dollars 0:38:44.160 --> 0:38:46.879 when you book by December the fourth. Book now at 0:38:46.880 --> 0:38:51.919 the Star and Frisco dot com slash Santa. Any chance 0:38:52.040 --> 0:38:53.319 this is going to be the year when we go 0:38:53.360 --> 0:38:56.920 and actually do our show picture with Santa? No, I 0:38:56.960 --> 0:39:02.399 have socially distanced the global Yeah, socially distance Santa picture. Yeah? 0:39:02.800 --> 0:39:05.600 I don't know, man, you just we're looking forward to 0:39:05.640 --> 0:39:07.160 being on his lap you just want to wait till 0:39:07.160 --> 0:39:10.000 you can do that? Is that the idea? At the 0:39:10.080 --> 0:39:11.960 very least, wait until I don't have to wear a 0:39:12.000 --> 0:39:13.880 mask to do it? Yeah, I mean, okay, I don't know, 0:39:13.920 --> 0:39:15.799 all right, so we'll wait till next year. Welcome back 0:39:15.800 --> 0:39:19.280 to the final segment of the Break, presented by Geico. 0:39:19.880 --> 0:39:22.000 Is there gonna be Santa really gonna take pictures with 0:39:22.080 --> 0:39:25.560 a mask? That's gonna never mind? And yeah, it's gonna 0:39:25.600 --> 0:39:29.719 be as it's gonna be a socially distanced. I don't 0:39:29.760 --> 0:39:31.920 know how they're gonna do it. It's interesting. We'll see. 0:39:32.480 --> 0:39:34.200 I'm amber. Let us know how it goes when you 0:39:34.239 --> 0:39:37.040 get over there. I don't know. We'll figure it out anyway. 0:39:37.600 --> 0:39:40.160 You guys are the ones with kids. Nick has babies, 0:39:40.360 --> 0:39:43.040 and well you, Derek, you have grown ups kids Now. 0:39:43.120 --> 0:39:45.200 I don't have babies. I don't have babies anymore. So 0:39:45.280 --> 0:39:47.640 we're not doing Santa anymore. We're done. We're done with that. 0:39:47.680 --> 0:39:49.480 We're through with that, all right, Anne. Let's get to 0:39:49.520 --> 0:39:52.960 some questions. What you got over there? Well, when we 0:39:53.080 --> 0:39:55.480 came back from break, I was trying to ask you 0:39:55.640 --> 0:39:57.720 were we're going to talk about the defense. We haven't 0:39:57.719 --> 0:40:00.600 really talked about the defense. No, I had it on 0:40:00.640 --> 0:40:02.840 the rundown, but I decided that we're gonna go with 0:40:02.920 --> 0:40:04.960 questions because I promise we would go with questions. And 0:40:05.000 --> 0:40:08.080 we only have like six minutes left, and we're gonna 0:40:08.080 --> 0:40:10.719 talk about defense tomorrow when we talk about the Baltimore 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:13.480 offense versus the Cowboys defense, I'll save those questions. I 0:40:13.600 --> 0:40:16.160 stand corrected, then, got it. I guess it's not always 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:19.680 offense defense special teams. On Derek's rundown, it was offense 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:24.719 special teams defense. You're going defense when your defenses, when 0:40:24.719 --> 0:40:27.719 your defenses like the Cowboys right now, we'll spend a 0:40:27.719 --> 0:40:31.799 little less time on them. Well, okay, sorry to ruin 0:40:32.000 --> 0:40:36.239 your your little rundown um. Yesterday we talked about we 0:40:36.400 --> 0:40:40.480 talked about the online um, and I did receive some 0:40:40.560 --> 0:40:44.239 questions about how hard is it really gonna be for 0:40:44.360 --> 0:40:48.280 next year for the Cowboys to replace or you know better, 0:40:48.640 --> 0:40:51.320 the old line. We know that Lahell and Tyrn Smith 0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:53.359 are coming back and all that, but as far as 0:40:53.520 --> 0:40:57.319 depth and other positions of needs, how hard is it 0:40:57.360 --> 0:41:00.960 gonna be for the Cowboys to solidify the position group 0:41:01.080 --> 0:41:06.040 once again. They need a swing tackle, they need a 0:41:06.160 --> 0:41:10.440 competent maybe not even experience. They need a competent, talented 0:41:10.480 --> 0:41:13.640 swing tackle, whether that preferably a draft pick, because as 0:41:13.680 --> 0:41:16.960 we've said, offensive tackles are expensive. Like you're not going 0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:21.080 to sign a guy who's that good for cheap. It 0:41:21.239 --> 0:41:25.720 just doesn't happen. So I mean, I would I would 0:41:25.719 --> 0:41:27.919 say you need to spend a top one hundred draft 0:41:27.960 --> 0:41:31.200 pick on an offensive tackle, whether that's first, second, third round, whatever. 0:41:31.440 --> 0:41:35.160 But honestly, other than that, I'm not super worried about it. 0:41:35.200 --> 0:41:37.440 I don't like and I feel like I'm the offensive 0:41:37.480 --> 0:41:41.480 line apologist. But if we assume, and we got to 0:41:41.520 --> 0:41:43.319 keep an eye on it, we don't know that for sure. 0:41:43.400 --> 0:41:46.560 But if we assume Tyrn and Lyell can come back healthy, 0:41:47.000 --> 0:41:49.520 you've still got both of the Connors. You've still got 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:52.880 Tyler Battish. Maybe you resigned Joe Looney. I think his 0:41:52.960 --> 0:41:56.680 deal is up, but that's not a terribly expensive contract. 0:41:58.520 --> 0:42:00.359 And then you've got all these young guys, like I 0:42:00.400 --> 0:42:03.520 feel really good about Brandon Knight as like a fourth 0:42:03.520 --> 0:42:07.000 tackle slash guard, you know, Like, I think there's a 0:42:07.040 --> 0:42:10.560 lot of intriguing depth pieces already here. The problem is 0:42:10.600 --> 0:42:13.319 that they're having to start right now, but hopefully next 0:42:13.360 --> 0:42:15.480 year that won't be the case. Hey, real quick, I 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:17.360 want to I want to ask this question and anyone 0:42:17.400 --> 0:42:19.600 of you guys can jump in on it. Always certain 0:42:19.640 --> 0:42:23.400 that Brian I'm keep calling Brian Knight Brandon Knight. Always 0:42:23.400 --> 0:42:26.880 sure that Brandon Knight is not good enough to be 0:42:26.920 --> 0:42:30.280 a competent swing tackle. Remember, this is the first real 0:42:31.000 --> 0:42:35.040 action that he's getting consistently week after week, and quite frankly, 0:42:35.120 --> 0:42:37.000 I think he's had some bad games, but I also 0:42:37.040 --> 0:42:39.320 think there have been some games where he's been pretty 0:42:39.360 --> 0:42:42.719 good relatively speaking. Are we sure that he's not, with 0:42:42.840 --> 0:42:45.400 more experience, that he's not the guy you're looking for 0:42:45.520 --> 0:42:47.400 to be your swing tackle. Well, I mean, you make 0:42:47.440 --> 0:42:50.359 a good point because by the time next year he's 0:42:50.400 --> 0:42:53.120 going to be a third year pro with you know, 0:42:53.200 --> 0:42:56.400 I don't know, seven or eight starts and probably starts 0:42:56.400 --> 0:42:58.640 on both sides of the ball. So yeah, he's got 0:42:58.680 --> 0:43:01.759 experience in both and he's shown the ability to go 0:43:01.800 --> 0:43:04.040 in there and be ready and which is what you 0:43:04.080 --> 0:43:09.040 need for a swing tackle. But you know, that just 0:43:09.320 --> 0:43:13.040 seems kind of reckless to me, with knowing that Lyell 0:43:13.160 --> 0:43:15.480 and Tyrn's injury, it just seems to say, well, we 0:43:15.560 --> 0:43:19.000 got we got Brandon Knight. I mean, I think fourth 0:43:19.040 --> 0:43:21.200 tackle for him would be good. I think he should 0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:23.440 be the fourth tackle. I think they need to draft someone. 0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:26.279 You know, they need to try again and draft a 0:43:26.400 --> 0:43:28.960 Chaz Green. I know that that's not I mean that's 0:43:29.080 --> 0:43:31.920 what they did. They tried a third round from you know, 0:43:31.960 --> 0:43:34.560 a big school. He's played tackle, he was a good 0:43:34.920 --> 0:43:37.560 college player. It didn't work, obviously, but they need to 0:43:37.600 --> 0:43:39.960 do something like that. A tackle who could maybe play 0:43:40.000 --> 0:43:43.279 guard right away, but could be a tackle for a while. Um, 0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:46.000 you know, just maybe one day replace one of these 0:43:46.040 --> 0:43:53.560 two tackles. All right, Okay, that's it. I completely I 0:43:53.600 --> 0:43:56.319 completely agree. I'll just say and I want to do 0:43:56.360 --> 0:43:59.960 another question. But Brandon Knight, I've been saying since June, 0:44:00.120 --> 0:44:02.080 Brandon Knight is who they want Terrence Steele to be. 0:44:03.280 --> 0:44:05.640 I think he's had He's had some bad moments, but 0:44:05.719 --> 0:44:08.480 for the most part, I think he's been very capable, 0:44:08.640 --> 0:44:11.000 very solid. I don't think it would be it would 0:44:11.040 --> 0:44:13.120 be reckless to go into next year with him as 0:44:13.160 --> 0:44:16.000 your only option behind the starting two. But I feel 0:44:16.080 --> 0:44:18.360 very good about him being a piece here for sure. 0:44:18.440 --> 0:44:21.400 I think for the most part, he has been impressive 0:44:21.520 --> 0:44:24.960 for an undrafted guy. I'd be happy to keep him 0:44:24.960 --> 0:44:27.400 around just but you know, I think they need to 0:44:27.400 --> 0:44:30.480 do more though. That's exactly why I say Dave that 0:44:30.800 --> 0:44:33.280 I would. I would. I think I might be okay 0:44:33.280 --> 0:44:35.400 with him being the swing tackle because I feel like 0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:38.439 there still would be a problem if you lose both 0:44:38.440 --> 0:44:41.480 tackles next year. But I feel like if you had Tyrn, 0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:45.359 or if you had Lyle and Brian and Brandon Knight 0:44:45.440 --> 0:44:48.520 had to be on the other side, I actually feel 0:44:48.520 --> 0:44:50.239 like he'd probably be okay. If the rest of your 0:44:50.239 --> 0:44:53.239 offensive line is intact, I feel like he'd probably be okay. 0:44:53.600 --> 0:44:55.839 And so that's where I'm like, and that's what you 0:44:55.840 --> 0:44:57.719 need from a swing tackle. You need him to be 0:44:57.840 --> 0:45:00.120 cheap and you need him to be okay. And I 0:45:00.160 --> 0:45:02.120 think that's kind of what Brandon Knight is. And let's 0:45:02.160 --> 0:45:05.280 not forget what you swing tackle might be. Zack Martin. 0:45:05.760 --> 0:45:08.640 That might be your swing tackle from what he did 0:45:08.840 --> 0:45:12.080 this year. I mean, so it didn't It just comes 0:45:12.080 --> 0:45:14.400 back to your five best lineman. You know, do you 0:45:14.400 --> 0:45:16.640 have better backups at guard or or do you have 0:45:16.719 --> 0:45:19.520 him at tackle? And I'm not sure that Brandon Knight 0:45:19.600 --> 0:45:22.160 and again Derek. We could talk to his parents about 0:45:22.239 --> 0:45:24.560 changing his name, but it is Brandon. If we could, 0:45:24.560 --> 0:45:26.640 we could. I think I'm going to call him, Okay, 0:45:26.680 --> 0:45:28.680 call him and see. But I think he could be 0:45:28.719 --> 0:45:31.760 a guard. I mean, he looks like like the body 0:45:31.800 --> 0:45:34.600 type for maybe a guard. But either way, I think 0:45:34.600 --> 0:45:38.560 he's a good young prospect. I just don't think you 0:45:38.600 --> 0:45:41.120 can give this offensive line the benefit of the doubt. 0:45:41.239 --> 0:45:44.360 Like if these were if these were freak occurrences, that 0:45:44.400 --> 0:45:46.920 would be one thing. But this is the fifth year 0:45:46.920 --> 0:45:49.840 in a row that Tyrant has dealt with injuries that 0:45:49.880 --> 0:45:52.600 have forced him to miss multiple games. It's actually people 0:45:52.680 --> 0:45:54.840 forget about it, and it's not fair because they're not 0:45:54.880 --> 0:45:57.319 the same. But this is the second time Lyell has 0:45:57.400 --> 0:45:59.600 basically missed the whole season. He was on IR for 0:45:59.640 --> 0:46:02.479 the most the entirety of twenty sixteen with a toe 0:46:02.560 --> 0:46:06.600 ligament problem. So and again that's not his fault. I'm 0:46:06.600 --> 0:46:09.680 not dogging him or calling him injury prone, but you 0:46:10.120 --> 0:46:12.760 you just can't assume that these guys are gonna be okay. 0:46:12.840 --> 0:46:15.359 You gotta do more. In my opinion, no, and I 0:46:15.440 --> 0:46:18.319 agree with that. I think the issue becomes you only 0:46:18.320 --> 0:46:21.799 got so much draft capital, and where does this fit 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:24.680 in your in your list of priorities for this team 0:46:24.680 --> 0:46:26.760 when you get to the draft, where does a swing 0:46:26.760 --> 0:46:28.520 tackle fall in that? And I don't know that it 0:46:28.560 --> 0:46:31.799 falls high enough for you get somebody more capable than 0:46:31.880 --> 0:46:34.200 Brandon Knight. So we'll see. We'll have that conversation a 0:46:34.239 --> 0:46:36.160 little later. I think that's a conversation with having Well 0:46:36.160 --> 0:46:39.880 just just know this though, that one more thing. You know, 0:46:40.040 --> 0:46:43.440 they've gotten their ass kicked twice against Washington. Okay, Washington's 0:46:43.440 --> 0:46:45.640 not a good football team. They're not They're four and seven, 0:46:45.680 --> 0:46:48.080 they're not good at all. But their defense is strong 0:46:48.320 --> 0:46:51.160 and it plays right into the weakness of the Cowboys 0:46:51.239 --> 0:46:54.160 this year. They better fix that because those guys aren't 0:46:54.160 --> 0:46:57.560 going anywhere. And that's two matchups every single year. So 0:46:57.800 --> 0:47:00.120 you can say, yeah, defense needs to be better, but 0:47:00.160 --> 0:47:02.279 that offensive line was a problem, and they're gonna go 0:47:02.320 --> 0:47:04.680 up against Washington twice a year. You know, Philly's probably 0:47:04.680 --> 0:47:07.680 gonna have a better defensive line as well, and you know, 0:47:07.680 --> 0:47:10.200 we'll see about the Giants. So I think it's more 0:47:10.239 --> 0:47:12.600 of a priority than you think because they've lost two 0:47:12.600 --> 0:47:16.520 football games this year because of it. I think that's 0:47:16.560 --> 0:47:19.319 definitely a conversation worth having at a future time. All Right, 0:47:19.320 --> 0:47:21.200 we appreciate you guys, jon Us. We'll be back tomorrow. 0:47:21.239 --> 0:47:24.360 We're gonna get into the Baltimore offense versus the Cowboys defense. 0:47:24.400 --> 0:47:26.880 To then for Nick Eatman, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia. I 0:47:26.880 --> 0:47:28.840 am Derek Eigelton. This has been The Break live on 0:47:28.960 --> 0:47:34.840 Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production 0:47:34.960 --> 0:47:38.680 of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.